1 At , . linn, 111 j B. F. SCHWEIER, TEE COHSTITUTIOI-THE UHOI-AID TEE EirOBOEMOTT 07 TEE LAWS. Editor and Proprietor. VOL. XXXIY. MIFFLIN1WN, JUNIATA COUNTY, PENNA., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST IS, 1SS0. NO. 31. Damns rows stuul We are drifting down the stream, Et the darkening willow shore. In a h&ppy golden dream. Aad niy lover rows do mora. He leu the old boat glide ; ha ia sitting at my alto And saying that bia heart to mine Forever, evermore. Row ! row ! under the atara ; Flow, stream, by thy sandy bar ! Bow ! row ! from shore to ahore ; Love will laat for eTermore. Eat tie long and long ago. And be to here no more ; I do but ait and dream and dream Beside the quiet ahore. The old boat still floats on, as in the years agone. And thy words are in my heart, my Iots, Forerer, eTermore. A Lady After All. Lennox Ray sprang from the train, and hastened up the green lane to the wide, old fashioned farm house, carrying hia valise in his hand. "1 wonder if Fannie got my note, and U waiting f Hallo ! This last exclamation was drawn from Hay's lips by a cherry, which, coming from above, somewhere, came into sudden eon tact with his nose. lie looked up, and there, perched like a great bird, upon the limb of a huge old cherry tree, and looking down on him. with, dancing eyes and brilliant cheeks, was a young glrL "How do, Lennox I Come up and hare some cherries ! was the mischierous greet ing. "Nannie I Is it possible?" exclaimed Lennox, severely. And while Kay looked on in stern disap proval, the young witch swung herself lightly down. "Now, don't look so glum, Lennox, dear," she said, slipping her little hands into his, with a coaxing motion. "I know it's Tom-boyish to climb the cherry trees ; but then it's such fun." ".Nannie, you should hare been a boy." said Lennox. "I wish I had: No, I don't, either; for then you wouldn't have fallen in love with nie. What made you, dear I" with a fond glance and a caressing movement. 'B.)cause you are so sweet, darling," an swered Kay, melted in spite of himself. "But I do wish, Nannie, you would leave o!T those hoydenish ways, and be more dig nified." "Like Miss Isham I" asked Nannie. 'Miss Isham is a very superior woman, and it would not hurt you to copy her in some respects." The tears sprang into Nannie's eye a1 Lis tone. They went into the parlor, and Ray took a seat in the great arm chair. Nannie, giving her curls a toss backward, went and sat dewn, "I wish you would put up those flyaway curls and dress your hair as other young ladies do," said Ray, "and see here, Nannie, I want to have a talk with yon. You know I love you ; but in truth, my dear, my wife must have something of the elegance of re Hoed society. Yoar manners need polish, my dear. "I came down to tell you that my sister Laura is making up a party to visit the noted watering places, and she wishes you to be one of the number." "Are you going I" asked Nannie. "No ; my business will not allow it; but 1 shall see you several times. Will yoe go!"' 'I don't want lb go. I'd rather stay here in the country and climb cherry trees every dav ." 'Nannie, I must insist upon more self- control," said he, coldly. But don't send me away," she pleaded. It is for your good, Nannie, and you must be content to go. Will you I The supper bell rang at that instant, and .Nannie hastily answered : "Yes ; let me go, Lennox," and ran out of tiie room, and up stairs to her own cham "Yes, I'll go, and I'll teach you one les son, Mr. Lennox Ray ; see if I don't." she murmured. " It was near the middle of September oe- lore Mr. Kay, heated, dusty and weary, en tered the hotel where his sister's party was stopping. "Lennox, you here ?' said she. "Yes. Where's Nannie I" "She was on the piazza, talking with a Frenvh count, a moment ago. Ah ! there she is. by the door." "Ah!" said Lennox, dropping Laura's hand, and making his way tow-rd the door. But it was difficult, even when he drew near, to see in the stylish, stately lady, whose hair was put up ovei a monstrous chignon, and whose lustrous robes swept the floor for a yard, his own little Nannie of three months ago. Lennox strode up with scarce a glance at the bewildeied dandy to whom she was chatting, and held out his hand with an eager exclamation : "Nannie !' -She made a sweeping courtesy, and lan EtndJy extended the tips of her fingers; but not a muscle moved beyond what accorded with well-bred indifference. . "Ah ; good evening, Mr. Ray." "Oh. Nannie, are you glad to see me 1" said Lennox, feeling that "his heart was I chilling within him. "Oh, to be sure, Mr. Ray; quite glad. Allow me to present my friend, the Count de Beaurepaire. Mr. Ray, Monsieur." Lennox hardly deigned a bow to the frenchman, and offered his arm to Nannie. "You wi'l walk with me a little while P "Thanks but the music is beginning,, and I promised to dance with Mr. Blair." "But afterwards 7" said Lennox, the chill growing colder. n "But I am engaged to Mr. Thornton. "When then?" demanded Lennox, with a jealous pang. "Really, my card is so full, I hardly kuow. I will, however, try and spare you waltz sotaewhere." "Good heaves! Nannie, what affectation IstlusP She favored him with a well-bred stare. rrao- I do not understand you." taxing the arm of her escort, she - away wiin the air of an empress. Lennox sought his sister -Laura, how have you changek Nannie or ne demanded. les, she is changed. Lint she per fect P "Perfect? Rather too perfect to suit me." growled Lennox. "To-morrow I shall see more of Nannie," he thought. But to-morrow and to-morrow and to morrow, it was all the same, and that "ele gant Miss Irviug," as they styled her, was always in demand, and poor Lennox, from the distance at which she kept him, looked aimosi neart-broken varying between wrath, jealousy, pride and despair. "Nannie," said he one morning, when he found her a moment alone, "how long is tan to last I " "I believe you wished me to come here to improve my manners, Mr. Ray; to ac quire the elegance of society,'' she said, "But, Nannie " "Well, if you are not pleased with the result oi your own advice, I am not to blame.- You must excuse me now. Mr. Ray, I am going to ride with the Count de Beaurepaire." And with a graceful gesture of adieu, she left him sick at heart. That afternoon Lennox walked uni nounced into Laura's room. I thought I'd drop in and say good-bye before you went down stairs," said he. "I leave to-night." -Indeed? Where are you going f " asked Laura. "Oh, I don't know !" was his savage re ply. i ou can take a note to George for met" "Yes, if you get it ready," said he. "Very well I will write it now." Laura left the room, and Lennox stood moodily at the window. Presently Nannie came in and stood near him. "Are you really going away?" she asked. "Yes, I am,' was the short answer. "And won't you tell us where P "I don't know mvself neither know nut care!" he growled. She slipped her hand in his arm, with the old caressing movement he remembered so well, and spoke gently, using his name for the 'first time since he came. 'But, Lennox, dear, if you go away off somewhere, what shall I do?" lie turned suddenly and caught her to his heart. "Oh, Nannie, Nannis!" he cried, passion ately, "if you would only come back to me and love me if I could recover my lost treasure, I would not go anywhere. Oh, my lost love, is it too late P She laid her face down against bisshoul dur and asked : 'Lennox, dear, tell me which you love best, the Nannie ynu used to know, or the fashionable young lady you found here ?' "Oh, Nannie, darling," he cried, clasping her closer. "I wouldn't give one toss of your old brown curls for all the fashionable young ladies in the world." "Then you will have to take your old Nannie back again, Lennox, dear." And Lennox, passionately clasping her to him, begged to be forgiven, and vowed he would not exchange his precious little wild ne for all the hot-house plants in Christ endom. A Gnu Boy. It will be remembered that the schooner Twilight broke her moorings at Atlantic City and drifted to sea with only a boy, Adolphus Parker, aboard, during a gale. The hoy gives the following statement of his adventurous trip : lie said when she first parted her moorings I thought I would run her ashore, but she struck the- wharf and sheered off into the stream. I then threw over a small kedge anchor, which dragged to the first buoy and there parted the cable. Noticing she was fast being driven or. the bar, I hoisted sail to keep her off. The surf boat put out to help me, but turned back. Meanwhile I tried to haul her close to '.he wind, after clearing the bar, in the hope of receiving assistance, which did not come. .1 now found myself fast being driven to sea, and I did not think the schooner would be able to stand the terrible waves which struck her. The rigging was poor, sail torn, and the pros pect of her weathering the gale not very promising. On Wednesday night a heavy sea broke over the vessel and rolled me over the wheel. The rigging and deck were covered with ice, and it was with difficulty I kept myself from freezing. On Thursday I supposed I was near the Gnlf Stream. There was about a foot and a half of water in the hold and a heavy tea rolling. The pumps gave out, and I was forced to bail ber out witn a Ducaeu iara four o'clock on Thursday afternoon the wind sprang up fresh from the southeast. I then headed west and about ten o'clock at nieht was hailed by a bark which cleared the schooner by only ten feet. The schooner's lights went out and I took down the starboard light, relit it and hang the signal light in the main rigging on the port side. On Friday morning I sighted land near Beach Haven, and after beating about all day headed up abreast Absecom Light The sea was very rough, and failing to bring the vessel into the inlet, and as the wu tin to the cabin floor, I beached her oo LitUe Brigantine Shoals, where I was taken off, after, having been without sleep for four days and three nights." Bed Fate or aa uld Baehelor. Ti. Mown hahv had been bowling in the street cars for nine blocks, until every . j - i gr h.1 caned excett a omiy viae u w . r . r, bald-headed old Galvestonian, who rubbed the top of bis dome or tuougni, scowicu, stsmned. fumed, and gave other evidences of being annoyed. "1 hope uie oaoyaou umimu j"-. sir " said the mother, pleasantly. "No, madam, it does not," he said, sar agely gritting his teeth. "I am so glad, I was afraid it did lit tle tootsy, wootsy, yum, yum, yum!" "No. madam, it don't disturb me, be said still more savagely, "little uny fiddlesticks only disturbs people to the ad joining county. It has made a chattering idiot of me five blocks ago," and, spring inr through the car window he gars maniacal hl ha! ha! and disappeared around a corner. Wht la a young lawyer llk the na tional currency f Because he U a legal tender and soinewnat grveu. A Texas Bene Trade. There is a gentleman by the name of Smith living in Galveston who keens a kind of livery stable. Among other horses in his custody was a floe bay horse belong ing to j ones, mi horse, in cavorting about the stable yard, ran against a wagon ana Drake his leg. bautn was responsible. All he had to do was to send for a police man, have the animal snot, and pay Jones about 160, the value of the animal Smith notified the policeman, and started out to see Jones, and inform him officially about the accident. Now Smith is considerable of a wag. Happening to meet Brown, he asked if Brown did not want to buy a horse. It had been the dream of Brown's life to sit behind a horse of his own and call out "g'lang. He wanted a cheap horse and one that was safe, so that when Smith put the question to him Brown' re plied : "May be so; if you have the right kind of a horse. Is he a steady, quiet horse!" "He is the quietest horse you ever saw." "Won't bite or kick, and is not likely to run awayr" "If he bites, kicks, or runs away, IH give you your money back." "Humph," said Brown, "what are you asking for the wonderful animal?" "I'll let you have him cheap. Ho is that fine bay horse Jones used to own. I'll let you have him for $21. Give me (1 down, and your note for $20 more, and it is a bargain. I haye no more use for the horse, but I want money right off." Brown thought to himself: 'This is the golden opportunity. Smith has jeen tam pering with eotton futures, and ia strapped. I'm sorry for him, but business is business. I'm not his guardian;" so be planked down the dollar and gave his note book for the balance. If Brown was pleased with the trade. Smith was still more so. He called to sev eral friends, aud treated the crowd with the dollar, after which the procession re formed and marched down to the stable to see Brown's new purchase. When they. got there the policeman had already shot the poor brute, and he looked like all h really needed was an inquest. Brown looked very much that way himself. He turned pale and then got red behind the ears. Then he smiled, but it was not a particularly healthy smile. Smith tried to help matters, and as soon as the crowd had quit holding their sides, he said: "Now, Brown, I don't want you to tell anybody that I swindled you. I call on these geu tlenen to witness that I'ae done the square thing. This is Jones's bay horse, the identi cal one I sold you. I guaranteed he would not not bite nor kick, and you cannot pro voke him to run away. I think he fills the bilL I want you to take him off or I'll charge you for keeping him." "Boys," said Brown, 'Mon t give me away, 1 know 1 am sot the only fool on Galveston Island. Let's go and hunt for a duplicate and I will set 'em up," They strolled out and met Robinson. "Look here, Robinson, don't you want a right good horse at a bargain! I've Just bought Jones' fine bay horse. He cost $60 originally, and he is in just the same conditiou he was when I got him." "Oh!1' said Robinson, "things are hard aad horse feed is awful high. A high stepping horse, like Jones' bay, will eat bis head off in no time," "That's where you are fooling yourself. He eats less than any horse you ever saw. By thunder, no horse can eat less than he can." "Ain't he a little frisky?" Brown shook his head and replied: "You are doing that horse injustice. You can tell by looking at him that he is not kind of an animal I'll let you have bin for just what I gave tor him $20 $1 down, and your note, secured by such men as Ueidenhetmer. for the balance. I ve got to have money." Robinson thought it was mean to take ad vantage of Brown's distress, but then it was not his lookout. 11 he was out of his head, why didn't he have the court appoint him a guardian! So he planked down $1 and gave the note, on the condition that the horse would go in a wagon. "lou bet, "remarked Brown, "he'll go in a wagon. He won't go in anything else. Come on, boys, let's spend this dollar." After they had wiped off then- mouths, the procession re-formed and started to in spect the animal. Sure enough, three nig gers were lifting him into a wagon. "There," said Brown, "I told you be would go into a wagon. Don't say I swin dled you. He will eat less than any horse you ever owned. You will save his value in horse feed in two weeks. Just try, and see if he is not gentle. Tickle him with a straw." The spectators applauded. Robinson looked like he ought to go along with his horse to keep him in countenance. In conclusion, it is whispered on the strand among capitalists that some of the notes have already passed into the hands of innccent holders, anqas soon as they ma ture, protests will be in order. A Brave Fireman. Phelim Toole, who was a brave fireman of St Louis, lately lost his life at a fire in that city. Phehm gave the following ac count of the Southern Hotel horror on the night of April 11, 1877. The narration reads thus : "I am tiller-man of the Skin ner escape, a post I have filled for four years and seven months. I don't know ex actly the time the alarm came in, but it was some time after midnight, down stairs. We went out of the house as usual, and, 1 think, made better time to the fire than we usually do and stopped in front oi the grand entrance on the Walnut street side. 1 can't get off the truck till it stops, as the hind wheels are on a pivot and a man has to steer it Some unknown person took the fly-ladder; that delayed us about a minute and a half no more. We raised the ladder on the Walnut street side, but there was no one to be saved there, so we took her down and went round to the Fourth street side. It is an ugly street there is a double car- track and that porch was in our way ; but we got her up in very quick tune, and then I left my place and shinned up the ladder, i told somebody to bring me a light line that was coiled np at the tiller and they brought it The line had stops on it like we used at sea to send sails aloft, but the stops were hardly rotten enough. When I got to the top of the fly-ladder I was still about five feet below the window in which the people were. I couldn't pass up. There were four people in the window, an wiin sheets, 1 shouted to one oi them, lou pass me a sheet" "What do you want with it?" said he. "You pass it down and I'll save your lives." So I got the sheet and twisted it and went into the window where they were on it I made my life preserver fast to the centre-piece o! the window. I made fast to a Mr. Reese and lowered him down on the window-sill under me He thought I wanted to gpt him on the ladder, but it would have been impossible to do that I then sent his wife down, and he shoved her out to the ladder, where she was caught and pulled ou by a fireman. Next I seat this light woman, Joanna Hal- jin, down, and Mr. Reese wanted to catch iter and shoye her'pycr to the ladder like he had done his wife, and I swora at hjm n a way that I oughtn't to have done. So he let go of her and 1 dropped her down on to the porch below, where she was easily tak en off. I hauled up the rope again and sent down this girl Burke, a big, heavy woman. I thought she weighed two hundred on the and of that hue. 1 he rope sot foul of Heeat end . his sheet, and so 1 says to myself "Old gal, it aiu't agoing to hurt you to drop the rest of the way,'' so I let her go by the run about four or five teet and she landed all right Then I got Reese out to the lad der and Barney McKernan helped him down. I untied my rope, took a slip bend about the centre-piece and dropped down to the ladder and so to the ground. It was getting pretty hot and smoky, but I did my best. Then we moved to another window and got two women and a man out the same way. Not a living soul was then to be seen. We saved everybody that showed their face, and so we got round to Elm street Nobody was in sight there, ard so we went all round the hotel back to r ourth. Mr. Londsay called my attention to a man hanging in a window Mr. Kennedy we found out it was. I went up, but we couldn't get the ladder inte the window and I threw him the clack of mv rope. "1 11 jump," said he. "No, damn it, don't jump," I cried. "Take plenty of slack and 1 11 save you ; and I threw him more slack and twisted a round or two about the fly ladder, so that if he had to jump he would have a chance for his lite. 1 run down and we got the truck nearer. We rau the truck into a shape that a truck never did work in this country, or any other, and never will again, though it did that tune. It had nothing to support it ; so we threw her against the wall some distance below the window. I ran up as far as it would go and told him to drop out at the window and bang on by the auL 1 he glass was cracking in the window at this time. Then I took a firm hold of the ladder with my lees and feet, leaning out a Utile to get a good purchase, took hold sf his feet with my bacds and yelled "drop, and down he came. I fastened on to him, and had a nice little time for a minute or two. He was very much excited, and we wero hard set to get him off the ladder. I hadn't coiled up my rope when down comes that whole Fourth street side. A Triumph of Art. On the Peacock Island in Potsdam we find among the white marble statues an Im age of Rachel, the celebrated French trage dienne, placed there in memory of her tri umph over a monarch who bad been by no means friendly disposed toward her. We mean Nicholas, Emperor of Russia, whose dislike to her had been caused by her He publican sympathies and turbulent senti ments, which he abhorred, ard on account of which he had prohibited her entrance in to Russia; he is even known to have said that he wished never to set eyes on her. This inclement verdict of the powerful morarch was no small stumbling block in the great tragedienne's way, for Russia is a mine of gold, foreign artists and many a Rachel and I'atti of our days might relate wonderful, almost fabulous tales of costly gems raining down upon them on the stage amid the enthusiastic cheers of an enchant ed audience. Therefore, Mademoiselle Kacuel was highly pleased when, in the summer of 1802, she received an invitation to act be fore the court at Potsdam, where the Empe ror Nicholas was just then staying as the King )t Prussia's guest The famous act ress had been desired to recite several scenes from French plays, but neither in costume nor in company of other actors. She there fore arrived attired in black, the most cost ly lace covering her beautiful arms and shoulders; but the gentleman who, by the King's orders, was at the station to receive her, expressed bis doubts whether the royal and imperial party would not object to so melancholy and mournful an apparel : and on reaching the pal see, the artist was kindly invited by the late Princess Charles (sister to the Empress Augusta, and wife of the Emperor s brother) to wear a few gayer looking things of her own. Such an offer could not be refused, and Mademoiselle Rachel appeared in the gardens adorned with roses. On inquiring for the stage she was told that "here was none erected, and that she was expected to stand on a grass plot in front of the scats of her noble audi ence. This demand roused bar quick tem per, so that she was on the point of return ing to Berlin, when her -official attendant, the above mentioned gentleman, pacified her by remarking that she would be on the same level with the audience, that ber art would prove the greater for the want of any stage apparatus ; and that (last but not least) he reminded ber of how much was at stake an enormous honorarium and per haps the repeal of that fatal interdiction. After a moment's hesitation and a struggle with herself, Mademoiselle Rachel took her cicerone's arm, and suffered him to lead her to the spot destined for ber performance. The evening was lovely ; the moon, half hidden behind a group of poplars, threw her silvery light on the pond and the gentle murmuring fountain. A few torches and lights illuminated the face of the artist, while the court sat in the shadow. Deep silence ensued upon ber appearance one could hear the crickets chirp and then she began her orations. The listeners seemed spell bound ; that was not human peecu, it was music dropping from her lips. She was determined to be irresistible ; and she succeeded so well, that even the hitherto unfriendly Empeior himself, won by ber art, rose from his seat when she had ended, and meeting her half way, kissed her band in presence of the assembled court, assur ing ber that henceforth she would be. wel come in Russia. What were the praises, flatteries and congratulations of the others who weie crowding around the happy artist, com pared to the homage rendered to her by the mighty ruler of Europe's vastest coun try, the monarch from whom a sign ordered thousands of his subjects to be or not to be. Thus was one of the greatest autocrats in Europe won over by the acting and elo cution of a woman ! The Small Boys Right. A Kansas jndge presents his view of the rights of small boys in the following, which forms a portion of his judicial decision : "Everybody knows that by natuie and by instinct boys love to ride, and love to move by other means than their own locomotion. They will cling to the hind end of moving wagons, ride upon swings and swinging gates, slide upon cel lar doors and the rails of staircases, pull sleds up hill in order to ride down upon them on the snow, and even pay to ride upoa imitation horses and imitation char iots swung around in a circle by means of horse power. This last is very much like riding around in a circle upon a turntable. Now everybody, 1 no wing the nature and the instincts common to all boys, must act accordingly. No person has a right to leave, even on his land, dangerous machi nery caloulated to attract and entice boys to it, there to be injured, unless he first takes proper steps to guard against all acci dent ; and any person who thus doe leave dangerous machinery exposed, without first providing against all danger, is guilty of negligence. Oar Cews aad their Value. It is estimated that the number of milk cows in the United States Is over 18,000, 000, requiring the annual product of 52, 000,000 acres of land fur feed, giving em ployment to 650,000 men, and requiring the labor of 866,600 men. Estimating the cows at $30 each, the horses $80, and land at $30 per acre, together with $200,000, 000 for agricultural and dairy lniplemeuta, aud the total amount invested in the in dustry is $2,ai,280,000. This is con siderably more tkau the amount invested in banking and the commercial and niauu facturing interests of the country, which Is $1,800,964,586. The cattle and horses will require two tons of hay annually or its equivalent. If it is estimated that 5,000, OoO cows are fed with grain for winter dairying, and that if the horses eat daily six quarts of oats or com during the year, they will consume 28,383,300 tons of hay, 84, 380,000 bushslsof corn mcaL 84,370,000 bushels of oat meal, l,2o0,000 tons of bran, 30,000,000 bushels of corn, and 300,000,- 000 bushels of oats, of a total value of $3$4,45,40u. To this should be added the labor of 650,000 men at $20 per month, $156,000,000, making the annual value of $504,45U,40u, or an average of $33.80 per cow. Accepting 12 cents per gallon as a basis for computing the vaue of the milk product and 446 gallons the average yield per annum (this being the average in sixteen State in I860), the 13,000,000 cows produce annually 5,7U3,OO0,OO0 callous of milk. .rih $095,760,(10.'. Analysis shows that 3 pounds oi milk contain the same kiud and amount of nutritiou as 1 pound of boneless beef. 1 he total weight of the milk pro duct is 50,732,600,000 pounds, equal la 14,41)5,000,000 pounds of boneless beef. About 50 per cent of a fat steer is boneless meat, so that it will require 20,650,000 steers of 1,400 pounds weight to produce the same amount of nutrition as the annual milk product Such fat steers would sell at $4.50 per cwt, or $6S each a total of $1,300,950,000; deducting for hide aiid tallow, $260,1 DO, 000, leaves the meat value $1,040,760,000. This gives the food value of the milk product in the lulled States annually. Willard, in his "Prac tical Dairy Husbandry," says that milk at 24 cents per gallon U equivalent in value to boneless beef at 9 cents per pound." It is false economy, therefore, that substitut ed meat for milk as an article of food. The same authority (Willard states that 60 per oent of the milk is used in making cheese aud butter, 41 per cent is consumed fn a liquid state. The Department of Agricul ture, 1877, estimates there are 1,000,000,- 000 pounds of butter and 300.000,000 pounds of cheese made annually in the I nited States. At 27 pounds of milk for 1 pound of butter, and 9 J for 1 pound of cheese, the total amount of milk used would be 29,950,000,000, add 41 per cent of the product for consumption, the total production is 50,752,325,000 pounds, with in a small fraction of 1 per cent of the estimate made. The caseine in the milk used for making butter, if utilized for cheese would produce annually 1,890,000,000 pounds)aand besides there is annually run off In the skimmed milk, buttermilk, and whey 200,000,000 pounds of milk sugar, which. if saved, would have a market value greater than the entire annual sugar crop of Cuba. A rtcepoeket Bold. Recently a lady living at the upper part of East Broadway, N. V. on her way home boarded an Last Broadway one-horse car in front of Frankfort street, deposited ber fare in the cash box and was then invited to take a seat by a man who moved to an other part of the car. The lady had with her a portfolio of large size, which she held on her lap after being seated. She had not ridden far before she felt something touching the right side of ber dress, and looking down saw a newspaper was cover ing a portion of it Her suspicions were aroused, as she had her gold watch and 'a ten-dollar note in her pocket on that side of the dress, and she at once felt for the valu ables and found them. She took them out of her pocket, and being convinced that the fellow alongside of her was a pickpocket, thought she would have a little fun at his expense. She took the watch and wrapped the ten-dollar note around it, so that he could see it, and then putting the portfolio in such a way that the fellow could not see what she was doing, put the articles in her left hand, and placed her right again in. ber pocket as if depositing the watch and money there. The lady had in her pocket a cracker in a piece of paper, one left of a half a dozen she had taken with her from home as a "snack," and, squeezing the paper around the bard cracker, she drew it up close to the entrance to the pocket and waited to see if the fish would bite. In a moment or two afterward she felt the news paper again thrown carelessly over her lap and the delicate touch on her dress as be fore, and then the fellow got up and pulled the strap for the car to be stopped. He got out, and, putting a hand in each of his overcoat pockets, marched down Eart Broadway until became to a corner, around which he passed on the double quick to ex amine his booty. The lady wonders what the thief said when instead of a gold watch and a ten dollar note he found out that he had stolen a cracker and a piece of white paper. As the lady does not care about the loss, detectives need not call on her to ascertain what she will give for the re covery of the property. She does not wish to make any compromise. The thief was a well foraied fellow, about five feet eight or nine inches high, not stout, with a bad looking left eye. He had an accomplice, ne doubt in the man who first got up In the car and offered the lady the seat, as after the thief left the other soon followed. The Mouths or Plants. 'If you are very thirsty," said old Mr. Ewing, "and I was to pour a glass of wa ter on the top of your head, would you be very grateful to me r "No, said Tom, who was watering his geranium, "I d be mad : "Well, "said the old man, "you are not treating yoar plant much better. It has mouths, and it likes to drink when it is thirsty, but you don't pour the water into its mouths. 'I don't know where they are," said Tom, looking curiously at the bush. "Its leaves are full of eager little pores and they are choked with dust," Mr. w in ' said. "Just put the nose again on the watering-pot and wash off the leaves." Tom picked up the nose, put It on the spout of the pot and gave the bush a tho rough wetting. "It does look better'" he said. "Has it any other months t" Tleuty more," said the old man ; "one at the end of each rootlet When you pour a stream of water around the stem of the plant, I think it must feel as you would if 1 put your drink on hour bead." 'lee," said lorn, "see the fuse ma. 1 didn't water the leaves nor the ends of the roots, I am sure.'' 'And don't you see you are doing the same thing by that rhododendron P said the imtabe old man. "When you do any thing, boy, do it hi the right wsv I " And he took the watering-pot himself, and every mouth ia each plant got a good gruut tnat time. redessriaale fecwltarltles. No two of us walk alike. The hinges ot our gaits turn the same way, but with dif ferent results. The baby strikes a toddle because it haau't strength enough to walk, but it has the underlying principle of a natural walk, because it "toes in." "Toeing out" is a military article, invented for the express purpose of showing how much more man knew than the Lord did. The hippity boppity skip and jump is peculiarly the little girl's gait Uneasy and restless the flutter-budget seems determined to wear the sole of her shoe and the soul of her mother out at the same time ; but she is the prettiest picture of animation human ity can show. The dead run all out of breath is the small boy's gait. You can set down the boy who so far forgets himself as to walk as already in his dotage. Very old. Ibe square heel and tae is the gait af fected by professional peds on the sawdust track , but it is growing obsolete, thank our lucky stars. The bound to have it gait ia a rapid straight forward stride, never turning to the right or left The man who has it knocks over children, barks bis shins against market baskets, and stubs his toes against every thing on the walk. But he "gets there. and hia coat tail arrives about two minutes later. There ia the slow measured gait tread. tread, tread, all day long. The man who carries the hod has this peculiarity down fine. He would run to a fire in the same step, and get there possibly. the long lope, thirty-four Inches to the step, with a sag of the knee joint and a vigorous swing oi the arms, is that of the young man from Ruraldom. He gets the walk from going over rough ground and anybody that gels the best of him has got rough ground to go over. the quick, sharp and spiteful gait with the little metal ic heels ringing on the pave ment is the gait of the smart young miss with bright eyes and lots of vivacity. The young man who intends to keep company with her for life must make up bia mind to train to her step. She never will train to his. The everyday business gait Going right along with your feet, and your thoughts in the otfice, store, shop, or wherever it is. lou never know how far the walk is, nor how long it takes you to cover it It is indefinite and frequently the only aid to good digestion. Take it easy, don t care a cent sort of a gait with cane twirling over his finger is typical of the man of the world. He leads life of leisure and wouldn t hurry him self. As a consequence he grows fat rheu matic and gouty and in later years walks with two canes and tremulous limbs. It doesn't pay to bunch your pleasure. 1 be dinner gait before and after, is men tioned merely as affording a remarkable contrast It would hardly seem possible that one pair of legs could perform so en tirely in opposition. The slow gait For further particulars send a boy oa an errand. 1 he fumbling, hesitating gait braced up by a good hickory cane is what we are all coming to, if we live but our three score years and ten. It will be pleasant to "slow up," just before reaching the grave. The stroll. Just at twilight, conscious that the day's work is over, and that a sea sou of rest is before you, to leisurely mean der along in pleasant paths, beneath the deepening shade of shapely trees, to listen to lite hum of the busy world as it gradual ly dies away, to watch for the twinkle of the first star of evening, or mav be catch a glimpse of the moon over the left shoulder; ah this is the acme of pedestrian ism. If you don t believe it, offer ber your ana to night and try it. They Warned to Uts in the Stars. Very near us sat two young people. He wore the face of a man who shaves three times a day, and that white necktie bad never seen the starlight before. There was pearl powder on the shoulder of his coat, and a tender, dreamy look in her lovely eyes. They sat and looked up at the stars, and they didn't care for any soli tary thing any nearer to this earth. "Mor timer,' she murmured seftly, "Mortimer his name appeared to be Mortimer. though 1 couldn't learn whether it was his front name or his after name "Mortimer, dear," she said, "if we could only live apart from this busy and sordid, unsym pathetic world, in one of yon glittering orbs of golden radiance, living apart from all else, only for each other, forgetting the base things of earthly life, the coarse greed of the world and its animal instincts, that would . be our heaven, would it not dear!" And Mortimer, be said that it would. "There heart of my own," he said, and his voice trembled with earnestness, "my own darling Ethel, through all the softened ra diance of the day and all the shimmering tenderness of night, our lives wonl.1 pass away in an exalted atmosphere above the base-born wants of earthly mortals, and far beyond the chattering crowd that hves but for to-day, our lives, refined beyond the common keu " And just then the man with the gjng came out Mortimer, he made a grab at Ethel's hand and a plunge for the cabin door Ethel just gathered her skirts with ber other hand, jmif e 1 clear over the back of her chair and after him, and away they went, clattering down the cabin, upset a chair, ran into a good, sweet old Quaker lady, and banged a bad word out of her be fore she had time to stop it ; down the stairs they rushed, collared a couple of chairs at the nearest table, feed a waiter, and opened the campaign without skirm ishing. I am a man of coarse mold and an earth-born appetite myself, and I wouldn't live m a star so long as I could find a good hotel in America ; but long, long before I could get seats at the table for my famely. Mortimer and Ethel bad eaten two D ue fish, a little rare beefsteak, some corn bread, a plate of hot cakes, two boiled eggs and a bunch of onions, and the waiter had gone out to toast them some cheese. Moral. I have during my wanderings, met several people who wanted to live in a star, where earth-born people with human appetites couldn't trouble them, and I always found the safest place for an earth-born man when the star-born soul started for the dinner table was behind a large rock. Distrust the aspiring mortal who lires in a plane sa ele vated that he require the use of a telescope when he wants to look down at the rest oi . And if he ever wants to board at your humble table, charge hira $15 a week and feed him on lou of aoup, or you 11 lose money on him. They Handled It Gently. The Liverpool inspectors ot explosives report that a quantity of honey recently came into that port with a label well calcu lated to secure proper handling for the package. In well displayed and large let ters the caution to porters and other ran thus: "Handle gently as dynamite. A drop of one inch will cause certain destruc tion to the contents." The words "handle gently" Mynamite" and '-certain destruc lion" were, of of course, printed in more prominent type than the rest, and one Can well understand that little damage was done to the content of that package. The Tenor's Ravence. He was a tenor ainger in ous of the opera companies, lie was a good singer, and every lime be sang, the audience, with de termination to get the full value of their money and a little more, which ia a pecu liarity of audiences at an opera or concert, always insisted upon ua eucore. And he respoudud good naturedly, although he thought it a littlo hard to be compelled to perform double the work set down on the bills every night Oueuay, while prome nading on Fourth street, it occured to htm to do a little encoring himself and see how it worked, lie stepped uito a hat it re and inquired of the proprietor, Who cams forward to wait on bint, the price of a silk hat "Seven dollars," was the reply. He selected one that fitted him and paid for it, then be shouted: "Locure! encore !" "W hat do you mean i" inquired the proprietor, in amazement "I mean that 1 want another hat" "Certainly," said the proprietor as he placed a duplicate upon the counter won dering what the man wanted with two hats. The tenor picked them both up and staled for the door. "Hold on I cried the hatter, "youdiu'ut pay tor uatl other hat" "But I paid for the first one, and the other is an encore, replied the tenor. See ing that the man of hats, cais and furs failed to comprehend, he said: "I think I saw you at the opera last night!" "Yes, I was there. But I don't see what that l as 1 1 do with your paying rue for " W ait a bit l ou paid to hear the opera given that was on the prograiue P "lea. lertaicly, of course I did. will call the two hats " "No matter about calling the two hats. lou didn t pay to have that opera gone inrougn wiiu twice, did you ? llow absurd! Certainly not 'Spoae we say twelve dollars tor both "bay nothing until 1 get through. I am the tenor of that opera troupe. Everv song that I Mug 1 was called upon to repeat, and if 1 am uot mistaken you ciupped uanler thau any one else in the theatre. And 1 had to give you double the amount of gi ois thut you had paid fur, don't you seel The hat store man did see by that time. and he said to the tenor, "1 acknowledge the corn, you can take niy hat" but he wouldn t, be ouly took the one he paid for. andjwilh a feeling of satisfaction that he had impressed a lesson upon oue Cincinnati man who would encore everything, be walked out with a genial smile aud pursued the even tenor of his wav. Tubseee fertilisers. Next to stable manure we believe tobac co stems to be the best fertilizer for tobacco known. Castur puniace when used in con uection with manure gives a good leaf of a ark color and nne texture. It is now gen erally conceded by all tobacco-growers that the leaf is more even in color when grown on the same ground year alter year, like the oui , while a less amount of fertilizers can be used and about the same amount of leaf will be secured. At the South com mercial fertilizers are used almost exclu sively, while at the West when fertilizers are used at all the kind used is the very best of barn-yard manure. In Wisconsin the largest growers in the State use this kind of fertilizer for both common Wis consin and Spanish leaf. In Cuba. Peru vian guano is used largely as well as the manure of mules. In Syria goats' dung is used, while in Japan only liquid manure is used, applying it to the roots of the plant in same manner as with the tea plant In Ger many, Kussia and Holland fertilizers from the stable are used. In Franca the entire system of culture is undtr control of Gov ernment officials, and the prescribed amount of fertilizers to the acre is established by J law, as well as the time of topping, tuck ering and the number of leaves to be left on each plant The culture of tobacco in Europe is controlled entirely by the Gov ernment in thirteen nations, and is rapidly being brought to a high state of perfection. Manure must be in a soluble state in order to induce a rapid growth, without which the leaf will be ot little value. Tobacco is the most rapid grower of all our field pro ducts. Green manure should not be ap plied in the spring, but in the fall may be spread or plowed under about twelve cords of stable manure to the acre, or from forty to fifty ordinary cart-loads. Seed leaf or cigar tobacco requires richer soil than cut ting tobacco, but of late the Virginia and Kentucky tobacco-growers are using large quantities of stable or "cow-pen" manure. In the heavy tobacco countrv of Kentucky the planters are giving the subject of fertil izers very much attention, and throughout the entire tobacco-growing section of the country the question is being repeatedly asked, "llow and what fertilizer shall we use on tobacco!" It may safely be affirm ed that the land can hardly be manured too highly, yet the query has been raised of late whether too much manure to the aore is possible. The subject is certainly a vital one and worthy of study and experiment Tobacco growing ia a science yet in its in fancy no doubt, since new sort are being constantly originated and new methods of culture adopted. Fertilizers must be used liberally, else it will do no good to plant From 1,500 or 2,000 pounds to the acre is the average yield in the New England and Mi.ldle States, and the seed leaf of those States is now considered the finest grown in this country. A Patent Tramp Trap. A Western man has invented what he terms a "tramp trap." It consists uf an or dinary freight car in wibcb is a movable bed resting on spiral springs, something like a spring mattress. To this bed is at tached a clutch which acts on an elliptic spring connected witn the uoors. the movable bed is adjusted so as not to move until a required weight is upon it In the car are placed several boxes ot crackers and cheese, and the doors are left wide open. These articles are soon discovered by tramps and they begi n to swarm around the car and to enter. When the required weight is in the car the bottom suddenly flies up. throws out the clutch, and the doors close quick as a flash and fasten with a spring-lock ; the tramps are thus secured until captured by the railroad officials. Toys. The tables are turned. Not many years ago a large portion of the toy used by the children of America came from turope. But now not only are the many inventions which have originated in our country sought by foreigners, but toys formerly made abroad are manufactured more cheap ly here, and the old world buys largely from the new, Last year the export trade in toy was over $1,000,000. American team toy and mechanical toy have rapid Iy multiplied within a few years, and are exported in large quantities ; to also tin and wooden toys, which much excel Euro pean product in style, finish, and cheap- How twe Lawers Swore efb "I swore oft once let me see yea, it was twenty-six years ago yes, tweuty-aix years ago last first of January, Church Blackburn and I swore oil." Judge lady pushed aside his judicial ermine, aud, leaning his arm upon the desk, the tears welled up from his ami Into hi eye as he pondered ou those happy days. "You see," pureued the Judge, forcing back the lump lu hia throat, "you see Church Blackburn and I were great friends. He had a law office adjoiuiug mine and wu were together a great deal. Well, Church used to driuk considerable, and as I used to take au occasional drop myself, says I to him one first of January', Church,' says I, 'let's swear off: 'Agreed, says he. 'I've got sick of wearing this red nose of mine around town, so let's quit this miser able drinking aud lead the virtuous lives of total abstinence men.' Well, we swore off and agreed that whichever one of us first broke the pledge should buy the other a suit of clothes. For six mouths I kept the pledge like a Spartan hero I never quailed before the blaudishmcnts of the white-robed bartender, and Blackburn seemed to be doing well, too. We were together just as much as ever, and I never caught him taking a driuk of liquor in all that six months time. Twice a day we used to go down to the Planters' House saloon aud get a couple of big lemonatk-a to cool our parched throats, and show the boys how true to our resolutiond we were. Now all this time Blackburn's nose was just as red as ever, and I couldn't under stand why the change of lire should to givj it more ot a tone of repuse. Well, one hot July afternoon we dropped in at the Plan ters and ordered our big lemonades as usual. The bartender fixed 'em up as usual, but when I tasted of mine I spit it out quick-like and a shudder ran all over my body. Uxk here,' said I to the bar tender, "you've put gin in this lemonade. Well, you never saw a man as scared as that bar-keeper was. He looked at me and then at Blackburn, and then kaned up against the bar, pale as a ghost and speech leas as a mummy. Aud Blackburn turned red and white, and all sorts of colors all at once, and tried to stammer out something, and failed ignominiously. 'What does this mean)' said L 'I gave you the wrong tumb'.er,' faintly moaned the semi-comatose bar-keeper. Then Blackburn came out like a man, and made a clean breast of it, and I couldn t help laughing when I beard how outrageously I had been duped. Why for five loug months, twice a day, Blackburn had been drinking gin and lemon to my lemonade. He made an ar rangement with the liar-keeper, and hot! guzzled away time and again, until at last, by some awkwardness, the bar-keeper had given me Blackburn's gia instead of my lemonade;" 'Well, you got your suit of clothes?" "Yes, and Blackburn paid for 'em lite little man! Humph ten o'clock call the court to order, Mr. Marshall." An Egyptian Muuimy. In the Etruscan vase room of the British Museum, is to be seen the skeleton ot one Pharoah Mykermus, decently encased in its original bunal clothes, and surrounded by fragments of the coffin, whereon the name of its occupant can be easily read by Egyptologists, affording conclusive evi dence that it once contained the mummy of a king who was reigning in Egypt more than a century bef. re the tune ot Abra ham. The proof of this is thus explained the Oentkman't Manazine April, 1S06: "About two ytari ago, Herr Due- niechin, a (ierman expltrer ot the monu ments of Egypt, following up the indica tions pointed cut by M. Mariette, a distin guished arctueologist, discovered on the buried walls of the temple of Osiris, Aby- dos, a large tablet containing the names of the ancient Pharoahs, from the time of Mizraim, the gran-lson of Noah, and the founder of the Egyptian monarchy, to that of Pharoah Seti I the father of the ell-known Rameses the Great, including thereby the chronology of nine centuries viz., from b. c, 2300 to e. c. 1400. This tablet, by far the most important yet dis covered, has been compared to the sculp tured figures of the Kinps of England at the Crystal I alace, from illiam the Con queror to Her -Majesty tieen Victoria. Astronomical evidence moreover, enables us to determine the time of two important pochs in the history of Kgpot, one of which is connected with our present sub ject Sir John Herscbel has fixed the age of the Great Pyramid of Gizeh to the mid dle of the twenty-second century b. c. The tablet of Abydos shows that the Pha roah whose bones we now possess succeed ed the builder of the Great Pyramid with only two intervening kings. We are there fore warranted in assuming that the re mains oi rharoab Alykunuus belong to the age which we have assigned them." Hew They Learn. An illustration of the spirit of the times u the following little scene, when a bright four-year-old little lady was imitat ing her elders by playing "make calls." Now, mamma you be Mitheth Dones.and 111 be Mitheth Smith, an turn an mate you atalL" Mamma "Very well, Mrs. Smith I am glad to see you, how do you do, and how arc your children ? Totty "1 ni twite well, I thank you, but the children has all dot the hKpia toff." Mamma "I'm sorry to hear that How many children have you, Mrs. Smith?" Totty "Oh, I has ten, an dey is a grate tyal to me wit housekeeping." Mamma Tbey must be, indeed, But bow does your husband, Mr. Smith, do!" Totty "He s very well, thank you but he's had bad bithness and he has failed. Mamma "I'm sorry to bear that your husband has bailed, but you hav'nt lost everthing, Mrs. Smith, for I see you make calls in your own carriage ? Totty "Oh, yes ! 1 tecp my tarruige. We has paid one cent on a dollar aud doze right on." The Panes of n Rattlesnake. A physician some days ago come into possession oi a rattlesnake, the bead 01 which be proceeded to dissect lor bis own amusement and information. Taking one side of its head he extracted the fang, when lying close by this and grown up next to it he found another fang, a little shorter than the first, ready to take its place when the long one should be broken off or fall out Next to the second fang was a third, ana -lext to this a fourth and after the fourth a fifth, each aa it was found proving just a Utile shorter and a little smaller than the one found just be fore it So that the serpent was endowed with five tangs on one aide of its mouth, each to come into use in regular succession. The physician dissected only one part of the snake' head, but this proved to his sat isf action that the current belief that, a rattle-snake has only one fang on each side of it bead, is a very erroneous belief as ap plied to all snakes ot Uu species. ! i
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