' . I - ' - - . . B. F. SCHWEIER, THE 005STITUTI0I TEE UHTOI-ASD THE ESPOEOEMEST OF THE LAVS. Editor and Proprietor. TOL. XXXVII. MIFFUNTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 24. 1SS3. NO. 4. LI BEYOND. Never a word Is said. Bat It trembles In tue air. And the truant v. Ice baa spe! To vibrate everywhere ; And perhaps far off n eternal yean Ttie echo may ring upon our ears, Never are kind acta done To wipe the weeping eyes lint like flashes ol the sun. They signal to the skies ; And np above the angels read How we have helped the torer need. Xerer a day is given, . Bat It toues the after years. And it carries np to heaven Ik sunshine or Us tears; While the to-morrows stand and wait, The silent motes by the octer gate. Tftere is no end to the sky. And the stars are everywhere. And time is eternity. And the here la over there ; For the common deeds of the common day Are the ringing beds In the far-away. DA 15 V. A clear and I in ping whistle rose and fell and rose again, a pleasant sound to bear, upon the evening air; but the girl who stood knee deep in clover be side the meadow fence looked sombrely down as tbe joyous notes struck upon ber ear. "Poor fellow! dear fellow!" she said to herself. "It is so hard to go against him when be is as light-hearted as that" A moment more.and Ralph Armstrong, her lover, vaulted lightly over the intervening bars and stood Leside her. Straight, sturdy, browu, something of the contract Itetween himself, with bis superabundant liff, and the wee woman waiting there, eeenied to strike him. "Why, my liUle Daisy," he said, with a playful touch, turning up her chin until be could looi into tbe soft eyes, that straightway filled with tears. "Why, Daisy !" he repeated, iu an alter ed, vexed voice. "I thought wheu I saw you out here that you were glad to have me come. Never mind; yon will be when I tell yon the news. I have paid off the hist instalment on the farm, and there's to be an end of your drudg ing your life away. No more cooking for lodgers, or sitting up half the night to look out for Kick. Is he np to Lis old tricks again? Is that what has tak en the color all out of your face?" 'He was away all night," said Daisy, iu a low voice, "He never got home uulil noou to day. He is asleep, and, oh, lldph! 1 am a! raid to have him wake It is s J much worse new that Miss Winter is here." "Didn't I te.llj oa bow that would 1? ' reminded Ralph, not very kindly. "But, luckilv. it don't matter; you can get rid of ber as wxu as yon please, and we will have the wedding when? I won't be put off very long, my dear." Dah-y turned ber fiice away to the gathering dusk. "Oh, llalplil'' she cried, piteous ly. "Be contented to wait" "To wait' Whst foi? Tor Kick to drink bimseif to death? For you to grow old before your time with tbe hard work of taking care of yourself and him? Daisy, once and for all, you'll have to choose between your sot of a brother and me. If you tre bound to put him first now aud lor ever " The urtinisbed tbieat fell nj.on other ears besides those it was intended to reach. A dogeait rolled almost nonie lessiy past on the thick green turf of the laue upon which the meadow bars gave, and Dr. Lloyd, littiug bis bat to Daley, sLot a keen 'glance at the young fellow standing sulkily at her sue. He was gone ill a momei.t, but somehow Ralph Armstrong experienced a feeling of shame wLich kept bini for the time from presMDg wh.t he bad beeu a'oout to luge. He turned and walked towards the house with Daisy. It was a sbackly, tuuiblc-uown cob tage, with mess ana lichen creaking out iu patches over the decayed weather boarding, and a creaking porch from which the rustic benches had long ago rotted away. Tbe picturesque aiect of the old I'lacebad taken Aliss Winter's fancy, and to little, fair-faced Daisy had found tbe weekly audition to the sum which she earned with ber dressmaking was all that now went into ber shabby purse. There wbb a jntflh-d cry of "Daisy! Daisy!" as those two approached to gether; then once, twice, the report of a pistol, together with the sound of shat tered glass, was borne to their e irs. "It's lUtk." cried Daisy, breathlessly. "I locked bim in his room. Do go and talk to Miss Winter, Ralph, till I get him quiet again. " She was off as she 8f oke. M iss Win ter had come to the door, hall in alarm, and looked inquiringly at Ralph as he approached. "Do you think he is doing ain thing reckless?" she asked. 'Nothing w orse than smashing a win dow or two; it's bis favorite way of call ing bis sister. Pity he can't pnt his bails to better use." "I wonder that you Ieve her to be the victim of bis whims," said tbe lady with a straight look at him. "I?" said Ralph, with a shrug of his broad sbouldeis. Perhaps he did not mean to disclaim such an intention on his part, but it looked like it How could he tell Aliss Winter that the only reason he had not taken Daisy away months before was because Rick had outweighed her liking for bin.? It was a sore subject with Ralph at the best, not one he would choose to parade to the wor.d at larga Two hours after that, Daisy stole out into the moonlight, utterly wearied with the scene through which she had pa sod. All her efforts had been fruitless to en tice Rick back to ids bed. He sat on a bench in the kitchen, limp and stupid after that lit of violence, aad Daisy stole out, as I have said, to breathe the heavy sweetness of dying rosee, and brush their dewy leaves with her heated face. The shadows lay thickly npou the porch, but there was a stir there, and Miss Winter's voice said, softly: Good-night!" "Good-night!" returned Ralph. "IU show you to-mcrrow where the maiden hair fern grows." He came whistling down the path to find Daisy standing by the gate. "Well, little one, have you made rip vour mind which one ol us you 11 later "Ralph, yon know that I can't leave Rick." "It's him or me," said Ralph, stub bornly. "He has no one fclse" pleaded Daisy. "Have I? There's no use arguing, it's cot to be one thing or the other. 1 want a wife in my home, and if yon won't "have ma maybe tuare are others thai wui, Sweetheart, say that yon care too much for me to tend me away." "Oh, Ralph, you must wait" Ralph muttered an unpleasant word, and flung away without a good-night An unsteady ttep came aown the path. "Looking for me. Rick?" Daisy tried to speak cheerfully. "No; get away!" Rick spoke wildly. "You've been out with Ralph you'll go off with him next You're (lied of me, and 1 can't do better than to make an end of myself. I'm going the straight road." Daisy t'srew herself before the gate; she clung to him, pleaded with him. Half crazed as he was. Rick was in no condition to go back to the village inn, and the rough crowd which would be gathered there at that hour. But all of a drunken man's obstinacy was aroused. and while they stood thus, there came again the roll of wheels that were checked suddenly, and Dr. Lloyd sprang down as he took in that scene at a glance. "Go into the house. Richard," he commanded, aud Rick, without a word, obeyed. "I'll give him a powder," said the doctor to Daisv. "You must sleep yourself to-night" He stood talking with her after he had seen Rick safely in his room. "So he has had the pistol again. Well, I don't think that need alarm you; Rick isn't one to do himself any harm. He has been sly enough to hide it again, or I would take posses sion of it He is never violent towards you? 'Oil, no, never. "Sot quite brute enough for that," muttered the doctor, as he took his leave. and Daisy slept peacefully after her trouble. She did not really believe that Ralph meant what he said, but be seemed de termined after that to visit his displeas ure upon her. Miss Winter came back, from her walk next day with her hands lull of lerus. "So Mr. Armstrong isn't your engag ed lover after ah?" she remarked to Daisy. "I would have been flirting' with him before this if I hadn't supposed lie belonyeel to you." Ilirtine,! Oh, Miss Winter!" "He isn't a bad hnnd at the pastime hinself ," remarked Miss Winter, coolly. She understood the situation much bet-1 ter than she pre-temled, and liked Ralph none the less because he seemed ou the : point of deserting his little white Daisy fur her. Rick had avoide d the lodger from the first It ws a revelation to Daisy when she came upon liim one day holding a crushed flower which Miss Winter had worn. He had not been near the village for davs. Languid and spiritless he had crept about the house or lain in the long itass with a look on his face which went to his sister's heart She understood it now as she saw him lift the fallen flower and just touch it with his Urn. "I have been mad enough for that, Da'sy to fall in love with her. And if 1 haunot thrown away my own manhood, I need not now be in despair that is the bitterest thought of alL" It is not too lute to be true to yourself yet Rick," She bad a little hope that this new feeling might work some geiod iu him, but belore the wee k was over, he had broken bounds again, as if determined to bury regret in ob'ivion. Meanwhile the time came for Miss Winter to return to London, aud she sent lor Rdph, w ho had promised to drive her to the station. He came wiih his hght carriage and mettled horse, looking neither sorry nor cast down, Daisy observrel with a throb of the heart "He isn't false, then; he'll come back to me again when she is gone. Rick had been at the village. He was ou bis way home when, at some distance away, he saw the carriage standing at the parsonage gate, Ralph and Miss Winter were just taking their places in it, the minister stood on the steps, and the curious face of a maid looked down frjni a garret wiiieiow. As Ralph fettled down in his seat, his glance fell upon that shambling bgure by the roadside, and he gave a vicious cut with his whip; the spirited horse started with It pluige, a buckle snapped, and then the next in stant the driver had lost all control over him, R:ck had taken in the scone which his eyes rested on, and a sudden stillness went over him. 'They've been getting married ! he said to himself, aghust "Been getting married, and he has cheated Daisy. But be shan't get away so easy as that" His brain was clouded with liquor; some blind impulse of rage and revenge moved him, aud his fingers Clasped and brought out the weapon which he some times curried. They were close upon him now; he lifted his hand and fired at the horse, there is every reason to be lieve, for there was a dangerous em bankment near, toward whieu the run away was heading. But ha missed bis niarK. and the next mstant the steel- shod hoofs were trampling him down. A little furthex on ana the carriage was wrecked. Ralph Armstrong was picked np brui-ed and. senseless; his uewly made bride was dead, a bullet in ber heart, and further back was a bleed iii r. vulpy mass beaten down in the dust, that groaned when they touched it, but was beyond human aid. Ibe horror ot that lime was a year old when Rdph opened the rackety gate and made bis way again to the old house. Daisy was sitting in the porch, all in white, as he remembered her so well. Then he was holding her hand. and looking into her startled eyes. My little white Daisy I broke over his lips. "I never really loved anyone but you, and I have come back to ask you to be mv wife, after alL" - . .1- T . -.1. -1. ... . ... Htrarl'' "Kuow what?" he asked, almost fiercely. 'That 1 am Dr. j-.ioyu s wne. x was married a week ago," -And are you happy?" He wanted her to say no; be thought his own misery would be easier to bear if he knew she shared it There was a sound of wheels nearing the gate. She turned her face that way; a beautiful flush tinged it, and that look answered bim without the low-spoken words "I ant very happy." In the production of coal,, Illinois is only second now to Pennsylvania. The State bureau of labor reports that the output has increased from 6,000.000 tons in 1880 to 9,000,000 tone in 1882, and that the value at the mines has been about $14,000,000. Fbttz's erratic dog: Frits has Earned hia dog Non Sequitur, because It does not follow. Do you never look at yourself when you abuse another person.; Tb Bcsne of Cold. A story about which there is a fascin ation which it is impossible to resist when yon hear men te ll it is that of the ' 'Home of Gold. " Somewhere in South western New Mexico, in the Sierra Madre, it is said there is a wonderful valley. Small, enclosed iu high rocky walls and accessible only by a secret passage, which is known to but few, is tt-is extraordinary place. It is about ten acres iu extent, has running through it a stream, which wat.rs it thoroughly and makes it a perfect Paradise, with its exquisite flowers and beautiful trees. In it are thousands of birds of the most beautiful plumage. Running across it is a ledge of pure gold about thirty feet wide, which glistens in the sunlight like a treat c olden belt The stream crosses this ledg9 and. as it runs, mur murs around blocks of yellow metal as other streams do around pebbles. The lodge of gold is supposed to be solid gold and to run down into the centre of the earth. The legend is ot Indian origin and around it clusters a ntmoer of Indian stories, in which the name of the ill-futed Montezuma occurs frequent ly. The descendants of the Aztecs be lieve firmly that the day will come when Montezuma will return and free them rom the dominion of the descendants of the Conquestodores. They believe that the money necessary for this work will be Liken from the Madre d'Oro. The secret of the entrance into the valley is carefully guarded by a tribe of Indians living near it, and among them it is only commupicated to the oldest men, amid the solemn ceremonies of the Medicine lodge. Having such a story to work upon there is little wonder that the viviit itucgiuntion of the Mexicans should have built upon it tales of men who have found thLj wonderful place. One is that a certain Jose Alvsraz, while wandering through the mountains in search of game, saw the valley from the top of the wall. Finding that he could not hope to enter by climbing down, he took up his abode with the Indians who guard the canyon leading into it The daughter of the chief fell in love with him and betrayed the secret to him. Exactly how she found it out they do not tell. Having been shown the eutrance, Jose went in and would possible have gotten away with some of the gold had he not weighed himself down to such an extent that he could not get up the declivity at the lower end of tie passage. He was Iis covered and the Indians saeriaeed him on the golden ledg6 with all the terrible ceremonies of the old Aztec re-Kgion. She, in despair at losing him, threw herself from the high walls into the valley below. Hundreds of prospectors have spent months of toil trying to find the Madre d'Oro, bet, it is scarcely nec- A Michigan Convict's Trtet Not long ago the convicts in the third tier of cells in the east wing of the pris on at Jackson Michigan sine-lied fire, aud aa they raised an alarm shrieks were heard issuing from cell No. 69, occupied by a life man named Isaac Van Auken. Ihe guard ou duty ascended to the cell as quickly as possible, which he found tilled with smoke, while flames enveloped the grated entrance. Owing to the ex pansion of the iron door by the heat, difficulty was experienced iu opening it, but when it swung back the wretch who occupied the cell sprang niiked through the flame. Meantime his cries of agony were terrible, for he was being literally cooked, and as he shot out upon the cor ridor he would have gone over the rad ing to the stone floor, many ieet below, had the guard not caught him by the arm and staid his headlong spring. He was shockingly burned about the face aud ail over his body, aud as he was being taken to the hospital repeatedly cried: "I want to die! I have been a bad man; I deserve this!" He lingered about twenty-four hours when death put an end to his sufferings. The cell occupied by the desperate man is 3 feet 5 inches wide by by 8 feet long and CJ leet high. It is arched overhead with brick, of which the walls are also composed, and is air tight, w ithout a fissure or opening of any kind anywhere save at the grated door. It resembles sn oven, and on this occasion was con veited into that sort of appurt enance by the occupant It seems he nad piled his bed clothes, the apparel he wore, together with the canvass cot in which he slept, and a pine box in which he kept his l?tters, against the door of his cell, then pouring the oil of his lump over the mass, aa is conjectur ed, set it on fire. Van Auken came from Lenawee county for life on the 30th of J uly, 1806. His crime was one of demoniacal brutality. In a paroxysm of rage he cut down his wife and killed her in cold blood with an axe; then pursuing his son, who tan into an adjoining field to escape him, aho killed him with the gory implement, fresh with his mother's blood. He was a surly, mean, dogged scoundrel about the prison. since Inttead ol lit Prlp.t. Rev. Henry Ward Beecher should have gone on the stage instead of the pulpit He makes of his pulpit a stage, he does commonplace things in such a dramatic way. Plymouth Church w cro-rded on Monday evening with one of its characteristic audiences, and Miss Frances E. Willard, of Chicago, deliv ered a lecture on the work of the Women's Gosptl Temperance Union. which was received with great enthusi asm. As the prolonged applause at the close of her lecture died away Mr. Beecher ascended the platform, slowly thoughtfully, and stood for a moment regarding almost staring at the lec turer with an expression of mingled wonder and admiration. Then, turn ing to the audience, he remarked, slowly and meditatively, emphasizing the words with nods of his head: "And yetshe cannot vote!" It is hardly necessary to add that it was some tune before the audience was quiet onougn for him to add in ringing tones: "Ara you not ashamed of it?" Tlie Whale-fluntera of Japan. The whale-fishery of Japan is carried on as a regular business on both coasts of the country; but more men are em ployed, and the catch of whales is larger, off the eastern coast, especially off Kii province. The fishermen or the little town of Eozt have a lookout-tower perched upon the rocks, far up on the hill-side. A sentinel is kept constantly watching for the spouting kujiri ("number-one fish.") as the natives call the whale. Long boats, holding from four to ten men, are kept ready launched. These hardly fellows row with tremen dous energv, as if in a prize race. If the whales are numerous, the men wait in their boats, with sculls on their pins and straps ready to slip on at a moment's notice, all in order to out out to sea. A gay flag with a curious device floats at each stern. The whalemen are div ided into scullers, setters, and harp don ers, or grappling-iron men. Japanese never.row, but scull with curiously beut long sweeps, which swing ou a half round knob set into a pivot, the handle end being usual 'y strapped at the proper height. The device on each flag is different, aud speais, nets, and grappling-irons are marked, so that the most skillful get proper credit for t'ae-'r courage, sure aim, and celerity. The boatmen are lightly clad iu short, sleeveless cotton jackets, with leggings, like greaves, reaching from knee to ankle. Around their waists are kilts made of cosine rice-straw. The nets, w hich are about twenty feet square, with meshes three feet wide, are of tough fea grass rope, two inches th'ck. Twenty or thirty of these nets are provided, and then lightly tied together. go as to make one huge net, from four hundred to six hundred feet long. As soon as the s'gnal from the tower 's given, the beats put out, two by two, each pair of the larger boats having the net tackle, and all armed with-darts and spears. Rowing in front of the whale, the net is droped in his path. If skillfully done, the huge fish runs his nose or jaw into a mesh. He at once dives, and tries to shake off the net This he can not do, for the square in which he is entangled immediately breaks off from the rest, which is haul ed on lxard, ready for another drcp. Should this also be successful, the game is soon up with the wha'e. Usually, the more ha flounders, the moie tightly his terrible collars hold him, entangled his fins and quickly exhausting his strength. No sooner does he rise for breath than tbe rowers dash close to him, giving the harpooners an oppor tunity to hurl their darts at his big body, nutil he looks like an exaggerated pin cushion. As his straggles become weaker, the grappling-irons are thrown on and the boats tow the carcass near shore. To land their prize, the success ful hunters lash alout it stout straw ropes, and attach to them a came, -nutting the other end around a windlass set up on the beach. When, with gay and lively songs, they haul the enormons mass ashore, The whale is now out np into chunks. I tidbits go on the fish erman's gridiron, or are pickled, boiled, roasted, or fried. t at Fitniiig. Some years ago, says a writer I had a cat whose fishing proclivities and fond.. nets for the water was, to say the least of it, extraordinary. Her eccentricities, so far as I knew them, dated from the first moment I saw her. A friend and myself were fishing in a forty-acre lake, ia a large purk, on a bitter November day, with the wind a dead nor'easter. Just as we were thinking of desisting, about 4 o'clock in the afternoon, my friend called my attention to a half grown kitten which stood mewing bit terly on the bank some 30 yards from us. We called it once or twice, aud, to our surprise, it took the water without the slightest hesitation and swam to the boat After drying it as well as we could, we wrapped it up In an eld rug. and gave it some of tbe bait from the punt's well, which it devoured greedily. I took it home after its very Arthurian advent, but it never became a domestic animal. Tabby'a chief delight on the oontary, was to wander in and out the sedges of tbe stream, by which my house stands, catching rats, moor hens, or sedge warblers, and in Summer to poach in the shallows for small fish. I have frequently found her doing this, and my bait can was never safe unless actually fastened, for even if the hd were down, somehow my lady Tabby would get it up and be at the contents in a trice. I kept her some four years, but at last was forced to shoot her, for she took to game poaching in right good earnest, and ended by living in a rabbit's burrow from which, after trying to her without suc cess, she was incontinently drawn and shot I have often thought ahe was a forest-born cat, of parents getting their sustenance in the coverts, and living there aa cats will of tea do, after the first departure from virtue in the direction of game poaching. Ttis Months, It was a belief a mong the Pedes that each month of the year was under the influence of a precious stone. Tins: January was represented by a garnet7, emblem of constancy and fidelity; Feb ruary, the amtehyst, sincerity; March, bloodstone, courage, and presence of mind; April diamond, innocence; May, emerald, success in love; June agate, health, and long life: July, cornelian, contented mind, August, sardonyx, con jugal felicity; September, chrysolite, antidote against madness; October, the opal, hope; Novemper, topaz, fidelity; and December, turquoise. These sev eral ttonea ware tat in rings, and other trickets, aapreaenta. BataAnd Rabbits. At the present time, when the inhabi tants of the several Australian colonies are searching for some means of dimin ishing the vast numbers of the rabbits which are devouiing the produce of the soil, the history of the acclimatization and utiUizatlon of the mungoose in the island of Jamaica, which was related in a paper read by Mr. W. Bancroft Es pent. at the meeting of the Zoological Society lately may not be without interest A few years since the growth of crops in the island was so seriously interfered with by tlie number of rats, that laod was allowed to pass out of cul- yatiou, an expenditure of from 200 to 300 annually ou several of the estates failing to keep down numbers of the three species of these destructive rodents the brown and black rat, and the cane pine rat (Mus saccharivoroos). Several attempts, to introduce animals destructive to the rats had been ma4e, but without success. The raffle ant (Formica omuivora) was eflectthd in cer tain localities, but it was equally efH :a- cious in destroying native birds, chic kens, pnppies, aud even occasionally killed calves. The aqna toads, as a remedy, ,-roved as bad as the disease, as they killed all ground birds, cliickens and eggs. Ferrets were also introduced, there being no musteline animal native to the island: But they wcro destroyed by chigoes. Fox terriers were found usekss, as tuey were cut by the serrated edges of the sugar cane. In 1875 Mr. B. pent introduced niue mucRooses. four males and five females, one of the latter with young ones, direct ftom India. These were distributed, and in a few months had bred freely. So great was the destruction of rats effected by those animals that in two years the expendi ture for the extirpation of rats had ceased, as they were not only dissemi nated by the introducer, but the young mungooses were trapped alive by the negroes at 5s each, the original expense of their introduction being about 1 per head. The beneficial effect of their in troduction has been variously estimated at sums varying from 100,000 to 130, 000 a yerr. In 1S75 the growth of cocoa was al most impossible, the export of chocolate and cocoa nibs for the whole island only amounting to 870 per annum; in five years the value of the export had risen to;ll,00J. And coffee, maize, peas, and beans, the growth of which had al most entirely ceased, were largely cul tivated. The utility of the mungoose was not confined to the destruction oi of rats, as it destroyed vast cumbers of .snakes, toads, and bind crabs. Since the advantage of the mnngoos in Ja maica has been proved it has been in troduced luto several of the other is lands, as Cuba, Barbadoes, Porto Rico. Several subsequent imporbitions have beeu made into Jamaica, but the ar rivals sent Irom England have not done as well as those imported direct from India. The OLly objection made to the mun goose is that it has interfered with the ground-netting birds; thus the numbers of the quail have been observed to be diminished. Domestic poultry have not suffered seriously, or perhaps not as much as they previously did from the rats and snakes. Iu those parts of India where they are found they are not re garded as being specially obnoxious to tame snimals. A singular result bus fol lowed their anclimatizition in Jamaica; they have effected an alteration in the habit of the rats, that have taken to tree climbing, mi. king their uea's in the hol lows of the trees where the mungoose cannot follow them. Tbe success which has attended the acclimatization of these animals in the West Indies may possibly lead to a trial of their services in inst ta lis as destroyers of the rabbit Widows And Itailrjad Oulciaia. Not long since Wake Held Sfarkey, vt Austin, while crossing tbe track of the International & Great Northern railroad on a valuable mule, was struck by a locomotive and killed. The mnle was also hurled into eternity. Wake field Starkey, although a perfect gen tleman on the street, was a perfect tyrant of the deepest dye. Without any provocation whatever he used to beat his wife acd lock her np in the wardrobe; hence, when she heard of bis death, it was not so much a case of heavy Leiavementas it was of mitigated effection. A3 the engineer of the lo comotive was clearly to blame for the the accident, it was suggested to the widow that she bring suit for damages. She resolved to do so, and called at tha office of the railway company. The proper official happened to be in. The widow had such a clear case against the company that it was deemed advis able to compromise the matter "Now, madam," said the official, af ter the tHow had thrown her veil and stated her business, "wo are willing to do what is fair in this matter. There is really no occasion to go to law. It is a delicate subject to discuss, so I think, without going into the merits of it; I will tender you a check for $3,0CO, and yon will sign a paper releasing the company from all further demands." The widow started and asked. "How much?" "I am authorized to pay yon $3,000.' "I accept if," she said, , very much agited. The check was handed aver, the pa pers signed, and the widow walked out into the street in a bewildered frame cf mind. As she cashed the check she said to herself confidentially, "I didn't expect to get more than $30. I reckoB tu.it raiiorad fellow didn't kuow ho w old that mule was." It never occured to her that she hsd sustained any loss in the death of her husband. On the other hand, the raU road official said to one of the clerks: Tt company was getting off dirt cheap. Wa tuusilr have to pay $3,000 for run ning over hoabanda." 1 ba Fatnier Wife. There are several leading departments which, by common consent, are rele gated to the sphere of tbe wife. Em braced in her special department is the management of the household expenses. aud, unless dairying is maele the chief business of the farm, she has usually the entire care of the dairy. A story is told of one of the early pionreis in new country who, with hia wife, com menced farming on a tract of 100 acres of wild land, only partially paid for. Year after year they prospered, the ICO acres were paid for, in large part, by the hard-earned moLey which the wife had secured through the sales of butter and cheese. Again and again the question was asked by the hnsband : ' Shall buy another hn mired acres ?" and the answer by hia good wife was always ready and always tbe same : "OA me 15 more cows and yon may safely buv the land." When in their old age fine farm of 300 seres was fully paid for, the wife could rightfully boast that it was her labor qnita as much as that of her husband, which had paid for their Lroad acres. The power which a farmer's wife my exercise in the farm carries with it many responsibilities. It is her duty in eery way to fit herself to become a judicious helpmeet and counsellor. The farmer's club meeting should be apen to the wife and the daughter as well as to the farmer and son. Not infrequently the little im provements made at trifling expense, through the iuflueuce of the wife's tastse and tact, add more to the value and attractiveness of the home than many times the money cost invested under the husband's manage meet. Iu all the suggestions as to making farm fife at tractive to young men there is none better than to enlist a hearty coopera tion of their mothers and sisters. They will point out to the youth the ideal and aesthetic side of the farmer's work, while if he learns farming wholly from his father he is apt to learn it only as a lift' of prosy and poorly-piid toil llaklDZ Faces At My lKg. in the early Jays of wtiat is now a verv rich and widely circulated Michi gan weekly newspaper, the editor had occasion to bestow some advice on a rich aud iLfiuenti.il citizen. Th) ad vice was not kindly t&kea. Da the contrary, word was sent to the office that in case the offense was repeated somebody would be made to suffer for it It was promptly repeated, of course, and the influential citzen soon appear ed and began: "Sir! you have seen fit to attack me through tbo columns of your pnper. You have declared war. I accept it. From this on it shall be war to the kuifo. "My brother will withdraw his advertis ing." "Nevtr advertised a line with us," replied the editor. "I will ask my friends to refuse voa all job work." This whole town doesen't haveSlO worth a rear." "You shall have no more legal adver tising." "Never had a square of it yet, and don't expect any." "Sir!" exclaimed iufl loutiul, as he paused iu his walk," I will ri le throng h tha country and stop your subscrip tions; yes, sir, I will lose yon 4'X)' ub scriliers between this and Winter!" "How many?" "Four hundred, sir." "Colonel Blank!" shouted the. tditer, as he rose up iu his wrath," yon are the biggest fool in America! How on earth are yen going to take 400 sub scribers off my books when the Gazette has only Jjo, counting m ail the dead heads aud deadlieats? Go away sir! Go and take jour re verge by throwing stones at my cow and niakiuj up faces t my dog 1 ae Inundation or Verona. A correeponaenl writes; at one place in Verona I saw sumo soldiers swhu repeat edly across the suiiriDg r.vor to save women, children and old men. At an other they clim!ed outside the houses to free the annates. As we passed one par ticular bouse ia the part called Vernctta, heartrendins cries were heard. Tuere was no way of get tine at the inmates, as tbe upper part f the house had fallen in in consequence of the neighboring building i aving given wny. There was only aa archway by wbicu the people had former'y entered the bouse, aud now this archway, long and narrow, was under water. O-r liarge stopped for one moment; a youug soldier seemed to considtT briefly then be threw off his jtcket acd hat. aud stilli ng, as if he were going to take pirt in a dance, jumped into tbe ws et and dived under the archway. The deed seemed not only courageous but desperate. N jae of us spoke; we ilmost held our breath. Our eyes were al! fixed on the archway and the muddy water, none of us danni; to bse that the soldier nould reappear. But be did, and not only once. Three tines did be return, carrying io his arm? a child, half dead with fright at the immer sion, but yet alive. There was no one else iu the ruin, and we moved on to the other side. There the colonel bad been standing looking oa at the exciting scene. at we aoproactiett him he said nev. r a word, but beckoned to us to come near where he was. As the heroic soldier lauded, all drenched, he raised bis hand to bis bare tad to saiute the colonel in mili tary fashion. But that officer put bis arms about the soldier's ncc'i and kifsed him, while the modest hero blushed and the people around frantically applauded, I asked tha soldier's name bat could not SJt it Ibe man, with the natural dignity, refused to tell it He replied that he ha 1 done only his o'utv, and would have nei ther thanks nor publicity. The last invention lor the protection of theatre audienres is a 'penetrable safety wall," which bas just been patented by an engineer at Kottsbua, Germany. Tbe plan la to mske tbe interior wail in all parts of the theatre of papier mactie, ma Je after a certain method. Ouch a wall will have the appearance ot massive stone, but, by pressure npon certain parts where the words are to be painted in luminous letters "To be broken open in caae of fire, "access to the exterior corridors ia to be obtain!. whence escape to the enter-air can br BMeiS. Tb Discovery of tb Mammoth. The banks of that great Northern Siberian River, the Lena, are quite peculiar. Tho-e on the western side" are generally low and marshy, while these on the eastern are often from sixty to one hundred feet high. In the extreme north, this high elevation is cue into numerous pyramidal shaped mounds, which are formed of layers of earth and ice. sometimes a clear stratum of the latter maur fret in thicknts. It was before saeh a mound that a fisherman stopped, dumb with aston ishment, one spring morning, many years ago. About tuuty feet him, hall way up the face of the mound, appeared the section of a great ice-layer, from which tbe water was flowing in numb erless streams; while protruding from it, and partly hanging over, was an ani mal of such huge proportions that the simple fisheraian could hardly believe his eyes. Two gigcatic horns or tusks were visible, and a great woolly body was faintly outlined in the blue, icy mass: In the fall, be related the story to his comrades np tne nver, and in the ensuing spring, with a party ot his fellow fisherman, he again visited the spot A year had worked wonders. The great mass had thawed out suffi ciently to show its natarc, and on elos er insectoin proved to be a well-pre served specimen of one of those gigautic extinct hairy elephants that roam over the northern rai t of Europe and Amer ica in the earlier part of the world. The body was still tx firmly attached and frozen to permit removal. For four successive years the fisherman visited it, until finally,- in March, five years alter its original discoverv, it broke away from its icy bed and came thundering down upon the sands below. The discoverers first detached the tusks, that were nine feet six inches in length, and together weighed three hundred and sixty pountls. The hide, covered with wool and hair, was more than twenty men could lift Part of this, with the tusk, were taken to Jakutsk and sold for fifty rubles, wide the rest of the animal was left where it fell and cut up at various times by the Jakoutes, who fed their elogs with its flesh. A strange fejst this, truly meat that .iad been frozen solid iu the ice honse cf Nature perhaps fifty thousand years, more or less; but so well was it preserved that, when the train was afterwa-d comjHired with that of a recently killed animd, no diffiireuce in the tissues could be detected. Two years after the animal had fallen from the cliff, the news reached St. Petersburg, and the Museum of Nat ural History sent a scientist to secure the specimen aud purchase it for the Emperor, He found the massive skel eton entire, with the exception of one fore leg. The tusks w ere repurchased in Jakutsk, and the great frame was taken to St. Petersburg, aa' there monutett Fences are built, not f .r the purpose of fencing in crops, but for fencing out other people's cattle. Fcr the lack of proper legislation, or the lax admini stration of laws already provided, ten men must be subjected to a heavy expense to protect themselves from the tlepredations of oue man's cow. In Ouio and some other States the sensible view is taken that a fia!d of corn is not likely to stray over into a neigh bor's premises aud commit any overt act of violence; that it is not ncccos snry for the well lieing of society that a man should place himself and family in a priion-like eueiosure or disfigure the beauty of his grounds by high fen ces. It is the duty of every man own ing cattle to take care of them. They are not allowed t run at large to be fed and cared for at the public expense. Wherever these sensible laws exist and are strictly enforced the results are highly satisfactory. Some of the m-wj beautiful residence in Ohio are without a fence of any description, and the ef fect is very plena ng. Flowers are cul tivated in the yards and statuary adorn the grounds, but they are as safe as if they were behind high walls probably more so when we consider the fact that cows have a street education, learu tiiat fences have their weak places and gates are not impregnable. Fences fer pro tection are offended to good taste, and a lax public sentiment which nntkes them neccessary is wrong. M'-reover it is a gross Injustice, for it loaLi far mers down with expeuscs which is not right they should bear. If a paor mac buys a farm, before he can plant his crop?, he must use money which he can illy spare to build fences which perhaps cost more than the land. He may have no cattle of his own, but his well to-do neighbors have, and for the privilege of allowing them to live on the pnb:ie domain he must fence in his innocent crops. If we adopt the same plan in society, we would place all the lawabiding people in the penitentiary as a measure for protection, and let midefactors ran at larga Who wants to try his experiments. Rlc Niiaea. Napoleon was not the fast person to declare a preference for men with big noses. A century before hia birth, an old author, in response to his own ques tions pronounced ' the biggest nose the best nose," instancing the case of tbe Roman emperors. Nsuia's nose was half a foot long, and earned for him the honorable surname cf Fompiliua. According to Plutarch, Lycurgns and Solou ran to tha nose, and to dii all the Roman kings, excepting Tarquinns, and he was dethrone)! Homer's nose was seven inches long. A French wri ter says, "Large noses ae held iu honor everywhere in tha world, except among the Chinese and the Tartars." NEWS IX IHUEF Grand opera is said to be going out in Europe. Georgia farmers now brew beer from sugar cane. New Orleans people do not like the Northern rish. - Turnips aud carrots are used iii the adulteration of jams. In 318 there were 5.000 hermits ia the Egyptian Thebaid alone. Elizabeth Cady Stanton advises I illiards for girls of the period. The population of Rome under the enqerurs greatly exceeded a million. John Walford, age 103 years, voted at the recent election ia Pike ewuntv Ky. Ihe Chinese minister at Washing ton has a wardro!e said to Iw worth $20,000. Twenty thousand messaged are transmitted daily by telephone ia Cin cinnati. Since 1830 eighty-two peopla have thrown theatselves from the Veadome column in Paris. A valuation of 3 W), 00), 000 iu round numbers is reported on pro.wrtv in Texas this year. The sum of $J.6jO,OOi is now in vested in the mauulaoture tf irou iu the Birmingham, Al i, diitnot. A contract for removing the raius of the Tuiienes l'alace iu Paris has put beeu awarded by the French ( Soveru ment. Flotow, the well- kuowu compose r of the opera "Martha," Iils Inlaid lilm.l f Ai. . . """ i"iu me lusease auowu as gray cataract It is estimated thst ti. t..t .l clip of the United SUton this yeiix wiil aggregate 3u0.000.u00 Mm U ec.irri. $iuO,O00,0UO. During the fucal Vinr ti... i... Government received from inspection of steam vessels and oCi .ers' ii. eiis s 278,8c0 A ticket tweutv dere-d and a-cepted recently on the Consolidated Road for a rid- l. tw. ,.,. Hartford and Bos'oa. - A Halifax Merchant mnny mistakes ae madj lusiti that iu liriinar through tuing short pencils wiii J I e-ntuip tue nugers. For several weeks the banks at Galveston have beeu pressing to the interior au avera ge of 3U0,0U0 per week. A uuion depot. 230 fee t lorg w iili covered tracks extending l.uuj feet ana costing about SbKt.U HJ, is to U erected at aliuneapeJia. The Chinamen of Evaustou Wy oming, have buUt a large Masonic Tem ple aud deebcated it acjordiu to the customs of their country. The NebrakaState Superintendent of Public abstraction re-por s that there are "OUU more lioys thau girls of school going a in that State. About seven centuries U fore the Christian era, southern ludy was so thiekiy set with Grecian cities as to be known as Magna (irwjm. The Faculty or Amher-,t Coiie Massachusetts, has forbidden Its stu dents to take part hereafter iu ii;:cr eoliegiate athletic contests. Ih Texas there are so manv apples that two or three hundred distilleries have been licensed to make applej iek. Much peach brandy also will be maele-. Queen Victoria is fond U Welsh woollens in plain and natural tints, and in tiny eheoks ef rich dark red and brown. Her favorite is black and dark. green. Dr. Oliver Weudelr Holmes w ill bo requested by his former pup'ls to Bii for his portrait, a request which has boeu repeatedly made, but hitherto not granted. Queen Olga of Urteco cmios with her ou her travels a In p-dog of that rare breed so often represented by Sir P.iter Lely iu his pictures of the ladies of the Court of Charles 11. . The record of suicides in New Yol k city for the past twelve years show that nearly 1700 persons havecommitred self murder. More t nun three fourths of there were men. The annual report of the Puoiie Printer shows that during the li-eai year which ended on the 3 Jtu of June list the expense of his otlice was $ J, 635,13'J, which is $11'J,21'J larger th at in any previous year. Trade was carried on between Ire land and the coruitrio.s lying around the Mediterranean basin from the earliest times. The Irish export was ores, but there was some tralliu in slaves. The Maine bank examiner rcporU a prosperous year for the nfty-bve sav ings banks of the State. Iu 178 and l33 the deiKjfclU decreases!, but iu 1SJ there was a reaotiou. The increase iu hat year was nearly two nidbou dollars. During the twelve mouths which ended oa Novembar 30, l-82, the e-x ports irom the Lotted States ex?eeuei ike unporbt in value by $1 tll.Klo. Daring the twelve months wnich ended on November 30. 1581, the excess of ex ports was $19j,13'J,ltl3. The Prineve s Louise and the M ir- quis ot Lome will t ike homo with tu-m a p or of wool blau&tt-t, the tiutt ever mauufactured at the Golden Gate Wool len Mills, baa r'rmieisco, aud the "ift of ex Governor Lelaad Stanford. A Wisconsin milliouiure dividad his estate among his three children, with the provision that half of each poruon is to be kept by the trustees until the child to whom it is left is 30 years old, and than it is not to bd dolivcrej until proof is given that at least one-half of the portion previously paid has n t beeu squandered. The favorable mortality re(oiti made by the Kegintrar-Gcco-ral o-f Vic toria, Australia, are largely duo t) so many persons arriving in tue colony be tweai 20 and 30 years of ago, and icjv ing it before 60. Aa a matter of fact, the infant mortality in Australia is Very heavy, although the clima e is, for the most part, excellent foraduits, especially for those with any t nileue-y to pulmo nary trouble. The farms in the United States are worth $10.lyC,7'J9,C15;thefence.s, $70,- 765,723; live stick, $o00.8.J2,l-7 ; tarm implement aad macainetry. SDi.ol'i, 902 ; manures aud special tertihz -rs ooet, $&i,r!i7,6ti5 ; the tobd valua ta- vested m agriculture is rated at ;-,-210, 2o3,31ti. Its yearly products too; up S'J.SiW.OO.OOi)" and the reveuno yearly collected from its product foi- tiie support of the national, Stata aad local governments and for education amounts to nearly $103,000,000, aa- nually. r EUU
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