. i . I " ' - . T '- - - . .7" - - " - . .-'. . " wlWw wilt glJ B. P. SCHWEIER, TIB OOISTITTmOI-THE TJHOJ AID TEE EI70X0E1CEXT 0? TEE LAWS. Editor and Proprietor. ---, i . , VOL. XXXVfl. BLASTtD HOPE. He softly whispered In her ear "Shall we to the cafe Meander now my little dear?" She never spoke him nay.' 7 ,'?n dow? tUe lan and maid. Then did he gently quoth; r "Wilt thou have cream or lemonade" She simply answered "both." The smileathat erstwhile wreathed hUcueek 1 . turmtL For tho' each pocket he did seek He found but twenty cent. ' He said, "My dear, a man I see Who owes me dollars seven," Then from the room he swift did tiiet ' l To breathe the air of Heaven. 5 ' ' The maiden she did sit and wait Her nice young man's returning But ne'er a waiter brought the plate Of cream her heart was yearning. And still she sits with ashen lip And neither sound nor motion"-! " As silent as a chromo ship ' 1 f 1 On a lithographic ocean. mmmmmmm l ABKAOlXE-g LOVE. Carradine sat aione at his easel paint. nig, nuu as ue painted lie thought Eight years before, when he was a xii struggling boy, just entering on that race which must be run by every aspir ant to art and its honors, there happened to him something which neither time nor toil had ever been able to efface from his memory. As he was passing iiunK me suwis a wreatn or fragrant roses suddenly fell on his head, and look ing up in wonder he beheld, reaching out from the embroidered draperies of an overhanging window, a child, with fairy-like proportions, with great dark eyes and long, curling black locks, who stood smiling and throwing liim kisses from her curved lips, colored like -a poniegmnate. When she still gazed, a nurse had come forward and drawn the child away; the curtains were closed, and he saw the little creature no more. Such was the vision that the artist had carried so long in his memory; in his memory only, fur he had no second glimpse of the child. That vert day an accident occured which keit him a prisoner in his room for several weeks, and when next he went out the house was empty, and a placard with greatflar iug letters announcing it for sale stared him in the face, from the same window in which the little, white-robed elf had stood waving her hand and smiling to him. In course of time other faces ap peared there, but they were strange faces, and among them was never the one for which he looked. . . , , , ( . Xow, as Carradine sat painting alone, he thought of all this: of the struggle that had ended at length in success, of his hard, unfriended boyhood, and of the beautiful child with her fragrant rose crown,-which had seemed almost like a prophecy. - That rose wreath, dry and withered uow, was all that was left to him of the fair vision; but when that morning in turning over an old port folio, he had come ujxra it by chance it sioke to him of that by -gone day just as eloquently as when its blossoms were fresh and full. ' ',: "Eight years ago," he said, thought fully, letting the shriveled circles slip through his fingers slowly. "She must be li now if she lives. If? 2o, I do not doubt her living presence some where. I wonder where she is now,and what she is like at 16?" With that he placed the wreath beside his easel and began to paint. The face, as it grew on his canvas, presented a voting girl in the dewy morning blush of first youth, with shadows in the great dark eves and a half-smile about the bright" curled lips, like an embodied summer suitshower. It was thus that the artist pictured his idea of the child woman, whose infantile look and smile for eight long years had tieen his own dream of love. Carradine had not had an easy life. An orphan from his earliest years, poor and unfriended, he had studied hard for the means to gratify that inherent idola try foe art which was always clamoring to find expression in form and coloring. He had fought and he liad won; but now, at 2tj, he stood in the place w hich lie liad gained for himself almost as much alone at the very heart as he had been -eight years before, when the child's gift came to him as a prophecy. It was not that he was friendless. There were men who liked and sought him, women who would gladly have taught him to forget his loneliness in their affection. But though his nature responded rapidly to any kindness, there was one chord, deeier than all, that re mained untouched, and from the sweet est glances his thoughts went back to the unknown child that had smiled down to ninr so long ago. V J ' - Tne ideal head became his great source of enjoyment, and a dreamy softness shaded his dark-grey eyes, as line by line and tint by tint took hurt back into the past, wliicu all lifeless as it was, seemed to him, in those momenta, more real than the busy present. et now m reviewing that one bright vision of his memory, it was not so much Urn lovely child that he saw in fancy as the beau tiful girl whose face, with fuller depth and sweetie, looked at at him from his own canvas. - ' Instinctively, he hardly knew why, he disliked to work on this picture in any other presence, and he devoted to it only his hours of solitude, So imppened that it was nearly finished whin by sowe- ehance covered him bending o dToSnKSrSe 5lK fugbifeasel to the wall so as to conceal the face upon it. 1 his little strSmT however, was destined to be svai ..A i n,rh.(f in marked by ttenmtarXr, onrof those cordial, well mlaning people, good-natured to a de eret but with little delicacy of precep action at once aroused his CU"Xay'.nr paiWr," he said, with "HIT,, see what it is that you .t"; i.wourself till it steals away m r eyes and ears. Only one peepi ' y with that he laid his hand on the iramc, mrned it round. u.ne irom vii"'""-i . . journey!" - Win where to find W511 JUU, "J J b evasively. , -d other migni uac , ,, ijnod face nature, I say. . ur coux , hibit it. Carradmer quietly. " No!" answered the painter, S"c"' Xo!" repeated the other, m sur- rTshai?uifydear,ellow'youmust, Will hav .tetray yUr d yU than ?Z.t 8Wa of "o", orse Ja Plague m Egypt, let in upon - inrrelt!- .A chancewoiM . V -," "B 8Pcn bad suircested a spite of sober reason. v JUS U ?. r!ght'" ,,e ",id- " 1 slll RttVvreforex,,ibitiwn- After his visitor had left him alow again, Carradine bent low over his easel gazing ,to the lovely, upturned fm, untd it began to fale into the gather- "8 iwuigut. . Il "-I'he murmured to himself, half tmconsciously. " But it cannot a 8611(1 il perhaps " And so the picture was sent, in due time; and it seemwl slmiut if dm'. ,..1 ..... z;rrrr.r " - i mu gone wun it and drawn ",m V www. Hour after hour, and " .uesaiin tne gallery scrn nuunig eagerly every face and the Visitors Whom tAsto anil f wl,i.,. l.o.l brouglit to look at the now celebrated artist's latest success. Every night he went away unsatisfied, and every mom fi he returned witn hPe springing Mill, the object of his search, what ever it may have been, does not apiar; and one day, discouraged at last, he re- U1"' ko no more on so fruitless an errand. Shutting himself in his studio, lie began to paint, but strive a t. would he could eommand neither hand nor fancy. Finally, tired of repeated iailure. he abandoned work, ami vildi to an impulse which drew his steps in the customary direction. lien he entered the small in which his picture hung he found but two liersons within, a voiinir man and a girl, i Carrddine could not see the facs f these Jivo, but, with an earnestness for which:ie was at a loss to account, he follo,l their retreating figures as they iuoveoj slowly toward his picture. But the r.iit moment an exclamation of astoniijiment burst from the liis of the youncjjiiau. .y, here is your itortrait, Leilia! MiatiJloes it meau? Who e can the pa:ntc be? Wil' that lie hurried out to purchase a catague. Carradine advanced quick ly to sfle girl. . . ..1 t ; " I u the iaiuter," he said. cuei turned and looked at him with one st that h. years. uly gaze from those glorious eyes 1 haunted his visions for so many Then she sjwke: u painted that picture? and how?'1 "Friim remembrance," he answered. " It wis my only tribute to the little uuknojrn princess who crowned me once with roses. Does she, too, re uiembtirit?" For a moment doubt was in her face; but as he looked at her it vanished in certainty. A smile touched her bright lils. It was you, then, on wliom I forced my roses? A princess who gave away honors unmasked. How often 1 have wondered since " She stopped, turned to the canvass, and added, abruptly," But I was a child then, and here " " Here vou are a woman' said carra dine, completing the unsjKiken sentence. "It is so hard to understand. The same power that kept the child in my heart showed me into what she would riien." she did not look at mm now, out at the picture, as she asked hnn m a low voice, And wiiom am 1 to mauK ior such an honor?" " Mv name is Hubert Carradine," he answered, and saw at once that it was no unfamiliar word to ner. "Ana vours? Through all these years your face has haunted me always, but your name I never knew." She hesitated a moment, then turned to hiin. " Vou never knew my name." men think of me still as you have thought of me through all these years," sle said, a lialf smile lingering about her mouth, but never lighting the great dark that was shaded by some subtle sadness. The look, the tone, trans ported Carradine beyond all remem brance ot place or ciryuuisuiinc the unreal realm ot imagination 111 which his wish was supreme ruier. " 1 have thoueht of you always as my life and my love," he said, luilf con sciously, his dreamy, deep gra ej glowing upon her face, she blushed suddenly, and then paled hi an instant. Just then her former comianion entered the room. "I am Leilia Auvernay," she said, hastily, "and this is Cecil Wyuduam my betrothed husband." ot another word was said. As the young man approached, Carradine fell back a step and looked at the two. His was a fair, handsome face, so little marked as yet by time, that it would be hard for an unpracticed eye to conjec ture with what lines the shaping char acter would yet stamp it. .Neverthe less, with one Keen gaze uarraumc con mated both present and future; the said a tew, low-spoReu v her companion, wno preseuuj toward Carradine, and addressed him : " I have the honor of speaking to Mr. Carradine, the jointer of this pic ture?" . . . . - Carradine bowea wiuioui si.... " Will vou pardon me for asking if it is a fancy sketch?" continued Air. Wvndham. iurtiv sn. but suggested by the face of a little girl," answered the artist " ltnt the likeness is so very strik- i m,.ttPri the young gentleman. mi i'must have it at any rate. Of course ... j. ;u i .jfr vrmr OUH UU w i 1"" w . va-tll TKin. WII.I1 1 L jw l,r,VU. t fnr sale." said Carradine, quieUy, still regarding the SSman with that cool, steady ga f . P . 1 .im.piiis him to be- whicu nau suwuj jrr.f7.oinn Wr tray a hesitation " ; unlike bis usuai "'.""""" r seemed to have an mstincuve .r ek that the artist was measuring him, eufee "",.. tn measurement and to Biiniia. i'"1" with unconscious dread. r'jirraduie saw J. hnn& find it whenever he looked away t ?lfiiork For he did not give up diffe UvfS ideKorld of his segued to M we own: and hater ue m hjs himself with. tne JT to piy that manner whicii Wdgeyunta it was only temporary . he the commg or some WpSl.alfayear,attbeendof MIFFLESTOWN; JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. JULY 11.1883, which there came a lWtrt familina It was ver- brief, but it was enough to assure uun ot mat which he had been almost unconsciously expecting. The letter was from Leilia Auvernay. He went to her at once. She met him with a laughing light in her eyes such as he had not seen there when sue stood in the gallery beside her betrotlied husbanfl a light which recalled the merry child who had smiled down on mm so long ago. "Mr. Carradine," she said, " I told you tliat my fortune was gone, but I did not tell you how utterlv it had lieen swept away. I am nothing better than a beggar. Will you take me as one of your students, for cliarity's sake?" He looked search ingly into her smil ing face, " And Mr. Wvndham?" he asked, in a low voice. She replied without so much as "a flush of emotion: " Mr. Wryndham has gone with the rest 01 my worldly possessions. Did I not say that I liad lost everything? You see, Mr. Carradine, that I am not of as much worth now as my picture." The words as she said them did not seem bitter. He took her hands. "Leilia," he said, "does your loss niaKp you unhappy?" . "lo I look so'?" she asked, gaily. As for the niarriace. it wan niv father's wish, and to gratify his dying request 1 consented before 1 kuew my own heart ." Here a quick vivid color shot into her cheek, but she went on: "There never was love on my side, and on his well, money is more than love, with some natures. I do not wish to blame him." Carradine s grasp tightened on her hands. " Leilia," he said, "once your answer put a liar between us when I sjioke words that were surprised out of my heart. Would it be so now if I should say them once more? My love, my life, will you come to me?" " Will I come?" she reieated, look ing up in his eyes and drawing nearer, until his arms silently folded about her. And so Carradine found his love at last. Crook's SueceiM. Hen Crook seems to have finished very thoroughly the work ot crushing the Apaches, which he began some years ago. 15y his former campaign they were all subdued except a parcel of Chiricahuas, and the work would doubt less have been completed bad not Gen. Howard arrived on the ground, stopped the lighting, and made a treaty with the savages which proved very unfortu nate. By its terms the Indians merely undertook to keep the peace, and in re turn government gave them the use of a large tract of land in Arizona, on the Mexican line, with absolute freedom upon it. Situated in this way, tne In dians broke their promise at the first opportunity, almost as a matter of course, and have since kept up a con stant succession of bloody raids. They could go into Mexico, kill and burn and rob until pursued, then return across the line and scatter so as to make their capture and identification practically uuiiossible, or commit depredations in Arizona and .New Mexico and flee to the Sierra Madre mountains in Mexico, adjoining their reservation. Finally the band was ordered to go to the San Carlos reservation, which lies in. Ari zona further north, but only a few obeyed. The others merely pretended to move into Mexico, and have since doged back and forth and carried on their murdering and pillage with more ferocity than ever The war so fortunately ended lfegan with the murder of Judge McComas and wife and the capture of their eight1 years-old son at Thompson's Canon, March 27. A pursuit at the time was unsuccessful, and Ueu. Crook went to the Mexican states of Souora and Chi huahua, consulted with the military and civil authorities there, and then organized a force to follow the savages into the mountains, tne Jiexican troui co-operating. 1 he terms of oui treaty with Mexico do not liermit a crossmg of the line by troops except in actual hot pursuit of Indians, of course Croon s expedition plainly overstepied this, and there was consequently some worrying by overanxious souls in both countries, but it is 110 secret that both governments knew all about the operation and were glad to do the necessary winking. - Al though at last reiwrts Juh, the. most mischievous of all the murdering horde, was still at large with some of his band, the canture then made was so large as to be conclusive, and doubtless the others will yet come in or be brought in. Just what will be aone wnn meui remains to be seen, but of course they will hereafter be kept under some sort. of restraint. Merely as a matter of money, the government could better affort to keep the whole lot at first class hotels than to have them roving at will again. Part. n. statistics of Paris iust published establish the claims of the city to 1 the most cosmojwlitan in Euroie. W hether it lie a thing to be prouu 01 or ,...t Puria ixchipflv inhabited bv a po pulation who are not Parisians. Out of one nunurea resiuwui umj imuj ie bora within the limits of the town; the .1 j i.,in(T aovpni.v are urovmciais ana foreigners, People come and make their money or come auu bj-, me anirtav ill the cauitaL or those who have made it leave Paris and settle in the country. True-born farisians are the exception, not the rule-. The classifica tion 01 uie luiiriKiicia if uucAiTOy misleading. Neither jiolitical import ance nor commercial prosperity seems KxmlHtA it.- We micht think the English, as being neighoors, a trading people, ana a peopie iuuu 01 colouring, would be the best represented. But ti .. rather nmr the end : much Liirj wuiv ....- - 7 after the Swiss and very much after the Belgians. Only ten per cent, of the strantrers are English, while the sub- ' - -w t . T r. rt jects or King "-oi'111 lc ""J n oont - ltnt it is in the ease of' the Germans that we meet the most sur prising of tne ransian srausucs. ney have always been very strong in Paris, much stronger than the English and the Americans combined. In numbers thou form thirtv-one percent, of the J . . . strangers. But the curious incident of their occupation 01 me cnj uuu n has been steadily on the increase, and has taken a decided impulse since the Franco-German war. In 1870 they were only nineteen per cent, and now they are more than thirty-one. On the whole, it appears from the census re turns that though the population of Paris has increased since the last sta tistics were published, the increase has chiefly consisted in the foreign residents. Bulwer Lyttoa's Home. The house itselt, picturesque enough even at a distance, is doubly so when seen close at hand, though the painted cupolas and gilded spires suggest a Rus sian church rather than an English manor house, and the incongruous wing lately run out from one end of it im presses one like the half transformed figures in Ovid, with the horns of stags or the claws of spiders projecting from a human lKly. But the sternest critic could find no fault in the ivy-wreathed arch of the gateway, the vast cathedral like windows, the clustering pinnacles and the quaint semi-ecclesiastical archi tecture, which gives it the look of some grand old historical college in Oxford or Cambridge. Xor 'could Sir Walter Vott himself have wished a huer stage for one of his "striking situations" than the great hall with its oak panels and its stained glass windows, tilled with the "dun religious light" that Milton loved, ami hung with banners of every shajie and color, from the ennon bearing the name of that Sir Turold who fought at Hastings down to the Delhi Standard which was borne in state before his last descendant as Viceroy of India. In such a sanctuary of the iiast the intrusion of the present seems almost a sacrilege. You would hardly wonder to see the two ligures ui armor that Hank the great fire-place spring up and extend their spears to bar your way. A bold man would be he who should watch here aloue till midnight on the last night of the year, with the gloomy moon-light turning the shadows of the banners into threatening phantoms and bodying forth weird, unearthly shapes from the balus trades of the vast oakeu gallery winch overshadows a full third of the entire hall. In such circumstances he might, indeed, like an adventurous Irish friend of mine who kept watch in a haunted house, "expect every moment the ap pearance of an invisible spirit. ' Jiut amid all these ghostly associations, the hearty, hospitable cheermess 01 "Merry tngland" breaks forth unmistakably in the inscription which encircles the whole chamber like a garlaud, in white letters on a blue ground: "Ileal the reile of Oils old niof-tree : Here be trust fust, opinion free. Knightly right lunil nl Curistlan knrr. Worth tn til, wit in same Laughter open, &lanler dumb. Hearth where rooted friendship irniw, Safe as altar, even to foe ; And the sparks that upward go When the hearth dame dies below. If thy tap In them may be. Fear no Winter, old roof-tree !" Even more interesting, though less gloomilv impressive, is the adjoining chamlier, with its projecting mantel piece, its curved oak cabinets, and the inaint medi-eval liortraits that watch us from the wall with sombre, unchang ing eyes. Here shines Edward IV., brightest and basest of English sover eigns, in all the fullness of his sleek, tiger-like b.-auty, a marked contrast indeed to the quiet, commanding face of Henry V ., (no longer bearing any trace of the wild Prince H.d of Shakespeare,) who looks down upon us with the same stern calmness werewith he watched the armed thousands of France surging up around his little handful of starving men through the cold white mist of Aginconrt. And at the far end of the room stands a small glass case, brimful of historical relics that would have excited the envy of Horace Walinile him self, foremost among which apiear the antique inkstand that figured hi the lebates of the long Parliament, ere Cromwell came to "purge the floor," and a lock of bair clipped from .Nelson's corpse on the night of that famous battle-Sabbath in Trafalgar Bay 7S years ago. The library contains one curiosity, a clock made at the Industrial School of Jeypur, the capital of one of the native States of Western India. It is a queer affair altogether, to all apiearauue en tirely without works, and looking very much like a lamp chimney surmounted by an ee-glass. Passing the foot of the great stairease which is sentineled by a life-like oil painting of Lord Beacons fiold we enter the portrait gallery, now flooded with a series of glory by the sun light which is streaming through the crimson curtains, and giving added color and lieauty to the grand procession -of historical faces along either wau. Here, belying her masculine dress by the vol uptuous softness of the features that enthralled Charles II., appears "wild Lucy W alters," mother of that ul-fated Duke of Monmouth whose rash clutch at a crown to which he had no claim, brought down upon W estern England horrors worse than those of Cawnpore. Here looks out from beneath his massive forehead, the large, thoughtful, earnest eye of Sir Thomas Moore, the noblest man of his day in England, and, there fore as a matter of course, sent out of England and the world by the beads man's axe as speedily as possible. Here stands Anne of Austria, Louis Xli! unfaithf ul Queen, imprisoned in a tight- waisted scarlet dress, and showuig tittle of the beauty which captivated the voia tile Duke of Buckingham, but much of the haughtiness which she bequeathed to her son Louis XIV. Here, in the commanding attitude which dismayed the fiercest Revolutionists or trance, towers the colossal ngliuessof Mirabeau, half redeemed by the stern,-daring, dauntless spirit that looks through it. And here, last and greatest of all, stands brave Boliert-. Wake, on the stern and solemn beauty of wiiosa noble fece rests the same look of calm and fearless self- reliance with which he confronted the pikes of Goring and the cannon of Van Tromp, or sailed foremost into the hell- fire of the Tunis corsairs at Goletta. Beyond the portrait gallery lies the study where the late Lord Lytton used to write, which is as simple as tne im mediate surroundings of famous men should always be. A small room, a plain central table, a bust of the Khedive, and a cast of Michael Angelo's Moses on the mantel-piece nothing more. But the fine oriel window and the beautiful view which it commands are a sufficient orna ment in themselves. Light, airy, cheer ful, this little sanctuary of art contrasts very pleasantly with the gloomy grand eur of the antique chambers ana dim corridors overhead. Had any one wished to confer a priceless benefit uion the late Mr. Harrison Ains worth, it should certainly have taken the form of a month's residence in one of these rooms of state. How tliat truly great man would have reveled in such an unexpect ed supply of recesses, hangings, cabinets and presses of carved oak, for the con venience of the ghosts, demons, corpses and other festive personages in which he delighted. Heme, the Hunter, him self would have found ample scope here for that troublesome gift of popping up through the floor or coming flying down the chimney with which he made him self such a nuisance in Windsor Castle in the days ofillenry VIIL What material, too, would any adventurous novelist find in the Latin inscription which surmounts the fire-place in one of the ghostliest of the upjter rooms: "In this cliamher slept Queen Elizabeth, after the defeat of the ArmaJa by English arms in 1588." It is true that there is still reason to doubt whether good Queen Bess ever visited Knebworth at all; but this is a trifle to all true be lievers in the romantic, who may console themselves with tlie assurance that this is the cliamher in which she would liave slept if she had. In one of the ante-rooms a little fur ther on is another relic which might furnish Mr. Wilkie Collins with the plot of a new "Moonstone." Just in front of the window stands a minature throne curiously carved, all of solid silver. It is Hanked on either side by a flight of steps of the same metal, guarded by a group of silver figures in Eastern dress, and is surmounted by a canopy, on which sits a large bird, holding m its beak a splendid emerald. Such an or nament might Warren Hastings have placed m the vestibule of Dalesford, or Clive in the hall of his stately house at Clareniont; but its presence here is equally appropriate, for it is the gift of one of the Hindoo Princes to the man who lately ruled them in the name of the Empress of India. Such souvenirs are precious not merely from their in trinsic worth but from Uie associations entwined with them; and this throne might buy be placed beside the tattered banner in the hall below, (toliear which up the fatal hill-side of the Alma three brave men died in succession,) as a token that the race which holds knebworth has proved its mettle on other fields le- sides those of literature. As we turn to depart the western sun. now fast sinking and gathering clouds. casts one pale and momentary gleam uion the square, massive gray tower of the ancient church of Knebworth as it stands facing the' hall. Such a back ground is tlie fit adjunct to such a pic ture. An old village church 111 England is a striking and suggestive object at all times, but doubly and trebly so wheu hlled with the silent eloquence of a con trast like this. On one side all the dig nity of rank, wealth, renown, tlie grandeur of an ancient name, the glorv of a world wide reputation; on the other this mute symbol of that power to which all the might of man is nothing, and of that grave in which man himself lies as low as the beasts that ierish. Like the skeleton at the Egyptian banquet, like the black robe over the throne of Sala- din, stands this sombre memento amk' the leafless woods opposing its stern simplicity to the pomp and glitter of the ancient mansion. Here must all the patlis of life, however diverse, meet at last. To this goal tend alike the Nor man noble whose bauner floated by Duke llliain s side at Hastings and the hob nailed clown who hardly known his own grandfather. iiii When tne dread shadow nastaiien which makes all men equal, the deeds that shine brightest through its gloom are not always those which poets have sung and nations vaunted. Were all the exploits of Walter Scott's mighty genius forgotten to-day, his memory would still be held sacred In every Anglo- Saxon heart on either side of the Atlan tic as the simple, kindly, true-hearted man who so warmly held out the right hand of friendship to young Washington Irving when toe latter was still but a private in the great literary army which he was one day to command. More precious by far than all the noisy praises which rewarded Voltaire's long war against God and man were the unheard blessings of the poor Swiss easaiits whom he saved from the tax that was crushing them. The alias houses built in Knebworth village bv the late Ixird Lytton's mother are a higher tribute to her memory than even the graceful monument and touching epitaph raised to it by her famous son beneath the sliade of his ancestral woods. By thee things men live when the hollow a plauses of drawing rooms and the lviug eulogies of critics have returned to con genial nothingness. Two Venerablo Women. The ieople of San Gabriel, Texas, go far towards immortality, and two ve nerable ladies, aged one hundred and two and one hundred and seventeen years, as is proved by the church re cords, are celebrities to whom the stranger pays his respects and Ins silver pieces. Driving in besides an adobe hut, a buxom and swarthy lady smiled at us from over her wash tub, and ad vanced with the sweet "tiKws ciios" of these people. Crossing under her clothes-lines, we found the ancient Laura sitting on the ground, with a faded bed qui't wrapped about her shoulders. With all her one hundred and two years, Senora Laura hits not learned the ways of neatness, and sat abjectly in the dirt, with more dirt and dust on her straggling black locks. Se nora lienjanuna, who owns to oue hun dred and seventeen years, lay inside ner miserable but, with a tattered bed qnilt wrapped about her, and her head sunken 111 another dirty quilt. Chick ens scratched and pecked the ground beside her, hopied 011 her prostrate form, and made the hut ring with their clucking and crowing. At the sug gestion of strangers and silver the poor old wreck of humanity turned her wrinkled face towards us, and the skinny hands were stretched out for com. A more revolting and saddening spectacle cannot be imagined than these two forlorn and trembling old crea tures, shriveled, wrinkled, and withered as mummies, with bleared eyes, hooked claws, and thin, trembling voices. OrUT on the rarm. Many fat men fail in making tne farms profitable for want of order.' Whether cn a small farm where the work is all done by the owner, or on 1 large farm where several hands are employed, there must be an early and tegular hour tor rising in the morning. Each hand or man should kuow the evening previous just what he is to do in the morning, and if possible for the en ure day. If chorei are his first employ ment, then he can go at them without waiting tor orders. If he is to use a team, then he can baye it fed, curried and bar Dessed ready. The wagon or Implement be is to use can be oiled and in place ready to hitch to. The proprietor must make stories short to common callers, and yet be courteous. He can also by a j-idicious system and study of the situation encour age any superior or ambitious help to ex cel in their labors. Be always at borne to direct, aid and counsel in all departments. Discourage all careless and loose practices. Strive to cultivate a good feeling between laborer and employer. Have stated tunes and rigidly enforce them, for milking, f jr commencing the regular work and lor re tiring from the field. Make the farm pro duce superior crops and raise the best stock of all kinds. Lite at the Springfield Armory. The soldier's life in these piping times of peace is not so full of excite ment as he might wish, but is by no means as unpleasant as has been pictured. Many young men who enlist are fascinated by the uniforms, tales of the rebellion and a life or ease, as it seems to them; and when they find that they are expected to work nine hours a day the enthusiasm is dampened, and they want to get out. From the dis satisfaction of this class has doubless arisen the prejudice against eaceful army life. But there is another side to the question. The average siddier is uneducated, has no trade and would have to work as a common laborer if discharged. It is said, however, that he would get more pay, and so it seems at a glance, but tliere it really very little difference lietweeu the remuner ation of the soldier and laborer. The former receives from the government his board, clothes and from $13 to J5 a month. I lie average is not far from $18, or $210 a year. The day laborer working 3uu days a year at $2 a day re ceives $XK). As good board and lodg ing as the soldier has wul cost at least $5 a week, or $200 a year. Deducting this and $1X) for clothes from his full pay, he has left $2, or $24 dollars a year more than the soldier. But the meu are not all uneducated. One or two in the service here have been through college and many are well-read. Some men enlist to receive the restraint which the soldier is necessarily held under. And this is one way in which army life does good, A man whose passion for liquor is irresistible, cannot devise a safer protection than that of the army. 1 he lives of many men have unquestionably been prolouged by the restriction under which they have been placed. This restraint Is, of course, irksome and disagreeable, buv. it is some men's onlv salvation. Dissatistied sol diers resort to all sorts of exiedieuts to getaway. One German said that he got "so drunk ash never vas' in the hope that he would lie discharged, but the scheme was bx transiKirent. De sertions have become so frequent that Gen. Sherman argues that it would be advisable to lessen the soldier's work; but it is a strange fact that quite a large percentage of deserters afterward give themselves up. It is seldom that any two give the same, reason for coming back. One could not overcome the fas cination which had increased while he served, another reiiented from consci entious motives, and still another found that his lot as a soldier wasu t so very hard after all. But the prejudice against army lj'e has become so strong that there are very few enlistments nowadays, and men will proUibly have to lie transferred t'r!ii line service to fill five places soon i-j be vacated here by sohbers who have served their time. It is often wondered what mode of life Is chosen after five tears in the army. but there is very seldom any dilliculty in a discharged soldier's obtainiug a place. Some of them make the most of their time when in the service and come out fitted for positions, which tiiey were wholly unable to till wneu they enlisted. Many lecome police men; and almost invariably make good ones. Fully one-half of the Washing ton police force is comiosed of dis charged soldiers, and one of Spring field's best ollieers lived 10 years within the iron fence. A Serpent in a Shaft. At this time of the year daneerous rep tiles are trust frequently seen in Hew Uexico, and are most aggressive. Recent ly two proapeators came into Socorro who relate strange experience they had with a rattlesnake the week before. The ptr- icu'.ars are downright "soaker, and bnt (or the reputa'.ion these men bear (or ver icity, we would not publish them, in prosnectine about fifteen miles east of L joy a they found copper float, and sep-tra- tcd to trace it to the lead. One 01 them, Ed. Bennett, on reaching a small hill, dis covered an old shaft. He fired shot to notify his partner and begin exp'ora tions. Tne shaft looked to be about forty feet deep, and about feet distant there was an incline connecting with it He pre pared to descend by this. When near'y at the bottom the loose wash gave way, and he was precipitated downward. He shouted out to his partner, aad was pre paring to kok around, when to nil horror he discovered that his descent had stirred up a rattlesnake. The blood curdling warning was rattling noinbly in the silent hole and caused cold sweat to ooze from the prospector's forehead. The glistening eyes of tue reptile shone upon him in the irloom, but ne was too unused to the place to distinguish further. He retreated to a corner, and as the shaft was a large one about eight teet square he had time to seize a rock and prepare himself. 1 he rpent followed, and springing at him struck its fangs into the top of his large prospec'ing boots, acd coiled about his ieg At this time be could see his sur rounding:, and with a desperaticn equal to the occasion, and before the reptile had time to withdraw us fangs, be grasped its -tcaly neck and closed his hand with a vise like grasp. Then ensued a contest between man and reptile, desperation and fury. The huge serpent alternately tightened us enemy's leg till the blood ceased to circu late, and snook itself lp tne vain endeavor to wriggle from the Iron grasp. Its horrid rattling denoted its furious struggles. The prospector heard the hisses, c Mild seethe bright greenish eyes flashing fire and feel the wiggling of the scales as he held tha snake, but whether standing or thrown to the ground or lashed by the tad of his ag gressor, he held his grip. He would occa sionally yell in the hope of reaching the ears of his partner. For at least a quarter of an hour the struggle continued, the prospector the while growing weaker, keeping the fangs trom his body, but feel ine tatt his enemy was slowly choking to death. Its lashing became slow, it writhed ins, and anally, after one last struggle, was dead. The prospector continued his yehs un'il his partner came, being too weak to rise. After some trouble he was raised to the surface, still grasping the serpert with bis widely distended mouth and protruding fangs. It was a long time before be could renew circulation in his leg. ana ne is limping yet. The snake measured twelve feet, and had eighteen mill A Am Old Composer. Chiirles Gounod, the composer. Is sixty-five years old. He is a man of full medium size, stout ana vigorous. His face is pale, his eyes large ana luminous, his hair gray and the top of his head entirely bald, as it has been for many years. His broad forehead is furrowed with many wrinkles, his eye brows are heavy but well formed, his gray beard thick and long, and his lips pale but heavy and sensual. He lives in the Palace Malesherbes, Paris, close to the home of Bernhardt. MonoBgahela Hhanty-Boate. Along the shores of the Monongahela where the hills of Soho cast a sliadow reaching across the river nearly to tha sloping streets that run down from Lar son street, Pittsburg, to the water's edge may be seen a style of habitation here and thereclosely resembling the domicile that so delighted David Copperheld at Yarmouth. They are of a nondescript character, these shanty-boats that settle heavily in the sludgy sou. or rock lazily in the swell that sets them afloat as an occasional steamer snorts noisily bv. They are boats that might almost be called houses, and houses that might be boats, and yet they have peculiarities of their own that belong to neither class. Sometimes there has been an attempt to beautify them bv daubing on coarse red aiiit, picked out with dirty white. The effect, while possibly satisfactory to the inmates, has a rather dispiriting effect iiinm the casual observer with a preten sion to artistic taste. He is apt to won der whether the crude pigments laid on so lavishly have not a tendency to engen der colicky troubles among the children who revel 111 dirt and semi-nakedness in and around these amphibious dwellings, For tliere are children, scores of them. as it apiears, who call these places home, aud douitless could gaze without envy upon the finest lawn-surrounded mansion In the hast End. Have they not free access to water aud mud at ail hours of the dav and night? Can any thing lie more delightful than running along the gangplanks to the coal barges that are alwavs being unloaded with a great expenditure of lalmr, "grunting and perspiration on the part of muscular men who, lioth Caucasian and hthiopian. are all of the same grimy hue? What it the sharp fragments of coal do stiug the little bare feet? It gives them a dainty, tripping gait that is at once graceful and unique, aud may at soint future time !e useful if they have to act as nurses in a smallpox hospital, where clumsy footstep would disturb the iKitients. " hat kind of ieopIe live 111 these shauty-lioats?'' ask til a Pittsburg re porter of a resident of 1 went)' -sixth street. The resident gave an odd twist to his features, which included the geutle clos ing of one eve, and said, with a slight smile: "AH kinds. Just around here you can tet they are pretty quiet, be cause they have to be. That one," pointing to an aisthetic-looklng craft, the cloudy windows of which were still further obscured by crimson curtains. while what was apiurently the week's washing bung carelessly in the sun from various projections, "Is occupied by a man who works in a mill. Tlie family are decent jieople, but l""r, and they live there rent free. Those on the opjHvsite side of the river, right opposite, are also the homes of laliorers. lhcv are well-beliaved folks, liecause the erryman leasing the wharf would not let t hem stav it thev were not. But in those a little lower down there are some high old times occasionally. Men and women are all huddled in together. Their regular drink is old rye, and such ld ne. It costs aliout fl a gallon, and there are a dozen fights in every piut of it, with inoie quarrels and badlanguage than could be measured. Do any of them work? Oh, yes, they work. Th men are roustabouts and deckhands on steamers. They work up and down the river, and at the end of a trip they come home for a good time, aud I guess they have it. At night you can hear their voices echoing over the water in ribald songs to the accompaniment of a mouth organ or accoideou, with an occasional yell thrown in fora chorus. Whv, they even have dances in those stilling little places sometimes. I don't know whether they have the fashionable waltzes or whether one of them leads the others in the 'German,' but I do know that they sh utile through some kind of saltatory exercise that seems as if it would shake the timliers of the shanty apart. Once 111 a while the police make a raid when they get too bad, but as a rule no one interferes with them. They are Isolated from the rest of the world, and except wheu an actual niunler takes place, as in the case of McSteen, who killed his wife in a riverside shanty at Hazel wood, they are allowed to enjoy themselves in their own wav." "Who are tlie owners of the lioats?" asked the reporter. "I hat would be hard to say. Some of them belong to the parties who live in them. hon an old tug bout gets all stove up, so that it is no more use on the river, tlie machinery is taken out. with everything else of any value, and the shell Is sold for a mere song. Then two or three will club together ami raise tlie few dollars required, thereby getting a house rent free for the rest of their lives. They have to get peniiission from the wharf owner to sjpiat on his territory, and in return they keep an eye on his loose property and prevent chains and such like being carried off by sneak thieves. 1 hey keep an eye 011 the coal, too. There is a great deal of coal stolen from the barges, as it is. but not so much as there would tie if these shanty boat guardians did not exercise squatter sovereignty over the flats. I guess they help themselves to a lump of cl occas ionally to keep their stoves going. It doesn't take much to warm up one of those shanties, and the coal men can stand the loss of what little they lose. Yes. it seems a funny life to people ac customed to a comfortable house on dry land, but there are many of these folks who couldn t be paid to live any where but in a shanty-boat. ftnlia kmvt. A farmer came into a grocery store in Chicago the other day and exhibited to the eyes of an admiring crowd an enonnoiw egg, about six inches long, which he avowed to have been laid by one of his own hens. He had it packed in cotton and wouldn t allow anyone to handle it for fear of breaking the phe nomenon. The groceryman examined it with the rest, and, intending to chaff the countryman, said: "Pshaw: I've got something in the egg line that will beat that." "I'll bet vou five dollars younavn 1: ' said the countryman, getting excited. "Take it up," replied the groceryman, and going lehiiid the counter he brouglit out a wire egg-beater. "There is some- tliititr in the ecir line that wul beat it. 1 guess," said he, reaching out for the stakes. "Hold on there," said the farmer; "let's see you beat it," and he handed it to the grocer. The latter held out his hand for it, but dropped it in sur mise on the counter, where it broke two soun plates and a platter. It was of solid iron, painted white. "Some folks tliink iney re aarnauon cute," murmured the fanner as he pock eted tne stakes ana iu out, - uus miui no use buckin' against the solid facts. NO. 2S. NEWS IN BRIEF. Padlocks are said to have been in vented by Beecher of Xuremburg, in 140. Mrs. General Rosecraus, who was seriously ill two weeks ago, is now out of danger. It Is estimated that Nebraska's crop of corn for this year will reach lUO.UUu. 000 bushels. Gold coinage has just been resumed in the English mint, after two vears without any. Tlie jewelry presented to the Duch ess of Genoa on her veceut marriage is valued at $-j'J,200. With a iHHided deltof overiM nm. 000, Louisville has voted to exiend $1, 500,0i ) on its streets, The late John Kicbard Green, the English historian, onlv left a nersoual estate of alwut $U,0u0." Among Atlanta's latest industries are two large knitting factories, both of nuicn are uouig well. lhe range of all estimations of the Penobscot Iliver lumber cut Is 140.01 mj.- 000 to Iii0,0o0,0il0 feet. It Is estimated that IGO.O00.O1O pounds of wire fence were made in the L nited States last year. The first oltelisk mentioned in his tory Is that of Rameses. which was erected aliout 118T u. c. In Berlin the street cars do notston at the beck of woidd-be passengers, but only at certain places along the line. nt.-Slephen, a chronicler of the time or Henry II., mentions the delight which the English took in horse races. Captain James B. Eads and hi daughter, Mrs. Hazan, will be among this year's cottage residents of Long nrancn. The Egyptians of to-dav commence the building of a house bv tracimr an outline plan on the ground with the aid of a sack of plaster. Tlie first work fuvoriui; the use of Saturday as the Christian Sabbath was published in li"28 by Theophilus Bra bourne, a clergyman. Tlie studio occupied in Boston dur ing the winter by Mr. Hubert Herkonier has been taken for the summer by Mr. Thomas Ball, the sculptor. The fashion of carrying fans was brought from Italy in the time of Henry 111., auu me young men used tliemin the llith aud 17tb centurv. The taVrnacle was constructed 1491, B. C. That set up at Siiiloh by Joshua, 144, B. C, was replaced bv Solomon's Temple, 1004, B. C. The power of the town of Halifax to put to death all criminals who stole any thing worth more than thirteen pence halfpenny was used as late as lGoU The amount of paid notes of the bank of England reaches the enormous sum of i.tM.000,000, or 470,UIO,OUO. If placet 1 111 a pile 11 would be eight miles high. Abtlalla, the father of Mahomet. was a ioor camel driver, but so hand some tliat when he married, two hun dred despairing maidens died broken hearted. The leaves of the sunflower are em ployed by the Chinese as a substitute for, or for mixing with, tobacco. Its libre they use to adulterate and dye their silken fabrics. The Common Council of Hertford has passed an ordinance forbidding the sale of any cartridge, pistol, gun or other explosive contrivance to any child under lb years of age. It was said of the Prince of Wales recently, by an Australian, that he never makes any one remein!er his high rank. although somehow he contrives not to let anyone forget it. lhe battle of aseby was fuucht June 14. !!.. King Charles, who com manded tne reserve, tied at the close of the tight; losing his cannon, baggage and nearly 5000 prisoners. Killing is a tenn applied to a kin. I of cultivation once common throughout Scotland, in which the alternate patches or ridges of a field belonged to different proprietors or tenants. Rams of choice breed fetch from $1,000 to $2,000 in Australia, while first- class mutton sells in Adelaide and Syd ney for thirty-seven cents the stone fourteen pounds. Mr. G. P. A. Healy, the American artist, sends a fine portrait of M. de- Lsseps to the Pans alon, where it hangs close by a portrait of Professor Huxley by John Collier. EuroiM is beginning to recognize the excellent quality of Indian wheat. In lSsl-ry the Punjab sent to Franca six million cut., and to Antwerp about two-thirds of that quantity. The sword presented to General Andrew Jackson by the General Assem bly of Tennessee, in honor of his victory at New Ooleans, is to lie placed in-trust with the lennessee Historical Society. The production of books and mai iu Germany, including new editions, during 188-j reached 14,7W, as against lo.l'.il in 18si. .Natural science, law. and theology are all more weakly rei- resented. Mathematics, philosophy, and modern languages increase. The ladies of Amite City, La., who have gone into the silk-worm business, instead of selling the cocoons, propose to spin and sell their own silk, ami will have woven fabrics 011 exhibition at the New Orleans Exposition next year. Mr. Thomas Beaver, of Danville, Peun., has given to Dickinson College, through its president, $:,000 for the increase of its iernianeiit endowment. The fund will bear the name of his father, in whose memory it is given. Stone mortars, throwing a missile weighing twelve ixuinds, are mentioned as being employed in 757 A. D., and in 1!2 A. D., it is incontestable that the Chinese beseiged in Caifongfu used cannon against their Mongol enemies. A pair of reins, liought at auction for fifty cents gave rise to a replevin suit in Massachusetts, in which over one hundred witnesses were examined, and the unsuccessful litigant, one Martin, had a heavy bill of costs about $5tW saddled upon him. Rapid as has lieen the increase 01 the population of tlie United States, tlie increase of the deat, dumb, blind, and insane has been more rapid still. The number of all these thus atflicted is said to have risen from.t,15l in ISoO toiV 484 m 1870, ami from that at a bound to 2j-s. in 180. The population of Mexico at the present time is said hi be 12,000,000, as compared with 7,H2l,000 in 1856 and 0, 000,000 irlS08. The largest proportion of the inhabitants are of the native race, Mexican Indians. Although the national language is Castilian, the natives still speak the languages or dialects of their ancestors, V ill li rinw 11 im'i ii, 1
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