..-.iW.'-f, J 1 n n t : ' . a h a! 3 g ? Off ttrnv on rain i n i a t a 5 i ii3 IE I THE COISTITUTIOI-THE USIOI-AJD TEE UrOSOIKEST 01 THE LAT3. Editor and Proprietor. WWII!. MIFFLINTOWX, JUNIATA COUNTY. TKNNA.. WEDNESDAY. AUGUST G, 1SS t. NO. 3J. JftgSt 1111 ill . i- . o .r r i, W , . 1 !.,, IM U. - i; U OI.'Vt, - 1, ! 1.- '-1 'li'-:r a:IL. v. . M. V ' :ill.tmr .. , liralTL. ,i.i t fliwri - .li.i. pzf .' ii t :li - jt '!i.i'r . .. . w.rti n'V( an.l t'aro, m. l;'r; wi.i wauiier i-...t ..or'. er.Ut flame. rr.-u . n;n'iru our Iikimm, . ....I' I. J'l-T lot, , : -t:i ..u u :u J our c.wsf i. ll.- af-Nlf TenJereat spot. :i tha: hi warfare .-..-vr. l!l The tril , a j.. iff li-.ii ir-s fare .... ...,k.u niLt.j iilo. k i;..t that :iir rat E:rual : ; u 1,1 I.'tf iiiit-t tnorts, ;id tli.ue tt4:l tiutuj-Lt' faint V . t'j. lit of hfaveu'a sbore. Ol.O AT XKtHTFALU ; 'us a stormy September evninjr (;-:) l :.,urh.ti't and my respected self t i.,i:. 1 limestone, fwint-r were : c :n tiie itidu window of l;is U :: .' 1 tl'.e villa, ut Fniscati, near 1. -' over the rounded tops ol ..- . 1 n i in the red seltiuir aun. K-:.f.u.. .i :ri ieu sky tue ghKimy Cam :i l:ei like a dead sea, and i' l-iood-red tJl, slowly, slowly sink- (,..y I had bean oid friends and ; .:-if '.lows m England. He was two i-r!i:i"e je;irs older than myself, but :,jX !..', 1 made his friendship for me all ' ' lerer, Mild iniue for him rever- r:.:;i:. lJesideS, 1 hud looked OU Gil) a., i k.i.'l df genial youui saiut. I bad a.s.i; s !t-!i rather wieked in his coni ji.v, ii. c.o..e he really seemed, quite L.,;ii:a-iy, never to do anything wromj, , r ;o h.ive s.i much as a wrong thought. 11 . have chosen art as his pio- o i, 1 knew, had he been allowed a vyiL-t- in the arrangement of bis own f:;:.iie : but the bilious old father who ri.ir.1 hi destiny made a civil engineer oi L ie, without the slightest relerence to hi. y 1'ov.ib'ie fancy or protest of the Liu".-. .V.turally, he did not take kindly to u- i though be butikled to it c s ; !,::,: :s:y. V .. i una to Italy to study art, G ; . -id 1 Kept up a pretty brisk cor-r..- i. .i. ti'-e lor about a twelvemonth. 1' in n.y second Italian euuituer his Ivu i- .-udihiily ceased to arrive, 1 w: tf oii iu in Yam hope of answer i..i s:v iiiniihs, and then let tke cone- !.-:.-:;ve pro w ith a siirh. i ,;'y ascertained that he was alive an J 1, luit could tind out nothing -i.-e u:..; .1 him that was more reliable, than the go-sip retailed out by certain L 'i-ii mditary men, who had flapped t i i ;. tl:ght across the sea one win tir, a.ri M ictiel in Uome. "ti,t into iif.i.tie i-.io.iit a v.oiuau, a'U didn't U L ive wel! to her, or something of the Sell," drawled out one of these auiiabu r-i.tli uicu. And this was all I could (!. ei kl-mt poor Urquehart. Ii .i Ust 1 l.eard from Guy himself t;.- n.'.ie. J.o t be bad inherited a Mu. " t.'Uiine from a distant relation; it L; ! iLiowu civil engineering ovei Wi;i, he w ;is coming to Rome foith s'tc t. -tuJy art in eaniestatla.-t ; and tir.i.-t -;r-nd the ensuing summer in ..e;;uura together, eating fig3 at Tu- l iiii. .t tne time my story be-t::-. i,r had been about six weeks in li'iLe. ai.d had already painted one or t'i upital little pictures. - i vi.;,;,'e in the world drives such a r ;n i:,' ti.me in 6caiidal sis grand old 1! a,. Vou have seen bow Uiquehart's C uiae'er went before biin, as Sir l'eter Tale's stayed behind, for the comfort i tLe comurintty, and what mercy i: met tt.tli. Xow. when circumstances . -erved u, in this mixed way, there ait-1:' tiera'.ly certain facts which one nuy tia'-e like lobbies through disturb waves. I felt convinced that I tuiul 1 do so iii Urqueharfi c;i-e, if ever U phased turn to give lutf h.s c.c.li i'-i'-e. 11m I could not try to thrust myself i'iio a:;y chamber of his past not freely pi in .1 to me. 1 could not help guess ing lii.it there was a shut and locked cir, tieliind which lurked the solution of a mystery. This mystery was the gitat and grievous change in my friend, li'it to v accounted for by the mere Li;wh ,,f tv.o ,,r three years. And this cl.ai.ge was all the more remarkable that it was not always obvious. No two liieii cmild lie more unlike than Urque lurt to L'rpirtliart m different moods. U set uitni to me as if much evil bad fi -wl into his heart by some rent where nmcii in1 had run out, but that the i'" - in had nevermixed with the healthy j'..'' "f his life. 0.' ; s, pti-iuber evening, as we sat t"ut-iiier, (iuy had been muttering some v, iy ''ad sentiment, which would have pii'-vtil tne more if I had not attributed tiiem in art to some unripe peaches and tli state of hi stomach. "toiy," sa.d I suddenly, "I've found Kiy to ninth that makes people gasp Hi' I Mare at you." ""What do you mean ?" returned be WIkt roughly. 'Most ersins,n I went On, "are !:-. .ngel, half-devil, they say. But "iir angel and devil seem to sliare their "v-'iig on the most curious terms ol ni'iiual foiliearauce. They seem to k&e Jou turn aud turn about, in at dies, as it were. Your angel never tonui-nts your devil, or interferes with lis iin.de .f enjoying himself, bis Wal I'Urs s nights with bis man ; and y.mr "vil with equal politeness," never in "W'-s himself on the angelical prayci to-Wiiins. They could not possiblv :u i-ontac w itliout disturbing the jwiuouy of the sjsa-m ; but they seem J aim-e to differ, like certain polite named couples." l-'ripiehait took Lis pipe Trom bi. 'utii, ami blew out a long smoke '"'Hi. Then he leaned bead and ii.tleis o lt oftie window, and stared r away at the sun, now like a clot ol on the livid horizon, till even that "iiuson sp,k w;is absorbed. Then he "wuslit himself back to bis former 7'llon ia a corner of the ncketty old ip"4 hom that dusky corner n!!i o? hoked a fine fat fish there, my UnT 8 veUd' Witn your moral crltical can sagacity reslly deserves "'2 fo' baving sm;uied up such n k Uiead of game. Kill, you don'1 aow howthe devU got into me; how y"V? 119 bad hardly set claw - irfiiciid wheu wd were bys to J 't, !,a i rau,or the better boy oi "l'ououy well say that, old fellowl l that time (and what a little while go it L a."ler all '.) you really aeeme.; or,iiai.ie f rviL, or even of com pre wii'Smg it. Vou trusted every bolt .uip;icii;y,tvau-e Jou yourself were "An av-s !" rviarrd UrqueharL "Am: :i'r listen." S., as the night fell, ami "the case ment slowly grew a glimmering square" n the blarkuess, Lrquehait'a tale was -oid. "Kourteeu mouths ago, I was lodg r g for the summer in a farmhouse in i village, no matter wher. The on! :iou-e theie leloig.ug to gentlefolks", X pt the wreu hea uM jmrsouage, was -qu re Uiugwood's. It was a big, htt -,.d look.ug mansion, on a bill, starini; low n overbearingly at the poor little tenements huddled together b-low ; and tlie burly squire himself was for all the world like bis bouse, as be sat on bi. tall horse, aud looked den pompously over bis vast waistcoat at a frightened oiew of village children. The squirt iiad an ugly, sickiy wife and aaughter. and they had au bumble companion that was an angel of beauty, i fell in love with her at church. Oh, the little church in the west country, bid in the bowery orchard hollow I Oh. the sudden lelicious gust that littered the graves ith blossoms I your mother's grave. Charley ; hatt the dear woman the vio lets I planted there? or did they die like the tailh aud hope she set in me ? I fell in love with Fanny Vale before I knew ber name ; I learned that from the farmhouse folks with whom 1 lodged. They told me, moreover, that she was a young widow, aud still in weeds when she came to lodge very humbly in the vdlageii months before; that the squire's wife and daughter had taken a fancy to her, aad had adopted her into their family, as a kind of reader and companion of all work. 1 made her acquaintance by a nobs which I threw at ber feet over a hedge the first time 1 spied ber walking alone. I need not swear to you that I never iiad an evil wish or thought about ber. To me a woman was a holy thing, des ecrated by no lowness of condition, deserving of any gentleman's love and revereace.if endow ed with certain qual ities. These qualities I now took on trust, and, being enchanted by ber lieauty, saw also the perfection of moral loveliness in her face. Such an angelic face, Charley ! There she sat in the squire's pew, beside her ugly patroness es, with such intelligence in her melan choly blue eye and fair half-moon ot brow, such a breathing sensibility in her silence ; and when 1 came to know her, what sympathy in her smile, what silken manners, so soft, graceful, ca ressing, yet modest and full of suave dignity I She did not answer my note ; but w hen I went to the copse behind liingwood house, where 1 hail implored her to meet me, she was there. She came, she said, only to beg me to come, and write, no more. She was a pooi depeudeut, and the least suspicion lall iug on ber would cast ber homeless and friendless on the world. I will not dwell on this stale love story ; it was perfectly commonplace of its kind, except that the dupe was not. for once, the bumble Ixti ty, but the gentleman from London. Mie consented to be my wife ; and at the summer's e.id, without a-klng her a single question as to her past, without knowing more of it than the farm folk had volunteered to tell me the first day I taw ber, 1 brought this girl to Lon don, and married ber. That's why came of being too good for this world, iucapabie of evil, or the comprehension of it. I had written to tell my father of my intended marriage to (I frankly confessed) a perfectly obscure and pen niless youug woman, tiiat had of course everything but position and wealth to recommend her. I wrote a respectful letter which I received back in a blank cover. Yet my heart yearned to the cross grained old man, and from the glory and joy of -my fool's paradise 1 emerged voluntarily, before the honey moon was over, to seek a reconciliation with my father. "When I got to his door.be drove me away like a beggar, like a strange dog. with bis lifted stick, with bis mouth full of curses. That is the last I ever saw of him. He died, six months after, implacable. "I hurried back to town, to be com forted by the angel in my bouse. I re turned sootier than I was looked for. I opened the door by a latch key, and went softly up stairs to surprise my wife. It was about two in the after noon. Our little drawing-room had folding doors, which were now ajar. No one was In the front room, but 1 heard I beard my wife's voice in the other. I heard ber voice aud a man's. I bad but to step forward, and I saw " It was quite dark by this time, and here the noice that bad come out of L'rquebart's black corner suddenly broke into an awtul sob. "lont go on," said I, much dis- "Let me alone," gasped Urquebart, savagely. In less than a minute be resumed, steadily : "I saw my wife with ber arms round a man's neck. She was passionately entreating him not to leave ber ; he was trying to release himself. The next moment they saw me, and started apait. Then, instautly. my wife, that tender angel, flung hjrseif at me like a wild cat. She did not scream, but through ber shut teeth she said, 'I'll kill you, I'll kill you, if you touch hiui!' Her blue eyes glared much like yonder blue lightning that keeps flashing out there, and something glittered close to my face. She had snatched up her scissors, and 1 verily believe wouia have dug them into my temple if the man, her lover, had not come and pulled down her hand. She was ging to fall into his arms again, but he put her from him, not very gently, and told her to sit down. She obeyed him in stantly. I cannot in the least describe my state of mind all this time, which was only a minute or two, I suppose. My impreflsiou is that I had ceased to fel ; that if my brain and heart had been scooped out, I could not have beea emptier of emotion and thought ; hat I was not conscious of any vindic tive rage, or any transport of despair. Some people may think I ought to have kicked that man down stairs. 1 neither did so, nor felt any desire to hurt bim. It was be who took the initiative, aud made me a sign to go into the front room with bim which I did. Then, when I stood there face to face with him, I said suddenly, and, as it were, involuntarily " "Who are you 7' " 'I am sorry for you,' said he, in a gentle drawl, looking at me quite com iiassionately ; 'this woman has treated you very badly. Still, yon know, you !iave only yourself to thank, lour onduct has really been quite iuconceiv ibly rash, you know . "Who are you V I repeated, staring at him bluntly. 'I am Captain Edward Ringwood. This woman is an actress, w hom 1 be auie acquainted with about a year or wo liefore you first saw her. I assure 'iu I knew nothing of your love affair t proposed marriage. If I had known n time, I should certainly have con idered it my duty to warn you of the iw'ul blund -r you were making. When I went abroad with my regiment, it -eem she chose to go dow n and wriggle herself into my family. What her uio ; ive was, I can't imagine. She is a most artful, dangerous person, that is 'car. She saw my return to England u the papers yesterday, and sent me a Kite inviting me to come and see her it this address, which I did. I give "Oi my word of honor 1 had not been iie.e tea minutes when you made your ippra auce. She had just told me she as married, and this was your house ; upon which I got up and wished her ood-dav. "15y this time I bad found myself .liable to stand, and was sitting on .he sofa with my head between my '::uids. When Captain Kingwoad left jll speaking, I looked up, meaning to -ay something, but forgot what it was, and only stared at bim silently. "lie was a fair, slight young m;yi, about thirty, with handsome, thin fea unes, and large, light-brown whiskers, lie stood there looking at me with the same goinl-natured concern in his face that he had expressed in words, in his ashionable, all'ccted way. "At last I recollected what I had been going to say, and told bim I wished to be left aloue. He silently took out his card, laid it on the chimney-piece, and went out. 'I don't know how many hours I re mained lying on the sofa, with my eyes shut, iu that strange torpor; but it was night when I opemd them, and found my wife standing by me. She had lighted the candles on the chimuey piece, and was stooping down over me. She started upright as my eyes ojiened out she did not avoid them. She con fronted me, archiag back her nyiupli like ligure, and leaniug one hand on a table behind her. I felt no emotion at .-ight of her, but looked at ber as it she had been a pictuie. Her beauty was splendid. All her fair golden hair was turned off her white face lu a sort of flittering aureola. Her great turquoise blue eyes flared under slightly con tracted brows ; the nostrils of her deli tale, straight nose, and ner infantine mouth expressed rage aud pain. " '1 am glad you are awake,' said she ; 'I want you to hear me say I hate you I' "I dont care,' said I, wearily. Go a way.' 'Her face flamed out with the fury that was burning ber heart. " 'iiat you do care !' she cried ; 'you shall care 1 1 tell you I always laughed at you aud despised you. I only mar ried you from piques because be left me. I got into his family, aud to lied them, aud made myself their servaut, ouly to hear of him, aud to feel nearer lam, and be where he bad been 1 love him so 1 1 love no one else in the world 1 never did. I would kill you, aud a dozen like you, to save him fiom a tiu erache. I would rather a thousand limes have a blow from bin than a kiss I'roui you a hundred million times! When I think of him, and that you are between us, 1 hate you I abhor you I llow dare you smile at me 1 I'll kill you !' "I was quite unconscious of smiling; but she darted at me, and struck at niy throat. 1 caught her hand ; this time she hail a penknife in it, and I felt that she bad pricked me. That Instinctive act of self-defence roused me, and probably saved my wits as well as my 111 e. When 1 bad mastered her, and thrown the knife away, I held ber hands iu mine till she put down her face aud bit them savagely. I tied her wrists with iny pockethandkerchief, and she sank panting ou a chair. All of a sudden the unhappy creature buret out crying is if ber heart, was broken as it well might be, l'robably llingwood's cool treatment of her throughout the inter view recently passed, was at the bottom of that frenzy of vituperation, that desperate liehavior toward me. She did not hate me, but was simply mad with ;a':iu and raved and struck out in her delirium. I think she really liked me when she manied me, notwithstanding her assertion to the contrary, and meant and wis: ei to lead a new life ; but the sight of IU gwood's name in the pa pers, and the knowledge of his near ness, in my absence, revived her passion for him, in which her good resolutions burnt like straw. I released her hands, and brought water and put it to ber lips ; and when she was quiet through exhaustion, I advised her to lie down, and boed she would go to sleep. As 1 was having the room, she called me back, in a low, broken voice, and when I stood beside the sofa on which she lay, she joined her hands, and asked me, with streaming eves to forgive her. I did so, freely. Of couise, King wood was right, I had no one but myself to thank. My infatuation had been so monstrous, that I could no more com plain of the consequences than a man, sober, can complain of the consequences of some drunken folly. "In the morning I took Fanny away to a farmhouse in Kent, a place she knew of, and chose herself for a re treat. She was quiet and humble, and apparently broken-spirited. But she did not remain there a month ; nor do 1 Uiow whither she went, or where she i been ever since. Before she left she wrote me a long letter expressing her remorse at her behavior to ward me: bad as I am,' ended she, I will never trouble you more, I do implore you to be sure of that, and to forget me, or to think of me as dead.' "I am afraid to think of her at alL made every possible effort- to trace her, quite in vain ; and I hardly know w here would be the good if I succeeded. "That's all," added Urquehart, after a moment's pause ; "and there's the history of your friend and the wife of his bosom ; and if you still wonder how or when my devil got into me, I dou't. I believe you love me enough to think he is not so black a devil as he is painted. I am not the kind of man in whose heart such a gash could be made, and heal, and leave no mark. For a long while this world seemed, and olteu does seem, really an Inferno ; nothing but plunging aud breaking oue's heart in a swamp of suffering, with intervals of quiet from mere exhaustion aud de spair. O Charley I how I wished your mother had been alive! 1 wanted some kind woman, that was honest and pure, about me : we men all do in our dark hour. Batta let us go down to the drawing-room, and our frieuds, and the lamp. By Jove, what a flash 1 .'There's x mighty stomi brewing, young fel low." On the day of victory no weariness is felt. BUHO-rtMk Aarriag.. As the marriage service of the ftii'vsiv Greek church differs considerably from that of the English, a e lance at its chief features may prove interesting. "th in; can be done in IlusMa without a nassiMirt. The orthodox Russian may neither live nor die without ire. It is not to be wonderel tt, then, that mar riage should be preceded by the produc tion of the young people's iassuorts and au exhaustive inquiry into their birth, breeding, station, calling, cir cumstances aud orthodoxy. The infor mation thus diligently gathered by the priest ia put down iu the parish regis try, aud the tirst thing the bride and bridegroom aud their witnesses have to do is to attest its accuracy with their signatures. Then follows the betroth al, once a separate ceremony, and not necessarily gone through iu church, but now the immediate prelude to the sacrament of marriage the reason as signed for the change being that In the interval between the two ceremonies the betrothed used sometimes to quairel and refuse to carry out their mutual promises. The betiothal takes place near the porch, the bridegroom standing on the rlbt, the bride ou the left. The priest takes from him a golden ring, from her a silver one, carries them to the altar, and there deposits them as a sign that the Almighty sanctifies the union. Returning to the young couple, lie gives each a lighted taper and pro nounces the blessing. The deacon in. vitea all present to pray for them, that their love may be perfect, their faith tii ui, their living pure, their union fruit ful. Then, with another prayer, the priest plaoes the gold nng ou the bride groom's linger, the silver on the bride's, repeating over each three times, "N., the servant of God, is betrothed to M-, the servaut of God, in the name of the Father; the Son and the Holy Ghost, now, ever and in all eternity, amen." Theu be who stands godfather, "who answers for the agreement of the young couple, being himself experienced in married life," removes the rings from their lingers and replaces them, the gold on the bride, tlie silver on the bridegroom. The church holds that the lighted tapers symbolize spiri tual joy aud the purity of the motives by which the betrothed are inspired, while the rings signify the indissoluble baud between theuu The bridegroom's ring is of gold, the bride's of silver, to show the dependence of the one on the other and ber interiority in matters of right. When the bridegroom accepts the silver ring he shows his willingness to love and cherish his wife and con descend to her natural weakness. She, on the other hand, acquires a share in the rights, privileges, aud honors of her husbaud. The priest prays "that tho Lord may confirm their bethrothal in the faith, unity of thought, truth and love, aud that the Angel of God may go with and before them all the days of their life.' Prayer for the czar and ti;e holy synod bring the betrothal to au end. lt will be observed that the light ed taiers recall a similar custom amongst the ancient Greeks, aud the learned say that the gold and silver rings represent the sun and the moon, whose union the ancient Slavonians held to t symbolized in marriage as their decendeuts that of Christ and the church. For the marriage Itself the young people advance to the reading desk in the center of the church and kneel down before it on one kerchiet (to signify that henceforth they have one lot) ; the ofllciatiuif piest ask them if they marry of free will and with a thorough appreciation of the importance of the step. Then follow prayers on behalf of the bridegroom and bride, that they may be endowed with all vir tues and vouchsafed every blessing, after which the priest places on the bead of each a crown "as a reward for the preservation of chastity and as a sign that they may be the originators of a numerous aud honorable posterity, and also to remind them that they are tirst to rule their own passions and then by God's blessing have dominion upon earth, according to the word of the Lord to Adam aud Eve. Things that art Cheap. Only three things are cheap in Mex iw nnlniin flowers and nionev. The I ! , latter is at a discount of seventeen per cent, ana uie visitor ieeis mat ue is driving a staving business when he ex elmnufts one hundred dollars of Amer ican money for one hundred and seven teen dollars of the same looking sort of currency. Flowers of all kinds are about as cheap as anything in the world everybody can have a bouquet, and about everybody does. Tulque is con sidered 3beaply by the natives, because it is sold at a cent a tumblerful, but it seems to me it would be dear at a cent a hogshead. However, the people like it the Indians, Meztizoes, and Creoles, nearly alL No less than twenty thou sand gallons are said to be drunk iu this city every day. Byrou calls attention to the great fact that "man, being reasonable, must get drunk." What wouH man iu Mex without nuluue? It is stramre how kind Nature provides for all the indispensable ueeus oi uie uumau iam Mv I TIia mamiev Dlant makes its dwelling-place on the Mexican uplands that stretch from mountain to moun tain, 7,000 feet above the sea. tacli i.iunt. oej-nnies some thirty feet sauare: it has a short siera a foot or two in di ameter aud trom this it sends upwards tiiteeu leet mgu nuge Bpears oi green, i ii tihint. matures at eitrht or ten vears and will then yield tliat sweet milk which fermeuta ana uecoines puique, Tha ton of the stem is cut oil and enough of the heart removed to leave a natural receptacle homing inree oriour gallons. This is removed twice a day and the flow of sap continues for three to six months. When the sap ceases to flow the plant shoots upward a gi gantic stalk from its centre, twenty er thirty feet high, bearing in a clustered whorl a mass of greenish yellow flow ers, sometimes as many as 3,000 in num ber. This is the famed "century PPW The maguey is almost as usemi i the Mexican as the cocoa-palm to the ....t). lluniter Tn fact. I don't knc out it has a hundred uses, as that is alleged to have, Aumirauie paper is nia.ia from the milt) ; twine and thread from the fibres ; excellent needles from the thorns ; thatches irom me leaves ; ropes from the bark ; and pulque, mes .il and ten nilla from the sat). There are thirty varieties of this American aloe, whieh rrescett caus -a nuracie oi nature," and the favonte sorts are ititintoH in fields of thousands of acres aud lend picturesqueness to the land scape for leagues. It is better to wear eut iHn to rust out. Tour Cllins- "I am sorry I was not trained to some commercial pursuit," said a pro- lessionai K'l" e:n:in io a successful business friend iu lWroit yesterday. "S-e here, youi'g man," was the re ply, "do you really think you are sorry? treut you doing well enough i Come, now, would you voluntarily give up your present calling ?" "Too old to think of change now." "Nonsense 1 "Never too old to cor rect mistakes. But in your case I sus pect you want to make a mistake in stead of to correct one. I made a mis take iu niv early life, and I'll tell you how it was : "My father was a lawyer. There were three boy s of us, and every indu ence was thrown around us when very young to stir lu us the ambition to en ter professional careers. We bud a fine library, the tone of our home was re fined and :ultured, and before any of us grew up we were very well grounded in polite literature. We had sense euoegh to see that father would not listeu to any objections to a professional life aud so, under sort of compulsion, we went the old gentleman's way. I was too good to be a preacher, and had too weak a gt'imajh to be a doctor. The law was the hist resort, so I took it up. After 1 was admitted 1 whacked away at the dry aud unproductive siufl.for fifteen years. It was the mar tyrdom of drudgery. Finally I made a break, went into business and have always been prosperous and happy from that day to this. Vou see I had found my niche and 1 can say with truth that 1 lind more pleasure iu making a good sale than in pocketing the profits of it. My business suits me ; I take pleasure in it aud I long ago made up my mind that my boys should follow their Incli nations in the matter of a life occupa tion, no matter whither they were led. "The successful and great editors aud writers are those who love with ad conquering enthusiasm the thorny aud diilioult road of journalism. It is fo with our merchants and all manner of men. Ashley l'ond, for example, loves the arena of the law. See the height lie has attained to. C. II. Buhl is in love w ith business. He has worked up from nothing to a commanding place in the commercial world, and, 1 have no doubt, lakes moie pleasure iu his oilice day by diy than be could possibly ex tract from a tour of Euroie. "Better let your own honorable suc cess heal that 'sorrow' you think you feel because you wern't introduced to tare aud tret." "MM. Barbevuml SbaiM. The "rural roosters" of Arkansaw have an exalted conception of a govern or's magnitude. Some time ago a bar becue was held at Grand Point, aud, among other distinguished citizens, tho governor agreed to attend. A large crowd assembled, and when it became kuown that the governor had arrived, the people were much excited in their anxiety to liehold the august ruler. Old Sam Fellers, who had walked fif teen miles to be present on the occa sion, turned to a friend, after an unsat isfactory search, and said : "Has the governor got here ylt, Bill ? "Yes, thar he Stan's, talkin' to the county jedge," "What ? that feller with a red neck like a turkey gobbler "That's the man," W'y, dog gone his ugly pictur', he he ain't as big as I am, Been wantin' to see a guv'nor all my life, and now this is the way I'm sarved, T'other day I was tuck down with a congestive chill, au' I was powerful afeered that I would die afore I had a chance to see the niter o' the Slate, but now 111 be blame ef I don't wish I had died. Look at him, will yer, chawin' tei backer like a goat an' slobberiu' like a grasshopper, I'm er great mind to jolt him all over this town fur givin' mesich erdiserpp' intmeut. Wall, b'leve I'll go home." "Sam, better stay an' git some of the barlecued ahoat." "No that feller has tuck my apper tite. I've come to the conclusion that the country is a fraud. Governor!" be said, contemptuously; and rolling up his trowsers preparatory to a long journey, he departed, and, without looking back, disappeared in the woods, Arkansaw traveller. Aa tacaped comet. During the last four years some comets have paid visits to the ruler of the solar system and displayed tl eir dazzling trains to the admiration of his attendant worlds : Every one of these comets has been remarkable for some unusual or unaccountable conduct. The big comet of 1S81 suddenly flirted its streaming tail into the northern hem isphere unannounced and unexpected, and surprised the astronomers at their telescopes as much as it did the milk men ou their early morning visits to the pumps. The comet of 13-2 amazed the world by suddenly appearing at broad noon close to the sun, where it soared like a fiery bird with broad wings ex tended, and as it retreated from the solar system it appeared to be chased by a bevy of little comets to which it had apparently given birth during the ter rors of its plunge through the flaming banners of the sun. In 1SS3 the comet ot li12 reappeared. But the most ex traordinary comet of all is the one which was discovered at the Vienna observatory about a month ago. It seems to have been clearly seen, for the observers carefully measured its posi tion among the stars, and it was be lieved from its place and motions that it was one of the comets of 1353 return ing. But after thus showing itself the comet disappeared, aud, although a bat tery of telescope has been brought M bear upon the spot where lt appeared, from nearly every observatory in Eu rope, not a glimpse of the mysterious visitor from the realms of outer space has been caught. What Shall 1 B.T The office of Vice President was in tended by the founders of our govern ment to be an office of great dignity and importance. Under the mode of elect ion as at first contrived the Vice Presi dent was to be in fact the second choice of the electors for President. The electors were to assemble at the time ap pointed in their respective states and vote for two persons. The votes were to be transmitted to the Senate and there opened The person having a majority of the electoral vote was to be the President, and the person having the next highest number of votes.with out respect to a majority, was to be Vice President. At the first election Wnshingto". rTeived the unanimous ""jOt Etk eltorr' college, but John A&sms received oafy thirity-four et of sixty-nine, not a majority, but the next hiahest number. One of the tirst questions that Adams addressed his uiin.l to was as to the titles which should go with the offices of President and Vice President. Sturdy latriot and great man that he wi", he lik?d the trappings and the suits of cilice, lie appeared ou the streets accompanied by four sword bearers, and he thought and said that the chief otlicers of the nation should be surrounded w ith splendor aud pa geantry. "High Mightiness aud Pro tector of our Liberties" was the very lowest designation be could think of with which to approach the President. As to his own title he was uncertain. At the inauguration of Washington the arranged ceremony was that the President-elect should be received by the Senate and be escorted by it to the House of Representatives, where the oath was tc be administered. This threw Adams Into great perplexity, aud he addressed the Senate as follows: 'Geutlemen I do not know whether the framers of the Constitution had in view the two Kings of Sparta, the two Consuls of Koine, or the two Suffetes of Carthage when they formed it the one to have all the power while he held it and the other to be nothisg. Gentlemen, I feel great difficulty how to act, I am possessed of two separate powers.the one iu &se,the other in posse. lam Vice President, In this 1 am nothing, but I may be everything. But I am President also of the Senate. When the President comes into the Senate what shall I tie? 1 wish gen tlemen to think what I shall be." A solemn silence ensued, thougli the sense of the ridiculous was so strong with some of the Senators that they came near bursting into laughter. Then Ellsworth arose, with most profound gravity, and said: "I have looked over the Constitution and I find, sir it is evident aud clear, sir that wherever the Senate is to be there, sir, you must be at the head of them; but further.sir, I shall not pretend to say." The Senate held out some time for titles, but the House of Representatives would not listen to it, aud it was finally ordered that the President should be addressed by his official title only Mr. President. As to the Vice President, he got no designation whatever. A Maxeppa ot ill. Fialna. Mr. Boussand, a wealthy cattle own er, whose herds range in the unorganized territory of northwestern Nebraska, has just returned from the annual "round up" in that region and relates a tale of the plains that is, in some re siects, a counterpart of the orthodox Muzeppa, VI.en Boussand reached his ranch about the middle of June, he found Lis cowboys nursing a young man whom they had rescued from the back of a brouco. When discovered the modern Mazeppa was lashed to the horse, entirely naked and unconscious. The animal was about broken down, as if from long running, and was easily lassoed by the cowboys, who cut the thong3 and released the strange captive. This hap'ieued about two weeks before Bous-aud's arrival and during all that time the stranger had lain in a stupor. A few days before Boussand started on his return journey to Omaha, having a little medical knowledge, he succeeded in restoring the patient to consciousness and his recovery was rapid. When able to talk be said his name was Henry Bnrbank; that he was an Englishman, SI years of age. About three years ago at Falmouth, England, he formed a partnership with a friend, Thomas Wilson, some years his senior, and with him came to America to em bark in the cattle business. They cast about for a while and Anally settled in northwestern Nebraska, where the range was unlimited and herders few and far apart. They built a comforta ble ranch by a little stream, where Wilson's young wife reigned as house keeper, attended by two or three female domestics. Burbank, who is a hand some young fellow, found it agreeable, while Wilson was absent riding about the range, to make love to the latter's wife. This continued for some months until m the latter part of May one of the cowboys, who had a grievance against Burbank, reported the fact to the woman's husbaud, whose Jealousy had already been aroused. That night Burbank was captured while asleep in bed by Wilson and three of his men and bound before be bad a chance to make any resistance. Wil son had him strippped of every bit of clothing and bouud on the back of a wild bronco which was started off by vigorous lashing. Before morning Burbank became unconcious and was, therefore, unable to tell about his terrible trip. He thinks that the outrage was commit ted on the night of May 27 and he was rescued on the morning of June 3, which would make seven days he had been traveling about the plains without food or drink and exposed to the sun and wind. Wilson's ranch is about 200 miles from the spot where Burbank was found, but it is hardly probable that the bronco took a direct course, and therefore many more miles in his wild journey. When tully restored to health Burbank proposes to make a visit of retaliation on Wilson, and in this he will be backed by Boussand's men and those of the Ogallala Land and Cattle Company, whose range is near Boussand's. A WUW at. The Emperor of Annam uses a large and deep pond of water as a safe for muney and valuables. The money not intended for use is placed in the hollow, ed out trunks of trees, which are thrown into the water. To keep away thieves and prevent the king himself from being tempted to draw upon the reserve fund without sufficient cause, a number of crocodiles are kept in the water, their presence and the certainty of being eaten alive acting as a wholesome restrainer and insuring the security of the royal treasure in a most effectual manner. When it becomes indispensa ble to draw upon this novel style of bank the crocodiles have to be killed, but this can be done only with the Em peror's permission and after the matter has been duly approved by the Minister of Finance. Mall roneb.es. The government spends about $o0, 000 a year for the repair of mail pouch es; there are about lo0,000 mail bags in use; and about 10,000 new ones are bought yearly. The weakest point in the mad sack is where it closes and opens. In closing the bag the staples are pushed through the slots, and pro ject an inch or more. When the bag is thrown about the staples bend and often break. It looks strange that this little item should cast the government so much money but lt does, for that is the main cause of reDalrs. Hndlt Araola Run Mr. Nichols, the, itresent lessw. of Benedict Arnold's house In New Haven is au intelligent lady, and shows bnich interest in the history connected with the house. '"1 leased the bouse," she said, "five years ago, just before the celebration of the invasion of the Brit ish. At that time and ever since I have bad a great many people come and look over the house. I think I have had people from every State in the union. A great many Ohio people have been heie, and they seem to take more interest in the historical incidents con nected with the house than any other class. Soon after we came here, five years ago, my son, in digging in the front yards, found a silver soon. lt bad the initials J. and T. on it. Thomas R. Trowbridge claimed that the spoon belonged to his ancestors, as Joseph Trowbridge once lived bere;but a family by the name of Thomas lived here later, and it may be that the poon belonged to that family. Mr. Trow bridge wanted the spoon, and promised my son a good position if he should ever want one, and my son gave it to him. Soon after that an agent of the Philadelphia Historical society was here aud said that be would gladly have given (100 for the old spoon, as be thought it belonged to Arnold's fam ily." The house has been owned and occu pied by some distinguished people. Benedict Arnold built it in 177L After it was confiscated en account of bis treachery it was bought by a Mr. Sloan, and Nouh Webster bought it of him. Webster lived there about ten years, and the west parlor was used as the great lexicographer's study. Mr. Sloan had a daughter who married in Phila delphia, and she visited the bouse a year or so ago so she stated, for the: I. . . 1 1 i . . . n I t ...... t-a X , i. . V. 1L ..t.i'l ... . had a daughter Emma who married Profeii9orFowler of Durham, and Miss Sloan was quite intimate with her. Mr. Sloan's daughter and ber hus band, at the time of their recent visit, wanted to see the parlor where they did their courting many years ago. They sat down in the window seat and re mained nearly two hours, during which the lady alternately laughed and cried. She inquired whether Mrs. Nichols had seen in the ball chamber a pane of glass upon which Miss Webster's name had been cut with a diamond ring. The windows had lieen changed about, but ! the glass with "Emma ebstei" on it was found in the east parlor. Mrs. Nichols recently pointed to the glass, which had been accidently broken di rectly across the name. "I am very sorry it is broken," she said, "for I had promised it to Professor Fowler's son." Mrs. Nichol's visitor made a brief inspection of the house. The main hull is divided into front and rear halls,each one broad and spacious enough for a room. In the parlors, one on each side of the hall, are deep window seats, so frequent in well-appointed houses of a century ago. In the kitchen was a broad fireplace which might take in half a cord of wood. Ou opening the attic door, by turning a big key which I certainly is suggestive of secrecy and exclusiveness, the h; r lwood stairs were ascended. The attic is the same sizs as the whole ground surface of the house, two immense chimneys being the only breaks. Here and there in tour different places the flour timbers were visible where the boards have been removed. The flooring of the attic, as well as that in all the other rooms of the house, are of oak. Near the east chimney, on the west side, two vaults, formed by the projection of the fireplace, were discovered a few days ago on removal of the flooring. They are partially filled with straw and broken glass, and upon close insectio2 seem to have bad some special purpose. Some people have suggested that they were built by Arnold for the purpjse of secreting himself when a traitor to his country, but the house was built many years before the treachery of the builder. Ar. our CllmmtM Changing . It Is scarcely accurate to speak of the climate of the Uuited States;" there are so many of them that the plural is required. In many parts of the country, in fact, the changes are so sudden aud so great that it may almost be said that there are two or three cli mates in a smirle day. Even in our "glorious climate of New England," people who are at all sensitive to the! weather wore an overcoat or a shawl on June 19th, and slept with all the win dows open and under a single sheet at night. There have been two or three June frosts already this year, and some of the hottest weather ever known out side the reign of the dog star. There are droughts in one State and floods in the next. Cyclones turn up in the most unheard-of places, and "cloud-bursts" ravage a New England town at about the same time they are submerging southwestern valleys. Nature never seemed so capricious and unaccounta ble iu her freaks as she has been since the "gray day" two years ago when Garfield was borne from the Capital to the seashore to die. The increase of cyclonic visitation In the Mississippi region is accompanied with an equally noticeable diminution of summer heat. Trusting to memory rather than to statistics most unsafe dependence in matters relating to the weather the average heat of the sum mers in some regions is not nearly as great as it was 20 or 30 years ago. St, Louis, for example was once consider ed almost an oven from the first of June to the first of September, is now com paratively cool; so cool that those who left the city the last two seasons in search of cooler places, found they had better have stayed at home. Sj cool was the summer of 1SS2 that weather experts prophesied an unusually hot one for 1333; but the summer of 1333 was even cooler than its predecessor, and from the present indications that of 1834 will be the coolest of the three. When, en the 10th of June, the ther mometer In some latitudes marked 52 55 degrees, making fires and over coats comfortable, while frost is report ed m northern Missouri and Illinois, it looks much as if we were entering upon a new phase of climate." BaperotlUoo of Ignormac Immediately after Uie body had been removed from the scaffold, in Naples, the people swarmed over the place, tearing into shreds the cord which bound the criminal and breaking into fragments the stool on which he sat, Each took away a portion, in obedience to the superstition that any part of the cord or the chair of a prisoner who has Buffered death will bring good fortune to tha possessor. XKVv'S IN auiKF. IM palaef ot llie twueu:e is salt- ; : rather shabby. The fruit crop in Germauy is very ibimdaut, it is reported. Mr. Fronde has akiadoned his tour to America this y ear. A large sanitarium for invalids is jeiisg built at Sun liiego. All newspaper men in Louisiana have to pay a license of 5". Ncaily 3,0o0 women are employed j the government etaVes of England. London has a paiuer population of -9,"2i'! outside of asylums and alms bouses. In 1329 eggs were but seven cent3 a lozen. London has 2o,0o0 acres of forest aarks; New York, 1,0-4; Philadelphia, 27,000. In Sweden a man who has been iriitik three times loes the right of Suffrnge. James Russell Lowell received the legree of L. L. 1. from Harvard re cently. Frau Materna says she is delighted with America aud hopes to return and sing iu opera. Senator Ingalls, of Kansas, has received the degree of L. L. D. from Willams College. A gas well ha3 been struck on the Insane Asylum grounds, at Stockton, California. Winter wheat has been selling recently at prices lower it stated, than in thirty years. The Princess Louise is to execute the statue of t ueen Victoria for the Litchfield Cathedral. Four bushels of Irish potatoes ; planted at Newmansvdle, I hi., return- nI.iely bllSlleli. Since over 8ii,0u0,(i00 young shad have lieen hatched by the New York Fish Commission. Fires involve a yearly loss in the United States of Jl00,0uo",000, or 1 per sent of the products. There are thirty-five Mormons and forty-four Gentiles confined at the Utah penitentiary. Russian advices from the Tamar ind district say that clouils of locusts are infesting that region. Durham, Conn., is intensely ex ited over the supposed discovery of rich vein of coal theie. A curled mustache is the latest fashion. New York barbers produce a beautiful curl for i cents. Colorado is compiled toby f 2.000, DOO worth of grain from outside sources every year to feed its cattle. More than sixty per cent, of the adult male population of New Mexico can neither read nor write. The potiito cro; of the United States in 13S."J was lnO.OoO.OLO bushels as against Iii3,0o0,000 iu 13S2. London supports an eight-page penny monthly, the sole contcuts of whicli consist of selected poems. It took 1,000 lbs, of meat and 250 lbs. of salmon to "go round" at the re- Knt alumni dinner of Yale. There are 52,000 growing trees In Washington, placed at regular intervals along 12-5 miles of fine streets. Complaints about the wearers of eolored stockings being troubled by the dye stuffs in the latter are being reviv ed. The $7000 bill presented by a New York dentist has drawn the fire of the paragraphists from the overworked lumber. A company of -I'iO French priests have just set out for Jerusalem, prepar atory to a somewhat extensive tour of the Holy Laud. A live oak tree at Indian River Narrows, Fla., measures tweuty-three feet and ten inches in circumference six teet from the ground. Oil prices at Pittsburg are said to have touched a lower mark within the past week or two than since 1301-C2, except In June, 1332. Since the year 13C0 sixteen baron etcies and thirty-four knighthoods have been conferred upon the physicians and surgeons of Great Britaiu aud Ire land. Some time ago a champagne house at Epernay offered prizes for the best five poems on champagne. No fewer than eleven hundred poems were sent in. The greatest distance ever ridden on a bicycle without dismounting u stated to be 2o0 miles 400 yards. The teat was accomplished iu London in 1330. The United States FIshCommission has made the experiment of transplant ing lull grown lobsters, taken at the eastern end of Long Island, to Chesa peake iay. A gold fish, purchased twenty-two years ago by a lady of Frederick, Md., lieu recently. It is said that the old fish had not grown a particle during the wuoie perioa or its captivity. The excitement over the recent dis covery of a $10,000 diamond at Eagle, Waukesha county. Wis., has been revived by the discovery of three more gems making seven found thus far. In consequence of the Socialist law the singular case has happened that the Royal State Procurator In Berlin has brought a complaint against the Koyal Prefect of Police before the Minister of the Interior. A hundred-ton cannon that was being fired for the first time recently at u i braitar, spat or burst at the muzzle, m aousequence of the shot not having been rammed home. Nobody was hurt. The manufacture of cotton seed oil is one of the great Industries in the South. With the exception of Florida, there are factories in every Southern tate, lexas having twenty. The od is used for the table and also for illumi nating and other purposes. The law requiring the closing of bus- mess places on Sunday is strictly enforc ed in Toronto, milk and apothecary stores being the ouly places allowed to remain open, and those only for a few hours in the morning and evening. Statistics of Mexican trade show that the exports from Mexico to the U nited States increased from $4,346, JOO in 1374 to $3,177,000 in 1333, while the imports of American goods and products rose frorn$5,04o,oGO ia 1374 to SIC, 537,000 last year. The occupations of the members of the house of Representatives at Wash ington are: lawyers, 103; professional poiiticiaus, 10; merchants, 17; edii 12 ; farmers, 11; manufacturers, i'i; doctors, 5; railroad officials, 3; eivii engineers and mine owners, 2 won; metallurgists, capitalists aad ciajj men, 1 each ; mechap"..' a f r 1 1 J: i w
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