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- -.,. . , - , , ? v " CT "0m & - , ,- . , . -"- - j i BI L, .dse r ggr JB . ... - . . .."' . - 4Kf A '"' .I-..-I ..-.. ii i ' " ' ' " t " THE ADYBRTISEE. G. W. TAIRBROTHER & CO., Pdblxbiihes. BROWNVILLE, NEBRASKA j THE TBB IXVEU. Do joa ask me, starey eyea, To describe tbe lover true! Wonder not at my surprise, Who should know as well as you? Think of all that you have seen, All the lovers that hve been; He is true whose love as shown For her sake and not h!s own. What he does, he does alone, Yet he hopes It wins her thought, AH that in his soul has grown, To her sovereign feet "has brought; Tohi3 6oul her image clings, She seemB woven in all things, And each thought that in him stirs Is not for his sake, but for hers. For her sake he will endure, For her sake he will sacrifice ; Bravely bearing, her love sure, Censure, slander, 6com, advice, If another wins her heart, Sadly from her he Bill part, Sadly, bravely; true love is For her sake not for his. This Is the trne lover sweet True as ever I am true ; For my love Is all complete, Perfect since it comes from yop, Darling, yet 'tis not true no ! For I could not let you go; I must keep you where you've grown, For my sake and for your own. -- For your own, because,I love More than any other can; More than ever love could move Heart of any other man, Look at me and then agree, , None have ever loved like me, g For whatever I may do Is because I live in you. Ktss, and so shut speehaway, When old age our life has spent, 'Twill be time enough to say, What is love In argument! For the present all stars shine; You are here, and you are mine, Love makes light, and song, and flowers, For whose sake ? Dear love for ours. WHAT Wri.. IT MATXEUJ Bertie Bliss in Home and Farm. What will it matter if the path be rough! The journey will be over some glad day, And If I faint not weary by the way Til rest at last and that will be enough 1 WhatwT.l it matter if life's sea be dark! The 'land I seek is sunny, bright and fair; And through the gloom my Lord can lead me there Can steer the drifting of my helpless barque. What will it matter if my dearest aims "All come to naught? My blessed Savior knows What dreams of mine woald bring him glory those He perfects, blesses; nor my fallings blames. What will it matter if in bitter tears 1 6ow the seed whose precious bud and bloom 'Twill not be mine to see ! He knoweth whom To bless with many, who with fewer years. What will 'it matter that beneath the sod Some day they'll lay this tired heart to rest? The clay will nestle on its mother's breast, The soul ascend unto its father, God 1 Lord, help me, that with patience I may bear Each burden that Thou layest upon me I And each day, drawing nearer unto Thee, The full, rich measure of Thy mercy 6hare I "- o- a- Lifc-AVas -Wrecked. By Susan-Teall Ferry. In one of our eastern colleges, twenty-five years ago a young man gradual ted with high" honors. After leaving college he began the study of law, and after being admitted to the bar, he opened an office in a western city. While at college ho made the acquaint ance of a young lady, the daughter of a prominent and influential man, and this acquaintance ripened into a devo ted love. This young man, however, had "contracted a habit of which the young lauy father greatly disapproved. He -would ta" a glass of liquor now and then, and sometimes his class mates, who were very,, jnxwd of his talents, would have to carryhim home under the cover of the darknestof, night; but notwithstanding their rffonto keep the matter quiet, the young lady's father was told of the facts, and gave him the promise of his daughter for a wife only on consideration of an entire abandonment of his intemperate habits. Philip Gardner, as we will call the young man, promised to break away from these habits, and succeeded in his endeavors. He was converted and uni ted with the church, and gave every evidence of being 41 changed man. In a few years he went back east and was married to the girl of his early love. At the time of his marriage he occupied a high position as a lawyer, and was the most promising young man in my whole acquaintance. Everybody predicted a brilliant career for him. He purchased a beautiful home, and he and his wife were very happy until after the birth of their second child. Un fortunately for Philip, he had become greatly interested in politics, and his partv had nominated him for a high oflici. He was invited to drink, by his companions. Although he refused at first, yet, finding4that his election de pended, in a large measure upon accept ing and giving "treats," he yielded. "I can break off at any time," he said to Mmself. "I am mter of myself. This will not last long. I will only take as little as I can, so I shall not offend a certain class of my party." The poor wife bad no suspicion of the dans:erous steps her husband was tak ing until one night when he came home irom a pouuuai iiieeuug, m au iuiua.1 cated condition. She plead with him, and begged him that if he could not get his election without resorting to this ter rible alternative, to withdraw; but the man's ambition Jwould not allow him to do this. His party, however, was beaten in the contest; disappointed and humiliated he sought consolation in strong drink, the effect of which during the election cam- Eaign had already taken a hold upon im with an iron grip. Notwithstand ing the tears and pleadings of his devot ed wife, and the earnest counsel of his large circle of friends, he continued to drown his humiliation and disappoint ment in the poisoned beverage. It was only a short time before his home and Ms business weie neglected his friends lost confidence in him, and one night, realizing his position, he mysteriously left the city. Three years passed before his wife heard one word directly from him. In the meantime her father -had written to her to come back to her child hood's home, and bring her three boys; but she was a very independent charac ter; instead of going home she opened a young lady's school in the house where she lived. This school became very popu lar, and she was supporting herself and boys comfortably, when a letter came to her from her husband, in Kansas, urg ing her to take her children and go to him. As it had been ascertained that he had not given up his bad habits, her friends advised her not to go. She wrote a kind letter to him, but refused to give up her school until he was able to provide for her in a comfortable man neri ' 'Not' long after this she received a letter purporting to come from a gen tleman in Kansas, announcing- herhus Iwnd'a death and burial. -H fSrinl "CESs.-.l wl ' Twelve years passed away- The wife, one of the most noble of woman, kept on with the school, educated her boys, and had a powerful influence for good over them. They showed no inclina tion to follow in their father's footsteps. Two of them had graduated in the high school, and had taken positions of trust in the city where they lived. The third son was- still in school. About this time an old friend of the family receiv ed a note dated at a hotel in the city where Mrs. Gardner lived, sayine; that a friend wished to meet him at that hotel! as soon as convenient The gentleman immediately answered the note in per son. He was shown to a room where the wretched form of a man was lying upon the bed. As he approached to ward the prostrate form he recognized Philip Gardner. Paralyzed, emaciated, scarcely recognizable as a man who had been dead to all his friends for twelve yeirs! His story was soon told. He had lived the life of a sot for a number of vears, lost to evervthine; noble and good; but God's providence had awak ened him to a consciousness of his situ ation, and in a moment of remorse and dispair he had gone to an inebriate asylum, where he had remained two years. Kind christian friends had pray ed for him in their meetings, and he bad prayed for himself. God had an swered those prayers. The ma" had been brought back to himself. He had lost his desire for liquor, but the phy sician assured him that he had but a short time to live. He had sought his old home:'he did not know that his wife and children would receive him, but he could not die until he had looked into their faces, until he had asked their for giveness for the sorrow m had brought upon them all. "I didn't know," said he, "but my boys had inherited my terrible thirst for liquorand I wanted to make myself known to them and warn them of the terrible consequences and tell them what a terrible tiling a wrecked life is." The gentleman promised to do all in his power to bring about a family meet ing. He gentlytold the wife that her husband was still livincr prepared her for the great change in his appearance told her of his helpless, friendless con dition. "Let the boys go immediately to see their father," "she said, "but I I must wait awhile." Think of the feelings that must have filled that woman's heart at that time. Here was the man, Iler husband, who had blighted her life, who had been dead to ner so many years he had re turned again helpless and dependent. She went to her room, and alone with God she inquired of him her duty in this matter. When she came out of that room her eyes were red with weep ing, and her friends knew that she had had a creat struggle. Nothing was said, but she began making preparations to receive her husband. A room was fitted up as if for a distinguished guest, a carriage was sent to the hotel, and the wreck of a husband brought home once more. That meeting was too sacred for outsiders to -witness. The erring hus band was brought back and everything done to make him comfortable and h.-ppy. His patient wife has devoted herself unceasingly to the care of her helpless husband during the two years they have been reunited. But "God moves in a mysterious way." .Last week that noble wife was suddenly called from ber home on earth to her blessed reward in heaven. Never did she regret taking the poor wanderer back to her heart and home. Now he still lingers helpless and dapendent When we think what this man might have been of his brilliant talent and influence, we can but exclaim, "how could he have made such a wreck of Limself!" It only proves the power of the poi soned glass it shows that liquor can not be tampered with. What begins in cobwebs ends in Iron chains. Header, this story is a true one, and the characters who figure in it are the writer's personal friends. Think of the mined homes, the heart broken wives, the suffering children and wrecked lives of those who might have been a power for good in the world, and "touch not, taste not, handle not" the accursed thing. Divorce in Italy. Rome Correspondence. We have no divorce in Italy as yet. But from this people -nust not infer that here all married people live in uninter rupted and blessed harmon. Nowhere erhaps is the sacred bond of marriage less respected than in this most Catho lic country. But the only remedy that our law, based on Roman Catholic prin ciples, offers when some serious wrong is offered by one of the married parties to the other is the so-called separation from bed and table, which, once pro nounced by a tribunal, puts practically an end to married life, frees the wife from thfi husband, and the husband from the wife, but without allowing any of them to marry unless death takes either the one or the other. And "sep aration" was a remedy but too often resorted to. I read in our political pa pers that from 1866 to 1880 no less than two thousand three hundred and twelve applications for separation between married people had been made to the tribunal of Milan only, most of which were granted as a matter of course. People debarred in that way from mar riage mostly contract unlawful unions, of which are born illegitimate children, but of this the Romish church gives it self little concern, provided its favorite dogma of the indissolubility of the mar riage tie is respected. To remedy this evil, a bill has been introduced into par liament, granting divorce to "separa- ted" people vears. It is after a certain number of not voted yet, nor will be for a time, but the clerical party are al ready agitating and petitioning against it xms also is mamiy a question 01 money; for has not the pope lately sev ered the matrimonial bond between the prince of Monaco and his wife? They call it "nullity of marriage," but it is just a divorce, and costs a mint of mon ey. It is easy to understand , that the pope does not wish this abundant source of revenue to be taken away from him, and, therefore, denounces the divorce bill in the strongest possible terms. Mexico's Iron Mountain. St. "Louis Globe-Democrat One of the great mineral wonders of Mexico, and perhaps of the world, is the iron mountain in the vicinity of Duran go, in the state of Durango. The iron mountain is nearly two miles in length and one mile wide, and about 700 feet high. Above the surface, uncovered and in sight, is shown about 200,000,000 tons of pure ore. ready to be shoveled or rolled, without any cost of mining, into the furnaces to be erected at its base. Much of this ore ranges from 70 to 80 per cent, and some is carried directly to the forge. It works very kindly, and easily assumes the form ofLsteel. There is every reason to believe ores of such rare superiority, when subject to all our modern improvements in iron making, will produce iron and steel unsurpassed anywhere in the world, either in Swe den or Biscay, in Spain, in England or in the United States. Three things to avoid idleness, quacity, and flippant jesting. The ingredients of conversation truth, good sense and wit lo- are L Sanitary Measure. Life and iiealth are preserved by carefully Hiding nature whenever It shows lack of abilltv lo carry on its work. For torpid liver, bowels or Sidneys, bo other remedy equals Kidney Wcrt It is sold In both dry an liquid form yUrttgtstB.-7B. 3 . M-M--M---M-M--W-l---------BW-W-M-M-l-M-H-M-M-----B-W ,. -, Bagshotte Assistant; From the Minneapolis Weekls. CoL Bagshot runs a weekly news paper called the Union, up in Chodunk. The colonel was called away to New York en business, leaving the Union in the Jiands of an assistant who had been in his employ soma little time. Now, the colonel knew that the said assistant had the cheek of a brass statue and the audacity of a New England flyboth indispensable attributes to the newspaper man; but still, atter being in the city about a week, he began to grow uneasy, and teiegrapnea 10 unouui, "How's things?" Back came the answer from the Union1 i pro tern editor: "Bully! Cir culation of the old thing's gone up a thousand. Been getting up a red-hot tmncr. and ther's a ffane outside that are weeping because they can't hoist ( v the shingles off the roof and knock the whole concern to thunder, btay away as long as you like." Bagshot didn't waste a moment after receiving this encouraging dispatch. He started home in the first train and reached Chodunk before night. The first man that struck him was the ticket agent. "Look here, colonel!" he cried, ex citedly, "I've a darned good mind to much your head, you brazen-faced old iar." "Why?" asked Bagshot. "Read that!" and the ticket agent shoved a crumpled Union into his band. There was a paragraph as follows: "Railroad News. lne bandy-legged idiot who robs the. railroad compa ny at this village has purchased a new pocket-knife. More knocking-down from the cash'drawer." Basrshot bit his lips. "Bill," said he, "that's a cslamity and I'll see it righted in our next. It's my cussed assistant's work." "I don't care whose work it is," growled the agent, "but, if it ain't con tradicted, somebody's got to die, that's all!" Bagshot didn't reply, but sailed down the sfreet to the Union office. He had not gone half a block before he collided with Deacon Marsh. The deacon seized him by the shoul der and exclaimed: "What do you mean, Bagshot bjT inserting that scan dalously untrue item about me?" "Didn't insert any item," replied the colonel. "Don't sneak out of it that way. Yon know you did. Why, I just cut it out of the Union. Listen: "Religious Intelligence. That whited sepulchre, Deacon Marsh, was noticed last Saturday night trying to open the coal-hole in front of his resi dence with his night key. The deacon was full as a goat, and couldn't tell moonshine from green cheese." "Now, that's nice ain't it? saying that I was drunk Saturday night, when I went to bed at 7 with a raging tooth ache." "It's that reckless fool whom I left in charge," groaned the colonel. "PH make it all right, Marsh;" and Bagshot scurried on again, only to be confronted by Maj. Blim. "Colonel," Muttered Blim, in his deepest voice, "this is villainous. It's my ihtf ntion. sir, to call you out and shoot you through the heart. What do you mean bv publishing this note in the Union?" "Military Jottings. Major Blim, the tattered old beggar who hid in an oyster-barrel during the battle of Bull Run, wears a wig. He ought to be shot in the Vack with a baed apple." "I can't help it, Blim," said Bagshot wiping his forehead; "it's all owing to that Toung devil in the office. He has made a red-hot paper. Just wait, ma jor, and Til fix things." Hardly had h : done so before young Cooley appeared. "Col. Bagshot," announced he, "you are a lying scoundrel! This is a nice thing to put in your blackguard sheet about a young lady." "Society; Items. Miss Cooley, the old girL,on South street, waltzes around in a patent bustle in the hope of catch ing a fellow. But she can't not even if she lays the paint on twice as thick as she does now." But Bagshot didn't stop to hear it. He flew across the square and into the Union like a flash. 'No one was there. That able assist ant editor, warned by a friend un known, had dusted forever. Lying on the desk was a Union, folded so that this noticecaught Bagshot's eye: " Literary Mems. The bald-headed snipe who pretends to run this paper has gone to New York. We expect to hear every moment of his sentence to Sing Sing for arson and highway rob bery. The citizens of Chodunk should congratulate themselves if the colonel does not disgrace his village by being hung for infanticide." Bagshot never intends to employ an other assistant editor, and journalists in search, of a situation will find it healthy lo keep away from him. A-Temperauce Lecture. From the Saturday Bertew. We remember once hearing a smug faced minister, in gentle tones, assure his beloved brethern that the beautiful moon did not shine on ugly beer and porter, but on pure lovely water, and that, therefore, it was water and water alone, that they ought to drink. No one was moved. Ho went on to say that he knew a mother of ten lovely children and one idiot. The idiot was the eldest, and was born before she had signed the pledge. Still the people were scarcely stirred. But he was followed by a decent looking working man, in good Sunday clothes.. He described how a few years ago he had been in rags. He then pointed to the dress he was wearing, turned himself round, and said: "Is this a good coat? Is this- a good pair of trousers? Why is this, why? 'Cos I ani't got no drink in my eye." Ho next pointed to a decent comfortable looking woman, who was, he said, his wife. He drew the atten tion of his hearers to the excellence of her gown, and told how ragged she, too, had once been. He again trium phantly asked, "Why is this, why?" and as- triumphantly answered, "Cosl ain't got no drink in my eye." In like manner he described the various advan tages of his reformed life, and gave the same poetical explanation of the origin of each. He carried fiis listeners away with him, and was rewarded with shouts of applause. Good Cooks Born Not Made. v H. W. B. in New York Evening Post. "Good cooks are born, not made," I heard a lady exclaim the other night at a tea party. An animated discussion followed, but no one agreed unreserved ly with the first speaker. One thought that a woman may learn to do every thing well, but would probably be obliged to omit one or two things from the ordinary bill of fare furnished in most of our homes; for example, she said she could cook all that was con sidered essential in her family, with the exception of raised biscuit; fried cakes was tbe rock upon which another foundered, whilcya third remarked, after the manner of a mental album, that her bete noir is pie crust .All these ladies claimed that they had tried repeatedly-; they had proceeded after the most ap proved methods, but failed to produce omnil rpsnlts. Thnv souo-ht in a nlavful way to account for it by thinking that they are indebted for this incapacity to some unknown or forgotten ancestor whose dislike for that particular form of work had in becoming transmittod to them grown strong enough to render them incajpaWe of performing it well. Now all this and morethatfollowed was naturally not calculated to help one who did not know anything about cook ing, and who might possibly conclude that the whole business is not adapted to her, and that she could not learn to do it satisfactorily. Whatever may be true in regard to heredity, however truly our hands may be tied, there can be no notion more hurtful for a young person to entertain than that she cannot do that There is not much danger of a woman attempting impossibilities. Goethe was right in saying that "we do not desire the stars." There will not be much time wasted in reaching after them. The old saying that "where there is a will there is a way" is full of truth a3 applied to housekeeping. If I could help to impress it upon some be wildered and disheartened, young House wife that there is for every failure some cause which is understandable, and which, may be removed, I should feel, as Artemus Ward pathetically observed, that I have not lived in vain. Discour agements must be expected as a matter of course. I remember that in the first year of my life as a housekeeper a sen tence of Hugh Miller's would come into my mind at appropriate times with all the force of a great temptation. It was this: "It is useless to attempt to do in spite of nature what one was never in tended to do well." But consolation came in the thought that the woman who rules her own spirit is greater than the man who takes a city, and that if she gives undivided and earnest atten tion for a year or two to all the small details of housework, she will be able to do a great deal without expending so much thought upon it. The Beginning of Sumner's Congres sional Career. April Atlantic. On the first day of December, 1851, Henry Clay spoke in the senate for tKe last time, and General Cass presented the credentials of Charles Sumner, .who had been elected by one of the coalitions between the anti-slavery men and the dnmnnrnts. which srave the latter the local offices in New York, Ohio an'd Massachusetts, and elected beward, Chase and Sumner to the United States senate. Soon after Mr. Sumner took his seat in the -arena which had been made famous by the political champions of the north, the south, and the west, Mr. Benton said to him, with a patron izing air, "You have come upon the stage too late, sir. Not only have our great men passed away, but the great issues have been settled also. The last of these was the national bank, and that has been overthrown forever. Nothing is left you, sir, but puny sectional ques tions and petty strifes about slavery and fugutive-slave laws, involving no na tional interests." Mr. Sumner had but two coadjutors in opposing slavery and in advocating freedom when he entered the senate, but when he died ho was the recognized leader of more than two-thirds of that bodj He was denounced by a leading whig newspaper of Boston wlien he left thafcity to take his seat as "an agita tor," and he was refused a place on any committee of the senate, as being "out side of any healthy political organiza tion;" but he lived to exercise a con trolling influence in Massachusetts poli tics and to be chairman of the senate committee on foreign affairs. - He had learned from Judge Story the value of systematic industry, and while prepar ing long speeches on the questionsiae fore the senate he also applied himself seduously to the practical duties of a senator, taking especial pains to .an swer every letter addressed, to him. .'G" Yanipire Bats. i jrrouauiy iiu pint ui ruii is mure alllicteu tnan a portion or me province of Bahia with the scourge of vampires. Whole herds of cattle are sometimes de stroysd by this venomous bat. It was long a matter of conjecture how itlie animal accomplished the insidious and deadly work; but scientific men have now decided that the tongue, wliich is capable of considerable extension, is furnished at its extremity with a num ber of papilla?, which are so arranged as to form an ogan of suction, the lips having also tuiK-xcles symmetrically ar ranged. Fastening themselves upon cattle, these dreadful animals can draw the blood from their victims. The wound, made probably from the sm3H needle-like teeth, is a fine, round hole, the bleeding from which it is very diffi cult to stop. It is said that the wings of this deadly bat fly around during tne operation of wounding and drawing blood, with great velocity, thus fanning the victim and lulling while the" terrible work is in progress. Some of these creatures measure two feet between the tips of their wings, and they are often found in great numbers in deserted dwellings in the outskirts of the city, The negroes and Indians especially dread them, and there are numerous superstitions among the natives in re gard to thern A Dog's Sense of Smell. Have you ever observed how really wonderful is the dog's sense of smell? Anacharsis (says nL happy owner) knows me, when I am dressed in clothes he never saw before, by his nose alone. Let jne get myself up in a theatrical costume and cover my face with a musk, yet he will recognize me by some (to us) undiscoverable perfume. Moreover, he will recognize the same odor as clinging to my clothes, after they have been taken off. If I shy a pebble on the beach, he can pick out that identical pebble scent among a thousand others. Even the very ground on which I have trodden retains for him some faint memento of my presence for hours afterward. The blood-hound can track a human scent a week old which argues a delicacy of nose almost incredi ble to human nostrils. Similarly, too, if you watch Anacharsis at this moment you will see that he runs up and down the path, sniffing away at every stick, stone and plant, though he got a 'sepa rate and distinguishable scent out of every one of them. And so he must, no doubt; for if even the earth keeps a per fume of the person who has walked over it hours before, surely every object about us have some faint smell or other, either of itself or of objects which have touched it. Therefore the smells which make up half a dog's picture of life must be successive and continuous. A Cunning Cat. A gentleman who took a trip into the country yesterday, when on the plains, a mile f romany house, he noticed a cat, a huge one, almost as large as a fair sized dog. It was lying upon the ground, its feet uppermost, in sucn a way that he had no doubt that it had fallen a victim to some vicious dog. Around it, feeding unsuspectingly, was a flock of small birds. The apparently lifeless cat was -within range of the vision of the observer for some time, and just as he was thinking how much easier it would be foi the animal to fei death and catch a bird by deceiving it tnan bv slipping up to it, he was as tonished'to see the cat suddenly roll over and "Tab one of the feathered tribe that was very near. The other birds flew away aiundred yards or so and alighted. The cat only made one or two mouthfuls of the game, and then crept around to tho windward of the 'birds, laid itself out again, and once more played the dead dodge, ine gen tleman drove away without seeing how many birds it took to satisfy the feline. He that studies books alone will know how things ought to be; and he that studies men wiS know how thing! $re! Deaf and Dumb Barbers. Whlte.&iiTImes. A man dressed in a thin summer woolen suit and a dilapidated straw hat entered our sanctum. "Sir," he said, "you see before you a remainder of the summer's sun, so to" speak. I am not from the tropics, ' nei ther am I dressed for enjoying all the comforts of a trip in search of the north pole. Excuse me, no north pole for me," and his teeth chattered, while a quiver of icy dullness seemed to run through his whole frame. "Are you cold0" we asked. "If so, walk up by the stove and get warm.' "JNo, sir, no! warm as the sportive African who swings his juvenile upon the equatorial line. lam needy, busted, broke, sir. You see before you a spec ulator whose cart is kedea over and broken, with the horses on a run so far ahead a greased streak of lightning can not overtake 'em. Four months since I started a barber shop. Now, thinks I, I'll strike a new beat So I just goes and hires four deaf and dumb tonsorial artists and then put up notices that cus tomers coming to my shop would have a quiet shave 'by deaf and dumb barbers and no questions asked. The thing took on the start, but when the confounded barbers pulled their slates ana oegan writing out the usual questions, blow me if I didn' t discover that I was a ru ined man. Yes, sir. barbers is barbers; and, when I closod my shop, busted up and sorted on a tramp, I just says to myself it's no use. If a dead man could be learned to handle the razor over a man's face, fhe blamed things would have spiritual mejiums asking their vic tims the same old line of questions Ah, thank yer, sir; ta-ta. With this dime I'll send a counter-irritant down my throat that'll knock the thinness out of this summer suit and give my stomach a cleaner shave than any barber can." And, as the shattered vase retired, tho perfume of the roses remained in the sanctum until an open window restored the natural tone of the atmosphere. ,, A Deerhound's Sagacity. ikintana Paper. Herman Hutter and Charles Whitman, of Missouri, armed Avith rifles and ac companied by a deerhound, the other day, went up the Rattlesnake" river in quest of game. They climbed the mountains to the left of the stream and separated, taking opposite sides of the ridge, in the hopes of bagging a deer. Whitman came down the ifattlsjmke side, and soon after separating from -his companion he slipped and fell,., sliding some two hundred feet down theMfooutt tnin side. He vainly endeavored to stop himself by digging iuto the ?now with his hands and feet- aifd-clutclun'gn. at brush and sapliriew, "till, just as he was about to be precipitated; -over jthe.. cliff into the Rattlesnake some fOWy ieet Deiow, no lortunaietv- oiaspeu a-- strong sapling with one;hand, and" .was" left dangling in the air over- the .preci pice. By a strong effort he managed to clasp the sapling with lus .arm in the elbow, and grasping his wrist .Avith his disengaged hand, awaited his inevitable fall with desperation. The hound see ing his master fall followed him to the edge of the cliff and whined piteously at the predicament of his human friend. Suddenly he dashed over the hill like a deer and disappeared. When nearly exhausted, Whitman heard hi compan ion, Hutter, above him coming to his assistance. He gathered renewed cour age, and held on desperately till Hutter came down with a ropcand rescued him from his perilous position. Hutter says he had gone but a short distance when the dog came upon him and seized hold of his clothing, whining. He turned upon him and the dog rah off. Repeat ing the strange manoeuver. Hutter sus pected something wrong and followed) the doz to Whitman's rescue. A Southern Grace Darling. From the Galveston News. Capt Clason, of the sloop Tommy, plying between Clear lake and the city, gives an account of an act of heroism by a young girl that is eminently worthy of record, lie says that during the last norther a small sloop, in which there were two men, was capsized off Ed ward's point Both succeeded in get ting upon the bottom of the boat, and in this perilous position were buftetted by wind and sea ard exposed to the cold for about twenty hours. One of the men, utterly exhausted, was ready to succumb, but his companion bound him to the boat with a rope, and this prevented his destruction Finally they were carried by the waves t- within a mile of the shore, when thi-y were seen through a spyglass by Miss Evans, sixteen-year-old daughter of a gentleman residing at the Lawrance place, on the bay shore between Edward's point and the mouth of Clear creek. The brave girl, realizing their imminent peril, and knowing that there was no one on the place to go- to their rescue, herse.f launched a frail skiff and set out to aid them. With such a sea as was running, this would have been a hazardous un dertaking for a strong man, but the lit tle heroine was not daunted by danger. Pulling through the billows until ex hausted, she would drop her anchor, rast, and hoisting her weights, would start anew. In this manner she slowly worked her way to the men, whom she relieved from their dangerous situation and safely conveyed to land, attending to their wants and gently caring for them at her father's house. Ilarmony of Colors. Many ladies with a small fortune lavished on their dress, look dowdy and gaAvky, while others, Avith only a scanty purse to fall back upon, outshine them in every particular, because the harmo ny of colors Avas studied in the latter case and disregarded in the former. Women should study, individually, the colors that are most becoming to them. The real secret of success in dress is to wear only those colors Avhich harmonize with the hair, eyes, complexion and general appearance. It is not so much the style or texture of a garment as the colors. If only our American ladies would be more independent, and select for themselves Avhatever is most becom ing, without regard for what is won abroad, they would soon establish for themselves a reputation for taste in dress which can never be attained by blindly folloAving the fashion set for them by the dames of the continent Memory. A good memory is universally ac knoAvledged to be a most valuable men tal possession, but like many other o-ifts of fortune, it is unequally distribut ed. Clever people may lack the power of remembering matters outside their peculiar studies, while less gifted indi viduals can recall trifling events after a lapse of years. We suppose that most people recollect best what attracts them most, after the fashion of the old High lander, who, when his minister compli mented him on his wonderful memory, replied that he "could only recollect things that interested him, and if he lis tened to a sermon for an hour he could never recall a word of it afterward." Others, beside.have found their memory a capricious handmaid, who prefers to select her oavu burden to carry down the stream of time. Scott remarks how tenaciously unimportant trifles cling to the recollection, while things we desire to preserve pass into oblivion. "Ajing ling verse of an old ballad" will live m tho mind for years, while stories of pain fully acquired information slip away. Trivial incidents dwell in our recollec tions, While matters of greater moment beooms obscure. !Vw of us can alto- o-ether command-our memories, and looking back it is curious to note what trifles are often enshrined in the remem brance, while more important things are recalled with an effort. We travel abroad, and retain an indistinct recol lection of some interesting inscription we specially desired to remember, while we recall, with provoking accuracy, a name over a shop door or, an advertise ment in a window. , Facts and dates.-we wished to engrave on pur memories slip away", while useful knowledge makes for itself a firm foothold. It is difficult to account for the vagaries of memory. If we cannot remember at will, as little have the power of forgetting at pleas ure. Painful recollections are, as a rule, more durable than pleasant ones. We may recall past happiness in a vague and visionary manner,- but disagreeable remembrances stand out distinctly after a lapse of years. Childish memories are nearly always the strongest,dout less because the mind is more capable of receiving impressions at an early age. A"ed persons will forget the events of yesterday, but recall accurately the events ot seventy years ago. many persons have a theory that nothing once enshrined in the memory is ever really forgotten. It is certainly remarkable how long-buried recollections often start into life again without any assignable cause. Nothing is more difficult than to trace .out the connecting chain of association in case3 like these. There is a story of a man who, on entering a stranjre house, suddenly recalled some childish adventure that had happened forty or fifty years before. Curious to discover what had recalled a forgot ten episode at this particidar moment he at last observed that the room in which he was, was hung with paper of a peculiar pattern similar to one that had once adorned his nursery walls. Trifles like this often suffice to call up a whole train of buried memories. Victor Emanuel's Simple Tastes. London News. The hunting lodge at Licola is a sub-, stantial house consisting of a ground floor and one story, stuccoed and stain- ed to a pinkish yellow. it stands on a kind of grass-grown common, Avith groups of niagnincenc everffreeu onus on either hand, while opposite is a tiny chapel, Avith tAVo or three acacia trees. On the upper story is a suite of good rooms intended for the use of royalty, but -King Victor Emanuel with his sim ple 'tastes' used to prefer the little vault ed parloe on the ground floor, Avhich opens, to-the common on both sides, on one of 'Avhich there is a sort of stoue veranda. This little room is simply plastered and stained, and its only fur- -A " -1 ' ltl 1 WI .... - nuure is a piam poiiaueu livuic, iu ui .three rush-bottomed chairs, an vet sofa, upon which the late kin old vei- r slpnt. though he protested against such "lux ury," and an old-fasliioned easy chair Avhich the commandant, in spite of the king's remonstrances, had brought in that his royal master might take a com fortable nap after dinner. It is the very simplest royal parlor perhaps that all Europe has te shoAv. King Victor Emanuel, as soon as he arrived in Licola, used to dismiss his personal attendants and enjoy the full freedom of being, for a space, a simple country gentleman. Above the sofa hangs tne stuffed head of a smooth skinned do, the hero of a hundred Avounds and a thousand boar fights. Once he Avas given up for dead and thrown into a corner, hut after two or three days he crawLi out to the aston ishment of the gamekeepers, half starv ed, but cured! l U.W.-J The Turkey. No tc and Queries. W Many conjectures have been hazarded as to how the very inappropriate name of "turkey" has been applied to a bird which wc know was introduced from America. I believe the truth of the matter to be this: Several, if not most, of the mediaval zoologists I may par ticularly cite Bclon and Aldrovandus hopelessly confounded the turkey and the guinea-fowl under the name, proper to the latter, of Meleagris. Gesnermust, indeed, be expected, for he clearly saw that the turkey was not the Meleagris, I and, finding it had been written of as gallup geregnnus or pavo mdicus, he accordingly (in 1855) coined for it tho names gollopavus or pavogallus, which he used almost Indiscriminately. But this confusion was not confined to natu ralists. We have in Cooper's edition of the "Bibliotheca Eliotaj," published in 1542, "meleagrides, byrdes which Ave doo call henne3" tho earliest use of the latter name Avith which I am acquainted. It is, therefore, obvious that "turkey hen," Avas at first synonymous Avith "guinea hen." As the birds became commoner and better known, the con fusion Avas, of course, gradually cleared up and tho name "turkey" clove to the bird from the neAV world; not, I think, without some reason, for by its con stantly repeated call-note, which maybe syllabled "turk, turk, turk," it may be said to havenamed itself. A Rllo of Early Steam Navigation. Engineering. A relic of great interest has just been recovered by the Chicago Historical society, through the kindness of Mr. James Gouchie, a Scottish shipbuilder, now residing at a village near Chicago. It is the original Avorking plan from which Avas constructed the first vessel entirely propelled by steam which crossed the Atlantic. The ship in ques tion, named the "Royal WilKaui," Avas completed at Quebec, in the year 1831. Two years later she sailed for London, making the trip in 25 days. Shortly :if terwards the vessel Avas sold to tho "Spanish government, and being con verted into a man-of-war, was the first steamship ever used in that capacity.' The price paid for her Avas $10,000. In this connection it will not be out of place to recall the fact that in the year 1819 there sailed from Savannah a full rigged ship named after that city, and having an engine and paddle Avheels, Avhich were used in calm Aveather, but taken in Avhen the seaAvas rough. This Avas the ship which so alarmed the Brit ish coast ofliceis. As she neared the channel clouds of smoke Avere seen issu ing form her, and the coast guard, be lieving that the vessel Avas on fire, sent a government cutter to her assistance. Hard to Please. Some people are never content with their lot, let Avhat will happen. Clouds and darkness are over their heads, alike whether it rain or shine. To them every incident is an accident, and every accident is a calamity. Even when They have their OAvn way they like it no better than your way, and, indeed, con sider their most voluntary acts as mat ters of compulsion. We saw a striking illustration the other day of the infirmi ties we .-peak of in the conduct of a child about three years old. He Avas en ing because his mother had shut the parlor door. "Poor thing," said a neighbor compassionately, "you have shut the child out." "It's all the same to him," said the mother, "he Avould cry if I Avould call him in and then shut the door. It's a peculiarity of that boy, that if he is left rather suddenly on either side of the door, he considers him self snut out and rebels accordingly." There aie older children who take the same view of things. We need not be physicians to know when we have and how to cure a Cold. Wi can have a special physician always 1 ,n.r. bv keeDir convenient a bottle of Dr. Rail's Cough. Syrup. Price 25 cents.'! AFaitkfalDeg-. A Genea correspondent writes: L' Impartial des Aipe3 telbi a touching story of the faithfulness and intelligence of a St Bernard mastiff. A short time ago a certain father Nicholas, "in reli gion Don Louis," a monk of tho grande chartreuse, once aide-decamp to the czar, was returning from Fonrveirie to his monastery, followed by a fine St Bernard dog, to which he was greatly attached. Instead of keeping to the highway he took a foot path that runs along the left bank of the river Guiers, Avhich is thereabouts very precipitous. As he Avalked he read his breviary, and being more intent on its devotions than on the direction he wa3 taking he made a false step, and falling doAvn tho preci pice his course was not arrested until he reached unconsciousness and terribly bruised the edge of the stream. The dog followed, and it is supposed tried to rouse him. Not succeeding in the at tempt he returned to the footpath, and did his best to attract the attention of two shepherds who happened tobepass inrr, but alarmed by the mastiff's manner, which they attributed to madness, they ran aAAay as fast as their leg3 could carry thefn. Tho next day tho dog presented himself at the monastery, and the monks, think ing from his appearance that he was hungry, offered him food. But the ani mal refused to eat and by his plaintive barkings and gestures did his best to tell the monks that some thing Avas Avrong. In the end some of them de cided to follow him, and the dog, Avith many manifestations of delight, led the way to the place Avhere he had left his master. When he reached the part of the river bant whence Father Nicholas had fallen, he began to bark, and the monk, Avho had by this time recovered consciousness, was able to utter a feeble shout When his rescuers, preceded by the mastiff, reached him, they found him lying with his f.et in the stream and quite unable to move. With the help of the shepherds, Avbom the bark ings and shoutings had draAvn to the spot, they contrived to drag him to the top of the precipice and carry him to the monastery, where he is now in a fair Avay for recovery. The mastiff has ever since remained bv the bedside of his master, Avhom his intelligence and devo tion had saved from a frightful death. A Family of Chronic Laughers. A preposterous story orisinates in FreuchtoAvn, N. J., of a farmer and his family of sons and daughters who live uear by. They are chronic laughers, and, when the fit is ou them, can no more restaiu their cachinnation than a Avell regulated clock can keep from ticking. This unfortunate and grotesque niaiady attacked the father first about ten years ago, a-ul since then all the other -members of ifce family have suc Qessivdy seen tho jofc- and began to laugh. These spells occur twice a day, and leave the family a littlesgxhausted, possibh', but in no other Respect the worse for wear. The neighbo-3 havt become accusiomeu 10 uiu miug, ana think nothing of seeing their old friehUa. going about their daily avocations in a roar of laughter- Charles, the eldest son, AVho had held out agninst the in fection for years, and entertained reas onable hopes that he alone should es cape, had the mortification to undergo his first attack Avhile he was in the very act of proposing for the hand of a Har risburg girl. He had succeeded in con veying to the young lady an idea of the state of his heart, but had not arrived at that point Avhere oven smiles were in order. Avhen he burst into immoderate laughing, Avhich so frightened the object of his devotion that she fled from the room. She subsequently listened to an cxplalnation, however, and is now a member of the family circle. Several grandchildren are noAV in existence, all of whom,Avith asingle exception, inherit the malady. ., Immense Fir Trees. The fir tree groAvths of Puget sound form one of the wonders of the Ameri can Avorld. They average 200 feet in height, and some specimens have been cut that measure 320 feet in length and 12 feet in diameter at the base, with a straight and Avell-proportioned- 1 length of ninety feet to the first limb. The cedar trees are in like proportion, and are most valuable for Avooden Avares of all kinds, Avhile the firs are the best for spar and ship timber yet found in any country. There are few nations that do not use them in ship-building. One-fourth of the wealth of San Fran cisco Avas culled from the firs of Puget sound while the government slept, and to-day all the principal steam mill t oAA-ners avIio sa r and prepare for market from 100,000 to 200,000 feet a day to each mill and there aro thirty or more mills are residents of San Francisco, Avhere they invest their profits, to the great injury of residents of the souhd. There is, apparency, no exhaustion of the timber, and a century Avill possibly elapse before Puget sound forests Avifl be cleared of their immense resources of varied tree Towths. More Emotional Insanity. In the case of the matricide in China, Maine, a plea of "emotional insauity'' will undoubtedly be interposed, and if the jurors of that state are not les.s com placent than those of most "states, his chance to escape punishment for his horrible crime may be regarded as favor able. The very unnaturalness of the crime is to be urged as an indication of insanity, and the indifference AA'hich the murderer showed about escaping will also be strongly dwelt on. That he re gards himself as the victim of emotional insanity ma' be gathered from the in tervievs AA'hich he had Avith a reporter of the Bangor Commercial. The first in terview is given as folloAA's: "Can you give any reason, or explain the motive, that caused you to commit the deed you have?" "No, I don't know as I can," Avas the reply. - "Was y6ur mother unkind to you at any time?" " "Yes, she was rather cross"sometime, and scol?fcd me some, but we had no serious trouble until last fall." "What occasioned the difficulty then?" "Why, she wanted me to vote as she said, and promised that she Avould give me a home Avith her if I would do it; but I went off and voted the greenback ticket; that made her mad, and she took my bed doAvn, so I judged b' that that she didn't want me around any more, so I went away." "Had you any trouble lately?" "No; when I Came to the hou3e Sat urday a Avoek ago, she came into the barn and was pleasant enough. Then. I don't know what made me do it, but I grabbed the hammer and let her have it over the head. I didn't seem to know what I was about, and I can't under stand it now." "Did the first Woav kill her?" "No, I struck her tAA-ice, I believe, but I don't remember much about it" "What caused you to mutilate the body?" Merrill didn't understand the Avord "mutilate," so the question was put in another form, and then he replied: " Oh. I went bacs into the barn and saA7 her lying there dead, and I began to realize what I had done, and so I tried to get rid of the body and not be found out" "What did you do then?" "Well, I cut it up and burned part of it?;' "Do you feel remorse for the fearful deed?" Of course I feel sorry, but I try to keep up good spirits." Do you not realize the enormity oC your crime?" The murderer shook his head. This show3 with tolerable distinctness-. hoAV insane he was; but in the following: interview, which took place subsequent ly, he makes it, if possible, even more dear: , , "Do you think of Avhat you have done all the time?" ., "Well, yes, I do considerable. "Do you think you Averejn your right mind Avhen you struck your mother?' No; if I had been I should never haA'e buried the legs and arms intheAvayl did and left the blood all around." "Did yon not think of running away?" "No; for I had moro than forty chances I would not have one if I hadknoAvn that I was to be hung the next day." "Can you read and write?" "Yes, pretty fair." "What kind of books do you read?" "Oh, most am' kind." The Cloads. KnklB. Has the reader any distinct ides-of what clouds are? That mist that Ires in the morning so softly in the valley, level and white, through which the tops of the trees rise as if through an inun dation Avhy is it so heavy, and? why does it lie so Ioav, being yet so thin ant frail that it Avill melt away utterly into splendor of morning Avhen the sun has shone on it but a few moments more? Ihose colossal pyramids, huge and firm,, with outlines as of rocks, and strength to bear the beating of tho high sun full on their fiery flanks why are they so light, their bases high over our heads, high over the heads of! the Alps? Why aviII these melt away, not as the sun rises, but as he. descends, and leave the stars of twilifrht clear: Avhile the valley vapor cabas again upon the earth, like a shroud? Or that ghost of? a cloud, which steals by yonder clump of pines; nay, Avhich does not steal by them, but haunts them wreath ing vet round them, and yet- and yot. sloAvly; uoav falling in a fair w.tved. line like a woman's vail; hoav fndiftg now gone; aav look aAvay for an instant, and look back, and it is again there, hat h:is it to do Avith that chimp of pines, that it broods by them and Aveavus itself among their branches, to and fro? Has it hidden a cloudy treasure among the moss at their roott, Avhich it Avatch es thus? Or has some strong endnro ter charmed it into fond returning, or bound it fast Aith thoso bars of bough? And yonder filmy crescent, bent liku an archers bow above tne snowy summit, the highest of all tho hills that white arch Avhich never forms but over the supremo crest how it is stayed there repelled apparently from tho snow, no- wlipr tnnnhiiio" it the' betAveen it and tho moun taint edge, yet never leaving it poised as a white bird hovers over its nest? Or those war douds that gather I on tho horizon, dragon crested, tongued with fire 1ioav is their barbed strength bridled? What bites are those they are champing Avith their " vaporous lip-, fluffing off flakes of black foam? hoS edleViathans of the sea of heaven out of theic nostrils goeth amoke, and their eyes are like the eyelids of the morning; the SAvofcJ of him that layeth at them can not lifcld the spear, the dart, nor the hagbergeu. Where ride the captains of' their aruiies? Where are set the measures of tyeir march? Fierce mnr murers, annsV-criiig each othor from morning until eANjnmo" Avhat rebuke is this Avhich has awtitpiein unto peaces what hand has reineithem back by the Avay in Avhich they canke.? English Ignorance of N America. ByKlcliard Grant White in April AVlantlc One strikinjr trait JfirrYiTS? ism is ignorance of , ether countries, and chiefly ignorance pj America. To the Philistine this ignorance is his most cher ished intellectual treasure. He guards it tarefnlly, and plumes himself upon u. To enlarge and confirm it, he reads iiio travels of other Philistines in America, and in some cas, visits the states him self, to return with a confusion of mind and perversion of fact upon the subject which L the occasion of profoundest self-congratulatton, and which makes him for the remainder of his life an or acle upon American affairs among his untraveled friends and neighbors. Let me frankly confess, hoAA-ever, that a like ignorance and confusion in regard to England among the natives of other countries is sometimes courteously as sumed by the Philistine. Some years, before my visit to England a pretty and SAveet-mannered, although not very high-class, Englishwoman was telir.g mo. AAith the eyes and the voice of a dove, of something that had happened in Manchester; and then, Avith gentle condescension, she added inquiringly, "You 'ave 'eard of Manchester?" I said I had, and she Avas satisfied. There are little courts and alley? in London Avhich are called mews; and I Avas kind ly informed by one or tAvo friends, as Ave passed some of the n, that meAvs Avere places for the keeping of haAvks in olden time. It Avas impossible even to laugh at instruction so kindly givr: nor did I tell my good teachers that any school-boy twelve years old in America knew that as well as they did. The ele gHnt and vejy clever Avoman who re commended me to read KenliAA'orth before going to see the castle displayed this same sort of Philistinism. What need of telling her, either, that school-boys in America read Kenliworth! " Mistakes of the Compositor." Someone has taken the pains t col lect for the Chicago Times some of the more famous typographical blunders of recent days of the proof-reader on the Herald who underscored the line of the hymn "Hark, The Herald angel? sing!" so as to give due credit to his OAvn paper; of the World's report of a political mooting "the snouts (for shouts) of 10,000 democrats rent tho air;" ot Goth's fourth of July oration about the effects of the immortal decla ration penned by Thomas Jefferson at Avhich "Thomas reeled," be was made to say, instead of "thrones reeled; a local reporter represented Talmage a3 reading the Avell-knoAvn hymn thus: "Nearer, by God, to Theo!' Instead of the fiat of the Almighty, a New York paper spoke of the "fist of the Almigh ty." Another paper declared that the Meeker massacre was caused, not as the dispatch said, "by the farmers pulling doAvn the Indians1 tents and corrals," but "the Indians' beets and carrots." Out west the obituary of a right revern ed "prelate" Avas described as the " death of a pirate;" in a sermon a clergy man was announced as preaching about "a woman clothed in scantity instead of sanctity; and the subject "Influence of Rome on the For mation of Christianity," got into print as the "Influence of Rum upon the Di gestion of Humanity." The compiler should have added to his collection the story of the Connecticut editor who wrote Avhat he thought an unusually fine article entitled, "Is there no balm in Gilead?" and awoke the next morn ing to see it read "Is there no barn in Guilford?" The unknoAvn is an ocean, and con science is the compass of the unknown; thought, meditation, prayer, arc the great mysterious pointings of the needle. VbrTiiiRcr Before you begm your heavy spring work after a winter of relaxation, your system needs cleansingand strengthening to prevent an at Uc. of Ague, Bilious or Spring tever, or some other Spring sickness that will unfit Vou for a season s wurk. You wW s .ve time, much sick ness and great expense if you will use one ffif 2o? Biuersin your family this iottu "N ri 4 n tte- 1 L i1iM-r - -,.- V I ?;