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VOL. XI.
EIDGrWAY, ELK COUNTY, PA., THUESDAY, OCTOI3E11 20, 1881.
NO. 35.
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Life's True Significance.
Deeper than all boiiho of Boeing
Lies tho soorot gonrco of being,
And the eohl with truth dfrroeing,
Learns to live in thoughts and deeds;
For the life is more than raiment,
And tho oarth is pledged for payment
Unto man for all his Deeds.
Naturo la our common mother,
Every living man onr brother,
Therefore let ug servo each other;
Not to meet the law's heliosis,
But because through cheorful giving
Wo shall learn tho art of living;
And to live and servo is best
Lifo ia more than what man fancies I
Not a game of idlo chances;
Hut it steadily advances
Up tho tho rnggod heights of time,
Till each complex web of trouhlo,
Every sad hope's broken bubble,
Hath a meaning most sublime.
More of religion, less ot profession;
More of iirninoss, less concession;
Moro of freedom, less oppression,
In the church and in the state;
Moro of lifo and less of fashion;
Moroof lovo and lesj of passion;
That will mako ns good and great.
When true hearts divinely gifted,
From thi chaff of orror gifted,
On tlu-ir crosses aro uplifted,
tihnil tho world most cloarly seo
That earth's greatest time of trial
Ciilla for holy solf-deiilal,
Culls on men to do aud bo.
)nt forever and forever
Lot it be the Mini' en liavor
Love from hatred to dissever,
And iu v.hutmeVr wo do,
Won by love's eternal 1. canty,
To our hi;;!;') seuso of duty
Evermore le firm and true.
Stratford lli rald.
A VICTIM OP DUTY.
TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH OF LOCIS
COLL AS.
You have often seen him pass throuph
the fields with a hasty step, recogniz
able not only by his blouse and his
regulation hat, but also by the sus
tained activity of his movements, be
cause for him the instants are counted
and he has not the right to slacken his
paoa. An iidefa-iguble walker, he no
corapiir.hes his task from the first to tho
last day of the year withont ever rest
in?.' '' roa'ter though a tropical nun
invite all cea'ures to become motion
less, though the cold be Siberian,
thong i it blow and snow, he must go to
the last vi.hipe on his route to carry the
lexers, newspapets and prospectuses
which trade confides by millions to the
care of tb post.
T e highways aro not made for him ;
nris h- not cross the country, passion
through woods and marshes, to seek
the hut. lost in the depths of the soli
tude, far removed from any public
road?
He trawls from eight to ten leagues
daily, making circuits, crossing brooks,
scaling rocks, venturing into ravines
and wounding himself among the hedges
and briars. Loitering is forbidden to
him, for the officiul hour of return is
fixed; the letters he brings back must
depart by the next mail. They are
waited for at the postoilice and the least
variation of his programme may have
grave consequences.
We cannot without ingratitude forget
the services of this incorruptible mes
Eonger, whose probity and zeal are con
stantly put to the proof, who brings us
ut a certain hour our letters and our
journals, tho news, the expectation of
which keeps us full of unxiety; wlio
contributes to soften for v.s the biiter
ness of absence and distance. Imagine
tha void the disappearance of these
bumble, functionaries would leave in
our existence !
I knew a man who for twenty years
filled this pobition. A former soldier,
tbutiks to irreproachable records of
Eervica strengthened by a little influ
ence, he had obtained the great favor of
having placed to his credit fifty francs
per month at the postoflico of tho dis
trict. Pere Martin was not very fond of
this brilliant position, bat he perfectly
nnderstood his responsibility and duties;
he never complained.
Everybody in the district was
acquainted with this little gray haired
man with bronzed features, whose limbs
had the pliancy nd strength of steel.
He was highly appreciated, for, while a
scrupulous observer of the regulation,
he never refused to perform a service,
provided it did not conflict with his
duties.
There was not a corner of his route
which ho had not passed over, accom
panied by his wolf dog. He knew to a
meter the distance separating the small
est hamlet from the chief town of tho
district, and was familiar with all the
paths and byways.
To spare himself half an hour's walk
he never would have thrown into a
ditch some silly prospectus or some
minted matter bearing a doubtful ad
dress ; if he returned anything to the
wostoflice it was because its
address
could not be found. He was the slave
of his orders, as punctual aa the clock,
aod so discreet as to discourage tne
most curious. Everybody greeted him
kindly when he arrived at a village; the
children came to him, and even the
dogs barked joyously at his approach.
There was considerable rivalry as to
who shonld ofl'er him a glass of cider
and a slice of bacon. But he rarely
accepted anything. Time passed and
he did not like to contract troublesome
obligations.
Hence the notes made concerning
him were excellent, and his" chiefs re
gretted that the parsimony of the ad
ministration only permitted them to
reward his loyal services with con
temptible gifts.
One day in the middle of October he
departed on is usual round. The
weather was frightful; it had been
raining incessantly for more than a
week; tho roads had become bogs and
the brooks had been transformed into
torrent; what foliage remained on the
trees was, so impregnated with water
that it could not offer a protecting
shelter. The postman, wet to the skin,
Walked with the impassibility of an old
soldier who does not discuss his orders.
He had distributed a portion of his
moil, bnt his round was far from being
finished when he passed an inn, or rather
a miserable drinking-house, sitnated at
the entrance of a wood; this place was
mainly patronized by sabot-makers, who
found thero alcoholio drinks and a few
groceries.
'Hoi Monsieur, the postman, stop
here for an instant; while you aro giv
ing me the information I need, the
violence of the storm will abate."
This invitation wns addressed to him
by a man who, with a pipo in his
mouth, was standing upon tho threshold
of the drinking-houBe.
Tho rain was pouring down at that
moment; a flerco blast swept it into
Tore Martin's face, proventod him from
walking and bent to the ground the
stalwart trees.
The postman was a littlo ahead of
time, and the demands of the service
do not go so far as to forbid tho ac
ceptance of a momentary shelter when
it offers itself under such circumstance.
Ho, therefore, went into the house
and Fat down beside tho firo which
cracf led on tho hearth. Tho man who
had invited him to enter threw upon it
somo dry branches, which wero soon in
flames; a heavy vapor arose from Mar
tin's soaked garments.
The t-tranger interrogated tho post
man as to the hours of the departure
of the mails, and asked him a host of
questions about himself, his sorvico and !
even thing concerning it
" Yon kr.ow mo then ?" said tho post
man. " Parbl'JU 1 Everybody loves and
esteems you here; Pero Martin's valuo
is well known. I hope yon will not re
fuse to drink with me. Ho I Madam
Hosier, two glasses of your best
brandy."
A woman waited on them and re
turned to her occupation.
" What a dog's trado you follow, Pero
Martin 1" said the man. " Will it tako
you much longer to finish your round ?
You doubtless have yet to go to tho
Landu Grio, to PIcsmh. I know some
ore who is impatiently waiting for you
there. I nm obliged to pass iu tho
vicinity. If you wish it I will relieve
yon of your letters."
"Thank Ton ; I will deliver them my
self." "Ttat's yourself out and out. After
all you are right. It is your duty to
deliver them."
While talking with a loquacity which
did not encourage the postman he took
up tho sack tho latter had placed beside
him, seemed to feel its weight aud
turned it over and over.
" Let my sack alone, please," said
Martin, eo'ldly. "You have disar
ranged all my letters. I shall no longer
know what to do."
Tho other humbly excused himself
for his awkwardness.
" The evil is reparable," added he.
" Seat yourself at this table, and you
will have no trouble to arrange the let
ters according to the route you shonld
take."
Tho postman emptied his sack before
him, and began to arrange his letters.
His questioner affected to keep dis
creetly at a distance, bnt found an op
portunity to cast a furtive glance over
his shoulder.
While Martin was busy with his
work ho heard furious growls behind
him.
"Pere Martin, help me to prevent
your dog from strangling mine," said
his new acquaintance.
The postman arose and caught his
doer by the skin of the neck. The ani
mal's fury contrasted with its habitual
gentleness.
This fact seemed strange to Martin.
He felt distrust of tho communicative
stranger grow upon him. He was
about to replace his papers in the sack
when the man, as if to see what was
the state of the weather, opened the
door.
At the same instant the wind swept
impetuously into the room, which it
filled with a thick smoke, and lifting
the lottei'3 (spread out upon the table
scattered tliem in every direction.
The postman uttered an exclamation
of anger.
'i Bah ! it is nothing," said the person
who had caused the accident. "We
two will speedily gather them up."
And without hee'ding the refusal of
Martin, who wished to avoid his help
and do the work alone, he began to
search for the letters.
When they had collected all they
could find tho postman carefully ex
amined them ; then he seemed worried,
as if he had not the full number.
"Are any missing?" asked his com
panion. "It appears to me that there was
another letter."
"Bah! either you are deceived or
you forgot it at the postofllce."
" That is quite possible."
He said to himself that it must be so.
However he resumed his hunt and
searched beneath the furniture. He
found nothing and concluded that his
memory had not served him faithfully,
for he watched his companion's move
ments and it did not seem admissible to
him that he had stolen a letter. Never-
j theless he hastened to depart, regret
ting that he had entered the drinking-
bouse. I lie man who had chatted with
him inspired in him a veritable repul
sion, and it was his rule, because of the
habits of discretion which the postofllce
imposes upon all its agents, to keep at
a distance all who do not appear to him
worthy of confidence.
The storm had somewhat abated its
fury, the rain soon ceased to fall and
bright sunshine lighted up the country
when the postman reached the nearest
village.
A woman was at the door of her hom e
awaiting his passage. She was still
young and, without possessing remark
able beauty, had a neat and sympa-
thetio countenance.
" Monsieur Martin," said she to the
dostman, " have you a letter for me ?"
" No. Madam Andre, I have not."
"That's strange; my husband should
have written to me to-day; yon cannot
imagine how much his silence troubles
In."
She grew pale and seemed scarcely to
have the strength to sustain herself.
The postman assisted her into the
house and handed her a chair upon
which sh let herself fall. Two charm
ing children fixed on her sad and anx
ious looks.
You will receive a letter to-morrow,
Madam Andre," said Pere Martin ; " the
delay of a day is easily explained: your
husband was disappointed, some unfore
seen business suddenly demanded his
attention and he missed the mail."
No; I know hiin ar d cannot under
stand his silonca. Yon are aware that
he departed two months ago for the
city. Some work was to ba attended to
which promised to biinjj him in a great
deal of money; a small inheritance was
to bo received. But all is concluded.
He sent me word that ho would return
this evening; he had made his arrange
ments to that end. To-morrow the farm
of La Mane is tobe sold ; ho has deoidod
to purchase either all or part of it.
It is an opportunity which will novor
again present itself, bnt I would prefer
a thousand times that ho should miss it
to having him return withont notifying
me."
" Why ?"
' Because somo one has wicked do
sipins against him and at night a ter
rible blow is soon struck. You know
thero aro two rontos by which to return
hero ; one is longer than the other, but
safer. I uni afraid lost ho limy return
by way of the Monliu-Brnlo, tho moro
ho as thero i somo cno to eo in that
direction. I tremble at tho mtro
thought of it. 1 f I only know
Tho postman strove to calm her fears,
but she shook her head.
"You cannot think," resumed hhe,
what certain men aro capable of when
they havo a grudge against anybody."
Sim seemed to herniate, ami then
added :
If I tremblo it in not dimply be
cause my husband will navo it puss
through a dangerous spot wild money
in his pocket, but beciuiso there is in
tho district u wretch whoso denree.t wish
is to put live feet of earth between
them.
"This hatred dales from long ngo.
Wheu I was a young girl ho wanted to
nuirry mo, but ho lill.d me with horror.
Ho has never pardoned mo for having
ri'pnl.-ed li is offers, and has enveloped
i'l tho mono animosity tho mini I pre
ferred to him. Ho hates Georges and
nivfelf for being iu easy circumstances
while ho vegetates ill want, as if honest
people were responsible for tho mis
takes of idlers and drunkards. Thin i
not all. A crime was recently com
mitted ; suspicious were aroused, bnt
the proofs wero wanting. I possess
them, aud the guilty man know3 it. Ah!
it is a dangerous secret for a woman
who has only children around her."
" Yesterday he accosted mo to sound
me; I did not hido from him my con
tempt. He saw clearly that he was un
masked in my eyes; he overwhelmed
me with in-ralts and threats. I took
the nnfoitunato notion to say to him
that soon, when my husband had re
turned, when he hud a man before him,
ho would bo less presumptuous. Oh !
if yon knew what glances bis eyes shot
at me, what an expression of hatred his
features wore I I know that often dur
ing the night he haunts the ruins of tho
Moulin-Brule. If this man should dis
cover that my husband is to pu3s
through that place, I tell you, Monsieur
Martin, he is lost!"
"What is the scoundrel's name ?"
"Jean Bruno, It is not astonishing
that you are unacquainted with him, for
since his return to the district he ha3
not pub.'icly shown himself."
The postman was silent. He remem
bered having heard tho woman at tho
drinking-house call the man he had met
there by that name. Ho auked himself
iu consternation if the letter had not
been stolen from him, but he recalled
all the circumstances and banished this
supposition. He felt certain that the
epistle had not been in his sack; he re
assured himself and sought to reassure
the woman, yet ho resolved to await
her husband's arrival at tho chief town
of tho district to adviso him to be
prudent.
lie hastened away and wnen ne was
alone his fears regained possession of
him. Ho again began to doubt and
little by little was seized upon by a
terror he could not explain. He in
creased his pace and leaped over the
hedges and ditches with unusual niui
bleness. Unfortunately, his round that
day was exceptionally long, and the bad
weather in addition had considerably
delajed him.
He reached the postofllce a little
later than was his custom. The woman
who distributed the mails on being
consulted by him affirmed that he had
taken away "a letter for Madam Andre.
One of her assistants confirmed this
declaration.
The postman was thunderstruck. He
saw with fright the heavy responsibility
thrown upon him. His terrors aug
mented when he remembered that time
and again, at the moment of opening
the mail bags, a man had presented him
self, asking if there was anything for
Madam Andre I
He flew rather than ran to the office
of the coach which carried passengers
from tho nearest station on the railway
to the chief town. Georges Andre had
arrived, but had set out immediately on
foot for his village.
This news gave Martin a violent
shock. The prospect of a catastrophe
for which he would be responsible
arose before bun. lie saw this man,
who had returned with joy in his heart,
encountering death at the threshold of
his home through his fault, and misfor
tune overtaking the widow and the
orphans. The darkest clouds troubled
his imagination.
Ha did not hesitate, and, withont
taking time to enter his dwelling, started
off again. Those who saw him pass.
absorbed in Lis thoughts and noticing
no one around him, asked themselves
what grave affair could have caused this
breathless haste on the part of a man
who must have come back trom his
round broken by fatigue.
After having passed over a fourth of
the distance he inquired concerning the
traveler and asked if he had been seen.
He had gone by somo time before.
The joy of return had given wings to
his' feet, as the thought of a misfortune
to be averted had increased the speed
of the postman. There was no longer
even the shadow of a doubt ; the fated
man had taken the path which led
straight to the Moulin-Brule. Pere
Martin calculated that by passing over
another path, which, however, was
rough and dangerous, he could yet ar
rive before him.
He hastened on and reached the fatal
spot when the night was already ad
vanced. The place was well fitted for
an ambuscade. There was a species of
cut through the rocks. On both sides
bushy trees formed an almost impene
trable shade ; rapidly moving clouds at
each instant veiled the moon, the wan
rays of which addod to the sinister
character of the landscape.
lie paused ; amid the rustling of the
foliage agitated by tho wind he thought
he heard tho sound of approaching
footsteps; it was, donbtless, George
Andro, whom ho had procedod only by
a few instants; ho was about going to
meet him when tho report of a gnu
rang out and a ball struck him full in
the breiiHt.
Tho assasin emerged from a neigh
boring thicket; but. on approaching his
victim to finish and rob him ho found
himself in tlm presence of a now aetor
and vented liiHilisiippointineiit in a hor
ribln oath; ho hail recognized (leorgn
Andro. Tho blado of a knife flaiihnd
in his hand, but ho was not, allowed
timo to 11H it - a club ib'snondod vigor
ously upon his howl mid folloil him to
tlm ground.
A woman, distracted with terror, at
this moment threw hornxlf on tlm pout -mini's
body.
" ( )h! how wri'lched I mil !" cried nlio.
"1 foresaw it; lie him lulled dim I"
Minium Audio liud not been ublo to
subline her ti noimi mi-hm and, at tlm hour
nlio supposed her liu'iliaiid otitfhl to iir-
rive, slid bail eomo to wml. lor him; ul
the report of tlm gun, nlio liml run for
ward iiriviiiilnloly.
"JciuiiiK," Miid her hiuituiml to hi-r,
" reiiHWiro youiMelf; I nm unhurt I
" It. was not you t Who thou linn lie
assassinated '"
They bent over Miirtln'n body, and
rccofnizoil him in Hie moonlilit, which
at that i i ) m I in 1 1, illiuuiimtoil bin fuen nnl
uniform.
'i'lio huiibiilid mid wifo curried him to
tin ir home, where ho lived only twenty
four hours. lln rcluled how Iki Im'l
ill I owed to bn stolen from him tlmlctler
in which (leorgeH Audio liml iinnoiinceil
his return, liml how ho had decided to
prevent, ut any price, tlm cormcfpicriceH
of his negligence, even if ho iiliould be
compelled to oll'er his life in exchange
for that of tho factor of n family whom
he had involuntarily helped to place in
peril.
Obscure victim of duty, he had added
another act to the list of thoso unknown
sacrifices which aro made daily, without
being encouraged I y tne nope of any
recompense, without even having for
indemnification the remembrance they
should leave behind him.
Trichiute in Man.
For some thirty years subsequent to
the first description of the capsule by
nil ton, and some twenty-five years after
the identification of the parasite itself
in man, the same were looked upon as
mere harmless curiosities, and that,
although Leidy discovered the parasite
in the flesh of swine in 1817, still it was
not until 1800 that tho connection was
established between them, appearing,
as they had, iu two totally different ppe-
cies i men and swine.) The honor of
this important discovery belongs to Dr,
Zenker, of Dresden, Germany. The
diseaso was discovered in a servant girl,
admitted as a typhus patient to the City
hospital in Dresden. Sho died, and
lii flmh was found to Vo n.lrfal
infested with trichina). Leuckart's and
other experiments have shown
that a temperature of 140 degrees
Fahrenheit is necessary to securely
render triehinio inert. Direct heat ap
plied to the slides holding specimens of
triehinousnork.bv means of the Schultz
hoKtinir table, has demonstrated under
the micros-cope that a temperature of
lifty degrees centigrade 1122 uegree8
Fahrenheit) is necessary to the certain
f tlm trichina Leisering's ex-
periments with trichinous pork, made
up into sausage moat and cooked twenty
minutes, gave positive results wnen ieu
to one rabbit and negative by another.
He sums up his experiment as follows:
1 TVinVnnm nr killed bv li ng con
tinued salting of infected meat, and
also bv subiecting the same for twenty-
four hours to the action of smoke in a
heated chamber.
2. They are not killed by means of
cold smoking for a period of three days,
and it also appears that twenty minutes
cooking freshly prepared sausage meat
is sutllcient to kill tuem in an cases.
Tho various kinds of cooking, how
ever, are quite different in their effects
on trichinous pork. Frying and broil
ing are most efficient, roasting coming
next. Boiling coagulates the albumen
on tha outer surface, and allows the
heat to penetrate less readily ; it thould
be kent no. therefore, for at least two
hours for large pieces of meat. Whether
boiled, broiled or fried, port snoutd
alwavs be thorongmy cooKea. rrac
ticallv BDeaktng. tne cooKing, sailing
and hot smoking which pork in its va-
rions forms receives in the United
States must be, in the vast majority of
cases, sufficient to kill the trichinie and
verdent infection of the person con-
turning the meat.
Everything like
H.nDarunnrb in fjprnianv are unknown
lmra n.l trieliimiaia in a fatal form is
undoubtedly a rare diseaso. Ju the vi
cinity of the great pork packing estab
lishmentsnear Boston the "npare-ribs,"
iha intercostal muscles, are
lunrul o 1 .in ah! anil eaten bv the
ueorile near bv. and trichiniaais among
tliom Iqq nnt in a sincle case been re
ported, so far as I have been .able to
loom Tim nnts being thin and well
1.J tri.tiinm in thpm arA nnita
UUU&CU HUT - - "1
certain to bo killed. Even when tri-
china are introduced into the intestinal
canals, too, they are sometimes expelled
by diarrhea,' and the invasion of the
system by a sniaii iiuuiucruuen uu uuiu.
American Microscopical Journal.
Priestly was the first to remark that
gaaas are diffused through each other.
Snails.
The great Vine snail has quite a his-,
tory, and its lease of life should be a
long one, if that may be measured by
tho powers of endurance. In 1774 tho
members of tbeKoyal society in England
could not be brought to believe an Irish
collector, who averred tnat certain
white snails that had been confined for
fifteen years came out of their shall 9
upon his son's putting them in hot water;
but the possibility of the '..thing was
proved in 1850, when, after four years
somnolence in the British museum, an
Egyptian desert snail woke up, none
the worse for its long rest and absti
nence. It fed heartily on lettuce leaves,
and lived for two years longer. Spal
lanzain asserted that ho had often be
headed snails withont killing them,
and in a few months they were as
lively as ever, having grown now heads
in retirement.
Snail-eating has been in vogue for
many centuries, and was considered
by the anoicnt Romans one of their
tablo luxuries. In Pliny's timo Barbary
snails stood first in repute, those
in Sicily ranking next; and i- was the
custom to fatten thorn for tho table
by dieting them on meal and new wine.
In modern Jvomo lresli gut. tiered snails
am hawked from door to oor iy
women, who boil them in their she lis,
slew them, or fry them in oil. Snails
are gathered off tho vines by tho peas
antry iu tho wino district of France,
and aro Kent lit) in cases and wicker
baskets to Paris halls, whero they aro
sold by auction, and aro purchased by
peo)ilo who tnakn it their tmsinesH to
ptciir them for tho restaurants and
(iliiueiitiitrH. They aro killed by being
placed in scalding water, and after
lieing removed from tlinir shells by the
aid of u piece of wir'i aro thrown into
mi Immense, copper and boiled forthree-
iiiutt.ers of an hour in a riiixturn com
poned of w.it.er, vine.tmr, Halt and herbs.
They iirothcn replaced in their hhells,
tho moiium or which am closed with
butler uti'l parsley, and aro ready for
Mil". To prepum them for tho table,
it. Mifllcen to t.luco them in tho frying
iiin for fe.w iiiritit.cH with a email
i.ieco of bn'ter un'l wiUiont removing
t hem In m thi-.ir i-.hi-.lhi. They are. sold
tit, the wir.u chop arid charcitk-rs at
thir'.y uri'l for'.r centimes t.ht- d r.'-.n.
A centriry ',u,t 4 fl.'fft or
i-.rii annually '-.tyU-A from
l.'Im iri"rAii" of 10. f:V:h:r.t; from
verity-five, to for'.r K'jrir. a'cg. "
In ths Tyro younger! of both Miies
aro ernpiovc'i uunri u.c hnraiaer
months colbicting snail1! us ht.ck for
mall garleriH iiriall plats of land
ch arcd of trees and overfed with bear
of moss and pine twigs, separated from
each other by moats, having gratings
at their outlets to prevent any truants
that may get into the water from bciug
carried bayond bounds The prisoners
are mipplied daily with fresh grass and
cabbage leaves until their appetites
fail and they retire into the moss heaps
for their winter sleep the last one tney
will enjoy; for when spring comes
they are routed out of their beds,
packed in straw lined boxes, and sent
on to market. In a favorable season one
of theso gardens will turn out 40,000
snails. The consumption of them in
South Tyrol must be great. Snails are
often used, boiled in milk, for diseases
of the lungs, and are sent to this country
as a delicacy; they are very indiscrim
inate in their appetite, and even devour
tho dead of their own kind. SnailB
delight iu warm moist weather; in dry
weather their chief time of activity is
in the night, and they hide themselves
by day; but alter rain tney come forth
at any hour in quest of food. At the
approach of winter, or in very dry
weather, theyclos-e tho mouth of the
shell with a membrane formed by tho
diving of the mucus substance which
they secrete, ami uccomo
torpiJ.
A Thorough Job,
Judge M . a well known jurist
living near Cincinnati, was fond of re
latin this anecdote. He Had once oc-
ension to sbnd to the village for a car
penter, and a sturdy young fellow ap-
pearea wnn ms iouis.
" I want this fence mended to keep
tVm cattle. There are some unplaned
boards- use them. It is out of sight
from the house, so you need not take
time to mane it a neai ion. m w"j
rinv von a dollar and a half."
r-.-'y . - , 3
The judge went to dinner, uu turn
ing out found the man carefully planing
eacli board. Supposing that he was
trying to make a costly job of it, ne
ordered him to nail them on at onco
just as they were, an" continued his
walk, wnen ne reiurneu iuo uumuo
were planed and numbered ready for
nailing.
" I told you that this fence was to ue
covered with vines," he said, angrily.
" I do not care how it looks.
"I do," said the carpenter, grumy,
carefully measuring his work. uen
it was finished there was no part of the
fence so thorough in finish.
" How much do you charge t asted
the judge.
"A dollar and a nan, saiu ma uiiu,
Hlinublerinor his tools.
The judge stared. " ny aid you
spend all that labor on the job, if not
for money t
" For the job, sir."
Nobody would have seen the poor
work on it."
"But I should nave Known it was
there. No; 1 11 take only tno dollar
and a half." And ho took it and went
ISM
Ten vears afterward the judge had
- the contract to give ior tne uuiiuiug ui
- certain iuagnihcent puuno tmiuiiDgs.
There were many applicants among
master-builders, but the face of one
I oiiKrVit, liis eve.
It was ny man of the fence," he
- raid. I knew wo should have only
good, genuine work from him. I gave
him the contract and it made a rich
I man nt bim."
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It is a pity that boys were not taught
in their earliest yea rs that the highest
success belongs only to the man, be he
carpenter, farmer, author or artist,
whose work is most sincerely and thor
oughly done.
In potatoes there are seventy-five
parts water to every hundred pounds.
FACTS AND COMMENTS.
Mr. Arthur is the sixth President who
wen wifeless to tho White House, nis
predecessors in this respect were Jeffer
son, Jackson, Van Buren, Tyler
and Buchanan, alt but tho bachelor
Buchanan having been widower.
It appears that if any one wants to go
out in the ocean three miles from the
American or British shore and cut a
telegraph cable he can do so with im
punity. No country would have juris
diction over mm. it wouia not seem
that there could be much danger of
cable-cutting so far out, but the eleo-
trio congress in Paris wants protective
measures taken.
Vaccination as practiced in China has
two peculiar features. The subject is
not operated on the arm or leg. but in
the nose; and the government, while it
does not compel people to submit to
tho operation, practically reaches the
same end that it would by doing so, by
offering to parents for every child vac
cinated a premium of 100 copper cash,
which amounts to about ten cents, and,
for a poor Chinaman in his own country,
a sum not altogether to be despised.
The Mormon priests, in their ser
mons, are telling their deluded follow
ers that if they had been called they
could have saved the President's life
simply by laying on of hands. The
Halt Lake Tribune, a fearless paper,
that has for years been a painful thorn
in the side of the Mormon church, per
tinently asks the wise healers: " Why
didn't they save their Prophet Brigham
in that way? Why didn't they save the
sixty Mormon children that died in
Halt Like in AugUht by that simple
process? Tho frauds shouldn't all
answer at once."
.T. V. Hoars, in an article entitled
" Housekeeping Hereafter," in the At
lantic Monthly, predicts great changes
in tho future in housekeeping methods.
Me thinks that every fifty families will
bo provided with a centralized estab
lishment, from which heat, light aud
power will be furnished, while the do
mestic supplies of each house will be
delivered through pneumatic tubes.
There will be a common oven and laun
dry. There will bo no coal ashes to
tako out, and many other present En
noyances will be avoided. Ibis sys
tem, it is maintained, will also result in
reducing expenses.
Among other industrial changes in the
Southern S'ates during the past few
yeavs, is the notable cno of subdivi
sions of the larso plantations. A bulle
tin issued fron the census office presents
a table marking the increase in the
number of farms iu the several States
that formerly were divided into immense
tracts of land worked by one owner, from
1800 up to the present date. This shows
an immense increase in the number of
farms in all the Stages excepting Dela
ware, where the increase appears to
correspond only to tho increase of the
population. The increase is also partly
accounted for in Florida and Arkansas
by the'settlement of regions not pert
mauently occupied twenty years ago;
in a word, tho increased number ol
farms is to a largo extent due to emi
gration in those States. According to
the cntimatea made in the bulletin tq
ferred to, most of the farms do not ex'
ce.ed 500 acres, while many of them
comprise less than 100 acres.
An American lady wrote to Andrew
D. White when he was minister at the
couit of Berlin. Tho lady in question.
calmly informed the American minister
that a grand fair was to be held "in our
town " before long for tho purpose ot
raising money to build a new church.
Shu was at work herself on a sort oi
autograph beduuilt, and she inclosed
sii sauare nieces of white linen, on
which she wished the emperor and em-
nress of Germany. Prince Bismarck
and other German dignitarieH to in
scribe their names in indelible ink.
"Be sure," she addod, thoughtfully,
" to have them write exactly in tho mid
dle, so that the pieces will nt ngut.
When it is remembered that Mr. White
little patches and a bottle of iudelible
ink nnrl iislf this favor of the heads ot
the most stiffly ceremonious ccurt iu
Europe, the reader will pronaoiy nn-
derstand that the autograph bedquilt
was completed, if at all, without tne
desired contribution from the German
empire.
An Italian naturalist has been study-
inor tha eucalyptus tree, and finds it as
valuable for destroying miasma as the
most sanguine Californians have ever
claimed it to be. It has extraordinary
powers of absorp'ion, tho trunk of a
full-grown tree taking up ten times its
own weight of water from the soil in
which it stands. This alone is often
enough to purify a fover district, the
superfluous miasma-breeding moisture
in the earth being aDaoroea uy mo ueo.
Experiments with eucalyptus planting
in miasmatic regions have given sur
nrisinor results. The vicinity of the
Convent Delle tro Foutane, near Rome,
was one cf the iucst postilental spots in
Italy, but monks sent there iu 1868 to
plaut groves of these trees made it a
healthful region within five vears. On
a farm near the Algerian borders, where
nreviouslv no human being could live
for anv length of timo. 1,300 eucalyptus
plants set in loo nave counieracieu
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every tendency to fever. Similar ex
periments have been successful also in
Alsace and Lorraine. The home of the
tree is iu Australia and Tasmania. It
composes in great measure the forests
of Australia, In California all varie
ties of the tree are to bo found. It is
planted there chiefly on account of its
rapid growth, to outain suaue anu woou
land on somo of the otherwise treeless
plains. So quickly does the eucalyptus
grow that a plant three feet high, set
in the ground near Mentoue in 1869,
had attained in 1871 a height ot over
fifty feet and a diameter of forty inches
three feet from the ground.
An Unpxppctcd Rise.
I stood on tho porch at owning,
(Vli9i tho s in won', silsnMy 1'v.vil,
And tho June bug bright in tho starry night
Flow merrily through tho town.
h, sweot woro tho ttontlo zophyrs
That blow from tho balmy South,
And rod were tho lips and sweet th
That I took from the protty mout ,
Hor tiny waist was encircled
Dy my arm so strong and tni.
Said f, " Whose ducky are yon, love " "
"Yours," sho murmured, "and whoee are
ye?. m.
Oh, tho hallowedours of that evening
Oh, the cruel caprice of fate I
Her father, unkind, came up from bohina,
Aud fired rae over tho gato.
Chicago Tribune.
IIUMOTt OF THE DAY.
The artist's adieu to his picture You
be hanged.
If a boy gets on tho wrong " track "
it shows that his father's " switch" has
not had a fair chnuce.
A fool in high station is like a man in
a balloon. Everybody appears little to
him, and he appears little to everybody.
" Old age is coming upon me rapid
ly," said an urchin, who was stealing
apples from an old man's garden, as he
saw the owner coming furiously toward
him with a stick in his hand.
An article appears in one of our ex
changes on tho " Freo Importation of
British Pig." If the British pig is
coming to reside among us, we presume
he intends to make his living by his
pen. New York Commerchil.
His name was'Presto Mngico, and he
was giving his great entertainment in a
small village. "Will any one in the
audience let me have a five-dollar
note?" he asked, with his blandest
smile. The entertainment ended ab
ruptly, as the audience rose aud left
with 'precipitate hasto. It was more ,
than they could stand. Philadelphia
Sun.
Johnny had a little sister who was
suffering with the toothache, and her
mother put some camphor in it to oas '
the pain. The young man watched tt
operation and then went out and toi
tne neighbors that ins sister nad mo!
in her teeth and his mother put campho
in her mouth to drive 'em away. Situ,
banville Herald.
The life of a queen is supposed to be
one long summer day, breathing the
fragrance of sweet peace and content
ment, without a cloud to mar tho sun
shine, and so forth. There never was a'
greater error. The London World says
that a " Scotch piper plays under yueen
Victoria's window every morning at 8
o'clock." How tho fiend manages to
escape after each serenade i8 a mystery.
-joiriftorn ltyrald.
WISE WORDS.
Labor is life.
All true work is sacred.
Doing nothirg is the most slavish toil.
We wish for more in life, rather than
more of it. Jem Ingeloir.
Good food makes good blood, and
Rood food is the life of the body.
To select well among old things, is
almobt equal to inventing new ones.
Stay not until you are told of oppor
tuuities to do good inquire after them:
Action may not always bring happi
ness; bnt there is no hippiness without
action.
To correct an evil which already
exists is not so wise as to foresee and
Nature has sometimes made a fool,
but a coxcomb is ulways of a man s
own making.
The men who mix tho least with their
fellows become at Kast the most
thoroughly one-s;ded.
It is alwavs better to keep out of a
quarrel than to make it up ever so
amicably utter you have gone into one.
To have in general but little feeling
seems to be the only secirity against
feeling too much on any particular oc
casion. Words are things ; and a small drop
of ink, falling like dew upon a thought,
produces that which makes thousands,
perhaps millions, think.
There is a great differenee between
nationality and race. JNiiiouaniy is me
miracle of political independence. Race
is the principle of ptiysicai analogy,
Life is a leaf of paper white;
Whereon each ono of us may write
Hi word or two, and thou cornea night:
Though thou hnve timo
But for a lino, be that sublime;
Not tailure, but low aim, is ctime.
. It. Lnwfll
It is most certain that all tongues
would be silent if all ears wero not
open ; ana neuoe it was an apposne eas
ing ot tne ani-ients, mat tne imiei iiu
btarer of slander bhould both be bangt-d
the one by the tongue and the other .
by the ears. Robert South.
We all have to struggle manfully in
the tide, and s irue of us almost float
away and are found with ft e' la. breath,
but the Lord wil lprovido. Of the man
who is true to himself it can oe sua as
of old it was said of Asher: "Thy shoes
shall ba of ir-m and Druss; and as thy
days, so shall thy strength be."
I know not what the world niiy think
of my labors, but to myself it neems
that I have been but a child playing on
the eeafchore, now finding some pebble
rather mote polished, aui now some
shell more agroeably variegated than '
another,' while the immense oceiu of
truth fx'ended itself unexplored before
me. Sir Isaac Neiptvn. 1 .
Tho world's history is a divine poem,
of which the history of every nation is i
a canto and every man a word. Its
strains have been pe ling along down
the centuries, and, though thero have
been mingled tho discords of warring
cannon and dying men.yet to tho Chris
tian philosopher and historian the
humble listener there has been a
divine melody running through the song
which speaks of hope and halcyon days
to come. Jamet A. (Jarjield.