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e- L A Family Companion, Devoted to Literature, Miscellany, News, Agriculture, Markets &c. Vol. XII. WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 2, 1876. No. 31 THE HERALD IS YUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY 31011NING3 It Mewberryq So C. BY TH092~ ~ I ING. .76s Pilashi, ftrong? romnd it throng? t Mnly inen M. 2 get anck St~~ tmttLh aud bonr" sake who,work w1le otbarS 81"i; while others BlY; a Uidws lls"II dfep, tthem to the Sky. eyhig goes wrong," said F. Tripler, laying,da'in his knife nfork with -the face of a mar r. some-people in the t whom "everything"I nically to go wrong-. door, she leaned her throbbing head upon one weary little band I and murmured softly to herself,- j "Oh, I wish Nathan was diffor ent !" Tht, as if she had uttered high trsMson, she started -to her feet, checking the sensation of repin- z ing, and began industriously to t prepare the three apple-cheeked, tow-headed little Triplers.for i school. "It's Monday morning and Na- e han dor't like them to be too I late," thought the meek-spirited wife. -t Meanwhile Mr. Tripler was v dowly walking down the path hrough the wild and solitary glen f hat led to the road where, twice e i day, the Lendville stage rolled )y, conveying passengers..to tho y rain at Martin's Station. It was o heaper to live in the country, and e o Mr. Tripler lived there, al hough, as far as actual tAtes n vent, he didn't know a Waiercup a rom a burdock. c As Nathan trudgeia along, think- a ng how best to'get rid of some h roublesoqe--ares - of railway t tok t were sinking uncom- b >rtab0 on his hands, he suddenly a ecs eonscious of the presence f a r n, stout and middle-aged, u it head as smooth and shining si billiard ball, who was sitting ti n a boulder of moss-grown stone ti t. where. the path way merged o Eo the Lendville road. ti "Good morning, sir," said the, S tranger. "Have a seat ?" Mr. Tripler had no very strong ir Icial elements in his nature, so N e stiffly inclined is bead and y ept on his way. But the first' ig he knew two iron grasps t1 rre on -his ahouldor, he felt. him- I lf twirled sddenly round, like batii humming top, and seated st ith. more:f6e ffi was exattly greeable on the boulder. tc "What do you mean-" hi "Dear .ge 1" suddenly interrupt- hi ithis uncomfortable epnmpanion, fe whta very nice hat you have. yi row, whiat do you say to exchang-~ vi ig as? Mine is. anvery nice w Liw, ta I find it's somehow al ating to th'e'brain." oi "Yu'are quite Wetcome, sir," Cc itered the tremulous Nathan, te peaking all the more rapidly in T bat the freakish maniac had al- cs sady deftly eifected the eh.mnge. ir "And year coat, too-nice cool er nen. Upon my word, now, that at is infinitely preferable to this b: wallow-tailed concern of mine, w th the brass buttons. Yes-it u] ts me very nicely. I hope you ci ol't object, sir, to the. accommo- hi ation ?" N "No-no!I" faltered Mr. Tripler. cc "WeU, good morning," said the il traigef-, looking round with a be- o' ildered air. "I1 don't really see here my chief orderly is-I told as im to be here precisely at nitie N 'clock-and everything will be i confusion if I don't attend to it w ersonally." He plunged into the green, W ense fastnesses of the woods, talk- di ag restlessly to himself as he it rent, and Mr. Nathan Tripler was I ift sos in a coarse strOw hat and 0o coat of coarse blue cloth, gar ished with hange metal buttons, I rhose brilhiance was considerably U n nished. l "Dear me, what a figure I cut," h~ oaned Mr. Tripler, eyeing him- P lif.W1ih digs,"U tg di- al actly. home and get on something ecent. A man would be hooted brough the streets of New York ci 'he vetured t'o'riake his appear nce in such a costume as this ?" h He rose, brushed away the chili rops of perspiration from his fore ead, and was just replacing the I -imsoa silk pocket handkerchief g i its resting-place when he was addenly grasped from behind Il nd thrown skillfully upon the ti round. h "Well, we've eotch you at last, n ay hearty," said a burly man who h tood over him, while another b nan had bound both bis hands id feet together before he could d words or breath to remon trate. "You thought you was roin' to give us the slip, hey? ? Some. it isn't worth while to cut h ip like that, you know, unless o ...i aat th sraitijacket brought|C 1.trait jacket r gasped Ti er, 'wiat do I want of a strait acket'." "Nothig; unless you behave rourselftruly like. Steady en! Com, bringup the wagon." "Where are you taking me to ?" -emonstrated our bero, as he was umbled into a )ne-horse wagon. "To the asylum, to be sure, vhere you'd ha-e been twhofirs go if you hadn't been a little too pry for the stage.driver and your :eeper." Light began to dawn on the roubled chaos of Mr. Tripler's anch bewildered mind. (:It's all a mistce,~my good low-a ridic o"u;s mistake," he xclaimed, I 'm not a mad man I" "No, of' cours6 not; we know ou'refot," responded the larger f the two, with a wink at his ?mpanion. "Drive on, Tom." "But I am not, indeed, you are istaking me for somebody else man who just forced me to ex bange hats and coats with him, nd went down into the woods e is the mad man I" "Oh, no-I guess not," said the Ig keeper, with a fearful attempt , pleasant irony. "My good men, you are laboring ader 'some very singular delu on," remonstrated the victim, -ying to speak plainly between ie jolting of the wagon and Ws n excitement. 'I am M1r. Na. an Tripler, of No.--, John reet." "Oh,yes," said the keeper, light g a cigar, "yesterday you was apoleon Bonaparte, and to-day )'reNathan Tripler, and to orrow-likely as not-you'd be e king of the Sandwich Islands. ve heard this kind o' talk afbre." i Tripler's heart began to stand I ill with undefined horror. Was s a hideous dream? or was he b6 actual y imvured withinfie gh stone walls of the asylum he 1 d so often walked past wiih a eling of dread and horror be. )fl all description, the life longi etim of. some scarce credible istake? In vain he reasoned, gued, protested; his words fall . the unheeding ears of his twoi nductors like drops of rain pat-1 ring on the stony surface of able Rock, until at length lie wasi ~rried-more' dead than alive- i to a narrow apartment at tiheI d of a long row of similar ones. It was lighted and ventilated an ifon grating in the door, ith a corresponding window highh 1 on the wall, and furnished with ily. a narrow couch and a stand tilt into the wall; and there Mr. atan Tripler, released from his nining bonds, was left to enjoy e uninterrupted society of his vn cheerless meditations. "It can't+be-possible ! I must be1 leeps and di-eaming !" thought athan. But it was possible, and he never as wider awake in his life ! Toward~ evening, a pitcher of ater and a piece of bread were salt out to him. Mr. Tripier atei under a sort of mental protest relieve the gnawinig sensation 1 faintness that was at his vitals. "What would I give for one of orothy's hot biscaits," thought ie wretched captive. .."My poor: atle Dorothy!i I have been tool ird upon her. Suppose-just sup-1 se I should die without beingi le to tell how ashamed 1 am of wing been such a brute !"1 It was not the dry bread that ioked Nathan Tripler just then .it was, the humiliating sense of a own sins and short-comings. Next morning it was bread and ater again. Nathan thought of orothy's despised coffee and m'mbled-at-steak, "I've deserved it," thought Na ian ; ees no mistake about it. Poor, darling little Dorothyf w her heart is aching for me aw. I wish I could stroke down er hair just once. Oh, it's hard to a treated so, even though I know n served exactly right. If ever get out of this hole alive, Doro iy will find mue a changed man." Ihe confused current of' thoughts -as just eddying vaguely through is ind when there was a sound steps and voices in the long >rridor without. "T suppoe.a they're going to put on a strait waistcoat now, thought Mr. Tripler, with a re signed air. "Well, there's nothing left for me but to endure. I don't think I'm mad; but how long I shall hold out sane under this interesting concatenation of cir camstances is rather a doubtful question.' But Mr. Tripler was mistaken ab'ont the strait waistcoat-it was his keeper accompanied by two or three gentlemen-all profuse in. apologies and sympathetic ejaca lations. "56eh a mistake !" said one old gentleman, with a bald head. "So awkward for you, my dear sir !" - said another ~middle-aged gentleman, with a Roman nose. "But entirely unintentional, I assure you, sir," chimed in a third. While Mr. Tripler looked vague ly from one to another he said, "Then I'm not mad, it seems?" be demanded. "Not a particle, sir!" cried the three committee men in a chorus. "Oh I" said Mr. Tripler, "I'm so glad to hear it I" Then the committee proceeded. to inform their involuntary guest, how the mistake had happened' by which his identity had beel onfounded %% ith that of his mys.-; terious acquaintance of the woods. "We are very sorry," said thel irst committee-man, shaking Mi-2 rripler's hand as if it had been he town pump. "o am I," said Mr. TAp4ler, Ia onically. "Here is your hat and coat, sir," ;aid the second committee-man. 'We bad great difficulty in get-: Ang them.away from our -poor riend in thea.Incurable Ward, who ancied they were the last dying eque#t of Tresident'Lincoln." "And anything we can do toA nake any atonement fort*e-awk. ti , i a-k wi -be- pteas. mre said the third; while the ceeper eyed Mr.Tripler dubiously, Sif not altogether. certain but ahat he was a.little mad after all. When Mr.Nathan Tripler reach ad his home, all was the wildest rief and confusion there. Doro hy had had the woods searched, he river dragged, and the whole icinage ransacked, and was now n hysterics in the nursery. Na ~hanwalked-straight-ixyand -put oth arms around her. "Here I am, Dottie f Don't cry my more" But Mrs. Tripler cried. more ~han ever. "it's only a dream," she sobbed, Nathan is dead." "No, I'm not dead," said Mr. [ripler, writh a grinm sense of hu nor "only I've been mad." And uiiting his wife's sobs after a while, he told her all his adven-. urea. "And now is dinner ready ? e asked, "for I'm as hiingry as a >ear." "I haven't a thing in the house it to eat, Nathan, dear," wailed is wife. "I don't care if it's nothing -but Iry bread and molasses, -Dottie," laid the husband. "I can tell you hat asylum took some of the non. ese out- of me. I shall never rumble again, don't be afraid." And Dorothy brightened up. [t was the first time he had called der "Dottie," or spoken so tender y, since their honeymoon was in ts crescent glow. He adhered to his good resolu ~ions-he never did grumble again. rhe asylum had done him genuine rood. A PRETT ORNAMENT.-Take a goblet with the foot and stem broken or cut off,so-thatithe bowl will be perfect ; take coarse red lanel, the redder the better; titch it neatly round the bowl, or goblet, so as to cover it completely an the outside; dip in water so s to wet it thoroughly, then roll it in flax; the seed will stick in and on the flannel; be sure that Lhe seed are distributed evenly, then stand it on its mouth, or Large end, in a saucer, and add to it as it absorbs. Never let the essel get dry, nor suffer it to chill or freeze. It will grow in any part of the room, and will be deep g:-een with a red ground. One loses all the time which he an employ better. CASTLE GARDEN. While we can scarcely regret the disappearanee of the unsight ly structure so long known as Castle Garden, yet we cannot for get that the rude edifice was one -ottire1nd whieb has allowed too few buildingsT with historic associations clinging round them to remain standing. In later years, as everybody knows, it was a mere immigrant station, but there'was something like fit ness even in this, for from the time that the Dutch first landed af~Commanipaw to make the island of Manhattan their home it was, the outlook of New Amsterdam,' New Orange and New York.. It occupied the site wlre the early Dutch settlers first erected their fort. In the early days of the metropolis it was the social centre of the city. The Dutch Gover nors and burghers had their head quarters on this spot. It was there they smoked their pipes in solemn content, and from there old Petrus Stuyvesant directed the affairs of Ner Netherlands and made war by proclamation. At a later day the English conquerors used it as their Dutch predecessors had used it before,. so that up to the time of the Revolution it was the outpost of the city. Whez Washington fol lowed Lee to the Kennedy House, at No. 1 Broadway, to prepare for the defence of the city against Sir Henry Clinton and* Lord Hoke and his brother the Admiral, whose fleet and army were in the lower bay and on Staten Island, it was the centre of his defensive opera tions. Old Fort George stood upon' this site or near it. When he. re turned in triuiph after the war was over and On independenbe had been gained, it was" here the Fatier'of his Country landed'from his barge, amid the acclaim of his outrymen. YLater stiill, when war and defence were lost and useless arts to the commercial centre'of the New World and .music came o soften the pursuits of trade, it as here that Jenny Lind first2 entranced her Ainerican hearers. At last, however, thetituation was of no avail for any of its old ass. The military outposts of the city wre below the Narrows, and wealth and fashion had long desert ed the Battery and Bowling Green for Richmond and Murray hills. Even Jenny Lind went to sing' at Tripler Hall, and. all the world moved up town or out of town. It was then that Castle Garden be ame the principal, emigrant sta tion, and so continued until its destraction by Are. At best, it was ill adapted to the purposes for which it was used,.and its destruc tion removes wha.t:was au eyesore to the approaches to thedcty from the bay. Now there is acrcely a sign that the old building once stood on the historic,.site it occu pied, and we trust no effort will be made to replace it with any temporary or permanent structure. The city can afford to preserve this spot from any of the base uses to which it has been put, and its associations are best cherished by keeping It enobstructed as part of the Battery Park. .In the future the site might be made the laud ing place of all dignitaries whom the city chooses to receive, but by no baser uses should it at any time be desecrated.-New York Herald. THosU DIoRes.--W9 believe thei next Legislature -oughLt to - tax tham, so~as greatly to reduce the number. It might be well to let every head of a family have one dog; if he keeps two, tax the~ sec-1 ond one two dollars, and if he keeps three, tax the third five dollars, and let the money thus raised go to reimburse those who may lose sheep by dogs. We do ot know but it w ould be best to tax all of them, putting a small tax when only one dog is owned. The agricultural interest of the State is the most .important we have, and it should be protected and fostered in every way possi ble. The Grangers of' the State can have a law of the kind referred to passed if they choose. t Henderson Trzbune. THE STRICTEST ORDER OF MONKS. MEE WHO KEEP PEBP1EUAL BTEENCE, AND WHO DIG TER OWN GRAVBs. The abbots of Mount Millary, in Ireland, Sept Fonds 4n France, and Marptern in Turkey, all monaiter1esof the Trappist order of monks, have decided to pur chase land in Maryland to estab lish a house~ in te ntedi---tes, and haveappoin ted, as their agent', Brother Francis de Skles, who will probably present his crddentials to thei-~ebbishop of Baltimore im mediately, and be formally receiv od into that diocese. The order of Trappists is the severest in the church. Perpetual silence is one of their vows, and dispensation is given to speak on ly when necessity demands it, or to those few of the brothers who all offces in the monastery which lemand occasional conversations. phey are not allowed meat, eggs, butter, cheese, fish or oil. They ileep on narrow beds of straw, raised a few inches from the ground. They dig and refill, and lig again and refill from time to bime-their OW...grav.a.. axe minder of their mortality-.ey rise hours before -a n, snd after prayer and 'meditation, betake themselves to their respective em ployments. Among them are shoe akers, tailors, carpenters,, farm irs, dairymen and 'millwrights: lhe Trappist mdasteries' named' above are very wealthy, but wealth Eias accrued from the industry of h6ir members. These monks ask 10, charity, and consequently Bro. %her de Sales was able to say that ie has noo journeyed to America with a subscription jist. He as ierted that the monastery,of Sept Fonds, in France, alone oftered to :efray the- expenses -f the new :'5fn A teinporary house is to be rented, and in December two hundred Trappi st monks, selected f1rom three monasteries, will ocen py it. Brother Francis''de Sales is a Frenchman by birth, and he speaks English without much peculiarity sf accent. He is sanguine of the macess of the mission he is sent ~o superintend. He says that the &.bbot of Sept Fonds, in France, was a count of great wealth; that she Abbot of Millary, in Ireland, was at one time a candidate for ~lection to Parliamient, and that ~he six-feet-two Abbot, of Maria stern, in Turkey, is an Irishman. A CLOcK THAT REGULATEs TE ams.-A watchmaker has invent xd a patent compenso-retarding wcelerati ng clock for use in fami jes where they Jkeep unmarried laughters in stock. If the young nan. is of an eligible sort the re ~arding attachment is turned on, nd the clock compouuds with old ie at eighty niin4tes to the our, so that :at 1 a.m. the next nornag it only indicates about l.05 p. m. the night befbre, and ~he young woman is perfectly ustified in saying: "0, don't! It s early yet," when the young man 'eaches for his hat- On the other and, if he should uot be desirable, hey just shove up the indicator so a boiling poin't, and at half past aine it is nearly two o'clockt. The atentee,~casting lhimself upon the ~enerosity of a discerning public, nvites patrons to increase the eff nency of his invention by judi ~ius yawns and-remarke,as "Dear-1 ~ne! How the tine does fly," and n extreme casE's an a4mirable ef bet maybfrepoduced by the father ~oming in with a bed-room candle sick, saying, "Good night, Aman Ia. Before you go to bed, see hat when the girl gets up in the norning she leaves out the milk pitcher." No family should be without it. Do we girls trouble ourselves to iress for each other ? No, we do rot; we just sit 'round in our com ortable wrappers and loose slip pers, and hair all tortured up .for uture revelations and b4auty. But just let a gentleman come, ad the way the crimping-pins scatter, andl'oose slippers fly, and the bows and pretty little trifles go on is something wonderful to bhohld. PEOPLE WILL TALK. You may get through, this world, but 'twill be very slow, if you listen to all that is said as you go; you'll be worried and. fretted, and kept in a stew, for, meddlesome tongues will have something to do, for people will talk. If quiet and modest, you'll have it presumed that your humble po ytiG assumed;- you're a wolf iri: heep e or else you're a fool, but don ci ted, keep perfectly cool, for peope will talk. If generous and noble, they'll vent out their-spleen, you'll- hear some loud'hints that you are self ish and mean.. If upright, honest and firas the day; they'll call you a rogel ii e vly sneaking way, for people will talk. And then if you s,how the least boldness of heart, or a slight in clination tWtake-your own part, they will call you an upstart, con ceited and vain; but keep straight t ahead, don't stop to explain, for t people will talk. If threadbare your dross, or old t fashioned your hat, some one will surely take notice of that, and hint rather strong that you can:'t: pay your way; -bat don't gevt ON cited, whatever they' say; fo peo- t ple will 'talk. If you dress in the fashion don't, i think to escape, for they 'critici I then,in a 'diffearent- shape; you'w ahead of your means, or your tai lor's unpaid; but mind your own business, - there's naught -to be I made, for people wiltalk Now, the best way to-do is to i do as You pliase, Tor your mid, if -1 you have one, willthn be.atease. t Of .coarqe ya:. will -n*qVrith all sortmf abuse, bu :doittfik t6 stop ithei, -it 'aint any use &ai* people will talk I FOOLIKEABITL Dr. Hall enumerates severals practices of the careless pifblic, t which are som1Qgmes asdangerous a as4they are foolish: Walking atoag the street with r the point'of an umbrella stiekifg out beyond, under the arm or over the shoulder. By suddenly stop-. r ping to speak to a friend, or other eause, a person walking in the rear had his brain 'penetrated through th'e eye, in one of our streets, and' died.in a few days. To carry-.alongpeneil-in vest or outside ooat pocket. Not' long since a clerk in New York fell, a and hiisilong cdar pencjl 8PrD(ti an impQrtanlt artery that it had to be cut down from the top of--the shoulder to 'prevent his bleeding E to death, with &' three month's ill. ness. To take exercise, or walk for the health, when every 8tep is a - drag, and instinct urges. repose. To guzzle down agless of dold t water, on getting tip in the morn- r ing without any~feeling of thirst, e under.theirmpression of the heal&h- a giving nature of its washing out t To sit down at the table and "force" yourself to eat, when there t as not only no appetite, but a de ided aversion to food, To take agasseof'soda,:or tod dy, or sangaree, or mint~ drop on t a summer day, udder' the belief c that itis safer and better than ad glass of water. . To peregadeydiirelf that you 1~ are destroying one unpleasant odor a by introducing ia stronger ine ; d that is to sweeten .your. anwashed t person jnd garnients by erivelop- I ing yourself in the fames of musk,' e eologne or rose water; the best t perfume being a clean skin and t well-washed.clothing. '' ' Every act of dissipation and f every spree of drunkenness robsi the mental of some portions of growth.. - The person who would rob a parent of the love of a child will surely die in Sorrow. The sourest temper must sweet en in the atmosphere of continu ous good-humor. The grand safeguard for doing right is to hate all that is wrong. i ADVERTISINC RATES. Advertisements inserted at the raftsof $1.00 per square-one inch-for frst inserdion, &Dd 75c. for each subsequent insertion. Double column advertisements tenper centon above. Notices of meetings,obituaries and bt* 8 of respees,,samierawsperasqwae asordhway advertisements., Special notices in local column 15 ;eafsa perim,' Adz4-mawked whfte si; ber oftintertiom willbe kept ;&A* forbid and chwjed acordihWy... d8se*s Withovae Done wfth Neatness. and Db*Pcc rCTermsDQIL MARK TWAIN AS AN,EDITO& He put the paporzoa his-jqknd while he polisWed h%~ with. his handkereh1q," he i1d. Inid: .Are yon the- ie-eiT4 Ismid Iwas. "Have you, ever. edited an Sgri =ltural -paper befor r C"No, sir," said r; "this 'sC Irst-ittemp;2. .9.very likely,,- HAve._.1yO&1:6hd iny expeziebm.4i'agpicultim.-, ?ractically?" srf eiv e I ha'Ve n" C(o ntne osi ,he old gent man, puttiag on,his ;peetacles and looking over them Lt me with asperity vihile be fold )d his 'paper)iutoa nore 'conve iient shape..'i 1wish to read yon hat~me intat.I vrioten ifit:oi4 "Turnips should noverbX'W-t Bj t injukes theomr.'. It Ismu,l ot~ o send a.1pkyup And -lotimsak ~eme! Du'tfoolawmj1aj~~~ aore money. I had one inth