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As he spoke, the old man picked up a crum? pled letter that he had thrown on the floor in the first paroxysms of his anger, and smoothed out its folds with a mechanical touch. "Why, only think of it, Abel," said Mrs. Remington, "Mahala Buckley served for six weeks in this girl's cousin's family, and she says Evelyn Sayre can smoke a cigar just like -a man, and used to go skating with her dress tucked up to the top of her boots, and drove a barouche, with a groom sitting behind, and?" "Bless my soul," said the old gentleman, his breath nearly takeu by the catalogue of enor? mities. "Bless my soul, you don't say so! And Charles married to this Amazon." So the couple sat in the room porch of the capacious old farmhouse, with the Michigan roses tossing little billet-doux into their laps in scented showers, and the delicious odors of the fresh mown hay coming up from the mead? ow flats by the river, as miserable an old cou? ple as you would want to see. Meanwhile Mrs. Charles Remington, a bride of three weeks standing, was making herself supremely haony at Niagara. She sat on a fall ten log, among the delicious shades of Goat Island that bright June day, with the lights ' f.nd shadows chasing each other over her lovely face and turning her long chesnut curls to coils of gold. Dressed in white, she was fastening a wreath of flowers into the ribbons of her coquettish littel hat and singing some old ballad softly to herself. Evelyn Remington was very handsome? neither blonde nor brunette, she contrived to unite the charms of both in her rosebud com? plexion, bright hair and misty brown eyes, aud the smiles that dimpled her fresh scarlet lips, were real smiles, messengers straight from the heart. Preseutly she was joined by her husband, a tall, handsome young fellow, in a white linen suit and a graceful Panama hat. "Two letters, Evelyn," he said lightly, "and bad news in both." "Bad news! Oh Charles!" and the roses faded suddenly from the bride's cheeks. "Well, not so bad and not so pleasant. Read, cartisima." He tossed into her lap a stiffly written letter, on a page of blue paper, signed "Abel and Mary Remington ;" a keen expression of their disappointment in the marriage he had con? tracted and an assertion of their determina? tion never to receive his wife as their daugh? ter. Evelyn looked into her husband's face with her bright eves full of tears. "Oh, Charles, I'm so sorry." He laughed and quoted to her the scripture phrase, "A man shall leave Iiis father and mother and cleave to his wife." "And now don't you want to see the other letter, Evelyn ?" It was a summons from the mercantile firm with which Charles Remingtou was connected ?an earnest entreaty that he should visit Central America in their interests immediate ly. "Cool, isn't it, to request a bridegroom to walk off in that sort of a way?for it is too rough a voyage to ask you to share it, dear. I leave you to decide?shall I go or stay?" "Go, by all means. Should I ask you to linger by my side when duty calls you away, a poor wife I should be." He kissed her flushed cheeks with admiring tenderness. "And where shall I leave you. my bonnie bride? I will make a brief visit home in the meantime. It will cut our wedding tour short, but then, you know, we have a lifetime to fin? ish our honey-moon in." So the brief Niagara sojourn came to ai end and Mrs. Charles Remington, for the season was a widowed bride. "He will be back soon," she said to herself, "and, in the meantime, I must do, oh, so much." ******** "Yes," said Mrs. Remington, complacently, I think that was a splendid idea of ours, Abel, in sending for Lot Chauncey's orphan to adopt. I'll tell Charles and his stuck-up wife that we are in earnest about what we wrote, and Mari? an Chauncey will have no city airs or graces. I'm dreadful anxious to see her. Lot was a likely looking fellow and my cousin twice re? moved, and his wife was a regular beauty." "I guess, likely, she'll come by the stage to? night." "I guess, likely, there she is now," said Abel, who, sitting by the window, caught a glimpse of a slender figure coming up the path and carrying a well-packed carpet-bag. Mrs. Rem? ington ran forward to kiss and welcome the new comer. Marian Chauncey was exceedingly pretty. Mrs. Remington soon discovered that?a bright, winsome, little creature, with golden hair that would curie in spite of the restraining net, loving, hazel eyes, and tremulous loving red lips. "Oh, Abel!" quoth the soft-hearted old lady, at the end of two days, "why didn't Charles wait until he had seen Marian Chauncey? Isn't she sweet?don't it seem like a gleam of sunshine in the old house when she is tripping around ?" "And then," pursued, the old lady, "she's bandy. She knows where everything is kept and does up my caps exquisitely. Oh, Abel, if Providence had seen fit to send us a daughter ir-law like dear little Marian Chauncey." Mrs. Remington's speech was cut premature? ly short by the entrance of the subject of it, with her apron full of eggs and her hand full of wild flowers. "Mrs. Remington," she began, and then checked herself with abruptness. "Oh, I can? not bear to call you by that long, formal name ?may I say mother ?" "Of course you may, darling," said the en? thusiastic old lady, "and I only wish you were my real daughter." Marian laid down her flowers and deposited her store of pearly white eggs in a basket on the table, and then coming up to Mrs. Reming? ton kneeling down and nestling her bright bead in the old lady's checked apron. "Mother," she murmured softly, "you do not know how sweet the word sounds. And will vou always love and cherish me and let me be a real daughter to you ?" "I should be a hard-hearted old cormorant if I didn't, pet," said the old lady, with her ' spectacles dimmed with tears. In short, Marian Chauncey became the light of the old farm-house?the bright guardian angel of its low ceiled rooms and wide, airy halls. She read the paper to farmer Reming? ton ; she.com pounded cake, jelly and syllabubs to the astonishment and delight of the old lady; she kept the two china vases on the mantle brimming over with a real rain of ro? ses ; she knew by instinct when to darken the room for the old man's nap on the wide, chintz covered sofa, and she was better than ten doc? tors when Mrs. Remington had one of her nervous headaches. "I really don't see how we ever contrived to live without Marian," said the old gentleman. "But she'll never leave us," said Mrs. Rem? ington, decidedly. "Marian?little bright eyes?I've got news," called the old gentleman, one morning through the hall; "leave those honeysuckles for some one else to tie up, and come here. Charlie is coming home." "To stay, sir?" "No, not to stay?his city wife demands his permanent devotion." Mr. Remington could not help speaking with a sneer?"but he will spend a day here on his way to New York. I should like to see Charlie?and I should like Charlie to see you. Do not blush?if you are not better looking than his Fifth avenue wife, she must be a paragon among women, that's all I've got to say." "When will he be here, sir ?'; "In ao hour, I should judge from the letter. Charlie always did write an awful scrawl?m's and n's t's; but I suppose that's the fashion now-a-days!" Marian Chauncey crept away to her room to brush out the golden curls, and adjust a blue ribbon at the throat, and wonder slyly to her? self what Charlie would say when he saw the new element that had contrived so to inter? weave itself into the home of his boyhood. "But I don't think he'll be angry" said Ma? rian, in a half whisper, as she pirfned a white rose to her breast and prepared to descend, in obedience to Mrs. Remington's call of? "Marian, Mariau, come down and see my boy." Charles Remington stood in the centre of the room with his arm around his radiant little mother, while the old gentleman from his big, easy chair delightedly watched over the tab? leau, as Marian slowly advauced. "Charles," said Mrs. Remington, beaming all v/ver, "this is our daughter, who?" But Charles had sprung forward and caught the slight, willing figure in his arms, while the golden hair floated in a perfect cascade of carls over his shoulder. "Evelyn ! My wife!" Mr. Remington stared at his wife. Mrs. Remington stared at her husband. "He's mad," whispered the old man.? "Charles, you're mistaken," he added ; "this is Mariau Chauncey, our adopted daughter." "No, sir, it is not," faltered the young lady in question. "I am Evelyn, your son's wife. I have stolen your heart on false pretences, but I did long so for your love. And when you sent for Marian, I persuaded her to remain at home and allow me to personate her, just for a few weeks. Father, mother, you will not turn me out of your affections now!" "And you knew nothing of this ?" demanded old Mr. Remington of his son. "Not a word ; it's Evelyn's own idea." And Evelyn, half laughing, half crying, stole into her mother-in-law's extended arms. "It don't seem possible that this is the Fifth Avenue girl," said the old gentleman. "Come here and give me a kiss, Ma?Evelyn, I mean. "So she is our real daughter, after all," said proud Mrs. Remington. Evelyn had conquered their prejudices by the enchanting wand of love. Science and Religion. There never has been any conflict, and never can be any, between true science and true re? ligion. The God of nature is the God of reve? lation. The hand that made the heavens and the earth is the same that wrote the Bible. Christianity has nothing to fear from the dis? coveries of modern science in any of its various departments. The greatest students of nature have been the most devout believers in the Scriptures. Those who have learned most of science have received with the simplicity of the child the truths taught in the Bible. No intel? ligent Christian discourages the keenest search into nature's secrets, for he knows they offer i^ew and ever-increasing evidences of the wis? dom, power and goodness of his heavenly Father. There may be, and often is, conflict between the theories and hypotheses which scientists build upon their discoveries and the Word of God; and there is sometimes conflict between long and generally received interpretations of Scripture and the facts of science. But theo? ries are human, and not always logical deduc? tions from ascertained facts; and these inter? pretations are not inspired, but only human views oi" what is revealed, and may be defective or entirely wrong, without affecting the integ? rity of the divine record. It furnishes a strong presumptive argument for the divine origin of the Bible, that though written long before most of the sciences had a beginning, it never clash? es with any well established fact in the physic? al world. Though not written to teach us as? tronomy, or geollogy, or natural history, yet its language has been so carefully chosen and guided by a divine hand, that it is in accor? dance with the discoveries of modern science, and in some cases actually anticipates them. It is a melancholy fact that some of the stu? dents of nature, and who claim to be the leaders of thought in this day, have adopted material? istic or pantheistic opiuions. But this is easily explained; it is because they love to have it so. Unbelief is natural to fallen man. The world? ly wisdom know not God, and the wisdom of the world is foolishness with God. It is not surprising that the pride of reason ever strives to exclude God from the universe which he made and governs. True faith is needed to acknowledge his presence and supremacy every? where. The wildest vagary or the most groundless theory is seized upon if it affords the faintest justification for man in his rejection of God. Common sense, reason and logic arc set at defiance, if the feeblest support can thereby be had for infidelity. But the evidences for the truth of Christianity are too numerous and con? clusive to be set aside for some scientific theory. That would be a flimsy pretext on which to reject truths which have such overtowering importance to us who are guilty sinners. If the Bible is true, they incur a fearful risk who reject its teachings. They would rob them ssrve* and us of a saviour of pardon and ever? lasting glory. Are all these, more precious than any created mind can conceive of, to be exchanged for some hypothesis of little value in itself, if true, and which in a month may i give place to another, which, in its turn, will | be exchanged for something else? It is posi-1 tively sickening to contemplate the dreary blank which a cold materialism has to offer to the Christian world in exchange for that hope of God's favor and a blessed immortality which has comforted thousands in sorest trials and sustained them even in cruel deaths.?A. R. Rresbijierian. ' Labor in the-South. j The South has not as much negro labor at i the present time as she has had under the old i regime. Since they have obtained their free? dom many who were formerly employed upon j the plantations have moved into the towns, and are either idling or are engaged upon the public works. Another important fact to be remembered is that before the war their were no drones. Every slave was kept employed, for when he stopped work he became unprofit? able, and only the very wealthy could afford to support an idle servant; while now nearly the entire female portion of the negro population are non-producers in the most comprehensive sense of the word, aud it would to-day be a gross insult to insinuate that they ever followed the plow or handled a hoe>in the cotton or corn fields. And when one cr nsiders that of the four million slaves nearly one-half were fe? males, and that of these fully nine-tenths were field hands, the reason why the crops have not reached the average yield produced before the war is apparent. Even at that time not more than one-twentieth part of the arable lands were under cultivation, and much that was planted produced but a per ccntage of what it might have yielded if a thorough and improved method had been adopted in its cultivation. Again, the tide of emigration is small, and all that have come here do not make up for the loss of the women who have become non-pro? ducers since the war. Besides, many of the new-comers are mechanics, or have been em? ployed upon the various railroads and iu the shops and manufactories. From this combination of circumstances we deduce the fact that the great need of the South is labor; therefore, any movement that tends to demoralize or unsettle what little we have that may be depended on, must result in disaster. We do not intend to discuss this question as partisans, but we can not refrain Irom expressing our regret that a portion of the people of any of the Southern States have been so ill-advised as to seek a mode of address? ing their grievances by combining together in a manner that will certainly array one race against the other, utterly regardless of the fact that so long as they are members of one com? munity their interests are in common. While the negro should be taught the binding force of a contract, and be made to understand that the law which gave him his rights did not, by any means, deprive the white population of theirs, his legal position as a citizen must not be disregarded. He should be taught that his pecuniary interests will advance in proportion to the increase of prosperity in the section of eotmtry in which he resides; that if no corn is harvested there will be no bread nor meat; that the receipts from cotton depend upon the amount cultivated ; that if there is little to sell wages will be low, and the calculation of money limited; that if the property-holders are overburdened with exorbitant taxes, they cannot employ him to clear off new fields or otherwise improve their property, and there? fore moderate taxation is vital to his interests as to those of the planters. These are evident truths that should be impressed upon him uutil he understands and takes an interest in all that tends to advance the public welfare. He should be taught to look with distrust on any white man, born either North or South, that tells him that he, without education or experience, is as well qualified to perform the responsible duties of a legislator as a man who has been schooled in public life and had years of experience iu all the duties of a citizen; and to treat with scorn a renegade white man who tells him that he prefers him to one of his own color, and plays upon his vanity to use him for his own ends. Common sense should enable him to see the motive that is but half masked by such false protestations. On the other hand, the white people must take heed and draw a clear and distinct line between prejudice and principle. The misfor? tunes that have fallen upon them from the dominance of ignorance and corruption have been grievous, but they cannot hope for an improvement by following the advice of noisy demagogues, aud committing themselves to a movement that will invite a war between the races with all its attendant horrors. Such a course would paralyze the industries of the country, it matters not which side is victorious, and leave as reminded of its terrors desolated homes, blackened ruins and mourning house? holds. The consequences that would eusue from such a state of affairs cannot be painted iu colors sufficiently black. The uncertainty would demoralize the laboring classes, both white and black; emigration would be retar? ded, capitalists will refuse to peril their per? sons and property in a locality ready, at any moment, to plunge into the anarchy of civil strife, while the peace-loving, and consequent? ly better class of cttizens, will remove to other places in preference to being drawn into a struggle of this character. The lessons of the late war should not be so soon forgotten. Let every argument be used and every effort put forth to avert the calamity. The South mu?t not sully her name by any rash measure. We are sure that the intelli? gence of the people will bring them out of the labarynth of difficulties in which they have been groping, and that their cooler judgment will find a way of reconciling the diJfcrcut elements that now seem so antagonistic. Compliment to Southern Politicians. ?The New York Evening /W, always a de? cided anti-slavery journal, and one of the lead? ers in the Republican party, pays the following compliment to the Southern politicians of ante bellum times, which furnishes a strong contrast to the class of men who have been prominent in the politics of the North, saying : "Personal corruption was never the fault of Southern politicians. We doubt if they arc j quite so pure now as in the days before carpet? baggers had taught them such hard lessons. But should a reasonable number of them have preserved themselves from that moral degene? racy which the spectacle of crime is apt to in? duce, there will be plenty of room and work for them in their old places. Political life in in the South was always in the hands of the best men. The mere fact that < Southern men were charged with one heinous sin, and that they were trying to convince the world and themselves that they were innocent, seemed to provoke them to the practice of vir? tues from which many persons who paid their laborers by the day felt themselves excused. What we want now is just the sort of virtue they had then. In a period when the public respect for law needs invigoration, we want men who, like Mr. Lamar, have its instincts and traditions by heart. In a time when notions of public and private duty have be? come sadly blunt and confused, we cannot dispense with any politician who has sharp ideas of the limits of good conduct." ? How many men arc regarded as high toned and chivalric so long as they arc rich. When they grow poor, aud good repute be? comes priceless, how many of them become abject, dishonest and lost to shame. Alas! there is much to discriminate between princi? ples aud potatoes. Change of Policy in the Administration. Washington, September 21. The Postmaster General and Secretary of the Treasury, under whom the vast bulk of our Federal offices in the Southern States are held, have determined to dismiss any person hold? ing office against whom any charges of inca Eacity or doubtful official responsibility may e made with sufficient substantiation in the way of facts and competent authority. It is admitted by both these ollicers that a large number of persons, entirely unfit by social status or education, have worked their way into these positions. It is now proposed to make so much of a concession to the respectable ele? ment of Southern society as to weed these miserable creatures out, as fast as they can be reached. The late troubles in the South have brought not a few of these characters to the surface, and it is not wondered that there was so much dissatisfaction expressed. Without reflecting upon the character of the former Postmaster General and Secretary of the Treas? ury, it is quite evident that they were grossly deceived, and if a healthier state of feeling is to be encouraged in the South, it is admitted that the Federal patronage must be in the hands of only superior men. It is possible that this sentiment will soon prevail in every one of the executive departments of the gov? ernment. This importation of Federal office? holders from other States than those in which they are appointed has long been looked upon as a glaring mistake, and steps will be taken to remedy the evil. Now that there are indi? cations of a cessation of the hostile spirit re? cently exhibited in portions of the Southern States, the causes of the troubles are beginning to be analyzed and commented upon. The President, it appears, in the light of recent events has not improved his opinions of the political guerillas who infest the South and fill the Southern offices, National and State. Pending the uprising in New Oorleans he was constantly beset by carpet-baggers, who poured in here from the South, and infested the Presi? dential office with highly elaborate tales of blood, murder and unchecked devastation. It is learned that the President remarked of these worthies, speaking of Senators and Represen? tatives, that, whenever there was a,shot fired or any sort of a disturbance of the peace, these people at once congregated at Washington, instead of remaining among their constituents and using their efforts to preserve order and to bring the refactory element back to quiet and peace. This is a phrase of their official functions which they do not appreciate, and, prefering a whole skin to the glory of heroic martyrdom, their appearance at Washington is generally the forerunner of another outburst of irrepressible popular indignation. The sit? uation of affairs in the South is to-day com? mented upon more favorably. It is admitted in high olficial quarters to be impossible to say what a moment may bring forth. At this time, however, there is encouragement to hope for a healthier condition of things. It is admitted, however, that nothing short of a radical change of policy will bring enduring peace and pros? perity in the unfortunate States of the South. Such change, however, cannot be dictated in any State. Philadelphia, September 22. The Pittsburg Evening Telegraph, an influ? ential and thoroughly Republican journal, commenting upon the semi-official statement telegraphed hence lost night, that the Presi? dent, Secretary Bris'.ow and Postmaster Gen? eral Jewell propose to prune out of the South? ern Federal offices all officials charged with incapacity, &c, says: "This means a clearing out of the carpet-baggers and scalawags, white and black, who have brought discredit on the Republican party, aud been one of the most active agencies at the South in fomenting strife and keeping alive the embers of the civil war. It will be such a concession to the respectable elements of Southern society, that, unless human nature is different there from what it is any place else, it should enlist a strong influence against political corruption on the one hand and mob law on the other. We think President Grant proposes to throw an influence South in favor of good government that will take away all excuse for mob violence, and will rally to the side of law aud order the best class of the Southern people, a class that will be abundantly able, when once resolved, to repress secret or open demonstrations against any body of people, no matter what may bo their race or political affiliations. If a thorough weeding out of incompetence and corruption from the Federal ollicers at the South will promote this grand reform, will aid in restoring peace and good fellowship, let us have it at once, even if it does sehd flocking back to the North a crowd of political buzzarda who have dishonored every profession they ever made." , "War and Insurance. Many thousands of dollars were invested by Southern men in insurance policies of Northern companies prior to 1861. The question of the effect of the late war upon these policies has never been difinitely settled by the courts. It has arisen several times, and the inferior United States Courts, before which the cases came, have decided in different instances in a different way. Two such conflicting decisions were brought before the Supreme Court of the United States, before the appointment of Chief Justice Waite, and the associate justices were equally divided upon the question of whether the policies were abrogated by the continuance of hostilities between the sections. The Spring field Union mentions that there is a tost case before the court of last resort in Cincinnati in? volving this principle. The suit is brought against the Charter Oak Life Insurance Compa? ny, of Hartford, to recover $1,000 for the death of Lewis Worthington, of Greenville, S. C, who took out his policy in January, 1854, and paid his premiums promptly to the agency in Hartford up to 18(11, when intercourse between the North and South w.os arrested by the war. In 1SG5 Worthington tendered the pre? miums for the intervening years, but the com? pany declined to receive them. It now resists the claim of his widow on the two-fold ground that the non-payment, of the premiums from 1SG1 to 1S65 vitiated the policy, and that the civil war, under which all commercial inter? course between South Carolina and Connecti? cut was prohibited, dissolved the contract be? tween the insurer and insured. The result will be important, as establishing a principle for the determination of a number of similar cases. On the legal maxim that no man should be required to do an impossible thing, it would seem that the failure to pay the premiums at the time specified in the contract, because of non-intercourse growing out of a state of war, ought to be cured by a prompt tender of pay? ment as soon as intercourse may lawfully be had between debtor and creditor. ? Nothing tends more to promote a cash business than advertising. The stranger who is attracted by the inducements offered expects to pay cash, because his commercial standing is not known. The man with cash in hand seeks bargains aud the man who advertises offers them. Strong Vindication of the Louisiana Revolu? tion. The New Orleans Picayune makes the follow? ing just defence of the citizens of Louisiana, In resorting to extreme measures for the overthrow of a petty tyrant and unscrupulous ruler: There never was a popular demonstration which stood upon more impregnable grounds o right, justice and Republican principle and duty than that which has been achieved in this city. frothing can be more false than to claim it as the victory of a political party, least of all, as a race victory. It was simply an uprising of the people against us intolerable oppression and flagrant usurpation. The long submission to the usurpation, so pronounced by the Con? gress of the United States, was yielded by the people from respect and Loyalty to the Government of the Uuitcd States and an ardent desire for peace and order. And such submis? sion, though hopeless of relief, would under endurable conditions have been continued until the Federal Government had finally adjudicated our case. Many citizens had even been led to trust to the assurauces of Kellogg that he would admin? ister the Government so as to secure relief for many of the wrongs complained of; that he would effect the repeal of the obnoxious laws which were the sources of the vast demoraliza? tion and ruin of our State; that he would per sue corruption and dishonesty in the public offices ana arrest the universal spoliation which had been long going on ; that he would rebuild the credit of the State; would change the elec? tion and registration laws; would remit to the city the coutrol of its police and financial af? fairs, and would take proper steps to have a fair election and regisration. It is barely possible that if Mr. Kellogg had kept any of these pledges the people would have endured a little longer the usurpation of which he was the head. But he did not. On the contrary, he aggravated all these wrongs and oppressions. He gathered around him the most dangerous and avaricious of the carpet-bag class of plunderers. He converted the city police into an armed band of jannissa ries, and armed them with the most approved weapons. He fired their hearts with vindictive and sauguiuary, if not valorous passions against our people. He had in his employ notorious cut-throats and roughs to protect his own per? son and to menace and murder quiet and peace? ful citizens. He had appointed as registrars of voters the most audacious and unprincipled political ad? venturers and ballot-box stuffers. Their mode of performing their functions was utterly sub? versive of the clear constitutional rights of a large class of our citizens. It would have dis? franchised nearly our whole naturalized popu? lation. Under it, the State would have been Africanized. Nothing could have been darker, bleaker, and more hopeless than the prospect of Louisi? ana under such a government. The honest and respectable people were re? duced to the alternative of emigrating from the State, or of an uprising against the usurpation, which appeared to have no other object but the universal confiscation of the property and ex? pulsion of the persons of all the deceut white people. It was a sad and sorrowful extreme for a peaceful people in a republic to be driven to. But where is there any community of our race of freemen who would not have done as our citizens have done ? and where is there an hon? est American heart which will not beat respon? sive to the patriotic impulses that have impelled our whole population to rise en masse against the desperate and rapacious government that has so long harassed, insulted and despoiled them? Curiosities of Animal Life. There can be no doubt that dogs feel shame as distinct from and something very like mod? esty, when begging too often for food. A great dog scorns the snarling of a little dog, and this may be called magnanimity. All an? imals feel wonder, and many exhibit curiosity, the latter quality affording opportunity for hunters in many parts of the world, to decoy the game into their power. The faculty of imitation, so strongly developed in man, especially in a barbarous state, is present in monkeys. A certain bull-terrier of our acquaintance, wheu he wishes to go out of the room, jumps at the handle of the door, and grasps it with his paws, although he caunot himself turn the handle. Parrots also repro? duce with wonderful fidelity the tones of voice of different speakers, aud puppies reared by cats have beeu known to lick their feet and wash their faces after the same manner as their foster-mothers. Attention and memory also are present in the lower animals, and it is im pnssibled to deny that the dreams of dogs and horses show the presence of imagination, or that a certain sort of reason ii also present. Animals also profit by experience, as any man realizes who sets traps. The young are much more easily caught than the old, and the adults gain caution by seeing the fate of those which are caught. Tools also are used by some of the higher apes. The chimpanzee uses a stone to crack a nut resembling a walnut, aud the Abyssinian baboons fight troops of other species, and roll down stones in the attack before they finally close in the hand-to-hand encounter. The idea of propriety is common also to every dog with a bone, to all birds with their nests, and notably in the case of rooks. Nor can a certain kind of language be denied to the brutes. The dog communicates his feeling by barks of different tones, which un? doubtedly raise in his fellow-dogs ideas similar to those passing in his own mind.?Edinburg Review. A Darkened Life.?In Nashau, N. H., re? sides a young girl, whose pitiful lot excites the deepest sympathy, yet for whom sympathy can do hut little in aleviation of her sad misfortune. When a child she was terribly' scalded about the head and lace, and, although she survived her injuries, she was thenceforth disfigured, and the rosy face of childhood was changed to a mask?a travesty on the human countenance? absolutely frightful in its hidoousness. Tn Lowell, Moss., where she onced lived, so groat was the horror excited by her appearance that she was forbidden by the authorities to show herself in the streets. At Nashau she ventured out the other day, and several ladies fainted at sight of her, and a call is now made upon the authorities of that place to forbid her appear? ance on the street. ? "Bud. whore's your pap ?" The youngster eyed our friend curiously for a moment, and then replied : "Pap's iist gone thar bcyant the barn to bury our old (log, Towscr. The durned old fool killed hissclf barkin' at candidates for office!" ? The New York Herald, which was in a state of fearful commotion when news of the Louisiana outbreak first flashed across the wires, covers its own mortification by censur? ing the President for displaying so much un? necessary passion. Ludicrous Scene in Church. As an evidence of how some Christians hato one another, a South German paper relates the following tough story: In a Bavarian town of the most pronounced Catholic orthodoxy, the priest preached lately against the Old Catholics, and related such horrible things about them that his pious hear? ers were literally horror-stricken at the Old Catholic impieties. At last the preacher cried out, "The Old Catholics are so vile that they will all be cost into the pit and if what I tell you is not true, may the devil take me now on the spot!" His excitement was terrible, and he so struck the cushion that the book fell from it. Not far from the pulpit there sat an Amer? ican, who had a negro servant with him, to whom he beckoned to take the book up to the priest, who, perhaps, had never seen one of those sons of Ham in his life. The negro at once obeyed, and as he mounted the lowest of the pulpit steps the clergyman repeated the wish that the devil might come and take him if what he had said against the Old Catholics was not true. Although the negro went softly, the preacher heard his footsteps, and, turning round, saw a black object solemnly, steadily, and surely approaching him. He looked at him with terror, and believing that he would the next instant be collared by his Satanic majesty, he cried out, with trembling voice, "It is, after all, possible that there may be good people among the Old Catholics." Turning then round to see if the object had disappeared, he saw it still steadily approaching. The perspi? ration burst out on his brow, and full of despair he called out, "There are even many good peo? ple among the Old Catholics!" Thinking that this would suffice, he turned round, but what was his horror to find that the object was close at hand. Imagining himself in the very grasp of Beelzebub, turning partly to the negro and partly to the congregation, he cried out, "May the devil come and take me if all the Old Catholics are not better than we are!" The terrified priest fainted from the fright, and it was only after some time that he recovered. Important Homestead Decision.?The Supreme Court of this State has made an im? portant decision on the homestead law, which is of great importance to every family in the State. Bynvolves the setting aside of the home? stead act of 18G0, so far as that act makes the homestead subject of execution and sale by creditors of the deceased "head of the family" when the youngest child comes of age. Judge Mackey, who rendered the decision in the court below from which the appeal was taken, held that the citizen takes the homestead exemption, not as an individual, but in his representative character as the "head of a family." In oth? er words, that the "head of a family" is, with? in the intent and meaning of the constitution, simply the trustee and the family the cestui qui trust?that as the individual is the unit of the family, so the family is the unit of the State, and the prime purpose of the homestead clause in the constitution is to secure a "local habitation" for the family. Hence, to deprive the family of the homestead on the decease of its natural protector violates the reasou of the constitu? tional provision, and that, too, when the fam? ily most needs its sheltering protection. Judge Mackey further held that the term "exempt" in the constitution, as applied to the home? stead reservation, means in law, as in its ety? mology, a cutting off or perpetual reservation of the homestead execution and sale for debt. The homestead, moreover, being in the nature of a grant, Judge Mackey held that the con? struction, which gives the largest priveleges to the grantee, must be regarded as the true con? struction whenever a doubt arises in the case from the terms of the statute. This is the gist of the opinion of Judge Mackey, which has been sustained by the unanimous voice of the Supreme Court. COMFORTS AND LUXURIES OF THE FARJf. ?There is a class of farmers who are living only to grasp more acres. Their farms can never be large enough, nor can their workmen or themselves ever do quite enough work. They can not be satisfied with the income of a farm nor could they be with that of any other business. But those who understand that the highest object of labor is not simply to make money, but to provide the largest amount of the means of improvement and innocent en? joyment that the world affords, can make the pursuit of agriculture furnish more luxuries that really contribute to our well being, than any other employment requiring an equal amouut of capital. Their farms are not so large as to make slaves of themselves and their sous, and their wives and daughters arc not worn out with incessant drudgery. Their door yards blossom with flowers, their tables are supplied with many varieties of well grown delicious fruit, their houses are made cheerful by the influence of books and music, and a taste for the pure and innocent enjoyments of life is devoloped in their childreu. Here and there a farmer's home exemplifies all the con? tentment and happiness possible to a race doomed to labor and disappointment.?Prac? tical Farmer. ? Althoug a woman's age is undeniably her own, she docs not own it. ? One way to support your home paper is to patronize thoso who advertise in its columns. ? Why is a ship designated as "she ?" Be? cause she always keeps a man on the lookout. ? It should not discourage us if our kind? ness is unacknowledged; it has its influence still. ? Newspaper readers do not like to peruse indifferent poetry by little girls?unless the little girls are their own. ? Josh Billings says, "Tew enjoy a good reputashuu. giv publicly and atccl privately" That is what's the matter now. ? A country boy, having heard of sailors heaving up anchors, wanted to know if it was sea sickness that made them do it. ? During the first nine days of September, no less than twenty-fix persons mysteriously disappeared in New York city. How is that for Ku Klux ? ? There is a scarcity of water in Cincinnati, but it doesn't disturb the citizeus near so much as would a scarcity of the other liquid that begins with "w." ~ ? "A Philadelphia girl called a young man a thief, and when requested by the mother of the accused to prove the charge, said he had stolen sevoral kisses from her." In that case she is as guilty as he, for didn't she receive stolen goods? ? "Do you believe there are any people who never heard the 'Old Hundred ?' " asked a musical young lady at the family table. "Lots of folks never heard it," intorruptcd the precocious young brother. "Where are they, I should like to know ?" "In the deaf and" dumb asylums!" ? By the following method we may have tomatoes all the year round, which can scarce? ly be distinguished from those picked fresh from the vine. Dissolve a teacup of salt in a gallon of water. Pick ripe tomatoes, but not over ripe, leaving a little of the steam on. The tomatoes must be kept well convered with the brine, aud thoy will keep till spring or longer.