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VOLUME XXXVI.
HOW BEAUTIFUL IS EARTH
Oh God! how beautiful is earth,
In sunlight or in shade,
Her forests with their waving arch,
Her flowers that gem the glade.
Her hillocks white with fleecy flecks,
Her fields with grain that glow,
Her sparkling rivers, deep and broad,
That through the valley flow.
Her crested waves that clash thesborc,
And lift their anthem loud,
Her mountains with their solemn brows,
That woo the yielding cloud.
3h God ! how beautiful is life
That thou^lost lend us here,
With tinted hopes that line the cloud,
And joys that getu the tear.
IVith cradle hymns of mothers young,
And tread of youthful feet.
Tint scarce, in their elastic bound,
Bow down the grass flowers sweet,
IVith brightness round the pilgrim's staff.
Who. at the set of sun,
Beholds the golden gates thrown wide,
And all his work is done :
But if this earth which changes mar,
This life, to death that leads,
1 oa Km.nlSfnl hv Him
lie Mimic ~j
From whom all good proceed?,
low glorious must that region be
Where all the pure are blest
from chance, and fear, aud sorrow free,
Attain eternnl red.
LITTLE MISS SIMMONS.
"I want to see the person in charge."
Tluse were the words that saluted
he car of a distinguished officer who
preside* at a Wcst4ld$ police station.
The officer turned "fcnd beheld a little :
;ir! of about nine yrtirshf age, standing
jpon tiptoe, so as to rest her chin upon
he railing, the better to get at him. j >
She was very watly dressed, but in a ,
=ort of old-womanish way that struck
ne as odd, though not at all ourlandsh.
Her hat strings were tied with a
Quaker-like precision under her chin,
ind there was a dignified look t<> her
ace strangely in coutrast with her
pears. '
"Well," asked the < ffiecr, "what do i
pott want ?" i
"Are you the person in charge?"
nquired the child.
?__
"Its"
1 am Mi*? Simmons," she said, very I
ieriou*1y. Ti c young officer smiled ]
iliphtly, but again inquired what she do- J
>irrd. "You see," she continued with I
;rcat gravity, "thrse boy* arc giving me j
ots of trouble. 1 hare stvtod it as hop j i
Iff
can. I
' What boys ?" asked the officer. <
' The boys in the neighborhood," said l
Miss Simmons, giving her place of rcsi- '
Jencc. ''Some of thctn ara big ones,
loo. and eught to know better "
"Why do they trouble you?" asked |
the officer.
"It's in them," said Miss Simmons;
'I giirss it's in all boys."
"What do they do."" querieJ the officer.
' They throw torpedoes against the
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window, and tnen iney come mc i/uivu
d->ll trick," she replied.
"What is that ?"
"It's milking a ghest out of a pillow
and a sheet and a broomstick, and tlun
they stick it inside the doors, or up
against the windows, and groan," she .
replied.
"And docs this frighten you?" asked '
he.
"No, sir, I am not afraid of their i
tricks; but when I am not there they
come, you know, and scare Nathan, you
BCC."
"Who is Nathan?"
"He is my papa, sir, who lives with
me. because he has no home of his own."
"Oh, he lives with you, docs ho?"
said the official; "and he's your father?"
"Yes. sir."
"And why doesn't ha go out and
drive the boys away?"
4 Bless you," said Miss Simmons,
smiling at the officer's innocence, "lie
wouldn't drive away anybody. He if
as weak as a kitten."
"So when you arc not at homo lie is
afriad. is he.*"
"Yes. and sometimes wheu I am at
home and the boys come round shoot
ing their torpedoes and groaning he
bothers mc so hanging on to me, that I
can't work."
"What do you do, Miss Simmons?"
said the officer, bailing forward and getting
interested.
!
"I am n dressmaker," returned tlie
child, '-and sometimes I make Work
shirts and overalls "
' And do you get plenty to do ?"
' I'retty plenty, though these are hurd
times; don't you think so?" said she,
with a great air of business.
"Yes, they are, truly," said the officer.
"Miss Simmons, I'll call down to
ft' e you, and I promise these boys shall
cease troubling you."
Tbe child thanked him, and turning
round walked quietly out. It was painful
as well as amusing to see her. There
was no gleam of childishness in her
blue eye, no skipping along the sidewalk
with the the exuberant fitcp of
youth. If she had ev< r known a child's
life she gave no evidences of it then,
but seemed one on whom years of sad
'cxpcrienco had been laid while yet slio
was almost in hei cradle.
The officer visited her house and
found it as she bad Raid. Her father
had lost the uso of his limbs in a great
measure, and from one cause and aim.
tlier was imbecile und helpless. He
watched her as a bnbo watches its mother,
ready to smile when she pett- d
him. but as ready to whinu piteously
if she denied him attention. It was in
the morning when the officer visited the
house, but lie found the two little rooma
as neat at wax, and at if ircsh from tb?
c
hands uf an experienced housekeeper.
When Miss Simmons pot ready to leave
for her work, she turnpd to the little
old maD a9 if he were a baby, and pultinp
marbles, and blocks, and wooden
soldiers on the floor before him told him
to be pood.
' I'll be back soon, Nathan." she said,
cheerily, as she rumpled his hair and
pitted his head. '"I am poinp to pet
n'ckles and dimes, and quarters for you.
Then we'll have fun." And she wphI
out while ho sat gazing at her with a
h ilf conseious smile on his withered
fa -c. but a look of perfect confidence
and trust in her.
It was a strange sipht, that of infancy
lending age, the birdling guarding
the nest, and yet only stranpe because
prtcrnaturally exhibited. For the days
co'ne quickly when childhood glides
into Rtatelyape, and age into dependent
childishness, and the space is so brief
brief between theui that we hardly note
the change.
The boys do not trouble Miss Simmons
now, for the kind officer has warned
them not to annoy her, and besides,
her lire has become known through the
officer's story, and, instead of throwing
torpedoes, the boys stand aside respectfully
to let her pass, and say to each
other, in the midst of boisterous revelry,
and with instant effect: ''llusV boys !
Here comes Miss Simmons:^"
The Women of Crete.
A correspondent writes as follows from
Crete, the celebrated island in the MeUJterranein
: A Cretan village is a strange
Inokiog place. All the dwellinps are
alike in ugliness, oblong in form, with
walls of rough smne and .flat ropfs d|s-j
titule of parapets ?nd-?Mmney*. One*
or two arches are thrown ncross the
length of the cottages to support ths
roof, which consists of tetaeioufc clay a
few inches deep laid on pieces of bark,
snd tolled flat?let antiquaries shudder
?with the drums of marble columns.
In Askyplw flie heavy srvpw storm*
which occur theiy mak<\ it uo?fe t?]
carry up the buildings higher'than ono
story, and they certainly have a miserable
exterior. My v
I?nt jh? yomfot't within door* depends
at AsKvphcCa* everywhere e!s?,
n<>t on the architect, hut on the lady of
the houcc. and the wives of the Sphakia
rank high among their sex. They are
conspicuous for their h<;notj. Tljeir
dark eyes are large and Instrcus. their
f.-ntures are very delicately chiselled,
and waving tre?sps fall in rich profusion
frooi beneath their modest kerchiefs.
Their carriage is as graceful as
the doe
But, though possessed of uncommon
personal charms, their attention is by no
means confined to the toilet. Everything
which their homes contain is the
work of their own hands. The cloth
of the huohand's jacket and fez of the
wool of the shpep he tends is dyed, spun
and woven by the hands of bis faithful
wife. She it is who makes his garments
from the cotton plant which grows
before the door; the bright scarf that
?i...
uimiN m?t niiint in nuui vnt; ou?hmIUI
which feeds from his mulberry trees;
the mats and tapestries whose bright
designs, taken from the pattern book of
tradition alone, give his home a cheerful
air, are the work of her industrious
loom, and many more objects that I am
incompetent to enumerate are due to
her untiring labors.
It was these same ^phakian women
who only ten years ago were, with their
children, hunted from mountain to
mountain, outraged, and murdered. In
tho cottage of my guide, though the
owner was by no means u chief among
his people, the tablecloth, the napkins,
the sheets, all of them homemade, wore
bordered with Cretan lace; the pillow
case was a single piece of the same material;
the counterpane was so gorgeous
with many colors that I did not refrain
from expressing tny admiration for it.
' Yes," said my host, "my wife is of a
very g< od family, and knows the old
fashionrd ways of wearing which her
her mother taught her."
The cottage itself consisted of a mod
crate sized room, with a gallery for
sleeping in, and two very small ones,
of which the larger was the kilchcn.
The walls were tint even white washed,
and the floor wub of mud; yet the spirit
that reigned there reconciled one to nil.
1. dined with great Z".?t off KnglislT
plates. which are prized there much as
Japanese crockery is in Knglnnd ; hut
without wine, not a drop of which was
to he found in the seven villages?a
significant fact. The wife waited on us.
for conjugal respect is strictly enforced,
while even suspected infidelity is punished
with death. It is easy to believe
how such a people hate and despise any
one, be he caitnakam or bo he "rnPordi,"
who attempts to introduce the
vices of Western Kuropc into their
mountain retreat.
Tho Last Dollar.
An American writer says : '"I saw
yesterday at tho Police Court a one dol
lar bill on the Hank of Montreal, which
had been taken from someone unknown
in payment for a fine, and upon the hack
of which was written the following, in
a nrat liana:
"The last dollar of an ill-spent forlorn*.
and while y?u ny reading those
linen the writer lbs at the bottom of the
Detroit river l'arewell. Touch not tho
cup, it ruined me It."
What a time warning does this short
postscript fjivc to every younf* man.
Don't tell a ninrriod man a joke mi the
boys, for he'll tell his wife, his wife will
tell her sister, and the sister will tell the
rest of the girls. If you don't believe
it, trv it.
AMDEN, S. C., MARCH
Trnth SBmngrerthai* Fiction.
Among tfioec who. enlisted in the
ranks of the Confederates and wont
forth to the battle of the "Lost Cause,"
at the commencement of the hostilities
between the two sections, was n young
Mr. Marrow, living in the upper part
of this count)'.
A short while before his regiment received
marching orders, he was united
in marriage to a Miss Cox, daughter of
a highly respectnbh widow in the same
vicinity. For some time after the hus.
band left, his young wife rec-ivcd letters
from hini regularly ; but after one
of 'those fierce and bloody battles
around Richmond, he was reported
missing, communications censed, and
the wife mourned him as dead.
Weeks, months, years, passed away
and still no tidings came of the missing
I ?
nusoana.
In vain the papers wore scanned, and
every returning soldier beseiged to
know of the missing one. Nothing
could be learned?nothing only "missing,"
aud thote enured to war know full
well its significant meaning?dead ou
the field of battle, unrecognized among
the heaps of slain.
On last Saturday as the shades of
evening cast their sombre shadows over
the earth, and that peculiar hush and
stillness of the Southern twilight had
settled upon bill and valley, a traveler,
worn and weary, bent his lagging steps
toward the home of the soldier's wife
With faltering footsteps, on he came,
toward a figure sitting upon the rustic
doorstop. For one moment he paused
before the reclining figure, when her
head was raised a look of recognition
flawed from eye to eye, a joj fill erv
broke the stillness, and husband and
wife were clasped in each other's arms
after & separation of fourteen years.
He who had been mourned as dead
was confined in a Northern prison, nnd
though oftentimes he had written, nothing
reached the sorrowing wife.
What hopes and fears must have
crowded his bosom as he approached
the place where fourteen rears before
he had left his young wife. Flow his
heart must have stood still at the
thought I
"Is she dead ?" or worse, is she married
to another ?" And how happy,
deeply grateful he tnu-t have been to j
find that in hi* long, dreary absence the
faithful wife had wutched and waited.
What Women HaVe Done for the
Newspapers and Magazines.
The Lowell Offo.ting was the first
magazine in America, if not tn the world,
entirely sustained by working women.
The Rev. A. C. Thompson says: "It
wis the first work written entirely by
factory girls, and the first magpzine or
journal written exclusively by women
in all the world " A volume entitled
"Mind Auiong the Spindles.'' being n
compilation from this journal, was pub
lished in England. This was in 1843.
James F. Bnbcock, ex editor of the
New Haven Palladium, at an editorial
convention held at Middletown. Conn ,
on the occasion of the centennial anniversary
of the appearance of the newspaper
in the State, stated these facts :
"From the time of the first American
ncwspapnr. in 1704, to the appearance
of the first in Connecticut io 177P. there
were seventy-eight newspapers in me
ooUnies?onc-hmi'of which suspended
before 1775. Of the whole number, sixteen
were conducted by ladies, fourteen
of whom were the firm and undaunted
champions of liberty ar.d equul rights
Mrs. Franklin was not only a printer of
laws, newspapers, and almanacs, but ot
calicoes and linens."
The Boston Xcics-Letter, the first
newspaper in America, was conducted
during some parts of the Revolutionary
War by Mrs. Margaret Draper.
Dr. Warren. President of the Boston
University, says, officially : "In no department
of the tlio University has the
presence of young women depressed the
standard of scholarship; in several instances
it has aided in elevating it. In
the selection ofelectives they have never
eviaccd a disposition to puss by the
hardest mathematical branches or the
in >st difficult of the languages. At all
times has their influence |e#n promotive
of order, studiously, and true social
culture Of the hundred and twenty-seven
students one hundred and forty
four are women."
The Telephone For Love-Making.
"The King," writes a correspondent
from Mudrid, "spends with his bride all
the time allowed him by etiquette and i
public affairs. lie hastens to Arunjucs,
where she is staying, and during the I
? ?t>- t.ennder will at times
jWUIIMJ ...V
I ink out at the carriage windows to f>ec
011 the horizon the bare trees under
wbich Philip II conspired against the
conscience of the world. When lie returns
from Aranjucs his impatience leads
him to a part oft lie palace where modern
science has placed its latest discovery at
the service of the royal lover, and annihilates
the space which for two days
longer separates him frotn his bride. A
depone, in fact, has been fitted up,
connection one of the King's rooms
with that of the Princess Mercedes, and
enabling them to converse together free
from indiscreet eyes and cars. Strange
to think that the telephone should thus
get the better oT the traditional and implacable
etiquette of a court where the
King cannot get an eeg boiled with- ut
xi Huuceessivc ines-engerH and sixteen
pair of bands. Vet more strange is a
j love so raiely found in the loftiest, stutions.
and which couid only spring up
j aud pain strength because two hearts
1 met >u the solitude of exile fur from the
J faitittts pomp of courtly eeuitraint
12, 1878.
The Desperate Fighter.
A man cnmc into the Chrontrie office j
this morning, and announced that his
nntne was Randy S'iggins. from Pioche.
He was six feet liijrh. had a revolver
strapped to his l?ip. and carried a formidable-looking
rifle. After introducing
himself, he inquired where the
Justice mine could he found.
"You see, I've walked all the way
from Pioche to pit a sit as a fighter, and
if I can't fit the bill, there ain't no man
in Nevada that can."
lie was informed that the chances of
petting a job as a fighter at the Justice
wre rather slim, as the miners' union
had discharged the entire pang of both
n-ines. This information seemed to
strike him like the news of the sudden
death of a bosom friend.
"You don't mean to eey that they
ain't poin to fight ? You don't tell me
that they have drawed off? If they
hnve, it's mighty rough on a man that's
walked all the way from Pioche to take
a hand."
"You might not have pot a job even
if they did fight," suggested a reporter.
"What. Sandv Stiggins not get a job
ns a fighter ? The minute they'd hear
my name mentioned they'd begin hiddin'
for my services. The crowd that
had ine with 'em would feel safo. I'm
a daisy iu a fight of that description.
I'm oid D-ath on apalo horse. A Gatling
baitery ain't no comparison to
Sandy Stiggins climbin' info a gaog of
fighters. I kin load and fire a revolver
so fust that it cits red hot and?"
Just then Fleubite, a small cur, that
belongs to the office, came in, and recojr
nizing the stranger as a suspicious
character, sprang at his legs with a series ;
of savage yelps.
Mr. Stiggins jumped about three feet
iu the air, yelling :
"Take hiui off! Oh. I ain't a dog
fighter! Take hiir. off!" and finally
rushing through the door like a wild
Indian, the Piochc fighter disappeared
down Taylor street, leaving Flcabite
barking at the door.? Virginia (Nev.)
Chronicle
A Love Letter.
Tiie following precious billet-doux
was ricked up in Ganal street last evening
It was without address, and lest
its contents should be lost to the backward
swain for whom it was intended,
we take the liberty of publishing it:
My (Wris siccct ducky:
I am so happy to here from you so
offen? it affords me sich great plesher.
You always was so deer to me I hope
will sune be dccrer.
You know I never hinted nothing
about marriage and I never mean to?
take your own time for that. I shall
always remember the old say in procrastinashun
is the thcef of time, but uiuth
er scz nothing should b - dun in a hurry
hut fetching flues.
The f"odest wish of my heart is that
we may sune become one. Do you ever
read Franklin's hxtraets?his remarks
concerning marriage is delightful. Our
ho arts he says ought to be assemble one
another in every expect?they ought to
be lieter-rgonious so that our union
may be mixin as well as uuiting -not
like oil and water but like water and
shngar.
Truly I can feci for the immortal
Wuts. when he s^x :
The roses rc-I the viletsblew
Shugar is swcte and so are vou.
Mother sez matrimony is better to
think of than the reality?I believe it
is not
I remain tel death or marriage,
Your own sweets shugar candy.
Mary Ann.
N. 15. I had a kussin married Inst
month who sez there aint no true en*
joyment but in the married state.
Yoursweetis dove.
Mary Ann*.
P. S. I hope you will let inn know
what you mean to do. as there's some
hody else wants to uiary uic every day,
and I shall be quite uneasy till 1 hear.
Your loving sweet ;
Mary Ann.
The Horrors of War.
What the /'/// Mull (lazrttc ironically
calls ''incidents of the holy war of the
nineteenth century" are vividly described
by a corrcsopndent of the IhtHy
uneiiiminnicd the Russian i
iU:itd w i?w ?.v? ?
army from Philippopolis to Hcrmanli.
IIo saw ihe bodh-s of Bulgarian peasants
with terrible wounds in the head
and neck, somtiwH mutilated and dis- i
figured; women and infants, children and 1
old men, both Turkish and Bulgarian,
fallen in the fields by the roadside, half
buried in the snow, or lying in the pools
of water. It seemed to have been one
Ion 5 battle between the peasants of both 1
rices, in which the dead were counted I
equally for each; but while many of the ,
bodies bore marks of violence and j
showed gastly wounds, the great proportion
of toe women and children were
evidently frozen to death, for they lay
on the snow as if asleep, with the flush
of life still on their faces, and the pink
skin of their feet and hands still unbianched.
Side by side with these many
corpses of old men, full of dignity even
in death, lay stark by the roadside, their
white beards clotted with blood, and
their helpless hands fallen upon their
breasts, From the muddy water of the
ditch- r tiny hands and feet stretched
out, and baby faces half covered with
snow l>iok?'d out innocently and peacefully.
with scarcely a signjof suffering
on their features. Frozen at their
mothers' breasts, they were thrown down
into the snow to lighten the burden
i of the poor creatures who were struggling
along in mortal terror.
BMara?BMPtMl I
Ml' Ml
NUMBER 35
Besieged Twenty-Three TimesConstantinople
has undergone more
sieges than any other city in the world.
It has been besieged twenty-three times;
twice by the ancient Greeks; thrice by
the Roman cinporors; once by the Latins,
the Persians, the Avarcs, the Sclaves
and by one of its dethroned sovereigns,
Michael Paleolugus; twice by the Bulgarians;
once by the Bvzantino rebels;
seven times by the Arabs, and three
times by the Turks. It was taken but
six : by Alcibiades, the Roman Emperors
Septimus, Severus and Constantine,
the Doge Dandolo and Count Baldwin,
the Emperor Michael Palcologus and
Mohammed II.
In G72, under Constantino II., it was
besieged for seven years by the Arabs
They made the surrounding country a
desert, uprooting trees, levelling villages
and habitations, and converting the
flourishing environs into a waste. Then
n tlin Pwnonrlr *-o in 1 9HJ. Tlin ilfl.
vastatioD committed by the I'rcnch and
Venetian champions of the cross exceed
ed even that ol the Arabs. They burned
the richest and largest quarter of the
city, and inflicted such a blow on it that
it never recovered its former wealth and
prosperity. They profaned the Cathedral
of St. Sophia, broke into the tombs
of the Ifyzantine emperors, dragged out
their skeletons, and scattered their bones
in the street4: They fired the public libraries,
ridiculed the Greek religion by
decking their horses with the vestments
of the clergy, and their heads with tbe
pon?ifie.il tiaras.
Were it not for the incomparable
beauty and advantages of its situation,
Constantinople could never have risen
again from its ashes and survived such
terrible calamities.
A Curious History.
The Stewart Palace (says the New
York correspondent of the Ulica llerail)
has thus far ruther a strange history.
The lot was purchased by Townsend,
the sarsaparilla man, who made a fortune
out of that nostrum and built what
wa* then (1S34) the finest house iu the
city. Such was its beauty that it was
exhibit'd before they took possession at
twenty-five cents admission, for the
benefit of a charity. Townsend afterwards
failed, and Stewart bought the
property at Sheriffs sale. He pulled
down the house and planned the present
palace. This wa done before the war,
when prices were low, and the inflation
so increased the cost of labor aud material
that the contract became a heavy
Ins* Stewart held the contractor to
the letter, and the unfortunate man
suffered to almost a ruinous degreo. It
is seldom that a buildiug constructed
under such circumstances avails much
to the owner. St? wart was eleven years
pn paring a palatial houic for his old
ago, hut he diid soon after taking posst-s-ion.
The grandest palaco in America
is tiow occupied by a childless old
woman and her sercents. The gorgeous
parlors, the picture gallery, and all the
luxurious interior arc now a silent
waste. The loftv ceilings render the
staircase a labor, s.ud the mistress, being
lame from a fall, is unable to meet such
a difficulty. A person in such a condin.i.ct
l>n /v\ntnnt<>il with the limit*
ofa bedroom, and hence the largest
part of tho palace is useless. Such is
the condition of an establishment Which
cost a round million and on which the
taxes alone are 37.000 a year.
Queer Name.
Old Dr. Levi Bull, nn Kpiscopalinn
clergyman of Chester County, Pennsylvania,
who died six or eight years ago.
used to tell of a man an" his wife?plain
people?bearing the uneuphonious surname
of Frog, and who came to
hiui one Sunday morning, just at
church-time, to have their child baptized.
Without any preliminary observations,
they were called up to the
font at the end of the Second Lesson.
"Name this child," said tho Doctor
"We name it aft'r you, Sir," whispered
the woman as she handed the
baby.
"Oh, but," whispered the Doctor
back, "you uamed the last one Levi, as
1 now remember."
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"Well, Kind she, in a nurry, -can
this one after your t'other name."
And .so the Doctor did, and christoncd
the child by the name of Bull.
After the parents got home, and the
excitement of the day had somewhat
passed off, they began to reckon it all
up. and they saw, for the first time that
it had struck their attention, that their
youngest darling was bound to go
through life with the nomen of Hull
Frog.
The Bible in th? Family.
The mother of a family was married
to an infidel, who made a jest of religion
in the presence of his own children ; yet
she succeeded in bringing them all up
in the fear of the Lord. I oue day
asked her bow slia preserved them from
the influence of a father whose sentiments
were so openly opposed to her
own. This was the answer :
Because to the authority of a father,
I did not suppose the authority of a
mother but that of (lod. From the
earliest years tuy children have always
seen the Bible upon my tabic. This
holy book has constituted the whole of
their religious instruction. Did they
propose a question ? did tlicy commit a
fault ? did they perform any good action
? 1 opened the Bible, and the
Bible answered, reproved, or encouraged
them. The constant reading of the
Scriptures has alone wrought tho prodigy
which surprise - yea."
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Indian Archery. .
Indian arclicry is somewhat different
from that practiced by tho young ladies
and gentlemen of more civilized society.
These latter take the arrow between
their fingers, place it against the bowstring,
and make it assist in bending the
bow. An Indian docs not do this. He
takes bis arrow between the index fin
ger, and pulls the bowstring with bis
middle finger; nor does lie raise bis ar- M
row as our boys and girls do; lie shoots
straight out front the sholder, and ap- fl
pears to take no aim whatever. Ilo ^
hits the mark, though, too ofcen, as the 1
soldiers about the garrison con tell, who S,
have flung their hats or caps into the
air, at some Indian's suggestion, only to
have them pierced by the arrow. The
growing papoose that is as soon as these
are able to toddlc; arc furnished with
bows and arrows, of which the points
have been sharpened, and may be seen
about the reservations shooting at
marks, at small birds, anything else
'hat may happen to attract their attention.
They generally become espcrt
at the age of about ten or twelve, but
aro not allowed to graduate into buckage,
and all the pleasures of the chase,
until they are sixteen or eighteen.
Then is the time the real pleasure of
he Indian is found to culminate in his
first hunt after buffalo.
The Value of Money.
Ask of each rioging dollar in this
world its history?how it cainc into
life. Some of them will tell you they
represent tho tears of a widow, the bartered
honor of a man. the jobbery of a
rinsr. and tho thousand of other btoiic*
which you would l>e told, I r.ced not
relate. Bonjyiiin Franklin Baid the
road to w-alth is as plain as the road to
market. Yes, it is the irood old fashioned
road to honest toil. We sometimes
say that the day of miracles is
passed. There is one miracle still ex
isiing?the miraculous result of hard
labor that, is accomplished by the dripping
sweat of tho brow. The value of
money is uot what it buys, but what it
costs. Some men's money costs them
much , others too little. A man who
makes his money at the expense of his
health aud honor pays too much ; he
that gets his money by lucky hits pays
too little. Tfhe pays too much he
cheats himself; if he pays too little he
cheats mankind. The golden mean between
these two extremes was well ex
expressed in the prayer of Agar, who m
said, "Give mo neither poverty nor
riches." If a tnan would bring Arcadia,
let him abolish poverty anu wealth.
The Pope's Receipts and
ExpendituresThe
PontiGcal treasury defrays, as it
did before the occupation of Rome, the
charges of all its servants, amounting
yearly to some $800,000. A few of them
have not objected to draw two salaries,
one from the Pope, ono from the State;
but the Pope, though ho knows this,
keeps silence. The Italian Government
tenders, under the "law of guarantees." to
His Holiness annually $645,000, gold,
for his civil list, a single note for that
sum being specially engraved. This the
Pope always declined to receive, and uudcr
the law after five years the money
has been covered into the Italian Treasury,
"Peter's Pence," amounting yearly
to over ?3.000,000. defray the expenses
of the Holy See. A third of the amount
is devoted "to Christian works, missions,
hospitals, schools, churches, etc., another
third to the maintenance of the
court and the ecclesiastical administra
t ion. The remainder goes to swell a reserve
fund to be drawn upon in emergencies.?X.
World.
Sword and Pistol.
A New Sword has been introduced
in the Kng'ish army. It ?s described as
a combination of the ordinary regulation
sword (cavalry and infantry.) with a six
chamber revolver at the hilt, the hilt of .
the sword answering for the stock of the
revolver, the chambers of which take
the Hoxer cartridge, regulation pattern.
The steel scabbard is wonderfully utilized,
being cut in sections, with stop
binges, and folding up in the form of u
rifle stock. This is attached to the hilt
of the sword by a slot and catch, the
whole forming a short repeating carbine,
? ?tm c/>nhhnnl attachment.
ill", niuiuui mi.
a sword and revolver in one and .ho
same weapon. It is sighted up to ono
hundred yards, the foresight being taken
from the point of tho sword. If the
French cavalry at Waterloo had had
such a weapon ns this, what would have
become of Wellington's squares?
Daniel Leach, an old rng-pickcr aud
miser,who lived in Jersey City for forty
years, died suddenly a few days since.
Ho lived upon food given him whereover
he could get it, and made his homo
in an old dilapidated building, lie was
seventy years of age, and had to relations
in this country, and to the amazement
of his neighbors left property to
the value of 8115,000 or 840.000.
Two years ago a drover started front
California with 4.000 sheep. He has
just arrived in Texas, having driven
the flock the whole way, assisted by two
well traiued dogs. The sheep have increased
in numbers, and frequent stops
for pasturage have kept them in pood
condition. They arc to be slaughtered
in the Eastern market.
> Paul du Cbnillu says he has boon ir.I
tensely amused in watching a ship losd '
ing up for Africa, with a cargo of mis>
aioneries on deck nod a oargo of rum below,
both going to the uau place.