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\ ^ Hotr a Hotel Was Opened. The Tremont House, Boston, the oldest of tin* great hotel? in the country, lus j;j;t co:u(i!eie?l its first lialf century. When it completed it? managers wow all lid U? run liie risk or openiugso expensive an institution. The Boston Journal lliu* tells the curious way in wli!r?h f]ii? niYililpm \vm? onl v/vl m. " Why ifon't you ?pen the ^iousef Tuat questiou occupied Boston, and the answer wa*: We will soon." There was a fear of goingoverboard in that late p season. Every dxysince the grand'dinners were served,,the anxiety in regard a to oj?eniiig the lio^el increased, the fear a growing gradually less every day. On the Kith of Oc loiter Mr. Stetson was busy *rtlrilliiig. anil wondering why the doors could uot be tluug wide open. In obedience to orders visitors of all sort* were refused admission, the time having been occupied with curious people. At I" o'clock a trunk was Hung down on the Hoot of the rotunda. The owner was informed that he could not be allowed to remain. " You must go somewhere else." The fat porter looked grimly at the intruder, then at the officer with,a quiet wrinkle on his face, but the Order was peremptory and did not allow enter - - - L tij ^ ik^ f/\ 1\ A TiiIU?J<I'llt. r?u ua- iiMivi I'ciigru iv permitted to wait until rested after his lung ride. When rested he would take up his luggage and seek a.place to tarry at. His manner, and inviting words, rather v,\ u the attention of the officer, and secured finally the privilege of going to a room to "wash and dress." That done, '* Then, if you have a chok;"why can't an old lawyer likeynyself get something to oat?" A rephst'Jollowed, rifWr which he came to the front of the office, paid the lull, and wioiUte'fetl \yhy thedoors were shut to travel. He looked at the wiue list, and after funning it otter/ said. How much of this splendid enumeration have you sold?'' " None, yet. The house is not open." " Well, sir, take a memorandum from the hit If bottle of porter to the end of the summing up. even to Montevus peV bottle. It was done. " Charge it to me!" "I don't know you. sir." ' " Well, where is your hook of arrivals?" " Here." He dipjKrd his pen into the ink and wrote: " JSathaniel Scarle. Providence, II. I." The officer had heard of the lawyer, and thought the incident encouraging tor the proprietor. ISIr. fccarlc then said: " Let me sleep here to-night." "Yes, yes," said Stetson, aud tkeitcaliing for A idiot, the head porter, gave the order. " Flincj the doors open; we begin business now. Society in Parliament* ri'iijjrffbit AuutUer incidental feature of the House, which immediately strikes an American, is the number of dress suit3 scattered over the room?the men who have been to dinner or are going, for 11 society " here is always distinctly represented in Parliament. I suppose we might say that in our country it is not only represented in Congress, but positively excluded and disfranchised. Here, however, politics are really fashionable. Under the linglish system not only has " the individual" a certain representation, but also all that he lias been able to add tojhiuiself of moral or intellectual worth or even material wealth. The American gentleman in politics, on the contrary, has outv the same quality and I force as the American blackguard?one vote. The American scholar in politics ha3 only the same quality and force as tlie American noouium?cue vote, xne American miliiouaire in politics ha? only the same quality and force as the American comuiiuiist?one vote. The bottom reason why the American gentleman, the American scholar, the American property holder does not goi into politics, and is so unfrequently seen J in Washington, is because education, cultivation and property as such are not "represented in our suffrage system, and there is no constituency, therefore, to send these men. We represent only the "individual," and, consequently, as a rule, "individuals'" go into politics, and "individuals" are sent to Washington. The dre^-cout< I may say concluding this paragraph, are this year mainly on the government side, although the Marquis ol Ilartington. the leader of the opposition, frequently addresses the House in full dinner costume. Still, liberalism in aon'i-. v av seem- to t-.al strongly to sacl: e??aU- and fell Oat - and ready-uiade clothing. Anecdote of Judge Clean*. [Now To:!t liUjt-.'.cli. Some years ago I had a case to argue before tiic eccentric .fudge Cleary, of Kentucky. While waiting for my case to come, up, I listened to the trial of a brawny ruttian, who was a ecu sea oi stealing two urnles. He had been cauglit riding one arul leading the other, and though both the animals bore their real owner's brands, he swore that they had been Coaled on his farm and raised by him. Every point of evidence was against, him. but he swore he was innocent with enough oaths to scare an overland teamster. The jury rendered a verdict ot guilty without leaving their seals. Judge Cleary asked him: "Have you anything to say why judg-' mailt should not be pronounced on voir.'" I "Yes, 1 have!" "What is it;" | "I am innocent, an-1 I hope God may strike me dead if I am not!" The Judge paused a moment. Then lie said, quietly: "As the Almighty has not seen proper to comply with your request, the sentence of the court is " and he went ou to pronounce it. Linn? vVitb Nature. Robert Ingeraoll savs there is quiet about the life of a farmer, and a hope of serene old age that no business or profession can promise. A professional man is doomed .sometimes to feel that his powers are waning. Ho is doomed to see younger and stronger men pass him in the raoe for life. He looks forward to an old age of intellectual mediocrity. He will be last whore once he was first. But the farmer goes as it were, into partnership with nature?ho lives with trees i- ana flowers?he breuthes the sweet air of the fields. There is no constant frightful strain upon the mind. His nights are filled with sleep and rest. He watches his flocks and herds as they feed upon the green and hill}' slopes. He hears the pleasant rain tall upon the waving corn, and the trees he planted in his youth ru tlo above him as ne plants othes for the children yet to be. k HORACE GREELEY. flome ?w Aiifnlotri of the Great Fdltor. fX. Y. r'vrr*9pun<l*ti<*e l1r?\t:*n T: !?? ??? ." T was just going through the door ! which led into the hit;: back room of the j Tribune office one day. when slap-bang! i collided with somebody. And thac was not the worst of it. The somebody alluded to stepped upon my foot and almost ground into sausage-meat a part of that member which containied upon its surface a particularly violent and aggressive corn. It was an agonizing moment, and in pain which fairly doubled nie up for an instant, I?yes, damned roughly, and in good set terms, as \\r. Shakspearo would observe. When I straightened up, you luav imagine my honor to see tliat "the person I had been anathematizing was none other than Mr. Greeley. I could have sunk through the floor with mortification, and I stood there waiting in a sort of dazed way for the volley of profanity which I felt sure would come. But it. didn't. The old geutlemnn settled himself back, adjusted his spectacles on his nose, and with a broad grin upon his face, addressed me thus: "That's right, bub. If it hurts you, swear like U?1!;V"I would!" 1 Then he paused a moment, and con tin ued: TftTumrtn notnrn la V* 11 m O Tl HfifllPA XXUilitUI uauuiu u uumuu bub; mid if 4t does you any good, just d?n uie again! There's nothing like it! Baltu of (jilead is.nowhere." And' he patted me on the head and passed on. One winter Mrs. Greeley went to the West Indies fox her health" and the following spring she sent for her husband to.eoiue after her ami bring her home to New York. Now if there was one thing the old-man,bated it was the sea. The very smell of salt water made him sick. But nevertheless he obeyed his wife'9 call, as lie was accustomed to obey her every whim. In due time they ~ot hack to Gotham, and that morning Mr. feinclair received word that Greeley was not feeling well, owing to his voyage, and had decided to stay at home for the day. In the cycling Sinclair was going to "Washington ohmitsiness, and so, valise in hand,"he called at Greeley's house an hour W two before the train was to start. He found the old man in bed and actually very ill, having suffered terribly from sea-sickness all the way out anil j all the wav back. He was alone, - ..I? lo.?i? ?l.? I Hie Oilier llieiuueia ui me being either ill or away from home; ami so Sinclair determined* to pass the night with him, giving up for that time his trip to the Capital, Presently Greeley wruited his back rubbed; and the impromptu nurse was surprised to find that the patient hadn't a stitch of clothing on his person, barring the sheets and quilts. " Sinclair," said he in that querulous whine of his, "I'm as naked as the day1 I was born. My trunks haven't arrived yet, and I haven't got a d?n night, gown." "But why not wear this?" pointing to a garment he had taken off before getting into bed. ' "Oh, I expect to be out to-morrow and I want that to wear then. How the| bbize3 would it look after I had slept in ' it?" Well, in due time his baggage arrived, and Siuclair made a bolt for the article lie wanted. After some rummaging he found it, and helped the old man put it 011. It was speedily fastened at the neck and the nurse took up one of the wrists and tried to button it. There, however, he stuck fast. The ends wouldn't meet by fully two inches. He tugged and twisted to his utmost, but it was no go. Still, as the patient said nothing, hc.supposcd it ought to be fastened, and re-1 doubled his efforts for that purpose. For about twenty minutes he labored without success. Then he said: "This is a failure. It won't fasten." "No," replied Greeley with exasperating coolness. "I knew it wouldn't. The fact is, I never could button the infernal thing myself. But you seemed to enjoy it, so I didn't disturb you." He lay back^n the pilldws for a few moments, as fi tainting ueepiy, ana then, sitting bolt upright, he brought his fist down upon the quilt and exclaimed savagely: " If ever Mormonism works as far east at this, I'll be?(l?d i? I don't have one wife to take care of my shirts.", A Typical Western Outlaw. Barker, the Cherokee desperado, who was hunted down and killed near Muskogee, in the Indian Territory, recently, stood at the head of the list of Western outlaws. He was of white skin, though his blood was tainted, and^ he claimed Cherokee citizenship. He was six feet tall, straight as an arrow, and of stout I frame. Twenty-eight years of crime j I (for hi< life was full of it from the | i cradle) had stamped fiercely upon his Indian features the marks of the dare- | devil wh'>? xpccted to die with his boots j I ? 1 ?At _ ! _ _r !? 1.:. ' oil anu .vj i a till4 wmsue ui uuueis in ius ear. His lirst crime was that pf wholesale cattle stealing. So imperfect are the laws of the Indian Territory that Barker and his men rode with free hoots and boldly for many years. Triplet, a J half-breeu Cherokee: Scogden, the M?.:c- i icau, and Mason, the Texan, were his ! lieutenants. Men were waylaid, mur-; dered, and robbed by them time and j again. It is said that every citizen of j the Cherokee country carried a special j bullet in his pocket for Barker. The j culminating atrocity of the band came j about on the morning of the 2d of | August last, when they galloped into the ( village of *Caneyvillc, Kansas, and in broad daylight sacked the place, driving the residents, men, women and children, like a flock of sheep, out into the woods. Two men who resisted were shot through the heart. A few days ago tea' Cherokees and two white men caught the outlaws in ambuscade. Scogden and Mason escaped, the twelve rifles cracking for Barker's benefit. Barker fell and nfthrprl rAsi?tnnr?A with flip, nnlv liinh that was uninjured, the left leg. llis right leg and both arms were broken and an tiiree nmos were amputated snortiy before his death. Triplet crawled of! through a com field, but limping into the house of his mother at Vinita on tho following day, laid down at her feet and died. Eight masked robbers stopped a train in the West the other day. As the train contained an excursion of editors, the only loss was a loss of time to the robbers., A l'rnirio Fire. fPcrtbner1* MonthlT.] Next to calamities like that the homesteader's wife told of, the great besetting fear of [lie settlers on the border?in all the new and thinly peopled portions of Kansas, in fact?is the coming of the autumn prairie lire, which so frequently meanaccs their stacks and cribs, their helpless stock, their stables and cabins, and even their lives. Were it not for its known danger and power 01 navoc, this tempest and scourge of fire would be a spectacle o: commanding force and beauty. First, you will eaten a glimpse of what vott take to be gray wisps of haze away off on the horisou; and watching, you will see these vagrant particles deepen gradually, and gather into a definite volume of smoke, black like a rain-cloud, and bronze about the edges. Then 'the strauge, somber bulk starts forward across the prairie, and you hold your breath at the sight of the rapid progress of it. (A mile in two minutes is not an exceptional rate of speed for a fire once fairly under way.) It halts an instant, you note, over a broad swale where there is standing water; bnt it is for an instant only. The next moment it reaches the upland again and the dry grass4 and directly it grasps , a belt of tall, thick blue-stem, anathc Jlamc leaps suddenly and madly out above the smoke, "then subsides again, and the black mass" grows blocker than ever, and rolls higher and higher, and you can scent the burning grass, and hear the distant roar of the firo?an awful roar, resembling the sound of artillery in heavy timber. And i I; is so calm imiae aiateiy arounu you uiul ywu uu ?im, w much as miss the ticking of your watch in youfpocket; theie fono breath of air stirring, and the sun is shining, and the heavens above you are blue and placid. But the stillness will be broken soon. The oncoming cloud if. only, a few miles away now, and you can easily trace the scariet and terrific energy at its base; the smoke begins to hurt your eyes, too,' and the heat becomes heavily; oppressive. And then, all at once, the wina 'smites and staggers you, that appalling roar deafens "you, and the s un is blotted out, and yop are in a dark ness as oil a midnight without moon or star. It is an experience of but a dozen seconds or so, this sudden plunge into darkness, though it seems an hour, and when you look out again, you find that the fire has passed you a mile or more to your right, and still rolling desperately onward; and therein its track are charred and smoldering stacks of hay, and an occasional house aflame and* tottering to its fall, and a group of men end boys beating lack the outer line of the fire with brush and'old clothes, and sending forward little counter-fixes to. meet it and if possible to keep it at a safe distance. The creek may stop it and smotherdt when it gets there, though such a hope has mere chance for a warrant; sometimes these mighty conflagrations vault across streams twenty .or thiriy, yards in width, so swift and resistless in th6 momentum; and as a rule they are effectually stayed only when they' reach a wide extent of plowed land, and have to yield, sullenly, for lacjb-of anything more to feed -theii inexorable fury. TliG Dreary Dart Ages. < , iPlackwood!# Mugazio#.] _ _ . The'fathers of the printing trade ac ccpted a grave responsibility in exciting a world that was-intellectually tranquil To us, looking back upon; them out of the light, tnose so-Cdlted "dark ages" seem sufliciently dreary. In the inter* vals of those active occupations wliicl^ are scarcely suited to our quieter modem tastes?feutls, fighting, fire-raising. rapine, rapes, etc.?it. appears to us that time must have dragged along very heavily. In reality, to the mass of those who kiiew 110 better! those times of universal ignorance and torpidity must have been at least negatively agreeable. With the rare exception of sonic solitary student, of some scheming churchman, or some statesman in advance of his age, wc may take it for granted that nobody thought very deefdy. There was no wmp jiTid tear the mejital fillers, and. consequently, there were none of those painful brain and nerve diseases that till our asylums, and are transmitted by descent. *!ro the stomach hid a similar, immunity from strain, and the unimpaired digestion was never troubled by abstruse thought or far-fctchcd anxieties?which, by the #ray, was a most beneficent provision of Providence, when we remember the. medueval ciiisinn, and the habitsof feasting among the rich and idle. What passed fur thought with society generally was the mechanical action of a languid brain working in the narrowest circles of its immediate interest and cares. Concern with a future' state was the special care of clergy: the church had settled the dogmas which the devout had only to receive. It is next to impossible now-a-davs to realize the condition of the noblemen or county squire, unable to read or to write, who groped his way from the cradle to the grave in the profoundest mental darkness. He never troubled his head about, foreign poli'ics, unless he were pi rsonally summoned to serve beyond the M-a^;. or when some strolling wayfarer,.like Wilfrid ot Ivanhoe. hroueht news of the war- in France or Palestine. Nor did lie ecu eon i himself nuicli more about domestic broils, unless tliev seemed likely to cost hinf his-licad, or bring him some addition to his domaius. Such; conversation as there was ovor the heavy bamjuctiptr: beyond remark^"<tn> 'the co6king of the joints and the quality of, the heady liquors, turned generallvjon! matters manorial or parochial. The guests grew excited over the encroachment of some neighbor on the rights of; free-forestry,, the'latest deedktf audacity, of the nearest band ,of outlaws, a raidjon h a rifnc onrinn a miirroin in flift UtV VAA y K-OVi -01J UiUlAtUU JM yuw herdS oJf ciiitleV.v Men were -forced- to drink hard and long after sapper, since there was nothing else to be .done, and so the l.eavv brains became slowly sodden, and still more insensible to iutel. lectual stimulanta ' _ <i4 ? * ' The pedometer may become a terror to husbands, when all the ladies find out the success ol a shrewd Boston wile, who quietly attached one of these tell-tales to her husband when he started to "go down to the office and post up the book9." On his return she discovered that he had done fifteen miles of walking?around a billiard table. He "lost" the faithful reporter the next day. r * . A Visit to n Japanese Honse. When you go to a Japanese house, there is 110 bell to ring, no knocker on the door, and no person to receive you; you sing aloud, " I ask to be heard," when a servant opens the door and bowa > - a l *1 UOWn IU luc liuui, uuu tucu uaiiriia iu you. You tell the servant what you want, and she leads you into the house. There are no chairs to sit on, nor are there any stools or sofas, but you sit on the tloor with your limbs doubled up under you as the taiiors sit. I forgot to tell you that you have to tatce ofl" your boots or shoes before entering. After you sit down, the servant brings you a pipe and some tobacco to smoke, also tea and cake, and tells you that the master is busy and cannot sec you immediately. After awhile the master comes in and you make a profound bow to each other. He then asks you to his study, which is well furnished. On one side is a door which swings on hinges, or can be pushed back to the right or left. The walls are not white, but either gray or brown, the same as the ceiling, which is low and made of wood. In the corner of the room is a rack, covered with a silk spread. Pictures hang on the wall, but they are not framed but trimmed with silk" and fancy paper, which can be rolled nn nnrl -nut, ?wnv_ The studv fronts on the garden, and you can inhale the fragrance of flowers. There is no partition between the study and the garden, .except sashes filled with transparent paper, which appears most beautiful at night; but in case of a storm they have a canvas which they draw over this and make it secure. Then the master introduces you to his wife. Ho does not call her Mrs., but simply says 6hc is my wife. She is dressed splendidly. Her hair is arranged in something the same way as the American lady dresses hers. She asks you to sit in a high seat and orders tea and cake. She will ask you if you are married, how many children you have, etc. The American ladies are ]ust as inquisitive. By her side sits her daughter and son on the floor, without cushions. The young lady is dressed very much like her mother, and if you ask her to play, she will get an instrumonf criTnotliinor HL-/> n miliar. nnrl nlav **w*4y o ??w ? o*** ?; I arid sing. Her brother never gives liia parents any trouble, and never asks any questions. I ______________ I Snow-Skates. A writer in Land and Water describes ! the snow-skates used by the Lapps and the Finns of Finmark, where snow covers the ground for half the year. He says: " The form of snow-skates varies in the different districts of the North; they are long, narrow, thin pieces of wood or bark, the foremost ends of which are pointed and curved upwards. " They are fastened to the feet at about the middle of their length. In some districts the lengths of the skates for the right and left feet are the same, being about from live to seven feet; in other districts the skate for the left foot, which A usually made of fire-wood, is about from nine to eleven inches long, whilst flint. fnr the risrht foot, which IS usually made of some tougher wood, is about from six to seven feet. " Some skates arc grooved for the purpose of assisting the skater to glide in a straight course by preventing sidewaysslipping. The undersides of some skates are partly, or wholly, covered with reindeer or sealskin, the liairs pointing heelwards. "Tlmis for the purpose of assisting the skater in his diagonal up-hill traveling, by preventing him from slipping backwards; in other movements the skin impedes the skater. . " Skins are used chiefly in Nordland and adjacent parts. Snow-skaters are coated with pitch or tar. A pair may weigh from ten to fifteen pounds. "Over-shoes, with turned-up toes, and with scams lengthways over the feet, and gaiters, are worn by snow-skates to. protect their feet and lezs from t^ie snow. it mi? ?nl^A oAMffl a Irnnrv flta -LI1U UVt*l"311UC3 iU^U OCi TW bV avui/ imv foet from being chafed by the skatefastening. These are wooden hoops, into which the foot is put, and which press against the instep, and the fibres of cr-roots or leathern thongs for binding. J4 Snow-skaters carry u skating-statt', which is about seven feet long, is rather more than an inch in diameter, and is shod at one end with an iron spike, near above which is a disc of wood." A Quickened Conscience. The murdcrof the Morris family seems likely to remain a mystery, unless the murderer, prompted* by remorse, shall some clay reveal it. A man in England recently gave himself upas the murderer of a woman ill Es-cx while the family was away at church, Sunday, June 21, 1857. For twenty-two years ho has wandered over the world, having been in every county in England, and sailed to various parts of the globe as far as India. He did this, too, in "the face of $500 reward offered for his detection and of his notoriety for horse-stealing, for which crime lie had just served a term in prison. He feels happier since his surrender. All of which go.s to prove that murder may, rather than will, "out." Greatness. 'Tis noted of some scholars, like Swift and Gibbon and Donne, that they * * * i ? t. _ .1 i. pre tended to vices wmcn tney nuu nut, so much did they luite hypocrisy. William Blake, the artirt frankly says: "1 never knew a bad man in whom there was notsomething very good." Bret liar te has pleased himself with noting and recording the sudden virtue blazing in the wild reprobates of the ranches and mines of California. Men are ennobled by morals and intellect; but these two elements know each other and always beacon to each other until at last they meet in tin* man. if he is to be trulv great. A little four yeans old who gathers her ideas of harmony from the street musicians lifted her great wondering eyes to her mother the other day ana asked: "Does angels all have harps?" "I think they do," was the reply. "Doesn't any little girl angels have to Sass the hat?" "Why, no, my dear; why o ask such foolish questions?" "Because if I can't have a narnl don't want to be an angel. I shouldn't feel good enough to pass the hat up to God." # H BBOWm." In Reply to Will Carletm'i " Dead Student." BY OWES X. WILSOX. Your letter tell* me Brown is dead?"OH Brownie!" Can it be The boy's gone to his long account? Sad tidings, Ted, to me. I Jovcd the tellow, brother like: a stanch friend wai lie too. The last to leave one in a lurch?the first to dare and do. And I can scarce imagine as I read rem letter, Ted, That shtouded, coffined, sepulchred,""oldBrownie's" lying dead. 'Tis just two years ago !o-day we parted?he and 1: He held my hand and faltering spoke: "God bless you, Jack! (iood-by! I'll in?ct von in the voir* to come when I, like you, ilUTl! WOII Tin* proud distinction of a name -when college days are done." He told me of tbe hopes lie liad, the high anibllious dreams That shot around his life their bright, hut too delusive beain?. He wore a picture next his heart. Ah! Ted! that girlish face Conies up before my vision now in all its pictured grace. A lovelier I never saw, and I have wandered where The daughters ol the Orient are deemed divinely fair. "She's^waiting-she has waited long for.me"?he often said? God help the jKwr young heart whoso dreams rest now when) lies the dead. I hoar liis merry, careless shout ring out upon the air, And catch the echo of his laugh that held no note ol care. t And hurrying footsteps seem to sound upon echoing floor. I lift my eyes and Brownie stands within the open door. For I am dreaming, Ted, old boy, of those past happy days When you and I and Brownie strayed along familiar ways. The river winding thro' the glen wheaifnthe days of yoro ' In many a heated contest, Ted, wo ve plied the friendly oar. Imagination pictures now. Do you recall the day When Brownie led from start to close and bore the prize away? Tbe boating cup. 'Twas nobly won. You have it now?and be, Poor boy I lias rowed bis last race here. Old fellow, can it bo That faithful, earnest heart Is stilled? that we shall Again the clasp of that strong hand in friendship warm and dear; Aye! can it be that life once bright with hopes effulgent beams Is lost to aspirations high and Love's ambitious dreams? Thnsin the mom-tide of success, in manhoods wakenin? years, Hope's brilliant sun oft sets beyond a rising mist of tears. Yei, my fancy cannot picture as I read your letter, led, Our comrade shrouded, coffined?" Old Brownie" lying dead. ?Quincil Modern Artjo. Let Tliem Alone. Never try to rob any one of his good opinion of himself, it is the most cruel thing you oan do! Moreover, it is by no means doing what you would be done by- Crush a woman's self-esteem, and you make her cross-grained and snappish. Do the same to a man, and you only make him morose. You may mean to create a sweet, humble creature, but you'll never doit. The people who think best of themselves are apt to be best. Women grow pretty in believing they are so, and fine qualities often crop out after one has been told she has them. It only gratifies a momentary spite to force your own unfavorable opinion of him deep into another's mind. It never did any good. Ah! if this world, full of . ugly people, and awkward people, of silly people, and vain people, knew their own deficiencies, what a sitting in sackcloth and ashes we should have? The greatest of all things that a man can possess is a satisfactory identity. If that which he calls "2" pleases him, it is well with him; otherwise, he is utterly wretched. Let your fellow-beings alone; hold no truthful mirrors before, their eyes, unless with a pure intention to uproot sin. So may a mirror without a flaw never be prepared for you. In those Ai_! ?MA4 ? minga WI11UU \YC UU uu? UC1?>, uiaj na ever oe blind to our own short-comings. We are neither ugly, nor awkward, nor uninteresting to ourselves, if we do not know it. A fool may have the wisdom of Solomon in his own conceit. Let him be, and the path to the grave will be easier for him to tread; you will be worse, he no better. Leave every man as much self-esteem as his conscience will allow him to cherish. It may be a pleasure to enlighten people as to their faults of mind and person, but it. is certainly not a duty. Prices at Leadville. The cost of living at Leadville, says a correspondent of the Chicago Inter-Ocean, i is now much less > than it was six months and a year ago. Very good accommodations may be had at the second-class hotels for $10 per week, while many of the restaurants furnish a fair meal for twenty-five cents. If persons arc disposed to economize, they can rent a comfortable log cabin, or a small frame house, st from $5 to $10 per month, and either board at private boarding houses or take their meals at restaurants. Men say that they live here quite comfortably in this way at from $4 to $5 per week. To give an idea of the cost of some of tbe commodities ncre, j. wm mciuiuu the following: Hiding pony, saddle and bridle, $3 per day; hay, $00 to $70 per ton now?two weeks since it was going j at $120 per ton; cabbage, turnips, beets, j potatoes, etc., five cents per pound at jobbing prices, and at retail from six and a half to seven cents; flour retails at $5 per hundred pounds; lumber, native, at $25 per thousand, and Chicago at $GC; corn and oats, at from three to three and a half cents per pound. Rents are very high. Small store-rooms in frame buildings run at not less than $300 per month, offices at from $50 to $100, while the Theater Comirjue, occupying a comparatively small building on State street, pays a monthly rental of $1,300. Busi ness lots range very ingn. ine owner ox a lot corner of "State and Harrison avenues is almost daily importuned to take $5,500 for it, but persistently declines, while a day or two since a onehalf interest in a lot on Harrison avenue, near Chestnut street, sold for $1(7,000. ltesidence lots are yet comparatively cheap, speculation in them not having commenced to any great extent Kisses.?Two cups of sugar, three peer*, butter the size of an egg, one cup of sour cream, a tcaspoonful each oi soda and cream-tartar, a little salt and nutmeg, drop it on tins, and sprinkle BUgar on before bakine. Saratoga is gradually gaining on Niagara as a resort for bridal parties. It really looks as if Niagara would soon be left entirely to the Indians and the hack drivers, who have killed it for the I rest of the world. w ?* A PENItSTLYANIA MURDER. Confession of the Tool of a Gang Who Murdered an Old Man to Secure the Insurance on His Life. [Hsrrisburg (Pa.) Cor. Chicago Times.] Charles Drews, aged about 60 years, who was employed to kill Joseph Raber at Indiantown gap, Lebanon county, has confessed his connection with the murder. Five men had an insurance on Raber's life of $10,000, and they promised Drews $1,500 to put him out of the way. The murderer, in his confession, says: " I went to Brandt laai summer, and we sat on the porch. He treated me to beer, and both felt its effects. He said we could make money, and he told me ^ ^ how. I said I would consider it. Finally 1Mb I asked if he was alone. He replied OTD there were three others with him. He wM mentioned Hummel and Wise, and I vH said I did not know them. He then offered to bring them up. I saw them, but I only knew Wise; from boyhood up I knew him. I then agreed, and they insured Baber. I said it was a hard thing to kill Baber. He said they ( could make money. When they again met, Brandt said there were five inter- | ested. Hummel also spoke about it. J TIT.*? J ?L.j _A_?1 T i. m TT1BO UtUUU ttliU OOJ1CU WUCIiUCI X WOO IV M kill Rater. I told him I was not cer- ^ tain. He nrged me to go ahead, and <9 said they would ehoot me if I didn't. I V promised, but I never intended to do 1 it, as the insurance had all teen effected. Brandt afterward said they had a plan ready, and if I did not kill him i they would shoot me, and to save ' life I promised. A week or two afterward Wise said that I should not do it, so far as he was concerned, as he said he did not like the jofr Think it was on the same day he said I had to kill Raber. I then asked Frank Stickler to do it because I could not. Stichler said he did not care. He could kill anyone, but he bargained that I should go along, which I promised, but declared I would not touch Raber. Then Rater came to my house,' and we went off together with Stichler. I was first, Rater was in the middle, with Stichler following. I went over the plank and Raber got on it. Stichler got Rater by the legs, threw him in and jumped on top of him. ; Raber fell below the plank. I then went back to the fence. It was first intended to drown Rater in the dam. Brandt had planned that Raber was to go fishing at Kitzmiller's to catch fish for Brandt and wife, and then I was to drown him. We went, and Peters went with us. When I saw the dam I could not do it, and said we would return, when Raber replied, 'yes, it was too cold, anyhow.' I pitied him. The drowning at the plank afterward was also the plan of Brandt's. Brandt had promised me $300, and that others should get the same. He promised Stiohler nothing. I had tried to coax Elijah Stichler, but he would not go with me. I said to Frank that I would give him $300 after I was paid. When it was done they tried to swindle me out of all and kill me. This was planned behind the shed at Brandt's. This they told me in jail. When they asked me to go via Bankstnwn I thoncrht thev wanted to kill me then. Brandt always urged me in jail to keep quiet about this matter, as they hoped to get clear. I did not see the oonspirators so very often about the matter. I engaged Frank Stickler to do the job after Kitzmiller's plan failed. I did not go into the water. After the drowning Stickler walked up to my house and went to Brandt. J did not see the old man's struggles. The plank was mado wet by the splash when Baber felL Brandt had Baber insured in another company, to kill him, but the company failed, and with it the plan. Brandt told me what to say before the Coroner's inquest. It was part of the general plan. Brandt often urged me while in jail not to confess. He called at my cell to-day for that purpose. I am afraid of him, but not of the others. If you hang me you will hang an innooent man." Poor Show for Brains. IXew Orleans Time*.] The eminent essayist and philosopher, Ralph Emerson, we have heard it said, earns by his pen and brains perlntps $30 or $50 a week, but the negro minstrel actor, Billy Emerson, gets a weekly salary of $500 for his comical absurdities and his songs and dances. Why, then, when a man can fnake a fortune in one season by a vigorous use of his legswhy, in the name of 'Mammon and Plutus and all the gods and devils of the money worshipers, should a man with any sort of understanding, or rather, anything to stand on, hope to make a living, much less to get ricu, by adopting letters as a profession? Let the success of the professional pedestrians and the jig dancers warn him against the foolish liopc of making money by brain-work. If he persists after this, then let him take the consequences. Freaks of Lightning. I Cincinnati Uudtv.l A singular accident occurred at Bethlehem, Ind., last Sabbath. Rev. C. E. Walker and L. C. Taylor rode into the fiinrrtivarfl and hitched their horses un der a small tree, and started for the church door. When not more than twenty feet from the horses, a bolt of lightning struck the tree, killing three horses and injuring another. Strange to relate, the sky above was perfectly clear. There was a cloud in the west, but it seemed too far away to do any damage. Another strange feature is, that a tall tree standing not more than ten feet awav. was missed. The church steeple, alio, was only a few steps away. A Decayed American Industry. i Before the advent of cheap cotton the production and manufacture of flax were important industries in this conn try. . t In 1S10, when the population of the country was but little more than 7,000,000, there were produced in the United States over 21,000,000 yards of flatten cloth made in families. At the present time, when the population of the country is believed to be 50,000,000, the total annual production ox nax ana iinea fabrics is probably not over 6,000,000 yards, and not a yard of fine linen ia made in tho country