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yTHI VOL. Y. NO. 3S "The Water Mill." Listen to the water mill All the livelong day? How the clicking of the wheel Wears the hours away. From the field the reapers sing, Binding up the sheaves ; And a memory o'er my mind As a spell is cast: The mill will never grind With the water that is past. Take the lesson to yourself Loving heart and true ; Golden years are fleeting by ; ^ Youtn is passing too. Strive to make the most of life, Lose no happy day; Time will never bring you back ChaDces swept away. Leave no tender word unsaid. Love while love shall last? The mill will never grind With the water that is past. Work while the daylight shines, Man of thought and will; Never does the streamlet glide Useless by the mill; Wait till to-morrow s sun Beams upon your way, All &at you call your own Lies in this?to-day. Power, intellect and health May not always last? Tho mill cannot grind With water that is past. A Strange Bank Robbery. How the Crime Was Traced to the "Ten Tried Travelers." BY ANNIE A. PRESTO*. Oqo dark, rainy night in November, 1858, the Flint Hock Bank, that nestled beneath the sleepy elms shading the principal street of a quiet New Euglaud village, was entered and robbed of a largo sum of money. 1 he situation was peculiar. A large and remarkably intelligent black mastiff with white feet, called 44 Silver-stocking,'' mode the bank his home, always sleeping there at night 1 f a stranger came around ho would howl like a nark of artillery ; but be was never known to nark at one with whom he was fami'iar. Everything in the bank, the morning after the robbery, was found just as it had been left the afternoon previous. Tho safe was locked ; nothing had beqp disturbed, only?the money was gone. President Strand and Cashier II ore ton. gentlemen of uublemished reputation, had gone in company that evening to attend a political meeting in an adjacent town, and, on account of the storm, remained there over night. They drove home the next morning to find that tho bank, whose reliability in every respect was the pride of their hearts, had been robl.-ed in their absence. As is often the case with country banks, whose business is not large or complicated, the president and cashier alone attended to the clerical duties of Flint Rock Bank, uo other ^ person being employed in it * - Yarious efforts were vainly made to ferret out the thieves. All sorts of rumors were afloat oouoerning suspicious characters that had b-een seen in the village a few days before the rubbery, and it was said that a carriage had been heard driving through the streets that sauie night. Popular opinion finally settled dewn to the belief that the money was taken by a Vn?t Kiirolnrd hnJ. the robburv 6??8 -w" *??? k aud the different means used to trace the perpetrators fcrtued the ehief topic of conversation amoog the villagers during the entire wiutfr. JJjes Ethel Moreton, the beautiful young 'oaugbter of t e cashier, had been made ill by the excitement and by nervous fear lest her fatltfr should be blamed in some way for the loss, and had hot left her room since the crime was discovered. .Oneevening in the following April, Mr. Witherell. owner of a store in the -village, called on Mr. Strand, the bauk president, at his residence, and showed him a bank note which both the eeo^lftnen agreed was the same one that Mr. vfithfereH had deposited in the bank on the afternoon preceding the robbery. The note had been torn and mended in such a way that it was quite noticeable, and was remarked upon by the two gentlemen at tho time. The note was in one of the packages of money that had been taken. Mr. WithereU, on being asked how it had again come into his hands, said : "Mrs. Remington gave it to me this afternoon, in paying a bill which her husband contracted soon after they came to town last autumn, about a fortnight before the bank was robbed. They bought Cashier More ton's Elm street house, moving into it, you know, when he took possession of his new house around the corner." After some further conversation upon the subject, the two gentlemeu went together to call on Mrs. Remuigton. They found that her husband had just retained from a two weeks' business trip. On making known their errand, Mrs. Remington, a quiet, lady-like little woman, said : When we purchased this house Yr. Moreton. the former owner and occupant, proposed that we should take the furnishiugs of the front hall, that had been made to order to suit tho rather curionsly-shaped room. An antique chair fits the curve of the stair-way, the mirror hat-rack just suits the niche made by the chitune v flue, and the carpet, of oturse/was cut to fit the tioor. " Thinking that we should be unable to suit ourselves better, we bought the articles, not moving them at all the past winter. This spring, whilemv husband was absent on his recent trip, I thought I would clean house,and,accordingly, began in the front halt I found the hat-rack to be on castors, easily rolled out of its niche, and began with brush and dust-pan to clean where it had stood,when,far back in the corner,with a few antumn leaves, covered with dust, I found that bank-note. " I had no idea how it came there, and thought I would not njent on the finding to any one until my husband's return, when I wont dad vine with him about it. This morning Mr. Withered'a bill was sent in. We had promised to pay the bill the first of April, and. as we are comparatively strangers here, I thought it best to pay it at once. I looked over the contents of my nccket-book. and found that by using this ten-dollar note 1 could make out the amount, Igave the money to the messenger with some misgivings,but thought if 1 had done wroDg my husband would, on his return, which 1 had noi enpectod so soon, make the matter right ^haaj^gt related the circumstance to 111111 WUUU >UU WIUIU XVI* Although the story seemed a very plausible ' tM, snd the Remingtons were evidently respectable people, a warrant was soon issued for their arrest A preliminary hearing before a magistrate was had. and they were bound oyer to the next term of the county court. Mr. Remington's friends readily furnishing bonds, he and his wife were not deprived of their liberty. A supplementary warrant for searching their house was given to the officers, and they proceeded to make a thorough scrutiny in the basement and rooms on the first floor." When they reached the front hall, on their way to the chambers,Mr. More ton, who had been requested to assist in the search, pulled out the hat-rack, and, pas-ing his hand down the old-fashioned 1 ceiling behind it, touched a hidden spring. The door of a secret cupboard that was framed mto a bend of the chimney immediately llcw open. , There, on the lowest shelf of the small and otherwise empty recess, jay an embroid* red traveling bag, which Mr. Moretou took out mid unstrapped. To his and the officers' astonishment. and to the dismay of the Remingtons, the bag was filled with packages of banknotes, which, on examination, proved to be the identical ones taken from the Flint Rock ^ Bank. The Remington* both affirmed that thev had k ' 5 BI I > J I never known of the existence of the cupboard, j which Mr. Murctou said he had made himself, j some years ago,as a storage place for a quantity i of valuable Lut unused family silver. So far as he knev. no one had been aware of the location of the cupboard excepting himself, his wife, now dead, his son Walter, who was in South America, and his daughter Ethel, w ho had n? t beeu out of her room for months. He had left it to her to show Mrs. Remington over the house at the time of ihc purchase, and supposed she had told her about the secret cupboard. The attention of the little group around the bag was now called by Mrs. Remington to an ornamental scarlet monogram?44E. M."- on its front, embroidered within a wreath of brilliant autumn leaves. 44 This Lag surely belonged to my daughter," said Mr. Moretcu, excitedly. When Ethel Moreton was questioned with regard to the matter.she said she had not thought of the bag since she had beeu ill. Mrs. Rem- | ington had called on htr a few dsys before tha robbery, but she could not believe that that [ lady would have stolen anythiug from the ! house. Sue did not remember whether or not j she had told the Remingtons about the secret I uupuumu. The term of coxirt at which the Remingtons 1 were to be tried for the robbery was now at | hand, but, on motion of the eminent counsel ! whom they had retained, the case was con- j tiuued to the next term. As the money had , been recovered, and there was a pronounced 1 public sympathy with the defendants, the ! bank officials, especially Mr. Moreton, were i anxious to have the prosecuting attorney quash j the indictment; but Mr. Remington insisted i on legal exoneration. One day during the early summer the family physician! who had known Ethel intimately from her birth, surprised Mr. Moreton with the announcement that his daughter was kept ill by some mental trouble, and that he believed it to be in some way connected with the bank affair. "She fell ill," said Dr. Knowlton, "the dny tho robbery was discovered. From a child she was never afraid to go out in tho dark. She is familiar with all the ins and outs of the bank. Silver-stocking is fond of her, and she would have no fear of him. She knew of the secret cupboard, and the money was found in her bag. Besides, her nervous attacks always occur whenever the bank affair is mentioned in her presence. The burden npon her mind must be alleviated or she will never live to soe another autumn." This private interview, which the faithful and skillful old physician had sought with Mr. Moreton, was hardiv over before the latter, almost broken down by a bewildering sorrow, repaired to his daughter's sick chamber. It took much persuasion, and the reiterated presentment of the fact that the innocent were suffering for the guilty, to induce Ethel, with sobs and tears, to tell her story. At last she said : " You know, papa, that I was at that French boarding-school in the city two years. There wlint was called 4 ee ret ^CIC lu li c uiruvuv?vM ? -- ? ? cliques.' Just a few of the girls with congenial tastes met regularly iu each other's rooms. There were the 'Loversof Laughter," and the ' Ten Tiitd Travelers,'each haviug pass-words and sigiu. I belonged to the 'Ten Tried Travelers.' The society was at first useful u its design and tendencies. "We went on imaginary trips around the world, and, at our meetings, dressed in traveling suits, and had our maps, guide books and well stortd lunch baskets. We would stop and explore every considerable town and interesting point. " Toward the end of the first year Julia McMarsh&ll came to the school. She was a very stylish young lady who had traveled all over Europe*and the East. Each of the cliques vied in efforts to get her, bnt ours was successful. One of our society having left school she v. as installed as one of the ' Ten.' "She was very handsome and fa?ciunting. and had been in "society a great deal, but came to Madam Leclerc's to perfect herself in music and French, previous to going abroad again, this time on lier wedding tour. She fairly bewildered us with tales of adventure, cud proposed that when she went on this trip we should all accompany her ; being then a married woman she couid chaperon us. " We all asked our parents, when we went home at Christmas, if we could go with her, and were all refused--as you, papa, may iemember in my case. Then, on our return, Miss McMarahall proposed that we should get up a fund, putting into it all the money we could by any device coax from our parents, and place it in her hands to pay our expenses. She was to invite us to go with her and cur * v ? a?A ? v, parents 'Fere 10 ueuevc mat ?c ncic iu w ??.? free guests. But we could not get near enough money for the purpose. "At the beginning of the spring term, Julia got changed around so as to room ith mo. She used to talk to me until I became completely carried away with the alluring details of the proposed trip.. J&he pictured the sensation ten elegantly dreswdand handsome youug American ladies would create in the fashionable circles in Europe, with titled young men following in our train and giving us entertainments. '"At last she proposed that I should take some money from the bank, knowing as she did that you, papa, kept the keys. I remember how I started when she broached the subject. but she told me how many thousands of dollars there were in a bank, and said that just enough money to make up the sum needed would never be missed, and, if it should be, I would not be suspected at all. " I came home in the midsummer vacation full of the plan, and declared, you know, my intention to remain at home during the autumn to see to our moving into the new house. "After I had made up mv mind to do wrong, circumstances seemed to conspire to lead me on. I planned and planned. I wont often to the bank to see you and petted old Silver-stocking more than ever. I kuew all about the combination lock of the safe, and where you and Mr. Strand used to set d wn the numbers. "When you sent MA Remiugton to look r.t our house the thought came to me that I would uot tell her about the secret cupboard, aud that perfected my plan. I could always go about in the dark freely and in familiar places, and find anything I wanted nearly as easily as if it were light. I kept one of the two keys to the hall door of our old house, and knew w here you placed the keys of the bank at night "When you and Mr. Strand both went over to that meeting I thought my opportunity had come, \bout miduight, iu tho midst of the storm that had come up soon after you had gone, I put on my oil silk coat, left the house, went through the grounds by your summer path, and e tered the side door of the bank. 44 Silver-atociiing Lever uiaue a iiuimj except to suiflf and sniff to make sure that it was I. I had taken my traveling bag to pnt the money in. and a wax taper to light the safe with after I had opened it There was such a lot of money I took more than I had intended to. After I had strapped my bag I reached out and took another note that was left loose in a little drawer, and tucked it under the flap. "I Lurried out of the bank, though carefully locking the safe and doors after me, and weut directly across the street to Mr. Remington's. I easily entered the hall and placed the bag in the cupboard. That ten-dollar note, no doubt, got displaced, while I was getting the bag in behind the hat-rack to place it in the cupboard, and fell into the con.er. "I didn't dare carry the money home for fear you might be suspected, and* our house | searched. Besides, Julia was away on a j pleasure trip with friends, and I could not send the money to her at once. And you remember, dtar papa, that you li&d promised to lakeine to the city with you the next time you should go. I thought 1 could then cany the money to her myself. " After I had returned to my room, undiscovered by any one. and meditated upon what I had done. I thought I should die. The next morning before I was up?I had slept very late, for I did not shut my eyes till nearly daylight?I heard that the money had been missed. I was almost crazy, and became almost ill from the excitement and the cold I took from being out thfit dreadful night. "I have dreamed over and over of replacing the m<<ney, and have thought about it al' tin- | time when awako. I am so bad I can never I bope to be forgiven, but I am glad thut you, papa, now know it all, for 1 have felt so wicked all these weeks when you aud everybody el so b.wo been so kiud to me. 1AU] AND PORT BEAUFORT, S. "Julia McMarsh&U has written to me several ' limes, but the letters are all there in my writ- 1 ing-desk, unopened. I have had letters, too, , from some of the other members of the ' Ten Tried Travelers.' They are good girls, and one of them wrote me lately that lladam Leclerc had sent Miss McMarshail away from the school, it having been found out tiat she was an adventuress. The girls were all so thankful that they did not get led away by her. Oh, clear, they have no idea how wicked I have ( been!" * The long, wean- weeks of sickness, suffering ' and contrition that Kthel endured were thought 1 to be sufficient punishment for the crime she ; had committed, if indeed, it could, under the j circumstances, be called a crime. The villagers, one and all, who had kuown and loved her from her babyhood, readily fell in with the opiuion of the old doctor, ami very considerately took a charitable view of the affair. This being the sequel of the mysterious , Flint Rock Bank robbery, the Remingtons did not deem ibbest to wait for a legal tribunal to pa* upon their innocence, but were satisfied 1 wirh the hearty congratulations of their friends over the quiet withdrawal of the cruel indict meut against them. Ethel had suffered too , much to be quite the light-hearted girl she had been. But she was finally graduated from a leading seminary, and is now the beloved and honored principal of a family school for young 1 ladies, where you may be sure sho profits from her own sad experience*?Illustrated Weekly. A Terrible .Midnight Scene. At about half-past twelve o'clock at j; ? -?b j. ~ TTnlm wo a o n_ 1 , lllgll I, Ha ;ui. UUUU nun t. yproaching the store of Miss Mary KuLu, i his sister, on North Summer street, near Monroe, Nashville, Tenn., he noticed that the gas lamps on each side of the building had been turned down. This aroused his suspicions. He had no ; sooner entered the yard than Re saw a < mau trying to bore through one of the shutters. Mr. Kuhn at once opened fire, ( and the burglar dashed out of the gate i and along North Summer street. The : pistol shot had been heard by policemen i Broderick and Tindall, who were near i the comer of Monroe and North Sura- , mer streets. As the burglar came dash- i iug along Officer Broderick ordered h m to halt, and the command not being obeyed, followed ifc with a shot. The j mau was tiien about ten yards off, and i as he came up was collared by the two i policemen. i The officers had hardly lightened their ] grip upon the prisoner before, as if by ] magic, they were surrounded by thirty \ or forty excited men. How they got ] there so quickly, the policemen say is a j puzzle to them. One of them, who had ] a handkerchief tied over the upper part ; of his face, said fiercely : "1 his man is j our meat." " No," put in Brodeiick," , "he is ours; you must not interfere j with officers of the law." " Give him to us, or you are a dead man," demanded : the unknown, and as lie spoke his pistol \ was poked into Broderick's face. The < officers saw that resistance was useless ; , they were overpowered. I In half the time it takes to write this, j ] a rop.i was thrown over the burglar's i ^ head, and he was dragged on along North Summer, then down Madison ( street to the river. A gentleman fol- , lowed the lynchers, but was warned off , when-he reached the bluff. He distinctly heard a loud shriek, a splash, and , then all was quiet. The burglar had 3 met his fate in the Cumberland. , When we Realize Ourselves. [ As the trials of life thicken and the i dreams of other days fade, one by one iu J the deep vista of disappointed hope, the heart grows weary of the struggles, aud i we begin to realize our insignificance. < Those who have climbed to the pinnacle j of fame, or revel in luxury and wealth, go 1 to the grave at last with the poor mendi- 1 cant who begs pennies l y the wayside, j and like him, are soon forgotten. Gene- ! rations after generations, says an eloquent modern writer, have felt as we feel, and : their fellows were as active in life as ours ; are now. They passed away as vapor, i while nature wore the same aspect of beauty as her creator commanded her to be. And so, likewise, shall it be when we are gone. The heavens will be as bright over our graves as they are now ; around our path; the world will have the j : same attraction for offsprings yet unborn j that she had once for ourselves, and that i1 she has now for our children. Yet a 1 little while, and all this will have hap- i pened. Days will continue to move on, ( and laughter aud song will be heard in every chamber iu which we died; and the eye that mourned for us will be dried, and will glisten with joy, and even our j children will cease to think of us, an? ;1 will not remember to lisp our names.? j Goodrich. "Conldn't Lie lor that Money." A story is told of a young Waterville, ! Me., lawyer, who was of convival turn, j who had in his hands a number of un- ! settled accounts against an old farmer in ) the vicinity, who never paid any debts : until he was sued, and then only after loud outcries against the lawyers for i: "grinding the faces of the poor." One day he came in to settle a bill, when the lawyer offered to discount him a dollar and a half if he would go into the street, mingle with all the groups of people whom he might meet and lead the conversation up to a point where he could incidentally remark that he (the lawyer) was a sharp mid worthy fellow. The ' old man wanted the money, but finally he said impressively : "Squire! I'm a very old man and have done many wicked things in my life ; but with my views of eternity I can't lie like that for m nev." The dollar and a half was dis counted without extorting any recompense therefor. hating 1'eople. Hate not. It is not worth while. Your life is not long enough to make it pay to cherish ill will or hard thoughts toward anyone. What if that man has cheated you, or that woinnn flayed you false ? What if this friend lias forsaken you in your time of need, or that cue having won your utmost confidence, your warmest love, has concluded that he prefers to consider and treat you as a stranger? Let it all pass. What difference will it make to you in a few years, when you go hence to the " undiscovered country ?" All who treat you wrong now will lie more sorry for it then than you, even in your deepest disappointing and grief, can be. A few more, smiles, a few more tears, some pleasure, much pain, a little longer hurrying and worrying in the world, i some hasty greetings and abrupt fare: wells, and life will be over, and the insurer and the injured will be laid away and ere loug forgotten. Is it worth while to hate each other ? FOR' ROYAL C( t C., THURSDAY, . IT WAS TOO MK'II. Wonders on Lucky Ilnl?lwin?n Ilnnch?A Costly Team 8pecdiii|{ the Plow. Lucky Baldwin's ranch, near Los' Angeles, Cal., is becoming as well known throughout the country as the palatial hotel that bears his name in San Fran- j cisco, and many noted Eastern capitalists I on their \isit to California make a point of visiting the southern counties on pur- : pose to take a view of his farm. Recently ! a wall-known New York financier arrived ; in Los Angeles on a visit, says a Coli- I foruia paper, and on the following morning was up bright and early to make j a tour of the ranch under the guidance of his host. This gentleman was loud in his en- ! - " * ? 1 A 1 | comiums 01 an ne saw?me semi- u-upii-ui j fruits, the fine crops, the broad pastures ( ?and then he asked to see the famous stock of animals of which he had heard ! so much. Wending their way toward ' the stables, some two miles distant, they j came across a ten-acre field of wild flowers, which, from their variety and brilliancy of hues, astonished the stranger. " Yes," said his host, with a quiet smile, "that's my polishing crop;" and when his guest turned to him with an inquiring gaze, he resumed: " You see, I need a great deal of beeswax to polish the furniture of the Baldwin, and that's the bees' pasture." The visitor was puzzled, but still, remembering on what a vast scale some affairs in California were conducted, he simply made a note of it. A few inclosures being passed, they came upon a large field in which were pastured immense flocks of sheep, and when his guest expressed his wonder at their numbers, his host remarked quietly that "it wasn't a bad hog crop." "Hog crop!" exclaimed his companion ; " why these are sheep." "True," replied Mr. Baldwin ; " but pasturage is scarce tliis rear, and many prefer shearing their flocks and then killing them to fatten the hogs, that command a good price in the San b'rancisco markets, while sheep sire almost worthless." Our financier began to imagine he was being quizzed, , but on second thought he acknowledged that this might be also the case, and held his tongue. Cro sing this small plain, tneycame to a field that was being plowed, and driving up to a team Mr. Baldwin asked how they worked. The ^uest glanced anxiously at his watch and sxclaimcd : "I've only an hour to spare, ind want to seo some of your horses." " Well, look at that team," was the renlv : "how do thev work, James?" he C?J V continued to the driver. 4' The hay is piiet, but the sorrel i* a little skittish, sir," the plowman answered. " Oh, bother," said the stranger ; "I want to look at your thoroughbreds, and not at plow horses." " Wl/fct do you think I mid for them?"* said Mr. Baldwin quietly. " Oh, perhaps $.300 for tlte span." "Multiply it by ten and yon ire nearer the mark," was the reply. "Five thousand dollars !" exclaimed the stranger in almost speecldess astonishment. "And then make it four times as much end you've got the correct figure." " Twenty thousand dollars!" echoed the guest, "and what in thunder (ire they ?" Only Grinsteail and Rutherford." " Here, let me get away," was the stranger's reply. That you turn acres of flowers into furniture polish, and flocks of sheep into a hog crop, I can believe, but that you put to the plow two of the finest thoroughbreds in America, I'll never credit." And, despite Baldwin's assurances that the slight work was of benefit to the horses, that illustrious stranger swallowed the flower oud hog stories, but would never believe that it was possible to speed the plow with a $20,000 team. Torturing1 Turtles. The tortoise shell of commerce is merely the scales that cover the bony shields of the turtle. These scales are thirteen in number, varying from an eighth to a quarter of an inch in thick- i ness. A large turtle will furnish about ' eight pounds. "To detach this shell from a living turtle," says one who has seen the operation, " is a cruel process, which made my blood creep to witness. The fishers do not kill the turtles. Did they do so they would in a few years exterminate tliem. When the turtle is caught, they fasten him, and cover his back with dry leaves, or grass, to which they set fire. The heat causes the plates to separate at their joints. "A large knife is then carefully inserted horizontally beneath them, aud the lamime lifted from the back, care being taken not to injure the shell by too much heat, nor to force it off until the heat has prepared it for separation. Many turtles die under this cruel operation, 1-v.i* inofnn/ino nrfl nlimPTnilR 1T1 TvVllfdl L/Ull IUOiailV/tC? mv they have been caught a second time with the outer coating reproduced ; but in such cases instead of thirteen pieces it is a single piece. I could never bring myselt' to witness this cruelty more than once, and was glad the process of scaling was carried on out of sight of the linf. Had the poor turtles the power of shrieking, they would have made the barren island ring with their cries of torture." Charity. Surrounded by affluence, how npt are we to disregard the beseeching poverty of our neighbor. Arrayed in our costly raiment, how apt are we to revolt at the sight, of the patched and scanty covering of another's body 1 Graciously smiled upon by fortune, how apt are we to jibe at the unsuccessful struggle of a less favored companion ! Warmly nestled in our beds under richly-wrought tapestry, how apt are we to forget that a fellowbeing may be at the same time striving to obtain life-giving warmth from the hard-frozen ground under the cold blue c mopy of the heavens! Mankind was create! equai, and although circumstances, liarsli and bitter, may ileal severely with one member of the family, that, one is a-I ranch the creature of Go J, and as important and noble in His sight, as the one whom the world has endowed more abundantly with its possessions. Therefore let us exercise charity toward the poor of God's creatures, remembering that they are also possessed "f immortal souls, and what we render unto them here will be moat gloriously compensated for when IIo shall make up his jewels hereafter. T T 5MMER0IAL JULY 12, 1377. A FRENCH WIZARD. 31. lioudin Among I lie Arnbs And the Wonderful Tricks with which lie Astonished Them. The most famous of magicians was the late Robert Houdin. He was never excelled, and seldom equaled in his calling. He was well declared to be the prince of conjurors, for he elevated his occupation to a profession, and was an able mathematician and mechanician. TTi? innrarmifv xenq unlimited, and it ? rv- j ? j was absolutely impossible to detect the secret of his innumerable tricks and performances. Without the least assistance he would hold an audience in delight and amazement for hours, everything being done with a graceful facility which showed that Houdin absolutely enjoyed his business. He taught bis son many of his original tricks, but never imparted them to others, while the secret of the most remarkable performances has died with their master, and no one can ever hope to reproduce them. Probably the first instance in which a conjuror has been called upon to exercise his profession in government employ was that of Robert Houdin. He was sent to Algeria by the French minister of foreign affairs to exercise the black art ia that benighted country, hoping thus to destroy the influence exercised among the Arabs by the Marabouts?an influence which was often mischievously applied. By a few cunning, yet clumsy tricks, these Marabouts passed themselves off as sorcerers, and were held in fear and veneration by the ignorant tribes. The French government desired to show the Arabs that these would-be leaders among them were mere imposters, and that their pretended supernatural wnfhAnf til A 1 O f fmi fl pUWClB we ID niiuuuv iiuo ivuuv tvuuu? tion in truth. The best way to do this, it was thought, would be to send one among them who should eclipse their skill, and thus discredit their science and pretended powers. It was resolved to | send Robert Houdin, and the wizard was ordered to appear at the government office in Paris. Houdin was a little puzzled to know what the minister of foreign affairs could want of him. The plan and purpose of the government were made known to him, and he entered with spirit into the idea and its successful application. With every facility and all needed protection, Robert Houdin sailed for Algeria to astonish the natives. Arriving under such favorable auspices, he went at once to work upon tiie object of his mission, and gaping crowds followed him everywhere, thinking him to be inspired. He succeeded in showing the people that he could vanish the famous would be prophets who had obtained such control over the ignorant masses of the population, and thus threw them into such discredit that he succeeded in disarming them almost entirely of their influence. Still, there was one of the Marabouts whom he had not yet met, and who scoffed at the reported power of this ^A .lriTv ttrea V*orof.\ro on. r lflit'Il Wl&cllll. A UftJ H tio pointed when the two should appear before the people, and each give evidence of their own peculiar powers. One of the great pretensions of the Marabout was to invulnerability. At the moment that a loaded musket was tired at him, md the trigger pulled, he prontbnced a few cabalistic words, and the weapon would not go off. Robert Houdin instantly detected the trick, and showed that the touch-hole of the musket was carefully plugged. This rendered the Arab conjuror furious, and he, of course, abused his French rival without mercy. Houdin was perfectly cool, and said: " You are augry with me ?" "I am," said the Arab. " And would be avenged?" "Tfts." " It is very easy." " Tell me the way." "I will show you," said Houdin, quietly. The" Arab was all attention. "Take a pistol, load it yourself. Here PiO nna in fho VinrrrO Rut stop "? " For what ?" " Mark the bullet -with your knife, so that you may know it." The Arab did as he was told. "You are quite certain now," said Houdin, "that the pistol is properly loaded?" "Yes." " Tell me, do you feel no remorse in killing me thus, even though I cousent ?" "No." "It is strange." "You are my enemy," ho coldly answered, "and I will kill you." " Wait but a moment." Houuin tin n stuck an apple on the point of a knife, and calmly gave the word, as he held the fruit raised in one hand: "Fire!" The pistol was discharged, the apple flew far away, and there appeared in its place, stuck on the point of the knife, tne builet the Marabout bad marked. The spectators, though aroused to intense excitement of feeling, remained mute with stupefaction, while the Marabout bowed before his superior, savin : " Allah is great. Iam vanquished." n i ' 1. -f xl- _ t?-; 1 ureal was me mump a ox me jl icum wizard. Houdin then called for an empty bowl, which he kept constantly full of boiling coffee, though but few of the Arabs would taste of it, for they were sure that it was the evil one's coffee-pot from whence it came. He then told them that it was within his power to deprive them of all strength, and to restore it to them at will, and lie produced in illustration a small box, so light that a child could lift it with the ti users. And now came their astonishment. This box suddenly became so heavy that the strongest man present could n'?t raise it, and the Arabs, who prize physical strength above everything, looked witli terror upon the magician, who, thev doubted not, could annihilate them by the mere exertion of his will. The people expressed this belief, in which Houdin, of course, confirmed them, and promised that at a day appointed he would convert one of tin m into smoke. The day came, and tho throng was RIBT $2.00 per prodigious. A fanatical Marabout bad agreed to give himself up to the Freuch sorcerer for the experiment. The preparations were on a grand scale. The Marabout was made to stand upon a table, and was covered with a transparent gauze. Then Houdin and another person lifted tho table by the ends, when the Arab disappeared in a profuse cloud of smoke. The terror of the spectators was indescriba'de. They rushed out of the place, and ran a long distance before some of the boldest could make up their minds to return and look upon the Marabout. They found him near the spot wliei e he had so mysteriously disappeared, but he could not answer their questions?he could tell them nothing at all?and only gazed wildly at them like one bereft of his senses. lie was entirely ignorant of what had liapj pened to him. This was Houdin's closing exhibition in Arabia. He had filled the minds of the people with wonder, he was venerated by all, while the pretentious Marabouts were in utter disgrace. Their influence was banished. He had met these conjurors on their own ground, and had, in a most incredible short time, completely vanquished them. The object of the French government was completely attained, and Hondin returned to his home. He had made no pecuniary terms with the minister of foreign affairs before obeying his orders; but so well satisfied was the government with his remarkable success, that, besides paying all his expenses, he was presented with a check upon the treasury for 50,000 francs. Such is a single chapter in the life of a famous French wizard. Thoughts for Saturday Night, Confession of fault makes half amends. Denying a fault doubles it. He who finds pleasure in vice, and pain in virtue, is a novice in both. If men praise your efforts, suspect their judgment; if they censure them, your own. Courage consists not in hazarding without fear, but in being resolutely minded in a just cause. To be able to bear provocation in an argument of great wisdom ; and to forgive it, is a proof of a great mind. Time and pains allotted to serious improvements should be employed about things of most use and consequence. Such as have virtue always in their mouth, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others while itself is insensible to the music. Why should we bo angry with a man who tumbles on us blindfolded ? In effect, most of our quarrels are of our own making, either by mistake or aggravation. r The richest endowments of mind rrc temperance, prudence and fortitude; prudence is an unive sal virtue, which enters into the composition of all the rest, and, where that is not present, fortitude loses its name and nature. Friendship is of a large signifies ion. By friendship we mean the greatest love and the greatest usefulness ; and the most open communication and the noblest sufferings; and the most exemplary faithfulness and the severest truth. The only uniform and perpetual cause of public happiness is public virtue. The effect of all other things which are considered as advantages will be found casual and transitory. Without virtue, nothing can be securely possessed or properly enjoyed. An envious man waxeth lean with the fatness of his neighbors. Envy is the daughter of pride, the author of murder and revenge, the beginner of secret sedition and the perpetual tormentor of vir tue. Envy is the filthy slime of the soul; a venom, a poison, or quicksilver, which consumetli the fiesli and drieth up the marrow of the bones. Features of the Silk Trade. The fifth annual report of the silk growers' association announces that l,28d,860 pounds of silk have been in tliia mnnfcrv during mauiuavbuivu A** y w tlie year ending December 3L The value of this product is $26,593,103. The chief feature of the silk trade during the last year has been the extraordinary fluctuation in value. 1'n lb75,' raw silk was selling at the lowest figures that ruled eighteen year3 before. France and Germany were using far less than usual; Economy in dress had become prevalent in this country, and the importation of raw silk from China and Japan was steadily increasing. But on unusually cold spring in France and Italy caused a great mortality in silk worms. The Asiatic crop declined ten or fifteen per cenf. A great rise followed in July of fully 100 per cenf. The effect of these sudden changes in price upon our manufacturers has been injurious. The " under-valua' ion frauds" have also been one of the prominent incidents connected with the silk trade during the past year. Nearly all the American houses formerly engaged in importing silk have withdrawn from the business. The business has gone into the hands of foreign manufacturers who virtually consign their goods to commission houses here. Gen. Grant's Gift from London. The gold casket containing the free dom of the city of London, which was presented to General Grant by the lo&i mayor, has on the obverse central panel a view of the capitol at Washington and on the right and left are the monogram and arms of the lord mayor. On the|reverse side is a v'ew of the entrance to the Guildhall and an appropriate inscription. At the ends are two figures, also in gold, finely modeled and chased, representing the city of L >ndoti and the United States, ami bearing their respective shields, the latter execut- d in rieli enamel. At the corners are dbuble columns, laurel wreathed with corn and cotton, and on the cover a cornucopia emblematical of the fertility and prosperity of the United Stat"8. The ros \ shamro k and thistle are nlsoin'ro l ced. The cover is surmounted by the arms of the city of L rndon. 1 he casket ia imported by Ainer can eaj les. molded and chase in gold, the wh> le standing on a velvet plinth decorated with stars and stripes. JNE i jp Annnm Single Cop? 5 Cents. ? -C'olin's Fault. " Why are your eyes ?o bright, uA ctdd, So soft and true, And tenderly blue?" Colin looked in tiiem. ' Why are your cheeks so pink, my child. With a dainty flush Like the Mayflower's blush ?" .; Colin praised them. "Why are your lips so red, my child, | Like a fragrant rose, - * | When the sunshine glows ?" ' Colin kissed them. ? Mrs. M. F. Butts. - , , Items of Interest* Victims of the ocean?sea-gulls, j A doubly guilty city -Cin-cin-nati. A drop too much- the hangman's. A Western paper heads its war news "Czar? Czar?parilla." Motto for a haunted house?"IH make ghost of him that lets me. '?[Hamlet Bestauraut waiters in New York get from f2G to $35 a month/ And more, if it is feesible. "There now," said a little girl rummaging a drawer in the bureau, "grandpa has gone to heavcu without his spectacles." A Pittsburgh paper observes that there not an unmarried woman in that city who remembers the last seventeen-year locusts. ., This is the season at which the amazed washerwoman clutches a painful nest of flthhdoks in the soiled pantaloons of juvenile igmticans. j The intelligent compositor who was reyqnsiI ble for the statement '* that is I growing stout," is still pursuing.yie evil, tenor I of his weigh. .. .. ^ "My luck," exclaimed a Bohemfiof, ^'i# so I atrociously b d, that I believe.ifrl werettoonvest in some soap, washing would gp out of fashion to-morrow. There is going to be a Mohamniodin tuxislon of England, fonr Turkish student# being on their way thither, two to study law andtwo to qualify themselves for other prtfiidcM ' n Borne fishermen off Greenwich, Cenii., reported that they saw au immense fplpaj of P"tato bugs swimming lrom Loi/g lilafKfahd making across the sound for the Connecticut shore- , L Last night, about twelve o'clock, there were some cats on the rear roo/, who, to taJkihgWer the map of Europe, -requested ooqMeUtfhtkpt the hues should be drawn around Tschkajatoochm-ayow! wqew' We were in some doubt aa 4o-. thottoqnr method to address tho czar several years aiio, ; BUUj IJt'MlU UiXg? ft uiu ? > ? ....M j genial smile : "Never mind, old fellow; tod me : Aleck."? Rochester Deriioci at. Two young brothers may be air devotedly ' attached to each other as were Dainwu. and Pythias, but you will never bear of yi'ft Hatching the scuttle from the Hands of the other and insisting upon going down ceiLft to bring ap the coal. b v xt in A young wife remonsfrated .with her busb?nd? a dissipated spendthrift, on M^tfJhdhet. "Love," said he, "I am like the prodigftbftSk; I shall reform by-and-Lge." "1 will be like the prodigal" sou, too," *terepl|ed, "for I will arise and go to my father." From returns received by the bureau of statistics, it appears that during the mouth of May 7.291,765 pounds of fresh beef, 6f the value of ?699,076, were exported to tib(e Untied Kingdom, of which 5,069.700 pounds wer^ .shipped from New York, ana 2,217, JOo pounds from Philadelphia. 44 Madam," he remarked (he alwayspills his wife " Madam " when he desires to be -impressive)?"when thousands are starting hoft thankful you should be. even in muslins and calico s. 'Every dime should be- looked lifter nowadays." Just then a boy rapped at the door with a $14 box of cigars, which the speaker lud ordered Bent up on his way home. * The Cossacks and hwlenwe. .w j An English writer shows how the OftB- . sacks may apply science in the present war, as follows: 44 In a l>elt round tyeir waists they carry a few pounds: of gun cotton or dynamite, and with tlffehigmy destructive explosive they lady work incalculable harm. A small ckaige of gun cotton placed simply upon rails and fired with a fuse suffices to mow BtrVeiai *feet of the iron to a distance of Many yitdn, thus rendering the railway unserviceable on the instant. A trooper may dispjpunt, place a charge at the base of a telegraph pole, fire it, and be in his.saftdw again within sixty seconds. Wirde may wis be cut and communications stopped, in the heart of an enemy's country by fearless riders,* while lines of railway pre entirely attheiT mercy. "Even light brfdges and well-built stockades MfeyOe thrown down by the violent detonation ?f compressed gun cotton, aud. forest roads considerably obstructed by trees thrown across, which are never so rapidly felled as when a small charge of fhW explosive is fired at their roots. ?? i ' I i i Ifnl \ Abont the Dobrudsefao. ?mi - -rw_i -1?;a nknf IliC i^uuruuocua JO C!?JT<UV.V ?... in by natural barriers?on the north and west by the Danube, on the east by the Black sea, and on the south by the river and lake of Rara-su, which may be said to separate the fientosula between Kustendjie and Tchemavoda from Bulgaria. Here, where the is divided by a valley; into two.1mk? sec- * tions, " the ruins of the forbncatwns of | Trajan still present a hftge -fHStoMfc ivafl, which would not b& wtbo|rttfn?tttary importance in the* event of a Russian invasion frcinvftb**vVittfis of the Danube." Tha Ottoman government has for eome time, epdf?TQyed ky establish a leyal Moliammwlab popiflition in the Dobrudschrf" as revolutionary elements in Bulgaria.- An npportunity of doing Jhis.Wft* affa*k:4 bj" the j immigration en incuse^pi ttw TarJafH iu i the Crimea. Many oi these fettled in ! the Dobrndscho, ond dftl their befct io i cultiva'e the land; bat they are not a I warlike people, ami -it- Jff'l doubtful I whether they would pifcsep?pnj effectual resistance to a Hussinn 'invasion. '' V ' .? ' tji n! Mt Tlie Absent 3ftn5e<J MAn. A verv respeJtafele citizen of Detroit decided the -the Wwe 1 glass cure, and-bv teqfriillto%liwi^a i glacier home with lihft iftj IliitPtf'V"* , the window where it was tap,l$jfu$ in. It n wasn't the glacier's business to nofioelbafc the window was on the north fddHef' the house, \\ herenorayofsnnsbiweefcer.o-qpe, j atul he tlnished hid work according to in| strncticns. Theqitipen returned jupt as .the job was completed, sn . after walking around th^hotr^'ttfo or three times 1 he rem rkeil: *" "Well, it seams to me we have got ; the wrung window." "No sun here, replied the painter; " what shall I do?" 1 "WeiI,"said the citizen, as ho squinted around, " we'll leave it for a day or two. If I cai get the sun mound lier?? some way it will be all right. If I can't we'll have to take the glass out." ' * j The glazier is waiting to see if the man e;ia. handle the sun.?Free Prcts. \