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VOL. 48.
HUNTINGDON, PA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 1873.
NO. 19.
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When are the Weary Blest ?
BY  L.   L.   SEICE.
When aro the weary blest?
When are their trials o'er (¦ Do thsy ever find a rest
(Tpoa this earthly shere'.'
Uo thcv ever find u home Far from the noisy street ?
Do they ever cease to ronm And rest their weary feet?
Do they ever find rcpo.^o To case the aching head ?
Iiappy indeed are those Who find it with tlie dead !
Does sunshine fill their hearts ' With singing birdaand flewera.
And every joy that starts 111 spring's reviving hours'!
Or, are their hearts loo sad .4nd sick with hope deferred
For summer light snd glad And bud and singisg bird ?
When are the weary blest?
When do they ever find, Delight to thrill the hrca.'st
Ortranquilize the mind?
Does joy come in the night Borne upon slumber's sea ?
Does darkness bring thom light Or hide tlieir misery?
Sometime? withaching sight, Men waich all diiy the sea,
Then t»rn away nt night In hopeless agony.
But when the mast lights, Ani soa aud sky arc gray
Like a vision in a dream The ship comes up tho bay.
If joy should come like this And charm them in their sleep
Oh ! may they dream of bliss But never wake to weep.
When are the weary blest?
When are their trials o'er ? Do they ever find a rest
GpoB this earthly shore?
Do they ever cease to weep?
•Do they ever cease to sigh, Until nt last they lie,
Ib death's forgetful sleep ?
on. Let me stay here a niglit, miss. I's trahbleil five day.s siuce I left him. ilidin' like. I's awful hungry, 'pears like I'd drop, and olo mussa's arter nie. For the Illb of heaben, miss, let me hide .some- where's and gib me je.s' a crust. Massa Judge promise Massa Morton 'ud help me and it's kept me up. Missus will. I know."
I knew that grandfather had given suc¬ cor to ."ome of these poor wretches before; but I felt thar I might be duin;,' wrong by admitting a stranger in his ahsenee.
Cauticn nud pity struggled with me.— .\t last 1 saiii: -You have it note froin the Judge. 1 suppose .sir ;'"
••]. had sume writin" on a p;![X'r," said the man. "but I's lost it do night it rained so. Ah, miss, I's tdlin' the truff—Judge sent me sure as I's a sinner. I's been helped along so far an it 'pears like I mu.s' get to Canady. (.'an't go back noways.— Wife's dare, and do young uns. Gotclear a year ago. Jlis.?, I'll pray for j'ou ebery day ov my life ef you'll jcs' be.so good to me.    Tank you. jniss."
For somehow, when he spoke of wife and children, I had stepped back and let him in.
It was the back hall door to which the rap had coma and thc kitchen v/as close at hand. 1 led him thither. When I saw how worn he was, hov/ wre;ched, how his eyes glistened, and how imder his rough blue shirt his heart beat so that jou eould count the pulses, I forgot my caution. I brought out cold meat and bread, drew a mug of cider, and spread thew on tho ta¬ ble. The negro ate voraciously, as only a starving mau could eat, and 1 left him to find Anthony, to whom I intended to give directions fur his lodging ihroujjhtmt the night.
\nthonY w
afford an opportunity, he had decoyid annah with a lie aud hid in the study. He knew nothing of the negro's prcsoace in the house aod. being naturally supe^^ti- tioits, had actually fancied niy protestor a creature fn.m thc other world, and sub¬ mitted without a struggle.
Long ago—so we hoard—the slave, slave no longer, met his wife and children beyond danger; .and now that the bonds are broken for all in this free land, doubt¬ less his fears are over and he sits beside his humble (.'anadian hearth when eventide conies i.;i.
Triumphs of Science.
Ditcoverirs of Ihe Last  Twenti/   Yean— Thtmisoii ou '•Depths r,/ the Sea."
This generation—allowing thirty-three years to the generation—has "assisted" at five primary scientific discoveries.
I. Julius Robert Mayor, of Ileiibronn, Germany, calculated in 1842—about thirty and a half years ago—"the mechanical ci:|uivalent of heat" — an etjuivalent subsequently aad independently deduced through seven yciirs, by Dr. James P. Joule, of Manchester, England. Mayer and Jouly proved that ibrccs were never destroyed, but only transf/rmcd, wheu to our untrained faculties they appeared to be entirely lo»it. The principal of the con¬ servation and transformation of forces is tho most general physical truth obtained by man since the great chemical discovery that matter was not lost but transformed, wheu from the visible solid or lifuiid .state it became an invisible gas.
a vessel to make deep sea dredgings during the summer. The Royal Society heartily indorsed the Thomson-Carpenter plan, and the Lords of the Admiralty ordered the Lightning on this special service. In 1809 and 1870, tho requests of the Royal So¬ ciety were repeated, and acceded to by the Admirality. In the latter years the Por¬ cupine performed dredging .service Final¬ ly, in 1872 the Challenger was especially fitted up fur a voyage around the world, with the more especial purpo.?es of study¬ ing the distribulion of mariue life at all depths, the temperature nfthe oceans, and the eouiirmatii-u of ihe bads oi' the respect¬ ive seas, 'i'he Challenger is expected every day at this port from tbe Bahamas, to which islands she steered after loaving the Azores.
During the years 18C8, 18CD. and 1870 thera were in all six cruises—one in 1868, near the Faroe Islands; three iu 1809, the first oif the west canst of Ireland, under Mr. Gwyn Jeffreys's more especial super¬ intendence ; the second ofi" the west coast of Franco and in the Bay of Biscay, un¬ der thc eharge of Professor Wyvill Thom¬ son ; and the third over the course of 1868, near the Faroe Islands, under Dr. Carpen¬ ter's superintendence; and two in 1870, tbe first from England to Gibralter, under Mr. Gwyn Jeffreys, and the second in the Mediterranean Sea, under Dr. Carpenter Dredging was successfully carried ob at a depth of more than 2,500 fathoms—about three miles. Nothing tells more forcibly the great place occupied by science in tho popular regard than that Carpenter, Thom¬ son, and Jeffreys tlctormined to make a re¬ port to the public, as v/ell as reports to tho Royal Society and the Admirality. The difficulties in the way of a joint work were j found insuperable, and the duty  of acting
'L'o my surprise  Anthony wa.s  nowhere about the house or garden.
Hannah must have taken hiui witli her j discovery, M. Boucher   de   Perthes mado j whose graphic accouut was made public iu across the lonely road to Maploton. 1 his excavations near Abbeville.   Ilofound   England just   before   his   sailing  inlhe
It was natural, but I felt angry. j the bones of men so intermingled with the I Challenger.—A'em  YorJc Daily Graphie.
II. Almost eontomporaneousiy with this | as "reporter" fell   upon    Prof.   Thomson, scovery, M. Boucher   de   Perthes mado i whose graphic accouut wi
I     Yet   I longed for Uaanah's return aad   hones of   extinct   animals   as to leave no j listencd_ anxiously until   the clock struck | doubt in his mind that man and the cave-
Flowers of Spring.
O, hardy firstlings ofthe ."iprino; .Strangers to fostering sun and dew How have I yearned and losged for you
And waited for your blossoming.
Lift up your modest waxen heads,
Low lying under faded leaves ;
Hark! how the west wind sobs and grieves: Forsake your cliacrless, dreary beds.
1 sought for you the long dny through.
By streams were dryads might have strayed In many a wooded nook aud glade.
In biv'jnts Lhe mavis only knew.
Brave little blossoms ofthe north,
When snow fell fa.9t and March windii 'u!ew,
Defying such a boistering crew. All noafraidyou ventured forth.
What nameless joy, what .=trange, rare blis.s. To gather yon unto my breast. And, folding you unto sweetest rest,
Yonr eyelids into sweet sleep kiss I
Yet is my gladness wed to pain ; The sight of you brings back to me A grief from wbich I fain would flee,
0, children ofthe wind and rain.
0, grief that rankles night and day, And never more will be gainsaid ; Back te the silent years and dead !
Why do you haunt me endlessly ?
Mks Mmy^-Wdkx.
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-OR- A   NIGHT OF .DANGER.
Tiiere was something—I forget what —to take grandfather and grandmother away from home ono day in October of the year I lived with tbem in Burns' Hollow. It may have been a funeral or some reli¬ gious meeting, for they both drove off dressed in their best, in the gig, with old Ajax harnessed to it, and after I had tuck¬ ed in grandma's iron gray silk skirt and ran biick to the house for grandpa's spec¬ tacles and had seen the gig vanish in the distance, I felt lonely. Rums' Hollow was a lonesome place at all times; and the handsome rambling mansion, which might have sheltered a regiment had a ghostly air about il when one walked through the upper rooms alone.
There were but two servants in the kitchen, Hannah Oaks and the Irish lad, Anthony. I heard them laughing merrily together, for, though Hannah was an old woman, she was full of fun ; and in five minutes the door opened and Hannah came iu wilh the tray.
"Please, miss," said she as she set it down, "may I rnn over to Mapleton to¬ night ? My sister's daughter had a boy last night they say. and I want to see it nat'rally—it's the first; I've ever had of grand neice or nephew."
"Who brought tho news ?" I asked.
"Anthony, miss," sjiid Uaunab. "He met George—that's my niece's husband— when he was out after the cow, straying as she always is, and told hiui to tell ILiu- nah she's a grand aunt."
"You may go," I said, "but don't stay lata. Grandpa and grandma may be away late and I feel nervous. To be sure there is Anthony, hut I never rely on him. Be certain not to stay late." I repeated this injunction with a sort of fright stealing over me—a presentment of evil I might say—and something prompted mc to add, "Be back by nine." Why, I can not say; but I felt as if at nine I should be in some peculiar danger.
Hannah promised, and afler doing all that I required went away, and I heard her heavy shoes on thc garden walk out¬ side.
Early as it was I had dropped the cur¬ tains aud lighted the wax candles on the mantel, and I sat long over my tea, finding a certain companionship in it, as women of all ages will. ; J sat thus a loug time and wsis startled from my reverie by a rap at the door—a timid Boit of rap—so th.it I knew at once that it was neither a member ofthe house nor an intimate friend. I waited, expect¬ ing Anthony to answer the door, but find¬ ing he did not, went to it myself.
It had grown quite dark and the moon rose late that night. At first I could only make out ii crouching figure at the bottom of the porch. But when I snoke it ad¬ vanced, and by the light of the hall lamp I saw a black man. I had always had a sort of fear of a negro and instinctively shrook away, biit as I did so he spoke in a huskj whisper :
"Thig is Massa Morton's, isn't it ?"
"Yes," / replied, "but grandfather is out."
I retreated ; he advanced.
"Please, miss," he said, "Judge B	
sent me here.    Ha sajti mas-sa 'ud help ine
nine. Then, instead of her footsteps, I heard the patter of raindro]js tmd the rum¬ bling of thunder, and looking out saw that a heavy storm waa coming on.
Xow, certainly, grandma and grandpa would not come, and Hannah, waiting for the storm to pass, would not be here for hours.    However,  my fear of the  negro
bear wero co-teniporaneou.s. His discover¬ ies were laughed at. All the naturalists were sure tbat man wa.-i a recent creature, as all theologians were, not long ago, sure that the earth was created in six da^s. six thousand years ago. Boucher de Perthes had to wait fur twenty years bef iic his ob- ervatioiLS   were   examined.    Then   tuey
was  quite gone, and I felt a certaiu pride : were found to bo real disciverics, and the
in conducting myself bravely under tbaso trying circumstances.
Accordingly, I went up .stairs, found in the attic sundry pillows and bolster.^, and carried them kitchonward.
"Here," said I, "make yo'irsslf a bod ou thc settee yonder aud be easy for the night. Xo one will follow you in such a terrible storm as this, and no doubt grand¬ pa will assist you when he returns h»Hic. Good night."
"Good night, and God bless you, miss," still speaking in a. very husky whisper.— .\nd so I left him.
But I did not go up stairs to my bed¬ room. I intended for that night to remaiu dressed, and to sit up in grandpa's arm chair, with candles and a book for compa¬ ny. Therefore I locked the door, took the iBost comfortable position, aud opening a- volume composed myself to read..
Reading, I fell asleep. How long I slept I caunot tell. I was awakened by a low sound like the prying of a chisel.
At first it mixed with my last dreaiu so completely that I took no heed of it. but at last I understood that some one was at work upon the lock of the door.
I sat perfectly motionless, the blood curdling in my veins, and still chip, chip, chip went the horrible little instrument, untii at last 1 kiisw whence the sounds came.
Back of the sitting room was grandpa's study. There, in a great old-fashioned safe, were scored the faoiily silver, grand¬ pa's jewelry, and sundry sums of money and valuable papers. The safe itself stood in a closet in a recess, and at the closet the thief was now at work.
Thc thief—ah. without doubt thc negro I had fed and .sheltered.
Perhaps the next act would bo to mur¬ der me ifl listened. The storm was still raging; but though the road waa lonely, better thau this house with sueh horrible conipany. I could not save my grand¬ father's property, hut I could save my own life.
I crept ;icro.ss the room and iuto the hall and to the door. 'Ihere. softly as I could. I unfastened the bars and bolts, but alas one wss above my reach. I waited and listened. Then I moved a hall chair to the spot and climbed upon it. In doing so I struck my shoulder against the door frame.
It wns hut a slight uoise, but at that: moment the chip of the chisel stepped, I heard a gliding foot and. horror of horrors, a man came from the study, sprang toward me and clutched me with both bands, hold¬ ing my arms as in a vise, while he hissed iu my car :
"You'd tell, would you? You'd call help ? You might better have slept, yoa had ; for you see you have got to pay for waking. I'd rather have let a child liko you off; but you know me now and I can't let you live."
1 stared in his face with horror mingled with an awful surprise; for now that be wus close to me 1 saw, ucit the negro, but our own hired man. Anthony—-\nthony. whom I supposed to be miles away with Hannah. He was little wore than a youth, and i had given him many n present and always treated him well.
I plead with him kindly.
"Anthony, I never did you any harm ; I am young ; I am a girl; don't kill me, Anthony. Take the money; don't kill me for my poor grandma's sake "'
"You'd tell on ms," said Anthony, o'og- gedly. "Likely I'd be caught. No, I've got to kill you."
As he spoke he tiDok his hands from my shoulders and clutched my throat'fiercely.
I had time to utter one suffocating shriek ; then I was strangled, dying; with sparks in my eyes and a sound of roaring waters in my cars, and then—what had sprung on my assassin with the silence ef a leopard ? What had clutched him from me, and stood over him with something glittering over his heart ? The mist clear¬ ed away—the blurred mists that had gath¬ ered over my eyes; as sight returned I saw the negro with his foot upon Antht)- ny's breast.
The fugitive whom I had housed and fed had saved my life.
'Ihen ten minutes after—ten minutes in which, but for that poor slave's presence, I would have beea hurried out of life— the rattle of wheels and tbo tardy feet of old Ajax were heard without, and my grandparents were with me.
It is needless to say that we were not ungrateful to my preserver ; needless, also, to tell of Anthony's punishment.
It came out during the trial thathe had long contemplated the robbery ; that the abseneo of my grandparents appearing to
reuiotq "antiquity of man" i.s now a com¬ mon-place, which no one with any preten¬ tion to accurate knowledge dares deny.
III. In 1S59—a little'iuore than thir¬ teen year.s ago—Prof'.'s^or Kirchhoff, of Heidelberg, who has paid the penalty of his zeal by the almost total loss of sight, presented the world with a physical truth of high gecerality and great importance. By the aid of the prism—when a nuaiber nf prisms are combined   the instrument is I five  dollars—^jes ten—if they   would tell
A Landlord Sold.
C-aptain S., kept a hotel iu the village of M., v.-hich—the hotel, not the village —was noted wr its poor acoonimodations and meagre J'are. One day a traveler came along called f(,>r supper, partook without Ciiiupiaiiit of the slander repast set beftire him, p:!id the half dollar which the cap¬ tain demiinded, and went on his way re¬ joicing, perhaps. .So fur nothing remark¬ able. Eut in about a week the traveler did what few overdid during tbe Capt.tin's reign—he came a second time and put up for the night. In the evening, as usual in small towns, a crowd gathered around the bar-room firo conversing upon various subjects, whea the Captain began to com¬ plain of rats. 'They were the pest ofhis lifo, he .Suid, and ho would give anybody
lied a "spectroscopy"—it was shown that the dark iines which crossed the solar spectrum—the ribbon into which tho or¬ dinary white light of tho sun is dispersed when it passes through a prism—were ab¬ sorption bands. P'raimhofer lines, as tbey .are called, could be made in the laboratory by allowing: the light of any .substances to "be anoijv.ed after passing through its own vajwr. Metals found on the earth have been detected in the sun and the stars. The fundamental conception of this new study—spectrum analysis—is, that every substance has it mark of its own by which, when it is raised to thc luminou.? paint, it can be infallibly detected. There is uo such thing as forging signatures here. The marvelloi'S beauty and complexity of these signatures have enraptured immense audi¬ ences, while Professors Tyndall, Barker, and Young have recently presented thera to their consideration.
IV. In 1858, Mr. Alfred Russel Wal¬ lace, who was then .studying life in the East Indian -\rehipalago, discovered tho principle of "Natural Selection"—that iu the struggle for existence the fittest sur¬ vive. Uc sent his paper to the LinniEan Society of London, througii Kir Charles Lycll. Long beforo this, Mr. Darwin had ihought out the same hypothesis, and writ¬ ten a .short paper embodying it. This pa¬ per was read to Dr. Hooker and Lyell, but rem.iined unjiublished. On the joint re¬ commendation of these naturalists, Darwin prepared a short paper fo be published with Wallace',"! sketch. In the following year, "The Origin of Species, by Moms of Natural Selection," made its appearance. Newton's "Prinoipia" hardly achieved in a century such a revolution as "ThoOrigin
him a suro way of getting rid of them.
A dozen remedies were immediately suggested by the loungers. Oue prescrib¬ ed poison ; another suggested traps; an¬ other rat-terriers; while the fourth thought tho best way was to singe one and let him go to scare the rest into vacating the prem¬ ises. But, no; the Captain had tried all these methods in vain. The rats scorned poison, avoided the traps ani whippea the terrier. As fbr tlie singeing process, the Captain reminded the promulgator of that brilliant idea that old Mrs. Glass' plan for dressing a haro commenced with the im¬ portant item, "first catch your hare ;" and in this ease it seemed necessary to begin in the same way. The traveler before men- tianed spoke at this juncture.
"Ifyou will given me ten dollars, sir," said he tothe landlord, "I'll tell you how to get rid ofyour rats without fail."
"I'll do it, sir! I'll do it" said the cap¬ tain, joyfully.
After handing the traveler the money, who insisted on receiving it before impart¬ ing the secret he continued :
¦Now then, sir, what is your remedy for the pests ?"
"Well, sir perhap-; you remember that I came along here and took supper with you about a week ago ?"
"Yes sir."
"And yon charged me fifty cents ?"
"Ycij, sir, that is my regnlar price. But what has this to do with rats ?"
"I'm cowing to it. I paid you for my supper, didn't I ?"
"Yes."
"Well, then, all I've got to say is, just set such a miserably poor supper befijre your rats as you set before me. and charge
of Species" has  achieved in one-eighth of  them fifty cents a head for it, they won't
that period. Its highest yw.nse is found in Dr. Wyville Thomson's statement that, whereas before its publication no naturalist of repute accepted the transftirmation hy- ijottesis, "there is uow scarcely a single competent general naturalist who is not prepared to jiccept some fori^i ofthe doc¬ trine of evolution." In 1S.)8, none ; in 1873. all.
V. In 18GS, just ten years aftor llie Darwin-AYallaee discovery, iinoth graphical discovery scarcely less remarka ble was made by Professor Wyville Thoui- Bon, Dr. Win. 15. Carpenter, and Mr. J. Gwyn JefiVey. Tt was then shown, .and subsequent explorations i.f thn bottom of tho sea havo verified the earlier results, that the sea down to its lowest depths was fairly alive; that, far from there being any limit below which no living thing could exist, because of thc absence of beat ;ind liiht aad tbe increasing pressure, the bed of the oceio swarms with life. Beforo proceeding to treat very briefly of this biiilogieal discovery, ic is worth remarking that these sueeefsive extensions of human knowledge made in tbis generation, show how uiisplicu are the jeremaids about the decay of thought. Contemporary specu Iation ijiay be in wrong channels, but no want of power can be detected in its grapplings wilh the deep questions of na¬ ture and life.
Edward Forbes and his fullows on the Zoological Committee of the liritish As¬ soeiation, had thoroughly explored all marine life iu the British seas down to at least 1011 fathoms (GOO feet) in depth. So thoroughly had thoy performed their tusk that ia»rc recent investigators have been rew.irded by thc discovery of a few ma¬ rine novelties in the habitat explored by theiu. Professor Sar.«, of Copenhagen, had dredged in the North Sea to a depth vary¬ ing from 230 to 450 fathoms and found lil'e. Forbcs's researches were prosecuted between 1839 ar.d 18G0 ; Sars's between 1801 and 18GS. In the spring of thc lat¬ ter year Dr. Carpenter was on a visit to Professor Wyville Thom.soii, at Belfast. where both were studying the structure and development of the crinoids. Thom¬ son had long been looking towards the bottom of the sea as thc promised land of the zoologist. The kingdom to be conquer¬ ed was thcro He broached the subject to Carpenter, who w.as then a Vice-President ofthe Royal Society. It was agreed between the friends that Thomson should write Carpenter a letter urging the lioyal Society to reqttest. from the Lords oftlie Admiralty
stand it; they'll leave the house in disgust, nd never comeback."
Who Can Afford It?
If we take a sordid view of the matter, how many persons are there who ean afford to drink ? Cau the farmer, the mechanic, the merchant, the lawyer and the laboring mau ? Most (.f them have little more ^'•'^- money than will supply tbeir indispensable physical, intellectual aud moral wants. It is plai.a then they cannot; become con.su- mers of stioug drinks, without curtailing their necessary supplies of food, raimeni., intullectual refre.'shmants and other neces¬ saries. V/bo, then, can afford to drink i' Say you -tho rich?" So they can, so far as nioney is concerned. But is money the ouly thing expended by tho drinker ? Ab, no. lie alone ought to drink from the ruinous bowl wbo can afiord to incur its moral and physical penalties—to ruin his own character and soul—to impoverish himself, aud make eheerkss aud desolate his fireside—to givo shame and sorrow to his father, his mother, his brother and his children,—and finally cast himself into an untimely and unhonored grave. Who is rich enuugh aud hfiavou-daring enough to do and give all these iu exchange fVr draughts at the bar of tho rumseller l If any, let theui drink—let ihcm stand as the body guards of tho rumseller before the commuuity, and as hideous spectacles of that degradation which ia conceived, born and nurtured iu the grogshops. Who cau afiord to drink 'I should be sounded through the laud as with a trumpet' Can you, young man '.' Can you, a father aud a husbanol'' Ifany are templed to enter the temples of Bacchus, let them inquire of the monitor wilhin their owu bosoiu.s— "who oan afford to drink ''"
The editors and publishers of Maine newspapers baving met in convention at .\ugusta the other day, the Portland Press ventures to aflirm that there were gather¬ ed the "very wisest and most virtuous lit¬ tle crowd of men, in the seediest of last year's clothes, that ever met at the State capitol."
Would that every poor man in the world could know and act upon the maxim of Benjamin  Frankliu.
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A PuiLADELpniA Judge has sent a man to prison for stealing a young lady's photograph from her album.
Outwitting his Neighbor.
Not a great while ago, an Irishman was cmployecl in a villjge, where he was well known, to dig a well, pro bono publico.
The contract Wiis that he was to be paid a certain sum per foot, and warrant a free suppy nf water.
At it he went with a will, and his daily progress was intently watched by interest¬ ed parties.
Early and late he delved down faithfully deep down into the earth, full of confidence in 'iii speedy coinpli;tif>n of his labors.
Ho had reached thv. depth of ubont twenty-five feet, and .soou to strike v.ater."
Early ono morning Pat repaired to the scene of his labor, and, horrible to tell, it had caved in and was nearly full.
He gazed with rueful yisage upon the wreck, and thought oftho additional labor the accident would cau.se him.
After a laoment's reflection he looked earnestly around, and saw that no one was stirring ; then, quickly divesting himself of hat and coat he carefully hung them on the windlass, and speedily made tracks for a neighboring eminence which overlooked the village.
Here, hiding amid the undergrowth, he quietly awaited the progres.' of eveala.
As the moruing wore on, tho inhabi¬ tants began to arouse and stir out.
Several were attracted to the well, think¬ ing that as Pat's hat and coat were there, he was, of course below at work.
Soon tho alarm was raised that the well had caved, and Pat was iu it.
A crowd collected, and stood horrified at the fate of poor Pat.
A brief consultation was held, and soon spades and other implements wero brought to dig out the unfortun.ite man.
To work thoy weut with a will. AVhen j one set became wearied with the unusual j labor, a dozen ready hands grasped the im- I plcments and dug Instily.
Pat quietly looked on from his retreat on the eminence, while the whole village stood around tho well and watched with breath¬ less su.spenso the work go bravely ou.
As the diggers apprcachod the bottom the excitement of the bystanders grew in¬ tense, and thoy collected as near as safety would admit, gazing fearfully down the well.
With great care and precaution the dirt was dug away, and, when tho bottom was at length reached, ao Pat was to be found-.
The crowd, before so anxious, gradually relapsed into a broad grin, whieh broke forth in uproarious merriment wben the veritable Pat walked up, with a smiling countenance, and addres.sod the crestfallen diggers, who now stood weary r.nd soiled with thoir la'our.
"Bejabers, gentlemen, and it's Patrick Fagan sure that is much oblecged to yees for doin' of that nice little job of work !"
The fact eau be better imaained than described, as the most active ofthe young men slunk off; several low breathed mut- terints broke forth that sounded very much like ^oltl.
Througb the kindly ?Id of hia fellow cit¬ izens, Pat soon finished his woll, and it re¬ mains among the monuments of his genius to this day.
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Youthful  Depravity.
'I'he Danbury News tells us the following story ot sad consequences of boyish mis¬ chief :
A rather contemptible trick was played on one of our young clerks Sunday night, lie bought a cut-glass bottle of cologne, with a ghtss stopper anil pink ribbon, to present to a young lady he is keeping company with, but un reaching tbe house he felt a little embarrassed for fear there were uiember.s of the family present, and so lei-t tho beautiful gift ou the stoop and p.issed in. The movement was perceived by a graceless brother of the young lady who appropriated the cologne for his own use. and refilled thc bottle with hartshorn from the family jar, and then bung round to observe the result. In a little while the young man slipped back tigaiuinto the parlor, where, with a i'evi appropriate wortls, he pressed it upon the blushing girl. Like the good and faithful daugh¬ ter that sho was, she at onea hurried intfi the presence of her mother, and thc old lady was charmed. They didn't; put up scent stuff like that wben she was a girl; it was kept iu a china tea-cup, and it was kept together by samples of the family's hair. But she was very much pleased with it. She drew out the stopper, laid the beautit'ul petals of her nostrils over the aperture, and fetched a pull at the contents that fairly made them bubble. Then s^e laid the bottle down and picked up a brass mounted fire-shovel instead, and .said she as soon as she eould say anyihing, "Where is that miserabio brat ?'' Aod he, all un¬ conscious of what had happened was in front of the mirror adjus;iug his necktie and smiling at himself, .-^v.ntl here she found him, and said to bim, "0, you arc laughing at the trick ou an old woman, are you, you wall-eyed ?" AuA then she basted him one on the ear. And he, be¬ ing "by nature moro eloquent with his legs than his tongue, hastened f.^om there, howliug like mad man, aud aecompanied to the gate by th;-t brass-mounted shovel. He says he would give everything oa earth if lie could shake off thc impression that a mistake had 'oecn made.
Why Sho Planted Roses.
A blacksmith bad iu his possession, but under mortgage, .i house and piece of land. Like many others, he was at one time fond of the social glass, but was happily indu¬ ced by a friend to join the temperance so¬ ciety. About three mouths after, he ob¬ served his wife ono morning busily enga¬ ged planting rose "oushes  and fruit trocs.
"Mary," said he, "I have owned this cot for five years, and yet I have never known vou to care to improve and orna- ment; it, in this manner."
"Indeed," replied the smiling wife, "I had no heart to do it until you gave up drink. I had often thought of it before but I was persuaded that, should I do it some strangers would pluck the roses and cat the fruit; but now, with God's help and blessing, this cot will ba ours and our children may expect: to enjoy tbe produce. Viu shall pluck the roses and oat tlic fruit.
A a.VW countryman, gazing at a garden iu the vicinity of Boston, in which were several marble statues, exclaimed : ".Just see what a waste! Here's no less than six scare crows in this tea foot patch, and any (iiio of them would kceep tho crows from a fivo acre lot !"
Prayer would be throwu away on con¬ gressmen—tbey aro preycrs themselves— on the public purse.
If you have a place of business, be found there when wanted.
Tit-Bits Taken on the Fly.
Side show—An ear-ring.
Men  of eolors—Painters.
Pistols were in use in 1544.
Ha that dies pays all debts.
Joint education—Gymnastics.
A put-up-job—A new building
Spectacles were invented in 1820.
A tail that never v/ags—A cart tail.
A smart thing—A mustard plaster.
Slight of hand—"Giving tho mitten."
Early potatoes are plenty in .^rkansat?. ,
Chieago is to have a floating fire cajihev
Nothing is so merciless as offended pride.'
Augusta, Ga., has begun" to manufacture ice.
Danville is to have a 828,000 school house.
Florida brags of lemons two feet in cir¬ cumference.
There are symptoms of car shops in Bellefonte.
The cattle disease is increasing in Union county, N. J.
Senator Sumner is still under the care of physicians.
New York will send twenty journalists to the Exposition.
Troy prohibits wooden cornices on biuld- ings within its fire limits.
Four insurgent Arabian chiefs have been executed at Constantine.
The Sultan of Tarkey is trying to in¬ troduce the stcfre-pipc hat.
A bank cheek is one of the most pleas¬ ant cheeks of life.
If you would create something, you must be something.
Difficulties, like thieves, often disappear when we face them.
Misery loves company, and so does a marriageable young lady.
Cincinnati clergymen refase to marry without the cash in hand.
The people of Santiago de Cuba are suf¬ fering severely from drought.
There are five women in Iowa who are superintendents of public schools.
Fred Doca, American consul at Manzar nillo, was drowned on the loth inst.
A Buffalo clergyman lately delivered a sermon in easy words of one tyllablc.
Part of Wilkesbarre came near being drownad out during the recent freshet.
It is easy to look down on others; to look down on ourselves is the difficulty.
Sunbury is becoming quite respectable- It has a floating debt already of $40,000.
An Auburn woman fell dead while threshing her boy for going to the circus.
A break has occurred in the Freuch Atlantic cable, about 230 miles from Brest.
Postal cards havo been introduced at Shanghai.    Ours wil! be visible this week.
An advance of ten cents per ton on thc whole line of coa! is announced in New York.
Thero is no truth in the report that the Indian chief Cochise is on the war-patb again.
The Middleburg Post hears good ao¬ counts of the growing crops in Snyder county.
Navigation on the lakes and the sur¬ rounding rivers and harbors is rapidly opening.
Seventy-five of the New York gas stri¬ kers have asked to bo re-employed at the old wages.
The famous Spottswood Hotel, in Rich¬ mond, Va., was recently sold at auction for §40,000.
The Empire State supports 200,000 paupers, or one pauper to every twenty- three workers.
.1 New Albany man has two sons and fifteen daughters. He thinks of starting a shirt factory.
England proposes to limit the rata of speed on railways by a legislative rallen tando movement.
The Sultan h.as sent twenty cases of ar¬ ticles selected from his treasures to the A''ienna Exposition.
It is understood that of the insurance on the steamship Atlantic, about §150,000 will fall on Loadou.
The Crispins of Cincinnati are on a strike for "recognition," and nine milLf are without workmen.
A decree is published in Cuba returning to loyal wives the embargoed property of their disloyal liusbaads.
By far tha most alarming symptom of tho (!Oiidition of Spain is the progress of dissolution in the army,
JLirk Boothly. who killed his wife at Edgc'.vorth, Jlassachuaatts, has surrender¬ ed himself to the authorities.
Two of the richest market women in New York aro known as "Strawberry An¬ na" and "Redheaded Jane."
The probabilities are Dominquez willbe the next President of Hayti. Tho As¬ sembly will open on the 20th prox.
.\t Dearborn, Michigan.a girl of twelve years, was killed by un elder brother, care¬ lessly handling a loaded shot gun.
A New Hampshire girl named Wads- worth is physician to the Sultan of Turkey and his court, at Constantinople.
Governor Kellogg telegraphs the Attor¬ ney-General that matters are quiet in Lou¬ isiana, with tho exception of four or five parishes.
A Califiirnia firm recently shipped a huudred bales of cotton to Liverpool, being tho flrst consignment; of California-grown eotton.
A Connecticut kitten has been born with seven legs and two tails, supposed by many to be specifically related to the cat-o'-nine tails.
A colored farm-laborer, named Georgo Burke, of Callinsville, III., in a fit of jeal¬ ousy, while drunk, chopped off the head and one arm of Maria Bowman, aud threw the body into a ravine.
Thirty years ago a man living near La Crosse sold a pair of boots for a gnn, tra¬ ded the gun for s pony, sold the pony for thirty acres of swamp land, and now owns sixty-six city lots, worth $800 each.
An Iowa woman brags that she could have married two men a day for the past two years, if she had had any use for such rubbish. .\s sho has a rich coal mine and a hacking cough, her statement has an air of reiiabilitT-