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YOL. L o LITIZ, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 5, 1877. NO. 4.
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LITTLE AND BIG.
Two little sisters once I knew,
Dear and loving as they could be.
Nanny, the eldest, was nine wears old,
Acd littleiSally wai only three.
Nanny—she went to school all day—
Knew how to read and how to sew,
How to skate and do sums on her Blate,
And all that a girl of nine should know.
Sally she longed for school and skates,
Longed to do all that Nanny did ;
But always her mother shook her head; <
And always Sally was forbid.
"Come, my darling," mother said,
"Don't so sorry and tearful be.
Sister Nanny is nine 'years old,
And little Sally is only three."
Then a tiny fist on the table thumped,
And baby's-eyes fla-hed angrily. .. : . .-
"Never mind. Miss Nafi:ny,_" Sally criod ; -.
"When I am nine, yod will be three!"-
O dear! could that happy time but come,
And all the world made oyer be—
When we little folks should all be big,.
And the bigger people be less than we!
The Fourteenth.
We all know of the old superstition
that it is ominous for thirteen people
to sit down to table together. Even
now, it is something that very sensible
people do not like to do, and in France,
a hundred years ago, it was not to he
thought of; and there were men of
gentle appearance who kept by them a
dinner dress and hired themselves out
to hosts who found it impossible other-wise
to avoid the fatal number ; so that
quatorzième, or fourteenth, was actually
a calling. i- .
When Madame Verne's granddaugh-ter
Hortense was betrothed to Monsieur
Moran, it became necessary to celebrate
the occasion by a little family supper
No strangers were to be asked—grand-mamma,
grandpapa, papa, who since
his wife's death had led a sort of bache-lor's
life in Paris, leaving his little girl
with her grandparents; the married
sister, MadammeNoir, arid her husband,
M. Moran, arid "the aunts, and the
uncles, and cousins generally were to
come; no one else. But when Madame
Verne had counted them all, she fouiid,
to her horror, that they numbered
thirteen. Something must be done. She
bethought herself to invite Monsieur
Roden, the priest, who had christened
little Hortense. Surely that was suit-able.
So M. Koden was invited, and all
went well until two days before the
supper when an unimjportant young
cousin bethought him to break a limb,
and reduced the party again to thirteen.
The time was short, but Madame made
the best of it. Sbë invited the musician,
who accepted with delight. It was
certainly proper that one who had
taught the pretty Hortense so many
years should be of the party. Matters
were arranged o,nee more so that Death
should have no chance to count his own
at that table, when a message came to
Unole Pierre which demanded his pres-ence
elsewhere. Again there were
thirteen guests, and but half a day re-maining.
Madame Verne was equal to
the emergency. She sent a note to a
deaf old gentleman of Iher acquaintance,
representing the supper as an im-promptu
aflair, and begging him to
come. And now all was well again.
The fourteenth guest was in the house,
and the rest were arriving. The ladies
were adding the finishing touches to
their toilettes in the dressing-room,
and Hortense, all blushes, was receiving
the congratulations of her friends,
when suddenly screams were heard to
resound through the house.
The maiden aunt, Madëmoisëlle Ro-sine,
had caught her idress on fire. It
was extinguished before she was hurt,
but the dress was spoiled, her nerves
upset, and she could mot and would not
remain to supper. Away she went in
her carriage, and there were the guests
awaiting the supper, and there was the
supper awaiting the guests, who were
again thirteen.
Madame Verne was in despair. How
could she go to a friend and say, "We
did not mean to ask you to sup with us,
but we are thirteen ; come, and make
haste, for it is on the table."
Plainly she could neither do this—
ask one of her guests to depart, nor
stay away herself. A quatorzième
must be had ; but how and where on so
short notice? Suddenly Madame Verne
remembered her notary. Surely a man
who had transacted all the family busi-ness
would do them the little favor of
saving a life. A carriage was yet at
the door. She tossed on a hood and
shawl and hurried into it.
"Drive to No. 8 Riue Royale," she
said to the coachman, "as fast as you
can."
The coachman obeyed. It was only
five minute's ride to the building in
which the notary's office was located—
a many-storied edifice, of which he oc-cupied
the second floor. On the first
were situated the apartments of M.
Moran—Hortense's betrothed husband.
As she hurried past their door, Madame
Yerne glanced toward them and saw a
lady dressed in black, speaking to a
servant, who at the same instant shut
the door in her face.
Madame Verne, having mounted the
stairs was doomed to a disappointment,
The ndtary was in. but he was suffering
from an attack of gout. He was in no
condition to dine out. However, he
could give her the directions of a qaut-orzieme,
who, if he was disengaged,
would be happy to hire himself out for
supper-time. He wrote it on a piece of
paper,; and ? Madame hurried down
stairs. As she reached the foot, how-ever,
she - paused. woman, dressed
in black, sat upon the'lower one, rock-ing
herself to and fro, and moaning.
Madame; Verne had. a kind heart. She
paused, stooped down, touched the fig-ure
upon the shoulder, and said, "My
poor child, what is the matter?"
As she spoke, a face, beautiful, sweet,
and not past twenty, was lifted to hers;
but there came no answer.
"This is. an odd place to find a girl
alone," thought Madame, "but she
must be a lady. *I Cannot mistake her
expression."
She spoke again.
"Are you hurt? • Have you fallen
down these steep.staifs?".
Then the girl spoke. ,
"Oh, you look so kind!" she said—
"So good ! perhaps ybtf ;wfll'advise me,
I have come from the country; I am an
o r p h a n ; ! have no relatives ; I came to
find a friend who promised me every-thing;
I cannot. I know no one here
Yesterday I spent my last coin. Is there
anything for me but the river? I know
there is not. But you look kind, and I
—couljl not help telling you."
"The river—ndnsense !' said madame.
"Tfou will find your friend, or you can
¡go back to your old home, can you not?
We are not heathens here in Paris ; we
w||Pnot let you starve. A girl so young
should never have traveled iulornv; but
you can return if you have the ex-penses
for the journey, can you not?"
_ The girl shook her head.
"No," she said, "no, I can never go
back." '
"Y.ott. have , not been in the habit of
working?" asked Madame. "You are
a lady?" ... .,
" I have never worked at anything,
she answered. "My father died two
months ago. He was a surgeon. But
I would work gladly. I would do any-thing
to earn my bread."
"At least you shall earn your sup-p
e r , " she said. "Come with me."
She hurried the girl into the carriage,
and drove away with her, explaining
as they rode the .emergency in which
she found herself.
"You will wear a dress of my grand-daughter's,"
she: said, " a black lace
which may be thrown over your own.
Your splendid black hair needs only
the brush, and I will pin a rose in i t.
To-morrow I will find you some em-ployment.
I believe in faces, madatn-oiselle,
and I know you are a lady and
an innocent* one. No one can deceive
me, and so I trust as others dare not."
. And with these-words she led the
girl into her home and up-stâirs into
her Own apartment, where she adorned
the quatorzième in haste, and led her to
the table—the loveliest guest there, far
lovelier than even the golden-haired
Hortense.
Absorbed in her duties as hostess,
Madame Verne did not notice, as the
others did, a strange thing that took
place as M. Moran seated himself and
glanced towards the strange guest. As
their eyes met each turned deathly
pale, and each seemed to find it impossi-ble
to look away.. It was M. Moran,
who slowly and with an effort turned
his head towards'his betrothed, and
seemed to release the eyes of the dark
lady who had been introduced into the
company as Mademoiselle Angélique.
It was a delightful supper. Every
one had something pleasant to say.
There were toasts to propose, and good
wishes to make. Perhaps it was but
natural that the prospective bridegroom
should be modestly silent. Silent „he
was, at all events, and sat.with his face
fixed in one direction, turned away
from the quatorzième.
Once only did the strange girl speak
in a whisper to Madame Verne.
"This is a betrothal feast, Madame?"
"Yes, 111 y child." ' ;
"Your granddaughter, the beautiful
young lady opposite, is to marry M.
Octave Moran?"
"Precisely in two months."
After this she said nothing more.
The feast went on. At last they
were about to leave t h e table, and the
the old grandfather rose. He had
something to say to the young couple.
All looked towards him as he rose. No
matter what the -first words were—you
can guess. Loving ones for the little
ones so soon to leave him. • Kind ad-monitions
to him who was about to
take her into his keeping ; but he ended
thus: "But I give her to you gladly,
my dear Octave."
He paused and looked at the. table,
but no,one was looking at him. As he
uttered the.last sentence, Octave Moran
had slowly turned his face as though
by some mesmeric influence towards i
the quatorzième. Their eyes had met
and fixed in a strange stare ; the other
guests were all staring at them.
Suddenly Octave Moran started to
his feet and dashed out of the room.
There were thirteen at the table. And
then what happened ?
Something flashed in the hand of the
pale woman at whom all gazed, and she
fell forward upon the table.
When they lifted her they found a
dagger buried in her heart.
Death had been more prompt with
his thirteen than usual.
They found over her dead bosom that
night a- miniature of Octave Moran,
a lock of hair, and a little golden tress
soft §s down, and in her pocket some
letters. That was all; but Hortense
never married Monsieur Moran.
O d d of a J a p a n e s e G a r d e n,
Japanese are fond of fanciful methods
of adding to the curious interest of their
homes and gardens. Thé quaint land-scapes
which adorn almost every subur-ban
villa, of how.ever limited dimen-sions,
are familiar to everybody. One
of the most eccentric efforts at embel-lishment
we have seen is connected
with the country house of a wealthy
citizen of Yokohama. It is situated in
Totsukà, on the To Kai Do, and from
the road presents no very exceptional
appearance, but as soon as the visitor
passes the arch way of the building to
the space at the rear he finds himself in
view of as remarkable a specimen of
decoration as can be anywhere wit-nessed
in so limited a space. A steep
hill rises abruptly from the mansion,
which is threaded by intricate paths,
and profusely covered With every va-riety
of adornment that imagination
could conceive or industry gather to-gether.'
Stone images, strangely
carved rocks, twisted roots of trees
dainty works of bronze and porcelain
are crowded in "a mighty maze but not
without a p l a n . " Flowers and shrub-bery
are. not entirely displaced, and
thick clusters of foliage surround a pic-turesque
arbor as the summit of the de-clivity.
But the most remarkable fea-ture
of the place, and the one upon
which most care and cost seem to have
been lavished, is a deep cavern, or.
series of subterranean passages cut into
the hill, through which those who ob-tain
admission may walk for some hun-dreds
of yards. These galleries are en-livened
with lines of carving in bass
relief representing flowers, fruits
family crests and a perfect menagerie
of real and mythical animals. The
walls and ceiling form. an almost un-broken
panorariia.. A. little stream runs
by one of the foot paths, and in it
crawls a mammoth tortoise, aceom
parried by its young. The figures have
;freeji'cut with very little difficulty'frorn
the soft clay, and it is expected that
they will harden with time. Many
of them are gaudily colored, reflecting
a kaleidoscopiaj-adiation from the glare
of the torches. The enterprising owner
has,evidently determined to leave none
of the possible advantages of his prop-erty
unimproven: His house is one of
the finest in the neighborhood, every
inch, of his hillside garden shows the
mark of his attention, and he has even
penetrated the bowels of the earth to
secure novelty and ingenious variety in
the development of his estate.—Tokio
(Japan) Times.
T h e P o w e r of W i l l .
I t has been said' that a man can do
anything he resolves to do. This must,
however^ be taken with the limitation
that tie must resolve to do only things
that are possible. To resolve to climb
to the moon will certainly not take him
to t h e interesting satellite, and to re-solve
that, he Will grow eleven feet high
will not carry his scalp to that altitude
above his stockings. Still the saying is
a deserved'tribute to the will, as a force ;
for thè will is a force, and a tremendous
one at that,' sometimes; it cannot be
seen or handled ; it is invisible, intangi-ble;
but yet it is power, because it sets
other powers and agencies in motion,
and accomplishes great things through
them. There are two kinds of will
power—the aggressive and the passive.
The former generally takes the form of
what we call enterprise ; it dares to in-vade
fields hitherto unexplored, or to
essay objects that appear impossible of
execution, and show the world how
much can be done with little means ; it
is the chief element in the constitution
of such men as Napoleon, Oesar, and
Cromwell.
,The loveliest, sweetest flower (hu-mility)
that bloomed in Paradise, and
the first that died, has rarely blossomed
since on mortal soil. It is so frail, so
delicate a thing, it is gone if it but look
upon itself; and she who ventures to
esteem it hers proves by that single
thought she has it not.—Mrs. E. Fry.
Nine-tenths of the quarrels in this
life would be averted if men would
never take the doubt against charity.
Never accept an insult. Men who go
about looking for men to kick them are
seldom disappointed. Men who accept
only the best interpretations of every
act are sure to have always the best acts
to interpret.
NEWS 03? THE DAY.
—Maj. Gen. A. L. Pearson, who com-manded
the State troops during the
Pittsburg riots, has been arrested on
the charge of murdez- and held to bail
for a further hearing in the sum of
$10,000.
—Judges G-rason and Yellott, of the
Baltimore County Circuit Court have
been presented by the grand j u r y for ob-structing
and hindering investigations
into alleged frauds of Court officials,
and bench warrants have been issued
for their arrest. Judge Yellott is also
charged with habitual drunkenness.
—The Rev. Lucius E. Page, author of
the history of Cambridge, lost $25,000
by the late robbery of the Cambridge-port
(Mass.) National Bank, of whicli
$12,100 was in negotiable bonds, and
the balence in securities of various
kinds. The available plunder from his
box was greater than all the rest ob-tained
by the robbery. It is supposed
there are parties out of the city who
have yet to discover their loss.
—The coal companies have inaugrat-ed
a war of prices, and the Lehigh and
Wilksbarre coal company have marked
down their figures from forty-five to
seventj' cents lower than the Schuylkill,
and from twenty-five to fifty cents
than the Lehigh region.
—A fire in Providence, R. I. yester-day
caused a loss of $1,000,000. of which
from $400,000 to $500,000 is covered by
insurance,
—The single scull race in Scipio, N.
Y., yesterday was won by Courtney.
Time, 21.29>^
—The President in reply to the In-dian
delegation yesterday, promised
that all the treaty stipulations made
with them should be faithfully ob-served,
but insisted that they should go
to the reservation that had been se-lected
for their occupation.
—Father W. P. Haviland who has
been the pastor of the Catholic church
at Chester, Pa., has been removed by
order of the Archbishop. His, indig-nant
flock and the Protestants of that
town are united in requesting his re-in-statement.
—Archbishop Bay ley of the Mary-land
diocese is lying at the point of
death.
—A terrible cattle plague resembling
the Texas fever, has broken out in Cen-tral
Illinois, extending over Fulton and
the adjoining counties. Stock raisers
are greatly alarmed. ,
—The report that yellow fever tvas
prevalent at Jacksonville, Fla., is de-nied.
—Assistant Secretary McCormick has
agreed to remain in the Treasury De-partment
until the. close . of the. extra
session of Congress.
—The Luzerne County Miners are re-solved
to continue their strike.
—The Minnesota Republican State
Convention endorses the policy of Pres-ident
Hayes.
The Cyclone which has prevailed for
some time in the West Indies has made
its way north as far as Cape Haltoras.
—The National Liberal League'is to
hold a Congress at Rochester, N. Y. on
October 26th.
—Charles L. Woodman-, a Chicago
banker has gone into voluntary bank-ruptcy.
Liabilities $100,000; principal
assets encumbered real-estate.
Senator Conkling and his section of
.the party was" successful in directing
the proceedings of the New York State.
Republican Convention. The platform,
adopted was persistent in its demands
for civil service reform, but a resolu-tion
approving the policy of President
Hayes was defeated after a lively de-bate,
by a vote of 109 in favor to 295
against it.
—The Wisconsin Democrats in their
State Convention denounced what they
style the Presidential fraud, and de-manded
a f u r t h e r issue of greenbacks.
They nominated for Governor, James A.
Mallery, of Milwaukee.
—A Georgia delegation urged upon
the President yesterday the appoint-ment
of Herschel V. Johnson, to fill
the vacancy on the Supreme Court
bench, but received nothing beyond an
attentive hearing.
—The Northern Pacific R. R. has in-creased
its earnings nearly 25 per cent,
over those of last year.
—No deaths from yelldw fever have
been reported at Fernandina, Fla. for
the last twenty-four hours and only five
new cases are reported.
, —The miners 01 the Pennsylvania
Coal Co. voted yesterday at Pittston in
favor of keeping up the strike and de-cided
to be governed by the action of
the Delaware and Hudson and Delaware
and Lackawanna men who still show a
bold front.
—Ex-assistant Secretary Sawyer, of
the Treasury Department, was ori: the
30th ult., convicted of swindling the
Government, and committed to jail to
await sentence unless a new trial is
granted.
—W. J . Murtagh, after being owner
of the paper for seventeen years has'
disposed of his right title and interest
in the Washington National Republican
to a company in which Hon. A. M.
Clapp, late Public Printer, is a leading
member, and his son business manager.
—A committee are investigating the
origin and causes of the fire in the
Patent office and it is intimated that it
was burning for three hours before the.
alarm was sounded.
—Lieut. Bullis has had a fight with
the Texan Indians near the Pecos river
but no official reports have as jTet been
received of the result of the battle.
—The visiting Indians were present
gn Sunday at the Foundry church in
Washington-where the President at-tends.
—The steamboat Golden Gate, while
on her way from New York to Albany,
exploded her steam drum, causing a
panic among the passengers. She was
run aground, however, and every one
on board safely rescued.
—The village of Putnam, Eastern
Connecticut was totally destroyed by
fire on the 30th ult. Loss estimated at
$125,000; insurance $75,000.
—Archbishop Bayley was still alive on
the morning of the first inst.
—Gen. A. L. Pearson, arrested at
Pittsburg on the charge of murder, has
been released on $10,000 bail.
—It is reported from Whitehall, Ky.,
that Hon. Cassius M. Clay killed a ne-gro
named White in that place on Sun-day
last, and has surrendered himself.
No particulars are given.
—The Labor Convention in the city
of Philadelphia, have nominated Ben-jamin
H. Brewster, Esq., as their can-didate
for District Attorney at the
November election.
—Latest advices from Gen. Sheridan
lead to the belief that the Apaches of
Arizona who recently left their reser-vations
will soon be compelled to sur-render.
—The election in Connecticut on the
1st inst., has, it is believed, resulted in
the adoption of the two constitutional
amendments wThich prohibit extra com-pensation
to public officers and town
aid to railroads. .
—The Working Men's party of Mas-sachusetts
have nominated Wendell
Phillips, Esq., for Governor.
—Senator Sharon, of Nebraska will
be prevented by his private business,
from attending the special session of
Congress.
—Judge Upton on the 1st. inst., en-tered
upon his duties as Second Comp-troller
of the Treasury.
—The National debt for the month of
September shows a décrease of $3,§82,-
524.80.
; —On the* 1st inst., operations were
resumed by the miners in the employ
of the Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal
Company.
—Another savings bank has suspen-ded.
This time at Hyannis, Mass.
There were 1695 depositors, the deposits
aggregating $603,475.
—The laborers on the Kansas Central
Narrow Guage R. R. have been- on a
strike for several , days, in consequence
of the non-payment of their wages,
—Various forgeries on the Canadian
banks have been discovered, by which
the Bank of Montreal loses $4,000, and
the Union Bank of Lower . Canada,.
$5,000.
—On Sunday last the business section
of 'Wyoming, Iowa, was damaged by
fire to the extent of from.$20,000 to $95.
000. Insurance nominal.
—The connection of Charles W.
Greene with the management of the
International . Exhibition Company
ceased on the 1st inst.
FOREIGN,
The Daily Nevjs has the following
special, dated Erzeroum, Thursday:
"Twenty-two thousand Russians have
arrived opposite Mukhta Pasha's cen-tre
and a battle is imminent."
At Goransko the Montenegrins took
three hundred regular prisoners and
captured three canon and five hundred
rifles. The Montenegrins have also occu-pied
Piva, captured Fort Crkvica, and
.now hold the whole territory as far as
Fotscha. They , have totally burned
Bilek and the', surrounding villages,
after sending the sick, wounded and
non-combatants to Trebinie.
A Russian official .dispatch issued at
Goruy Studen, says: "On the 22d inst.
about ten thousand Turkish infantry
from Sofia supported by artillery, forced
their way through our cavalry, posted
to intercept them, and entered Plevna.
Further details are wanting. All is
quiet around Rustchuck and in the
Balkans."
A banquet was given in honor of
General Grant by the Mayor and cor-poration.
of Sheffield last night. The
proceedings were very enthusiastic.
Mr. Mundella, in a cordial speech, pro-posed
the health of General Grant, who
in reply, referred to his constant aim
during his Presidency to establish a
good understanding with England.
The London Tiroes, i n - a leading ar-ticle
on the war, says : "The end of
the campaign must be near, and it prom-ises
to present something like a drawn
battle. Formally or informally the
Powers will then, no doubt, attempt to
avert the necessity of another campaign
by the aid of diplomacy."
The Turkish newspapers publish a
report that Osman Pasha has defeated
the Roumanians before Plevna.
The Porte has refused to permit the
transit of timber across the Danube for
housing the Russian wounded.
The Times'1 Calcutta despatch says:
The famine report for Madras is highly
favorable. There has been a good rain-fall
throughout the Presidency. Agri-cultural
operations are active, and the
summer crops aré nearly harvested.
The out-turn of the southern districts
is fair; in the north small. Prices,
however, have not fallen appreciably.
The number on the relief works has de-creased
64,000 during the week ending
September 22, but the number seeking
gratuitious.relief has increased to 120,-
000.
A dispatch:, dated Sofia, Sunday eve-ning,
says: Trustworthy information
has been received here that Osman
Pasha has repulsed a Russo-Rou-manian
attack on his front and left, in-flicting
heavy, losses. It is also said
that he attacked the .Russians on the
Lovatz road and recovered several posi-tions.
This seems to agree with the
report published in the Constantinople
newspaper Oct. 1st, that Osman Pasha
had defeated tne Roumanians before
Plevna, but there is no iriore reason to
believe one than the other.
LONDON, October 2.—The Paris cor-respondent
Of the Times telegraphs : It
was rumored last night that the Duke
de JBroglie and M. Berthaut had re-signed
from the French Cabinet, This
report, for the present' at least, is un-founded,
but the alarm which it created
was very remarkable.
HAVANA, Oct. 1. — Senor Castello,
with his son, surrendered to the Span-ish
authorities on the 27tli ult. Both
were prominent persons in the insur-rection.
Senor Castello was Minister
of Foreign Affairs of the Cuban Gov-ernment,
and his son aide-de-camp of
Gen. Maximo Gomez. Rumors of peace
are daily taking more shape, and a.
proximate peace is generally credited.
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B u t t e r 18 <<
Cheese 8 t<
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Wool. Penna.. Olilo, &c 42 <i
" H. Y. a n d Western as $
" Canada 38 g
Hops 8 i
Provisions—Pork per bhl $11 <|
" Beef hams 112% s
l a r d 9 <«
Proposing Marriage.
The custom which reserves the right
of proposing to the stronger sex: is not
so universal as many suppose. An Is-raelitish
widow.had^ by law, a power of
claiming in marriage the brother ok'
her deceased husband 7; in which case,
as the privilege of the male was trans-ferred
to the female, that of the female
was likewise transfered to the male,
he had the power of refusing ; the re-fusal,
however, was attended with
some mortifying circumstances;, thé
woman whom he had thus slighted was
to come unto him in the presence of the
elders of the city and to loose the shoe
from his foot and spit in his face. A
custom somewhat similar to this re-mains
at present among some of the
Indian tribes. When a wife dies, thé
husband is obliged to; marry the sister,
or in her stead the woman whom the
family of the deceased wife shall chooàé
for him. A widow is also obliged to
marry one of the brothers of of the dé-eeaseu'hasbauu,
if he Itatl died -tvitiwat.
children and she is still of age to have
any. Exactly the same thing takes
place in the Caroline Islands-; and
there the woman may demand such
a brother to marry her. In one State of
New Grenada the right of asking is pro-miscuously
exerted by both sexes ; who,
when they feel the passion of love, de-clare
it without the least embarrass-ment;
and among the Cossacks the
same thing is said to be carried still f u r -
ther, and the women more generally
court than the men. When a young
lady falls in love with a man, she is not
in the least ashamed to go to his fa-ther's
house and reveal her passion in
the most pathetic manner, and to prom-ise
submissive obedience if he will
accept of her for a wife. Should the
insensible man pretend any excuse, she
tells him she is resolved never to go out
of the house until he gives his consent ;
and accordingly, taking upherlodgir.g,
remains there. If he still obstinately
refuses her, his case be'eomes exceed-ingly
distressing ; the church is com-monly
on her side, and to t u r n her out
would provoke all her kindréd to re-venge
her honor; so that he has no
method left but to betake himself to
flight till she is otherwise disposed of.
As the two sexes in Greece had but lit-tle
intercourse with each other, and a
lover was seldom favored with an op-portunity
of telling his passion to his
mistress, he used to discover it by i n -
scribing her name on the walls of his
house, on the bark of the trees of ft
public walk, or the leaves of his book ;
it was customary for him also to, deck
the door of the house where his fair one
lived, with flowers and garlands, to
make libations of wine before it, in the
manner that was practiced at the tem-ple
of Cupid. Whén a love affair did
not prosper in the hands of a Greek, he
did not endeavor to become more en-gaging
in his manner and person ; he
did not lavish his fortune in presents,
or become more obliging and assiduous
in his addresses, but immediately had
recourse to incantation and philters ;
composing and dispensing of which
women of Thessaly were reckoned
most famous, and drove a trafflcinthem
of considerable advantage. These po-tions
were given by the women to the
men, as well as by the men to the
women, were generally so violent in
their operations as for some time to
deprive the person who took them of
sense, and not uncommonly of life.
Men are generally more honest lit
their private tha.n in their public capa-city,
and will go a greater length to
serve a party when their own private
interest is alone concerned. Honor is
a great check upon mankind, but where
a considerable body of men act together
this check is in a great measure re-moved,
since a man is sure to be ap-proved
of by bis own party for what
promotes the common interest, and he
soon learns to despise the clamors of his
adversaries.—Hume,