The north Missourian (Gallatin, Daviess Co., Mo.), 1874-03-19

              FOLLOWIXO FOOTSTEPS. bt mi a Micun. Dkwt droops the green sweet-brier, Dwy hangs the rose. As I fallow where her footstep. Lightly printed, got. Bun, that cometh op to meet me, Wae there aught to see Dowi beneath tnat (Xay horizon Half so fair aa ahe r Down thla path ahe eareles wandered Where the Lliea drooped : Ilere her garment brushed the dew off Aa ahe, gathering, stooped. Here ahe turned and paused, uncertain Ah, I hear it now 1 Orer atone the full brook singing Faintly, far below! Leading on to frreet the rosea Kun the footstep free; Red, and white, and pink ahe gathered Iropplng one for me I Then to where the honeysuckle Climb to scent the air No, she stopped and left it climbing. Turning oLherwnere. Where then Ob, adown this pathway. Where her heliotrope Mikes the air with perfume heavy, rurplinj; ail the slope. San that maketh shadows shorter Jw, I follow slil), W lirre were yoa at early dawning When ahe climbed the lull! Shall she climb to wait your coming. She, my own. my sweet, Wnen her gracious presence only Makes joor day complete f lTre she left her bio soma lying: In a hawthorn's care. And the dewy step jro springing t'p the rock so bare. Higher, Usher, erer leading, Follow 1 and Ilope Sonny hair lit np with sang bine Ah I my heliotrope I Scribner Monthly. A A PEEL FOB ARE TO TttK SEXTAST OF T1IE OLD HEETiy -OUSE. BT A- OASFBH. I The following old "pome" is reproduced fortTe benefit of church-going sufferers of the present day: 0 sextant of the meetin 'ouse, wich sweeps And dusts, or is supposed toot and makes fires. And lites thegaaa, aud sometimes leares a screw In wlchcjSe it smells orf nl worse than lamp-lie; And wnnyrs the Bel and toles it when men dyes To the rrief of serrivin partners, and sweeps patlies; And for the earrae gits $100 per annnm, Wich them that tbiuks deer, let em try it; Oettin ap be f oar sur-liie in all wethers and Ktndlin Area when the wether ia as cold Aa zero, and like as not gresn wood for klndlers; 1 wouldn't be hired to do it for no some It tit o sextant! there are one kermoddity Wich's more than gold, wich doant cost nothin, Worlh more than anything excep the bole of Mann I I mean pewer Are, sextant, I mean pewer Are 1 0 it in so plenty out o doors, so plenty It doant No what on alnh to dew with Itself, but flies About scatterin leavs and blowin of men' hatts; In short its Jest " free as are" ont dores, Buto sextant in onr church ite scarce as piety, hcarce as bank bills when agi-ne beg for mischuns, Wicb some say Is pretty often (taint nothin to me, Wat I give aint nothin to nobody), but o sextant, U shet 600 men. wimmen and children Kpewhally the latter, np in a tite place. Some has bed hretas, none aint i swete. Some is feery, some is scroll us, some has bad teeth. And some haint none, and some aint over clean; But every 1 on em breethee in & and out and In, Say 50 times a minmt, or 1 million and a half bretha an onr. Now how long will a church full of are last at that rate, 1 SJk yon. Say IS mlnlts, and then wats to be lid WhT then they must brethe it aTl over asin. And then ajjin, and so on, till each has took it down A t least 10 times, and let It np agin, and wats more. The same individible doant have the privelidge Of brethen bis own are, and no one's else; Each one mnt take whatever cornea to him. O sextant, doant yon know onr lnngs is bellusea. To blow the fler of life, and keep it from Go In oat; and how can be 11 uses blow without wind. And aint wind areT I put It to your conchens; Are is the same as milk to babes. Or water is to fish, or pendulems to clox Or roots Jfc airbs unto an injon Doctor, Or little pills nnto an omepalh. Or bovs to gar's. Are is for ns to brethe. Wat signifies who preeches if I can't breethe r Wats I'ol f Wats Polios? to sinners who are ded T Dad for want of breth why. sextant, when we Dye lis only coz we can't brethe no more that's alL And now. o sextant, let me beg of yoa 2 lei a litU are Into our church (Pewer are is sertin proper for the pews). And dew it weak days aud Sundays tew It aint much trouble only make a nolo An the are will come in of Itself; (It luvs to come in where it can git warm;) And o how It will rouze the people np And e pen-it np the prcecher. and stop garps. And vawns and Digits aaeffectooal Aa wind on the dry Boana the Profit tells of. MASQUERADING. Well, you see, Sae, the whys and the wherefores were too many to write, and when vou married ana went away with your husband I'd no more idea that things would come around as they did than I had of running over to Council Kluff3 in a balloon to take tea with you. To tell the truth it was all on account of that railroad business, which went cutting into our orchard and running hap-hazard over the best pasture land, and taking a right of way along the wood-lot and crossing the highways, so that there's no peace for the living, let alone the wicked. However, I te no right to complain of it in the long run. It wasn't as ir our house had been in the family ever since the Plymouth folks landed, and the Legislature had given the corporation leave to run right through the best wainscoted parlor, and take away the oaken staircase stained by the blood of a Revolutionary soldier, as they did up at 'Squire Elderly 's place. I believe you were here when John Jordan happened this way civilen-glneeriBg and helping to lay out the railroad ; and I dare say you've heard me declare that I wouldn't marry John Jordan, " no, not if there wasn't another man on earth !" Not that he had asked me then, you know; but girls aren't slow to refuse before they're asked. But he had waited upon me home from evening service and sociables; and he had dropped in to have a rubber at whist just when I didn't want to be interrupted in the game of cribbage which Lucius Glover and 1 were pretty sure to be playing In the back parlor, while the family sat at work the other side of the folding doors, and the mellowed light from the astral lamp lent us a twilight atmosphere conducive to flirtation.Mr. Jordan used to be a good deal at our house, talking with father about the lay j of the land, and in that way folks came to I coupling our names together and nobody so provoked as 1 1 Mrs. Scrutiny, who lived opposite, and watched us as closely as a cat watches a mouse-hole; who knew when we heated the brick oven for an extra baking, and counted the stockings on the line Mondays, and ran over to see if we expected Sophronia and her husband down when we aired the parlor chamber; and who, when we declared that we had nothing to wear to Mrs. Merry's dancing party, to Thanksgiving ball, or charity fair, would give us an inventory of our own wardrobes. " Why, wear your blue silk, child, that was made out of your mother's pelisse;" or, Dear s tikes, there's the white muslin you had to stand up with Sophronia in ;" or, " l'ra sure the pink tarlatan that your Aunt Kitty gave you is good as new with a bit of darning," or, "When I was a girl, the poplin you got of theold-clothes-peddler in exchange would have been thought plenty good enough for a charity fair." Naturally John Jordan's calls didn't escape M rs. Scrutiny. I believe she could see in the dark, like a cat; and she lost no time in communicating her observations. (VinvmiMitlv I heard twav down at Fish- erville and away up at Haverham that John Jordan had been Been at our door three days out of the week, for five weeks; and nobody would believe that he came to see father. But 1 didn't treat John with mv kind nf favor, let me tell you! I was always quarreling with him be cause the railroad was to cut npm orchard as if it was his fault, or as if I cared ; but I wanted something to be disagreeable about. I was none too sweet to him, I assure you; and sometimes Lucius and I would stroll off to a game at back-gammon in the back parlor, and leave John to the others; ana sometimes when I saw him coming I would slip out, and when I returned it would be pretty sure to be 01 the arm of Lucius. He always scowled when 1 came in with Lucius Glover, and I enjoyed that; and once he had the impudence to a&k, " Wh t in Heaven's name, do vou find to please-vou in that fop?" and I was so angry at his daring that the tears sprang Into my eyes; and at that he looked di VOL. X. vinely sorry and stammered, "I didn't know I didn't know it was serious 1" and that didn't mend the matter, for it wasnt serious. Lucius had never e aid anything to the point, though he had dealt largely in sentimental enigmas; and, what was more, I didn't know as I wanted him to; and I didn't like that John Jordan should take it for granted in this way. But I didn't understand wAjr I didn't like it, though I've found out since. "Who said anything about seriousness?" I snapped out "I'm not one of the kind that asks a man's intentions if he looks at her! I never want to know their intentions, and they don't usually have any, except to while the time away !" I answered, more forcibly than elegantly. " Very likely not," said he, going back to some plans he had unrolled for father to see when he came in ; 44 that is, men like Glover." 44 That's generous,r said I, all in arms again. 44 1 really should think that you and he were rivals." 44 And so we are," he answered, without looking up. 44 1 hate him because you like him !" 44 1 don't see why" I began, awkwardly enough. 44 Perhaps you had better take a microscope to discover the reason." If this is love-making, thinks I, It's an odd fashion that I'm not used to; and perhaps for that reason I was somewhat vexed when father put an end to it. To tell the truth, after I had been listening to John Jordan, Lucius' small-talk did seem small enough, and his sentiment weak enough; so sometimes it occurred to me that his mustache was his strongest point. But then there were other things to be considered ; life wasn't all sentiment and poetry and moonlight waiks. Father, you know, was only cashier in the Farmers' Bank, at a salary f fifteen hundred. We owned the house and land, to be sure; but if anything should have happened to him it would have been all day with us girls. We hadn't any especial gifts ; we hadn't been educated to teach; and almost every one did her own sewing at our place. We were called a handsome family, you know, and beauty constituted our entire fortune. Now it was different at the Glovers'; they had bank stock, and railroad shares, and mortgages, and what not; they had a family tree that would have put the Banyon to shame; they had services of silver as old as the hills, cut-glass and Dresden china, family portraits and brocatelle, and real diamonds in the bank safe. They kept their carriage, too; and it was all enough to inspire the imagination of any girl whom Lucius smiled upon. The Glover women always had the best of everythingsilks that would stand alone, gloves and hats from Paris, gowns made in the city; while we had to fashion our own bonnets, cut our own cloaks, turn our dresses, and dye our gloves; hemstitch our handkerchiefs, patch our carpets, upholster our easy-chairs, and rub the furniture with hartshorn and oil ; we had to economize in lights and fires too, and could afford a roast only twice a week! I remember visiting some rich cousins of father's in the city once ; and all the time I had a consciousness that they hated to have their friends see me on the front steps in my shabby clothes that looked well enough at home; and when we were invited out one evening 1 overheard them disputing as to who tJumldn't go with me, 44 in thatold-fash-ioned blue silk," which I, in my ignorance, had thought quite stylish! And coming out of a dressmaker's room one day with one of my cousins, 44 Dear me!" said she, 44 that hair-cloth furniture just gave me the blues; it's worse than any nightmare; it's so vulgar and bar-roomy !" Now we had nothing but hair-cloth in our parlors, and had felt very lucky to get it; but I never offered a chair to a caller after that without a qualm. 44 You shall see what style is, one of these days, my friends," I promised them, mentally ; 44 you will not be ashamed of me when I'm Mrs. Lucius Glover !" for, upon mr word, I was weak and foolish enough to make up my mind on the way home that I would marry Lucius if he asked me, and let John Jordan take care of himself! Well, when I reached home, I found that father had taken John to board with us, and we were having a roast every day, and dessert ; but for all that, the hair-clotn furniture was heavy on my heart; I was such a wretched little materialist in those days! I wondered if John thought as meanly of it too; though of course, I reasoned, he hadn't been used to anything better. Mrs. Scrutiny said it looked as if we were going to make Mr. Jordan one of the family; and John smiled, and twisted his mustache, and said he wished we would. About this time Lydia Glover was attacked with a sudden friendship for me; she really seemed to prefer our hair-cloth sofa to her own velvet cushions. Lucius usually came with her, and while he occupied himself with me, Lydia naturally fell to flirting with John ; and more than once I caught myself answering Lucius absently, because I was trying to hear what John was saying to Lydia. 8ometimes Lydia declared she could stay no later, and Lucius insisted that it was only the edge of the evening; and then John would get his hat and walk home with her. I know I had a queer sensation the first time this nrhlrh didn't imDrove as I waited fnr him. hoverinir over the falling embers after Lucius had gone, on pretense 01 locaing up we uouse. it takes vou some time to walk up to the Glovers' and back," said I, when he came at last. ok vnn needn't have waited for me!" he vouchsafed ; 44 1 couldn't get away bo- fore. The Glovers have a tine place;" alter a pause, in which I couldn't think of anything disagreeable enough to say, 44 1 wonder how I shall bear it when I go there to see JUrs. IjUciust" Tr.i can't he the person vou go there to see now," I assured him. He laughed, and hummed the old-fashioned round, t - toll 1mf I love her: And by tne ugm 01 ine uwi m vii tt..t. n-liot tlPT call a ratcX. isn't it? tun a mw j - lighting his candle. "Don't sit up for me again when I go to Miss Glover's, Sleepy-Eyes, for I may stay late ! " "Its small manKs you givo uic iui IrMninir th fire alive for VOU." I com- 1 ' x wi 1 o 1 naarl Ha Tit tt Pri nr sr wiiii 11 is uauu uu vuu . . . ?a. lf. VS AM "k SB, door, all the mischief fading from his face. . t ffim vnn instead " ne answerea. Hat which nancrht enriches VOU but indeed I Whv ihoul I thank you for keeping the fire alive, when you mean vnai it snaii uie uui uuicuu last? " rvime. vou are waxinc sentimental ! t cried rfthlno- un the coals. "You've listener. Good-nieht." Rwtno-that nothin? had come of his dancing attendance at our house, folks began to whisper about John and Lydia, . wnnat have tnmflhintf to WOITV over; I used to hear them, coming out of church, between comments on tne wnaou ; and it made my cheeks burn, and gave me a sinking sort of sensation, that must have .bin to dv in it. that was bliss and pain, aa the poet says, all at once. But I would have died first. Indeed, before giv- . .; When thev turned tome as one who should know, being intimate with Lydia and John's landlady, I smiled indifferently, and answered, m 1 .-ia will marrv. thev must take s" J . 1. .- .1 J- in emno " The trari bia IBUCQ nusuouu.3 n fc e,- - . was I coveted John's love without being able to make up my mind to renounce H A li "Wo the good things which Lucius had to offer." Well, about this time father had his stroke, you know not exactly a stroke of luck and was away from the bank for three months, with every prospect of being laid up the rest of his days ; and I can tell you, if it hadn't been for John Jordan's Doaru we snouia aave-uau euur cum mons indeed. I began to be more convinced than ever that it was my duty to marry Lucius when he should ask me. We weren't able to have any new gowns that year because the money all had to go for doctor's bills and drug stuns; ana 1 was so worn out with watchin? and wor rying, and the unending struggle to make both enas meet, mat 1 was losing aa my good looks, and growing, wrinkles across my lorehead. ' - - I'm sure it's enough to prevent anybody in her senses from thinking of mar-rvine a "Door man," I reflected out loud one twilight, believing that I had the par. lor to myself. " Were vou thinking of it?" asked John Jordan, out of the depth of father's sleepy-hollow chair, where the shaaows hid him. " I wasn't thinking at all." I answered. ready to cry with low-spiriteaness; tor 1 felt, in mv dustvold alpaca, with the un natural luster across the shoulders, as if I fully warranted the contempt of my rich cousin. 44 1 never think," I assured him. " Those who can think and won't think must be made to think." he parodied. "Just as you please, bur Oracle " X said. "We'll deler it. thoueh. till after tea;" and he gave me his arm to the dining- room. Father cot able to hobble out to the bank, and things began to get easier ; though Mrs. Scrutiny said he looked to her as if he would never be himself again ; and after that I lived in hourly dreadof a second stroke, and the future wasn't al luring, unless 1 should marry iiUClus nor then either. Thev were to have a masquerade party at the Glovers Thanksgiving night, and for a fortnight before Lydia and I were busy as moths, burrowing in the cedar-wood trunks in the attic that came over from Holland with her irreat-Errand- mother's wedding-clothes, and were full of old-fashioned finery, brocades and laces, and shoe-buckles. We had a rare time trying them on before the beveled mirror in Lvdia's room: and whenever John Jordan happened in she would rustle down to him, shaking, out a glamour of magnificence from every fold, and ehininglike a star in her ancient splendor. We promised ourselves an Arabian Night's entertainment. And the promise was luiniea. 'ine nouse was one blaze of lights and blossoms, and the atmosphere was one pulsation of music and fragrance. You seemed to be walking through an avenue of tall, flowering shrubs in some enchanted garden, and meeting such fantastic-looking companions, as if pansies and princess-feathers and coxcomb were masauerading as young men and women of the period ; ana sometimes 1 ianciea uiai uie lamuv portraits had taken this opportunity to step out of their dull frames and flirt and dance with the best! Lydia wore her grandmother's wedding brocade, that looked as 11 it was spun out 01 snow-flakes. I had borrowed a pink silk petticoat of Aunt Kitty's, the palest blush, and had draped over it a mist of Nottingham lace that we had had in the house time out of mind, and had bought forbed-curtains. It's awfully cheap stuff, you know, with a mesh as coarse as acabbage-net, but it made a lovelv effect " You look like morning blushing over the Alps," whispered my partner, in the grand right and left. "I've never seen it; nave your - x mocked. " Often." he answered : and then I was sure it was Lucius, who had been abroad once. He offered his arm, and we stepped into a bav window to look into the frosty garden illuminated by the moon, and . ! J . a wnat uo you tain K. tie eaiu netv r " Don't let us masquerade any longer," in the same half-whisper; "I love you; I believe you love me, in spite of your dissembling. I think I have surprised it in your face sometimes. 4 Come live with .. . . "" . ,, me ana oe my love. xe my wiie,weeu-The moment toward which I had been reaching had arrived, and found me un prepared. ,1 was more wretched than a galley-slave, when I should have been most happy. I trembled like a reed in the wind, and leaned on his arm for sup port. " I I cannot answeryou to-night,' said, temporizing; "the music contuses . . . 1 . v me. x don't know wnetaer 1 love you trying to laugh 44 or your ancestors. In a day a week oh, I can't answer you before Christmas ; indeed, I cannot!" I gasped. - ... .... ... . a . "i will wait inrougn time ana eternity if only it be the right answer at last! " he returned. And then he led me to a seat, and somebody lent me a vinaigrette, and people asked wnat tne matter was, ana it seemed so ridiculous to be so overcome by an offer that I didn't tell them; and the upshot of it was, Lydia sent me home in her carriage before supper. If I had staid till the unmasking, you know well, there, that's a subjunctive case that I'll leave to your imagination, rsui the truth was I wanted to get home and think! And I did think, with a vengeance ! I thought all day and night. thougnl atcnurcn, at taoie, ruuumg me silver, sewing on buttons ; why, 1 couldn't say my prayers straight for thinking. . I naa never maae sucn an inteueciuai euun in my life ! Lucius came and went as usual, without urging it further, or appearing anxious about the result. Every body seemed to oe moving Denina a mist, through which John Jordan's face shoae out at times with an unutterable pathos in the Questioning eyes. I wondered if he guessed at my dilemma. At last I went ud to SoDhronia's. at Haverham, to finish my thinking. When I had been there three davs. ud came John Jordan in his own carriage. Bophronia and her husband had always had a mighty fancy for John, and, between us, 1 oeneve sae had sent for him. Well, when Sophro-nia's husband came home to dinner, while he was carvinr. said he. -" That's a exeat iauure aown at your place, Jordan. Now I had an idea that the Glovers were made of money." "What do you mean?" cried Sophy. 44 The Glovers failed! Why, they gave a masquerade party only the other day, with no end of splendor." " That seems to be the cue of people who are tottering, financially; they're de termined to make a ngure, 11 oniy ior tne last time," laughed Sopny's nusDana. " Thev're nrettv badlv cut ud DV lw said John. "Lucius looks ten years nlde.r" . . .. "Lucius?" repeated Sophy's husband. 44 He used to be a spark of . your sister's, Sophy; didn'tne? iJut he's no.jonger. a match, eh?" ' ' - " ' J". Sophy shot a quick look at jne; J onn turned bis head away; Sophy's husband regarded his plate. - But as for me, I had done thinking: I had made up my mind to go home that very day, and tell Lueius I would marry him, for better or worse ! PerhaDS vou'u say I was Quixotic and romantic, and didnt deserve John's regard. - But you see I had given Lucius encouragement, and if I refused him he and all the world would think it was on account of the failure, and, of all things, I cant bear to be suspected of meanness! To be sure, I was going to lose the very things forwhicni naa tea mucins on, but I deserved to. if that was any com fort. Sophronia said everything ehe could think of to make me stay, and I owed It was out of the question. I must be at home to look after the Christmas- ing; the pies would all be at cues and Stand lty tlio Interests of : GAELATINr MISSOURI, THURSDAY, MARCH sevens, with stones enough in them to build a temple, and father would have to so without his olum middinc: and I had a Christmas present to finish. John had intended to spend the holidays: but he said, if I was Bet upon it and nothing could persuade me, he would harness up and take me home. It was a trifle ungenerous, perhaps, to oblige one lover to carry me to his rival ; but I didn't stop to think of that, I was so absorbed by my own sacrifices. It had been drizzling for about an hour when we started, but John had a covered sleigh and a fast horse, xou know now short the December afternoons are, so it was dark as a pocket before we got into Haverham woods, and it had left off drizzling and a smart rain-storm had set in, and no make-believe, and John's lantern gave about as much light as a glow worm, lhe ' raiiroaa naan t crept up as far as Haverham Centre at that time, but it crossed the road half-way through Haverham woods, where you would least expect it, where you had no bint of its approach till it was thundering down upon you, because the woods shut in ttie prospect, and the winds in the pines deafened you. They .called it the Devil's Crossing. I Well, the horse went stumbling, on through the slosh, and the noise of his feet and the sing-song of the Bleigh-bells and the storm roarine through the woods like a bull of Bashan must have rendered it impossible to hear anything short of Gabriel's trumpet; for while I was wondering who would buy the old Glover mansion, and if John guessed why I was hurrying home, and what I should be married in, all at once mere was a nasn and a noise aa if a battery had been dis charged across our path, mingled with shouts, and a pandemonium of bewildered faces and then, oblivion ! They got us home somehow; I didn't know anything about it. We had both been saved by a miracle, but the poor horse paid the debt of nature. I've learned to write and sew with my left hand since then, and I'm so used to my broken nose that I sometimes wonder why strangers look so hard at me; for, you see, I'm no longer a beauty. Avery different kind of sacrifice had been required of me from that which I had reckoned uoon. I believed that all which was necessary now was to send Lucius word that I could not think of imposing such a wreck as myself upon him till death should us part. But Christmas-eve. as I lav on the hair-cloth lounge in the back-parlor for, in spite of my bandages and weakness, I would be in the thick f the family gathering-lust before the lamni were lighted, John Jordan came in and bent over me with a bouquet of tea-roses. 44 As kind as ever," 1 murmured, putting out my right arm instinctively, and hiding my tears against the sofa-cushion. 44 I'm Elad it was the right hand," said he, sitting down on a hassock, 44 because the wedding finger is left;" and he slipped upon it the biggest diamond I ever saw. luook, it's like a peirinea tear a tear 01 1 , oy i . " At was my momer s, ne commucu. Will vou wear it. and answer the ques tion I asked you last month at the masquerade, sweet?" " Tne question you asKeume: - 1 encu. I thought I thought it was only Lucius," I confessed, hiding my face behind the tea-roses. 44 And how, may I ask, were you going to answer Lucius?" 44 1 was going to answer 4 No. V ho would want a wife like like me?" 44 And will not take 4 No' for an an-Bwer," said he ; and the church bells rang in the happiest Christmas eve of somebody's life. They did not tell me till later that Lucius had mended his fortunes by engaging himself to an heiress while X was at Sophronia's. - And I often laugh to think how near I came to refusing a lover who had never proposed. 44 Do you think as badly as ever of marrying a poor man?" John asked, on our wedding-tour. 44 Not if the poor man Is John Jordan," I returned. 4 They told me that you meant to marry for an establishment." "That was before I had seen you," 1 nnanred him; and then the carriage stopped before a brown-stone front, and we ascended a flight of marble steps, and opened the door of our home ! When I want to tease John I always call him 44 My Lord of Burleigh." Don't (Juarrcl. rno nf the most easv. the most com mon, and most perfectly foolish things in the world is to quarrel, no matter wim whom, man, woman, or child, or upon what pretense, provocation, or occasion whatsoever. There is no kind of neces sity in it, no manner of use in it, ana no benefit to be gained by it. And yet, strange as the fact may be, tneoiogians quarrel, anu pounumuo, lawyers, doctors and princes quarrel; the nnomii and the Htate auarrels: VUUl VU ia a viu nations, and tribes, and corporations, men, women, cnuaren, uug uu u. birds and beasts quarrel aoout an uiauui r tuinrra onrl ai all mitnnpr of OCCa- sions. If there is anything in the world that will make a man feel bad, except ninrfiinff his flnerers in the door, it is un questionably a quarrel. No man ever lails to mink less 01 nimseu inter he did before one It degrades him in his An aMi and in the eveo nf others and. what is worse, blunts his sensibility to dis- grace on the one nana anu increases mo power of passionate irritability on the other. The reason people quarrel about 1 , Matlff liQVO fi1 religion is uecause mrj iwj little of it, and the .harder they quarrel tne more aounaanuy ao mey luwc iw T-1 itioiana nrtt fill AXrfM ' Whoso- A UilktVlMUB uvsr - ever quarrels with a man for his political nntnina la himself denvincr the first principle of freedom freedom of thought. moral iiDcrty, wiuiout wuitu nothing in politics worth a groat; it is therefore wrong upon principle. You have on this subject a right to your own opinions, bo have others; you have aright to convince them, if you can; they have the same. Exercise your rights, but again I say don't quarrtL The train is, tne more quieuy peaceably we all get on, the better the better for ourselves, the better for our neighbors. In nine cases out of ten the wisest policy is, if a man cheats you, to quit dealing with him ; if he is abusive, quit his company; if he slanders you, un less there be something outrageous u 5 n rf th Tl opst WAV ia irenerally tt,ot st iof Kim a Inn a fnr there is nottlin&r JUOl IV avj vv, .w- --i better than tbts cool, cairn, quiet way dealing witn most 01 me wrongs wo m-- witn. American uomes. Tn Ttvunvn Ktitk f!Arsim BT ScORCHf INO. For whitening scorched linen, it is nfVen cmffirient tn wet it with soapsuds nri lav it in th hnt inn. Another method Is, where milt is pienuiui, to puj one pound of white soap into a gallon of milk, ana doii tne scorcnea arucio m-Another plan is to squeeze out the juice nf wn middle.aiTArl nninna. which is Knlled in a hnlf a nint of vinegar with One ounce of white soap and two ounces of fuller's eartn ; tne mixture is appneu twi to the scorched part, and when dry wash on witn ciean water. pp-R-pTTrTAL complaints. savB an old writer, are like unto & new cart, which rreftkn and cries even while it has no bur den but its own wheels; whereas that which ia long used and well oiled goes silently away witn a neavy ioaa. It is proposed to cultivate figs for fattening nogs 14 rjouinern MISSOURI AN tile V0rklng7n0n of the Country. CURRENT ITEMS. Erzailian bugs handsomely mounted are the newest head ornaments. A Tebbb Haute Judge fined a man for keeping a dog which barked all night. Old-vashioned mits are to be revived next summer for dowagers and spinsters. Okb of the new collars is called the Empress. It is of linen edged with lace. Although the father of our country never told a lie, he could be at times very cutting. Vaz.K3ciekke8 lace is so cleverly imitated nowadays that only experts can detect the real article. Likimekt labels are said to circulate freely among the Indians of the Northwest, who take them for greenbacks. Spell murder backward and you have its cause. Spell its cause in the same manner. There it is cause and effect. A PKNif8TLVATiA man went out to get his bots heeled eight years ago, and as he has never returned his wife is becoming uneasy. Steps have been taken in India which bid fair to fuse all, or nearly all, the results of mission labor in one organization or combination. Mant a man thinks it's virtue that keeps him from turning a rascal, when it's only a full stomach. One should be careful not to mistake potatoes for principles. A pooh unfortunate who was 44 assisted" out of doors the other night says he has no objection to his wife putting her foot down, but he wishes she wouldn't take it up. A Chicago man wrote to Agassiz that he had an apple which he had preserved for fiity-three years, and when Agassiz wrote for it he said it was the apple of his eye. The cerebrospinal meningitis, or spotted fever, as it is called, has broken out in the western part of Barton County, Mo., . . . . . .7 r ana a number 01 aeams are reponeu uum its effects. Japanese silks will be more fashionable next summer than they ever have been. Hnma nf the new n fit terns are exceedinelv pretty, and for evening dresses will 44 make up lovely." In Chicopee, Mass., a tanner nas secured an ice supply for next summer at little cost. He dug a pit, boarded it up, and allowed it to fill and freeze full of spring water. Tmt Catholic University of Georgia is to be established at Macon. A splendid tract of land studdea witn oak trees nas Kaon rlAnotnn hir Mirain and an endow ment of 300,000 has been guaranteed. A thing of beauty is a joy forever, but when the beautiful nose of Ida Hill, of Dover, N. fl., was broken by the fall of a board she poisoned herself to avoid carrying that nose in public. In a Jewish synagogue in London, recently, a scroll of the Law accidentally slippea irom ine atk aim icu 10 wo ground, 'mere was mucn eicueuicui, and a fast was immediately proclaimed, the congregation volunteering to abstain from food for three days. The small-pox that has been prevailing in the vicinity of Cascade, Iowa, is about at an end. It was spread by the careless patients, mostly Germans and Irish, who wandered about the place after being exposed, and even after they had broken out with the disease. A milk-peddler at Glen Falls, N. Y., lately glided gracefully down a fitly feet embankment, horse, cart, cans, milk, water and all. He was unhurt, and there was nothing to cry for except the spilled milk, for which, of course, it would have been contrary to the proverb to cry. Vaixier, Chief of the Quapaw Indians of Central America, was bitten on the toe recentjy by a large tarantula. The insect crawled up his clothing and gave him a second bite in the back. Medical aid could do nothing, and after lingering a few hours in intense agony he died. Lindt Johnson, a colored woman, aged either 113 or 113 years, has just died in Hartford County, Md. She disdained the use of spectacles, and the traditional fine cambric needle, it is said, was threaded by her with neatness and dispatch .until within a week of her death. The next thing to the elixir of life lor all practical purposes is to find out how to live on little or nothing. A Boston man, fifty years old and sound of limb, avers that he can square this circle. He lived two weeks on ten cents a day, and gained a pound and a half in weight not 1 10s sterling. Crackers, milk and eggs. A native Hawaiian newspaper denies that the Hawaiian racers dying out. The worst disease of Hawaii is despair. The ?eople have lost hope in their country, n Java and Malaysia, where the whites have been for hundreds of years, the natives have not died out, and there is no reason why the Hawaiians should. A few days ago a cavern was discovered in Ponti4U, near Aobfleld, Can., or considerable extent. Its discoverer, after nAr.i;niTflflirfppt struck alight, and UCUCUMlUg ""'J 'J " J - rl on sarthen vessel of about tOUr pints capacity, and globular at the base. Its surface exnioitea remains v mwu glyphics. It containea mica ana quartz. a totott v mlannderet&ndintr as to who should kindle the fire in the morning, recently, blasted the jov of a hastily married couple on Hospital Hill, Northampton, Mass., and the bride went home to her father in disgust. Her husband, having tried ineffectually to win her back, guzzled a large dose of laudanum to end his misery, bat the doctors pumped him out to Tia fit ill lived. Mill 0,1. AOOb nvvuuuwi - Thtchk is something that touches the 1 t v.o lout mnmentn nt 8. doT that died in Lansingburg, N. Y., the other day, at the age of twenty-four years. The old fellow nad hardly stirred from his rug for some days; ne rose Bumy, crawicu wi;u difficulty up-stairs, visited every room m the house, seemea to uiu bimi w"-" all familiar objects, came back to his master's leet, ana aiea wiiuouiBuug8io. -N-b.au VTorrillftn. Wis.. Is aCUriOUS PIUH, bnnwn aa the Silver Mound. It contains about 300 acres, and consists principally r v..i4 nnartT rnetr. bein? circular in form, about 200 feet high, and having a depression of about sixty feet in the cen- i v.A wtrxn, a 1 1 h ton tab afts "were Bunk fifteen or twenty feet, and a drift ... a C lniM srvASSw runs from tne bottom ot one yi mem iw haps forty feet Uierogiypnics are carvcu in a sandstone ledge. a farmer recently made his son turn a grindstone sixteen consecutive th an old maid from spelling-school. If the farmer bad 1 r lf in.iHi who a proper appreciation ui w ' - Afin .mnnv tha best women in the AC?VIPU OUlVUg - -nrir , vrniU have blessed the young martyr and given him a new suit ot clotnes. Ana men tne youug """j .nnMn't hatrahad the nld TaSCal brOUght before a magistrate and fined $20 and costs, wnicn was tne way uie uiuig Courier-Journal. A rnrva nfcrnsrimsntjl made DV liOl. Yille, in France, show that the dis- AsaaAss that etfarlr thA TWiT nui Rre IH UU. UIO coma aua avwiva aw reanlr. nf a defleiencv in the SUPPly Of potash in the soil. For five years in suc cession the Professor planted potatoes in the same soil without any fertilizer; to added fertilizers that did not contain potash. In all these .1 A I i. J.AAeAjl tn thA casca tne unit Dccauio iaabwhtctva. mnnrh nPMiv wliiUnn the, Other DlatS where potash was supplied in sufficient .1 i . n n liAalthv and quantity me pianis cic yieiueu p.u. excellent yiuuun. 19, 1874. In Springfield. Mass.. an Italian vender was robbed of several plaster images in a tenement nouie. lie went siraigm across the street and put the remainder of his wares in a safe place, lie took on his coat, rolled up his shirt sleeves above the elbows, drew a long knife, and pulled his hat down on his head in a determined way. Then he star tea ior tne tenement house with five-foot strides, remarking that blood was going to now. On the way he was met by a trembling little boy, who handed him the stolen image and scampered back into the house, from which the bloodthirsty preparations had been watched. TnoTT T 2 t t t tvna o-ivea a rpmnrkftblv itiat V VOU - - J J definition of a newspaper editor: "An eaitor iz a mate uemg wwrau uiziuew u. w nairiirgta a npiiTnAnpr. TTe writes edito rials, grinds out poetry, inserts deths and weaaings, Boris out manuscripts, a.eeps a waste basket, blows up the 4 devil, steals matter, fltes other people's battles, sells v,!o mnpr fnr & dollar and rl ft v rents a A11B a' U J V a atva H va. J year, takes white beans and apple sass for pay when he can get it, raizes a large family, works nineteen hours out of every twenty-four, knows no Sunday, gits cursed htr mrsrirhniiT and nnrn in A while whipt bi sumbody, lives poor, dies middle aged and olten broken neaneu, leaves uy mnnev and it rewarded for a life OV toil with a'short but free obituary puff in the nuze papers." Chubb is an unfortunate man. ne is bald, and ho uses some 44 renovator " every night before going to bed, for the purpose of making his hair grow. He forgot it nn Wedneadaiv nntil after he was in bed. and then he rose, and as he knew just . . ... . .1 . . I A wn m wnere tne oouie was ne muugui at wn harrtW nrnrth while tn Strike & liffht. He groped around in the closet until ne found the bottle, and pouring out some oi me stuff into his hand he rubbed his scalp well with it; after doing this a second time he put the bottle back and went to bed. During the night the baby got to fninrr and Mrs Chllhll rose . And lit the gas; as soon as she did bo she glanced at Chubo and Degan to scream. xao um and tried tn rise hut found his head held firmly to the bolster. Then Mrs. Chubb screamed louder than ever. Chubb, in serious alarm, jumped out of bed, carrying Ha hnlctur with him in his nnrn. As he came opposite the mirror he perceived that his head was perfectly black, and upon making an examination he found that he had rubbed his scalp with his wife's shoe varnisn. it was ary anu naru, and immnvahlv fixed to the bolster-case. He has not been out of the house since. He soaks his head three times a day in warm water and has still patches of black distributed all over it, like oases in the desert. But this doesn't worry Mrs. Chubb as much as the condition ot tne hnioicr fusp That ia ruined. It had to be cut away to give Chubb freedom. A Yictim of Circumstantial Evidence. Johnson went out of town for the afternoon and left the office in charge of the boy. as soon as he had fairly got out of sight the boy hailed Scoviile's boy, and bringing him into the office the two sat down to a game of seven-up. They were playing with great spirit, continually accusing uuc another of cheating, and getting up and t,.nn.ii.T vnnira at enrh other's head, and lUlUTTlli IJ r J J " ' sitting down again to resume the game, and generally enjoying tucixiocica hml hoth been orphans AAAUlslA AA J -" - . . .. 1. " ititlilU ,n Land mere were no ()(iic-iicc hhe country. After this had gone on for an hour or two, ana unwjct boy had nearly 44 broken " Scoviile's boy by winning five of his seven cents, the nr. fimiloir hannened in tO ask Mr. Johnson about when he ought to have a donation party, l ne two oov s ticicmujsui and there was no use in lying about it, although Lawyer Johnson's boy showed the enects oi nis tegai euuwuuu uj . l.onninrr tn BOPHX that he COUld prove an alibi when the proper time should eome. tiooa lux. omuey uiuugui ue uuw .. .-.lv i,;rdiir tn the bovs. and so he sat just bain i v.i j " ' i . down with them at the table, and picking A Ants- Vaivi tVlOV up ine caras negan iu naa. men j what those mothers would say to see their sons gambling, and wneiner tney were prepoicu ... j: ,tk iKui'r handa full of aces and UIU1S WA11A VAAWA 7 , ! iacks. and how they would explain this matter in a iuture worm. j u tucii vav Biggs came in, and said, "Hello! Jflay- . i little Aiiithm are vnn ing I lie uuvh ct uiuo tv? :n4"if T take a hand mvself " Mr. AJKJU b AAAAAAtA AA A. - ' . Smiley replied, very sternly, that he didn't know the game to whicn lie alluded. 44 Don't know it, heyi" saia oia Biggs; "well, what was you a-playing, boyst" 41 Seven-up," answerea sawyer Johnson's boy, with great promptness. 44 Well, well," continued old Biggs, 44 I'm sorry to hear it. Seven-up ain't no game for a minister, ir. dbucj. -cui-",di ia a niee irenteel game; but I never thought you'd play seven-up, and for money, too. u you re Kuiaa i .,V,'o innr best hold. I'll play von myself now for half an hour ten- cents ante ana uoiiar ucu. ond that, trraeelena old ren- U1IC, Oil OTO - r,- - A robate pulled out his pocket-book and j .v.- thotahle Mr. arew np miumci tu" ., Smiley sat speechless, holdiag the cards in his hand, when in came Scoville and collared his boy. as ne araggeu uiiu a : . n li .amorbpd tn At r away to eiecunuu, no au. Smiley: "So I'm a backslider, am I All right. After I've done my duty as a parent I'll call on your deacons to ask them what they think of a minister who teaches boys to play caros. un, yes i iui bacKsliuer, i ami iu ue buic. va course I am." Uttering mis anaomer writhing sarcasms he withdrew, and the question which now agitates the village j v.i.- i .a T ; AiA Inm flfW dollars Is WiietiAcr uiu Aij;i ui ao , - - on a flush to Mr. Smiley, who held a full i.tv,.. fr SmilPT'g fnii r larks were H VVAAl-AlA AJAA. wuitivj w -" J the hand that really broke old Biggs. Daily urapme. Dickens' Domestic Troubles. Th late Charles Dickens, it was gener ally known, was separated from his wife. In the third volume oi x orster a - uiie oi Dickens," Just issued in London, the great novelist himself explains his mysterious fomiw trnnhlea; "Poor Catherine and I are not made for each other, and there is no help for it. It is not oniy mat sue makes me uneasy and unhappy, but that I make ner bo, too ana mucn more u. Gh ia A-roxtlir what mn tcnow in the wav of being amiable and complying; but we are strangely lu-assoneu ior me iwuu there is Iwetwecn us. God knows she would have been a thousand times happier if Bhe had married another kind of a man, ana mat ner avoiaance ot wis ueuimy would have been at least equally good to us both. I am often cut to the heart by iisnvtn, what a nltir it in. for her own sake, that I ever fell in her way; and if I were sicR or disablea to-morrow l Know how sorry she would be, and how deeply grieved myself, to think bow we had lost ah nther Rut evactlv the same incom patibility would arise the moment I was 11 arain and nnt.hinc on earth COUld make her understand me, or suit us to each other. It mattered not so much when we. had nnlv ourselves to consider. but reasons have been growing' since which make it all but hopeless that we ehnnld even trv tn KTmcp-le on. What 1 now befalling me I have seen steadily coming ever since me a ays you renjeuiuej when alary waa born ; and I know too troll that, vnn rannot and no one can. help mm Whir T have written T hardlv know. but it is a miserable sort of comfort that you should be clearly aware how matters stand." NO. 24. BABY'S WALK. BT OLIVES A. WAMWOBTB. On a bright and beautifal summer's day Mr. Baby thoagbX beet to fro walking away: His little white sack he waa well bottomed tn. And his shady hat waa tied under his chin. One hand was tttjbt clasped tn his nurse's own; The other held fast a little white atone; There hang by his side his new tin sword,-And Urns he began his walks -abroad. He walked and he walked; and by and by . He came to the pen where the plpgy-wigs lie; They rastled about in the straw lu front; And every piggy said, 44 Grant, grant, grant! ' So he walked and he walked; and, what do yon think? . He came to the trough where the horse waa at drink; He cried, 44 Go along! Get np, old Spot! " And the horse ran away with a trot, trot, trot. So he walked and he walked ; and he came at last To the yard where the sheep were folded fast ; He cried through the crack of the fence, "Hurrah!" . And aU the old sheep said, Baa, baa, baa 1" So he walked and he walked till he came to the pond. Of which all the docks and the ducklings are tondi . ,, He saw them swim forward, and saw them swim And all the docks said was, 44 Quack, qoack, quack!" So he walked and he walked; and It came to papa That he reached the field where the cow eat He said'wltn a bow. " Pray, how do yon dor " And the cows all answered, "Moo, moo, moot" So he walked and he walked to the harveat- rronnd ; And there a dozen of tnrkeys he found; They were picking the grasshopper ont of the And all the 'turkeys said, "Gobble, gobble, gobble!" So he walked and he walked to the sung little boose Where Towser was sleeping as still as a moose; Then the baby cried oat, " Halloo, old Tow I And the dog waked up with a "Bow, wow, wow!" So he walked and he walked till he came once To the sunshiny porch and the open door; And mamma looked ont wi'-h a smile, and Mid, " It's time for my baby to go to bed." So he drank his milk, and he ate his bread : a a u ,.iirui anil he walked to his little bed: And with the sword at his side and th atone in bis hand . ' . . He walked and he walked to the Sleeny Ind. A n at iArr jr. MAKIlStt SNOW. BY JAMES KICHABDBON. ii rrr TTitttr I nnnrie and see what a tlllfl- rVZ heavy frost! It's all over everything ever so thick." . 44 Why, you little goosey! lnaiisnt frost it's snow." 44 Snow 7 V hat 13 snow 7 44 Just think, papa. Tommy doesn't know what snow is !" n. Vifthv when the snow was here last winter, and he doesn't re- member it. xoumusi tea mm. - AfCVVin. anna ia nnth n ST but SnOW 1 Everybody knows what snow is, papa." 44 Tommy doesn't, you see. Tell him." "I ll get some ior una. ow, auuiauj, this Is snow." ... 41 It's white, like frost ana coia ana wet." 44 But it isn't frost it's snow, it came out of the sky last night." 44 Did it? I didn't see any when I went to bed. And it isn't frost T" 44 No, I tell you; can't you believe mer-44 It turns to water, like frost. See, it's all melting." "Just listen to him. papal He wont believe a word I say." . , i A f a I rrA., St9 JJO yOU KnOW wnat iro&t a, a umiiijf i "Vea T know. It's fine ice. like you scraped for me the other day." "Very wen; now let us see u uun .nnti,;n liiro that T will sorane some frost from the window, and Kitty will . . A- a..A Anm tnat O bring some snow irom uut-vivruio. little, Kitty, on this piece of paper. That's right; thank you. Now let us look at the two. lioin are wntie ; uum e i i vv. ova tnmul tn water Viv the warmth of the stove. What is the differ ence ?" 44 There isn't any difference." rh mi there ia. Tommv. Snow falls out of' the sky I've seen it and frost doesn t." 44 What makes it?" "It isn't made, it just comes." 44 What makes it come ?" 44 Did vou ever see such a boy to ask questions, papa!" ii a nrj w tit nsir nnestiona. AS. vrvrv. uv.T -1- Kitty. I hope he will always ask them as sensibly, ljet me try in muo aaa-t niur tn him T think we'll get on V-A il " " best down in the big kitchen, where they ... v - jfi m a n t-. at s y"T 1 1 are boiling ciomes ior tne waoii aaia aaaa-ing the place with steam." "What has steam to do with snow, papa?" Very much, as I'll show you present ly. Here we are! Now, Tommy, can you tell us what we've come for?" 44 You're going to show us about snow how it makes itself aren't you?" 44 I'll try. You see all this steam rising from the boiler. Do you know what it is?" 44 It's steam." 44 Yes, but what ' steam ?" 44 Tommv doesn't know, papa; but I do. Tt' water-vaoor. You told me that a good while ago." oee, Tommy, wnen a 110m iu wu shovel over the kettle it turns some of the Bteam back to water again. The Bhovel is all wet now." 44 Where does the rest oi we steam go to?" . ....... 44 The air drinks it up dissolves it, just as vour tea dissolves the sugar put into it and you can't see it any more. But the cold door-knob or the cold window-glass brings it out again ; see how wet they are. That is from the steam in the air. You will remember, Kitty, what I told you about the dew that forms on the grass on cool summer evenings, and how In the fall, when it is comer, me uew inxt and makes frost. Here by the stove it is bo warm that the dew cannot freeze on the windows and nails and door-hinges. Further away, a little frost forms around the cracks where the cold air comes in; and see! here in the corner, where it is very cold (it's bo far from the stove), all the nails have frost on them, and the window panes are covered with it." 44 But how does the tnou comer- Be patient. Tommy, and I'll show you directly." 44 You know, Kitty, that there's a great deal of steam or water-vapor In this room, . 1 - A thougn you cannot see mucn ui iw a uu t tnn that, anvthlnsr cold will turn the steam 'back to water again, and if it is very cold it win ireeze me water uu make frost of it. 44 Now, suppose the cold thing wouian t let the frost stick to it, the frost would have to fall to the floor and then it would be snow. 44 Cold air acts that way; it freezes the vapor, but cannot hold the frost. On very cold days I've seen a real little snow storm made in a not, steamy iwm juov. by opening a window or a door. 44 Maybe it's cold enough for it to-day. We can try, anyhow, and if we fail we can try again some colder day. "Here, where the air Is warm and steamy, 111 open the window at the top so tnat the cold wind will blow in. Look sharp, now!" 44I can see them! I can see them! Real snow-flakes! Oh, Tommy, see! Isn't it funny to make a enow-storm in the kitchen?" Look again. There's no snow flying, outside ; but as soon as I open the window a little, and the cold sir ruahes in, the now-flakes, appear." . " What make them go out bo quick ? 44 The warm air in the room melt them as soon aa they fall into it." V " Is that the way the snow is made up in the sky?" "Precisely. Yesterday it was warm and wet, you will remember. There was a great deal of water-vapor . In the air. Last night it grew cold suddenly. A cold wind blew down the warm, wet wind that bad come up from the sea and chilled it as the cold wind coming in at the window chilled the air in the room and froze its vapor into snow. That is what made the snow-storm last night. "You needn't look so wise, Tommy. You'U understand it better when you're bigger." 44 1 understand it note,-papa. The wind blowed and and it made a awful big frost; didn't it?" " A very big frost, Tommy." That'i what I .said!" St. Nichsla4. A IS'oble School-Boy. School-tkachkrs suffer many annoyances, and generally the hardest part 2, the affliction is the trying to find out "who did it" If all offending pupils were as honorable as the hero of the following incident, the labor of school discipline would be lightened, and lessons of truth and confidence would be taught as well as arithmetic, grammar and geogra- Master Walters had been much annoyed by the whistling of some of his scholars in school. Whenever he called a boy to account for such a disturbance the plea made was that it was unintentional 44 he forgot all about where he was." This became bo frequent that the master threat-ened a severe punishment to the next offender. The next day, when the room was unusually quiet, a loud, sharp whistle broke the stillness. Several scholars asserted that it waa a certain boy who had the reputation of a mischief-maker and a liar. He was called up, and, though with a somewhat stubborn look, he denied it again and again, commanded to hold out his hand. At this instant a little slender fellow not more than seven years old, and with a very pale and decided, face, rushed forward and reached out his hand, saying as he did so : 1 " Mr. Walters sir do not punish him. I whistled. I was doing a hard sum, and in rubbing out another rubbed it out by mistake and spoiled it all, and before I thought whistled rieht out. I was very much afraid, but I could not sit there and act a lie when I knew who was to blame. You may ferule me, sir, as you said you should." And with all the firmness he could command he again held out the little hand, never for a moment doubting that he was to be punished. Mr. Walters was much affected. " Charles," said he, looking at the erect form ot the delicate child who had made such a conquest over his natural timidity, " I would not strike you a blow for the world. I cannot doubt that you speak the truth; you did not mean to whistle, my boy. You have acted nobly and wisely." The boy went back to his seat with a flushed face, and went quietly on with his sums. He must have felt that every eye Was upon him in admiration, for the smallest scholar could appreciate the moral courage of such an action. Youth' t Companion. Railroad Across the Andes. One of the grandest works of this ago is now being constructed across the Peruvian Andes, connecting the Pacific Ocean with the Amazon River by means of railroad, and opening the whole interior of Peru to the commerce of the , world. Hitherto that rich and Immensely productive country, so graphically described in the United States reports of Lieuts. Herndon and Gibbon, has been virtually locked up to foreign trade ; the transportation of one ton of freight from the interior of Peru to the seaport, Lima, costing about three times as much as the transportation of the same amount of freight from Lima to Europe. The railroad in question was begun in 1870. and has already cost over $40,000,000. It is estimated that it will be finished in 1876. Over 10,000 laborers, mostly Chinese, are constantly employed on it The enormous difficulties that have to be overcome in the construction of this road may be estimated from the fact that the Andes rise there to a height of 20,320 feet above the level of the sea. The road itself rises 17,000 feet, and is by far the highest railroad in the world. Even the Mont Cenis Railroad sinks into insignificance when compared with this Peruvian undertaking. The road has also the highest viaduct in the world, it being 580 feet long and 300 leet high in the center. It rests on three pillars, of which the first is 166, the second 183, and the third 253 feet high ; is built of iron, and was manufactured in the United States. A Japanese Normal School. Thk Normal School at Tokel was established in order to obtain a supply of properly-trained teachers for new graded schools, which, according to the scheme of the Education Department, are to number over 50,000. It was begun in the following manner: A class of twenty-five picked young men was formed, and began the study of English. They were fresh and unspoiled, and learned with great rapidity. At a certain point, as soon as they could understand the ordinary expressions of their foreign instructor, the study of English was dropped. They had been taught so far, simply for the purpose of becoming familiar with the manner in which a foreign teacher Instructs a class, and maintains discipline. It was something very different from what they had been accustomed to. In Japanese schools, a teacher usually takes a class of six or less, and instructs each scholar separately. They know nothing of reciting in concert, and the discipline in a large school is, ia respect or noise and irregular attendance, about equal to that of the very worst country schools at home. As soon as these young men had learned how a class in a foreign sphool is taught and managed, little children were brought in, formed into classes, and the young men set to teach them. This they did in the presence, under the eye and by the aid of their foreign instructor. The latter did not know Japanese, nor did he neqd it At present there are 150 young men from all sections of the Empire in training to be teAchera.Corretpondenee Yale Courant. The Spider. Ows ov the most Ingenious and hardest workers amung the whole lot ov little bugs in creashun, iz the common spider. Th will dn mnn wnrk nn a web: in AUJ AA AV u v. v - - J six hours, than a man could do in hiz whole life time, and do a mutch better job into the bargain. There aint nomtng mat we meanest u-aex in the world duz for his necessity or convenience that a man could do haff az well, even if he was paid hiz own price for the work. .... This lz funny, but It iz true, and that Is the best joke ov all. Spiders are the meanest reptiles that hang around this earth, for they are the only ones that i kan now think ov who set traps for their viktims. They are az bad az a man in this re-spekt.Tbare iz no moral fun in a spider; he iz as lonesum az a mizer; he spends hiz whole life making nets and watching them, and allwuss lays at the mouth ov. hiz hole reddy to back lu out ovdanger- A man will step one Bide rather than step on a kriket, and would rather skars a fly than kill him, az sassy az he iz, but he goes for a spider with both feet at once, and seems to loci areoiuu sorry it u misses him. , Spiders Lav no friends In this world, and the reason must be because they are both Tiscious and cunnisg. Theze two traits will make even a man an outlaw, and they akt Justjthe same on a spider, Joth BiUingt, in, iV. Y. Wefy.