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LOVE IN WINTKR. TIT BOBF.UT BOCI1ANAN. Oh, love is like'tho rosed, And every rose Rliall fall, for exit-1 Summer clow i'h y perish one and all. Then Love, while leave we ou the tree, Ana binls sing in the bowers ; When v inter comes, too late 'twill le To pluck tha Uajjpy flowers. It l a maiden Pinning, An ancient girl, in sooth ; The dizzy room is ringing With her shrill song of youth ; The white keys sob as swift she tries Eacu shrill and shrieking scale : Oh. leve is like the rose !" cries This aius lined nightingale. In a tiark corner dozing I close my eyes and ears. And call up, while reposing, A glimpse from other years ; A gee re-picture, quaint and Dutch, I see from this dark seat. Tw full of human brightness, such At makes remembrauco sweet. n. Flat agues of endless meadows (In Holland lite the scene), Where many pollard-shadows O'er nut-brown ditches lean ; Gray clouds above that never break, MiPts the pale sunbeims stripe. With groups of steaming cattle, make ' A J-ndscape 4 ' after Cuyp." A windmill, and below it A cotiase near a road, Tbere some meek pastoral poet Might make a glad abode; A cottage with a sarden, where Prim squares of pansies grow. And, fitting on a gwdeu-obair, A dame w ith locbs of snow. In trim black, trussed and bodiced. With i t tticoat of red. And u her bosom modest A krchit-f white bespread. Alas! the breast that heaves below Is shriveled now and thin. Though vestal thoughts as white as snow st.1. palpitate within. Her hands are mittened nicely, And folded on her knoe ; Her lips, that meet precisely, Are moving quietly. She listens while the dreamy bells O'er the dark flats intone Now cnme, now gone, in dying swells Tne Sabbath-sounds are blown. Her t heck a withered rose is. Her eye a violet dim ; Half in her chair she dozes, Kad hums a happy hymn. But soft I what wonder makes her start And lift her aged bead, Wiiile the faint flutteriugs of her heart J ust touch her cheeks with red ? The latch clicks ; through the gateway An aged wight steps slow. Then paiises, doffing straightway His broad-brimmed gay chapeau ! SwaJlow-teiled coat of blue so grand, With buttons bright beside, He wears, and in his trembling hand A aoeegay, ribbon-tied. His thin old legs trip lightly In breeches of nankeen. His wrinkled face looks brightly, So rosy, fresh, and clean ; for old he is and wrinkled plain, With locks of golden gray, And !eanixrtron a tasseled cane, fle nobbles on hi way. Oh, sky-lark, singing over The silent mill hard by, . To this so happy lover Sing out with summer-cry ! He hears thee, though Ids blood is cold, She hears, though deaf and weak ; She stands to greet him, as of old, A blush upon her cheek. In Spring-time they were parted By some sad wind of woe ; .Forlorn and broken-hearted Each faltered, long ago; They parted : half a century Each took the path of pain He lived a bachelor, and she Was never wooed again. But when the Summer ended. When Autumn, too, was dead, When every vision splendid Of youth and hope was fled, Again those twain came face to face As in the long ago ; They met within a sunless place In the 'season of the snow. 41 Oh. love is like the roses, liove eomes and love mut flee ! Before the summer closes Love's rapture and loves glee !T Oh peace ! for in the garden there He bows in raiment gay. Doffs hat, and with a courtly air Presents his fond bouquet. One day in every seven. While ehnreh-bells softly rijg. The happy, silent heaven Beholds ih self-same thing : Tuc gay old boy within the gate, Wj:u ribbons at his knee ; ' When winter comes is love too late O Cupid, look and see ! Oh, talk not of love's raptore, When youthful lovers kis ; What mortal sight may capture A scene so sweet as .his ? Beside her now he sits and glows, While prim she sits, and proud.. Then, spectacles upon his nose. Reads the week's news aloud ! Pure, with no touch of passion, True, with no tinge of pain : Tbus, in sweet Sabbath-fashion, They live their love again. She sees in him a happy boy Swift, agile, amorous-eyed; He sees in her his own heart's joy Yccth, hope, love vivified ! Content there he sits smoking His long Butch pipe of wood ; Gossiping oft ana joking. As a gay lover should. And oft, while there in company They smile for love's sweet sake. Her snuff-box black she hands, and he A grave, deep pinch doth take I There, gravely juvenescent, In sober Sabbath-joy, Mingling the past and present, They sit, a maid and hoy ! 14 Oh, love is like the roses ! No ! Thou foolish singer, cease ! Ixjve iinds his fireside mki the snow, And smokes the pipe of peace ! Gentleman's Magazine THE UJiTERWALD rVEDDINtt. Maitre Seiler was a -well-preserved, agile gentleman of nearly sixty. At twenty he thought of nothing but law ; at thirty, of nothing but pleading ; at forty he became a Judge ; and only at fifty-five did he make the discovery that -weighing laws and splitting hairs upon the meaning of words and phrases is scarcely all the pleasure to be found in existence. At fifty-five he awoke to the conscious ness that he had wasted life. He was very clever at every point in the com mon law of the Unterwald, but he was not wise enough to know that at that age one can scarcely begin life over again. If, apart from the law, he had ever a passion, it was a quiet, half-doubting love of fishing ; and, therefore, when he gave up his judgeship, and retired into private life with the respect and even veneration of all who knew him, having angled half his life for clients, and settled the differences of other legal anglers through nearly a score of years, he fell to angling for fish as the one joy of his life. Indeed it was this new occupation, amid nature, trees, flowers and living water, which prompted Maitre Seiler to the conclusion that he had made a mis take in life when he brought it down to trrinding law from New Year's Day to St. Sylvester's, which is the last day in The old man's heart was desolate. His quiet, resigned old housekeeper- sad spinster, who had thrown herself into the pathetic and tears early in hfe Maitre Seiler found, now that he saw sky and forest daily, to be quite a weari some woman; and the consequence was that Maitre Sealer would pack up his fishing wallet, with a crust and flask of white wine for his lunch and go out from six in the morning until sunset. One day, having caught trout until he was weary of unhooking them and the afternoon becoming close is was a warm April that yearhe fell asleep tinder a whispering fir tree, and there he slept the sound sleep of innocence for hours. Then as he awoke he experienced that wonderful luxury a gradual regaining of the senses while a sweet voice was singing in the distance. When he sat up and rubbed his eyes, he found that the sun had set, and that he himself was rather stiffer in the limbs than was comfortable. The voice came nearer, and through the break in the glade he saw a moun taineer girl spinning as she came slowly forward, followed by two or three brows ing goats. The girl was about sixteen ; her yel low, light wavy hair was drawn to the back of the head, and there fell in two long, red ribbon-tied plaits ; while the black bodice and poppy-colored skirt completed a far more charming picture than any the old Judge had seeu in court through all his legal years. He sighed lightly. She stopped and looked about, but she showed no fear. "Don't be afraid," he said, gently. The girl smiled as she saw the pleas ant old gentleman, and said, " O, no; and Bruttlewart and Michlin would butt you if I told them." The goats looked at the stranger in an undecided way, but apparently re solved to go on munching. " And who art thou ?" "lam Lotte." " And where does Lotte live ?" " 1 am the daughter of the Forester Yeri." "Ha! ha! art thou the daughter of the Forester Yeri ? I remind me I have seen him in my court at sessions and other times. Is his house far away ?" " But a turn, messire, in the path ; and the forester will be glad to see thee, good herr, if he knows thee." "Why, whom have we here?" asked the forester, looking out from the head of the stone steps, which led from the living floor of his forest home to the ground. "Good-even, Yeri ; thy daughter has found me. I am Messire Seiler, late Judge of the canton. Hast so soon for gotten me ?"' " He ! 'Tis Messire Seiler !" cried the forester, doffing his hat and hurry ing down the steps. " I fell asleep !" said the old Judge, looking yet upon Lotte ; " and, though I am still as active as a roe, I did not awake until the sun had gone down. I am a long way from the town ; my wal let is empty, and so also am I ; and, therefore, I am asking thee for some supper, Yeri." " With right good will," said the forester, holding out his hand, which the old Judge took ; for in and about Switzerland the general equality of riches appear to create an equality of habits ; the officer and the private will sit down together, and the great man of the district will not find himself ill at ; ease when he eats his supper with a ! small farmer, the latter meanwhile, being perfectly liospitable, never servile, and rarely uncomfortable, when face to face with a man of superior social rank. The good wife Kristine now coming forth with a welcome, these four peo ple shut out the evening, after entering the forester's; house, and Lotte and her mother fell to work preparing supper. The red-cheeked, coarse white cloth was soon upon the table, the wooden spoons and platters laid, and the big tureen, lively with a pattern of wild flowers, was ready for the soup. Not much of a meal but plain soup, the beef which made it eaten with vin egar and oil, black bread and strong cheese, the whole washed down with some blackish, sour country wine yet the old Judge thought he never had eaten such a meal. To tell the truth at once, the old Judge was in love with Lotte, though she was only 16, and the old gentleman was by that time 58, if a day. "I lay me, good Judge, you will sleep till late in the morning," said broad chested Yeri, when they were saying good night. " O, no," replies the Judge, wishing to cut a good figurge before Lotte ; " I never was more active than I am. I shall be up with the lark, and out bo fore any of you." Neverthless, though they softly called him three times, he never awoke, and, in fact, did not present himself until the forester's breakfast had been wait ing a whole hour. The forest girl had been out and away hours ; and, as he saw her, with the fresh morning color on her face, and holding out to him a bunch of wild flowers which she had gathered, he de cided that a pretty girl looked better at sunrise even than by sunset. That was the beginning of it. The prim housekeeper wondered what became of her master until all capacity of astonishment was left ; while good Yeri and his wife, though they were wonderfully benefited and honored by the old Judge's friendship, were marvelously puzzled to find an answer to the riddle why Maitre Seiler came to their hut four or five times in the week. One day a barrel of rikvir, a capital wine in those parts, would be sent with Maitre Seller's compliments ; and, within a week, an admirable present of sausage would be received. The gravest condemnation of the poor old Judge.and the best prof of the honesty of the couple, Yeri and Kris tine, were to be found in the fact that the latter never suspected the real basis of aO these civilities on the part of the smitten old gentleman. As for trout, the good woman Kris tine was weary of cooking it, so much of that fish did the good old J udge bring to the chalet. He never said much to Lotte spoke like a father to her, and certainly never enabled the pretty girl to guess what was in his heart. This life went on to the end of June, when the tall mountain grass was ready for the scythe. The old Judge, however, had never slept at Yeri's except upon that one particular night when first he visited the forester. He did not know that he had been put in Lotte's room ; he supposed it the guest's chamber. But upon that particular night in June he had made up his mind to speak to Yeri ; and then it was he found that, Judge and orator as he was, he could not plead for himself. "What ails the old Judge to-night? " thought the forester. " He does not seem himself." The time went on, and when at last the Judge decided that he would defer it until the morning, the forester made the discovery that it was dark, and the moon would not be up for two hours, so the good Judge was invited to stop for the night. He had no idea that his remaining put the primitive family to any incon venience ; no more than at the moment he learned that he took Lotte's room from her. But, in fact, the young goat-herdes? was carried off to her mother's room for the night, while the forester node him self a bed of furs, etc., on the ground of the living-room. He thought the girl looked pale and anxious ; but he could not defect that she was in great tribulation. A little while, and the forest hut was quite quiet not a light fo be seen. Now they have a habit in parts of Switzerland of cutting the high grass by moonlight, the belief being common that grass so cut makes better hay than that which falls beneath the scythe in sunlight. The old Judge, unable to sleep, was turning over in his mind what he should say on the following day to the forester, when he heard the tinkle of cow-bells, the lumbering of heavy wag ons, and the rattle of talking and sing ing voices, all of which gradually ap proached. Not ignorant of the custom of moon light hay-making, the old Judge found the rustic sounds rather soothing than not, when he heard a tapping at the window. He listened, and the sound was re peated. He knew that the window was ten or twelve feet from the ground, and that it could only be reached either by a ladder, or by climbing the vine which grew on the wall about the lattice. A thief ! What thief would tap at a window ? What could a thief hope to steal in that poor place, unless The old Judge's heart began to beat high. And, as though in reply to his thoughts, a soft, pleasant voice called, as the tapping was heard again : "Lotte !" He moved off the bed (for he had lain down in his clothes, too weary with thinking over the grand question to un dress), and drawing near the window, he saw by the light of the moon which bad now just topped the trees, that a black-haired and extremely handsome youth was clinging to the vine, his bright eyes eagerly fixed upon the win dow. The old Judge silently opened the lat tice ; there was a low, bright laugh, and the young mau leaped lithely and blithely into the room. " And whom have we here ?" sudden ly cried the Judge, pouncing upon the intruder. The youth uttered a low cry, but offered no resistance. " What thief in the night are you ?" "So please your worship," said a clear, pleasant voice, " I am no thief, but Wilhem, only son of the wood ranger at Knsnach, and I am come to see my Lotte !" " Thy Lotte ?" " So please you, she is nrv wife !" " Your wife?" "Ay, messire; 'twas an Unterwalden wedding. 'Tis our custom here in this canton ; and I am but waitiug for my appointment as ranger, which I hope to get by the interest of one Messire Seiler, an ex-Judge, who has been a second father to my Lotte, to tell my father and hers that we are betrothed, aud that we are ready to marry by sun light !" " O, then, the interest Yeri's daugh ter has shown in the old Judge comes out of the hope that he will help thee to thy rangership ?" " 'Tis exactly so, messire. I am no thief, but an honest man, and Lotto's husband by the laws of Unterwald !" " How long since ?" " These fair six weeks !" The very time during which she had looked at him so earnestly. He understood the look then. " Begone, young man ; I think I may promise thee thy wife and place. " Next morning he was very grave, but there was that noble something in his face we are pleased to call resignation. " Messire Seiler, tho . art not well !" cried the forester. ' ' Nay ; better than yesterday. By the way, I told thee last night I should have something to say to thee. It is this I want thy consent to a marriage between Lotte, here, and one Wilhem, only son of the ranger, at Ivusnach.." The forester beat his hand upon the table as Lotte uttered a cry, and the good wife clapped her hands. " Never !" said he ; " tis a rare good-for-naught !" " No," said the Judge ; " I'll answer for him." " Thou, Judge ?" "Yes ; he will make her a good hus band." " But he has no post ; he is nothing." "I promise you he shall have the under rangership." " Well, now, messire, when thou pleadest to me, 'tis as thou didst when thou wert a lawyer, and if my girl says aye " Lotte looked at the Judge, rue aningly, and said : " I do not hate him, father." " Then 'tis settled," said Yeri. So the old Judge went home wearily, a sadder and a wiser man. The forester, Yeri, wondered why the old Judge never came, while the presents were sent as before ; and the melancholy housekeeper marveled that her master gave up fish ing. Seiler was quite happy, but never a word said he. Not even once again did he go to the hut in the forest, and he benefited by the lesson he had learned that youth is for youth, and that if it is thrown away in the early summer-time of life, it is not to be picked up again in the autumn of existence. For no man can retrace his life. The French Returning to Hard Money. The French government have taken an important step in the direction of a speedy resumption of specie payments. A recent circular issued by the Ministe: of Finance instructs the tresorien generaux of the departments to mak use of gold pieces of 20 francs, 5( francs and 100 francs, in the same waj as any other description of mony in their disbursements for government ac count. At the same time the Minister of Finance recommends the Depart mental Treasurers to abstain from all payments in 25-franc Bank of France notes, but to reserve them exclusively for their payment to the Freneh Treas ury. The effects of this measure will be to replace the 25-franc notes in the hands of the public by a metallic cur rency. Gold and silver are very abun dant at this moment in France, not only at the bank but also in circulation. In addition to 150,000,000 francs of gold and silver coined by the mints of Paris and Bordeaux since the Franco-German war, the bullion importations during the first seven months of the present year amount to 634,000,000 francs. Of the latter sum the exportation of the precious metals since the 1st of January amounts to 81,000,000 francs. The bal ance of internal coinage of France is, therefore, exclusive of bullion, a trifle over 553,000,000 francs. One-sixth of America's population of over 30,000,000 cannot read or write ; 5,000,000 out of a total school popula tion of almost 13,000,000 receive instruction. Current Paragraphs. Easy roads lead to hard places. Money generally costs too much. The origin of Easter eggs A hen. A max who has no mind will change it. not Nener sideways. marry a woman who kicks The wisdom of the wisest is folly in the sight of God. A foolish friend is more troublesome than a wise enemy. In California all educational offices are open to women. Only the stores of the mind can be taken to the next world. A healthy heart digests and draws strength from misfortune. Heed the slanderer to-day, and he will talk of thee to-morrow. Neakly every county in Oregon con tains undeveloped coal mines. Don Piatt says shrewdly : "Humor is to a newspaper what a tail is to a kite very absurd, but very necessary to its ascension. "- The latest Utah discovery is of a bed of sulphur, almost pure, assaying 90 per cent, on the average and entirely free from arsenic. If anything will impress the human mind with awe, it is the expression of a man's face who has just been aroused from snoring in church. The frog-dealers of New York are do ing a jumping business. Five hundred pounds of that French delicacy are con sumed in that city daily. Bancroft's history, the tenth volume of which is now in press, has been just forty years in publishing, the first vol ume having appeared in 1834. A Bowling Green (Ky.) man has a chicken covered with red hair instead of feathers and down. The old hen leels very much ashamed of herself. The Postmaster-General has per emptorily prohibited the use of in toxicating liquors either in or out of the department during business hours. A Richmond negro went to steal hens, caught his foot in a trap, and cut a toe off rather than have daylight find him there. It was an untoward affair for him. There are at present 214 prisoners in Washington City jail, which is seventy-nine more than have been confined in that institution at any one time since the war. Boston in one year contributes nearly $3,500,000 for the poor, or enough to board all the poor at the leading hotel the year arouud. But it does not all reach the poor. Beet Haete is said to be constantly hard up. Such, however, is genius. Exchange. If being hard up consti tutes genius, we have had some spells of remarkable brilliancy. JS'ashville iVevs. A special convention of clergymen and laymen of the Episcopal diocese of Iowa has been called to meet at Daven port on the 9fch of December for the purpose of electing a successor to the late Bishop Lee. The equalized valuation of taxable wealth of New York State for 1874 shows real estate $1,750,698,918 ; per sonal property, $418,608,955; total, $2,169,307,873 which is $40,000,000 greater than in 1873. Of the whole amount, New York city contributed $1,105,156,000, or over one-half. California contains twice as many square miles as the six New England States combined. Again, Cal. contains 37,775 more square miles than Great Britain, Ireland, and all the adjacent islands under the British flag. Were it as densely inhabited as the British home territories California would have more than thirty-five millions of peo ple. With few exceptions, says a veteran observer, illiterate and half-educated persons use more " big words " than people of thorough education. It is a very common but a very egregious mis take to suppose that long words are more genteel than short ones just as tne same sort ot people imagine high colors and flashy figures improve the style of dress. Fair Fnn. The Boston Commercial Bulletin tells this story: " Where'll ye have these ?" said a hard-handed man of Athens, the other day, in the art gallery of the Mechanic's Exposition, at the same time setting down two gigantic, gaudily painted tin jars on the table at which the energetic Slack was busily writting, with a thump that made eveiy thing dance again. " Where will I have tbem ?" said the journabst, leaning back in his seat and gazing in astonishment at the two tin horrors; " why, I will have them off this table in the first place and out of this room in the second place." "Waal, ye needn't gt huffy about it. You told me to bring 'em here and you'd give 'em a good place." " I told you to bring them here," said Slack, " when, where, how ?" "Why," said the wood-be exhibitor, ' ' you writ it on my letter and sent it back to me ; here it is in a big hand, as plain as print, sir," and he produced a letter which, sure enough, was indorsed in the bold hand of the editor : " Send them to the art gallery, and if they are what you say they are, we will give them a good Elace." Puzzling over it for a minute e tun ed back the leaf, and his aston ishment subsided into a smile, as he read: "I have got two of the hand somest painted water colors in Boston, which I want to show in the Mechanics' fair." "Young man, go East, to the Quincy Hall, and perpaps you can get space, but next time you write a letter about your merchandise, spell cooler with two o's and an e." A Buzz Saw Tragedy. A most melancholy and distressing accident occurred at the Washington navy yard a few days sinoe. Mr. Ed ward P. Sipler, aged thirty-five years, and a native of New Jersey, was stand ing, about 2:30 o'clock, adjusting the guides of the large circular saw of which he had charge. The saw was running at the rate of 800 revolutions per minute, when he missed his strike, and in an instant was carried into the fatal grip of the deadly instrument. Quick as a flash went the top of his head, next his right arm, then his left, the poor fellow's entire body being hor ribly mangled and out in many pieces, as if by a razor. Death was, fortun ately, instantaneous, and as soon as the machinery could be stopped the re mains were gathered together. He was a stout, hearty man, married, with three children. The event has cast a gloom over the entire neighborhood. Eternal Desolation. In the northwest corner of San Ber nardino county, lying partly also in Inyo county, and, by the newly surveyed line, partly also in the State of Nevada, is a region paralleled by few other spots on the face of the earth. We say the world is instinct with life. Here, if the phra seology may be pardoned, is a place instinct with death. A huge basin,, whose rim is the ancient hills, stricken with the barrenness of eternal desola tion, whose bosom is the blasted waste of the desert treeless, shrubless and waterless, save a few bitter pools like the lye of potash water ; surrounded by mountains that tower thousands of feet above the sea-level, itself lying three hundred feet above the sea. It is a very "Gehenna" a place of death and bones. Birds do not fly over it. Ani mals do not enter it. Vegetation can not exist in it. The broad sands absorb the heat, the bare mountains reflect it, the unclouded sun daily adds to it. Ninety degrees in the shade (artificial shade, there is no other) means winter. One hundred and thirty and one hun dred and forty degrees, that is summer. The hot air grows hotter, wavers, trembles with heat, until nature, goaded to madness, can endure no more ; and then the burning blast rouses itself in its might ; rouses as an angry beast, with a hoarse, ominous roar; sweeps mile after mile, on, ever on, over the broad reach of the desert, bearing in its black, whirling bosom black as the midnight dust, sand, alkali and death. Sometimes a murky cloud gathers upon the mountains above ; then there is a rush a warning sigh on the winds a low rumbling in the air ; the hills quiver, the earth trembles, and a tor rent, half water, half mud, bounds from the hills, leaps into the desert, plowing chasms like river-beds in the loose sand. The clouds scatter, the sun comes again, the eternal thirst of the desert is not quenched. The raging river was only a dream. In the year 1849 a party of emigrants entered the basin. Day after day they toiled on, thirsting, dying. The piti less mountains walled them in ; no es cape. One by one they dropped and died. A few, abandoning everything, scaled the mountains and escaped. The others lie as they fell, dried to mum mies no birds even to devour their flesh ; no beasts to prey upon them. Wagon-tires unrusted ; gun-barrels bright, untarnished. Such is the place. Mile after mile silence reigns ; silence and death. " Walled by the mountains, doomed with brazen eky. League after league the never-ending sand Spreads like the ocean, to the lifting eye. An aged, weary, long-forgotten laud ; As cursed iu wrath, and smit with God's fierce hand. No cooling mist quenches the endless thirst That rules supreme the boundless stretches grand ; Over its broad expanse no storm-clouds burst Willi hurrying teet. It Is a land accursed. " Railway Mortality. Railway servants lead a life full of risk. The numbers of this class of per sons wounded and killed each year is appalling so appalling that the rail way companies manifest the utmost anxiety to keep the statistics bearing on the subject from the public. In England the railway companies are re quired by statute to furnish annually a return of the railway accidents attended with loss of life or personal injury. The companies, it would seem from a report sent to the London Times by Mr. M. T. Bass, have made returns as required, but most inaccurate ones. The companies are subjected to a fine for any error in their statistics, and so numerous have these errors been that the aggregate of fines has reached the immense figure of $2,000,000. Thus the Lancashire and Yorkshire Company reported that thirty-nine of their ser vants were killed and seventy-three in jured in 1872. The fact is, that fifty four werekilled and 1,367 injured. Soat least Mr. Uass report says. On all the railways in England there were returned killed during the same year 632, and in jured 1,395. Mr. Phillips, agent of Mr. Bass, argues that the number of killed was 1,080, and of injured 27,340. This last year the accidents on English railways have been even more nnmer ous than in 1872. It is estimated that during the last year 1,300 railway ser vants were killed on English railways, and 27,000 injured. The number of injured, according to the returns, was only 1,171, an error of 25,829 ! Eight railway companies have made erroneous returns last year. The number of killed returned by the Lancashire and York shire Railway Company, for instance, was only thirty-nine. The real number it seems was 1,317. Some of these non official statistics are only inferential. There is, however, every reason to be lieve that they are much more reliable than those furnished by the railway companies themselves. It seems probable that legal proceed ings against the defaulting companies will be instituted by the British Board of Trade. It is to be hoped that, in the interest of the security of life and. limb, such proceedings will be begun. The prosecution of the companies which have failed to send in accurate returns of the number of their servants killed and wounded will have a tendency to make them more respectful of human life. Hence its advisability. Chicago Tribune. Rare Gems aud Their Yalue. Mr. Gilson has recently concluded a journey round the world, which he made for the purpose of ascertaining the condition of the trade in gems. In an article in the St. Petersburg Gazette he states the result of his investiga tions. Diamonds he found at a lower rate than they have reached in ten years past. Pearls and emeralds are. on the other hand, at a premium. An opal the size of an average olive would bring in New York, at the present time, about $180 ; a sapphire of the same size would bring $1,350 ; an emerald $7,500 ; a diamond $13,500, and a ruby $37,500. In Europe these gems would rank somewhat differently, opals and sapphires rating higher and emeralds lower. Pearls are now brought from Central America, California and the Persian Gulf, but none of them rival those of the East Indies. About $5, 250,000 of diamonds are annually im ported from South America into Eu rope, and the same into America. Many of these are of good size, and most have a yellowish tinge. In conse quence of this importation, diamonds of the same hue have fallen 75 per cent, in the market. They would have fallen still lower were it not that the enormous fortunes realized in America through petroleum and military contracts have created an excessive demand. But this effect upon the value of the stones may be considered merely temporary. A similar depreciation in their price oc curred at the discovery of the diamond mines in Brazil Go conda having pre viously supplied the market bui they soon regained their value. "Go to grass " is swearing when used in New Hampshire. At least they are churching -a deacon' down there for using the expression. Pure Air. BY DR. J. H. HANAFOED. The propriety of the use of an abun dance of pure air may be inferred from the vast supply of it an ocean more than forty miles deep enveloping the earth. Its importance may also be de duced from the fact that, while it is constantly vitiated, its purity destroyed by combustion and respiration, there are influences' and forces as constantly deputized to restore the integrity of this great body of air, not only to guard against the natural results of its poison ing influences when thus contaminated, but to restore to it its original purity, its native life-imparting power. This is done principally through the agency of water, also abundant in its supply, aud the vegetable kingdom, which, with its unuumbered lung-leaves, is ever gathering up and appropriating what to animal life is ever noxious fatal in their results, but vigor and growth to vegeta ble life. With such a supply, there fore, ample for our world though its sentient beings should be increased tenfold, and with these wind, wave and vegetable influences, restoring its purity as fast certainly as the opposing influj ences of combustion and respiration can vitiate it, we need not be parsimonious in its employment. We need not fear that in using just as much as the capacity of our lungs will permit we shall ever encroach upon the rights of our neighbors, for the good Father has amply and abundantly supplied the wants of all of His creatures. Again, facts show us that an adult, that he may have a good supply, and that of the best ouaiitv, or such as his health demands, should have at least from seven to ten cubic feet of fresh air each minute. This supply has a direct reference to the purification of the blood, a matter of vast importance, and to the sustenance of the body, impart ing vitality and power, one of the great energizing influences. But how shall we obtain an ample supply of this vital fluid, an absolute necessity to all living creatures? I answer not in our box-like sleeping apartments, with closed doors and win dows, to exclude even a breath of fresh air. On an average these will not con tain enough air to last their occupants more than three -fourths of an hour, while during the remaining seven the occupants might breathe a vitiated air, poisonous, loaded with the emanations from bodies constantly ejecting waste and impure matter, not unlike the noxious miasmata of the cesspool and the low lands of the South, with the seeds of disease and the diseasive tendencies of those around us. We shall not find pure air, such as the Creator manifestly intended for us, in most of our churches, especially those well filled, since the air of these cannot remain absolutely pure for more than fifteen minutes. During the rest of the services, while the preacher is presenting the great incentives of iur ity of life, we are compelled at each inspira tion to breathe the fumes of whisky and tobacco, the corrupting effluvia of scrof ula; the taint, it may be of the putrefac tive breath of him whohas worse than a mark of Cain upon him, the almost in eradicable curse-stain of libertinism, with the seeds of disease saturating the whole air of the room. We shall not find it in our lecture rooms, our shops, our larger manufactories or in our school rooms, often packed to their ut most capacity, where science is taught and yet with an utter disregard of some of the fundamental principles the alphabet of practical science. We shall not find it in anj place where the occu pants unlearned, to say the leasts manifest a zeal and ability worthy of a good cause, in their efforts to shut out this friend of man and beast, so eager, as it might seem, to bless, that it at tempts to insinuate its presence wher ever it may gain access. It will not be found in our closed apartments only so far as we secure its presence by proper means of ventilation, remember ing that the most important considera tion is the escape of the foul air, which must be succeeded by a fresh supply. The proper means of securing this air may be determined by each individual, but must be done by open doors, windows judiciously effected, or by regular ven tilators. "Even slight orifices opposite each other, if abundant, will do much, if not all that is necessary. And should we admit this air in the night, we need not, therefore, infer that it must be poisvn, since if we breathe iu the night we must breathe night air. And such night air is not only not generally poi son, but, even in the most malarious dis tricts, can scarcely be so poisonous as it too generally is in our closed sleep ing rooms. If we would breathe sufficiently of this air we must make an effort, must go out into the world, must expand the lungs and admit the fresh air to their six hundred millions of air cells, not only as a means of invigoration, but for the prevention of that most fatal of the diseases of civilization pulmon ary consumption, so many victims of which are sacrificed annually for the want of pure air, free even to the poor est citizen. Chicago Ledger. Gen. Sherman's Religion. Last winter, when Gen. Sherman made his famous speech, regretting that they never had dancing at his house, and said he liked to see the young people "scooting around," he told me that after his death there need be no dispute about his religious faith, for it could be given in a few words. Said he: "I believe that if people only act half as well as they know how, God will for give the balance." Gen. Sherman has another short creed. He says this is not a baa world unless we choose to make it so. If we are kind to others in return, we will be kindly dealt with. Wa8?iington Cor. Louisville Courier Journal. According to Law and Evidence. A singular case which occurred many years ago in one of the rural towns of Vermont is thus described by the Rut land (Vt.) Herald: Capt. A. shot and killed a dog belonging to his neigh bor, SmithsThis act was charged upon oneG., aad trauit was brought against him to recover damages. The case was tried by a jury before a Justice of the Peace, and Capt. A. sat as a juror. Cir cumstantial evidence was presented to prove that G. shot the dog, and the jury agreed to return a verdict of ' guilty. ' Several years after the trial Capt. A. acknowledged that he killed the dog, and defended his course in rendering a verdict of 'guilty' against G. on the ground that his juror's oath required him to decide the case according to law and evidence, and it was fairly proved, he said, that G. killed the dog. " "Mem." French ladies never fold their summer dresses in packing. They are rolled in wrapping paper, and thus their fresh and stiff appearance is al ways retained. There is no reason why American ladies should not take the hint and do like wise. Up a Tree. Frenchmen, despite theii supposed frivolity, have an eye to busi ness, it seems. There was to be a mar riage in a French village, and all the guests were punctual, but the bride groom could not be found. He was discovered, at last, up a tree, but would not come down till the future father-in-law conveyed to him a farm that, had been promised. Much protestation and many tears ; but he was firm. Finally the papers were signed, and down he came. A Universal Remedy! Wishart's Pine Tree Tar Cordial for coughs, ooldn and bronchial affections stands first in public con fidence and favor. This result has been ac quired after a test of many years. Com. Ragged stockings and protruding toefe are not seen on feet where SILVER TIPH are worn. Parents remember; this they last twice as long. THE DYING BODY SUPPLIED WITH THE VIGOR OF LIFE THROUGH DR. RADWAY'S SARSAPARILLIAN RESOLVENT THE CREAT Blood Pu ri fieri ONE BOTTLE Will make the Blood pure, tbe Skin clear, the Eye bright, the Complexion smooth and transparent, the Hair strong, and remove H Sores, Pimples, Blotches, Fastules, Tetters, Cankers, etc., from the Head, Face, Neck, Mouth and Skin. It Is pleas ant to take and the dose is small- It ResoWcs away Diseased Deposits; It Purines the Blood and Renovates the System. It curat With certainty all Chronic Diseases that bare lingered In tbe system ire or ten years, whether it be Scrofula or Syphilitic, Hereditary or Contagious, BX IT SEATED IK THS Lungs or Stomach, Skin or Bones, Flesh or Nerves, CORRUPTING THE SOLIDS AKD VITIATING THB FLUIDS. IT IS THE ONLY POSITIVE CURE FOR KIDNEY and BLADDER COMPLAINTS,. Urinary and Womb Diseases, GraTel, Diabetes, Dropsy, Stoppage of Water, Incontinence of Urine, Bright's Disease, Albuminuria, and in ail cases wnere there are brick-dust deposits, Chronic Rheumatism, Scrofula, Glandular Swelling, Hack ing Dry Cough, Cancerous Affections, Syphilitic Complaints, Bleeding of the Lungs, Dyspepsia, Water-Brash, Tic Dc-loreux, "White Swellings, Tumors, Ulcers, Sktn ana Hip Diseases, Mercurial Diseases. Female Complaints. Gout, Dropsy, Rick ets, Salt Rheum, Bronchitis, Consu jiptftn. Liver Complaints, Ulcers in the Throat, Mouth, Tumors, Kodes in the Glauds and other partsof the system, Sore Eyes, Strumorous Discharges from the Ears, and the worst forms of Skin Diseases, Krup ions. Fever Sores, Scald Head, Ringworm, Salt Kheum, Hrysip. las, Acne. Black Spots, worms in the Flesh, Cancers in the Womb, and all weakening and painful discharges. Night Sweats, Loss of Sperm and all wastes of tbe life principle are within the curative range of this wonder of Mod ern Chemistry, and a few days1 use will prove to any person using- It, for either of these forms of disease, its potent power to cure them. Sold by Druggists. $1.00 per Bottle. Ra Rb Ra RADWAY'S Ready Relief, The Cheapest and Best Medicine for Family Use in the World! One SO-Cent Bottle . WILD CTTBI MORE COMPLAINTS AND PBIVBHT THF. STSTEM AGAINST SUDDEN ATTACK" OB KPIDF.MirS AND CONTAGIOUS DISEASES THM ONE HUNDRED DOLL ARB EXPENDED FOR OTH ER MEDICINES OB MEDICAL ATTENDANCE. THE MOMENT RADWAT'S READY RELIEF IS B.PPLIED EXTERNALLY OR TAKEN INTER N ALL Y ACCORDING TO DIRECTIONS PAIN, FROM WHaTBVER CAUSE, CEASES TO EXIST. TVVAST1VT Wtna.. Xfr,rT . . r, A fllha,, FA. liditifir in SDarsetv-settied districts, where it la difficult to secure the services of a physician, RADWAY'S READY BELIEF is invaluable. It can be used with positive assurance f aoinggoodin all cases where pain or discomfort is experienced ; or if seized with Influenza, Dip other la, S re Throat, Bad Coughs. Hoarseness. Bilious Colic, Inflamma tion of the Bowels, Stomach, Lungs, Liver. Kid neys ; or with Croup, Qutnsey. Fever and Ague ; or with Neuralgia. Headache, Tic Doloreux. Tooth ache, Earache ; or with Lumbago, Pain iu tbe Back, or Rheumatism; or with Diarrhea, Cholera Mor bus, or Dysentery; or with Burns, 8 aids, or Bruises ; or with Stratus, Cramps, or Spusms. The application of RADWAY'S READY RELIEF will cure you of the worst or these complaints iu a few hours. Twenty drops in half a tumbler of water will In a few moments cure CRAMPS, SPASMS. SOUR STOM ACH, HEAKTBTTRN, SICK HEADACHE. DIAR RHEA, DYSENTERY, COLIC. WIND IN THE BOW- : JILS, and all 1M KKN AL PAINS. 1 Travelers should always carry a bottle of RAD- I WAY'S READY RELIEF with them. Afewdronf in .ier will prevent sickness or pains fron, I change of water. It is better than French Brandy ; or Bitters as a stimulant. Sold by Druggists. Price 50 Cents. DR. RAILWAY'S I Regulating6 Pills, j Perfectly tasteless, elegantly coated with sweet I gum, purge, regulate, purify, cleanse and strength I en. RADWAY'S PILLS, for the cure of all Uisor i ders of the Stomach, Liver. Bowels, Kluneys, Blad der, Nervous Diseases, Headache, Constipation, Coetlveness, Indigestion, Lyspepsia. Biliousness, I Bilious Fever. Inflammation of the Bowels. Piles, l and all Derangements of the Internal Viscera, i Warranted to effect a positive cure. Purely Vege table, containing no mercury, minerale, or delete rious drugs. AtsTObserve the following symptoms resulting rrom Disorders or tne Digestive urgane: Constipation, Inward Piles, Fullness of theBIooa tu the Head, Acidity of the Stomach. Nausea, Heartburn, Disgust of Food. Fullness or Weight in the Stomach, Sour Eructations, Sinking or Flutter ing at the Pit of the Stomach, Swimming of tha Head, Hurried and Difficult Breathing, Fluttering at the Heart, Choking or Suffocating Sensations when in a Lying Posture, Dimness of Vision, Dots er WeM before the Sight, Fever and Dull Pain 1st the Head, Deficiency of Perspiration, Yellowneaa of the Skin and Eyes, pain In tha Side, Chest, Limbs, and sudden Flushes of Heat, Burning la the Flesh. A few doses of RADWAY'S PILLS will free the system from all the above-named disorders. Price 25 Cents per Box. Sold by Druggists. Bead "FALSE AND TBXJE." Send one letter-stamp to RADWAY A CO., Ho. Warren Street. New York. Information worts) thousands will bt sent you. WISHART'S PINE TREE TAR CORDIAL. It Is now fifteen puDtic was fir this Wonri tne test of time that to-day it not only has the con fidenceot the entire community, but is more fre quently prescribed by physicians in their practic than any other proprietary preparation in th than an nflnnl.v y. It Is the vital principle of the Pine Tree, ed by a peculiar process in the distillation obtained by a pe af the Tar i, i ties are retained led. For the following complaints, of the Lungs, Coughs, Sore Throat been used so successfully or can show such a num ber of marvelous cures. The following will serve to show the estimation in which this sovereign remedy is held by those who have used it. Consumption for Ten Years Cared. Da. L. Q. c Wishart : Dear 8ir I am grateful to you from the fact that you have made a medicine that will cure the disease of the Lungs. My wife has had the Consumption for ten years. Physicians kad told me that they could only Batch her up for the time being. She was couiined to her bed and had been for some time. I heard of your Pino Tree Tar Cordial and secured one bottle ; It relieved her cough. Bhe has now finished the fourth bottle, and is able to do the work for her family ; and may God speed you on with your great discovery and cure you have made for Consumption. " REV. H. HOPKINS, Jackson Centre, Shelby Co., Ohio. From Bt. l.onla, no. Da. Wisbabt, phii.absi.pbia: Dear Sir During a visit to Philadelphia, some three yeari ago, I waa suffering from a severe cold, and was induced to tuke a bottle of your Pi e Tree Tar Cordial, which, bad the effect of curing me in a few days. I have used it In my family ever s oe, aud am of the opinion that it saved the life of my daughter, who was suffering from a severe and jpatuful cough. If the publication of this will be of any service, you are at liberty to use It. Yam a respectfully, JoHN HODNBTT, at. Dome, Mo. For sale by att Druggists and Storekeeper s and at DR. L. Q. C. WISHART'S OFFICE, No. 232 N. Second St. Philadelphia, Pa. i