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' I. THE INDEPENDENT, rTiiuiiB BTMy Thursday Evening, THE IN dr tEOAt AST v nLdeDendenl On mimn or less. Out tusr vacs, tuto ET H. B. LCC LI. ran BrUTKS AD TIME. Isq. ORloe, Old Court House. I I month.... I I 00 HILLSBOKO, OKEGON. 2 month.., 4 CO too I moDttii.. Tr f Subscription rcln ratr.) StacI copy ptr yesr 92 50 Olagls copy aU month 1 W tingl number.. 10 t month. 7 60. 10 OH VOL. 4. HILLSBOKO, WASHINGTON COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY 20, 1876. NO. 1G. I fCSf. 10 00, 1 0u i 7W5IT 11 Jl gtOB orf Vir-iA..i-i..W....Jl II i ! 1- -T-l J 90 t (X) I 0j W 00' IT 50 rid too i ai u oJ Ji ool nsnj oo M SOUS 0U 17 W W W 60 00 'jooosoonooMOuwo Mr. Kins Baby. Seated, I see the two again, But not alone; they entertain A little angel unaware, With a face as round as the moon; A royal guest wi U flaxen hair. Who, throned upon his lofly chair, Drums on the table with his spoon; Then drops it cureless on the floor, To grasp at things unseen before. Are these celestial manners? these The ways that win, the heaits that please? Ah, yes; consider well tln guest. And whatsoe'er he does st ems best; He ruletu by the rivrht divine Of helplessness, so lately born In purple chambers of the morn. As sovereign over thee and thine. He speaketh not; and yet there lies A conversation in his eye..; The golden silence of the Greek, The uravest wisd ui of the wine. Not spoken in language but in looks More legible than prlifted books, As If lie rouM but would not speak. And now, oh monarch absolute. Thy power is put to proof, for, lo! Resistless, fathomless, and slow. The nurse comes rustling like the sea. And pushes ba"k thy chair and thee; And so good night to King Canute. Lon'iftffow. "IJreut Expectations." BY GEOUGE DUDLEY I.AW1SON. "IIeigho!"said Sammy Millet; "this is the struvv that fits both proverbs; 'it shows how the winil blows,' ami 'breaks the camel's hack;' betokens a cold blast and a complete fracture." "What's the matter now V asked Mrs. Sammy, as she rested her brush-armed hands on the stove she was blacking-. 44 You haven't lost your place, have you, or been warned out again because the tormenting rent is two whole months be hindhand r "Worse than that. Uncle Polydor is coming. He writes to say that we may confidently look for him on Thursday. Here it is .Monday, and not a cent in the house; how in the world will we manage his soups and chickens and jellies not much of either, but a little of all. he is such an invalid i I wish I'nele Polydor was in Labrador, frozen several miles deep in an iceberg." "For shame, Samuel Millet!" cried Mrs. Sammy, rising to her feet, and tracing in black leail the course of her finger in following and replacing a stray lock of reddish hair which swept her face. "Think of little Sammy and JJennie and Willie and Minnie, and "There, there, my love, enumeration is both useless and suggestive, ami I have heard it twice a year ever since we have been married. The old story, my dear a rich relation and poor expectants. His money keeps him alive; our poverty is killing us by inches; you and I and all of us will be under the daisies long before Uncle Polydor Millet thinks of dying, and then where is all our sacrifice, our pinching, or scraping, that he may have luxurious ease for a fortnight, and we comfortless toil the other fitly weeks of the year?" "Let us make the best of it, and hope for even better return," replied Mrs. Sammy, who was a bright little body, ever prone to look on the sunny side of every thing. "Very fine, my dear, but hope is a poor diet; you can't fry it, or butter it, or pledge it at the pawn-shop." "But you can enjoy it, and dream about it. and build castles on it, and be just as grand as the princes and princesses in the fairy tales; and when the castles tumble down they don t mike any tin or noise or hurt anybody. Uncle Polydor lias never given us anything but his com pany as yet; but he is, O, so rich! and and we ll iret the more by bidimr our time." Samuel hadn't the, heart to dampen her spirits by telling her how miserable he felt over the prospect. Only by the closest economy was he able to keep bread iu the mouths of his family now; but when at least two dollars a day more ex penses were to be incurred, even his trust ful reliance on good luck was powerless to cheer him. Uncle Polydor had sold out a prosperous business in the ship- chandlerving line some twenty years ago. and simply because (he did not scruple to avow it) the seven or eight boys of his three brothers in the country would or might be thrown on his hands in the capacity of clerks, to be taken care of and instructed in the mysteries of trade and commerce. But when the boys grew up and married, the retired ship-chandler divided his days among them, visiting them all twice or thrice a year, and grac ing their respective households from a week to a mouth at a time. lie was rich, and, by iuterest and parsimony, was add ing to his wealth year by year, but never a penny fell among the generation of the Millets he patrouized. Even his travel was wrung from them in the guise of drives in the country or little company trips on the railroad, when he was ready to leave town, lie was an invalid by profession, and could only subsist on the daiutiest and choicest food, and contrived to kfep each nephew and wife disposed' to cater to him by equivocal hints which the hearer always interpreted into prom isesofsole legateeships, with attendant conveuieuces. As a consequence, no poverty was discernable iu the houses where he sojourned ; tables were always furnished with his favorite viands, and shabby apparel was replaced by week-day use of Sunday suits; plenty seemed to reign where he appeared, ami with the children he was" a prime favor ite, for his advent meant meat at every meal, and pie after dinner. Uncle Polydor had a distaste for stale food, and so took the children's part that few scraps were left for return dishes, hashes, or stews. But the heads of the families groaned in secret, and only smothered their resentment when the thoughts of "I will and beqneath"came into their minds. Sammy Millet, underpaid clerk in an attorney's office, was about to be made a periodical victim once again, and the notification by letter stamp kindly sup plied by his brother Bob in Marshville was the inspiration of his conversation with Mrs. Millet. It was a regular tiling, and he knew every stage of the discourse by heart; so he ended his wife's antici patory effort by walking out of the door, round the corner, and into Solomon's sign of the three golden balls, where he left his watch to represent a loan of twen ty dollars. "If he doesn't stay longer than a week," said he, "we will pul! through; but I won't get poor old father's watch out again as soon as I did the last time." He returned to the house, ami placed the money in his wife's hands. The smile with which she received it ran the gamut of reflection, and sorrow till it melted into tears, as she saw him fastening his guard to his bunch of keys, which he on such occasions transferred to the left hand pocket of his vest. Uncle Polydor came in time. He was as punctual as an undertaker or a tax collector, and made sunshine in the house for seven days. He congratulated Sim my on his apparent prosperity ; every thing so neat aud abundant about him; such profusion and order and pretty servant-girl they had to hire a neigh bor's daughter for the days of uncle's stay. "Ah I" he said, "this is as it should be. I knew you would get along, Sammy. Industry and economy, my boy, always succeed. Look at me! When I wasone-and-twenty I hadn't a dime; now I am worth 200,000 and over. But you won't have to work always any more than my self, my dears. When old Uncle Poly dor is dead, his will will be opened and read, and the rest of the family will be mightily astonished, I warrant you, Sammy." Then Simmy and Mrs. M. and the oldest girl would protest. They knew that if they didn't pronounce Uncle Poly dor as young or younger than he was ten years ago he would get sulky, and if they did not promise hiui forty god years of life yet, lie would set them down us mer cenary, and cut them otF with a shilling. He could not abide contradiction, and so his conclusions as to their comfortable and prosperous condition were never dis puted. When little Polydor asked his great-uncle for a dime to purchase a Chinese kite, fashioned after the likeness of a hawk, he was sharply reproved ami packed otf to bed, with a chamber in junction to abstain from such imperti nence in the future, tor uncle must not be led to supjxse that they would sponge on htm for a cent. Ami so it went all the time of his stay hypocritical assur ances of contentment, exuberance of wel come, anil disastrous larishness of ex pense, until by the time Uncle Polydor started for some other devoted Millet, the inflicted and tortured ones were reg ularly "eaten out of house and home." Their landlord wondered how they could be so profuse in their hospitality and en tertainment, and not pay him the modest eighteen dollars so long overdue, and he came near saving as mueh in the sacred presence of Uncle Polydor himself. Every evening,rngularly as clock-work, the old man chuckled over his pipe and pint of punch, and repeated his predic tion concerning the surprise 01 tne resi of the family when the reading of his last w ill and testament should occur, and Sammy took a sip and a puff and a quan tum ot courage. "Didn't I tell you so, Simmy? 7 said Mrs. Millet, when the day was done. "Haven't I always said that the biggest share of that two hundred thousand dol lars would come to this field of Millet? I wish I had named all our boys Poly dor and our girls Polydora." "I can't see how we could have done it, except in the style of Oncpolydor, Two polydor, Threepolydor Millet, and so on. But I hope you are right, my love. Even so near right as a little legacy of two thousand dollars." "You are actually mean-minded,"said Mrs. Millet; "two thousand indeed! It'll be a hundred thousand, or nothing." "The latter as like as not. But in either event it is tedious waiting for dead men's shoes." Sammy was wrong for once. Uncle Polydor went up the river to Soragboro; next week he went fidiing, and had to be fished for himself, and when caught was as perfect a specimen of a drowned ship chandler as ever the coroner had jurisdic tion on. He was buried with his fathers, if interment in the next State but one ful fills the conditions of the statement, and on the afternoon of the funeral his will was opened by old Tajewax, the at torney, in presence of all the Mil lets, great and small. Each individual was there to witness and bear testimony to the astonishment of every other mem ber of the family, and receive the forced congratulations of the others on his partic ular elevation to the important post of be ing the biggest Millet-seed 111 the measure. "To that nephew w ho has' really been most generous iu his entertainment of nit," read the lawyer,"! w ill and bequeath tine thousand dollars, the matter to be settled by my said nephews, compariug notes and agreeing on the subject. Item: To that nephew who needs it most, the same amount, to be applied in the same manner. Item : To each and every one, one hundred dollars, to buy a black suit and mourning ring. Item: All the rest and residue of my estate to the hospital for idiots anl insane, situated iu the town of -," kc, The other members of the family were astonished. "Codicil," read the lawyer. "In addi tion to the above bequests to my neph ews, I order my executors to allow said nephews free quarters in and admission to said hospital at any time they demand or the same is demanded for "them. I would have divided my property among them, but in my visits I have found them so prosperous, possessed of such compe tencies, that I know they can do well without any aid from me. and I cannot insult their industry, frugality and pros perity by bestowal of gilts of a kind or degree that would imply necessity on the part of the recipients." Such nn outcry as there wis then was never heard before. Only Simmy re served his wrath, an. I te;u u ted to the lawyer: "The old man was right; he mightily astonished the family. Well, peace to his ashes. I have struggled through thus far, and can continue to make my way." All the rest execrated the memory of Uncle Polydor, and bewailed their dol lars spent for his comfort, and not one would cast a vote or express an opinion as to the disposal of the two one thou sand dollar legacies. When they hid exhausted their wrath, and were ready to depart, Mr. Tapewax begged audience a moment. "I have here," he said, "another docu ment which revokes all others, and directs the executors of Polydor Millet's will to turn over all his property to that nephew who is lftHst astonished by the provisions of the will just read, aud who has a good wtnd to say for his memory. In compli ance therewith, I am happy to announce that Simiiel Millet, Esq., is sole legatee, and umler his direction the necessary steps to probate will be taken.' Sammy's straw was a long one and a heavy one, but it turned out that it bore a good head of plump grain. As might be expected from his easy nature, he healed the wounded feelings of his brothers and cousins by h in Itonie donations, erected a splendid m i.iutn nt to L nele Polydor, and lived happily ever afterward. The Hungry K'd-H.iired Boy. A Ne.v York merchmt, wh is a Sun day school teacher, says I):. Newton, wms called upon tor a speech at a great Sun day school meeting out West. He said: "I'll tell you a little story of a leggar boy. I started out one Sunday morning to get up some recruits for my class. At the corner of the street I met a bare footed boy, without hat or coat. His hair was fiery red, and looked as if it had never been combed. I asked the boy if he could come to school. "'No, sir, was the sharp reply. " 'You ought to go to Sunday school,' I said, kindly. "'What fieri he asked. " 'We teach boys to be good, I said. " 'But I don't w ant to le good,' he said. "'Why not want to be good I asked, earnestly. " 'Because I am hungry, was his quick reply. "'It is now nine o clock, I said, look ing at my watch; 'haven't you had any breakfast yeti " 'No, sir. "'Where do you live!' " 'Up the alley there, with aunty. She's sick.' '"Will you eat sonv? gingerbread and crackers, if I go to the bakery and buy some C "'Yes, sir, that I will, and be glad t get 'cm.' "I bought a lot and set them before him. He ate them in a way which showed how keenly hungry he was. I asked him if he would liKe some more. "'A little more, if you please, sir,' said the Imy. "I got a fresh supply and set them be fore him. I waited till he had done eat ing; then I siid, 'my boy, will you go with me to school now? " 'You have been so kind to me, sir,' said he, 'I'll go anywhere with you. Please wait till I take what a left ot the gingerbread round to aunty, aud then I'll go with you.' "He returned directly to the sidewalk where I was waiting for him, and went with me to school. He had never been to school before. He thought of school as a place where boys had to hold out their hands to be slaped with a ruler, and have their hair pulled and their ears pinched. But w hen he found himself iu the hands of a pie isant-looking young lady, w ho treated hint kindly, and said nothing about his shabby clothes, he was greatly surprised. "He became a regular attendant. He told all the boys of his acquaintance about the school, aud persuaded many of them to attend. About two years after this, a lot of boys from New York were sent out West, and distributed among the farmers. My red-haired boy was sent among them. I used to hear of him for awhile, that he was getting on ami tloiiig well. I have lost sight of him for years now, but I have no doubt he is do ing good wherever he is." The gentleman then said a few words about the importance of getting the poor antl neglected children of our large cities into Sunday schtwils, ami then sat down. In a moment, a tall, good-looking gen tleman, with retl hair, stood up iu the meeting, and said: "Ladies and gentlemen, I am the red haired beggar boy of New York, who ate that gentleman's gingerbread. I have lived in the West for years, and have prospered. I am now a rich man. Itwn live hundred acres of as good land as the sun shines on. My horses and carriage are at the door, ami when the meeting is over, I shall be happy t take my old friend to my home, where he will be wel come to stay as long as he pleases. I am a member of a church, and a superinten dent of a S ibbith school ; and I owe nil that I have in this world, and all I hope for in thi next, to what was taught me in the Sabbath school."' Japanese Kite-Fivino. The 15th of April is the great kite day for Nagasaki. Tne kites have n tails, and are m ide of two pieces of bimboo crossed, covered with thin but very strong paper. The people all assemble on the top of K ompi ra, a hill of about 1.10J feet higii. Sev eral hundred kites are in tho air at the same time, and the great aim of each op erator is to mameuvre his kite s as to cut the string of the others. For this purpose the first two hundred feet of the string from the kite is covered with resin and pounded glass. Snnetimes four or five kites get foul of each other; then the thing is either to g?t your kite clear or cut the strings of tha otlurs. T.isnagiiu, having cut a kite-string, it is wonderful toseetl.em catch thi detached kite, away up in the air, with their kite, and capture it the universally accepted rule being th it a kite belong t y i just s long as you cau keep it out of somebody else a hands. Saving Fnel. If a plate of iron is placed in the bot tom of a common grate, and a coal fire is kindled over it in the ordinary way, alxnit one-fourth of fuel is claimed to be saved, w ith an increase of warmth. Keep the plate clear of ashes. A large saving of furnace fuel may be made by having a wide and shallow pot, as in the pattern of Dixon tk Sons, of Philadelphia. This gives a broad surf ice of coal, giving out a proportionately large amount of heat in a shorter time; hence the coal is warmed ami kindles more rap idly. It i a great waste of heat to use large lumps of coal. If the size used for ranges were burned in furnaces, putting on a little at a time and frequently, a steadier and quicker heat, with less find, would be the result one-sixth less, at least. The more you stir a coal lire, the more it won't burn, because the ashes which contain the warmth necessary to heat the coal up to the kindling point are let tiowii into the ash-pan. The time to replenish a coal fire is w hen the surface is retl hut. Do not wait until the coals are of a dead heat, or are whitened with ashes. When you look at -your stove or grate in the morning, you may save your kindling many times if there are sjome hot coals, not by riddling out the ashes, but put on a quart or two of small coal; ope 11 the draft or apply tiie blower, and when the small coal is red hot, put on larger; ami when that is fairly kindled, riddle out the ashes. A bit of coal must absorb a certain amount of heat before it kindles hence, i small lump of c al gets hot sooner than a large one, and is therefore more easily aud the sooner kindled. In kindling a fire, concentrate the tl une as much as possible u the smallest surface of coal. Hall' J our mil. Antidote fou Uattlksnake Bite. A wiiter in thewSt. Augustine Pre says that a Mst-oilice agent, traveling iu Texas, tells ot the successful use of the gall of a rattlesnake .as an antidote for the bite of that reptile. In the case spoken of relief was almost instantaneous to the pa tient, who was writhing in paroxysms of great pain, rapidly swelling ami becom ing purple. A friend of the writer, who had spent several years in California ami rsew Mexico, saw the same remedy suc cessfully used among the Indians in the latter country. In one instance an In- lian's dog near the camp was bitt-n iu the nose by a large rattlesnake. The In dian immediately opened the reptile and administered the gall. The cure was rapid ami effectual. To Mvkk B ors Do it viii.k. Thedura- bilitv of soles of boots and shoes may be greatly increased by coating th -in with gum copal varnish, w men also in; in r ci ted of making them water-proof. Four r live coats should oe given, allowing ach coat of varnish to dry before the sue eetling one is applied. S les th is treated ossess twice the usii il durability, and generally outlast tha best uppers. The leather uppers ot b ots and sh es may ic rendered soft and waterproof by rubbing into them while warm, before the fire, a mixture composed of four ounces of nog" fat and one ounce of resin. To Make 'ooi M h.vsses Candy. Two pounds white coffee sugar, one quart in d isses syrup, thre-j t ablesp ml. lis of vinegar; put in a small piece of butter. ion can tell when it is boiled enough by dipping your finger into a cup of cold water, then into the candy, quickly back into the water, ami if that which sticks to your finger is hard ami snaps, the candy is done, and should be poured upon i irreasetl marble or tin pan; add a little essence of lemon, then pull it till it be comes white. , It isf.d ( i ems. One pint of warm milk four tablespoonfuls home made or one- fourth of a pint of brewer's yeast, stirred well together. I wo tablesixtonl ills tit butter, one f sugar, one teastwMUiful of salt, ami wheat meal enough to make it as stiir as one can stir easily w ith a spoon. Let it rise about nine hours. Stir it only with a spoon. When raised dip out and fill the well-greased gem-pans about two- thirds full and bake in a quick oven. Lemon Pie. Boil in one and a-half quatts of water the juice, pulp and grated peel of two lemons. When it ImuU, add three heaping tablespoonfuls of lloiir. mixed smooth with fold water. Before it cools mid two teacupfuls of sugar, three well-beaten eggs, a piece of butter half the size of an egg, ami a little salt. Bake with umler and upper crusts. To Make Hominy. Put some concen trated lye in a kittle antl dissolve, take live ears of w hite corn, shell, put it into the lye ami boil one hour, or until the skins w ill wash off; then wash lour or five times, or until free from hulls ami the taste of I ve, then put it inttt a kelt'e of fjesh water and boil all day. When wanted for use, put in a skillet ami try with lard. Lkjiit DuvtruMos. To every cup of cohl water needed to make as til ich tl High us is desired, put one teasp oonful of cream tartar and half a teasioonful of sixla; then stir in instantly dour enough t make a little thicker than biscuit; cut out and Ix'il twenty minutes. If directions are strictly followed you will have light dumplings. Mi'ffins Without Yeast. One quart of flour, two eggs beaten separately, one tablesMonful lard, one of sugar, one tea spoonful of salt, one cup sour milk, ami two tablesp'Mnfuls of Inking powder. Beat all together and bake immediately. Ice Ckeam. Take one ouart of milk. let it come to a scald, then add one-half pound of sugar ami five egg well beaten. Leave it on the fire until it thickens, stir ring constantly; flavor according to taste. .heasl're Cake. Stir to a cream a teacup of butter, two of sugar; stir in tour eggs Ieaten to a froth, a grated nut meg and a pint of flour. Bakeiucupsor pans. Jtmbles. One iKHtnd of flour, three quarters of a pound of sugar, three eggs. halt a pound of butter, halt of a small grated nutmeg; dipped into sugar. Lyino in wait False scales. The Silnnie;i Mnacre. The Geneva Continent, of May 23d, prints a letter written by the American Consul at Kalonica descriptive of there cent massacre in that Turkish city. The wiiter says: "On Tuesday, May 2, with my colleague, the Greek Consul and another gentleman, I took the railway train for Topsin, meaning thence to make a carriage excursion to Yodina, returning Friday evening. May 5, by the same route. Accordingly 1 left orders w ith my coach man to meet meat the railway station on Friday evening. Unfortunately, at Yo dina I was delayed a day by illness, ami ditl not arrive here until Saturday evening at 10:30. On my arrival I found the city in consternation over the horrible crime that had just been committed. All terri fied my family fli'd from my house iu fear of the fate that had befallen my col. leagues of France and Germ my. The following, a nearly as I have been able to discover, is the history of this alFiir, in which the name .f my family has been unfortunately mixed up. Iu accord nice with my orders my carriage was driven to the station to meet me on Friday even ing, and not finding me, was returning; but a crowd of Christian seized the rein of the horses and trie 1 to lescuj a Bul garian girl a Christian wh was CKYINO OCT FOIl HELP From the hands of the Turks, ami get her in the carriage. They succeeded. The girl, together w ith an employe of the rail way, was placed iu the c irri ige and sent t my house. My family, consisting of my mother and brother, had gone out walking, leaving at home my little child with the governess, antl a man ser vant, and did not return until late in the evening. They found the fugitive at the house, and iu their confusion, not knowing wh.it to do, they allowed the poor yirl to stay until morning, meaning to send her away early. In the morning the girl had disap peared, and my family lea rne I from the servants that an old woni m, claiming to be her mother, had come for her; so that there was no further concert of my house iu the affair. "The Mussulmans began with the dawn to arm themselves, and public crier went about summoning the faithful to arms to recover the girl, who, a they claimed, w ished to become Mohammedan. About noon they gathered at the court of the government palace, demanding that the girl should be immediately giveu up. The Governor thought good to send to my house iu search of the girl, and about 1 ::') I. M. two person sent by him appeared and demanded her. There was no one in the house but my mother, who told them that the girl was not there. Not satisfied with thi answer they sent for my biother, who gave them the same answer. But while this was going on Tin: citowpoF mis-li.mns Continued to swell in the 'Siatli J ami,' meaning to attack my house and rescue the tiiil. The wj'i. consisting of bigot ed Moslems went to the mo-q i a they said, 'to calm the mob.' Just at this juiic ture the Consul of France and Germ my, being, for some unexplained reason, near the m q'ie, wishing to quiet the minds of the people, went into the inosque, w hence they were not permitted again to come out. There was assembled there the Turk of the highest position in thi city, and soon the Governor himself arrived, in it tier, as he says, to save the consuls. The G .'Milan Consul, supposing it to be true that the girl wa at my house, sent a hasty note to my brother, to the elf n-t that 'it we:c well that the g:rl sh mi l n surren dered under pledge and security, to pre vent evil consequence. Before the note was delivered the girl had been found in another house n.d delivered into the hand of the kaienxt of the English con sulate who was yet on hi way to my house w ith a n He from hi consul asking for the girl. He had with him a file of soldiers, and the girl was placed iu his charge and all proceeded toward the mosque. On the way they met with a party of armed Moslems. To these the girl was delivered over, but unhappily it was too late. I liese Moslem had just PITILESSLY M ASS.K.'KED The captive consuls, and were on their way to my house to inflict the same tate upon my family. Happily the sight of the girl, whom they took back to the mosque, somewhat appeased them. What took place there no one knows. We only know that my poor col league and friend were massacred pitile-sly by blow. of ta bre, ax, bayonet and bars of iron, ami dragged out of the mosque with torn gar ments. On the head alone of the German Consul were eighteen different wounds ind twenty on his body. On the person of the French Consul were still more." A Sensible .Morn Kit. A suburban dwelling-house took tire iu one of the chambers, the other night, from an ex ploding kerosene lamp. I he tl une were extinguished after a sharp struggle by the woman of the house, who had her hands pretty badly burned. She was relating her adventures to a neig'ibor next morn ing, and the woman asked: "Why didn't you raise an alarm where wa Bessie?" "Bessie and her beau were courting in the parlor," wa the calm reply. "And you never called to them?" "Not a word. I have known of case where a sudden alarm ha upset a young man just as he wa ab mt t propose, ami changed the whole future of two live." The Duty of the Hocn. It is the oreat commonplace duties of life that are neglected ami derided now-a-days. Some prodigious form of self-saci ilice seem to be in impatient demand. Yet all the time the very lcstopp M tunitie of doing good are recklessly surrendered. I cannot Imj made to believe that the element of self immolation has any place- whatever in Christian cxjiericnce. They seem really the most useful men and women who most cheerfully address themselves to heroic work; who move on steadily w heth er the platoon .they are mtrchingin look melodramatic or not; who will take up the crosses of daily existence, ami live weet.brave lives, without any fus; never aping any singularity, nor seeking any sensation. A Shot at a Tiger. Hunters in India judge of the prox imity of tigers by the actions' of the monkeys which inhabit the same jungle, ami when they find these creatures on the ground, they are generally off their guard, supposing no tiger to be near. An EnglUhniHii tells how he was sur prised ouce from trusting too much to this sign, but fortunately killed his enemy very dead indeed. One day in the Betul country, in 18C5, after hunting long iu the heat of a May day for a couple of tigers, whose marks were plentiful all about, we came up to a small pool of water at the head of a ravine, and saw the last chance of finding them vanish, a I thought, when a troop of monkeys were found quietly sitting on the rocks and drinking in the water. I wa carelesly descending to look for prints, with my rifl j revcrsa I over my shoulder, ami another step or two would have brought me to the bottom of the ravine, wheu the monkeys scurried, with a shriek, up the bank, and the head ami shoulders of a tiger appeared from behind a boulder, ami stared at nu acros the short interval. I was meditating whether to fire or retreat, when almost from below my feet, tho other tiger hounded out with a terrific roar, and they both made off down the ravine. I was too much as tonished to obtain a speedy shot, and I wa by that time too well acquainted with tiger-shooting to risk an uncertain one. So they escaped for the time. I quickly regained my elephant, which was standing above, and followed them up. It wa exceedingly hot, and we had not gone more than a couple of hundred yard, when I saw one of the tiger crouched under a bush on the bank of a ravine. I g it a steady shot from the howdah, and tired a three-ounce shell at the broad forehead at ab.mt thirty yard. No result. It wa most curious, aud I paused to look; but never a m ntion of the tiger acknowledged the shot, I then went around a quarter of a circle, but still the tiger remained motionless, look ing intently iu the samo direction. I marched up, rifl.j on full coek, grow ing more aud more amazed, but the tiger never moved. Could he be dead I I went round to hi rear, mid approached, close up from that direction. He never stirred. Then I made the elephant kick him, and he fell over, lie was stone dead; con verted with ut tho movement of a luir into a statue of himself by the bursting of a larg; shell in hi briin. It had struck him full in the center of tin fore head. M IX Mil. The folowing Aliinns are from Dr. Hall's new book, "How to Live Long." 1. One of the happiest and in 1st inde pendent f all human occupations i that of an intelligent f inn tr, wh nt laud i paid for, and w ho keep out of debt, 2. The fascination of sal -tried positions is but too often the fascination of user pent, which beguile but to destroy. 3. lij your ou master, and master of your calling, ami you will s'ou become the mister of ot litis. 4. Next to religion, there i no element so essential to success iu life, a vigorous, robust health. 5. A sound mind in a sound b dy is a fitting foundation for all thati high and noble in hum iu achievement. G. The safest ami best remedies in the world are warmth, rest, and abstinence the brute employ thes:?. 7, Physical, mental, and moral health are interdependent -hence, what Im prove or promotes one, improves ami promotes the other. 8. Almost all fjcl gratified at every pound's increase iu weight, a if people, like pigs, were measured by fat. !). To live well is a glory; to die well is a bliss. 10. A w ise care of the health in youth i the best, assurance of a long life, as an early attention to religion is the t'ounda tion of nn pmmortil existence. 11. Tli tit man lives the longest who doe the nyst good. 12. Il.j liring tho most happiness to himself w ho doe the most to promote the happiness of others. 13. The most healthful form of exer cise i that which involves exhilarating out-door activities. 14. Chilliness of body dampens tho spit its, sour the temper, and rentiers the whole man unlovely. l.i. The comfort and convenience of life save trouble, save labor, economize time, ami add to our h ippincs generally. The Wife. It i astonishing to see how well a m in m ly live on a small in come, who has a handy ami industrious wile. Some men live and make a far better appearance on six or eight dollar a w eek than others do on fifteen or eigh teen dollar. J he man does his part well, but hi wife i gotnl for nothing. She will even upbraid her husband for not living in us good stylo is her neigh bor, while the fault is entirely her oo. His neighbor has a neat, capable and in dustrious wife, ami that makes the dif ference. So look out, young men, before you go into m ttrim iuy; it is a l itter yin which most men can only buy one ticket, and if that turn out a blank, your whole life had better bo a blank, too. Luckily, no one nee 1 gr Into the wedded state with his eye closet, as it i the ca3 with lotterie, and we judge all who arc sensible enough to use their optic may draw prize. Last week "a millionaire committed suicide in Belgium; another was sued in New Jersey for divorce and alimony for having another wife, ami one had lain dead in Troy for ten days, his burial be ing deferred because he Wit believed to have been murdered for hi money. In view of these facts the Graphic urge, "Don't become a millionaire!"' But how is a new.pipcr man to help becom ing one of those thing! Modesty in woni in i like color on her cheeks decidedly becoming, if not put on. The Liberty Hell. It was an anxious snd solemn day iu Philadelphia that Fourth of July, one hundred years ago. in tho Statu House, still standing in this city, we be lieve, and venerated as tho birthplace of liberty, the patriot Congress was sitting. For twenty-four days ever since May 10 they had been considering tho ques tion of declaring the colonics free and independent States. It was a very mo mentous question to them. Would tho States, so poor and feeble, bo able to maintain their independence? If not, how much worse might their condition become, in consequence of tho failure! What, too, would happen to themselves, personally, and to their families? The declaration would bo treason against the king, to be punished with the loss of all their property, ami with death Itself. Let tho children, who now hall the return of 'tho Fourth" with so much merriment, remember how thoughtfully antl anxiously those patriots felt when they were about to take the final veto on a question upon which so many and such weighty interests were depending. It was understood that the decUion was to be made that day, and thousands of people had gathered in the streets, waiting to catch tho first word or Intelli gence that It was done, Tho old bell ringer had gone up Into the belfry, to bo all ready to ring out the welcome sound which the people wcro so anxious to hear. There it hung tho old bell which raoro than twenty years before had been pur chased iu England, but which was broken tho first time it was rung, and hail been recast in Philadelphia by Messrs. Pass & Stow in 1753. They had placed upon It the very ap propriate words which in the days of Moses hail announced to the Hebrews the peturn of tho Jubilee year: "Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof," And it was a striking fact that this very bell, with such a motto, was now in fact to proclaim to the waiting people cf tha new repub lic the joyous notes of liberty and inde pendence. The good old bell-man had stationed a boy at tho door of the hall below, to give him notice the moment the Declara tion should bo passed. Tnero were, how ever, some delays in making ready for the vote. It was almost two o'clock in tho afternoon and tho old man shook his head doubtfully, muttering to him self: "They will never do it I They will never do It." At last a loud hurrah was heard below, and out ran thu boy, clap ping his hand, and shouting: "Hingl ring!" Quick as thought the old man grasped tho Iron tongue of tho bell with both hands and hurled it with all his trength backward ami forward a hun dred time; whilo tho people below, catching the glad sound, shouted: "Jlur rah! hurrah! the Declaration is passed! We arc free! wo aro free!'' At night the city was illuminated, hon-llres wero built and cannon were fired, and all tho peoplo celebrated the glad time on the first Iu dependence day, iu 1770. But alas! the old bell lung in the old belfry no longer. Many ago years a bad crack was made In it, and it was taken down, and placed in tho old h ill where tho Congress sat, ami where arc many other relics of those memorable days. The country has grown great and powerful. The favor of God has rested upon u, and now considerably more th in thirty millions of people re joice in the blessings purchased for us by thy blood and tlu hardships of our fathers. Con g regat to nil int. A DEritof r youth of thirtooti sold fifty pound of old iron aud a piece of lead pipe a few days ago, and received uough iu mey to carry out his long cherished idea of establishing a weokly newspaper which should represent io interests of every section of Michigan. Ha was will ing to commence low down and work up, and he established an ollk'o in the cellar id' his father's house, purchased two quart of "pi," hired his sister as an apprentice, and work wa begun on his lint number. The boy had an Idea that mi iudepcudent journal would pay best, ami his first edi tion, wlnch consisted ot seveu copies of a sheet about as largo as an envelope, was devoted to items of a personal nature. It was ratliei ft family sheet also, seven of fie eight item In it being hits at Ills father and mother, and the lone one was a bit of advice to his school-teacher. While ho wa out hunting up advertising and soliciting subscriber, his father laid away the type to shoot cat with, his mother kindled tho fiio with tho wooden press, ami when tho editor ami proprietor returned, he was given a wood-shed in terview, ami then wedded to tho handlo of a lawn-mower. Hu was yesterday "hollering" over tho alley fence to one of his friends that ho couldn't be crushed out nor frightened oir tho track by no blood-thirsty mob, but the prospect for a new paper is dubious. What Stopped Tim Abhumkst, Two men, with spate time on their hands, see ing some arm-chair in front of I a furni ture store on the sunny side of the street, thought they would sit down a minute or two and smoke and talk up specie payment, no they sat down, and the man who was oo tho negative side carefully fixed his chair-tegs on two bars of tha grating over which it stood, and they be gin to talk very earnestly. Things went on all right till, getting excited, the man on the grating said, "I tell you, If ever specie payment is resumed, there will bo the greatest fall, " and then ho give his chair a hitch, and it settled back as though its hind legs had sort of struck iu, ami it went back so far that he shot out over tho left-hand aido, aud bit hta cigar in halves and skinned his elbow. When he got up ho had forgotten tho thread of his narrative, and observing, too, the bland appearance of the bystanders, ho suddenly remembered that he'd got to catch that car,1 aud ho went and caught it. When you see a barehesdo 1 mm fol lowing a cow through the front gate, and filling tho air with garden implements and profanity, you imy know that hit cabbage plants have been let out, I J 1 v. "" - ' X