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. j THE INDEPENDENT Advertising Hate. LKOAt ADVKKTiaitatZXTa (!.) Ons sqnars or Uvs, one Insertion ,, It M On s'jusra rscb ulqtient Insertion S9 Bl'SIMKSS ADTKRTISCXB1TS (!.) THE INDEPENDENT. FSIltlllD Every Thursday Evening, BY H. B. LUCE, Office, - - - Old Court House, HI1XSBOKO, OREGON. H, eolV col l col. TIMS. 1 q. ttq. It iq. 1 month....;! I 00 4 00 I I 00 001 T WHS 6OS90 00 11 1 1 1 "' - - " 1 w Washington Ji out J month... 40U IKI T OU I W 10 00 IT SO 17 SO Inoottii... 100 7 0U tUO U 00 1100 DO WOO niontlit... 7 SO 10 0U U fid IS 00 IT SO M SO 00 00 t rr 10WllOui-JOOuS(s90oisO(MOM Trau r brlptln (oln ralM.) SHngls copy per jer SI 50 Slngls copy six muuUii 1 Klnol oambr 10 HILLSBORO, WASHINGTON COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1876. NO. 38. VOL. 4. Anlenken. I think of thee when the forest trees Bend to the whisp'ring evening breeze; When the song of the nightingale Wakes music in the wood and vale. W!Xu thinkest thou of me? I think of thee by the woodland spring. Where the oaka their shadows fling; When the day and gloomy night Mingle in the dark twilight. Where thinkeat thou of me? I think of thee with sruiles and tears; With trembling hopes and anxious fears; With longings for thy presence near Thy voice to bless, thy smile to cheer. How thinkest thou of me? O think of me until we meet. Beyond the bier and winding- licet; Until our hearts in the world above, Are one forever In joy and love! Thus only think I of thee! From t?u German. Patriotism. To one who loves his country, what can be More pleasing than to gaze upon her free? To see her surface Art's extended base. The light and wonder of the human race; To see her sons, just as their (iod designed, That man should be ruled by the power of mind; Her laws Truth's dictates, based on Heaven's own plan, At once the shield and monitor of man; Herself triumphant, mighty, but yet mild. In war a giant, though in peace a child? But what can pain him more than to behold His country wretched, and her freedom sold; Her commerce ruined, justice but a name, And swarms of despots gloating o'er her shame? I love my country, love her everywhere; I love her mellow skies and her pure air; Her bold blue mountains, towering far on high; Her beauteous landscapes and their verdant dye; Her crystal fountains and her murmuring rills; Her flowery meadows and her sunny hills; Her dark deep forests and her boundless plain; Her endless rivers and her stormy main; Her stalwart sons, on land, and lake, and sea; Her starry flag, the standard of the free; Her mission, still to aid bright Freedom's cause; Her hope, to give the world benignant laws! M. J. Haxios. Love in a Glacier. In an Alpine valley, one pleasant sum mer evening, a couple might h:ive beeu seen strolling through the pine forest. Henri dwelt with his aged parents in a neighboring valley, in which Marie re sided with her widowed mother. A small farm in a mountain gorge gave him daily occupation. It was a hard contest that in which he was engaged with stem na ture. He had to raise bulwarks against the falling rocks, and substantial angular fortresses to resist the incursions of ava lanches, otherwise his fields would often have been covered with the debrin of the mountain. The produce of this highland farm was not likely to make him a wealthy man. But the courage, industry and tact necessary to hold his own from constant conflict, preserved him from the enervation of luxury. Marie tended a few cows that rambled over the mountain pasture. If simple in manners and not retined in education, she was not without that sense of pro priety which so often distinguishes the Continental peasant, and which confers a sort of gentleness and polish only to be procured by others in the cultivation of society. She had not been wholly neg lected in school-lore, and had been an apt pupil in that grand seminary which na ture had spread out there before her. Those needle-points that rose above the eternal Alpine snows, soaring towards the blue heavens, led her thoughts far onward and upward. Those cold glaciers that lay as a bed of death between the sterile mountains; those dread falls of rocks, that seemed cascades of destruction from the skies upon the blooming vales below those yawning precipices, with their dark and fearful depths all stirred her imagination and unfolded her nature On the evening of our story the young man had paid a visit to the cottage in the valley, and had then strolled forth through the forest with Marie, this Alpine flower. It i9 not our business to pry into lover's secrets, nor attempt to tell the subjects of their conversation. Whatever it was, it may be granted that mathematics and logic.formed no part of the conference This much may be said, however ; it was there and then agreed that on a certain day, not fur removed, the worthy cure of the village should be asked to give his blessing on their union. Henri had resolved to go home by a short route, over the neighboring moun tain, though he would have to cross a glacier on the way. Has rather hazard ous journey appeared no great difficulty in the eyes of the bold peasant of the Alps, and the moon would give him light across the icy passage. But lovers in all ages have failed to notice the march ot time, uur young friends had so much to say, or what they had to say was so interesting for repeti tions of the story were not burdensome that the evening twilight had long melted into the soft moonlight before the dreaded word farewell was thought of. When, however. Marie caught sight of the new moon rapidly sinking to rest, she urged th nromnt deoartureof her lover. Yet even then he had something else to say and Bhe was so smilingly attentive that a further delay took place. But the quick approach of darkness awakened the fears of the maiden, who urged upon Henri the necessity of return- inir by the regular road. longer as it was instead of tempting the dangers of the glacier. The young man, full ot tne ex citement of happy love, laughed at her warning, and assured her that she was no fit wife for a mountaineer if she doubted his power to thread his way in darkness He comforted her with the promise of his haste to reach the glacier, and his ex treme care while passing. "Be not afraid," said he, "I know every block of ice in the path, and my good alpenstock would steady my steps in the blackness of midnight." But loving confidence half swept away her fears, and the parting kiss carried otf the remainder. She watched his form brushing by the pine branches till the rocks concealed him, and then she turned with a smile of happiness to the cottage of her mother that cottage so soon to be shared by another. Peaceful were her dreams that night. The aiguilles of the Alps had not yet caught the rsy beams of the early morn, when a knock at the door of the chalet disturbed the slumberers. 11 Who could it be that unwonted hour?'' was the cry of mother and daughter. A well-known voice, in broken accents, called for Henri. It was the father seek ing the son. A shudder of horror passed through the frame of the girl. Yet all was sadly true Henri had not returned home. A search must be made. The neighbors gathered in haste to the summons. With the earliest dawn they set out upon their melancholy errand. Alas! this had not been the first time that they had searched for lost ones in their land of dangers. Marie led them to the parting-place. She marked the tracks the young man had taken. With Iudian sagacity his foot falls were followed till they led to the edge of the glacier. Here greater skill was requisite to mark the course. It was summer, and the snow had disappeared from the lower part of the glacier. The hard ice leaves no tracks; but as, at the hour of parting, some little softness re mained on the surface Irom the day s sun, Henri had left faint tracings on the glacier, which the subsequent night's chill had retained. These peasants noted these with iealous. painful care. Here the alpenstock had left the impression of its iron point. Suddenly the foremost of the group uttered a cry of dismay. All crowded near. He said nothing, but pointed with his ringer. Poor Marie sickened at the sight, and fell insensible. There was the trailing mark of the slipped alpenstock, and be side it was the sliding track of the young man's foot. Both terminated at the edge of a erevaaae, or opening in the ice. They strained their eyes downward, in vain attempts to penetrate that gloomy passsage. They shouted, but caught no voice in return. He had fallen, and the depth was terrible. "The rope! the rope I" was now the cry. Several volunteered that perilous descent in search of their friend. But here the horror came upon them, with all its fell, benumbing power. The aper ture had so narrowed since the lost one had sunk, that there was not space for a human body. Words cannot picture the consternation of the party. One sought comfort in the thought that the poor fellow must have been killed by the fall. But another told how one had been in such acham!er is that from which he could not be extri cated; aul, after he had been mourned over for days as dead, he reappeared, a hastly, but living man. Henri might till be aiive. Still, the ever slowly mov- ng mass had pressed the walls of his risou so much closer together, no pros pect appeared of rescue. Marie revived to be made even more desolate and terror-stricken by the news f the closing chasm. What a mournful group returned to the cottage I Here the matter was fully discussed, and plans were successively proposed and rejected. Marie listened with deep est attention. When they found no way of relief, all turned eyes of tearful sym pathy to the youthful betrothed one. Jiut it was no time yet for her to mourn. She must think and act for her beloved, who was not yet beyond hope with her. Having heard the story repeated ot the man who, returning to his wife, after having been buried in the ice-chamber, she recurred to it, demanded particulars, and wondered how he had escaped. Then -he learned that the poor fellow had found a passage through the glacier, and had issued from its mouth. "And why?" said she, "might not Henri so return?" She nuaited again when told of the depth of the crecasxe, and the certainty of his limbs being broken, if his life was not destroyed at once. How could he escape? Love now awakened her imag ination with another project. it ne could not get out, might not others go into the glacier in search? Sage heads were shaken at the suggestion. The ter rors of the glaciers were well known to the peasants of the Alps. Chambers were seen plainly enough. Extended caves were believed to run oeneain ine surface. The very exit of the rivers from those icy recesses proved the exist ence of subterranean passages. But there was another point of view. The surface of a glacier was inconstant. A stone upon it was known to drift down the valley, slowly but certainly. The huge blocks of ice would rise from the surface and then fall shivering toward the vallev. The very height of the gla cier was changing at the banks. If these outward sitrnsof movement existed, couia thev fail in affectim? the narts below f 11 the srlacier elided downward from the lofty peaks to the plains, though but at the rate of a few inches a day, would the caverns retain their form ? As the prisons cracked and parted above, might not the icy walls below crumble and tallf No there was no hope I The passage of this hour would be solid ice the next. The glacier was inconstant. To enter it was certain destruction. A mass would fall and crush the intruder, or the unejc pected closing of an opening would shut ud the adventurer in a prison of death. Poor Henri must be left to his fate. They were sorry, but must bow to Providence Resignation " as the duty of those who dwelt in ever present dangers. Not so our heroine, who was not quite prepared to resign her lover so quietly to his doom Bat what could she, a woman, do, when strong men yielded to the over whelming p reu ore of circumstance I It was just because she was a woman that her spirits rose with the emergency. Love is stronger than ordinary energy of manhood. She must do something. She must do all it was possible for her to do. The lile of Henri was her life. To rescue him was to sustain her own being. What would be life to her without bimf How could she dwell near the ice cavern that had swallowed up her dearest treas ure! Tint wb-if ronhl sh do? fin nnnrse nni.kriu.r,.rWr ho wnuM pntorthi VS vui w v - I Wli I I , - a... v.av -" tifnc lerous cave that Tanned above me I valley. She would thread the gloomy passages of the glacier. She might thus mnh him. Shft mitrht thn nave him. or die with him. If unsuccessful and the ice close her in its cold embrace, would she not share the shroud of her lover? It was useless to speak of her inten tion. So mad a scheme would lead to her forcible detention. Leaving the company, without attracting notice, she fathered a few simple appliances which she regarded as necessary, and then rap idly stole off to the mouth of the glacier. As she first passed under that icy arch the chill struck her, and, for a moment, fear possessed her. The contest was brief, for the appeal of love was irresisti ble. Onward she crept in this frightful recess. The serai-translucent mass pro vided her with some light as she slowly made her way. It was no easy path in deed. The sharp edcres lacerated her flesh. The cold white stream that flowed through the clacier. ted Irom the snows above, and the partial melting of the ice- rock through which it ran, was no agree able route to the maiden. Thoroughly wet and miserably chilled, she had to struggle on. But there were other trials. Now and then the passage was so small as not to admit her erson, though she lay in the stream. She had prepared for this by brinirinir a small hatchet. With this she often had to cut her way, or widen a breach. Had she been removed from a sense of peril, or unabsorbed by so deep a sorrow, there would have been much to interest and delisrht her mind. Beauties thronged on every side. As the light pierced through the ice,or descended the crevasses from above, it revealed gems of marvel ous charms, and disclosed colors of gorgeous kinds. Fancy might people nbers with genu ot wonderful nature. Green and blue ot various shades softened the brilliancy of the white. Occasionally, the roof rose, arch in over her. and the stalactites were as pendant diamonds. Crystals of beauty thronged blaces as the fret worK ot a Gothic cathedral. But poor Marie had no eye for Nature's loveliness, and no ears for her most se raphic harmonies,while her thoughts were concentrated upon the rescue of her be trothed. She heeded them not. but pressed onward. There was no difficulty a!out the route. She had but to advance, for the mountains disclosed the glacier on either side. Fatigued to exhaustion, she halted not. A miuute lost might endanger the ife so dear 'to her. Anon she paused to call upon her lover; and "Henri I" echoed through those trembling chambers. But she could not be wholly indifferent to her position. As the ice cracked above her, or as she saw the mass move about her, she could not but shudder and close ler eyes. The vast river ot ice was now moving more vigorously than usual. The nressure from the melting snows above made it groan, as if in agony. The ex pansion of the viscid substance, melted and recongealed, thrust forward and head Ion ir this strange living monster of the Alps. rso moment was sate tor her, and all seemed combined for her destruc tion. It was, in very truth, a valley of the shadow of death. At last, when well-nigh sinking with despair, and almost yielding to the tor por which intense cold brings upon ine brain, she heard a low moan. At once ler frame received a new impulse ot en ergy. Slie rusiieu lorwaru, overcoming all obstacles. In a tew minutes sue uis rovored the annarentlv lifeless body of Henri, llestoratives were applied, and his eves opened upon his faithful girl What a greeting ot love in tne ice-grave i No time was to be lost. Momentarily strengthened by the 'cordial to his lips, he told a hasty tale. He spoke of his fall his consternation his sudden agony Unable to rise, and thrown forward by a shelving block, which partially broke his tall, he knew no hope ot escape, unless an adventurous friend would suiter him self to be lowered by a rope to his assist ance. He told not of his suffering her account the mental ansruislt he en dured at the thought of her distress. In brief words, she referred to the closing of the chasm above, and of her passage up the caverns of the glacier, whither she was now prepared to lead him. Alas! both of his legs were fractured It was no time for grief. The brave girl bound up his limbs with portions of her garments, entreated him to take some refreshment, and then arranged for de parture. The first agony of movement brought a deep groan from the young man. But he restrained himself immediately, and supporting himself on one arm, suffered Marie to drag him forward by the other. Frightful were his sufferings as he thus passed slowly along the narrow, tortuous passages, wini nis iraciureu umos con stantly striking against the rude ice- rock. Marie's strength was renewed, and the vigorous powers of the mountain maiden were needed indeed. There were times when the space permitted ber to carry him in her arms; but more often she could but draw him after her through the low tunnel. The same difficulties which she before encountered were now to be met under more embarrassing cir cumstances. The only advantage was the descent instead of the ascent. All went on well for a time, though the progress was exceedingly slow, and th Bfrnrth of both narties was rapidly ebbing forth. At length a loud cracking i i i l : . . I - r. A noise was nearu, anu liniueuiaiciy sivci- ward, a huge mau of ice fell forward near tnem, completely Diocauur up weir path. The, water, for a time stayed in its course, threatened tneir aesirucuon. but it eventually formed for itself another opening. In vain did tne courageous uui blow after blow utem ,the barrier. JNo entrance could be gamed, they were im prisoned, indeed, in a dath-chamber. They resigned themselves, to, their end. Thev embraced in silence, and calmly waited their fate, iney naa & least ine . . . . . , . comtort of dvinjr with each other. CP ' , lint, with a sudden tnougur. inane , - soranjr up botib. a uc. her, she would make another effort. She resolved to try their axe on the side walls of their cell. A few strokes revealed an opening, ine axe was again anu again hurled forward, until a noie was maue sufficient for the entrance. Then, with a look of gratitude to heaven, she once more raised her drooping lover, now rapidly sinking into the torpor of approaching dissolution. It was not long before the dear girl found her lover senseless in her i at 1 1 crrasp. v ainly sne caned mm, anu en treated another word or glance. His eyes were closed, his body utterly pow erless, and no sign of life remained, ex cept a feeble pulsation at the heart. For a moment, and but for a moment, the intrepid maiden yielded to despair, and sank beside the corpse-like form. With a prayer upon her lips she feebly essayed once more to resume her t right ful journey. But the cold and latigue now began to oppress her so strongly that her senses reeled and her arm was in sufficient to raise her lover. She collect ed her rambling thoughts; and, believing that she could not be far from the valley, she uttered a cry of distress. Providentially it was just at this time that the peasants, uneasy at her not re turning to the room, and guessing her heroic resolution, went hurriedly to the cavernous mouth of the glacier, the cry was heard and answered. Shamed by the courage of the girl, two or three rushed forward up the ice-chamler. They were but just tn time. 1 he brave Marie had sunk down into that danger ous lethargy, the iorerunner 01 ueatu. Both were carried off safely from the erlacier. brouirht to the cottage and re- stored to animation. Surgical aid was promptly procured for Henri s fracture. 1 1 is vigorous con stitution soon rallied under careful treat ment. As for Marie, her over-excited feelings occasioned a long and dangerous illness. The heroism of this maiden of the Alps was not likely to diminish the attach ment of the man she had saved. As soon as both were recovered, the acclamation of the valley called for their union to be made a public ceremony, and the day a holiday for the villagers. The cure of fered up a thanksgiving for their deliver ance, joined them in happy wedlock, and gave them a tearful blessing. Aud long as love is known in the Al pine valleys will the tale be told of Marie, the heroine of fidelity, aud of the well- tried Love in a Glacier. Alont Life-Boats. The first idea of a boat which should be so constructed as to live and swim amid the stormy breakers, and in the tre mendous seas which surge and boil in rough weather along our tempest-driven shores, did not, curiously enough, origi nate with a sailor, but with Lionel Lukin, I a coacn-bunuer oi honuoo, an obscure I but none the less true hero, who, in the seclusion of his workshop, conceived and wrought out the idea ot a boat which should float upon the troubled waters of a stormy sea. In 1785 he took out a pa tent for his life-boat, and like most in ventors, had many difficulties to encoun ter and many disappointments to endure, with little to console him except a brave heart anil a good conscience, and the blessedness of knowing that by meaus of I his life-boats a few lives bad been gleaned from the terrible harvest of wrecks which annually bestrew our shores. In 1 tSO, a short time after his death, a shipwreck occurred which did more than all his clamorous appeals to help on the life-boat movement in which he was so deeply interested. During a violent (ft f lHICUt storm at Newcastle, in the September of that year, a ship called the Udcenturer missed the entrance to the harbor, and was driven right upon a ridge of rocks outside the pier. The pier was crowded with people of every rank, an d many of rmen shed unavailing them, even the hardy hshermen tears in the anguish ot their unavailing sympathy; but they could do nothing else, and there they stood during the long hours of that fearful afternoon. watching, on the faces of the doomed! men opposite to them, the ruddy hues of health blanching into the ashy whiteness of deatli, and listening to their agonizing cries as one by one they dropped into the black abyss of waters. When night closed in all were gone, and the specta- tors of the pitiful tragedy went home, not to sentimentalize over what they had seen, but to endeavor as far as they could to make such an occurrence impossible in the future. A life-boat committee was formed, and a prize was offered for the best life-boat. The successful competitor for this prize was Henry Greathead. a boat-buiiuer, oi onuiu omems; anu nis t e 1 1 i. " I i boat,with some slight variations,remained until about 1851 the favorite model for I life-boats. In 1851 the Duke of North- umberland, who was President of the Na - tioual Life-Boat Society, offered a prize of one hundred guineas for the best model of a life-boat. tun j" nwgamcu uj James Beeching of Great Yarmouth; and his boat, after it bad been still further improved by the assistant master ship wright at the royal dockyard at Woolwich, was adopted, by the Itoyal National Life boat Institution, as the model for boats of this description. The Crown Prince of Germany has re cently written a little book, containing a narrative of his trip to Egypt to attend the opening of the Suez Canal. It is en- titled "M Jonrnev to the Land of the East in 1869 But forty copies have I i s . i-S-i- i I J . l . i i uecn pnnieu, wmcn nave uecn uumuuieu among the Prince's traveling companions i on tnat occasion. Mr. Rankin on Female Attire. In a late number of Fort Clatigera Mr. Buskin advises his girl readers as follows: "Dress as plainly as your parents will allow you, but in bright colors (if they be come you) aud in the best materials that is to say in those which wear longest. V hen you are really in want ot anew diess, buy it (or make it) in the fashion; but never quit an old one merely because it has become unfashionable. And if the fashion be costly you must not follow it. X ou may wear broad stripes or uarrow, bright colors, or dark, short petticoats or long in moderation), as the public wish you; but must not buy yards of useless stuff to make a knot or a flounce of, nor drag them behind you over the ground. And your walking dress must never touch the ground at all. I have lost much ot the faith I once had in the common seie and even in the personal delicacy of the present race ot average Loglisli women by seeing how they will allow their dresses to sweep the streets as if it is the fashion to be scavengers. If you can af ford it, get your dresses made by a ginnl dressmaker, with the utmost attainable precision and perfection. But let this good dressmaker be a ioor person, living in the country; not a rich person, living iu a large house in Loudon. Learn dress making yourself, with pains and time, and use a part of every day in needle work, making as pretty dresses as you can for poor people who have not time nor taste to make them nicely tor them selves, louareto show them in your . . i i own wearing what is inosi rigui auu graceful, and to help them to choose what will be prettiest and most becom ing in their own station. If they see you uever try to dress above yours, they will uot try to dress above theirs." Sleep on Your Care. Men of business, believe me. there is now and men a proutaoie venture in doing nothing at all; in the power to put business aside, and abiding now and then in a iierfect quiet, ihiugs sometimes solve themselves when we give them that that advantage, which refuse to come clear for all our trying. We all know how, by simply taking some perplexity into the deettest silence this side ot deatli a good night's sleep we can do better sometimes than if we sat up and wrought at a task all night. When Matthew Mur ray, of Leeds, wanted to se? Ins way through some sore erplexity in his in ventions, aud all other etfrt was of no use, he rested day and night from all noise, aud all elfort an uctivo man has to make to keep himself quiet; then the thing he wanted would steal iu and look at him, aud light on him aud stay, as birds used to light ou the old hermit, uo more afraid of them than the trees under which they sat. And, mother, you may care aud toil incessantly for your little ones, never resting a moment iu your de votion ; and then, because you never do be quiet, but cuter into your very closet with a little frock tn mend, you shall never be quite able to take the whole sun light aud sum of your motherhood iuto your heart. You will be so full of care about the bread that perishes as to miss the bread that Cometh down from Heaven. No person in the world needs so much now and then to be still, aud open her soul only to the silence, as an earnest, energetic, whole-hearted mother, lins eternal activity is alinot sure at least to run into shallows Good Advice to Motheus. No mat ter how busy you are, which amounts to the same thing iu elfect, take out-door exercioe, without tail, each uay. oweep- iug and trotting around the house will its place; the exhilaration of the open air and change of scene are ab solutely necessary. Oh, I know all about Lucy's gown that "is uot finished," aud "Tommy's jacket," aud even his coat thrown iu your lap, as if to add the last ounce to the camel's back; still I say, up and out! Is it not more important that your children, in their tender years, should not be left motherless, aud that they should not be born in that feeble constitution of bxiy which will blight II. t c. I..... eve.rJ euij u.og, nng go; you will take ho dof .e buttons aud in with more vigor aud patience when you return bright and refreshed; and if every stitch be not finished at just such a mo- mcDt (an1 lt is "!cour,1e?luS not to able to systematize in your labor, even with our .be9.t eff.rt 5iU rememhJ,!; that "she who nam uoue wnat sue couiu is entitled to no mean praise. Lioiit Plain Pie-Ciiust. Sift a quart I of flour, and iuto the middle of it put half I a pound of good, sweet lard; over the I lard sprinkle a tca&poouful of salt. Take I a wooden siMXn,and a pint of odd water, I and proceed to mix by injuring the water I in driblets on the lard, aud working it down iuto the flour. Mix patiently till it is thoroughly incorporated, and made into a smooth, soft paste. Use as little flour and friction as possible in rolling it out. There is no necessity to touch the hands to this paste, and the less manipu lation the better. If wanted richer tor up I uer crust, divide off part of it, roll it out I . i .i i .1 . 1 . i upon a noureu paaie-ooaru, anu uot u I with flakes of butter, over which dredge I flour, fold together and roll out again I this operation may be repeated three 1 times, if wanted rich; but pie-crust by I the first process will be tender, light, and I plenty good enough for mince pies, apple pies, etc. Almond and Citron Pcddiso. One half poifnd grated carrots,oue-half pound chopped suet, one-half pound bread crumbs, two ounces ground almonds, six ounces sugar, two ounces candied peel, three euirs, mix well together, boil two hours, stick almonds over tne top, serve with wine sauce. Wheat Cakeu. Melt one tablespoon fal butter in one quart oi miiic; wnen lukewarm aau mree eggs, me wuiies uu yolks beaten separately, stirring in alter- nately with the eggs, three-fourths of a I 1 -lftA 4tmir Host wall a.fjr fuld. I wuua buma - -. T I ing two laoiespooniuis jeasi. dci w iut i ana oaac vu uu nuuw Terrific Explosion. Wednesday afternoon, November 1, at 3 o'clock, an explosion of a serious nature took place at the Miami Powder Mills, which is situated at Goe s Station, four miles north of Xeaia rather three explo. sions, for there was a slight interval be tween each. Tlie first tccurrcd in a corn ing or graining mill, where the grain is made from cake. After the lapse of a sufficient limn to allow a man to run from COD to SOO feet, the second explo sion, a press house, occurred. Then, after another lapse of short duration, another press house went up. I n the corning mill, Michael Denear was killed. From the pottitiou of his body, it is supposed he heard something foul going through the mill, and was in the net of stopping the wheel when ho was blown into eternity. Of course this Is only supposition. Denear had been in the employ of the company about a year, and was a very careful man. He was twenty-two years of age, and leaves a wife aud a four-months-old child. The wife left yester day, having the body in charge for his friends in Ogdensburg, N. Y. Henry Brown was in charge of one of the press houses, but when be heard the fragments of the Corning Mill falling on the roof of his mill he ran, taking shelter behind a tree, and thereby saved his life. The other press house was not in use that day, and hence no one was in it. The first blow was very light, tearing ofF the top, but not the siding. The second and third mills were a complete wreck, as to structure. The machinery, which was very heavy, is comparatively uninjured. The engine-house was injured to a con siderable extent, the engineer escaping without 8K!cial hurt. The fire, which communicated to the leaves, and which causes the chief danger at this season - of the year, was suppressed eaily a slight wind only blowing at the time of the explosion. The effect of the blow was terrific. The two press-houses are torn to flinders, and the pieces thrown in all directions, and the windows are broken in most of the neighboring houses. The doors are broken from their fastenings. The shock was not heard with much dis tinctness at Xenia, but at Yellow Springs glass was broken and dwelling jarred. Dayton heard it much more distinctly than Xenia, as also Springfield. A. O. Fay, President of the company, estimates the loss as uot to exceed f 3,000. Work men are busily engaged repairing the damage, and the mills will soon be grinding as before. 'Cincinnati Gazette, The First Minister of New-Amsterdam. In the same vessel which brought Wou ter Van Twiller to Manhattan, Dominie liogardus, the first clergyman of New Netherlands, was a passenger. He was a mau of a certain order r( talent iu large measure, aud was honored for his piety. He was large, graceful, sinewy, strong, with a flue broad, open, frank face, high cheek-bones, a dark, piercing eye, and mouth expressive of the very electricity f gKd-humor, which was partly hidden, low ever, by a beard cut iu the peculiar t . A I . 1 J I . ashion prescribed lor ecclesiastic uunug the reigu of Henry IV . of r rauce. He was not without proiniuent faults. He had a hot and hasty temjer, was brusque u his manner, and addicted to high liv fig; but he was greatly superior in both mind aud character to Van Twiller, and his sterling qualities stood forth in such bold relief that now, at the very uicutiou of his name, a figure seems to leap forth Irom the mut ot centurie, instinct with early, vigorous life, fearless in the hji form ance of his own duties, lie never allowed any failure on the part of others to pass by uureproved. In several in stances the govoiuors iu authority were severely castigated from the sacred desk. He desired a more convenient place lor mbiic worship thau the loft iutlie horse- mill; and the West India Uouipany Uis- laved their zeal for the preservation of the blessings of education and rellgiou to their infant colony by building him a church. It was a plain wooden edifice, of a pattern similar to the New-EugUud barn of the present day, and was located on a High point oi lauu irouuog me East Itiver, near what is now Pearl street, betwecu Whitehall and Broad, it was a conspicuous object to vessels coming up through the Bay; and Luglisli travellers, who were accustomed to a uiuereiu style of architecture, criticised it Iu anything but flattering terms. But it was satisfactory to the conscientious auu devout worshipper who assembled there every week, uud thought only of the eloquent words of their iteloved dominie; and it is to be respected as ine nri church edifice on Manhattan Island. Mr$. Martha J. Lamb'$ JI tutor u vf Xew York City. Wit. Almost all the great poets, ora tors, and statesmen of all time have been witty. When wit is combined with sense aud information, when it is softened by iteiievolenco and restrained by strong principles, when it is in the hands ot i man who is witty, who loves'honor, jus tice, decency, good nature, morality and religion ten thousand times better than wit, wit is then a beautiful and delightful part of our nature. There is no more interesting siectacle than to see the effects of wit upon the different charac ters of men ; thn to observe it expanding caution, relaxing ' dignity, unfreezing coldness teaching age and care and pain to smile extorting reluctant gleams ol pain from melancholy, and charming even the pangs of grief. It is pleasant to observe how it iieuetratcs through the coldness and awkwardness ot society, gradually bringing men nearer together, and, like the combined force ot oil and wine, giving each man a glad heart and a shining countenance. Genuino and innocent wit, like this, is surely the flavor of the mind I Neighborly Love. Genuine, neigh borly love knows no distinction Of per sons. It is like the sun. which does not ask on what it shall shine or what it shal warm: but shines and warms by the very laws of its own being. Dkixkixo among if omen is shamefully on tne increase. Outwitting the Drive. . A company has been organized In this city to provide a system of cheap cabs. The extortions of hack drivers are so no torious that an ingenious piece of mechan ism has been adopted for the new cabs, which, it is believed, will act as a con stant and perfect check upon the Jehus. The controller and indicator occupies but small space, and all that is visible of it from the outside, when tho cab is idle, is a small glass disk bearing the words "To hire." When the passenger enters the vehicle, the sign is turned down by the driver, and immediately in front of the passenger apinsars a clock giving the cor rect time. Underneath tho clock is a printed schedule of prices, which, in Phil del phia, where the system has been in use for a year, are twenty-five cents for a quarter of an hour, fifty cents for half an h ur and so on, for one or two passengers. If the driver neglects to turn down the sign, tho passenger is confronted with the printed admonition, "Look for the clock." When he applies to the driver for information that functionary promptly turns down the sign, and the clock ap pears. Attached to this apparatus is a control -clock. Tho occupant sees noth ing of it, except the dial iu front of him. The other part is a dial with two differ ent circles, around w hich three hands re volve. The inner circle shows the hours and quarters during which tho carriage is engaged. The outer circle is divided into forty-eight parts, and registers tho money received, ant there must neccssa rilly be an exact correspondence between the records of time by the quarter of an hour and of money by the quarter of a dollar. Another dial registers the num ber of hiring. When the passenger pays his fare tho driver rings a gong for every quarter of a dollar received, and, at each ring, the hand on the outer circle moves forward one space. lie theu turns up the sign "To Hire," and the movement of the sign sends the index of the back clock forward one space. This shows ouo hiring, aud the movement stop the con trol clock, which has now recorded tho time the sign was turned down, the amount of money received, tho time of thu trio, and the number of the hiring. Should tho driver neglect to register the money received, or fall to turn down the sign "To Hire," his dereliction Is made manifest, for the control-clock shows the time he was iu service, aud his money must corresiiond with his time, quarter for quarter, and he cannot display his sign dishonestly without being caued to task by the passenger, who is vainly searching for the clock. In short, these n ward checks upon the outer man aro beyond his control, and he must be hon est iu spite of himself. Frank Letht $. The Natural llmtory of a Scold. I had not seen Mrs.- for a week, and supposed her either sick or away from home, Hhen she drove up to my gate ouo morning Willi mi ncr cuiwircn in uur car- iagc, and stopped to exchange saluta tions. Hho really looked less bright and blooming than usual, and I said, "You lavo U'cii 111." "There It Is again," ex claimed she, Isughiug; "everybody sees the want of oxygen in my blood. The truth is I have been sewing steadily for a week UMm tho children's dresses, and have not allowed myself a breath of air, w hich I have always deemed essential to my tealth, and upon which 1 am now con vinced my good nature depends entirely. At the cud of three days of unbroken sedentary employment I begin always to falter, aud cau hardly cat or sleep; but on this occasion l held on to my woik. aud finished article after article until my head was in such a whirl I could hardly count the garments as 1 laid them away. But yesterday 1 became desperate; I scolded poor Bridget for soinu slight mis take till she looked at me Hi unutterable ama7.emeut. I ordered every child out oi the house, even baby Benny here, becauso I couldu t bear the souud or a l.totlall In and when my husband came at night aud told mo I looked really ill and nerv ous, it was the last feather that broke tho camel's back I was sure it was only a courteous way of saying I looked cross and ugly, and I burst Into a nt of uncon trollable sobbing, aud went to bed like a naughty child at eight o'clock. "this morning 1 locked up the unnn shed pile of sewing. We have a dinner basket there in the carriage, and are off for the woods. The children say they are in pursuit of fun, but 1 am after oxygeu." Joita 8tat$ llegitter. It will not be at all remarkable If Old Maids come rapidly into demand in the matrimonial market; at any rate It will uot pay to neglect all of them. See what a chance for some Impecunious bachelor . l . a . M. . or widower was lately lost at lowuers Station, New York! A spinster named Emma Cornwall recently died there, who it whs Mfter ward ascertained was possessed of $80,000 in bank stocks and United States bonds. The bouds and stocks tra found hid awav in old trunks, iu dress iiockets, stuffed in rolls of caroling, in bedding, and in fact the search for her possessions was one surprise. 1 housands of dollars would be found in the most in conceivable places, and it is not positive ly known but that a snug little fortune is now somewhere concealed iu the house. Cuiita boasts of trees as largo as those in California, and of as much profusion in some localities. About thirty miles from Nikko, an avenue of sugl, or cedar trees, begins, and with an occasional break where there Is a village, it reaches the whole distance to the shrine of Lycyas the longest avenue of shade in the world. These great trees are from five to seven feet in diameter at the base, aud tower without a branch for fifty or eighty feet, and then lift their heads forty or fifty feet higher. They resemble the giants of the Yosemite. The trunks are faultlessly straight and the bark is deeply veiued. There are about 00,000 trees on this avenue, and all of them were planted after the foundation of the shrine, about 250 years ago. , Pout K ess Is like an air c uhion. There may be nothing in it, but lt easef oar Jolts wonderfully.