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ill rCLtUXD IUTE4 QT ADYMtTtllSO I COIXs EYERY SATURDAY MORNING, One inch, first intertion. ....... $2 00 Each lutstqtent insert", ...... 1 00 orricc... coi'kt jtiu:i:t. . orroita zdx ravsT-uevtc TUM SdvtTllMra r MUMt. twtftM a lis oiJ MlMUi 10 Hiu 9r Km. AlTrtsr Kaloa of Kaborrtptlan In OIn: One Ywr WW Six MecUu --!S Ttr MobUu .- 1 Slatf Osptat u YOL. 3. PENDLETON, UMATILLA COUNTY, OltEGON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1877. NO. 6. JOB WORK A Vintage Song. BV C XX. K. I11ANCIAKUI. Once more the year It fullness pour To cheer the heart of toll; Once more we take with gratitude The blessing or the soil. I hear the children lauch and sing, Tfcey pull the crape together; And gladness breathes from everything jn this October weather. The winter day were long and dark. The spring was slow to come; And summer storms brought fear and doubt To many a humble home. But rain and sunshine had their will And wrought their work together, And see! we heap our baskets still. In this October weather. My heart has had its winter, too. And lain full bare and gray; I did not think a spring would come, Much less a summer day. How Utile did I dream that life -Would bring us two together. And I should be a happy wife In this October weather! Doubtless the frosts will come again. And some sweet hopes must die; But we shall bear the passing pain. And smile as well as sigh; Nor let us cloud with tear of lii This golden hour together; For God is In Ills garden stitt In this. October weather. Anton and Beatrix. AX INCIDENT Or THE KRZ OEBIUGC Anton and Beatrix made miner. Beatrix were betrothed lace, ana Anton wai a "Why art thou above ground, An ton 1" she said to hita one morning when be looked into her mother's cottage. "Art thou flying about to find bay and feathers for our nest I Nar, it wilfbe built the sooner, if thou wilt steadily ply. thy pick.1 " T would be long before thy bobbins would build it," answered Anton, with a smile, which bad a good deal of contempt mixed with its kindness. "Cheer up, lnx, thou shall not long continue at that beggar s trade So baring spoken he went upon bis way, and left his sweetheart wondering what he meant. Bat she could work while she won dered; and she did not forget to do so. Indeed, she was almot always at work. She got up with the son sometimes be fore him, with the birds; and after he bad gone down, she lighted ber candle and still worked on. Patiently she stuck her pins into her pattern, and then plied tbe dangling bobbins with a deftness which made fingers and bobbins blend in a shimmer, like that of the wings of buz zing bee. When awake she scarcely eter ceased from her lab jr except to per form ber sacred duties, or to carry in tbe product of her tail to the laceman's in the nearest town. "My child,thou wilt hare to eat huiiea raucn her mother said to ber. "Thy cheek is pale and pinched, thy eyes are growing dim. Anton will slight hee.T ''Nay," Beatrix answered, "if I need arsenic to make me pleasiog in bis sight. be may e'en leare me. I will not meddle with such unholy things. lie must just take or leare me as the good (rod and honest toil bare made me." "But why do,t thou labor so hardP asked the mother. "1 would fain help to keep the bouse,1 replied her daughter. "Nay," quoth the mother, "though 'tis little that thy pillow eafts thee, it well pays thy clothe. and coffee and potatoes." "I would take something in ny bands besides my pillow, when I go to sit down in Anton's house,' said Beatrix, with a blush. It was little she saw of her lover at this timeand when be did come to see ber he behared so strangely, that in spite of his affectionate caresses she could not help suspecting sometimes that be wished to take back bis plighted troth. He looked with undisguised contempt on the cot tage and its furniture, its scanty food and all its humble wars, and talked as if, should Beatrix become his bride, she would be a beggar's daughter lifted to a throne. And yet he was more shabbily dressed than bad been fits wont, and had less money to spend: since now he very seldom went down into the mines by day. Almost all day long be either slept or wasaerea over we mountains, cnasing,or pretending to chase,tbe bear.the chamois, and the lynx. Every night, a little while before the clocks struck twelve, be went abroad but whither he went no one could tell. Her lover's strange behavior often made Bratrix verv sad. tboucrb none the - slower for that reason did her fin "era xi'.x theiobbini. Night and morning beside her bed, and in the church (to which An ton sow never came) she prayed tbe good God to bold her lover in bis sheltering band, for if be were taking to murderous ways, or going mad, and so they should be separated for life, she thought that she would go mad also. The tact is that Anton went every night to meet .ixoboia, ana wandered with him in the bowels of the earth. 'When Anton was an industrious miner, Kobold had come to him as be plied the pick in a loficly working, and s coned at his aim plicity tor toiling so nara to earn so little. "Come with me bvnight," the goblin bad said, "and I will show thee where tbe land for man? a siile is made of metal, which may be bad for tbe trouble of nicking it up. Xtne it on the sly ttiy self, or make a good bargain with others out of thy knowledge, as may best please Tuec, sir. iionest jiiner. Anton went, and beheld a sight which made .him eagerly inquire of the tricksy sprite how be could find his way to the spot again. But Kobold answered, "Oh this is nothing come to our trysting' place to-morrow Digbt, and I will show thee lar greater wonders tlian these.' And Anton bad gone, and night after mgnt ne went on going, similarly uc gulled, Tor Kobold kept his promise in showing each night a greater wonder than vnai-oi tiic night before. In this war, neglecting his business. his fricud. his sweetheart, and bis God, nton had seen vast bidden stores of all kinds of ores silver, tin, copper, auti- tuonr, bismuth, and who knows what e- bides f and the more he saw the less in clined to work with his own hands lie was, the more eager to take his ease and pleasure whilst the inexhaustible treas ury that had Ihjcu revealed to him should beworked for him by nthot t' brains and brawn. "Show me gold" he said to Kobold, that I may at once take of it to gratify my desires, aad have means to litre drudges to work my mines. Show me gold, and give me the clew to mat ami all the rest that thou bat shown me, and I will trouble thee no more. 'Come again to our trrsting-placc to morrow night, Cor tlie last time," answered Kobold, '-and I will show thee gId." Infatuated Anton was by this time in rags and often very huagry. He bad sold his TUB. bis tools, to supply mm with dailr bread latterly very little of it. But buoyed up by his golden hopes, he carried hi bead as if he had bees a kaiser, provoking the mirth of his neigh bors, who had come to look upon mm as a twor fool, since nothing had corse of his mysterious midBigat excursions. Beatrix grew sadder and sadder at the thought of him. 1 Vry rarely did she see lii ib now. Mnce. as I have said, be had given up gdng to church, and latterly ai-o coming expressly to visit her; but each time she did see him he looked pojrer and wilder than before. It was oa a Saturday night that he was to meet Kobold to be initiated in the se cret of the gold. He bad to piss Be atrix's cottageon his war to the trystiBg place, and as be drew near, he noticed that her light was still :raiag. Beatrix retted oa a Sttadav. with the lro pect of a holiday before ber, she could afford to sit. up later that was ueal with her. although recently b.r bear of retire ment bad drawn nearer than before to the stroke of twelve. This was the motive for her lengthened work she had bogun to fear that Anton would soon become utterly destitute, and she wished to save hitr. the degradation of begging his bread from door to door, bv la nag up a little board fur him. mile she plied ber bobbins with this benevolent purpose thinking regretfully r . 1 . t 1 I . k oi oygooe aasurusy atgau cacoccu i anticipations of seeisg her lever, reverent and respected, at the enures oa toe mor row Anton thought ef her ia a very dif ferent manner. "Am I not a fooL" be said, "to throw mvelf away upoa so arsor a suit There is not a princess ia ail Europe for whom I shall cot be a worth v mates when 1 am master of my wealth. Nay, bat Beatrix is a good girl I will sot break ber heart. Shalt I stop and bid ber ceatc from ber absurd industry dazzte her witb a reve lation of tbe riches ia store for mel Bet no. it will be better to wait and tied hew I feel when I have got tbem. I will set commit myself. Still I will peep ia at ber as I pass it is leag since I have sees her." He ieered in through tbe cottage win dow. but drew back in alarm when Be atrix raided ber bead, fcae get a glimpse of his face, however, and sighed to think bow haggard it, oece se handsome, bad become how little leve far her there seemed left in it. She put awav ber work, said ber sad nrarers. and went to bed, whilst Anton hurried oa to meet the goblin. Again Kobold was true to bis word. He led Anton into a vaulted ball that blazed with gold. Tbe fretted roof aad the floor were of native gold ; the columns of the corriders that stretched away not into gloom, but an unfading brilliance. reflected from some invisible source of light were of glittering quartz, cedes ing, not nuggets,but huge blocks of g bl. which gleamed through them like gold fish through crystaline water, or rattier like suns radiating dazzling splendor through most pellucid summer air. Anton now fairly lost hi head, and danced with delight. Wbce he came to himself, be was lying outside the moan tain, at the place oftrvst. The bun Jay morning sunshine had awoke him. It seemed pale and cold in comparison with the subterranean radiance wbicti Bashed back upon bis memory. At the thought of that bearose from his hard couch, and leaped again for joy, although his heart sunk for a moment when he remembered that, after all, he bad forgotten to secure the clew. "But what matters thatf be said "Kobold will give it to me when I meet him here again to-night." He bad forgotten also that the goblin had promised to meet him there tbe night lefore lor Ue latl lime. Tbe bell was chiming its silvery "Uome to nrarers" when Anton passed the church on his road borne. orahippcr were trooping in; amongst them Ueatnx on whose kind face shame struggled wiib pity when she acknowledged the taluu tlon of her disreputable looking lover. "Ha, bar thought Anton, "the proud minx will be glad, if I let her, to worshi at my feet tomorrow sticking her pins into paltry, penny winning pillow, when 1 have but to pr.cK the ground, lor genu to gush up In stieans un (launchable:' At midnight Anton was again at the trysting-placc. Less and less patiently be waited; but no Kobold came. Jlore and more despairingly he shouted: "Kobold! Kobold! the clew, the clew 1" At last a mocking voice, sounding as as it came from miles away, replied: "I showed thee the gold; I promised not tbe clew." A peal of far-off scornful laughter fol lowed, and then again the star shone silently ujion the silent mountains. rora time Anton wandered like an Azazel in the wildernois. At last be crawled, almost naked, and cold and bun gry, to the threshold of the cottage of iicatrix s mother. The pitying woman took him in. When mother and daugh ter had nursed him intOBanity once more of mind and body, Ueatnx gave him nick and a shovel, a drill and a powder horn, which she bad purchased out of her saving from tnc earnings oi ncr ucspttcu lace pillow. He once more descended into the bowels of tbe earth, but only to blast and prize out homely iron-stone; and Kobold mustbavbeen little inclined r mocking laughter unless be chose to deride hinitelf If he knew what a pair of peacefully joyous heart wire fating in unison in Anton hut, when the moititiin church-boll chimed on the first Sundar after the humbled miner bad proudly won, as a prize to g-wl for bitn, atioctionately exultant Iteatrix br is faithful bride. CAi CavUett, in A Very Little Hank Acconuu Among the subscribers to Audabon's magu lucent work on ornithology was John Jacob Astor. He was always ready to encourage such works, aad be put his name down on Audubon ' bok for one thousand dollars. During the progress of the work, which proved to be more expensive than bad been at first antici pated, 31 r. Audub ia oftee foaad himself obliged to call upoa hi gcaerwas pat rons for assistance; bat be dkl not call pn Mr. Astor uetil the letter-pro aad the plates bad beea delivered. Whea the fiaal delivery bad beea made, how ever, he called upoa the great merchant for his tbousaad dollars. "Ah, Mr. Auduboa," said the owaer of million, "you cease ia a very bad time. 3Ioaey is scarce aad bard, aad I have everytaieg snugly aad tightly invested." Aad so the oraitaelegit cOled, time after time, aad was vitea pat oaf. It was not becaus 31 r. Astor did nut wish to pay, bat it was from that slreag de- ire, grnwwg stronger with bts years, to keep bis property uitact aad see it ia- creased. Wbca he bad paid away a hundred thoaiaad dollars for a really beacrolent purftare be felt good, as a man feds good who bas got rid el aa aching tooth. It w as oaly the wreacalng away of the money that hart bin. At ieagik AudBboa called tbe sixtb tisae. 3Ir. Aster bad oemcaeaccd to le- aoaa the low ebb condition ef bis cash ia ha8d, when he caught a disapproving look from his son William, who happened to be present. "uut, aid tbe etd raaa, after pause, "I suppose yea want yoer mosey, and reallv. 1 boa Ml nae to let voe have it. I mav have a vert tittle ia bank . Wiltiasa, have we aay money in btakP LvsdcaUy Jotta Jacob bad expected his son oaly to aasw or a sisapte ye ; aad it may be tbat illsam U. tboegbt Ms fatber wttbed to kaow sosaeassag oc ti bsak acooeat. At aay rate be was jast fresh from the c&sa-oa-baad page ef the ledger, and be aasaerrd: "les, we have a littte ever a bssadred tbousaad in the Bxak at Nw York; eighty thsasand ia the City Bxak; atse- tr tboasaad la tbe 3IercbaaU ; asaety vsght tbousaad foer beedrcd ia " -Tbatlt do. Wilhaa! That'll do! I guess, Mr. Aadubi?, William oaa give you a check fur tbe moaey. .itiKft A Warning' to Advertisers. Tbe ias salty of Dr. L C Ayer, LowetL affords a terrible waraiag to ad vertlser. Here was a msn eagaged ia the manufacture of a pill, aet dtgeriag mack from a hundred ether pills that may be ebtaiaed at aay drag store. In Begaarded momeat he made up bs miad that be would advertise, not ia the Hcayane style of the erdiaary dealer, nut in a comprehensive sort ot way, uy which be could reach everr possible pur chaser of pills. He started with the idea of develiag half of his pro tin each year to advertising. The result might have beea foreseen. He accamulated moaey so rapid I v that he did not know what to do with it. Whoa he had rolled together fifteen million dollars, aad bad vainly endeavored to find some outlet for bis ever-increasing preSu, his miad gave way under the absorbing cares of his vast business, and he is now a patient at an asylum for the testae. How easily this calamity might have beea aicrted. If be had stuck to the ceaterrative methods of many of our merchants and refrained from advertitiag, he might have been passing quietly throsga bank -strw rr tw tnarsiw I Tar IsMnr laMilAsl down with his uncounted millions. Itivo dangerous experiment for a man who does not want to become rich to adver tise. Or if he advertises at all he mutt advertise grudgingly aad at long inter' rals. lest his profits should grow out of all proportion to his requirements, and be should lind himself barcened wiui wealth. Advertising, conducted on the principle of devoting half the profits o a business to it is, we repeat, a uangerou expirimeiit. It precipitates a fortune uKa tiie advertiser so suddenly tbat the chances are even that be will not know what to do with bis moaey. UUca Ob icrttr. Is Gr.iiMAST. lUnt is cheap, and comfortable toom, well furnished, may be had for four or five dollars a month We must "pay for everything," however. The service of a woman to take care ol the room costs about fifty or seventy-five cents per month. I ires arc extra. Can dies or lamps and matches we must fur nuh, and even soap. ISut one soon be comes accustomed to tbe ways here, and knowing how to economize, gets along cheaply and comfortably. The rooms arc generally arranged in suits or "Hats. A whole flat will be rented by some one, who in turn lets out single rooms to others. Wc must, therefore, have a key to our room, a key to the flat, and one for the lower outside door. As they have not yet learned the art of making anything like a Yale lock, or small keys, but make them as large as our old-tasli ioned barn-door keys, we shall find it a little inconvenient at first, carrying around everywhere with us a pound or two of cast-iron; but we are consoled on seeing every one else do the same thing, When one, on coming home late at night, finds himself locked out at the lower door, and has fonrottca bis key. all he can do will be to arouse the inmates of bis flat, when his landlady will throw out tbe door key, done up in a shawl, to In sure its being easily found. He who walks each day over his cs tat o tinus a coin daily. An Unrecorded Hero. iihotMiirr ciiTfuEi) tue itu coais OX TIIU WAT TO TlCOKbKUOUA. now Wc have all rrau of the Intrepid cowr- ge of the "Green Mountain B y" at the tinieof the revolutionary war.and the usual suppoition is that all those of a patriotic pirn were to oc iouna in me ranas oi the American army, but many a brave maa, jierliaps by the force of circum stances, was obliged to tarry at home. At the time the following incident occurred, the British were in full posses sion of Ticoadcroga, and the towns for many miles around were subjected to tbe lawless depredations of the "red coats," which aroused the just indignation of all who favored the "patriotic cause." But as a little free speech often deprived a maa of liberty, it was thought beat (asiog a bomelv expression) to "grin and boar it," One day a company of British soldiers. numbering about tweaty, in passing through the town at Cornwall, t, lin gered around long enough to place a certain mule on the house of every icriou suspected or known to favor the patriots, that others of the "Kiog's a who should follow after would Own know by this mystic sign where to Sod meed or foe. Xow this raised the ire of one man in particular, who determined tocircumvcal tbem by a little plot he hai formed in his own mind. So. taking the British oflker aside and speaking in a cautious maaner, this person tllsodgel byname said, "Say, cow, be you gon to Ticoa deroguef but without w siting for a re ply, continued, "tor It you be, me aau some of my neighbors want to go loag with re. We ve been waitiag lor some chance like this for a long lime, aad if you'll jest march out of town, so as sot to excite suspicion, yoa see, ana tu wait for us at a certain spot I can tell ye of. whr I'll see the other men aad welt join there. What y your Xow the army, both on the American and British side, was always willing to take new recruits whenever offered, aad as tab man's storv seemed plausible eaoega, the British captain willingly ac ceded to the proposal of Btodget, who thereupon preceded to appoint a rendez vous which was where the public high way or road was cut througa a ledge ef iisaestoae rock, forming a wall some tee feet high on cither side, a top of which was a stunted growth of trees. Btodgtt requested the etScer to wait there a ccr tain leagtb ol time, aad utey woutu maxe a.a all expedition in iotnicg him. As soon as Blodget saw the soldiers oat of sight, he haiUly mounted his horse aad started out to tsform bis goJ -Whig" aeiijrs of his intestiea. It aeeueu oui . fe nu a uj arouse a perstl,- patnotilC. so each maa, taking down b. trutv firelock, or oW tit . l .1 A fusee, with no "itttary outfit, except the taree-coracred i-txl of (Gen-f Blodget, which he fortes. :cty discovered in some old resULg iHace. they preceeuea uy i rrdauch shorter route t the point ef ren dezvoas, so tbat they bad time to secrete bushes at the tar- ther ead ef the limestone pan before the Britishers came up. Accordiag to "Morse's History." published some sixty years ago, military tactics in these days were not by aay means parsed; even irca. I'cinim overtMssorcd bv strategy rather tbaa numbers, &ojn was heard the tramp. , - tramp, tramp of the soldiers as they matched into the pass, where they were expecting to halt at tbe farther end aad wait for the recruits to j jin isco, out when midway between cither opening, with tbe great rocks, as impenetrable as prison wails, rising on two sides of them. even obstructing the sunlight for a time. iheT were astonished at beancg a sten torian voice cry "halt r They itopjed, surprised, when the impromptu Oes. iSIoJget, who had rcignea nts norse at recti v in front of the opening, command ' . . . . r . - cd them to lay down their arms and sur render. At first the omcer attempted to parley, but Btodget knew it would not do to give time to consider the position, so be began in a loud voice, amid a great Nourish of arms (in the bsckgroundj, First nlatoon. rise and ." But there was no necessity for him to add "fire. as the captain (supposing mcmseives surrounded by a large body of American , i soldiers) by a sign gave the other to ua derstand that he would surrender. Then Blodrct ordered the twenty men to walk off a few paces, stock their arms, and fall back again. Having done so, ne ordered five of his own company to take posses sion of tbem, as the five were all the men he could muster. Strange as it may ap pear, they really marched the twenty as prisoners of war, not to itconueroga, out to Gen. Stark, then at RodUr (.V. y.) Union. Benniaglon. Jake was heard calling across tbe fence to his neighbor's son, a colored youth, who goes to school at tbe Atlanta University: "Look fayar, boy, you goes ter school don't yerl" "Yes, sir," replied the boy. "Giltin'eddykashuo, ain't yer?" "Yes, sir." "Larnin 'rithmctick and flggerin' on a slate, chf "Yes, sir." "Well, it don't take two whole days to make a hour, docs ill ' "W'y, no l" exclaimed the boy. "You was g wine ter bring dat hatchet back in an hour, warn t your' "Yes, sir." "An1 it's bin two days sense yer bor rowed it. Now what good's eddykashun gwinc to do you thick-skulled nigger when yer go to school a whole year and den can't tell how long it lakes to fotcli back a iiatchiU" God rcspcctcth not tha arithmetic o our prayers, how many they are; nor the rhetoric of our prayers, how long mey tre: nor the music of our prayers, bow melodious they are; nor the logic of our prayer, how methodical they are but the divinity of our prayers, how heart sprung they are. Not gifts, but graces prevail in prayer. Trapp. Soos or late love Is his own avenger. Bridging1 the Ikwphorn-i. Captain James B. Had, engineer of the iron bridge at St. Iuu, aad who has so successfully planned and constructed tbe jetties at the delta of the Mississippi river. has also made elaborate plans for a grand Iron bridge across the Bvwpborus, con necting i'era European Constantinople with the Asiatic shore. This project of the distinguished engineer ia now for the first time made public through the cour tesy of Mr. A. O. Lambert, civil engineer, who has been largely connected with the great works of railway aad bridge con struction in several countries of tbe Old World, and also in Nebraska, Moetasa, Idaho, and particularly in tbs southern States. Mr. Lambert, in conjunction with Captain Kads, drew the plans, made tbe calculations and assisted at the sur- ey. It will be seen that the work, when coastructed, will be the most important f the kind ever completed, affording j the Turks, if that day ever comes, a ready back door out of Earope, In which they look up their resideaee some 400 years Tae bridge will be about 6,000 feet long over a mile will have fifteen pins: will be Hs feet wide, aad save the masonry aad flooring, will be built of iron. Tbe height of the roadway above the surface of the water will be 120 feet, thus aflordlag ample passage-way be- twecn the arches for ingoing aad outgo- ships. Tbe greatest feat of engineer- ag will be the bold central arch 750 fret span oter an eighth of a mile. This the ioagest span ever contemplated, and its construction will necessitate the most careful lobor aad so small outlay of moaey. In order to accomplish this siagle portioa of tbe work atone two groat caissons will bare to be sunk in over 100 feet of water, aad this can only be doae by collar -dims aad special coa- trivaaces in thesr completeness vet un known to eagiaeeriag. The current at the points where these piers will rest is very strong, coming through the Dards- net les from the sea of Marmora and rush- lag :e the Black Sea. The two central piers constituting the back-boae of the bridge will be fifty feet ibscc, of solid granite utoexs socseu togetaer wius iros oraces. A side new of this bridge will present below the highest potats of the arches aa intricate svstcm of res a force brace. It is ia this part of the construction tbat great iageasity, aice mathematical cal culatioa. aad dehcate mccbaaical skill mast be employed. By aa laveatiou of Captain Kads a aew feature will be intro duced, so that a train of cars or aay ether heavy burdee will aol supentaposc it wctgal at aav oae point over which it may be at the momeat. but wilt be dis tributed ttsroeghoet tbe 6,093 feet of the supports thus practically curing it easy task to build aa arch of "M feet. This is aooompltthed by uaitiag all the maia braes ag from pier bead la pser head. aad coaaectsag the rniaor rods, so that the whole forms a complete system.mak lag oae brace depcadest en the other. The acuoa of heavy wesgbu. of troops marehiag to a oommoa step, of rapid le- comouoa by tbe cars, ia tu isstastiy coaaiBatCAXcd through every foot of the supports, aad every part is made to do lis duty. The asagaitsde ef the under taking may be uaderstuod when it is stated that the xaaia piers will be two hundred aad seventy feel high from the fosadatioa to the summit. The agzre- tbe nfieea piers would make a siagle pier ef bait a mile ia L..Si. nkt ffftm. ,ti, lffu.?.if tti ball en the top of St. Paul's Cathedral, Loadan. It is estimated that the cost ef COO' s traction will not exceed ii5.009.000. and the time to complete it six years. ,Y. Y. Titne. Anecdote of lUey. The career of I'aley presents aa instance of the saving power of a proper word spoken at the proper time. It is a well known fact that in his earlier days I'aley was some what wild. Yet, for all this, he held his place at vie head of every class of which he was a member, besides ren dering assistance to classmates who was not so fortunately endowed by nature. og his warm and devoted fnecds was the young and weaiuy t iscount One night a party of the students only a few of the choice spirits were as sembled in Ixrd It s apartment. where tbey drank and caroused until very late hour. On tbe following morn teg the iscount cams to i'aley s room, and sat down upon the side of the bed, lor the latter had not yet arisen. "Ivjok here, I'aley, said he, with sol cmn earnestness, "1 ve been giviug my self a good deal of trouble this morntn on your account. Now I am wealthy, aad belong to a wealthy and powerful family; and what I do here don't so much matter. hrea tf I should go under en tirely, there are plenty standing ready to nil my place. Hut bow is it with you You are poor and have your own way to make in the world. You have it in you to make a leader of men aye if you do your best you may mould them to your will. Your friends are even now looking up to you. And jet sec how you are waiting not only your time, but your own self I I'aley, don't do It any more. At any rate, don't, for Heaven's sake, let me have it on mv conscience max t uave helped to drag you down I" Lord H went out, and Palcy sat up and reflected; and, as be often told to his youthful friend in his later years, from . i r . . that moment uis we cnicrcu upor, a new course. He gave up all dissipa lion at once and forever, and went to work to lay deep and strong the founda lion of that manhood which was to bless the world. Cuiuintgf who hare been tiie pets of the house are almost Invariably atllicted with jealousy at the adventof a new baby, A lady asked a little boy under these clr cumstancca how ho liked hi little sister, "I don't think she agrees with me," he replied. "Why don't she agree with youl" "I don't know," be said, "but I couldn'i b;ar to see mother kiss her." Putting a Ball to tbe Test. They bvl a discussion over at Miller's tiie other day about bull. Mr. Miller aid that it was all nonsense to talk about bull being excited and made furious by red rag. He said be had an ugly-tem pered Devon bull over in tbe field who would take it like a Iamb if you would take tbe flags of all the nations in bis face. Dr. Itobinson said tbat Miller daren't try it, and Miller bet Robinsoa tbat he would, bo Miller went into tbe bouse and loaded himself up-with a red flannel undershirt, and we all walked out to the fild. The bull was there, looking as calm as a summer morning. .Miller climbed tbe fence, aad went toward the animal, keeping the shirt behind him. As he came close to the bull he suddenly produced the shirt, and flirted it In the bull's face. The beast jumped back a yard or two in astonishment, and kept hi eye oa Miller, while Miller wared the old vermilion garment rigorously. Then the ball shook bis bead several times, as if he declined to have anything to do with the business: and Miller turned to ward us and put his thumb to his nose and wiggled bis fingers; while he was making this signal of victory, an Idea seemed to strike the bull. He put his bead doan and moved swiftly forward. Miller at first thought there had been aa earthquake. He was hurled up twenty feet, and when he struck Use ground he made another ascension. Itna bis de scent he though the would try to run, but Devon short-bora was inserted m bis trousers, and again he went up high enough to make a bird's-eye tIcw of the surrounding country. On the twenty- fifth descent he fell oa tbe other suie of the fence from tbe bull, and we picked, him up. His clothes were in nbboss Uis cuse was furled and bloody, and nil mouth wis full of grass azd mud. Weatkedhia bow he felt; but ne id nothing. We inquired concerning the condition of his bones, but be made no reply. We asked if his news about bulls had undergone any change, but be alked silently along, n e wanted to know how be estored the scenery the last time be went up, but be would not say. He merely went into the bouse, filled up both 'barrels of his gun with oh! nails, and screws, aad scrap of iron, aad then he went out to interview that bulL Tbe animal was a corpse in ten minutes, and ibca sillier peeled nts un dershirt and went up stairs to bed. We know what his views are now, al though he doesn't express thecn freely. JlUUt. Alive, Yet Officially Dead. An Uluitratioa of the injury which. under the French laws, may be inflicted upoa an innocent man by the loss of his certificate of birth is afforded is. the case ef Alfred Loicbot, who, at the age of SI, left Moalbebard, his native place, to serve bis time in the army. At the ex- pintioo of his period of service be did not his parents having died in the mean time return to Moalbeliard, but fol lowed his trade as a watchmaker in ran ous places. A short time back, bating become engaged to be married, be de termined to go there aad obtain the necessary papers, but oa applying a! the Major's office, be was fold that it would be useless giving him his certificate of birth, as in the archives was contained the certificate of his death at the Tonlon galleys ia 15.1. lxiichot found, upon further inquiry, that all his former ae quvintaaces beiicred that he had been condemned to penal servitude for murder. and bad died at the gailevs, aad be faued to understand now the error could have arisen until he remembered that while ia garrison at Beasoccon his money, watch anJ papers bad beea stolen, Tbe thief had availed himself of the papers to pass himself off as Alfred Loicbot, and having committed some fresh offences, was sent to the galleys. He died while under going bis term of imprisonment, and hence arose the mistake. Alfred Lvcfaot has beea compelled to spply to the civil tribunal at Toulon for a correction of the error, and for tbe removal of his came from the death register, aad the judge ment m wnicn sentence was passeu upon me usurper ot nis name. Axt. Woax andNo Plat. It is unfair to expect your boys and girls to work hard at home while they are attending school. To acquire aa education is at this period the business of their lives. it reluctant to learn their duly lessons. they shoald sternly be obliged to do so. Tbey should be taught alike, that from this there ts no possible escape and that beyond it nothing is icouired of them. The rest of the day Is theirs, and they should be permitted, in all innocent ways, to pass it as tbey Hit to frolic and play, the prerogative and necessity of youth, whetner in the lower or higher animal crratioa. liut througa fear ol creating habits of laziness, parents too often exact labor of their children after study hours, aad thus, while yearning for play and needed recreation, under these circumstances work becomes abso lutely repugnant to them. This is tbe way to make Jack a dull lad, and to es tablish the rerj habits that it was intend ed to avoid for a boy that works reluc tantly is only happy when that work is finished, and he is thus tempted to slight and skim it over, tbat he may the sooner be released, in this way not only are naoiu ot laziness created, but of ncgU genre, and of a deep-seated dislike of work, which often cling through life. No trait of character is mora valuable than the possession of a good temper. Home can never be made happy without it. It is like flowers springing up in our pathway reviving aad cheering us. Kind word aad looks are the outward demonstrations; patience and forbear ance are the sentiments within. Nearly one-half of the rulers in Georgia consist ot colored people, and yet not a single colored man, ia the whole state, is a member of the Con stitutional Convention now in session. Kect the childrcB warmly clothed. Science. The protective value ef trees In thun der storms was considered by M. Du Mooccl in a paper lately communicated to the Pant Academy of Sciences. Trees, be said, were all conductors of electricity, their conductivity increasing with the quantity of liquid they con tained. An ordinary house, however, of fered from sixteen to twenty times as much resistance to the transmission of electricity as an ordinary tree, and there fore the tree might be considered a pro tection to the house if it equalled or ex ceeded the bouse in height. On the other hand, when a bouse is wet by rain its electrical conductivity is so much augmented that the author thought the pro tec tire value of the tree migat then depend solely upoa its excess in eleva tion over the housetop. AMhaegu trees may thus shelter bouses to some extent it is very dangerous far individuals to take refuge under a tree ia a thunder shower, as bas been repeatedly demon strated by many of the numerous light ning accidents this summer. Dr. Elliott Cones, of the United States Army, desires medical officers ia tbe military service, and other persoca who may be interested In zoology, to co-oper ate with bio in preparing a history of North American animals belonging to the mammalia. His circular, which li issued from the s crgton - general's office, suggest that observers should make out lists of the animals found in specified localities, with particulars as to the num ber ot each species, when they come and go, aad the places they frequent. Infor mation is especially wanted in respect to many species which are small aad ob scure, and observers are asked to direct their attention to the habits of squirrels. hares, rats, mice, males, weasels, gophers and bats. Almost aay iatelBge&t persoa who is interested in natural history, aad resides in the country, caa add to the sum of scientific knowledge braiding ta this work. Some experiments lately recorded in France contradict tbe prevalent oplnioa that copper whea takea into the system with food is higUy poisoaocs. These experiments were made upoa dog,which could lake as much as two diichms of metallic copper, or its oxides, a day. without prejudicial effects. Ia zaaay instances,"' says the report, "the animals gained ia weight. Maali doses of tbe acetate, such as may be found ta food that has remained for twenty-four hours ia a copper vessel that is net enameled, do sot produce any of those violent effects tha: are usually attributed to them in the case ef man." However, we do cot think loo much care caa be taken la keep copper out of fool intended for humia. cansnin prion. Mr. Hearv Gilimaa writes frsm Waldo, Florida, ta the Xotsralut, that the beau tiful aad varied Uxirds, so asmeracs ia that Mate, bare the dtaseseea-Hke ca- pacitr of causing color, is spite of aav- thing that has bees said ta the contrary. lie asserts tbat tbey posses the power is remarkable degree, and descnaes a lizard which was ef a yella wish-brow a hue when upoa the ground, but assumed the dull gray color ef a fence rail whea gliding along it, and changed ta aa olive. aad then a bright emerald greea as it parsed under the foliage ef those colors. When this fixard returned ta the ground its original yellowish-brown was re- stored. Some cartridges oa a table in an apart ment in Paris were exploded recently by the concentrated rays of the sua faffing upoa them through a wiadew glass, is which a peculiar formatioa. described as aa eye, made a burning lens. The Lon don scientific journal, Satxrt, says that similisr accidents are commoner than we suppose. In Algeria, forests are some times set on fire by the concentration, of the solar rays through drops ef rain-water o a the leaves; wtule in Europe, the brains passing through tbe panes of sta tionary railway carnages occasion ally ignite tbe dried plants or leaves near the track. One hundred aad seres baotecrashs were taken in the Arctic regionally the recent British expedition, aad about'fiftj sets of these pictures have been prepared fo. distribution to foreign governments and institutions, so it is quite probable that some of them will come to this country. Tbey include news of the Pal xocrystic Sea, aad ef the din of pure coal, twenty-five feet thick, which was discovered near the winter quarters of one of the ships. This coal ts particu larly important ia relation to Captain North Pole. A stalf surgeon of the British Armr, Dr. Josenh J. Pone, read a oaDer oa clothing before the Domestic Economy uoagress, lately held at lurminguam, is which he maintained that white clothin woald really be tbe warmest ia winter. ,nng due regard to the conducting power aad thickness or the material ot which it is made. He thought that peo ple had beea led to wear dark clothes principally from motives of economy ia the use of soap aad water. The fourth comet detected br astrono mers this year is that which bears the name of the late Professor D'Arrest, of Lctpsic, who originally discovered it oa June 27, ISoI. Its period of rerolutioa around the sun is about six years and a half, and it is the faintest periodical comet known, being so dim that observ ers failed to find it at its return in 1S64. It was first seen this year oa the 8th of July, by M. Coggia,of Marseilles. Mr. J. Y. Buchanan's CaUtn$er obser vations as to the amount of oxygea con tained in sea-water of different depths indicate that animal life is probably most abundant in the ocean betweea two hundred and four hundred fathoms be low the surface. Comparatively little aaimal life is found below four huadred fathoms, and one hundred fathom or very nearly that depth, Is regarded as tbe lowest limit of vegetable life in the ocean. Tiiet say that old Mrs. Young, Brigham's mother, now niaety.cight years old, Is living at ilirtisarille, lad.
