lite Jiwfo SafowHtt. ez Astoria, Clatsop Co., Oregon. I. C. IRELAXD, - PUBIIMBEK. A Vintage Song1. BY E. D. R. BIANCIARDI. Once more the year its fullness "pours To cheer the heart of toil; Once more we take with gratitude The blessing of the soil. I hear the children laugh and sing, They pull the grapes together; And gladness breathes from everything In this October weather. The winter days 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 little 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 ; INor let us cloud with tears of ill This golden hour together; JFor God is in His garden still In this October weather. Anton and Beatrix. AN INCIDENT OF THE ERZ GEBIRGE. Anton and Beatrix were betrothed. Beatrix made lace, and Anton was a .miner. "Why art thou above grourftl, Anton?" she said to him one morning when he looked into her mother's cottage. "Art thou flying about to find hay and feathers for our nest? Nay, it will be built the sooner, if thou wilt steadily ply thy pick." '" 'Twould be long before thy bobbins would build it," answered Anton, with a smile, which had a good deal of contempt mixed with its kindness. "Cheer up, Trix, thou shalt not long contiuue at that beggar's trade." So having spoken he went upon his way, and left Ills sweetheart wondering what be meant. But she could work while she won dered; and she did not forget to do so. Indeed, she was almost always at work. She goi.up with the sun sometimes be fore him, with the birds; and after he had -gone down, sho lighted her candle and still worked on. Patiently she stuck her pins into her pattern, and then plied the dangling bobbins witha deftness which made fingers and bobbins blend in a shimmer, like that of the wings of buz zing bees. When awake she scarcely ever ceased from her labor except to per form her sacred duties, or to carry in the product of her toil to the laceman's in the nearest town. "Sly child,thou wilt have to eat huttcn mucli" her mother said to her. "Thy cheek is pale and pinched, thy eyes are growing dim. Anton will slight thee." "Nay," Beatrix answered, "if I need arsenic to make me pleasing in his sight, lie may een leave ;me. .1 will not meddle with such unholy things. He must just take or leave me as the good God and honest toil have made jne." "But why dost thou labor so hard?" asked the mother. "I would fain help to keep the house," replied her daughter. "Nay," quoth the mother, "though 'tis little that thy pillow earns thee, it well pays thy clothesand coffee and potatoes." "I would take something in my hands besides my pillow, when I go to sit down in Anton's house," said Beatrix, wTith a .blush. It was little she saw of her lover at this time,and when he did come to see her he behaved so strangely, that in spite of his affectionate caresses she could not help suspecting sometimes that he wished to take back his plighted trdth. He looked with undisguised contempt . on the cot tage and its furniture, its scanty food and all its humble ways, 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 had been his wont, and had less money to spend; since now he very .seldom went down into the mines by day. Almost all day long he either slept or wandered over the mountains, chasing,or pretending to chase,the 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 Beatrix very sad, though none the slower for that reason did her fingers ply the bobbins. Night and morning beside her bed, and in the church (to which An ton now never came) she prayed the good God to hold her lover in his sheltering hand, for if he 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 fact is that Anton went every night to meet Kobold, and wandered with him in the bowels of the earth. When Anton was an industrious miner, Kobold had come to him as he plied the pick in a lonely working, and scoffed at his sim plicity for toiling so hard to earn so little. "Come with me to-night," the goblin had said, "and I will show thee where the land for many a mile is'' made of metal, which may be had forthe trouble of picking it up. Mine it on the sly thy self, or make a good bargain with others out of thy knowledge, as may best please thee, 3Ir. Honest Miner." Anton went, and beheld alight which made him eagerly inquire of the tricksy sprite how he could find his way to the spot again. But Kobold answered, "Oh, this is nothing come to our trysling place to-morrow night, and I will show thee iar greater wonders than these." And Anton had gone, and night after night he went on going, similarly be guiled, for Kobold kept his promise in showing each night a greater wonder than that of the night before. In this way, neglecting his business", his friends, his sweetheart, and his God, Anton had seen vast hidden stores of all kinds of ores silver, tin, copper, anti- .mony, bismuth, and who knows what be sides ; and the more lie saw the less in clined to work with his own hands he was, the more eager to take his ease and pleasure whilst the inexhaustible treas ury that had been revealed to him should be worked for him by others' brains and brawn. "Show me gold" he said to Kobold, "that I may at once take of it to gratify my desires, and have means io hire drudges to work my mine. Show me gold, and give me the clewr to that and all the rest that thou hast shown me, and I will trouble thee no more." t "Come again to our trys ting-place to morrow nighf,for the last time," answered Kobold, "and I will show thee gold." Iufatuated Anton was by this time in rag, and often very hungry. He had sold his gun, his tools, to supply him with daily bread latterly very little of it. But buoyed up by his golden hopes, he carried his head as if he had been a kaiser, provoking the mirth of his neigh bors, who had come to look upon him as a poor fool, since nothing had come of his mysterious midnight excursions. Beatrix grew sadder and sadder at the thought of him. Very rarely did she see him now, since, as I have said, he had given up going to church, and latterly also coming expressly to visit her; but each time she did see him he looked poorer and wilder than before. It was on a Saturday night that, he was to meet Kobold to be initiated in the se cret of the gold. He had to pass Be atrix's cottage on his way to the trysting place, and as he drew near, he noticed that her light was still burning. Beatrix rested on a Sunday, and with the pros pect of a holiday .before her, she could affoid to sit up later than was usual with her, although recently her hour of retire ment had drawTn nearer than before to the stroke of twelve. This was the motive for her lengthened work she had begun to fear that Anton would soon become utterly destitute, and she wished -to save him the degradation of begging his bread from door to door, by laying up a little hoard for him. While she plied her bobbins with this benevolent puqwse thinking regpetfully of bygone Saturday nights cheered with anticipations of seeing her lover, reverent and respected, at the church on the mor row Anton thought of her in a very dif feient manner. "Am I not a fool," he said, "to throw myself away upon so poor a girl? There is not a princess in all Europe for whom I shall not be a worthy match when I am master of my wealth- Nay, but Beatrix is a jjood girl I will not break her heart. Shall I stop and bid her cease from her absurd industry dazzle her with a reve lation of the riches in store for me? But no, it will be better to wait and find how I feel when -I have got them. I will not commit myself. Still I will peep in at her as I pass it is long since I have seen her." He peered in through the cottage win dow, but drew back in alarm when Be atrix raised her head. She got a glimpse of his face, however, and sighed to think how haggard it, once so handsome, had become how little love for her there seemed left in it. She put away her work, said her sad prayers, and went to bed3 whilst Anton hurried on to meet the goblin. Again Kobold was true to his word. He led Anton into a vaulted hall that blazed with gold. The fretted roof and 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, enclos ing, not nuggets,but huge blocks of gold, which gleamed through them like gold fish through crystaline water, or rather like suns radiating dazzling splendor through -most pellucid.suramer air. Anton now fairly lost his head, and danced with delight. When he came to himself, he was lying outside the moun tain, at the place of tryst. The Sunday morning sunshine had awoke him. It seemed pale and cold in comparison with the subterranean radiance which flashed back upon his memory. At the thought of that he arose from his hard couch, and leaped again for joy, although his heart sunk for a moment when he remembered that, after all, he had forgotten to secure the clew. "But what matters that?" he sai9, "Kobold will give it to me when I meet him here again to-night." He had forgotten also that the goblin had promised to meet him there the J mgnt ueiore jot utc uuir um. The bell was chiming its silvery "Come to prayers" when Anton passed the church on his road home. Worshippers were trooping in ; amongst them Beatrix, on whose kind face shame struggled with pity when she acknowledged the saluta tion of her disreputable looking lover. "Ha, ha!" thought Anton, "the proud minx will be glad, if I let her, to worship at my feet to-morrow sticking her pins into paltry, penny-winning pillow, when I have but to prick the ground, for gold to gush up in streams unstaunchable !" At midnight Anton was again at the trysting-place. Less and less patiently he waited ; but no Kobold came. More and more despairingly he sheuted: "Kobold ! Kobold ! the clew, the clew!" At last a mocking voice, sounding as as it came from miles away, replied : "I showed thee thecgold; I promised not the clew." A peal of far-off scornful laughter fol lowed, and then again the stars shone silently upon the silent mountains. For a time Anton wandered like an Azazel in the wilderness. At las.t he crawled, almost naked, and cold and hun gry, to the threshold of the cottage of Beatrix's mother. The pitying 'woman took him in. When mother and daugh ter had nursed him into sanity once more of mind and body, Beatrix gave him a pick and a shovel, a drill and a powder horn, which she had purchased out of her savings from the earnings of her despised lace pillow. He once more descended into the bowels of the earth, but only to blast and prize out homely iron-stone; and Kobold must have been little inclined for mocking laughter unless he chose to deride himself if he knew what a pair of peacefully joyous hearts were beating in unison in Anton's hut, when the mountain church-bell chimed on the first -Sunday after the humbled miner had proudly won, as a prize too good for him, affectionately exultant Beatrix for his faithful bride. Charles Camden, in Bay of Best. In Germany. Rent is cheap, and a comfortable room, 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 of the room costs about fifty or seventy-five cents per mouth. Fires are extra. Can dles or lamps and matches we must fur nish, and even soap. But one soon be comes accustomed to the ways here, and, knowing how to economize, gets along cheaply and comfertably: The rooms are generally arranged in suits or "flats." A whole flat will be rented by some one, who in turn lets out single rooms to others. We 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-fashioned' 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 homelateat night, finds himself locked out at the lower door, and has forgotten his key, all he can do will be to arouse the inmates of his flat," when. his landlady will throw out the door key, done up in a shawl, to in sure its being easily found. Axl Work and No Play. It is unfair to expect your boys and girls to work hard at home while they are attending school. To acquire an education is at this jjeriod the business of their lives. If reluctant to learn their daily lessons, they should sternly be obliged to do so. They should be taught alike, that from this there is no possible escape and that beyond it nothing is required of them. The rest of the day is theirs, and they should be permitted, in all innocent ways, to pass it as they list to frolic and play, the prerogative and necessity of youth, whether in the lower or higher animal creation. But through fear of creating habits of laziness, parents too often exact labor of their children after study hours, and thus, while yearning for play and needed recreation, under these circumstances work becomes abso lutely repugnant to them. "This is the way to make Jack a dull lad, and to es tablish the very 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, that he may the sooner be released. In this way not only are habits of laziness created, but of negli gence, and of a deep-seated dislike of work, which often cling through life. Swallow's. In Sweden, the swallows, as soon as the winter begins to approach, plunge themselves into the lakes, where they remain asleep and hidden under the ice till the return of summer, when, re vived by the new warmth, they come out from the water and fly away as formerly. While the lakes are frozen, if somebody will break the ice in those parts where it appears darker than the rest, he will find masses of swallows cold, asleep, and half dead; which, by taking out of their retreat and warming, either with his hands or before a tire, he will see gradual ly vivify, again and fly. In other coun tries they retire very often to the caverns, under the rocks. As many of these ex ist between the City of Caen and the'sea, on the banks-of the river Orne, there are found sometimes during the winter piles of swallows siaspended in these vaults, like bunches of grapes. We have wit nessed the same thing in Italy; where as well as in France, it is considered very lucky by the inhabitants when swallows build their nests on their habitations. Texas . A careful reading- - of our Southern exchange papers justifies the opinion that the Southern States will unite in favor of the "Texas and Pacific" at the called session of Congress,and that this issue, so important to them and the whole country, -will be made paramount in the organization of the House. Phila delpJiia Press. Bridging the Bosphorus. Captain James B. Eads, engineer of the iron bridge at St. Louis, and who has s successfully planned and constructed the jetties at the delta of the Mississippi river, has also made elaborate plans for a grand iron bridge across the Bosphorus, con necting Pera European Constantinople with the Asiatic shore. This project of the distinguished, engineer is now tor the first time made public through the cour tesy of Sir. A. O.Lambert, civil engineer, who has been largely connected with the great works of railway and bridge con struction in several countries of the Old World, and also in Nebraska, Montana, Idaho, and particularly in the Southern States. Mr. Lambert, in conjunction with Captain Eads, drew the plans, made the calculations and assisted at the sur vey. It will be seen that the work, when constructed, will be the most important of the kind ever completed, affording to the Turks, if that day ever comes, a ready back door out of Europe, in which they took up their residence some 400 years ago. "The bridge will be about G,000 feet long over a mile will have fifteen spans; will be 100 feet wide, and save the masonry and flooring, will be built of iron. The height of the roadway above the surface of the water will be 120 feet, thus affording ample passage-way be tween the arches for ingoing and outgo ing ships. The greatest feat of engineer ing will be the bold central arch 750 feet span over an eighth of a mile. This is the longest span, ever contemplated, and its construction will necessitate the most careful lobor and no small outlay of money. In order to accomplish this single portion of the work alone two great caissons will have to be sunk in over 100 feet of water, and this can only be done by coffer-dams and special con trivances in their completeness yet un known to engineering. The current at the points where these piers will rest is very strong, coming through the Darda nelles from the Sea of Marmora and rush ing to the Black Sea. The two central piers constituting the back-l;one of the bridge will be fifty feet thick, of solid granite blocks locked together with iron braces. A side view of this bridge will present below the highest points of the arches an intricate system of reinforce braces. It is in this part of the construction that great iugenuity, nice mathematical cal culation, and delicate mechanical skill must be employed. By an invention of Captain Eads a new feature will be intro duced, so that a train of cars or any other heavy burden will not superimpose its weight at any one point over which it may be at the moment, but will Jae dis- tnbuted throughout the 0,000 feet of the support, thus )ractically making it an easy task to build an arch of 750 feet. This is accomplished by uniting all the main bracing from pier head to pier head, aud connecting the mindr rods, so that the whole forms a complete system, mak ing one brace dependent on the other. The action of heavy - weights, of troops marching to a common step, of rapid lo comotion by the cars is thus instantly communicated through every foot of the supports, and erery part is made to do its duty. The magnitude of the under taking may be understood when it is stated that the main piers will be two hundred and seventy feet high from the foundation to the summit. The aggre gate height of the fifteen piers would make a single pier of halt a mile in height, or eight times the altitude of the ball on the top of St. Paul's Cathedral, London. It is estimated that the cost of con struction will not exceed $25,000,000, and the time to complete it six years. JSF. Y. Times. Turning the Tables. There is a story of a -noble lord who once gave his friend a golden snuff-box, in the cover of which an ass's head was painted. Not much flattered by this present, and wishing to turn the tables on the author of the joke, the recipient took out the ass and insert ed instead the portrait of the lord. The next day at dinner he, as if by accident, put his box on the table. The lord, who wished to amuse his guests at the ex pense of his friend, made mention of the snuff-box, and aroused the curiosity of those around him. A lady asked to see it. It was passed to her. She opened it and exclaimed, "Perfect I it is a strik ing likeness. Indeed, my lord, it is one of the best portraits of you that I have ever seen." The lord was naturally much embarrassed at the joke,which he thought was so hard upon him. While he was jeflecting upon the offensiveness of it, the lady passed the box to her neighbor, who made similar remarks about it. The box thus went around the table, each one ex patiating upon the resemblance. The nobleman was much astonished at this course of things ; but when it came to his turn to look, had to join in the laughter, too, and confess that his friend had got the best of him. Another nephew named Ward was playing with a Mexican sixpence, and put it up his nose. He attempted to get it out again, but it worked its way farther in, and gave him a great deal of pain He went and complained to his father, who held him firmly, and extracted the coin with a pair of pincers. The boy was indignant because his nostril was lacer ated, and ran to his mother to tell her of his sufferings. He said : "Mother, father is getting to be awful mean." . . ,-..', "Mean, child? What, are you talking about?" ' ' "Yes, I say mean, and I stick! to it. He tore my nose all to pieces because he was afraid he would lose that sixpence ! I wouldn't be so mean for anything 1" Harper Magazine. Science. The protective value of trees in thun der storms was considered by M. Du Moncel in a paper lately communicated to the Paris Academy of Sciences. Trees, he said, were all conductors of electricity, their conductivity increasing with the quantity of liquid they con tained. An ordinary house, howeverj 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 house in height. On the other hand, when a house is wet by rain its electrical conductivity is so much augmented that the author thought? the protective value of the tree might then depend solely upon its excess in eleva tion over the housetop. Although trees may thus shelter houses to some extent it is very dangerous for individuals to take refuge under a tree in a thunder shower, as has 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 in the military service, and other persons who may be interested in zoology, to co-operate with him in preparing a history of North American animals belonging to tbe mammalia. His circmar, which is issued from the surgeon-general's office,, suggest that observers should make out lists of the 'animals found in specified localities, with particulars as to the num ber of each species, when they come and go, and the places they frequent. Infor mation is especially wanted in respect to many species which are small and ob scure, and observers are asked to direct their attention to the habits of squirrels, hares, rats, mice, moles, weasels, gophers aud bats. Almost any intelligent person who is interested in natural history, and resides in the country, can add to the sum of scientific knowledge by aiding in this work. Some experiments lately recorded in Prance contradict the prevalent opinion that copper when taken into the system with food is highly poisonous. These experiments were made upon dogs. which could take as much as two drachms of metallic copper, or its oxides, a day,. ' without prejudicial effects. "In many instances," says the report, "the animals gained in weight. Small doses of the acetate, such as may be found in food that has remained for twenty-four hours iu a copper vessel that is not 'enameled,, do not produce any of those violent effects in dogs that are usually attributed to them in the case of man." However, we do not think too much care can be taken to keep copper out of food intended for human consumption. Mr. Henry Gillman writes from Waldoy Florida, to the Naturalist, that the beau- tiful and varied lizards, so numerous in that State, have the chameleon-like ca pacity of changing color, in spite of any thing that has been said to the contrary.. He asserts that they possess the power in, a remarkable degree, and describes a lizard which was of a yellowish-browm hue when upon the ground, but assumed the dull gray color of a fence rail when gliding along it, and changed to an olive,, and then a bright emerald green as it passed under the foliage of those, colors.. When this lizard returned to 'the ground, its original yellowish-brown was re stored. Some cartridges on a table in an apart ment in Paris were exploded recently by the concentrated rays of the sun falling upon them through a window glass, in which a peculiar formation, described as. an eye, made a burning lens. The Lon don scientific journal, Nature, says that similiar accidents are commoner than we suppose. In Algeria, forests are some times set on fire by the concentration of the solar rays' through drops of rain-water on the leaves; while in Europe, the. beams passing through the panes of sta tionary railway carriages occasionally ignite the dried plants or leaves near the track. One hundred and seven photographs, were taken, in the Arctic regions by the recent British expedition, and about fifty sets of these pictures have been prepared-, for distribution to foreign governments and institutions, so it is quite probable -that some of them will come to this country. They include views of the Pal ffiocrystic Sea, and ofthe cliff of pure .coal, twenty-five feet Wick, which was discovered near the winter quarters of one of the ships. This coal is particu ' larly important in relation to Captaint Howgate's proposed colony near the North Pole. A stuff surgeon of the British Army, Dr. Joseph J. Pope, read a paper on clothing before the Domestic Economj Congress, lately held at Birmingham, in which he maintained that white clothing would really be the warmest' in winter,, having due regard to the conducting power and thickness of the material of which it is made. He thought that peo ple had been led to wear dark clothes principally from motives of economy in the use of soap and water. The fourth comet detected by astrono mers this year is that which bears the name of the late Professor D'Arrest, of Leipsic, who originally discovered it on June 27, 1851. Its period of revolution 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 1864. It was first seen this year on the 8th of July, by M. Coggia, of Marseilles. m And now comes the honest historian and declares that Brigham Young did not have a good-looking wife in the lot.. Nineteen and not one handsome onel fr A .1 I &s '&A4fe'"-.. ' ' - .