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jf.i T H E PUBLISHED EVERT WEDNESDAT. O . C. T V i i H i K S T l S E ~ & SOJf, EDITORS AND PROPRIETORS. T E R M S : The H eukimek D emoceat will be sent to any person in the County, for ona year, for 81 oU in a d ran c o . I f n o t p a id s tr ictly in advance $2 00 ■will he charsei. i ’o those living out of the County it -will be sent postage paid, forSl 60 in advance. No paper will be pent out of the County unless paid for in. advance. No paper \nued unless a ll arrearages are paid, ex- '*■’ lublishers. i e m i 0. O. WITHEESTINE & SON, Proprietors, T h e U n i o n a n « i t h e C o n s t i t n t f o n . TEKMS:—$1.50 A YEARIN ADYAHOK K a t e s o f A c L y e r t i s i n g : One square, one week ................ . SI 00 One square, two weeks ......... * .................. 150 One square, three weeks ........ . ................ 2 00 One square, one month .................. . ...... . S 00 One square, two months.. .............. . 4 00 One square, three months ............... . 5 00 One square, six months .......... . ............... . 7 00 On© square, one year— .. ..........................12 00 ( tw e l v e l in e s make a squaee .) J6S?\A liberal discount will be made to those who advertise by the year, for any greater amount tha ji a sauare. B o o k a n d J o b P r i n t i n g Book and Job Printing, in all its branches, executed -ivith neatneps and despatch. Orders by mail, from responsible parties, will receive prompt attention. LOVE LIGHTENS LABOR. A good ■wlte rose trom her bed one morn, And thought, with a nervous dread, Of the plies of clothes to be washed, and more Than a dozen mouths to be fed. There were meals to get for the men In the field. And the children to fix a-way To school, and the milk to be skimmed and churned. And. all to be done that day. I t had rained In the night, and all the wood Was wet as wet could b e; There were puddings and pies to bake, besides _ A lot Of cake for tea. and h er aching head ly, as she said: new what good wives know, n no h a s te t o -wed l” VOLUME m v , i i . HERKIMER. ¥EDNESDAI DECEMBER 12, 1877. lUMBER 18. A* DETECTIVE’S EUSE : An Ad-renture in n Coinex’s Ben. During the year 1848 the ’ Hooded with counterfeit coin. ! of ns ill-looking a scoundrel as over es caped the gallows. Well, what are you doing here, nay , ’ good fellow?” he exclaimed, in a gruff ; voice, gi-ving me a shake. ‘Taking a stroll by moonlight,” I r e - ’ ’ ■ to retam my pres- 53 authorities requested that fcective might be sent to fer ret out the nest of coiners, I -was fixed upon to perform the duty. I had nothing to guide me. The fact, however, that Chicago was the city where the counterfeit coin was most abundant, led me to suspect that the manufactory might be somewhere with in its limits. It was, therefore, to the capital of the West that I first proceed ed. I spent five weeks in that beautiful city, but without gaining the slightest clue of the counterfeiters. I began to grow discouraged, and real ly thought I should be obliged to re turn home -without having achieved isult. One day I received wife, requesting home some mone result. One day I receiv a lett from my wife, requesting that I would send her home some money, as she v out of funds. I went into a bank sed her cheek—“ ’fwas the best jromecL _ X coming near, ' down, ' this: that you wei And the dearest wife In town.” iriia farmer went back to the field, and the wile’ In a smlUngranfi absent way. Bang snatches of tender little songs She’d not sung for many a day. “ I d o .” “ Areyo! “ Perfect ^ ibly well execute! certain ?” ly certain. They are remark- mtter was sweet See for yoursell be placed one of them in the gainst “Just think!” the children all cried In a breath, “Tom \Wood has run off to sea! He wouldn’t, I know. It he only had As happy a home as we.” The night came down, and the good 'vsdfe smiled To herself as she softly said: half-dollai weighed down It maids -wm wee the former. “ That is the best executed counter feit coin Fever saw in my life,” I ex claimed, examining them very closely, r in circu- THE CARELESS WORD. ------------------------seemed as light; It paused a moment in the air. Then onward -winged its flight. A n o ther Up c a u g h t u p t h e -word, ■ And breathed It with a hearty sneer; I t gathered weight as on It sped. That careless word in its career. A vehicle ol angi And then the word -was winged with fir?. Its mission was a thing of pain; For soon it fell like lava drops Upon a wUdly-tortured brain. umg jounterfeit monc here of the same c laimed, ex “ Is all the conn latioD^^ here of “ O, dear no,” replied the clerk, “ it is not nearly so well done. These are e work of NedL Willett, the famous 3-w York counterfeiter, I know ther ell done. Willett, JMe-w Xork counterfeiter, I know them woU, for I have handled a great deal of it in m y time. Here is some of the 3 y that is in circulation here,” he And then With burning, scalding ■ of care was hea-vie lotherpageofUfo tag. scaldtag tears w . jeless’’ A load of cam wa^heK rterm Its added weight, that careless word. , taking several half-dollars from a drawer. “ You see the milling is not nearly as perfect as Ned Willett’s, al though it is pretty-well done, too.”\ I compared the two together and found that he was right. I supplied the place of the three counterfeit half-dollars with good coin, and returned the former to my pocket again. A few days after this I received infor mation whioh caused me to take a jour- jr to a village situated about thirty s from Chicago. I arrived there at I at the light, and took up my quarters inly tavern in- the place. It yretched dwelling, a n d ' 1, th< man and woi think it has i 'old ever been my it by an Lest couple I lot to meet. HUNTED BY A »ubN .”‘ io “ hunt up the lions ropolis-^i. e., to intrude upon the 'acy of people distinguished in liter- ree and the arts—^for the purpose of atur am retailing personal gossi pors, met, a cotemporai deserved punishment tl eccentric but famous y< inrpoae le newspa- tells us, -with other day. An athor hav- look at his m fe, and, pering, I was informed in the. most -on- gracious manner possible that I could have a bed. I have frequently in thi course of my fa been obliged to put up -v i accom o d a tion, so I d id n< equanimity of temper tobed be iestroyd the miserable fare set before me, and the still more miserable sleeping apart ment into which I was ushered after I icluded soon after daybreak, and began to read in his wildly gesticnlatory style. By breakfast-time stock of CO] idly gesticnlatory style, ime he had exhausted mpliments, and felt fatigued. He ate the breakfast -with a-vldiiy, and led reading. Wearily did she recom count brought ig. Wearily the hours until luncheon .A mi,,. __ XI ___ ___ 1 -.*. The chamber was small in size, but was certainly well ventilated, for I could see the stars through the roof. The bed was simply a bag of straw thrown into- of the room, without sheets This last fact, ever, was n o t of much, consequence, I stood for me out of the windovi howev< as it was summer time and oppress i!” devot thor, exclaimin :ed tli 6 lunchec ivoured with ferocity, and once again took MS. in hand and read on. Dinner-time came. A gleam of hope inspired the wretched “ lion-himtreas.” But, alas, her very feebh stay was aoci genius, who, „ „ provincial reporters, did “ Ample justice to the assembled viands! ” “ He cannot go on reading,” she fondly whispered to P’ herself, “ after so heavy a meal.^’ But f he did, and with renewed energy, laugh ing and sobbing by turns in Im charac teristic manner. It was now midnight, and fearful drops stood on the brow of the -wretched lady. With a desperate effort, she suggested the propriety of re tiring, as she wished to go to bed, “To bed—capital idea!—and we can finish the reading in the morning.” But in stead of sayii spread an Im mense prairie, the limits of whioh I could not see. Tne tavern in which I had faken up my abode appeared isolated from all other dwelling! V abode appeared to be ings, and lave the croak o f the -tree-frog and the im of the locust not a sound rea a beautifueautiful nig] i was a b moonlight o bright that I could see to Iways mediaitely i t ^ e w h im s e l the couch, and was snoring peacefully. H is -victim took refuge in a neighbor's house. When she returned jn the morn ing, she found the author declaiining his remaining chapters to himself in the r literary enthusiasm his remaining chapw looking-glass. Her is blighted for life. “GIRLED TO.” The Springfield BepubltGan suggest a new coUoquial expression for the next edition of Webster’s dictionary. I t v invented by an anxious father on the i casion of an interview -with the principal of one of the Hampden County acade mies, where the co-education of boys and girls still prevails. The boy in the case had formerly been studious and promising, but for several months past y ears. I t ight, and so I read the smallest prin At last I began to grow weary, throwing myself on my pallet I was )w long 'akenel fling in the distance. I sup- poseitwasthepeculi^flity of the sound which awoke me, for it was by no means loud, but convtyed to me the idea of some one striking iron with a muffied hammer. I rose up from my bed and went to the window; the moon was low iu the western horizon, by whioh fact I knew it must be near morning. The sound I have before referred to reached 9 more distinctly than when in the ick part of the chamber.. It appeared to come from some^ outhouses whioh :e aitnated about one hundred yards m the house. Tow, I am naturally of au inquiring mind, and this sound, occurring as it did in the middle of the night in such a remote, out-of-the-way place, piqued my curiosity, and I felt an irresistible de sire to go out and discover the cause of it. - ■ - ■ - ire, as the sound continued, e -mth such intensity that T ,, ratify it at any price, put on my boots, the only article of re I had discarded, and cautiously opening the door of m y chamber, noise lessly descended the rickety staircase. A fe-w steps brought me into the lower ipartment, which I found entirely de- lerted. I crept quietly to the door, and lOut making the slight- promising, b ut for several months past had gradually fallen off from his previous standard, growing so careless and uh- E c h o l a r ly t l tion whethi his coU( •d, growing s ’ ’shat i t became a serioi ler he would be able to i sound still continued, and grew much mor distinct as I approached the place fror whence it proceeded. At last I founi was B C( while become man. The pi entrance examination. ta as a lad! ing alluded to icidence 1 t he had rdpal hav imiuent causi Lon, “ Yes,” broke i S s ’ whence it proceeded, myself before a long, low building, through the crevices of whichbich I could I ( 0 issuing. I i 1 through the the boy’s , Lco, ucuffe in the father, “ I know i t ; he’s got all girled p.” Which the JRepuhlican thinks is ig that downy and velvety period of m they ought to be permanent educi it is this premature effior- sexual period, whioh budding, downy s their teens, when they ought to b lay ing solid and permanent educational foundations, it is this premature effii escenca of the \sexual period, whi moves boys and girls, who ought to be kept down to study, to perk and prim and sidle, and play with each others’ f, ^ d vmte silly and badly-spelled r, and eat d ate pen< notes to each other, and eat d ate pencils in private. Bat then it rarely lasts lonj it is less harmful than tobacco or whi key, and there is na law \airfT hole, and, t half-a-dozei their coats' off and sleeves turned Tip pei forming a variety of strange occupations ome were working at a forge, others ere superintending the casting of molds, id some were engaged in the process of tilling coin. In a moment the whole truth burst upon me. Here was the ■ \ \ ■'wasiu search of, 1 wife evidently belonged to the same band, for in one corner I perceived them employed—^the man polishing off some half-dollar pieces just turned from the molds, while the woman was packing the coin into rolls. I had seen enough, and was about to r lasts long; return to my apartmf nt again, when sud- 0 or whig, denly I felt a heavy h; key, and there is n q law **agin” youths 1 shoulder, and, turnini ^ ihftt 806 nmkhaf fools of ihomsolYos, [ to my horror, f o p f ' Well, perhaps you’ll just take a ll in here, will you ?” returneff the ffiau, pushing open the door and drag- lee inn afterfter him,m. stroll in here, will you ? lushing open th< ing m i a hi All the inmates of the barn immediate- lodgings ; 13 safe in asked for a draft, at the same time h and ing a sum of money to pay for it, in which there were several half-dollars. The clerk pushed three of the half-dol lars back to me. “ Counterfeit,” said he. “ W h a t!” said I, “ dn , “ do you mean to tell me those half-dollars ore counter feit?” ipped work, and rushed they saw me. “ Why, what’s this ?” they all oxclaim- “ A loafer I found peering outside,” said the man, who had captured me. He’s a traveler that came to the tav ern to-night and asked the last time I saw him he was bed,” said the landlord. The meu withdrew to a corner of the apartment, leaving one to keep guard over me. I soon saw they were in earn est consultation, and were evidently de bating some important question. The man keeping guard over me said noth* ing, but scowled fiercely. I had not uttered a single word during all the time I had been in the bam. I was \ ~~y would ■m than laxim of doubt, be set- uiou, xui tuo uiuuaesb uuu dirtiest of the whole came forward, and without any introduction, exclaimed; “ Isay, stranger, look here—^youmust d ig ! ” I did not move a muscle, nor utter a “ You have found out our secret, and dead men teU no tales.” I was still silent. “ We -will give you ten minutes to say your prayers, and also allow you the privilege of saying whether you will be hanged or shot.” Suddenly an idea struck me. I re membered” something that might save ■ life. I burst into a fit of laughter, ■ical ' ’ fact, it was hysterical but they did t know that. They looked from one greatest amaze- not to the other in ment. . “ \Well h e takes it m ighty cool, any. how,” said one. “ I suppose he don’t think we are ic earnest,” said another. “ Oome, stranger, you had better say your prayers,” said the man, who had first spoken ; “ time flies.” My only reply was a fit of laughter violent than the first. they exclaim- course of my with -wretch- 3. n o t allo-w my to by \ ’ll dollars. i Willett! they all exclaim- Tou may bet your life on that,” I id, swaggering ' \ and paokh returned, swaggering up to the corner fle I had seen the old woman count 5 the counterfeit half- ed me. None of the ever seen Ned Willett, to thefe, and my swaggering, insolent ] had somewhat thrown them off Fortune favored me. None of the nen present h ad ever sei 3 reputation was well knor 1 you call these things well dom do y o n ?” I asked, taking up a roll of the mouey. “ Well, all 1 can say is that if you can’t do better than that y o u had better shut up shop, that’s all.” “ Can you show us any thing betffer ?” asked one of the men. “ I raytherthinkican. If I couldn’t, I’d go and hang myself.” Let’s see it,” they all cried. This was my last coup, and one on whioh I knew my life depended. “ Lookee here, gentlemen,” I exclaim ed, taking one of the counterftpit half- dollars from my pocket whioh had been rejected at the bank, “ here is my last job; what do you think of it?” It was passed from hand to hand, some saying it was no counterfeit a t all, others saying it was. “ How will you prove it is a counter feit ?” asked one of the men. “■By By weighingeighing it with a genuine w repKed. This plan was imi and its character proved. “ Perhaps he got this by accident,” I heard one of the men whisper to anoth- a genu one,” ■ adopted. Try these,” said I taking fromrom myy pocket.cket. the other two f m po All their doubts had vanished. * “ Beantifnl 1 ” exclaimed some. “Splendid I ” said others ivnen they had examined it to theii oatisfaction, they all of them cordially shook me by the hand, every particle of doubt having vanished from their minds. I carried out pi Mons were oocasionallj ing some of the tec business; these, howe leypfpleaa ler drink jstions. I made it, and it was not until morn- had dawned that we separated. ?he next day £ returned to Chicago, and brought do-wn the necessary assist ance, and captured the ■whole gang of counterfeiters the very act. This party was broken up forever, and most of them were condemned to serve a term of I in the Slate Prison, lave those counterfeit half-dollars lb , Some ques- dly asked me, involv- fceohnicaliities of the business; these, however, I avoided by stating that I was on a journey of pleas ure, and would much rathe whiskey than answer iduced, ted.™ still in my possi to part with them, for they were cerii^- ly the means of savinj in, and intend never for they weri ig my life. S weet Hoi /ike Home,” quoted a ] the other evening, after h e h ad remo’ There is no Place Eookland man evening, after he had removed nd boots and settled contented- Ms coat am ly back with the evening paper. But it 3 n o t long before two of the boys got io a big fight over a game of chec- quers, and were both effectually warmed with a strap ; the two girls began an animated jawing over the respective mer its of their beaus, and were sent to bed, while the Booklaud man, in endeavoring to separate the .dog and cat in a sangui nary conflict, was severely scatohed by, the folino, and thou scolded by his wife fes upsetting a flower pot ia the melee. Ho JWWJipends hia eveninga do-vm street. KOHKEYS TO ORDER. P r i n c e tl& a t T r c n M c a Sea, C a a a ta,in. Washington o] American Consular ofScer, in m leave of absence, relates which came ,.h i s official residence in Liverpool. A successful jalthy shipoivner, bavin taking than a very funny occurrence w under* his observation during residence in Liverpool. A and very wealthy shipoivm given more time to monoy-making tha to cultivation of the inielleet, was con sidered by his business associates a little “ off” in his orthography and kind trifles. He may have befieved, v ]3ogberry, that reading and writing ca by nature, and consequently lost no ti TWO DECADES’^ CJEEANGES. Glimpse of Kansas 'J?irenty Years A go—KemU»lscences;of the Batblinder’s Wife. Of every thing in the Centennial Ex hibition, I think nothing interested me' inch as the disph ItS there, -when only a small settlement larked the steamboat landing wh Looking small I by Kansas. I had been by ni in tb obje had sailed I consequently of such wild a from Liverpool 1 Lch o rder telling previously, such order telling what kind dljiargd was best adapted to the present XOI^I :eys. condition of the market. Amonj tilings the owner wrote for two which he wanted to present friends; but, departing from the usi mode of spelling the word two, he put it now Kansas Oiti its hard to realize the untraci my time, with only Indians and wolv for figures. I had been there before meet Mr. Fremont tin his return fro: different journeys; this time it was 1 stay -with him until the-last preparations were completed. I party was gone. Major ( mings was to take me the next day to Qne 9 t with the river steamer at ‘West- conne 9 t wit portLandiiling the river steamer at (now Kansas City), yed by a wolf, which < any rate, the master 100, as did also the There was much strange an ord< servif ^ was not case with :e ship OTvnoi’3. At : of the ship had it at Bombay. ishment at naster was ibey it. Accordingly, the Or, b u t the mas ices of d number of natives id, and in a few days 100 monkeys o: conditions wer< fof cured, and in a few days all c o lors a n d pre-vions co n d itions wei'6 fiGcuTQLl. There -were little black monk eys, with eyes like beads, bigger monk eys with whiskers, and baboons whose grave expression of countenance present ed a ridiculoM contrast to their undigni fied antic) h?dl The whole crowd chatter i fought in the cage which en provided for them in the ship, 0 of all efforts to keep them quiet. the crew. As soon as the motion of the ship was felt, the monkeys redoubled their noise, making a regular pandemo nium of the ship. Belays of them shook the bars of the cage without a moment’s . cessation for twenty-three hours out of 5nty-fonr, until the cage was aston- ^nkeys suddenly issue from the hold, scramb ling, fighting, and tumbling over each otherbher ass iff theirheir livesives dependedpend upon y a new h lent of ; a i t l de getting into the rigging in the possible time. From that ; had not a -moment’s nth misohic’ making foT best jok “ Or drunk,” said some. “ Well, boys,lfc I cried, s the first time, “ this is thi ever seed. What, hang a “ A pal—yon a pal ?” “ I ain’t nothing else,” was my ele gant rejoinder. “ What’s your name ?” “ Did you ever hear of Ned Wil lett?” I asked. *‘ Ypu.may Jsecertain of_that._. Ain’t loment pOoi peace. The ’OUsness ingf monkeys, ■with misohievousness unpar alleled, ■would ste^ everything they could lay their hands on. If clothes the highest ■poin [t was neces rything that was in the cabin swept I ., deck he had to lock up broom, for if he hid it ever so securely his back would bo scarcely tun fore an old ape, half as big as would have it going through the with an a s soon a 0 set a guard ovs] mshecl o r dried. ibe motion air of in- .. _ ______ - „ . . asthn.b£>x.: started to recover the broom the old fel low would drop ifc and dart up into the rigging like a flash. The cook had to keep the galley looked while preparing the meals, and, when he finished^ them and started on a run for the cabin, he first had to come out and drive away the monkeySj w h o , h n o w in ^ -wiiat was gfoing on inside, clustered around the door and perched on the roof, ready to snatch, as soon as the cook appeared, whatever he carried. While the men were ea their meals, they were obliged to themselves in the cabin, so persistent were the monkeys in their rogueries, while right over their heads was a row of grinning heads and a chorus of yells, screams,- and snarls, and a scampering and shuffling as the monkeys ran back ward and forw.ard between the cabin door and skylight, trying to find some mode of entrance. So great was th« annoyance that it was wifch thA greatest difficulty that the officers could prevent the men shooting their tormentors, and when the ship'touched at Aden, hffif oi the crew deserted, preferring to take their chances at this inhosi^itable place than to endure the persecutions of the monkeys. Finally the ship-reached home. She ------- - '-nailed at Land’s End, a once I had s e of -window-g] flS through 1 tains, the other to the lon^ se/ through the tropica, and into Bqually Benton MARYLAND AND OTHER COOKERY. G a s t r o n o m i c S p e c i a l t i e s o f A m e r i* can . C itie s —s;i.m t r i b u t i o n s JE:nropea.n t a b l e s . s at the dock when she i had been si^ the OTvner w/ rived. Ship owners generi themselves on the trim appearanCe their ships, and our friend was weak this respect, if in no others. What then was his astonishment to sea his ship’s rigging crowded -with knots or bunches, with here and'there a festoon where sev eral monkeys had suspended themselves a spar in a string, holding each by the tail! Everybody about the 1 viewed with wonder the approach- lectacle. The ship moved closely r berth, and presently her yardarms neared those of several other vessels lying at the dock. In an instant the monkeys leaped from one to the other, and began a tour among the forest of harbo and a grand I the rigging the harbor. The Chesapeake has conferred ^ Baltimore the title of the “ gastronoi japital ” of the country. The fish, tha ^itiles of its generous waters, and the traditions of the Mary land kitchen, have made Baltimore a Mecca toward whioh the eyes of all American honvivants are turned \with a veneration that dyspepsia cannot im pair. Places have their dishes and exult in them. New England poir pride to an unsullied record' of pi drecord ana boasts it much as G: its white-bait. In San J ■win the confidence of the Calife praising his little coppery oysters and saying that they remind you of “ Ostend lints with lumpkin- pies. New Orleans has its jiompano, and boasts it much as Greenwich does isoo you irnian by agagi hunt ensued, up and down from ship to ship, all over Tlmy were finally capturei I owner was furious,, '■wjj factorilj id. but was, after lation iulty monkeys were ng a profit ’ ioUars) abc suspensii that is of is lat they remind you oi ____ irrhs” or Dublins Burtin-Bindim after a 3” is I lere is an excess of copper in At Norfolk the sacred dish of honi natives” ®r aU the true 'taste of the is only acquired hr -waters of copper in •izing a profit of pounds (fifty dollars) above But the master of the ship de- all cosi dared that he never wanted to nother voyage with a cargo lonkeye .—WasMngion Cor, Mattforct, sail on cargo of live Tinies. T h e C ustom oe H is loudentondent writes:rites: “‘ tall corresp w Iking and thinlung of Turk/ Tnrks, I am remii lated t( CoujmDRY.—A As we were all to me cy 1 b Bdzoni, on day, 1823, at the Hotel Beam sxisting), at Marseilles, on the id of an anecdote re- n Shrove Tm 1 to Timbuctoo. As our conve naturally turned upon the Carnival, whose exit was being celebrated by the aal masks and mummers under our windows, he told me that a few. years before, at Lisbon, where the usual satur- nolia were being indulged in, a mask in the gay crowd threw an orange at the in, the face; upon which the Ambassador, after a slight de lay, proceeded to the Portuguese Minis ter of Foreign Affairs, to complain of the indignity thus publicly offered him. ‘O,’ said the Portuguese Minister, ‘such is the custom of the country on these occasions, and I hope your Excellency will pardon it, ’ ‘Be it so,’ exclaimed tho [T u rk; ‘ but I-Was about to add, when j you interrupted me, that I immediately man -who went to the drew my pistol and shot the fellow dead, Black Hills wrote Inwk to a local paper, for that is the custom of our country; saying; “ Offer/i premium at your com- and I have no doubt, from the remark ired upon the altar of honpital- aodest New the Lenton 3, asks his foreign friend if he ever aythiuglike “ our shad.” In Al bany you partake of “ beef ” sliced from a Hudson river sturgeon f a fish of which cutlets from the shoulders are served in ranoisco to exeellen , ___ ie sole. Chicago hs to speak of whiteflsh. In Calcutta one in-wardly consnmes -with cnrxy, B ird’s- !f.e3t Eoup, made from the gelatinous and insipid secretion of the sea-swallow, is tho dish of honor at Shanghia. But Baltimore rests not its reputation upon the precarious tenure of a single <hsh; it sits in complacent conten^lation of Lbes- the unrivaled variety of its local market (stifi calmly forbids comparison, the Chesapeake continues to give its terrapins, its canvass-baoks, its oysters and its fish, this may be done -with safe ty.; and among the pleasant recollections that a stranger may'have shall be. those of a Maryland kitchen in the “ season.” Visitors from the mother-country seldom overlook it and they have recorded their sentiments ever since the old colonial days. In these days of rapid transit it were strange if our trans-Atlantio cousins more about i t ; and Liver- of - ___ - — -apin, I packed in Baltimore. There COMBtUKISE I H EUIX, BEOOEE. 'eople Wlio JBiijoy Otliers? P r o p e r ty i n C o m m o n , a m i J t l a v e N o n e \ Of Tlieir Own, her trail — „ _ o ___ „ ----- --------- 1 , and the place was not far, the good major took me over for a “ pleasant change of ideas,” I was sorry for the wolf, “ still for aU sins of hers,” with the m o ther nature, coming back to her ruined place and her dead cubs. We came back b y -way of the deserrad camp whioh did not lessen my sympathy for the wolf; the ashi fire-were still warm. . alleviated the lonely impressioi evening, which closed in on the tieman moaning -with'a < the creak of Ms wife’s rc the only o ther break -fco the silence was glad to go off to sleep. ’While is young, that comes with surpri readiness. The house -was a sneces of log-cabins, set, some gable-end on, some facing front, making a series of rooms alternating 'with open places, haling only the connecting roof. These frontier bouses grow qilirements increase; strong willing hands are thei In a woodland on Darby road, in one of the most picturesque sections of coun try in the vicinity of Philadelphia, there is a curious little community or settle ment of tramps. During the day they lounge around fires of brushwood, made in a little stony hollow, sometimes sing ing, sometimes cooking, or mending, or ■washing, sometimes drinking. Occa sionally some of them, spurred by appe tite, or tired of idleness, go out into the fields and gather herbs or flowers, and bring them into the city to sell, and with the money received buy* whiskey, upon which they all get drunk, and make the woods ring with songs and boisterous laughter or savage cries. The size of this motley gathering v a r iea -vTitb. tb© fcim©^ a n d t b e seasons. I t hardly ever numbers less than twenty, and has reached to eighty. There are vomen, old and young. Near- ng, as 1 1 the fires fflen the weather is not unpleasantly y also sleep out u n d er the tree s ; storms of refuge in A CAKP-EIEE REVERIE. C h a r m s o f C a m p ir n g O u t —'W h a t t h e Cnxnper About, N o t the least of the charm of camp ing out is your camp-fire at night. What an a r ti s t ! W h at pi ' ' ’ ■” thr pictures are boldly own or faintly outlined upon the can- of the n i g h t ! Every object, every itude of your conopauion is striking and memorable. You see effects and iment that you would jarry away ^ iorm. How the shadows leap, and Aknllc, and hover about! Light and darkness are in per petual tilt and warfare, with first the one unhorsed, then tho other. Tho friendly and cheering fire, what acquain tance we make with i t ! We had almost forgotten there was such an element, we had so. long known its dark offspring, • lieat. Now we see tha-wild beauty un caged and note its manner and temper. How surely it creates its own draft and sets the currents* going, as force and en thusiasm always will! It carves itself a chimney out of the fluid and houseless air. A friend,’^ a ministering angel in subjection; a fiend, a fm-y, a monster, A CALIFORNIA DAIRY. An interesting account is given, in 6 recent issue of the Rural Press, of a large daity farm in San Mateo County, from whioh we take the folio-wing: It is the property of B. G. Sneath, manager of a San Francisco bank. The farm or ranch contains 2,300 acres, part of it extending over the summits of the coast range of hills or mountains, and part being salley lands on the sea coast. Kir. Sneath has something of a herd of Jerseys, but most of the 600 cows in the herd have been purchased; entire dairies in the vicinity having been bought, and the best cows selected for this. The milk of the pure Jerseys is mixed with that of the common cows to add to its color and richness. As a means of impro-ving its quality, a system of weighing the milk of each cow once a -week during the -whole season is prac ticed. This furnishes a good basis for deciding as to which cows should be re jected—a much better on getting the yield in tho fl son, as some cows which give a large quantity soon after calving soon shrink BO that they are less profitable than oth ers which give a less quantity at first. The record of a fe-w of the best cows is he best twenty-six and t- six weeks, in Ap cow gave an average of eighteen pounds for six weeks. At the time of the edit or’s visit, at middle of May, 200 co-wa were milked, the product of the day fill ing 260 three-gallon cans. The milk is retailed in San Francisco; Mr. Sneath ha-ring his own depot and distributing with his own wagons. Among the novelties of the establish ment is a reservoir in a canyon about a mile from the farm buildings, which now has a capacity of 50,000,000 gallons, and this can be doubled. This water is id, not onl than simply ill of the sea- a fm-y, a mrld, if i ■ohaij: was no heartburn- ablishment of for adians IOUS0 CO! This jor Cummings’, who thirty years superintend! there, was o f -------------- my room was added wing. A stone chimney built'up on the outside gave an ample fire-place, where the great fire of logs made a cheerful home light in the great clean My good “ A u n tK itty ” was in my room, and we were both fast asleep, when was awaked by a sound full of pain iw i l d ■ of a hill, where they, pass much of their time, they have kettles and pans and other household utensils, and a wooden i- tripod upon wMoh. to hang a kettle over a fire, and strung from tree, lines upoU which to hang their clothes to dry. They fare well. They beg from tho farmers in the neighborhood, who dare not re fuse them, and fear even to murmur at their demands. ‘ might result in t of home of the helpless offender. It is no wonder that a’ man should live in dread -with a gang of lawless vagabonds about hia door and no protection near him for himself or his -wife or daughters. This community seems to be governed 'by a m ^ ter and mistress—the latter an old, white-haired -wretch who has been known in the vicinity for years. Th— receive the allegiance of aH the othe and refuse admittance into the circle such applicants as do not for any reason please their fancy. Of course their thority is not always submitted to, i ready to devour the woi . ed. By day it burrows in the asl sleeps ; at n ight i t comes forth and sitS upon its throne of rude logs, and rules the camp a sovereign queen. Near camp stood a tall, ragged yellow ■birch, its partially cast-off bark hanging They ^ 0MOU to a great extent they are the rulers of the colony. The s'oeiety generally i inviting, and individually it is repul and grief, and wild rage, too—a sound familiar enough to frontier people, but 5w to me. It was the she-wolf huntiuf lually'it is repulsive, any low-browed, scowling, savage human beings one seldom meets -with in the same day. If an honest laborer looks contemptuously at them, the rn or mufcte ” rcb, its partially ci in crisp sheets or dense r< “ Thattree needs the barber,” said Aaron, “ and shall have a call from him to-night.” So after dark he toufllied a match into it and we saw the flames creep up and wax in fury until the whole tree and its main branches stood -wrapped in a sheet of roaring flame. It was a wild and striking spectacle, and must have adver tised our camp to every nocturnal crea ture in the forest. v'What does the camper think about when lonngiuff around the fire a t n ight ? Nofcmuoh—Of the sport of the day, of the big fish he lost and might have saved, of the distant settlement, of to morrow’s plans. An owl hoots off in the mountain and he thinks of him ; if a wolf were to howl or a panther to scream he would think of him the rest of tha night. As i t is, things flicker and hover through his mind, and he hardly knows whether it is the past or the present that possesses him. Certain it hush and solitude of the and whether he -will or not, ■ cubs; there followed -with it, as chorus, the cry of the pack of hound puppies—^they were young, and fright ened. As for me, with nerves already overstrained, a regular panic came on. I knew hunters, built fires to scare off ■wild things; but after Kitty had made a great blaze, a new fear Came. The win dows were near the ground, and without Bhntters or curtains.., ‘WhaiiitJihc bW e red to guide the wolf ! More 3n dogs, go through IBS as safely as ciroui eir paper hoops; so quickly hair-pinned over the windows, and by that time men’s voices, and the angry sounds from older dogs gave a sense of being protected, and , to be broken again by rough-coated, and was a speaking wolf, too, but not exactly like Bed Biding- hood’s although it was hungry. Gamp had only been moved about ten miles, ^nd a fast ride through and back before sunrise would give us another hour to gether, “ andwould Kitty make tea?” And so, with our early tea for the stir- rup-cup, “ he gave his bridle-rein a shake.” apd we went our ways, one into the midwinter snows of untrackedmoun- r to th e lonj scowl in return or mutter threateningly; if a curious stranger go too near their residence, they warn Eirci off, or if he laugh at their patched garments flapping in the breeze, they curse him ; if he al ia the bri lades t o ' their natio] off, or if he cents flapping bey curse him ; if he al- 8 bummers, they rise in and pour Sorth their indig- m. Jlow to break up this settle- m.entis a question which has agitated themmds of the farmers round about for a long time, Winteir does* n o t de- atiroy it. All last -winter the_tramps douIdTje tracked by the footprints dn the snow from the bam where they slept to the hollow in the woods, where they gathered together an immense mound of leaves and withered brush. No one is ■willing to order them. off. It is not safe. They have been tolerated until patience has given way, and ho-w to get rid of them is a problem yet to be Boivod,— Philadelphia Press. sels the :eat_ forest, 11 hia mus- ings are in some way cast upon that huge background of the night. Unless he 28 an old camper-out there will be an under-current o f d read or half fear. My companion said ho could not help but feel aU the time that there ought to be a sentinel out there pacing up and down. One seems to require less sleep in the woods, as if the ground and pered air rested and ] er. The balsam and his aches quickly. If one is ■with the intention of irrigating about 1,- 000 acres of the meadows lying on tho lower grounds. Largo quantities of New Zealand rye grass have been sown, and it is much liked. The dairy barn is 2i8 feet long, by 48 feet -wide. It has three floors, the lower, arranged inged for four s ; the second holding the „ d ground feed; the third _ ins for ground feed and cut hay, and a space for mixing the feed prepara tory to cooking it. The cooking-boiler COOMDS 400 \ rows of CO baled hay having bir The cook gallons, The milk is cooled by being run through a narrow space between two tin cones, with cold water -within the inner i the outside of the cones, a spiral course of 150 feet is pared, through which the milk i pass^,' has that id and refreshed him soon- the hemlock heal when the same inter] home; the bon dfTiim.— Jo'hh. Magazine. [ next day 1 interruption occur! ve^rawn it ail ighs irUSerm il out mer# A TOYAN OF ROSES. '* HIS TITLE AT COURT. Robert Heller, in one of his recent bewildering performances, alluded to the “ darkity and blackity ” of certain iedings of the “ Ein^ ” men o f this San Antonio, Texas, is like nothing i ■much as the little African to-wn of Blid/ that Eugene Fromentin comes upon in the midst of the desert, set behind ja ousies, among gardens and fountain!, smothered in roses, and sung to by nightingales. On a more enchanting spot the eye of poet never rested. There iss probablyobably nothingothing likeike it in America. pr n l i 'ou left s I. j-ii remmas ns oi rue general tur- ade that prevails in some of the Qtier towns of Texas, and the hilarious character of the local jailer thereabouts —let US say at San Antonio, whence comes the following sketch: Not long since a young man with blonde hair, a freckled nose, and other lersohal attractiveness applied — ,.,-uty-sheriff for a pass to iee his father, who he had reason to suppose was an inmate of the connty jail, “ ■What’s your name?” asked the officer, turning to his register. “ I ’m Jim M'Snifter, from Arroyo, Colorado.” “ What peculiar kind of playfulness has your feyther been amusin’ himself at —^murder in the first degree? ” “ Wusser than that,” was the M’Snif- terian response. All levity vanished from the face of the officer, who was really a kind-heart ed man, and there was human sym pathy, and perhaps a tear, in his eye as he turned over the page, and said, in a low voice. “ Worse than murder ? My God*! he must have stole a pony! ” “ I t was some misunderstanding about observed M’Snifter junior, his cowhide boots -with his ^ “ There are none o f the M’Sniffcers in jail. Maybe I ’ve g o t a capias for y o n .” “ I bleeve in the last indictment the old man’s name was spelt Bob White. The title of the suit is the State agic White.” “ Why didn’t you say so at once? mean that is Ms title at court. - - You Why, andlffl round cell. Just come along: J if tho old rooster hasn’t saw his hobbles Off.” ' skiing on his armor, the dep- idncted the - cro-wa princt across the s( the gro I want to been tryinj And bno nty-sherjff conducted the - cro-wn prince iquare to the castellated sum m er p alace of his royal parient.— Rdi- tor’a Drawer in M arpefs Magazine^ ferson City, fell into •wicked and covetous. He was-on the train, and near him sat. an innocent young man in whose eye there shone only the love oL-the human race. In band he held three ‘ young pocket and took id laid it between books—^very looking books. The innocent man reached into his pocket and\ out a ten dollar bill and 1 the leaves of one of the closed it up. He then turned to the ------■’ihat *5 of t books then turned Joplin man,\\ and, with a smile that was ’ told him he pool receives many a orate of backs, many a barrel of choice oyatezB, and many a can of terrar*- ----- '— 3d in 3ently been dinner md Faris a t which e So now apands hia cv« J o k S e r a ld A E bntcoex 1 upon the table came ftoi W» 3L Laffan^ in Setribner^ \M a ddelphia e: cunningly £r : :jQd im America.— • up, m, a . very childlike, told him the choice of the threi iend from the he-could, have books for $6. of lead S ays the Don’t put too mud Chronicle.’ jh faith in Coldwa- Our friend from t: black jack saw the edge of the ten dollaroUai hill stickingiking out'ofut'of thehe endnd off thehe hook,ook, o t e o t h and thought to himself, “ That fellow ain’t BO sharp after all. I ’ll just tajpo lurehased tad and J’ hand placed on my saying; “ Offer/i premium at your com- and I have no doubt, from the re/ ling my head round, I ing fair for the biggest fool in the coun- , you have just made, that yOU Will < ^ myself ia tlie grasjj [ try, ana TU try ancl get ttiere ' iQUlt it,' ” S ai “ D( t e r m &u. viumi>n.Jiuiu.iiiu,oi.viuj.uYvmiei> _ Michigan, got drunk, fell from a third- off the end of the bill andTpasfcsc stoty window and killed himself. That’s , the edge of a leafi—DaKas (Texas) in - ^ a Goldwater ^ tel&genoer^ it X in,” the book, a n d oh, no, he wasn’t mad an d didn^fc cues around when he found that, instead of a ten dollar bill stacking from the end of the book, the meek looking eight of an inch ad pasted it to ..V vv../ *... .jook, the meek Will&tai Mhrtin,of Ooldwater,' fraud had cut about the Americ! Four days\ago you left snow under th windows at home, now your room is full of roses ; and as you go out and about, you find the town one wilderness of roses, a very vale of Cashmere. Bl-osh d creamy and blood-red; the tie Scotch ro s e ; the superb : Niel; the shining Lamarque; the beau tiful great tea-rose, hundred-leaved and full, spotless, waxen-white, and damask; the heavy-headed Persian rose itself— they hedge gardens by tbe quarter of a mile together, lattice every verand; climb and lie in masses of bud and bloi Bom op every roof. It is a long red roof that,,bending slightly, forn roof of the veranda. Most ( the houses beneath it are long and low and narrow, of a single story, and but one step from the ground, * built of i-colored stone that a t ---- cream-colored stone th wc and hardens in the air, and that the south wind or the east* shall blow in every room—the wind that blows orks easil; place/ no vestibule; you e the door, and the other rooms opi flows a swift, clear, artificial streai water some four or five feet wide, banksanks nowow stonetoned water some four or b n s i , growth of the blooming cam ’ led lea^ of le, the id -with and immense arrow-headed leaves size oi an African warrior’s shield, and now bridged beneath honeysuckle arbors,— JSarper's Magazine. EOUDIN’S FANTASTIC FOETFOLIO- I t i s a n axiom in natm-al philosoph that the contents of any given receptacl m u st b e smaller than the receptacle. N juggler ever seemed to defy this phys: cal law more amazingly than Eobei Houdin. Bos \ fantastic portfolio ” has never been surpassed, thoi— ----- *--■ well known nc Houdin’s qni< so wonderful, his flow of small-talk so imceasiug, that he could force your at tention in any* direction he chose, and in this way make you look at one thing al- j your: mind that, niy keepyoui He came upon „ „ - his £urm what seemed to be the usual large flat lortfolio in which sketches and engrav- igs are kept. - He placed this a a sort of camp-stoi out of this portfol thpug] _ . made up your this time, you would certainly eyes fixed on another. He ei lus little stage carrying under ] med to be the u po in; and out of this portfolio, barely an inch thick, he took the following objects, closing the portfolio together -with a slam, to show its thin dimensions, be tween the -withdrawal of each article. , To enumerate; first, several engravings; second, two beautiful bonnetSi one made of black velvet and brimmed with a long white feather, the other pink satin -with a wreath of flowers on it. (In Hondin’s time ladies’ bonnets were worn extreme ly large, with capes, long strings, and volaminous face trimming, which, of course, added to the wonder of this trick.) Thirdly, he took out four live doves; fourthly, three large brass sauce pans, one full of water, the second of beaita, the third of fire and flames; fifth ly, a bird-cage, in which canaries were -•“-nping about on perches; sixthly, a about six years oldl— OUve Lo'gan^ Magazine^ SILYBR SPRINGS raFLORIDR. The beauty of Silver Springs often called forth the supposition that they were Ponce de Leon’s Fountain of Youth and Immortality. Instead of the gurgling, gushing volume of water, which, in imagination, I had pictured bursting forth from the base of some wooded MU, I was surprised to find stretching out before me a sheet of trans- water, motionless as the branches majestic cypresses that enoom- it on either side. The unruffled surface of this miniature lake in no way suggested that at a depth of eighty feet below was issuing a volume of water which furuished the means of navigation to the steamboats of the Oekla-waha river. - The scenery bordering the water was one of that peculiar type of loveli- 83 found only in tropical The land, receding wii’ elevation from the almo of water, was thickly overgrown down ta the very brink with the dark, green fo- liaged magnolia, the tufted palmetto and cypress trees, which spread their limbs out protectingly over all. The peculiar and unique beauty of the T3pi-ingH can o-nly be conrprohvuUcd Hy gliding to and fro over the waters. So^ perfect is the transparency that objects' are as distinctly risible on the bottom of the deeper as on the shaUower portions. Eighty feet below the surface can be seen, as distance there emitted by a volume which issues from beneath rocks. In shallower portions similar eruptions of sand and shells indicate tho presence of similar but smaller springs. climes. ^ ith a very slight almost circular sheet a ledge of 8 soundless. That which: That which most enhances the beauty of this spot is the effect of the trans mission of lighi through the water. O n e can ing beui [lely blended bow seem to embel- rhich the waters rest. lighi Hues as varied and as c as those of the rainbow lish the soil upon whic . compare the entrancing eolor- lueath to nothing other than the mosaic floor of some grand cathedral. Palmetto leaves, egg shells, and ale bot tles, sunk by tourists who had preceded ns, lay scattered here and there vested in iridescent hues .—Cincinnati Gazette. BO W THE DARBIES LIVE. Getting Strong and. ISearty on. Xligiity-oiie Cents a TPeeK. Itt hasas oftenften beenen a matteratter < ■onder I h o be a m of wom to many people how so many idle : groes subsist about this city. We h/ and old negro man who visits onr premi- id performs a small [uarter. We w him the other day as to his finances and subsist- “ How are you getting on Uncle Aleck?” said 176. “ Ah, thank God, I make out to get ’nuff to eat,” said Aleck. “ Sum days I makes a quarter, sum days more or-less, an’ sum days nnffin. B u t indnrin* the week I gets ’nuff to buy ’visions fer me rmd de-ole ’omun.” “ Well, Uncle Aleck, how much pro visions do you buy, tell me exactly. I want to make a calculation ?” Aleck then gave the following items asciis weekly purchases for himself and -half peel; meal........................................cents. and one-half pounds meat. .................. 15 pint molasses........................... ............. 121-3 —-Id sugar .................................... 12 1-2 p o u ^ b utter ......... .. _ __ offee................................................... 16 1-2 Total.................... . ..................... ...... SI 1-2 I asked him if he had plenty. “ O la, es, massa ; my -wife is a good cook, I 3 II you, sah, she is a good cook. She used to cook for ole miss in slavery time and we have a good table. I ieU yon, sah, we lives as well as most colored peo- ’ 1 1 knows o f ; as good—well, as der sk-drivers. We have ‘greens’ from our garden, and sometimes I eats de :avy and leave all de meat for de old And this is the way the darkies live— by doing little jobs. A small amount of meat and bread will subsist them—^many times some of them have bread alone. Many idle men, who do little jobs, or follow politics, are supported mainly by their wives at the w£tah-tub. It would astonish any one to count up the money paid out every week for washing.. Wash ing, cooking and nursing babies sup port a large portion of the negro popu lation of Selma, This cheap living makes the cheapest labor in the United States, but not the best citizenship,— iSslma Times. T ee pianos am public schools of I of maw a the Perkins Institute, wba luad to ho capable of peculiar a kt occupation, Their Hck of sight makes them more dependent on hearing, and the latter mwa thereby gaioa iik 4ohlsiaey.. ___ .
