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She had lived happily What Newspapers do or Nothing. fog A ma: of thBE‘Ol’fll Atlaritlc, published 'Our readers will he: intorested cal p Howden, in a London. fournl..and .in the i mia t 3 Hee, PRs, -- 3 CR -AGANTA:- n mon. t . 2 «'~ cooritngrawm, i. \LIFE INSURANCE. : Who, --ree a- Tam “L Mutual Life Insurgnce Otimpany or NEw York. Mos, H4 & T4 Brondieny. ¥. 6, WINSTON, Prost Cok > Bis Lis Angurance.Company in tha T Stater. rangBstatoms., 00 , LeRoret aos - tan amount °- anntat modire Winn declared tin torgsst Dividurt-of any Amer- o Am'wx'nw3 Abe : = Jean Company- ap xoomare ooc: g28,000,000.|. \ and promeh you aig! me, - h mn-wvalfiimm ahighon, *\ mut as pables to tha ness .., .- Man, opraliid above his O Surest his folloma then Masters, piless, lordaporstember ® mratyoue mo Bino gremen~ . Man by labor, fhuing . ~> v ! Man by tBooghtend men by (ams, ejont phi to |- . / Therp areiféirh emproflered coomms, There are MBn ple ~~ <> ~ mfiuhfismfixflu thie, \ There rie caters on the aod who coitity by Wout, sot Loves and 704 iind mo For yohime all velo dlatingitie Ave an in the tew - Tolling banditatone ate builders --- --6fa-maittats'ee : ited Iexinins ir A , untl! (ig time when ThoDnts 0 may gr 1 of Alyn was sent to NetherJands as Governor by Ki ip of Spain. ' Her rive Elan: tote to Sst weight OP U lfinfigfim | ally whogeopinions oxeited were tried. wha Abo-description which the womnn gaye, of the evening on whit? Alvals ordatitres chime that! to their. peasafal home? oer their beads; but a few noth« eto tot, sald r ms-ehor6 hour Thig fit disband nfid‘hmy home, and was made, thelr way, some to nd, some hither mfimmy, work aod Instrurients,\ gho continued, pointing to the needles and the thread, #1 foundin | myspooket whon Tawoko next day { from my stupor. Thanks he to God! so long an I have.these I shall not- need, to bpg‘.‘ \Then wg wandered from place th plage, and when we rest, ed I- worked; everywhem my Inco wis gla taken for money, t far from here my streng! gave out; Ieonld move inplther band. nor foot, and when the laat of my laces were gone the door was'shnt in our faces, for I had nothl more to offeé. | Sick Ana wearledalmost to death, we reached. this house, and bud you, mistress; nosj unworedfi\ H is. th teful yercome 'by her emotions, the we man could say no more. When mgr”: while she Peg and Gassed onthe name: ' to pour er thinks hor benefactress, how! her hnsband\ matle fed mquflnd Plame fell before her eyes, how firo was set tothe roof fig to mand hersalf,-ond began eager.. The folowing artiole should bo read ant pot- lered avell'by. every man' 3&7“ fo tion..enables papers aro mmfioflymmrqmmnnfl ¢ n i Spites who Invest an emipém t 0 1436115341ng um? thought.. to ..gorvice for. less g at? 'dead-hoad e Indsthart any othef clase. © '~ > . Thay, mrodib snidercinng: Tonger: get off-nag! T gro o r ; ' Victim UF ed confide 'an an mafia go forth Into the 'world as a housbles | ’wlt§ghoflim $109 '%?aqx;’1yuy-1f wandotor, like. thousands of other families. who | prifiter's n soar wi there to.erpond. 2 dats en xd order m er. to.expend a.doks $2331“; I nggsxgqr an $55 ons billed; r 0d; ay ims tho frintorsyoh and the fi‘wfimh . Ho@ many-profecslons and: political reputs: o fut 'the q equited.pen 9 6d ftort * How maby gfi: 3,90 towns and ollies hive bught Into notice and puffed Into pros- by t‘spreaa- thmnym mkgmdng n gu al operation, wo) sve founder but (”R‘s lees:- that moves the world? In ahidr ivhntbmhch of Industry afd activity has not béem srid dbfended by “35?“ Yo has tendered a who e more ble gnaw for its service? The bazaars of T. fas 8 ow! rear- 2, M AAD at alt tow “3,55 r tive opera ® on +- WJit-em ot Aicoaran cine jal a t . How Yor Omizht, Boston, Nothern, Harlow an ? rms ~ m s Ad andt In Afbany at ©* £ MPI whl the Hedged wire, Bosion, wn6 E Ue SATA an erstve ~*\ mals apear tit P, cA o ra as ta Sistas drat rains to M1mmm Boor holed vis. Ethan-tr: ¥ailey itail corerentne _ _- ing Mplrvm albany connects witn Stores st . Mam! t an A a . am At Ban Jilomw fur Oher, tog beints: 'At Schatiaets Court Toure, for Olfbon, Mores- foal |- tetent B 3 sound het more mat Tik. ae tages an aia lant 10 Sh on aigire and250 > Aimaal Prantl tes Jasinazy, 1968 FIRE INSURANCE: ~Home-Insurance-Gompany - - ate, Hamrore le. \At bel Fereuson SW Cous 8. Fach Bor. a. Torkale - . Nem wah asia Mor berterite, Acids wish, Oroens, toto The at aso to and from New Yo carited lo r Aistrecn Depotsby Torss.Gam __ conrerea ai of all taing. J. M. uB roomap? y (o ® sem bsbBean® :Delaware Literary Institute ! ._. FRANKLIN, DELAWARE CO, N. Y pring Term bogins March 91,1068. Bee adractisement inthis, and for coll Intormmation ddreas GsO, W, JONES, A. X, Pes ipl, Emmmhool\ the chesport Bu E. M. HARRIS, Attorney & Counsellor at Law, ocorgastows, otssao CO., ®, T. Offtce in the Tron Cand. 8. 8, EDICK, Attorney & Counsellorat Law, *- Edor®stows, 00., . T. Ofice forthe Iron Clad. PARKER D. Fay, Attorney & Connsello t. Ricartetb K. v, Attorney &. Counsellor st Law,| axp Hepa» conoudanrt o 0.0 Attorney & Connsellor at Law, A n x. . pet c J. X. . t , mrmmcomenor at : Luz TLC, _ Stoney Counsellor at Law, n: Sboraurowss, 00. w. +. - -_ bw, . Fr6y & Counsslior at Law, ~ coopRestowe, a n . {a $mmmumamm : Attorney & 'Oounsellor at Law Astdrngy , ansellor at Law, av o imd'figmanblg. ! thise Woeceeres, orsnao co, n. v. __ _s_ f ©. 1145 &i BROOKS, Attorneys & Counséllors at Law, JccorkzEtaWs C0. x. v. . ps 2 2 2 . \OMe In Wenis Arevsitloc, [asd - - ELVILCE KEves, « Attorney & Gomsollor at Law Poa Mm Ei gast ToC urn & i. A. BASSETT, , +-PHYBICIANS_ &.4URGEONS, -# . Db twn, 0 0 0 tice boars, Tesstay su ¥riey sift. rwanisworrn;s'. \*~ / Coope y Ths COxPany. F Gn ied ire Pin ran Per mp5? i ;| CAPITAL - - ~B2000,000, R ASSETS, $3,705,000. J, E. secs \Gita a. mantis Pres F. &. LEB, Agent, Conperstowhiy Bc... Continental Instrance Company or Naw torn., * | Chpital and Assets, $1,668,000. Three fourths of the not profits are returned to customers. T7. It. LAMPORT, 0. T, HOFB, Provt. \F. A. LEE, Agent, Cooperstown, N. Y. Etna Insurance Company, or Ha®tPoRD, cons. WMRPDRATED 1819, CHABTEH|PERPETUAL Paid Up Capital - - $8,000,000 Amount of Assets - - '84,650,088, Losses paid in 49 y'rs, 821,872,072 1. 3, BBNDSE, Prost. 4. GOODNOW, Rec'y. F. A..& F. G. LEE, Agents, Cooperstown, N, ¥. Hartférdr Fire Insurance Com'y or naktronn, oon. ‘ CAPITAL & ASSETS, $1,575,000 GRo. M. OOlt, decty. GBo. L. CHASE, Prosi. 200 4. 4. LEE, Agent, M. T, vax p. pares, GEN'L INSURANCE AGENCY, FIBA HUILDTNG, Cooperstown, N. Y. 1:er irs mac’s. rieg axt acotownzan rouicms th Tu® routowno ringe cuass coxpakizs: our, Hertford, Con.. t os op abet ponto, ”s‘flfl IIIIDAIJl-l few FOTHAM NRF, Hes anf n.. Abele, n Jons Menta, Par Ranougs wht Sock aptinat uflifith9m ngfii‘fl: Rew York... Neela |.... Re Sil t 1 wor “Wwwuué‘é‘fi 'fi“ wine Brock Insurance NEW! mama-um Libers commissions pai enn - FABMEBS, INSURE IN THE AGRICULTURAL LSSUEBANCE COMP Y, OP WaATERTOWE, ®. Y. A Btock Company Ratiraty Devoted to your Intersata. Capital and Surplus ...... -.. $353,000 00 4, 0. Preet. TEAAO NUMDON, Seo. I. E. BYEVESTEB, Ag't Cooperstown, . Y. Kmngka Farmers ! appr Farmers'.Jdoint Stook \Insurance .css .. . Company, CP ® ax, Caxton O., ® Y. - |__ EIESET DaBOLL Preatiet a, pp Seereiam) dst \ “FEM ant,Goperstonn, m. T. on orr Keyes and Carr's Hotels, Hafiz!” W Hin fumingg’rm Fest rewrand from Mew York, and hss ~~ ~FORCSALE -- br rew york. ~- -t-; cetme muss bee. i Fea lmfimw‘mw a it Ty the aweat of clbes's forebeg Eiving dity to refolos, White tha poor man's outrweed freedom Vaine hited up his velco, Truth and jostion ave etomal, . Bomn with loveliness and light, Becrat whonee shall never prosser, Wailathere to a may tight; Gof, whose world. haard wolce is singing Bbandiess love to you and me, Binks oppression snth its titler, 'As the pebbles of the se. The Sagax benson, Row the wioter witids retire, And the winter tse 1s brosking, ang the oid folks by the fre .. flil h augur mial Mr bas PT the wild and windy arch, T w hae- Tnat 'steglime to mand the arch '> aud go scour Sho pusty kettles Time to ret the hat to rights,\ \ \Where too girle and bays together Tend the furnace dro 0 nights 27 the roush rear weather; ~~~ BlinBPho finest news-: ~' » And to punch the «pile so bollow, For the fnow is thiwingo® Aud the super thaw muss follow and the bret Ofer the stubble will bo wustur, Bo 's time to tap the trees * and to rot (he axe a naing. Ob. the gisddest time of year Ts the merry suger waking, When too nvallows Arse sppetr . mmmwug waking . POPULAR TALES. omen {rom Brery Aaturdap) |_ MISTRESS BARBARA. =-- a+ 'The rain beat against the round green window panos, and the wind whistled shout the angles of the house, but in the room wll‘llln all was it. “in thig room, at the haad of the g?“ table, which filled almost the whole space between thr firo-place, and the door, sat the master mingr, Ghrlgwphm' Uttman and bis wife Barbara, with their staiwart sons and danghtars. . Below them, on aither gldo, sat Uttmap's workmen, with their wives and daaghters, and also farmers and other town folks. . For, whoover in Annaberg, on a Baturday night; ada mind to go up to Mnstor Uitman's house was. sure of a hearty welcoige, At such times the bowl passed quiotly from hand to hand, quaint stories of horrid led sthd the fair Magelone svoro'told, ond fovial glean dnd moving balladssung; while the spinning-whools buuxmorruyfiho lads Jested snd flirted with the maldons, - Often it was. Jato In the night be- fore the meetings broke ap, and the light-hoart- 6d guestewent fome. | Buton this ovaning-the 15th of May, 1561, It stood in the ealonder,-It was so q “batman?” efien Labia) 113,118 3,1le 1d plataly hear without, the utonoton a sfluor'gbe TED. Master Christopher, with arma crossed over his chest, sat lost drought. A tear trembled on the good wife Barbara's The men-hang thelr heads, fie womens' hands Jo thet figs. nowwhocl gamma“1 no ond hit of tel a al or singing a song. 018“ sudden, guitar ‘zhflmpfi‘er roused him= salf. - \Children woure letting onrapitita droop. That will never do. Iom heartlly ashamed { have to own ‘tbnl Lt'lfofig: o giv- to gloomy thong? mg‘mm, ow can one be with mum? at the door?\. sald the gray-haired miner, Ohlen- trud. - \'But you do not & oa you feel a}. hear. - You only speak to.divert our thoughts, \Good father,\ refoined the mustet, \do you despair because ono learned man from Dn'gdnn bas falled to Ad what wo wisht | With God thesocond, for whom [have sent our Kin find ~nost week a now vein of fllver or cof- balt. - Anna. Marte, sing a balled for us-thi about mighty falt. Winn—Mara blentrad's daugbter, who, op recount of her pleasant mien] was the chief piel ngstress of the little circle, ylelded this tim tat unwilfingly, to the masters wish, Ho could abo , with want and sorrow draw» Jog nigh (531i 3mm: Buttbo good maze ter wished It; so sho began to sing: \Thece once did lire a goodie rooth woo mall hie mie love foes: «rats roofa-\ lay. the weeping toot her (dhgr awn for ber. . \Tt will not do, Master. _ The maiden is in no tane fof How wxmflntie bean she 1:1ng eld no 'more, an a s harve Sign?! animate cattle, we. have but a dred} progpect befote us\ | '- The gloomy looks of ail showed what a mad echo his words had found In their breasts. . Mis- tress Barbara covered her Jace with both hands, fnd Muster Christophe tefoined, but with a trembling. voloe: \\Let us only hape that fie other learned man from. Dresden find new ings.\ . m‘BEtEeT-Efmifiook their heads. Tn tats, ft mflnsmiflmgamd no vnmdtk s; the brave Arita y it; mmmmolmmmmma were really worked.ont 1 | Thera sas nothing left but to starve, Tor up among the mountains there ons shift and then fato knither, and Bamm god talked a grest gxtaopallbope.. Their %.dm atormh actins ‘flfi -| s&-you- gny;-this-can - on , 'Well, why do youstop before you have well tree, begun. v to tha rignt and. orthd AB arbara, who was no friend to such demonatty- flags,- qaléldy interrupted her b¥ th figpmon; \86 you have beet making lace? T not no- ticed what you were: doing.\ 'The Brabant wo- man laid the ball of thread and the neadleb with the work upon them before Barbara on the table, and sald, \It is not sach as you wopld wear, mis- tress. You have there on your 'kerchibt allken lace, guch ns can only be made in Brussels, and which is fitting for a. lady of your rink. But the wives of the tradesmen love algo, and for them we make thik linen lseo of ours.\ *Prue, said Barbara, \when I bethink mo how it !a my home, in Nuremberg, I winst low that you are right No .woman of rank would condescand to wear linen lago. But if, aw little you must be able to make by yout en laces? thé people who buy them cannot mfg? pay much for them.\ « \That deponds upon how you look at it, mfs- tress. This work gupported us In Wayre, from childhood} we know not want, but ware contant- ed ungwpé. Nor, believe me, did we liye e, In 'Wayre ased each year put aside a little money for hard times. And when once half the placo was burned, and another time n, the lightning struck our tower, and only able to butld It a um with our asvings but had something: left des, though all of that, alas, Alva's mon have token now. The people in Brussels, to be sure, do not know what to do. with all thelr money, but we poot Iimen .| lase makers have, never envied them their rich- es. And thin, what an advantage our work has! To make the silken Ince, one needs tong practice, and a t deal of skill, but a chm can learn to mako our linen work, Chil- dren of five years old make Incein Wayre. See, only 1 what can there be caster than this? First Llook at the pattern, then loop the threadaround one of the needles, next cross one needle qver another, ' thus-and the thread loops of Itself about the hook, and-look, there. is a beautiful mesh made already ! But younre weeping, mis- treas; what grieves you!\ c Her hands folded above her heaving breast, her eyo raired toward Heaven, Barbara stood, and, with. tears of thankfulness and joy, said. \Yea Heavenly Father, as thon willl In Thy mercy have I trusted, and Thou bast sont this poor woman that out sadness may he turned to rejolcing, and happiness may return into our house, nay, into every home in this hamlet! Romain with us, dear woman, L will beto you and your children. friend, sister, mother! sorrow reigns in this: place, The minors' ham- mers rust, tho cattle aro dying. and fields lo bur- ten. | My husband gives all thatho ean, but of whut avail aro the gifts of one, when so many need? Teach us how to make this lace. We will work night ond day, and send the strongest through the land with our laces, and eo porhaps once more joy and prosperity may return to- us; pleasg God, we, too, as did you In Wayre, may Ln able to lay up a little against the time of trouble shal comme upon us nguin -say that you The strangbr grasped the hand extended to her understood Barbara's words, she conld not fall to comprehend their friendly meaning. Next morning all the people of theilttle ham- Jab—only children you than five years were left 1102 ndT—h—cnmlu to . a; an; Manta“! éggmjmm est e miner, who 3321's scheme withon't a mplfimmunlmw to them Barbara's plans, They were recaived with astonishment and doubt, and looks of in- credulity and suspicion were cast upon the Bra- bant woman and her children. To this, howover, tho worthy pair pald no attention. Needles were prepared, which the sthith provided. with hooks, and Klaus wag sent to Dresden to buy thread. An artist, too, caiie thence to draw the pattorns, ond the lessont begun. What amusement sod comfort the poor people found in learning to them, new art! How mony cares were fofgotten, for every day their doubts became less and thelr ho groaier. Light hearted Josts, and now and then a Joyfal song, to bo heard again. And then, when two < | months had passed,t shout-of triamph ich went up throughout Annaberg! For the two mense a re unifohhndbeen sentout with the laces had with but with \ |poskets so full that It sneped as if the wealth could never bo exhatisted. But their Brabant guest could not sbare this Joy with them. | Not far from the finden whichetill standain wamlcgdho imam yard, sho had been burled a few days Grief for the loss ulhuhnAaniud all the fearful bardahips “1ng whith she had gamed, had sown fatal seeds in her heart; poor heart it could break more pescefully now, for she saw her poor children within Barbara's motherly artin. All prafea be to mistress Batbara1 From san- tise to. sunset sho buslly.plied her Inco needles, the best spur to Indlastry and persoverance which her people could have. And with their foy and hope the stores of Ince grew greater and greater, thi ough the smug of their mon were ever setting forth with deumwuuhtflh which the w) ad ] | pete Mcrae tes on nety tn did their travels conse, bad no.other t hd mestatch Dresden g F Schrorken and Shottenburg were notecbansted. needed to understand the right way to nmfbm Bo the tlever man from Co} e mfgwmym: i mgflwmmu Arciberg. \of butes pee rittocs. whos g Asicl thie was the work of Barbara and ~ Dromels sto foci bee knstecd con bed and stich fe thw Cotvery texne'onr) ain? .So bug sa horhoast heat, bert for her meny d ta sss m Co terete peste atde month only.. Not my husbabd ¢ it was burned from top to bottom, we were not W will stay with us, good woman, and teach ust\ ch with both her own.. Though she had but half IBE H d the haunts of fix: tite are thronged with an t' crowd bearing gold in their mmfimmlmum vended arp sold at enormous profits, though in- trinsleally worthless, and pald for with scrupu- Toul punctdality; whille the counting-room of the nawspaper 4s the seat of jewing, trade, orders and pennles, It te made a pont of hongr to “manna a grog bill, but not of dia- Ronor to ropudiate a printer's bill f hew _ A Remarkable Spring in There !s near Ocoln s'remarkable spring, one of the of tho great number known in Florida. «Itis. called Bliver Spring. I found it in the midst of a lono hammock, overflowing its Hatks, Tt bubbled 25 in a basin thirty-sqyen 1y-be- made n - Brossels, feat deop and nbout. mmamntmllnfimd they must bo poorly off In Netherland provingss. | 16 and sending from It a deop strom Ofty or sixty fost wide, and nding o r nino miles to the Oklllwfllzlsl, ver, lito vlvillw t éipptles. In the spring Itself fifty steamboats may'He at anchor, and the stream steamboats of considérable draught. 'Theapring thus forms a patural. inland torwhich throd eteamers | ow ran tap wonderful... It e more urn ¢nt than alr. You seo an tib bottoin,7thirty fet 'Bdlo@# the\ botfort of our boi, the exnct formof the smailest-fobs 5h) the outline and shades of color of the leaf bich hat sunk. Lorge fish awim in. it, every- scale visible and every movement distinctly ob- sorvable. 'The water is impregnated with lime and magnesia, but has no appreciable taste, and is excellent drinking water. If you go aver the basin in a boat you will see the fissures in the rocks, from which the river pours upward like an inverted cataract. There are more of theso springs in the channel of the stream. fur- ther down. Buch epringe araalmost common in Florfds. Clay Spring, near the east bank of Take Apopka, pours forth a navigable stream Into the Bt. Johns. Bug Spring, on the West side of Lake Harris, is nearly as largo as Silver Spring. Ihave laughed at a story: of a sprin In Town which was large enough to turn a mill but I can swallow All-such toles now, after hav- tm seen one that will float a fleet. -[Correspond- ence Cincinnatl Commorcial. A Charch Made out of Rage, There Is a church actually existing near Ber- 5:31], Prussia, which can contain nearly one iousand persons. It Is clrcular within, octa- gonal without. The rellevos outside, and the statues withlo, the roof, the calling, the Corin- thian capitals, aro ail of papier macheo, rendered waterproof by enturation vitriol, lime. wnier, whey, nnd white of egg. We have not yut reached this andncity: To the uso of our paper; [but it should hardiy surprise us, Inasmuch as wo employ the samo material in grlvuw houses, in steamboats, and in some public building in- stend of carved decorations and plaster cornices. When Frederick TL of Prussia, sct up a limited contury, spring out of lis anut-boxos, by. the alelght of hand or art. At presont we toned English, who hount cathedrals and baild archos, Ilkeston better. But there is no my- what we may come to. It Is not very long sipes it would have been as Impossible to cover eightcon scred with glass as to crect n, p th soap bubbles; yet the thing !s done. When we think of a psalm sung by 1,000 volees p Ing through the edifico make of rags, and the universal element bound down to carry our mos- sages with the speed of light, it would be pre- samptions to say what cannot bo achiewdpby ‘mhgnoe and art, nnderho training of steady old e. ---. A Remarkable Discovery in Kaneas. At Nelowska, in Kansas, in digg! a woll, pieces of charred timber were found at the depth of sixty feet. The Atchison Patriot says they were imbedded in a bed of earth formed of clay mlxed with smooth sand and gravel, Between the surface of the earth and theso deposit the workmen had to 41 1}:th beda of clay of the closest texture and hardest compaction, an well as layers of limestone. Que of these pieces of timber shows evidence tint éan not be doubted of baving been cut with a tharp Instrument. This was found at a depth of sixty-two. foot It, aswell as e other ploces, is as well od, and tells its own sonvlnclng, yet brief story of a former civiliza- lon. But the end Is not yel. The workmen, in their laborious magma have reached. n depth of saventy fee, and nre 53mg through a strat- Jum of black loam-of sof mum the el- ements of ty, sad wi was \dry land\ before the waters delaged It and swept over Jt with the besom of destraction. To this loxm-this original the-eartir -if we dare hazard euch sn expression, have 'been found roots of trees which grow and four- Ished In the fizzle“ trees sod shra which spread th fonngiemmwekm nges aud tons of ages before the ern at whith profane history begins Its record. - wa Whon spting and summer came again thers a short 'country seats fow m c He Wfl' lie awafizznhnfigmil Mame day, i azote of without paying. t. obs to state, fnct «pub { n >I tlaho me s as a fact, that-p1 wqyom 52K! lungs eople without fee |., popler-mache factory atBorlin, in '65, he little] thought that paper summit might, wfifin a nzlln ta relative to the of the e counegtion thero. Indicated, for the firsty-tithe) -The: groat sontzacet.the tod. The- - _ in. thei, Loffodan a group sltuated 'off them « 'tromlty. of Norway, within. the Artlo putrolo. Bore the cod fish gather early in Januatyy dont- ing from the southwest, .to doposit: thallspain, \the quicf and, shallow. watermiof thestirtle 'all the..qonditions nees iwapppar from the ground onthe approach 'of there Inno. destrnetion-nf-the ove: or \Tis danke the of tho tits on: tn This .during 'the. of the on: the \Lotfodon banks that mags: fishery takesplacd. Dosing Jannaty but-little is' done; 'but:tho fifet week of Hebraary, and thi arrivalof profédslonal flahermen from considerable distance, the work Deglin .n cartest... As many «ns twoily-five thousand.. men aro. thas assembled; and. the xumber of fish boing inexhaustible; as xtell incalculable, itis tho'rtate of weathoralone thst affects the ' Tho fish. ate caupfit with lines and nots-the former baited: with horrlog, which. have to be broughtfrom a distance; meg, as already stated, nll other fish diinppesr with the arrival of the cod. - Tho eapelin-a-kind of herring--Is the bait;-butite-nsels prohibited by Norwegian law, sinco.those so fortunatané to hove it would enjoy an undue advantage over their fess favored neighbors, < « The fishing ceases on the lith/of-April, by -which Mammfim and emaclated ‘ I i tho const, ard lts now suggested by Mr. How- den that they proceed tothebanksof Newfornd- land, there to fatten and be caught again during he summer months, He calls attention: to the fact that codfish disappear from. the Loffoden banks in April and May, and that codfish arrive on the Newfoundland banks In June, h and lean, in flerce pursuit of the capefin, herring and other marine animals so abundant there. There they soon fatten up, and disappear in in October, Should the fish of the two Magus be the same swarm, as they are of thegame species, they will move back and forward at intervals of shout six. months, in the Gulf tream; which connects the two localitles.\ ' Teclead: lies about mid d the ance of the cod at this Islan intormedint tif thiis Between that at Loffodens and land. Henco-thoinferenco that thosame schools' of {sh, after fattening. during tho. summer-on- the Newfa b 'procboc du mtumm to the Loffodens to spawn, returning when this is gecomplished.-If the. cod tish of 'the North Atlantic, therefore, havo.so migratory. a habit, it is possible that those of the North Pacific may of Alaaks a¥e In the summer. season, there yet remains to be discovered the locality s¢lll further north, probably north of the Rheriog's Staite, where they deposit thelr o and where the true analoguo to <the Norwegian fisheries is to be developed. The total annual catch of cod fish in the North Atlantle on both shores is estimated by Mr. Howden at fifty-four millions, This seems to be a prodigious num- ber, and one that would soon threaten exbaus- tlon of the species; but when we remember that.nino millions of have been found In the ros of one female, thero scoms less dunger of extimction than might at first be supposed. Rodgers of Sheffield. It rouses a seng of mystical beauty, In the wind to pase at once from the making of armor plates to the manufactures of Rodgers, where one sees In a tiny senlo twelve pair dF perfect scissors, weighing altogether exactly a half grain. They con be pleked up, too, by machine- ry and made to cat. Need I say who is Rodg- erat Every school boy who ever \awopped\ a knife knows that any knife that ever bore upon it \Rodgers Cutler to her Majesty,\ was equal In valus to any two that bore not that magical lnscflruon; (the last of the name In the firm has Just died.) Sheffield has hardly anothor sight so Inscinating as theso show. rooms.. Hare is a lit- UG feathery stacl flower, whose petals are blades, and there n knifo whose handle of carven Ivor is a foot long, which holds a whole sct of surg!- cal Instruments and ninety-five blades adorned with American views-a knife made for the ex- hibition of 1861 at a cost of £866. . The most curious knife, perhaps, was one contalning 1867 blades-a now one being added uvery year. The bandle !s already a foot and a half high. Through the Influence of Mr. Abbott, our con- sul, I was onabled to converso with the intelli- gont supervisor of this establishment upon the subject of bls American trade. Ho sald they now made but few of the «Con knives since their contract for them with the United States ceased. Ie showed mo a fine sllver-mounted knife, the most extensive knife made, \The market for It,\ he said, \s\ Almost exclusively American, they will bave the best of everything. There was a Inrgo number of bowlé-knives, once sold exclusively, in America, but tho business had become very dull, and I willingly bopo they are accumulating on hid bands. an“; test demand for them had been at the time of war In Texas, and. the early California migration and 1d fever. It had been somowhat resuscitated lust an the Inte clvll war was breaking out; but alnee the suppression of the rebellion the demand had almost ceased, and it was probable that bowle-kntves would soon appear in mussums by the alde of flint and brétize weapon—{Hamel}- Maghzne for March. Waits or Frxaiss.-The minimum waists of adult females should bo twonty-sight inches. Yet how many there are not over. two-thirds of that measurement, while some are still less. By a falso and cruel fashion tho waist is reduced to prevented expansion until the chest is so compressed that a life of {lines is th tons. quence. An exchange very properly says: (Is It any wotider that there are. thousands of dellcata me and tens of thousands of feeble children in our land, when fashion lusists: upon a barbarity compared with which the fashion of compressing the feet of female children among the Chinese a barmloss amusement. We have seduthe back of a young Indy's dross walst which way almost allateral bein at the ty as possible at the bett. Yet such girls are to be the mothers of those who may be our rulers and of such stuff wr5 we to build our republic. Friends, the reform in this matter must begin every household. A sound mind in a sound body, let this be our motto, and let this be part in rearing our young women so that tusy become the mothers of glorious sous daughters:\ Coxtmast -A painter once met beantiful child. Bo A was ho with countenance and of loveliness, he. resolved to paiat It. Badman-Mung his favorite picture in his study.. Be made it. In abd passion be upon that drd & |. essary. f mum of their young, andeas all other fish ' $96 | sharo-it; «and -as thp'now-fisheries--about- the | only. Shoumagin Inlands 4 Tyes E son ws ee es. JoatHed It; oth b aioe tee Gon' fextaement of .On $54; , glds OC damning ned ty o es eron i smal flmfifafifiq Vo gireh to whal fd h of ng, or the f an; ored of or ani the £ of imin We may be gira there is somal cbrimlgn150mmQ wi i W9»? If T to a If s oaths to | 3m ' w kness. Has C y al witnéss ogainstimmortality? Has a Christian under bereavement a “in to declare by his conduct: There is no light in the grave, none in.. poor condition,» very. fit... fnnLn, and. no._comfort for. strong on thelr arrival, The- old fish then leave only m blatk, black sorrow Inover met ong mt th: black from head to foot, without a detain horror, The smell of crape is to me Itke the smell of a charnel-house I Did It ever occur to mourners to ask, what, If those for whotn I grive were to speak to me qut of their blissful rest In heaven, would be their choico-that I should be shroaded like one in despals, or robed as one who mougoa, but with GthBUan hopet-[H. W. Beecher. Scenery in Seotland. 1 I passed a day moms 111m of Trosachs. Flue)“ safled twenty miles up Loch Lomone, Soo and nobly mille, becoming . moorland and noble are fella mung? fim own“ people of sgow, - We somen- tip banfififfim \WW. magenta-o! heart's 'Ledy ol e we .m coach for a Waywam This Isa wild re- fon of regged hills and glons at the head -of flack Katring, much frequented by tourists. Its I e.distant view. of the. higher ”finémgfhfifiag and 1? calm—Efidebnngbp $13 me \ destined to become one of the most lorely sub- urban localities In the world. During my tour I saw not ' of lake and mountain scenery so grand and lovely as much as that I had seen nt ome; Abutnever had I dreamed that out of a rocky const, a crown of barren Islands and a stormy sea, could be. wrought such wonderous glory as prevades that matobless northwestern shore. There Is no dplnce on earth, spite of its drenching mins and chilling blasts, moro at- tractive to the summer tourists than this entire realm of enchanted water and land, Go there yoursdif, and behold hor the Infinito Artist, out of the simples materials, can sketch a picture of such ravishing besuty and uplifting sublimity, that ib {9b stands to me as.my fairest prophecy Olin-thud etter lend.-{Cor. Cinelonati Commer F f . The Tallow Candle Theory. Many persons have heard It asserted that a tallow candle, when fired from an. ordinary gun with the usual charge of powder, at a deal board throc-quarters of an Inch thick, will puss through the board, but very-few who bave not soen done, belleve It. On Monday a party of rilemen and other gentlemen, for the pt of deciding. a bet on. the subject, adjourned. to the butts of the North Middlosex rifles, at Child's ill, whore a board of the thickness described having been fixed in an upright position, a com- mon half-penny dip was fired at it from a fowl lnflg plese, from a distance of about 15 paces. The candle struck the boord with its full length, and passed throléfh, leaving a bolo exactly the shape of the candle. The romains of the can- dle were found scittered in pleces resembling snow flakes on the high mound of earth in the rear of the board. A second candle, when fired from the fowling-plece, pmased through the board, making a circular bolo, which was, how- over, very W round the edges. A third candle carried away a large plece of the board nino Inches long and three Inches broad, break- Ing away the boundary on one side of the hole ey\ o falled to e , wes of the $33 stripped the tallow from the wick as It passed out. Thoamooth-borefowling- piece was loaded each tinto with two and a drachms of powder, a small glare of paper as a wad, and a common tallow dip, thuE bad been especially prepared in any maunor.-(London Court Journal. How to Keep a Church Down. Talk in discouraging terms about the pros- pests of the congregation. This will make peo- ple keep a distance, for no person wishes to connoct bimaclf with a sinking canso. That you may be able to talk thus, take It- tle or no interest in the welfare of the congre- gution yourself, excepting as you can find fault with something. Take cate that your church (or lecture room) be moderately cold and uncomfortable. This will keep you from betag. crowded out of your seats by Plgoo your (£1, “I; I Tok the: af oar ppople fo rymbor | helf feelings by change dress, with thls fiéfigfififififimumfifnfi; t, cite © pe: |T Autendo tham up. | largest of lakes. In general grandeur and henn fimmblmrhkvsanorgufimfmvhm‘ the peopl of the rights-mhiep't ney thoy \hive! trotefied bj 3 thier b Mfififw tnebrigtion, has diigraced the AT T the. United Sfef die con- tare s Congress at the point of the 4ayonel . *Hohas been ao mad. th belleyé fhgt ho. could do all this, without flange“ to-his.own per- Ftow right bo selfisht\ May it bear. falke [RW. < =e imurat Insp vontinttted ap net of whith no explanation or justify.- It is ap outrage which finds.no-parillelin Amert- can history; \ eg - ous, and: dissolatd manner In whiclihe Bas ad- minigtered hls powersand digplaynd his scorn of tha desires, from the moment when he began his fnomintons: career by reeling Into the Senate 'Chamber, drunk: to Beasffiness,-till the moment he attempted townnul the daw had sworn to execute. Wh cC The natlon's dignity bas been scofnéd, her honor Insulted, her- laws trampled. upon, the megan : people/s-representattres-hontedt- tution ridden over by tliis wouldbe despot ! Yes, Americans, the, liberty which you haye letrnad your forefathers punkhasad by their heart's Hlood, poured out like water 09,th6 sshgulinary battle [elds of *s, which they. hays gnarded .through lang and bloody wars ond loved feat todife it- self, beenrepertedly snoered at by this usurping Inébriate . .. won rse e. Americans, will you support the-tyrant in his usurpations, and Iike-whipped- doge hand that suites you, cringing at -the: fest of a cruel, scornful master? Or will you, like free- men, preserve the rights and laws which have heen purchased. by rivers of the best blood that ever warmed a hero's veins? The spirits of those departed heres, whose gallant forms bave long since mouldered fto unknown. dust, ory out to us from their bright abodes in heavon, as bonding down on us, they watch us as wa guard the liberty for which they bled, not to let one drop of yassel's blood course through our vefue ! And by their aides, clothed in bright garments, those hefoes whose man- gled forms enrich some southern plain, or whose bones may yet lie bleaching on some hillside, bessech us, In tmplorIng accents, not to suffer our nation's bonor to be sullled while one single drop of Yaukeo blood remaing unspilled! The revered- Lincoln, bis tall form towering high, leantug upon the arm af Washington, woeplng for bis country's insults, watches each treacher~ ous movement of his accessor, If we allow these indults to go unpunished, we resign all elato to the title . of freeingo, and deserve only the name of pusilaaimoas slaves | The honor, dignity, and laws.of our Républic are at atake! If we fail In defending thom now, we do so for ever, aud in future history the Uni- ted States will bo known as the last experiment of free government, and ts people, ns base, Ig+ uoble vassals, the mmworthy lefts of rights thoy are too cowardly to dafend I oe But, by the demonstrations of our country- men it is évident that the spirit of 76 still lives in American bearts. The same Toteof liberty which inspired the me baross of the revolution, stilt burps fervently In Anterican bosoms, and the same noble and love of country which prompted the first Cond- uental Congress to brave the wrath of England, and declare. liself \Free and Independent,\ ts now leading our present Congressmen to with- stand the assault on the nation's honor, and to execute the law laid down in the Constitution they ove so well, without regat! to the opinighs of copperheads ' When future ages shall-have rolled avay, and page after page of cur country's bistory shall have been written, beside the names pf those first ploneers in a free government; who fought and blod for the rights we now enjoy, will be found recorded, as In letters of gold, the haes of those statesmen who at this critical moment rescue our countzy from farther Insult. Aide by sido with name of Washington, Adams, Jef- ferson, and Lincotn, will be found the hame of Stevens, Sumner, and Grant, followed by an hundred and twenty-four others, ever to bo hon- ored in the nation's memory. Oo the satic page, with the appellation 6f traitor, will he found the came of one, which to mention, were an_ Insult to the country, whoso highest ofice he bas dis- graced, whose laws he has derided, fep« resentativeg be bas frizulted, and whoss Just and tnevitable ha so well deserres. His name will fite with that of Ar- sold, Burr, and Davia, indelBbly recorded on the memory of every freeman In characters of black- ness, farnishing to future history, an unyarallelnd Wustration of political vice and intrigue! There can be no done as to thal than's rect? ay gonics being equal-to-any emergoneys
