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s $ im 3®3 ï 'ino y i ! ‘ h\ -.iijhL W. H. THOMAS. Kdftor. ' - -l D E V O T E D TO HOM E INTE BE 3 T S , :L IT E B A T U B E , A N D G ENEUAL IN T E L L IG E N C E . _____ w _______________ ,4 '•* i'»/' . ..'il 5• ' J» l » • 91.90 m Ymt, In Advano*. VOL. I. s i t * t f w i WOLCOTT. W A ïN E r Ç O .: X. Y.. TOPESP^Y. .DECEMBER 24, 1874. Sü. 12. f ' » ï i j * ^ The New Year’s B a b y .1 1^' *' Tlii'rt v«IeooM , little bonato bird, Hat »bouldn't ha* come juit when th*’ did ; :>>' T e l o « « « r e bad.\ ^ -O ld VnglUh Botimi. ^ffloot ! ye little rascal ! ve come it on sue thin :-£? * W ^Qpowdin'yenolf amongst iuj thin bltu&erm' wiu- W » S W e d a y , ' ' ‘ K Kiiowin’ that wo already have throe of yo, an’ «oven, An1 tryiu* to makeyorbolf out a New Year’» prcs- v-: ent o’ Heaven ? *.;V 4 •^Ten of yelmvo we uovr; «ir, for thU .world to ;* afoww*; * ‘ ' .» -.*• Lif* Bobbie lie liavo no'watHtcoat, an’ Nellie die >;7. ha>e no »hoe«, ( An’ Sammio Ho havo uo «hirt, nir ( I tell it to hte tv ~ shame), £ >An’ the one that waa junt before vo we ain't had time to nnmc ! ?,<]An\ftH o’ tho bftiikn bo umaahin’, act' on ub poor , . folk fall ; B osh ho whittle» tho wage« when work’« to be had at all; *?!!» ■ Au Tom ho have cut. bin foot off, an’ lien in a t •- woful plight, An* all of us wouderw at liiornm’ as what we ? :i ^ »hall eat at n ight; An’ but for your fathor a»’ Sandy a-Jbidin’ somewhat to do, HiAn* but for tho prcaehor’rt uoman, who often ' •• helpa ur through, V- An' hut for your poor dear mothor a-doiu* twice . V' *t her part, •* *\va a aeon ua nil in heaven afore yo wan ready to wtart ! - ' 'Au now vo liavo oomc, yi‘ rnHciil1 «0 liealthy an’ , fat ait' houihI, . - A-w oit' 1i 1 11 ', 1*11 ivager a dollar, tho fu ll of a dozen pound * li/With yer mother's oyea a-flaahin, vcr fatlior's ? ' llcsli an\ build, ^•i'An’ a good big mouth an t*tomacli all ready to ; bo filled ’ ~ 'X o , u o ! don't cry, my baby! hush up, my pretty one ’ ’ ; Don't get my chaff in yor oye, boy—I only was '■ ■' ' Just in fill). )X‘ Ye*U lilio u*i when yo know us, although w c'ro - C OUl'Uri folks ; iir.t wo don't gut. much victual, an’ half our : livin' ¡h jokeb • ‘ : Why, boy, did yo tuko mo in eanioot ? come, bit upon inv kneo ; I'll toll yo a Hecrct, vomigater—I'll uaino ye after me. ,‘r Ye «hall have all ver brothers au* Miutcru with ye / to pluv, An’ yo Hliall have ver carriage, an* ride out uvery day ! \•' AVliv, boy, do you think vo'ii nulTer? X'mgettin' a tritle old, Uut It'll bo ninny year« vet boforo 1 I oho luv hold ; “ An' if i 8iiouid foil ou tho road, boy, still, thom'u ycr bi*otliera, thore, ‘ An not a roguoof 'em ever wouldKco yo harmed , a hair 1 j *!(fy! when yo comc from heaven, my little 1 , , , uiuecuako dear, I j.-' iJid yo nec, *mong«t tho little girl« there, a faco 1 1 tiko thiH one hero V I That wan ycr little Miater—hIic dio<4 a year ago, I '1 *Ab’ all of 11 M cried like babicti whon tlioy laid , her under tho »non 1 1 I had no right to cry out against wlmt was my need, or to Hy from wlmt my sisterhood turned into ft jest— tho taint of a mnn’a dishonest tulmimtion. But'I “ never was cut out for tin nctress,” they told me, and it wwtx nil a niistnko thnt drovo me .to the stage. I began to think that Qod had boeu mistaken when ho called'me to hve at all. “ I thought your homo was in San Francisco f” says Captain C’olyer, break ing tho pan«« in which niy miud him drearily taken in all these \things. “ I thought you must have a groat many friends oxpecting you, plenty of ¡leople ■who cared for, you, and that you wore fond of,' and that in a week you’d have forgotten this dull old hulk aud every thing in it.” “ A very pretty fancy picture,” 1 say, meeting his gray eyes as I look up. “ Whatever the reality i.«, it isn’t so pleasnut as to make 1110 forget- tho one nappy month I ’ve had for years.” lie looks at me oddly, with his lips . Jiang i t ' if all Uie rich men I ever Bee or t Mien* 1 Cnino hoi'e with all their trapa, boy, an’ offered L~; ’em for you, I ’d «bow 'em to the door, air, ho quick thov'd think it odd, Ikfoio I'd sell to another my Now Year’s gift .J'. from (iod ! — I f iff Carkton. THE cum IN OF XIE 1 WILDFIRE. “ I suppose in nuothor week you’ll bo with—with your friends, Miss Nannie?” “ Friends?” I echo, drearily, and then I laugh. “ I should havo to. go 011 to Heaven, then, Captain Colycr, and I hope yon don’t intend to land me there via the Wildfire!” He stares up nt mo, as ho leans on the qnarter-rail. W o two were alone there, as we almost always aro at this time—the quiet hour or two of midnight. Captain Freil C’olyer has fallen into the lmbit of such tetc-a-tcte talks with his solitary female passenger—I sny solitary, to the exclusion from tho field of old Letty, ray nurse, nnil the last li*k that holds mo to tho timo whon my friends wore not in Heaven. “ Do you mean that yon haven’t any people of your own—father and mother ? lie rays, wondenngly, but quite softly. “ I mean,” I answered carelessly, as I almost always do— or try to— when the words hurt—“ I mean that I haven't any body on tho fuce of tho earth, that I know of, except old Letty, to care whether' I reach California or not.# Unfortunately, my enso is not a very \remarkable one — tliero are plenty more equally unen cumbered people going about the world.” Captain Colyer leans on hi» folded arms, and stares down at the long swell washing the sides of tho vessel. “ I suppose thero are. I haven’t any kith or kni myself, but that’s different,’’ he says, gravely. “ A man can live with out such things, bat a woman—it doesn’t seem natural for a woman to be drifted about alone, with nobody to take care of her.” * I have,no heart to answer,-but’,’ I smile grimly to myself and the sea, as I look' past tho square dark figure between us, leaning on the rail. The night is just coming on—the horror that for mo used to mean glare, and noise, and chaos, and confusion, hot lights and rasping voice, weariness and disgust, and a great Fea of faces that ‘ showed me across the blinding circle of footlights.-'-’ JiowTit means silence,' rest, and peace, between circle of Heaves and sea; an arch of golden light where the sun went down, long doud-bars fringed with- fire; and- a single white star climbing through them; the faint warm land breeze blowing in my , face; the ship rocking lazily on a long, .low Bwell, and the wash and splash of waves against her hnll. Am I in Heaven, I wonder?—only for a little while. Tho coast of California lies away thero under - those banks of.- cloud, anil the darkness broods over it, like the pain that must wrap up your I if«, Nan irie Vivian, when you toncli land onoe more. It was “ for my health” that I went on this long sea-voyuge in the bark W ild fire. For something else, too— bat serer mind that. I was only an actraaa. apiut under the great mustache, aud then he turns abruptly, and bejjius pac ing up and down. J watch him us he passoR me; tho one man, when I have counted all I kuow, whoso tenderness I would trust, whoso courage I would stake death or life 011 , whose strength anil honor seem rnotcil as firmly as the foundations of truth. A bronzed sailor, rugged and strong, whoso shoulders could boar up tho burden of Atlas; a squaro, stern face, with broad brows tlmt frown over the keen, ft.r-searchiug eyes, but a mouth that nevertheless can smile liko 11 child’s, a head that stands statuc- liko on tho straight round pillar of tho throat, and dark hnir that curls crisp aud thiek, and makes great waves 611 his forehead—ho is every inch a man, this brown sea-captain from tho forests of Maine; a handsome man, too, aud picturesque, and well enough he knows it, with a naive, self-botmying vanity whoso imioccnco has ofton mnde mo smile. “ Happy?\ ho repeats abruptly, com ing back to me. “ I shouldn’t havo thought it. T’vo wished so all this time that I could do something to make it brighter for you,” “ I am very fond of tho sea, you know —I never care for anything else when .1 can get it; anil then,” I add, quickening my voice with a suddon' impulse, “ I ’ve been so quiet, and everything has been so different anil better You see, I ’m not used to quiet, Captain Colyer—it isn’t in my life. I ’m an axtress.” Ho stares blankly for a second, nml then pretends to be looking past 1110 at tho sea. \Aro you? I never should havo guessed it.” “ I am; I ’ve been 011 the stage for three yeaiv—long enough to hate i t !” “ I don't kuow much about such things,” I 10 says, without looking at me, “ but I —I shouldn’t think it was just tho right sort of life for a woman .to lead —not- for you, at any rate. Why, you’ro liotliiug but a child,” coming nearer to 1110 as lie speaks. “ 1 can’t believe it “ Aeliilil! I ’m twenty-i'*mv, Captain Colyer.” “ Aud I ’m forty, you see,” with rather a grave smile, “ 1 can’t help looking upon you as a baby I wisli ” —but there bo brealis off, nml I wait for him to linish. “ W «ll ¡\ I say at last, suggestively. “ I don’t kuow much, about ways ashore,” I 10 says, rapidly, “ my world is idl ocean am( the ship s deck, and I ’m not good for much outside it—j>erliaps I don’t even know how to speak to a woman as. she would like; but I wish, Miss Nannie—I wish you would re member mo long enough never to my again, that you hadn't a frioud on earth!” They were very few, and not lovor-like at all, these words—I should have hated them if_ they had been—but something in fhe sound of them silenced 1110 with a greot shock. “ I ’m not the sort of friend who can do you much good —I haven’t tho way— but I ’d die to help any ono I cared for, or to ruin anybody that I hated. If you ever came to me and asked for anything, uo matter how little or how much, if it took tlio last drop of my heart’s blood, I ’d spend it for you aud be glad. Some time iu your life you may care to remem ber that—and you'll trust to it. won't you, Miss Nannie ?” “-Yes, I *»111,\ was all I said to him, looking not at him, but strniglit out at the long tremulous reflection of a star on tho quietsen. He was looking at it, too, and the nex^ thing I 10 said was something aliout the “ pretty sky ” and tho ■wind in that bank of clouds to leeward. “ I wish wo might have just one storm , ” -1 say, glad to rush to any refuge from sentiment. “ Not a hard one, you know, only a little one. W e ’ve had such a quiet voyage, and I want to see a storm ot sea just once. ” He laughs a littlo bit. “ You took tlio chance of feeling one when you took pas sage with mo , I'm tho unluckiest fellow afloat, I, think—as bad as a Mother Ca rey’s chicken, for' bringing storms and bad luck of all sorts to ■whatever ship I ’m afloat of.” * •*< 0 •-> * + Tho orchestra is playing its very hard est, tho gasjets glaro anil skimmer with heat all around the great horseshoe curve, and the.murmur, and rustle of-ii “ full house ” fascinntes every eye behind the sccnes to the peepholes in tlio green cur tain. . “ Lady Isabel’s ca—a—lied !” “ Oh dear, dear, and you’re not ready, Miss Nannie,” cried old Letty, shaking somo of Lady Isabel’s gauds in her,han^ls, as the callrboy’s’slirill yell penetrates ¡to the ‘¡‘ star dressing-room..” ; .;“ What's;in ye to-night, dear, and the first night, too ? Do wake up, that’s a darlin’, and don’t be drcnmin’ there.” “ Dreaming!” I say—if it were only dreaming, and I could clear the mist away with a liandsweep!— wake up in earnest, and feel the sea-wind blowing in. my face, and smell the suit occau, \tuid hear the wind 'straining in the sails of the Wildfire I I fling ou tho lace wrap in which Lady’ Isabel lias appropriately traveled to the domains of her bridegroom, settlo the plnmed hat on my head -without a glance mirror-ward, and snatch pamsol and gloves from my faithful old nurse’s trem bling hands. She comes to the wing ■with me, all a flutter with anxisty and excitement, to see her darling step out on the stage, and hear the first round of welcome’ with-which the San Francisco public greets its new toy ; a very gener ous and demonstrative welcome, rising into tumult in the gallcric*. I never kiiow the agony of stnge-fright ; I don’t think I was over roused to a suf ficiently keen sènso of tho situation and its requirements to inspiro ' me with \any terror wlien I faced tho footlights. Why,’ then, do I feel such a queer cold creep ing ovor mo, such a sick horror paralyz ing my. bmiu.os I staud waiting for tho •noise to ilio'away ? Will I, ever be able to speak?—yes, tho words corno \in their' places, but tho sound of my own voico is strange, and fills m y , ears liko tho rush-, ing of water, and the touch of my stago- husband’s” hand makes 1110 shudder liko au electric 'shock. He is middlo-ageil and bowigged, with paint 011 his cheeks, and India-iiik.pencilings round his eyes, and all the girls in San Francisco, I. tuu told, have fallen in love with him 1 across tho footlights ; und hero, in tlio circlo of their , hot glare, stiuid I, Nannie Vivian, with iny hand in his, and his arm round my waist, and his breath on my forehead —and with it comes over me that great sickness aud shuddering. As I stand there, in the fond attituilo compelled by stage-directories, there is another figure beforo my eyes— a great square steadfast figure, straight as a mast aud firm as a rock, with gray eyes searching through tlieir narrow lids far out into the blazo of sunlit billows, luul dark curls blown by tho sea wind, aiid a grave mouth -whose sileneo shames one—aud my whole soul seems to die in me at tho dream. “ Speak ou t!” whispers my “ sup port,” vindictively, iu my ear. “ D o n ’t you j:ea>* yotu* ette ? -Louder, fur--G't>riV sakc ! ” I tear my vanishing senses, back with a start, anil speak out. Miss Gomoy Carlyle makes her exit at the ' L . O., leaving tho master and mistross of East Lynue to a tondor bit of lelc-tt-lctv, -and, obediontly to the’situation, I',am taken into tlio arms of my spoiise p r o 'h'in. My head leans on his.shoulder,-and he is drawing my curls through his--hand, when a man’s voico suddenly breaks out, cutting Mr. Carlyle’s fond apostrophe short at the\ first clause, and smiting my ears with ono sharp, stillingoxclamation. Tho house is in a intra of indignation, and I fling my head up from its brief resting place, nnd.ilasli my eyes straight to tho center and object of it all—a man 111 tho parquette, » broad, giant-chested man in half sailor dress. It is all tlie'work of a second—the stir and confusion, and shouts of “ Turn him out!” and “ Silence!\ and 1 tho up roar in the galleries—and, with a sharp cry cleaving through it ali, I tear away from tho actor’s arms, anil rush, blindly aud sobbing, I don’t know where, till I find Letty holding me, and crying and beseeching, and know that the curtain has gone down with a rush, between 1110 and a sen of faces, and Captain Fred Colyer’s face, savagely angry nnil gray with pallor through its sun-bronze. Everybody is crowding about mo, every body is condoling, objurgating, exchiim- mg anil chorusing— “ I told you s o '-’— “ Stageiright!”— “ Knew slic’d break down f”— and fifty other coimncnts around tho center of attraction— L e ttv and me. “ Take me to my room !” is ail I say, and to my room I go ; aud tlierr, 011 the ricketty, bare settee, I lio down and cry myseif weaker than any sick, helpless cliud. Archibald Carlylo does not finish his sentence that night. Tho manage)* may —and does—entreat, implore, command, and threaten, but I 10 cannot drag me by main force upon tho stago again, and by no other means can I lie conveyed thorn. So lie smooths his brow towards the front, and speechifies them, to the effect, I suppose, that Miss Viviau’s sudden ill ness has assumed a dangerous und alarming nature, which will utterly pre cludo the possibility, of her appearing again that evening. “ Captain!- for tlio life of mo, is it you, CajiUiin Colyer?” Letty stops short, bringing me to a halt on tho siile- w.dk, just where my carriage stands nt the curb. A man is waiting there. I should know his figure in ten thousand, even if I did not see his face by the light of a street-lamp, as he stands swing ing his broad sombrero liat ,111 one brown hand. He stands quite still and looks at mo. “ I ’ve been waiting for you,” ’ I 10 siiys, hesitatingly, liko a child. _ “ I asked where the— the nctors carnè out, and waited to sco you, to ask your pardon, and tell you I ’m som'. I httd to go there' to-night1—I wish I ’d ljeen dead first! Tull mo if I hurt you very much,” ho asks, piteously, putting his hand on tho carriage door, as I step to wards it. “ No— no—it was nothing—not your fault.” I hurry out. “ I was sick— I ’m not well now. Don’t think about it again, Captidn Colyer.” “ How do you suppose I «an help thinking about it? ' I f you’re not angry with me,” he says, bending down, “ let me take you home. I shall sail to-morrow —don’t let me go only remcmlierin^ you, as you were in that—tliat placo^to-night ! A r c you angry?” I only hold out my hand, and so he takes the sent beside me. I don’t want him to carry away that memory of mo—that is all; all, except the pitiful weakness that makes me yearn so to be near some »no else’s strength. “ The devil must have driven me there, ’ ’ ho says, lowering his voico even in the roll of the wheels as we drive away. ‘ ‘ I knew it woidil half kill me to see yow, but I had to go. ' Don’t blame mo f»r what I did !” “ I don’t understand you, at all, Cap tain Colyor...„There wus no. reason;why you should not liavo gone to the theater, as half tho rest of San Francisco did, to see a debutante —and you saw that she made », failure,'that wusaJl.” ~ , “ Don’t'you kiiow any reason?” he says,• almo«t roughly. \N o , of courae' not; - I ’snppom an educated man -and a gentleman might not feel the devil in him when Ac sawthe woman he loved iu a piace like that— and you -don’t know why I should. I coit/dn’t sit still there and look on, -with people gaping at what is just as holy to me as God is; I never dared touch your hand even, and I couldn't see another man insult you -with a kiss in tho' face of all that crowd— I ’m not mode of the stuff tliat can Hear such thing».-. Are you angry 1 with'me for'«ty ing so? I only ’want to tell you the truth,” he says, painfully. “ I ’d have died sooner than raise a finger to trouble you, i f I ’d been in my s 6 nses to-night.” “ Trouble ine! I wish yon had lulled : me ! I ■wish I ’wère dead, and t>afo— safe I away from it all , “ What do you mean ?” he asks breath- , lowly. “ I mean that I Aa^it^-tliat it’s kill ing me—aiid you lutiT no right to'come and see nu>, and (ell me my own 'degra dation, as; if I didu'tif«el it, oh, Ood, ever)- hour,of my life (i,Don’t touch me,” I cry, as his hiuid fiaiV» m in e ,d o n ’t— oh, let mo err, mv heart will break!!.’-. - . •• -■ ' ‘ 11 With my face in-myitwo 'hands I sob, and lie sits liko atbloak-of.-stono at;my side. Suddonly the! rock ia shaken, there is a great Bigli in .tlio dark,'and an arm strong as iron, (fMtlo as a cliild's fingers, gathers meiSflose. “ Naunie,*\ Nannie,'” he.says broMlfelv, “ will you go' back, tq it all agniulj^fliy can't I .tako yuu’iip aud tako eoro .ol yoii, and spend my life for vou? in God’s name, am I to sail away to*liiorroM-, and leave you iu that place?” ] t ■ . .Ho is holding me ¿ 1 both- unns now, and ’ I'could 'not leave them if. I would., I know at last' -what life is inside ’ their safe protection, what it would be to-mor row, if they let 1110 go. And I lie still, and liavo. not a word t« say. , “ Must I go?” stammering, as I 10 lifts my face up in his hand. “ Sweetheart —little girl, -will you go to? will you go with me, Naunie V” So the ugly shadow of tho stnge-door never crossed mo again, nor cud the hateful footlights ever glare iu my tried eyes. Naunio Vivian, late o f ----- Thea ter, Now Orleans, illegally broke her contract with tlieSiinFinucises'raa’.mgo.j:, and was published arcoidi.nijly in divp.rs dramatic jourinds throughout the hind, and Captain Fred Colyer earned away his wife when the bark Wildfire weighed anchor in tho harbor of tho Golden Gate. I l e Boy With the White Kyc. In th« trial of the lioy l’ omeroy in Boston, ending in his conviction of mur der in tho first degree, a great amount of conflicting testimony was given by medi cal experts. The ilofenso, was insanity, the theory being based 011 the many motiveless nets of cruelty which havo mado tho prisoner infamous. TI 10 ex perts agreed that thero was an entire lack of moral senso in tho boy, but they dif fered as to whother that fact was accom panied by moral irresponsibility. Evi dence enough -was taken to show that I 10 had from babyhood boon, possessed of a Ktmiigo disposition, rational or irrational. In Ins curliest schooldays lie would sit sullonly making grimaces at nothing, and whon the teacher spolto to him àlxnit it ho said he couldn't help it. Tho tor turo of dogs aud cats was 1 a later diver sion. TI 10 terrible bent of his mind next led to tho cniolty to children wlii«h first made tlio case noted, and fiually to tho killing of two little girls. Drs.» John C. Tyler and Cloment A. Walker, of Hoston swore that the prisoner was undoubtedly insinuo, and Dr. George F. T. Choate, of New York, was equally certain that thero was 110 moutid defect. As \all o f these gentlemen have lrnd years of practical experience “with diseases 'of tho mind, each standing at the head of au insane asylum, the only informiti) to bo drawn fròlli tlieir disagreement is that those who aro the wisest 011 tho subject of mental malady know very littlo about it. .. Kins KaUkaua’a HUtvry. Tlio Salt Liiko' Tribuncx,o( a recent 'date gives the following account of 1 the fathor .of tho King of the Sandwich Islands, who is at present on 'a visit to •this couutry. Tlio foots iu this case were procured from a cousin of the King’s, who is a resident of Salt Lake City, and is said to boar, a graat'resemblance to'his majesty Their fathers wore brothers— both being burn in the old Buy State. In tlio year 1821 tlie whale ship Inde pendence,' from Now Bedford, Mass., foiiudereii in the Pacific Ocean, and all ou board perished, with tlio exception of fourtttnilora, who made their escapo^n a boat,’ which, after tossing many days' on >thè boundless deep, at last reached the Stuidwiuh Islands, then in a stilt« o( Henii- Imrbarism, that being about the .time of tlio first apjteanineo of 'Christian missiou- 'aries there. One of tliesn seamen was 11 tine-looking, stalwart young niuu from j Harnstable, and iu the strange laud upon | which lie wils east, up from the wusto of 1 waters at oueo engaged m such pursuits as a vivacious disposition and true Yan kee genius discovered, both for employ ment and livelihood, lie soon succeeded, and in a year or two after .making his involuntary settlement among tho Kana kas had the extraordinary fortune of marying the' daughter and sole princess of the monarch .then on tlio throne of tliu islands. This 1 rovai damsól lutti fallen iu k)ve with the wrecked mariner, proi'osed wetllock in right queenly HtyTt\“witiclulu7 young Now Englander accepted for this reason that the King ordered him to do so, or have his head ehop)>od off, Being son-in-law, and recognized as a member of tho dynasty, our itero adapted himself to the dignity of prince consort, and from this remarkable union issued tlw present. King of the Sandwich Islands, the 'only surviving Son of'tho Massachusetts man, out of a largo family. Tho ninno Kala- loiua denotes tho origin of tho sovereign, nnil translated, means “ safe journey” or “ Ood speed,” referring to tho csctijie of his inunediute'uncoBtor from tint peril* of the wnvo as. related above. Digressing from the general narrativo here, wp will mention that tho father of our august visitor, notwithstanding -hi« illustrious alliance, lrnd novor forgotten his home in the distant republic, but day after day and month after in«nth looked out from tho portico of his palace for tho friendly canvas and flag of his 'nativo land, but five aud twenty years of wearv watching were endured Ixtforo the keel of an American ship glided into the Island luu'bors. When this diti take place, fhe Yankee prince, yearning for the seenes and associations of yautli, one night de serted rank, .wife and children, jumped into the sea which a quarter of a centnry beforo lrnd east him up naked to liocorno Ilio progenitor of a kingly line, anil sailed away for the shores of Narrngansott. THE BAXK OF FRANCE. I Joys in Jleil. Whoever lias lifted tho curtains of boys’ alcoves, « 0 0 » after their inmates have gone to bed, and has lookeil loving ly in, has seen a prettier sight ? Gener ally their races are lying most rostfully, •with hands under cheek, and in many eases they look strangely younger than when awake, and often very infantile, as if some trick of older expression, -which they had lieen taught to wear by day, had l>oen ilroppeil the moment tho young ambitious will had lost control. The lids ho «hut over bright, busy eyes , tho air is gently fanned by coming and going breaths , there is a little crooked mound in the l>ed; along tho bed’s foot, or on a chair beside, aro tho day clothes, some times neatly folded, sometimes huddled off in a hurry, btdging with ballB, or, iu the lesser fellow’s marble; stained with the earth of many fields where wood chuck have been trapped, or ¡xjrlmps torn with tho roughness of trees 011 which squirrels have been sought; per haps wet and mired with tho smooth black or gray mud from marshes, where muskrats have been tracked. Under the bed’s foot lie tho shoes—ouo ou its siilo —with gray and white socks, now creased anil soiled, thrown across them ; anil there, in their little cells, squared in the great mass of night, heedless how tho earth whirls away with them or how the world goes, •who is thinking of them or what is doing at home, tho busiest peo ple in tho world ‘are resting for the morrow.\ - ...... An ANdari««« .Quack. One of the most audacious quacks that over practiced was John Harrison Curtis, “ aurist.” H e knew almost absolutely notliingof the profession that he adopted, but lie got sometlu'ng of a reputation, and was once summoned to attend Sir liobert Peel, who was suffering .from temporary deafness.' He went provided with two watclics, ono that ticked very weakly, and another tliat made as 'much noise as a clock. Peel began to question him as to his mode of treatment, but Curtis, giving him a dig .with a syringe, told?, him that if he didn’t’^Jibld liia tonghesomc in jury'.would befall-him. The quack nt first applied the wcak- ticking watch to Sir llobert’s ear, and of course he couldn't, hear, anything, .but' after working for some time lie used' the other one, and. Peel oonld hear pwfectly well. It was a marvelons cure ? T f c r ' .IH r M D U M > 4 r 1« M o b Itn V a a l u Mm Trt'K««re—ll»w it wnii !• W IlMr. .Iu lho .lMi 11 k o fF r a 11 cethe.ro is at all times fully seven hundred milliou fraacs in gold aud silver. Although tlio vaults 111 which this vast amount' of treasure is kept aro as strong as iron and' stone can moko them, liuvo all, tho appliances of science as'well ivs 0 body guard of troops 011 duty all tho time to guard them, it may well bo believed that tho keen oven of the thief liavo often been turned tliat way. This is true, and , mauy .'attempt-; have been made to rob tho.bank. In IStill, 0110 of those attempts became known to the officers of tho bark and .eroliteiKmuch. consternation. • 'lu .1872,'' nno’ther attempt was made, tho leading spirit of tho affair dying bofore liis end was accomplished. , 1 r\ •- •, j Tenaille, who' knew of' tho' 'affair and was talking to tho oHlcers of the bank, j went ou to descrilto Giraud’s plan, which 1 was most ingenious., Ho further said that hit believed some of tho conspirators wero still at work tunnoling, and trying to carry out his conception. \ Do not I«» alarmed, ” said he, os the governor, secretary,' regents, and censors of the bank, who wero listouing, bounded in tlioir seats at this suggestion “ The place ia under surveillance. ” Tho secret passago described by Ban iluin led from tho guard-liouso to tho bank-vault, which is built in wlmt used to“birtlio wine-cellar of the' louse. “ But,” said tho gov ly, “ wo know of that passage had it filled up long ago. But it came out in tho garden wall, by tho old omngery .\ ’ “ 1 know it,” said, Tenaille, “ but. wero you uwiiro of nnothor passage, com ing out in the wall of’ the guarj-hoitso, which used to l>o the old portr-cochrrc 01 tho hotol ?” Again tlio officers of the bank look at oacli other, anil trembled Tenoillo drew a woU-madu plan from his pocket. Everything seemed nicely drawn and measured. There was flint, ii ground plan of the bank building, with tho xitiin of tho vault dotted in. Thoro was then a pjon of tho whole square, with the streets lioundiiig it and the houses opposite. The location of tlio vaults was marked, and from this a red band led ¡11 one direction to tho boundary of tho hotel property. Another black biind startcd from this nt a point leas than twenty eet from tho vault, ran parallel to it for «01110 yards,. then diverged and ran as far as the guarii-hoiiRo, where its terminus was marked by a stairway. “ Whoever tunneled those secret,ways wanted several string» to his bow,” said Tenaille. “ See, this lino indicates the secret passage from tho wino-cellars to the orangery walls. This is tho one you I t e m o f Ia t r m t . Sulmcrilw for the J ooksal . America has oiie doctor' to’every eight hundred iiihsbitaut^ \ Patriotism is about ovenlv divided bo- tween the stomach aud the pocket. . , Toy t banka are safest. < If tho bank breaks the children get their money. . , The growler« form a largo, proportion of the jibpulation of every unhappy town. ' ■ A qnèer'old chap has’ nicknamed his daughter Misery,- because she loves 00 m- piuiy.. i J 1 t Tho two gold mines :ut Littleton; ,N. H., aro )>i>tli oi>emtcd, and are doing well. ' . . . A Western writer lias suddenly- dis covered that tho 'kissing of a girl who hns a.coldiio.se produces a' fanny,feeling. Au lndiaua judge lias decided- tliat if a. woman will shorten pio-cnist with but ter at 38 cents ( ht , pound, her husband lias good grounds for divorcé. A grocer iu.tlio suburbs , 1 wlieii’cSm- plnined to alxnit soiling bail eggs, said: “ At, tiiis timo of tho year the hens aro not well, and often lay bntl eggs.” Nobody requires a , larger stock, of luninbility anil forbearance than tho youtig nian who keeps matches iu his room wliero the other boarders can get at ’em. )lo not to trust filled up. But this agalli. A eolored\ wonian, neur Nashvillo, Temi., recently caused anothervwyaitili to swullow 11 nìmiber of bent pius, wnippcd up with wool in thè forni of a 1 ball; as a cimi 111 . - ‘ Tliey talk about thè recklesi extrava- gmico of. thè American pcpple, unti yet we know a man wlio worketl 11 U day to dciin ,11 three-cout ntamp so flint ho cimiti uso it agitili. 1 Two girls iu want of 11 new bonnot piaceli obstructions 011 thè Wilmingtou inni Welilou lluilrund, for tho,pun>o 3 e,of killiug some ladies 011 firn tmia, tluit Ihoy miglit scettro ’ tli’« Iwmnets. They liavo lieeii tried Ite for e a magistrato and selit to .Dubliu jail. Tho .Titusvillo (Pomi. ) J/^i'tili(,-xi!}QÌ<x» tliiit pctroleum is stili tuo leiiding expor- tation from thè United Sfatta, ftssalos in Kurope amount lo #17,000,000 armual- lv. T’ho noxt greatest' importaiion is tìmlof iard.-.wliich brings about $'20,- 000,000 annuidly. “ Ah, Sani, so you’vo beon in ttouble, lmb you ?\ ' “ Yes, .Tini, yes.” \ Woll, well, elicer up, mini ; advorsity trics ns, secret possngo leading from tho secret After a long voyage Barnstable was again i passage, and ferininotitig under the visited, but had nil changed. Leaving ; ,mvo uot thero in sunny youth, tho traveler now . ..... . . .......... .. block line siiows ’ii i a.iil shows up our best qualities.'’ “ Ali, 1 but adversity didn’t...me; try me ; if.,was uu found thnt fhe fow remaining acquaint ances of tho past hail died, departed to other places, orhnd gTown gray and for getful of the time wlieu all wero boys at school together. It was a mistake to re turn; for tho heart could not give up its lovo for the wife luul children of more ! than a score of years in Mie fiu;-off islands of tlio Pacific. ‘ Tho longings of tho wanderer and liis loneliness were intol erable. He then onix) more looked lor Ilia speedy liiirk to curry him back to his only home, and waited three yeurs before an opportunity came. Then he sailed away forever. Ill 1847, the whaler Thomas .refferson, from New London, Conn., -vva« fishing in the Pacific. Meet ing a school of leviathans, the crew pre pared for action, anil among tho parties sent out from the ship to operato against tho monsters of tho deep the princo wus ono of tho first to. volunteer in . tho hazardous duty. As has ofton hap|>encil, tho boat of tho hurpoonors was demol ished by a wounded and infuriated whale, several of the men, including the father of Kalukuuii, perishing in tho. disaster. That was tho niid of oiir hero’s romantic career. Tho lialonco of this 1 interesting story may be stated briefly ; When the New Englander fleti from tlio Sandwich Islands his spouse monrued.for a cus tomary period, but grief did not emise her to neglect tho grave' responsibilities at widowhood. Slm-giivo her children the liest education tho islands afforded, and David beiug-thc favorite, though not the eldest son, wos sent to San Francisco to study poiitics and fiimiici-'S. His mother also directed him to visit tho home of his father and .kindred, but the young man, lor some reason„sutisfuctory to himself, ilitl not then go to^nrnstiible. lie will do'so now, however,’after first concluding his official interview with tho President of the United States. Thus we liuve. 1111 easy solution of tho fri«nd- ship of this monarch of our country anil institutions. the evening before.* He ‘ says’ something kinder cold and squshy abont his toes, and, couldn’t, think 1 • A ffaalte 1« kh Boot. A few mornings ago,\ Jo. Niles, of North Bennington, pulled on his boot,’ which he liad'set out in; tho i woodshed He'' “ felt like what the plagne had got intew liis boots,” bnt lie went out and milked five or six cows. When he got back to the house liis toes “ kept tickling so lie couldn’t stand it,\ so he took off his boot, run in liis hand and palled out a brown snake\ two feet long,.that lie had:shoved into the toe* of his boot.- 'Jo .1 don’t pot his boots in tlio , wood-slied any more, a»d «ends'a ferret I down into'them' every'morning ta make, sure-that no unwelcome visitor had crawled in .over night, A Wort About the Lunga. In nearly all cases tho natural capacity anil area of the choet aro sufficient for all the uses of respiration. But the capacity of the client may lie diminished by tho habit of stooping, or by the abominable practice of tight lacing. The false grace of tho wasp form ‘in women is almost always gainod at the expense 0 / the lungs. .. The .tight !l>olt and the armor abovo it fatally compresses the air-celis, and.forbid all easy union of the oxygen of the air’with the: currotit* of tho. blood.-' Tho ’ lnngs cannot -well spare one square inch of the space which they naturally fill. , Consumption is, tho Sequel ‘ of the corsets. . Tlio' war - o£ hygiene npon'tiglit waists must bo’ posi tive and unceasing, lo r fashion has noth ing moro dfirtrnctiva.to human life tlian this. Tho lungs arc also injured by .be ing overworked, strained, or made to do moroi'tham any reasonable estimate of tlieir’powers wouldallow. ii]), becuuso you wero not awaro of its existence. Tt was kept wnlleil up lit both ends,' but tho rest is open, mid it takes you, it would have lokcu ( lirnuil, within fifteen metres of your vault walls. Walit resistance would iron and granite have made to his powesftil hydraulic uppu- TfttllS ?” Oimud’s pliitiwus to find the ontranco to tho tunuel through the guard-house, ascertain its depth, size, etc., and then hit would 1 st able to tunnel into it from the cellar of a house he rented tin the Hue Buillif. This cellar, occupied by ono of tho conspirators, wils used as a shoj) for tho sale of flowers in pots., in this way the dirt nml rubbish from flie ex cavation cotild ho disposed of without suspicion. Giraud proposed to cut the tunnel through this house clear to the vault, to lay a car-track nlnng it, so us to .convey the specie uwny in one of those Imnd-trucks usoil in, mints und other plueoB where heavy metals, are handled. Tho vaults wero to bo opened (when broken into und everything ready) in brood daylight,’when there was’most 1101 B 0 011 tlio streets und in the liank. To make tho confusion greater a liunilier of heavy vehicles wero to Iks engaged to pass back anil forth in tlio adjacent streets. This ‘ daylight roblwrv was quito practicable, for the vaults often lire not ojioned for several days, and, lis they cannot bo opened witlutut the,concerted action of the cashier and tho eomptroller- goucral, tho absence of one of 'tlieso was to lx) assured by a telegram summoning him away 011 somo fictitious errand. Girmnl was ambitious to abstract fhe ontiro treasure in the bank’s vaults, but that would'tako moro timo than I 10 could find. Tho tronblo -was not in getting the gold, aud silver from the vault to his house, but from that house, to safo hiding- places’’ elsewhere. Hi's , proposition, therefore, was to enter tho vaults, and immediately fill tho lock 'of the inner 1 door, so that it could not be opened without force. This would, givo them time to escape',' while 'the attempts upon tho door would lie a warning to the burglars, one of * whom was always to lie 111 tho vault _ou guard. A bagatcllo of a million apiece was then to be earned off, and delivered in flower-pots covered with earth, just where each conspirator thought safest. This attended to, they wero torreturn, empty tho.vaults, anil continuo delivering the treasure at dif ferent jKiint« as long as it cauld be done in safety. Giranil was sure of getting away with a hundred millions (francs), and felt quite confident of his ability to carry off «11 the gold, and nearly all tho silver. ‘*nis confederates wero most of them'men not under police surveillance. One, .indeed, so ho> »aid, was of the -police; another connected with the bank 111 an official capacity.?, It is said the govoigovomor fainted when, on the wall of tho gnard- of the honk '-'I house l>eing broken away,\ tho staircase was found leading down to a paved corri dor tliót stretched away in .tlio, darkness toward the, vault. ' Some said it was foul . air that overpowered'him; somo agita ci tion at the bank’s danger. The tunnel ; was immediately filled up with stone and Seventy yearn a#o the- he«vi'e*t naval cement. , A poliooraid -was made niton gun was a thirty-two .pounder,,weighing the florist’s' shop in 'th o . Rue BailUf. #.« .1 « J j . » .1 i n n ' ^ 6 ^ r i i 1 -» K t x l u h « / 1 ì i n é o v a m m o i i A n Artillery. two tons arid a.' ludf, and ten' pounds of powder was a'charge'. 'A gun now in P rocess, of construction at Woolwich, Ingland, twenty-six-feet.and nine inches in length, ’ will w e igh, eighty-one tons, throw a ‘ projectile _ of 1,250 pounds’ The binls had flown', but' examination disclosed the fact that three tunnels, ciit by ..Giraud ,.and his< confederates, had a length in all,,of, .more than fifty metres. Neither of these would, how ever, have 1 connccted'with the old secret passage sought by Giraad, since they were all on different levels. It is rc weight, and require' 2 1 0 pounds of pow der to load it.” •'In-the United'States the artillery, arm of tho service has been j ported tliat the'regents-arc in favor of — _ ------- .. much improved ,of late., In no small!.making a. handsome compensation t« Th© tliffereneo between the cook .and. degree is tliis improvement due tothc. ¡Jule« Camoin, who has been, pardoned her lover is, the one cooks the meat, and, efforts of Gan. Wm. F. Barry, chief ot 1 and released from oonflnMMnt. Ha ia the other manta the 000 k, I the aitillaty acbool at Fortms Mooroo. { to join Ua ragitteat ayaia. .......... .. ..... v ......... ild wngulxmd of 11 judge, oucl lio.showeil up my worst qualities.\ A California girl,* wily\ fifteen years old, was recently married by contract, without thivHerviees of priest or justtóc. Her mother would not givo her eynsont to tho mulch, anil she was uimlilo to get a license, bnt a lawyer tolti her to ahead, and tho marriage would lie just as valid as any. * 1 1 For full dress K oh I U uuu wears, a fusii- iniiublc cut black liraudcloth swallow tail eoat, studleSH white shirt front, bools of the ltox too pattern, a ]tari i-colorcil ribbon in his button hole, three immenso plain gold* rings, a bracelet 1 on his left wrist, a turn down collar ami a black lie. Ho also wears a jioir of pants. An elevator company ut Toledo nui all their engines by steam generated over fires of com cobs. These cobs are tho remnants of tho immense loads of corn in tho ear which are consigned to them daily aud shelled by. machinery. They .liuil these'fires 1 vctter' for thè purpose timii those produced with eool; Sleeplessness at night is'often 1 om- edied by applying friction to »11 'parts of tho body and.'liinbs., To uccomplishjit, take a crash towel, anil, give it 11 lively motion ia nibbing downward from tho hoad, until tho blood will lie pntin lively circulation, rubbing hardest upon til» ciiest. I f a towel is not at hand, tho hand may be used for tlie'purpose. PrukiMMea In (.'««»eetieat. I > -. if A Middletown (Conn.) convention of Prohibitionists was held recently for tlio nomination of a candidate to Congress to snccoed Hon. Stephen W. Kellogg, of tho Second District, tho present incum bent. During the convention sentiments wero expressed severely denouncing tlio political parties for alleged action ili tho iliruct interest of tlie liquor traffic, a»d declaring,.tliat Prohibitionist«* “ cannot servo God and mammon;\ that they,can not longer 'depend 011 the promises of either* the Republican ’ 6 r Democratic parties, but must choose their own can didates and adhere' to them. Calvin S, Harrington, a professor in Wesleyan. University, was nominated on tho first' ballot for Congress. Tlio following sig nificant resolutions were passed: First—That tho liquor traffic is tho efficiont anil chief cause of nearly all the intemperance, vice, crime, pauperism, anil immorality in the country, ftnd should lie suppressed by law. Second—Tliat as neither the licpubli- can nor Democratic party make any pro fession or intention to abolish tho traffic, 110 voter cun consistently support tlieir candidates. ’ Tliird—That tho Proliibitiou party haa come into Connecticut to stay. Fourth—Thatjlhere is nojssuo now before the cbuntnr’eqiiallo that present ed by tho Prohibition tickets * Fifth—Tliat wo ask the suffrages of all who hate liquor and its fruit, anil.who lovo virtue and intelligence, in favor of . tlie candidate this day selected. ( Too fketlwetal. A rich Peruvian, M. iP ---- ry C., ¿re.-. coutly committed suicide on the Spanish frontier, near Blaritit, for tlio sake^f one of the queens of the Parisian demi monde, with whom he was madly nn ® love,* but wlio firmly resisted all his;over- t tures. He made tlie most extravagant . offer*. He wished to inurn* her « * « carry her away from the lifo she was _ ' leading to his own home in South Amen-*t ca. She, however. was, iaexerable, aad , he sought consolation in, /leath. ln.uw.ji To Margaret; from a maa who ha* Jorod tar much and who die* far k*r.
