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[Kor tho (J Uur-.lay Kvonlng Mail.J THE DISCA liDA L.

BY J. W. J.

Thou hast spoken the word— Thou host bid mo tlojwirt Ilast witnessed, unmiiviil, .ts:.

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The deep ruth of my hcArt-, Hast bl.l me forget That ovor I know The enchantment, the rapture

Of lingering near you. go, yet believe me, Just as soon mifcht you.t^lj The lK)som of ocean

To cease Its wild swell, jftyThe stin, in tho morning, "-^s

No longer to rise,

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The stars, in their beauty, To fade from tho skies,' The mother to throttle

The babe of her love, The eagle, in softness To vie with tli^ ilove, The rose to forget

The night falling ilow, Yourself the fond hop8 Mast cherishM by you, i\s me the bright dream

That illumined the past— Oh why has it faded Why could it not last? I cannot forget it!

Would God that 1 could! It is mlx'd, it is mingl'd With each drop of my blood"tn the night's silent hour

It comes to my hide, I am happy, too happy, With you my sweet bride. .My arm I outstretch

To clasp my rich prize, I awake, and an angel Glides away from my eyes. 1 start up in terror,

I implore you to stay, 0 (Jod I am dreaming, Have mercy, I pray. 1 cannot forget it

To me it has grown A part of my life, j^nd bone of iny bone see it, I feel it.

Wherever I go,

Aiid Lethe can furnish So balm to my woe. IJut I go at your bidding,

Though heart-strings may break, And, darker may grow Each morn as I wake, Still, onward I'll ply

My fragile canoe

Through life's stormy waters— I'm bidd'n by you. I'll welcome the tempest,

I'll joy in its roar, And boldly prosy on To theviim, di -t.-int shore, That *ljure where, alone, tt can hope to lind rest The laii'.l of tin- hapiy,

The home of the blest, Where love is unknown, Or it known at all, Never mingle:-) its eup

With wormwood and gall, lint, blighter and brighter Ever sparkles Its ray, Till at hutt it bit mis Jorlh

In ]:r/irtiin

Cutting an Old Friend.

Many years ago, tho good ship, Cleopatra, "arrived in Baltimore with a hundred steerage passengers from theKmorakl Isle. Among the number were two young men from Tyrone, who had marVied just on the eve of sailing, and had .•011)0 with their Inixom brides to seek their fortunes in America. Tho latter bad grown up side lv side from girlhood, and were intimate as sisters. The hornier wore no less intimate and attached to each other.

The names of these adventurers were "Torrance Leary and his wife Margarot, and Andy O'Shane and his wife Biddy, or Bridget. Tho first idea of coming to America had been suggested by Loary, who was a quick, intelligent young 3uan, and had conceived the notion that a fortune was to be made in tho now -country across the Atlantic, from "which, ever and anon, was coming tho most inspiring intelligence to thj onterprisingand ambitious. Ho had been during two or three years gardener for an Irish gentleman, in whoso family Maggie, his wife hail for some time acted as waiting maid, o'Shano was a draper's clerk. lie hid been better educated than Loary, both as regards .school and home education and tho same could bo said of Bridget in coinparing her with Margaret. Notwithstanding this, the young men and their wives, as has been said, were intimato •friends, and when the matter of going to America had been decided upon bv Loarv and Maggy, O'Shano and Biddy were'not long in making up their mind lo go with them.

Aftfer settling for their passago and entering the vessel in which they wished to sail, their joint wealth eonsistod of but twenty sovereigns This was to 1,0 the basis of their future fortunes in tho new* world. Leary, who was a great deal more talkative than his friend, had a great deal to stv about what they .should do in America. Ho proposed that thev should unite their interests, ,-iud stand bv each oth. in good or evil -fortune, "l'leaven knows, Andy," ho would sometimes say, "that I'd deviuo Wpnio hist crust with yees, and Maggy iia.s tho same feelin' for Biddy, bless her sweet soul!''

To expressions of this kind the more thoughtful and reserved, bat equally Aviirm-hoarted Andv would reply, that while he could lift a hand to earn a penny the friends of his early years should ia as the member* of his own hotiseJio'd.

With such feelings, and in nunual confidence, the young emigrants landed in Baltimore, where they soon inado tho acquaintance of some of their owu countrymen, and gained a little infor^gmation in regard to business and tho prospect before them. Neither of theso wore found to be very encouraging, -irfarvwas tho first who obtained employment it was in the capacity of laborer in digging thecellars and foundations for houses about being erected.

This was several weeks after their arrival, and when their few sovereigns had become much lower than when they set Their feet in the land of strangers. It was sometime after this before O Shane aoi anything to do. and this was not till Tie had seen nearly his last farthing.

During the diseouracina: period that elansed between the finding of work by 1 joary and the getting of work by .-O'Shane, not a word w.is said by the

I'ormer, who had booomo verv reserved towards t'Shane about dividing the last crumb with him and Bridget.

A single sovereign remained of the -x*ntire ton which made up the entire wealth of O'Shane when he landed in ^the United States, and his chances of •getting something to do seomwl no bettor than at first. This sovereign he de-' tor mined to invoN', in sundry small

wares, and try \vh„i: he could do in ped„ up with'dignity

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tiling thom about from houso to house In this ho wan nioro successful than no oxpootod. His profits wore, from tho first, enough to moot his »m»U oxp®n®« on, and afterwards to gradually increase his stock in trade, wliich ftrom Ming only tho valuo of a novorolgn at nni, was, in tho course of a few months, worth many sovorelgns.

Tho digging of collars was nnrd work, much hardor than Attending to a gentleman's garden and Loary, as soon as ho saw that O'Shane was doing so well at peddling, became so much dissatisfied with his omployment that hei determined to givoit up and

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do with a "pack." llo had nearly five sovereigns laid by, and was •ibout investing them under tho advico «\r O'Shane, in goods suitable for tho trade of a peripatotic doaler, when ho was taken sick, and lay ill for some weeks. His expensos and doctor's bill during this time, took away all of his little capital, and ho was about returning with a soured spirit to his spado and mattock, when O'Shano generously offered to loan him enough to mako a fair start as a peddler. With grateful feelings this kind fonder was accopt-

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interests of the two young nion being more really united than they had been, and as both wero required to bo much from home, a small houso was taken between them, and thoir famines united in order to lessen expenses. This arrangement continued for about a year and a half, during which period Loary and O'Shane reaped a very fair harvest on their labors. At tho end of this time tho former having saved about three hundred dollars, lie laid by his pack and opened a grocery and liquor store. About the same time a situation at tho South, with a very fair salary, was offered to O'Shane, and accepted by him. At this point, tho ways by which tho two friends were to travel in the world, diverged. They parted with many sincere expressions of friendship and mutual pledges to aid each other, if the powrer to do so remained.

With three hundred dollars, shrewdness, industry and economy in personal and family expenses, success in the liquor trade was certain. Six years from tho day Leary put out his sign, lie sold out his shop, and commenced the business of a wholesale dealer in general, but rum and whisky in particular, on Bowlev's wharf. He was then worth some ten or fifteen thousand dollars, and deemed it but due to his importance as a merchant to assume a stylo of living rather more imposing than the back rooms and second story of a grog shop. But even in his pride, Loary was cautious not to put the main chance in jeopardy. A houso at four or five hundred dollars rent, and five or six hundred dollars laid out in parlor and some additional furniture covered tho length and breath of his extravagance at this era of his history. During the whole of this period, he had hoard nothing from O'Shane, except than on his arrival at Charleston, the place of his. destination, he had found all as had been represented to him that the situation he had accepted would enable him if he had his health to lay up something.

The change that had passed over Terra nee Leary in ten years was quite remarkable. When he landed from the 'Cleopatra,' ho was a fair specimen of a rough, healthy,

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and retained his appearances until lie got behind his own counter, at which time a gradual process of transformation commenced. The corduroy trousers gave way to cassimore pants, the coarse roundabout to along tailed coat, and tho seal skin cap to a black beaver with a shining .surface the stout well greased brogr.ms that had carried him many a mile over rough roads, as well as smooth ones, were thrown aside, and boots, well blacked, worn in their stead. They wero tho lirst blacked boots that had ever covered his feet. In this new dress Leary at lirst scarcely knew himself, but he was not long in forgetting that ho had ever worn any garments of inferior quality. The constant attention upon customers, with tho necessity of handling all the various commodities himself that ho had to sell, prevented Leary from making any further material alteration in hisevery-day external appearance, until ho ceased to be a retail dealer, and wroto himself a merchant. At this time tho change in tho man was very apparent. He stood at least two inches higher tho reason of that was, his chin had become elevated precisely that much further above tho point where tho collar bono rests against tho sternum. Ho shaved, or was shaved every morning. Thero was a timo when once or twice a week was deemed suflleient. His linen was faultless and changed every morning his black coat and pants guiltless of every sign of hard servico.

A few years more, and Terranco Leary, Esq., was a man of wealth, standing and importance—one of tho "first merchants" in the city. A porter, laboring man, or clerk, was treated more like a dog than a human being. Ho had no empathies whatever with the poorer classes—actually despising everything not possessed of golden attractions.

One day—it was twenty years from the time the ways of tho young Irishmen bccaino divergent—Loary was sitting in his counting room, when two natives of tho Emerald Isle, ft man and woman, entered tho store. They were plainly, but not roughly dressed. Learv recognized them in an instant—they wero Andy and Biddy O'Shano. Tho sight of them did not give him much pleasure, especially as there wero present in the counting room, two or three merchants of tho "first standing." (Jo and see what these people want," he said abruptly, and in a tone of command to one of his clerks. "If they ask for me, fell them I'm engaged, and can't see them now."

The clerk met Andv and Bridget half wav down tho store. Is Mr. Leary in?" asked O'Shane.

He is engaged at present." "No matter, ho will see us," replied O'Shane, pushing on past the clerk, who tried, but in vain, to keep them back.

To the consternation of the merchant, O'Shane and Biddy boldly entered into tho counting room—the former extending his hand eagerly, as he advanced to him. saving with a voice of pleasure.

Terranco, mon, how aro vees!" But Learv fixed a cold, repulsive look upon his old warm-hearted friend, and declined taking his hand.

Don't YOU know me, mon? Don't ye know'Andv O'Shano? Didn't we Mine from old "Tvrone? bless tho dear soil! And wasn't you a gardener's mon there, and I a draper's clerk? And wasn't Biddy here, and your wife Maggy, as intimate as born sisters? Terranco Loary, mon, don't ye know me now?"

Tho Irishman spoke with enthusiasm. «o 'way, man go 'wap," said Leary, turning his head anu waving his hand for O'Shane and his wife to retire "there is a timo for all things, and a place for all things.

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instantly changed, and hedrew himself friend mAde money enough in a few

Oo 'way. did you say, Terranco Loary?" he replied "go awny, is it now? It wasn't so, Toddy, when ya got tho fever from bard work in the sun, diggin' collars, and spent nil your monoy with the dootors. Oh, no, it wasn't go 'way then, Toddy. It wasn't go 'way when I loanod you two sovereigns to fit ye out for a trump with tho pack, and helped ve on to y'r Ibet after your sickness! *th, no, it wasn't go 'way then, Teddy. But novor mind the world Is wldo, and so good byo till yoos. Come, Biddy."

And O'Shano turned and wnlkod slowly away with his wifo. Loary was angry and motified boyond onduranco at this interviow, by which formor low associates and former low occupations wore exposed to tho two or throo diguifiod merchants, who, pitying his embarrassed condition, soon withdrew, and loft him to his not very ploasant reflections.

Mrs. Margarot Loary was no less outraged by tho assurance of thoir old acquaintances, whon hor husband related what had liapponod than had boon Mr. Torranco Loary himsolf. "Wo'll have thorn thrusting themselves upon us, I supposo, noxt thing. Biddy was always bold and forward, and never had any senso of propriety but she will not want to come here twice, if sho comes once, I can toll her."

A few hours after this remark was made, Mrs. Leary was informed that thero was a woman in tho parlor who wished to see her.

Who is it was asked. Sho said her name is O'Shane." The color instantly mounted to tho lady's face.

Tell her I am not at home." Tho servant went back to the parlor.

Mrs. Loary is not at home." But you told me," returned Mrs. O'Shane, "that she was at home."

I know," said the waiter, rudely, but I find she is not at home to YOU."

You told her my name?" "Yes." ,* What did you say it was?"

Mrs. O'Shane." yYou are certain?" .* Yes, sure of it." The visitor retired slowly, with her eyes cast down. There Ave re bitter feelings at lier heart. The friend of her early years—the companion of her early trials—the partner of her hopes and fears—to meet with whom, and to find affection unchanged, had been the dearest hope of many years had turned coldly from her.

Not at home to ME. Tried and found wanting. Ah, well! better know this at once, than take by the hand a falsehearted friend!

Leary and his wifo were not a little disturbed by tho occurrence just related. The assurance of O'Shane and Biddy, in supposing that they could now have association with thorn, was surprising and thoir assumption in thrusting themselves forward, an unpardonable offense.

Davs and weeks passed by but O'Shano and his wife came not near the friends of other days, who wished to forget thom. This 'was a relief to the Leary's, who for sometimo lived in dread of another visitation.

In the Western part of the city, among a number of houses in the process of erection, one larger and more indicative of the substantiality of its owner, went steadily up from basement to cornice, and stood forth to the eye, an object of admiration, and proof of wealth in the builder.

That will bo a splendid residence." salcl Lenry to mercantile lriond, With whom he happened to be walking on Sunday afternoon. "I wonder who it is for?

It is said to be a New Orleans merchant of groat wealth, who has retired from business, and intends residing hero for the purpose of educating his younger children.

Ah do you know his name I like to see these men of wealth coming to our citv. It is one of tho most beautiful in the country. lie must be a man of considerable property to build such a house."

Thev say he is worth half a million." "Indeed!"

Yes, like vourself, he started, I am told, with nothing, and made his own fortune.

Tho allusion to himself as having started with nothing was not entirely agreeable to Mr. Leary. He did not want people to know that he came up from the poorer classes in society, and fondly imagined that this was a secret known to but few. A referenco to the fact, therefore, was like throwing cold watef upon him.

Have you mot him," said he, because it wras necessary to say something. "Yes, he is a plain but very gentlemanly man. There is nothing ostentatious about him—nothing that marks tho puree-proud rich man—no arrogance in his character. It is O' something. O', O', ()',—no, I cannot get it. By tho way, Mr. Leary, I believe he is a countryman of yours and that reminds me of a first-rato story I heard of him. It is capital! One of tho best things that has occurred for some timo. Have you heard ofit?%wr*

No!" Well, it is first-rate. Some twenty or thirty years ago, this gentleman arrived in our country, green from Ireland. They came in company with another young couple of the same grade of society ono, I believe, was a gardener, and the other had been in a draper's store, and came to seek their fortunes. A few sovereigns each wero all they possessed. But the men and their wives had been friends from early years and had been much attached to each other. In coming to this country, they pledged a lasting friendship and" interest in each other's welfare. For a time their way lay sido by side but there was something in the conduct of this O' —what's the name? O'Shane! Yes, now I have it. O'Shano is the name, Mr. Leary."

The merchant, who was so full of the good story, did not observe the marked effect the"announcement of this name had upon his auditor. He went on—

O' Shane noticed some things in the conduct of his friend which he did not much like as for instanee, when fortune smiled a little upon him, he was distant towards O'Shane, and said nothing about dividing his last penny with him as before but when things looked dark with him and bright with O'Shane, he was exceedingly glad to bask in his friend's sunshine. Still, notwithstanding this. O'Shane was attached to him, and their wives were like sisters. They started in the world as peddlers, O'Shane loaning his friend, who had spent all his money in sickness, enough to get a pack well tilled. In order to lessen expenses, they rented a small house, and their wives lived together while they were away. "At length the friend saved enough to set up a small grog shop, and O'Shane accepted an invitation at tho South. They parted and never met again till six months ago, twenty years having elapsed since they separated. The

years by selling grog to get into a more

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decont and rospectublo business. ITo became wholesale dealor, and is now, I am told, ono of our wealthy merchants. But ho is represented as being exceedingly proud of his position in socloty, at tlio sumo time that he is haughty and overbearing to those in humbler circumstances. With him, I supposo, as with too many othoni, monoy, not worth, makes the man. "O'Shano, who was a far worthier man, pushed ahoad at tho South, not by soiling rum, howover—ho was abovfef that—but by fair anil honorable trade. Two yoars ago ho went to Now Orloans —having amassed about fifty thousand dollars in Charleston—and entered into tho cotton brokerage business, from which ho rotiros with a million dollars honestly made. But now for the gist of our story. O'Shano had not soen or hoard direct from his friend in fifteen yoars. But ho undorstood how he was getting along, and ascertained on his arrival in Baltiniorothat he knew nothing of his altered fortunes. So what do you think he does Ho knew that if ho camo as tho possessor of half a million, ho would be received with open arms, and ho would not know wnether a spark of true regard remained. He therefore determined to test his friend. In order to do this, after his arrival in tho city ho called, in company with Biddy, his wife, at the store of tho merchant, and claimed his acquaintance. Two or three persons happened to be present at the time, and I am told they described the scene rich beyond anything they had ever seen. The merchant did not know them, and O'Shane, to refresh his memory, reminded him in an assumed brogue of Ireland, and what they had been there, and of their early struggles in this country. It is suid he spoke with much feeling. But tho outraged merchant bid him begone in a towering passion. "After that O'Shane's wife called to see the friend of her early years, hoping that she might not be so badly changed as her husband. She sent up her name, and received for an answer that the lady wasn't at home or, as the servant said, not at home to her.

It was enough. O'Shane saw that his old friend was unworthy his regard, and will treat him hereafter as a stranger."

Leary and his communicative companion were walking along, the former with his head bent down and his eyes upon the pavement, in order to conceal the expression upon his lace. Just as the narrative was closed, Leary looked up and found himself face to face with O'Shane and his wife, both with the appearance and bearing of people who lived and moved in and were used to eood society. They looked at him with The look of"strangers, and liis eye dropped beneath their gaze. "That's the very man now," said Leary's companion'as they passed on.

Leary knew it too well. And he also knew very sooa after, that his conduct was notorious, and that people despised him for his purse-proud arrogance, whil1 O'Shane was respected for his sterling qualities as a man—his true heart und sound bead, as much as for his wealth. He never forgave O'Shane in his heart for what he had done but his anger was impotent. He sometimes met him in society, but O'Shane's bearing was that of a perfect stranger. Every now and then, people would introduce them, when they would bow with cold politeness, as if'they had never seen each other before. Mrs. Leary and Mrs. O'Shane occasionally met. But it was liiddy and Maggy no more. 4^*-

DICKENS'S TASTE.

Dickens's lust-O 111 litoi'»tnro was po. culiar. Like Byron, he undervalued Shakespeare, saying, "for a great poet, he was too careless, and his finest plays are full of absurdities." He forgot that he himself, like Shakespeare, was fond of introducing ultra-natural situations. Nevertheless ne had no appreciation of the grave-digger's scene in "Hamlet," and tho smothering scene in "Othello." He maintained thev wrere beneath tho dignity of tragedy, "being entirely sensational and realistic, adding: "I should like to sec Sheridan Knowies try such scones upon the stage now they would damn any play, however good." His favorite poet was Tennyson, although he thought Browning still greater. He once declared, in a fit of enthusiasm, that lie would rather have written Browning's "Blot on tho Scutcheon" than any work of modern imes. He once horrified Charles Knight, editor of Shakespeare, by calling Hamlet that prosy chap," and said that "no audience could stand his dreary soliloquies unless they had known them by heart thus unconsciously sounding the great

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praise. When Walter Savage andor was praising Dickens's style, and asking him where ho got it, he said: "Why, from the New Testament, to be sure." Wordsworth and Dickens did not take to each other. Indeed, thero was a mutual contempt between them, though thoy met only once. This was about 1843. Some days after, tho gentleman whose guest Wordsworth was, in the suburbs of London, asked tho poet how he liked the great novelist. Wordsworth had a great contempt for young men, and, after pursing lip his lips in a manner peculiar to him, and swinging ono leg over the other, the bare llesh of his "ankles appearing over his socks, slowly answered: "Why, I am not very much given to turn critic on people I meet but, as vou ask me, I will candidly avow that I thought him a very talkative, vulgar voung person—but 1 dare say ho may bo very clever. Mind, I don't want to say a word against him, for I have never read a lino that ho has written."

Some time after this the same querist guardedly asked Dickens how he liked the poet-laureate. "Like him? Not at all. He is a dreadful old ass!" *i4

CHAIRMAN.—In Micigan lives

certain town in a very good sort

of nian, who once in a while unintentionally gets off something pretty good. He attended a political

meeting

What business had C- (tb® chairman) to get up and talk so long? In these meetings they always appoint tho poorest material they have to the chair—the man that they don't want to hear speak. Why,in Wisconsin, I came from, I was chairman more than fifty times!" *„v,

SEARCH FOR

MOISTURE.—A

PRUSSIAN DISCIPLINE. Tho discipline and daily routine of exercise for this Prussian army are to all foreigners a source of never-ending wonder. The early morning is devoted to cleansing ("policing") the quarters and correcting any irregularities which may have arisen out of the previous day's duties. Later in the forenoon the hours aro given to study—arithmetic, geography, geometry, theory and practice of military science and even tinging is not neglected. Groat importance is attached to tho studies of the soldiers, and, by attaining a certain advancement in knowledge, each one, after satisfactory examination, can snorten his term of servico from ono to two years. In tho afternoon of each day the bodily culture is attended to, and this consists, not only of purely military drill, but also of every variety of physical exerciso calculated to" add either strength or suppleness to the human form running, leaping, vaulting, balancing, bayonet-exercise, lifting, shooting, bending—altogether such an innumerable variety of movements tl:at no muscle of the body is without his daily exercise.

Those "squad" drills are followed by company and regimental parades, and at short intervals by gntnd field movements of brigades and divisions, and these once or twice a year by grand army movements, with mock battles. I havo not been fortunate enough to witness any of the grand tactics but the exercises in detail, by company, battallion, squadron, or battery, and in particular the artillery movements,' seem to me to be as near porfeection as patience and practice can mako them. All this perfection of preparatory knowledge and practice must,of course, have its weight on the struggle of actual war but, if there is any ground for doubt as to the power of* the German militia, would it lie in the too great reliance which is here placed on scientific knowledge, and consequent distrust of a quick common-sense which is not too overburdened with ai quired wisdom

MISTAKEN FOR A SCARECROW. A correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial tells this hardly credible story:

Te prevent depredations on the cornfield by the crowr, various devices are resorted to. On account of the many fatal accidents resulting of late from the careless handling of lire-arms, thiswise bird generally manages not to be fooling around in the vicinity ef the muzzles of guns when thev gooff. The hanging to a pole, planted in the corn-field, of a dead crow, is said to act frequently as a good warning to living, thieves, of that race. The principal objection to this plan, is the difficulty of getting a specimen to hang up. A seedy gentleman of straw, arrayed in decayed garments^ is olten stationed on guard over the growing crop, and does well enough for a short time but tho crows are not long in forming his acquaintance, and becoming on intimate terms with him. Once, however, I saw a csow badly fooled on the thing. One day, Professor Hotbs, who is generally adorned with rather'maturc raiment,, was crossing a cornfield, and was suddenly attacked with one of those! paralytic strokes-of learning on the bsain as he stood, Isat in hand, in tho hot sun, hour after hour, pursuing a train ef thought on some scientific subject, a «row, that had be©m watching him ali the while, finally camo to tho conclusion that he was a genuine scarecrow, and picking up a dead mouse, which it accidentally came aeposs, described a few majestic circles isi the air, and alighted on tho Professor's head to eat the mouse. Just ping Ui'# hat on wiih a jerk, started for home. Of course tlioro was something of a flutter in !ho region of tka learned man's, ideas, and the crow becoming entangled in his wig was soon on his dissecting table, contributing to science.

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WOMAN'S RIGHTS AT HOTELS. Whatever may be said or thought on the subject of woman's rights in voting, or the phases of the movement which invites so much criticism and argument pro and con, there aro few lady tourists who will not agree with a sprightly correspondent of the Boston Transcript, who says: "I am not stro,ng-minflcxl, nor do I want to vote, but I should like to have some of the privileges of a gentleman at public house. If I am stopping but for dinner and don't care to tako a room, or the house is full, or I can not get ono, I should like to have tho dust brushed off of me. If I have boon travelling, I should be allowed to go to a bath-room, with all.its conveniences, as can tho gentlemen, and have a good 'wash up' before dining. If I havo to wait an

hour or

during

a recent campaign, where the gentleman appointed to the chair made a long, rambling speech, which very much disgusted B— After the meeting was over, ho gave vent to his feelings in the following manner

Say

daily pa­

per recently had quite an interesting statement of the singular invasion ol a sewer by the root of a tree on its searcn for nioistufe during the present drought, which brings to remembrance a case which happened in 1S64, the summer of which was also verv dry. »e roots of a silver-leaf P°P *a^" Medford, ran in tho ground fifty then up a four-foot bank, made their wav through a cellar-wall, then down eiglit feet to the cellar-floor, passing on the surface some fifteen feet, making altogether a distance of seventy-eight feet, in search of moisture. ,v.

two for dinner, I should

liko to while away the time by perusing the newspapers in tho reading-room, without having a dozen masculines eye me as though I had no business there, and givo deep sigh of relief whon I left, so that they might elevate their feet on the reading table again. And above all, as vou may have imagined, I would like to"soo tho register, and find out who's there, and make sure that my best friends aro not on tho second floor. If the indefatiguable Susan B. A. will right this matter, I shall lie everlastingly grateful."

Ax AM'/TOTK WORTH PRESKRVIXO. —A Paris correspondent guarantees tho following:

A Frenchman, a prisoner in Ldmburg, having managed to escape, during the Napoleonic wars, took refuge in tho powder magazine. When the authorities wishea to seize hiin, thev found him sitting on a barrel with lighted match, and threatening to blowup tho town. The authorities reflected prudently, and the result of their deliberations was that it would be better to starve tho Frenchman out. But they reckoned without their prisoner, who liked good cheer, and was determined to live well. In conscquenco ho called out that ho would blow the town to

iecos if he did not get three meals a he would write out the bill of fare. Sawney succumbed, and the demands of the prisoner went on increasing. Sometimes he had a serenadetmder his window then a revision Of the garrison afterwards a sham fight, in which the troops representing the French army beat tho Highlanders. At last he enacted that every Sabbath morning, before bteakfast, the lord Provost, in lull unitorm, should make his appearance and road him an address. This lasted until the allios entered Paris.

OXE of thoso very simple improvements in the construction of a longknown article has recently been announced in England, in regard to the gumming of envolopes, consisting in applying the mucilage to the lower part of the envelope instead of the flap. On moistening tne edge of the flap, as usual, and pressing it down upon the gummed surface below, a very thorough adhesion takes place, without the objection of getting the taste of the gum in the mouth, or removing a part of it by the tongue. *'. S

FULTON'S FIRSTSTEAMBOA T. A correspondent of the Geneva Courier relates the following story of the Kate Morgan, the little steamer which for more than a generation has plied on Cayuga Lake, her owners obeying the behest ot the proprietor, to "run her till she busts:"

Before the Chancellor Livingstone stemmed thecurrent of tho Hudson,yet after the little Clermont had stirred the quiet waters of thq Collect Pond, tho whistle of tho Kate Morgan awoke the echoes in tho Taughanic Glen, and her paddle wheel dashed thespray upon Cayuga bridge. There is a bit of romance attached to her name and building.

Old General Morgan, of Revolutionary fame, had a noble estate on the eastern bank of tho lake, not far from where the present Wells College now stands. Between his only daughter, a lovely

fongofexisted

jirl eighteen, and young Fulton,had a tender attachment, which, howover, the poverty and obscurity of Robert led tne General to severely frown upon. Fulton went to New York. Ho labored long years in perfecting his invention his" day of triumph came, and then ho wrote to the stern father, relating his success and asking for the daughter's hand.

Nav," wrote back the incredulous old soldier, I'll believe what I see with my own eyes. Come you back, scapegrace, to tho lake build and sail a steamboat past my own door and then, and not till then, shall you have my daughter Kate."

Need I say that Fulton came joyfully back that a steamer was built as rapidly as circumstances would permit that sho was launched, and in duo timo did sail triumphantly past the General's door? But let liie add that, according to an express stipulation made by the sly Robert in case he succeeded, when the Kate Morgan sheered in toward tho General's (lock, a sni tll boat was seen pushing out, containing tho original Kate, her stern father, and a gentleman in clerical vestniesits. They were soon on board, and there, amid the wavings of flags, the ringing of bells, and tho blowing of whistles," the proud inventor and his prouder bride were made one. A glorious sweep up and down the lako completed the first bridal trip by steam ever known In this country.

IIOW TO WORK OFF A Debt is a very bad thing for a laboring man, but it is not tho worst evil that could befall him. If it is made a stimulus to extra exertions, and if it incites to a close, rigid economy in saying money, it may help a man to form excellontousiness habits. It is a porversity of human nature that we seldom do more than wo are obliged to. An honest young man will feel that ho has not anv right to luxuries that can jast as well be dispensed with, whon his creditors are waiting for thoir money. If his wife is a suitablo helpmate, she will eschew finery and oxpensivo house furnishings until sho can buy tlbem with cash.

If both will set out with a fixed determination to mako all th05r can and sure all they cam toward paying off the debt, thoy need notfoar. undor ordinary circumstances*, to go into business oa a moderate amount of borrowed capital. But lot every ono in such a position remembor to save even the pennies toward tho debt. Let them not despise, as too muen trouble, obliging a neighbor with even a pint of milk every morning. Even that trifle would pay the interest on over a hundred dollars for a year. It is some trouble to pick for a neighbor flue half dozen quarts ol currants or berries you do not wish for yoarself. and you think it too little pt'crAt-*»

malm

it worth while, but tho

doQaror even tho half dollar you will gain will help toward tho debt. When eggs are forty conts a dozen, it may bo a lsttle self denial to do without a nico breakfast of them when you lm-ro tiom in tho house, but tho prudent Ktouse~ keeper will chooso rather to provide a less expensive imoal and defer her omelet until they aro lower priced,

W I E N I N IN E N According to a Frcnch writer, crystallised carbonate of soda, although so great a favorite with tho washerwomen, i»a declared foe to linen, since, notwithstanding: Its cleansing power, it attacks the fibre, and after a tiiiK) makes it so rotten as to cause it to tear, almost at the touch. An improvement on this substance, it is said, consists in the employment of a solution in tho proportion of two pounds of soap to twentyfive quarts of warm water, to which aro to bo added ono table-spoonful of cssoncoof turpentine and three spoonfuls of ammonia. The mixture is to bo stirred by tho help of a littlo broom, and tho linon immersed in it forsoveral hours, tho tub being completely covered. Tho articles are then to lc washed in the ordinary way, rinsed in tepid water, and then blnod, if this is necessary. The same solution can lc used twice over by hoating again and adding half tho amount given of essonco of turpentine and ammonia.

It is claimed t. at this process is accompanied by great economy of time, labor, and fuel, and that the linen experiences littlo or no injury, appearing finally in a condition of irreproachable whiteness. Tho ammonia, it is said, does not exort any corrosive effect upon tho fibre, sinco it evaporates immediately and tho odor of the turpentine entirely disappears in drying.

AN INDIAN'S PREACHING.—During the Florida war, a smart fun loving sort of an officer, got a furlough for a fow weeks, and spent his timo in seeing what he could see" around tlift dismal placo called Apalachicola. Cariosities were rather sparse. So ho amused himself in smoking

Florid'to­

bacco, and in the fumes of it in.ising how he could gain "tho bubble reputat1'^

Even in tho cannon's moi*h.'' At last ho fell foul of a

curionty

in tho

shape of an old tpmed Indian and arte putting to him several queS'lonH. asked Mm how he-got a living. he "I preach." Preact," mterrogatcd'tho officer, "who piys you--what do you get? "O, I sometimes get turkey, sometimes potatr, and den hominy Is that all!" »«yl the officer, 1 should think that W«s d-d poor pay "Yes "replied the antique Seminole with a sly look, but p'raps it bo d-d poor preach." *.

CLOSING CRACKS IN STOVES.—It may be convenient to know a ready ine of closing up cracks, which are not uncommon, in cast-iron stoves

nr?d

are assured that the following recipe a reliable one. Good wood ashes are be sifted through a fine sieve, to v, _h is added the same quantity of daj, lv pulverized, together with a litth salt. The mixture is to be inoistcned with water enough to

nulVih.!i\vith

it

the cracks of the stoye tiHed Tills cement does not peel off or '^*l awav,

and assumes

an extra degree of

hardness after being heated, fhe sto\ must be eool when the ap pi

cat ion

made. The substance may be used in setting in the plates of a stove, or in iting stove-pipes, serving to render

the joints perfectly tight. ,v^

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