Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 2, Number 7, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 12 August 1871 — Page 2

'Rural.

O N E E S A

An Muy r^lrt before the Terre-Haule Horticultural Society by Mrs. Modesltt. Mr. President, and members of the Horticultural Society, you have requested n»e to write, on so small, and yet so sharp and stinging a subject, that I fear to refuse lest the queen bees of this society, rise, and drive me from the hive, as a drone, as I have spent much of my lite in a hum, or trying to teach others to hum, I will follow the example of my subject, and gather "honey every day, from every shining flower." Although I may not be as fortunate each day, as I was last week, when my friend Mr. T. Hulman sent me a jar of honey extracted by machine, that was delicious, rare, and of a delicate color and taste.

The testimony of a great and good naturalist was, that the whole earth is a vast museum in which are crowded beautiful and sublime objects, in almost endless variety, all combining to amuse the understanding and gladden the heart, and for the rapid advance of this science, wo are indebted to the compound microscope. To tho naturalists these investigations are exceedingly interesting, while, to the contemplative, show the wonderful adaptation of the Creator's great and unchangeable laws, to the well being of even the least of his creatures. If we could open, and unbind our eyes, like Moses, should espy.

E'en In a Bee the radiant Deity." I tell thee, says Shelley that these living things enjoy and live like man "And the minuted throb,

That through their frame diffuses The ullghteHt. faintest motion, Infixed, and Indispensable,

AH the mnjestle laws, That rule yon rolling orbs."

How often, when in childhood, we have repeated the sweet old lay by Dr. Watts, How doth the busy bee improve each shining hour we received our first impression, that labor is worship, and as we advanced in years triod to imitate the bee by culling the sweets •of everything in passing in order to secure tho greatest happiness.

To the practical workings of the bee, I refer you to Langstroth's bee culture, tho best scientific work 011 tho honey bee, andQuinby's beo keeping explained, for the most practical teachings. have learned from these, tho best time for removing bees is in February, look out for sufficient honey, and plenty of boos in selecting them, bees ought to bo seen in at least tive layers between the combs. Givo (our or even six feet between tho hives if possible. lie careful to shade tho bees after a light snow. Itasswood is tho most desirable tree for producing honey, but one who knows, thinks if tho Antwerp llaspIwrry is cultivated, there will bo again in tho fruit, as well as honey. In so curing tho honey after it is made, cover the head and tfchouldcrs witlvthin muslin, and blow a little smoke through tho hive, and fear nothing. A boo never stings unless injured. A true moral to us of the sisterhood, nevor to use the sting of sarcasm, only to repel tho attacks of those who would injure, like tho beo use it as a defense, never to attack.

SCIENCE IN J'LA IN ENGLISH. William Rushton,of (Jnoon's College, Cork, writing in Nature, under tho above heading, says: "Tho learned will have to revise tho method of teaching. Thoro is a well founded suspicion that tho courso commonly pursued has been wrong in principle. Tho teachers proceeded from generalities, constructed very pretty systems, and dealt largely In refinements. Many pooplo now believe. on the contrary, that wo ought to begin with individual instances, then lead tho pupil to construct broad outline, and gradually to fill up the picture as Ids knowledge advances. "Or, take another Illustration. If a man works his way up the mountain side, ho meets with many difficulties,

but at length when he reaches the ton, he en oys a lino prospect all around. he enjoys a lino prospect Now, if that man wishes to guide others up tho mountain, it is not sufficient for him to harangue from the top, or to dilate upon tho fino prospect which he epjoys. He must come down again to the valley- he must take others by the hand, and lead them by tho way he took himself, or very nearly by the same way. "lIntU*reeently, elementary treatises on science wereWritten from the top of the mountain. The authors, enjoying an expanded prospect, were disposed to take general views and to discuss principles which, however interesting to themselves, had little or no interest for tho pupil. There was a want of svmpathv with the learner for example. tho "writers on geography began with tho globe, and expounded the elements of spherical trigonometry and astronomy, talkins of meridians, parallels/the tropin, tho equator, and the ecliptic. At present the best teach-! ers of geography to young children bogin with tho phue where the pupil lives and dwells thence they procwa to the surrounding districts, to neighboring countries, and end with the globe. "Bacon says that "wherever it is possible, knowledge should bo insinuated into tho mind of another in the manner in which it was first discovered.' If this principle were fairlv carried out. it would work great changes in our methods of leaching."

A MoniLR paper bails the new departure in this lugubriously joyftil strain It is Northern all over. it is

and rattle our chains.'

AT Lincoln, Pa., a school teacher whipped a girl, when the Utter** mother took a whip and thrashed the teacher until she got down on her kneea and mUd to her, "Now I lay me," after which she sued the mother for damages. The teacher want* the school directors to call out the militia.

Young Folks.

A VERY EASY ENIGMA. I am composed of 24 letters. My 13,18, 8, 3, 6, 18, 24, is a country in

Europe.

My 15, 6, 23,12, is much used in cooking. My 5, 1, 20, is an article of apparel. My 9,1, 17, 7, is used by shoemakers. My 8, 13, 22,14, 21, 13, is a man's name. My 24, 19, 8. is an animal. My 4,13,1, is a beverage. My 2, 10,13, is contemptible. My 16, 11, is a pronoun.

My whole is a familiar adage. VAIT.

DROP-LETTER PUZZLE. (Supply every other letter.) I a a O a a Adoadhnnwee. MOLLY.

CROSS-WORD.

My first is in clover, but not in wheat My next is in highway but not in street My third is in rain, but not in the clouds My fourth is in ship, but not in the shrouds My filth's in the sentence, but not in the judge My sixth is in covet, but not in begrudge My seventh's in the matron, but not in the child My eight's in a garden, but not in the wild My ninth is in silver, but 't is not in gold: And my whole alike visits the young and the old.

HIDDEN MOUNTAINS AND TOWNS. 1. The lamb was found at last. 2. John found my ring, and he claimed it. 3. Love and esteem your parents. 4. It is now the month ol March.

LOTTIE.

5. Neither the gasoline nor the astral lamp gives so good alight as gas. FLORENCE W. 6. Catch a fox for David's new Arkansas trap.

ADOLPH M. NAOKL.

MISSING CITIES.

1. Falling on the ice, he exelaim-

2. He broke the door with many 3. Landlord, bring me two I. He said to the choir

RUSTICPS.

ANSWERS TO ENIGMAS, CHARADES AC. IN LAST WEEK'S PAPER.

Biblical Proverbs.—For wisdom is better than rubies and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.

Problem.—Tho vessel would start North 30° 52' East, and 901,7^8,688 miles she would be 527.(17 miles from the pole.

WORD Syt'ARK KNIIiMA. I N 1) A A

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Hidden Cities.—1. Toledo 2. Limit 3. Salem 4. Rome 5. Lancaster.

RIGHTS OF MAN.

Here is an eloquent extract from a ,, speech of If ewton Booth delivered reFrancisco:

There are rights more sacred than tho right's of government—National or State -the rights of man. It is to maintain these that all government is instituted. What we desire is that our Government shall be as perfect in practice asin theory. We have all an e^ual interest in the just execution of wise laws—in the integrity of courts, purity of legisit

lation and honesty of administration. It is predicted 'that the Republican form of governmont will fail. All other orms have failed. History is strewn with their wrecks. If"agovernment of tho people by the peoplo, for the people," recognizing "the right of every man to become the equal of every other man." shall not ultimately succeed, man himself is a failure and creation a mistake. Whether our experiment shall succeed or fail depends, not upon politicians, and leaders and statesmen not upon Congress or President or legislation, but upon the people themselves. nvs, manners, customs, arts, ehango with tho passing age. They are shows of tho time. There is only one vital fact in history—individual life. Tho State, tho School, the Church, are only valuable as they make man more a man. They are but scaffoldings to build him* up to a higher manhood. Failing in this, they are worse than

ever name or nature, that represses the development of individual man, restrains his liberty, dwarfs his growth, enthralls him "to error, ought to be changed or destroyed. "Kingdoms are olav Freedom and Justice the eternal rights of man.

N! of Sin Fraucisco: yon hold the western citadel of the Republic. Hold it for justice—hold it for truth—hold it for freedom—hold it for man. [Immense applause.] j.

SHALL WE MEET AGAIN* The following is said to be one of the most brilliant articles written by the lamented George I. Prentice: "But the fact of nature is inexorable. There is no appeal for relief from the great laws which doom us to dust. We llourish and fade as the leaves of the forest, and the flowers that bloom and wither in a day have no frailer holu upon life than the mightiest monarch that ever shook the earth with his footsteps^ Generations of men will appear and disappear as the grass, and the countless multitudes that throng the world to-day will disappear as the footprints on the shore. Men seldom think of the great event of death until the shadow falls across their own path, hiding, from their eyes the traces of loved ones, whose loving smile was the sunlight of their existence. Death is the antagonist of life, and the cold thought of the tomb is the skeleton of all leasts. We do not want to go through the dark valley, although its may lead to Paradise ana with Charles Lamb, we do not want to lie

rendolent of the victor spirit. It is the down in the grave, even with princes harvesting of the war result*. It is for fellows. In the betutifhl drama tho readjusting of the captive's fetters.

on, the instinct of mortality, so

It is tho compressing of the thirty-sev- eloquently uttered by the death of the en stars into one. It is the throwing devoted Greek, finds "a deep response in away of masks, the ending of shams every soul. When shout to yield his and lies, and the manftil avowal ot young existence a sacrifice to his fute, the truth. The republic is buried out his beloved Clemantua asks if thev of sight. The empire swings off on its ahali meet again, to which he replies giant course, and as it rises to its] "'I asked that dreadful question of father of a large family of children power and splendor, we doff our hats the hills, that seemed eternal—of the

We stall meet again. Clemantua,"

AMMONIA AS A MOTOR. Several months ago we described the operation, at New Orleans, La., of a street car, propelled by ammonia. The mechanism, we believe, was found on trial to require re-arrangement, and tlie necessary changes having been made, now operates, it is said to better advantage than before. lia, legi turns to'a vapor which produces a prcs sure of sixty pounds to the square inch This pressure is applied like steam and Is subject to the same controlling influences. When intended to bo used for the purpose of propulsion, the,am monia is poured into a system of tubes deposited in a tank of water in such way that the gas which passes through the cylinder, instead of escaping into tho open air may be carried through the exhaust pipe, and be absorbed by the water. In this manner the amino ni.ited water is preserved, and beinj redistilled, is capable of being usee over again several thousand times, wearing out at the rate of twenty-five per cent per annum. The gas readily absorbed byythe water tha prevent* any di.-urf *l,*bleJ smell noise/f e*«ju^K _^jH5e airv the end of eac!S^^|^.,.j(aid tilled from a statroiwvy reservoir liquid ammonia, and during the journey the heat lost by the tubes is acquired by the water in the tank, which re-imparts it. and prevents the ammonia from falling below the boiling tern perature. Tho report of the Examining Committee, beaded by General Beauregard, approves of the invention in terms which are too indefinite to be conclusive.—Scientific American.

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Liquifietl ammonia, when subjected to a heat of sixty degrees Fahrenheit

SOME zealous religionists, romemboring that Christ was put to death on a cross, and Constantino is said to have been converted by a cross, and many miracles are reported to have been wrought by means of the cross, desire all Christians to unite in praying that thoro shall appear in the heavens a distant light in the shape of a great cross 011 the first three Sunday nights of October, 1871. Which reminds us what a very distinguished man once said,when asked tor a sign that his teaching was truo: "A wicked and adulterous generation soeketh after a sign, and verily no sign shall be given." It sometimes seems as though our chronological tables aro all wrong, and tliat we are living in the twelfth centtry instead of the nineteenth certainly a request like the above bears about thesame relation to the teachings of such nen asTindall, Huxley, Herschell, and Agassiz, as a convent ol mediaeval imnks bears to the millennium. Is thisthe age of science or of signs Do time people who ask for celestial displays of Bengal lights and l»eseech the Almighty to give them an exhibition of fireworks, hold religion on so fraila tenure as to require such ocular deilonstrations of its truth? If such is tho case the saints are in a more pithble condition than most of tho sinner*, who feel the truth and greatness of religion, but confess their inability to realize its ideal and are oppressed by their shortcomings.—Golden Age.

SOME years ap a Ciicinnati paper received* and printed tie first chapter of what appeared to be a thrilling romance, in the expectation of being provided with the conduding portions as might be needed, 'lie chapter was very ingeniously written, and concluded by leaving the prticipal character suspended by the panfaloons from the limb of a tree overt* perpendicular precipice. It attraetoi the attention of the press

TKRKK-HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL. AUGUST 12,1871.

GOLD AND SIVER PRODUCT OF THE PACIFIC COASTL The gold and silver annually produced upon the pacific coast approximates $80,000,000: an amount that will be greatly increased within the next two or three years. Only a little more than twenty years have elapsed since we began mining for these metals, daring which time we have extracted and put into circulation something over |1,200,000,000 to sav nothing of the other forms of wealth created DV our limited population, meantime.. Never before, perhaps, have so small a number of people built up and established upon a permanent footing such a broad and profitable business in so short a period. But this has not been accomplished without much loss to individuals, «nd even the most costly sacrifices on the part of large classes of the community. As in the founding of every other important industry, time and the expenditure of vast sums of money have been required to bring mining to its state of perfection nearly all the experiments and trials made in the furtherance of this business having been carried on under conditions involving great hard ship and heavy expense.

Hence, while it has brought ample reward, and even opulence, to some, it has inured only in loss to the many, who have, consequently, felt sore over their want of success seeking often to attribute and often with good cause, their failure to the fault of others. Thus the prospector bnd locator ot mines is prone to censure the capitalist, ar*J vice versa each conceiving that other has been overreaching, remiss, or otherwise instrumental in working him a wrong. The indiscriminate in dulgence of this feeling, though natn ral enough, is apt to do both parties in justice since, overlooking exceptional cases, a survey of held operations, so remote and vast, and a consideration of the troubles inherent to a new and difficult business, tend to show that these fancied wrongs were generally the result of excusable ignorance or un avoidable* necessity, rather than will fill error. And as such, they should be overlooked in passing judgment upon the pioneers in this great industry From "Mining on the Pacific Coast," the August Overland Monthly.

briefly concludcd tlf story thus: "tyiapfcr II— —After hanging to the treachepus tree for four weeks, his pantalon|s gave way, and Charles Melville mied headlong over me of the Jenny Lind of fame." the yawning preci|pe. I "He fell a distancjof five miles, and I

came down with thi small of hu back

across a stake-andfider fence, which

is at present residijg. Ho is engaged

clear streams that flow forever—of the I J+r. PKTKK, the toman Catholic pa- «ump with him. stars among whose fields of a wire my per spirit has walked. As I look upon thy cond living face, I feel that there is something calls

in thv love that cannot wholly perish. It for the benefit othe Puritans."

THE DISEASE APHASIA.

Meaning One Thing and Saying Another.

A curious and very elaborate book has been written by an English physician, Dr. Bate man, cf Norwich, on the remarkable disease which doctors call Aphasia. Aphasia is the general name for a disease, usually, but not invariably, connected with some serious affection of the brain, which causes those who suffer from it to articulate sounds or words very different from the sounds or words they are aiming at. Au aphasia lady has been known, for instance, to come forward to meet a guest with a cordial smile and outstretched band, and then articulate, "Pig, brute, stupid fool!" in place of the words of welcome really expressing the thought in her mind, while in other cases the words articulated, when the patient was intending to read aloud, turned out simply gibberish.

In some cases the mind seems to go ih search of the right sound or word, and to seize the wrong one, through some confusion in the action of the proper nerves or muscles in some cases not to know even at which sounds to aim at all. Now, what is the proper mental interpretation of such facts as these How is it to be explained that, without any loss of intelligence, the great "instrument of thought," as language has been called, should so completely defy the power which produced it and denned its exact sphere of duty?

The case of the patient who, by a blow on the head, lost completely the knowledge of Greek, without appearing to suffer any other loss whatever, would to many suggest, as the physician who attended him—Dr. Scoresby Jackson—remarked, that the Greek knowledge was all "deposited" in a particular square inch of brain, the injury of which just destroyed this knowledge without invading any other sphere of intellect.

A Dublin physician, Dr. Graves, had a case in which a patient could not recall any noun substantive—common or proper—but could always recall its initial letter. He, therefore, made himselt a pocket dictionary of the words in the most general use, including the proper names of his children and servants and friends, and in conversation would always refer to this dictionary, and run his'eye down the initial letters until he reached the name of which he was in search, "keeping his finger and eye fixed on the word until he had finished his sentence but tho moment he had closed the book he again forgot the name, though he never forgot the initial letter, and could always again recover it by means of his dictionary. Now, take these cases together, and we observe that in one case the whole network of associations contained in a single language was lost through the agency of the disease in the other case, not even this, all the examples of the same part of speech, minus the initial letter, which was uniformly retained.

There is a case of a patient in the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, under Dr. Gairdner, whose loss of language was so complete that ho could only communicate with other people by signs. After a time, Dr. Gairdner observed that the other patients in the infirmary thought this man was shamming, and the reason they gave was, that though he could not speak in any other way, he could swear freely. Vet this man soon after died suddenly, and his brain was found to be much eaten away by

TnE$S(^~9riNG BOARDER Mr. and Mrs. Brown, of street, Brooklyn, aro an amiable couple, or at least the3' were, until, having more room than was necessary in their dwelling, they took in boarders

One of them, being a fascinating young man, soon became a favorite with Mrs. Brown, who was inclined to lavish her "sweetness" upon him.

The husband viewed his wife's conduct with infinite disgust.—but taking the matter philosophically, made no disturbance, but patiently awaited further developments.

Mrs. B., being perhaps troubled by a guilty conscience, did her best to conceal the state of affairs, and to do so successfully she counterfeited an intense hatred of the boarder.

One atlornoon, in his presence, but for tho benefit of her husband, who also sat near, smoking, she announced her determination to keep boarders no longer, and signified that the one then present could at once seek new quarters, while at the same time, by means ot sundry sly winks and tender grimaces, she endeavored to convey the impression that she was far from being in earnest in regard to him.

Unfortunately for her peace of mind, a convenient mirror near her husband reflected to him her various contortions of countenance, and the daino was suddenly thunderstru.k by the following curt remark:

No need of warning Bill out, Nance if you give him two or three more sly

winks over yonr shoulder, he'll go of his own accord, and if ho doesn't I'll kick him out'"

The boarder took the hint, and Mrs. Brown suddenly became a saddler and a wiser woman.

MR. .JUSTIN MCCARTHY writes from London: I 'assisted,' tho other night, at a rather melancholy entertainment. It was the performance of Otto Goldschmidt's sacred pastoral, 'Ruth,' the principal soprano part in which was taken by his renowned wife, Jenny Lind. There was a brilliant bouse resolute to le pleased. Jenny Lind had a grand reception, the cordiality of which was undoubtedly enhanced by the general desire to mark a sense of indignation at the wanton and crucl calumnies which lately assailed her husband. But it was a heavy and mournful business. 'Can that be Jenny Lind?' some of the younger listen-

and mquries ltegan to be: ers whispered. That heavy, homely made concerning th( continuation of matron—that striving singer with the the fute of HR hero, i»av after day the worn-out voice, which struggle* HO victimized published looked lor the painfully with the high notes and is so remaining chapters, lut in vain. They hoarse with tho low What was the never came to haid. Finding that Picoloinini mania, the Patti mania, the they had been sold, inu wishing to put XUfsson mania, when compared with a stop to thejokestlHr contemporaries the madness for Jenny Lind? And were cracking at tfcir expense, they now what remains? Nothing, it seeins

to me, except knowledge of music and high artistic purpose. No fancies, no art, could do anything with that wrecked and faded voice. Nothing hinted to

is not true that the Commissioner

Internal Revenue intends to put a,

st*mp

so jarred him that tt was compelled to to the rumor was that he sent a f2.»j?hly be successful through mere

travel in Italy for hs health, where he whiskey stamp to a gauger who pulTit

upon

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prints "St. Thtnas Aquinas on the color to the story of stamping Little little boy of three years and a half, idrionof the dinned in hell," and Breeches. who was perspiring very freely, ran in Js upon the Age "to reprint to his mother, saying: "O, mamma, Pt

ALL Ireland has but one pedler, and to be known a bo it hell. They were gant. if among my flowers there were fusely and he went to his grandfather organ-grinder* are unknown luxuries among the origiujl founders of it.— a snake, I would not root up my flow- crying bitterly and asking hitn to "tie there. (Mdrm Ag*. ers, I would kill the snake. I it *upj the juice is all coming out."

HOW TO PROLONG LIFE. DEAR SIRS I make it a rule of my life to rise as soon as the first ray ot light breaks through my chamber window, and in order to prevent the feint ray breaking through too soon, I have the shutters carefully closed the night before by a servant, who has orders never to open the shutters before half past ten o'clock. As soon as I rise I always jump into the bath tubs, no matter how cold the water is and then I sit there thinking and wondering if it would be better to turn the water on. And I generally think it wouldn't—if it feels cool as it runs from the spiggot and so I begin my toilet without getting wet.

I never drink any more than one gallon of brandy at breakfast. My physician told me years ago that my constitution would not stand a greater quantity than that at one meal, BO I always drink the other gallon before I sit down at the table. I used to eat half a bushel of gunwads and a bar of castile soap at breakfast but the practice was discontinued because the diet seemed to affect my digestion unpleasantly. After the morning meal I exercise myself carrying the piano up and down three or tour times, and, fighting the life insurance agents who have been sitting on the from steps all night with their doctors, waiting to seize me and examine me by force as I go to the office.

I did visit the Lifting Cure once, but I abandoned it as I grew old. I have seen the time when 1 could lift a thousand pounds with one band—that is, taking it up gradually, one pound after another. During the day I eat no animal food of any kind, unless it be three or four hundred clams, or a couple of hams and I avoid taking anything between meals, excepting four or five watermelons, perhaps, which I carry in my pocket for lunch. I never smoked a cigar or chewed a plug of tobacco after I had arrived at the age of four years. I found it was injuring my nerves, so I began to use a pipe and to chow finecut and even then I limited myself to three pounds of tobacco a day, and I never exceed thai allowance.

To this rigid temperance I attribute my remarkable health at my advanced age (I am now approaching my one hundred-and sixth year,) and the fact that I have never occasion to use spectacles. Eye-glasses do for me quite as well. I find that walking suits my con stitution admirably, and I generally manage to walk out to Kansas and back at least once a day when the weather is clear. I have great faith in the rule which makes health depend upon going to bed early, and I recommend the practice to* all my young friends. I always retire at a very early hour, say three or four in the morning and it is my habit to sleep upon an empty stomach whenever I can find a man who has one which he is willing to le

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tig, and they thought I was playing it a blasted jackass, which was the fact. So, I have just dropped out of tho horizon, like one of the prismatic tints of the evolutionary rainlKw in |oint of fact, joined tho church, begad."

HAVE YOU ENEMIESf Go straight on and don't mind tliein. If they get in your way, walk round them regardless of their spite. A man who has no enemies is seldom good for anything he is made of that kind of material which is so easily worked that every one has a band in ft. A sterling

on pantaloons. What tcave rise fear to attempt what most prob-

the head of a barrel of spirits and

in the butchering rtsinew*, and is the varnished it. Before the varnish was aWHty, carrv an enterprise to a prosdry, along came a fellow who sat down Perous termination. on the barrel, and walking off took tho I

l'»°rousnesa,

This natn ral lv gave' Ox one of the late terribly hot days,

We I wot'i.D not deprive life of a single leaking nil over! The same little fel-

do nt see anv ne^ssity for so doing. enjoyment but I would counteract low on another occasion bad the misThe Puritans knoifas much as there js what is pernicious in whatever is ele-, fortune to cut his finger. Ii bled pro-

lend 1110. It is much more comfortab than a pillow I state these facts in the hope that they may prove useful to those who are* seeking a guide to health. If any one is benefitted by tho 111 I shall ro joice, and I shall bo amply repaid. But if tho beneficiary desires to give a more substantial evidence of his gratitude, I may say that I think I can place my hand upon a worthy man who would be assisted materially by a chock for ten thousand dollars sent through me.

MAX. APELKR

[From the Loulslvllle Courier Journal.] WHA. A KH.NTUCKIAN THINKS OF GAMBLING.

To make along story perfectly intelligible, we must premise that this friend ot ours is a most simple and believing creature and that he has scanty knowledge of human nature that ho is a little short-sighted, and has therefore no knack of telling a "queen" from a "six-spot" by the back that he is in fino a rather good-natured, statistical, blundering sort ot a poor devil, just made for the sport and profit of other people. "Sir," says ho, "T have studied the cuo papers, and you know the whole science of chance. At one time I was a dead thing on the faro banks. As to the game of poker I consider myself the best poker player alive, both mentally and physically. But there's

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fighting against luck. The run of tho kairds, sir, will beat any living man— it'll beat the oldest poker player in tho world, sir—and it boat me. What do you think, bedad? Why, sir, at one sitting, by jingo, they beat a king full for me, several flushes, and three aces repeatedly! I can't play against no such luck as that you know. Of course, not. I just set. sir, like a baboon rub bin' a bear's back, whilst everybody preyed upon me. If I had a flush somebody had a full, and if I had three kings somebody was sure to have three aces, and that's tho way it went for six hours until they boat me out of about—well, dairi' it, there's no use in specifying amounts—but a good deal of money. I thought I was playing like a learned

WITT one nana iiann in 11. A Sterling U. !i:Y".RVto —i»'"

character is one who thinks for himself'} .,in. .a, apoplexy-

and speaks what he thinks ho is always sure to have enemies. Thoy are as necessary to him as fresh air they keep him alive and active. A celebrated character who was surrounded by enemies used to remark:—"They are sparks which, if you do not biow, will go out of themselves." "Live down prejudice," was the Iron Duke's motto. Let this be yonr feeling while endeavoring to live down the scandal of those who are bitter against yon. If you stop to dispute, you do but as they desire, and open the way for more abuse. Let the poor fellows talk—there will be a reaction if you perform but your duty, and hundreds who were once alienated from you will flock to you and acknowledge their error.

SRLP COJFFIDKJM'K.—Men often loso opportunities by want of self confidence. Doubts and fears in the minds of some rise up for every event, and

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THE GREEN CLOTH."

Scene in a California Gambling HelL\} "A moment, if yott please," quietlv beardless ith a flrm fixing dangerous eyes on the burly dealer of monte whom ho addresses "vou'ean't stop there." '"Well, sir." "Well—excuse me, but—I think you drew two cards!" "I believe not. I'll take vour pile, if you please the keerwajo ta*kcs it." "Two cards!" "Your money!"

remarks an almost beardless desperado covering his pile with a flrm hand, and

And in each case the words are ac* companied bv a quick but quiet movement whioh discloses a revolvor. With the appearance ot these two new disputants—polished, curt,^ot brief but sharp ana downright speech—there is quick but fussless stir among the spectators around the table. In a moment a clear space is formed, in the midst of a still circle of flashing eyes, compressed lips, and clenched nands. You may count twenty, deliberately, ere you hear a breath drawn, or soe tfic slightest movement. "Well, sir?" "Well!"

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"Your money!" f„ "Your cards?" Lip steps a bystander—some cool, steady veteran, expert in the game, and versed in the law of difficulties—a man of awful norve, whose tympanum, accustomed to the crack, no pistol-shot alarms. "Gentleman," says he, "try arbitration first."

Another quick chango of inquiring and responsive glances between the disputants. Not a word, but the eyes of each plainly say, "Agreed." Both throw themselves back in their chair* and withdraw their hands from th«table, with the air of men inviting examination, and resolute to abide the result. The veteran calls up two Brothers of tho Green Cloth, competent to act as umpires: and three minutes, fraught with mortal danger, are passed in deliberately counting the cards as they lie 011 the cloth, and naming them slowly—like the tolling of a bell, of the measured pronunciation of a death sentence. Except that, there has boen

no noise but tho simultaneous clicking, of two pistol locks. The dealer ami his young vis-a-vis are soemingk strangely unconcerned lor tho event. "You are wrong, my friend." says Veteran, "no card was drawn here. Mistakes will happen to the most careful gentlemen."

From that decision there is no appeal. His finger on the trigger after that, would have cost the young fellow his life. So pistols go back to their restingplaces, hands aro shaken across the table, drinks for the company, at the expense of tho "bucker"—as ho who plays against the bank is called, and tho game proceeds with a better understanding.

DOWN THE HILL.

The evening of every man's lifo icoming 011 a pace. The day of life will soon be spoilt. The sun, though it may be up in mid-heaven, will pass swiftly down the western sky, ana disappoaiv What shall li^ht up man's path when the sun of lifo has gone down? He must travel on to the next world bwt what shall illumino his footsteps aftci the nightfall of death, amid tho darkness of his journey? What ouostion more important, more practical, more solemn for each reader to ask himself?' That is a long journey to travel withoni light, without a guide, and withoWn!. friend. Yet every man must perform it. The time is not far distant when all men will begin tho journey. There is an evening stai1 in the natural world. Its radiance is bright and beautiful, and cheering to tho benighted travollcr. But life's evening star is in a good hope of Heaven. Its beauty and brilliancy are reflected from the Sun of Kighteousnoss, whose bright rays light up tho evening of lifo, and throw their rndianco quite across the darkness of the grave into Tinmauuel's land. It has illuminated fho footsteps of many traveler into eternity. It is of priceloss value. A thousand worlds cannot purchase it, yet it is offered without money and without prico to him whowill penitently and thankfully receive

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