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essay read before the TCrre-Haute Horticultural Society by A. B. Pegg: I believe we have four committees on fruit whose duty it is to report every month. One on apples, one on grapes, one on strawberries and one on other fruits. The last named has fallen to my lot this month it includes blackberries, cherries, currants, gooseberries, poaches, pears and many other fruits, which of course would make too extensive a subject tor one short report I will, therefore, only glance at some of them. -i

Taking up peaches first, I will give my experience with them. Thirteen years ago I planted a peach orchard of the very best varieties that I could get and gave it all^be attention it needed. Wfien five years old it bore one-fourth of a crop. The next year it bore a very full crop. My gross sales, that year, amounted to something over eighteen hundred dollars from about four hundred trees. The next winter, which was the winter of 1864, my bearing peach trees were all killed by the cold on what was called the "cold Saturday" or "cold New Year's Day." I planted another orchard the next spring but it has never bore half a crop, and I am now satisfied that peach orchards, for commercial purposes, do not pay in this climate, as mine have produced only ono good crop in thirteen years.

Of blackberries, I know of only two varieties that are worthy of cultivation which are the Iawton and the Kittatiny. Tho Lawton is the best known and is undoubtedly the most profitable. The canes area little tender and are sometimes injured by the cold winters. They were considerably injured last winter. Taking tho Lawton one year with another it are the most profitable of all the small fruits, except the strawborry. The Kittatiny is tho next best blackberry. Some cultivators claim that it is better than the Lawton. Tho berries ripen a few days earlier and may be a littlo sweeter but they are not quite so large and ripen noarly all at once, consequently they do not last as long and are not near as profitable.

Cherries have been noarly a failure this year. Tho trees of many of the finest varieties were injured last winter. I havo been experimenting with cherries, the satne length of time that I havo with poaches and am satisfied that thoro aro but two varieties that will pay to cultivato in this climate. Thoy aro the Early May or Early Richmond, which Is tho same thing, and tho common Murillo.

Tho May I)tiko is probably tho noxt hardiest. I know of no others that will pay to cultivate.

Many varieties of raspberries, named in catalogues aro worthless. The America!) Black Cap is a sure and good bearer and is tho best shipping borry, but it Is not as good for table use as some others, being often, too dry and

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treo without labor and care will be disappointed. "ROUGHS» ON Til A INS.'

Ono of tho most unpleasant features connected with railroad traveling in tho United States is tho license permitted vulgar blackguards on th trains, and especially on "night trains. It not unfrequontly happens that a gang of drunken scoundrels occupy a car In which thoro aro ladles and decent men, and amuso themselves by keeping the respeotablo passengers In a state of terror, whilst they outrage all decency by tho loud conversation on forbidden topics which they purposely direct toward tho ladies *ln tho car. It often happens that the conductor Is not equal to the emergency, and tho reputable passengers seem to bo so stupefied by such bold and lawless conduct that they make no effort in concert In putting down the llagrant rowdyism. The interference of a single passenger would cost him a broken head, or porliaps his life. It would seem to bo worthy of ^consideration whether conductors of train^siiowld not bo invested by law with thVpower l^mnion tho passengers to put down Alienee and preserve order. In the absence of such ais$Krltv, however, It would be well to biggest most emphatically to railroad conductors that if they would exercise proper decision and resolution they would havo the Immediate co-operation of tho law-abiding passengers on their trains. Instead of passing through a oar carelessly, and remarking in an Incidental way to vulgar wretches who aro Insulting everv ono on board that they must keep order, which they treat as a mere suggestion for form's sake, nnd disobey the moment tho conductor has left the car, that oflicer ought to announce distinctly that on any repetition of blsckgunrtflsm he would stop the train, and, with the assistance of the decent passengers, put the black* guards of! the cars. This would prove an effectual remedy. Tho passengers would at once accopt the conductor of the train as their lawful leader, and heartily join him in ejecting the roughs.

Americans are not cowards, but no one man desires to enter into an aflray with a gang of drunken and desperate villains. Ho feelsthat.lt Isthe proper business of the officials of the train to keep the peace, am! he expects the initiative to come from that direction. But let the conductor act with sense and courage and he will have fore© enough at his back to deal with the rascals on board. This Is not tho first timo we have had occasion to address such remarks to railroad conductors, and we now finally say to them that if they doubt the willingness of tho decent behaved passengers on their trains to assist them in punishing scoundrels, just let them make the Experiment one*, and then they will see whether they are powerless before a crowd of Ill-man-nered beasts, who, Instead of being in their plaw id a chain-gang, aro admit* ted temporarily to the association of

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If you see a young man with "eyes of heavenly blue/' carroty hair, and turn-op noma, approaching yon with a maleatlc tread, look oat for aim. That's Foley. He's collecting bills for this office. He Mis cursed a little and kicked out or doom occasionally bat Says be "don't mind. it so long as they don't insult him."—Logtn*port rkaro*.

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ENIGMA.

I am composed of 10 totters. My 1, 2,1, 2, 3,4, 5,6 is vegetable. My 2, 3, 4, 6, 5,7, 8 is a useful article.

My 7, 5, 8,10 Is a mineral. J4y 4, 5, 8, 9 is what a good many love. My whole is-a river in the United States. .. C. H. Trowbridge.

DECAPITATION.

Whole, I am a commencement beheaded, I am the reverse of sweet again, and I am opposed to science cut off my first and last, and I am made of wood, and spelled backward, am an animal. *s-1 Uncle Reuben.

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1, Quin's one cent. 6. Please bind sin' 2. A mad nun left. 3. One cat's jug. 4. Her boy's lap. 5. Grime and eel.

7. Ben sold me. 8. Vain care. 9. No eel cup. 10. Clip a bean.

COMBINATION.

First take a bird with letters three, And next an interjection see Now one thing more is all we need, A place where cattle often feed. Look on the map my whole to find, And see these several things combined,

ACROSTICS.

1. The finals of five rivers name a city. 2. Tho finals of five cities name a river. pa A. M. Nagel.

^'TRANSPOSITIONS.

(I^fll The following blanks with the same words transposed:) 1. Tho may walk in the without 2. —rv^he to be placed upon the table. 1 Keystone. 3. The brought his provisions on to the

H. Although the advice was it was followed (eight letters.) Specs,

EUROPEAN RIVERS TRANSPOSED. 1. Nlses. 2. Glova. 3. Periden. 4. Luvasit. 5. Nanegro. 6. Bendau.

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

Charade.—Coffin.

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Cross-Word Enigma.—Rose. Transpositions.—1. Tone, note. 2. Ned, don. 3. Was, saw. 4. No, on.

Cross Puzzle.—1. Diamond. 2. Primitive. 3. Granite. 4. Mineral. 5. Coral. 6. Agate. 7. Geology. The mineral kingdom.

Names of Authors.—1. Longfellow. 2. Dryden. 3. Lowell. 4. Cowper. 5. Shakspeare. '5:.

QUALITIES OF A GOOD COLLECTOR. Is on time to a minute when the debtor says "come to-morrow at 9 o'clock."

Sits on tho steps and waits for his return when he says, "I am just going to dinner."

Insists on stepping ont to make change when the man "has nothing less than a twenty."

Will go to an "old stager" every day for a month with a chosrful countenance "about that littlo account."

Doesn't miiul edging into a crowd to ask a fellow. Will take a dollar in part if he can't

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Always suggests a cheeck when tho money is not in hand, as he can get it "cashed" to-morrow.

Always lias that account "on top" so the man can make no excuse for putting him off.

Don't mind asking for it immediately after being "treated"—or pleasantly entertained.

Is never in a hurry, "can wait till you get through." Cuts oil tho retreat of tho dodger by crossing over to meet him, or follows him into a store where he goes to hido.

Can cough or saluto \vhen tho "hard case" wants to pass without sooing him.

In fine—is patient as a post, cheerful as a duck, sociahJe as a flea, bold as a lionf weather-proof as a rubber, cunning asa fox, and watchful as a spar-row-hawk.—Columbus Index, ff

Anotiikii legal murder. This timo it was performed in Hartford, Conn., and tho victim was James Wilson. Tho evening before his execution he tried to anticipate tho work of tho gallows by means of a steel triro, which ho plunged into his body as fur as ho coald, and then used "the New Testament to drive it to his heart. Failing in this, he was led out beforo a gaping crowd, and asked if ho had anything to say. lie replied that with throo inches of steol in his broast ho could not say much, but addod, "I am not a murderer. 1 killed William Willard in selfdefcnco, and I did just right. Audi hope his fate will be a warning to all other tyrants like him." Then society, not in self-defence— for it could defend iisolf with perfect ease sginst all the James Wilsons that evor lived—but in sheer wantoness and out of deference to barbaric precedent, tied a black cap over the poor man's face, and swung him off into eternity, leaving his body a lifeless corpse in fourteen minutes. And thus American Society, with the arts, science, learning, and religion of all the agos at its back, confesses its incapacity to deal with the victims of its own injustice, and sends them forward to hear witness to its criminal neglect and imbecility at the Court of Heaven. The spectacle of a man on the gallows, with three inches of steel driven into his body by a New Testament ought to take all the brag out of us, and make every Christian hide his head for shame. —Golden Apr.

Iron pyrites, or fool's gold, as it has been derisively termed, is an iron sulphuret, which from its resemblance to

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old often raised delusive hopes, people who have found its yellow crystals profusely imbedded in rock have deluded themselves with the belie! that they bad discovered rich deposits ot gold, and were on the highway to immediate fortune and one case is on record where, in a neighboring State, an avaricious bat mistaken wretch married an ancient widow on the strength of her owning a farm on which the deceptive staff abounded. It seems, however, that this mineral has a real value after all. It is now generally used in England and Germany, and to some extent tn this country. in the manufacture of sulphuric and nitric acid, while it is an Isdfspensable materia] in the manufacture of caustic soda, of which large quantities are imported into the nlted States, though none is made here. The sulphured of iron is generally known as the covering of goal, lead, and other mineral veins, and In miners' language is called Iran hat. It la widely distributed in mineral countries, bat is not often found in sufficient quantity to render it of any economical valqe. Occasionally, however, it Is foand in deposits of gr^at extent.

TRRRR-HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL. OCTOBER 28,1871.

[From the Revolution,™

DECREASE OF MARRIAGES. I An excellent article on ®arfUge, from the pen of Herbert 8aiilile«g appears in LippincotC* Maga&e mk the current month. It Is a good deal more thorough and satisfactory In Its treatment of the subject than we had reason to expect from the pages out of that conservative periodical. The writer says a great ftiany of the best things about marriage. He believes in it. He has

evidently felt the joy of a trae home, and been touched, If not thrilled by spectacles of conjugal devotion. He has seen that true marriage is a highschool of character, and that of the conservatory of home comes the sweetest and lovliest flowering of our humanity. It is retreshing to read the glowing words of one who has snch warm and tender faith in the oldest and most sacred institutions in the world.

But there has been a great filling off in the number' of marriages relatively to the entire population within a half a century and there is no question that if the foundations of home are not shaken, the superstructure trembles ip the searching winds of modern •criticism. Why this falling off, this questioning, this wide-spread discontent of large numbers of our people in respect to an institution which should have universal confidence and love? There are the questions Mr. Santley essays to answer. There are temporary causes such as the eflects of the recent great war, and the unsettled condition growing out of emigration. Still more important are the distorted views of life everywhere prevalent, the extravagance of both sexes,the defective training of women, and the general moral cowardice of the community. The insane thirst for money plays a larger part in the diminution of homes than we are apt to imagine, and the love of display and ease and a life free from care make still greater inroads. It is refreshing to read his vigorous but essentially just censure of the extravagance of women only he forgets to say that young men are quite ay extravagant as young women, and throw away often times upon cigars, champagne, horses and other fripperies, more than their sisters put in the splendid attire with which they win attention and call down so much censure. Women are always called extravagant by the men who pay their bills if they prefer that women shall be their pets rather than their peers, they must take the consequences.

The truth is that the breaking up of American society in consequence of the introduction of steam and the opening of the vast regions of the West for settlement and enterprise, and still further by universal education and the mechanic arts and democratic institutions, affects every department, phase and relation of human existonco. Business has entirely changed its methods and channels within twenty-five years. Manufacturing is done by new processes, and even agriculture is carried on in ways and by instruments never dreamed of by our lathers. The school is an entirely difforent institutien today from what it was within our recollection, and a modern church with its architectural eleganco and social conveniences, woulamake an old Puritan's hair stand on end. In short, our whole society is in the midst of a process ot reconstruction, and to-day we stand mid-way between what was and what used to be.

This process has effected home and tho marriage relation, and destined nome material welfare, "creature coinforts," occupied the largest place. That was what home stqod for. ty meant thrift, comfort, ease, good dinners, sound sleep, and tdo rearing of children to take a good place in society, and support their parents in old age if need bo. But machinery has done away with the need of three-quarters of tho industries of the old home, and the restaurant, clubroom, and hotel offer greater comjbrts and elegance, with less c^ro and expense than a modern establishment can bo maintained. Why should young men marry, and take upon themselves the burden of a family which thoy cannot maintain in a fashionablo way, while all their wants can be abundantly gratified without trouble and in a splendor of circumstances thoy cannot emulate?

We may as well look the real lacts full in tho face and instead of shrieking over tho decrease of marriages, as is tho way of many who ought to bo above such unwisdom, wo should rejoice at tho process of which this fact is merely a symptom. Wo cannot have the homo of the eighteenth century at tho dawn of the twentieth. Nor is it desirable that wo should. We must build anew, of better materials, in a wiser and truor way. And while tho change is in process wo must expect confusion, and never loso our faith that out of tho ruins of to-day a fairer future is to como for the individual and tho race. The old home stood for creature comfort tho new will stand for spiritual culture. The old homo was for the animal: tho new will be for tho angel. But while many of our men and women feel dissatisfied with the material homo and discontentedly crave a more intellectual companionship, very few aro spiritual enough to build a home as an altar to the sweet humanities and sublime attractions of their souls. And we must be patient with tho Master Builder while we prepare tho materials out of which the true home of the future is te be reared. Certainly, when wo consider what mauy ot our young men and women aro to-day, we hav6t*-easoif to rejoice that there is no mor§ marrying,

WILLIAM M. TWEED. The story of Boss Tweed's life woull fill a book if told In detail. And yet it may be fully told in a single sentence: —he began at the bottom with nothing: be joined an engine company, ana worked into ward politics he wanted office and poWfer, and got both by dill-

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in political jugglery ho was amitious for wealth ana position, and he won them by good use of official opportunity. That is an epitome of the lull story. If tho man nas ever promoted any public interest, if be has ever done any thing except from purely selfish motives, if he has ever illustrated oven one of the virtues which adorn human character—if he has ever been other than alowminded, coarse-grained official cormorant and speculator, then all contemporaneous history has done him injustice.

He is of Irish descent and was born In the eastern part of New York city. In boyhood he worked for a while as an apprentice at the trade of chairmaking, bat work in the legitimate sense hits never been to his taste or liking. He mixed with follows of the baser sort who congregate In cornergroggeries and used to "run with the masheen spent his days in loafing and learning blackguardism, and his nights at random or sleeping on the floor of the engine-bouse eventually joined the roughest fire company in the city, and punctually performed his duty as a bruiser and sboulderhitter, and finally became foreman of Six," otherwise known as "Old Tiger,

from which the AmericusClub took its badge. Efficient service atVard primaries and among the bulliei of his section of the city BaKim attracted the notice of the Democratic politicians of the time, and it was not long before they allowed him to receive a small office, from which vantage ground he went into tjie old Board of Supervisors, thence tathef&lte Senate, and ultimately to the position he now holds—Commissioner of the Department of Public Works. Fifteen or sixteen years ago he was in the chair business, in which he failed, and from which he retired much in debt. He is unquestionably a man of great executive ability, with little education, and retaining much of the speech and manner of his early associations. In March of last year the World sketched his portrait, in part as follows: "Mr. Tweed was worth less than nothing when he took to the trade of politics. Now he has great possessions, estimated all the way from $5,000,000 to twice as much. We are sorry not to be able to give his own estimate, but, unluckily, he returns no income. But at least he is rich enough to own a gorgeous house in town and a sumptuous seat in the country, a stud of horses, and a set of palatial staDles. His native modesty shrinks from blazoning abroad the exact extent of his present wealth, or the exact means by which it was acquired. His sensitive soul revolts even at the partial publicity of the income list. We are tossed upon the boundless ocean of conjecture. But we do kpow from his own reluctant lips that this public servant, who entered the public service a bankrupt, has become, Dy an entire abandonment, of himself to the public good, 'one of the largest taxpayers in New York.' His influence is co-extensive with his cash. The docile Legislature sits at his feet, as Saul at the feet of Gamaliel, and waits, in reverent inactivity^ for his signal before proceeding, to action. He thrives on percentages of pilfering, grows rich on the distributed dividends of rascality. His extortions are as boundless in tneir sum as in their ingenuity. Streets unopened profit him—streets opened put money in his purse. Paving an avenue with poultice enriches him— taking off the poultice increases his wealth. His rapacity, like the trunk of

elephant, with equal skill twists a fortune out of the Broadway widening, and picks up dishonest pennies in the Bowery." su

THE LOST LEADER.

It grieves us to use rough words, particularly of friends, but Mr. Greeley's public behavior toward women, and their rights, and the advocates of these rights is little short of brutal. Notwith standing the hideous fact that our laws condemn one-half the citizens of the republic to a dungeon of political inequality, no writer or spealcer whether man or woman, can put forth an effort to reform this wickedness without incurring the Tribune's insult. Ever since Mr. Greeley's own wife petitioned the New York constitutional convention for the right of suffrage, and ho himself a member thereof, headed the majority that voted her down, he has been in a raving rago against all women suffragists. No epithet of vileness has been too black for the Tribune to fling at them—no misrepresentation too unjust to be hurled as a weapon of war against them.

And yot there is nothing in tho priyate life of Mr. Greeley (nonornble as wo believe it to bo) which'is not equalled in uncretra MottriMiZHtJeui Caay siftntcm Paulina Wright Dayis, and other femalo expositors of the brave and beautiful views which tho rough-breasted Esau of the Tribune faintly appreciates, and therefore fiercely condemns. To speak of such writers as "instilling tho views of libertines into tho ears of foredoomed victims," is simply Mr. Greeley's delicate method of publicly insulting tho brain and heart of his own wife.

If Mr Greeley wishes to make enemies aniouf? a company of mon and women who, for years, have been his stauncliost friends, he will not find them cowards. The Tribune is not the only iron-gauntlet that knows how to striko a blow. "Thrice is ho armed that hath his quarrel just." Traitorous to tho traditions of its thirty years' war for liberty, tho Tribune is now weak because it is now wrong. In becoming the chief enemy of tho beneficent movement of which it should bo the chief friend, it has lost its power, and is morally dead. At the present rate of tho TYibunc's mortality, what remains of the public life of the groat man who is at its head will be simply his slow burial out of mens sight and thought.

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THE ME AN FA RME1VS "FEMA LE SLA VE."

Miss Mary Wager thinks that wives do not havo their wills, tho punster Saxo to tho contrary notwithstanding, and sho is of opinion that it is their own fault. They consent to bo discouraged from demanding their rights by gruff and surly husbands, who have no feeling. I once knew, says MfSS W., writing in the Household Department of Moore's Rural, & goody-goody woman of this sort, who was a "female slave, if ever there was ono. She did everything from nursing babies to putting up stoves. By ana by she was so good fa to die in a patient, despairing manner. Her widowed lord, who submitted With unadulterated Christian submission to this dispensation of Providence put a "weed" on his shining new ,ver, and took anew wife at the end year. Did the new wife cut wood, ilk the cows, go without a clotheswringer, or put up stoves? "Not a bit it." It was, "David, my dear, I shall wood chopped this morning," and if *'David-my-aear" failed to meet the demand Mrs. David sent for a woodchopper and hired him for the day, &£r. David, of course, being obliged to

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tho workman's bill. And so with other things, until "David-my-deM|" after eome primal evolutions of feeling and thoughts, began not only to admire but to respect the new element in his household, and to recognize the fact that a woman can bo of some consequence aside from ministering to the aesires and wants of man. And bow often doee a "new wile" bring about such a revolution! I am no ardent advocate of second marriages, but I cannot but appreciate the excellent shrewdness and sense so many second wives exhibit in their -conduct of household matters, which have hitherto suffered from lack of cheerful and hearty cooperation on the part of the husband.'

Mr. Carr, an English gentleman, who reads Tennyson with such exquisite taste and grace aa to win an invitation from the to visit and read to 1 him in bis retirement, la about visiting this country, and hopes to have opportunities to read in public from Tennyson and other modern poetc.—Golden Ape.

A Richmond merchant, on being aaked bow large an advertisement he Ittcr, wanted in the Enquirer, replied that "Big they might "put in about three pints jer,

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A LEGEND OF MALMAISON. On a dark night of the year 1631, two men met at the hospitable hearth of the smoky little tavern on the Seine, near Malm also n. One of them was a handsome young cavalier, fond of life the other a man of mature age, with sinister features, whose dark-colored clothes suited exactly with his bushy eyebrows, which he was continually knitting. But, as a general thing, youth and buoyant life do not heed appearances much: and so it chanced that the young cavalier soon formed the acquaintance of the morose man. The wine loosening his tongue and opening his heart, he of the grim looks learned quickly enough that his young messmate was a nobleman from La Rochelle, called to Paris by a summons from the Court of Honor,"to answer the charge of writing a sharp pamphlet against Cardinal Richelieu. The young cavalier was regarded as the author, though he stoutly denied having written it.

The'youth and beauty of the nobleman had visibly made an impression upon his dark-featured listener. He became restless, and could scarcely await the end of the repast. Motioning to the cavalier, be stepped out with him, and halted upon a small eminence. "Do you see yonder chateau?" he

"Certainty," returned the cavalier. "It is a house inhabited by the bad man."

By that appellation Cardinal Richelieu was meant: the house was Malmaison. "Very good," continued the morose man. "Do you know who I am? "No." "I am the executioner of Chartros!-'

The cavalier started. "I will prove to you," said the man of blood, "that I too can be human. I warn you. At a special command, I have come hither to perform an execution. I fear you are the victim. Listen to me, for I wish to save you. Do you perceive yonder window of the chateau, just above the wall?" .t, "I see it." "Very well if I have 7iot been summoned hither for you, a light will appear in that window within an hour if my presence here is for you, the window will continue dark—thon do you fly."

He quickly loft the young man, who hastily saddled bis horse, and looked in expectation at the window designated. He waited longer than a full hour tho window continued dark. The cavalier was menaced with death the summons had merely been sent to decoy him to Paris. Richelieu never showed any mercy to his enemies. The nobleman leaped upon his horse, dashed forth into the darkness, and so escaped destruction.

A LONDON "PUBLIC HO USE." Few Americans who have been at homo all their lives know what a London "public house," so called, is. It is as much worse than our lowest groggeries as well can bo. Lot us give a pioturo of one not far from Leicester Square, or from tho Allium bra, a noted resort for vice. Tho publio house is a place where spirits aro sold, by license, and tho owner and seller is called a "publican." Ho usually has over his door a brilliant colored lamp In fact there aro usually three ontrances, and as many compartments to tho building. In two of these compartments nothing under two ponce is sold tho third, being for tho masses, one may obtain ihere qvon his pgujlXiS^k, meii outer the public houses as freely as men. It is a horrible sight—a dozen ragged harpies, made old and wicked looking by liquor and abu^g—all clamoring at once for gin at the counter. Some women come at once to the publican's house when thoir woekly wagos aro obtained, and do not leave as long as they have a penny. Then thoy hang about and entreat every ono who entors to give thorn Kin. Thoro is no sight so torrible as a drunken English wopian —an old woman leaning against the door of a gin-palace, and cursing all tho passers-by, in tho profusion ol" malediction which tho liquor has awakened within her—malediction which should bo heaped upon those who dare to lot her become what she is. But nothing is more common than to soo women in this condition. Young and old seek for tho excitement which is only to bo found in tho cup. As late as olovon o'clock many streets In which th&oare a number ol public places ar«) almost entirely given up to women who aro indulging in these drunken orgies.

11 ANNA II.

Nasby's poem, "Hannah Jane," and Greeley's prose, alike give pitiful pictures of tho subordination of women in her present position, ignorant, helpless, degraded by her humility and solf-sacrifice, making tho best of men arrogant, selfish, unjust, and tho condition of most wives is simply that of uwer servants without wages.

I desire to see women thoroughly roused to tho dignity of their own individual lives. There isjnot a/noro pitiful sight in nature than the grand women all over this land, whose hopes, interests, ambitions, having bocn all centered in some dead failure in pantaloons are now reaping a harvest ofuisappointment, discontent, and ill-starred doendence on broken roads. Nasby oweyer promises these "Hannah Janes their reward hereafter. Tho difference between tho poet and me is that I want Hannah to learn to read, write and cipher this side of Jordan. He wants herto wail on him during his career and take to books in Heaven.

He evidently* imagines himself very magnanimous In promising to stanft by Hannah to the end. The selfishest" of men could easily stand by an humble, devoted servant, who knows no higher ambition than to minister to his wants. Bat such a relation is not marriage, it is slavery. For a man of letters,polish, culture,to talk of conjugal love, with a kitchen drudge who could not read his speeches or write a grammatical note, and In whom he had never felt enough interest to secure to her any educational advantages, may do for a poem but it will not do for every day life.

Rkv. Dr. Pctnah, the great preacbcr of Boston, has just returned from an extended visit to Enropc, which he does not think very highly of. It interested him mildly but provoked him mom. It entertained him considerably but disappointed him exceedingly, and sent him home ten times more of an American and a patriot than when he went away. Its promise for tho great masses of the people filled him with sadnese, and he looks more proudly than ever upon our republic as the hope of mankind. Such a discourse as his is a wholesome tonic after the extravagant praises which are poured out by most European tourists on their return. Really the worst thing about Europe Is tho way it turns weak beads and brings out the latent snobbery and silliness even of American human nature. It takes a strong character, with unusual common sense, to stand six months of Europe without losing poise and mother wit .—Golden Age.

THE VAGARIES OF A STARVING MAN. Mr. Everts, who was lost in the Yel lowstone, -contributes to Scribner's a] intensely interesting acoount of hi

Thirty-seven Days of .Peril." W^ quote: I lost all sense of time. Days nights came and went, and wore nui bered only by the growing conscious ness that I was starving. I felt no hut ger, did not eat to appease appetite, bu to renew strength. 1 experienced bul little pain. The gaping sores on raj feet, the severe burn on my hip, festering crevices at tho joints of fingers, all terrible in appearance, ceased to givo me the least conce The roots which supplied my food hi suspended the digestive power of tl stomach, and their fibres were packq in it in a matted compact mass.

Not so with my hours of slumber They werfe visited by the most luxurij ous dreams. I would apparently viS the most gorgeously decorated restaj rants of New York and Washingtor sit down to immenso tables sprea with the most appetizing viands pad take of the richest oyster stews and plumpest pies engage myself in tl labor and preparation of curious dishe and with them fill range upon rang, of elegantly furnished tables until thejj fairly groaned beneath tho accumulat ed dainties prepared by my own hand! Frequently the. entire night wouli seem to havo been spout in getting uj a sumptuous dinner. I would realia the fhtigue of roasting, boiling, bakinl and fabricating tho choicest dishaf known to the modern cuisine, and ir my disturbed slumbers would

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with epicurean relish tho food thus mr nished even to repletion. Alas! then was more luxury than life in these somJ nolent vagaries.

By some process which I was toe weak to solve, my arms, legs, &n<| stomach were transformed into many traveling companions. Often fo| hours I woula ploa along conversing with these imaginary friends. Eac had his peculiar wants which he eJ pected me to supply. The stomach ws importunate in his demand for change of diet—complained incessantly of the roots I fejltohini, thoir present effect and more remote consoquencos.

I would seek to intimidate him by de-J daring, as a sure result of nogligonce| our inability to reach homo alive. to no purpose—he tormonted me will his fretful huuidrs through the entii journey. The others would genorally concur with him in thoso fancied alter-j cations. The legs implored mo for roe" and tho arms complained that I gr them too much to ao. Troublesome they were, it was a pleasure to roalil their prosonco. I worked for theil too, with right good will, doing manj^ things for

seoming comfort which,

had I folt myself alone, would have ro-j mained undone. They appeared to br

orfeotly helpless of themselves: woul? nothing for each other. I ofter wondered, wliilo they ate and slept si much, that they did not aid in gathor-1 ing wood and kindling fires. As counterpoise to thoir own inortia,when-« over thoy dlscoverod languor in me onj necessary occasions, thoy wore

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wanting in wordsof oncouragomont andJ cheer. I recall as I write an instanooj where, by prompt and timely intorpo-j siton, tho representative of thostomacl^ ca*M issuing trom a spring of mild tomporaturo on tho hillside, swarming with minnows. I caught some with my hands and ato them raw. To my tastOj they wero delicious. But tho stomacl^ refused them, accused tno of attempting to poison him, and would not beJ reconciled until I had emptied my pouch of tho few fish I had put there for future use."*4

Bknton, who recently"

got married in tho Green Mountain Stato, to Hetty Burroughs, writes hls^ brother as follows:

My Dkaii Auk—Since I last writ, I've been a putlin a climax on my life, by il ettin' married. Now you noodn^t loist your eyebrows, and whlsslecauso It's all over. Tho day wo was1 married wo went off in the afternoon cars for Boston. When wo got to Brattleboro, Hetty assked mo to not hor a

tleboro, Hetty assked 1110 to got lassof lemtmado. Well, whllo 11 for tho lemonade, off startf

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cars and when I got out with tho lemonado in my hand, thoro thoy was a hundred feet head

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I holler! "My wifo! my wifol" VI yelled llko an Injun, too. .Away weri the cars, and away I follered, screaming and blowin' and lioldin' tho lemonado* all the time. Thon I throw tho glass! away thon I let my overcoat go thon my hat blow off and thon I fell down, blowod out, by tho sldo of the track. Tho first thing that roused mo up wa Hetty's voice: "Zekol, oh, my ZekoJ are you dead?" You soo, Iletty seel 1 tho train was startin', and I wast back with the lemonade, got out hcj self on tho other side, and lot tho cut go on without hor—and so I had bod a chasin tho cars, and Iletty had boef a chasin' mo. But no matter, we're all happy agen, and I remain yours.

Ezekikl Benton.

The tendency to get very similar names of places" mlxeu up is so great, that it is said of a worthy deacon praying for blessings on his lavourite locality, that ho cautiously added—"Not Reading-wood End, O Lord, but Souths Reading!"

CITY ITEMS.

I dreamed a dream in tho midst of my *1 umbers, And an fast as dreamed, it was coined into numbers I dreamed that a law iwd bmi recently made," Hi at all persons buying utoves should buy of H. L. Ball, fjecaodc he ha« the larger stock. HI* grate* and marbleized mantels are captivating.

Indian summer still continues. What a delightful season! But we have to spealr^ of still more delightful fteoson. It Is the season of rapid nales at W. H. Bannlstcr'n, 79 Main street. Ill* stock of piece goods and men's furnishing goods are going, going, going, hat still he keeps his stock complete. Kemember that he employs the best cutter in the Htateif 'il

Tills city is noted for its beautiful and a" .mpllshed ladles, and is fast becoming t' dforiU fine musicians. And the musicians are fast Increasing under the auspices of tbe Maslcal Institute, 11 south Fifth street. A. Mhlde, the proprietor, sells the Stein way pianos.

Say what you please about Chicago grit, but nothing but Rlppetoe's grit will supply the great demand for groceries and provisions made at the white front grocery, National Block. Cranberries, apples and all other articles now In neason, Rlppetoe has. He keeps an excellent supply of teas, coffees, sugars, Ac.