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THE STANDARD AND EXPRESS. W .ffl 4RS < IU LK ,} Bdltors And Proprietor*. ONLY A WH!)U.\, BY HESTEB A. BENEDICT. Only a woman, shriveled and old ! The play of the winds and the prey of the cold! Cheeks that are shrunken, Eyes that are sunken, Lips that were never o’erbold ; Only a woman, forsaken ana poor, Asking an alms at the bronze church-door. Hark to the organ ! roll upon roll The waves of the music go over he- rou! i Silks rustle past her Thicker and faster; The great bell ceases its toll, lain would she enter, but not for the poor Swingeth wide open (he bronze church-door. Only a woman—waiting alone, Icily cold on an ice-cold throne. What do they care for her ? Mumbling a prayer for her, Giving not bread but a stone. Tnder old laces their haughty hearts beat. Mocking the wcee of their kin in the Bireet. Only a woman ! In the old days H'ipo earrolod to her her happiest lays ; Somebody missed her, Somebody kissed her, Somebody crowned her with praise; Sorai body faced up the baltles of life Btrong for her sake who was mother, or wife. Somebody lirs with a tress of her hair Light on bis heart where the death-shadows are: Someliody waits for her, Opening the gates for her, Giving delight for despair. Only a woman—nevermore poor— Dead in the snow at the bronze church-door! THE GOBLIN TOWER. “lam glad you h<vo come here,” said the Marquis di Doltono to the young knight, Gaston de Pontaille, as they sat upon the terrace of Boltono Castle. “I am glad you have come for many reasons—especially because Ilove the company of a young and valiant soldier.” Gaston bowed and a flush of pleasure passed across his brow. “ The robbers above here are very bold, just now. They attacked you, I believe.” “ Three of the villains ventured to do so, but I sent them away with more than they expected.” “A steel ransom. Ha ! Ha !” “It is very strange that you are not able to discover their retreat.” “Very—very strange. My men have sought in every direction.” “The country is favorable to secresy,” said Gaston, looking round. It spread far away around the castle. From the height upon which Boltono stood, the wide plain and the surround ing hills could be distinguished for a great distance. Hills and crags were near the castle, gullies and paths formed by torrents Jay among them. A river flowed through the plain, turbulent and noisy.” “ Yes, it is a good place for them,” said the marquis, in reply to Gaston’s exclamation. “But yet I wonder at their hardi hood.” “ They rob almost every friend who comes to visit me, unless I send my soldiers to guard them,” said Boltono, bitterly. “ This should be stopped. I wonder that they do not show themselves some where. ” “I have done all that man can do. Let us forsake this subject for the pres ent. See you yon tower ?” “Yes. It is older than the rest of your castle, is it not? I have been much interested in it.” “It is very old and is of Roman con struction. YYe never use it.” “ Never ! Why not?” “ ’ I’is haunted.” “ Haunted ? ” Gaston was surprised at the seriousness of the marquis, and out of respect to him he suppressed a rising smile of contempt. “Yes It has for many years gone by the name of ‘the Goblin Tower.’” “ Why so ? ” “Because there are sights to be seen there, and s’ounds to be heard, which are not of this world. Shrieks are heard at the dead of night, and lights gleam from the turrets. All the peas antry tremble, and the hearts of all within the castle quake with fear.” “But have you never entered to see the cause of these things ? ” “ God forbid that I should seek to know aught of the doings of the pow ers of darkness! ” “They may be done by hands of naan, noble marquis.” “Impossible! Who would dare?” “No great obstacle could prevent them if no one ever ventured there !” “ Men have gone there and never re turned. In the life of my grandfather there was a legend about it, and a say ing than whenever the castle was freed from the goblin within, there would be no more robbers without.” “ Wliat! have the robbers always been here ? ” “All 1 lie time that the tower was haunted. ” Gaston, was silent, and mused for a time. “ I will tell the story,” said the mar quis, “it is not long. This tower was built, as I have said, by the ancient Romans, and has been in the posses sion of many a baron. Once, about two hundred years ago, our family lived in .Florence, and a baron who was related to us resided here. He was a strange man, of dark thoughts and gloomy aspect. That tower he made his residence. At night lights gleamed from it, and strange sounds were heard tb.ere, like no sounds in the world. By day vast clouds of smoke poured from it, often concealing the tower from view. No one knew what he did. No one could imagine what were his occcu pations. But he became very rich all of a sudden, and built this adjoining castle. The neighbors all believed that, by the assistance of the evil one, he had found ont the philosopher's stone. Tiie i eople suffered very much from him, and robbery was carried on to an alarming extent in the neighbor hood. Once they ventured to attack the castle itself. “At last there came a fearful time, lne night was perfectly dark. Sudden ly , some who were looking toward the tower saw flame and sparks issue from the windows of the upper rooms which he occupied. Shrieks resounded from "• people burst into his room ; the baron was not to be seen. A bundle of burnt flesh and clothes lay on the 1 or, with mysterious blackened frag ments all around. “My grandfather had a beautiful daughter, whom he promised to the man who would venture to searoh out the cause of those fearful sounds and appearances, which ever since the bar on s time have been witnessed there. Several undertook it, but no one has seen them since ” Gaston was not so much awed by the legend as the marquis. “They did well—these suitors—and I would do the same for a similar prize.” “What! would yon venture there?” “Noble sir, you have promised to m e mejour son-in-law,” said Gaston with Lis ingenious countenance covered by a flash of pleasure and confusion, “but I have done nothing to win the lovely Alvira. Suffer me to win her in this way.” “ What 1” cried the marquis. “ I am willing to enter that tower.” “ No, no ; you are rash. This is not bravery, it is rashness. You have done enough, my dear Gaston, to win a dozen Alviras.” “ Bat let me also do this. Noble marquis, I cannot -must not be refused. Why need I fear? Are not friends all around me?” “ Your friends cannot preserve you from the demons.” “ Demons ! I fear them not. With my trust in God and the holy saints, how can the evil one injure me?” “ I implore you not to think of this.” “ No, no, permit me. Do not tell Alvira. Promise me not to tell her. I will free your house of demons and rob bers or die. ” The marquis gave a reluctant con sent. It was mid day, and Gaston walked outside the castle. There was a deep gorge in the hills behind, and the Ro man tower rose above this, while the other parts of the extensive castle lay further from it. Gaston walkod to the verge and looked down. The porter had told him not to venture there—that the people in the castle were afraid of the goblins who dwell there. But Gas ton despised the idle tale. “ Goblins—ha ! ha ! What a strange mind the marquis must have not to see that these mysterious robbers are the goblins and the makers of all this riot. But I must desoend and examine here.” He went down slowly and softly among the bushes which grew thickly enough to hide him from view. At length he was suprised to see a beaten path. “Ha!” he cried, “this was never made by goblins. I will follow and see where it leads.” He descended carefully, and watohed the path to see that none were viewing him. At last he was at the bottom of the chasm. The path before him took a sudden turn around a rock. Leaning stealthly over this, he looked forward. There was the base of the goblin tower, which arose very far on high, from its foundations at the bottom of the chasm. There was a small aperture here, so hid den by bushes that none but the sharp est and most observant eye could have detected it. He went nearer, and hear ing nothing, he crawled close to it. Looking in he saw steps which led up. “ Now were this unused, the steps would be covered with grass and mould, but they are smooth and are used often.” After a few minutes the young knight departed by the same path, and soon stood in safety upon the top of the dtclivity, well satisfied with his expe dition. “ Weil, Gaston,” said the marquis, at night, “are you still determined?” “ I am, I ask only my arms. Can I have the way shown me ?” “ Once more, Gaston, let me implore you not to go.” “1 must go, noble marquis, for I have said it.” “ Retract your words.” “ I cannot —I would not.” “ Then I must part with you. I fear I shall never see you again. I will ac company you to the place.” The two walked along a desolate hall extending entirely through the castle. The night was dark and the wind moan ed as they went on. Doors baDged and nones were heard through the house. “ Those noises do not come from the tower. They are made by the wind ! said Gaston. “ Ah ! here we are I suppose.” They paused before a massive oaken door, which the marquis opened after unlocking. The bolts sounded harsh as they grate! back. They entered the room. The light which the marquis held was feeble, and illuminated it but in part. The apartment was large, and the walla were wainscoted with oak, carved in the antique. Chairs of olden form stood around, and a long table of massive construction stood in the mid dle. “ I will go into your closet and watch the room. I can be hidden there.” “Do so. Do not expose yourself. Do you want the light ?” “No—Oh ! no. I will be better in the dark.” He opened the door of an old closet. It was empty. Theie was an opening in it, through which any one within conli look out into the room. Here Gaston eutered. The marquis departed, locking the door carefully. Gaston drew his sword, and, holding it in his hand, prepared to watch. An old chair stood here in one corner; upon this he seated himself and waited. The hours passed tediously away, yet he sat in patient silence listening to every sound. And these were of many kinds, which came to his sharpened ears. Low moanings sounded without, the doors, loosened by age, rattled on their hinges, the heavy, dusty drapery shook and fluttered. There was a faiut light in the room. As Gaston looked throngh, there seemed to come a brighter light. He was sure of it. A strange thrill shot through him as the room began to grow visible, illuminated by some unseen power. Footsteps—low, muffled footsteps, sounded without—beneath, whisperings and exclamations were heard by his ex cited ear i. His heart beat quick—he held his sword more firmly. “ The hour is coming—the time—the scene is at hand. Now shall we see whether Gaston de Pontaille will die.” He leaned forward more earnestly. At the extremity of the read he heard whisperings murmnrings footsteps, but Le could not look there. The light grewbrighter. Some form approached. Gaston iooked out. It was a tall figure dressed in black, and through two holes in the wall which covered its head, the eyes gleamed with intense brightness. He came to the table and eat down. It was dressed in the same manner. Two others came in, and the four sat down at the table. “ Wine,” said the first, in a deep harsh voice. One arose and brought a number of bett'es. Then each one, lifting his vail, drank in silence. Gaston watched in suspense. “ Comrades,” said the first one, “the bishop has much gold. To morrow the marquis shall give more.” A low murmur of applause went round. “ He would have been unmolested had he refrained from molesting us.” “Ha! ha!” said another, in a dis cordant voice. “He thought not ef “ Tbe Golden Tower.” “ What will he not pay for her ran som ?” Gaston started. “ And the young knight—would he not give his foul to purchase her ?” “ Margo,” said the leader, “ bring her along.” Margo departed, and the others be- gan to divest themselves of their man tles. Each one, taking off his black robe, disclosed the well-armed figure of a sturdy soldier. “1 heard footsteps here this night,” said one. “May there not be a true goblin—” “Fool!” cried the leader, savagely. “ You are a novice. A goblin! We are the goblins of the tower, Antonio. Ha ! What breath is that ?” “ I said so!” cried the other. The three started at a rattling sound ed in the room. They looked at each other and turned pale. The entrance of their comrade put an end to their terror. “ Bring her along,” cried the leader. Gaston could see nothing, but he heard a low moan as though from a fe male, and the tone struck a chill to his inmost soul. “ Good e’en, my pretty maid,” said the leader. “Bring her nearer, good Margo, let her be seated.” There was a slight struggle and Mar go brought forward the prisoner. Gaston started—his frame shook in fren zied rage. It was Alvira! He re strained himself. “Who aro you, and why dare yen thus treat the daughter of Boltono?” “Because we love the smiles of lovely women. Was it not rash in you to walk alone on the terrace at such a time? Could we—the goblins of the tower—resist the temptation !” “ What will you do with rae ?” “You shall cheer us in our lonelv tower.” “O, God !” she cried, wringing her hands in agony. “No lamentation !” cried the leader. “Come, we wish you to be gay ; cheer up.” Alvira wept in despair. “Weep not! Why should you? Come, let me have a kiss!” He rose up and reached out his hand. Alvira shrunk back. He stepped for ward. The others looked on in hideous glee—'they saw not the armed figure with uplifted sword. “ Come, one kiss—” “ Villain !” cried Gaston, in a voice of thunder. Alvira saw him—all saw him, as with a bound he sprang forward and buried his sword in the robber chieftain’s heart. “ Die !” cried the infuriated knight, and turning upon the nearest, with a blow he severed his head from his body. The others rose and grasped their dag gers. Gaston strack at the nearest and his weapon was dashed from his hand, while the owner was dashed to the ground. Margo, the fourth, fell upon his knees. With a strong hand Gaston bound him, and taking his rescued love in his arms, he bore her forth along the hall, to the great hall of the ca9tle. The noise had roused the marquis, and the inmates of Boltono soon knew all that had happened. A week after, the nuptials of Gaston and Alvira were celebrated, and the body of Margo hung in chains from the summit of the “Goblin Tower.” The Sad Story of a Life. The Unfortunate Wife of Maximilian, Once Kmptror of Mexico, The Belgian papers announce that the death of the unhappy Carlotte, the wife of Maximilian, once emperor of Mexico, is daily expected. During the last years of her eventful life the som ber darkness of mental night has rested upon her, and even the consolation of forgetting in insanity her misfortunes has been denied her. The light of this world’s pleasures, though not the gloom of its pains, long since went out for her, and that she should not follow her brave and unfortunate husband to the grave may be regarded as the only hap piness which the future had in store for her, and as a grateful relief to the royal hearts who have watched over her deso late years with constant and loving ten derness. The daughter of Leopold 1., of Belgium, the wisest aud shrewdest sovereign of his time, blessed with beauty and a superior mind, graced with the accomplishments of courts and the polish of letters, it was Carlotta’s des tiny to be united at a very early age to the most amiable and able of the Aus trian archdukes. Maximilian was dis tinguished for his virtues, his courage, bis courtly bearing and the liberal tone of his thoughts and feelings. At the time of the marriage no more brilliaut prospect than the luxurious life of an emperor’s brother and sister opened be fore them. Maximilian thought of no loftier destiny than to form one of the princely galaxy around Francis Joseph’s throne, to govern a Slavic or Croat prov ince, perhaps lend his sword to the glory of Austria, or to spend happy summer months with his lovely bride at his cas tle of Miramar, on the Adriatic. No graver danger than that of a European war or local insurrection threatened to interrupt a tranquil and contented life. Tlie ambitions projeots of Napoleon suddenly intruded upon the even teDor of this calm existence. The oonquest of Mexico by Bazaine and the necessity of finding a wearer of royal blood for the new imperial crown, caused Lonis to cast his eyes over Europe for the available candidate, and he fixed upou Maximilian as the prince best fitted for his purpose. The Archduchess Sophia urged him to decline the bauble. Car lotta, with all tue enthusiasm of youth and ambition, begged him to accept it. To her Maximilian unfortunately yielded; he went to Mexico, accom panied by his dauntless and exulting wife, and bravely nerved himself to meet the perils of his new position. These perils were not fanciful; the long conflict between the virtually usurping emperor and the persistent Juarez is well known. Its tragic termination, in which the gallant Austrian went calmly to the fate of Charles of England and Louis of France is one c f the most thrilling episodes iu history. Carlotta stood staunchly by her husband from first to last. When his cause waned and bid ere long to be desperate, this heroic woman hastened to Europe, felt at Napoleon’s feet, and begged him to go to the rescue. StuDg by the retusal of the one who had lured Maximilian across the ocean, the unfortunate princess broke into wild imprecations. From St. Cloud she hastened to Rome, only to learn at the Vatican that it was hopeless. Desperate with disappoint ment, Carlotta wandered over Europe, pleading with Francis Joseph at Vi enna, mourning with her brother in Brussels. Then the bright though weary intellect began to fade. She sank into alternate idiocy and madness; and while in this diseased fancy she was fighting the battle over and over again in the quiet retirement of Lacken. Maximilian was shot at Qner etaro. “J. Gray —Pack with my box five dozen quills.” There is nothing re markable about this sentence, only that it is nearly as short as one can be con tracted, and yet contains all the letters f the alphabet. CARTERS YILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, APRIL S. 1575. ■HE THREE FISHKRS. Three fishers went sa'ling out into the west, Oat into the west as the sun went down; Each thought on the woman who loved him best, And the children stood watching them out of the town; For men must work and women mustweep, And there’s little to earn, and many to keep, Though the harbor bar be moaning. Three wives sat up in the light-house tower, And they trimmed the lamps as the sun went down ; They looked at the squall, and they looked at the shower, ight-rack came rolling up ragged and brown! But men must work and women must weep, Though storms be sudden and waters deep. And the harbor bar be moaning. Three corpses lay out on the shining sands, In the morning gleam as the sun went down, And the women are weeping and wringing their hands For those who will never come back to the town; For men must work and women must weep, And the sooner it’s over the sooner we sleep— And good-bye to the bar aud its moaning. The Governor anti the Grizzly. A correspondent of the San Francisco Alta writes as follows of the new gov ernor of California : Governor Pacheco has, among his ac complishments—and they are many— one possessed, we believe, by no other governor in the United States. He can iasso and get away with a wild grizzly bear, and we saw him do it in May, 1852, on the Rancho de los Osos (Bear Ranch), in San I uis Obispo, then the residence of Governor Pacheco’s mother. Away up in the mountains, among the wild oats, the grizzlies take their morn ing naps, after their nightly prowling about in search of any stray calf, pig, or other small game. Early one morn ing the enormous print of a grizzly’s foot was seen in the earth, close by the dwelling of the governor’s mother, and in a few minutes Romualdo and two or three others were in the saddle and off for the mountains. When the tall, wild oats, half-way up the mountain, were reached, the party had not ridden more than two minutes among the tall, dry wisps, when the horses suddenly started, snorting loudly, and instantly a huge grizzly stood erect, with a terrific pres ence, high above the dry wild oats. He looked just like a gigantic negro, with shaggy, fur overcoat, his eyes gleaming fiercely, his cruel teeth and red mouth unpleasantly conspicuous. Each man and every horse for the instant seemed petrified—as if, while every nerve and every muscle and every sense was at its utmost tension, they had suddenly looked upon the Medusa. In a sec ond’s time Pacheco spurred forward, swinging his lasso. The bear corn men ceu sparling warily, and few pro fessional boxers can fend off as these creatures will. But Pacheco’s lasso shot; like an arrow and clasped about the huge fore-foot, when the horse (who saw every movement, and was as wide awake as Pacheco) sprang the other way, and, the lasso beiDg fast to the pommel, the bear was instantly thrown to the ground, when two other men, quick as lightning, had thrown their lassos and caught the hind fact: then another rider caught the loose lore foot, and the four horses took their positions like cavalry animals trained by some noiseless signal, and slowly marched down the mountain’s side, two horses in the van and two in the rear, dragging Ursa Major quietly down the grassy descent, the rear horses keeping just taut-line eDOUgh to prevent the bear from getting any use of his terri ble hind claws. Nahl has painted some of these California lassoing scenes that have been as near justice to such excit ing tableaux as could be done by the painter’s art, but nothing could portray the intensity of excitement and action brought forth at such a moment. Pach eco was, at that time, twenty-one years old. and the handsomest man we ever looked upon. I guess the panther in the wilderness was not more fair than he. When he first realized the sudden pretnnee of the terrible enemy and stood erect in his stirrups, his face gleaming with the glory of youth, fear lessness, and excitement—his great black eyes sparkling, his white teeth tightly pressed upon his Dether lips, perfectly still for a second, he was the most glorious object in nature. In no longer time than the sight of this could be just taken in he sprang forward, his long, dark hair tossed wildly for a mo ment, and then he had captured the bear, as related. The captors slowly took their prisoner down to the house, where a long, heavy piece of timber lay upon the grass. Fastening the bear’s hind-feet to the timber with the strong lasso, and the fort-feet to a strong, deep-driven stake, they stepped away to a respectful dis tance, their eyes upon the ferocious creature and their hands upon their saddle-pommels. We walked up close to the bear to take a careful look at him. All cried out “ Cuiado !” “ Take care. ” “ Why, he’s all secure,” we said. “ Yes, but look out.” “ You don’t think he could get loose?” “ Perhaps not, but you’d better keep away 1” And we did. Tire bear lay with his head between his huge paws, covering his eyes, save occasionally when he could furtively lift his ryes, like a sulky child, to look at his captors : then covering his eyes again, remain a moment and steal an other look. Soon he gave heavy sighs, and someone said, “He is dying.” We expressed surprise to learn that the bear was wounded. “ He is not wounded,” they replied, “but his heart breaks—he dies of rage.” And in a few moments he had breathed his last, and was dragged away some distanoe from the house and left. Pacheco pointed to the sky. We 'ooked and saw a hundred carrion crows, whose watchful eyes had seen the feast long before it was halfway down the mountain Bide ; and before we were a hundred yards from the dead bear its body was completely hidden by the Sible, flapping wings of the hungry undertakers. The Wrasses. Dr. Bacbelder, of Central New York, talks thus of the different grasses with which he has been experimenting: Perennial rye-grass he considers of no value for hay or pasture, as it. will not endure the winters, but Italian rye grass, he says, is hardly anywhere in New York, and is one of the most val uable grasses known, either to cut for soiling or for hay. In vigor it is like orchard-grass, but is finer in texture, and is of the “cut and come again” kind, often produoiDg two crops of hay in a season, and then a rich aftermath. Meadow fescue he finds to be one of the most vigorous, adapted to either meadow or pasture. It equals timothy in the same time. It is a good grass to grow with timothy. Sweet vernal grass ought to be grown in the meadow to give fragrance to the other hay. Cattle devour it with great eagerness. Orchard grass alone, or with the medinm clover, is valuable, but then it ripens too soon for timothy. If cut just be fore the flower-scape opens, it makes a valuable hay, but if left till it ripens it is no better than rye straw. Timothy, Italian rye grass, meadow fescue, red top, meadow-oat grass and red clover ripen well enough to make good hay, and are well adapted to the climate, which is the great consideration. The proportion he gives of each is as fol lows : Timothy, ten pouuds; Italian rye, live pounds; meadow-oat grass, two pounds ; red clover, eight pounds For pasture he thinks June and orchard grass the best. The doctor thinks the Alfalfa will prove valuable in the west and south-west. A Plot for a Playwright. We remember a tradition of the Mae-a-Cheek valley that would be well to commence with. After the fight, and destruction of the Indian towns in that locality, one of the volunteers, wandering in the woods, saw the head of an Indian peering a him from behind } rock, and without a whereas of any length and a resolution quite as brief, brought bis gun to his shoulder and fired a shot that tumbled over the in quisitive aboriginal. To the hunter’s horror he found the victim of the fe male sex, with a papoose strapped to her back. He removed the babe, and he and his companion buried the mother. He carried the infant over a hundred miles to his log cabin, on the banks of the Ohio, and adopted the boy. He grew to manhood, a shy, wild fellow, with no taste for civilized pur suits, and a love for the woods. The situation was not pleasant, for the youthful Lo was expected to work for his living, and the labor was of the hardest. To make matters worse, he had the misfortune to fall in love with his patron’s daughter, a beautiful girl with no end of suitors, and as ah In dian in those days was regarded as a liitle better than a negro now, his love making did not prosper. His love was soon plighted to another, and as the wedding day drew near the young In dian disappeared. The marriage came off with its usual merry-making, that consisted of rifle-shooting, races, and wrestling during the day, and dancing and drinking at night. The married couple had retired to the bridal-chamber, that made one end of the double log cabin, and the merry making continued all night. The next morning the two so lately united for life were called to breakfast. They did not respond, for the very good reason that both were dead, being found mur dered on their bridal couch. All knew who the avenger was ; but to leave no doubt upon that head a wampum be.t, worked by the poor girl years before, was found upon the floor at her feet. But he was never heard of after. He seemed to vanish into night and memory. The poor father, recog nizing the hand of retribution, took to UGU HU OUU^ICOO, He is remembered as a member of the committee of ways and means, and accumulated quite a property out of subsidies and Indian contracts. He is spoken of to this day by an aged, red nosed, life insurance agent as that “ bloody old Brown who was a Jackson man with a bad breath and a worse temper.”— Washington Capital. An Important Treaty Kali fled. In accordance with a joint resolution of congress, approved Jane 17, 1874, and due notice given to the government of Belgium, through the United States ministtr at Brussels, on the Ist of July, 1874, the treaty of commerce and nav igation which was concluded between the United States and the king of the Belgians in 1858 will terminate on the first of July next. In the place of it the president sent to the senate yester day, and that body ratified to-day, a new treaty, signed at Washington on rhe Bth inst., by Secretary Fish and the Belgian Minister, M. Delfasse. A ma jority of the articles of the treaty relat ing t<> commerce are copie i verbatim from the treaty of 1858 Article four of the old treaty, exempting steam ves sels of both countries from tonnage, anchorage, buoys and light-house du ties, is omiittd from the new. A provision lias been added to the most favored nation article, giving either of the high constructing parties the right to terminate the article and obligation at any time by giving one year’s notice. The following new arti cle, in regard to trade marks, has also been added, aud is of especial interest to American merchants and manufac turers : Article 15. The high contracting par ties, desiring to secure complete and efficient protection to the manufactur ing industry of the respective citizens, agree that any counterfeiting in one of the two couutiies of the trade marks affiixed in the other on merchandise to show its origin and quality shall be strictly prohibited, and shall give ground for an action of damages in favor of the injured party, to be pros ecuted in the courts of the country iu which the counterfeiting shall be proved. The trade marks in which citizens of one of the two countries may wish to secure the right of property in the other must be lodged, to wit: The marks of citizens of the United States at Brussels, iu tbe office of the clerk of tbe tribunal of commerce, and the marks of Belgian citizens, at tbe patent office at Washington. It is understosd that if a trade mark has become public property in the country of its origin, it shall be equally free to all in the other country. The most.favored article of the treaty called forth a little discussion, but the treaty was ratified without any real op position. Appropriations Made by Congress. —The following are the totals of the appropriation bills passed by the last c;ingress for the next fiscial yeßr, taken from the official copies of the laws. They are absolutely exact: Post Office $ 37,524,361 Pensions 30,000,000 Sundry civil expenses 26,622,682 Army 27,933,860 Legislative, executive and judicial. 18,886,228 Rivers and harbors 6,662,078 Naval 17,001,306 Indian , 5,074,554 C insular and diplomatic 1,374,985 Fortifications 850,000 Military Academy 374,740 Total for 1875-76 $172,294,766 Deficiency for 1874 and former years. 3,009,468 Total $165,304,265 Total for 1874-75 177,118,719 Total for 1873 74 201,389,186 Reduction this vear, about 2.000.000 At the trial of one Putoam, at Vir ginia City, for leading an idle, dissolute lie, District Attorney Cambell defined a bummer as “aggregated, concatena ted, conglomerated, segregated, con taminated, d—d loafer.” This decided tl.e jar? at once, and they found Put nam guilty. FACTS FROM ALL SOURCE*. According to the agricultural re turns of 1874, there has been an increase instead of decrease in the stock of horses in Great Britain. The total number of horses is 367,000. The in crease during the past five years is 66,- 000. The excess in 1874 over the num ber returned for 1873 is 35,000. These figures plainly demonstrate that the scarcity of equine stock so loudly com plained of is mainly owing to the greaser demand. The Fultz wheat t rown the past sea son upon the experimental farm of the Pennsylvania agricultural college, at West Grove, Chester county, Pa., has yielded at the rate of forty-two bushels to the acre. The next highest products were the Britts ny and red wheat, 37 44 60 bushels ; Rough and Ready, 34 52- 80, and White Chaff Mediterranean, 34 40 60 bushels. The Alabama agricultural college and a committee of cotton planters have established an experimental station, near Wheeler’* station, in the northern part of the state. Eleven acres are to be divided into plats of one eighth of an acre each, on which experiments are to be tried with thirty different kinds or qualities of manure, and then repeated on subsoiled land. A Michigan man has raised five lem ons on a tree which he keeps in a hot house. It took four tons of coal, and he sold the lemons for twenty cents. He is going to enlarge his building so as to raise oranges and bananas. South Amebica is the paradise of thistles. They are large enough to af ford shade for cattle, and are sufficient ly tall to afford protection to highway men, who with their horses hide behind them. Empty oyster and fruit cans are not of much value, but if the cap to them be melted off, and the cans otherwise uninjured they may be put to use. It is a good plan to fill them with lard for summer use. The Kansas City Price Current al ready has information that 99,500 head of Texas cattle are to be driven to that place this season, and thinks the total drive will equal that of 1874. The Wisconsin granges already have established 41 co-operative associations for selling goods, and manufacturing, and 29 insurance companies ; all flour ishing, and representing capital to the amount of $4,000,000. In England the small farmers are forming clubs for the purchase of short horned bulls to improve their stock. Their example might profitably be fol lowed in this country. MOISTURE AT WILL. M. Parar is said to be the discoverer of a way of doing without rain, if neces sary. He knew that the air is full of moisture, and he knew that chloride of calcium would attract and condense it for caltnring purposes. He has applied this chloride on sand hills and road grass,jm aU sortslof J&ils. it may be applied in such proportions as will produce the irrigation of land more cheaply and efficiently than by means of canals or other methods of securing artificial irrigation. One of Mr. Parar’s applications will produce and retain abundant moisture for three days, when the same amount of water introduced by the present method will evaporate in an hour. He believes that his preparation will not only produce two blades of grass to grow where but one now grows, but that it will render possible fields, meadows, and prosperi ty, where now there is nothing but sand and desert waste. CHARCOAL KILN. To a correspondent who asked for in formation about building a kiln for charcoal-burning, The New York Times replies : Pale or soft brick will not answer for charcoal kiln. Only well burned hard brick can be used, as the wear and tear is considerable. The common shape of these kilns is conical, or that of an old fashioned bee-hive, or as nearly as possible the shape of an ordinary “charcoal-pit." It is most economical to make them of large size, abo it twenty-four feet in diameter and the same in height. The walls are a brick and a half thick for ten feet up, and a brick thick for the remainder. Such a kiln will cost SI,OOO, with the iron doors and bauds to strengthen it, and wilt hold forty cords oI wood, yielding about 1,600 bushels of coal at each burning. Charcoal is worth twen ty five cents a bushel in New York. SUGAR BEETS. A correspondent of The Indiana Farm er writes: “I have raised sugar beets on a small scale for several years, with very satisfactory results, as they are eaten in the winter by almost all kinds of stock with great avidity, and are an excellent substitute for grass, prevent ing costiveness, and keeping up a good appetite. They are rich in saccharine matter, and economical food, as they produce enormous crops on suitable land, when well cultivated. The most suitable land for them is a rich, loamy soil, somewhat clayey, either naturally dry or well-drained. They should be drilled in rows, three feet apart, in soil finely pulverized. They should be drilled four or five inches apart in the rows, and when well started, thinned out to ten inches apart. Cultivate thor oughly three or four times with a one horse cultivator, after which, pull out by hand any weeds that may remain or that may start after the cultivation is done. If the season is favojable you will get from 600 to 800 bushels per acre. CONCERNING CROCKERY. When buying crockery, it is poor economy to buy an inferior article be cause it can be purchased at one-third le is price. A first-class article of porce lain will out-wear many inferior pieces, aid still preserve its freshness. It never absorbs stale odors, no matter how many times heated. It does not crackle bv usage, thus marring its beauty. Neither is it as liable to break when used harshly. Too hot water poured over dishes, when cleaning them, is a very injurious practice. Dishes should be washed in suds, and if rinsed, the rinsing should never be too hot to bear the hand. Hard-boil ing wat r poured from the tea-kettle over dirty dishes is a slovenly practice, which will eoon tell its tale in cabalistic characters all over the face of the crockery. PATCHING BOYS’ CLOTHES. A motherly woman writing in the Curistiau Monitor, declares that she fully agrees with any thoughtful woman who spares her boys the humiliation of wearing great round or triangular patches, when her own skill and a gen erous supply of pieces make the re seated pants look almost as well as new ones. May they hold her in grateful rememb ranee, long after they shall have outlived the era of torn trousers. She suggests that when pants need re pairing over the knee, it is a good way to rip Hie seems each side of the worn part, cut it out and insert anew piece, pressing it nicely before closing the side seam again. Neither boy nor man need be ashamed to wear garments neatly patched if it be necessary, and every girl should be taught that mend ing well is an essential part of domes tic economy. WASHING HOUSE PLANTS. The following is from that excellent English journal, Land and Water : Have a large pail or tnb filled with warm soap-suds; then spreading the finger and the palm of the left hand over the soil in the pot, turn the branches topsy-turvy into the warm soap-suds, swing the plant briskly in the water till every leaf has become completely saturated, then put it through a pail of clean water and rub each leaf with the thumb and finger : give it a good shake and when dry re turn it to its place in tb>‘ window. The leaves of a plant are its lungs, each leaf being furnished with hundreds of minute pores, whence the plants breathe in carbon and exhale oxygen. The perspiration of plants is said to be seventeen times that of the human body. Many plants never bloom on account of the accumulation of dust upon their leaves. A plant too large to be laid down in a tub as above de scribed may be syringed, and each leaf rubbed olean with the finger and thumb, which are better for this purpose than a brush or cloth. EULOGY OF THE TOAD. The editor of The American London writes thus of a creature not famed for its beauty: The toad—although universally despised and upbraided for his ugliness—is yet a useful, good natured, quiet fellow, who reoognizes his friends and those who aie kind to him. We have some half dozen of them in oar small garden, and among them one old patriarch who, when we are digging or hoeing, will sit winking and blinking at us with his pretty eyes, and often compel us to lift or drive him aside to get him out of harm’s way. He will stay by us for hours, evidently feeling that he need fear no hurt. Like the sparrow, the toad has been consid ered a nuisance, and in some sections exterminated; but the exterminators have been only too glad, afterward, to get him back by the expenditure of large sums of money. So useful are toads in gardens that they are sold in Franoe by the dozen, for the purpose of stocking gardens to free them from many injurious insects. The toad lives almost entirely on winged insects, and never does harm to the plant. Norway. In its general aspect Norway presents the most unpromising conformation of surface for farming operations that can well be conceived. Mountain ranges, with plateaus whose altitude precludes cultivation, and from which rise moun tains that reach an elevation of eight thousand feet above the sea, prevail cept in the south the mountain-tops are covered wit* snow for the greater part, if not all the year; their slopes, when not absolutely inaccessible, are far too rocky and abrupt for farming settle ments. The deeper valleys that inter sect these mountain ranges, and which ramify with the contortions of the hills, are channels up which the sea sends its tides; above the level of these fjords are other water-worn valleys, whioh convey the overflow of the mountain lakes, subsided by countless streams that in varying volume leap from the hills as waterfalls, or rush foaming down the mountain side—the impervi ous primitive or metamorphoric rocks that are characteristic of the country not permitting the absorption of the melting snows or the summer’s rains. There exists, therefore a very extensive superficial area that presents physical as well as climatic difficulties of a char acter not to be surmounted by the most enterprising cultivators. With few ex ceptions the homestead of the Norsk farmer is built on the lower slopes of the hills, where, in fact, the wash of the rocky surfaces, in broken stone and silty soil, has accumulated to a suffi cient depth for the operation of the plow; or on the embanked levels of loamy soil, the deposits left by ancient rivers, cr when rich lacustrine alluvium is met with or where moraines are spread out at the embouchure of gla cier grooved and expansive valleys, forming suitable sites of scattered ham lets and little farms. Spelling-Matches. The latest mania which has seized upon Young America is that of spelling mat ches. They have spiead as rapidly as the epizootic did. It is an old custom which had fallen into disuse, but has been revived with a rapidity which is truly astonishing. Commencing in New England, only a few weeks ago, they have quickly spread to the west, the last place to be attacked being Nebraska. The object of these [matches is a very excellent one, the proceeds and rewards being given to the poor. They are in nocent in character, not liable to lead people into temptation, and are cheap and tranquilizing. They do not excite the passions, keep people out very late at nights, or distract their attention from business. In these respects they are much to be preferred to church lotteries, religious refiles, Jarley wax- works, and other similar modes of spreading the gospel into heathen lands Some of the facts connected with these matches are very peculiar. Although nearly all women are accustomed to have had spells at times, they almost invariably come off victorious in these matches, and put down the tyrant ma* without any difficulty. Men of literary pretensions have been floored with “flaccid,” flageolet,” “ballast,” “bal ance,” privilege,” “capillary,” “co lossal,” “correlate,” “appall,” and even little monosyllabic words, nurled at them by the gentler sex. “ Here are the rules given lor recog nizing a person’s character from his manner of laughing. There are as many kinds of laughter as there are vowels. People who laugh in A are frank, variable lovers of noise and bustle. Laughter in E belongs to phlegmatic and melancholy people. O indicates generosity of feeling and bold ness of movement; be your gnaru if it belongs to woman. 1. I, I, is the laughter of children and artless people; it denotes a kind, devoted nature, but timid and irresolute. Avoid ns you would the plague, those who laugh in U ; they are misers, hypocrites, misan thropes ; pleasure has no charm for them.” An Oregon paper makes the predic tion that in twenty years the export of pranes from that state will be greater in value than the export of wheat. Those Pacific coast croakers had better wait and see how many sorts of ioot rot, sun-scald, and insect enemies at tack their trees during the next few years. * - VOL. 16—NO. 15. SAYINGS AND DOINGS. The Ohio senate has passed a bill fixing the compensation of members of tho legislature at SSOO per annum. For generations past, French has been the diplomatic language of Europe. On the close of the Franoo-Prussian war, Berlin wrote a diplomatic note in German, of the deepest Russian blue, to St. Petersburg ; the latter replied in good Russian, sixteen quarters black. The exchange of correspondence stopped then and there in those two languages, uid French was resumed. Young fellow, if you have been burning up another man’s fuel and coal oil all winter, without yet arriving at a definite understanding with his girl, you may expect to be chalked down :18 a light and pithless fraud, and may look to have the scathing finger of scorn and the blacn muzzle of a bull dog pointed at you if you attempt to fake up your swing on the gate where vou left off last fall. At last here is anew fancy in the prestidigitation line. He borrowed a bonnet from a lady in theandience, and ns he was about to return it it caught firo in the gas, and he had to stamp on it with both feet to extinguish the flame. Misery of the lady !It was her best bonnet. Then he fired a pistol, and a bonnet just like it fell from the chan delier in the middle of the theatre. Talking of the tight skirts which are now in fashion, a lady who was born in the last century said the other day : ‘“You call those tight skirts! You should have seen Madame Tallien then when she walked in the Tuileries with a dress of an almost transparent text ure, worn over a pair of silk tights ! You have not come to that.” “ No,” answered another lady, “and I hope v e never shall. ” Talmage is back in his favorite role again. In his last Christian at Work, he offers a last word of gratuitous advice to theatrical people : “If you will only stoop down and look through the cracks in the floor of the stage, ” he says, “ you will see fire and smell smoke. Better fly for your life. It is hard work getting to heaven from the American theater. You will have to spring seventy-five feet at the first jump !” A clergyman, at a recent teachers’ meeting in Ohio, said that teachers are too often selected in the wrong way. “ Examiners make an intellectual re quirement in straight-jacket style, and pay no attention whatever to the par ticular natural, innate adaptedness of the teacher for the f rofession, at and thus men and women are found at the head ol our schools who are no more able +<* develop the huntf ti mind than a Mococ is to draw a pi< ture of the heavenly Jerusalem with .•harcoah” Horrible Death from the Bite of a Tarantula. Mrs. Jervis, the wife of a farmer living near Sacramento, died a few duys ago in this city, from the bite of a tarantula. The case is singular, and is another instance of the deadly attri butes of this insect, not uncommon in many portions of California. Borne six months ago, Mrs. Jervis, then liv irg on her husband's farm, had occa sion to strike a light, and going to a closet felt about for a match. While so doing she found something in a piece of writing paper which she thought might be a bunch of matches, and took hold of it. As she did she felt a sharp pain like the prick of a needle or pin, aad found something attached to her fore-fiDger. She screamed with terror, her husband rose, lit a candle, and to his horror found that she was bitten by a tarantula—whose poison is deadly unless the wound be immediately cau terized. He told his wife that she had only one chance of her life, to have the injured part cut out. She consented, and getting his razor, he cut a piece oue inch square out of her finger. The unfortunate woman stood the operation heroically, but its effects were not such as were desired. She lingered for six months in continual agony, her blood liberally drying up, till she was re duced to an absolute skeleton. Three months before her death her entire right side became paralyzed; yet, strange to say, the hand had a tendency to crawl, and tho fingers incesrautly moved like the legs of a spider. Tins feeling she said she could not control, and it presents one of the strongest phases of this disease, though a Hsnal accompaniment, so averred, of poison ing by insects of the spider kind.— San Francisco Post. Xew Treatment of Cancer. Anew and wonderful application of alcohol has recently been made in the treatment of tumors and cancer. Schwalbe, of Weinheim, has reported 100 cases of various forms of indolent glandnlar swellings treated successfully by the subcutaneous injection of the tincture of iodine. Latterly he has used injections of simple alcohol in fifty similar cases, and lias found the results equally favorable and the time required for a cure no greater, and he therefore concludes that the alcohol is the essential remedial agent. He ex plains its curative action as follows : It establishes a state of chronic inflam mation in the connective tissue, caus ing it to contract by degrees, and thus pressure is brought upon the vessels ar,d the lymphatics are obliterated. These effects, and the consequent hard ening of the connective tissue, he pro proposes to utilize in the treatment of other tumors, and reports the cure of ;atty tumors by the use of such injec tions, to which some ether was added n order to dissolve the fat. He finds, however, the most importdut applica tion of his plan in the treatnunt of cancer by preventing its ext: t sion to the neighboring tissues and lymphatic glands. The turner is first to be ieo lated, as it weie, by causing the con nective tissue on all" sides of it to be come shriveled Then the contractive connective tissue, approaching the growth itself, presses upon it, cuts off its blood supply, and so causes it to disappear by atrophy. Lymphatic glands which are already affected are to be similarly treated. Schwalbe, with Dr. Hasse, claims to have cured three cases of cancer of the breast in this way. Value of the Leaves. —An intelli gent lady stripped her grape-vines of a portion of their leaves, in order to let in the sun and ripen the fruit; but, to her surprise, where the leaves n mained as nature had disposed them, the grapes were the earliest, and every way the best. This led her to investigate the matter, when she was deli edited to learn that the leaves wei 3 not only the' 'pro tectors, but the caterers of the fruit, constantly elaborating and supplying it with the pabulum it required to bring it to perfection.