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Robbie's Reward.
“ Pins and pocket combs ! Pins and
pocket combs!”
Robbie’s voi<ie tfas very low ; for be
was tired, and almost faint for want of
food. The crowd in the waiting-room
was indifferent, and seemed to have lit
tle need of such wares as his ; so bis
sales were very small.
“ Acre, little boy,” said a vcice be
hind him ; “ you have just what I want.
This ugly rent must be pinned up till I
can get home. I’ll take this paper. —
Harvey, will you pay this little fellow
for a prper of pins '{”
The beautiful woman turned to the
tall young man beside her ; and be
looked as though it would be a pleasure
to do anything for her.
He was just counting a handful if
change which he had taken from his
pocket, when he was interrupt3d.
“ No, no, ma’am !” said liobbie, ea
gerly. “ Don’t take that paper ; it isn’t
a wtiole one. I cut off a row of rins
from it this morning for poor little
Hannah to dress her doll with.”
“Never mind, little man, said the
y iuntr lady, gayly. “ A tenth part of
these 1 have will be more than I want;
so 1 shall (>nly have the less to throw
away when I’m done with them ”
“ Then don’t pay so much, ’ persisted
Robbie ; and he handed back two cent#
to the gentleman, who had given him
ten.
“ Well, little man,” said Harvey,
“ are not your ideas of morals most too
big for such a little head as yours ? How
do you ever expect to get a living if
vou don’t cheat a little now and then ?”
Robbie’s brown eyes were open
\ory wide when he heard the que
ry*
“But I’d rather not live at all than
to live dishonestly.”
“Who taught you all these thiiitrs
about right and wrong ?”the gentleman
asked.
“My mother, and I think sne would
rather l would die, and come to her in
heaven an honest boy, than to live
ever so well on fctol n money.”
“Yes, yes!” sad Harvey, “I dare
say you are right; and you are a noble
boy to remember such a mother ■ teach
ing”
Little Robbie went wearily on wi:h
his work, -arrying, nevertheless.a qureJ
conscience with him, for all he was so
tired, he had overcome one little temp
tation.
The lady and gentleman stepped
on the' train, and were gone.
liuvey was very thoughtful; and his
gay compnuion had to ieprove him fur
his silence.
“You’ve been gazing at the trestle*
work of Hanpden bridge ever since we
came in sight. One would think you
were planning to build a bridge of your
own ; by the way you study that.”
“So l am Bel'e,” he replied, “ lath
er, I’ve built it, and crossed it already,
and find myself on Lhe safe side of a
great chasm of temptation; for set here!
you don’t know how strongly I’ve been
‘erupted, lately, to withhold those bonds
that I know, in honor, ought to go to
redeem my fathers pledge. They would
help me so much by increasing my cap
ital just now as I am starting into bus.,
iness. But that ltttle pin-pedler, back
there has taught me a lesson. I believe,
like him 1,11 starve on honesty rather
than fatten on theft.
Rut a few weeks 'afer, after Harvey
Holeman’s business was well established
the station agenteat Beacon City jeciev
ed a letter inquiring after the little ped
dler of pins and pocket-combs and re
lating bis act of honesty.
Later^still. honest Robbie was reciev
ed into Mr. Holeman’s home and busi*
ness interest, to serve, first as an er~
rand-Doy, and then as clerk.
Which was the better reward for
Robbie—the fine position which his
honesty had gained for him or lie con
scientiousness of having influenced lor
good a ftdlowman ‘l lie thought he lat -
ter. — 11 eIP Spring.
The Beauties Of Alaska.
Perhaps alaska is the most worthless
patch of creation that was ever pur.-
chased and passed out of one possession
into another. It does not seem to have
anv materials cr capacities for develop"
meut. It was a Russian poor-house,and
lv “ss,a sold the expensive charge. All
the Ru^i ans were able to got away;
th se vho wei 4 too poor to go stayed.
All the paupers retained of course.
Among these were the half-breeds—
Russia’s crooked families. Non and
then a melancholy letter comes from
some stranded correspondent in Alaska,
and the aame gets in the papers Oth
erwise it is as dumb as a petrifeation
and Larren of news as the moon. A
letter came lately, Sitka is still sitting
in a quiet corner of the ocean, behind
numerous islands which break the waves
until the waters arrund a e as calm and
passionless as those of a mill-dam Even
the sea about the city refuses to s‘ir
The-e are no streets because none are
wanted. There are a few alleys—nar
row ways which lead to destruction—
abundant prostitution being a Rsusian
heritage. And then the universal
smell offish. The clouds come up from
the Pacific and pour floods of water
upon Sitka for weeks and months with
out cessation, and the water runs off in
to the sea again, but it cannot wash
away the smell of fish. And Sitka is
all there is of Alaska worth speakiug
of at all. And nobody ever stayed
there yet to whom it was possible
away. So the ietters from Alaska al
ways treat that miserable patch of cre
ation which has ever been a source of
poverty to its owneis.
‘‘ Truth Conquers All Things.”
Roman slagificence.
If anything is v anted to give us an
idea of Rom&n magnificence, we must
turn our eyes upon public monuments,
demoralized ganies and grand process
ions, we would forget the statues in brass
and marble which outnumbered the
living inhabitants,so numerous that one
hundred thousand have been recovered
and still embelli>h Italy ; and would
descend into the lower sphere of mate
rial life —those things which attest lux
ury and taste—to ornaments, dresses,
sumptuous living.and rich furniture
The art of using metals and cutting
precious s'ones surpassed anything
known at the present day.
In the decoration of houses, in social
entertainments, in cookery,"the Romans
were remarkable. The mosaic, signet
rings, cameos, bracelets, bronzes, vases,
couches, banqueting tables, lamps.char
iots, colored glass, gilding, mirrors,mat
tresses, perfumes, hair dyes,
’silk libbons, potteries, all attest great
elegance and beau y. The tables of
thugo root and Delian bronze were as ex
pensive as the sideboards of Spanish
wa'nut, so much admired at the Great
Exhibition at Loudon.
\Y iod arid ivory were carved as ex_
quisitly as in Japan or China.
Mirrors were made of polished silver.
Glass cutters could imitate the colors of
precious stones so well that the Port"
land vase, taken from the tomb of AD
exande:* Severus, was long considered
as a genuine sardonyx; brass could be
hardened so as to cut stone.
The palace of Nero glittered with
gold and jewels Perfumes and flow
ers were showered from ivory ceilings
The halls of were hung
with cloth an i gold, enriched with
jewels. His beds were silver, and his
tables of goM. Tiberius gave a million
of sesterces for a picture of his bed
rooui. A banquet dish of Daesidus
weighed five, hunch- and pounds of silver.
The cups of Dru-es were of gold.
Tunics were embroidered with figures
of various animals Sanda s were gar
nished with precioiia stones. Blinking
cups were engraved with scenes from
poets. Libraries were adorned with
busts and with tortoise shell, and cov
eted with gorgeous purple.
The Roman grandees rude in gilded
chariots, bathed in marble baths, dined
on golden plates, drank from crystal
cups, slept on beds of down, reclined
on luxurious couches,wore embroide.ed
robes, and were adorned with precious
stones.
They ransacked the eaftff and the
seas for rare dishes for their banquets,
and ornac ewted their houses with car
pets from Babylon, onyx cups from By
thinia, marbles from Numid’a,, bronzes
from Co'inth, statutes from Athens—
whatever, in short, was precious or cu
rious in the most distant countries.
The luxuries of the bath almost ex -
ceed belie 4 *, and on the walls were mag
nificent frescoes and paintings, exhibi
ting an ineshaustive productiveness in
landscape and mythological scenes.
Grape Gathering Turfeey.
Correspondents at the seat of hostili
ties in Servia and Turkey relieve their
war pictures with the brighter side of
life m the disturbed districts. lhe
men have all gone to the wars, and
the worn n are at home carrying on their
domestic affairs, apparently in the oest
possible spirits There are r-o men t
be seen, either old or young, in the re
gions round about the battle fields.
They are all eng; ged actively in the
work of war This is especially in Tur
key, which does not look as if Turkey
would be symbolized with a sick man
Turkey appears to be in the best ol
health, and it is evident that all the
male strength of the country will be
expended in the struggle, if such a
draft is necessary to carry through 'I ur
key’t> cause in Europe. The Turk s
evidently not going to be driven out
without a sufficient Cause of armies to
dislodge him.
After witnessing carnage and devas
tation.a London corresoondent makes a
brilliant picture of the female home
g ard in Turkey. It was in the midst
of the grape haivest. The Turkish
women had already harvested the wheat
and bar'ey and were gathering the
grapes. The country was full of pretty
damsels grape-gathering. Except that
no men were to b ' seen, there were no
evidences of the carnage hovering near
and the devastation almost within sight.
The Turkish damsel dons her attire,
plaits her hrir with gau y ribbons, fas
tens 1 1 her head dress pieces of gold if
she be rich, or copper if poor, and “oes
forth to the grape-gathe r iog. Every
now and then they break forth into
snatches of song, then peals of laughter
follow,and all seem careless of the fate
of their lathers, and husbands, and
brothers, and lovers.in the deadly strife
They are gathering grapes for a fest val
of victory or a funeral —St Louis AV*
publican.
“ AIIOO !ow ! yah ! ahoo ! git out !
o-o-h ! my !” weie the frightful sounds
which awoke the occupants of a sleep
ing-coach on the Union Pacific railroad
the other night. There was considera
ble agitation among the passengers, uo
til the porter came along and explained
that it was only a gen.leman wh.o had
had a niglDmare in one of the uppei
berths. The gentleman proved to be
Dio Lewis, who had been eaii g escal
lopped oysters, doughnuts. lobster-salad
and Bostou ducks for supper, and who
dreamed that he had received a nomiua
tion for Congress in Massachusetts.
THE NAPOLEON OF POLI
TICS.
Gov.Tilden’s Plan on Conducting
a Canvas**.
Two vears ago, two days before elec
tion Mr Tilden was asked by a New
Y T ork editor what the election probabil
ities were. The candidate for Governor
pul his hand to the side of his mouth,
and confi ently answered in a half
whisper : “l shall be elected by be
tween fifty.one and fifty-three thousand
majority.” He then opened his safe
.ioor, and taking a book show and the
editor lour columns of names that had
been written on its pages : At the t p
of the page was the name of the couuty
town and election district in which the
men whose names were there lived.—
The first column cunsi-ted of* men who
would vote the Democratic ticket
through thick and thin ; the second of
doubtful Democrats ; the third of un
questionable Republicans, and of the
feurth doubiful Republicans. “I’ve the
name of every voter in the State out
side of New York and Brooklyn,” Mr.
Tilden added,"and I know how ninety
nine rat of ohe hondved of them will
v. te ” Two davs afterwards when they
did vote, Mr. Tilden was elected Gov
ernor by a majority within 70U of the
number ho had predicted. As soon as
he was nominated last June Mr. Tilden
was sent directly to trusted agents in
every election distr’ffs m the State, and
in lb tee weeks they had returned
him a simi’ar list containing the
names of every voter and their proba
ble cnoioe as between Tilden and
Hayes.
Every voter hid been sounded pen
sonallv, and the oanvass showed a ma
jority in Ti'den’s favor without the
vote of New Y T ork city. The real work
was then instantly begun. Every
doubtful voter was flooded with came
raign documents and Demrcra'ic nevvse
papers A fist of doubt!ul voters was
placed in the hands of every rusted
Democrat in the District, and he was
requested to work with the voter. This
was one branch of the canvass work
performed during the summer in the
Empire State, iti Masachusetts Connect
Ohio, Indiana and in part of other
States. Mr. Tilden’s personal
supervision was given to the
canvass in New York State that he
might note effects of what had been
do ,e. The result Mr. Tilden’s friends
partially announced by saying that they
should carry the State by 75,000 tna°
jority. It is certain that they were
overjoyed by the returns, and have
been in the liveliest possible condition
of mind ever since. This canvass
transferred many hitherto douDtful
voters soliily to the Democrats and puts
many hitherto strunch Republi an on
the doubtful list. Anew class of voters
was therefore dic’iostd to be worked
with, and it is with these and those
who remained doubtful that M*\Tildeu.
agents are now wot king. A large num
ber of good talkers has beeu sent out
from the principal cities to personally
button hole the doubtful cnes. In an
other week a third canvass is to be made
to be used in the final struggle in the week
prior to election. Every Democratic
Club has a list of the doubtful voters in
its district. The entire plan may be
comprehended in the two words person
al work.”— Phi/aed'phia Times ,
—►
The Jtlcdk'l Man.
The model man never disturbs a hen
wen she iz setting; never speaks cross
tew a lost dorg ; alwuz puts a five-cent
shinpla ter in hiz vest pocket late Sat*
urday night tew hev it ready Sundry
morning f r the church platter; rizes
whenever a lady entirs the street kars ;
remembers your unkle plainly, and asks
after awl the fami’y. If he steps on a
kat’s tail iz sure to do it light, and iniz
mediately asks her pardon; hooks up
hiz wife's dress and plays hoss with the
children. Ne ,r er meddles with the
cream in the milk pans; goes eazily ov
errands, and cuuis back in seazons; at
tends everybody’s phuneral; kan alwuz
tell when the moon changes; thinks
just az you do, or the other way, if yu
want him tew ; fullers everybody’s ad
vice but hiz owne : practices most ov
the virtews without knowing it; leads
the life ova shorn lamb ; gits sick af>
ter awhile, and dies az soon az he can,
to save enny further trouble.
The mud u i man's vices are not feared,
nor hiz virtews respected. He lives in
the uiemorv ov the world just aZ long
az a pleasant day duz
He may be caJed a “ clever fellow ”
and that is only a libel ; but he will
git hiz reward hereafter —when the
birds git theirs. —Josh Billings.
“ Got’em.”- The proprietor of a
Front street saloon had a live turtle,
which he was going to make soup for
his guests. It was under the box.
waiting for hia time to come. On \Yed
nesday night Mr. TurtU meandered out
into the bar-room, ad waddled along
up to where two soakers were sit
ling by a table taking in sustenance of
a liquid nature. The t urtleuioved quiet
ly under tie table and found an obstruc
tion in the shape of a schooner, made
of leather with a man’s foot in the
“bold ” The turtle hadn’t time to go
arouud the foot so he s.aried to climb
over it. The man who owned the foot
felt something and looked down. The
man turned pale and said : “ Boys take
me home and tend for a doctor. I’ve
gi t ’em.” —La Crosse Sun.
Savannah physicians are accusing
each other of unwise treatment of pa
tients during the ytlSuw fever epidem
ic.
In \dvance.
VSo ill! e lA'flcr Fe* nft 3
The correspondent of the London
Telegraph, in his account of the great
battle of the Morava, gives the follow „
ing touching incident:
Next morning I rode over the battle-*
field, o- rather over the greater part of
it. lam afraid to say bow many dead
lay there; they covered the gr-und,
that is all I can say But amongst
these mangled men gone to their last
account were seventy tour Russian of
ficers, and, as is usual, the papers w hich
were in their pockets were taken from
them pri- rto their burial. 1 changed
to look at the heap thus collected.—
There was a Russian passport on one,
auother had carried with him * diary,
which told all his doings for the past
three weeks; another, less discreet even,
had noted ail his expeuses in a little
notebook, and I am sorry to say that
some of his money had been badly spent.
But there were two pieces of paper, the
memory of which will long remain with
me. At first sight they were only let.
ters from home to the dead man on the
Servian field; but as I turned them
over a chill ran through uiy blood, and
my heart stood still. between WidYfy
ruled pencil lines on the last pages of
each note were a d"zen sentences writ
ten in such laige letters that my atten
tion was immediately fixed upon them.
It was not that the Russian hieroglyph
ics were prettily made, on the contrary
the little hand which had traced them
had been tediously guided as it raised
along the paper. Nor was it that these
huge characters contained startling in*
formation ol Moscow intrigue or Servi
an conspiracy. The great tremulously
traced words were only the heart
breathed words of a child—of a very
little boy : “Loved pipa,” began each
message, “when will v ou come home
again, my own dear papa?” And the
little writer went on to tell of how home
was dull and the days long, and how the
sun would not shine again upou his life
till the pa pa who was absent had come
home again. As 110 ked at the great
letters they seemed to run into one.—
l thought of the little boy and the af>
fectionate wife who had penned those
lovirg f ages, and then of the father who
lay face downwards on Servian ground.
What mattered it that a coronet and the
letters “K. C.,” in a monogram, headed
that tender message. That home at
Dyvna or Dovna- I could not quite tell
the name of the place—will be dark
for many a day, for the sunshine of that
little boy’s life is removed, and the own
er of the coronet is no more. He had
come to fight for the Servian cause,
and it had bee.i his sad lot to die in its
defence.
A Kwfry’s Peril.
These persons who desire to make
Mrs. Walsingham look gloomy, says
Max Adder, do so by referring to the
fact that her husband is an ingenious
man. Walsingham it appears, thought
it would be nice to aave his baby’s car
riage prop .lied by s >me other power
tha*> a nui>e girl. So he bought a
Newfoundland dog fitted a harness to
him. and t alned the animal to draw
the coach, which it aid very nicely.—
Ono afternoon, while Mr-’. Walsingham
was out with the dog and the baby, the
dog saw another dog in which he was
interested, and he immediately
dashed over to the stranger wagging
his tail in the most familiar man- 1
ner.
The exact point upon which the two
differed will probably never be revealed
—but before Mrs. Walsihgham co#ls
get across the street the dogs were en
gaged in a combat of the most frightful
character Mrs Waking ha ofß baby, it
is supposed,had no especial yearnings to
participate in the conflict, and yet there
that unfortunate infant was mixed up
with the dogs and apparently regarded
by them as entitled to in equal share of
the bites which were being handed
round. Whenever one of the dogs hap 1
pened to get himself into such a posi
tion that the other dog could not ob*
tain a comfortable place for his teeth,
both and 'gs wouH knock off for a mo
ment and join each other in taking a
few promiscuous nips out of Mrs. Wal
singham s baby. The more Mrs. Wal
singham screamed and poxed into the
fight wither parasol, the more the
dogs triod to swallow each others legs,
and the more they tangled their teeth
with the baby. And at last, when the'
Walsingham dog retreated, and attempt
ed to jump through the fence, in which
lie was caught bv the coach and firr. jy
held. Mrs. Walsineham picked up that i
bleeding and mutilted child of her hopes !
and went home, for the purposs of ask
ing Walsingham i" he though his con
duct in engaging that dog was the cor,
root thing for a man and a father.
Catching Hawks. —As the season
is approaching when hawks are most de. |
structive to young poultry,a method of
catching and ki ling these marauders
will be in order. It is a well-known
fact that a hawk will always light on
some suspicious place close to the poul- j
try yard, from which to swoop down on
his victims. Taking advantage of this,
erect a poie with a flat surface at the
top just large enough to hold a strong
steel trap. Fasten this trap by a stable
chain to a staple io the pole, and await j
results. No bait will be needed,for the 1
hawk will be quite certain to light on
the trap, and be caught. A gentleman
who has tried this method has succeed
ed in killing all the hawks in his neigh
borhood, and can raise poultry without
loss except by aeoideut.— California
Horticulturist.
A !)VEBTISr>JIEXTS.
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rate of Oue Dollar per square for the first
insertion, and fifty cents for each subse
quent insertion. Ten lines of this typo
make a square.
Local notices,fifteen cents per line for the
firit insettion. and ton cents for each sub
sequent insertion.
Special contracts will be m>\de with par
ties tesiring to advertise icgulariy.
Hills lor advertising are due any time
after first insertion, unless otherwise a.
ranged by contract.
no. id.
PROPORTION OF THE SEXES.
A Very Mnthemalieal
Proposition.
A correspondent writes to us thus : A
recent number of scientific journals,
speaking of the relative p opinion of
the sexes in the human race and el
tha, for ooe hundred and fif'y tun that
come into the word one- Lt ndredths
(100 72-100 wot? en are born. Ido
not dispute these pignres. I only
aske for light. It it appears according
to this that there are some women who
are only seventy-one hundredths of a
woman What the remaining twenty
eight hundredths are I ean not imag
ine.
Now,what I want to know is this. If a
woman of this kind marries a one one
hundredth man and has a daughter will
the haughter be an eighty four ono
hundredths woman, or a ninety-six
one hundredths woman ? And what
will bo the exact relationship, be
tween such a daughter arid a seventy
six one-hundredths and her aunt and
a seventy-seven one-hundredths daugh
ters, especially if the eighty-seven oi#*
hundredths girls marry the brothers of*
the ninety-six one-hundredths girl, and
so become nnt only her ninety-eight
onr-hundredths and' Sweuty-second cou
sins but her ninety-five ore-Jiuodredths
sister-in-law the aforesaid senventy-six
one-hundredths aunt becoming also
the eighty-nine-one* hundredth moth
er-in-law of her eighty one hun
dredths nephews, Will the — the—the—.
Let me see; where am I ? It is an aw
ful subject to tack'e. Oh Yes! I say
if the seventy-six one-hundredth aunt
—but no. The question can’t be solv.,
ed in any such way as this. I give
it up. The only way to get at i$
will be to do the sum in algebra some
how, making the daughter x the aunty
the first coosin , and the mother-in-law
h. Then it seems to me, if you multi
ply the aunt by the daughter and divide
the first cousin by the mother-in-law
in some way or other, or extract the
square root ousins and subtract
the result from the aunt, keeping the
daughter as a com non denominator and
at the same time making a decimal
fraction of the mother-in-law, perhaps
the result might be satisfactory.- But
lam not certain. I aui poor ar mathe
matics. I wish the lightning calculator
would get at this, or that Prof. Tyndall 1
would subject it to a chemical analysis-.
France Preparing for War.
France, the destruction of whose im
perial army was hailed as the promise
of disarmment, is now organizing an
army by the the side of which Napo
leon’s flimsy battalions were a mere
train band. Every Frenchman who is
not positively cripple or invalided now
belongs so the active army for fiveyesrw
between the ages of twenty and twenty
nine; not all serve this length of time,
a certain proportion who are drawn by
lot being furloughed after six month’s
service; another class in pursuit of a
l.beral education get off by voluDteerin-g
for one year, passing an examin.tioo in
their studies and paying a commutation
money of three hundred dollars. Then
there are the “reservists,” so-called, the
older mew, who are supposed to have
graduated from \he active army. Once
in two years the reservists meet and drill
for a fortnight. They have just been
under drill, the men being called out in
the same order as if the present organi
zation had been in force for some years,
Nine corps of 20,000 men eaeh have
thus been under d-ill, many of them
veterans of the last war, but strangers
to the new arm (the fusiljras') which
has been adopted since they were in the
field. A third grand division is “the
territorial army,” or men from thirty
four to forty years of age, who are only
to oe called out in defence of the dis
trict in which they are enrolled. The
whole male population are given a legal
status as belligerents, in order to pro*
tect them from aoy of these scruples
which led the Germans, it is faid, to
shoot citizens in defense of their homes
because they were irregulars. But
practically, every man from twenty to
forty years of age ts a part oi the ar
my.
The Pool of Silonm as it \ow Ap
pears.
Charles Dudley Warner, in a recsnfc
article to the Atlantic, says :
On our way to the pool of Siloam we
passed the village of Siloam, which is
inhabited by about a thousand Moslems
—a nest ol stone huts acd caves cling.-'
ing to the sideHiill, and exactly the
gray color of its stones. The occupa
; tion of the inhabitants appears to be
begging and hunting for old copper
coins, mites, and other pieces of Jew
ish money.
These relies they presed upon us
with the utmost urgency. It was ea*
sier to satisfy the beggars than the tra
ders, who sailed out upon us like bun*
gry wolves from their caves. Theie is
a great choice of disagreeable places in
the East, bat I cannot now think of
any that 1 should not prefer as a resi*
dence to Siloam.
The Pool of Siloam, magnified in my
infant mind as ‘ l Siloam’s shady ril!,” is
an unattractive sink-hole of dirty water,
surrounded by modem masonry. The
valley here is very stony. Just below
we come to Solomon’s Garden, an arid
spot, with patches of stone walls, strug
gling to be a vegetable gaiden, and
somewhat green with lettuee aud Jeru
salem artichokes. 1 have no doubt it
was quite another thing when Solomon
aud some of his wives used to walk
here in the cool of tte day. and eveu
when Shallum, the sou of Col-hozeh
set up “ the wall of the Pool of Siloam
by the king's garden.”