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aH*9eBFy f J. TAX SlaYKK, Miter * PLMMW. IFNNENRY. "7 i T ILLINOIS. m " , ' = MY OLD HOUSE. IUT1UAT MMWOFL AT WOHTT-nTB. KAIL onoe more my natal day, tilt in my temement of clay. With many favors blest: " He who placed the structure hen Kj- M •a prop it ap another year, If He mall think it boat. iuue ii'jt sfedtm through 1 w"»v« d life's fssifai hurricane While stronger ones have fell; <W^Mt reason why. we cannot see, what to us seems mystei The Builder known J , weJ ry eU. 3ut now 'tis weatherworn and oil, ?be summer's heat and winter's cold •Pierce through the walk and roof; : "jTi* likea garment so worn out .» * o mend tnere seems no r nrmwinmi. •,*, So gone is warp and woof. tottering pillars all are weak, >kir " ' poor old rnsty hinges creak, . The windows too, are dim; Vhoae slight discomforts we will pass, JFor looking darkiy through a glass* We uatch a hopeful gleam. ^Nature and reason tell us all 'IThifl shattered frame ere long must fall, . Where, when or how, unknown: •"We'll leave that to the Architect, And trustJHIB wisdom to direct The taking of it do^m. -And when you see it prostrate lie iLet not a tear bedim the eye. The tenant is not here: Bus just beyond time's little space 'tfihe finds some quiet resting plaoe, No more to date her year. -And though you see her here no more. The world will move just as before; Tis meet it should be so. • •Let each his house in order set, 'That he may leave without regret Whenever called to go. --Mr». Daniel Ormeby (aqed eight,y-Jl»e year*) in Sprii ffleld (Man*.) Republican. /rox point because it is just here that men deceive themselves, and are deceived by such reasoning as we have cited. They vainly imagine that restoration atones for the appropriation of what was not their own; as if it were a suffi­ cient excuse for highway robbery that the robber intended to restore, and actually did restore, at some future time, the purse he took. The Trustee who misappropriates the funds in his hands is as much worse than a thief, as a thief is meaner than a robber; the meanness being greater as the risk of detection is diminished. These are times when this subject OUght to hfrfiillj 'inHprstood. It Is well to set before the best of men the dan­ gers of temptation when facilities are so great, and the standard of morality Is so fearfully low. So many have been the breaches of trust on the part of Treasurers and Directors and Presidents, as well as of private trustees, that men have come to look upon these offenses with a leniency that is exceedingly un­ favorable to public virtue. It is now very hard to make a '* breach of trust" a crime punishable with imprisonment. The " honorable intention" to restore palliates the sin and wipes o&t the shame in the eyes of a money-getting generation. But it is not so in the eyes of Him who seeth in secret. It Ought not to be so in the eye of the law, or of any good man.--N. Y. Observer. ABE THESE AO HONEST XEN ? ONE of the daily papers, discussing *the subject of defalcations, lays down 4hese two propositions: " There is no man who will ultimate­ ly resist the temptation to use funds which a^e absolutely in his control for •a long time; and in using them he does -so with the most honorable intentions, trusting to secrecy until he shall have jiaid back every cent." Both of these statements are objec- "tionable, because they are not founded in truth. It would be in the highest -degree .discreditable to the human race, if the first proposition w;ere true, and -exceedingly dangerous to admit the jus­ tice of the second. Let us look at them separately: 1. • There is no man who will ulti­ mately resist the temptation to use tfunds which are absolutely in his con­ trol for a long tin\e." Is that so? Then there are no honest men living; "then we may not put confidence in any­ body; then character is no basis for trust, and a defalcation or robbery is but a question of time. Give any man time and opportunity and he will provt himself to be a villain. Now we do not take so sad a view of society as this. We bear in mind that in proportion to the vast number of trusted men, the breaches of trust are very few. In such A community as New York, Boston or Philadephia, the number of men hav­ ing absolute control of large trusts, as executors, agents, guardians, trustees of estates ana minors, is to be counted by tens and hundreds of thousands. .Scarcely a man of position and charac­ ter but is in some way made the trustee of money which he is to han­ dle and guard for others. Some of these men are Treasurers of great in­ stitutions, with large sums lying in their hands, subject to their individual ^direction, and at any time they could hypothecate securities, raise money, and on it depart out of the city, or speculate in stocks. This is the tempta­ tion which overcomes weak and wicked men. But to say that "no man will -resist this temptation" is to ignore the fact that the immense majority of men do resist; that the defaulters are only >as one in a thousand, miserable excep­ tions to the general rule, which is hon­ esty, not robbery. The facts are bad eiiough, without making tlicaa worse 3xy exaggeration. We would not in» "^-urease general distrust by impeaching the many who are entitled to the more confidence because others forfeit char­ acter and drown themselves in the per­ dition of dishonest men. Good men would shrink from holding trusts, if it were held as a fact that all men will betray their trusts with plenty of time .and opportunity. 2. But the second statement is even more dangerous than the first. The one excites distrust, the second stimu­ lates to crime. The writer says: "In using them .(trust funds) he does so with the most honorable intentions, ^trusting to secrecy until he shall have paid back every cent." The point we make is that the word honorable in «uch a connection is unfortunate and in­ jurious to good morals. The intention <is in the highest degree dishonorable which encourages a trustee to peril the 'money of another for his own advan­ tage. The intention to restore is the ssalve to his conscience, oi rather the mask that he wears while he robs his •Innocent, unsuspecting and helpless victims. Honorable intentions, indeed! A man being entrusted with the money •of another, says to himself: "I will take this money and go upon the eet with it and operate till I have doubled it; then I will put it back where pt now is, and the trust will be " «*'>od as before. I will be so much richer, 4lnd nobody will know how it was done." JIS that honest? The trust was safe as it stood. Or it was where the law and his judgment directed him to place it. But he resolved to put it in peril for the Jake of making himself rich. His in-entiJm to put the money back was part •of the scheme which he formed for his •own advantage at the hazard of the trust. The resolution was dishonest. The intention was no palliation, but was a cloak for the crime, and, there­ fore, was in no sense honorable. The moment that he decided to violate his •obligation as a trustee the man was lost. Having no better right to take that money for his own use than he -would have had if it were in the keep­ ing of another, be was a thief at heart -as soon as he determined oii its appro­ priation. We are the more explicit on this Influence of Light en Plants and Ani- •lis. PROF. PAUL BERT, who has recently devoted a great deal of attention to the study of the influence of light on ani­ mals and plants, denies that the leaves of the sensitive plant close on the ap­ proach of evening, the same as if they had been touched by the hand. On the contrary, he finds that from nine in the evening, after drooping, they expand again and attain the maximum of rigid­ ity at two in the morning. What is commonly called the ** sensitiveness" of plants is but the external manifesta­ tions of the influences of light. Prof. Bert placed plaits in lanterns of differ­ ent colored glass; those under the in­ fluence of green glass drooped in the course of a few days as completely as if placed in utter darkness, proving that green rays are useless, ana equal to none at all. In a few weeks all Slants without exception thus treated ied. It has been proved by the exper­ iments of Zimiriareff that the reducing power of the green matter of plants is proportionate to the quantity of red rays absorbed, and Bert shows that green glass precisely intercepts these colored rays, and that plants exist more or less healthily in blue and violet rays. In the animal world phenomena of a directly opposite nature are found, and of a more complex character. Here the light acts on the skin and the move­ ments of the body, either directly or through the visual organs. M. Pouchet has shown the changes in color that certain animals undergo, according to the medium in which they live. For instance, young turbots resting on white sand assume an ashy tint, but when resting on a black bottom be­ come brown; when deprived of its eyes the fish exhibits no change of color in its skin; the phenomenon, therefore, seems to be nervous or optical. Prof. Bert placed a piece of paper with a cut design on the back of a sleeping chame­ leon; on bringing a lamp near the ani­ mal the skin gradually became brown, and on removing the paper a well-de­ fined image of the pattern appeared. In this case the light acted directly, and without nervous intervention. If, how­ ever, the eye of- the chameleon be ex­ tracted, the corresponding side of the animal becomes insensible to the influ­ ence of the light. Prof. Bert's conclusion, therefore, is that the circulation in the transparent layers of the skin must be affected by light. According to Dr. Bouchard a sunstroke is the effect of the direct ac­ tion of light upon the skin, produced by the blue and violet rays. The heat producing rays have no part in such accidents, as proved by the fact that workmen exposed to intense heats do not feel their fatal effect. Prof. Bert, in a scries of expoiiincuts on a vainly of animals, found that none avoided light, but all rather sought it; and the lowest forms, like the highest, absorbed the same ravs. As regards intensity of color, however, there was a difference, some bein<r more partial to one ray than another. Thus the microscopic daphne of the pond preferred yellow; violet was less in request; spiders seemed to enjx>y blue rather than red rays--so resembling people suffering from color-blindness. No two persons are sensible to the same shades or tones, while absorbing the same light; and this would seem to indicate that the retina possesses a selective power. --Scientific American. --A New York letter relates the fol­ lowing: "A gentleman was in Orange, N. J., the other day. He wanted to go to the mountain. There was no coach at hand. A gentlemen in a carriage offered the stranger a seat, which was accepted. The gentleman was civil and pointed out the beauties of the region. He seemed to have the faculty of drawing men out rather than of com­ municating. ' Gen. McClellan lives in this neighborhood, I believe,1 said the visitor. * He does. He has a small home on the mountain.1 The drive was extended. The courteous gentle­ man seemed to have many acquaint­ ances. Nearly every passer on foot or in carriage lifted his nat. Public men were talked of. The stranger was about to ask about the • General,1 and he now wonders that he did not. The coach pulled up at an elegant mansion, and the gentleman said: • This is Gen. McClellan's house; won't you walk in?1 ' And this is Gov. McClellan, I pre­ sume,1 said the stranger. *At your service,1 was the response." --A man may blow around on street corners and last for two or three cam­ paigns: but if he ever blows down the chimney of a kerosene lamp his ac­ count with the world will close imme­ diately.--N. 0. Picayune. --The cent has never become accli­ mated in Louisville, but leading retail dealers are following the example of St. Louis and other cities in helping to introduce it FACTS AND FIULBES. DURING the first half of 1878, twen tv-seven criminals were condemned to death in France; ten in the first quarter and seventeen in the second. Six exe­ cutions have taken place. THE territory which Turkey loses by the Treaty of Berlin is roughly esti-1* mated, by the London Daily News, at 71,500 square miles, or about 13,000 square miles more than the whole area of England and Wales. The loss in population amounts to more than 3,- 500,000, or somewhat more thsn the en­ tire population of London. THE little Republic of Switzerland has an army of 120,000, organized in eight divisions. There are 94.600 in­ fantry, 16,500 artillery, 3,500 engi­ neers, 2,700 sanitary force and 2,000 cavalry. Beside this, which is called the elite army, there is a landwehr of 92,000 men. What Switzerland does with all this military force does not ap­ pear. OF the structures, ancient and mod­ ern, extant, those which rank first in height are Cologne Cathedral, 511 feet (upward of half the height built); Wash- ington Monument, 485 feet, modeled plan (original plan 600 feet, at time of resuming work, 174 feet); Pyramid of Cheops, Egypt, 480 feet; Strasbourg Cathedral, 474 feet; St. Peter's Sicilian Basils* a, Rome, 458 feet; St. Stephens Cathedral, Vienna, 445 feet; Salisbury Cathedral, England, 406 feet; Antwerp Cathedral,.405 feet; St. Paul's Cathdraf, London, 404 feet; Milan Cathedral, 400 feet; Capitol of the United States, 307} feet from base line of the building "to the apex of the statue of Freedom. ACCORDING to a French medical journal, Dr. Guyot, after consulting the best authorities on the subject, ana making the necessary calculations, has determined that the number of pulsa­ tions of the heart during the different ages of life are as follows: During the first year, 63,000,000 (in round num­ bers) ; during the first two years, 150,- 000,000; during the first eight years, 435,000,000; during the first twelve years, 614,000,000; during the first fourteen years, 698,000,000; during the first thirty-six years (giving the figures in full), 1,229,904,900; during a life of fifty years, 1,928,160.000: during a life of sixty years, 2,269,800,000; ana dur­ ing a nfeot eighty years, 3,007,040,000. HON. LUCIUS FAIROHILD, United States Consul at Liverpool, sends to the Department of State some encour­ aging statistics regarding emigration. Tne number of steerage passengers cleared from that port during the six months ending June 30, 1878, "was 32,- 177. In the same period in 1877 the number was 26,555, an increase of 5,- 622 in 1878. The number of ships in 1877 was 350; in 1878, 401. The num­ ber of the same class of passengers ar­ riving in Liverpool during the same period in 1878 was 18,307; in 1877, 19.- 186; a decrease in 1878 of 879. During the month of June, 1878, 71 ships left Liverpool with 7,315 emigrants--5,791 to the United States, 1.271 to Canada. The English emigrants were 3,033; Irish, 797; Scotch, 76. Of the English 2,334 went to the United States, 627 to Canada, 23 to Australia, 49 to South America. Of the Irish, 728 to the United States; 9 to Canada. Of the Scotch, 53 to the United States; 7 to Canada. Of other Nations there were 3,298; to the United States, 2,675; to Canada, 615; 1 to Australia and 6 to South America. Upright, Downright, Straightforward. IT is very common to say of such a man that he is " upright;1' it is not less common to say of such another that he is " downright," Or of a third that he is "straightforward." Occa­ sionally the same person is said to be both upright and downright, and even straightforward, all at the same time; and we now and then hear a man called upright one day, downright another and straightforward on the next, it would thus seem that the words are to some extent synonymous. It will be found, however, on examination, that they have a moral meaning as distinct and definable as their more obvious and physical significations. Popular usage, in fact, required three words to express distinct varieties of character, and adopted these, all of good Saxon descent, to supply the want. Thus a downright man, although he may be an upright one, is not necessarily so, and vice versa; and the straightforward man may possess qualities which are not inherent to, and of necessity exist­ ing in, the character of either. Mr. Smith, for instance, is an upright man. He acts with fairness in all nis dealings. He would wrong no man of a farthing. He would not injure his neighbor by word or deed. His fame is pure before the world. His word was never broken; and his promise is as food in the market as another man's ond. He holds up his head, is not ashamed to look anybody in the face, and walking erect In the dignity of con­ scious honesty, is called upright accord­ ingly. Mr. Brown, again, is a downright man. He may or may not exhibit the moral rectitude of Mr. Smith. He may not, strictly speaking, be an upright man; but he does not thereby forfeit his title to be classed among the down­ right. The phrase implies not so much a moral quality as a manner and a pe­ culiarity. The upright man may hold his tongue; but the downright man will speak out loudly and boldly, with­ out fear of the consequence. Mr. Brown always allows his indignation to find vent. He speaks his mind; and if he combines both uprightness and downrightness, calls a rogue a rogue, and a lie a lie, and cares not whom he offends by so doing. A great conquer­ or is, with him, a great murderer: a duelist, an assassin; a fraudulent bank­ rupt, a robber. He condemns in plain terms what he does not approve* and never deals in innuendoes, or hints his doubts. Neither will he indulge in courtesies when his mind is full of bit­ ter meanings, and oall him ah honor­ able gentleman whom he imagines to be the very reverse, nor designate an­ other as his noble friend whom in his heart he considers his very ignoble enemy. He has no patience with, or toleration for, any kind of terms which tend to gloss oyer error Even where no deception is attempt­ ed, he does battle on behalf of plain speaking. When people speak of operatives, he talks of workmen, the endearing word " wife" is not ban­ ished from his vocabulary for that of " lady," and " man" is a word of dig­ nity and significance with him, instead is a word of dig- ty a of being degraded to imply something the opposite of a gentleman. If a man who is not habitually downright were to say a tithe of strong things that Mr. Brown may say with impunity he would get knocked down for his frank­ ness; but the very audacity of the downright man takes the world by sur­ prise and forces it into admiration. It forgives the insolence for the sake of the courage, and the harshness for love of the sincerity. Mr. Brown, more­ over, has a clear head for detecting a sophism, and a knack for getting at the gist of a dispute, though it may be swathed about in redundancies and cir- argi with homely common sense and drives a truth into the mind of an antagonist with as much force and as little cere-, mony as a carpenter drives a nail intor a block. He is a man, to use a very common phrase, who will stand no nonsense, and would rather a thousand times be considered rude, boorish and disagreeable (which he very generally is) than call a spade other than a spade, compromise an opinion, or abandon a prejudice that he had once defended.-- Chambers1 Journal. One of Life's Shadows. AT eight o1 clock, the other morning, a Second-street wife followed her hus­ band down to the gate, as he was start­ ing for down-town and kindly said to him: "William, you know how sadly I need a blue-bunting dress." "Yes, dear," he remarked, "but you know how hard-up I am. As soon as I can see my way clear you shall have the dress and a hew hat to boot. Be pa­ tient, be good, and your reward shall be great. Forty minutes after that he emerged from a restaurant with a big basket and a fish-pole, bound up the river. In the basket was a chicken, pickles, cake, fruit, pie and a bottle of liquid, of a rich color, and he was just lighting a twenty-cent cigar, when his wife came along. " What! you here!" he exclaimed. " Yes, I was going to the market. Where are you going--what's in that basket?" j v " I was going to carry this fish-pole around to a friend on Jefferson avenue," he modestly answered. ' "And that basket?" " This basket--well, I was going to take it to the orphan asylum as a pres­ ent to the children. It is a donation from six leading citizens." „ "William, I don't believe it!" "Sh! Don't talk so loud!" " William, I shall talk louder yetP1 she exclaimed. " Pll bet you are going fishing!" 4 "Mary, have I ever deceived you?" he plaintively asked. "1 never have! As proof of my sincerity you can take this basket to the asylum yourself!" "And I'll do it!"'she promptly re­ plied, as she relieved him of it. " Mary, hadn't you--?" " No, sir, I hadn't! You'd better hurry up with that fish-pole, as the man may want it; and be careful how you stand around in the hot sun!" She left him there. He watched her take the car for home, and then he re­ turned the fish-pole and crossed the street, and said to an acquaintance: "Tom, I'm suffering with neuralgia, and the excursion is off till next week. Too bad, but we can never tell what a day may bring forth." There was chicken and pickles and other good things on the table at din­ ner, but he never smiled. Even when his wife wished she was an orphan, if that was the way they were fed, he never betrayed the gloom in his heart. It was only when she handed him the bottle he had so carefully tucked into the basket, and he saw it labeled, "Good for Little Children,lf that he said: " Mary, it is an awful thing for a wife to get the impression that her hus­ band is a cold-blooded liar!" It tUaot be, one x as *»hc took the Other ehfckeabsgi--Dtlro# - Jfree Press. • SaiMg Raihv^y Coin^auies In England. GENTLEMEN who bring suit against railway companies "on principle," for trifling causes, are more numerous in England than in this country, for John Bull is even more jealous of any en­ croachment on his rights than his democratic brother Jonathan. Some­ times the pretexts for litigation are ab­ surdly frivolous, but generally they have some justice at tne back. Mr. Watson, a barrister, is one of the latest champions for principle, the offense complained of being an extra charge of one penny on account oi his failure to procure a ticket, as required by the regulations of the company. Lawyer Watson's ground for refusing to pay eight pence instead of seven pence was that he had no time to obtain his tick­ et at the station, and both the County Court and, on appeal, the highest court have given decision in his favor, holding that the regulation--which is that a passenger without a ticket shall be required to pay full fare from the station from which the train originally started--is unreasonable. The unrea­ sonableness of the requirement seemed to result,|in the minds of the Court, from the absurdly limited accomoda­ tions as to time and attendance to which English railway companies are restricting the public--at many sta­ tions the ticket window being opened only five minutes before the arrival of the train. On this subject Lord Chief- Justice Coleridge, in deciding the case used some very strong language, which ought to help in bringing about a re­ form. The London Times, on the same subject, declares: "The small hole through which the ticket clerk con­ ducts the negotiations with his despised customers is an opprobrium to civili­ zation. A railway booking office is commonly like the Zoological Gardens on a bank holiday at four o1 clock, ex­ cept that it is the public which is clamoring to be fed, while the keeper is taking his contemptuous ease with his conversational fellows behind the ban."--Railway Age. Youths' Department. MILTIADB8 TAKES SIS COUSIN OUT FISHING. Oxr, morning Miss Moslin «M brushing hv hair. When Miltiades called tram the foot of tbe atair To know if his cousin would like to ** go lib- . . H J * - " O yes. Mhe cried iojrfnllf, "I mi joat xo*' d ask me! Jaat mut till 1 get mi hair parted." SOriweuon Mehe ooald she oame down and they started. We ehall be back in MHOS to have the fish fried For dinner this noon-time," Miitiade* cried To Abiathar Ann, who had oome out to watch them. Well," mid ahe. " bnt pray don't bring them home till yon catch Mie-sa." Having .got to the pond, and at length found a •IKJfc Tht wan ahady and cool (for the lun Wtii quite __ hot), They their hooka (which were ntade from a pin) With Home worms they had brought; and then, , casting them in, They cat down on the bank and, with praise­ worthy patience, _ Thfc> %nli«u h ItAft while, with no indications Of JUh. bting there-and, as one might sup­ pose, Their patienoe at length giving out, ther aroae. " It's no uee!" Miltiadea said, with great spite. We might fiah here ail day without getting a bite! Bat. I'll >:«11 yon just what we will do--if you ds.re; Do you see that amoll island that lis over there? I've heard say yon could catch fish out thereby the dozen, Aqd 1 think we had beat go and see, my dear cousin. There's a skiff we can get, a abort distance be­ low. It belongs to the miller--but he'll never know.1' So, Misa Muslin consenting, be aoon led the way To where, 'neath the low bank, he knew the boat lav. And, no one Deing near, awift untying the skiff, ihpy he Pulled it in, and the two jumped on board in jiffy. Mi<w Muslin sat down in the stem sheets, o: course. While Miltiades sr»ll»ntly took up the oars; And, beading forward, and dipping them in, r*° Remarked, thathe'U aoon make Uie old dug-outj)!̂ gg „ „ i l r two After pulling away for a minute or so, . It suddenly struck him the boat didn't go gftme Of Quit* Hs fast an ituughi to; for there the bank lay Right under the Rtern. scarcely ten feet a way 4 an fed If So he straightway began pulling harder than .. ever, tntll tnRt Declaring that he, in all hi* born days, neves* wI I I Sawsuch an old mudscow! and yet, allin vain* After rowing ten minutes, the> seemed not tath. when gain ' ' Half that number of feet; and at length, in dee- boys to Hiltifules'rose, with a furious air, Unbuttoned his Jacket, and loosed his suspend­ ers, people A n d e x c l a i m e d , w i t h a v o w t h a t WM r e a l l y t r e - c , , , , , . , mendouB, ounuay (T should say. though, he uttered no worse worde aDDear than " jii<QOp) \ ' That he'd very soon show he could make tin Last summer I had a fine opportune »»• ity to watch the operation of a spide? in the country, and although I had it my childhood, and even in the late? years, not a very great liking for lhi» insect, 1 really became quite fond of him. It has often been a great puzzlfr to me, as 1 have no doubt it has been t|| many of you, to tell in what manner th^ - web could be carried from one tree to ann other, often at long distances, and I tell you what concinsijn I had arriv at; I thought that the spider must go t» the top of one tree, fix one end ol hip web there, then go down the tree, croat over on the ground to the other tree* go up that--spinning his web all thi» way--when ne reaches the top pull H straight. This was the only way X could think of for this insect to get Thi» line across. It never occurred to me that such an arrangement would quite impossible. But having m careful observations, in this case of which I speak, 1 am persuaded that tht spider improves a favorable wind, an4 floats in the air from one high pi see to another, spinning his web as he goes, :v<- Just think of this little weaver, wor% ing without compass or line of any so# and yet as accurately as if be had all the implements in the world to work with. Oftentimes, to test the strength of his line he pulls at it with great vig­ or--not only this, but he gives it the weight of his whole body as a test* swinging to and fro upon the thread like the pendulum of a clock. I told you he had no measure, but in this £ am wrong, for he uses his body to de­ termine. the distances, and the propor­ tion of the web depends upon tne siat of the Riv«!«r» ,vnn ever notice how were and soltfc -w-4 . r\ v PRICES REDUCED PRICES REDUCE* 4 ^ PRICKS REDUCED, *1 Biokffir £ Stevens. -- -1,; The latest styles of Lace CetTmrs and! : Cufts, with a splendid assortment of 3 receded &e -r* * « FOR SAL®. . 'i "" 4 m Blood Darham Yearling ' Bolt CalfuTfit for nse. J. FIBJH, ' ^ CLOAKS! CLOAKSr S€,a,les is offering De-v*i cided Kat-gnins in Ooaks and gcntlea in Silk, JSngMsh Dttrgunafti aNKf lasses. Cashmere, Ae. FOR SALE CHEAP. Several ifood second hand Apply to E. M. Owen, LJIR9$I Of Ola got jrti S Uall6 Upn^uo UJL II JuUe^Tik^ f^re*™ of water, 1 saw it descend the Turk; At the end of which time, being quite tired nut: «U« vuu UI WIUVU VUUU| UVIUK He ceased rowing again, and attain looked about, When he found, notwithstanding his tugging so hard. That the obstinate boat had gained scarcely a yud. ' O dear!" sighed Miss Btualin, with growing dis­ may. • " I'm alraid. at this rate, we shan't get them to­ day ! " No," Miltiades answered, in gloomy distress, ' We'll be lucky to«et back to dry land, I guess! I'm so tired and hot, and mv bands aie so sore. That 1 cirtainly can't pull a single stroke more!" And 1 think that they both would have had a gooti ciy, But that just +hcn they heard some one shout- ing CK>h*» hy -- • And on looking up, who, on the bank, should they see But the miller (a merry old felloe WHS he!) Who was shaking with laughter, and crying. " Ho! ho! you young people will have a nice row! u'll go rather f« find. I hope But yo ut you'll go rather faster, i think you will If >ou don't have that .fifty pound utoM tied behind. « . Just cast oft tnat mooring line, under the stern, And she'll go a heap better, you'll very soon learn." Sure enough! Upon looking they found it was so. And they no longer wondered the boat wouldn't go; They untied the line and pulled slowly ashore. Feeling " cheaper," 1 fancy, than ever before. Then they set off for home, while the miller looked after, Still holding his fat sides and ahaking with laughter. They were too late for dinner--and as for the fish. Why, i fear they did not fill a very big dish! --John. Browujohn, in Wide Aumke for Augmt. THE SPIDER. WOULD you IUIA^LUE Jiat UIE o^LDOR is furnished with eight crooked legs, two arras, six or eight eyes, and the head ,v:th two claws or feelersP A lit­ tle below the point of the claw tLoie is a small hole, through which the Insect' emits a poison; though rtsally harmless to us, it is powerful enough to destroy flies and other small insects. The spider is supplied within its body with a glutinous substance which it uses for the purpose of making its web. It spins out this glue into a line thread, which it fastens upon some object, and then ^trains it across to some other point, doubling and twisting it until it makes the thread strong enough for its purpose. It is said that the thread spun by the smallest species of these insects is so small that 4,000,000 of them put together would not be larger than one of the hairs on your head! Some writer gives the following de­ scription of tfiis wonderful spinning- machine: "On the under side of the spider's body are four or six little points, no larger than tbe point of a pin These are the places where the silk is prepared. W hen the spider wishes to spin a thread, it presses these points with one of its legs, and there appears, not one but a thousand threads, of such fineness that it is only when all are united that tbey become visible to the naked eye. Thus the tiny rope of the spider is composed of four, five or six thousand silken threads." As soon as the spider has completed its web, its care is to seize and secure whatever insect happens to be caught in its meshes. These victims are to be the spider's food, and it often remains for weeks, and even months, upon the lookout without even catching a single fly. I have sometimes watched a large spider as he was engaged in securing his prey. He seems to know, in what­ ever part of the web he may be, when a fly or other insect strike the web. In a moment he darts at the fly and se­ cures it iirmly by spinning a long thread, which he winds round and round his victim, so that it is impossi­ ble to get away. The spider has a sort of sting in his fore feet with which he strikes the insect in his web and poi­ sons him to death. This is the reason why one often sees such hard struggles and apparently great pain when an in­ sect is secured. cane several times and remount when it had reached the surface of the Water. Suddenly I lost sight of it wholly, but a few minutes afterward, to my great astonishment, I perceived it quietly pursuing its own way on the other side of the stream. Having spun two threads along the cane, it had cut one of them, which, carried by the wind, had be­ come attached to some object on the bank, and so served the spider as ft bridge." But the most curious species of the spider is the water-spider. This crea­ ture builds its nest under water. He first spins threads, whi ?h he fastens to some leaves of plants which grow in ft still pool; at the same time he weaves for himself a ball or cocoon, made tight by being covered with a gummy sub­ stance which comes from his body. This apartment is about half as large as a pigeon's egg, and has an opening in it from beneath. Having covered his own body in part with this gum, he comes to the surface of the water with a little air-bag, and draws in as much air as the bag will hold. Then he dives down and empties the air in the bag into the cocoon. This process he con­ tinues until he fills the cocoon with air and the water is all forced out. In this diving-bell, or whatever jrou may call it, the spider afterward lives: here he takes all his prey, and it is his home. There is air enough in his cocoon to al­ low him to breathe, and he lives just as comfortably as if he was above thewater. What a wonderful evidence of the skill and workmanship of the Great Creator and Designer of all things is here! How can anyone, with suchfuots as these before him, doubt for one mo­ ment that there is such a great and wise Lciiig us the rising over all thiogs? --Mrs. Q. Ball, in N. Y. Ob­ server, ... A High-School Beys' Savings Bank* THE boys' high school of Lancaster has a savings bank in active opera­ tion. The books to depositors--with the words "High School Savings Fund" printed on their backs--are issued, the teachers announcing the condi­ tions under which deposits are re­ ceived, and one of them acting as treasurer of the fund. £ach depositor has his bank book, and deposits rang­ ing from one cent upward may be made at all proper times when the school is open. Interest at the rate of six per cent, per annum is allowed on all de­ posits, which is computed and cred­ ited monthly, thus keeping before the boys the idea that they are modest cap­ italists, and encouraging them to save their money and increase the amount of their deposits. The money depos­ ited is held subject to the call of the pupil leaving school or some very ur­ gent necessity. Pupiis are not at lib erty to draw out money at pleasure, as one of the objects of the fund is to have the youthful depositor feel that he is saving his money, and that the growing fund may be a nucleus around which other sums, smaller and larger, may be gathered after he has ceased his connection with the school. The teachers are personally responsible for the fund, and are enabled to pay inter­ est on the money deposited by invest* ing it in a carefully managed Build* ing and Loan Association, which is pe­ culiarly adapted for this kind of in­ vestment, as the amounts received may be invested almost as seon as tbey< are deposited. The depositors number, more than half of the pupils, and the amount on deposit at this time has reached the creditable sum of $825, much of which wouU' have been spent foolishly had this means of saving not been suggested.--Harrisbttrg (Bat.) tgraph. .'I --The heirs of Brigham _ each inherit $21,000 from his rotate. Young wgg{