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THIRTY CENTURIES OLD.-The oldest
relic of human extant is the skeleton of the
earliest Pharoah, encased in his original
burial-robes, wonderfully perfect, consider
ing its age, which was deposited eighteen
or twenty months ago, in the British Mu-
scum, and is justly considered the most
valuable of its archaeological treasurers.
The lid of the coffin which contained the
royal mummy was inscribed with the name
of its occupant, Pharoah Mykerimus, who
succeeded the heir of the builder of the
great pyramid, about ten centuries before
Christ, Only think of it! The monarch,
whose crubling bones and leather integu-
ments are now exciting the wonder of nu-
merous gazers in London, reigned in Egypt
before Soloman was born, and only eleven
centuries, or SO, after Misraim, the grand
son of old father Noah, and the Pharsahs,
had been gathered to his fathers. Why,
the tide mark of the Deluge could scarcely
have been obliterated, or the gophar wood
knee timbers Of the ark have rotted on
Mount Arrarat, when this man of the early
world lived moved, and had his being. His
bone and shrivsled skin are contemporary
with the nineteenth century, and the date
of the crucifxion is only about midway be-
tween this era and ours.
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woman started, spat on the ground, and
began to mutter inaudibly.
"Do you know that poor old man ?'
asked Felicia, observing her companion S
emotion at the sight of her protege.
"That is tho son of my mistress"
"What, Nathan Levio'
eyes, he who would have left his moth
er to die of hunger, had it not been for
you, and who has left her to die of grief
and shame, in spite Of YOU
"He9 Why he looks himself the very
image of starvation"
"Ah, looks! But Nathan Levi isn't the
man to keep poor. He started in life with
dozen lemons; and in twelve months had
turned them into twelve hundred pounds!
AS long as he has even so much as himself
left to sell, he is rich man."
But Felicia, knowing from her own per-
sonal experience how easily money is lost
and how hardly gained, and being unable
to judge except from appearances, was
incapable of seeing in the apparent pauper
even so much as the potential millionaire;
so that the knowledge of who her ac-
quaintanee was increased her interest in
him and her pity for him ten-fold. On the
next occasion of her meeting him she drop
ped into his hand small coin or two
He glared at her wildly for an instant, and
then began to thank her no less wildly,
and in such terms that she was alarmed
She began to think that the poor creature
was touched in the brain, and it was with
additional gentleness, if such thing could
be, that, having overcome her first feeling
of fear, she greeted him on succeeding
days.
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CHAPTER XVII.
THE CLOCK STOPS AGAIN.

Once more the days became weeks, and
the weeks were in fair way to turn them
selves into months. The hour at which
Mr.. Smith was to receive the Emerald into
his temporary possession was drawing very
near. Meanwhile, two events had hap
pened; the Holy Family was complete, and
Mrs. Levi had taken her leave of all things
in this world, Mr.. and Mrs. Cranstoun being
foolish enough to spend almost the last of
their few coins in giving her decent
funeral.
When her son heard of her death he
mourned for her according to the strictest
rites of his nation, sitting upon the ground
for the appointed number of days in a
passion of selfreproach, almost of self
hatred, that was by no means merely cere-
monal. But the whole period of his
mourning was otherwise sort of ecstasy;
for the green stone was never out of his
hands.
1t was for its own sake he had come to
adore it now, and not for the sake of the
visions that were fading away day by day.
Those that came to him now were rather
recollections than realities. 1t was less
now in the ocean Of green light than in his
own heart than the jewel FAIRIES had taken
up their abode; indeed the light itself had
grown Opaque and dull. He was like the
laudanum- -drinker, to whom his drug has
ceased to be delight, but has become a
terrible necessity.
A continual flood of words which seemed
to carry profound meaning, but in reality
were meaningless, like those poems COM
posed in sleep, which seem so magnificent
at the time, but of which the fragments
that remain dimly after waking turn out
to be sheer nonsense without either rhyme
or reason, kept ringing through the ears
of his mind, keeping time to one moneto-
nous and weary measure. The one con-
Meeting note that had pervaded all the
melodies and harmonieS of his grand vision
now seemed to have subdued them all, and
to be heard alone in all its nakedness. At
last he felt that, if lie remained shut up
any longer alone with his treasure, he
should 60 mad indeed. But he waited
until the days of his mourning were over,
and then, longing for the fresh air and the
one ray of human sympathy that remained
to him, and of which his long abstinence
had brought him even consciously to feel
the need, he instinctively shouldered his
bag and emerged once more from his den.
But though he arrived in sight of the
door of the Uanchisseris in Bean street
long before the usual hour, and fingered
about for good hour after it, the sun did
not shine, and he went his way with a
heavy heart.
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CHAPTER XVIII.
A VIGIL.

Well, even the bravest heart is no tails
man. Arthur worked bravely-too brave
ly, considering how inevitable was failure;
too bravely, considering that he had neith-
er been borne nor brought up to toll. l
have heard genius defined as the reckless
destruction of an originally SPLENDID con-
stitution; and l think that the definition,
if not containing the whole truth, and if
not very ineligible without much expla-
nation, is at all events Il splendid apsrcu.-
To do anything really great, man must,
consciously or unconsciously, strain him
self to the very uttermost; and it is only
the most splendid constitutions that can
answer to the strain that is need to achieve
really great things without breaking down
in the attempt. Arthur did strain himself
to the utmost, but his physique was not
that which can be strained without break
ing.
One morning, as he was putting the last
few touches to his " Holy Family" he be-
came aware of a curious singing in his
ears; then the objects in the room lost their
dstinctness, and he himself turned sud
denly sick and giddy. He was standing on
a scaffold, improvised out of stools, in
order to reach the top of his rather coloss-
he was conscious was that he was lying on
the floor among the scattered tools, that
he was feeling miserably faint and i'll, and
that he had an agonizing pain in his right
arm, which was doubled up beneath him
and which he could not move. On raising
his left arm to his face he felt something
wet which proved to be blood running
from wound in his forehead. 1t was in
this condition that Felicia found him two
days before Nathan Lewis return to the
world.
Doubtless the fall itself had been caused
simply by want of food, aggravated by hard
work and anxiety; but the result was a
fever and broken arm.
A surgeon was Immediately sent for, who
after the manner Of his profession, attend
eb to the case first, and thought of his fees
afterward. A glance at the state of things
showed him plainly enough that his patient
was not likely to be profitable one, and
he at first suggested removal to hospital
but Of this Felicia would not hear, and a
second glance at her showed the surgeon
that she was not altogether unreasonable.
But, though she undertook the duties OF
nurse willingly, it was bad time for her.
that women are far more capable than men
of supporting bodily privation, she ought,
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CHAPTER XIX.
MR.. erode CHANGES HIS MINI

Mr.. erode CHANGES HIS MIND.
be altogether forgotten. He still lived all
by himself in the house near Russell
Square, now more dusty than ever. He
had his coffee hot in the morning, his chop
at half-past one, his dinner of three cours-
es at six; he slept well, and was not more
ill-tempersd than he had always been, for
the simple reason that any increase of what
cannot be increased is simple impossible
ity. He was growing very rich, people
said, and was giving up attending sales,
though no change in his style of living
gave any support to the popular idea. His
lawyer had drawn up will for him, by
which the greater part of his money was
left to found some philanthropic society
say, for the suppression of filial disobedf-
enee and French ladies' maids-and the
rest to some society for the conversion of
the Jews. If any should think his own
conduct toward Felicia and her husband
gave him the faintest, the most mementary
uneasiness, they are very much mistaken.
Busy men pride themselves with justice
upon having no time for sentiment, and he
believed most fully in the maxim, as though
it were gospel, that as man makes his
bed so must he lie. There are plenty of
people who have millstones instead of
hearts-far too many to make it wonderful
that he should be one of them. And there
are plenty of people, too, whom it is sheer
waste of time and trouble to subject to any
sort of psychological ana!ysis-that one
great duty of modern ale-tellers-simply
because there is nothing about their psy-
chelogy to analyze. l amor ought to be
ashamed to say that / do not know OF
what sort of mineral substance millstones
are made; but 1 am very sure that it is
something very simple, and that there is
nothing about them that the eye does not
see. And if any one should insist that
there is no man in the world, however hard
he may be to outward eyes, who has ten
just look around and see.
One morning-the very morning, in fact,
that followed his daughters midnight Wis.
ion-while sitting after breakfast in hi.
dusty front parlor, he was told by his man
servant that a beggar-like looking maj
was at the door who desired to see him.
GA beggar? l am always having beg
gars after me.' A sort of uncomfortable
feeling came over him that it might be hi
unlucky son-in-law. "Tell him to be of
this instant"
$50 did, sir"
"Then tell him again.
"He said it was most important bust
ness'
GA beggar with most important bust
ness! A likely story. He didn't say wha
it was, I'll be bound.''
"No, SIR"
"Then why the devil didn't you sent
him packing: You haven't let him int
the hall -
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ONE Of the first literary men in the
United States said:-" There is one thing,
which, as you visit different places, wish
you to do everywhere, that is, to sntreat
every mother never to give drop of strong
drink to child. l have had to fight as
for my life and all my days to keep from
dying drunkard, because was fed with
spirits when child. acquired taste
for it. My brother, poor fellow, died a
drunkard. l would not have child of mine
take drop Of it for anything. Warn every
mother, wherever you 60, never to give a
drop to child.'
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An Ohio Teuton, found guilty of SELL
ing liquor contrary to law, and sentenced
to be imprisoned in the county Jail for
thirty days, protested as follows: "Me go
to chail! But can't go! Dere's my piz.
ness-my pakery! Who pakes my pread
when ben gomez" Then casting his eyes
about the court room appeallingly, they
feel upon the good natured face of Jolly
Chris. Ellwaner, fellow -contryman who,
had no "pizness," and forthwith bril-
liant idea occurred to him. Turning to the
court, he said, in sober earnest, "Der's
Chris. Ellwarer He's got nothing to do;
send him"
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A VERDICT EITHER WAY WILL Do
A Judge, holding court on the borders Of
Tennessee, is said actually to have deliver
ed the following charge to jury:
"Gentlemen of the Jury, in this case
counsel on both sides are impudent and
unintelligible; the witnesses on both sides
are indecent and incredible, and the plain
tiff and defendant both stand such ac-
knowledged rogues, that it is to me indiff-
erent which way you give verdict"
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For The Cecil Viii
In MemOriam.-D. r. Titus.

The orphan child above his mothers tomb
Wtpt bitterly: then from his home Of gloom
Went forth with strangers and his short career
Was filled with noble deeds, and words of cheer
That won kind friends where'er he dwet: for Truth
lie worked with all the vigor of strong youth:
But ere his great life-msson complete.
Disease compelled him from his labor sweet,
He calmly yielded all iies dear delights,
And patiently through weary weary nights
Endure the pain. that Wore his life away,
Till angels bore his soul to endless day.
Alas and can it lie his gentle voice
No more will make our weary hearts rejoice:
All, yes the dismal silence of his room,
The vacant chair the flowers he loved. that bloom
$" brightly by our humble cottage door
All answer he has sona forcyermore.
His true heart feared not DEATH for purer life
His spirit yearned; and now, where mortal strife
Is never known, he rests. God speed the time
When we shall meet him in those realms sublime.
j. H. X.
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A SAILORS Description OF A RIDE ON
HoRsEBACK.-" hired very fine horse,
mounted him bravely, laid his head east by
south as near as might be according to our
binnacle. But, though the wind was abaft
the beam, and tide and all in his favor, and
brave commander upon his poop, what
did he do but douse his stem, and run out
his spanker-driver, and up with his taft
rail, as if was wearing him in a thunder
ing heavy sea. l resolved to get the upper
hand of this mutiny. l slipped my foot
out of the chains for fear of anv sudden
capsize, and then raped him over the
catsheads, where his anchor ought to hang.
He, however, instead Of doing at all what
expected, up with his bowsprit and down
with his quarter, as if struck by a whale
under his forefoot. This was SO far from
true seamanship, and proved him to be 80
unbuilt for sailing, that | was content to
disembark over his stern, and with slight
collisions
The Cecil Whig., 1873-04-12
SWEDISH COOKING.

The cooking is SO different from either
really say, that it requires great deal of
fortitude and certain amount of health
to endure it. The bread is nearly all fla
vored with aniseed, that is, all the softer
kind of bread There is rye bread, how
ever of which they eat great deal, which
is thin, full of holes, and hard as sailers'
biscuit. Perhaps it is; at any rate, good
teeth are required to bite it. l noticed a
great many soups-for without soup no
Swede would imagine he had dined, and in
families who live moderately very little in
the way of substantial food comes after
ward There were sweet fruit soups,
curds -and-whey soup sweentened, many
white soups, with vegetables prettily cut
up, and some gravy soups that seemed as
if they ought to be nice, but they were
spoilt for an English palate by the intro
duction of some uncongenial flavor; dump
lings, for example, which we think good in
broth, they perfume with peach water or
some kind of scent, and put into gravy
soup. The habits at table, even of people
of good birth and education, strike an Eng
lish person oddly. The great rapidity of
eating, the perpetual approach of the knife
to the mouth the fork held up in the air,
and the elbows thrust out, are scarcely
reconclable to our ideas of civilization. l
must IN justice say, however, that noticed
many persons very particular in this re-
spect. AT supper nobody attempts to sit
down, but each person takes fork and a
piece of bread, and plunges his fork into
half dozen dishes, taking little piece
from each, and puttitg it on the same piece
of bread; meat, fish, sweets, and cheese
seemed alike acceptable. l was told by
one of my English acquaintance that a
swede had SAID to him, " that the correct
behavior of English people at table fidgeted
him to death. ."-Temple Bar.
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I PUBLIC LEcTURE.-On Thursday evening
last, at the Hall Of the Young Mems Associ-
alton and on its request, the Hon. Sam Word
of Virginia City delivered lecture for its
benefit. The gentleman enamed was here
Attending Court, ard amid dis duties therein,
8founi timei aces.desto the Wisil and vii. Of
those who were DESTROYS Of subscribing the
objects OF the association and hearing Il lee
ture from a stranger. Tile subject was llil-
announced preyiotas 10 the lecture J. but
assurance was gfvenin the placards that it
would be announced at the end of the
lecture. Ii was announced, permit us to say,
ere the lecturer had been heard many. min
utes, for his interesting remarks SO clearly
pointed to the object of the lecture. and so
completely addressed themselves to the cs-
sence of his theme, that none could overlook
or fail to see the ultimatiIn sought to be
accomplished, which, in our opinion, is the
idiosyncracies of the law. This view and
purpose led the lecturer into vivid descrip-
ton OF the Courtroom, by which. we, as he,
mean all the pa-aphernalia attending an
open court. The calling of the case, the
appearance of the parties, the announcement
of readiness for trial, the calling of the jury,
the dignity of the Judge, the manenyering Of
the attorneys, the exhibition OF red tape,
and though last, not least, the long straight
face of the sheriff as he callcd--sitence, were
graphically desrcibeti. What particular
Judge, (if any the lecturer meant. we can
not say, we only know that he was alluded
to as one who wore spectacles on the bench,
and that this exempts our present .affable
and worthy Associate Justice of this judi
cial District, from any and all allusion. We
must also say. lest we he nais,.,,4lerstoou,
that notwithstanding the pleasantly, and
iocular spirit in which the illusions were
made, that an under-eurrent OF kindness aud
good-feeling was apparent. The scope OF
the lecture is beyond our recollection SO as
to do justice to it and we regret that, gins
newspaper parlance, our reporter was absent
to give it us correctly. We do, however,
recollect this much, that MIR. w ord never ac-
quilted himself with equal ability in cur
presence as he did in the good order and
arrangement of this lecture in which some
times fancy INDUCED in flight, but generally
poignant darts at the fallacies and fictions of
the oil Common La,o characterized the lee
ture. He deserves, as he receives, the
thankso of the Y. NJ A. for his kindness and
courtesy in so ably according to their re-
quest. E
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Il CHERRY CREEK.-The wood work for the
Norton & Rea mill, which has been fixed up
in this place by VIM. Heffner, was sent over
to Cherry. creek, on "Wednesday. and the
work will be pushed forward TO an early
completion, We may, therefre, expect to
hear..of the new mill being in lctive opera
ton soon, in reducing rich ores OF this dis
trict. We had.a call "Wednesday from MIR.
Thos, Rea, just in from the miles, who re-
ports work being vigorously prosecuted on
the Eberhart, Enselman and Davis leads.
new discovery has been lnadt by Messrs.
Rea & Peck on the southlside d the camp,
which promises to rival some ofthe old dis
coveries in richnes.. Prospecting Is still
going on, and it is thought by experie need
covered, The Monarch. an extension of the
Davis lead, is being:worked.b, Messrs, Muir
dock s. SpaIding, with promising results.
Prospecting for placer diggines is going on
Pale Creek. Fine colors have been obtained,
and we hope to be able son t-chronicle the
finding of rich placer diggines in that neigh,
borhooa. The R.a Brothers weAtsoyer Wed
nesday with their mill lumler.
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DISTRICT CoURr. adjourned on Saturday
last, having disposed of all the cases on the
calendar except that of Hubbard & Co. VS..
Tolnlinson ct al. which was argued and set
tied to the jury on Thursday, but up to Sat
urthy evening having failed to agree on a
verdict, the jury was discharged. and the
care goes over to the next term. Judge
Seryisssis highly commended by all for the
prompt manner in which he has dispatched
business. The Judge goes from Bozeman to
Ratlersburg, where he commences court on
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REcovERED.-Mr. Austin, the brewer OF
Speith & Krug, whose life has been threat
ened by hemorrhage for some days past, is,
we are glad to say, able to attend to his bust
ness, as also Mr.. Ha,tneik, the employee of
Col. Ford, whose skull was fractured by the
kick of horse. In both these. cases skilIfnl
operations were performed by the surgeon in
attendance, Or. Mussigbrod, and we congrat-
ulate no less the physician than the patients
on the success as we at one time believed it
would be our painful duty to write the obitu-
ary OF the latter.
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.Nafice to subscribers.

Thcresis large amount due this paper on
,ri1bscription, and 1t is very desirable that 1t
xhouli he paid. We have had no good OPP
pgrtunity to go around to collect the same.
M doubt most of the amount.would nave
been paid, as many of the delinqnents are
rood men,, and it has been mere forgctful--
ness OH their part. The sums due for sub
snfiptioil on the first volume, and some other
accounts, will be placed in the hands OF
s,HARIEs r. .BLAKELY, ESQ, and It'll expect
"a that payments will be made to him on
presentation The collection of what is due
on This paper will be a sensible relief, and
enable us to furnish the readers of the CoU-
xflfr with first-ciass paper.
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lSAsMCcn as lie p oposals for the furnlsl-
ing of flour to the three Forts III Montana,
werc not given to this paper for publication,
as they should have ben, ours being The
nearest Office to Fort Ellis, we give as an
item OF news, synopsis OF tile proposals as
printed in other papers. Sealed proposals
in duplicate. to be fof wardel to the A. G. s.,
Fort Shaw. are invited until II o'clock. M.
Thursday, March 9th, 1873, for furnishing
the Subsistence Department with 14f0OO
pounds of fresh-ground xxx flour, to be
delivered at Fort Ellis as follows: $4,000 lbs.
on or before June 80, 1873. and $4,000 lbs.
more OH or before September 80, 1873. Also,
5000 lbs. good Fine Salt, in barrsis, to be
at Fort Ellis on or before July 81
1873.
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Field Glasses to be had at .MERKLE,s.

=
A CHALLESGE.-We understand that tile
Chief Engineer OF the Helena Fire Depart
ment, and the 1st Assistant Foreman on the
Helena Hose company, have sent a challenge
the fire depa-tm mt OF Whoap-Up,to play
them game of quoits an sad lie thetorse."
by mail. The losers to buy tor winning
party one key of OK shoes. Deer Lodge may
prove Veto ious il the chess tournament.
but Helena must win in this important
contest Gazette
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"a ROLL Your Hook !-Go to the
kiyus, drink nothing but the konkocktions
Kept constantly on hand and kompounded
IRON pure Liquors only. Kun quick, place
your vest against the bar, gaze in the mirror
behind 4 and see what an illegent picter We
make Don't forget the place.
Mounts & Worshanl, Prop'rs.
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A GREAT HUMRUG!

SOME men will tell you that they sell at
cost. WE don't sell for accommodation,
We sell Tor money and if you will come,
and examine our, stock. we will con-
yinceeyou that we ear, sell goods as cheap
MS other men do at cost. sssf 4
STRASnURaEEs & sPERLING.
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CHANGE OF FIRM.

Having associated with us Mr.. Sperliag,
we shall hereafter d. b Isl ae = under t'le firm
name and style Of ) RAsauRGaRS SpEaLIsa
Thankful to our patro is f,rpas. fav 5rs, we
fosark the new firm a co ltinuance OF the
same. Those in le5.e t, tn, oil | fir viii
please come forward AMI settle W 1t delay
STAsBURGER SCo.