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THE THOUGHT OF A MOURNING MOTHER.

Ny little baby Is buried to-day;
Gone-down in the depths Of the church-yard clay,
Up in the sky dim a1d gray,
Who will take cars Of my 1ittIe b3by7
Who will k1rs her ?-her wa1en feet,
That have never walked, nnd her Eulau bands SWEET
Where left white lily, as meet
Who, who will kiss my little babJ7
Who will teach her 7~-her wings to fly,
Her tiny limbs their work to ply,
Her soft, dumb lips to sing glosio;,s3y,
Oh, who will teach my little baby7
I have mother, who long ago died:
We speak Of her now with our tears all dried;
She mny know my pretty one, come 10 her xide,
And bo glad to my little baby.
Christ, born OF woman, hear, oh, heart
Thine angels are far od-she Eea,ns near,
Give Thou my child to my mother dear,
And III weep more for ms little baby.
Surely in heaven, Thy satnts 60 blest
Keep mothers heart IN mothers breast:
Girs her my lamb, and shall rest
II my mother takes care Of ny little baby.
Miss +NuIock.
, 1873-03-23

MAHONEY-On the 18th Inst, Patrick Hon1y, infant
son OF Cornelius and julia L. Mahoury aRed II
and a day1.
Funeral this 1cstdence OF tho parents, No 40 ow
buryar, today ttke o3d}. at 10 o'clock Friends Of
the faui1J invited.
MATHER-In Nhestou, H., March 1a 1873, Mrs 1farJ
,Janc MAthor, aged q years.
BEEMER-In Cleveland, O., March II. 1873. Mary
Bella wife Of Frederick D. Bceer. aged % years and 16
days.
~ Mexico. No.. papers please copy.
RO5s-In this city. March p st h.r residences 173
Tht1d.av., Mt1 F. D. Ross in the 4h year Of her age
O'Clock. Friends Of thn family IRE inrited
|" Detroit papers pfease copy.
RAFFEN-On March q, At the residence Of Andrew
Quaid corner o! Noble and Aususta.sts., Alexander
RaHcn aged 73 years and months.
Kemai1i taken to Gracelaad on Tuesday at ?. n.
Ft1snds Of tho family respectfully inr ed IN attend
FLICK-Mss7 H!ldebrceht, seed :; 5eaEs In. Inno1!hs.
day. At p. M. - ~
bourn-av., today Sunday, at ?. Relatives and
friends respectfully invited to attend.
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The Enormous Sums Paid by France
to Germany.

The report, in which we expressed
our disbelief last week, to the effect that
the next installment of the last milliard
of the indemnity would be settled main
ly by direct transfer of bullion from
the Bank of France to the German
Government, has since been contradict
ed. 1t may be interesting, therefore, to
remind our readers of the exact pro-
gress which is being made with these
enormous payments which affect the
money market of Europe so much, as
the German Government encashes
from time to time the bills which it re-
ceives. The last convention, relating
to the order of payment of the indemnity,
was made on the 10Th of March last.
Up to that time the German Govern
ment had received three and one-half
milliards (f140, 900, 000) out of the five
milliards (f200, 000,0 stipulated by
the treaty of peace. No doubt the value
of the Alsace and Lorraine railways
(G13, 100000 was reckoned as part of
the 9140, 900, 900, so that the transfer of
money may be thought to have been so
much less but, in reality the German
Government had received rather more
than the G140, 100000 in money or
bills, the deduction of 100000 for
the Alsace and Lorraine railways being
more than compensated by the interest
payments, not to speak of the Paris war
contribution. The sum of f140, 100000
having thus passed from France to Ger
many before the 18th of March last, the
treaty of that date stipulated that Co.,
OOO, OOO-the second moiety of the fourth
milliard-was to be paid before the 10th
of May, and this has in fact been DONE
Germany by the 10th of May had re-
ceived f160,000,0OO. The treaty
also stipulated that the f40, 600, 900 con-
stituting the fifth and last milliard was
to be paid by equal installments of
G1O, 900, 900 each on the 9Th of June,
9TH July, 9TH August, and 9TH Sep
TENDER, on which last date France is
also to pay the interest due from the I'd
March, 1873. In other words, France
has now something over 100000, 600 to
pay within a period of little more than
three months, just after having made a
rather heavy payment of 600, 10000 00
According to statement just made by
the Minister Delbruck to the Reichstag,
Germany will have received altogether,
by the 9Th of September, about e222,-
100000, viz:
Indemnity Give milliards). ...... .e200, 600 900
Interest. Observation-Disclosures. 10000 900
Paris contribution, etc ............ 1925 900
Iotai. ........ t22Z, 20 OOO
Deducting the value of Alsace and
Lorraine railways reckoned in the f200,-
10000 the transfer altogether will be
e210, 000,0 900 in bills and cash within
barely two years and a half, and about
f125, 900, 900 of this amount will have
been transferred within the twelve
months ending next September.-LOn-
don Economist.
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Good Substitute for Lath.

Wire netting for plastering is being
rapidly introduced to take the place of
lath. 1t takes less labor to place on
the walls, is more continuous, and will
not burn. Coarse netting with one inch
mesh, and made of strong wire, is found
to answer best For ornamental cornice
work it is especially valuable, as it can
be bent into any desired form. Secured
to iron studding in brick building, our
greatest danger on account of fire
would be removed. A still further APP
plication of this plan is to make round
bags of wire resembling barrels, and to
coat the inside and out with cement.
When it hardens they resemble
stone barrels. Filled with sand and
sunk in rows and masses, they make
excellent building material for break
waters. Another extension of the idea
has been tried with success in England.
1t consists of making iron framed build
ings, covering them with iron netting
and spreading concrete on both sides.
II is claimed that house-walls, roofs,
doors, partitions and all-has been thus
built that is strong, firm and absolutely
incombustible. Various applications of
the use of wire netting, and plaster or
cement, readily suggest themselves, and
the matter is worthy of the attention of
mechanics and builders.
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Prescriptions for Cholera.

The following prescription was adopt
ed by the College of Physicians, in Phil
adelphia, in 1866. 1t has been repeat
eddy published, but, as it has stood the
test of many years of experience, it will
bear republication ut this time. 1t is
regarded by many as probably the very
best prescription that can be used for
cholera in its incipient stages:
Laudanum, ounces; spirits of cam
phor, 2 ounces; tincture OF capsicum, /
ounce; tincture of ginger, l ounce; es-
sence of peppermint, ounces; Hoff-
mans anodyne, 2 ounces. If the ano-
dyne cannot readily be obtained, substi-
tute sulphuric ether-half the quantity.
Mix thoroughly, and shake well every
time it is used. Give or take from ten
to twenty-five drops, according to age,
condition and violence of attack. Re-
peat every twenty minutes till relief is
obtained. In desperate case take a
tablespoonful at once. Take it in an
equal quantity of water, and lie on the
back quietly or in an easy sitting pos
tire, with the back supported, till it
has full opportunity to work Garry a
small phial in the pocket, with a few
Jumps of white sugar upon which to
drop it, to be used in sudden emerg-
encies.
The following prescription for chol-
era, made and extensively practiced by
DR.. Benson in 1866, is furnished us by
DR.. j. p. Barnum. DR.. b. claims for it
superiority over any other known rem
edy: Chloroform, 3 drachms; tincture
camphor, 5 drachms; fannie acid,
drachm; morphine, sulphate, II grains.
Dose-Teaspoonful in water, strip,
or any common dilutent This must be
carefully mixed, and, if properly pre-
pared, makes clear straw-colored
liquid. If it is Opaque, or contains any
sediment, some of its elements are not
in solution, and its use while in this
condition may be attended with danger.
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A Wonderful ResuscitatiOn.

The Wreck Register records the loss
of no less than three coasters which had
passed the limit of the century, and it is
but few years since the ship which
brought the Prince of Orange to En-
gland found Mt last n watery grave.
But perhaps the most remarkable in
stance of what may be called the te-
nacity of life in ships is that of small
cutter somewhere between twenty-five
and thirty tons burden, and called the
Arab of Poole. This tough little vessel
built assuredly of true English oak
was launched at Poole in the year 1886.
Not very long ago, certainly, consider
ing that among the violent deaths of
1871 alone there are to be numbered
those of more than eighty vessels of up
ward of forty years of age. But if the
little Arabs career has not been very
long it has at all events been a very re-
markable one. For some six or seven
years she appears to have piled her
trade successfully as coaster, but at
the end of that period misfortune came
upon her, and she foundered in the very
harbor which had given her birth. And
there she lay at the bottom of the sea
for twenty years, and the fishes swan in
and out of her empty cabin, and spawn
ed in the sacred recesses of the captain s
bunk. One would have thought that
twenty years at the bottom of the sea
would have been enough to write .tnis
to the history of any ship, and so it
seems, thought the English Board of
Trade, who ultimately decided on cancel
ing the lost Arabs registry. But twenty
years of slumber passed away like those
of the sleeping beauty of the fairy tale,
and then she came to life again.
Bought by an enterprising builder after
her twenty years immersion, she was
raised, dried, put generally to rights,
and sold again as good as new, for a
yacht. To an imaginative owner she
must be yacht worth having.
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A Wanderer Heard From.

J. E. Van Daren, son of Rev. L. H.
Van Daren, of Boonton, n. j., who has
been missing for some eight months,
has turned up. A letter has been re-
ceived from him, dated at Rotterdam,
Holland, in which he says that he left
his home in Brooklyn for a days gun
ming. While ducking near Fir Island
his boat capsized, and his companion
was drowned. Clinging to the bottom
of the upturned boat, he drifted out to
sea, and on the following morning when
almost exhausted he was picked up by n
Swedish bark bound for Buenos Ayres,
S. A. When fifty-four days out, the
Swede boarded a British bark bound
from the Pacific for Rotterdam, and, all
consenting, young Van Daren was trans
ferred and carried to Rotterdam, from
which place he proposed to sail i'm
mediately to meet his wife and children
in Brooklyn, who have mourned for him
as dead for several months.-Ne,O York
Dispatch.
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Something for Philosophers who Study
the Mind.

The Hartford Times relates the follow
ing:
Conductor Bradley, of this city, who
was killed, with others, by railroad
accident on the Hartford and Waterbury
road, recently, was on a "cabotse" car
ut the time the train reached the broken
rail. The instant he felt the shock he
knew the car was off the track, and
sprang for brake. 1t was his last act.
In the same instant he was killed by the
crash, and his skull was broken. When
picked up, part of the brain was visi-
BILE, oozing out but the true and faith
full conductor was able to speak. And
these were the words he uttered-the
last he ever spoke:
" Put out the signals for the other
trainw
The lightning like suddenness of the
crash, though it deprived him of all
consciousness of everything happening
subsequent to the instant when he
jumped to seize the brake, did not blot
out his vivid memory of the sensation
he had at that moment of fate. There
was the sense of impending danger, and
of the necessity of instant action to
avert it. That consciousness remained
during the ensuing few minutes in which
the crash had come, and the faithful
conductor had met his fate.
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The Three Richest Men i'm America.

The New York correspondent of the
Cincinnati Commercial writes "The
three richest men in America are VIM.
B. Astor, A. Il. Stewart, and Com.
Vanderbilt-all residents of New York
City. Astor's wealth is mainly in real
estate and it's revenues Vanderbilt's is
mainly in railroad stocks and their divi-
dends Stewards is in goods, houses,
stores, factories, lands, and stocks. The
aggregate wealth of each of them is sup
posed to be somewhere between seven
ty-five and hundred millions, which
looks rather heavy. Nobody knows ex-
actly they couldn't tell themselves
within a million or two. Those who
know most about their affairs put their
figures highest, and say that the income
tax returns OF few years ago, which
showed each of them to be worth be-
tween twenty and thirty millions, gave
no proper idea of their real wealth. AS
tor lives unostentatiously ; Vanderbilt
lives III a three-story brick house on a
third class street; and Stewart lives III
marble palace on Fifth avenue, more
magnificent than any other residence on
the American continent, and equaled
by but few i'll any of the great cities of
Europe. Aston and Vanderbilt are New
Workers by birth Stewart is a native of
the north of Ireland Astor is large,
heavy man of seventy, with strong
features and rubicund face, indicative
of high living; Stewart is a medium
sized man, rather slender and tall, with
face like parchment, and gives the i'm
preston of being hard-up; Vanderbilt
is tall, slim, handsome, proud-looking
man of nearly eighty, straight as an ar
row. Aston has heirs to his estate.
Vanderbilt has children to whom he can
leave his fortune but Stewart Is child
less. Astor's public benefactions are
confined to something like q couple of
hundred thousand dollars, which he
gave to the Aston library, and the two
golden candlesticks, nine feet high,
which he recently gave to Trinity
Church. Vanderbilt has never made
any public benefactions, excepting o
steamship to the Government during
the war, till very recently, when he gave
million dollars for educational pur-
poses-one half of this sum to found
university in Tennessee, and the other
half to another educational institution.
Stewart has always had the reputation
of being very close-fsted but he must
be credited with his million dollar
Home for Women" which will be
completed next year. Aston is an indie
pendent Methodist, and Stewart is said
to be inclined to thinking for himself.
Stewart is scholarly man; Vanderbilt
is not. Astor is an accomplished man
of the world.
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actly as he had left them. His first i'm

actly as he had left them. His first i'm
pulse was to put them on without de-
lay, but his friend suggested that as the
bath was already heated they might as
well make use of it, so the two entered
the inner room, there to wait till the or
binary attendants should enter on SER
vice.
They sat awhile and talked; no one
came. But suddenly confused noise,
like tina. Of crowd, was heard proceed
ing from one of the deep corner recesses
of the hall. Osman looked that way,
but saw nothing /; then turning his head
back moment toward his seeming
friend, perceived that his face was
changed and horrible, and his stature
gigantic.
And now from the dark niche whence
the sound had been heard, issued long
procession of countless figures-men,
women, children, on foot, on horseback,
armed, unarmed, soldiers, peasants,
townsfolk, spears, lances, swords,
drums, flies mixed multitude, large,
small, grotesque, fearful, hideous. They
filed the entire place; they swarmed
round Osman they pointed at him,
they laughed, they danced, they clam
ored, they sung, they played the strang-
est antics till, in a moment, as the first
sharp cry that summons to wakefulness
and morning prayer sounded from the
minaret gallery of the old mosque out
side, they all vanished into nothing /;
the lights went suddenly out, and Os-
man, left alone in the darkness, fell
fainting on the stone pavement OF the
floor.
There he remained till he was found
by the bath-keeper, who entered at day
light, and was carried home, still insen-
sible. But before long he recovered
consciousness, and told his story for
some hours, even, he seemed none the
worse for his spectral adventure. AS
evening approached, however, fever
came on, and for several days he was
like to die ; when the crisis had passed
it left him paralytic, hopelessly i'm
paired in mind and body-a mere wreck.
Such he now continues. His friend,
whose semblance the "mocker" had
thrice assumed, had never, as they after
ward found, left his house during the
fatal night, nor even till late the follow
ing morning.
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Atmospheric Impurities.

There are some impurities in the at
mosphere which have been thought ia
vorable to the lungs The coal smoke
of cities has been so regarded. 1t has
been likewise asserted that consumption.
when actually developed, is less rapid
in its progress in an atmosphere of coal
smoke. The same opir ion prevails with
reference to many odors and effluvia,
but it may well be doubted whether a
pure, odorless atmosphere is susceptible
of improvement. The balsamic
odors" of certain forests have long en-
joyed reputation for healing maladies
of the lungs, but ! think their virtues
come from the outdoor life which wan
dering among the groves involves. If
the odor OF pine forests and tar kilns
were concentrated in the air of fur
nace-heated house, / fancy that life in
lungs. But have no doubt that living
i'll the pine forests of upper Georgia has
often cured consumption.
But if you will select two consump-
tives in similar condition, and you will
take one to saunter in the elevated pine
regions of the South, / will let you Sc
lect the most unhealthy locality in the
Northern States, and 1 will take my
case there. Now, if you will give me
plenty of flannels and saddlc-horse, L
will wager You farm that my patient
will recover sooner than yours. You
may take your case to the hills of San
Domingo, and have him live gently and
quietly, and L will take mine to the
worst region of New England, and with
the fannels and saddle L will cure my
patient in half the time it will take to
cure yours. -Dr. Die LeWis in To- Day.
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Pith and Point.
A COLD lunch-Ice cream.
A TIP top band-Hat band.

A COLD lunch-Ice cream.
A TIP top band-Hat band.
The only Ring that should be toler-
ated-the wedding ring.
WHY shouldn't people have axes to
grind, when the earth itself revolves on
its axis.
WHAT color are the winds and waves
in storm? The winds blew and the
sea rose.
WHAT is the difference between the
earth and the sea? One is dirty and the
other is tidy.
CoMPENsATIoN-The more prices go
up the more we have to "come down "
for everything.
A VERY wicked man in Hollidaysburg,
having recently been taken i'll, and be-
lieving he was about to die, told
neighbor that he felt the need of prep
aration for the next world, and would
like to see some proper person in regard
to it, wherelipon the feeling friend sent
for fire insurance agent.
DURING the war OF 1912, the Ameri-
can officer, Capt. Porter, of the Essex,
going into fight with vessel COM
manded by noted British captain,
named Winter, gave his orders as fol-
lows: My men, you see very severe
winter approaching you have only to
keep up good fire y
APOTrsvILLE man, who says he hasn't
attended church for many years, boasts
that he can remember perfectly the
preachers text on the last occasion of
visit to the sanctuary. And this is the
way he remembered it when asked what
it was "It is easier for a camel to en-
ter circus than for man to eat
package of needles"
Mr.. S., who has been in the DING
business for several years, received last
week neat "dun colored card, with
Uncle Sans name on the face, and upon
the back finds financial problem
Ito avoid proceedings unpleasant
wish you would pay what is due;
II you do you'll oblige me at present
Ii you don't then I'll oblige you.
Persistently yours. B & Co."
A REPORTER for a Western paper,
speaking of a certain fair creature, re-
marked that "the profusion and color
of her hair would lead one to look upon
it as though it was spun by the nimble
fingers of the easy hours, as they glided
through the bright June days, whose
many sunny rays of light had been
caught in the meshes, and were con-
tented to go no further" This is better
than saying the girls hair was red.
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[Orlginal.l
NATURES WORKINGS.
BIZ L. y. 8.

slowly but surely the brown crust Of the earth
Is covered with carpet Of green,
Brought forth, by kind natures invisible power,
From that mystical realm, the unseen.
We look on with wonder, and view with delight
This upspringing life of the soil;
But tits only by labor, by sowing good seed,
The husbap dmans paid for his toll.
True poor seed too surely spring up and bears fruit
But what is the harvest it yields?
poor crop of gran-still poorer for food
Where might have been rich waving fields.
Often thus in our live, where might be be bright
flowers,
And rich gems of pure golden thought,
Contented we CLEAN from the barren highway,
Where none but the vulgar have wrought.
Or. we lean upon Others accepting the gems,
The bright jewels Of truth they impart,
Forgetting the labor, the toll and the pain,
by which they were wrung from the heart.
Why not be more noble ?-go seek for ourselves
That the truth may be ours, which we Gull,
And not what another has said DER and o'er
Until tits old, threadbare and dull?
There surely are realms of thought unexplored,
Which the wisest have never yet found
Yes, realms which are free tor any and all,
Where the richest Of treasures abound.
Then let us be active, these treasures to find,
For as they're abundant and free,
We never need fear that our neighbor We'll rob,
Or that there will scarcity be.
He who gathers great truths his they are to impar
To those who may need them below;
Yet while he is giving he never will lose,
For truths unto him ever flow.
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Our Railroads Forty Years Ago.

A writer in the Hartford COurant
says There has been a great improve
ment since the Hartford and New Haven
road was opened. 1t didn't take much
to block train in those days. Some
times an inch of snow on rails would do
it. Henry G. White, one of the first con-
ductors on the road, tells how he and the
baggage master used to sit in front of
the locomotive, one on each side, and
brush off the snow from the rails with
broom as the train slowly crawled along.
Each had pail of sand, and sprinkled
a handful on the rails when necessary.
The driving wheels (engines had only
one pair them used to slip round and
round, and torment them almost to death.
On one occasion train got stuck on the
Yatesville grade by one inch of snow,
and the wood and water gave out before
the locomotive could overcome it. At
last they got out the neighbors, yoked
four pair of oxen to the train and drew
it, passengers, baggage, and all, into
Meriden, with flying colors. In the
early days of the road the stage-coach
drivers used to regard the cars with great
contempt Indeed, thirty years ago the
passenger trains were three or four
hours on the road to New Haven, and
the stage coaches went in about the same
time. Superintendent Davidson remem-
bers riding with his father in a carriage
drawn by two horses in 1910, which had
a race with passenger train near Wal
lingford, where the turnpike and rail
road are parallel for three or four miles,
and during all that time the Garage kept
even with the train. The old cars were
divided into three compartments, opened
on the side, and had twenty-four seats.
The locomotives had only twelve-inch
cylinders, and no cabs to protect the
engineer and fireman from the weather.