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having no idea but that her lover had
shared the fate of all Christian captives,
she had shut herself up from the world.
and vowed to live the life Of vsstal.
The surprise. the anguish, the horror
of Isabelle, when she beheld Demetrius in
his Moslem habliments, cannot be describ-
ed Her first impulse, on finding him yet
alive, was to have fallen into his arms !;
but, instantly collecting herself, she
shrunk back from him with loathing, as a
mean and paltry bastard.
No. no." she cried, "you are no
longer the man loved our vows Of
fidelity were pledged over the Bible; that
book you have renounced as fable and
he who has proved himselffalso to Heaven,
can never be true to me
Demetrius was conscience struck; too
late be felt his crime and forsaw its con-
sequences. The very object for whom he
had dared to make the tremendous sacri-
fee, had deserted him and his own soul
told him with how much justice so with
out uttcrfng syllable, he turned away,
heart-broken. from the holy and beautiful
being whose affections he had forfeited
forever
When the patriots left Damascus, Isa-
belle accompanied them. Retiring to An
tioch she lived with the sisterhood for
many years; and as her time was passed
between acts of charity and devotion, her
bier was watered with many a tear, and
the hands of the grateful duly strewed
her grave with flowers To Demetrius
was destined briefer career. All consci-
Gus of his miserable degradation, loathiu g
himself and life, and mankind, he rushed
back from the city into the Mahometan
camp; and entering with hurried step,
he tore the turban from his brow, and
cried aloud,-
Oh, Abubeker behold God for
saken wretch. Think not it was the fear
of death that led me to abjure my religion
the religion of my fathers-the only
true faith. No; it was the idol of love
that stood between my heart and heaven
darkening the latter with its shadow and
had | remained as true to God, as | did
to my love, | had not needed this"
So saying, and ere the hand of Abube =
ker could arrest him. he drew poniard
from his embroidered vest, and the heart
blood of the renegade spouted on the royal
robes of the successor of Mahemet
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knowledge of Ones Business.

1t is one the greatest mistakes of our
farmers, that as a rule, they suffer the
buyer to know more about the quality and
value of farm products than is known by
those whose labor makes them. The buy
er has tests which the farmer does not
have. l notice that when the wool buyer
comes around he takes out his glass and
sees at glance the structure of the article
in hand, and knows more about it than he
who has toiled year in its production.
The same theory is true of seeds. The
magnider is applied to pork to see if it is
infested with trichina l think it is true,
as rule, that buyers of farm products
know more about them than the producers
The man who know the most always get
the best of the bargain. 1t is certain that
knowledge is power in making trade.
1t can safely be put down as a rule that a
man, who for natural or artificial reasons,
can see hundred times as much as his
neighbor, will know the markets.
Selected.
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PERILs OF OLD AGE-An old man is
like an old wagon ; with light loading and
careful usage it will last tor years bu,
one heavy load or sudden strain will break
it and ruin it forever So many people
reach tne age of fifty or sixty, or seventy
measureaoly free from most of the infrmi
ties of age, and with reasonable prospects
and opportunities for continued usefulness
in the world for considerable time. lie,
such persons be thankful, but let then
also be careful. An old constitution is
like an old bone-broken with ease, anc
mended with difficulty.
A young tree bends to the gale, an old
one snaps and falls before the blast. A
single hard lift, an hour of heating work
an evening of exposure to rain or damp
a severe chill and excess of food, the un
usual indulgence of an appetite or passion
a sudden fit of anger, an improper dose O
medicine-any of these or other similar
things. may cut off valuable life in ar
hour, and leave the fair hopes of usefulness
and enjoyment but shapeless wreck.
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Selttt poetru.
IF WE KNEW.

If we knew the woe and heartache
Waiting for us down the road,
II our lips could taste the wormwood,
If our backs could feel the load,
Would we waste to-day in wishing
For thine that ne'er can be?
Would wa wait with such impatience
For or ships to come from sea?
five knew the baby's fingers,
Pressed against the window-pane,
Would be stiff and col tomorrow,
Never trouble us again,
Would the bright eyes of our darling
Catch the frown from our brow?
Would the prints Of rosy fingers
Vex us then as now?
All, those little, ics-cold fingees,
How they point cur memories back
To the hasty words and actions
Strown along our backward track !
How these little hands remind us,
As in snowy grace they lie,
Not 10 scatter thorns--but roses
For our reaping by and by.
Let us gather up the sunbeams
Lying along our path
Let us keep the wheat and roses
Casting out the tborns and chaff.
Let us find the sweetest comfort
In the blessings of to-day;
With patient hahds removing
All the brirrs from our way.
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SUGGESTIONS ABOUT WooL.-The pr,

SUGGESTIONS ABOUT WooL.-The pros
pect for wool growers for obtaining good
prices in wool, in our opinion, was never
better. The amount of sheep in the
country over last year is nothing, only
one State showing any decided increase,
while others remain as before or fell off.
There was only enough wool to be had in
the spring to run the mills until the coming
of the present clip, consequently there is
no stagnation in that direction True,
woollen good are lower now than they
have been for some time, but they have
all along been too high and that is moth
ing against our argument. The unsettled
financial condition of the country has un-
settled values and wool is one of the first
articles to respond to the monetary bar
ometer, but it is settled that there will be
no expansion this season, all values
will settle into their legitimate channel,
hence wool should start off at the figures
ruling before the clip came in. Fifty to
ffty-fve cents is the price it should COM
mand during the whole season, and if
farmers are wide awake it will command
that price at once A word to tho wise
is sufficient. Buckeye Farmer.
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gprituliural.
Teo Many Fences.

z. Il
It is too liable to be the csse that farm
ers keep up certain field fences because
they were originally built where now
standing, or we're in that position when
the farm was purchased It often proves
very profitable to study the matter over
and lay out new plans for fields, lanes,
etc. We have seen farms SO badly planned
that by removing at least one-third of the
fence material, and e-arranging the fields.
the premises would be greatly improved
in appearance, convenience and profit.
The study should be 10 have just as few
fences as the best planning viii admit Of,
and have those fences as good as they can
well be made We do not mean BY this
to have plough and meadow land all in
one field and the pasture all in another,
but to SO arrange the fence as not to have
half dozen different meadows. a. many
plough fields, etc., all on one farm Of a
hundred acres It is often the case that
by moving barn to new position, one
half Of the lane fence may be removed,
and the building be in a more convenient
situation than before We only throw
out these suggestions to put farmers to
thinking. and each one can look over his
own premises and see what is needed in
his own special situation. Ohio Farmer.
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What can be pleasapter than the life

What can be pleasanter than the life of
Missouri farmer? At daylight he gets
up and examines the holes around his corn
hills for cut worm; then he smashes cod
dling-moth larvae with hoe handle until
breakfast. The forenoon is devoted to
watering the potato bugs with solution
of Paris green, and after dinner all hands
turn out to pour boiling water on the
chintz bugs in the corn and wheat fields.
In the evening favorite occupation is
smudging peach trees to discourage the
curculio, and after brief season of family
devotion at the shrine of the night flying
coleoptera, all the folks retire and sleep
soundly till Aurora reddens the east and
the grasshoppers tinkle against the panes
and summon them to the labors of another
day.
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A COLLEGE Professor SoLD.-It ap-
pears that one of the students at Davidson
College, who was teo lazy to do anything
right, was in the habit of cleaning out his
lamp chimney by running his finger down
ii as Ear as he could aud twisting it around
After he had cleaned it out in this partial
manner, one day not long ago, a fellow
student took it up and carried it to the
residence of one of the professors. with the
inquiry: why is it that this chimney is
smoked up to this point and no farther ~
The learned gentleman entered into an
elaborate scientific explanation of why it
was, arguing with great lucidness, and
citing various authorities to shew the cor
rectness of his reasoning. When he had
finished, the student said to him: "No,
sir, you are wrong" "Why is it then ?''
inquired the professor. because the
fellows finger wasn't long enough to reach
any further" replied the student.
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A Queer Story.

A California paper tells a queer story
about couple of pious ladies who were
travelling on train there recently. They
had with them basket filled with nice
little Bibles, and with these they were GO
ing about doing good and making money
While looking for customers they ran
across a genteel looking fellow, who Of
fered to give the ladies little game, just
to while away time and keep them quiet
He threw the cards, and then asked them
to pick out the Jack, which he had pre-
viously shown them. They did so, once,
twice, three times. Then he threw them
again, and one of the innocents cried >
There it is; you can't fool me, if you did
throw em quick" mo, madame, you
are mistaken" he replied, and, drawing
out of his pocket ten and two twenty
dollar pieces, he said: "Pll bet you $50
you don't know which is Jack +"
Oh, we never bet," said one of them
And then they stood and eyed those
gold pieces and thought how little ths
possessor, apparently appreciated their
worth. Watching for the favorable mo-
ment, the reckless young man said
Well. l don't care, seeing it's you, III
bet you this $50 against that basket o.
books-hallo. hang me, they're Bibles
but everything goes as it lays-you can't
find the Jack The bet was taken, but
the ladies lost their wager. having failed
to find the Jack. The winner marched
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Clicked CATTLE, B. Jones, in the
Country Gentleman says Having SO
often seen the following cure for choked
cattle tried and it never failed we would
like to see it reprinted quarterly :--Moisten
fine cut chewing tobacco with some sticky
fluid like molasses or mucilage. making
ball as large as hens egg open the
animals mouth carefully pulling out the
lounge, and insert the ball as far back as
possible: as the lounge goes back, it will
be swallow symaking the animal deathly
sick, relaxing the muscles. and, by vomit-
ing, causing it to throw up the obstruction.
This never fails if tried while strength is
left to walk st
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INTELLECTUAL CULTURE. cultivated
mind may be said to have infuite stores
of innocent qualification. Everything
may be made to interesting to it, by be,
coming subject of thought or inquiry
Books, regarded merely as qualification,
are worth more than all the luxuries on
earth. A taste for literature secures cheer
full occupation for the unemployed and
lgnguid hours of life; and how many
persons, in these hours, for want of in.
nocent resources, are now impelled to
coarse pleasure How many young men
can be found in this town, who, unac-
customed to find companion in a book,
and strangers to intellectual activity, are
almost driven, in the long, dull evening
of winter, to haunts of intemperance and
bad society.
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COMFORTS AND LUxURIEs OF THE FARM.
There is class Of farmers who are liv-
ing only to grasp more acres Their farms
can never be large enough, nor can their
workmen or themselves do quite enough
work. They cannot be satisfied with the
income Of farm, nor could they be with
that of any other business. But those
who understand that the highest object of
labor is not simply to make money, but
to provide the largest amount Of the means
of improvement and innocent enjoyment
that the world affords, can make the pur-
suit of agriculture furnish more luxuries
that really contribute to our well-being,
than any other employment requiring an
equal amount of capital Their farms
are not so large as to make slaves of them
selves and their sons, and their wives and
daughters are not worn out with incessant
drudgery. Their door-yards blossom
with flowers, their tables are supplied
with many varieties of well grown delicious
fruit, their houses are made cheeful by the
influence of books aud music, and taste
for the pure and innocent enjoyments Of
life is developed in their children. Here
and there farmers home exempli6es all
the contentment and happiness possible to
a race doomed to labor and disappoint-
ment --Practicdl Farmer.
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Never strike colt when you are break
ing him. Push him sideways or any
way. Let him go just where he will or
how be will. Let him fall down il he
will, but don't strike him.
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CONNECTIONS

CONNECTIONS.
At Wilmington, with trains on Philadelphia,
Wilmington 4 Baltimore and Delaware Rail-
roads at Chaddsford, with trains on Philadel-
phia Baltimore Central Railroad at Coates
vile, with trains on Pennsylvania Railroad, and
at Reading, with trains on Philadelphia & Read
ing, Lebanon Valley, East Pennsylvania, and
Reading & Columbia r. r., and Berks County
Railroad. E. COLLINGS,
Jne 20-tf General Superintendent
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through the train and distributed the BIZ
bles among the passengers. What be-
came Of the women is not known to the
passengers.
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What more wildly recalls the

"What more wildly recalls the
"Sweet childish days, that were as long
"As twenty days are now"
than to have dug out of your leg Eve
cent piece that you swallowed when a
boy ?-Brooklyn Argus.
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Don't 60 to law unless you have moth
ing to lose, lawyers houses are built on
fools heads,
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-07-12
VINELAND.
The CrOps-The Trees BOIsa Chica
Wharf.-The Changers.

VINELAND, July 10th.
EDITOR HERALD: Since / saw you
1 have made a flying visit to this
place. The farmers here are cutting
and threshing their grain. The crop
of rye and barley about Tustin City is
excellent. The yield of barley and
wheat is uninjured by rust. 1 visited
the places of Mr.. Tustin, Amos Stein,
DR.. Hayward and p. Bowers and
found the trees and vines generally in
fine condition. Much interest is felt here
in the Belsa Chica wharf The people
wish to do away with the lighters
The wharf seems to be the sure rem
edy. Fruitland Grange had q fine
dinner on the Fourth of July. Vine
land Grange held out at I.aguna
Canon, by the seaside. Twenty eight
teams went down on the Sd and
came back on the 5th of July,
camping out in the meantime. About
one hundred and thirty persons were
present. At Orange everything was
quiet and peaceful-some going to the
cafion, some to Santa Ana, and others
at home, under the shade of their own
vine and fig tree.
This is the paradise for invalids;
pure air, pure water, good land and no
loafers nor bummers, and the people
are hospitable to travelling newspaper
correspondents. On THE WING.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-07-12
Wilmington Items.
From the Enterprise of July Q.


Eucalyptus trees at Wilmington
four feet high and four months old.
The lighthouse is about completed,
and will be in full running order in a
little while.
Col. Wilson says his vines here at
Wilmington look better than they
did at the same season and age at his
celebrated vineyard up near the noun
tains. Beth received the same atten-
ton.
A Wimingtonian, who keeps late
hours, informed us this morning that
we had hard rain last night, (Thurs-
day. for about ten or fifteen minutes,
accompanied by thunder and light
ming.
Rev. A. NJ. Campbell, who will have
of Wilson College next year, makes
the announcement in to-day's paper
that the fall term will commence on
the 18th of August. Mr.. Campbell is
a man of education, and is we'll and
favorably known to many people in
this valley; and we have the assur-
ance that the Board of Trustees will
employ the most compe tent assistants.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-07-12
The Germans and Local Option.

An item is passing around that the
German Convention recently held at
Sacramento passed resolution to the
effect that they would support no can
didate for Office who would not pledge
himself in writing beforehand that he
would oppose all and every one of the
radical temperance measures now
urged or that may be urged hereafter.
This is an error which justice to our
German population demands should
be corrected. The convention was not
q German Convention in the strict
sense of the term. 1t was a Turner
Bund Conventional gymnastic asso-
ciation-and did not in form, though
to a certain extent it did in fact, rep
resent the German element of the
country. The Turner's did adopt res
olution expressing in sentiment almost
precisely what is credited to the "Ger-
man Convention" which was never
held. The right of the Turner's to
demand of candidates the pledge in
corporated in their resolution, is o
point on which there has been much
discussion. On this one question we
do not propose to offer an argument
further than to say that it is the Gus
tom of conventions to demand not one
but many pledges of their candidates.
We all know that conventions and
individuals refuse to vote for candi-
dates who will not pledge themselves
to support or oppose stated measures.
Men are elected to office on their prin-
ciples - on their avowed promise to
pursue a defined and clearly stated
policy. They pledge themselves to
this before every meeting and to every
voter. Parties demand that their can
didates shall advocate certain meas
ures and oppose certain others that are
named. The Turner's did not go be-
yond this custom. They pledged
themselves not to support candidates
who would not make certain pledges.
This is the head and fruit of their
offending, no more. That the senti-
ment is indorsed by their country
men we have no doubt; but in con-
vention they only spoke for them
selves.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-07-12
Is 1t a Sham Struggle 4?

There is good deal of the SEM
blance of fuss and feathers " in the
telegraphic and newspaper reports that
come over to us from New York rela-
tive to the contest for freight and pas
sengers said to be going on between
the overland railroads and the Pacific
Mail Steamship Company. 1t is no.
ticeable that these reports never con-
vey any real, tangible information,
nor do they contain single positive
statement from either company. There
is a sort of deceptive sound about the
whole affair that tends more toward
exciting a suspicion that all is not
right than establishing conviction
in the minds of the public that there
is an actual rivalry between the two
corporations which means business.
One day we are told that the Panama
steamers are taking California freight
at low rates, and that the railroad
managers are furious in consequence.
This is followed by statement that
the railroads have reduced overland
freights to ridiculously low figure,
and thus excited the wrath of the
steamship company. Now all this
may be taken cum grdno sails. 1t is
possibly true, but more probably quite
the reverse. There is too much the
air of boys play about it. So long as
the raids of first one side and then the
other continue, the public has abund-
ant grounds for apprehension. So long
as the cOntending factions continue to
contend, there is danger of fraternal
embrace. Corporations are not seri-
ously addicted to the ugly habit Of
fleeing each other while the public
goose hangs so low that it may be
pfucked instead. There is little doubt
but the real purpose of the many rail-
road and steamer meetings is to effect
a combination which shall leave it
optional with the California shipper to
pay high freights or resort to clipper
ships and the long time route around
the Horn. If this is not the end of the
caterwauling now going on, new era
has dawned in the world of trade, and
corporations will henceforth fight each
other, while the public quietly looks
forward to o verification of the adage
that when thieves fall out honest men
come by their due. The rival compa-
nies had much rather patch up COM
bination than continue the competi-
ton, and on the principle that where
there's will there's a way, we appre-
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-07-12
\" Los Angeles Herald"

From the Wilmington Enterprise, July9.
We had call yesterday from ID. c..
Pearson, business manager of the Los
Angeles HERALD. Mr.. Z. has been
connected with several newspapers on
this coast, and as travelling agent has
written up'' a good portion of Cali
fornia. He is man well calculated
to work up an outside interest in this
end of the State, being man of en-
ergy and sound judgment, and fully
able to present the many advantages
which this section offers to the immi-
grant. Notwithstanding so much has
been published about Southern Cali
fornia, it is but poorly understood
abroad. There is ample material for
the best energies of all the papers, and
we are glad to see the HERALD Com
pany rousing up to the special work.
The weekly is something less in size
than bed sheet, and is published at
low rates-$2 so for a single copy, 50
to clubs of ten and upwards, and 81 in
greenbacks to Eastern subscribers.
Mr.. Bassett, who wields a fair, forcible
and aggressive pen, will continue as
editor; and we think he will have a
co-laborer in Mr.. Pearson fully able to
keep his department up to its best
licks.'