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VOL. XII. RIDGWAY, ELK COUNTY, PAHUHSD AY JULY 27. 1882 NO. 23. v
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Old Friends.
The old old friends 1
Borne changed j some buried; some gone out of
sight;
Borne enemies, and in this world's swift fight
No time to make amends.
The old old friends
Where are they ? Three are lying in one grave;
And one from the far-off world on the daily
wave
No loving meseago sends.
The old dear frieads 1
One passes daily, and one wears a mask;
Another long estranged cares not to ask
Where causeless anger ends.
The dear old friends,
Bo many and so fond in days of youth I
Alas that Faith can be divorced from Trutli,
Y hen love in severance ends.
The old old friends !
They hover round mo still in evening shades;
Barely they shall return when sunlight fades,
And life on Qod depends.
W. J. Linton.
FASHION REPEATS ITSELF.
I, Robert Ogdcn, at twenty-four, woe
a tolerably good-looking youth, with a
position in Wells & Banker's wholesale
store as bookkeeper at a salary of
seventy- five dollar per month. Noth
ing Tory brilliant about all this, to b
BTtre but I think I should have felt
Tory well satis lied with my lot in life
bad I never indulged in dreams of sad
den wealth in other words, if I had
never heard of ray rich Ann Mahal.
Now unfortunately - or fortunately, just
as von pi eat e to consider it I had not
only heard of her, but she was the
oraule to which our family listened on
all occasions. She was a spinster of
the severest type, bnt she was tho pos
sessor of two hundred thousand dolIn.TR
in good securities, and thin, as you may
imagine, covered a multitude of defects.
When I wua 6ix years old ajd my
cousins, Bert and Jim O.itmod, were
about the same ace, Aunt Mahala an
nounced her iutcntion of Getting ono i t
m up iD busine to tho extent of hall
her fortune when he, tho lucky boy,
should become twenty-five years o
age. Whichever one of us best suited
hor in general behavior and in th
choice of a w fa th mid be the favoreit
one, she declared. On that day rm
trouble commenced. Of course th
choice of a wile had not yet entered pij
youthful imagination, bnt as I greu
into boyhood I manifested a Datura
debire to have as t.oud a time as othe
boys, aid thin was l't'rely contrary t
Aunt Mahala's strict idia of propiiuty.
" ru idea of jour 1 siting that bo:
go off wiih a l t if other younu loafer
to ride down hill till 10 o'clock a
Bight 1 ' fcbe w nld say to my mother
and for that wiuU-r, at least, my fan wa
spoiled, or elsn prewired under ti e
(natest ililllonltifN. Oh, I hated Aunt
Mihila in those days, and wished hei
a thousand miles away 1
When I was old enough to realize tb
immense help her money would be to
me, I did, for a time, try to please her ;
but her whims and her almost constant
interference provoked me beyond the
bounds of endurance.
"Let her kep her money I" I de
dared wrathful iy to my mother, who
was always expostulating against m
impatieuce. "if Jim and Bert want to
get down on their knees to her they
can do so, but I am resolved to be
independent "
Now all thi3 sounded very fine and I
felt every word of it ; at the same time
one hundred thousand dollars was a
nice sum, and nothing wonld have
suited me better than to have it at my
disposal.
When I obtained a situation at Wells
& Banker's, Annt Mahala for the first
time acknowledged herself pleased.
" I like to see young men get into
sines?," she said, emphatically.
'There's nothing more disgusting than
to see a yonng sprig like yourself saun
tering around itn a cane ana a cigar,
trying to make folks think he's a man
when he don't know any more than a
baby." I "
Strangely enough, she advised all her
nephews to get married.
" Men are poor, miserable creatures
unless they have a sensible woman to
look after them and keep them from
making fools of themselves," she said
to me.
I did not contradict this sweeping
assertion, but I might just as well have
done so, for cue took up her last remark
exactly as if I had.
"Yes, fools perfect fools 1 They
always will ba, for they always huve
been."
" Was that the reason you never
married one of them ?" I ventured to
ask, althou.'h I knew that my chance
for the one hundred thousand would
sirk a trifle thereby.
"None of your impudence, yonng
man I X refused better fellows than you
before I was sixteen yews old, because
they didn't know anythicg."
This was very flattering, but I mod
estly retrained frora making any reply
whatever, and Aunt Mahala went on:
" The worst of it is the women don't
know anything nowadays -a shi tless,
lazy set, with no more common sense
than a peacock. Why, whtn I was a
young"
But I reoollected a proesing engage
ment, and left the room.
It was about this time that I met Bay
Amdrfll. She was an only child, and
although her father was not wealthy he
was in possession of a good income; so
Bay dressed handsomely, went in the
best society and had every wish grati
fled. Sbe was not a bauty, strictly
speaking, but she had a fresh, piquant
face that was more attractive than mere
regularity of features, and she knew
how to make herself irresistibly charm
ing to herj friends. Gay, stylish and
nolined to flirt I foun t her, but be
neath it all she was pure and true and
womanly, and I loved her as I had
never even dreamed of loving any
woman.
1 pjneked np courage at last and told
her so, although I knew she oould do
better as far as money was conoerned,
unless, indeed, Aunt Mahala decided in
my favor, which at present seemed very
unlikely. And now that Rav had nrom
ised to be mine, and I was looking for
ward to our marriage, I longed for the
one nnndred thousand more than ever.
it would enable me to plaoe my darling
in as sood a home as 1 should take he
from, and I could not endure the
thought of anything less. I did not
want to take any advantage of Jim and
Bert, however. Once I ventured to
broach the subject to my annt, and pro
posed that she should divide the money
equally among tbe three of us; but
was promptly told to mind my own
affairs, and not trouble myself about
money which wonld never trouble me.
Bert happened to be the one to in
form Aunt Mabala of my engagement to
Bay Ansdell.
"I tell you she's stylish 1" I heard
him say in conclusion, and with ma
licious intent, I was sure, for the word
" stylish" always goaded tho old lady
into a furious humot.
" Stylish 1" she snorted ; excuse the
verb, but no other one expresses her
tone. ' Of course that's all he wants,
then I Any little fool who can mince
along and look like a fashion plate will
do for him ; no brains, no common sense
bnt never mind, if she's only stylish 1 '
At this juncture I walked into the
room, and Bert, who did not know of
my proximity, looked a little crestfallen,
and soon took his departure.
" 8o Bert was kind enough to inform
vou of mv encasement," I remarked.
"Oh, yes I It was nothing to me, of
c "uso 1 He enly happened to mention
it."
This in her most sarcastic tone of
voice, and I know she was offended
bdeaueo I had not made a confidante of
her.
It is only a few divs since it was all
so! tied, and I was awaiting an oppor-
nnitv to inform you of it," I said,
anxi'ni to conciliate her, if possible.
" D m't trouble yourself to make
hxouscs, voung man. ui course no one
-spec-ted jou to think of your poor old
ui Lit at snuh a time as tois. She has
aothinif in common with lofty young
"ntiemen nor giggling htile flirts,
either."
Aunt Mahaln, please don't pass
judgment upon Kiy insdcll until you
lave seen her and become acquainted
with her,'' I b.igged, feeling the occa
sion to ba too important to lose my
emper.
' Well, bring her around," she con
lescendi d to ay. "I confess I'd like
r.n see the girl who is fool enough to
want to throw herself away on you."
It wcnld never do to slight this court
ous invitation, so I explained to Bay
soon afterword that an eccentrio old
innti of mine desired to see her. Bay
xpresped her willingness to go and pay
her a visit.
" 1 d. arly like eccentrio people," she
ieclarel, enthuhiistionlly.
I prcatly doubted her liking Annt
M thol , bat I wonld not discourage her
.y sajing so
" 1 will oome for yoa early Saturday
tfternoon." I said, as ( kissed her good
bye at the door. "And, darling, yon
nnst not mind if my annt makes pe-,-uliir
remarks ; it is her way."
"Ob, no I And I shall make her
like mo, in spite of your forebodings to
the contrary."
" Now, B ly, I never said "
"No you never said so." interrupted
Ray, "but you looked it all the time.
Y in imagine your Aunt Mahala and I
won't get on together ; well, we shall
see."
" I don't know how any one can help
loving you," I cried, snatching a dozen
kisses from the bright, roguish face so
close to mine.
Saturday, immediately after lunch
eon. I informed Ann Mahala that I
should bring Bay Ansdell to see her that
afternoon.
" Ansdell Ansdell," she mused. " I
used to know a man by that name a
good while ago a poor, shiftless,
drinking fellow. What did you say her
other name was?"
"Bichel," I replied, thankful that it
was an old-fashioned name, for Aunt
Mahala persisted in liking anything and
everything dating fifty years back.
"Then why don't you call her Eachel
instead of that silly nickname? But
then I suppose it would not be stylish
enough for her ladyship."
I kept my temper with an effort, and
tried to say calmly:
" Aantie, I hope you will say nothing
to Miss Ansdell about your fortune or
your intentions regarding it. She
promised to marry me believing me to
be a poor man with my way to make in
the world, and as she will probably
have to live .with mo as such I don't
want you to say anything to raise ex
pectations which may never bu real
ized." "Don't be alarmed " said Aunt Ma
hala, grimly, "It's not likely I'd be
bragging of my money to a little chit
like her, who don't know the value of a
dollar except to fritier it away on candy
and ribbons. By the way, I should
think it would be quite a come down for
the young lady to set up housekeeping
on a salary of seventy-five dollars a
month," sneered the old lady, in a
manner that made my blood boil.
" You will please be mere respectful
in speakin e of her and to her," I re
torted. "I don't expect you to like
her. If I bronght down an angel out
of heaven yon would say she didn't
know anything ; but if you do not treat
Bay ansdell decently I will never for
give you, and when I have a home of
my own you shall never enter it. Now
mark my words."
"You insufferable pnppyl" shouted
Aunt Mfhala, furiously. "You look
well talking about angels ont of
heaven I Yoa look a great deal more
liko mating with an angel out of the
other plaoe, with your smoking and
swearing and your disrespectful man
ner" Here she choked for breath and I es
caped from the room. I reflected that
I had been exceedingly foolbh ti lose
my temper when talking with Annt Ma
hala, for when this happened she never
failed to get the better of me; she cer
tainly had done so now, and this fact
wonld put her into something as nearly
resembling good humor as she ever al
lowed herself to indulge, consequently
now was the auspioious time to present
Bay.
I hurried at once to her home and
found her waiting for me.
" ion don't cay a word about my
new suit," she said, as soon as we
i arted "It just came home from the
dressmaker's, and it is qnite too stylish
for anything."
My heart sank ; Aunt Mahala would
hate the dress and its owner, I thought,
as I looked down at it. It was a plain,
fnll skirt of some silky material, with a
queer, gathered waist, and puffs at the
top of the sleeves; nothing fancy about
it, but if it was stylish, its fate was
sealed as far as Aunt Mahala was con
cerned. "Bob, something troubles yon this
afternoon," exclaimed far-sighted Bay.
"Do I look so very hideous, and are
yon sure that Aunt Mahala won't like
me?"
" You are charming, my pet; but I
was thinking bow miserably poor I am.
Bay, have you ever reflected that with
my salary I cannot provide all the
luxuries to which yon have been accus
tomed in your own home?"
" Bob, have yon ever reflected that
so long as I have you I don't care a
penny for luxuries or anything else?"
"But when you are deprived of them'
you may miss them more than yoa
imagine, my dear Bay," I urged.
" If you keep on talking in this ridio
u'ous way I shall think yoa are becom
ing tired of me, and in that case there
is no use going to see ycur Aunt Ma
hala," exclaimed Bay, stopping short
and pulling her arm from mine.
"There, there, Bay I I won't say
another word; we'll take each other for
better or worse, and I'll work oh, bow
I will work to make a fitting home for
you I"
We had arrived at the house by this
time and I led the way at once to my
Annt Mahala's room. The old lady
arose as we entered, and gazed steadil;
at Bav.
'Where did yoa gt that dress?"
she demanded, without paying the least
attention to my formal introduction.
" Madame Guthbet t made it for me,"
answered Bay, manifesting no surprise
at my aunt's abrupt question.
"It' the hrst decent dress I've seen
on a girl in fifty long years I Why, child.
I una ono made nearly like it when 1
was a girl; and a bead ork bag, too I
exclaimed my aunt, snatching at the
dainty morsel of glistening t-teel which
Kay bold in her hands. " Just such a
one as I had given me on my eish
teenth birthday 1 I used to carry it
wherever 1 went, but one day I was out
in a boat with a lot of young people and
some one dropped it overboard, and
that was the last of it. I can't under
stand how you happen to be carrying
ono so near like it in these days," Aunt
Mahala said, in a dazed kind of way.
"This was Grandmamma AnsdellV
when she was young," Biy explained,
brightly. " It's exactly like the fash
ionable ones now, and mamma said I
mi?ht have it for mine, I'm knittiop
lace," sho went on, as my an at con
tinucd to gaz-3 at her like one in a dream;
"so I thought I'd bring it along and
work while we talhed."
" To be sure, ray dear I Sit ritrht
here by me," said Annt Mahala, drawing
out the easiest chair and seating Bay in
it.
All this timo I had stood by, so as
tounded by tho old lady's amiability
th 't I hardly comprehended what was
being said- Had she suddenly lost her
mind, or was Bay bewitching her I
They were soon deep in the- mysteries
of lace-making, and Aunt Mahala
brought out piece after pieco of lace
yellow with age.
"All my own work when I was a
girl," she said; and Bay pronounced
them lovely, and asked to copy some of
the patterns.
Never had I seen Aunt Mahala in such
a mood as this, and I could only be
thankful and hope for it to last.
"Bob, tho poor old goose, doesn't
seem to appreciate lace work," Bay
said, with a side-long glance at me.
" That's so," replied -Aunt Mahala,
evidently agreeing on the goose ques
tion. " And he can go about his busi
ness, if be has any."
I left, and only returned in time to
take dinner with them, rightly judging
that they would get along as well with
out me.
" Your aunt has given me the loveliest
h-nd-embroiderei handkerchief ?" Bay
formed me. "And she is going to
teach me to do the same kind of em
broidery. Oh, I've had a delightful
afternoon!" the went on, turning to
Aunt Mahala, "and I shall come again
very soon."
" Robert," said my aunt, as Bay was
tying on her quaint poke bonnet to go
home, ''Rachel looks very much as I
did at her age."
This was the worst insult of all, bnt I
bore it without a murmur, and Bay ex
claimed, impulsively:
" I hope I shall look as nice as yoa
when I get to be your age I"
I aotually thought I saw tears in Aunt
Mahala's eyes, when Bay threw her
arms around her neck and kissed her ,
good night, and her voice certainly trem
bled as she (-aid:
"God-mnht, my dear child. God
bless and keep you I '
"Bob, has your Aunt Mahala any
property?'' inquired Bay, soou after we
commenced our homeward walk.
" Yes, 1 believe she has some," I an
swered, bypociitically.
" Then I am sure she intends giving
some of it to you. She asked me how I
txpected to get along as the wife of a
poor man, and I said I should be very
economical. I told her we were going
to woik together and make money; that
I should do most of my own work, and
all that She chuckled and nodded her
head, and kept saying, ' We shall see
we shall see I' and I conldn t help
thinking she meant to do something for
you. . I hope she will, Bob, for your
sake. I don't like to think of your
toiling behind that desk to make a bare
living for us "
Then I told her all about the one
hundred thousand which I had not the
sliKhtest dou t would now be mine.
" And a'l because yoa are the dear
est, sweetest, most sensible woman in
the whole world I" I declared.
"No," contrsdioted Bay, "it's because
fashion, like history, repeats itself. If
the old sty.es bad not beooma sew I
shouldn't have had my dress made in
this delightful, old-fashioned way, nor
should I have been carrying Grand
mamma Ansdell's work bag, nor should
I have been knitting lace such as your
Aunt Mahala made so long ago; and
you know very well, Bob, that it was
all this which pleased the dear old lady."
"Then we'll call it Providenoe work
ing in our behalf, and be thankful for
evermore," I said.
And you will do something for your
cousins, who will be terribly disap
pointed," pleaded tender-hearted Bay.
"Certainly," I replied. "I always
intended to help them if the money
came to me."
The next day Annt Mahala informed
me that I might get into any branch of
business that I desired, and eh. would
furnish the money.
" You havo some business taot," she
oold, condescendingly, "and with such a
wife as Baohel Ansdell, you can't go far
wrong."
I thanked her heartily, and kissed her
to emphasize my thanks, at which she
was greatly incensed, and told me not to
make a fool of myself.
Bert came over that same morning.
I fancied he was a little anxious to know
how Aunt Mahala liked Bay. She did
not keep him long in suspense, bnt
sounded her praises until he appeared
to grow tired of listening.
" Wait until you see the girl have
my eye on," he said, lightly.
" You couldn't find one like Bachel
Ansdell if you hunted the world over.
Why, never shall lorget how I felt
when she walked in here yesterday.
She looked like some dear old picture
stepped down ont of a frame. It
brought back the days of my youth it
did, indeed I" declared Aunt Mahala,
verging on the poetical.
The old lady has never lost her good
opinion of Bay, but always looks npon
her with especial favor. Sbe is losing
some of her -sharpness of tongue and
temper, too. I think she is ashamed to
indulge before Bay, who is good nature
and sunshine itself. If she keeps on
improving she will be quite a lovable
old lady, but however that may be, Ra
and can never forget how much wo
owe her.
l'crila and ritfalls.
The sporting man, Fitzgerald, who
recently attempted to swindle Charles
Fiancis Adams out of $20,000 by
gaming, is now doing the State of Mas-sachut-etts
some service in prison. An
other man who at'empted a card game
swindle on Mr. Weed, of Newbnrg, and
:ctually brought him into his debt to
he a nount of $-150,000, will soon be
brought to trial, and it is hoped with a
like result. We bave in view still an
tber case, where college student in
an evil moment became intoxicated,
vhich resulted in his punishing a bully
vho purposely provoked him. The
oully, thinking to prey npon the young
nan's snse of shame, threatened
nim with the law unless he paid up and
ettltd. Then the yonng man taking
'right, drew on his father for funds;
he demands from the bully increased,
ind si d d the son's drafts, till finally
the father announcing his purpose to
ciime on and investigate matters, the
student leit college, stole away ont
West where, arriving penniless, he hired
out as a farm hand. Months flew before
the father discovered bis son, who was
pei'suadtd to return home. Then a
lawyer took the case in hand, com
pelled the bully to disgorge, and now
that young man is at his studies again.
Each case is different in its way, but it
points to one moral not to submit to
extortion or blaokmail for the purpose
of avoiding publicity; meet the issue
squarely, and nine chances to
one the villain will back down.
That was a wise advice a father gave his
son: after mentioning the various
temptations to which the boy leaving
uome would be subject, be solemnly
charged him to avoid them all. And
then he added, "but it yon ever do
get into trouble come to me you'll
nnd no better mend, and it is the only
thing to do." The young man did get
into trouble, was almost in despair, and
contemplated suicide ; but he bethought
him of his father's advice. Ho went
to that father and was rescued; that
lesson has lasted him all his life. The
reader, old or yonng, can make the ap
plication. Christian at Work,
How Sbe Got Even.
They tell a story of a would-be funnv
broker, who last season adopted a most
nendish method of getting even with
one of the chronio flirts who are said to
make the piazzas here lively later in the
season, lie obtained nait a dozen en
ergetic crabs from the fishing beach,
and watching for an opportunity when
no one was in a particular tank except
the inconsistent fair objeot of his ven
geance, he dropped in the crustaoeans
(way up term for cransj. ine young
luilv continued her natatorial exercises
(jam up term for paddling) a few
minutes longer, when she sud
denly uttered a bloodcurdling
shriek, and was helped np the ladder
with a crab hanging on to her pink little
toe. She had several consecutive
epileptic fits while the marine corn
doctor was being removed. The Me
phistophelean glee of the broker, how
ever, gave him away, and for fear of
sjome counter-triok he decided to bathe
early in the morning thereafter. A few
days after that the bath-house keeper
was startled by some tern no yei.s, and
hastily entering the tank-house he be
held the broker floundering out with a
big. jagged-toothed spring rat-trap
denoted on his heel.
"Who the deuce put this horrible
thing in the water?' roared the broker.
"I did. sir." sweetly replied the
orabbed young lady aforementioned,
stepping out of a bath-room. " I put
it there to oatoh those horrid crabs, yoa
know."
The broker went home on a crutch.
Ban Francisco Post.
Becent investigations show that con
sumption ef the lungs can be produced
in the human subject inside of ninety
days, by exclusive use of food contain
ing staroh and sugar in alcoholic and
acetic acid fermentation!.
The Yellow Tane.
When overhead the gray cloads meet,
And the air is heavy with mist and rain,
She clambers np to the window seat,
And watchos the storm through tho yellow
pane.
At the painted window she laughs with glee,
She smiles at the olouds with a sweet disdaia
And calls: "Mow, papa, it's sunshine tome,
As she presses her face to tbe yellow pane.
Dear child, in life should the gray clouds roll,
Heavy with grief o'er tby path amain,
Stealing the sunliuht from thy sonl,
God keep for thee somowhere a yellow pane I
Walter ieortif, in St. Xicholat.
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
The way to treat a man of doubtful
credit Is to take no note of him.
There ought to be a great many red
ears in the corn crop this season; it has
been talked about so much.
It takes 6 000,000 miles of fence to
keep the neighbors' cows and hens out
of the gardens in this country.
As between the cheese press and thd
printing press, the former is the strong
eat, but the latter is the more rapid.
Perhaps the reason why the voice oi
truth is so rarely heard is because, liv
ing in a well, she is apt to have a cold.
"Does the world miss any ono ?" you
ask, Julia. No, it don't miss any one,
unless he takes somebody's money along
with him.
" Don't be disoouraged, my son, but
take heart." "Should be delighted,
father," was the reply; "bnt whose
heart shall I take ?"
Why does the tight-trousers young
man practice economy by walking up
right ? The answer is: Because by not
stooping he saves rent.
Nothing makes so much noise as a
rickety wagon with nothing in it, un
less it be the man who insists on talk
ing when he has nothing to say.
Sharks on the Atlantio coast are un
usually stupid this year. They grab at
an old suit stuffed with hay when a
school ma'am is kicking the water not
two rods off.
"Do yoa believe in signs?" asked the
shopkeeper. "Well, yes, I used to,"
said Fogg; "but since you placed in your
window, "Selling for less than cost,' I
have weakened considerably."
A woman hunted two hours for a
nefdle sbo dropped on the floor and
couldn't find it, and then her husband
came in, and had hardly taken his boots
off before he could tell where it was
Queer how men can do things tha'
women can't.
At a hotel in Glasgow a gentlemaL,
finding that the person who acted as
waiter could not give him certain in
formation which be wanttd, 'put the
question, "Do yon belong to ths estab
lishment?" to which Jeames replied,
" No, sir ; I belong to tho Free Kirk."
An old man with tho palsy went out
to shoot squirrels, taking his son with
him to carry tho gun. Spying a half
dozen in a tree the boy tock aim, fired
nnd missed several times in succession.
Tho old man took the gun in his
shaking hands, put in a feaiful charge
of powder and shot, fired and brought
down three. " There ! That is the way
to shoot squirrels." "Well," answered
the son, "I might havo done as well if
I had fired all over the tree at the enme
timo."
The Blackbnrry Trade.
Southern New Jersey supplies a largo
proportion of the blackberries that reach
the markets of New York, as well as
those of Philadelphia. In tho township
of Hammonton alone there are more
than 1,200 acres of blackberry bushes.
When in lull bloom the blackberry fields
are almost as white as a Sonthern cotton
field in November. The long rows of
dark green plants with their wealth of
white blossoms are an enctaiting sight
to the lover of the beaut.f ul. The soil
in which they thrive best is a light
candy loam, almost pure sand. Tney
are cultivated with the greatest care,
not a weed or blade of grass being per
mitted to interfere with their growth.
The slightest undulating, almost level
fields, are inclosed by well kept and
clipped hedges or arbor vita), spruce,
fir, hemlock and other ornamental ever
green shrubs.
Otner fruits strawberries, raspber
ries, grapes, peaches, apples and pears
are also grown in this fertile and gener
ous soil, but the main crop is the
blackborry. About 20,000 bushels of
blackberries were shipped from Ham
monton last year, and it was a short
crop. It is estimated by the best
informed residents of the township that
there will be this year, in the height of
the season, fifteen car loads shipped
every day, The crop is " pitched " for
110 000 bushels or more. If the
weather is favorable it will be made.
If sufficient pickers can be brought
from Philadelphia and New York it will
be gathered. To ship these berries
will cost in freight about $80 per ca-.
Most of this crop will come to New
York, to be thence distributed through
out the country.
The picking is done mostly by Ital
iansmen, women and obildren who
are brought at a trifling expense from
Philadelphia, lodged in rough qnar
tero on tbe farms, paid from two cents
to two cents and a half a quart, and
permitted to do their own cooking,
mostly out of doors. These were tbe
prices last year. It will probably be less
this year if the crop is abundant. A
family of three or four berry pickers can,
at the rates quoted, frequently make
more than $5 a day. The best hands
pick from seventy five to one buod-ed
quarts, and the others between lorty
and fifty quarts with ease. The cost of
living while in the country is a mere
trifle. The berry picking season is tbe
summer festival time of the poor Italian
families of Philadelphia.
A man at San An onio, Texas, threw
dynamite in the ri.tr to kill n-b, tut,
miscalculating the distance, bad both
hands blown off by tLe ei plosion.
Thirteen and eix-hnndieiths cubic
feet of air weigh one pound,
England and the Egyptians!-.
Further dispatches from Aluxon lrla soy that
thr fire in tbe city was nut spreading and that
l, early all looting has been stopped. Admiral
eyniour organized a police force and occupied
tbe gates of two forts. A force of Oernians
landed from the fleet to protect the hospital,
and apaityof Americans, with characteristic
enterprise, reestablished a oi man late among
the ruins and horrors of Alexandria. The
American flag and the English wave together
in the breeze over the piles of debris and tha
turning stones of the devastated city.
The American marines were the first t
land to help the British to restore order. They
occupy the great square, with their headquar
ters in the Ht Mark's building. The Germans
followed the Americans. Both partios landed
without any political instructions from their
respective governments. All of the foreign
vessels in the harbor, except those of Austria
and Oieece, landed men. It is now possible
to walk the streets without an escort. The
cafes and shops are reopening, and confi
dence is generally reviving. The bombard
ment of Tuesday almost exterminated
ih. Cftuu .rw ui nut ry men, wmua
was tho beist branch of the nrmv. The
tires in the town were undoubtedly directly
instigated by the principal supporters of Arabi
Fanha, if not by himself. After tho looting
commenced, the suMier attacked the orig
inal plunderers and roMjeT them of tnoir
prey. Arabi Pasha during the engagement
waa at Fort Naj oleon, whicn neither fired nor
received a shot. Alter the tiring had
ceased, bo rode through the town accom
panied by Mahmoud Sanii and other ministors.
Subsequently a pirty of soldiers deliber
ately set fire to the French ooneulate. Another
party proceedod in the same systematic man
nor to sot fire to tho other s de of the Great
square. Tho whole district is so ruined that
even the Btrect openings are iudistiugnishaole.
The English consulato ami the quarter contain
ing the grf at grain and cotton storj escaped
'lie conflagration. Th" o llces of the Ottoman
bank and the Credit Lyounaise escaped the
general destruction of the banks. Arabi l'asha
appropiiated 23,000 from the cuBtota house
ui fore lo tvin,'.
According to the aoconntg of peraona who
remained in the citv, bauds ot murderers,
during and a!tr the bombardment, lorced
i heir way in'o almost every house. Scarcely
any European riwe-hnwai spared. It appears
tint large etores of petroleum were sent to
Alexandria the week before tha b"mbatdm'nt
specially to set fiie to thfl town. The iiicnuli
rios say that tin y received instructions t s t
fire to the bouses. Tliirteeu hundred Chris
tian refugees wero Baved in tho Coptic church
during tho massacre A famine is appre
hended , also an epidoinic, becausoortho num
ber of uiibiinorl dead. Wliolo tnmilies or Eu
ropeans have disappeared, and it is believed
i hoy were thrown into the liames. A procla
mation, declaring the city voider maitmllaw,
wua i-suod by authority of the khedive.
The correspondent of tho London Ttleqrnph
sends the 'ollowing troui Alexandria: "I visited
tho American Consulate to-day, and found it
oicirpied by sixty American" muriuen, and
twouty sailors, with a small gun. The limine
around being on lire, the Americans wero pre
paring to save tho Consulate. How the Ameri
cans managed to get gunpowder into tho square
is a mystery, as tho air is literally full of spark.
However, they succeo-ted and brought down
the hunst s in tho vicinity of the Consulate a.:d
Palace of Justice. So bad was the condition ol
the streets that the Americ tn marines insisted
en guarding us to our lauding place, many cut
Uuoats being abroad.
Later Alexandria dispatches say: The force
of 6,000 men now in the city is well able to
rr itcct it from any incursion by Arabi or
his lieutenants. Last niidit was passed in
quietness, and but for tho burning of a
few fires the city was as tranquil as before
the bombardment. Of course, there isstill some
pillaging going on-in the distant quarters, but
the police arrangements Hro now thorough y
effectivo, aud capl irod plnndorers are given
but a short time to say their prayers. Last
even ng an atteurt was" wade to et Sro to the
St. Mark's buildiugs, the neadquaiters of the
Americans on shorn, but tho incendiaries' plans
were frustrated. The treatment of those vaga
bonds can be best doscrit ed in two dispatches
a correspondent sent. At 4 o'clock in the
moriing he said : "Four uraves have just been
iltig in tbe squaro rcadv for the bodies of pliin
drrers." In the evening be telegraphed:
''Throe of the graves are now filled. Arabs r titty
ot plundering and arson aro brought in ev ry
fow minutes. Tho irinost discretion is used in
dealing with tho accu-ed." The lines are now
vei-v rnmr v gna di d nnd tho gates aro al.
we!l dofended. It has been decided now that
5uj iiiii-ie-i will occupy sovon different central
points in ilie city. This will it is expected
daco ihe wholo town under efliciont surveil
lance. Kativo police aro being organized to
aot under the military police, and a detective
f'rc haq liecn instituted to search for suspi
eious persons.
ino n iiiinn Daily Kelt has a dispatch
which says that tho khedive professes to be in
receipt of inlormation that 205 Europeans have
beou killed at Kafr-cl-Dwar, where Arabi Bey
is now throwing up earthworks. The corre
spondent of the Tune telojrraphs that he has
opened communication with tint camp, which he
is informed consists of a Utile over 0,000 men.
who aro intensely discontented, aud sur
rounded by starving women aud oliiUreu.
llccrnits of tho lower class are still being en
ticed by Arabi with promises of unlimited
plunder, and the force is held together by tbe
assertion that the English will kill all those re
turning to the city. Arabi and Toulba Pasha,
who was the military governor of Alexandra,
have utterlv lost prestige by (heir gross cow
ardice during the bombard men t.
A leading editorial article in the London
Morning fatt saj s : " The behavior of the
American admiral and his men at Alexandria
is beyond all praise. Amid diplomatic pro
tests, European concerts and conferences and
naval demonstrations of imbecility it is re
freshing to find a commander who is able and
willing ou his own account to say what he
thinus and to do what ho says. H xty marines,
physically speaking, could not do much, but
ihore is a way of giving support which quad
ruples its value, The conduct of the Ameri
cans during the night alarm that Arabi Bey
was coming contrasts remarkably with that of
the French and Italians."
The ilori-ing l'ol also Bays: "When the
Emopean allies were go ting out of range the
Aniuricau admiral, with a cool gUnce at the
threatening Egyptian cannon, 'calculated be
would stay where be was, and if any of them
fired at biiu he would fire back.'
When the bombardment was over an
American ship alone sailed around each ol
our ships and gave them a lusty cheer.
When Adniiial Seymour asked for aid to pro
tect life and property in Alexandria, sixty
American marines landed promptly in a way
wbicli quadrupled their value. Last and boot
of all, when there was a rumor of 4rabi re
turning with 8,000 men and the European
murine hastened back to their men-of-war.
and while French aud Italians were tailing in
safety in the open sea the Amerioans preferred
to 'stick by the Englishmen and take their
ohaneca.'" The P' ' ends as follows : "There
are times when jealousy and ill-feeling run
high between us and bad words are bandied
ao oss the Atlantic, but, thank heaven, there
are also limes of na;ioul grief and occasions
of great moment when blood is lound thicker
than water aud Americans and Britishers will
be found standing side by aide. May it be so
atways 1"
Arabi Bey has diverted the Mahmoudleh
canal, which supplies Alexandria with water,
although it is believed that the larger number
of the cisterns in the city bave been recently
fi led. It was calculated that there was suffi
cient fresh water in Alexandria to last ten
das. The London Ntw has the following
dspatch: "Everything is at a standstill.
N 'thing is doing and nothing is known. The
houiau webs cauuut be o.eaued and tilled hi
1 s than a lortuight. The fleet oan condense
sullicieut water lor the orewt and troops, but
uot lor the populace, who must go afloat or re
tire to ihe villages."
The London i'mie'f correspondent saya that
thuro u no chance of a resuiuptiou ot busiuwa
iu the oity tor at least three months, lie adds
that he baa been informed iiom the camp of
Arabi Boy that ihe Utters force U iner.a in
and tht he is tegaiuing hi influence because
ot the delay of tliu BriiUh troopj iu attacking
him. UU scouts iiava bom aeon at Uamleh.
four miles oulsido of the city. Arabi Boy bas
certain y not been inactive, though the stories
of Lis movemeuis aie neatly all vague rumors,
so that it is hardly, likely be will obey the
porte, which tho correspondent of the Daily
iVeuw at Constantinople Bays has ordorod him
not to niaks any further movements. Arabi is
calling in all Ihe Bedouins iu tho neighborhood
Of liamlcb.
General Alison, with several officers, recon
noitered to a point within three inilcs of Ara
bi's positions, which were found to be very
strong. . " '
Ihe Suez oanal and Port Said were considered
most insecure. Thero was only a small gun
boat in the canal and there were 12,000 Euro
peans iu Font Said, with 7,000 Arabs. Omar
Pasha Lufti, governor of Alexandria, returned
to Alexandria from Cairo by way of Fort Said.
He made the fuliowbig report to the khedive :
'On the way to Cairo I saw Europeans
massacred and their houses pillaged at Daman
hour, Tantah and Mihalla, where the Alexan
dria rabble had arrived. Thoy cut off the hands
ofberberins because they served Christians.
Arabi Bev had callod a meeting at Cairo of
ail the pashas, uieinas ana notables and asked
them wbether it was right to obey the
khedive, seeing he bad sold Egypt to
the English, had ordered the military bake
houses to make 1,500 loaves dailv for the
British without ptoviding for his own troops,
and bad sent telegrams in their name. The
minister of the interior presldod at the meet
ing. Mahmoud Pasha Baroudi practically di
rected the discussions. Sheikh liossau recom
mended the declaiation of a holy war, bnt at
the instance of the Coptic Patriarch modera
tion prevailed. The meeting appointed a com
mittee to go to Alexandria in order to verify
the accusatious against the khedive."
A diBpatcb from Alexandria says: "There
will bo publio executions to-day or to-morrow.
I am asked to point out that all the culprits
have been convicted of murduiing Europeans
under circULLBtuuccs of exceptional bar barb y
during the bombardment of the city. The
murderers will be shot by Egyptian troops. It
is quite possible that such executions will con
tinue tor some timo, as every day brings to
light similar cases."
The rumors of the killing of foreigners in
the towns of the interior, Bays an Alexandria
dispatch, are daily confirmed by Iresh reporta.
A refugee from Cairo who arrivod at Alexan
dria to-day enys numerous massacres of Euro-
fienns took place in the outskiits of that city
ast Monday. Among those ki led at Tsntali
the other day were two English cnyiueeis
named Crowther and MacAlan, who wero sacri
ficed by tbe mob despite tho efforts of a sheik
and the governor of the town to save thorn.
ll tho employes of the Cadastral suivey in
the same town were also kiiloj. The London
T.mn' correspondent says bo has received
a letter from tho interior in which
the reports of the masracics at Cairo and
I) -mietta are confirmed. At C'aliub a family
is said to have been taken from a railway tram
and put under the wheels. Tuere are 500
soldiers and many Bedouins iu Zag-izig. These
have been joimd by sol licrj and Bedouins
from Cairo, and no doubt.a general massacro
bos begun. Tho news of the massacro of
Europoans in varioui parts of Egypt has ex
cited great indignation at Alexandria and the
delay iu taking action is bitterly commented
upon.
Tuo reason tho natives have assumed their
insolent airs an I are carrying things with such
a high band is owin to reports oi his signal
success againBt the English which Arabi Bey
has ciiculaicd among the people. A corre
spondent at Port Said says that after tho bom
bardment ot Alexandria Arabi Bey spread a re
port that tho English tfo ps bad been defeated.
Other coi respondents say that tho official native
report of tho bombardment of Alexandiia says
that tight iron-cluds wero sunk, two burned
and four captured, and that the latter would be
brought to Cairo.
MOCLAMATIOSS ISSVED BY ARAM.
' On the evacuation of Alexandiia Arabi Bey
i-em d the following proclamation :
'Mrmu.H: At tuo khedivo'a instigation the
Kuglh h killed witti the swoid and snot in ro
venge thu Egyptians who were loft to guard tliu
city. 'Iho khedive remains at night with Lis
women afloat among tho En.ilish and returns
to the shore in the dayiime to order a continu
ance of tbe slauiib tr. 1 hercforo l issue my
order to coutinuo raising soUliois."
A second proclamation of Arabi Bey says :
"The khedive has imprisoned Lis ministers at
Alexauitria iu order tint they may be iustru
rneuts in Kugli-h hands. '1 lie telegrams dis
patched by llagheb Pasha authorizing a
cessation of the military proparutions were
foro bly extorted from him and are therefore
invalid. An irrcconcilublo war exists between
us and the Engli-h." ,
The London Trltqraph has a dispatch from
Alexandria which says: "Tho Notables at a
incniing in Cairo biive adopted a resolution
declaring that tho khedive, having Violated
the constitution, is a traitor, and so they have
deposed him. They have also issued a procla
mation declaring war with England and sum
moning all good Moslems to tight against the
enemy."
Dispatches from Alexmdria say that early
this morning Major-General Alison, with two
regiments of infantry and a mounted squadron
moved out in tho direction of Arabi Bey's in
trenchments at Kamleh and Milaha for tho pur
pose of blowing up the railway. Several dead
bodies wero found in tho Mnhmoudieh canal
which they crossed in their line of march. A
body of 250 rilles under command of an aide-do-camp
pushed beyond Milaha and en
countered some of Arabi Boy's cavalry. A few
shots were exchanged and the Egyptians
retired after leaving two dead aud teveral
wounded. The rifle corps thon withdrew.
The correspondent of the London Tim$ at
Alexandria writes that ho is convinced that the
report of tho number of persons massacred at
the timo of the bombardment was grossly ex
aggerated. Still similar reports of massacres
are constantly received, which will probably in
the near future be descrii ed also as grossly
exaggerated. As an instance of this a tele
gram has been received saying the Arabs at Is
mailia are murdering the Copts. Every Eu
ropean bas no- lelt Cairo.
The country is drifting into fearful anarchy.
Atrocities equal to any ever perpetrated in Hul
gaiiit are committed with impunity. Two
Germans at Tulbh who had beeu sheltered by
the statiou-ma-ti r until tho train was ready to
start, were caught ou entoring the train, their
heads held over the carriage door aud their
throats cut. Another CnrUtian was placed on
the rails and an tngiuo ruu to and fio over hia
body.
The khedive has signed a decree dismissing
Arabi Pacha, and doelaring him a rebel. He
has also issued a gen- ral order forbidding the
Egyptian army to obey orders from Arabi
Pacha, and forbidding tho people to pay him
their taxes. The following is the order dis
missing Arabi Bey :
" In consequence of your departure to Kafr-el-Dwar,
accompanied by tho army, thus aban
doning Alexandiia without orders. Btoonincr
railway tialiio, preventing us from receiving
telegrams and communications through the
post and imp- ding ihe return of refugees to
their homes iu Alexandria, aud of your persist
ence in war prepaiatious and your refusal to
come to ns alter receiving orders, I dismiss you
from the office of nunmior of war."
A Poetic Oddity.
The following POetio odditv isconmrl
from an old scraD-book. It is said to
have been written 200 years ago, and is
as interesting tor its quaint philosophy
no n. nnni.-:. 11 i ,F. J
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