B. F. SCHWEIER, THE OOISTITTrnOJ-THE UHOH-AID THE ETFOBOEKEIT OP THE LAVS. Editor and Proprietor. VOL. XXXV MXFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA-. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1, 1881. NO. 22. A OVER THE RIVIR. Over the river they beckon to me. Loved ones who have crossed to the further aide ; The gleam of their Bonny robes I see. Bat their voice are lost in the rushing tide. None return from those quiet bores. Who cross with the boatman cold an pale. We bear a dip of the oar. And reach a gleam of the Bail. And lo ! the; have passed from oar yearning hearts? They cross the stream and are gone for aye We may not sunder the veil apart That hides from oar vision the gates of day. We only know their barks no more Sail with as o'er life's troubled sea ; Vet somewhere I know on the unseen shore They watch and beckon and wait for me. And I ait and think when the sunset's fold, Is flushing river and bill and snore, I shall one day stand by the waters cold And list for a sound of the boatman's oar, I shall wa'ch for a gleam of the sunny sail. I shall bear the boat as it nears the atrand, I shall pass from sight with the boatman pale lo the better shore of the spirit land. I shall know the loved who have gone before And Joyfully sweet will the meeting be. When over the river, the peaceful river The aDgel of death shall carry me. The Coffee Fot. Last year 1 was invited, with two of my studio companions, Arrigo Coiuc and Ped rino Borgnioli, to pass a few days at a country house in the heart of .Normandy. The weather, which at the time of our de parture promised to be superb, changed suddenly, and so much rain fell that tbe roads which we passed were like the bed of a torrent. We sank in mud up to our knees, the soles of our boots were clogged with a thick coating of clay and mud, tbe weight of which retarded our steps so much that we did not arrive at our destination until an hour after sunset. We were harrassed, and our host, seeing the efforts that we had to make in order to repress our yawns and to keep our eyes open, had us shown each to our chamber as soon as supper was over. My chamber was vast: 1 felt, as I entered it, as it were a shudder of fever, for it seemed to me that I was entering a new woild. Indeed, you might have believed yourself in the days of the Regency, to see above the panels by Boucher, representing the four seasons, the furniture overloaded with rocialle ornaments in the worst taste, and the heavily carved looking-glass frames. Nothing had been disturbed. The toilet table, covered with cciubs, brushes and powder boxes, seemed to have been in use au hour ago. Two or three dresses of changing colors, a fan covered with silver spangles, lay carelessly on the polished oak door, and to my great astonishment a tortoise-shell snuff-box. open on the chimney piece, was full of fresh tobacco. I did not notice these things until the servant, alter placing the candlestick on the table, had wished me good night, and, I confess, I began to tremble like a leaf. I undressed myself promptly, went to bed, and in order to have done with my foolish fears, I soon closed my eyes and turned my face toward the wait But it was im possible for me to remain in this position; the bed began to move beneath me like a wave, my eyelids were diawn violently bark. 1 was obliged to turn and see. The blaziDg fire cast a red reflection in the apartment, so that the figures on the tapestry and of the smoky portraits which hung on the walls could be easily dist in guished. They were the ancestors of oht host, chevaliers swathed in iron, councilors in periwigs, and fair ladies with painted faces and white-powdered hair, holding a rose in their hair. Suddenly the fire became strangely active, a bleared light illuminated the chamber, and 1 saw clearly what I had taken for vain paintings was a reality, for the eves of those framed beings began to move'and to sparkle in a strange manner, their hps opened and closed like the lips of people speaking. But I heard nothing but the tick-tack of the clock and the whistling of the wind. An insuperable terror seiicd me, my hair stood on end, my teeth chat tered, my body was bathed in a cold sweat The clock struck 11. The vibration of the last stroke sang long in the air, and when it died away entire OhI no! I darb not say what happened; no one would be.ieve me. I should be taken for a madman. The candles lighted of themselves, the bellows, without any visi ble being touching them, began to blow the fire, rattling like an asthmetic old man, while tbe tongs stiired the billets of wood and the shovel gathered up the ashes. Then a coffee pot bounded from the table oa which it had been placed, and went hobbling along toward the fire brands. A few minutes afterward the arm-chaiis be pan to move, and, agitating their twisted feet in a surprising manner, came and ranged themselves around the fire. J did not know what to think of what 1 saw, but what remained for me to see was still more extraordinary. One of tbe portraits the oldest of all, that of a fat, chubby, grey-bearded man, resembling remarkably the idea 1 had to myself of Sir John Falstaff, pushed his head out of the frame with a grimace, and after having with great effort, forced h)S shoulders and his fair, round belly between he narrow gilded border, he jumped down viavily. , He bad no sooner taken breath than he drew from the pocket of his doublet a won derfully small key; he blew on it to see that the hole was clear, and then applied it to all the frames, one after the other, and all the frames becatre enlarged, so as to allow the figures which they contained to pass through with ease. Little doll-like abbes, dry and yellow a..-. rrv magistrates buried n large black toques, pet it maitres in silk stock ings and pmneUo breeches all these per sonages presented such an odd si-ectacle that in spite of my fnght I could not help aughing. These wormy ioi. o ,i. .tr hounded liebtlv on the table. They wok coffee in cups of blue and white Japanese porcelain, which ran up sponta neously from the top of a secretary, each one provided with a lump of sugar and a little silver spoon. When the coffee had been taken, coffee pot, cups and spoons disappeared all at once, and conversation began. Sooth to say, it was the most curious conversation that I have ever heard, for none of these strange talkers looked at the other while he spoke; they all had their eyes fixed upon the clock. At last midnight struck; a voice, tbe tone of which was identical with that of the bell of the clock, was beard saying: ' "This is the hour;' we must dance. All the assembly arose. - The arm chairs drew back of their own accord: then each cavalier took the hand of a lady, and the same voice said: "Come, gentlemen of the orchestra, begin I" ... 1 forgot ; sav wai me euujc certo, and on the other a stag bunt with huntsmen, and tbe musicians, who, until then, had not made any gestures, bowed the head in token of attention. The maes tro raise! his wand, and lively dance music sounded from one end of the room. The first dance was a. minuet. But the rapid notes of the score harmonized badly with those grave courtesies, and so after, a few minutes each of the couples began to pirou ette like a Dutch top. The silk dresses of the women, crumpled' in. the giddy maze of the dance, gave forth an odd sound, like the sound of whirring pigeons' wir-gs. The wind filling them from beneath puffed them out so that they looked like swinging bells. The bows of the fiddlers passed so rapid ly over tbe strings that electric sparks flew out. Tbe fingers of the flute players moved up and down like quicksilver; the cheeks of the huntsmen were swollen out like balloons, and all .that formed deluge of notes and trills so hnrried, and of ascend ing and descending gamut so complicated, so inconceivable, that the very demons could not have followed such a measure for two minutes. It was pitiful to see all the efforts of those dancers to catch the time. They bounded and whirled round and pirouetted until the sweat poured down their foreheads over their eyes, and carried away their paint and patches. But it was all in vain, tbe orchestra was always three or four notes in advance. " Tbe clock struck 1; they stopped. I then saw something which had escaped my notice a woman who was not dancing. She was seated on a low chair in the chim ney corner, and did not seem to take tbe least part in the world in what was going on around her. Never, even in a dream, had anything so perfect presented itself to my eyes; a skin of dazzling brightness, hair blonde cendre, long eyelashes and blue eyes, so clear and transparent that 1 saw her soul through them as distinctly as a stone in a brook. And I teit that if ever 1 came to love anybody it would be her. 1 jumped out of bed, from which I had not yet dared to stir, and went toward her, conducted by some instinct in me which I could not explain. I found myself at her knees, one of her hands in mine, talking with her as it I had known her for twenty years. But a strange prodigy, while speaking to her, I marked the music with a movement of my head. It had not ceased to play, and, although it was for me the height of happinesss to talk with such a beautiful woman, my feet were burning to dance with her. Still, I did not dare to make the proposition. It seems she understood what I wanted, for raising her blind toward the dial of the clock, she said: "When the needle shall be there, we will see, my dear Theodore." I know not how it happened, but I waa in no way surprised to hear myself called by my name, and we continued to talk. At last, when the appointed hour struck, tbe silvery voice vibrated once more in the chamber and said: 'Angela, you may dance with the gen tleman, if you please; but you know what wul be tbe result." "No matter," replied Angela in a pouting tone. She passed her ivory arm around my neck. "PretisinioH cried the voice. And we began to valse. The bosom of. the young girl touched mine, her velvet cheek skimmed my own. Never in my life had I experienced such emotion; my nerves quivered like springs of steel, my blood flowed in my veins like torrents of lava, and I heard my heart beat as if a watch were ticking in my ear. Still this state had nothing painful in it. I was in a flood of ineffable joy and I could have remained always as 1 was, and remarkably enough, although the orchestra bad tripled its quickness, we needed no effort to follow it. The bystanders, astonished at our agih'y. cried bravo, and clapped their bauds with all their might without produc ing any noise. Angela, who until then had waltzed with sur ruing energy ana precision, seemed suaiiealy to become fatigued; she nung on my shoulder as if her limbs had failed her; her little feet, which a minute ago-had bare ly touched the floor, rose slowly as if they had been weighted with lead. "Angela, you are weary," I said to her; "let us rest." Yes," she replied, wiping her brow with her handkerchief, "but while we have been dancing they have all sat down; there is only one chair and we are two." " A'hat does that matter, my angel t I will take you on mv knees." Without making the slightest objection, Angela sat down, threw her anus like a white scarf around my neck, and hid her head in my bosom to warm herself a little, for she had become cold as marble. I know not how long we remained in that position, for my senses were all absorbed in tbe contemplation of this mysterious and fan tastic creature. I had no longer any idea of time or place; the real world no longer existed for me, and all the bonds which bound me to it were broken ; my soul, dis engaged from its earthly prison, was float ing in vague infinity. I understood that which no man can understand; tbe thoughts of Angela were revealed to me without her needing to speak, for her soul shone through her body like a lump of alabaster, and the rays from her breast pierced mine. The lark sang, a pale light played among tbe curtains. As soon as Angela saw it. she rose pre cipitately, made a sign of farewell and after a few steps she screamed and fell. Seized with terror, I sprang forward. My blood freezes at the mere thought; I found nothing but the coffee-pot broken into a thousand fragments. At the sie ht of this, persuaded that I had been the sport of some diabolical delusion, I was so overpowered with fright that 1 fainted. When I became conscious again I was in my bed; Arrigo Cohic and Pedrino Borg nioli were standing at the head. As soon u I nnencd mv eves. Arrigo cried: "Ah I at last ! For the last hour I have been rubbing your temples with eau de Cologne. What on earth have you been doing in the night ! This morning, seeing .t vrui did not come down. 1 entered vniir mom and 1 found vou stretched full length upon the floor, dressed in an old !,;. Wl eutume. and Dressing in your arms a fragment of broken porcelain, as if it had been a beautitui young gin. "Pardieu! it is grandfather's wedding coat " said the other, lifting up one of the tails of rose-colored silk with a green figure. "There are the strass and filigree buttons that be used to boast about. Theodore . l... found it in some corner, and h. v...t it on for fun. But what made rami t added Borgnioli. That is all very well for young girls with white shoulders; you uniace n te stis, take off her necklace, and it is a good . .. A tn n them opportunity to suuprr o "It is only weakness," I replied, dryly; 1 am subject to tnese ria. I rose and divested myself of my rlincu Ivita SWkattlimA At breakfast my three companions ate v. ;t. i h.rdiv lasted anything. The rtemory of what had passed distracted me. After breakfast, as it was raining steadily, there was no possibility of going out; each occupied himself as best he could. Borg nioli beat a warlike devil's tattoo on the window-panes ; Arrigo and our host played draughts; 1 took out my sketch-book and began to draw. lhe almost imperceptible lineaments traced by my pencil, without my having thought in tne least what 1 was drawing, resembled with marvelous exactitude the coffee-pot which had played such an im portant role in tbe scenes of the night. ' It is astonishing bow that head resem bles my sister Angela " said our host, who had finished his game and was watching me draw. . Indeed, that which just now had seemed to be a coffee-pot was m reality the sweet and melancholy profile of Angela "Br all the saicts in Paradise I is she dead or alive I " 1 cried in a trembling voice, as if my life depended on his answer, 'She died two years ago from tnnamma- tion of the lungs, caught coming home from a ball. "Alas." I replied, painfully. And, restraining a tear that was ready to fall I closed my sketch book. I felt that there was no longer any happiness on earth for me. Easter Pilgrims a tbe Jordan. The earliest scene of tbe immersion was in the Jordan, that rusning river, uie one river of Palestine, found at last its fit purpose. Although no details are given of the external parts of the ceremony, a lively notion may be formed of tbe transaction by the scene which now takes place at the bathing of the pilgrims at Easter. Then- approach to the spot is by night. Above is the bright Paschal moon, before them moves a bright flare of torches, on each side huge watchfires break the darkness of the night and act as beacons for the suc cessive descents of the road. lue sun breaks over the eastern hills as the head of the cavalcade reaches the banks of the Jordan. The sacred river rushes through its thicket of tamarisk, poplar, willow and airn us -castors with rapid eddies, and of a turbid, yellow color, like the Tiber at Borne, and, about as broad. 1 bey dismount, and set to work to perform their bath; most in the open space, some further up amongst the thickets; some plunging in naked : most, however, with wime ureases. which they bring with them, and which, having been so used, are kept for their winding sheets. Most of the Darners Keep within tbe shelter of tbe bank, where the water is about four feet in depth, though with a bottom of very deep mud. Tbe Coptic pilgrims are curiously distinguished from tbe rest oy me noiuness wnn wiucu they dart into the main current, striking the water after their fashion alternately with their two arms and playing with the eddies, which hurry them down and across as if they were in the cataracts of then own Nile; crashing through the thick boughs of the jungle which on the eastern bank of tbe stream intercept their progress, and recrossing the river higher up, where they can wade, assisted by long poles which they have cut from tbe opposite thickets. It is remarkable, considering ths mixed assemblage of men and women in such a scene, that there is so iittle appearance of levity or indecorum. A primitive domestic character pervades in a singular form the whole transaction. The families who have come on their single mule or camel now bathe together with the utmost gravity, the father receiving from the mother the Infant, which has been brought to receive the one immersion which will suffice for the rest of its life, and thus, by a curious economy of resources, save it from the ex pense and danger of a future pilgrimage in after years. In about two hours the shores are cleared ; with the same quiet they re mount their camels and horses, and, before the noon day beat has set in, are again en camped on the upper f lain of Jericho. Once more they may be seen at tne aeaa of night ; the drum again wakes them for their Lomeward march. 1 be torches again go on before; behind follows tne van multitude, mounted, passing in profound silence over that silent plain ; so silent that but for the tinkling of the drum, its depart ure would hardly be perceptible. That Wicked Mug-. Three or four years ago when there was a grip on" the potato maiket there lived near an interior village in this state a farm er named Peters, lie raised good crops, paid his debts, and was down on rings of all sort. The price of potatoes kept going up and up, and the old farmer grew un easy, lie came into the village every evening to tee how the market stood, and although he never said much it was evi dent that he would burst his hoops pretty soon if things continued on that way. At length the climax came. One evening the old man and his son had a warm corner in a grocery when a citizen entered with a newspaper in his hand and said : ' 1 his Tew 1 ork daily says that tbe price of potatoes is certain to advance again before tbe week is out." "What I" exclaimed Peters, "another advance in taters ?" 'Yes, the Lord only knows what Is to become of the poor if this potato ring isn't bursted." The farmer arose, buttoned his old white overcoat clear to his chin, brough his fist down hard on the cheese-box, and sternly said: "The time has come ! , I've stood it and stood It, as long as 1 can, and now I'm going to act! George, well go home and get ready to throw fifty-six bushels of pvacn-blowa on tbe market to-morrow, ana bust that wicked ring all to pieces " Flower Garden and Lawn. The planning for the planting of orna mental trees shouid have been done before the time for setting them. Evergreens may be left until later, and will need more care; their roots should never be allowed to become dry. Tbe lawn will need a dressing of some kind; ashes, guano, or some other fertilizer may be applied; use manure only when It is line and thoroughly rotted, with no weed seeds alive in it. For new lawns upon a heavy soil, sow Ken tucky blue grass: on light sandy soil, red- top, with wiute clover is nest ; au me way from three to six bushels to the acre are advised. Sow half the seed in one direction and cross-sow with the other half. This work should be done as soon as the land has been put in proper condition. Where sod ding is to be done, first thoroughly enrich the soil, make tne suriace even, ana to press the eods down firmly use a board ard heavy pounder. If the walks and drives need repairs, attend to them when the ground is more settled. Beds of bulbs may be ud covered as soon as tne rxosty nights are over, it Decs oi nowers are to De nhtnted the designs should be made, and their location in tbe grounds and other de cided upon beforehand. Over 12,000 Russian cjnvicta are about to be sent to Siberia. There are rumors, of a Chilian pro tectorate over Peru. Tbe estimate for the new Tay bridge Scotland, la close on to f 3,500,008. A Mangled Wreck. On tbe Bav Citv train Michigan, the other day was a woman with a baby absut eight months old, and in the next seat back was an old man who couldn't sit still until he had said : "That's a baby you have there, isn't it?" "Yes, sir." "About a year old. isn't he ? "Mercy, no I He's hardly eight months old yet I" "Isn't, eh t Well I'm the father of nine children, but it's been so long since I've seen a baby that I've forgotten how they ought to look. Is he a girl f "No, sir; he's a boy." "Just me. agin. 1 never can tell one from t'other. Is he purty healthy I" "Oh, yes." "Squad much nights f "Never squalls at alL" DonX eh t That's the kind of a young un I like to see around. My Samuel did nothing but howl for the first two years, Sarah was alius sick. Moses fell out of the cradle and broke bis arm, and something or other alius ailed every one of the lot Have you named this baby yet f "Xo, sir." "Haven't, eh! Sayt" "Y'es, sir." " 'Sposen you call him arter me I My fust name is Jefferson, and they Jeff me for short. I've got two $10 gold pieces here for him if you want to call him Jeffer son." "I'll do it!" promptly replied the wo man. 'That's business. Here's the cash and the boy is named Jefferson, arter me. Lemme kiss him about four limes." The baby was duly kissed and congratu lated, and at the next station he left the train with his mother. Tbe old man was tickled half to death over the matter until the conductor came along and asked :' "Did you pay her anything to name that baby after youf" "Yes twenty dollais. He's a clipper, and don't you forget it." "And so is his mother. She's down in the Detroit House of Correction, and the woman who had him takes care of him for two dollars a week !" "N-oat" "Fact." The old man's jaws fell, his eyes re mained fixed on the ceiling for a minute, and then he fell back in his seat with the exclamation: "Chaw me ! Everybody has called me a fool for the past twenty years, and now I know they were right ! Conductor !" "Yes." "Pleese mop the floor with me and break my neck, and step on me a thousand times and then throw the mangled wreck into some swamp, for I won't be no more good in this world!" Fodder I' p. He gave the hackmen at the Union depot a stand off, brushed the boot-blacks rij,ht and left, and shouldered his sixty pounds of baggage and started up Jefferson avenue in search of a tavern, lie was a right up and down man, and he wanted to strike a tavern where they had an old-fashioned boiled dinner. "Just come in from Lansing," he ob served as he fell in with a pedesuian. 'Did, eh? Been out to the Legisla ture I" "You bet I have. I'm not a member, but I have made things hum there, all the same. "HaveabilH" "Not exactly. I come down from county to take the kinks out of our mem ber. He was sailing in with a high head, and if I'd waited ten days longer, he'd have been bossing the whole Slate. What d'ye think?" "I dun no." "He wouldn't speak lo me when I first got there I lhink of that! Lp home there we rated him about No. 4, and sent him down to Lansing more because none of the rest of us could leave, and he wanted to cut me colder'n a wedge I Wbnt do you think I" "Rather mean." "You bet ! But I lowered bis nose a bit. We'd heard how he was prancing around and putting on airs and making out that he run our county, and a few. of us got together and wrote him a letter. It didn't seem to do any good, and so we got together again and they sent me down to put on the currycomb." "And you did!" - "Didn't 1 1 He'd put in about a dozen bills affecting our country, and I mashed all but two. He bad laid himself out for six or seven speeches, and I mashed all but one. The first day I got there he was sup porting motions, and moviag to amend and strike out, but I mighty soon let him under stand that no such chaff passed far oratory with us. He tried to bulldoze me at first, but when he found that his constituency had got after him he calmed down. He'd been fooling with the game law, aud had got mixed up with a dog tax bill, and a saw-log law, and a bill about Inland fish ing, and 1 don't know what else. 1 took him out behind the State House, and says Now, my boy, you squat I l our con stituents demand that you calm right down. We donl want no Cicero in ours, and we won't have it. - We sent you down -here to do a little quiet work, and not to prance around and imagine you've got Patrick Henry's hat on. We are humble people, taking kindly to log houses and johnny cake, and we don't go a cent on big words and long flourishes." That's what I told him, and he calmed.'1 "Did, eh I" "You bet he did ! and if we hear any thing more about his rising to explain his vote on the dog tax, or moving to recom mit the muskrat bill, our county won't be no place for bim to return to. This is the place, eh !" Well, 1 11 fodder up and take the train for home." Winnemuc Tbe Apache. In the Minnehaha, Santa Fe, a place devoted to faro, rouge et noir and the sale of various liquors in the city, there bangs a bow and arrow, and beneath it is a placard announcing that it was a trophy taken from the body of Winnemuc, the Apache chief, by James Morris, in 1873, at Alamosa Canyon, for which tbe said James Morris received a medal and a vote of thanks from Congress. Winnemuc was one of the most desperate of the old time raiders. He was a war chief among the Apaches when Vic toria was only a sub-chief. He is credited with having killed thirteen white men with his own hands, and innumerable Mexicans, and this, too, at a time when the Apaches were more familiar with bows and arrows than with Improved Winchesters. Isolated settlements, lonely teamsters and herders shuddered at the mention of his name. It meant an ever-present and terrible danger to them. He had the Apache habit of slipping off the reserva tion with fourteen or fifteen braves, mak ing a rapid dash through the country, burning, stealing and killing and then re turning to the protecting care of a benign government before nfflcient preparations could be made to pursue and punish hurt. He was a magnificent specimen of Indian manhood six feet three in height, and turning the beam with nearly 250 pounds I r I ( -.-..i. .1 ; . K. .wl t ! Ul WUQ MAI iillin.lC U1U u n""U v band encounter was a verr ugly customer. He had all the cuteness and deviltry of tbe Apache, and be used them after tbe most approved Apache methods. While he lived be was the terror of southwestern New Mexico. " Long Jim Morris," the man who killed him, and whose exploit is immortalised on the walls of the Minnehaha, is a police man in Santa Fe now. He went into the United States service at the breaking out of the civil war. ana remained in it con tinuously for sixteen years. For the larger portion of this time he has been in the bor der service. Morris is a good-natured, handsome fellow, over six feet in height. and very powerfully built. In IS73 he was Sergeant of the Eighth Cavalry, sta tioned in this Territory. One day news came that a Mexican herder had been kill- ed by Apaches, and Moms and ten men were detailed to pursue the Indians and punish them if possible. It was in the heat of summer when they started out, and they soon got on the trail. At first it was comparatively stale, but by bard nding they hoped to reach the murderers and surprise them before they suspected that they would be followed. It soon became evident, however, that the Apaches themselves were traveling with unusual raivdi y, and so decisive and in- tehigenl were their movements that tne suspicion grew that Winnemuc was at their head. Tbe pursuit was a hard one, as indeed all pursuits of the kind are in this country. The soldiers went mile after mile over the weary wastes of the sind hills, si metimes traveling for long hours under the vertical rays of the f un without water, and with no vegetation about but the monstrous dreariness of sage brush and greasewood. At the end of the third day their ralioLS were almost exhausted, but the trail was I ecoming fresher, and this encouraged them. The next day they roue until evening without water, and when they did come to a little spring, the horses, which were suffering more than the men, could not be held, but ruthed into the water and drank it eagerly muddying it in such a way as to make it distasteful to tne thirsty soldiers. On tbe fifth day the trail became exceed ingly fr-ish, in the afternoon they reached the mouth of Alamosa Canvon, 285 miles southwest of Santa Fe. They entered the canyon cautiously, and could hear tbe In dians, who had by th:s time given up the idea of pursuit, shouting ahead. The can yon was on tbe reservation, and the Apaches, knowing that there were three or four hundred of their tribe but a short distance away, felt entirely safe. Tbe soldiers were armed with carbines of tbe old fashion, and with Remington pistols; which might go off once, or six times at once, or i.ot at all it depended upon chance. Detailing three of the men to hold tbe horses. Morns placed the rest in Indian file, with himself at the head and followed noiselessly. At a turn in the canyon be came upwn Winnemuc and thir teen braves, and with a yell tbe soldiers charged through them, firing right and left. Surprised at the sudden onslaught. the Apaches sprang from their horses and dashed up the canyon, followed by tbe troops, whose balls were doing considera ble execution. Winnemuc bad separated himself somewhat from the rest, and was running up the mountain in a diagonal di rection, turning every now and then to send an arrow at tbe soldiers. His bow and knife were his only wea pons. Mom9 picked nun out ana started in pursuit. He followed the fleeing chief for about fifty yards, when Winnemuc wheeled and shot at arrow, which struct Morris in thv neck. He dropped instant ly, and the Indian, believing that his ar row bad done serious damage, drew his knife from his belt, and with a whoop, ran back to finish his work. It was an unfor tunate move. Morris bad dropped as a ruse, and when Winnemuc came within a few feet of him he arose on his knees, aim ed with his Remington pistol and it would not go oil. Tbe Indian, somewhat startled at tbe sudden recovery, would have started back but tbe momentum of his run was too great, and, before he could do anything, Morns bad dropped bis useless pistol, seiz ed him by the legs and thrown him for ward. He struck his head witb such force upon one of the rocks that he was stun ned, and, taking the revolver, Morris liter ally beat bis brains out. Winnemuc was hastily scalped, his bow and arrow taken, what provisions the Indians had seized, and the beads of the horses turned toward Fort Craig- Only one of the soldiers a corporal had been killed aud two wound ed, while none of the Indians had es caped. The nde back was a far more dangerous one than the pursuit, since it was certain that other members of tbe tribe would dis cover the bodies aud follow. Fortunately, however, the troops had such a start that they reached safety before the Indians came up. l he body oi the aeaa corporal was thrown across Moms s.udle and brought in lo be buried. Morris was men tioned favorably in the report, and a bronze medal struck off for . him, and an other which was sent to the family of the corporal. Industrial Seams. A century ago what a mac discovered in the arts he concealed. Workmen were put upon an oath never to reveal the process used by their employers. Doors were kept cloed, artisans going out were searched, visitors were rigorously excluded from ad mission, and false operations blinded tbe workmen themselves. Tbe mysteries of every craft were hedged in by thick-set fences of empirical pretensions and judicial affirmation. The royal manufactories of porcelain, for example, were carried on in Europe with a spirit of jealous exclusive- ness. His Majesty of Saxony was espe cially circumspect. Not content witb the oath of secrecy imposed upon his work people, he would not abate his kingly suspicion in favor of a brother monarch. Neither king nor king's delegate might enter the tabooed walls of Meissen. What is erroneously called the Dresden porcelain that exquisite pottery of which the world has never seen its like was produced for two hundrtd years by a process so secret that neither the bribery of princes nor the garrulity of the operatives revealed it. Other discoveries have been less success fully guarded, fortunately for the world. The manufacture of tinware la England originated in a stolen secret. Few readers need be informed that tinware is simply thin iron plated with tin by being dipped into the molten mctaL In theory it is an easy matter to clean the surface of iron, dip' it into a bath of boiling tin, remove It enveloped with a silvery metal to a place of ccoiing. In practice, however, the pro cess is one of the most difficult in the arts. It was discovered in Holland, and guarded from publicity wi h the utmost vigilance for more than half a centmy. England tried in vain to discover the secret, until James Sherman, a Cornish miner, insinu ated himself master of the secret, and brought it home. The secret of manufac turing cast steel was also stealthily ob tained, and is now within tbe reach of all artisans. A Wonderful River. The Mississippi is a wonderful river. says Mr. Banvard, and, although I have traveled through the four quarters of the globe, I have never seen its compeer. The Nile, so famous in history, is insignificant in comparison. Tbe Mississippi is sui gen- ens. Its restless current is constantly making changes in its hydrographical feat ures. The working of the currents and their changes are unobserved by tbe ordinary traveler who ploughs his way ever the tur bid surface on a swiftly moving steamer. All are bidden from him. It requires a lesidence of years on its banks to rightly understand the peculiar philosophy of its moving waters. Thus I attentively stud ied during the fifteen years I was trading in flat boats among the Indians and settlers along its banks in my early life. One of the most striking peculiarities of the river is the uniformity of i's meanders, or bends. Some of these are so uniform and regular that they have the appearance of having been described by tbe sweep of a compass, and consequently the course of a stream is very sinuous. The bends are consequently doubling on themselves and forming what are called "cut-offs," and the nver is traveling about in the alluvium, after changing its bed many times, as well as its form. The lied nver bend swept around some fourteen miles; Walker's bend, sixteen rmiles. The Red river bend broke through. cutting eff its extent of fourteen miles. The State afterward set men to work to cutoff Walker's bend into Tunica bend, thus reducing apparently the length of the river sixteen miles or more, a total in the two cut-offs of about thirty miles, which entirely changed the hydrography of the stream and gave it this form in stead of the very crooked one it had pre viously. This also brought the mouth of Red river some ten miles lower down than its origi nal position in the bend. When tLese "cut-offs" occur, the channels of the old river, or rather the opening of the old river into the new, closes, or, as the people call it, "grows up," and in a few years the old river is shut completely out of sight and forms a lake back in the forests. These lakes or "old rivers" are traceable all along the lower river. This "growing up is another peculiarity of tbe Mississippi and would not be noticed by an ordinary trav eler, unless a bend or island that was un dergoing this process was pointed out and the philosophy explained to him. The explanation is this : When a bend breaks through an eddy is formed directly under the point of the "old river." In this eddy a sand bar forms and on this sand bar, in a short time, the alluvium, held in suspension by the waters, is preci pitated, when immediately the young Cot tonwood trees begin to grow. Every year a new line of trees makes its appearance and so on year after year and shuts the old nver out from view. The rows of cotton- woods in their growth are so exceedingly uniform and regular that they have the appearance of having been set out by human hands to ornament a park or pleasm-3 gar den. The different growths, year after year, can be counted in regular gradation from the sapling of the preseut year up to the most magnificent tree of the forest of five or six feet in diameter. Rest. "He seems to be much worse to-day," said the doctor, as be contemplated the pa tient "Did you keep him perfectly quiet, as I directe '( nurst t" "Sakes a massey I of course I did," re plied the nurse. Goodness gracious' he hasn't moved all night." "Anything going on in the house to dis turb him ?" "My sakes I of course not. They has1 a little dancing party in the parlor, and a fight up-staiis, and some burglars got into tbe basement, and the servant girl set fire to her bed, and tbe fat boarder fell down tbe second flight, and the man in the next room licked bis wife, and tbe water pipe busted on the floor below, and the gentle man in the back parlor gave a little sup per, and there was some music in the third story, and tbe cat got out upon tbe back fence, and there was a baby born on the second floor front, and the little girl up the third pair died in the night, but be never moved. Bless your heart, he was the quietest man you ever saw! a AJuite nght quite rurht did you give him the pills?" 'My gracious I I forgot the pills, but I gave bim all the powders eight Seidletz powders, lour Dover powders, and all tbe quinine powders and the mixtures, three of 'em, and all but the pills." "Just so. Did you change the bandages on his head V "It wasn't any use, He wouldn't keep 'em on. You never saw anything like him. as still as mice after that." "1 sec. Was he delirioas during the night?" "Oh! wasn't he I But he ham t hollered much for two hours. He's been pretty quiet since he fell out of bed. Before that he was restless." "Of course, naturally. Any of his friends been to see hiuit "There are ten or a dozen here all night playing cards and enjoying themselves. But he paid no attention to them." '1 suppose not. Hasn't asked for any thing, has he?" "Not for a long time. He's doing well, isnt he, doctor ? "Yes, yes, as well as could be expected. As near as I can judge be baa been dead about twelve hours. cu needn t con tinue the medicines. Just keep bim quiet and don't let anybody talk to him. What he wants now is rest." And the doctor certified to the reliability of tbe nurse and departed. Onlv One. One bad pun can spoil a good joke. One patch of ice elevates men's soles. One shower of lain will ruin a new hat. One baiky horse can rout a whole pro cession. One squealing child will spoil an entire evening. One swallow of hot coffee breeds repent ant tears! One little word might make many a man miserable. One over a dozen can make twelve di ners out nervous. One bad bov can spoil a young man s evening. One little flirt can make dozens of men uncomfortable. One new bonnet wul make a woman temporarily happy. One fit of indigestion causes a man to wish he was an ostrich. One pugnacious goat can demolish charming pastoral. One aching tooth will reduce a human being to uttermisery. Une wife has been known to set a man wondering why he was born. Buenos Ayres has 54,000,000 sbeep Dr. Talmage made Are hundred converta'" in bis revival. Monumental Clny. When one of the Detroit trains came in at midnight, a few nights ago, an old man was found sleeping in one of the seats; the conductor flashed bis lantern in bis face. the brakeman stirred him up, and one or two passengers looked at bim carelessly, but no person seemed to belong to bim. He was seat and clean, but thin and wasted by old age or privation. All sorts of troubles were mapped out on his clean, withered face, but tbe main thing just then was to get him awake and on his feet, and out of the car. "I say, old man," yelled the conductor in a seven-league voice, "get out of this ; do ye hear f This is Detroit. If you've got any friends they'll be looking for you." He opened his eyes so wide and sudden that the brakeman and the conductor and the curious passenger fell back on each other in a heap, but only his hps moved : Where's tirade?" "Who!" asked the .conductor, recover ing his official voice. . . "Little Graqe grandpa's little pet t IT brought her with me. Isshe--is. she there?" " " I guess he is not wide awake yet," said the curious passenger. " Suppose you help him to his feet." Conductors are experts in helping people to their feet, and this one was no exception to the rule. He took the old man by tbe coat collar and stood him up, but he sank 'down the next moment limp and motion less. Just then a depot hand come in : "The baggagemastcr wants to know what you're goin' to do with that mite of a deal box over there. He dont want any of that kind left over, and there ain i no direction on it but 'Oracle '" " That's her t" said the old man, and he stood up feebly. "Take me there. We're going a long, long journey Grade and me; a long, long journey, but it den't seem as if I knew tbe way right clear." They took him into the depot and laid him on OLe of the benches and put his old carpet-bag under his head, but he still fretted for his "leetle Gracie his pet," and at last they consoled bim by telling him she was resting, was asleep, and must not be disturbed. " We've a long, long journey to go." he kept saying to himself; "and grandpa's baby mustn't get tired. It's a long way, a long way.' The little "box" with Gracie written upon it in lead pencil was safe enough with the other "freight, and tbe old man slept peacefully at last. Some kind soul threw a rag over him near morning, and asked him what train he was waiting for, but all the answer he made wan a feeble "Thank'ee; call me at sunrise. We're going a long journey, Gracie and me." He was called at sunrise by a voice that none may refuse, and when a flood of rosy light shone into the dreary room be was up and away gone on his long journey. Only the worn-oat body was there, and yesterday it was laid away with "little Gracie" in the stranger's lot at Mount Elliot, atone, unknown, yet possibly in as " sure a hope of a glorious ressurrection as if marked by thirty feet of monumental clay. Fan. nc and Feasting In Russia. There is in ordinary times plenty of cheap bread in Russsa, and plenty of cabbages and dwarf cucumbers, which with tea, and perhaps a little quass, from the staple food of the moujiks, who, naturally abstinent from everything but strong drink, are ar tificially encouraged to spare living by theu long and strictly observed religious fasts. Tbe Petrof or Peter's Fast, is of a duration of two or five weeks, according to tbe inci dence of Easter Sunday; the fast oi the L's penski Fast calied by the people theGosp zinski lasts from the 1st to '.he lath of Au gust; the Philippoff, or St. Philip's Fast, endures during lhe six weeks preceding Christmas; and between the Carnival and Easter there is another most rigidly ob served fast. Besides these. Wednesdays and Fndays in every week throughout tbe year are fasts most scrupulously adhered to by the common people, and, as a rule, by females of all classes. But if the upper ranks were as religiously abstemious as their inferiors, I fancy that tbe restaura teurs of St Petersburg and Motcow would very speedily exhibit a very reniardable un annuity in going bankrupt As it is well-to-do Russians are perhaps the most persis" tent gormandizers on the earth's surface. have seen a consideable amount of eating and drinking in my times, in a good many countries, wholly or partially civilized, but Lever have 1 witnessed such demined knile and fork play as that which goes on the Muscovite capital. And 1 have abided there in the spring and in summer in an lumn and in winter. The great grief felt iu the Petersburgers for tbe assassination of the Isar Alexander II. failed certainly to have any perceptible effect on their appe tites. They ate and drank like so many Grandgosiers during the whole of the peri od intervening between the translation of the Imperial remains to the fortress and the final act of inhumation; and the Pro- pot de Btuiturt was continuous, and as hUbelaisian as the gendarme-mfected at mosphere would permit DnncibS In n Cathedral. Among tbe early Christians, as also the Pagans, dancing is con-tituted a part of the religious ceremonies; and did not David dance before the Ark, and the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in dances f Tbe practice of dancing in churches was looked upon with favor in France untd the twelth century and in Spain, in this very nine teenth century, it forms part of tbe Easter Sunday ceremonies at tbe Cathedral in Se ville. Lady Louisia Tenison, travelling in these parts, speaks of them as being most singular and quite peculiar to Selville. Tbe principal actors are boys, who are placed in the open space in front of tbe altar, five standing on each side opposite each other. They egin a slow movement, singing hymns and keeping time with their casta nets. A dignitary.disapproving of the cus tom, tried to stop them ; but this so en raged the authorities that they suddenly shipped off the boys to Rome, so that tbe Poiie might judge lor himself. His holi ness caw nothing against it, and continued the privilege, allowing them to dance with their heads covered, before the sacrament ; and tbi is done to this day. Land Laws. As a test of the personal concern which members of the Government have in land laws in England, it is interesting to note the possessions of some of them. Mr. Gladstone is tbe propnetor of 7,000 acres ; the Marquis of Uartington is heir to 200,000 acres; Earl Spencer owns 27,000; Earl Kimberley, 11,000; Lord Nortbbrook, 10,000; Mr. Dodson, 30,000; Lord Hunt ley, 90,000; other members have lesser estates, and Mr. Bright is the only promi nent man in the Cabinet who has no landed possessions in fee worth mentioning. The Duke f Argyll, who has retired, owns 175,000 acres, but his rental is a Utile more than a fourth of the Duke of Devonshire's. NEWS IN BK1KF. The Suez Caual is again open. Under tbe new census Indiana ha a colored population of 38,993. Beer drftikiug Is said to be decreas ing in England. Tbe Sultan of the Sooloo Islands is dead. The Hudson river was discovered in 1000. Welcome that ill that comes alone. AU Europe has 81,540 miles of rail way. Hibernia U the Latin name for Ireland. Iowa has 400 butter and cheese fac tories. Spnrgeon has 5,254 members in his church. Cotton Mather wrote 33a works ot all kinds. Pattl has tbe bronchitis. She also has $500,000. - MelikoJChas accepted the Premier ship oiBuwia. . AUAuUr-Georgia, holds -a-cottsn' fair in Octoberr - - 2,000 French troup? are occupying Biserta, in Tunis. Detroit collects $300,000 annually from liquor shops. There are 15,000 families in A la- bama without a Biblo. Bulgaria wants Servia t buy th town of Pirot tor $1,000,000. Queen Victoria's gold aud D'ate Is valued at $15,000,000. Some of the sheep-raisers of Aus tralia own oyer SOO.OW head of sheep. Three or four ouuees of oil can be extracted from one hunJreJ pounds of water. Q leen Victoria received last year $205,000 clear ch Irom ner duchy of Lancister. A dealer in Vermont has an order from the West for 2.000,000 pounds of maple sugar. Millais, the English painter, has commissions lor portraits amounting to $21)0,000. .,T,A aew PuzzIe 19 t And the letter M three times on the legal tender silver dollar. The statue of Gen. McPherson Is to be unveiled July 22, the anniversary of his death. The records of Immigration at New York shows 60,000 arrivals durinz the month of April. A thousaad workingmeu are want ed in le-wa this spring. It is good State to work into. Employment Is given by the rail ways ol Great Britain and Ireland to about 500,000 persons. The velocity ot the electric waves throughthe Atlantic cables Is from 7 Out) to 3.000 miles per second. France spends $110,000,000 annu ally to maintain her military system and $1,800,000 for free pr.mary educa tion. The shipment of corn since Sep tember 1st, total tor 1SS1, is 53,200,000 against 53,6JO,000 last year irom dve points. A magnet weighing two dunces sustains a weight of three pounds two ounces, or twenty-five times its own weight. rTCoI: Thon,a9 Soot, ex-presl.leut of the Pennsylvania Kiilroad, Is said 0J00JOrth lrm ,-U'00W'000 o$30,- The total acreage under cereals potatoes, tobacco, hay and cotton in ibe Lnited Slates in 1S7D was 142 474 . 000 acres. The jewelry trade in England reviving, and Biroiinyham i- ,.,,i out silver bracelets at the rate of lt -000 per week. 1 The Maryland Historical Societt has nearly complete files or every im portant newspaper published In Balti more since 1773. The National Industrial Exhibit tiou at fokio. Jaoan. wn .,ui .... the Mikado March I. The atteudai..-V. is said to be large. The Sultan writes to the powers that he accepts, without reserve, tbe proposed settlement of the Greek Krontier question. Three firms are now enmnrai in canning Boston baked beans, and their annual production is not I.- 4,000,000 to 5,000,000 cms. The lumber cut unon tha um. sin shore of Lake Surwrior h in creased from 4,000,000 leet In la74 to over 22,0JO,Oil0 feet in 1SI. Alligator-skin boots and shoes have become so popular that 25 000 hides were consumed in their ma'nu lacturi last year in this country. The two colossal bronze sphinxes which are to be placed at the foot oi Cleopatra's needle on the Thames Em bankment, will be finished by August next. Tbe exports of flour are 1.50ft mi barrels greater since September' 1st this yeir than last, being 5,6 ji.000 bar rels irom me porwagiiu,t4 100.000 for 1830. I'he total loss by fire In Cblir during the year 1SS0 was $l,136,81e. The report of the Are marshal places tbe number ot buildings in the city at 132.&42. There were 6.800.000 bushels la wheat exported to May 1st. this year, than tor the same time in 1SS0. the ag gregate being 73,500,0.0 aud 80.3JO.0o0 respectively. The Empress of Austria receitlv sent to a reporter a dressing case, em bossed in silver, as a mark of her trea sure at his account o( some of her ex ploits In the field. The extraordinary increase In the receipts ot tbe French railways in 1330 is naturally the subject of sincere re joicing in the newpapers. The aug mentation for that year reached no less a sum than 114.000.000 trancs. The ratio of vote to population in New York, at the Presidential eh ction, was about jne to five; in Philadelphia and Chicago, one to six; Boston and SC. Louis, one to seven; In New Orleans, one to niae. and In Provi dence, one to eleven. ' The consumption of opium 1 rapidly Increasing in San Francisco. There are 450 places where opium U sold, and each one of them receives an income averaging $75 a day irom the traffic. The religious and secular press are ciUing attention to the matter. The death of Lord ueaconsfleld leaves Mr. Gladsteae the one living Englishman who has held the office cf Prime Mluister ot England. Since 1702 only eight statesmen have occupied this position for a longer period than Mr. Gladstone, who has already held it six years and three months. From two groves of maples la North Harpersfleld, Delaware County, New York, the yield this year has been seven tons of maple sugar. The groves contain ,auu trees, in 1875 the town of Harpersfleld produced 200.000 pounds of sugar, an amount which this year's crop Is thought to exceed. (I tapesy ' ' woe. on one siue au iimumu
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