I hi; p. F. SCHWEIER, THE GOSSTlT U TiOl THE UITOI AID TEE EETOEOEXEIT 07 TEE LAVS. Editor and Proprietor. VOL. XXXYII. MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. JULY 18. 1SS3. to NO. 29. """ " 1 XH bi"ii.in or The skst. tv-t'II come again to the apple tree fUpin a ail the rest the orchard branches are fair to see It the snow of the blossom drest, th prettiest thing in the world will be A5" -rfth- nit JJK i.J.i""6 - -- taring it well, round and trim, H,wiP " wiln care Vhinfi too lar away for him, " Nothing for her too fair Hairing ' "n tne tFnost limb, Their castle in the air. v mother-bird, you'll have weary days Whrt !he ejzgs are under your breast, ltd shallow may darken the dancing rays When the wee ones leave the nest; ganhrv'll find their wings in a glad amaze, And Oud will sec to the rest. 5, tome to the trees with all your train " Whrn the afl'le blossoms blow; jj-i.ugb the April shimmer of sun and rain (jollying to and fro, wi sing IO "r hearts as we watch again Voar uirj building crow. A MOTHER'S 1IM(L. In a luxuriously furnished room, with soft. rich i-ants, citrtaius, draiienes, jad dainty knick-kuacks, such as are onlv seen iuthedwellingsof the wealthy, the light was carefully shaded, and in it centre of the apartment, iu a child's cr.b. the rich lace curtains and blue tunings of which were drawn and fas tened buck to admit the air, lay a boy of two r three years in the delirium of fcvrr; his lovely face was flushed, his blue eyes wide oien, and his rounded Iiials were tossed incessantly from side to side, while incoherent moans and tries occasionally came from the poor sufi-rer. Several servants and attend tits passed noiselessly in and out of the bean' ortiere of dark blue which fell vruss the doorway, and an oval ivoiy framed mirror set iu a panel of the same culor was reflected iu shadow ou the alL The sweet face of the "Madonna of the Grotto," and her lxv, and a pretty marble Psyche, veiled, with her kwr tuind iy tier, shone m the dim- stsj. Everything that could briiiR com fort and beauty was there but, alas! the were vaiu to ease the little miu- ed limbs, or still the throbbing of the w-oin-ansuLsiied, curly head so uneasily Kffii:g ou the pillow. Tlie mother lent over her boy in an uonv of grief. She was young and beautiful, and her whole life and being, jvf, her very soul, was centered on him. "Oh. my God, spare him! I cannot five him up! Spare him! I will uot lire without him!" Xo jiraver for imtience. for submission tea higher w ill than hers, passed her qs, but only the agonized cry to sp:ire km to her, to save him for her love. She had never learned in all her life to U'W to another will than her own, and nuw, when her idol was stricken, she lad no other hope, no other cry, but ';arehim! let him livel" Tie doctors had said, ''If he sleeps there is Uuie; but if this restlessness eunticiies he cannot endure it long." Everything had been done, every lushing iiilluence tried, and still the lue eyes were wide open, and the child m-oiied and tossed on his weary bed, aid still the one wild prayer weut tip, "Uh, let him livel Spare me my child!'' Unlike Isabel iu Mrs. Browning's beautiful poem, no vision came to en treat her to release her child's soul and let him rind ease and jeace. Her prayer was answered; gradually the child's tossing became less frequent, the lids closed, aud a death-like silence fell ujion the darkened room. The watchers held their breaths, and the overwrought mother sank back upon a conch which had been drawn near the little crib; but still she watched every rbe and fall of the covering which had Utn at last permitted to remain over the restless child. Gradually the flush faded, the labored hnatli became low and gentle so low that several times the mother bent over tim in anxious dread. lie slept until the sun was high in the heavens, lie wke, and stretching out his arms to his weary mother, shaiied that first sweet word, "mauiinal" And she clasjied her "kriing to her breast and had no thought hat that he would live, and was all her own. Wrapt in her precious idol, no Prayer went up now in thankfulness for her answered petition. Ten years had glided away, and the uie. mother was seated on a low chair hefure a bright wood fire which burned dwrfully in an oien grate. It was the saleroom, but the baby's crib no longer al there. Ing ago it liad been re "wvwt. The pictures and ornaments e the same, and the tire cast rosy gleams on various other beautiful things, '"A ou the warm drajeries in tliat lux "rious clianilier. Still her boy came He was out on the darkened street. The quiet, loving beauty of his happy ton had few attractions for him, and, Joung as he was, he had tasted those tasting sweets of early dissiiation ""t, like the adder, coil themselves Wwind their victim's bodies and crush jir lives, and rendering soul, body and twin one mangled, mutilated mass, pass to others already enring their ny snare. At last he came, and throw ing his to around his mother's neck, coaxing Jf tteused himself for his truancy. A "T of about fourteen, with strong, fght limbs, curly chestnut hair, and blue-gray eyes; but there was evi of youth undermined, of physical ?ies dwarfed, and the large eyes that br ftetncss and beauty so iiely fouud in ije orbs of the youth of lot age. loung as he was there were stories of ? ungovernable teuiiier and evil pro Wwties; but they never reached his "other's ear; if they did, she turned "m iheiu. IJer life was a lonely one for him; an early marriage, a 'lful husband, who had died soon their fluid's birth; she had wealth rTed to her; it would one day be her rHand if even now he demanded j which were far too great for a boy rwin to sjieiid on his own amuse r. his weak mother thought boys J!an'Use then, selves, and gladly sui- has exacting wishes. And so was supplied to add flames to the fire jr was already under way in its dead- rk of devastation and physical ruin. years again had tieen numbered to ' bringing strange changes hoiS ely '""tlier iu her beautiful Eustace's wild and dissolute w, ere generally known, aud only jtttvals did he visit his home; his hroken promises of reform could relied upon, and even his doting fce2, felt a cold chill at her heart as wh- ted on er son und wondered would end. Tears slie hoped for better things, oni reliance on his soothing Wd caresses; but she had learned tU" w'th a sick cold heart, how much j uld be beheved. She doted on him stilL and month after month on. She always greeted him with a ;'"" " welcome, and strove to make his home as attractive as she could. At one time he had narrowly escaped dis- mi . ' ' btMU viri, xuc t uu was yet to come. ! M-. 1 - a Ki'Himy winter evening; snow jiiiwui-,- u ran, ana tne lady turn ed from the window where she had been standing with an achim? lmnrt t. a chair close to the fire, that,' crackling and -dancing fantastically, seemed to "" 'eru renections over a desolate past. Fifty years might have issed instead of twenty to judge from the difference Iwtween the young mother who sent up agonized prayers for her baby's life and the careworn, old-looking woman who bent over the fire in the grate. Yet everything about her was dainty and beautiful as of old, and her dress was tasteful and elegant. It was all for her ooy, poor soul! that he should uot find his mother aught but what he could auiuire, never reckoning how little he cared for any one but himself. "Eustace's birthdav to-morrow!" she said aloud, "lie w ill" remember to see me! O UtHl!'' she cried, rising and clas mg her hands. "Just twenty years amcr i iirayeu ior my darling's life! Can it be it w as for naught but suffering? You were beautiful and good once; will you ever come back to meV And hid her face in her hands, and the tears ien inrougn ner tlnu fingers, J ust then the portiere w as drawn aside ana tustace stood liefore her. lint oh, what a contrast to the fair, sweet baby and the toll strinling of ten vears ago! His dress was disordered, his f;ice ashy lie. uis ome eyes wua ana sunken ".Mother!" lie came up to her and seized her hand. ''You must hide me! They are after me!" And he looked around the room in nervous agony. "It is a norrioie laie ior yur ears, ioor mot ner i i uere w as a quarrel w e w en all mad w ith drink and excitement and I have blood blood on my soul, besides its other sins!" A nd the miserable man sank at the feet of his wretched mother. She dropied beside him in a wild jiar- oxysm or grief, and tried to raise his head to her lap; but it fell back as if he were dead. She rang for assistance and had him placed upon a couch, and med: calaid summoned; he awoke from hi stupor only to break into wild ravings and agonized cries. The doctor shook his head, said dissipation had done its work, and he was doomed. The myrmi dons of the law shrank from his wih: raving and ghastly face, and took their station in a room down stairs; but a higher tribunal awaited him. Again the agonized mother bent over her child. He had sunk into a death like stupor, exhausted by his wild rav ings. As in a d im vision the past glided slowly before her, and the baby of twenty years ago was lying m his prettv crib. and she seemed to hear the echo of her ow wild prayer, "Stiare nie my child'" Still she watched on. Eustace never stirred, and the slutded light made the pale face and sunken eyes look yet more weird. I he calm, sweet Madonna seemed almost to bend a pitying look from the wall, and the rounded outline of the veiled Psyche and her bov lover glistened in the shadow. How unchanged these dumb things, yet how different the aching living hearts! Suddenly the sufferer stirred, and the mother would have called forthedocior, who was waiting outside; but with all his failing strength he clutched convul sively her hand. "Mother!" She bent over him. 'I am sorry forgive! Our Father " Aud trying to grasp the long unsaid prayer, the sin-stained soul jiussed from earth. The heart-broken mother made no nioan, but fell upon her knees anil bur led her face in the pillows. She knew how her wild and selfish prayer for her child had been answered. Too late had come the awakening her child had lived to be a murderer, and she could only hope now that jerchauce out of the in finite mercy of the Savior, his dying ef fort to pray his childhood's prayer was a token of forgiveness. Sad, sad, is too often the reality, but too true is the awakening. Main Itrwr Strt. Bears are getting so unomf rtaly numerous around Moosehead Itkeasto al-ii-iii ovoii !lii old Indians and other settlers by their frequent boldness and . . . n.1 . .1 : -I . surprising cunning, ine oiner upnt, members of the family of George C. Luce, living alxmt two miles northwest from the head of the lake and near the west branch of the Penobscot River, lir John Abbo. who had heard an unusual noise in the pantry, and coming down stairs they saw by a r..ri.f cioi.itxr from fr I .nce's bedroom a large bear helping himself to family provisions. Abbo's gun was standing near the iwntry door and within a foot ,.t ! lioar w-iiich unconcernedly watch- V 'l nil. s.a, . ed the approach of Abbo, while he tested the various articles wiuim reacu. i.; s (Toiiio- on while Mr. and Mrs. Luce slept, oblivious to the intrusion, within a lew ieei oi uie scene, au r.. .n., omixxvlHl iii reaching his Clin when the liear retreated through the oantry window, wnicu ue nau mimsucu on getting into the house. Mitchell Francis, an Indian sleeping in an adjoin luul via ami ispiI bv the breaking glass, and he, together with Abbo. drove . . - . . o.. ,? ..T.ii.t lint, inirv Uie oear into mo wow, " -,.r.i,iA ti shoot with any certainty on account of the darkness. Finding him self cornered, Jiruin maae a pnme aim j. l..Alr flir.oorh the TVRT Of tlie Weill COlUl'ieiciJ u..... slied which was strongly boanled, aud escaied rnto tne aarKiiew. " hour, however, Abbo found the brute in the pantry again, as did Luce, inis time AUtx) wein io urc rotreat. and without stopping to raise the window took ami. fired and tne Dear ten, u"B " " ....... li.- -t.wi. it,-iiAit lmtd he had made UOl IllldliJ .-t-.. a destierate fight in the door yard. His weurut was oeiwecu - i --, huVlay night, just .after the Brattle liorotigh fishei-meu i ad come off the lake, .ry.. . - : . .li.viniraniil a I WAT 111 Mitchell xrancis ui.n.".i - --- jiuciicii x , . t , wnere the sop,i: Threeshotskil.e.1 !. ...;.ii:i vor ftK) and his head and'paws were The follow uigua j ""Ji x , ..i.. u-hn was unarmed. A one or me Ku.uo, - - bear broke into one of the storehouses on the Penobscot me oiuei uiSu. 1 off hams, fish and. quantity ff other articles. Mnoay - ;; Vutrs were Drougui mi '"uw., bears re u , are C Ple.u7m tne iegFou, but the law very l;uy: the hunting of ana me uir tv. thenu .i r rtiuwn Victoria, all . th7an be"'liaiioral estate are; wS stripes of black on the arm as SnUig for John Brown. Cor. Tliere is much natural beauty in vorea. tne beauty nf iiuuint iO. r...-, and irairie, of profuse vegetation, and plentiful rivers and cataracts. And the people are not indifferent to. these beau ties; iney are a "seeing" race, and prouu (among themselves) of their ma imeanu mountain views. The country u. h i uie, uui me cnmate lias great ex tremes of heat aud cold. The Indian story or "the tiger that owns mv vil lage" would be thoroughly appreciated in Corea, where a very large and fierce siiecies of that terrible animal ntmimils and the idea of it iervades all works of art. To Japanese children. Chosen is know n as " the land of the tiger." Ieo- paras, bears and wolves are also very numerous, the wild deer and the wild hog abound, monkeys are fouud in the southern provinces, and alligators ant salamanders in the rivers. The jieople are large eaters, especially of meat small oxen in great numlers supply uiem in tne south, and dogs are eaten commonly. Tea and rice are rare lux uries, and fish is chiefly devoured raw. Altogether, the "diet" chapter is an 1 1 ... uiiconuoiiaoie one. Mieen. are im ported from China for sacrificial pnr- lioses oniy, ana goats are rare. The poorer classes are meagrely fed; they live like the Japanese, on millet ami beans. All classes use tobacco very much. e may take it that the man ners and customs w hich Mr. Grillis de scribes as existing now are just the same as they have been for ages; do mestic slavery in its mildest form, for instance, the position of women, the Internal principles on which trades and industries are conducted, and the curi ous ceremonies of marriage, burial and mourning. Women are not so ill off in Corea as m many other less secluded heathen countries. They have no rights, and are disjiosed of like the other animals; but they are not ill-treated by their owners, and though their iH-rsonal in- signiticance actually extends to their having no names, they receive titles of honor in public, their apartments are secure from intrusion, they cannot le punished for any crime, the males of the family being responsible for them, and they are free (and safe) to go about at all hours. Widows of position are not supiosed to uiarry again, and are ex- jiected to mourn all their lives, but a man whose wile uies wears half mourn ing for a very short time. Ii is a breach ot good manners to be vehemently sorry lor one's wite, ana the sex that makes every law finds that one easy to keep. AOorean king is a rather absurd ier- sonage; nobody must touch him unbid den, and any one who accidentally does so lias henceforth to wear a red cord round the neck. Metal, also, must never approach the royal jiersoiu The King has despotic iower, but it is tem pered by many kindly customs; he hears the complaints of his subjects, and is in constant communication with the popu lace, by means of commissioners. 1 he royal outings are tremendous affairs, with caparisoneu horses, dragon nags. and the sacred fan aud umbrella. The uobles are a bad and cruel class, accord' mg to all accounts of them; tfie officials aud magistrates are "literary." Liter ature has from time immemorial been held in houor in Corea, from whence the Japanese adopted printing 111 the twelfth century, when a work of the Budhist canon was printed from wooden blocks. "A Corean book is known which dates authentically from the leriod l."17-1324, over a century before the earliest printed book known in Euroie." The Coreans are Budhists, but Shamanism has never lost its hold tiiKin them, and the old gods are rever enced still, just as the old myths remain in niiKleru Greece, liie air is not empty for a Coreau, and every month has its three unlucky davs, the 5th, the loth aud the 2th. The worship of ancestors and the Chinese system of ethics, or Confucianism, are their rul ing principles, and the fulfilment of the parental and filial relations in an ad mirable manner is the distinguishing virtue of the hermit race. Kamenuineiia' mr-llMk. The Sandwich Island chiefs used to wear on ceremonious occasions cloaks made of feathers. Each feather was fastened separately into a loop of fine string, so that the inside of the cloak resembled a closely woven net. So smH)thly were the feathers laid on the surface that the cloak apieared as a ieh. clossy fabric. Miss Cumiimigs, in her recent work of the kingdom of Hawaii, entitled "The r ire r ountam " gives the following description of the feather cloak of the great Kamehameha, which is still worn as a coronation rol: "One very rare and precious feather was n served by the hunters for the king, who alone had the privilege of wearing a ctoak of these glossy, golden treasures. , The bird which yields tins priceless treasure is (K, or royal bird, a sjiecies of hoiieysucker, jieculiar to certain mountainous districtsof these isles, it is of a clossy black, and its tiny golden feathers are underneath the w ing, one on either side. "The birds are now very rare, though the method of gathering the annual harvest does not involve their destruc tion. It was the great xameuamena 1. who first thouzht of saving their lives, and ordered the bird-catchers to set the birds free when they had plucked the two coveted feathers. "The feathers are only an inch long, sharD-nointed and very delicate. Five sell for a dollar and a half. Kameha- nipha's war cloak is said to represent all the feathers collected by eight or ten successive chiefs. "One of these feathered cloaks liau descended to the kite king. It was a square of six feet; aud when the well beloved died in his prime, and lay iu state at the Iolani palace, he was laid on this priceless cloth of goia. "At the bidding oi nis iamer, n was wrapped round him as a kingly shroud. 'He is the last of our race,' said the weeping chief; 'it is his.' So the cloak, which, according to Hawaiian estimate, was valued at fUX),0U0, was buried with hiin who alone was entitled to wear it." Dew Inluil. Tonirairo. an active volcano iu the centre of the Xorth island, was in vio lent eruption on the aoth oi Apru, not euualed for thirteen years past. The volcano could be seen from Napier, on the east coast. The promoters of the company for the export of frozen meat and dairy produce from Auckland to London, and elsewhere, are losing no time and are making necessary prelim inary arrangements. Faahlun for the Suit. In no department of dress has fash ion come forth with such assurances as in the make-upof costumes for summer pastimes, and articularly in this "loudness"' of iiress observable in fancy bathing suits. There is really a saucy look about this sort of toilet, and tliere are sober thinking people who think that the wearers of fancy lathing suits trangress the bounds of propriety. But w ho can have the heart to frown upon all this artistic taste so bewitch- mgly expressed? Not the lovers of true art. Xo doubt the wearers of these artistic suits take refuge behind the French proverb, chacun a son gout, and boldly declare that Miss Flora McFlimsey, and Powers's "Greek Slave," resemble each other in having' nothing to wear. What can be more appropriate than scant apparel and ease of limlis when people are playing the juirts of mermaids and mermen? How ever, in spite of all dismraifinir re marks, fancy bathing suits will cer tainly be the rule rather than the exception this summer. Among the leading styles in tlrs new direction may be mentioned a French bathing dress recently imitorted for a wealthy Washington lad who will rusticate at Newport durinir July. The jacket is made of Jersey webbing. it is tmie pink, with an embroidered edge of myrtle leaves. This garment extends well over the luiis, and al though having the apiearauce of fitting closely, it is really so elastic thai ample freedom is permitted the body. The trousem are niade of the .same material but are if a pale blue hue. These are very short, coming to the top of the knees, whence falls a lace r utile, pro ducing a pretty effect. Long silk hose of a creamy white hue are worn over tine cotton ones and fastened very iinniy to the lining of the trousers. me shoes are white canvas "alters. laced with pale blue silk cord; the head is adorned w ith a silk turban, lightly put together and lined with oiled silk. ihis costume is very showy and vet it is not at all hl. The bathing blanket accompanying the suit is made of Turk ish, toweling of a pale tan hue nchlv embroidered. This is thrown over the shoulders of the bather, while she runs the gauntlet of curious eyes between the beach and the bathing house. Alia! for the beauties with defects of figure. Such are obliged to abandon the idea of wearing a Jersey bathing uasque, out iney uu not nave to con tent themselves with the roomy house. fashion comes forward and conceals physical imperfections in the most un proved manner, l hanks is due to the t rench for the cleverly contrived mode. called "the padded but I' ing suit." Of course there is not a lady in the world who could iiossibiy have the courage to say that she bathed in a padded suit. At all events there is a srood sale for the stuffed bathing costumes, anil the lookers oil are no wiser for this little deception. lasUion is as artistic here as though there was no padding. The trousers are of serge, some bright hue. usuidly scarlet, meeting at the knees, nesu coioreu line worstea hose or heavy silk ones, with embroidered clocks. Everything is charmingly proiwrtioned and so securely held in place that the suit may well be called "Perfection." the basque padding is equally well done. Ihe material is tine nuns' veil ing of any mode and hue. This style of bathing outfit is necessarily made to order, and is therefore, somewhat ex pensive a mere truie to the moneyed beauties who desire to look tiieir best wfiile enjoying a frolic in the whirl and tumble of the dashing breakers. A remarkably pretty bathing suit introduced by the English has the jacket close fitting, with pointed front and postillion back; the fabric is fine ladies' cloth of some .dark color and em broidered in light shades; the sleeves come to the elbows, where falls a rullle of lace; long cotton gloves protect the arms and a portion of the hands; the drawers are cut wide and are gathered in a band where they are buttoned just below the knee; the hose are of fine scarlet yarn, and the .white canvas slipiiers are strapiied over the instep. ihe most striking feature in this de sign is the low-cut neck, which is pret tily tilled iu with oil silk, finely pleated into a double tucker, the edge bound with narrow blue or scarlet braid. Freedom of anus and legs are abso lutely necessary to make graceful strokes m the water, aud hence it is impossible for good swimmers to wear corsets or any very tight-fitting garment while enjoying a frolic with old Neptune; and yet a handsome dress for an expert sw immer has a very snug appearance, and this is effected by the use of ex ceediiigly elastic materials, the best of which is silk webbing or knitted cloth, which gives easy to the motion of the limbs. Jraucv bathing costumes often pro duce a charmingly picturesque array of colors. Satin, silk, and wool, and all silk materials are manufactured new so as to w ithstand to a great ex tent dampness and even the "wringing wet." As fashion favors artistic touches of finery in the make-up of suits for wear among the breakers, bathing will be fashionable this sum mer. A I'reluntone Cemetery. Two miles from Maudan, on the bluffs near the junction of the Hart and Missouri rivers, is an old cemetery fully one htindrea acres in extent, filled with bones of a giant race. This ast city of the dead lies just east of the Fort-Lincoln road. The ground has the appearance of having been filled with trenches piled full of dead bodies, both man and beast, and covered with several feet of earth. In many places mounds from 8 to 10 feet high, and some of them 100 feet or more ia length, have been thrown-up aud are filled with bones, broken pottery, vases of various bright-colored flint, and agates. The pottery is of a dark material, beauti fully-decorated, delicate in huish, and as light as wood, showing the work of a people skillt d in the arts aud possessed of a high state of civilization. This has evidently been a grand battle-field, where thousands of men aud horses have fallen. Nothing like a systematic or intelligent exploration has- been made, as only little holes two or three feet in depth have been dug in some of the mounds, but many parts of the ana tomy of man and beast, and beautiful specimens of broken pottery and other curiosities, have been found in these feeble efforts at excavation. Five miles above Mandan, on the opposite side of the Missouri, is another vast cemetery, as yet unexplored. AVe asked an aged Indian what his people knew of these ancient graveyards. He ans weied: "Me know nothing about them. They were here before the red man," Historical. One Instance of promiscuous slaush ter is remarkable for the high esteem to which it sometimes raised its chief erpetrator. In the famous war te- tween the citizens of Ghent and the Earl of Flanders there was no worse episode than when the Lord of d'An gliien took the town of Grammont by storm one fine Sunday in June, and showed no mercy to man, woman or ennu. lumbers of old iieople am: women were burned in their beds, and the town, being set on fire in more than two hundred places, was reduced to ashes, even the churches included "Fair son," the Earl of Flanders said greeting nis returning relative, "you are a valiant warrior, and, if it pleases Uvxt, will be a gallant one; you have made a handsome beginning." History cannot but rejoice that the young duke's first feat of arms was also his last, and that, not many days after ward, he lost his life in a skirmish. Of course all persons found "w itlmi a town taken by assault were by the rule of war liable to I killed. Only by a timely surrender could the besieged cherish any hope for their lives or fort unes; and even the offer of a surrender might be refused, and an unconditional submission be insisted on instead. There is no darker blot on the charac ter of Edward HI. than the savage disposition he showed when, with re spect to the brave defenders of L'alais, he was only restrained from exercising his strict war right of putting them to death by the representations made to him of the danger he might incur of a sanguinary retaliation in the future. There was in general a strong feeling against making ladies prisoners of war; nor could the French ever forgive the English for allowing the soldiers of the Black Prince to take prisoner the Duchess of Bourliou, mother of the king, and to obtain a ransom for her release. To the French apjiears to have been due whatever advance was made iu the more humane treatment of pris oners. The Spaniards and Germans were wont to fasten tl.eir prisoners with iron chains; but of the French, Froissart says: "They neither imprison their captors nor put fetters on them. as the Germans do, in order to obtain a better ransom. The Germans are without pity or honor, and ought never to receive anv quarter. The French, entertained all their prisoners well and ransomed them courteously, without being too hard ou them." In this spirit Bert run J du Guesclm let his English prisoners go at large on their parole for their ransom, a generosity toward their foes which the English on no occasion knew how to requite. Froissart gives one very striking illus tration of the greater barbarity of the Spaniards towaids their prisoners, which should not be forgotten in en deavoring to form a general estimate of the character of the military type of life in the palmiest days of chivalry. ira war between Castile and Portugal, whenever the barbarous Castiliins took any prisoners, they tore out their eyes, tore of then- arms aud legs, aud in such a plight sent them back to Lisbon, It speaks highly for the conduct of the Lislxmers that they did not retaliate such treatment, but allowed their pris oners every comfort they could expect in their circumstances. Life of the Tender Cailet. "Through political influence I ol- tained an apiMtiutment to a West Point cadetship, and after I received the ne cessary papers from Washington I packed my little gripsack and started for the Academy. I got thereat aliotit dark and reiwrted to the Commandant. He told me to report again in the morn ing. At daybreak X arose and went to the office. The Commandant gave me a letter to the Board of Surgeons, who were to examine me as to my physical paraphernalia. " 'Take off your clothes: commanded a man full of brass from his boots to his bangs. "Allot themr I asked, shaking with fear, until I felt like a bag of mar bles. 4 'Yes, and be quick altout it.' 'I disrobed, and was then ushered into a room where sat the three men in uniform, and looking as stern as the rudder of a canal-boat. "They made me hop around the room on one foot, then ou the other; then they otiened my mouth aud looked all around it as if they were hunting for something that I had stolen. Then they held up pieces of glass and asked me conundrums about the colors, and then they made me read hue and large type at different distances. Finally one got in front of me and pounded on my chest while the ether fistened at my back to hear if there were any stolen goods inside, 1 suppose. " 'Am X all right t 1 1 askeiu x hoieu and prayed that I wasnt. 1 would have given $10 if I had "been found guilty of the mumps, measles, whooping-cough and all the other diseases in the dictionary. " 'les,' answered the chief examiner; 'put on your clothes.' "X put my clothes on. and then was given in charge of a regular, who led me across the yard to the cadets' quar ters. "I was dressed to kill, and had on a light overcoat and a plug hat. That hat proved my ruin. Heads were poked out of every wiudow and I was greeted with such comforting yelLs as Shoot it I' 'Come from under that Hat and look at itl' etc., etc. I was per spiring so that I left a trad behind uie. "I w as led to the second floor ot the main building and the regular knocked at the door. It was opened and the regular left me there all alone and se ceded. I was grabbed by one of the six cadets in the room, my hat was knocked off, my hands were pressed to my sides and X was tola to place my nose against a tack driven in the wall. Then 1 was plied with such questions as these: " 'Where is your trunk?' " 'At home. " 'What's m it?' " 'I d-don't know.' " 'Is there a regiment of artillery in iff' '-I laughed, "Fatal laugh! In doing it I took my hands from my sides and forgot all about the tack in the wall. I was grabbed, placed in position and told Uiat n x aarea to move even an eyeiasn again I would be locked up for the rest of the term and be fed on bread, or bread and w ater, minus the bread. "Then I was plied with all sorts of ludicrous questions very laughable, but I didn't dare to even shudder. I was instructed as to my duties, was told that my hands must always appear in nnhlij ciMupkmI tsh thA Spoilt of HIV Dants: that my chin must always be nailed to my chest; that my head must always be erect, with eyes straight to tne iront, ana that 1 must always sa lute my superiors, lhen 1 w as sent upstairs to my quarters. "There were nine other Plebs in the room with me, and the daily routine was about as follows: "At 0 o'clock we were coiirpelled to ue up ana uressea ; roll-call at 6::J0; then back to the quarters, where our bed had to be arranged against the walls, if the edges of the mattresses. pillows, sheets and quilts varied a hair's- iireadth from the pertendicular they were kicked down by the officer of the day aud had to be rebuilt. Breakfast at the mess-hall at 8 o'clock; study mi ni noon; uinner; more study;supperat 0; more study until 9 o'clock, when the gun was tired, lhen all lights had to be extinguislied and all hands in bed "Cadets bent on hazing would bring us up "all standing' a hundred times a day, and then would stand in groups aud laugh at us. Then they would make us 'op around the room, and we had one fellow who was always coin iielled to hop from the chair to the mantelpiece and then to the trunk. Once in a while they were extra fuuuv, aud then we were compelled to person ate animals. One would be a monkey. another an alligator, another an eagle, another a canary, and so on ; and then we were compelled to chatter, grunt, bellow, squawk and smg. while the cadets made remarks about us and ioked tobacco or erackers through the imaginary bars of our alleged cages." now did you come to leave.-"' "1 stood it as long as I could, and then when the examination took place was so sick of est 1'ouit that I made up my mind to be found.' I purposely tripped up on geography, ar-d that night when they came into my room and be au to haze me 1 smacked one of them iu the nose. Then 1 accepted an invi tation to go to 'Fort Put' in the morn ing. I had the nightmare that night. aud when I awoke I ascertained that I had crossed the river to Garrison's and was on my v:?.y to New York." tjlovert, eck wear and HtMitry. Abroad the inousquetalre gloves are not worn, ladies having tired of them. and preferring the buttoned wrist -i, or the jersev webbing wrists. Oil this side, however, there is a great demand for the loose wrinkled glove, and they sell at so low a price (as everything does w hen on the wane m rashloiidom, that every iMxiy can wear thein. Great latitude is shown in the matter of gloves, however, for the demand is equally great for three and ten buttons, the seven and twelve button lengths in mousquetaire. Among the novelties are long taffeta gloves with jersey wrists, some being of the double spun silk, others single, some long enough to reach the elbows. others nearly to the shoulders; these gloves are also found in niousqiictaire. Oudresseii kias will be worn more this summer than List, aud come in all popular lengths and colors. A novelty for hot days aud pretty hands is the undressed kid mitt with a thumb but no fingers. Lisle-thread gloves, so cool and pleasant to the hand, but which wear so poorly, are said to be of more lasting quality this season. These have the jersey wrists also in lace or plain tops. Colors in gloves are electric Id ue, black, all of the' shades of brown ami gray, buff, strawberry, shrimp-pink and green. In wraps the variety is as great as in bonnets. Tiny capes just outlining the waist, cut away to show the trimmed waist, are worn en suite, and side by side with dolmans that are short in the back but with long tab fronts, these made of broche velvet or velvet bio- caded grenadine, or Ottoman silk; lace, satin, jet passementerie ana velvet rib bon, all employed in trimming these magnificent wraps. Everything for the neck is beautiful, whether it be the tine linen collar with its bent Hilnts simply hemstitched, or with a tine vine of embroidery, and the corners tilled iu, or the collar of same sluqie with a needlework edge and cor ners, made on a habit, aud cuffs to match, or the collarette of lace, either in pointed berthe shape or military style with straight band over the coi Lir of dress, and a flat lace slightly fulled for the curve of the shoulder. Kerchiefs come in every color, the ficelle gray being very iopul.ir ; some wrought iu silk spots, the most exten sive by hand, and finished with a two inch hem, aud lace the same color. These kerchiefs are admirable in warm days in place of a collar, worn close around the neck, caught with the lace bar. Kuching is again worn inside the neck-band of dress, and are now edged with the finest of lace, either flat Va lenciennes, Oriental or Pomp:idour. The ruche often trims the edge of frout of waist a finger's length. The full PomiKidour ruches are worn by very slender ladies with lou UA-ks quite as much as in winter. Tlie yorthero Bwnodai-y. The whole of this - boundary, from Michigan to Alaska, has been distinctly marked by the British aud American Commissioners; aud some interesting details have been published of the way in which this difficult task was accom plished. The boundary is marked by stone cairns, iron pillars, wood pillars earth mounds and timber posts. These structures vary from five feet in height to fifteen feet, and there are 385 of them between the Lake of the Moods and the base of tlie Kocky Mountains. That portion of the boundary which lies east and west of the itea itiver alley is marked by cast-iron pillars at even mile intervals. The British place one every two. miles, and the United States one between each British post. The pillars are hollow iron castings, and ujxm the opposite faces are cast, in letters two inches high, the inscription, "conven tion of London," and "October 20, ISIS." The average weight of each pillar when completed is eighty-five pounds. With regard to the wooden joists, the Indians frequently cut them down for fuel, and nothing but iron will last very long. Where the line crosses lakes, niiitains of stone have been mint, tue bases being in some places eighteen feet under water, and the tops projecting some eight feet above the surface of the lake at high-water mark. In forests, the line is marked by felling the timber a rod wide and clearing away the un derbrush. As might well be imagined, the work of cutting through the tim bered swamps was very great, but it has all leen carefully and thoroughly done. The piilars are all set four feet in the ground in the ordinary cases, with their inscfiption faces to the north and south, and the earth is well settled and stamped about them. The iron posts afford little temptation for djslodgment and conveying away by tne xnoiyns. The Plateaa Province. Hirectly west of the Rix ky Moun tains lies a tract of more than P)0,000 square miles, named by Major Powell the "X'lateau Province," which resem bles no other spot on the glolie. It oc cupies Southern Wyoming, Eastern and noutueru Ltah, Northern and Eastern Arizona, and a narrow strip of West ern Colorado and New Mexico: but it is with the southern section bounded on the north by the Uinta Mountains (east of Great Salt Lake), and ending in central Arizona that we .have here to do. On the east is a country of gi gantic mountain ranges, with fertile valleys, and perennial st reams drainiwr eventually into the Gulf of Mexico; on tne west is the Great liasin, a low-, bar ren desert broken by short and ragged ranges, and without any drainage at all a district of salt lakes and brackish streams sinking in the sand. Tue pla teau district is a lofty table-land, mostly from one to two miles above the sea: the barrenest of desert, at levels under ,000 feet intensely hot and dry. but cool, moist, iorest-clad, aud grassy on tne higher planes. XJut ltscharacteris- tic features are the Titanic architect ural forms into which the elements have chiseled the face of the land, and the clearness with which it tells the story of its own growth and disintegration. i roin whatever direction approached the M-ene is one of startling novelty, Instead of the gently sloping valleys, or the mountain ridges and conical tieaks. with which all are familiar, the eye be holds a succession of horizontal terraces and platforms, each ending abruptly in inaccessible chits and droppuig sheer upon other plattorms "many hundreds or e veu t wo thousand feet below. " The walls of these cliffs are uot chaotic iu sluqie and neutral in color, as commonly with us, but svunuetrlcally carved ami sculptured, and gorgeous with the rich est hues of stone aud earth. Nor do they present unbroken fronts like the mountain fortresses we know: the infi nite rills of rain or melting snow and the sand and gravel they bear along have channeled them into deep pro montories, aud interlacing, have cut off grand "buttes" or hillocks of stone. sometimes a mile or more from the main body of the cliffs. Immense as are some of these buttes, they sink into insignificance w hen viewed from a dist ance, aud seein but moldings or tiuials ou the colossal mass behind. 1 he ge neral appearance of the country is thus described by Capt. Dutton: "They stretch their tortuous courses across the laud in all directions, yet not with out system. Jiach chit marks the boundary of a geographical terrace, and marks aLso the termination of some geo logical series of strata, the edgi-s of w hich are exposed like courses o( iui- soury in the scarpwalls of the palisades. in the distance may be seen the spec tacle ot" clitf rising above and beyond cliff, like a colo.-vs.il stairway leading from the torrid plains below to the do main of tlie clouds above. V cry won dei t'ul at times is the sculpture of these majestic walls. Tue resemblances to architecture are not fanciful or meta phorical, but are real aud vivid; sj much so that even the experienced ex plorer is sometimes brought toa sudden halt and tilled with amazement by tlie apparition of forms its definite and elo quent as those of art. Each geological toruialiou exhibits in its clills a dis tinct style of architecture which is not reproduced among the cliffs of other tor mat ions, aud these several styles differ as much as those which are culti vated by different races of men. Tue character which appeals niiwt strongly to the eye is the coloring. Subdu d colors ans wuolly wanting here, and in their place we Peloid brilliant belts, which are inteusiUed rather than alle viated by alternating lielts of gray. Like the architecture, the colors are characteristic of the geological forma tions. Iney culminate m intensity in the Permian aud Lower Truis, wnere dark, brownish reds alterate with bauds of chocolate, purple, and lavender, so deep, rich, and resplendent that a pain ter would need to be a bold man to venture to portray them as they are." It is not, however, the sculpture or the coloring of these mighty ledges that are most valuable to us: we can see graud works of nature otherwhere, and uues as brilliant as these. Xt is because her work here is so rigidly and even monotonously rtyul'tr, uot because it is bizarre, tual we prize it. Look at those horizontal bands that stretch across the buttes in tlie cut. i-very one of these is a stratum which origi nally lay unbroken over a vast expanse: the same strata can be traced for hun dreds of miles, from the rows of buttes to the masses from which they were separated, and from terrace to terrace. here a platform a thousand feet above another breaks thecontuiuity, the strata are found in the same order at a pro- liortionaie height above: showing in fallibly, by tueir sharp demarcation from the strata above and below, that they have been broken in two by a slow upheaval of tlie surface since they were deposited, and that there has been no sudden cataclysm, n grand convulsion of nature to hasten the slow action of elemental forces. They are never mixed chaotically with other strata, never shot in veins through them, as though a tierce volcanic upthrow had condensed the work of countless cen turies into a day or an hour. Nor is this all ; the records of organic life which they hold iinliedded tell the same story. 'Xue fossils found in any given band in one extremity of this district are found in the same proportions in like bands at the other extremity, hundreds of miles away, never mixed with Uie organic remains belonging to other strata, never! ailing to preseul themselves in company with then-characteristic rocks. la love. Some curious customs are connected w ith gloves. For instance, the ceremony or removing them when entering the stable of a prince or a great man, or else forfeiting them or their value to tne ser vant in cliarze. X his is an odd surviv ai of vassalage, for the removal of the glove was anciently a mark ot submission. When lands or titles were Iwstowed, gloves were given at the same time; and, when for any reason tne lanus were ior feited, the offender was deprived of the right to wear gloves. The same idea was prevalent in the bestowal of a lady's glove, to be worn in the helmet of her knight, and forfeitea Dy mm u ner iavor ceased. In hunting the gloves are sup posed to lie removed to-day at the death of a stag. It was a very ancient torm of acknowledgement to present a pair of gloves to a benefactor; and white gloves are still presented to the judges at mai den assizes. SEWS IS BRIEF Tliere are 1,001,110 foreigners iu France. North Carolina has 2,040 miles of railroad. Montgomery Blair has a spinal af fection. Nillson will sail for America on the 13th of August. The number of destitutechildren in Chicago is lO.OoO. Connecticut was the first State in tho Union to coin money. From January 1 to Mav 31. 173.1:27 immigrants lauded in New York. The total catch of Connecticut river shad last year numbered 272,ttO.'t. The value of the taxable railroad proierty of Iowa is $$,3:14,7:50.70. A Mexican woman 111 vears of aire died a few days ago at New Iredo. Over iVOOautO of haddocks are annually "cured" for sale in England. Mrs. Frances Willard, the temper ance advocate, has gone to the Sandwich lands. British capital to the extent of thirty millions went into Wyoming and Texas last year. The City Council of Toronto. Can ada, has appropriated c-o,0t0 towards a public library. Tlie late Sir George Jessel's will lisposes of personal proierty worth more than $l,l-.-,0Oi. Cadet Whitaker's father has just died, leaving .!,000 and a tine farm. He was once a slave. Dukes, tne murderer, left property alued at from $s,unti to SliuOo, a great deal of it in western lands. Captain John Ericcson, .still hale and hearty, is now eighty, looks about seventy and works like sixty. The Summer business of New Hampshire is estimated at from five to eight millions of dollars annually. More than 51.120,000 has been sent to the German flood sufferers through a single house iu New York City. Preliminary steps have been taken or the erection of a bronze statue of Martin Luther at Washington, 1. C. L. A. Senecal of Montreal has sriven $."0,000 to provide a permanent exhibi- iou in Paris of Canadian productions. In lSt!7 the cost to Boston of each mpil in public schools was S20.SS; iu the past year the cost for each wis 2'J. Silk culture is attractimr consider able attention in Kansiis, where the worms feed greedily on Osage oranze leaves. Vermont was at first called New Connecticut, ard took its present name in l.'.H, when it was admitted into the t nion. A bill has passed the Illinois Legis lature which comiiels the erection of air and escape shafts in the coal miues of the State. It takes S'i,000,000 to pay the sala ries of ministers in the United States,and '.tOOOAWO to pay the government tax ou digs. Mr. Matthew Arnold now expects to visit America this autumn on a lec- t uring tour of four months, beginning in October. The New York patier? say that the new drink is called a dude cocktail, aud made out ot musli, gruel, and chopped ice and fresh milk. Judging from receipts at Key West ius far, over .10,000 dozen pineapples ill be shipiied North from the port of Key West this year. Of the 20, M,000 acres of land in Ireland only 3,000,0i0 are under culti- ution, and even then she exports food to all quarters of the globe. The widoir of Senator Henry S. Lane of Indiana has erected an obelisk of Aberdeen granite over her husband's remains at Crawfordsville. One year ago there were not over 200 people in Hickey county, Dakota. ow the population is from 4,0U0 to o,- 000 and rapidly increasing. The $:!00,000 appropriated by Con- irress for lands ceded to the United States by the Cherokee Indian-! has been paid to Chief Bushyhead. Vanderbilt drove Maud S. and Al- dine one day last week to a heavy road agon a mile in 2.1-i, eclipsing all pre- ious double-team records. North Carolina has four graduates at West Point this year, greater than that of any other southern state. One of these stands fifth in a class of fifty- wo. Out of 1,343 nieinler3 of the Massa chusetts Medical Society, 700 reply yes," 400 say "no," aud 23 are indif ferent to the question: "Do you favor the admission of women to the society on the same terms with men?" Some idea of the extent of sjiecula- tion in New York may be gained from le statement that from January 1 to May 17 of the present year the sales of heat at the froduce Exchange in that ty amounted to ."27,'J07,"'Wbu.sheLs,or considerably more than the entire crop of 12. The United States Fish Commission has this year distributed throughout ery State and Territory in the t mon 80,000,000 white fish, 3u,000,000 shad, and 10,000,000 of the salmonidai species. The commission has also distributed 12, IHJO German carp. There was a cash balance in the ew Hamtishire treasury of $204,022.40 on May 31st, against $'!, 233.4.S at the same time last year. This favorable showing is largely due to the adoption of biennial sessions of the Legislature. The State debt amounts to $3,3S3,000.- 94. During the last seven years Brahms , Joachim, Gohischmidt, Spitta, Wullner, Nottlebohm aua other prominent; mer man musicians Lave been engaged in editing Breitkopf and Hartel's complete edition of the works of Mozart. The task is now completed and comprises ..-2S genuine works of Mozart, to which will I added a suppienieniconuuning woiks not completed by Mozart About one- third of these wotks hail never before been in print. A curious deity has been worshiped for years iast by pious Hindoos in the Temple of Bharata, in the Fyzabad dis trict, Bengal a brass casting of the ai m of the o'd East India Company. Tue Drass used to be bathed and annotat ed with sandal-wood oil eve.7 day, in company with the rest of the idols, with all the customary formula of the daily Hindoo ritual. The priest in charge was ery difficult to coavincewf bis mis take, and greatly objected to give upth brass. etS ;';i.
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