- -i- B. F. SOHWEIER, THE OONSTITDTION-THE UNION-AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS. MIFFLINTOWN.UNIATA COUNTYPENNA.. WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 20, 18S9. NO. 4S. m i . mum m. W LJ4 13 1 lla. AU11. -v "V V w avorilLR blot against tb ri... Beta dscovertd by the Russian poller. Xtli trachea us, among other things, it better to be good, and thus court a ' long and happy career, than to be a I Cr and walk la path sprinkled with discontent and dynamite. Qviex Victokia with that gener osity that characterizes her, gave Pilu r4s Siphia aa India shawl and ber Uesatng, aud not much mora. The s lawla the (jiwn gets for nothing. he l-i frugal, but then it must be re-ni-uibered that ahe haa a large family to support. I It is probable that a monument wi'.l soon be erected to the memory of Gen eral Hartranft. General Hasting haa produced a plan by which a suitable monument may le easily paid for by the National Guard of the State, each man to he invited to giva oue dollar. General Hartranf t'a services were of such a character aa to luake the raiaing of a popular fund for the purpobe named an easy matter. M it. Eoisox, who probably knows aa mui'lt alout that mysterious force, electricity, aa any other man, positively !I Jn'Urn that there ia no such thing aa a iitotly safe insulation for high ten .ou when, and there sectus to be rea son In hia statement th;it the only aure f safeguard ia to regulate the strength aim character of currents over the 1 htilitiug wires. We really kuow very ; little about electricity, but we are j learning by experience every day, and . one thing that U not very well under- stood la that death lucks In high teU BJ.llI wirM i nrl l.ifr vKn im -t .1 , may be very dangerous to-morrow owing to the breaking or wearing away of the Insulating coating. Mr. Ediaou thinks that electric currents should te legulated as lioilers are now regulated by law, and that the tension should Le forced down below the danger line. t I s- a discussion on the adulteratel i milk quest iou in Council, the remark was made that the ent re trouble arose i from the fact the act of Assembly pro- Mbiting such adulteration which refers i only to cities of the first class, leaving ' the suburban and country dairymen beyond the reach of the law. To this i the Dairyman's Co-owrative Asso ciation reply that if the law be unjust to the denlers they have themselves to Manic. The Dairy man's Co-operative A-ociatiou, it appears from the state ment of one of its committees, has. luring the iast two sessions of the Leg ialat urea, endeavored to have a law Vjpassed fur the whole State which would l.'uake both producer and dealer reapoo Mhlefortbe adulteration ot the milk und liable to punishiueut therefor. The uairyuieu ueiteveu u wouii ue to tueir advantage to excluile all adulterated milk from the market, aa a similar law to that proposed worked well in Sew Jersey. They suy, however, that the'r plans were frustrated by the dealers w ho are bow com plain lug of a law wb Ich i Ue dairymen think la just and should be enforced. Ir New York faila to secure the World's Fair she can blame It solely upuu her own people. No other city In the country can present so many or such strong reasons aa New York ia able to present, and a popular Vote would undoubtedly give that city a great majority. Strong claims, if not hacked by a great guarantee fund, will not cuuut for much wheu Congress takes the matter up for consideration, however, and we are beginning to fear will not be on hand in time. It looks as though mary of the New York mll ,t liouaires'are not anxious to have the nig l air ueia in mat city, r ew 01 thein are coming forward with sub scriptions of the size expected, and if a guarantee fund la to be raised the money must come from the wealthy men. There seems to be little or no enthusiasm iu the movement, and without a great deal of enthusiasm at tiie start it cannot be carried through to a successful termination. Unless the money la subscribed within a week or two New York will be out of the race and will be compelled to abandon the contest. Mr. Vox dfk Auk, the St. Louis baseball monarch, Miys tl.e Association will have to stand by the league in the prob.tl.le tight with the players, and estimate that should the Brotherhood of Hall I'layera really strike the Asso ciation Will help the league magnates tecure good teams and render other valuable assistance. There is no fault to he fouud with such a course; Indeed it Is the only tllng for the Association managers to do, since should the league players win in their fight the Associa tion players would demand the same coiii-essions, but with that recklessness which has frequently chaiacterlzed f. Von der Ahe, he adds: "There are ut n muti In the w hole Brotherhood ' o lia an ounce of business brains. Mr. pal;iug la the ouly instauce In 'he history or the game of a ballplayer developing iu a aucossful manager. How about Mr. Ktacnof Philadelphia? He not ouly succeeded very well as a player aud afterward as a manager, but he has proved himself to be posessd of tfood busiuess brains. Harry Wright as a very g.xnl ballplayer, and lie ia ike wise a successful mauager. There ' iieople who believe that Mr. Anson "uld do very well as a manager, and ,:Vu Mr. Comlakey of Mr. Von der Alios own club is not without a few uunces of business bra! us. Mr. Wil Ihun llarnie of the Baltimore Club has not made an absolute failure of it, and doubtlesa there are others who, bad -key the chance, could do very well, "excepting Mr. Waid of New York, uf whom Mi. Vou der Ahe speaks aa "auy. They Are Quick In Detecting Evl " of Feminine) Frivolity. "ery Tor ward,- was the crt icism aaiil 1 9 have been made by the Queen of England on the occasion of the preaen I allot of one .f our most beaut fu' American girls.. Said a dlstingul hed Et.haj geulleman, a few jeara ago: "Her i'ajeaty seeiua to tend very auict !y to tlw matter in lnd, but there la ot a tr4ck of nuini.er or a detail of dress I tut enca pea ber notice, ilt-r In tuitions f re so keen, aud the value that she sets on modesty Is so great, her in terest in toe young so s: nee re, that ahe has bee n. a famous reader or char acter. The Qu -eu detenu a fl rt. and aiuf i an detect one of lliese hpxiLuens a. moat at a clanca. Neilher velvet nor aim nor ptcioua stones ran cast suffi cient glamor over a tendency of this kind to hide ir from these truly mother ly eyes. It is said that one day when Her Maj esty was pre-ent In her carriage at a military revi. w, the Princess Koyal, then abort fourteen, teemed disponed to be a II tie familar and. possibly, elightly CKiuettisii, in though less, girlis i fash ion wiUi the olli era of the guard. The CJueen triel to catch her daughter's eye, but Uie gay on forma were too attrac tive, and the little 1'iincesa paid no at tention to the a leul endeavors of her mother. At lat. in a spirit of fun, she capped ibe climax of misde meanors by droppin t her handkerchief over the si 'e of the carriage, and the (juecn saw that it was not an acci dent. Immediately two or three gen tlemen sprang from their Imrara to re turn it to her, but the haul of royally waved them off. "Thank you, but it ia not necessary," raid Her Majesty. "Leave it ju t here it lies," and then turning to bet daughter, she said: "Now I must ask jou to get down and pick up your liand kerchi f.- "But, mamma " Thi lit le Princess face was scarlet, ami her l s quivered with shame. "Yes, liumedlate'y," said Hi tjuten. The r-yal footman had opened the !oor and stood waiting by tiie side of the carriage, and the poor morlilled little girl was obliged to s'ep down aud rescue her owu handkerchief. This was hard, but it was Salutary, aud p'O- a' ly U'pped iu the bud the girl's tir-t linpulsH lowa.d cotjuelry. Am ricau x: o tiers would do well to follow so me it rious aud notable an example. Her Majeaty baa spoken very pi in plain and s us ble words to the British nobility in regaid to the education and uianagemei.t of their girla. and on I he subjects of flirtation aud imtuo-.lest dress ng she ia eloquent. "1 lad uo id a your mother oljserved my harm lees coquetry." said a young lady whose mother had been spoken to by the tjueen. "I have no doubt it was harmless, " replied the Princess Alice, who was the embodiment of Kindness and sympathy, and yet who never hesitated to speak ttie truth, "but it was certainly thoughtless and unbecoming. It wouldn't be safe for one of us to be coquettlslu" sue a h'ed, w ith a smile, ' But I was uot aware that Her Maj esty ever looked at me after the first formality was over," the young Knclish girl responded, dubiously. The Wincess smile deepened Into a laugh, aa she said: "Let me tell you just oue thing, my dear; the Queen of r.ngiauu baa not one pair or eyes, but fl: ty, and those ha the back of her bead are marvels." A NEW MODE OF EXECUTION. The Use of Carbonic Acid as a Hu man Substitute for Hanging. Dr. Samuel W. Abbott. Secretary of the Mas-vachusetts S ate Board of Heahh. contributes to the Boston Jleilt cu u4j Surgical Jwtriwt an interesting paper relative to substitute for hanging, some better and more humane method of inflicting the lb atli penalty. In the present stale of t-cientillc knowledge of tl e nature and effects upon the human system ot electricity. Dr. AI-UU is not prepared to aoctpl it as h Ix-t subsli tute at baud, saying of ex.eriments which have been male: "It would ai pear from the results that ti ete a e serious hit drancea to lli adoption ot this subtle ageut." Without con sidering the main qieilo:i as to whether some othe- method should lake the place f haimiug. Dr. Al bolt fayi that if a change Is 1: cm ru ble, "111 C r!c Uic oxiile we p-s.-ss sqch an at; e ut, which his ti.e it p r:y of dt-ttnymg rapidly ami pimls-l. when propetly adiumi-le:el." He refeia to the writing of Dr. B W. Biclutrd.son of Ixmdon, who, several years ago, brought ibis method to pu die uotn e f r the des truction of small domestie anlmds, such as dogs and cats, and especially to Dr. Kichardson's statement that 7,00-1 such auimtls bad been destroyed in Ijondou iu a few mouths p: evKnn to the doctor's article on "painless Extinttou of Life. Dr. Abbott says carbonic oxide may be made from charcoal at small cost or it may be obtained more cheaply still from the street mains or any coal and water gas company. Water gas lie considers preferable to coal gas since it contains from four to five times as much car bonic oxide and would, therefore, be more rapid and fatal in its act on. He ravs: "An atmosphere of 2 to 3) per cent, of carbonic oxide, aa in the case of water gas, or still better, oue of 50 per cent, or more, aa may be made fiom charcoal would undoubtedly de stroy human life in less than two min utes w ith, ut pain." He haa himself used a mix. ure about 7 percent, with air, with perfect success iu destroying mil ill animals in from one ii on and one half mluutca without the appear ance of pain. Dr. Abb.dt goes to show that the apparatus for the execution may be of the simplest aud moat Inexpensive kind, and Miggists a tight wooden box. 3 feet squaie and 7 feet high, a tightly fitlin? door, an areiture for admitting a gas pipe of liberal size for applying a rapid supply of gas under ordinary pressure from the street mnins, and a smaller apei a ure to allow of expulsion of the air. If a higher percentage of carbonic oxide i-i desiied. a small charcoal furnace would be required for generating it aud t-tor ng It temporarily, as in the case of Dr. Kicbardaon'a letlial chamber. Of this method Dr. Richardson says: Compared with other methods of extin guishing animal life, such as b ulging, drowi.ing, poisoning by pruaic ael shooting, stunning, the lethel method stands far ahead on every ground of practical readiness. certainly hu manity." In summing up. Dr. Ab bott clai ma for carbonic oxide the ad vantages of painless death, lapid ac tion aikl aeououiy. Iu respect to the second point, he says: "Iu action anouia doc be confaaded with the alow action of small percentages of pa such as is illustrated by the acci dental deaths often occurring in hotels. These almost Invariably bap pen by exposure to lbs gas escaping from a mere pin bole or slit ia the bur ner, which consequently form but 1 per ce it. of the air of tl.e apartment and deslrbys life slowly." In regard to economy be says that the cost of the wooden box would be but a trifle, and the expense of 75 or 100 feet of gas scarcely worth mentioning when com pared with the expensive apparatus re quired for an electrical execution. Avoldlnar Her Own Light. The question of the carrying of light, and changes necessary for the benefit of navigation and the avoidance or collisions, recall to the New York Timet an Incident that happened some years ago, when a British frigate, home ward bound, and an American man-of-war were lying at anchor in the same port. The captain and officers of the Engl sh vessel were invited to dine on board the Americas ship. The dinner was a long, jovial affair, and the toasts were frequent. Finally, about 10 o'clock, the visitors were bundled Into their boats to return to their ves sel, which waa to get under way aa soon aa all were on board and the boats bolated. After a short interval the ves sel waa seen to be moving-, and from the American could be heard a number of orders given to the helmscan, lira porting the helm and then heaving it hard over the other way, repeating the operation Several times. As the course was a fairly straight oue, the reason for 1 his vast amount of manoeuvring was not at all apparent, and the mystery re mained unsolved for quite awhile. Several months later one of the olnceis returned to the station aboard am ther British man -of war, and he slated that owing to too much Americanism, or too many good-byea, they bad neglected- to give the order to haul down the vessel's staylhjht aa the light ia called which all vessels hoist forward when at anchor and, being firmly convinced that it was the, light aboard of some other ship, they were shirting their vessel's course hi vain endeavors to avoid it, and bring It to bear in some otlter dir ection than right ahead. It waa not until they bad taken up the greater por tion of the anchorage, and had come within an ace of running down various crafts that some one cooler-beaded than the rest discovered the offending lautarn and had It hauled down. Its Mother Was a Bag-gage Car. It was on a Pennsylvania Railroad train coming north from 'Washington. All the passengers but two in the sleep er had dozed off. The former wan will, ing to follow the example ot the major ity, but the bitter objected in a loud voice, lta cries awoke the other ias sengers, and some pretty strong lan guage was heard. The young man got out of his benh and carried the baby up and down the car, trying- to soothe it. But the baby was ailing and fretful, and its voice would not be stilled. Fin ally a grey-headed man, who was evi dently an old traveler, stuck bis bead out from behind the curtains and called to the young man in a rather sharp voice: "See here, sir, why don't you take that child to its mother. She will be able to manage it much better than you. It evidently wants Its mother." "l'es that's it," echoed half a dozen other Irritated passengers. The young man continued to pace np and down for a moment, then said in a quiet, strained voice: "Its mother is In the baggage car." There was an instantaneous hush for a moment. Presently the gray-haired man stuck bis bead out Into the aisle again. "Let me take it for awhile," be said softly; "perhaps I can quiet iu" Th Thrill of Moose Hunting. The few moose yet In Maine's woods bring no Inconsiderable money annnally to the State. I have been told of one man who baa spent fo.OOO in Maine trying to kill a moose, and he haa neither secured the morse nor given up the task. It would be greatly to the benefit of hunters who wish to call moose if the law were changed so as to make September an open month, for only during the September moon is there a reasonable prospect of success iu calling. It was oace my pleasure to meet a sportsman just in from moose calling. Ilia Indian had called a moose to the water, but waa unable to get him to come out of the bushes, and a shot into the shadows was unsuccessful. Said the hunter: "I have never seen any sporting to compare with this. I could bear the moose coming for an hour, and when be came down off the billa to the water, I could think of nothing but a locomotive off the track aud running through the woxl. I have killed no moose, but that expe rience was worth all this trip cost me. It fairly made my hair stand on end to hear that moose come. Yes, sir, it was worth (150 of any man's money." Twelve Helpful Rules. 1. Do not lnrrupt others in con versation unnecessarily. 2. Be unselfish. 3. Have courage to speak the truth. 4. Do not shirk. 5. If you nave been to blame do not try to throw the blame on some one else. '-If she hadnt done so-and-so it wouldn't have happened." 6. When you have used an article put it back in its place; especially if it is one used by the family in common. 7. Remember that by your-conduct persons judge of your home-training and home-inrluence. 8. Be careful to meet your engage ments promptlv. 9. Be punctual at meal". 10. "W batever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well. 11. Help others. 12. Let your frienda feel that you can be depended upon to keep your word. It will be a comfort to them to have some one to turn to In time of need, and it will be a deep and lasting pleasure to you to know they nave con fidence in yon. Josh Billings' Philosophy. Truth kan atand alone, bnt a lie has to lean on sumthing, generally another lie. He who seeks fame will have a bard road to travel, and poor fare when be gits thare. Tbare ix nothing that grows so fast, and reaches maturity so quick, and begins to dekay so soon, az a mushroom. It would be well for sum pholks to think or Uus, Wftar Colors Come From. From the Cochineal insects are ob tained the eorgeoos sarmmo, aa well aa the crimson, scarlet, oarmine, and pur ple lakes. Sepia ia the inky fluid dis charged by the cuttle-fish to render the water opaque for its concealment -when attacked, Indian vellow is - f rem the cameL Ivory black and bone black are made out of ivory chips.' The exquisite Prussian bine ia got by fusinar. horses' hoofs and other refuse animu matter with impure potassium carbonate. It was discovered by an accident. In the vegetable kingdom ara included the lakes, derived from roots, barks and rams. Blue-black is from the charcoal of the vine-stalk. Lampblack is soot from certain resinous substances. From the madder plant, which grows in Himlostan, is manufactured Tnrkey red. Uamboge comes from the yellow sap of a tree, which the natives of Siam catch in cucoanut shells. Raw sienna is the natural earth from the neighbor hood of Sienna, Italy. Raw amber is sn earth from Umbria, and it is also burnt. To these vegetable pigments may be adled Indian ink, which is said to be made from burnt camphor. The Chi nese, who alone produco it, will not re veal the secret of its composition. Mas tic the base of the varnish so-called is from tha gum of the mmstic tree, in digenous to the Orecian archipelago, Bistre is the soot of real wood ashes. Of real ultramarine bat little is fonnd in the market. It is obtained from the precious lapis-lazuli, and commands a fabulous price. Chinese white is zinc, scarlet is iodide of meroury and cinna bar, or native vermiilion, is from quick silver ore. British. Journal of 1'hoto graphy. A clergyman who had been trained in England and w ho was called to min isterial work in this country, when asked, after considerable experience : what feature of American life impressed i him most, replied: "The inability of Americans to do their work quietlv." j He explained at some length how this I restlessness seemed to pervade all forms of life, and what a hindrance it is to the best results injmany kinds of work, j The criticism is a correct one. It is iioi oiuj --rue wicaeo, in our country who "are like the troubled sea when it cannot rest;" the good and pious are just as restless. Every one seems to be in a hurry. The tide of life flows through our streets like the tumultuous rush of the ocean in the i.ay of Fundy, in spite of risk and accident and death. The day is not long enough for its man ifold excitements, nor the night for its varied dissipations. The thing in hand is'imperfectly finished, through eager ness to get hold of the next thing. Men crowd themselves with work as if it were a sin or a shame ever to decline an opportunity or to say "Xo" to an invi tation. Women in society drive from boose to bouse as if their lives depended upon completing a list of fashionable calls, and young girls wear out beauty and undermine health in a vain effort to taste all the seductive pleasures of the world in a single season. Fond and Foolish. The fond and foolish women! They are all about us, and Pearl Rivers well describes them in a late number of the New Orleans Picayune The one who is left behind ah, the one who is left behind! It is almost always a woman. What does she do? Jf she loves the careless, happy-go-lucky young fellow or the deliberate, sancti monious old fellow, she will gaze after him through a vista of tears as long aa there is a piece of him in sight and then she will rush np stairs and grab one of his old vests or coats or plunge her head into an old hat that has been left behind, too, and cry like the big baby she is. At breakfast her coffee will taste saltv like tears, and at dinner her soap will be tasteless. If she tdeeps at all for the first few nights, she dreams that she sees her beloved afar off. He is coming towards her withasniile-of love on his face. He comes nearer and . nearer. She stretches ont her arms to embrace him. A dark cloud falls be-. tween. She calls, bnt he does not an-' swer. She gropes around in the dark- nesa, dnt she cannot find him, and she j wakes, sobbing, to find herself sitting np in bed with her arms outstretched and the tears streaming down her face. I Ah, is there a woman who loves much, who has not dreamed such dreams when parted from her beloved? Careless Charlie or solemn Solomon promised to write from the first stop ping place. They forgot to do it, ol course; bnt the one who is left behind does not forget to look for the letter. She starts and trembles at every sound of the door-bell, and if it rings unusu ally sharp and quick, she is sure it 11 the telegraph messenger bringing the news of a railroad or steamboat disas- ' ter, in which her beloved has been I ma.ib.ed as flat as a flounder, or blown sky high. It was not a telegraph mes senger. She thanks God for that. But it was not the expected let-' tT either, and she plunges her head into the old hat again for comfort. In what strange ways we women com fort ourselves when parted from a be loved one! I I know a woman a lit-irary woman who develops a sudden fondness for needle and thread and thimble when her husband leaves home. She over hauls every article of his wardrobe, and sews on buttons by the dozen, and tape strings by the yard. I half suspect the ; sly man takes a short trip from home once or twice a year just to get his clothes mended. I know another wife who always mounts her husband's old -slippers on a Ipedestal of some kind, and says her prayers to them night and morning un til he returns. I know a woman who 1 has a vest belonging to her sailor love, I who has gone on a long cruise. She keeps it hidden carefully away in the bottom of her trunk, "i caught her kissing and crying over it one day and I said : "Why didn't you ask him to , leave you a pair of his old boots?" She ' turned her eyes on me with a glare and answered: "Do you suppose his heart Its in his ieet? "I hope not," I replied, "bnt it cer tainlv is not in the pocket of that old vest'' ! "Xo," she answered, "but it used to cover his dear heart, and I'd rather ' have it for a keepsake than the diamond ; locket Kate wears with her sweetheart's i picture in it." "How tastes do differ!" I said to my self, thinking of the comfort Kate gets out of the locket bidden away in her bosom, and what comfort Mary finds in the ring that her Harry left her to re member him by when he went to Xew York on a business trip ten days ago, and how fondly Jennie treasures a pocket handkerchief that belongs to the man she loves. Ah, what fond and foolish creatures we women are! Pear Rivers ia Orleans J'icayune, Mlllle'a Babies. Bil mtls timid kittens. Out IB th cold alone. Tbeir mother is slwsvs gadding itrt aa4 bring them Dot even Duos: Kh off in Ik. .....- t f . . she's off till Ut at airbt; A CTMehievous. Miah old pwr That ner does anything righi. The kitten are always hungry. 3"b7 'n to tinud to eaxch a noose, 4jd their mother is urh aa old gadder. i- .1 aey won -l keep Der In any bouse. She never petted nor played with them. or washed tbem nice and clean. Such six little dirty faces - I'm sure I hare never seen ; i l little sad. sad kittens. All SitUug in a row. Cold and hungry and dirty. From the tip ot each nose to each toa Twelve little ear and six little taus Hanging and drooping low, so oil on the step 1 found them. Sluing all in a row. And Millie tn-gned hard to keep them, and fed them and washed them ao clean- Bock six bright, cunning Kitten I m sure 1 have never seen. The boy lanithed at Millie' babies, (n eared not a whit, would yout If she hadn't adopted those kittens. What in the world would ther dot M. r. A'oian. ia School af Home. NARRATIVE OF A SIGHT. A darker nleht than that which closed around the disabled merchant ship. Carlos, as I beaded her off the coast or the Island of Mindanao, I had seldom seen. Occasionally, however, a zlg-raz llgh'ning flash would play about her ugly. looking jury-masts, and reveal ber ragged stump of a jib-boom, forward. Ilav ng been damaged by a tempest, in which she lost her captain and ber mate, ber distress signal had been an swered by our ship, the sloop-of-war Congress, a few days before the pres ent time, and aa there waa no one aboard capable of navigating ber, our captain bad put me in charge of ber with a few men, aud Mr. sbelburne, a passed-midshlpmau or eighteen, to con vey her to Manilla, her destination. She was a Spanish vessel, and as, be sides a large amount of gold and a valuable cargo, she carried a few pas sengers, among whom were women and children. I realized to the full the re sponslbi ity of my position. 'ow, as I walked the deck, the breeze freshened, aud a distant moan ing sound foretold a gale, if not a hurri cane. Fax astern I could just make out the light of our sloop, dipping with the swell, and the sight afforded me some consolation. The Captain had prom ised to hover in our vicinity until we were well past Mindanao, lest we be pounced upon by some of the formid able Mindanayan pirates that were known to have hiding-places in the caverns and rocky bays along the coast. Suddenly one or the zig-zag flashes of lightning I bave mentioned showed me the dark, excited visages of tiie Spanish seamen forward, and also of some of my own men, as they stood peering and pointing, while the hoarse voice of the outlook was, the next mo men s, borne to my ears. ."Sail hoi" 'Wheie awajV" I shouted. "About two points off the weather bow." was the answer. Shelburue came running up to me and touched his cap. "Excuse me, lieutenant," he said, "but I had as good a view of that craft as the brief Hash would permit, and 1 believe her to be some pi-ale whose captain bas probably beard from M t nil a people that this vessel has gold aboard of her, aud thinks he will have a c lauce to take some of it from her Im fore our sloop can come to our aid. Would It not be best, sir, to war ship and make a straight wake for the Con pie sV" I looked at the midshipman's handsome face, at his earnest blue ees, gleaming iu the light of the binnacle lamp, and answered him, I f-ar very gruffly, for 1 was not at all pleased at having this youngster making suggestions to uie. SI e may not le a pirate. When I want your opinion, air, I will ask you for It, Be not so ready to imagine danger. " - iy manner hurt him, and he hast ened to add: "I was 1 ot thinking of myself, sir, when I spoke, but of Miss Mellon aud and the other passengers." I could not help smiling at his youth ful readiness In first mentioning Miss Mellon, though I was not aurpnsed, for I, too a bluff matter-of-fact sea lieutenant of thirty had been im pressed by the wonderful beauty of this young lady of sixteen. Her parent, a widower, who was with ber aboard the ship, was an En glish merchant, but her mother, as 1 had already learned, had heeu a Span ish lady, and it was from her she in herited the large lustrous black eyes that flashed or sottened with every thought aud feeling, while the light brown hair and clear complexion were like her father's. ".Never mind about Miss Melton," I now said, in answer to Sbelburne. "That youna lady's being here will not turn the vessel ahead of us into a pirate." I spoke testily, for to tell the truth, I was a little jealous of the girl's seeming preference for my handsome midship man. As he turned away and walked over to leeward, the wind rose to a bowl, the white foam of the waters gleamed through the darkness, and, with the gale now off our weather quar ter, we tote along at a rapid rate. The main-mast, my tallest spar, was very weak, aud w heu at length a rather heavy sea set the ship to lol'ii g and plunging, I feared every moment to see it go by the board. Meanwhile I had been watching the distant schooner by the electric gleams that still broke occasionally over the waters. She was as sharp as a sword fish, had a suspicious .look, and I soon had reason to regret my otstlnacy in not taking Shelburne's advice, for sud denly I saw her alter her course, and head straight for us! She was not a mile distant, and with the aid of a powerful night-glass, to gether with that afforded by the light ning. I soon beheld her crew as fierce a looking set of rascals as ever manned a lawless craft, for that she was a pirate there now was no room to doubt. Ay, there on her deck they were, about alxty tall, robust fellows, armed with daggers, kreeses and pistols, thrust in aashea about their loose trou sers, with their open jackets above flying back from their brawny bosoms, and their red and yellow caps pushed away from their low, broad foreheads. Tbey had guns, tco, small guns four eight-pounders on a side and one for ward looking ugly enough to annoy me, when I consider that aboard this bulk of a merchant ship there was on y one eld twelve-pounder, and also when I remembered having beard that the Mindauayans make good seamen a.id know row to handle their pieces like pinners. The schooner was running aloag close to the wind, but she walked up almost into lis vary teeth, aad I be- uevea mat uie next tack would enable ber to reach us, which her captain ws a evidently in a huny to do, as the gale waa now bowling, and the 'thunder rat ling over oar beads in a way which boded a heavy tempe-t. Presently I saw Miss Melton-come up from the cabin. She looked alarmed on bearing the' frequent repetition of the word pirates," among our msn, and I was somewhat nettled to see ber go over to the side of - my midshipman, as if be were the one on whom ber sal vation depended. My orders weie quickly given, the ship waa got round, and away we went on the atarboard tack. Then there came a forcible re minder to us from our pursuer that we must, not hnpe to escape 'so easily, in the shape of aa eight-pound shot, which, after viciously knocking a chip from the cabin-Douse almost into my eye, went buzzinz-on, and neatly took off the mizzen jury-mast, bringing down hamper and all rattling about Misa Melton's ears, with a flying rope whip ping the feather from her hat as cleanly as if it were cut off with a knife. As the flapping canvas almost dashed her off her feet she shrieked, and then I saw Sbelburne actually put his arms around her, and almost carry ber to the companionway, gently requesting her to go below, out of danger. 'OliI" she softly cried "and you?" "My place is on deck." he gently an swerwu; and then this is what I said and I rattled it out like a musket shot: "Of course it is! Do your duty, sir! Clear that wieckage away at oncel" "Ay, ay, sir,' he replied; and he soon got some ot the bands to clear away the hamper that obstructed the deck. Meanwhile there was the pirate banging away, as if be had not a mo ment to spare, and down went our fore jury-mast, falling over the side in a slow and easy sort of fashion, for all the world like an invalid gentleman in his night-gown, going to lied. The sight was exasperating and, as soon as the wnck was cleared away 1 got the old twelve pounder lulo osition, an 1 at the next lightning-flash, -gave the on!er to lire. AVIth a loud metallic ding-dong, the piece at once exploded, and when I saw how the men scrambled and tumbled over one another, in their necess-ary haste to escape the flying fragments", wh'ch did not go within four feet of them, I was disgusted. - 1 called the men together and had Suelburne dis tribute arms to them; but I noticed that the Spaniards all looked dismaved. Meanwhile 1 perceived that our sloop-of-wai's light seemed to be recedlu ' from instead of advancing toward us. In fact, at her distance from us, and owing to iler being to windward, alio owing to the howling of the gale and lo the almost incessant rattling of the thunder, it was evident that none ol her p ople had heard the firing, while the pirate craft, being very small and on a line with our own, had not, of course, been seen by them. "A pity we have no rockets aboard to signal the sloop witV 1 said lo Sbelburne. "Yes, sir, it is. All that we ba l were ruined by that clumsy Portuguese cook accidentally spilling a boiler of hot water on them, and soaking them, aud causing them to go to pieces." "We must contrive to signal the frigate, and that speedily," I said. "I doubt if a sigual would be visible at all from our oeck, now that the spray is flying up so high about us It must be made aloft. Have a lantern brought here at once." The lantern was brojght. I gazed up at the mainmast, our only remaining spar. It was tottering with every plunge of tl ship as if ready to go over, while the iron missiles fiom the pirate, who was aiming for it, flew whizzing and shrieking about it. 1 could uot lose the time required to reeve the lantern; besides, it could 110I thus Le properly worked In such a gale, which would tangle any rope we muhl put In a block. Xo, it must be taken aloft by baud; aud who was there brave enough to carry that signal up, on a tottering mast, seemingly ready or ilself to go by the board, even if it were not soon cut iu twain by the pintle, whose shot was so rapidly flying aU ut it? I called for a volunteer from among the men, but noticing how they hung back, and feeling that I had not a mo ment to spare, I was about to pi'-k up the lantern and spring into the lining myself, when Shelburne, seizing it, cried out: "Xo, no, Lieutenant; you are com mander berel Better 1 should take the risk!" Ere I could object he was mounting the ringing of that perilous, swaying mast, heedless of the frequent shots from the pirate. 1 watched him anxiously. He soon gained the top-jaliaiit-ui isthead. ami began waving the lantern to attract th -attention of the sloop-of-war. A moment later a shot struck the top-gallant-mast, a splinter shattered the lantern, aud I believed the you' h would be lost, but ere the spar went over he dropped as lightly as a falcon into the topmast shrouds below, a id then slid, hand over hand, down a back stay to the deck. The pirates now stopped Dr'ng. Tiie thunder, too, had ce ised to boom In the darkened heavens and the lightning no longer flashed. There was something oniiuous. It seemed to me, in their sudden cessation. 'or was I mistaken, for all at once the tempest broke upon us with such terrific fury that for sev eral minutes I thought it would sink us. It quickly parsed to leeward, however, although it still blew a hard gale and there was a rather rough sea. I coul 1 no longer make out the slo p-of-war's light, for now black masses of flying rack shrouded the foaming wa ters ahead of us, adding lo the gloom in her direction, although astern the weather was not yet so "thick" as to prevent my discerning with my night glass, the pirate schooner, still in pur suit of us. I could perceive that she bad lost ber jib-boom as well as oue of her sails in the late tempests, and by getting up canvass on the stumps of my masts I was enab'ed to elude her for some time, but at last I heard the yells of her rascally crew close on our b Lar board quarter. I got my fifteen men ready for com bat, though knowing a combat vou d be hopeless. Sbelburne, however, grasping his sword, stood there like a young lion, prepared to fight to the death, and my other brave fellows from the s'oop bore a promising aspect, with tueir set teeth aud flaming eyes. A few more seas brought the pirate cr-ft nearly alongside of us, and already her tierce, well-armed men were crowd ing up. ready to board us, while others, with ropes having grappling-irons at the en Is, were about to make fast to us, w ueu suddenly there came a broad, nrlgl.t flash, followed by a roar as of a' hundred thunders, and lbs sckoonerj shattered to fragments by the heavy shot that went crashing through her light timbers, disappeared ' from our Bight, the last despairing yells of h r maimed and drowning crew rising wildly above the howling of the gale. The next moment, like some black, winged giant, our s'.oop-of-war came bursting trom the thick rack which had concealed her approach, and. "booming along over the ruin she had made, passed-us. whue the clear trum pet ring of ber captain's voice broke upon my ears: "Hard-a-starboard. Lieutenant, and keep in our wakel Will send a boat aboard as soon as I can. AVe saw your signal lantern aloft In good time." 1 now went up to midshipman Phel burue and grasped his haivT, tellinr him he had saved us all by his daring in mounting the perilous mast to swing that lantern, and that I would not fad to speak of his gallant conduct to the Captain. Mirs Melton, being mar with the other passengers, heard me, and I 'saw her soft black eyes flash with unmis takable pride and tei derne.-a on the gallant fellow. In my gratitude I was uo longer jealous of him, but acknowl edged to myself that be deserved her love, and that the two young jieople were well mated. I never treated him gruffly after, and when, months later, while we were at Manilla, to which port we had finally brought the disabled ship, I heard that Miss Meltou and he were engaged, 1 filled my briar piie and smoked it, feeling quite contented and happy. THE OBELISK. Tfte idea or securing an obelisk for the city of Xew York grew out of the newspaper reports of 1877 relative to the work of transporting a similar mon ument from Alexandria to London. It was then ttnirstood that the Khedive bad signified a willingness to give the United States the remaining oW'link of Alexandria. Mr Henry It. Stebbins, then CommiHsioner of the Department of Public Parks, in the city of New ork, undertook to secure the necessary funds for transporting and erecting the olwlixk. Mr. Vm. If. Vanderbilt was asked to head the subscription, bnt he generously offered to defray the whole expense of the undertaking. The mat ter was laid before the Department of State and assistance was to be asked of the consul-general lit Cairo, w ho was the representative of the United States at the court of the Khedive. The oonsul-reueral was very much surprised as he knew the Khedive had novtr made such an offer, but from that time forward he made every effort in his power to obtain an obelisk for the United States. He made a careful ex amination of the different ones and finally concluded that Cleopatra's Needle, at Alexandria, on the seashore, would be the most desirable and the mott easily removed. Lgypt was full of troubles at tho time, and for some time after, and there wore a numlx-r of difficulties in the way of obbiiniug the obelisk, but after almost a year aud a half of eflort the consent of the Khedive was finally obtained. In the month of Octolx-r, 1879, Lieu tenant Commander Uorringe, who had been granted a leave of absem-e to en able him to remove the obelisk to the United States, arrived in Ugypt. The heavy construction made ou a new plan from designs by the commander, to aid him in the accomplishment of his work, arrived soon afterwards, and on the Cth day of December, the huge shaft poised ou its- improvised trunnions like a mammoth cannon, was turned to a hori zontal position. The Cleopatra's Xwedle, as is well known, is. a single shaft of red granite from the quarries of Syne, now called Assouan, at the first cataract of the Nile, seven hundred miles from the Medit terranean.. It is sixty-eight feet, ten inches high, seven feet ten inches by eight feet two inches at the bass.' anil tupers gradually upward to six feet one inch by six feet throe inches terminat ing in a pyramidion seven feet hih. Its weight is about two hundred and twenty tons. It stood upon the sea shore at Alexandria, fifty feet from the water line, with its base 'buried in sand and earth, that had been accumulating for centuries. Mr. (ioiringe haa given his opinion that, hud it occupied its former site, it would have been des troyed during the recent bombardment of Alexandria On reaching New York, Mr. Gorringe dragged his ship up npon a marine railway at Staten island, and rolled the olelisk out npon htiging. Pontoons placed beneath, rose with the tide aud floated it. Towed to Manhattan Island these pontoons, on Kinking, deposited the monolith on a lauding atage. Prom the dock it inadu its journey on acradle of rollers run on beams. A stationary engine, fastened to the forward end of the cradle, wound on its drum a rope which passed through a pulley block stationed some distance ahead. The engine thus pulled itself and its burden up to the block, a rrocess constantly rejM-ated until the site of Central Park was reached. On -I au. 2'Jnd 18H1. the obelisk waa erected on its pedest.d by the same means employed in Alexandria to lay it on the ground. It stands di rectly opiKisite tho Metropolitan Muse um and is one of the great attractions of the city, and of interest to all those who visit the park. To the dismay of every one, when the olielisk had been standing in the pres ent position some time, it was noticed that the surface was slowly crumbling and there was danger that the hiero glyphics on its surface, which were so interesting to Kgyptian scholars, would entirely disappear. The wise men wers called into council, and it was at length decided to cover the entire surface with a coating which should be able to resist the influence of storms without hiding the figures npon the surface. This was accordingly done, and since then there haa been no change in the obelisk. II may stand another 3)00 years in its pre sent position. The Lnropean press of Egypt gav great imiortance to the fact" that th London and Paris oln-lisks were botb given on account of service and lavon rendered by the government of the countries to which they were presented, while there waa no pretence of any ap.cb consideration for the gift of Cleopatra's Neeile to the city of New York. The writer is indebted for informa tion on this subject to E. E. i'ai man's account of the negotiations for the obelisk. It Is now placed beyond a doubt In the course ot the Investigation regard ing cholwa In the E 1st tlia!. Dr. Koch, of the German Cuo'era Commisslpn, had discovered the baclUi f the disease. NEWS LN BRIEF. Emperor Wiliam's new craws weighs three pounds, and has a fraaae of solid gold. It Is radiant with la nioiida and pearls. The Sultan Is said to be preparing magnincrnt presents lor imperor Wil liam, aud in due time he will want an other loan to pay fi r theoi. A king fishr attacked a black baas rear Orlande, Fla. The bird sank it talons into the bass, intending to carry the fish off, but the task was loo treat. and. as the bird could not free itself. me uass round lit.le trouble In drown ing It. Sir Frederick Young, who is over 70 years old. bas returned to London after one of the most remarkable jour neys ever ever made by a man of his age a South African tour that cov ered 16,000 miles. He was not sick a day during his absence trom home. A dog, which nau oeen lost for 16 months recently walked into its old master's home In Log in, O. It is a mystery where the brute was during its absence. There is considerable excitement among residents of Union llide, Cabell county, West Virginia, over the exist ence of a wild animal 111 that regi u. I'eopie are afraid to leave their homes after dark. Those who have seen tha beast describe it as ten feet long, five feet tall, and of a dark-brown color. It roars like a lion. An electrical device whereby the name of an approaching station is in scrilied on a conspicuous tablet on a lailroad car is coming Into use. The New York Wurhl says: "It will be warmly welcomed by the public, who have suffered so lonj from the Yola puk, Choctaw aud Hindustani of brakemeu and porters." The monument to General Cawar Hodney, one ot Delaware's signers of Uie lteclaratiou of Independence was unveiled at Dover, the capi al of 1H1 aware, on Wednesday, Ocu 3 'th. Th monument Is over the patriot's giave. It is eighteen feet hith, with a large urn surmounting the shaft. The only inscription is "General Casar Hod ney." Has a remarkable uieuiorv. A Weston, W. Va., man, who was a rav ing maniac for six years, w as discharged as cured from the hospital recently, and the first thing he did on gaining his liberty was to start off for a gallon ot applejack, which he buried when he saw the officers coining to arrest him In 1SS. He found the applejack exactly where he had secreted it The will of L. B. Eaton, the eccen tric farmer of Sieubeu county, Iud., which was contested by bin sou, haa been declared valid bv the Court. The terms of the document will, therefore, be executed. The 4uO-acre farm will lie divided into 10-acte lots, and 40 homes for widows and single women above the a9 of 35 will be erected thereon. A. C. Carr, the "apple king" of Keuuebec county. Me., has raised a queer apple this year. The sweet and sour portions are distributed in alter nate layers extending from stem to blow, and from one-half to one inch wide, and can I e distinguished by the color and texture of the outside skin. The apple grew iu the famous Pullen, or Benson, orchard in East Monmouth, and there are said to be several trees which bear this peculiar variety of fruit. Mr. Kichardsou, a youtig natural ist of lioston, who took high ground iu Mexico recently on a question of Geography ascending the volcano near Toluca has been given a two years' job as Walking lMegate for the British Museum, under whose orders he will go to Sierra de Colima and gradually work his way down Into Guatemala, making a thorough ex ploration of that ltepublio, and next going carrully through Nicarajpia. A relic of the Johnstown flood. Kcceiitly, laborers engaged In clearing up the rubbish In Johnstowu.l'a.. found the da'lng stamp of the ticket office at Conemaugh. The stamp was set for May 31, 188U, and in the wreck of the ticket office 011 that fateful day il had been curie I down in the tlooj.anl had lodged in the centie of the town, about three miles from the starting point. The stamp has been received at the general otllce of the Pennsylvania Rail road, and bas beeu placed auiomr tba collection of relics ot that great flood. An old man, who apjeared to be very needy, some lime ago received 1 ei mission to keep a fruit and notion r-tand by the Court House at Ix An geles, Cal. Recently, however, he ap proached a money broker aud sought opinrtunity to loan SM.ijini, for which ie expected to get 14 or 15 per cent, interest. This exciteJ surprise aud led to inquiries, and the result was tha dls rovery that the old mau is worth about fOO.lJiJO, most of his proisrty being iu Texas. His stand al Ihe Court Huuss has beeu given to a oorer man. A notable decrease has taken place In the British convict imputation. In July last the total number in custody under tentence of jienal servitude had dropped tob4't5, as compared with 11, bGo twenty years ago. The number of womeu sentenced to penal serv.tu'to has fallen very much below even recent years, the numlr In ISsm being 57. and iu 1S83 lj0. The whole number of wo me a In England and Wales now under sentence of penal servitude la only 4r2, or less than a third of the daily average female convict popula tion of ten years ago. A school boy in New York hit upon a novel method of obtaining the answer to au arithmetical problem. He dropied into a grotx-r's shop on his way to school, and said he wauled certaiu commodities at certain prices. After exhausting his list, he said: 'Now, If I give you half a sovereign, what change shall I get back'!"" Ihe grocer told him, whereup n he thanked the shopman and turned to go. "Wait for the things," called the grocer; and his disgust can be imagined when the in genious urchin told him he was late for school and, and, as be had'ul learned his arithmetic lesson, he bad adopted that method of getting the sum worked for h'm. 5tr W. Th'rmMjti is to deliver eighteen lectures on "Molecula Dynamics" at tha Johna Honkins University during the first twen'y 'tavs of liext October. Pure lineed oil. au expert observes, baa a bright amber coior. It runs freely, sparkles when flowing from the 1 an, tastes smooth and mild, and has the smell of a flar e-d poultice. Rather raassi.e ,u appearance la a silver snake coiled twice around aB In Wu caii'e of the tame oietaj. i: ; e 4- r: b v-.:vrt' r: .r.' ;' :T"'"!.:r . il -. Sk- '4
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