VOL. LIV. PROFESSIOXJL CJRDS OF BELLEFONTE. • C. T. Alexander. C. M. Bower. ALEXANDER & BOWER, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. BELLEFONTE, PA. Office In.Gannon's new building. JOHN B. LINN, ATTORNEY AT LAW. BELLEFONTE, PA. office on Allegheny Street. OLEMENT DALE, ATTORNEY AT LAW. BELLEFONTE, PA. Northwest corner ot Dlimo id. D. G. Bash. 8. H. Yocura. D. H. Hastings. JJUSH, YOCUM & HASTINGS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BELLEFONTE, PA. High Street, Opposite First National Bank. yy T M.C. HEINLE, ATTORNEY AT LAW* BELLEFONTE. PA. Practices In all the courts of Centre county. Spec at attention to Collections. Consultations In German or Engl sb. II.BLR F. REDDER, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BELLEFONTE PA. All bus ness promptly attended to. Collection of claims a speciality. J. A. Beaver. J. W. Gepliart. JJEAVER &GEPHART, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. BELLEFONTE, PA. Office oa Alltgbanj Street, North of High, "yy A. MORRISON, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BELLEFONTE. PA, Office on Woodrlng's Block, Opposite Court House. " JJ S. KELLER, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BELLEFONTE, PA. Consultations In English or German. Office In Lyon'.,, Building. Allegheny Street. JOHN G. LOVE, ' ATTORNEY AT LAW. BELLEFONTE, PA. Office In the rooms formerly occup.ed by the late W. P. Wilson. BUSINESS CARDS OF MILLHEDI, &1. A. STURGIS, * DEALER IN Watches, Clocks, Jewelry. Silverware, Ac. Re pairing neatly and promptly doni and war ranted. Miln Street, opposite Bank, M.llhelm, Pa. A O DEIXiXGEK, NOTARY PUBLIC. SCIiIBNER AND CONVEYANCER, MJLLHEIM, PA. .AH business entrusted to him, such as writing and acknowledging Deeds, Mortgages, Kele.tS- s, Ac., will be executed with neatness and dis patch. Office on Main Street. XT 11. TOM LIN SON, DEALER IN ALL KINDS OF Groceries. Notions, Drugs. Tobaccos, Cigars, Flue Confectloneiles and everything in the uue of a flrst-class Grocery stire. Country Produce taken In exchange for goods. Main St eet, opposite Bank, Ml lhelm. Pa. "Y~\AVID I. BROWN, MANUFACTURER AND DEALER IN TISWARE, STOVEPIPES, Ac., SPOUTING A SPECIALTY. Shop on Main Street, two li -uses east of Bank, Mlllheltn, Penna. T EISEXHU I'll, * J ÜBTICE OF THE PEACE, MILLHEIM, PA. All business promptly attended to. collection of claims a specialty. Office opposite Elsenhutb's Drug Store. V | USSER & SMITH, DEALERS IN Hardware, Stoves, Oils, Paints, Glass, w all Paperi, Coach Trimmings, and Saddlery Ware, Ac., Ac. Al , grades of Palent W heels. Corner of Main and Penn Streets Mlllheim, Penna. T AC OB WOLF, FASHION ABLE TAILOR, MLLLHEIM, PA. Cutting a Specialty. , Shop next door to Journal Book Store. jyjILLHEIM BANKING CO., MAIN STREET, MILLHSIM, PA. A. WALTER, Cashier. DAV. KRAPK, Pres. HARTER, AUCTIONEER, REBERSBURG, PA. latisfaction Guaranteed, - \ WAYFARERS. The way is long, mv darling. The r> a.l is rough and steep. And fast across the evening sky I see the shadows sweep. But O! my love, my darling, No ill to us can come. No terror turn us from the path. For we are going home. Your feet are tired, my darling. So tired the tender foot; But think, when we are there at last. How long the rest and sweet! For lo! the lamps are lighted. And youder gleamiug dome, Before us shiuiug like a star, Shall guide our footsteps home. \V< have lost the flowers we gathered So early in the rnoru, And on we go, with empty 1 aiuls. And garments soiled aifd worn; But O! the dear All-Father Will out to meet us come. And fairer flowers aud whiter robes There wait for us at homo. Art cold, my love, aud famished. Art faint, and sore athirst? Be patient yet a little while. And joyous as at first; For t) ! the sun sets never Within that land of bloom, Aud t ou slia't eat the bread of life. And drink life's wiue at liom-\ • The wind blows cold my darling, Adown the mountain steep, Aud thick across the evening sky The darkling shadows creep; But O! my love, preca onward. Whatever trials come, For iu the war the Father set, We two are going home. The Pilots Revenge. It was towards night, on the twenty-first of September, u small English war brig, which had been fitted out for the sujv pressiou of smuggling, was lazily creeping along the heavy, monotonous swells, just off the coast of Gal way, and on her deck was being enacted a scene of somewhat more than common interest. The day be fore she had captured a small boat, loaded with contraband articles, together with an old man and a l>oy who had charge of them, and the captain of the brig, whose name was Dracutt, bad ordered that the old smug gler should be put in irons. To this indig nity the old man made a stout resistance, and, iu the heat of the moment, he had so far forgotten himself as to strike tiie cap tain a blow which laid him upon the deck. Such an insult to au Euglish officer was past endurance, and, in punishment for his offence, the smuggler had been con demned to die. A single whip was rove at the starlxrard fore-yard arm; and all hands were caiied to witness the execution. The rope was noosed and slipped over the culprit's head, and the running end was rove thro' a small snatch-block upon the deck. Until this moment not a word escaped the lips of the boy. He trembled as he beheld the awful preparation, and as the fatal noose was passed and drawn tight, the color forsook his cheeks, and he sprang forward and dropped upon his knees before the incensed captain. "Mercy, sir, mercy !" "For whom?" asked the oflicer, while a contemptuous sneer rested upon his lips." "For that old man whom you are about to kill." "He dies, boy." "But he is mv father, sir." "No matter if he were my owu father, that muu who strikes au Euglish officer, while in the performance of his duty, must die." "But he was manacled —he was insulted, sir," urged the boy. "Insuited," repeated the captain, "who insulted him ?" "Y'ou did, sir," replied the boy, while his face was flushed with indignation. "Get up, sir, and be careful that you do not get the same treatment," said the cap tain in a savage tone. •The old man heard this appeal of his son, and as the tart words dropped from the lips of his captor, he raised his head, and, while a look of the utmost detiauce passed over his features, he excluimed : "Ask no favors, Robert, Old Hark Kin tock can die as well now as at any time. Let tliem do their worst." Then turning to Captain Dracutt, he changed his tone to one of deep supplica tion, and said: "Do what you please with me, sir, but do not barm my boy ; for he has done no wroiig. lam ready for your sentence, and the sooner you finish it the better." "Lay hold of the whip," shouted the captain ; "lay hold, every limn of you, and stand by to run the villain up." In obedience to this order, the men ranged themselves along the deck, and each one laid hold of the rope. Robert Kintock looked first at bis father, and then ran his eyes along the line of men who were to be his executors. But not one sympathizing or pitying look could he trace, their faces Acre all hard and cold, and they all ap peared anxious to consummate their mur derous work. "What," exclaimed the boy, while a tear started from his trembling lid, "is there not one even, who can pity ?" I "Up with him!" sliouted the captain. Robert buried his face in his hands, and the next moment bis father was swinging from the yard-arm. He heard the passing I rope and the creaking block, aud lie knew that he was fatherless. | Half an hour afterwards the hoy knelt by the side of a ghastly corpse, and a sim ple prayer escaped his lips. Then another ; low, murmuring sound came up from his bosom, but none of those who stood around knew his import. It was a pledge for deep | revenge. Just as the old man's body slid from the gangway into the water, u vivid flash of ; lightning streamed through the heavens, and in auother moment the dread artillery of nature sent forth a roar so long and loud ! that the men actually placed their hands to : their ears to shut out its deafening roar. ; Robert Kintock started at the sound; and | what caused dread in others' bosoms, sent a : thrill of satisfaction to his own. "Oh! Revenge! Revenge I" he mut j tered to himself, as he cast his eyes over i the foam-crested waves, which had already risen beneath the power of the sudden torui. The darkness had come as quickly as the storm, and all that could be distinguished MII LIIEIM, PA., THURSDAY, MAY 20, 1880. from the deck of the brig, save the break ing of the sea. was the fearful, craggy shore as flash after flash of lightning illuminated the heavens. "Light, ho!" shoutod a man forward; and the next moment all eyes were directed to a bright light which had suddenly flashed up among the distant rocks. The wind had now reached its height, and with its giant power it set the illfated brig directly upon the surf-bound shore of the rooks and reefs, and every face, save one, was blanched with fear. In vain did they try to lay the brig to the wind, but not a sail would hold for an in stant, until at length the men managed to get up a fore and main-storm stay sail, and then the brig stood for a short time bravely up against the heavy sea. But it was evi dent that even should the brig succeed in keeping to the wind, she must eventually be driven ashore; for the power of the in setting waves was greater than that of the wind. •'Boy, do you know what that light is?" asked the captain, as he stood holding on to the main rigging to keep his feet. "Yes, sir, replied Robert, "it is Bully more's Craig." "What is it there for ?" "It marks the entrance of a little harbor, sir. that lies back of it." "And can it be entered by a vessel of this size?" asked the captain, while a gleam of hope shot across his face. "O, yes, sir, a large shin can enter at that place." "And do you know the passage ?" "Yes, sir, I have spent my whole life on this coast, and know every turn of it." "Can you take the brig in there in this storm ?" "Yes, sir," answered the boy, while a strange light shot from his eyes. "And will you do it?" eagerly asked the captain. "On two conditions." "Name them quickly. ' "The first is that you let me go in peace; and the next, that you trouble none of the smugglers, should they hap|>en to be there." "I promise," said the captain, "and now set about your work. But, mark me, if you deceive me, by St. George I'll shoot you on the moment." The brig was soon put before the wind, and Robert Kintoca stationed himself upon the starlxmrd foreyard arm, from which his orders were passed along to the helmsman. The bounding vessel soon after came with in sight of the rugged crags, and the heart of every man leaped with fearful thrills as they swept past a frowning rock, which almost grazed them as they passed. On flew the brig, and thicker and more fearful became the rocks, which raised their heads on every side. "Port," shouted the boy. "Port it is." "Steady—so." "Starboard—quick." "Ay, ay, starlxxird it is." "Steady—so." "Steady it is." At this moment the vessel swept past an overhanging cliff and just as a vivid flash of lightning shot through the heavens and revealed all the horrors around, a loud stiout was heard from the young pilot, and in a moment all eyes were turned toward him. He skxxl upon the extreme end of the yard, and held lnmself by the lift, lu a moment more he crouched down like a tiger after lus prey, and then with one leap he reached a projecting rock. "Revenge! revenge!" was all that the doomed men heard, as they were swept away iu the boiling surge beyond. "Breakers!—a reef!," screamed the man forward. "Starboard—quick!" But it was too late. Ere the helm was half up, a slow, tremendous grating of the brig's keel was di.-tinctly felt, and the next instant came a crash which sounded high above the roar of the elements, and the masts went sweeping away to leeward, followed in a few moments by large masses of the ill-fated vessel's wreck and cargo. Shriek after shriek went up from those doomed men; but they were in the grasp of a power that knew no mercy—the Storm King claimed them for his own. The next morning a part} of#?reekers came down from the rocks and moved along the shore. It was strewed with fragments of the wreck, and here and there were scat tered the bruised and mutilated the biig's crew. Among that party was Robert Kintock, and eagerly did he search among the ghastly corpses, as though there was one he would have found. At length he stopped and stooped over one, upon tlie shoulders of which were two golden epau lettes. It was the captain of the brig—the murderer of his father 1 The boy placed his foot on the prostrate body, and while a strange light beamed from his eyes, and a shudder passed over his countenance, lie muttered : "Father, you are fearfully revenged!" The boy spoke truly. Fearful in its con ception and fearful in its consummation, bail been the "Pilot's Revenge." The Family Rudder. A Comstocker who was having his hair cut gave Ihe barber particular instructions not to remove a long lock that projected in a somewhat unsightly way from the front of Ins head: "It don't become you," said the barber. "Can't help that," said the customer. "Better let me take it off," said the bar l>er. "Just you leave it as it is," said the man. "But," persisted the barber. "I can't give you a smooth, decent cut if I leave the hair so long in front. It will look very bad. 1 can't see what you want it left there for ?" "That's because you don't know what it i ß —you don't know the use of it." "I know that it's a bunch of hair and know that it's unbecoming just where it is." "Yes; it is a bunch of hair, and it is something more than a bunch of hair—it's the family rudder." "The family what ?" "The family rudder. When things don't go right at home my wife always grabs that lock of hair. She would feel lost without it. When she gets liold of that she can handle me—steer me in the right course, so to speak—and when I go in the right course, the whole family go in the right course and all is well. I've got used to it now and don't mind it. Should I lose my hair and become bald, or should you give me a fighting cut all over, there would be no way of steering me : 1 should beccgne unmanageable, and sooner or later a total wreck. No, sir; don't you disturb the family rudder. - Thick llcH.\." Witness retires, muttering, "Well, if lie ain't the thickest headed chap I ever laid eyes on. ■lumen lor the Birds. For those who care about the outside ac cessories of home there is nothing prettier or that gives a more home-like look than bird-houses. It looks hospitable and cheery to provide a home !* the little songsters, and thus bring them around you. I have lately picked up these ideas, and send them to the bird lovers, so they can see how easily a pretty bird-house may be constructed. Old bird cages make beauti ful swinging bird-houses. Take criuoliue wires or strips of refuse tin from the yard of your nearest tinker, and wind them in and alxmt the cage, forming a rough sur face, over which apply the mortar; then thatch the roof, which apply the mortar; then thatch the roof, which is easily done on the wire foundation; fasten the bottom on securely by binding with wire to the upper part, and fasten the dve the center) supports the roof, which is made ou a frame, and ex tends above the houses. A Dove Story. lu 1875, a lady sustained the greatest loss that can befall a woman, iu the death of her husband under circumstances that rendered the blow a more than ordinarily crushing one. So sudden hud it been that no time for preparation or farewell had been vouchsafed; and the sudden rending of such a tie, after over thirty years of ever-increas ing affection, left her singulurly desolate, as she was childless, and without any very near relations. The house in which she lived was completely detached, standing in a large old-fashioned garden, with an ex tensive lawn, planted with shrubs and large fruit trees, some of which came close to the windows. A veranda ran round the back of the house, its sloping roof being just un der the windows of the sleeping-rooms. One night, while in the first freshness of her sorrow, she went to her bedroom, at the back of the house, at her usual hour— ten o'clock. It was in the month of De cember, and curtains weredrawu, and a fire burniug in the grate. Half mechanical ly she walked to the dressing-table, winch stood before the window, and was in the act of laying her watch upon it, when she heard a low sound that seemed to her half a moan of pain, half a planitive appeal, and altogether such as she had never heard be fore. YY'ith suspended lireath, and great ly Btartled, she listened. It came again, leader aud more prolonged. With nerves s(f shaken as hers were by- her recent sor row, she found it impossible to remain alone in the room and with afeclingof some thing like terror,she hastened to an adjoining apartment, summoned a friend who was staying with her, and brought her, back to the room. The sound continued, and her friend being unable to account for it, the servants were rung up. The room was carefully seurched, drawers were opened, every article of furniture that could contain any living creature, or give any clew to the origin of the sound, was examined. The noise all the time continued, sometimes louder, sometimes softer, hut never quite ceasing; and all that could # be decided was Hint it was most distinct in the neighbor hood of the window where the lady had first heard it. The servants, seeing how much affected by it their mistress was, ami beiiig unable to find any cause for it, had tried to persuade her it must be the wind in the chiinmey or the trees outside; but the might was ealm, and the sound was altogether so strange, aud it seemed to all so unlike anything they had ever heard he fore. the most ingenious theory failed to account for it. More and more the belief that it must he something supernatural im pressed the lady's mind; and though event ually it ceased, and silence succeeded, even the presence of her friend, who reiuaided with her at night, did not re-assure her suf ficiently to induce sleep. In the morning the mystery was explain ed, so far as so strange an incident was capable of explanation. The gardener had observed the day before a white pigeon in a large pear-tree that grew close to the win dow of the room the lady was occupying. He was much surprised, for there was no pigeon cote near, and he had never seeu the bird before in the garden. As the day wore on, finding it still remained in the tree, he made several attempts to catch it; hut al ways eluded him, pertinaciously returning to the tree. When he told his story, no doubt co.ld be felt that, breaking the silence of the night in that retired spot, it w as the voice of the pigeon that had sound ed so strange and unaccountable; hut the lateness of the hour, when birds of its kind have, as a rule, long gone to roost, and the possibility of a dove tieing there at all never having occurcd to any one, none had recognized it at the moment. From the distinctness of the note —for all present Lad fancied the noise might be iu the room —it was evident the bird must have been on the roof of the veranda immediately un der the widow. In the morning it had van ished, and was never seen again; although the lady desirous of ascertaining if it were really a pigeon, and with some idea, if it could lie found, of keeping it, gave orders that it should lie traced, and if jiossible se cured. Dismissing from our minds as un tenable anything that here savors of what Is termed the supernatural, one is bound* to admit that it was a strange and touching coincidence that brought a bird so familiar to all minds as an emblem of wedded love, in apparent loneliness and distress, to utter its plaintive lament at so unusual an hour uudcr the window of one grieving un der such a liereavement as hers. Agricultural Information. llijah was singing and dustiug off the in dia-rubber eat, when a farmer who hail walked eleven miles through the mud to consult the old janitor on agriculture, en tered, and when he had been made to feel at home he "remarked, "I've read about your ranch in the papers, and I've a few questio sto ask you." "Purceed —pur- ceed, my friend," was the cheerful answer. "1 have had a dispute with my wife as to the proper time to plant root beer," cout in ued the old man. "She says it ought to be planted in April, and I say not till June. What do you say ?" "Hem—hem—vein," coughed Bijah as he arose up and walked around the room. He grew pale clear up to his ears, his Knees wobbled, and it was some time Ixffore he could brace up ami re ply, "My friend, go home and tell your wife that she doesn't even know the first principles of agriculture, though I don't doubt that she can sew the eye right out of a needle and build the nicest loaf of bread in the State. Root leer, sir, should be set out iu Juue —alxiut the tenth day of June, at ten o'clock in the morning." "Thanks! thanks!" exclaimed the grateful man, as he extended his hand. "Now then, second ly, my wife claims that the roof of a cow shed should be planned at a quarter pitch, while I claim an eighth pitch. What is your opinion f" "My friend," answered Bijah. "your wife is doubtless the sweetest wo man in the world, but she lacks the eye of an artist. A cow-shed roof should never have less than an eighth pitch, and down in Mexico I have seen 'em with as high as u twentieth pitch, and bay windows put ou besides." The man shook bauds again, expressed, his undying gratitude, aiul con tinued: "One more question: My wife claims that onions cannot be rated under the head of crops, while I claim that they can. Please decide that." "my dear sir, 1 haven't the least doubt that your wile wears a No. three shoe, and quotes Latin like a duck; but if onions are not a 'crop,' then 1 am a bald-beaded Pawnee, and ought to he hung lor murder. Ouious are not only a crop, sir, but a product." And tlic old janitor signified that the audience was at end. A Louie Full. A singular accident occurred at the steel works, at llarrisburg, Pa., recently, iu which a man fell sixty-five feet through the stack of a hot furnace, without breaking any bofies or seriously injuring himself. Frank Lamcka. au employe of the works, while engaged on the top of No. 2 furnace, having started the hose to play water into the furnace to cool it off, lost his balance and plunged in, falling about sixty-five feet before lie struck the obstructions in the fur nace, when lie bounded fifteen feet further, and rolled out at the bottom of the stack. When the frightful disaster was discovered, the wildest excitement prevailed among the employes, and for a time a puuic was imminent, but order was soon restored, and every attention paid to the injured man possible under the circumstances. He was taken to his home at Ewitigtou, where medical attendance soon arrived, and after the most careful examination it was found that the man had received no fatal injuries, and no bones were broken. His nose suf fered the most injury, that having been lacerated and bruised very severely, caus ing it to swell very much. This is the most miraculous escape any man ever made at any of the ironworks in that city, and the fall of eighty feet, through a heated stack, to the ground beneath, .without causiug in stant death or breaking a bone, may be set down as the most frightful ever heard of in such a connection. The Euglish Rnlpe. A peculiarity of a good snipe ground is its seeming inexhaustibility. A well stocked hut small haunt of quail, prairie chicken, or any land bird save snipe and woodcock, is soon depleted by sharp shooting, nor will it recover until the following season. But with sni{>e the case is wholly different. You raise jxinaibly a hundred birds to-day, and kill off a couple of dozeu. To-morrow, there seems about as many, and your suc cess corresponds with that of yesterday; so through a whole week, perhaps, with apparently no marked addition or subtrac tion from the quantity of game when you desist. Whence they oome is one of the mysteries of snipe history. If a very considerable tract were so laid under trib ute, such results would excite no surprise ; but when the whole area traveled over is but a few acres, it is a matter of astonish ment. We have in miud a bit of the choic est kind of snipe ground, a mile and a half long, and from a few yards to an eighth of a utile iu width, that at the height of the season presents this characteristic in a marked degree. A couple of guns have | brushed over it for an hour or two. each morning aud evening during a week, taking off from ten to fifteen couple daily, and leaving the ground as fat as they found it. In shooting, remember that they always rise djainxt the wind ; so make a wide de tour if ueeessary, to come upon the wind ward end of the ground, and then beat to its furthermost Doint. The motions of the bird in the air are very rapid, twisting and perplexing, and none other require a more careful observance of their flight before you can hope for success in shooting. The best days for seeking him are when first th weather lias become warm and calm, or with a southerly, moist breeze, after a se vere, long, cold storm from the north, northeast or northwest. The hinls take advantage of the change to foeifr on the marshes they half deserted during the boisterous weather. A warm day follow ing a slight hoar frost is also excellent. On the favorable days the birds he well, even in the bare open marsh from which the ice and sprite fresliets have swept all covert. They betake themselves to little depressions, in the ground, hiding behind swales, hillocks and little ridges, and div ing into little sunken spots. Although at other times they would rise well out of dis tance when you walked across so bald a ground, yet now they seem content to rest after long buffeting with the fierce, strong winds. Such ground aud such days are to lie marked with a white atone by the un happy man whose good fortune h is brought him timely there. For Spring shooting, use wading stockings, high water-tight leather Ixxits. Y'ou do not now need to travel over a wide extent of country, and the water is of the coldest. In the fall,ordinary lx>ots, no matter how holey, or stout shoes, with leggings, are better. You must travel longer distances, and will hatdly confine your whole day to this spot. Therefore, the exercise and the' warmer water will keep you safe from harm through wet feet. If you keep in motion, the blood will circu late freely, and wet stockings feel warm ; but do not sit down on a log for a long rest, no matter how wearied, or you will quickly chill, probably laying the foundation for a serious cold or future siege of rheumatism. Twain u Alpine Sunrise We heard his horn, and instantly we got up. It was dark and cold and wretched. Ajß I tumbled around for the matches, knocking things down with my quivering hands, 1 wished the sun would rise in the middle of the day, when it was warm and cheerful, and one wasn't sleepy. We pro ceeded to dress by the gloom of a couple of sickly candles, but we could hardly button anything, our haxds shook so. I thought of how many happy people there were in Europe, Asia and America, and every where, who were sleeping peacefully in their Ix'ds, aud did not have to get up to see the liegi sun rise—people who did not appreciate their advantages, as like as not, hut would get up in the morning wanting more boons of Providence. While think ing these thoughts, I yawned, iu rather an ample way, and my upper teeth got hitched on a nail over the door, and while I was mounting a chair to free myself, Harris drew the window curtain and said: "Oh, this is luck. We shan't have to go out at all—yonder are the mountains iu full view." This was good news, iudeed. It made mo cheerful right away. One could see the Alpine masses dimly outlined against the I Jack riruiaueot and one or two stars blink ing through rifts iu the night. Fully clothed and wrapped in blankets, we huddled our selves up by the wiudow with lighted pipes, i and fell into a chat, while we waited in ' exceeding comfort to see how au Alpine sunrise was going to look by candle-light. By aud by a delicate, spiritual sort of efful gence spread itself by imperceptible de grees over the loftiest altitudes of the snowy wastes; but there the effort stopped. I said, presently: "There's a lutch about this suurise some where. It doesn't seem to go. YY'hat do you reckon is the matter with it ?" "1 don't kuow. It appears to hang fire somewhere. I never saw a suurise act like this before. Can it be that the hotel is playing anything on us?" "Of course not. The hotel only has a proper interest in the sun; it has nothing to do with the management of it. It is a precarious kind of property, too; a succes sion of total eclipses would probably ruiu this tavern. Now, what can be the matter with the sunrise ?" Harris jumped up and said: "Uve got it. I know what's the matter with it—we've been looking at the place where the sun set last night 1" Six Tears Ago.' Eliza Duke, large aud stout, accused her husbaud, John, of "licking" her. John is as thin as a Surrogate's seal, and doesn't look as if lie was capable of harder work than licking a postage-stamp. YVlien in the Court of Special Sessions recently he pleaded guilty to the charge, and claimed that his wife had walloped him with a clothes-pole. His shirt front was covered with blood; he said that the officer had struck him on the head with a club. The Court tried to figure out how he could twist his head around and get the front of his shirt bloody, but failed. "Haven't I seen you somewhere before?" asked Jus'.ic# Duffy, who has a faculty of remembering faces. "Yes, your Honor, six years ago." "Where?" "In my house on Sixteenth street, at a wedding." The reply brought down the house, and lawyers, spectators and witnesses roared. The Court joined in, and John escaped with a one-day sen Wnce, Ruined Cities In America. In the far West, in the cities or the great canyons of Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico are the dwellings and temples of a race or tribe of men, who had mastered some of the arts of civilization. In the plains are pastoral villages built of stone and mor tar, for both shelter and defense. The houses are large, for a number of people, with a court-yard in the centre. There arc no side entrances, but ingress was by ladders over the walls and into the court yard. This indicates (hat the people were conttnaally on their guard against prawling enemies, the Arabs of America. These communal cities contain eirular towers of great strength, constructed with concen tric walls and a hollow circular eourt in the center. The walls are joined by radial partitions, thus strengthening the whole. Most of these towers are much dilapidated, so that it is impossible to ascertain wheth er they were roofed or not. A cast ot the remnants of one of the largest lowers has been made by Edwin E. Powell, of the Powell survey, and is now in the work shop of Prof. Ward at the University. It is probable that these towers were entered by a secret, rock-cut passage, as at least one such passage has been discovered. In a recent article by Henry Gannett, the suggestion is ventured that these towers were temples of the Sun, in the center of which the eternal Are was kvpt burning. Similar towers are now found in inhabited cities or pueblos, and are used as sun tem ples. It is also quite probable that these tower might have been used for defense in sore extremity, the people entering them by the secret passages. The double, and sometimes triple walls would discourage an enemy, armed only with bows ann clubs. As dangers thickened about these people, or perhaps in their earlier history, fortified dwellings were grouped in the caves form ed by the disintegration of soft rock in the perpendicular cliffs of the canyons. These cliff dwelling must have been constructed with enormous labor, as the stone was either carried or hoisted from below. The approaches were by steps cut in the rock, and were very precarious. In the outer stone walls are a few small square open ings for air and light, while the mode of entrance was by ladders over the wall. The cliff fortresses are of great antiquity. The cedar wood used for beams is, however, well preserved. Scattered about are great quantities of broken pottery. The mortar with which the walh are laid is still firm; and in some places are seen the prints of human hands, made when the mortar was first laid on. The story of these ruined towns and fortresses will, in all probabilty, never be known. It is some satisfaction, however, to know that America has rums of great interest. Sea Elephant liable*. Two sea elephant babies were recently exhibited at Santa Clara, California. They were captured by Captain Peters off the Mexican coast, about seven hundred miles south of this port, and are the prop erty of Air. J. T. Hayes. They now weigh about eight hundred pounds apiece, though only a few months old. They are good tempered and playful, and willingly allow gentle handling. Similar curiosities have never before been seen in this city. The bottle nosed seal or sea elephant is the largest of the seal family, and from this fact and the peculiar shape of its nose it is so named. Seals of this species are ofter seen that measure more than twenty-five feePfrom tip to tip, and fifteen feet or more in circumference. In colors the males are generally dark, grayish blue or brown, and the females are dark brown above and yel lowish below. The male bottle-nosed seal has the power of extending its muzzle to a foot or more in length, as does the elephant its trunk. They have four fingers and a short thumb, with perfect nails, on the front flippers. The hair is rather coarse, but there is a demand for the skins of these animals for harness making? The oil that is obtained from the blubber of these seals is clear, although not exactly pleasant, its • odor and its taste are not bad, and it bums slowly, with a bright, clear, smokeless flame. These seals are found in large herds on the islands of the Antarctic ocean, and in the winter time as far north as the coast of Mexico, generally on sandy and desert beaches, near fresh water streams. They never attack ah imau being, except in defense of their young or in self defense. The species are much larger, as a general statement, than the largest elephant. As a consequence of brutal and indiscriminate (Slaughter, they are now nearly extinct. Hi* Happiu*** was Soured. "Such a morning, Hannah!" enthused Mr. Smiley, as he tucked his napkin under his chin, "such a morning! Why, I've walked around three blocks, and tetered on my beels and toes, taking a bath of glory in the sunshine. And it has given me an appetite, Hannah, such a one as I haven't had since childhood's happy hour. Coffee; ah ! Thanks. A little sugar and the cream; ah, dont forget the cream, Han nah," and he fairly beamed with good nat ure. "I declare, what is this you've got for drink ? Bah, Mrs. Smiley, it is out. sageous " . "Don't you like it, Ichabod ?" inquired the dame anxiously. "It's a new idea for settling coffee, that's all. Sister Maria said a little codfish skin would make it pour clear " "A little codfish skin. How much, I should like to know ?" "Why, just a piece about as big—as my hand —and—I " "Oh, the stupidity ot womankind. Why didn't you dump in a whole fishing fleet into your coffee, madam, or a grocery store, or a section of the banks of New foundland —w —or." At this point his flow of English gave out, and leaving the table with a suddenness that shook the stopples out of the caster cruets, he strode out of the house, down town, a breakfastless and hopeless wreck. One Point to lUdeem It. Notwithstanding the fact that the game called "fifteen" has been ridiculed and pro nounced a fraud, the bashful young man blesses it and will ever hold it in fond re membrance. For wasn't it the means of bringing his sweetheart's face close to his | own, and didn't it enable him to touch the tips of dainty fingers, while her balmy breath intoxicated him with its fragrance?" And, oh! wasn't it just at that blissful moment when the old man came into the parlo , caught him by the collar, yanked him from the sofa, and lifted him off the front stoop with the parting injunction, ''lf ever I catch you here again, trying to kiss my daughter, I'll fix you j confound your impudence!" NO. 20.