VOL. LIV.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS OF
BELLEFONTE.
C. T. Alexander. C. M. Bower.
& BOWER,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
BELLEFONTE, PA.
Office In Garm&n's new building.
JOHN B. LINN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
BELLEFONTE, PA.
Office on Allegheny Street.
QLEMENT DALE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
BELLEFONTE, PA.
Northwest corner of Diamond.
Y° CUAI £ HASTINGS,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
BELLEFONTE, PA
High Street, opposite First National Bank.
w M. C. HEINLE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW",
BELLEFONTE, PA.
Practices in all the courts of Centre County.
Special attention to coUectlons. Consultations
In German or English.
w ILBUR F. REEDER,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
BELLEFONTE, PA.
All business promptly attended to. Collection
of claims a speciality.
J. A. Bearer. J. W. Gephart.
JgEAVEI & GEPHART,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
BELLEFONTE, PA.
Office on Alleghany Street, North of High.
w. A. MORRISON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
BELLEFONTE, PA.
Office on Woodrlng's Block, Opposite Court
House.
D. S. KELLER,
ATTORXEY- IT r A W
BELLEFONTE, PA.
Consultations In English or German. Offlce
In Lyon's Building, Allegheny Street.
JOHN G. LOVE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
BELLEFONTE, PA.
Offlce In the rooms formerly occupied by the
late w. P. Wilson.
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BUSINESS CARDS OF MILLHEIM, &C.
PI A. STURGIS,
* DEALER IN
Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, silverware, Ac. Re
pairing neatly and promptly done and war
ranted. Main Street, opposite Bank, MUlhelm,
Pa.
~T CTDEININGER,
NOTARY PUBLIC.
SCRIBNER AND CONVEYANCER,
MILLHEIM, PA.
All business entrusted to him. such as writing
and acknowledging Deeds, Mortgages, Releases,
Ac will be executed with neatness and dis
patch. Offlce on Main street.
TT H. TOMLIXSON,
DEALER IN
ALL KINDS OF
Groceries. Notions, Drugs. Tobaccos,
Fine Contectlonerles and everything in the line
of a first-class orocery store.
Country Produce taken In exchange for goods.
ltfrin stieet, opposite Bank, Mllheltn. Pa.
T\ AVID I. BROWN,
MANUFACTURER AND DEALER IN
TINWARE, STOVEPIPES, Ac.,
SPOUTING A SPECIALTY-.
Shop on Main Street, two houses east of Bank,
Mlllheim, Penna.
J EISENHUTH,
* JUSTICE OF THE PEACE,
MILLHEIM, PA.
All business promptly attended to.
collection of claims a specialty.
Offlce opposite Elsenhutn's Drug Store.
TTYFUSSER & SMITH,
DEALERS IN
Hardware, Stoves, Oils, Paints, y}lass,_N\ all
Papers; Coach Trimmings, and saddlery Ware,
C " A n grades of Patent Wheels.
Corner of Main and Penn Streets, Mlllheim,
Penna. ' '
• JACOB WOLF,
K FASHIONABLE TAILOR,
MILLHEIM, PA. "
Wr&urnal Bookstore.
CO.,
HAIN STREET,
MILLHEIM, FA-
A* WALTER, Cashier. DAY. ERAPB, Pres,
A HARTER,
AUCTIONEER,
REBERSBURG, PA.
fatlsfaction Guaranteed.
lie pillietw Bmml
VIOLET.
Violet delioaie, sweet,
Down in the deep of the wood.
Rid in thy still retreat,
Far from the sound of the street,
Man and his merciless mood
Safe from the storm and the heat,
Breathing of beauty and good
Fragrantly under thy hood,
Violet.
Beautiful maid discreet.
Where is ths mate that is meet.
Meet for thee—strive as he eould—
Yet will I kneel at thy feet.
Fearing another one should.
Violet.
The Golden Talisman.
"1 cannot recommend you, believing
you to be a thief, but I will be so merciful
that 1 will let you depart. Go at once."
The voice and face were stern and un
yielding.
Geoffrey Baird knew that all the piteous
appeals he had made, the assertions of in
nocence he had frantically declared hail fal
len upon ears not indeed deaf, but closed
to him.
"Y'ou have been very kind to me, Mr.
Hoyt," he said, his voice quivering with
pain, "and I hope some day you will know
that I had rather cut off my right hand
than let it rob you."
Tnere was no reply, and the boy, for be
was only nineteen, walked slowly from the
room, where he Jiad been accused of crime,
condemned and punished in a brief half
hour.
He was a widow's only son, and very
poor, but Abraliam Hoyt had been very
kind to him, employing him in light labor
about his extensive grounds, and trying him
well, and allowing him to read whatever he
wished in his library.
And from the library a valuable watch
and chain hail been stolen from a table
drawer, when there was no one as far as
could be ascertained, iu the room but Geof
frey Baird.
Crushed, humiliated, almost heart-broken
the lad walked from the house across the
wide gardea, bright with summer bloom
that seemed to mock his misery. He had
his hand upon the great iron gate leading
into the road, when he heard his name
called, in a clear, childish voice.
"Jeff, Jeff! Oh, wait a moment I"
And then, turning his heavy eyes, he
saw a fairy of ten summers, a golden-haired
darling, dressed all in white, coming down
the broad walk with flying feet.
Of all the treasures his employer pos
sessed, Geoffrey knew this, his only child,
was the dearest. Motherless from her
birth, she had been her father's idol her
whole petted life.
"Jeff," she panted, coming to his side,
"jou myst go away, papa says but I know
you ?"
"No. Miss Daisy, I never took it."
"1 know it! I'm going to And out who
did take it. And Jeff, you nuwt take
this."
She opened her tiny white hand to show
lying upon the palm a broad twenty-dollar
geld piece. But the boy shrauk back.
4 No, no, Miss Daisy," he said "I can-
But you must. It is my own, my very
own. Aunt Louise gave it to me on my
biithday. In the corner 1 scratched 4 M. H,'
for Margaret Hoyt, with a pin, but 1 guess
it won't hurt it. Please, please, dear Jeff,
do take it."
t?he pressed it into his reluctant hand
and then throwing flcr arms around his
neck, kissed him with her child lips, say
ing :
♦ 4 I will find out who did take the watch,
Jeff, and then you will come back."
Before he could answer she was speeding
back to the house, her flying curls out on
the gummer air that wafted to Geoffrey a
last—
"Good-by, dear Jeff."
With a heavy heart he went homeward,
to tell h : s sorrow and disgrace. He feared
it would almost kill his mother, but after
hearing him patiently, she said :
"I bad a letter from Albany this morn
ing, Geoffrey, from my father's lawyers.
Twenty-five years ago my father cast me
off for marrying a poor man. He died
without forgiving me but to you he has left
his fortune —nearly half a million in money
—upon condition you take his name when
you are of age. I have packed up your
possessions, and we will go to Albany to
night.
"Margaret!"
The voice was sharp and imperative, and
Margaret Hoyt, looked up from the task of
teaching Alice Bristow her letters, to
answer, but before she spoke the beautiful
girl who entered the school-room said:
"Margaret, 1 want you to come and
show Elsie how to trim my dress for to
night. Everybody said you had rich ex
quisite taste before your father failed and
died."
The pale, patient face flushed a little at
the cruel words, but Laura Bnstow did not
heed the pain she had given.
"Come now," she said impatiently; "I
want to look particularly well, few: Willard
Wharton is coming. It is the first party since
he came from Europe. He has been vege
tating in Florence ever so long/ wW a
consumptive mother; but she died a year
ago, and after traveling awhile he has come
honie. Did you know him ?"
4 'l never heard the name."
44 Come to think of it, he left long before
you came,"
Alice's primer was put aside, and Mar
garet accompanied Laura to the pom where
her finery was being prepared for a brilliant
party a few hours later.'
"Miss Hoyt," JVTjss said looking
up from the cloud of tulle under her fin
gers, "I wish you to come down to play,
and I wish you to wear white lace ruffles
and a white flower or two in your flair.
Tflat w|ll not interfere with yo\p- mourning,
but you will look a little less like a mute at
a luneral."
Jo bear was to obey. Mrs. Bristow was
a distant connection qf Mr. Hqyt's and
when he died leaving his only child to pov
erty, the lady impressed upon stricken
Daisy that she was placed under an enormous
weight of obligation by being permitted to
be governess, lady's maid, general useful
factotum in her family.
But the soft violet eyes had lost nothing
of their sweetness; the golden hair gathered
into a rich knot, was full of waves and
ringlets, making tiny baby curls around
he delicate oval of her pale face, and the
MILLHEIM, PA., THURSDAY, JULY 22, 1880.
sensitive mouth was still expressive and
lovely.
She sighed a little as she put the soft
white ruffle luto her liack dress, and a few
white flowers into her hair.
It seeius like forgetting poor father,"
she thought, but yet she knew her appear
ance had been too gloomy for a festive occa
sion.
The guest were gathering, and Daisy had
gone into a small sitting-room opposite the
wide drawing-rooms to wait until she was
summoned to sing and play.
She had never been in society in Albany,
and knew none of Mr. Bristow's friends, so
she was graciously excused from taking any
more active part in the social gathering
than to amuse by her singiug, or help wil
ling feet along by playing dance music.
She was turning over the leaves of a new
magazine, quite sure of being uninterrupted
wheu the door opened, and looking up she
saw a strange gentleman.
"Pardon me,'; lie ijiuid, "I thought this
was the drawing-room."
Then, as she lifted her face, he sprang
forward.
"Daisy I Daisy I" lie said, and not real
izing the familiarity of the address,she rose
to stretch out both hands, saying.
"Jeff! Is it Jeff?"
"It is Jeff," he answered, "or rather It is
Willard Wharton."
Then moving a chair near the one she
had occupied, he told her of his grand
father s legacy and the change of name.
"Through good and ill, years of prosper
ity and the temptation that assails all of
us. 1 have carried a golden talisman, to
keep my heart pure ami true, that I might
some day dare to briug it to your feet," he
said.
And through a mist of happy tears she
saw him open a large locket hanging to his
watch chain. No minature face, no lock
of hair was there, but carefully set. a
twenty-dollar gold piece, with 4 H. M,'
scratched with a pin in one corner.
In the drawing room Mrs. Bristow won
dered what detained our hero for the eve
ning; but wheu be came in late she read
nothing of the secret that was iu his happy
eyes.
She saw his courteous attention to her
governess, but attributed to the innate
courtesy of the young millionaire, and
Daisy sang as if inspired, and threw a
shower of fantasies into her waltz galop
music.
But when Miss Hoyt was asked for in
Mr. Wharton's calls, when the stylish turn
out that was admired of a'l Albany stood
at the door for Miss Hoyt to drive, Mrs.
Bristow grew savage.
"You are too forward with strangers,"
she told Daisy.
But Mr. Wharton is an old frieud. I
knew him when I wa3 a little girl, and—
and we are to be married in the spring,"
said blushing Daisy.
And considering Mr. Wharton's wealth
and position, and his future wife's proba
ble influence in society. Mrs. Bristow wise
au<l Daisy was pro
ty, for "Your Sjbttr *ll na tuyi
said Mrs. Bristow gracefully.
Not until they had b.jen sonic days mar
ried did Willard Wharton say one day car
lessly.
"By-the-by, Daisv, was that watch ever
found ?"
"Yes Felix was arrested six months af
terward for stealing some of the place, and
in his trunk was the watch. Papa search
ed faithfully for you, but you had vanished
as if the earth had swallowed you."
"I knew it'would turn up somewhere,"
said Mr. Wharton, quietly, "and perhaps
now it is iust as well it was missed. If 1
had not left in disgrace, my darling might
not have given me my golden talisman."
Hwwllnc I. u-arujjua Monkeys.
pour howling monkeys from Nicaragua
are now at the Zoological (garden at Phila
delphia. These animals have a reputation
of being able to make more noise in pro
portion to their size than any other animal
yet discovered, except perhaps the tree
frog. In their native woods, just before
sunrise, these howlers commence, and their
dismal cries, it is said, can be heard for
miles around. They are enabled to make
this terrific noise by reason of a special de
velopment of vocal organs. They are
small animals and are generally found in
South America. Those at the Garden
are known as the 'Mantled Howlers,' be
cause of a line of gray hair around the
back and sides, and are the most northern
cf several species. They are the first
which have ever been in the Garden, as
they are scarce and hard to capture. Be
sides that, they are very delicate, as was
shown by the fact that the four which ar
rived there are all that was left of fourteen
which were sent from Nicaragua. To
capture those fourteen little monkeys it
took about eighteen men several hours,
and necessitated the cutting down of about
four acres of trees. A tribe or lot of the
animals were observed in the forest, and
the method by which they were secured
was briefly as follows : The men first sur
rounded the tribe, so as to drive them
as closely together as possible. Then an
outside ring of trees were cut down; the
fall of which drove the monkeys still closer
to the centre. More trees were felled, until
but a single clump of two or three trees
were left standing, and the monkeys were
left sheltered in their branches. Then ue
after another these trees were cut down so
that all the tribe had to take refuge in one
tree. The oapture of a number of them
was then a comparatively easy matter. The
four little strangers were placed iu one of
the cages in the monkey house. With
them arrived a "black handed spider mon
key." specimens of which have been in
the collection before. The name incjicatps
just - about what they hx)k l;ke.
have black hands long arms and legs,
-vyhiqh make them resemble a spider very
much.
TXH CAT tig.
The of these seem to be increas
ing astonishingly. The drive into the
bordering States this year, was not leas
than aOQjOQQ. The largest percentage of
these were one and two-year-old past steers,
w Inch are already contracted for in advance,
at good prices, with the more northern
ranch-men. The animals are said to be in
extra-fine condition, and the drive began
much earlier this spring than usual, as the
mild past winter has been extra-favorable
for the growth of pasturage. Yearling
steers commanded $6 on the average; two
year-olds and cows $9; three-year-olds $10;
beeves, $l3. The average worth when
market is reached, is estimated at $ll per
head, making $3,300,000 for the lot—a
goodly round sum for the Texas ranch-men
to realize in a single year for their cattle.
How It Strike* 'Eiu.
If you want to know a man for what he
is take him in a hot day. Most every body
has away of standing cold weather, but
wheu the sun jumps the mercury above
eighty-five degrees human natuie becomes
reckless. A citizen who waited in the
shade of the postofflce for a quarter of an
hour yesterday had plenty of proofs of this.
The first one who approached was a solid
business man, his hat on one side and his
coal half off. The other day he was crazy
on the subject of politics, but yesterday
when asked how he liked the nomination,
he belched out:
"What in Texas have 1 got to do with
politics ? There's too much politics in this
country —too blasted much,' 1 wonder what
in blazes such weather as this was sent to
us for!"
The next man is generally looked upon
as a meek and humble-miaded citizen. He
has been known to buy a dog rather than
see it killed, and he refuses to fish because
be believes the hook hurts 'em. He came
along mopping his brow and trying to get
away from a sticky undershirt, and was
pleasantly asked if the weather suited him.
sir!" he began, as he bristled
up like a fighting dog, "I mind my own
business and desire other people to" mind
theirs! I never did strike a man yet, but
I want no impudence from vou or anyone
else 1"
The next man was a lawyer. He was
asked if he could manage to keep cool, and
he turned into the shade, pulled out his
handkerchief, and replied:
"Attorney Black insulted me iu open
court about a month ago, and though I did
think I wouldn't pay any attention to it,
yet this hot wave has convinced me that it
is my duty to slap his mouth on sight!
Have you seen him pass here 1"
The next man has a local reputation as a
jolly, good-hearted fellow, and men have
known him for years without hearing him
speak a cross word. He toiled along in
the hot sun with the perspiration ruuuimr
down his checks, and as he reached the
shade he was accosted by a bootblack. He
took off his hat, wiped his face and then
said:
"I believe you are the boy who cut my
horses tail off, one night last week, and if
you don't go away from me I'll do you a
mortal injury J"
There were several other instances going
to show that while cold brings out the
cheery in man's nature, heat parboils his
sentiment and hardens his better feelings.
In oold weather men will hunt for a friend
to drink with them. In summer they will
sneak off alone and go into a saloon by the
alley door. Not one man in a hundred will
refuse to sign a petition in the winter, but
when approached in the red-hot seaiiou they
won t even listen to two of the twenty
four reasons why they should sign. This
mysterious change must have been forcibly
felt by a leading citizen, who the other day
wrote a postal card saying • ,
"In Mav I suWritW t ome no * 1
hot weather
sets in 111 repudiate the subscription and
give you a chance to lick the subscnlier."
lice Ranching in California.
This is a famous country for bees and
the making of honey, and at many a break
fast table in distant Europe to-day, the
waffle is spread with the sweets that have
been filched troin the hearts of a thousand
California flowers. In the mouth of almost
every canon there is a liee ranch or apiary,
whose owner gro*s indolent and prosper
ous from the labors of his industrious sub
jects. Here there is po long winter with
dearth of flowers, through wh ch the pa
tient workers must be nursed and fed in
order that they may live until the opening
of the next field season, These bee rancnes
are models of neatness domestic com
fort, and the profession of bee-keeping is
rapidly becoming popular among persons
of little physical strength or small financial
capital, or both; such as maiden ladies,
brokeu down ministers, bachelor students,
and those dilettante farmers who fancy that
the royal road to oucollc happiness lies
through the flowery beds of a bee pasture.
Their expenses are as light as those ola
hermit in his cave, and what stores of
honey are laid up are so much clear gain,
as the bees lx>ard themselves while they
work, and work unceasingly for the pre
paration of the winter, which never comes.
When the hive is full, the cakes of comb
are removed, the liquid is extracted from
the cells, and the empty pupa are replaced
to be filled again and again, This eco
nomical process prevents a waste of labor
and time in gathering of wax for the build
ing of new bins in the store-house. Walk
ing out in the morning in the green brush
wood of these canyons, you hear a loud
and continuous buzzing of wings, and, al
though there may not be a flower in sight,
it is as ceaseless and strong as in a buck
wheat patch or clover field at home. This
humming of bees is nature's tenor voice, as
the roaring of the water is her bass. There
are cures for homesickness in the bees'
monotone even though the thpreqf
be perfectly wild, as, indeed, many of these
are. In such a country you cappot feel
utterly lonesome ami fosf.
The Chinese Wall.
Mr. Uuthank, an American engineer, lias
been engaged lately making, a survey for a
Chinese railway, during which he too.K
measurements in many places pf
wall of China. Hp giys the hpight at
eighteen tyt'v, IWfl \h£ wu\tn oipi top fifteen.
hundred yards'there tit a tower
twehty-ipvtr' tept square and from twenty to
forty-five feet high. The foundation of
this immense wall is solid granite. The
wall goes for 1,300 miles over the moun
tains, chasms and valleys. If wns Uu\lt to
j keep oyt the TwtM*. Mr. Vnthank
brought bapk with lvh n a brick front this
wall, wlqch is supposed to have been made
2QO years before Christ. fn some places
the wgll is buiit smooth up against the
canyon# or precipices, where there is a
sheer despent of one thousand feet. Small
are arched over, but in the larger
streams the wall is built to the waters edge,
and a tower is built on each side. To cal
culate the time of building, or oast of this
wall* is beyond human skill. On the top
of the wall are breastworks or defenses,
facing in and out, so that the defending
force can pass from one tower to the other
without being exposed to any enemy from
either side. So far as the magnitude of the
wall is concerned, it surpasses everything
in ancient or modern times, of which there
is any trace. It is said that the Pyramids
of Egypt are nothing compared to it.
Natural Illatory-Modern.
For hundreds of years the wise men of
the world vainly tried to find out what alli
gators were made for. Some supuosed
l hey wen* a parlor ornament on legs; others
contended that their mission was to tow
suwlogs up and down; and many persons
firmly tielieved that the reptile had no other
aim in life than to get hold of a runaway
Dutchman. We shall divide the alligator
into several sections, in order to study its
different points. The head comes first. It
is one part head and two parts mouth, this
chap being the only living thing that can
open his mouth as far as he wants to, and
then have lots of spare mouth left. The
jaws are built on the sawmill principle.
While one is working, the other is resting
and getting ready for a soft snap. No one
ever experimented to see just how strong
an alligator was In his jaws, but when they
have been seen to crunch the end off a saw
log, and bend a crow-bar double, you may
take it for granted that a small boy's shoul
der-blades wouldn't stop their teeth very
long. TJieir teeth sre numerous and made
on honor. They not only use them to pick
up tender infants lost overboard, but to haul
prosy old spotted cows off the river bank
and put them beyond further pain and sor
row. When an alligator gets a fair hold of
you there is only one thing to do —call for
the police. In the head are the eyes. They
could not grow in a better place to please
the reptile. They are so set that he can see
before and behind him, and there is no
danger of their getting blacked in a free
fight. If the eyes took up more room there
wouldn't be so much mouth ; therefore the
eyes are no larger than those of a dog. The
legs of an alligator are short and stout, it
not being supposed that he would ever par
ticipate in a walking match. He uses
them with equal facility on land or water,
and but very few cork-legs have ever been
seen in use among them. It might have
been just as well had these reptiles been
built on the principle of the camel or the
giraffe, but we must not complain of Na
ture's ways. The body and tail are cover
ed with an extra roof to protect the alliga
tor from hailstones and brick-bats, and it's
no use to shoot beans at him from the top
of a high bank. It has been asserted that
a bullet cannot penetrate this thick skin,
but if you ever get sight of one ot the gen
try pop your bullet at him from any point
of the compass. If they don't kill him
they will certainly cause sorrowful thoughts,
and perhaps lead to a resolution to leform.
The tail is firmly fastened to the body, aud
is both ornamental and useful. The day
may not be far distant when we shall walk
down to the placid waters at evening-time
to gaze on a race of bob-tailed alligators,
but just at present they have lots of use for
these pieces of personal property. It is
sa:d that they can knock a man end over
end with one sweep of the tail, but they
are seldom mean enough to do it. Alliga
tors eat most everything which comes in
their way and make no complaints. No
prefer to put in any spare time they have in
the company of such meij as they can lay
hold of. Their habits are very regular;
their conduct all that can be expected, and
they stick to business till the pond dries
up. As a general rule if you are up in a
tree and the alligator is in a pond he is not
inclined to meddle with your affairs, but
you can rouse his curiosity and his lielliger
ent disposition very quickly by dropping
down and trying to use him as a ferry lioat.
lie no doubt gets along just as well as if he
had been a clam or an oyster, and don't
you put faith in any historian who tries to
make you believe that the reptile sighs for
any change beyond tbat of diet.
A Walrus Hunt.
Three of these large animals were ob
served on a piece of ice, their large, ungain
ly forms stretched out, lazily enjoying their
siesta. Volunteers were not for
the purpose of attempting their capture;
but, as an indiscriminate attack would only
lead to faiiure, it was determined to dis
patch one of the whale-boats, specially fit
ted with a harpoon, gun and all the necessary
implements and gear for securing these ani
mals, in order to effect in a more organized
and skilful manner the object we had in
view. Great difficulty was experienced in
approaching our prey, as the boat had to
be hauled over loose fragments of ice, and
pushed through a sludgy consistency of soft
ice, snow and water, in which the oars
were useless; so that it was feared the un
avoidable noise would disturb and frighten
them away. At length, after much trouble
and no little exertion, we succeeded in get
ting within about. eight yards, so sound
was their repose, without exciting the least
suspicion in their minds that danger was
lurking in their vicinity. At that distance,
however, they evinced a degree of restless
ness, by lifting their shaggy heads and ut
tering jerky spasmodic snorts, that showed
us only too plainly a retreat was meditat
ed. Selecting the largest of the three of
his victims our harpooner carefully laid his
gun. A moment of breathless suspense
followed, to bp relieved by the report cf a
gun, a roar of pain and rage, and the
disappearance in the water of the three
walruaseg, while the piece of ice, on which
a moment before they had been reposing,
was covered with blood, convincing us that
our shaft had taken effect. If any further
proof was required in corroboration of this
fact, a tugging at the ffnp and the sudden
moving of the t was sufficient. Lances
and riftea quickly seized; for these
animals, when wounded and maddened by
pain, are ugly and dangerous customers,
and havp frequently been known to rip the
planks out of a boat with their formidable
tusks, and thus seriously endanger the lives
of the crew. We had wot long to wait; a
disturbance ia the water close alongside
demoted that our victim was coming to the
sqrface. An instant after, his bearded
j face, with eyory expression of infuriated
rage aud demoniacal hate, his fiery eyes
! glaring with vengeance, appeared, and was
J immediately saluted with two or three rifHi
, bullets. This warm reception served only
| to incense and irritate him, and he tried
! hard to wreak his vengeance on tlie boat;
but his enemies were too powerful, and
with the united aid of bullets and lance
thrusts, the unwielded beast was forced to
succumb to the superior power of his human
antagonists. Towing the great carcass
back to the ship, it was hauled on the floe
and quickly flinched. The blubber and
flesh were packed in barrels, making a very
welcome addition to the small amount of
food that we had on board for our dogs.
A MAN was boasting that he had an
elevator in his house. "So he has,"
chimed his wife; "and he keeps it In
the cupboard, in a bottle."-
AatftUMlaallonof the Duke of Buckingham
The duke uow prepared to go out to his
j carriage, which was wsiting at the door,
8 and as he went through the hall, still fol
f lowed by the French gentlemen, Uolonel
j Friar whispered something in his ear. He
r turned to listen, and at the same moment a
r knife was plunged into his heart and left
r there slicking. Plucking it out with the
, word "Villain I" he fell covered with blood.
11 is servants, who caught him as he was
, falling, thought it was a stroke of appo
! plexy, but the blood, both from the wound
[ and from bis mouth, quickly undeceived
, them. Theu an alarm was raised; some
ran to close the gates, and others rushed
forth to spread the news. The Duchess of
Buckingham and her sister, the Countess of
Anglesses, heard the noise in their chamber
and ran into tiff gallery of the lobby, where
they BHW the duke lying in his gore. He
was only in his six-and-lhirtieth year. The
first suspicion fell upon the French, and
they were in great danger from the duke's
people; but when a number of officers came
rushing in, crying out, "Where is the vil
lain? Where is the butcher?" a man
stepped calmly forward, saying, "I am the
man—here lam I" He had quietly with
drawn into the kitchen as soon as he had
done the deed, and might have escaped had
lie so willed. On hearing him avow the
murder the officers drew their swords, and
would have dispatched nim, but were pre
vented by the secretary Carleton, Sir Tho
mas Morion, and others, who stood guard
over him to the Governor's house. The
assassin turned out to be John Felton, a
geutleman by birth and education, who
liad been a lieutenant in the army during
the expedition to the Isle of Rhe. He had
thrown up his commission because lit could
not obtain the arrears of his pay, and had
seen another at the same time promoted
over his head. He had, therefore, most i
likely, a personal grudge against the duke,
but bad also lieen led on by religious fa- <
naticism. He was a stout, dark, military- 1
looking man, from Suffolk; but, according I
to his own account, was first excited to the 1
deed by reading the remonstrance of the 1
Parliament against the duke, when it
seemed to him that that remonstrance was
a sufficient warrant for the act, and that by
ridding the country of him he should render
a real service to it. He described himself 1
as walking in London on Tower Hill, when I
he saw a broad hunting knife on a cut- 1
ler's stall, and that it was suggested to him 1
instantly to buy it for this purpose. At J
Portsmouth one of the royal chaplains was *■
sent to him in his dungeon, where he lay I
heavily ironed; but Felton, supposing the
chaplain sent to draw something from him 8
rather than for his consolation, said: 4 'Sir, 8
I shall be brief with you; I killed him for c
the cause of God and my country." The c
chaplain, to mislead him, told him what E
was not true, ihat the surgeons gave hope "
of his life; but Felton promptly replied, '
"That is impossible! I had the power of 1
pcopie crowuea wwee mm, snuwefingTJiesßr *
ings upon him as the deliverer of his coun
try, and one old woman at Kingston said:
"Now God bless thee, little David!" mean
ing that he had killed Goliah.
Got Even With Him.
Mr. Ketten was invited to a party at
the house of a gilt edger, a large importing
merchant in San Francisco,and attended the
same with his wife, as would any other ex
pected guest. To his surprise, however,
he fouqd the company sitting solemnly
around as though in a concert hall, and j
himself at once pressed to "play something" I
by his host. The courteous Frenchman
complied, and, in response to repeated re
quests, continued to entertain the com
pany for nearly two hours. When at !ast
he was thoroughly fatigued, supper was
announced, whereupon the host arose and
said: "You're got piano punching down
fine, Ketton, old fellow. Now if you'll
play these young folks a few quadrilles
and polkas while the balance of us go down
to hash, I'll send up Martha Louise to re
lieve you presently; or, if you like, you
can have something sent up, and eat it
right here on the piano. I first kinder cal
culated to have engaged a couple of fid
dlers, but the old lady said she thought
you wouldn't mina. I'll make it all right
with you when you go." The astounded
artist gazed at the speaker (who was well
known to have been a barkeeper in the
"good old days") for a few moments was
utterly dumbfounded; then, controling
himself he gravely turned his back and be
gan playing dance music as requested.
When the compariy had all assembled in
he parlors, he raised his voice and said:
"Pray let some whiskey, lemons and sugar
be brought in." It was done. "Now,
then," said Mr. Ketten, fixing his eyes on
the host—"now, then, mix up some cock
tails, my good fellow; every man to his
trade." There was an awful silence, and
! then the shoddycrat, with a ghastly attempt
| to carry off the joke, prepared the drink
and handed it to the musician. The latter
drank the leverage critically, "You're
losing practice, my good man; the fellow
at the hotel bar does much better. There,
you may keep the change," and tossing
the almost asphyxiated millionare a half
dollar. he put his \sifo under his arm and
walked out..
Raising a Weaver
Jojee was a tramp, and hungry. Hap
pening to pass one day in a vMlage where
the women were wailing, he noticed the
preparations for a funeral. In hopes of
getting something to eat, Jojee said to the
relatives: "Would thou have the dead re
stored to life?" Then all the relatives
said, "Yes, that would we." "Place me,"
said Jojee the tramp, "in the room next to
the dead man. Bring me good cheer, so
that I may propitiate the reanimating an
gels. Most especially put there a pot of
the finest honey, tliree loaves of the whitest
bread and a fiask of the purest oil."
That the relatives did. Jojee, the tramp,
bid them retire. Jojee, the tramp, then
eat until his appetite was satisfied. Then he
uttered many shrieks and howls. The rela
tives waited long and patiently.
At lenghth Jojee called in the people.
"Tell me," asked Jojee, "what was the
exact calling of the deceased r*
"A weaver was he by trade*" the rela
tives replied,
"A weaver," cried Jojee* the tramp.
"Why did you not tell me so? There is
and bread, and oil wasted. Had he
been a tinker, a tailor, or a cobbler I might
have brought the dead man to life —but a
weaver 1 I never could do anything with a
weaver I"
In an apparent aficct ot some kinds of
i fertilizers, as salt and gypsum, on certain
soils, there seems to be something like stim
ulation, bnt the effect is on the soil rather
on the plant. Salt is a powerful solvent,
> and its beneficial effect is often due, and
perhaps always, to its ability to make
available the latent mineral fertility of the
soil. By the use of salt, the insoluble
compounds of potash and phosphate may
be released and put in shape for the roots
of plants to take them up. Or it may be
that salt decomposes vegetable matter and
releases ammonia injsome form available for
plant food. The crop may be immensely
benefitted by a dressing <Jf salt, and yet
scarcely a particle of anything in the salt
itself may be found by analysis of
straw and grain. This however, cannot be
called stimulating the crop, for the plants
grew as they were fed as truly as If the
feeding had been a dressing blast of manure
instead of something to develop the latent
fertility of the soil. It might indeed be
said that the soil was stimulated to produce
more than it naturally would, And that in
time unless real manure weretied, these
stimulating fertilizers would cease to pro
duce any effect. But when we look at the
subject in this light, we shall find that all
manures act as soil stimulants, that is, they
help to decompose and make available the
plant food already in the soil. When stable
manure decomposes, its carbonic acid gas
helps to decompose the particles of soil
with which it comes in contact So, too,
in a still greater degree with the clover or
grain herbage plowed under in June. The
advantage of a well-worked summer fallow,
is in exposing as much soil as possible so
the influences of nature to mkp its feitility
more available. Yet there are many fanners
who scout the idea of using concentrated
manures because they help to exhaust the
soil, but who think everything of the naked
fallow whose effect is even worse, for the
concentrated manure really adds some
fertility, while all that the crop takes from
the naked fallow has been get by ooanng
the soil to part with more of its strength
than it naturally would.
Charles Lever.
A man named Nixon, at Dublin, had a
mule, whose services he placed at the dis
posal of his friends, but the mount was al
ways accepted with misgivings, for the
animal was the most vicious of her tribe.
The operation of grooming could only be
conducted with safety to life and limb by
tne restraint of an iron muzzle, and with
a fore leg tied up. Bridling and saddling
and mounting were managed from a loft
above, and the animal was backed into the
open, air and not freed from restraint until a
clear stage was reached, where man and beast
might try conclusions as to mastery. This
was no child's play, for the brute's nose
would seem to touch tne ground, while its
heels appeared high in the air. When
seemed to like the work, and she was fleet
sure-footed, had the activity of a cat, and
followed sport with the kcnuus
A pause, however, or a lull in the amuse
ment was always dangerous; she would
have time to remember her vices, and re
commence their practice. The movement
was commonly stern foremost, the hind
legs flourishing in advance in a manner
that meant mischief. In this fashion, on
one occasion, Lever, being the rider, a
farm house was entered, such slight obsta
cles as chairs and tables being easily kicked
aside. A "dresser," the pride of tne
family, with its furniture of crockery, was
dislodged from its fastenings by these for
midable heels, and fell to the ground, with
plates and dishes, mugs and porringers,
scattered and shattered. Many were the de
vices that were tried, but failed, to secure
eviction, when the strong measure of igniting
bushes of furze under and behind the ani
mal was resorted to. When Lever emerged
from the smoke, still mounted he was
greeted with loud cheers; and, with the as
sent of a chorus of sponsors, the animal
previously called Blazes was re-christened
"Knock-a-crockery," in memory of the
event.
Good Preacher.
He was a brand new office boy, young,
pretty-faced, with golden ringlets and blue
eyes. Just such a boy as one would
imagine would be taken out of his trundle
bed in the middle of the night and trans
ported beyord the stars. The first day he
glanced over the library in the editorial
room, became acquainted with every
body, knew all the printers, and
went home in the evemng as happy and as
cheery as a sunbeam. The next day he
appeared, leaned out of the back window,
expectorated on a bald-headed printer's
pate, tied the cat up by the tail in the hall
way, had four fights with another boy,
borrowed two dollars from an occupant of
the buildinar, saying his mother was dead,
collected bis two day's pay from the cash
ier, hit the janitor with, the broomstick,
pawned a coat belonging to a mem
ber of the editorial staff, wrench
ed the knobs off the doors, upset
the ioe-cooler, pied three galleys of
type, and mashed his finger in the small
press. On the third day a note was
received saying: "Mi Mother do not want
Ito work in such a dull place. She says I
Would make Good preacher, so Do i, my
finger is Better: gone fish in.-' Yours Till
Deth do Yank us."
Mary's Little Lamb.
The veritable "Mary (who) had a little
lamb whose fleece was white as snow" visit
ed the Old South Spinning Bee, Mass., re
cently and told the ladies present the story
of the lamb. When she was nine years old
and was living on a farm, one morning she
went out into the barn where she found two
little lambs, one of them nearly dead. So
she took it into the house and sat up all
night nursing it. The next morning the
lamb could stand on its feet, and grew
stronger every day. Owing to her loving
care the lamb became so attached to Mary
that it followed her about and one day to
school, where she hid it under her desk, so
that the teacher did cot know it was in
school until Mary was called up to recite.
Then the lamb came out from its hiding
place, and made the children laugh and
shout so that the teacher was obliged to
turn it out. The poem was written by a
friend of Mary's (the venerable Mrs. Sarah
Josepha Hale,) soon after the lamb's visit
to the school room. Mary was married
many years since, and lives near Boston.
She brought iu some of the first fleece of
her famous little pet.
NO. 29.