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Wlule tiiou, with win s of tlauie through Love's vast space, Like s me gteat plauet, traversest all tpherts, 1, all in vain, at lonely ft nut of tears. Must strive to quench my eoui's lb. rat for thy lace. but, 'mid tl y varied splendors sometimes pause. And s'.xv sometimes thy sweep of radiant wing, And tid iby voice old songs to mt •dug. For dirges on uiv broken life's 10->t cause. Which thou bast sung, wbiie I stood by thy side, Iu those long buried hours before Love uied. The Wav to Lose Him. Philip Vane's love sLny was very brief He was one of those men who are uot easily captivated, ami so he had remained heart whole uulil the preceding spring. About the first of May, he attended an agricultu ral show iu an adjoining county, and it closed up with athletic sports. There were hundreds of daring youug fellows ready' to compete' for the honor of crowning the queen of love and beauty; but Philip Vaue outstripped them all, and won the prize. This prize was an exqusitc tiarsa of pearls, and Miss Rose Denham, the prettiest girl in Talbot, was the queen. Philip went through the interesting ceremony of crown ing her with the starry chaplet he had won —and in doing so he had lost his heart. The red fires cf sunset had faded, and the stars were out in thousands in the mis t 3* autumn skies, when Philip reached the little country house in which the Denhams lived. He stole round to the drawing room window. If was open, for the autumn night was balmy, and he had a full view of the apartment. Rose was at the piano, in her becoming rveuing dress of sky-blue, with her hair falling in golden showers over her white shoulders. But she was uot alone. Hanging over her, and toying with her ringlets, as he turned the music, was a young man of an exceedingly fop pish appearance; aud Rcxse did not seem in the least annoyed by his excessive faniiliar it3', for while she sung, she would toss her beautiful head, and glance up into his ad miring face wiih an air of witching co quetry. Philip Vane, with this picture before his eyes, stood for a moment like one be wildered, then suddeuK" recollecting him seif, he retraced his steps, and rang the bell at tlie front entrance, in a very grave and formal manner. Rose received him with ash3 T , sweet surprise that was irresistible; and the charm of her rare beauty, and her girlish vivacity, soon banished his jealous doubts—and he was as much enthrailed and enraptured as ever. The foppish individual having van ished, Philip had his charmer all to him self, and they wandered out into the au tumn moonlight, and under the shadow of the elm trees. And Philip took a pearl and amethyst engagement ring from a little casket, and put it upon her finger, entreat ing, as ho did so, that the engagement should be very brie r . Beautiful Rose lis tened, and examined the sparkling circlet wiih a critical eye. "Very well," she replied, after a mo ment, her voice cool and silvery; "I have no objection to make. It will not require a great while to complete my arrangements, and mamma disapproves of long engage ments. '' '•So do I," exclaimed Philip, heartily. "You will make it a month, darling—no longer; I want you at home before the Christmas holidays." Rose shrugged her white shoulders, and gave a little shivering sigh. "How 1 do wish," she said, "that you would live iu town, Philip, for the winter at least. It must be dreadful stupid at Beechwood; and the girls are coming to see my engagement ring." she continued, after a momentary' pause, twirling the little circlet over in the moonlight. "I told them it w .uld be something magnifi cent —and it is; but Ido wish you had chosen a diamond solitaire, it would have been so much more elegant and stylish." Her lover's brow clouded. "i am sorry, dear," he said, gravely. "I faucied this one would please you; but you shall have the solitaire." 4 'Oh, you are so kind ! and I am naughty to trouble you so." She held up her ripe lips, and he kissed her in silence, and they returned to the cottage, and a little later he was in his sad dle again and on his way back to Beech wood. But an indefinable something weighed down his spirits—a kind of rest less dissatisfaction that he could neither banish or comprehend. The moment his mother met him on the following morning, she knew how matters stood, bhe could read her son's heart like an open book. "'Tis just as I feared," she sighed. "My poor boy will be disappointed." But she uttered not a word. A week later, Philip Vane was called to town on business, and he embraced that opportunity to purchase a diamond ring. He selected a very magnificent one, at an extravagant cost. Then instead of return ing to Beechwood, he took the train to Talbot, and walked .across to the Denham residence. It was just about noon when he reached there; and the autumn day was very lovely, with mellow sunlight, and a hazy splendor on the circling hills. He would have a long walk with Rose, he thought, his heart swelling with delight as he neared the house. Dear little Rose, he loved her more and more every moment he lived, no matter if she was rather vain and childish. He found the front door open, and a lit tle housemaid scrubbing the steps. Bhe ushered him in, and he entered the small drawing room, and sat down. As he did so, the sound or voices, in loud and angry discussion, reached his ears. Ju?t behind the dining-room was a little parlor which Mrs. Denham and Rose were in the habit of making their sitting room, and it was from this the sounds proceeded. Philip listened in alarm at first, thinking some ope was ill, or that something had happened. A FAREWELL. MILLHEIM, PA., THURSDAY, JULY 29, 1880. "Now, Rose, my dear, do In; reasona ble," entreated the tremulous voice of Mrs. Denham. "We are willing to do all w can for you; but you know how your father stands. The very roof over our heads is moitgaged already, and pray how can wo raise money to buy such extrava gant things?" "I don't know* nor I don't care," cried Hose, with angry vehemence. "Is-t papa borrow it. 1 tell you 1 will have a splen did outfit " "My dear, you will have three nice silks, and a good many other dresses; and yoir won't need so many changes at Beech wood," interposed the mother. "What's the reason 1 won't?" almost screamed Rose. "Do you think I'm going to be shut up at Beech wood all this winter ? I'll show you. and I'll show Philip Vane, too, I'm going to have a gay season, if I live; and I want the right kind of an outfit —and I mean to have it. So there's no use talking; you know I always have my way." Then there came the sound of grieved solv it ing and a child's voice, the voice of Rose's littie sister, Alice, cried out, ''See, Rosie, you have made poor mamma cry. llow can you be so naughty ?" "ilush, this minute, you meddlesome lit tle thing! Who asked you to put in your say ? 1 don't see what you're here for, either, gaping at every word (hat's said and pulling what few things I've got to pieces. Come, take yourself off to the nursery at once 1" Philip Vane heard the sound of a sharp blow, and the next moment little Alice ran out, crying ready to break her heart. He had risen to bis feet in utter amazement; and. passiug the dining-rooiu door, the child saw him. She stared a moment, and then cried out, in wicked delight— "Aha, Miss Rose! here's Mr. Vane in the diuing-nxm), and he's heard how naughty you've beea—haven't you, Mr. Vane?* .Not believing the child, Rose hurried to the dining-room door, ami there she stood transfixed. Her beautiful, golden hair was all in a tHngle, and she wore an untidy, old wrapper, both soiled ami torn, and her face was flushed and distorted with passion. Philip Vane, standing grave and stern in the middle of the .lining-room, regarded her for several moments in silence, mid wiih an agony at his heart that seemed like death itself. Then he advanced, and ex tended lus hand. "Good bye, Rose!" he said, sadly. "No words that I can speak can express what I feel, i loved you as mv own life; but lam disenchanted. 1 aiu glad this has happen ed now; it is better than hereafter. Yet I don't think I can ever forgive you." And before the terror stricken girl could utter a single word, he was gone. '•Oh, me! Oiime!"the wailed, wring ing her htm !s; "it is all over! I have lost hm! 1 have lost him!" "Aud no wonder," replied her mother, sternly. "God wouldn't suffer it; He's too just." Over the crisp meadows, and under the shadow of the purple hills, Philip Vane waiked back to Beechwood, shaken like a very reed, strong man that he was, with the bitterness of Ins disappointment. "Mother," he said, when she met him at the d*orway, "it is all over! You were right!"' "And all for the best, my son," she re plied, as she kissed him, "though you can not think so now." And j'ears after, when Philip Vane sat upon the lawn, with the true and tender woman who had become his wife, and the woman who had become the motner of the children that played beneath the rustling oak boughs, looking back at those early days, he was forced to acknowledge that his mother's wisdom was far superior to his own. Rose Denham is still unmarried, and lias lost all her beauty. She is soured and dis contented, and will alfrays be so. But whom has she to blame but herself ? ATrrltl* Kxt>-rluce. Adolph Ilintzky went out on the moun tains of Eastern Pennsylvania alone to chop wood for the charcoal-burners, and nothing was seen of him for three days. A hunter by the name of I lines, passing over the mountain, tracked a rabbit undei a large, heavy tree. To his great surprise he found a man lying under the limbs ol the tree in the snow. The man still lived, ilincs dropped his gun and game and ran off to the nearest cabin lor assistance. Hines and another man went back aud found the man to be Ilintzky, a prisoner under the tree, liaJf buried in the snow. By the light of their lanterns lie was cut out and freed. He could not stand at first, and was nearly dead. His cars were frozen and his Icet were terribly frozen. With great ililliculty he was taken to a house, llis story was that lie was cutting down a tree, before it fell he sat on a stone to eat his dinner, suddenly a violent gust of wind-blew through trorge and the tree fell with a crash, ci fifing the unfor tunate woodman under its heavy branches. He was rendered senseless by the blow, but the stone upon which he sat saved his life. The force of tiie blow wns averted. The man had raised himself up, and wh -u the tree fell it pinioned him. One of liis arms he could not move at all; his body was held to the earth and he was a prisoner. On the evening of his first day's imprison ment suow fell All that night, the next day and next night he was fastened in the snow, and his life was slowlyebbiug away. On the third day he was in terrible agony, he fed himself with snow, and thus paiti ally quenched his thirst His hoots had to be cut from his swollen feet, his robust constitution prevented death. He was about 35 years of age, and he wore a coal lined with hair. l ire h.v friction. A company oi bouih African savage Zulus are now amusing the people of Lon don, and among their performances they show how they get a light without matches. Some straw being laid on the ground as a bed, two eticks were placed on it a few inches apart to form a support for a third stick, which, was laid across them, having a deep notch cut ir it to receive the blunt point of the driliing-stick. This was twirled like a chocolate-muller between the palms of the hands, and when the twirler's hands reached the bottom they were either dexierously shifted to the t< p again, or another of the Africans squatting round took and relieved the fitst. A spark was obtained in the chaned dust in about five minutes, and was received with shouts of delight by the firemakers, one of whom carefully shielded it in a handful of the straw, soon fanned it into a Hume. Oritek Fire "Greek fire"'—or, us it is sometimes called "Saracen fire"—was the most im portant war material men had before the invention of gutqiowdor. Twice the city of Constantinople was saved by the use of it. li is said to have been invented by a Syrian, who, deserting from the service of the I'aliph, revealed his secret to the em peror. The ingredients, if not also the mode of darting the'fire, were kept a se cret for upwards of 400 yeais, und it is quite uncertain now what were actually the component parts of that which, Joinvillc says, "came flying through the air like a winged, long-tailed< lrkg< m, about the thick ness of a hogshead, with the report of thun der and the velocity of lightning; and the darkness of the night was dispelled by this deadly illumiuation." It is generally con sidered, however, that "the fire" was com posed of naplha, mingled iu certain pro portions, now unknown, witli sulphur, und with pitch obtained from evergreen fir. This mixture, ignited and blown or pumped through long tubes of copper, which were mourned in the prows of galleys, and fanci fully shaped inio the form of monsters, produced a thick smoke with a loud ex plosiou, and a tlauie, fierce and obstinate, which no amouut of water could extin guish. When used for the defense of walls, it was poured in large laiilers from the ramphrts, or was hurled on javelins by means of tow which had previously been steeped in iutlummablc material. Against it the bravest soldiers went in vain; their imagination recoiled from a thing so subtle aud terrible. Horses lied from it in dire fright; ships were burnt by it; there was no way of standing against it. The Greek emperors. Beusibie of the enormous advan tage which an offensive weapon of such a kind gave them, invested it with a myster ious history, and appealed to the supersti tion of their subjects for the preservation of the secret ol the manufacture. They said that un angel hud revealed the composition ot Greek tire to the first Constantine, for the express purpose of maintaining the su periority of the empire over the Barba rians; and that whoever betrayed the secret to foreigners would incur not only the pen alty of treason and sacrilege, but the spe cial venge mee of the Almighty. In the twelfth century, however we find it used by the Mahometans in their wars with the Christians; aud from that time it came into pretty general use, until the invention of gunpowder put it out of date, unit caused an entire rcvo ution ia the art of war. ilullml t'outniii vs. L,ove. "What are you reauuig, Mary?" inquired a practical man living on East Long, De troit, of his wife one day. "Just the sweetest love story you ever heard of," replied his wile, euthusiasti caliy. "A love story ?"' "Yes. and you just ought to read it —' "Ain't you got over that yet f" inter rupted her husband. "Gotover what?" . "Why, that love business. That—that molasses contract between young idiots." 4 'IX) you mean —" "Yes, I mean the milk and mush stuff children indulge in. 1 thought that would have been taken out of you by this tiuie. Now what's that story about?" "1 am right here where he—" "Who f" "Why, the lover, of course, litis Just res c :ed her—" "Who in thunder is her ?" "Oh! why don't you keep quiet, lie has just rescued the girl lie's iu love with from a gang of robl>ers and—'' "How many was in that gavg?" "Let me see," said the wife thoughtfully, "Tlime were forty-two, and he—" "Now, do you mean to say that young teller took a g rl trom forty-two robbers all by himseif ?" 4 Yes, and the story says he killed thir teen in the attempt, and—" "Mary, hand that paper right to me. Fork it over." "Why?" "Now," continued the husband, as be crushed it up and put in the tail of lus coat, "tlikt's the biggest lie I ever heard. I'm going to take this paper outside the corpo ration and bury it two feet deep, and then see il I can't get an act passed by Congress to suppress its publication. I'll be back by supper time, and 1 want you to hump your self around ami have some boiled potatoes and corn-bread. That will help lake some of this nonsense out of vou." Sir William llemchol's First Telescope. Sir William llerschel arrived in England from Ilonover, his birth-place, about the end of the year 1759, when he was in his twenty first year. He was bred a profes sor ot music, and went to live at Halifax, where he acquired by his own application, a considerable knowledge of mathematics; and, having studied astronomy and optics in the popular writings of Furguson, lie was anxious to witness with his own eyes the wonders lne t|in, Before the introduction of clocks and watches in China native instruments em ployed lor recording the flight of the hours may practically be said to lc confined to two in number,, the sun-dial and tbe wruter clock, though other devices have appeared at various times. They both have claims to great antiquity. The water-clock is said to iiave lieen invented in the days of the Yellow Emperor, if not by his Majesty himself, some twenty-six centuries before the birth of Christ, aud tbe sun-dial is attributes! to Chow Kung (B. C. 1100), but such accounts may safely he relegated to the category of the legendary. Both these instruments have been so often do scribed, that other and more interesting details may he found. In the reign, for instance, of Kublai Khan, we hear of a "lamp water-clock" being offered as a gift to the emperor, which contained u drum and a bell, and struck tbe hours regularly. It wou'd be difficult to say just what this clock w as, but the word lamp reminds one that candles were used to measure time by the Chinese long before their reputed inven tion by England's mouarch student a thou sand years ago. The Emperor llsuan Taung, of the T'ang dyuasty (847-860 A. I>.) is said to have had in his possession twelve marvelous jade counters, each with one of the twelve horary periods marked upon its face, and these, if thrown into water, would rise to the surface, each at the occurrence of the period which jt was specially intended to represent. In the history of the last-mentioned dynasty we are also informed that, "in a tower in the Fuh-hn country (variously identified witli Constantinople, Palestine, etc.) there hangs up a large golden weighing machine, wiih twelve golden balls attached to the end of the yard, representing the twelve divisions of the day. Alongside stands tho figure of a man*, also made of gold, and, whenever one of the atiove periods is reached, a golden ball drops with a clang to aunounce the same." But the most brilliant pieceof workmanship of all was a splendid "lamp water-clock'* belonging to the above-men tioned Kublai Khan. It was seventeen feet in height; it rested upon a frame richly ornamented with gold and pearls. On the left was a representation of the sun; ou the right, of the moon; while at each end of the beam wasa dragon's head, open mouthed. and with its glaring eyes fixed upon the stream of water, as if, we are told, jealously watching the regularity of its perpetual drip. On the ceutral beam were depicted two full leugth dragons, playing with a pearl, and also engaged in supervising the proper tlow of water from the clepsydra. The lamp globe, or cage in which the light was placed, was divided into four latitudinal sections, on the upper one of which were four deities, represent ing the sun. moon and certain of the stars. This section turned round oucc in every day. Ou the second were a dragon, a tiger, a phoenix and a tortoise, each iu its proper place, and at fixed periods these jumped alout to the sound of cymbals from willnu. The third section was marked out into one hundred parts or divisions of the day, corresponding to our quarter hours, and above these divisions were twelve dei ties, each holding a tablet indicating one of the twelve horary periods of the Chinese day. There was also the figure of a man, drawing attention with its outstretched finger to the hours as they passed in regu lar procession along. Ou the lower section were a bell, a drum, a gong, and cymbals, each with an attendant in charge, who struck the instruments at the firs*, second, third, and fourth quarters respectively. The whole of the above effects were pro duced, we were informed, oy water-power acting on machinery concealed in a large case near the clepsydra. The method of striking the five night watches in Chinese yameus at the prest nt lime is as follows: One blow on the drum aud one on effing (not "gong") for setting the watch; one on the drum and two on the ch'ing for the be ginning of the second of the five parts into which each watch is divided; one on the drum, and three, four and five on the cfiing for the periods up to the beginning of the second watch, which is announced by two blows on the drum and one on the ch'ing, the blows on the latter increasing up to five as in the previous watch. Thus four blows ou the drum aud three on the ch'iny would tell the public that three-fifths of the fourth watch had elapsed and that the fourth di vision was about to begin. We may add that the clVing may l>e described as a broad fiat piece ot metal bent to an obtuse angfe ol about one hundred and twenty degrees. The Fearful Cost of War. Official returns give the Russian losses in killed aud wounded as about 90,000 officers and men, but as we showed lately by a letter of the London Times correspondent, these figures do not nearly tell the awful story. Over 117,000 Russian soldiers have died in battle or in the hospitals and 98,- 000 have perished by sickness and famine, while the Roumanians add 22,000 men to the roster. On the Tuiktsh side it is es timated that 90,000 have died in buttle and 50,000 in the hospitals. To make the frightful list complete it would lie neces sary to add tht uucoutiiel thousands of massacred women and children. We have seen no estimate of the waste of treasure in this war. Russia would no 1 dare to show how much her credit would be itn paired by contributing her share of it. We iiave before us, however, the figures snow ing the cost of some of the modern wars in which England has been engaged, which may give some idea on the subject. Her old French wars cost her about $5,000,000.- 000; her share of the beven Years' wat, i £415,000,000; the revolt of the American colonies, $490,01)0,000; the two opium wars with China, $44,000,000; the Kaffir war, $10,000,000, and the Abyssinian ex pedition, $40,000,000. Rusiii's Crimean war cost her $800,000,000. and the same war cost Eqgland $ 1,000,000,00); Franco, $400,000,000; Turkey, $80,000,000, and Sardinia, $35,000,000. These figures enor mous as they are, only represent fractions ot the material losses entailed by these various conflicts. To form an adequate idea of their ruinous results we should consider also tbe stoppage ot conimeice and produc tion, the destruction of factories and ship ping, and the mortality among the able ' bodied, useful aud productive members of j society. How much Russia has suffered ; in tl e >.ite war by the latter of these causes 1 she will probably only appreciate should 1 she be called upon at the present time to i maintain the expenses of a war with Great I Britain. SMOKKKS are puff'-ectly satisfied with the appearance oi the open horse can on our streets. 1 he Cere of Clothing. Concerning the fashion of clothing and the vurious lubrics of which it it made in formation is full and frequent. Very little, however, is Baid about the care of cloth ing, aud the ways in which it may be pre served for the longest time and in the l>et possible condition. To those who change their garments with every change of style this is a matter of slight importance, but to thoec who purchase a silk dress or a broadcloth suit only once in a series of years it is a matter of interest and value, bilks, cashmeres, cloths of standard style aud quality, are very little affected by the various currents of fashion. Tney hold their own through all the years and are always good, always 4 'stylish," always suit able. While new fabrics are for the hour of their popularity high-priced, these stan dard g->ode sell at the standard price and know little of rise or fall in standard value. Neglect and carelessness deteriorate cloth ing a great deal faster than ste*adv wear does. The housekeeper who instead of changing her nice dress when she passes from tbe street or the church to her kitchen, keeps it on and takes it with her through the various processes ol dishwashing, sweeping and cooking will soon rob it of all its nicety while she who wears her fine clothes only in places where fine clothes are suitable may keep them in good condi tion for an indefinite time. To dress ac cording to one s work is good taste, go d sense and economy. Tho careful person will take pains to preserve a new calico no less than a new silk. We knew a young ladv once who put on a nice new calico which she had taken (treat pains to make, aud wore it through the morning dew to milk the cows. To keep her arms from being soiled or tanned by the sun, she de clined to turn up the sleeves, of the dress, in two days the i iee new calico looked like all the rest of her dresses, dowdy, slatternly, unclean. We knew another young lady who had six silk dresses, and not one of them was fit to wear, though none of theui had been made abovo a year. They were sp< tied, draggled, tumbled, mussed, abus -tL We knew tnotli *r young lady who was the fortunate possessor of one nice black alpaca dress which she wore on all occlusions tbe season thro gh, and always appeared faultlessly dressed, blie had no work to do that would f<))ecially soil her clothes. If a stray drop of any thing that could make a spot fell upon her dre sit was at once removed. All dust was brushed off, a sponge dipped in am monia water brightened faded places, and snowy collars ami cuffs suggested daiuty habits of cleanliness. The care of cloth ing to be easy must le habitual. The hardest part is in forming the habit, and this cannot too early in life be formed. Most children love to make mud pies and play iu the dirt generally and give little iieed to keeping themselves clean. This is all well enough at times, and they should lie indulged in their mud pies pro vided they are dressed for the work. But it is "poor-loiksy" in the last degree to allow a child to play in the dirt with nice clothes on, or to permit a young person to dreBB inappropriately while at work. It is vastly easier to change a good coat for a poor one than it is to restore it to its pristine condition a soiled Coat. It is vast ly easier to put on a pair of overalls than it is to sponge thoroughly a pair of pantaloons. But the worst of it is that those who neglect to change the coat and to put on the overalls neglect also the sponaing and cleansing processes, and let dust gather ami soots remain. A clothes brush, a wisp broom, a bottle of ammonia, a spot ge, a bund brush, a cake of crasive soup, a vial of alcohol, should form a part of the furnishings of every toilet. After a.l dust has beeu removed from clothing spots may be taken out of black cloth with lue hand brusu dipped in a mixture of equal parts of ammonia, a'coholsnd water. Thisw.llbrighunaswellastleau e. Bjuzine is useful iu removing grease spots. Spots of grease may be removed trom colored silks o}' putting on them raw starch made into a paste with water. Dust is best removed from silk by a soft fiauuel, from velvet with a brush made specially lor the pur pose. If hats ami bounets when taken trom the head are brushed and put away in boxes and covered up, iustead of being laid down any when* they will last fresh a long time. Shawls and all articles that may lie folded, should be folded when taken from the person in their original creases aud laid away. Cloaks should be hung up in place, gloves pulled out length wise, wrapped in tissue paptr and laid away, laces smoothed out nicely and loldcd, if requisite, so that they will come out of the box uew aud fresh when needed again. A strip of old black broadcloth tour or five inches wide, rolled up tightly and sewed to keep the roll in place, is let ter than a sponge or a cloth for cleansing black ami dark-colored clothes. Wlia ever lint comes from it in rubbing is black and does not show. When black clothes are washed, as the 3' may often be previous to making over, fresh eleau water should be used, and they should be pressed on the wrong side before being quite dry. It washed iu water previously used for white clothing will oe covered with lint. In securing clothing against moths, if linen is used for wrappings no moth will molest. Paper hags are equally good if they are peifectly tight, and so are trunks and boxes closed so tightly that no crevice is left open lor the entrance of the moth fiy. As the moth loves darkness, it will not molest eveu furs hung up iu light rooms open to air and •'Corduroy Jim.** Some time in tbe year 1855 a number of adventurous spirits from California, con ceived the idea of going into the heart of Mexico to seek their fortunes. They form ed a colony composed partially of miners, but pricipully of reckless, careless men, ready to retrieve their shattered fortunes in any way. The colony, known to history as the La Paz, was fitted out and started from San Francisco the same year. Upon arriving there they were not received by the Mexican government with that hearti ness and cordiality now extended to im migrants seeking that promibing land. They were looked upon as filibusters, ar rested, imprisoned, sometimes decorated wiih balls and chains and generally treated as prisoners of war. Failing to find on Mexican soil the El Dorado of their hopes they planned an escape and returned on the John L. Stephens, on July second or third, in time to celebrate the national holiday. They told their story of their woes to their friends as only forty-nineis could. Much "Interest was excited and an effort made to secure the national intervention in their be half. Bo confident were they of success that moot of them execute*} powers of at torney to certain parties who gathered the claims together for the purpose of making a united effort to secure relief, the agree ment being that the attorneys should divide the receipts equally with the claimants. Nothing was practically accomplished un til about the year 1870, when a mixed Commission of the United States was ap pointed to adjudicate, ainoug other inter national matters, upon the differences ex iting between the United States and Mexi can Governments, both feeling themselves aggrieved and entitled to redress. The re sult of their deliberations was that an award of $23,000,000 was made to the United States and $19,000,000 to Mexico After this there was considerable difference of opinion as to how the award was to be paid, but it was Anally settled by the Mex ican Government paying the difference be tween the two awards in instalments, which it has been doing for some years. During all the time while the representa tives of the national powers of the earth were gravely discussing international law, one of the enterprisiug colonists, James Ballin'.ine, then familiarly known as 4'Cor duroy Jim," was keeping toll gate at Colfax Springs, on the \ oeemite road. He went into Tuolumne County, in 1858, and, tired of his adventurous life, married and settled down into a first-class family man. There, in peace and quiet, far from his old haunts and associates, he devoted himself to the constant pursuit of honest toiL But he had kept up with the times, had read the papers, and also intervi wed Sunset Cox, Seymour of New York, and ether Con gressional lights, who informed hitn he had a good claim, but that no one could collect it without his signature, lie had executed his power of attorney, but receiving no re turns, persuaded a legal friend to write to Washington on the subject. Iy due time he received the startling announcement that he was dead, positively and legally dead in the eyes of the Government; that one Col. Jonathan D. Stevenson, of San Francisco had been appointed his executor, that $5,008 had been awarded him as hiq share, but as he was not living and there fore had no use for it, $1,085 had been al ready paid on account of the estate. \\ bat bothered the honest toll man was that he was so much diad that it was im possible for him to resuscnate himself. Taking a general irventory of himself, be remembered be had been a square striker in bis youth, and 44 up to dale the old man was a pretty lively corpse;" aud, with Are in his eyes and determination in his heart, lie came to the city for the purpose of in terviewing the man for whom he died, and who was now living for him t y the extent of the coin value of bis claim. He soon lound a number of well-preserved '49ers, who recognized him and could swear to his identity. Armed with proofs of his exist ence aud accompani-d by his lawyers, he sought the presence of his executor only to And that he was dead again; dead up in the Probate Court, when a process of resur rection was necessary to make anything living to him. The Record of this Court informed him under dale of Oct, 22, 1876, that he had t4 uied in the winter of 1862. or in the spring of 1863, to the best of the petitioner's knowledge and belief, on the North PaciAc coast oa a trading voyage." At this view of things his spirit took umb rage. He failed to set bow a live man could be so much dead, and he said to his executor through his lawyer that he was "the true lost Injun." 4 T think," said the executor, "that the Mr. J. Ballintine, who owns the claim was taller than you are." 44 We11," replied Jim, 44 1 may have set tled an inch or two. Growed down like a cow's tail some, but I'm your Injun all the same." "What State are you from?" csntinued CoL Stevenson. "New York." "This man was from Pennsylvania, 1 believe." 44 As to that," answered Mr. Ballitine, one of us two is mistaken. Colonel." 4 Then," added the executor, 44 you don't spell your names alike." 44 Now, look here, Colonel," concluded Mr. Ballintine, 4i when you come to that I've got ye. 1 spell tiiiue with two i'a, just like 1 write it now (suiting the action to llie word), and if I don't disremember, I dotted 'em both, just like I did, Colonel, when 1 witnessed them power 'o attorneys when I was 'tendin' bar down to G