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Office In Lyon'.-. Building, Allegheny Street. JOHN G. LOVE, ' ATTORNEY AT LAW, BELLEFONTE, PA. Office In tbe rooms formerly occupied by the . late W. P. Wilson. BUSINESS CARDS OF MILLHEIM, &. A. STURGIS, * DEALER IS Watches, Clocks. Jewelry, Silverware, Jtc. Re pairing neatly and promptly don ; and war ranted. Miln Street, opposite Bank, MUlhelm, Pa. A O DEININGER, * NOTARY PUBLIC. SCRIBNER AND CONVEYANCER, MILLHEIM, PA. \U business entrusted to hira. such as writing and acknowledging Deeds, Mortgages, Releases, Ac., will be executed wuh neatness and dis patch. Office on Main Street. TT H. TOMLINSON, DEALER IN ALL KINDS OF Groceries. Notions, Drugs. *obac< os, Cigars, Fine Confectloneiles and everything in the line of a flret-ciass Grocery st >re. country Produce 1 aken In exchange for goods. Main st eet, opposite Bank, MPlhelm. Pa. pwAVID I. BROWN, MANUFACTURER AND DEALER IN TINWARE, STOVEPIPES, Ac., SPOITLVG A SPECIALTY. shop on Main Street, two houses east of Bank, Mlllhelm, Penna. r EISENHUTH, * * JUSTICE OF THE PEAfE, MILLHEIM, PA. All bui-lness promptly attended to. collection of claims a specialty. Office opposite Elsenhuih's Drug Store. U ÜbSER & SMITH, 1 DEALERS IN • Hardware, Stoves, Oils, Paints, Glass, Wall Paper-, coach Trimmings, and Saddlery Wure, AC,. Ac. All grades of Patent Wheels, corner of Main and Penn street-, MUlhelm, Penna. Jacob" wolf, PASHIONABLE TAILOR, MILLHEIM, PA. cutting a Specialty. shop next door to Journal Book Store. JYJ ILL HELM BANKING CO., It AIM STREET, • MILLHEIM, PA. A WALTER,Cashier. DAV. KRAPK, Pres. HARTER, - AUCTIONEER, HRBERSBURG, PA. Satisfaction Guaranteed. ®ic jMlteim SnwrnaL THE LIFE OF SONG. Is there u\thing ou earth, Where the strongest are not strong, Half so feeble In its birth. Or so sure of death, as Bong ? Frailer blossom never grew. Pelted by the summer ram ; Lighter insect never flew— Scarcely oeme ere gone again ! Children, who ohaste butterflies, May pursue it, to aud fro ; little maids who sigh,' 'Heigh-ho !" May deplore it, when it diea ; Loftier deeds to men belong— Larger life than Song ! There is nothing on the earth, Where so mauy things are strong. Half so mighty in its birth, And so sure of life, as Song. Never piue on mountain height Bo the ih i der-bolt deflea ; Never e> 'e in its flight Bo* a with s i u undauiitod ejes ! CoLquerora pull empires down, Thi an. uiey will not be forgot ; But if Soug pursue them not. Time destroys their dark renown : Nothing is remembered long But tbe Life ol Boug ! Presence of Mind. I have always been celebrated for my presence of mind in emergencies. Grandfather used to say that he never had a girl who was not afraid of a mouse or a spidef, and how mother's daughter ever eauie to be so brave he couldn't guess. That was before I married, and, of course, I have not become timid with advancing years. 1 am Mrs. Jasper Jaekman; my hus band is, of course Mr. Jaekman, and our place is known as Jackuialu's Nook. Nook, indeed ! If there was a corner to the world, I should fancy it was put away in that, for it is the most out-of-the-way habitation that ever existed. It is indeed. You can't see it until you are within fifty feet of it for the trees and the nasty rooks. "So romantic!" people say. 1 call it miserably lonesome. Now you know I'm not the least bit nervous, but, having lived with father and mother and the rest all my life, 1 did uot enjoy being shut up all alone like a —a —a —well, a hyena in a menagerie, while Mr. Jaekman attended to business in town; and 1 often thought if housebreakers were to make an attack upon the house, what should 1 do, a poor little woman, with no one to call upon ? for 1 count Bridget as a great cipher in every occasion of life that does not involve soap-suds. 1 told Jasper that, absolutely, if I had known what a place Jaekman Nook was, I was uot sure but that 1 should have thought twice before refusing old Dr. Muligtawny, whose palatial residence is in Fifth Avenue, New York City, as of course every Ixxiy knows. However, after you have once said "yes" to the gentleman who pops the question to you, you may say "no" ever after to all otiter questions for all he cares, for he'll have his own way always. Mother-in-law Jaekman having made Jasper premise that I must live always at the Nook was considered unanswerable; and, after all what could we do? No one would hire or buy the place, and we had it on our hands, Of course, we lived there. I always knew that doing so would lie the cause of my showing the presence of mind for which I am celebrated in nty own family—if nowhere else. Aud so it came to pass. One stormy night in November, in the year IB6o—it was the 4th, I think, for baby was just one year old on the Ist, aud there was some of the cake I had made for his "bressed little birfity dirfday" still left in the pantry; and a cake of that size cer tainly never would last louger than that in our house. It was the most unpleasant day I ever remember to have lived through. The ground was soaked. The bare branch es looked like so many skeltons, and the sky was the color Bridget's tin pans were when I first got down stairs this time last year. In the city it would have been some fun to sit by the window and watch tbe folks go past,looking like so many drowned rats, but at the Nook (I should think it was a nook), there was nothing to lie seen—abso lutely nothing. i had not a book which I had not read, and the note paper was out, for Jasper had forgot tea to bring me some from the city, and I had finished all my sewing. I spent my time as best I could; but how 1 did wish that the regiment which was encamped about half a mile away, was near enough for me to watch them drill— if they did drill in such weather. I'd thought them too near before on account of Bridget, whom I had caught a score of times talking to men in blue jackets at the gate, and wished them off to the seat of war, or anywhere else,over and over again; but that afternoon, what a relief they would have been! I was the more lonely that Jasper had said that morning, "My dear, it it rains as it does now to-night, I shan't come home, but will stop at your father's." And how could I blame him in such weather ? Yet it was dreadfully lonesome. If you are sociable with your servants they always presume upon it, and 1 do so love to talk. Of course I watched the clouds with in terest; if it should prove fair at last, Jasper, would come home, and if it rained he wouldn't. Every now and then there would be a pretense of clearing off,and I began to hope for a pleasant sunset; but it was always a false pretense, aud at teatime it poured as though there were going to be a second flood. Biddy asked me, as it was so near tbe Hudson whether it wasu't likely to lie a risin', and whether in that ease "we wouldn't be drowned?" And 1 said. "Yes." It was too bad, 1 know, but it was really some amusement on such a day to frighten the stupid girl. I had my tea alone, aud I do hate to have tea alone if any* woman in the world hates it—and then 1 put baby to sleep in her cradle in the sitting-room, and took my knitting, and was as comfortable as I could be under the circumstances, when 1 be thought me of the morning's paper. I called Biddy to bring it to me, and she came to me at once. "It's well-thought of missus," she said, as she laid it in .my lap. "It's yerseit will be intherested wid the raidin.' There's i accounts of the house-breakin' in it." "Of what ?" I ejaculated; and though MILLHEIM, I assure you I'm not the least nervous, my heart was in my mouth for a moment. ,4 Of the house-break in', and how the thavos in the wurreht got into Misther Dinsntore's house, that's sittiated the same as this, neighboring nolxxlv, and tuck al' they eoukl lay their hands on, to say nothin of half-murderiu' the onld gentlemen. The saints be above us this night " There it was, sure enough, headed. "A bold and outrageous attack upon the resi dence of Dr. Dinamorul" I read it through, and then 1 said to myself: "Jerusha Jaekman, remember your pre sence of mind. Don't let it fail you in eases of emergency. Should a housebreak er take advantage of your solitude, let him tiud you prepared." It was as though some invisible whnt's-his-name had ad dressed me from the chimney. 1 answered, "1 will!" and you can't imagine how lx>ld 1 grew at ouee. 1 rehearsed all that 1 should do in case lliddv came to me in the night saying, "Missus, there's some one in the cellar"'—all I should do if 1 found any body in the wardrobe when I retired, and 1 had the satisfaction of feeling that I was prepared. 1 might wake up to find the spoons gone—l might be murdered in my bed; hut it would not he unawares, and they would inscribe upon mv tombstone these words: "She showed her presence of mind to the last." I felt quite self-possess ed and happy, though 1 was certain —yes, morally certain —that something remark able would happen before morning; that 1 should be, as it were, weighed in the bal ance and not found wanting before the sun arose. 1 did not feel like retiring early, and sat hv the tire until the clock struck eleven. Tnen, just as the last stroke died away, Biddy came down from her bedroom like a red flannel ghost, with eyes and mouth wide apou, and something of im portance evidently on her mind. 1 put baby down in her cradle and arose, drawing my self up to my lull height, and feeling that I was the only one to lx* dejx-nded on in tins awful emergency. "Bridget," said 1, "how many are they? Is it one or more?" "Mum ?" said Bridget." "The thieves 1 mean," said I. "Oh, it isn't thavea, mum,*' said Biddy. "It's only that thafe of a wind that's t(xk the rx>f clatte off the chicken-house, and titer's the wee bitsiv chicks a stharviu to death wid cowhL'* "And in this dreadful rain, too,'' said I. "It's elared off fine," said Biddy, "and the moon's up." Si i* actually was, and 1 began to feel very brave. "We must go out and put them in the wood-house," said I. And so saying. 1 tucked baby up in his blankets, and wrap ping a shawl over my head, went out into the night air. It had grown very cold, but it was clear, as Biddy had said, and we paddled round in the mud catching the poor little chickens. We had them all at last, except one, and we heard its little voice mere, mere, mere —somewhere, and of course could not be so heartless as to for sake it. And at last there it was, tangled up in some dead vines, and as cold as a lump of ice. By the time we gave it to its mother, who was very glad to see it, the clock struck twelve. Baby had been alone three-quarters of an hour. "Muzzer's darling! sound asleep yet?" I said, as I went to the cradle. Merciful powets ! shall 1 ever forget that moment i Baby was not there! * In a moment the truth Hashed on nty ntind. Housebreakers had entered the dwelling in our absence, and stolen my treasure. Perhaps they were in the bouse: yet, or some {>f them. I felt the strength of a tigress and, leaving Biddy howling in the dinning-room, rushed tin stairs. Sure enough, there was a light in my bed-room, and I peeped tn. The moment I did so, I felt I was powerless. The rob ber who had stolen my baby was there,and the terribly muddy boots of another were sticking from under the bed; and, oh, hor rors! another had got into it, and had hid den, as he imagined, under the quilts. On my presence of mind depended the recovery of my child and my life. In a moment the plan Hashed upon me. There was but one door to the room, and the win dows were high and barred, for I had con templated tlie time when baby should be large enough to climb up and lean out. Noiselessly and suddenly I drew that door to and locked it on the outside; then, with the k ,*v in my hand, and trembling like an aspen leaf, I stole down stairs and cried to Bridget: "I've locked them in; they shall give my baby back; come with ute!" and away 1 went across the garden and down the road to the first house. This was "Mulligan's Tavern," a very low place, indeed, shunned by all respect able folks; but I knew "there were always men there who were afraid of nobody. The greatest brutes would not refuse aid to a woman at such a time. As we csmetiear I saw a light in one of the windows, and I heard voices and loud , laughter. It was no tune for ceremony, so I burst the door open and ran in. There ! wero four men playing cards, and old Mrs. Mulligan behind the bar. "Oh! please excuse me," I cried; "but do come right away. There are house breakers in my hohse, and they've stolen my baby." "Stholu the baby?" cried old Mrs. Mul ligan. "Oh, do come," I implored. "Go, Pat," said the old woman; "never mind the game. It's Missus Jaekman; ! more betoken she's the next neighbors to us. Take yer pistols an' away wid ye, ; boys. And Missus, just take a drop o'scree ! chin' hot whiskey to kape the life in ye." Of course 1 refused the latter offer, but in a moment the men were on their feet, j and 1 felt like blessing them —those lialf j savage creatures who had become my pro tectors. I don't know how we got to the house or : upstairs. 1 remember an awful tumult, a i smell of gunpowder, oaths and shouts. Then there was a silence —then a loud laugh. "It'athrue, boys!" said old Mulligan's voice. "I know Misther Jaekman, an' ! it's himself. It's a great utislake—that's all. "A siugular mistake to enter, a man's house, and endeavor to shoot him in bis own bedl" said a voice 1 knew to be my husband's; and at that 1 rushed into the room. lie was there, and so was the baby, for he held her in his arms; and there, also, was Mulligan and his friends and their pis tols, and half the furniture broken, the stove But as for the housebreakers, \\., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1880. they——-1 begau to see the truth. Mr. Mulligan was hacking out. "I'll lave Mrs. Jaekman to explain," he said. "An' I'm proud I didn't kill ye, though it's out of friendship 1 dhave done it; fur if yer own wife took ye for a house breaker, how would I know better? The top of the night till ye,an' I'll lave the lady to explain." Ah! I did really wish that the ground would open and swullow me. YM see, my husband had come home while we were hunting up the chickens, and finding the baby wide awake, had taken her up to bed and gone to sleep. And the roblier under the bed was his muddy boots, with, of course, no feet in them; and well there were none, for they were riddled with bul let holes. Mr. Mulligan had fired at them, fortunately. When 1 thought of the awful danger Jasper and the baby had been ia, 1 went into strong hysterics at once, and frightened Jasper so that he was glad to forgive me when 1 came to myself. It was a terrible mistake, and might have ended seriously, of course; but I will say now and always, that it was Jasper's fault, and that if lie had been a housebreaker we might all have been thankful for uiy great presence of mind. Prominent Kveut* Since 1840, It is uot fix) much to say that no great invention which had not its beginning in the decade of 1840—1850 has appeared in the past thirty years. In that period oc curred the most signal development of the application of chemistry to manufactures and agriculture; an enormous expansion of commerce by means of railroads and ocean steamships; tlie discovery of ether; and the perfection and diffusion of some of the most precious contributions ever made to the welfare of mankind. In 1885 only lb"4 miles of railroad had been com pleted in the United States; in 1840 they had been nearly trebled (2,818;) in 1845 they had been nearly quadrupled (M,7rtB). in 18:t5 Boston was connected with Wor cester. and Baltimore with Washington; from Philadelphia the traveler could go no farther West by rail than the Susquehanna at Columbia. In 18:>0, Ericsson brought over the propeller to these hospitable shores. In 1840 the Cunard Line of ocean steamers was established, but for a time only "side-wheelers" were tolerated. The first regular ship, the Britannia, reached Boston after a trip of fourteen days and eight hours. Morse's telegraph, alter vain offers ou lxth sides of the Atlantic, was at last subsidized by our own Government, and in 1845 communication was opened between Baltimore and Washington. "What hath Gixl wrought!" signalled Morse at the capital to Alfred Vail at Baltimore, i'he news dispatches to the press "by elec tro-telegraph" or "by magnetic telegraph" were meagre, while public patronage was so timid that the wits of the dav made fun of a delighted father in Baltimore, who "wired" the news of the l*|rth of a grand sou to a postoftice official At the capitol— "as if the mail wa.*> too slow" al twenty miles an hour. In April, 1840, Goodyear was in the debtors' prison (a lodging almost as familiar to him as his own home) in Boston; he had the year before found the clue to the vulcanizing of rubber, but the process was not reduced to a certainty till 1844. At about the same time (1845- 7) the McCormick reaper was confirming the independence of the New World to the Old as a granary (As late as 18fl<> I>B, wheat had been imported into the United States from Portugal and the Baltic.) The sewing machine devised by Elias Howe in 18415 was patented in 1846, but the im portance of tins invention wa* not fully realized for more than a dozen years after ward. The daguerreotype dates from lHflh, and in 1840 the enterprising Mr. Plumb began taking likenesses in Boston with small success for some months. Five years later his "galleries" were to lie found in New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Wash ington, and even in Dubuque, la. Finally, July 24, 1847, the patent was issued for Hoe's lightning press, with its "impres sion cylinder" (the type revolving on a circular bed) and a printing capacity of 10,000 tp 20,000 impressions per hour. The llitra. The districf known as the ilarz, is the old Hercynian forest of which Ciesar has left such terrifying accounts, strangely at at variance with its modest aspect. It covers an area of seventy miles by thirty, and divides itself into the Upper and Low er Harz. Both have beauties of their own. The Upper Harz is wilder, its rock scenery more grotesque, its water-scooped valleys more sombre and precipitous; pines and tit trees clothe its mountain sides in thicker pride. The Lower Harz, u the other hand, is gentler and softer of aspect; there are more fields and pastures; the dis tant plains are visible, and furnish a less confined perspective; the hills are lower, the mountainous character less pronounced. For this a curious feature atxmt the Harz, that although its highest mountain, the Brockeu, is only A,7UO feet high, yet the whole region has a remarkably Alpine character as regards vegetation and mete orological phenomena. Indeed, this little district has a character siii generis, under ground, on the ground, and overground. Underground, because it is one of the most interesting of unsolved geological prob lems; and for the lover of mineralogy and the student of geology here is a fine field for working with the hammer. The mineral wealth of the Harz is proverbial, its gnomes and kobolds live in legendary lore; its minerals are desinated by Mr. Buskin as the aristocrats of their genus. This quaint writer contends that there is rank among minerals as among men, and that you "may recognize the high caste and breed ing of these crystals, wherever you meet them, and know ul once that they are llarz born." He further adds: "If you want to see the gracefulest and happiest caprices of which dust is capable, you must go the Harz, not that I ever mean to go there myself, because 1 want to retain the roman tic feeling about the name." This roman tic feeling clings round what we have called its overground characteristics; the witch and wild huntsmen associations which linger around its uame. The Harz is the home of all the weirdest legends of North Germany, the scene of Goethe's "Walpurgis Naelit," the home of cloud myths and storms. The lover of legends will become almost seatcxi here; every reck, every hill, every prominent spot, has its story. —Geo. W . (Jhuus, na put SIOO,UOO in cash into a limited partnership formed in Philadelphia for the manufacture of watch cases. Fly wul Spider -The Table* Ttu ud. Australia is the land of contrariety m regard to animal and vegetable lift—such aa hl( k swans, the duck-molc, fish which clmib trees,cherries with stones outside,and veritable wooden pears!—hut one fact re garding spiders" and flies Is equally strange, for lieic there is a fly which catches spiders. He is a wiry, energetic, lmrd looking customer; bodylongish and narrow; color, literally half-mourning, and alxiut three-quarters of an inch long; he builds a clay nest for his lame, generally inside locks, under veranda leaves, or even in cracks of wood-work, aud sometimes in the folds of curtains or clothes. In one case, while slaying at a Iriends house almut twenty miles from Sidney, 1 left my waterproof coat hanging untouched for about lour days, and on taking it down there were a nest nearly built in one of the folds, of about the size of one's little finger and three or four inees in length. On re placing tlie coat and leaving it for another few days, and then examining it, the nest, was finished; it had three compartments, with one little white grub in each and fcr its food several small green spiders, not then absolutely dead, but apparently in a state of coma. These spiders were evidently taken out of the orange orchard, as there were plenty of the same kind alive about the trees; but recently, while up in tbe mountains. 1 watched one ot the flies car rying olf a black house-spider quite as big us itself; and during the course of the day saw him three separate tunes, and on each occasion with a large spider. I could not find the nest; hut the farmer tells me that he has occasionally done so, and found as twenty good-sized spiders of various kinds, ail apparently dead, but not decayed, and generally five or six larva* of the fly. There is also a large spider which actually catches small birds occasionally, and kills aud de vours them ! He is like a wasp m color; Ikxly, shape and size of a small hazel nut; legs long and wiry; ana he also looks like a hard-skinned customer. The web is always double, one alxait half as large again as the other, and made of such a strong yellowish fiber that, if accidentally walking into it, you feel a sensible stoppage of your way for the moment. One bird—the wreck of which 1 myself saw left in the web-was rather smaller tban the English wren, and llie web was strong enough to stand all its struggles, although a little broken here and there. As regards the size of some spiders, we have a flat-bodied, gray-colored one here w hicli builds no web, but lives under tht: bark of dead trees, behind boards, etc., the body of which is about the size of a shilling and not much tiiicker, but the legs of which are quite us long as the fingers of an ordinary-sized baud, and the whole spread of the brute is about a hand's breath. This is foi the fullest sized ones; j but the common ruu of theui are five or ; six inches across, and the style in which ! they jxmnce upon and double tip the small coekroaches is "a caution." lturlal Flare of a Viking;. All over Norway there are mounds which are known to be burial places. Now and then one is opened, and the contents are always interesting,but it costs a great deal, so that it is only very gradually that these tombs are lieing investigated. When a 1 anions chieftain died it was the custom to build a burial chamber in his ship, aud to bury with him his horses and his dogs, the harness, gold and silver ornaments, etc. Then the ship was dragged up some distance on the shore, surrounded with moss, and buried in clay piled up over it. In the mound we saw there were found the ship, about seventy feet long (larger than any hitherto found) and the bones of a man, three horses,and of several dogs. It was undoubtedly placed there in the ninth century, and after a thousand years of darkness has come to light once more; but not for the first time. There are signs of its having been opened and rifled of the gold and silver ornaments which ought to have been found, and are not. But that was probably not long after it was first placed there. In spite of The years that it iias lain buried, there are traces of paint oo the outside, and its ornamentation convinces the antiquaries that some Viking of great importance had his last resting-place here. The nails with which the timbers are fast ened show that it belonged to what is call ed the first iron age. It was curious to see how some of the parts were dovetailed into each other in just the same way as they would be done to-day. The ship is sup posed to have carried 120 men, as that number of shields were found hanging within the bulwarks, forming a defense to the men who rowed beneath. The prow was very sharp, and must have cut the water beautifully, urged on by so many rower?, and also by the wind in its large sail, which was of woollen material. Round the here's bones were found the remains of a silk mantle, which may have been brought from the farthest East. The rud der, a huge, oar-shaped thing,was fastened to the vessel's side. Most of the articles found within the ship have been carefully removed and placed in the museum con nected with the university. The ship is not yet wholly excavated. If possible to remove it", it will be taken to Christiana. Long Kent at Noon. Travelers affirm that the people of no foreign country do as much of out dixir la bor during the heat of the day as the inhab itants of the United States. In all the countries about the Mediterranean sea a long session of rest for man and beast oc cuts during the middle of the day In north ern Europe a shorter time is given to rest at nooq, because the temperature is lower, aud the rays of the sunlight fall so as to produce a less injurious effect upon labor ers. Still the time for rest is longer in this part of Europe than in tlie Uuited States of America. With us there is no stopping work for the sake of taking rest at noon. Lobor is expended only to allow men aud animals to take food and drink. As soon as eating aud drinking are finished work in the open sun is resumed. VY ithout doubt we should Ik* gainers both in the matter of health aud wealth, if >e gave a consider able time during the L die of the day to rest. More sickness occurs among the farmers immediately after haying and harvesting than at any other season of the year, and the cause of it may be attributed, in a great majority of cases, to the expo sure to the heat of the sun when it is al most directly over the head ol the work men engaged in the fields. Posetti believes that the temperature of the sun cannot be less than 20,000 degrees C. The Tramp Abroad. One of the first persons we encountered in walking up the street in Baduu Baden was the Bev. Mr. , an old friend from America of a reflned and sensitive nature. His companionship is genuine relreshment. We knew he had been in Europe some time, but were not expecting to run across hint We were going up the street brimful of talk when a vigorous young fellow, with an open, independent countenance, and a crop of early down, slapped tlie clergyman on the shoulder with his bread palm, and sang out cheerily: "Americaus, for two and a half, and the money up! Hey ?" The clergyman winced, but replied mild ly: "Yes, we are Americans." "I/ird love you, you can just bet that's what I am, every time. Put it there!" He held out hisKahara of a palm and tlie Beverend laid his diminutive hand in it, aud got so cordial a shftke that we heard Ms glove burst. "Say, didn't I put you up right ?" "Oh, yes." "Sho { 1 sjiotted you for my kind the minute I heard your clack. You been over here long ?" "About four months. Have you been' over long ?" "iMnyJ Well, I should say so! Going on two yearn , by geeutiuy ! Say, are you homesick ?" "No, I can't say that I am. Are you ?" *•0, h—, yes!" [This, with immense en thusiasm. } The Reverend shrunk a little in his clotln*. and we were aware, rather by in stinct than otherwise, that he was throwing out signals of distress, but we did not inter fere or try to succor him, for we were quite happy. 'I he young fellow hooked his arm into the Reverend's with the confiding and grate ful air of a waif who has been longing for a friend, and a sympathetic ear, and a chance to lisp once more the sweet accents of the mother tougue—and then, he limbered up the muscles of his mouth and turned him self Kxjse—and with such a relish ! Some of nis words were not Sunday school words, so we are obliged to put blanks where they occur. "Yes, indeedy! If /ain't an American there ain't no Americans, that's all. And when I heard you fellows gassing away In the g<*xi old American language, I'm— if it wasn't all i could do to keep from hug ging you! My tongue's ail warped with trying to curl it around these forsaken, wind-galled, nine-jointed German words here; now, I tell you it's awful good to lay it over a Christian word once more and kind of iet the old taste soak in. I'm from Western New York. My uame is ( holly Adams. I'm a student, you know. Been here going on two years. I'm learn ing to be a horse doctor. these ]>eople. They won't learn a fellow in his own language; they make him learn in German; so before I could tackle the horse doctoring 1 had to tackle this miserable language. First off, I thought it would give me the botts. but I don't mind it now. I've got it where the hair's short. Dontcbu know, they made me learn Latin, too. Now, between you and me, I wouldn't give a for all the Latin that was ever jab bered ; and the first thing I calculate to do when I get through, is to just sit down and forget it. 'Twou't take me long, and 1 don't mind the time, anyway. And I tell you what, the difference between school teaching over yonder and school teaching ovei here—slto! We don't know anything a!>out it ! Here you've got to peg ana peg and peg aud there ain't just any let-up and what you learn here, you've got to know, dontchnknow—or -else you'll have one of those spavined, spectacled, ring- boned, knock-knoed old professors in your hair. I've been here, loug enough, and I'm getting blessed tired of it, mind I tell you. The old man wrote that he was coming over in June, aud that he'd take me home in August, whether I was done with my education or not, but durn him, he didn't come; never said Vvhy; just sent me a hamper of Sunday school books, and told me to lie good and hold on a while. 1 don't take to Sunday school books, dontchu know*—l don't hanker after them when I can get pie—but I read them, anyway, be cause whatever the old man tells uic to do, that's the thing that I'm a-going to do, or tear something, you know. 1 buckled in and read all of those books, because he wanted me to; but that kind of thing don't excite me. 1 like something hearty. But I'm awful homesick. I'm homesick from ear socket to crupper, aud from crupper to hock-joiut ; but it ain't any use. I've got to stay here till the old niau drops the rag and gives the word ; yes, sir, right herein this country I've got to linger till the old man saj s come! and you bet your bottom dollar, Johnny, it am'? just as easy as it is for a cat to jump rope." At the end of this profane and cordial explosion he fetched a prodigious "nhoosh" to relieve his lungs and make recognition of the heat, aud then he straightway divided into his narrative again lor "Johnny's" benefit, beginnniug: "Well, it ain't any use talk ing, some of those old American words do have a kind of a bully swing to them; a man can express himself with 'em —a man can get al what he wants to say, dontchu know." When we reached our hotel, and it seemed that he was about to lose the Revr end, he showed so much sorrow, and begtreu so hard and so earnestly, that the Reverend's heart was not hard enough to hold out against the pleadings—so he went away with the parent-honoring student, like a right Christian, and took supper with him in his lodgings and sat in the surf-beat of his slang and profanity till near mid night, and then left him—left him pretty well talked out, but grateful "clear down to his frogs," as he expressed it. The Reverend considered him rather a* rough gem, but a gein, nevertheless. A Tall Horse. New York is wondering over a huge specimen of a horse which was brought to that city recently from Ohio. The animal is of native draft stock, and Ins registered height is eighty-one inches, or twenty hands and one inch, a foot taller than the average man; and his weight is 2450 pounds. This is the largest horse of which there is record, although a great veterinary surgeon in New York once owned a horse nineteen hands and one inch in height. Two horses were shown at the Philadelphia eeutenuiaj exhibition, that were nineteen hands and one inch high, which were afterward pur chased by a brewer in that city, and Pope Pius Ninth and a Hanoverian horse fancier are on record as owning animals of equal height. Opeßtng of tlie Sauta Fe Trail. It was about the begining of this centu ry that it dawned upon our. people that"* there were as good markets as well as cities and people in and near this same Rio Grande Valley, and under Mexican rule. There is said to be in the ancient palace at .Santa Fe a Spanish document proving the existence of a trail,in the last quarter of the eighteenth century from the old French settlements in what is now Illinois to some of the towns }n New Mexi co, and from one of them—Abidutu —to California. General Kearney is said to have dispatched a courier over the latter. Hut •ill efforts of the writer have failed to prove the authenticity, or secure proper transla tions, of the document in question. Mr. Gregg, in his interesting book, The Com merce of the Prairies (now out of print), from which much information could be collated, stated that a merchant of Kaskas kia named Morrison, heard, about 1804, through some trappers, of the stories which the Indians had told them of this ancient land, where Spanish pomp and civilization went hand and hand with royally high prices of merchandise. He dispatched one La Lande, a French Canadian, on an ad venture to Santa Fe, and Mr. La Lande went thither with alacrity, hut omitted the trilling formality of coming hack again. The log huts of Kaskaskia knew him no more; he lived in opulence in a one-stery adobe house, wniie the excellent Morri son. "Looked ror the coming which might not be;" and finally La lainde died in the odor of sanctity and was gathered to his fathers, without having rendered any account of sales, or made any remittance to his princi pal. Four men, starting with their goods in 1812, and manfully pushing their way t Santa Fe, returned only in 1821, having been imprisoned during nearly all the in termediate time. The next year, however, marked the opening of the Santa Fe Trail, that wonderful road, some eight hundred miles in length, rising so imperceptibly tor three quarters of this distance as to seein absolutely level, and without bridge from end to end. There it stretched away to ward the sunset half a century ago, and there it stretches to-day, and what poet's dream, what prophetic vision of the ardent patriot, steadfastly believing in the future greatness of his country, is commensurate with either the romauce or the reality ol the march over and beside it, during those fifty years, of the pioueeer, the trader, the soldier, the Free-State champion, the set tler, and the railroad engineer? The first traders carried their merchan dise on pack horses or mules, aud it was in 1824 that it was decided to use wagons, a number of which reached Santa Fe with much less difficulty than might have beeu expected. The practicability of this method lieing established the trade began steadily to increase, and in a few years a large amount of capital was embarked therein. Its initial point was first Franklin, some * one hundred and fifty miles west of St. Ixniis; then Independence; then West port— all these towns being on the Missouri River, and thus easily reached during the season of navigation. Here were found motley crowds—traders, outfitters, dealers in supplies of all kinds, tourists, invalids hoping to regain their health by a trip on the plains, drivers, and 'Youglis" in abuu dance, The covered wagons were drawn first by horses, then by mules, then by both mules and oxen; and were carefully load ed, Besides the merchandise, supplies for the men were carried —say, bacon, floor, coffee, sugar and a little salt, it being ex pected that enough buffaloes would be killed to furnish fresh meat. Starting off iu detached parties, the wagous would ren dezvous at Council Grove, on a branch of the Neosho River, twenty miles north of the present town of Emporia, and here an organization would be effected for mntual aid and protection during the long journey. In such a caravan there would be, perhaps, one hundred wagons, and a "captain ot the caravan" would divide them into four divisions, with a lieutenant to each. Every indivdual in the caravan was com pelled to stand his watch at night, aad this gurfhi must have presented a motley assortment of clothing and arms. When all was ready, the start was made. Every night a holliw square and temporary cor ral were made with the wagons, and the camp fires lighted outside of this square. Across swamps, quagmires, and even riv ers, the teams were driven, men being sent ahead to make temporary bridges over the first two. of brush or .ong grass covered with earth, and sometimes, for crossing streams to fabricate "buffalo boats"of hides stretched over frames of poles, or empty wagon bodies. Not a Good Joke Alter All. Life in Leaaville is full of excitement even for a barber. The other day a citi zen named Plug strolled int) a barber's establishment where there were two chairs, both full, and fourteen men waiting. If there is one thing that Plug despises it is waiting around while a lot of other feliows get shaved. He figured ou how to avoid it, aud espying a friend in one of the chairs he stepped up to him and spoke a few words iu a low tone. Suddenly he became excited. Addressed his friend he cried: "You third-rate mule-whacker, I'll have your gore!" Aud the friend jelled back, "You greaser, I'll shoot you full of holes!" "I can shoot first," yelled the Plug, draw ing his revolver. "I'll let you see you can't" roared the friend, leaping from the chair. By this time a scene of wild ex citement was taking place in the shop. The whole fourteen waiting customeis were wildly struggling to get out before the shooting began. The man in the other chair, without stopping to wipe the lather from his face or remove the apron about birn, leaped from tlie window upon the head of a policeman, who at once arrested him for a madman. One of the barbers had bumped his head terribly and got his : mouth full of dust, crawling under a sofa, and the other barber was promply conceal ed behind a barrel in the closet. As soon [ as the shop was cleared the two friends I ceased threatening each other, put up their 1 and a hearty laugh coaxed the bar bers to come out and shave them. Piug tried to explain to the head, barber that it was all a joke. "But," said the barber, "you're a fighting man." "No," said Plug, "1 am a regular coward and couldn't lick a flea." "Then by tunket," yelled the barber, "you've driven over $5 worth of trade away from me and I'll take the value out of your hide!" And he got iu several lusty blows ou Plug before the lai ter could offer to settle. And, somehow, Plug doesn't think it was such a good joke after all. NO. 35.
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