VOL. LVI. HARTER, AUCTIONEER, REBERSBURG. PA. J C. SPRINGER, Fashionable Barber, Ntxt Door to JOURNAL Stors, MILLHXIH, PA. JgROCKERHOFF HOUSE, (Opposite Court House.) H. BROCK£RHOFF f Proprietor. WM. MCKKJCVKK, Manager. Goxl sample rooms ou first floor. Free bus to and trom all tralus. Special rates to jurors and witnesses. Strictly First Class. IRYIN HOUSE, (Most Central Hotel in the Cltyj Corner MAIN and JAY Streets, Lock Haven, Pa. S. WOODS UAL WELL, Proprietor. Good Sample Rooms for Commercial Travelers on first floor. D. H. MINGLE, Phyalcian and Surgeon, MAIN Street, MILLHKIM, Pa. JOHN F. BARTER, PRACTICAL DENTIST, Office in id story ot Tomiinsoa's Gro cery Store, Oa MAIN Street, MILIHEIM, Pa. BF fiXIKTER, • FASHIONABLE BOOT A SHOE MAKER Strop next door to Foote's Store, Main St., Boots, Shoes and Gaiters made to order, ana sat i sfoctorr work guaranteed. Repairing dime prompt ly and cheaply, aud in a neat style. S. K. PEALK. H. A. MCKEK. PEALE & McKEE, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Office opposite Court House, Beileloute, PA C. T. Alexander. G. M. Bower. LEX AN DER dt BOWER, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. BELLEFONTE, PA. Office in Gorman'9 new building. JOHN B. LINN, ATTORNEY AT LA W. BELLEFONTE, PA. Office on Allegheny Street. QLEMENT DALE, ATTORNEY AT LAW. BELLEFONTE, PA. Northwest corner of Diamond. H. HASTING*, ATTORNEY AT LAW. BELLEFONTE, PA. Office on Allegheny Street, t doora west of office formerly occupied by the late firm of Yocum A Hastings. M. C. HEINLE, ATTORNEY AT LAW. BELLEFONTE, PA. Practices in all the courts of Centre County. Spec al attention to Collections. Consultations In German or English. F. REEDER, ATTORNEY AT LA W. BELLEFONTE, PA. All business promptly attended to. Collection of claims a speciality. j. A. Beaver. J W. Gephort. JgEAVER A GEPHART. ATTORNEYS AT LAW. BELLEFONTE, PA. Office on Alleghany Street, North of High. A. MOBRiSdfr, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BELLEFONTE, PA. Office on WoodrLng's Block, opposite Court Home. Tj S. KBLLER, ATTORNEY AT LAW. BELLEFONTE, PA, Consultations in English or German. Office in Lyon'-. Building, Allegheny Street. JOHN G. LOVE, ITTORNEY AT LAW BELLEFONTE, PA. $ Office in the rooms formerly occupied fcy the rate w. P. Wilson. lie pilllelii iiiewl STORH AND SUNSHINE. A aliatlow sweeps across the earth, The clouds bond low - -and dark ; In the distance rumbling sounds are heard. Accompanied by the llifbuilng's spark. Nearer anil nearer the murm'rlugs come; The air grows fresh aud dauip, Onward, still moves the threat'niug storm, Like an army's steady tramp, Restless grow the beast aud fowl, Instinct bids them seek. Here and there a shelter from The storm so wild and bleak. Passed away—the light breaks forth, * The sun appears in view ; Rain and Sunshine—and the bow, With its variegated hue. Over the earth bends gracefully. The flowers, more bright, Oast their sweet fragrance out, Gl\ lug Nature new deilgbt Thus storm aud sunshine blend, And love and fear entwine, Ouly to dreary Earth to lend t he glory of ihe l)i\uit* Revealed tu Storm aud Sunshine. KOSK IS ERA Nil' M. "I bate the odor!" Harry Penryth dropped the tiny spray of rose geranium which he held, and a shudder crept over liim. It was 011 a wide, cool veranda of a large hotel at one of the fashionable watering places aud his companion was Mrs. Warbur ton, a young aud lovely widow. She 'looked up into his handsome face with a peculiar glance troin under her long eye lashes. •'Why, Mr. Penryth," she eriod gayly 'what au idea! To hate' a flower." He tried to smile, but it ended in a failure. "I will tell you, Mrs. Warburton," he answered, aud then you will under stand me better. In the first pine ever since I can remember —even when a child—the odor of rose geranium cause a curious sickening sensation to creep over me. I cannot understand It; it is a sort of antagonism or repulsion, for which I fail to account Then later—" He paused and a far away look stole into his dark eyes; as though recalling the pas!; a leaf turned down on some page of his life-history. "I had a dear friend once," he went on after a pause, "a dear had another. Brooks and I were like brothers; modern editions ot Damon and Pvthias they used to call us in the college where we were educated. I had no hopes of aspirations apart from Gerald; and his interests were as dear to me as my ottu. Nothing could hurt him which did uot hurt me. "1 regretted exceedingly—regretted with a strange pang of jealousy—when at last, in the course of events, Gerald fell in love. The lady was one whom he had met while traveling for the firm which employed him. I never met Miss Delorme, but I learned she was the pcr lection of grace and beauty; an elegant and accomplished woman, and, withal, an arrant coquette. She was heartless and unprincipled, cooly deliberating and systematical. Mrs. Warburton, that woman was as certainly the murderess of Gerald Brooks as though she had slain him with her own hands, for she blighted his hopes and ruined his peace aud lured liim on with her false deceit ful smile, and her glorious beauty, until he declared his love and cast his heart at her feet, only to be laughed at and told scornfully that she was on the eve of marriage with a descrepit old million aire. "Now MissJDelorme's favonte per fume—so Gerald hail told me—was rose geranium. She wore the floweis fre quently; its scarlet spike glowing in vi vid relief in the braids of her jet black hair. Somehow I came to associate the two—the woman and the flower— whioh I so unaccountably disliked, and a feeling sprang up in my heart for Miss Delorme which grew and flourished like ■ the blossom itself—a feeling of strong aversion. "And so time passed, and poor Gerald was daily fed with false hopes and illus ions until at last the blow fell. Hail I been in his place when the knowledge of her baseness came to me, I should have spurned her as a noxious reptile from my path; dut Gerald was uot made of as stern stuff as I am, and so he could not recover from the shock. Oh! Mrs. Warburton it was an awful blow to me when they told me the dreadful truth that Gerald Brookes had taken his own life! "It all occured in the fair south, where he was traveling. I sent at once for his body—poor murdered boy! It came. He looked like a marble statue lying there white, cold and dead,his hands folded over the heart that had beaten with true and faithful love for the woman who was the cause of all this, and clasped in his dead hands I found a spray of rose ger anium which I tore from liis grasp; I could not see his body desecrated by au thing she had touched or cared for. From that hour I Have hated the odor and sight of the blossom with greater intensity than ever, it may be childish and weak in me; if so, I confess my weakness, but I cannot resist it." He paused and rested fos handsome nead on one white, shapely hand. Harry Penryth was young and wealthy, and many a woman had endeavored to awaken a responsive chord in his heart. But although he moved in gay society aud was courteous all and attentive to some, no woman had ever really touched his heart until he meet sweet Lily Moreton. But Ethel Warburton, the rich young widow, loved him with a most wild, absorbing passion whioh car MILLHEIM. PA., THURSDAY, MARCH 2,1882. rifd everything before it. The crafty Mrs. Werburton soon discovered that their was no engagement existing l>e tweeu Miss MorttoD ami Mr. Peuryth, ami racked her brain for some method of disenchanting the youug man. and turning his love for Lily into aversion aud dislike. While Harry Penrytli related the story of his friend and his tragic death, Mrs. Worburton's faoe had grown white a wild haunted look stole into her eyes, and the little hand, which held a sprig of the obnoxious rose gerunium was icy cold and trembled. She threw the dower away: "I'm sorry I offended you with my geranium," she said humbly, "it is no favorite of minel" It was a deliberate falsehood, but 110 matter. "The end justifies the means'" —at least shtie ught so. As soon as she was alone in her own chamber, she paced the door like a caged tigress. "My God!" she panted breathlessly, "what would he say —how he would scorn me, if he knew that I am Ethel Delorme, the woman who jilted Geruld Brookes! But he never shall know. I love him! I love him! And I shall win him if I die for it!" She fell into a pro found reverie. All at once her dark face lighted strangely. "I have it!" she exolaimed. *T lleleive I can see my ft way. That night Mrs. Warburton stood be fore the mirror in her room arrayed for the hop which was to take place below stairs. She was regal in cream satin aud lace with white roses in her mag uidceut black hair. She moved slowly toward a window where a pot of rose geranium was sitting, and stooping over it, broke off a mass of scarlet bloom. Then humming softly to herself, she left the room, crossed the wide corridor and tapped at a door. "Come in!" cried a sweet voice, and Mrs. Warburton turned the knob and entered Lily Moretou's room. "How lovely you are!" she cried, rap turously, a jealous pang at her heart, meanwhile, as her eyea fell 011 the der dgnre in white laee aud pearls. "But oh, Lily my love!" she added with a gush of apparaut sincerity, "why do you wear pearls? See, I have brought you some of my favorite dowers. 1 cannot wear them with this georgeoua costume; red and yellow would bo to gorgeous for me, and Ido think this dash of scarlet with your lovely white lace would be too pretty for anything. Will you wear thorn, ma chere" The young girl looked pleased. She was a sweet tender-hearted little thing, incapable of deceit, and tberetore, un suspecting. "You are very kind. Mrs. Warburton, she replied; "indeed I will wear tliem.' So the wily widow fastened the red bloeons in Lily's golden hair and at her tliroat and waist as conspicuously as possiple; then, her work accomplished she ditted away. When Lily descended to the grand salon below she was joined at once by Harry Penryth, who offered her his arm for a promiuade. A pair of dashing black eyes followed the two as tney mov ed slowly through the rooms, aud a pair of rosy lipps curled with a strange smile as she saw Harry Peuryth gaze fixedly at his companion, and turn pale to the very lips. The subtle instinct which so strangely affected the young man, was slowly but surely entering his heart. After a fame Mrs. Warburton observed Mr. Penryth making his wuy through the crowd to her side. He looked pale and troubled. "Come out and walk, Mrs. Warburton will you not?" he said offering her his arm. With a triumphant look in her eyes, she arose, aud they strolled out into the moonlight. "Where is Miss Moreton?" queried the widow archly. "I do not kuow," he replied, a trifle coldly. "Let us sit here," he added, pointing to a rustic seat. It was a lovely night; his companion was beaHtiful and facinatmg. Heaven only knows of what foolishness Hairy might have been guilty, but just then a voice fell on their ears from the shrub bery near. "Ah, Dupont!" cried a man's voice, and a witf of cigar smoke floated by; "why didn't you tell me that Delorme was here?" "Delorme!" returned his compauion: "I don'tknow of whom you are speaking. The first speaker laughed lightly. "You remember the woman who jilted Brookes, don't you? Poor Gerald! he was a noble fellow! Well, she afterward married old Warburton, the millionaire, and worried him into the graye within a year. She's a facinating widow, and the young men (who do not know her) flock round her like moths in a candle! I hear Penryth is the last victim?" "Indeed?" laughed the other and the two passed on. Harry Penryth turned on his compan ion a face of marble whiteness. " What does this mean?" he gasped, "Answer me; are you Delorme?" She laughed recklessly. 4 Is it fair to place me forever under a ban?" she ask€>d "just because a man whom I never could love, was foolish enough to care for me? Mr. Penryth, I was not to blame, listen!" "Hush!" he said sternly. Don't at- tempt any palliation. Shall I take you back to the house, Mrs. Warburton?" And Ethel Wanburton knew that it was all over, that the game was played, the die thrown and lost! Alone on the moonlight veranda, Lily Moreton sat, pale and sad Harry Pen ryth came to her side and beut tenderly over her. "Lily," he w tapered, where did you get those geraniums?" "Mrs. Warburton gave them to me," she replied; "wasn't site kind?" "Very," he answered dryly. He then sat down beside Lily, and told her the story of his friend and his tragic fate. Before it was concluded she hail torn the blossoms from their resting places and tossed them over the verandr. rail ing. They fell 011 the grass plot below, right at the feet of Ethel Warburton. And recognizing them she knew tae truth, knew her wicked wiles had not sueoeeded, nil was lost. And she was right, for liefore the season was ended the newspapers an nounced *he wedding of Lily Moreton aud Harry Penryth. Chinese Firm*-*. The towns contain a due amount of tame cheats, but the bold, hectoring highwayman, the truculent sea robl>er, must be sought elsewhere. All along the Blue and Yellow River are found re tail buocaueers, who hawk at a trifling quarry, and fatten on slender profits. These poor rogues do not aspire to a ship of their own; they come paddling out of muddy creeks in the smallest of sampuns, ill-armed, ili-olad, but pleuti - fully smeared with fish oil. If confront ed they fly, if grappled by the crews of the fourth-class junks, whioh they select as prizes, they slip like so many eels through the hands that grasp them, and their swimming makes amends for their lax courage. Seldom any very sinister results follow one of these attacks. If the fresh-water pirates prove victorious they are mild conquerors, and only too eager to be ou shore again with their booty cf rice and corn, stray garments, odd fragments of chain, bits of copper and brass hastily ripped from the poop and cabins, and perhaps the glorious trophy of a few rattling strings of cash. The dollars anil silver bars are general ly too well hidden to be detected by such hurried searchers; food, rather than fortune, is the object of the foray; and, except in rare cases of remarkable temptation, no life is attempted and no torture resorted to. With these amphi oious, ietty larceny rogues the magifi trates deal mildly, according to the tra - ditions of Chinese justice. Uiree hun dred strokes of the bamboo may be en dured by the human frame. Four sleepless weeks in the "eangue," or bamboo pillory, may fail to madden a stolid, unimaginable coolie. A few minor tortures need only be added to these two first-named inflictions, and the culprit is used to have been most teuderly dealt with. Pilferers in a fair or the streets of a town are considered as still more venial offenders. A vigo rous bastinado aud a week of the pil lory is the law's award iu such trivial cases. Petty assaults are as leniently disposed of, but fire raising is a siu of the deepest dye; and the malicious piercing of a ueiglilxir's dyke, to lot in a devastating flood, is punished with ex treme rigor. Murder and treasonable practices, wholesale piracy and armtxl brigandage, all cry aloud for death, more or less slow anil painful, and par ricide evokes the sternest chastisement of the Chinese, as it once did of the Roman law. A Fossil Stone Wall. The workmen engaged iu quarrying rock near Lexington. Kentucky, recent ly came upon a massive stone wall. It had every appearace of having been built by human hands,the mortar seams and joints being very plain. Above it about ten feet of drift and twunty feet of rock had been removed by the work men, and on the side exposed the men had advanced fully forty feet from where they first struck rock. Thus it was firmly embedded in a solid limestone quarry, which oertaiulv formed about it since the wall was built. The face of the wall was well dressed, and its mas sive appearance gave evidence of the skill of hands perished long centuries ago, and could well be envied by the best of stone masons of to-day. A anil 11. Two brazen,rather than gilded youths residing in adjoiniug rooms on the same floor devise a simple and ingenious plan to baffle the fiery clerk and furious dun that olten knock at their doors. Wlren the enemy knocks at A's door A pays no attention for some time; but presently B puts out his bead and yells: "Hi, there. I say; confound it, what do you mean by hammering on that door so tnat I can't sleep? Don't you see there is nobody in, or it would have been opened long ago. Now I want you to get out of here." The visitor is furious, but the logic of the lodger is unimpeachable and he has to retire. Then, when anyone knoofcs at B'sdoor A pops "out The Hour Advanooa. The cases of resistance, said my in formant, aud he had kept track of all executions for thirty years, were rare, and always proceeded from skeptic na tures, which faith oould not enter. He told me of the cynical slowness of a con vict who asked for and received a break fast of fish, that he might delay as long as possible, "My friend," said the jailor to him, "the hour advances." " Hir," he responded, "I have uo desire to strangle myself with a fish bone." An exiMJtitioner once thought it his duty to hasten a victim. "Why, dear M de Paris," said he. gaily, * if you are so pressed, pass before." Borne of these anecdotes were told to one of the aids to M. Roche. "I am not astonished," said he, smiling, "these provincials are so ridiculous." The executioner who cut off the head of the Chevalier de Rohan disdained afterward to do so for his accomplice, the schoolmaster. "You other ones attend to that one," said he to liis aids; "that is work for you." 1 have said that the guillotine is taken down immediately after an execution. It was not always the case that they were in such a hurry. Duriug the early years of its use, the scaffold was left standing after au execution, so that those coming too late for the spectacle could still enjoy a sight of the same; but after its use a padlock fastened the spring whioh permitted the immense knife to foil. One day the headsman and his assistants nail retired to the place where monsieur took his tiodition al warm wine, when some one knocked at the door of the room, and a man in a blouse entered. "Sir," said he, "I came in the name of my comrades to ask a little favor." "Well, speak; what is it?" "That you will let us have the key which confines the chaffer of the scaf fold." "And what do you wish to do with it?" "Ah, only a trial; I will return it to you safe enough in five minutes," The Monsieur de Paris of those days, greatly astonished at this request, cast a glance out of the window and saw that the populace had hoisted an unfortunate fellow on the scaffold and had placed him on the platform, where he remain ed inert and without defense. It was a wig-maker's apprentice who had be lieved himself authorized to steal a watch in the crowd. Monsieur under stood the danger of a skirmish in case of positive refusal. "My friend," he answered, "the ex ecutioner has gone and has taken away the key; but he will be back in two hours." The midday sun was shining down with an overwhelming warmth, and the crowd dispersed little by little; leaving the thief in his frightful position. When monsieur came to his rescue he found the fellow almost dead. From that day forth the guillotine was takcu down and put back iu its pioper bouse immediate ly after each execution. luslde the Pyramid*. M. Gabriel Charmes is now traveling in Egypt with M. Maspero, the director of tLe Egyptain museums, who has de - termiued ou opening all the pyramids that have not yet been explored and ou further searching those that are not thoroughly known. Among the pyra mids situated ou the borders of the Ly bian desert is that of Meydoum, said to be the most mysterious of aIL It ap pears that its entrance had never been discovered. Ibrahim Pasha even en deavored to effect a breach in its walls with artillery, iu the hope of fiudiug a treasure concealed therein. It is to this pyramid that M. Maspero is now devo ting his attention. By removing some of the ground on the north side of the artificial mound which surrounds the pyramids, ho hos succeeded in uncover ing all the points where an openiug might be revealed, and the result has shown that his calculations weie well founded. Thiiteen days of active labor, with skilled workmen, haye sufficed for the discovery of a secret which was be lieved to be undiscoverable. The spades of the fellahs have exposed to view the openiug, which is situated nearly at. the top of the artificial mound. On entering the pyramid the visitor passes through a corridor, admirably constructed, wliicb takes him about forty yards in a gentle decline, as is the case in the great Gizek pyramid. Here, for the moment, he is stopped by the debris. M. Mas pero has] alroady found two sacred in scriptions, in the style of the 20th dy nasty, giving the names of two scribes who had visited the pyramid. Hopes are entertained that no one may have set foot in it since, and it may be found to be intact. "But," concludes M. Gabriel Charmes, "whatever happens, the open ing of the Meydoum pyramid will still unravel one of those mvsteries which have so many centuries hung oyer an cient Europe, and which one by one are yielding to the efforts of modern sci ence. " The late Maritte Bey, in one of his works, said that the pyramid was called by the Arabs Haram el Kafdab— the False pyramid—as they believed it to be nothing but a huge rock shaped as a pyramid. This tradition may have helped to preserve it from molestation. The Editor ot th Other Paper. "Are you the editor ?" said the man, who wore a c 'mediatory smile and dyed beard, as he took a seat in our oflloe. We acknowledged tbat at present we served aud instructed the people in that capacity, and to prove our assertion, we showed him the blisters made on our exertion in operating the Archimedean lever that moves the world. '•Well, I want you to surprise me with a flattering personal notice in your paper. lam going to run for oonstable in the Eighth Ward, and I want some thing neat in the way of a send-off." "Our columns are always open to ad vance the liest interests of the public, but we shall expect you to first surprise us with a pecuniary compensation, not necessarily for publication, but merely, as a pledge of good faith." "I'll pay. A man can't expect to be surprised without paying for it in ad vance. What have you got ?" "We can accommodate you with al most any kind of personal notice, from a cheap electro-plated biography to an eighteen carat obituary, aud at a scale of prices varying according to the strain on our columns and veracity. In mold ing public opinion we defy competition. Now, how would you like this ? It is a neat little pre-Raphaehte gem, and will cost you only $1.50. "Our enterprising townsman, Col. B than • whom there is no more popular aud genial geutlemau in the length and breadth ot our great Empire State, has consented, at the earnest so licitation of many friends to sacrifice his very profitable business to the public good, and has authorized us to an nounce him as* a candidate for the hon orable oflloe of constable of this pre cinct. "If that is not strong enough, here is a Michael Angelo, full length, in which your qualities of head and heart will be toucliingly alluded to, and you will be commended for your generous impulses —only $2.50 each insertion. Then we have a brilliant thing, after Mozart, wliich is really intended for gubernato rial candidates— speaks of your simplici ty of character, jean clothes,and pav-as you-go proclivities—but it can be easily made to suit a prospective oonstable. It will cost you $3. Th*n are several others from $2 to $lO each. For re fering to you as an 'old landmark,' $1 extra is charged." "1 reckon you can saw me off $3 worth; but you must throw in some thing about my war reoord." •'We always do that " ' And just wind up by surprising Cap tain Bill- Sinike. He is running against me. I wouldn't say anything he might take offence at. Only say he is not fit for the office, because he has a breath like a buzzard, and tho record of a con vict You might add that my brother hascn't got a wife that has fits. That will hit him where he is sore, for his brother's wife is subject to fits. I don't care to lug any personalities into this campaign unless I am obliged to." "We can't do it, Colonel. Your rival is our personal friend. He is a subscrib er." "Pshaw! I thought you were running an independent paper in the interest of the people, but I see you are the sub sidized organ of a political clique." and off he went to sea the other paj>er. 111 the Wild* of Alaska. Ivau Petroff, special agent tor the Cen sus Bureau for Alaska, last summer planned totake up the work at Cook's inlet he left it the previous season, aod make his way along the coast toward the east to Sitka. Iu this he was only par tially successful, and for very good rea sons, as the following story of his adven ture will show: Having collected liis supplies at the Is lauil of Kodiac, he set sail in a schooner, early in the season, for the northern shore of Cook's InleL Ihe vessel had been out only about an hour, when she struca upon a sunken reef not marked in any chart of the locality, speedily filled and suuk. Her cargo, including his property, was a total loss. The passengers and crew were rescued and returned to Kodiak, where a new outfit was procured, and after a short delay a second and more successful at tempt to reach the mainland was mad<*. Mr. Petroff and party made their way with canoes along the northern coast oi Cook's Inlet to end around its head, s dis tance ot about one hundred miles, and then struck out overland for Prince Wil liam's Sound, carrying his canoes and sup plies. This portage has only once before been made. The region is one of the most inhospitable and" repellent on the earth. Two large glaciers, one eight and and the other nfteen miles wide, were creased, the passage beiug one of great difficulty and many dangers. One of these glaciers, the smaller, reached and termi nated in the sea; but the other had formed for itself a deep valley in front of the ter minal moraines, being of great size.. At that season of the year there was a COR tinuoua noise like thunder caused by av alanches of snow aud ice from the high mountains on each side of the glaciers. The comfort of the travelers wa9 seriousiy interfered with by numerous accidental ice-water baths. Prince William's Sound was reached on the Ist of June, at which time ttie sea son was so backward that no blade of grass or green thing was to be seen. The ground was frozen so solid that it was difficult to fix the tent poles in their places. The country around Priace William's Sound is very forbidding in appearance; stones and large Boulders, brought down by glaciers of former ages, cover the great er portion of the earth, the remainder be- log swamp or bog. Upon the mountain sides, at a distance, there is timber which with an almost impenetrable undergrowth reaches up a short distance above the sea level. In coasting along the Sound in his ca noe, Mr. Petreff passed the face of a gla cier twenty miles wide, from which large pieces of ice, small bergs in fajt, were constantly breaking off and floating out to sea, making passage very perilous. His canoe was in a sinking condition when he reached Nuchek Island. In this place are two stores, and considerable trade is car ried on with the natives for a long dis tance up and down the coast Having completed his preparations, Mr. Petroff started from Nuchek with a crew of four lauits and a half breed interpre ter for Copper Kiver, fifty miles distant. He ascended the nvcr to the first village, Altuanok, inhabited by North American Indians. As he landed, however, and be fore he approached the village, his inuits became alarmed and deserted him in a body. The natives were rejoiced at this state of affairs, and flattered themselves that they would keep the traveler and his stores among them to be preyed upon at their leisure. tie sought to hire a crew of Indians to assist him on his journey, but they de manded "a large gold piece every day for each man employed/' The boat was a large one and the Indians fancied it would be impossible for their visitors to escape withcal help. With his interpreter alone he decided to make the attempt, and when night came they cut loose and floated down the stream. The channel through the delta to the sea was a difficult one, but it was safely passed aud when the coast was reached were set for a return to Nuchek. Before reaching the island the boat ran lpon sunken rocks and was wrecked. The two men were picked off by natives who aw (hem from the shore, but much of their property was lost. Mr. Petroff now decided to await the arrival ot the Koloah Indians from a dis tant point on the coast, who usually come once a year to Nuchek with furs to trade for the molasses used in making their fa vorite intoxicant. He started, accompan ied by his interpreter, with a party of Ko ioshes from a village near Cape kaktag, and reached their village with his stores iu safety. Here, however, he found him self a prisoner. The barbarians, like thorn on the Copper River, and with much bet- ' ter reason, fancied they had a prize which it would be a sin to part with. They not only refused to accompany the travelerrs further, but refused to let them proceed by themselves. Their pretext was that they had trouble with miners and feared their visitors would betray their hiding place and their weakness, and thus bring an attack from their enemies. The In dians became insolent, and from the first stole all they could lay their hands on. After a time the; began a aeries of annoy ances calculated to provoke their visitors, with a view to putting thim to death and thus securing everytniag. The interpreter was a cowardly fellow, and one day gave up to the chief, upon his demand, Mr. Petroff s breach-loading rifle. The chief fired off the chambers of tbe piece and brought it to the owner to be loaded again. He took it, and pretend ing to load it, managed to put the main spring of the lock out of place, rendering the piece unserviceable. The chief was greatly enraged and hostilities became more imminent. A short time afterwards the chief demanded Mr. Petroff a tent for his own use, which request was firmly re fused. Thereupon the Indians sent off all their and children—a most ominous proceeding and one which was in terpreted as a sure foreboding of bloody work —at least in intention. The traveler determined to postpone no longer his attempt ms escape. Ail the large cauoes fit for sea going had been sent away; but the case was a desperate one, and tlie captives secretly selected the best of those remaining and noted the place of concealment. After cooking and eating their supper the two men retired to liieii tent as usual and tied down the flaps in front. Mr. Petroff drew his knife aud cut a long slit iu the back and directed the interpreter to load himself with such sup plies as he could carry and go out, The lellow's heart failed him, and it was only by drawing his pistol and threatened to blow his brains out that Petroff secured obedience. The escape was made in safe ty, and the two men made their way by night along the coast towards Nuchek again. Mr. Petroff was a prisoner with the Ko loshes Irom the fithof August till the 2fith of September. When he effected his es cape it was too la'.e in the season for fur ther explorations, aud he made his way to San Francisco. The Government ves sels bad returned without tidings of him, and the report had gone forth that he had leashed. Upon his arrival at ban Fran cisco, he went one evening to tbe meeting of a scientific society of of which he was a member, and foune thai one of his fel low-members was just on the point of de livering a memorial address upon his life and services. A New Dental Diaeaee, A Drominent dentist writes the follew ing: A child, aged ten. whose teeth six month ago appeared to be all perfectly sound, came to me with the toothache in the right lower canine. I found a large por - tion of the enamel had disappeared from the Burface of the tooth, as if it had been chipped violently off; the dentine was all exposed, but there was no softening or ap pearance of decay. The disease which has commenced in several of the other in cisor teeth, appears first as a small white spot in about the thickest part of the front surface of the enamel, which it seems to penetrate; and then suddenly ditintegrat ing, this comes away, and exposes the re maining sensitive enamel %nd the dentine. This disease is altogether a different thing from the gradual decay, or wear at the neck of the teeth, Irequently met with in adults, for in this case the patient is only; ten; and, as far as I have been able to as certain, the incisors, and clines never have been know to decay in the manner above described, We are often at our wits' end to cope with the increasing prevalence of caries in the teeth of the very young; and if this be (as Ife&r it is) a new form of destructive energy, the sooner it is recog nized the b°ttpr. THE farmer tnat rau rapidly through property" wore a red shirt and had hii brindle bull behind him. NO 9.
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