VOL. LVJ. HAULER, AUCTIONEER, REBERSBURG. PA. J C. SPRINGER, Fashionable Barber. Next Door to JOURNAL Store, MILLHEIH, PA. •gUOCKERHOKF HOUSE, ALLEGHENY STREET, B KLLKFONTE, - - - PA. c. O. McMILLEN, PROPRIETOR. Good Sample Room on First Floor. 19-Fr BUM to and from all Trains. Special rates to witnesses and jurors. 4-1 IRYIN HOUSE. (Most Central Hotel in the City,) Corner MAIN and JAY Streets, Lock Haves, Pa. S. WOODS CA.LWILL, Proprietor. Good Sample Rooms for Commercial Travelers on first floor. D. H. MINGLE, Physician and Surgeon, MAIN StreeJ, MILLHEIM, Pa. JQR JOHN F. HARTER, PRACTICAL DENTIST, Office in 2d story of TomUnsoa'a Gro oery Store, On MAIN Street, MLLTHKIM, Pa. BP KINTF.R, . FASHIONABLE BOOT A SHOE MAKER Shop next door to Foote's Store, Main St., Boot*. Shoes and Gaiters made to order, and sat isfactory work guaranteed. Repairing done prompt ly and cheaply, and in a neat style. 8. R. PEALS. H. A. McKxa. PEALE A McKEE, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Office opposite Court House, Beliefonte, Pa. C. T. Alexander. C. M. Bower. a BOWER, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. BELLEFONTE, PA. Office in Garm&n's new building. JOHN B. LINN, ATTORNEY AT LAW. BELLEFONTE, PA. Office on Allegheny street. QLEMENT DALE, ATTORNEY AT LAW. BELLEFONTE, PA. Northwest oorner of Diamond, J-J H HASTOON, ATTORNEY AT LAW. BELLEFONTE, PA. Office on Allegheny Street, 2 doors west of offloe formerly oocup:e<l by the late firm of Yocum A Hastings. 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 LAW. BELLEFONTE, PA All business promptly attended to. Collection of claims a speciality. J. A. Beaver. J W. Gephart. JgEAVER & GEPHART, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. BELLEFONTK, PA. Office on Alleghany Street, North of High. ~Y° CUM & harshbergeb, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BELLEFONTE, PA. JQ 3. KELLER, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BELLEFONTE, PA, Consultations In English or German. Offloe In Lyon's Building, Allegheny Street. Jjj H. HASTINGS, ATTORNEY AT LAW. BELLEFONTE, PA. Offloe on Allegheny street, two doors west ot office formerly occupied by the Una of Yooum k Bastings. .. SLIPPING AWAY. They srs slipping away—those sweet, swift) Mrs, Like a leaf on the current cast, With never a break In their rapid flow, We watch them as one by one they go Into the beautiful past. As silent and swift as a weaver's threa< Or an arrow's flying gleatn; As soft as the languorous breeze* hid, That lift the willows long golden lid, And ripple the glassy stream. As light as the breath of the thistle down, As foud as a lover's dream; As pure as the flush in the sea-shell's throat. As swest as the wood-hlrd's wooiug note, So tender and sweet they sceui. One after another we then pass, Down the dim lighted stair; We hear the sound of their steady treat! In steps of the centuries loug since dead, As beautiful ami as tarr. There are only a few years to come, fchall we trample them under our ruthless feet These beautiful blossoms rare and sweet, By tat dusty way of life T There are only a few swift years—ah, Ist No envious taunts be heard; Make life's fair pattern of rare design, And flit up the measure with love's sweet wlue, Mat uever an angry word ' ▲ SKWIXG-GIHJL. - "Now, girla, this won't do!" said Madame Melini, pouncing iu upon the six pale sewing-girls, like a wolf into a flock of lamb a. "No it will never do ill the world! I'don't pay you all exor bitant wages to oit with your hands folded like flue ladies. Miss Sedgowick, we ara waiting for that lavender silk polonaise. Lucy Lisle, why do you not go on with those buttonholes? Miss Fox, you will be so good as to change your seat from the window to the mid dle of the room at once!" "But, Madame I can't sec there to lay on tlieae line bias folds!" pleaded Miss Fox. "You mean you san't see the carts and carriages in the street, aud the type-set ters at the windows opposite!" retorted Madame Molini, whose true nomencla ture was 'Mullens,' aud who nad been a Milliner's apprentice, iu the goodly city of Cork, before she set up ou Sixth ave nue as a Frenah modiste. Lucy Lisle caught up her work. "I stopped iust a mirnute Madame, with that bad stitch iu my side/' she said aud began to stitoh away with eager haste. "If you're siok/'said Madame,severe ly "you had better go home aud send for the doctor. While you are here your time is mine,bought and paid for!". While Miss Sedgewick,iu self-defense urged that she had not enough silk gimp to trim the polonaise and was wait ing for more. "Not enough," shrilly repeated mad am* —'not enough 1 I measured that trimming myself, and I known there is enough. You may just rip that off again, and srw it on higher up, and more eco nomically; and I shall deduct this morn ing's lost time from your wages! What's that, Flora Fay—the mode colored silk dress? Finished? And where are the two and a half yards which were left?" "1 folded them up with the dress,ma dame,said Flora Fay an innooent, blue eyed young girl recently from the coun try, who stood, in an unconsciously graceful attitude, before the fat and flor id dressmaker. "Then you were a goose for your pains, "shortly retorted |iadame Molini, as she unfastened the parcel, abstracted the piece of glistening uncut silk, and whisked it away upon the shelf. "Two yards and a half isn't much, but it is better than nothing." Flora Fay opened her innocent blue eyes wide. "What is she going to do with it?" she asked Miss Fox, in a whisper, as madame rnstled off to scold the errand boy for putting too much coal on the grateflre. "Don't you know little silly?"laughed Miss Fox. "It is what she cabbages 1" "Cbbages?"repeated Flora, in amaze ment. "I don't understand you.' "You will when you see the mode silk made up into a sleeveless basque for madame," said the other, 'trimmed with the gimp that was left from Mrs. Au brey's dinner-dress, and the pearl fringe from Mrs. Ossett's white damasse ball costume." "But you don't mean," said the breathless Flora 'that madame takes the silk that is left from the customers' dresses?" "Ooosiel" cried Miss Fox, "don't tvilr nonsense any longer. It is what every fashionable dressmaker does, and "There's the reception-room bell," shrilly called madame. "Miss Fay, an swer it at oncel" Harry Drake was standing in the room, all glistening with satin drapery, gilded mouldings and huge mirrors, when Flora same in—Harry Drake, the young sea-captaim who boarded at the same quiet and inexpensive house where Flora was allowed a hall bedroom at a reasonable rate,on account of Mrs.Dodds having once boarded a summer at the old Fay farm-house up among the Berk shire bills, and still retaining a kind re collection of Mrs. Fay's kindness during an illness which overtook her there. "Oh, Miss Fay, is it you?" said Harry. "Do you work here? Upon my word, you seem to be in very oomfortable quarters." "But I don't stay here all the while," said Flora, noting how liis glance wan dered from gilding te fresco, Axminis MILLIIEIM, PA., THURSDAY. MAY 18,1882. tor carpet to bronzed chandelier. ' I now in a little dark room, where there in a stifling smell of cotil gas aud no carpet on the floor." "I've come for a dross," said Captain Drake, plunging headlong into his sub ject, after the fashion of men in general —"my sister's dress. She is to be mar ried next week, and some of her friends coaxed her to have her dress made here. Miss Fortoscue —she's only my half-sis ter, you know,' in answer to Flora's look of surprise; "but she is going to marry well, I hope." "Its the mode colored dress," Hoid Flora with brightening eyes. "I helped to trim it myself. "Yes. it's all ready.'* And presently rnadame came smiliug in, with the bill, and the dress folded neatly in a white pasteboard box, and Captain Drake departed with a dim idea that Mtodame Moliui perfectly oompro bonded the art of high charges. Miss Fortescue herself came the next day. She was a lady not lacking in quiet resolution. She knew her rights, and was prepared lo defend them. "Where is the material I sent?" said she to Miss Fox, who was in attendance in the reception room "It is not made up in the dress. I had purchased enough for a new waist and sleeves, and it is not all here.' "You must be mistaken,' said Miss Fcx with au aspect of polite impossi bility. "The bias puffs and folds cut up the material shockingly, and—" Hut at this moment, little Flora Fay who was packing some tulle capos and Melius into a bandbox, at the back of the room, rose aud came forward, with deepening color. "There are two yards aud a half of the mode-colored silk, Miss Fox," she inter rupted—"don't you remember? on ths shelf in the hack rocm." M isß Fox colored and bit her lip. Madame Moiim,with ominously dark ened face, twitched the two yards nd a half of silk off the shelf, folded it into a paper and handed it to Miss Fortescue, muttering womething about a 'mistake made by one of her young women;' aud the young lady departed,a little dubious as to who her or nol the fashionable dressmaker had intended to cheat her. She had hardly clos- d the door be hind her, however, when Madame Mo lini turned upon poor Flora Fay, with a scarlet spot glowing in each oheek and lips closely compressed. "Young woman," said she, "ycu are discharged!" "Discharged!" echoed Flora. "For what?" "I waut no one in my service," said madams, "who is too conscientious to fulfill mj wishes. You have intermed dled unwarrantably iu the matter of that silk, and I repeat that you are no longer in my employment!" So poor little Flora wcut oryiug home, with a vague comprehension that she had besu discharged because she had spokeu out the truth. It was nearly a fortnight afterward that Captain Drake uoticed the absence of Miss Fay from the table of the board ing house. "Is your little blue eyed lodger ill, Mr 3, Dodds?" he asked. "I dou't think I nave seen her of late." "No, she's not ill," said tholandlady. "That is to say, not exactly sick. But she will be if she dou'i look out. She's boarding herself, Captain Drake, on bread and crackers, and such like, poor dear ! and wasting awaj like a little shadow, because she's lost her situation at that dressmaking place, and don't see her way clear to another. Aud she won't run into debt, slis says, not even for a meal of victuals. Ah!" the good woman added, "I can remember when she was the pet and darling of the old folks at home, before they lost their all, running about among the daisies and buttercups like a sunbeam." 'But hiw did she come to loss her place?" asked Captain Drake. And Mrs. Dodds, who iiked to hear the sound of her own voice, told the wliQle story, "It's a shame!" oried the captain. "Just what I say myself," nodded the laudlady. And the next day, Miss Fortescue (who was Mrs, Awkright now) oame to see Flora Fay. "It was all my fault," she said, with affectionate vehemenco, "that you lost your situation —and oh, if you would come and stay with me. and help me with the sewing for my new house, I should esteem it such a favor ! Would please?" "Are you quite sure that I can make myself useful ?" said Flora, a little hesi tatingly. "Yes, quite ," said Mrs Awkright. And. in the sunny atmosphere of the bride's pretty home, the young country girl seemed to expand into a different creature. Captaiu Drake, the most de voted brother in the world, came there □early every day; and little Flora, all unoonscious of her own feelings, began to watch for his daily visit as a helio trope- blossom watcnes the sun. Until at last, there was talk of anoth er long voyage to Japan, and then Flora grew pale and nervous again. "I—l have been here long enough," she said. "If Igo to the Exchange Bureau, they will perhaps tell me of a new situation. And I need a change." "Flora," said he, "are you unwilling that I should sail to Jeddo?" "I always had a terror of the sea," whispered Flora, hanging down her pretty head. "Hut or course Captaiu Drake, yon must do as you please." "Yes, of course," he answered, ab sently. and when he was gone, Flora shed a tew quiet tears over the table linen she was hemming for Mrs. Awk rigfat. "How bold and unmaindenly it is of me," she thought, "to let myself care for a man who does sot think twice of me ? If he had cared one iota for mo, would he not have said BO thetif" Hut the next evening, at dusk Captain Drake sauutered in with that swinging gait of his, as if he were still treading the deck of an outward-bound vessel. "Don't run away, Flora," said he, as the girl caught up her work, and pre pared for a precipitate retreat. "Did—did you want to ppeak to mef" she faltered, with downcast eyes. "Don't I always want to speak to you. Sit down, Flora," said he, "aud hear what I've been planning." "Now it is coming," thought Flora, with a sick feeling at heart. He is going to be married, and he is (joining to tell me se." "I have decided to give up the sea fariug business," said Captain Diake. "Have you?" muttered Flora, faintly. "I am so glad." "And I've bought a farm in Connecti cut," he went on—"the old Berkshire farm, Flora, where you were born aud brought up. I'm going to be a farm er 1" Bhe looked up at him, the rose and lily following each other acioss her oheeks. "Oh!" she cried, involuntarily, "If I oould only see the dear old place once more!" "Hut I won't go there to live." said the captaiu deteimiuedly, "unless you'll go there with me, Flora, as the farmer's wife ! "What do you think of it, little girl ? Shall it be a partnership ?" Aud when Mrs. Awkrvght came in, the papers were all sealed, signed and delivered, the "partnership" was a fore gone conclusion! "I don't know how I shall succeed as a farmer," said Captuin Drake, to his sister; "but if little Flora here iu only with me, there's nothiug iu all the world that I haven't courage to under take." And when Mrs. Awk right look Flora's hand in hers, the girl whispered: "I think 1 am the happiest creature iu all the wide world to-night. Because, dear Mrs. Awkwright, he loves me?" London Nainvi. So far from Slough being a corrup tion of "slow, "th® plaoe, as might have been expected, had a nam® long before a coach, or even a wagon, trundled through its rutty street. As far back as 1412 the villiag® was (tailed "Lee Slowe,"aud the bricks with which Eton College is built wcr® made, according to authentic documents still extant, at "Slow©." Thus the local derivation °f the name of this ancient hsmlet, which, at the first blush, could have deceived no one, falls to the ground. Etymolo gy, indeed, is a dangerous pastime for unpractised hauds to play at. It some times leads to awkward consequences. At ono time the railway authorities in sisted ou naming a station not far from Cambridge Oakington, though the country folks in the immediate vicinity knew the locality as Hockingtou. This, however, was deemed a Cocknoyism until a sceptical, antiquary discovered that the name was derivod from the family of Hocking, and that iu reality the rustics were right and the railway wrong. Again, no belief has been stronger than that a court of Ludgato Hill was named in honor of Pocohontas —"La Beile Sauvage." Unhappily, however, further research proves that the spot has no association with the beautiful daughter of Powhatan, "Em perour of Virginia," but was the quondam site of the "Bell aud Savage" publio bouse.. If the world was to be dominated by scholars of the Slough type, Harapstead, instead of being a corruption of the Saxon "hamstede," or home place, would be named from somebody who once lived there, and preferred pig's flesh to mutton. Again, Hoi born is "Old Bourne" or d Hackney has nothing to do coaches plying for hire or tales twice told, but is a long-descended memory of Hakon, the Danish Jarli, who, following the wuye of his race, 1,500 years ago ap propriated the "ey," or island. Clap ham looks, at first sight, to the etymol ogist well read in old chronicles easy to associate with one of the old lords of the soil, Osgod Clapa, the Dane, at whose daughter's marriage feast Hardi- Canute drauk himself to death. But we are at once silenced when we find that in the Chertsey Register the place is named Clappenliam as far back as the reign of Alfred, and that by the time the Domesday Book was compiled the name bad become transformed into Clcpeliam. Piccadilly is in no way con nected with pickles. But after settling this point, there is left us a wide choice among '-peccadilloes," a word which Butler ai plies to the collar in the pil lory; Picoadilla Hall, a shop for the sale of "pecoadillas," or turnovers, a once fashionable artiole of dress; or "pecca dillas," a cake formerly hawked in the fields now covered with a province of houses- The Iluauitn Nihilist*. The trial of the two men concerned in General Sreluikoff's assas*ination ter minated very quickly. The following facta are gathered from the evidence given:—The deceased was sitting on a seat m the boulevard quietly contempla ting the sea. when his murderer ap proached and fired a revolver. The General was shot through the neck, the hall entering his brain. He expired in a few moments afterwards in the arms of some persons who had hastened to liis assistance. After committing the crime the murderer jumped into a droshki winch was awaiting him on the bqjilevanl. He was stopped, however, by a man called Korriga and was arrest ed, together with his accomplice, who acted as coachman. A citizen named Labsiue, a soldier named Nekrasson, and u Custom House clerk named Igna tovitch also played a part in the capture. Labsiue and Nekrassau were wouuded by the murderer in the struggle. The droshki had been hired by the two men for a day and a half. The horse had been bought for 25 roubles two days previ ously. On searchmg the assassins three revolvers, three daggers, and several flasks of poison were found on them. One of them was stopping at the Hotel de la Crimee, where General Streluikoff also stayed. The accused declared that the General's death had been resolved on because of his activity in prosecuting inquiries into crimes against the State. He was an obstacle to the successful propagation of revolu tionary doctrines among the working classes of Odessa. The two captured oriminals, who gave false names, were brought before the military tribunal at Odessa, and on the 21st of April were sentenced to be hanged. General Strelnikoff's funeral took place with great pomp on the 2d instant, at the Cathedral. The hearse was escorted by a large detachment of infantry and ar tillerj', and was followed by thousands of spectators. The execution of the murderers took place the next morning, after the sen tence had been approved by General Gourko. At 7 o'clock on Monday morn ing the prisoners reached the place of execution, wearing oa their breasts placards, on which was the inscription "State Criminal." The hangman, who had, as usual, been brought from hia prison at Moscow, aud had arrived during the niaht, according to custom, was dressed iu the red shirt of the Rus sian moujiks, the wide trousers vucked into high boots. The scaffold, which was approached by five steps, was a rough platform resting on trestles. Two gibbets rose above it and two blaek posts. The local authorities were sta tioned in a circle around the scaffold. The arrival of the prisoners was herald ed by the shrill sound of fifes and the beating of drums. Each prisoner was attended bv a priest. On ascending the steps, they were received by the hang man and bound to the posts. In three minutes the execution was over. A Clever Chinaman. Sim Cbanglo, a Cuincsc laundrym&n In St. Louis, is something of a genius. He possesses a knowledge of painting, clock making, cngmeering, eugraving, fancy sewing, and is well up in the ails ana sciences, including chemistry and other branches of learning. At present Cbanglo is engaged in completing what be pleases to term the "World's Kair." Tins curi osity consists of a miniature Chinese house containing towers aud veraudas, and possessing other features peculiar to Mougolian architecture. The structure rests on a table. It is about four feet high and five feet long, and its rooms arc all open on one side, in order that the spec tator may see what is taking place within. Directly in front of the bouse is a yard in which two Chinamen are represented as playing a Mongolian game, and two otners in the act of building a brick wall. On the steps two ladies are standing face to face, in the act of saluting each other. Three Chinese ladies sit on the veranda engaged in close conversation, while two men on the veranda directly over their heads are leaning forward and endeavoring to o/erhear what they are saving. About the building butterflies, that look as natu ral as life, are seen with wings outstretched in the act of flying. This is what the ob server nods on tne exterior of the build ing, but he becomes more deeply inter ested when he inspects the contents ot the apartments within. In one apartment he stes an army of soldiers mounted on horses, in another a solemn procession of priests, and in another a lot of wild animals, etc. When the clockwork that operates this vast establishment is wound i p and started, the effect produced is decidedly striking. The butterflies tremble on invis ible wires, and appear to be flying about in the air; the mou at the brick wall work vigorously, the characters in front of the main entrance bow gracefully, with their iiands clasped before tbem.Ciiinese fashion; the soldiers move around briskly, the ani mals run swiftly, and the women on the vcraLda over the main entrance vociferate wildly. In fact, everything connected with the establishment is natural and life like. "How long did it lake you, Mr. Changlo, to make that concern?" "Oh, it took me not longer than a month. I work very fast and can make such things very quick. The house, you see, is com posed of wood. All the trimmings are of silk. Tho?e pictures you see on .the table clsth hiding the legs of the table, I painted. They are oil paintings. One 1 ©presents a Chinese castle. The other two are landscape representations of moun tains. There are in the building and yard in front of it just 150 figures, whi jhmove when the house is wound up." Two Captains in one ship will surely sink her, A Nigh* With A Knt Catcher. One of tho most expert rat catchers In New York is a little man with a thought ful face. "I constantly thinks about 'em, sir," he says, "and 1 lose no opportunity for a findin' out their curious ways, which is quite remarkable, 1 do assure you, sir." , "Are theie many in your line here?" "There is many, sir, which has the auda city to call themselves rat catchers, which they ain't, notwithstanding. 1 snould say there is about ten of 'em." His hair is long and tangled; he has a scraggy moustache, and his hands are un commonly large, with monstrous knuckles aud long nails; they are scarred m many plsces. He is much under the average height, and as quick as a rat in his move meuts. He does everything with abrupt gestures. When putting on his h&t his hand moves with great rapidity. He walks leisurely to within two feet of a door, and then his baud flies out and the door opens like a flash His speech is as slow as his movements are rapid, and the muscles of his face never seem to change. His ruling passion is his great pride in his calling. "Which it's looked up to on the other side," he says, "as it should be, bein' a perfession requirin' unusual abilities." He invited the reporter to go with him on one of his expeditions against his en emy, the rat, and a few nights later they met at a stable in West Fortieth street. The rat catcher wore a pair of light cloth slippers, heavy trousers, flannel shirt, and vest. He had a kit of tools with him, and at abwut 11 o'clock he went to work. First he went carefully around the edges ot the floor, and learned every rat hole. There were a number; some at the edges of the partitions between the stalls, others at the wasbstand, and a number in the harness closet. The rats had ruined val uable harness. Many efforts had been made to exterminate them, but without •UCCtBS. "1 guess I'll get 'em out, sir. I just cleared 217 rats out of a private residence on Tenth avenue in three night." he said. He then took a number of little wire doors out of His bag. They were about four inches square. One of these was screwed over each rat hole at an angle of forty-five degrees, so that the rat could easily raise it on coming out of the bole, but could not get back into the hole again after it had dropped in place. When every hole had been thus covered the re porter retired to the top of a shelf of a long step ladder and smoked, while the rat catcher turned down the lights and cleared the large floor of the stable of all ihe small objects that could be readily piled in the carriages or on the shelves. "Are you sure the rats will come out?" "Uh, yes, sir. Thsy comes out every night. Be me men professin' to call them selves professional claims that they nave a poison that will make rats come out o' their hole an' die, but it can't be done. They claims, also, as how they can cbaroa rats; more lies, I assure you. Phospho rous poison causes most horrid thirst, an' the rats comes out of their holes an' drinks, an' then gosa back an' dies. Then there's a pretty how-to do, an' whole floors must come up at great expense." lie was moving about in a most siealtfiy manner, now trying one little gate and now another. A large bag of coarse material, with a string with which to close the opening, hung on a harness peg, and he had sprinkled a little powder down several of the holes, which was designed to make the rats thirsty and cause them to come out for water. He lighted a stub pipe and perched himself on the bottom of the step ladder with his chin in one hand, while he slowly opened and closed a pair of tongs, nearly two feet long, with flat biades. Everything was quiet for a few minutes, and then there was a slight scratching at one of the little doors, and a monstrous rat, as fat as an alderman, slowly came out. The door dropped to behind hiui; he turned quickly, tried to get back, aud ran squealing along the wall "He's a good one," remarked the little man in a whisper, gomg out into the middle of the room, laying his pipe on the step and turning up the gas. "I'll tell you what I'll do; I'll catch this one in uiy hands." He began to squeak through his teeth, making a noise like the squerking of a rat, and slowly approached the tat intru der. The rat backed luto a corner and stood with his little eyes gleaming and tail swishing rapidly from side to side. The rat catcher slowly drew closer until tne rat suddenly shot off along the wall. In an instant the little man had sprung forward with a bound that was entirely reckless, and went, head first, for the rat. Both his hands were outstretched, sod he pinned it to the floor with a force thai made it squeal. The bound was like that wmch a cat would make. "He is indeed a fat one, sir," he said, getting on his feel; "you'll observe " **Keap him away I Ain't you afraid he'll bite?" "Afraid, sir? 1 do assure you nothing is further from my thoughts. Besides, it's very rarely that they bite if you know how to handle 'em. You might let this one run all over you and not get hurt." * "Yes; 1 might, but 1 won't." "1 wiil, then," he said, calmly, and be fore the reporter could interfere the little Englishman had thrust the rat inside his clothing, aud the creature emerged from bis right trousers leg and shot like a me teor beUind the step ladder. The reporter rai-ed his feet one step higher, and the iat catcher crept up toward the rat with the same quiet movement that a cat dis plays. The badgered animal shot one way and another until it reached the corner, when the little man pounced on it and dropped it into the bag. There it tqueaied for a time and then became quiet, while the little rat catcher resumed nis pipe. "Were you ever badly bitten?" "Several times. Once I suffered long, but I deserved it, for I let the beast bite me through, carelessuess, you know. His bite poisoned my arm, an' I had a dread ful unhappy time for four mouths or so. It was in Pittsburgh, Pa. Rats? Well, there was rats there an' no mistake. In the St. Clair hotel I caught 120 in one night, and 437 m six nights. I caught 169 in the Severnh Avenue hotel in two nights, and in five I got 211 out ot the Monongehela hotel," "The hotels there seem to have been very fairly stocked.*' "Well, yes, sir, but it's almost as bad here. I've been live years empioyed by Earle's hotel, cleared out the St. Stephen, an' get regular jobs at the Fifth avenue, Windsor, Brunswick, on' Metropolitan hotels. Rats in abundance u not de sirable." He laid his pipe on the step again and said, reflectively: That's as ugly a lookin' customer as I've seen this many a day. He'll fight, but I'll get him bare-handed just to show you the sport." Another rat, much larger than the first, with scrawny legs and an emaciatel body, was standing by the hole he had just emerged from, and trying to open the little wire door. W hen the little man ap proached him the rat slowly retreated, but did not go as though frightened, as his fat predecessor had, but rather as a savage cur retreats, turning half around toward his pursuer every few steps. When he bad reached the corner he stood at bay. The man edged up toward him, but be fore he got within jumping distance the rat shot off along the wall He was driven back several times, and he oecame nglier at every defeat, until at length the littls man was ready to spring at him, when the rat made a noisy squeak aud j ntuped straight for his throat. It bounded irom the floor with a spring of extraor dinary strength, and shot at the man's throat as though driven from a cannon with its teeth all showing and its long tail straight. The rat catcher threw up his arm, hitting it a savage blow, which drove it against the wall, whence it fell to the floor with a thud. In an instant it got on its feet, and made another furious spring at the rat catcher's throat. This time he dodged it. The rat, when it came to the floor then, started for its hole, but, failing to get in once more, ranalong to the corner. The little man was circling about it, con stantly uttering the squeaking call through his teeth. "111 get him this time," he said calmly; he's a bad one, but I'll get him." He slowly approached the rat, which was again at bay in the corner, but when ever the animal showed any disposition to jump he would retreat. These tactics were kept up for some time, till the rat started once more toward its hole. That was the fatal step, for the instant it started the catcher threw himself forward and pinned it with both hands to the floor. His recklessness in diving forward was as remarkable as his success in always catch ing the rat. "Ah you big villain, you!" "Will you keep away from here?" "Ail right, sir. He won't hurt you now, will yon, me boy?" and he gave the beast two or three vicious slaps before he depos ited it in the bag with its fellow, "i've tackled many, but he was as ugly a house rat as 1 ever seen, an' a man who don't understand handlin' of 'em would be ap', to get hurt, sir. I'll show ycu now how X catcaes the most of 'etn." The reporter noticed that nearly half a dozen big rata were on the floor, huddled behind the harness closet. They had slipped out of the holes unnoticed, and slurried around for concealment during the fight. The catcher took his long tongs, and crept toward them with the implement open and held well in front. Oae of the rats started along the wall, and the catcher sprang after it and caught it by the tail as it ran along with his big tonga, and held it dangling up to view. This wgs thrust into the bag, and the others soon joined it. '•Now we'll have the pleasure of waitin'," observed the little man, as he sprinkled more of the thirst-inspiring p ;wder in the holes, relit his pipe, and. turning the gas almost out, seated himself on the lower steps of the ladder and fell into deep meditation. For an hour he sat thus, without speaking, and, while the reporter roosted, listened to the occasional clicking of the little door and the monot onous patter of the rats' feet as they scam pered to and fro on the bare floor. When the little man turned up the gas, there was a sight! At least naif a hundred black and brown little animals were scud ding arouDd on tne floor. The repugnance that men naturally feel for rats soetned to have no place in the feelings of the stumpy little rat catcher, who sailed into his work with great vigor. Ouly twice did he en counter any opposition, and then it was short lived. At the expiration of half an hour they were all squeaking together in the big bag—a turbulent mass of r&'s. He went outside m the yard, and brought in a little terrier to guard the place till morning, and then, swinging the bag on his shoulders, he went out into the street. "What do you do with them all?" we asked. "I have a number of degs for ti&inui', an' they're very fond of rats." The little man went trudging up the street in the early morning, with his huge burden of scrambling rats overshadowing his figure- Tlia Tamarind. This tree is indigenous in various parts of Africa and ludia, and it grows wild in several parts of the East Indian Islands. It is a handsome tree, 60 to 80 feet in height. Its compound leaves of ten to twenty pairs of small oblong leaflets form a dense foliage. The flowers are white when they first open, but soon turn yel low. The fruit is an indehisceat legume or pod, 8 to 6 inches long, straight or somewhat curved, and with a hard, brittle ex tenor shell. The seeds, from four to twelve in number, are each surrounded by a tough, peppery membrane, outside of which, between it and the shell, there is a firm, juicy acid pulp, traversed by strong woody fibers, which start from the fruit stalk. The ripeness of the fruit is known by the bnttleness of the outside shell. In tho West Indies its fruits is picked, deprived of its shell, and packed in casks, aud boiling sirup is poured over them un til the vessel is full; when cool, the pack age is headed up aud is ready for market. A better kind, rarely found in market, is prepared by packing the shell fruit in stone jars with alternate layers of sugar. The pulp has a brisk acid laste, modified more or less by the amount of sugar used; it contains tartaric, citric, and other acids, and some principle not well ascertained, which gives it a laxative property. Tam arinds are used in tropical countries to prepare a refreshing drink by pouring boiling water over the fruit. This drink is also used as a laxative and refrigerant in fevers. The wood is useful for timber, and makes a fine charcoal. The shell of ..he seed contains tannin, and the kernels are used as food in India in times of scarcity. A fly is nothing, but it spoils the ap petite. NO 20.
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