VOL. LVL
HARTER,
AUCTIONEER,
MILLHEIM, PA.
J C. SPRINGER,
Fashionable Barber*
Next Door to JOURNAL Store,
MILLHKIH, PA.
JJROCKERHOFF HOUSE,
▲LLXQHXNT STBSJET,
BELLKFONTE, - - - t*JL>
C. O. MCMILLEN,
PROPRIETOR.
Good Sample Room on First Floor.
§9- Free BUM to AND from all Train*. Special
rate* to wiinesaea and Juror*. 4
IRVIN HOUSE,
(Most Central Hotel In the Cttyj
Corner MAIN and JAY Streets,
Lock Havea, Fa.
S. WOODS CILWKLL, Proprietor.
Good Sample Rooms for Commercial
Travelers on first floor.
D. H. MINGLE,
Physician and Surgeon*
MAIN Street, MILLHKIM, Pa.
JOHN F. BARTER,
PRACTICAL DENTIST*
Office in 2d story of Tomlinson's Gro
cery Store,
On MAIN Street, MILLKKIM, Pa.
BF KIRTRR,
• FASHIONABLE BOOT * SHOE MaKKR
Shop next door to Foote's Store, Main St.,
Boots, Shoes and Gaiters made to order, and sat
ltfactory work guaranteed. Repairing done prompt
ly and cheaply, aud in a neat style.
8. R. PiaiJL H. A. MCKIK.
PEALE & MoKEE,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Offlce opposite Court House, Bellefonte, Pa.
C. T. Alexander. C. M. Bower.
A BOWER,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
BELLEFONTE, PA.
Office In Garman'a new building.
JOHN B. LINN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
BELLEFONTE, PA.
Offlce on Allegheny Street.
QLEMENT DALE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
BELLEFONTE, PA.
Northwest corner ot Diamond,
HOY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
BELLEFONTE, PA.
Orphans Court business a Specialty.
C. HEINLE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW#
BELLEFONTE, PA.
Practices m all the courts of Centre County.
Special attention to Collections. Consultations
In Oerman or English.
J. A. Beaver ~ ~ J W. Gephart.
JgEAYER A GEPHART,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
BELLEFONTE, PA.
Office on Alleghany Street, North of High.
Y° CUM & HARSHBERGER
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
BELLEFONTE, PA
jQ &. KELLER, ~~
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
BELLEFONTE, PA,
Consultations In English or German. Office
in Lyon's Building, Allegheny Street.
"~®7BHASTINfIS. W. *. REIOKK.
JJASTING3 A REEDER,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
BELLEFONTE) PA.
Offioe on Allegheny street, two doors east of the
office occupied by the late firm of YPee"V* Hast
ings. _ 4®-t7
ok pillleiti iiitmal
I.ITTI.K BY LITILK.
Little by little the time goes by—
Short if you sing through it, louir if you sigh;
Little by little—an hour, a tlay,
lioue with the years that have vanished away ;
Little by little the raoe is run.
Trouble and waiting aud toll aru done!
Little by little the skies grow clear;
Little by little the sun comes near;
Little by little the days sunlc out
Gladder and brighter ou pain and doubt;
Little by little the seed we sow
Into a beautiful yield will grow.
Little by little the world grows strong,
Fighting the battle of Right ami Wroug
Little by little the Wrong gives way,
Little by little the R ght has sway,
Little by little all longing souls,
Struggle up nearer the shining goals 1
Little by little the good in men
lilo&sams to beauty for huuian ken;
Lilt e by little the angels see
Prophecies better of good to be;
Little by little the God of all
Lilts the world nearer his pleading call!
A MISTAKE IN THE AUDBKSi.
"Is this house coining down?" asked
Mr. Merriman, looking up from his ser
mon-like paper despairingly.
For there was a hurrying to and fro
from all quarters of the old mansion,
a rnnuiDg up and down stairs, a subdu
ed bustle, a murmur of excitement, and
finally a gust of laughter, iu mauy keys
of elation, sounding as if it came from
the subterranean recesses of the kitohen.
"No papa," cried little Lottie breath
lessly; "but Minnie's bread has come
out of that oven, and it's a success."
"Oh!" said Mr. Merriman, abstract
edly staring out of the window and
scratching his bald head, "is that all?"
"That all, indeed!"said Miunie, her
self a very blooming girl, with short
flaxen hair curling all over her head,
light blue eyes and a pretty pug nose
with jus! the proper up stiape, And she
ran into the room with a big apron en
veloping her slim figure, aud a fresh
color deepening on her cheek, while by
ineaus of a stout kitchen towel sho held
up a tiu baking pan containing a puf
fy, enow white loaf of new bread.
"That's all, papa; wheu it's the first
bread I ever made, and when it's to be
sent to the hospital fair to be cut into
sandwiches and sold for the sick poor at
10 cents apiece! Look at it papa!
smell of it! see how deliciously light it
is! And then tell me if you ever expect
ed to have your little Minnie turn into
such a stupendous housekeeper."
And Miss Minnie Merriman kissed lier
father on the tip of his nose aud looked
at him with pretty girlish triumph.
"Very nice- very creditable I" said the
clergyman, beaming on his daughter.
"I dare say you'll make a famous cook
one of these days."
"I only hope," put in Penny, the
second daughter, (whose baptismal
name was Penelope Dorcas), "that Mr.
Ay ton will come to the fair and buy
some of Minnie's sandwiches, and—"
Minnie turned short round, flushing
pink to the roots of her pretty hair.
"Penny," said she, "what nonsense
you are talking, when yon know very
well that Mr. Ayton is siok with pneu
monia. And of course ho has sent a
liberal subscription to the fair; and
what can it possibly matter who buys
the bread?"
Penny subsided rather abashed, and
Minnie ran down stairs again to wrap
the white spongy loaf in a snowy napkm
and send Jerusha, the bound girl, to the
rooms of the fair committee with it.
"Now remember, Jerusha," she ut
tered impressively, as she held up oue
finger to add force to her word 3, 'it
is No, 19 —l9, do you hear? Saville
street."
"Yes'm," said Jerusha, who was so
demoralized at the prospect of a tem
porary reprieve from her dish-washing
that she could hardly stand still long
enough to tie on her bonnet.
And away she went, gamboling down
the street like a half grown elephant,
with a carefully wrapped up loaf of
bread m a basket on her arm.
"My first loaf of bread!" said Minnie
to herself, us she leaned against the
window casing. "Oh, I'm so glad it
has turned out a success!"
And then lier thoughts wandered to
Mr. Harry Ayton. Would he be well
enough to come to the fair that even
ing? he patronize the refresh
ment hml? Would he think her little
pink-ribboned apron with the bib front
becoming? Would he—Oh, pehaw,
this would never do! Here it was 10
o'clock and the parlors not dusted nor
Billy's Sunday suit mended aud brush
ed ready for seryice.
While Jerusha, after giving her im
partial attention to a hand organ, sciss
ors grinder, aud a street scuffle between
two belligerently minded little boys,
finally trudged up the steps of 90 saville
street.
"Please, with Miss Minnie Merri
man's kind compliments," said she.
"Please, and it's the first bread she ever
made; please, and she hopes you'll like
it"
And Lois Jenkins, Mr. Harry Ay ton's
faithful old nurse and housekeeper, car
ried the loaf of bread up si airs to the
room where the couvalescenl sat iu the
sunshine.
"And very kind of the minister's
daughter," she said, setting the parcel
upon the table. "And it's as beautiful
light bread as ever I see! And how
thoughtful of 'em, Mr. Harry, to re
member you now, aiu't it? But Miss
MILLHEIM, PA., THURSDAY. OCTOBER 2U, 1882.
Minnie was always one for doing kind
things to sick folks ever since she was
knee high to a grasshopper—Mess her
dear little soul!"
"Yes," said Harry, slowly, "it is very
kiud, indeed, could'nt I have a little
of that fresh bread with mv beef tea at
noon, Lois?"
"We'll see what the doctor says. Mr.
Harry," said the olil woman, cheerfully.
"And anyhow, if you can't have it to
day, you shall have it to-morrow."
An hour afterwards Mr. Merriman
himself came in—bald-headed, rtpeet
aeled and kindly-eyed—to make a pas.
ioral call. And Harry Ayton broke ab
ruptly into the good man's rather prosy
platitudes to ask the question nearest
to his heart.
"Mr. Merriman, do you think it pos
sible that your daughter Minnie could
ever care for me?"
Mr. Merriman pushed his spectacles
higher upon his forehead.
"My daughter Minnie?" he repeated.
"Why, she's only a baby! Seventeen
last fall, my dear Harry."
"My mother wits married at seventeen
sir," said Ayton, smiling.
"Bless me," said the goo.l pastor.
"And now I come to think of it, my
wife was not t ighteeu who she and I de
termined to try life together, on a sal
ary of SS(X) per annum. Dear! dear!
how time does slip along, to be sure!
My daughter Minnie, eh?"
"Because," said Mr. Ayton, bravely,
"I love her. And of all the women
that ever I saw, she is the only one
whom I would care to make my wife."
Mr. Merriman rubbed his nose.
"My dear young friend," he said, "if
I was my daughter Minnie 1 should suy
yes. But I'm not. And I don't pre
tend to understand the ins and outs ot a
woman's heart. So perhaps you'd bet
ter ask her about it."
"I will," said Mr. Ayton. "But I
may take it for granted that I have your
sanction?"
"By all means," said the old gentle
man, "by all means."
"And you will prepare her mind for
a visit from me when I am a little
stronger?"
"Oh, certainly," said Mr, Merriman.
And absent minded as usual he went
home and forgot all about it
At. ft o'oloeK pipttj Miuo Miunie put
on her blue velvet capote and neat little
sack and went to No. 19 Savrlle street to
help prepare the refreshments for the
hospital fair.
"How do you like my bread?" she
asked of the lady superintendent, who
stood at a big table with a dozen white
aproned girls gliding around her in
various directions. "The first I ever
made."
"What bread?" said Mrs. Raymond,
lifting her eyebrows, "We have receiv
ed no bread from you, Minnie."
"Goodness, gracious me!" cried tli
minister's daughter, clasping her bauds,
"what has become of it, then? For I
sent Jerusha with it at 10 o'clock, and
she came back ami declared that she
had delivered it all right."
"There has been some mistake, evid
ently," said Mrs. Baymond. And I ain
sorry, for we are iu great need of real'
nice home-made bread."
Minnie hurried back home and stern
ly confronted Jerusha, who was sur
reptitiously buying a penny ballad of a
boy at the rear door.
"Jerusha," said she, you told me that
you delivered my bread all right."
"So I did, Miss Mnmie," whispered
Jerusha. "At No. 90 Saville street, And
as you told me, Miss Minnie."
Minnie's cheek grew scarlet and thin
grew pale. She sat hopelessly down on
the edge of the kitchen table,
"Jerusha," she criod, despairingly,
"you have been and carried my bread
and compliments to Mr. Ayton, instead
of tc the hospital fair! Oh, Jerusha how
could you make such a dreadful blund
er?"
And she ran up stairs to her father iu
a sort of de.-peration.
"Papa," she oried, "such a dreadful
thing has happened! Oh, don't you
think you oould help us out of it some
way?"
And she related the complication with
tears in her eyes.
"Hum! hum! ha?" said Mr. Merri
man, apparently hoisting his memory
out of the time of Herodotus with some
uuseeu variety of mental apparatus.
"Yes, I see. But you don't grudge
poor Mr. Ayton the bread, Minnie, my
dear, do you?"
"Oh, no, no," cried Minnie.
"You don't dislike him ?"
"No, papa," said the innocent girl, "I
think he is ever so nice !"
"Well, then," said this wily diplo
matist, "Suppose we both go around
there together aud it can all be explain
ed satisfactorily; and we know, my dear,
that in the Good Book we are com
manded to visit the sick."
So Miss Merriman and her father
went to No. 90 Saville street, where
Harry Ayton lay on a sofa, looking very
pule and interesting, and just exactly as
a lover ought to do. His face bright
ened up at the sight of Minnie.
"Did you tell her, sir?" he demanded
cf the minister.
"N-no," confessed that worthy old
gentleman. "I thought perhaps you
could tell her better yourself. So I
just conlriyed this little opportunity —
or rather, it contrived itself. And I'll
go down stairs now aud talk with Miss
Jenkins about that passage in Revel
ations that always bothers her so."
"What does it meau?" said Minnie,
in bewilderment, as her father shuffled
out of the room.
"It means," suit! Mr. Ayton, prompt
ly, "that I love you. Dear, sweet little
Minnie, I have been longing for you iu
uiy heart all these months, but until
i our Bwoi t message ti -day—"
"But I sent no message," said Min
nie, blushing 'celestial rosy red,' "and
no bread either. It was all a mistake.
They were both intended for the hoß
pitkl fair."
"But it isn't a mistake that I love
you, said Mr. Ayton; "and if you can
not teach yourself to care for me after
all—"
"Oh, but I didn't say that!" confessed
Minnie. "At least—l thought—l un
derstood-—"
And when Mr. Merriman, having
quieted Miss Jenk*ns's mind as to the
obscure passage in Revelations, come
back, Minnie was engaged to Hurry
Ayton.
"But you'll let the fair have the loaf
of bread, Haray?" coaxed Minnie.
"Not a crumb!" said the lover. "Do
yon suppose I would let any one but
myself cut the bread—the first you ever
made, my darling? I'll send them a
cheek for SSO aud let 'em buy their own
bread with it."
Aud so the hospital fair didn't get
Minnie Merrimau's loaf of bread at all.
The l'rturuiMiioe la Cloaed.
The facts connected with the miserable
experience of young Symonds as an ac
tor were these : He was hired to play
in a stock company, and one night wu
called upon almost at an hour's notice
to take part in a play he had never seen,
hu, services being required in conse
quence of the illness of the mun play
ing it. So little time did he have to
prepare for the performance that a re
heursal was impossible. The part given
him to study was in manuscript. The
man who hud previously played it was
an eccentric person and had written in
a lot of ridiculous stage directions. Sy
monds was amuzed to Hud them in a
serious part, but supposed them all
right, and at evening appeared with his
lines and business prettv well learned.
laigo null iksliluuaoiv au—
■embled in tIA .theatre. The curtain
was rung up an. i the play oommcnced.
Soon Symonds" went on. His tirst
speech described the misery of the
poverty-stricken mother at home. After
it he danced a little break down, The
audience were amazed, aud the other act
ors on the stage dumb-founded, But
Symonds knew he was to follow his stage
directions. Presently he had to refuse a
proposition to commit crime. He did
so in grand style, and then took off his
hat aud jumped on it. This extraordi
nary proceeding created a fensatiou.
The inanagei came and stood in the
wings and suffered anguish. After his
next speech, a detiauce to his tempter,
he crawled under the sofa. That just
set everybody wild, and the manager
danced up aud down in the wings, and
swore he'd kill Symonds when he came
off. After a touching love s ene with
the heroine, Symonds proceeded to
stand on his head and howl, and the
audience howled too, and the manager
shrieked to him to come off. But Sy
monds didn't hear, and proceeded. He
spoke his next speech with such im
pressiveuess aud maguiticeuco of man
ner that the audience was, in spite of
itself, hushed into respectful silence,
and at its clos 3 was about to applaud,
when Symonds panked off a boot and
hurled it viciously at the head of the
orchestra. That settled it. The leader,
who was badly hurt on the jaw by the
boot, came up over the footlights, and
the manager rushed on from the wiugs,
and the way they bounced Symonds
about was fearful. He made a big tight,
and was still at it when the curtain was
rung down. After they were lifted,
Symonds explained, and showed his
part as a justification for his conduct.
But the manager would accept 110 ex
cuse, ami, going before the curtain,
said : ' Ladies and geutlemeu. oecas-
I ioually a natural-born idiot, with a phe
' nomcnal faculty for making an ass ot
' himself, is sent into the world. Such a
one lias iullicted himself upon us to
night. For my part, I have endured
the agony of the damned while watch
ing him, and I presume you've had
enough of his donkey ism. Therefore
the performance is closed."
Flow urn.
It is impossible, ap most parls of tlie
country, to make a beautiful garden
without the outlay of $1 for plants.
Could the persons referred to visit Eu
ropean gardens, or even see European
catalogues, they would find that the
common plants around them are else
where highly valued. Aside from the
trees there are many shrubs that may
find a place in the garden, and a host of
herbaceous plants from which a proper
selection will keep a garden gay the
whole growing eoason. Make the pos
sible piacticable.
OFF: ''You will And the painting
looks better a little way oft'," said the
artist. And Fogg asked, quite innocent
ly, ''Would half a mile be far enough
off, do you think ?"
Modern Vienna.
The famous letter-writer "Gatli,"
recently said: Although Vienna is one
of the most popular cities in Europe,
it is very far inferior to Paris in the
regularity aud importance of its street
architecture and the brightness of its
shops. There are some rather hand
some women in Vienna—particularly
Hungarian women—and the Viennese
often possess the amiable countenances
of the French, and are, perhaps, better
modeled in bodily form, but they seem
to me to be dirtier people, and with but
slight taste in dress. The public life of
Vienna around the cafes, etc., is very
languid aud phlegmatic, compared to
that of Puris. The large suburbs of
Vienna remind me of the Bowery side
of New York. The city is improving,
aud the great street called the Ring
Strosse has noble buildiugs of not very
pure architecture to celebrate the crea -
tiou of the element of popular Govern
ment iu this old absolute despotism.
The great palace, around which the city
clings like a sot of old Southern cabins
close to the planter's mansion, was a
subject of somewhat horrid mystery to
me, considering the evil influence it
lias exeicised on modern times for more
than three hundred years, I went
through the imperial stables, where
were many Spanish barbs for riding
purposes, and saw some of the Princes
exercising in their riding school; aud
went down into the crypt of the old
church, where a monotomous number
of great, lumbering bronze coffins of the
imperialists lie—Maria Theresa in the
middle, her husband at her feet, the
second wife of Napoleon off at one side,
with Napoleon's Hapsburg son silent
besnle her, and at the for end Maxi
milian, of Mexico, his big casket shell
covered with silver offoriugs and faded
flowers, and iu a darker part of the
crypt, behind higher railings, lay the
long, high coffins of a series of misera
ble rulers who fashioned an empire out
of the sufferings and humiliation of
discordant races, aud have but recently
surrendered any portion of it, in obe
dience to the iron will of Bismark.
Yet this surrender has made all of Aus
tria that is pleasing at the present
moment, and her sovereigns, at last
throwing themselves upon the populace,
begin to recognize a joy their lathers
never anew.
I went to the eelebrfttcvl Turkish batli
of Vienna, which would be the noblest
iu the modern world if there was any
patronage in Vienna to keep it up.
But it is rapidly tumbling into dirt and
decay for the want of money. Built
for the needs of the Vienna Exhibition
several years ago, it hid a brief perit>d
of success, aud still is a reminder of the
old Roman baths, iu its huge halls,
large swimming pools and proficiency
of space; but I find no bath in Europe
more acceptable than are those in Lafa
yette Place, New York, though the
Hammam in Paris is admirable for its
economy of space and architectural
nicety. The Turkish baths iu London
aro too public and hare too mauy para
sites hangiug around. Nowhere in
Europe did I get the manipulation in
thoss baths that one receives in New
York.
In Vienna I went to hear Edward
Strauss, one of ttie three noted Jewish
brothers who have composed dance
music, lead his orchestra at the Volks
garden, near by the palace. This is a
flat, enc'osed piece of ground, shaded
with horse chestnut and other trees,
with pretty walks and hedges, and with
two music stands opposite each other,
one of which has attached to it a sort of
restaurant hotel for balls and suppers.
At this latter music stand Strauss led
his tiddlers to bis own tunes and those
of nis brothers, John aud Joseph, and
about half the music played was of 4he
Strauss family's composition. Edward
is a fine-looking man with a dramatic
address; rich Jewish eyes aud black
hair; his clothes are oarefully made.
He leads his orchestra in a dance fash
ion, moving his feet and knees as if he
could scarcely keep from waltzing while
he handles the baton. The music of
the Btrausses is yaluptnous, confiden
tial, insinuating, coquetting and pretty,
but tolerably shallow aud made alto
gether for the feet aud fingers. The
audience, as a matter of politeness,
always applaud the Strauss compositions.
A military band in the other stand
alternated with the string music, aud
seemed to me, like military bands every
where, to have a great deal of brass
clattering and din of drums. There
were some gentle, graceful people iu the
audience, which toward nine o'clock
numbered nearly one thousand; but the
oyprians, in considerable number, pa
raded up and down the walks in pairs
and threes and singly, and lurked around
the environs, tasting their beer and
waiting to be addressed. I think I paid
sixty cents to go into this concert, which
was listened to outside by seyeral thou
sand lree-list patrons, who could hear
the music just as well as we within.
BOOTOK CREAM CAKE. —One cup sugar,
half cup of butter, two tablespoonfuls of
sweet milk, t.nree eggs, one teaspoonful
of cream of tartar, half a teaspoonful of
soda aud one and a half cups of Hour.
Bake like jelly cake.
—Mohammed was born at Mecca
about 570.
Ailment* of tb Horse.
The term forging is an expression used
among horsemen to denote a peculiar un
pleasant sound, prodaced when an animal
is trotting slowly of walking, and some
times even when they are going at a good,
sharp trot. It is the clicking noise caused
by the toes of the hind shoes striking
against the heels of the front ones. In
some instances this is so annoying as to
depreciate the value of the animal, espe
cially in those horses which carry it to
such a degree as to Injure the back of the
coronet, sometimes causing lameness, and
ofVen a wound of a more or less serious
nature. The fault is generally termed
over-reaching or grabbing. The term over
reaching or grabbing; and forging,although
very different in many respects, can only
be considered as modifications of one an
other, over-reaching or grabbing being the
more serious. The causes are various. In
some instances it is the result of debility,
as is often noticed during convalescence
trorn some depleting disease. We also find
colts which have not fully matured addic
ted to this vice, especially those which
have, as it were, outgrown themselves.
The muscles of progression are not sufil
cienlly strong to sustain the weight and
propel the body in a proper manner, hence
the awkward gait. Now and then we meet
with cases where the condition is remittent
the animal going perfectly sound one day;
possibly on the next the clicking noise is
heard every few steps, while on the fol
lowing day he will go all right,and remain
so lor a time, when the noise will be again
heard. This can only be accounted for by
the pieseuce of temporary muscular debil
ity, iheresultof some constitutional dis
turbance, aot sufiicit n', however, to cause
any noticeable illness. Again, in some
animals it seems to be a natural way of
going, and is best relieved by judicious
shoe ng. The aggravated eoaditioa, over
reach or grab, is the result of what might
be termed an accident, such as is liable to
occur when an animal is struggling through
deep snow, or traveling upon a very rough
or solt muddy road. It also often occurs
in trotting horses when they are forocd to
a gait beyond their natural speed, or when
they are suddenly checked by a rough
hand during the act of breaking from the
trot to the gallop. It of course occur <at
other limes, but these are occasions when
it is common.
The treatment of these conditions, of
course, depends upon the cause. In forg
iug the unpleasantness can generally be
removed at once by preventive measures,
such as allowing the wall of the hind foot
to project about say one quarter of an
inch beyond the shoe, and to prevent the
shoe from being too easily wrenched from
its proper situation a small clip should be
turned up on each side and in front of the
quarters. The animal should be shod in
this way until it has regained its strength,
or for an indefinite period, and to obviate
the possibility of grabbing the front of the
snoe EUOUtU UC urzrrztTcS iruiu IUC txmj
backwards. The treatment of over-reach
or grab must, of course, depend upon the
size and condition of the wound. If it is
a deep cut, and recently made, the edges
should be brought together and retained
there by sutures, and the whole covered
with fiexible collodion or something which
will protect the wound from the injurious
effects of the air. If the wound is only
slight it should be treated as such, viz.,by
keeping it thoroughly clean and applyiug
healing lotions or ointments. If there is
much inflammation it may be kept in sub
jection by hot or cold applications in the
shape of poultices or stupiug, but nothing
is better at this season of the year than
showering the part with water from an oi
dinary hose.
Over Wild Mountains.
The detachment which was sent under
command of Captuin 11. H. Pierce, of the
Twenty-First infiidtry, to explore the
northern part of Washington Territory and
report on its topographical aspect, reached
Vancouver on the 17th of September after
an absence ot six weeks. During the trip
the officers and men expenenced much
hardship and privation. The commander
left Fort Colville, W. T., on August Ist
and pushed in a westerly line for the Cas
cade Mountains. The ascent was so steep
that only three horses could be got over the
summit. One of the pack mules went over
the precipice head over heels, and after
making about fiity revolutions per minute,
soon lauded at the bottom af the canyon,a
distance of 4JO feet. Another horse was
lost in the same manner, and a valuable
mule was bitteu by a rattlesnake and died
suoilly afterward. Most of the animals
and a number of the men were sent back
to Fort Colville.
The party that remained traveled over a
region which is supposed to have been
never trod by the feet of white man. Lieu
tenant U. B. Backus, of the Third Caval
ry, than whom perhaps there is no man
better versed in woodcraft in the service,
was second in command. After belog out
some weeks the provisions began to give
out and for five days the party subsisted
on quarter rations. Part of the country
traveled over is reported to be exceedingly
rich in mineral deposits. The territory
traversed by the party was fearfully rough
consisting of steep declivities, and in some
places the ascent waa perilous. After
reaching tue Skagit rtver they fell in with
a parly of Indians, who carried them in a
canoe as far as Stirling, where the soldiers
procured supplies of food, etc. Captain
Pierce part of the time suffered from a bad
cold, but uotwithstanding his ill-health he
conducted the expeditiou to a successful
close. Knowledge gleaned Ironi this ex
pedition will be ot great advantage in the
event of an Indian war in that locality.
Eatuig Moat aud Nervoaineig,
.Nervous disease and weakness in
crease in a country as the population
comes to live on the flesh of the warm
blooded animals. 4 Meat' using the
term in its popular sense :s highly stim
ulating, and supplies proportionally
more exciting than actually nourishing
pabulum to the nervons system. The
meat-eater lives at high pressure and is,
or ought to be, a peculiarly active or
ganism, like a predatory animal al ,rays
on the alert, walking rapidly, and con
suming large quantities of oxygen. In
practice, we find that the meat-eater
does not live up to the level of his food,
and as a consequence he cannot or does
not take in enough oxygen to satisfy
the exigencies of his mode of liie.
Thereupon fo low many, if not most, of
j the ills to which highly civilized and
| luxurious meat-eating classes are liable.
Killed by his Bride.
Several months ago, two of the most
dashing belles of Huntsville ware the Missos
Merrl wether, daughters of Colonel Merri
wether, a prominent citi/.en of Huntsville,
Alabama, and the former Chief Eagineer
of the Memphis and Charlestowo Railroad.
Their most ardent admirers were Captaia
Belts and Lon. Davis, son of Colonel Davis,
who was once one of the most prominent
men of North 'Alabama, and nephew of
Zeb. Daris, who was Mayor of Huntsville
for many years. 1 oung Daris was con
sidered fast, and Mrs. Merriwether object
ed to his attentions to hw daughter. Tne
girl appeared to lore him, and finally au
elopement was agreed on, and one night,
when the young couple had engagements
to attend a concert, they instead boarded a
train for this city, where they were mar
ried.
Their honeymoon passed happily, but
soon Daris' character began to assert itself
and his wife discorered the awful fact
that he was addicted to the use ot opium
and was an incessant gambler. Tnis dis
corery created dissensions and he began to
make her life unhappy by bif* profligate
habits. Bhe endured this as long as pos
sible, but finally left his roof and sought
protection in the home of her ehiidhoood.
The excitement incident to this brought
on brain terer and for a while her life was
despaired of, and when she recovereu, ber
mind was partially deranged. The physi
cian adrised her husband to keep aloof
from her for some months and on this ad -
rice, he agreed that she should be taken to
Khea Spring, promising not to annoy her
by his presence until he was sent for.
Her mother accompanied her aad they ar
■red at the Springs about three months
ago, She recuperated rapidly and hr in
tellect was soon restored and the husband
visited the springs but did not see her.
He risited tne springs a second time and
saw her but a few momenta, she still re
fusing te return to him until he reformed.
But he again visited the springs, but was
denied seeing her. Several stormy inter *
news passed between the mo:her aal
him, and tor several days he was seen
hanging about his wife's room, but he was
denied admittance. Sunday lie procured
a pistol and de uanded admittance or
threatened to kill the mother. He was
finally quieted and gave the pistol to her.
Miuday he was heard to say that his wife
should return to him or a murder would
follow. Tuesday night Mrs. Davis step
ped from her room to go to th z toilet
room. He was near at hand and followed.
They met some distance from the hotel,
and he, pointing to a pistol he carried in
bis hand, demanded that she return to
him. She had the pistol be gave her
mother iu her pocket at th* time and quiet
ly slipped it from her pocket, placed it
against his body and fired, the ball passing
through his bowels. She then walked de
liberately to the hotel, informed the pro
prietor of what she had done as coolly as
II VUC WCn? rClßll DVIHV Til T■ wi -itain.il
a.id left for her roo'o.
She exhibited not the least excitement,
although many ladies were in hysterics
from excitement. She related the circum •
stances as calmly as if telling an anecdote
and at midnight inq ured after the patieut
and slept soundly until morning. Mr.
Davis was found to be rapidly failing.
He stated that his wife shot him in self
defence ami he deserved it; that he had
brought It on himself and ne one but him
self was to blame. He begged that she
would not be arrested, adding that she
acted in self-defense only. At Up. m.,
Mr. Davis was thought to be dying. A
number of prouiineut citizens of Hunts
ville passed through the city yesterday to
Ruca Springs. The young wife is but a
mere girl of very handsome appearance.
Chewing-Gum Season.
It is a fact of some consequence to dea
lers in certain goods fhat the chewing-gum
season begins with school. There is some
demand during the summer, but boys and
girls generally hare other means of diver
sion and recreation, but when the school
room door opens and the year's toil begins
there is something necessary in study hours.
Talfy and other candies leave marks on
lingers and faces, but the hardy gum can
be rolled away snugly in the comer of
the desk, mouth or pocket and reproduc
ed whenever the pedagogue has his back
turned.
Very little pu/e spruce gum is in the
market. Packages are received that look
like pure gum at first sight, but the lumps
are supposed to be formed by the fingers
after a little gum, rosin and other things
have been added If a dealer is in doubt
about the genuineness of this spruce guru,
he applies to a Canadian, who can tell at
ouce. It must not be Inferred from this
that the regular diet of the Canadian is
spruce guin. .No; he gets something more
on holidays occasionally.
The amount of chewing-gum manufac
tured is enormous. There is a factory in
Philadelphia. The gum sold by confec
tioners is chiefly paraffiue wax. Spruce
gum is fifty cents per pound for the best
in Maine, hence the use of cheaper things
gives profit. The gum makers follow the
toy seasons in the form of chewing gum—
that is to say, when tops are the toys gam
is in the shape of tops, at other seasons
other forms attract pennies. Chewing-guiu
may seem insignificant as a trade commo
dity, but it is not. There are large houses
in the country engaged solely in the pre
paration of che wing-gum.
Flat Currency.
Japan is offering an instructive spec
tacle to the advocates of a paper and
"iiat" currency. About six years ago
that country decided to imitate Eas
tern nations in an irredeemable paper
currency, and the result of this experi
ment has been unfortunate. The latest
information from Japan is that the
paper money is now at a discount of 70
per cent. It has depreciated in value
almost from the start, though subject
to the quick fluctuations which invest
this unstable currency with one of its
charms to a speculative people. For
a time the farmers in the interior pre
ferred the new paper money to silver,
and as a result there has been much
suffering among them. No one knows
the amount in circulation, and the
country is suffering sadly from this
! worthless substitute for money.
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