PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY IN MUSSER'S BUILDING, Corner ol Main and IVnn St*., nt SI.OO PER ANNUM, IN ADVANCE; Or $1.25 If not paid in advance. Acceptable Correspondence Solicited. pWAddress nil letters to " MILLHEIM JOURNAL." Distance. Mow mnny leagues of weary laud and sea Can place lliy spirit tar apart Irom mine? Can lure from distance dim some silent aign To set my soul enfranchised lar lrom thee— Afar from eyes that never leave nie free, From tones that stir my heart like mounting wine, From prcsenco thralling as sotno dream di vine? Alas! by night and day all stay with me. There is no distance —not for thoso who know The silent countersign that makes them one, Whose thoughts are messengers thai burn and glow, With love's fleet messages the winds outrun. Go, sail the seas! Go, seek the rising sun! Beyond my constant heart tfiou const not go. —.Mary Cltrntner. On Account of a Card. "I shall never forget my experience in a mountain district of Arkansaw/' said Capt Mellvine, when the conver sation had turned upon adventure. "There are many pleasant occurrences that we forget, but an affair of horror remains with us. The memory of a pleasant dream soon passes away, but the recollection of a nightmare be comes a mental landmark. Sometime ago I was instructed by my employers to repair at once to the White Oak mountains and buy all the cattle that a reasonable sum of money would induce to leave the rugged trails. I boarded a railway train, and was soon rushiDg toward my destination. Sociability is a prominent feature of my nature, which I suppose is an heirloom left by long experience as newspaper reporter: and I had not been long on the train until I had formed the acquaintance of several gentlemen, among them a United States deputy marshal, who gave me his card with an evident air of pride in being connected with so prominent an institution as our gov ernment. At a small station, a long haired man, a genuine native of Ar kansaw, 1 surmised, boarded the train and took a seat opposite me. 1 was desirous of hearing him talk in his quaint dialect, and moved over, ad dressed him and handed him my card. He looked at the card significantly and carefully placed it in an old black pocket-book. He eyed me nervously for a moment and then asked: "'Whar mout yer be goin'?' " 'White Oak mountains,' I replied 'I get off at Patsey station.' "He looked at me with an earnest ness, an uneasiness of gaze that I could not understand, and said: " 'I reckin you'll find it rite pleasant up thar. Best lot o' fellers yer ever seed, an' they ain't afeerd, lemme tell you.' "I could not divine why their physi cal courage should in the least add to the pleasure of my visit, but suppos ing the remark grew out of his admir ation for men who are not 'afeerd/ and that such information would lighten, in charming anticipation, the fatigues of the journey, I did not ask him to explain. He did not seem to 'cotton' to me, as the planters sometimes say in expressing predilection, and he left his seat and stood near the door. I approached him again, feeling more than ever an interest in him, and ask ed him if he had ever been among the White Oak mountains. " 'Have I got fingers and toesr' he replied. " 'I can answer assuredly concerning your fingers, and can speculate with chances in my favor in regard to your toes.' I said in facetious attempt. " 'Wall, then, I've been thar.' 'Many cattle in that country?' " 'Yes, an' yer'll find some of them putty hard to han'le, lemme tell yer.' "'My friend, I must confess that you puzzle me. I have asked you sev eral very civil questions, expecting civ il answers, but you are so evasive that I can get no satisfaction.' " 'Yer're gone to school, hain't yer?' " *Y es.' " 'Talk Latin, I reckin'.' " 'My knowledge of Latin is limited.. "'lt's what they call a dead talk ain't it?' "Yes, it is a dead language. " 'Then yer mout need it ar'ter a while.' "'I don't understand you. Your meaning is as dead to me as the lan" guage in question is to the unlettered world.' •"So much the worse for yer. J reckin' yer air sorter proud o' yer learn in' an' it may be all right to fling out yer book business at every man yer see, but it don't speak o' very soun' sense, lemme tell yer. In my country when a man gets to spoutin' like yer've been doin', we put him down as agrin nel an' don't have nothin' more to do with him.' "By this time the train was slacking up at a station. The brakeman shout ed 'Patsey,' and in a moment more I was standing on the platform. The next business to be transacted was to hire a horse, which I did after consid erable trouble. Just a- I mounted and started across the rugged country, Wat IIUHImm Journal DEININGER &. EuMILLER, Editors and Proprietor? VOL. LVII. I saw my long-haired acquaintance on a mule, riding rapidly in the direction I was to take. I called to him, but he made no reply. "My instructions ware to call on a gentleman named Harvey. I learned that he lived about fifteen miles from the station, and when night came on I had considerable trouble in pursuing the right course. Hurrying clouds ob scured the moon, and 1 could only get an occasional glimpse of the narrow and deflecting road. Suddenly my horse stopped and snorted, i urged him, but he would not proceed. 1 dis mounted to ascertain the cause of his fright, when I was soLvd, and, despite resistance, bound and gagged. There seemed to be quite a number in the party of captors, for while bound to a horse and hurried along, I heard nu merous suppressed voices. We must have travelled several miles over a country rough with ravines and al. most precipitous with hillsides. When we stopped 1 was rudely lifted from the horse and taken inside a log house built so close to the mountain side that an immense rock formed a sido w all of the structure. I was placet! upon a bench and my hands were untied. I saw around me ten or twalve rough, looking men, heavily armed. They were fierce in action and determined in expression. 1 had pleaded with them, ere they put the gag in my mouth, but now they bad restored to me the use of articulation, .1 sat mute and almost stupefied.. At every turn I saw great copper vessels, and off to the right, where my eyes inadver tently wandered. 1 saw a rude corn mill and a pile of corn. " 4 So you've come oat hereto take us to the penitentiary, eh?' said a large, grizzly-bearded man, stepping in front of me. " 'Xo/ 1 replied. 1 never heard of you before. I came to this country to buy mountain cattle.' " 'An* I reckin you've foun' more of 'em than you can buy.' " T don't understand you. 1 don't know why 1 was brought here. 1 never harmed any of you. and why you should inflict punishment on me is something 1 don't understand.' " 'Oh, he's powerful innocent,' ex claimed a fellow, who looked at me with an expression of blood-thirsty re venge. 'He don't know what we mean now because he ain't got his crowd with him.' " 'That's the way he's tryin' to work it,' exclaimed a man who leaned against one of the copper vessels, 'but turn him a lose an' he'd show us/ " 'Gentlemen, you—' " 'Gentlemen,' repeated a score of voices. 'Did you hear that? He's git tin' powerful meek.' " 'Young feller/ said the grizzly bearded patriarch, 'we're goin' to put a mighty tellin' lesson afore your eyes We're citizens of this here Amerikin gover'ment, and don't want to be pes tered in the exercise of our natr'l rights. Our forefathers fit an' bled fur the 'stablishment of this Xewnited States, an' we think we've got a right to make whiskey when an' whar we please.' " 'Now you're talkin'; put it to him.' chimed the chorus. "'You may be a brave man,' contin ued the patriarch,'an' may be discliarg" in' your duty, but it's our duty to see that you don't. We could have killed you easy enough without puttin' our selves to the trouble of fetchin' you here, but we wanted to furnish an ex ample to a young feller that turned traitor. We want to hang you rite afore his eyes an' then hang him.' "A groan arrested my attention, and looking around, 1 saw a young man bound hand and foot, stretched upon the floor. '"That young chap,'continued the grizzly leader, 'went down to Little Rock some time ago, an' as we found out by your raid, turned traitor on us. Ef it hadn't been for him you wouldn't now be so close to whar the revela tions of the gospel ends an' whar the real work of eternal punishment be gins. Hold the young feller up an' let the sinners look at each other.' " 'Gentlemen, I never saw the young fellow before, I declare. There must be some mistake here. What do you think my business is, anyhow? For God's sake do not act until you know what you are doing! Heaven knows I did not come here to harm anyone.' " 'That talk mout amount to a good deal afore a judge an' jury, but afore us it only amounts to what it's worth/ " 'What am I charged with. Give me a chance to defend myself.' " 'lt wan't expected that you'd want a chance. A man that is so bold as to come rite out as you have done oughter know that if he's tuck thar ain't no chance fur him. Fetch the rope, Josiah! The young man addressed immedi ately appeared with the rope. I begged and prayed, but they slipped a noose over my neck, and, throwing the rope over something above, tightened it. MILLHEIM, FA., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER <>, 188.1. " 'Before you murder me,' I gasped, tell me what I've dona' " 'You are a deputy United States marshal on the hunt of distillers/ re plied grizzly beard. • '"1 am not I am a cattle buyer. Xo one can prove that 1 am a deputy marshal/ "T reckin' 1 kin,' replied a voice and before mo stood the long-haireti man I had met on the train. " 'I did not tell you that 1 was depu* ty marshal!' " 'No, but ver give me yer ticket,' and he produced a card bearing tin name and address of 'J. M. lVlten United States Deputy Marshal.' "Then 1 realized how the mistake had occurred. The deputy marshal bad given me his card, and when 1 in troduced myself to the long-haired man, 1 had, without noticing it, gives it to him. 1 made an elaborate expla nation, and in proof, told them te search my pockets, where they wouM find several cards bearing different names, but would find at least iifh bearing one name, which was my own They dill so, and to *k the rope from my neck, and also liberated the youmj man who they thought had turned informer. "1 was soon liberated and allowed t< mount my horse. The grizzly man gave me instructions in regard to the road to Harvey's, and bade me good night in a spiiitof friendship. When 1 had gone about fifty yards some one called to me to stop. 1 did not know whether to flv or obey, but knowing that the distillers could, by their know 1 edge of the country, soon head mo off, I stopped. Pretty soon old grizzly aj peared. " 'Here,' he said, handing me a lu.>t tie, 'take the moonshine along with you. It's the best, an' along towards the turn of the night you'll find it mighty strengthenin'. Don't say any thing about our pleasant meetin' fur you mout be sorry fur it. flood bye.' *' An Incident of the Crimen. A formidable mine hail been dug and loaded u nder the M.tlakolT tower. If General MacMaiion had not chanced to discover in the barrack one wire lead ing from a well-concealed voltaic-pile to a large quantity of powder under it, and another connecting it with the powder magazine, the whole victorious force might have been blown into the air after having gained possession of the fort. The wires were cut, but the powder magazine could not be found. Some of the French soldiers were set ting lire to the empty gabions which had been thrust into the small win dows of the bomb-proof cellar under the tower, in order to barricade it One of the gabions appeared to be moving. A French officer called out that if any one was there who could speak French he might come out with out fear. The gabion was pushed through the window, and a very young Russian officer crept out. He was assured that lie and any others surrendering as prisoners of war would be well treated. After saying a few words in Russian at the window lie was joined by four ollieers and 200 common soldiers. They begged, through him, to be taken away at once. This request suggested some knowledge of an impending explosion. The young officer was therefore ordered to point out the position of the powder magazine. The lad made no answer. A French subaltern said in a loud voice to the commanding officer that the Russian ought to be shot if lie re fused to obey the order given to save so many lives. The youth kept si lence, with a haughty glance of indig nation at the subaltern, apparently for supposing that he would betray a secret under a threat. The French chief formed a platoon to shoot him and lie turned to face his executioners. An old Russian major, who seemed to understand French, ran forward, took the commandant by the hand, drew him to a heap of earth, and pointed downward. The earth was quickly shoveled away, and barrels containing 88,000 tons of gunpowder were dis covered. A strong French guard was placed over them. The young Russian officer was told to go with the other prisoners. He gave a military salute and kissed the old Russian major's hand. "Do not blame him for show ing you the powder," he said in French to the commandant, with a trembling voice and tears in his eyes. "He is my father." Would Just About Suit. A pretentious person said to the leading man of a village, "How would a lecture by me on Mount Vesuvius suit the inhabitants of your village?" "Very well, sir; very well indeed," he answered; a lecture by you on Mount Vesuvius would suit them a great deal better than a lecture by you in this village." A PAPER FOR THE HOME CIRCLE. TnuiMPiis OK oi.n AGE. Hlint Hit* Ootoffrnr*iia, le I.earia and r.i lcaoii Have A coini>llainl. Two notable examples are now bo fore (he public, of men whose sinews have waxed not old whose eyes are not dimmed and whose natural force is not abated by the eighty years which (le v have lived in tho world. One is DoLosscps, the famous canal builder, whose mental force, physical Rtlength and moral audacity, might well be the envy of men half his years. Just emerging from his conlliot with the English connnaAder and tho khe dive during the Egyptian war, when alone he defended the neutrality of the Suez qanid, he has entered into a con tract with tho English government to build another without yielding a sin gle claim or demand which he made when the khodive threatened him with English vengeance, nor, regardless of international consequences, taking a backward step. In tho meanwhile he is pushing forward the Panama canal project, which is to the Suez canal what au Alpine tunnel is to a country ditch, obtaining money, ignoring pro tests and objections, and bringing to its support an indomitable will and a self- assertion, possessed only by the master-minds of war and statesman ship. Although eighty-one yeais of age lie is the husband of a compara tively young wife and the father of eleven children, the youngest of whom is only a few weeks old. His public projects are as far reaching as if he were but fifty; his physical vigor equal to his mental force. The com bination at such an age is very rare. Another instance is the inventor t Ericsson, of the same age as De Les seps, and in all but his years a young man yet. It is more than twenty years since his invention, the Moni tor, arrived in Hampton Roads just in time to prevent the United states forces from being driven from tho A ir ginia peninsula. .Since that time, na val warfare has befcn revolutionized again. The low, creeping iron-clad is a thing of the past, unless against an immense armament and the steel-eov ered fleets of the modern navy. To meet this formidable enemy Ericsson has dived beneath the water, and |his torpedo boat, the Destroyer, is expect to be "the cheap defense of nations" against the monsters which all first class governments row own to keep one another in order. His solar en gine. destined to store up and use tne sun's rays in tropic latitudes for the purposes of irrigation, is still on his hands; but of its success little doubt is expressed. At any rate, his fore score years seem to find him as hope ful, active, vigorous and industrious as at any period of his life. .Such lives are exceptional, but not solitary instances. Dandolo, Doge of Venice, won some of his greatest na val victories at eighty, and stormed and captured Constantinople at the age of ninety; Benjamin Franklin was as bright, inventive and active in his seventy-fifth year as in his fifti eth; Goethe was nearly eighty when he wrote the second part of "l'aust;" both Bacon and Newton were far ad vanced in years when they made some of their most notable discoveries. But these are marvels in human history, and well entitled to provoke attention and curiosity. If a man survives his sixtieth year, he is generally well con tent, even if active and strong, to live upon his past fame and achievements rather than to undertake new enter prises or plan new projects. The Value of Manner. We have heard it said that you can do everything, however unpleasant it may be to those around you, if you only do it in the right way; and the instance given to prove the truth of this assertion is taken from humble life. A cat walks daintily into a room on a cold winter's day, and with a be nign glance at the company and a me lodious purring sound she walks leis urely round, selects for herself tho warmest place in the room—perhaps the only warm place, right in front of tho lire—curls herself up and goes se renely to sleep, secure that no one will be so unreasonable as to question her right to sleep wherever inclination prompts her to sleep. Xo one calls it selfish, no one is annoyed, because she has done it so prettily and gracefully. Indeed, every one experiences an ac cess of warmth and comfort in them selves, from beholding pussy's blissfu 1 repose. Now, imagine the same thing done in a different way, and by a less self-possessed individual. If it were done hurriedly, or noisily, or clumsily* or diffidently even, or in any way ob trusively, what a storm of indignation it would excite in the bosoms of all be" holders? How thoughtless, how incon siderate, how selfish! Xo, it must be done as the cat does it, without a sound or a gesture to provoke criti cism, or it must not be done at all. EYES THAT SEE NOT. Ilrlng of tho Kind That ore K*ported to Fill Voconclea —Artlflclnl Optica. "We sell from 100 to 150 artificial eyes a year," says a Philadelphia op tician, "and the demand seeins to grow greater every year. There is a very large nominal profit on these goods, for they sell at $lO to sls each, accord ing to grade; but when you consider tho trouble and annoyance the fitting involves and tho timo it consumes, you can easily see that they are well worth the price charged. We never have a customer that is satisfied with his new eye at tho first 'trying on'. Within a day or two he comes back and claims that the color is a shade lighter or a shade darker than the good eye, or that they don't match in some other way. There is only one thing for it. We must go over our whole stock until tho eye is matched, and our time and trouble must count for something. We have a number of steady customers, who always buy their eyes of us, and bring them to us to bo cleaned and repaired." "Where do you get artificial eyes?" "They are made atStutzbacb, in the Thuringian fore.-t.in Germany, and tho works employ a large force of skilled workmen. It is wonderful how close ly they imitate the human organ of sight. 1 don't believe there is an eye that cannot be almost perfectly match ed." "Do artificial eyes wear out." "Oh, yes, an eye wears out in about two years. The salt and other alka line substances in the tear duct event ually eat off the polish and the inner surface becomes rough, and requires to be repolished." "We have some customers—nervous and excitable people—who are con stantly changing their eyes, and not at all to the betterment of their appear ance. Others provide themselves with several eyes, and use them alternate ly. "Their wearers must take them out at night and keep them in clean water, for the secretions of the eye would otherwise gather upon them. Moreover the muscles that keep them in place, require frequent, rests." "What, are the eyes capable of movement?" "One of the great prerequisites in the removal of an eye, when it becomes necessary, is to leave the surrounding muscles intact. This is generally done by experienced oculists, but sometimes cases come to us in which the muscles have been remorselessly destroyed, and then we find it almost impossible to make the artificial substitute look nat ural. I know a pretty young lady whose glass eye will stare stolidly and solemnly at you, as if the owner were inwardly accusing you of some grave offense' while her natural eye is twink ling merrily at the joke that she is lis tening to or at something tunny that she sees. Once, when she was looking into her pocket-book for some change with her good eye, that terrible artifi cial eye twisted itself around in my direction and glared at me with a mal evolence that frightened me. It was only then that 1 discovered that it was a glass eye, for it was very well matched. When I subsequently exam ined the young lady's case 1 found that nothing could be done for her. She must go through life subject, to all kinds of misunderstandings, just bo cause a surgeon who didn't understand his business, had bungled over the op eration on her eye. 1 know, also, an old gentleman, whose right eye beams with intelligence and amiability, while his left glares gloomily forth with an air of utter disgust and dissatisfaction with the world. The First Prayer in Colorado. Father Dyer, a Methodist minister, was the pioneer preacher in Colorado. He brought prayer over in a wheel barrow before any of the Pullman sleeper preachers arrrived. It is re lated of Father Dyer that when he first landed in what is now Denver he saw before him a large tent, and to that, supposing a camp meeting was in progress, he wended his way. To his astonishment he found—not a camp meeting, but a very extensive series of games, such as faro, poker, keno and the like, going forward. lie remained about the tent for forty eight hours, looking very intently upon the progress of the games. At the end of that period he stepped upon a table and said, in a voice loud enough to be laeard all about him: "Boys, I have looked at your game now for the past eight and forty hours. Now, I ask you to give some attention to mine. Let us pray." They had not known before that the solemn-looking man was a minister, but at the invitation hats were taken off, chips were dropped, and all bowed their heads in prayer, with Father Dyer leading. And that was the first public prayer uttered in the Pike's Peak country. After the prayer had been concluded the games were re sumed Terms, SIOO Per Year in Advance. CIIUDKEN'S COI.LMS. Do. Do tho best you can at all times, and that is saying a good deal. Do your work, as a general thing, before you play. Do rest when you are tired, if you possibly can. Do sleep at night rather than in the daytime. Do keep your feet dry and warm, and your head cooL Do live cheerful and happy as possible, and make all those about you as much as in you lieth, and In order to do this keep healthy, busy and ac tive—soul and body. The Monkey mi ft the Nugar. A recent English writer gives the following illustration of the sagacity of animals, which will interest our young readers, if not their elders as well: I remember once, in India, giving a tame monkey a lump of sugar inside a corked bottle. The monkey was of an inquiring mind, and it nearly killed it. Sometime, in an impulse of disgust, it would throw the bottle away, out of Its own reach, and then be distracted until it was given back to it. At others, it would sit with a countenance of the most intense dejection, contem plating the bottled sugar, and then, as if pulling itself together for another effort at solution, would sternly take up the problem afresh, and gaze into it. It would tilt it up one way, and try to drink the sugar out of the neck, and then, suddenly reversing it, try to catch it as it fell out at the bottom. Under the impression that it could capture it by asurprise.it kept rasping its teeth against the glass in futile bites, and warming to the pursuit of the revolving lamp, used to tie itself into regular knots round the bottle. Nothing availed, however, until one day a light was shed upon the prol/ lem by ajar of olives falling from the table with a crash, and the lruit rolling about irr all directions. His monkey ship contemplated the catastrophe, and reasoned upon it with the intelligence of a Humboldt. Lifting the bottle high in its paws, A e brought it down upon the tloor with a tremendous noise, smashing the glass into fragments, after which he calmly transferred the sugar to his mouth, and munched it with great satisfaction. Bravo, Stick ! One day in autumn a line flower bulb was planted some five or six inches deep in the rich brown ground, and a stick that the gardener had found lying in the field just outside of the garden gate was stack near it. "Well," said the stick, in a dry little voice,as soon as the gardener had gone, "1 never thought to be brought into this beautiful garden, at which I have been peeping through the fence for a month or more. I wonder if I am to live here always? 1 hope so." "If you do live here always," cried the flower bulb from her snug resting place, "1 don't see what good it will do you. You're only a stick, and a stick you'll remain. Now I—and, by the-bye, if it hadn't been for me you'd have staid in the field, for you "were wanted only to mark the place where I am planted—l shall greet the spring with handsome green leaves and the summer with lovely blossoms." Now it happened, before the winter was over, a hungry mole burrowed its way iuto the garden, and sniffing about in search of something to eat, found all the roots and bulbs too bitter for its taste with the exception of one— the very one that had spoken so boast ingly to the stick—and that it speedily devoured. And so when spring ar rived nothing came from the spot where that bulb had been placed to greet her. But, lo and behold, the stick had taken root, and was covered with the prettiest tiny green leaves. The gar dener, coding that way, looked at it with wonder. "Why, that's the stick I picked up outside last fall," said he. "I'll let it stay there, and see what it comes to." And it came to a sturdy treelet, covered before the summer passed away with fragrant pale pink flowers. Some chrysanthemums, who had heard the conversation between the bulb and the stick when they paid their autumn visit,cried, "Bravo, stick! you have done well, but how did you do it?" "Oh, I tried so hard!" said the tree, let, in a mellow little voice; "and I never lost heart, no matter how cold the winter wind and snow. But I'm sorry the mole ate the poor flower bulb."— Harper's Young People. In the English navy only lime juice is used, and scurvy is practically un known. In the merchant marine ser vice lemon juice is chiefly used, be cause it is cheaper, and cases of scurvy are frequent. The trouble is tha lemon juice soon becomes inert an useless bv fermentation. N EWS1 J A rER LAWS. If crabarribers oriler the discontißOition of newspaper*, the publishers may continue to psi'd them until aJI arrearages are paid. If subscribers refuse or neglect to take their newspapers from the office to which they are stmt, they are held resiionsible until they have settled the bill* and ordered thom dis continued. . 1 f subscribers move to other places with out informing the publisher, and the newv papers are sent to tho former place of resi dence, they are then responsible. 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