TIUJ,
In the field* I met maiden.
Roth her arms with tansv leden.
Ah. how could • girl pre rent it.
Or i merry bov avoid it ?
.tout one kin* 1 took, and apent it
For another close bvoide it.
Oh, but how *he frowned and pouted '
Much my boldness then 1 scouted ;
But another day I met her.
Proffered then a fresh plucked penev.
And ahe laughed : " No, I like better
Jnst the eimpla, wild grown tansy I"
—Bkkir,
The Well Digger.
Come, lieten alt while I relate
What recently befell
Onto a farmer down in Maine,
While digging of a well.
Full many a yard he dug and delved
And atill he dug in vain ;
"Alack !" quoth he, "e'en waler eeeme
Prohibited in Maine I"
And atill he dug and delved away.
And aliil the well nae dry ;
The only water to ho found
We. in the farmer'* eye.
For by tlie breaking of the haitk
That tumbled from tiie etation.
All rudder ly In* hopv were dialled
Of future liquidal .v>a.
And now hi. aativl. were running fust.
And he hail died, no doubt.
Bill that juat when the earth caved iu
He happened to be out 1
" Alaa 1 have a happy thought!"
Exclaimed tin. wicked man—
" To dig away tin. ciincvi well
1 Me a pretty p an.
" Til hide me straight, and when my wife
And eke 11 e neighbor* know
VS bat's happened to the digging here,
They'll think that I'm helow !
"And ao, to aave my precious Ufa,
They'll dig the wed, no doubt.
E'en deeper than it aa- ai drat.
Before they find me out !'*
And so be t.ivl htm n Uu tm
rhrongh ai. uie hungry day.
To bale the digging of hi* eell
In tin* deceit tin way.
But hot what grit f and shame befell
The fa..- v. ungr.tvful man.
The whi.e he ly.y watched to see
The working of Lis plan.
The neighbors all, with one accord,
Unto each other .aid :
" Wi.h atich aw t c i with tarth above.
The man is rtueiy dead !"
And 'he wife, with pious care.
All nee.' Icm cwt to nve,
Said " bir.ee the Lord baa willed it.
E'en iet it be his gravel '
Jo.\n tr. hunt.
I ■.
Be Mattel's Wife's Slur?
" Dinner ready f" said th 1 baggage
mastt r to his wife.
"Ot eonrs*!" said tie wife, in a tone
of astonishment.
"Yea, yes," said the baggage master,
" you're afraid of your glass."
And then they laughed together.
••Yondon't kuow what he means,"
said the rosy little woman to me.
" Why, when I'm in a tempter I smash
things," said the husband, and went his
way.
" In a temper," said the wife. "Why,
Tom couldn't be in a temper if he tried.
Tom in temper ! G'xxl gracious! But
I'll tali yon what he nut ans, if yon like
—for jon couldn't get it out of him.
And a- I've half an hour betore me, and
my darning in my hand, and von're
waiting for the stage, it won't waste time
for either of UH. There was a time
when I didn't think much about that,
bnt that was a good while ago.
" My husband was baggage master on
this very line wtien I married him, aud
thev said he was the most careful one
ever kDown. No forgetfulness in him.
Never drank a drop and never snubbed
the poor, bewildered people who asked
questions. Good naturt-d be was as
could be, and as firm as if he hadn't
been good nut tired, and I was a silly,
irresponsible girl, who had been at
school a mouth before that of my wed
ding, and knew as much of housekeep
ing as a mouae.
" He had saved a good deal of money,
and had built a pretty bouse with only
four rooms in it, besides the kitchen,
but eacU as pretty as a picture, and a
big bow window in the parlor that had
cost ever so much. In the window
plants were set, and an aquarium. No
one had a prettier parlor anywhere. It
was the pride of my heart.
" The great road ran just past the cor
ner; it was at Lilliput Junction that we
live —and down below was the depot,
and the train slacked up going through
the town. When Tom ate breakfast at
home, which wasn't often, he kept ten
minutes to get to the cars before they
started, and so was never in a hurry.
" Well, one morning he had had
breakfast at home, aud had fifteen min
utes to spare, when some one came
rushing past the house on horseback,
and cried out to Tom that old Hill, a
brake man on the road, had just been
very much hnrt by a train and he was
going for a doctor. Tom liked old Hill,
and he started to his feet at once.
4 Bessie,' said he, * I most see the poor
old fellow. I have ten minutes or more
for it I can ran to the defot in three.
Now, take my keys, my dear, and have
them at the door for me when I pass.
Remember how important it is.'
" Yon see the great bnnch cf keys
was heavy, and he didn't care to carry
them all with him down to where old
Hill was and back. And I didn't won
der at it as 1 lifted them from the table,
checks and chnins and all. And I meant
to stmd at the door as be came up; but
there was time to spare. Bo I just ran
into tbe back yard to tell Mrs. Jones,
next door, over the fence, about tbe
accident to poor Hill—and got talking,
and the time passed as time will in
chat; and ten nanntes is nothing, you
know.
"And our house was on the street,
one of a row. There was no getting to
the lck door withont going around the
whole of them. And the door hail a
patent lock and the big bow windc-w was
fastened iion ; and while I was chatter
ing like a magpie I didn't see my
band flying P the road, with good
three minutes before him, to get his
keys and run to the d< pot in. 4 Bessie,'
he cried at the gab- ; bnt I didn't hear
him. 4 Bessie,' be shouted, as be shook
the door—and there were my ears filled
with the storv my neighbor was telling
me aliout the tipsy woman nhe'd seen
ran over, and yon see Tom bail tried
the window by this time and found it
down, and h bad two minutes and a
half left; and a man that misses his
duty on a railroad pays for it, I tell
you ; aud it wasn't temper, mark that;
it wasn't because he felt like smashing
my window, because i kept him wait
ing ; it was to do bis dnty, come what
might of it ; and it was grand of him, I
say. The next seooud Torn was through
that plate glass window with a crash,
and the bits lay scattered on the floor
and on the ground, and some were in
his flesh, bnt he had his ohecks and
his keys, and was off flying.
44 There never was a man that ran a
race that ran so before; and a minute
after, when I, without my bonnet, and
not caring a bit what any one thought
of me, stood staring down the road, I
saw the up tru ; n rush by, and my Tom
Btandii/g on tbr platform of the last
baggage car, wiii his keys and ohecks
in a belt about nis waist, tying np bis
k bleeding hand in his pocket handker
chief ; had, in the midst of it, hnrt as
he was, much as he had lost in that
great window, angry as he should have
I been at me—for I had been the cause
Wk ot it all—my Tom nods his head to me
aud shouts at the top of his voioe, so
that I heard him above all the sounds of
■ the train ; 4 All right, Bessie 1'
FRED. KURTZ, Kditor and Proprietor.
VOLUME IX.
•" But, oh! it wasn't all right with
mo until 1 (ww him again, and 1 would
have gout' dowu ou my knees to him to
beg apd pray hiui to forgive me, ouly
he wouldn't let nie, but took mo iu his
arm* iuctoal, lie's that kind of groat,
strong. ajfiendid man. is Tom, that ho
couldn't got angry at a woman.
" lint it was a ioaaoti to mo, and, an
Tom says, 'l'm always ou time, what
ever I have to do.'
" There's no delay. There's no put
ting off in my house, and I gossip when
there's nothing else to do.
"' You see, you're anxious alamt
Tour glass,'says Tom, when he's in a
joking mood, as you heard him just
now. But I've got to feel that I've my
duty hi do as well as Tom has, and that
oue of the duties we all have ou the
traiu of life, that flies ou whether we
want it to or not, is always to lie ou
time."
The Struggle In Cuba.
The following is an extract from a
private letter addressed by a member of
the Cuban congress to a friend in New
York :
CAMP JTK.AK Ho norm, September 29,
lS7fi.—Here we are, rvjoiciug over the
capture of Las Tunas by General Vicen
te Garcia ou the night of the '23 d mat.
This is unquestionably the most glorious
feat of the war. General Garcia, in a
dispatch to the government, proved the
importance of the capture of the place
by reason of the heavy booty he took.
As soon as "he bad taken the powder
magazine (EI Polverin) and the church,
which latter was fortified with three
guns, it was easy for him to compel the
surrender of those who had sought re
fuge in the forts and in some of the
neighboring houses. We are hourly ex
pecting the official dispatch giving the
details of the action.
Las Tunas, to which the Snaniar'*
had given the surname of " La Vic
toria, " was garrisoned by over two hun
dred Spanish regulars, and about an
equal number of volunteers. The latter
have joined our forces; of the former we
have as yet heard nothing, but It is
likely that not one of them is alive. A
very important affair detains us in this
department, which prevents us from
rushing to congratulate our brothers in
arms. Oeueral Garcia also states that
his Kisses were quite insignificant.
Wo have considerably anticipated the
coining winter campaign ; wit-ess the
attack ou Villa Clara by General Calvar
on July 21, when he captured forty
rifles "and left thirty-MX Spaniards
killed, without even being pursued, as
the Spaniards falaclv assert ; the attack
on Morava of July 20 by ling.-Gen. M.
Suart z, under orders of Geu. Maximo
Gdbiez, and where an enormous booty
of clotliiug, money, ammunition and
provisions were captured ; the charge
under Lieut.-Col. Ji>ee Gomez upon a
body of Spanish cavalry at Los Paso*,
in the jurisdiction of Sancti Eapiritui,
in which ninety horses and thirty -three
rifles fell into our hands aud (he Span
iards left forty killed upon the field ;
the at ack upon Las Mmas, in Carna
guey, by Brig.-Gen. Benitoz, where he
rescued fifteen prisoners and took
twenty-six rifles, in which action with
the machete alone onr men captured
two fi>rts, with a loss of only three killed
sud one wounded ; the charge of Col.
L. Vidal up to the gates of Holguin, so
close up to them that the families on the
roofs of the city inside the walls could
plainly see the Spanish cavalry turn to
the right about face, having twenty six
killed, forty-seven horses, and twenty
seven rifles in our hands.
Beside* the foregoing we have for the
pact six mouths kept tb* enemy busy all
over the country, by skirmishes, by am
hashes, by unexpected attacks, which,
although individually unimportant, have
helped to decimate their ranks, and dis
gust their ill-paid, ill fed, and over
tasked men with the service.
Tbe death of Brig.-Gen. H. M. Reeve
was due to an impruJenoe on his part ;
he led a charge against a body of the
enemy, of whose force he was misin
formed. He fell badly wounded in the
thick of the Spaniards, and preferred to
blow hi* brain* out than fall alive into
the hand* of the enemy.
We have likewise experienced a great
loa* in the death of Lieut.-Col. Tide]
Co* pedes, who also wan led to his death
by an excess of bravery. The corpse of
poor Co*pedes was taken into Pueblo
Principe, and there dragged through
the streets at a horse's tail. Ah ! these
Spaniards are always the same.
War Trappings of a Chief.
The Smithsonian Institute received a
short time ago a valuable and interest
iug addition to its museum in the shap
of a complete and very flue outfit of tin
war trapping* of an Indian chief. The
contribution oomea from west of the
Rocky mountains, but no letter of trans
mission or deecription has been as yet
received. The suit consists of a very
fine headdress of red flannel, trimmed
and decorated with tieadwork and eagle's
feathers. The long train which ileeoenile
from the bead and over the shoulders is
also fringed with eagle's feathers. Tin ri
is An nuden-hirt which is worn next th
akin. It is of red flannel also, with a
black and white border, aud ia sewn
over with elk teeth. The suit includes
a pair of war leggings of red cloth,
highly decorated with thick Ix-adwork
in alternate squares of dark blue aud
light blue beads, anil with fringes of
buckskin down the sides. The war
shirt, worn ontsiile, is of buckskin, or
namented with tieads anil human hair,
and is painted on the breast and shoul
der. In addition to these articles there
is a complete flowing sliabraque, which
is worn over the shoulders with the ends
falling on each side of the wearer. 11 is
worn only when the chief is mounted, as
a chief is not fond of carrying mnch
weighty apparel or acoonb rment, and is
of flannel, laced with otter skin. To
this is attached the bow case and quiv
er case, which are both heavliy oma
merited with beadwurk in various col
or*. There came with the suit a pair of
squaw's leggings of red flaunel, very
thickly and taste ully sewn with liead
work. These articles could not have
oc>st less than some two hundred dollars
in the aggregate, and the thick orna
mental bead work is very costly.
Easily Done.
The circular of a Chicago divorce law
yer is before us. He offers to get a di
vorce iu six weeks for 8100, and there
need be no greater cause of complaint
than that 44 the parties cannot live iu
peace and union together, and that their
welfare demands separation." The ap
plicant has simply to sign an affidavit,
By the fee aud receive the document,
ia lawyer does not require the pres
ence of his client, as be does bis court
business in 44 a Territory where there is
no Htato organization to interfere. In
this case, residence anywhere in the
United States ia all that is required, and
affidavit of plaintiff is sufficient proof."
VALUABLE ESTATES.— A unrulier of
well known estates In the James river
section of Virginia have been sold lately
to Northern and Western capitalists.
The 44 Grove, 4 ' near the historic James
town, brought SSO an acre ; " Arina," at
Aikins' Landing. $30,000; Ruffins'
homestead, near Port Walthall, $30,000;
the beautiful 44 Ellerslie," in Chester
field county, $23,000 ; aud an elegant
possession just above Aikens' Landing,
on the river, $86,000.
THE CENTRE REPORTER
A TEMPERANCE MESS ARK.
A I .slier liiw Jsfcs H. Reach e Ik. V
I'repl* el ike t'ewairv.
My DKAH YOOKO FMIKMMI : L have
le< u requested ti solid a message to the
Habbat h-schools ui bolialfof tho total ah
atiuaiioo cause. I wish I could write to i
you all that is in my hort ou this grtwi
question, but my time ami ability are
limited, ami my message tuust b* abort.
We are sometimes told that total ab
stinenoc is uot temperance. \\ liat is
temperance f Let ui give you a short
reply. Tcmponuioe is a lawful gratitlca
tiou of a natural apjetite. Is the sppo
tile for intoxicating liquors a natural
appetite f No. Therefore temperance
is total abotiueuoe from intoxicating
liquor* as a leverage.
This principle is a sensible principle.
When you are as old as l am, yon will
regret many things you have learned in
the past ; but you will never regret tliat
you did not learn to use intoxicating
liquors, i have never met a person, nor |
do I believe tliat you u find a person
in the world, who would say: "I aui
fifty years of age, and I never drank u
glass of liquo r in my life, and I regret
thai I did not learn to drink it when I
was young." No. When yon meet one
who has never drank, he tells you: " l
am glad of it," or "I am proud of it."
A man once called on me, and said: i
" Mr. Ooogh, l want to toll you some
thing. I am not a reformer. I care
little for reforms, or missions, or Hun
day-schools. They are all very well in
their way, bat they are not in my line.
I have " I •cell an actor since l was
eighteen, and I am now forty-three, and ,
I never drank a glass of ale, wine, or
spirits in my life. What do you think
of that I lam proud of it F"
IVar children, you would be shocked
if you could read some of the letters
that lie in my desk, that have been
written to me by persons in all gravies of
society—young men, old men, lawyers,
physicians, ministers of the gospel,
teachers, mechanics, clerks, and some
ladies—who have acquired the appetite
for strong drink. One says : " Dives in
hell never longed for a drop of water as,
with all the power there is iu me, I long
for a drink." Another says : "Is there
any hope for me on this side of the
grave i' Another says: "God knows
how near l have been to self destruction
through drink," and so on.
Gne poor man, actually holding my
feet, cried ont: " Ob, Mr. Gough ! heir
me out of this hell. Drink is my curae. ' I
Yes, dear children, the cry comes from
the inmates of lunatic asylums: " Drink
is my curse;" froai the State prisons, j
" I>rink is inv curse;" innocent victims
wives, mothers, children—" Drink is
my cure*;" from the burning lips of
he dying drunkard comes the despair
Lug cry: " Drink is my curse." Then
arc broken hearts, blighted hopes,
blackened characters, crushed intellects,
and lust souls as the result of strong
drink, and not a single individual but
rejoices in his escape from it.
Is not the total abstinence principle j
en si hie f " But all who drink do not
la-come drunkards." I know tiist; but
if fifty young men begin to drink, some
wiii assuredly lie ruined by it. Then,
there is a risk. Now we all desire safety
•nd fw-curity. Suppose you desired to
travel from New York to Chicago, aud
there were two lines of road—one ou
which there were accident* constantly
occurring; on every train some disaster,
passenger* killed and wounded; in short,
a very risky road; and on the other,
never sines it* opening had there been
the slightest accident. Which road
wonld yon take' If yon are sensible,
and regard yonr own welfare, you would
take the safe one. Suppose some one
should tempt yon to take the risky road,
by telling yon how much more beautiful
the car* were and what a jolly company
you would find on board the train.
You would say; 44 1 euro not so much
tor gan !v ears and jolly eomiiany as for
cny aai ty. I want to lie wife." Now,
it is your safety we seek, wlteu we urge
you to abstain entirely from strong
drink. There is no certainty that you
will become victims if yon begin to in
duige, but there is a risk.
Some say : " 1 can govern myself ; I
have a mind of my own." What would
yon think of a captain of a steam vessel
who would put on a full head ol steam,
and then knock down the man at the
wheel i Or of the conductor on a rail
road, who wonld let on the steam anil
then disable the engini-er ? You would
say he was a reckless man. The steamer
or the engine might get through without
accident, but it might go craslung to de
struction. So wheu a person, using that
which wrakens the power of his will, de
pends on his weakened will to serve him
—using that which warps hi* judgment,
ami then depends on his warped judg
ment to guide him—using that which
affects hi* self control, and then trust hi*
deraug d self-control to keen him from
danger—ho in reckless. Himply because
some men drill and do not become
drunkards, can yon 1 I once saw a man
stand on s small platform outside the
spire of a church, and look down on the
pavement one hundred and fifty feet be
low. Because he did it, can yon I Think
of th se things before yon run the risk
and remembej w hat the risk is.
Our principle is lawful. We have been
told it is contrary to the Scriptures.
One gentleman said to mo ; 44 If yon can
find a command in the Biblo, 'Thou shalt
abstain from intoxicating honors as a
beverage,' 1 will abstain ; but not till
then." Dear children, wo waut you to
lovo the Bible, to obey the precepts of
the Bible ; but in view of the evils of in
temjwrance, and in view of its cause, we
ask of the Bible only a permission to let
liquor alone. We lay our hand ou this
blessed book and ask : May we abstain ?
You do not search the Bible for a com
mand: Tbon shaltabstain from gambling;
from dog fighting ; from horse racing ;
just in proportion to your love for
the Bible will you abstain from these
things, la-cause they are detrimental to
the best interests of society according to
Bible principles. Therefore, since in
temperauoe is caused by the use of in
toxicating drink ; sinoe iri proportion to
the use of snch drink drunkenness in
crease* or diminishes ; and nince the
most that can lie said for this driuk is
that it is a needless luxury, and that the
world would Ix-lwtter and purer without it
- therefore, you say, I will abstain, and
give the weight of my influence, as long
as I live, on the side of alistinence,
sobriety and parity. This is in ac
cordance with the teachings of tlio Bible.
How many of us, who are growing
old, wish wo could he boys again!
Why ? Because wo see no many things
to regret, so many wrong turns we have
taken. To bo a boy, with life before
you, with the olcan page on which to
Trite yonr record, wjth opportunities!
coming that yon can improve—what a
position, what a privilege ! To be an
old man, with a record all stained and
blotted, knowing that no mortal hand
can clean the page; with opportunities
nnimprovod, and lost never to return—
this is dreadful!
A wicked man, who had been a stage
driver, was, during the lust few days of
his life, very uneasy, an 1 on his death
bed he constantly moved his feet, and
looked distressed. When asked by his
wife : " Harry, what is the matter!" he
said : "Oh, I'm on an awful down
grade, and I can't find the brake." Dear
young friends, yoar feet are on the
brake. Keep them there. You have,
under God, the future iu your power;
your destiny in your own oontrol. Be
member there ia no oneevil in the world
CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., PA., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER hi, 1870.
U-fore which ao many fall, as the evil of
in tern iterance.
I most earnestly de-ore that tlie youth
of our eountry, esiiecially our Hsblwth
setuHii scholars, shall give all their ill
fluence against this great evil. May
God help you to avoid the |>crila iu
life's jourtlcy, aud the traps that are set
for your feet, so that from your place of
safety you may reach out your hand to
help the tempted who are struggling in
their chains, and may by self-denial lie
enabled to " fulfill the law of Christ,"
by helpiug some poor burdened souls
iiito the higher life of purity and free
do in.
The Pretention of Suicide.
It has often hern said of people slight
ly insane who oomuiit or attempt aui
cude, that they are moved bv unreason
iug selfishness or vanity, f'.ven vanity
might, and we venture to think would,
l>e iu uiauy oases overborne by the recol
lection that suicide i* murder, sml that
tho person who commits it will be treat
ed after death as a felou- his body
buried without Christian rites, his faun
lv disgraced ami his property lost to
tliem. The man who oould make .aid
sigu a disposition of his property with
the intention of suicide clearly iu his
miud would be more determined on self
destruction than certainly a half of the
{lersous who at present oommit the dread
ful act.
It has not, we believe, been denied by
medical men that the homicidal mania
is frequently restrained by the fear of
punishmenL But, as the law is at pre
sent worked, many cases occur iu which
the maniac coolly acts npou the impu
nity which will attend his crime. The
same feeling may work upon suicides.
They may, and often do, kuow and be
lieve that under no circumstances will
the old law l>e brought to bear upon
their ease. Among recent examples
there is a large proportion in which the
suicide, however insane uuun the oue
point, was perfectly sane upou every
thing else, and, there being no restrain
ing thought In the bar of legal conse
quences, lias been left to commit self
murder as an act affecting himself alone.
There are many men to whom disgrace
appears worse than death. Huoh a feel
ing is not uncommon even among those
whose intellects are considerably dis
ordered. Stealing, adultery, blasphemy
are quite impossible to many a man wh )
will yet commit suicide. The idea of
hurting another is uften more repnguaiit
than that of hurting oneself.
There are many with whom a consid
eration of the injury done to their fami
lies would oj>erate powerfully as a deter
rent, even more powerfully than the
desire to gratify the suicidal impulse.
Passion is thus controlled, and the man
who would stick at no crime to attarn an
end where hisowu longing* are concern
ed is yet held tack by the consequences
his rashness may bring UJHJU thoae whom
he loves, or oven those with whom he
wishes to stand well. It is not possible
to believe that if every intelligent sui
cide—that is, every suicide whose intel
lect has only failed on the one point—
could be shown, whether by argument
or by witnessing the experience of
others, that his crime would be punished
by social disgrace, he might not Is* in
duced to hesitate, and, as in all diseases,
time gained would be life saved.
The impulse is often transient, lie
str-'.ned for a sufiicuut period it dies
out, and every consideration, legal and
moral, which can u*<xl for its restraint
should be diligently sought out and eni
ploved. naif a douen verdicts of ft lo
ilr nt would have a stronger influence,
we are oonvines d, upon intending sui
cides, and would have a greater effect
upon the annual number of cases than
any medical treatment whatever.
Bird* and Light houses.
The Hartford Time* ssvs : April and
October witness a great destruction of
migrating birds that (lyuig at night are
dashed to death against the heavy plate
glass lanterns of the lighthouses on out
Atlantic coast. Well authenticated facte
warn to render it probable that Una de
struciion of bird i to is far greater than
most persons have supjH>aed. In April
the havoc is among returning birds,
along our northern <N>ast from Caje May
to the shores of Maine. On the south
era coast, and especially along the
shores of Florida, the destruction is
greatest amouir the southward flying
birds in October. The numl* r and
variety of these misguided night travel
ers is surprising. The k.-eja-r of the
uew and lofty light on Anastasia island,
it St. Augustine, Fla., informed the
writer that there is scaroely any dark
night in the year that does not witness
the destruction of numbers of birds that
■lash themselves against the light, and
that often the number found in the
morning ranges from twenty to fifty.
I hicks, however, are the most notable
victims. These heavy birds are noted
for their velocity of (light. The keej<er
found it impossible to protect the lan
tern from the shattering shock of their
onset, and had to have an iron network
erected around the light. Even this
fills to prevent mischief, for the docks
strike the iron netting with such forea
as to break throngh it and break the
heavy ontcr plate glass of the lantern.
It is not improbable tbatthe destruction
of birds by this oause is tenfold greater
than any one who has not made the sub
ject an especial study has ever suspected.
At each of the forty or fifty more promi
nent lights along the Atlantic coast of
the United Htatea the numtar of birds
thnH slaughtered must amount to nearly
2,000 annually—or say 100,000 a year.
It all shows at least (what was already
understood by those who have given at
tention to the subject) that the flight of
onr migrating birds iH accomplished in
| the night.
There ia big medicine at Chaugchow.
Tho official* arrested magicians,
or paper men, and throw thorn into
priaon. There was n female accomplice,
aud inaamnch a* the social theory that a
woman cannot keep a s.-cret iM one of
the oldest axioms of Chinese philosophy,
the mamlarian determined to treat her
leniently, in the hope of coaxing her to
confess. The lady was searched, and an
enormous Chinese blister was found
upon her ril>s. Concealed elsewhere on
her person were sprites of paper and
brass, and these, it seems, were the in
struments wherewith she conjured.
" Make me a full confession," said the
mandarin, " and I pledge you my word
that you shall escape unhurt." " You
shall know all übout it to-night," re
plied the maiden. Bhe tied a string to
a paper sprite aud muttered an incanta
tion ; in about fifteen minutes the thiug
of paper became a thing of life, moving,
fluttering, growing, flying, until it was
an enormous kite. Then she took one of
the brass men; lo 1 it moved and snorted;
there was a dreadful sound, like the
tramp and clangor of an armed host
marching in mid air. The poor man
darian saw and heard it all, but he
understood nothing. The woman kept
the secret. The mandarin WHS scared.
Tirr. DIFFKHENOR. —"Did yon ever,"
asks the Cincinnati Timet, "watch the
noiseless movements of a pretty girl's lips
as her dress is trodden upon, and marvel
at the self -command which enables her
to do the sitnation justice iu so quiet a
manner? A dozen fonts of type wouldn't
furnish dashes enough to represent the
remarks of the average mu under like
incitement."
A Frightened Officer.
The British Arctic Expedition.
The British Arctic cineditioii under
Oaptaiu Nares, comprising the steamers
Alert and Discovery, has rata rued, the
Alert having arrived at Valeiitia, New
found laud, tiu October '27. The ships
left England on May ItO. IH7S, and en
tered the lee off (la|K) Sable on July '2' J.
After a severe struggle, the uorth side
of Lady Franklin bay was reached, and
here the Discovery was left in winter
quarters. The Alert pushed ou up to
latitude eighty two deg. and twenty
seven mm., and there wiutered. At
this point the suu was invisible for lt'2
days, ami the lowest teiuj>erature ever
recorded was exjiericnoed. The mer
cury fell to fifty nine deg. below aero,
and remained ao for a fortnight, and ut
oue period reached l(>4 deg. below tero.
Sledge |>artles were fitted out, one of
which traveled 200 miles to tho east
ward, ami the other went to the north,
proceeding ou laud up to eighty three
deg. seven tniu., and ihouoe ou the ioe
to eighty three deg. twenty one win.
Further on nothing but ioe could la*
seen, which was so rugged that scarcely a
mile of advance oould le accomplished
daily. The floes iu some places
measured 150 feet in thickness. Four
men diet! from the effects of the cold.
Finally, convinced that it was iinpussi
ble to get any nearer to the .pole, and
seeing that his men were succumbing
under the hardships, while the Alert
herself hail been much damaged by the
ioe, Oaptaiu Nares started homeward,
leaving Smith sound on Heptemla-r a
last.
Thin expedition, it will be remem
Ured, was fitted out with entry aid to
polar exploration which science could
devise or the experience of the oldest
Arctic explorers could ►-uggent. That
it has failed to reach the pole is proof of
the enormous difficulties to he over
oorue IU that undertaking, rather than of
any inadequacy to the tank of thoae who
attempted it. ludeed, we may believe
that, after latitude eighty two deg.
m reacheil, the obstacles augment in
some compound ratio. The reaulta
which have been obtaiued are, however,
of considerable importance. Captain
NAT re has reacheil the highest northern
point ever attained, latitude eighty-three
deg. twenty-one mm. The A' 1 uuui rx
peditioii, which eailcd ih 18?'J, toward
HpiUbergeu, ouly reached Cape hugely
in eighty-two dog. Ave mm.,and sighted
Gape Vienna iu eighty three deg. It is
remarkable, however, that the Polaris,
ill equipped as she was, reached eighty
two deg. sixteen iniu., and wintered in
eighty-one deg. thirty-eight min., while
Hall,"with a sleighing party, pushed on
ward to eighty two deg. thirty min.
Captain Nares has, therefore, advanced
fifty-one geographical miles further
north than the American explorer, ami
has approached within four hundred
miles of the pole.
President Laud, usually marked on
Arctic maps, has no existence. Lady
Franklin's strait is really a bay; and
from the fact that travel was couductod
on the ice to the highest point reached,
it would seam that no open jHilar sea
waa euoouutered. The northernmost
point seen iu lireeulaud was in latitude
eighty two deg. fifty seven min. Excel
lent coal was found uear the place where
the Discovery wintered, and a number
of valuable scientific collections and ob
servation* were made. The Pandora is
still in the ice, and was met by I he Alert
on October 10, when she signaled "all
well."
A Champion better.
Tlie following • tory is going around
in Fo-ncli military circles. Au ufilwr,
Vrnliri, wtiorlrlinti'd in hi* garrison
ft r winning every bet. None of bin
comrades c>nl<i Ixwi-t of over having
I', t M victorious, and at lout no oiie car**!
to enter a but with bnu. One day Vor
dier was transferred to another regi
on nt, hut the fame of his jn-culiar luck
had already spread before him. After a
supper tendered him by bin new oom
radi a on the evening of hi* arrival, and
when the champagne made its appear
auee, tieneral B. calhai out : "Is >t
reallv true, Verdier, that you win iveiy
bet? '
"So it is, general."
" Bat how, the deuce do you do it I"
"Oh, very simple, lam a physiog
nomist, aud bet only when 1 am quite
sure."
*• Ton are a physiognomist. Well,
then, what, for instance, can you read
now in my face f"
" 1 can"see," said Verdier, promptly,
" that your old wound on the upper
and tsu'k part of yonr leg is broken out
again."
" Nonsense," thundered ont the gen
eral, " I never had a wound there !"
" 1 beg pardon, my general, but "
"No but! after I assure you, sir. "
" Perhaps you do not like to sja-ak of
it; perhaps a duel"—
" I* tiialtlr ! —you won't believe me.
What will jou bet f"
" Anything yon please, general."
" Five hundred franca."
" All right, five hundred franca."
" The gentlemen present are wit
nessea." With these words the general
at once prooee*led to divest himself,
natiA yrnr a la Snwarow, of his pauta
loo ut>, and a serotinous inspection by all
present revealed the fact that there was
no trace of a wound by sword or ball.
"Yon lost the bet, Verdier!" shouted
the general, pitching himself np again.
"1 have lost, indeed, this once. Men
may err sometimes. Here are your five
hundred francs."
The general put tho money with a
chuckle into his pocket. After he ar
rived home be at once wrote to liis old
chum, the general in oommand of Ver
dier's former regiment: " Dear friend
—The story abont Verdier'a luck is all
humbug ! He just made a bet that I
had a wound on my back, for five hun
dred francs, and of course lost it." The
answer came back : " Your naivete is
truly charming ! Yonr winning of the
five hundred francs coat me two thou
sand, which Verdier Iwt me oc the day
of his leaving that he will make yon, on
tho first evening of mooting, take oil
yonr inexpressibles in the presence of
your officers, and that you yourself will
inform me of it."
Relics of HurgojrncN Army.
The Charlottesville (Va.) Jrjfcrtonian
says: George Carr, Esq., informed us
that ouo of his farm hands, in plowing a
field on the farm, brought to the sur
face a gold coin, coined more than cue
hundred years ago. This farm of Mr.
Carr's is situated seven miles nearly
north from Charlottesville, aud is the
place where the army surrendered by
Geu. Burgoyne iu the Revolution were
located as prisoners of war, and the coin
was undoubtedly lot by one of the
prisoners. The foundations of the cabins
in which these prisoners lived can be
seen at this day, and in the forests are
soou tho graves of those who died while
they wero quartered there. Wo believe
the fields retain the names given them at
that time, as " headquarters," etc.
When the prisoners wore removed from
tho county the place was purchased by
the late Garland Garth, Esq., and he
said there was not a tree left on tho
plaoe. The forests in the vicinity had
all lawn cut down ami ustni for fnol. The
forests that are now to lie found on this
farm have grown up sinoe the prisoners
left. Quite a number of the prisoners
remained aud married, and their de
scendants are among our most indue
trious citizens.
THE (AMTAWAYH.
I.llr mm m lI.Mfl Msrk,
'I'lli u tbe visual daily routine, from j
which the reader will IHI able to form
sotne idea of the life we led, says oue
who wan (wit away oil a desert rock:
I got up a)wint noron o'clock ami took
the anhoM out of the fireplace, lit the >
tiro, ami swept out the hotine with a I
bird's wing. When the atoue pot got j
heated, I put iu the grease, and if We I
had eggs we fried thorn iu it, or cooked
the meat ill it. It generally took about
a couple of hour* to cook the breakfast, j
an we could do little at a time; my ;
mother looked after it sometime*. After
breakfast I often went down to the gully
ami had a wanh- with eggs when plenti |
ful, often umug a doseu of them ; and
when they could not be spared, 1 cut a
pcuguiu'n throat over a piece of rag, j
ncrubbiug myself with the blood, and
then washing it off with water; it wan not
such a good plan an the eggs, but wan
better than nothing.
My wanh over, I would get bird* for
our evening meal, either young penguins
or molly hawks, and then net to work
skinning and cutting them up. After
that 1 generally killed and sluuned
about fifty old fkeugums and stored up
the skius for winter fad. Thirty fat
skins were about as much an a man in
our reduced state could carry easily. I
packed them iu stacks about four feet '
high. The old kept skins burnt well,
though they smelt strongly, and were
full of maggots ; but we were very glad
to have them. 1 stored about seven
hundred or eight hundred, which would
have lasted us some time, as we only
burnt about five or six in our small fire
during the day.
1 was always glad to get my skinning
over, as I had got so nick of it ; and
dreadful looking figures we must some
times have been—our hands and clothes
covered with blood, and our faces often
spotted with it. The evening meal wan
generally cooked by my mother, of
which I ate some, leaving a little for the
morning, then got in water for the
night, put the turf ou the tire, and
retired to bed, or rock rather. 1 gttttt
ally slept well, except when I dreamed of
skinning penguins. My mother also
slept pretty well, considering the dis
comfort, etc. On Sunday I never did
any skinning, but washed myself in the
gully iu the morning. We always had a
supply of f od ready for the Sunday. 1
then paid visits to some of the other
shanties, and got all the news, such as a
new yarn ; and dreams were a great
source of amusement—we dreamt in
such a realistic manner.
Having dreams was quite like a Utter
by post, for they took our minds off the
island, and enabled us to forget for a
time our miserable circumstances, and
any interesting ones I retailed to my
mother. In the night when we awoke
we invariably asked each other's dreams,
which were often alsjut something to
<-at, often about being at borne and the
ship that was to take us off the island—
alwayt pleasant. Dreaming, in fact,
was by far the pleasauU-st part of our
existence ou that miserable ndand.
Manv were tbe prophecies that were
made about when we cUuuld get of!.
At first we anxiously paid attention to
them ; but when one or two turned out
wrong, no one took much account of \
them.
Explorations iu Palestine.
Iu thane daya when every spot of
ground made interesting by the secular
history of mankind is undergoing the
most careful survey and study, it will be
far from creditable either to the Chris
tians or the Jews of Kim pe and Ameri
ca if the explorations in Palestine, of
which an attractive account w.is given at
the meeting of the American Geogra
phical Society, should be feebly ami in
adequately prosecuted. The Uerman
government has appropriated, as art
rort informs us, a sum of 540,000 marks,
in addition to the 120,100 marks alrea !v
expended, for the prosecution of the
gewt excavations rnakiug at Olympia;
and it i not brilliantly satisfactory to
l>e told, as we are, that while Kuglaudis
spending only 815,000 a year on the ex
prorations in Palestine, the American
investigations ujxm that sacred soil
have been practically brought to a
standstill for the lack of ftmdr. The
; imprecation of the sweet singer of Is
rael, "If I forget thoe, oh, Jerusalem,
uiay my right hand forget her cunning,"
would seem to be chanted in vain by
the Indie vers alike in the old and in the
new dirqtenaation. Not to theologians
only nor to devout persons, nor yet to
arrhieologisJ* and historians, should the
prosecution of those enterprises be a
matter of lively interest. The artist
and the student of architecture are
deeply concerned in them. A great
deal lias been done for our knowledge
: of Palestine as a land of Scripture and
; of story, bv such writers in our mother
| tongue n Robinson and Stanley, Prime,
i Porter, Kitto and Thompson; but the
s magnificent work of tbe Count De
Vogue, and the more recent monograph
I of another admirable French savant and
traveler on tbe French castles in the
Holy Land, open fields quite untouched
by English and American explorers. Of
these a glimpse, though but a slight
glimpse, was afforded us by the gentle
men who addressed the Geographical
Society, and we trust that practical steps
mav hi- taken to bring Amerioau science
and enterj rise fully abreast with Euro
pean investigation in this arena, so
; crowded with lofty recollections and the
scene of incidents of such transcendent
importance.—Mac York World.
For the laud Time,
There is a touch of pathos about do
ing even the simplest thing "for the
last time." It is not alone kissing the
dead that gives yon this strange pain.
Von f>el it when you have looked your
last time ni>on aomc scene you have
j loved—when you stand in some quiet
i city street where you know that von
will never stand again. The actor play
ing his part for the last time, the singer
whose voice is cricked hopelessly, and
who after this once will never stand bc
i fore the sea of upturned faces disputing
; the plaudits with fresher voioes and
l fairer forms, tho minister who has
I preached his last sermon—these all
i know the hi lden bitterness of the two
words " Dover again." How they come
to us on onr birthdays as we grow
older! Never again yonug; always
nearer and nearer to the very last—the
end which is universal, "the last thing
i which shall follow all lust things, and
tnrn them, let us hope, from pains to
joys. We put away our boyish toys with
au odd heartache. We were too old to
walk any longer on onr stilts - 100 tall
to play marbles on the sidewalk. Yet
thero was a pang when we thought we
had played with onr merry thoughts
for the laat time, and life's serious,
grown-up work -was waiting for us.
Now we do not want the lost toys back,
Life has other and larger playthings for
us. May it not be fhat those too shall
seem in tho light of some far-off day
as the boyi h games seem to our mau
hood, and wc shall learn that death is
but tbe opening of the gate into tho new
land of promise T
Do you ever load the newspapers f
No 1 Have you auy opinion upon any
thing I No I Do yon know your right
hand from your left ? No ! Do you
consider yourself a speciee of born idiot
Yes! Tlisn you are fit for a juryman,
TKKMH: $2.00 a Year, in Advance.
DEATH IX A M'HOOLKOOM.
What (•• ml fastatlsas MOMIII** Utile
Mar la • Mefcaal.
Herbert Booth, sou of Mr. George
Booth, of Milwaukee, Wia , a lad seven
years of age, came to school rather late,
and was hurried larck home to get his
slate, having forgotten it In his haste to
get to school. Nothing unusual ooeurr
ed after this until about eleven o'clock,
a little over au hour from hia return W>
his desk. Then his teacher, Mtn* (Sarah
W. Chapman, observed that le was
making a uoiae, and that it diverted tbe
attention of the ahildreii from their
| studies. She called him up ou disobe
dieuoe of an order to keep quiet, and
had given him four or five blow* with a
light rattan, when he fell into a fit and
died.
Mr. Booth, the father of the child,
1 said he was of a tender, sensitive nature, f
and it was the general opinion that his
death was the result of the excitement
lucidt-nt to his attendance at school dur- i
mg the forenoon. Herbert had risen '
as usual, partaken of breakfast with the
family, and had assisted in crossing a J
younger brother or sister before going
to school. His race for his slate and
the nervous disturbance consequent
apou punishment by tbe teacher had re
sulted iu an apoplectic fit and death.
The family had no fault to find with
Miss Chapman, and viewed the oocur j
renoe as one that might bsve happened
in tbe home circle under no greater
provocation than that at school. Mr.
Booth had carefully examined the hands
of the deceased, and had failed to dis
cover auy marks upon them. There
was a slight abrasion of the skin on the
upper side of oue of his thumbs, but '
this might have been caused at some j
time previous to his death.
Miss Chapman said she had detected
the little fellow in the act of rnakiug
uoises with his mouth, to the annoyance
, of those about him, and bad called him
to account. He laughed, and, very
carelessly, it aoemed to her, repeated
the noises. Thinking it ueoeaaary to
punuh him fur his disobedMuoa, she
summoned him out into the hall and ad
ministered four or five light blows upon
tbe iuaide of one of nia hands. He made
no resistance, but cried more out of j
mortification than of pain. On his re
lease he walked to his Seat, sobbing all
the way, and the teacher observed that
he settled down into a seat near the one
he occupied and assumed a recumbent
position. Bhe hurried to hia side and
found he was iIL A boy near by ex- !
pressed au opinion that the child had
fainled, and word was immediately sent
up to tbe principal, who appeared and
assisted in lathmg the boy's temples
with oold water and applying ammonia.
A physician was sent for bat arrived
too late to be of service. The little one
died in a few moments after he reached
the seat. The parents were sent for, I
but as Mi . Booth was too ill to come,
tbe remains of her poor boy were taken
home m a hack. The pupils of the
grade tin ier the care of Bliss Chapman
were dismissed and the room closed for ;
the daT. Miss Chapman thought tbe
boy's death was the result of great ner
vous excitement and bis effort to re
strain his grief. He gave one or two
sobs at tbe rluee and fell back dead.
Ho was quite heated when be returned
from his eliase after his slate, and was
very restless np to the time that he was
called. His actions of the forenoon j
were in strange contrast with his usually
quiet deportment, and this leads to the
supposition that he was subject to some
functional derangement
War as ■ Mivdonaiy.
And now, we are told, the barbarous
Turk is to be subdued; a Christian mis- •
sionary is to be sent to take possession
of his territory; that missionary is war!
Pious people rejoice that all things are
U> work together for good: as if red
banded c iruago were the meet handmaid
of the cross!
The Turk may be barbarous; no
doubt he is. Notniug can le more bar- j
baroua than war. The civilised world
has experienced a gr- at shock at the
cruelties of the Turks toward the cap- !
lured Servians. A little different, per
haps, but essentially the same, we ap
prehend, is too apt to be true history of
every conquering army. Wherever j
shooting, killing and destroying are in
order, wrongs, which still spare the life '
of the victim, almost inevitably follow '
in t heir train.
We recall to mind a letter written
many years ago by a brave and dashing
young officer on the staff of Gen. Zach
ary Taylor, during the conqnest ot
Mexico." It was addressed to his wife,
and gave an account of a battle in which
he had been engaged shortly before.
He referred to the outrages perpetiated
by the soldiers, and concluded with the -
exclamation: "If this be war, God de
liver me from war!"
Gen. Win field Scott, whose proudest
title was that of "Apostle of Peace,''
oouferred upon hir by the Rev. William
Henry dunning, although he had been
pronounced by tbe Duke of Wellington
the greatest captain of the age, onoe re
marked: " I hope never to see another
battlefield." He then described, with
deep emotion, the horrors of war, as be
had witnessed them. We trust the day
will oorne, in tbe history of the human
race, when there will bo no more wars,
and peace will reign throughout the
earth. — lsdgrr.
How They Manage in China,
A psjier in Chin* says : We learn that
one of the mandarins here, who had
swindled the government of a largo
sum of money when making purchases
of warlike materials at Hong Kong dur
ing the Forroosan affair, was brought up
for trial before tbe reJoubtable Ting
and the FanUi. This degraded official
was subjected, as an introduction of
something severe in store for him. to a
flogging of one hundred blows on the
palms of his hands. Ho was to have
been bam booed in tbe usual way as
other criminals on tbe breech, bnt for
his bitter crying and vehement entrea
ties, coupled with tbe fact of live not be
ing in very good health. The default
ing official is snrunmed Man, nud is re
lahnl to a Taoutai of that name who wss
degraded at the same time with the
Viceroy Ying Han in the Waising affair.
A I.ong Search.
A young man named Collins went to i
Cherokee county, Ala , and after making
love to the sixteeu year-old bride of a
sixty year resident, eloped with her.
The* old man procured a carte de visit©
1 of Collins, saddled his horse, and for
i two year < tracked the oonplo over the
States of Mississippi, Alabama, North
' and South Carolina, and into Georgia,
' where he met Collins at Jonesbjro and
had him arrested. Collins refused to
say where the wife was, and was sen
tenced to the chain gang for twelve
- months. The old man is still scouring
' the country in search of his •' poor
' Mary." _____
s "Is there an opening here for an in
v telleotnal writer ?' said a very red faoed
yonth, with tho oork of a bottle stick
ing out of bis breast pooket. The edi
t tor, with much dignity, took the man's
- intellect in, and said : "An opening I
t yes, sir ; a kind and considerate oarpen-
Q ter, foreseeing your visit, left an open
ing for you, Turn the knob to the
right."
NUMBER 48.
CEI'HHED TO DEATH.
A TertiMa AaeMsM si (he Karat Cfctaaaa
TkMUM.
At about twelve o'clock at night a
frightful accident oorarrwd at the Royal
China Theater, Ban Francisou, which in
its horrible details and scenes of terror
was onequaled by any event which baa
occurred in the Chinese anarter lor
many a day. In the neighborhood of
8,000 men Lad crowded into the place,
quite a number of Chinese females hemg
present, but only two or three white
men. At eboot twelve o'clock e small
fire in some matting in the gallery,
which bed caught by the sparks from a
cigarette or atgar in the hands of some
careless Chinaman, was discovered.
The man who made this startling dis
covery, regardless of the consequence*
even had he foreseen them, sounded
the alarm immediately in his own
tongue, which everybody understood to
mean destruction and death by burning.
The utmost confusion prevailed and a
pamo ensued. The large numbers of
Chinese in the auditorium rushed Iran
ttcally for the door, while those packed
in the gallery did the same. Borne
twenty five or thirty man from the lower
pert of the house reached the dour first,
end were almost simultaneously over
whelmed by the frightened crowd surg
ing down from the gallery. The doors,
which are double, ami each about
twelve feet high by MX feet wide, were
closed, but a reeistleas torrent of yellow
humanity ponred down the stair*
through tbein without attempting to
open either, and the consequence was
that the foremost crowd, about thirty in
number, were scarcely out before the
stairway broke sod the uuusuve door
fell upoo anfi crushed them to the floor,
while over it crowded and Jostled tin
dense audieuoe without a thought of
the consequences. In the msentime,
the premature tire, which bad made no j
headway, was summarily quenched by a i
ChriaUaii Cliir aman. named Adam
Quinn, who, teaidee stamping upon it,
look off bis ooet and covered it. lse
actors upon the stage were entirely ig
not ant of the cause of the panic, and
did not atop to inquire oonowmiiig it,
but ounticued their performance, which
had the effect of staying many of the
frightened Chinese, who were trampling
everything down in their efforts to effect
au exit The pannage of the dense
crowds through the entrance and the
heartrending shrieks of the washed and
dying under the doors alarmed several
polio tmeo, who immediately endeavored
to effect an enUanee into the theater,
and sent to the police station for aaaut
auor. Half a dozen stalwart polioetnr:.
from the watch which was just about to
leave the station for duty oi their re
spective beats, repaired uuickly to the
aceue, and the combined efforts of a
doaeu officers were necessary to atop the
outgoing Chinese. The work wan a<*
complbhed by knocking several Celes
tials about, and the remainder, realizing
that the danger in the theater, whatever
it was, had diaapp* art*j, fell back on the
crowd and checked their frantic com
panions. By this time Captain Douglas
with a dozen or more policemen ar
rived, with large crowds of white men,
who, bearing the alarm, had rushed to
the spot The railing of the stairway
leading from the gallery to the lower
floor had given way, sod several of the
frightened men had fallen down, only to
be crushed under foot by their equally
terror stricken companions. Hie tide
baring been checked, the officers nuaed
the prostrated door and removed the
dead and dying from beneath it Borne
were atone dead, while all under it were
more or leas injured. Nineteen were
conveyed to the street dead, and seven
others' who were rapidly dying. The
bodies were ranged along the sidewalk.
The entrance to the theater, a hall about
forty feet in length by some twelve in
width, oocupied on one side by a couple
of Chinese fruit venders, was cleared
away, and the panic stricken audience
allowed to pass out
The news of Uie accident spread like
wildfire, and over a thousand Chinese,
men and women from all parts of China
town, thronged to the scene, and the
sidewalk was completely lined with half
nude Celestials, gazing with blanched
faoea at each body aa it was carried out
into the streoL One stalwart Chinaman,
weighing about 170 pounds, was
brought out and lata upon the walk, his
clothes torn and his body lacerated by
the many feet that had trampled relent
lessly over him. His face was black
with suffocation and the crimson fluid
was running in a stream from his nose
and eirs. Life had not yet left him, bat
in his dying agoaisa he writhed and
crawled about the pavement, twinging
his hare arms in the air and shrieking
for the relief that could not come. At
the right of the doorway, and at the
foot of the four or Ave steps from the
door to the floor of the hallway, ia a
stairway descending into a dark alley.
Several of the foremost Chinese of the
crowd that were crushed under the fail
ing door had been precipitated down
these stairs, and two were brought up
with broken limbo. One was placed at
the front entrance in a sitting posture
against a box of trait, and the other, a
young man of high degree, was taken
into an office. A few momenta later a
physician arrived and examined him.
As the nnfortunate fellow lay upon alow
bench covered with matting at one aide
of the room he was turning over and
| over and groaning in agony. As the doe
tor felt his limbs to ascertain the nature
of liia injuriea, he yelled: "Oh, no, no;
me no hurt," as if fearing that his ex
cruciating agonies were to be increased.
The other man, somewhat older, who
had been placed near the doorway, sat
in stolid silence, his pale face, under the
flickering rays of a gaa jet, recording
the most excruciating suffering. About
fifteen minutes were consumed in the
passage of the crowd of Chinese from
the theater, and the acting of the play
by the company was continued until the
last deputation had departed, when the
actors snd actresses rushed in a body to
tlio doorw y to discover what had trans
pired, indulging in many guttural ex
alamations of terror at the long line of
dead bodi s plaoed upon the pavement.
Vinetoen of the twenty-eight taken from
the hallway and removed to the street
were found to be dead. Several betray
ed no ont ward signs of injury, and seem
ed to have Ixwn suffocated to death.
Eight or ton bore marks of violence,
several bleeding st the nose and ears,
1 the crimson stream running across the
walk into the gutter, while tho faces of
three or lour others turned upward iu
tho light weio black and disoolored.
Several of those taken from under the
door lived a few moments after being
removed, their agouixiug shrieks Ailing
tbe lir and exciting the lamentations of
adlaocnt Chinese, who witnessed the
writiling contortions. One Ohinaman,
who broke frantically through the line
of policemen, and passed one of the
dying men, threw up his arms and yell
ed iu horror at the agonies of bis coun
trymen as soon as the bodies were taken
from the hallway, and the wounded who
could walk had been led into adjoining
1 houses.
IN AFRICA. —In the elevated regions
of tho interior of Africa, where there
are no dense primeval forests, extensive
swamps and pestilential jungles, cattle
and horses show no sign of infection or
poisoned state of blood. They flourish
in nnoonnted herds. And in thoee re
gions men are healthy, vigorous, and in
telligent.
The rage for buttons inereseee.
Sealskin is alowlj losing ground.
Ail biv fans we of medium rise.
Ribbed stocking* we fashionable.
Terry velvet to oomii g it style again.
For will be need for <lm trimming*
in midwinter.
The new plaiting* we all preened flat,
and do not fly open.
Bilk buttons embroidered with a stw
to a favoa ite pattern.
" Invisible setting " to now preferred
for all Jewels and gem*.
Beads of silvw or gold are the new
neeklaeee in filigree work.
Myrtle green and eky blue we com
bined for evening dress a.
Armhnks of waists and polonaises are
oorded again with fine oord.
China plates now have the monogram
or initial letter in the center.
| The fronts of polotmtoea ate moch or
| nameoted with long looped bow*.
The beck seam* of polonaise- and
hasqckas are oorded with large oonl.
Costumes with basque# having Louis
XIIL ekirta are straggling into fashion.
Sleeves are eo narrow that there is
saaroely room to paw the hand through
them.
The hair to to be worn further off the
forehead this season than for some time
heretofore.
Bilk handkerchief-, with the border
and the inside of the HUM color, are
new and pretty.
Art needlework, both as applied to
furniture and dress, to at present decid
edly the fashion
dollars and raffs made of linen, hav
ing a fluted raffle edged with black, are
very stylish for second mourning.
Bonnet* made of white illusion, white
Bpaninb lace, and delicately tinted flow
era, art is favor for theaters and operas.
Many of the winter cloaks have long
painted hoods, lined with plaited silk,
and ornamented with a oord and tassels.
Embroidered galloons and fringes for
i—liim nw and figured woolan fabric*,
and ftu bands lor ailk and velvet ureases.
Little boys wear stockings and neck
ties which match in color. Cloth cos
tames are much trimmed with emooeat-d
waive*.
The dress bodice is made with tlie
neck as high aa it to possible to wear it,
and often has two collars, one upright
and the other turned down.
Long aleoder bustle*, that serve to
bold the lower part of the skirt away
bom the faet,aienow worn ; ail bouffant
fcourutwas are things of the past.
The long aearaain the back* of dr*<
are Tthtxi. Bome begin at the shoul
ders, and nuauf at the armbede; the darts
is front are duae together and very
short.
Every means is taken to lessen any
balkineea about the hips of a drees;
the akirts are fitted do**-, to the figure,
■ud depend upon deep flounoes for their
fullness.
Dress holders are made of various
metals, such aa gold, bright, frosted
and oxydtaed silver, uiehel and steel,
with engraved, chased and relief sur
face, to suit the different of drees.
Drawee of cream colored silk, ar
ranged with trimming" of olive green
velvet, and hate trimmed with cream
colored feathers and acorns, are recent
toilets for bridesmaid* at fashionable
weddings.
A costume ornamented by Duchod,
the noted embroiderer, for the Princess
of Wales, started the fashion of initials
and casta of arms of wearers, worked
with braids or galloons. H* r bightx-a
had her monogram, artistically designed
in several shades of green, bordered by
a pale blue braid and three feather*.
The French coat, whieh waa intro
duced last year but tailed to become
Dopuiar, is revived. There are Louis
XV. and Louis XVL ousts; coat* with
<>ans or tails, having pockets across tbe
bark of them, and coat- opened over a
waistcoat or vest, all Covered with em
broidery. Tbe bodice, which fits the
figure closely, fails to resemble in cut a
man's oust.
Aa Army Without a Flag.
The London Pall Moll OazetU mjn
tViMi the French army ha* no flags, and
that on the seeond of June, 1871, the
war minister issued aa order fat the
standards then in ace were to be handed
over to the artillery, in exchange,
email flag* without any inscriptions
wre served out provisionally. The
artillery destroyed the silk of the old
standards and sent the eagles and the
gold fringe to the domain office, where
they will probably remain until we have
another empire. The provisional flags,
which have now been in one lor five
jemre, pomem a great advantage as far
as t-eonotny is concerned ; Uiey only
cost I went v five francs apteoe, while the
stanesrds coat *2BO lno. It is not,
imrhaps, s question of expenditure
which hinders the war office from bring
ing this provisions! state of affaire to a
close, but doubtless a difficulty about
replacing the eagle. The Aeurs<i* !)/*
are out of the question ; so is the Gnus
1 wk t which ha> been miuopoLixl by
the Oi leans family ; the lady in
Phrygian cap who symbolise* th< re
public, nod which is playfully cali <d
Marianne, is only in favor with the
and the moderate r< public Las
neither symbol DOT song. Taken alone,
the tn-color belongs to the revoiutioi
the empire and the younger branch of
the Bourbons Perhaps it would be
prudent, until the conservative repub
lic is more firmly established, to leave
the top of the flagstaff in its present
nnde condition.
Financial rendition or Russia.
A great deal baa been said of tbe im
possibility of Rossis making war, owing
to bar financial embarrassments and the
difficulty of raising a loan. The finan
cial embarrassment is considerable, and
a large loan outside Rust- * XB probably
not to be nueed, but the London Apec
taior says a national loan on the Na
poleonic principle would produce some
mitli/ina, aud liassia has one oppressive
and extravagant but effective resource.
She can procure nearly Everything by
issuing inconvertible lwp(r- An issue
of £30,000,000 (sls#fiWo,ooo> would
onlv increase ber p-pht enrrency one
fifth, and probably oitfjf traise the agio
on gokl twenty per ofthtam, which, as
America has shown us, t oan be borne
without a paralysis of industry. It is a
most ruinous expedient, but Russia has
resorted to it twice already, and each
time has survived.
Ike Hold of the World.
Au exchange says: '' An English
writer has been engaged in estimating
the amount of gold in bult in the world.
He says that it could, if melted in a
lamp, 'bo contained in a cellar twenty
four feet square by sixteen deep. A
small lump, indeed, to cause so much
crime and sin and misery. It may
seem singular that snoh recklessness
should really exist, and yet we think
that v e could lay our hand on a man
who would bo perfectly willing to have
that lump stowed away m his cellar and
stand his chances with the sin and
misery. It is strange how men will
consent to sacrifice themselves, but we
believe this friend of oura would do it.
His address may bo procured by writing
i to the editor of this paper and inclosing
! a sample of the gold.
An Atom of Love.
During the course of the Edwards
gwinp breach of promise suit in Han
Francisco, the stock broking defendant
was asked to explain the following love
letter, which he had written before the
spring rise in stocks : "If one atom of
the deep, deep lovo I feel fo. you is
scattered throughout the whole world, I
oouid stake my life it will till, if allowed
to do so. the entire humau race, and
thenc® will derive the word commonly
used as love. Good-bye, my dearest
dear. Yours, till death and beyond it
and eternity." TLe unfortunate
was somewhat atuuned, and could noi
tell just what he had meant.