Haronn II Raschtd.
rr tint w. tonevzujow.
Om day, Haronn A1 lUaohid read
A book wherein Ue poet Mid:
" Where ire the king*, and where the peat
Of man who once the world pomireil ?
"They're gone with all the(j pomp and ehow.
They're gone the way thou ihalt that go.
" Oh thou who ohooeeet for thy ahare
The world, and what the world telle fair,
" Take all that it oan giro or lend.
But know that death ia at the end !"
Haronn A1 Baeohid bowed hi hand;
Then tear# fell upon the page be reed.
—St. AMohl Magatine.
By Private Telephone.
(A Dialogue of the Aiy-n/Vr- IV-wwrrvw.)
nmanoceroaa.
Angelina (out t\f TWaJfir the .'isisew-l
Edwin (ta a papmkm* Oily pes', i
Angelina. I've read Uis laat l<ag of the latest
Miss Braddon,
I've strummed the piano until I am Ured ;
I've sung-to myself—the laat eong vou went
mad oa.
I've done up my hair in the way you admired ;
And still it is raining, a down-poor quite
steady.
The sky won't oblige with the least bit of
blue.
I'm bored beyond tearing ; and so. my dear
Eddy.
My thoughts and my telephone straight turn
to you.
jMvt*. JC* demur r*##orf, dear ?
Angelina. Now do not be spiteful;
Tm really too tired to be talked to like that.
Abets. Weil, the chance of a chat is su
premely delightful.
.1 ngelina. That's Terr much nicer. Pray what
are you at iu your den at this moment 7
Inquisitive darling '
How needless a question ? I'm talking to you.
Angefuut. Now dou't be evaaive ; and. if you
get anarling. I'll shut up the tube, and go
—flirting.
ftkna Pray do.
la the flirtee at hand? (7\iw.*i ion^n.)
Angelina (ft'mafiy). Are you there, Mr.
Haughty ?
Kheta ,opo&yV Oh, yes! Was just off for a
turn in the park.
Angelina. No, don't; and I'll promise I'll not
be so naughty.
Ahem. 'Tie I was a brute!
(ytowiwis of a tometehat imartimUuely l uNo.
character are eoneeymi through the instru
ment.]
Angelina (after an interval). You were pleased
to remark?
Edict*. That if acme clever haiul could con
trive an invention
By which hps might meet through—
Aaprhwa. You're very absurd.
Ahem. Ton think so? Assure you 'twaa not
my intention.
But there, it u much that your voice may be
heard
In my den iu the Temple, though you are at
Dover.
Now what would Leaader have thought of
thia scheme ?
.1 *pr,i*.i. Disdained it, of course. Ah! that
youth nu a lover.
Mies Hero most lucky !
[ Wafts a teitphonic sigh from Ikyotr to At
Ternpir.
Kdvin (/hrfunmo). Why Styi'e own stream
Should not keep me from you. if—
Aapriiao. Ah if! That'* a barrier
Far wore than the channel-to Cavill or
Webb.
Edict*. Do you think tie from choice that in
town Dm a tamer"
Ha fate, and the burden of "Jinka versus
Jebb."
Aapcfma. Oh! ia that what you're doing?
Door fellow!
Edictn Your pity.
Conveyed through long league* in mellidu
oua tones.
Bring* balm to thia prisoner pent in the city.
Aaprhno. The weather ia clearing ; the', hand
some De June*
With his drag *at the door. We ar going
out driving
Edtci*. That Jones ia a
Angritna. Huah ! Telephonic abuse
la an insult to science.
—London Punch.
Old Heads and Young Hearts.
" Do I look nice, Anntie ?"
The speaker was standing before a
fall-length mirror, her pretty head
twisted to one side to survey multitudi
nous flounces of white tulle over pale blue
silk, constituting the ela'xirate evening
dress covering her slender, graceful fig
ure. Clusters of bine flowers with
snowy leaves caught the drees at the
puffed overskirt, formed a bouquet de
corsage, and were twisted in the profu
sion of golden curls.
"You look very nice, my dear."
Miss Delia Merriman had taken a long
surrey of the exquisite face before she
spoke, and was satisfied with the appear
ance or her young and lovely protege.
•• Very nice," she repeated, " Hortens*
lias fitted you perfectly, and the drees is
most becoming. Now, if you will get
my jewel case, you shall wear my
pearls."
" Thanks 1" cried Elsie, carefully lift
ing the heavy casket, and putting it on
a table beside Miss Merriman. "I am
so sorry yon have each a cold! This will
be a splendid party, I know. Ah!
Auntie," she continued, opening a small
box in the jewel case, " I never saw
this!"
Bhe held up as she spoke a slender
chain, from which depended a gold lock
et, upon whose surface gleamed one
pearl of great beauty, pore and large.
" Oh, how lovely," Elsie cried, clasp
ing the chain around her slender throat
"May I wear it?"
Miss Merriman was moved, as the
locket was held up before her. Some
strong memory stirred her nsnally placid
features, for the soft brown eyes grew
troubled, and her lips quivered.
" tfould vou rather I took it off," Elsie
asked, gently.
"No, dear, you ma? wear it Pat in
the solitaire pearl earrings. I hear the
carriage. Do not keep Mr. Jamieson
waiting."
" I wish you were going," Elsie said,
as Miss Merriman wrapped a warm opera
cloak over the delicate dress. " I never
feel so happy if vou are at home."
"Thank you, dear. Now run along."
So Elsie, already forgetting the locket
and the troubled face, kissed hers o-called
aunt warmly, and flitted away.
For Miss Delia Merriman, who had
inheiited thirty thousand pounds from a
second cousin, greatly to her own
amazement, was not Elsie Garman's
annt Nineteen years before, she had
closed the eyes of the girl's dead mother,
lifted a week-old babe to her own bosom,
and taken her home. Not to such lux
uries as now snreonnded her—not to
ball dresses, pearls and gaiety—but to a
small room in a lodging house. Here
for twelve long years she had denied
herself every luxury of life, many com
forts, to provide food for the child, to
clothe her comfortably, to send her to
school. She was bat a girl herself —
scarcely twenty in those days—earning
her bread by making artificial flowers,
and working early and late to keep the
room tidy, cook the simple food and do
the neoessary sewing, when she WAS not
working at her trade.
Bnt wh-n wealth came, suddenly and
unexpectedly, flooding Elsie's life with
sunshine, Miss Delia altered little from
her former self. Trne, she had leisure
time, oould open her kind hands in charity
where before she had only given her
warm, tender sympathy, bnt as she had
been in poverty quiet, gentle and ever
sad, so in prosperity the same calm
gravity rested upon lip and brow, the
same deep sadness lurked in the soft
brown orbs.
Though but forty, her hair was some
what streaked with gray, and premature
sge was the fruit of a toilful life and sor
rowful heart. Yet she was lovely still,
and goodness ever beamed from her sad,
pitying glance.
After Elsie had left her she put aside
the jewel case and sat musing before the
FRED. KURTZ. Editor and Proprietor.
VOLUME X.
dm. She had made it oue of her dutiM
to her adopted child to accompany her,
after iutroduetiou to siviotv, to all
sceuea of gaiety. But a severe cold hail
rendered exposure to the night air au
imprudence on tin a, the evening of Mm.
Walton's large party, and Elsie hail
joined the family if a friend.
Memory waa very busy in Delia
Merriman'a heart as she sat over the tire
during Elsie's absence—so busy tliat slie
started as if from a dream wheu the car
riage rolled to th.v dour as the mantel
clock chimevi two.
There were words of parting, tlieu
light ate)* ou tlie stairs, and Elsie came
in, not as usual, full of bright auimation,
but with an earnestness of purpose quite
unusual to her.
"Did vou have a pleasant eveuing,
dear 7" Miss Delia aakeiL
" Yea—no—l don't know. Are you
verv tired ?"
I'he last words were all of the discon
nected answer the girl seenud abl to
give, ou account of her emotion.
" No, dear ! Why, Elsie, love, what is
it 7"
For she was looking troubled.
"1 have a message for yon, auntie."
" For me 7"
"From a strau er who was at Mrs.
Walton's, Mr. Oarriugton—Ralph Oar
riugtou."
Delia Merriman rose to her feet. .
She tried to speak, but the words
would uot come.
" A untie," the girl cried, terrified,
" Don't look so—don't!"
"The message?" she whispered.
" He told me to tell you that the man
who killed Heurv Gorman was Charles
Ralston, the cashier of the Hope Bank,
who has confessed his guilt. He said ;
' Tell Miss Merriman that to-morrow 1
will see her." Auutie," Elsie continued
urgently, " what does it tueau 7 Was
uot Henry Gannon my father 7"
" Yes, "ohild. It uieaus," Miss Merri
man said solemnly, " that tlie cross tliat
for twenty years has loin u)K)u my
life is lifted to-night. You shall know
*ll, Elsie, at once. I will not send you
to a sleepleas led, child, with your heart
so troubled. Bat give me a few mo
ments to think of yonr tnlings, snd tell
me how this message came to be intrust
ed to yon."
" Mrs. Walton came to me late in the
•veuiug. aud asked permission to indro
duee Mr. Oarriugton. I had noticed a
stranger, who looked at me very earne-t
--ly."
" " A tall, handsome man, with curling
brown hair and pleasant features, wear*
ug a full beard of waving golden
brown 7"
" No. A tall, grave man, with stem
features, smoothly shaven, and hair
ilmoat white—qnite sn old man."
" rroe ! true ! I had forgotten. He
must 1* fifty-five."
" When he was introduced to me, he
'onched the locket npon my neck.
' Pardon me he,' he sxid, 'if I am too
•urioos ; but your name and that trinket
ire connected with so much of my life
hat I veutnre to ask yon something con
•erning them. The locket first. Did
not somebody give it to you —a lady?'
His looks were so eager that I told him
the locket was yours. Then he led me
•n, little by little, till I told him my
whole life. * He said he hail been here
two months seeking you. He did not
look for a wealthy woman, but one poor
aud solitary. Then I informed him how
ooor we Lad been ; and about your
cousin, and how yon had lavished every
good thing on me. And then, auntie,
he whispered, half to himself, tliat I had
no claim on you. What did he mean I
Are vou not inv aunt 7"
"No, dear, there ia no tie of blood
•etween as. Your claim is the claim of
love, for you have been the one comfort,
'he one snnsbine of mv lonely life.
Twenty years ago, Elsie, Ralph (Harring
ton gave me the locket yon have upon
vour neck, a gift of betrothal, for we
loved each other truly and were engaged
to be married. I was a poor girl, making
irtifieial flowers for bread, an orphan,
too. He was assistant cashier of the
t>auk, where yonr father was night
watchman, and Charles Ralston was
head cashier. Ralston wa in love with
me, and pursued me with unwelcome
attentions.
" One day, to rid myself of his im
portunities, I told bim I hail promise to
marry Ralph. He left me in a rage.
Only*one week later the bank was enter
ed at night, yonr father shot through
the heart, and" Ralph Carrington discov
ered in the vault trying to revive him.
He was arrested and tried. He told • story,
not credited, that Charles Ralston had
sent him from his house to the bank for
paper-., after keeping him busy there
over the books all the evening. Bnt
Ralston swore that he had not been at
home that evening ; and proved it; that
the keys of the vault safe, found hanging
in the keyhole, were stolen from his
desk, and be had not sent his clerk to
the bank. So Ralph was convicted and
aentenoed. He escaped! EUie, I hail
saved fifty pounds for my wedding gar
ments. 1 went to see him in prison,
and, knowing be was innocent, I gave
him the money to bribe the keeper of
his cell. The man took it, ami Ralph
-ras free. I have never known if he
lived or died nutil to-night.
"After he was gone your mother was
taken ill. Before her marriage she had
worked for the same establishment
where I was employed, and I kuew her
well. The shock of her husband's death
was too severe for her, sud she ucvcr
rose again from her bed, though she
lived three months. When she died I
promised you should be my charge, and
never know the shadow upon yonr life
till von were a woman."
Elsie was sobbing quietly, often lift
ing to her lips the gentle liand that hail
given her all she had ever experienced
of life's blessings.
There WM a long silence after Miss
Merriman ceased speaking, and the gray
dawn was creeping in at the windows
when, aoftly kissing her. Aunt Delia told
Elsie to go to rest.
But for herself there was no rest.
Feverishly, with an agitaticn altogether
unlike her usnal quiet, she waited the
coming of her lover who had fled from
his unjust sentence twentv years before,
bnt who was free now and his innocence
known. The dav was young, and Elsie
was sleeping still when he came.
Delia was waiting for him in the draw
ing-room. There was no affectation of
yonth in her silver gray silk, and the
square of black lace upon her soft hair ;
but instead of a brooch, there fell npon
the knot of ribbon at her throat the
pearl locket Ralph had given his be
trothed. She stood np to greet the
stern-faced, elderly man who advanced
to meet her, trying to find traces of her
lover. Not till he smiled tendeily did
she recognize him.
Then, her own eves dim with tears,
she said, softly - "You are more than
weloomo, I am rejoiced the clond is lifted
from vour life, Ralph !"
And he, holding the trembling hand
fast in his strong ones, answered : " I
have found yon at last. I began to fear
you were dead, Delia. My little love,
my darling!"
" Ralph," she said, the .bright blush
rising to her faded cheek, "yon forget
we re gray haired, elderly people ?"
" I forget everything but that yon are
here, that the hope that has seemed a
dream of madness for twenty years is
realized. I have been in California,
Delia, all these years, amassed wealth,
nnder another name, working for
gold to drown thought I have lad a
THE CENTRE REPORTER.
busy life, but there haa uot leen oue
hour when I have not pictured such hap*
p.ncaa a* this. You are miue, Delia ;
you will not aend iua from you 7 You
"will l>e my wife 7"
" If vou wish It," she said, softly, her
own ffiJtlful heart thrilling uuder Uie
sincerity of his toue, " I have never
ceased to love you or to pray for you,
Ralph."
Society speculated upon the brief
courtship, for there was a quiet wedding
wttliiu a mouth, but nolsalv knew of the
painful past save Elsie, the cherished
child still of Ralph Oarriugton and Delia.
Ins wife.
Wakened to DK
Pierre Jean Welker, the taliou* as
sassin of a little girl in the Rue Nation
ale, Paris —ahe was eight, ami he
strangled her with her skipping-rope
snd weut to sleep, uaiug her corpse as
his pillow -has been guillotined. The
a arrant designated as the hour "about
5 30 a. M," and somewhat after midnight
the machine arrived and aas noiselessly
sot up with wooden screws, only about
150 perilous being attracted to the scene
beside tlie military and police. One of
them was a woman. It was 4:48 when
Mr. Roch had everything m working
order and tried tlie fall of the ax; then
ho and his assistants, Jacob, the chief of
. the detective service, and the Abbe
Crozes, who lias accompanied so mauy
scores of murderer* to the guillotine,
and whose hack, No. 148, is as much a
part of tlie procession as M. Koch's van,
entered tlie priaou. Welker was a fear
ful coward, who hail wept and moaned
and torn his hair wheu sentence was
passed and wheu he was placed in tlie
coudeniued cell, but he believed the
merciful falsehood that forty days muat
elapse before carrying out of sentence,
which jail attendants always tell to con
fiding prisoners; and thinking he hail
still some Line left to him, and alto
having faith that his petition for mercy
would be heard, he had gotten over Ins
terror, ate freely and slept soundly. So
souudly was he sleeping thia uioruing
that neither the opening of his <*ll door
nor the light of tlie lanterns disturbed
him. Jacob sh ok him by the shoulder,
and the clerk said loudly: " Wake up,
Welker, your petition has been rejected ;
you must prepare to die." A horrible
sound, half the cry of a wild beast, hall
a death-rattle, issued from the tuau'a
throat, and he fell back on his bed, con
vulsively bitmg the coverlet. " Have
you anything to say ? Do vou want
sime brandy ?" asked Jacob; out Wel
ker did not hear him, and lay racked by
convulaive shudders. He was lifted out
of bed and made a vain effort to draw on
his trowsers, but he could not stand and
tumbled again npon his couoli. The
veins of his forehead and temples stood
out like knotted oordage, his eyes were
filmy, his jaw had fallen and a cold
or eat was pouring down his ashy far*.
The Abbe Crozes spoke to him earnest
ly; Roch asked; "Do I hurt you?" as
he bound Ins hands, but Welker made
uo answer, heard nothing, was as one
dead. Indeed the attendant* were
urged to make haste or lie would die of
fright in their hands. Two of them hail
to carry him out with his arms around
their necks, his h>d hanging on the
right shoulder, and his legs trailing on
the stones behind him. The priest
walked b.ickwards before him to shut
out the sight of the machine of death,
bat the merciful preeauti.si was need
leas. Welker knew nothing. His body
fell upon the plauk like a bag of sand,
and a moment later the ax felL Owing
to tlie difficulty of placing the inert I**l}
in position, the ax shored away the head
diagonally, taking off a part of one
shoulder," and leaving a part of the jaw
attached to the other. So large was the
murderer's skull that it got jammed in
the bucket into which it fell and cos Id
only be shaken out by ponmling ou the
inverted vessel. It was 4:48 when the
officers entered tlie prison to take out
their man; It wa%5.06 when the ax fell,
the time occupied being three minutes
less than was taken iu the case of Billoir.
Roch thinks that with all circumstance*
favoring liim he can reduce the time to
twelve minutes—that is to say, there will
lie for the criminal au interval of lea
than ten minutes between sleep and
death. But how many ages of mental
agony in those ten minutes !
The Wonderful I>g of I'ohoes.
Morrison, Colwell A Page liave In
< connection with their rolling mill at
Coboew, N. Y.. a large stable for their
iarge stock of horses. Two watchmen
guard this stable day and night and care
for the horses. Besides the watchmen a
lurge dog, a cross between the St. Ber
nard and Newfoundland species, is kept
on the premises. This animal realizes
that he is assistant guardian of the
premises and faithfully doe* he perform
his duties. At night if anything amiss
happens to the horses or anything e.se
he straightway starts for tbo watchman
and taking his trousers in his teeth will
not loosen his bold until be lias led him
to the spot. Formerly, when any of the
horses slipped their halters and attempt
< 1 to wander about the stable, he would
drive them back into their stall and
mount guard over them until the watch
man arrived in his rounds and secured
them. This practice was kept up until
iu an unlucky night, some time ago,
when he attempted to drive a vicious
mule into his stall from which he hail
escaped, when the animal let fly with
Ikoth hind feet, one of which took effect
on the poor dog's head, knocking out a
utiraber of teeth and cutting his face
badly. Since that time the knowing dog
has not attempted to drive book any of
his equine charge that may become loose
bnt straightway goes to the watchman
on guard. At one time some looe straw
and hay laying in the rear of and against
the barn by some means caught fire.
When discovered the faithful dog wan
at his post, and standing in fire and
smoke was scratching away with all hi*
might, removing the burning mass
from the building'and barking lustily
for aid. Although the dog was burned
somewhat, the building, mainly through
his efforts, was saved. The gentlemen
owning the animal prize him highly
and would not exchange his services as
watchman for any biped in creation.
Photograph in# the Heart-Beat.
Oae of the moat remarkable applica
tions of photography is that by which it
ia now made to register, and in the moat
accurate manner, the mechanical motion
of the heart. The device bv which thia
result is attained ia, indeed, a triumph
of inventive akill. It consists of a tliin
india-rub!>er l>ag, to which a ahort glaaa
tube ia attached, sufficient mercurr ia
poured into the apparatus to fill the bag
and a portion of the tube, and the in
strument ia then placed over the heart
of the peraon to be examined. Arranged
in thia manner, every pulsation of the
heart ia indicated by a corresponding
movement of the mercury in the tube,
and, by suitable photographic appar
atus, provided with a moving • sensitive
slip of paper, a perfect registration of
the e i tent and rate of the pulsations is
obtained. The interesting fact is made
known by this process, that the fall of
the poise sometimes takes place in sue*
oesafnl horizontal lines, and sometimes
in ascendant lines, the column reaaoend
lng two or three times before falling
altogether.
If yon dont want to be robbed of ydor
good name, do not have it painted on
your umbrella.
CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., PA., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1877.
A BBOCEIXU TEAOUUY.
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a*C Tvrrlblv I r*l> Vslls*S I* Ik#
('•art#.
Olive Logan writes from Loudon to
Uie New York Graphic, giving the do
tail* of the Peiige mystery, tlie trial of
four young )eoule (or the murder by
! starvation of a fifth, a woman .the wile
of one of the four. The trial created
an extraordinary sensation, and the court
room was crowded daily. Tlie oorre
spoudeutsays:
TU* wuivWtxl woman, who#® Christian
name was Harriet, came up to lstudou
from her home iu the country four yours
ago. She was highly UUIIMflfSil Hhe
was a niece of Lady Rivers. Her step
father is a clergyman. Her own father
had a gixxl position. Her mother is
a lady. From various sources Harriet
! was entitled to the sum of 915,1 AM) on
I her marriage. Hhe was of rather weak
intellect, easily iufiuenced by any oue ID
whom she took a fancy, sad slie was
thirty-five years old.
Hh* stopped in London at a boarding
house, and there made the acquaintance
.f a young man, Louis Stauutou, s
good-lookina fellow, olerk to an auction
(MT. lie mtormed himself at her tinan
,-i*l pros|>ects, and imiuodialely olferetl
her marriage, though he was mere than
' ten years younger than she was. Hhe
1 accepted, "and the astonished mother
1 in the country hurried up to town, took
in at a glanc* a bat sort of a man the
young auctioneer"* dark was, and his
iuotive for marrying lier daughter She
made an effort to reobtam control over
Harriet by trviug to prove her of un
! sound mind; but she was uot succeatful
\iu this, and Louis HLauntou took his
I wife away. Hex mother uevcr laid eves
on her again, dead or living,
Louis had a brother inhabiting a lonely
place in Kent, and he now pffiwls that
he paid to this brother XI a week for his
wife's support. The brother's wife had
a young sister, Alice Rhodes, au'd behold
them all living together in the same
! house the twvconple* comfortably; the
discarded wife, whose £I,OOO have beeu
; duly obtained, confined in a dark cellar
bcucatli, witliout foisl, fire or neocasariea
for vleauliuee*. A servant name.l Clara
Brown, a Sort of remote |>oor relative
waits on tlie lot, and one day wheu the
' niilkwotiiau was at the door, a ghastly
; spectacle of filtli and emaciation came
jMH-riug up towarvl the light from the
lauMunent IN'IOW, giving the milk woman
as great a fright as if it hail been a ghost,
and Clara Brown flew toward the gaunt
intruder, shrinking, "(o tiack' (io down
-tairs! I'll give it you!" The poor,
hunted thing rtd swsy with the wild
look of fear in her mournful eve-. "Do
vou speak like thsfl to a lady 7" asked
the mukw' iinan. * She's no more a lady
than you or I," answered Clara Brown.
" Who is she?" Master's sister." The
milk woman uever dreamed she was Louis
SUuutou's wife. How could she f Alice
Rhodes was Mrs. Ljonis Huunton to all
who knew thorn theralout.
Now, this wuhappy creature gave
birth to a child. The child was seen
about the house by aeveral people; all
thought it either Alice's baby or her
sisters- Mriv Patrick Staunton. One
lay, however, this child wa* missing,
Patrick Htauutou had taken it up to
London ami placed it in a hospital. The
Sister of Chanty wjio received the babe
told him that it was dying of ifan atum.
which seemed to have bwn tfnug on
smoe its birtli. He replied tliatlie knew
nothing of that, for tlie child was nothing
to him--it was tlie child of a carpenter
named Horns, whom he had promised as
a favor to briug the aick child to a Lon
don hospital. He was told he must
letch proper clothes for it. He called
the next day. The child had died during
the night. He promised to osU again.
He never did. Tlie child was buried by
the hospital authorities, registered as
" Harris."
Wo mart change tho scene now and
tlnd these HumtiUion and Alice Rhodes
looking tor lodging* at INsngo, a suburb
near tUo Crystal Palace. They engaged
a sitting-room and bedroom at the rate
of a week, awl told tho laadlady that
the lady *u ill who was to occupy them,
and would probably not be able to came
over from the railway station tieforo
morning. She left the front door open
that they might the more easily go in
and out. and at ten o'clook in the
evsuipg, to her surprise, ni g<iiag tip to
her new lodgers' rooms, she found the
nick woman lying in bed. She had been
brought in the house without noiae or
warning. The landlady insisted on their
having a doctor, and after some hesita
tion Alice Rhodes and Louia Staunton
went out and called on the nearest
physician. Dr. Lvugrigg. LLe cams aud
taw the patient, but she could not speak.
He remarked the extreme filthiness of
the body, and asked who had been her
previous medical attendant. They gave
the name of a phys cian near their own
home, but who in reality uevar attended
her.
When the landlady At Pengs was
cleaning b r d < wsi"pn the nest morning
the undertaker aam<> up and asked to lie
allowed to go up-staira and measure the
corpse. The good woman wan astonish
e<l, and directed him to another house,
where there had lieen aickness, thinking
he had made a mistake in the number.
She then hurried up stairs and rapped
at the door of the sitting-room. Alice
Rhodes answered it, aud in reply to hsr
question, said : " Yes, she is gone." A
woman came from tho undertaker's to
wash the body. The tilth of it was some
thing indescribable. The feet were
horny, indicating that she had been lonn
without shoes. Her hair was matted and
impossible to comb. In disgnst the
woman abandoned the task of cleansing
the body. Login Ktaunhm gwre her a
sovereign not to mention in wliat con
dition it was. When the undertaker
came to coffin the corpse he was stopped
by the law, Dr. L ingrigg having given
notice to tho authorities, after a ixiat
rnortem examination which disclosed
evidences of long-continued starvation.
Ijonis Staunton's assertion that his wife
was of intompejate habits was distinctly
| falsified by the autopsy. Drunkards
have a large liver. This organ in Har
riet Staunton was shrivelled and shrunk
en to nothing almost. After dne inquiry
the whole four people were committed
to stand their trial for wilful murder.
They had been in jail but n few days
when both women were delivered in their
cells of children, Mas. Patrick Staunton
of twins. The babes were taken from
their mothers, that being the prison law.
One of the twins died.
Tho fearful catastrophe ends with tho
bloodthirsty vengeance of the Mosaic
law. The jurv lias found tliein all to lie
guilty of wilful murder, and when the
black-capped judge pronounced their
sentence of death by hanging, ' 'and may
the Lord have mercy on your sonls,"
nearly the whole oourt murmured,
" Amen." The women are to be recom
mended to mercy. Alice Rhodes cried
out in leaving tho dock : " lam innocent
of it all I" ">
We listen to those whom we know to
he of the same opinion as ourselves, and
we oall them wise for l>eing of it j bnt
wu avoid such m differ from ns; we pro
nounce them rash before we have heard
them, and still more afterward, lest we
shonld be thonght at any time to have
erred.
Greet]!*!*! to* no oa*.ft imagine oaks
in a oountry where the nigh to are six
months long!
A Fight fvr a Itrdoubt.
A correspond ant of the Luudou Daily
AVw*#, who tUuw hia letter (rum the left
wing of the lftcha road, writra :
'llio redoubt Hkobeleff waa attacking
waa a double redoubt ill the beud of the
Lofloha r>>ad dou near Plevna. Ha
had adrauoed Ins troo|m down the slope
of the mouuUuu to wtthiu easy rouge.
Ae the Turks immediately opened Are
upon him from the redoubt he returued
the tire with unsteadiness am! precision,
putting hie men tiuder cover aa much aa
possible, lua cauuou pouriug a steady
■(renin of ahell and cauuiaiar Luto the re
doubt ae well. For three hours he kept
up tins Are, and just after Kriloff*a acc
oud repulse, the Turkiuh tiro having
aoiuewhat relaxed, dominated by the
Russian, he thought the moment had
come for making the assault. He had
four regimeiita of the hue, and four bah
talioua of sharpshooters. Hlill keeping
up hia uinnierona tire, be formed uuder
it* cover two regiment*. tlie Vladimiraki
nud the ZooxoUki, in the little hollow at
the foot of the low liill on which waa
luiilt the redoubt, together witii two bat
talion* of sharpshooters, not more than
twelve hundred yard* from the scarp.
Then, placing himself in the t>eHt posi
tion for watching the result, he craned
fire and ordered tlie advance. He order
ed the assaulting party not to fire, and
they rushed forward with their guns on
their shoulders, with music playing aud
banner* dying, and disappeared in the
fog and am oka. Hkobeleff is the only
J general who places himwdf near enough
to feel the pulae of a battle.
The advancing column as indistinctly
seen, a dark mass in the fog aud smoke.
1 Feeling, aa it were, every throb of the
1 tattle, he saw this line begin to waver
and herniate. Upon the iiauuit he hurl
ed forward a rival reguneut to support,
aud again watched tha result This new
force carried the mass further on with
its momentum, but the Turkish redoubt
darned and amoked, aud poured forth
*ueh a torrent of bullets that the line
was again shaken. Hkobeleff stood in
this aliowcr of balls unhurt. All his
' escort were killed or wounded, even to
, the little Kirghis, who received a bullet
in tlie shoulder. Again he aaw the line
herniate and waver, and he dung hia
fourth and last regiment, the Libaosky,
on the gtaria. Again this new ware car
ried tlie preceding ones forward, until
} they were almost on Uie scarp ; but that
deadly ahowrr of bulleta poured upon
| them ; men dropped by hundred, and
I the result still remained doubtful. The
line once more wavered and hesitated.
Not a moment was to lie lost, if the re
| doubt was to be carried.
Skobeleff had now only two battalions
of *har]M>hoct-rs left, tlie leat in his de
tachment*. Fnttiug himself at the head
iof three, lie dashed forward on horse
bark. He picked up the stragglers ;he
reached the wavering, fluctuating mass,
and gave it the inspiration of his own
I courage and inatru'-tiou. He picked the
whole mass up, ami carried it forward
villi a mail and a cheer. The whole re
> .toobt was a mare of flame and smoke,
from which scream*, shoots, and crire of
agony and defiance arose, with the deep
mouthed bellowing of the eaunon, and,
above all, the ateadv, awful crash of that
deadly hfla Are. Hkobeleff*a sword waa
cut in two in the middle. Then a mo
ment latter, when just on the point of
leaping the ditch, horse and man rolled
together to the ground, the horse dead
or wounded, the rider uutouched. He
tprang to hia feet with a shout, then
with a formidable, aavage yell, the whole
mam of msn streamed over the ditch,
\ over the scarp and counterscarp, over
the para|M>t, and swept into the redoubt
| like a hurricane. Their bayonets made
hort work of the Turk* still remaining.
Then a joyous cheer told that the re
' doubt was raptured, and that at last one
| (if the defenses of Plerua waa in the
hands of the Russians.
Hkobeleff seemed to lie tlie only one
among the Russian general* who lias
' studied the American war with profit.
Ue knows it by heart; and it will tie
n*n by thoae who have studied the great
j civil war that, in this assault, Hkobeleff
followed the plan of the American gen
erals on both Rules when attempting to
carry such positions, to follow up the
I assaulting column with fresh troops,
' without waiting for the first column to
!h repulsed. If the position proves too
*trong for the flr*t column, then rein
forcement* ore t hand before they hare
time to break and run.
At iiinrise the Turka began an attack
u (xm the captured redoubt, and the
' dorm of tattle again raged with fury
here, while all was quiet everywhere
else. Tlie desperate attacks of tlie Turka
wore repulsed. Another attack was made,
another repulse; and this continued all
dny long until the Turka had attacked
and been beaten five suooeaaive times.
! The Russian loose* were becoming fear
ful. General Hkobeleff had last, he
, thiuka, 2,000 meu in attacking the re
doubt. By the afternoon be had loot
3,000 move in holding it, while his bat
talions shriveled up and shrank away aa
if by magic. One battalion of sharp
shooter* had been reduced to 160 meu.
A company which had been 150 waa now
, forty. An immense proportion of
i officers wore killed. Only one com
mander of a regiment is alive; scarcely
a head of a battalion is left Two officer*
of the staff are killed, one of them waa
Venuttchagin, brother of the great
artist. Another brother waa wounded.
Oeu. Dobrovolaky, commander of sharp
shooters, was killed. One officer was
blown to pieces by the explosion of a
i caisson. Oapt. Knrapatkin, chief of the
*t*ff, standing beside this officer, had
his hair singed, and suffered a severe
contusion. Otily Gen. Hkolwleff himself
remained untouched. He seems to bear
a charmed life. He visited the redoubt
three or four times during the day, en
couraging the soldiers, telling them help
would soon arrive; Plevna would soon
be taken; victory would soon crown their
efforts; telling them it was the final, de
disive blow struck for their country; for
the honor and glory of the Russian arms;
i snd they alwsys replied with the same
ohrerv shouts, while their numbers were
dwindling away by litmdreds. He again
and again sent for reinforoements,
and again informed the commander-in
chief that the position was untenable.
The afternoon wore awiyy, and no rein
foroements came. Gen. Levitaky. as I
have been informed, formally refused
reinforcements either because he thought
the position, in spite of Gen. HkobolefTs
representations, was tenable, or because
he had no reinforcements to give. Gen.
Krilofl, on his own responsibility, sent
: the remnant of a regiment which had
attacked the redoubt, which I eaw rush
forward and then back through that In
! dian cornfield. Of the 2,500 there were
! barely 1,000 left, so it was utterly in
! capable of going into action that day;
and even this regiment arrived too late.
.Oen. Hkobeleff hail left the redoubt at
four o'clock to go to his tent on a woody
hill opposite. Ho had been there scarcely
an honr when he wo* informed that the
Turks were again attacking the right
flank on tlie Lovoha road, immediately
above Plevna. He galloped forward to
see, and woe met by an orderly with the
news that the Tori* were also attacking
the redoubt for thesixth time. He daubed
forward toward the redoubt in hopes of
reaohing it in time, but was met by a
stream of his own men flying back.
They were exhausted by forty-eight
hours' incessant lighting, and were worn
out, hungry, and dying of thirst and
fatigue. Owing to the inactivity of the
Russians during the day, the Turks had
beau enabled to collect su overwhelming
force, which had mode one lost desperate
effort and had succeeded in driving the
Russians out. One bastion was held to
the last by a young oflloer, whose name
1 regret I have forgotten, with a handful
of men. They refused to fly, and were
slaughtered to the last man.
It was jus* after this Uiail met Gen.
Hkobeleff, the first time thai day. * He
waa iu e fearful state of nciUuneut and
fury. Hut uniform was covered with
mud and filth; hia sword broken ; hia
Cross of Ht. George twisted round us hia
shoulder ; his face black with powder
and smoke ; his eyes haggard and blood
shot, and hia vutoe quite gone. He
*l>oke in a hoarse whieper. I never be
fore saw such a picture of battle ae lie
presented. 1 saw hiui sgam iu hia tent
at night. Ue wu* quite calm and col
lected. He said; "I have done my
beet; I could do uo more. My detach
ment is half destroyed ; my regiment* do
not exist ; 1 have uo officers left; they
sent me uo reinforcements, and I have
lost three gun*." "Why did they re
fuse yon reinforcement* ( Who waa to
blaiuvf" "I blame nobody," he re
plied "It is the will of God."
A WO.NDKHU L CAT.
Tbr IJttlf laiareat sk* Tike Is (kI(M
--► ire ttara .Waller. u4 Tbsss ll* Visa
( barer *f Tb*.
There is e cat at the fire-alarm tele
graph office in Chicago that deeerree a
place in print. This cat is of the fem
inine persuasion, albeit " tlie boys " and
the "night gang" have given her the
nuniphooious and opposite uainr of Pete.
Trie has been at the fire alarm daily and
nightly ever since the third day after the
big fire. Hbe came in, a kitten, with
the hair upon her body iu spots, and
sat down deliberately upon tlie desk of
the Bii|eriuteudent She looked up in
hie fare, as much as to say, " 1 am a suf
ferer, I have been burned, ami here I
am." Pete waa careeaed and fed, and
from that day to this she haa never gone
heck on the place that took her in. The
points that make Tete a remarkable fe
line are several in number. Bhe is eun
veiwaut with the workings of the com
plicated machinery of the office. When
the watchers are changed in the office,
which occurs at four o'clock r. m. , mid
night, aud at eight o'clock a. *., it is the
cuntorn for the men coming on a* relief
to test every instrument and find out the
omdition ot the multitude of linee that
stretch throughout the city. This oat ia,
on deck at the change of' every watch,
and goo* through the very oame move
ments of the relief, ao far aa she can.
Hbe put* her nose up to the register; she
creeps along the casement and puts her
velvet paws upon the relays; she does the
■sine Uiiug with the galvanometers, and
purrs geutly against the switch-hoard.
Mhe leaps over to the repeater* and looks
upon tlie dials, and then climua back
among the wires to see, apparently, what
their condition is. When she has fin
ished her tour of inspection in this room,
site goea out to the battery apartment
with Paddy—Paddy ia in cnarge of tlie
betlenee, imd not imother cat, ae might
be inferred, but for this explanation —
aud carefully follows him through hia
inspection of the multitudinous jars.
When an alarm of fire is turned in, she
comes galloping to the front, and jump*
upon tlie repeater, where she remains
till the fire is "struck out" Pete
seems to be the soul of watchfulseas
at night, and watches the movements
of a\ crv thing or body that stirs. A
few nights since two of the gang had
gone to the armory, a few blocks south
of the fire-alarm'office, in search at
news. On their return they met Pete
on a fnll run, with ber nose southward
aud her tad turned toward the stars.
Hbe recognised the couple, and imme
diately turned and dashed back to the
alarm office. One of the gang said to
tlie other, "There's something up."
" Yes," said the party addressed, "Pete's
tail." But the inveterate joker waa
choked down and homed off to find Pete
sitting on the dial of the telegraph in
strument. which was bringing s dispatch
from a distant sub-stats hi conveying the
intelligence of a shooting affair. The
night operator ays when he received the
message he made tins remark to his as
sistant, "Wooder where the gang ia?"
aud the assistant replied, "At the Arm
ory," and lVte, she that was sitting iu
the window, darted away in that direc
tion. That she knew what was np seems
evident from her ooudnct in returning
when she met tlie gang. These pecu
liarities of HUB cat, which may seem like
on attempt at fictiou, are most unquali
fiedly true. ______
Hcrole Rescue of an Americas Frew.
Tim crew of au American schooner,
Louia A. Hwatt were recently lauded at
Liverpool by the ship Thorn is Hrockle
bauk. A* the latter vessel was home
ward lwuud from Jamaica she fell in with
the erWmer in a disabled condition and
flyin: signals of diatreaa. Captain
Brown at once backed the yard* and stood
fur the vessel, the captain of which in
formed him that she was making much
water, which w* gaining upon the
pumps. These had to be kept continu
ally at work. He asked to be taken aft,
and also said his crew were thoroughly
exhausted through incessant work, snd
were unable to lsuneh their own boat.
At the time the weather was exceeding
ly rough with a terrific sea ou. and a
liuat could only lie lowered with the ut
most danger. Four of the crew of the
Thomas Brock lebank. however, with the i
boatswain volunteered to msn a small
boat, and they put off to rescue the
helpless sailors. The boat could not
approach the "schooner in safety, and
lines were thrown, by which the men
were hauled through the sea into the
boat, the captain being the last to leave,
snd he swam to the boat. The men
were almost naked at the time of their
rescue, and when they were taken on
board the Thomas Brooklebank fresh
supplies of clothes were given to them
and they were kindly treated by Captain
Brown," to whom the greatest praise is
due for hi* bowery and humanity, as
well as to the sailors who so heroically j
manned tlie boat. The Louis A. Hwett
ansa owned in Iloeton, and at the time of
tlie disaster waa bound from Accra to
Boston with palm oil. The distressed
seamen were taken to the Sailor's Home.
A Jidge Itylng Upon the Bench.
About six o'clock one Thursday eve
ning recntly, while tte Supreme Court
was in session at Knoxvilie, tlie county (
seat of Crawford county, Georgia, Judge
Barnard Hill, the presiding judge, died
upon the beurh in s sudden and unex
pected manner. The facts appear to be
us follows: A criminal trial, in whioh
two meu were charged with larceny, had
just been ooncluded and the jury re
turned a verdict of "guilty." They
neglected to state the value of the goods
stolen, aud Judge Hill remarked to them
that they had best retire apd supply
this portion of the verdict. They re
turned to the room and a lull in the pro
ceedings followed. A few moments
after one of the attorneys looked up and
discovered that Judge Hill's head was
thrown back upon his chair, a deathly
pallor overspreading his countenance.
Friends rushed to him, but with on easy
gasp his spirit passed away, and he sat
(lead upon the bench in the midst of the
discharge of his high official duty.
" A special diapatch to the Paris pa
pers reports that the czar ia ill" Indi
gestion probablv; s little too much
Turkey.
TERMS: S'-i.OO a Year, in Advance.
ABOL'T TKLKUKAPMINU.
K■*!•*•# ss4 ibees Wssss-lks Melierlss
-iiwMe NSSSMSS -A i srtsw# ffesuwre sf
Urtss Tel •(**.
The New York aumspomltnt <if Ik*
Troy Tims* write*: DM of tlie moot
j interesting place* iu thia mty ia the tel
*graph building, corner of Broadway
and I >*y street. Formerly Una apot was
occupied by the Franklin House, a vwry
Kular ion. From Franklin's ooanoo
with aieetiioitv, it seems proper IhM
1 the telegraph bnilding sh old be its suc
cessor. As a specimen of grand oom-
I mamal architecture, this structure has
no superior, and the fact that its ooet
was 92,000,000 shows how much oui be
laid out on spare not exceeding 60 by
160 feet The telegraphic operations
carried on in this establishment are of
au extent tliai would perplex an ordinary
observer. It may, however, be sug|/<*t
ed by the feet that the services of 3i5
capable employee are required beeitie
operators. Tlie room occupied by the
I latter te of v*nt size, and * on the sixth
floor. Here 266 skillful persona watch
the clicking of the machines, A large
portion at this foree is composed of
vonng women. The beet operators re
ceive 9116 per mouth, and work entirely
by t*r. There is s greet surplus of
talent in this establishment, and many
ineffectual applications for employment
arc made daily.
The contrast between the cheap ma
terials and the immense results iu tele
graphy is very striking. The power is
obtained simply from sulphate of cop
per (blue vitriol), water and tine. In the
battery room there are 14,000 cups in
use, each containing the necessary ele
ments. The heaviest battery contains
360 cupa (or cells), and ia used solely for
Chicago dimiafc'W They consume 90
barrels of blue vitriol every mouth, and
6,000 pounds of sine. On one of the
upper Boors a restaurant is in operation,
where the employes have a first-class
dinner at a reasonable price. They pur
chase tickets in ndvmnoa, and thane tick
ets are currency for diahea, which are
supplied on the European plan. This
system is becoming venr general in all
large establishments. Daring the hot
weather a ton of ice is consumed in this
establishment daily, nearly fifty water
coolers being in nee.
The cable battery contains s dozen
cells. I need hardly "any that the method
used in cable practice differs from or
dinary telegraphy. The term applied to
4 this method is " induction." I nave not
space for its explanation, but one of its
features is the reflection of the needle.
The cheapest message on the cable is
seventy-five cents, and is limited to one
word. * Some of our renders may think
that one word oan be of little use, but if
properly handled it may convey as much
information as an ordinary sentence.
Tikis can be done by the method called
"pocking." List us suppose that a Hew
' York banking house arrange* with its
London correspondent a vocabulary of
words, each of which haa a specific mean
ing. The London bouse may telegraph,
for instaoee. the word "thunder," and
the New Yorkers, by reference to their
book, will find the meaning of " thun
der " to be "the Rank of England has
advanced its rate of ir tercet to three per
cent" All this, which at long rale
would cost f5.75, is obtained far s mere
trifle, snd Hie system certainly shows ,
great ingenuity." The cable cyphers, as
these are called, are numerous snd are
in charge of a very expert operator. The
difference in time bet ween New York
and London ia a curious feature in ocean
telegraphy. The I/mdon banker is ia
therolfswell of traffic when the New
York agent is first thinking of " getting i
up." At noon the London markets are \
cabled to this city, where they arrive
at seven o'clock te the morning of the
same day. Hie London agent of the
New York press telegraphs the most hn
portant news issued m the Ixmdon
71 oies at six o'clock in the morning. It
reaches here at one o'clock the same
morning, just in time to be inserted in
the New York journals, whose renders
have the same matter that the Londoner
digests with his breakfast. This is do
ing s little better than even " taking time
bv the forelock." It is getting ahead
of him in s prodigious manner.
WIM hi He!
Fifteen years ago, says Jennie June,
: a handsome and dashing student of Har
vard attracted universal attention, not
only by hia high style of living, but by
his brilliant scholarship and. superb
manner. He was not only the admire
tiou of the talles, but the despair of all
the beaux, for without apparent effort
he surpassed the beat of them in appear
ance, in style, in attainments, in a gene
rosity which waa princely, and in good
nature, which in its indiffismee waa
never inconsiderate of the wants, wishes
or feelings of others. From a student
of Harvard, the splendid young Ameri
can became s fellow of Oxford, and eTen
among the luxurious and exclusive sons
of tlie finest aristocracy of tlie world
shone with almost a* resplendent a light
as in the more modest hall* of Harvard.
He conversed, read and wrote in seven
different languages as easily as in his
own, and at the same time maintained a
brilliant social reputation, which waa
enhanced by a style of living with which
the descendant* of a line of tittal ances
tors and heirs of the honors of the great
est English families hardly dared to
compete. In this way, and in traveling
m pramD AMgnmr all over Europe,
making acquaintances with royalty and
hobnobbing with the younger sons of
ducal houae*,our Harvard man contrived
to get through the first ten years of re
sponsible existence, and spend not only
his own fortune but that of several
doting relalives. He rams to the end at
last, and, without any shock of his own
or other people's nerves, settled down to
hard-pan and the life of a newspaper wri
ter. He ia married now.and with nis wife
and one child lives in a cottage in a re
tired spot near New York. The genius
which distinguished him as a student
distinguishes him as a writer. Hia flash
ing yet scholarly style marked him out
from among a httmirai ordinary con
tributors, and gave him an acknowledged
place at once. He makes more money
as an " outsider " to-day than any writer
on the press. But few would recognise
in the quiet, somewhat reserved, yet
thoroughbred man who pays an oooaa
sional visit to editorial sanctums the
dashing snd fsahionable young Ameri
can who attracted the attention of the
most renowned circles by the splendor
of his tastes and the brilliancy of his
attainments.
Advice to Business Men.
To make business good, if it is not so
with you, reader, we should then eny go
to work and make it so. First of all,
bear in mind that you are the architect
of your own fortune. Good or bad it is
you who make it, and from you must
come all the best relief to the situation
at any time. Make your exiatenoe known.
Keep your name and goods constantly
before the public. Attract trade. Oease
to imagine that it will at any time seek
you out. Do not let your customers
forget you. Remind them of your facili
ties and business constantly. Advertise.
Early and late be at work to increase
your business; and if there is anything
to be had you will get it. But don t
place blame on the times when you your
self are not np to the timee and the mod
ern methods of attracting trade and doing
business. Rattan Journal of Com
mare*.
NUMBEB 41.
Credulity In India.
An amnatng anecdote, related by Btah
op Hebar, givee oa e good idee of the
foiblea end ignorance of una of the petty
prutoea .f India and the ramnnaas of the
minteter who managed hie affaire. The
fondness of the king for mechanics, says
the bishop, led him to try eome expert
ruente, in which befell in with e Unreal
matt engineer of planning addrane and
ready talent, aa well aa considerable,
tnough unimproved, genina for aneb i
punraito. The king took eo much do
light in oouvarmeg with Una man that 1
the imnmtor began to fear a rising com- ,
IteUtur, ee wall knowing that the mean
ueae of hia own birth and function* h*.:
liretn no obstacle to hie advancement.
He therefore aent the engineer word that
if he were wise, to leave Lueknow.
The poor man did so, removed to a
place ten milae down the river, and est,
up a ahop there. The king, on inquir
ing after hii humble friend, wae told j
that he waa dead of cholera, ordered a j
gratuity to be aent to lus widow and
children, and no more wae aaid. Borne
uuie after the king aailcd down the river
on Ida brig of war, aa far aa the place i
where the new *hop stood. Ha was
•truck with the different eigne of neat. ,
ueaa and ingenuity whieh he observed ,
iu peeeing, made hia man draw in ah ore
ana, to hia aatoniahmcnt, aaw the engin
eer, who atood trembling, and with
joined bands, to receive him. After a '
short explanation, he ordered him to
come on board, —**t turned in high!
anger to Imeknow, and calling the min
ister, asked him again if be waa oertein
that such a man waa dead. " Undoubt
edly," wee the reply. " I myself ascer
tained the teet and conveyed your mejee
ty'a bounty to the widow and children."
" Hanuasada, " mid the king, bursting
into a fury, " look there, and never see j
my (ace any more." The rimer tamed
round and aaw bow matters were awnn
atanced.
With a terrible glance, which the king
could not see, but which spoke volumes
to the poor engineer, be imposed silence
on the latter; then turning round agaia
to hie master, stopping hie noae, and
with many muttered exclamations of
"God be merciful ! M "Baton is strong!"
" Ia the name of God keep the demon
from me ! N he amid, " I hope your majes
ty has not touched the horrible object?"
''Touch him." said the king; "the
aight of him is enough to convince aaa
of your rascality." " Istnftrallah !" said
the favorite, and does not your majesty
perceive the strong smell of a deed ear
cam?" The king atfll stormed: but hie
votee faltered, and curiosity and anxiety
began to mingle with hie indignation.
"It is certain, refuge of the world," re
turned the minister, " that your majes
ty's late engineer, with whom be pesos!
is dead and buried ; but your slave know,
ah not who bath stolen hie body from
the grave, or what vampire it ia who now
inhabits it to the terror of all good Mus
sulman*. Good were it that he wae ran
through with a sword before your maj
esty's face, if it were not unlucky to shad
blood in the auspicious presence. I pray
TOUT majesty to dismiss us; I will see
kim conducted back to*his grave—-it may
be that when that w opened, he may en
ter it again peaceably." The king, con
fused and agitated, knew not what to aay
or order. The attendants led the torn
fled mechanic out of the room, and the
vixier, throwing him e purse, ewore with
e horrible oath, that • if he did not pat
himself o„ the other side of the counter #
frontier before the next uoramg, if be
ever trod the earth again, it ahduld be
aa a vampire, indeed. Tha, I think,
no bad specimen of the manner in which
an absolute sovereign may be persuaded
out of hia own senses.
An Excited Tew*.
A fldrreepondent of Um Son Frnnciseo
fWiiefe, writing from Boek'in, Placer
county, OiL, iiTi: Th recant bornbl#
murder# committed by the Otuoe at
Sargent'* ranch have throws the c* tiaras
of this vicinity into suehasUtoof excite
ment that someef them eeem to ■ristahs
their <roro shadow tor a Olesttal with an
j ax and pinto) ready to commit murder
moat horrible. An a protection against
a repetition of theae Crimea, the oiUaen*
of this place bare aent the Chi no— aft
and to encourage them and convince
them that ther meant buaiai— they
hare taken down their cabins ami piled
the lumber in heap*. A report roaohad
ua last sight that a body ot 900 Chinese
were going to attank ami bars oar town,
(jaite a nnmher of voluntas ia with ahot-
Ena aoas praaented tlitnnaclvee, and
■med a picket lute around th® town. i
> while all who remained at home armed
tbenuwinw to the teeth, determined that,
should the Obineaa •..roe, ther would
give them a warm reception. One of the
men on picket 1 names Smith) had not
I been gone long when he met the enemy,
I and thinkinr bin time had cam. and j
that he tonal sell hit life aa dearly aa ;
Ertnhle, he discharged both barrels of i
is shotgun, and turning hia back on
[ the enemy, made the beat time that has 1
erer been made over this course. It waa <
some minuter before be cottld apeak, and j
quite a crowd had collected around him,
when he explained that he had teen j
about 1,000 Chinamen, had "hot their I
leader, and if he only had a Henry rifle
he couid hare killed a dosen mm, bat
could sot reload hia shotgun. A party
waa formed in a few minutaa to attack
the adranoiag enemy, and after consid
erable persuasion the frightened picket
waa piloting them to Um place where be I
badahotthe Celestial, laatoad of a dead
Chinamen ther found an old stump with. ,
thirteen bnokabot to it, showing that the
picket had not missed his mark when he
shot hia gun off
Changes ef a Outury.
The nineteenth century has witnessed
manr and great discoveries and changes
In 1909, Fulton took out the nest
patent for the inrention of a steamboat
The first steamboats which made reg
ular trips across the Atlantic Ocean
were the Birios and Great Western, in
1880.
The Ant public application to practi
cal use of gaa for illumination waa made
in 1902.
In 1813 the streets of London were
for the first time lighted with gas.
In 1813, there waa built In Waltham,
Mass., a mill, believed to hare been the
first in the world, which combined all
the requirements of making finished cloth
from the raw cotton.
In 1790 there were only twenty-fire
poat-offioes in the whole country, and up
to 1837 the rate of postage wto twenty
fire oeuta for a letter sent over four hun
dred miles. t
In 1807 wooden clocks began to be
made by machinery. This ushered in the
era of cheap docks.
About the year 1833 the first railroad
of any considerable length in the United
States was constructed.
In 1840, the first experiments in photo
graphy were made by Daguerrn. (
About 1840 the first express business
was established.
The anthracite ooal business may be
said to hare begun in 1890.
In 1836 the patent for the inrention of
matches was granted.
In 1845 the first telegram was scut.
Steel pens were introduced for use in
1803.
The first successful trial of a reaper
took plaoe in 1833.
In 1846 Elias Howe obtained a patent
for his first sewing machine.
The first successful method of making
vulcanized India rubber was patented in
1889.
Leap* tnm e Mssy HdghU
The New York yorfci. m
tx&Kt to 1W b—l mitWt from
High Bridgn* tenths** tosteoee
of a perm from It Into tb H*r
lem river. Tm tenton Bmn Pblelt,
Who afterward lout hi* life at Genesee
Palis, janptd (torn High Bridge about
twenty rmn ago watched by thousands
of a. Iminng spectator*. He was dressed
su?ttaE@iftsrsi*
ing oat several fret beyond the side of
the bridge hud bono erected, end from
this, after •tending far a tew memento
to receive the drefentng cheer* of the
multitude* assembled <m the opposite
hanks of the river, the reckless men
jumped off. In failing he maintained
ao erect position, striking the water with
hie feet Arte. He dmappeared under
the water, but soon reee and WM tender
ly pinked ap by hie frieoda, who were
waiting near by is boats. Again, about
•is yearn ago, a man *ed Peter Fran
,:■ jumped from the bridge white under
the influence gOiquag, and he n to-day
slive and probably flailing in the river
not far from where Oooper oommitted
suicide. Fnmoe had several broth era,
all of whom apent a good deal of their
time on oe in the water. They had a
aort of mania for jqnpiMofl from high
plaeea into the water. Their daily apart
wne m jumping from the old Macomb's
Dam Bridge, which wae about forty feet
high. Peter wee about ate feet three
inehee tell end thin aaa red. He wae in
the army during the war* nd whan be
came hone to* wga more reckless than
ever. One time, having drawn hia pen
non nuoaf —be had been wounded dar
ing the war—be fribt off on a prolong**
apree. It wee white he wae iwo-nug
from it that be wwtt one day up to High
Briilg-, where a friend of hie, Billy Ken
uard, was >m ditty m nabeemau. He
iiaaewl Katinard near tit* end of the
bridge, an.k in moving on toward the
midrtte he mid * ' '"HIHy, you've heard a
H -oJ dead alx/ot what my brother* have
done Now ,if you will eome along I
will afaow you what a leap I can take."
Kennami, wan thought Francis wae jok
ing, followed along aiowly. When Pren
•; r-< ln-! the noddle of the bridge be
andderfrteoilflWfl e tef Ing and jump
ed over. Hit fret struck the water Arte,
but be waa ao far on hia right aide that
he received a torriM* aback, from which
he bee never tolly recovered. For e
long time he WM laid up, hie right aide
bring imralraed. He ia now making a
liv ;tig ' • (tiling around Macomb's Dam
Bridge.
• The Baahi-Banook m mamotdj ill
moantad; vy few of them, toctyi re
onutafrom tiyria, ridinghoraes thatshow
nj trace erf blood Theff bone* ana
alwavs ke-jK bridled; <WW when eating
their food. The mdilewast of one pat
I tern, but theuc bridles an m varum* m
tbairovntn IMIM Some rider* prefer
belters. The men are from all part* of
the Turkish Empire- Kurd*, Albanian*
| and Amenta pmiumiaattog among them.
< Their clothing may be rich or may be
giaeea, or evety variety. of rind colon.
An enarmoa* snawl or girdle around the
waist is universal. They have the mer
ited reputation of being the greateet pil
agen in th* ootid, and thia girdle is the
iiidwg-piaeeor aeeaplafileef their booty.
Their bediea have been amwtimas found
with gold to the value of a thooaand or
, ntofrtar i hundred, dollar* hidden in it*
fold*. They are sot hard to discipline
as to military man on ran, bat they baffle
every attempt to put any leabaint npon
them after they break rank*. Off the
parade grand they are dreaded equally
by friend and foe. Daring the Crimean
war no putn*hm<-nta would keep them
from insulting, striking or wantonly
bayoneting Ens-hm aofcfiar* whom they
met in public planes. Their bitterest
hatted is for Roaan. their sweetest
hope, th* plunder of Moaeow. Their
oflWrs can animate theia to fury with,
that weed, which far received by. about*
(with their beads apna the piatola in
their belta)of the Arab word for "let oa
hop* it— JkaKoUmk.'" Their arms are
rude and various- They depend upon
the government they serve for a distribu
tion of laaera and satin new. bat every
mm carries htaowa gaMaghon, and baa
two, three, or feorenameoa piatola
i ST* ■ ■ i— II ■
Th* Tebgrapa Operator.
The sanding and reeatving of meaaqges
by telegraph is a aompaatively new
business. The inveabon of the tele
graph ia ap recent that the men and
women now employed as telegraph
operators make the first set of people
who ever triad the work. To send a
meeaage the operator site at stable, and
with bia nght Wad movra a small handle
up and down. To reeehre massages, he
listens to the clinking cofca of an instru
ment called a "Bounder." This work,
simple ami may a*ft appears, makes the
chief pari *f the operator's business.
Any intelligent boy og girl aan quickly
learn this MUCH, and BUT thus earn a
few dullait a month. Tobeootne a first
rate operator, to behble to send and re
ceive message* quickly and amnmtaly,
i a telegraphic office, and to earn high
pay, is quite another matter, sad requires
years of hard study and praetieei It is
tike learning to write mart-hand; any
sue can aiarier the alphabet in a few
wweka—to beooaue a reporter coats
i years of hard study.
{ (toed WgrattTe Apparatus
A ounviet to the Gundagal jail, in
i Australia, undergoing a term of imprie
onmeot lor stealing a ting, naed to gain
a living by trarc&iug from town to town
' giving performance* in which be offered
torswaltow any article his audience se
lected. The ring for the stealing of
' which ha had been oonncted, he bad
, swallowed, ami he asserted he oould
i swallow a bagful if he got. them. The
prisoner Is at present being treated by
the visiting surgeon to the jsQ, with ths
! view at msfriny has disgorge a steel
| Albert chain and a large brass ring. The
. chain aan W distinctly felt at the bot
tom of the Stomach, and the patient says
be swallowed it nine months ago, and
• that it ia the only article ha has had any
difficulty about' Heavers that he has
i had two pounds' weight of jewelry in hia
stomach at one time, and that he has
harbored watches in that vinous for
twenty-four hours. The jailer has a
collection of Albert chains, pen knives,
fanes rings, etc., whieh he asserted he
hadenoaeeded in causing th* prisoner to
vomit by moans of emetics.
Tsrkisk Executions.
An Adrianople correspondent of an ,
English paper writes: As we walked
about the town the other morning we
oould not avoid coming upon five street
executions, and witnessing the whole
disgusting proceedings, not that they
were to me any novelty, for during the
two or three dur* I was in Adrianople
t seemed as if I oould never get out of
sight of men dangling in the air. As
soon as a likely-looking shop is reached,
say one with sun blinds supported with
brackets, the officer ones "Halt," and a
soldier, carrying a stool and a rope, stops
on one side and arranges the latter over
the bracket The man steps on to the
stool, the nooee is placed around hi ,
neck, and be is drawn off his feet There
is no drop, but in every case, I am told,
the poor wretch dies just as those we
saw did—that is to say, instantaneously,
and apparently wifh bttle pain, being, in
fact choked instead of having the neck
broken.
A recent advertisement contains the
following: " If the gentleman who keeps
the shoe shop with the red head will re
turn the umbrella of a young lady with
whalebone ribs and an ivory handle to
the slate-roofed grocer's shop, he will
hear of something to his advantage, as
the same ia tb* gift of a deceWted mother
now no more with the name engraved
upon it •
The joker's land—All-jeers. —New
York Republic. The joker's see— The
Bay of Fun-dj. —Boston Trove liar. The
>: joker's point—Point No Paint— X. Y.
Commercial Advertiser. The joker s
Bute— Merry-land.