a i Love and Leather, “1 wish I was a cobbler, sweet, To make your pa a shoo.” | ‘ Why 80 ?” she asked. * Booauss,” he sighed | “ Oh, then I may kiss you.” “You may make his shoe? boots.” She thought she had him there, “1 mean his boots,” he blushed, * for then We two would make a pair.” Why pa wears Though | listened o'er and o'er, REPORTER. Y ear, ('ENTRE 1 '} noetor. But there came a rift in the srowd about, And & face thet 1 knew passed by, And the smile | csnght was brighter tome Than the Lite of & summer sky. For it gave me back the sanehins, And scattered each soinber thought, Aud my heart rejoiced in the kindling warmth Which that kindly smile hed wrought, : “Oh, yes,” she langhed, ‘that will be nice, We'll both be cobblers deft; I'll get the right boot done and se: How you, young man, get left.’ we FRED KURTZ. Editor and TICRMS: 82.00 a in Advance. But pa, who chanced to hear, came ix And gave the youth a pair Of boots to start the boy, he said, In business elsewhere, Ouly » smile from s friendly face Y{ 1 1 y y LEN NT IT 1 VENT ITY \ 3 ) mm 1 A z {IA DL 3 y C Y 5B A a On the street that day! VOLUME XIV, CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., PA.,, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 188l. NUMBER 35. | soreotnion some girensportams, | As the donor went ber way, But straight 10 my hesrt is went spooling To giid the clonds that were there, ; And I found that of sunshine snd life's blae skies 1 aleo night take my share, : Harper's Weekly. hand, child You needn't think iy brother's brother, kin, THE TELEGRAPH AND INDIANS, FACTS AND COMMENTS, SUNDAY REABING, Nantucket Stories, displeased with you » and heir at law, and in the way of the Ch About the year 1818, the © Fasex,” A diastrous speech for her purposes, | rich ware oy t The Puthosiof Life, | Pollard, master, was cruising for whales ands Iai i Gf [iolios HIP BW dent like HLA 1 : . i iA , hands aid nas E tu i) The pathos of life lies but little be. | iB the equatorial regions of the Pacific jared 1t past valuing for IVE with ocean west of South America. ie} ‘ wo are wealtl next of Among the Mowers, Whore ripening wheat and olover meet, And shadows streteh of forest be What time cool breezes kiss the feet Of laughing Isssies thither drawn her rose again, and with the thought of how angry mamma and Aunt Anne would be, she turned a trifle more toward her companion, and leaned a trifle nore he avily on | 10 walked Men Think of the tug Wire.” What thelted “paths | John Skae was arrested in Ban Fran | | eisco, drunk, the other night, and bas | | gone to jail because he couldn't pay the | agrumbsif 1 Urnivshaw difference WETS, Al 8 bcs Arn he hed Profane the holy Marion, if made any for me his arm as sl Their fresh cheeks rosy as the dawn The mowers’ dewy Their whetstones’ cheery oli And seek them in these mor New life soems stirring in the vein That bared arms show-—all mov Rolls on ax wit it Adown the smoot} i From bush and shrub the sparrows call ; The amallest poo Grand are the Where health 1 © ORY Alda SRONS Aughl alo toil hard hand blade such largess Upspria We won Praised by From tree The beauty of Marion Marlborough had a certain stately guise to it, despite her youth, that made her seem like a young queen, while its chief charm was her complete unconsciousness of it, That she had a lover in almost every youth who was brought within her sphere was a matter of course, but that one of them herself was perhaps slight- Iv a matter of wonder. Her mother, it deed, thought it very much so, and often allowed Marion the benefit of her opin- ion, and of her opinion In especial con- cerning a girl who had it in her power to be of immense beuedit to her family, and resolutely ignored the possibility. “when Amelia Tanhurst was mar. ried,” Mrs. Marlborough would con- tinue, “there were few poorer than the Tanbhursts were; and look at them now! Her marriage put all the sisters into a society where they also married rich, instead of having to earn their own liv. ing or starve, and both of her brothers ate in first-class business, aud on the way to millionsiredom.” I suppose all this means, mamma, that if Mr. Adrisnce Desmond should throw me his handkerchief, you want me to be as eager and alert as the " i= of “I want you simply not to take it for granted that he is a wretch of the black- est dye, but to treat him with civility, and et him take his chances.” “ Very well, mamma, I will treat him | with civility. I hope I treat everyone 0." “ You are fearfully toploftical to some of them, Marion,” said her second sis- | ter, Charlotte. “Well, I hate them sll. I hate men who are looking you over, and taking their faney to a handsome cheek or a rich eolor—" “There, there, there, Marion! Peo- ple will think you a shrew instead of a beauty. 1 as for Adriance Desmond, | ng fellow, for I know him of old; and when he brings his yacht here next week, you may be as ready to own it as anybody. I'm sure if you, or Charlotte, or Emi of Anne, should | marry any one hal! so agreeable" “ Which means,” whispered Marion to Charlotte, with sparkling eves and | olor, “any one with half so much! 5 y o 10N8YV, i iw ae 18 4 C wv eo? C ~wonld marry any one half so agreeable, it would be a godsend for | your family.” | And all the rest lborough was cutting and fitting, siting her *‘ goods ready for sale,” For Marlboroughs had just emough in- come to get along with narrowly, and some of the gands and glories of the | wealth to which she had once been ae enstomed the mother longed that her children shonld have, if she might not | have them herself; and she made a! good deal of moan to herself that her | choice child, Marion, the beauty of the whole Marlborough race, shonld be | such a rebel in the matter, and aunts | and cousins and intimates one and all | agreed with her, It was, however, the only thing where Marion was rebellions. Anybody | sweeter, gentler, more helpful, than | she, it would not be easy to find. Her! laugh, her voice, her step, were music ; | she was a sunbeam wherever she went : her little world felt it would be a des- ert if Marion were taken from it, and yet felt that the queen must have her kingdom, let what would happen—in other words, must marry, and marry | well. And of course they had all been | interested when they heard that the Desmonds—Adam and his half brother | Adriance—were to bring the steam yacht round to Parvisport, and spend | part of a season on the water there; for Adam himself was a capital fellow, and would make almost any girl a good hus- band, al hough the vast wealth belonged to Adriance, who had inherited it from his mother, and they were both a sort | of cousins by marriage. There had al- | ways been more or less correspondence in the family, and they really knew each other, although owing to the long Juropean residence of the Desmonds they had never met. The brothers had seen Marion's picture, at any rate, and she had been set np in a shrine, as it were, by one of them at least. The last raveling of the dressmaking had just been gathered from the carpet, when Aunt Anne saw the yacht at anchor directly beneath the windows, with her flags flying, and a boat putting off to shore. You may be sure she had her hosts marshaled before the new- comers could mount among them; and if Mar- ion, in her half-indignant sense of the barter and sale that Mrs. Marlborough and her Aunt Anne were making, “was the last to present herself, it only made the effect more vivid when she did. The other girls had been like a garden of flowers, but here was the rose her- self. Such damask on the velvet cheek, such velvet in the blackness of the eyes, such blackness in the shadows of the hair whose ripples took the sunshine on their crest, such sunshine in the smile that did not come at once! * Helen of Troy,” thought Mr, Adriance Desmond —** Helen of Troy could not hold a candle to her.” But for her part, she did not look at either of the Desmonds—at least not consciously at Mr. Adriance. What prejudice she could possibly command in their favor she felt for the younger and poorer brother, cut off by a whim of fate from the good luck of the other; and she was glud when she found her- gelf, after the whirl and hurry of prepa- ration that followed the invitation, pacing the deck by the fair fellow’s side, while she used some strong language in her thought concerning the dark, stern master of the yacht,standing surrounded by aservilethrong. And then she laughed at herstrong language, and looked her companion over, and decided that his ercet shape, his noble air, his bonnv face, with its langhing blue eyes, its Greek contours, its frame of yellow curls, were all a combination far supe- rior to bis brother's looks; and so, she 5 Le had no doubt, were his mind, his heart, and his whole nature; and the rebel in Take it altogether that was a delicious day, Marion thought, as and her companion, who had scarcely left her side, elimbed the bank together at nizht fall, a great star looking at them out of the dull red gates of sunset; a novel and delightful experience, and her guardians letting her alone all the time, and never once reminding her that it was her duty to make a ciroumspect marriage and provide for the family, “It seems as if n yon for years,” said Mr, i as they parted. And so Wd to Marion. But when she went 0 the lighted room, and felt her T'S approving patror 1 } id saw Char! } Aer anon s+ BB occurred to 3 sie 1 it See ly smiling rosily that there was mischief atloat, ' 8 good K ther. Id hax ave done anything » pleased me more,” 1.3 2 aai:3 harm va iri, S&1Q Lier mo eased her more! Marion aware what meant, mldn't they have left herto e | without It was maternal pr hat Lali 1 ing it by such v apparently a part of the gramme to be pleased with the name of either of the Desmonds on + bill of she would hs nore to i \ do with any of the name, QO ~ i Easier said an done. tried ¢ the thought 's companion away, arming sentence that some dariy hit fresh, sweet, wholesome some graceful deed that 3 done, woul and would set her to thinking of him more than before: and the moment that she ¢ Every time of her avery lime some } a0 d th + 1 vy 0 Any he had uttered, 1 0 regur, losed her eves she that bonny bright face of his as been painted on her evelids, It had monds an v3 oud buen arranged that the Des- d the i who lived on the yacht, should come ashore for he Mariboroughs, and for those they rad pleased to add to their mt out at once for sea, re ey please d, | ¥ ir iriendas, , having accommodations and ample haperons. Judge, then, of the wrath of the household when, coming down in full yachting array, Marion was fcund in & morning print, not going but curled up in a corner of the with a nove! and a toothache. “A toothache indeed!” mother ; “ with a mouth pearls ! wit} an unsound tooth your head “1 didn’t say I had a toothache,” said Marion. “Aunt Anne said | and of eo shouldn't contradict her. All that I said was that I was not going out in Mr. Adriance Desmond's yacht, toothache or no toothache.” Mamma Marlborough opened month, but just then ecanght sight something in the window, and paused | with it still open, and then, suddenly elosing it with a snap, she shouldered her parasol, reviewed her little army, nd seh) thaw § A and marched them from the room. yy t ons, ¢ S018, so Orig 1 fall LAL BO her WF Ol Twenty minutes later, as Marion saw the sails of the yacht go soaring round the point, a face appeared through the vines, and a gay voice erving, “May 1 was followed by its owner, and the object that Mrs. Marlborough had esught sight of in the window made its entrance there, and was advancing toward her with outstre »d hands and a radiant smile. “It was so unfortu- to be left behind!” he said. “And now to find, when I thought I had lost you for the day, that here you | r, may I not! Youneed e tired, I will let you rest—that you have a book to read, forl will read it for you, and I have a nicer | ane besides —nor that you are not go- | ing to have any dinner, for there is nothing so delectable as bread and milk, and I saw plenty of that on the shelves as [ came by. So you! is all settled, and you can't for-! come in? 8 see 1t me, f it is all settled, it no use to forbid you,” would be of said Marion. | Mamma and my aunt would-—" “ Think the world was upside down ? Well, let us startle them with a glimpse And besides, why it? What is that book you are reading ? | Dryasdust? Here is the new book of poems—music ran mad, but sweetness | suough in them to make a sweet day | And his hat | ion at her feet, and melody and beauty the other room, and opened the piano, and sang to him song after song of old Margaret—who had had her hurried | when sailing out, parasol on shoulder —bade them to the little dinner where | she had done her best, and over which | they lingered long. And after dinner there was strolling in the garden, and | time thrown in—such talking on his | part as Marion had never heard before, | such on hers as made him wonder why | he had not thought all women as sweet | and fresh and innocent as this ; and at | length a supper of the delectable bread | and milk on the piazza in the sunset, | and the day winding up with a ramble | out to the cliff's edge to watch for the | yacht, which did not come, although | the dew and the evening breeze did. | And he folded the little wrap around her in the dark, and longed all at once to fold his arms there too, and felt as if | he bad committed a profanity in the | longing. But they staid there, leaning | on the old stone wall, gide by side, al- | most cheek by cheek; and just before | too tired for singing or laughing. “ Now | yon must go,” she said, “If Aunt | Anne—" “Found me here? What a bugbear you make of the dear old lady! She would give me awelcome, However, I obey. Do you remember I ssid last | night that I seemed to have known yon | for years? If I had, I should not per- haps have seen so much of you as in this whole long happy day all to ourselves. Has it been a happy day to you? Do you know, I have half the mind to say, now 1 have known you, not for years, but from the eternities. I can’t seem to remember the time when I did not know you, Till to-morrow, then.” And he was gone, and she had crossed the field, and ran into the house, and torn off her lendings in a hurry, and was lying on her pillow, with all her bright tresses streaming over it, when the rays of Mrs, Marlborough's kerosene gilded them. Mrs. Marlborough was thoroughly fa- tigued, and when that was the case the conscientious chronicler would have to state that she was thoroughly cross as well; but to Marion's surprise she was beaming as placidly and brightly as her lamp. It was not the face that Marion had expected to see. ‘““ Well, my dear,” said her mother, who, after all, and meaning no disre- spect to mothers in general, was not the woman of most discretion in the world, *“ 80 fate got the better of you, and you had Mr, Desmond to yourself for the day, Or did you arrange it all before- } sila had aeen reverse and fi day to a of § Of hi i made by the happy the vil HOAs 3 UL t, by his side ‘Yesterday we YOoars, to 11 es ' wd never met vou till the I offended Fi bending forward and Ik that her own eves fell. “Why should yon imagine thing 7 «ALAR J such a Have I been rude to you?’ 1! I wish von bad. Then i iythin so nditfer. ie } “By heay nee. 1{ she colored and rven else saw it; but she knew ths she turned to the deaf \ t hand, ollie with cession she fe hat no one er com Mr. Craddock and devoted charitable Marlboro she plac i Wn f an ideal of Mr. Desmond, as y door for her to pass thought he saw a lovely ave, or a brute, and d murmured 4 he hel throu d open and then he sudden tear spring te and reproached himself strode ) Was certain, after her be foun after all. But here t PLTITILY 1 ’ tO 1 ha flirta- 3! m as wonld make her elders hey had never born. And this idea the wicked beauty straightway carried into action. It ér occurred to her that Mr. Crayshaw might take the affair seriously, and so complicate mat- rode, read, walked and talked with Mr. Crayshaw, and wondered what her sister Emily ever saw in so fright fully dull a man, when one Emily fore her : 3 wish t been ne ters; she face, Meanwhile : the young gentleman herself, if his namo had not been Des. mond and his brother had not been a millionaire, might have been found de- lightful, watched her proceedings at first with pain, and then with and finally with not take long to however deep Marion with Crayshaw, she yet knew every movement of his own: and that when she sat with her down-dropped eyes and folded hands while Mr. Cravshaw read to her from his learned book, it anger, amusement, It did find out that, 2 Wis engaged listened, but his own, in its gay st, Mr. Desmond began to see what it all meant, with that instinctive wisdom of lovers; and on the day when Crayshaw 1 ¥ Yay - OuLHM badinage or eloguent took advantage of the situation, and replaced him hefore Marion could help herself. It was on the occasion of a dance on the yacht, and no more charming scene could have been painted than was made by the masts and cordage, the colored lanterns stringing every rope and spar, the musie, the glancing shapes, the swelling sails and the open seas, the starlight, and the vast outer night, all lending the time the sensa- tion of a delightful dream, till now, when they had come to cast anchor among some weird black rocks where fishermen had kindled a fire, making fantastic images of themselves in the red light against the dark and oozy background, as they prepared some witches’ broth of a chowder, after se- curing to the upper shore the great cable that helped to hold the yacht broadside on. “This is the end of the third week mond, as he took his seat, ‘‘and the first and second day of my stay has never yet come back.” But to this she made no reply. She could not get away as he sat, but she could be silent. me of some fairy story, turned you to marble? You seem to be flesh and blood to Crayshaw, but when I approach and ask for bread you give me a stone. Will you not tell me the reason?” Suddenly it seemed to her impossible to endure any longer. * The reason?” she cried. * Yes, I will tell you, if that will end it. The reason is because your name is Desmond.” “No,” said La, gravely, * that will not end it. name? Why does that debar me from your favor?” ‘‘ Because,” she cried again, in des- peration—*‘ because I am not for sale,” He stood up before her then and laughed. “By George!” he exclaimed. * How do you know that I want to buy you?” A hot surge swept over her, “They are trying to sell me, all the same,” she replied, swiftly. “In the slave markets of Stamboul ?” “Of Parvisport. And if your wealthy brother eould not be secured as purchaser, why you, as next of kin, and heir at law, and in the way of the rich man’s crumbs" “ Well, this is fine. And you will not be made goods and chattels, Tell me, now,” he said, “if I were not my you ““ What is the use of talking of im possibilities she said, and walk away. But he walked beside her; sould CROAPE; and she paused waned far over the taffraal to draw she not burning up as nger and shame, Come down here," i" oried Emily and Mr. Cravshaw, Come down,” eried Mr, Ons And she group of the SW 4 } a down had 1. He ha hea and was holding h 1 1 CUSILY, d groat nd BEAin sore. i; an i between her late fF el YOAring of & waters in ounded to her like hangel at the If care wm, I had rather go you you or saving some other man Perhaps it was surprise that thrilled him as much as passion then, there in heaving water of the dark shadow the ship, as he bent his head the face upon his breast, to fee warm and tender lips that met and answered them. “ By heaven!” he shouted, ‘Be quick with that boat there! This way!" and in five seconds was in the boat, Desmond swim long beside her with on i odge, and then she was hand gly on board; and he foll and strode away to his while Aunt Anne and a howling « took Marion in charge, and tucke warinly away for an hour, and then i it her a dry bathing suit and a ak, and allowed her to come over #y SWO his own, she 8 Pil + it big boat eld t boa On GQeck. 2 . Desmond was already waiting there, and he took her hand, and led her exultingly away, “I suppose yon wi 4 ¢ : eB hoa 1 ram CEramd s L Tash But, gap rovoking glea, t kiss, with death , WAS 1 Marion. 1? You r to have “ How ean von trium “Because 1 am victorious, t it was again ow, trembling ailing al ” SRLIINE siong What a nigh ‘ Ors tho . & and COAST and wind blowin sails swellin up the river, the sweet, warm gin their faces, the great mut above them, What a night with violet heavens, with fragrance of salt sea and flowery shore, and with the future throbbing with all its unknown happiness! “Oh, Marion!” said her mother, as they stepped ashore. “To think that after all my anxiety it was going on just as 1—" And she became so hysterical that Marion paused to look at her, a new light breaking in on her mind just then, as Aunt Anne landed apd joined the group, saying to Mr. Desmond: “Now I ean call you by your name, 1 I saw that the girl thought you were your brother all the while—" “Do you mean,” Marion, “that “ We mean that I am Adriance Des- mond, at your service, and not his brother at all,” said herlover still hold- her fast, as il afraid she might break away. “‘ And thereis to be no love in acottage and life on a crust, no idyls of poverty turning into tragedies, but yon are going to be the rich Mrs. Desmond in spite of yourself,” whispered Emily. “1 don't know about that,” laughed Marion in reply. ‘‘Is there anything binding ina promise made under du. ress '—Harper's Bazar, stars, with suppose, Bau " ing A Thief Disguised as a Noble Lady, A recent letter from Vienna says: A noble lady from Holland landed here last week with a secretary, a maid, and a colored footman, the little set putting up at the White Horse hotel, in Leo- poldstadt, The countess, in taking the best suite of apartments, intimated to the hotelier that she expected both her father-in-law and her sister-in-law, who wis to be married shortly to an Austrian noble of the best blood, and that the wedding banquet would take place in the hotel. Bhe hired a handsome car- riage and drove out every day with her footman on the box by the side of the coachman During her drives she stopped at many shops, ordered sam- ples and patterns to be sent to her hotel, and at the same time made purchases of silks, laces, fine trousseau linen for the bride, ete., never disbursing a single | kreuzer, for the colored footman so thoroughly represented wealth and in- spired confidence that shopkeepers were only too glad to send to the noble dame’s hotel double the stuffs she or- { dered. The countess also called on several jewelers, one of whom had just | received a handsome garniture in bril liants, which at once took her fancy, { being valued at the lowest at 50,000 | florins, and the father-in-law being ex pected on the following day the jeweler | was requested to bring the set to the hotel at a given hour. { he was requested to be reated, and the countess took the little case into the next room, where father-in-law was | dressing, she said. After waiting a | quarter of an hour, Mr, Jeweler knocked at the door and got no answer; tried the | door and found it locked. A noise in | the passage attracts his attention. A | where he finds the countess disguised | in man’s clothes and guarded by a po { iceman. Providence had warned that | her disguise, He saved the Vienna | thousands, and placed a set of danger- with many bows and salams, The jew- eler, I believe, offered him a shilling, but he declined to take it. “The telegraph line to the Pacific must be kept up at any cost.” ch was the imperative order of Gen al Pat Conner, the noted California dian fighter, to the veteran patrol Id California trail on sOast pon the © C1vil war. Men were scarce and the In dians were numerous than before, Cx Was largest military expedition ever into hostile Indian country He had ad to “ road from Fort through the Big Horn, Tongue untry Wo HOre nner organizing sent determi Laramie river and upper Yellowst Bannock and the Montana mining re and to obtain a force large enough to insure sUCCess ne arly every fort the tele graph line was depleted of fighting men, it the sun of 1540, and exciting in were eagerly California, but ho J keeping uninterrapted electric line 500 miles of hostile Indian country was ttered military patrol engaged in t { duty, W herever the redskins CTOs d the line thoy tore down the wire, burned down YIM Un i Oe ™ gions, military or stockade on 1HeT Wis ! an apen through only realized by the brave but se instances carried ling it up rest creek line be. tween rt Laramie and South Pass were intruste to the care of thirty sy Eleventh Ohio cay alry P 4 of the late Ed ward Creighton, of Omaha, then super the Overland 2 legraph It was to him and his small band A that General Conner issned the above terse and emphatio order on their departure on their peril. us three trip. The small number of Creighton's patrol rendered an open campaign against the Indian maranders impossible. All repairs to the line were done in the night, and all breaks in the wire were n the day fime. : struction was young Chevennes o up to the telegraph il n, and $41 3 the wire, and after col it into nit oh * : S00 miles of pe Away would throw Or river. The ommand 3 intandoant iniaenaons of CAvAlrvmen f Of months’ ale mode of de follows: A party of Sioux would gallop and throw a Over 16 Wikre, then gallop, leaning down the hich was usually coiled up and 1 away to be concealed chievous redskins would then deploy up and down the line, esch buck squatiing iy £33 an ile and The mis the base of a telog 4 kindled and after lighting ail patiently through and f cutting down or dig- the poles was too much for the Inzy savages; and, as time no ob- Je ot to them, they waited until the poles fell. The military patrol, within its impr { wagons himsell down at where rash or greasewood, fe iy nn ging up Was safe nable corral of graph pol 8, could see nelion going on up but dared not move | night concealed their evennes h msabout the ** talk. ing wire,” it, and for several years after the Indian war broke ont re frained from meddling with land line. In order to impress minds of these wild beings with the sterions power of the telegraph, a great council was called at Scott's Bluffs, where the line was first built. Two of Y the stationed at ax and Ch ave always n very superstit as they oa He over. the great chiefs were in the open plain, between th Chimney Rock and Scott's Bluffs, aud each sent messages through telegraph operators, which were promptly delivered. Then the chiefs mounted their fastest horses and galloped to meet each other, and asked what the message was or the words he had spoken to the wir The result astounded them. They could not explain it, nor has it ever been understood by them, and to this day a telegraph operator or man engaged in the repair or management of the “talking wire” is regarded as a “medicine man” and a person to be let alone. It was to this superstition that Creighton’s thirty men owed their lives and exemption from attack, With the approach of night the tele graph destroyers usually disappeared, and the repairers would start forth upon their thrilling and exciting trips. The horses’ hoofs were muflled with blanket posts in case of retreat or pursuit by the In. interruption by the Indians, to scatter into the brush and each man to silently escape as best he could to the camp, One party would dig holes and insert ing in a large nail upon which to hang the wire. The hammers used thickly padded so as mufile the sound of the knocking. No talking was to avoidable, ally the most dangerous. His task was ered with green silk, and stretch it from one end of the break to the other, of sage brush or weeds. By this slight, and Nevada sometimes received a whole day's news. But woe to the wire if jack-rabbits were thick, or a bear or stray pony crossed it, as they often did. The frail thread would break, and Cali- fornia got no more news for that night or dav. Sometimes the Indians camped on the line. In that ovent Superintend- the darkness, make a circuit of the break and attach his pocket instrument and commence to talk to Omaha or San on the line, and then return to camp in time to escape capture. The Indians to place the ten wagons loaded with long telegraph poles proceeded in two lines, the men in the center. When at the breastworks formed by the tele- But while this tary work, lively times were being en- brave men were dying by bullet, arrow, tomahawk and Indian torture, San Francisco Eraminer, O55 The Highest Lake, The lake that has the highest eleva- tion of any in the world is Green lake, in Colorado, Its surface is 10,252 feet above the level of the sea. Pine forests surround it, and eternal snows deck the neighboring mountain tops, One of these, Gray’s Peak, has an altitude of 14,841 feet. The water of Green lake is as clear as erystal, and large rock tinetly visible at the bottom. The whiteness, as though cut in marble. Salmon and trout swim among them. In places the lake is 200 feet deep. or —— A good wether profit—Fifty dollars on a sheep trade, 85 fine imposed by the court for the | offense, | his mining stocks for $10,000,000 but re | fused, and they slid out from under him #0 completely that 86 is beyond his call, The total amount of United Biates | registered Londs is $1,173,000,000, All are held in the United States except $27,804,000, $044, 000,000, about half, are in the hands of seventy three thou- sand corporations and individuals, not including national banks or foreign holders, Two-thirds, abont $400,000, 000, Seven millions are held in sums of less than five handred dollars. A ijuaeen Loudon paper says that “the bas no wish to have her name associated with whisky. An enterpris ing American whisky manufacturer, it appears, recently sent the queen ‘A iful barrel of the best distilled waters of Kentucky,’ which he called Victoria whisky, He hoped thus to ob- 1 sn advertisement out of her majesty, but the queen showed her good sense by simply declining to receive it." beaut t isn't best fo bring in a verdict until all the evidence is in. Deacon Gray, of Palmerston, Wis.,, detected one of bis clerks in dishonesty, The young man was not prosecuted, and after a week of seclusion in his own room was allowed to depart from the town. In a prayer. meeting at the deacon'’s church he was warmly praised by the pastor for his supposed forbearance toward the sinner. This brought him to his feet with a con- fession that be deserved noecredit The fact was that he had whipped the elerk that he had spent the week of retire. ment abed. Complaints are made in England that dyvosmite can be purchased without diffi and this with unfortunate results. Gren. ades of dypamite are employed to kill trout, and hardly a month is said to pass without reports of poachers using the explosive as a means of catching fish, It has been used also as & means of taking one's own life. A case re ported from Yorkshire is of a drunken well-digger, who put an end to his days by exploding a cartridge in his mouth. His tongue, teeth and maxillary bones were blown to pieces, although his cheeks and lips, for some odd cause, suffered ne harm at all, Wc During the month of July there were 102 railroad accidents, of which forty. one were in the nature of collisions, fifty-six of derailment, two of boiler ex. plosions, two of broken connecting rods and was due to a broken wheel Of the collisions twenty-three were from the rear, seventeen from in front and one one to a variety of causes. Three were from broken rails, three from broken wheels, three from broken axles, two from broken trestles, two from broken bridges, one from spreading rails, three from accidental obstruction, eight from cattle on the track, four from washouts, from land-slide, two from mis placed switches, and one each from runaway, flying switch, malicious ob- struction, rail purposely removed, and subswitch purposely misplaced, while nineteen are unaccounted for. Of the one came about by trains breaking in two, four by mistakes or neglect to obey orders, three by misplaced switches and one by fog. The record for the year shows that the greatest number of accidents occurred in January and the smallest in April. The average of deaths by accident was 1 1-4 daily. EE ———— A Baby Mermaid, James Garrison, Jr., of Camden, N. J., was fishing off Brigantine beach in company with a yachting party, and caught a fish that answers to the de- scription of a mermaid, He gives this account of the capture: I changed the bait and threw the { line in another direction. Pretty soon I felt astrong jerk, and I thought I had a good-sized fish. I pulled in the line rapidly, thinking I bad on a flounder, but you could have floored me with a feather when I hanled that thing on deck. The captain yelled out, “Shiver my topgallants, Garrison, but you've caught a mermaid.” I sat down and | looked at the thing flopping around, and almost expected it to walk up and speak to me. I took the hook out of | its mouth and put it in a pail of water, { but it lived only two hours. Why, 1 felt as though I were killing a human being when I pulled the barb out of its flesh, It looked so much like a dying child, that the captain, who is a trifle | superstitions, wanted to talk to it, and | felt so sorry that he almost blubbered likeagirl. I brought it up to Cam- | den, intending to preserve it in alcohol, | but Brooker wanted it, and I guess i he'll preserve it. {| The Philadelphia Times describes the { fish: The object in question, described by | many as a mermaid from its resemblance |on the wall, and was being inspected {by a crowd of the curious. It was | 50 many points of resemblance to a | new-born child did it have that many | persons manifested l'ttle reluctance in | pronouncing it a genuine baby mer- i maid. Its body, with the exception of | the feet and tail and the location of the | arms, was in appearance the same as | that of a child and might be deseribed as a revised version of a skinned monkey. The head ran to a peak at the top and was set on a short neck | and well defined shoulders, | were sunken and were covered in lieu of eyelids with gristly scales, The nose | was quite prominent and ended in the { mouth, the lips of which were of a | hard, grisly flesh, and fringed with | eight teeth on the inside-four upper | and four lower. The tongne bore an | man tongue, and back of it conld be | seen two small tonsils, | abdomen were remarkably similar to but about forty in number. The arms extended to the hips and terminated in five fingers, with claw-like nails, the joints being at the point of connection with the body. The legs were long, terminating in fins, and bore resem- blance to those of a baby. At the end of the backbone a well-defined tail, five inches in length, protruded, ending vertically in two small fine, Strange to say there was not the sign of a scale, a soft, fleshy skin covering the entire body, which was destitute of hair. The weight of the creature was about six pounds. Dr. O. B. Gross, of Camden, says that the animal is the young male of the sharp-nosed ray. The species, he de- clares, is very common on these coasts, though the young are rarely seen. The pectoral fins, which are large and fleshy, are tied on the back in such a peculiar way as to give color to the mermaid legend. | low the surface; the loving heart feels | it all, While I was in college I was im- { pressed very deeply by an incident illustrating the pathos of these facts, | which need only to be known to be felt, 1 had observed a large Newfound. land deg about the nearly a week, One cloudy afternoon an old man came wearily into the yard and inquired for the dog. The wild and so the dog was allowed to look be- nignly down from the attie windows upon his master. The old man tradged up the long flights of steps, but when playing leap-frog with the boys on the campus, Again he patiently descended and the chase was kept up until the old man saw it was of no use, It afforded great sport for the thoughtless, but there were some among the scores look ing on whose hearts and tongues pro- tested. “ Boys,” said the old man, * this looks like sport to you, but if youn only understood the circumstances you'd feel more like crying than langhing. My wife and I had a little granddsnghter a week ago, bat we haven't now. died last Baturday. This dog was a great favorite with her. He stayed in her room all throngh her sickness, and she would stroke him with great ten- derness when she was almost too feeble to raise her hand. While she was dying she said: ‘ Grandma, you'll keep Rover to remember me by, won't you, grandma? Be good to Rover and we'll all meet in heaven; and now grandmas is very lonesome without her littie girl, and she wants the dog. He ran away as soon as the little girl died, and I have been searching for him ever since. Please, boys, let me take him home, for we have nobody to care for but the dog.” His voice choked while tears started in many eyes, Quickly the dog was given up; & hat was passed and substantial tokens of the boys' repentance were presented the old man, and while he trudged away, followed closely by his | dog, the sun broke through the clouds, for it was about to set, and flung a flood of golden rays upon the college campus and its buildings, lighted np and seemed to be the benediction of heaven upon the scene. I never shall forget it.— Ree, (7. L. White. Religious News and Notes, The Rev. Dr, Diedrich Willers, pas- tor of the German Reformed church in Barrytown, N. Y., has just resigned after an acceptable service of sixty YOAars, The Woman's society of the Methodist church, South, has now B30 auxiliaries, with 21.3838 members, and rejoices in a treasury balance of $98 785, There are nine hundred white Bap- tist churches in Mississippi with 56,000 members, Of these churches only ten have preaching every Sunday; and of these only six are sell sustaining. A four weeks' series of revival meet. ings in the Camberland Presbyterian church at La Plata, Missouri, recently closed with ninety conversions and eighty-five others making profession of religion. Hon. H. R. Revels, the first colored United Btates Senator, has declined to corn university (Methodist), as he in- tends to give himself wholly to the ministry, and bas become a presiding elder, In a recent issue of the Pall Mall Ga- 2ctte some interesting figures based on the census returns are given in regard Catholics. 635,670 members of the Prot. estant Church of Ireland, 485,503 Pres- byterians and 47,600 Methodists. The Baptists, Quakers and members other denominations number 37,3105. The decrease in the ten years in the was about the same-—4.8 per cent, The decrease in the number of Presbyterians have increased 6.7 per cent., 4,228 mem- bers having been added to the church. Fish that Fly. on land not to be found in the sea. and many other sea vegetables that look like those of land animals, cows. One very lovely fish is the angel-fish. But the most curious of all is the flying-fish, which has broad fins like wing This fish is shaped and colored some. thing like a mackerel. Its back is blue and its under parts are white. When it flies it takes short flights from the top of one wave to the top of another. The from a high point up on a tree to ome lower down. They are plentiful near find a dead fish on the deck. It had at night and flown toward them. It could fly high enough to reach the ves. gel’s deck, but could not fly across it. It may have struck a boom or sail and fallen dead from the blow. After this see them in the daytime, They will fly out of the water in front of the ship in little groups, looking like flocks of swallows. Their white sides will gleam like silver in the sun. They cannot fly far, perhaps a hundred yards, After wetting their fins they then can fly farther on. They pleasure. The dolphin, a very fierce and fast swimming fish, hunts them in the water. they fly out. They are very good to The people in the islands about which they live catch them in dip nets i mie———————— The Work of the Heart, An English writer says: We may form some conception of the enormous energy of the human heart when we reflect that a good climber can ascend only 9,000 feet in nine hours, that is, of time, while the work done by the heart is equivalent to raising its own weight (ten ounces) 13,860 feet high. And we may put this even more strikingly by pointing out the most powerful engine ever made by man, the ‘‘ Bavaria” loco- motive of the Vienna and Trieste rail- way, can only raise itself through 2,700 feet in an hour; that is, its energy is less than one-fifth of that of the human heart. Of course the actual amount of work done by hoth engine and climber is much greater than that done by the heart; bus relative to weight the energy of the heart far exceeds thut of the other two. One day the encountered one or two vesie] boats, The other boats, a distance off, saw the men struggling in the water. Captain Pollard sailed his vessel to res- cue them. The whals retreated to the with great velocity for the vessel, strik- ing her amidships with his head and starting a leak instantly, The infuriated HUMOROUS, | Spell fat with four letiers—OB OT. The fly that walks on clecmargarine is not the butter fly, | The true way for & woman to drive & nare st her | thumb, Then she'll a « Smith,” said Brown, * there's a for aforethought,” retreated twice and re- peated the blows. The third time it crushed in the whole side of the ves el, which sank instantly, into two boats. They parted in mid- ocean, in the Pacific, near the equator, One was pever heard of again; the other, with Captain Pollard on board, headed for South Ameriea They were eighty days in this open boat, While in this forlorn condition, wateh- ing every day and hour for a sail, they were struck ome day by a bill fish, a variety of the sword-fish, The blow started a plank near the keel of the boat. They took off their jackets, stuffed them into the hole to stop the leak, and began to bale out the boat, They bad an ax, and managed to find two or three pails. With these they set to work to repair the place, but whenever they went to drive a nail the plank would spring ; they conld not drive it from the inside of the boast, and had no awl or gimlet with which to make a hole by which it might enter the planking. A man ey Nixon said: “The only A cor w i | was to have in that Btate a spring so powey ated ns that the orses which drink at it never Mfally im farmers’ their feet naturally. ere is & man in our he i» wondrous wise; | Carrie was six years old and quite a | model of propriety; but one day she | shocked ber mother Mrs. B,, “how could you | thing? “Other little girls do 50,” re- lied Carrie. * But that doesn’t make it right, does it 7’ asked Mrs, B. “No,” | answered je, with deliberation, the ax.” Baid Nizon: “I'm the man that's going to do that” lifted on board, almost unconscious, but he revived. after enduring untold horrors, they last expedient, and drew lots to see who companions, It is slender young man, in delicate health when it fell upon the same ut an end to his life, when a vessel Bro in sight, which rescued them. Captain Pollard could often be seen afterward by summer visitors to Nan- tucket man. From being one of the boldest was such a wreck that if he saw two or street, or if any one took up 8 news years ago. There is now but one sar- vivor of that boat's crew, and that is the water, Walter J—-—, the only son of a widow of Nantucket, set sail when twelve years old with the captain of a whaler. One mast. Had he fallen up~n the deck he would in sll probability have been violin—and rebounded into the water. Soon the ery came, ** A man overboard.” The captain felt very sad when he learned it was Walter J——. He put ship about snd tacked back and forth, he ealled the men aft and asked them whether anything else conld be done, “for 1 don’t want you to go back to Nantucket and say that if somethir else had been done Walter J—— ecunl have been saved.” time had been long—perhaps half an board, the captain made a few turns more and called on the men for final decision whether any be done. finally concluded to hold on his course, when one of the men said that he heard a cry. They listened and soon heard a call, ** Keep her away or you'll ran over me.” Half a dozen ropes were thrown out by as many different persons, when the boy said: ** Make a bow line, I'm too weak to hold on.” A bow lineisa It was thrown out, the lad put it over one leg, held on by his bands and was overalls and shoes on. world, having managed, in spite of the great exertion of swimming to divest himself of all his clothes in order that When asked how he had been sable to endure so long he answered that Lie was on the point of giving up from fatigne and letting his feet go down, prepar- story to sinking, when he thought of his mother and kept on. He is still living in Nantacket.—Lippincotf's Mag- agine, I —— ve Cheese Made from Potatoes. A German paper says that cheese is made from potatoes in Thuringia and Saxony in the manner below: After having collected a quantity of potatoes to a large white kind, they areboiled in a caldron, and becoming cool, they are peeled and reduced to a pulp, either by means of a grater or mortar. To five pounds of the pulp, which ought to be equal as possible, is added one quantity of salt. The whole is kneaded together and the mixture covered up and allowed to lie for three or four days, according to the season. At the end of this time it is kneaded anew, and the cheeses are placed in little baskets, when the superfluous moisture escapes. They are then allowed to dry in the shade, and placed in layers in large vessels, where they must remain for fif- teen days. The older these cheeses are kinds are made. The first and most common is made as detailed above; the second, with four parts of potatoes and two parts of curdled milk; the third, with two parts of potatoes and four parts of cow or ewe milk. These cheeses have this advantage over other kinds, that they donot engender worms, and keep fresh for a number of years, provided they are placed in a dry sitna- tion and in well-closed vessels, a ————— There is this difference between hap- piness and wisdom: He who thinks him- self the happiest man really is so; but he who thinks himself the wisest is generally just the reverse. Young man, be happy—hoot, heller, | skip, garabol and snap your fingers at the nightmare of a new overcoat for next winter, Last full a Canadisn genins | shivered awhile and then reflected awhile, and the resalt was the purchase ‘of a box of mustard These were discribnted around on his frame where they would do the most good, and while men in beaver overcoats shiv- , ered with cold be was warm snd : in his shirt sleeves. One dollar takes i you through a hard winter, and you come out in spring fat.— Free Pross, Now the papers are predicting a lam- | ber famine, Good gracious, have we got to go through that horror, too. ave | we got to sit idly by and suffer, with no | sixteen-foot board to fill an empty . stomach, no bunch of shingles to cool | our parched Jonge, no posts io fill a want long feit, and no bundles of lath to press oar fevered lips? This is | too much. We eould the famine | in box cars, predicted last spring, but | to cut off our supply of lumber, just as : ye have got a new of siomath itters for au appetizer, is piling | agony on too thick. — Pecks Sem. | “Dovounlove me? “Yes” she an- | swered, * betterthan anything else in the world. It's a beantiful night fora moonlight drive.” A moonlight drive would cost at least three dollars, and as he agitated seventeen cents in his ri | trousers pocket he surveyed the lunar { orb with a knowing gaze, and remarked: | #1 should be so happy to take you, but | it's a wet moon, and you know you sre ee mt | morning the di in . ! served to her mother: * Charley and I | have quit. He knows a heap about the | weather, but bes 8 perfeet ignoramus | about me.” — Burlingion Hawkeye, WISE WORDS, The aim of education is the desire to learn. Agreeable sdvice is seldom useful advice. Virtue is the safest helmet—the most secure defense. Character wonld be impossible were there no reputation. : False modesty is the last refinement of vanity. It isa lie. The stateliest building man can raise is the ivy's food at last, | To remind a man of a kindness con- | ferred is litile less than a reproach. Hope is like the sun, which, as we | journey to it, casts the shadow of | our burden behind us. : t, but | they need to be adorned by grace to No grander thing can a man do than | who has been discouraged. | There is a whole sermon in the Per- | sian saving, * In all thy quarrels leave ARtion™ - | the door open to recon : i confidence to own its possession. | The very igh iuns ol yor out hly | pilgrimages and presti our future | Ne and shadows indicate the sun. Be courteous with all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confi- | dence. Be not diverted from your duty by any idle reflections the silly world may make upon you, for their censures are not in your power, and consequently should not be any part of your concern. It is true in matter of estate, as of our garments, not that which is the | largest, but that which fits us best, is best for us. * Be content with such things as ye have.” The heart will commonly govern the head; and it is certain that any strong passion set the wrong way will soon in- fatuate even the wisest of men; there fore the first part of wisdom is to watch the affections. i A True Home, The following beautiful gem is float- ing around the press as a waif: he most perfect home I ever saw wus g little home into the sweet incense of whose altar fires went no costly things. A thousand dollars a year served as a living for father, mother acd three ¢lil- dren. But the mother was the creator of the home. Her relations with her children were the most beautiful I have ever seen. Even the dull and common- place man was lifted up and enabled to work for souls by the atmosphere which this woman created. Every inmate of her house involuntarily looked into her face for the keynote of the day, and is always rang clear. the rosebud or clover leaf, which in spite of her hard housework she always found time to put beside our plates at breakfast, down to the story she had on hand to be read in the evening there was no interrup- tion of her influence. She has been, and always will be, my ideal of a wife, mother and home maker. If to her quick brain, loving heart and exquisite face had been added the appliances of wealth and the enlargement of wide culture, hers would have been the ideal of home. As it was, it was the best I have ever seen. OS There should be few roughs among the Polish Pre
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