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THE SECRET OF A LIFE.
Clarence Kane sat in his sumptuously
furnished library, lost in thought evidently
unwelcome to him, for his handsome face
was clouded and the stern lips firmly com
pressed, as he gazed vacantly into the red
coals in the grate.
Though forty years had passed over him,
neither form nor face indicated that age,
for proudly erect and graceful, besides pos
sessing dark flashing eyes, waving hair
and regular features, he was a strikingly
handsome man, appearing scarcely more
than thirty.
Reared in luxury, for his parents had
left him a millionaire when but a college
student, he had never known poverty
through necessity, though a wandering life
of many years in many lands had shown
him that there existed more want and suf
fering than happiness and comfort in the
world, from lack of the mighty dollar, and
his noble nature aided ever, where cir
cumstances brought him in contact with
his fellow beings in distress.
Three months before that bleak Decem
ber evening when he is seated in the li
brary of his magnificent Baltimore home,
Clarence Kane had returned from a wan
dering tour abroad, which had lasted fo::
two years, and the circumstances that had
brought him home again is the subject of
his sketch.
Sitting there iu silent meditation, he
was awaiting the coming of one who was
very dear to him ; though no wife or sis
ter had ever brightened his doorway or
made happy his bachelor home. Clarence
Kane held the responsible position of
guardian over a young girl of seventeen,
and having received from the fair maiden
a telegram that afternoon that she would
be with him during the evenin g , having
left her boarding-school for the Christmas
holidays, he had remained away from the
Club to greet her.
"If she had only stated by what train,
or at what hour, she would arrive, so that
I could have met her," he murmured, in
rather an ill-humored tone, and then, as
the sound of carriage wheels on the pebbly
drive broke on his ear, he started up sud
denly and walked quickly to the door,
which wss thrown wide open by the butler
to usher in a bright face, almost hidden,
as was the form, by warm wraps, for the
night was bleak and cold.
"Juanita. you are indeed welcome !"
exclaimed Clarence Kane, checking him
self as he was about to enfold in his arms
the maiden, whom, in three years that had
passed since he had last beheld her, had
grown from childhood to womanhood.
"Thank you, my dear guardian, I knew.:
you would like a little sunshine this cold
winter weather, hence I have conic,"
laughed a musical Voice from beneath the
wraps, and as if divining the reason why
he had not embraced her, the your).- b girl
quickly raised her pouting, ripe lips for
kiss.
I will not assert that Clarence Kane had
never, in his varied existence, kissed a
lovely woman before, but be that as it
may, he appeared a perfect novice on this
occasion, and wa►s as awkward as a school
bay. for his face flushed painfully, and
then turned deathly pale.
But recovering himself, he extended a
warm welcome to the maiden, and then
aided her in unbundling herself from
wraps, furs and hat, and his surprise was
evident as he beheld what a metamor
phosed form his ward was.
A form supple, graceful, and slightly
above the medium height, yet perfect in
mould ; a face radiant with a strangely
fascinating beauty, for the eyes were mid
night in blackness, liquid in expression,
and filled with slumbering fire, while the
hair rivaling them in hue, was worn in
luxuriant folds around the proud bead,
and confined by a massive silver comb.
In undisguised admiration, Clarence
Kane forgot his good breeding and stood
and gazed.
"What ! was this the girl of fourteen he
had left. at a boarding-school a few years
before ?" he thought, while the object of
his gaze, flushed crimson, said half timidly:
"Don't I please you, my dear guardian ?"
With a long-drawn sigh, Clarence Kane
shook off the beauty-struck spell upon
him, and answered honestly :
"Juanita, I believed only angels could
possess your beauty."
"Thanks; but your angelic ideas will
have a fall, for I'll astonish you by proving
what affinity earthly angels can possess,
for, do you know, I am almost starved ?"
"True ; I had forgotten the politeness
of a host in my joy at your arrival, but I
will now atone for it."
And calling to a servant girl, he bade
her conduct his ward to the room prepared
for her, promising to meet her in a few
minutes at dinner.
The merry Christmas days sped rapidly
away, and both Clarence Kane and his
beautiful ward became toasts in the aris
tocratic society of aristocratic Baltimore.
The best parti of the State, Mr. Kane
was haunted by mothers who had mar
riagable daughters, (lined by bashful papas,
and, on account of his great popularity,
wined at the clubs by his numerous friends,
while the beautiful Juanita arose like a
star above the horizon of the social circle,
and became at once a reigning belle.
But, amid all the admiration of the
outer world bestowed upon them, both
Clarance Kane and Juanita were better
content to enjoy the quiet of the old home
stead, and were the happiest when left to
themselves.
And yet, neither of them knew the
other's feelings in this matter, but be
lieved the regard existing between them
was such as was right between guardian
and ward.
The merry days were soon over, and
once again Juanita returned to her school
duties, but not for long; as in the com
mencement of summer, she was to gradu
ate and appear before the world's foot
lights as a young lady; and with joy she
looked forward to the day when again she
would be back at the homestead, which
Clarence found to be strangely dark and
dismal without her fair presence.
But the months rolled away at last, and
once again Juanita gladdened the mansion
with her sunny smile and silvery voice, to
the joy of her guardian and the delight of
the servants, for one and all of them loved
her dearly.
PAMPHLETS
A mouth after her return she was seat
ed one moonlit evening enjoying from the
open window the scene of lawn, lake and
forest spread before her, when suddenly a
quick step was heard, and Clarence Kane
entered the room, and approaching her,
said :
"Juanita, lam glad I find you alone,
for I have something to tell you."
Even in the moonlight the beautiful
face was seen to flush quickly ; and the
Bite ,fiorg-Zeller.
HUNTINGDON, PA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 26, 1875.
dark eyes were raised toward her guardian.
Pointing to a seat beside her, Juanita
made no reply; and sitting down, Clarence
Kane said quietly :
"Juanita, to-day is the first time the
thought of losing you ever came forcibly
upon rne—"
"What mean you? Speak, I implore
you ?" cried the impassioned girl, startled
at his words.
"Do not be alarmed, little girl ; I mere
ly meant to say that Caspar Hasting and
Colonel Hughes have both asked me to
day to allow them to lay themselves, their
hearts and fortunes at your pretty feet;"
and Clarence spoke playfully.
"I love neither of them and never shall.
Hence I will not marry the one or the
other, but what did you say ?"
said I would speak to you upon the
subject."
"You are willing to give me up, then ?"
"Never !—no, I mean ; but some day
you will love some man, and he will take
you from me."
"No, no, no. I will nut go away from
you. I will not love any one ; I wish to
be always with you."
Clarence Kane sprang to his feet and
rapidly crossed the floor, and returning,
said quickly :
"Juanita, would to Heaven I could keep
you ever with me; but first, ere I know
my doom, let me tell you of yourself; let
me tell you of your past life.
"Listen ! You have believed yourself
left in my keeping by your parents, who I
told you died in a foreign land; but to
your life hangs a story which now you
must know, for no longer are you a child.
"You know my life has been one of ad
venture, of wandering, and thus I will be
gin by telling you that sixteen years ago I
was roaming in Spain, and one night put
up at an inu by the roadside, where were
stationed a number of Spanish officers.
"While enjoying my supper in quiet, a
conversation occurrad at a table near me,
between several Spanish officers, that was
most insulting to my own land, and every
vile epithet was heaped upon America and
Americans, until, unable to stand it longer,
I arose to my feet, and crossing over to
the table, threw a glass of wine into the
face of a young man, attired in captain's
uniform, and who had been particularly
insulting in all he had said.
"Instantly there was a commotion, and
making known my nationality, the young
captain demanded that I should meet him
in a duel,and nothing loath, I accepted the
challenge, and promised to meet him the
next day but one, in a spot designated in
the mountains, and some twelve wiles dis
tant, the captain promising to have .a. friend
present who would act as my second, for I
was a stranger in a strange land, and knew
not whom to call upon ; but do not be im
patient, Juanita, for all this bears upon
your life.
"To be in time, I procured a guide the
next afternoon, and thoroughly armed and
well mounted, we started for the rendez
vous; but a terrific storm set in, we lost
our way, darkness came on, and after wan
dering for hours, a friendly light caught
our eyes, and eagerly we sought it, and
fbund a small fountain farm house, from
the inmates of which we received a warm
welcome.
liked not the appearance of the place,
and neither did my guide, for we felt as
sured that there had been sonic half dozen
men in the house when we called at the
gate, for distinctly had we heard loud
voices, and yet, only an old man and wo
man had greeted us.
"But a good supper was given us. My
guide looked after the horses and was as•
signed a place in the barn to sleep, while
I was shown to a small room possessing
but a single door and window, besides the
trap through which I had entered the
chamber.
"Dressed as I was, I threw myself upon
the low bed, but not to sleep; fur strange
thoughts came over me, and soon I heard
the hung of voices, and through a crack in
the floor discovered iu the room below a
half-dozen fierce-looking men in earnest
conversation.
"At once I knew all—l was in the house
of a band of robbers, and well I knew my
fate.
"While I looked, the men started forth,
and I distinctly heard the words : 'We'll
first finish the guide in the stable.'
"Rising to my feet, I softly felt around
the room until I found the door I had ob
served, and after a few efforts it opened,
and I discovered that it led down a narrow
passage-way, which following some dis
tance, I came upon a window opening out
upon atshed, which slanted off towards the
ground at the back of the house
"Here was a chance to escape, but un
willing to leave my guide in danger with
out some effort to save hint, I lit a match
and glanced around me, and to the right
discovered a door, which I judged led in
to a room commanding a view of the sta
ble-yard.
"The latch raised easily and I entered,
and lighting another match, what was my
horror to discover the forms of three men
lying upon the floor ; but believing them
asleep I was about to withdraw, when a
voice said quickly :
" 'Great Heaven ! you here ?'
"Instantly I turned the blaze upon the
speaker, and with amazement discovered
one of the young officers I had met in
the inn, bound hand and foot, while by
his side lay two others, the one I was to
meet the next morning in deadly com
bat, and he that was to have been my sec
ond.
"But no need had I to dread that mor
row's meeting, for both my enemy and the
one that was to have acted as my friend
was dead."
"Dead ?"
"Yes, Juanita, they had been cruelly
put to death by the very band that was
soon to seek my life ; for, like my guide
and myself, the other party had become
lost in the storm and had happened upon
the same house.
"This was quickly told me by the young
officer, whose life the bandits had spared,
to torture from him upon the morrow
a confession as to when a richly-laden
commissary train was to cross the moun
tains.
'lnstantly I severed th
young officer, and rising to feet Low;
the pistol I offered him, an )gether we
were consulting as to ou uturc move
ment to save the poor guide, . 1 1en, from
the stable•yard, came a low - r mercy,
a few shots and a g •v, and
poor Pope, we knew, II et 'ally
murdered.
"'Let us away from qur fate
will be such as his; see, th, ' , zen
of them,' cried the Spaniard.'
"And leading the way, I dasher fa
the window opening upon the „Led,
just as a cry arose among the bandits to
seek me.
"Out upon the roof, off upon the ground,
we hastily scrambled, and at full speed
rushed on in the darkness, mile after mile
until my poor companion was broken down
and could go no further ; but then daylight
broke, and I discovered a small cot near
by, and arousing the inmates, we asked for
shelter, which was cheerfully given, al
though death there met our gaze; for
upon a snow-white bed lay a young and
beautiful woman, who had been thrown
from her horse the evening before and
killed.
One glance and my companion recog
nized her. She was the wife of the young
officer with whom I was to engage in a
duel.
"Her story had been told to the inmates
of the cottage ere she died, which was
that her husband had gone to fight a duel,
and she was hastening after him to pre
vent it, accompanied only by a guide, when
her horse had fallen and crushed her be
neath his weight.
"Juanita, never did I suffer as then, and
to atone fbr my having been the cause of
all this misery, I had the body of the beau
tiful woman borne back to her home, and
from there buried in state, beside the
grave of her beloved husband, for the fol
lowity, day the young officer had taken
with him a number of soldiers and gone
to the house of the bandits, and though
he had found the place deserted, except by
the dead, he had brought back with him
the corpses of his friends and my unfortu
nate guide.
"And, Juanita, to atone yet the more
fur my sin, I took to my heart the baby
child—a little girl of one year—of the dead
parents, and bringing her to America,
reared her as my ward—"
"And lam she that was that little
orphan girl ?" asked Juanita, in a low
whisper.
"Yes, Juanita ; and each year you have
grown to womanhood, the tendrils of my
heart have clung more closely around you,
until now my future without your love
must be a dreary blank ; but yet I fear it
must be so, for now that you know the
story of your life, I feel that you will—"
"Love you ten-fold more, my dear, noble
guardian, and never, never leave you I"
And with the passionate vehemence of her
nature Juanita sprang forward and clung
closely around the neck of the man who
had so well endeavored to atone for the
past.
"You will be my wife, then, Juanita ?"
asked Clarence Kane, after n pause.
'Yes. Never have I known other love
than that I felt for you ; and mingled with
it, has been that I would hold for mother,
father, brother, all.
"My poor. por parents, sleeping in far
away Spain, I know, I leel that. you would
not blame your daughter, and I pray that
from Heaven you look down in kindness
and give us your blessing. as I hope God
will bless us too."
"Amen !" said the stern and fervent
voice of Clarence Kane.
And one short month afterwards all
Baltimore heard with surprise that the
handsome guardian and beautiful ward had
been quietly married, and sped away to
spend their honeymoon in the romantic
valleys of Spain.
U2l fog
The Musical Mule.
There is a good deal of' humanity in a
mule after all. Or perhaps it is better to
say that there is a good deal of mule in
humanity. A writer in the At/antic gives
a very racy study of the mule, and he
speaks as one who knows the animal long
and well. He says :
"The depraved mule rejoices in his
heart if he can make some one miserable.
It is a trait for which in the West they
have a specific term. They call it "pure
cussedness." When a mule devotes his
whole l to illustrating this idea he finds
a thousand opportunities and achieves a
remarkable success."
Who cannot recall paople of their ac.
quaintance who have this trait promi
nently developed ? Again :
"Sometimes the wanderer takes it into
his head that he can sing. So long as he
keeps this idea to himself' nobody can
complain. But a mule who has such a
conceit is sure to publish it. One who
has never heard a music solo can form no
idea of the rare cacophony it involves.—
No musical gamut can describe it. It is
one of the grossest outrages on the public
peace ever devised. Happy for the hearer
if the bray be confined to one mule ; but
when two or three hundred happen to
meet together, and some base prompter
among them says : "Brethren let us bray,"
the antiphonal response, which is never
refused, is perfectly overwhelming. I re
member one poor mule who lost his life
because be would persistently exercise
this gift in au Indian country, and so be.
tray the command to the enemy. lie was
shot as a traitor and a nuisanca."
Alas ! that we cannot dispose of some
human mules, who have this same hallu
cination about their musical powers, in
the same summary fashion.
About Weddings.
A wedding must not be uncheerful ; but
it must certainly be solemn to all who
realize what it is. On the one side it is
renouncing the old ties, promising to be
gin with faith, and hope, and love, a new
and wholly untried existence. On the
other, it is the acceptance of a sacred
trust, the covenant to order life anew in
such ways as shall make the happiness of
two instead of one. Can such an occasion
be fitting for revelry ? Is it not wiser,
more delicate, to bid only the nearest
friends to the ceremony, and leave the
feasting and frolic for another time ? We
are sure there are few girls who, if they
reflect on the seriousness of the step they
are about to take, will not choose to mike
their loving vow merely within the loving
limits of their home circle. All our best
instincts point to the absolute simplicity
and privacy of wedding services ; only a
perversion of delicacy could contemplate
the asking of crowds of half sympathetic
or wholly curious people to attend the most
solemn of contracts. Let there be as much
party making, rejoicing and pleasure
taking afterwards as hearts desire ; but let
the solemn vows he made in the presence
only of those nearest and dearest.
A MAN went into a drug store, and,
says he : "I wish you would give me some
Nancy Soda." "Don't you mean Sal So
da ?" says the clerk. "Wall, now, I don't
now but you're right; I knew 'twas a
g►."s name," said the searcher for Sal.
"LUNATIC FRINGE," is the name for
the barbarious fashion of cropping the
hair and letting the bristles hang down
over the forehead. Very appropriate, as
it makes a female look like a demented
monkey.
Changes in Words.
These exist and entrances of words mast
be constantly going on. Those wh o have
lived through a generation or two must
have noted how many 'nave been intro
duced or have changed their ground in
their own time. Allusions to their intro
ductions
and changes meet us constantly
in our reading. Thus Banter, Mob, But
ly, Bubble, Sham, Shuffling and Palming.
were new words in the TatlPr's day, who
writes, "I have done my utmost for some
years past to stop the progress of Mobb
and Banter, but have been plainly borne
down by numbers and betrayed by those
who promised to assist me." Roronnoitrr•
and other French terms of war are ridi
culed as innovations in the Spec:ittor.—
Skate was a new word in Swift's day.—
"To skate, if you know what that.means,"
he writes to Stella. "There is a new
word coined within a few months," says
Fuller, ‘.ealledfanatics." Locke was ac
cused of affectation in using idea instead
of notion. "We have been obliged," says
the World, "to adopt the word police from
the French." Where we read in another
number, "I assisted at the birth of that'
most significant word jb'etatioa. which
dropped from the most beautiful mouth !
in the world, and which has since received
the sanction of our most accurate Laureate
in one of his comedies." Ignore was once
sacred to ,rand juries ••In the inters,
of" has been quoted in our time as a slang
phrase just coming into meaning. Bore
has wormed itself into use within the
memory of man. Wrinkle is quietly going,
into use in its secondary slang sense. Mai
we have read from the pen of a grave
lady, writing on a grave subject, to express
her serious scorn. Most of these words
are received as necessities in the language.
Some like "humbug." are still struggling
into respectability. In the middle of the
last century, it was denounced as ••the un
couth dialect of the 'lune, the jabber of
the Hottentots." Another writer puts it
into the mouth of a party of giggling girls,
who pronounce some one—whom he sus•
pests to be himself—an el , lifins.
detestable, shocking HUMBUG. ••This last
sew coined expression," he observes,
"sounds absurd and disagreeable whenever
it is pronounced ; but from the mouth of a
lady it is shocking, detestable, horrible and
odious." Yet so pointedly does it hit a
blot in hutn•:nity, so necessary has it be
come to the vituperative element in our
nature, that neither mankind nor woman
kind can do without it. The fastidious
De Quincy is eloquent in its praise : "Yet
neither is it any safe ground of absolute
ex-communication from the sanctities of
literature, that a phrase is entirely the
growth of the street. The word hunz/mg,
for instance, rests upon a rich and c -
prehensiv e basis; it cannot be rendered
adequately either by German or Greek,
the two richest of human languages ; and
without this expressive word we should
all be disarmed fin. one great case, contin
ually recurrent, of social enormity. A
vast mass of villainy that cannot otherwise
be reached by legal penalties. or brought
within the rhetoric of scorn, would go at
large with absolute impunity were it net
through the Rhadamanthean aiol of this
virtuous and inexorable word."
The fashion of language toward Acenery
—especially Alpine scenery—has entirely
changed. Once it was surveyed with the
eye simply of the traveler, to whom it
might well seem -rugged," -horrid," ••in
hospitable," now, when difficulties of tran
sit are overcome, or hailed for the difficul
ties cake, description expatiates in the
whole gamut of rapture from tender and
lovely to sublime. In every pint we aim
more at the emotional ; at reaching the
heart of things. Our authoresses find
great and strange wonderful mediums fir
awakening these emotions. In our ordi
nary conversation we admit words 'now
which were once thought above the tone
of common talk ; and we may at any day
hear in a party collected for purposes of
mere relaxation, words whi,th De.Quineey
would forbid for such occasions as inap
propriate, and so far indecorous. "Equally
with bosom," he says, "are prescribed the
words affliction, guilt, penitence, remorse,
from the ordinary current of conversation
among were acquaintance, because they
touch chords too impassioned and profound
for harmonizing with the key in which
the mere social civilities of life are ex
changed." strength is the general aim
we do not say effect—in the talk n" the
present day. Our slang and epithets all
show this. The youth of every period has
had, no doubt, a list of epithet+ as short
as unmeaning, for visaing judgments on
persons and thing., but not neecasarily
inspired by the same intention. It strikes
us that now whatever inclination there ex
ists toward variety lies on the side of vi
tuperation. Loathing is more eloquent
than liking. It was not always so.—
"Heavenly," "pretty," "fine." "sweet."
were once as lavishly misapplied as the
terrors of our present custom. Formerly.
when a speaker wanted to convey his
meaning by mere brute strength, a famil
iar objurgation too readily presented it
self, leaving fancy some range when he
set himself to seek secular terms of dis
paragement. Happily swearing is out of
fashion (as far as we are concerned); but
it is impossible not to feel how certain
words—a certain word—come into general
use, which once would have been inad
missible, supplies a need, fills an irksome
void left by its profane predecessor.—
"Beastly," which we hesitttc to write, is
not wrong ; but it is rude, awl imparts to
the speaker some of the blind satisfaction
of an oath—without the sin.—/Thebroofts
Magazine.
_ _ _
A Sunny Temper.
What a blessing to a household is a
merry, cheerful woman—one whose spirits
are not affected by wet days, or liar dis
appointments, or whose milk of human
kindness does not sour in the sunshine of
prosperity. Such a woman in the darkest
hour brightens the house like a little piece
of sunshiny weather. The magnetism of
her smiles, the electrical brightness of her
looks and movements, infects every one.—
The children go to school with a sense or
something great to be achieved ; her hus
band goes into the world in a conqueror's
spirit. No matter how people annoy and
worry hint all day, far off her presence
shines, and he whispers to himself : "At
home I shall find rest." So day by day
she literally renews his strength and ener
gy, and if you know a man with a beaming
face, a kind heart, and a prosperous busi
ness, in nine cases out of ten you will find
he has a wife of this kind.
IF a railroad train that is run intoanoth
er is telescoped, a man who is run into by
a wild young ox must be stare-scoped.
THE man who said there was nothing
slower than a boy on an errand, never rode
down town in a horse ear.
The Highest Mountain in the World.
For many years pot Mount Everele_ in
that portion of the grent Himalaya ranee
which occupies the western part of the
strange kingdom of Nepaul, iternediately
north of India. has been rexar.le-1 10 the
highest to metal nin the world. It is known
to the Nepanleste ass Gtorixanker. hot the
Enzlish name is Everest. in honor of a dis
tinguished (Ai -et of the British Indian to
pographical survey. Its snow eapped sate •
mit is 29.00'2. cr nearly ive miles and a
half, ab-ei-e the level of the sea. We...error
no one has ever aAcended it to this lie.izbe.
but its altitude. Lke that of the other lefty
peaks of the Himalaya. was ascertained lay
trianguiat . ini : And until the present tiese
it has n it been siippesed that any higher
land existed on the earth.
If the new 4 be true. however. which bee
lately coinc to as from the more distaste
east. titer! is a loftier peak than *mit
Everest in the goat island of l'iont
New Gaines. This vast region, extensive
enough to firm six states as 6r7vt air Ness
York. is as ye: almost wholly enesplered.
except along its eremite. Lyinz elate hp the
equator. where the Indian ocean led the
Pacific meet. it is the *notes* of the mew
wary an-I the bird of paradise. a enesetry
grand in its scenery. rich in its vermin,.
and Abounding in enriotts and liesmitifel
thrum of animal h re—the TaritsWe wwweimr
land of the globe. An attempt to explore
the unka.iwn interi,r of the island was
made fr en T.srres Strait. which reparatee it
from ustrilii, by raptian .J.. 1 Lawson
in the yea: I -71 : and if we may believe hr.
publishe 1 narrative of the jonney. which
has just appzared in Loudon. be advanced
several haniirci mixes inland. awl about
midway between the north and swath meat
discovered 3 inonntian 31.7 , 43 feet high.
which he rr.rned Monet Hen-ales.
The height of this monstais—over Us
miles—;4 not the only remarkable thief
about it. its apparent elevation is !unlit
tle less thin it-4 elevation ;
stea,l of rising from 2 lofty table Wed like
the plateau of central it seas& is a
eompnratirely low plain only Aloes INOD
feet above the ocean. and till/give.* clear
rise of more than 30.900 feet Ants the ster-
round; ng c9nnt ry. Th. tr2v4er...tawrieg
at its bale. Coo Id look op and see its, Angry
peak towerin% :WNW t%et skyward kens
where he soot Fader +rich eirraamtarpres
the aliende of a neonntain is appreciated.
Captain Lawson tells as that he ewier
took the aseent. formidable as it aproreil.
lie dial not reach the top. bet we believe
the achievement which he relates it en
paralleiel in the recnris of ownewhosie
erintr. .‘eentopanied by one senses& he
set out fro-n the foot at four Welneit in the
mornihz They passel throes-et dense
forests in the srit two thonsind Awl of
perpen lieniar progress. Fiend the lim s of
tree growth at eleven thousand firs. and
by nin2 o'clnek had reached a point tier.
teen thon , angi fe , t above tae 44.3 1,74
alm•l4t, 3.4 bi,h as the' towel. MltierhoTT,
thowand feet higher was the I ill,.
ant they began visa:Tn. Prim the odd.
the . ? passed on drowsiness beTan in *Ter
conic them. -Nothing wan to be sen hest
snow of th.• f bin IT whiten.-u' Ks.
cry peak anal crag was enverel wit's it.
and it hong over the edges of the dills in
long fle!ey nea.ssau. - Their eyes were sf
fectei by the giar and they felt themselves
growing , more and more letherzie.
-At length hl.ovi began to f few&
onr nos .4 aml elm" tar• spelt, lemene.
and nay hr-x 1 :ached an a 41141 . 3etti11.: now
ner. I saw shit our only chance of pew
wa4 to retreat without delay ;
for we were in a Oarsl plight. our lips
and glints and the Akin of Oar hand. and
faces w..re cracked and bleeding. an-I ear
eyes 0r.0.! bloodshot awl *won', to so
alarrni,...; extent. The thermometer b.
Annk t I twenty-two degrees below the
freezinz point. and the air was so rarefied
that we were ra.7insc rather than hvoseh , .
Our staves fen from oor Trio". oriel we
could not pick them up nain, heursisb
etl wen: our arms and hinds. It was now
one. o'e;ock. and the greateis etc.-slim we
had attained was 25,314 tert.—
They then turned back. descended to the
limit or the snow in three hours. awl sr
rive.l nt thcir clasp at the b ths moos
tain ab.tut half past ser*n in tSe events*
Thus. in fifteen hour. and a half. they hall
nseenfiefi an absolute height nr 2.1.6100 roe.
to an elevation which we believe is ;riveter
than any ever b^rwe rtaine4 br an, era
the surrace of the earth. althoairh 641.).•
ists have occastonallyz.ne hither.
These are womie,iful soil Ow
re tier lirly desire to know whether ar.• t;
together trtrtt in their anthe.ntirity ir
curacy. The fresh. spirited. 3 rtfl interest is%
narrative in which Tut have rowed thews is
publishe4 by one of the irwrit respcc - ...thie
firms in London. and it pot forth as 2
genuine book of trave'.s The antbor . ...
ro3nt of the 9 trn, thf! Fattna. and tbe
habitants of New Guinea. e inta•-ii
that is :ntrvelira.. that certainly to-,.
hitherto broln unknown soil an.a.pecte.l.
S out: of the statements, also. are difficult to
reconcile with our previorktly *Nair"l
knowledge concerning the islarpl. risky
these eireamstarr-e.. hi. ntrintive iik,fy
to be repril,rl much ars we shool I view tie
testimony of a single. strange witness le a
startling fact ; we do sot believe it. bet
we shmild like to hear mom • co.r..borative
evidence. This will prrbably 4ml-A
by subriequent explorations.
An Awful Liar.
Flt di~in . t look like a list. Ile had. is
fact. is George Washinztool ar Lee.
and his enunciation was hancl:y honest an.i
decidAiy nasal Ile Ase misting his aster
nate sides in front of a red hwt saloon stove.
amid a party of bormwrs wile) were trying
to out he each other.
-Talkie' about light.nin . . - !raid he. ••1
reckon none n' von lazazirrani wns ever
struck. wis yon' No : Well, I vat TOO
see I was out sbootin prairie chickens§ is
F:e I i noy . last .1 ngthst .artil there e.spe
the awfulest thisocier storm I ever me
in the whole course of nay lire. It raised
cats and dog's. and the tlinnikr roiled awl
the forked lit:htuin•dart,A a:: over the shy
like fiery tonzue.s. I g,t behind a hayseaet
that sort o' leaned over tothesooth.andthe
fi!st thing I knowed the lights's' eruct
that and set it afire. Then I alloyed to a
walnut tree that stood near. and a doable
j'inted bolt ripped that into sisters.
moved to another tree and the lizhtmo
struck it. Then ! bewail to think it astrint
me. and so I jest walked out. bumped Noy
self up, and took three or roar of the
d—deat claps I ever heard. It shah me
up right peart ; but beyond rippin* the
coat offen my back and Thula' one of NOV
boots from top to too. it didn't do me no,
particular damage. But you didn't Ihull rid
Jim armors' huntin' a row o' that kiimisikn -
The discomfited banswr4 l'soksi curi
ously into each other's fares a sanwiese,
and then, one by one, 'silently rose mod
sneaked not, leaving Truthful James nuns
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NO. 21.