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Dreaming at Four-Score.
BY EBEN E. REXFORD
She sits in the gathering twilight,
In her well worn rocking-chair,
With the snow of her life's lone winter
In the meshes of her hair.
She dreams ot her little children
Who left her long ago,
And listens to their footsteps,
With the longings mothers know.
She tears them coming, coming!
And her heart is all elate,
At the patter of little footsteps
Down at the garden gate.
The clatter of children's voices
Comes merrily to her ears,
And she cries in her quivering treble,
"You are late, my little dears !"
And then they are here beside her,
As she had them long ago—
Susie and Ben and Mary,
And Ruthie and little Joe.
And her heart throbs h gh with rapture,
As each fond kiss is given,
And the sight is filled with music,
Sweet as her dreams of Heaven.
Such wonderful things to tell her—
A nest in the apple-tree,
And the robin gave them a scolding,
For climbing up to see;
A wee, white lamb in the pasture,
A wild rose en the hill,
And such a great white strawberry
As Sue found by the mill.
She listens to their prattle,
Her heart abriin with rest—
She's queen in a little kingdom,
Each child a royal guest.
Queen 1 'Tie au empty title—
More than a queen is she—
Mother of young immortals,
Who gather at her knee.
She brings their welcome supper,
And they sit down at her feet,
Tired and hungry and happy,
And she laughs to see them eat.
Then she smooths the yellow tangles,
With a mother's patient hand,
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Of the children's fairy-land.
Then the little knotted shoe-strings
Are patiently untied,
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Kneel at their mother's side.
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Ere their simple prayers are said,
And the good-night kiss is given
By each waiting little bed.
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"The children are fast asleep."
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In their beds so low and green—
Daisies and clover-blossoms
Each face and the sky between.
El2c torp-Etiltr.
The Robbers at Bolton.
BY FRANKLIN W. FISH
The quiet little village of Bolton was
again thrown into a furore of excitement
by another of those mysterious occurrences
that had taken place at irregular intervals
during the past four or five years. This
time it was a more serious case than the
disappearance of a beefsteak, a juicy roast
ing piece, a succulent ham or a score or
two of pounds of flour from the grocer's
barrel. The great safe in the office of
Squire Minot had been found open on the
morning when our story begins, and al
though it contained some fifteen hundred
dollars in crisp bank notes, beside a large
number of bonds, certificates of stock, etc.,
only five dollars had been removed there
from. This curious circumstance was a
subject of gossip in everybody's mouth,
from the gray-haired druggist, whose store
stood at the "corners," to the loungers in
the old tavern at the lower end of the vil
lage, each one seeming to constitute him
self a sort of amateur detective, whose su
preme duty lay in discovering the perpe
trator of the robbery.
Bolton was a pretty inland hamlet, the
shire town of a wealthy county. and com
posed of six or eight hundred inhabitants,
whose dwellings fronted a broad avenue
for the length of a mile or more This
avenue, or more properly speaking two
parallel roadways, was*haded along its en
tire distance by goodly elms and maples,
while in the centre was a wide space of
emerald turf, dignified by the name of
"The Green." One one side of this stood
the Methodist Church • and the Academy,
and on the other rows of neat houses with
flower-gardens in front and vegetable plots
and thrifty orchards in the rear.
The season was that most beautiful of
all the year, when the frosts have touched
the forest trees and transformed their dark
green foliage into gorgeous tints of yell.m,
red and crimson, making the woods appear
like a gigantic parterre of summer blos
some. Over the whole scene there hung
a hazy atmosphere, rounding into purple
softness the sharp outlines of the distant
hills. The sunshine overhead was mel
lowed and softened down by the early
autumn weather; the brooks flowed tran
qut through the meadows, here and
there rushing over tiny cascades or gliding
with noisy prattle over the white pebbles
under the bridges that crossed the high
ways. A spell of drowsy indolence infused
itself into everything ; even the leaves ap
peered imbued with the universal spirit of
listless inactivity. Only the villagers
themselves were in commotion, and the
manner with which they bustled about, or
stood excitedly conversing in groups of
threes and fours was thrown into bold re
lief by the repose of the other features on
the canvas.
The most enthusiastic portion of the
crowd was that gathered in front of the
"Post Ion," and was made up of the most
opposite of characters. Deacon Benson
forgot for once his accustomed dignity,
and hobnobbed with Jack, the red nosed
hostler, as if he had not on repeated oc
casions denounced hm as an emissary of
Satan, and condemned him to the place of
eternal torment as an unrepentant sinner.
Black Tom Purdy expressed "his 'pinion
to de jedge," with no fear of the court be
fore his eyes, and the judge listened to
Tom with as much show of attention as if
his sable acquaintance possessed all the
eloquence of a Choate and the learning of
a Bacon.
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"Who opened dat ar safe, Massa Jedge,
is de question that poses me," and Tom's
eyes winked and blinked like an owl's in
the sunlight, and his countenance assumed
the sagacious look of that much but very
falsely beflattered bird. "Fore hebben,"
he continued, '-ef old Sal Martine'd only
set de charm, she'd tell de troof shore as
yer born. Heap ob power in dem witches."
"No, no, Tom 1 Witches have bad
nothing to do with it. Maybe they or their
associates did take a piece of beef of a
pound of butter now and then without say.
ing .By your leave,' but somebody beside
witches entered Squire Minot's office last
night. It is no use to lay it to the darkies
this time."
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"Shore enough ! shore enough ! De col
ored people doesn't do eberyfiug ;" and
Tom looked more like a sable owl than
ever. Several other listeners had by this
HUNTINGDON, PA , FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1878.
time surrounded the judge, and there were
as many different solutions to the problems
as there were persons to make them.
The robberies already' alluded to had
been up to this time of very trivial char
acter. Occasionally a piece of meat, that
had been hung up in some one's cellar for
a Sunday dinner, was missing when the
cook needed it; or it might be that the
store-keeper discovered that the flour in
the barrel was a peg or two lower in the
morning than when he closed his store on
the previous evening ; but that was all.—
The dogs got the blame of the meat and
the vagrants for the meal.
Here, however, some one bad abstracted
a small sum of money from a safe, leaving
a large amount untouched and the great
iron door unfastened. It puzzled the
the people worse than the riddle of Aedipus.
In the evening a sage and select cousulta
tion was held by the old people in the
office of the Justice of the Peace, at which
nothing was done, and another at the office
of Lawyer Mills by the young ones, at
which a great deal was. At the latter it
was determined to form a vigilant cool
wittee, to which none but sworn members
were to be admitted, and whose transac
tions were to be as secret as the doings of
the Star Chamber or the Inquisition of
Loyola. A captain and lieutenant were
chosen, and about a score of members
signed the muster-roll.
It must be remembered that Bolton was
not an exe Ttion to any of the ten-thous
and-and one villages that dot our lan 1
from the Aristook to the Pacific Ocean,
save in its beauty, its rustic quietude and
the general respectability of its people
Here were, perhaps, twenty or more
lads, ranging in age from eighteen to
twenty years, as full of pranks and as ready
for a frolic as any similar number who
could be collected together Most of them
were students in the various law-offices for
which the county town was noted, but
there were two or three scions of rich city
families, who preferred the freedom and
ea , T of rural life to the confinement and
conventionalities of their homes in the
great metropolis a few miles to the south
ward. They were all harum scarum f'el
lows, who found in this new excitement a
convenient outlet for an abundance of su
perfluous vitality. The leader they se
lected was the eldest of their number,
closely verging on manhood, stout in body
and determined in spirit. His lieutenant
was cast in a gentler mould, but full as
fearless and ready for work. The balance
were equal to any emergency, and would
prove dangerous customers to any person
or persons whom they might overtake in
the prosecution of any nefarious enterprise
The plans fixed upon were : first, strict
secrecy ; secondly, prompt and implicit
obedience; thirdly, vigilance; and lastly,
a stern determination to bring the offenders
to justice, be they whomsoever they might.
It was also proposed to enter into an al
liance, offensive and defensive, with a
pronahent legal gentleman of the neigh
borhood. who should act as their adviser,
and whose services were further needed,
because his offices were so situated as to
be a central point of action.
The building in which these offices were
situated was of one story with two rooms
and faced a road that crossed the maiii
thoroughfare, but a little way off from it.
The front room was smewhat public, but
the rear one being constructed for consul
talon, was secluded from too inquisitive
observation, and admirably adapted to the
purpose for which it was required. The
door of the rear apartment opened on the
garden of the lawyer's house, which was
bounded on the east by the post turn
pike and on the west by the stable or barn
used for the family horses and carriages.
All things requisite for the accomplish
talent of the object in view were satisfac
torily arranged, and the duties of the
amateur vigilante began. For several
weeks these had been iu progress, and thus
far not a whisper of their transactions had
reached the villagers, who having had their
nine days wonder, and noticing that these
petty thefts had now fallen off altogether,
had become to look up au them as upon
tales that had been told. or as the sacred
writer has it •'as a dream when one awaked)."
Perhaps some gossip wondered "what on
airth wade them boys lie abed so late o'
morning now-a days," but nothing came of
it and the lads went on watching the same
as usual. They argued wisely that who
ever wee the perpetrator of the last escapade
it was not a professional thief. First,
from the clumsiness with which the affair
was managed ; secondly, by reason of the
small amount taken when the greater could
as easily and as secretly have been removed.
and lastly because, although the safe dour
was left open that of the office had been
carefully and securely locked, a thing that
a burglar of habit would not have deemed
necessary. As has been stated no good
ground for suspicion had been found againSt
any one, although as Judge Wilton had
hinted the colony of poor colored people
who dwelt up among the •Hills," as a
barren, rocky territory lying back of Wil
lett's Mill Pond was called, had been again
and again charged with numerous minor
pecadilloes of a thieving nature, of which
some were no doubt true, but the majority
were not.
The storm of the autumnal equinox had
come and gone The vari-colored garments
of the woods had been stripped away, and
now the great gaunt limbs of oak, hickory,
chestnut and beach stretched out to the
chilly air, with hero and there a dry leaf
clinging to them and quivering in the No
vember breezes The vigil ints were as usu
al gathered in their rendezvous patiently
waiting, as they had for nearly two months
past, for something to turn up. One re
lief had come in and a second taken its
place when the captain of the band fancied
that he heard the tread of mufflod footsteps
in the barn near by. Stealthily opening
the door that lead into the garden he went
out upon the step to listen. He was cer
tain after careful attention that his imagi
nation had not misled him, and what still
further astonished him was the appearance
of a sudden flash of light through the nar
row window °vet the horse-stall, as if the
shade of a dark lantern had been drawn
back for a moment and then as hastily re
placed. He rubbed his eyes as if still in
-doubt whether it was not hallucination, or
whether his habit of long watching bad
not rendered him over sensitive to unac
customed noises. At last a brighter flash
and one of longer duration convinced him.
He crept cautiously along the evergreen
hedge that skirted the garden until he
reached the gate that opened upon the
road. He noiselessly passed through this
and revolver in hand, stood at one side of
the building that projected about two feet
beyond the range of the fence, and had not
remained in this position very long before
the latch of the side door of the barn was
quietly lifted, and from the passage way a
head seen by the dim light of the stars,
with the cap drawn down over the face so
as to hide the eyes, was thrust out and
turned up and down the road, as if m
e .nnoitering. For some reason it was with
drawn, and fur a moment or two, that in
themselves seemed hours, all was still as
almost the grave itself. Nothing was
heard save the rustle of a dead leaf or the
occasional stamp of the horses.
"'Twas painful even to distress,
All was so still and motionless."
Here, thought our heio, was to be at last
the solution of the mystery, with his heart
throbbing so violently that he dreaded lest
its beatings should betray him. Again
the head came out, then a tall form, with
a bag of something flung over the left.
shoulder, stepped out upon the highway.
In less than a moment the new-comer felt
a hand laid roughly en his shoulder, the
cold muzzle of a pistol touched his temple
and his ear heard the jubilant shout of
"Come out boys ! come out ! I've got him "
The man saw the helplessness of resist
ance, and with a sullen growl like a baffled
hound, he flung the bag upon the ground
and stood by his captor.
"Come out ! come out I say !" wls again
shouted, and in an instant the whole party
swarmed out upon him like a parcel of in
furiatvd bees when the hive has been in•
vaded.
"Joe, why don't you bring out the lan
tern ?" asked one of them. seeing that in
their hurry this necessary article, for a
survey in a dark night, had been neglected.
"Let's take him into the office," sug
rested one, which sentiment was echoed
by three or four others, and straightway
carried out by all. For a while the wan
sat moodily in the chair assigned to him,
his eyes bent upon the ground and one
hand nervously passing from time to time
over the other, while his captors conversed
in smothered tones in the .corner of the
room. but without losing sight of their
prisoner for an instant. Soon he began to
beg piteously to be set free, and with such
apparent anguish as to move more than one
heart to sympathy.
"By Jove ! I know that voice. Bring
that light here !" and raising it to the face
of the man from which the covering had
been roughly removed, the second in com
mand 'exclaimed, "Mr. Benson, I knew it
was you when I first saw you in the star
light."
Finding dis‘overy to have overtaken
him the unfortunate fellow renewed his
pleadings but to no purpose, and ere the
gray dawn of the morning began to glim
mer over the hills of Harrison and Pur
chase, and before the smoke had curled
up from the chimney tops of Bolton, a
prominent member of the village council,
a leader iu a popular church and a person
who had up to this time been above re
proach was seem ely locked behind the cell
doors under the Court House. The rest
of the story is soon told. Upon a search
of his house having been made, false keys
for every store and dwell* in the village
were fouLd in an upper room, and after
trial and conviction confession was made
that he alone had been the trespasser—
t4 so many years; that for a long time
back his family had been almost entirely
fed, clothed and shod by the proceeds of
his stealing; that his plan had been to visit
certain selected places by night and to re
move from them different articles in small
quantities, but amounting to a great deal
in the aggregate, and that in the safe of
fair he would have taken all that was
available had he been able to refasten the
door He was subs , quently taken to Sing
Sing under a long sentence, at which place
he finally died before the expiration of his
term. Of the vigilaots a few are yet liv
ing, but the majority sleep the soldier's
sleep upon the various battle fields of the
late Rebellion.
"The waffled druin's sad roll has beat
Our c qnrades' last tattoo."
select ` zscellan~r.
Have Things Handy.
Especially the books and newspapers.—
Ten to one you will never get time to sit
down in elegant leisure and read through
that new book you so long to peruse, at
one sitting, but you may snatch time for a
page or two a dozen times a day, if you
only think so. Keep it at band in the
sitting room, and often take it down in the
little pauses which come into the busiest
day. It will cause no loss of time and
will give you something pleasant to think
of as you go about your work again.—
There is nothing which gives such a spring
to work as happy thoughts. You can toil
on almost unheeding the weary labor when
'the bird in one's bosom is singing sweet
In order to do this of course the book
should be a good one, full of bright, stir
ring, cheery talk It is not worth while
to waste precious spare moments over a
poor book, or a gloomy book. We had
far better take the time out in good think
ing. Any of us can do a great deal better
than some b ioks folks write. But cheery
books are a blessing to the world, and
ought to be sown broadcast. Cheering
seems to be the one great want of a large
army of weary workers.
A good magazine, or a newspaper, is
just the thing fir a corner stand, ti catch
up in odd minutes. Set one open before
you when you sit down to do many kin.is
of work which demand but little attention.
You can pare potatoes or apples and read
a paragraph at the same time, with no
detriment to either the paring or the sense.
If you cannot you can learn, for even blind
people can do this work very neatly.—
Absolve yourself from any fear of what
Mrs. Grundy will say, and do your own
work in your own way, without asking her
leave.
Read—read at every chance you can
get, and ponder over your stories, as that
is the only way to wake them wholly your
own. A bright, intelligent, happy mother
is the best blessing that ever falls to a
home.
About Matrimony.
The advice that should be given to girls
intending to marry, is : Keep your head
clear, aad look out fur the best commercial
partnership that you can find. If you do
not positively dislike your future partner
you will fiiid that after you have married
him, you will love him. There is nothing
selfi-h or mercenary in this view of mar,
riage. Of course it is more agreeable to
be endowed with much of this world's
goods than with little of them. If Brown,
Jones and Robinson all want to marry you,
each one is personally, neither better nor
worse than the others. Therefore, if
Brown is well to-do, and Jones and Rob
icion are not in a position which would
justify their marrying, then marry Brown,
unless there is some very excellent reason
to the contrary.
HOWEVER, little we have to do, let us
do that little well.
Just as God Leads.
Just as God leads me, I would go;
I would not ask to choose my way;
Content with what He will bestow,
Assured He will not let me stray ;
So as he leads, my path I make,
And step by step I gladly take,
A child in Him confiding.
Just as God leads, I atr content;
I rest me calmly in His hands;
That which He has decreed and sent—
That which His will for me commands,
I would that He should all fulfil,
That I should do his gracious will
In living or in dying.
Just as God leads, I all resign ;
I trust me to my Father's will;
When reason's rays deceptive shine,
His counsel would I yet fulfill ;
That which His love ordained as right,
Before He brought me to the light,
May all to Him resign.
Just as God leads me, I abide,
In faith, in hope, in suffering true;
His strength is ever by my side—
Can aught my hold on him undo?
I hold me firm in patience, knowing
That God my life is still bestowing
The best in kindness sending.
Just as Gou leads, I onward go,
Out amid thorns and briars seen;
God does not yet his guidance show
But in the end it shall be seen
How, by a loving Father's will,
Faithful and true He leads me still
Quiet Folks.
Quietness is sometimes a sign of bodily
health. The nervous man, wo is always
stirring, is seldom strong. But when a
man is thoroughly wrapped up in himself
and his own importance, perfectly satisfied
with his position and prospects, the cut of
his clothes, the length of his whiskers, the
attenuation of his umbrella, and the lustre
of his hat, the chances are that he is very
quiet. Such men are habitually well
dressed ; but as they get on in life, they
cling to old fashions. They are not con•
siderate fur others, yet they give very lit
tle trouble. They exact the utmost ser
vice but make no fuss about it. They are
painfully regular and punctual, but never
seem put out by other people's want of
order, •They- are bores at a dinner party,
wet blankets at a picnic, mere sticks at a
ball; but excellent as officers, admirable
parsons, and much sought after by match
making mothers. It is they who carry off
the Yeiresses; who always save money;
who are never in debt or difficulty, as
other men are; who are regular in their
devotions, and invaluable on committees.
where they always get their own way, with
out trouble or fuss They habitually wait
till every one else has spoken, and then
make the single remark which concludes
the matter, and which seems as if it had
risen to the surface, like cream, of itself.
Strict order is kept in their houses ; but
they do not, as a rule, make good fathers.
Their children are too much afraid of them
and too glad to get away from home.—
Strange to say, though they seldom speak,
they are excellent correspondents, write
well, clearly, and at great length, and
often turn into authors, especially nov
elists. They have observed while oth
ers talked; and have_ passed mental
judgment which their secretiveness ena
bles them to store for use. They are
seldom deficient in humor; tell a story
in the fewest words, well and quietly;
and have generally some friend in whose
society they take a silent and subdued
pleasure, and with whom they can sit for
hours without speaking. They live re
spected by all who know them, are trustees
and guardians to innumerable wards, and
are often more missed when they die than
greater men. If the world fails to love
them, it makes up by trusting them; and
every few years one of them turns out to
have elaborated some gigantic system of
fraud, and goes away into exile without a
word.—Saturday Review.
Does the Sun Rise in the East?
How many times have the pupils in our
schools been told that the sun rises in the
East? Doubtless, in a course of general,
primary instruction, it may be well enough
to say that the sun rises in the east and
sets in the west ; but, in more mature
classes the pupils should have the idea
more carefully expldined, and, in fact, told
that the sun, in reference to a given point
upon the earth, may never rise in the east
nor set in the west, exactly. For instance,
as the sun apparently approaches the
equator, it draws gradually nearer that line,
and finally reaches the position in which
the centre of its disk is vertical to it. If,
at that moment, a point far enough west
be taken, at which the sun is just rising,
it will be due east from this point to the
centre of the disk of the rising sun. And,
in the same way, if a point far enough east
be taken, at which the sun will be setting,
it will e due west to the centre of the
disk of the setting sun.
Of course, at either pole of the earth,
there is no East nor West, but at the
North Pole, for example, every line that
radiates from that point will be toward the
South. As the sun constantly approaches
the horizon, in the increasinff °
dawn of
the long polar day, with each revolution
of the earth, it must inevitably, to a spec
tator, at the North Pole, rise in the south.
remain in the south six months, and at the
end of this time set in the south, though.
with each revolution of the earth, it will
sweep the entire circle of the horizon.
He Came Back.
Governor Duval, of Florida, was the son
of a poor Virginian, a stern, strong taciturn
man. The boy was a huge youth of fifteen
At the cabin fire, at bed time, according
to the custom or putting on a back log, the
old man said, between the whiffs of his si
lent pipe :
"fah, go out and bring in that gum back
log, and put it on the fire ?"
Tab went out and surveyed the lug. He
knew that it was of no use explaining that
it was too heavy, nor prudent for him to
return without having it on his shoulder.
His little sister pissing, was not surprised
that he requested her to bring out the gun
and powder horn, as a possum or coon
might have passed, or the brother might
have seen bear signs. She brought the gun
and Tab started. He found the way
through the woods into Kentucky, in 1791.
After an absence of 18 years he was elect
ed to Congress. A man of immense size
and strength, he started for Washington,
going by the way of his old home, to see
the folks who had long since given him tr e
for dead. Entering the little cabin door
near bed time, he saw the identical gum
log. He shouldered it, pulled the latch
string and with his load stood before the
old man, pipe in mouth, as quiet as usual.
"Here is the gum back log, father."
"Well yoeve been a long time getting
it—put it on the fire and go to bed," was
the reply
Happiness is in taste and not in things;
and it is by having what we love that we
are happy, not by having what others find
agreeable.
The Dead Come to Life.
111 R. SCIIRACK DIES, BUT STILL LIVES—
THE REMARKABLE STORY OF HOW,
WHILE HE WAS BEING PREPARED FOR
BURIAL AND THE CRAPE WAS ON THE
DOOR, HE WAS LOOKING UPON A VIS
ION IN ANO2HER. LAND•
Philadelphia Times, January 29.]
At seven o'clock on Sunday morning
crape hung by the door of the dwelling
123 Mary street, a thoroughfare between
Carpenter street and Washington avenue,
in the second ward. The neighbors who
knew the story of a long and painful ill
ness said : "Poor Mr. Schrack has gone
at last !" Word was sent to the doctor
that he need attend his patient no longer.
The undertaker was visited. In old Swedes'
(Gloria Dei) Church Mr. Schrack's death
was announced and the Sunday school
scholars commented upon the death of the
teacher they had learned to love.
At 11 o'clock, four hours later, the
crape was torn down from beside the dwel
ling in Mary street. The order for the
undertaker was countermanded. The doc
tor was told to hurry to his patient. The
Sunday school scholars in Old Swedes'
Church were about passing a resolution of
condolence with their teacher's orphaned
boy when the pastor, Rev. S. B. Simes,
was handed a piece of paper bearing the
single word, hastily written : "Revived."
The neigborhood was soon thick with ru
mors, all having for their purport the com
ing of the dead to life Among those who
had an inkling of the facts it was general
ly agreed that something not far short of a
miracle had happened. The story is a re
markable one.
J. Harry Schrack, once a wealthy mer
chant, lost nearly all his fortune by indors.
ing the notes of others who were either
ingrates or were themselves unfortunate.
With his only son, his wife and two chil
dren having died, he has for some time
past resided in a neat little house on Mary
street. above Front. For the last four
months he has been seriously ill, with ner
vous spasms of the heart. During the lat
ter part of last week he himself gave up
all hope of living, and the attending phy
sician, Dr. James H. Cantrell, expected
his patient's death momentarily.
MR. SCRRACK DIES.
Apparently Mr. Schrack died at twenty
minutes of 7 o'clock on Sunday morning.
His limbs became cold and rigid, his lips
colored purple, and around his mouth was
the blue mark, generally supposed to be
token death. A hand mirror was placed
over his mouth, but its shining surface
was not dimmed. His friends and neigh
bors who stood around pronounced him
dead and grieved for him. A few hours
afterwards the body was completely strip
ped that it might be prepared for the un
dertaker's hands. Before washing the
corpse it was necessary to remove it from
the bed. A neighbor, Mr. Charles Shank
land, lifted the body, when, to his alarm,
he distinctly heard a feeble groan. A bur
ried examination developed the fact that
the man was not dead. The body was
wrapped in blankets and bottles of hot
water placed between them. Mr. Shank
land hurried fur the doctor, and, returning
quickly, acted under the instructions he
had received until the doctor arrived. In
a short time Mr. Schrack had regained
consciousness, and was sitting up in bed,
but more than that, the man who before
was lying at death's door, and who was
terribly afflicted with disease, was almost
as sound and well as ever he was in his
life. Mr. Schrack dreaded the idea of his
peetoiar case being made public, but, if the
particulars were to be related he said he
would prefer narrating them himself, so
that the statement might be correct. A
Times representative yesterday found him
sitting up in bed, with a bright color in
his cheeks and looking like anything else
but a corpse. He is a young man, proba
bly 30 years of age, a good talker and in
telligent. He spoke in a hoarse whisper,
not the result of his illness, but caused by
his catching a slight cold in consequence of
the perspiration he was thrown into by the
remedies employed to revive him. He
spoke earnestly of his experience, but was
vivacious and smiling, and at times joked
about the expre%sions of the doctor when
he found him alive. He tells his story as
follows :
THE DEAD MAN'S STORY.
"Last September I had a terrible attack
of hemorrhage of the lungs and since then
I have not been able to do anything, ex
cept for one period of three weeks. My
health at times was fair, but three weeks
ago I felt that I was going fast. My flesh
left my body. My entire appearance chang
ed. My appetite was gone. Everything
I swallowed was at once thrown of my
stomach. Last Thursday a week I found
I would have to give up. I felt as though
the power of action in my limbs was leav
ing me. I was fearful of going to bed, so
I sat in a chair fur three days and three
nights. I then made up my mind that I
would have to die and I asked to be put
to bed. Wednesday night I was taken
with something like a chill and spasms at
the heart. After coming through that 1
seemed to revive until last Saturday. Ev
ery hour during that day I experienced a
change. While the right band would be
purple the left would be white. When
the left band became dark the right became
white again. The entire left side of my
body was numb and almost useless. About
9 o'clock on Saturday night my eyesight
began failing me. I lost my hearing and
my speech became thick, my tongue being
greatly swo 1:n. I had fully made up my
mind that I had to die. At about 4 o'-
clock on Sunday morning the tips of my
fingers became like lead. My sight VMS
entirely gone. My stomach was terribly
swollen and was greatly inflamed. Each
succeeding cramp was wore severe and
reached higher up into the stomach. All
the passages of my throat seemed to be
closed. Shortly before 7 o'clock I asked
to be moved to the foot of the bed. My
head had scarcely touched the pillow when
I exclaimed : "Throw me over !" and
then—l found myself in another land. The
vision that I looked upon was the most
beautiful that man ever saw. It would be
impossible for me to give a description that
would do it justice. My first feeling was
that of falling down a great height, and
then I found myself in a valley. I walked
along until I came to a terrible, dark, black
river. at sight of which I shuddered and
feared Before me and beyond the river
was a black cloud. Others were walking
over the river, and, although I dreaded it,
something urged me on and I felt that I
had to go with the others. As I got near
er to the dark cloud it became bright and
beautiful, and expanding it opened and
disclosed the most beautiful sight. The
first I saw was Jesus. I saw a great tem
ple and a great throne. I saw my little
boy, who was drowned two years ago, and
my other dead child I saw my dead wife;
but I could not touch them. I saw pea.
ple whom I had almost forgotten. I saw
my old gray haired grandfather, who died
when I was but two years old. There were
many whom I looked for, but I did not see
them.
MR. SCHRACICS D
"Then the vision began receding, and I
never can describe the terrible disappoint
ment I felt when I found myself again its
bed. I felt, indeed, grieved. It was 11
o'clock when I regained consciousness, and
at once I felt as though my life had been
renewed. I was a new man. I had not
then, nor have I now, an ache or a pain.
My eyesight, my hearing and my speech
bad fully returned, and I feel now as well
as I ever did in my life."
Dr. James H. Cantrell, the attending
physician, said that Mr. Schrack was at
tacked with nervous spasms of the heart.
"I expected his death at any moment. He
was in such a condition since Sunday
a week that I did not dare to make an ex
amination of his lungs, as I knew he could ..
nut stand it. Mr. Sohrack told me that
the four hours of his unconsciousness he
had but one foot on earth, and he was very
sorry that I had brought him back, be
cause he was so happy where be was."
Showing how fully he has recovered,
Mr. Schrack said laughingly yesterday
that if he was to become the subject of no
toriety, perhaps people would be flocking
to see him. "In that case," and here be
laughed heartily, "I will have to charge
twenty-five cents for admission, and then
perhaps Barnum will be after me."
Beds.
It, is curious to notice the habits of dif
ferent nations in regard to beds. However
dress, food, manners, cooking, political
conditions, may vary in other countries,
the beds differ as notably as anything does.
In Eastern nations the bed is often noth
ing but a carpet, and is carried about and
spread in any convenient spot, and the
tired native lies down in his clothes. I
remember a child who used to be punted e.
with those miracles of our Saviour, who, `.
in restoring an impotent man, directed
him to take up his bed and walk—the e
child's idea of a bed consisting in a four ,
post bedstead, with its palliasse, mattress,
and feather bed, besides blankets, sheets
and pillows. But even in very cold coin
tries the beds are very closely allied to the
Eastern carpet. In taking a furnished -
house in Russia, on inquiring for the
servant's bedrooms and beds, it comes out
that the Russian servants are in the habit
of lying anywhere—in the passage, on the
floors, on the mats at the room-doers, or
even on the carpets in the sitting-rooms—
generally as near as possible to the stoves e
in the winter season. But in Russia the
houses are kept so warm, by the system of
stoves through the walls,. that mash bed
covering is no more required in winter
than during the heats of summer. In •
Germany the construction of the beds
gives one the impression that the Germans
do not know what it is to lie down. The
bedstead is a short wooden case; there is
a mattress extending from head to foot,
bur: so formed that at the half way, the
upper end is made to slope at an angle of
considerable elevation, and upon this are
two enormous down pillows, which reee6 ;
from the head of the bed to half way dohs
to the feet; consequently the occupant of •
the bed lies at an angle of at. least forty ee
five degress, and is nearly in a sitting V.
sition all night. In some parts of Ger. '
many there are no blankets; there is a
sheet to lie on, and another over it, which
is tacked to a quilt wadded with down;
and this is the entire covering, with the
exception of a sort of bed, a thick eider
down quilt, but not quilted, which is planed
on the top, and which, unless the sleeper
is very quiet in his sleep, is usually found
on the floor in the morning. In hot
weather there is no medium ; either a sheet
is the only covering, or one of those over
warm eider downs. As the traveler pro
ceeds more and more northerly, the size of
the beds seems to decrease, and the cover
ior, provided to be less adapted to the
changes c ' of the seasons. Curtains to beds
are rarely or never met with in Germany
or in Russia. While the bedstead.
dwindle down to the smallest possible wise
in the northern parts of Europe, in the
parts of North Italy near Como and Milan
are found enormously large ones
Beds have been stuffed with feathers,
wool, horsehair, what is called flock, which
is an omnium gatherum of all sorts of pro
duction, shavings, hay, straw, and in the
south of Europe with the soft and elastic
dried leaves of maize; dried seaweed has
also been used, but, pleasant as it was
when perfectly dry, the sea salt abiding
among it attracted the moisture in every
direction, from the atmosphere, from the
perspiration lee and it became damp and
unpleasant. In one of the seasons when
bops were abundant in England it is related.
of a farmer that he soli the feathers from
all the beds in his house, and replaced them
with the hope. In another year or two,
when the hops failed, and the price became
very high, these same hope were disinterred
from their beds, and fetched a considerable
sum, far more than salficieut to replace the
original feathers. History does not say
whether the farmer's family slept more
soundly for the hop beds, or whether the
hops thus preserved were found to have
any peculiarly tine flavor when made into
beer. There is no doubt that a vast num
ber of people in health—we say nothing of
invalids—lie too long in bed. It may also
be said that they sleep too hot, as well as
too long, to be likely to preserve health
and live to a good old age. It has bees
long known that those who have far ex.
seeded the ordinary length of human life,
whatever their other habits may have been,
have been early risers; also that very old
people who keep their health usually have
slept with very little bed covering. Yowl%
children and people with feeble (siren'sa
tions require more clothing than others,
but only at first; and when once warmed,
they would become too hot, their sleep
would be broken or nnrefreshed, unless
some of the extra clothing was removed.
He Was Partly Provided For.
He had been gone from the parental
roof six months—left home in the first
bloom of summer, with a smile upon his
brow and a pickax in his hand The
Black Hills bis destination, glory and gold
the goal. A summer spent among the
auriferous rocks—industry, perseverance
and a rare knowledge of chemistry and
mineralogy his useful tools, in addition to
his pickax. Results are such that he is
enabled to return sooner than his most
sanguine expectations bad allowed him to
dream of doing.
Almost home, he pauses outside the
town until nightfall and sends to his wait
ing, expectant parent the following aug•
gestive message:
"Bring me a large blanket and a pair of
old pants--I've got a hat I"
NO. 6.