Wtant 111
Wealth and glory and place and power—
What are they worth to ino or yo-iT
For tho leiuie of lUe runa out in an hour,
And death stands ready to claim his due.
Bounding honor*, or heap* ol gold—
What arc they all whon all la told?
A pain or a pleaanre, a anulo or u tear—
What doOa it uufttor which wo claim?
For wo atrp from tho ciadlo into the bier,
And a caioloaa world gooa on tb anino.
Hoars ol gladnees, or hour* of sorrow—
What will it matter to ua to-morrow?
Troth ot love, or vow ot friend,
Tender caresses, or orael sneers—
What do they matter to us in the cud?
For the brie! day dies, and the long night
nears.
I'aHsionate kisses, or (cars ol gall—
The grave will open and cover them all.
Homeless vagrant, or honored guest,
Poor and bumble, or rich and great,
All are racked with the world's unreet,
All must meet with the common late.
Lite Irom childhood till we are old—
What is all when all is told?
Ella Whttltr.
A TERRIBLE ADVENTURE.
In tLb spring of 1876 Mexico tvus in a
tumult. Lor Jo, the chief justice, suc
ceeding to '' presidency at the death of
Juan z, and afterward elected for a sec
ond term, announced himself as a can
didate for the third. His political I
opponents, enraged at the thought of a
third term, uprose in all directions and
declared for Diaz. In March of this
year only the rumblings of the rebellion
were heard, but society was daily lie
coming more and more disturbed.
Armed men were everywhere about, and
many bands oi lawless ruffians were
scouring the outskirts of the cities nnd
towns, slealing from the farmers, and
leaving behind them desolation and
despair—truly a peculiarly dangerous
and unfortunate time for a foreigner to
set out on a journey.
On a lovely morning in early March
a young American gentleman left the
town of Matanzas to travel to Jalapa.
The narrow road at first winds up the
aide of the mountain, turning sharply
around sudden bends, where a single
misstep of the horse or mule would hurl
the rider far down into the valley below.
It is as if the great mountain had been
hollowed out, and the jagged sides left
standing vlth a rude path trending
from the base to the summit. The
American was accompanied by six na
tive horsemen mounted on mustangs
similar to his own. and four footmm,
The whole party were armed. After
passing at < uthalf way up the mo n sin
side the traveler halted, and moti >::rr.
to his followers to do the same. For n
long lime he sat motionless in liis saddle
gazing out at the exquisite picture be
fore him. In the distance, far below,
lay the wonderful valley of Matanzas,
the " Harden of Mexico." The rich,
j-.xceasivc vegetation could be
disrernt-d, and a few light, and graceful
clouds hung drifted against tho tower
ing rocks. The beams of the lately
risen sun were pouring over the hill
tops a d illuminating the vast plain
braeatl with a frcsli nnd rosy light. lie
tnus hi-ve been indeed a prosaic and
nr.i.p: -eciative man who would pass
carelessly by such a wonder-work of
nature.
His reverie was suddenly broken by a
shunt from above. Looking up he saw
a single horseman picxing bis way care
fully toward him. He was soon recog
nized by the men as a resident of Mat
anxas. When he drew near he spoke
rapidly and excitedly to the escort in
their peculiar patois, gesticulating vio
lently ail the while.
The effect was immediate and start
ling. The entire body of native horse
men, with one exception, and all the
footmen, turned sharply around and
msde their way rapidly down the moun
tainside, without a word of explanation
or farewell to their employer. The only
one who remained was Filomeno, who
had been sent by bis master, a friend of (
the traveler, to set mpany him to Ja
lapa, and who understood English after
a fashion. He sat motionless in his sad
dle, gating after his eoantrymcn, now
fast disappearing around the curves of
the rat. way.
" What's the matter, Filomeno?" ask
ed the American at length, rising in his
saddle as he spoke, and shading his eyes
with his band, as be looked alter the
deserters, " what did that fellow say
that has made all this fuss?"
"He said," replied the Mexican slow
ly, " that revolution has already broken
oat at Jalapa; tbal tbe terrible soldiers
of the plains are before us, and that if
yon proceed yon will be surronnded and
killed."
" Stuff," said the American," " I am
not afraid. Filomeno, let as go on."
And, as bespoke, he tightened his hoi
on his horse's rein, and was about to
proceed, when he saw that Filomeno
hA not stirred.
"Come, Filomeno," said he, "time is
slipping by and we must be off. Barely
you are not afraid to accompany me f
"Nomatter." answered tnc Mexican,
" but I cannot go as 1 am. AH these
robbers know Filomeno. and would give
a good price for my head. If Igo with
you I must go disguised. Wait;" and,
turning sionnd, he scrambled lightly
and qu only tack Irom the road toward a
little hut near by, whence a thin wreath
of smoke was curling laaiiy up through
the ciear nmrning air. He was gone
scarcely fifteen minnloa, and when lie
again drew near th American hardly
knew liim. Filomeno had disappeared
unuer tlic guise of a cfinrcoal-burner.
"Now I am ready; I have left my
horse whero it will be taken care of,"
ho said, and now on foot he fell into his
old placo close behind tho American's
mustang.
And so they journeyed on, up into the
clouds and then down again, over the
rich breasts of valleys which are only
found in the tropics, and along the tracks
of old watercourses, and through brooks
and little rivers of a peculiar greenish
hue. Around them was nature in all her
wasteful luxuriance, but no sign of
anything human to help or hinder Ihetu
That night they encamped in a small
valley, and resumed their journey at
daybieak. At eleven o'clock on the
morning of this day they were drawing
near Jalapa. The bun was beating down
out of a cloudless sky; tho heat was in
tense; and a deep stillness seemed to
have settled over the great plain. He
fore them was the valley of Jalapa; on
the right the volcano of Orizaba, its
cone white with snow and ice, its sides
covered with that luxuriance of foliage
oniy known where eternal summer
reigns.
The American, too tired even to notice
this, was nodding in his saddle, and for
a long time had not spoken to his com
panion. Ho was aroused by a low cry
from Filomeno. Turing toward him
and following the dirrection of his eyes,
lie saw a large body of horsemen gallop
ing tow ind iiim. He could sec at once
that they were not regular soldiers.
They advanced in confusion, and no
two men teemed dressed alike. It was
a squad of the dreaded guerrillas on a
foraging expedition. With a terrible
feeling of despair tiie American again
looked around for Fiiomeno. lie had
fled. Tho American was alone, with
100 wild anil lawless Mexican robbers
bearing down on him, like a tusliing
wind across a placid inke.
In a moment, as it seemed, they were i
upon him and around him. Resistance
w;\s useless. A score of pistols pointed
at him, a score of swards were raised
above Lis head, and n score of longsticks
with knives on theends, ca,.ed " malchc
zics," were pricking him in ail directions
He was pulled ofl his horse in a twink
ling, s.ripped naked in the midst of a
dense circle of howling savages, who
were cursing and fighting for his vari
ous articles of dres. At length Lis
clothing, arms and valuables were
divided. The leader of the hand, with
the American's watch dangling from liis
belt, shouted out an order to his men.
The troopers armed with ' match-zies"
rode up to the prisoner and commanded
him to walk before them. " You Ameri
can dog,' they exclaimed in Bparisb,
"you dog of a spy.be off to Jalapa. W hen
we get you there we'll teach you to sneak
around our lines. March P
And in order to add emphasis to their
words they prodded the prisoner with
the points of their "matcbczies" till the
blood started from more than one wound
on his arm and legs. Angry, faint and
sore, and half blinded by the fierce rays
of the sun, the American wheeled around
and upbraided the leader for tin so in
dignitirs, and especially for depriving
him of his clothes. In reply one of the
soldiers puiied out from under his saddle
a piece of coarse and filthy matting,
which he carelessly tossed to the pris
oner.
" Take this," he said; "it is too small
for you, but the fleas in it will keep you
warm.' 1
And so, wrapping his dirty covering
about his shoulders, our countryman
started on his painful march to Jalapa.
At three o'clock in the afternoon they
reached the town. The American was
hustled into a wretched adobe but on
the outskirts of the village, and the
Mexicans, afUr posting a guard around
the place, tied their horses under a shed
and gave themselves up to rest and bois
terous recreation. Inside the hut on a
rude bench the American sat silent hour
after hour. At length he walked to a
little window and begged for water.
There was no response. The bare walls
only echoed bis cry of "Aqua! aqua!"
All the next day, too, the prisoner
was kept without food or drink or
clothes. At times bis mind wandered
a little. At sunset the cool evening air
somewhat revived him. He moved his
bench under the window of the hut, and
stretching himself under it listened
carelcaslj to the idle conversation of the
soldiers outside. Suddenly his heart
gave a terrible throb; a cold perspira
tion overwhelmed him, and he fainted.
What be had hear was this: The sol •
diers were talking about a fair that was
to open in Jalapa on the morrow, and
they were detailing to a new-comer
some of the amusements that had been
planned for the occasion.
"We ars going to have a shooting
match at noon." said one; "we have
got nn American spy in that box yonder,
and we are going to tie him to a stake
and shoot at him with our revolvers.
Whoever kills him will get five silver
dollsrs. The dog*s hours are num
bered '
These were the words which had fallen
on tho American like a pall.
It was probably much less than a
Lour that the prisoner lay insensible.
Then he roused himscif and, like the
| brave man that he was, looked his
doom in the lace. So be was to die, and
; die the death of a miserable cur; be, the
inhabitant of a pleasant Northern city,
with youth, health, kind friends and
fortune. To be tied to a stake in a
Mexican market place and shut for a
paltry prise. These thoughts wet*
maddening. He called fiercely to his
captors to liberate him; ho strode fur
iously up and down the room; he rushed
to the window and rattled tue bars;
and finally from sheer exhaustion lie
snnk down on the floor in despair.
He lay still for a long time.
Ho could not mark the hours, hut at
length ho knew by the cool wind that
crept in through the bars, that day—his
last day -was not lar away. Then he
heard a cock crow; and then he saw a
bright ray of sunlight come flashing
into his iiut, and h< was sure that he
had but a few hours more to live He
made up his mind that he would die
bravely. Ho rose to his full height,
stretched his limbs, and raised his head
proudly. As ho did so he heard the
sound of horses galloping toward him.
He rushed to the window and looked
out. A cavalry officer in a fine uniform,
with flashing arms and equipments, and
followed by a squ*>d of men, was com
ing <very moment nearer and nearer,
The lounging guerrillas around his
prison started up ami stood respectfully
aside; several who lingered were
knocked over by the hurrying hoofs of
the horsemen. The officer rode close up
to the hut, and, pulling his horse almost
on to his haunches, he leaped to the
ground. With a quick ant! angry
command to the guard at the door the
bolt was drawn back.
The American, entirely naked, was
standing in the middle of the room.
Advancing, and speaking in English,
the officer said:
" Who are you, and where do you
come Irom P"
" I am an American traveler from the
State of Massachusetts," was the reply.
" Massachusetts!" said the other;
"that is near Connecticut. I went to
school in that Slate years ago. I like
Americans. Yesterday I heard in this j
city that some rascally fellows had cap
tured an American ;uid were going to
torture him at the fair to-day. It is
fortunate for you that I have conic."
Then taking off his coat he insisted on
the American wearing it, and, in re
sponse to iiis call, other gariwnts were
soon obtained.
"Now," said the officer, "take this
horse and come to my quarters."
Then, turning around, lie shouted out
in Spanish to the chief of the guerrillas: j
" Francisco, if I hear of another prank
like this, I shall s-nd my orderly to
biow out your brains."
At the officer's quarters in the city,
our countryman received every possible
attention, and as soon as lie was rested
and refreshed he was furnished with
horses and money and escorted safely to
Vera Cruz.
Libby Prison.
An Eastern paper says: Although
thousands of Northern men liave been
inmates of Libby prison, comparatively
few are acquainted witti the history ol
the now memorable building, constant
ly pointed out to persons visiting Rich
mond. The former military jail was
lately sold at auction, and brought but
$6,?85, although tbe auctioneer pro
nounced its associations so precious in
the North that, if it were pulled down,
every one of its 940,000 brirks would
sell for a dollar apiece. The purchaser
was James T. Gray, a Richmond capi
talist. who has rented it to F. M . Boy
ken to be used as a tobacco factory, as
it has often been before. The building,
140 feet Iron' and 105 deep, was put up
fifteen or twenty years before the war by
James Libby, and occupied by him and
his sons as a grocery and ship chandlery
within a short time be'i r • the breaking
out of the civil war. Their sign re
maincd on the build ng until l§>3. and
is probably remembered by many of
the Union soldiers immured within its
dreary walls. The elder Libby, who
accumulated a large fortune, lived on
what was called Church hill, near the
famoua St- John's church, in which
Patrick Henry delivered (March, 1775)
liis celebrated "Give m liberty or
give me death' harangue. The hill
overlooking (lie James river has been
turned into a park sines the war and
named Libby Hill park. Libby was not,
as is commonly thodght, the first
mliitsry prison in Richmond. The
first was a large frame atrncture
that had been employed to house
negroes previous to their aaie.
It was in Lumpkin's alley, and got tbe
name of Castle Goodwin, but having
proved inadequate for its military pur
poses the prisoners of war were re
moved to the larger structure on tbe
dock, which haa just been sold. Not one
of the Libby prison officials is now. it
iasaid, in Richmond, though a number
of men who guarded it are still there.
M)\jor Turner, it* commander, was one
of the youngett men in the Confederate
service. When Virginia had seceded,
be left West Point, where he was then a
cadet, and went South. Before Rich
mond had fallen he fled from
the city, believing that he would
be elain by the soldiers of
tbe victorious army, and afterward
went to Mexico, where he entered tbe
service of the ill-fated Maximilian.
After the execution of the Austrian
archduke. Turner fled back to bla native
land, studied dentistry in New Orleans
and has for some years been practicing
bla profession in Mississippi. He could
not believe for a long while that bis life
would be safe where he was generally
known, and it is said that he still thinks
he would be killed by some of the quon
dam prisoners if he should come North.
Libby looks very much as it did during
the war, thougli the bars have been
removed Irom tbe windows, and tome
of tbe inner partitions have been taken
down. It is so interesting a relic of
history that it should be carefully
preserved.
AS AKI/OSA WONDKK.
A Itrmarh.hle C*e In lha Maul* 1(11*
MiiUlui-Th H'ttioiiilm* I'll.
Hie Tucson (Arizona) CUiaen any*:
For several years the existence of a cu
rious cave near Groaterville has hern
known to the miners of the vicinity, but
the difficulty of thorough exploration
lias deterred many from visiting it, and
half its wonderful extent is yet un
known. From P.J. Coyne, a well
known and icliable prospector, who is
in the city, in company with Mr. John
son, a OiHten reporter (rat tie red some
interesting facts regarding the cave, the
result of a partial exploration. The
cave which is known by the miners as
the Aztec, is located about four miles
south of the (ireaterviillc placers, in a
limestone ridge. Quite recently a
party of miners, numbering eight
or ten, including Mr. Coyne, determined
to discover, it possible, the extent and
resources of the cave, and provided
thembelvos with ropes, candles and
other necessities. They explored sev
enteen rooms in all, the corridors and
approaches to which extend nearly a
mile from the entrance. They ex
perienced great difficulty, as their pro
gre s was frequently interrupted by
abrupt breaks in the plane of the cave
at which breaks they rapidly used up
their available supply of ropes. The
<ave has two entrances, which lead into
an oval cavity, thenee a corridor leads
into a large room, and thence into a
still larger. In from the latter are two
smaller cavities, and these comprise the
extent of former explorations. In them
have been found at various times in the
past relies of Indian occupation, in
cluding arrows and skeletons. In
one place several Indian skeletons
were lound in a depression in the
floor of the cave, evidently fash
ioned by human hands. This latter
room isdescribed as being of marvelous
b-nuty. It is irregular in shape, and is
fu.l of all the various forms which the
action of time has the power to create.
In one of these rooms is a group of al
most perfect statuary. It consists of a
.argc block of iimcstone in the shnpc of
a man. w >mnn and child, the man being
in tbe center, and nl-o having the closest 1
resemblance' to humanity. The head is
especially like that of a man. having the
features almost distinct, and surmounted
by a hat. A short distance away from
the group, in the flickering candle light,
the ihusion is said to be absolute y pre
fect. At this point the rave discloses
the strange feature of being two-storied,
to reach the lower rooms of which it is
necessary to descend by means of ropei.
Here the extent of the old explorations
cc**c. and the adventurers had to be
careful lest some new and strange fea
ture of the cave cause them trouble.
In one of a group of three lower
rooms was found a huge stalagmite,
which was instinctively called Pompry's
Pillar. It is three feet in diameter as
the base, and lessens gracefully in size
to the roof of the cave thirty feet high.
Tliis is probably fICO feet below the sur
face. From the rooms last mentioned
a corridor leads to a very large and
irregular cavity, and from this small
corridors lead to very beautful rooms,
which were given the names of different
members of the exploring party. The
one named for Mr. Coyne is the largest
in tbe rave. From what was named
"Halo's Koom " the party followed a
steeply inclined tunnel, aeventy-flve or
eighty feet long, which terminated in a
large abyss sixty or seventy feet in
diameter. Alter lowering one of the
party down the perpendicular sides from
the mouth of the tunnel as far as the re
maining rope would permit (about
seventy feet), and failing to find bot
tom, the explorers named it the "Bot
tomless Pit,** and returned.
Potatoes Preserved.
The great drawback in the past in the
way of an extended export trade of po
tatoes i-oni this country has lain in tbe
fact that in ocean voyages the vegetable
is susceptible to sweat and rot, and on
arrival the losses from this cause are
ofwn found to counterbalance the profit
made on the intact part of the cargo.
This inconvenience seems to he over
come by the recent invention of a
machine for pressing and preserv
ing potatoes in such a manner
that they may be dried and
kept for a number ol years in any cli
mate. It Is said that no oxidation or
fermentation takes place in tbe process,
and that often tbe potatoes sfter they
go through the entire process retain to a
great extent their natural taste and
original freshness. We understand that
shipments of these potatoes made to
England recently, more particularly
those from California, have commanded
earnest attention, and that the demand
for them largely exceeds the present
supply. It is claimed that in tbe opera*
tion of curing no chemicals are needed,
everything being done by a simple
machine, which is capable of pre
serving six hundred bushels of
potaUes in twenty-four hours. The
machine not only presses tbe potatoes,
but lays them on a tray in a concave
form with the hollow Bide down. After
the pressure they are put into a drying
apparatus, where they remain for two
hours, then they are ground into ooarse
meal i csembllng cracked lies. The first
shipment of preserved potatoes to Liver
pool brought the handsome sum of 9160
per ton more than ail expense of ship
ment. Last year about 'twenty tons
were shipped by one San Francieeo
merchant which brought forty-five
Kngiieb abill age per hundredweight, or
at a rate of .ill-60 per bushel for green
potatoes. T.iis surely would leave a
good margin for cost of preserving and
profits.— Botto* Commercial BulUltn.
HOME OLD PEOI'LE.
Robert Stewart, of Clearfield county
l'a., is 100 years ol age, and is still very
active.
Mrs. Bridget Connelly died in Walt
ham, Mass., on Monday, at the alleged
age of 108 years.
Mrs. Henry Bryan was in her ninetieth
year when she died. She went to live
in Centerville, Ohio, in IHI3.
Joseph Berlin, of Bell township, W est
moreland county. Pa., died recently,
after he had becomes cenVnarian.
The oldest man to speak Irom a politi
cal platform in the late campaign was
Araoß Perkins, of Unity, N. I!., who is
in his ninety-third year.
Mrs. Fannie Hill, of Hardin eounty,
Ky, is ninety-five years old; and Marcus
Crandall, commonly known as the hero
of the Algcrine war, is in his ninety
fourth year.
John Brown, of Brown7ille, Md., is
ninety years old, and still holds the post
mastership there. He is the oldest oflloe
holder in the country. He waaappointed
in lb3o, by President Jackson.
Shadrach Clay well, a Western pio
neer, died at his home in Woodbine, 111,,
from a fall from a load of hay. He car
ried the first mail between Gahna and
Freeport, marking his course with a
hatchet.
Mrs. Hannah Seivere. of Mount Pleas
ant, N. J., has celebrated her ninetieth
I birthday. She is the m ither of heavy
W' ighls, the lightest ol her children
| tipping the scales at 3l'i pounds nr.d the
heaviest at Bflo pounds.
Aitoona is proud of thirteen of her
citizens, w' i.ie sges aggregate I.UB
years. On'of them, James Kcwburry,
wlio is in his eighty-fifth year, served in
the war ol ISI3. in the Mexican war,
and throughout the late rebellion.
John Kynor was born at Mount Hope,
N . J., in sight of the old furnace and
foundry in which, during the It v .u
--tionary war, cannon and cannon balls
w. re made by the Continental srmy.
lie died recently at Boon ton, aged
ninety-four years.
Five generations of the Ixngfeilow
fami.y arc living under the same rool
at Maloom, lowa. Charles Longfellow
has in his familv his mother, aged near
ly sixty-nine; his grandmother, aged
ninety-three; his own daughter, and her
little child of three months.
Butter and I hec*e Factories.
Few of the modern contrivances for
rendering American farming profiub.e
arc deserving of more attention and en
couragement on the part of our tanners
themselves than the establishments for
the manufacture of butter ard cbqese
on a large scale, which now flourish so
extensively in New York, New Jersey.
Pennsylvania and Ohio. This business
originated in the State of New York,
where it has become quite large, and
has been the principal cause of building
up the dairy interests of that State
to such remarkable proportions. Penn
sylvania is really one of the very best
regions of the country for dairy farm
ing, but this particular form of utilising
our dairy products was only introduced
there long after it had attained great
magnitude in New York, and was
making rapid headway in Ohio, Indiana
and Illinois. This btuineei. besides
furnishing staple products for the home
market adequate to the largest possible
demand, ba enabled us to become ex
tensive importers of butter and cheese
to Great Britain and continental Eu
rope. where American cheese has be
come a preferred article. Although late
in turning her atention to the establish
ment of butter and cheese factories,
Pennsylvania seeme at last to be going
ahead in it laboriously, perseveringlj
and with great earnestness, seal and suc
cess. Wherever these factories are es
tablished they at once furnish rood
markets lor milk and cream produced
by all the dairies for miles around.
UndcT such circumstances there is
every possible inducement to undertake
such enterprises wherever tbe capital
can be raised for the purpose. German
town Tcltgraph.
" I Knew That.**
A London pnper has heard of a case
where a dro.l fellow named Scrubbs got
into a first-class railway carriage, before
smoking carriages were invented. In
the carriage was seated a sour-looking
old gentleman. After the train had
started, Scrubbs took out his pipe.
"You mustn't smoke here,"at once
said the old gentleman.
" I know that," replied Scrubbs. lie
then calmly filled his pipe.
"Did I not tell you," said the o. g.
again, " that you can't smoke here V
" I know that," gloomily replied
Scrubbs, taking out hie fusee box. He
lit a fusee, but now the wroth of tbe o.
g. was dreadful.
"You shant smoke here, sir!" he
ehrieked.
" I know that," added Scrubbs, allow
ing the fusee to exhaust itself, when he
lit another, and another; lbs stench was
awful, the smoke suffocating.
The o. g.. coughing and splattering,
struggled for words. "You'd better
smoke," mid he.
" I know that," replied Scrubbs, ap
plying tbe biasing fusee to tbe expectant
pipe-
Tbe habit of American girls marrying
Italian counts has slackened up a little
of late-. The life of following around s
hard organ and passing the tambourine
for pennies is not sa attractive as for
merly.
What Will Happen Tbli Year.
" To *n et.'l tbe world come
In oightMfii hundred *nd eighty-one.'
Mother Shipton made some notable
prophecies; lor instance, the "Tele
graphs," the " flrcat Ironclads," and
sundry other thing* equally astonish
ing; but search reveals the fact that the
above prophecy, alleged to have been
made by Mother Shipton, aa well as a
certain prophecy about the railways,
are spurious and false, and do not appear
in any of the editions oelorc Iwu They
were then published by a Mr. ilindly,
of Brighton, who subsequently acknowl
edged the forgeries as is own in "Notes
and Queries." It therefore amounts to
this, that Mother Shipton never proph
esied any such a thing as the world
coming to an end in Ibci. and, so far as
she is concerned, my readers may not
disturb their minds. It cannot, how
ever, be denied that 1881 will be a
remarkable year, chiefly on account of
the great conjunction of S'turn and
Jupiter (and the proximity of the sun at
the time) in the sign Taurus. Such an
event will alter the face of the earth hy the
prevalence ol great and continued earth
quakes, the uprising of islands, and the
subsidence of land already above the
s<a. Plato in his " Timon " mentions
that there was a gigantic island in the
place where the Atlantic oe-can now is,
and that it wa- larger than all Lybia
and Asia together, and was inhabited
by a very warlike race: but in snoceed
ing time-s prodigious earthquakes and
deluges taking place, the whole island
was made desolate in one day and night,
and absorbed in the sea. Ti.ere is not
the least doubt but that the subsistence
of this island caused the upheaving of
the land now called America. Louis
Kiguier also, in "The Wor d Before the
De.uge,"' Bays: "The upheaving of the
Caueasus and an adjoining range of
mountain" was the- cause 0 f the Asiatic
deluge in Noah's time." It is a fact
that in the bowels of the- earth there
[is a l.er.t, g< r.e-ra'ing (•'.'■am, vapor,
and lava, to which we- are? infants, and
'•an form 1,0 ide-a of its intensity, and
earthquakes are the results of a combin
ation of Fleam, water and gases, which
congregating together, at length burns
the crust of tLe earth and escape-#. In
the earthquakes at Manilla the other
day the earth opened, and fire? and
water were ejected to an immense ele
vation. Vesuvius anel other burning
mountains art- outlets, or s fety valves,
as they have iw-en frequently ca led. In
mountairous countries shocks of earth
quakes are frequent, and mountains are
formed by the upheaving of the- crust of
the earth.
In conclusion, although I do not and
ticipate the approach of thr " last day."
yet I cannot close eyes to the fact
that there will be startling phenomena,
and such as the oldest man living never
saw before. In the Cabala nine is a
mystic number signifying "comple
tion." and 1881 has the singular prop
erty ol being divided thus—l plus 8
equal to 9. Nine is a peculiar number,
(or in all its multiples the total is 9.
Thus nine time* 9 equal to |B. 1 plus 8
equal to 8, 9 limes 3 equal to *37, 2 plus
7 equal to 9, 9 times i equal to 38, 3
plus fi equal to 9, and so on to any
amount; and this is the oniy number
which ran he multiplied into itself.
This also marks an important year, and
I look forward to some grand physical
and martial events, to which at present
we are strangers. It is true the world
may he destroyed, for the time when
this will happen is known to no one.
Everybody Is in doubt aix.ul it. so I
must leave it. and I candidly confess
that neither I nor any one else know
when it will be. — Ilaph&cfs Prophitic
iicuenetr for 1881.
Dual Let the Fire Us Out.
Curtis Andrews, living in the Fourth
district of Carolina co inty. is now
eighty-two years old. His wife is
nearly the same age. and they have lived
together for sixty years. Their life lias
been plain and laborious,but their faces
wear a look of smiling content that
draws kindly feeling toward them.
When asked the secret of his happiness,
Andrews replied:" Well, sir, I have
always noticed that there is more
trouble between man and wife over
making the fire in the morning than
anything else. If they can get along
smoothly about that, everything else is
smooth.
•My wife and I went to housekeep
ing together in our log cabin fifty years
ago. We've only got one fireplace, but
that's a big one. When we moved in I
said to ber: "Sally, Til make tbe fire
and I'll tend to it.* I made
and it's been burning ever since. For
nigh fifty years I've fixed it up in lb
morning. I've never had any matches
in the house, and there are never any
sulphur smells in tbe household. While
that fire burns, sir, there is peace in
Curtis Andrews' house."
Aged 128 Years.
On tbe Little Colorado Ls a lady who
avers that she is ISB years of sge. She
says she was thirty years ol sge at tbe
time of tbe dark day which created such
consternation. Tbe Spaniards buried
all their saints, of which they had a • e
goodly number, while the Indians took
to feasting on dogs and other animals.
The "dark day"* was so called on
account of tbe remarkable darkness
which extended throughout America.
Tbe obscuration commenced about ten
o'clock in the morning of May 19, 1780,
and continued until tbe middle ol tbe
next night. Birds sang their evening
song, disappeared and remained silent;
fowie event to roost, cattle sought the
bsrn-yard? and candles were lighted in
the house.