Centre Democrat. (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, January 19, 1882, Image 2
Che € Mitre Democrat. BELLEFONTE, PA. Th* Largest, Cheapest wad Best Paper PUBLISHXI) IN CXNTHK COUNTY. ANDREW JACKSON. His Last Day, Death and Funeral. An l'npublished l.rtler Oonunnnlcnlsd l Ibo Bun. NASHVILLE, .JUNK 11, 1845. MY DEAR SIR: I helped to per form the melancholy office yesterday of consigning to his last place here below our old friend, General Jackson. He died ou Sunday evening the Bth. He had been sick unto death, with now and then slight amendments, for six or seven weeks, was swollen and in a dropsical state.- But his mind was not only clear, but unclouded and bis memory perfect, not only ot for mer events, hut of recent ones. This was very much the consequence, I think, of his much newspaper reading, in which he amused himself half the time, or nearly so, there being sent htm an immense number,so that he was most familiar with the politics of the day, and excited to thought in regard to them. A month ago I first saw him since last November. Ho said to me lie could not recover from his then afflic tion, as he had no frame left. 1 thought so, and said so to him, and there the matter ended. He then asked me to give him an account of the start our friend President Polk had made, saying I knew the inside of the troubles aud workings of the polit ical machinery. This I did for an hour, at which he laughed heartily, understanding to the letter the office seeking hord, "each one for himself and God for us all," iu Scotch phrase. He then went into English, Mexican and Texas matters, compared men and things in Europe, Mexico and United States with a brevity, force aud clear ness equal to his best days, and ill the best temper , declared his opinions as to the reacquisitiou of Texas had not changed in twentv-five years; that he foresaw and told Mr. Monroe, when it was parted with by the treaty of 1811); we must have it in the end, so as to command the Gulf of Mexico for the protection of New Orleans and the security of the West. In this state mind —the body falling olf —he con tinued up to the day of his death. Duriug Hunday he was too feeble to talk, save to give instructions, I am informed, not being there myself. He went out like a burned-down candle, those staiidiug by not kuowling when he ceased to breath. One thing may be safely said of General Jackson, that he has written his name higher on the temple of Fume than any man siuce Washington, of those belonging to history in this coun try. And what is more remarkable in him than any American is, that he maintained his power from 70 to 80, when he had nothing to give. This he did by the force of will and cour age backiug his thorough out-and-out honesty of purpose. In this lay his strength always. His intuitive facul ties were quick aud strong, his instincts capitally good. The way in which a thing should lie done struck him plain ly, and he adopted the plan. If it was not the best, it would still answer the purpose if well executed. Then, to the Executive he brought a hardy indus try and a sleepless vigilance few could equal. But this was not the liest quali ty he brought to the task. He cared not a rush for anything liehind ; he looked ahead. His nwful will stood alone, and was made the will of nil he commanded it would and did. If he had fallen from the clouds iuto a city on fire, he would have been at the head of the extinguishing host in au hour, and could have blown up a palace to stop the fire with as little misgiving as another would have tory down a board shed. In a moment lie would have willed it proper, and in ten minutes the tliiug would have been done. Those who never worked lie fore, who bad hardly courage to cry, would have rushed to the execution and applied the match, lleucc it is that timid men and feeble women have rusherl to onslaught when he gave the command, fierce, fearless, and unwav ering for the first time. Hence it is that for fitly years he has la-en follow ed, first by all the timid who theu knew him and afterward by ,thc broad land,as a matchless man, as one they were ready to follow whenever he led, who with them never was wrong, and who could sweep over op posers abroad or at home, terrible and clear as a prairie fire, leaving hardly a smoke of the ruin behind. Not even death could break the charm. The funeral yesterday was a great mass meeting of women, children, men, black, white, and colored of every grade, mixed np by the acre outside; the h'<u*e .-rained within. There was not a loud word or a smile so far as I heard or saw. See him they would and did ; nay, they would see coffin cased in lead. It was just pos sible to have room for the soldiers, a rather tedious process. Thejr claimed it as a right to see the thing done. The vast crowd followed him to the tomb, a stone grave by the side of Mrs. Jackson's laid there in 1828, covered with a copper-roofed canopy aome ten feet bigh, resting on stone pillars. He was tediously put in, and the tombstone left ofl*so that all could • look once more. It was a scene for a painter to see, the dense crowd at the particular spot, the slave women in au agony of grief laying their heads on the shoulders and bucks of the ludy friends of their old master, leaving la ces wet with tears. Nor did the cir cumstances elicit a single remark so far as 1 heard. Death uld not make all more completely than did this tuneral. Being there to perform the office of seeing my friend's remains consigned to its final earthly abode, and thiuking death a blessing in the particular ease, and having especially promised hint to aid in that duty, I was unmoved, and observunt front ne cessity. In an hour all had departed, except n few intimates of the family, aud this so noisely that one iu the house would not have heard it. I sat down to writo you a short note and have ruu into a lung scroll. Ac cept my sincere regards. J. CATRON. HON. JAM I* BUCHANAN. ♦ TIIK FATHER OF RAILWAYS. From London Porlety. In 1817 Edward Pease, in the face of strong op|H>sition, appealed to the public to assist him in forming a com pany for the promotion of u railway between Stocktou and the West Auck land coal field; but the public fought shy of the project, and if it hnd not been that Mr. Pease's own family and immediate friends had embarked in the enterprise with him, the title of "the father of railways," which was subsequently given to Mr. Pease, would in all probability have bud to be shifted on to some later projector. But Edward Pease, when once he had ta ken a thing in hand, and made up his mind that it was expedient and prac ticable was not giveu to with drawing from it; so, before be had ever seen George Stephenson, be bad made bis application to parliament for sanction to his scheme, and would have had his railway in course of forma tion but for the duke of Cleveland's powerful objection that the proposed line would pass too near otic of his fox covers. Parliament in those days was stronger on the side of the fox hunters than on that of the railway promoters; and no wonder, retnemberiug the npa thy, if not open hostility, of the com mercial classes —the people who were destined to derive the greatest Itenefit from the project. The duke of Cleve land,therefore, succeeded iu getting his brother jx-ers to throw out the railway bill in 1818; but in the following year, when Mr. Pease bad chalked out a new route for bis liue between Stock tou ami Darlington, steering clear of the duke's cover parliament was in duced to accept the scheme. 11l 1821, when the royal assent hnd made the bill law, the work of construction waa proceeded with, It was at this stage that George .Stephenson came over from Killingworth to Dnrliugtou and tried to interest the good (Quaker in his new machine, the steam horse. Up to this jKjiut the projector of the first railway had had no idea of pro viding auy motive power other than horse; the rails were his leading fea ture; the locomotive had not even been thought of in connection with the .Stockton nud Darlington scheme. When Stephenson waited upon Mr. Pease, however, and, iu that North umbrian dialect which never left him, sought Mr. Pease's adoption of the new engine for the uew line, and when Mr. I*ea<e promised to run over to Killingworth to see George's locomo tive for himself, the first link in the mighty railway chain, which was thereafter stretched over all the coun tries of the world, was forged. Mr- I'easc went, saw the engine, approved of it, and from that time the Stockton and Darliugton railroad project Ix-gan to assume, iu the eyes of oulookers, a more chimerical asjiect than ever. Ed ward Pease became a convert to the locomotive, and an amended act of parliament was obtained in 1823, era powering the company to employ lo comotives on their lines, under certain restrictions, from that time the in terests of Edward Pease and George Stephenson were in a great measure identical. Mr. Pease aasistcd Stephen son—now appointed the engineer of the new line at a salnrv of JC3OO a year—to found bis locomotive factory at New Castle, and in many other ways hcl[>cd on thcmighlv movement which both-lived to ee-> extended with so much Itenefit to human progress, iuto everv centre of industry throughout the kingdom. Why It I'ijri to Adifrtlw. Jnftmftl* A reporter dropped into one of our largest retail establishments Wcdnes <lay ami held a conversation with the proprietor. "You have a great rush," remarked the rej>orter. "Ye*," replied the proprietor, a big rush—partly INK-SUM it is holiday sea son, hut uaturally on account of adver tising." "How can you tell whether adver tising pays, and what |taper* are good mediums ?" "I can tell that advertising pays by stopping my advertisements. I've trieo iu Trade drop* not at once, but the tide of purchasers flows some oth er way. The cash receipts tell the slorv.' "Is there ony difference in thesharp na of the buyers—l mean do they haggle much over prices V "Oh, no; we sell at one price and all the best stores in Boston do the same. They will sometimes say they can buy such and such an article cheaper else where. When they mention tne place wo send and see if it is true, and if bo wo mark our stock down." •'SupjKWo you should give up adver tising. ' "Well, I should save a big pile of money tho first year, but I should lose a bigger pile tho next two years. You must keep tho boiler heated if you want steam. Jfyou bank your fires too long it tukca time to start up, Adver tising is tho steam which keeps busi ness moving ; I've studied the matter." The Democratic Plan. Under the above caption, nn able writer in a metropolitan journal of re cent date, Bays: "When Mr. Jefferson came to tho Presidency, in 1801, the country had undergone u process of consolidation, liberal constitutional construction, and consequent extravagance, looking to ward monarchy, not unlike that which it has undergone sinee the accession of Grunt. The Republicans, however, of this day have bettered the instruction of the old Federalists. Steam, elec tricity, and other modern instrumen talities being ptaccJ iu the hands of the monopolists, controlling sums of capital undreamed of half a century ago, the power of the Federalist. Im perial or 'Monocratie' party, as Jeffer son designated it, is infinitely greater now than then. "Hut when Mr. Jefferson put his hands to the work, after a long |>erii>d of misrule, the task of reform was per fectly simple, because the principles upon which it was to proceed were sim ple. Mr. l'urton elucidates the whole theme in this brief passage : 'The sim plicity of bis political system was such that lie could give a complete state ment of it in a few liucs; and it was so sound that the (teneral Government, from 1789 to 1873, has worked well so fur as it has conformed to it, and worked ill as often as it has departed from it. Jefferson was bo right that every honest, patriotic man who has since gone to Washington after hav ing learned his rudiments from Jeffer son, and has had strength enough to vote up to the height of his convictions, has made a very respectable public career, no matter how ordinary his en dowments ; while every public man who has not accepted this simple clue to the labyrinth of public business has made a career which time and events w ill condemn,though lie may have had the talents of a Webster or a Clay. This is the Jcffersoniau system in brief: 'I/et the General Government be re duces I to foreign concerns only, and let our affairs lie disentangled from those of all other nations, except as to com merce, which the merchants will man age the better the more they are left free to mannge for themselves and our General Government may lc reduced to a very simple organization and a very inexpensive one; few plain duties to lie performed by a few servants.' "This plan did indeed work to ad miration—to the ndmiration of all mankind. Iu twelve years of Demo cratic administration the relatively enormous debt was reduced from 8-83,- (KM),(MM) to 815,0<M),()00, notwithstand ing the Ixiuisiaoa purchase for 815,• j 000,(KM) and the doubling of the terri tory of the nation. And this was done not by increasing the number or amouut of taxes, but liy wise and fru gal administration, beginning in the removal of every needle** tax con sumer in the persou of every super numerary officeholder. Jefferson lop ped off"the excise on stills and domestic distilled spirits, on refined sugar, on licenses to retailers, duties on carriages and stamps, and with these taxes were swept away three-fourths of the beef eating officeholders. It will he ob served that Jefferson, Madison and Gallatin struck first at those taxes which brought the Federal power most immediately into contact with the peo ple in their homes and business. There were no administrative scandals iu those days ; uo complaints of an army of pampered placemen using their money ami official influence to over hear the people in elections. The busi ness of the geucral Government was reduced to the proper objectsexpressly enumerated in the Constitution, a 'few servants' tiansnctod it honestly,prompt ly and cheaply. They had no lime, if plain Democrats could have had the inclination, to concoct third term or other plots designed to make their power permaneut. We commend this simple system of Thomas Jefferson to the reform associations of every kind." A Romance of Ike Went. IIOW A WAV MARRISD III* n*"T UIVR ATTIR THE HIKE Or HAST VEAEA. fron lb* Dontrr THtm**. A wedding of a very romantic cha racter occurred in this city yesterday morning. It was the denonement of a courtship of thirty-four years ago —a happy consummation of youthful love —showing how incurable are the wounds invisible that love's keen ar rows make. I)r. John Smith, now on a visit to Denver, is a wealthy mer chant and influential citizen of New Mexico. When quite a young man he loved a young lady in an eastern State, and in return received the most undying assurances of her affection toward him. But fate intervened. Cir cumstances of a peculiar nature pre vented their union, and, after the first Cngs of disappointed love were past, th were married and went their sepa rate ways with their companions. A few years later they lost sight of each other, but never forgot their youthful attachment. The lady married a gen tleman named Kilpatrick, with whom she moved to Minsouri. A few years ago her husband died, and near the name time Dr. Bmith became a widower. Two weeks ugo Dr. Hmith resolved to take a trip east in search of his boy hood sweetheart, whose place of resi dence was unknown to him. His first stopping place was Denver. Arriving here in the early part of last week he took a room nt the Kt. James Hotel and commenced looking ufter some business among the merchants. Two days after his arrival, while looking over the hotel register, Dr. Hmith, to his great surprise, read the name of Mrs. Kilpntriek, from Missouri. He sought an interview at onccaud for the the first time in thirty-four years be held his old-time sweetheart. The rest of the story is of necessity brief and already anticipated. INTKUKSTIWJ FIUIKKS. Comparutire Areas of hand and Water In the I'nitcd Mutes. A bulletin just issued from the census office, show the approximate areas of the several states and territories, con tains much matter of curious interest. Texes, the largest state, has an area of 202,290 square miles, ami lthodc Island, the smallest, has 1,0*5 square miles. Nye county, Nevada, is the largest county in the United States, covering *24,0(M) square miles. San Uurnadino, California, with 2'1,000 miles, is the next largest. California has four other counties, each of them its large as Massachusetts, three that are each larger than Connecticut, and fiftecii others that are each larger than Delaware. Sioux county, Neb., con tains 21,070 square miles. Oregon also has several large cuuuties —Grant Umatilla and Lake —containing re spectively 17,500, 14,200 and 12, (MM) square miles. Presidio, with 12,500 square miles, is the largest county in Texas. The smallest county in the United Htates is New York, state of New York,and it lias the largest impu tation. The largest of the territories is Da kota, with 147,1KK) square miles, and the largest county iu any of the terri tories is Custer county, Montana, with 36,500 square miles. The statistic* of water surface — takes, ponds, havs and rivers—in the several states and territories present the extreme aridity of New Mexico ami Arazotin, with only 120 and 100 square miles of water resj>ectively,and the marked contrary characteristics of Florida with 4,440; Minneaoto, 4.160; North ( 'amlinaf 3,670 ; Texas, 3,400 ; Iuisiana, 3,300, and Maine, 8,145 miles of river, take and inlet nrea. 'i he total water surface of the country is given at 55,600 square miles, and and the gross an-a,inhabited by sixdsn |ktsodb and a fraction to each mile. A Hold Scoot. AN INCIDENT or rns WAR SHOWING A NAN'S COI'BAQR I N DEE TRTINGCIBCt'MSTANCKB. M. Quad, in the Detroit Free /'re**, in iin interesting article on Castle Thunder, in Richmond, gives the fol lowing iucideut of the war: One of the occupant* of the castle in the winter of 1864-5 was a Federal named James Hancock, claiming to he a scout attached to (iranl's army. He was raptured under circumstances which teemed to prove him a spy, and while waiting for his rase to be invea ligated he was sent to Castle Thunder. Hancock was a jolly, rollicking fellow, having wonderful facial expression, and great powers of mimicry. One evening, while singing a song" for the amuscmeut of his fellow prisoners he suddenly stopped, threw up his hands, staggered, ami then fell like a hog of sand to the floor. There was great excitement at once, and a* some of the men inspected the body and pro nounced it without life," the guards were notified of what had occurred. The post surgeon was called in to say whether it was a faint or a case of sudden death. He had just come in from a long, cold ride, and his exami nation was a hasty one. "Dead as a door nail!" he said as he rose up, aud iu the course of twenty minutes the body was deposited in a wagon and started for the hospital, he there laid in a cheap coffin and for warded to the burying place. When the driver reached the end of his jour ney he wa gone! There was no tail board to his vehicle, and thinking he might have jolted the body out on the way, be drove hack and made inqui ries of several persons if they had seen a lost corpse anywhere. Hancock's "sudden death" was a Cart of his plan to escape. While he ad great nerve and an iron will, he could not have passed the surgeon under favorable circumstances. On the way to the hospital lie dropped out of the wagon and joined the pedes trians on the Avalk. When the driver returned to the castle and told his story, a detail of men was at once scut out to capture the tricky prisoner, and the alarm was giveu all over Rich mond. To leave the city was to be picked up hy a patrol; to remain was to he hunted down. Hancock had money sewed in the lining of hia vest, and he walked straight to the bcstghotel, registered himself as from (feoms, and put in a good night's sleep. In the morning he proeoWd a change of clothiug anil sauntered around with the greatest unconcern, carrying the idea to some that he was in Richmond on a govern ment contract, and to others that he waa in the secret service of the confe deracy. Shortly after dinner he was a treated 011 Main street by a smiad of provost troops who ha<l his ucscrip tion to a dot. ISut lo! no sooner had they put hands on him than the pris oner wu* seen to bo cross eyed and his mouth drawn to one side. The men were bewildered and liaucock was feeling "for letters to prove his iden tity," when the hotel clerk ha ( ipened to pass and at once secured his liberty. hour days after his escape from the C'astle the scout found himself out of funds, and while in the corridor of the posted)oo he was again arrested. This time he drew his mouth to the right, brought a squint to his left eye, and and pretended to be very deaf, lie was, however, taken to the Castle, and there a wonderful thing occurred, (iuards w ho knew Hancock's face |*-r --feet I y well were so confused by his squint that no man dared to give it cer tain answer. Prisoners who hud been with him four months were equally at fault, and it was finally decided to lock him up and investigate his refer ences. I'or seven long days the scout kept his face skewed around and his eye on the squint, and then got tired of it and resumed his accustomed phiz. '1 he minute lie did this he was recog nized by everybody, mid the confe derates admired Ins nerve und JMT severance fully as much as did his fellow prisoners. The close of the war gave him his liberty with the rest, hut ten days longer would have seen him shot as a spy. ♦ Othello llrnertedi THE OLD ITALIAN TAI.R I* THE LIGHT OF A MODERN INSTANCE. I'foni (be Xrw York IMJB. Mkano wus a prince in Natal. Now he exhibit.* himself in a museum for money, and is known a. Zulu Charley. When he first came here lie wan bright anil lively. But in the latter part of August last be became melancholy, and threw the assegais in a limp and li.tless manner. The heat could not have ellected him so, for it was the nearest approach to his native climate which he had experienced since he left his home. His fellow-countryman, Vskftli, was consulted, but Mkano had not unbosomed himself. At la-t it was discovered that ouc of Cupid's darts had pierced his dusky bosom. A pretty young Italian girl, Ainta Cor sini, had for a long time been paying daily visits to the museum. But the living skeleton, the lady flutist, the giant, thed warf, and the double-headed womau had no attraction for her. She was absorbed in Mkano. His gaudy plumage was grateful to her sense of colors ; to her his war whoop was like the "sweet south that breathes Upon a bank of violets;" to her there were the grace and lieauty of movement in his throwing olf the assegai*, (iradu ally the modest maiden unfolded her love to Mkano, and Mkano promptly reciprocated. It was Othello and Dee demona over again. But there was also a llrabantio in the case. Bignor Corsini no sooner heard of his daugh ter's matrimonial hopes than he ap pealed to the Doge of the museum, w ho removed Mkano to Brooklyn. But the girl followed her lover across the raging waters on a frail ferry-boat, thus braving not only her father's an- ; ger, hut also the fury of the elements, j One night after Mkano has osscgaicd six men in red coats who represented the British army, he and she were married for $8 by the licv. C.J. Rage. The happy pair pas*-d their honey moon in the museum, exhibiting them selves to admiring Brooklynites. Then they traveled through the south with a show, and finally brought up again in the museum iu this city—the place where they had first met and pledged their love beneath the silver rays of the electric light, which was the near est approach to the moon at their dis posal. Their contract with the mana ger expired last week, and Mkano ac cepted an ofler to appear yesterday at a show in Pittsburgh, Pa. He is not, however, in Pittsburgh. Aud this is why he isu't: He and Mrs. Mkano ami Yskali were to start Saturday eve ning by the Pennsylvania railroad. Mkano and Yskali gave Mrs. Mkano •50, and sent her iu a carriage with their trunks to purchase tickets ami berths aud rhcck their baggage. She was to await their coming at the depot. At eve the unsuspecting Zulus wended their way to the depot, They found the depot, they found their trunks, but they did not find Mrs. Mkano or her trunk or the $-'>o. .She had left this message with the baggage-master: "If any colored gentlemen call tell them I have gone." Mkano heard the message and re lumed disconsolate to the museum. Prom melancholv he changed to an ger, and it is said that the assegais were never thrown with surer hand than at the show that evening. On Monday Mrs. Mkano appeared at the museum door, but on hearing that her lord was still in towu she departed hastily, stating that she was going to brave another stretch of angry water ami fly to Iloboken, where she thought she would be safe. I,aat night Mr. Starr said she had not appeared again. Mkano, however, states that she re turned to him at noon, and that she liegged his forgiveness, saying that she had left him because she did not want to go to Pittsburgh, as she feared she would catch smallpox there. Bhe had even preferred a few days in Hoboken, added the Zulu chieltan with a shud der. THE man who stops his paper to economise ought to cut his uose olf to keep from buying a handkerchief. A Wonderful Dwelling. TIIEJUOVIK TII*T IS oocrrien ur * toiii.i or onto ui.txrs. From Ki. ( in-r Captain Martin Van Iluren Ha ten, who lives on u farm n<*ar Seville, 0., is 7 feet 11 \ inches high and weighs •178 pounds. Mrs. Hates is 7 feet 11 inches high and weighs 413 jtound*. It is a difficult matter to convey an adequate idea of the proportions of such a dwelling as the one occupied by the Ohio giants. A door that is six feet six inches high is a large-sized opening in the side of n houw—that is, u dwelling house, not a' cathedral. I But the doors in the domicile of the Hates giants are ten fen high,and the knobs are nearly us high a- the repor ter's head. The house was built by Captain Hates in 1870, and is elegantly fur nished. In the main building on the ground floor are, besides the spacious hall, the bed-chamber of the giants, a sittiogroom and a parlor. The couch upon which the big couple sleep was made especially for theru, and it is a curiosity to look at. It is extensive enough to give the great people room to stretch in, and it look - as big as an ordinary sized floor, it is really ten feel long, wideiu proportion und aUui twice as high as a common ln-d. The magnificent dressing ( ai- i- also a huge affair, with a gluss ujsm it nearly as big as the side of a house. In the sitting room is a piano of ordinary size itself, hut it is mounted on blocks two feet high, s> that the instrument is away up the air, out of the reach of I common folks. There are two rock | ing chairs iu this room that are so big ; that the reporter had to climb up into one of them the same as an infant would clamber up into a "high chair." It is very expendvc for the giants to live, as they have to pay such an ex orbitant price for everything they wear. For instance, it costs the Cap tain S3O a pair for loots. It is the in<t astonishing sight to come across the two giants out for a drive. City folk* who have seen the ponderous wagons with wheels reach ing to the second story of a house, UM I to haul stones weighing tons and tons, can form an idea of the vehicle Used. It is pulled by six stout Normau borstal aud it is enough to make a man think he has got 'cm, sure, to suddenly meet such a sjecuielc ou the road out in the country, l'a-siug WHgons have to let the rails down and drive into the adjoining fields until the giants go by. A WoXDKntTL TREE. —A farmer living near Schooley Mountaiu, N. J., has excited hi# neihgU>rs by an ac count of a wonderful tree which he discovered several years ago, and which he has been watching ever since. He says that for three year- it has gone through the cold weather without shedding a leaf. It is a maple gree, and its sap makes very good ma ple sugar. The farmer noticed it first while following the trail of a fox over the mountain early in Decern her, 1878. All the other trees, even of the same species, were entirely hare, while this tree had not, to all appearances, lost a single leaf. There were no dried leaves underneath it and the leaves oti the branches were all green. It was with great difficulty that a leaf could be pulled from the twig to which it was fastened, and a strong breeze, which was blowing at the time, had no effect upon the leaves. 80 astonished was the discovery at the phenomenon that he forgot all about the fox he was af ter and the cold character of the day, and spent several hours cx-tmiuing the tree. He went home greatly puzzled and returned several days later with a clergyman living in the vicinity. They determined to mark several of the leaves and see how long they re mained where they were. They also resolved to keep the thing a secret and watch its progress until spring. This tbey did. When April arrived the leaves which they had marked were just as green and fresh as iu Decent ber, and the tree itself was not affected in the least by the severity of the weather and the many windy blast*. The bark was tap|>ed every week and yielded a plentiful supply of sap; enough to keep both the fanner and the minister's families in syrup all the winter long. The same has becu tried ever since; not a leaf ha# fallen to the beat of their belief since the day the tree was noticed, and the sap has flow ed with the same regularity and pro fusion. As far as can be ascertained there is no cause for the mysterious vitality of that particular maple. There is nothing iu the soil or sub-soil to render growth more available or make the trunk and branches Utter able to stand the storms and cold weather. A number of people have lately visited the curiosity, but each one conies away perfectly mystified. At the present time not another tree on the whole mountain, with the excep tion ef several evergreeus near the ho tels, has a leafon it and the trunks and branches stand out bleak and I aire. This manle is in an exposed spot, un protected from the winds and surroun ded by rocks, dust why it is as it is*' baffles the ingenuitv of all beholders. Kven the regular f)cecnibr fox hunfv is cast in the shade by ibis jierpttunl ly green maple tree.' A WESTERN editor, in response to a subscriber who grumbles that his morning paper was intolerably damp, says "that is because there is so much due on it,"