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Two Dollars tkr Axurjii.
HENRY A. PARSONS, Jr., Editoii and Publisher.
RIDGWAY, PA., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1871.
NO. 28.
VOL. I.
SUMMER LEAVES.
Upon ber pretty bead tho light streams down,
Through beech-boughs covered with n foliage
brown,
Mellowed by August and a pattern
weaves
As fanciful and whimsical and fair,
As If some poct-fuculty there wero
In Summer leaves.
Changeful those shadows as tho changeful
train
Of litrht caprices In her way nnd brain
Which tho delicious dream of youth de
ceives ;
For youth Is overflushed with fever of life,
And there is perilous fascination rifo
'Neath Summer lcaves,-
And while the arrow-weed in the current
drags.
The moorhen fishes and the crowded flags,
The great water-lily dips and heaves
As the slow swanB pass Indolently by
This studious maiden does not lilt her eye
To the Summer loaves.
Is she where Arden's forest-valleys wind,
Where page-accoutred, witty Rosalind
Through endless generations laughs and
grieves r
It is our mastcr,Shakespeare, who doth shower
. Upon her thoughtful head this happy hour,
His Summer leaves.
Is it some troubadour of modern time
Who loves beneath a-stival trees to rhyme,
And with gay song his lack of frame re
trieves f
Fain would I fancy that tlie maiden sweet
Turn page by page, in her serene retreat,
My Summer leaves.
London Society.
A YACIITMAX'S ROJIAXCE.
I.
ine lionaon season was over, and a
considerable number of its late celebri
ties wera collected in various pleasant
spots closely contiguous to the waters of
tho Solent. Blighted beings bad repaired
to Cowes, acid shattered hearts to Hyde.
Gentlemen who were, in proper parlanco,
about " done up," were enjoying them
selves with an hilarity that might have
betokened the zenith of worldly pros
perity and commercial success in differ
ent crafts belonging to the pleasure fleet
which covers the English Channel with
animation during the months of July,
August and September. Of all social
phenomena there is none probably more
curious than that thus stated by a dis
tinguished novelist : " Uow is it that
men who in their palmy days I have
seen baggard, careworn and dejected by
the bi tuple fact that they are utterly
and irretrievably ruined, suddenly be
come the most light-hearted and j illiest
of mankind '" The explanation probably
is reaction reaction from the suspense
of , anxiety to the certainty of despair.
Or possibly the philanthropists who pro
pose to themselves the extinction of
impecuuiosity at a modest profit of
eighty per cent, might consider that the
true raixon d'etre was to be found in the
fact that these volatile human wrocks
are blest with expectations in the back
ground, and usually have a reversionary
interest more or less available.
The scene is Ryde Pier, and the hour
about 7J r. sr. A pretty spot, and by
no means an unfavorable hour for visi
tiug it. Like Melrose, Kyde Pier and
the view which it presents may be visi
ted with signal propriety by the p.tle
moonlight or in the pale twilight. The
eternal promenade on the pier-head, the
perpetual accompaniment of brilliaut
music and interminable scandal, the
ceaseless tide of demonstrative flirtation
these things are pleasant enough per
at, but they have, no doubt, a tendency
to become monotonous. It is a very
different thing Ryde Pier alter dinner.
You can secure society without crowd
and company without effect. You may
meditate solus, or solus cum tola, you may
flirt. And the prospect is not without
its charm. There in the Solent is the
squadron of dainty craft, their Bails
furled, still and motionless at anchor,
the lamp fixed to their mastheads re
flecting itself with a quivering motion
in the tide below ; and the whole effect
being that of a marine i'lumination. A
little further on, and you see the line of
light on the mainland, and distinctly
trace the terraces of Southsea and Ports
mouth. If you turn round you will see
full in your face the little town of Hyde,
alive with gas and the windows of the
Victoria Yacht Club all aglow. Then,
probably, to enhance the sentiment of
the moment, the strains of music steal
upon you ; and were it not that you are
seasonably reminded of contingent rheu
matic pains, you might bo tempted to
lapse into poetic reverie.
Mr. Jim Lawlusse, to address him at
once by his familiar title, was scaicely a
gentleman of a poetic temperament, yet
from the prolonged inteutness of his
gaze upon tht witters as he lounged
across the railing of the pier, and the
fact that he had buffered his cigar to be
come extinguished iu his hand, he might,
for all one could have told to the con
trary, been meditating a sonnet to his
mistress's eyebrow, or be speculating
deeply on the philosophy of the uncon
ditioned. Of that little yacht yonder
the one nearest the shoie, with its tiny
light twinkling from amid its rigging
the Sea Fan was her name Mr. Jim
Lawlesse was temporary proprietor.
Jim's friends were in the habit of saying
that, having made the laud too hot for
him, he had taken to the waters ; and
there may have been reasons which
rendered St. James street's, slightly too
public place for our hero. So Mr. Law
lesse had accepted an invitation from an
old college friend to go on a yachting
trip in the Sea Fan. But the Sea Fan's
owner had been called away, and Mr.
Lawlesse was the man in possession pro
tern. A boat containing a gentleman
and two ladies pulled to the pier, and
Mr. Lawlease's attention was aroused.
The party had come from the Petrel,
about a mile out, and consisted of the
proprietor of the Petrel, Sir Hedworth
Dare, and his two daughters, who stood
to each other in the relation of step-sisters,
as Sir Hedworth had married twice,
Edith and Kate. When Mr. Lawlesse
went up to the two as they landed it
wag pretty obvious that Sir Iledworth
Dare would have been quite as well
pleased had that gentleman not chosen
to present himself ; for the Baronet re
garded Mr. Lawlesse as a detrimental,
and had a wholesome and parental hor
ror of the class.
" Ah ! Lawlesse j thought it was Moon
ington," said Sir Hedworth) "said he
would be here to meet us." ' '
The Hon. Sam Moonington was eldest
son of the heir of Moonshine, and desper
ately smitten with Miss Kate Dare. Sir
Hedworth so said Eyde society was
bent upon the match. The Hon. Sam
was certainly a catch : so said the ladies ;
Moonington was an ass: so (somewhat
abruptly) said the gentlemen in general,
and Mr. Lawlesse iu particular.
Jim, however, was not to be taken
aback by this very tepid welcome, and
walked down the pier with Sir Hed
worth and his two daughters.
" Are you going to the ball to-night,
Mr. Lawlesse 't" asked Kate Dare. It
happened to be withip. a few hours of
the commencement of the Yacht Club
ball.
Of course Mr. Lawlesse was going;
and bo was Mr. Moonington. That gen
tleman had just joined them ; and so
they all were. " And we shall meet
again presently." And Jim Lawlesse
sauntered off, after having bade the ladies
an au rcvoir in decidedly better spirits
than when he had first met Sir Hed
worth and the Misses Dare, too.
" I don't think I should mind backing
my luck against that of the honorable
Sam's," said Jim Lawlesse as he proceed
ed to dress. Miss Kate Dare had prom
ised Mr. Lawlesse the first waltz.
II.
The dance given by the Royal Vic
toria Yacht Club was unusually and
brilliantly successful that year ; so said
everybody ; and the ball is certainly one
which, if for no other reasons than those
of a spectacular nature, is well worth
seeing. The elegant devices which con
vert a balcony into a corridor, the pro
fusion of banners, the trophies o' yachts
men, the decidedly nautical features in
tho dresses of the ladies all these add
a charm which is exclusively their own
to the affair.
Mr. James Lawlesse entered the room
almost r-t the same time as the Dare
party. On tho arm of Sir Iledworth
rested his eldest daughter, on that of the
Hon. Sam, Miss Kate Dare. Tho Baro
net's tone was more chilled than ever
wheu he caught sight of our hero ap
proaching in the distance.
Amid an indescribable chatter.strongly
flavored with marine jargon, the first
quadrille was danced. Mr. Mooning
ton's partner was Miss Kate Dare, his
vis-a-vis the gentleman whom we have
for form's sake christened the hero of
this slight narrative. But the first
quadrille, as even first quadrilles are
sometime or other, was over at last, and
within a very few minutes of its termi
nation Mr. Lawlesse claimed the young
er of Sir Hedworth's two daughters as
his partner in the first waltz ; and Mr.
Moonington surrendered the lady who
without doubt was the object of his af
fection and ambitions, certainly not
with the best grace in the world. Miss
Dare, however, was close by, and disen
gaged. Would Miss Dare give him, the
Honorable Sam, the pleasure of that
waltz? Most happy; and the pair
whirled oft'. The elder of Sir Hedworth's
two daughters was far from displensed
at the contretemps, and she determined to
ninkethemostofit. Shedidnotsee why
the heir to the Moonshine peerage
should be calmly appropriated for and
by her younger and half-sister. For
her part, she could never quite under
stand what there particularly was to
charm people in Kate. Besides, Kate
had her time before her ; she had only
finishod her first season, nnd ' Edith
Dare's first season was un affair of the
more or less long past. If Kate did not
choose to know her opportunity, such a
charge of ignorance should . not be
brought against Miss Dare. In plain
truth this young lady was as little
pleased with her father as with her sis
ter in the present matter. It would be
no such bad thing, she thought, if the
event should prove that the calculations
of the former were at fault ; as for Kate,
the child was far too ignorant to calcu
late at all.
The fair partner of Mr. Moonington
put forth ull her pleasures and they
were not inconsiderable to captivate
and please. She suggested a walk in
the corridor it was so hot in the ball
room. Curiously enough, Kate and
Mr. Lawlesse had proceeded in the same
direction only a few minutes previously.
Curiously enough, also, the keen eyes of
Edith Dare had noticed the movement.
"I think," said that young lady, in a
low tone, " we will sit here, just behind
that pillar. The air blows in so cool,
and we have Buch a pretty view of the
sea."
Almost immediately on the other side
of the pillar were Miss Kate Dare and
Mr. Lawlesse.
" Ah ! Mr. Mooniugton, there, I de
clare, are my sister and Mr. Lawlesse.
How very sentimental!" And Edith
looked up into the face of the Honorable
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Haul, WHO, jUQgiug iroui uutrijaoisiuu,
was not particularly pleased. lie looked
in the direction indicated, and then
turned again to his partner.
TTnr)-r th shadow of the tiillar Edith
advanced with her cavalier a little nearer
ber sister.
" Romance, did you Bay, Mr. Law
lesser I don't think there's much
romance iu the present century, least of
all at Ryde. If you want romance 1
think it would be necessary to search
for it on far wilder waters than those of
the Solent"
" I suppose," returned Mr. Lawlesse,
who had evidently been reading hion in
Heaven, that romance is to the romantic."
" And who is romantio now-o-days 'i"
The oair were standing close together,
and Mr. Moonington and his partner
could distinctly see Mr. Lawlesse's hai,d
laid upon Kate Dare's.
"I think, Mr. Moonington, we will
go inside. It is getting rather chilly
here romantic perhaps : rheumatio,
certainly," said Miss Dare, in accents
sufficiently audible to arouse the atten
tion of her sister and Mr. Lawlesse.
"Hadn't a notion," remarked Jim,
turning round with something of con
fusion, " that anvbodv was so near."
The Hon. Samuel Moonington did not
ask Miss Kate Dare to dance again that
evening.
In her dreams that night, when the
ball was over and the dancers dispersed,
Miss Dare saw herself the Countess of
Moonington ; and if any thoughts vis
ited her sister's slumber, I am disposed
to fancy that they were principally rela.
tive to Jim Lawlesse.
Hi. .
A beautiful morning, two or three
days after the club ball j Ryde was thin
ning gradually ; but among the visitors
who remained were Sir Hedworth Dare,
his two daughters, Hon. Sam. Mooning
ton, and Jim Lawlesse, the latter of
whom still waited the return of his
friend, the proprietor of the Sea Fan.
Sir iledworth Dare was going to tana
a morning's sail in his yacht, the Petrel.
His two daughters were coming, and
they were to be accompanied by mr.
Moonington. The Baronet had noticed
something of the events of the ball-
night, and Mr. James Lawlesse was dis
creetly omittea trom tne party.
Kate Dare was passionately lond of
the sea, and was herself an excellent
oar. one had told Jim as mucn tne
other night. She could not imagine,
she said, any life more perfect than the
yachtman's : and it muBt be allowed
that the existence is not without its at
tractions. If you study independence,
you realize it in a degree possible under
no other circumstances. You go from
place to place according to your own
sweet will. The instant that a senti
ment of boredom commences to creep
over you your anchor is weighed and
the scene is changed. Hotels may
charge prohibitory prices,lodging-honse-keepers
may drive their inmates to dis
traction ; what care you f All that
hotels and all that lodgings could sup
ply you have close at hand ready to
your beck and call.
Sir Iledwortlrs party were on board
the Petrel, and the yacht was just about
to slip her moorings.
" here s Kate, Edith r inquired the
Baronet, not seeing his youngest daugU.
ter on deck.
" Oh, down in the cabin, papa 1 sup.
pose.
These last two words wero added in a
somewhat lower tone, and as she Said
them Edith rather blushed. She sat
down, however, presently, next to Mr.
Moonington, and was soon making the
running at a speed not less than that of
the good yacht 1'etreU
" Tell Kate to come up, said Sir lied'
worth, after he had leisure to think of
other things than certain matters of
purely nautical importance ; and Edith
Dare called for her sister down the companion-ladder.
Receiving no answer.
she descended into the cabin.
"Papa," she said, on returning, "I
don't see Kate at all. I suppose at the
last minute she made up her mind not
to come."
This was not exactly the truth. Edith
Dare had determined from the first that
Kate should not be among the party,
and to this end she had managed to di
vert her attention to something else at
the moment they were leaving the house,
Sir Hedworth was not satished with the
explanation, and knit his brow. His
younger daughter was his favorite, and,
not being blind to the character or the
elder, he did, in plain truth, suspect
something ot the ruse that had been ex
ecuted ; but he said nothing, and the
Petrel went on.
Some person else had selected the pres
ent morning as a favorable one lor a sail,
and that was Jim Lawlesse. He had
taken no companion, and was talking
abstractedly to tho master of the Sea
J'ah. The regulation telescope was sus
pended from his neck, and something
impelled him to look through it in the
direction of what seemed a black speck.
lie examined it again.
" .Looks uncommonly like a boat, and
so far as I can make out, whoever is in
side her is iu distress, for it appears to
me," said Jim, " as if they were making
signs."
The master of the Sen Fan was of the
same opinion, and the pair decided that
they would " stand about and try and
get at the object.
' By Jove !" cried Jim, as they drew a
little nearer, " it s a woman, I declare I
And a woman it certainly was evi
dently exhausted with the severity of her
efforts to make headway against the
waves. They were now within two or
three hundred yards of the boat; and
Jim ordered the yacht's pinnace to be
let down, and said he would himself run
up to this female Columbus.
" Aliis Uare, cried Jim, as the pin
nace touched the boat, "is that your
What on earth brought you here three
miles trom the shore r
" Oh ! Mr. Lawlesse, 1 am so glad to
see you, or some one. I was about get
ting exhausted, and thought
$ut Kate Dare was unable to say
more, tor she tell back in a dead taint
Jim Lawlesse transferred himself into
her boat, and rowed to the yacht ; and
when Kate Dare next became sensible,
she found herself lying in the ladies'
cabin of the Sea Fan', with Mr. James
Lawlesse at her side.
" How very kind 1" were . her first
words ; and, " How very fortunate."
"It was certainly fortunate that
should huve seen you ; but there is no
kindness," said Jim. " Don't speak till
you nave quite recovered.
The recovery wag not long delayed
and Kate Dare commenced to tell Jim
Liwlesse exactly what had occurred.
"iou know, she said, "that we
that is, papa, and Edith, and Mr. Moon-
ington-r-were to nave gone out tor
sail in tne Petrel this morning. Well,
was dressing, and thought I had plenty
of time, when, on looking out of the
window, I saw the yacht starting. I
was determined not to be robbed of my
cruise, so I hurried and went down to
the water, and got into the little boat.
You see, they were close to me. The
Petrel didn't seem to be- more than
hundred yards ahead, and I thought
that I could easily attract their notice.
Besides, I had imagined, naturally, that
they would, discover 1 was left behind ;
and I thought most likely they would
put back for me. However, I couldn
manage it ; and I rowed on and on ; and
when X looked back, the shore was ever
so far behind, and I didn't know what to
do ; and I only hoped some person would
pick me up and at last you did : and I
am really more obliged than I can say."
Jim blurted out some disclaimer, in
reply, which does not materially affect
the course of this narrative.
It was- dtcided that tho best plan
would be to steer for home immediately,
and to land as near Sea View as possi
ble where Sir Hedworth Dare's house
was situated.
"People talk so absurdly in Ryde,"
added Miss Kate Dare, a9 an argument
to clench the plan.
When the shore was reached, there was
scarcely a person visible ; two persons,
however, had noticed we aisemoarxation
from the Sea Fan one was Edith Dare,
and another Mr. Moonington.
" If that does not convinoe him noth
ing else will," thought Miss Dare.
Miss Dare s wish was accomplished.
and before the house was reached the
heir of the earldom of Moonington had
declared himself.
" Where on earth is Kato ?" said Sir
Hedworth, as he met Mr. Moonington
and his newly-gained fiancee.
We have lust seen her, papa, landing
from Mr. Lawlosse's yacht," was the sis
terly reply.
" The devil you have 1 replied the
Baronet, sotto voce.
"Ah I here they come, I declare.
added miss Dare. " nope you vo Dad a
pleasant sail, Kate ?"
"Kate," said Sir Ucdworth, as that
young lady was bursting out into all
manner of eiaculatory explanations,
want to speak to you at once. I am
surprised," continued the Baronet when
the library was reached, " that you
should have given me toe slip in the dis
honest manner you did, simply to do a
most improper thing go out in the
yacht of a young man to whom you
know 1 exceedingly object. As tor his
conduct, it is simply disgraceful. I
don't understand it, upon my soul I "
" Oh, papal what do you mean r burst
in Kate. " Mr. Lawlesse has saved my
life." And Kato narrated to her father
all that hud occurred. The Baronet's
face changed more than once in the
course of his daughter's story.
" do up and dress tor dinner, Kate, 1
will go and thank Mr. Lawlesse."
Sir iledworth met that gentleman
standing on the steps of the porch.
mo tcanks whatever are due, Sir
Hedworth," , replied Jim. " 1 am only
sincerely grateful that I saw your daugh
ter when I did."
"Dou't go, Lawlesse," continued the
owner of the PetreL " Come and stay to
dinner." And so saying, Sir Iledworth
turned aside to speak to his elder daiih-
ter, whom he saw coming..
"Edith," he said, " I should like to
know what you meant' by telling me
that Kate was in the cabin this uiorn-
" Keally, papa, 1 knew nothing to the
contrary. I'm glad she was in more
agreeable society. But Mr. Moonington
is in the library, and I know is anxious
to see you. He is calling you pray go 1
Later on that evening there was
another interview this time between
Sir Hedworth and Mr. Jim Lawlesse.
It was entirely satisfactory. Kate had
spoken to her father in the interval on
the subject of her lover. Jim had made,
and would make, no declaration without
Sir Hedworth's consent. That consent
was given.
" Lawlesse, you have not only saved
my daughter's life, you have acted, as I
have heard from her, in a manner in
finitely creditable to yourself."
"Kate, said Jim to his athanccd
bride, before they parted that night,
"don't you think I was right, and that
there may be romance even close to
Ryde, and on the waters of the Solent,
after all '(" London Society.
A Wonderful Dog.
The Marshfield (Mo.) Citizen gives an
instance of a remarkable exhibition of
intelligence by a member of the canine
population of that town. The dog had
been decoyed to Springfield by some
teamsters, and was then taken to Mrs.
Walton s boarding-house and chained.
We will let the Citizen tell the rest :
" Mr. Abbott, hearing of the ' where,
abouts of the missing dog, sent word im
mediately to Springfield to release him,
which was accordingly done. Frank at
once made straight for the depot, and
patiently remained there until train
time. This fact was particularly no
ticed by the railroad employees of that
place. ,
" After waiting there for several hours
two trains came thundering along, one
bound east, the other west. Frank's tail
now gave evidence of unbounded joy,
and without going through with the
usual ceremony at the ticket office,
jumped aboard of the eastern bound
train, determined to dead bead it if
possible. Upon arrival at Marshfield,
without making any inquiries as to what
place it was, he bounded off the train
and made his way home, seemingly the
happiest dog alive. What makes it re
markable is the fact that he came alone,
and was the only passenger that got off
the train at this point, and that he
should get on the right train at Spring
field, even when the western bound train
started a few minutes before the eastern.
We hear his master intends to appoint
him as travelling agent. Ha is now be
ing trained for that purpose."
A good story is told of a patriotio do
minie up in Berkshire, who, in the war
times of IS 12, was prone to thank the
Lord very specially, as well as vey fer
vidly, for any favor shown to our arms.
On Saturday night a neighbor received
a packet of newspapers relating to one
of our famous naval victories, and being
familiar with the parson's peculiarity,
despatched them to him. It was a treat
victory, and the good man rose to his
prayer, trembling wun excitement all
the more that the subject matter would
be news to most of his hearers. "We
desire to thank thee," he began, " for the
great victory that our frigate, the the
I've forgotten the name, but no mat
terour frigate has gained over the
enemy's ship-of-war, the the I've for
gotten that name, too, but thou knowest,
for it is in ail the papers."
A Rear Fight in Arizona.
On the 19th of June last, Cnpt. J imes
O. Hunt, First Cavalry, and Capt. W. 8.
Fuller, Twenty-firBt Infantry, with five
mounted men, left Camp Apache, Arizo
na, for a short visit to the Zuni villages,
or Pueblo Indians. On reaching the top
of one of the swells an immense bear
was discovered about a mile ahead, evi
dently coming down the trail to the
river tor water. The bear at the same
moment catching Bight of the party,
turned off to his riujht, and was heading
for the foot hills some eight or nine
miles distant, as if desirous of gaining
tho timber. He struck a gait apparently
of the clumsiest kind imaginable, but
which, when tested by the speed of the
horses, proved that at least for some dis
tance a horse a full speed can hardly
keep up with a bear such as we find in
the chain of the rocky mountains or the
continuation of that range.
By permission of Captain Hunt, Cap
tain Fuller, with Corporal Hyde and
Privates Armstrong and Haley, started
out their horses to overtake the bear be
fore he could reach the mountains or the
rocks and timbers of the foot hills. With
horses in good condition, and a free use of
spurs, after a chase of four or hve miles,
they succeeded in closing to a few rods
diBtance, or about thirty yards.
Captain Fuller by good luck first suc
ceeded in sending a ball through Bruin's
hind leg. The effect was to cause the
brute to run on three legB, with his right
hind leg held oft the ground, crimsoned
with a tree flow of blood. The bear at
first rather increased his speed, but the
wound soon began to tell on him, as he
attempted, after gaining a little distance
to turn and bite at the wounded toot. A
shot from Corporal Hyde's carbine again
cut him across the ham. The whole par
ty, keeping up their fire had drawn up
to within some twenty yards of him,
when he whirled short around to the
left and bounded toward the horse of
Corporal Hyde. The corporal turned
his horse and gave him the spur, but in a
wonderfully Bhort time, considering his
clumsy movements, he overtook the
horse and caught him by the flanks.
The poor horse gave one desperate kick,
for an instant throwing off the bear, but
in a second more the horse was pulled
down on his haunches, and with one
motion of his paw tho bear knocked
Hyde out of the saddle. The horse gal
loped off wildly, while the corporal, with
out any weapons, was rolling on the
ground struggling for his life in an ao-
tual nnd literal wrestle with a wounded
bear.
It was a desperate position and un
equal contest on the ground. Captain
r uller and Armstrong reined in their
horses, while within three yards of their
horses feet was this enormous bear le
rociously biting and tearing the limbs
ot the unlucky corporal. The weapons
of tho party had been discharged and
were empty; and with the coolest of
men it requires some little time to load
a Spencer carbine or revolver while in
the saddle. Uorporal Hyde struggled
manfully, striking with his fists and arm
Sown the mouth and throat of the bear,
while his own blood ran in streams from
his wounds.
The bear rose twice on his hind legs,
standing much above the corporal's
head, and the two literally wrestled as
two men would in a prize fight. The
wounded leg of the bear was Hyde's sal
vation, or the claws in the brute's hind
feet would soon have torn out his en
trails. Tn ferocity and wildness nothing
could surpass the horrid appearance of
the brute, with bloody foam dripping
from his jaws, while the poor man called
to the party to help him for God's sake,
or he would die. No one had a load to
tire. Armstrong, believing that there
was a load in his carbine, jumped off his
horse, and placing the muzzle of hiB
piece against the side of the bear, pulled
the trigger, and it only snapped. The
next instant tho bear left Hyde, and
was tumbling Armstrong, biting and
tearing him as he had done with Hyde,
who was lying covered with blood a tew
feet distant. It looked in this position
of affairs as if two of the party would re
ceive mortal wounds before the others
could assist them. But here Haley got
one load in his pistol and fired it at the
bear. The ball must have cut him, tor
he bounded away from Armstrong, and
with his leg held up, again ran for the
mountains. The two men presented a
dreadful sight, with pale faces, streams
of blood running down them, and their
clothing torn in shreds. After a few
more shots, and several attempts of the
brute to get at the horses, he turned at
bay under a scrub oak, evidently unable
to go further, and ready to fight. Still
the bear's vitality was so great that a
dozen more deliberate shots were re
quired, each passing through some part
of his body, before his head dropped and
he expired. Army and Navy Journal.
A Horse Story.
A Minnesota paper, .the Blue Earth
City Post, has the following :
A good story is told of one of our at
torneys. He is something of a horse
fancier, and in addition to his team has
sundry colts running loose. A short
time since some colts broke into a field
near the village and damaged the crops.
The colts were taken up by the owner
of the crops, and advertised to be sold to
pav the damage pursuant to law. ibe
owners of all the colts but one applied
to the aforesaid attorney for counsel,
and under his advice tho colts were re
plevined, save one which was duly sold.
The sheriff's return of the sale came un
der the attorney's notice, and he was at
once Btruck with the description of the
animal sold. He struck a bee line for
that colt, only to find that it was big
own, and had been sold to pay the dam
ages inflicted not only by it, but by all
the colts and other animals that bad
been in that lot since spring 1 The mat
ter -was compromised, and our legal
friend returned with his colt.
The fall and winter crop of female
lecturers bids fair to be very heavy. All
sorts of subjects will be introduced.
" How to Keep Down the Family" is
announced by a " beautiful Indiana lady
of twenty-nve."
A jNew Volcano.
Under this heading the JIallische Zei-
tung publishes a letter under date of Ma
nilla, the 24th of May, from whioh the
following is an extract :
" What has been looked forward to tor
a long time with anxious forebodings,
the outburst of a volcano, has at last oc
curred in a sad and unexpected manner.
The island ot Camiguin was the scene of
this frightful event. Ivor some months
back the inhabitants of this island, as
well as those of Boiot and Cebri, had
been alarmed by repeated shocks of
earthquake, and with an increasing
anxiety they awaited a catastrophe
which would put an end to the general
alarm. Camiguin had been gradually
deserted by most of its inhabitants, al
though the fugitives found their position
in the neighboring islands little less
perilous, every district having been
more or less affected by the heaving of
the ground. At last, on the 1st of May,
about five o'clock in the evening, a rum
bling like thunder wag heard. from a
mountain near the village ot Oatarmin,
interrupted by a few violent shocks
which rent the air with reverberations,
and which steadily increased until at
last the ground burst asunder and an
opening was lett ntteen hundred teet
long. Smoke and ashes, earth and stones
were thrown up, and covered the surface
of the ground far and near. Then suc
ceeded a long pause, but only to be fol
lowed by a still greater throe of nature.
About seven o clock, as darkness was ap
proaching, the explosion came, followed
by a shower of fire. Sad to say, about
two hundred persons who, tempted by
curiosity, bad thoughtlessly collected
around the crater, were buried under the
matter which fell. At the time of send
ing off this letter fifty dead bodies had
been extricated. The woods over a large
area caught fire, and the flames, spread
ing rapidly and with much smoke, drove
men and cattle before them. The spec
tacle is said to have been frightful, and
the event is without precedence in the
by no means scanty volcanio annals of
this archipelago. It is remarkable that
the event was not preceded by any me
teorological phenomena viich might
have warned the inhabitants ot the Bp
proacb ot danger.
Tho Human Ear.
It would appear that all our hearing
is done in a very literal sense under wa
ter, as shown by the following extract
trom a Iiondon paper
" Professor Tyndall concluded one of
bis recent lectures by giving a minute
description of the human ear. He ex
plained how the exterior orifice of the
ear is closed at the bottom by a circular
tympanic membrane, behind which is a
cavity known as the drum ; the drum is
separated trom the brain by two orihceB,
the one round and the other oval. .These
orifices are closed by fine membranes.
Across the cavity of the drum stretches
a series ot tour little bones, one ot which
acts as a hammer and another as an an
vil. Behind the bony partition, which
is pierced by the two orifices already
mentioned, is the extraordinary organ
called the labyrinth, hlled with water;
this organ is between the partition and
the brain ,and over its lining membrane
the terminal fibres of the auditory nerve
are distributed. . There is an apparatus
inside the labyrinth admirably adapted
to respond to these vibrations of the wa
ter, which correspond to the rates of vt
bration of certain bristles, of which the
said apparatus consists. Finally, there
is in the labyrinth a wonderful organ,
discovered by the Marchese Oorti, which
is, to all appearance, a musical instru
ment, with its chords so stretched as to
accept vibrations of different periods,
and transmit them to nerve filaments
which traverse the organ. Within the
of men, and without their knowl
edge or contrivance, this lute of three
thousand strings has existed for ages.ac
cepting the music of the outer world
and rendering it fit for reception by the
brain. Each musical tremor which falls
upon this organ selects from its tension-
ed fibres the one appropriate to its own
pitch, and throws that fibre into uniso
nant vibration. And thus, no matter
how complicated the motion of the ex-
ternai air may be, these microscopic
strings can analyze it and reveal the eon-
stituente of which it is composed ; at
least such are the present views of thow
authorities who best understand thn an.
authorities who best understand the ap
paratus which transmits sonorous vibra
tions to the auditory nerve.
Mistakes iu Medicine.
The history of medicine for the last
hfty years tells a tale either of great er
rors in the early practice of the period or
ot lust as great in the present, or it
shows that methods of practiceprofess-
edly at variance can be alike succeBsiul.
Not many years ago calomel was con
sidered the indispensable drug in prac
tice. The physician without calomel
was the artilleryman without his ammu
nition, Samson shorn of his locks. The
tongues that were swollen, the teeth
that were loosened, the gums that were
made tender, modern physicians say,
will present a horrible array of testimo
ny when doctors get their deserts for
malpractice. Hut the men who believed
the patient was nothing unless he was
bilious who believed that there was
but one organ in the body, and that the
liver, and that this was to be unlocked
at stated intervals, and entered and
swept and garnished with mercury
who believed that in at least half of the
known diseases salivation and salvation
were synonymous terms these men
were Jenner and his contemporaries
men undoubtedly of carefulobservation,
sound judgment and great ekilL For
augbt that we know, they were iust as
much respected by their patients, iust as
successful as the modern .Usculapius
who sayi that' they were unmistakably
and seriously in error. Patienta recov
ered under their treatment, as patients
recover under that of later physicians,
wno assume to possess the true Koran
and be ita only interpreters. Thirty
years ago a patient would be bled m
disease where now it would be considered
egregious malpractice, but the patient
bled . and the patient unbled abke recover
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
Miss Spaulding, M. D., of Sandusky,.
amputated a man's leg a few days ago.
The Empress Eugenie, it is report
ed, is in treaty for the sale of her dia
monds, valued at $1,600,000.
Women are rapidly working their way
into the printing business. There is
hardly a large printing concern in the
country where they may not be found.
A hiKh caste Hindoo lady of M idras
has delivered a lecture in Telugu on
" Human Boinir," her object in coming
forward being the advancement of the
education of women.
There is one county in Iowa that for
two years has had a woman to superin
tend their schools. JNow two other
counties have followed this example,and
nominated women for this office.
A far Western lady, who was not post
ed in history, and who had forgotten her
geography, asked a friend who was go
ing to Utah to bring her a couple of
Mormons tor her aquarium.
in addition to tne report that the
Marquis of Lome and the Princess
Louise are to visit Canada next fall, it
is now stated that they will make their
way to Washington.
A correspondent of the Hartford
Courant who has been sailing along the
Massachusetts coast, wonders why Glou
cester is spelled the way it is, and if that
is right, why shouldn't lobster bo spelled
1 1.
Mr. Wm. N. Manning- jeweller, of
Gloucester, Mass., cut his name upon an
old-fashioued copper cent twenty-one
years ago, and it returned back to him
a few days since. What a pity he couldn't
collect the interest on it.
The Welsh colony in Patagonia is the
modern Utopia. They have no luna
tics, blind, deaf, or dumb, and no pau
pers or poor law. There is no taxation,
and the currency consists of rich feath
ers. .
A letter from a fashionable stunjiner
resort says a young man is scarcely con
sidered eligible unless he has lost his
hair this being received as almost in
disputable evidence that be always
moved in the best society.
Dr. Hunter, of Cleveland, has deter
mined to secure the $100,000 offered to
the inventor of a canal boat which shall
do away with the necessity of using
horses on canals. lie has made a boat
which is propelled by a plate of vulcan
ized rubber, which works on the princi
ple of a fish's tail. It has been tested
successfully at Buffalo, and will soon
start with a cargo of coal for Rochester.
The jail at Amboy, 111., recently took
fire, and a farmer named Shannon was
burned to death in his cell. He had
been committed for contempt of court.
As the fire approached him his cries
were heard by bystanders, who insisted
that the jailer should release him, but
that functionary utterly refused to do
so, and after the poor man had died
mounted his horse and rode away, nor
has he yet been heard from.
The champion bigamist outside of the
precincts of Mormondom seems to be
one Leare Harvey, who has been arrested
at Wtyanwega, Wis. Leare, though
only twenty years of age, has already
achieved the distinction of marrying
four wives, all living. The last one, it
is said, still clings to him, and is work
ing hard to obtain his release, so that, at
all events, he cannot be called Leare the
forsaken.
The Davenport (la.) printers seized a
circus and menagerie the other day, for
not paying its bills, and now each edi
tor is the happy owner of a swineopha
lus, or giastioutus, or a hippopotaiemise,
or an Alaskan sea lion. When subscri
bers rage, and a man comes in and wants
to know " who wrote that article," the
editor unchains his menagerie, and the
insulted fellow has a sudden call to " see
man " elsewhere.
The Post Office Department has just
made a decision in reference to the titles
that may be placed on the new stamped
envelopes, which are furnished with
printed addresses. It is held that hon
orary prefixes, such as Judge, Colonel,
Professor, Reverend, Doctor, &c, by
wbipH An indi vliio.1 ia ryonorallv bnnnrn
and Btyled in his community, may be
printed on the envelopes, but that no
t..m u . . r .
nuiux.es, suuu as A. n., A. m., m. v., ixc,
can be allowed.
A writer in the Boston Transcript tells
how one morning she remonstrated with
her colored servant for abusing his wife,
upbraiding him after this manner :
" Jack, what a pretty, little smart wife
you have. If I were you, I would try to
make myself more agreeable to her. I
would fill the coal souttle, feed the pig,
gather the vegetables for her, and and
-1 wouldn t strike ber." The only ans
wer from Jack was : " Why 1 I'se done
I married Lou ; I isn't courting her 1"
The Albany Times has found an Alba
nian of enlarged and liberal views who,
it says, has informed the post-ofb.ee
officials that at hit own private expense
be will hereafter put th-j required stamp
on all letters which shall be dropped at
the office without stamps or without
sufficient stamps to defray their postage.
This is a curious way in which to spend
a fortune, as the gentleman of enlarged
views will have to spend one if his mode
of active benevolence becomes widely
known among the thrifty inhabitants of
the capital. . ...
An Eastern man, who has been travel
ling in Oregon, complains that be found
the people prospering, in a certain way,
put careieeo, uu living in luruue&g.
easy-going, slipshod style, much a in
the days when everybody bad gold dust
and cattle upon a thousand bills. And
be illustrates their thriitleesnees by
little storv. Bavins that at one tim
thinking he should relish some milk, ha
called at several farmhouses in vain for
it, the invariable answer being : u Well,
you see, in the summer time the cows
get down in the bottom lands, and they
3ont up when be ventured to
suggest that an enterprising population
wottid go down after the cows and drive
them up, he only elicited smile or