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VOL. VI.
ItlDGWAY, ELK COUNTY, PA., TJIUKSDAY, AUGUST 24, 1870.
NO. 27.
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Lore's Argument,
Oh, lieait be glad ! In sunshine's grace
I met uiy Invor faoe to faoe ;
We but "changed c.yo" and by that sign
My heart was bis, and bis was mine.
Dreaming, I waited till be spoke,
Tben onto life and love awoke ;
I had no donbts, I had do fears
That moment was the sum of ye rs.
" Ab, no ! it is not bo," I eay
"Trne love it groweth day by day,
In warmed by smiles, and wet by tears,
Girdled witii changing hopes aud fears.
" At drat 'tis but a childwb joy,
The smiling of a girl and boy,
At d roiiBt both time and sorrow know
Hi Torr. it to full stature grow."
8o w!ho, sweet friend, and yot you fail ;
l'on have not been within the veil,
Or you had teou wit'i open eyes
This mighty, godlike love ariuo.
Nj foolish bo with roving wings,
Tl at bone yed darts at random flings ;
For pulsion, pride and wealth a tool,
Put out to nurse, and sent to school.
5ut a divinity that speaks:
" Awake, Hwielhtart !" and straightway breaks
A lordlier Jibt than sunshine's glow,
A sweeter life than mortals know.
I bow me to his fund command,
Tako life's groat glory from bis hand
Crowned in one moment's sweet surprise,
When I and somebody " changed eyes."
The Landlady of the Golden Sheaf.
It is just forty -five years siuce my
education was finished at Mrs. Middle
ton's seminary for young ladies, tho
most genteel school in our part of
Hampshire. I was seventeen, and the
eldest of ten children. My father's
firm wan but a small one, held on lease
f.'om our rich neighbor Dickson, the
principal man in onr parish after the
'tiquire. Ho had tw farms leased from
him besides my father's nnd a large one
whii-ft lie tilled himself, kept a retinue
of men nud maids, did tho best plowing,
turned out the finest cattle, and made n
vast deal of money by his duiry.
His wife had died before I was born,
Rnd his house was kept in prirao ordei
by the youngest of Ins aunts, Miss Mill
wood, ne had neither sou nor daugh
ter but Master Hurry, whom everybody
thought a s-nsiblo and very handsome
young man, and not half so purse proud
as his father. Beiug our landlord and
next door neighbor, Faimer Dickson
took a great deal of interest in us. He
said tho family was too large for ruj
father nhd mother to mauagu without
advioo ; tint providing for them was his
chief difficulty, and hearing that a dis
tant relation of his, Mrs. Williams, laud
lady of the Golden Sheaf, wuuted a
well-brought-np gill, not as a servant,
but to help in the housekeeping, thej
thought it might be a good situation
for me.
To tell the whole truth, there was an
other reason for my going. Before 1
left school. Hairy Dickson began to pay
mo attention. Not that I encouraged
him much, but he would come after me,
and it did not please Lis father. The
old man thought his son should look
higher thau a poor farmer's daughter,
and my parents having a good bit of
pride, were jiist as angry when they
came to know it. My father said he
hoped no daughter of his would tempt a
young man to disobey his father. My
mother said she hoped-I had more spirit
than to wish to marry into a family who
did not think us good enough for them.
Of course my father and mother were
right. I gave Harry back his ring, but
it was after a good deal of crying. He
swore ho would never marry another,
though his father should disinherit him ;
aud to let Farmer Dickson and the whole
country see that we were not set on trap
ping his son, it was pe tied that I should
go to Mrs. Williams.
My father went one day to consult
her, and, when all was agreeable, ho
too' me and my trunk respectably in
tho Condon coach, which then passed
through Chatford, our village, and
stopped at the Golden Sheaf. For a
country inn, the house was large and
handsome. It had every convenience
of yard and stabliug, a good garden, a
lino 01 chard, and some hundred acres of
com and meadow laud. It was situated
on tho highroad where Surry and Hamp
shire meet. The ground was high; i nd
from tho inn's upper windows ouo could
see many a mile along the road and
over the country. Stage coaches and
carrier's wagons stopped there; so did
the country hunts and the traveling gen
try, corn and cattle deulers on their
way to London, farmers to and from tho
market town; aud all who came or went
spoko well of the good housekeeping,
tho fair dealing, and tho general civility
of Mrs. Williams.
She was a tall, thin woman, upright,
active, and still handsome, bordering on
sixty. Her black hair was but thinly
sprinkled with gray. She had a good
deal of the gentlewomen in her manner;
always wore a black tabnet gown, a
tambourd apron, and a cap of Notting
ham laee, which was fine enough in
those times. But there was something
in her look so stern and rigid that made
one o reful of one's doings before her.
Her story, which we had heard in pri
vate from Farmer Dickson, was both
sad and singular. She had been
brought up in one of the most respect
able inns in tho county of Cornwall,
and married a rich farmer. He left her
early a widow, with an only daughtt-r.
She managed the farm well, however,
and was a prosperous woman. Her
daughter grew up a beautiful girl, and
tho mother's heart was wrapped up in
her; but the son and heir of a neighbor
ing squire induced her to elope with
him, and marriage into bis high family
was not to be thought of. Mrs. Wil
liams was a woman of high spirit, strict
aud proud. It is said the poor girl
never dared let it be known where she
lived, for fear of her mother; she sold
her house and farm, left that part of the
country, bought the Golden Sheaf, and
set herself up where nobody knew of
her family or history ; she had been
doing well for many a year.
Stern as she looked, Mrs. Williams
was kind to me, and I did my best to
please her. There was a good deal cf
novelty and life to be seen about tho
iun. I soon got over the parting with
my mother and sisters, and was trying
hard to think no more of Hnriy, though
1 had made np my mind minds are
easily made np at seventeen to live un
married, for his sake. Thus the summer
wore away, the harvest passed, and the
dull das of November came on. I had
got accustomed to the ways of the
house. Though good it was an old
one. There was the best parlor and the
best kitchen opening from it; numbers
of pantries, closets and cupboards, and a
stair behind the old dresser, leading
right up to Mrs. Williams' own room,
it was over the porch, and had windows
on three sides, which gave her a view of
all who came or went. Her accounts
were kept there in an old fashioned ash
desk, so were her choice recipes, and
she had them for making everything.
There was a cupboard set in the thick
walls, its doors not to be distinguished
from the rest of the wainscot, in which
Mrs. Williams kept the most rare ond
curious of her stores. I was once per
mitted to seo them as a great privilege,
for she never trusted the key to any
hand but her own. There were spices
aud essences, costly at the time of my
story, but not common yet, old Chiua
which had been brought in by the first
of the East India Company's ships; mix
tures for taking out stains, powders for
destroying moths, and a poison for rats
invented long ago by some of the Cor
nish people, and of a terrible nature. So
Mrs. Williams told me, and I can re
member now that the poison resembled
nothing 1 ever saw but red pepper, an
eipensive luxury at that time, aud kept
in the cupboard also.
It may be believed that I was in great
favor, for not only were her treasures
shown to mo, but I had tea witli Mrs.
Williams iu the porch room every even
ing. Sho took kindly to me from tho
first, because I exerted myself to learn
housekeeping, which my mother said
wis the principal thing for a young
woman ex -eeting to have a home of her
own, and still more becauso I kept quiet
and Eober, and had no looks of levity.
Nothing of that kind would have been
allowed at the Golden Sheaf, inn though
it was, the house being kept with the
greatest propriety. There were no
jokes, and very little gossiping, plenty
of work, for almost everything wasniade
at home, and a great ileal of scorning and
going. Our quietest time was about tho
middlo of November, just before the
winter fairly begun. Then Mrs. Wil
liams got her cattle killed, and her meat
sultid, and most of tho ft mints were
busy about the work in tho yard and
buttery.
One close, cloudy day, finch aa come
so often at the Martinn.os time, I was
sitting iu the best kitchen, close by tho
window, doing some needle work, and
Mrs. Williams was in her own room set
tling tho accounts, for it was in the
afternoon. The sound of a horse's hoof
upon the road made me look out, and
there was a gentleman handsomely
mounted, w.th a servant after him, as
gentlemen did in those d;tys. They
looked as if they had traveled far, auel
were coming to rest at tho inn.
When the gentleman alighted, I saw
he was tall aud handsome, fiomewhero
about thirty-five, aud had a jovial, good
natured look, liko one who was well
pleased with himself and everything
about him. Ho walked in not "at all
strange like, and asked me iu tho most
civil and courteous manner if Mrs. Wil
liams lived here, and if he OLd sarvant
oould have dinner. Tho first question
was in a low tone, the second iu a ljuder
key ; and before I could answer it Mrp.
Williams came down. Judging from
her look he was quite a new comer, I
thought the gentleman glanced curiously
at her first, and then, seeming satisfied
that ad was right, repeated his question
about the dinner, saying that ho was a
stranger in that part of the country, bnt
that he hud heard so much of the Golden
Sheaf that he wi'hed to stop and dine at
the house.
I never saw Mr. Williams receive any
gentleman with more respect and cere
mony. She eourtesied him into her beat
parlor, callod her hostlers to help Lis
servant with the horses, took his orders
for his dinner, and set abont cooking it
herself, for tho rook was hard at work
in the buttery. My first notion was that
she had discovered him to be some great
person traveling iu disguise, and I half
expected to be told of it. Mrs. Wil
liams used to talk to mo a good deal
when we were alone in quiet afternoons;
bnt now she weuton cooking and making
things without saying a work, and there
was a queer, fixed looked in her faoe
which I could not understand, but it
kept mo from talking. I laid down my
work and rose to make the eel soup ; it
was one of the things for which the
house was famous a Cornwall dish, I
believe ; and I had been trusted with
the miking cf it of late to my great ex
ultation, but now shestopped me. ' No,
Mary ; finish your sewing ; thoso linens
will be wanted. I'll make the soup my
self." I sewed away, wondering who the gen
tleman could bo, aud what hai got over
Mrs. Williams, till, happening to look
np, I missed her out of tho kitchen.
She hi d gone up to her own room,
but she came back in a minute with a
paper in her hand which she shook into
the soup, and then threw it into the
fire.
"That's the red pepper; it will do
now," said she, takiug up a spoonful,
and ronkiug believe to tasto, but she did
not. I stitched on for a minute or two,
though my blood was running cold, and
the boiling of ihe soup in the large,
quiet kitchen sounds through my head
even now. Mrs. Williams was standing
at tho window with, her back to mo. I
never knew what made me do it; but it
was as if somebody had bidden me; and,
without a word or thought but that it
must be done, I ran to the fire, gave tho
saucepan a poke, and sent the soup a
blazing np the chimney. As it fizzled
up, the thought of her anger came over
me; 1 knew rot what I did; but, uttering
a wild cry of fear, I rushed to the near
est door, and it was the best parlor. The.
next thing I remember is crouching be
hind the gentleman who had started up
and stood iu the door, as Mrs. Williams
came forward with two knives, which
had been lying on the window sill, in her
hand.
"Pooh I never mind the spilling of the
roup," said he, understanding at once
what I had dono, which, indeed, was
easily seen. "Yon would not be angry
with the child for that; she could not
help it, I dare say. I can dine without
it. You don't know me, Mrs. Wil
liams," he continued, coming a step
nearer where she stood, still looking at
me with a deadly glitter in her eyes.
" Don't I f " said she, nnd I think she
wis trying which one of the knives was
tne sharpest.
"Well," said the gentleman, "you
m know me to bo Edward Winstauely,
but you don't know that I married your
daughter, and brought her home a lady.
I never meant to act the villain with her.
Wo were privately mariied, but while the
old gentleman lived it had to be kept se
cret, and we knew yon would not keep it.
This is why I come to-day to surprise
you; but you will oome to Winstanely
Park to give us your blessing; you are
not going to faint t"
She had staggered back against the
wall, her white lips set, rnd her eyes
growing glassy. Ho and I, and half a
dozen of the servants, whom my scream
had brought in, to help; but she pushed
us away with a desperate effort, darted
up stairs, and we heard her lock herself
in her own room. The whole house was
terribly frightened. What Mr. Wiu
stnnely thought, I do not know, but he
asked me no questions, and never
seemed to suspect anything abont the
spilled eonp. He left a note for Mrs.
Williams, and went off with a servant a
little before sunset. We all went about
our business, for work never slacked in
that houso on any acoount, aud the eve
ning's coach was expected. Just be
fore it came, Mrs. Williams' bell rang,
and tho housemaid said she wanted me.
When I came into the room she was sit
ting at the desk, looking like herself
again, but her face was still white, and
sho had her long knitted purse full of
guineas in her hand.
" Mary," said she, "you aro a good
girl take this and go home I'll take
care that you get no blame."
"I want no money, madam," said I,
" but I'll go home if you will let me,
and never say a word except to my
father and mother."
She held out tho purse once moro, nnd
thon pointed to the door, but could say
nothing; it must have been a hard pull
for her proud spirit. I got out of tho
room as quick as I could, threw on my
hat and cloak, and got into the coach as
noon as it came up, leaving trunk aud all
behind me.
My father and mother were mightily
surprised when it set mo down at their
door in Chatford, jnst as the clock
struck twelve they wero still more as
tonished when I told them what had
brought me home. My father first
called mo a brave, good girl, and then
advised me not to be proud about it,
because it was tho work of Providence,
and we were bound on all hands to keep
niioh a Btry qaiol abont Farjuo Diok-
st n's relation." The story was kept be
tween mo and them; but my home com
ing got wind, and Farmer Dickson came
in a great hurry to know why Mary had
left her good situation. My mother
would not havo reflections cast on her
child, so sho told him in the parlor,
nnd what he said I don't know, because
the door was fast shut; but he came
out rubbing his hands and clapped me
on the back, saying : "You are a fine
girl, Mary, and if Harry don't finish
that business, 1 11 make you to be Mrs.
Dickson myself."
I think I have not much moro to tell.
Harry did fiuish the business. There
were some people iu our village that
uover got over the wonder of it; but I
am proud to say the Dickson family did
not lose by me, for, ten years after Mrs.
Williams died in her inn, and left
property in equal shares between me
arid her daughter, Lady Winstanley.
Sho had never gone to the park but
once, and then she would neither eat,
drink nor sleep in the house, but saw
her daughter and her grandson, now
heir to the estate, nnd then wont
straight back to tho Golden Sheaf. She
never took another girl to stay with her,
a-id what she said about my leaving, I
never heard. The maids had a story
among them, and they always stuck to
it, that I went on account of something
that came down the chimney, and
frightened Mrs. Williams out of her
senses. They said one thing, which I
am inclined to think might be true
that she never liked to make eel soup
after, nor cared to look at red pepper.
Crime In Ireland.
The London Times speoks bitterly of
tho revival of agrarian crime in Ireland,
"which might almost make tho firmest
believers iu the healing influences of
justieo and equal laws despair of their
labors iu the cause of peace and good
will." The occasion of this indignation
was tin murder of a Mr. Bridge, tho
agent of an English gentleman who owns
largo estates in the county of Cork.
Sorno time ago Mr. Bridge was fired at
by one Ryan, who escaped, in conse
quence of which the agent obtained the
protection of a detachment of the police,
two of whom accompanied him on his
business journeys. On the thirtieth of
March last Mr. Bridge was traveling on
a jaunting car with two armed police
men, a baliff, and the driver. A
blunderbuss, loaded with slugs, was
fired at the party from behind a hedge,
killing the driver and wounding the
agent, who kept one Thomas Crower in
sight until tho police seized him. His
confederate escaped. A conviction of
Grower as a participator in the crime
was only obtained by the extreme ex
pedient of challenging fifty-two names
upon the panel on the part of the crown.
The people around the scene of crime
unanimously closed their eyes and ears ;
some witnesses thought magpies had
been fired at ; others thought the firing
was music." Two women refused to
take charce of the driver's corpse ; and
a third who did so lost her place a week
after, and was refused ' lodgings in
Mitchelstown. " We had hoped," soys
the Times, " that if the land aot of 1870
had failed to appease a discontent which
had become chronic, it bad at least sup
pressed the provocations and the out
breaks of agrarian vindictiveness which
were so long a disgrace both to the peo
ple and to the rulers of Ireland."
A recent fancy makes earrings of black
velvet and watered ribbon, held in place
by small buckles.
LOCKED IN A FLOATING TOMB.
An Invention thnt Klllrd ftfnny Alligators
nud Topped 00 with the Inventvr.
" I see by this morning's Sun," said
Mr. Magnffln, " that Mrs. O'Klantikop
is married again. Her last husband,
Major O'Klantikop, tised to board here.
He spent his winters in Florida hunting
alligators, and a more devoted sports
man I never saw; but he never was sat
isfied with the old method of shooting
with a rifle. There was great waste in
the bullets that glanced off the reptiles'
backs, and frequently ouo would get
away before he could hit it in a vital
spot. So the major went up to Charles
ton one winter and bought a oondemned
columbiad thnt had been nsod in the
siege of Fort Snmler, and hnd it
mounted nt a bend in the St. John's
river, nnd troined to oommaud the
water adjacent to the point round which
nil the alligators must oome; and hav
ing loaded with a ten-inch shell, he
waited.
" The, very next day there came np
stream an alligator that seemed tickled
with something that pleased his fancy
very much; when he swung his upper
jaw back to laugh the major thought it
was a floating derriok; but when the aui
mal came within clear range, O'Klanti
kop saw that it was a monster nlligator,
and ho pulled the lanyard. The aim
was beautiful. The sholl struck just in
side the tip of the lower jaw, and as it
rolled along townWhis throat, the
change in tho alligator's expression was
remarkable; ho shut his mouth with a
clip that was heard ten miles away, and
fairly humped himself as the bomb
rolled down the interior. Abont midway
of tho body the shell exploded. The
explosion could not bring back the happy
alligator's last gleeful fancy, but it more
thau restored his openness cf counte
nance. The major said subsequently,
however, that while this method of de
stroying alligators was undoubtedly ef
fective, it broke 'em up too fine; nnd
so he left the big gnn to rust on the
bank of the river, and invented a new
plan.
" His outfit this time was a fishing
rod, a feather, and a piece of scantling
about eight feet in length. Having
fastened the fenthcr to tho end of the
rod, the major would walk to the edgo
of the river, reach over the bunk, and
delicately tickle an alligator's jaws with
the feather, and when he closed his eyes
aud opened his mouth to enjoy tho un
usual titillatiou, the major would quietly
step up with the scantling, and have the
jaw braced back before the alligator
knew what was the matter. Then
O'Klantikop would calmly put a bullet
down his gullet, and take his prize
ashore. In this way ho captured Bixty
seven alligators inour months.
" Ouo day the 'pilot of the steamer
thnt runs up f"i St." John's saw an ob
struction which was not down on the
charts, and which had not even boen
visible wren the boat made her previous
trip. Backing his engine, the pilot was
still more surprised to see the obstruc
tion making toward him. It looked
something liko a spar buoy adrift, and
when it came still nearer it was made out
to be a piece of stout scantling sticking
i.p through the upper jaw of a gigantic
alligator. The pilot was amazed; but
when the story reached Jacksonville, the
fate of Major O'Klantikop, who had
been missing for thrco or four weeks,
was no longer a mystery; everybody who
was familiar with the major's style of
hunting knew that tho strangely planted
piece of scantling-which the pilot had
seen was Major O'Klantikop's tomb
stone, and that the major was buried
about seven feet back of it. Tho gen
erally accepted theory was that O'Klan
tikop, mado reckless by uninterrupted
success, had mi calculated in placing
tho top end of the scantling, nnd the
rafters in the roof of the alligator's
mouth hadgivou way, letting tho mighty
jaws together, and locking up tho major
in a sarcophagus which iu novt lty of
design and high qualities of absoition,
completely laid over anythiug in tiiat
way ever constructed by the Ureeks.
Security Against Smallpox.
Some striking evidence of the impor
tance of revacciuation as affording se
curity against smallpox is given in a let'
ter from the medical officer of Salford,
England, which was read at the meet
ing of the board of guardians of that
union. Referring to the admission of
smallpox patients into the hospital, there
being seventy-six inmates of tho insti
tution affected by that disease, the re
port states that there havo been very few
cases indeed where persons anected had
been revaccinated. There isuo denying
the fact that a considerable number of
cases of smallpox, in which the primary
operation has been more or less perfectly
performed, havo been admitted into the
infectuous wards of the workhouse. On
the other hand aud this is the point to
which attention is specially drawn
among the total number of cases of
smallpox admitted into the workhouse,
now reaching 400, tho medical officer is
not aware of a single case which has
been fairly revaociuated that is, when
the operation of revacciuation had been
repeated in or after adolescence. One
man, however, has been admitted who
had been revaccinated, but only a day
or two before he camo under observa
tion, and when he was actually under
effect of the poison of smallpox. In the
discussion which followod it was men
tioned that the medical officer Lad re
vaccinated upward of 1,000 persons, and
had not heard of one of them takiug
smallpox afterward.
What they Found.
Two daring Icelanders have excited
the admiration of their oouutrymen by
exploring the volcanio region of tho
Dyugyur Jeldew, and descending the
crater of the volauuio Askya. At a
depth of three hundred feet they came
to a lake of seething hot water, which
was apparently of great depth. Near
the southern extremity of tho lake the
ground was broken up by fissures and
pools, which prevented further progress,
and north of tho great crater the ex
plorers found an opening about six hun
dred feet wide, which appeared to bo
of equal depth, and from which issued
d nse musses of sulphurous smoke, ac
companied by loud and deafening
! founds,
An Amateur's Experience.
Says the Springfield (III.) Register: A
singular accident, which nearly resulted
in the death of a young man by the
name of Al. Kennedy, occurred in a sa
loon iu the eastern part of the city. For
the amusement of a crowd at the saloon
in question, a man named Dow, a pro
fessor of the elegant art of sword swal
lowing, was giving an exhibition. With
the most charming graoe, and to the in
finite delight of those present, no passed
the sword, a small steel instrument
about eighteen inches in length, down
his throat and into his stomach. Ken
nedy was so charmed by the exhibition
that he solicited the loan of the sword
for tho purpose of experimenting i J the
same direction. It was handed to him,
nud, with an air of intense satisfaction,
and with perfect confidence, ho opened
wnio hid mouth, passed in tuo steel, nnd
attempted to place himself outside, of it
nt a single "gulp." Bnt tho result
proved tho ambitious youth an ignorant
bungler. The sword came iu contact
with the hyoid bono (at the base of tho
tongue) and displaced it. Tho sword
was iustautly withdrawn, nnd Kennedy
attempted to walk out of the house, but
before reaching tho door he fell to tne
floor, and very soon seemed to be almost
iu a dying coudition. His eyes closed,
his whole frame convulsed, tho power of
respiration well nigh ceased, and ho
seemed to bo totally unconcions. The
hyoid bono, as all well informed journal
ists know, is located at the boso of the
tcnguend is a moveable, osseous arch,
cocvex before, aud suspended in the
substance of the softer parts of tho
neck. With this explanation tho gen
eral public will appreciate the young
man s condition fully. In view of tne
gravity of the case, a messenger was at
onco dispatched for a physiciau, nnd
soon returned with Dr. Gaffuey. The
doctor, upon learning the nature
of tho case, inserted his finger in
tho mouth of the young man nnd re
placed tho bone. Belief came quickly
too quickly, indeed, for the doctor.
The fellow's rigid muscles relaxed, and
he closed his teeth, on tuo nuger 0 ins
savmr witli telling enect, .lacerating
tho flesh on each side of tho hand just
below the kuuckle. Kennedy improved
steadilv from that moment, and at last
accounts was iu a fair way to wholly re
cover, it is quite probable that he will
not care to repeat the experiment of
sword swallowing in a hurry.
A Marriage in tho Surf.
Last winter, says the Providence
Journal, an elderly Baltimore gentle
man, proud of his wealth, discovered
that his daughter had dared to lovo a
young man far below her in the estima
tion of eooiety. A week later the Balti
more mansion was closed for the season,
aud tho names of tho father and daugh
ter soon after appeared on the register
of one of the hotels at Narragausett
Fier. Tuero was with them a companion,
outwardly treated as an equal, but in
reality a paid spy over the young lady's
actions and correspondence. But bofore
a fortnight had elapsed, the young lover
at Baltimore received one morning a big
envelope containing a dainty little note
which tilled him with joy unspeakable.
He had a friend who was a clergyman,
and before the sun had set that night the
two had a long conference, which result
ed next morning in the departure of the
twain for Narragausett Pier.
Tho old eentleman was forbidden by
his physician to bathe in the surf, aud
tho spy hated the sea. Tho young lady
enjoyed her bath exceedingly, and, as
the most infatuated lover is apv to bo
temporarily disenchanted by the appear
ance of his ideal in a bathing dress, the
father aud tho spy concluded that no
possible harm could come to the " dear
child " in tho water, and so the spy only
sat on the bank and watched. The lover
and the minister reached Providence in
duo time, and speedily won a young
lawyer over to their cause. The lover
then went to the Pier, and, keeping out
of the way of tho spy, suddenly ap
peared before the happy girl in the
water. A few minutes sufficed for him
to propose that they be married tho next
day in the water, nnd the lady promptly
consented. Back flew the enraptured
lover to Providence, legal formalities
were quietly arranged, the lawyer in'
vited a confidential friend as a witness,
and the next day when the water was
full of people a party of five might have
been seen a little apart from the other
bathers. The marriage ceremony had
to bo suspended every few seoouds on
account of the breakers. Then the foam
leaped to claim the firnt kiss from the
lips of the bride, but the rest of the
little company relinquished their priv
ilego on account of the attention such a
proceeding might attract.
Unfiled Treasure Hunters.
The San Francisco Post says: The
schooner J. H. Roecoe, with its cargo of
treasure seekers, avrived here from Cocoa
island. A largo number of peoplo
gathered to greet tho gold hunters, to
borrow money of them, or at least to
feast their eyes upon the heaps of gold
iu the hold, and the basketiuls of ma
monds and jewels in tho cabin. Great
was tho disappointment, however, for
the only metal found on tho islaud was
iron, in the shape of an old fashioned
rusty cutlass. The expedition was got
ten un oy one Williams, to whom the
secret and location of the treasure of
baud of pirates upon Cosos island had
been revealed. As is usual in such ca :es
tho man who told Williams was the
solo survivor, the rest of the crew having
shot and stabbed each other, and been
burned to death in their vessel, or been
eaten up by sharks. The Roscoe started
on the twenty-third of April last, and
enjoyed a pleasant run down to the
island, the trip taking thirty-one days.
The vessel lay off the island for seven
teen days, one man being in charge, and
the others numbering seven, digging un
der the direction of Mr. Williams for
the treasure. Traces of man's previous
preseuce on the spot were discovered in
the shape of the sword mentioned, and
some fragments of bottles. Laborious
saroh, however, revealed no Mexican
dollars, flasks of quicksilver or royal
jewels, and the party camo to the con
clusion that a land slide had covered the
spot, and returned to this city with the
intention of getting up a larger party
auu more iubus to try tneir luck again,
A New Theory of Hay Fever.
In 1872 Dr. Morrell Wyman, of Cam
bridge, Mass., published a treatise on
hay iover in which he recogmeid two
distinct forms, namely a " rose coiu
or "June cold, occurring in may or
June and corresponding to the hay
asthma of England and the continent,
and a later form beginning in August
and lasting several weeks into the tall,
to which he gave the name of "autum
nal catarrh." Subsequently Dr. Black-
ley, of Manchester, England, pnisued ft
serious of ingenious researches to sup
port n theory thnt hay fever is caused
mainly if not exclusively by the pollen
of grass. The studies of Helmholtz,
Wymnn, and Blackley we refer to be
causo, in point of time, they arc among
ihe latest, and for tho reason that they
have each boen regarded as important
steps toward the thorough cornprohen
sion of the mnlady. A new work on
tho subject has now just left the press,
in which nil previous theories are re
viewed, and the results of probnbly tho
most extended investigation ever mnde
into the causes nnd nature of the disease
i placed before the public. The
author is Dr. George Mr. Beard of New
York city, and tho method in which the
inquiry has been conducted, together
with the facts elicited, will commend
the work even to those who may not be
disposed to accept the theories adduced.
Following tho example of Darwin and
Galton, Dr. Beard prepared a series of
fifty-five questions, which were designed
to exhaust all sources of facts of which
the majority of physicians nnd patients
were capable of judging. From the an
swers, critically compared and statisti
cally arranged, covering the circumstan
ces of two hundred cases, the author
reaches tho following general conclu
sions :
Hay fever is essentially a neurosis,
that is, a functional diseaso of the ner
vous system. In order to induce an at
tack there is necessary, first of all, n
predisposition, frequently hereditary, to
special and excessive sensibility ol the
nerves supplying tho affected parts. All
forms of tho disease in all couutnep,
whether occurring in the spring, sum
mer, or autumn, aro but manifestations
of ono disease, for which tho most ap
propriate name is "summer catarrh,
which may bo subdivided into an early
form, middlo form or July cold, and
the latter form or "autumnal catarrh."
As the disease is not due to any single
specific cause, auimal or vegetable, as
has been supposed, no specifio will ever
lie found for it. The attacks may be
prevented aud relieved, and sometimes
remedies will act specifically on indi
viduals ; but no one remedy will ever
bo found to act in all cases. The lead
ing indications in the prevention ana
treatment of the disease are the avoid
ance of light, heat, worry, dust, vegeta
ble and animal irritants, and other ex
citing causes, fortifying tho system by
tonics before and during the attack, and
relieving the symptoms by those seda
tivei and anodynes, locally or generally
administered, which are found by ex
perience to bo best adapted for each in
dividual case.
These indications can be met by
spending the season of tho attack at sea,
or in elevated mountainous regions, or
in high latitudes nt nny elevation where
the air is sufficiently cool, or at tho sea
shore, or, for those who cannot leave
heir homes, in quiet, cool, closed, and
darkoued rooms.
For thoso who, in spite of theso pre
cautions or from inability to take them,
are attacked with tho disease, tho reme
dies should be quinine, arsenic, iron,
and electricity, before and during the
attack ; local applications of quinine
nud camphor by the atomizer ; and for
palliatives, any ono or several of the
great variety of remedies that experi
ment shows to be most useful for each
individual.
A Seed That Purifies Water.
In India, says a writer, whore it is
often quite impossible to obtain good
water, there is a kind of provision of
Provideuce for the purifying of impure
and muddy water which is well worthy
of notice. Were it in America, it might
be called an "institution," so common is
its use. It is a seed which, ou being
rubbed again and again on the inside of
tho common earthtrn waterpots of the
country, has the power of precipitating
the earth and impurities, leaving the
water tolerably clear and in a degree
Miitablo for use. During our itineracy
of two weeks we have had occasion al
most constantly to use tho very repul
sive looking tank water of the country
thus purified. At only one of our en
campments have we had well water, and
then the natives much preferred the
common surface or tank water to this.
Habit, usage and custom are almost om
nipotent in India, and many years must
pass before Hindoos will learn that their
purifying seed does not remove the poi
sonous taint that produces fever and
cholera, nnd does nothing to destroy ani
mal life that brings the very common
and troublesome Guinea worm, so often
making lite almost or quite a burden.
It is a source of satisfaction to us that
this purified water is rendered harmless
by boiling, and there is, f course, as
much more urgent reason for the use of
"the cup that cheers but does not ine
briate " than can be found where one
has access to "the old oaken bucket" of
former times and happy memory.
A Great Army Cookshop.
The German government has just
completed an immense establishment nt
Mayence for preparing provisions for
the army in time of war. The main
building is more thau 1,000 feet long,
with four extensive wings. A railway
branch runs directly into the grounds.
Two engines of 1,800 horse power are
used to ruu the machinery. The water
is drawn from wells fed by the Rhine,
and is pumped up by steam into a reser
voir which will hold about 600,000 gal
lons. When the manufactory is in fall
work it will be capable of boiling down
and condensing 17U oxen per diem,
grinding 350 tons of flour, and if mak
ing 300,000 loaves of bread. It will also
bo able to supply enough preserved oats
for a iaj's feeding of the horses I elong
ing to an army oorpsof 280,000 men. To
'srnard as muoh as possible acainst fire.
the whole of the buildings, including
the rooi, are ol stone ana iron.
Fashion Notes.
Fancy shoes are numerous.
Full flowing yoke wroppers nro re
vived. It is probable that the polonaiso will
continue fashionable for some time.
Midsummer corsets are made of whilo
linen net, and aro known as " Ince cor
sets. The veil now plnys a prominent part
in a bonnet. .Fur thoso veils plain gauzo
is most used.
For negligo wear nro beautiful half
slippers, made of black satin and bound
across, the straps being worked with
jet.
Silver chatelaines are not reni-ly so
heavily laden as last year ; the wateii
and fans are the only articles they now
carry.
The most dressy shoes have all pointed
toes and Louis XV. heels, but for use
ful wear boots and shoes nro made with
square toes.
For seaside, Paris elegantes aro wear
ing cardinal red silk stockings, in fact
red is tho dominating color in the ac
cessories of their toilet,
Mrs. Gen. Geo. A. Custer always ac
companied her husband iu his cam
paigns, and was his companion iu tho
expedition to the Indians.
Tho form known as Charles IX. iu
shoes i3 very popular, This has ft wido
bar across the instep, fastened with a
small steel buckle with diamond points.
Buckles are often worn on evening
shoes, particularly those mudo of Bhiuo
crystal, of coral and turquoises, tho
buckles being of fancy shape, and tho
shoes either light colored faillo or black
satin.
Among the novelties are the Intent
China crape shawls, which nro smaller
than the old fashioned ones, and aro
worn as a double point, boing fastened
in front like a peasant woman's largo
fichu.
Stockings should match, in nny case,
tho toilet worn at tho time ; stripes go
ing aroi.od the 1 g aro again in favor.
Spun silk and thread stockings are in
vogue for day wear, silk ones beiug re
served for evening occasions.
Faucy gauze is preferred for the scarfs
arranged as bandeaux around the hats.
The most popular of all for this purposo
appears to bo tho " frosted gauze;" this
is somewhat thick, nnd is tufted all over
with silky streaks liko snow flukes.
Waistbands and sashep, made of gros
grain are ngain coming iu favor ; they
are always fastened with a buckle. Tho
bands are very narrow, nre woru above
the basque bodice, and fastened with a
Louis XV. buckle in Rhino crystal.
Tho Fenelon is the favorite shoo for
walking ; it is cut so as to well cover
the foot iu front, and is fastened with
ribbons which pass in and out of eyelet
holes. It covers the foot almost as
much as a boot, and is less fatiguing to
wear.
Mrs. McGill sat in tho parlor talking
to the minister. " What I do love,"
said she, " is to see the children enjoy
themselves." And yet when, a moment
after, a baseball camo singing into tho
room, scattering the remains of a fifty
cent glass, do you suppose sho leaned
out of the window and cried: "Hero's
your ball, darling ; never mind tho old
glass." Not much 1 She Failed out
the front door like a cyclone, and
banged the head of tho boy who owned
the ball against the railroad until ho
thought the fourth of July had arrived
two months ah.;ad of time.
Asiatic Cholera.
Dr. Bonnafont, in a communication
upon the Asiatic cholera, read before tho
academy of medicine at Paris, enunciates
the following general propositions :
First, this disease cannot originate spon
taneously in any other country thau
India, but must reach other regions by
transportation or by the germs of tho
diseaso, atmospheric currents, or somo
other vohicle ; second, all hygienio
methods to avert this plague must bo
initiated aud maintained in tho country
of its origin ; third, that it is not tho
dead animals abandoned on the soil by
caravans of pilgrims or the number of
human bodies thrown into the Ganges
that produced the eruptions of the
Asiatic cholera, as these praitices havo
prevailed for nges, while appearances of
the epidemic or Asiatic cholera in Europe,
Africa, or America date only from the
prosent century ; fourth, other causes,
therefore, must exist for tho frequent
movements of this disease, nnd it is in
India that these are to bo Investigated ;
fifth, secondary epidemics may perhaps
be developed in points already iufected,
but with very rare exception they never
assume tho exact features of genuine
cholera, and they will generally fade out
and disappear until re-enforced by a new
eruption from the original starting point.
Therefore, the speoial points to be con
sidered ore the questions why cholera
has remained for centuries in nn eudemio
and stationary condition iu India, and
why it has recently emerged thro gh
the atmospherio conditions and the man
ners and customs of the Hindoos and
pilgrims apparently remain unchanged.
The White HouseUs History.
The White House, at Washington, D.
C, was commenced in October, 17'J2.
The commissioners of Washington City,
a sort of board of pnblio works iu thoso
days, offered a premium for competitive
plans, and the award was given to Jus.
iioban. The building is modeled after
the palace of the Duke of Leiuster. It
is 170 feet front by eighty-six feet deep.
It has the appearance of beiug built of
white marble, but the material is free
stone, painted white, with Ionic portico,
comprehending two stories, crowned
with a balustrade. The interior is
planned more for display than for
health. It is curious to remember in this
centennial year that in 1814 the British
ers invaded the White House, and very
seriously injured the magnificent 6tate
dining-room by their rude and barbarous
practices. The invaders' bands, which
have bad recourse to the torch, did not
hesitate to deface the columns and pan
elings of the Presidential mansion with
spur and bayonet. The building was
repaired under the supervision of the
original architect, J as. Hoban.