i "r n ft i B. F. SCHWEIER, THE COJrSTITTITIOH-THE UITI05 AFD THE KjTOBCEMKTT OP THE LAWS. Editor and Proprietor. VOL. XXXII. MIFFLINTOWX, JUNIATA COUNTY, 1'KNNA., WEDNESDAY, DECKMI5KR 11. 1S78. NO. 50. t I.aat eve with the ann Tbe wind weut down; And never a sound was heard "N'eath the atar-eyed sky, Bat the wolfs long err, ( r the rail of a startled bird. The dim earth slept. While with rigii kept The cold moon, crescent swung; And the chill, white North Flung his pennons forth. And bis golden dipper hung. And. dumb and still With the deaejr chill. The bloenoms felt the blight; And the sentinel corn. In the dull gray morn. With the hoar-frost glistened white. To-day, like a dream. The dull sun beams Through the purple, mist; bae: And a mirage lies. On the low-hung skies. Like a ghost of the summer days The echo rings. And a rush of wings Of myriads hurrying south: And the nuts fall swift. Of the leaves adrift At a breath from his frozen month. The Plague The 1.1th of March, 1720, was a gay ami joyous day in the Jucen City of tin Mediterranean, Marseilles, which even then was one of the finest places in the Old World, and which to-day Is .lazz'ing in the splendorof itsgorgeous buildings, its magnificent situation, and its sunny sky. in that day a great event occurred in the commercial history of Marseilles. The first ship from the levant, laden with precious cashmere wool, had ar rived, and it was to lie woven at Mar. liles. w hose great ambition was to r.-lii.se the spinners of I.vous and Kou !l. I lie sailors of the ship were treated to a collation at the public expense ,am until a late hour of the night crowd -iuging joyous ditties were wissing all through the principal streets of the city. Alas! Had the people of Marseille known the dreadful calamities the woo -hip had carried to them ! It had sailed from r-inyrna. and at .-myrtia that terrible scourge of former ages, the plague, was raging. Disinfecting processes at this time were never resorted to, and the narrow streets of Marseilles, near the harbor, were kep; in a very filthy condition, Next day the wool ship was unloaded and two hours later most of the work men engaged on the dock near it were w rithing in the agonies of the plague A cry of horror resounded through out the whole city when the dread news lieeame generally known. The stores were shut up and the jieople locked themselves in their dwellings. Some of the wealthier residents hurriedly left the city, and departed for the pine-clad hills north of Marseilles, where the air was bracing and salubrion Hut the vast majority of the people -t.iyed. Stayed to die to die iu a man hit too horrible to imagine. . It wis at setting in of dusk that : well-dre?wei and very handsome young man entered a narrow street in the northern part of the city. He stood -till in tront of a low house, the win dow shutters of which were tightly closed. From his pocket lie drewa sil- er w histle, and blew three shrill note Iroiu It. A few minutes later the frontdoor of the house was cautiously opened In the dim twilight the young man re.-ogui7.ed a frail female form, dressed in a flowing white w ranper. He then rushed towards her, and, clasping her in his arms, exclaimed rapturously 'Sephrouia'" "Antoine!"' For a minute they remained locked in a fervent embrace. Then she drew him gently into a hallway. They ex. changed many tender caresses. At last she ushered him into a cozily furnished back room,lighted by ahanz ing lamp, w hich shed a dim light over the room. They sat down on a low di van. She was a girlish beauty of the true Kasteru style, graceful as a fawn, per haps eighteen v-ears old, perhaps a year or two younger, with raven black hair, a complexion faultlessly pure", magnifi cent eyes, and r mouth as charming as that of Venus of Milo. The young man took her hand and gazed lovingly into her eyes. "Seplironia," lie ss.id at last, "I have coim; to hear your decision." A cloud at once darkened the brow of the lovely girl. 'Antoiiie de Couras," she said, pres--iug her baud igaiust her heart, yon have lieen the most generous of men to we. You love nw I love you w ith all my heart. ISut " "lint!" he ex-claimed impatiently. "Kut, Antoiiie, dearest Antoine, I cannot marry you !" lie sprang" to his feet, uttering wild imprecation. Why, Seplironia, why9' he cried, .-tamping his foot on the ground. "Listen to me, Antoine," she eaid, ea Imly. "What am I in the eyes of the world but a wretched outcast? The "laughter of a woman who was broken on the wheel as a witch." Her Itos-nm heaved convulsively as she uttered these words. "Poor mother," she sighed. "She a itch tn-cause she cured some sick peo ple whom the stupid physicians of Marseilles had given up "It was an abominable outrage, aid M. IeCouras. "It was, Antoine. My own life was in danger. You saved me and con-i-ealed me here. And then think of w ho you are. . The only son of a weal thy counselor to the Parliament. Your lather would disown you." "I have a modest fortune in my own right," interposed Antoine. "A modest fortune," she exclaimed, almost scornfully. "How happy, you, the' petted child of opulence, would be with a slender income." S.t1, ..:- 19 yur decUion irrevoc- NUIO . drew m'? "nM'n R'-P-ioUS,ely w ncr neart- - s uuie. i iiave a strange loreooding that startl mg events ate go- ing to happen." ... . w.ie startling event has already -nt-iicu, sum 31. OeCouras. "The laK..e nas broken out in Marseilles "The plague!" she echoed, with d tended eyes. "Yes; everybody is alarm...! "And well they may be," she Raid, solemnly. "Few cures can be effected .erome plague appears in its most malignant form." "Many people have died this after uoon, SephronU." "Then God have mercy ujwn Mar seilles. You must forwith leave cy. Antoine." He Jaughed. "Why ? I am not afraid," he said. rtt not laugh. Antoine. I . ..iw.m and brought up in Aleppo. I and my wnoie family would have been aueni away by the plague if my father, who s a very learned man, had not pos- an luiauiDle remedy for the ...!- deiuic." "Have you got that remedy?" An toine asked eagerly. "I have," she replied. "Why then do you not rive it the au thorities, Seplironia?" An lie broken on the wheel as a hn.l witch !" she exclaimed bitterly. "Xo! no! And what good would it do? They w ould never apply it." l must go then. Seubronia " he said. "1 shall be back in a week and get your final answer." "Stay a minute; I'll give you some of my father's plague arcanum." She went into an adjoining room and returned soon afterw ard w ith a large crystal bottle, a jar, and two empty vial. One or these vials she filled with the yellow fluid whiee she poured from the crystal bottle. The other vial she filled w ith an oily substance, a soft salve, which she took w ith an ivory spoon from the jar. "If you should get the plague," she said, "rub your body with this salve, and drink a few drops of the fluid. You will speedily get well." They parted most tenderly, and An toine left the house. He had passed on but a few steps when lie was attacked by two deser- aie ieuows, who Knocked him sense less. Is it not curious that, when all good people shut themselves up in their hou ses in order to escape the pestilence deserHte criminals prowl about fear lessly, bent on murder and robben' They rifled the iiockets of the Inani mate ycung man. They found on him a well-til led purse and two vials. The latter they flungaway contemptuously Then they hurried away. M. De Couras awoke ten minutes la- ter. J he night was very dark, but he groped his way to a thoroughfare, and speedily reached his father's palatial mansion. There terrible news awaited him his father, his mother, and his two lovely sisters had leen attacked by the plague. All their cowardly servants had fled from the house. Antoine bethought himself of the two vials Sephrouia had given him. He was bitterly disappointed when he found that they were gone. Suddenly he felt that Ills own Head began to reel, and he sank senseless to the floor. He, too, had the plague. Twenty -four hours later he reawoke to consciousness. At his bedside sat Sephrouia. I have heard that you and your fam ily were down with the plague, so I came to your house. Your pareuts an' sisters were dying. You will live He did recover, and a week later was able to be about. He persuaded Sepli ronia to let hiiu have a quantity of the panacea. She remained at the house, while he went into the streets and effected many cures. Karseilles was iu a truly horrible condition. Of the one hundred and wenty thousand inhabitants, sixty thousand suceumlted iu three weeks to the pitiless scourge Everybody ws.s in despair. The phy sicians did not know anything about the plague. A stupid rumor had beeu circulated that the wells w ere poisoned. People refused to drink water. I he good bishop of the diocese, Monseig- neur DeBelzuuoc, made supernumau efforts to relieve the suffering, but all to no purpose. There were no hearses, and no cot- fins. Vast numbers or corpses were piled up in the streets. In (rout of one of these ghastly piles Antoine de Cou ras one day met the biMiop. 1 lie noDie irelate's courage was evidently giving Antoine saw at once that the epidem ic had singled him out as a fresh vic tim- , , The vocng man poureu a iew urojra of the elixir down the bishop's throat. It -revive. me," said the msnop. leaving a deep sigh. "Let me rub ' your nanus aim iace w ith this olntmen?, juonseigneur. will save your precious life." . t .i.ni.caiwl thanks. younr man. How cau I reward you?" "Will you stay here a few minutes. I will be "back presently." In a few minutes Antoine returned w ith the blushing Sephrouia. "Marry us, Monseigneur. Let that be my reward." And they were married in front ol all those dreadful corpses. The corpses were finally pushed into the sea by galley slaves that had been liberated for that purpose. Such an appalling calamity never be fell a civilized city in modern times. it r ma ol r okHvio CoM t treat It promptly ard property until It leeviien lid ot-lnfc lliK-nl ep rleuce fort E. wy presntlD?acan.ilve in Dr. JuToefcx nectoraot. tborougiy adapted to remove speed- 0iumK of Uie throat or Lung-i. and remove SSSreS-tug aympwuu of atbma PU.B- th Affchaa. The district of Cabal is declared by Oriental traditions to be one of the very sites of the Garden of Kden. Displeas ing as it may be to the "uncoguid. wno wail hysterically over their ow countrymen and countrywomen as the most depraved and unscrupulous beings on the globe, and who are just now taking the blameless and ill used Af ghans to their bosoms, the nlal n truth is that Afghan men and women are no better than they should lie and consi. erably worse. In accordance w ith the national character for suspicion and Intrigue and corruption, an Afghan dwelling house is like an Afghan boor kaposh a whitened sepulchre. The flat roofs of the houses have generally a paraitet wall formed of rnilwnrL- thlckly overlaid w ith mud, and five or six feet high, to allow the woman the family to take an airing unveiled as their lords are very jealous about their being overlooked. During our tonner occupation of the city, an ofll cer who had ascended to the upper part of the Bala Hissar to get a good view of the surrounding country, was credited with looking at some woman hlf mile below him, and received a deli ate hint iu the shane of a ball from jejail whizzing past his head. But however much an Afghan would think himself disgraced by his w ife's face be- ug exposed to the vulgar gaze, he has not the slightest objection to being "squared" to "keep her purdah," or. in other words, conniving at her con nubuil vagarits for a consideration I he wives may go wherever they please iu their boorkaiiosheg, to shop or to visit relations, but they must "keej their purdah," otherwise, avoid a scan dal. In some of the walls facing the street little loopholes with tiny shut ters exist, through which an Afghan beauty may be seen glancing quickly and furtively at the passing stranger, while her grim old lord and master sits stolidly gazing at vacancy through wider ajierture below. Here is a pic ture of an Afghan beauty behind the puruaii: the blue-black hair is plas tered down stiff with gums iu various forms on the head, and, from the roots behind, plaited into numerous long tails, hanging over the shoulders and back. The outer margin of the ears all around is pierced aud decorated with rows of small silver rings, larger ones hanging from the lobes. The neck and breast are tattooed and dotted over with little figures of stars and flowers. The lntrous black of the eves is further enhanced by loading the lids with soor- nia or black antimony. The checks are rouged and picked out with little round moles of gold and silver tin-el fixed ou with gum. A loose yellow, blue, or red jacket of muslin or silk hanging lie low the waist and paljau.as, or w ide trousers, of silk or other colored mate rial, form the indoor costume. On go ing out, leggings of cotton cloth, gar tered at the knea, walking -hoes of red or yellow leather, and the iudi.-peusa-ble boorkaposh are added. A lady of the Kuzztibah tribe is sometimes dis tinguished by the further addition of a black horse-hair veil, and it is also considered chit to wear a vinaigrette filled with attar of roses or other scent ou the forehead. Afghan ladies exer cise considerable inflnence over their spouses, both in domestic aud political aflairs. Savage and intractable as the men usually are among themselves, it is qnite beautiful to see how submissive they can become to the discipline of the Harem Serai. An officer has beeu late ly telling us in the 77mj how Shere All has the slipper applied to his au gust head by the mother of his de ceased heir, Abdulia Jan, and it was well known that Shere Ali's ow n mo ther, Kuadijah,a daughter of a I'opul.ia noble, was paramount in his father Dost Muhanimed's, zenana, to the ut ter disgust of the thirteen other wives. Tbe dost's own mother, though with a Persian tint iu her blood, and consid ered, therefore, a tueailiiuncc, was nev ertheless the favorite of the eight wives of his father, I'ayaudah Khan. She was the only one w ho could prevail ou the old Sirdir when on a campaign or a journey to march at a decent hour of the morning, for which his followers used to bless her. When any of the other seven were w ith him he gener ally struck his tent In the middle of the night, as if in a hurry to get away from them. ' The Icmd bra. The Dead Sea is about forty miles long and about eight iu w idth. Ou its north and west shores is a pebbly aud muddy beach, without shell or trace of living creature, so far as I have ob served ; no vegetation sarrounds it, and for our usual noon-day lunch we conld obtain no shade from the sun. I had to use my umbrella, and cau now bet ter understand Jonah's complaint over his withered gourd and Uie beauty of the prophet's figure "The shadow of a great rock in a weary land! On Us banks, near its junction with the Jor dan,, are uumbers of reeds, but they were perfectly withered aud brittle. probably revired, however, by some stray streams from that river at the pe riod of Its annual overflow. Altogeth er, the 3cene was the wildest and most deathlike of auy I have ever seen, and had an extremely depressing effect on the spirits, for w hich, no doubt, an un wonted atmosphere was also to blame. So Intense was the heat at this level the lowest spot on the earth's surface, being 1,300 feet uuder the level of the Mediterranean Sea, and more than 3,000 imder that of Jerusalem that three of our party, who maue a lour oi uie world, said that they had never expe rienced heat so intolerable, not under the equator, nor yet on the Jied fcea voyage. ' It seems obvious that the Dead Sea water surface was, at no very I distant era, several hundred feet higher in level. This fact I thiuk, incidental ly indicates the former fertility of Pa lestine, because a luxurious vegetation would produce more rain, and, conse quently, a larger volume of water sup- j ply by the Jordan and its tributaries than in modern times. Some say a miasma arises from the slime beds.of the Dead Sea, which induces depression of spirits and excessive fatigue. This is possible, but probably imagination has something to do with the feeling, True is it, however, that neither man nor living thing tarries many hours in its vicinity, nor is a boat seen on its solitary waters, although from their high s-eeific gravity every thing float able swims on its surface with remark aide buoyancy. Even the naval olllcer who undertook to survey its boundaries aud sound its depths has done so very imperfectly, driven off, if I remember aright, by sickness. The waters of the Dead Sea contain a fourth part of solid matter, of which one-half is common salt. It is slid the bottom or bed of the sea is asphalt, and lumps of bitumen are frequently seen on its shores, as are also flakes of s'llphur. The scene of solitude is awful, nor can I imagine any punishment nice severe than to be left here alone eveu for a single week. The valley of tbe Dead Sea Is surely the most extraordinary feat of geography Its waters have been sounded and found 1,32( feet deep, so that its bottom is nearly a mile lower than Jerusalem! Kvcr tilling aud without agres. yet it is never full assuredly not unfit tyte of the "valley of the shadow of death." Bathing our hands in its waters, a dis agreeable feeling remained until 'we had afterward washed them iu the Jor don further on in the afternoon. A Itoa Constrictor Fight. licVcutiy there was an exciting scene in the house at the Zoological Garden, Cincinnati, occupied by the dozen huge boa constrictors recently imjiorted from South America, tine of the snakes had crept up the branch of a tree that was occupied by another. At this the one with the pre-empted claim to this rest ing place seemed to take serious offence, for it suddenly, having taken two or three tight coils around the limh,arched its neck, aud w ith lightning-like flash es of its tongue shot forth its head aud buried one of its fangs in the skin of the other at alnrnt its middle The bit. teu boa, instead of striking back imme diately, let go its hold on the limb aud dropped off, its eutire length ot nine feet hanging down, partly iu the air and partly ou the floor. It was held thus by the fangs of the attacking boa, that remained caught in a loop of the skill. This placed both snakes iu a o sition of pain. Toe biter's neck w as pulled out taut by the weight that it could not siiake off, and its jaw s were wrenched wide apart. It seemed that it either lacked the instinct to release tselfof its coils on the limb or was prevented from so doing by the strain. The other snake, evidently suffering from the wounds and the strain ou its skin, was writhing in pain, w ith its tail on the floor and its body and neck squiruiiug in the air. Occasionally it would rai-e its head as if to strike the other in tne neck, but was not observed to do so. At last one of the attendants opened the door.aud w ith a stick raised up the lower snake iu such a way that it managed to w riggle off. The olhe snake then dropped to the floor. Itap peared to be suffering greatly, and it is feared that it may die. The titteii one does not seem to suffer much. A Legend about Lare. There is a legend regarding the Intro duction of the manufacture of lace into Flanders. A poverty-stricken, but pious young girl was dying of love for young man, whose wealth precluded all hopes of marriage. One night as she sat weeping at her sad fate, a beau tiful lady entered the cottage and with out saying a word, placed on her knee green cloth cushion, with Its bobbins filled with the fine thread, which on autumn evenings floats in the air, and which the people call fils de la Vierge' The lady, though of romantic bearing was a uraetical man ufacturer. She sat down iu silence, aud with her nimble ngers taught the unhappy mas"'en hov to make all sorts of patterns and complicated stitches. As daylight ai- proached the maiden had learned her art, and the mysteriom visitor dissap pesred. The price of lace soon made the poor girl rich. She married the man of her choice, and surrounded by a large family, lived bappy and rich, for she kept the secret for herself. Uue evening when the little folk were play- ng round her knee by the fireside, and her husband sat fondly watching the happy group,the lady suddenly made her appearance among them. Her bearing was distant; she seemed stern and sad, and this time addressed her protege in a trembling voice: "Here," the said, "you enjoy peace and abun dance, while without are famine and rouble. : I helped you ; you have not helped your neighbors. The angels weep for you and turn away their faces," So Uie next day the woman arose, and going forth with a green cushion and its bobbins in her hands, went from cottage to cottage, offering to all who would be taught, to Instruct them in the art she had herself miracu lously learned- So they also became rich, and Belgium became famous for this manufacture. Two Xutfd r.niw Itublers. Out readers will remember the ac count given in these columns of the robbing of the grave of the Hon. Scott Harrison, in Ohio, last May, the body being foond in the dissecting-room of the Ohio Medical College. I'ublio in dignation justly brands any man as a scoundrel who will rob the grave of the dead. But there are two noted grave robbers in the country, so far from being tbesubjects of the people's wrath, re universally lauded for their virtues. The reason is plain; while the former class steal the dead bodies of our loved ones to submit them to the dissecting knife, these only rob the graves to re store the Irving victims to our hearts and home. Tbelr names Dr. Pierce a Golden Medical Discovery and Pleasant Purgative Pellets are household words the world over. The Golden Medical Discovery cures consumption in its early stages, and all bronchial, throat and lung affections; Pleasant Purgative Pellets are the most valuable laxative, end cathartic Never borrow money and neglect to nav. If vou do vou will soon be known as a person of no business Integrity. Nevada Share. In a big wholesale house down on Front street. San Francisco, there is a certain young man employed, who, by dint of hard work aud rather frugal habits, had managed to save $3)0 from his meagre salary. An acquaintance ol his a man iu mining circles said to him one day, about three mouths ago "Jim, if you want to makes some thing, scrape some money together and buy a hundred shares of Sierra Nevada it will go up, maybe, one of these davs. and you can get something pretty nice out of it. The young man smiled, he had ha! points before, but the more he thought about it, the more he was taken with the idea. He knew his informant was in a position to know something about Sierra Nevada, and get early in forma tion, and as he had never advised him to buy stocks, it impressed him more and more strongly that there was some thing in it. But he only had f-JOQ, aud his informant had told him to buy a hundred shares. The stock was then lagging along at about 14 a share To get a hundred shares he must get f'JOl more. He brooded over the subject a few days, and then his fiiend asked "Have you got that stock yet ?" "Xo." "Better get it," aid his friend, "von haven t got much time." The young man went and put up hi watch aud got another $100. Then he sold some other trinkets, and raised another $50. Something else went, and he had just $i. all told. He w atched the stock list, but Sierra Nevada hung at f4 with tantalizing persistency. Fi nally he said to a fellow clerk : "Here Jack, lend me for a couple of week s. I'm short." Jack went down into his pocket and handed bun $.", and then the coveted ftOO was intact. The day he gave the order, Sierra sold at $.", but the broker told him, "All right; I'll buv it on the $10" margin, aud carry it for you." Ihe stock was bought, and iu twe days was selling at 7.0. Then it went to fill and $12, and finally the whole street knew of the new bonanza. At bout 12 and I.", the young man was crazy to sell, but -the original informant w ould not let him, or rather begged him to hold or.. There is no use elaborating the story, the point is not in the rise or iu what he made out of it. Suflicieut to say that he finally got 220 for the stock, aud walked off w ith a check for f 21,000. He put it into bank and the next day walked down to the store where the young mau was employed w ho had loaned him $". "Jack," he said, "do you know I owe you $r. Jack looked puzzled for a moment. "Yes by Jove, 1 believe you do! Gad, I'd have forgotton all alut it if you hadn't spoken." "Well," said the lucky one, "I've come to pay It, and apologize for not doing it before. I've been sort of hard pressed of late. But here it is with many thanks." And handing the young man an envelope he hurried from the store. Jack, w as busy at the time, and, slipping a five doilar gold note to be in the envelope, crammed it into his vest pocket and weut on with his work. He never thought of it again until that night, disrobing for bed, a corner of the envelope icepiiig from his pocket attracted his attention. It occurred to him what it contained, and he opeued it, when to his utter amazement he found a check for $2,500, w ith this lit tle note pinned to it : Dkar Jack: I return yon with interest. i our readiness to oblige me aided me in buying Iimi shares in Sierra Nevada at $." and have just sold at $220. The enclosed is an evidence of my gratitude. Take this and Ik happy. Sincerely, : . This is a pleasant little incldi lit and it has the merit of being true. Double Murder. "Are 3'on alarmed ?" "No." "But you are very pale and nervous." "No wonder. I am, as you know, a dead shot, and that man Caffrey Is my mortal enemy. If the insult had been inflicted uiion me by a stranger or a person in different (onie, I should have spared his life, but bring Caffrey before the muzzle of my pistol, and my bullet w III pierce his heart.' The man who uttered these terrible words, shortly after daybreak ou the 17th of Iiecember, 1S40, in a small grove about two miles east of Montgomery, the capital of Alabama, was Theodore Verrie, a young man of wealth, belong ing to one of the oldest families of the State. His companion was Jack Shannon, a young men of Irish desent, who was to act as second to Verrie in his contem plated duel with David Caflrey, a middle-aged man,' who on the preceding day had grossly Insulted Verrie at a saloon In Montgomery. There Caflrey had said to Verrie, "Your father was a dog, but you are not even a puppy!" Ver rie had struck him in the face, where upon Caffrey challenged him. The challenge had been promptly ac cepted, and the duel was to lie fought with pistols, at twelve yards distance. Varrie had arrived first on the field of honor ; but Caffrey soon made his ap pearance. The latter was rather a dis agreeable looking ma. There was a lurking, restless expression In his small gray eyes, and his ugliness was in creased by his remarkably tall and gaunt form.' His second was John Albright, a well-known sporting man, w hose com pany was shunned by the better clas ses, although nothing discreditable had ever been proved against him ; but there were vague raports that his antece dents in West-Virginia, whence he had come to Alabama, had been very bad The distance was measured ofl", and the order to fire given. Both duelists' fired Into tire air, and declcred them selves satisfied, but refused to shake hands. They then started back for Montgo mery, but erne aud Miannon never reached that city. ' They were fonnd days later by a negro, In a cane brake about a mile from the city. Both of them had pistols in their right hands The pi-tols had beeu fired off. When the twocorpses were brought to Montgomery the most intense exite nient ensued. Business was entirely suspended, aud the names of the dead men were on all lips. Had they killed each other? Or had they been murdered? The former question was discarded as utterly im probable, because the two victims had always been on the friendliest terms. So public opinion in Montgomery set jled down to the conviction that Yerrie and Shannon had been assassinated. But who could have been guilty of so dastardly a crime? hen it became known that Ca (Trey had quarreled with Verrie, he was ar rested, but Albright positively swore 'hat he had been with 'affrev hunting for two days for woodcock in the lilac woods, which was tar away from the "jtot w here the two corpses were found by the negro. So thj prisouer was discharged, and for seven month nothing further lie. came known about the mysterious tra. gedy. Meanwhile Call'roy and Albright pas- sed almost their whole time together Both of them began to drink heavily Albright, who had no means of his own, lived off Caffrey, who was well ofl. due day the two boon companions had been drinking very heavily at the Magnolia saloon. "( affrey," said Albright, "you must lend me to-day $50. I will give you the money back to-morrow. jo morrow means never, l sup pose," was the reply. And what if it did?" cried Al bright, angruy. "Now, I want you l give me two thousand dollars Caffrey turned lived with rage. "Albright, he said, "you are an in ternal acoundred." And you," retorded Albright, "are a d d cowardly assassiu !" The two uien itjincheil, and a long culllc ensued. The other persons in the saloou did not interfere, but they listened attentively to every word the two men littered. Finally Albright threw Caffrey down. "I have a good notion," cried the in furiated sporting mau, "to serve you as you did those two poor young fellows, one of whom you told me you had rea son to believe was your son." At last the barteuder separated them. An hour later both Caffrey and Al bright were arrested by the sheriff. Albright was so frightened when he was told that he had been apprehended on suspicion of being one of the murd erers of Verrie aad Shannon, that he made a clean breast of the whole affair. He stated that after the duel Caflrey ad waylaid the two young men, and shot them dead. Then he had put their pistols into their right hands anil drag ged them into the cane-brake. He had said that he believed Verrie I was his son ; bec.ni.-e he had held illici intercourse with the young man's mother. To prove Cafl'rey's guilt beyond a doubt, he said that ('affrey had taken from Verrie a locket containing the portrait of the young man's mother. This locket was found on Caffrey s per son. He was tried for murder, found guilty, and hung at Montgomery. Albright, as an accomplice, was sen tenced to twenty years imprisonment. The tuollh and Ihe WI- fow. The foolish cow fri-keth with her tail ud cheweth her cud and goeth forth with joy to browse in the thicket the w hole day long. But the w ise cow knoweth that quail shooting hath begun, anil she hearketii unto the voice of reason, w hich saith : "T.o, the hunter is come anon, girt about with the shot pouch and thejmw der horn, and in his hand he carricth a weapon, the barrel of which is doubled. And he goeth about seeking the birds that do run ujion the ground with ex ceeding swiftness, that he may ensnare them aud slay them with the weapon and devour them, even unto toast. And the weapon goeth bang and ye heareth the sound thereof.and ye smel leth the powder, but ye knoweth not, nor doth any man knoweth whereiinto the discharge appertaineth. For it flyeth with haste into the thicket and into the region located thereby, even into the whole territory thereunto adjacent. ' And it falleth upon the cow,and suii teth her sore, so that she lifteth up her tail and flyeth, being sorely and grie vously displeased. But the bird escapeth the wrath, and from a rail in a remote corner of the land laugheth the hunter to scorn. Therefore has the wise cow said in her heart, I will lay me down in the home pasture and will not go into the thicket; nay, not for the hunter or any udder man. Feeding Turkey. Turkeys are fast growing birds and dainty feeders. Their food, therefore. requires to he abundant, nutritious, and offered to them very frequently. While they are young it cannot be giv en too often. Some give it every half hour during the day, others once every hour, either of w hich is somewhat in convenient, but any person who is not prepared to bestow time and trouble on young turkeys should not attempt to rear them at all. They require great care and shelter for eight or ten weeks. The most critical time of all is hen they begin to throw out the rough scales and piumage that distinguish the sexes. These absorb a large amount of nourishment, and if adequate food is not supplied the system becomes so much reduced that disease is pretty sure to set in and carry off a large num ber of the bird. Russia being satisfied that the war in Afghanistan must result in a British victory, does not contemplate interven tion or interference while hostilities last, but intends to claim a voice in the settlements of the terms of peace. Maxims fur Yuanc; Men. Never be idle. Never gamble. Make few promises. Alwavs speak the truth. Keep good company or none. Drink no intoxicating liquors. T.ive up to your engagements. Never sr.eak lightly of religion. Be just before you are generous. Never borrow if it is possible to avoid it. Good character else. is aliove all thing- Make no haste to lie rich if you would proser. .ever listen to uue ami loose con versation. Keep yourself innocent if you would be happy. Wen you speak to a jierson look them in the lace. F.ver live (misfortune excepted with in your income. Never run in debt unless you see a way to ruu out again. Save while you are young, and then spend w hen" you are old. If you would have others sieak w ell of you, seak w ell of others. Good company and good conversation are the very sinews of virtue. l our character cannot be essentially injured except by your own acts. n hen you retire to bed. think over what you have done during the day. and resolve to do better the day com ing. Yrlloione Park. For a distance of some 30 or 40 miles from tbe crooked, elevated canon pass near the foot of the second canon of the Yellow stone to Its" gate of the moun- ins at the lovely trail pass to Fort F.llis, the main Yellowstone and the west fork of the Gallatin run north erly, nearly parallel, and but a few miles apart. But lietween them tow ers into snow-capi-ed jieaks tf.nuo and 10.INI0 feet high, one of the blackest. roughest, most repliant and most im passable bassaltic mountain ranges UMn the contiue-it. While its w estern side towers from the lovely Gallatin valley above Boeinau and Fort F.ilis like battlements amid the clouds, its eastern descends iu basaltic terraces to the enchanting lU.ttler Park along the Yellow stone. These terraces, gashed w ith countless more recent earthquake fissure rents, n-nally Miiucn liiu paral lel w ith the main rangeaud each other, often hundreds, sometimes thousands f feet deep, and no wider, w iih tower- i,r r,r.....l ! LI- -.ll, . , ... ... , . i , uirtii., ii-u, tiMiL-i, an., oiucr so.uure- hued pudding stone, basalt and lava, mingled with scattering dwarf pine and cellar, fringed the grassy slopes. These again, cross-furrowed by tite narrow, ortuous, yaw ning canon, outlets ol the huge hot springs, pure crystal lakes and grassy cedar-fringed clill'.sheltercd parks high amid eternal snows, unite to form a region of matchlos, eiichaut- ng beauty and repellant horror. The ountless bleaching horns and bones. and a few domesticated specimens roam- peacufully wiili our domestic cat tle, alone attest the recent occupancy of the valley by the curly bison or moun tain buffalo. But the sharp-eyed, fleet, footed antelope and blacktail along the terraced grassy slopes ; the fierce w ol verine and mountain lion in the dense ! thickets, ferocious grizzly in the rug- ; ged canon pases, speckled trout and ' tufted waterfowl of tt" lovely hikes, ! the stately antlered elk stalking prou.i- ly through eeilar grove and secluded grassy glens, aud the majestic bighorn I gazing leisurely from, or dashing fear- v ;ilonr tl.o rm-Lr l.-.l t lei......t l.s.,1, amid snow and cloud, still seem as ofj yore, game and scenery combined, i "foriiiin-r not for the lii.ii.l i.ilorin. I.nr I for the bold, exc!iciiced,clifr-climt-ing mountaineer an earthly hunter's paradi-eiu the fabled Kden of the de parted Indian warrior tieyoud the dis tant mom. tains. This has ever be.ui the chosen hunting ground of Freder ick Bottlor, the "mighty hunter of the mountains," immortalized by profes sor llayilcn's scene of him amid his live huge antlered e!k laying as they fell lMfore his deathly rifle in the famous photograph of "The Successful Hun ter,") and here for the past eight years we have together closed our mountain sport foi the season and rilh uniform success. We this year, ou the morn ing of October 9, with our saddle and pack horses passed where the Scottish Karl Dun Haven killed his largest big horn, and Texas Jack from a branched tree top thankfully saw his wounded grizzly demolish his Winchester instead of himself, to one of our chosen haunts seldom visited by w hite men, and never by Indians, deep and worn amid sur rounding crags and snow. At2o"clock P. M. we picketed our horses (still saddled for use) in a small grassy glade and recommenced a hunt, which a Par son Murray, of Adirondack fame, would havs enjoyed a mouth and chronicled a lifetime, both, with ns, soon finished At this ruting season of the year the huge antlered elk, when heated in the clias, cool themselves, buffalo like, in wallow beds, only more wet and mud dy. While guided by the loud, pecu liar, wooing elk whistle, we were cau tiously approaching one of these haunts in a thicket of Pinion pines, Frederick, who was in advance, discovered an ap proaching grizzly, and at a distance of fifty yards gave him a mortal shol through the neck and breast, but as he charged I instantly stopped him with a bullet crashing through the brain. Three other grizzly, until then unseen, reared snorting in the thicket, but w hile w ithholding our fire for deadly aim iu their expected charge, as usual, when attacked, they strangely slid from sight in retreat. Iu trailing them I, when some distance from Frederick, broulit dow n a very large and fine cow elk, w ith one bullet through the brea.-t, two through the lungs, and with the fourth broke her neck, all sent as fast as is.ible from a Winchester rifle. Before reaching my game, Fred erick, who had meantime killed an an telope and a sheep, aud bvcoming alarmed at my rapid firing, came up breathless to join in an expected bear fight, and only throating our game we hastened over a low ridge to w here Frederick had seen a herd of elk. Scores, if not hundreds of them, w ere laying, grazing, or gamboling, singly or in groupes, far adown the opposite terrace, fully a thousand feet below us, and a half mile away; a charming scene tor a painter, but practically too far away for us, and without molesting them we steered for a band heard whis tling nearer camp. Having an abun dance of meat, we now went for horns, and cautiously approaching, w ith but one ring of both rifles, brought down the largest horned bull within range, and then dashed, rifle in hand, into the herd for the loftiest antlers near the other side. There seemed about 100 of them, mainly 3 or t year old bulls, and as these animals do not visit the Park, probably few if any of thcoi had ever before seen a human being, for at the report of our rifles, the most of them looked hastily tothesurroundingcliffs. searching for the echoes; others ran off, w hile some of the group around the one we had shot gazed in silent wonder at his reeling fall, spouting gore, and dying struggie. Others snorted iu af fright, and two. perhaps rivals for some favorite cow, charged bol.llv iu for a free tight w ith the fallen foe and each other, too much owcupied with their sport to notice us. until somew hat diverging from Frederick I ran up to certainly less than 50 feet when they observed me, and one of them ran off. The other, a noble 4-year-old, stand ing nearly astride the fallen one, with glassy eye, arched neck, and lofty ant lers, seemed to momentarily expand in fierceness, to magnificent proportions, and preparations for a fearful charge, and when he with fairly bristling hair gave the fearful b-ittle snort, his acrid hot hissing saliva nearly reached me. I have often and again heard their woo ing, whistle-snorting battle challenge, ami clashing horns, but never before w hen I was so near most unmi-tak.i-bly the party challenged utterly ex posed, w ith no possibility of retreat, and only a bare one of a fortunate shot to drop him liefore transfixed by a score of antler points. During over 40 years of frontier exerience, 1 have thank fully sought the lee side of a friendly bind, boulder, or break work from a show er of hailstones or bullets, a hid den coiila from a wounded bull, or a dashing herd of buffalo, a lorked tree from a wounded black-tailed buck, and a low-branched one, easy to climb, ! roil, a pO from a powder-burned grizzly, but ne- ver before realized how terribly for- . , , , mi.lalile the usually timid, but fleet. proud, lofty-antlcred liocky Mountain elk could become when scenting blood, thoroughly aroused, and proudly fa cing the unknown biped man belted, armed and plumed, stalking erect into his battle ring. Fora moment I would have rather faced a family of snorting grizzlies, hut mm iscly, for, with my answering shout of mingled challenge and affright, the God-st:imel fear of his degenerate image i.mii nearly all animals reached him. but al! too late, for high in his first leap of retreat a ri fle rang out. and his proud form and lofty antlers crashed headlong in death beside bis fellow . As Fred had also brought dow n another, we desisted, not for want of game, but inclination for w anton slaughter. With horse and lasso we, without skinning, soon dragged our game just past our span horse iu a little sheltered glade, to our blazing camp lire beneath the shelter ing branches of an ancient cedar. Strange Thine Abont Cburrhe. That th-y never forget to take up a collection. ! ' hat short sermons are alwavs the effecting. ' hat every one tries to W the l:i when services are over. -t one That no preacher ever neglected t tell the story of the Prodigal .Son. That the woman w ith a new Inuinet and the young man with a high collar always occupy front seats. That the "squirt"' w ith a pretty girl has to walk the whole length of an aisle before he can get a seat. Tha'. the smart bail hoy always gets red in the face w hen his father or big sister gets up to tell their experience. That some good deacon always gets up, ju.-t before the collection, and says something about the "poor heathen." That the man who starts the hymns on the old fashioned plan, thinks all the psalms should lie sung to the same time. That the "man of the world" who helps to sing the doxology imagines he is taking an active interest In his soul's salvation. That some people take more pride iu saying they "haven't" been to church in two years than others do in declar ing they "haven't iiiis.ed a Sunday for seven years." That the young man who hasn't had a cent in the pnst two months. gies through every )ocket while the con tribution ba-ket is-going around, then asks a man in the iK-xt scat if he can change .t V. liar 4 oa Iramp. The Reno (Nev.) Journal says : Ever since the citizens began to guard tbe town against any overt acton the part of lawless ones, every stranger out nights has had to render a strict account of himself. A tramp wishing to get over considerable ground before the sun rose was hastily walking up Commercial I low at about one o'clock Thursday morning, when just at Barnet's corner, a man stepped In front of him, and cov ering him with a shotgun, demanded here he was from. "Virginia." "Where are you g-iing?" "To Verdi." "Well, Bir," said the sentry, "you just take the centre of that track, and don't vou leave it until you are out of town Glad to get away from that ugly look ing gun, the tramp has'ened to obey. He got in front ot Ilagerman's store, when another gun was poked in his face and the same questions asked aud answered. Starting once more on his journey to the Western Addition, an other gun with a man behind it stopped him. His answers were satisfactory and the familiar order was repeated, when he spoke up : "What kind of a town is this? Every man yon meet pokes a shooting-iron in your face and telis you to git, and you bet, I'm going." O'l'he officer tells this on himself, and smiles out loud at the tramp's discomfiture. p.- f2 I. r ft ft! rr i P i -V1, a Twouia be with you." But tell me, ru" 6 a
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