.. S. . . ' 4. ... - B. F. SCHWEIER, THE CONSTITTJTTON-THE UBTOB-AjID THE E5TOECIME5T OF THE LAWS. Editor and Proprietor. VOL. XXXIII. MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY, PENNA.. WEDNESDAY, A1TJL 16, 1879. NO. 16. VI H. T. HELMBOLD'S COMPOUND FLUID EXTRACT BUCHU. PHARMACEUTICAL. A SPECIFIC REMEDY FOR ALL DISEASES or tub Tor Debllltr. Lnw of Memoir. Indlsposl. tl-n V. Exertion or Bti.ine, Shortness of Hmrh;TroDlll with Thoughts of Disease, Dimnmof Vision. Pain in I lie Bark. Cbnt, and Head. Kusb of Klood to tbe Head, Pale Countenance, and Pry Skin. If Uicm! symptoms are allowed to ro on, very frequently Epileptic Fits ana Con sumption follo'w. Wben tbe constitution becomes affected ft 'requires the aid of an Invigorating medicine to strengthen and toue op lUe system which "Helmbold's Buchu fl DOES IN EVEEY CASE. IS TJNEQTJAIXD By any remr-iT known. 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With all these things to do With Jimmte's little pants to mend. Aud Mamie's dresses, too, Wt:ile dinner waits for serving ; Soon will the darlings come . With appetite, all ehaipened so When the; arrive at Louie. Then Wffl dislikes to see me In this old dress so prey ; He told me so this moruiu j twice Before be went away. He said the blnsh had faded Fro ai off my cheek so fair. But ten years have departed sioce The rosea lingere 1 there. He know not of my troubles At morning, noon, and night He wonders why my eyes so sad Have lost their old love lifcht. Dear Will, it is the children. That sex their mother so ; We'll wait until they hare grown np. Then things will cbango you kuow. Ten years have passed lha children. Sleep in the silent tomb ; While everything around sue seems Like mockery and (jloom. Ob. I should be so happy. With twice as much to do ; If only but the children were Arocud to Tex me too. What Carl Brought his Mother- "What shall I bring you from town to day, mother ?"' Mrs. Bradley looked at the bright, cheery face of the speaker, a hid not more than fourteen, but unusually tall and well devel oped for his years. "I don't know that we need anything, do we, Carl f That is, anything we can do without, you know." Here -Mrs. Bradley paused, as if unwil ling to sadden that brave, hopeful spirit by alluding to the burden tlial weighed so heavily upon her heart. "Yes, I know, mother. But I know, too, that this is your birthday ; and that the best mother and prettiest little woman in the world deserves a present of some kind. So what shall it lie ?" Mrs. Bradley blushed and smiled like a girl in her teens. She had not only lieen remarkably pretty in her youth, but was so still ; looking altogether too young to be the mother of a Imv as old as CarL "You won't always think so, I'm afraid! Bring yours -If safely back to me, together with all the money you can get for the fruit and vegetables, and that will lie all the present I shall want. I liope tliey will sell well, liecause " "Ther ou.'ht to sell welL" said Carl, fill ing up the wistful pause that followed, and looking with pride and satisfaction upon the j contents of the neat market wagon, and which were, mainly, the result of his own skill and industry. The display was both varied and tempt ing. There were green peas and corn ; fresli, crisp lettuce and celery ; bunches of radishes, beets and turnips. All t tnem arranged with so much care and nicety as to greatly enhance their attractiveness and value. The fruit consisted of early pi-ars and apples, whose mellow fragrance tilled the air, together with the cherries and currants, which gleamed forth redly and temptingly from out the green leaves that shaded them. "Never fear, mother," laughed Carl as he gathered up the reigns ; "I could dispose of twice tbe amount, if they were all likethjs." Leaning over the rustic gate, Mrs. Brad ley gazed after the retreating wagon, aglow of maternal pride and tenderness upon the fair, sweet face, which gave it a new ami wondrous beauty. "Carl is a real treasure, a great comfort to me," she tuougnt. "lie is like his father." Then a feeling of compunction touched her heart, as she thought now little love she had given to the grave, quiet man of nearly twice her years, who had lieen to her so kind a friend and protects, mingled with an emotion of thankfulness that he had never known it. that the wifely duty, the grateful affection, which were all she had to bestow, had been so much to him that lie had blest her for them w ith his dying breath. But for that fatal quarrel, and still more f:ital misunderstanding, how different her life hnil lieen I But God had been very good to her, especially in giving her so good and hopeful a son. And if, by their united efforts, thev could save their little home, she would lie content. It was alwavs a long and lonely day to his mother when Carl was away. He was so strong and patient, so merry ana ciieer ful, that all tlie sunshine seemed to vanish from the house when he lett. Mrs. Bradley had lieen more like a child to her husband than a wife, by whom she ha.l x-n eonuwlered US HOtlH'tllillU tO be carefully guarded from toil and hardship ; and Carl bad fallen iniovery mucn mesaiiie way of treating her. It w as amusing to see the nnrfectin? air he assumed, by virtue of his sex and superior size and strength. He liked to have bis motiierinineganien with him. but more for the sake of Imt so ciety than work. If she attempted any thing harder than sorting or arranging tue fruit and vegetables, he wouia say : "That's too hard work for you, mother ; I'll do it!" Sneaking so like his father as sometimes to almost startle her. In spite of the substantial lunch put up ft if liitn. Carl alwavs returned to use his own expression "as hungry as a liear !" So the sun bad hardly touched the western hills when Mrs. Bradley commenced pre parations for supper. Tlie snowy cloth was laid upon the round t.i.i. .twl the nlsie. knives and forks, and l - v-, 1 ' . . ' shilling tea-service arranged on it with as much care and precision as il sue naa neen expecting some guests of distinction. In front of Carl's plate was a platter of cold meat and vegetables, which slie knew by experience would receive bis first atten tion. .Marshaled around this were loaves of white and brown bread, a plate of honey, and dishes of currants and raspberries. Everything was in readiness except the tea, which Mrs. Bradley left for the last moment, so as to have it nice and fresh. Tlie sun bad gone down liehind the hills. m.wn a beautiful Ahlemev. wlnee big black eyes looked aliwist human id their 1... -n.l urnnMSKHL WSS lOWlU" a lllc liars, as though remonstrating at this un wonted forgetfulness of her claims. mi... 1,-if . niiul to milk her myself. said Mrs. Bradley, as she glanced at the shining lail on its wootH n in-gm uir !.. t , ..n't aataas WIIMI. Kfl' H lIlli . - " ' a - . ii tiin .... n.iiil.niiu of 1 arl s parting 1 IK' II un- - injunction induced her to go down again U tlie gate, to see ii lucre wcib j h As she did so, she caugtt g'impse of .i it.iinr alowlv ud the hilL Carl i front hodinc. something very o.n.'.j. ---- - careiuiij - , . . With an inward wonder as to what this - 1 1 i... .loetoH hack into the summer- '.-ii.. am in, civn ' - COUIU lie, . kitchen, and had just renvoved the ashes from a bed of glowmg euais, u v. tered, coming in Uirougn me iroui -j "Why, Carl, what has kept you so late?" "Oil, mother' cried Carl excitedly. "I've hail such a strange adverture ! Come into the front rootn and see what I've brought you ! Wondering not a little, Mrs. Bradley fol- lowed Carl into the front room. And there, upon a pretty, chintz-covered lounge, lay a beautiful little girl, about four years old, fast asleep. "Goodness me! she ejaculated, with uplifted eyes and hands, "where did you get that f " "I didn't get her." responded CarL "she came to me. I lielieve the Lord sent her!" added the lioy, dropping his voice, and a solemn look coming into his eyes, as they rested upon the sweet picture before him. And. certainly, there was never a sweeter picture than that round, dimpled face, with the bright halo of golden curls that encir cled it. As Mrs. Bradley gazed upon the little stranger, its beauty and helplessness appeal- ed strongly to the purest and sweetness in stincts of her nature. "It is a very a very lovely child, Carl. But I don't understand " "f course you don't F laughed Cart, nibbing his hand with Isivish glee, as he took another survey of his new-found treas ure. "How should you, when I haven't told you ! "To go back to the Iteginniug, the first time I saw the little thing she was sitting on Mrs. Morelauds steps, crying. Mrs. Moreland is the lady who engaged so many of our purple plums. I had sold every thing but them, and when I went up the steps with the tiasket I filled the child's chubby hands as full as they could IioIiL "I was all of fifteen minutes in Mrs. Moreland's. I thought I should never get away ; she had so much to say, and it took her such a time to get change and have tlie plums measured. I didn't see the little girl when I came out, and supposeil she lielong ed to somelmdy in one of the houses near by, and that she had gone in. I turned Charley's head homeward ; and you know how he pricks up his ears and trots along when I do Hint. I had got quite a piece out of town when I heard a little cry. At first I thought it was along the roadside, and stopping tlie wagon, I linked around. Not seeing anything, 1 drove on. Pretty m I heard anotlxT cry louder and more impa tient, and which sounded as if it was just back of me. I turned my head, and there the little thing wan, sitting among tlie emp ty baskets and Uixes! "I was astonished enough at first, and then I saw just how it happened. "You see, the wagon was close to the steps, and she had clamlercd into the Ku k part, after more plums, perhaj'S, and being tired out wandering around, had gone to sleep." "But, ( arl, you ought to have carried her right 'laek." ":-o I diil, mother; that's what made me so l:ite. 1 drove straight I mrx to .Mrs. Moreland's, and she didn't know anything aUiut her. I asked the people in sons? of the other houses and thev didn't either. me man told me to take Iht to the station. But I wouldn't do that such a little bit of j liaby so I just brought her houie to you. Here the child awoke and licgan to cry. partly from hunger and partly from seeing the strange faces that lient over her. Tluoe violet eyes, with their grieved. wondering look, awoke a strange thrill in Mrs. Bradley's heart, and clasped their owner in her arms, she cami-d her out to where Carl s supjs-r was awaiting for bun. Carl would have fed the hungry child with tlie sulrstantial food so grateful and necessary to him, though he yielded readily to his mother's suggestion that warm milk would lie bitter. . I While he was out milking, Mrs. Bradley questioned the child, but could gain no in formation, save that her name was Dora and her papa's name papa." There was no name upon the clothing, whose elegance and fineness of texture indicated that she was the child of wealth, carefully and ten derly nurtured. Dora partook eagerly of the nice bread and milk that were prepared for her, failing asleep immediately after, so that it was with some dilllculty that she was inducted into the little night-dress, which Carl amid hardly believe that he bad ever worn, even when his mother tola him so, and how quickly he outgrew it. He watched the process with great inter est. Youll keep her, won't you, mother t he said, as he kissed one of the white, dim pled feet, "You've often said that you ished you had a little girl. "If no one chums her. We must do all we can to find out to whom she belongs. There are hearts that are very sorrowful to night, mourning tbe loss of tlieir darling." The next dav Mrs. Bradley wrote out a full description of Dora for the daily Jlar liinrrr, ami which she gave to Carl to take to the village postottice. As he walked along, thinking of the mort gage, which threatened to deprive them of their little home, and wishing that he wasa man, that he might get a man's wages, he saw an elegant barouche approaching drawn by a sjn of coal-black horses, whose sil ver-mounted harness glittered in tue sun ligbt. , It contained only two persons : it s oioreu ilriver, and a stately-looking, middle-aged gentleman, who ordered the carriage to stop, as soon as he saw Carl. Boy, can you tell me where me v mow Bradley lives f" that is my mothers name. Mie lives in the third house, on the right hand, straight ahead." 1 lie man smiled. I am Judge Haviland. You must be Carl Bradley, who found and took such kind care of" my little Dora. 1 am impatient to see her jump in and tell my man where to stop." There was something more than cunosuy in the keen eyes that surveyed Carl as he olieved. - ar ' Was not your mother s maiden name Wynne Helen Wynne?" "les, sir." "I used to know her when she was a girl, and a very lieautiful girl slie was, too. "My mother is very beautiful now. "I don't doulrt it," smiled the judge. "And yon arc her son I Dear! dear! how time does fly, to lie sure." Mrs. Bradley was sitting upon tlie vine- covered porch, with Dora in her amis, who liad fallen fast asleep, antl uul not see uie two until tliev were close upon her. Strange ami tendcremotions stirred Judge Haviland's heart as he saw that fair, sweet woman, the never-forgotten love of his youlli, holding his motherless child to her bosom. "It is Judge Haviland, mother, said Carl, in resjionse to that startled inquiring look. Helen Mrs. Bradley, how shall 1 tlianK you for your kindness to my little daugh ter I I hope you nave not iounu iier trou blesome f " he added, as tlie sudik'nly- awakened child sirang eagerly to his arms. ,4On the contrary. I that is to say, we, Carl and L, shall be sorry to part with her." "You need not unless you choose. My lad," turning to CarL "will you go down to the road and look after my horses I Carl could see no necessity for "looking after" the horses, whose driver appeared to be a faithful and competent man ; but a sort of instinct kept him down by the gate until Judge Haviland made has appearance. Carl found his mother in a state of agita- tion, whose nature he could not deline; j there were traces of tears njion her face, and yet he thought that he had never seen j her eyes so bright, or her checks so blooin- lng. To his great delight Judge Haviland de cided to leave Dora, for the present, with her new friends, to use his own words, "fur the sake of country air and conntry living." I But he came to see her often almost every day in fact; so that Carl was, in a measure, 1 pn'pared for the announcement that was j made to mm one evening, as tliey were an . out on the porch together, and which the judge gave in a way. peculiar to him. "I have news for you, my boy, and which I hoie will make you as happy as it has mae uie. lour mother is going to he my wife, and Dora, Tour own little sister!" The boy was silent, and his face being hidden by the curly head of the child that was clinging to his neck, his mother could not how he took this. "Are vou sorry, my son i I shall love you just the same." Carl smiled as he met that anxious, ap pealing look. "I am glad, mother; -for your sake and mine, very glad." A Gootl Keasow. He was a regular dandy in appear ance. He wore Lid gloves, plug hat, gaiters with cloth uppers, a natty cut away coat hidden beneath a checkered ulster, and a pair of mouse-colored linen pantaloons. Everybody noticed his summer trous ers as he walked down the street. "Hey, mister!" shouted the boy, "shoot the pants." Still he paid noattentiou. "There goesa Hesquimaiix." shrieked another gamin. Then he sought refuge In a sample room, where one man took the liberty of inquiring: "Why don't you wear cloth trousers; you'll kill yourself going around that way In this kind of weather." The man didn't reply, but got near the stove. "Guess he's a poet trying to come the eccentric," suggested another. After a few moments of silence an other man bawled out: "If I were you I'd drive my legs into the sleeves of my ulster and tie the skirts around my neck." A tier several more had quizzed him on the absurdity of wearing summer pantaloons in midwinter, he got up and shouted : '-Would you all like to know why I wear summer trousers now?" "Yes, yes!" they answered, unani mously. "Well, Its liecause they're all I've got!" IIU reply was satisfactory. The Zulu, as laon Hunters. Of the skill and courage of the Zulus m.iny anecdotes are told, of which the loilowing is a specimen : Some few years ago a Zulu hunter, hearing a young Briti-h officer speak somewhat lightly of native prowess, offered to give u:iu a sjiecimen ot it by killing single handed a huge lion which infest ed the neighborhood. The challenge was accepted, and the brave fellow at once set out on his dangerous errand, the officer and several of his comrades following at a distance. Having drawn the beast from his lair, the hun ter wounded him with a well flung spear, and Instantly fell flat on the ground beneath bis huge shield of rhi noceros hide, w hich covered his whole body like the lid of a dish. The lion, having vainly expended his fury upon it, at length drew back a few paces. Instantly the shield rose again, a sec ond lance struck him, and his furious rush encountered only the impenetra ble buckler. Foiled again, tbe lion crouched close, beside his ambushed en emy, as if meditating a siege, but the wily savage raised the further end of the shield just enough to let him creep noiselessly away in the darkness, leav ing bis buckler unmoved. Arrived at a safe distance, be levelled his third spear at the broad yellow flank of tbe royal beast with such unerring aim as to lay him dead on the spot, and then returned composedly to receive the con gratulations of the wondering specta tors. The Wee Mathematician. A sharp little girl ouce proved that the language of mathnietics was not as exact as it should be : A female teacher had a class of begin nerschildren of 4 and 5 years. In teaching them the ruddiments of ar ithmetic, she thought to simplify things. The use of the ten numeral she taught by their ten fingers, and In adding or subtracting the single num bers thev could reckon upon those dig its. The thing worked to a charm and the little one's readily learned thus to solve the first problems of the great science. One day the class was out for recita tion, and subtraction was tbe theme. Five from five leaves how many ?" was by-and-Dy asueu a Drignt-eyeo miss of 4 summers. The little thing np with her fingers and went at it. For a time she seemed exceedingly puzzled, but at length her eyes snapped, and she lifted her bead confidently. "Five I" she said with assured em phasis. Curious to know bow she arrived at that solution, the teacher asked her to explain. "Why," replied the child, holding out ber two hands, and placing tnem side by side, "zere's five on 'at hand, and fire on 'at. Now I take away 'ese five from 'ose five, and 'ere ey Ave!" About as fine a piece of ocular dem onstration in the way of a logical di lemma as you will often meet. T "hem! off" such sharp little dls- enverers and accountants, it will be In order to say, "Five from itself, how m:.nyT" Fraflt, l.tOO. "To sum it up, six long years of bed ridden sickness, costing $200 per year, total, $1,200 all ot this expense was stopped by three bottles of Hop Bitters taken bv my wife. She has done ber own housework for a year since, with ont the loss of a day. and I want every- tbody to know it, for their benefit." Hadsoa Vmj Dog Teams. Profanity and particularly French profanity, seems a necessary adjunct to dog-driving. It is unfortunate that, by some inscrutable dispensation of Providence, the only method of reach ing a dog's reason should be through unlimited imprecation. But speaking with the experience of many days of dog-travel ami an intimate acquaint ance with a score or more of dog trains I have never seen an attempt madi to reach it in any other way. I do not seek to exaggerate, but simply to pre sent dog-driving as it really is an in human thrashing and varied cursing. The cruelty with which dogs are treat ed can not be excused. It is true they are obstinate and provoking, and re quire severe beating, especially from a new driver, till the team is brought in to subjection. But when helpless ani mals undergoing severe labor in the trains, are not merely beaten on the body with heavy lashes, but symetrical ly flogged o n the head till their ears drip blood beaten with whip handles till their jaws and noses are cut open with deep won nils cndjelled with clubs, knelt npon and stamped upon until their howls turn into low moans of agony punishment merges into sheet brutality. And yet such treat ment is of com moil occurrence. As I Mid, the beatings from being intermit tent became incessant. Many of the dogs had so exhausted themselves by violent dariings hither and thither In their endeavors to dode the blows of tbe descending whip, that they had no strength left for the legitimate tk of hauling the sledge. The heads of others were reduced to a swollen, pul py mass by tremendous thrashings, while one or two had given out alto gether and bad been taken from the harness and abandoned on the plain. The operation of "sending a dog to Rome" had been performed more than once a brutal operation in which the driver sinks below the level of the beast. Sending a dog to Rome, Is effected by simply beating him over the bead with a club or heavy whip handle until he falls insensible to the ground. When he revives, with the memory cf the awful blows that deprived him of con sciousness fresli upou him be pulls frauticly at his load. A dog is sect to Rome tor various and often trivial prov ocations because be shirks or wiil not pull, because he will not permit the driver to adjust some hitch in his har ness. While he Is insensible the nec sary alteration Is made, ar.d upon re covering consciousness he receives a terrible lash of the whip to set bim go ing agnn. A Marn ng Tall Krora A Panther. " I suppose you're woiulc ring why I keep that ugly old chest, said .Mrs. It "and 1 must own that it s not very orna mental ; but it saved my life once, for all that. I see you think I'm making fun of you, but I'm not, imht-d ; and when you Hear the story, I think you II agree with me that I have good reason to value it, ug ly as it look A " 1 lus was how it happened. hen we first came out to India, my husband was sent to make the survey of the Nerhudila Valley, one of the wihlest bits in all cen tral IiHlia; and we really were, just at first the only white people, within 40 or 5u miles. And such a time as we had or it I If my husband hadn't been as strong as he is, and a pcneci nuracie oi pauciK-c as welL I don t know how we could have stood what he had to do. It was dreailful wcrk for him, being up sometimes for a hole night together, or having to stand out in Uie burning sun, when the very ground itself was almost too hot to touch. nd as for the native workmen, i never saw such a set, always doing everything wrong, and never liking anybody to put them right. When the railway was being made they used to carry tlie earth on their heads in baskets; and hen Mr. it served out wheel-barrows to them, the ac tually carried them on their heads in the same way I I couldn't help laughing at it, though it was terrible provoking, too. And that was just the way they all were : if there was a wrong way of using anything they'd be sure to find it out. Even our butler, or khittnutyar who was much lietter than most of them, came one day and liegged a pair of old decanter-labels that my husliand was going to throw away; and when the man came in the next morn ing, he had positively turned them into ear rings, and went about quite gravely with Port' in one ears ana 'Mierry' in uie other! "However, if the native men worried me, the native beasts were 50 times worse. It was no joke, I can assure you, to be awaked in the middle of the night by the mar of a tiger close under the window or by an elephant crashing and trumpeting through the jungle with a noise like a mail-coach going lull gallop into a uoi house. WelL as soon as that was over, the jickals would set up a squealing and whimpering like so many frightened child ren ; and then a dreadful native bird, whose name I've never found out (I suppisie be cause nobody could invent one liad enough for it), would break out in a succession ot the most horrible cries' just like somebixly being mnrdered, until the noise nearly drove me wild. "And then the ants! but you ve seen them for yourself, and I needn't tell you about them. But all this while I'm neg lecting my story. 'One day tit will be long enough ueiore I forget it) my husband was out as usual at his work, and the nurse had gone down to the other native servants at the end of the 'compound,' as we call this big inclosure ; and I was left alone in the bouse with my little .Minnie yonder, who was then just about a year old. By this time I had got over my first fears, and didn't mind a bit being left by myself ; indeed all the lower windows having bars across tnem, itiiougnt that I was safe enough; but 1 little dreamed of what was coming ! " I must have been sitting over my sew ing nearly an hour, with the child playing about tbe floor beside me when suddenly I heard a dull thump overhead, as if some thing had fallen upon the roof. I didn't think anything of it at the moment, for one soon gets used to all sorts of strange sounds in tlie Indian jungle; but presently 1 thought I could bear a heavy breathing in the next mom but one, and 1 began to leel frightened in earnest. I rose as softly as I could, and crept to the door-way between the rooms. This door-way was only closed by a curtain, and gently pulling aside tbe folds, I peeped through and found myself within a few paces of the largest panther I had ever seen in my life 1 " For one moment it was juft as if I had been frozen stiff, and then th; thought came to me just as if somebody has spoken it; 'The big chest!' "I knew that this chest wonld bold me I and my child easily, and that I could leave ! I a chink of the lid open to led us breathe, I I for the overlannin? edire would save mv i second I fingers from the panther. In a 1 i - r v had it all clear before me; but had the . .j !.... , :i,t f ti.o t.; I .iM.i.i i,u.i . M..ne ,f trying it. Luckily for me the Indian panther, savage as he is, is a terrible cow- anL and suspicious as any detective. I've .. ',.,. , L.,..i . t, mm viic 1 1. t ri in. uiu iiniuu m uiw . ,k i..if . k. K..fim, k. ,-u V l jo ll null awss asiriis . wt'iv aasv ujviv i- . u ius nunu to spring ai uie uaii. rs wunei my friend was puzzling himself over the I I curtain, and wondering whether it was meant for a Iran or noL I took un Minnie. . i:L .ui .t-.w tiw 2 .v? i i i was something wrong, and never uttered a. .nr.. ! I - ...I I Ih. fluiof f .-p.. lit nmlin, i . ; bum 111... . i.v v ... ... . . I ' u.. . ' lint. .. I e,-l.l "1 was hardly settled there when I heard the 'sniff-sniff' of the panther coning right up to where I lay, and through the chink that I bad left upon, the hot, foul breath came steaming in iinon n.v fare, almost making me sick. It seemed to bring my In... -t i . f . . n.v nuuilk wlmn I li..u r. I 1. i u great claws scraping the edge of the nd, ind trying to lift it up; but, happily, the chiuk was too narrow for his paw to enter. But if the paw couldn't, the tongue could ; and soon he began to lick my fingers, rasp ing them so that I hardly knew how to hear it. StilL the tiHich of Minnie's little arm around my neck seemed to give me courage, j " But there was far worse than this to 1 lULIli " AW .. ... .... . UUU . I" ... .... . come; for the panther suddenly leaped ": ,; , . r. right on top of the chest, and his weight P1 ,n the n.iml s eye, which is more im-A,.- .i, h..., ,,. i portant and immensely more difficult. Ir ers. ..mil the rin wsi . terrible tlud ,,,,. ... .,.,. ;,' !.., i .-.,.,.1 !. all mv mivliL ' "The scream was answered by a shout, fiuni just outside, in which I reoguized ....., ... T-i... , :, too, and it seemed to scare him, I he xhS can be found. made a dash for the window, eitlier forget- !me men, for example not of course, ting or not noticing the iron liars; but just in our set have prejudices, through which as he reached it, there came tlie crack of a they look. Somehow they have what they rifle, and I heard the heavy brute fall upon ' facetiously call jtulgments on certain mat the floor. Then all the fright seemed to , ters, and nothing will sliake their ju.lg come back upon me at once, and I fainted ' men! a To be sure, the judgment came be outrighL f,,re the argument. They are the very re- "f heard afterward that Mr. R had verse of the honest and candid criminal hnnneneri to want some instrument which : who. when askeiL "Guilty or not guilty?" he hail left at the house; 1 . . - - ... ami, not wishing to trust it in the bands of any of the na tives, he came back for it himself luckilv, just in time, for the bullet from bis rifle killed the panther. But as you see, my La:id it pretty stiff yet Chloride of Hodiuna, Early one morning a tremendous commotion was created in a lodging house on B street, Virginia City, by an inveterate wag, who really ought to be taken care of at once. The man was lodging in the house, and, about eight o'clock came down from his room and told, tlie landlady that her little boy had found a box of chloride of so dium ou bis wash-stand and bad taken some. "If you can get a stomach pump into him inside of an hour, he'll live. Now don't get excited; keep cool Put a mustard plaster on his stomach at once, aud send for all the doctors in reach. You'll be sure to find one at home." By this time the frantic mother had the boy stretched out on the bed, and was getting a square yard of mustard plaster ready. At the same time she dispatched three boys and a little girl for medical aid. "Here," sa'd the wag, coolly. "111 leave you the name of the chemical on a piece of paper chloride of sodium. Make no mistake; any doctor will know what to do the minute he sees the name. It's all right; now don't cry. It won't have the slightest effect under an hour. Keep cool. Don't frighten tha child. I'll go down and send up some doctors myself, and here the young man start ed at a brisk pace down town, and soon had several doctors routed out of their offices. Meanwhile the boy, who was nine years old, was bawling at the top of his voice, and some of the ladies from neighboring houses came in to help him on the bed while the mustard plaster was spread over his stomach. Every woman who came in was shown the name of the poison written on the paper, aud they ejaculated : "Mercy on us !" Gracious me !" "Oh my !" and "Merciful heavens!" in concert. Pres ently the doctors began to arrive, Dr. Harris came tearing up the alley with a stomach-pump, followed by Webber, Anderson. Conn, Trite-hard, Grant, Heath, Bergstein, and indeed all the medical faculty of the city, with medi cine cases and instruments and sto mach pumps. At the sight of so for midable array the patient (on whom the plaster was drawing like a ten-mule team) set up a howl of despair. "Wha: has he taken, llailanier" ask ed Dr. Harris hurriedly. "Here's the paper, ".eried the moth er, sobbing. "That's the stuff he took." The doctor read the inscription, pass ed it too the next man with a laugh, and it went round the group. Present ly some one remarke I, "Salt by thuu- der!" They explained to the weeping moth er that she had been made the victim as well as themselves, of a cruel hoax. There was a big laugh, but when that wag gets home to his lodgings to-night salt wont savs him. Blacker Failed to Appear. A very thrilling aecident happened to the train in w hich I went to J.ew Carlisle. We were crossing a long bridge at a very high rate of speed, tlie captain's chronometer indeed indicat ing a trait of 2.1 IM on the first quarter, when suddenly the engineer staggered into the special drawing -room car in which I always travel big coal stove, in the middle, tool chest at the end, and long seats at tbe sides, so you can lie down aud pound your ear when you are weary the engineer came in with a face of ashy paleness, and said to the conductor : "We are lost!" "What has happened" eagerly ask ed the conductor. I leaned forward and caught the en gineer's agonized whisper. "She's blowed all the packin' clean out of the ash pan !" Few, few of the other passengers re alized the imminent peril through which we were passing, but I sat and listened to the labored sound of men at the pumps, and silently prayed that night or Blucher would come. Xight came along after awhile, and we were saved, but Blucber did not put in an appearance, and I afterwards learned ( he was detained by deadness. Kub Your Classes. Are the eyes of any ot our readers at that 8,aKe when, from long use, they need assis- . ' lance in their more uuncuii wort i .o uiaine u me eyes: " um oiueriinHnuiiciii .11 A . I , 11-1... . 1 . . ' s there which so well endures the strain of ! !" century s continwius wor"" ' ' j wmewhete near life s fiftieth year that 18 evHL, ,Are I not a little awkward in the use of the new , . . . . ... . . - I instrument I iou hold out a good while, .... . till it was a Question at lenirth of arm. al ; , u " s sliortness of sight. Do wu i..ii f.u.1 saa if wr.is nn.rlif f-a muLu a lift I J"- e. -..- I explanatory statement before you produce it, for the first time, in company! Iou ' have lieen. lust to save vour eves, "twins ' glasses"' in private, your wife perhaps, or - .... . . i your husliand, resenting it as a piece of af tJUy lb poomg the idea 'I age nuiking them m.ry to you, Bu r "T7 5 " A V" relief to you when you are known to use ! thtnV d ,htir PPnce " " surprise nor comment. But that is neither here nor there. We refer to the new ex- ! perience in using the glasses and its inost ' suggestivene ou find now and then that type is indistinct ; the objects are dim or blurred ; the eye does not de fine ; and vou learn to take oil the glasses, and with the clean pocket-handkerchief clear tlie lenses, and lo! the lines grow sharp, and the vision is distinct. It is easy for you and me, friend to perform tins me i .m , . . , ... . 41i.iuimiI nr,i.M hut tliiiro is its counter. ! ' "inS ui see the want in our neigh- ' Imjt s glasses more readily than in our own; I so we shall look to theirs. All men have ,u ir weaknesses, all except you ami I, dear ' re?",tT' ft'ournMf intimate : friends. Let us look for our facts where I , , ...i i . il 1 t . L .. naively sain, now can i leu iui lueariue evidence f" They see all that appertains to these matters through colon rig or confus ing matter. They should nib their glasses. We can see that, "but they do not ; for, as some one shrewdly says, what is sight or oltscrvation to a good sound prejudice Self-love dulls the mind's perceptions, es pecially if wounded. The wounded part is always abnormally sensitive. Men do not like their class to be censured. You and I do not like beg pardon oilier men do not like the connect i mis of anything or any liody that strikes, or has struck, or might, could, or would, strike at them. The Stafford shire boor the story is familiar, but vener able killed the unoffending gosling on the roadside. Tlie farmer's wife resented it, and demanded, "Why f" "An' whoi," was the reply, "did goose-chick "s father nibble Oil" It is dangerous for any gos ling to be connected with an ancestor that has obeyed a native instinct and "nibbled" boors on the roadside. Iresent enjoyment has tlie same obscuring tendencies. You and I read "Billiards"' on a winikiw, and we have visions that are n pleasant of gambling, drinking, hapless homes, "un pleasantness," wasted lives, and gloomy deaths. But those fine young fellows in side, with their coats off, under the shaded lami. thev see nothing of those horrors. They think you and me fogies," and only fie politeness sake would call us "old women. " I think the adjuster is the most olervant man I ever met on a train. He sees every thing, and notes the peculiarities of the people he meets before he has seen them. We sat in a car together up in Wisconsin one tiny and he said: "Don t you always notice, in every car in which vou ride, the fool that always sits directly before you, and always opens the window every time the engine whistles, aim sticks his head and shoulders out to see what they are doing at that station, and never closes the window till the station is out of sight?" "Yes. I had; ami he never saw anynouy he knew at any station?" "Never." said the adjuster, "ami he never sees anything anybody is doing at the station, and can't tell the name of the station while he is at it'"' "And alwavs scrapes the back of his head against the sharp edge ot the window sash when he pulls it in," I said, "and then dis mally rubs his head while he turns around and looks suspiciously at you, as though he believes you did it, and did it on purpose!" "And tlie man who is waiting at the station to see the train come inf" continued the adjuster, "the man with butternut over alls tucked into his boots, tawny beard, arms crammed into his pockets up to the elbows, mouth wide open you never miss him; when you go down, he is standing there at sunset; when you come back at sunrise, he is waiting for vou; never sees anybody he knows get off the train, never sees anybody he knows get on, never expects to; would be astonished to death if he should bappen to see an acquaintance come or go; isn t paid for it, but it's his business. Has noth ing else in the world to do. is always mere. If the train comes in fifteen minutes ahead of time, he has made allowance for it and has lieen there twenty minutes ; II the train is four hours late, he waits for it. Y ou see him at nearly every station." "Never speaks to anybody, " I saiL "Never," said tlie adjuster, "and if any body speaks to him he says 'Dunno.' If the liaggageman runs over him with a truck he says, 'Huh!' and shrinks up a little closer against the station, but never gets out of the way." "And do you rememlier the man who sits liehind you anil whistles?" I asked. "And when he gets tired of whistling in your ear, sings liassf " suggested tlie adjuster. "And never wlustles or sings anything that you know?" "Th- that he knows?" "And the masher, whose breath is near ly as bad as his morals, who wants to tell vou all alwut the tlnughter of a wealthy mer chant who was just dead gone' on him the last time he went over this road?" "And the man behind you who bites off half an apple at one bite and then puts his chin on your shoulder and tries to talk to you about the weather and crops?" "And the man who amies into the car at the front diss-, walks clean back and out on tlie rear platform, looking at each, one of a dozen empty seats, hunting for a good one, and then turns back to find every last scat taken by the people who came in afte bun, "And have you never seen the girl get on at some country station," said the adjuster, "fixed ud mighty nice for the town, the belle of the village, dressed in more colors than yon can crowd into a cbromo, half the town down at tbe stalk m to see her off; she walks acmes the platform feeling just a Ut ile ton rich to look at. comes into the car with her head up and plumes flying, ex pecting to set every woman in that car wild with envy as she walks down the aisle; she opens the door and sees a car full of Chicago girls dressed in tbe rich, quiet elegance of citT girls in their traveling costumes, and I see how she drops like a shot into the first seat, the one nearest the stove, and looks straight out of the window and never looks anywhere else, and never shakes her plumes again while she stays in the car." "And the man who wants to talk," I said, "the man who would probably die if he couldn't talk five minutes to every one ha rides witli; who glares hungrily around the car until his glance rests on the man whom be thinks too feeble to resist him, and opens the intellectual feast by asking him how the' weather is down his way; tlie man who is always most determined to talk when you are tlie sleepiest, or when you want to read or to think, or just sit and look out of the car window and enjoy your own idle, pleas ant, vagrant day dreams? "And tlie man," said Rogers, "who gets on the train and stares at every man in tlie car befiM-e be sits down, and stands and holds the door open while he stares. Who always carries an old-fashioned oil cloth carpet-bag with him, as wide and deep as a fire-screen, and before he sits down takes that carpet-hag by the bottom, rolls it up into a close roIL aud puts it in the rack. It is always dead euiptv. When he leaves home, he never puts a rag or a thread or a button in it When he comes back it is emptier than it was when he went away. It never had anything in it that he knows of since it was owned in the family, but he will never travel wilhoot it "And the other man," 1 said, "who car ries nothing in his carpet-hag but lunch, and eats all the way from Chicago to Cairo?" And the man who rules on a pass, and stands on familiar terms with the company, and calls the brukeman Johnny?" "And tlie man, " 1 sanl, who is riding on a pass for the first time, and stanils up and holds his hat in his hand when he sees the conductor approaching, and says sir' to him as he answers the official's questions and is generally more respectful to him than he is ever going to be again?" "And the man, he said, "who walks through the entire length of an empty coach looking for a seat, and then goes hack and sits down in the first one, nearest tbe door?" "And the man, I said, "who always gets left?" "And the man," he said, "who loses his ticket?" And thus, with pleasant comments on our fellow passengers did we beguile the weary hours. . . The Matter with Wnnsil Shoes. Dr. Dio Lewis has the following in relation to women') shoes. The sole is too narrow. My friend, Mrs. C, in reading the chapter in "Our Girls" de voted to "Boots nd Shoes," came to say that, although sli e was a great suf ferer from corns and a general sore and crippled condition of the feet, har shot s were enormous, twice as large as her feet. She wished I would see if it was not so. I examined the shoes and agreed with her that ther were too large. As she stepped, it was doubt less true, as she said, that her foot rocked over first on this side and then on that. Now it pressed over on the outside, rubbing down over the edge of the sole and touching the ground, ami perhaps, if the ground was at all un even, on the very next step, her foot would rock on the other side ot the sole. Sncli friction between the little toe and the big toe joints against the upper leather must inevitxbly produce corns. I think the majority of shoes are too large. Mrs. C. wished me to accompany her to tbe shoemaker and see what 1 could do for her relief, for really life was be coming a torture. We went to her own shoemaker. Mrs. C. hobbled to a seat and declared : "1 won't try to walk again, there!" Her shoe was removed and Mr. Shoe maker marked around her foot, while she was standing upou it. We meas ured it and found it was exactly tour inches. That was the width of ber foot when she stepped on it without a hoe. Then we measured the sole of the shoe she had been wearing, and found it two and a half inches. Here was the secret of the whole trouble. A pair of shoes were made for her at oace, with soles four inches broad. Now she can walk for hours without a pain in her feet. There are millions of poor sufferers in the country, who are limping and hobbling through the world, who might be perfectly relieved and cured by the same means. A Glaaa Mountala. Mr. P. W. Norris, the Superintend ent ot the Yellowstone National Park, on a recent visit to the capital gave a lecture ou some of the natural curiosi ties of the region over which be pre sides and is engaged in exploring. Among these nii-y be wentioued as tbe most novel a mountain of obsidian or volcanic "lass, and a road made from this material. Near tbe fool of Beaver Lake the explorers discovered this mountain of glass, which there rises in basalt-like columns and countless huge masses many hundreds of feet high from a hissing hot spring forming the margin of the lake, thus creating a hai rier here It was very desirable for a wagon road to be ; as the gla barri cade sloied for some 300 feet high at an angle of 45 degrees to the lake, and its glistening surface was therefore im passible, there being neither Indian nor pi me track over it. To form the road huge fires were made against the glass to thoroughly heat and expand it, ami then by dashing cold water against the heated glass suddenly cool the latter, causing large fragments to bresk from the mass, which were after wards broken up by sledges and picks, but not without severe lacerations ot the hands and faces of the party, into smaller fragments, with which a wagou road one-quarter ef a mile long was constructed, about midway along the slope, thus makiug, it is believed, the only road of native glass upon the con tinent. On reaching the Grand canon of the Gibson river,' tbe explorers found the eastern palisade, for about two niiles in length, to cousist of verti cle pillars, hundreds of feet high, of glistening black, yellow, mottled, or banded obsidian or volcanic glass. This obsidian has been and is still used by the Indians for making arrow beads and other weapons and tools, and the mountain has formed a vast quarry for the making of such instruments or weapons of a quality unequalled any where. IIk truly mourns the dead who lives as they desire. 1-1
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