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VOL. XXXIII.
MIFFLINTOWX. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 1S79.
NO. 20.
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H. T. HELMBOLD'S
COMPOUXD
FLUID EXTRACT
BUCHU.
PHARMACEUTICAL.
I We were talking of this the other night
. : at dinner, wlien Colonel Markhaiu said :
j "Apropos of that, 1 have been to-day, to
i lay a wrvath on the grave of one of that
class. W ith your permission, I w ill tell
A SPECIFIC REMEDY FOR ALlllSW Benson," he began, -had been
, in my regiment, and was so faithful and
j true, that, when the war was over I exerted
DISEASES
or tuE
For Debllltr. Low of Memoir. Indisposi
tion to Exertion or ltuines, !liortncs of
Breath. Tron'iled with Tliouxhta of Ui'Wir,
Dimness of Vision. Pain in the Back. Chest,
and Heart. Rush of Illood to the Head, Pale
Countenance, and Iry Skin.
11 these symptoms are allowed to fro on,
verv frequently Epileptic tits and Con
sumption follow. When the constitution
lieconm affected it requires the aid of an
liivigoraiutg meiicine to strengthen aud
tuuc op the system w bleb.
"Helmbold's Buchu"
DOES IN EVEEY CASE.
IS UNEQUALZD
T!v anv reniedv known. It Is prescribed by
the most emliieut physician all over the
world. In
Rheumatism,
Spermaton-buja,
Neuralgia,
Nervousness,
Dyspepsia,
Indigestion.
Constipation,
Aches and Pains,
General Debility,
Kidney Diseases,
Liver Complaint,
Nervous Debility,
Epilepsy,
Head Troubles,
Paralysis,
Geueral Ill-Health.
Spinal Diseases,
Sciatica.
Deafness,
Decline,
Lumbago,
Catarrh,
Nervous Complaints,
Female Complaints, ic
Headache. Pain In the Shnnldera, Coneh,
Dizzinesi, Sour Stomach. Eruption-, bad
Tate In tlie Mouth. Palpitation of the
Heart. Pain In the region of the Kidneys,
and a thousand other painful symptoms,
are the oiT.u ing of Uysiiepsia.
Helmbold's Buchu
Invigorates the Stomach,
And stimulate the torpid Liver. Bowels,
and Kidnev to healthv action. In cleansing
the blood of all impurities, and imparting
new life and vijjor to the whole system.
A single U4.I will le quite sufficient to
convince the most hesitating of lis valuable
remedial qualities.
PRICE $1 PER BOTTLE
Or Six Bottles for S5.
TWdlvered to any address free from observa
tion. .
-Patients" may consnlt by letter, receiv
ing the wine attention as hy calling, by
answering the following questions:
1. Give yonr name and post-office address,
county arid suite, and your nearest express
office
. Tonr are and sex ?
3. lecntHttion ?
4. Mairletl orslnirle?
5. Height, weight, now and In health?
6. How Ion? have you tieen ickt
7. Your com pie xion.color of hair and eyest
s. Have you a stooping or erect unit?
9. Relate without reservation all yon
know aqont vour case. Kiiclot one dollar
u consultation fee. Your letter w ill then
receive our attention, and we mill trive you
the nature of your disease and our candid
opinion concerning a cure.
Competent Phvsiciana attend to corres
pondents. All letteis should be addrei.ed
to Dipenalory, 1217 Filbert treet, Phil
uelphut, Pa.
H. T. HELM BOLD,
Druggist and Chemist,
Philadelphia, Pa.
iOLD EVERT W HE KF
THE INCH BEFORE TEE SAW.
Only from day to day
The life of a wise man runs ;
What matter if seasons far away
Have gloom or bare d able anna ?
To climb the unreal path
We stray from the loadway here.
We awim ttie rivers f arra h
Aud tuuuel the hills of fear.
Our feet on the torrent's brink,
Unr eves on the cloud afar.
We fear the thing we think
liiHU-aJ of the things tht are.
Like a tide oar work ohoald rise.
Eaoh later ware the best ;
To day is a king in d sguisa.
To-day is the special teat.
Like a sawyer work, in life
The present makes the flaw.
And the ouly field for strife
Is the inch before the raw.
Two "Immortelles."
How differently the prizes of fame are
flitrilmftsl A I jstnidits fulls at Thernits-
pyla', ami the world rings with tlie deed
forever. A Napoleon ravages half of Eu
rope, and because he is a conquercr is exal
ted, hy his worshipers, into a demi-god.
i On the other hand, some sailor or Soulier,
or other olscure hero in the ranks, dies at
the post of duty, in a straight even more
' desperate, and vet is never beard of again.
myself to get him work, lie was only a
private, rememlier, the son of a poor, hill
I farmer ; with very little education. The
I best I could do for him was to get him a
' position as engineer on the Sweetwater
I railroad, to nm one of the locomotives.
"He gave such satisfaction, was al
ways so reliable, that he soon got a promise
. of advancement. ( n this he determined to
marry. He had long !een engaged to a
! good" girl, the daughter of a mechanic in
our employ, but they were both poor.
" 'You see, colonel," he said to me, one
, day, when I met him at the depot, and
: stopped to ask him how he was getting on,
1 it's a serious thing, this taking the respon
sibility of marrying. Besides. Nellie is a
girl above tlie ordinary kind ; she was fin
ished at the Normal school ; and 1 should
like to surround her with some of the rcfinc
! menis of life. I don't want to have every
thing coarse and rough aliout her, as a very
poor man must, no matter how much he
loves his wife. That's the reason we've
J put it off. But, now, thanks to your good
word I'm to have a raise. This is my
1 last trip, as perhaps you know.'
"He raised his hand to his head, in the
old military salute. 'You may feel perfect
! ly safe,' he said, 'for even if I didn't know
i you were on board, I should do my duty,
; no matter what came of it."
i "The words were spoken as if of course,
' and without any unnecessary emphasis: but
j they assumed an imiortaiice subsequently,
! anil I can never forget them. 1 think I see
i them now, looking as he looked when he
I uttered them, his figure drawn up to its full
height, his hand at his cap, his cheeks
j slightly flushed, his eyes glcauiing like an
eagle's.
"Suddenly the eyes softeneil, and a smile
stole over his face 'Excuse me, please,'
he said ; 'but there's Nellie, God bless her,
come to see me off ! I must shake hands
j with her before we start, and there's just
time.'
' "It was a bright, sunshiny face, that of
a young woman of aliout twenty, that I saw
welcome him; handsome, every oouy wouju
have said it was ; but there was a look of
courage, and high resolve ; soul and intel
lect were lioth there.
"I could not act as on the parting, so I
turned away, and sought a seat in the cars.
"I found an old friend on the train, gen
eral Powell, after we had run aliout twenty
miies or so, and discussed business ana
politics, I proposed a smoke. 'They all
know me ou this line,' I said, and we'll go
into the baggage car, w here we 11 be alone.
"I exchanged a word or two with the
baggage-master, asking after his family, as
I always did, and then took a seat near the
front of the car, so as to get the air from
the open door, for the day was sultry and
warm. The coal and water tank was just
ahead of us, and beyond that the locomo
tive, for we were at the front of the train.
I could sec the tall, soldierly figure of Char
lev, as he stood at his post, with his hand
on the rail, and beside him, his assistant,
looking like Cvclops, begrimmed with uusi
and smoke.
"The Sweetwater road as you know,
runs through a very picturesque region.
winding. f.H- the most piirt, by the banks of
the Sweetwater itself ; frequently terraced
along low hills; with, here and there a
tunnel ; and, what is more to the point of
mv story, innumerable curves. We were
niltlinif and surging on, when, suddenly, 1
saw, nit far ahead, a puff of smoke around
a rocky curve, and directly afterwanls, an
express train came rushing into sight, head
ing for us, at lull speed.
"The peculiar shriek which is the signal
for 'down brakes,' was instantaneous from
both trains; but I saw, at once, that it
would lie useless; tlie velocity of each was
so great, the distance so small, that collision
was inevitable. We were going at the rate
of thirty miles an hour, and the express at
a rate of forty, the two together making a
sliced of seventy miles an hour; it was a
question of seconds tlierefore, when we
should crash into each other.
"I started to my feet, not with any inten
tion of flight, but' with a sort of instinct
that, since I was to die, I would die stand
ing. I have been in twenty battles, as you
nli know ; desperate ones most of them. I
have had shot and shell falling about me
literallv like rain. I have even seen that
rare thin?, a havonct charge. Rut I never
licfore felt that I was certain to die, that
there was no hope whatever, as I felt, that
moment.
"After one quick look at the approaching
locomotive, that, even in that single instant,
seemed to grow, from its rapid approach,
to twice the size it had been at first, I
glanced at Charley, anxious to see how he,
who would be the" first to 1 struck, would
take it- I bad watched him under fire,
more than once, and knew he was the brav
est of the brave. But th:s was different
It was more like leading a forlorn hope
singlv, in a narrow breach, than anything
else :"btit it was even worse than that ; there
might be one chance in ten thousand, there,
of escajie ; here there was none. I did not
expect Charlev to jump from his engine, as
many would have done. I knew he was
too brave for that. But I did look for some
sign of emotion, though not exactly of fear.
There was none, however, except the tight
ening of the lips, and the eagle-like look
that came into his eyes. His cheek never
paled. Not one eye lash quivered. But
that intense gaze did not leave the other
locomotive for an instant,
"All this passed in a moment, quicker,
if possible, than m lightning flash. That
stem tightening of the lips, that gleam of
the eye, were the outward indications of
the quick, comprehensive decision he came
to; for, in one moment, he had reviewed
the whole situation, and in the single chance
there was for escape ; a chance 1 did not
see, but which he did. Escape for the rest
of us, however, but not for him. He was
doomed, in any event ; he realized that ;
perhaps we all were, but there was a possi
bility of saving the passengers; and it was
his duty to do that, "come what might'' to
himself, as he said.
'"Do you understand the exceptional
bravery of this? Napoleon used to say,
that very few men had four o'clock courage.
He meant by that, that when men were
roused from sleej, suddenly, in the gray
dawn, by a surprise, it took some time to
get their wits about them ; they were dazed,
they lost their presence of mind. Now
this was even a more crucial trial. Here
was a train off its time, not signaled, unex
pectedly coming round a corner, not half a
mile off, and, therefore, at the rate at which
lioth trains were going, with but thirty
seconds left, not merely to determine what
to do, if anything could be done, but to tlo
it. Nine men out of ten, yes ! ninety-nine
out of a hundred, would have lost their
presence of mind. Even most of those,
who might have retained it, would have
sacrificed that thirty seconds in weighing
the pro and com of the situation. But
Charley not only kept his nerves firm, and
his intellect cool, but reviewed the slate of
affairs in a moment, and decided as instan
taneously. "'Jump liack, Jim,' he cried, addressing
his attendant, but not even looking around,
w hile his voice rose, stern and sharp, over
the thunder of the two trains. 'I'ncouple
me from the baggage car. Quick! It's
the only chance!'
"It was the only chance. Why had I
not thought of it f If the locomotive and
tender could be unfastened from the rest of
the train, the two former would dash for
wanl, with accelerated velocity, would lie
the first to meet the shock of the collision ;
would act as a buffer ; and would check,
slightly, the sp-ed; and thus, when the rest
came in contact, wouliL perhaps, cause but
little loss of life, if any. It was Leonid:is
throwing himself into the pass, but I-eoni-das
alone, and Leonidas that might save the
three hundred. j
"Jim was only an ordinary stoker, but!
he had also been a soldier, where he had
learned habits of implicit oliedrence. He!
said to me, afterwards, that he did not stop ;
to think. 'To tell the truth, colonel.' were '
his words, I was too scared to think. But 1
1 did as 1 was told, hardly knowing I did :
it ; you saw me, you and General Powell,
don't you rememler ; anil how I uncoupled
the lnurgage car just in time " j
"I io rememlier. I liehold it all again.
as vividly as at that moment. 1 seem to
hear the quick, sharp words of command,
like nothing so much as the crack of a rille ;
then I see Jim, black and hegrimmet!, leap
backwards tug at a coupling; then the
locomotive and tender dart aheail, as if shot
from a battery ; then came a wild thutl, the
crash of iron, and splitting of wood, two
locomotives leaping up in the air a gush of
fin", an explosion that shook the earth."'
The colonel passed his hand across his
eyes, as if to shut out the sight, drew a
deep breath and went on.
"In another second we were upon them.
At first, I thought that we, ton, were lost.
But apart from the f:tct that the hniUes hail
at last, Ik gun to tell, our momentum hud
been further diminished by the detaching
of the tender, and when we dash d against
the mass of ruin, the shock was only stiili
cient to throw us off our feet, and crush in
the forward part of the Iwggage car. There
had lieen just time for us to retreat to the
rear of the car, licfore the crash."
The colonel resumed, more quietly, after
a moment.
"Charley was found, a few feet from the
trasedv, on a bank, where the force of the
collision had flung him. He had died in
stantancously, the physicians saiL Fortu
natelv, he was not disfigured in the face at
least.
"He was buried at the cemetery, w here
I went to-day. A few of us united to erect
a simple monument over him, and every
year I go there and lay a wreath of immor
telle upon tt.
I heard, afterwanls, I may say inciden
tally, that the monument had been put up
almost entirely at the colonel's expense.
"A few of us" was his modest figure of
speech.
"And the poor girl who was to have
married him?" said our hostess, with a siglu
"Life was over f r her, " answered the
colonel. "Her's was one of those natures
that can love but once."
"It would have been a profanation to
have loved any one else, ater a hero like
that."
"Yes!" lie was silent for a moment.
"But she was one that could not live
without some object in life, so she became
a hospital nurse, and when the yellow fever
broke out last year, went down South.
She was one of the first to go, and," hesi
tatingly, "one of the first to die. She died
at Memphis."
"I'oor, poor thing!"
"When the frosts came, her friends had
her brought North, and laid beside Char
ley," said the colonel. "And this year, I
tMk out, as I shall, always, hereafter, two
I M MOKTKI.I.Es."
Outfit ul m Cheyeuue Chief.
A Topeka man named Schmidt has
the full outfit of a Cheyenne Chief.
The bead dress is trimmed in the most
fantastic style, having a small buffalo
horn fastened to the front while the
trail, which is very long, is covered
with eagle feathers, so graded in size
as to place all the longest ones at the
top and the smaller ones along the trail
until they reach the ground, and every
feather has a tip of human hair attach
ed to it. The shield is of buffclo hide,
stretched on a hoop, and is painted in
the gaudy manner usual with the Indi
ans. The bo;.p Is fringed all around
with the scalps of Utes, Comanclies
and five white women. The quiver is
very long and made of otter skin, and
its contents are finished up in better
style than even Indian arrows are us
ually; they are unusually long, as is
also the bow. There is also a spear in
the outfit which was in the Custer
fight, and which is rusted with blood.
It and the shield were the property of
the brave, Wollbelly, who sent tiicm to
Mr. Schmidt with the message that he
had killed many a white man from be
hind the shield, and that the spear was
dipied in the blood of the white braves
who were killed in jbe Custer tight.
Clveu Vp by Doctor.
"Is It possible that Mr. Oodfrey Is up
and at work, and cured by so simple a
remedy f "
"1 assure you that It Is true that he is
entirely cured, and with nothing but
IIop Bitters; and only ten days ago his
doctors gave blm up and said he must
die I"
"Well-t day! That is remarkable!
I will bo this dav and tret some for my
poor George.' I know hops are good."
Our Surplus Savlnss.
With successful return to specie pay
ments a question which has been coming
more and more into prominence during
the last five years, requires to be answered:
How shall we invest our surplus capital I
For many years it was quite the fashion
for the workingman and woman to look
upon the savings hanks of the country as
Jie chief bulwark against hard times, and
from a sixpence, up, di xjsils could be
made and interest secured.
But the long period of depression, and
the lesson it hits taught, has changed all
that. The vast numlxT of failures among
the savings institutions of the country, and
the wrecks of little fortunes that were
numlicrcd among the hoardings, have
shown most conclusively that some other
way in which surplus money could lie
safely invested, and yet pay an interest, is
a necessity of the hour.
Without reverting to the unplea.sr.nt
banking history of the past ten years in de
tail, it is enough to say that it has been
abundantly proven that no private institu
tion, of whatever name or character, can
pay an interest on dcosits that are subject
to check at sight. Money, to pay a profit,
must lie profitably invested; and this can
not lie done by savings banks, where it is
liable to be called for at any moment. In
brief, it is impossible to loan money, and
at the same time keep it on band as the
records of all the defunct and suspended
banking institutions show. This fact has
come to lie well understood, since the
financial agitation first began its career.
What, then, shall we do with our surplus
savings ?
In England there is an advantageous
opening for investments in the Postal Sav
ings, and in France there is a somewhat
similar institution, of which working men
anil women largely avail themselves; but
in the United Slates the nearest parallel is
the Government loan. What the depositor
wants, primarily, is safety alisolute
safety ; and this he secures in the Govern
ment IhiimL The whole wealth of the
nation is pledged for payment. The honor
of our people is staked on their redemp
tion. No private institution can compare
for a moment with the advantages offered
by the Government in its lionds. The
tieople have already proved this, by the
way in which they have subscribed to the
Four per Cents. True, the amount of in
terest is not large, as contrasted with the
rates offered by many savings banks, but
it is certain, and the principal is safe.
That Congress has done wisely in author
izing the putting on the market of lionds
of small denomination is now conceded.
and it is in this direction that our surplus
savings w ill gravitate.
Long ami Short Sleeper.
S-amcn and soldiers, from habit, ran
sleep when they will and wake when they
will. Captain Barclay, when performing
his wonderful feat of walking 1,000 miles
in as many consecutive hours, obtained
such a mastery over himself that he fell
asleep the minute he lay down. The fa
culty of remaining asleep for a length of
lime is possessed by some individuals.
Mich was the case with (juin, the celebrat
ed player, who would sluiulur for twenty
four hours successively; with Elizalieth
Orvin, who slept three-fourths of her life;
with Elizabeth Perkins, who slept for a
week or a fortnight at a time: with Mary
Lyell, who did the same for successive
weeks; and with many others, more or less
remarkable. A phenomenn of an opisite
character is sometimes observed, for there
are other individuals who can stilisist on a
surprisingly small portion of sleep. The
cclebratf-d General Elliot wsis an instance
of this kind: he never slept more than four
hour cut of the twenty-four. In all other
resect8 he was strikingly abstinent, his
forid consisting wholly of breaii, water and
vesetables. In a letter communicated to
Sir John Sinclair by John Gordon, Esq., of
Swine, mention is made of a person named
John Mackey, of Skerry, who died in
Strathnave, in the year 1717, aged ninety
one ; he only slept on an average of four
hours in the twenty-four, and was a re
markable robust and healthy man. Frede
rick the Great, of Prussia, and the illustri
hus sunreon, John Hunter, only slept five
hours during the same period. The cele
brated French ireneral, Pichegro, informed
Sir Gilbert Blaine that during a whole
year's cuupaign, he had not allowed him
self aliove one hour s sleep in the tweniy
four. Ten Terrible Second.
Literally, the life of young Archibald
Fergus was hanging, for ten terrible sec
onds, by a simile thread. He was a shep
herd lad, dwelling in a valley near Dun
bar, and familiar with every mountain path
and towering cliff of that picturesque loca
lity. In one of his hillside rambles his
keen eye discovered signs of an eagle's
eyrie u"ion a narrow edge that jutted out
from the face of a steep precipice. He
summoned four or five of his young
companions, and, having provided them
selves with a strong rope, they proceeded
to climb the mountain with the purpose to
capture the eaglets. To scale the precipice
was impossible, but they, by a circuitous
route, succeeded in reaching the top of it,
and from the overhanging brink they could
look down upon the ledge lielow, where the
eagle had built its nest. The only way to
reach this ledge was for one of the party to
lie let down till its level was reached; for
the edge of the rock fairly overhung its
liase, and there was not so much as a shrub
or crevice to which to cling. Archibald, as
the leader of the expedition, assumed the
perilous task of the descent; and looping
one end of the rojic so as to afford himself
a seat, he secured the other end around an
immense lioulder and permitted himself to
lie let down by the strong hands of his com-,
panions, who had performed that service
for him on many a similar expedition. In
that way he had descended to within a few
feet of the ledce, when he heard the whirr
of wings and the rush of heavy bodies
through the air. and he knew that the par
ent birds were hastening to the rescue of
their young. An eagle, male or female,
knows no fear when its eyrie is attacked.
but enters at once into combat with the in
truder. ArchilMild knew this well enough,
and he had taken the precaution to thrust
his dirk into his girdle, with which he felt
quite able to defend himself against the fu
rious onslaught of the feathered foe.
Drawing the trusty weapon, he awaited the
attack and had not long to wait; with
screams of rnge the eagles pounced upon
him. Protecting his eyes as best he could
with the sleeve of his coarse shirt, he struck
rapid and well aimed blows at his winged
assailants, and succeeded in tlirusting the
keen blade into the throat of one and into
the bosom of the other, so that, after a few
swoops, they almndoned the contest and
clung, bleeding and dying, to the ledge
where there eaglets were waiting them.
Archibald sheathed his dagger; and look
ing up, shouted to his friends, who had
paused while the fight progressed, to con
tinue the decent. But, in looking up, a
terrible sight was revealed to hinv for he
perceived that, while thrusting at the eag
les, tlie keen edge of his dagger had cut the
rope so that all the strands except one were
severed. The strain upon that single
strand was such that he could see that it
was yielding, parting, about to be snapped
asunder. He grew faint in expectation of
being dashed to pieces on the rocks a thous
and feet below ; and in another second, he
would have liceu so dashed to dealli, but
that, before the second was over, and just
as the rope parted, he was lowered sulli
ciently to be able to spring upon the ledge,
which fortunately he struck and managed
to maintain his balance there, although it
afforded him scarcely a foothold. How
ever, his companions, aware of what had
happened, speedily readjusted the rope,
lowered it to him again, and he was soon
hauled up in safety, not even forgetting, in
his fright, to capture the two eaglets and
bear them with him triumphantly as me
mentons nf his adventure.
Life In a Snow Hut.
Professsor I Lummelein, of Wisconsin,
naturalist of the Arctic expedition on board
the ship Florence, has written the follow
ing letter to a friend in Milwaukee. From
St. Johns to Cumberland Sound we encoun
tered only four terrible gales making the
passage in fifteen days going over the same
distance in thirty-five hours tliat took us
sixteen days last year, when we were forty
one days to our first harlior. When we left
our winter harlior (July 7th, or more pro
perly the l'.'lh, as this was the date we fairly
got underway) we took the ice and worked
through two hundred and fifty miles of it.
It was here that the schooner got jammed
r.ud sprung a leak that closed after we got
to anchor on the Greenland coast, and re
opened on the 19th of October off Sable.
As you know there was no expedition to
meet us, so we had to go back again to Cum
berland with our sixteen Esquimaux and
thirty dogs, with all their accoutennents.
We had but got fairly started when the
wind sprung up from the southeast. It
soon increased to a fair gale, and kept in
creasing. We were in close proximity to
the heavy Baffin's Bay back (the heaviest
ever known no vessel got tlirough), and
drifting right into it. W e lay hove to four
days, and when it cleared we found our
selves in the mouth of Exeter Sound, two
hundred miles to the westward of our course.
We had drifted all this time among hundreds
of iceliergs without getting foul of any.
The poor Esquimaux were battened down
in the hold all this time, and thirty wild
dogs running the decks. This was the
heaviest gale we have encountered, and
came within an ace of tripping the schooner
many times. One sea swept even-thing off
the decks and one the house, but we only
lost four dogs. So much, briefly, for the
passage. My companion and I lived in a
snow hut eight months on a small island.
No light but a tin box with an oil burner in
it, and burning seal oil. Our allowance of
fuel gave out two months Ufore the cold
weather did. Our greatest cold was in Jan
uary. It was fifty-two degrees, or eighty
two dcgreeslielow freezing point. The mer
cury exposed in a dish froze solid, so as to
lie handled like a chip, at forty-two decrees.
The heaviest snow fell on June 5th, iHhand
7th, and I walked ashore on the ice on the
14th of July. On the last day of April I
undertook a long journey with some Esqui
maux w ith dog teams, and while sleeping
alongside of the shed, thirty-five miles from
land, with a forty mile north wind blowing
and a temperature of forty-one degrees, 1
either froze or caught cold in the first finger
of my left hand, which left me a crippled
hand" until tiieend of July, and 1 now have
a much deformed and nearly useless finger.
I froze my nose times without nunilier, even
after I made a thick covering of some heavy
cloth your mother gave me for the purpose.
I sulistituted fine reindeer skin while travel
ing, which answered lietter. One of the
sailors froze a foot so badly that he was
laid up for seven months. This was in
November, while trying to take care of a
whale. I have n been sick a day since I
left New London. My bunk is just six feet
long, two and one-half feet wide, and the
same height. In this space I slept, worked
and studied. In it I kept three guns, all
my clothes, bedding, forty-two books, pipes,
Jobacco and a hundred other things. You
shake your bead, and wouiu say, u v on
knew Esquiiiiaux, "A7ii ibin fhamj
lenting." But it is the fact.
An Ingenion Hat-Trap.
How is the cunning little creature to lie
caught? The answer is simple; a ni'
brain is bigger than a rat's ; set your cun
ning against his, and you will "in. Here
is one plan adopted by a gentleman who
had tried the usual traps in vain. In a
store-room was a barrel of maize-flour, of
which the rats w ere enormously fond, and
their habit was to climb tip to a shelf, run
along it, leap down on the head and feast.
Good. Our friend took another barrel, and
of the head he made a trap. He took it
out, and treating it as a globe, he made a
wire North and South pole, which, when
placed in correspomling holes in the cask,
allowed the lid to spin round easily on its
pivots, and return directly to iis natural
horizontal position. When ready this cask
was placed in the stead of the flour cask,
its head fixed firmly, and covemi thickly
with the sweet Indian meal The rats came
leaping down as usual, leasteil, and went
away. This was kept up for a couple of
nights, fresh flour being placed on the hea.l,
and duly eaten. Then came the Nemesis.
The next night that barrel was half-filled
with water," the head glued and thickly
sprinkled with flour, and then left loose,
swinging so easily that on the first leaping
down there was a slip and a scramble, fol
lowed by a hollow splash, but the lid re
sumed its position, covering the drowning
enemy, and placing itself ready to entrap
the next. For months that trick succeeded
well, four or five rats being taken each
night, and the place as at last cleared.
A Comical Scene.
- .There was a comical scene at a railway
station in Birmingham a fortnight ago. A
young English couple had been in the habit
of meeting together on one of the platforms,
in order to exchange words of tender im
port. They met, as some young ladies and
gentlemen have a way of doing, without
the knowledge of their parents or guardians.
and an irascible aunt of the damsel, hearing
of the clandestine courtship, went down to
the station in a towering rage, determined
to ferret out the whole matter, and chastise
the offenders in a manner that they would
not forget. The fond lovers came together
as usual and promenaded over the well-
known and to them almost sacred ground.
But just when the young man was appar
ently breathing his tenderest sentiments into
the willing ear of the blushing maid, whack
came a gingham umbrella on the top of his
head, and the ardent swam bad a narrow
escape from measuring his length upon the
pavement. The old lady, not content with
assaulting the lover, turned upon ner niece,
and served her in a similar manner, the
gingham being flourished vigorously for
several minutes, to the intense amusement
of a crowd of spectators.
A physician's little daughter, called
upon for a toast, gave, " The health of
papa and mamma and all the world."
But she suddenly corrected the senti
ment. ' Not all the world, for then
papa would have no patients."
Fob prosperity : Lock in the diction
ary , . .
An Arsenic Mine.
A man, armed with a long iron hook,
pulls open an iron door, and you gaze with
awe into the Dantesque heart of a huge fur
nace, the white-hot contents slowly turning
round, and ever falling in cascades of yel
low fire. It is found that at the works on
Devon, sulphur in the pyrites is enough to
keep the furnace, when once heated, burn
ing without other fuel. The products ?
Here it is, a white heap of several tons of
it lying in an open shed, where everybtxly
passes hy. It is something like fine flour.
me of the men dips his thumb and finger
loosely into the white powder, puts a quan
tity into the palm of his other hand, and
brings it to be looked at precisely as a mil
ler show s a sample of flour, smoothing it
with his forefinger. One expects every
moment to see him test it with his tongue ;
a child probably would, but the miner
knows better. All this white heap is ar
senic. More than 2,MMi tons a year are
sent out from this one mine, to be used
ma'nly in those brilliant modern dyes by
which our women and children can dazzle
the sunshine at a cheap expense. Are they
safe to wear f
.My chemistry books do not
plainly say yes or no. But in one liook I
chanced to open, I find the following re-1
marks: "Arsemcus acid white oxide of
arsenic, or white arsenic. This substance
is of the highest importance as lieing the
frequent agent of criminal or accidental
poisoning. There are few substances so
much to lie feared, it being almost tasteless.
It can be mixed with articles of f.iod and
swallowed without discovery, and there is
no practically efficient antidote." This in
nocent looking white powder, this potent
and fatal substance of which your chemist
must not sell you a dose without entering
your address in a luxjk, of which three
grains' weight will kill a man, was lying
by one of the onlinary roads of the mine,
in the open shed, in heaps breast-high I
was assun-d that no kind of haim ever
comes of all this, save skin eruptions to the
work people, and these rarely, but it gave
one a shiver to see those white mounds.
"The Haunted House.'
The lime of my narrative dates back to
the year l s7". The events occurred in the
city of Springfield, Ohio.
Situated in the verv centre of the citv
was a mans'on, old and lonely aspect, the I
property of a Mr. Foos. It had lxi-n for
several years uninhabited, w hen strange re
pcrts began to circulate. Persons who
p:isscd there at midnight, and other uncan
ny hours, often saw strange lights and
heard stranger souiufs until people lie
licved that it was haunted.
A length two young men of the town I
resolved to see whether it was haunted or
not, and thus put the fears and gussipings!
of the town's people to an end
Accordingly they took up ther quarters
at the mansion. About eight o cloeu they .
lit their candles, and made themselves com- !
fort able to receive their ghostly vis-tors. ,
The clock struck nine, ten, eleven, and 1V druggists, grocers and confectioners in
now nearly twelve o'clock, the time for ri.jt.s and any country grocery that hasn't
ghosts to appear. The gnat dirk in St. j lt ; considered incomplete.' Gum. from
Haphnel's church lieinin to s'rike one, two, j s.,nI06 trees was exclusively used until re
three, four, five, six, seven, eit'lit, nine, j tently, when it found a rival in gum mastic
ten, eleven, twelve, and then No sooner : a white ami attractive article made from
had the sonorous peals died away, than the ! i.ar;.tiiiie. which is sweetened. The con-
canilks were suddenly extinguished, arid (
they were lest in darkness. .ner a it
minutes a bright, circular light became
visible near one of the walls, and what a
terrible spectacle was brought to view!
A man was stretched from a tree with a
rope around his neck, while a Imx lav at
his feet w ithin reach he was a suicide.
His distorted features and glaring eyes
were plainly visiiile, while his tongue,
black and swollen, hung at least half a fio;
from his mouth I To complete the horrible
picture, hundreds of demons were dancing t
around his contorted nrure. 1 nen iouowcu ,
a wild burst of laughter and the apparition
vanished.
The young men had not expected this, j
While this strange scene v. a enacting t'.iey ;
sat stupefied with fear, their hair actually
standing on end. I
At length their horrible spell was broken,
and without even stopping to snatch their j
hats, they tied the house. As they were .
tleciii!r alomr the street, thev ran ri:'ht '""
the nf a tall, muscular w'" '
Ing their affrighted condition, tigntened his
;rap uivin them, and asked them to ex
plain their fright.
1 hey told him all.
After thev had finished their story, the
detective (for it was no other than letec-
live John Uurnside, ot .M' iori, who ,
was visiting friends there) told them "to
say nothing alioiit it, but wait and hope,"
and he would discover the mystery if pos
sible. About two weeks after the detective re
turned home so his friends thought.
In course of time the voting men dis
covered that they could no longer keep the
secret, and so thev divulged it.
It raised a great exilement, of course.
and the people of the city gave the place a
wide licrlh.
The strange souiuls and sights were con
tinued, until the people Wlieved without a
doubt that the house was haunted.
We w ill pass over a year.
One morning a ixwkc of police, headed
by a tall man in plain clothes, approached
the Foos mansion, unlocked the dHir, and
passed in.
In a few minutes the sound ol pistoi-
shots was heard and then all was still.
In a few minutes the jxume emerged from
the house, looking much larger. What
could it mean f
And now. little Ants, my narrative is at
an end, and Detective Burnside will finish
the story.
After I left the two young men. said
Detective Uurnside afterwards in telling the
story, my mind was made up I would dis
cover the mystery.
Accordingly, tlie next evening, I prriceed
ed to the mansion. It was a mere repetition
of the story of tlie young men, as far as the
apparition. As soon as the click struck
twelve my candle was blown out by a gust
of wind, ! know, caused by" the slamming
of doors. And what a terrible sight met
my eyes, I shudder now w hen I think of it,
so terribly real it looked.
There in the same spot that the young
man had descri'.ntl, 1 saw a young and
bratriful girl on her knees. A form was
bending over her. its hand clasped her long
golden hair, while a keen, bloody knife
was drawn across her lair, white throat.
while torrents of crimson blood dripped
nnon the floor.
I reamed ny srlt-poss-ssion enougn to
draw mv pistol, aim. and fire, A wild
laugh followed, and my bullet was heard
crashing through the wainscoting. The
apparition vanished slowly, and hapicning
to turn around I discovered the mystery.
It was a gang of some sort. I was sure,
and I was resolved to capture them. A
few weeks after I joined the gang, by
means known only to myself a professio
nal secret. There were counterfeiters,
burglars, and everything Jinong them. I
will not weary the readeiw ith a descrip
tion of the numerous burglaries they com
mitted, or of the various ways in which
they manufactured and ""shoved' their
'queer money."
After staving with them for a!ut a
veax. I resolved to break ud the gang, for
I had now ample evidence to convict them,
t Accordingly, I obtained the potte of
police, and raided the house. After
slight resistance tbey were captured.
When they found out who their capture
was they threatened me with vengeance
dire, if they ever escaped; but they neer
did, for there was not cne of them but had
committed enough crimes to condemn
them for life.
A few weeks after the eang were sent to
prison I took opportunity to show some
visitors the house, and explain the secret of
the ghost. In the room where the appari
tions appeared I showed them a secret
door, and behind it was an alcove. This
was the place where the robbers had hid
den themselves every night, and, when the
curious came to see the ghosts, they fright
ened them away bv means of a magic lan
tern. My tale is done.
Shouting Log In Nevalaw
A chute is laid from the river's brink up
the steep mountain to the railroail, and.
while we are telling it, the monster logs
are rushing, thundering, flying down the
declivity. They come with the speed of a
thunderbolt and somewhat of its roar. A
track of fire and smoke follows them fire
struck bv their friction with the chute Iol's.
T,ey descend the 1,7m) feet of the chute
; fourteen seconds. In dointr sothevdroD
700 feet perpendicularly. They strike the
deep water of the pond with a report that
can be heard a mile distant I-ogs fired
from a cannon could scarcely have greater
velocity than they have at the foot of the
I chute. Their average velocity is over one
hundred feet in a seconil, throughout the
entire distance, and at the instant they leap
from the mouth their speed must be fully
2' ) f-ct per second. A sug:ir pine log
sometimes weighs ten tons. Vi hat a mis
sile! How the water is dashed into the
air! Like a grand plume of diamonds and
rainliows, the feathery spray is hurled into
the air to the height of a hundred feet. It
forms the grandest fountain ever beheld.
How the waters of the pond foam and
seethe and lash against the shore! One log,
having spent its force by its mad plunge in
to the deep waters, has flatted so as to be at
right angles with the path of the descend
ing monsters. The mouth of the chute is,
perhaps, fifteen feet aliove the surface of
the water. A huge log burled from the
chute cleaves the air and alights on the
floating log. You know how a bullet glances,
but can you imagine a saw-log glancing J
The end strikes" with a heavy shock, but
glides qnickly past for a short distance,
then a crash like the reverberation of artil
lery, the falling log springs l.V) feet verti
cally into the air, and, with a curve like a
rocket, falls into the pond seventy yards
fr iin the log it struck.
All alwat Chewlne: Gum.
Among the quiet little manufactures of
tj10 country is that of chewing gum. Only
..,. factory exists in Phila.. Pa., and the few
others are in New England. New York, Ohio
Illinois and Tennessee. The gum is sold
s.m:ption of this chewing gum in the United
States is aliout thirty tons yearly; that of
spruce gum somewhat less, and that of gum
made in Tennessee from lalsam tolu, and
sold in the Smthern Stairs alwtit twentv
tons. Littly a material has been used styled
"rulils-r gum." lt is from the sap of the
snpoke tree of South and Central America.
Tin- sap like that of the India rubber tree,
has a milky look. The guiu was first im
ported into the United States with a view
of melting it with india rublier, in order to
produce a cheaper article than the latter.
jt wa9 found to lie unphable, and therefore
useless for that purpose. It bad long been
chewed by South and Central American In-
,ijaI)S an,i f,mnd to be useful in allaying
thirst. Experiments were therefore made
U(Te j purifying it for chewing, and with
final success, it is tasteless, and has the
nierit of lastin" longer thn other gums,
which more quickly dissolve and crumble
j the mouth. o great is its ductility that
a piece half an inclC after being heated in
the mouth, can lie stretched into a thread a
hundredfeet long. Its consumption isabout
fifty tons a year. Chewing gum does not,
like tobacco, require that the saliva shall be
expectorated; it dues not, like smoking ex-
, cite the nerves, nor like a superabundance
; of food, or ihink. hurtfullv overload the
stomach.
W iiy Flowers Turn to the Sun.
Wiesner had presented to the Vienna
Academy a monograph upon heliotropism
and geotrop'sm in plants. After a histor
ical sketch, the author treats on the influ
ence of light on heliotropism, and shows
that with increasing intensity of light the
strength of the heliotropic effect increases
to a certain point, and beyond this point
decreases. The lower limit of light inten
sity coincides with the lower limit of helio
tropic effect for the stoppage of growth ia
length, while the upper limit docs not coin
cide, or only occasionally coincides, with
the upper limit of heliotropic effect for
growth in length. In the case of very sen
sitive heliotropic plants, the upper limit of
light intensity for stoppage of growth in
length lies higher, and in less sensitive
plants lower, than the upper limit for
growth in length. He next considers the
relation between the refrangibility of rays
and their heliotropic effect, and shows that
portions of very sensitive heliotropic plants,
as Yiciasativa, curves in all lights, even in
the ultra-red and ultra-violet, except the
yellow. Experience on the joint action of
heliotropism and geotropism are next des
crilied, and the author concludes that the
phenonieon of heliotropism is due to une
qual growth upon unequally lighted sides
ot the plant.
The L'sthe.ie side of Trade.
A gentleman from D.-vonshire, going in
to the Morris warerooms in I-omlnn, not
long since, asked to see the book of draw
ings from which models of furniture may
lie selectetL When it was placed before
him the Exeter man turwd over the pages.
saving he wanted a mantel; and, coming
at last upon the drawing of an exquisite
three-storied mnntel with twisted sides, he
said, carelessly: "I like that; what will
: you make that for f
"I beg vour pardon, sir," said the clerk.
politely, "we never execute any tuner
ithout knowing first the proportions of
the rsioin and the surroundings.
" IYnportions!" exclaimed the Devonian.
"What does that matter to You? I sav I
want your confound new-fangled chimney
piece, and that's all about it."
"We alwavs consider the surroundings,
sir, and what is to go on the shelves.
"Go on the shelves!" shouted the wrath
ful customer. "Shells are going on it, and
waxwork under glass, and stuffed birds,
and, confound your impudence, sir what
business is it of yours, anyhow? My wife
will put whatever she likes on it, sir"; and
out he walked in tierce indignation.
This will serve to illustrate Mr. Morris'
idea. He does not intend to send out work
! simply because it is the fashion, but only
where it will be really appropriate and
useful.
A Male Cleopatra.
Gresham is a good subject to begin a his
tory with, for it has what is earlier than his
tory tradition and romance. The story of
the Grasshopper is a pretty cne, only "the
rude hand of the ntiquary sets it all aside
by sternly proving that Gresham was no
foundling, but born in wealth. There are
plenty of tales left. How is it with this I
It is gravely related in a work called "Law
son's History of Banking" that the Spanish
Embassador to the English Court having
extolled the great riches of his King, the
master of the Indies, and of the grandees of
Spain, before Queen Elizabeth, Sir Thomas
Gresham, who was present, told him that
the tueen had subjects who at one meal
expended not only as much as the daily
revenues of the King, but also of all the
grandees, and added : "This I will prove
any day and lay you a heavy wager on it. "
So Gresham outbragged the Spaniard in
his own line. The Embassador, biding his
time, came unawares to the mansion of Sir
Thomas in Bishopsgate, and dined with
him, when, finding only an ordinary meal,
he said : "Well, sir, you have lost your
stake. "Not at all," answered Sir Thomas,
"and this yon shall presently see." He
then pulled a box from his pocket, and tak
ing out one of the largest and finest Eastern
pearls, showed it to the Embassador. After
which he ground it down and drank the
dut in a glass of wine to the health of the
Queen, his mistress. "My Lord Embassa
dor,'" said Sir Thomas, "you know I have
often refused ' 15,000 for this pearl. Have
1 lost or won f "I vield the wager as
Io6t," said the Embassador ; '-and I do not
think there, are four subjects in the world
that would do as much for their sovereign."
Legend tracks the man. Here is one that
would do for a mediaeval saint, and also
from Lawson. It must be borne in mind
that the street before the Grasshopper that
is 09 was then used as the bourse of Lon
don, which is not unlikely, Gresliain,
trading to the East Indies, by which he is
reported to have made much money, at one
time was disconcerted by the non-arrival of
some ships, which, it is alleged, had caused
him much embarrassment. While despond
ingly walking in Lombard street, a sailor
came up to him aud presented a letter
which conveyed the joyful intelligence that
two of the ships had arrived, and that tlie
box the bearer would deliver contained some
diamonds and pearls of great value as a
sample of the riches the ships had brought
home. Perhaps it was a large pearl out of
this box or out of the two ships which
figured in the other tale. After get' ing the
good news on the bourse, Gresham could do
no other than found, at his own cost, an
exchange, laying the first stone on June 7.
l.bi; and on January 27th it was opened
by Queen Elizalieth. The Queen's majesty,
attended by her nobility, entered the bourse
on the south side, and after she had viewed
every part thereof, and seen a kind of in
dustrial exhibition of all sorts of the finest
wares in the city, she caused the same
lmurse, by a heraid a trumpet, to be pro
claimed "The Koval Exchange," and to be
so called thenceforth and not otherwise, and
so it has liceu.
TfabUe of a Buslneiui Mao.
A saered regard to the principles
f Justice forms the basis of every
transaction, and regulates the conduct
of the upright man of business.
lie is strict in keeping his eugige-
ments.
Does nothing carelesiy or in a great
hurry.
Employs nobody to do what lie cau
easily do himself.
Keeps everything in its proper place.
Lea ires nothing undone that ought to
be done, and which circumstances ier
ui it him to do.
Kjep- his designs and busiuess from
the views of others.
Is prompt and decisive in his deal
ings and ilocs not overtrade his capi
tal.
Prclers short credits to long ones,
and cash to credit at all times, either in
buying or selling, and small profits in
cases of 1 1 tile risk, to chance of better
gains wiih more buzzard.
He is el, ar and explicit in all his bar-
jams.
Leaves nothing of consequence to his
memory w hich he can and ought to
commit to writing.
Keeps copies ol" important letters, and
has all letters, invoices and business
documents put away in an orderly
ni&iiner, so that ou occasion may he
easily referred to.
Is alwavs at the head of his business.
well kuo'viug that if he leaves it, it will
leave him.
Holds as a mixim that he whose cre
dit is suspected is not to be trusted.
Is constantly examining his books.
and sees through all his affairs as far
as care and attention w ill enable him.
Balances regularly at stated times,
and then makes out and transmits all
his accounts current to his customers,
both at home and abroad.
Avoids as much as possible all sorts of
accommodations iu money matters, and
lawsuits, w here there is the least haz
ard.
He is economical in hi expenditures
always living within his means.
Keeps a memorandum book In his
pocket, in which he notes every parti
cular relative to appointments, addres
ses and petty cash matters.
Is cautious how he becomes security
for any person, and generous when
urged by motives of humanity.
Let a man act strictly upon these hab
s; when once begun they will be easy
to continue.
Take pleasure in your business, and
it will be your recreation.
Hope for the best, prepare for the
worst, and manfully bear whatever
happens.
Custer's I loath.
The Indians sav that, after the general
stampede, Custer tried to rally his men
around him. He waved his pistol in the
air and shot it off twice to attract his men.
Two or three gathered around him, but as
the Indians still continued to advance, one
of the soldiers tried to run away. Custer
fired at him and killed him, and then seeing
the case quite hopeless, the Indians gather
ing around from all parts, turned his re
volver on himself, preferring to die by his
own hand. The Indians say that they
think this person was Custer, as he wis a
chief; but they are not certain of the fact.
Kain-in-the-Face took a soldier prisoner,
but he was not allowed to live long, as he
was killed at a dance that followed the
fight. The Indians here all agree on one
thing that the number of Indians killed in
(the fight was thirty -six; they give their
I names.
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