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B. F. SCHWEIER,
THE 005STITTITI0H THE UHOS AID THE EffTOBOEMEHT OF THE LAWS.
Editor and Proprietor.
VOL. XXXIV.
MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY, PENNA., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 30, 1SS0.
NO. 27.
"GONE.'
Scene in a Loodoa railway station depar
ture of emigrauta for Liverpool.
At ! mark ye well the angnish of the parting :
That cry of Cone !"
Is wrung (ram hearts through which fierce
pain U darting.
All hope withdrawn ;
XtM aouU of women and cf children am ting
While life drags on.
Chi'dWs ! tut not through heaven', divine
affliction.
Is belp'ess age ;
And husbandlecs ! oh! eorrow beyond Set on.
Words cannot ginge !
And fatherle-e ! where lies t!ie benediction
That can assuage.
Speak not to t'lem. The words of consolation
No lie'p reveal.
Within that honr of awf ol -eparation
Think what the; feel,
Bearing the pain with lowly resignation.
That gold might hi a.
Tueir lips are dumb. The instincts o' impres
aion.
They know it not.
To bear the woes that fa 1 in quick anccersion
la ail their lot ;
Tier form no scheme that lea Is them towards
rcdression.
While teats fall hot
Then gaze with coldues on their voiceless
wailing.
Ay ! if yon can ;
Think of the wanderer on fie ojean aailuig ;
Thon richer man !
CouM'et thon not bear hit angnish without
quailing ?
Then find some plan.
Fnch misery is not of heven'a sending.
For gold can cjree ;
The sorrows that are not bevond earth's mend
ing Let none endure.
"With you." cries One in clou in or light as
cending, 1 leare My poor!"
Margery's Secret-
i
Henry Fleet, the blacksmith, had a cosy j
little house in Xewburg, which he called j
his bird's nest. It, with ten good acres at-
tached, had ben in the
Fleet family for j
three generations. The one son had al
ways followed the occupation of the sire,
as though they were born to the business.
Harry had a pride in his work, and to
those friends who had a large-ambition for
him, he was wont to say "I was born a
blacksmith; I like it, and will remain one."
In his Mrd's nest nestled his wife, Marg
ery and his little son. Thoy were the joy
and light of his work-a-day life.
For a number of year's Harry had been
i very happy man; but a cloud had gash
ered in the sky, and at last it had moved
along just over his cottage, and there it
obstinately stood. He had stood as bail
for an old friend who was in danger of los
ing his liberty in consideration of certain
liabilities. The friend had lurched him.
Margery knew something had gone
wrong. He tried to keep the whole story
to himself, but the shrewd little woman
managed to ascertain his secret trouble.
"You see, Margery, I don't mind, I can
work for you and the boy well cnougli,
but the honic3tead, there is no help for
it; that must go, and it has been in the
Fleet family ever since it was a wilder
cess, Harry told her the responsibility. Said
he: "Old Squire Mitchell has it, and I
have mortaged the place. He has given
ine several months in which to redeem it.
but he mitrht as well take it now, Margery,
I shall be no better prepared to pay
then."
it :
Harry went to work, and Margery to j
ruminating. She had always been able to j
. tnt means to ends, and supply the
mmna ion if necessary, for a wise little
thinking cap she was in possession of. But
this time she was sorely puzzled. She
spent the afternoon in endeavering to plan
a method of relief, but it crept away and
she felt tired and defeated.
It was supper time. She heard her hus
band's foot strike the graveled walk at the
same time she was struck with an idea.
She put his supper on the table without a
word, and instead of sitting down with
him as usual, said: "Do you mind looking
after the baby awhile? I want to run out."
A neighbor came in seon after and in
quired lor Mrs. Fleet.
She has gone out," lie replied.
"It must have been her I saw going
into Lawyer Knowles office a moment ago,"
said the neighbor.
Harry did not reply, hut he did not like
it. Toung Knowles had once been a suit
or of iMargery's. A little wavering, at first,
his attention, for be was a shrewd young
fellow, acute in his profession, and his per
sonal matters looking always to the main
chance, and Margery had no fortune but
ber face; though there was rumor about
the time of her marriage that an uncle in a
distant part of the country had left her
property, more or less and her relatives
there had made it appear that she died in
childhood, and taken possession of it them
selves. But Knowles had lost his heart to
her so effectually, before this report that he
proposed, and had been unhesitatingly re
jected, greatly to the astonishment of Lira
self and Harry Fleet.
Margary was an orphan, and had beer
reared by Harry's kind parents, and fro:a
continued association with him had learned
.to read his big heart so well that she knew
wrho reigned queen in it long before had
courage to tell her. He, really, nerer could
.1. had preferred a pn mn
in,. Wr.-elf to whom he considered so
finished in worldly K c young know
. . a:a nnt like what transpired.
ICS. iuuij - . . .
und'though too sensible a man -u B
cSc,hewa,otUtt.e perplexed
whenhis wife made no
busing -ynr JS the
went by he came to Know
ihere at other times, and one oa coming
-homeearlier than usual, he
hi. gate coming out. At heart he bad per-
WE. in his wife, but fortune had J
gun to raek bim on her wheel and a mattor
Sat he would hv thought little of few
weeks before, now had tU yov
Jum.
Jle was grieved to hi. wife's maun
toward him, was cliam-ed. It was not
trouble; she never spoke of their approach
ing loss, and he often found her smiting,
merry as a lark, but there was no longer
perfect confidence between them. There
was something she was keeping hid, he
thought. And Margery did hare a secret,
and kept it the old adage notwithstand
ing. Finally the day arrived on which the
date of the mortgage expired. Harry's
face had a set look. Always in the way he
thought, when around the house, watching
Margery while deftly clearing up things.
Everthingshe touched yielded like magic.
This morning she was unusually skilful, and
not a trace of regret was there in that spark
ling face of hers.
Harry was woefully cast down. His
clouded face seemed a reproach to her. He
had not raised the money, and could not he
said. The squire offered hun an extension
of time; he would not have it.
"It is of no use," said he, "and we may
as well be over with it at once. The little
place is not worth more than the money
you loaned me. I will make you a deed of
it, and you may write that the mortgage is
satisfied."
He produced pen and ink, looking all
the time like a man about to sign his own
(death warrant. Then liaby was hustled
! unceremoniously into his cradle, and Marg
ery unlockeu a little drawer in her hus
band's desk, producing a package, and
placing it before the Squire, asked him to
count its contents. It was found to cover
the whole amount for which her husband
had given the mortgage.
"It was left to me by my uncle Ileth,''
explained Margaret. "Lawyer Knowles
was in need of all his shrewdness to straight
en the matter out, but I paid him a round
sum for his services."
Harry called himself a slow man, and it
did take him some time to get the better of
his amazement. He had barely succeeded
in comprehending the whole, as his Wife
turned from the door, from which the
'squire had made his exit. Then, for the
fast time, t'a little woman broke down,
She threw herself into the strong arms that
were ready o receive her.
"Oh, Harry ! how could you how could
you be jealous of me?"
Ho answered not at all, but held her as
if in one of his own iron vises. Presently
he fell to kissing u t hair, forehead, cheeks
and lips; and locking up, she saw what
she had never seen before; on the cheeks of
her Vulcan were two round, big tears.
Harry did not go to the shop that day,
and the baby was sadly negiccted.
It was several years ago that this event
occurcd, and Harry's bird nest is now
called "The Dove Cot" by the observing
neighbors.
lite ree Cup.
The origin of the grace cup, or, as it is
sometimes called, the "loving cup," passed
round from guest to guest at state banquets
and city feasts, is thus accounted for.
"The grace cup derives its name and use
from an amusing little fact illustrative of
the manners and customs of the Scotch
nobles in theeleventh century. That royal
Christian civilizer, Margaret Atheling, the
consort of Malcolm Kenraore, observing
that they had an irreverent habit of rising
and quitting the taole before grace could be
pronounced by her chaplain, promised to
reward all who could be induced to tarry
for that ceremony with a draught al libi
tuiu from a large gold cup of the choices
wine, which was passed from hand to hand
round the board, after the thanksgiving for
the meal had been duly said. The bribe
offered bv the beautiful young queen was
too asrreeable to be resisted by the hitherto
(rntrelesg northern niacuates; each was
i ........... .laim lia clinr nf thp m-ACe Pun.
as tUig goMel was called; and thus
tne CUetom instituted in the palace became
M nonular that it was observed in the
Hmns halls, and wherever festive cheer
was to be found throughout the land. The
fashion of the grace cup was of course
adopted in England by all degrees who
could afford to honor a custom so much
in unison with national taste. Every per-
' son of consequence could boast of a grace
cup in the Jlidine Ages, nu ceu at iuc
period of the Reformation they are occa
sionally enumerated and described in in
ventories of plate and jewels, and be
queathed in wills."
W by Tberw is no Rain In Fern,
In Peru, South America, rain is un
known. The coast ot t'eru is wumn me
region ot perpetual southwest trade winds,
and though the Peruvian shore, are on the
verge of the great soutneasi ooiier, yet u
never rains there. The southeast trade
inds in the Atlantic ocean nrst strike me
water on the coast of Africa. 'Traveling
to the northeast they blow obliquely across
the ocean until they reach the coast of
BrazU By this time they are laden with
vapor, which they continue to bear along
across the continent, depositing it as they
eo, supplying with it the sources of the Kio
de la Plata and other iriumanes oi uic
Amazon. Fiuallvthey reacn me snow
capped Andes; here is wn ng from them
the last particle of moisture that a very
low temperature can aiiracu i."'6
sumti.it of that range they now lumoie
down as cool and dry winds on the I acific
dope beyond. .Meeting wuu u-
ln surface, and no temperature colder
than that to which they were subjected on
the mountain tops, they reach the ocean.
Thus we see how the toiof the Andes be
n the reservoir from which are supplied
L Ihc rivers of Chili and Peru,
Tne Sea. Unicorn.
A Sea Unicorn who nccntly exhibited at
San Francisco. The body is of the ze of
, small deer and covered with scale, about
L, inch in diameter, wiUi tufts of reddidi
ownhair grown quite plentifully between
the scale. It. legs are quito
havelou? hair about the hoo:., which r
semble those of a der or got. The tail is
raigbt nd luffed, like that of cow
whUe tbe snout is enlarged at the eud Uke
Itatof a swine, and the mouth show, for
nrotrudine on either wde.
mm Ventre of the face . project.
. YimrlP horn, uot more than six inches m
which curves upward .UghUy. U W
Wf - there are two long feelers, or tenta
oonfobsideoftie mouth. The
hair upon the nei is longer tnan eiwww,
the same reddish color, ha. the ap
?Jran Of short mane. The shcr cjen
ffidat thU snimal was sometimes seen
uW tiw shore of the UU P thut he
UJZ .musical uoure, which gaye hp the
ame of the singing uidc PTh1s
themore credulous islanders had take bu
heard faintly in the disUnce, tor
tap of mermaids.
Bubble's Learned Cat.
Mr. Bubble wa a well-to do old gent,
and if he had any particular weakness it
was for training birds ( and animals. His
house and barn were filled with theui,
greatly to the disgust of Mrs. Bubble, who
hated everything of the kind. He bad a
learned pig, a precocious rooster, a trick I
dog, a comprehending cow, a marvelous!
horse, an educated rat, and the Lord knows j
uuw many inner tilings. 13UI as yei ne nau
no learned cat, and his heart yearned for
one. He ha I tried to train two or three
different ones, but his trick dog had a trick
of worrying them out of existence, or out
of the neighborhood, and so Bubble was
stiil under a cloud. If be only had a learned
cat tie felt that his cup of happiness would
be complete.
Finally he obtained a fine large specimen,
one quite large enough to take his own part,
so far as the dog was concerned, and he at
once set about educating him. Contrary to
his former experience, he found his new
delight quite tractive, and in a few weeks
he had 'Tommy" so well developed that
he would perform several tricks wonder
fully well, and one afternoon, while enter
taining a company of friends to dinner,
Bubble had to U'U them about his latest
animal wonder.
"You would be surprised," said he, "to
see what a genius there is in that cat Tom
my. Some one suggested that the wonderful
feline be summoned into the presence of the
company, and . accordingly Tommy was
sent fT. . J
"Now, my friends, as the preliminary
overture to his performance, 1 propose to
show you how nicely he can walk over this
table without disturbing the least thing, or
offering to eat whatever may be in his
reach."
Mrs. Bubble protested, bu', he would
have his own way, and Tommy was order- j
ed to leap upon the table and walk over it i
carefully.
But learned cats arc quite as unreliable '
as any other, and Tommy didn't appear to !
be ambitious for fame on that occasion. j
The first thing he did was to turn around
and put his hind foot in the butter. Then '
be started lorward a little and in trying to!
get at t'Jkt buttered instep he knocked over j
the cream pitcher, the sugar bowl, and be
coming more and more demoralized he put
one of bis fore paws into a cup of hot tea.
Then he g tve a growl of pain and made a
dive to get aawy, knocking the tea pot over j
into Mrs. Bubble's lap, and receiving a cuff
which started him in another direction, and .
caused him to overset a dish of gravy. Into
this he stepped, and then jumped upon the j
heal of an old fellow without any hair, and I
producing a stampede which tipped over j
the table and produced a regular hurrah.
Bubble was all '.he while calling: "Come
here. Tommy, poor Toniisv. but his calls '
were disregarded by that educated cat, and ,
Mrs. B. seized a stool and sent it fiyiug af-1
ter poor Tom. The stool and Tuuucy
went through the window together, carry- j
ing away the sash and all at one fell swoop.
After comparative quiet had been reslor- ;
ed, Bubble tried to convince the company '
that the cat was a little out of training, but j
on account of a sulisequent conversation
held between him and his wife, it is safe to
say that he will not exhibit hi. learned cat
again right away.
White House etiquette.
The ceremonious dinners at the White
House are as much matters of course as the
reception of the President's wife by day
and his own (usually calied levees, no one
knows why,) by night. Custom has made
it obligatory on our Chief Magistrate to
give several of these dinners during each
session of Congress. A spacious apart
ment, forty by thirty feet, known as the
State dining room," is provided for these
banquets. There is another smaller room,
where the President and his family take
tueir meals, and where they often entertain
tueir friends. Twenty or twenty-five can
comfortably dine therein. The "State I
dining rooii adjoins the red parlor and
has a door of communication with that and
two with tbe hall. It has a handsome
carpet and antique, substantial furniture,
including a solid mahogany buffet of the
largest size, which looks as if it liad been
in use half a century at least There are
two windows fronting south, reaching from
floor to ccili-jg; there is a manlel-pieceand
fire-place at one end of tbe room and side
tables ot mahogany in convenient places.
The walls are tinted a pale hue and paneled
with gilt bands. The table used for ban
quets is long and broad enough to seat forty
guests and leave aounaaui space ior me
servants to pass around it A mirror about
two feet wide and long enough to extend
nearly the entire length of the table is one
of the heirlooms of the White House, and
is always placed horizontally along the cen
tre of the table when feasts are given. It
has an ornate gilt frame and serve, as the
foundation for the table decorations. There
are other handsome ornament, belonging to ;
the White House which are sometimes used
these occasions, as, for example, the Hia
watha vase, representing Hiawatha in a
single-masted vessel on a crystal lake (a
mirror) on whose border, are representa
tions in silvcrof aqueous plants and amphib- j
ious animals. This vase was purchased for 1
the use of the White House by Mrs. iant
at the Centennial Exhibition. The Table
linen is very fine. The glass is the finest
white cut glass, as thin as egg shells, the
china is white Sevres, with a colored bord
er. The silver is massive, and for the de
sert the celebrated gold forks and spoons
which brought down wrath on Van Buren
are used. China, glass and linen all have
an eagle and shield upon them and are
simply marked "President's House " The
dinners are the only official entertainments
given at the White House at which refresh
ments are offered. The custom of offering
even the simplest collation at any of the
public receptions was long since abandoned,
not only because it was impossible to pro
vide food for the multitude which rushes
in on such occasions, but also on account
of the piggish way in which the crowd fed
d swilled lemonadt, throwing as much
on the carpctj as into the rapacious mom n.
Those who are entertained at the State din
ners are members of the Cabinet, Judge, of
tho Sunreme Court, Senators and Beprcr
. .' : ::., Tl,
seniauves anu uic tortigu uiiaisitjo.
wives of all who are married are asked
when the husbands are; these dinners are
neer "stag-parties." When a foreigner of
high rank, who maybe regarded in any
sense a. representing a foreign naton or a
sovereign visit. Washington, he is usually
dined in state gt the White House. It is
etiquette not to decline ku invitation to one
of these feasts for any reason of lass mag
nitude than death is the family or severe
illness. Previous engagements, however
mnqrtsnt, must be canceled when an mvi-
I R; II JIJ UJUIUB YUlllUill LiriUUllHAl''i.
Once durinz the lasl aeasion a pcicber of
Congress and his wife, who gave very ele
gant dinners, invited most of the foreign
ministers and their wive, to dine with them
on trials day. All accepted, and the
dinner was in proce. cf preparation, when
io! President Grant, who had been de!syr
iijg bis f ncnal diplomatic dinner, thinking
the Urand IVuke 4'etis would come, finding
out Ult (hat Russian scion qf the Emperor did
not Intend to accept bis hospitality, jssued
invitations to the diplomat, to dine with
him. Etiquette compelled theu to accept,
so all had to excuse themselves from their
first engagement and the it C. and his wife
were compelled to ask other guests. Kut
all is for the best. With the Representa
tive and his family the one dinner served
as a substantial compliment to two set. of
guests, those who ate it and those who had
the honor of declining to do so. But din
ing in state is not an unmitigated pleasure
by any means. The dinner, begin at 7 r.
m. and are protracted until ten o'clock or
after. Then again there is no elbow-room;
the guests are so crowded around the ma
hogany that it is difficult for those on the
same side of the table to lift their arm. at
the same moment to carry food to their
mouths. Hence it is sometimes the case
that couples seated next each other agree
that each shall partake of the courses by
turns, one eating while the other keeps the
arms down, and vice versa.
Variations in Kirds Keats.
This year we have noticed three curious
instances of a departure from the usual
habits of bird, in building their nests,
which seem worth recording. The song
tbru'h lines her nest with cow-dung and
clay; and it is usually considered by orni
thologists that, as she builds very early in
the spring and frequently in exposed situa
tions, the mud lining protect, the eggs and
the young brood from the fierce March
winds. Early in March we found a thrush's
nest in our garden, containing four eggs ;
but the nest had not a vestige of the usual
mud lining. Unfortunately we found the
net destroyed one morning before the bird
h?d time to hatch, so it was imiossible to
note whether the inclement weather had
any effect on the eggs. We have at this
moment a blackbird sitting upon six eggs,
four of which are her own and the other
two those of a song-thrush. When first
the nest was found it contained two of each
kind, a thrush having laid in the blackbird's
nest. Although sparrow, will sometimes
appropriate swallows' nest, to build in, and
though several birds will build a new nest
on an old foundation, it is, 1 think, very
unusual for one species the cuckoo, of
course, excepted to make use of a nest
b.iilt by another species. The third curios
ity of nest building is the nest of a ehafllnch,
placed in the fork of an elder bush near
our house. Usually the chaffinch assimi
lates the color of her nest to the situation
in which she places it ; if she builds on "a
hedge she generally covers it w!'h green
moss; but if she builds, as she often does,
on the bare branch of an old apple tree, she
uses the gray lischens, which are usually
nc.tr at hand, and covers her nest with
then S3 skillfully that though quite open
and exposed it leconies hidden by its re
semblance to a knob or excrescence of the
tree itself. In this cjsc, however, though
the bird has recognized the necessity of
covering her res: with Bomcthing, she has
4Ctidered it most conspicuous by sticking
little bits of white decayed wood all over
it. The wood is so white that the nest
looks almost like a snowball in the branches.
Possibly this bird may s color blind, or
she may be just a little bit "wanting in her
instinctive faculties, as human beings are
occasionally in their reasoning powers.
Why not? .
Pa and Ms are Married."
A man in Toledo, with a wife and three
children, became enamored of an intrig
uing woman and procured a divorce in an
obscure town in Indiana. He did not say
a word about it at home. One day his eld
est dauguter received a parcel of patterns
from a lady in Indianapolis. In it was an
old copy ot a country newspaper. An ad
vertisement attracted her attention; it was
an application for a divorce for her father
from her mother. The young lady desi ed
to visit her friend in Indianapolis, and to
make an excursion to the town where t he
divorce had been granted. She returr.od
with ample evidence that her mother v. as
livinir with a divorced man. She shov. ed
her lather a copy of the advertisement, a id
told him that she bad found out all ah ut
him. He walked the floor for a numue,
and then turned to his daughter. "I hve
been a very bad and guilty man," he aaid;
"but it is not too late to make amends. I
will go to her and confess all, and undo
what 1 have done. " "Confess first to me,"
said the girl. "Ill; Miss who is tl
woman in the case, is it not?' "it i."
I thought as much. Are you to marry her("
"I was to have married her." "You
must not go to mamma yet. She mast be
your wife again before she knows the fear
ful truth." The youcg lady was equal to
the emergency. The twentieth anniver
sary of her parent's marriage was close at
band. She invited all their frien ls and
bad them married again by the same min
ister who performed the ceremony twenty
years lcfore. She took pains to have her
mother, rival present, and remarked to
her in a corner: "Papa and mamma are
married again'as fast as the law can do it.
Whether the truth is ever known depends
upon you. Papa will never tell it, 1 am
sure, and for mamma's sake I never shall.
But it does seem to me dear, that some
other climate would suit your constitution
better than this.
President Madison and Wife.
The cbTacter of Madisoa's wife for social
ability, warmth of disposition, and what is
called spirit, will probably give her prece
dence over any mistress of the White
House. Her husband was cold, snarlish,
exp rt, capable f r public business, trac tible
to his superior?; but be made no impression
on tbe public A portrait of Mrs Madison
reveals tbe secret of her strength. She was
large, with brilliant eyes, with a trace of
mischief in them; her arms are bare and
show full health; there is an Oriental turn
to her nose, which otherwise is rather vul
gar; she wears wiace turoan, ana ncr nair
fans m ringlets around her forehead. She
was a native of North Carolina and was
brought up a strict Quaker in Philadelphia.
She was christened plain Dolly Payne.
While quite young she married Mr. Todd,
a Philadelphia lawyer. He kept her rather
out of society, but she was known before
his death to be ttrikingly handsome. He
died while she was almost a girl, leaving
her with one son: her father was also dead,
and it is the tradition that she and her
mother kept a boarding house in Philadel
phia, to which came several members of
Congress seeking board. Madison was one
of the richest. His disposition was too
cold for matrimony, and he married no
doubt, because the Widow Todd supreme
ly fascinated him. He was at the time
forty-three year. old. Our constitution
had then been in existence about five years,
and Madison was re.arded as one of the
most useful men m.der it. At the time he
married. Madison already had one of the
most distinguished reputations in tne coun
try. She stepped at once out oi a plain
Quaker fimily into the control of a great
Virginia mansion. nea ine captioj wa
removed to Washington city, whioh was a
mere wilderness filled with brambles and
alders, Mrs. Madison at once demonstrated
her capacity to take bold of society and
give it form. Her husband went regularly
Wins office, and took very little interest in
soaety doings, but be gave her the fullest
freedom, ;
Very Fronottneed 9i ule .
Jerry made his appearance in Ivanpaugh
district, in Arizona, early in its history.
He was a mule. Very pronounced mule.
Joe Singleton brought him into the district.
He said be gave f 100 for him in California.
He expected to get some work out of Jerry
in the mines, lie diun t
Jerry was the color of a sunbeam buffalo
robe, large and angular, and knock-kneed
before and behind. Very, behind. He
had only one ear, the other had probably
been cut off by some one in a fit of anger.
It was, no doubt, the last mule's ear that
man ever cut off. Jerry was a mule that
would resent anything of that kind. Whea
he was going to sleep his surviving ear
would nod, and sink lower and lower until
it hune down over his eyes. Jerry was
dreaming then of his childhood days. He
was on old mule in meanness.
Joe tried Jerry at various kinds of work.
Tried him at a whim for raising ore. Jerry
didii't work long until he had a misunder
standing with his driver. He kicked the
driver, and drove him off the hill. Jerry
was so certain that no miner would work
in the shaft when he was at the whim. To
do so would be taking chance, with the ore
bucket. He was harnessed to a water cart,
but kicked the head out of the water barrel.
Next he was placed in a team. His habits
were demoralizing to the other mules in
the team, and he was removed from their
society. O: e evening he and another mule
were tied together to keep them from wan
dering too far, and turned out to browse for
the night. The next morning one of them
was dead. Jerry wouldn't work at any
thing. He just wanted to wander around
and enjoy himself.
It got so he had nearly all h:s time to
himself. He roamed about the camp and
vicinity. One day I e fell into an aban
doned shaft thirty teet deep. No one tried
to get him out. It was thought he might
end his useless existence in th:re. lie
could be seen at the bottom nodding.
Finally, after he had been in five days,
Tom Kerrigan took pity on him, Tom was
kind to animals. He said Jerry was a
bad mule but he ought not to be allowed
to starve. Tom rigged ropes, got help and
hoisted him out. Then he walked up to
Jerry, and patting him aJTectionately, said:
"Had a pootv rough time, didn't you,
oldbiyT" "
Tom disappeared in the shaft, Jerry had
straightened out one of his hind legs. Tom
was taken out very seriously injured. He
lingered between life and death for a long
time. He had to have one of his legs am
putated, and finally got up with a stiff arm.
He is making his living as a musician in
San Francisco now. A hand organ.
Jerry did not have a paint-brush taiL
His owners had always seemed to like just
his natural tail. They loved life.
Jerry was getting to be prominent in
Ivanpaugh. lie was a rising mule. His
conduct, however, was beginning to tell on
his owner. Joe Singleton had come into
camp a steady young man, but he was get
ting a little reckless and disipated. Trouble
on Lis mind.
Joe wi8 get: ing poorer and he needed his
mule's assistance. He tried Jerry once
more, drawing the car in and out of the
tunnel, Jerry drew the car out once, in a
kicking manner. Just as he returned from
the mouth of the tunnel to the face of it a
big blast went off prematurely. Outside
parties went into the tunnel, peering
anxiously through the smoke to see if the
five men working at the face were injured.
The blast had made an unexpectedly large
hole in the floor of the tunnel. When tbe
smoke grew less dense, Jerry was discov
ered standing at the bottom of this hole,
unhurt, chewing a piece of fuse. Jerry
would eat almost anything. He was par
tial to pieces of bacon rind, wagon covers
and colors. He could make a comfortable
meal on axle grease. At one time he was
stealing barley from a sack; there were
some giant cartridges mixed in with the
barley; he picked up one of the cartridges;
a number of men were watching him, ex
pecting to see bim diea most horrible dealt;
they thought it would be a fit ending of
his career. Jerry chewed and the car
tridge exploded. ' His tail made a little
tremulous move that was ad. He spit
out the shell and took another cartridge.
A new man from California came into
the camp. He recognized Jerry and Joe.
He said Joe had not given a hundred dol
lars for the mule. That Jerry was from
the San Joaquin valley, where he had been
a prominent leading mule. That there had
been mas meetings of the citizens there to
determine how to get rid of Jerry. He
vyis thinning out the farming community.
iLat finally the county court of Mercer
county gave 3 ye Singleton, who was pass
ing through the county, ten dollar, to take
the mule to Arizona. Joe's hundred dol
lar story was exploded. He was joked
about it. He drank harder.
Jerry wandered further and further away
from the camp. Joe had despaired of him.
Other mules would not associate with him.
They feit constrained in his presence. He
disappeared.
One day an Ivanpaugh Indian came into
camp. His band made their headquarters
on the little cieck twenty miles away. He
was in trouble. He wanted to go to Wash
ington to see the great father. He said :
"Me want talk great father. Melican man
mean. Let mule go mule eat tent. Pa
poose he hit mule mule he kill papoose
kill squaws. Me big chief hit mule
mule hit me be big chief."
It was Jerry.
Joe Singleton died in an insane asylum.
Canght in Wolf-Trap.
The favorite trap employed for wcJves
in iJurgundy is the traqueraro. iuis a
most dangerous even to man, the strongest
that is made requiring two men to set it.
It has springs ot formidable power snu
delicacy, and when these are touched the
jaws of tbe trap, armed with rows of teeth,
shut one within the other. In spite of all
precaution, however, very sad occurrences
will often happen in these forests. Some
years ago a trap was placed near a deserted
footway, and the usual warning precautions
taken. " Tbe same day a young man, anx
ious to present to bis fiumee some turtle
doves and pigeoD. with rosy beaks, with
whose whereabouts he was acquainted, leu
his home a little before sunset to surprise
the birds on their neat. He was late. The
night closed in rapidly, and, with the inten
tion ox snonening ine roaa, ne ioos nis
war across the forest. Without in the
least heeding the brambles and bushes
which- caught his legs, or the ditches or
streams be was obliged to cross, he pressed
on. and. after a continual Lattlo wuh the
thorns, the .tump.' and root, and the long
clinging tendril, of the wild rosea, came
exactly on the track where the trao was
set. Tbe nieht was now nearly dark, and
thinking only of hi. dove, and the loved
niu he tailed to ooserve inai several ui'.io
pieces of string were wir.g(ng to and fro
in thp breeze irom we Drancnes oi uie
thicket near him.' Dreadful, indeed, was
it for bim that he did not, for suddenly he
felt a terrible shock, accompanied by most
intense pain, the bones of his leg being ap
parently crushed to splinters. He was
caueht in the wolf-trap. The first few
momenta of cain and sufferinir over, he
must have comprehended the danger, of his
position, and bad, it is presumed, with
great presence of mind, endeavored to
open the serrated iron jaws which held
him fast. But though danger is said to
double the strength of a man, the trap re
fused to give up Its prey, and, as at each
movement of his body the iron teeth bur
ied themselves deeper and deeper in his
flesh, his agony must have been of the
most exquisite description. He probably
shouted and would have continued to
shout, however hopelessly, for help, had it
not been for -the fear of attracting the
wolves that might be lurking in the neigh
borhood. He had nndec. his coat a small
hatchet ; and with this, in the event of his
being attacked by the dreaded animals, he
trusted to defend himself. As the night
lengthened, the moon rose, and shed her
pale light over the forest. He may now
be pictured immovable, with eyes and ears
on tbe qui vive, his body in the most ex
cruciating torment, listening and waiting.
All at once, far, very far, off, he hears a
confused murmur of indistinct sounds.
Approaching with rapidity, these murmurs
become cries and yells. They are those of
wolves on the track hellish demons, which
ere a few minutes would be upon him, car
ried direct to the spot by the trails set for
the destruction of his destroyers. Fear not
being part of his hardy nature, he by al
most superhuman effort?, and in the awful
moment forgetting all pain, contrived to
drag himself and the trap toward an oak
tree, against which he placed his back.
Here, with his hatchet ready to strike, the
young fellow, full of courage, doubtless of
fered up a short prayer to his God, and
embracing, as it were, in bis mind his poor
o'd mother and his bride, awaited the hor
rible result, determined to show himself a
true child af tbe forest, and meet his fate
like a man. A few minutes more and he
was surrounded by a cordon of yellow
flame, from the eyes of the brutes, the ani
mals themselves, which he could scarcely
distinguish, sending forth their horrible
yell, full in his face. On the following morn
ing, when the unfortunate forester who set the
trap came to examine it, he found it at the
foot of the oak. deluged with blood, the
bone of a human leg upright between the
iron teeth, and all around,- scattered about
the turf and the path, a quantity of human
remains. Shreds of a coat and other arti
cles of clothing were also discovered ni-ar
the spot. With the assistance of some
dogs, which were put on the scent, three
wolves, their heads and bodies cut open
with a hatchet, were found dying in an
adjacent thicket. When the venerable
cure of the village, after previously en
deavoring in every possible way bv
Christian exhortation to prepare his aged !
mother to hear the sad tale, informed her j
that these remains of humanity were all
that was left of her boy, she laughed.
Alas ! it was a laugh of madness ; reason
had fled.
The Heroism of Washinct'in.
A careful study of the history of Valley
Forge cannot be too earnestly recommend
ed to all who would fully comprehend the
greatness oi the character . of Washington.
At no other period of the war does it seem
so purely heroic, and at no time does the
patriot cause appear to have been in equal
danger of ruin. To this day it seems c
miracle that the little army wa. kept to
gether at all. He gave forty-live years to
the service of his country, but in wh it year
of them all did he do so much to save and
establish it? Superior to evil fortune,
stronger than the elements, and wiser than
all the delegated wisdom of the colonics,
hardly knowing in whom he might confide
or what professed triend might provj a
virulent foe, his military genius underval
ued and maligned by men unworthy to hold
his stirrup, be seems never to have lwt
either his equanimity or his hope. Contrast
Washington at Valley Forge his.naked lit
tle band shivering around him, with Napo
leon selfishly flying from the wreck of the
mctt magnificent army which eer trod the
plains of Europe. We feel, as we
contemplate the spectacle, that Washington
was "all in all to the cause." Any other
man might have destroyed it by presump
tuous ambition, by an overestimate of his
own ability, or on the othvr band, by a
natural incapacity to manage the peculiar
resources confided to him. It may lie truly
said that no historical character has so
grown in the estimation of mankind. There
are other revolutionary personages who
are still remembered freshly, in whom we
see faults and even weaknesses. From
these, Washington was not utterly free for h.;
was human; but can another be found who
erred so seldom, who discovered and
repaire his error so prompt iy, who
was so wise and yet so simple, who
was so utterly incaapable of sub
mitting to defeat while even adesperate
chance of success remained, or who did
the work which bis hands found to do.
despite innumerable obstructions and
dilbculties, so persistently and so thorough
ly? Tbe nyainaiin.
The Walhalla is near Katlsbon. Whi.t
the Temple of Fame is for Bavaria, this
Hall of the thosen" ts for the Germanic
tubes, for the distinguished of the father
laud. It is by its marvellous grandeur and
beauty a fit dwelling place for the immor
tals of Germany, it cost over $ l,uuu.i".
It stands very conspicuously on an emi
nence, commanding an extensive view of the
Danube and tbe neighboring country, it
is a modern Parthenon, constructed of grey.
unpolished marble, and ii reached by three
terrace, of marble steps. Fifty-two col
umns of the Done order surround the
budding. The interior, by its luxurious
magnificence and beauty, fills the spectator
with rapt astonishment. The floor is a
mosaic of smooth, variegated marble. The
hall is one hundred aud eighty feet Ion:,
fifty feet broad, fif ty-six feel high, and is
richly decorated with gilded ceiling and
lighted from above. Tbe ceiling is sup
ported by fourteen Caryatides, the wan ior
virgins of the ancient German Paradise,
whose duty wa. to carry off the iailen
heroes from the field of batile and introduce
them into Walhalla. These figures separ
ate the upper wall into compartments, in
which, on red and white marble plates, are
written in golden letters, the nmcs of six
ty-four WalbaUa inmates, such as Alaric,
TUcodoric, Ulfilas, Alfred the Great, Clovis,
Bcde, Alcuin, Charlemagne, Uildegard,
etc., of whom no likenesses are to be found.
Above these names run. a freue around the
entire halL executed by Wagner, represent
ing the religious and domestic life, the his
tory of the German aborigines, down to the
introduction of lonaiianity the lower
wall are divided into compartment, also,
in which are placed busts, and in the cen
ter of each group of busts is placed a fe
male figure to represent the genius of
victory. Tbe famous artist, Rauch, execu
ted these. One hundred and one marble
bust, have been deemed worthy of admis
sion into the alhalla. I recall the names
of Copcmicaa, UcrscheL Ruben. Van
Pjke, Kwt, Gttthe, Schiller, Haydcn,
Frederick, Blucher, Gluck, Maria Theresa,
Charles V, Walienstein, Luther. Lewis,
who founded this edifice, was such a bigo
ted Romanist that be would not admit
Luther. Since his abdication, wiser ccuo
tels have prevailed, and tha nocje reformer
has his proper place.
Grandma's Wolf Story.
"Only one more story, about when you
were a little girl, and lived in the -roods,
said Frank.
Grandma drew off her spectacle, and
shut her boofc. Mie leaned her head back
against the large easy-chair and shut her
eyes, thinking.
"I remember, as if it were yesterday.'"
she said, raising her bead and looking at
the children who bad gathered around her.
"I was only seven and my little brother
wasn't a year old. 'I'm eoine to the
Spnng-house,' said mother, -and you must
stay in the room and rock the baby if he
wakes. eo 1 took mv knitting, for I had
learned to knit, and was very proud of the
stocking that I was growing under my arm.
it was a cold day, lute in the Fall, and all
the doors were shut. Baby slept and I
knitted for half an hour. Then be awoke
and began to cry. As I got down from
mother's great easy-chair I thought I beard
a strange noise outside. It wasn't Lion,
for he had gone off with father to the mill.
Something rubbed against the door and
made the latch rattle. I felt afraid, and
went to the dix and fastened the bolt. I
stood st 11, listening, with baby in my arms
he hail stopped crying and could hear
my heart thumb, thumb, thumb!
'All at once there came a cruel kind of
bark, and then a snarl. A moment after
the window broke with a loud crash, and I
saw the ling head, open jaws, and fierce
eyes oi a wolf glaring in upon me. An
angel sent by our Father in heaven must
have toid me what to do. The wolf was
climbing in through the small window, and
to have lingered but a second would have
been death. .Moved as if by a power not
my own. and without thinking what was
best to do 1 ran, with baby in my arms, to
the stairs that went into the loft. Scarcely
had 1 reached the last step ere he was in
the room below. With a savage growl he
sprang after me. As he did so I let the
door, which shut like a cellar door, fall
over the stairway, and it struck him on the
nose aad knocked him back. A chest
stood near, and something told me to pull
mis over the door. fo I laid the babv
down and dragged at the chest with all mv
strength. Just as I got one corner over the
door the wolf's head struck it and knocked
it up a little. But before he could strike
it again 1 had the chest clear across. This
would have kept him back if I had dragged
another chest over the door, and piled ever
so many things on top of these. How
savagely he did growl and snarl 1 But I
was safe.
"And now I thought about my mother.
If she t-huu'd come back from the Spring
house the wolf would tear her to pieces.
There was only one window or openinz in
the loft, and that did not look toward the
Spring house; ami no wav in which I
could give her warning, or let her know,
if siie had seen the wolf, that we were safe.
For a long time the woif tried and tried to
get at us, but at last I could hear him going
down the stairs. He moved about in the
rco.u below, knocking things around for
ever so lung, and then 1 heard him spring
up to the window. At the same moment I
heard my fathers voice shouting not far
off. Oh, how my heart did leap lor glad
ness! Theu came Lion', heavy bark,
which grew excited, ami I soon heard him
yelling down the road in the wildest way.
The wolf was still in the window. I
could hear him struggling and breaking
glass. Lion was upon him, when my father
caih-d him off in command. All was silent
now, but the silence was quickly broken
by the sharp crack of a rifle, killing him in
siantly. "Father, father !" I cried from the loft
window. He told me afterward that my
voice came to him like one from the dead.
He ran around to that side of the house.
.Mother was with him, looking as white as
a sheet. 1 saw them both clasp their hands
together and lift their eyes in thankfulness
to God. When I tried to put the chests
away I could not move them an inch. So
father had to climb up by a ladder to the
loft window to release baby and me from
our place of refuse. Mother did not know
anything of onr danger until she had finish
ed her work at the spring-house. Just as
she came out and saw liie wolfs head at
the window, at the same moment father
ind Lion appeared in sight."
"I wonder the wolf didn't get you, "said
Frank, with wide-cpen eyes, breathing
deeply.
Clnlbes Lines.
Come, now, what barbarity is this
leaving a clothes line out after dark! A
great deal of funny comment has been made
uiion thi scustom of thoughtless people, tint
it is a most serious matter, and it is bih
time the tomfoolery was abolished. We
are just as ready as anybody to see the
funny side of a thing, but wo have ceased
to observe anything amiwng in beimr in-exj.-ectcd;y
sawed aeross the neck, o rased
across the face by a clothes lie- It is
lime there was a Iegllativ enactment to
either hanging clothes li sixty feet above
the earth, or make leaving them out after
utght-full a stat-a prison offence. It is a
most incomp'thuusible fact that a clothes
line U al"ys hung across the g:irden path.
If fee yard was ten miles square and a path
two feet wide crept ah ng t he fence, and
the woman had but eight feet of line, she
would manage to cover the path. Whetlier
this is because she is perverse, or cannot
help it, we do not know. We only know
that it is so, and that ft is an appalling
evil. No home circle is safe where this
custom prevails. It matters not how good
natured a man is, it matters not how care
fully he has been educated, it matters not
bow lofty and noble are hi. aspirations
the moment a clothes line catches him un
der the chin, especially if he has a pan of
allies in his amis, that moment be sinks
with awful velocity to the level of a brute,
and proceeds to act out the conditions at
once. In its proper place a clothes line is
a valuable companion, but across a path
after dark it is simply a brutalizing force.
A Bran's Duel.
The following story is told of fighting
Fitzgerald, a celebrated beau, gambler,
horseman and duelist After bis return
from Ireland, an old gentleman declared
his intention of trying to cure Fitzgerald of
his love of duelling, and one day provoked
him to a contest. His friends tried in vain
to persuade him not to go out. "Leave me
alone," he said, "I'll settle him, I have got
the choice of arms. Each of us shall be
mounted, each shall choose his own wea
pon, a space shall Iks marked out, and
whoever first crosses the boundary shall be
declared vanquished." Fitzgerald being
informed of these strange proposals did not
like to refuse, and confident in hi. admira
ble horsemanship and skill with all wea
pons, accepted. lie appeared on tne
ground superbly mounted on a fiery .teed
and armed with pUtols. To the surprise
and mirth of all, the old gentleman trotted
ud on a donkey carrying a bladder with
dried peas inside, and a scarlet cloak in his
hand. Waving the cloak and shaking the
rattle, be rode into a space; oil started, the
fiery courser, and before Fitzgerald knew
where he wus, he bad crossed the bound.
ry, and lost the duet The ridicule was
too much lor him, aad be never "went
out" again.
A Paris Behemias.
Some day. ago one of the most seedy
and disreputable men who ever appeared
about a newspaper office, turned up in the
editorial rooms of the Paris I'igaro. The
paper in question is proverbially reckless in
tbe matter of truth, and as long as a sen
sation wa on hand, made no question of
the veracity of the man who provided it.
In this case, however, the editor was liter
ally stricken dumb.
"Are vou the editor?" dumanded the
visitor, brushing a frightful hat with a roll
of manuscript.
"I believe ," responded the representa
tive of M. VillemesfanU,
"Then 1 have got something to sell you.
"What is it ?"
"A murder."
"Oh I Pshaw! Murders are out of fash
ion.
"But this is a murder with a mystery."
"We don't want any mysteries."
''But this is not only a mystery but a
scandal."
"Our scandal columns are fult."
"But this is a murderous Eivsterv not
only with a scandal but with a moral to
it."
"My friend," said the editor, rising,
"we don't want any murders, mysteries,
scandals, or morals; 1 assure you we don't.
Will you not take my word for it?"
The seedy man measured hira with his
glaring eve for a moment. Then he said :
"No sir."
"You will not?"
"Not for a moment. I demand that
this manuscript of mine shall be printed."
"But why ?"
"llecause I represent the press."
"The press ! S hat press ?"
"The press of Paris."
The editor paused. Even in his long ca
reer in Parisian journalism, he had met
with nothing like this. At last he said,
faintly :
"So vou demand that we shall print your
article?"
"Yes," was the reply.
"But I assure you we don't want any
thing but editorial articles.''
'There, sir," said the seedy man, laying
his hand upon his threadbare breast "I
will sacrifice my story to the mercenary
character of your paper. I. sir. will make
an editorial of my story. Which desk shall
I take ?"
The editor stared glared and g ive the
intruder a seat. The editorial was written,
printed and paid for, and next day the
yiynro told the story we have given above
upon itself.
Inward Agitation.
A young man who looked as if he had a
heap of things ou bis mind, but who strug
gled hard to appear outwardly calm, put a
five-dollar bill on the desk of a Detroit
lawyer the other day and said :
"1 want to ask you a few leading ques
tions." "Go ahead, " was the reply, as the money
was quickly thrust out of sight.
"If I am engaged to a girl aud I go back
on her, what can she do?"
"Sue you for breach of promise."
"But if she goes back on me, what can
I do?"
"Hunt up another."
"Urn! Suppose 1 have presented her
with a $2 fan, a pair of bracelets, a parasol
and a ring ?"
"Then she's so much ahead."
"If I believe that her infatuation for an
other is but a passing whim and I flourish
a revolver and talk of suicide, what then?"
"Her father will probably pick you up
and drop you mto the first mud puddle."
"Urn! Suppose I had presented her
mother with a twenty shilling umbrella?"
"Then she'll keep dry."
"And her brother with an accordean ?"
"Theu he'll worry the neighbors."
"Suppose, sir, 1 hail, for the Sake of
making myself solid with the old man, pre
sented him with sixteen dollars' worth of
watch-dog?'
"He'll set bim upon you if you have any
trouble."
"I'm! Have I no redress?''
"Yes, sir, go and lirk the prairie ranger
who has stolen away your girl's affec
tions." "I'll do it."
"Glad to hear it. I'll defend your case
for 2,"
"Urn!"
"Urn!"
"Come to thihk of it, he s a bigger mau
than I am."
"Then let him lick you, and 111 make it
cost him f0 !"
"I'm ! ill think of it."
"Urn-' Office hours from eight A. M.
to 'X P. M."
And the young man troubled with inward
agitation took himself out.
Cyprus.
Tlve climate is very similar to that of
Crete ; the winter is short and cold, the
suinmer long and hot, but not oppressively
so on account of the sweete .Mditerracean
breezes, which make the evenings particu
larly cool ; and eopIc or regular habits
will find it not only free from sickness, but
beneficial, if they do not indulge too freely
in tbe beaulitul fruit which grows nearly
wild in every part of the island. The in
habitants may be roughly estimated at 90,
m, of whom 60,O are Greeks, 25,000
Turks, and the rest Fellahs anil Arabs.
They are good natured, honest, quiet and
hospitable, but must be learned t work.
The principal language is Greek, Turkish
and Italian being spoke by the up;ercl-s-es
only. The buildings are very poor and the
njliveslazy. Onatcnintof ihe tabor being
nearly useless, also for want of break-wa
ters and quays, vessels lie at a distance,and
discharge their cargoes by lighters, the
operation being ofLen slopped during bad
weather. 1 he remedy of this evil now be
comes a necessity, and should be one of
the first wo,ks the present government
undertakes.
Cored of Swearing;.
Friend Il.x'pcr, once had a mau
named Kaue brought Iiefore a magistrate
and fined for blasphemy. He did not ste
the man again for a long time ; but, twenty
years afterward, when he was standing in
his door, Kane passed by. The Friend's
heart was toileted by his appearance, for
he looked old, feeble and por. He stepped
out shook hands with hun, and said :
Dost thou remember me, and how 1
caused thee to be fined for swcari&g?"
"tes, indeed, I do, he replied ; "1 re
member how many dollars 1 paid aa well
as if it were but yesterday."
Did it do thee any good ?" inquired
Friend Hooper.
"Never a bit," answered he. "It only
made me mad to have my money taken
from me."
The poor man was invited to walk mto
the house. The interest was calculated on
the fine, and every cent repaid to hira.
"I meant it for they good," said the
benevolent Quaker, "and I am sorry that I
only provoked thee."
Kane s countenance changed at once, and
tear, began to flow. He took the money,
with many thanks, and was never again
I heard to swear.