r II 1 1 lUlli B. F. SCHWEIER, THE GOISTITTITIOI-THE UHOI-AID THE EHT0E0E1CEIT OP THE LAW8. Editor and Proprietor- VOL. XXXIY. MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1880. NO. 47. 1 if- LOTE IT HOSE. There ia beauty all around , When there's lore at home ; There ia Joy in every sound When there's lore at home. Peace and plenty here abide. Smiling sweet on every aide. Time doth eoftly, sweetly Klide, When there's lore at heme. In the cottage there ia Joy, When there's love at home ; Hate and enry ne'er annoy. When there' lore at home. Roses blossom 'Death oar feet. All the earth's a garden sweet. Making life a bliss complete. When there's lore at home. Kindly heaven smiles shore. When there's lore at heme ; All the earth ia filled with lore. When there's lore at home. Sweeter sings the brooklet by. Brighter beams the ax ore sky ; Oh. there's One who smiles on high ; When there's love at home. Villainy Unmasked- The nature of my profession brings me in contact with every deccnpUon of person. I have formed through its agency many pleasant acquaintanceships, to wliich my memory often reverts with pleasure. Some years ago, 1 became acquainted with a Mr. Norval, wealthy merchant, who resided in West Fortieth street, lie was a widower. and the only persons living with him were two in number, a niece and an only son. Mary Norval, his niece, was a beautiful girl, about 80 years of age when I first be came acquainted with her. bbe was tall. and gracefully formed. Her hair was dark brown, and her eyes a heavenly blue shrouded with long eyelashes, which gave a dreamy expression to her lovely, oval face. Her complexion was white as the driven snow, and ber form was gracefully rounded, lier neck and shoulders might have served for a model for a sculptor, they were so exquisitively chiseled. When she moved it was with that undulating grace so charming in the other sex. Such was Mary Norval when I flr3t knew her. Had I not been married and possessed of the best wife in the world, she would have been just the woman I would have chosen for a wife, for her natural disposition, the cultivation of her mind, and the amiability of her character, fully equalled her physical beauty. She had so won upon her uncle's heart that he loved ber better than he did his own son. This, however, might be accounted for from the fact that Charles Norval was a most dissipated young man. lie had long ago exhausted his father's afection for him by a dissolute life and was only permitted by sufferance to be an inmate of his house. One day Mr. George .Nerval invited me to dine with him, I accepted the invitation, and we passed a very agreeable hour to gether at the social meaL After dinner. being somewhat of an invalid, my host ex cused himself for an hour while he want to lie down. I amused myself in the mean time examining some illustrated works d laced on the drawing-room table. The apartment in which I was seated was only separated from an adjoining one by folding doors. I should have stated that Miss .Notts! had also excused herself, under the plea of having some letters to write. Left alone to my reflections, I fell into a reverie, which, I suppose ended in a doze, tor I was suddenly awakened to conscious ness by the sound of voices in the adjoining apartment. The evening was somewhat advanced, and consequently the noise in the street had almost entirely ceased. Owing to this tact I heard distinctly every word that was said. It was Mr. Nerval's son Charles's voice that awakened me. "Mary, listen to me," be exclaimed with a peculiar thick utterance which showed that he had been drinking: "you know I love you. Yes, dear girt. 1 adore the very ground you walk on. Your beauty is so mnawnHont that vou anDetr more like a lairy creature of the brain than a human 'Have done with your senseless compli ments, Charles," returned Mary. "Why in vou nersecute me so? I bave already mA known bit decision to you. It is ir- rwr irlri. do cot tav that. Oh, if you did but know how deeply your image is ncrrwHn nn niv bcait! My very thought is for you; every pulse of my heart beats foryou--angel--mUeonmeI" Charles, you are intoxicated, How dare you express yourself to me in this manner?" . , . "Ilearwit cousin. I adore you, ana Dy II.vn vnn shall be mine!" I nitv vour condition, and I beg, sir, -nil lv niv nresence." -Never, my charming cousin, until you . tht vou love me. I would sell my i r. An. kiBK from those ruby lips. could sit all day and gaze wonderingly into Innu. crl.trioUS OrbS. DeaTeM uaruuft i. i.. uan h mine be mine!' It was evident the young man was work ins; himself into a passion of frenzy. -Air. Nerval, unless yon leave the room I wid call for assistant,' iv- ohoii not. It is true that you have supplanted me in my fUer love. 1 is true hat he has left you the bulk of his fortune, whUe be ha. bwed a misera ble pittance on me. Not content with having effected all th you tajp mr loye but oy uie grew, wv ke min' J . .m wr the rustling of a silk dress, -r- - .., Uarv bad arisen Mary, you snau n - j, ., j .i.- vin man. 1 repa it. continual mo j" a -. , - . to you shall be mine. Dearest KV2 my heart-let me fold you to my breas . . ...nMui scream now reacneu -h toward her. -"fold jUgll wuiv i lime w iuiw- j 4nat . oven ana iu u-.7 the shrinking girl saw me u"' -7 m he loosen- TUTS.. V de exp rt nen lighted up nis ieaiiu. - tM from the room, .k.binir UlS W w "'J 1 caught uw as he maue me . k.ui in mv arms and conveys - restored &" . fmatorauves sofa. A iw -- ., u motaa ume her to c:nousne, ' rg- the before 1 could make ber believe tmu danger was past. acquaint Mr. 1 tnougni -J tnaction, that v,-oi with the w B UUM ' t be adopted to P"" means m Irecurrenceof thu, V About . Nerval was icuu ---- month afur wis """-r i WB, detain meto.aoutherncIty,wbeIi wees- .J. r. New York, I received. J Cd b - be entered the "Brampton, mW too room. I na' God, you dozen Umes . iAm at lastl nav" . . .v- matter. BiT. ' "Why, wn " rr "j i want you "I am in -t troubla. ana I "Certainly. I know him well he i a' particular friend of mine; but why do you use the past tense!" j "Are you aware that he Is dead?" ! "Ueadl Is it possible?" "ea, he died yesterday. " "Is there anr susnicioB conntml with bis death?" "None at all. he has lieen ailinir fnr time. . lie died of disease of the heart. A post-mortem examination has settled that question satisfactorily. You are aware, perhaps, that I was his lawyer, and you also know the terms on which he lived with his son. About three months ago Mr. Norval sent for me to make his will. As I have before said, he had been failing in health for some time past, and did not know how soon he might be called away from this earthly scene. 'I drew up his will as be requested; by its provisions Mary was made an heiress, a small pension payable at certain intervals being only left to his son. This will was properly signed and attested." 'Excuse me for interrupting you," said I. "but was Mr. Charles Norval cognizant of the provisions of his father's wiiii" "Not that I am aware of, but now you come to mention it, I distinctly remember at the time of witnessing it, a sudden rustling was heard at one end of the apart ment, and a door that opened into an ad joining room was heard to close, but no nrtice was taken of the circumstances at the time." 'Exactly, that must have been the young man who was listening, for I have reason to know that he was aware of the contents of his father's will." And 1 then related the conversation I had overheard between Mary and Charles Nor- yaL "This may be very important," said M ' as soon as I had concluded: "but let me conclude what I have to say. The will 1 had drawn up was confided to my care. 1 placed it in an en velope and locked it up in my private desk. The moment I heard of his death, I opened my desk and took out the envelope in which 1 had placed the will. Judge of my surprise and horror when I found it only contained a blank sheet of paper!" "A blank sheet of paperl The will had been 'abstracted, thenf "Exactly. When I made the discovery I was completely thunderstruck. I could neither speak nor act. 1 sank down into a seat utterly prostrated both in body and mind. After a little time I somewhat re covered my faculties, and then began to turn over in my mind the best course for me to pursue under the circumstances. Fortunately I was alone." "Do you suspect anyone!" "I don't know whom to suspect. But from the conversation you have related to me, it is very probable that Charles Norval has something to do with it. 'But still it is utterly impossible that he could have ob tained access to my private office and desk." 'I have three clerks, and they all enjoy my most implicit confidence. In the first place none of them knew the will was there. They have been with me many years, and I cannot entertain the slight est suspicion against them. long intercouose with the world has taught me, however, to be cautious, and 1 deter mined to keep my own counsel, so I have not mentioned the fact to them at alL I closed and locked my desk aain, and went about my business as usual. You did quite right. Ind the desc show any evidence of h ving been looked into?" "Not the least in the world. hoever entered it, must have possessed a duplicate And you have no reason to suspcci your clerks since!" - .. . . . . i i "No when they enterea i waicneu them narrowly, but could not detect any evidence of guilt in their manner. 1 men determined that 1 would apply to you, BramDton. I assure you 1 have eaten nnthinir since the fatal discovery. The thought that Mary Norval will oe reaucea to penury is horrible to me." Leave the matter In my bands, I will do what I can. If the will is not already destroyed, 1 trust I shall be able to restore K to you." Jl took bis leave, l men miew myself back in my easy chair and tortured my mind for some means to discover the missing will. I formed half a dozen dif ferent plans, hut was at a loss to snow which to adopt, for the case was in vol vol in much difficulty. W hile I was thus en gaged, my eye fell upon a copy of the New York Herald which lay on my desk. I mechanically took it np, without, how ever, intending to read it. My eyes rested on a column of advertisement.. Suddenly they were arrested by the following, under the head of "Personal" "A strong will can overcome every ob stacle. Eight o clock to-night. Xve ana joy await you!" 1 slarieu irom my cuair nac u-c in of his senses. A sentiment which l can never explain told me that I had found a clue. The mysterious advertisement seem ed to me as plain as daylight. "A strong will can overcome every obstacle." evi- dentlv referred to the missing aocumem. "Eight o clock to-nignt," was me umc -p- nninted for a rendezvous. "Love and joy await you," meant that the place of meet ing was to be Lovcjoy's hotel." t -- wrv niucn Dieaseu with this dis covery, for besides my wish to oblige M 1 really felt a great esteem ior im j while on the other nanu i anew ua to be a worthless young man. 1 felt per fectly certain that he was at me uonoui oi the conspiracy, and that he had in aU probability bribea one of M ' clerks. 1 almost fancied that 1 had the wUl again in my possession, and I pictured to myself 'g joy at recovering it again from my bands. My mind was immediately made up what to do. I determined that I would visit Lovejoy's hotel, and 1 present at the interview," 1 sat and watched the ekek until the hour should arrive. How slwly the Ume nassedl At last the hour pointed to 7.80. froee up, put on my overcoat, and depart rfon my errand. It was a bitter cold winter's night. The snow was drifting directly in my face, but still I pressed on. , Vhrrl the hotel and entered one ri.t. minner rooms. These rooms Oiuret"" ' , t bnnva. everv irequenier oi "-j-j - - -- j i-i htr a thin Dartition from each other, so that a convenu on in the adjoining f""- r attentive listeners, be overheard. 1 or- rioiwi mv supper, auu v " ft? I keii my ears open. Some time eat it, 1 kel m.rT "'hi me. At last nassed ana no souuu - - - -?eardtheso.ndofa door shutting, and 1 neara ui mv right; one person ; -. leminutea 0- .K .mnr shut, -inenrsip-"" , .w I crept cauuousij o the paJtiUon- and fixed iy ear to it, to.t..?.PLi - exclaimed a voice which -oil. . . , :H I did not recognize, A mux to see I assure you, Mr. Mills, 1 am AUU ad wertisement in here in consequence. JI ' confi- dential clerk. The other peaker was of course Charles NorvaL Yes, 1 worded it as agreed." continued the clerk. "1 was almost afraid, however, you might have forgotten it, and feared it would be too obscure. But it was neces sary, you know, to blind other's eyes." 0. yes. I understand all about that. When did you get hold of the precious document?" Only yesterday. You know he had left the w:U in his private desk, and it was only by chance that 1 obtained the key. The moment I did so, I seized the docu ment, and put in its place a piece of blank paper." Do you think he has discovered the loss yet?" "Oh, no; I am certain he his not. 1 have watched him well all day." elL then,- now to business, said young Norval "flow much do you want for the will?" 'It is a very valuable paper. Mr. Nor val," replied the villainous clerk. "I sup pose you know its provisions?" "Ob, yes; 1 overheard M read the paper after he had drawn it up. 1 know that father has left cousin Mary everything, while on me, his lawful heir, he has only settled a miserable pension. When that document is burned, I will bring ber haughty spirit down. She will cringe and fawn on me then. But come, what am 1 to give you for it?" You shall give me your note of hand for $5,UU0. payable when you come into the property." , Agreed agreed! Here, I will write it on the spot." 1 could hear them arranging some papers on the table. I cautiously left the apart ment, and crept noiselessly to the door of the room where this worthy pair were seated. I applied my eye to the keyhole and saw that Norval was in the act of writing a promissory note. This done, he handed it to the Clerk, who after exam ining it. placed it carefully in his pocket book, lie then drew out the will and handed it to NorvaL The latter eage.lv perused it, a smile of gratification over spreading his features. "Now," said he, "my fair cousin Mary, you are in my power, and by heavens, 1 will teach you how to love me. So, so, you are a beggar now, and 1 am the wealthy Mr. NorvaL They say money can buy anything. I will see if it cannot buy your smiles. But 1 will not marry you; that idea has passed. To the fire, then, 1 com mit the only thing between me and my rightful property." So saying, he placed his hands on the will in order to cast it into the flames, bat at that mouien. 1 burst into the room and j pinned the legal document to the takle wiia my hand. My motion was so rapid, that the two conspirators must bave thought that it was something supernatural. "Bold!' I exclaimed in a loud voice; "your villaiuy is not yet perpetrated." I shall never forget the look of horror re vealed on the countenances of the I wo vil lains 1 quietly folded up the will and transferred it to my pocket. M 's clerk rusAed from the room, and from that day to this 1 have not seen him. 1 have heard, however, that he is in Austialia. Young Norval was completely crestfallen, and left my presence without uttering a word. That same night 1 restored the w ill to Mr. M 's possession, and the delight with which he received it was be yond all bounds. Mary Norval had no difficulty whatever, in proving her right to the property; in fact there was no oue t3 dispute it. It was her desire that her cousin should not be prosecuted for the part he had taken In the nefarious transaction. She increased his allowance to double the amount that had been left hiiu bv his futuer. lie did not live long, however, to enjoy it, for he ! died of delinum tremens a year after his father's death. Mary was soon after mar ried to a wealthy Bostonian. I bad the pleasure to be at her wedding. She is now the mother of a happy family, and beloved by all who k-jew her in her new home. M was so well pleased with my share of the transaction that he became a staunch friend ot mine, and materially increased mv business bv recommending me to all in" want of the services of a good detective officer. Am Inextlncuiihable Fire. Accounts bave oeen published from time to time of the fire in the Keely Kuu Col liery, near Shenandoah, I'a. No on Knows how it originated, but the general impression seems to be that it was caused by spontaneous combustion. How to ex tinguish it is a problem difficult to solve, owing, to the mines being h igher than com municating colleries, thereby making it impossible to drown it out. A Pittsburg firm, Messrs. Campbell & Connelly, offered to smother the flames for about $25,000. They proposed to do the work with car bolic acid gas and nitrogen. Miners and superintendents advised the colliery own ers to have nothing to do with to wild a scheme. The necessity of doing some thing, and the confident assurances of the Pittsburg firm, who offered to forfeit &0 a day for all the time that the fire should burn after thirty days from the date of their contract, caused the mine owners to accept the proposition. The gas men built a large furnace and began operations. So far they bave had no success. 1 be part ol the mine reached by the fire has been closed up. It is estimated that the space enclosed will hold 12,000,000 cubic feet of gas. The Pittsburg firm declare that near ly half that quantity is torced into it every twenty-four hours, but it has had no effect upon the fire. The firm has already forfeited nearlv fio.ooo oy me aoiay, auu do not seem to know what now to do. Ran Klephsota. There are now on exhibition in New York two peculiar elephants brought from the mountains of the Malay peninsula, about bOO miles from Singapore. They are remarkable for their small size, being re spectively tweniy-eight and thirty -six inches tall; and being covered wnn amies, cow ui bristly hair or wooL They are supposed to be from five to seven years old. in size they resemble the extinct elephant, of Malta, and in covering, those of Siberia, Their woolly coat is attributed to the cir cumstance that they live high upoa the mountains where the climate is cold. The species appears to be all but unknown to naturalists, this pair being the first that have survived the passage through the heated low country to the coast and the subsequent journey by sea. The sailors on the steamer which brought them named them Prince and Sidney. They are de scribed as playful and harmless, and they keep their little trunks stretched out to strangers to be petted. They love to be scratched on the under side of the trunk close to the mouth, and they hold their trunks curled back over their heads as long as any one scratches them. Like elephant of larger growth, they keep up a swaying motion, either side wise or lorward and backward. When a visitor lets one of the litte fellows take his hand he delicately curls his proboscis around it and tarries it gently to his mouth. Theu he trumpets his satisfaction. Color Bllwdeees lu Drains. While the attention of scientiflic experts is being called to this subject, in reference to railroad employes and all persons con cerned in the distinguishing of colored lights and signals, as connected with the necessary precaution in the protection of human life in traveling, it might not be deemed an undesirable opportunity for us to call the attention of our special com munity to the immediate beariDg .which this defectiveness of vision has on operative dyers. It will readily be granted that no artitan has more necessity for extreme nicety of occular discernment in shades of color than the one whose whole occupation is among them ; and that on the critical truthfulness of bis vision depends the accu rate production and reproduction of tints, which to fail in would cost serious sums to his employer. Color blindness, in the full meaning of the term. Is not likely to exist among dyers, but it is no: only likely, but very possible to produce at least some of the effects by the changing of colors ; that is to say, the workman who has his eyes engaged constantly on a red, for in stance, if put on to a green may find him self in trouble, and so on through various colors. Now, as to tint shades, is it not very evident that the impression received on the eye by looking on one tint continu ally will incapacitate the sight f r the perception of that color! and yet extreme accuracy is demanded. Let a dyer work ing on a red for some time have his attention turned to a blue, and will he not at first see a purple ! Most certainly, because the visual rays are fraught with red, and when brought to bear upon the blue, blend with it, at first strongly, and gradually there after. All have not been gifted alike ; it is evident that with some workmen this affection may be still more injurious than with o hers. Those of bilious tempera ment are subject to a yellowish influence on the vision, which must of necessity prove fatal to the truth of observation in color. There is no sense more exquisitely delicate than that of sight, and there is no man more dependent on its ability than the dyer. In taking up the trade of dye ing the early learner knows nothing of the nature ot his sight, but goes st it as though it were plowing, or any other calling in which the sensitiveness of the eye is not called into requisition at alL But how im portant is the constitution of the eye to him who is engaged in a study of colors which must be carried to the most minute perfection. Now, how necessary is it that an examination by a qualified expert should decide on the healthy state of the eye be fore the trade is chosen. And still fur ther, how advisable is it that occasional examination should be made by a doctor of the eyes of every workman in the dye- house, to decide whether there is any de crease of visionary power, and to prescribe the fitting treatment if there ia. Every employer should consider this matter, and see if his interest is not concerned in it ; for the health of the eight of a good, faith ful man is as much their concern as the bodily health is his. While on this sub ject w e may as well suggest the very sim ple practice to testers of colors ot having a purely white material as a plain on which to rest the sight when alternately viewing colors ; by this means the eye is enabled to ake in the succeeding tint without any in fluence from the former one. Taw Temple ef Marriage. A slice of bride-cake under my pillow gave occasion to the following dream: A spacious building was crowded with a va riety of persons; and upon inquiry I was toid it was 'the temple of marriage,' and that every one, who had an inclination to sacrifice to that deity, was invited to ap proach a large altar, which was covered with a great n umbel of cakes or various shapes and sizes. Some were molded into the form of hearts; others into true-lover's knots; some were stuck about with sweet meats ; some wtre stamped with coronets, or embellished with glitteriug toys. All were a! It wed to choose for themselves, and I'lutus and Cupid were busily employed in the distribution, A young couple advanced and, applying ! to Cupid, desired him to reach the double j heart pierced through with darts ; but just as they were going to share It a crabbed old fellow broke the cake and obliged the girl to take the figure of a fine gentleman in gilt gingerbread. An old fellow of sixty came towards the altar and petitioned Cupid for a cake of the most elegant form and sweetest ingredient. The little god at first repulsed him, but after wards sold it to him for a large sum ol money. An ancient lady came tottering to the altar supported by a young fellow in a red coat with a stale cake, marked with the word Jointure, in golden capitals. A rich, rusty bachelor then came Dust- ling through the crowd, accompanied by a red-cheeked country girl of nineteen. They reached for the cakes marked Riches and Beauty. There now advanced a maiden lady who seized by the hand a young ensign of the guards and carried him the to altar. She seized a cake and divided it with hergallant, but too late discovered that her half was signed "Polly" and his share was marked "Aversion." A little Deri miss ran briskly up to Cupid, a cake she must and would have. She had just stretched out her band to receive one wbonrber mamma interposeu,Beni uieouiu blubbering to school and carried the cake off herself. A woman, fantastically dressed then burst into the temple. S..e could get no favor of either Plutos or Cupid ; furious with rage she seized upon the nearest vic tim, which happened to be myself. The The least crumb was disagreeable and awaked me, with the nauseous taste still in my mouth. Sixty Mites a Minute os a Tin Fan. Arthur tzpatnek, who returned from Colorado a short time ago, gives the.follow ing account ot an occurrence in the mining districts of which he was an eye-witness: "A miner and some companions were cross ing the Continental divide when it was covered with mow. Three miles below them, down a decline of foity-five degrees, deeply covered with frozen snow, lay the spot tbey desired to reach, while to go round by trail was fifteen miles. The miner took a tin pan, used for washing gold, spread his blanket over it, got in himself, in a sauatting position on his haunches, tucked the blanket around, held bis rifle and other traps over his head and got one of his companions to give him a push. He Informed me be went down at the speed of sixty miles a mrnute, and shot far out into the valley at the foot of the mountain. When he stooped be found the soldering of the pan melted from friction, his blanket on fire and it was bis impression that baa be gone much further he would have been burned up, together with all his traps. Fifteen factories in thi. country turn out 600 tons of glucose daily. Parts has 21 theatres and 100 con cert saloous. Work has been begun on New York's $1,000,000 hotel. A rotated Reminder. A party of adventurous lads, myself among the number, were out for a glorious holiday. Each had his canvas bag acrous his shoulder, and we stole along the stone wall yonder, and entered the woods be neath that group ot chestnuts. Two of us acted as outposts on picket guard, and another, young Teddy Shoopegg by name, the best climber in the village, did the shaking. Theie were five busy pairs of hands beneath these trees, I can tell you, for each one of us fully realized the necessi ty of making the most of his time, not knowing how soon the warning cry from our outposts might put us all to headlong flight, for the alarm, "Turner s coming!" was enough to lift the hair of any boy in town. But luck seemed to favor us on that day. We "cleaned out" six big chestnut-trees, and then turned our attention to the h.ck ories. There was a splendid tall shell bark close by, with branches fairly loaded w ith the white nuts in their open shucks. They were all ready to drop, and when the shak ing once commenced, the nuts came down like a shower of hail, bounding from the rocks, rattling among the dry leaves, and keeping up a clatter all around. We scram bled on all fours, and gathered them by quarts and quarts. There was no need of poking over the leaves for them, the ground was covered with their bleached shells, all in plain sight. While busily engaged, we noticed an ominous lull among the branch?: overhead. "'Sstt'sstI" whipercd Shoopegg up above; "l see old Turner on his white horse daown the road yonder." 'Coming this way !" also in a whisper, from below. "I dunno yit, but I jest guess you'd bet ter begittin' reddy to leg it,fer lie's hitchin' his old nag 't the side o' the road. Yit, sir, I bleeve he's a-cummin. Shoopegg, you'd better be gittin'aout o' this," and he commenced to drop bap hazzard from his iofty perch. In a moment, however, he seemed to change his mind, and paused, once more upon the watch. "Say, fellers," he again broke in as we were preparing for a retreat, "he's gone off to 'rd the cedars ; he ain't cummin' this way at alV So be again ascended into the tree-top, and fin ished his shaking in peace, and we our picking a bo. There was still another tree, with elegant large nuts, that we had ail concluded to "finish up on." It would not do to leave it. They were the largest and thinnest shelled nuts in town, sad there were over a bushel in sh,bt on the branch tips. Shoopegg was up among them in two minutes, and they were showered down in torrents as before And what splendid perfect nuts they were! We bagged them with eager bands, picked the ground all clean, and with jolly chuckles at our luck were just about thinking of starting for home with our well-rounded sacks, when a change came o'er the spirit of our dreams. There was a auspicious ncise in the shrub bery near by, and in a moment more we heard our doom. "Jest yeu look eeah. yeu boys, "exclaim ed a high-pitched voice from the neighbor ing shrubbay, accompanied by the form of Deacon 1 urner, approaching at a bnsK pace, hardly thirty feet away. "Don t yeu think yeu've got jest about enuffo" them nuts!" Of course a wild pauic ensued, in which we made for the bags and dear life, but Turner was prepared and ready for the emergency, and raising a huge old shot-gun, he levelled it, and yelled, "Don't any on ye stir ner move, or by Christopher i u blow the heads clean oQ'n the bull pile on ye. i d shoot ye quicker n nguinin. And we believed him, for bis aim was true, and his whole expression was not that ot a man who was trifling. 1 never shall forget the uncomfortable sensation that 1 experienced as I looked into the muzzle ot that doubled-barrelled shotgun, and saw both hammers fully raised too. And I can see now the squint and the glaring eye mat glanced along those barrels. There was a wonderful persuasive power lurking in those horizontal tubes; so I hastened to in form the deacon that we were "not going to run." "Wa'al," he drawled, "it looked a le?tle that wan. I thort. a spell ago:" and he still kept us in the field of his weapon, till at length I exclauned, in desperatixi "Point that gun in some other way. will you!" "Wa'al, no .' I'm not fer pintin it enny wbar else jest yit not until you've sot them ar bag a daown agin, jist whar ye&ro 'em, every vne on ye." The bags were speedily replaced, and he slowly lowered his gun. "Wa'al, naow,"he continued, as he came up in our midst, "this is putty bizniss,ain't it t Bin bavin' a putty lively sort o' time teu, 1 sh'd jedge from the looks o' these 'ere bags. One two tit on 'em; an' I vaow they must be nigh on teu two an' a half bushel in every one on 'em. Wa'al, naow" with his peculiar drawl "look eeah: you're a putty oudustrious lot o thieve. I'm blet if ye ain't." But the deacon did all the talking, for his man- muvres were such as to render us speechless. "Putty likely place ten cum "a-nuttin', arn'i it?" The LakeofOaUlee. It is sometime. Mid that the Lake of Galilee is very like Windermere. 1 think that the comparison must have originated with some traveler who holds the opinion of a friend of mine, that all hike, are alike. To any one who has discovered the differ ences between one lake and another differ ences at least as great as those between one mountain and another, and almost as great as those between one book, or one man and another the comparison could never bave occurred. Of course, if any one thinks that Loch Lomond is at all like Derwent- water. or Orasmere like Wastwater, be may also think that the Lake of Galilee is like Windermere. I know Windermere pretty welL I have seen it everv month of the vear except one. and nanny anow m which month it is most beautiful; I bave seen it in most of its moods as well as in most of it. tenses in storm and in sun shine; with snow on the surrounding hills; with the fresh bright green June on the meadows; with the splendid heights about the bead of law lake covered with the rich browns and the gold and the amber of November, as with the robe of a king ; I have seen it lying pale and white in the light of the early morning, and looking ancrv and sullen under gathering clouds. The Lake of Galilee is no more bke Win dermere than Monmouth Is like Macedon. Both of the lakes are long sheets of iresh water lving among hills, but there the like ness ends. The form of the Lse ol Uaii- lee is familiar. Its eastern shore is border ed by a long line of steep hills, having level ridge. My hrst impression was mat with the exception of a thin covering ot grass which was t jo thin and too patchy to cover the rocks, these hills were bare; but on looking more carefully 1 could see a lew bushes of trees. The sides are broken with occasional ravines, and down these ravines I noticed .trips of more vivid green, indicating the presence of mountain streams. On the northeast the bill, are not so steep ; they slope np to high plain. cover ed with forests of oak; and beyond these is a range of loftier mountains. Far away in the north, llermon rises grandly with its perpetual mows. The hills on the western side are much less steep than those on the eastern side. They are covered with grass to their very summits, which rise about 1,200 feet, or perhaps more, above the lake. The water is said to be full of fish, but there are only two rickety boats to be seen. They were so old and battered that they looked as if they might have been the very boats which Peter left on the shore when he gave up fishing at the call of his Master. The Lake seemed to ma to have more of the awe of Christ's presence about it than almost any of the sacied siles that we have seen. The very desolation deep ened the solemnity, and left the mind more completely alone with Him. 1 remember oue curious illustration of the power which its sacred memories had over me. My revolver bad been loaded some days, per haps some weeks before, and one or two of the chambers still bad cartridges in them. I wanted to discharge them, and I could have fired over the lake without the chance of hurting anybody; but when I took the pistol in my band I felt that to make a ude noise on those snores and among those hills would be as great an act of Irrever ence as to make a rude noise in a church. In the time ot our Lord the shores of the lake now so lonely, were densely populat ed. It was in the cities, towns and villages which then surrounded these inland waters, that most of His mighty works were done. The only city which, so far as the Gospels inform us, our Lord never entered, still stands. Tiberias was founded by Herod Ant i pas when our Lord was still a youth in Nazareth, and there are many remains of its ancient magnificence. But it walls and towers are miserably dilapidated and the site which they enclose is much larger than the present population can cover. The mean little town it contain, about two thousand inhabitants looks like a shrivel led kernel lying in a broken ahelL The only brightness and relief come from the trees which rise here and there among the houses. One Way. How would 1 go to work to keep my children from reading sensational books? The best way to answ-ir this question is by telling you what I bavo done. The other evening, coming into the sitting room, I saw James reading a dime noveL At least I thought it looked like a dime noveL Moth er had her sewiug, Jennie was working on an afghan. Tommy was making a set of jaekstrawa out of piece of red cedar. "Let's bave some reading aloud," said L "James you seem to have got hold of an in teresting book, there ; suppose you read it alojd to us." James looked up with a flush on his face. T don't believe you would care for this," said be. "It isn't much of a book." "You're mighty interested in it," said Tommy, "for a book that isn't much of a book. "Yes! come," sr id Jennie, "let's have some reading aloud. Why not James!" "Mother wouldn't like this book," said be. "Why not!" said mother. "Oil, you wouldn't, that's all," a'd James. "It's just stuff." "if it isn't worth reading aloud it isn't worth reading at all," said Jennie. "That does not follow," said L "by any means. 1 here are a good many Donas worth reading that are not worth reading aloud. But if James is too much interested in lus story to put it aside, the rest of us will form a reading circle and get some thing that is worth reading aloud." "Oh. 1 don't care anything about it," said James, "I was just reading to get through the evening. If yoa have got anything better on hand let's by all means have it." With that he laid the book by with a shove that sent it half-way across the table. "What shall it be?" said L "How would it do to begin a course of history! There's our 'Hume in the book case. I don't believe that any one of us ever read it through. How would that doi" I though to myself that probably none ot us ever would read it through, but I did not say anything. I waited for some one else to respond. "I've got a jolly b:ok up stairs," said Tommv. "What is it?" I asked. "David Crockett," said Tommy. "I will go and get it." With that, and before any of us could decide whether we wanted it or not. Tummy was off up stairs. He is as quick as a flash in everything. It proved to be one of Mr. John S. C. Abbot's Pioneer and Patriot series. What is there iolly about it t" said I to Tommy, when he had produced it. Why H i full of adventure about a tei- low that lived in a wilderness when the country was new, and even Ohio was as wild as an Indian what do you call it? "Ksorvaiion," said Jennie. "Yes, reservation," said Tommy. "What do you say, James, "said I ; "will you read aloud for us while I go to work on the shoe box 1 am making for mother?" James said he would, and we then and there inaugurated a readiug circle. We have kept it up, so far, all winter, James and I taking turns in reading aloud, and the rest going on with their work. Tommy Is quite expert with his knife, and be has begged off from the reading to go on with his carpentry. We follow "David Crock ett with Darnel Uoone. and then tooc up Mrs. Brassey'. "Voyage Bound the World in the Yacht Sunbeam." We are reading that with an atlas, and look up the places in the atlas and Jennie sometimes looks them up further in me cyclopedia, and tells us more about tlieui at the next reading. And I haven t seen anything more oi James's dime nveL My way to keep our boys from the bad literaure is to overcome evil with good. How can 1 find the time? Well, 1 believe that he that does not provide for his own family is worst than an infidel. And think that it is part ot my duty to provide my children with good books ana gooa eomnanv in reading them. And I will not take so much work on my bands that i caa not do something for my own children. "Our Cravat. Rev. Dr. Wilson, in speaking of himself. in the pulpit, he always used the pIuraL H a use of it on one occasion, was aiarm ludicrous. There was no air, and the doc tor r emed scarcely able to get his breath. At intervals, he would twitch, wun nerv ous excitement, at the huge white cravat with which it was the fashion at that time to encase the throat, but in vain; be could get no relief, At length he stopped at the end of a sentence, and in his quiet, low- toned. manner said: "The congregation will nlease excise u for a few minutes. Our wife has tied our cravat too tight this morning." So saying, he de scended from his seat, and with a quiet composure which seemed almost to divest the transaction of lis menu est ukubtu ty, withdrew to a little room adjoining where he had the troublesome article adjusted to bis satisfaction. - J Sold la Musical Iuatraoaeata. The nse of gold in the construction of musical instruments, never yet thoroughly investigated, offers an interesting field for experiment. Four metals are distinguished as being capable of being hardened to spring temper, ami in that state possess more or less power of vibration. Steel hardened by tempering is used for pianoforte strings. Brass is hardened by drawing down or flat tening, but the elasticity is not equal to fteeL Nickel can also be drawn or flat tened, and possesses great springiness but no metal, either in a pure state or mixed with other metal, equals gold, if combined with copper, silver, or both, for ductility or of power of vibrat'on. A spiral spring made of fifteen-carat gold that is, fifteen pam of fine gold to nine parts of copper drawn into a wire possesses more springiness. Many years ago 1 superintended the manu facture of some gold wire on this principle, as a string upon an ordinary pianoforte, and the results were marked. Not only was the tone considerably increased but its quality materially improved. With the thinner and shorter strings this was so no ticeable that it is surprising the idea should, not have suggested itself to others. Fifteen-carat were drawn down at least six holes after softening answers best. 1 nave also suggested the use of gold for the vi brating tongue of the harmonium, concer tina and other instruments of the kind. Some time ago 1 asked an amateur zithern player to try the effects of gold wire upon h.n instrument and he has since assured me the increase in tone is so remarkable that be has substituted it for the steel springs with complete success. I think the idea one that merits further inquiry. The ex pense (if advantages are to be gained) should not deter those most interested in the matter. The harmonium tongues are made so thin that little extra outlay would be required, and with small kiss, seeing that the old gold can be remelted. Let aiiy one take a disk of steel the size and thickness of a sovereign, throw it upon a wooden table so as to make It ring, then take a sovereign and beat it in the same way. The first will have a dull sound, as if the metal were cracked, and the second a bright metallic bell-ring. A still better test is to throw a piece of steel baud on the floor, listen to the vibrations, then do the same with a strip of gold of the same size and density. Gold has been used for the strings of the vi(ginaL with what effect I cannot say; everything depends on the gold being alloyed and hardened by drawing down to the desired condition, in which it will stand nearly the same as steeL The Home of Walter Scott. The Rhymer's Tower still partly hangs together, and the recent verification ot one of his best known predictions, partly per haps by virtue of the prediction itself, has furbished up the fame of the ancient wizard pacing well, at least in the minds jf the natives. But over all this beautiful border land, rich just now with the golden hues of autumn, deepening here into brown and brightening there into red, hangs the glamour of a far greater magician than Thomas the Bhynier, or that other warlock whose Eiave is in Melrose Abbey. AU is instinctively felt to have been made his own lor ever and aye by 'Sir Walter." At every turn rise fresh evidences of his kindly presence, of the power of genius to immortalize alike a moss-grown ruin or a babbling brook. From Ashiestiel, where the poet, happy and successful wrote "The Lay of the Last Minstrel," "Marmion," and "The Lady of the Lake," to Abbots ford where he wore out his life to pay a bookseller's debts, every ripple of Tweed's brown waters speaks eloquently of him. By many people, and assuredly by the present writer, Ashiestiel would be greatly preferred as a locality to Abbotstord. l lie houe stands high above the river, sheltered, but not smothered by trees, and is a de lightfully cheery, inspiriting, breezy-look ing dwelling, amid the very best scenery on the I weed, from UryDurgn Auney, as delightfully and pictures" mely as Mel rose is awkwardly situated, the drive by Bemerside is charming in the extreme; but Abbotsford itself at once strikes the unpre judiced observer as a prosy-looking place for a poet to dwell in. It lies lo v, is buried in trees, and seems to lack altogeth er the inspiriting air of AshiestieL There is a depressing tone about the place, despite the presence of one of the most popular households (Mr. and Mrs. Maxwell-Scott) on the border. '1 he clean-shaven lawn is the paradise of lawntennisonians, for there is ample space for playing three games at once, and the chatelaine, the great-grand daughter of the poet, is true to the hospita ble traditions of her family and country. Equal liberality is displayed with the show part of the house, through which, dunng the summer months, pours a torrent of tourists, who have a special entrance re served for them. Everybody looks at the extraordinary collection of arms and relics made by the W izard of the rtorlh, the swords of Montrose and the young Pre tender, Hofer's rifle, Bob Roy's long, un- wieldly gun. Napoleon's pen. and so forth; but the real interest of Abbottsford centres in the writing desk at which Sir Walter passed so many weary uphill hours, and the heavy leathern chair in which he sat. The Bone In England. The Egyptians mummied all sorts of sacred brutes, including bulls, cats anJ crocodiles. If Englishmen should ever take to embalming beasts, I am sure that, notwithstanding the national name and the place which roast beef holds in English song and story, they would pas by the bull and svalhe defunct horses in musun and spices. For If the horse be not a god in England at least the cult of the horse is a sort of religion. There are tens of thou sands of English gentlemen who have horse on their minds dunng the greater part ol their waking hours. The condition of the animals, their grooming, the cut of their tails and manes, the way in wmcn mey stand, or step, or stride; the fashion of their harness; the build, the look, the dress of coachman and groom these are matters to them of deep concern of uneasy anxiety. And this is so, not once a year, or once a year, or once a quarter, or once a momu, but every day and two and three limes a day; every time, indeed, that they ride or drive. Nor do 1 mean ouiy tnose wno are called "horsey" men, gentlemen drivers of mad coaches and the like, who are grooms in everything except taking wages, and some of whom, 1 am told, will carry their coachmanship so far as to take a "tip." Apart from these, there is a very large class to whom the perfection in the j minutest point of their equestrian "turn- eat" is a question ol the major morals. When one ot this class feels sure that his horse, bis "trap," and his groom will bear the criticism of his friends and rivals, tlie ineffable air of solemn self -sufficiency with which he sits the saddle or the box, is at once amusing and pitiable. These men criticise each other's equipages as women criticise each other's dress, a. pedants criticise cacu uiua a suiviaisuiu. iuw . ... . i . Iin aaigianu mere is a peuantry oi tue - dresses ana ovei ,uw were not au stable. dressed at all. NEWS IN BRIEF. The actual diocese of London con tain. 2,500,000 of people. The sugar crop of Cuba will be per cent, less than last year. Snow fell at Mt. Washington, Yt. , on the morning of September 21. A horse shoe manufacturer is mak ing a horse shoe of iron and hemp. There are 200 miles of oyster bed on trie gulf coast of the Mississippi. -Virginia has raised 1,550,000 bushels of peanuts this year and Tennessee 550,000. The bell or the Congregational Church at Newton, Ct., has been used 112 years. In 1S73 the tax on armorial bear ings In England and Scod tud pro duced $110,000. The citizens of Lebanon, Tenn., have subscribed $30,000 toward the piyment of the State debt. The French sea fisheries were more successful List year than the year be fore, to the extent of $'.:! 1,625. It Is estimated that seventy year and $1,000,000 will be requireJ to com plete the excavations at Pompeii. A company with $100,000 capital has been organized to oen a swim ming school in Boston next April. A white oak tree in Washington county, Pa., when sawed produced on thousand and eighty feet of lumber, There are more than 10,000,000 car wheels in use la the United States. The average life of a wheel is eijj it years. Pius IX. prescribed iu his will his burial place and that more thin $I4) should be expended on the monument above it. A new university lias been founded ia Liverpool. England. Subscriptions to the amount ot $140,000 bave been received. Three hundred and two thousand seven hundred and thirty-nine per sons visited the Pittsburg Exposition this year. The gold yield in New South Walea in 1873 was not one-tenth of that ft tweuty years ago. The yield of coal increases. An International S-initary Con gress will he held at Washington in January, 1$1, under the auspices of Government. Two an la halt million of tropical oranges were received in the past six months at San Francisco from the French Islands of Tahiti. An estate in Australia which for merly suppoitel 3',00t sheep, has been abandoned ou account ot the devastation caused by the rabbiu. The Massachusetts Historical Soci ety has given $100 toward the erection of a mouument in London over the un marked grave of Sir Walter K-tleigh. Jerusalem existed 700 years befere Rome was foumied, m yea s before the siege of Troy, and 500 years before the hanging; gardens of Babylon were built. The value of th" textile products produced in the L'nlled Kingdom I $775,000,000; United States, 4'20 OUO.OCO; France. $310,000,000, and Germany, $240,000,000. The Baroness Burdett Coutts sis ter, Mrs. Clara Miria Money's son, have been allowed to use the surname Coutts In adilitlo'i to ami after Money and to bear the arms of C'ontw. Two American army olricers. Lieu tenants Birnie and B'.xby, bave re ceived the Cross of the Legion of Honor at Paris, for assisting, at the recent manoeuver of the French army. There are now over 170,000 sheep in Laramie county, Wyoming, which is an increase or i per cent over last year. The clip of woo) in that county for 1330 amounted 900,000 pounds. Professor Watson, the astronomer, is erecting an observatory, to cost $:hjo, at hi. own -xpenfe, at Madison, Wis. He proposes to search particularly for the inuer-Mercurial planet Vulctn. John Wannamaker. the rich mer chant of Philadelphia, Pa., is the super intendent of the largest Presbyterian Sunday-school in tue United S ates, containing more than 20,000 children . The Marquis of Salisbury's brother Lord A. Cecil, has been appointed Locc motive Superintendent of the GreaS Eastern R ill way. He has been in the engineering department of the Great Eastern Kill way for some years. The censumptlon ot cotton has in creased in the South from 129.1S9 bales in lS7ti to 221,337 bales in 1W0. Tha capital invented in cotton manufactures in the South recievjs larger proflta than In the same line in the North. Mr. Simon Cameron, who is Presbyterian, has presented to a Lu therau congregation in Pennsylvania a house and land for a parsonage, as a memorial of his wife, Margaret Brua Cameron, who was a devout Lutheran. On Michaelmas day, Sept. 29, the Count de Cuambord was tt J. It wu his fiftieth birthday on foreign soil. Last year 1,2' JO persons on his natal day dined off dishes boaring legitimist names. This year the celebration was more quiet. M. Lecard, who lias been explor ing in Africa, his discovered on the banks of the Niger a plant which bears grapes, which he proposes to send to France to take the place of the vines which are being devastated by the phylloxera. A carrier pigeon belonging to Joliu C. Haines, of Tom's River, N. J flew recently the distance of 36 miles in an air line in twenty-four minutes. Teu other pigeous released at the same mo ment reached home a minute later thau their leader. Sir Henry Bessemer has t.-keuout no less than 114 patents. The freedom of the City ol London has just beeu couferred upon him. Before his steel process was introduced Into Sheffield, the entire mke of steel was tl,0t0un a year; now it is bju.ucu tons. Great Britain and France consume each about the same quantity ot wool 330,000,000 pounds a year. Germany consumes about lti,000,000 pounds; United State-, i.')0,000,000 pounds, and K'is-ia, Austria and other countries, 4' (0,000,000 pounds. The wool-clip of the world has in creased five times since 1330, when It was about 320,000.000 pounds in weight. In 1873, the latest year for which there are complete figures, Europe produced 740,000.000; River Platte, 240,000,00; United States, 208,000,000; Australia, 350,000,000, and South Atrlea, 48,000, 000. making a total r l,536,000,Uo0 pound-1. There were sent to the dead-letter office at Washington, during the fiscal year ended June 30th, 3.353,651 letters i and packages, of which in round num ! bers 2.700,000 were sent from local - ..i . i. i ......)..; I .luji ooo were held tor postage, 215,000 were , misdirected, oo.wo uurc stuuvus .....i .. . 1 to help ma out. believe!" You I knew jUi V t- to-,.
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