WW' WW4 ! ' " B. F. SCHWEIER, TEE 00IST1TU TIOI THE UHOI AID TEE EVTOSOE1CEIT OF TEE LAWS. Editor and Proprietor. VOL. XXXY. MIPFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY, PENNA., WEDNESDAY, MAY II, 1881. NO. 19. IT KIGHTFALL Coming along bj the meadows, J out after the ami went down. Watching the gathering shadows Creep over the hillside brown. Coming along in the gloaming. With never a star in the sky. My thoughts went a-roaming, a-roaming Through days that were lODgjjone by. Days when desire said, "To-morrow, To-morrow, heart, we'll be gay !" Oars ere the heart heard the sorrow Which echoes through yeefc-rday. Life was a goblet burnished. That with lore for wine was fil'd ; The cup is braised nd Urainhed, And the precious wine is spilled. Eat to the traveler weaty. Just co a ing in sight of home. What does it matter bow dreary The way whereby he has come ? Coming along by the meadows. And watching the fading day, Duakierthan night's d anky shadows Fell shadows of yesterday; In the northern sunset's glimmer. The Great Bear opened Lis eyes , Low in the east a shimmer Showed where the fall moon would rise. Lights in a window were gleaming. And some one stocd at the gate. Said, "Why do you stand there dreaming? And why are you home so late ?" Yesterday's shadow and sorrow That moment all vanished away ! Here were tc-day and tc-morrow -What matter for yesterday ? Xoblj Avenged. Uncle Harry suddenly looked up from his evening paper at the beautiful girl stand ing beside the window, whispering to the canary,lhat fluttered its gold-colcred wings and reached its bill for the lump of sugar she held for it. "Maud, what was that young fellow's name who was down at Milton's Hotel last summer that handsome young chap that used to come up here of evenings and sing?" Maud felt a little warm flush on her face, and was conscious of a curious little un steadiness in her voice as she met the old gentleman's eyes. 'Malcolm Carlyon," she answered, and it seemed that her voice caressed the name as only a woman's voice can caress the name of the beloved while a brighter, more conscious flush warmed her cheeks. "Yes Malcolm Carlyon! I thought I recognized the name. He's married, I see." And, as if Death had suddenly laid his cold hand en her, the lovely flush faded sharply, leaving her as white as ever she would be when that icy touch should come. "Married? Mamed! It can't be true, it must be some other Carlyon.'' She reached out for the paper, her sur prise, her dismay, in her eyes; but it was very plainly recorded there "Malcolm Carlyon, of Forest Dale, to Eniilie Rose Lynton, daughter of James Pitt Lynton, Esquire, of the Laurels, Bristol and she had heard him speak of Miss Lynton many time. Well, it was the first keen sorrow of the girl's life, and she laid the paper down, and went up to her room alone, and cried, and sobbed, and writhed with this crully mur dered love, that was the very first love her girl's heart had ever known that was no less a pain to her to endure that Malcolm Carlyon had not in so many words told her he loved her. i'or, in a hundred ways, he had shown her that she was dearest to him, and she had for ail her maidenly modesty not entirely hidden her sweet preference from him. And he had gone away, leaving such beautiful hopes in her heart, and now He was mamed! Up in her room she had her first fight with her fate; and when, an hour or two later, she came down into the parlor again, she had silenced, conquered it and Lau rence Glyn, stepping forwaid to meet her, '. thought he had never seen her look so fair, and sweet, and subdued. "I am so glad to find you at home and looking more charming than ever, Miss Tudor, though your cheek has lost its roses." "Pale? Am I? I think not Perhaps my dress makes me appear so. 1 never liked myself in any shade of gray." He linked her arm familiarly through his. They had been friends for years this rich, handsome man, who was twice Maud's age, but who, for all his wealth,had never touched the girl's heart, "And I like you in anything, my dear Maud. I have come to you to-riight pur posely to ask you to be my wife! My dar ling, am I to have that great, undeserved happiness! Can you love me, little one, with the first, the pure love of your girlish heart!' She drew a quick little breath, then dropped her lovtly eyes. "I cannot see, why you want me, Lau rence; but if you do " And a month al towards, when they stood at the altar, Laurence Ulyn knew nothing, suspected nothing of the ashes piled on the grave of the buried love in his wife's heart the love for Malcolm Carlyon that had faded into cool, white ashes. "Uut I can never forget him, Mrs. Lau rence Ulyn said to her own heart "I can never forget, and I will never forgive him! My turn will come." A year later still, Mrs. Malcolm Carlyon, leaning on her husband's arm, asked him . hn the eleeant, distinguished lady was. in black velvet and satin, and diamonds, to whom General Howard was uutin . And on this his first social entertainment hi n turn from abroad with his wife, Malcolm Carlyon looked on Mrs. Glyn's i.,,!i;t milium; face the lace he had thought fairest, sweetest above all other faces! and that for a few litCe days he had almost decided to obtain for his own, at which to look, at the neaa 01 uui ur. u,.t with nrettv Maud Tudor, the Car lyon table would have been poverty-stneken comparitively, for years, wniie Lnton had a fortune waiting for him to Malcolm? How I do dis i;t havine to repeat a ques;ion, and you .1.. t and look to mysteriously.' The small, waspish voice was beginning to sicken him aUesdy. Months ago he had si a cruel wrog he baa done himself in yokiug for life to this deli- cate, fretful, pampeiea - . and now, when he came so snddenly upon Maud Tudor no, Mrs. Jaureuce wj u hnnrtsome. so brilliant and blooming- Well, such mistakes will go on being ..i. iunn an Human nearva Mr. Carlvon looked indulgently down in his wire's 'sallow, peevish face, bis heart throbbing just a beat faster than was usuaL "That? Mrs. Glyn, I believe I heard Borne one say." . "Oh!" In a relieved tone of voice- thought, maybe, from your mystenousness and the way you looked, she might be an old flame of yours. Why, Malcolm, she doe know you!" For General Howard, with the fair queen of beauty an.l fashion on his arm.and com ing wwarus uiem, airs. Ulyn smiling gra ciously. B "It surely is Mr. Carlyon,' she said, as "'in ner nana, "vie were old friends. I think," she added, coldly court eous; and Malcolm Carlyon's heart gave uuu, Buiuuierea inroD, as he thought how fwmnl..ft.tl.. 1 M . . . . "c uau lorgoticn me ntue epi sode in her life. "It is like a woman, to tut such a mem ory forever out of her hie." he thrMiirlit bitterly, as she passed on, as if further un conscious of his existence. "I think I shall go home," Mrs. Carlvon said, imperiously. "There is nothing here to amuse me, and I fancied Herbert was not as well as usual when nurse took him to put him to sleep. Get my wraps, Mal- wui, ana uute me home." He was willing enough to go, and the thought of his new baby-boy, not yet three months old, made him forget Maud Ulyn and the past. While she, walking away on General Howard's arm, "said to herself sharply "He has forgotten it! But have never forgotten, and I never can forget? And when a snore of years, with all their lights and shades, their pleasures and pains, had been marked off her life, she had not forgotten. 'Mamma, i have come to tell you some thing. Will you listen?" Mrs. Laurence Glyn looked up from the letter she was writing, with the fond, ten der smile she always gave her beautiful daughter a shy, sweet girl of seventeen, so like what the. mother had been at the same age. "Vou wact a new driss, or some other necessity, from the non-possession of which you are suffering so terribly!" Her soft, white hand, Jeweled and strengthful. smoothed the girl's fair hair, and she smiled down at the flushed, hushed face. "Not a new dress, Lily, or a trinket, or another new pet pony? Child, what is it? Not" and a quick, strange look came into her eyes "you do not mean Herbert Car lyon?" "That is what I mean. Oh, he says he loves me, and " "And you told him wiuat, Lily!" '"1 said it must be just as you said, mamma," Lily replied "And you care for hunt You are such a child the merest baby! What do you know of the love that sways hearts, and makes or wrecks a human life?" Lily looked up in her mother's stormy passionful eyes. 1 know 1 care a great deal for him," she said, simply. "Yet you will tell him 'no,' Lily! When he demands your answer, tell him your mother says 'nor Lily, you have always been a dutiful daughter, and in this I ex pect your usual obedience. For years I have beec wai'ing, and now my turn has come! Tell Malcolm Carlyon's son I say no! no! no!" The girl's lip quivered, and her face paled. "But, mamma, it will break my heart, for I love him, and he loves me just as well." Mrs. Glyn laughed coldly. "That is all nonsense about vour heart breaking. I tell you I know that hearts do not break so easily! And as to love you are two babies to talk of such a thing. All the same, I command that you tell him what my decision is." "But, oh, mamma Mrs. G yn passionately interrupted the piteous remonstrance. "1 tell you I have only lived for this bom! There is no but' about it, Lilly it is nothing but 'no' to Malcolm Carlyon's son." And Lily Glyn crept away, to cry out her sorrow to herself. I'wenty-four hours later, a servant took to Mrs. Glyn a caid from a gentleman waiting in the parlor, and she went down, with a cold, passionless face, and deliber ate repose ot manner, to look upon Mal colm Carlyon's face for the first time since her widowhood ten years before. , He was so like he used to be of course showing that he was twenty years older; but, she thought, even handsomer, than in ! his younger days. Nevertheless, her well disciplined heart did not quicken or lessen its steady beats. and she bowed courteously, not even won dering if his thoughts bad gone flying back to the last time they stood alone in Maud Tudor's home. "Perhaps it is needful for me to apolo gize for intruding, Mrs. Glyn," he began; but she hastened to assure him his presence, although a surprise, was no more an intru sion than dozens of calls she received daily. 'It is a very serious matter that brings me," he continued, with giave earnestness. "and you will allow me to introduce it at the beginning. 1 have come on behalf of my son, w hose happiness is at stake, and who has been refused Dy your lovely daughter, in obedience to your command. Is this correct, Mrs. Glyn!" He stood looking in ber face, still very enchantingly fair. "It is entirely correct, Mr. Carlyon. Your son has been refused by my daugh ter; in obedience to my explicit commands. Not a word beyond the bare actual state ment. "But. pardon me, you may not know bow fondly they are attached to each other. Surely you cannot know what a terrible misfortune it will be to them to Deso neea leesly, cruelly separated!' "1 understand the condition of my daughter's affairs better than any one else, I think, Mr. Carlyon; and as to your son, you can hardly expect me to take an inter est either way. All I have said is, Lily cannot marry him,and Lily shall not marry him," "And you can so deliberately break two young hearts! She sinned, looking steauiiy in uis cjcb. "It sounds rather odd to hear you plead fir them, lest their hearts break; wben,not Ions a'o.vou succeeded in Well, hearts do not break so readily; and if they did, what matter! It is only a hie, more or less, that is ruined." "Maud!" he exclaimed, in a sudden, horrified tone. "T m irlart vou have called me by my name," she said,coldly. "I have n heard it since my husband died, and it atrengthens me in my desire ior revenge uiwu j His eves kindled passionately. ' "And you will kill our children to wreck your revenge upon me! Well, it in useless to plead with such a woman as you have ntirelv useless," she repeated, haugh tily. "Goandtell your darling boy story of his father's younger days, Md let him judge whether you are the perfect man he thinks you." , . . , And. as he went back to his magnificent homeTwhere his son awaited his conungin feverish impatience, Malcolm wondered Aether it wm his ain returning to curse him. . lu T.nwentto her mother, wifh paleut face and a steady gleam ta herlyeV that was her father over again. "Mamma," she said, very quietly-" ormnouTadm it was-'-perhaps you do not know that Herbert is lying dangerous ly ill of brain fever! Mr. Carlyon's physi cian nas just been to tell me his reason, his life, depends upon my being with him; and, mamma, I am going to him, because we love each other. Oh, mamma," and the steady voice faltered, and the tears sprang to her eyes, "if I might only go wun your consent, your blessing?' Mrs. Glyn turned her head away. 'You will go at all events, Lilv!" "Mamma, I love him. Wouldn't you ao as much so little for anyone you loved!' Ah, she would have died, in those early days, lor this sick boy's father! "Wait," she said "until I come back." And while Lily sat crying and praying. ber mother went to Malcolm Carlyon, and was shown to the bedside of the delirious boy, where bis father sat in hopeless an guish, looking at the fever-flushed face, the tangled, curling bair. He looked up as she entered. "lour work!" he said, sternly, as he pointed to the bed. "But 1 will atone! Oh, Malcolm, lam sorry, sorry, sorry! Lily is coming to him, and 1 will stay and fight death with him! He wili live he shall live, and heaven will forgive me!" And he sprang towards her, pale and passionful, and lifted both her hands to his lips. "It is my own little Maud again! Yes, he will eet better now. The doctor says he will, if Lily comes; ami Maud Maud, cannot we go back to that day so long ago, when I wanted to ask you to bless my life?" Will you come to me now. dear?" And when Herbert and Lily were mar ried six months afterwards another cer emony was performed, and Maud Carlyon's heart was at peace lor the first time in years and years. Lite Saving Rule. Don't you love the maxims which some wise man writes for the newspapers, useful rules which are intended It save human life and alleviate human suffering? There is always so much practical common sense in them. Here is a batch for instance: "For dust in the eyes avoid rubbing and dash water in them." This is especially useful when riding on the cars and there isn't a drop of water in the country nearer than the engine or the next lake, 43 miles behind you. "Kemove cinders with the poi nt of a pencil." e never saw that operation tried but once, aud then it was successful. The man got out the cinder. And also put out his eye. "Before passing through smoke take a full breath and stoop low." just imagine what a circus a smoking car would present if every man kept that rule pasted in his hat. "Smother fire with carpets, water will often spread burning oU and increase the danger." 1 hat s all well enough, but when a man's house is on fire and burning faster than three steam eneines can throw water. he hasn't the time, and frequently Iiasnt the money to buy a whole carpet store to throw over the conflagration. And we don t suppose that anything else than ta pestry Brussels would do any good. "ror fainting, lay the body Hat. Now, that is a good rule; there is sense in that. Because if you are careful to lay your body flat before you faint, it may save you a terrible thump when yon falL Let us add to this rule the advice, never faint on a ladder, or in a balloon or on top of s church steeple, or in front of a runaway team. It isn't safe. "Suck poisonous wounds, uuless your mouth is sore; enlarge the wound, or better still, cut the wound out without delay." If that isn't a lively piece of advice for sane man to give to healthy people! Listen here don't you do anything of the kind. And if you get a scratch on the throat, don't enlarge it or cut it out. And if you get a wouad on the back of your neck, don't you try to reach it with your mouth. Somebody will try that some day and there'll be a broken neck in the fam ily. "If in the water, float on the back, with the nose and mouth projecting." Now this is the best rule in the lot. 1 hat is the cap sheaf. You cut that out and paste it on your cuff, where you can al ways see it. Just follow that rule and you will never drown. Wnat Dayof tbe Week? It may frequently interest some reader to know on what day of the week a certain event has occurred. Here is a very simple wav of finding out: First, divide the date 'of the year of the occurrence by 4. The quotient leaving away all fractions, if there be an) add again to the date of the year of the occurrence. To this add the number of days from the first of January to the date of the month of the oc currencealways counting February 28 days. Tbe result of this, now divide by 7. and here the fraction gives the exact day of the occurrence 1 counting for Sunday. i for Monday, and so on, 0 counting for Saturday. For example: Washington was born February 22,1 1 32. To find out on what day he was born: 1732 divided by 4 equals 433. 1732 plus 433 equals 2165. From tbe 1st of Janu ary to the 22d of February are 63 days. These add to 21 oj equal 2218. iow we divide by 7. 2218 divided by 7 equals 316, leaving us the fraction of 6. Hence, Wash ington was born on Friday. Lxample for a coming event: If we wish to know on which day in 1882 our parents will have the pleasure of celebrating their golden wedding, January 14th: 1882 divided by 4 equal 470. 1882 plus 470 equals 2352, plus 14, equals 2366, divided by 7 equals 338, leaving 0 as a remainder, which falls on Saturday. Bow Tbey Take Ttielr Tod. ' Molasses in mine, said the grocer. I want a phlegm cutter, said the tailor. Give us a mixed drink, said the apothe- rarv. An eve ortener will ao lot me, saiu me oculist. Birch beer, said the lumber merchant. Liquid lightning is mine, said the elec trician. I'll tike a high lonesome, said the aero naut. Trot me a cock-tail, said the milliner. Give us something with a straw, said the fanner.! Pure, spirits in mine, said the parson. A bo lrbon for me, said the politician. Give it to us straight, said the reporter, I take it smoking hot; said the fireman. Mineral water's mine, said the geolo- cn fit- Egg nogg, said the produce dealer. I'd take a little gin, said the white washer. Give us some of your favorite brand, said the miller. Gin sling, said the ball player. Rye whisky is my poison, said the phy sician. Liquid perspiration in the shape of cider brandy, is my tipple, said the proprietor of the Turkish bath nouse. I'll take mine plain, said the carpenter. Sour mash whisky, said the clerk. Shooting the vtalraa. The Schooner San Diego, Captain Cath cart, arrived at San Francisco, recently alter a five months cruise in pursuit of walrus among the islands of Behnngs Sea. 1 be ivory and oil of these huge byperpor- eans are utilized for various manufacturing purposes, but the market heretofore 1 been supplied bv whalers, who, when whales were scarce, eked out a cargo with the product of the walrus. To the usual articles of ivory and oil the San Diego had added the hides, of these immense animals. Walrus abnund in immense numbers among the islands ot Bchnng's Sea. lake the seal they clamber up on the rocks and beaches, and, huddling closely, sleep for days without movement. In this condition they can be readily approached and by skilled marksmen, shot at will. The crew of the San Diego shot seven hundred in one shoal on the beach at Hall Island before the myriads composing it took to the water for safety. Many of them weighed over 3.000 pounds. Owing to a violent storm but two hundred of this number were secured. "Near Cape Upright, and the southt astern end of St. Matthew's Island eighty-one were shot, another storm occur- lng during which both anchors were lost. obliged the return of the vessel before the cruise w&j half completed. Heretofore the method of capturing walrus has been with the harpoon. The alarm which this method created soon rendered It impracticable. The plan adopted by the crew of the San Diego was for each man armed with a Winches ter or Sharpe rifle, to approach the sleeping annuals cautiously and shoot at the partic ular portion of the skull covering the brain. Any failure to penetrate the brain does not kill. The front of the bead is impervious to a bullet, and the neck is so well protec ted by the blubber that a ball produces no other effect than to alarm and excite the animal, and thus cause tbe entire shoal to take to the water. Lvery sho. must kill nstantly without producing any commo tion or the came disapears. The walrus is very stupid unless disturbed, when it fights with &eat power. Throwing its immense head back so as to elevate the tusks to a horizontal position, it springs forward, and by the rapid move of the head strikes with an unerring aim any object within three or four feet. Woe to the man or animal within the limit. He is trauflxed in a moment. FigLts among the males are frequent and terrific, often ter minating in the death of one or both. Few females are found in the Behring't Sea during the summer months, the theory among hunters being that they pass this sea-on with their young in the Arctic and appear belo the straits late in the fall and winter. Lnlike the seal, they have a habit of sleeping in the water with the head par tially exposed. The ivory of the walrus sells readily for forty-five or fifty cents per pound. Billiard balls, caneheads and all ivory articles of sinuiiar size are made of it here, but the larger part of it is sent to China and used extensively in the manu facture of Chinese ornaments. The oil is equal in quality to whale oik commands the same price, and is used for the same purposes. The hides are from one and a half to two inches in thickness. When tanned they furnish a superior article of belting for heavy machinery, and are un surpassed for polishing silver plate. White bears are numerous in Bearing's Sea, and tbe crew of the San Diego obtained the skins of seven or eight that they had shot on the islands. They also killed a number of large cinnamon bears in Alaska. On one occasion, while engaged in the slaugh ter of walrus on Hall Island, a hunter, while in the act of reloading his gun, was startled by a rustle on tbe beach, looked around, and to his great dismay, beheld an enormous white bear within twenty feet of the spot he occupied. Dropping bis gun, he started on a run, and was followed hotly by the bear, who gained on him at every leap. A comrade perceiving bis danger, directed his aim at the ferocious beast, and was fortunate enough to kill him, but not until he was in leaping distance of his intended prey. The climate of Behring's Sea is cold and foggy, and daylight during the month ot July is of about eighteen hours' dura tion, v ery htlle ice is to be seen there in the summer; the islands are barren, and the whole region unpromising for any other than fishing and maritime purposes. Owing to the shallowness of the water, storms there, which are frequent, make a very turbulent and dangerous navigation. H anting Alligators. A traveler In the South says the Tuaca- willa is one of a class of boats peculiar to the Ocklawaha. She is flat bottomed, with three large decks, a fourth ard smaller one being over the pilot-house and captain's state-room, and forming the best stand for shooting alligators. In ber well-furnished cabin, containing among other things, a cabinet organ, we spent many pleasant hours. Short and wide, and built squarely up from the water, with a row of green shutters running along each side, tbe boat looks like a floating house. Stern-wheels are the only kind used on the nver, and just back of this cascade-making wheel is a double rudder, which gives great power in turning the innumerable sharp angles of the river. When I arose at 6 o'clock the next morning, and had been greeted by the early-risers on the deck with "good afternoon," I found we were some thirty miles up the Ocklawaha, and about seventy miles from Palatks, the distance from the latter place to Lake Griffin, to which we were goinr, being about 200 miles. Before going into a well cooked and heartily en joyed breakfast 1 bad time to appreciate the strangeness and beauty of the river. Its narrow channel, running in a southerly direction from the St. John, into which the river empties, winds about in the shortest and sharpest curves to such an extent that the ascending steamer runs now north, now south, then east, then west. Seldom can be had a clear view of over 600 feet of the river, and at almost every turn there is some puzzle to tell where is the way that will let the boat through the sur rounding forest. The average width of the nver is between scventy-flve and 100 feot. The water is shallow, and occasionally the grating of the boat on a sand-bar can be felt. The winding of the stream, with its bordering masses of semi-tropical vegeta tion, makes a series of ever changing and most lovely pictures, the gigantic cypress, many feet in circumference, towers above the shorter growth of palmettoes, live oahs, water oris and maples, while their bases are bidden by a jungle-like thicket of young growth ; SpanUh bayonets, fallen trees and bushes, all bound together by and covered with a mass of cUr.ging vines. Upon the trunks of the palmettoes grows a species of air plant, and on the live oak branches here and there are green, large bunches of mistletoe, while from the brancrcs of all the trees droop the long streamers of the &pamsn moss, me green of the forest and the blue of the sky, re flected in the smooth water, make up scenes worthy of the study of an artist. There must be some soil for these trees to grow from, but it is seldom perceivable:' - On both aides of the river there is ha ahnosl continuous swamp. Like the Canadian Saugenay's banks, much of the Ocklawaha's are primeval unchanged by the hand of man, untrodden by his foot. The banks of the former wonderful river are untrod den because man can not reach the heights. the latter because there is nothing to tread upon. There are a few landings upon the river, some of them built on piles, and reached through the swamp on timbers and planks by the wood and provision selling "Crackers," who live back from the river on the occasional high ground. Silver Springs, is the terminus of the regu lar trips of the boat; but was but a half way place to us. It is a basin of water 200 feet across, and the water is so clear that a five-cent mckle thrown in at a depth of sixty feet can be distinctly seen upon the white sand at the bottom. The wUer from this spring forms a rapid stream known as Silver Springs Bun, which empties into the Ocklawaha, and is as cended by all the steamers. Beyond Silver Spring the trees on each side of the river recede, and leave in their places a marshy growth of reeds and water plants, and the next morning found us sailing through an open prairie-like country. Here ait great quantities of such game as ducks, coots, gallinules, limpkins. water-turkeys, rail. white herons, curlew, water-moccasins and alligators. Everywhere en the river quan tities of black bass can be caught. Our rifles and shot-guns now began to make a great deal of noise, and those of the Com modore and Captain Edwards did consider able execution. It was not, however, till we got into Lake Griffin that we began to see and get the big alligators. As we slowly sail along by the low, flat shores of the lake, every rifle is ready and every eye eagerly lookiug for the black body of the reptile lying asleep in the grace on the edge of the lake or by some marshy inlet. Sud denly we bear our colored pilot exclaim : "Dar s a gator I" The pilot s bell lingles, the boat slows up, and, as we draw nearer and nearer to the monster, the rifles are raised and the Commodore's or Captain's signals breathlessly awaited. There is a sharp report, followed by a regular volley, and then, while the great tail splashes the water or beats the ground, the grinning deck-hands are summoned to drag the beast on board, sometimes not dead, but wound ed, and the upper jaw rises and falls with vindictive energy, the teeth grinding on the nearest object, causing among the captors a lively apprehension as to the safety of their feeL Many " 'gators" fell victims to the brigade, but more escaped, as it is hard to approach them near enough for a shot on account of the noise made by the boat. We spent that night at Lees burg, having during the day sailed over a great deal of the lake, and gone into creeks and inlets where no steamboat bad ever been. The next morning (Sunday), as we were sailing down the river on our return voyage, alligator steaks were placed upon the table and found to be quite palatable, in taste somewhat resembling, but being rather an improvement upon sturgeon. Few, however, care to make an entire meal upon alligator meat, and one gentleman, who was known as Prof. Appollinaris, from his fondness for that exhilarating beverage, Appollinaris water, absolutely refused to touch it. He offered $2 to any oce who would take it from his plate, where it bad been placed before he knew what it was ; then, as no one would help him, with the handle of a spoon poking it onto a bread-plate, he built a barricade of biscuit and milk-jugs to hide the dainty morsel from sight, and finally, after hear ing a few joking allusions to the meat of the 'gator, he rose from his seat, sick cX heart, and retired to his state-room. An old sklnllint. Talk about your mean men." said old Pioneer Skindcrson, at Phil McGovern's saloon, San Francisco : 'the very tightest, closest, far seeing, calculating old skin flint I ever seed, was old Klamskatter, the mine superintendent, who died up at Gold till! the other day. "W as, eh I encouragingly remarked a customer who was feeding Phil's bulldog with pe truled sandwiches from the lunch table. "Yes sir-ee: he was just pizn, he was; closer than the bark of a tree. When he was running the Hornet mine up at Vir ginia, be used to skulk around the levels disguised as a mule tender, just to pipe off the men who didn't keep hard at it, so as to dock 'em the next Saturday." "Why the dem cussl" "But wait. He actually encouraged a drill-runner to tell a long story one day while tbey were waiting for some machine ry to be repaired, and afterward docked the man half a day, and all the fellows that beard it four bits apiece for stopping to laugh. He charged one man ten cents for a single grin." "Great Gosh!" "That's nutnin.' Sim Briggs,who was up on the lode when the miser died, said that about an hour before Klamskatter passed in his checks he sent for the doctor; and savs be : 'Doc, give us the straight busi ness. Is there any show fur me ?" " '.Nary show," say the doctor; "you'll strike bedrock afore night.' " Then says old Klamakatter, '1 want some ot you fellows to carry me up to Mount Davidson right off. If I can light out from there It will save my soul a clear mile of transportation. " 'And did they do it T asked a man who bad walked over by the stove. "Wall, no, replied the narrator, simply. "The boys took him over, put him on the cage, and let him down to tbe lowest level of the Hornet instead. They said that they guessed be bad made a little mistake about the direction somehow, io the best of their judgement, his soul was going the other way." A Btniggl for EaUtence. With many of the sutlers of the North west, the past Winter has been a prolonged struggle for existence against the elements. A German farmer two years ago took up 160 acres of land near Big Lake, Dakota. Last year he raised wheat on 60 acres, get ting 25 bushels to the acre, and received 1 1,200 for it. Laying in what he con sidered an ample supply of fhel out of these proceeds, he set his house in order for the Winter. Two other families decided to leave their own houses, and to lodee with him as a measure of mutual protection and comfort. Very soon the ample supply of fuel was all consumed, and the three families had to bestir themselves to keep from freezing. They dug railroad ties and telegraph posts out of the deep snow and burned them. After this source of supply bad been exhausted, the two famJies that had quitted their own houses were com pelled to take part in tearing them down ; and the wood work sent went the way of the ether fuel. Next followed the furniture. A neighbor named Becker finally harnessed Ave strong horses to his sleigh to force his way to the nearest railway station for a load of coaL He was caught, in a snow drift, and two days later was frozen stiff in bis sleigh, his don, -dead, Jyiag upon him. and the five horsea standing dead in their tracks. Ilia tttd we taken -to bis family, nailed up in a box, and placed in the irrain-loU. to be keot there until the ground" should thaw sufficiently to allow of his buriai.' Another -family of tbe neigh borhood was saved from starvation by max ing soup of an ox-skin, -" -- A TorklM Wateb-Tower. A little below Moldava tbe "Babakai" rock rises from the bead of the river, about the middle of tbe stream; and standing upon its nign platform is a watch tower. connected with which is also a very sad le gend but then you must remember that it is only a legend. At one time so the story goes a very handsome Turkish mai den, having run away with a gallant Hun garian knight, was overtaken and brought back by the Agas Janissaries, who led her to the Babakai rock to be put to death. Her spirit was often seen wandering over the ruins of the old tower and leaping over the cataracts. But steam navigation, with other marks of progressive civilization, have dissipated forever these silly Turkish stories. After pawing this rock the shores close in again with granite cliffs on one side and lovely green hills on the other. On the right bank are seen the beautiful ruins of Castle Columbacs in Turkish. Gogerdschinik which was the key of the navigation of that section of the Danube as far as the Iron Gate. Tbe Iron Gates of the Danube are not iron, but a continuation of .rocks and heavy boulders that obstruct the channel by nearly closing in some places, causing powerful eddies and im mense whirlpools, thut make it a very difficult and dangerous passage to navigate. Soon after leaving Columbacs the steamer clears the first in the numerous rapids which, as far as the Turn Severin, form quite a series of natural impediments ; and the high pointed rocks that loom up every where must be passed with great caution. As soon as these rapids are crossed and we have rounded a giant rock on the edge of a sharp promontory, the river expands until it forms quite an inland seacalm and smooth until yeu near the famous passage called "Greben." Then on both shores rise abruptly two tremendous walls of rock, with lofty peaks and precipitous inelines showing mighty cracks and rents like the Cyclopean gunwales of a volcanic citadel. Hanging boldly over the water s edge, they seem ready to pounce upon the river and gulp it up in one supren e, herculean draught. But our steamer is equal to the task and runs through the narrow pass and comes out into broader water unharmed and ready for another trial. A few miles further down tbe stream, on the left shore, we pass Trecule, which appears to have been one of the culminating points of lto man domination in these parts, and directly a:ter Trecule you reach the imposing en trance of the Ka&am Pass the grandest and most remarkable sight on the Danub. The stream here as if driven by some un accountable ptwer cramped in a apace of about two hundred yards, rushes with a violent roar of despair into a natural pas sage, which resembles a breach made by giants through a wall of lofty rocks, and for nearly half a mile it rolls its groaning waves over a granite bed two hundred feet deep, bounding and leaping, striking and lashing the obstructing enemy with its mighty breakers and shimmering spray. The coniDarative darkness, owing to the height of tbe hideous cliffs, which hem in the narrow channel, and the mysterious stillness, broken only by the convulsive moan of the rushing stream, gives an aspect of indescribable granduer and frightful beauty, and tbe whole scene is so impressive that it can never be forgotten. II an tins a Panther with Ctoaed Hatches. The vessel Glenvarney, when leaving the Straits, took on board one ot the largest specimens of the black panther. Tbe animal was secured in an iron cage-house. sufficiently strong it was thought, for its conveyance to Calcutta. When in the Straits of Malacca, screams were hetrd from the passengers in the 'tween decks numbering some three hundred men, wo men and children : these were followed by a rush upon deck. The panther bad got clear of bis cage and found his way down to the 'tween decks. It bad been disport- fhg itself over the prostrate forms ot tbe three hurdred slumbering passengers for some mil utes before its presence became known. Every available means of exit were thrown open, and all the passengers got ou deck in safety, when the hatches ami companions were again closed, and the pather left in lndisputed and solitary possession ot the 'tween decks. One man alone appeared to have suffered from the claws of the animal, a large strip of skin and flesh having been torn off his back. Various accounts of tke behavior of the animal while be.ow were given by those who had seen him ; but ma-l concurred in saying that, after gambolling over the sleeping bodies as described, when the alarm was given and the shouts and screams were raised, he had made one or two frightened springs from one end of tbe deck '3 the oUier. It was concluded that the animal must have jumped out of the port into the sea, for he could not be found. The steamer arrived next day at Penang, the passengers settled down in their quar ters as before, and she started the same evening for Calcutta. During the night some boatswain s stores were required from forward, and one of the Chinese lascars was sent down to get them, when he pre sently returned trembling with fear, ex claiming, "Tiger have gone down there !" Captain Bolton sent for bis breech loading rifle and cartridges, and went down the hatch by himself ordering it to be closed after, lest If the beast really was there it should get on to the deck, and re-enact the alarm of two nights before. On reaching the store-room and looking round Captain Bolton saw the large yellow-lit eyes of the animal glaring down from the top of some spars stowed along the ship's side, and by and by, by the dim light admitted by the port, could make out the dun outline of the body, when taking as steady aim as he could for what he considered the centre of the animal's body, he fired. When the smoke from tbe discharge cleared away the two yellcw eyes were still glaring down from the same direction ; a second cart ridge having been supplied, the rifle was again raised, and, following the second discharge of the piece. Captain Bolton bad the satisfaction to bear the heavy body of the animal come tumbling down on the deck at bis feet. It measured seven feet and eight inches in length. A Bother's Ministration. A few yean ago, said the Rev. Robert Collyer, one Sunday out in the west. left my pulpit and preached some distance in the country. Some old friends came over and invited me to return to my home with them. IV e got into the carnage and instantly I couldn t tell Low it came about, you know but I began to talk about my mother. I had left ber in - the old country. There was nothing to bring her into mind just then. But we were so full of tsJk about her that we a3 got to laughing and crying like people possessed, and it was all raised by my own heart. Well, when we got home, there was my wife on the steps to meet me with a tele graphic dispatch in her band. My mother had died at midnight. "Ob," I thought, (and do you think me foolish f ) "you dear old mother, you couldn't get away to hiaven without seeing your boy, your lad, as you used to call me ! W hy He isccmw m lop. My friend Tom bas a natural affection for dirt, or rather dirt has a natural affec tion for Tom. It is to him what gold was to Midas: whatever be touches turns to dirt. No matter how white the cravat, no matter how imrraculate tbe vest, tbe mo ment it comes within the sphere of Tom's influence its whiteness is gone; it is im maculate no longer. Dogs, sweeps and lamp-lighters never pass him without leaving upon his dress unequivocal marks of their presence. Once, and only once, 1 saw him cross the street without encountering the wheels of a carriage. I opened my mouth to con gratulate bun, and before I could utter one word be was covered with mud. The carekss blockhead lay at my feet, full lenirth in the gutter. At my earnest solici tation, he once purchased suit of pre cisely mud color. It was a capital idea. He crossed the street three times; he walked a half a mile, and returned, in ap pearance at leact,! unscathed. The thing was unprecedented. True, he was welcomed by the affec tionate caresses of a dog that bad been enjoying the coolness of a neighboring horse pond; true, he received a shower bath from the wheels of an omnibus. But to plaster mud on Tom's new coat was " to gild refined gold to paint the lily." 'Tom will be a neat man yet," I (aid, as I witnessed the success of my plan. In about half an hour it was my fate to meet a gentleman with seven stripes of green paint on bis neck it was my friend Tom; be had been leaning against some newly-painted window blinds. Having no other amusement, one morn ing I strolled over to Tom's rooms. As I ascended the stairs, I heard his voice in a very decided tone: "But it must be done, and there is an end to it." "Really," was the reply, '"anything within the limits of possibility, but to make a coat in ten hours I will promise any thing in the world, but I really fear I shall not be able to perform." "If double your price will be any ob ject" "Certainly, sir, if you insist upon it; cer tainly. I will put every man in my shop upon it; it shall be done in time. Good morning, sir." The door opened, and a fellow with shears and measures passed out. What could Tom be doing with a tailor! "Just the man I wanted to see," he ex claimed. "I require your advice upon a very important affair; which of these cravats do you think most becoming!' and be spread before me some half dozen of every hue and fashion. "Now what in the name of all that is wonderful does this mean, Tom? A fancy ball, is it? iou have chosen an excellent disguise; your nearest friends will never know you. r.ut you cannot support the character, if you had taken that of a chim ney sweep, now; but that would hare been too natural. Tell me truly, lorn, what does all this mean!" "Why, the fact is, frank, ' pa&ung a .'.and through his hair, redolent of macas sar, "I have concluded I think I shall be a little more neat in future. You, doubt less, remember the good advice you gave me some time since; it bas bad a wonder ful effect, I assure you." Now, it so happened that of all the good advice I bad ever given Tom, this was the very first instance in which he had seen fit to follow it. So I couid not attribute the metamorphosis of my friend to my elo quence, tt no but a woman ever changed a sloven to a fop. "Pray, where are you going this even ing!" I continued, "that you must have a new coat so suddenly r' "Going, nowhere in particular. I had. indeed, some idea of calling on my old friend, Mr. Murray; no harm in that, I hope." 'lour old friend, Mr. Murray; and his young niece, 31 iss Julia, has ao share in the visit, I suppose? I heard that she arrived in town last night." 'Now, upon my word, Frank, you mis take me entirely. I did not know that she was in town last night wlien I that is, when I did not know anything about it." And so you were there last night, too: Really, this is getting along bravely." Why, the fact is, rrank you must know everything. I called last evening to see Murray on some business about that real estate, you know. 1 had no more idea of meeting a woman than a lx constrictor niy beard was three days old, my collar ditto, and tbe rest of my dress in excellent keeping. 1 became engaged In conversa tion, and somehow or other I forgot all about the real estate." "And so you are going again to-night and that is the secret ot your new coat?" "By no means; I wanted a new coat, and tailors are always so long, you know. Do you think bjue will become me! Blue is her favorite that is I mean blue " "Oh, go on don't stammer blue is her favorite color, is it!" The fact is, Frank take another glass of this wine the fact is good wine, isn't it been two voyages to the Indies the fact is, 1 suppose 1 rather fancy 1 am a little in love. Try some of that sherry. What are the symptoms, Frank a queer feeling about the heart, and something which drives the blood through one like lightning?" "txactly: 1 believe 1 nave seen J una; short and chubby, isn't she, with red hair and a little squint eyed? " "Frank, I never did knock you down. though I have been tempted to do so a great many times; but if you don't stop that nonsense, I will." "Oulte valiant in defence of your lady love. Well, Tom, I will confess that she is a lovely girl, and to-morrow I will call and learn your success. So, good morn- iag. " A ell, lom, what success! "Would you believe it!" she did not recognize me. 'Not recognize you? 'No. You know what a quiz that Mur ray is. As soon as he saw me enter, dressed in such style, he came up, shook hands with me, and, without giving me a chance to say one word, introduced me to Julia, as Mr. rredenck Somebody. And, would you believe it, that little witch did not know me. I think I should not foiget her so easily. "Nor was that alL Murray said some thing about the fellow who called there the previous evening a country cousin, he said, clear enough, but an incorrigible sloven. ."And Julia said he dressed bke a bar barian just think of that, Frank, a bar barian. She shall pay for that yet. Such eyes and she steps like a queen. "Well, frank, a clean collar does make a vtst difference in a man's appearance. Lovely as Hebe herself. Terrible differ ence clean linen makes." The last time I saw Tom he was scold ing his eldest son for coming into the draw- lng-rcotn with muddy boots. "Oxb difficulty apout a chip ofTo the o d block," said" Deacon Searchly, "is that it's ofl'n off the old blockhead." The Detroit Uoue ot Correction cleared $50,000 last year. BRIEFS. Uostou is to be lighted with the electric light. One cord of biich wood weigh 2MS pounds. Cadet WhitUker's ears alrci.Iy have cost the government $10 ,OoO. Veniee is built on 72 Islands. It costs over $:K),C00 year for the repairs at St. Peter's, Rome. Five thousand tons of ice are to be shipped from Ma:ne to India this sum mer. - There is a deficiency o? about t'.kl - 000 In the State Auditor's ollifeof Vir ginia. Dolgouroukt, widow of the late czar bas $30,000,000 to her credit In Berlin. Forty corus of oak wood will yield )vs: about ten cords of merchantable charcoal. Gen. John A. Gordor, U renort(.l to have sold a Southern coal mine Ioj ) 100,000. Tbe last census in t'ii countrv gave as relative numbers 93.1 women to every 1,000 men. The new census In German? shows a total population of 4.,l'J4,172.'and In crease of a,4(j,sl2. Over twenty-five thousand tnurUM have visited the Yosemite Valley since Its discovery In 1565. Colonel Jerome X. R;n:ir.iri r Baltimore, is to build a resident- for himself at Washington. New York last vear niiit 7 Ak) - 000 for amusements and 'JO.(O0,(ioO ior intoxicating Beverages. In the English university bo it race Oxford defeated Cauibridre hy fully four leagths. The Chicago PacVin-r ami IVoi-:. sion House Kills lO.OcO hogs every day, a day being ten hours. Judge Choate Is ranidiv hU health, tie has been speuiUn? some time at Walllngr)rd,Cn:i. The elevated railways of New YorW carried 6.1,000,000 last year without tlu loss of a passenger, it is claimed. Of the cities of Holland Am tir- dam has a population ot 23 V); R it terdam, 120,000; the Haie, Stt.OOu. The Mexican Government hs nai.i 1,200,000 on aceount ol suhy.;,uIns to sections of railway thus far com pleted. A lady about to remove fro 111 If -trtm ford, Conn., to Sc. Louis had fnur rata shipped to that city by express a four days ago. Within the last ten years 2 .lik) eir couplers and draw-bars have been pat ented, yet but five patterns are in gen eral ue. The Gutenber? Bible, shout th first book published with movbl types, was recently sold in New York lor I3,uw. During the war 5.221 ofll wrs aii.t 90,868 privates belonging to the I'niou Army were killed in action or ilLi! i their wounds. The portrait of Milton, wliieh was once owned by Charles Lamb, has iust been bought in London b Mr. o iar Uth for $1,775. The annual retort of the Ameri can Steamship C mpany, el Phil ulel- pnia, snows a deficit on tii5 busings of 1 Ajik - r 1 1 , - Since Mruh 1st. IS.), the Dinwr and Rio Grande compmy has laid :it',7 miles of track, aud will lay many more this season. It is estimated that during the last year over l.luo miles of teleornKi.. and telephonic wires were placed over jew j. or iicy. The best time for visiting ti,n Holy Lmd Is In M irch. Arril an7 Jli. Later in the season there Is dan er r malarial fevers. The managers of the S'ate A ri- cultural Society have decided to oiler premiums to the amount of 2S,MX) at the coining fair. In 1S30 the number of miles of rail road in the United Suites was onlv twenty-three; we have now more thaa 94,000 miles, and hy theend ef th : year ww wui navo over, inu.uwu. Over four hundred men ami bjats. and probably over -I'J.OOO iot. a'e en gaged on the Massachusetts coast alone in the lobster fishery. There were 1.9SC failn rot In fit a United States durinir the first n iiArter of the current year, against l.Xll in tne corresponding period of lio. Mrs. El'xibetb Givens. who w-.i the first girl baby born in Louisville, Ky., died on Sunday, aged lo.i years. She has never ridden in a steam car. Cape. Mayne ReM, the famous ro mance writer, has a small estu in Hertfordshire, England, where h takes great interest in sheep breeding. The Brandy una. in Rockbridge connty, 7,000 acres of mountain land, assessed at ten cents per acre, has been sold to a Pennsylvania firm for f.M.uOO. Mrs. Amelia Lewis asserts in fcl ob'1 Health that nearly $15,000,0 . is in vested in oleomargarine factories, and that they have added nearly $ I to the value ot every ox killed. Bishop J. L. SpauMinsr. of Peoria. 111., is !n Arkansas looking lor a suita ble location for a Catholic coiony. Funds are ready to purchase 20.0UJ acres of land for the purpose. A box containing $11,000 in bonds and other securities, and belonging to a private depositor, has mysteriously disappeared from the vault of th Fay ette National Bank, Lexington, Ky. The average age of members of the Garfield Cabinet is 51. Mr. Gladstone's Cabinet averages 58. There are two septuagenarians in the English Cabinet but the majority are Detween aj and 70.- The Marquis of Lome will go to Quebec early in May. On the arrival of the Princess Louise ai.d party two weeks will be spent in salmon fishing, after which they will proceed to Hali fax to witness the military review on July 1st. A'ben the Austrian Empress goes to England or Ireland, she carries her own bed with her a plain little bed with an extremely hard mattre?a. Her own room la always arranged lu so plain and simple a manner that it looks almost conventual. Admiral Carr Glyn, to whom. Adelaide Nelson left the bulk of ber fortune, bas determined to set aside the sum of $15,000, the interest of which shall be devoted to the relief ot necessitous members of the profession to which Miss NelUon belonged. Mr. Gladstone has eight children, seven of whom are living. His eldest son Is a member t Parliment, his sec ond son is Rector of llawarden. his third is engaged in mercantile pur suits. His eldest daughter is married to the Head Master of Wellington Col lege. Mr Clidstone was about thirty years old wheu he was married to the daughter of Sir. Stephen Glynne. Ml ' 'i I I ri i j i . 1 if
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