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B. F. SCHWEIER,
THE 005STITUTI0I THE UXI0V-1ID THE EVFOEOE1CHHT OF THE LAVS.
Editor and Proprietor.
VOL. XXXY.
MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY, PENNA., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1SS1.
NO. 31.
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THE LM-LABV OK THE FLOWERS.
all at ouoe they became couscioua of the
storm gathering about them. With a
frightened face Annis suddenly exclaim
ed, as she turned towards home
"We must hasten, May, for the ponies
are afraid of lightning."
Rapidly onward came the ominsously
threatening clouds, while now and then
the thunder rolled its sonorous peals.
Antis was a good horsewoman, and
now with a steady hand she held the
reins, while she urged Nip and Tuck to
their fullest speed.
Snddenly, as they were upon the brow
of a long, steep hill, at the end of which
the road turned abruptly to the right, a
vivid flash of forked lightning shone le
fore their eyes.
Whh one terrified bound the ponies
were off at a mad pace. Nothing could
stop them. Of no avail were the girlish
figures which endeavored to check their
wild career.
Standing erect, Annis retained her
grasp upon the reins ; but her eyes
dilated with an agonized expression as
she saw the almost certain destruction
which lay before them. At the foot of
the hill which they were swiftly de
scending was a high stone wall.
"Annis;" exclaimed May, "can you
stop them lefore they get to the foot of
the hill?"
In low, intense tones came the hope
less answer :
"No, May; I can do nothing with
them. We are doomed !"
With a sobbing cry May bowed her
head upon her hands.
"Ralph! Ralph! Can it be that I
shall never see you again? O ! it is so
hard to die so young and so happy !"
As Annis heard the piteous words a
suddeu determination flashed into her
mind. She had once read of a brave
deed which at the time had filled her
with marvel. Could she not do the
same thing herself, and save her friend's
life"?
For herself it did not matter ; she was
alone in the world ; but for May should
her life lie spared a future of happiness
with him she loved so dearly stretched
'as . out before her. Stopping, she said
I quietly :
"May, listen; do not give way. I
Wrpt the flowers sadly,
rut the day was dying.
,nJ the fickle sunbeams
To the West wera flying,
lu the arms of tnset
Hay Its lat was breath in,
Au.l it shroud, the twilight.
Busily was weaving.
Came a n-phyr sighing
-;auilT sweet my flowers:
Sight's dart sway is gruesome.
Meep the weary hours."
Kill the nmurnful blossoms
F.r the day were weeping.
And their tears, the dewdrops,
Tween the leaves were peeping.
Tarn, with gentle pity.
Nightingale same singing,
ThriUM their soothing music
ivr the meadows ringing.
Sn the weary flowers
Blissfully were dreanang.
Till the larks awoke them.
When the sun was beaming.
A tilM.1 HKKOIO ACT.
V nuut country road, and a carriage
llra,n bv two spirited ponies, ho
t-vseJ their heads and arched their
Jraeeful necks as if they were enjoying
b, die utmost their own rapid motion.
Such was the scene.
In the carriage were seated two young
Tltf el.hr of the two was guiding,
with a firm hand, the restless ponies.
She was not a lieautiful girl, you would
Ut, at first sight ; but her refined
fart with its broad, intellectual fore
Lead, aud th? proud poise of the small
head set upon au 4jri't nuel? moulded
iL made a picture very attractive to
the eve.
Her companion was a perfect con-
'""L.velv !" was the adjective which
ulJ rise involuntarily to the lips upon
aviiig her. flreat silky masses of
golden hair swept back from a brow
pure as alabaster, while the dark,
lustrous eyes were in vivid contrast to
the peachy fairness of her complexion ;
h.-r mouth was au incarnation of sweet
ness with its delicious rose-red curves ;
while lieiieath, tb. rounded chin
Heft with a roguish dimple.
Sip and Tuck set-m in good spirits I
this morning, Annis," said May, as think that before long I can check this
they new away. terrible speed, and in that instance do
"Have yon thought that if I return . yon jump from the carriage."
Louie when miu wants me too, that this j May looked wouderingly into Annis's
will I our last drive?" j 'ace. scarce comprehending her words.
in, ; r itlier.-d the reins in one hand. "Check that terrible speed?" It seemed
aul qniekly passed the other around certainly more than human power could
'her friend's slight waist, as she said : j do.
"I do hate to think of vour going, my ', May," cried Annis. With
darliii"' I have enjoyed these few these words she had made a desperate
weeks'totheutm.Ht But I know your "prijW. 1 the next moment she had
father needs von, and I must not 1 landed squarely upon the back of one
, ! of the ponies, and had grasped the
As she Sim .ke thus lovingly, a sudden
Fights wilk Whale.
. ' ajr .Min w-itli oil t Or f(TtA
resolve came into May s iace. one
stopped then reared wildly and stood
hesitated a moment, then drawing off
her glove she held her small left hand
nji More Annis's eyes.
On the third finger in its enamel
.setting, gleamed a large solitaire pearl.
After one surprised look, Annis ex
claimed reproachfully :
Why, May, can it lie that you are
engaged, and have never told me of
it?"
A bright flush suffused May's ex
pressive face as she replied :
"Yes, Anuis, yon have guessed
rightly. I meant to tell you long ago
but somehow it is hard for me to speak
freely of my own feelings, and it is all
so rteiit I hardly can believe it myself
yet But I do realize one thing that
the one who placed this upon my finger
is the noblest and liest of men, and you
will agree w ith me when I tell yo-i who
he is for you know him, Annis. One
day, seon after our engagement, I was
speaking to Mr. Coleridge of our visit
I was going to make yon at 'Greyhurst'
tliis fall, and when I mentioned your
uanie he said at once that he knew you
well Lad met yon when you were at
your micle's."
As (lie girl's happy voice siioke these
words a sudden pallor overspread her
listener's features. But not noticing.
May weut on :
"I suppose you wonder how I became
aeqnaiutvd with him. Well, it happened
fiiis way: Our minister was called
away by l,is mother's illness, and Mr.
Coleridge came to take his place, and
lla invited him to make his home with
ns during his stay."
As her friend shope Annis's thoughts
had flown hack to the past year. She
teueiultt-red how her interest had been
'anglit at h.-r first sight of the young
elergynian, w hom her nncle had brought
lionie with him one evening, and how
fiie oftener she saw him the deeper that
interest grew, until suddenly she be
fcuue aware that unconsciously she had
heart nnsouS'1t her girlish
It was true that Ralph Coleridge had
never acted toward her in a lover-like
av " hut Aunis could not help the love
which had so strongly entwined itself in
"er heart.
Theu had come the announcement of
death of her father's only brother,
M that he had left her his sole heiress.
a she had Wn obliged to lease the
Viet little home in which she had been
happy t0 tIlt).r nion d; M
jtress of stitely "Greyhnrst" She
? W m:uiv suitors gince ; but her
rt yet remained true to its first im
pression. Now she aw that the future
lueh she had looked with the hope
"Uuess of youth had held no bright
Penalities for her.
As "er friend
-ff"ri An.us re.
od said .i...i
pawing the air with their hoofs.
"Jump, May ! jump for your life !"
cried Annis ; and May obeyed.
A few wild plunges, and then with a
snort and scream the two ponies dashed
on, shaking from her insecure seat the
brave girl.
The storm was over. The clouds had
dispersed, and once more the sun came
forth in royal splendor. His rays fell
upon a pitiful scene. Upon two girlish
forms one, yet living, but unconscious
where she had fallen the other, still
and quiet, with the solemn seal of death
set upon the white, braised face.
Annis had saved her friend's (and her
unconscious rival's) life at the expense
of her own.
Another summer had come and gone
and it was fall again. In one of Nature's
. loveliest spots, shadowed by a drooping
elm, near which a limpid streamlet
glided with a happy murmur on its way
to the sea, a marble shaft reared its
6nowy head.
The sunshine glancing through the
leaves, dropped a gentle kiss upon the
grave beneath, and fell upon the bowed
heads of two mourners. It was Ralph
and his newly made wife, and in softly
whispered tones they talked together of
her who slept below, to whose heroic
deed both owed the happiness which life
had already given and still held for them
in the years to come.
II mam Endurance in the Water.
paused, with a strong
ained her self-control
as she kissed tho little !
Men and maln are able to sustain
themselves for long distances in the
water, and would do so much oftener
were they not incapacitated, in regard
of the former at least, by sheer terror,
as well as complete ignorance of their
real powers. Webb's wonderful endur
ance will never be forgotten. But there
are other instances only less remarkable.
Some years since, the second mate of a
ship fell overboard while in the act of
hoisting a sail. It was blowing fresh:
the time was night, and the place some
miles out in the stormy German ocean.
The hardy fellow, nevertheless, man
aged to gain the English coast. Brock,
with a dozen other pilots, was plying for
fares by Yarmouth, and, as the main
sheet was belayed, a sudden puff of wind
upset the boat, when presently all per
ished except Brock himself, who, from
four in the afternoon of an October even
ing to one the next morning, swam thir
teen miles before he was able to hail a
vessel at anchor in the offing. Animals
themselves are capable of swimming im
mense distances, although unable to rest
by the way. A dog recently swam
thirty miles in America in order to rejoin
his master. A mule and a dog washed
overboard during a gale in the Bay of
Biscay have been known to make their
way to shore. A dog swam ashore with
a letter in his mouth at the Cape of Good
"aglova.1 1, 1 ' i- Y V , , , 1 Hope. The crew oi we snip
X ne8t,ed ,tseU1 the dog belonged all perished, which
"Then Ralph Coleridge
, 1 they need not have done had they only
the happy , . , , t, , Ana did.
"u ; i,.!, y i , , , , veniureu to uwu o
; for M I As a certain ship was laboring heavily in
l a 8a-Tf Tt ' the trough of the sea, it was found nel
lia,.oaVlfe yOU Cannot help lmt.fl. inofder to lighten the TesseL to
! hatniv
When the girls had driven
weyhurst
the
I x .n-r-mim nverhoard.
bwhv from Uirow some """r"" " ' '
away jrom , . . . in at Corunna.
i .uiui . . . i .
i I lllVU mA .
'rightlv W , VT . , 8g I The poor things, my informant, ,n
edft iJirV- 7Ugb had not notic- rgSn, told ma,whenthey found the
x, in the distance there had been a lit- selves abandoned, faoed round and swam
cioud "like a man's hand," and now 1 for miles after the vessel,
"Yes, we did see something of a rchool
of sperm whales," said Captain King, of
the steamer Tropic, but it was a good
ways off and we didn't take especial no
tice. We were bowling along at about
ten knots an hour with a light breeze
and a fair sea,in latitude 34 deg. 28 min,
and longitude 74 deg. 24 min. I had
the wheel and was talking with one of
the men, when all at once I saw as
pretty a sperm whale spout as I ever saw
in my life. Am I sure about it? I should
say I was, for I am an old whaleman,
having started to follow the sea in an
old-time whaler. The whale was going
about south-southwest, I should think
It was going slowly and evidently hav
ing a gooa time. Alter awhile 1 saw
another one following and swimming
fast, as if to catch up with the first one.
Aext day I Vaw another whale a great
ways off, but I couldn't tell which way
it was going. There may have been a
school of them, but I didn't see only
three. Sperm whales stray in that part
of the ocean only once in a great while,
and then they are probably chasing their
favorite food.
"Sometimes they are dangerous to
whale hunters, especially when a 'crank'
whale is met. I have heard men say
that the sperm whale will not show fight,
but it struck me that they had never
sailed in a whaler. The first fight with
a sperm whale in which I took a hand
was in 1869, when I was with the whaler
Mary G. Currie. We sighted one after
noon a fine large whale, about five miles
off, and when we were near enough we
luffed up and lowered away the boats. J
The captain himself had one boat, the
mate had one and an old whaler had
another. I was with the mate. You
have heard about whales running from
boats, but this one stood his ground and
didn't seem to be afraid of us. Our boat
reached him first, but as soon as the
whale saw us coming he came at us 'bows
on. e lost no time, in getting out of
his way and it made us laugh to see the
other boats dodge around. This made
the men a trifle nervous and when we
tried him again they backed away for
dear life, afraid to go near enough for
the harpooner to throw his weapon.
This made the whale raving mad, and,
as a consequence, we went so near next
time that the whale opened his caver
nous jaws and bit the boat in two.
"After the men had been fished out of
the water by the old wlialer's loat the
mate got into the captain's boat and
tried the w hale again. When they start
ed the mate stood up in the bow and
yelled: "The first man who looks out of
this boat at that whale will get stabbed
with tnla narpoon."' Away they -wen
right np to the spouter's head. The
harpoon was driven home and the boat
was backed away. The cold steel had
done its work well, for soon the sea was
red with blood and the monster whale,
after thrashing the water into foam, lay
dead.
"I was in another fight with a whale
near the same place, the Connell grounds,
in 1871. We came out of the fight with
two smashed boats and two or three dis
abled men, but we killed the whale. The
mate I was with in the first fight was
killed two years ago in a fight with an
ugly whale. I understand they fought
for three hours, but the whale got the
best of them. He was one of the largest
ever seen and had a half dozen harpoons
sticking in his back. The mate was al
ways game and would never give up.but
he met his match that time. It was a
fight to the death and the mate went
into one fight too many.
Cheap Food.
It has been quite pertinently remarked
in regard to cook-books generally, that
when the cooks took their pens in hand
they rather had in their minds the prep
aration of a dinner-party than the daily
fare of an ordinary household. Such
criticisms, directed toward modern
works on the culinary art, are hardly
just, as both in England and this coun
try many handy books have been com
piled, whose chief end is to teach the
ignorant how to prepare food in the most
economical manner. Perhaps, what is
not so fully explained as it should be in
many of these books, is what might be
called the rationale of food values. The
most inquiring of housewives, thumbing
her cook-book, when she oomes across
some page or two devoted to the chemi
cal composition of food, generally skips
it, as she is only intent on finding out
how a charlotte russe is to be compoid-
ed. Still, these rather dry pages have
their use, and by no means difficult to
understand. It is by no means necessary
that the exact chemical composition of
food, its carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen,
oxygen, sulphur, phosphates and other
mineral salts should be memorized, but
the three specific characteristics of tho
things we eat ought to be remembered.
In the briefest manner, then, food may
be separated into three classes, the al
buminoids, the hydro-carbons, and the
anti-scorbutics. The first are essentially
the builders-up and restorers of the body
the second are substances which tend to
keep us warm; they are essentially the
coals which keep the engine going, and
the third are the preventives which keep
off disease and more especially scurvy.
An egg is an albuminoid, butter is a
hydro-carbon, and cabbage an anti
scorbutic. An albuminoid makes tissue.
What men call "the strength" in food is
said to be derived from albuminoids,
but this term is an erroneous one. Men
can and do grew strong and lusty when
partaking of the albuminoids in the most
sparing way. The rice feeders of Hin
dustan are a notable example of this.
The hydro-carbons exist in all the
starches which are found in the cereals,
in sugars and in the fats. The anti
scorbutics, found in certain vegetables,
are as valuable as any othec edible sub
stances, though their food value may
not be very great Now, what is notice
able in all these characteristics of food
is that many single things may possess
in themselves some of these qualities.
For instance, meat has in the loan the
albuminoid, in its fat lie hydro-carbon;
it has evea, when fresh, a certain anti
scorbutic power. In milk, too, we have
the albumen, and most particularly an
anti-scorbutic power. We see, then,
uiat in a certain way nature has given
us in a single substance more than one
of those things necessary for life,but the
perfect unit, containing all in proper
proportions, doer not exist. Hence the
natural inclination we have to mix our
food. The dish of meat cooked with
vegetables as a compound gives us the
variety pleasurable to the palate and de
sirable for our health. The human en
gine not only wants fuel and water, but
as its grate bars are worn out it must
possess the magical powers of self-restoration.
Just as in the repairs of a
locomotive, the head of the machine
shop looks out where he can find the
best and cheapest coal and oil or materi
als, always having the cost- in view; so
must we learn how to feed ourselves, by
the study of food values, at the smallest
outlay of money. Now, in England at
present, where food is scarce and money
not plenty, it becomes quite important
that lessons of economy should be tanght
to all classes. If the bare chance of life
is not alone thought of, the requirements
of the workinginen those who plow or
dig or spin are also an object of solici;
tude. What is the food, the cheapest,
laborers can have, so that their thews,
their sinew and muscle, shall lie forth
coming? it is curious to nnd that a ro-
turn has been nuule, by the analysis of
these alimentary substances, the hydro
gen, oxygen, nitrogen and carhop to an
old English dish. Possibly the classic
pork and beans was brought over from
England to Plymouth Rock. English
writers on the economy of food, Sir
Henry Thompson and Dr. Paxy espe
cially, direct working people to the ex
cellence of 1 eans, peas and lentils, when
cooked with fat meats such as bacon,
but wisely require certain simple addi
tions. Sow, why? The beans contain
the starch, the sugar-making properties,
the fat the hydro-carbons. These are
albuminoids and hydro-carbons, but your
anti-scorbutic is not present. This want
is supplied by the addition of a vegeta
ble such as au onion or a carrot The
value of anti-scorbutics iu our food can
not be overlooked. If the poorer classes
con not indulge in salads, the use of
which entails more or less expensive
dressings, resource can lie had to sour
kraut, the excellence of which has often
been stated in these columns. These
lessons as to the -wtinii of food
oa&iit to be of.-uae to even tlimu trl
know notEiug of want, and whose tables
can be always luxuriously furnished. At
one time we Americans were horribly
carnivorous. Meat three times a day
was quite common. Stupenduous roasts
are still very much in vogue, an excess
of the albuminoid and hydro-carixm,
while quite often the vegetable adjuncts
are in too diminished quantity. Such
Titanesque pieces of beef might be very
much pared down, and in the general
menu recourse had to a more leguminous
and vegetable diet
The Bell-Rlnger and a Brave Buy,
Aquasco is such an out-of-the-way
town that no doubt many of the chil
dren never have heard of it before. It
is in the State of Maryland and stands
on a httle hill near the mouth of Pa
tuxent river. In the summer time no
girl or boy of Aquasco need go to the
seashore, for salt water flows at their
feet and the same salt breeze that sweeps
fleet after fleet of white-sailed ships np
and down the Chesapeake bay blows in
at the windows of the honses in Aqnas-
eo. ihe good people of Aquasco go to
bed so soon after supper that the whip-poor-will
cries and complains without
one person to pity him ; and the grunt
of the bull-frog is the only voice that
answers the whirr and ring of the clocks
when they strike 12, midnight
went to bed and many laughed at the
sexton s ghost On the following day
a great number visited the belfry to see
the curious bell-ringer. It was found
that an army of flying-squirrels had cut
the hole in the lattice work, and that
the wind had forced the limb of the
neighboring oak through the opening.
A little prong near the end of the limb
had caught the clapper near its point,
and so the wiud made its novel bell
ringer. Drlnns Partridge.
According to the modern system, half
a dozen gnns and half a dozen beaters,
each with a retriever behind him, walk
in line through the turnips, going from
one field to another, knocking over the
birds as they rise in front of them like
So it w rnnt in ,utta ' Paeons, never slopping w iook lor a
the night of the 25th of lost June, Cy-1 riff a covey. This
I miarnful raff nmoAilinrr in tima luuiAmna
rns Wallace, an Aauasco bov. heard I . -et
the church bell ringing, ho sprang "eliiglT monotonons, and it is no
i,;,.t,i ., i..i i i i i i wonuer inai men nave ceased 10 care
vj.tn ivi j uui ui iicu mull i mi uoxeiuuieu
into the street As he reached the gate
he saw men running by at the top of
their speed. j
What's the matter?" shouted Cyrus
to one of the flying figures.
A fire, I guess," said the man.
aliout a day's shooting as they used to
do. To leave the house about 11, after
a lounge in the stable-yard with a cigar,
to march through the turnips for two or
three hours, and then to find a sumptu
ous lunch laid out for them in a farm
viStioa wifli AlinmnAimA Imi awiwli.4a
"Fire, fire, fire !" shrieked Cyrus, as 1 777' " I , SJ ll ,Z
ha Van af4. 41a ntl.Ai Tn . f.v I
. , , . . I again for two boors afterward, returning
the whole town of Aquasco was arous- j home finisn fto lliards ,
ed. Everybody was in the street and l; ; fl v , ,
woo 1.nOTr.n . 1.. 1. - I O
church. Women seized water bnekets
and children gathered up pails. Aqnas-
Can't Stop a Minute.
Recently Mr. Sarsaper told his wife
one morning that he had got aliout tired
of buttering his bread with a spoon, and
so that day ho sent home a refrigerator.
It was a beauty, and he felt proud of it,
so much so that he had a good deal to
say about it at the store.
"I suppose yon have to put ice in it,
don't yon ?" said one of the clerks.
"Certainly," said Mr. Sarsaper; "but
then it takes very httle. It's an im
provement on all others ever made. Ftdl
of httle boxes and places for all sorts of
things. Keeps everything separate
meat, vegetables, milk and so on, with
out any mixing up. It makes hot weather
so much more comfortable. Bob, to pull
up to. the table and find everything
nice, cool and crisp, instead of limp,
sour and slushy. We wouldn't be with
out it again for any money. I wish you'd
run in and look at it, Bob, the first time
you're going by. It's a curiosity, and I
know you'll get one as soon as you see
it Don't you lxther aliout ceremony
run in at anv time."
NEWS IN BltTEF.
The population of Savannah, Ga..
by the new census is 30,747. In 1M7; it
was 2S,2:.
It is reported on scientific unthority
that, gold exists in large quantities in
Iceland.
The Mipnlittiou of Prussia is in t!u
proporti :n of eleven Protestants to seven
Catholitw.
The:-e is now more money on deposit
in the si ings banks of New Hampshire
than evr lmfore.
New Hampshire has a new law tax
ing chureh property when it exceeds
SID.OOO in value.
During last year there were .".
lotvt children picked up by the jioliee of
New York city.
The old battle ground of Tippecanoe
belongs to the State of Indiana and is
enclosed with a fence.
J. K. Einniet the American actor
has lieeii cm a spree and broken his en
gagement at Liverpool.
Her eeforward the State of Connecti
cut wil! exaet from all itinerant physi
cians a license of $2(5 a day.
The new Spanish minister's wit'..
About 2 oTclock one morning, Mr. Sar j "lks ErglLsh fluently, and is said to
A Peauliar People.
The people of Hatteras Banks are of
an ambitious nature and live so much on
and in the water that most of them, I
am sure are web-footed. They live
mainly on fish, clams, oysters, crabs,
terrapins and wild fowl. When they
leave home they go in a boat, and
whether they go to court or go courting,
or to trade, or to mill, or to a funeral,
they always go by sail. Their corn
mills are run by sails, and some of them
pump their water with windmills. They
don't go up stairs, but "go aloft ;" and
when they go to bed they "turn in ;"
when they are ill they "'are under the
weather," and when in robust health
they say they are '"bung up and bilge
free." They speak of a trimhuilt sweet
heart as "clipper built" If she is a
liitle stout they say she is "broad in the
beam," or she is "wide across the tran
som." Many of them have ships' cabin
doors in their houses, that slide on
grooves, and to their buildings they give
a coat of tar instead of painting them.
The 'old woman' blows a conch shell when
dinner is ready, and they measure time
by ' 'bells. " Their babies are not rocked
in cradles, but swung In hammocks.
They chew black pig-tail tobacco, and
drink a wild tea called "Yeopon." They
manure their land with sea grass and
bury their yam potatoes in the sand
hills. When they want the doctor they
hang a red flag against a hili side as a
signal of distress. If he don't come,
because the -wind ain't fair,'" they take
a dram of whisky and copperas, soak
their feet in sea water, "turn in," and
trust to luck. If they die they will be
buried on the top of a sand ridge ; and
when you see several sail boats on the
water in procession, with a flag at half
mast you are looking at a funeral.
Thev ornament their houses with
whales' ribs and jaws, sharks' teeth.
swordfish snoots, devilfish arms, sawfish
swords (six feet long), miniature ships,
camphor-wood chests, Honduras gourds,
spy-glasses, South American lariats, war
clubs from the Mozambique Islands,
Turkish pipes, West India shells, sandal
wood boxes, Chinese chessmen. Japa
nese faces, Madagascar idols, Australian
boomerangs, and other strange outland
ish things. I heir hogs are raised on
clams, mussels, offal ef fish and garbage,
and their cattle wade out on the shoals
for miles, where the water covers their
backs, to feed on sea-grass, and if thev
are carried up-country and fed on corn
and fodder, they will not line. '
Livery man is captain of some kind of
a boat and "she" is alvays better than
any other boat in some wav. "She is
hard to beat in a gale of wind," or "be
fore the wind,' or "beating to wind
ward, or "with the wind on the beam."
or "she can sail closer to the wind," or
will carry sail longest or is hard to beat
in a light wind," or "totes more stock,"
or is "stronger," or "dryer," or "big
ger," or "she is a big httle boat," or
draws the least water," or "needs less
ballast" or "has the best timbers," or
steers tne best," or "she is a luckv
boat," or "stands np better," or "needs
less sail than any other boat," or "she
is best for fishing," Ac. Perhaps she
'comes about better than anv other
boat" She is bound to have something
about her better than any body else's
boat '
co had been very still five minutes be- i
fore, but now Aquasco was beside itself
with excitement
But where was the fire? The first
man who reached the church pnt his
hands to his mouth aud hallooed to the
top of the bell tower, where the bell was
still clanging away. The second man
did the same aud the third called aloud
and so did the fourth. Not a word
would the person in the bell-tower an
swer, though he rang aud rang, until
all Aqnasco gathered on the grass be
low.
"The door of the steeple is locked,"
said one of the men. "Nobody under
stands it"
Maybe some rascal got locked in
there yesterday and fell asleep," said
Mr. Rankin the constable.
No, no," replied Mr. Westcoat, the
soxlon of the church, "I was np there in
tho afternoon, and there wasn't anybody
in tho tower ; it's a spirit or a goblin,
th.d's what it is !" and Mr. Westcoat
shook his head, while some of the child
ren huddled together and held their
ocrr pTn -gnbt," continued
Mr. Westcoat "Tappen was sexton
before I was, and he rang that bell up
there for twenty vears ties come
back."
Cyrus laughed when he heard the
sexton sav such tilings. Cvrus knew
very well that only cowards believed in
ghosts. He was afraid of big dogs and
drunken men, but common sense told
him that there is no such thing as a
ghost or creature of the dark of any
kind.
"Give me the keys," said a man to
the sexton, "I'll go up and stop that
ringing." The sexton fumbled in his
pocket only to find that he had left the
keys at home, a half mile away. Glad
enough to get away from the haunted
church, the sexton started after the
keys. Meanwhile the bell still rang.
Every now and then the strokes would
be faint, but the next instant would
come a loud clang, as though the old
bell didn't like such mysterious work a
bit The wind was blowing stiffly in
the tops of the toll oak tress, but all
knew that the wind conld not ring the
bell because of tho lattice work around
the belfry. While the people were
whispering together around the church
Cyrus was busy looking for a way to
get into the belfry before the sexton
should return with the keys. He knew
that there was a little round window,
just large enough for him to crawl
through, some distance up the side of
the tower, and when he at last got a
ladder that reached to this little window,
he stepped boldly np the rounds.
Til bring down that ghost before
Mr. Westcoat gets back," laughed
Cyrus, and the people could see him by
the dim starlight as he pnt his head
thi -ugh the window and disappeared.
Cyrus found himself in a queer place.
It was so dark in the belfry that he
couldn't see where to move. He groped
from one step to another, going up the
belfry stairs slowly, while the sound
from the bell above seemed to .Tash
down with tenfold clangor. He reached
the crank which the sexton turned when
ringing the belL No one was there.
"Hello ! ho, there, ho !" shouted Cy
rus directly into the bell's throat But
the bell's roar drowned his words. He
climbed still higher and soon sat among
the rafters above the bell. He reached
down and felt the air around the bell.
His hand Btruck something. O ho !
thought Cyrus. He felt the some
thing and found that it was the limb of
a tree. Following the limb with his
hand he found that the limb had thrust
itself through a big hole in the lattice
work. Every time the tall tree on the
outside rocked this limb moved quickly
forward and withdrew again. Cyrus
laughed. He had found the ghost, for
he knew that the end of the limb Lad
caught the clapper of the bell and so
that every time t -se was rocked by
the wind the clapper struck. He caught
the limb with both hands and gave a
hard, strong pull. The limb bent and
the bell stopped ringing.
In the meantime the people were
waiting anxiously below. As soon as
the bell stopped Cyrus pnt his mouth
to the hole in the lattice ; and called out
that it was all right The sexton soon
arrived with the keys, and taking a
hatchet Cyrus chopped the bothersome
limb in two. The people of Aquasco
practiao with many men who 30 years
ago would have worked hard from 9
o'clock to 6, and have taken more plea
sure in seeing their dogs work than in
making the largest bag. Another con
sequence of the want of cover which Is
now experienced on most manors is that
the practice of driving birds has come
into fashion, not only late in the season
or among Frenchmen, but early in Sep
tember and where the birds are all Eng
lish. There is no occasion to describe
this branch of the sport at any length.
The shooters are either placed in little
huts or behind screens of boughs set up
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exremponzeu, neiuuu uie laiiesi iieuge
that can le found within the probable
range of flight, and the birds are then
driven toward the gnns by as large a
party of men as can be mustered. Skill
and directions are required both in driv
ing the birds and in shooting them when
driven. Partridges are no exception to
what is the rule with almost all animals,
saper was awakened out of his slunilier
that always keejis company with an easy
conscience, by his wife poking him in
the ribs, and calling on him to hustle
out, and see what the matter was. The
door was jingling like all possessed.
Mr. Sarsaper crawled out of bed, and
after banging his nose on the door post
till the blood started, giving himself a
black eye against the corner of the man
tel, and falling down over pretty much
everything in the room, he finally made
his way to the front part of the house,
threw up a window aud peered out into
the wet and murky gloom.
"Who's tffere?" he demanded, look? g
down at the top of an umbrella.
"Me !" came iu a thick voice from the
under side of it.
"Who's me."
"Bob."
"Oh ! it's yon, is it? What's the mat
ter. Bob? anyliody siek ?"
"Oh, no. ion see I've lieen out to
some of the liovs to
help institute a lodge, and I'm just get
1 lie very agreeable in her manners.
The ? Tarqnis of Hurtiugtvu is heir
to 200,CH acres. John Bright has no
landed possessions of any aceoniit.
It is i xjiocted that the deficit this
year on a -count of the payment of ar
rears of p asions will reach i,tMH,lHK.
TliiJ ! lenilx-rs of the Paris uews
pajHT pn ss intend to raise a statue to
Victor H go in the street where he
lives.
Igr.ati. T, Russian minister of the
interior, mil recommend a reduction of
2OO,0tX,00: roubles in military exivn.li
tures. There Ls ft Chinaman doing a busi
ness in Carson City, Nevada, who pavs
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, min .mi o vnj worm oi real estate in
I Sun Francisco.
roJNises to
academy,
celebrated
The Marquis of Lome
ostabli.li a Canadian literary
somewhat aiialagons to the
Aeucleniie i rancaise.
Captain Paul Boytoii is iu Xew
York arranging for his contemplated,
1,2000 mile swim down the Mississippi,
starting at Miuueaixilis.
A block of ice melted in Charl. s
ting back. I happened to think about ' Bartine's ice chest, at Coimersville.Iud.,
that refrigerator of yours as I was going
by, and so I thought I'd stop in and sec
it, without ceremony, as you said. Come
down and let me in. I'm in a hurry to
get home, and can t stop but a minute, tain.
Mr. barsaiicr said something that ! era.
would liend the types double if we t
wasioiinu 10 contain a trog weighing a
quarter of a pound and iu gonl health.
The latest statistics show 41.fi7,000
school children iu the world, so far as
" I the census takers were enable to ascer-
iiiese nave aoout i,ih.kp,umj teach-
said of Mrs. Senator Logan
wild or tome; they are very "orkord" to should undertake to print it, and slam- tllllt at a r;cent Calln ,,. ,' '
1 the only one out of twenty-five ladies
from wine. She never
drive. Try to drive sheep through a
gateway, or even cows or horses, and tho
chances are that many of them head
back and give you a run round the field
again after them. And so it is with
biido. TJ nit-use liift Ii9e 4 uitr boaters is
formed in a proper crescent, and the
flight of the birds has been very accu
rately studied, not one covey in half a
dozen will corns the right way. When,
however, it is properly managed, and the
gnns are in good hands, the process is
murderous. Almost every bird in a
covey comes within shot of some one,
and a party of five or six guns may kill
their 30 or 40 brace in this manner'
where by the ordinary method they
would not kill a quarter of the number.
Something else, too, which we have as
yet omitted to mention has had a good
deal to do with the change which has
come over partridge-shooting during the
last few years. As the early period was
the flint period, so this third may be
styled the breech-loading period. The
quickness with which men can now load
makes them want to fire oftener, and, as
no one ever stands still to load his gun;
the dogs, where they are still used.cease
to down charge and grow wild and wil
fuL More birds are probably killed now
in good seasons than onr grandfathers
ever dreamed of. Still it can hardly be
called sport, and is certainly not com
parable with the old style of shooting,
which delighted onr forefathers, and by
which in former times so many men of
eminence have lightened the cares of
state and refreshed the overwrought
brain reeling under the weight of em
pires.
IJjrdrophob a
! mod down the window,
He remarked to Bob the next day that
for downright coolness his refrigerator
was a bake-oven compared to the prank
practised on him.
War Bone.
I was standing in the rear of the
who abstained
drinks.
The Duke of Sutherland Is men
tioned as greatly enjoying hi American
trip, repeatedly referring to the warm
hearted hospitality of the people of
America.
Washington, City Post office, one day, Mo8t, r,,,, fof
says a correspondent, and saw a youth paid taxes on his property nt East' North
drive np the queerest-looking animal I field, Vt, at a valnation of only sp) ooo
tilt T. 1 . . . . I HI. 11 V v
ever oeueiu. it was attocned to a ncK-; " " reveuuy it was put up to SoO.Ottf),
insane and committed sni-
' he became
eide.
The approximate value of the ves
sels of all nationalities, with their car
goes, lost during the year 1X79 was no
less than jC2T,5K,00, including British
property 19,230,000.
It is asserted that
ety buggy, and came on sideways, with
a half hop, skip and jump, which was
funny enough to make a mule hysterical.
The youth jnmjxnl out and brought down
a light mail-bag with him. "George
town moil," said a clerk, who saw my
look of inquiry. "Don t laugh at that j It is asserted that Krnpp cannot
horse," he added. I meet his big gun orders, viz: Uonmauia,
The animal then turned a look on me fJ' 1! , ' ' ' ''V11' and,
which seemed to remonstrate on her own I iL . j"!' Ii h,:t h aro Eur"lVs
Ijt:ih irj i
The United States sends alnrnt Sf8,-
VW1 OiWl n i.vtl. rt . 1 .1 .' il .
. course of a year, and Brazil in the same
! fiiriA Hutilu umiiu ttlO OilO OOO ..-..-il. i .
timesem!s some $59,000,000 worth to
' ii. tt..:i. l fi .i .
tun I'Uiu u maic.
account.
"You wotddn't think that httle Iwny 1
and broken down old thing had once 1
been ridden in battle and was a thor
oughbred, now, would yon ! said my j
(friend. I DiJhousie College. Nova Scot iV is
"No, I wouldn't." And yet the idea , the second university in the Dominion
seemed to invoke a respect which her . ' Canada to concede all its privileges to
appearance could never suggest She ' ." " mversity ui Kingston
was of a dun color, less than fifteen
Gottleib FJsasser, a Prussian doctor
who died in Philadelphia some time since,
gave what he said to be a never-failing
cure for hydrophobia obtained from his
uncle who was pound-master in Berlin.
Hie following is ELsasser's remedy :
'Beneath the tongue of every human lie-
ing there are two large veins, whose
blackness renders them eaiily distin
guishable. When any one is afflicted
with hydrophobia, cut these open with
a pair of small scissors or any sharp in
strument and allow the blood to trickle
out This rids the patient of the virus.
Then make a tea of lnpnlin, the seeds of
the hop vine, and give the patient a cup
ful. This will at once pnt him to sleep
without having the injurious effect that
would follow the administration of opium.
In four or five hours the patient wil!
awake. Then give him another cupful of
tea, and continue this treatment until he
has slept for twenty-hours. He will then
be entirely cured.
Why Teeth Decay.
One great cause of decayed teeth is
drinking cold liquids immediately after
having had some hot article in the month.
The heat expands the enamel covering
of the teeth, and the cold contracting
it suddenly causes it to crack, and thus
exposing to the air the structure of the
tooth proper, allows it to decay. Another
prolific cause is want of cleanliness.
Particles of food clinging to the crevices
between the teeth cause them to decay.
So you should always brush your teeth
well after eating. Do not neglect this
easily performed-duty; it will not only
serve to protect your teeth and keep
them in (rood condition, but a nice, clean
sweet mouth will have a great influence
in making yon feel well all over, while a
mouth run oi decayed toon win give yon
a bad taste, a foul breath and a rotten
month, which will tend to depress your
system and make yon feel not only im
pure to yourself, but will render yon
offensive to your companions.
hands high, thin, gaunt and bony, knee
sprung, wind-galled and her hip broken.
His ribs stood out like starvation and his
having already done so.
During the year last), the French
railway companies issued 139,000,000
tiokets-11,000,000 for first class passen
gers. 42.000.000 for second class, and
broked hip protruded in a ghastly man-" 86,(M)0,UO0 for the third class,
ner. I walked around her and returned The Virginia Historical Society iu
whence I had started : "No, I wouldn't. ' i tends to have boimd in a handsome inaii
"Yet it is a fact;" said he, and then he the valuable 'Memoirs of Columbus,'
t . i i t i i 1 iiw i i.iervviiieii io ii, oy rmninei li. Aii
gave me her story, which I have found ; u.r. i- x- v ! Mm
to be true. She was caught wild in
Mexico and was ridden by a Confederate
captain. On his being captured his horse
became government property and was
purchased by GencralRawlins, then on
General Grant's staff. By him she was
used as an alternate and was ridden in
several hot engagements. She would
carry a man with the speed of the wind
and was admired as a thoroughbred. Her
Barlow, Esq., of New York.
The Revolutionary War cost the
United States $135,193,703. flreat
Britain lost 50,000 men, incurred a debt
of jCIOO.O-W.OOO or $500,000,000, and
lost her Ame'rican colonies.
The torn crop of lfWO was rejiorted
by the U. S. Department of Agriculture
at l,537,fi'J5,000 bushels, a decreasp of
10,475,000 bushels lielow 1879, which
was the largest ever prodneel.
speed and mettle was the subject of gen- . 1 . . llA slx,."',h blr,u:
end comment Some time after the close hi3J01),Klilltm.nt f0 llis chnir at
of the war, perhaps after Rawlins are to 1 celebrated together, Octoler
death, she became the proierty of Cap-1 13, by the Medical Society of Berlin.
tiun walcott, at army headquarter. T1, Canadian Pacific Railroad has
on i. i-i ..I f i i i i i
xuroiii;u ut'urnu urraui sue was oroituiu
to the attention of General Beale
suggested as a breeder.
an excellent judge, lought
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i JJitcu ..iw .- ii.i tilt; lining OI J,lillo Vlll-
and i nee laliorers, the Northern Pacific will
TWle who is take several thousands, and 1,500 are
ht her on si-ht "'ted for railroa.1 grading in Me:
and placed her on his stock farm. Here
she had three colts, sired by "Washing
ton," then owned by Wash. Nailor, the
Washington livery man.and of which colts
"Preston" has a record of 2.21 and was
sold for $15,000. She was taken the
same care cf as Grant's blooded Arabians.
But by an unfortunate accident she had
her hip dislocated and became useless,
xico.
was afforded
So httle satisfaction
by the recent experiments in ilhiminut
mg the House of Commons with the
electric light that when the gas was
tnrned on the first night after the con
clusion, memlM-rs broke into cheers.
The Upper Mississippi lead field.
include 2.0(H), 000 acres -200,000 in Iowa,
400,000 in Northern Illinois, and 1,100,
000 in Wisconsin. The value of the
i . . i i i i i it .
It TT-l. I - t T 1 . JilWW UlllOlUlb OI jeiMl IJlMllCtHl 111 1111IL
ireeder. When General Beale . , . ,on . . ,JJr
The number of business failures for
came home from abroad he sold her for
a nominal sum and she now carries the
United States mail between Washington
and Georgetown, four trips a day (twen
ty miles) and two trips on Sunday. She
must now lie twenty-eight or thirty
years old. Her mane and tail are turn
ing gray, like a man's beard, and there
is nothing but the thin nostrils and
shapely head to give a hint of her royal
origin. Poor, broken-down, dismantled
steed of war ! It does seem as if she
should be taken ont of that mail wagon
and turned loose in the President's
grounds, where she might die in peace
and plenty and in the shadow
White House.
the first six months of this year, as an
nounced by the Mercantile Agency cf
Messrs. Dun, Wilnian k Co., is 2.8fi2.
The numlier for the first half of 1880
was 2,497, and for the same period in
1879, 4,018.
The proprietor of a Philadelphia
hotel has called down the wrath of ac
tresses njion his head by liscriminating
against them. He has issued an order
that they shall receive no male guests
in their riMims, though that privilege is
not denied to other women.
A ladv in Taunton,' Mass., received
recently from Europe a bouquet con-
j I tuning, it is claimed, a clover from
uie Qjjofgg Eiijot'g grave, a violet from Mel
rose Abliey, a buttercup from De Quin-
i cey's grave, a sprig of ivy from Walter
Tin, silver and lead in paying quan- Scott's old home at Ablxit-dord, and a
tities have been discovered near Hwaco, I blneliell from the grave of Helen Mac
Oregon, gregor, near Loch Lomond.
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