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MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY, PENNA., TODNESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1SS1.
NO. 33.
WHAT OF THAT?
- Tired! WetL what of thai?
lHilst fancy life wu pent on bait of ease.
nattering tbe root love, acattete J by the urease?
Come, rouae thee I work wnlle It la called H-dajr 1
Coward, ariae ! go forth upon thy way I
Lonely 1 And what of thatt
Some niiut be lonely ! tia not given to all
To feel a heart responsive riae and fall.
To blend another life into It, own.
Work may be done in loneuneaa. Work on.
Darkl Well, what of that
Pidrt fondly dream the ran would never aetT
Doat fear to lose toe way? Take courage yet !
Learn thon to walk by faith, and not by aight ;
Thy steps will guided be, and guided right.
Hard 1 Well, what of that 7
lHdst fancy life one anmmer holiday.
With teaaona none to learn, and naught but play T
Go, get thee to thy task ! Conquer or die t
It most be learned 1 Learn It, then, patiently.
No help 1 Nay, tia not ao 1
Though human help be far, thy God la nigh.
Who feed, the ravena, near, hia children cry,
Bel near thee, wheresoe'er thy f ootatepa roam ;
And He will guide thee, light thee, help thee home.
THE V1XLACK OAK.
Dunn't nobody tell me ! When the
Trevors oomed to these pearta, sentries
ago, the Squoire if they called them
squoires in them times brought with
him a fair young bride. So, when theer
son an' heir was born, theer was foin
Join's, and the mother, in "memoration,
planted the aoorn from which has corned
' that oak. The rooks that cawed in the
elms then have died the elms theer
selves has died but theers the oak, hale
and hearty. The lightnin' struck it, the
wind blowed it ; yet theer it stands
firm as ever, and while it do, the Trevors
will be sqnoires at the Hall !"
The speaker was the old sexton. He
had just closed the vault of the Trevors,
and, with spade and mattock on shoul
der, stood among the graves in the
shadows of the ancient, square-turreted
church in which Squire Trevor had that
dav been laid to rest.
"That, my frieni is, T suppose, the
superstition ? smiled the new near.
scanning the old church with the look of
an antiquary.
"Superstition ! 'Well, if the truth be
superstition, perhaps it is, sir."
"At any rate, the present Squire, they
say, is different enough from his uncle
a spendthrift, or worse.
"Mabbe. The Trevors have all been
'a bit wild at first ; but they settle down,
you see, sir they settle down when
thev marry. Squire Mann' duke will
marry and settle down, like the rest."
"It is to be hoped so," said the vicar,
Juudlv.
"At any rate, he'll marry ; that you
may be Bure, for he's the last Trevor, he
is, and the family's bound to live as long
as the village oak. Now. sir, I've
locked all np. p'r'aps I may go?"
"Certainly, my friend. Good even
ing r
The sexton, his opinion of the new
vicar by no means raised by this con
versation, plodded his way to the ale
house.
The vicar, his head bowed, his hands
liehind his back, went slowly through
the peaceful churchyard, crossed the
road, and entered the icarage garden.
The blinds that had been lowered out
of respect to the defunct Squire were
still down ; but approaching the long
window, which was open, the vicar put
back the blinds, and stepped into
charmingly cool room pleasant with the
odor of fresh rose leaves.
-i The oecnpants of the apartment were
a prettv girl, with brown, soft eyes,
small, delicate features, and chestnut
hair, and a young man, owning a pleas
ant, manly, countenance, and a well
shaped, easy figure.
As the vicar s shadow had fallen on
the blind, the young man had moved so
far away from his fair companion s work
table that, aided by the heightened
color of the lady's cheek, that action
was more suspicious than his close
proximity to the piece of furniture.
. "Hullo. Ned ! found us out already ?'
aid the vicar, with a smile.
The fact is, sir," replied the young
man. returning the warm hand-pressure,
"your description of the old church, the
place and especially that village oak,
was too tempting for me to resist. I
made leisure, packed up my knapsack,
and came down."
"Ah! I understand," remarked the
vicar, drily, and he did understand very
well. "The attraction, no doubt, is
great to an artist;" "and his glance
wandered tobia pretty daughter." "By
the way, Jennie," he proceeded, "I
have a contribution to your album of
Family Superstitions.' That village
oak has one twined about its ancient
branchoa."
"Has it really, papa?" she smiled,
leaning upon his shoulder. "What is
it?"
Ned Graham also showed much inter
est, and the vicar told what the old sex
ton had said.
"Why," laughed the artist, "there is
a capital subject for either a picture or a
poem."
"Then, I suppose, papa," said Jennie,
"if one night the old oak on the green
were to blown down, there would be an
end of "
"Mr. Trevor, sir H said the servant,
opening the door.
A merry glance passed between the
young people. .
"Exactly!" smiled the vicar, as he
rose and went into the library, where
the new Squire awaiivd him.
The Squire was a handsome man of
about thirty, but with the expression of
one whose time had never been well
employed. The eyes were bold and
dark, the mouth dogged more than
determined.
'As the only heir to the late Squire,
who had died a childless widower,
Marmaduke Trevor had led a wild, reck
less London life, aware that his future
was assured.
The death of his uncle had suddenly
aroused him from an existence aa idle as
dissipated, and he had hastened- down
to the HalL
He was by no means loth to take
possession, and had already formed
plans for a merry future ; but the drear
solitude of the place at present was un
bearable to one accustomed to a succes
sion of amusements.
So, using his own words to Mr. Cath
cart, "He had taken the liberty of
throwing himself upon the vicar's
hospitality,"
"Indeed you are welcome, Squire !"
the clergyman rejoined. "No doubt
you do find it dull, especially to-day.
I his quiet slumbrous village is a strik
mg contract for one used to the Great
City. We will go into the drawing
room. There are younger people there,
who will make it, no doubt more cheer
ful for you."
The Squire readily assented, and for
the first tune, beheld Jennie Cathcart
in whose society he had not been long
before he felt toward her as he had
never before felt to any woman.
Seated talking with the vicar, his
looks followed her everywhere, but
lowered darkly a he detected the evi
dently high place that Ned Graham held
in her regard.
"That fellow will be an obstacle to
my success with Miss Cathcart," re
flected the Squire. "Yet perhaps not
Women are ambitious, and, to become
mistress of Trevor Hall, would be
great temptation. Yet, supposing some
engagement exists between these two,
and the girl holds to it ? Then I should
admire her the more, and be the more
determined to make her my wife !
The days passed on, and the Squire's
vishto to the Vicarage were frequent.
Ned Graham, the artist, did not like
it, and so told Jennie. She, however,
laughed at him.
However, it was not long before the
artist's words were verified. One morn
ing, Marmaduke Trevor, appearing early
at the Vicarage, requested to be allowed
a few words in private with the vicar.
When closeted together in the study,
he confessed the passion with which
Jennie had inspired him, and proposed
for her hand.
Mr. Cathcart sat a while silent. He
had listened in surprise with regret.
His silence, the perplexity marked on
his visage inspired the Squire with con
fidence. Evidently the poor parson was
overwhelmed by an offer so unlocked
for.
"Surely, Mr. Cathcart," he remarked,
"you must from the first have seen the
impression your pretty daughter made
upon me ?
"Had I, Squire," broke in the vicar,
quietly and rousing himself, "I should
have felt a guilty man in your presence
at this moment I declare to yon I had
not the least idea. It never crossed my
mind that you ever would have desired
so to honor my family. Had it, believe
me, I would at once have informed you
of that which, with much pain, I must
now tell you."
A dark shadow fell on the Squire s
face.
"And that ?" he asked.
"My daughter is engaged already;
has been so for six months, to "
"Spare me his name!" interrupted
the Squire, raising his hand. "Yon
mean the artist 1 have met here. 1
knew from the first he was my rival.
But it is woman's privilege to change,
Mr. Cathcart as they should be, women
at times are ambitions."
"That is true, unfortunately ; but I
trust not Jennie. Yet, in justice to her;
let it be she who decides. She is in the
morning-room, Squire. H she consents,
I can answer for Mr. Graham relinquish
ing his claim, and for my accepting you
as a son-in-law."
"I thank you. I will, at least try."
The vicar watched him from the room ;
then, with some anxiety, waited his re
turn.
Could Jennie would she be dazzled
bv his offer? J '
Not a quarter of an hour had passed
when a quick step on the gravel path
caused the vicar to look through the
window towards it It was the Squire
leaving the Vicarage.
I knew it !" ejaculated the clergy
man, with almost a cry of joy.' "I knew
I was not wrong about Jennie. Come
in," for there was a tap at the door, and
hia daughter entered.
Oh, papa !" she ejaculated, in sad
reproof, "why did you send the Squire
tome?"
"For your sake and his, my darling,"
answered the vicar, taking her in his
arms. "And your reply, Jennie ?"
"What could it be, papa ? How could
I be untrue to Ned ? What wealth and
position could compensate me for his
love?"
Neither Jennie nor the vicar would
have commiserated the Squire as they
did, had they seen his dark, lowering
looks, and if they could have read his
thoughts, as he proceeded through the
Trevor woods.to the HalL
Thus stood matters when October ar
rived. The evening of the ninth was
dark, heavy, oppressive ; and the Squire
wiped the perspiration from his brow,
as he stood among the slumbrous woods,-
waiting for whom? Evidently this
poaching, hang-dog looking follow that
came slouching toward him for on his
appearance he made a step or two for
ward. "I am here, Squire," he said doggedly
touching his hat, but keeping a few feet
distant "I trusted yer. Still," with a
swift glance among the trees, "ef yer've
got any of yer darned keepers in hidin',
let 'em look out, an' yer, too, Squire ;
rfl die game!"
"Have no fear, said the otner,
Come nearer SUcpool I am alone."
After a moment's hesitation, the man
complied.
"Listen tome, proceed we nquire,
in low but firm accents! "Do you know
the artist, Edward Graham ?"
"Him as is going to marry the vicar's
daughter?" m
"Yes," with a fierce spasm of the fea
tures. ' "He returns here to-morrow
night The roads are lonely. ' I hate
him ! If he never reaches the Vicarage
alive, your passage to Australia is
assured, and plenty of gold besides. Do
you understand?"
"Who wouldn't?" retorted the
poacher.
Wild and black was the evening of the
next day. A gale of wind such as never
had been experienced for years swept
across the land. No rain fell, but vivid
was the lightning that shot down now
and again from the clouds.
For reasons of his own, indeed, that
no suspicion might rest on him, the
Squire had passed the day at a town in
a contrary direction to Saroombe, but,
tortured by anxiety, and eager to learn
Stacpool's success, 'having an appoint
ment with him at ten, despite the
weather, ho had mounted his horse, di
recting its head towards the HalL
Soon he was far from the town, in the
darkness of the land, the fierce wind
tearing around him, making his horse
stagger, and his own seat unsteady.
More than once the animal had reared
at the lightning. All who know any
thing of horses are aware of the brief
space there is between fear and panic.
Just where the road was densest and
wildest a vivid flash rent the clouds
setting, as it seemed the whole earth on
fire, followed by a fearful crash of
thunder, so unparalleled that it made the
strongest hearts tremble.
The Squire's horse reared, uttering a
scream, then, with dilated eyeballs,
dashed on, the bit betwixt its teeth.
That fearful crash aroused the whole
village. Jennie Cathcart, alarmed and
scared, reflected how pleased she was
that Ned had sent a message deferring
his return until the morning.
. The old sexton had sprung fairly from
his bed. '
" Bless us, missis !" he ejaculated ;
"sure the world s corned to an end !
Save us, what a gust of wind !"
"It surely is !"" said the sexton, grop
ing his way to the casement
Then he gave a loud cry, for before
him, clear to the other side of the green,
was space.
"Alack, man ! what is it ?" cried his
wife.
"The village oak is down ! It's down !
Woe, woe, then, to the Trevors !" he an
swered. Woe, indeed ! -
The next morning broke calm and
glorious. The wind sobbed gently, as
if repentant for the havoc it had done ;
but gloom rested over - the village, as
the people grouped about the fallen
monarch.
"WhoU tell the Squire?" whispered
the sexton. :J
Who?
Stay ! Who were these people coming
yonder?
Servants in the Trevor livery, hastily
put on, and bearing somethiug between
them ! . '
As they drew near the oak, the vil
lagers gathered round ; the sexton, as
usual, first '
It was a man, pale and still, they car
ried.
"The Squire!" cried the sexton,
throwing up his arms.
It was so.
His horse, shivering and foam flecked,
had been found outside the stable door
that morning riderless. The servants,
alarmed, had started in search, and
found Marmaduke Trevor dead on the
road.
Which fell first, none knew ; but the
sexton always affirmed that it was the
village oak.
A Mytewj of th Mountain.
The San Jacinto mountains are located
in the northeastern portion of San Diego
county, and form the southern boundary
of the San Gorgonio pass. The region
is a very wild and rough one, and ex
tremely difficult to explore. There ex
ists in one portion of these mountains a
natural or supernatural curiosity, the
source of which has never yet been ex
plained, although many attempts have
been made to solve the mystery. At
irregular intervals a heavy report re
sounds through the region, which can
be likened only to that of the largest
cannon itensified tenfold. The concus
sion produced is such as to wake a per
son from the soundest sleep, shaking
and rattling everything in the house
more than is done by any ordinary earth
quake. Sometimes days elapse between
these reports, and on other occasions as
many as three or four are heard in one
aight that being the favorite time for
their occurrence. This irregularity has
operated to defeat all efforts made to dis
cover the exact locality of the phenom
enon. By the Indians of the region
this if called "Tah-quish,"or the devil.
They have many traditions concerning
it; and manifest the utmost reluctance
to make any search for the exact spot
One old Tidum, supposed to be upward
of a century in age, claims to have acci
dentally discovered the spot one day
while hunting in his younger days. He
described it as simply a dark tunnel run
ning into the aide of the mountain, and
having the appearance at the entrance
of having been exposed to much heat
Many offers have been made and large
rewards offered to this Indian to per
suade him to conduct some white man
to the place, but without success. The
most common tradition with the aborig
ines is that old "Tah-quish" comes out
of his evidently uncomfortable residence
below for the purpose of obtaining a
breath of fresh air, and that becoming
alarmed at something he retires in haste,
slamming the door after him, whkh pro
duces the report referred to.
Daniel Tfebsteia First Flea.
Ebcnezer Webster, father of Daniel, waa
a farmer. The vegetables in h i garden
buffered considerably from the depredation.
or a woodchsck whose hole and habitation
was near the premipas. Daniel, some tea
years old, and his brother had set a trap.
and at last succeeded in catching the tres
passer. Ezeaiel proposed to kill tbe animal
and end at once all further trouble with
him ; but Daniel looked with compassion
upon his meek, dumb captive, and offered
to let bun go. The bovs could not agree.
and each appealed to their father to decide
tie case. ' -
" Well, my boys." said the old gentleman.
" I will be tbo judge aad you shall be the
counsel to plead the case for and against
his lire and liberty."
Ezekiel opened the case with a strong
argument, urging the mischievous nature
of the animal, the great harm he bad already
done, said that much time and labor had
been spent in his capture, aid"now if suf
fered to go at large, he would renew his
depredations, and be cunning enough not
to be caught again, and that he ought now
to be put to death ; that his skin was of
some value, and that, make the most of
bm they could, it would not repay half
the damage be had already done. His ar
gument was ready, practical and to the
point, end of much greater length than our
limit will allow us to occupy in relating
the story.
1 he father looked with pride upon hi
eon, who became a distinguished jurist in
lus manhood.
"How, Daniel, it's your turn ; I'll hear
what you've got to say."
It was his first case. Daniel saw that
the plea of his brother had sensibly affected
bis lather, tbe judge ; and his large, bril
liant black eyes rested upon the soft, timid
expression of the animal, and he saw it
trembled with fear in its narrow prison
bouse. His heart swelled with pity, and
be appealed with eloquent words that the
captive might go free. God, he said, had
made the woodchuck. lie made him to
live, to enjoy the bright sunshine, the pure
air, the fields and woods God had not
made him or anything in vaiD. The
woodchuck had as much right to live as
any other living thing ; he was not a de
structive animal, like the wolf ; he simply
ate a few eouiinon vegetables, of which
they had plenty, and could well spate a
part; he destroyed nothing except the little
food be ate to sustain bis humble life; and
that little food was as sweet to him and as
necessary to his existence as was to them
the food on their mother's table, God fur
nished their own food. He gave them all
they possessed, and would they not spare
a Utile for a dumb creature who really had
as much right to his small share of God's
bounty as they themselves were to their
portioa? Yea. more, the animal had
never violated the laws of his nature, or
the laws of God, as man often did, but
strictly followed the si.-nple in-ttincts be
had received from the Creator of all things.
Created by God's hands, he had a right to
deprive him cf either, lie alluded to the
mute but earnest pleadings of the animal
for that life as dear to him as were their
own, and the just judgment they might
expect if, in selii-h cruelty and cold heart
cdnesa, they took the life they could not
restore again.
During the appeal the tears had started
in the old man's eyes, aud were fast run
ning down his sunburnt cheeks. Every
feeling of a father's heart was stirred
within him, aud he felt that God had
blessed him beyond tbe lot of common
men. II is pity was awakened by the elo
quent words of compassion aad the strong
appeal for mercy; and, forgetting the
judge in the man and the father, he sprang
from his chair (while Daniel was in the
midst of his argument, without thinking
be bad already won his case), and turning
to hi eldest son, dashing the tears from
his eyes, he exclaimed : "Zke, Zeke, you
let that woodchuck go!" :
About Some Fnh.
On board a United States vessel, in
1873, while sailing south, a dolphin was
caught which was of unusual size, some
four feet six inches long. It is exceed
ingly interesting to examine the stomach
of all fish. In this dolphin, however,
nothing very curious turned up, though
the voracity of the fish was quite evident
when the contents of the stomach were
exposed. A lot of coal cinders was found,
and at least a half pound of three-inch
wrought iron noils. An explanation of
how the fish had f wallowed such
strange and indigestible hardware was
readily found. The ship's cook was in
the habit of cleaning out his stove every
morning at half-past four o'clock, and
hod lieen burning a quantity of passen
gers' old berth boards, which hod been
held togehtor by wrought fronnoils.mix
ed up with the cinders, which the dol
phin hod swallowed.
An instance of voracity of a similar
character may be told of a shark. In
the spring of 18C1, while at anchor off
the coast of Georgia, a ship's crew
amused themselves by fishing, Their
luck was poor, For some days all the
lines were severed, and there waa no
sport A pilot told us that a tiger shark
was under our bottom, and that it had
taken all our bait We sot to work to
catch it A shark hook was baited with
a piece of pork, and this soon brought
it to grief. We rigged a running bow
line a kind of nautical lasso slipped it
over its head, and soon had it hauled on
board, stern foremost. After severing
its vertebral column, we disemboweled
the monster. The contents of the shark's
stomach were exposed to view. Among
many minor items were several large
lumps of clay.fnUy a peck of beef bones,
many fish hoots, with pieces of the lines
belonging to us, two horse-shoe crabs
seven inches wide, pieces .f stones, prob
ably ballast, and a half-worn boot The
inquisitiveness of the writer led him to
examine the boot most carefully, to find
out what had been the effect of the gas
tric juices on the leather and the noils.
On the "uper" some few spots of green
were visible. This was determined to be
green paint The evidences were that
somebody hod been engaged in painting
a short time before. But had the painter
dropped overboard from some vessel?
hod he been swallowed by the shark ? and
was this boot all that remained of the
man? ,
The intelligence of fish remains as yet
an unwritten chapter, which requires fu
ture study. What instincts we may al
low birds in their migrations are followed
out even more miraculously by fish. If
birds can see land-marks, it is not . im
probable that the water fish can be
guided by their eyes. Think of the shad
in Chinese waters whieh mount np from
the sea to the head of river two thou
sand miles distant from the ocean! There
must be exceeding intelligence in tbe
black bass, which protects her young as
valiantly as does a hen her chicks. Think,
too, of that fish which secures his food
by a co-ordination which is really not
equaled by any other creature! Tko fish
sees an insect on a leaf or spear of grass
overhanging the water. It rises to the
surface, sights the Insect aa a rifleman
woula his weapon of . precision.
and unerringly fires a tlrop of
water, which never misses the tiny
mark the insect, which knocked
off its perch by the globule of water,
falls into the stream, and is swallowed.
The assumption that fish possess-
great amount of natural intelligence
need not be doubted! A certain sagacity
is absolutely necessary in order to enable
fish to overcome the difficulties they
must encounter in obtaining food. An
instance of this character may be cited.
Near the Marquesas Islands the peace
ful waters abound in fish and birds.
There are constant schools of flying fish
and bonitos. The latter exist almost en
tirely on the former. The flying fish,
by clever flying, are always endeavoring
to escape the jaws of the bonitos; while
the devourers are up to all kinds of stra
tagems to circumvent their agile prey,
The bonitos seem to study the curve the
flying fish will take in the air, and the
deflection caused by the wind, and,
shooting across in a straight line, will
catch the flying-fish as he touches th
water at the end of his night On one
occasion, when the sea was smooth and
the wind light, opportunity was taken to
throw out a surface dredge, in order to
secure specimens. This dredge was made
of gauze. For several evenings in suc
cession it was observed that shortly after
sundown there were to be seen on the
surface of the water numbers of flying
fish. Many of them were caught in the
dredge, and when taken out were found
to be disabled or dead. This occurrence
was so remarkable that the writer was
led to ask the reason why, and at once
set about finding the cause. Watching
the sea from a position taken on the bow
of the ship as she was slowly surging
through the water, he observed a large
school of bonitos, which separated into
three divisions. One took position di
rectly ahea l of the ship, the other at
some distance on either bow. Presently
tbe portion of the school on starboard
attracted attention by a disturbance on
the surface. They were seen driving a
school of flying-fish, who, to avoid the
bonitos, tried to pass ahead of the ship,
bnt they were prevented from doing so
by the school of fish on the larboard
side. Frightened, then by the bonitos
advancing toward them and flanking
them on both sides, they took wing, and,
after a few moments of hesitation, flew
directly toward the ship's bow, always
pursued by their enemies. They were
corraled to their fate. Hundreds were
dashed against the ship's prow, and fell
into the water, maimed or killed, to be
immediately gobbled by the bonitos, who
waited the ship's coming, passing astern
to gorge themselves on their victims.
This act was plainly observable from the
stern of the ship, where the movements
of the bonitos could be studied.
Gently Hlntod.
He was lately married, and had no
more idea of what an article of a wom
an's dress costs than aa elephant has of
a humming bird ; so when his young wife
gently hinted one morning that she must
have a new spring bonnet he looked
pleased, and blandly told her to get
something nice and have the bill sent a
round to the store, and he gave her a
good-bye kiss and said he wanted his
little wife to look as well as the rest
and went off humming a Sunday-school
air. He had been to missionary meet
ing the night before, and, pleased with
the sermon, had promised a liberal do
nation to the collecting agent when
he called, as he had announced he
would on that day ; so he took twenty
five dollars and inclosed it in an envelope,
with "From a friend" on the outside,
and then tucked five dollars into his vest
pocket to pay for his wife's bonnet "I
don't suppose it will cost more than half
of that My hats never do, and they
last a whole year, but perhaps the gew
gaws may come to that," he soliloquized.
About five o'clock p. M. a small boy ap
peared carrying a box, and the lately
married man took the five dollars out of
his pocket and asked for the bill. "It's
inside with the bundle," he said. The
master of ceremonies opened the box and
looked vaguely in. "I don't see any
bonnet," he said. The boy looked on
and grinned. "It's there," he said, "in
the corner ; it's a little un." The hus
band took it out tenderly with his thumb
and forefinger. It looked like a gold
horseshoe a hand's breadth of tinsel
with a tri-colored feather. He picked
up the bill ; twenty-five dollars ! Phew 1
The senior partner of the firm was mak
ing np the- day's account when a frantic
individual rushed into his private office
and exclaimed: "Look here, Smith, look
at this!" "I see," said Smith, calmly,
It's a new bonnet" "Heaven! do they
cost like that? Why why didn't you
tell me so before before it was too late?"
"It would have made no difference;
that is one of Mme. La Mode's imported
bonnets, you see. I know ; it's an old
story to me, and if you don't let her have
it, now that she has picked it out; shell
be wretched and so will you; it is really
cheap at that price see?" He thought
he did; he groaned and walked out
Then he took the twenty-five dollars out
of the envelope and paid the boy and
put the five dollars in hia vest pocket
with the envelope and laid it away.
When the agent called for help for the
missions the young man thrust the in
closure into his hand muttering some
thing like "Charity begins at home" as
he )vd found by experience.
A EgypMaja Lady and Geatlewuui.
Egyptian men of all ranks shaved their
needs and their entire faces, except some
times a portion of their chin, from which
snort square board was allowed to de
pend. The barter was in attendance on
the great lord every morning, to remove
any hair that bad grown, and trim his
beard, if he wore one. The lord's wig
was auo under hi superintendence. This
consisted of numerous smail curls, fastened
carefully to a reticulated groundwork.
jrhich allowed the heat of the head free
escape. The dress, even of the highest
class, was simple. It consisted, primarily,
of the shenti. or kilt, a short garment,
folded or fluted, which was worn around
the loins, and fastened in front with a gir
dle. The material might be linen or wool
len, according to the state of the weather
or the wearer's inclination. Over this the
great lord invariably wore an ample robe
ot fine linen, reaching from the shoulders
to the ankles, and provided with full
sleeves, which descended nearly, if Dot
quite, to the elbows. A second grdle,
which may have been of leather, confined
the outer drees about the waist The arms
and lower parts of the legs were left bare :
and in the earliest times the feet were also
bare, sandals being unknown: but they
came into fashion at the beginning of the
flrth dynasty, and thenceforward were or
dinarily worn by tbe rich, whether men or
women. They were either of leather lined
with cloth, or of a sort of basket work
composed of palm leaves or the stalks of
the papyrus. The shape varied at differ
ent periods. Having dressed himself, with
the assistance r.f his valet the Egyptian
lord put on his ornaments, which consisted
commonly of a collar of beads or a chain of
gold round the neck, armlets and bracelets
of gold, inlaid with lapis lazuli and tur
quoise, round the arms, anklets of the same
character round the ankles, and rings upon
the fingers of both bands. Thus attired.
the lord took his baton or stick, and, quit
ting his dressing room made his appearance
in the salon or eating apartment.
Meanwhile bis spouse had performed her
own toilet, which was naturally somewhat
more elaborate than her husband s. Egyp-
n ladies wore their own hair, which
grew in great abundance, and must have
occupied the tire-woman for a considerable
period. A double-toothed comb was used
for combing it and it may also have been
brushed, though hair brushes have not been
discovered. Ultimately, it was separated
into numerous distinct tresses, and plaited
by threes into thirty or forty fine plaits,
which were then gathered into three mis
ses, one behind tbe head, and the others at
either side of tbe face, cr else were allowed
to fall In a single continuous ring round
the head and shoulders. After it had been
thus arranged, the hair was conSaed by a
fillet er by a head dress made to imitate
tbe wings, back and (ail. and even some
times the head, of a vulture. On their
bodies, some females wore only a single
garment, which was a petticoat either tied
at the neck or supported by straps over the
skjuldera, and reaching f om the neck or
breast to the ankles; but those of the up
per class had first over this, a colored sash
passed twice round the waist and tied in
front and secondly, a large, loose robe,
made of the finest linen, with full, open
sleeves reaching to the elbow. They wore
sandals from the rame date as men, and
had similar ornaments, with the addition
cf ear rings. These often manifested an
elegant taste, being in the form of serpents
or terminating in the heads of animals or
of goddesses. The application of cohl or
stibium to the eyes aeems to have formed
an ordinary part ot the toilet
Tobaeoa Pipe.
A collection oi tobacco pipes, now on
view in London, is one of tbe most inter
esting of minor art exhibitions. The col
lection includes specimens of all countries,
and belonging to many periods, of the
graven images and idols of clay which Iiave
been dedicated to the worship of tobacco.
From France come pipes of Sevres made
in the national porcelain factory; from
Germany old Dresden Pipes and the pipe
formerly smoked by the giant In the pro
cession of tbe guilds at Cologne; from
Holland several hundreds of the aesthetic
clay called " Early Dutch," collected by
II err Van der Want, Master of the Pipe
makers' Guild at Gouda. The Dutch con
tribution includes also specimens of the
bridegrooms' pipes, clay ornamented with
ribbons, which the farmer of the polder
smokes on the day of his wedding and then
lays by on the shelf, to be taken down once
a year when the aniversary comes round of
the momentous occasion. Tbe pipe is re
garded with great interest by smokers as
an example of tbe various uses which to
bacco serves in calming feelings of ecstatic
joy and mitigating the pangs of regret
There are 700 early English pipes; Scandi
navian pipes, with modern runes inscribed
upon them ; Siberian bowl?, the consola
tion of the exile, mtde of bard wood and
mammoth ivory; Basque pipes, and tbe
costly meerschaum and amber toys smoked
by pachas in then seraglios. Ninety-six
ef the Japanese pipes arc in Ivory, twenty-
four in wood, horn, rock crystal, agate.
etc. The carvings illustrate the social iifc
of Japan in Its most amusing relations.
One pipe, which formerly belonged to
Enomoto, forter brother of the Emperor,
bean the imperial symbols, and the central
portion it entirely inlaid with gold. The
bowli are extremely smalL A pipe con
tains merely whiff. A piece of tobacco
is rolled up to the size of a pea, and one
long, soothing exhalation exhausts it. The
smoke is retained for some time in the
lungs, as usual, in the East, it is no mat
ter of surprise that, according to the narra
tive of the Earl of Elgin's mission, a Ja
panese will smoke fifty such pipes in a
morning. From China come the opium
pipes, which balance the finances of Iadia
tubes of jade or tortoise shell, bowls of
silver and enamcL Hookahs from India,
the calumets of peace and war from North
America, tbe pipes of the Aztecs and the
Carlos, the latter called " tobacco," whence
the European name of the weed originally
consumed in them is said to be derived ;
pipes smoked at the great "customs" in
Central Africa, the sperm whale's teeth
carved into bowls, pipes from Caledonia
and New Guinea, are also to be seen.
WTondera of Broom Cora.
Broom corn is likely at no distant day
to revolutionize the breadstuff supply of
the world. A process has been discov
ered by which the finest and most deli
cious flour can be made from the seed
to the extent of one-half its weight and
leave the other half a valuable food for
making beef and milk. The average
yield per acre is three hundred bushels,
and in many instances five hundred
bushels, or thirty thousand pounds,have
been secured. Nor does it exhaust the
soil as Indian corn, from the fact that it
feeds from the deeper soil, and assimi
lates ita food from a cruder state. It
belongs to the same genus aa the sweet
cane, commonly known as sorghum.
wnicn aa an article oi food is crowing
rapidly in public esteem, and from the
seed of which a most nutritious flour can
m obtained.
The Great Mono Fare.
Six miles of continual ascent have
brovght us to profile lake, writes Somuei
Adams Drake. Although a pretty
enough piece of water, it is not for itself
this lake is resorted to by the thousands.
or for the trout which you take from the
reflection of tmls on its burnished sur
face, but for the mountain rising high
above it, whose wooded slopes it so faith
fully mirrors. Xow lift the eyes to the
bare summit It is difficult to talieve
the evidence of the senses. Upon the
high elms of this mountain is the remark
able and celebrated natural rock-sculp
ture of a human head, which, from a
height of 1,200 feet alxive the lake, has
for uncounted agea looked with the same
stare down the pass upon the windinirs
of the river through its incompstrable
valley, lhe profile itself measures about
forty feet from the tip of the chin to the
flatted crown, which imparts to it such
a peculiory antiqne appearance. - It is
perfect except that the forehead is con
cealed by something like the visor of
ueimet. And all this illusion is pro
duced by several projecting crags. It
might be said to have been begotten by
a tnunder bolt.
Taking a seat with a rustic arltor on
the high shore of the lake, one is at lib
erty to pursue at leisure what, I dare
say, is the most extraordinary sight of a
life-time. A slight change of position
varies more or less the character of the
expression, which is, after all, the mark
ed peculiarity ot this monstrous altore-
lievo; for, let the spectator turn his gaze
vacantly upon the more familiar objects
at hand, as he inevitably will, to assure
himself, that he is not the victim of some
strange hallucination, fascination born
neither of admiration nor a horror, but
strongly partaking of both emotions,
draws him irresistibly back to the Dan
tesque head struck like a felon's on the
highest battlements of the pass. The
more you may have seen, the more your
feelings are disciplined, the greater the
confusion of ideas. The moment is come to
acknowledge yourself vanquished. This
is not merely a face, it is a portrait
That is not the work of some chisel, but
a cast from a living head. You feel and
will always maintain that those features
have had a living and breathing coun
terpart Nothing more, nothing less.
But where and what was the original
prototype? Not man; since ages before
he was created the chisel of the Almighty
wrought this sculpture upon the rock
aliove us. No, not man; the face is too
majestic, too nobly grand, for anything
of mortal mold. One of the antique gods
may, perhaps, have set for this arche
type of the coming man. And yet not
man, we think, for the head will surely
hold the same strange converse with fu
turity when man shall have vanished
from the face of the earth. Hod Bvron
visited this place of awe and mystery,
his "Manfred," the scene of which is
laid among the mountains of the Bernese
Alps, woidd doubtless have had a deeper
perhaps a more sinister, impulse, but
even among those eternal realms of ice
the poet never lcheld an object that
could so arouse the gloomy exaltation
he has breathed in that tragedy.
This gigantic silhouette, which has
been christened The Old Man of the
Mountain, is unquestionably the great
est curiosity ot this or any other moun
tain region. But it is not merely curi
ous; nor is it more marvelous for the
wonderful accuracy of onthne than for
the almost superhuman expression of
frozen terror it eternally fixes on the
vague and shadowy distance a far-away
look, an intense and speechless amaze
ment, such as sometimes settles upon
the face of the dying, untranslatable
into words, but seeming to declare the
presence of some unutterable vision too
bright and dazzling for mortal eyes to
behold. The face puts the whole world
behind it . -
Bells in Barman..
The love of bells in Bnrmoh is some
what remarkable. Every large pagoda
has some dozen of them, of all sizes,
hanging round tho skirts of the Zaydee,
image houses, and Zayata. One or two
were put up with the building itself;
others have been added in various times
by the religious. Most of them "have
long Pali inscriptions on them recording
the praises of the Lord and the aspira
tions of the giver. Here and there ore
few with Burmese dedications, pre
sented by the poor, simple jungle peo
ple, the monks in whose district did not
know Pali, or had the grace to say they
were not learned enough to write an
original composition in that language.
Every Bnrnian has learned a certain
number of Pali formuhe, to enable him
to worship at the pagoda; but few even
of the most renowned Tsadaus have any
thing like a thorough knowledge of the
sacred language. Hence, when there is
a modest monk in the Kyonng, the sim
ple cultivators have to fall bock on their
own vernacular, and produce plaintive
appeals like the following; "This bell
was made with great care and much ex
pense, and is presented by Monng Tsang
Yah, of the hamlet of Nga Pay Oh, in
the township of Maoobin, and Mahmah
Gyee his wife, who seek refuge in the
boundless morcy of the pitiful Buddha,
in the majesty of the eternal law. and in
the venerable assembly, the three gems.
They visit the precious things faithfully
on the appointed days. Applaud, ye
pious. They humbly strive to gain for
themselves merit May the good Nats
whojguord the forest and the field look
smilingly on them, and guard the poor
man's crops. May the Nats who dwell
in the air and the earth defend from evil
things the two fat bullocks which plough
the fields. May the guardian Nats of
the house and the city keep from harm
the Chit Oo, their son, and little Mah
Mee, their darling daughter. And may
the merit of this offering be halved with
their children. May the excellent Lord
pity them; the holy Assembly receive
them. So shall Mount Tson Yah and
Mah Mah Gyee gain much merit and
rejoice in presenting this belL Weight
seventy-five
-Since January, Chicago Las hmlif
619 cases of small pox.
The Emperor William of Germany j
ha. gone to Wiesbaden.
Australia is gazing at a comet sup-'
posed to be that of 1861. ' I
General Moltke sleeps only three i assessed at $36,500,000 for himself,
hours out of the twenty-four. I $20,500,000 as trustee for J. W.
The Duchess of Edinborg has re-jMackey. Mr. Charles Crocker is as
turned to England from Russia. 1 aessed at $20,000,000.
NEWS IN BRIEF.
- T. IL Tibbies, the advocate or fus
Poncas, has married "Bright Eyes."' J"
Affr-r- paying his debt' Lord Bi a
consfivlu's estate foots np 300,000. -
Pritcewi Louise la expected to r tirrn
to'Canada the first week in September.
Extra writing i now the only pun
ishment inflicted on scholars in French
school-i. .
Thirty yeus ago it cost Massachu
setts Sl-1 to educate each child; now
it costs $1.3. 53.
Th-. British Consul at Bagdad announce-
lhe extinction of the plague in
that pai I of Asia.
In Cleveland. Ohio, it is estimated
that 5000 irrepressible boys and young
men carry firearms.
The failures of the first six months
of 1681, are slightly in excess of the
nrst hall of last year.
Oarabaldi has accepted a yearly
pension of $6,000 offered him by King
Humbe t from his civil list
The Baroness Burdett-Coutts gave a
garden patry at Holly Lodge, Highgate.
on the aiternoon of July 15.
The blindness of the little Earl of
Arundel and Surrey, heir of the dukedon
of Norfol k, is now beyond a doubt.
Jefferson Davis says in a recent in-
tarview that Albert Sidney Johnson was
the mast perfect man he ever knew.
Hit American Bible Society, since
its fon ition, sixty-one years ago, has
issued M,882,811 copies of the Bible.
i the 1.000,000,000 acree of culti
vated l.ind in the United States, only
eievi i nd a half per centum are used.
Trader the ruins of the Imperial
pala. 0 .it St Cloud was found a bag con
taining thousand francs in Napo
leons. Th. late Dr. Alexander H. Vinton
beqnea' hed $5000 to the Protestant Epis
copal I omestic and Foreign Missionary
Society.
A Jf:iryhmd farmer claims to have
picked J07 bushels of peas from three
and a hnlf acres of land during the past
season.
Tlw official count of the cotton crop
of Geor(i in 1879-80 shows an aggre
gate of 813,965 baled, the acreage being
2,615,568.
Fifty millions of people in the
United States furnish the paper niann-
faotnroii with 250,000,000 pounds of
rags per annum.
The New Testament is being sold
in England for a penny, and has lieen
purchased at that price by a quarter of
a million persons.
The King of the Belgians has offered
a prize of $5000 for the best essay on
the subject of the improvement of ports
situateu on sandy shores.
It is proposed in New Hamiwhire to
celebrate the one-hundredth annivarsary
of Daniel Welter's birth, which falls
on the 18th of January next
The remains of Daniel Boone and
his wife were exhumed in 1845, and de
posited with appropriate ceremonies in
the cemetery of Frankford. Ky.
A Jersey cow, owned at Staatsburg.
New York, was milked 310 days last year.
giving 6187 pounds of milk, from which
412 pounds of butter were made.
The brass cannon that was captured
at Yorktown by Lafayette, and which
nearly ctt the gallaut Marquis his life,
is presorved at the Watervliet Arsenal.
Charles H. Dennie. the retiring
City Treasurer of Boston, entered the
Treasury Department in October, 1852, .
and has lieen City Treasurer since 1875.
-Miss Ida Iveson, of I'hillicothe, '
Minn., a public school teacher, has
fallen heir to $2,500,000 in Scotland.ond
has left to take possession of her proper-
Mr. Theodore K. Davis, who de
signed the famous White House dinner
service, is engaged on a design for
vase which is to be called "America in
1881."
In r, collection of books recently
sold in I mdon was a prayer book trans
lated into the Mohawk language for the
Indians and published in New York in
1715.
Sir Bartle Frere lately stated that
in a single year more than 3,500,000
($17,500,000) worth of diamonds have
passed through the Cape Town Post
office. The bomb that killed the Czar pos
sessed 120 times the explosive force of
gunpowder, a fact ascertained from
Kibahschitch, one of the executed Ni
hilists. Colonel Danit l Thomas, of Hodg
don, Maine, in 1873, at the age of sixty
six years, began fruit culture, and now
has between 700 and 800 fall and winter
apple trees.
TbiCity of London, Ontario, has
made a seven years' trial of wooden gas
pipes auieared with tar, and has decided
that th.y are unfit for the purpose of
condnciag gas.
F-e hundred acres of land around
Yorktav u have been purchased by the
comm.ttee association formed to cele
brate i'.'e centennial anniversary of Lord
Cornw uis's surrender.
King Kalakana, of the Sandwich Is
lands, was formally presented the other
day to Queen Victoria, who received him
at Windsor, surrounded by several of
her sons and daughters.
Kit Carson's grave, at Taos, N. M.,
is unmarked by stone or monument
The grave mounds of the famous scout
and his Indian wife are two low gravel
heaps iu a desolate cemetery.
The treasurer of the Illinois State
Hospital paid the wages of employes
in Mexican dollars which he bought at
a discount The profit of this was $19,
and the loss was a position worth $1,200
a year.
It is estimated that the amount in
sured against fire with leading offices in
England, forming what is known as the
Tariff Association, exceeds $10,000,000,
000, and there is an outcry against their
profits.
It i estimated that nearly 2,000,
000,000 pounds of paper is produced an
nually; one-half of which is used for
printing, a sixth for writing, and the re
mainder is coarse paper for packing and
otheifpurposes.
President Garfield, it is said, be
came the owner of a large farm in Fair-
county, Va., last week. The prop-
T- i!t. Y . ,
he wa8 woundcd.
James G. Fair heads the personal
,,mt mil mt fiiri ; Q. v
cisco with S42.2iJ0.000. Mr. J. C Flood
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