B. P. SGHWEIER,
TEE O018T1TUH0I THE UII0T-A1D TEE HTOIOEXEIT OP TEE LAW8.
Editor and Proprietor.
VOL. jXXXjVIr
v MIFFIJN1WN, JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. FEBRUAlt 15. ISS2.
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I'm haunted by a pair of eyes.
Softly bright, of wondrous size;
With pen or book.
Do what I will.
With slea.lT look.
They haunt me still.
It arena so at ranee that those two eyes
Of eVrythtng liencath the aLes
Should Oil my heart.
With Joy's quick glow.
Then make me start
With pain and woe.
Ah, Die ! those eyes 1 1 dread their (raze;
They All my soul with Bach amaze.
To know they see
What I would hide.
Ami pity me,
Aut do not chide.
They do n it chide, those dear, dear eyes.
They do not seem to feel surprise.
Bat softer glow
On me the while.
As they, too, know
Love's own sweet wile.
In dreams they come, beyond my will.
And steep my soul In womlToas thru,
I cannot tell
How It can be.
This magic spell
That's over me ;
Nor how those eyes, e'en when away.
Can melt in mind their sunning ray,
They have no right
To haunt me so,
Both day and night
Where'er they go.
I would I could forget those ere.
That gleam like lights In Para-Use,
With pen or book,
J what I will.
With steady look
They haunt me still.
A KKY TO 1 HE MVS! ERV.
I w as lint a poor mecLanie iu those
days a 1 cksuiith by trade industri
ous, zealous and in love, as many a good
follow before me La3 been and will lie
again, I doubt not.
But marriage was a thing of the fu
ture, and each time it came nearer it
seemed to blip ahead again, and leave
poor Emily and me as far from our goal
as ever and with fainting hope each
time.
I had a mother and au invalid sister
to support, and somehow or other locks
wouldn't get out of repair, or need re
pairing in sufficient numbers to enable
me to add a little wife to my list of wo
mankind. Eniily was a deft little seamstress, and
slowly but steadily went on earning her
wedding outfit saying cheerily;
"Remeniler the tide in every man's
life, John. Same day you'll take it at
its full, and fortune will follow."
Bless the patient little woman she did
predict the truth.
An order came one day for the repair
of a trunk lock in a distant part of town
I wondered a little, as with my bag of
tools I hastened to obey the direction,
that I had been sent for such a dis
tance from the place and whether
there were not locksmiths in that neigh
borhood. By an odd chance Emily's word came
into my mind. . Was my tide about to
turn.
I fouud thelionsc a small, plain cot
tage, with nothing about it indicative of
magic power, but rather suggesting
that the inmates were waiting as well
as John Rhodes, for the way to fort
une.
A sweet faced girl refined and well
bred, admitted me and with a smile led
the way at once to the work she wished
done.
It was in the front bedroom a well
worn trunk that had seen its best days
aud was rather rickety about the buck
les and lock.
I set aliout the lepairs at once, as the
young lady's mauuer indicated haste,
and while busily employed thought how
much better this little fiveroomedhonse
would suit Emily and me than tha very
evident superior condition of the fair
girl I was working for.
In an arm chair by the window sat an
elderly lady who seemed to watch my
work with gentle curiosity, and beside
her sat the young girl.speakiug in alow
tone, as if pleading.
-You work hard sir," said the lady!
kindly.
"Yes, ma'am, rum Funrise to sunset"
I answered, filing away at the old
lock.
My mother has a greut sympathy
for workers," laughed the young girl,
patting the elder lady's pretty hand,
"and thinks I am to be pitied because I
belong to the hive of human bees."
I looked at her. She couldn't do hard
work, I thought, with those slim fingers
aud rosy checks m usic or teaching;
perhaps, at the most.
"Never mind, mother dear, my tide
will turn some day," she laughed again,
as I finished my small job and arose,
and theu what a fortune it will lead on
to." . ,-
She was like my Emily cheering him
self with bits of pretty sayiugs, got out
or books, and it made me feel kindly
toward her, as if I would like to serve
her. "
My change came, strange to say, be
fore long. As she paid me my due,
which I made purposely small ; for the
sae of Emily's cheery words, she asked
quickly :
Would a lot of odd keys be of ser
vice to you? We have such a big bunch
that it is only in the way, and we would
thank you,. to tike them."
It 'suited me very well, as I could
work them over and save on them, sol
tooW'tncin gratefully as she held them
up, pngling, iu a big heap.
"Ah," she said, half sadly, "if we
only hail now the closets aud wardrobes
and all the lock4 those aeys once nt tea,
how quickly would our cares fade
away! Tis, hard, hard to be so poor
when our loved ones sutler!
I could not answer for she did not
seem to speak to me, but felt still more
willing to help her,
She let me out the door kindly.
"I am glad I went by your shop by
chance." she said, "and decided to give
you a job, for I think you look consei
entious. Good by!"
over this new experience. Was the tide
coming in?
As I hung up the tool-bag in its place
I remembered the keys the young, lady
had given me, and took them out to see
if I could fit them to some locks then
awaiting keys.
As I took up thebauchone key struck
my notice. The like I had never before
seen, and I knew that it was never
wrought by a locks ait h this side of the
Atlantic, but came, no doubt, from
strange lands, where they needed such
curious things to hid j strange doings.
It was a flat piece of steel about two
inches long, and had four slits in the
square end, two on each side.
I wondered what use it had ever
served, and if it belonged to the young
lady's happier days: but being a slow
thinking man, and little given to rom
mance I hung up the key bunch and
went to work at my locks, thinking no
more of the strange key or the inmates
of the cottage.
But the next day I was made to recall
them by a strange coincidence. .
I was sent for to come at once to a
number in a fashionable locality, and on
presenting myself at the front door
fonnd it to belong to an elegant brown
stone mansion, but with an air of soli
tude about it, as the windows were all
tightly closed, save on the second
floor.
A colored man admitted me, and with
out a word led me upstairs to the sec
ond story front room. He rapped loud
ly.
' "The locksmith, nuulame.'
The door opened, I entered, the Llack
man went down stairs, and I was left
with a sudden nervousness to find out
my business in this silent place.
A tall, dark woman, richly dressed,
with wild, dark eyes, was walking up
and down the room, as if angry, or as I
looked closer at her. as if excited by
terrible fear of anxiety. She turned on
mo sharply:
"Have you ever seen me before," she
demanded, rather abruptly, passing by
a table.
Then my slow mind placed her at
once.
"Yis, ma'am, at a hotel, some two
years ago," I answered in astonish
ment. "You were seut in then to open a
box?"
"Yes ma'am, and couldn t.
"Yon are sent for now to do the fame
tiling," she cried ont. fiercely, "and you
must do it. I can trust no other smith
with the mystery you look trustwor
thy." A second time I was receiving a com
pliment for my good plain face, and
(give credit where its due) to my moth
er's honest, straightforward, training.
I picked up the box, remembering it
then very well, also the long hour I
worked at fitting keys to its singular
lock without success, while the dark
woman walked the floor, then as now,
with savage haste.
I mechanically drew out my keys.and
they fell with a crash to the floor, for the
first one I looked at was the strange key
I had got ion from tbeyaung girl, and in
a moment I knew that it belonged to
this square metal box. And I knew
further, by instinct, that great wrong
had been done through this strange key
and its mystery, aud that it had fallen
to my lot to detect it.
I heard the tide coming in, now, full
aud fast: I bent down to pick up the
keys, aud like a flash the young girl's
words came into my mind.
"Ah, if only we had the locks those
keys once fitted how quickly would
our cares fade away!"
And I held there in my hand one
lock that her key fitted, and I mentally
resolved that it should be restored to
her. But how?
I secreted the steel key in my palm,
as I held up tha bunch to say:
"I need a piece of steel you see
these will not answer with slits in the
square end, to open this box "
She interrupted me with a quick gest
e. 'Yes, yes!'' she cried brokenly that is
like the lost key? Oh, if it had but
been mine long ago!"
She In-gan her walk again.
A thought como into my mind. I
was determined not to tosa sign ui
the box, and to s'mggle for it if neces
sary.
"Will you let the colored man go to
my shop for what I need? I asked half
fearing, she would order me to go in-
tead.
"Yea, yes!" she cried quietly.
"I will go down and tell him," I said
pot wishing her to know what I meant
to do. .
Hastily writing a few hues in the hall
below, and wrapping the key securely
in the paper, 1 gave tli9 man hia mis
tress' order to carry it to it address.
And then I went back to the dark
woman, and sat down by the box and
waited.
She never ceased to pace the floor,
and now and again raised her hand with
a terrible gesture.
I thought she wan weeping. At last
she came to the table.
"What do you think is in that box?'
she said, and a wistful sound came in
her voice, as If she felt confidence in
me and wished to hear me speak.
I felt sudden courage, The young
girl's voice was in my ears and made me
brave.
"Something that does not belong to
you," I aaid, listening for the black
man's step.
How do you know?" she cried hasti
ly. The front door surely opened.
"Your anxiety tells me, and because
I have the key, which you never owned.
That box has been stolen ma'am!"
There were steps on the stairs, but
more than one person s. 1 did not ex
pect my answer to come thus, but in that'
and all that followed I no more had
part. The end came apoedily.
'I (lid not steal it," came with a shriek
from the dark woman as the door op
ened, and the black man ushered in the
young girl and her mother.
Then another cry rang out sharply
"Sister!"
"Zoe! At last!"
The young girl drew near me as her
mother went up to the dark woman and
caught her hands, and handed me the
key. I drew the box toward me. The
dark woman rushed toward the table,
and raised her hand.
"I call heaven to witness that until
two years ago, when my husband died,
I did not know that he had stolen ' the
box said to contain my father's last
will, and truly thought myself the ht ir
ons."
She paused a moment in pain, clutch
ing her breast.
"I mairied a gambler, as you know.
but you do not know that I caught his
terrible fever, and that my only happi
ness since his death has been found at
the card table.
"I found the box two yean ago but
not the key. I feared to know its con
tents, lest it should rob me ot the means
of prolonging my madness. But at lost
conscience stung me too deeply, when I
fonnd out how poor you were who
should have shared our father's wealth.
and from which my husband drove you
and I resolved to know the truth at last
Open the box, sir, as by a strange chance
it is your right to do."
I obeyed. The curious key slipped
in easily, and the lid fell back.
1 be dark woman raised a folded pa
per from the inside. Slowly she looked
at the young girl, who regarded her with
pitying eyes, theu at her sister, who was
weeping.
"I Bee you both still love me," she
said, mournfully, "and that my wild,
checkered life still holds your pity. God
forgive the wrong done you."
She read aloud the paper. It shared
a great fortune between the two sisters,
instead of leaving it all to one.
I arose to go, feeling that I had no
more to do here, bnt the young girl
caught my hand and cried out, eagerly:
"We owe it all to you! We must
thank you with more than words. Until
your note came, asking if the lock that
key fitted was of service to us, we did
not know it was on the bunch I gave
you. So long we had had the key,
which grandfather gave me before dy
ing, and no box to open with it, that we
grew careless of it, and by chance it got
on that bunch."
The sisters were talking and weeping
together, and the one was pleading to
save the other from her terrible infatua
tion. But, as my story is true, I cannot
say she succeeded, for the lonely house
and silent black man and dark, fierce
woman are still the mystery of the
neighborhood.
But the tide led on to fortune for both
my iunily and the young girl wno
cheered their hearts with the quotation
for my wife and I now live in the cot
tage where I first met the brave girl,
who so well deserved her good luck.
She came to me often, and again and
again makes me tell the story of my
discovering the key to the mystery.
The dark woman still bums her . life
out with the fever of gambling.
DoatD.lt.
Don't sleep in a nraugnt.
Don't go to bed with cold feet
Don't stand over not-air registers.
Don't eat what you do not need just to
save it.
Don't try to get cool too quickly after
exercising.
Don't sleep wi'h Insecure false teeth in
your mouth.
Don't start the day's work without a
good breakfast.
Don't sleep in a room without ventilation
of some kind.
Don't stuff a cold lest you be next oblig
ed to starve a fever.
Don't try to get along without flannel
usderclothing in winter.
Don't use your voice for loud speaking
when hoarse.
Don't try to get along with less than
eight or nine hours' sleep
Don't s'eep in the same undergarment
yon wear during the day.
Don't toast you feet by the Are but try
sunlight friction instead.
Don't try to keep upon coffee and alco
holics when you ought to go to bed.
Don't drink ice water by the glass; take
it in sips, a swallow at a time.
Don't strain your eyes by reading or
working with insufficient or flckering light.
Don't use the eyes for reading or fine
work in the twilight of evening or early
morn.
Dont try to lengthen your days by cut
ting short your nights' rest; it is poor
economy.
Don't wear close, heavy, fur or rubber
caps or hats if your hair is thin or falls out
eaiily.
IXm't eat anything between meils ex
cepting fruits, or a glass of hot milk if
you feel faint.
Don't take some other person's medicine
because you are troubled somewhat as they
were.
lmt blow out a gaslight as von would
a lamp; many lives are lost every year by
this mistake.
A Beautiful Memorial Volame.
Mra. C P. Deihm. the enereetic propri
etor of Otb Skcsd Ckstcbt, has puu-
liahoH a hMiitiful v.ilurae entitled "Presi-
djot Garfield's Memorial Journal," giving
a short sketch of his life from bis childhood
to his death; with sketches and portraits of
.11 th PmiHpjita nf the United States.
fmm President Washington to President
Arthur; including a roll ef the convention
which nominated James a. uarneio, ana
a list of the Senators and Representatives,
Governors. Foreign Ministers, etc.; also
sketches of the prominent men of the time,
their names, etc., with forty steel engrav
ings, including one of Queen Victoria, by
tha most eminent artists of the United
state. The book is now ready. Sub
scription price, $15, $20, $30, depending
upon quality of binding. Philadelphia
Jxecora.
Foreign Bodies in the Windpipe.
Foreign bodies in any part of the
windpipe are always serious, and may
be immediately fatal. The accident com
monly happens from a child having some
plaything, such as a beau, small marble
or nutshell, in its month, and being de
sired to take it out. when either in the
hurry to obey, or possibly from its dis
inclination to do so being quickened by
cuff, the foreign body slips into the
windpipe and produces serious mischief .
In the well-known case of the late Mr.
Brunei, the eminent engineer, whose life
was endangered by an accident of this
kind, it arose f rom his performing a con
juring trick with a half-sovereign in his
month, aud thecoinslippiiigintohis wind
pipe. When the foreign substance become
fixed iu the upper par of the, windpipe or
larynx so as to obstruct the breathing,
the patient becomes black in the face and
falls apparently dead. This sometimes
happens during a meal, from a child or
grown up person happening to cough
while eating, aud thus drawing a piece
of food into the air-passage. Whatever
the a use, a bystauder should without
hesitation, thrust his forefinger to the
back of the throat, and endeavor to
hook up the offending body, and this
can often be done, when the patient will
at once breathe again. If this method
is not successful, the patient if a child
should be held up by the
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legs uu ue
smartly thumped between the shoulders
when not improbably the foreign body
will drop ou ta the floor, and the child
will then begin to respire and cry; but
if respiration is still suspended, -cold
water dashed on the chest will probably
rouse it, or, if not, recourse must be
had to artifical respiration. Of course
medical aid will be summoned at once
in any case of serious choking, if possi
ble, bnt the majority of cases do very
well without it. if, however the foreign
body is not dislodged by the efforts of
bystanders, an operation will be neces
sary to save life, and every moment
will be of importance. Even if the ur
gent symptoms have passed off, and the
child appears to be restored to health,
yet, if the foreign body has not been
fonnd the advice of a surgeon should,
nevertheless, be sought at occe, as it
may still be lodged in the deeper air
passage, where it may cacse fatal mis
chief if not dislodged at an early peri
od. Home Life of the Chinese.
The chief characteristic, said a re
cent lecturer ou the Home life of the
Chinese, of the sons of China is their
untiring industry. Their work begins
with the dawn and continues until dark
ness comes. The emperor and iurt
rise soon after midnight and receive the
Ministers and delegations until 8 a. m.
The schools open at sunrise and close
at 5 p. m. In the tea cleaning rooms
one will see dozens of chattering women
at work with countless children under
their feet, and these women work all
day for six cents each. The New Year
is about the only time when they bike
any relaxation, and that lasts for five or
ten days. This is a season of feasting
and pleasures, of processions, open air
theatricals and paying debts, and at its
close the same round of ceaseless toil
begins again for another year. On one
occasion while a party of us was passing
through a country town open-air theatri
cals were going on and the whole popu
lation was out to witness them. We
had almost passed by without being no
ticed, when one of the native saw us and
at once tho cry of "YungKretza."wbich
means "foreign devil," was raised, and
the whole crowd, followed by the heavy
villain and the prima donna of the
company, were in hot pursuit ot us.
"Foreign deyil is the appellation given
to all foreigners. It was simply curios
ity that led them after us, and we
were only molested by their shouts and
curiosity.
The Chinese seldom get excited when
working, and a muleteer when his ani
mals gets stuck in the mud takes out his
pipe and smokes until they get rested
and then carries half the load himself
instead of lashing the aniu-als. They,
are also very peaceable and seldom re
sort to blows or knives. They pull each
other's queues and shout and then are
separated. They are not a cowardly
race, for, as soldiers, they have been
tried and found brave. They also will
endure without wincing the most pain
ful surgical operations. They are not
an aggressive or fighting race, bnt when
once aroused and on fire become as
bloodthirsty as other nationalities. They
believe in taking thing easy, and "Bea
chow che," wnich means don't worry
or get angry, is a much used expres
sion. They are indifferent to new measures
or reforms, or changing any of their old
customs. The common people are gen
erally too ignorant "to understand the
benefits of the proposed reforms, and
especially opposed to them if they bring
any increase of taxes.
They are constitutionally conserva
tive. A certain Mandarin was asked to
present a cup for a race one time, and
said that, as his predecessor hadn't
done so, he of course could not think of
doing so.
What is and has long been they hate
to change. It is almost vain to try
and sell hoes and plows in China, as
they still use their old implements.
There are, however, some innovations
taking place. J Vaccination has been
in vogue among them since 1805; glass
is used instead of paper, and Kerosene
is rapidly replacing other oils on account
of its cheapness.
A guest is treated with "the most pro
found politeness and many salaams. In
fact, politeness u a principals trait of
thetr character. The guest gets the
seat of honor. The host and the guest
sink simultaneously into their seats.and
it would be highly improper for either
to sit down before the other. Hats are
not removed except by Special request.
They are not truth-telling peoplo.
They give false information on every -
thing, and official reports are frcqnen ly
a tissue of falsehood. It seems to be a
national failing, a Chinaman will lie
without the least idea thit he is doing
, wrong. A Chinaman is not at sli of-
fended
when his word is doubted.
Laughter. Theyjwill Jd ways resort to
excuses, and generally have a good sup
ply on hand. They are not, however,
addicted to thieving.
Iu China one sees very little immor
ality. Marriage at an early age is most
universal, and the high hope of every
Chinaman is to propagate hisspecies as
numerously as possible. The modesty
of the Chiuese women in their dress is
in strong contrast with that of women of
some European or American nationali
ties at balls or dinner parties.
Frugality is another of their qualities
They live on rice, fresh and salted fish,
cabbage, pork, -lucks and chickens,
Beef is eschewed, owing to their belief
in the transmigration of souls, and the
sacred character of the ox. Rats, cats,
dogs aud worms, those staples of the
sensational writers on Chinese customs,
are rarely or ever eaten, except by some
of the very poorest and most degraded
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me poorest part ot uanton to find one
small store where cooked kittens were
on sale. The Chiuese do not use butter,
milk, or cheese. They drink weak tea
or hot water, but no cold water.
Tubs of hot tea are often provided
iu the streets by the wealthy classes for
all to drink who please. Wine is plenty
and cheap, but intoxication is unknown.
Perhaps I his is why the Chinese are not
wanted in San Francisco. A hot bath
costs a penny, and laborers can lie had
at seventeen cents a day and fiud them
selves. During sixteen years sojourn in
China I did Dot see thr. e drunken men
or one woman.
The curse of China is opium, but it
soothes and does not excite them. It
leads those who use it to excess to
moral degradation and thievery, but not
to acts of violence, The evil is increas
ing as well as tho growth of opium.
The status of women is far below that
of men. and female babies are not as
welcome as males. Infanticide is by no
means so prevalent or widespread as
some wi iters make out but occasionally
female children are drowned as soon as
born. The system of compressing the
feet of women in cloth bandages is as
much in vogue as ever. The iron sloe
is not used at all. Cloth bandges are
rolled round the feet at about the age
of 5 years. This custom is not confined
to the upper classes, but is practiced by
even the poorer classes.
Kitssia's Gift to Prussia.
During the brief occupation of Berlin
by the Russian army in 17C0 the inva
ders plundered the Royal Arsenal of its
more valuable arms aud trophies of war,
and carried off their booty to Russia.
Among the objects peculiarly precious
to the Prussian army that were thus
"annexed"was a splendid car, presented
by Frederick William L , thirty years
previously to his corps of field artillary
for the accommodation of drums and
colors on extraordinary occasions, such
as reviews or grand parades. In shape
resembling a shell and painted a bright
scarlet, this cor drawn by four grey
sta'lions, with tiger-skin trappings and
till red and white plumes.used to preced
the artillery colnmn during its march
past the saluting flag surrounded by the
so called 'Jauissary-MtiHic," in which
his Majesty took such especial delight.
The head drummer of the artillery corps
occupied the bark seat, having iu front
of him two huge silver mounted drums,
suspended in slings and behind the four
standards of the corps. Frederick the
Great refused to take this costly equip
age with him when he started from Ber
lin at the commencement of the Seyen
Years' War, never dreaming that the
Russians would succeed in pouncing
npon his capital behind his back: aud
so it fell into the bands of a Muscovite
General, who conveyed it to St Peters
burg, where it was deposited with great
pomp and ceiemony in the armory of
Fort Petropavlovsk. Czar Alexander III
has lately intimated his intention to re
store this interesting relic of Prussia's
early military history to its rightful own
er, the German Emperor. It will be
brought to Berlin by a Russian guard
of honor, and deposited in the Arsenal
on the Linden aveuue from which it was
forcibly removed nearly a century and a
quarter ago.
See Ton Later.
A man iu New York went into a flor
ist's the other day and said. "My old
friend J. B. is dead. I want you to send
a handsome pillow to his bouse." The
florist took down the order. "And I
want," said the mourner, "the letters
3. Y. L. worked into the pillow in buds
"But, suggested the florist, "those are
not your friend's initials." I know that,"
was the reply, "nut that is what I want
done.', "They are net your own initials
either." persisted the- florist, thinking
there must be some mistake. His cus
tomer assured him that he km-w what
he was about. As the man was leaving
the shop the florist said: "Those letters
so excite my curiosity; may I ask what
they stand for? "Certainly," said the
customer; "they stand for "See You
Later." ;
Queen Elizabeth granted the first
roval patent conceded to players in
1576.
It takes 1920 silk worms to make
pound of worms.
Buffaloes are common in Ceylon,
white cues being sometimes found
Bismarck's Spiff.
iTiuce .Bismarck excels in the em
ployment of a particular class of spies,
who are known to his countrymen as
"reptiles. They are sham revolution
ists, whose business it is either to get
on the staiT of Radical newspapers, or to
play a leading part in Socialist electoral
committees. The disgust of mankind
at some of the atrocious sentimeuts put
forth by Oerman Socialist newspapers
would no doubt be greater than it is, if
one could get rid of the suspicion that
many of these incendiary articles are
written by 'reptiles" for the express
purpose of bringing the Radical party
into odium. ' They conceal their game
so well that often they are flung into
prison for their writings, and acquire a
great popularity as martyrs to the pop
ular cause, whence it may be concluded
that the pay they receive from the '-reptile"
fund is large. Nobody would care
to be locked up long in a German fort
ress for mere bread and cheese.
Three years ago a wretched man.
called Denecke, brought out a most
virulent newspaper, Dan Jlackmctoer
The Cleaver") at Berlin. It was ably
written, and the editor soon gathered
around him a staff of medical students,
young doctors and idle advocates. These
young men had the greatest confidence
in Denecka. They admitted him to their
clubs, and v orked for him without ex
pecting any pay. A day came when the
JIaetmeer was prosecuted for seditious
writing in the persons of its editor aud
another member of the staff. They
were sentenced to six months' imprison
ment and a heavy fine, which was paid
by a subscription got up in the braueries,
as the editor was believed to be almost
penniless. While Denocke was in prison
the publication of his newspaper was
suspended, but when he had undergone
his punishment he resumed his editorial
labors, md was soon sentenced aga'n
this time for a year. A few weeks after
Deneeke's trial, a former member of his
staff who had gone to seek fortune in
Paris, saw the Socialist martyr sitting
outside a cafe, nicely dressed and Flunk
ing a cigar. Much astonished, he ac
costed the man, but Denecke appeared
not to know him, and said that there
must be a mistake, as his name was
Engelracht, and he produced a card to
prove it. The voung man apologized
and went his way; but he was not con
vinced. The Denecke of Berlin was
certainly a shabby fellow with a scrub
by beard, while the Eagelracht of Paris
was well shaved and hod spectacles.
Yet Deneeke's was one of those expres
sive faces which are not easily forgot
ten. His former associate tried to watch
him home, but failed, for Herr Engel
racht, seeing hiinielf spied, got into an
omnibus, and the other did not like to
follow him. The young man wrote to
friends at Berlin, however, to tell them
what he had seen; but he was quickly
answered that he must be in error, as
his friends had lately yisited Deuecke in
prison, and we re quite certain that he
was under lock and key. The mystery
was not destined to be cleared up until
some months afterward, when Denecke,
having completed his sentence, reap
peared among his fellow Socialists at
Berlin, He was then in very weak
health, and announced that he should
not bring ont his newspaper for the
present. - He even talked of emigrating
to America, saying he could not bear a
fresh incarceration, which was sure to
await him if he were to recommence
writing But soon after this Denecke
died, and he was found to have left a
considerable sum of monev. This for
tune could not have been honestly come
by, for if it had there would have been
no reason for Denecke to fe'gn abject
proverty and to allow his fines to be
paid for him by men much poorer than
himself. From additional facts which
transpired it came to be seriously sus
pected though it could not be actual
ly proved that Denecke was a "rep
tile" who never underwent the full
term of imprisonment to which he was
sentenced. Government used to release
him privately and send him on police
missions to France; but every now and
then the man used to return to jail to
show himself to friends who came to
visit him on appoit.te.1 days. It was
established that Denecke and Engel
racht must have been one and the same
man, for a good deal of the editor's
money turned out to have been iuvesed
in the name of Engelracht.
Chaslnc Gobblers.
The boys up on Wallan's creek,
Get-rgia, have adopted a novel way to
gcbble up wild gobblers. When they
take it into their heads to make a raid
on this monstrous wild bird they simply
provide themselves with fleet horses and
a paek of dogs as their only implements
of warfare. Thus eqnipped they hie
away to the woods, and when they find
their game they simply put spurs to
their horses aud proceed to chase as
though it were a fox instead of a tur
key. A fat gobbler, it is said, cannot
fly a great distance, and when hepitchea
if on the ground, he takes 1 1 his heels
till he is so closely pursued by the dogs
that he is compelled to resort again to
his wings for safety. Thus the chase is
kept Tip continuously until the gobbler
becoDits completely fagged out and can
neither run nor fly. when, of course, he
has to succumb to his pursuers. It was
in this way that C. M. Rozar, John
Peacock and Charley Flood captured
two fine gobblers, weighing respective
ly sixteen and eighteen pounds, during
the Christmas holidays. The smaller
one was chased about nine miies and the
other about eight.
"Thkrb is a great demmd for servant
girls -n Manittb.a fcvery bouskteper will
Immediately call to mind one or more that
she would like to send there.
Embalming was In use amog the
Egyptians at last 3000 years ago.
The Open Polar Sea.
The Arctic Ocean is a vast mysterious sea
lying around the North Pole, with an ice
boond coast of neatly 2,000 miles. For
huudreds of years navigniors have tried in
vaiu to explore it, but so far as is known
no human being has ever yet gone further
ntirthward than a point 410 miles from the
poir.
The accounts given us by Arctic explor
ers ot their adventures in these frozen wa
ters are full of interest. They tell ns of
vast icebergs, some of which are rose-tinted,
of red snow, of mock suns, and of the
splendors of the Arctic auroras.
Dr. Kane speaks ot some of these beau
tiful auroras as "arch-like in form, corrus
cating with motions, and rich with chro
malic displays, with beaming wreallis,
flashing 'merry dancers,' and jets of pea
Kreen, purple and violet liiruu" He telU
also of huge polar bears, that live in per
petual snow and whose Uvea are one crest
winter, and of the seals, and of traveling
over the ice in sledges drawn by dogs, and
of the long, dura, Arctic nigbt when for
many months there is no suosbine.
Let me tell jm what he says about see
ing the sunrise after long and weary
months of utter darkness.
"January 29th Going on deck after
breakfast this morning, 1 found the dawn
ing far advanced. The whole vault was
bedewed with the coming day; and except
Capella the t-Ura were gone. The south
era horizon was clear. I was certain lo
see the sun after an absence ot 86 days.
I took my gun and walked over the ice
about a mile away from the ship (which
was frozen solid in the ice), to a solitary
spot where a great big hummock hemmed
me in, opening only to the south; then.
Parsee fashion, I drank in the rosy light
and watched ill.; horat of the crescent ex
tending themselves round toward the
north.
"Vtry soon the deep crimson blush
lightening into a fuciM of incandescent
white, showed me thut the hour was close
at hand.
"Presently the sun camel .Never till the
green sod or the ice covets me, may 1 fore
so that blessing of blessings againl I lock
ed at hun thankfully with a great elctrn?
in my tbriaL then came the shout three
shouts from tbe ship, cheering the tun.
But the most marvelous story told by
Arctic explorers is, that alter going north
ward many h'indred miles, through vast
regions of night and desolation, where the
cold is so intense that snow and ice are
perpetual, and vegetation cannot live,
they came lo a great mysterious open sea,
rolling away toward the pole. This sea
contains little or no ice; its waters are
comparatively warm, and there are other
indications ot an approach to a milder cli
mate. Dr. Kane says tlat his party had left the
vessel, aud were traveling northward by
sledges drawn by dogs. Alter many days
journeying over frozen fields of thick ice,
and among great icebergs that coveted tbe
entire sea, east, west and south, they sud
denly found tbe ice growing soft and weak.
This continued until tbe dogs were terri
fied and refused to go on, when suddenly
they saw to the north, a long, dark, band,
which was open water. They altered then
course, aa'l soon came to a long cape ex
tending still northward into this mysteri
ous sea. Climbing up some hich clifT-t,
tbey looked out upon its "white capped
waters," and estimated that it had an area
of more than 4,000 square miles.
Animal life, which, says Dr. Kane, 'had
so lone been a stranger, now burst upos
ns." They saw enormous flocks of the
tiaer and king duck, and the brent goose,
and many ether buds which live in warm
er climates. There wre vast numbers of
sea gulls, and tbe rocks werecrowdtd with
sea swallows.
As they conliuued their journey, the
land, ice and snow which had served as a
sort of pathway f r their dogs, crumbled
and melted, and at last ceased altogether,
so that the sledge was useless, and they
toiled along on foot over rocks and along
the beach of the sea. Tbe water grew
warmer as they went northward. Although
it was early in the season they recogHized
many flowering plants.
As they went on to the end of tbe cape
the coast bt cunie more wall like, aud laity
cliffs overhung the sea. From a height of
almost 500 feet, which commanded a hori
zon of forty miles, their "ears were glad
dened by the nt vd music t dashing waves
and a surf breaking in among the recks at
their feet"
"iieyond the cape all is sunrise, tbe high
ridges to tbe northwest dwindled off into
low blue knobs, which finally blended with
the air." "1 do not believe," continues
Dr. Kme, "that there was a man atiHni(
us wbo did not long for tha means of em
barking upon its bright and lonely waters."
People have wondered a great deal about
this open sea at the pole, and many t, trance
and curious theories have been advanced
to account for it. It is probably caustd
by a warm current from the Pacific flowing
into the frozen ocean through Behring
Strait or by the warm waters of the Atlan
tic Gulf stream turned northward by the
cliffs of Nova Zambia.
One by one the great geographical ques
tions like that of the Nile's source, have
been settled. The Polsr problem is about
the only oie left to vex the world, and it
cannot be many years before some enter
prising navigator will immortalize his name
by being tbe first lo reach the Pole, the
point which has no longitude.
He Had Cone Out.
Yivu-r, the famous norn-olower, wbo has
marked triumphal progress over Europe
by bis innumerable "sells," has made the
morgue the scene of bis latest exptoit. En
tering that cheerful resort be posts himself
in front of the glazed case where the bodies
of the drowned are exposed, and gsz.tt
fixedly and with a face of horror-stricken
interest at one of the corpses. In due time
a dozen spectators, aur.icted by hut earn
estness, leather arond him.
Jreat ceavens, it cannot be!" murmurs
Vlvtr. excitedly, "and yet I culd swear
"What? Wuat?"
"No I nmat be mistaken, Poor Edgar,
And yet I thought be moved. And then!
airaiu seel
The crowd, excildly -Jiovedi lis oy
Jove, did t bis breast heave teat lamef"
V ivier I thought so myself.and see
hiseyP
The crowd "Its, his eyelid is twitcn
inir.
Vivier "aurly it can't be, and yet it
looks as if he wasn t deatt
Tbe crowd "He isn t dead! The body
is alive! lb, keeper! ( flicy rirg tbe bell
furiously. Enter keeper. )
Keeper What's wronn Wbat's the
mattetl"
The crowd "That body lherefcdgar's
on the second marble slab"
Meepcr Well, what about it!"
The crowd "It isn't dead!"
Keeper " W ill you all go to blue blazesl
That corpse has been under the tap for six
days."
The crowd "But this gentleman saw
They look around for Vivier, He
bid gone out.
NKWS IN HRIKF
The fire losses in the United States
during 1881 aggregate $100,000,000.
Bostou ran count up 203 women in
that city worth over 31,000,000 each.
The average profit on a barrel of
beer in Germany is a dollar and a quar
ter. The timber on Prince Wittgenstein's
estate in Russia is estimated at $o,000,
000. Lcwiston, Me.,manufactures 1,500,
000 bobbins valued at 100,000. every
year.
Iu a life of sixty-five years ona
must have eatea thirty tons of solids
and liquids.
There were 1,410 pounds of dia
monds shipped to rJurope from Capa
Town last year.
The Prince of Wales has ordered a
Coventry trievele foe the use of one of
his daughters.
General Grant pays $1,000 a year
for his pew in Parson Newman's new
'hnrch New l'ork.
An Atlanta geutleinaa recently sold
Confederate bouds to the amount of
$300,000 for
Sarah, Duchess ol Marlborough ,
used to say she was boru before nerves
came into iashion.
Wren, the architect of St. Paul's,
designed more tlinu forty public build
ings in London.
For forty years the light of the
Eddystone lighthouse cou.sisted of a row
of caudles iu a hoop.
British railway Tinea have not been
paying as well as formerly. Receipts
$100,000,000 last year.
Governor Gear sput $d,000 more
thau his salary whie aa occupant of the
Iowa executive mausion.
W. H. Vauderbilt paid $-J01,000
for State Tax to the Comptroller of
New York one day l:tst week.
It is said that the 50,000 girls em
ployed at various trades iu Chicago
average iu wages only $2 a week.
A dog which had lieen accidentally
confined at Metz fisted 3'J ilays before
he was released and recovered
The ancient Scandinavians cele
brated days of death with rejoicing, and
those of birth with mourning.
The religion of the Siamese forbils
them to kill animids. but they elude the
law by selling them to Mauometans.
Ths Stile of Wisconsin, which is
33 years old, has hail 11 separate Gover
nors, and all but four are still living.
Langiewitz, the d c tutor of the last
hopeless Polish insurrection i 1863.
died recently at Paris at the age of 54.
The census of Parw, taken on tho
18th of December, gives a population
of 2.223,'J00, against 1,988,800 in 1876.
The tercentenary of Sir Francis
Drake is to lie celebrated, and the
Prince of Wales has contributed to the
fund.
One-third of France is owned in
large estates, one-third in estates of
moderate size, and only oue-tliird by
peasants.
Oliver Wendell Holmes. Jr.. will.
it is understood, accept a newly endow
ed professorship iu the Harvard Law
School
The southeast corner stone of the
north wing of the Capitol at Washing
ton was laid by Gen. Washington in
1792.
Ex - Governor Throckmorton, of
Texas, has recovered his health after
severs il'ncss, and is once more able to
attend to his law business.
--The eggs of the Dinorius, an ex
tinct species of bird, from the i dand of
Madagascar, were large enough for a
foot-bat lu
It is said that in some of the Flor
ida hotels the guest who thinks that ha
is eating fresh vegetables gets them
from the can.
When the ostrich-farming fever
struck South Africa old birds used to
fetch $1,250 a pair; now they sell for
from 355 to $70.
Nearly $10,000,000 was taken from
the mines ot Utah last year, and a buh
lion product of $13,000,000 is predicted
for the present year.
Ihe guard of honor at the to nib of
Victor Emanuel ii the Pantheon is still
religiously kept np by veteran soldiers
from all parts of Italy.
It is calculated tliat 5.000,000,000
of gold and silver have been extracted
from the earth since the discovery of
gold mines in California.
Henry Ward Boecher s staanchest
stand-bv in the matter of mouev is
Horace B. ClafUn, who has made about
$7,000,000 in the jobbing trade.
Recently there was cut out of ona
log at Orange, Texas, fifty nine ties,
containing 1.8KS feet, and 787 feet of
lioxuig, making a totil nf 2,675 feet, all
heart.
Prince Roland Bonaparte has been
sued by a Versailles hotel keeper for
$9000 fur the boiird and lodging of his
mother aud sister and money lent to
them.
Horatio N. Foster, of Machias.
Maine, was deaf, dumb and uneducated.
Just before his death, lie made a will in
pautomime. devising $7,000. In court
at Machias recently the will was sustain
ed In Holyoke, Mass., are twenty-five
mills, with $6,000,000 capital, and em
ploying 3,500 men eugnged in making
wntuig paper, their product is 150
tons a day, more than one half of tha
entire American production of writing
papers.
Fleur-de-lis is nos, as some suppose
a lilv, bnt nn iris, the common name for
hich is Flower de-luce. It was as -
sumed by Louis VII f. of France as his
device.
Amherst College will receive $30,-
000 for its library fund from the estate
of the late Joel Giles, a Boston lawyer,
who was for one vear a member of tha
class ot 1825.
A good old lady of Plymouth, Mass..
collected money for the benefit of a
poor family aud bonght groceries for
them. 1 he family are now suing for tha
cash.
The salary of President Grevy. of
the French Repnblic. is $160, 000 a year.
He lives withiu it, but Marshal Mac
Mahon when President s(entabout$200,
000 a year.
In tho Summer of 1 i .5 Washington
informed Congress that the stock of
powder in New England amounted to bo
more than 9927 pounds, or about nine
rounds to each man.
W. R. Winans, formerly of Balti
more and now a resideut of Scotland, has
spent $2,000,000 in building three cigar
Khaped ships, which are expected to
cross the Atlantic in five days.
I went homo thoughtfully pondering