II B. F. SCHWEIER, THE 005STITUTIOI-THE TUflOU-AlD TEE E5T0E0EMEIT OP THE LAVS. "Editor and Proprietor. VOL. XXXYI. MIFFLINTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY. PBNNA.. WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 30. 1S82.- NO. 35 riY 1UC ln SEA WAVES. Ilackaanl m l forward, to and fro. The swift -w.njrel swallows mine and go ; Aiwve tie ocean's roar I near their cries, as wheeling swift To where the (rathcred aeweJs drift, Thcj dart alaig the shore. Looking around, oo either hand. The little core In which I stand, I ace th frowning ruck. Piston t. lrien, wrenched apart as bj soni sorcerer upc art, or bj llerce earthquake shocks. Kisin and (ailing, to mj (ret The witn roll In, then swift retreat ; And on their outward way. Among the pebbles and the sand. They leave, as if with careless naii'l. The spoi l of man; a day. lir.rlngan'l drifting, fir and wide, llorne on by many a restless tide, Storm-tossed and tempest-driven, These fragments Boated on the seal Vntii, perchance, through favored breeze At length una port Is given. Shattered, worm-eaten, matted o'er with seaweed, laden with a store Of barnacles and shells. This plank, long riven from the deok Of some forlorn and broken wreck, A mournful sturj tells. Lying beside It, on the strand, The seaweed, from some far-off land Or rocky islet torn, lifts up its leaflets with a grace That shows the purple of its r-e Illght royally is worn. Trailing Its misty rol of gray. Inland the sea fog takes its way ; As homeward turn my feet, I hear the story of the sea, Its wierd. sad tones of mystery. In cadence low and sweet. HER SI MMER BOAKnt.K. It was a pleasant little place, a story and a half high only, bnt spread oer a great deal cf ground. There was a lig velvety lawn in front, with balf-a-dozea beech-trees that had etood there for a hundred yeais map. uifieent old trees as ever cast theiiS waving shadows on a summi r day. There were old-fashioned flowers, and an old fashioned rope swing, a well with a veritable mossy oaken bucket; thf re vsre plenty of vegetables in the little gerden patch, lots of eggs fresh eveiy dty, and nil the milk that was wanted. There were berries and frnits, shade, and pare water, and a quarter of a mile away from the bandy beach of the Atlantic and the young, new sea-side resort that had lately grown up there, -It is the very place for yon," Isabel Dale said, with a happy eager look in her dark eyf s. And Mr. Felix routifex smiled back at her, with that look a man gives a pretty girl whom he admires unusually much. "Itdialldeci.'eupouit.then. 'Beech cliff Cottage, a pretty rural name, and the lauula ly is ?" Jsaljcl laughed, showing her distract ingly urttty dimple. "Miss Any Barry, a little ugly old mvid, and just as nice as she can be. Mr. Toctifex effected a horrified scowl, and helped Mi.w Dale into the carriage again. "A vry pictureeq :e place indeed," he said, looking lack towards the pretty old-fashioned house under the hade of the big beeches. "I am glad roa spoke of it to me, I will drive over again when Mias Barry is at home and make the necessary arrangements," Which arrangements were, that in consideration of t wen ty- five dollars a week, 3Ir. Tontifex was to have Miss Barry's two front rooms for himself and bis little motherless children and a p.Mtm 1 1f tliA attic ' lean-to for their nurse, the buxom young North Ireland oirl. It was a perfect godsend to little Amy BarrT. little uglv old maid that she was, and when she knelt beside her bed that night, she offered her thankful prayers thai Mr. Pontifex had come to smooth her financial road for her. For a summer boarder meant so much to Miss Barry, who, live years ago had iost in one week, her mother and father, .i.t flirt l .i t .rmnr LrolLer irLo had uu maw ct been such a tower of strength to them alL Thtr. hfd been nothing left to Amy but the homestead where she hid been born end always lived, and whenpoopje had advised her to sell it, ai.d put the money in the bank for a rainy day, wbileshe went about eewinfi, she indig cautly scouted tuch counsel. "Xo, indeed A farmer's daughter ought to niana-e a bit of ground as well as a farmer's son. 'XII keep the x lacc, and in summer I'll take boarders, and Larry OToole shall do my heavy work for me. "When the Tainy day cornea 111 have my ht me and a peony in the bank book, She had prospered until the last year ; so that now, when Mr. Pontifex came, it was a godsend to her, and she went about her pretty cosy litile house as contented and happy as the day was .w HttL nlil maid " that was i..t hnnnr briirht Isabel had called her, n.l Felix Pontifex caught himself one day watching her, as the went flitting from place to place, in her big white apron and tucked-up sleeves and satiny brown tair braided beneatli a brown -i, i :...!, i,w children. Fhil and au lit i, wui ' T- 3 ,..;,. round after her. v.- Ki. was Diain. undeniably, and all thinsrs Mr. Pontifex least cdmired plain little women; But she was pood-there were not t .it rl.r. and she succeeded making him thoroughly comfortable. Mr. Tontifex is just deligbted with nt.-ufr re" Isabel Dale said one bright morning, vrhen ahe dropped in a moment-such radian vision in her pale blue lawn and pale pink rib bons, her lively face all aflush, her eyea shining like stars. Amy was mixing puff paste for lemcn pie lemen pie and rice-pudding wa. Mr. Pontifex' faTonte dessert "Is that so?" Amy lanld, hold ing out one short dimphd arm ins-ide the of en to test its heat. "That's pleasant to know, and es pecia Iy from you IsaW, for I feel mo.-t truly grateful to you for recommending my littla nost to him. "He is a great friend of yours, isn't he? ; Isabel langhct, and a little eric flush warmed her cheeks. Oh, I don't know! Yes, ho friend of course. "I've known mm lor over a year now. He s handsome, isn't he ?" "I think he is the finest looking gentleman I ever saw," Amy answered quietly, then bent a little puzzled look upon Isabel. "How did you come to send him here? I should think yon wouUI prefer to have him with yon at the St, Robert." "Ton little goose, can't vou under stand that? Indeed, 1 don't want him at the hotel why, there's Vera May, and Jessie Dean, and that lovely Miss Hath away from the A' est Amy. "1 am so glad he came here, where there's no temptation for him to lie made a dead set at. "A handsome rich widower, you Know, is a great catch. Here, he's safe, you see." She certainly did not mean anything cruel but, it touched little plain Amy as nothing had ever hurt her. And, proud little woman as she was she suddenly had to rush to the pantry for more sugar, to hide the tears she felt coming to her eyes. Mr. Pontifex was safe at Bcechc ifl Cottage ! Tea, she was too old, too plain, too decidedly an old maid to be dangerous to any man's peace of mind. It was all true, and she had known it all her life, but somehow it occurred to her as never before. Little, and plain, and o'd, but with a woman's heart !eating warm and strengtliful in her bosom ; and somehow Isabel Dale's rare blossomy beauty seemed, for a moment the most desir able possession in all the world, because with it, such love, and devotion, and admiration could be won. She thrust the foolish thought sway from her, and came back, her sugar crock in her hand. - "Do you bathe every day, Isabel ? I heard the children aaying the water was delightfully warm to-day." "We go down every day why don't yoa go, Miss Barry ? I have the love heat bathing-dress cream flannel trim med with brown. 'Can't you go with us tt four o'clock to-day T "Mr. ronbfex is Koing, and maxima, and Chris," How she would have liked to go ! But, hers was not the life cf pleasure and ease that the brilliant butterflies of fashion lead. "I rather think not," she said, "I want to make a short-cake for tea the children are so fond of it, and I promised it for to-night" "But the children can be disappointed for once, you must go, Miss Barry,' and Mr. Pontifex stepped in the big shady kitchen, so handsome in his white duck suit that Amy's own skilful hands had laundried. Isabel gave a rapturous glance of welcome and Amy laughed a little con lusedly. "I hope I am not intruding, or that this delicious old-fashioned rm is forbidden ground," he said "Amy pointed to a chair. "Sit down, Mr. Pontifex, she said, and then went on with her pastry, while he and Isabel chntted and laughed. And it endt d by taking Amy's consent to go with them bathing. She never knew quite how it all hap pened, none of them knew, Lut mtir Edna managed to sepirate lierseu irom the others, and the first thing anyone knew she was screaming and being borne out bv the breakers, ana Amy had plunged in a'ler her, entirely ob livious to the important fact that ohe was not much more able to fight the heavy teas than the cliild. " fill r-.n A There was a niue cousin shriek or so from Isabel, an exclama tion of something not perfectly intelli gible from Mr. Pontifex, a prompt com mand to Isabel's big brother, Chris, and then shortly after little Edna and Amy were carried out unconscious ; ana the next thing Amy knew shs was on her own lounge in ncr uiuc nb room, with the son-d of Isabel's and her mother's voices in the next room, and Mr. Pontifex's handsome, anxious eyes looking down in her face as ne sat beside her, little Edna, unconcerned as ever, perched contentedly on Us knee. "Amv 1" he said, in a low oreaiuicw sort of wsv as she looked wondenngly at him ; "Amy, my brave little darling, thank God. I saved you, for myse'.f, didn't i r , t She suddenly lean to cry, wnav o.u Was it a dream, a tantalizing dream? ... 4i. Lis nassiooate voice AUJi -" , t n and the Rrave handsome face, all full of expectancy, drooped so near to hers that she knew it was no dream if von had iied, I think I aboaM have died, tool I meant to have told iHs very day Low 1 have learned a 1. rnn. that I waat you to be my blessed little wrfe, if you can enough, for me to come to me. wmn Amv? Do yoa dear ? care Can And even Isabel could not begrudge Amy her i-reat happiness when saw what perfect bliss had come to the little woman from her summer boarder. -The islands of the Pacific Ocean have been plated with cocoanntpalm The Sullivan farm. :-x The famous Sullivan form of Illinois is now a thing of the pant. A short history of this, at our time, the largest farm iu the world; will prove interesting. Ex-Governor Sullivan was largely con nected with Government surveys, and. tur. ugh his inGaeucu, a large tract inl Ford county, about oae hundred miles south of Chicago, was entered as swamp land. This tract the far-seeing ex. Governor then bought at about forty cents per acre. Juat in order to round out his farm niocly, Mr. Sullivan bought a few adjoining sections, and then had a farm seven miles broad and ten miles long. Bui ing the war Sullivan con. trncted with the government to pasture thousands of iu wom-down horses and mules. At the close of the war Mr. Sullivan turned his attention to fanning being guided by the ambition to be the argest farmer in the world. He owed his fuilnie to too mnci disciplin. His farm was divided into three sections. Gangs of forty plow were at work on each division, Jf the first plow sustain ed a break none of the others could pass it, but must watt until the damage is repaired. Xo overseer must dismount to perform any maunal labor, no mat ter how urgent the demand Xo secre tary must perform the most trivial act of labor save what properly belonged to his department Thus constant loss was being sustained through delays and loss of time, Sullivan had at one time twenty -eight thousand acres of corn under cultivation and employid six - hundred labor r3. Failing to get suflif ieut aid here Le sent an agent to Europe and brought over GerciaL-s and Swedes, paying their passage and contracting with them to pay him in work. The importations would no sooner got their employer paid than they would leave him and set up for theni-elves. Be sides this drawback the farm was 1 icing worked by inexperienced bands as the Enropear-s knew but little of farm-work. The grain was hauled to Gibson, a city on the Chicago and Alton road, and there d.'sjicsod of st a few cents per busht L At one time three-quarters of a million bushels of corn were market ed through one sale. ? Sullivan made an assignment bis farm was reduced to twenty thousand acres, and thousanda of plows and har rows and other tools were sold. Next the re-jiainder of the land was sold out in small tracts, and a few days, ajo a Sweje mrdeihe last payment , on the latt eighty-acre section of the great Sullivan farm. Ex-Governor Sullivan was reputed to lie worth in 1879 ovir S3 000.000. He died insolvent Silent sraldina. Don't scowl, it spoils faces. Before yon know it your forehead will resem ble a small railroad map. There is a grand trunk lino now from your cowlick to the edge of your nose, intersected by parallel lines rnnning east and west, with curves arching your eyebrows; and how much elder yon look for it! Scowling is a habit that steals upon us unawares. We frown when the light is too strong and when it is too weak. We tie our brons into a knot when we are thinking, and knit them even more tightly when we cannot think. There is no'denying there are plenty of things to scowl over. ,lhe baby in the cradle frowns when something fails to suit. "Constitutional scowl," we say. The little toddler who likes sugar on his bread and butter tells his trouble in the same way when you leave the sugar off. "Crossed,"- we say, about the children, and "worried to death" about the grown folks; and, as for ourselves we can't help it But we must Its reflex influence makes others unhappy; for face auswereth into face in life as well as in water. It belies our religion. We should possess our souls in such peace that it will reflect itself in our placid t onntenancaa . If your forehead is ridged with wrinkles before forty, what will it beat seventy? There is one consoling thought about these marks of time and trouble the death angel always erases them. Even the extremely aged, ia death, often wear a smooth and peaceful brow, thus leav ing our last memories of them calm and tranquil. But our business is with life. Scowling is a kind of silent scolding, ft shows that our souls need sweetening. For pity's sake let us take a sad-iron. or a glad-iron,' or something cool of some sort, and straighten these creases out of our faces before they become indelibly engraved upon onr visage. What Blade a SDalstsr Laugh. "WelL brethren." said a Maine min ister to some of his fellow evcuigehsts, "I never was guilty of iaugning in toe nuloit but once. Some years ago l i . had in my congregation an olil man wuo universally went to sleep in church and verv loudly throughout the ontire service. One Sabbath morning, olnncirjc in his direction I saw him as nnal. with his head bacJt enjoying a nap, and right above him in t!ie gallery a young man was rolling a large quia oi tniaiwt sound in his mouth. As I looked he took it out, and pressing it m a ball poised it carefully over the open mouth below. I became so interested in the proceeding that I forgot to con tinue the sermon, but stood watching the young man. With a wicked smile he tik careful aim and dropped it square ly into the old man's mouth. W ith a gnlp-lp-lp the sleeper started up and with a face red as a beet rushed from the house. The people no donbt were horrified, but I could not have kept from laughing if a sword had hung oyer my head ready to fall. The old man did not come back for several Sabbaths, and when he did he changed his seat and remained wide awake;" , , , . Sit ng a C!nlt. Harry Lamorcux is an engineer on the Manhattau Brazil Railway. He drives tha 1 c iiuotivo Peter Stuyvesant Unlike the old woodtn-logg'ed GoTernor of the embry. metropolis, it travels at a Lisjh rate of tspetd. Becon'ly the Peter Stuyvesant, attached t i a traiu of nine curs, loft Greoupoint t half past 6 P. M Hairy Lamorenx was at the lever. It ws an express traiu, and a minute or two behind timo. Jfearing t'.e bridge at a deep cut at the old De Kalb avenus station in East Brooklyn, the engineer saw what he supposed to be a dog playing between the rails of the south-bouud tiack. He whittled and rang the be!!, but the snppo ed animal did not move. The train was running oa schedule time. "My God, it's a child !" he exclaimed, s the locomotive Cow towards it. He shut oil steam, put on the vacuum breaks and reverse gear, clunlied ont of thi cab window along the running lioard, over t'i6 steam chest and down "to the pilot While the locomotive was under half headway he reached down, crabbed up the child, a-ed with it safely folded it to his breast, nvnng hiaiself out into the track at the right of his CDgite. A j man and woman were standing on the top of the embankment, which was about thirty fot t high. He clambered up, deposited his precious burden in the arms of the man, slid d ,wn to the track, tock command of his engine, and got underway for the beach. Not a passenger know the cause of the stop page, Tho Peter Stuyvesant ro'led into the Manhattan Beach depot at five minutes past 10 last night Harry Lomoreux, a tall, broad-shouldered, athletic young man, only twentyeight years of ago, jumped out of the cab and began oiling up. He was decidedly g.iod-lcoklng and modest as a maiden. "I liJu't suppose there would be any fuss made aloutit" he said to a reporter. "I'd i f ten read abont such tilings aad I didn't believe half of th m. When I saw the little toddler playing there I knew I had to make an attempt to save it and I did." That's about all I can say about it It must have tumbled down the embaukment, for there was no other way for it to get there." . "Was there no conversation lw'ween you and the man to whom you gave the child?" "He didn't say a word. I sai 1, 'don't let It occur again." And the lit ri went ba k to his labors. Harry Lamoreux has been an engineer for seven years. For the pa?t three years he has been in the employ of the Manhattan Beach Railway Company. The officials of tho road speak in the highest terms of him. He is a widower. Forrest 1 Marco Rozzris. A correspondent in New York writ some years ago, I had gone on to Phila delphia to tako my Christmas dinner with Col. Forney, and, of course, a call upon Forrest was in order. The vtei an tragedian showed us through his picture gallery and I happened to please him by admiring his favorites, "Xapoleon at the KremUn" and a pair of merry maidens bathing I think they were. Presently we stopped in front of a portrait cf Fitz-Greene Halleck, with whom all three of ns were acquainted when he served as a sort of Xewmau Xoggs in the office of the Astora. "Who would have thought," said Forrest, "that such a chap as Halleck could have writ ten 'Marco Bozzaris, a poem that fires my blood whenever I recite those linrs Strike ! till the last anneil foe expires Sink! for roar altars and jour flres! Strike ! for the green Braves of jour sires : God and joar native land !' And strange enough," he continued. "I met the son of Marco Bozzaris while I was in Greece. He had seemed to me a traditional personage, but to meet his son gave him a reality which I have never since lost "What sort of a man was young Bozzaris ?" I inquired. "Six feL-t two inches high," replied For rest ; "straight and slim as a palm tree; a face like the antique ; a model, sir, of manly beauty. Only a hero could have had such a son." "And was his mind equal to his physique ?" "I could not tell at first. He spoke no English, and my French was not fluent However, we managed to understand each other a little, and I told him about Halleck's poem. He bad never even heard of it The mood was on me, and standing up in that Greek cafe I recited the whole tf it to the son of the hero whom it had immortalized. Sir, he understood that I could see the blood thrill in Lis veins, his eyes flash lightning, the color come and go in his cheeks, and when my voice dropped and brole for the concluding lines, where Bozzaris sinks to sleep in death at the very moment of victory, the son's eyes filled with tears, which dropped like diamonds on the ground as he gazed at me. Alt ! oratory, sir, is the universal language. Bat I should have liked Helleck to hear his poem re cited by me to such an audience. Crop la A ax it it. The August crop reports of t'"e De partment of Acricu ture show an im proved condition of cotton aud com, and that the wheat not yet harvested is in better condition than it has been for several years. Tobacco is fair, barley and buckwheat very good, and oats, rye and potatoes excellent This is gratifying news, and with the announce ment of crop failures abroad, promise for us a year of both plenty and profit Some seeds, like those of the balsam, stock acd wall flower, improve witn age te a certain extent. fhotasraplilc ImproTrinrnt. The claim made recently by M.Albert of Vienna, of haviug inveuled a process far rendering tho listural colors iu pic tures by means of a peculiarly construc ted photographic ste m-press and this without the aid of a pencil has rxeited very great intersst realizing, as it dots, if the statements coucertiii'g it be fully confirmed, the great and long-sought desideratum ia photographic art The secret of this invention, as repre seutel ia the Vienna journals, consists in the analysis of the white light into 3 ootos ye!low blue and red and in the recovery of those three colors ready for the operations of the press. Ou a p'ate, chemically preparel.so as to receive but the yellow parts of the light, and the tones of the colors of the object to be reflected, the first photo graph is taken, when a negative of Jhat plate is at once put under tho press, whose cylinder is dubbed over with yel low paint Xons bnt the tones of the yellow colors are now seen in the impres sion. A tor that, the object is photo graphed on a plate made to reflect but the blue colors. This plate now under tho press reflects a blue impression, the cylinder being dubliel over with blue paint In the same nianuor are re ceived the tones of the red colors, by means of a third plate. Printiug the J Individual pictures of a yellow, blue and red over each other, a picture is pro duced true to nature, the colors inter mixing by having been printed over each other. As to the permanonly of this kind of coloration a most impor tant point f conrsfl no determina' ion can now be made. Identity of Itlaek and 11 rem Tea. Green and black tea are produced from the 6ame plant, although the Col nists were long at issue abont the mat ter; Tho idea of green tea being dried upoi; copper is provt n to bo a popular fallacy, for the tea would be flavored and spoiled in the piocess; beside the bloom con be givon by harmless means. Dr. Lettsom, by the way, thought it was given by a vegetable procis. Mr. Ball, who has written a practicid volume, on the "Cultivation and Manu facture of Tea,"descrile8 an exierinieut made by him, proving that tea may be dried black and green at once iu the jje sums vessel and over the same fire, divided tho pan, aud the leaves of one side ho kept in moliou and the othe UUlCla lit IUG XnblCA lll.il, ll.l 1. 11 i : .1. -La 1..tf., I li'.o.i iti ii 1 r.l- n.l I ., ' it the former green thus proving the da- . t ,&, . , , r ferenco of color to 1 not any management of heat, but from manipulation, the heat lM-iug the same in both cases. At the same time certain Chinese rogues glaze our hyson moct unscrupu lously, and it has been proved by cheni- cal analysis that the Chinese green teas are artificially colored, though not with indigo, as represented by the green tea merchants. We niny add that gun-powder tea is dried at the highest tempera ture and Pekoo at the lowest, and the chemical cause of black tea is its loss of tannin in its drying previous to roasting, an opinion that is supported by the tes timony of Liebig. Again, Mr. Ball thinks there miy ba one species of tea plant, but several varieties, and that all botanical difference is destroyed in the course of packing. 'ria" and ".Mutnma.' An early instance which oocnrj to me is in the "Beggar's Opera" (1727), where Tolly Peachtim, I think it is, speaks of her "papa." The modern change from papa" and "mamma" to father and mother among the npper classes, which began about thirty yesrs ago, seems to have been a reaction against a custom which had gradually crept in among persons of a lower grade. As soon as common people's children began 'to say "papa" and "mamma" those of a higher class were taught to ssy "father and "mother." It was among my bigh-church friends that I first noticed this adoption of "father and "mother." One does not see the connection, but suehis the fact. When was young "papa" and "mamma" were universal among what may bej called the middle and upper ranks of society, and to this day "ladies of a cer tain age" still use the words. King George 1TL, about the year 1762, ad dressed his mother as "mamma ;" so I find in the "Greuville Memoirs." But I do not think that Charles XL, unless he was speaking in French, ever ad dressed Henrietta Maria by that endear ing name, and I feel tolerably sure that the lady Elizabeth never called Htnry VIII. "papa." On the other hand 1 would observe that "papa" aud "mam- ira aro last being snppianteu uy tbe old original father" aud "motber." For. ten. or perhaps for twenty, years last past, children in the upier and upper-middle classes have, so far as my observation goes, been tanght to say "father" and Dsother. and "papa" and "mamma" hich are words of extreme tenderness to those of my generation, seem now to have sunk into contempt as a "note' of social inferiority. tit. ;otliarl Rails. Thus far 'he St. Gothard Railway has not yielded a Very promising revenue. A foreign exchange says that for the month of Jiine the receipts were $120, 000, and, assuming that the line is worked for CO per cent, of the receipts, the net income would thus be only $18, 000, which is only a third of the amount required for interest upon its bonded debt In actual fact the expenses are probably greater than 60 per cent, for h e line is extremely expensive and dif ficult to work. The line in this country would not be regarded as a commercia success. ' . - , A llnriflar Sutrj. My profusion isn't a popular one. There is considerable prejUiiice against t I d'ju't myself think it's much worse than a good many others. However, that's nothing to do with my stiry. Soxe years a;o me and the gentleman who was at that time connected with me in brsinrss he's met with reverses since then, acd at present isn't able to go out was 1-ioking around for a job, being at that time rather hard up. as yon might say. We struck" a small country town I ain't ageing to give it away by telling where it was. There was one bank there ; the president was a rioh old duffer ; ow;ied the mills, owned the bank, owned mcst of the town. Tin re wasu't no other officer but the cashier, and thry had a boy who used to sweep out and run errands. The bank was on the main street, pretty well up one eud of it nice rang place on the corner of a cross street, with nothing very near it We took onr observation, aud found there wasn't no trouble at all about it There was an old watchman that walked no and down the street nights, when he didn't fall asleep and forget it The vault had two doors ; the outside one was chilled iron, and had a three-wheel combina tion lock ; the inner door wasn't no door at all ; yen could kick it open. It di.lu'l pretend to lie nothing bnt fire proof and it wasn't even that The first thing we done, of course, was to fit a key to the outside door. As the lock on the oub,ide door was an old fashioned Ba con loci, any gentleman of my profes sion who chances to read this article will know just how easy the job was and how we done it I may say li're that the gentleme-j iu my line of busi no?s, Laving at times a great deal of leisure on their hands, do considerable reading, and aro particularly fond cf a neitt bit of writing. In fact in the way of literature. I have found aion? 'em however, this Ik ing digression, I drop it, aud fo on with the main j.b agri i. This was onr plan: After the key was fittrd I was to go into the bank, and Jim that wasn't his name, of course, bnt let it pass was to keep watch outside. When anyone passed he wan to tip me a whistle, aud then I doused the glim and lay low ; after they got by I gixs on again. Simple and easy, yen see. Well, the night wo se- jlecte J the pre silent happened to lie out oi town ; gone cown to the city ; as he 'often did. I got inside all right, ith a xlide lantern, a breast drill, a small steel ijimmy, a imncu oi keltt:n kevsand a , . . ! green bauw bs .to jtow. tha-aws.. I fixed my li;!it and rigged my breast drill, and got to work on tho door right over the lock. Probably a great many of onr readers is not so well posted as me aliout bank locks, and 1 may say for them that a three-wheel combination lock has three wheels iu it, and a s.'ot in each wheel. In order to unlock the door yoa have to get the three slots opposite to each other at the top of the lock. Of conrso if you kow the nnniber the lock is set on you can do this; bnt if you don't yon have to depend on your in genuity. There is in each ot tue??c wheels a small hole, through which you put a wire through tho back of the lock when yon change the combination. Xow, if you can bore a hole through the door and pick up these wheels by running a wire through these holes, why yon can open the door. I hope I make myself clear. I was boring that hole. The door was chilled iron, abont the neatest stuff I ever . worked on. I went on steady enough ; only stopped when Jim which, as I said, wasn't his came whittled, and the watchman tod dled by. By and by, I'd got nearly through, when I heard Jim so to speak, whistle again, I stopped, and pretty soon heard footsteps outside, and I'm blowed if they didn't come right up the bank steps, and I heard a key ia tho lock. I was so dumbfounded wheu I heard that that you could have slipped the bracelets on me, I pieked up I want you to keep a sharp l.sjkout t uiy lantern, an J I'll bo hanged if I didn t i night. " He will stay here until Mr. t the sbde slip down and throw the light right on the door, and there was the proilent Instead of calling for help as I thought he would, he stepped ' inside the door and shaded his eyes t with Lis hands and looked at ice. I aoioca mat a ougm uj anocs mm uown ; 1 . 1 1 T Til i 1 1 - , i ana cut out, out x m vim n i coma, i : was that surprised. "Who are you? says he. "Who are yon?" says L thinking that was an innocent remark, as he com - menced it, and a trying all the time to collect myself. Tin the President of the bank," says he, kinder short; "something's the matier wiiu me loe By George! the idea came to me then, " Yes, sir," says I, toncting my cap: " Mr. Jennings, his telegpaphed this morning as til? lock was out of crderj and h-5 couldn't get in, and I'm come on to open it for htm " I told Jenning a week ago," says he " that he ought to get that lock fixed. Where is he?" ' He s been a writing letters, and he's gone np to nis bouse to et another let- ter he wanted for to answer.' " Why don t you go rigU on ? sava h. . "Ivegot almost through, says I ; and i aion t want to nuisa up ana open the vault till there was somebody uere- . . 'ri? i T . i .1 t . i auai. verj ereunaoie w you. sayi he; "a very proper sentiment, my man. aou can i, no goes on, coming V 'a r rounu uy me uour, oe too particular aW avoiding the suspicion of evil." ; .. It ncT.,r t iljto the -"Xo, sir, says I, kinder modest , m , uca' . I have lo objeckshun, says Josh Bd " nat uo yon suppose is the matur witn tne iock t says ne. " I don't rightly know yet" sava I ; 'but I rather think it's a little wore on ffr.xuLt f Lot being oiled enough These 'ere leeks oclft to lw oiled abon. once a year." "Well," stys he, "you might s well go riht on, now I'm here ; I will stay till Jenniugs comes. Can't I help yoa ? hold your lantern or something 'f that sort?" The thought cone to me like a flush, and i turned around a-.d says: "How do Iknowyou're the President? I ain't ever seen you afore, and yon may lie a trying to crack tti's bank, for all I know." "That's a vjnr proper inquiry, my man," says he, " aud shows a most re markable degree of disci etion. I con fess that I shonld rot have thought of the position ui wliieh I was placing you. However, I can easily convince you that it's all right. Do you know what the Pretidect's name is?" "Xo, I d'n't" says I sort o'eurly. "Well, yon 11 find it ou that bill," said he, fating a bill out of his pocket, "and you see the same oa these let ters," and he took some letters from his coat I suppose I onght to have gone right oa then, bnt I was licginning to feel in terested iu mating him prove who he was, so I says: " Yon might have got thrin letters to put up a job on me." "You're a very honest man," says he; "one among a t!ion-and. Don't lljtik I'm at all offended at your per sistenee. Xo, my good fellow, I like it, 1 like it," and he laid his hand on my shoulder. 'Xow, here," says he, taking a bundle ont of his pocket, is a (ack.ite of teu thousand dolhirs in bomK A burglar wouldn't be apt to carry tuso r.ronud with him, would he ?" I b-.miht them iu the city yester day, and I si.pied here to-night on my way home to phic them in the vault, aud, I mny add. that yof.r simple and maidy honesty has so touched me that I would wil.ingly leavj it ia ycur hands for s:ife keeping. Yr n needn't bluth at my praise." I sujqiose I uid turn a sorter red when I see them boud. "Are yuu tail-tied now?" says he. I told him I was, thoroughly, aud so I uix So I pieked up my drill aiun aud gave him my lautern to hold, so that I could sie the doer. I htatd Jim, as I call him, outside once or twice, and I liked to have burst out laughing, thinking how he mnst lie wondering what was going tu inside. I worked away and kept explaiiung to him what I was try ing to do. lie was vury tun .'b interested in me huuie'j, he said, and he knwni i-waft a r.:.tn a-j was up -to my bnsint'&s, by the way I aeut to work, no asked me about what wages I got, and how like.! my business, and sai 1 he took quite a fancy to me. 1 turned round once in awhile and looked at him a setting up there as solemn as biled owl, with my dark lantern in his blessed hand, and I'm bhimed if I didn't think I should have to heller right out.' I got thronU the lock pretty soon, an.l I put iu my wire and opened it. Then ho took hold of tiie door and ojK-ned tho vault. ' I'll put my lion.is Li," srid he, "and go liome. You can lock np and wait tdl Mr, Ji-iiuiiigi coints. I don't suppose you will try to fix the lock to-night." I told hic I shouldn't do anything mere with it now, i:s we could get in before mori.ing. "Wt ll, I'd bid you good n'ght, my man," says he, as I swung the door to again. Just then I heard Jim, by came, whistle, und i guessed tho watjhmau was a coming up the street "Ah," says I, -yon muht speak to the watchman, if yoa see him, aud tell Iiiiu to keep an extra lookout to night" " I will," says he, and we loth west to the froiit door. xuere c mes lue watchman ut the street. nra It a ia VI t .1 at man has Ken tWiii" tl hank ll- Jennings returns." "Good nLrht a-ai... " v. 1.- ... i wU 8ilooi im.uls allli i, street I saw Jim, so-called, iu the shadow . on the other aiitn of tlm cfru.o T 8tooi, OQ tly p w.th vlt(.um!,n ye;i " sa I d, sa) i I to the w.tchman, "I'll go and piek up my tools and get ready to go. ' I went bak into the Wik, aud it : didn't bike long to throw the door open and stuff them bonds into the ba. j There was some boxes Iviiiir around. j and a safe I should rather have liked to have tackled, but it seemed like tempt- ;D prC)vLleiic MfLer th liinV w'.l h,l i I looked at my watch and saw it was 1 l'ast 12. There was an express j nt through at half-past 12. I tucked my tools in the bag on the top of the loads, and walked out to . the front door The watchman was on the steps. " I don't believe 1 11 wait for Mr. .Tea niugs," says I. " I sjppoae it will be all riht it I give yoa this key, That's id! ri'-ht ' s.iy;i the watch- ' " I wouldu t o very fur from the Lank," sas L " Xo, I won't," says he; "1 11 stay riht aljont hero al ni"ht , Good tight," savs I, and I shook hands with him, and me and Jim ' u..h val.ut hU. riht v ,,. lblI11ita the 1-2 Si) ,,r-,J,. and th T , nari n, .. w r. i,.,,. ; notuui. of ; ling, to a wan parting his hair in the 1 middle, but 1 shad alwnss insist upon his fimsuiag up the job bi wearing 6,,"rt Sn petticoat I.N ,K1KK Tho sea holds 60,000,()O),('Hl0,CtH) tons ofjsalt Tn right lu-igof a Luuiau bo.lv is generally to ounces heavier tuaa the left one. "" - Til d. Princess Louise is cccupvin much vt her time sketching Ouebeo scenery." Thufar this year HO r, miles of new railroad have been built in tha United States. The capital shick ot the Kin Grande and Pecos rulroad has been increased to S2 J,0('0,fXK). An ant j watched from six o'elvk in the mermnj to q latter of t ;n at ni -ht worked inceititly. ' Ti.e Philadelphia MV.iral C'olie -e graduated 7tt studei.ts in l.ssl. if.., number for lS J was 731. The snowareh in Tnekermau .s ra vine, at thefooiof Mount Washington, still defies the Jjot weather. ' The Kussian government h .s de cide.! to donate 7,000.0:10 ruMes to th. building of thirty guuboati. There are iu Belgium '2in)0 iuiiie;d societies an.l 1100 bands, the uuuiliei of executaa's being almiit ti' ),(.. The clerk or t! Uuite.l S'a' s Su preme Court has si!;ir-Vs md f.vs amounting to aKutt Sl'VKM a y oar. . Migratoiy birUs, whan tlvi l.v night are at au eLnsuon of from o.ie to four miles atiove tLv earth's i urt.uv. Workmen oa a Viilro.td ne::r Den ver, Col, came uoo-.f a lie'tirie 1 f ,r,-it at a dept'i of from teu to twnf y f, -t Tho Egyptian t! nle of atla.'u g horses to a chariot was t h.-ve ouo trace on the iuner si loof ea-h hor ;: The town cl.iek in the :. nl., of St Paul's C'hureh. X"oY Ol' W:l-i m l. f. in London, in It fnts two w -igkis. The city directory of M:i::c-!M.lis. Minnesota, for 1SSJ, ru-.taiiis 2VJ2S names, indicating a popul.it oil of 7s,8.. The widow if Ei-Ptysnleiit Tvli-r is about to mule In r home in lSt.-iimotid. Va.. ut the corner of i: jhth :;n,l Gr.u-o streets. Tue aggregate valan o the proper ty of colored people thnmliout fea nessee is set down ut S'".,o7';i.,jl( beiii" an iuereu-e of 3071, 17'J over tie prt ce ding year. The greatest weight iif:od by Prof. Winship "in harucsV ai he a-nile l tho apparatus with which he clothe I h.ui self when exhibit ui; hi. f.-a's otytr :'egt!i, was SoOil poutuU. -The free circulating library in Xew York city contains o(K5 voiiLuti, and is steadily groiug iu size and usefulness. But sixty-four percent, of tfco riicr.Ia tiou is iu works of fiction. . Sinee tho lirst oil well was ripencj ia 1HT)3 tiio product of the w.ba has added Sl.oOO.tfcX' (;() to tho wealth of the United States ia the value of thu.i crude til und its products. ' Tho receipts from pateuts fr tho past six months were 317.000. au in crease over tho same n.-rod la t ve it of S7,000. The first Welch church in Ohio was founded in 180.'J. At present there are in the State forty churches, itao;oy members. The product of Califoruii iuwfc,il ver mints latt year was CO.'JOl Husks, and the experts by sea an.l mil wrra, ly, 1 1 0 tlasks. The tonnage tiamqiorted on a!i tlio railroads ia tlm United States iu 1SS ' amounted to ooO.lMU.oo.) tons, wire b ' at the too low arer.!e of $.-;) a ton ' would le w.rih SlH.OOO.OO'J.ooo. The Agricultural CVilegr! at H in over, X. 1L, wid admit woci;m pupils at its next term, wn will bo given a spec ial course of stuoy, including butter and cheese making, aud dairying m all i:.s branches. From statistics recently puiili.-,!io.I, it aprear.s that 3.".S railway accidents occurred in Belgium ia 1S80. of tli-.so 11 were due to collisions and 112 frm trains running otr the rails at or near statioos. Great Brit liu, including all her pos sessions, has 421t steam vesse's an.) 1S,52) sailing vessels, or a tot;;l of 22, 7:l, while the United States h.ut 177; steam and C07'J sailing vessels, or a total of 84o8. They make something beside office-holders ia Washington, the niriiiu lacturing establishments of the city liav- niK a cafiiiu oi Ullployill-' 116 persons, while their i.-rodu 1 1 ar,: valued at SH.fill.lH. An order has been ismed forbid ding professional guides to aciaitanv ..i i. :. . ! .. . . vttiioi imouu mo areasury xjalliitii in Washington. If desired, au emuiovo of the depar ni.nt will accompany visi tors turongu the buudiu;: without barge. The statue and monument to Cal houn, soon to be erected i i Charleston. 3. C, is hastening to completion. II ir- nisch, the sculptor, formeriy of I'mla delphia, is busy on it iu his liomaii tudio, and it is his ambition to make it a work of art on which, his !jaj may be founded. " It is estimated that the Smli lius this season paid to tho Xort'a 8 VViloo.- 000 for wheat, 351,000.000 for corn. $72,000,000 for meats, and ai.o it $S,- 000,000 for hay, butter, chevsc, oats, applee, potables, etc. In Xew York theru are 2 ,271 more females than males; in Philadelphia. 'M.'HO ; in BrcKiklyn, 2:5,S72 ; in l"wtou, 18,422; m Baltimore, H,ft!l ; iu Wa.-h ington, 10,673; iu Xew Orleans, 1 70i in Louisville, 5701 ; in St. Loni-, 8"22, in Kansas City, 12M ; ia Denver, 7110 The totil length of railway Lnes in the United Kingdom on Jan. l-t, were lH.l.o nule, of winch ..i02 mil.;. weru of single irfie. lot .1 pr..d up vatutal. 3,70,000,OIW ; total reveil le, & 00tl,000; net revenue, ?lio,0W,U jo ; pioportiou of ex pen litures to receipts, yi per cent. Ihere were l."J,726 loco motives in use. Magnificent are tho pr.-ei;ts sent by Xing Alphouo to the members of ttie Commission that t k the Order f the Gaster at M.vlrid iut year. The Prince of Wales received tapestries -worth more than 30,000. To Hie others are sent some superb speciisensof Toledo arms, richly encrusted with fc"ld. There ha- recently been discovered in the County of Laiiitk, Oilaxio, a pillar of granite fully 75 bvt ia height aud taperaigto a point t tlio top, uineu originally formed part '. the elilT near the shore of Christy Like, but by some eonvulsiou was displaced aud remained standing upon iu end 2 fe-et from the bluff. It has a ba."c of 25 feet square, t a by ocean currents. 4
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