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B. F. SCHWEIER,
THE C0I3T1TUTI0I-THE UHOI-AJD THE ESTOBCEMEIT OP THE LAVS.
Editor and Proprietor.
VOL. XXXVI.
MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 1. 1SS2.
NO. 14.
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II on Diy gravs tbe auuimer gnua were gruw'.u;,
Or Ueetl es wlatr w.aU acruaa It t.lowlnz,
TbruHb Jojoas June or Usaolate Decm!r. -
How lou, sweetheart, bow long would jou re
member
Uow long, dear love, haw long?
"or orighteit erea would open to tbe snumrr.
AaJ .waeieal amiis would, grei the tweet new
comer,
AuJ on jwng lip grow kisses fur tbe likinir,
Wliau all tbe sararaer isi U to blMia are break
lag How long, dear lore, bow lung?
To the dim land wbere sad-eyed cbosta walk only,
Wber lip are coM, and waiting bearu are
louelj,
1 would not call yon from your Tou:ta'g warm
tihstes.
Kill op tour glass an J crown It witb ucw kiiv-e.
Uow Ion, dear love, bow loug?
Too ga m June yon niigbt be to regret me.
Ant living up might woo yon to forget me;
Hut an, aweethean, I tbuik you would remember
Wben wind were weary in jour life's December
So long, dear love, so long.
CELIVS Kl-IXtlC
The sunset s golden glory enveloped
Margery Leland's little cottage home
as it nestled at the foot of the hill ; and
its long lines of slanting yellow light
touched up each one of the shining curia
as thongh with a magic pencil, as she
swayed dreamily to and fro iu the red
framed, cane-seat rocking-chair upon
the porch.
The light vauished and all was grey
hued and sombre, and even so suddenly
went tiie nappy dreams which bod been
filling Margery's heart.
Some half hour previous Miss (Julia
Hynes had opened tne garden-gate, and
walked slowly up the path bordered
with tlowers sending out their sweetest
fragrance at the approach of the dewy
eventide,
"Ootid evening, Margery. Is ma at
home ?"
'Yes," said Margery, with ready
courtesy, lining to greet the tall angular
spinster. '"Will you walk iu ?"
And she showed her into the sitting
room, and called her mother.
Ineii she stele softly out t j her old
position and to her pleasant thoughts,
until a name attracted her attention
t-ie nanie !
With a smile parting her sweet lips,
and looking out of her great dreamy
eyes, she bent forward to hear what
Pleasant thing Miss Hynes was saying
about him for Warren May was to
Margery tne synonym of all that was
good and noble, and surely even the
most curpmg critic could say nothing
ill of 1dm.
"bo your daughter's got a beau, Mrs.
Leland. Well 1 never ! It seems only
jjst a year or two ago that she wa run
ning round catching butterflies with
those chubby fingers of h' re, and now
sh is alter higher game."
How Margery's tender heart throbbed
as sue listened. I
ho oihers bad noticed his attentions, j
and it was not imagination on her part
but at the next words her pk aure l
Vanished, j
"Soi, Mrs. Lebuid." continued the
sharp Voice, "you must not take ofljiice,
for you know I have set great store by
Margery ever since I nursed her
through the fever, and she is jo.-t for
all the world like my own flesh and
blood, and something 1 hoard yester
uay set me to thinking first, and lhn
couiuig doau here to tell you."
What could it be?
Margery's fingers clenched themselves
tightly in her impatience, and bhe held
her breath so as not to lose a word.
"You know I board at tue same plaie I
with that young Miy, and to say the
truth ; but tiiat's neither here nor there
as far as Margery is concerned, if he
hasn't any serious intentions in his
politeness" to her, and I've heard it from
lus own bps.
"You see I overheard that editor,
Sam Well-, teasing him about some
lady, and you know it's easy to put two
and two together, and young May spoke
up, with a snap in those big black eyes
of his
"1'ou are mistaken ; I am no; en
gaged fc the young lady, and have not
ine slightest intention of being,"
"Then Sam Wells said something
more iu an undertone ; I didn't quite
catch it, and May said sharper than
ever
"I assure you, sir, the widow's daugh
ter is too innocent to flirt with.'
Margery waited to hear no more.
With living steps she sought hc( own
little room, locked the door, to le se
cure from the intrusion even of her
dearly-beloved mother, and throwing
nersed on the b-d, buried her face in
its suoy pillows, and aobiied as though
ker heart would break.
Tne next day there was to be a church
picnic, and Margery had thrown her
wnoie energy into the preparations.
buch marvels of cake and pastry had
grown uuder her nimble tinxcr lor the
delectation of the children.
buch achmg rnuMclea and tired wrists
iroui the beating ol eggs to theiequieite
loamv ligbtnet lor tne making of de
licious trifles, and such Lapi y thought
and fancies, tor Waireu was interested
in tUe same bunday school, and they
would be foliow-womers, and after that
the ueiightlul rambles through bhady
vistas in the woods that stretched at
tne back of the chosen site for the camping-ground.
.Now all was changed. . .
It burned to Margery, in Ler girlish
sensitiveness and mortiucution at the
thought of her name beiug thus bandied
from bp to bp in the village (for if Miss
Hynes knew of it. otbe surely would;,
as though she could mi. bear to meet
her merry young luends lest her secret
should be written upon her lace,
but sbc would have died ratherthan
have them think her the victim cf un
requltted love ; bo she stee ed hersell
t i . . .Iuiim mill went.
An ULUturable soorn surged througn
li.-rh.ui u bhe thought of War.en
May's indignant denial of aoj meaning
in bis alten lions to her. .
What then was the signification ol
words and lo.ka wiach had causeu -thrill
of such new and strange happiness
to iei meato her whole being ?
bhe had gone to the repository of her
treasures trifle iu thteiusclves, but
rich in their precious
meaning ue
KiTeu the bud he had
placed in ltT
ri air, iu?uaui6 , . ;,
sweeU-st rose-bud of the two, the bit
of paper whereon the names in a game
of consequence had been written, and
in which Wairen May and Margery In
land had been the leading characters in
a series or comical adventures eudiugin
marriage, and Warren had stolen an
. opportunity to whfcper unobserved
among the gleeful laughter
"May it come true within a tweive-
. i. ft
i i - : 4 l.of kiim was
His notes, too, full f those aweet
a lovmg
xuey snouid ail go together in one
fiery holocaust.
ud with ttiem the
happy hopes and
fancies which had
Kuueu ner rue witn sucn delusive ra-
J 1 J 1 l'r .
aiance ol late, should fade away into
as lies.
He should not know of her pain.
Sne would be the gayest of the gav
wheu they met, no matter what tort
ures she might suffer afterwards.
Ai tuonj;h to aid in carrying out her
designs, Reuben Gil man, the squire's
son had Come home from college, and
a-t Margery made h r appearauoe, look
ing all the prettier for the heightened
color upon her cheeks, and for the
feverish brilliance of her restless dark
eyes (the only visible traces of her
mental suffering), he stepped to her
u.uv ,jiu ruuuru uiieresi auu viaimeu
her atwutiou as on old friuud.
Margery, usually as retiring and
bashful as a snow-drop, received him
with a vivacity and emprcr,inent
which pleased, while it surprised him,
and from that time until the day ended,
he constituted himself her devoted at
tendant. Warren May came a little later, and
as usual made his wav at once to Mar-
Kery's side.
lo his surprise she recognized him
with a cool htt'e nod and (rave him no
further notiee, becoming at once en
grossed witU Rtuten, and qnietly lis
tening to him as though, like to the
ancient dame in the fairy tale, she ex
pected to see jewels dropping from his
lips with every word.
Warren waited patioutly for a time,
evidently expecting to assume his old
position by Margery ; but instead she
accepted Reuben's invitation for a ram
ble, and they were soon out of sight in
the sUady recesses of the woods.
Warron looked after them, listening
to the silvery ripple of laughter wnich
occasion dly rang out from Margerv's
hps.
At last when he could see them no
longer he turned away.
"After all," he thought bitterly, "she
is like the rest of her sex. I believed
her as transparent in her guileless in
nocence as a drop of dew, and as fr.e
from coquetry as a baby. How has
the sweet delusion vanished !"
AVrth this sweeping conclusion he
tried to banish his disappointment but
in vain.
It returned with everv thought of the
sweet face which had lured bim lrorn
his oflices and from a pressing law ciso,
to baa 4 in its wrnsorne lignt, and which
had then proved to him such a veri
table "Wril-o-tiie-wisp."
Aiany a pair ot origin eves smned a I
welcome at tue handsome young lawver
us Le sauntered leisurely along, but be
contented himself witn a pleasant greet
ing, and soon lelt the crouuds.
"Oar promiaiug young lawyer seems
to h:tve tired of tne scene aud gone
home," b.-ud Reuben laughingly. "I
wonder much at his taste. 'Ihere are
crowds of pretty girls here even if I
have monopoliziMl the queen of the fit.
wnu a meaning look at Alargi-rr : lor he
had heard the report connecting War
ren's name wiLh that of Margery, and
had formed a shrewd guess as to the
cause of his absence.
The girl did not refixiud in the pi
quant, sprightly way which had made
her bociety so laacinating to the young
sq life through the ( him) swiftly-fly
ing hours.
An intense longing filled her heart to
be again in Warren's presence.
Sue bad kept up her rote of a frivo
lous ligut-hearted girl, and had re
sponded gaily to Reuben's compliments.
bhe had gone to the picnic, ( uiiy in tend
ing to act a part foreign to her ingenuous
oieu nature, for bhe would have died
sooner than show her wounds.
But tne interniinableday had dragged
slowly on, and never again would she
expose heiself to such suilering.
Alter this she staved at home so per
sistently that it soon grew to be a sub
ject of comment in the village.
Then it began to be rumored about
that she was going into a decline.
Once it was mentioned at the table
here, among other boarders, Miss
Hynes and Warren May were seated.
"L declare to goodness, . said Miss
Hvues, ! can't for the life of me see
through things " Them that s old are
lelt to wither on the tree, and there's
the prettii st young thing in the whole
place a going as quick as you'd snuil
out a tallow candie. Poor little Mar
gery ! I've kuowed her and loved her
since she was knee-high to a grasshop-
v-: ,
Wairen a face cnangea as tie turneu
towards Miss Hynes.
"iid I understand you to say that it
is little Margery Leland who la in fail
ing health.
Yes, with a scoruiui sum auu a se
vere loot at the questioner ; mat s
what you heard. Toor dove I .uroneu
hearts am t as easy mended as bo uie
may think. Anyway I'm glad I done
my dutv. I warned her ma, I haven t
much opinion of them that wheedles a
girl's tender little Heart out ot her keep
ing, and then drops off like that! " with
a lorcible snap of her bony ringers.
The irate spinsUr so evidently meant,
battle that Warren flushed and was si
lent. , ..
It was no time to discuss a qucsuuu
!..... vnnnir rrirl's name had been
V liieu j o o
know the
mentioned, but ne mean w
trntn. ... ,
There must be something uuuenj iu6
Mt-s Hynes' bitter words. .
bo be waited until the rest of the
boarders had left the room ; then he
turned to her:
"For Heaven's auke tell me what you
e Hrni I Whose heart is
broken, and what have I to ao with it 7
"Your manner beems to connect me
with Alias Lelaud's illness; but as
Heaven is my witness, I would wulingiy
.a luiva her one pang !"
bakes ahve, young man, to you
mean to tell me that t .
"Why any one with half an eyecould
iV?:-..i.i -..tthe world by you;
auVyet yol topped off all i U
and fet ler pine like picked posy.
"You are mistaken, aj
th"MeMargery has scarcely spoken
to me since the day of the picnic.
"Howl have offended her I know
notfthe fault does not rest
"It may be that some mischief mv ker
.SSowtey .can manufacture
9torte out of very btue founon.
Let me sea. Tm uJ J
wmJSng spinster
turned a yeboisi.-hite t
..v, 'saJtes to mercy, young mfi
i-m that miaarable being.
I va don
nothings, interesting only to
t
""'"p- i wuat i told her ma. I
s-ys." tumiugsuudeulvand confrrmtin;
W
arre:l. 'Mo yon rfm.mJr l,. ...
thu verr room
A RAVI ifr irk 4m V .1 1 .
, . ' j - -r ' u tv vita
that you wasut engage,!, and "di Jn't
iiieauiooe.' and than when he lan "bed
and said something else, doyou remem
ber how you burst ont, 'Jio.air ; it is not
so !'
"The widow's daughter is too inno
cent to flirt with r I just wanted to
pu-, tne gin s motlier on her guard, aud
I told her. If I've done any harm I'm
sorry, and will try to undo it."
Warren thought for a moment liefore
ue coma recall tne conversation.
Then he said sternly :
If the precise words of Me w-n..
aud my true answer had been correctly
repeated no harm would
done, Miss Hynes ; but as usual a half-
true version uas been carried ta Miss
Margery's ears.
"Mr. Wells asked me if 1 was en
Raged to Miss Farren, my law-partner's
sister, and I answered emphatically,
No ; that I Lad not thought of such a
thing.'
"Then he said, 'How about the re
ported flirtation witn the widow's daugh
ter' Is it so? '
"And I answered imperativclv iu th
negative, and gave my reason for it."
"Ten I'm a miserable old creature,
and shall be till I make it pirfcrtiy
right between you and Door little Mar.
gery, ana mat will be before twenty
lour Uourt. or mr name's not nli
nynes I
1 11 take the emir of hope down to
ner una very night. .
She kept her word; aud Mtrgery
brightened at her explanation, like a
drooping flower at the restoration of the
sunliyhtaud dew.
JJtffore many days she had recovered
sninciently to see Warreu.
As lie came into the room, a faint
color fluttered up into her pale cheeks.
one put out her hand.
'I am clad to see vou said aha.
Then her sweet childish lips began to
qttiver.
WitU a sudden uncontrollable impul.se
the young man gathers 1 the tender
utile tluiig to bis heart.
Oh, Maigary," he whispered.
fave longed lor you as a man dying ol
thirst longs for Uie cooling spring.
" w ill you be my wife ? Then I shall
be sure ot you ?"
The muraiured answer was inaudible.
for she had hidden her fiiee niwn his
breast ; but Warren was satisfied.
He knew that Mar-rery loved him.
A f'riucft Wiu.out Nerve.
Ii is httie less tlian miraculous thut a
man so far udv:inced iu vela's as l'rince
CLailrs of 1'rasoia shoul 1 tiad at his
c-miii'md reserves of viialitr and recu-
perativd force enabliug him t get over
so severe on accid.-bt as oefed His
Royal Highness Vine weeks ago. We
are fclad, howe-vcr, b learn that the re
covery cf tuia venerable prince, who
entered up m his t2nd year toward thu
end ot last June, is now pronounced
complete by ha surgical attendants, and
that his retoiu from Cassel to Reriiii
has been decided upon. It is more
than probable that tae resolution and
seU-coutrol of which l'rince Ch.trles gave
so many proofs during bis cany chdd
hood uave iu no iueou.d lerable dsgree
contributed to pull him through the
pam and tedium ot an injury so dim
cult to deal with as a fractured thigh.
Among the many aucedotvS related ol
his sang-froid and steadiness of nerve as
a boy is the foiiowiug : On the 20th
of Octooer, 1811, the prince being then
10 years and 4 months old, he was din
ing at Wuatrau ca.-.Ue with Count Zie
teu, the oidy ton of Frederick the
Great's renow ned cavalry general. His
host was a very ecceu.ric iiersou-invete-rately
addicted to practical joking, and
ujxju the occasion alluded to Lad pre
pared an nnu-sually startling surprise for
tue juvenile l'rince. Count Zieten rose
during dmiier to propose the health of
"the King, aud us the words left Ins
lips a whole battery of field-guns, which
had been posted just under the dining
room windows, was fired off at a volley.
Everybody present started, except the
l'rince ui uu horn lus host s eyes were
steadily fixed. Ooserving with grim
satisfaction that the royal lad did not
even wink, Zieten turned toward him
with the question : "ot afraid of can
non, eh, your royal highness T" Poiut
ing to the walls of the apartment, lav
ish ly adorned with portraits of oiiicers
of the famous Zieten hussars the regi
ment cf which his son, Frederick
Charles, always wears the bcarlet aui-
form l'nuee Charles quietly replied :
Certain! y not. in such company as
this 1" and went on with his dessert as
though nothing unusual had been done
or saul.
Tun are at lalro.
The stecial corresijondeut says that
when the Kntish forces occupied the
citadel of Cairo they found that toi lures
had been uiflicted upon prisoners mat
were horrible in their barbarity, re
minding one of the old Iuqiusition
period. Tlio prisoners had been beaten
and racked if they could not pay money;
they had been hanged up by the tuumos,
by the ankles, by straps around their
waists ; that their bodies had been bared,
the skin over the hips and legs tightened
by a coutrivance so ingenious that only
a fiend inspired by batan could have
devised it, aud then the lash applied,
oue man making an upward blow alter
nately with the downward cut of another
until at last the flesh in pieces was lifted
troin the quivering victim. Then, too,
the bastinado, moct horrible of all pun
ishment, was used. I saw prisoners
who could not walk", and whose feet
weie biniplv lumps of discolored flesh.
Others I saw and talked to who had
been flayed. Oue, au old man, seemed
to be dying. Mad with the agony of
Duin he had endured, he dashed away
troni his tormeutors, and, running
swif dy around the mosque, he jumped
thirty feet down the rampart. When
he reached Uie bottom he lay a crushed
below, and then tuey
brought him back and they flogged him
again on the limU that were broken
aSd on the bones that protrudes! through
the flesh. The name of the brute wuo
eritrad these atrocities is teuiiemau
ZoLb Zini Pacha, a oolonel in the ar
Ullery. by birth from Kantarah, by edu
c7tiou a soldier, by nature a fiend
7T.T i w-inir discovered all the
trheUeVMrZorab Pacha into
Krehoe and ordered him to be
. , t....- ,,,t heavT irons on
"" TheT screwed them
SZZ toease bin of the nusenes of
rtTvitr. He aid probably b. snow
m an
Vaw York city has 10,000 official.
tiie daroage, I'm afraid 1 The girl must
A Plea for Strap.
The tnith is that the very rapidity of
our life, the wakefulness and wasteful
ness of our times, the straiu and driva
f all pursuits, make louger periods of
sleep necessary for us thsu people Iiy-
iug m more quiet countries aud at a
slower rate. We get tired enough if we
are well, an I U we dt-n t get tired
enough to sleep all over and clear
tur.iujih, it is a sign of nervous disorder.
Sleeping is something more than a lux
ury for Americana, though the very op
posite would be inferred from our habits.
There is no way by which the wear aud
tear, the drain and strain of American
life can be neutralized but by large
feasts of sleep every now and then, aud
a generous allowance every twenty -four
hours. Four hours work of a man who
is thoroughly awake and vitalized, at
the top of his fucilitis, are worth more
for all practical business or literary or
social purpo ea fhan fourteen hours of
weary muscles aud iaJe.l nerves and
flaccid impvlses. The m;m at his best
is worth 100 jvr cent, more than the
same man fatigued, depressed and de
moralize L If hd h is no vital elec
tricity playing through him, he is a
weariuess to otliersjuid a burden to his
own soul, if he is conscious of having
oue. And to keep at this top condition
of fibie atid faculty, he nrist le a good
deeper and sleeping well. hen Mr.
Uecher was a.sk -.-d how he managed to
keep his coureir atiou so wide awake at
a second sorviee, he replied: "iJy takiug
a big doe of sleep iu tLe afternoon.
L is nly sleep that keei my congre
gation awake." TUe time given to
sleep is not so much loss of lite, but so
much guiue.l, and at a dvuhlv enhan
ced valuation.
It is easy to say "sleep much and
well ;" but th: to are many people who
cannot s et p much, aud the httle sleep
tliey do get is disturbed and uurestful
How to bleep is a question widen, in
some instances, it nixes the skill of phy
sicians to the utmost to answer. Per
sons atllicted with insouiuta are often
great sufferers, and their lives are short
ened by the disease. There are persons
who require much less sleep than
others, aud it is useless for them to wo-j
solt slumbers to their pillow, for they
will not come. A peculiarity of consti
tution ih not disease and sl oulJ not be
doctored. With the majority of people
sleep is regulated by habit, conveienc-j,
wliiin. Tuey make it yb-ld to every
consideration. People who wonld not
ouut a meal on any account will throw
away half their allowance of sleep for
the merest triflj. They do not feel the
importance of civiu'7 the system its fill
of unconscious refreshing, and hire eu
tcrtainers to clip on two or three hours
from tine needed restorative in the even
ing, and set au alarm clock to cuf away
au hour t.r mere at daybreak. They
seem to think tliey can s eal from s!e.-p
with impunity, viheuitis prettv much
tue only thing that punn-hes every pil
f i ror of it as he poes along. Others
destroy the possil.iii 'y of sleeping well
by carrying all their cares aud trow Dies
audgihfsand ambitions to bed wiih
them, aud oue might as well seek rest
ou a rack as wiih such bedfellows, 'i'hj
ability to lay c fl' cares and peqilexities,
bke one s clothes, aud daniu-s every -thi
ig t:iat can excite the brain or uis
turn the emotions, ni ly be gained bv
coiiti mons cffjrt tven wh- u it is lct.
Tbe Iiaafcii4 SHarfc.
The shark-fishing of earlier duvs ia
New EngUnd was a not unimportant in
dustry. Then the great basking share,
titorhitiui, was the chief game, and so
closely were they followed that they
were neany driven lrom the JLune
coast, rarely being seen here at present
One of the principal places for the fish
ery was at Province town, Cai Cod.
Here it was know n as the bowe, or bask
ing shark. Captain Atwood had met
with only three specimens, one of which
had drilt.il ashore in a state of decom
position. A fisherman visited the lat
ter for the puriKtse of procuring a, slice
for his heus, as is the custom at Pro
vince-town, KTipposiu.; it to lc a dead
wmde. Ascertaining what the animal
was, he removed tbe liver and sold the
oil (five or six barrels) in Roston for
$lt)3. In 1S4S quite a unrulier of these
sharks were met with off Cape Eliza
beth, near the coast of Maine, and
several were secured. A tradition ex
ists among the eastern fishermen that
aliout one hundred years ago the bask
ing shark was taken in considerable
numbers tor the oil. In btorer s pic
ture of tiiis fish the features are very
singular and striking. The nose is
blunt, ihe gill opeuinga exceedingly
long, occupying nearly the whole depth
of the shoulders, and the tail is large
aud curiously wmg'.sl at the extremity.
Jarre 1 figures this fish, and says that
it is called sunfish on the elsh ana
Irish coasts, from the fact that it lies on
the surface of the water, nearly motion
less in the suu for a considerable length
ot time. This writer says that tae lar
gest specimen he has seen was taken ofl
iinchton, and measured thirty-six feet
m length. The term saillish is derived
from the feet that the creature swims
listlessly along the surface, exposing its
dotsal tin like a sail above water. In
Orkney it is called Jloe-mothcr, and by
contraction Hunter that is, the mother
of the picked dog-fish, which is there
called yoc. Oue of the largest ot these
fishes was captured some time ago on
the Georges Ranks. It measured
seventy feet in length, and wheu partly
hoisted auoard the schooner, that was
sixty lee t long, it burg five feet over
each end. ine liver tilled several large
barrels. The basking shark affords oc
cupation to fishuimeu in ivauy countries.
In some part) of Xewlouudhtnd it is
harpooned, aud in Iceland there are
several permanent fisheries, the spec or
blubber being one ot the staples at r is
emaea. lttnn a tear years me snara
fisheries have greatly increased, aud
now extend to Proves. The chief place
is at eorkanck. where as many as 350
sharks, all the way from twenty-five to
seventy feet long, are brought in every
season! The oil is extremely pure, re
sis ing the cold, and well adapted for
lnbricaaon. briu-iccr a creater pnea at
Copenhagen than the finest dacs of sea
oil.
rT.f atreota.
Tlio foliewhiff ia the length cf the
seven chief streets, of Pavis in metres
Rae des Pyrenees, 3,515 ; Boulevard
Saint-Germain, 3.150 ; Avenue Daume-
snil, 3,030 ; Rue de Rivoh, 2,9o0 ; Rue
Lafayette. 2,789 ; Rjulovard x'ereire,
2 540 -.Avenue des Trocadero, 2.410.
The shortest street is situated in tne
i.artof the citv near the Bourse. It
is the Rue Brognari, 23 metres long,
with only one house fronting upon it
A Auwitimua Lt'r.
A dav or two ago a widow ciiled the
policeman on that beat into thd house
ana uilorrned lam that she bad a very
serious case on hand. Sonie one had writ
ten her an anonymous letter, and she
wanted the officer to trace out the guilty
I arty if it look him until January, lf2.
"What was in the letter?" he aj-kel
"I will read it. It liegius : 'My dear
friend," and goes on to say that the
writer has fallen in love with my read
cheeks, flparrlmg eyes and dimpled
rtiin."
"He must lie a bliudmau," blunt!
oosmrvea tne oincer. "i da t see auy
red cheeks or dimples.
"Perhaps you don't, sir," she coldlv
replied, "Lut I will read further. H
says that my image is constantly liefore
his eyes, aud that I am the subject of
his dreams."
"Well, that's all right," said Uie offi
ec-r, "unless he lets the image bother
his eyes when a butcher-cart is aroun.L
He is evidently mashed."
"And further down he savs that the
siillitof getting off fie street car sends
a thnll through his whole svstem.
"Very likely, madam that is, if you
catch your foot and sprawl on the
ground. I think I knoiv tiie old Coon
who wrote that letter."
"Old coon!"
"Yes, an old cojtish tiotrn here who
has had three wives and seventeen chil
dren."
"Sir ! how Jare yon imagine that he
would write to me?"
"And I'll see that he is arrested."
"No, you won t ! I warn you not to
interfere in this case in any manner."
"Rut I thought you wanted the guilty
punished ?"
"Who said I did? I simply wanted
yon to trace it oat and give mo the
name of the writer."
" Sj that you could prosecute him ?"
"Xo, Sir ! I wauted to know if he
was in earnest, and if he was
-you see
you know I would "
" Y'ou'd write him that if his condnct
was repeated you'd appeal to the law ?'
"I think you needn't bother with the
ca.se ar ail ! sue remarked, as she swal
lowed a lump in her throat. "You
don't soem that is you appear that is.
good day, sir !"
"And wh it s'le wanted of me," said
the officer as he we'it back to his beat,
wis to assure her th'it soma one
rea'ly wroto t'le letter in earnest, and
that he probablv me:uit all he said.
Once snr: of that sli! would hive
answered it."
C4uu!tt!liu la Fiji.
It was only jeoplj who had leen
kiilcd that were considered good for
food. Those who died a natural death
were never eaten invalidity buried.
Rut it ccrtiiniy is a wonder that the
isles were Lot altogether depopulated,
owing to tbe Lumber who were kill- d.
Thus, in Xameua, iu the year 1801. fifty
bodiei were cooked for one feast Aud
wheu the men of Ran were at war with
Verata they carried off two hnnlred
and f-ixty lgJies, seventeen of which
were piled tn a c inoa and seut to liewa,
where they were received with wild joy,
dragged absut thd t-wn and subjected
to every species of indignity ere they
dually reached the ovi-ns. Thea, too,
just thiuk of the number of lives sacri
ficed iu a country where iuf inticide was
a recoguized institution, and where
widows were strangled as a matter of
course I Why, on oue occasion, when
there had beea a horriblo massacre ol
Xamena people at Vina, aud upward of
one hundred fishermen had been mur
dered, and their bodies carried as oo' oAi
to the ovens at Ran, no lens than eighty
women were strangled to do honor to
the dead, and corpses lay in every
direction about the mission station. It
is just thirty years since the Rev, John
Wataford, writing from here, described
how twenty-eight victims had been
seized in one dav whde fishing. They
were brought here alive, aud only
stanned when put into the ovens. Some
of the miserable creatures tried to es
cape from the scorching bed of red-hot
stones, but only to be driven back and
buiicd in that living tomb whence they
were taken a few hours later to feast
their barbarous cantors. He adds that
more human beings were eaten on tliis
little isle of Lau than anywhere else in
Fiji. It is very hard, indeed, to real
ize that tbe peaceful village on which I
am now looking has really lieea the
scene of such horrors as these, and that
many of the gentle, kindly people aronn J
me have actually taken part iu them.
Fuol tor Invalid Soidivi.
Sol long ago. dining the absence of the
E.Dperor, ao tnglteh visitor wi shown
through one of the imperial castles near
Berlin, lie looked upon every! rung wi;b
the most utter Uockney supercihoiisoes,
until, ssy the ftory-lellers, be came acro-s
a collection of walking sticks, when one of
these, a sturdy piece of hickory, quite cap
tivated his fancy. Long and longingly be
gtzed upon it and handled it, nor did bis
admiration decrease when his guide, the
steward's daughter, informed bim that it
had been cut from the forest ana fashioned
tnt shape by the Ejiperx's own baud?.
At last however, he was constrained to
tear himself away (rotu the object of h:a
fancy, but just as he wis leaving the castle
his admiration ot the stick blazed forth be
yond control, and d. awing a handful o!
sovereigns from his pocket he injmated to
bis fair guide that by so much she wo.eu
become richer it she would allow h'vn to
hear away the coveted cane. Of course
she (Dumed the temptation indignantly.
ami he wentawsy disconsolate. Well, tne
iirl told her father about it, and he carried
Uie story to the Eoiperor on his return to
the castle, a week later. And when Kit-
ser Wnhelm heard It, he laughed a right
nival lamih and exclaimed : "If tbe fcl'ow
bad offered me to much good gold for the
stick, I would have taken it and turned it
into the fund for the invalid soldiers."
Ex-Governor Stone, ot Mississippi,
owns a boot and shoe store st luka.
. ?frwtnnl!awt Fog.
Next to its dogs, Newfoundland's f:i:ne
rests on its fogs. The Arctic current,
driving southward and along the coast,
meets the Gulf Stream and con. lenses
the warmer vapors, just as a glass of
ice-water gathers drops. The mists
comparatively seldom penetrate inlaud,
but in 5ne direction or another they
hang around the island with a weird
darkness like that of smoke, aud closing
in a "tea turu" they call it here
make navigation ou the cruel coast as
dangerous as ou any waters of the globe.
Hundreds of stout ships have steered
to wreck in the mists ou the rock-rib-lied
shores, and a winter's journey to
St John's is more perilous than a trip
to Europe, the AllaD steamships some
times using eleven days for the 5(0
miles from Halifax to St John's. A
spot tiaditional with disaster is "Mis
taken Point," a little west of Cape
Race, so called becanse of the dithciilty
of distinguishing it in the fog from the
cape itself. Here, within a few days of
each other, the steamships Washington
and Croin well, iu 1S77, ran ashore and
were lost, with some seventy lives, not
sold escaping. From the heights
above the fishermen saw corpses aud
wreckage churning against the lower
cliffs, but only two bodies were secured
by an adventurous seaman, who went
down the face of the rocks by a rope.
Internally, as a whole xcept, per
haps, in ti e track yet to be penetrated
by the railroad Newfoundland is an
unpromisiug region a laud of continu
ous rock, here aud there covered with
boggy wastes, and with vast areas where
old firs, killing the low firs, have left
wastes of dead trees that tire the eye
with their monotony aud expanse. The
summers are brief and moderab-ly
warm, the springs marked by a mar
vellously sudden burst of vegetation,
the winters about as cold as those of
New England, and attended by deep
snowfalls. Along some of the roads are
seen now lines of sbtkes as tad as small
telegriq)1! poles, placed at short iuter-
aL, to mark out thd winter path. The
Vermont toll-house keeper who, after
the Li snowfall, put out the not is.?.
Toll taken at the second story wiiulu
after the next storai please drop the
liange down the chimney," wouid have
found a raie field for his dr jllery on
these scull-Arctic winter roads. New
foundlaud has lakes without nnmber,
some of tiicui six'y miles long, and
teeming with trout She has wilderness
here game are abundant; she raises
fiue vegetables, and she, lat j iu Auut,
placed fresh strawberries on our table.
But as yet she yields to commerce little
except copper, ore, seals, and codfish.
r people, as a rule, are so backward
as almost to be archaic, and here, at St
Johns, the watchmen from ten o'clock
to daylight call the hours. Exclti bug
the ailedged hotels at St Johns, the
country still licks essentially triose
pnme elf meats of civilization, a el -a i
bed aud "square" meal.
Marshal t'aiu-obwrl'a Huuianre.
Marshal Canrobert Inhabits a small
hotel in the Rue de Marignnn. Like
most French soldiers he is careless of
luxury, and busies himself but little
about thj fine arts. The first thin;;
that strikes one ou entering is a httie
perambulator hidden away under thu
staircafe; the walls are covered with the
most modern engravings, water-color
sketches aud photographs, which do not
speak well for the uiarstml's taste in
lea beaux arts.
Aud now I would ssy a few words of
Madame le Marecnale. At the close of
the Crimean campaign, oue evening at
a reception held at the mimstere des
nuances, as Marshal Canrobert entered
the saloti, a young lady, whose remarka
ble beauty was not a httle enhanced
by her simple dre-s ot plum white tulie.
came with shy boidu-aa up to the hero
aud said:
"Monsieur le marchale will do with
me as he did witn the Russians, aud
make me dance."
You forget, mademoiselle, that there
is an aroiistice now.
'And a free pardon and amiu-stv for
my boldness, 1 hojie?"
ithout replying, the man.kal offered
the young lauy his ar-u, aud, bringing
her up to a young othcer who hapjeneM
to be standing near, said:
"lenez, Monsieur! Dance this qua
drille with mademoiselle, and bear iu
mind that to-night a marshal of I ranee
envies a 8ub-hetUcua.it!"
Before many years hail passed the
voung and beautiful Miss Flora Muc-
donald, who had aspired to dance witu
the coadjutor of Marshal Pehssier, had
become Madame 1 1 Marechal Canrotiert.
After having waited a few moments
in the salon above mentioned, a servant
announces that M. le Marechale is ready
to receive you, and, mounting to the
secoud flour you are ushered into the
prcsei.ee of the old warrior in his Ueu
a sini le room, without any oruamujl
but htiered with bool.s bearing ou mill
tary matters, newspapers, matisetc.
etc. Marshal Canrobert is alout seven
ty, and of medium height. His fcray
hair is very curly, aud the easembie ol
Lis lace is uust agreeable, the foreuead
being l igu aud intellectual, aud the
glance lrm his eyes kind but keen.
brilliant ana penetrating, ilia carriage
is stern and resolute, but tbe back is a
httle bowed, and the head inclined to
one side when the marshal speaks. Thu
tone of hia voice is splendid; it nugs.
and the slight southern accent lends an
irresistible charm to the bold, frank,
soldierly words of greeting witn wincu
vou are made welcome.
A Lars Wall.
The Chinese wall is the largest wall
ia the world. It was built by the first
Emperor of the Tain dynasty, about 220
B. C, as a protection against Tartars.
It traverses the northern boundary of
China, and ia carried over the highea
hills, through the deepest valleys, across
rivers and every other natural obstacle.
Its length is 1250 miles. Including a
parapet of five feet, tbe total height of
the wall is 20 feet, thickness at the base
25 feet, and at the top IS feet Towers
or bastions occur at intervils of about
100 yards.
I
Thrifty Farmiur.
A great deal of the work in the newer
farming distric's is done by men of
t mall means, who often have not finished
paying for their land. Sometimes they
complain that it is hard to gel ah, a-1,
i.nd is true indeed that many draw-
bucks exist which it is hard to overcome.
No matter if the crop fails the family
must be supported, the ordiuary ex
lnses borne, aud the taxes and interest
provided for. All this, however, being
admitted, the agricultural truth remains
that failure of tenest comes fiom waut of
care and economy, want of olservatiou,
nd want of energy, or stated as a whole,
thnfriness. Of no industry on earth can
it be more truly said that "a penny
saved is a penny gained." Yet there is
no icdustry snhjeet (o so mich waste as
this, none that needs more care to pre
vent leaks, and few that receive less. A
firm rightly considered is a network of
industries, a vjst combination of ma
chines. Xc thing must be allowed to go
to waste. Indeed, this seems absolutely
unnecessary with the varied opportuni
ties of diqiosing of all that is useful and
using all refuse as a fertilizer. But this
is not half the story. It needs every
energy to develop the cajmeity of th
soil to receive fertilizers, to assimilate
them, and to give them forth again in
bountiful crojMi. He must le-im how to
cultivate the soil, how to dram it. When
the soil and c'imate will produce thirty
bushel per acre, why raise half that
quantity? When sixty bushels of corn
can be raised per acie why raise only
thirty ? On laud that can be made to
produce two tons of hay why be souteut
with oue ? If it bo lack of fertilization
apply that U be obtained to half the
laud. If it be for lack of Libor to give
proper cultivation, far better to work
half the laid and let the balauce grow
what it will, tc be fed off by the stock.
The new farms may net be fitted for
high f;a-uiing, but good farming can be
everywhere applied. There is no n.d
of raising two head of cattlo to produce
the same meat that cau easily be grown
in one, nor of feeding two sheep to pro
duce wool that oue can easily grow.
Nor is this a complete statement of
the manner in which success is wrought
out by the toiler. The farmer, all other
things Wing eq ud, who is most accus
tomed to studying crotis elsewhere, re
ports, sti. titties, methods of farming and
all that, wiil gather the greatest profit
from Iils investment and labor. When
everybody is piautitig a certain crop he
will not hasten to enlarge his acreage of
that crop. Wueu ;iy crop is a drugou
the market he wi 1 not hasten to igu-tre
its cultivation the following year.
Farmers more thau any oih ir el iss of
people may live well at a little expendi
ture of cash. O i a thriftv 1 irin nearly
all that is eaten can bj produc.s.1 on the
farm. Iu con-ideratiou of the fact that
a Urge proportion of the go xl thi igs of
life iu the food line van be aud are growu
ou the soil of our own climate, it iy. b..
meid ible to sec how poorly supplied are
mail y farmer's tables with these same
articles. Theie c in e au endless rouud
of fan ts ml vegetable i for the whole
three htiudied and sixty-five days of the
year. Ihe whole list o: graius and meat
can le h .id, all of the best i dity aud a
cost price, no middle-man's commission
or retailer's profi", a.l-le 1.
It is true tuat the lackol rea.ly moue-y
often prevents farm improvements.
Money could le used to g'od advantage
if onlv mouev could be had. Ealtor is
dly, and ou new farms it dx-s not
bring rea ly returns, while most of it
gaes iut-i capital only in the way of jor
ruaueut improvements. Hand labor es
pecially is expensive and slow, and the
tardier must as wxu us jKjKsiole avail
himself ol ad the help attainable iu the
way of machines aud mechanical helps.
in newer neighborhoods tanners c.n
club together for purchase of stock or
implements otuerwise quite beyond their
reach. Thev can buy mowers, harvest
ers, seed drills, ditcners, dredjicrs.ievee
bunders aud many other useful and la
bor saving implements ; always remem
bering that the occasions are few wheu
it wnl pay to run iu debt for any of
these. Pay day always comes and the
eMMt'tutioiis oiteu full short.
1h9 Pna Treat? Ground.
Close to the Delaware River, near
where Beach and 11 mover streets,
Puiladelphia, mterseet, there sto-xl the
great elm beneath which the treaty
between Penu and the I u liana was
signed. It require some nice calcula
tion, tit this late day, to locate the
exact spot upon which the famous elm
tood. due monument which com
memorates the great treaty stauds upon
a piece of ground which divides the
premises of a coal merchant from Bjach
street. The ground iiikju which this
mouuuient has been erected is hie prop
erty of a Mr. Vaudusen, and the city
occupies it by nis jiermissiou. the
monument is many yards from tne spot
where thd historic elm stood, and tiie
double elm which grows beside it is
but a growth from a sucker cut from
the parent tree and planted sixty years
ago five years belore tho Penu Society
erected its marble memorial obelisk,
the inscription upon which cm scarcely
be read. Initials are carve-l all over it,
and the dilapidated feiicd parity sur
rounding it is in a fair wav to fall to
piece. Rebe hunters have had their
own woy so long that the moumueut
folks as II it might have had au attack
o o i ar le smallpox. The fences about
it are decorated with the advertiseuiente
of quack mediciues, unappreciated jour
nals and theatre attractions. Every
tidug about presents a most uuinviiiag
picture, decorated with drinking saloons,
orachiue shops and h very sti'bies. The
ground upon which it stands is not
even t'ae property of the society, and it 1
may be removed at any time. The in
scriptions upou the oOeliak are as fol
lows; ou the front: "Treaty Ground of
lluaoi 1'enn and the Imiiau Natives,
1C, Unbroken Faith," on the rear:
-W illiam Penu, born Joii, died 171H;"
on the left: "Placed by the Peun Society,
A. 1. 1827, to mark the site ol trie
Great Enn Tree;" aud on the right:
"Pennsylvania Founded, lt'Sl, l.v
Dveds of Peace."
NEWS L liKIKr
The E iglish dutv ou tobacco
amounts to some 1,000,000 a year.
Egvpt loses 33-V).no..).000 br the
war, of which -jKt),U0vl,0o) is in cotton.
The n n. J. Pr x?t rK aott issiowlv
recovering tro a s- vere attack of m
laria. Bret H irte will soon have "The
Luck of Rouring Can p" ready fur the
stage.
The capacity of theice-housesalonir
tbo Hudsou River is more than 1 0oX.-
ions.
At least twee ty -one post-office
towns in the Ceiutl S-at's lear th.
name of trjirfild.
Mr. Kussel, of B.iti Run fame, re
ceives a pension of a year from
the London 'J'iint.
Sixty thousand acres of Sorthwjc
tern Iowa laud are said to lie owned br
oue Chicago Bim.
Illinois h.ia over 3.0 K),I) X people
and 11,000 liquor saloons and average
of 272 to each sal jou.
The d m ai d for houses is largely
ahead of the snppty iu ail tue towns of
Northwester.l Iowa-
Palestine, Tixis, r.iises apples
eighteen ine'hes iu ciicumferei.ee aud
weighing tweuty-two ounces.
Improvements of th value of
8: K) have bjeu undo iu Little Kick,
Ark., during the presjut year.
One Daveuport (Iowa) cL'ar manu
facturer employs over 2i'J persons a id
turns out about &RJ.0 10 ik.t mouth.
Great Britain has now loUMX) S-m-
day scaool teuperance organizations,
witu more than l.OUO.UOO members.
There are in the United States and
Canada 77o Young Men's CUrutiaa as-
sociatious, nuiubrmg y',375 uieailters.
Henry M. Slauely, the Airieau ex
plorer, is at Lisbou, from wheuce h.
will proceed to Brussels t visit the
king.
A Loinlou lunatic fasted 21 days, and
then died, while food'w.ts beiag f . -reed
down his throat, of excite.ueut an 1 ex
haustion. The t-pleudid oyster i ol th- newly
discovered North S- a beds of ab-iudred
square miles lio iu wat-r ov-jr t-veutv
fathoms deep.
The consumption of tobacco in
France during the pxst five yeais has
averaged 5-1, U )d t us, thnse "the cou
sumptiou iu lsJi
A leather b H has jilst b.!ea made
in Uartfurd, Coan , wnic'i is au inch
thick, 3 inches wide, aua li"i feet long,
and weighs !,!) I pouu.ls.
There are- ia Lnckiio.v aud Cawu
pore. luilia, 1 publishing houses en
gaged pnn.-ipally iu w-vUug auti-Caris-tlan
books, tr.iets, and pcriovlieal.s.
A iiioveoieut is afoot in Brazil and
Portugal ior the erection of a monu
ment to Pedro Alvirez Cabral. til.) dis
co .-rer e-f the foruii-r country.
Since the fi.t od well was om-ued
in 1:M the product of the wells has ad
de l fcl.iVM.OoO o(l,i to the weal.u of tu
L'uite.l Slates 1:1 th- valu.- ol the criliL
oil aud its products.
Tb'i late blguor Ptsoualc Fa vale.
of Naples, lelt leu thousand francs to
cllJ 1,1 Roudou, to foi oi a fuud trota
hlcu luarmige p-ntieusof 3J0 ira-s
each are to be paid t girls betweci the
agts ol sixteen au 1 tweuty-Uvj.
It is pr.-tty woll settled that a
healthy man who lives to Le 70 years of
age, iu hts life eats 7,W i-ouu Is of
meat, 72 barrels of llour, 1.5JJ (touuds
of butter, ys; d zeu egs, MJ puunda
of ciieeM:, lo-t bushels ol potato, ami
1,70.1 poll!.-is of lard.
John Fiimel, ;f Teiiama cotiLtv,
California, owns a ranch containing lo,
acres. He recently l-;ased a ranch
in Coliua coii.ity containing 2tR),iH)i
acres. The two ranches bonier on tho
Sucrauieiito river fr thirty-two miles.
Arizona lias 111 post offices. Fol
lowing are some of tho principal, with
the sa aries attached : Tombs toue, S'J,
x) ; Tucson, f2,sV; Presort t, 32.1iM ;
Pl.oijix, S!,7iJ, uud Giooe, gl,3.
It ls estimate i in it thy Sjuta his
this seasou pu.l to the North $rJ,0lKJ,
IH for wheat g.J,tMl,MU lor corn.
72,001 ,0l)J for moats, an-1 abjtit 825,
OtMl.lH") lor hay, butier, chee-e, oats,
ai'ples, potatoes, etc.
'1 he vineyards of the Los Angeles
district, Cid., are la-l.-u with unprece
dented stores of giajK;s lhisye;ir. The
crop is estimate'! ut over 75,OX,lH)i
pouu.ls. or 37,5U0 tons. Tue.se are
worth lieariy Sl.iAH l.tXW.
A New Mexico papier r.-p-jrhi that
recently a large a route fell near Piaoa
Altos, crushing several trees, aud that
a Mexican who saw it reported that a
piece of the uioou had lalieU.
TUe skeleton of a large m tstodon
has just lieeu unearthed up;u the farm
of Joseph Mitch-.1I, neir I'arw, Ky.,
but nearly ail tue bones crumhlea
upou In'lilg exported t the air.
Before leaving Russia for Central
Asia General lcheruaiulf m xl a pil
grnnagd to thj tomb of Skolmlcff, aud
placed a'ova it a superb silver itnagv
of Saint Mijha 1, the dea 1 chieftain's
patron saiut lu life thd two generals
were rivals, but, wrtual, Kteat adiurers
of each otuer.
A clergymen out in Iowa City pro
tecta hia ponltiy yard against tuieves
with a cordon of bjehives. A marauder
cuauot enter the yard at Dight withoni
upHL-ttlug a hive, an I then tbe pion,
paison lies stiil and laughs at tn r
sound of wil l yelis gradually dyiug
away iu the distance.
Father Peter Joha Bockx, the Gen
eral of the Order oi Jesuits, is now in
his eighty seVdUth, year, and uu decli
ning health has of late given rise b
much speculation couceruing his proba
ble successor. He bai beeu at the heal
of the Ooder for nearly thirty year.
The number of acres disposd of ao
der the homestead an 1 timber acts the
fiscal year of lHSi was almost 5.UX),0(1U
ia excess of thosd for In the
western states thd number of acres was
9 2)5,317; in the southern states, 2,
52,87, sua in the t -rritorirs, 5,JJ.-
Gene-ral Sir Edwia Beauaont John
sou. K. C. B., who we r medals and
clasps for thd tSutlej and Punjab cam
paigns, as well as lor the sieges aud
capture of lAdhi aud Rucknow iu ail
of which he saw active service and
who was lately a member of the Conn
ed of the Governor General of India,
arrival iu Ne York, a day or two ag,
by the Suvi.
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