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B. F. SCHWEIER,
THE OOISTmmOI-THE UHOI-AIB THE ElTOXOaOTT 07 THE LAWS.
Editor and Proprietor.
VOL. XXXVII.
MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 1. 1SS3.
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TUK RIVKR OF TIME,
Broad, and deep and nwift the current
Of time's rnghlng tide,
Braring ou through sun and shadow
As tbe season's glide, '
Face of friend and foe and lover.
On its bottom wide.
O the days when light was brightest,
I ear, lost days of old!
O the love that thrilled our pulses
With a joy nntold!
How their saddened memories only
lu our hearts we hold.
Heart that loved us, hopes that cheered us,
Voice dear and mm.
Thoughts that perished like the flowers
'Neath our treading feet.
Through our tears we see them drifting
With the river's beat.
O onr Father, when the pamion
Of this life is o'er,
When the river bears us onward
To the farther shore,
May we hear again the voices
We have loved of yorel
May we find the flowers that withered
At an earthly shrine,
HlontouniJK again, O Father,
At thy touch divine.
Where our lives meet full fruition
In that home of thinel
Where deep harmonies forever
O'er the npirit roll,
Where the mocking past shall never
Vex the weary soul.
And the tired ones locate their hunters
At the heavenly goal.
A LEAK IX TI1K Itllur.
Mrs. Drayton h:ul just put the tea
kettle over the lire for tea.
That bright, cheery New IIamsliire
kitchen not even the driving north
east rain, which iouml in barren's out
side, could put a damper on its merry
as.iect. Close to the window a bullinch
whistled meditatively iu its cage ot
woven wicker boughs a pomegranate
tree on the other side was all sprinkled
with scarlet buds, and the very Btriies
of the nig carpet were suggestive of
sunshine and cheerful thoughts. And
Mrs. Draytou herself, one of those
plump, motherly, good-natured souls
who are born to make home happv was
setting the table with white and blue-'
edged cuis and saucers that had be
longed to her grand mother before her.
The bread was whiter than snow, the
apple-sauce w as pleasantly flavored with
cinnamon, ami a freshly baked loaf of
"cup cake" occupied the center of the
feast.
She was reaching up for a little jar of
home-made picKh-s, vnen a pair
dnuiir nrnw iifirfltd her wast, and
of
a
handsome lieanled face apieared on t'
'e
level witii her own.
" My goodness gracious !" said Mrs.
Dravton, '"how you frightened me!
But I do think, ilarry, you get more
haruui-searuni every day."
He lifted her lightly to the floor.
" 1K you want any more eggs, moth
er ?" he asked, 44 there are plenty in
theliam!"
44 I've got enot.gh for to-day," said
Mrs. Draytou, pouring the tiny pickled
cucumbers into the plate.
u . .i:.. ...1 .. ..i..Mu vaii I'linu "
mischievouslv suggested the young
man.
A frown darkened Mrs. Drayton's
face.
44 Harry," she said, "you've made a
mistake J "
44 Have I, mother dear ? But you 11
find that I've not ! "
"Kosalie Hartley is asejfish, heart
less coquette!"' cried M-s. Drayton,
excitedly.
'Mother, hush!" said the young
man, tenderly putting his hand over her
mouth. "She has promised to be my
wife."
44 Oh, Harry! Harry!"
"It is so, mother dear, and you
must learn to love her for my sake.
You will soon find how completely you
are mistaken in your estimate of her
character, and she will be like a daught
er to you I" . ...
Mrs. l'raytou sat down, still with the
pickle-fork in her hard, and began to
Crow there was nothing in the wide
world that made Harry Drayton feel so
uncomfortable as tears. A whole dic
tionary full of remonstrances would
not have melted him like one of those
crystal drops.
44 Didn't you say there was a leaky
siot over the kitchen chimney, moth
er V" sud he. 44 If 1 go up and look at
it now I can ierlmi see where the
trouble is."
And, thus speaking,he hurried away.
Mrs. Dravton looked after him with
tearful ejes, as she shook her head
doubtfully.
"There never was a better son," said
she. 44 If he had only selected Celandine
Hail I" . , . ..
1'oor Mrs. I 'rayton ! Y lieu she took
the two pretty factory-girls to lioard,
just to earn money enough for a new
iiarlor canet, she had not dreanied that
she was setting a trap to catch Harry s
true and loyal heart. To be sure it had
once or twice occurred to her mmd that
little Celandine Hall, with her soft voice
and dove-like-eyes and the "handy
ways" that she had about the house,
would make a very acceptable daughter-in-law,
but llasalie Hart e, -the
brilliant, tuey brunette with her loud,
ringing laugh, her cheap jewelry, her
abject following of the latest devices of
thefashiou-pletes, the subrosa flirtations
which si conducted with the foreman
of the factory, the good-looking young
miller down town the ??-riage-maker
who was building the big
LoJse under Hansom Iiock and her un
tidy fashiou of leaving Celandine to
care for the room which they occupied
n cowmou,-all these Um.gs were an
abomination to her mother-soul.
" Why is it, she sa d to herself, in a
sort of deration, "that sons jdwavs
select the women for wives that .then
mothers most dislike ? I'm ahnost sure
Sat Kosalie paints, although I never
uld detect her at it,-nd there were
oulv three buttons on her boots jester
Sav Areal womanly woman is as tidy
with Iter shoes as with her gloves. And
Mrs! Jessup told me yest erday that she
was flirting d.sgracef idly j ah Mr.
l'eckhani, that Sl.
at the factoi y. What can Harry possi
bl be thinkf. g of to trust his future to
the cae of sud. a frivolous creature as
t4nastheionfiir
herentiy uirougu .. Mi8g
shallow laugh echoed in be -Miss
llartlev had once uecu . .
?SSal Uugh, and had ever aftei lost
no opportunity of airing its
44 litea almost ready, Mrs.
she asked putting her bkmde
Lead into the roouL I ",Jrlv y
this Aveninir. and we are to be eariy t
"It will'be ady vryoorr
Mrs. Drayton, so coldly tb , ItosUie,
audibly remarked to her companion
that "something had put the old lady
ou t !"
Celandine Hall followed more quietly
into tlie large, airy room which was
ueuicaieu to the use of tlie two factory
girls. 44 Goodness me !" cried Rosalie, with
a start, 44 what is that strange rustling
noise overiieau r is the bvuse haunt
ed r"
Celandine smiled. 44 1 suppose it is
nothing more serious than rats iu the
garret 1" she said. "Do, Rosalie,
hang your waterproof cloak u. instead
of throwing it on tlie floor ! There, tlie
noise nas ceased now I"
Nor was it all straiur. For r
Ilarry Drayton, who had contrived to
twist and writhe his six feet of humani
ty into the merest cranny of space close
under the eaves, in search of tlie leaky
spot in the roof, was even then consid
ering whether he had better twist him
self back again, an undertaking not
quite so easy as it might at first appear,
or keep quiet until the girlsshould have
gone down stairs.
44 They'll lauch at me." lie thniifrhr
44 They are always laughing, bless their
neavts. i mink I'll preserve my incog
nito. It will be only a minute or two
before they go down to tea."
Rosalie cave a tremendous vawn as
she twisted up the yellow luxuriance of
ner Hair, little recking that her afiianc
ed lover was separated from her only
by a trail thickness of lathe and plas
ter! " How is that Greek knot, Celan
dine V" she asked. " I want particu
larly to have it look nice to-night, Ru
dolph likes my hair in the ancient clas
sic style."
"Rosalie," said Celandine nail,
gravely, "does Harry know where you
are going to night ? "
44 .No, you goose," said Rosalie.
Why should he ? I shall tell him I
am going to a sacred concert with Polly
rigut and her sisters."
44 Rut he will want to go with you."
Then I shall find some pretext to
put him off."
"Rosalie," cried Celandine, "is it
right for you to go to a jarty under
Rudolph l'eckhain's escort, when you
are engaged to Harry H;irtley ' "
" 1 ou don't supiiose 1 am going into
a nunnery, just liecause I hapiieu to be
engaged ? " said Rosalie, iertly.
" Rosalie " began Celandine, in
dignantly.
"ow dont go on lecturing me,"
said Rosalie, waxing impatiant, 44 1
have promised to marry Harry Drayton,
not because I love him, but because I
am tired and sick of the drudgery of
this endless factory work. Harry
Drayton is a country lout not half so
lNihshed and charming as Mr. lVckham
but lie's better than no hustiand at
all. And Rudolph will be my lover
still, like those dear Platonic creatures
in the French novels, .because, you
know"
At this niament, however, there was
a sudden crash from overhead, me
plaster of the ceiling came down in a
limey shower of pieces, directly into
Miss Hartley's rouge-iots, and baliu-of-beauty
; and Ilarry Drayton, who, in
the agonv of his mind, had writhed him
self a little further than he had intend
ed, descended most unexpectedly into
their midst.
Rosalie screamed hysterically. Celan
dine looked as if she did not know
whether to laugh or cry. Harry 1 toy
ton sat up and rubbed his elbow-joints.
'I'm sorry to startle you, ladies,"
said he ; 44 but ujHm uiv word, I couldn't
help it."
And then he explained to them the
precise nature of the dilemma in which
he had been placed.
44 1 couldn t go iorward on account
of the kitchen chimney," said he ; 44 and
when I tried to back myself gracefully
out, the ceiling gave way and down 1
came. Ami my collar is itiu oi rain
from the leak in the roof, and I think
I've swallowed alxiut a pint of lnue-
dust"
Rosalie turned first scarlet then
white.
44 You were up theie over our heads,"
she said, 44 iu the garret comer."
He nodded, calmly.
44 You heard all we said ?"
" I am sorry to say yes," ho answer
ed. 44 1 regret to le considered a
'country lout ' Miss Hartley, but as
I don't approve of the Platonic system
of love and lovers, I must beg to al
dicate in favor of Mr. Peckliaui ! And
now, if you will allow me to retire, 1 11
send up little Tim, the cowboy; with a
Iwsket and a broom to remove some of
this superfluous dust and lime from
your floor."
Miss Hartley wept ana newaiieu ner-
self stormily, but she went with Mr.
Peckham to the party, nevertheless,
and Celandine stayed at home to sew
buttons on the lieauty s boots.
While Harry, as lie unfolded the
newsiaier which had come by the
evening mail, remarked incidentally :
44 Oh, by the way, mother, -that
engagement of mine with Iiosalie is
broken off I"
Mrs. Drayton's face lighted up.
44 Really and trully, Harry V" cried
she.
44 Yes, really and truly, mother. I
don't think we should have suited each
other at all ! Rut don't you want to
hear how comically it happened V"
And he told her about the leak in the
rMiss Hartley changed her boarding
place the next week, but little Celan
dine remained. And Mrs. Drayton is
already beginning to flatter herself that
perhaiw Celandine may be hei daughter-in-law
after alL Who knows how
love might weave his warp and woof r
rvrfecUy ttatikilad.
When we made tne landing at the town
. m T m. haa ntArflnw IirR
of Walcrprooi, -
reacted the second-story windows of J
the houses. Od the roof of an abandoned
grocery sat ragged darkey In tie most
SompUcent manner, and a. the b(Uwung
YK who had exhibited tue
cT ervj the
wTydown from Virkskurg. caught the
name of the town and burned forward to
the captaiD and said: .
-Captain, theysaT this town Called
Waterproof."
Yea. ma m.
1M the water is all over it, you see
The name is inconsistert with facts.
"Oh, they didn't have reference to the
U,wa itself in ca"iD 5t WaUrproof,"
-There are 21 cities along ;the line
of the Mexicjm " --
gregate iopulatiou of syb.UW.
Feaas of the Catakllls.
The Catskill or Katzberg mountains,
were so named by the Dutch on account
of the catamounts with which they
were infested. The Indians called
them the Ontioras or Mountains of the
Sky, by reason of their cloud-like ap
Iiearances. Their traditions held that
among these peaks was kept the
treasury of storms and sunshine for the
Hudson vallev. guarded by a iiowerful
spirit, who kept day and night impris
oned, letting them out one at a time,
This spirit made new moons and cut up
red ones into stars. These mountains
with their dark and wide spreading
forests (abounding in those days with a
great variety of wild game) were iloiiiit
less grand hunting grounds for the In-
uians. Settlers of the upier Sliandaken
valley in the neighborhood of Pine Hill
often, while tilling the soil, found flint
and arrow heads, etc., which assures us
mat they frequented that part, and
aside from that, the scenery and inter
est of the region to-day fully equals the
quaint ness of the old legion. The
mountains are rugged and wild, many
places of them never yet trodden by the
toot of man. full of picturesque beauty
The forests abound in cold and sick
ling springs, which wind their way
through ravine and meadow toward the
Hudson or Delaware, ferns and wild
flowers grow on all sides, and the smell
of the green moss and foliage, deejieued
by the dew and borne on the cool air, is
delicious.
The wildest and most unsettled irt
of the Catskills are iu Ulster county,
and in the towns of Shaudaken, Har
deuburgh and Denning and surround-
uig the Slide Mountain, which is the
highest of the Catskills. The highest
peaks were always said to be in Greene
county until the iist few years.
Measurement has decided the matter
differently, and it is now a well known
tact that the old Slide is the Highest
leak in the Catskills (lieing 4,"J2J feet),
and surrounding it the scenery is wild
and romantic. Ieer and bears are yet
to be found in that iwrTof the luoun
tains, For the past lifty years the
eastern face of the Catskills in the
neighborhood of the old mountain house
and nearest to the Hudson has been a
resort for iwople seeking rest from city
cares. At that time the Southern or
Sliandaken Catskills wery a genuine
wilderness, and very little was known
of them. Occasionally an artest or
siortsinaii followed up the deep defile
of the Fsopus Creek, through the
Shaudaken Valley, and crossed over
line Hill to the headwaters of the Del
aware. Shaudaken is an Indian name,
the definition being 44 Swift Water."
and it is quite proluble that this valley
derives its name from the swift flow of
the Fsopus. The scenery along its
banks is enchanting and cannot le
equalled in the Catskills.
Trees, Logs and Lumber.
Up the Saginaw In a wide region,
reached either by the river or its tribu
taries, the great pine saw-log, often
three feet iu diameter, has its birth.
Pine forests, now rapidly thinning out,
once covered several thousand square
miles arouniLtlie headwaters, enter
ing that lumber region in the Lite au-
tuinu, the lumbermen establish canqis,
'round which during the whole winter
long the axes resound, the toll trunks
fall, and in sections are rolled to the
adjacent streams for the spring floods
to bear away. Floating down to the
main river, the Ikmjui men pick out
out each owner's logs as identified by
the brand, and gather them inside the
booms, which may be curtly described
as long tree-trunks chained together at
the ends, often inclosing a smooth wat
er surface of several acres. The coves
of the Saginaw called locally bayous,
a term borrowed from the Lower Miss
issippi are esiiecially adapted for the
gathering and organization of these log
armies, lhe military metaphor, in
deed, has jieculiar fitness here, for the
logs are mustered side uy side in coni
imuics, held together by a roi fastened
to each log by a device not unlike the
domestic clothespin. As these logs
down stream are worked up by the tire
less mills, these upier boouis are drawn
uixui for more, until the freezing river
finds them quite empty, and another
winter conies ou to yield its tresh su)4-
l''- .
Rut the saw-log s story becomes most
dramatic as it Hears the mill and, loos
ed from the restraining roie, is sU-ered
into the guide of oicu water that leads
up to the wooden slide. Enter now
the great hunber mill, and we shall be
in at the saw-log's death. Down the
slide on a wooden railroad runs a heavy
truck, titted with two cross hues of
heavy iron teeth. With a plunge it
dashes lielow the water, stiil holding its
place ou tlie mils. Then three giant
logs are floated above iu At a signal
the steam is let on, the machinery re
versed, the strong chain holding the
trucK tightens, and the truck itself be
gins to ascend. The sliarp teeth catch
the logs, which, in a trice, are lifted
dripping from the water, whisked up
like twigs 1UU feet to the null, and roll
ed off opposite the first set of saws.
These sas are two in number ; one set
below is of tlie buzz variety, jierhaps
siz feet in diameter, and cutting, there
fore, through a three-foot log ; but as
this semi-diameter is often insufficient
for a big log, a second and smaller buzz
placed above and in front of the first,
cuts the slice, which otherwise might
still hold fast tlie slab. One of the
larirest Iocs weighs a numlier of tons,
and human strength alone would ntver
sullice to turn it after one of its sides
has been slabbed.
Just here comes in a beautiful piece
of powerful mechanism. At the touch
of the lever a stout beani, arnieu wiui
iron teeth, rises by the forest Titan's
side. It snatches the wood, and in less
time than words can tell it me log is
tumbled over, and the framework,
rushing back and forth with amazing
speed, has driven the edges of the tree
athwart the saws, until the once rough
stick stands forth a symmetrical square.
Then, in another instant it is shifted
below the gang, a set of ordinary up
right saws placed an Snch apart, and of
ten with thirty or even thirty-five
blades. Below an ordinary circular
planer revolves in front of the gang
and smoothes the lower edges of the
boards. The immense piece of timber
is run through in a few moments, and
what was five minutes before a rough
tree trunk has passed into the inch
boards of commerce. Xor does the
work end here ; for the slabs are passed
to a new machine, which grasps them
with ahnost human intelligence, and
whatever part of them can be made so
become laths. Other machines take
tlie harder woods, ash, elm, or oak, and
convert thein with equal speed into
staves, barrel lieads or shingles; and
finally the otherwise useless debris
passes to the furnaces to feed the fires
of the engine. There is seen little or
no sawdust around the Saginaw lumber
nulls for the reason that it is all used
for the furnace flames ; and, in general,
tlie evele of utilities by which one
branch of the great industry is made to
feed or supplement another seems as
rounded as human ingenuity can make
it.
Sometimes, particularly in the more
modern mills, the routine as tlescruied
is varied by lifting the logs from the
river ou an endless chain ; and a nuiu-
ler of minor mechanisms fill out the de
vices by which the lumlier is cut and
distributed. One ingenious machine,
working double emt ry wheels, sharens
the buzz saws on both sides of the teeth
during a single revolution, and re
quires no attention beyond simply tlie
fastening of the saw muni it and the
unfastening after the work is done
Another flattens out, by a clever me
chanical expedient, tlie teeth of the
saw, so as to cut a wider rent and pre
vent clogging as the cut becomes decid
er; hually. a system of elevated rail
roads takes the lumber-laden trucks
and distributes the boards at the points
in the yard or on the whart whence
they are to be shipied. Some addition
al conception of the size and importance
of the industry may be derived from
the fact that the Michigan Central
Railroad Conitiauy takes awav from one
.station here lot) carloads of lumber tor
each day of the working season, to say
nothing of the large quantities shipped
from the river by the Flint & Pere
Marquette Railroad line, ami even
large shipments by the lake barges.
Inland Wballng.
On the lake front, Chicago, stands a
blue-minted flat car, on which is a huge
skeleton with a '"story." It is of inter
est to all, for it is the skeleton of "the
whale." 1 Ins was known from Maine
to California, and there was some talk
at one time of sending his lordship to
Luroiie. L very one knew "the whale,"
and it has lieen gazed uimiii by millions
of pcoplu in its dav. It belonged to
Mr. Ired hnglehart, and he organized
what he called "the Inland Whaling
Company." lips meant Ins emploves.
side showuien. ticket sellers, etc. They
had another car built, somewhat like a
freight caboose, and with bunks, tables,
stove, and cooking-plice, all in very
comfortable slta). This car was also
IKiinted blue, and both had "Inland
haling CouiiKiuy'' on the sides. Ihese
two aud a baggage and tent car com
pleted the train. The whale was
stretched out in flabby fchajie upon this
flat car, aud great roties and chains
kept the 'huge mass of flesh from roll
ing off. The attendants had a mixture
containing carbolic acid ami other dis-
nfectJints to ivour over his shiny brown
hide, and this oieration was continu
ally being doue while on exhibition.
The mass, was therefore alwavs moist.
When the train struck Chicago, adds
the News of that city, which was the
headquarters, a side track was built on
the lake front, the tent pitched, and the
whale on his car was run under the
canopy. A little box-ollice was opened,
and that was hL Rut it was enough.
Crowds poured in to see the monster of
the deep, and when the deep-voiced
talker explained the capture, weight,
habits, etc., of the animal stood up
like a pigmy beside the whale, every
oae was well satisfied that he had the
worth of his quarter in seeing such a
curiosity. It was the only one on ex
hibition. Now they should visit him at the
lake front. All that remains of hiin is
a lew flapping pieces of canvas and rot
ting hide, while the frame work, bones.
ind flesh are gone. In their place is a
lot of shavings, old barrels, sticks, dirt.
and the frame proves to be of stout
hickory, bent into whale shae. These
are the bones. The shavings were the
flesh. Some quicklime has eaten up
considerable hide or skin, but the tail,
ah, the tail w;is genuine, though the
rest was a delusion and snare.
Cat vrpll lars.
The hairy caterpillars are now infest
ing the trees, and an eminent entomo
logist in New York was recently ask
ed:
44 Do not the birds eat these caterpil
lars y " asked the reorter.
"No. I know of no bird that will
eat them. The sparrows did eat the
measuring worms that were so plentiful
here a few years ago, and that nuisance
has now about disappeared. The pre
sent nuisance is what is known as a
hairy caterpillar. They multiply very
rapidly. I have counted 'S'A eggs in a
sjnice about 11-10 by inches. Each
one of these eggs was capable of becom
ing a caterpillar."
44 Is there no other insect that preys
utKn these i "
44 Yes ; there is a sort of fly, the
tachina, but there are not enough of
them. I am satisfied that the only way
to save our trees is for the authorities
to employ some one to kill them off.
Roys could do it. It would require
some one to climb the trees and collect
the worms and eggs and bum them."
44 What is the course of propaga
tion ? "
44 First you see this bundle of eggs I
have sioken of. They are laid by the
females on the cocoons. In about four
teen davs these eggs are hatched into
caterpillars. The caterpillars live.utwn
the soft part of the leaves of the trees.
You may see plenty of trees now with
out a whole leaf. Then the trees in
time die of lung complaint, for the
leaves are their lungs. Each caterpiL
lar will eat say twelve or fourteen times
its weight of leaves, until it gets to be
about an inch and a tenth long. Each
caterpillar discharges its skin about
four times before it gets its growth. It
then weaves its cocoon of silk and the
hair of its own body, and then under
goes its change to the chrysalis state and
becomes a moth.
44 The sjecies is well known to ento
mologists," continued Mr. Edwards.
44 It is indigenous to this country, and
has been known ever since entomology
was studied here. It was described by
Abbott and Smith iu 1SD2-4 among the
lepidopterous insects of Georgia. You
may imagine how rapid must be their
increase when one insect lays 34 eggs.
Fortunately, the rain kills many, aud
other causes intervene to keep down the
supply. I was glad to see that the
voracious insects spared tlie tulip trees.
44 The destruction of our city trees is
pitiful, and some decisive action is need
ed to prevent its further progress.
When very hungry these caterpillars
will eat pear and apple trees, and the
possibility that they may yet be numer
ous enough to get into that sort of busi
ness should be stiiticient to stir up some
ollicud action to prevent it." .. .
A Heidelberg Fire.
The alarm was given by horsemen
galloping about and blowing shrill blasts
on a bugle. Crowds pour out. Nobody
knows where the fire Is; there is no
alarm-bell ; . aud the duiberate wav in
which things go on is a curious contrast
to the methods and ways of the Ameri
can fireman.
44 It was over lialf an hour before the
crowd got on the right scent. Some
one had discovered smoke slowly creel
ing out of the upier windows and from
the tiled roof of a three-story building
on the Hatiptstrasse. in the centre of
the city; and in due course of time tlie
tide of travel set in the right direction
When I arrived at the scene of conlLur-
ration, or rather of smoke, 4 found
crowds of siiectators, but I could dis
cover no signs of any firemen or lire en
gines ; neither could I see that any at
tempt was oeing made to get the lire
under control. .Many of the men and
women had wooden and leather buck
ets and tin pails in their hands, which
they had brought with them, but no
one seemed to know for what use they
were intended. Among the few who
had not deserted tin premises when the
smote was discovered, there was evt
uenuy a great ccusternation. V in-
dows were thrown oin or hurriedly
smashed out, and 1 never witnessed be
fore such a shower o worldly goods de
scending from a burnmjr building. It
was the old story over again of people
losing their heads, or rather their senses.
at a tire. Looking glasses, wash bowls,
and pitchers, all varieties of crockery,
on paintings, bric-a-brac, pieces of tur
uiture, mantel ornaments, etc.. were
raining down from aLove on to the pav
ed street "with as little ceremony or care
as they would have been if thrown out
of the crater of a volcano. At one of
the second story windows, at least a
hundred ieet from the smoke, 1 saw
two or three men and as many women
straggling with an upright piano, which
they were endeavoring to force out of a
window, but, luckily for the piano and
its owner, the opening was too small.
.Meantime the smoke increased, but
no other evidence of flames apjieared.
lime uissed. Mr. Ruggles asked an
American student if there was no fire
organization, and was told there was.
Rut where are the firemen 't Why
aren't they here to put out the fire ?'
Oh, they 11 be here by-and-by ;
they have gone home to put ou their
uniforms. They are as particular as if
they were going to a dress parade.
most of them stop to slave and have
their boots blacked.'
And the building on fire all the
while y
" 4 To be sure ; but you can't hurry
them ; they are not afraid of the tire's
spreading or the building's burning up
They are not so used to this kind of
usiness as we are m America ; they
don't have the practice.'
More minutes went by, aud there
was a stir in the mass of beings who
were quietly gazing at the smoke and
still descending shower of household
goods from the windows. The crowd
oieucd right and left, like the waters of
the Red Sea on a iarticular occasion,
and iu the oten inissage apieared a line
carriage drawn by two spirited horses.
Lying kick at Ins ease ou the back seat
was evidently a military otlicer of some
high rank. He was iu full uniform.
even to his sword, spiked helmet cap,
and the inevitable goid-lmwed sjiecta
cles. 1 saw by the sensation his arrival
had created that the was some distin
guished General. I asked a German
near me if it was the Crown Prince
Rlsmarck, or Von Moltke, but the man
stared at me with astoiiishiueiit through
his siectacles, and that it was neither ;
it was llerr Weisengarten, or some
such name, the Freiwillige Feuerweher,
which meant that he was the chief of
fire department
The great oflicial slowly got out of
its carriage, and, after carefully adjust
ing his siiectacles, took a long stare at
the building from which the smoke was
issuing. Then he approached a little
nearer and took another stare. Evident
ly not satisfied that it was smoke, he
went over to the right of the building.
and gazed long and earnestly at the
roof and windows ; then he moved a
distance to the left, for another view.
1 he scene ramiiuled me of the story of
the bluejay in Mark 1 wain s 4 Tramp
Abroad,' where the inquisitive bird
was so nonplussed at the disapiwarance
of the acorns down the knot-hole.
44 As soon as the man became satis
fied at something or other he went
back to his carriage and rode away. 1
inquired where he had gone, and was
told tliat, having become convinced
that there was actually a fire, he had
started to order out the fire engines.
lhe firemen now began to make their
apiiearance hi squads of twos and tlirces
and half dozens. They were all in gay
uniforms, similar to that worn by their
chief, only not so rich. Handsome
swords dangled by their sides, aud their
brass helmet caps glistened in the sun
light. No engines had yet arrived, nor
was there any evidence that tlie fire
buckets were to be brought into requi
sition. Several American students were
getting excitefl, or rather mad, over the
slowness with which everything is done.
One of them proposed that they should
run through tlie streets, giving the
alarm in American style, and see if it
would not hurry up the engines. It
was no sooner proposed than off they
started on a run. At the end of two
or three, blocks they commenced
screaming at the top of their voices,
feuer I feuer I which in English means
fire, and pronounced the same. I heard
tlie familiar alarm echoing through the
streets for several minutes and then it
stopiied suddenly. There was an omi
nous silence. 1 did not see the students
again Unit day. 1 heard during the af
ternoon tliat they hae been arrested by
the police and locked up tor creat
ing a disturbance in the streets. They
wont undertake again to give an alarm
of fire in a foreign city.
44 hue this little mcident was trans
piring, the attention of the crowd, who
were still idly gazing at the building
from a safe distance, was attracted bv
a fresh horror, but one of a most ridi
culous nature. An immense German,
of Daniel Lambert proportions, sudden
ly apieared in bis night shirt at a bay
window on the first floor far removed
from any jwssibility of fire, frantically
screaming for helix. He had evidently
over-slept himself from the effects of a
keg of beer drank the previous evening,
when tlie unusual noise in the street
it was about 11 o'clock in the forenoon
suddenly awoke him. With a clear
head he would have quietly dressed
himself and walked down one short
flight of stairs into the street ; but in
his sudden fright he imagined the build
ing above and around him was a mass
ot burning cinders.
44 His fright was terrible to behold, I
could see him tearing around the room
like a mad bull, his big eyes standing
out like those of the giant in the fairy
tale. He smashed out a window with a
chair, aud, thrusting out his head,
screamed wildly to the people. 4 Mein
Gott ! will neimand mien vetten ? Ich
verbrenneheir wosind meiue Freundey
Kommt doch schnelle !' which in En
glish would lie, 4 Mr God ! will nobody
save me 't I burn here ! where are my
friends? Come quick I' Two or three
friends finally rushed up to the man's
chamber, and after a few minutes'
alisence apieared with hint on the
street, all dressed except his hat aud
coat. I never saw a more happy man
thau this big, burly German, He
boiled over with gratitude to his
rescuers, and fairly hugged and kissed
them as they led him away to a beer-
shop near by.
" Ry this time two fire-engines had
arrived, each of which was securely
tied with rojies on a large platform
dray, and drawn by two horses. They
were not over five or six feet long, and
looked like the small machines we have
in America for sprinkling our gardens
and lawns. The chief of the lire de-
artmeut again made his apiiearance in
his carriage, and it looked as if the
warfare would soon commence against
the smoke, which was gradually de
creasing in density.
44 A new dilhculty here sprung up.
Most of the firemen who first arrived
had disapiieared and were nowhere to
be seen. The chief, however, seemed
to comprehend the situation. He call
ed two or thiee of his auli. and irave
them directions to go to all the beer
s!ioi in the neighborhood and summon
the delinquent members of the fire
corj to their duty. In due course of
time they were mustered together,
formed in line like a body of infantry,
and their chief with a drawn sword
marched up and down the ranks, and
gave each one a critical inspection
through his gold-bowed siiectacles.
apparently satisfied that their uni
forms were in good order, and their
boots well tiollshed, he made them a
short sjieech, complimenting them on
their line apiiearance, and told them not
to hesitate or falter in their comliat
with the devouring element of fire
which they were expected, as pitriots,
to subdue.
Part of the siieech. during the
cheering, 1 could not understand, but
presume he told them that if any should
fall while iierforming their duty, and
were obliged to 'give up the ghost '
and their lieer a grateful country
would give them a big funeral and see
them handsomely buried. He then
told them to break ranks and proceed
to busiuess."
E-tian Olcoverle4 la Ktnue.
x he ia di s. ignazio is a short, nar
row lane, which le;ids from the Collegio
Romano to the tribiuie of S. Maria so-
pra Minerva, crossing a portion of the
ground formerly occupied by the "Is-
eum et Senqcuiu" of the ninth region.
r, very lime excavations have been made
on either side of the lane, to build or to
restore the houses which line it, some
beautiful specimens of Egyptian work
manship have been brought to light.
Considering that no excavations have
ever been made underneath the public
ground, anil considering there was no
reason why, in the very centre or such
promising land, other relics of the fa
mous sanctuary should not exist. I
asked the Archa-ological Miinicqia
Commission to try the extieriment, and
my proposal was accepted at once, lhe
works began on .Monday, the Slth of
July hard and difli;ult works, because
we had to dig to a deptn of twenty feet
between houses of doubtful solidity,
propping everything ou every side.
i u-st to apiiear, at the end of the third
day, was a magnificent sphinx, in black
basalt, the portrait of King Amasis. It
is a chef d'a-uvre of the Saltic ieriod,
brought to perfection in the smallest
details, and still more interesting for
its historical connection with the con
quest of Egypt by Camhyses. The car
touches bearing the King's name aj
Iear to have been hammered, although
not so completely as to render it unin
telligible. The nose, likewise, and the
ureus, the symbol of royalty, were in
jured at tlie same time. The explana
tion of such circiiuisiauces is given by
Herodotus. When Camhyses occupied
Sals, Amasis had just been buried.
The conqueror caused the body to be
removed from the tomb, to be flogged
and otherwise insulted, and finally to
be bm'ued, the maximum of profanation
from an E'yptiau jioiut of view. His
name was erased from the monuments
which bore it, a natural consequence
of the "inemorue dainuatio." This
sphinx is the surviving testimonial of
tliat eventful catastrophe. When, six
or seven centuries later, a Roman Gov
ernor of Egypt, or a Roman me reliant
from the same Province, singled out
this work ot art to be stnpied over to
Rome as a votive offering to the Iseuin
Campense, ignorant of the historic
value of its mutilations, he had the
nose ai.d the ureus carefully restored.
Now both are gone again; there is no
danger of a second restoration, 1 may
remark, as a curious coincidence, that,
as the name ot Amasis is erased from
the sphinx, so the name of Hophries,
Wis predecessor, is erased from the obe
lisk of Minerva, found in the same
Iseum. In these two monuments we
ossess a synopsis of Egyptian history
between O'Jo and 520 B. C.
The second work, discovered on June
17, is an obelisk of red granite, in
scribed with hieroghyphics. The lower
portion only appears on the side of the
trench, and we are still anxious to
ascertain whether it is broken or not.
if tlie monolith is entire it will be of
the same size as the one in the Piazza
della Rotondo. The cartouches show
the name of Ramses II, the Sesostris
of the Greeks. We thought at first
that the obelisk, like tliat of the Pan
theon, was a Roman imitation; but
Professor ScliiapurellL, the eminent
Egyptologist, who came over from
Florence at the first notice of these
extraordinary findings, considers it to
be an origual work, which would be
long accordingly to the fourteenth
century before the Christian era.
Croim In the W tt.
The condition of wheat in Indiana
ou July 1, was OS tier cent., iu Ohio OS,
and in Illinois ol. lhe area of turn in
Indiana was lol per cent., in Ohio 104,
in Illinois 104. The condition of corn
in Indiana was SI, in Ohio &J, and in
Illinois 85. " There is a full acreage of
oats. The condition of the crop in
Indiana was t7 per cent., in Ohio 102,
and in llliiuis 91). Live stock is iu
good condition. The hay and flax
croi are alwve 5W ir cent. The
Farnttr. on the basis of these aud of
scattering reiiorts from other States,
estimates the wheat crop of lSS-'i at
?J,l)UU,UUU bushels.
Dot Mldilletoa's Utriligs.
Doc Middleton, whose exploits as a
highwayman, brigand and desperado
are a part of the early history of Colo
rado, Wyoming and Nebraska, who
has been serving a five years' sentence
iu the penitentiary for stealing cattle
in the North lark, was discharged
from that institution lately, aud imme
diate boarded the east-bound tram.
He informed the prison otlicials that
he was going to a new country where
the name of Middle ten was unknown,
and where he would have an opportu
nity of leading a new lifa among stran
gers. During his long imprisonment
he behaved himself like a man, and
conformed himself to the rules of the
prison to the letter, not receiving one
black mark. A few days ago before
his discharge, while at work in one of
the fhops of the prison, and intently
reflecting on the few days nitre of
prison life, he put his fingers too near
the buzz saw, cutting it off. The
prison physician attended to tlie finger,
and the next day Middleton reirted
to the warden that he was ready for
some light work. He was told tliat he
might go into the hospital for repuirs,
If he chose; but be answered tliat his
service belonged to the State and he
was ready to put in the time faithfully.
During the early days of the Black
Hills excitement Doc aud his gang
operated on the road between Cheyenne
and Dead wood City, at times varymg
the business of robbing stage coaches
by stealing cattle. Once he was cap
tured and tried by a crowd of cowboys
and sentenced to be hanged. His arms
and legs were bound, and he was
mounted on a horse and driven under a
limb of a large tree, from which a roie
hung. A noose was made and tied
under his neck anil the horse driven
away, leaving Middle ton suspended in
mid-air. Two of the niemiiers or his
gang hapi-ned to lie in the neighlior-
hood, and after the cowboys had ridden
away they cut Doc down, and after
two hours' hard work resuscitated him.
For several years after the occurrence
it was claimed tliat Doc's ghost haunted
the territory, and innumerable stories
were written of its exploits. One night
the ghost attacked a stage coach, and
one of the more courageous passengers
shot at and wounded the ghost, which
proved to be the veritable Middleton
masquerading in the guise of a ghost
aud carrying ou his usutU avocations.
During the early part of the year 1475
Middleton and a pal planned and exe
cuted a bold bank roblieryat Dead wood
Citv, which was for a long tune laid
at the door of the James gang, and
Pinkerton's detectives ?ieut thousands
of dollars hunting them, while Middle-
ton with his swag remained quietly in
Deadwood laughing in his sleeve.
Of the 40,000 Indians located on reser.
rati "rns in the Southwest, the Narsj tes,
numbering 15,000, have become largely
civilized. Their possessions in hordes,
cattle and sheep are great and valuable:
I his tribe is nearly self-supporliag, and in
few years will he no burden to th2 Gov
ernment, nuue sun noiuinir wis iriuai i
relation, their system of internal govern-
,npt u nnl hiat. and f.ir the rvl (
meat is exact and just, and for the good o(
a'L Only occasionally do the younger
bucks ally themselves with the predatory
Indians and go on the warpath. Essen
tially the Navsi )es are gooJ Indians, how
ever strange this anomaly may seem. Tbe
Z mis, a smill band of ancient stock,
closely allied to the Azti'cs in many of
their peculiarities, are found on a reserva
tion in the middle western portion of
Mexico. They have many interesting
characteristics as a tribe, but some of their
customs are even more barbarous than
esthetic.
Then- moon dance, at which time thj
young men are received into tbe brother
hood of warriors, is an orgie of a most
heathenish nature. During the latter pan
of the month of March ot each year all tbe
tribe are assembled at once place, guards
are thrown out on all sides, and no white
man or Indian belonging to other tribes U
admitted within the festive circle. Around
a huge lire blazing high they dance and
sing in unrestrained merriment under the
mellow influence of mescal, a fiery whisky
distilled trom the cat us. At about mid
night the young men who are to receive
the honors of warriorhood, and thereafter
to be be known as braves, if they success
fully undergo tbe ordeal ml iuitialion,conie
into the circle dressed in the uniform of a
ratagoniaa chief, less the nose ring and
ribbon.
With keen-edged knives they make two
vertical slits in the flesh on either breast.
and having fastened there to a lariat of
raw bide abiut thirty feet in length.
uicb is held at the other end by a stake
set firmly in tbe ground, they begin tbe
ildest incantations, moving to and fro in
skipping and dancing attitudes, while the
warriors are indulging themselves in the
innocent amusement of hurling the toma
hawk, sharp pointed knives and other
missiles of sporting barbaric ingeauity al
the novitiates, who in tbe wild delirum ol
stolid heroism must endure their fiendish
suffering until the flesh breaks away and
releases tUem from tbe cruel thongs. Tueir
ceremonies are now inaugurated for a
duration of seven days, when ail the tribe
apiiear, from the Oldest to the youngeit.
only dressed in nature's primitive garb.
Tneir practices in the succeeding festivi
ties are so hideus it is revolting to think
of them. And these- Indian?, too, arc
wards of the U jveromeit.
A Yard of Kninl.
Charles Petermau, a fanner living
just, outside the city, states the Kansas
City luites, has probably the longest
beard possessed by any man in that
place or vicinity. He is rather a short
man and the lieard, which is over three
feet in length, fails below his knees.
liut few people would notice anything
eculiar about his apiiearance, because
lie keeps this hirsute appendage tied up
in curl pipers and hid away within his
vest. In addition to its length, the
beard, which covers almost the entire
face, is very thick, and is surmounted
by an immense mustache.
"How long have you been growing
that beard?" he was asked.
"Oil, this is only a seven years'
growth. 1 have had it nearly as long
Ijefore, but it was so inconvenient that
1 cut it off. Its length now is due to
my friends, who insist upon seeing how
long it will grow. My wife puts it up
in pipers every morning as religiously
as she puts up her own hair."
"Any other members of the family
affected in the same way V"
"I have six brothers and nine sisters,
all, except one brother, living iu Ger
many. All my brothers have extraor
dinarily long hair. My brother living
in this country is in ermillion County.
111. His beard is a pure blonde, and is
fully as long as mine, which, you see.
is black. My brother's head," contin
ued Mr. l"etenuau, "was as destitute
of hair in manhood as a billiard ball."
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Even dynanute is adulterated.
Portions of Greenland are sinking.
Freight cars are now built to carry
40,(100 pounds.
Detroit has akiluuceof 5-Vi4l,l"0.71
iu her treasury.
Tlie females oiitnuimVr the in ilei
in Alabama 17,247.
Dublin castle was built earl v in the
thirteenth ceuturv.
Coffee houses iu Dston are prov
ing very profitable.
Six thousand Aui.-ricau' are re-iid-ing
in Paris at present.
There are reported to ba 70,iHK)
lawyers in this country.
They swanu bees w ith a tin pan in
Lynchburg-Va., streets.
There are i'l.OuO acres of water
melons iu Burke county, Ga.
San Antonia. Texas, is to h ive a
$10,000 home for fallen women.
Mme. Gerster ami her linsb.in.l
Dr. Gardini, liave sailed for Europe,
The Palace hotel in San Francisco
cost $4,A,000, including the ground.
The'California wheat crop for this
year is estimated at 5i,'j.0,tXd bushels.
Florida had Kit) factories, employ
g -2740 haiuLs aud about $l.0.000 in
capital.
Ninety-three thousiiid acres of
land were planted with tiinljer iu Kan
sas hist year.
Tlie area of Ru-isli in Europj U
nearly 35 times that of the state of
Pennsylvania.
Ninety-nine thousand shad were
caught in the Delaware during the sea
son just closed.
The silk product in the United
States in 1SS0 amounted to more thaii
$41,000,000.
The Indians of Alaska are sup
loosed to be an offshoot from the Japa
nese or Coreaus.
on Mr. t roude has Written an :irti-l.
Martin Luther for one of the Eng
lish monthly reviews.
Of the total fires in Michiir.m ' last
year, more than one-fourth werec:i!ised
oy detective chimneys.
Vlncenues, Indiana, luu a butter
dish factory which turn. o.it S.I i lit.
00,000 dishes p.-r day.
Tht era ItLithr' f.- ,i..r
last class at thj Yassar
about $Wj for each girl. "
1 nests and religions t: i. .v..
ljeeu exalted fro.u lj scaools at Paris
during tlie list threu years.
.T7XIrIy one-tll""l of the population
of the t inted States is foreig.i bjru, or
in uic second degree.
with a bonded debt of
over
s,m....,u,j Louisville has voted to ex
pend $ 1,500,000 on its streets.
North Carolina has nnnv tnii,.
trees more than loo ft hiirli.ai.d m
suriug 30 feet around the Utse.
ti. ...... . i ...
, 1 U 1,1 tU,,-'lr
f .eiloiie. 1 rees are lieing
planted all along tha Mississippi coast.
iteorge vtasuingtons grand
nephew, Dr. Lawrence Washington is
runing a farm and orchard m Tex.is.'
Oscar Wilde's a,vnt sav.s th-ik i :.
car is at least !0,00 richer than he
was wneu he first lauded in New York.
The Germ iu army Is at the present
tune distribute I over .1)1 L'ar. isi.i.a !..
of which have an effective of over t
en. '
The Suez Canal is to be enlar vl
ami improved at an expense of $t 00. -000.
The work will m'unr .vrll
years.
Ex-Vice President Wl...!..r i..,
offered to give $lO,ixj toward a new
Gougregatioii.it C nirea in Mitone
Gounol, t!iJCJini)T. livrti in
monastic-looking stru:ttirj, in Piris
but the interior of his Ii.iiuHs bi'iti
ful in appjintiujats, divoratiom. etc
To her natural nrohietiom of nr.
anges ami alig.ttors Florida is aJ.lin '
the cocatuit, .-),00j trees of this species
having been planted during the present
season.
Since its commencement the New
York society for the prevention of rn-
elty to children has entertained over
11,000 cases, involving over 100,000
children.
The largest city in the world is
Loudon. Its jiopulation numbers 3,
020,S,1 souls. New York, with a popu
lation of about 1,210,001', comes fifth in
the list of great cities.
The express trains lietween Paris
and Constantinople, inaugurated ou
the 5th inst., consume about four days
and four nights in the trip between the
two ioints. The fare is $.W.
The largest suspension bridge would
appeiir to le the one between New
Y ork and Hrooklyu. The length of the
main span is l.o'Ji ft. 0 in., the entire
length of the bridge 5,0sy feet.
The largest island in the world,
which is also regarded as a continent,
is Australia. It is 2,5uo miles in length
from east to west, and measures 1,0.10
miles from north to south. Its area is
2,'JS4,2!i7 square miles. J4
During List year the number of
persons killed by being run over or
knocked down by vehicles in the streets
of Paris was 103, besides whom there
were 10S4 who in their injuries required
the aid of the Police.
The British and Foreign Bible So
ciety continues to be remnrk.ibly pros
perous. Since iu organization it has
circulated il,000,OW copies . of the
Scriptures in 218 languages and dli
lects. The Earl of Shaftesbury, who
is in great demand as Chairman iu May
anniversaries, is President of the so
ciety. Ex-Governor Leland Stanford has
placed in his San Francisco home? the
art collections purchased by him in
Euroie last year, comprising 3d pieces
of statuary awl lsi oil paintings and
water colors.
A marked increase hi Jtlie saie ot
etchings and a corresponding falling off
in that of engravings is reported by
dealers in prints. The visit of Seymour
Haden to this country last winter, and
the effect of his lectures and exhibi
tions, brought this about, it is said.
A mechanic of Paterson, N. J., is
building an exiierimental 10-foot long
propeller boat, with a new. ale-cask for
her boiler, the fire being placed on top
instead of iu the usual plice. As the
builder isemployed in a Paterson loco
motive works, and is not a "crank,"
the result will be w itolic 1 with interest.
spruiging up stairs i