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VOL. XXXVII.
MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. "WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 22. 1SS3.
NO. 34.
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1 know not w bat the future hath
Ui marvel or surprise, '
Assured alone that life and death
His mercy uuderliea.
No offering of my own I have
Jor works by faiih to prove
1 car, but give the Ei,u He jr, e.
Aud plead Hit U.ve for lote.
And so beside the silent oea
1 wait the ruurUed oar
No harm from Him can 'come to me
On ocean or on shore.
1 know n.t where His Islands lift
Their fronded palms in air
1 only know I cannot drift '
Beyond His love and care
THE TUB.1 CLOVE.
It was almost 11 o'clock a T ir. ....
friend Alport's law office and hurried
up town. 1 liad delayed longer than 1
.r, iiucinwM ueepiy in his account
i ... leucine wm case, in which he
" jusi i mat tune engaged As I
now remember a proierty of some two
u.i.ui.us, iiciu uy a residuary legatee
had suddenly been claimed by one who
auiiuuuwu uuuseu as the direct heir
and devisee, a nephew of the tit.tA.
who had not lieeu heard from for seve
i ill tears.
A lit. ir- ilajitit.ul tt... it
it5 it-now an im-
Iosier, anu aituough his story liad
been well told, and his plan of action
well laid throughout, my friend thought
he had secured proofs of its falsity
in lact, ue uau a bundle of papers con
taining the positive proof that Xeil
llarcourt was not .Xeil llarcourt
nephew of old Duncan llarcourt, tes
tator; and it was his explanation of
this case that had rendered me so late
on my up town journey.
As I hurried onward, nieclianically
my hand sought my pocket for a cigar,
aud finding none a most unusutd
condition or things I glanced about
for some place where 1 could purchase
some.
Just down a side street a lieht struck
my eye, and moving toward it, I found
a small but neat cigar store, waited
up-m by a girL
I entered, threw down my money,
and called for cigars. The waitress,
or shop girl, was evidently on the
point of closing, for one light was
already out, aud she wore her hat and
shawl; more than that, as she placed a
handful of regalias before me, 1 noticed
tiiat she had also drawn on her gloves,
and that one, that upon her left hand,
had U-en partly torn across the palm,
aud neatly mended by the insertion of
another piece of kid.
This trilling incident would doubt
less have escaped me, had it not been
that the glove was a pale orange in
color, whereas the inserted kid was
black.
1 selected my cigars, lit one and
walked out. An hour later I was at
home and in bed.
The next morning after, I read at
my breakfast table that Lawyer Alport
liad been murdered the night before.
To say that I was shocked would be
but feebly to express my horror. Al
port was a warm jiersonal friend, my
Httorney, and a man without stain.
His death in the most natural way
would have been a sad loss to me; to
hear of his end by murder simuly para
lvzed me.
' Leaving the table as soon as I could
collect my thoughts sufficiently to do
so, I at once threw on hat aud overcoat
aud hurried down town.
My friend's office was in Blank
street, a little off from the main cur
rent of travel; but this morning I
found a number of persons gathered
about it neighbors, storekeepers and
brother lawvers passing whom Icon
fronted an officer standing guard at the
office door.
He would have stayed my entrance,
but as I handed him my card nis face
changed.
"Major Minton, of the detectives?
lie said, inquiringly.
I bowed.
The man at once opened the d.tor.
"You'll find Captain Boss aud an
other gentleman inside. I presume
they'll be glad to see you."
I entered. . T . ,
As the policeman had said, I found
two detectives men whom I knew
within. Their story was soon mine.
It seemed that Allort had been in
his office late; that a lady had called in
the evening and remained
more; that after she had left, his light
continued to burn a long tue-until
morning probably-and that it was not
until some important client opened the
unlocked door,t about a a. m., tuat
the death of the attorney was known.
He lay dead in his office cliair, when
found, a thin, foreign i
sticking m his heart, Evidently he
had been struck unawares; there had
been no struggle, but little blood, and
no robbery that the officers could dis-
or was there any clew remaining.
Evidently the woman had killed hm,
though why was as yet unanswered.
-o one knew the woman.
-But the reason the motiver" said
I "Surely there must have been one.
" may have a cue
to the criminal. Without it everything
- ;, - i.jr nuzzles us. It evi-
dentiywal not robbery, as his watch
Jnd Loty were on his i-erson when
said I, with . -dde"
thought. "Might not he bae been
robbed ot papers r
How do we
'Yes; but wuai oi.j.
me.
I
A uew idea nau -7
began at once w - t js
-hick Alport had I read to 1Uroourt
beiore uie i""-
case.
They were gone, uu -stead,
lying among letters
Utter in his the nn
biooay, anu .
with kbit of black .kid. .
I drew it out with rtant
"He was robbed of some ii
,pers that he showed U . eonV
before 'tiuk tUiS
the person ho killed un
gl-rcluel" cried CapUin Boss, as he
reached for it. . -d j "This
"Xo, do, niy fnend! sari
is my case now. 1J w olie end of
ney; and now that Iba e
the thread m this ffV shall . be
follow it out. mine,
yours, but the revenge mus days.
We the ?u either give
At tie of that time
you the criminal or ; t u
my proofs and Pthk plan, and
me partvor pt
case
,-as forthrn .now?"
In:
ritht
lorn
llrsaudthe
!uaicitiitlvw:.ii . y ouslness
, r - ""o iuc cigar store
my Bupposed murderess Twas and
I V a" ikely that
feis in t W mSMm her into con-
lessioil. Inimivai- I . .
first
why she would have cared for
these
Ihat aftenjoon I strolled to the cigar
Ore. An f-Klur-lw n . . P .
Th
store.
the
vieiiuan was ueliiiiu
counter. In
again.
in .. , v.miiniiriCUIl
1U. Ao frirl l. "
I
determinm t .
her.
T u soiueuung or
I entered aud bought some cigars.
Keen tin- -rf, i...jh . .
ally
. f i". . '""Cl -"aw A, casu
, as I lit my cigar. '
x an. "
'Trade good?"
'Yaw
Vou ought to have a pretty girl to
Vo.l lt.l. . . . .
help
trade.""
. Cl V ! J
'Yaw.'
I turned and walke-l u v...i.;.. .
to be made there.
1 watched the store until it closed,
andhalf the next day. Tuen 1 was rel
warded. At about noon a girl entered,
laid aside her hat un-i vu,v ..t.
her place behind the counter, while the
man went away. When he was well
put ot sight I dropped in and did a
little tradiiie.
It was the same eirl, a little nervous,
I told invself.
I watched her until till AtitrVa nljit-Uait
then followed her as she hurried home
ward. She lived two miles away, near
the river shore, in a small, old tene
ment house. She climbed to a room
near the roof. I followed all tilt W:4V
stumbling iu the uneven halls, but
looked UNU. doubtless, as a iipw i .-11:11.1
a little off.
The girl entered the room Ly-Lnl tl.a
door, and then 1 heard the voice of two
talking. Evidently she was conversui"
with a man.
I made friends with a half lmoiv
bachelor on the il.-or below, and found
from him that thi girl was an old
tenant, but tliat a man had recently
arrived who occupied a room next to
ner, and was called her brother.
1 waited all night just across the
street from the teaement house.
Early in the dusky dawn I saw a man
steal out. I followed him.
He went straight into the couutry.
walking fast, and covering nearly five
miles liefore sun-up. I followed all the
way, not near enough to cause suspi
cion, but near enough to watch.
At last the fellow turned into a piece
of woods. I hastened, aud just as I
entered the grove I saw him not far
away, bending over a little fire.
As he heard me coming he looked up
hastily, hesitated a moment, then turned
and ran. At first I w as impelled to fol
low, then something at the fire caught
my eye, and i paused. 1 apers were
burning. Quickly seizing the bundle
for such it proved to be I managed to
extinguish it, while still a considerable
portion remained uueonsuined. I ojwii-
ed it. There were all the papers and
proofs iu the llarcourt will case the
identical jsipers stoleu trom Alport oil
the iiiirht of this murder. My heart
bounded. It was the third day, but
the scent was very warm now.
I returned to tue city with all haste,
but by another road, and at noon was
at the cigar store. The girl appeared
and the German disappeared.
Sinmliel with the torn aud bloody
glove, I awaited my chance, ai.d when
the store w;is empty I entered. Hay
ing first purchased a cigar. I came close
to the girl and said in a low tone : "Is
this your glover I saT you wearing it
a few nights ago," at the same time
present inn to her the kid, stained as it
was. ....
The trirl turned fairly liviu, gaspeu a
little, then whispered:
"Where did you get it?
the same office where those
lepers were stolen and Lawyer Aliort
was uiuidered, three nights ago!" I
said. . . ...
The poor thing utlereu a single
moan, anu wouiu ua -..u- -
if 1 had not caught her. A glass of
water stood upon a shelf. 1 threw part
of it into her face. Mowly sue openeu
her eyes. , . . .
"Who are you?" sue wu.-h-c.-
hoarsely. , , . o . .
I opened my coat anu a.ium -She
uttered a low shriek.
-A detective: lie is ioi
y good, girl "said I, "it is best
for vou, and nuu, too, i
101 " ' .., , mine
whole trutn. oum
with me." . , .:t:...., .i 1
She obeyed me um.es u"",' . - -led
her to my own othcer Ihere, in
S presence of a brother officer, she
told me the whole story.
She was the wiie-au iaic.o
nViTler who had sought to personate
8?n,,blei Li? Ttlie llarcourt estate.
tue iuv ih.At wi,eil
n well nati uc ""--, - , . .
50 wen . for him
SIEwS uoi th.
douuue i". gmg
rife's dress, .7 , and
basket. The W" ,, away to
home, ana a --
destroy.
r . ?uZ, iivt ' She had
orouier ----, -ofter it was corn-
wnere
known 01 uic
whaithis jn JJ-JS-U:
sterol v. ""JUM'
l.n iookcu . . ......
eves; then a great i
spread her face. De
wiMitlemen, "rr ,wA-
threatened to kill me u 1
to him 01 n. Toiiardi Giotti
'l iiree u"" ". ", i,o,,ds. A lull-
uioo.i tl ere was ouc,
desirado d !,Uful dog!
coward, out from the exami
As we ieu - , tl. answer a
nation, ue and hUwife had told
.imrle ouestion, anu uu he
SeVstorV again as ne
asKed 1 to siat
unman. It a i, snoke, he
near to her. But "acled hands
suddenly id h Uoyf on the
an- 8tru5kt,er thing sunk to the
head that . the poor t s
gro"nd rMLLSte the miserable
uig irom - Ul a sueer
turned away ..inr
"She'U not blap r iT; was found
Indeed she oiu uv..
guilty of murder, and hung within
three months, and his uoor wife died
within the year, from the effects of his
cruel blow.
Uolljr rmy.
ho was IKillv Piivii tl.t. wifu nt
James Madison, Presideut of tlie Uni-
ieu states and a gallant soldier of the
Revolution? A Quaker girl, around
whom clusters all tliat was romantic
and poetic in Madison's life, except his
icuci uevotion to ms mother, lie fell
in love with her while he was in Phila-
aeipina attending the sessions of Con
gressasa Representative from Virginia.
She was born in Xorth Carolina, but
when quite vounz her uarents removal
to Philadelphia and ioined the Sietv
01 menus, tvnen Madison first met
ner she was Mrs. Dorothy Payne Todd,
... . ... j 1
me wiaow 01 John Todd. Still she
was only twenty-three years old. and as
pretty in features as charming in con
versation. His suit was successful,
which is not to be wondered at, for he
was a man of wealth and with a wide
reputation. With her he retired to his
country seat to enjoy her society, the
comiany of his friends; and the com
forts of home. Seven happy years were
siut at Alontpelier. and then in 1801,
Madison was appointed Secretary of
taus anu removed with his beautiful
w-iie to Philadelphia. Afterwards, when
Madison became President, she shared
the White House with him. It is said
of her that she iresidid with more
brilliancy over the Executive Mansion
than any other woman before or since.
Her beauty, her charming manners, her
quiet renuement, and her diirnitv ai.d
grace lent a charm before unknown to
the lute House entertainments.
And she was as brave as she was
beautiful. During the exciting days of
the war of 1812 she showed such devo
tion and bravery that she was no longer
simply a queen of the drawuig-room.
hut a heroine among heroines. The
24th of August, 1S14, witnessed the en
try of the British into the Capital, after
defeating our army at Biadeiisburg.
On the day previous. Mrs. Madison
WTote thus to her sister at Mt. Vernon:
My husband left me yesterday to join
General Winder. He inquired anxious
ly whether 1 had courage or firmness to
remain iu the President's house until
his return on the morrow or succeeding
day, aud on my assuraace that I had
no fear but for him and the success of
our army, he left me, beseeching me to
take care of myself and of the Cabinet
paiers public and private. I have since
received two dispatches from him writ
ten with a pencil; the last is alarming,
because he desires that I should be
ready at a moment's warning to enter
my ciirriage and leave the citv. I am
determined not to go myself until I see
Mr. Matrson safe and he can accompa
ny me, as 1 rear much hostility to
wards him." Ou the following after
noon she adds a postscript: " Will you
believe it, my sister, we have had a bit
tie or a skirmish near Bladeusburg, and
1 am here within sound of the cannon:
Mr. Madison comes not ; may God pro
tect him! Two messengers covered
with dust come to bid me Uy, but 1 wait
for him."
At last she consents to depart, but
even then delays, at the risk of capture,
to order the demolition of the heavy
gilt frame around Stuart's portrait of
General Washington, so that the valued
picture may be taken out and carried
to a place of security. Dolly Payne is
a demure little Quaker girl no longer,
but a brave woman of whom the whole
nation may well be proud. It is a pleas
ing incident of her husband's love that
in after years, when writing his will, he
alwavs mentioned her as '"my dear
wife." With all her beauty and with
all her bravery Dolly Madison had her
share of trouble. John Payne lodd,
sou by the first husband, was a wild,
profligate fellow, who inherited none of
the good qualities of his mother. He
was the scaiegrace of the family. When
Madison sold his manuscripts and pa
lers to Congress for 5-'0,0U0, young
Todd managed to get most 01 the mo
ney from hiin. Afterwards when Mad
ison made his will, he left land and oth
er proiwrty to all his relatives, but to
John Payne Todd he gave only the med
als presented to him by his trieuu ueo.
W. Ervmg, and the walking staff made
from the timber of the frigate Consti
tution and presented to him by Commo
dore Elliott, then her commander. So,
young Todd, figuratively speaking, was
cutoff witn a suuimg. ioiiy xajne,
as she is commonly called, resided 111
Washington during the last years ot
her life. In her old age she was bap
tized and became a member of St. John's
Church, iu Philadelphia.
Heart or Banian Ilelug.
fayette, lud., and is terrorizing the
i,.i.1a Mm. Fmi.k Coffman. the wife
of a well-known farmer, saw it the
other day, and thus describes it; Mrs.
Coffman'was passing through the tim-
luir U' I LIT. 1ip suddenly saw to her rnrht
a hideous creature, formed like a wo-
... 1 1 1 : . . :
man, witn long oiacx uair uobuuk m
th wind, and the whole body covered
with short gray hair. The creature was
r .. 1 .
breaking twigs iroui a sassaiias uusn
and eating the bark. The noise made
in breaking the bush prevented its
it xtrs Coffnian's approach. Fro
zen with horror the farmer's wife stood
aud gazed on the remarkaoie creature
before her. Suddenly the wild woman
turned, and, facing her civilized sister,
glared at her with a baleful light ot
hate, liaising her long, hairy arms she
gave an unearthy shriek and darted
away into the forest. Almost para
lyzed with fear Mrs. Coffman gazed
after the wild creature for a moment.
then, with aconizeu screams sue nea
homeward. Her cries of fear attracted
her husband, who was at wore iu me
.....1 ha l.xtAned toward her. reai'h-
uciu, .iv w '
ing her side as her knees gave way with
weakness resulting noui woiuu icnui.
11.. ..rrii i.ia wii'n tn the house, crave
1C UUl'VU uw T
the alarm, and soon half a hundred men
and boys, accompanied by dogs, were
on the trail of the wild woman. She
was hotly pursued, ana several times
came near being caught, but eluded her
pursuers with wonderful skill and
cunning, i'or fully half a mile of the
chase sue was never out of sight. Her
feet touched the ground but seldom.
She would grab the underbrush with
. if.t.v Lamia am! swiii? from
l mui . r
bush to bush and linib to limb with
wonderful ease. She seemed only en
i...,..ri..r in kern hist bevond her uur-
Ut.u.uig I .
suers. uutd, coming to a swamp, she
disappeared assuuucuijr auu wcwiu;
as au extinguished light, and no search
ing served to ascertain her whereabouts.
Albany's ;brick-makuig industry
has reached a production of 1,0X1,001)
bricks a week.
A Tramu Fainter". lefil.
''It was two Summers ago.
was
Iamting the Southern Pacific for
a
Baltimore drug house, and had pretty
well plastered the rocks and the fences
along that line with liver puis, electric
pails, etc. Of course, I would make
big juuiiis now and then, when
thought the scenery was too tame to
be painting, or I never would have got
to the end of the road.
"I branched off at Benson, in Ari
zona, and took a run up the San Pedro
river as far as Tombstone, meaning to
lay the paint 011 that town pretty
thick, because its name makes it sort
of conspicuous, you Know, and
thought the boss would like it.
"But the first pot of paint was the
last. I started ill about 10 O'clock one
morning to decorate a little shanty tliat
was not fit to keep a bdly goat in. It
was made of about three dozen rough
planks nailed to four posts, with a lot
of three branches as a roof.
"I swung black paint all over one
side pretty lively as a ground work for
the white lettering; but I no sooner
started iu with the white, when a big
fellow slouched across to where 1 was
and says he:
"1 hat's mighty pretty. Paint the
other side now.
"Waif till I get done this side, will
you, my friend says 1, making the
outline of a big I., in white paint.
Just scratch that out. If you please.
My name dou't begin with an L.'
"He said that mighty soft; but when
I looked at him I had to look into the
muzzle of a big seven-shooter navy.
"I've had plenty of trouble with men
who didn't want their Ikihis and fences
painted up with signs; but that fellow
made more fuss over his little shanty
than I ever saw before or since. He
said he was paying $40 a month rent
for that place (1 wouldn't give him
forty cents for the whole thing), and he
made me iamt all four sides, from top
to bottom, with good black paint.
while the whole town stood around
and criticized the way I slim? a brush.
They let me go, after 1 got that
shanty painted; but the sheriff of the
town walked a piece w-ith me, and told
me I'd better get. He Slid the men
could stand a little swearing, and a
little shooting aud a little gambling;
but when it came to making sign-boards
of the houses, he was afraid lawlessness
was going too far, and he wouldn't an
swer for the consequences if I staved
in town.
I was determined that I would not
go out of that iombstoiie district
without leaving my mark, anv how.
So I just bunked ou the hillside that
night and in the morning 1 made a
bee-line for the Whetstone Mountains,
wlia-li are in sight of the city;and after
a little skirmishing around I found a
canon with a precipice on one side of
it as clean straight up aud down as a
knife.
When I looked over the edge I
could see the water in the little creek
down below dancing and singing along
through the bowlders. It wasn't such
a tarnation piece down there only
two or three hundred feet but it was
a little furlh er than I eared to jump.
"1 had a coil of silk rie among my
tools, and after fastening one end to a
Cottonwood tree I swung the other
end, with a loop in it for a seat, over-
hoard, and climbed down hand under
hand. .
"What did I do with my Kiint
bucket and brush? I put the brush into
the bucket and carried the bucket han
dle iu my mouth. Oh, I assure you,
this kind of thing was common with
me. The next time you go among the
mountains, if you will examine the
painted rocks pretty close, you will find
that my way is really the only way to
tret at them.
"Give me a good silk rope silk be
cause a very small silk roe will carry
man, and a iKiinter dout want to
lug a heavy roi around with him
aud I'll jwint your name on the steep
est precipice that ever was.
"When I'm sitting down mv brush
has got a seven-foot swing, and I set out
tj paint the words 'Love s Lung Loz
enjjles' in seven-foot letters. 1 didn't
care if it took me -a week, I wasn't
going to be bluffed by them Tomb-
stoners.
" ell, sir, I was brushing away and
singing to myself like a mocking-bird,
when a stone came down and lit fair
in the paint-pot, sphishing paint all
over my sign, 1 looked up madder'n
hornet, and there 1 see two dirty
AiKiche heads grinning at me.
"I didn't say anything; but the sight
of them took the life out of me so tliat
I dropped my brush, aud I could hear
it bounding along from rock to rock un
til finally it struck bottom. I swear
it seemed to me ten minutes from the
time that brush left my hand untd it
struck the ground. Every time it
bounced from one rock to another I
seemed to say to myself: "You'll strike
there, and there, and there.'
'1 knew the Indians were Apaches
the minute 1 saw their heads, and I
knew, too, that the Apache is the
blood-thirtiest animal ou earth.
"They grinned at me, with their
heads stuck over the precipice, and
then one of them swung out his right
arm and began making passes at the
taut nie with a butcher knife 111 his
hand. You wou't find them fellers
carrying tomahawks any more; they
carry guns and knives ius'ead.
"1 watched the knife flying around
up there, with its sharp edge always
turned toward the rope, until it made
me sick, and I looked dowu for relief.
iielow me there was nothing but a lit
tle mesqiut bush growing out of the
precipice about half way down, and
under that bowlders.
"Suddeuly I thought of something,
and whipping my whisky flask out of
my breast pocket, 1 held it up toward
them. They stopiied grinning, the
knife stopped wheeling around, aud I
saw in a minute, that they were two
thirsty Indians, and that I had a chance
yet. But, like a blamed fool. I was too
sure, and didn't take enough care of
the bottle, aud the first thing I knew
it slipped from my hand and smashed
to flinders on the rocks below.
"The Indians gave one howl aud
then zip went the knife across the rope,
and I followed the w hisky bottle.
"Did I get killed Well, not hardly.
You remember that mesquit bush"
Well, the end of the rope managed to
get w rapped around that bush in the
fall, and it brought me up so sudden
that the shock brok out four of my
front teeth."
"But you were still one hundred
feet above ground, and your roi ouly
fifty feet long."
'To be sure, but every tiling was
plain sailing now. I just shinned up
the rope to the bush, got the rope out
of snarl and unraveled so as to make
two roiiea, only half as thick each as
the other was. See? The roi was
plenty strung enough to bear me, thin
as it was, and down I came like greased
lightning, and then footed it back to
Benson, where I bought a new ouotit
and went ahead to 'Frisco."
Burums olT Human Hair.
"Hair Singeing 23 Cents," is the
somewhat novel sign displayed in the
window of a South Broad street bar
ber's shop, Philadelphia. The interior
of the shop is decorated with half a
dozen more of the signs, and two knights
o; the razor aud a colored boy fanned
themselves and waited for customers.
The reiHirter had just made known his
errand when two youths of the variety
popularly known as " toughs " entered.
anil one of them, notwithstanding the
lavish display of signs, inquired if " this
here s the place the feller wos wot
burned yer hair off?" Being assured
he had reached the right place, the
youth inquired if it ''hurt yer?" and
when the barber said it was a puinli-ss
Munition, seated himself in one of the
chairs and told the barber to "bring
on yer blaze and do it up in style." He
udded that he wanted a " regular sum
mer cut, short all over." The first step
taken by the barber was to cut the
youth's hair in the regular way with
the scissors, and this being finished, the
act of singeing began. Taking a long
wax tar, such as are used in any
household, he lighted it from a gxs
burner, and with a comb lilted what
remained of the young man's hair into
ridges, the tops of which he deftly
burued off by applying the blazing ta
per, and a halo of smoke encircled his
heap, and a faint odor of toasted wool
floated about iu the room and out into
the sultry night. With great skill he
soon had the entire top, back, aud sides
of the youth s head completely singed.
that worthy 111 the meantime stating at
the operation as reflected in the looking-
lass, and momentarily exclaiming :
' Well, I'll be Mowed ! " II is companion
was similarly impressed, and made con
stant remarks of a like nature. When
the youth's head had been sufficiently
toasted to suit the barber's artistic
eye, the taper was put out, and the cus
tomer requested to step dowu to the
wash-basin, w here his head was thor
oughly washed, to clear away the
ashes " that remained at the end of
each hair, and when the operation was
1'mished the youth gazed iu the glass at
as beautifully clipped a cranium as ever
left a barber shop. Paying his quarter,
and remarking that it "wasn't such a
bad racket, alter all," the young man
gave a parting glance of approval iii
the mirror, and with his companion de
parted. " 1 his is the only place 111 this
country where you cau get a regular
singe'" said the barber after the
youths had gone, "but it's a pretty
common thing in England and Euroie,
Mid 111 Canada, too, 1 believe." In
conclusion, he stated that it was said
to be a capital thing for the hair, and
would cause it to flourish like a corn
field after a summer shower ; but he
idded in conclusion, "It aiut any good
for bald-headed men, for they haveu't
any liair to be braced up."
Hawaii Sandwich Inland.
Hawaii, being wholly volcanic, looks
ike a fortress ninety miles long, built
by the genii. Yet, dreary as it is, or
seems from the sea, it is really full of
green pastures, ou which feed wild cat
tle, the descendants of those brought
in by Vancouver, aud owned by rant:h
nieu, to the tune of ten and fifteen
heads apiece, in runs of twenty miles
(oug. It must have been sad to stand
by and see a forest burned up like so
many matches, and another with the
trees snapted off at the surface of the
fire-flood, the portion imbedded in the
lava liemg burued to dust, and leaving
a series of ock-niarks on the hardened
surface. O.ie night in 1&2, it seemed
as if a solitary star was shining 011 the
side of Manna Loa, at a sjtot afterwards
found to be four thousand feet below
the summit. After the second evening
it seemed to die awav, but soon burst
out again with amazing splendor, no
longer a star, but a column of lire seven
hundred feet high by angular measure
ment, and from two hundred to three
hundred feet broad, which w as visible
one hundred miles off, and the ashes
aud charred leaves from which covered
the decks of approaching shijw. The
lava stream was visible thirty miles off;
md 111 twenty days there had been
thrown up a cone a mile round at the
base and four hundred feet high, which
is standing to this day. lhe weird
beauty of the color-changes was some
thing past belief. Issuing white-hot
from the crater, the lava changed first
to light, then to deep red, then to glossy
gray, with shiny black patches, every
tint intermingled in constant move
ment, and a very cataract of sparks
falling from the fire pillar. Iu loo
there was a yet greater eruption, from
which the town of Hilo narrowly es
caped. One strange episode was when
a cataract of lava poured over a preci
pice into a very deep rock-basin, in
which a big ship might have floated.
The water was all driven off in steam,
the basin filled up, and the precipice
changed into a gently sloping plane.
Months after it was a hideous sight to
see this lava stream, about fifty miles
from its source, sluggishly twisting
about In vast coils, whose lustrous me
tallic surface was seamed with red.
showing the uncooled stream below,
while every now and then the glisteniiur
crust which hung over this fire-streacz
caved in, just as as "cat's ice " brcate
and shows the water underneath il.
Gold Dollar.
''It's easier than selling SI gold pieces
at 70 cents each," remarked a nobby
young man in Detroit, to a friend.
"Is tliat sor" was the answer. "I'll
bet you $'20 you can't sell ten $1 gold
pieces at 10 cents each in -two hours."
"I'll take you," said the hrst speaker.
The coin was procured, and the young
man stationed himself at Clark street
bridge.
"Here you are," shouted the young
man; "$ 1 gold pieces for 7j cents."
In about three minutes a crowd of a
hundred people gathered. But not one
offered to buy. They guyed him, aud
wanted to know how much prolit he
made. Others wanted him run in f r
a swindler, and finally a policeman ap
peared and dispersed the crowd and or
dered hun to move on. lie came very
nearly being arrested as a fakir, and
was glad to escap9 and pay the net.
Weakly County is the appropriate
name of a place in Tennessee that
claims to contain "more crippled men
than any other county in the Siate, if
not in the Union."
faulug Hat llaaa.
Coining up stream pilots did not
mind low water of any kind of darkness,
notlier stopped them but fog. But
dowu stream work was different;
boat w as too nearly helpless, with a stiff
current pushing behind her; so it was
not customary to run dowu stream at
at night in low water.
There seemed to be one small hoiie.
however; if we could get through the
intricate and dangerous Hat Island
crossing before night we could venture
the rest, for we would have plainer sail
ing aud better water, liut it would be
insanity to attempt Hat Island at night
So there was a deal of lookuig at watch'
es all the rest ot the day, and a con
stant ciphering upon the speed we were
making; Hat Island was the eternal
subject; sometimes hope was high and
sometimes we were delaved by a IkuI
crossing and down it went again. For
hours all hands lay tinder the burden
ot this suppressed excitement; it was
even communicated to me, aud I got
to feel so solicitous about Hat Island,
and under such an awful pressure of
responsibility, that 1 wished I might
have live minutes oil shore to draw a
good, full, relieving breath of air and
start over again. We were standing no
regular watches. Each of our pilots
ran such itortious of the river as he had
run when coming up-stream, because
of his familarity with it; but both re
mained in the pilot house constantly.
An hour before si 111st Mr. Bixby took
the Wheel and Mr. W stepped
aside. For the next thirty minutes
every man held his watch in his hand
and was restless, silent and uneasy. At
last somebody said, with a doomful
sigh:
"Well; yonder's Hat Island and we
can't make it."
All the watches closed w ilh a snap,
everybody sighed and muttered some
thing about it being too bad, too bail
ah if we could only have got here half
an hour sooner!" aud the place was
thick with the atmosphere of disappoint
ment. Some started to go out, but
loitered, hearing no bell-tap to land.
The sun iiipicd behind the horizon, the
boat went 011. Inquiring looks jiasscd
fiom one guest to another, aud one who
had his hand on the door knob turned
back again. We lnre steadily down
the bend. More looks were exchanged
and nods of surprised admiration but
110 words. Insensibly the men drew
together behind Mr. Bixby. as the sky
darkened and one or two dim stars came
out. The dead silence and sense of
waiting became oppressive. Mr. Bixby
pulled the cord, and two deep, mellow
notes from the big bell floated off ou
the night. Then a pause, and one more
note was struck. The watchman's
voice followed, from the hurricane
dtck!
"Iibboard lead, there! Stabboard
lead.'!
The cries of the leadsmen began to
rise out of the distance, and were gruf
fly repeated by the word-passers on the
hurricane deck.
"M-a-r-k three! M-a-r-k three
tiiarter-less-thiee? Half twain!
Ouarter twain. M-a-r-k twain!
Oiiarterless"
Mr. Bixby pulled two bell-roiel, and
was answered by faint jinglings far be
low 111 the engine room, and our sjieed
slackened. ' The steam began to whistle
through the gauge-cocks. The cries of
the leadsmen w ent ou and it is a w eird
sound, always, iu the mght. Every
pilot in the lot was watching now w ith
hxed eyes and talking under his breath.
Nobcdy was calm aud easy but Mr.
BLxby. He would put his wheel down
and stand 011 a spoke, aud as the steam
er swung into her to me utterly 111
visable marks for we seemed to be in
the midst of a w ide and gloomy sea he
would meet and fasten her there. Out
it the murmur of half-audible talk one
caught a coherent septeuce now and
then such as:
"There; she's over the first reef all
rirht!"
After a pause another subdued voice:
"Her tern's coming down just exact
ly right, by George!"
".Now she's in the marks; over she
goes!"
, Somebody else muttered:
"Oh, it was done beautiful beauti
ful!" Xow the engines were stopped alto
gether and we drifted with the current
Not that I could see the boat drift, for
I could not, the stars being all gone by
this time. This driftiug was the dis-
malestwork; it held one's heart still
Presently I discovered a blacker gloom
than tliat which surrounded us. It was
the head of the island. We were clos
ing right down moii it. We entered
its deeper shadow, and so imminent
seemed the peril that 1 was likely to
suffocate; and 1 had the strongest im
pulse to do something, anything to save
the vessel. But still Mr. Bixby stood
by the wheel, silent, intent as a cat,
and all the pilots stood shoulder to
shoulder at his back.
"She'll not maka it," somebody whis
pered.
The water grew shoaler and slioaler.
by the lcadniau's cries, till it was down
to
"Eight-and-a-half! E-i-g-h-t feet
E-i-g-h-t feet! Seven-aud"-
Mr. Bixby said waruingly through
his sjieaking tube to the engineer:
Stand by, now:"
Ave. ave. sir!"
I ."Seven-and-a-half! Seven feet. Six
and" We touched bottom! Instantly Mr.
Bixby set a lot of bells ringing, shouted
through tie tube, "Now, let her have
it every ounce you've got!" then to
his partner, "Put her hard down!
snatch her! snatch her!' The boat
rasped and ground her way through the
sand, hung upon the apex of disaster a
sirigle tremendous instant, and then
over she went! And such a shott as
went up at Mr. Bixhy's back never
loosened the roof of a pilot-house be
fore! There was no more trouble after that
Mr. Bixby was a hero tliat ufght; and
it was some little tune, to, beiore nis
exploit ceased to be talked about by
river men.
I'aiwr Mill.
Fr.wo utitii.tics recently published, il
appears that there are in the world L
(ewer than 3,985 paper mills, producing
every year 909,010 tons of paper from
all kinds of tub-Uuces, including rag,
straw od allaUa. About one halt is
printed upon, and of these 476,000 ton
of paper, nearly 300.009 tons are used
by the newspapers. 1 ue various govern
ments consume in official business, 100,-
000 tons; schools, 190,000 tons; com
merce. 120.000. iuduet. 90.000 tons.
aud private correspondence another
90 000 tons. Inclu-lins women and
children, the paper trade employ 192,
000 hands.
Mr and Mr. S. in Trouble.
"My dear," whimpered Mr. Spoo
pendyke, hobbliug into h.s wife's room
and throwing himself into a chair with
a desolate expression of desjiair 011 hio
visage. '".My dear, there Is something
the matter with my foot, and I can't
make out what the trouble is."
"May be it's a stone bruise," sug
gested Mrs. Spoopeudyke.
"That's all you know alxiut it,"
grunted Mr. Spoopeudyke, who was
not to be put off with so small a disas
ter as a stone bruise. "I tell you, that
I have got some trouble with my foot
that threatens my life, and you stand
around there like a cork in a bottle, and
talk about it as though I hadn't got
one leg in my coin 11 as far as the hip."
Are ymi sure it isn t a corn 1"' ha
zarded Mrs. Spoopeudyke. timidly.
"Sometimes corns hurt worse than any
thing else; but 1 never heard of people
dying of them."
"No. it tsn't a corn!" howled Mr.
Spooeiidyke, nursing his foot and glar
ing at his wife w ith a mingled expres
sion of rage and pain. "What d'ye
think this foot Is, anyway; an agricul
tural district? When "did you ever hear
of a corn that reached from the heel to
the knee? Which of your friends ever
had a corn that hurt clear to the ear?"
and Mr. Siooiehd ke touched his foot
carefully to the floor and eyed his wife
narrowly to see if she noticed the ex
piessiou of agony ou his face.
it it acts that way it must lie a
bunion: ' exclaimed Mrs. poopeud)ke
triumphantly. "All you have cot to
do i? take your boot off aud put your
suppers on."
Ihat s it," yelled Mr. Spooiieuilvke
hauling off his boot and firing it across
the room. "When a man is dying of
iiiiianimatory rheumatism, it s a bun
lou ve got it! A pain that starts
iu the toe, runs to the back of the neck
and ties m a hard knot over the spine
is a bunion! Show me the buniou!:' he
continued, sticking his leg out straight
and pointing his linger at the offending
foot. "Take this digit iu vour lilv
while hand aud place it teuderlv 011 the
dod gasled bunion Ul'o.e 1 die and for
get what killed me! Pick it out of the
surrounding anatomy!" he yelled.
wriggling his foot and bouncing upand
dowu in his chair in a delirium of rage.
Pluck the bunion from its mountain
fastness 011 the hoof of Siiooueudyke
and hold it up to the gaze of thesanie!"
loes it hurt r commenced Mrs.
SiNx.peiulyke, soothingly.
Hurt. roared Mr. ixioiicndvke.
springing iroin his chair and dancing
around the room like a Ilea. "Of
course, it don't. It tickles! ' Hurt
li s a picnic! Say, my dear," and his
vi ice was low aud teuder. ".Niv. my
uear, instead ot going to the country
tuis summer we'll lay m a stock of bun
ions and wear 'em around for our health
and recreation! Hurt!'' he shrieked.
breaking out iu a new spot. 'Hurt !
It feels like a baud of music! Thai's
what it Is, a bunion! It took you to hit
il! When I net time to tit Vou up with
a lull beard and a bottle of wh'sKy I'm
going to start a dispensary with you! If
you'd only improve your mind until
you reached the standard of intelligence
of a moderate donkey you'd o.ily need
a stolen corpse and a lud smell to le a
urst-class medical college!"
"Say, dear," observed Mrs. Siiooiien
dyke, who had beeu carefully exploring
her husband s boot; "say, dear, 1 think
1 have found out what me trouble is.
It Isn't a bunion atler all. Here's a
peg sticking out here about a quarter
ot an inch. If you will have thai taken
out 1 don't believe you will stiller any
more."
Mr. Spoi-udyke jammed his hat
over his eyes, shoved his feet into his
slippers, grabbed the obnoxious boot
aud started lor the door wilu a wither
ing look at his wife as he went out.
"i don't care," murmured Mrs.
Spoopeudyke, as the front door slammed
vindictively; "1 dou't care. If he has
it taken out, he has to admit that 1 was
right, and if he doesn't it will hurt him
till he dies. 1 don't know which will
be the woise for him, but he will have
to do one or the other."
ia Kari ll.ll.iajF.
Said the bad boy to the grocery man:
You see one of the deacons in our
church lives out 011 a farm, and all his
folks were going away to sivud the day
aud he had to do all the chores; so he
invited a aud ma to come out to the
farm aud have a nice, quiet time, and
they went.
"There is nothing my pa likes lietter
thau to go out on a farm and pretend
he knows everything. When the far
mer got pa and uia out there he set
them to work, aud 111a shelled peas
while pa went to dig potatoes for din
ner. 1 think it was mean for the dea
con to send pa out iu the com field to
dig potatoes, and after he had dug up
a whole row of corn witnout finding
any potatoes to set the dog ou pa, tree
him in au apple tree near lhe bee hives,
and then go and visit my ma an 1 leave
ia 111 the tree with the dog barking at
him. Pa said he never knew bow mean
a deacon could be until he had sat on a
limb of that apple tree ah the afternoon.
"Alxmt tune to do chores the farmer
came and found pa, and called the dog
off, and pi came down, and then the
tanner played the meanest trick ot all.
He said city people didn I Know how
to milk cows, and pa said he wished lie
had as many dollars as he knew how
to milk cows. He said his speehully
was milking kicking cows, and the far
mer gave pa a tin pail and a milking-
stool and let dowu the bars and pointed
out to pit the worst cow ou the place.
"Pa knew his reputation w.is at stake
and he went up to the cow and punched
it in the Hank and said: 'Hist, con
found you.' Well, the cow wasn't a
lusting kind, but a Listing bull, and pa
knew it was a buli as quick as he see it
put dowu its head and heller, and pa
dropped the lil and started for the
bars, and the hull after pa.
"1 dou t think it was right in nut to
bet two shillings with the fanner that
ia would get to the bars before the bull
did, though she won the bek Pa said
he knew it was a bull just as soou as
the horns got tangled up iu his coat
tails, aud when lie struck ou the other
side of the bars and his nose hit the
ash-barrel where they make lye for
soap, pa said lie saw more fireworks
than we did at tl.e Soldiers' Home. Pa
wouldn't celebrate any more and he
came home, after thanking the farmer
for his courtesies, but he wants me to
borrow a gun aud go out with him
hunting. We are going to shoot a bull
aud a dog, and some bees; maybe we
will shoot the farmer, if pa keeps on as
mad as he is now. Well, we wou't
have another Fourth of July for a
year."
NKWS IS KRIKF
The girls' reform school iu low
has loo inmates.
California yields nearly OT.OOJ.UOJ
bushels of w heat this year.
Mine. Klstori Is to m ike a fareell
tour of tnis country next ye.ir.
Of the 40S students in the Munich
Academy of Art 31 are Americans.
Baroness Burdett-Coitts has twenty
million dollars iu vested in L S. bjuls.
Utah, which contained not a rail
sixteen years ago, now has 10S1 mile
of railway.
The recent Masonic fair iu Dublin
realized $i,UU0. and American r.-
contributed thereto.
English paperjcouiiu.in i the intro
duction of the American Ux-k-b t hit 1
the British postal system.
Twelve of the Bishopsof the Church
of England are over 70 years of a 'e
aud of the, three are over 8d. '
It is asserted that British capital
to the extent of j:a,(ui,ojo went into
yoiuing and Texas last year..
Mozart, F!otowaiidGouu.)d, mtn
agers find, are the m wt popular com
posers for Russian audiences.
- I!r- C' nrist"l i still living in
Buaalo, New York. He was the first
white male boru in that place.
0 tTJISST3- are W'iMg about
J.0O0,inji in their public ....
American and English systems.
A calculation mideattlie postof-
., su.nvs only one re 'i
,'i.st-
c,c" "'ner 111 every i.5,t j., isL
etikii,. , V P'niiueut gives
-.HJO..t., tu . the Scottish universities,
and allows X'lusi,7.57 for new works.
There are ten colored teachers iu
lopeka, Kansas, eight of whom are
graduates of educational institutions.
It is estimated i Washington tliat
about .iUO.OOO,". j of our national debt
-or less than p,.r cent. -is held in
Europe. '
The price or hops hits decreased
one-half within three m mtlis. There
is no three-cei.t-b.-er wave in sight yet
however. '
-Compressed carbonic acid is used
at the great gun m inufao-tory at Essen
The prices of carpets of all "rod,-s
are ower than thef h .vv beTn
twenty years, ex,-..viin? fr a bn
Ieriod 111 1S79.
An intelligent Loud.,,, fish uierch
a nt has made a calculation shown ,
that ,J,000)0. oysters are anu ud u
consumed in London. a"'wiy
-It is estimated that of all the ani
mals that are attacked by the cattl
plague, now ragimr in V-,v,.t , .L
than l6 in loo ?ecov"r.
It Is estiuiatej that the miners and
merchants of Butte, MonUiw Terri
tory. have on dep. wit at the three b Inks
of that city about Smuoi kS
wis.
It is stated that one ruby fb
Kobiiison county, G.wi-i Lt
over $ykw. am, fa tn '
ound in
Wort I.
found ou the Aiuerieau ZZiZZ.
The 180.) saloons of .Missouri last
ear mid licenses ti.- . l.
rlw. I .
licenses
177 uia. Ti " amount or
lhe saoieuim!.r..f ....1
under the
new law will have to pav
i'JO0,io.
St.llivf i.a al..... .1. .a ..
- ,, niai wiule the Doim-
latlon li:w iii-ro ...... ..... ... V'l"-
cent, in
counties of England, suicides have dur
ing the same period iurr.i
111 rna Ot
cent. " i"
Tiie reduction in 11.- . , .
ing debt of the government forThTa
cal year just closed is li", M
which secures a permanent a.m., U
duct,.,,, m tl, imewst JU
Angela Con I.. 1 1:. - v-.... 1 . .
ehutnstobetho ,TtL
won.u 111s bones are all extraordi
nardy massive thimgh he weigh but
1W pounds. He can lift 3jo Voi ds
with one linger. pomms
Mine. Minnie If:n.t r. t.
and Mile. Alice Urban, three ce"lebrad
prima d.mne m Europe, are aU
Creole girls from Wr 1 t-i .V7V. " . " 1
them..ical,,gin,ungru;e'E
Cathedral in that city.
-Edward Mearcie O'Briau, who
claims lineal relationsl.io with 'ul ...
Boru, the last kite' of ....1 . "
Costeiio . county. llo ,3 mm ot' te
best settlers who came to Colorado dur
ing the gold excitement of '0'.)
-About l-KI.Ooo.Oio feet, of logshave
been turned out of the bom. near Still
water. Minn., tliii 1 .r ti.;.. -
They are going out at the ,ate of 3 J .
per day, but it will tike i.,
Uweeksyetto tu. river for
Iu boring an artesian w..Il i.. n.-
anta Clara Vallev i'.i;r.: "
stump of a Trt,l ,'r..r"" : n
distance of :! feet from tlie surface
ii.tip.Hiii wnere the tree was struck
Two dwarfs whim
..a Ohio, last w. urjii
j , u."Olll. IS 1 f....f 1
iu
.... iiu weigns ih pounds.
Tiie
.uiao r loreuce liitn
cm tn, is 4 feet
uign ami weighs lt r.
Ptinds. Both
ire over 21 years of age.
The iortraits 011 th
stamps that come in use October lare-
Ue"l r'"'5 -Ve"t. Jackson; i
cent, Washington: .Went. GarH..i.i'
w-ht. Lincoln; 7-cent, Stanton; lOn-ent,
Jefferson; lj-cent. Clay: l.W-i.t n
30-cent. Hamilton: !KU,it "'
Two books fori nt 1 with :
. . - ,. d.-JI till
leaves have been sent to the Amster
dam exhibition by an English firm as
an illustration of the perfection to which
i- -. - o. .,, Ug sneen of iron has
been brought The leaves are said to
I no thicker than "good-toned paper "
-Some plasters that came away
Church of f,t. James, at Augsbury. re
cently, during the removal of an old
or. an, disci. Med some colorin? that led
to an examination of the whole wall
anu several largeand beautiful frescoes
ui.i.oru iu me ye;ir 1 4 W a.,d 1 pJo
"t luus reveaieu.
The!Chief of the'lt.. ... c......
tics reports that the total values t the
exports of domestic breadstuils from
ouues uuring the mouth of
June was Ul,5.-,,0:id. For the six
......... .. ra,,,K jile .,,,(11, i-i-u t)ie v
tal v.Uue wasr,14VJ:r.. an J for the
six .months ending Jwib 3otn
value was ,8.,'J.JU. ' '
Zlil?Ul Evangelical, and !, -01
m Christian sch.w.u