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SCHWEIER,
THE OOISTrnmOI-THE OTIOI-AIB THE EWOEOEMEIT OT THE LAVS.
Editor and Proprietor.
VOL. XXXVII.
MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY.. PENNA.. AVEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 12. 1S83.
NO. 37.
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Ah m 'Hi i
. 2 tone airo
An, darkness fc,,, "TL
And though unknown, I strove to
So wise a good thatVn mich
'Around his brow dwell,, oontk" djy."
But now I daily older crow
I wat. h the shadows 'mong the trees
And hear the sigh in evening-, bret
And weep tnat wisdom U far ofiL'
And think, perhaps, the night maybe
Less dark than is each day to me
Aud so, in sadness, still I wait
tor soon I know, or maybe late
1 he gates will open wide for me"
And 1 shall journey toward the sea,
hose breakers roar in every ear-
n'tig song I ne'er shall' fear
A hose saddest music oft has waked '
1 he mrm'ry of a thirst unslaked.
THE DOCTOR'S SI Rritl-K.
The gas flared brightly in the drag
room in the great city hospital of
" Dr- Wharton, one of the
young physicians in charge, stood by
the marble slab tuittine
tion. Xear him lounged idly. Dr. Fra
zier, his colleague, a dark, moustached
young fellow, with a hard, intolerant
cast of countenance, rendered more re
pliant just now by an. angry scowL
"Don't talk to me, Phil' he said.
"There is a miserable poor outlook for
either of us here. The poorest hod
carrier that walks the streets has a bet
ter chance for success than you or I
even though we have M. D. attached'
to our names. You can brag of your
profession if you like, but I am sick of
it. I'll try something else before the
year's out,"
"1 bavent bragged of it," said Dr.
Wharton, good humoredly, '! have
said nothing. You never gave me a
chance,"
"To think of how I've wasted my
life," continuf-d Frazier, without heed
ing him. "Four years at college, two
in a doctor's office, two in a Philadel
phia medical school. And here I am
and here you are, men of twenty-four,
glad to have a year's practice in a hos
pital for our board, when my brother,
two years younger, and without an edu
cation, is making a handsome living
speculating on the Stock Exchange. A
great difference, truly."
Philip Wharton made no reply, but
trround away steadily at the mortar.
"Do stop tliat screak!" said Frazier,
irritably. "Come out and have a
smoke,"
"I haven't finished putting up this pre
scription." "You haven't had your supper,
either."
".No, but I shall fuish the prescrip
tion tirst."
Yii s1u;:iv4 vtirk at a HiIikt until it.
is finished. You'll stick at your pro-
- - r, - . t' . .
iessiun umu 11 nuisues you.--
"I hope not," said Wharton, laugh
ing. "What are you going to do when you
leave the hospital? Our time will be
up in September. Where are you going
to settle?"
"1 don't know yet," said riiilip, his
cheerful face suddenly clouding. "I
know of no place where there is much
chance of success. My cousin John ad
vises me to go West, But there are
half a dozen doctors in every village out
there already."
"There," said George Frazier, tri
umphantly. "What did 1 say r There
is absolutely no chance for a young
doctor, unless he hasa fortune or friends
to push him on. You and I have
neither. We had better go out and
preach this new cure of fasting. W e
have every prospect of becoming good
examples of its eflect?, whatever those
may be,"
Dr. Wharton laughed, but made no
rplv. His face showed, however, that
he telt the truth of what Fraiier said.
"You had better come to supier,
Phil," Frazier added, in a more cheer
ful tone. Having succeeded in making
his companion feel miserable, his own
spirits began to revive. .
"No, I must put up this prescription
first." ,
"Very welL I'm going to cut my
ward and take a stroll to-night,"
He sauntered out into the clear
moon, livht and fresh air. lr. W bar
ton glanced after him, feeling as if he,
too, must escape from the nau seating
siuell of the drugs and the heavy, 1
lid air of the sick wards. But he
ground steadily at his powder.
He was a homely little man, whose
only attractive trait was a happy, hearty
buJyanc, of heart, but that was gone
now W ben the prescription was made
S ii little pers, labelled and diiec -ed
he washed his hands, put on his
St, and looking at his watch walked
ouicklv into the street. Half an hour
S ffi time he gave himself for
but to-night he would use the haU
hour for seething eh tluMV
lie turned into a quiet cross street,
a,,d in a lew minutes reached a little
Sgrew suddenly red as she
l0-olUFuilip'." she cried, jumping
rSLSSFSt S you, -as
"ho un.li1" hi9 face darkening,
he?" said PbnP. M i
Fvrferror at
in the back room. ge me and
Fhilip, or be npoiible
then what should I do. cltVn0w,
nie,&usie, lo jou muncU
wereabUlefiy form ooy
ing candy, and tou my wife,
But 1 ermmr trouble, though
and keep .bout i .
fTourveSuLturself
vour
profession , ;nini? to think
"Frofessionl , better
Frazier is nguH d ton -j
o hndarner tnan a k
Frazier is nut,---to, T
Then
and
ist I would be sure - " -nsd
wages,butnow,wtenx"- ltmay
ara befor i cttu v
keep us from at,.r. ;.. . , ,.
marrv -"6, ii we snouiu
J
thou-h l.r ii SU!ile' wugbmg,
else ,.raZier '8 S0ilx' t0 trv something
"And will you?"
Wharton hesitated, and theu that
ueienuiued look
which Susie knew so well.
iriv.. ' at t. I never have
I'll w i " -r1 gHUu 1 dld acd
n.n V i Vesln lt uow! But you, you
must help me to keep up heart, Susie,"
Ed 2 ?h112 brmh be took
"Why, there's no r-ason why we
should give up heart," she said, with a
cheerful tone. "Go now, there is
-NlXOll COlllllKT JT A., ..... " i:, .
you here."
o, said Philip, "he is afraid he
IVIll lMCQ ! as-... .
.., cierK. lie u not Und
another that he can grind as much work
irom on starvation wages."
'Go! g!" she puslied him to the
door still laughing, but when he was
ffmia c 1.. I.: J 1 1 ...
6"'" ': iu ner ueau on the ledger
and sobbed.
ousib was an oqiliau and had no
inens in U113 world but the man who
uau loveu ner since she was a child.
She had more courage aud energy
probably, than he, but the life of the
girl in Nixon's shop was almost intol
erable, and she was very lonely and
tired.
If Dr. Wharton was moody aud des
lairiug the next day his patients did
not know it. He had never been more
gentle or untiring in his care of them.
They were all poor, for the hospital was
a city charity. liut the more heavily
his own trouble pressed on him the
more tender to those wretched paupers
be grew.
1 1 a 11-.1Q dnoUl nil 41. a ....t .;i.
one old countryman, who had fallen in
!. i- . . . t 1 : . 1 1 1
iuc onctrt uoiu iiis iiorse, auu ueen car
ried in insensible. Dr. Frazier round
him beside the old man's cot early in
the afternoon.
Vi-i-yiuf ....( ...... -1.. ..11
M. UOU 11 u LQClib 11C11 Ijr tXLL
day His face was flushed ami his eyes
no uuiuuig iui c&ciieuieiiu no
beckoned Philip aside.
'There's a chance. It's something
big," he whispered excitedly. "Call
til t-lL'A rmir n'inl tliw u ftariwvn
' vvr unf iiui aiA a,asx mnii
and come with me. He's going to take
lit 1 lie.
44T nant ri-o uti tie vir.t P.utr
He's a blunderer," said Wharton,
gruiny. 1 ou may u you choose,"
"oneed to snub me, l'hil, when
I'm trying to do you a service. You
said the other il;iv vnn had savttl a
couple of hundred dollars." .
1 es, that s my capital to begin the
world with in September."
"Well, Frank my brother, you
know has just had private informa
tion of a great expected rise in the Dar
ling Silver Mine stock. He'll let you
and me into the chance. We'll go
down with him to the Stock Exchange
and buy up all the shares we can."
"I can't leave my ward to Poor," he
said. "There is no patient in danger
but this man. But he is in a very cri
tical condition. I wont' leave him.
14 Viiciii'i What fan a ninnln tif
hours matter! It is a chance that may
sure thing, 1 leu you."
hartou shook his neau.
l.wrn tn rpa 111 l'hil Vim m:iv
. li ir pimiKrh liv this venture to make.
a beginning for a competency tor-years.'
1 ou can auoru meu w wait 101- piac
tin Ynu niiL'lit eveu mam7, if vou
can find a nice girl," he said, Willi a
laugu. t
l:irrv!" Ir. AVhartou's handsliook.
as he dropped the medicine into a sjiooiu
I WOUlu neeu lime 10 cousiuer me 111
vMitm nt " he said, "even if I could
leave this man. 1 would wish to be
clear in my conscience that it would be
9 ,r.Mnr nnA to make. Uut the old
man's condition is such that my present
.. It- .1....... .. l.n
duty is clear. lie sai, uuu vj 111c
:it-liin'j Hie sick man. The pic
ture of Susie at work in the miserable
shop, with that brutal old jNixou oriv
rcr iiur rkS l-fore lum. She might
have to' bear this for years, and now
that possibly he miguiiieipuer, sua uc w
irive it up tor this man an utter stran
ger to him.
o .... . . .ri.i :rl
The ciocKuckeuswimj.
face was haggard.
"Come!" Frazier said nurrieiuy.
"I'll not go, Frazier."
v,.t tril You are not uoiair to lose
vouroue chance in bfe tor. that old
pjmjier tnai oiu uaviuuin nmiuo
contemptuously towards the cot.
"I'll not leave mm. - ,
Dr. t razier stooiel over the old man
and examined him.
He may lay in tms way ior aajs,-
i. "It ia likely vou will hnd nun
UC " " 11,,
just as he is when you come back."
... . 1 . . . nl.'i mifl mt till V Tl 1 l"l
i eS, lUl UC ITilJ uimibt J
ment. Tlie treatment I am trying is a
new one. Poor knows nothing about
it- " .... .!!
"You'll not come, iiienr- sau x i
zier halting on his way to the door.
iiViw.,,. tr.ui followed him a step or
two. and did not reply for a moment.
hits nt the withered old
face on the pillow flickered, a sliarp
glance shot out irom tneui.
"No " he said, quietly. "I will stay
withhin. Ttiis is no common work,
and I will not leave it to Poor."
Frazier went to the exchange, and
bv several ventures cleared several hun
dred dollars. He was greatly elated
over his success. , , . . ...
Dr. Wharton uruageu aiong i
daily rounds among his pauper patients
witu no other reward tlian the old
man 's recovery.
"You are rea-ly for discharge to
morrow," he said to hiin one day when
fortnight uau passeu.
I:. ".. ehl That was a queer
iiatitiw a i
experiment you tried on me, young
rnan. I've bad some little experience
Lnysic in my day, and I can't say I
TJt saw the bke of that treatment."
e,-. : mit-tliB old method, su-.'
said W harton, resictfully, going on
his rounds. . .
When he came ikh.iv, .
,V". ;..i....siv: "Where's the
in? Some tniet uaa i- -"You
wul tind it with the buirm-
tendent.'' T. nn t.
Oh. ayei i nope so. -
. : t . hr an institution. I
buTformykeephere'Ube
hiuh. young man?"
"I'here is no charge, u
SSfil" grumbled the old feUow
tn himself, turning over in bed-.
toir.V -1..- i lft the hospital,
while Philip was at dinner, without a
WhTi3 tTeend of it," thought
I
the doctor. This one rreat struma of
his life had cost him so much, that be
could not understand how the man who
naa gamed by it could be so indifferent
I wish he had said good-bye, at
icaL uut no matter."
J. he next week tie Superintendent
sent for him. "Who is John Sands,
doctor?" he asked, as soon as Philip
openea me aoor. .
"A poor old countryman who was
in my ward. Discharged last Tues
day." "Poor, indeed! It was Dr. Sands, as
it turns out Dr. Sands, t f Schollsburg.
The old man has had all the practice of
that county for forty years, and has
amassed a tortuiie, but he chooses to
go about like a beggar. He was mis
taken for one and brought in here, it
seems. He encloses a check for a hun
dred dollars, for the hospital, and says
he doesn't chos to be indebted even to
an institution."
"Well done for Sands!" laughed
t nanon.
"He has done better than that," said
the Superintendent, with a twinkle in
his eyes. "Sit down a minute. Whar
ton. The old doctor, it seems, is feel
ing his age, and wants to take some
young man in as partner, to whom he
can leave his practice in a year or two,
and he has fixed noon upon well.
narion. lie lias nxed upon your'
"Me!" and Philip sprang to bis feet.
"You. Yes, I said you. You have
made the old fellow your debtor in
some way, by a favor, which he says he
can never repay. Besides, he says he
watched you closely while here, and
approves of your system, your manner.
and, above all, your inflexible devotion
to your duty, ihere is his letter."
Philip read it with eager ejes.
"lou see he says he wants you to
come in September, and to bring a wife
with you, if possible. A married man.
he says, is always more successful. .Ec
centric old fellow, 1 fancy?"
liut 1 tulip did not answer, lie was
buttoning his overcoat with troubling
hands. "F,xcuse me," he said, but
there is a friend to whom I mutt tell
the good news," and in a moment more
he was on his way to the book-shop and
Susie I
Dr. Wharton is now the priuciial
practitioner in scholl county, and a
happy, successful man.
"1 gained wife, lortune, all I have,"
he says, "simply by sticking to one
thing until it was finished."
Dr. r razier s success was but tempo
rary, lie risked all he bad on one un
lucky venture, and lost. He is now a
clerk ou a small salary in his brother's
olhce.
A Crockery Rsk
About 8 o'clock, a man smoking plug
tobacco in an old clav pipe, walked out
of a Michigan avenue saloon, Detroit,
with a rat in a trap. He looked neither
to the right or the left until he had
reached the middle of the street. Then
he placed the trap on he ground and
whistled for his dog. If he had a dog.
the animal did not respond, but the
public did. In less than two minutes
thirty men were rushing to the siot.
"Ilil there: Don't let bun out tui 1
get my dog," shouted one.
"liold on! W ait ior the dogs:" yelled
half a dozen voices at once. -
"Keep cool and form a circle!" com
manded a policeman, as he took a fir
mer grip of his baton.
The man with the trap spread a large
handkerchief over it and waited, lie
was not a bit etcited. On the contrary
he was as placid as a chip sailing in the
wash-dish, f f
"Whar' did ye. ketch him?" inquired
a newsboy. . ' ' . ' '
The placid man did not deign to reply.
"What '11 ye take fur him?" asked
another, but his inquiry was treated
with the same silent contempt.
Then four or five men came running
up with dogs under their arms, and ten
or fifteen dogs on foot followed behind.
There was a light between a bull-dog
aud a Newfoundland, and there would
have been a row between owners had
not a second policeman appeared. Or
der was finally restored. The dogs
were arranged in a circle and held by
their collars, and the placid man slowly
knocked the ashes Irom his pipe, looKed
carefully around, and then raised the
trap and shook the rat out. All the
dogs made a rush, but in ten seconds
each and every canine walked off on his
ear and seemed to be hurt in his feel
ings. A boy stepped forward and held
the rat up to view.
'It's a crockery rat;" he yelled as
he whirled it around.
"Yes, it vuas a erogery radt, mid he
cost me den cents!-' calmly replied the
placid man as he walked off wUh his
trap.
Poison la tbe Teacup.
Among the many articles of common
family use that have become the subjects
of cheap adulteration there is probably no
one more conspicuous than tea. Poor and
cheap teas are flavored and colored to re
semble, in a faint degree, those of a better
gmde. while teas that have been once used
and tbeir strength entirely extracted are
redried, recolored by the use ol copperas
and Prussian blue, and by the aid of a
slight admixture of genuine tea are palmed
ff on an unsuspecting puunc
The fraud of selling tea that is entirely
worthless Is bad enough, but when But
ncient of poison is added to tbe tasteless
decoction to irritate and injure the stomach
tbe evU becomes of sufficient magnitude to
call for preventive measures of a vigorous
kind. Just bow this can be best accom
plished is somewhat uncertain, rteliable
dealers of courae refuse to handle the
fraudulent and poisonous stuff. But ras
cally dealers in tbe adulterated goods es
tablish agencies, employ canvassers to go
from house to bouse, and as tbey can af
ford to sell these worthless goods cheaper
than the family grocer can sell an honest
article, they manage to deceive ignorant
and well-meaning people and work off the
poisonous and spurious goods hi large
quantities.
Several states, rennsyivania inciuuca,
have stringent laws against the sale of adul
terated articles of food and drink, but tbe
laws fail to pi o vide practical methods for
detecting these adulterations and are thus
insufficient. Gongress passed an act at its
last session to prevent the importation of
adulterated and spurious teas and, as all
teas are imported, if tbe inspectors are
efficient and watchful the evil should be
checked so far as new importations of tte
worthless, stuff is concerned. There is,
however, a vast stock of the doctored herb
already in this country and there are firms
which follow the business of adulteration
in some of our own cities. Against these
two sources of supply the public must still
continue to guard itself. . The best method
of doing this at present is not to be too
anxious to get cheap teas and to be sure
that tbe tea dealer of whom tbe family
purchases are made not only la honest, but
knows what real tea is when he sses it,
Fatuous Escapes From 1 nillmns.
"stones of marvelous and ingenious
escapes were the romance of tbe colonies.
and such adventures ditte back to the
earliest Indian war in Virginia, where s man
sod bis wife, who had been spared In tbe
wholesale slaughter, found their opportu
nity to escape while tbe Indians were danc
ing for jiy over the acquisition of a white
man' host that tad drifted ashore. These
captives got into a canoe, and soon after
ward surprised their friends in tbe settle
men's, who hid believed them to he dead.
Very like this was the escape of Anthoay
Bracket and his wife in Maine. Tbey
were left to follow on after their captors,
who were eager to reach plundenng
party in time to share tn the spoiL Brack
et's wife toucd a broken bark canoe, which
she mended with a needle, and thread; the
whole family then put to sea in this r.ckety
craft, and at length reached Black Point,
where they got on board a ve?seL A little
lad of eleven years named Eimes, taken
in Philip's war, made bis way tbuty miles
or more to the settlements. Two sons of
the famous Hannah Bradley, previously
mentioned, effected an lneenious escape,
lying all the first day in a hollow log and
using their provisions to make fnend with
tne dogs that had tracked them. Tbey
journeyed in extreme peril and suffering
for nine davs. and one of them fell dowu
with exhaustion just as tbey were entering
a while settlcmeuL A young girl in
Massachusetts, after three weeks of cap
tivity, made a bndle of bark, and catch
ine a horse, rode all mgbt through tbe
woods to Conconl. Mrs. Dean, taken at
Oyster Hiver in 1694, was left, with her
dauehler, in charge of aa old Indian while
the rest finished tbeir work of destruction.
The old feilow asked bis prisoner what
would cure a pain in his bead. She recom
mended him to drink some rum taken from J
her house. This put him to sleep, and tbe
woman and child got away. Another
downcast captive, with the fitting name
of Toogood, while bis captor during an
attack on a settlement was disentangling a
piece of string with which to tie him.
jerked the Indian's gun from under bis
arm aud, leveling it at his bead, got salely
away.
"'tscaping captives endured txtreme
hardships. Une Bard, taken in Pehnsyl-
vania, lived nine days on a few buds and
four snakes. Airs. Inglis, captured in the
valley of Virginia, escaped in company
with a German woman from a place far
down the Ohio river. After narrowly
avoiding discovery and recapture, they
succeeded in ascending the south bank of
the Ohio for some hundreds of miles.
When within a few days' travel of settle
ments, tbey were so reduced by famine
that the German woman, enraged that she
had been persuaded to desert tbe Indian
flesh -pots, and crazed with banger, made
an unsuccessful attack on her companion
with cannibal intentions. 1 be most fa
mous of all tbe escapes of New Eaeland
captives was that of II innbh Duston, Mary
eff, and a boy, saniucl Leonardson.
1'hese three were carried off, with many
others, in 16a", in the attack on Haver-
bill, Sirs. Disums infant child having
been killed by the Indians. When the
captors had EeuurUed. the party to whom
the two women and the hoy were assigned
encamped on an island in tbe Mcrriintc
river. At midnight, tbe captives secured
hatchets and killed tea Indians two men,
two women, and six children one favorite
boy, whom they meant to spare, and one
badly wounded woman, escaping. After
tbey had left the camp, the fugitives
rememoercd that nobody in tbe settlements
would believe, without evidence, that tbey
had performed so redoubtable an action;
ihey therefore returned and scalped tbe
Indians, after which they scuttled all the
canoes on the lsUnd but one, and in this
escaped down the Jlerr.mac, ard finally
reached Uaverhill. This was such an ex
ploit as made the actors immediately fa
mous in that bloody time. Tbe Massa
chusetts General Coart gave Mrs. Duston
twent7-five pounds and granted half that
amount to each of her companions. 1 be
story of their daring deed was carried far
to the S)utbward, and Governor .Nicholson,
of Maryland, sect a valuable present to the
escaped prisoners."
The Rubber's Care.
Some of the quiet homes in and
around the village of North Tarry town,
in Westchester county, New York, have
been disturbed in tbe hut few months
by burglars, The property taken has
not been always of 'great value, bat the
losses nevertheless have been felt. The
villagers and the local police have made
efforts to find the criminals, but the
search has heretofore been fruitless. It
has especially puzzled the police to con
jecture how thi goods have been carried
off without attracting the attention of
the neighbors. Messrs. Thayer, Leg
gett, Ma-on, and others whosa homes
have been entered have been especially
active in seeking the thieyes. The in
formation that had been sought in vain,
however, by the constables ard deputy
sber Si, was obtained on Monday, Aug.
20th, in an unexpected and roniantie
manner by two citizens of North Tarry
town. Mr. Van Tassel and a friend
were strolling through the S&cha woods
in the afternoon when their attention
was attracted by the mysterious move
ments of a stranger at a little distance.
They could scarcely determine whether
he was developing a recently-discovered
gold mine, searching for a mineral
spring, sinking a well, or digging a last
resting-place for himself.
Ibeir thoughts were rudely disturb
ed, however, by the mysterious being in
whose movements tbey were taking so
keen an intereV. The stranger, hap
pening to see the two men. resented the
intrusion, and seizing a rule which lay
oonvemeutly near, suggested the advis
ability of being lalt to the solitude he
so much desired. Mr. Van Ta-sel and
his friend not being at that time in an
argumentive mood, agreed to the propo
sition of the genial stranger. They
strolled in another direction until they
secured the aid of some of their towns
men, and then the party returned to the
neighborhood where the digging
warrior had been seen. The
man had disappeared, but the inquisi
tive villagers proceeded to examine the
ground iu the vicinity, and they were
soon rewarded by the discovery of a
piece of iiatural scenery hitherto un
known to the oldest inhabitant. This
was a cave which had bee a concealed by
boards covered with earth so as not to
be noticed from the path. The boards
were taken off and the acquisitive dispo
sition of the Btranger became manifest.
He bad secured boots and shoes, cloth
ing, and provisions enough for miny
people's needs. Tae property whish
the straDger had taken such pains to
acquire and preserve was taken by the
villagers to the office of Justice Ken
dall, the local magistrate, where they
are awaiting identification by their
owners, who will probably receive them
unless the man with the rifle should pat
in further chums for their possession.
GUnpm of Alaska.
Three sunny and beautiful days were
spent sailing through the enchanted islands,
with steep mountain sides and bold rocks
reflected to clear waters, cascades dashing
down between tbe pine trees, and lofty
snow peaks taking on the delicate glow
and flush of the late sunset light. The
midnight skies had been dyed with the
flames of the aurora, and the early sunrise
was a dream of faint and misty coloring
just before we rounded the point of a
green island one morning and saw tbe
town and totem poles of Fort Wrangell
before us. .next to h.odiak and SilKa,
Wrange'l is one of the oldest settlej.ents
in Alaska, and for eighty years has been a
great trading post along tbe coast. Tbe
liudson Bay Company and the Kussian
Government had forts and stations here,
and for a few years after the purchase of
Ala'Uta a garrison of United States troops
was maintained at Fort WrangelL As
different counsels prevailed at head
quarters, the troops were withdrawn and
then returned, and after a small fortune
bad been expended in this abandonment
and restoration cf the military, the soldiers
took a final leave twelve years ago, and
the block house, stockade, and tbe log
quarters were given ever to picturesque
ness and decay.
As a point of departure for the Gasiar
mines on the Stickeen river, Wrangell has
maintained its importance even after tbe
lthdrawal of troops, and the miners and
prospectors of tbe gold region make it a
oase of supplies in all seasons, and a place
for social hibernation when the snow and
ice drive them down from their mountain
retreats. A few trading stores straggle
up the main street that runs parallel with
tbe beach. At one end Ibis thoroughfare
is guarded by the stockade and sally-port
of tbe old fort, while at tbe other U gradu
ally changes into a rambling Indian
village, set with totem poets and f nnged
along tbe water front with long cedar
canoes. I he Indian bouses front directly
on the beach, and behind them are tbe
grass-crown ruins of the old Kussian tort
and its outlying graveyard. The bouses
are low aud square, built of rough-hewn
cedar pleuks, with few attempts at paint
and outer decorations besides the tall
totems that guard the doorways of the
chiefs and the other great men. These
totems are the shrines and show places of
Wrangell, and tne ordinary tourist can
appreciate something of tbe great interest
that ethnologists have taken in them. A
pair of especially fine totems were taken
from here in 1S76 and sent to tbe Genten.
mal Exposition, and since then they have
occupied a place in the great ball of the
Smithsonian lnstiute.
The totems of Wrangell are ancient and
weather worn, spotted with moss and
lichens and bearing tufts of grsss and
waving bushes in the crevices, and the
heraldic carving and coloring is wonder
fully improved by this toning and soft
ening of the elements. The totems by tbe
doorways stand forty and sixty feet bigb;
carved from base to crown with huge,
grotesque faces of men and animals tbe
bear, tbe whale, the wolf, and the raven
standing as most prominent among the
heraldic beasts that represent tbe great
families of the TWiukels, Kicb one of
these faces has a significance equivalent to
the quarletings on 'he shield of a noble
family, and a man's ancestors and able-
ances are to be read on bis totem posts by
all who run. The carving and painting
of tbe symbolic beads is a work of savage
skill, and tbe cost of these poles is aston
ishing even in this day of extravagar.ee in
decorative art. The noble Tblinkct must
first fell his tall cedars and set tbe artist to
work, and then comes tbe grand cere
mony of erecting tbe pests before his
home. A feast is given of all tbe deli
cacies tbe Alaska market can afford, and
potlach or gifts of blankets and calico
are given away so generously that the
totem party often costs as high as $1,000
and $2,000. A man's rank and riches are
considered greater tbe more he gives away,
and as the blanket is tbe unit of value, his
wealth and standing increases according as
be tears and distributes blankets on the
occasion of his house-warming and pole-
raising parties. Totems are also erected
over tbe square-box houses in which they
deposit the ashes of then cremated dead,
and the town abounds in picturesque little
tombs niched in between tbe bouses of tbe
living. Surmounted by a fox or a whale
once painted in brilliant colors, but now
toned down by tbe mosses, the terns,
trailers, and rank vegetation that rapidly
creeps over and conceals everything in
this moist, temperate climate, the houses
of the dead are more picture1 que than
those of tbe living.
Fear of ike Dentist.
Ten thousand dentists, whose thriving
business attests badness of American
teeth, meet with amjsing adventures
when they encounter those who are suf
fering from what Burns calls the "grim,
mischief-making chiel" that makes "man
kind aft dance a reeL" A reporter
describes some of these expenenevs, as
they were described to him by several
dentists.
"We encounter more that is ridicu
lous in the extraction of teeth than in
any other branch of the profession, " said
dentist.
'Why. I have had great strong men
come into my office with the intention of
having a tooth extracted, and at the sight
of the instrument actually turn and run,
yes, run, as if the angel of death bad sud
denly appeared before them. a
On tbe other hand 1 have seen r rail-
looking little women come in, and without
a word or look that would indicate any
timidity, take a seat and undergo the oper
ation with scarcely a sign of fear.
"Men and women of large sta'ure as a
general rule, make more lusa than smaller
men and women, and women exhibit less
fear than men.
"Some very amusing incidents occur
during tbe practice of a dentist. For in
stance, not long since a prominent lawyer,
being greatly annoyed by an aching tooth,
decided to have it out; so, mustering up
courage, he went to a well-known dentist
and told him he reauired his services.
'The lawyer took the chair and the
dentist got everything in readiness, when
the lawyer spoke up and said, 'I am going
to faint.' and be did.
Nevertheless, tbe tooth was extracted.
and the loss of blood bringing him to
consciousness, the dentist asked him if it
was a commin thing for bun to faint, and
receiving an amrmative answer, saiu mat
tbe fact of his fainting had removed tbe
necessity of his administering gas.
ProftMor Treadwell, of Massachu
setts, found that a half-graw American
robin in confinement ate in one day
sixty eight worms, weighing together
once and a half as much aa the bird
himself, and another had previously
starved upon a daily allowance of eight
to ten worms,or about ii) per cenLof his
own weight.
Dot the mice from the shocks of
wheat standing in the fields by scattering
a few bread pills mixed with arsenic.
Thn nhinkMia mnt tint hava uwu to
'the field-however,
ro; Signals.
The principal fog signals used in this
country are the siren, the steam trum
pet, the steam whistle, the whistling
buoy, the bell boat, the bell buoy and
heavy bells ruug by clockwork. The
siren is sounded by driving steam
through a fl it, circular disc, containing
a number of slits, the disc being fixed
In the thro tof an immense trumpet. Be
hind this is a revolving plate, having in
it a similar cumber of openings. The
plate is revolved by steam 2400 times
eacb minnte. Whenever the slits in the
plate coincide with those in tbe diso i
jet of steam escapes through each open
ing, mnder great pressure, into the
trumpet. If there are ten openings
there wii be 21,000 screams each min
ute. Tb'jee combine! in the trumpet
give a s'ngle, strong shriek in deafen
ing volume, and of great range. The
sound c.n genrially be heard at a dis
tance of twenty miles, and can readily
be distinguished from all noises at sea.
The siren is the farthest reaching fog
signal yet produced, but lt is tbe most
expensive to build, the most difficult to
run, and the most costly to keep going.
One of the largest size sirens is connect
ed with the light house at Cape Henlo
pen, at the month of De'aware Bay, op
posite Cape May. where iu a fog it gives
a blast six seconils long after an interval
of 39 seconds'. These instruments have
done so well on our coasts that other
countries have procured numbers of
them. Great Britain has more than
twenty of them now in operation on her
shores.
The Daboll fog trumpet is made like
a mons'er clarionet, and is sounded by
air condmsed in a reservoir by machin
ery driven by a hot-air engine. The
largest trumpet is 17 feet long, with a
month 38 itches across and a throat 31
inches in diameter. Its reed of steel is
teu inches long, 2 wide, an inch thick
at its fixed end and half that at the
other. The Ericsson engine thit drives
it has a 32-inch cylinder, which, at
twenty pounds pressure, can give a five
second blast every minute. Thn Daboll
trumpet, is, however, going ont of favor
because of its liability to accident and
the difficulty of getting it repaired. The
nearest one to ns is in .Long Island
Sound at Execution Kocks Light Sta
tion . The rnoet frequently used for fog
signals of this general class is the loco
motive steam whistle, with a diameter
varying from 6 to 18 inches, operated
by an ordinary boiler, under a pressure
varying from 50 to 190 pounds. By in
tervals of blast and silence it can be dif
ferentiated from neighboring fog sig
nals, and these intervals automatically
produced by having an engine take
steam from the same boiler, and open
and close its valves at fixed times, when
the steam is sunt off or let on as desired.
These instruments do not easily get out
of order, and they are readily operated.
'1 he whistles are used on light ships as
well as light honses. There is a 12-inch
thistle on each of the litLt ships on
Five Fathom Bank, off the Capes of the
Delaware.
The power of these fog signals can be
expressed in proportion thus: Siren, 9;
whistle, 7; trumpet, 4; and as to cost of
running them they stanu as follows: si
ren, 9; whistle, 3; and trumpet, 1.
ihere are bo fog signals now on our
coasts operated bv steam or hot air.
The bell boat, which is at beet a
clumsy contrivance, liable t be upset
when most needed, cottly to build, hard
to handle and dil-nlt to keep in repair,
has been superceded by Brown's bell
buoy, which was invented by an officer
of the Light House Service. The bell
ia mounted ou tlis bottom section of an
iron buoy, which is decked over and
fitted with a frame work of 3-inch angle
iron, 9 feet high, to which a 3(J0 ponnd
bell is rigidly attached. A concentric
grooved iron plate is mado fast to the
frame under the bell and close to it, and
a cannon ball is allowed to roll on this
plate. As the buoy rolls on tbe sea the
ball rolls on the plate, striking ore side
of the bell at each roll. This signal is
always at work, and the heavier the sea
the louder the sound of the belL There
are 24 of these bells now in use in this
country, one of which is on Brown
Shoal, Delaware bay. They cost, with
their mooring, not far from $1,000
each.
The "whistling buoy" consists of an
iron pear shaped ball, say 22 feet in di
ameter, with a tube 20 inches across
and 40 feet long running through it
The water in the the tube acts as a pis
ton to draw in the air through a hole
covered with a retaining valve, and to
expel it through a ten-inch whistle,
a shrill moaning sound which can be
heard several miles. Its dimensions
have recently been reduced without de
creasing its power. As its action de
pends on rough water, it is only used
in open water. They now cost, with
their moorings, about $1,200 each.
There are 25 of them on onr coasts, 5 of
which are in our immediate waters.
The whistling buoy recently placed on
the outer Hatteras shoal, just off the
pitch of the cape, is of greatest use to
our coasters. The bell fog signal most
in use is the bell struck by machinery
moved by clock work. Ihere are about
123 of these bells. They weigh from
300 to 3,000 pounds each, though not
many weigh more than 1,000 pounds.
The tilth North.
It sounds strange to hear of a steam
boat on the Suith Saskatchewan river
iu Manitoba. Canada. The Saskatche-
wan with its north and south branehes,
rises in the Kotky mountains and runs
east into I.ake Winnipeg, its length
being nearly as great as that of tbt
Ohio. Its general course is through
a region further north than the latitude
of the lower end of Hudson's bay, and
as there are settlements on its banks,
and the country is described as fertile
and tillable, it would seem that the
northern limit of profitable farming
lias not yet been reached iu that vast
region once regarded as a bleak desola
tion, fit only for f ur-bearing animals.
Not very far north of the Saskatche
wan the Arctic sys.era of rivers has its
head-waters the Athabaska and Peace,
which unite, to form the Mackenzie,
the mighty stream which discharges its
waters into the Polar sea above- the
Arctic circle. Here is a vast region,
almost as large as the United States,
abounding in rivers aud lakes, some
of which are known to be navigable.
This region is being actively explored,
and permanent settlements follow fast
in the track of exploration. The lower
part of it will, in a few years, be pro
vided with railroads; British capital
and enterprise are at work in it to test
its capacities, and we may yet live to
see the foundations of an empire laid
in its unbroken solitudes.
Am HlMorle Sea Bmle.
An old man gives the following ac
count of the memorable fight between
the American brig Enterprise and the
English brig Boxer during the war of
1?12. All along the coast of New
England the people were scared about
the British vessels coming and landing
their men to burn the houses, and
some of 'em really took to the woods
and hid. There were two British ves
sels cruising off the coast, the Tenedos
and Boxer. Well do I remember see
ing their boats filled with men pulling
past Pemaquid Point, and some one, I
don't know who it was, tired three
guns at 'em. I was running about the
bill here playing. 1 heard tbe report
and saw the flash, and the smoke drift
ing away before the wind. The boats
fired canister into the bushes, and an
awful rattling it made. Many a time
have I heard old Sam Mclntyre swear.
when he was in liquor, that he tired
nineteen shots at the boats, although
some said he was so scared on hearing
tbe firing that he ran off and hid under
bridge. One Saturday afternoon.
just after I had driven the cows home,
saw the Boxer coming into John's
Bay and anchor just back o' the isl
and, between lt and Pemaquid Point,
and the folks were pretty well scared
about it, and some of 'em was nigh
going to the woods; but father, who
had seen the last of the Revolution and
was a Freewill Baptist besides, was not
a mite uneasy about the Britisher. On
Sunday morning she laid there to an
anchor, her black hull shining in the
sun. One of i.er boats, with an olhcer,
had pulled over to Mouhegau. Our
folks were so unsettled on account of
the vessel that none of 'em went to
meeting. It was nigh onto 1 o'clock.
and, boy like, I was mighty hungry
and thinking about my dinner, when
all of a sudden I saw they apwared to
be in a great hurry aboard the Boxer
getting her under weight, ard presently
she was standing out under all sail.
' 'Climb upon the smoke-house and
tell us what you see,' said my father.
Our house was built on rising ground,
and the smoke-house was about fifteen
feet high awl built of poles. From the
top of it 1 could see all around. Away
to the w'st'd I saw a vessel coining
down under all sail, with the Stars and
Stripes flying. I commenced to feel
retty safe then. It was not lou be
fore they neared each other, ami al
most at the same time a sheet of flame
and smoke bunt from their sides, aud
l could see the water torn up in spray
by the shot. The American vessel was
good deal the best sailer, and she
out-maneuvered the Boxer. The firing
was so rapid that they were soon hid in
smoke. Once in a while, through a
nit in the cloud, I could catch a
glimpse of their tattered sails and ri
ging. They drifted out toward Mou-
hegan, looking like a cloud of thick
vapor, from which burst incessant
sprouts of flame. I guess the folks all
forgot dinner and everything else when
the deep boom of the guns woke the
echoes among the rocks, and the win
dows rattled in their frames. Watch
ing the tight it seemed to be an age,
although it only lasted forty-five min
utes. I tell you, sir, I have never for
gotten the sight, though sixty years
have passed," and the old man's with
ered ctiet-k flushed and his eyes kindled
as he spoke.
'By and by the firing slackened, and
the smoke rolled away to leeward; one
of 'em had lost his mainmast head,
and sails of both hung in ribbons from
the yards. I almost strained my eyes
out o' my head to get a glimpse of the
colors, but they were too far off to
make them out. By seeing 'em drift
away to the e'st'd the folks thought
the Enterprise was beat. The sus
pense among us was awful, even the
women folks catching their breath with
a sob, and many prayed aloud. Pre
sently I saw them set their courses,
tack, and stand to the west'd; then we
knew the Britisher was whipped. I
tell you I was a tired boy when I came
down off that smoke-house, just as if
I had worked hard all day chopping
kindling-wood. 1 remember Henry
Tibbets and his brother David pulled
out in a dory from Christmas Cove to
see how the tight had gone, but they
could get no satisfaction iu answer to
their hail, it was said that when the
Boxer was boarded her decks were
slipjiery with blood, and lumbered up
with splinters, coils of rigging and bod
ies of the dying and dead, many of
whom had been tossed overboard, just
before her colors were hauled down to
conceal their looses.
"I heard that her boats crew watched
the fight from Monhegan, and when
her maintopmast was shot away one of
them exclaimed: 'There it goes! and
four of our best men with it.' Mind,
that's only what folks told around,
but what I saw I know, and I've tried
to tell you about the tight just as I saw
it"
A Lightning FlaitU.
The Russian papers report the de
structive action of a flash of lightning.
which struck the stable attached to
the cavalry officers' school at Krasnoje-
Selo, killing sixteen horses on the sjiot.
The electric fluid, on striking the cor
ner of the building, seems to have
traveled along the iron with which the
racks were covered, and set all the hay
on fire at once. The horses all feu to
the ground. Most of them rose again
quickly; but sixteen were found to be
dead, and two were quite deaf. In all
the horses that were killed the electric
fluid seems to have entered at the head
or the neck, passing down through the
fore feet. Tne killed horses were not
all together or in adjoiiJng stalls, but
were scattered up and dowu the stable,
justifying the presumption that tlieir
death was caused by their coming into
contact with the metallic covering of
the racks. The horses who survived
were most probably not in contact
with the metal at the momeut when it
was being traversed by the electric
fluid.
Iridescent Ulaee.
Many lovers of the beautiful are great
admirers of the colors like those of tbe
rainbow sometimes seen on glassware,
and wonder how they are produced.
Tbe story goes that the workmen ol a
Bohemian manufacturer wishing to
celebrate) his return home kindled some
Bengal lights in the annealing ovens.
What pieces ot glassware were mere pe-
came iridescent, xnis accineuuu uia
eovery was taken due advantage of
... ,in "1
when like enacts were ueiirea. w nue
the glass is hot, and before it is put in
the annealing furnace; a vapor is passed
over it. This vapor is the product of a
mixture of photo-chloride of tin. car
bonate of strontoan. Altor the anneal
ing process the colore can sometinu be
removed by vigorous ruooicg.
NEWS IN BUIEF.
Mr. Flood's San Frincisco 'house"
will cost, it is given out, nearly $.",
000.000. Bismarck has had his b3urd s'lavel
off, and again appears with sliavdn face
and heavy moustache male fu uili ir by
popular pictures of him.
Iowa, Republican, and Texas, De
mocratic, are both free of debt, and
the latter State has au "emb.irrasiu "
cash balance in its treasury.
The largest man in the British ser
vice Is Lieut. Southerlaad. of the Fif tv-
sixth Reginieut. lie is t) feet 4 inches
high and weighs about 304 poun Is.
In 1372 the British nation d d.-bt
stood at $,o,U00,0J0; in 1S3J at
$;j,54,OO0,lHM Tuepreseut C.uuijl
lor of the Exchequer favors a sj le.uj
for more rapid redemption.
The exports of pjtrjle j u for thj
twelve months which endei Ju:ie 3 th
last, amounted iu valua t t $11,911,07;),
against S-j1,U,7o; f.r tlid twdlva
uiouUis w.iio.i ealei Ju id 3)c!i, H-jJ.
Mous. Dieulafait has coaelulal
that the evaioratioa of sea water in tha
region of the Rhoue delta must average
at the lowest estimate about ouo
fourth of an inch a day throughout the
year.
Tea culture is carrie 1 j.i i i sswHrl
of the Southern States, an 1, acordiu
to a letter Irom that section, the uuui
ber of families that reg.il.irly uj tax
of domestic production is steadily in
creasing. The oldest printed b ilia 1 in t'u
English languiige was lately au'iuirei
for the British Museum. It is a con
temporary record of the b itt.e of Flol
den Field, printed by oae of tin earliest
tyP-tjrapliers.
In France the largest nmubjf of
marriages taiie place m thj s iinei
month, February; tiiesaiillest uuiu'j -r
in December. La-tt year ta.-r3 wjrj
34,107 iu Februajy a.tinst le-ts tii.ri
13,000 iu December.
A quartz bouldjr, weiIiiiij !
pounds, and worta ao it JJ), wa
recently -hydraulicie V o;ic of a b in
at Gibsouville, Nevalu It htl th
appearance of uavia bje.i irj.i.i 1 ia a
pot hole, beiirjsin m.Iuv tvaiiie L
Ia 1JX the year bjfore tin intro
duction of thd E izlisi ln!iir lit
three letters per hea 1 of Uii p j.mlati .i
was sent: iu it hil ris.'a t j 2).
and nowstaals ai 3J. la (i.-ramiy,
the number is l i; iu France, IV.
The waiters' fee uuisa.ue is report
ed to be particularly annoying t.iis sea
son at Saratoga, It is stated that the
head waiter at one of the leading Sara
toga hotels hou-jlit at ttie closj o last
season jXW worth of tioverniujnt
bonds.
It is mentioned as a rather ciiriou
fact that Dr. Frenoy, the lea tin.; phy
sician at Aix-les-Baius, where so iu my
people go to be cured of rheuiuatisai, u
a martyr to that ailment, thoa-rii hi is
very successful m curing others of tlm
complaint.
The annual report of tiia Boar 1 o;"
Trade of Cuicuiuau sUja-s tiitt t is t
tal product ot the in imifactiire of
that city, duriti' the last year, a u ju:il-
ed in value to lDl,V72,i ), a i eais
of $),0JJ,10) cj.uparel wita t:i; pn
duct of the preceding year.
Horn, the Germ.tnstatistician. s.ivs
that cigars are driving oiu the ol I
fashioued pip-js. During tin p is; year
there were consumed iu tho Geruim
customs union o'JVJ.HO.OJJ ci'irs'
weighing 37,0t tons. -O.Uy" 3o,i7.)
tous of smoking tobajco were use I.
There has been found aiuiui? a
Bedouin tribe east of the Jordon. nieces
of skin containing portions of Deutoro-
uomy and the commandments, inula
about ttoj years before Christ, aa 1 t!i
uruisn jiusttiiin is exiwctel tJ piy a
fabulous sum for it. There is little
doubt, among experts, as to its gen
uineness.
Boer drinking is done cenerousl
in this country, as completed st atistics
show. The total sales last vear amou nt-
ed to 17,0U0,00J b trrels, or about 1')
gallons per head of the population.
Alabama and North Carolina brew verv
little beer, and Arkansas. Florida.
Maine, Mississipi and Vermont brew
none at all.
larishas twenty-three municipal
libraries, some of which are located in
the communal schools. Iu round num
bers 128,000 books, of which 71,1 JO were
novels, were borrowed from these librar
ies during the three months ending
J une 30th. Less thau five in every ou
thousand books borrowed are in foreign
langu;iges.
- The Government printiu.j-o.Hje,
said to be the largest establishment of
its kind in the world, is valued at $ ,
000,0UO. The disbursements last year
(ending June 30th) were i2,t5o,loJ GS.
The daily pay of employes is $.VJ0J. lt
is estimated that from 1789 to 1881, the
total outlay for Government printiug
lias been in tne neighborhood ot" ilJJ,-
ouo.oov.
Chicago has 1JJ2 streets, 9s j fire
boxes, 8 post otlices, 00 public schools,
27 asylums, 13 hospitals, 11 public li
braries, 2-i cemeteries, an 1 about 0.)
saloons, according to a statistical para
graph afloat. She has but oue Mayor,
out by most accounts he is a Harrison
nearly all the people not included in the
last enumerated class.
Among the numerous tablets whi ch
now appear on houses iu different parts
of Paris, commemorating events of im
portance or characters Ulnstrioui in
uistory, Is oue which a few days a
was fixed ou a house m tiid Una ."jiu'-
dot, at No. 9, and waicli bjars tho in
scription: 'Here formerly stood thj
circular wall round Parts, erected iu
the reigu of Pnilip Augustus, about
12U0 A. D. Site of ttio Ports Saint
Jacques." Darwin tells us that the great pil
lars of Stoueheuge have for years been
undergoing the slow process of inter
ment by the accumulation of mould
around them, and that they are in dan
ger of being undermine ! as fehe result
of the labors of earth worms. The
doors aud walls of Roman villas iu
England have in the same way been
lowered by the withdrawing of the un
derlying soiL
The Mans family, descendants of
George Maris, who left England an 1
settled in Chester county iu IW3,
have had a bi-ceutennial celebration at
the "Home House," located upon a
part ot the tract originally purchase I
by him. Historical addresses ou the
subject of the Maris family were de
livered by George L. Maris, John M.
Broomall, Clarence F. Maris and Jared
Maris, and medals commemorative of
the occasion distributed.
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