"HtT'A .JL f " B. F. SOHWEIER, THE O0IHT1TUU01 THE UHOI-AIB THE E1T0E0EMEIT 0? THE LA8. Editor and Proprietor. VOL. XXXVII. MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 28. 1883. NO. 48. June, Jr., has hair like wheat Golden in its color. Only of the two the wheat la by far the duller. Eyes as brown as nuts that fall In the late October; Full of fun in jesting times Tender in the sober. ' Lip that sometimes make you fuel AH the time like tasting; So much sweetness seems a sin To be idly wasting. Hands such handy little hands. Dimpled deep and ruddy Junt the kind of hands, yen know For a lifetime study. ' When the cows come np the lane. When the sun is setting When the dew is falling soft. Grass and daisies wetting Jane, Jr., stands beside the bars. And I stand beside her. Feeling that I'd like to share All that may betide her. Share the bad and bitter things. Share the sweets and honey Share her ups and share her downs. Share the old man's money. Little lumps, fast in my throat, Please to skip and leave me Tell my love of all my lore That has long beset me. O ye gods! to lore's young dream What a brisk death-rattle i "Stop that spoonine, Nancy Jane, And hurry up the cattle t" Jane, Jr., to the milking speeds, A dutiful sixteen-year, While I seek some qu;et spot, Cussing Jane, the Senior. A EEAL HEBOIMK. Early in the morning of the 27th of May, 1S13, the garrison in charge of Fort George, on the Canada side of the mouth of the .Niagara, was alarm ed by the report that a lanre American force was approaching the place in boats witn me intention of attacking it. The troops of the garrison were com manded by General Vincent. The at tacking party of Americans was led by General Boyd and Colonel Miller. Scarcely had the latter commenced the landing, under the fire of British soldiers drawn up in line along the beach, than Vincent, foreseeing that the place would fall into the hands of the assailants, directed that the houses of the town should be set on fire, hop ing under cover of the conflagration and the consequent confusion of the distressed inhabitants, to make good Lis own retreat to the woods in the rear. For this unnecessary and barbarous order the memory of the British general is to this day held in detestation by the people of this place. The first notice the inhabitants (mostly women and children, the men being absent in the service of the government) had was the red Games bursting from the dwellings about them, and man of them without clothes, as they leaped from their beds, rushed from their burning houses to return afterwards to heaps of smouldering ruins. One of the doomed buildings, which stood apart from the rest of the build ings, was occupied by a family of the name of Leach. It consisted of Mrs. Leach (her husband being absent with the I'roviBcial troops), her daughter Margaret, aged 16, and some younger children. Besides these an old lady, a relation of the family, for many months unable to leave her bed, was in an upper room of the house. The first intimation this family had of what was going on about them was a heavy crash at the front door, which aroused them from sleep and springing from their beds they found a number of soldiers already in the house. They carried brands of fire, and hastily warn ing the occupants to leave the house, they broke up the furniture and piled it in the middle of the room, where it was soon in a blaze. Seeing this, Margaret, who was a beautiful and courageous girl, ran to the outer room, and returning with a oail of water dashed it upon the flames before any of the soldiers could inter fere to arrest her. At this moment another soldier entered the house with a burning brand.. But before his com rades could reach him, to rekindle the splinters from it, the brave glr 1 bad snatched it from his hand, and strik ing the soldier across the face n threw it into a puddle in front of the dAll this had been done before a word had been spoken by terrified Mrs. Leach. She now inquired the f, .... in British soldiers, who she supposed wen, among them as protectors, ana dui w houses over their heads. "It is the orders, madam," said one of the soldiers. "The ank are landing and will soon be in P030? - r, t wir ha continu- oi we piace. uU, T-i ,t d, turning to one of k 'n ther to' the last house and jet another brand. We must obey orders, boys, u the women don't . Um k . t . f . !ZXL h,ted with the burning torch. HI?fflto ed; but soon turned wito orsmoiaggo"--,.. M(i upon me exunguu the falling upon his , bands . and kne the Into a blaze, as ue r" - rZZiJn for amoke. rendermg it .uncoortable for the soldiers to remain, - . m tag that ail wouia booh th conflagration, withdrew to ; join other parties oi uitenuuun work of destruction. Manraret In the meantime rJi for I,who.hadhasel5 another pan oi " r: "nffa2ed finding the single soldierstdl W in kindlingibe n", dropper burden, and catching up an iron from J t fire-place, struck the man a blow it on the back oi rr"Jla face knocked him senseless with hi . upon the flame., fhed the from the fire &ne -d once contents of the pad npM it, and ore the flames were The, wn0 She now caiuww Tasiisting almost frantic with .wi JEL the her younger children io cot- house '? . . t" she shout- The fire is out, mot- t oar ed 'but come here, quica ' - help ai7- t.,h ,f,,rned to the room ana Mint uwvu sww r1f fl LUC found her daughter !n try. body of the soldier which was ing to drag towards the door open" into the cellar. , done. "My God I What have 0Uo, Margaret? HavepufaUed him? "I fear I have," rep" Q the girl, trembling excessively wi terrible excitement ftnj find quick, mother, if they return ana n- what we Uj all ! wuo U murder us and dffthr er dauhter, Zrhe drfrr their wnimand, still en coring to prevent the debarkment "f the Americans, rotating Pali ftl nrrtwottingthatitn KtY .7to? brands ,:m;": l.lpieu w tire it from ":'.uu "ui the brick Which was carried , foundation several feet above "Inside with nn i' k....- . thM n : some or ' Joucoldnt start the j . . , mvt uiauD iur trie door, which i having been broken from iU s luls ii i ii r T liar ?3 ?uo r51 "unung party, could not be fastened against them. . " "Uh UU BUOIlPr liajl tlm f.v.... ...... . . i enierea uie room where the two women were than th borin fft I, who had armed herself ii.u uie musKet nr tha a,.iHiar .i.A disabled, ran him through the bodv with the fixed bayonet. The man Uttertnir a rrw nf reu forward on the weapon and forced it from the courageous young lady. But as quick as thought aim anatiti it from under him, and springing to the entrance like a ticrresa nnnmi tn defend her young, she would have dealt a death blow upon the other had not her mother, reasured bv the fpr;. conduct of her daughter, armed herself wiui a neavy nre-sbovel and buried the corner of it in the soldier's forehead, causing him to fall outside the door. V ltl great presence of mind, the women first extinguished the brands the wounded man had dropped upon the floor, and then dragged the dying soldier into the room lest the sight of him might attract his passing com rades: Ofow, mother," said Margaret, "let us go to the cellar with these fellows too, before another set of them arrive. for they seem to be determined that our house at least shall not escape. If these Yankees were only in the town all would be welL' And dragging the two soldiers, still bleeding profusely, across the floor, they also were forced to the cellar. This done, they set to work cleanng up the blood stains before others should make their appearance. But while the brave women were engaged in this they were alarmed by sounds upon the cellar stairs. Steps were beard cautiously ascending. The truth at once flashed upon them. The first soldier, whom Margaret had floor ed with the fire iron, had been only stunned, but revived by the cool air of the cellar he was now returning to the upper room to revenge himself upon them for the rough handling they had given him. In another instant ne wouia nave been upon them. But now the brave girl who seemed equal to any emergency sprang to the door, and grasping the bow of the latch and throwing all her strength upon it held it with such firm ness that the fellow could make no im pression against her. "Let me help you, Margaret." said her mother, running up to her assist ance. Xo! nol" exelaimed the urave hearted maiden. "I'm sure I can hold it, mother. But do you run to Aunt Lvdia's room ana see u uie i uiu - . .1 ) AdVA are in town i m smo mcy nm us. And twould be so nice to mate these house burning rascals prisoners." Mrs. Leach ran as directed to the upper room occupied by the sick lady, from the window of which she could overlook the town. To her great joy she saw the red -coats retreating in con fusion In the direction of the woods while the Americans were in pursuit. The latter, however, soon gave up the chase, and attempted to save some of the burning buildings, and assisted the citizens in saving some of their goods. "XhanK uoui- iu ti ,tv onrtiest eleculation. a she still tugged at the cellar door, while the prisoner" was alternately beggmg to be released and cursing in impotent rage at his heroic young captor- "Vow, mother." cned the girl, "nm to the street and bring some of those brave Americans here. Ran I I can keep this ieuow saie m j . fw minutes Mrs. Leach return ed, accompanied by two young men n of whom was an ofllcer. lne e.,-0. hrieflv related to them, wdtha prisonefor there were two cellar (the mau ' TJrffi srsa. through- jU O " :th tho InrWI. out the who e rr t rdover the cellar door. feU tort fhe arms of ber mother, and it rJSdtn faction of the terri- bleC1 theTosT -singular, and romactic con- at uw?.m, ivenu. m - ta fact Z young American officer struck Ui6jouus nd extra- that the youns tl,lltT M(i extra- the remarKKUK 0' young lady. ordinary intrepidity "t her his wire, anu tone residing almost m they are at u go singu- sight of the Place ZVrLdpnts UrlyXw to narrate to the UtUe one evM?tbtoryof the capture of aoouv ujvu - r Fort Georgn. Boefclnc Bronofco- w-.i. hbeenlaWand written about . ho huttnenau 0 f.rTte'bWbronoho told. rr. nlant which grows wua on tne Laramie plains. and blossoms at any ,..d all times ui K--iidoac4- the year. The man wn0 Dramas has our sympatj and the pic panoramas n - kBBW aU Ana ni iiitw ' "cnod beaiuiy ui"-"" !.tf-2 S-eignt-second round tnro"8" " nothy. lie neeu. also has ou. -,-r community ior aympatbyof th en"Tc rf a that matter, notoni jrooa su'K -, though li was licky animal as v""" . stone fence, aa mineature mamtainsnisseatw earthquaao - help tnma-Itlooto-V.2Jtt is mistake, ing that it Ur that the uninitiated however, to suppttto u.an can ride tM mattex how nret time he . It can " BJSed Ukilick teeth, in only be acquire. tune. A Death Feast at Ses, It haDDened . pSj waw wujwj awwvsw in Farther India, and the date or the narrative coramenoes with September, 1857. The BeDOTs had rifea in arniji. and were bidding open defiance to the power of the English armies. The na tive Englishmen who had gone to India in the delusion of anddenlv becominir independently rich were hewn to the Kronna by the relentless swords and battle axe of the natives. Wives and babies were tied to the stake and made to undergo the most sickening tortures. The exterminatiou continued until hardly an Englishman was left in the country, A few took refuge in the jangles, where the wild beasts o! the forests were less to be feared than the inhuman cruelty of the natives. With this state of aflUirs in one of her re cently obtains 1 dominions, England began preparations for war. Besides the regularly enlisted army there were thousands who volunteered to go, and among them some of the best blood in England. Whenever it was practicable the officers would take their families, and when the fleet was ready to sail it seemed as if all England was going to empty her population into India. The one whom this story mostly con cerns was Sir Elward Courtney, a rela tive of the illustrious General Henry Baveloek. the great English commander. Sir Edward was young, then in his 24th year, but a brave and pauant man, anu afterward a noble oflioer, full of judg ment and courage. After a tempestuous voyage, during which many died, a landing was made on the southern coast of India, and the next day the forces ot the English were drawn up on the shore, and the mareh fur the interior commenced. The route led through rugged mountain uteeps and low marshy valleys, and on every side the journey was beset with attacks from the enemy couotaled in ambush. Alter wandering over hills uutd provisions were nearly exhausted a council of war was held. Sir E iward Courtney wai present, and advited that the army be broken up in divisions and sub-divisions, aud a raid made on evary town in the country. He himself would lead one or the com panies. The plans were adopted, and the army st panted in divisions. Sir E Jward rode in command of 2,000, and led an attack on Calcutta. Eirly in the day he was earned monally wounded from the bat tle held. A heavy tnisaltf had struct him unconscious to the ground. He was taken to a camp near Calcutta, and afterward removed to one ol tne stupe. where he breathed his last just twenty- four hours alter he had received his wound. . It was his dying wish that his body should be taken lo England for burial. Uia relatives and t.ionds lived there, aud he had promised his motier, one of the royal ladies of the court, that he would return to Indiana eitner ueua or alive. It was hard to comply with the request. The enemy had put forward a stubborn and bold front, all of the men were needed in the engagements. It was, however, agreed that a small craft should be fitted np toe wry the remains to England, It was to be manned by fix teen men, and I was as signed to the preparation and care of the b-jdy daring the voyage. 1 wo days later everything was ready to sail. The remains were eatery pacaea in gin ana spices, and enough pro vt ions were ou board to last during uie trip, proviuea we did not lose our course or become disabled at xe jl. We set sail one bright, sunny morning, witn uspiain xteuamg in coinmanJ. I shall always remember that man for the heruio nerve he displayed in an instance which oc curred about two months alter we bad left port Te Southern ocean seemea to smne froui it bine oorl depuid, ana every body agreed that the voyage had been be. ran under favorable circumstances: and notwithstanding the sad mission of onr sea-journey, the b st of spirits pre vailed. AU was weu enongn until me night we reached the Cape of Good Hope. Tne clouds were charged with thunder and lightning. The wind roared in our masts. Nothing ooulJ be done. It was a fearful night, aud no one on board even hoped to see the liirht of another sun. Alter the storm had cleared away we drifted, God knows hither, without rudder to guide or sails to propel. Three of our meu had been swept overboard ana swauowea up bv the sea. We were alone on the ocean, helpless, and with but a U nited supplv of provisions. Uur oraii anitea westward and to the north. Our only hope was to hail some passing steamer, and thus be saved from the fate of star vation and a watery grave. The most thrilling part of my narra tive is yet to come. ve naa prouauiy been at sea a month. Ho sign of land and no godsend in the way of steamer flecked the horizon, xne provisions grew so in tier day by day. Finally nothing was left but a lew crusts of bread, 1 had a private iuna oi eaiuies, which I had packed securely in my chest, andol wnicn uie sailors anew nothing. Starvation anocaeu at our doors. Two days we united, witn nothing to satisfy the temme nnnger of our stomachs. Matters reached a desperate turd. Something must be done or we would all perish with hun ger. The captain and I tried to pnt on a bold front. We encouraged the men to resist tne gnawing in their stomachs . little while longer and looked forward to a brighter day. It was a sad sight to see those men perched upon the eleva nous on the boat gazing in vain over briny deep, in search of something which mient Ulna inem uie long uuuou for relief. One day we noticed that the men said nothing. We knew they were almost cinched to death with hanger, and wondered why they had ceased to complain. That night the mystery was explained. A few hours after I had re tired I was arroased by a vigorous knocking at my door, and upon awaken insr inquired the cause of the unusual noise. - We want the keys to the chest in which Courtney's body is preserved," was the response. I arose from my bonk and hurriedly dressed and came out to ask what it all meant. "It means." said one of the men. that we are dying with hunger, and have decided to eat the remains of the dead passenger." I remonstrated, and called the captain. He threatened his mem with punishment, and drew a long sabre to defend the keys to the chest where Courtney a lemsuia were Incised, with his lite. But it was of no use. The men were determined, and I was Lreed to deliver over the keys. . The captain and! stood by and saw the horrible feast of the seamen. First they drew me gin wnicn ooverea tne body. This was strained and pnt away in jars, to be used with the victual of human flesh. The body was ivided between them. The captain and I were each proffered an arm. The poor crea tures devoured tne meal voraciously. When the flesh had been gnawed from the bones they were placed in the chert. t be buried after we had reached our destination., if such a hope could be entertained. Two days elapsed and starvation again visited onr little ship. The flesh ot the dead Courtney had been consumed, and not a fragment remained an evidence. I shndde ve 1 when 1 thought that the next step would be to draw lota to determine who should be slaugLtered to satisfy the common nun Rtr. The step, however, was never taken. After sailing, as we thought. almost an age, we drifted in sight of an English trading veste'. We hailed ber, and two hours later we were all on board. We had drifted almost 2.000 miles from where the storm first came upon us. We arrived at our destina tion safe, and eaon man attended the solemn mass which was said over the bones of the call ant El ward Courtney, whose flesh had been devoured to natisiy the rapacity ot hunger, and had saved the lives of sixteen men. lro?Kt' fronts. "I suppose you are tolerably familiar with druggists and the drug trade?" said a reporter to a "traveling man whose opportunities for going behind the returns are unexoeUed. 'Well, rather," answered the drum mer. "1 hitter niyseil that 1 do know a thing or two about the buaines?. "I wish yon would give me on the square, yon know an idea of the profits ot a prescription druggist. "Well, its hard to hgare it out ex actly or even to average it. Ton see. the time consumed in mating up a pre- scriutijn, the cost o the drug, eta, vary greatly, and besides, druggists hav different ways of charging for them; but I'll give yon an aoiual occur rence and you may judge for yourself. I was selling some goods to a druggist. an old customer ot onr bouse, one day in a town not a thousand miles from this city, when a man came in for a preacnption which he had prev ously ordered- 'How mnch is it?' he asked. 'Sixty-five cents,' answered the drng- gut. 'lsu t that pretty stoep7 asked the. man. 'Oh, no: we ouldu'l afford to pat it up for a cent lees.' answered the druggist, with every appearance ol frankness. After I had fiuishei my business with the druggist, said 1, smiling, 'Say, Smit.l, just for fun, let's figure up what that C5 cent prescription cost you.' AU nght,' said he, smiling also. S 3 we figured it up carefully, in cluding ever possible item his time at the rate of $ a day, tne cost of the drugs, bottle, la'jel, cork, twine, wrap ping paper, etc. The calo.latioo was rather dilault at times, seeing that the labels cost but 23 cents per 1,000, the corks 24 cents per gross, etc.; but we stnek to it, and the most we oonld make that 65 cent presonption cost was 6 cents. It happened to be one vhich required no mixing and the component parti were cheap; bnt I guess it was a fair sample, sll the same. By the way, did you ever notice that a druggist sel dom charges 25, 50 or 75 cents for a presonption? He charges 20 or 30, 45 or 5, 70 or 80 oents. It looks as taough he was charging upon a fixed scale, in stead of guessing at It, with a liberal margin for proht, you see. It looks better, too, especially if the druggist stops and thinks a moment before an nouncing the pnee. Druggists siae up their customers and charge accordingly, with an i x;r d.uie or quarter uiided it tue customer is unlortuuaw enougn to be a trifle green." KuglUT s'eniale. Notice of the sudden and mysterious disapperance of females from their homes have been so frequent of late as to suggest an epidemic of flighty ten dencies. The disapearance of wives is not rare, but there is the almost invari able man in the case. So much cannot be said of the disappearance of young girls who apparently have not arrived at years of discretion. A flight of this kind lately set SL Louis society agog. A young woman rebe'led against piano practice and was missed from her ac customed place. After a long search this fugitive was discovered in an insti tution officiating as a laundress, clear starcherand troner. Very recently two cases of mysterious disappearance have been announced nearer home. In none of these cases has it been admitted that the fugitives had made a sign In dicative of a purpose to absent them selves from home and friends. But such departures from the even tenor of the ordinary female way cannot, we suspect, be utterly unaccountable to the persons with whom they live. Neither men nor women break off suddenly from their usual courses in life. To the close observer such escap- adfl are in some sort advertised before hand, and in the case of young women it is doubtful if a sudden departure cannot always be predicated of her acts lonz beforehand. The truth is that parents and guardians are in the habit of ignoring many indications of unrest exhibited by then children and wards, assigning them to eccentricity, when in fact they betaken a morbid condition. It is generally safer to fall hi with the temper of such persons, and if possible afford them frequent changes ot scene. But beyond all, employment is the best defence. A Japanese School Hoove. Beside the clear, crystal waters of a running strerm and surrounded with lillies, we noticed on our way up Tuji- Yama. the Japanese sand mountain, what we thought to be school house and our curiosity prompted us to ask ad mittance. There were some fifteen children in the room, which was fur nished with long, plain tables. There appeared to be no check upon thechil dren. who were moving about and con versing with each other. The master was teaching the smaller ones the char acters of the written language by writ ing them on the blackboard and requir ing them to repeat the sounds indicated by them. Some were engaged in writ ing upon their slates, others in arithme tical calculations and others in reading or committing to memory from text books. There seemed to be an entire freedom from restraint, and we were surprised at the happy and contented manner in which they pursued their studies. Bright and intelligent little fellows they looked, and from what we have seen of the youth of Japan we are convinced there la much to be expected from them. r The JoUy OU Sport. The jolly old sport sat in a broad backed arm-chair before a cheerful grate in his chop-bouse. On a table by his side was a pewter mug filled with beer and within easy reach. On the walls of the oosy room were pictures of de funct heroes of the prize ring, prints oi horses, bulldogs and English mail' coaching scenes. . The old man was in a communicative mood. "The fizhters that's goin' now. adays aint like tho fighters as I used to know when I wi a yonng feller, said he. "There's too niueh of a wntin' of challenges now, an' too much of a foolin' with soft gloves. Why don't they use the bare dukes as they used to do?" The solitary listener frankly admit ted that he could not answer the ques tion. ''Then I'll tell you,'- said the jolly old fellow, with an unctuous chuckle. "It's because they're atraid of their mngs. I was a telkiu' to old Bill Clark the other night, him as they calls Perfesstr, and a good 'an he is. 'There's a thou sand fighters in this country a calls themselves champions, Bdl,' says I; 'how many of em has got broken noses?' What do you think he said?" The listener "gave it up, so to speak. ''Well, bless me soul, he couldn't name more than H arthur Chambers, Mike Donovan, Bill Jordan, and two or three others. Th:re aint no broken noses among the champions because they aint fighters. Morrssey, Heenan, Bill Davis, Deaf Burke, Tom Sayers, Bob Brettie, Harry Broome, Tom Oil ver, in fact nearly all of the old-timers, had their noses broke beoos they fought. I tell you, some of the old 'una can dowu the yonng 'uns yet." "Tell me if you saw an old man de feat a young one?" said the listener. The o d sport drained his mug and it wai promptly tilled upon his ooaipau lou's order. A pleasant glow over spread the veteran's rugged features and he chuckled as he remarked; ''Perhaps yo think I can t. Some years ago, it don t matter how long, 1 was one of a gang that went down to Fort Hamilton to see old Turner and young Jack Gallagher filit. It was comiu' on Tuauksgivm' and the old man wanted to make a stake bad, so he agreed to fight one of the cleverest youug sparrers Hurry 11 ill hod then. Weil, tho hght came off la a queer place," aud here the old sport paused. "Where?" "In the celler of a h-jtel that John :ary owned, him as you hear called 'Bod.' He wasn't there though. The meu stripped to the buff, Bon Murray took au iuteieit in the olJ man beoiue he was old. Charley Johnson, Mike Kennedy, aud a lot ot Brooklyn chaps were there ou the other slue. But the fight. Tell me of the fight" iii a old man chuckled again, le wouldn't be half as auxshus to fiht as hear the sto y. The two meu bengal away at the atart. Gallagher lauded on the old 'un's kisser, got away' crossed him, ducked aud planted a red hot 'an ou the old feller s left lamp, then joue on the nose, and got fust blood. To make a long story short the young 'un niMle a ohoppin' block of the old fellow aud cut him op bad. Bat every time that 'time' was Called the oil 'uu kep up grinuin' through the blood as streamed down his mag. You'd a pitied the old man, bnt he wouldn't give in becoa he was a fightin' for his Ihanksgivin turkey, finally the old on. smashed Gallagher heavy on the ribs and made him grunt. Then he got there agin. Murray yells: ' '1 1 bet a hundred to ninety the old tuau wins yet. That give the old ft How heart and he slammed away. If Gallagher had allied he'd a won the battle, but the old buy's nerve licked the lad. He give np without havin' a scratch ou him. When the sponge went np the old man sayi, 1 guess 1 won that turkey. Did he get it? You bet he did," and the jolly old feliow chuckled. New York UajF. Sow. within tne list thirty or forty years, the beanty oi the shores of New lora bay has been utterly and hope lessly destroyed. Never grand or of a highly distinguished character, it yet had the charm of a pleasing variety of nature modified by human presence. It has become wholly artificial and mon otonous, and, moreover, thoroughly and basely yuigtr vulgar beyond the power of expression in language; be cause its very vulgarity is without any individual character, and is simply tame and commonplace. This change has been wrought by what is called the prospenty of New York prosperity meaning increase in wealth and size. Before this happened, the traveler who sailed up through the Sorrows saw on his rignt tne creen snores ot .Long Island almost in nature's beauty deco rate, with here and there a farm house or a villa; on his left the hills of SLaten Island, in like verdure, rose from a natural shore-line, broken only by the village of Castieton, with the buddings of the quarantine. On either side tne peaceful toje was relieved by the em- pbatio note ot the two lorta that guard ed the harbor: Before bun as ne ad vanced the bay stretched ont, opening like the mouth of a trumpet from the narrow straight through which he was parsing. Ai his eyes pierced the dis tance he saw the verdure of the shores ojtning down to the water's edge, except where it was broken by a house or a rare clump of houses here and there. Some halt a dosen tide-mill's brown with age, and two or three diligent, hard wording wind-mills, varied the scene with the most picturesque me chanical aKente of thrift. At the east stood Brooklyn on its heights, from which it had not yet de- aoeuded to spread itself over the sandy acres in all the ugliness of common place, beoiming thus in size the third city in the Union and remaining the least m importance, ine enect wnicn Brooklyn Heights then had upon the beauty of the bay of New York is, and must remain, altogether unknown to those who did not see them befote their hideous and deplorable transformation. That they should have been changed from what they were to what they are is a perpetual evidence to owning ages of the absolute control of Philistinism and Mammon-worship, to which all thing animate and inanimate in and about New York became then subjected. Some change was necessary for their regulation and orderly preservation, bat suoii a change ai they underwent would have shamed a community ol Yahoos. A Waatara Bomsaoa, An interesting and important will contest, involving the estate of W. C. Wilson, of Texas, deceased, valued at $100,000, has been decided, the - jury revoking the will, on the ground that the testator was not of sound and dis posing mind when the will was execu ted. Wilson left a young wife and one son in Missouri in 1343, and went to Texas. During the ensuing year he wrote a number of times to his wife. The letters, which were produced in Court, were full of affection, and all had something to say of his child. After October, 1843, the young wife heard no more of her husband for seve ral months, when one of the Texas party returned and reported Wilson and all the others killed by Mexicans. Snpposing herself a widow, Mrs. Wil son married again in l$4t, and soon after left for Kansas, where a few years later her second husband, Felix G. Braden, lost bis life in the border trou bles. The same year his wife married, Wilson arrived in San Jose, where he continued to live until his death in April of last year. He was successful here, and soon acquired a fortune. The first few years he was here he lived with a Mexican women, but in 1350 he concluded to marry again, the Missouri Legislature having passed an act di vorcing him from his wife. The Mexi can woman was given a sum of money to return to her parents, and she went, Wilson promising to follow ber. When she was out of the way -he married Susan E. Osborne. By this wife he had one son, George, who is now living. About three- years ago the woman deserted in 1S43 heard that her husband was living, aud soou after that John Harvey Wilson, the son be fore referred to, came out to visit his father. He was discreet aud did not make himself known as a son of W.'.C. llson to aay one except the old gen tleman. Wilson was getting ou in years, and soon after a complication of diseases set in, and some time before his deaih his last will was made. By it half of the estate was bequeathed to his wife and the remainder to his son George, except f20,0U, which was; bequeathed in trust for George's wife and his children. A few months later W. C. Wilson's widow died, leaving ber portion of the estate to George W uson. Harvey Wilson, who is a resident of Bolton, Kan., desired that the trust for the benefit of George Wilson's wife aLd children remain undisturbed. Lite "On the Road." Mr. Frobman of the Madison Square Dramatic Company says: During a special journey of several weeks I ex plored the whole 1 ellowstone county, from near its mouth to the Grand Canon and Geys frs. W hue making this long but romantic journey we had many curious experi ences. On one occasion our ponies stampeded during the night, leaving us in an embarrassing predicament. It took the guide just three days to bring them back to camp. Meanwhile we made the best of it, and my companion. the son of a Montreal editor, proposed taking a bath in the Yellowstone. The suggestion seemed a good one, and hastily disrobing, we plunged in. The river, which is deep, runs swiftly, but in this place there were hidden rocks, and my friend struck a sharp boulder. which for a time rendered him senseless. The first thing I saw when I arose on the boiling surface was his body float ing near me. Of course, it rested there but a moment, and it was with difficulty that 1 reached him as he was going down for the last time. Probably I should never have succeeded in getting him ashore at all if a large Newfoundland dog, which I bought of a Swe-le at Kisniark, had not come to the rescue. Never shall I forget the intelligent, anxious knk on the animal's face as he swam out and grasped me by the collar. After a long and painful struggle we managed to get the boy into shallow water, where he regained his senses Being on the wrong side of the stream and without clothing or fire, the situa tion seemed desperate. Again the saga city of the dog helped us out of a se rious dilemma. After a few attempts I succeeded in making him understand sufficiently to swim across the river and bring my coat, which contained cordials that I carried for emergencies. They restored circulation, and by tear ing the coat lining in strips I was able to bandage the poor fellow's head, which, happily, was not seriouslylbruis- ed, although the blood ran freely for a time. In the course or an hour he felt strong enough to return to the water. You may judge of the swutness ot the current when I tell you that in crossing and recrosaing we were carried down at least three miles, and but for the dog's assistance I doubt if we could have re turned that day. Night was upon us when, moie dead than alive, we reach ed the smouldering fires of our little amp. The next adventure was at tne Gey sers, and was no laughing affair, I can tell you. One of the half-breed packers got wet fhile hunting, and the labor of bringing in a large elk so fatigued him that he threw himself down on the hot earth near a geyser to warm him self. We paid little attention to where he lay, and as he seemed dozing I soon dropped off to sleep. Just before day bght we were awakened by ternnc yeuis and a stranee roaring noise, ana i thoueht the Indians were upon us. We found, however, that the hot spring had just taken to spouting afresh, and a stream of scalding water burst out ot the ground near where the hair-breed lay. lie leaped to nis ieet ana leu headlong into a seething pool very noar tie soring, fortunately, tne guide, who had his wits about him, pulled him out lust in time to save his life. As it was. the skin hung in white snreas from his legs, arms and face. One of his hands looked as if he were in the last stages of leprosy. The guide rolled him in some cotton flannel and bear's irrease. which gave great relief and un doubtedly prevented proiongeu agony. if not death. On this trip I met a portion of the Hatch party, and they with all others who know anything of that enchanting reeion. agree that it must be thickly settled in a few years, and before long our companies will be playing to the summer boarders who will swarm in to the National Park. The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him in employment and happiness whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs. Two Teas. It is well known that the green tea affect the nerves much more than the black tea, which is believed to arise from the different modes of preparation, For making green tea the leaves are put over the hre and partially dried directly after they are picked, but with black tea the leaves are put iuto a basket and then exposed to the influence of the atmosphere for twenty or thirty hours, during which time a slight fermentation takes place, and the color of the leaf changes from green to a brown or chocolate hue (this is easily seen by the infusion of the drier leaf of black and green tea; the leaf after infusion will show the different colors named); they are then put over the hre and finished. in this country about 24o.oou,uoo pounds are delivered yearly, of which about 40.000,000 are exported, but the proportions are about 207,000,000 of black and 7.0UO.000 of green. Oolong and Japan. While in America the black tea imported is about 5,2.jO,00O, the green tea (including Oolong and uncolored Japan tea, which possess nearly the same properties as green) amount to 58,0U0,0u0. Would not this excess ive use of green account for the opinion of the American doctors as to the effect of tea on the nervous system? 1 doubt very much if a pound ot black tea. boiled down in the same way as the young hyson mentioned, would poison either rabbits or cats With the same dose. There is no doubt the fermenta tion of the leaves of black tea produces the amount of the active principal "theine" that you find in green. Another thing, in preparing tea for the table, boiling water is put on the leaf and au infusion made which Is at once partaken of. But who ever would think of boiling tea to drink? By so doing you extract from the stalk and woody hbre of the leaf an aend de coction that ne one would find pleasure in taking, and from which the woody part would be most likely extracted the poisonous qualities mentioned. In tea drinking European counties, as Ger many, liussia, occ., scarcely any green is used, and doubtless the great increase m the consumption in this country arises from the almost universal use of black tea. green being only used in mixing with it to impart a flavor, and while of late years tue consumption of black tea has largely increased, that of green has remained stationary, which clearly shows the taste in this country is entirely different from that of America. May we long continue in this country to enjoy "the cup which cheers but nut inebriates." A New Core for Toothache. Mr. William Keating, who resides in New York, went out Sunday night to enjoy a solitary ramble in Chatham street. Just at the time that the hands of the clock eu the City Hall tower marked the hour of 10:30 Mr. Keating was passing by Pearl street, with his head carried high in the air aud his eyes fixed u(on a single little star that was trying to make itself visible, when bump! something had struck Mr. Keat ing in the most vulnerable spot in his body his stomach. For a moment Mr. K eat ins imagined that a house had iidde nly collapsed and had fallen upon him, when bump, bump went that something in rapid succession, and then Mr. Keating became aware of the fact that a man had gotten his he-ul down like a goat in front of him, and was exercising all his muscular power In endeavoring to poke his head through Mr. Keating a body. Mr. Keating objected, and tried both by force and persuasion to make the man desist, but the more .Mr. Keating objected the more the man bumped and continued bumping until Oillcer Ithodes, of the 4th precinct, came up and plavfully ipped the bumping tnau upon the shoulders with a club. Then the man, with Lis lowered head, turned his attention to the latest arrival and before the officer fully comprehened the awful reality of what bad happened, he bad received several hard bumps m what was also his most vulnerable spot. Officer K nodes is not a man to be bump ed with impunity, and he had soon made it inconvenient for the man to bump any more. The man, who gave his name as James Hays, of No. 152 Leonard street, was minus two teeth, lost in the bumping exercise, when he appeared before Justice White in the lombs yesterday, lie informed his Honor that he had been afflicted with a most excruciating toothache, and that the onlv way he could stop it was by bumping his he I against some soft substance, and, not being able to reach Mr, Keating s be had done tne best he could. Justice White fined Mr. Hays $10, and Mr Hays wept. He was not able to pay it. The Florida Everglades, When the general government sought to remove the Indians to their reserva tions, many different tribes fled into the everglades, and it is estimated that 00 or tiOO are now living there. Only 60 appear on the rolls of the census, be cause no census officer has been able to penetrate the wilderness. The bO In dians who appear upon the census rolls are those who come out to trade; but it is known that the large majority are averse to trading or mingling with the whites. Indian hunters come out witn bear, deer and panther skins, showing that the everglades must contain good huntine grounds. A number or ne groes, say thirty or forty, are known to be held by the inaians. iney speax the Indian tongue, wear the dress of Indian women, and are made to do women's work. These negroes are evi dently the progeny of runaway slaves. who escaped before or aunng tne civil war, and are still in slavery. Only one missionary ever attempted to carry the news of Lincoln's proclamation into the everglades. He left the borders of the Indian counter with greit speed. A few months ago Chief Tiger Tad be came displeased with one of his colored servants, and brought him into Fort Myers to offer him for sale. When in formed that the negroes were ail free, he ejaculated, "White man's nigger mebbe free, but Indian's nigger, no. Whereupon Tiger Tad grasped the dar key by the nap of the neck, pusnca him into the canoe ana paddled nacK to the everglades. The seminoles are quite jealous of any interference with their domain and will not serve guides through their country. So strictly is this rule maintained inai an Indian boy who has been raised by a New Oneans gentleman, under an agreement with the Indians that he may stay six montns ot eacn year wnu him and six months with his people, could not be prevailed upon under any con-sidaration to guide white men Into the country. Australia Gentlraea. Australian gentlemen are manly, cord.'al fellows; more pronounced and less reserved than are our people at home says a English gentleman. The tone is a trifle more brusque, but it has the genuine ring in it. I think, perhaps, that they have even more prejudices than we have I do not mean personal prejudices and they are certainly freer spoken in the enunciation of them. They are wholly without one attribute that is a discredit to so many English men the affectation of being idlers because of an absence of necessity for being workers. "Have you a leisure class?" ased an Englishman of an American. "What is that, anyhow?" interrogated the citizen of the Union. "A class who can afford to have no vocation," exclaimed the Briton. "Why, certainly," responded the American with alacrity, "we call them tramps." It is much the same in Australia. The only people who let themselves afford to have no specitic object in life are the "sundowners," as they are colonially called; the loafers who saunter from station to station in the interior, secure of a nightly ration and a bunk. Bar the "sundowner," every Australian man has his vocation, and would feel shame, of himself to ape a sorry pride of not being industri ous in it. lie works like a man and ha plays like a man sometimes like a boy. lie is more speculative than is the busi ness man, who is his home correlative; aud he, therefore, may experience greater vicissitudes of the fortune. But he has an elasticity and a versatility that are more American than English, and so copious are the opportunities ef Australia that if fortune trowns to-day she may smile to-morrow from ear to ear. In all Australian life there re mains still a large out-of-door element comprising occasional hard exercise, the recoil trom which lias a tendency to make men burly, if not portly. Theirs is a rudder, sturdier manhood than is ours, even in the towns. In culture, in refinement, in manner, the Australian women are the superior for the most part of the Australian meu; but I think this is so in all communities of which the civilization has not attained to an exceptional degree of finished organization. Watshe. We set down the American trade. though a creation of the last thirty years, as three times the English in amount. The English trade, it de clares, has now no preventions to oc cupying the home market. It is the colonies to which English manufac turers look, and whereas once they ex ported not five per cent, of their wares, the proportion is novv fifty per cent. Cheapness has gained the day. The Swiss and the American can beat the Englishman in price, and do. They turn out as good a watch as most peo ple oare for at a cost which puts Eng lish competition now here. 1 he Ameri can le-unt the secret of organization and tne use of machinery, which the English cannot or will not learn. Here things goon much as they did 100 years ago, save that tne movements of a great part of the cheaper tiiglish watches are simply imported Irom abroad. A dozen trades contribute to the making of a single watch, carried on under dinerent roois by separate firms, often at a large distance from each other. In America they have been combined, and to this combination with the added advantage of machinery and the mathematically accurate pro duction of precisely similar parts of innumerable watches, is due the sur prising fact that a single American hrm now turns out annually as many watches as all the llulisu makers together ;JiJO,UUO. The Swiss are said to mak'the enormous number of 3,500, 000. France produces over half a million ninety per cent, of them from Besancon. So that, if we leave Eng land behind, we are very far indeed from driving Switzerland and France out of the world's markets. The Swiss are said to make now a million watches more annually than they did five years ago. rue i reucu business nas grown tenfold within thirty years, liut the English are not itllef and on the whole, not despondent. Ihey are beginning to use machinery, and otherwise modernizing the habits of the trade. And they still pride themselves on being able to produce, if not the cheapest or the most showy, the best and most durable, timekeepers in the world. The best English watches are still sought for even Americans are known to prefer them. Itylng in Ton Stinutoa. Emma Belle Oertel, one of the most beautiful aad accomplished women in St. Louis, whose father, a prominent and wealthy citizen, and a very large contractor, banished her from his home six years ago, came to a tragic end recently at the hands of a man named Dunn, with whom she was living. In a quarrel at the breakfaat table one morning Dunn threw a coffee cup at her, striking her on the nose and in flicting what looked like a small out, He then went to bed and the woman started out to the Four Courts to get a warrant. While the clerk was mak ing out the document she besought him to make haste, stating that though tne wonud on her nose was bleeding but slightly outwardly it had beeu bleeding inwardly since it was caused. Becoming weak the unfortunate woman fell to toe ground, and was Kently conveyed to the open air by the clerk, who had a vehicle summoned in hicn to have her conveyed to the City Dispensary. When she reached there it was found that she was dead, internal hemorrage trooi the brain be ing the cause ot her tbath. Donn, when arrested on a warrant for assault, acknowledged his act and gloried in it, but when be was informed that tue woman was dead he tried to take it all back. Only ten minates elapsed from the tuna tue woman wat struck till she didd. Homo. Sooet Home. Doctor Schlieman being asked in Paris where he considered his home to be said: "I was born in Germany, am a naturalized American since 1300, and own property in Indianapolis, Ind. It has been fourteen years since I was last in the United States. My wife is a Greek lady, and we now consider that our home is in Athens, where I have built a house, aud where I have resided when not in the 1 road. 1 still retain my nationality as an American citizen, and intend to continue to do so, but 1 do not contemplate an early return to my adopted country."
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