. 'it t . -. mill nMlfll ft Ifllf Mill ';;i i'i' m m ".:T:i I: Si ' .:;; .l.'.u! it? B. F. SOHWEIER, THE 00I8TITDTI0I THE TTH0I AID THE UTOSOEKIIT Of THE L1W8. Editor and Proprietor. VOL. XXXVIII. MIFFLINTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 9, 1SS4. NO. 2. ,;IVE ME THE BABT. ,;.vr ai- tl b.iliy to hold, my dear- Lvid aJ I'Utf. and to love and kiss, i h h- will eome to me, never a fear I'.lme to the uest of a breast like this, ! ,-inu wr h.m as his face with cheer. ,;ive me the haby to ho!d, my dear I ,,.,t '.ii;v vieM him to tny caress. .-IWDer." you say ? What ! a "bother" t.) me? Tit-l "I' "'V s-ml with such happiness ' love of a bal'.v that laughs to be ' ...ltd awav where my heart can hear ! O .re me :h baby to hold, my dear ! a i ' l "t hi" hands are soiled, you say, " 'nd wonia diy m.v au'1 clu,on my Lair- " V wh it would pVasure me more I pray. Thin the touch and the tug of the wee hands there? llje wee bands there and the warm face here li ve me the baby to hold, my dear! ,:.ve in 'he baby ! (O, won't you see ? ni-whcre, out where the green of the lawn utuniii'S to fray, and the map.e tree V we. pirp its leaves of gold upon . mound, with a dead rose near) (,i- e me the baby to hold, my dear I 11V TO K ltKKABTU OF AN AXE. i quarter of a tuile lack from the river on the street that led down to Martin's iw ulill on t,ie Anthony Fal's. stood the little white cottage that Jsck Donnelly had bought for his bride. It was not all paid for yet, but the mortgage had been growing smaller each year, for three years, and a couple of seasons more would see the entire amount alul tlien Alice would be iherroud owner of what she and Jack thought was the prettiest place in Minneapolis. Almost any one who might have happened to catch a glimpse from the cro street of the tidy little kitchen where A!ke was busy one May evening at sunset, would have been inclined to agree with the verdict. The floor was bare, but it was so po:!fssly clean that no one would have dared to suggest the idea that it looked hare. The stove was not very large, but it se:ned to try to give out the Lea: of a furnace, and the red glow that came from its open door was like the headlight of a locomotive. Every thing in the rooni was plain and there did not stem to be anything there that was not absolutely necessary. The luxuries could wait till the mortgage was paid off. But what there was had lees scribbled till it shone, and the tea keti'.e was puffing out steam like nu.L It v.as fairly wonderful how that little kettle puffed and sang, and how that little kettle puffed and sang and how the lid danced lightly up and dl'WD. Eul the brightest tnliesi object in the room w as Alice, with her brown hair tied securely back with a blue ribbon .Jack liked blue so very mucin and her Hut eus watching each particular thirijun tl.e ?tove all the tinip, and yet li.k:;;g every moment at the table to see if anything was missing that Jack would want, and into the other room, to soe if bal y was all right and out of iiiis..-hief and at the clock to see that the minutes were not going too fast, she liitted round the room like a bird. Everything was dune just right, and theiv k said it quarter past 6. Jack wou'.d be in a minute or two, so supper wa- set back w here it would keep hot. It wouldn't be long; Jack never loi tered on his way home. There was too much happiness waiting for him. Xo :"ii-iig at the corner for a glass of x-'uiething hot and strong. B it the little clock kept ticking just ss though Jack was there. And the ticking grew louder and louder, and nwre and mure disagreeable, as it re morselessly checked off minute after ihitute of the time that Jack was overdue. Tm minute., twenty, thirty, and thtaLximis liule housewife sighed, as she wor.dered what could be keeping Jack, it ttiS nonsense to suppo- that he was mat. She would not think of it for a moment. The idea that Jack her J.ick the bravest, strongest, cool est ioer on the river, had been hurt, m laughable. And she laughed. But n did not sound like the ripples of uerrimentthat J:ck loved so well, and it stored very suddenly, fading away from a face that looked very sober when it was g.jne. Then baby began to cry, and there was no -use worrying then, because Jack wuuM le Lome before baby was quie'td. And she began singing to the 'ittle one. But there were one or two talse notes in the song, and baby evi dently Lad an ear for music, for he re fused to be quieted. Then, just as two big tears were coming in her bine eyes, the frout gate openej, and Jack's step was heard. In a rn.jiueut more he was in the room, hearty and big as ever, but very wet and pale. "There: there! Alice, darling, kiss ain, but don't put your arms nie.for I've had a duckiu.' "by, darling, 'taint nothln.' Yer "ewu't be frightened-now. Ilaint )er found out by this time that a log ger is halde to get wet? There, there, r. Bon't ye cry so. Thank God, I "n't hurt." The great brawny fellow, wet as he a-5! took the fair irirl in his arni nA m stroking her hair and kissing it. . ,u' Vm happy," said Alice WUghlng and Crvinff at flnra ami Z lnu little squeezes arid taps BJL,,"S frt,m his arms to the closet sitdrviS,a?'3 asaiu' getting eould. aS 413 sLe "ow, Jack, don't si it till say a word about 11 You've had e- Said ;., . , J Ul ouVi, "e 111 A 1 .-11- ..i ..... i , , - " uiiuuuis later. what But a thauie it i ti.o ... sailed si.vi t , 1 " fchJi cook you another?" aEhed .s he ite Lot was slowly bringing him out of the chill of his icy bath. But when the supper was o ver, and baby was asleep, and Alice had filled up the pipe that she pretended to like the smoke of because Jack had smoked so long that he thought he couldn't sop, and when she saw that it was fairly lit and drawing all right, she nestled down close beside him and said: "Xow, Jack, tell about it." "AVell, Alice, dear, it was a mighty close fit I will tell you: There was a dozen of us sortin' logs up at the bot toms, for to feed the mills tomorrow, an' a good many logs had come down through the day, an' a kind of jam med up things so they was some dan ger o' the boom breakin' 'cause tne water is higher'n usual just now. Jim Brown an' me was together, an' I ste Jim looked sort o' serious, so I asked him 'bout it. He didn't say nothiu' fur a minute, but pretty soon he says, "Tom Gage'd oughter know, he says the boom is strong; but I' reckon if they is much ot a jam up above, it'll tear things when it does bust. An' judgin' by the looks of the river, I reckon they is a bad jam somewhere.' 'I looked up the nver, an' see't they was mighty few logs coniin' down, and I knowed they must be. Just then Bill Hovey come down an' says, "They is a jam up to "Wilson's Bend.' "'Twarn't only 2 o'clock, an' I knowed I was likely to get back at the usual time, so I didn't send ye no word, but Jim an' me an' half a dozen of the feHows jumied into a wagon an' drove up's fast as we could go. When we got there we see 'twere a bad jam, for another one further up the river had busted an' piled up the logs mighty thick. When one busts onto another iu that way, ye know, it makes it bad. Well, we worked nigh an hour trying to start her from the shore, but, it wasn't no use and finally Jim said: "Twon't do to let this go on. We've got to work in the middle. Who'll go with me?' and he started out for the jam in the middle of the river. ''Well, I see the boys all look at me. They knowed well enough that I was the best man to go I knowed it too, but I thought o' you an' I waited a minute. But the other fellers said they wouldn't, so I went. "Fore I got to where Jim was, I see that if we did start it from the middle, we'd likely have to come down on the logs to the boom, an' I know'd were a mighty risky job. But twas the only way to the niiils, an somebody had ter do it, so Jim an' I worked the best way we know'd for half an hour. At last we started it, an' I see there was just a chance o' getting to shore. Jim was just ahead of me, an' we was go in' as fast as we could, when the thing give way. an' we was sailin' down the river at about fifteen miles an hour. "We hadn't got a quarter of a mile afore the log I wa3 on turned, an' in steppin' round, one of the spikes on my boots snapped off, and I slipped in. I hung on to my pole, an' made a bridge 'tween the logs, an' I was just "climb in' up when another log struck the end of it an splintered it into bits. I fell back, and thought I was clean under, but the two logs just T'ami ed me by the neck. You may know how quick they come together by knowin' they didn't graje my shoulders as I fell, but they caught my neck afore my head got under water. But quick as 'twas, I had time. a3 I see 'em comin,' to hope you was prayin' for me. It didn't look like anything else could save me, for I knowed when the logs came together they'd crush my neck like au egg shell." "Oh, Jack!" poor Alice was white with horror, and trembling like a leaf. "Yes, dear." said Jack, drawirg her closer, "I thought of you, an' felt mighty sorry fur Tttle Jack. Fur' I knowed how you loved yer great rough ignorant " "HushI please don't! ' and Alice's hand was on his lips. "Well, well, I didn't have time to think of much, fur I felt the logs was chokin' me, an' yt I knowed some thing was keepin' 'em about four inch es apart What 'twas I didn't know till afterward. My arms was free un der, an' I tried to pull the logs apart, but, bless, ye they was a million-pound pressure, an' I might's well ha' tried to pull up a tree, an' I heard Jim call out, 'Help! help!' He migWt as well ha' hollered for the stars fur help as holler to the fellers on the shore, fur they couldn't get to us then, an' I knowed it But it gave me hope to hear his voice so near by. I was bothered, though, to know bow he came to be so near, fur just afore I slipped, I see there was a clem place nigh 30 feet between us. "The boys said, afterward, that he jumped a 15 foot gap.' I don't know but he did, but I never see no such thing done. Anyway, he was there, an' as soon as he landed he was workin' lit ma!. Ha Dried one log out and got it across the end o' the one l a been on, and then he pried open the two that held me and got between 'em. Alice, twas more'n enny tbree men on the river'd do, but he did it all alone. Jim an' me was friends 1 ro.brn nnw WB alwaVS Will be. "Well, as soon as be'd done this 'twere easy fur me to climb out, with a little help from him, an' I was all right again an' I'm blamed if I didnt have ter steady Jim fur two or three minntM Via W&SSO WCaK. " 'Twas easy enough after that, ter n, Bi,nr when we came w slackwater. above a dam. But afore t iff it t wkd to see what it was hat kept it just fur enough from the otls.'to save me. And, Alice, it wag an axe. Some feller had struck his axe into that log and left it there Likely the log turned over, and he had lost it Anyway, there it was right c'ose to where my neck was, and the edge was 'gin a knot that was hard enough to keep it from crushing right in." "Jack. I want that axe," said Alice, looking up suddenly, and smiling through her tears. "I knowed you would, darling, and I brought it home for you," and the big hgger went to the door, and brought in a rust-covered axe, which Alice took posseasion of. And to this day that rusty axe hangs on the wall, just over Al'ce's sewing machine. rarlla of Our Iiltia Stu. "1 would rather crosi the ojiiu twenty times at this season of ttie year than make one trip from the St Lawr ence nver to Chicago on the lakes," paid Captain Ira Brjwn, an old Lake Eric skipper, "The loss of life and pre per ty is proportionally very much greater than it is on the Atlantic Ooean, ' d yon may always expect to hear of disaster on the grtfct lakes following tl e reports of every severe storm. Lake skippers will take risks that will appal the bravest ocean sailor. They will start from port with vessels that are hurdiy seaworthy in the calmest w earn er, and most of them are afloat daring the nioet dangerous part of the year tbaa daring any other time. Tail is because the months of October and November are the most profi tab's to vessel-owners, cargoes then being plenty aod freight rates higher. "drain shipment are livelier as the season draw to a close, and every ves sel that will float can comniaa J a cargo, The sailing teasop 19 very short on the lakes, as it is late in the spring before the enibaro ij removed, and early iu the winter when it again closes naviga tion. The skipper's desire is to take advantage of every hoar of his time. f nl n jtwithjt&uding the fact that he is liable to be overtaken at any moment by fctorms ot great violence, he take no precantioa tiiat will sabj set him to the least delay ia port. "Tu:s reckless disregard for life and propeity enlisteJ no interfere uca oa the part, even of shippers, who are the parties most inteiestad, nntd a few years ago, when a movement was made 10 have inspectors appointed by the government to examine th ; vessels in the grain trade of the lake. Bit from all accounts there are still many worth less hoiks plying between Oswego and Chicago. "The dangers of lake navigation are so great that even the stiunchest ves sels are frequently unable to eicapa them. Storma sweep over the lakes w.thoat anv warni ig. The November storms ou Lake Erie are lrightful, and the sailors ucpend to a great ex'ent on iandautrka as goides in navigation. i'be blinding sleet that nearly aiways accompanies the storms obliterates thee marts sometim-s for days, au4, as tliesta room ia limited, vess ia caught in these storms are constant danger of coin? to pieces either on tLe rocky k he res or on some of the islands that stnl these inland seas. "Lake Ontario's shores are especially menanciug to lake craft during storms. bat. fortunately this lake is not liable to be swept by gales as some of the others in the chain. If a vsel heaves to in a storm it is almost certain to be drifted ashore; or if it runs down the lake toward the St. Lawrence River it is en dangered by the many islands that abound there. "Alanv skippers have wrecked their vessels in the risky effort to make Oswego harbor in a storm. The en trance to this harbor is very narrow, and the vessel that is steered for it and does not make it ia almost certain to go to piesea 011 the rojks naier Fort Ontario." Van'lerbiit'a I'lctaren, Vmtlun .ri -VtO crent lpinen iiromenad- ed the parlors of William II. Vauier- bilt's house, recently, ine weaimy railroad magnate had sent out 3,000 invitations to an art receptitn. Several nf tlii-iii svm addressed to nrominent business men, but the majority went to young artists, tiuueius auu tnuuis from out of town. Mr. Vanderbilt and Dr. Webb greet ed the guests in the large hallway, shook hands cordially with all whom ihey could conveniently reach, and told them to make themselves periecuy at nom They did s x. Young men in dress suits business suits, and threadbare Frince Alberts roamed all over the house. Ti,,.. t.w.t- iinun I lift hooks from the A. Ill J 1-. " " shelves of the elegant library, poked ... a 1 1 the blazing logs on lue nuauuna m lw ami wandered at will JlllOMj .V. , , , into the richly furnished bed-chambtrs. They handled rare ana costiy speci .r flima anil hric-a-brac with 11.1.11 ' " " " . reckless audacity, looked inquisitively over the pliotograpus anu isikiug i jius, and commented on the collection ot ttii wstlpd plats case. liftLUU 1 ' in - n - ' Mr Vanderbilt himself pointed out to ... . 1 , ... such 01 his visitors as ue wiew me gems of art in bis picture gallery, and f urnished all who desired with a print ed catalogue bound in old gold. i'i...nn viianwpvpil men under De tective Heidelberg saw all that was doing on. They recognizeu oue mu m .1... ,i n iimn rhev knew came witu- .,f .n invitation, and he was shovrii to the door. -ariy m me evening .. j: moa gn uttemtit to 10m tne com iiuiea uiw" " " 1 , . any. They were politely ushered out. 1-1 ,.i.ior v mpn in tne narxv losueu J.I1U CIUVIM . . - - 1 ntt.n-ul mm :u. other in the sua illlU Ciwni cious dining-room where Delmonico served up a collation, uue mere aa an abundance of champjigne for those who wished it, Mr. Vanderbult was careful to have a supply of lemonade for the temperance men. Thk irince of Wales plays the ban jo the Princess Louise the guitar, the rJ:nnA of Wales has accompamed NUs- son on the piano, wo iu ' " 1 ,1. ,.iam. the violin, and the Duch 11. y turn tlm &CtCA Of a lull ... . 1 Tl.. I. . .r Itlian. m score, wnue we '"""J musical genio. Nice laaiily to have yor neighbor 1 ..r .....tiamtianii vhr women U JZ A "I"'1 , i... " Raul m man rxuntintT at ures m. - 7 . f .Inn., tha IllMAt a ladf WUO pasaeu i""B uii..w. 1 OUII . dfc", I t "That woman," continued the first .i. IrAtuied ridiculously. Her sei , husband must bo a fool. "1 know he is," said the bystander. 'Do you know him ?" qjJj yea, I m the fool V ElaTBtrd iMkb. Ten dollars reward has been offered by the New York elevated railroads for the conviction of persons who cut the seats and straps In the cars. Placards to that effect have been posted in all the stations. Col. F. KIIain, the central mana ger of the elevated railroads, was indig nant when he referred to the outrages. He said that some malicious person had gouged knives into the car seats while sitting upon tbem, and that the straps ha 1 been cut nearly through, so that when weight was placed upon them they would part "Why, we found several big pieces cut out of the centre of the elegantly U nisi ied leather seats," said the keen- eyed and affable Colonel. "Then, when we put in the flat cocoa seats they would be cut crosswise in several di rections and down through the bottom. Now, I have had ihe cocoa cushion seats placed in the cars, and beneath the covers are several layers of leather and canvas and theu a steel plate against which the spring? press, which are somewhat proof against destruc tion." 'What kind of people do such d;is- tardly tricks, Colonel?" asked the re porter. " e have never detected auybody. But I cau't imagine that anb1y but the lowest ruffian would be guilty of such shameful conduct." "Is it mere 'cussedness,' dii vou think, that prompts such deeds?" ''Not altogether. The straps are cut. I believe, for the fun of seeing people fall when they grasp them. One even ing while I was on my way home from the office I saw a really amusng inci dent that made me laugh in spite of my indignation. A foppish young man was standing in a crowded car ogling a charming young lady who was seated just beneath him." Here the Colonel broke into a roar of laughter as he thought of the occur rence. "And," continued Col. Hain, "just as the train was rounding a curve, and as the young man had succeeded almost, as lie thought, in obtaing a 'bead' on the young lady, the car swerved, the strap, which had been cut, severved. and he was thrown plump into th e fair one's lap. Well, you should have seen that youug mau blush ana heard the passengers roar. And you should have heard that girl. She was dressed ele gantly and had the appearance of being a perfect lady, but from between her peachy, rosy lips there came such a string of maledictions as I had never heard. That's why the straps are cut, I think, my boy." "What other steps besides the offer of reward are you taking towards dis covering the ,ierpetrator3 of the out rages.'" ''All our employes have been instruc ted to watch closely,aud probably detec tives will be placed upon the cars. It is hard to catch any ef the miscreants. as they can cut the seats they sit upon with their band behind them, and the straps can be cut with a knife on the inside of the hand." "Do you imagine that discharged em ployes may have a hand in the work, out of revenge?" "No. The class of men we employ are above any such doings, and no man is ever discharged without justice being shown him, so that I hardly think there is any malice borne by any of our employees." An Ola Landmark Gnie. The oldest house in Windham county. Conn., a large wood colored edifice of the "lean-to" period, which greatly Antedated the Revolution, having been built in 1710, has been burned. It was a famous old iiin christened as the Brass Bull," and bore over the front door a miniature bull ot old fashioned hammered brass, which was also swallowed up in the flames. In the days of the then great New York, Hartford, and Boston turnpike it was a changing station for the stage horses, and when the stage route vanished at the approach of the railroads it feebly held its own as a summer resort it had little diamond window-panes, wide fireplaces, and outer doors cut in halves, after the original New England style, which suffered the lower part of the door to be used asa breast -work against the onslaught of Indians. From its situation, on the apex of Washington Heights, a charming bird s eye view in the different States of Massachusetts, ltliode island, and even across Con necticut to the blue line made on the southern horizon by Long Island, in New York State, was to be gained. The most famous of local traditions have sprung from this old house. It was cut up in ail sorts and numbers of old shaped rooms, and the fire on the kitchen hearth had burned for more than 100 years. In fact this was the source of the old building's ruin, for the continual beating of the stone work in the great chimney charred the oaken floor timber above, until finally the flames burst out and consumed the structure. For 152 years it was used of a hostelery, and it was the occasion of General Washington's sojourn at the "Brass Bull" that led its courtly pro prietor to dub .the hill whereon it stood V aslnngton Heights. "So you have been fighting aaiu on your way home from school?" "Y-yes, sir." "Didn't I tell you that this sort of business bad got to stop?" "Yes, pa, but " "No excuse sir! Yon probably pro voked the quarrel!" "Oh, nol nol He called me names!" "jSames? What of it? When a boy calls you names walk along about your business. Take off that coat I" "But he didn't call me names!" "Oli, he didn't, eh? Take off that vest." "When he called me names I never looked at him, but when he pitched into you, 1 1 had to tight" "What! Did he call me names?" "Lots of 'em, father! He said you lied to your constituents, and went back on tne caucus ana had 1" "William mif. nn vnnr i.wt a.wl unot and here's a nickel to buy peanntsl I don't want you to come up a slugger. and I wish you to stand well with your teacuer, nut it you can lick that boy who says I ever bolted a regular nomi nation or went back on my end of the ward, don't be afraid to sau ml" God bless all good women. To their soft hands and pitying hearts we must an come at msu Kurllean. Anything more cheerless and unlove ly than the lives of the Kunleans can scarcely be imagined. Living on what is not more than a succession of huge stepping stones from Kamschatka to Japan, they are exposed to the full fury and rigor of the winters of the far orth. 1 he liiti spring Is comparativey pleasaut. but with the summer comes on such fogs that an impenetrable wall seems to be raised between the islands and the rest of the world. The fogs clear off, theieisa brief glimpse of a low sun, and then a bleak winter comes down blackly again. Not a thing grows on the island but moss, the whole group being destitute of tree, or shrub, or blade of grass. For food the natives deind upon whatever they may catch in their nailing and hunting expeditions, with the rare addition of a little bear's meat whenever Bruin is adventurous enough to swim off from the mainland. Just as the islands are destitute ot foli age, so they are of animals, the only crea'.ure on tliem, besides the natives, being a breed of small swift foxes. The habits of Kurileans are in keeping with their surroundings. Hardy and adventurous, having no such word as home in tbeir meager lan guage and no appreciation of such an institution, they roam in their canoes from island to island, killing whatever breathes, putting up rude huts when they are forced into winter quarters, but generally despising anything like shelter, and living iu their boats. So little are they used to the art of con struction that, unlike their fellow-natives, they do not build skin canoes, but make up what are called baidara, a class of craft that Is as primitive as the rest of their habits. Wrecks are not infrequent, and the islanders wandering along Uie shore pick up whatever drift wood may be scattered about, the wo men being generally engaged in this harvest of flotsam and jetsum. The pieces are rudely tied together with thongs in - the shape of a long box and calked with moss. The roughness of the elements and the roughness of the work are not particularly conducive to seaworthiness, and they generally spring a heavy leak an hour after they are launched. To keep them afloat the Kunleans always put a load of moss and a couple of woineu on board, the moss being to stop whatever cracks may open, and the women being employed iu this work with a bunch of moss and a piece of stick, daubing any particularly obsti nate crevice wiUi a lump of seal-fat. Nomadic as .they are, the Kurileans have still same sort of capital, 'and make infrequent aud erratic visits to the vil lage of Shumshn, which, after all, is little more than a collection of huts, now rapidly . falling into decay and nearly desersted. At some unrecorded time or other a few zealous priests of the Greek Church, fired with proselyti zing zeal, made a visit to the islands and converted the quiet natives. They still occasionally kneel to the highly cclo-ed prints of the Holy Mother wA:h ado.n the walls of the Shumshu huts, but no similarly zealous mission ary has .ever returned to these inhospi table shores to keep the faith alive. But it is not alone by the priests that the Kurile islands have been deserted. Time was when they were visited by trading schooners and steamers, when the poor fur hunters cheaply bartered the sea otter pelts for guns, powder, lead and knives. All that has ceased; the otters have nearly disappeared, and all the islands do not contain twenty- five families ot hunters. Inter-marriage, a hard lot and the dangers of the chase have gradually brorg.it the num bers down to this handful. A disaster of a teirible nature, however, occurred four years ago, which more than deci mated the already sparse population. According- to the narrative of M. Malowanski. a great hunting expedition was to be made on the island of Shiosh Katan and the fourteen best hunters of the Kuriles were taken there by a tra ding steamer, with the promise to call for them m a month. hen at the expiration of that time the steamer returned her captain was unable to recognize the spot. The roadstead in which he hail anchored had disappeared and in its place was a level stretch of scoriae. A boat's crew was landed and the interior of the island was found as much altered as the configuration of the shore. The grouui, instead of showing the moss patches, was covered with ashes aud the sailors had to plow through a soft gray dust that was some times knee high. Bocks, great and small, lay all around and what had been an almost level reef now sloped up to a bare hill of fair proportions. Mounting this, the sailors found it to be a still rumbling volcano. No trace of the hunters could be seen, nor were they ever atterward heard of, and the conclusion was inevitable that a crater had suddenly opened in the island and that under its terrible shower of lava and pumise they ha been buried with out a chance of escape or the opporlu- nitv to leave a sura of their miserable fate. There they still lie and will re main until some far future archasologist shall disinter them as evidences of an Arctio Herculaneum. Farming Voder tha Se. The fact is not generally known that within three hours' ride of Boston a large and profitable business has ibeen carried on since 1848 along the seashore and is nothing more nor less than "fanning under the sea." Everywhere upon the coasts of Eastern New Eng land may be found 10 feet below the water-marks the lichen known as car- ageen the "Irish moss" of commerce. It may be torn from the sunken rocks anywhere and yet the little seaport of Scituate is almost the only place in the country where it is gathered and cured. This village is the great center of the moss business in the country, and the entire union draws its supplies from these beaches. Long rakes are used in tilling this marine farm and it does not take long to fill the many dories that await the lichen torn from its salty rockbed. The husbands and fathers gather the moss from the sea, and the wives and daughters prepare it for the market Soak it in water and it will melt away to a jelly. Boil in milk and delicious vwhitc .and creamy blanc mange is the result The annual pro duct is from 10.000 to 15,000 barrels, and it brings o0,000 into the town, which sum is shared by 150 families. Its consumption in the making of lager beer is very large, and the entire beer interest of the country draws its sup plies from Scituate beaches, as the im portation from Ireland has almost ceased. It is not generally known that the moss, as an article of diet, is called 'sea moss farine." "Kangaroo Law. The Kangaroo Court is an institution of the Southwest It exists in nearly every well regulated jad, and is net un freqnently organized outside of these institutions. When it once gets a vic tim in its clutches it is generally bar barous and always merciless. When ten or twenty desperadoes, cowlioys and bard men are cooped np in jad with nothing to do, they resort to the Kan -garoo Court for diversion. A meeting is held, at whiih the law is laid down and penalties prescribxl for its vio atiou. S me of the rnles and regulations prepared are sweeping and (ax-reaching enough for an entire Ter ritory. For every conceivable offense possible of cornmission withm tho walls of a prison there is a penalty, and never a very light one. Toe ntandarl ot morality is sometimes dislreingly high, and sometimes it is o'ubiaa 1 in deed. Not long ago a party of cowboys came to town for the purpose of having a little fan, and in the conrse of their rambles they eiuio across a fellow from Houston, a tough character, b it not at all familiar with the ways of the wild man of the plains. Ud drank and caroused with theai until late in the night, and finally, at the instigation of a lew of his companions, he threw a beer keg through a store front. The echo of the crushing glass hal hardly died out before he found himself a prisoner, with his arms pinione 1 behind him and an armed guard surrounding him. Qe was marched out of town for some miles to a desolate spot, where the en tire party camped untd daybreak. The light showed the prisoner tl at most of his friends of the previous night were with him still, but there were half a dozen other men, who appeared to be officers of some description whom he had not seen before, lie was duly ar raigned, not only lor tiie window break ing, but for a dizju other offenses, murder and arsou Leing among the number, and, notwithaca idiag 1m pro test of iunocenoe, the court proceeded to try him on each of tae indictments in their order. For the window breaking h wh sen tenced to twenty laho, lor arson to ten years' lmprisonmeut, for murder to be hanged by the neec until he was dead, for asaault with iuteut to kill to be imprisoned at hurd i.tior lor twenty years, fcr horst atealin; tJ be iiauged, for deserting the army to be shot, and so on. The procaexling were co iducted with the utmost solemnity, aud Listed all day, the prisoner's presiiaed inenda exerting themselves in his be-iulf, bat being unable to ui'jve tUe ojurt to mercy. The next morning the Kangaroo Judge announced the order of exer- cmes. As the prisoner an uncom monly guilty person, he said, he would have to even np his punishment in somo way. If he was haug.-tl or shot at once he would escape the jut penal ties for . his other criui. Imprison ment would not answer, as the length ot his sentence wouid give hiui a good opportunity to die of old age It was tho judgoieut of the court, therefore, that ne suould first be whip ped, then ducked iu tho river, then whipped again, then shot a', and crip plod, but not killed, and then hanged. This the court considered the most merciful sentence it could impose and at the same time do jubtice to outraged law. The man first remonstrated and then begged, but to 110 avail. He waa whipped and ducked, and whipped again, and was being pat in place for tha crippling aot, wh6n his persecutors got into a quarrel among themselves over the precedence in swingiug him. 'Hie court had been drinking freely during tha day, and a good many of the boys were quarrel some, la the course of the fight that ensued the prisoner managed o es cape. Mmle-lp Man. A reporter was engaged in conversa tion with the proprietor o' a Market street New York, corset factory a few days ago, when a dapper-looking and stylishly dressed young ruin, well known in society, entered, and, address ing the proprietor, wanted t j know if "those things he had ordered were ready. "You mean tho coret aud pads?". asked the proprietor. "Yes," timidly replied the dandy, looking suspiciously at the reporter. A clerk was called and took charge of the young man, who secure I the things and departed. "xes, that young man and many others of his class wear corsets and pads," said the proprietor, in answer to interrogatories. You must not think that artificial make-ups are confined alone to women," he said. 'Yon may not believe it, but I can name upward of a hundred society men in this city who wear corsets, and even a greater number than that who pad their legs. The latter custom has only been in vogue sinse the tight-fitting pantaloons came into style." "No. the custom is not original. It comes from abroad where r u dandias and court followhrs who are getting old make up to a greater extent than the mo3t slender and horn j'y b diet dancer in the country. After a man gets to be between forty and fi.ty ye ira of age his abdominal region ex,.a jI.s and he be comes corpulent. To avoid this he or ders an appliance, which, nUhough it differs somewhat from the female oorstt, is virtually a corset aud clinches the wearer's adipose tissuea up so as to make his form almost f s peiiet as an Apollo. Then by tho juJkio is use of a few pads aud somo paiat and powder, aided by false teeth and hair dye, the aged beau looks many years younger and frisks about a ball room with a step as light as a youlL of twenty. Army officers, as a general thing, are very proud of their shape, and it nature has been unkind to them tuey wear corsets and pad. There we a dozeu or more of Uncle Sam's bra&s-ruoanUd dandies who deal with me. "Actors, too, are good cuftomera. Of coarse, many of them only wear these appliances on the stage to u.irry out their idea of a character, but I coald name several who wear them both on and off the stage. There is one in par ticular, a member of an E-uteru com bination, who thinks he is just too sweet for anything. Lots of tho girl thiuk so. too. He travels principally on his shape, bat if the girls eoulJ but know how be is made up they would be astonished and disgusted. "Of oourse, there is a prejudice against men wearing coneta," contin ued the maker, "bat in some cases it is a edly one. Now, take it in the case of large heavy mea; then it is an absolute necessity. They become so fat that nuless they wear something to br ice tbeir bodies they would grow entirely out of proportion.' A corpulent gentleman who wantej t hare a brace made interrupted the con versation, and the reporter took his de parture, pondering over his discovery hat men wore corsets. Tha Braelna; Nonh-waat. Mr. Noyes gives the following par ticulars in relation to a trip to the Northwest: We have made the trip over the Northern raciQc railroad. from St Faul to Portland, and over its affiliated rail and steamboat routes in Oregon and Washington territory, and returned to this point without getting "snowed up" or meeting with any ol the delays, accidents, or discomforts that were predicted for us in undertak ing so late in the season to cross the mountains in this northern latitude over the heavy grades of the temporary zig zag tracks above the tunneling work. The return trip iu November has been even smoother than the pleas ant one out in October. The weather this side of the Cascade mountains has been perfect, the air clear and of a sparkling, charnpagny flavor. In the brief time since our passage westward a great deal of work has been done upon the road. There seemed to be no signs of that danger ous retrenchment in the expenditures for the improvement and completion of the road and for the safety of the passengers talked of in Wall street. Some 1,300 men were at work beyond the Mullan pass ballasting the only portion of the road that has not yet been packed. At Garrison, the junc tion of the Utah Northern railroad with the Northern Facitic, where, when we went out, there was only a shanty or two, and two railroad companies held their passenger statioas and ticket of fices in old railroad cars standing on switches, quite a little town had sprung up and a large force of men were working day and night in the construct ion of a spacious passenger station and freight depot. Tne ilullan Tunnel. 3,850 feet in length, at the main divide of the Uockies," had been completed, and we came through it November 4 (ours being the second train to make the passage), thus avoiding the tedious and somewhat hazardous, though grandly picturesque, zig-zag climb up the steep grade track (in some places 240 feet to the mile) to the top of the pass. This tunnel through the main divine of the Uocky mountains, oa the North ern Facitic road, is 5,547 feet above the sea a,o00 . feet lower than the highest elevation of the Union 1'aciuc railroad aud 1,200 feet below the high est elevation on the Central Facitfe. The tunnel is mainly tnrongh solid rock, but hi some places loose rock was encountered, requiring heavy timber casing. J. he work upon this tunnel, as elsewhere upon the road, has been done in the iucst substantial manner; aud with the exception of the short stretch of unballasted road beyond Mullau's pass, already referred to, and the temporary tracks over the pass at the unfinished Bozeman tunnel, there is nothing in traveling its 2,1X10 miles of rad to suggest to the passenger that he is going ver a new road. And the equipment of the road and the provi sion for the comfort ot passengers is not only surprisingly complete for a new road through a savage wilderness and over the great mountain ranges of the country, but in most respects it surpasses anything that the oldest and wealthiest lines can show. One can take passage at St. Faul in a Pullman sleeper having all the latest improve ments, get his meals (7o cents each) leisurely in a first-class dining-car, avoiding the usual scramble for a badly cooked "twenty minute dinner" at railroad eating-houses, greatly to the advantage of his digestion, and travel comfortably all the 2,200 milss to Fort land, Oregon, without changa of cars, or delay to re weigh or transfer baggage. iiut the character ot the construction aud equipment of this road is only one of the surprises of this amazing new northwest In fact, one has to recon struct all his pre-conceived notions of this region. If Proctor Knott were to come out here he would find that all the wild exaggeration of his burlesque upon the pretentions of the new north west is getting to be a sober fact oay the progressive boom has now got so far West of Duluth as to make that thrifty place figure on the map as an eastern city, so to speak. Here are St Paul and Minneapolis, with popula tions already of 80,000 or 90,000 each, and which probably in another decade will grow to be one city with a com bined population of half a million. Then going further west we strike the im mense current of emigration pouring into Dakota by every line of rail, and which has increased the population of that territory In twenty years from less than fifteen hundred to 325,000 in 1883. Fishing Itelow Zero. In Regard to Diet, There is one inherent weakness in the creed of vegetarians, and that is, that they cannot get on without animal food namely, milk and eggs. Of course the fact stares vegetarians in the face that Nature has provided food for all young mammals, and that is a very awkward and untoward fact. Yegitarians. how ever, iu the face of it, have thought it wish to include niuk as an article or vegetarian diet. But milk cannot be gotten without cows, and as the con sumption of milk may be expected to Increase, and is said as a matter of fact to increase, where little or no other animal foodt is aken the number of cows must be expected to increase uuder a vegetarian regime; but then there must be calves, aud these will grow up and become cows and bulls. and cover the whole surface of the globe in time if they are not killed; but one of the great argnments of vegeta rianism is the cruelty of killing animals. Nobody of course desires that any ani ruali hall be kUled but with the mini mum of cruelty, but it would seem that if the vegetariausyield on the subject bl milk, he must also yield on the subject of kiilmz animals, and if animals must be killed, it- is difficult to see why they should not be eaten, seeing that there is no douV I they make excellent food. Milk, therefore, seems to us to be the vegetarian's stumbling block, and until be throws milk overboard, vegetarian ism has little In it but a name. Smelt fishing is now at its best up on the coast of Maine, but the weather is about at its worst. At least in the es timation of the visiting sportsmen it is; but those native and to the manner born think it couldn't be better. They dou't seem to mind a little matter such as the m rcury registering 153 below, and to see their tents lifted from the ice by the wind and carried upward like a balloon is regarded by them as only an episode that adds zest and hu mor to their enjoyment A visitor says: When I left there it was so cold that the holes in the ice froze over nearly as fast as they were cut, even with fires in the tents, and to keep them open required a little more labor than even my enthusiasm in the sport could well overbalance. But there were scores of fishermen on the ice when I left, for the smelt seem to bite better the colder it is, and after December the lishing gets poorer, the fish moving gradually to other quar ters. "Smelt-fishing through the ice," con tinued, the speaker, '-does not differ much from the same mode of angling for pickeriel, but the element of uncer tainty is unknown in the former sport. You may fish all day sometimes for pickerel and then be obliged to buy enough to save yourself from going home 'skunked,' but when you cut your holes in the ice and put in your lines for smelt you are just as certain of being kept busy pulling out fisa as you are that you bait your hook. A smelt isn't as big a fish a-t a pickerel, but he's a game fighter, aud there is au excite ment about 'tending' the lines that pickerel fishing does not create. The people up iu Maine look upon smelt hshiiig as the sport ot the ear, and they come from miles auout the country to enjoy it Even tie Indians from the far-back country tramp into the coast during the season to exercise their skill in luring smelt The tackle for suielt tisuing ia very simple. The line is an ordinary stout linen cord, abjut four feet long aud the size an 1 shape of a three-cornered tile. This is called a tiie sinker. To a swivel in the other end of the sinker is tied a pink-colored snell, made of common fish-line, to which is attached a hook such as is used in lUti iug lor cat-fish. The snell is two feet long. Tne water acting on the trian gular sinker, hung on its swivels, keeps a conaiantly twirling about, and the bait, wiuca is an ugly-looking insect, called a clam worm, is always iu mo tion. Each lihermau will have out au average of tour lines, in as many dif ferent holes, if he seeks the enjoyment of the sport under the protection and shelter of a teat or 'house,' as the na tives call them. If he, like many of the local anglers, is braving the ele ments with tue sole intention of ex tracting profit from Uie catch, aud dances and trots about on the ice re gardless of extraneous aids to combat the wind and frost, he is likely to have ten or a dozen lines to care for, spread over a hundred feet around; and if the hsii are biuag gool he will have but little time to Hunt of the 'cold, as he will be kept busy hauling up his lines and keeping the holes open. It has only beer, within a few years that such a thing as smelt-fishing under shelter was known." Huiwjr'a First Love. Before leaving Cambridge, he had enriched his experience with some va cation adventures, including an en counter with a highwayman, a night m a lonely cottage where an attempt was made to murder him, and a heart affair with a pretty young gypsy, in whose camp he spent hve or six Says. uue morning she was unusually silent aud reserveiL I asked her, reproach fully, why she was so cold. "led me," the said abruptly, "tell me, truly, do you love me?" "1 do uideed." And so I thought. "Will you marry me, then?" "Many you?" I cried, airhasta Marry? alas! I would not deceive you mat is impossible." "I don t mean," cried she impetu ously, but not seeming hurt at my re fusal, "I don't mean as you mean marriage accordiug to your fashion; I never thought ot that; but marry me as we marry." "How is that?'' "You will break a piece of burnt earth with me 3 tile, for instance into two halves." "Well?" "In grandmother's presence. That will be marriage. It lasts only five years. "It is not long," she said plead ingly. "And if you want to leave me beiore, how could I stay you." t'oor dear child for chdd. after all. she was in years and in mind how charming she looked then! Alas! 1 went further for a wile and fared worse. Wlntar Flowers. By an introduction 01 hanging bas kets much more may be done in making a window attractive with llowers and green leaves than could before be done, as pots are not always convenient in the window sill. Kenilworth ivy, moneywort, spiderwort aud many of these well known plants 'are easily to be obtained, and seem to make them selves quite at home in these modern hanging arrangements. Besides this, brackets can be made fast to the win dow-frames, aud a few pots with dan gling vines be attached thereto. Some that we have seen very pretty were very simple floral ornaments. Even a turuip, carrot, beet, or any similar root is taken, turned bottom upward, hol lowed out so as to hold water, aud then suspended in tnis way. The leaves soon begin to push, and turning up ward, embrace and clothe the bare root with foliage. Others merely take a pine cone, and filling in a very little earth between the scales, sow grass or some other easily sprouting green thing. Again, some very pretty and unique window ornaments are made with the sweet potato, by putting into the mouth of a hyacinth glass and sus pending it m a warm room- This will sprout, and hanging down will make a graceful green spray. Sheep Dear more exposure than any other domestio animal, but even they winter poorly without a good shelter. Sheds aud yards should be put ia order that there may be no delays in gettmg tne flocks into winter quarters. Ewes should now be with young, excepting when late lambs are desired.Half a pint of corn por day will aid in keeping each ewe in a good condition. All weak sheep should bo placed by themselves and fat tened for market It does not pay to keep second-rate animals. 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