Iltlfet 4xw ' 4 . r- B. F. SCHWEIER, the ooisnrunov tee xnrroi aid the utosoemeht of the laws. Editor and Proprietor. VOL. XXXVIII. MIFFLINTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 13, 18S4. NO. 33. A DREAM. BY VF.LVIN O. WIJiSTOC. I lav up"ti the verdant Kraaa, Uatlinl iu the fuH inoon'a ilvr flow, I'.ut overbear deep clou. Is would pas 'lb.it shadowed luck its beam and rlow. O'i t uiast'riu;; force my beiiis thrillnd. While I with nature, trusting lay, I valdrd up to powers, that willed 1 realm unknown was borua away. H. ;h '"i;ht at firat I could not w, 1; .1 ,u unueear there liured ttwetit, g..me ctu'ice and rarest melody, lu t icouie seemed my soul to greet. l,: from my sight an unsaen hand IVire far away the mystic veil, 1 i,.uri.l inyselt' in some Strang.! laud L iikuown to song, untold by tale. Hre told they me, men ntv.-a- lied. Sur woman e'er was known to weep: ili re coul.l cot woe or grief abide, lime unknown death's eternal sleep. lv burning gaze away I turned, Aud thought, how else on It was earth, Vhere niru have wept and loved aud yearned Since Uud unasked, had given men birth. in I was myself once more, jlv form the sky, beneath, I foil lid, il:d seen in dream an unknown shore, lu dream, had stood on Holy ground. There was a tradition that his mother had Uf it a "yaller free mgirer." 11 children who lived in Jail Alley were seldom provided with fathers of any color. Pinky and Spot were comrades. They were always seen together, and shared alike the scraps thrown them tv the neighbors. Duriug the daytime thev roamed through the city, goin: where they pleased, and accountable to no man. When ithe days were warm and sunny they rejoiced iu the gladness of nature, and leaving behind them the hot bncks and dusty houses of the city the two vagabonds would wander off to the green, untenanted helds, and lie for hours under some leaf y shelter, blinking up in the sky, or sleeping the summer hours away. When-aroused by hunger they stole if they could, and if there was not liiuc to steal. Dinky would bee for food ; but this he hated to.do, and never nuiHirtuiied save where the houses were small and their inhabitants almost as ioor as himself. During the chill and cheerless days of winter which, thank Heaven, are but few and far between 1:1 Kichnioiid on the James Dinky and t;ut keit close together in their home ; for Jail Alley, that narrow and ill smelling beehive of human misfortune. was the only home the two friend: knew. Aunt sanv, wuo uveu in uie luniuie- down hovel at the corner, miht have beeu called their lutrouess, for it was beneath her broken and trembling shed that they were permuted to sleep in peace during the winter months. It was whispered in the alley that she knew what had become of Dinky's nio.her. when she had disappeared eve years U'fore ; aud, wonder of wonders, it was also said that Auut Sallv could tell, if she chose, the name of Dinky 's father, the was kind by fits and starts to her two proUges; sometimes giving Dinky a very ragged garment that she haa found while plying her trad. aud bouielimes beating the two friends cruelly with a short, thick chair-round which she kept convenient for the pur- ie. Mie was very old and very black. eae had but one tooth left, which pro jected and gave her an ugly nickname ami nig her associates. Sue was a rag picker, a fortune-teller, and a vender of ilruL's. 1 his last means of support was reserved for a night-business, and a very dark night-business it generally proved to le. Girls in shawls and veils stole guiltiiv down the dark and slippery alley, and knocked with trembling rin gers at Aunt Sally's worm-eaten and bastored door, "to have their fortunes told." When the old crone had been re warded, the fortune was carried oft in a tl.ick bottle. Aunt Sally was her own mistress. She hired herself from her master, and paid him fifty dollars a year tor the privilege of earning her living. One doming In late October a report was circulated around the alley that Dinky was ill, and that Aunt Sally Lad put him in her own bed and was nurs iug him. The "nursing" consisted of a go-! deal of shaking, many hard words, aud repeated doses of camomile tea and senna. Sot sat beside the bed, a living and muddy embodiment of faith ful distress. The sun was shining very invitingly outside, and Aunt Sally's chair-round was in frequent juxtaposi tion to Spot's back, withindoors ; but Spot nerer wavered in that allegiance which h t owed his sick friend, and sat like a sjntinel at his side. Frequently he wai -riven away from his post by 1 1 ie cl 1 ai r-round ; bu t lie al ways prom ptl y ciiue back, showing his white teeth in what he meant as a reassuring smile for Iitik "s encouragement. Before many days Dinity was able to 1 up and about, and tempted by a fire man "s parade, one morning, the two friends walked up the main street to see the play Jf the engines.. When the glittering display was over Dinky stood weak, but exultant, leaning on a fire plug. Sjiot spied two big dogs fighting over a tempting bone which lay unclaim ed letaeen them. The little fellow haa been shut up for a week, and was wild with curiosity, acquisitiveness, and the new-found sense of freedom. He started off to join the two contestants. Buiky saw something terrible come rumbling around the corner. It was a iarge black iron cage on wheels, drawn by firry black horses, in which number less dogs were howling, fighting, and larking. Two brawny negroes, can y ing nets on long poles, preceded the cart to gather up all peripatetic curs lacking medals and masters. With a "y of anguish Dinky darted away to claim and protect his only friend. But alas for poor Spot! before Dinky's tieuibli; g legs had accomplished half the distance the negroes had hurled their nets at the three unfortunates, and thrown them all together in the tart, which disappeared in a cloud of dust. l)esperate and weeping, Dinky made his way to Aunt Sally. "lht dog-ketchers dun took Spot Please, please. Aunt Sally, gie me de money ter git him out 1" "Git long, lazy-bones. I'm glad dat Pky dog is whar lie orter bin long ago." "Oh, Aunt Sally, I'll wuk 111 wuk ier you day en night 1 Gie me de money." ' Whar you tink I gwine ter git two dollars en a hafV Git loug." and the "id woman Lobbied kfter the ciiair round. Dinky fled to his own corner , of the shed. There was the place Spot 1 naa occupied so lately. Mere tney bad beeu hungry; here they had rejoiced over aouie windfall of fortune, in the shaiw of cheese nud and knuckle-boiu?; here Dinky had so often slept with Sjiot cui itxi iu nis arms; nere stpot's had been the only breast on which the little outcast a head had ever been Dillowed. W ith streaming eyes Dinky remembered each charm of his lost comnamon : how long and black the little terrier's hair was, and how warm a comforter during me long cum ntgnts : nis laituful eyes, uionu u a uenj, sometimes so mourn ful, aud olteu fairly suamiuz with d. light ; and that beautiful white spot on his nose ! Oh I Dinky felt that he could stand silence and inaction no longer. "I'll go to Horse Heaben 1" he cried aloud in his pain, aud started off as last as his poor little legs could carry U1IU. Horse Heaven, the place where all uupaid-for dogs caught by the dog catchers were put to death, lav a short distance east of Poor-House Ili'lL When Kinky left Jail Alley he had to pass 0,-01, wuere mere was a lively negro aui iiou going on. as he approached, i'uiKv couia near tue auctioneer's sten torian voice chanting the praises of the slaves of w hich he was disposing, and uie voices 01 uie traders in reply. Soon inuky saw the auctioneer exhibiting his merchandise, and the buyers ana traders examining their new-made property. .Near the auctioneer stood a tall, handsome man, who seemed to be taking no active part in the sale. brilliant thought struck Dinky. He hurried forward through the dusky crowd, and grasping the auctioneer by .-.! 1 :l tue uanu saiu, "Mars, mars, put me on de block nex ; please put me on de block, eu sell ier two dollars eu a haL" "Sell you. child I To whom do you oeiong r inquired uie auctioneer. "I belongs ter myself. 186 a free nigger. Sell me quick, mars, befo dey aius s-poi i" cried tne little yellow boy w nn swollen and flushed face. "Who is Spot?" "Spot's my dog, en de dog-ketchers took him. S.ll me quick, en gie me de money, and lemme go to Horse Heaben. I'm right smart, gentlemns," said Dinky, addressing the crowd. "I km dance, en sing, en crack bones, en play de Jew's-harp. See me cut de pigeon wing ;" and climbing up on the block. Dinky began, and tried to 'jump Juba" as ne sang : "De cotton Li a blowln De nigger is a hoeiu' De Lowlau groun. De yaller gal is waitiu', De tomtit ' matin', De sun 'a goin' down. "Molly Cottontail is aettin' Crackiu' uuta, en bettiu Nobody nigh. De flat boat 'a omin", Wid de rowers bummin' 'Heaben bimeby.' "De cotton done pick in", Niuser start deir kickin' On de kitchen fhxi. De riddle am acrapin', De crowd am gnpin At de oien doo. "Jump Juba, high en higher, De yaller gal 's a flyer, Morniu' comes pranciu', De sun 's lu de sky. Hear de horn fer de pickin, Nigger '11 git a lii kiu'. If daylight coti h him dancin lloot hog er die,' " IL Mr. Joseph Chace lived in Newtown, Rhode Island. A republican, a well to-do lawyer, a man of education and ideas, he had been traveling through the South. Actuated by curiosity, he had gone that morning to witness a negro slave market. Mr. Chace felt his heart swell with pity for the seven years' old child, who was sobbing and dancing, and offering his freedom in exchange for his little dog's life. The auctioneer had his business to attend to. He waved Dinky away, and soon the waif was pouring his woes into air. unace s friendly ear. Mr. Chace's only child, a roy or twelve, was a hopeless cripple. His fa ther had done everything in his power to relieve the suffering which he could not remove. While Dinky was relating his storv. his life in Jail Alley, his friendless and woe-begone condition. the thought of the pleasure which his son Arthur might hnd in uinuy sirucs Mr. Chace very agreeably, ana uie pm lanthroDist wished that he might edu cate the bov. and make him the Moses of his enslaved people. Here." said Mr. Chace, "here are five dollars. I will go with you to Horse Heaven." Dinky, isrorant of the forms of a io lite civilization, threw himself into the stranger's arms and embraced him rap turously. A convenient carnage was found,and . M at- 11 soon the street .axao ana uie weii- dressed Northern lawyer were seated side by side in pursuit of Spat. It was late in the afternoon when tney reacuea Horse Heaven. In the centre of Uie riug lay a heap of newly slaughtered victims. Several negroes were busy dispatching their prey, and their dying yelps smote the ear of the stranger. With a bound Dinky left the carriage, and not seeing his treasure among the living be;an to search lor mm among the dead. There he lay in the middle of the pile, dead, but not yet coia. Screaming with impotent rage, ana w ua with grief, Dinky hugged Spot to hi? heart. Then, as though ieuea vj un seen hands, Dinky dropped senseless at Mr. Chace's feet. . . What was Mr. Chace to do wan nis self-imposed protege f He could not leave him at the mercy of those dog killers, and would not take him back to Jail Alley. He dared not carry mm to the hotel, and place mm in nis ueu , 101 in 1847 that would have been a procla-m-itinn nf abolition sentiment, meriting the rough handling of a mob, perhaps. Mr. Chace held a long colloquy with the negro hackman. The resuic was that Dinky was lifted into the carnage and securely covered with a shawL Mr. Chace went to his hotel, paid Lis bill, and drove straight to the railroad sta tion. The Northern-bouna train starieu a few minutes after he entered the car. No one's attention was specially ui rected to the child, who lay swathed in the shawL When DinKy recovcieu consciousness he ate ravenously of the food which Mr. Chace had thoughtfully secured ; and then he sank into a heavy sleep which lasted many hours. When they had passed through Baltimore Mr. Chace breathed more freely. He had no desire to be arraigned for kidnapping. r Vhiioteinhia he stoDDed long enough to provide Dinky with clothes and more food. The cuild was siupiu miuiui. fatigue, and the unwonted excitement of travel. A few days arter nis arnvai in Xewtown, when lie was somewhat recovered from his illness. Dinky was presented to Arthur Chace, who had been pining to see the child his father had rescued from the wretchedness of Jail Alley. Mr. Chace's household consisted of niruseir, his motherless boy Arthur,and Miss Aurelia Chace. Miss Aurelia was aged sixty ; was high nosed, hizh-miud ea, bigoted, dogmatic, skinny, aud spectacled, Mr. Chace's sister aud housekeeper. To Arthur, Dinky at once became trie source of an eudle succession of aeiignts. &uch tales as Dinky told Ar thur about Jail Alley 1 How Arthur's eyes sparkled, aud how he loved his yel low sprite I Dinky stole everything he wanted, it is true, and had not the slightest regard tor uie iruin ; ne naa not the first idea of law or order. What a subject to be introduced into a prim, well-ordered X ankee family I One day the handsom est vase in the parlor was found smashed. ho did it t Dinky, of course. Why 10 gain possession of a large painted red rose, its central ornament. He Droke the eighth commandment when ever he saw anything that he thought Annur wouia iancy ; and he presented Lis stolen treasures with graceless inno cence of virtue and iguorance of vice. Dinky's most skillful depredations were committed upon the neighbors. Woe betide the housewife who left her jelly coonug in uie basement window, or put her custard out to freeze itself in the snow I The splnt of mischief was ram pant in Dinky, who was as slippery as an eel, as adroit as Cartouche, and as unrepentant as JUinty. To Mr. Chace, he was the incarnate representative of a national enigma ; to Arthur, a deep delight ; to Miss Aure lia, the object she had chosen to convert. To Mr. Chace, Dinky was affectionately respecuui ; to Annur, an adoring slave but to Miss Aurelia 's admonitions he turned a deaf ear and a smilinz fare- When Miss Aurelia began to read the Bible to him, and tneJ to teach him the difference between right and wrong, he was not very attentive ; but when Ar thur relieved his aunt of her pupil. Dinky became all alive with attention and regard. Every morning for two hours Arthur struggled with Dinky, teaching mm nis letters, reading to him and trying to interest him.- It was indeed some time before Dinky grew really interested in Arthur s read ing from the good book. One morning Arthur chanced to read that canticle of Solomon's which begins, "Black am I. though comely, ye daughters of Jerusa lem. ' hen Arthur had finished his reading Dinky gave a sigh of pleasure and rel.ef. "Mars Aity," he said, "l'se mighty glad you read me 'bout dat Bi ble nigger dat was king of de Jews. Aunt bally said dare was no place in de Bible fer niggers, an now l'se monstous glad to Lear you read out of de white loiks' Bible 'oout de nigger king.'-' Every day after that he listened at tentively ; and when, under Mr-Chace's direction, Arthur read those portions of the Testament most intelligible and interesting to children, Dinky was really impiessed, and, to quote Miss Aurelia, "showed a more moral disposi tion." Some time previous.Miss Aurelia had lost a ten-dollar gold piece. She bad taxed Dinky with the theft, and he had rolled his eyes up and sworn that he did not have the money. Miss Aurelia turned his pockets inside out, and found nothing. "You little wretch, you will never go to heaven," she said, as she banged the door behind her. "Mars Arty," said Dinky confiden tially, when he fouud himself alone with the lame boy, "is M.ss 'IJely gwine ter heaben r" les," replied Arthur, "or course she is." "Den I doesn't want ter go," replied Dinky firmly. "Oh, Dinky, dear I" said Arthur, patting Dinky's curly bead, which lay against the bed as be crouched beside it. "I hope that I am going to heaven, and there are many little children there." :What, nigger chillun?" inquired DmRv. "Ves, indeed," replied Arthur eager ly ; "all sorts of children." I specks de colored chiiiuns uev ter pick up trash en run roun waitin on de quality. I reckon I'll stay here wid Mars Joe. Does you speck Miss 'Rely gwine ter start soon ? Mars Arty," cou tinued Dinky reflectively, "Miss 'Rely all de time 'cusin me o' sumthln. Dis time 't is de money. Now I nebber stole dat money. I -was jes a-standin by de table, en de little yaller thing kept up sech a shinin' I jes put my fin ger on it, en all at onct de shiny piece pintedly riz up en stuck ter my Land." "Oh, Dinky I give aunt Aurena ner money, it is not right for you to keep it" "Mars Arty, I hopes I may nebber fall down ef I'so got Miss 'Rely's mo ney." and Dinky walked away from Arthur's pleading eyes and entreating hands. Months afterwards Mr. Chace heard accidentally that Dinky had given the money to Sady Small, the poor, half- tarved, wretched daughter ot adrunken cobbler. Mr. Chace also heard the rea son of Dinky's usual hatless and shoe less condition, and how the child was always ready to distribute his clothes among the poor children in the neigh borhood. Generous, warm-hearted, un disciplined Dinky, Dinky, who had never entirely recovered from the fever, which had left him with a hollow cough; Diuky, who told stones, and smiled sweetly as he gave his last slolen treas ure away ; Dinky, whose big black eyes got bigger and blacker as his little yel low face became thin and worn ; Dinky, who came home weekly almost naked through frost and snow, to which his feet were little accustomed, and refused to account for the lack of vesture : un quiet, restless Dinky ; Dinky, on whose little frame the .Northern winter was telling hardly; in a word, naughty Dinky, whom everybody loved. There was a large colored photograpn of Christ blessing little children which unz beside Arthur's bed. Dinky al ways arranged his little chair so that he misrht face the picture during his lessons and the Bible reading. "Mars Arty," he said one evening. when everything was quite still, aud only the flickering wood fire lent its light to the room, "dat's a monstous itif ul-lookink gentiemun up aar in aat picture frame. I likes him mightily, 'specially sence yon dun tole me he nebber slighted poo folks. I specks I knows what he's a-t'inkin ter hisself dis minute, while hu bans is a layin' on dat white boy's head." "What do you believe mm 10 do thinking of. Dinky?" "I specks he's a-t'inkin' of Jail Alley, en a-wishin' de little chiiiuns dere was es clean en white es dese in de picture frame." i Arthur smiled and signer Oue cold, bleak day in March Arthur bad beeu teeling very unwell, an to amuse him Dinky had been playing all sorts of tncks, aud turning somersaults on the wolfskin which lny beside the bed. All at once the child stopped,and put his hands to his lips, from which the red life blood was pouring. Arthur's cries summoned Miss Aure lia, and Dinky, at Arthur's earnest en treaty, was made comfortable on a sofa pushed close to the bed. When the haemorrhage was stopped, the physician administered an anaesthetic, and Dinky slept undisturbed for some hours. The household came in aud went out with cat-like tread, aud Arthur was almost afraid to breathe, fearing to disturb the iittle patient. Mr. Chace looked very saa and nervous. About sunset Dinky awoke, bright- eyea, nusnea, delirious; and the nervous fingers went restlessly picking about the bright squares of Miss Amelia's satin quilt. "Hey, Spot,ole dog ; Ley, Spot, come long, auui saiiy ain't dar no, no. I dars nt steal de pie. Mars Arty say dat's wrong. Heylo. Spot! de green trees ; oh I de nice ruuniu' water. Lady. gie a poo nigger a cent one cent, lady, ter buy a flower fer Mars Arty, lame -aiars Any, lady. Don't hit so hard. Aunt Sally. I wish I was dead. Ua- ha-ha, who put de skeercrow on de fence? Nice, nice gentiemun." The child babbled on, picking at the quilt, and gazing intently at the far corner of the room. ''Dinky's sorry. Miss 'Rely say ef 1 come home barefoot again she gwine ter lock me up. I couldn't keep ae money, saay's toot was all bloody in de snow. Mars Arty, Mars Arty I" "Dear, dear Dinky, I am here, and so is papa," cried Arthur, sobbing aud trying to catch Dinky's fluttering An gers. "Oh, gentiemun, nice gentiemun I" Dinky said, still gazing into the corner. and stretching out his hands. "Whar you come fom, wid Spot ? Thankee, mars, thankee. Siot, Spot, l'se glad. I'ae so glad. Miss 'Rely got heap ov goodies in de iantry. Xo, no. Miss 'Rely, I won't steal. I gwine ter ax 'er sumptin. Gie Spot a dollar fer Aunt Sally poor Auut Sally in Jail Alley she don't know you, gentiemun but Mars Arty say you is so pitiful you lub her all de same. What Mars Arty say ? 4 When your fader aud your mudder forsake you de Lord will pick you up.' Dinky got no mud der, gentiemun. Is you my fader f 1 ou isnt de Lord come a-standin by a yaller chile like dis ? Who is -vou ? I ain't stole nuthin' ter dav. I ain't stole nuthin sence Nobody ebber told Dinky befo. Marster, I'm sorry." and Dinky's eyes looked pleadingly at his invisible friend. Miss Aurelia had taken off her spectacles, and was cryiug softly, ashamed and contrite. The little negro boy was teaching the bigot that there are many paths leading to the house of God. Sample, well-meaninz Mr. Chace I He had hoped to be the humble instrument of giviig a Moses to his people. 1'oor man, his eyes were blinded with tears, but "it was well with the child." "Oh. papa, he won't look at me, he won't speak to me I" sobbed Arthur. "What is he looklnir at ? What does he sre V "Spot." cried Dinky rapturously. 4,I'm coming wid de gentiemun. Spot, my Spot" and he fell back on the pil low. Kama with a Turtle. A New York traveling salesman named Fry stopped a few days at a farm house, near Star pond, one of the 200 mountain lakes of Wayne county, Penn, One day he rowed out to the middle of the pond to fish for pickerel. Suddenly he felt a strong tug at hs line, and shortly afterward a large snapping tur tle came slowly to the surface by the side of the boat. When the turtle saw the fisherman it turned to dive down again, and Fry grabbed it by the tail. With great difficulty he lifted it into the boat. His Look was fastened in under the turtle's foreshoulder, it hav ing accidentally hooked itself. The turtle no sooner found itself a prisoner hi the boat than it turned on Fry. Raising on all fours, it shot out its great head, and advanced with open jaws upon the fisherman. He retreated to the bow of the boat, aud the turtle followed him. Jb ry then jumped over the turtle and ran to the stern. The turtle chased him and would not per mit him to rest a second in any one pot, but kept him jumping and running from one end of the boat to another. Fry had nothing to defeud himself with, as the paddle with which the boat was propelled be had used in aiding him in getting the turtle into the boat, and he had thoughtlessly let it lie in the water. aid it had drifted out of reach, t ry shouted luctily for help. The wife of the farmer with whom he was stopping was the only one at home, and she heard his cries, and put out in a leaky flat-bottomed boat to his rescue. By the time she reached his boat hers had several inches of water in it, aud it was entirely out of the question for it to be used in safety to carry them back to the shore. Fry's boat was an chored by a large stone tied to the end a long rope. The farmers wne jumped into his boat and began pulling up the anchor with the intention ot dropping it on the turtle. Before the anchor reached the surface it slipped from the noose in the rope and sank to the bottom. The turtle had kept up its chase of Fry, but, on seeing the woman in the boat, turned his attention to her. As it approached her she struck at it with the rope. It caught the rope in its mouth, and as a snapping turtle never releases its hold on anything it seizes with its mouth, even if the head is severed from the body, the farmer's wife wound the rope taut about the post in the bow, and the turtle was se cured. The boat was paddled ashore, and the turtle dragged out on the land by the rope. Its head was soon after ward chopped from its Doay witn an axe. - The next evening Fry took a tram for Xew York. He carried the head of the turtle by a piece of the row which was still held in the moutn. inece.ui had been separated from the body over thirty hours, but was still alive, the eyes rolling and glaring fiercely when ever any one approached it. The turtle as the lar ir est one even seen in me re gion, iu weight being 47 pounds, the head alone weighing nearly ten. Canon Hlretl. The late Canon Birch was one of the tutors to the Prince of Wales in the Pnnce's boyhood. He was also a life long friend of the Prince, a frequent isitor at Sandnngliam and a laminar figure at the M irlborough House gar den parties. He was described in 1S43 by the rrince Consort as a "young, good-looking, amiable, man." Dlkm la Hallaail. A tourist In Holland says : "Skirting along the dikes we had a good oppor tunity of seeing some of the incessant toil, some of the constant engineering and battling with the sea, to keep it at anything like a safe distance. The dikes about this island are perhaps the finest. the most constantly guarded in all the country. The dike-workers are a dis tinct class, a guild, in fact, jealous of their craft and its rights and privileges. It is not the first comer who may be a regular dike-worker, even if he should wish to be. We saw great raugs of them going from point to point with pick and shovel, ever on the lookout for weak spots in the. great embankment, ever refacing it with miles of concrete. and strengthening every point with strong groins running Into the sea. It was almost pathetic to note with what solicitude every blade of the bind ing bent-grass was coaxed to grow. Every little tuft was watched and tended as if it was some choice tulip. The top ot the dike formed a level, firm road, stretching away for miles. The sea looked so mild and gray and inno cent as it gently lapped the edges of ths mighty barriers that it seemed an effort to fancy it an enemy capable of mis chief. The breezes were simply deli cious and frtsh, coming over the wide North sea. Inland, the scenery was flat and grim and serious. Farmsteads in the far distance looked green and fat enough. Sheep and kine were plentiful about the rich fields. Ju t over the edge of the dikes were the little scat tered hamlets of the fisher people and the polder-men ; the dike-workers lived more of a roving life, canming out here and there as their work called them rrorn one point to another. Sometimes the wind had blown up and the seas tossed up great long meandering mounds of sand, helping to back and strengthen the dikes. On these billowy hillocks the grass was carefully planted in little regular tufts, and stunted pines were set wherever the tempest would spare them togrow. All sorts of b.nding vegetation were carefully protected. The very children know enoueu to let it alone. . , We stopped at Zoutland, and climbed to the top of the dunes to look about us aud sniff the sea breeze. Down far below us lay the village so far that had the waters swept over the rim of the sandy dike, the sea would have only reached its level when it play ed about the tail of the weather cock on the gray old church tower. There are watchers ever on the lookout, day and night, calm and storm. No wonder that the set, anxious look oue sees on every face, that seems to be born with every babe, should be the only charac teristic expression one remarks among the people herel hen the watchers of the dikes see danger, the alarm-bell is rung, and every soul either flies to the dikes for safety or to help the gangs of workers to stop the threatened breach. All was calm enough at that moment, the tide was far out, and yet the village seemed far below its level. The cottage-win dow lights were twinkling in the gloom. as evening was just coming on. The church beil was tolling for evening ser vice, and tne warm glow or sunset just touched the top of Its tower. Through the tall lancet windows one could see a flush of warm lamp-light within. All sounds and sights were of peace and calm, and yet there somehow came upon the imagination the grim reverse of the pict ure ; the clanging alarm-bell, the hurrying to and fro, the wild fight for safety from the mad, hungry sea. We were feeling deadly oppressed by the prevailing seriousness of the place." lining Camps of '49. In lSoO Mr. Avery started from Mor mon Island, now Sacramento county, on a prospecting tour to Redding Springs, now Shasta City, and several nunarea miles distant, lie "roue a little white mule, pork, beans, hard bread, and blankets packed behind." Hearing of "pound diggings," or those yielding some per day, he changed his course to Uold nun. At that time Caldwell's upper store, now Nevada City, flapped its canvas sides aud protected to the best of its ability a slender stock of dollar-a-drink whisky and dol:ar-a-pound flour and biscuits, Down on the flat were a few tents, and the bars were being worked with dug-out cradles aud wire and raw bide hoppers. Pork was $2 a jiouml, and boots cost S1) or S'JO a pair. Mr. Avery found good diggings, and re turned for his compauious, but when they arrived the entire gulch was "occupied by long-haired Missoiirlaus, who Lad staked out their thirty-foot claims, and were taking out their piles. At night many a long-torn party took a quart tin pail full of gold to their cabins." Those were the times when it cost $2.50 to have a letter carried from Sac ramento to the camps, when Mrs. Stamps, the wife of the first elected alcade of the region, and her sister were the only ladies in the country. and when lawlessness was quickly sup pressed, and the steady increase of social protective organization was everywhere manifest. The first alcalde of Nevada City was elected by a vot ing population of 200, but in many camps ten or a dozen men chose this peculiar and all-powerful officer, giving him all the powers granted under the Mexican and early Spanish system. He became the judge of the village. the petty lord of the tented town, aud only the voice of the people could bring his powers to an end. Brief though the reign of the alcaldes was, it left a deep impiess upon society, as a story will illustrate. The writer once knew a California school teacher. a man of mighty muscles and great en ergy, who Lad spent Lis boyhood in placer mining in Siskiyon, in cattle raising on the eastern Oregon uplands. and in Indian fighting and wild pros pecting times along the frontiers of British Columbia. W hen the war broke out be rode for Missouri, cross the lines. joined a Virginia regiment, and came back so crippled and battered that the old, free, careless life was impossible. Always a great reader and a close stu dent, he turned to the school room and won a reputation over three counties as a successful teacher. Under these cir cumstances he was called to take charge of what was, with undoubted justice, called the worst school in northern Cal ifornia, The trustees had written to him at his cabin, perched on a pine-clad height of the Siena, trout Ptrcanu within a stone's throw, grouse in the woods and deer and bear, his gun and rod, his "Marcus Aurelius," and 'Noctes Am fcrosiane" on the shelf within reach, lie saddled his horse, and, rising at daybreak, reached the village, once a mining camp, before 9 o'clock. When school was called to order he found that efficient work demanded a reclassiflca-! tion, for the previous teacher had tned ' to gain a cheap favor by advancing grades, and skipping the hard places, and had come to grief by begging a large boy not to smoke a cigarette in school. The playful lads ducked him in the adjacent stream, sousing him up and down till he escaped, waded to the farther bank, and sought other pastures. But the new teacher was of sterner ma terial. "I shall have an examination to-day tost e where you belong, and must turn you back in your grades if you deserve it" he said. A loud murmur of discontent and al most on rebellion followed. Nothing abashed, the teacher made his first and last speech. He took from the table a book and addressed an older pupil: "Do you know what this is?" "Yes, sir; the school law." "And it defines the grades, and you all think you have passed the examina tions, and that I can't go behind the law?" "Yes, sir." "Ve:y well ! Now you are quite mistaken. 1 am the alcalde of this school, I am sheriff and register, and judge and jury, and absolute finality here." And with this revolutionary and com prehensive statement he threw the school law out of the window, and pro ceeded amid an awe-struck throng to break up and consolidate class after class, reorganizing the school on his own system. l es, an alcalde is what the district needed," was what the old pioneers said when the story was told, and a better school for the rest of the year northern California never knew. The flash mining camps have often been described, with their curious Sab bath day mingling of ministers, earn. biers, auctioneers, dog fights, and street sales, all concentrating about the gor geous saloons, where nionte, faro, rou lette, poker, viugt-et-un, and other games of chance were in full blast 1 here were Indians, Mexicans.Chilians. Hawaiians, Asiatics, Europeans. Yan kees, westerners, southerners, men fresh from their claims, still begrimed with auriferous mud ; men dressed in the latest fashions of Paris, each one of them all measured in that virile, sinewy community for exactly his worth of manhood. But tales of daily life in the camps are not so frequent There is an old story of Main street, in Nevada City. In 1801 some miners began to sink a shaft in the middle of the street, and in the most important business center of the town. Expostu lations, long continued, were of no avail. "Miners' rights come first," the intruders said, "and there is no law 'gainst diggin' in the street, an' we mean to dig." The storekeeper whose property was most in penl went into his store and returned with a loaded aud cocked revolver, which he pointed grim ly at the miners, already neck-deep in their shaft "Then I'll make a law," he cried. "Just you boys go back and hunt up a rich gulch. No gold here; plenty of lead." "That's a good law, judge," respond ed the leader, "Better'n the average supreme court decision. Boys, lets till up the hole, aud start for Last Chance or Tinibuctoo." A later tradition re ports that the party struck it rich a month later, aud sect a nugget in re membrance to the irate citizen who drove them from Main street." One of the best known lawyers of the early California bar commenced his ca reer, soon after college graduation, as a waiter in a restaurant in a mining camp. I he salary was tloO a month; but his career as a wearer of the white apron was cut short in this way: A miner upon whom our college graduate was waiting was telling a companion the points of a lawsuit he had lately lost, closing with: "If I had had a decent lawyer I ought to have won." "That is so; yes! You could have won, if you have stated the case honest ly," broke in the waiter, then stopped. abashed. "What do you know about law?" was the natural inquiry. "A little, and 1 know camp juries." "Then young man, I'll give you $1. 0C0 to appeal my case and win it for me." They shook hands, the vounz fellow doffed his apron, and within an hour was at work on the case, carried It to a successful end, completed his law stu dies, was admitted to practice in the state courts, and became a leader of the bar. taaemlte at its Be. fies who have recently visited the Yosemite Valley report that the tails are now at their best The now of water Is larger than the oldest visitor recollects ever seeing before. The present season is a very late one. Rains in the valleys and heavy snowfalls on the mountains extended until late in June. The snow on the mountains con tiguous to Yosemite lies six or seven feet deeper than is usual at thin season. For some weeks to come the Yosemite country will present unusual attractions to tourists. The cost of the excursion has been gradually diminishing until it is now quite reasonable. There are now. something like half a dozen routes into the valley, each one of which has special attractions. Many go in by one route and return by another. Many more people outside of California nave visited Yosemite in former years than were included in the list of Califonnans. The latter reason is that inasmuch as Yosemite is a wonder of the State, it can be visited at any time. The years go by and Californians never see what people from the Atlantic States and from European countries make journeys of from 3.000 to 7,000 miles to see. With this lateness of the season and the heavy body of snow on the mountains, Yosemite will be in good condition for sightseeing quite into July. There are special advantages for visiting the val ley when the water coming over the various falls w at its greatest volume. It is now nearly or quite at its maxi mum, the roads are free from dust, and the country has the freshness of spring and early summer. Many people go to Luroiie with less hesitation than they would have in making the Yosemite tour. Yet not to have seen Yosemite is to have missed one of the grandest sights In the world. Beyond that of mere sightseeing is the advantage for a few days of one of the most invigora ting mountain climates in the world. The round trip can be made by ordina ry public conveyance in from eight to ten days that is, all the principal parts can be visited in that time. Eight days for people who are in a hurry may sullice. Fifteen days for people not in a hurry would be a more satis- factory disposition of tisws, j A good many years ago a merchant missed from his cash drawer a twenty- -1 . .11 .. v .1 x- , i v . feuiu yirA;c -1 u uuo 1UH1 uecu w the drawer, it was proved, except a young clerk whose name was Weston. The merchant had sent him there to make change for a customer, and the next time the draper was opened the gold piece had disappeared. Naturally, Weston was suspected of having stolen it, and more especially as he appeared a rew days after the occurence in a new suit of clothes. Beinz asked where he had bought the clothes, he gave the name of the tailor without hesitation ; and the merchant, going privately to make inquiries, discovered that Weston had paid for the suit with a twenty- dollar gold piece. That afternoon the young clerk was caned into tne merchant's private room ana charged with the theft "It is needless to deny It" the mer chant said. "You have betrayed your- seir witn tnese new clothes, and now tne omy thing you cun do is to make a full confession of your fault" Weston listened with amazement he could hardly believe at first that such an accusation could be brought against him, but when be saw that his employer was in earnest he denied it indignantly, and declared that the money be had spent for the clothes was bis own, given him as a Christmas gift a year ago. The merchant sneered at such an explanation, and asked for the proof. "Who was the person that gave it to your rroduce him," ne demanded "It was a lady." answered Weston. "and I cant produce her, for she died last spring. I can tell you her name." "Can you bring me anybody that saw her give you the money, or knew of your having it?'' asked the merchant "2o, I can't do that," Weston had u answer, "t never told any one about the gift, for she did not wish me to. But I have a letter from ber some where, if I have not lost it, in which she speaks of it" "I dare say you have lost it," the merchant sneered. "When you have round it, sir, you bring it to me, and I win oeiieve your story." Weston went home with a heavy heart. He bad no idea where the letter was ; he could not be sure that he bad not destroyed it; and it was the only means or proving his innocence. Un less he could produce it his character was ruined, for he saw that the mer chant was fully convinced of his gulfe. and appearances, indeed, were sadly against him. He went to work, how ever, in the right way. He knelt down and prayed to God for help to prove that he was innocent, and then h began to overhaul the contents of his desk and trunk and closet He kept his papers neatly and it did not take him long to see that the letter was not among them. He sat down witn a sense oi despair when be was convinced of this. What else could he do? Nothing but pray again for help, and guidance and strength to endure whatever trouble God might choose to send upon him. Skeptics may sneer at such praying as this, but Weston would smile and say, Let them sneer." "V hen I rose from my knees." he said, telling me the story years after ward, "I happened to catch my foot in an old rug that I had nailed down to the carpet because it was always curling at the edges. The nail at the corner had come out and stooping down to straighten the rug I saw a bit of paper peeping out I pulled it from its hide- uig place, and it was the letter! "How it got there I don't know. 1 he fact that I found it was enough for me, and if I had not gone on my Knees again to give tnanKs lor such a deliverance I should be ashamed to tell you the story now. I brought the letter to my employer. It proved my innocence, and be apolo gized, a month afterward the gold piece was found in Mr. Flinch 's over coat He had never put It in the drawer at all, though he thought he Lad. He raised my salary on the spot to pay for Lis unjust suspicions; and I Lave never yet repented of trusting '.' Lord in my irouoie." Bow To Ft Caaarlaa, Says a writer on canaries: In this way I answer the question, "How I had luck with the birds?" Simply by allow ing the birds to attend to their affairs, and by letting them understand that their mistress would never harm them. Also, by accustoming them to plenty of light and air and company, rather than as advertised in books, keeping the case in a dark room, for fear of frightening the birds. Make just half the fuss directed in bird, books over the matter, and you will have doubtless, better suc cess in raising birds. Never give them sugar, but all the red pepiier they will eat; it is the best thing for them. And if your bird feels hoarse at any tune, put a piece or iai salt port in the cage, and see Low the little fellow will eniov it Give him flaxseed once in a while, and if he appears dumpy occasionally, give a diet of bread and water, with red pepper sprinkled in. Open the case door and give your pets the freedom of the room; soon they will come at your call and fly to meet you whenever your voice is heard, l had one who came regularly to my desk as I sat writine each day and disputed with fluttering wing ana open Dealt my bumble nght to the inkstand. He would take bis bath as I held the cup in my hand and cooly dry himself on my Lead. Another would fly down or up stairs to meet me whenever I called him, and many a timet when I have been out, he has welcomed my return by flying down the stairs and singing at the top of his voice all the while, until at last, perched on my shoulders, be would accompany me to my room. Encllah aad Arab U Abbas Pasha, somewhere about ISoJ. sent a challenge to the Jockey Club to run any nuciber of English race horse against his Arabs for a sum not less tlian 500,000. The Jockey Club is a society, and could not accept such a bet; but some merchants at Cairo made a bet with his son Halem Pasha, who inherited his father's stud, which cost nearly five millions of dollars to collect and breed, to race eight miles for S2, 000 a side. The Cairo merchant sent to England and bought from Tattersall an Irish mare. Fair NeiL without a ptdigre, which he had used as a park and covert hack. The race came oil within two weeks of her landing in Egypt, and in the eight miles she beat the Pasha's beat Arab over a rough stony ground, by a full mile, dolnz thn distance In 18i minutes, and rmllinz nn fresh, ... - NEWS IN BRIEF. The farmers of north Texas are re joicing over their tine crops. A young alligator was rained down from the clouds at .Dallas, Tex. The total number of Indians at tached to agencies is now 240,000. Over $7o0.0C0 was paid last year as dnty on patent medicines in England. Natural Gas has been struck at Steubenville, Ohio, in immense Quanti ties. The State Lunatic Asylum at Austin, Tex., now has about US in mates. More than one half, and probably two-thirds, of the lawyers of Berlin are Hebrews. Texas comprises 2SS organized counties, and territory enough to form 100 more. There are 112,412 miles of railroad track in this country, of which 107,105 are in operation. Wisconsin now has a population of 1,500,000 and a taxable valuation of J400,32.,17L The citizens of Baird, T ex., have voted a tax or 20 cents on the $100 for school purposes. Over 400.000.000 trallons of netroi- eum, valued at $00,000,000, were ex ported last year. The railway system of Prussia cov ers about 0,000 miles a little more than that of Canada. Over 30,000 Polish Jews, who tied from Russia because of persecution, are living in London. An average of 20.000 cases of scar let fever each year is reported for the metropolis of London. -Utah has now 10,000 suiali farms averaging twenty-five acres, and the whole must be irrigated. It is estimated by breeders that a canary bird consumes about twenty pounds of seed annually. France is said to have in her na tional library 1,000,000 more books than that of England contains. Upward of five thousand Persona slept on Epsom Downs on the night preceding the recent Derby race. Pueblo, Col., as a means of riddin? the city of unlicensed dogs, pays the police a dollar for each oue they kill. The world's tin production List year reached 45,. 0 tons, one-third of wnicn was consumed in the United States. Wooden sailing vessels are beinz rapidly superseded by iron steam craft for even coast-wise trade in Great Britain. A crematorium, which was built In the time of the Roman invasion, has) recently been discovered in Lincoln. England. Alligator skin is now beins used for watch cases. The leather is fast ened to a metal backinz and hiuhlv polished. According to a recent census 17."05 of the male population of Italy between the ages of 20 and 25 can neither read nor write. Only one small herd of buffaloes is said to be left in Texas, a remnant of the "great Southern herd" of a few years ago. Thirty States and Territories have more men than women, and seventeen States and Territories have more wo men than men. Geraniums and calceolarias, used la '"window gardening," are said to exert a powerful influence in keeping a room free of flies. The Royal Aericultur.il Society Las decided that the Euclish climate renders the profitable cultivation of to bacco impossible. There are more colored teonle in Georgia than there are Indians in the whole country, iieoreia's nezro ooim- lation is about 725,000. The Navajos. of New Mexico, are said to be very rich. These Indians own large droves of cattle and horses and about a million sheep. Type-writing has been introduce.! in the Chicago public schools in an ex perimental way. A class of twenty five practises two Lours a week. M. Louis Pasteur, the eminent chemist, proposes to extend his re searches to cattle, which Le says are more susceptible to rabies than are dogs. . Great Britain consumes annually 4,0C0,OOO tons of potatoes, of which. 200,000 tons are imported, while the re mainder are raised on 541.000 acres of land. Since December 15. 1S83. sixty-five post-ofiices have been established in. Dakota Territory, and 700 business houses have been established !in the same time. One of the plans to make Pans a seaport is to convert the River Seiue into a canal ninety-eieht feet wide. The cost ot dredKL'iir . etc.. is estimated at 20,000,000. Oil speculation has gained such magnitude that the sales in the differ ent exchanges aggregate 50,000 OUO daily, and there are 30,000,000 pipe line certificates outstanding. Senator Beck is said to be the fast est stakr In the present Senate, and Senator George the slowest The aver age of speaking has been estimated at 150 words per minute. Robert Heberton Terrell, one of seven commencement orators of the graduating class of over two hundred at Yale, is a colored man, 27 years old, and was born a slave in Virginia. For seventy-four vears the Dresent organist of St Michael's Church, Cov entry, England, has held that position, longer, perhaps, than any person has ever held a similar position before. For each 100 miles of railroad in the United States there are 25.12 miles of second track, sidinsrs. etc.: 19.2H locomotives, 13.'J4 passenger-cars, 4.7& baggage and mail cars, and 62L4 freight cars. J. A. J. Goolsby, of Pranklin county, Ga., has four children, all born on the same day of the week Wednes day. The first was on the 14th, the second on the 15th, third on the 16th, fourth on the 17th, but different years, of course, two of them being born in the Eame month, but not in the same year. The Alps contain two peaks above 15,000 feet, six or seven above 14,000 feet, and m all about thirty which are called first-class peaks. The Hima layas, on the other hand, or rather the limited part of them with which we are familiar, contain peaks from 20,000 feet downward. More than 1.100 have been measured exceedinz 20.000 fet. and it is comonted that at least 90 Ouo excand this height. w: Hi 5" r 1 fl m fri L 5 u H M A 4 A fVwl tm
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