B F. SCHWEIER, " tee ooxsnnrnoi-TEB xtiioi-aid.tsz otosoeiceht of tsb laws. Editor-arid Proprietor- VOL. XXXIX. MIFFLINTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. JULY 22, 1S85. NO. 30. 1,1 K LIVE. .-, are ubrirt fortune W(tm nf varied patterns, to her mind; m.J tLr arsest, huiullest warp, eai,eh...i"g Idenlhread wUl run; t in inleu lite The- no hie. be' lonely, ?ad hower ad and weary. But U lue vsi1 ,nn u ,,,i,.c! thf humblest of our live H XU own uo.-on to fulfill; ."atheiir-a' Weaver evet ww, Ws i" 'be K,xxl nd llL i.inv vui.n i.. The eid hoc.se at Whimple Friars i .i .. .i from basement to roof, aud -.uad's of gaiety aud mirth were to be ieiid on all iii9- " was lady Wtlful3 tweii'v-iiret birthday, aud a great gath ering LaJ assembled to do her Junior. Earlv in the day a deputation of ten ants ami villagers had pone up to the loll to piesent Lady Wilful with a scroll Uiruig a formal congratulation on her Laving attaiued hei majority; at to o i-lock ,liere niui leen a d'"u,r for tt,e tenants; at live, a huge tea for the vilwfit-rs and children; aud at eleven ike co inty gentiy were arriv ing in great force to do the fair Cif 'tune honor. Lady Wilful herself was moving t.ut the large ball-room studying the pleasure and comfort of her guests and reieiviii? n'ith graceful thanks the nu icerouspoolwisl.es for her happiness which was .-Lowered upon her. On this Jav she had come into uncontrolled uossessiou of half a milliou of niiwy; Wliiuip'e Friars and all lielonging to it were Ler own. She was extremely wautiful, with large eyes of that deep feutiauella blue which is as rare as it is lovely; her hair was of a reddish golden ii lie, "and her features were of the deli cate' deal ners of a cameo. In addition jo all these charms, her figure was one of exquisite grace and elegance. She ought to have been, aud looked, radi antlv happy; yet the question of the eveuW as. "What's amiss with Lady Wilful to-night ?" It was a question no one was able to answer, although all could see that something had gone grievously wrong with her. Her blue eyes had that hard earning look which so often comes after much weeping, and the faint streak of pink which usually tinged her cheeks 1 al faded, leaving them as pale as the white lire of the diamonds od her breast. Ah, those diamonds! It was the presentation of them that had jiveu r;s? to thequestion, "What's amiss, wit!! Lady Wilful to-nigh t?" The ornament they formed was a star in the centre of which were large stones of eiceediiig beauty; on the outer edge was a double row of smaller diamonds which added greatly to the brilliant ef fect of the whole; the setting which was of silver, was evidently very an tique. Ii was certainly not a gilt which should have brought tears to the .eyes of a great heiress, more especially ou tlie (lav of her majority. Of course her name was not really 'Lady Wiiful"; but that was the pet name eiveu to her in early childhood, and, like most of such appellations, it Lad clurjg to her, aud, unlike the gen erality of them, it still suited her. Her wilfulness however was invariably in the direction of something good. Her uut, Mrs. Stamer, with whom she lived, ahvas addressed her and spoke of her as Katbirine; to mere acquain tances she was Miss Duudas; but to all Ler friends slit was Lady Wilful. At twelve years of age l.ady Wilful Lad been left to the care of Mrs. Statner her guardians being I.ord Ornisby acd Sir John Baldwin. M rs. Stamer was a widow, with one son, Hugh, the mem ber for Swamptown, the little place of which Whimple Friais was the great house; and to him Mrs. Stamer inten ded uniting her niece Katharine Dun das. But I-ady Wilful had formed other views, she was an exceedingly clever g'.rl, perfectly capable of judging for Leiseit in all things; aud when, at eigh teen, she was presented and ran the gauntlet of the Loudon se i-ou as one of the richest heiresses of the day.she made up her mind to marry onlv a man she should love. She prudently decliued a dozen noble alliances, which she in stinctively felt were prompted as much hy her wealth as herself, and until the previous season was still as unfettered as the had been two years before. Dur ing that season how ever she met a cadet of the house of Brabason, one Captain the Honorable D'Arcy Brabason;and D'Arcy, Lady Wilful determined, should become her lord arid master. He was handsome one of the hand somest men in town tall, stately, with the yellow hair and blue eyes which ere hereditary in the Brabason family a man with rigid notions of caste and race, and withal the most winning voice and fascinating manner possible. Truly DAicy Brabason was the pride of his regiment. Well-born? Was not the Braba ot family the old tst in the Peerage? Xay. the race was far older than the title; and D'Arcy would tell you gravely that bis brother was only the seventeenth earl. They tad royal blood iu their veins too. Was he accomplished? He wasthedeadliest snot" in the kingdom; aud who so largean array of "brushes" as D'Arcy? He could do almost everything was musical, sang with a rich baritone voice, played the piano and violin equally well, danced to i-erfection, was toted in his profession as one of tne test soldiers of the day. As he was the hero of the girls,their darling, their beau-ideal, so, uufortu nately, was he the terror of the moth ers; for the Brabason family were poor, and had been so for generations; and Caplain Brabason, llvii g in the style to which he had bpen accustomed, soon ian through his younger son's portion itidft'ULd himself at six-and-tweuty ith only his officer's "pay." He had also two rooms furnished with great sPjendor, a mail-phaeton with a pair of sP'fcudid lays, two ciiargeis. six hun ters, a gigantic St. Bernard named Bob, "od, m addition, something like thou sand pounds owing in various parts of the kn:gdom. "I l.ke D'Arcy lot his own sake," aid a gracious lielgravin matron one day. atter he had stopped a moment to ereet her in his especially winning way 1-ke the poor boy dearly; but I "ep Gertrude out of Ids way." How M-s. Stamer anathematised the y when Lady Wilful met D'Arcy r'talasoul How she abused him and scolded the girl for daucing with him f often, and keeping bun by Ler so long! "1 am surprised at you, Katharine," she said severely, to go down to supper T with a man like Captain Brabason and refusing the duke tool" "The Duke Is nothing to me, aunt," returned Lady Wilful defiantly. "The Duke can gffer you Strawberry leaves'; and, though 1 don't wish you to accept them, it would be impossible for you to think seriously for a moment of Captain Brabason. 1 snail give or ders to be 'not at home when be calls and you must discourage him as much as possible," 'I shall do nothing of the sort," re plied Lady wilful; "and, if 1 am at home w hen he comes, 1 shall see him " "A mere fortune-huuter! sneered Mis. Stamer. "And so is the Duke," laughed lady wilful. "It is ra; her early to be troub ling yourself about a man whom I did not know three hours ago. Why, for anything we can tell, he may think me perfectly hideous. " "llis whole conduct looked like it!" cried Mrs. Stamer furiously. "If you think that,'! said Lady Wil ful innocently; "I wonder that you suf fer yourself to be so terribly disturbed Aunt Stamer." The Brabason family were proud as well as poor. This characteristic was strongly shown in the shrug with which D'Arcy - greeted the news of the Karl's engagement to Miss Cobb, the rich city heiress. His brother might raise Ins lowered fortunes aud build up the fall ing house with bis wife's money ;bnt in D'Arcy eyes, he had cast a blot on the escutcheon which could never be effaced. , ' Pride was D'Arcy Bralason's great failing; and, although he had indeed fallen hopelessly aud houestly in love with Lady Wilful, her half-million of money kept him at arm's length. Day after day throughout the whole season did Lady Wilful expect to hear the old story the story which, although the oldest in the world, sounds fresh and new with each repetition. Whenever her aunt suggested a re moval to Whimple Friers, Lady Wilful persuaded her to remain intown;aiii' Mrs. Stamer, believing and hoping that Hugh was I he attraction, consented gladly. Day after day Iidy Wilful met D'Arcy Brabason at the hundred and one entertainments to which both were bidden; but uiosr. frequently she saw him at the bouse of her cousin Margaret Descourt, whither she used t go in the drowsy summer afternoons for rive o'clock tea. The torture ot un certainty went on until the "House" was prorogued and the whole family went down to Whimple Friars without D'Arcy Brabason having made a sign. At last Lady Wilful felt that she must face the trutn that she, who from earliest childhood had never known what it was to be denied anything, must forego the only thing she really desired. Evidently Captain Brabason cared no more for her than she did for her cousin Hugh so she told herself. And yet how was it that a few words he had let fall one sultry afternoon, when she had g.ne across the square to her cousin's, and Mrs. Descourt had left them alone together, kept coming back to her mind over and over again? "It's an awful thing. Lady Wilful." he had said, speaking of his brother's marriage, ''for a man to be dependent on his wife, even if he does not care much about her though . then it be comes more or less a business transac tion. But. if he chances to care for her, why, he must be afraid to make the least demonstration of affection. lest she should think the caress or kinJ word was bought with her gold. " "You dont seem to consider," she had answered in a choking voice, "how very hard your theory is with respect to the unfortunate rich woman. If such a one married a man she loved who held such notions as these, then Heaven help her, for she would sorely need it!" Soon afterwards Lady Wilful bad gone home, understanding some of the scruples which had prevented D'Arcy Brabason from asking her to be bis wife. After their little passage-at-arms, D'Arcy was colder to her than he had ever been before. Lady Wilful's voice with the ominous sound of .tears there in, haunted him for many a day; but so rigid and stem were his notions of honour that the fear of being termed "fortune hunter" kept him from own ing, even to himselt. that for him dear Lady Wilful was the one woman the world contained. Although Lady Wilful was doubtful, she felt much happier after this. "I will wait until my birthday," she told herself; "then I shall be quite sure; aLd I will let the world see that I was not called Lady Wilful for nothing.'" She waited patiently and bravely all through the dreary autumn and winter months, having ill addition to her other troubles, to parry the advances of Hugh Stamer; for that gentleman was quite of his mother's opinion that Kathenne's money should stay in the family, though he did not care much about Lady Wil ful herself. Still he knew that she would be a wife whom a rising politi cian might be proud of, and that she would help to make his house one of the most attractive in London. During these months Lady Wilful's one consolation was the news which she recived of D'Arcy through Mrs. Descourt. From her she learned that his regiment had been removed in the autumn from Aldershot to Norwich, near which town their country-house was. Mrs. Descourt told her that they had seen a good deal of him, but that he seemed dull and distrait, and that she feared his affairs were more hope lessly involved than ever. Amongst the packets and notes with w hich Lady Wilful's plate was heaped on her birthday was a morocco case containing a diamond star, aocompani ed by a note from D'Arcy Brabason, saying that it bad belonged to his moth er, and had for that reason additional value in his eyes. Some months previously she ana Cap tain Brabason had had a dispute about some trifling matter, and abet was made. If Lady Wilful lost she was to forward D'Arcy her photograph; if D'Arcv, he was to send her a present on her'birthday, D'Arcy dii lose and the diamond star was the article with which he discharged his debt. The present w as the subject of much discus sion, not to say quarreling, at Whimple fnars. ....... You must not keep it. Katharine," said Mrs. Stamer decisively. "I certainly shall do so," answered Lady Wilful. "You shall not," said Mrs. Stamer. 1 shall," was Lady Wilful's equally decisive reply. . , , , , "I forbid it," insisted the elder lady. "My dear auut," exclaimed Lady Wilful haughtily, "you cannot forbid me to do anything. You forget your self." The storm which followed lasted for an hour. Mrs. Stamer preached and expostulated, Lady Wilful trembled and wept; but she would not alter her decision; and finally, putting her fingers into ner ears, sue declined to bear any thing more ou the subject. Then Mrs. Stamer swept away with a dignified air to fe ch Hugh to try to bring the cul prit to reason; but the instant be enter ed the room Lady Wilful ran to him and clasped her pretty bands about his arm. "Don't you turn against me. Hugh, she said in her coaxing way. "I must keep my star; it is so pretty." II ugh Stamer was but flesh and blood , and lie went ba2K to his mother and told her rather sharply that Lady Wil ful was to be left in peace. "Lady Wilfull" repeated Mrs. Stea merfor Hugh was not given to call ing his cousin by other than her proper name. "Has it got to that?" But Hugh left bis mother to her own reflections, and Lady Wilful's whims were not mentioned. The giri was dull and sad all day; but, although her head ached distress' iiily, she held up bravely until the last guest was gone. With the morning light however she was her own bright self again, and discussed the events of the previous day with the gaiety natu ral to a young lady iu her circumstan ces. February soon arrived, and the Sta nier family returned to town. On the first afternoon Lady Wilful weut across to Mrs. Descourt s, for her husband had come up for the opening of Parlia ment a few days before. Her cousin was In the hall when she arrived. "I was just going to send for you," she said as she kissed Lady Wilful. "D'Arcy is here; be has sent in his pa pers and leaves town for Southampton this week. He has come to say 'good bye.'" "Good-byel" faltered Lady WilfuL "Where is he? Where is he going?" "To Natal, I think, darling. Go into the boudoir; I will come presently. The Levisonsare Inthedrawingroom." Mrs. Descourt had known Lady Wil ful's secret for some months, and en tertained great hopes that, when the time came to say farewell, her blue eyes would prevail upon D'Arcy to put aside all the nonsense about marrying for money. With a painfully beating heart and trembling fingers Lady Wilful opened the door of the boudoir. She felt that during the next hour her fate would be decided; and, knowing D'Arcy 's pride and indomitable resolution of purpose, she feared the result When she enter ed the room he was standing with his back towards her, looking out of the window. A faint gleam of sickly win ter sunlight was resting on his yellow hair; and, as Lady Wilful caught sight of the outline of his face against the frosty sky. her heart failed her. Oh, how cold and stern it looked 1 "How dismal the square is. Mis. Descourt!" be said, without turning. I shall remember London at its very worst." - "It is not Margaret," said Lady Wilful in a quavering voice. He turned quickly: the hot blood rushed for an instant to his temples, then receded, leaving him paler than before. "Miss Dundas, I - bad no Idea you were in town! I hope you are quite well?" Lady Wilful's heart sank. "Miss Dundas!" It had hitherto been "Lady Wilful" ''We came this morning," she stam mered. "We were obliged, because of Parliament, you know." "Yes? I hear. Miss Dundas, that I have to congratulate you." "Congratulate me? Oh, yes ou my having attaiued my majority I Thauk ynu! And, Captain Brabason, I wan ted to tell you bow pleased 1 was that ou remembered my birthday. It was so kind, too, to give me your mother's star. I bad a great struggle to keep It for my aunt did not wish me to do so; but I am Lady Wilful, you knowl" she said, laughing and gaining courage from the sound of her own voice. "lam glad that you like it," said D'Arcy, with a great effort to keep calm and cool. "1 hope you will wear it sometimes when I am far away and you ou are Hugh Stamer's happy wite." Lady Wilful laughed outright. "Thank you," she cried gaily; "rest assured 1 shall wear it as Lady Wilful always. Captain Brabason looked hurt. Evi dently this heiress was not only wilful but cruel. "I have no doubt," he answered coldly; "you do me too much honor bv wearing it at all." "Xow, Captain Brabason," said the girl drawing near to him, "take my advice and don't go in tor sarcasm. You'll never keep up your reputation if you do." "My reputation is of very little con sequence, for 1 sail for Natal next Lady Wilful felt a great lump rising in her throat, but she controlled her self, and went on "What to do there, may I ask?" "Certainly. I belong as you know to an impoverished family. I cannot keep up my position here; so 1 am go ing to take myself to a place where I shall be unknown." "Are you?" thought Lady Wilful, then aloud "I didn't know your peo ple was so very poor. I'm sure your brother lives In good style." "My brother," said D'Arcy, flushing hotly, "married for money, Miss Dun das." "I don't agree with you. Lady Bra bason is a charming girl, and the Earl loves her dearly." "Probably," said L'Arcy, in a dubi ous tone. Katherine Dundas moved a step away from him, and stood with clasped hands, nerving herself for a final effort. 'Captain Brabason," she began, "I am going to say something to you which you will perhaps think both bo!d and impertinent." "I shall not think iteithei," he said politely. She saw how sorely she was trying this man, with his chivalrous notions of honor and prido of race; she could not but note the restless craving in his eyes as they wandered up and down her faultless form and face. She un loosed the rich sable fur at her throat with a painrul gasp as she epoke again, with an attempt at coquetry that was absolutely counterfeit. - "I dont think you know anything of whist; do you?" This was so utterly different from what be had expected that D'Arcy Brabason stared at her in undisguised astonishment. - "At any rate you do not seem to know what very good advice one of its rules gives." - "What is that?" be stammered. "When you see a trick, take it." The shot struck him a she had in tended it should. ' "J have my ideas of honor, Miss Dundas," he said in a tone which he tried to make cold, but could not, to hide the passionate tale of love his eyes would tell hers If they should meet, lie beut bis head down upon his arms, which were folded on the mantle-shelf; the action gave Lady Wilful fresh strength to go on. "And would you sacrifice mv happi ness to your ideas of honor?" . she whispered. "If 1 had been unfettered," said D'Arcy iua husky voice, "it might have leeu so different." "Do you not think," continued I-ady Wilful, very much in the tone she inisht bave adapted to a child, "that atter having made me care for you, I bave some claim upon your honor?" The day was hers her sweet wilful ness bad broken down the barriers of pride and so-called honor; for, when Mrs. Descourt came back an hour later the girl was sitting with her hand in D'Arcy's and she did not remove it although ber cousin came in with much coughing and rustling and otiier small heralds of her approach. "I am afraid you must think me very rude," she remarked; 'but really Bucb a stream of people came In for tea that I could not leave the drawing-room.' Katharine do you know what time it Is? It is nearly seven, dear; you ought to be going." 'You can say good-bye to Margaret, D'Arcy," said Lady Wilful, rising; "and then you can see me home." "George had better do so," sugges ted Margaret. "No; D'Arcy will," said Lady Wil ful. "What will Aunt Stamer say?" Aunt Stamer will say I ' am an un grateful girl, aud bemoan to all ber friends that Whimple Friars are going out of the family. "Then you've arrrnged the African business?" said Mrs. Descourt, beam ing. "We are thinking of taking it in the honeymoon, "answered D'Arcy gravely. "This is an exceedingly self-willed young person, who doesn't know what's good for her." "I've had a great deal of trouble to teach you," laughed Lady Wilful. "I verily believe, Margaret, that he thinks we are not good enough to be allied with the House of Brabason; but let me tell you, sir, that you are parvenus compared with the Dundases." . Lady W.ilful came down to dinner that evening with the diamond star blazing on her bosom. "So you have got that thing on again? said Mrs. Stamer severely. "Yes, aunt." answered I.ady Wlful sweetly. "I must have a ring to match it." "Captain Brabason has never dared," gasped Mrs. Mamer, "I have dared," said Lady Wilful calmly, "to please myself." "A bankrupt, a beggarly youuger son, with neither money nor brains, nor ' - "You forget." said ber niece haugh tily, that you are speaking of my future husband. " "And this is the reward I get for all I have ddbe for you!" cried Mrs. Sta mer furiously. " I owe you nothing." said the other quietly. "Dnnng the time I was un der your care my trustees remunerated vou liberally. Since I bave become my own mistress, those terms have been doubled. I do not wish to quarrel with you. Aunt Stamer; but T warn you that at the first word you say against Cap tain Brabason I shall leave your bouse and remain w ith Margaret until I am married." "Dinner Is served,r announced the butler at that moment; and the conver sation was at an end. In due tidae the wedding took place, and Captain and Mrs. Brabason went on the continent for a lengthened tour. The African expedition remains in nu bibiis, for urgent reasons compelled Lady Wilful to. return to Whimple Friars; and there, in the spring, with the young leaves and the violets came the heir to the old house a very mini ature of Ladv Wilful, with the azure blue eyes and reddish goldeu hair that had made her one of the most beauti ful women of three London seasons. CoBatAntioopie. Next to ltonie, Jonstantiuople is the most interesting city of Europe, and the greatest scene of remarkable events affecting the destinies of mankind. It occupies to a great exteut the site of ancient Byzintluui, which was founded I y a Doric colony from Megara, In CCo B. C. In the reign vf Darius Hystas pes, Byzantium was taken by the Per sians; but, subsequently to the battle of Plata1 1, it came once more into the hands of the Greeks, by whom it was re-peopled by a mixed colony of Athe nians and Lacediemouians. After pas sing through many fortunes, it was at tacked by Philip of Macedon. whose soldiera were silently apptoachlng the town on a dark night, when suddenly a light shone from the north, and revealed the danger by which the citizens were threatened. It was believed that this was a miracle wrought by the goddess Diana, to whom the inhabitants built an altar as an expression of their grat itude, at the same time assuming tne crescent as the emblem of their city. The crescent is now tl; emblem of the Turks, and it has been thought that they adopted it on taking possession of Constantinople; but there is reason to believe that this Ogure had long been the symbo" ot the Moslem faith. By zautiuin was coapeileJ to submit to Alexander the Great, and in later ages was ravaged cy the Tbracians, Scyth ians, and other barbarous tribes. The Bvzantines were a commercial people. and at one time er.joyed a position of great prosperity. They are described bv ancient authors as an idle, dissipated aet, tond of music, dancing and gaiety. and little deposed to martial exercises, though.in the second Christian century, they resisted the Koman Emperor Se verus for three years, and at length capitulated only on account of famine. The town was constantly lull oi ioreign sailors, merchants and fishermen; and, as good wine was to be found there.the carousing was deep and frequent. The citadel of Byzantium stood on the hill whefethe seraglio is now bunt, anu the rest of the city lay behind the pres ent gardens of the Sultan. Nothing succeeds in the end like in vulnerability. - Fortitude la another name for strengUu The brave man escape where the timid fall A ItuaMan Cnwn. The fortress of St- Peter and St. Paul is huge, hideous and slabsided, and surmounted by a thin and tapering spire that looks like the end of a Brobding nagian syringe. The fortress is in the centre of the city, and faces the ime rial palace. During the day it is part a pubic thoroughfare, and people pas through a narrow defile of gloomy and tortuous vaults, where heavily armed sentinels march to aud fro. and stone slabs in niches hold aloft burning ta pers. But at nightfall all Is closed, and when darkness covers the capital and the quays of the Neva are all aglow with gaslights, the prison here dedica ted to St. Peter aud St. Paul remaius shrouded in gloom like some huge maw. ever ready to swallow up all that is best and noblest of the unhappy land which it curses with its presence. During the last twenty yean thousands have enter ed its gloomy portals, and as fast as they perish or depart the great army of mis erables is reinforced by fresh victims. Most of them only remain for a time, either pending their trial or until they are removed to a central prison or de pot ted to Siberia. But there are some whose fate is still more terrible. There are prisoners who have never been tried and never will be men and women who are kept in prison generally for years, often for life, simply by order of the Czar. In one casement, dying of consumption, is a woman whose identi ty is as great a mystery as the "man in the iron msk." Neither her jailors nor her fellow-prisoners know either ber name nor the nature of her crime. She Is a number, and nothing more. What a terrible tragedy must be hidden in that woman's heart, if it still beats! The casements are cells five paces long and three wide, equal to about seven and a half feet dens into which little liiht struggles through a strongly-barred slit. The walls steam with mois ture. For furniture the inhabitant has a straw mattress and a thin quilt, a jug, the image of a saint, and a pile which serves for all purposes and remains there day and night. The prisoners are never allowed to communicate with or ex change a word with their jailors. Once a day the door is opened, and the wardens signify to the inhabitant by a gesture that it is the hour for exercise. Silently be rises from his little bed and follows his custodians into a narrow yard so hemmed In by high walls as to seem like the bottom of a well. Here he paces to and fro for the allotted time like a wild beast in a cage, and is then led back to his den as silently as he was brought out. - The prison is full of peo ple, yet for every inhabitant of its case mates, its liastions, its ravelins and its curtains there is the Isolation of death. No books are allowed in this dismal solitude not even the Bible. If a prison er wants religious consolation he may look at his saint aud raise his thoughts heavenward, if he can. It is no won der that men immured in these dark places go mad. For clothing, the pris oners have the gray dress of common malefactors. Instead of shoes and stockings, their feet are wrapped in rags. Even iu the depth of winter the cells are seldom warnied, never suffi ciently; at least, the fuel assigned for the purpose is insufficient, and embez zled at that. H.nce the cells are always damp. Water streams down the walls and freezes in pools on the floor. So intense is the cold that when the direc tor makes his rounds he never takes off his fur cloak, and shivers even then. Oar Cooncrj Hefor Man's Advent. The work of the Geological Survey for the coming fiscal year has been mapped out'aud the plans approved by the Secretary of the Interior. The work of the map makers, while serving the many important ends. State and municipal, of the most exact geographi cal surveys upon a large scale, is, so far as the Government is concerned, mere ly designed to lay the necessary founda tion for the studies of the scientists of the institution. The picture in outline of the young continent in quart ernary tiniws, just before the advent of human life, into which, as one of a series, the gentlemen of the department are now painting the details, has but few familiar fea tures. The great mountain systems were already uplifted and were vastly more rugged and higher than now. The Southern Sea, now the Gulf of Mexico, had possession of an immense strip of the lower country aud of the great valley and the Atlantis coast. The Pacific slope was a region of steep glaciers. The great basin was an inland ocean, or rather two great inland seas were found within it, of one of which the great Salt Lake is a petty remnant. This region and that to the south, now so sterile and dry, was then one of great humidity au.l where not covered with water was very fertile. An ice sheet extended ever the northern portion of the eastern and middle coun try, covering the great lakes and the borderii g regions to the south for hun dreds oi miles. Coutluually moving southward, this sheet deposited its car goes of detritus century after century, forming the sub-soils of what are now the Eastern, Middle and Northwestern States, and heaped up a terminal moraine, still distinctly traceable as a range of hills through New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, Iowa and thence northwestward along the present line of the Missouri through Dakota and up into British possessions. Great tongues of ice shot off from this sheet far to the southward, while an inland region comprising much of the present State of Wisconsin remained bare. There were, in fact, two great ice peri ods, with an intervening season longer than the time which has elapsed since the disappearance of the last sheet, and during the interval forests of large con ifers covered the face of the earth. I.ong Island, which was created by gla cial deposits, marks the southeastern limit of the sheet. The climate condi tions to the country south of the great ice belt were much the same as at pres ent, and the flora was similar though coniferous growths were proportionate ly much more abundant. Through the forests along the borders of the ice sheet roamed strange animals, among which were the huge hairy and more than elephantine mammoth: the horse, a smaller animal than his relative of to-day, having well-formed hoofs but still bearing in rudimentary form one or two of the toes of his primeavai ancestors; the great buffalo, two or three time larger than his descendant of to-dav; the pig, more nearly resem bling the peccary of South America than the familiar hog of our own coun try, and other creatures curiously re lated to the modern camel and rhino cerus. Then came man, but his early footprints are too few and indistinct to reveal within a few thousand years just when be came, while whence and how be came few venture even to jjuesa. Tb Laiy in Whit. I announce myself to the reader as the man who Believes in Ghosts per- naps. 3.1 any rate, l neueve in my father, and be believed the story i am about to relate. My father resided at Ipswich, and once had occasion to go to lxmuon upon business. It was during a period of great popular commotion, and the city being very full, be had some trouble in finding a lodging. The master of the house observed that it was a good large room for be could get but one and very comfortable, if he did not mind but there he stopped, for his wife gave him a nudge. Then my father suspected something was not quite right. 'It isn't over a slaughter-house, or a burial-ground, or a dissectiug-room, Is it?' says he. Oh, dear, no,' says the landlord, 'but some people say the next house is haunted, and that anybody who sleeps In this room can see a lady in whitecry iug at that window that you cau fee there.' 'Oh, is that all?' says my father. 'Perhas there's some poor maniac con fined there. Whether or no, however, that's no objection, for 1 don't care a rush for all the ghost that ever were invented!' Well, he took possession of the room, and before night closed in he had au opportunity of taking an accurate sur vey of the neighboring premises. A lead roof, apparently over a work shop, lay between his window and that one where the ghost was said to appear; only there was this difference that he could easily step out of his upon the leads, where as the neighbor's was alwut uine or ten feet higher. My fath er always vowed that he was perfectly sober when he w ent to bed. He couldn't tell how long he had been asleep, when he was suddenly awakened by loud screams; and when he opened his eyes he saw the opioslte house was on fire. He was out on the leads in a moment. The haunted room was filled with bright dames, and at the window stood a lovely young woman, clasping a baby iu her arms, aud screaming for help. 'Oh, save my child!' save my child!' she kept ou crying in tones of such an guish that they went to my father's very heart. 'Give it to me,' he said, 'and then jump out into my arms. The distance is uothing; youcauuot be hurt. Take courage! Now, give me the baby!' She leaned forward, aud dropped the baby, wrapped up in a shawl, iuto my father's arms. Just as he got It safe.it seemed to him that the roof fell in. There was a crashing noise.but not very loud: the flames disiiiineare-l and so did the young lady. In at his window he rushed aaain.aud through the house, shouting. 'Fire, lire!' with all his might, and w ith the baby still in his arms. Out rushed the landlord as pale as a ghost, and his wife after him iu such a monument of a night-cap that it quite over-awed my fattier even in the midst o; his agitation. The maid was shrieking 'Murder'.' down iu the kitchen, aud the apprenti ces had tumbled out from under the counter in the shop, and were poking their noses cautiously out, aud kindiy inquiring who was killing her; and ou every landing up the stairs the lodgers were calling out to know what was the matter. There was altogether a terrific row in the place. 'The next house is ou fire!' said my father. 'it's only the old story,' said the laud lord. 'Run up stairs, uiy dear, and tell them it's a false alarm.' 'But it is not a false alarm,' says my father, for I saw the names and I saw the roof fall in, aud I fear that a lady is buried uuder the ruins. Why don't you come and help her? She had just dropped her child into my arms when the roof fell.' The landlady theu lirst set eyes uu the bundle, for her husband at that mo ment lighted a candle from the rush light, which had very imperfectly illu minated the scene before. 'A baby!' says she. 'Yes,' says my father, 'and 1 think I'd better leave it with you, uu'aiu, while I go and endeavor to rescue the moth er ' The woman did not speak, uor utter a sound, but she iust lifted up the shawl from the child's face and dropped down like a lump of lead upon the floor. Instead of attending to her, both my father and the landlord looked into the shaw l. It contained the skeleton of an infant, wrapped up in the rags of what had once been very costly garments. My father fell very sick, anu the landlord staggered back against the wall and dropped the candlestick out of his hand. When the landlady fell (she w as a tall heavy woman, aud gave the house a i good shake) the maid screamed mur der' louder than ever, and the lodgers calltd out yet more euergetic.il ly to know what was the matter. That frightened the landlord back iuto his senses; for he thought if they eame down and saw what my father had got U would frighten them all out of the bouse. So he caught up the can- lie, which luckily was not extinguished by the fall, and pushed my father; with his bundle, iuto the bedrooiu. Th in he called out that it was only the stiuii'' gentleman had had the nightmare, ; his wife had been frightened int.. fainting fit. The little skeletou was quietly bu- 1 the next day by an old sexton, ' asked no questions, as he knew ii landlord was a respectable household-: ; and so they all concluded that the g'l- t was satisfied, and that that was the n a- son why she never appeared again. When my father examined the p!a.-e closely by daylight, he saw evident marks of a ure that had happened the: a great many years before. Iu short the whole affair. of the apparition seem ed to shroud some fearful mystery. which was perfectly inexplicable. Some years after, when he was in London again, my father endeavored to tied out the house in the hope of obtain ing clew to the mystery, but he could d:scover nothing but a mass of ruins. The street and some others were demol- j L, lsneu, to mage way tor uiai w nica :s now Regent street. "Ye, stranger, said a passenger from Texas, "I am goiu' down East ob a important errand. Don't miud tell ing you that I'm going to be married. You can imagine bow good natured and jolly I feel." "Yes; but don't you feel little trepidation about taking ar.ch an important Btep in life?" "Narry a trep, stranger." "Have yoa ever been mar ried before?" "No; but I've been in one fight with injins, two scrimmages with cowboys, an' went through lour cyclones. I'm no chicken. Yoa Bat i Will I 'w hat ails you? asked a pullceui&n of a boy on Fort street, Detroit, who nau a rocK in nis nand and was mena cing a woman in a dooryard. -uoon a-nere,' answered the boy, as ue dropped the stone and sat dow u on the hone block. She's been deceiving men in me awiuiest manner.' 'How?' 'She's my mother. Pap died years ago, and we've never been up to see his grave since, bvery week she's prom ised to take me up ou Sunday, and every Sunday she's said to me: -,ever mina. sonny. We cant go io-uay, but your pap'sgrave won t run away, all the same. He's there to stay ' 'That's kind o unfeeling like,' re marked the officer. You bet it is, but it don't begin with what site's said and done. She took off mourning and beau t drink lemonade and chew gum inside of three months, and she keeps speaking of him as the late deceased. Last Sunday I wanted to go up aud put some pausies ou pap's grave, but she gin me a clip ou tUa ear and said: 'Your pap's grave be hauged f had to wash for six shillings a day to bey his whisky and tobacco, and I'll pansy you if you dont quit your pestering!' 1 dont say as pap was perfection, but I do blame mam for feeling so kinder gay over it.' 'Will she marry again?' asked the office in a cautious voicer. 'Will she! She's dying to! She's on track of five or six different men. and she'll run some of 'emdowuonless thev jump the town. 1 guess that's why she dont want to hear about pap's grave. Just afore you come along 1 sav to her: Mam, it s a beautiful day. let's vou and 1 go up aud see if anybody's put a sunflower on pap's grave ' And she wheeled ou me and yelled out: 'Pap's grave agaiul Alius pup's gravel I'll have a pap around here iu about a fortnight w hoTl wotlop pap's grave out of you, if it takes a leg!' lluwphl' sighed the officer. 'And so,' said the bov, as he slowiv counted the five coppers out of his vest pocket, 'I guess I'll skip. 1 guess I'll go to Arizona aud become a stage rob ber. I'll learu to shoot with both hands and I'll rob everybody, and wlieu I get rich I'll come back here and take that second husband aud mop him ail over pap's grave and iHjund him to a jelly! You bet I will!' Klaphaut Fights In Burnish. iu elephant tights at fheyatmo i l,,ere were fifteeu elephants on a side, A l,itir of them are never started alone : M a fiut- The SgUts are always ar- rangeo ior me amusement oi the no bles, and are great events. The battle is terntii The elephants are given "Ji ""s "i mo leriuenieu juice ' of tne P1"1' which they drink out of .a. .ii., l. . i r nucKeis. jersey ngnteuing is UKe wa ter compared to the stuff. 1 drank some under the impression that it w as a kind of cider. It smelled like cider. I took only one finger, and I never was so drunk in my life. 1 never would have ft It the same amount of whiskey. It makes the elephants reel and tumble about like drunken men. They snort aud trumpet and create a terrible rack et. Iu the fight atjTbeyatnio the ma houts or drivers straddle their necks and urge them on. The beasts had been maddened by prodding and beat ing aud rushed at each other like u.aJ. There were some that wheeled around and ran away, but those that kept ou made the earth shake when they came together. They ran right iuto each other. They locked tusks, and gored aud lashed one another with their trunks. Tusks were run into elephant shoulders six or eight inches. The fights in India are the same, of course. In Burmah fights take place between elephants and tigers. King Thebaw has men fight tigers. The Burmese in power are cruel One king used to make the people lie down for his pony to walkover. CoL George Arstingstall, Barnum't Elepeant trainer, said ele phants were fond of whiskey or any kind of liquor. One would take four or five gallous at a dose. Ubt in Maiieu. When au American settles In Mexi co he should be prepared to pay cash for i everything, and if he knows what is ! ;ooa ior mm ne win always take a re ceipted bill when he pays out money. If he omits these precautions he may wake up some fine morning in deb. In Mexico, to be in debt is the worst thing 'hat cau happen to a man. I'nder the Mexican law the creditor can have the lebtor arrested on the day when the lebt falls due. The prisoner in such uses is chained to a Dost five davs J guarded by an officer. At the end of the time, if the money is not forthcoming, the man's labor is dd to the government for 40 cents a lay for as inary days as will be neces sary to discharge the obligation. The miserable debtor is sent to the silver mines, where be is chained to a gang of telousand compelled to lalior under ground. He sleeps underground, and uever sees daylight again until he Ls restored to freedom. Not oidy do ig norant Mexicans fall victims to this jruel system of slavery, but foreigners residing in the country occision illy et caught in a. tight glace, aud their creditors send them to the mines where ".he majority of them die. Littlnibiuga. it is the little thiuza of life that '.rouble us more than all things elite. Mr. and Airs. Siuiley were enjoying .neix early eveuing hour on the veranda, hile the silvery moon hnughigh iu the . -iiven. "I declare, Hauuali, this makes mo ih.nii of the days, forty-five years ago, wbiuyouaud I were young, eh?" "Yes, lehabod. It is a reminder. !j melons, the niosqaitoe&l" Mosquitoes! lsuonldsay to. They 1 1 use to trouble no in those days, OI jr, they e'eu a' most eat me np. mere are some thing wane than bt um'mi litoes." " u'liat, I should like to know?" " vVell, one of 'em is a spoony old luan " Ti evening wbiled away, the moon still lighting the old couple's facce. but they were sad at heart aud heavy. Moen'i.to s and sentiment will not mix. It liu't what yuci are, but what you appear to ) . Let the hg'it of reason shine ou ail four actions. NEWS IN BRIEF. - Italy has 4,S0o,ouO lemon trees. I'rauce is decreasing in population. A war is raging among Pittsburg fish dealt rs. There aie ou.uuu tieesin the sUeets of Washington. British postal savings bauks have JJ23,6o?,S05 on deposit. The fortune of the Marquis of li.l'on is ti00,0uo a year. Good crops aud prosperous moan a" operations are reported from Arizona. A marked falling off in the con sumption ot alligator skin leather is reported. - The l.'iutcd States no fuiulsba one-half of the world's suudIv of 2oid and silver. Whooping cough Uon the rampage in Tallahassee, Fla.. but no deaths are reported yet Irwlu, Penii.. boasts ot aone-armed bicyclist, and Chicago claims a bicyclist' wiu a corK leg. It is claimed the exieriment .of making black glass from shale hits pro ven successful. Nearly forty -nine milliou dollars are on deposit in the savings banks ot -e Hampshire. It is expected that river fire boat? will soon be added to the fire denart- ment of Chicago. Passengers bvthe overland route to Portland from San Francisco make the trip now in about 59 hours. A ee stung a little New Orleans girl recently on the ball of the eve.com pletely destroying the sight. Iowa hin 3.1 y cattle to the suuaia mi'e, alaiger uuniber, it is said, thau iuy onier t;tte in the country. 4 n!y about one-sixth of the coun ties in Georgia, it is said, have failed to adopt either prohibition or high license. Ants are said to iuide well diirzers iu selecting spots in Dakota, as the lit tle toners themselves build over water veins. A lesideut of Geddes. Ouoiidav'a county, X. Y.. is reported to have sold his wife for five dolli-.ts. savins' he "was hard up." "-lureoii iioLii Lake Ontario axe .-aid I manufactured Into "smoked halibut" to as great ac extent as the real article. 1-oc o'Ood.?aid to be iluiiifeiioua ta Nevada, is reli.-hedbv horsea,aud brings ou a species of mild msaiiitv which lasts some days. Nine Brooklyu saloon-keepers, who were charged with selling ou Sunday. surrendered their licenses recently rather than stand trial. During all seasons ot the ear. it is said, the earth at Yakutsk, Mberia, U irozen at troni the depth f bfty feet to that of about 1,IM feet. New Bedford. Mass.. carueuters suingied one aide of the root of a house lfore they discovered they were work ing on the wrong building. Bald headed ineu are so numerous in Chicago thatau audience in thatcitv is said to look, when viewed from atxive. like a cobble-stone pavement. A teller in a Providence bauk wad x few days ago to be made cashier, but instead languished in jail for beiutr a defaulter in the sum of $.".2,000. The die from which the Fiankhu ceut was made is now used, the X. Y. TrVjune says, as a paper-weight lu a hardware bouse in New Haven. The Kentucky State Prison con tains 73 prisoners sentenced for lire t-rnis. This, it is said, the largest numtier in any prison in the country. A pair of steel boiler heads, 10-J in ches in diameter and one-hall inch thick, were rolled at the '"pang ."-teel and Iron Works, Pittsburg, recently. Michigan holds the chuuipioushii.' of The union as a shingliug manufact uring Slate. From l,r4j establish ments 4,717,011 are made per an num. A toiler nuK proprietor, iu whose establishment iu Chicago a girl was su- riou.'ly injured a short time ao, has paid over to her parents jfliMJ is dam ages Not a single fire that lequlied the services of the firemen has occurred in Pittsburg for one week, an iucident that has not occurred there before foi years. Of the long roll of Eugli.-li sover eigns, only nine have surpassed tueea V ictoria In longevity, aud uul turee have occupied the throue longer thau she has. The degree of doctor of laws which the University of Chili has just con ferred on Dr. Igan, our Minister at Santiago, Is the first it h.wever given to a foreigner. Fires have been discovered ou two different British war vessels a ll-ruia da, recently, and the authorities Kit said to ascribe them both to the agency of dynamiters. A scheme 's being agitated iu Pitts burg to create the ortlce of purchasing agent, the duties of which shall be the buying of the supplies for the various city departments. A meteor, which appeared to be about the size of a flour barrei, was seen flying through the air recently b. -everal residents of Sherman and Mc Kinney, Texas. A colored man, residii' in Little Hock, Arkansas, studied law while in business as a shoe dealer, was admitted to the bar and has now beeu elected a police justice. Moequitos have put in au unusual appearance at some of the seashore re sorts, but the man who iusists on taking a o!l of votes on the Presidential ques tion will not turn up. The largest business ever doue by the United States Patent Office, it is said, was that of April, wheu there were 3153 applications for patents and $100,040 received for fees. An engineer employed tor the past 20 years on ? Georgia railroad claims to have traveled during that period a dist ance equal to aboii tunes the cir cumference of the earth. An average of I'j cents a pound was realized in Chicago for the several tons of cherries shipped there recently from San Francis.:o. The grower's profit by the transaction is estimated at about $100 a ton. The despatch announcing the din ner of the Derby races was flashed from Londou to New York, says the Journal of that city, in two seconds, the tim being carefully computed. A Boston city hospital nuise of large experience says that pure alcohol is the best thing to use to prevent bed sores, as it hardens the skin. It should be applied by rubbing three times a day.
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