1 ': 8CHWEIER, the ooisnnrnoi the innoi aid tee ehoeoeiceit op tee lavs. Editor and Proprietor. 7 VOL. XXXIX. i i MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. W tfDNESDAY. OCTOBER 21, ISS5. NO. 43. WTOC4.TIOH. i - i Wakened the Ufa below? O wind, .oft wind of the South! Come, scatter th, tr,ur. Budu for the bending hough. O wind, chill wind of the Eatl A roisterer from afar; Hipping aad dark from Neptune's feast, rboucomeet. and lo! whfte waVjTlik. Foam o'er the harbor bar. O wind, warm wind ot the Wert! , oy w the summer-tide hoars! ?omt thou hither at love's bene. To woo with a .mile the clad earth", breast. Sweet with the aoent of flower,? O winds four winds of heaven! Sweet earth'. olu Krinm. T-l fro beyond our k..o, llTJ l of men?' Kribt hra.ing on your wingrt DISCOYEKED L THE. Some three milea Vuank wum Hum our eas- tern coast, just within sight and scene of the salt water. Im a s,,(T ;n ynford by name, or whose scattered population four-fifths find their livine and rent their . 6 - ' "uum scattered population four-fifths find their livine and centre their material Interest upon that broad area they call "the land A sleepy parish. An unemotional COnfirretration of .1 By no means, indeed! Wynford has de cided opinions, brisk little quarrels, many social grades of its own, and has', moreover, its full quantum of human joys and sorrows; perhaps.hidden amonz ireover, its lull quantum of human s and sorrows; perhaps.hidden among sober generations, some tragedies, d to a certainty now and then, a bit lis sober generations, some tragedies, and to a certaintv now and then, a hit of romance. On Wynford green, near the flintr towered, thatch-naved St- Nicholas's cluster ail the dwellings of the rural upper ten, from the small white villa of a late shopkee;r's buxom widow close by the rectory, to the red brick ri-ii j 1 in i nf a vi.a sntii-ala vwlit Mrs Orde from whose casement one can look across the narrowing road into some twenty acres of park, where stands I - the chief house of the parish, the "Bee J I ebes." 1 Here lived the lady of the manor. 1 Not a stately, exacting dame, ruling i I jealously over a tribe of bobbing, hat- ) touching rustics, but a youn? and beau tiful woman, who inherited through t f her mother, a position none ever needed ; w gruaije ner sweet auu uuuic naiui-. to I, seems part of Wynford's very self, Mr. Murray," explained Mrs. Or de to the newly come rector, on his Oxford fellow, who, in sudden impa tience at the bareness of bx)k life, had deserted it for the opposite extreme a moderate living in the. depths of the country. "The people think so much of ter and she of them tnat I fear it will be a lamentable day wheu my son t-jbo hr from us." Ul CI vaai viio ukwsuu "Your son?" repeated Mr. Murra, politely almost more than politely, attentive "Yes, from India. He returns soon to rob your parish of its mistress. You bad not beard this? Oh, well, I th.nk our clergyman ought to understand what is goiug on among us. It makes him more at ease, does it And with the friendly view of furthering this friendly pleasant footing, Mr Or de chatted complacently into account, of the neighboring family. t0-J bow a Mr. Temple, well connect U but of no fortune, had nianied the tarn of Wynford manor, who sadly eno, gn had died, when their one child Agatha, remembrances of two near bis PftJf ied) every vous irmon, syllable of his wandered from pointed aiteniioi', j ap vltCSoftenogether. -ture.y I see l lhem sisters." both TWjoS "half M-r -So tey are-aH" Je exclaimed Orde ,ady . f)llynedap.i Miss Uttle. Agjuser than Miss InieBberchUd J poorlUtugI Iler Temple by five years fer died tone av;nf eonne, ast provision tori be , lor be bad only a SM were .h." So bis wiaow au dau2hter XMiss tUe 2lSelS and geuerou, -Which was' ---- ntus before .'Four yea ago six u was ourIr? W stant justwben my excent a'owyrfSy." horde's !Brt rf.M-.ee only ,lv triumpbDt iof reason 11,0(3 n By 8on, PSits sources lfor ber nJwaoed heras bad ff" hood-bad wooe . btr first ffwtenWorddeali yet only w5J syllabi, an ..n ine trusted ewj na0oe no d --v,t any &ynthaancome8I shall when Geoffrey left Tm. member, bo cried JnciL no Pray, wrote to him and beezed f hinVV' come Wir . . u eegea him to him? Who- llgen 8houW t r "'u"-hl Scaddalmonger!" cried wise. sea forever tV1,d " tne sea forevor n . . "l" across tne whaUhaTl i Uke you "1 Th- u3o Liu we come back. MdAnnt n WUlbe 80 mUCn yOU waitat'en, U d"(Aunt Helen 1? Vlstant relative companion now IVKOn riAn. a.'. "mo ui ny. Mind, you are not to mi ne. euner." Leonie gave a disconsolate shn f ,U"i ue'? wm to with . rod she'i7t-x .f?8 101)8 Kd.but ahe s like Mrs. Orde, and knows I'm poor and andha'ii " . , my glove and be industnous." Agama s dark eyes rested lovingly onher sister's young face, so like her B lle hers were often grave, lie industrious, little woman," she "U'lw''w mother1 tenderness. We richer folks have no right to be iazv, but wait a moment," as Leonie crumpled her head into negative wrink- led nw "wo n'. . 11 ... . io.ua, --ouinoone L,ino, will trouble you about being Poor. You know how often I have been letter writing lately? Well, it was for you. And to-day all is settled, lou are independent enough, now with all that my careful guardians have! been saving for your fortune. I wan ted to tell vou berore Geoffrey came home. Xow you know and we will sav no more about it" "But I must!" cried Leonie, clasp ing bar sister impetuously. o, Agatha how good you are to me I How can I thank you? Why, every single thing I have, I owe to you!"' "There is no owinz between our father's children," answered Agatha, yielding herself to a shower of grateful caresses, "so there's nothintr in nac back and 1 want no thanks; only, please Itaaiv !,;. . 4. : 1 1 w . rr-j una BCTjrtri, uil 1 am gOu3." TiIl you are Ronel" echoed Leouie, kinder than ever. Just before you so. is . . urewuui: 1 nope you may ue nappy, but I shall be miserable I When that horrible man comes, I'll try not to be wicked, but I shall de-test him!" When Mr. Orde really did return, thfli Misa TAiniA 9pvinlMi him n iesl. ouslv cool reception, vastly amusing to those accustomed to her natural warm hearted frankness; but, fully occupied in his attention to his fiancee, the gen tleman appeared perfectly callous to .this ungracious treatment. So, per ceiving to her amazement, that she was receding into the usual position of a nonentity, the younger Miss Temple was piquej into becoming her own self 1of finer fall her droll mu'k of reremonv and slipping again into the old bright ways that made tier wnat Againa can ed, "the sunshine of the Beeches." ITatinirher aleter'a fntnre husband was unprofitable work; now, in a fit of re- pentent amiability, sue resoivea 10 please him. By the time this happy reformation was effected, Mr. Orde had been back a month, and had discovered the value of the prize he had come home to fetch. Five years had changed the girl friend he had left, into a beautiful woman, whom he was bound to love, not by i.mmiae or.lv. but bv keen appreciation of her worth, grown now and ripened even as she herself- And for weeks his task seemed very easy, while to Agatha, increasing knowledge of her etrothed increased her happiness. Of a surety the course of their love prom-t-si run smooth. Proud Mrs. Orde's air of dignified gratulation over her sou's excellent match, grewday by day; the village grew interested in mo cu n-o.l.lin j Ann the bride-elect began lo be busy exceedingly over plans for ner wide circle of humble friends well doinz while she should be away. Jes-tin-ly, Geoffrey Orde would tell her he crml'ed the time she spent in confabu lations with Aunt Helen over the many : t. tfi- in her or the rector's irUbia w ic " -- - , . . hands, but the eaeer confidence with which she would sees 10 araw umi hum her projects, and her delight in his ap : -.cmeH him of any passing chagrin and left him no shadow of ex cuse for complaint. They were all of them certainly very hAKt-y-perfectly content. And yet - . f - aVv none H.w a clouu roMe uu w " i- Thn whom it over- of all For. ." I Hiuie to g we iuw lyouie s the free w nsomeness Ih U kept her childish spite of ber nin hi.il ri" nMKiitw almost as beTeonipanion as Agatha's, he Ll been tond of him long ago, and fnotticr duty to be fond of him wai it noi .,,,.. this dntv To wliai precOT ' ri her she didn't stop to measure. 1 J ill thev were uufathomible. uritil, alasl they were A7 m AgaUi felt himself 'Ttott pleWUy abused, in the sfe ITLLnnn of her younger sister auimaiu .. xf..vja warm weeks were entered ana n fixed tne "J, i j troth; that was I m ir Leoaie'i gay nature was ,be charm ViiL,B,rravitv oi' that "Th Z owed aTleguu,ce. But not to which he owea a to hluiseu Pthink ," urged hismotteranxious- tne Beecnes. ... vou onie- i said her ton, shortly. "And why? ot je it, WL5? may-it least they do, Other people may- notice iu oniirely above my wretch-SdV.Onle.iinPat,ent- o.-ii T should be sorry," his mother "Still,. I ah";"" ghoulJ eyen Krve that, o t money ghe de. i" ymI an? Human wwtuio va e the best y warmly - f.- Mrs. uroe uu I tbougb the ambiguous speech be nay, be vowed StUl, he aDd, strongin M- be ouW Vert dly to the Beeches, trnsUwentex step, watching for Leonie's coming made indefinitely glad by the danger ous hour's music which unsuspecting Agatha pressed on them while she gave audience to homely guests. . That hour he vowed, though should be his last of dalliance with a tempta tion that was getting too strong. Reso lutelyhe would avoid Leonie hence forth, resolutely devote himself to Agatha, And so for lays he did, dull ing his own spirit into unutterable achine. bewildering Agatha, who thought the two had quarreled, and Billing np with pain unspeakable, the heart that was just learning its luckless secret. "How the child frets over your leav ing!" said Aunt Helen, pityingly; and Leonie's sister, gating at her, white and listless, wandering through the garden, wondered, with a sudden fear, was It for that alone she sorrowed. A doubt, double-barbed, shot through ber mind. Guiltless herself of falsity in a single thought, it seemed unworthy evil, treasonable to two she loved. But truth or treason it must be. Which, for the peace of all, she must find out. It wanted only two days of her mar riage, and on the last evening but one her nearest friends were gathered at the Beeches, all noticing approvingly the close attendance of Mr. Orde at her side Once only be left his post, when Le onie, who bad obstinately refused a single song, suddenly yielded and sang, not the gay air that used to suit ber best, but tbe very saddest of her strains with a tremulous pathos that ended in a sob. Then Geoffrey Orde drew slowly towards her, as if scarce master of his steps, and, as tbe notes ceased, looked down into her fever-bright eyes with such a glance of love as Agatha had never awakened. Standing near with his young hostess was the rector, looking ten years older than when he came to Wynford. Peo ple said the place couldn't suit him. "Your sister sings with tears in her voice," said he, and, waiting vainly for response, saw to his pain that tears were trembling too, on his companion's dark lashes. "I am tired." said Miss Temple. "Will you tell Aunt Helen to bid all good night for me?" and, turning swift ly away, abruptly left her guests, of whom one departed soon, sharing, if not comprehending, the pang that drew ber into solitude. "She was tired" a plea that barred all talk with Leonie that night, all share in next day's preparations for the festive to-morrow. Geoffiey Orde. coming as usual, early, was met by a message only "Would he return towards evening?" And when he did return, for the first time Agatha de scended from ber own room and went for a last hour with her lover. Leonie too restless for all company, wandered hither and thither; now flush ed, now pale; betaking herself at last to the small "study," where, with her more than sister she had worked and played her way from childhoood up to now, and thence, with door fast locked, she watched two figures pace across the lawn. Intent on speech so earnest neither turned or noticed her. A book was In her hands; what book she never knew. A rose she had idly plucked fell to the ground uncared for As the two passed from sight, the self control, so difficult to her impulsive ness, forsook her utterly. Back into the room she shrank, covering her face with a sharp cry of pain, whispering, "So false! so false! Ten thousand times I bavd deserved it all. And yet it is so hard!" While she sat shivering through her troubles, sunbeams sank into twilight wood pigeons cooed from their slumber songs in boughs without, and in tbe gloom she dared at last to weep for herself; for him who, worst pang of all shared her great grief; for Agatha, be fore tbe very thought of whom she cowered guiltily. But she shall never, never knew!" she cried, through her tears. "If only she can go and I can die why, she need never know." "Xever kjow what?" said a soft, sad voice close by her; and the next instant Ieonie was in her sister's arms. "O, Agatha," she entreated, striving to get free, "let me go! Don't come so kindly to me! Don't ask me what I mean!" "Wait!" answered Agatha, with a wonderful calm on her pale face. "I can tell you, Leonie, what it all means, That two of us have nigh made a mis take, but have found it out in time. 1 was slow to see it, Lono, but I know it now. I have no right to Geoffrey. He loves you best." "Agatha!" "Hush! He belongs to you, not me. It has been a tangled skein for us, but this is the only right way out of it; and Geoffrey sees that it Is so." 'But Aeatha," urged Leonie, trem bling between exceeding pain and mar vellous joy, "he has never said" "A word. 1 know he has not. Both of you meant to be faithful to me. I'erhaps" with a wistful faltering in her voice "it was my fault be could not be. There darling, there!" as Leonie wept passionately on ber bosom "let Geoffrey come to you" (his step was sounding on the path outside). "and thank God for all of us, this hour Is not too late!" How this extraordinary news was re ceived, by poor, disappointed Mrs. Or de, by the whole startled parish, we must leave to our readers' imaginations. Lone before the ferment of excitement had subsided, a quiet marriage bad taken place so Agatha had willed it and all yielded to ber and with his bride, (not portionless, as, to his con trite surprise and his mother's comfort, he discovered) Geoffrey Orde was speed ing away to the far east. Till the hubbub of discussion was past. Agatha Temple deserted The Beeches, and, returning alter weess oi absence, brought back in ber brave serenity, scarce a trace of the trial that had driven her away. "Leenle Is happy I" she says, and al lows no one to blame ber sister in her bearing. Perchance her home, her people mate up to her what she lost. Perchance the verv power to renounce what she did, wakens mistrust as to her fitness ever to have filled the state she missed. Or perchance (and this way run many wishes), it may t dawning on her, that womanhood's fair crown is yet waiting. if she will but wear; it that in her hands lies all the happiness of a man who has loved ber from the first moment he saw ber, and that tbe sure response stirring within her own heart promises her yet a glad future as John Murray's wife. Out in the world men show ns two ides of their character : by their fire- aides only one. Dnty. The bright sunlight of a clear April morning was stealing in through the half closed shutters of the parlor of Widow Clayton's pleasant home, and lighting with occasional flashes of the fine face of Albert Marshall, as he paced restlessly across the room, and encir cling with a halo of golden light tbe bowed head of the young girl half re clining in tbe low window seat. Out of doors all was bright and beau tiful, scarcely in harmony with the sorrowing excitement which was con vulsing every Federal heart, for the electric wires had born to every part of tbe north the tidings of the defeat of her sons by the Confederates. It was that which lighted up Albert Marshall's face with such stern en thusiasm, and caused his restless move ments across ttie sun-lighted room. "It has become a matter of duty now," he was saying with sparkling eyes; "the best blood of our native state has been shed by the rebels and it is time that every man who can shoulder a musket should use it to re dress tbe wrong! My place Is in the ranks, and I cannot shrink from duty now. Do you bid me go, Genie? Are you willing I should go?" "flow can you ask it?" she said at last, with lips which quivered in spite of her efforts at self-control. "You know full well I should never be wil ling. "Xot when you know it is my duty, and that I should be proving myself a coward and traitor to shrink from it?" he said earnestly. "It is not duty," she answered im patiently; "it is only a boyish enthu siasm in you a love of change and ex citement." "Only a boyish enthusiasm! O. Ge nie," he said, reproachfully, "bow lit tle you understand the feelings of a man in such a moment as this, when our country's dag has been torn down and defied. I must go, Oenie! I cannot shrink from the duty so sternly impos ed! In oue month, Genie," he resumed "you were to have been my wife, and I came here this morning to ask you to forestall that time and become mine before we part. Shall it be so, darl ing?" He bent tenderly over her, awaiting her answer. For a minute or two she remained silent; then raising her head, and turn ing towarl him a face white with In tense feelmg, she said with passionate earnestness: "Xo; not now, nor ever, if you persist in this mad scheme." He rose slowly to his feet and stood with folded arms sternly regarding her. There they stood, face to face; his re vealing sorrow, disappointment and surprise hers firmness, scorn and de fiance. "Virginia," he said at length, in slow, measured tones, "what am I to understand by this?" "Just what I have said; if you persist in this, our engagement is broken for ever! The man whom I marry must love me well enough to be willing to sacrifice his wishes to mine, and not for a little vain glory, rush headlong into danger, from which reason and judg ment would restrain him." "And this is your final decision?" be asked coldly. "It is; you can take your choice remain at home and I will be your wife at the appointed time, but persist in this absurd scheme of leaving home and friends from a mistaken idea of duty, and we part forever, for I must stand first; no other love must come be tween me and the man I marry." Very, very eloquently he pleads with her, portraying in vivid colors all the necessities of the case; but all in vain. "As well as I have loved you, Vir ginia," he said at last, finding all his efforts useless, "as well as I love you now, I cannot falter In the path of duty. I must go; I cannot forsake my ceuntry in ber hour of need!" "Very well; you have made your choice; do not blame me if you regret it." Slowly and deliberately she took the engagement ring from ber finger and held It towards him. For a moment he stood silently re garding her as she held the ring out toward him, with that cold, stern look on her face; then taking it, be cast it to the farthest end of the room. "Thus would I cast out from my heart," he sald.bltterly, "every thought of a woman so nnworthy my love, that at the moment when I needed love and sympathy most, sternly withheld them except on condition of my becoming a coward and a traitor! I wish you joy of your freedom. Miss Clayton." He bowed haughtily and turned to leave tbe room, but his better nature triumphed; he could not leave in scorn and anger the woman he had loved better than his own life, even though she bad proved herself unworthy. An other moment and he was oeaide her, fondling her in bis arms with all his old tenderness. "May heaven forgive you, Geuie." he said, sorrowfully, "the great wrong you are doing us both One day you will think differently from what you do now. Heaven bless you!" And with a hurried Kiss be was gone. With eyes half blinded with tears she watched him until he was lost to her sight; then, burying ber face in the sofa cushions, gave way to a passionate burst of weeping. For three long months Virginia Clayton had lived in alternate hope and fear; and now the terrible battle of Bull Run had been fought. She knew the Sixteenth was engaged in it; three days' ha 1 passed, and with what tidings of one member of that iegimeut you and I can imagine, who have waited thus for tidings of one dearer than our lives. At last, among a list of wounded men conveyed to tbe various Washington hospitals, she read, with a sharp pain at ber heart, " Japtain Albert Mar shall, in the breiist, seriously!" Neither pride nor selfishness could keep her from blm now, and in six and thirty hours she stood in tbe office of the hospital, inquiring for Captain Marshall. Whether she were wife, sweetheart or sister, the attendant could not have told; but tbe pale face, inten sely brilliant eyes, and the half-faltering accents ot the voice, told that she was one whose happiness hung upon bis answer; and his tone softened while the usual abruptness of his manner be came gentle almost as a woman, as his lips spoke the words which crushed her last hope: "Died this morning at ten." There was no outcry trom the pale lips; only a hand of iron teemed grasp ing her heart a terrible weight bad fallen upon her brain, crushing every feeling. Then slowly as if every limb was turned to stone, she moved me chanically towards the door. Some one from the outside opened it before she reached 1L Without looking np she stepped aside but the new comer seemed in no haste to pass, and for an instant both stood silently, until ber name, spoken In terms which filled every fiber of her heart, caused ber to raise her eyes with a sud den start of glad surprise; for there, before ber, in health and strength,stood the man she mourned as dead. Joy seldom kills, but tbe sudden reaction of feeling left her faint and weak, and she would have fallen had not his arm lent a willing support An half hour later, seated together in a private parlor of an hotel, when their mutual explanations were over, she believed herself to be the happiest woman in all the world. So sudden, so unexpected bad this happiness come that she almost feared lest it should slip again from her grasp, and her heart went up to heaven in earnest thanks giving for this great blessing while she humbly prayed to be made worthy of it. The mistake which bad caused her so much sorrow was occasioned by her ignorance of the fact that Albert Mar shall had a cousin bearing the same name as himself, an officer in a western regimeut, who had received his death wound in the same battle from which he had escaped unhurt. In reading the name Virginia had never stopped to see that the regiment was not the one for which she was looking; but she never regretted the mistake which bad so efiectually cured ber of her pride and selfishness, which had been the curse of her life. If hat Hlrtirr KdoMUoa Mean. When a higher education is deman ded, for any class of persons as wom en it means that it has become desir able to train their faculties for more difficult work than that traditionally assigned to them, and also that it is desirable to enable them to get more enjoyment out of any woik that they do. Tbe necessary correlative of tbe possession of powers is the opportunity for their exercise. Tbe existence of a larger class of effectively educated women must increase their demand foi a larger share . in that part of the world's work which requires trained intelligence. Of this, literature and other art are one, and only one, por tion. The work of the professions, ol the upper regions of industry, com merce and finance, the work of scien tific and of political life, is the work appropriate to the intelligences which have proved themselves equal to a course of training at once complex and severe. A person destined to receive a superior edui a:ion is expected to de velop more vigorous menial force, to have a larger mental horzon, to han dle more complex masses of ideas, than another. From the beginning, there fore, he must not merely receive useful information, but be habituated to per form difficult mental operations, for only in this way can tbe sum of mental power be increased. The order, ar rangement and sequence of the ideas be acquires, must be carefully planned as is the selection of the ideas themselves, liecause uponthisorder ami internal pro Hrtion his mental horizon depends. He must be trained in feat) ot sus tainel attention, and in the collocation and association of elementary Ideas into complex combination Since ideas are abstractions from sense-ier ceptions, he must be exercied in the acquisition of accurate, rapid, far reaching, and delicate sense-perceptions, in their memorization, and in the representative imagination which may recall them at will, and be able to abstract fr m them, more or less re motely ideas. Habits ef association of ideas must be formed, and of pleasure in their contemplation. And very early must be offered to the child problems to be solved, either by purely mental exertion, or by that combined with mental labor. A Oinl Find of Ancient RMorcIl la Ktypt. More than 3), 000 fragments of an cient records have been dug up from the sands of Egypt, where they have rested embalmed during nine centuries, not very much the worse for their Inter ment. The history of these venerable documents is remarkable. Prof. Kara bacek supposes that they must at one time have formed part of the public archives of 1 Fayoum, and that tbe bulk of those archives perished in a great conflagration, such as destroyed the great library at Alexandria. The fellaheen of those days seem to have risen in revolt against their natural enemy, the tax gatherer, and possibly they associated together the tax collec tor and tbe archives as emblems of the same extortion. If Prof. Karabaeek is right, they set fire to El Fayoum and its documentary treasures without compunction, and these 30,000 papyri and parchments, some of them charred by tbe fire, alone remain ot the collection. Prof. Kara baeek and his coadjutors will have their hands full of work for some time to come in classifying what has come to their bands. The piofessor makes a preliminary division ef the manuscripts into groups comprising eleven diffeient languages, more than one of which will be absolutely new to the well-educated reader. It Is not surprising to learn that tbe key for deciphering those ot the manuscripts which are styled Mero-itio-Ethiopean has yet to be discovered. Merely to decipher those fragments which are written in the more familiar tongues of Coptic, Hebrew, Syriac, Per sian and Arabian requires polyglot ac complishments far from common even among German scholars. The very papyri on which most of these records are written are standing evidences of tbe oppression to which the fellah was subjected. Tbe manu facture and sale of papyrus was a State monopoly, and it ended, as monopolies often do, m driving trade elsewhere. Tbe day when paper began to Uke the place of the papyrus plant was perhapt tbe seal of the commercial decline ol Egypt. But that all refinement was not crushed out of the Egyptians who peopled El Fayoum, may be inferred from the numerous fragments of man uscripts of authors compr.sed in the collection. Among them is a unique specimen of ancient manuscript s fragment of Tbucydides, supposed to be earlier by seven oenturies than the earl iest extant manuscript of that author. Altogether, the El rayoiim archive may be expected to prove one of the most wonderful discoveries in this agt of discoveries. "War, my dear fellow, your baby it just the image of yonf" entbusiastieall exclaimed the friend of a newly-made , father. "Ton 're very kind to say so but if ycu mean to insinuate that 1; look like teat dough-faced lump of ha nut nock your head off!" aviinnv aa rari'-oi Nature has many surprises for tha who wait on her. Oue of the greatest she ever favored me with was the suht of a wounded Magellanic eagle-owl 1 shot on the Rio Negro, in Patagonia, The haunt ot this bird was an island in the river overgrown with giant grasses aud tail willows, leafless now, for it was in the middle of the winter. Ileie I sought for and found him waiting on his perch for the sun to set. He eyed me so calmly when I aimed my gun I scarcely bad the heart to pull tbe trig ger. He had reigned there so long, the feudal tyrant of that remote wil derness! Many a water rat, stealing like a shadow along the-margln between the deep stream and the giant rushes, he had snatched away to death; many s spotted wild pigeon he woke on its perch at night with his cruel crooked talons piercing its flesh; and beyond tbe valley on the bushy uplands many s crested tinamon had been slain on hei nest and beautiful, glossp, dark-green eggs left to grow pale in the sun and wind, tbe little lives that were in them dead because of their mother's death. But I wanted that bird badly, aud hardened my heart; tbe "demoniacal laughter" with which be had so often answered the rushing sound of the black swift river at even-tide would be beard no more- I fired; he swerved on his porch, remained suspended for a fen moments, then slowly fluttered down. Behind the spot where he had fallen was a great mass of tangled dark-green grass, out of which rose tbe tall, sleu ber boles of the trees; overhead through the fretwork of leafless twigs the sky was flushed with tender roseate tints, for the sun had now gone down and the surface of the earth was in shadow. There, in such a scene, and with the wintry quiet of the desert over it all, I found my victim, stung by his wounds to fury and prepared for tbe last su preme effort. Even in repose he is a big, eagle-like bird; now bis appearance was quite altered, and in the dim, un certain light be looked gigantic in size a monster of strange form and terri ble aspect. Each particular feather stood out on end, the tawny barred tail spread out like a fan, the immense tiger-colored wings wide open and rigid, so that as the bird, that bad clutched the grass with his great feathered claws, swayed his body slowly from side to side just as a snake about to strike sways his head, or as an angry, watch ful cat moves its tail first the tip of one and then of the other wing touched the ground. The black horns stood erect, while in the center of the wheel-shaped head the beak snapped incessantly, producing a sound resembling the clicking af a sew ing machine. T his was a suitable set tiuz for the pair of magnificent furious eyes, on which I gazed with a kind of lascinatiou not unmixed with fear when 1 remembered the agony of pained suf fered on former occasions from sharp, crooked talons driven into me to the bone. Tbe trtdes were of a bright orange color, but every time I attemp ted to approach the bird they kindled into taeit globes of quivering yellow flame, tbe black pupils being surround ed by a scintillating crimson light which threw out. minute- yellow sparks into the air. When 1 retired from the bird this preternatural fiery aspect would iurtanlly vanish. KfaKlWb Aknjcuitae aud Paopl. The rapid spread of the English lang uage ami of English-speaking peoples has teen one of the marvels of the past 111 ty years. The following is the most complete and comprehensive statement of the facts in the case which we remem ber to have seen in so small a compass: "The language in which Shakes(eare sud Milton wrote was the language ol but five or six millions of people in their day, and as late as 100 years ago English was spoken by not more than l.),ouu,000 people. At the same period French was the mother tougue of at least 30,000,000, and German, in one or other of Its forms, was the language ot from 3o,rK),000 to 40,000,000 iople. "This state of affairs is now com pletely reversed. Between forty and titty years ago the English language equaled the German in the number of those who spoke it, and now the latter is left far behind in the race. German is stioken by 10,000,000 persons in the Austria-Hungarian empire, 40,000,000 in the German empire, 40,000 ui Bel jium, 2,000 000 in Switzerland, and is the native tongue of some 2,000,000 in the United States and Canada. This gives a total of about 60,000,000 per sons who may speak German. " (V ith the French the case is much the same, but tbe gain during tbe past century has been smaller than that of German. French is now spoken bv the SS.000,000 people of France, by 2,250, U00 in Belgium, 200,000 in Alsace-t-orraine, 600,000 in Switzerland, 1, 500,000 In Canada and the United States, 600,000 in Hayti, and 1.500,000 in Algiers, India, the West Indies, and Africa; in aU about 42.000,000. "English is now spoken by all but )ine 500.000 of the 37.OU0.0OO persons in the British Inlands, 53,000,000 out of the 50,0110,000 Inhabitants of the Uni ted States, 4,000,000 persons in Canada, 3,000,000 in Australasia. 1,700,000 per sons In tbe West Indies, and perhaps 1,000,000 in India and other British colonics. This brings up the total to li)0,000,000. which cannot be very tar from the truth. Anil-rat Mamediaa. Germany has produced two wonderful anti-fat cures. England has furnished many anti-fat medicines. The United State's have recently come forward proudly and triumphantly with many a "Sure-jure for obesity." In the very natuie of things it is not possible that a medicine, patent or otherwise, should be the true treatment for obesity. True it is that the use of drugs will remove flesh; the persistent use of cathartics will rapidly reduce tbe avoirdupois. It does this by spoiling the digestion. All medicines which reduce the flesh, operate in the same wav, by injuring the digestion. Certain Euglish and German author ities prescribe a peculiar dietary. Some fat pei sons may be reduced in this way without serious injury to tbe health, but, as stated in a former paragraph, the true system is to simply eat what agrees with you, in such reduced quan tities that your weight will lessen, say a pound a week. Vou poor, waddling, wheezy, sveitlng, disgusted victims will say, of c jurse, that yon have tried this, and got ratter every day. Pardon me, you have done nothing of the kind. You know perfectly well if yonr horse Is too fat yon reduce him by less food and morn work. You know too that if yon weigh two hundred pounds and wish to weigh one hundred and seventy that you can secure the change by lass food and mora work- Alptaa CIIaiDcra. It costs from 40 to 50 to make the ss.-ent of Mont Blanc Etch person must have a guide and a porter to carry j luggage, provisions, etc. The luggage is iimueo to rourteen pounds lor eacn persou Ou the afternoon of the first day the party a-ceads generally by the Pavilion of the Pierre Polntue, a series of huge pointed rocks, where the first rest is taken, to tbe Grand Mulets, where the night is passed in two stone huts orcabanes, as they are called. We say the night, properly only a portion of the night, for the party is roused by the guides as early as 1 o'clock in the morning Tor the start. An American gen tleman, who made the ascent some twenty years ago, gave a thrilling account of the night s;ent on the Grand Mulets. "After the snn went down." he said, "we sat along time on the narrow led;e of rock on which the huts are but.'t, to watch the daylight die along the length of tbe valley. All was peace and still ness about us in our isolation. We could hear the tli.kle of bells and see the glimmer of lights in the hotels of the village far below. Looking up, there were ;he three peaks cleaving the star lit sky above us, the Dome du Gouter, Mont Blanc, and the Aiguille du Midi. We shuddered as we thought of what lay between us and those suent summits from which we were. God willing, to see the suu rise over the heights of Italy. Silently we smoked our cigars, watch ing tbe stars thicken and cluster in the darkening sky. The guides gathered about the fire ou which our supper had been prepared, and sat like a weird company smoking their pipes and siug mg wild mountain songs in their strange Swiss pathos. "One by oue we disappeared in the little but, rolled ourselves in our blank ets, and lay down to rest. The songs ceased, the fires went out, aud it drew on to midnight. We could not sleep. Sleep! With the sound of the falling avalanches in the distance thundering and booming in our ears, and feeling as we did that into that wild chaos and fury we were to go out in a few hours? One's courage sinks low, and like the sad, still picture of a lost happiness, all hat Is left behind of love and life comes before us. 'Messieurs? il faut lever!' The voice of t ie guide rings in our ears. In an instant all is action and inspira tion. Ropes, axes, packages, every thing for safety and strength, is arran ged by the guides in the most business like manner. The passages of the broad plateau cf snow, tbe introduction of what can never cease to be a hazardous undertaking is begun. Hours of breath less strain and nerve trying work follow. Deep crevasses, where treacherous chasms are often covered by a fall ot snow, whose lightness is only recogni zed by the eye of the practiced guide, yawn before the careless step. "Iu some portions of the route unbro ken silence is preserved, lest the slight est vibration, even from the voices in that rare atmasphere, might detach au avalanhce of snow and stones trembling in the balance. And then the last des perate climb! A solid wall of ire, which must be met with all the defiant, resolute courage of a man's nature One by one, guide aud traveler alterna ting, clinging and bracing ourselves while the leader cuts the steps in the cold blue ice, we go surely, firmly up." The view, even at its best, is said to e unsatisfactory; only the outlines of the Jura and the Appeuiuesloom dimly ap on account of the areat distance, liut then it is the highest point in Eu roie. Nothing of e.irth stands between oue and the everlasting firmament. It It would seem that one might look into the face of God through the pure ether f that stainless, earth-nd height. Climbers are affected by various emotions, it is said, when this climax of climaxes is attained. Some give way to the most violent demonstrations of toy, singing and dancing like an Indian brave, while others are dazed and stunned at the realization of such high boies. One lady, whose spirit was stranger than her body, was so enthusi astic that when there was danger of ter giving out on the way up, she made the guide promise that, should she die from exhaustion, he wou'd carry her lifeie&s body to the suumt We know of several American gentle man who have made the ascent of Mont Blanc, and in each case they went to Chamoix as ordinary visitors, and were Inspired to undertake the trip by bear ing of the exploits of their predecessors. With members of the Alpine club, who save a yearly meeting in London, this :limbing grows into a piission. Any ne who can, during the summer, reach xnie height whereon the foot of man has never before rested, has an account to give which he considers in some de tree worthy the consideration of his jorps. The word "practicable" is literally sonstrued by these Alpine climbers. Nothing is "impracticable" which is in tbe power of man te accomplish, and nothing is dangerous that can be safely lone. The air at the height of 10 000 r 12,0C0 feet is so refreshing to them that to live in the valley produces the effect of suffocation, and on tbe brink sf a precipice thousands of feet high they are as free from dizziness as in their beds. And so, we find iu their ;lub journal accounts that take away the breath of iee-bound cliffs, mounted jtep by step, as we have said, by the Intrepid guide who clears the way for the party following attached to each other, and to him by ropes tied around the body. Each tnan plants his pick Irmly in the solid ice and rests upon it while the steps are cut. Sometimes one of the party may make a false step, lose his hold, and then it is on the strength of the rope and the nerve of his companions that the safety of all depends. It is but the question af a moment whether Le is to be drawn back into place, or whether he is to drag the whole company to the bottom of the precipice hundreds ot feet below. Ootng tm HonMkptnx. Prince Waldemar, ef Denmark, will be able to go to housekeeping nicely when he is married, next February, to the Princess Marie d 'Orleans. His present allowance, $7,500 a year, will be doubled by his father, and his wife will bring him an income of $4 ),000 a year more, besides being heir to a fortune which in a few years will bring li'AOOO a year. The couple will sind their summers at Sorgenfrie Castle, near Copenhagen, and their winters iu France. "Met is an sppie pie,' said Fogg, ycdng the remarkably flat specimen be iota him, "like a spring?" Nobody Ventured an answer, and Fogg was forced to break the painful alienee by explaining that it could not rise higher than its sauoe. A. herd of antelopes stopped a train in tie Bad Lands recently. A Providence, R. I., woman hat bad a pet turtle for 2 i years. The population of he Russian Em pire is at present i4,u00,000. An ordinary goat gives a quart of milk daily and lives ten years. The great cooks in New York city get from $2,000 to $ t.Ouo a year. There are 750,0i0 more MethodisU than Baptists in the United States. The dogs or Maryland are suppose-) to have killed 6,000 sheep last year. In India the Ganges Canal irrigates 400.000 acres, and is s,-0 miles long. It is stated that Mrs. Lansrrry's re ceipts this season aggregate 2--f,t63. The lace industry in Great Britain employs 9,000 men and 41,000 women. A man became insane in Fresno, Cal., recently while serving on a jury. Jenny Lind, it is stated, still sings occasionally in Putney Church, Lou don. A city of mummies 6,000 in num ber, has been discovered at Ekhnilus, Eiypt In half a century the population of Brooklyn has Increased from 20,000 to 700,000. "Ouida" (Louise de Lt Ilamee). who is nearly 60 years of aire, is soon to be married. Spain has 26,000,uuu less inhabit ants than Germany, but she has 53 more gunboats. Pima county, Arizona, it is claimed, is the oldest mining reaiou in the Uni ted States. The "youngest voluuteer" of the American civil war is asserting himsolr numerously. Rowell has made upward of iHO, OuO out ot the various walking matches he has entered. Sixty million pounds of copper were produced by the Lake Superior mines last year. Old womeu act as ushers iu some of the best theatres in Holland and otner Dutch cities. The word "folk-lore" was coined, it is said, by the late Mr. Thorns, of Xotta and Q'teries. It requires . pouuU of tallow candles to produce as much light l.UOJ cubic feet of gas. During last year 160 manufactur ing and mining corporations were formed in Tennessee. -Traynor, who once crossed the At lantic iu a dory, now proposes to make tbe trip in a row boat. There were over S.OuO.OOO inhabit ants in Ireland in 1S45; there are les than 5,000,000 now. James Riley founded the Universa lis in England in 1760 and John Mur ray iu Boston in 177a It is estimated that over 4,000 per sons are annually buried iu the potter's field of .New York City. The city mission of Berlin circu lates no less than 75,0jO printed ser mons on Sunday morning. About two million sheep are at present in Colorado. The clip this year will be ten million pounds. In Russia 600 soldiers sweep an av erage of oue ton of locusts into ditchm Ier day, and destroy them. The Sandwich Islanders have a base ball league, the champion club of which is the Oceanic of Honolulu. Statistics show that England is in creasing her population ten times as fast as France and Spam. For a wager of two dollars a resi dent of Danbury, Conn., swallowed a small live frog recently. The Miami University at Oxford, O., was reopened recently after having been closed for twelve years. A colored man in Richmond has invented a razor-proof suit, which is to be worn at balls and parties. A Boston woman has a "poet's ru;t" made of patchwork cut from the clothes of well-known poets. Houitejpathy was first brought to the world's notice in IS 10. It was in troduced into England in 1827. Riel got the Indians into his rebel lion by promising that whisky should soon sell for a dollar a barrel. The hide of Jumbo weighed 1,600 pouue's. and required a ton of salt and ISO pounds of elm bark to cure it. Thirty-three towns in the White Mountains of New Hampshire take ono million a year from tourist visitors. A gravedigger at Staunton, Va., uow 3 years old, has gathered in the bodies or 70tX) people during his career. Aaron Burr's pistols, which are said to have figured at eleven duels, are owned by Mr. Innls Hopkins, of St. Louis. The geological map of the United StateJ, begun in 1383, has been comple ted and placed in the hands of the en graver. A venerable citizen of Goffstowu, N. n., celebrated his &-th birthday re cently by walking five miles in an hour and a half. There are on the retired list ot the Boston police force about sixty-five pa trolmen, who receive a pension of ft per day The San Francisco papers are err ing out against the burning of 1,000-year-old trees In that State by sheep herders. The Marquis de Podestad, of thn Siainisb Legation in Washington is said to Lie one of the best oarsmen on the Potomac. Cowboys in two sections of Monta na, who lynched thirteen horse thieve in two weeks, claim to have made but one mistake. The Anthropological Congress, which is soon to be held at Rome, will have a feature in the collection of 7a skulls of criminals. Winchester, Va., was raptured and recaptured more than any other city during tbe war. It changed hands 25 times in the four years. Swedish botanists have discovered along a railroad seven species of plants which were unknown to the region It fore tbe track was laid. Seats in the New York Stock Ex change are now worth $.3,000. The price has varied during the pal ten years from 3,500 to $33,0u0. The new railroad construction for the current year to date Is only L67J milet.the smallest business for the same time in any year since 137H. The new assessment of property in Virginia is said to be considered so ax orbitant by many owners that they will appeal to the courts for an abati ment. i. Vy' 6, 'A
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