VOL. XLII1. MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY, PENN A . WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 2, 1SS9. NO. 41. Human tissuej are said to undergo In seven years an entire Changs of parts. Mary Anderson has been for I twice seven year hard at work at her toilsome profession, and now has wisely resolved to take another year of volun tary rest trom the staje, to that fche may avoid any more compulsory re tirements. Tub remainder of the money con tributed to the John-town sufferers, amounting to J 1, UK), 000, will now be distribute by the Coiunibsioo as soon as possible. It is but natural there shot: M be many complaints of delay in making the distribution, but doubtless the gentlemen who have charge of the thankless task did the best they possibly could. The f. inner s are the bottom of the pile and are the sure foundation of business prosperity. Their Cue crops make work tor the railroads. The railroad companies assured of increased earning, make i.ei essary renewals and repair?. The business of the roads arts the nteel oiks and car shops in active operuliou. And so it goes; oilier businesses are stimulated in turn. The farmer is at tl.e bottom of it all. ('apt A Marshall, of the schoo ner T-undseer, which has just returnee, to Gloucester, Mass., from a fishing voyage lo Icehii.il. reisTts the finding of new Ashing grounds 2S miles north east by east of S'kagastraud, and 30 Hides nor! h-north west from Sigleford harbor. They are frcm five to six miles wide, and 14 to 10 miles long. The water varies in depth from 33 to 50 feet. .-; snrrpteepers in TviewTorkbaa a lively time the other night with elec tricity that escaped from a brokeu light wire auit charged awnir.g posts, tin roofs and other attachments to their building with static electricity. "o one was k.TIed, but several people suff ered severe shocks. The trouble occur red during a rainstorm. It should be rememliered that when the wires are wet they :tre especially dangerous, and that metal objects liable to come In contact with them should be avoided or handled with care. Electuic light are said to be as good as policemen, and they are no doubt very useful in protecting partic ular properties withiu the immediate lauge of their rays of light. But what becomes of the burglars and smuIc thieves? They surely are not reformed by the electric lights, but simply change their places or working. So also the electric lights change im moral neighborhoods for the better, but they do not necessarily promote morality. They are useful adjuncts to other means of preventing or exposing cxiiu Lnt iihin more. . It steaks well for a hospital of any medical persuasion when one of the professors in the medical school at tached goes there for care in Lis last illness. How completely is the ancient horror of the hospital, long prevailing among the Ignorant and poor, now set aside by those who are familiar with the good care and kind treatment given in a number cf these institutions here. If they cannot all be endorsed as places where no patient suffers for a glass of water, where strict cleanliness and quiet are the rules, where nurses are gentle and watchful, where the attend ing physicians are neither roughhanded nor lacking Id delicacy, the majority of the healing institutions of Philadelphia are open to the daylight, and the day light or the nighttime tells no stories, but that they are places where a high rank doctor would go for treatment, even if a'l around were ignorant of his rank. Tub American Association for the advancement .f Science has grown fo large that it is almost impossible to get a satisfactory rejiort of its pro ceedings as they take place. One must wait for the publication of the papeis read to learn what they contain beyond the title. At tl.e meeting in Toronto 221 papers were sent in, and the briefest abstracts of these would occupy so much space as to put a report of the proceedings out of the reach of the dally press. It is probably true that many of these papers are of little pub lic interest or value, but it is impossi ble to tell this from a mere list of sub jects, and it would be au enormous labor to winnow the wheat from the chaff. The Association might reach the public to more advantage if its sev eral sections should hold separate an nual meetings in var ous cities, the entire Association assembling only once in five or ten years. Either the London police are very stupid or th8 so-called "Jack the Hip per" is a very shrewd man. The numer ous horrible murders in Whitechapel are all evidently the work or one man, and the absolute failure of the police to apprehend the murderer or even to get anything like a clew, rather points to the stupidity of the police than to very remarkable shrewdness on the part of the fiend who has mutilated so many women. It seems impossible that any man would at Intervals murder a dozeu women in one district of a city and not leave something by which he could be traced. The murder committed quite recently again created great excitement in London, and the ponce wui " called upon to patrol the Whitechapel district, and to arrest & score or more of Innocent people in a haphazard man ner. By the time the excitement has died away and the police nave relaxed their vigilance, ."Jack theBipper," will be ready to kill another woman. There Is something wronff with the London police force. A BRIGHT AMERICAN GIRL. h Raprtwritt Her Country mt th Parla Exposition. Paris, Aug. 9. The only American irlrl officially representing the United States at the Paris exposition is Miss OttUle Thomas. She is a stenographer and typewriter. An American com pany brought her to Paris to exhibit a typewriter. "Oh you speak Enebsh. We are so glad!" was tbe exult tut cry of a group of Americaus who found theuiselve in the Liberal Arts building, where no exhibit attract more attention than the American typewriter. "You are the only American girl we have fooul in charge of an exhibit." MISS OTT1LIK THOMAS. Yes," was the quick lesponse. aud the bright, intelligent face of the young operator dimpled In smiles. "I meet them every day," site eaiL as the delighted tourists moved on. It's always the same cry: "We are so gl id that you speak Engl'sh, and yon are 11 ie only American girl " we have met in charge of an exhibit." A party of Frenchmen now stopped to examine the machine. Id melodious French she explaiueil the instrument to Die In terested listeners. Where di i yon learn French?" "Oh! I studied it at school," was the reply. "When I found out lh.it there was a possibility of being sent to Pari I brushe 1 it up, and, to my surprise, I make myself understood." Miss Thomas is a typical American girl, ot medium height, slender build, with light brown hair and blue eyes. Her fate and manner are most pleasing, tuick, sharp, bright, with keen sense ot the humorous,she Is capable of doing anything she sets out to do. Like moat of her couutry women, tht would tit In any poslti'in wi'h creiit to her woman hood aud her country. "How did you like Taris." Oh, I like it well enough. I don't see much of the city during the day. My ambition has been gratified, however. 1 have acquired sufficient skill on the machine to win my employer's confi dence and to be put in cha-ge of the exhibit, and that was about all I ex pected." "Am you paid the same here as in America?" "Yes. The firm paid my parage over, and I receive the same salary as I did lu Xew York." "lo woman typewriters, stenograph ers, etc., receive the same salaries in Paris as in America?" Mi si Thomas suiiled-a smile of patri otic gratitude. "Well, I should say not," aud tbe jaunty kuot of blue rib bon round the slender neck paid the penalty or its mistress' fervor. "French girls work for 12 francs a week. They are glad to get it. It is rarely they are paid that much. In London women earn JE 20 a year as type writers in offices and stores." "What is their salary in America?" "From I Li a week upwards. Fifty dollars a mouth is tbe average salary of an expert. 5ome command as high as $70 or bo a month." "Then you would say America is the countrv for women?" "Well, I should smile!" And she did soi lie. "America's the only i-ot on earth. Why, look at these French girls. They are employed everywhere, to be sure clerks, cashiers, waitresses, etc but they are miserably paid; then they tever get any higher. Clerks, cashiers and waitresses they remain until the end of the chapter. There's no chance for promotion here, but in America well, ttierea' no limit." Is living cheaper in Paris than in America.' ' "Yes if you leave your American stomach at home," and tbe well ted damsel laughed merrily. "This talk about living cheeper In Paris than at home is all nonsense," she added, sober ing. "If you want a good me.il such as Americans are used to; you pay the same if not a higher price here than in America." "Then you don't line French cooking. French economy?" "Oh, yes; I like French cooking in a wav. 1 am very fond of their swell dinners when I don't have to pay foi them! But the economy of the averagt Parisian well, cup of coffee for break fast, a little bit of meat, size of your hand, dry bread and cheap sour wine for the rest of the day well, it's njt to my liking." ' "How about clothes? You cant say they are not cheap?" "Oh, clothes are cheap enough, but look at the French giili ail dash an I style on tbe outside, but you ought to see their underclothing," and the neat American lifted her pretty nose disdain ful'y. 'KasTS positively ragsl" "Surprising! How do you account for it?" "Economy," was the tragic response. "A girl cannot marry m French unless she has a dowry.you know. The whole family pinch aud scratch why, they would skin a tly to hoard francs for a prospective husband." The disgust on Miss America's face was eloqueutiy dis dainful of theecouomy of the daughters of France. Nothing is more abhorrent to the independent American girl -are they not all signers of the Declaration of Independence? than the thought of dowry as an essential to the marriage bond. Her face, her character is the Americau girl's dory; her heart her rortune. You found the French language essential, did you not?,' My, yes; I dou't see how a person could move arooug them without some knowledge of the language. I dou'l know what I should have done." "The menus at the hotels and cafes are in French?" v "Yes. 1 have a friend who has lived on meat and bread since he came to IParis," laughed Miss Thomas. "It's xhe only thing be can say in French. He Is afraid to order from the carte, not knowing what they might bring him." Ml 1 It . "After the exposition you will doubt less remain in Paris?" I "I will make for America as quick as the ship will boar rue, and thank Go I when I reach its shoresl" was the reply of the only officially representative girl at the Pari expisitivu. In the Sun. A knowledge of feline traits once en abled Charles James Fox tn win a wag er from the then Price of V ales, while .-( sauntering along a fash- ionalle street In London. It was a hot summer u . offered to bet that he would see more cats than his royal highness during their promenade, although the price might choose oil which side of the street he W It?urndout that Fox bad seen tbir en cats and the prince noue. Signs are poor things to fly with. STEAMBOAT STORIES. . Tales of old Time on Th River Told by Veterans. Tbe old tl're sleamboatmen are not all dead. Many of them still linger on t ige of life though in these days of rapid transit and railroad rush tbey are probab'y looked upon as superfluous. Ktt ween them, bovever, there exists a sort of freemasonry that draws them closer and closer together as their ranks are thinned by death, in all the large river cities there exist little coteries some places only two or three; in other, large nu Tiber who preserve among themselves a formal or informal club or association and meet at stated or irregular intervals aud talk over old time. The writer was one of- A little group of these kindred souls a short time ago, when one of them recited a little inci dent tint will Img live In the traditions of the Ohio river. A (JUEEK CRAFT'S CAFEK3. Two steamers were bound up thf river between Circiunati and Louis ville. One of them was a large side wheeler either the Silver Moon or Glendale, tbe narrator fwrgot which. Anyhow, it was one of the class of steamers known in those days as a "Cincinnati tub," with a model like a cheese box. She was ruuning in the Cincinnati and Memphis trade. The other was a little sternwheeler named the Volunteer, running in the Cincin nati aud Cumberland river trade. She was a curious sort of a craft and had decidedly cranky habit. Her hull had formerly been a canal boat. A pair of heavy tow boat engines had been put on this hull aud a sort of a tox cabin con structed. Siie could run like a scared wolf, but, as stated, had cranky habits. Site had balanc-d rudders that somehow or other were never exactly in th posi tion they should be, aud altogether thii queer craft was a terror to pilots. She belonged to three men,all well known in SU Louis at that time, and whose mem ories are still cherished here by hosts of friends. Tbey were James L. Maginuis, William Kellly and William Burt. On the occasion referred to the Vol unteer overhauled the Cincinnati tub ami passed her ou the starboard side, when the rudders got cros-ed, or some thing happened to cause the little stern wheeler to cut one of her cranky capers. When probably her length ahead of the side wheeler she "took a sheer," aud ran squarely across the bow of the big boat, Hiram O Iiiazee, a wed known pilot, nntU recenlly insictor at Mem phis, was, be thought, in the pilot house, lie saw there was no use of trying to pull her back, aud to stop was to let the siuer wheeler run iter uowu; so he simply pulled the wheel hard down, aud the little stern wheeler actually ran clear around the Cincinnati tub, com ng up again abreast on the starboard side. Of course, there was excitement on both boats, aud cheers and yells, and not a few curses, as it was thought tbe pilot of the oluiiteer was responsible for the boat s man euver. - -tVUiia, this was going on. the little boat straightened out up the river, and again gradually forged ahead until well in the lead, when, to the profound aston'sluuent of everybody, she again "took a sheer." and again ran clear around the big side wheeler, exactly re peating the former maneuver. TOM OKOSS THICK. A little eveut in which this craft fig ured was when related. It was the habit in those days for the steamers bound up stream to take fuel barges-coal or wood in tow, and continue the trip while transferring the fuel f o n barge to steamer. When tbe f i el was trans ferred the barge would be set adrift, with one man on board, who would care for and laud it. There were two mag nificent boats plying in the Cincinnati aud Louisville packet trade, the America and the United States. Tbey were probably the finest, aud without doubt, the fastest boats afloat. They were beautiful steainers,and constructed on such ieifect lines that their pilots could control them closely as rafts was ever controlled. The pilots of these steamers used to indulge in a litt'e trick for their own amusement, which was a cause of great trouble to the pilots aud commauders of other boats. It wat this: On meetiug another boat the signal would be sounded for passing, but when the two beats would get close together the pilot on the big packet would turn his boat, as if with the de liberate intention of running into the other boat. To avoid a collision the other boat would of course be stopped and backed. The big boat however, under ierrect control, would never slacken speed in the least, but under full headway run right up, and, curving gracetully, pass on, sometimes so close as to make it appear that only a miracle prevented a collision. These pilots bad learned to control tl.eir boats so completely that tbey could do tuis with perfect safety, and enjoy the fright of people on tbe other boats. Tom Gross, a pilot who had his life well nigh scared out of bim on two or three occasions by these fel lows, was at the wheel ou board the Volenteer on a trip up the river when one of these big boats was met. Gross knew what was going to happen, aud conceived a plan for turning the tables on the jokers. Tbe Volunteer bad a wood barge in tow, and bad transferred the fuel. but at the request of the owner was towing tbe boat to a point up the river. Gross called a cub pilot to take the wheel and went below.Orst caution ing the cub not to get frightened at the big bo it. but just to "hold her straight up tbe river and not ring a single belL" Taken an ax In bis hands. Gross stat ioned himself right by the hea 1 line by which the barge was fastened to the boat. On came the big steamer, bearm right down on the Volunteer, and it was quite evident she would pass very close and on the same side the barge was on. Gross made a guest as to just how close she would come, and at what he thought was the wright moment, be struck a blow with his ax that com pletely severed the Une and tbe barge, of course, swung right out crosswise of the stream. Gross had guessed right, for before the pilot on the big boat could turn his wheel or ring a bell the steamer struck the barge broadside and crushed it, and at the same time broke so many timbers for the steamer that she was compelled to run for shore. Tbe barge sunk, but Gross had been careful that there should be no one on it, and only two or three persons had seen him cut the line. The owner or the barge collected damages from the steamer that ran it down- The big boat had to be put on the docks, and the pilot waa suspended. Be Make (he Line Popular. In the smoking-car, aloof with half a dozen others of us. was an engineer who was coins down to Peoria, and e I - - - after a time tbe Judge started to draw him but by saying: "I presume you have had yjur share of close shaves, along with other engi neers?" "I have, sir," was the reply. "Been in many smash-ups?" "A full dozen," I guess." "Any particular adventure tha might be called wonderful?" "Why, yes, I did have one." replied the man after relighting his old cigar stump, "1 didn't think it any great shave myself, but tbe boys cracked it up as something extra." "Let us hear about it," said the Judge, as he rassed him a Havana. w ell, one day about three years ago I was coming west with the lightning express and was. running to make op lut t.n& T . . 1 1 . . miles two roads cross, as you will see. and there are a lot of switches and side-tracks. I had just whistled for the crossing and put on brakes when the coupling between the tender and the baggage car broke." "I see, I see!" murmured the Judge. "At the same moment something went wrong with old Xo. 40. and I could not shut off steam. She sprang away like a flash, and as she struck the crossing she left tbe track and entered a meadow filled with stumps." Good heavens!" "She kept a straight course for about forty rods, smashing tbe stumps every . second, and then leaped a ditch, struck the rails of the JJ. and K. Koad. and. al ter a wabble or two, settled down and ran for two miles." "Amazingl Amazing!" "Then, at a crossing, she left the metals, entered a cornfield, and, bear ing to tbe right, plowed her way across the country uutil she came to our own road again. She had a long jump to-" make over a marsh, but she made it, struck the rails and away she went." " ou don't say sol" "I was now behind my train, and. a'ter a run of two miles, I got control of the engine, ran up and coupled to the palace car, aud went into Ashtou pushing the train ahead of me." Great bcottl And was no one hurt?" "Xot a soul and not a thing broken. The sutierintendent played a mean trick on me, though." "How?" "Why. the farmer who owned the meadow paid the company $18 for the' slumps 1 bad knocked out for bim,' wlille tbe cornfield man charged $9 for damages. The superintendent pocketed the balance of tbe money." 'The scoundrel I And how much are you paid a month?" t "Ninety dollars." '-, "That's for running on the road?" I Yes." "Aud nothing for lying?" "Not a red." "That's an o-itrage. The superin- Itendent is an old friend of mine, and I'll see that you get the 59 ou the stumpage aud a salary of $200 a month as long as you live. It is such men as ff you who make a line popular." MOTHER'S CORNER. 1 often wonder why it is that so few children are neat aud orderly in their habits, and yet it is one of the easiest lessons tbey can learn, and, if rightly taught, it soon becomes a confirmed habit, as well as a source of pleasure. and saves many a mother from weary steps and aching back. To make them so, we must see that they have a con venient place in which to, put every thing, or it is useless tr.ying to teach them; then, having alii tted a proper niche for ail their chil.mh belongings, required that they return each one to its place when not in use Undoubted ly, in this respect, as in others, there is a vast difference in children; . some, from the iK'ginning, only requive an occa sional word aud gentle direction ; others are perhaps so utterly careless and un tidy, that one almost despairs of ever teaching them;' but persevere, firmly and kindly; they will learn in time, and orderly, methodical habits once formed will never be forgotten. A child should early be taught con trol of his temper, for a good temper is one of the principal ingredients of hap piness; this usually is the gift of nature aud born with us; yet it is often ac quired and always improved by culture. Parents are frequently much more to blame for their children's hasty, violent tempers than they may imagine. How many of them, while punishing a little one for a display of passion, themselves make eveu a worse exhibition! It is useless to endeavor to make a child control his temper, if you give way to your own; therefore, always think twice when vexed or excited, before you speak. As children have less self-control than adults, it is b st to turn their attention from that which excites them to something else. &elthhness is, I think, one of tbe greatest faults our faulty human na tures are prone to. Of course, it is born in some, but with many it islarge Iv the result of habit and training. Its first beginnings in a child should be carefully watched and repressed, by gentle means, if possible; if not, then for every seihsb act require mat tne little one make one of self-denial, and deprived for a time of that of which he would selSshly deprive another. A mother by the quiet unselfishness of her own life, may fill her children with such a desire to be like her, that they instinctively do as she does, and grow rip into unselfish men and women. . What character can be more beautiful ' and admirable than a thoroughly un selfish one? I have read, somewhere, that a child's heart is like a garden, capable of producing, under good cul ture, every thing beautiful and desira ble in humanity, while, if neglected, it ' is choked up with every kind of rank and poisonous weeds. If so, how true it is that a good mother is best adapted to the task of sowing fiood seeds and rearing beautiful flowers. With proper management a child can be trained in almost any direction. The key to the ' great dilhculty lies in a thorough and correct comprehension cf the nature and disposition with which one has to deal, and who can or should be so good a judge of that as the mother? It is our privilege and duty, by God's bless ing, to bring up tbe children He has entrusted to ns, to be and do that wnicn iVinw nn tV " VsA anil rather than what they would like to be and do. When parents do their best to make noble Christian men and women of their children, the result is usually suc cessful, and brightens and gladdens their own lives untd the grave closes over them. We all know of some sad failures; yet what an inestimable com fort and joy it must be to the poor mother's aching heart, when she can feel assured that her loved one went astray through no neglect or bad ex ample of her own! 21ns. a H, Sxisxb. 'j'KliM.'!'. ( To M. R. Kuwaju) Diiaiir. I ono did know a child of mirtb. A being wltn gladness briiiiiiiuifc ot'r Where'er she went there us a deartli Of Sadneui. Aud tbe more I think of that bright child Tbe more 1 feel myself bewailed. Bbe was so artless and so true. Her smiple smile was Joy to me. Her eyes were of a heavenly hue. As orient as stars eould ever be. And her golden wavy hair hung down la rippling ringlets to the ground. I loved her as I loved my life. And she returned rt (So she said) And promised she would be my wile. When ilie grew old enough to wed. I kissed her then to seal l lie vow i wish 1 badu t dune it, now. I met her on the street to-day. ioe looaea as nappy as oi yore The golden tresses slreake Kea m- ith gray. Were Just as long as they were beloie. Married yet? ' 1 asked in tears. "Mercy yes, these tifleen years." AFAR IN THE DESERT. In our times, France's great African colonies are subdued forever; but in other days, during the attempts of a laborious conquest, every moment held a danger. Skirmishes were incessant. real combats were frequent, and each post of the extreme vanguard bad its romantic episodes, to be related later. Here is one of them. Soft and wavering the wind blew up oft the scorched desert, the air fresh ened suddenly, aud suddenly the night felt Like a barrier upon the horizon the ascending hills gradually took on tints of gray or lilac; to the right and to t' e left stretched the plain of reddish sand, traversed irregularly by ravines of less or greater darkness, according to their depth, and by strange palm groves; dusty, yellow, sunburned. Twi light is unknown in Africa; darkness falls there with a push, like a curtain, aud this swiftness of change of setting is accentuated correspondingly as the dry country is reached, in the heart of the desert, in the unexplored lauds. Here, past the High l'lains, beyond Saida, Aiu-Seffra, almost into Morocco, on tbe borders of the mysterious Fig big, at tbe farthest point whither the exploring columns have penetrated, this natural phenomenon is profoundly noticeable; the shades invade the earth in the briefest moment, and change and darken It w.th their clouds as ink darkens water. A bugle sounded within the circle of tents; the horses cf the picket lifted their beads, and the chasseurs, in their wide blouses and trousers of linen, went to form in line slowly for the evening roll calL The bugle call, loud and shrill, was prolonged indefinitely, carried by the sonorous swells to the foot of the tranquil mountains, where the sound died out. The squadron was formed on the right- Cabarous.se, cap tain commanding, and bis two lieuten ants, Peyralteand Vaudras, all drowsy, regarded tbe maneuver carelessly, with out uttering a word, with their arms drooping, and all about, far, near. everywhere, there reigned a silence so gicab tuab in dccujcu iciiiuuo, oacioj, full of august mysteries. The roll call was begun. After each name followed the same brief, monoto nous answers, as each day at that hour, with the apathetic indifference of me chanical exertion. The adjutant did not even pause before passing from one name to another. "Present eseut esentl" "Hanrion?" 2io one answered. The adjutant, surprised, lifted his gaze from his roll book and repeated: "Hanrion?" Nothing. "Well, are you deaf, you Hanrion?" A o answer. A soldier was missing. His compan ions of the ranks spread their hands and gesticulated ie. token that they knew nothing, comprehended nothing. Cabarousse came forward. 'Let us see! Who was the last man to see Hanrion? Where was it? When was it? Speak up now!" In tbe morning, at roll call; none had reen bim since. "Finish the roll call! Break ranks!' So there was a soldier missing. In the neighborhood of a city, Cabarousse would have shruggtd bis shoulders, saying simply: "A hair thrown to the winds!" but here in this complete, soli tude, twenty leagues from the last ad vanced post, an absent man might as well be counted dead at once. And iu a squadron alone there. Isolated, lost. nd entirely dependent upon lt-selr, a call without response was en iugh to chill the boldest. Iu the desert, ranks are inevitably narrowed, aud individu alities are allied; no one is unknown, all are comrades, and one of these com rades had disappeared. In every group. whether the sleeves were blank or braided, that disappearance was dis. cussed passionately, with the instinct ive horror of the thought "If it were II" For human selfishness is never lost completely; all solidarity rests on personal considerations. The country here was not, however. openly dangerous, not avowedly bos- tile; tbe bands of nomad Arabs had been repulsed, driven back to the mountains, and only a Kabyle village bad Its huts a short distance away. Hut the Kabyles are sedentary, of lazy habits, and they regard with indiner ence the foreign troops defiling past them in clouds of golden dust, aud strike not. unless they are attacked In their own dwellings, under their roofs of mud and stone. And yet, nevertheless, Cabarousse, susp cious, twisting bis mustaches. looked obstinately to that side where lay the Kabyle village. There, be was convinced, lay the solution of the mys tery. Thirty men were left in charge of the tents. The others were galloping in the bright moonlight, and by the clear rays horses and riders projected gigantic shadows, scattered by the haste of march, but equal In their dimensions, the lines being maintained strictlv. The thirst for battle aud tbe joy ot vengeance imielled the squad. ron; besides, any excitement Is welcome which comes to break the monotony of long davs of idleness. Then forward Uprose and fled from the road the marauding jackals, whose shrill squeals insult from afar their natural enemy, man. once he is safely past them. Xow and then a saber sounded against ' stirrup, or a horse which left his place was bv force of hand returned thither but always the t-oop continued ad vancing with spectral aspect, forming an ever retreating picture. The soldiers were content with the expedition, perceiving that tbe death of one among them was not to be passed over indifferently, and that all bloody memories would find prompt : vensteance. Little by little, a sparse j vegetation spread beneath the feet of j tbe horses; then tbe way was streaked by the silhouettes of palm trees; farther r'J'ttJMrf,'? fc; ----- -jfii-' i-'fn yet, and the Kabjje village stood cen- usedly out from the earth, with its mud hovels, low, narrow windowed. whose doors were too small for human stature; and round about the incloures for cattle, now vacant. At a brief word of command, the squadron halted, No light shone, all was dark; no one moved, nor anything whatever. Only a few vagabond dogs. scenting the strangers, barked upon the dang heaps. Tbe troops surrounded, at walk, the village, still silent, still dark. Dismount! They entered the first hut, aud it was vacant; vacant, too, the second; the third vacant; all were vacant the Inhabitants had fled. taking their effects and weapons. This was their guilty confession. More than that all farther search was now useless and without purpose. uut what was that Lvine across a doorway, wfth its face in a heap of DHh, was the body of a roan, with its throat cut, its face bathed lu blood. It was llanrion. 1 hen, on tbe vast night. arose a clamor of rage, which presen'.ly sinks into grief a tone ot unspeakable sadness, of supreme pity. Afar stretch me undulating plains; and the Imper turbable chain of hills, black now, seemed insolently to bar the way to re prisals. Stiff upon his horse, gloomy and for bidding in the clear night, Cabarousse shook his clenched band at the invisible as one who dreams of vengeance. Lieutenant!" he cried, at last, take tiftv men and crush that brood of maggots until not two are left living! Oh, t at I must stav at mv DostI that I might go with youl" hen the ranks were formed, the sub-lieutenant, 1'hillippe Vaudras, saluted and started with his fifty men toward the Unknown before them, while Cabarousse and his squad re turned at a foot pace, in their own de spite, t) the camp, with heads beut, with hearts saddened, bearing, laid across two horses, the bloody body of the murdered Hanrion, Tall, Blunder, a leonine blonde, wi h clear blue eyes, when be left the mili tary school, rhillippe Vaudras had chosen Africa as a field for adventure, and, iu a year ot camp life, he had maue himself noted tor bis brave! y. and this In a wild squadron where every man was valiant, iiecause of his white hands, his sweet voice, and bis youth, the s ldiers called him The Little One' "Mile. Vaudras," or else "My Lady Sub-Lieutenant," but. wheu be charged across the plain, that little one" gladdened the heart; his horse had splendid legs and was always hrst in the cotubat, and what a power ful fist had "my lady sub-lieutuant!" His soldiers were fain to follow Vau dras. since they could never get before mm; and they 1 olio wed him with en thusiiism, drunken with his wildness. and, above all, so that nothing of ill should befall him. He seemed precisely the chief necessary for that romantic expedition, for that tragic night, for that setting extraordinarily tragic; after bun bis troops would follow blindly. At the bead of the vanguard and on the flanks of the squads, the guides, the explorers, the jai blinders bent over their pommels, with their gaze fixed ou the ground, directing their course by tracks almost invisible by the pile light. Across a width of forty yards there appeared lu the Sind deep marks. footprints of men and beasts, whose wide ppaces arrested the tumultuous flight, the disorder of defeat, beneath the furious lashes of the Kabyle drivers. terntied by that corpse they left behind them. The horses of tbe pursuers were pant ing. "Haiti" commanded audras. The chasseurs camied as well as tbey could; they lay down to sleep with an arm through the bridle, aud in spite of the jerks aud pulls of the animals their sleep was deep and dreamless. At last a faint white streak appeared on the horizon; dawn was breaking, and Mid denly a growing light dispelled the shadows and discovert d distant objects. Then on the flank of the hills appeared the tribe they were pursuing, a long. gray line of men, women aud children. of sheep and oxen, climbing the heights in haste, and the air conveyed to them like a call the lowing of the oxen and the bleating of the sheep. ith one simultaneous shout the riders spurred to a gallop, but if they saw they were eeeu also, and the Kabyles, abandoning alieady the heav ie t of their luggage, ran up the steeps In a revolt of confusion. 1 hey were lost to sight in the choas of g gantic bowlders; one by one, us ants bury themselves iu the earth, they were hid den to the last one in the hollows of the mountain. All that remain d lu sight were a few oxen, uneasy, turning toward the plain, lowing saillv, witl necks stretched, muzzle thrust out and nostrils flaring. An hour later Vaudras and his troopers found themselves all at once within a hundred yards of the enemy, having arrived thither by means ot lit eral goat paths. The Kabyles had made front and were awaiting them. The situation explained their audacity, ltttween the fugitive tribe and the blue aud red chasseurs, the only path 0111 was an extremely narrow pass which joined two level spaces. This pass ran along the side of the mountain like a forbidding balcony hung over a gorge of immense depth. It was not wide enough for two horsemen abieast, and that beneath tiie unerring tire of the Kabyles on the heights. The least slip, the tii st false st- p, would send one rolling into infinite space. Vaudras saw this confirmation, aud understand ing its horror, his face blanched and he shut his eyes. The troopers paused in astonishment aud the smoking horses panted heavily and receded, necks thrust over cruppers. Kvidently the Kabyles bad known of that natural re doubt; the women aud children were hidden behind the rocks in the rear, and the men were on their knees or on their breasts, sheltered from balls by great blocks of granite. They held the mountain and could fire at their pleas ure upon the soldiers in the open. Moreover, there was the ravine, the threatening fall. The French soldiers thrust their heads forward to gaze at the abyss, saying by their grimaces: "If we were birds, now!" Suddenly, the bugler, a little scamp of 20 years old at the utmost, spurred bis horse forward in bravado and sounded the charge. The signal was given, the horses started of their own accord, and a'l along the whole extent of the menacing pass, beads flushed with tails before them, the first squad dashed splendidly, under a furious tusilade. Only one man, restraining his horse with both hanthi on'.y one man rigid as if petrified in his saddle, remained behind it as rear guard. It was Vaudras. One. two, four, five, twenty; the troopers thundered past him, shaking their beads under that hurricane of balls, but laughing and encouraging one another with shouts. The sub lieutenant remained immovable, with his eyes fixed on tbe summit, a cold Sweat running off hi temples. Vaudras was santtea with vertigo. To be attacked by vertigo is almost as bad as to go mad outright. Tha horror of it suffocates and paralyzes; and the man predisposed by temiiera- ment to that mysterious potency of empty space, to that magnetic attrac tion from abysses, loses all conscious ness of himself and all will power; he rales, be trembles, he recedes, and flies from tbe mute summons of the Invisible death awaiting him in the air. Vaudras was afraid. All! the batllel there is the powJcr which laughs, the Wad w hich whislles, tho steel which darts, the blood which lows, the si'Ien lid shocks, the noisy death at will! But that great mouth, silent, terrific, waiting to suck one in nol no! no! impossible! neverl lhirty men had passed, had taken the lead of Vaudras. They fancied that their officer, for the best of rea sons, doubtless, watched their tragic defile, and would follow to place him self at their bead again. None noted his apiearance, none suspected his anguish. The "little one" afraidl Bah! Mademoiselle" Vaudras nervous! In deed, that Is enough to terrify. What is the matter? "My lady suu-lieuteuant is crying!" iorty men had cone forward; thi- balls whistled harshlv, scratching the granite walls with terrible reliounds. ihe Kabyles were firlLg volleys, con tinual discharges, sure that they w re lost if the charging foe should reach them. audras was exposing himself as a target uselessly. All the ntty men had passed by bim. He remained alone, lie dismounted, meaning to try the pass on foot. His hoisd broke from hiiu and hurled itself atter the others. At a quarter the length of the trail its shoes alipied on tne rock, it lost its tooting and was whirled into the abyss, its four hoofs turned upward. Vaudras screamed his eyes starting from their sockets. lie threw himself uikjii his knees, lie dragged himself ukii his stomach, but brute instinct drew him backward. He could not go on. At that moment be saw bis men surrounded ou all sides by the Kabyles, three times their number, rendered uesjieraie by their danger. 1 he women and children sallied from their rock ciannies and bung themselves from the bridles; they plunged knives into the bellies of the horses, they scratched, tbey bit, they threw stones. In that swarming of the horde, that cntaiiKle- nient, that furious grasp of the raving multitude, the chasseurs, suffocaled. dragged down, felt their limbs grow nuino. their bleeding bodies were drenching the earth with red, and the.r leader was not theie to inspire them, to ordain a victory. It was faring ill with them. Their long sabers, dulled and lient, were withdrawn with difficulty from their thrusts into the masses. Their amis were weak and broken. Tiiey were powder burned at such closo range were the Kabyles firing. They weie deafened by the yells of tho dogs, ex cited by the combat; they were deaf ened by the shrieks of the children, by tne no wis ot the women, by the roars of the men; cut, bitten, bleeding scorched ou all sides, the little trooj melted slowly before the multitude which assailed unceasingly. Sally, ambuscade, bo the attack ot what Ilk it might, it meant defeat and death to the French cavalrymen. v audras once more s'.ai ted to run forward, and with his mouth foaming ny leu baek once more tho last time. rrom afar he gazed with an infinite tenderness upon his men, dving there without him tut, ah! in dving they were lighting bravely slaying gallant ly, lie drew bis pistol from his belt he held it against his temple, he presse the trigger and the last convulsions id the death agony precipitated his corpse into that bottomless abss which had brought upon hiui tho accuised ver tigo. Transmission In Geese. A CorresiKindeiit of the "KcvtlG Sci eutifique" vouches for the following story: For about twenty years he was in the habit of visit ng two or three times each year a farm where was kept a flock of geese, nuuilif iing frvim thirty to thirty-hve iu the early part f the winter, anil in the spring four or five, left for breeding purposes; these alsi generally being killed a few inonth. later, after the new broods had attained their growth. In the month of July, 1HGJ, on a feast day, the fanner and his men being absent, the geese were forgotten, and were attacked by dogs, hich killed the most of them. The next evening at twilight the farmer thought they must lnve Ixen attacked a second time. He found them flying about in their pen, much frightened, but the dogs were nowhere to be seen. The next day this terror reap;ared at the same hour as it did on the sueceeding day, and fioiu that time on. The corie- spondent of "The Itevue" had forgot ten this fact when, ten years later, he chanced to be ou the farm one evening, and heard the cackling of the appar ently frightened geese. When he asked for au explanation he was told that this had been kept up from the time they bad been attacked by the dogs, that there had lieen no lejietition of the attack, and that the flock had tieen renewed In the meantime at least three tunes. If this story is well authenti cated we have a emm of the transmis sion of terror to the third generation in a family of geese. He Was an Abstainer. The Rev. William Lloyd bad a keen aud exquisite humor. When he re turned from a trip abroad this fall he occupied a seat at the table d'hote ou the steamer opposite an obe:e lady who ate an enormous quantity of pas- ' modern massacre of tue Innocents h is try.and who frowned significantly every ln ordained lu the lntere.v.s ol t. me the clergyman took a draught of fashion, the siaughteied birds beings his daily portion of ale. One day she ' used lor the decorat on of boni. s. leaned across the festive board and In- Humane j-opls will probably make .,n quired loudly: 'agitation on the subject, and tl.e:e Is "May I ask you, sir, why you drink some talk of petitioning the piefec:s that nasty stuff?', of the Southern department to u- "To the glory of God, madam, an- their authority to prevent Lhe exten swered Mr. Lloyd, tranquilly. ision and continuance of this rim liol - 'Well," she said, helping herself to another jam tart, "1 should thins: yon would be an abstainer." "I am, madam." 'An abstainer from what, I should like to know?' she observed, sa.rca.sti- callT. Madarn,"replled tie clersrniao.qaiet- ly, "from pia." . i NEWS IX RRIEF. ArUflo". d Ice is chjajier in the South lh.iu the natural article is In the North. Lord Tennyson is writing a thous and-dollar poem for an English m:iga- zine, thus beating his famous charge by four hundred. Lenawee county, M!cil., Is at pres ent paying out something like twelve dollars a day in bounties on dead spar rows. The first electric tram wav in lta s soon to be opened retveeu Florence and Fiesole. Its total length will be 7o00 metres. Maine lumlermen are entering the woods early this year, in order to get much of the cutting done before the deep snows come. Works though 100 vears old. The Haverhill (Mass.) Oazftte remarks: "Captain Costello, the oldest man in this city, is reasonably busy this year iu cultivating his garden, and shows considerable activity for a man UHi years old. His growing vegetables look fine." Three ladies of Mount C'armel got aboard the cars for l'l.'i.i.ielohn a few lays ago, and after the train bad started a dog owned by Mr. Swigelsky, at whose store they dealt, claimed acquaintance with them. They irot the conductor to exjs 1 him at Alaska station, but he followed the trai l al'oot to Philadelphia, where the ladies gave him the slip bv taking the train to New York. Then the dog trotted back to Mount C'armel, arriving there much debilitated. While in that state two other dogs attacked and killed 1 1 in. A Philadelphia drummer got in! i lhigh Valley car at Shenandoah, took out his teeth and put them on tho seat beside turn to take a nap. After the nap ho went off, fornetilu them. Aueut Ferguson found them, and as a joke asked a Hungarian seated near it they were his. The Hungarian turned as pale as death, vigoionsly shook his head and dashed out ol too depot in thorough fright. Two men liouirht a watermelon from an Italian fruit dealer at Pittstou day before yesterday, paving for it with a 5 note on an O.li'ity bank. The note was refused on deposit, nd the men were then arrested lor "pass ing counterfeit money.'' Thin the Chief of Police took the note to lhe First National ll.uik and was told that it was good the bank was out ot business, but still redeeming its cur rency. The prisoners were therefore set tree. An Indian's skeleton, sit feet three inches high, was found at Thamesville, Conn. K was in a silting posture facing east, and was in the side of a deep gully w hich had Iwn washed out by recent heavy rams. The bones were as white as ivory, but when the skeleton was exposed to vVw it began crumbling speedily. The teeth were sound, and tliee was a cleft on the right side of the apex of the skull as though the man had Ueii tou.a hawked. Between the skeleton's knee lu a little receptacle were found numer ous Indian arrows and la nee heals, aud a stone pestle such as was used b tiie Indians in crushing gram to; "yokeag." Stor.es about the burial alive ot jiersons continue to come alom,', al though, ierhaps, ninety-iiiue er cent, of them are totally without ioundat ion. Certain interest attaches to them, how ever, hence their publication, lleir-'.-one from abroad: A la !y resi 1 ng at Iiorbisch, in Bohemia, where sh. owned considerable prop-it v. a buried last week, after a brwl ili:ie-s, iu tho family vault at the loe.il . en.e tery. Four days afterwaid her gia:id daughter was intened in the same place, but as the stone s ab coveung the aiert lire was raised t he byM in lei were horrified to s- that the lei of the colli n below had U-en raised, ;ni 1 that the arm of the corpse was pi ot i uding. It was ascertained event ually thai the unfortunate lady, who was supposed t have died of heart diseae( had been buried alive, she had evidently i covered consciousness for a fej.v minute an I ha I found strength enough tc burst en her coliiu. The antle-i ;tie. aie bent on taking measures of the utmost saverlty against tlmse n. n sible. A curious discoveiy omiw" led w.th the recent disastrous lire at Sji.l. me, W. '1'., is reiorUl by a local -. ; k-i . A safe becoming cracked by lhe lot.-n . beat, the bjoks inside weie el am-d and baked to a blackened crisp, though they remained intact. Not a ligui could lie re, id. "Due of the hoi i. keepers, while turning over tie- knv, noticed that where bis ling r, ni.tli was wet, touched the page the I'j.ne became legible. lie procured a ; .i:ut brush, dipped it iu water ami damp nud the whole paiie and w.is gral.h' d to sn all the figures dimly outlined. Iti lookkeeers then went to wmk, and by wetting tiie pages and caielnhy turning the leaves succeeded lu a f v days iu transferring all the accounts t. a new set of books." A woman created quite a sens t' em on .Seventh avenue. New Voik recently. There was a picture ! an actor on a wail, and ii.imedi iiely on seeing it she went out int tiie street aud, procuring a UHiellul of mu I, pro ceeded to paste it over tha actoi "s Tace. She was not satisfied unt.l ii had completely obliterated his l aiuies. The only reply that a curious looker-.. i. received, w hen he asked tho cau-e ot the singular action, was a volley ot mud. He withdrew without further questions, and no one else dated to impure as to her motive. The woman was not drunk, but very angry, and at the sight of a policeman two blocks oil she scurried away. A slaughter of swallows has b -n organized on a large scale along the southern seaboard of France. The poor creatures alight on wiies provided for the purpose, tired out a'ter lo .g flights to or from Italy and tne Mas-., and they are killed in thousands by means or electric currents. "ii.is gical Carnage." A lit invention by Mr. E. T. Lin coln, of Tojieka, Kansas, (wl o it is said, has, within the last two yean, taken out more patents than any other man in the country), is a toli- m brake. This device enables a tobo 5ton in the middle of tha BU..at iucline Instantly
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