J.-' t.iniM I I'rtTTTiT.YflTIII IHIW f H MlyWUHiiillpmi ,n;nm. j. I11W1 'I enie B. F. HOHWEIER, THE OON8TITUTION-THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS. Editor and Proprietor. VOL. XLIV. MIFF LINTOWN , JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 22. 1890. NO. 44. 9fi A UUNhL) KUddER. CHINESE PAY IIOMAGTS TO A UllillWAYMAN. A Pntllo Demonstration -A Tin Pro cession in Chinatown. Over 8,000 years ago Ktr fl"u How Wong was born in Hueng Bhaa, China. His parents went poor, but not strictly honest. In fact, according to tradition, Lis father was a rcbbet chief, and brought up his son to hit own profession. The boy soon out itripped his teacher, and becamt known far and wide for his braver; and skill on the road. The times in China then were not unlike the mid dle ages in Europe, and it was not lonu before one of the numerous king made overtures to Wong. These writ accepted, and the boy performed prodigies of valor once, it Is said, killing ,P0O men single-handed. Hf was roftde Geueral-in-Chief, and aflet his death was worshiped as God ot War. Recently was his birthday, and ail Chinatown in San Franoisco wai sgog to celebrate it. The Yeoung W Society took the lead, and organized s procession. It formed on Stockton' treet at 10 o'clock, and marched toward Sacrameuto street. In tht lead was a hand-ome American flag tide by side with the great yellow stanird of China. Ckise after came the sacred ark. Suilt entirely of everlastings. In il were numerous symbols, much like the in the Jewish ark of the Cove ns it. Then came more niusic, horse, men iul floaU. followed by a man, dre.sed in black aud white, bearing two buck et on a yoke. In each was some pigs blood and a few feathers. This svu bo'.ioil the crime-,, vw-es and sins ol :he people. When the second proces lion was over the buckets and their contents were burued, aud tb tin were blotted out. Later appeared the battle charget ml the empty throne of the god. Closely on this followed the dragon, boi on the shoulder of a score of men. Over 15 feet long, it had the head c t.i ram, 1, horns of a deer, eye f a rabbit, cars of a oow, neck of a make, belly of a frog, scales of a carp, Maws of a han k and palm of a tiger. fn each side of its mouth were whis kers, while a beard hung under Itr ihin. A smaller dragon followed its big brother, and wa very obstreperous, jausing much laughter by its antics. In front of each dragon marched a nan wirrying a colored ball on a pole, which he thrust continually into tht Beast's face in order to terrify It and prevent its committing any depreda tions I.a-4 came a troop of soldiers, some f whom shades of Confucius I were utpiI with modern rifles and bay. uets. An Honored Leg. Four feet from the ground in the w&Il of a large brick building in the Washington Navy-Yard, known as the, rdnance foundry, is an iron plate ibout eighteen inches square bearing .his inscription: : ivithfn thiWall U lliposlted : The Leir "f : CotONTCt. Cl.RH" riHL..MN, C. 9. v : Who u wounded Julv , 1"3, while : skirmishing with the Rebel la the ; strret. of llacertown. after ; the Ba'tle tf (iettv.burg. An explanation of the freak of entimsnt which prompted the inters wont of the amputated leg in such s jiace is left to the imagination of the reader, who can probably guess as welf ts I can. I wa told that it was in ac lordanee with the wish of Col. Dahl jren hlmelf. lie was a son of Ad uiral Dahltrren, and was one of the roungest officer who wore a colonel's agles during the war. As soon as he stump of hi Vg was healed he prnnjr into the saddle again, and on VIvsnr3. lMt. wa killed almost in .he suburb of Richmond during Kil atrick's famous raid upon the Con tederaw rapital. Col. Iahlgrens aodv fell into the hands of the enemy, ut was sent through the Union lines uid was delivered to his friends. k Relief for Lang Troubles. A lady having Iieard that there was vv-u liar virtue in a pillow made from Vu s,raw.and iaving none of thai -.ierijl at h.m.1. made one from tine -,ft niii shavimr. and had the pleas- ire of noting iir mediate benefit. Soon til the numbers of the household had ?iue shavi.ig p'llows, and it was no thst all roiurh. asthmatic Of M-onchial troubles abated at once aftet ileenin? a few nfjrhts on these pillows An invalid suffering with lung trouble lerivedmuch benefit from sleeping ipon a mattress made from pine shav- Snirhlr In Berlin. Hie highest statistics which hara rver been reached in ti e annals of eul- tidewere recorded at Berlin donnf ih. last month. Fifty -nine persons ittumDted to quit "this mortal lifa' ind thirty-eighl among them were ane asful. One boy, twenty woman an irrv.eirht men made up ths) Munbar. Twenty-two songht death inttts) water. (oorteen by hang-ing, twelT uref alleU, fir by poiaoning tjf f?! OUT OF THE ORDIXART, One man in Western Australia owns and controls nearly 4,000,000 acres of land. The University of Oxford has ap- PU ancea for printing iu 150 different languages. A pious old lady of Toi onto devotes lie profits accruing from the sale of the eggs laid by her hens on Sun lay to the missionary cause. Statistics just published show that the total number of paupers in Eng land and Wales is 762,853, which al lows 26.6 for every 1,000 of the pop ulation. The people of the United States use annually about seven postal cards for every man, woman and child ; that ia to say, their total consumption for a year reaches 400,000,000. There has lately been such a glut of fcerringe that the Scotch fishing smacks are leaving Ardglass for home, herring being so cheap and plentiful that it 'does not pay to catch them. Several of the large land owners of Scotland have imported a number of reindeer from Norway and turned thein oat in the hope that they may become acclimated and increase. A yoang man at Titusville. Pa., who could not aflord to take his bride on a wedding tour, bought $5 worth of tickets for the merry-go-round, and they proceeded to ride to their hearts' content. Three months ago the postmaster ot Chico, Cal., gave a pet dog to a friend who was leaving for Oregon to settle. Two weeks ago the dog reappeared at the house of his old master, nearly starved, but delighted to see him. The weight of the great smoke-cloud July hanging over the City of London has been computed by Prof. Roberts at 5o tons of solid carbon and S50 tons hydrocarbon and carbonic oxide gases for each day of the year, and its value at 2,0w0,OOO per annum. Perhaps the greatest single industry of any city in the world is the carpet manufacture carried on in Philadel phia. The establishments engaged in this industry employ 7350 looms and 17,800 workmen. Last year they manufactured 71,5K),000 yards of car pet, the value of which was 950,IHA, 0OO. When Mrs Anna C. Parks, one of the aispectresses at the New York Cus tom House, caused the arrest of an Italian woman in whose bustle was found a pound of dutiable jewels, was asked why she suspected the culprit, she answered that .he marked ber out for search because she knew that Ital ian women don't wear bustles. There have not been so many Americana in Stratford-on-Avon for years as there are this year. The 'Shakespeare Country" has been over run with them, and as usual the town Improvement associations thereabouts have reaped a harvest. They have well learned by this time how to make tourists pay roundly for everything that they see. The "nickel-in-the-slot" idea has been applied in England to electric lamps intended for use in omnibuses, street cars and railway cars. You put a pen ny in the slot of such a lamp, press a knob and out streams the light. By clock-work machinery at the end of half an hour the light is extinguished and can be ignited again only with a penny taper. It ia asserted on the authority of a clergyman at Chattanooga that on the top of White Mountain, in North Car olina, are three trees of the cachoin species, about fifteen feet high, grow ing cloee together, whose tops are interwoven so completely and so flat that a number of persona can walk on them with ease. The tops are about twenty feet in diameter. There is a stone elephant in Inyo Co., Cal. The rock that has taken the form of an elephant is a dark gray granite that is almost the color of the skin of an elephant. The first travel era in California, it is said, on catching light of tt, thought that they had found a petrified mastodon. A Piute Indian, on being asked if be had ever seen the "stone elephant, replied, uYash, me see him many year 'go. Long time Injun no aabe him; now see him all same in big show up Vir ginny City." The generally accepted theory that a warm summer follows a cold winter, and vice versa, baa been examined by Science with the aid of temperature records made in the same place, under the same conditions, twice a day for forty years. Science cannot find any rule on the subject, and comes to the conclusion that no estimate can be formed in regard to the character of a coming season merely by knowing the character of the past season of any greater value than could be gained by mere guessing. Pa Takee Proper Precaution. Ten minutes after a beautiful tab leau was interrupted by the old gen tleman, George said to Clara: "It was very thoughtless in your father to intrude so abruptly." Clan "He is not thoughtless at all, George. Yon aee my elder sister lost harl breach of pro raise suit ny not nav- ing i an eye-witness, ana poor pa naa io the costs ana lawyer" xaaa msw The Health. A London medical man says : Ua rareful in your dealings with horse radish. It irritates the stomach far more than spice, an an overdose will bring on an unpleasant sensation for days." The amount of blood in the body Is one-thirteenth the weight of the body, oeKt or six quarts, or eleven or twelve pounds, says the Medical Record. A man dies when be has lost a fifth of his blood. The frequency of the ptUse in tbe new-born is 150; in infauts of one year, 110; at seven to fourteen years, 85; in adult man, 72; women, 80. The respirations are one-fourth as rapid as the pulse. A solution of chloral hydrate, five (Tains to the ounce of water, will clear the hal.- of dandruff, and prevent It falling out from that cause. It ia also claimed that the partial baldness mt; be cured by this means. A medical journal o tiers a brief rule or two for a beneficial vacation : Keep eool; don't fret your nerves; strive to keep your nerves ; strive to keep yonr temper and be deliberate. Do't hwrry. A vacation in the summer is a good thing provided you go about it like a sensible being. An exchange says that for the bene fit of those over-economic people stio have a way of turning down low the light of a kerosene lamp when leaving a room for a little while, it may be said that experiment demonstrates that the saving in oil by this means is hardly appreciable. With the flame low a considerable quantity of the pro ducts of incomplete combustion are making their escape into the air, and these are not only ofifcnsive to the sense of smell, but are injurious to the health. Borax water Is an excellent wash for the head, removing dullness, nervous headache, often. If ministers and other students, bEain-aorkers of all sorts, would occasionally use it as a head-bath, they would toe surprised and cheered with the astonishing result. For the mouth and gums it is purifying and agreeable. Some use it as a gargle for sore throat beneficially ; also, for inside soreness of the nose, which torments. It is excellent for catarrh drawn up into the nose. They Assimilate Quickly. There is one feature of life in New York that always causes considerable comment among strangers t the ways of the big city. This is the fact that in exploring the city they find a " Chinese quarter," a " Little Italy," a " French quarter," a neighborhood inhabited almost ex clusively by Hebrews, and another around Tompkins square sacred to Ger mans. There is another locality known as the " Tenderloin District," that is crowded with Africans. But there is no Japanese quarter, de spite the fact that there are several thousand Japanese in and around New York. The manner in which the Jap anese assimilate and adapt themselves to American manners and customs, strikingly iudicatea their adaptability for citizenship. Our Japanese friends are in all aorta of professions. They sell bric-a-brac and Japanese goods, and, in addition, are large importers of various kinds of goods. Many of them are very wealthy quite as wealthy as the Chinese merchants in Mott street sev eral of whom have bank avcounts that run up into the hundreds of thousands. But instead of congregating in a single locality as the Chinese do the Japanese are scattered all over this city and Brooklyn, and instead of clinging to old customs and styles of dress, they are as American as any of the Ameri cans themselves. The down town im porters one meets are invariably dressed in the height of fashion as known to as, and there is nothing about them to distinguish them from the average prosperous man of busi ness among whom they mix. There are no other of our foreign-born resi dents who so quickly adapt themselves to our ways. Ex. They Ha4 Uoae ta the Seashore. He haA been standing in front of a house on Second avenne and gazing at the front window for a long ten min utes, when a pedestrian halted to in quire "Anything the matter with the house?" "No-o, I guess not-" "But yon are looking at it I" "Yes; it is shut up." "Can't a bouse be shut np?" "Certainly, but in this case it wa very sudden. I am a collector. I was up here last evening to collect an old bill, and the debtor gave me a glass of wine and asked me aa a great favor to call at eight o'clock this morning. I was here a quarter of an hoar ahead of time." "What does the sign read?" "Gone to the seashore for two months. That's the fourth time I've lost just this way in one week, and to morrow I will take my station at the depot and try to head the rest off." Detroit Free Press. Catholic College far Colored People. The benevolence of Miss Kate D rex el of Philadelphia ia about to find an other practical outlet in the building and endowment of a Roman Casholia church and college for colarad SOUTHERN AMERICANS.! THK HOST ENTERPRISING CITY IN THE WORLD." Some Facts for Enterprising Yankees. Imports of $450,000,000. The Manufacturer's Record of Bal timore publishes an interview with Mr. T. J. Hurley, of Fort Worth, Texas, and which is given unusual prominence now by the interest that attaches to the approaching Pan-American conference which will convene 'n Washington early in October, aud will be made up of delegates from the in dependent nations of the American continent. The main purpose of the conference will be to evolve such methods and laws and treaties as will lead to a more extensive busiuess be tween the American nations. Mr. Hurley says: There exists m our land a surprising ignorance concerning the.mighty pen insula which contains the Amazon; the La Plata and the Andes. It makes a cosmopolitan smile to hear our people boast about our snap and enterprise, and complacently assert that we are 'the smartest traders on God's green earth,' and all that sort of thing Why, there is a city in South America, a commonly supposed abode of bar barism, that, in pufch and enterprise ia far ahead of even our Western cities. I mean Buenos Ay res, the capital of the Argentine Republic. Trade cen ters all over the world consider Bue nos Ayres the most enterprit-iug city to-day on the globe. Probably not one man in a hundred knows anything of Buenos Ayres or the country of which it is the capital, or could tell, off band, just where they are. The pop ulation of Buenos Ayres is now Bear ing the million mark. In 1886-87, 124,- IKA Luropean immigrants landed there. Its population is made up of natives, Italians, French, German, English, and many Irish, the latter there, as here, being influential in political and financial aflairs. The city baa 146 miles of street cars. It has more tele phones in proportion to population than anv other citv in the world. It is considered the best lighted city in the world. It has eleven large banks, some of them occupying mble palaces. Two of them have a larger capital tlan any dozen banks combined in the United States. The Bank of Provence has a paid-up capital of $37,000,000, a circulation of $22,000,000, deposits amounting to 860,000-000, with loans and discounts to the amount of $70, 000,000. Fifty-seven larpe steamers a month arrive and depart, but not one of them flies the American flag. The British government spends about $600,000 a year in subsidies to mail steamers to Buenos Ayres. As a consequence freight and many of the mails from the L nited States to Buenos Ayres go via Liverpool. Enterprising Yankees should meditate on that. The Argentine Republic offered to the United States to pay half of a subsidy of $200,000 to be granted by our gov ernment to a line of United States steamers to Buenos Ayres. The city has 20 daily newspapers. The editor of one of them, by the way, is Wins low, the fugitive Boston forger, who, it is said, has amassed a fortune of nearly half a million. There are many other enterprising and rapidly growing cities in South America and Central America, and new towns are are coming1 into existence all the time. The Argentine Republic is probably the most progressive of the nations south of us. Every head of a family is entitled by law to 250 acres of land free, aud as much more as he may want to purchase, to a limit of 1,500 acres, at 75 cents au acre. Or a settler may acquire 1 ,500 acres free after live year9, by planting 2u0 acres in grain and 24 acres in timber. They also have free transportation from Buenos Ayres to the place of location, exemp tion from all taxation for ten years; and the government will loan them money, not exceeding $1,000 at 6 per cent, per annum, upon the cultivation of a certain area of land, and the erec tion of improvements of a certain val ue. As a result of these liberal laws, over a million acres a year are added to the agricultural area. I'd like some of our Texas mossbacks to chew on that fact. There are 40,000,000 sheep in he United States, and 100,000,000 in the Argentine Republic. There are 50,- 000,000 cattle, about the same number as in the United States. More than $50,000,000 has been paid for wire fences." j2hat becomes of all their cattle?" "tsked. "Have they packing bo.fafs?" "Yes," he replied, "the largest in existence. The establishment of the Liebig Beef Extract Co., one of the finest of its kind in the world, is in the Argentine Republic. It employs a capital of $17,000,000, and for its beef extract alone, 2,500 head of stock a day are slaughtered. Eight thousand carcasses of frozen beef are shipped every week to London." Most of the manufactured articles used in South and Central America are imported from Europe, although the differ ence in distance in favor of the United States is some 4500 miles. IMs enough to make enterprising men Aish to see our next door neighbors going to Europe for everything tliey need in stead if buying from us. It is estimated that the annual im ports of South and Central America are over f 460,UOU,ow in vajue. Of Jiis enormous amount the Uniteel States sell less than $50,000,000, the remaining 400,000,000, going from England, France and Germany. The m ports of the Argentine Republic (mounted li?st vear to more than SlOO,. )00,000 of which only 7 3-4 per eent were from the United States. The tmpire of Brazil imports annnuallv sver $100,000,000 worth of goods, of shich the United States sell only about ) per cent, while England alone sells 15 per cent. Mr. Hurley was asked why it is that we have so small a proportion of this Tade. "It it due mainly," he said, "to onr Tankee self-conceit and hard-headed-less. Our manufacturers, instead of naking the character of their goods aud iieir methods of packing conform to 3ie needs and wishes of South and Central American purchaser;, insist that purchasers shall adapt their re quirements to the goods. The United. ftstM manufacturer r 'It TOU don't want my goods as they are yon I can let them alone. Aud the obliging natives let them alone. In the lower half of the Western Hemisphere, including Mexico, there are 60,000,000 people who, in a com mercitrl sense, hardly know us, and yet there is every reason why there should be between them and ns the cloven commercial aud political ties. There is food for thought in all that Mr. Hurley says, and if this Con gress of American Nations shall suc ceed in arousing the American public to a sense of the importance of this matter, it will have accomplished enough to justify its assembling. Jes Waitin. In the alluvial region of Louisiana the forest foliage is almost impenetra ble by sunshine, and the under-growth of weeds and viues is as dense as a tropical jungle. Leaving a clearing and going into the woods is like a sud den transition from midday to twi light. Near a bayou in this wild section stands a white frame house, one story high, with a long roof whose slope is so gradual it would almost seem the raiii would not flow from it. Years ago it was tenanted. Now it has no dwellers, for the place is haunted. The spirits of a pure girl and a brave 6oldier need not create fear. But Ieople are superstitious; besides, these ghosts are never seen, only heard. They moan in the garret ; they call each other's names in the parlor; a wail comes np from the bayou ; but those who make these sounds are never visi ble. The old quarters are deserted by all, save one. He saw his young mistress leave home one still morning in au tumn. She told him she would return at noon. She never returned, and he is waiting for her still. "Yes, inarster," he said, "I'se heah yit, an' heah 111 stay till de Lawd taps me on de head an' t-ays, 'Cume erloug, Rufus.' 1 kaiu't lebe. 1 couldn't ef I tried. Sposeu she'd come back some evenin', who'd be heah to take keer ob her? She wm so good an' so sweet; 1 kin most see her now, skip pin' erbout de house, au' er singin' like er mockin'-bird. Cap'n Herndon come down dat mawnin' ter tell hergood-by, fur he wuz er gwine ter tight de Yan kees, you know. He wui a mons'us fine man, ez stout ez er giant, but ez kiue-hearted ez Miss Lucy herself. Ez dey come out en de parlor, Miss Lucy said she, turnin' to me: " 'Rufus, we're goin' ter take a skiff ride.' "I seed 'im he'p her inter de skiff, an' won't never fergit how proud he looked an' how puity she looked. He pulled out au' dey shot up de stream like au arrer. It wuz er laung pull, moa' ha'f er mile, 'fore dey reacht de beu', an' I stood on de bank an' watcht de skiff cut fru de water lillies till dey got outen sight. 1 sot down au' waited. Dey did t come. Erbout er midnight de empty skiff come er flout in' down. De whole plantashun turnt out ter hunt fur 'em. Nex' day, erbout er mile up de bvo, ole marster spied sump'n white lay in' on er water, lilv. He rowed out an got it. It wuz er piece ob paper, on which wuz rit dese words: 'George Herndon. Lucy Milburn.' Miss Lucv don dat. It was pinned to de leaf by er gol' breastpin what she wore on her purty white f rote dat mawnin'. "But we nebber seed 'em no mo. Ef dev were drownded dey got cotcb. ter de bottom dat byo's fearful deep an' full ob bresh an' trees an' dey won t rise ergin till de sea eiba up its dead. Ole marster died. De las' words he said ter me wuz: 'Rufus, don't quit lookin'.' An' I hain't frmu dat day ter dis. I'se ole an' tired air my han' tremmels an' my face is full ob furrers, like er coulter makes in er new groun, but heah 111 stay till de Great fberseer makes me lebe. Is de house haunted? Yes. But I wouldn't be afeered ter stay dar ef I could see 'em. Ef Miss Lucy's sperret wuz ter come ter nie I'd take it in dese poor ole arms ob mine. De wailin' an' de moanin' cuts my heart elf an in two, so I keeps away f rum dar. Ebery ebenin' 1 Stan's an' looks up de byotell black darkness flop its wings ober de stream au de scritcu-owl cries like ei los' chile. "Den I goes back home an' lights er taller cau'le what burns all night. Lucy mought come, an' case she did she'd see de light an' sav: 'Uncle Rufus is lookin' fur us, George. Seel' Furef dey do come dey'll come tergeddes. Ef dey went ter de bottom of de byo dey went terpredder, an' dar dey'll stay tell judgment, when dey'll stan' by de right ban ob de Lawd arm in arm." They Differed. "Yes," said the temperance orator. solemnly, "Drink will be the ruin of the world. Liquor is what paralyzes industry, dwarfs ambition, and retards progress. I knew a voung man richly endowed with intellect; a young man who had but to apply himself iu order to attain both houor and fame. But he became a slave of the demon mm and now he is languising in a felon's cell. I tell yon, gentlemen, that you cannot drink and get ahead." A pale-faced, emaciated young man arose iu the back part of the ball, and remarked, "Excuse me, sir, but I thiak you are mistaken." "How am I mistaken?" inquired the orator, somewhat testily. "In saying thatone cannot drink and get-a head, it always struck me of being the surest wav of getting one." Then the young man went over to the corner grocery and smiled. Life. How He Escaped. Chief of lynching parry "We will give you just one minute to say your prayers." Captured horsethief (appealingly) "May I say thetn iu my own way." Chief "Certainly." Horsethief "You promise not to interpose any obstacle?" Chief "We promise." Horsethief (with dignity) "Then I must have a prayerbook. Will some gentleman in the crowd please lend uie one?"' Chicago Tribune. A Tough Old Chap. Uncle Jerry Williams, a fro.it ped ler in Portland, fell off the dock, lay at the bottom of the harbor twenty minutes, and then twenty more befero a doctor came, aud yet they brought him to and set him on bjj pina again. THE MLB. (torse of old Egypt, year on circling year, Whan parched and fevered by Uie heat she lie Beneath a dazzling arch ot rainless ikies. And 'e'en Uie green acacia buds grow sere. How dost thou brim a cup supremely dear And hold it to her lips, until ber sUjh Have ceased, and all before ber ancient eyes Ia fair as erst it was, or far or near I WheDce hast thou tail fine potion? It It drawn From cavernous fount thmt never see the dawn Beyond swart Nubia's furthermost con fine, f Bo potent yet mysterious It teems, Its source might be within a heaven of dreams Upon whoM peak no earthly sunbeam shines. Home Journal. I Double Cringe. The wholesale produce and commis sion store of Mr. Purvis, n Delaware avenue, near Vine street, was robbed on the night of October 17, 1865. , The safe had been opened apparent ly by false keys, and upward of nine thousand dollars in greenbacks were abstracted. A package of bonds to the amount of three thousand dollars more remained untouched. Two clerks, both young men, usually slept in the store. August Yerkes hod been in the employ of Mr. Harrison Purvis for about four years, and en joyed the confidence of his employer. Pembroke Sharon, the other clerk, had only receutly been taken, but the man ner in which he took hold of the busi ness impressed Mr. Purvis so much in his favor that he predicted a successful future for the young man, as a very able salesman and ultimate prominent merchant. Under this impression he placed implicit trust in Sharon, and selected him as a companion for Yerkes in the store at night. Both of these young men were in the store the night that the robbery occured; but when the place was open ed in the morning, Sharon was miss ing and Yerkes lay on the floor near the safe with a serious gash on the side of his head, which had been bleed ing profusely, judging by the amount of blood on the floor. The unfortunate young man had evidently endeavored to staunch the blood, for his hands were stained as well as his clothes. By the disorder in the office and the numerous blood stains both on the floor and walls, it was evident that a desperate struggle In ust have taken place. It was conjectured from this that Sharon, having provided himself wi'b false keys, had opened the safe, ai d been surprised by his fellow clerk in the midst of his work, who in turn dealt him the blow near the temple, and then, after a severe struggle be tween them, Yerkes fainted from loss of blood and the robber fled with his booty. Varnoe, a detective, and a physician were at once sent for and, while Dr. Ed sou attended to his patient, the de tective examined the premises with his usual carefulness, particularly the sec ond floor, and returning to the lowei floor found that Yerkes had recovered, and sat in an arm-chair with a bandage around his bead. "Well, Mr. Varnoe, what have you discovered?" said Mr. Purvis. I find that the robber has been to the second floor," replied the detective, "possibly he has taken some valuables from there ae well." The merchant hastened upstairs, but presently returned, saying that noth ing had been disturbed or removed a far as be could see. "Whatever his object may have been, I am positive that be visited the second floor after the bloody struggle bad taken place." Then Yerkes gave the following ac count. He woke suddenly and found thai Sharon had left the bed, aud fearing that some mishap had overtaken him, he lit a pararine candle by the small gas jet in the room and began to search for him. Not finding him on the second flooi he returned to the first floor, and dis covered him before the open safe. They saw each other at the same mo ment, and Sharon was spellbound at being discovered in his criminal act. Then began the struggle the evidence of which was so plainly apparent. Sharon being the stronger of the two, soon over-powered his opponent, and threw him so violently on the floor, that he became insensible. Varnoe listened with rapt attention to the end, then made a few notes in his book, after which he walked out of the store with his eyes bent on the Boor before him, until he reached the itreet; then, after casting his eyes learchingly around on the ground, be tvalked over to the dock and gazed in to the water in a thoughtful manner. (Then he returned to the store and re loiued the others in the office, it was sith a grsve countenance. "Mr. Pnrvis, the robber has evi lently escaped by way of the river, aa the blood tracks reach to the dock." All eyes were now directed toward ;he wounded man, who had suddenly frown pale. Hn opened his mouth as if to say something, but fell back with t groan and fainted away. While the doctor was applying res toratives to his charge, the detective Irew Mr. Purvis away to the rear of ihe store, and remained there half an sour in conversation with him, and judging by his frequent exclamations te must have been astonished by what he detective told him. Re-entering the office, they found Terkes still unconscious, and at the inggestion of Varnoe be was taken to he hospital. "Now Mr. Purvis," said Varnoe, 'will you point out to me the clothes tsually worn by Mr. Sharon while on luty at the store?" "Certainly, sir," replied the gentle nan, "that is easily done," and be ivent to the closet where the clerks kept their outer garment. Xe ex unined the clothing with gasps of sur prise. "What la it?" said Varnoe, when Hr. Purvis laid the garments on the ked. "Aa I live, Sharon has not only left tit coat and vest behind, bat his panto is well," aaid Mj. Purvis, in bewilder-' "That is singuJar," said the detec tive, exchanging glances with the phy sician. "It is rather puzzling, in fart, when you bear in mind that Mr. Yerkes, when found, was fully dressed, while the thief loft his pants behind," pointing to a pair beneath the bed. "You will please see whether Mr. Sharon left anything valuable in his pockets." Every pocket was examined. There was found a valuable watch and chain, a trifle over five hundred dollars in a wallet, a penknife, pencil meuioran dam, etc., etc. "Retain the articles, Mr. Purvis, and hang the garments up," 6aid the de tective. "I have another surprise here." Varnoe removed the bedclothes, leaving the mattress bare. A number of bloody finger marks stained it along a seam ten inches in length. "I see what you are driving at," cried Purvis, as he scanned the seam. "You mean that the thief has hidden his plunder in the mattress." "I think so, t? all events," was the reply, as be ripped the seam with his knife. Inserting his hand he drew forth the package of greenbacks. They were intact, Mr. Purvis said, after examin ing the seals. "I don't know what to think," 6aid the gentleman hopelessly. "1 declare iny head aches trying to divine the motive for this most extraordinary prime." "Think as I do." 'What is that?" "Why, that Sharon, instead of being the thief, is the thief's victim, which accounts for his leaving his outer gar ments behind. He evidently surprised the rascal, and in a tussle with him he murdered Sharon, dragged him across the street aud threw him iu thu river." "Then you really expect Yerkes is the thief?" asked the merchant greatly agitated. 'I am sure he is not only the thief, but a probable murderer also." "Oh, the wretch!" cried the mer chant passionately, '-and in my heart I admired his bravery, while I pitied him for what he had endured in en deavoring to protect my property. I am perfectly convinced that vou havg hit the right man," continued Mr. Purvis. "If he knew of this he might give us the slip. The next thing to be done is to use every means in our power to recover the body of poor Sharon." "Poor, indeed, since all the clothes he has on his back are not his own," spoke a voice from behind them. All looked at the speaker, who wore an old seaman's suit, and hmked as though he had just recovered from a severe fit of 6eaickness. Something iu the tnK of his voice struck a chord in the brea-t of '.he mer chant. He approached the man, and asked eagerly, "Who are you?" "My name is Pembroke Sharou." In a moment he was surrounded bt the trio, who congratulated him on his escape from death. He requested per mission to assume his proper dress, after which he would tell exactly what had occurred during the pa.-t night. His story was very similar to the one told by Yerkes, with this dillerpuce the positions were changed. It was Sharon who had surprised the other in front of the open safe in the act of stowing in his pocket the greenbacks alluded to. It was Sharon who de nounced the act, and Yerkes, both an gry and frightened to be thus detected, picked up a paper weight and hurled it at his fellow clerk, stricking Sharon on the head, inflicting a ghastly wound, from which he fainted, and knew no more until he awoke on board a vessel near the navy yard. He was told that they picked him up in the river. The captain and his two men had been to the theatre, and were return ing in a boat to the vessel, when a white object floating on the water at tracted their attention, and they made for it and drew the apparently dead man iuto the boat and took him aboard the vessel, where his wants were at once attended to. When Yerkes' version was relateil to hi in he laughed derisively, and was on the point of making a remark, when familiar footsteps were heard ascend ing the stair. "By Heaven, I believe it is Ai'gust Yerkes 1" whispered Sharon, as he hastily entered the closet and shut the door. He was none too soon, for the next moment Yerkes walked- bri.-kly up to where the three men stood. Something in their faces told him that something was amiss something to his disadvan tage, too. "You are probably surprised to see me here again," remarked he, for want of something else to say. "We are indeed I" replied Mr. Pur vis, regarding him with an omiuou look. "Yon all appear to be anything but pleased to see me," next remarked the robber and would-be assassin. "Ou the contrary, we are very glad to see you," spoke the detective, with an ambiguous smile. Glancing at the detective with a skeptical air, Yerkes walked to the closet and opened the door, and the next moment he uttered a fearful shriek and started back with his hair standing ou end, and his face the colo of ashes. He had seen Cas his guilty conscience told him) the ghost of his victim, for Sharon remained in the closet, perfect ly immovable, hi9 eyes fixed reproach fully on the guilty wretch. The horrid vision was too much for his brain to endure. Yerkes became a raving maniac from that moment, and became so violent that the detective was obliged to manacle him hand and foot and again take him to the hosj V', from whence he was shortly aft V ward conveyed to the insane depart ment of the almshouse. Pembroke Sharon was generously recompensed by his employer for bis heroic attempt to prevent the robbery, and promoted to a responsible position in the store, which he tilled with credit both to himself aud his grateful em ployer. Yerkes lived about a year after this confinement, and died a raving in.iiinc; a terrible retribution for his attempt to fasten the crime on an innocent pt r son. portra:) Gladstone has had his painted tialrty-fly 8 times. NEWS ry BUIEP. -Alexandria, E2ypt, possesses the argest artificial harbor in the world. It is lielieved that the hollyhock was jrouht to Eurone from China as early is the year 1573. In the United States there were 14, 9 mnrdets letween 1SS4 and 1S89, and uly 554 legal executions. In Bradford County, Fla., Is ahol ow stump from which come a noise limilar to that of a boiling ket'la. A Harlem (New York) briJe re :elved among her wedding presents a receipted gas lull of $17 from her father. Five generations of one family sat 'or their h torai lis in a single group it SpriugLeld, l'enn., a few days ago. Under the laws of China, the Mult who loses: his temper iu a discussion is lent to Jail for live days to cool down. The King of Dahomey has sent an jmbassador to Gem any to enaae a Dand of musicians to play, not serve, for lis dinner. It is said that in many Welsh vil ages the yew tree aud the church are of ihe same ace, the one being planted when Ih other was built. A cai iet use I in a room of the Unt ied Stilt a Mint at ter beim; in wearsome years, wai recent y burned in pans aud fielded worth of gold. The first English theatre was that ?rected by Jam. s iiarbajre, in 1.V7&-77. It stood in Holywell I.an-. Shoreditc'.i, London, till It was pulled down in 159-1. At L'Orlent arsenal m France a jreat ironclad war vessel of II.irhj tons .s nearly comph ted. It Is strongly arine 1 with immense cannons iu revolving tow jrs. It is estimated that the amount of ;old in the world is ahout six hundred and thirteen cubic yards, and it would fit in a r iom twenty-lour feet each way If iu a solid cube. Ther is siid to h a striking simi larity between the sign l.tngu.tge of leaf mu es and that in vogue auiou theludlausof North and South Ameri ca. The collections at Treiiinnt Temple Baptt Church in Boston, Mass., dur ing the kiM. year included lls,r),"0 cop pers, weighing li pounds, aud 54,503 nickels, weighing 5'.U pounds. There Is a turtle famine iii London, and caterers aie obliged to pay fifiy four cents per pound for turtle that last year they could obtain in any quantity for sixieeu cents er pjund. A Macong (Ga.) man had a frying siz chicken with not a feather, except ing a few on the wings The ohicken has been feat herless ever since it was hatched and enjoys ierfect health. A postage stamp was recently found by a Connecticut physician In the ear ol a lr tie pat ient, and on its removal a severe pain, from w hich the child bad suffered and which caused the visit of the doctor, disappeared. I Count de Ix-sens did n it build tl first canal across the Isthmus of Suez. Six hundred years 15. '. that neck of land was traversed by a waterway. It got silted up w ith sand, wascleared out by the llouian Eniror Tiajan in ths second centuiy and again in 707. A Japanese phimt states that at Kauawaza a family of six generations live. The oldest is said to le 132 years of age and to lie a ereat-great- ireat graiidmother, her husband aged 13d also lieing alive. The first elephant seen in England w as sent as a present to Henry 11L by the King of France about the year 1255. N uinliers of people crowded to see the curiosity, and a sis-rial building was erected for it at the lower. Out i f seventy-six Irish Kings who ruled between A. i. 4 and 117J, no lesi than fifty -two died violent deaths either in battle, by murder, oi y thunderbolt (by the latter thiee were slain). A faithful dog iu Hamilton, Ohio, did'nt al audoii Its attempt to arouse Its drunken owner who had fallen asleep on the railroad track, until an engine cut off its leg. '1 he n an escaped in jury. The Leaning Tower of I'isa is lrt3 feet high, aud is, if the cornice J in cluded, 13 left 8 inches out of the wr pemlieular. Hie walls at the base are 13 feet thick. U is built of the hcil building stone marble. It probably as sumed its position iu course of con struction. The first bank was established at Venice about 1157, and the name "ban co" was given to it in Italian, from the bench upon which the money h mgers used to sit. The Hank of (ienoa wai established in 1315; that of Amsterdam in ltiU'J; of Hamburg in liil'J; and the Bank of Rotterdam iu lOXi. For those interested and who want to know how a turtle, digs her nest a KPiitietiian who witnessed the iriorm ance says that alter finding a sultab's location the old "hea" digs the bole, something like a jug, using the hind flipiers, first one and then the other moving her body about so as 1c be abl to get at the lies'. If the hand is not too hard she will make a nest in from twenty-five to thirty minutes. Dr. Gatling, the Inventor of the famous gun which bears his name, Is a most industrious man for one of his years, aud while he has done li tie In the way of invention sin -e h gave bis famous field-piece to the world, te has leeii far from idle all these years. The Doctor lives in a handsome horse on Chart"i Oak Hill, built neitr th sjnit where the historic charter oak tr. e stood. In bis back yard ntands a lot, a wooden ahel. under which extends a carpenter's tab'e. Tins Isthe Doctoi't workshop, Wr.oden and met.il ii ole)-, old and weather-stained, lie alioul, sin -rounded by diagrams and drawing . To this shop the Djctor goes eve y momiug. A pigantic beef trust was recently ii. corporated in Denver, Col., w.th a cap ital of $15,Oi0,i00, controlling prp-ity worth f-3,t00, 00 , comprising 6,iHi acres of land and 15'),00U head of cat tle. A good deal of interest ha lieen ex cited at the antipodes by thenppearance after twenty-seven years of submersion, of the wreck of the British war ship Or pheus, the singular loss ot which, with nearly 20J bauds., caused such commo tion at the beginning of the last Maoii war. Magnetism is now proposed for overcoming scale. In b iilers. The mat. ! nets are arrange I within a cyll ider In ! sheets and bundle", and tVe w ater being ' kept in constant motion, deposits are 1 prevented. The inventor of the device '. claims that the same arrangement can ' be economically and advantageously used for the aruflclal "ageing" clliq. . nor i innam
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