VOL. XX.
SEVENTH ANNUAL EXHIBITION
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BUTLER, PA., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1883
APPALLING DISASTER.
The Great Island of Java a Mass
of Ruins.
LONDON, Aug. 28.—The latest al
vices from Batavia, the capitol of Java,
show that the volcanic eruptions iu that
island are much more serious than at
first indicated. The disturbances be
gun on the island of Krakatsa, in the
gtrait of Sunda, about fifteen miles off
the coast of Java. The deep rumblings
were distinctly audible at Sarakerta
and Batavia, about 45 and 22 miles re
spectively. Little alarm was felt at
first, but within a few hours showers
of stones began to fall at .JouKjokerta,
Surabaga and Zerang. Ail through
the night showers of red-hot rocks and
ashes fell, making complete darkness
in these towns. In Batavia there was
an occasional fall, and it was difficult
to keep the street hmps burning in the
European quarter. By the next morn
ing all communications with Anjer was
cut off, all the bridges having been de
stroyed by the descending rocks and
ashes, and road rendered impassable.
The first eruptions were on Saturday
night. On Sunday morning the dis
turbances had extended beneath the
waters of the Strait, and they were
soon boiling and hissing violently,
while great waves dashed upon the
Javanese shores, and the temperature
of tbe sea went up nearly 20 degrees.
Even as far away from the original
point of disturbances as Madura the
furious waves were lashed into moun
tains of foam as they came rolling iu.
The threatening rumblings gradually
became more and more distinct, and by
noon the Maha Meru, the largest of the
volcanoes of Java, was belching forth
flames at a very alarming rate. This
eruption soou spread to the Guuung
Tengger, (the crater of which is the
largest in the world, being nearly four
miles in diameter); the Gunung Gun
tur, and many other minor mountains
until more than a third of the forty-five
craters of Java were either in active
eruption or seriously threatening it.
Just before dusk a great luminous
cloud formed over the Gunung Guntur,
and the crater of that volcano began
to vomit up enormous streams of white
acid and sulphurous mud, besides
smaller quantities of lava. There were
rapidly successive explosions, followed
by tremendous showers of cinders and
enormous fragments, which were hurled
high into the air and scattered in all
directions, to fall, after the force was
spent, upon the valleys below, carrying
death and destruction.
With these terrible eruptions came a
sympathetic demonstation from the sea.
The overhanging clouds were so sur
charged with electricity that at one
time over fifteen huge water-spouts
were seen; these have continued at
somewhat long intervals evtr since.
IVlen, women and children rushed in
terror from their tottering dwelling
places, filling the air with their shrieks
of horror. Hundreds were unable to
get out before the houses fell and were
buried beneath the great mass of rocks
and mud which were piled up where a
few hours before all had been peace,
happiness and fancied security.
The Gunung Tengger has not had an
eruption before since the year 1800,
when an extent of land seventeen miles
long and seven broad was completely
covered white sulphurous mud so pecu
liar to the eruptions of Java. The
peak of Gunung Tengger is 6,000 feet
high, and the mounment of flame on
top of this" made a scene of very im
pressive grandeur. Every moment a
huge bowlder at red or white heat
would be hurled from Tengger's crater
with terrific force and after going hun
dreds of feet into the air would fall
back with a whirl, perhaps crushing
through the heated roof of some
Chinese fisherman's hut, or crush be
neath its huge mass the form of some
native peasant. Fissure after fissure
appeared in the sides of the mountains,
and here and there in the valleys there
came a great yawning chasm.
On the elevated plains of Ivediri and
Bandong the showers of stones, mud
and lava were not so frequent as in the
lower portions of the island* but were
still quite destructive. Much of the
northern portion of the island, which
was covered with tracts of forests, was
soon in one great blaze of flame. The
red-hot vomitings from the craters had
set the trees on fire, and as the giants
of the woods fell one after another like
so many sheaves of wheat before a gale,
the scene was one of awful gtandeur.
As the eruptions increased ia fre
quency and violence the disturbance of
the waters surrounding the barren coast
became more and more violent. Here
the waves rushed in terrific force up the
steep, rocky incline, breaking upon the
overhanging crags and receding rapidly
leaving a lava-How cooled just at the
moment when it was about to fall over
a precipice, and then remaining, quick
ly hardened by contact with the waters
and forming a distinct strata of black
and bright red, purple and brown lava,
all thrown about in the most eccentric
masses, while huge peaks of basalt rose
at frequent intervals. There the waves
came rolling over a marshy plain along
the shore, suddenly engulping a ham
let of fisherman's rude houses, and
turning suddenly back swept away al
most every vestige of what had a mo
ment before been a scene of hustling
activity where family after family hud
been rushing around in a vaiu endeavor
to save their effects and get awa}- with
their lives from the awful combination
of elements threatening them. What
a few hours before were fertile valleys,
covered with flourishing plantations of
coffee, rice, sugar, indigo or tobacco,
the staples of the island, were soon but
mud, stone and lava-covered fields of
destruction and ruin. Probably not
a single crop of Java will be saved. At
the entrance to Batavia was a large
grcup of houses extending along the
shore and occupied by Chinamen. This
part ol the city was entirely swept
away, and of the 25,000 Chinese who
lived on this swampy plain, it is hard
ly probable that more than 5,000 man
aged to save their lives. They stuck
jto their homes till the waves tlmt
washed them away came, fearing the
'torrents'of flame and lava of the in
terior more than the torrents of water
| from the exterior.
The population of Europeans and
Americans in Batavia suffered a loss per
haps of 800 souls out of 35,000 whites
I living there. Many of the bazars in
the higher portion of the city were de
j molished, and it is impossible to make
| any estimate of the great pecuniary
loss. The Exchange and the military
! hospitals suffered great damage. At
| Anger the F.uropeau and American
' quarter was first overwhelmed by
rocks, mud and lava from the craters,
and then the waters came np and
swallowed the ruins, leaving nothing
to mark the site and causing the loss of
somewhere in the neighborhood of 2,-
: 000 lives of the inhabitants and those
tried to find a refuge there.
Bantam, once a prosperous and
flourishing native city, but practically
abandonded many vjarsago, was en
tirely covered several times by the
waters, and there must have been from
1,200 to 1,500 people drowned.
While there can be no accurate esti
mate formed at present of the loss of life,it
must be apparent when it is considered
that tbe island has a population of over
10,000,000 people, that the death list
will foot up far into the thousands.
MORE APPALLING.
LONDON, August 29, 10:30 P. M.—
Further particulars of the great volcanic
eruption in Java have just reached
London from Batavia. At noon on
Sunday the eruptions and shocks were
supposed to have-reached their greatest
height, but late in the afternoon and
eveuingthe violence of the disturbances
suddenly increased About midnight
the most frightful scene of the whole
disturbance took place. Suddenly an
enormous luminous cloud, similar to
that which was seen over the Gunung
Gunten but much greater in extent,
formed over the Kandang range of
mountains, which skirt the southeast
coast of the island. This cloud gradu
ally increased in size until it formed a
canopy of lurid red and whitish gray
over a wide extent of territory. About
2 o'clock Monday morning the great
cloud suddenly broke into small sec
tions and quickly vanished. At the
same time the most frightful rumblings
were heard and tbe columns of fire and
smoke on the southeast corner of the
island ceased to ascend.
VILLAGE AND INHABITANTS DISAPPEAR.
The hissing of the sea became so
loud as to be almost deafening, and the
waves rushed up on the shores to an
almost unprecedented height. When
daylight came it was seen that an
enormous tract of land had disappeared,
extending from point Capucin on the
south to Negery Pafsoerang on the
north and west, to a low point covering
an extent of territory about fifty miles
square In this were situated the vil
lages of Negery and Negery Babawang.
Of the people inhabiting these places
and the natives, scattered sparsely
through the forests and on the plains,
none escaped. The loss of life must
have aggregated fully 15,000 souls.
The entire Kangdang range of moun
tains, extending along the coast in a
semicircle for about sixty-five miles
had gone out of sight. The waters of
Welcome Bay, the Sunda Straits and
Pepper Bay on the east and of the
Indian Ocean on the south had rushed
in and formed a great sea of turbulent
waters. The town of Tanerang was
swept away. Half the population,
numbering eighteen hundred, perished.
At Speelwyk, near Poins Salcis, the
red hot rocks set fire to the houses and
swept away all the thickly settled
portion of the town.
75,000 LIVES LOST.
Fijelenknig was almost totally de
stroyed and a large number of lives
were lost. The island of Onrus, five
miles off the mouth of the Tangerang
river and 20 miles east of Batavia, was
completely inundated and tbe floating
dock there was completely destroyed.
Caataye, Claps and Tranwers islands,
off the portion of the island which dis
appeared, are out of sight, and not a
vestige of them is left. Baby and
Cherilo islands, oil' the north coast,
lost their few houses and inhabitants.
In' Batavia the loss has been largely in
creased since the former reports The
town of Bridge was destroyed, the
Diamond and Pearl bastions badly
damaged, and tbe Burran redoubt was
destroyed. The town of Faggal was
severely shaken snd few buildings were
left standing. The aggregate loss of
life from the various elements of the
terrible disturbances must be fully 75,-
000. A violent shock occurred in tbe
island of Sumatra on Monday forenoon.
Middle Island, 10 miles off the Javanese
coast, was almost wholly engulfed.
The small island of Singkel has entire
ly disappeared. It was uninhabited.
PTXo woman really practices
economy unless she uses the Diamond
Dyes. Many dollars can be saved
every year. Ask the druggist.
—James Williams, of Andersen, S.
C , is not yet 21 years of ase, but he
is in jail for bigamy. He pleads in de
fense that two years ago he was con
verted to the doctrines of Mormon by
missionaries preaching in that section
of the State, and claims that as poly
gamists in Utah are not molested he
should be set free.
—Mr. Jas. W. Re wait, Wrights
ville, Pa., says: "I suffered from dys
pepsia and heart burn, which Brown's
Iron Bitters entirely relieved."
—The claims against Allegheny
county arising from the riota of 1877
have all been settled or are now barred
by the statute of limitation, except
those upon which suits have been en
tered. The total amount asked by
those who have suits still pending
against the county is $20,000, but as
consequential damages for which the
county will not hold itself liable, are
included, it is expected to settle for
$3,500. The grand total of all claims
presented foots up to $3,609,346.71
The county has been able to com
promise by paying $2,708,538.88, sav
ing $828,707.83 by so doing.
THE CHINESE, OF WHAT
THEIR FOOD CONSISTS.
His Intense Desire to be Corpu
lent—The Philosophy of the
Stomach in the Celestial
Kingdom—S'. range
Food Products.
PEKIN, July I. —To be able to eat
well means, iu the Chinaman's opinion,
to be happy. All his cares, troubles,
and desires centre in the same point,
namely, good eating. True, everybody
the world over takes care to satisfy his
appetite in the best possible way. But
the Chiuese differ from other people in
the philosophy of the subject. They
hold that only the satiated man can be
wise, and those who cannot make them
selves full are surely fools. Their
most sacred philosophical and medical
treatises deal with the stomach as the
principal source of the spiritual, moral,
and physical life of man. The head,
in their opinion, is a poor dependent
on the bounty of the stomach. Not
the head but the stomach ought to be
crowned. They hold as a cardinal
axiom that the stomach is the spring of
every thought, feeling and muscular
action. He who does not eat loses all
energy. Man differs from wood and
stone only because* he fills up his
stomach. They look upon Dr. Tan
ner's forty days' fast, as a clever trick.
They assert that the American doctor
deceived the public by drinking some
colorless nutritious substances dissolv
ed in water. Otherwise, they argue,
he would necessarily turn first an idiot
and then a corpse.
When we ponder on some difficult
subject we often touch or rub our fore
head. Under the same circumstauces
the Chinaman puts his fingers below
bis belt. By touching his abdomen he
facilities his mental process. In view
of the supremacy of the stomach the
Chinese came to the conclusion that
the better it is filled the wiser is its
possessor; hence fatness and corpulence
are the best mirror of tbe mind, the
best indication of superior intellect.
And, as wisdom brings man to a bliss
ful state and to a heavenly beatitude,
therefore the Chinamen regard extra
ordinary stoutness as a symbol of the
future heavenly state. The idol of
Buddha-Shaheiuuuy, the ideal of su
preme beatitude, is represented as an
abnormally fat man, with a smile of
perfect satisfaction. There is no need
to put any sign under that idol, for
without words everybody would read
in its look that "I am quite full." The
superior spiritual advisers of the Budd
hists are distinguished for their corpu
lence. I am told there are divines
among them who devour a whole sheep
for breakfast! No wonder they regard
the severe fasting of the Christian
heretics as a hopeless folly.
Now, what are the agencies which
bring the Chinaman to his blissful
state ? They are manifold ; yet beef,
milk and dairy products in general are
strictly excluded from the list. About
twenty centuries ago in the Celestial
Empire there was established ox
worship, as a reward for the great as
sistance in agriculture rendered by that
horned animal. Then it was forbidden
to kill either ox or cow. It became
also a sacred habit to leave the cow's
milk exclusively for the calves, to whom
it rightfully belonged. do
not use the milk of sheep or she goats,
though they are very fond of the meat
of these animals. But, th~en, the7s,are
exceedingly fond of woman's milk
The well-to-do parents often keep wet
nurses for their children up to the
seventh and even ninth hear. Some
times even men of age, and particularly
old men, resort to woman's milk either
as an article of luxury or as a dietetic
means. Among rich Chinamen it is a
point of pride to keep a number of wet
nurses. Of the rich Celestial it may
be truly said that "he is worth so many
wet nurses," as of the rich Mohamme
dan that ' he is worth so many wives,"
or of the American that "he is worth
so many dollars." No Chinese woman
would milk a cow, for such practice, in
her opinion, would stain forever her
chastity.
Excluding beef and dairy products
Chinamen eat everything that is edible,
horse and ass flesh, snakes, rats, mice,
dot's, grasshoppers, spiders, worms, co
coons, sea cucumbers, swallows' nests
and so on. Once, while living iu a
villa, near I'ekin, I saw a very strange
scene. There appeared a cloud of
grasshoppers. Suddenly the field was
covered with Chinamen, who ran
frantically hither and thither gathering
them in. They filled large sacks and
bags with the insects. They carried
portable stoves on which they roasted
their curious game Other Chinamen
eagerly devoured the grasshoppers,
paying a penny for teu.
At the head of all meats Chinamen
put, of course, pork. In their opinion,
to the hog belongs the first place in the
list of domestic animals. If you ask a
Chinaman why, he will answer you
proudly: "Because it was the hog
from whom the Chinaman descended."
Don't you see, the Celestials have
beaten Darwin on the theory of the
descent of man. It is only natural,
then, that among Chinamen hogs
should enjoy full rights of citizenship.
Like dogs, they wander wherever they
please. A Chiuese street without a
number of hogs is an impossibility.
Are there many hogs-in China? I
should think so. On a single holiday
in memory of their ancestors—not the
original ancestors, the hogs, but merely
human ancestors—the Celestials eat
fully f>50,000 bogs, I must admit that
Chinese pork is superior to any found
elsewhere*on the globe. Poor Chiua
men who cannot afford to buy pork eat
meat of dogs, asses, horses, rats, mice,
rabbits, hares, goats and sheep. But I
never saw them eating cats.
Of birds the Chinese eat silver pheas
ants, ducks, geese, chickens, jackdaws,
crows, and many others. Curiously
enough, the so-called Cochin-China
fowls are very rarely seen here. Salt
eggs are in great use here.
Among the choice delicacies of the
Chinese must be mentioned the fins of
sharks and the nests of sea swallows.
l'n ler the latter is understood not the
whole nest, hut only the mucilaginous
inner coating ol the nests. It is believ
ed that the swallows who built their
nests on the sea rocks cover their nests
and glue them to the rocks with the
juice of sea cane, which, on being dried,
looks like mucilaginous membrane. On
the market these nests are found in the
shape of a hemisphere of the size of a
half orange peel. The nests are sold
here at from fifteen to twenty-five dol
lars per pound. They are used princi
pally for making broth, to which they
give a peculiar aroma and taste, much
valued by gastronomers.
Rice stands, of course, at the head of
vegetable foods. Without rice gruel
no meal is served here. "Fan" means
both "to have a meal'' and "to eat rice
gruel." The brown rice, which is com
mon rice, but heated and musty, is
much liked. There isalso a red variety
of rice.
Honey is much used here, but
chiefly as a cosmetic. After being
mixed with flour it is used by the wo
men in their hair dressing. With their
hair saturated, sticky and shining with
honey, they must be indeed sweet.
As everybody knows, the Chinese
are passionately fond of tea, which
they cultivate for the rest of the world.
They drink it at every meal, at home
and out, when idle and at work, in
shops and in offices—in short, every
where, and at any time of day or night.
The red, black, and green sorts of tea
they prepare only for exports, while
they themselves use exclusively yellow
tea. They take tea in small cups, and
without sugar.
Though in China there are excellent
sorts of grapes, yet no wine is prepared
there. The Chinese make two kinds
whisky, of sargo and ot rice, and drink
a good deal of it. Women also drink
and smoke here. A tin gill of the
shape of an hour glass is used for
whisky drinking. They had no glass
works here until recently, when an
American gentleman taught some
Celestials to make glass. During my
thirty years' residence here I have
never seen a single drunken Chinaman
on the street. No coffee or chocolate
is used here.
The unsually fertile soil of this coun
try yields products enough to satisfy
the appetites of all the Celestials, and
in view of their peculiar philosophy of
the stomach, they ought to be able, all
of them, to reach the blissful state of
satiety. Yet how many of them are
lean, hungry, with wistful eyes and
hollow stomachs. What a heartrend
ing tragedy each of these thin fellows
presents, whose all-absorbing idea is to
be thick. When I look upon the crowd
of hollow-cheeked Chinamen and then
upon the few who arc in the blissful
state of corpulency, I can not help
thinking o( the lean-fleshed kine of
Pharaoh.
Fruit Trees by the Roadside.
It is singular that among dusty road
sides there is generally an abundance
of fruit, and this abundance is usually
in proportion to the quantity of dust.
Not only is the fruit abundant, but the
leaves are generally remarkably heal
thy; and we do not remember an in
stance of a blighted or seriously dis
eased tree, when they have been cov
ered with road-side dust. If there are
any doubters let them see for them
selves. This has been frequently not
ed in regard to old pear trees in gar
dens along roadsides; but as to the
cherry it is very striking, especially
low headed pie-cherries, which are
more easily covered with duet than
trees of larger size.
We do not pretend to account for
this curious fact, but rest with simply
stating it. It is supposed that the
plant breathes through its leaves—how
it does this when covered with dust, it
is not for us to say. It may be that the
minute insects which crowd on fruit
trees generally don't like the dust, in
deed, people do say that it is to destroy
insects that chickens so love to cover
themselves with dust. Again, some
people have a notion that many fruit
diseases come from minute fungi, which
develope on the leaves and branches,
and soon cover the whole surface, de
stroying tissues as they go. It may be
that absolutely dry dust falling on these
minute juicy little plants may suck the
moisture out of them, and leave them
high and dry. We do not pretend to
discuss any of these propositions; at
the same time, it is curious to note
that these dust-covered fellows should
do so well.— Germantown Telegraph.
A Minister's Gratitude.
Pit. HARTMAN— Dear Sir : I am
thankful to God that I can acknowledge
your treatment (Peruna) of my daugh
ter's eye has been successful aud satis
factory. I would be glad to have the
public have confidence in you. N. B.
Please make your fees in reach of
poor people. Remember the tender
mercies of the wicked are cruel.
REV. E. H. BALDWIN,
Wattsburgh, Pa.
Reader ask your druggist for one of
Dr. Hartman's invaluable books on the
"Ills of Life," and how to cure them.
You get one gratis 1
The French victories over the
Anamitcs of Tonquin follow one after
the other. Now they bombard a city,
and now they rout a body of troops.
They have recently captured the forti
fied town of Hai-Dzuong, which has
30,000 inhabitants, and is the capital
of one of King I'huduc's provinces,
seizing at the same time a lot of can
non and the money in the Treasury.
It was supposed that China would
support the .Anamites ; but it does not
seem as though the Chinese could now
prevent the conquest of Anani by the
French.
Useless Fright.
To worry about any liver, kidney or
urinary trouble, especially Bright's
disease or diabetes, as Hop Bitters
never fails of a cure where a cure is
possible. We kr.ow this.
—One touch of leather makes the
bad boy griu.
IN THE YELLOWSTONE.
President Arthur Air t vcs Safely
at the National Park.
UPPER GEYSKR BASIN Yellowstone
National Park, August 24.—At 1
o'clock to day, after a dusty march of
twenty-six miles over a rough trail, the
■President and party arrived in the Up
per Geyser Basin of the National Park,
and went into camp near an old, faith
ful geyser, who greeted the travelers a
few minutes after dismounting with
one of his hourly eruptions. All were
very tired and hungry, and the exhibi
tion, that seemed specially to greet the
Chief Magistrate, could induce but few
of the party to abandon the lunch and
rush to a point for observations of the
display.
The afternoon was devoted to rest
ing, bathing and .overhauling the outfit,
and little attention was paid to the
geysers beyond those in the immediate
vicinity of the camp. All the travel
ers were impressed with the wonders
surrounding them, and to-morrow will,
no doubt, prove a day of interest and
pleasure.
After their ride on horseback of 230
miles, every member of the expedition
is in the best of health, and not an ac
cident of the slightest character has
occurred on the whole journey to mar
its pleasure.
The white frost was still thick on
the blades of grass and leaves of the
shrubs, glistening in the morning sun
light like diamond dust, and the mists
and vapors rested close to the surface
of the river as the presidential party
mounted at G. 45 last Thursday morning
and started out for the day's march.
The night had been the coldest the
party has yet experienced, the ther
mometer marking twenty degrees at 6
A. M., and in the mess tent the water
which had been served out a few mo
ments before the party sat down to
breakfast, formed a network of ice on
the under surface of the glasses.
The trail was very crooked and bad
over a low range of mountains covered
with pine forests. At intervals, open
grassy parks were found, but most of
them were only a few acres in area.
About twelve miles out the party caiua
upon the lower falls of the Lewis, or
Lake Fork, a dark, gray gorge cut
through solid walls of volcanic rock, its
sides being nearly perpendicular. Five
miles further on the party went into
camp in a lovely open park at the
North end of the Lewis Like, the only
spot on the shore line which is not
densely timbered. The camp wa9
named Logan, in honor of the Senator,
who was to have been one of the party,
and whose unavoidable abscence has
been regretted by all encamped at the
beautiful spot.
The tents look out on this beautiful
sheet of water, and the sound of the
swirl of the waves on the beach mingled
pleasantly with its twin sisters, the
sound of the soughing of the wind in
the trees near by. Along the line of
march on Thursday, were seen large
quantities of Indian tea, a diminutive
species of evergreen whortleberries, five
to ten Inches high, found only in tim
ber and at an altitude of from 8,000 to
10,000 feet. The Indians are fond of %
the tea made from the dried leaves and
stems of this plant, and it is said by
those who have drank it that it forms
a pleasant substitute for our own.
The day before (Wednesday) the
party remained at Camp Strong, the
surroundings of which are worthy of
more than passing notice, a grassy bot
tom encompassed by mountains clad
with evergreen trees of all sizes, from
the young seedling up to mature age,
scrttered singly, grouped in clusters,
or massed into dark forests. The tents
were pitched on .the banks of the Snake
Iliver, which here possesses all the at
tributes of a first-class trout stream,
clear, pure water drippling over pebbly
bottoms, with here and there swift cur
rents, eddies and deep holes
Looking back over the course from
Fort Washakie, where the party first
mounted their horses and abandoned
wheeled vehicles and took the ludian
trail, which has led through fertile val
leys, across the Bad Lauds and over
rugged mountains, there are many
memories which linger pleasantly in the
minds of every member of the party.
The hail storm at Camp Crosby, the
dust which sifted in the tents at Camp
Tenton, the trail across the fallen tim
bers are forgotten in the pleasant asso
ciations of the rest of the journey.
Located in a bend of the Gros Ven
tre River, from the crest of which the
trail led, looking down on it, the trav
elers obtained their first good yiew of
the royal Tetons, or Titan?, as they
should be called To the West was a
forest of pine and spruce mantliug the
mountain, to the South and East clay
and sandstone rising high in the sky
and rich red from its iron coloring,
masked, here and there, by green
foliage. The short, thick grass of the
little valley furnished splendid grazing
for the animals, and the trout within
twenty feet of the tent, made the im
mediate surroundings most attractive.
Then tie Titan Basin, large as the
State of Rhode Island, and covered at
this time of the year with nutritious
grasses, and profuse in evidence of be
ing the winter grazing ground of deer,
autelope and elk. The near future
must practically determine its value for
stock purposes. Then Jackson's Lake,
as seen from a crest of a high Huff on
the line of march, a gigantic sapphire,
its surface fretted aud blown into white
caps by the winds which swept dowu
over Mount Moran, and, moaning, lost
themselves in the gloomy forests be
yoniid. The scenery along the route
will furnish pleasant memories iu the
years to come. Enough game has been
killed to satisfy the wants of the party.
Thursday we entered the precincts of
the Park, and the buffalo and elk cau
look at us with perfect safety, for Gen.
Sheridan has given strict orders that
nothing shall be killed. The members
of the party are enjoying their usual
good health, are commencing, in fact,
to realize something in the way of
robust strength for the investment
made iu taking a trip of this kind.
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