THE TIMES, NEW BLOOM FIELD, PA.. JULY 1), 1878.
ami the clmrmlng view tbe elevation
vominiitulml. On one of these occasions
It was the twenty-fifth and my birth
day I was more than usually absorbed
lu my thoughts when my attention was
caught by a shadow passing over the de
clivity a little removed from where I
sat, and looking up I recognized the
giver of alms. lie lifted his hat, begged
pardon and hoped It was not an indis
cretion to ask if I had recovered my
purse ; which opened the way to further
conversation. The sun was fust setting,
and the scene on earth and sky was re
splendent. Leaning upon a rock, he
contemplated the miracle In silent adora
tion. "Ah, that Is eijual to what I have so
often seen in America," I remarked.
After a moment he replied, " For
many years no land has so much Inter
ested me as America, and upon no peo
ple do I look with so much interest.
America gave me my supremest joy and
profoundeRt sorrow, l'erhaps this con
fession mny, in a mensure, excuse my
impolite intrusion upon you, as I am so
thoroughly a stranger."
" Yes, and a foreigner," I laughed. "I
have a dear, beautiful aunt Kdith at home
who warned me against foreigners.
This is my J'cte, and as her birthday is
the same as mine, I am naturally think
ing of her Just now, and recall her soge
advice. As the sun is down, I will fol
low it and bid you good-night."
As I rose to go lie .made no reply, as
if he had been indill'erent to what I had
said. I glanced at his face; it was ash
en white, lie was opening a locket at
tached to his watch-guard, from which
he lifted a ring of dark hair, and then
1 rawing it nearer his eyes he spoke as if
reading a date : " Le vingt cinq ao."
The pallor of ills face, joined to its
outline, which was in full profile, held
me where 1 stood us if spell-bound.
.Somewhere, a long time ago, I had Been
that face.
" Yes, it Is an unusual coincidence,"
he remarked, as if just comprehending
-what had been said. " But your aunt
Edith must be much older than you V"
" No ; only ten years."
" Is she married 5"'
"No."
"And your"'
" Nor I, monsieur. We belong to the
noble army of old maids, which on the
other side is a more honorable and ob
stinate sisterhood than here."
He smiled faintly, and wiped his fore
head with a large white handkerchief.
" If I should go to America," he ob
served, " I should greatly desire to visit
the locality where women like you live
and die unmarried.''
"Oh, for that matter, you can't miss
them," I replied laughingly; "they're
common from Maine to California. Bpin
sterhood is an outgrowth of our Decla
ration of Independence ' liberty and
the pursuit of happiness.' "
"But, really, I desire to know the
name of the place where you live; I am
sure it will interest me greatly. Will
you not write it for me V" And lie of
fered me a blank card.
"Oh, certainly, but I don't under
stand why."
" I may possibly go and see your aunt
Edith and tell her I saw you on the top
of a mountain. Perhaps you would like
to send her a message!"'
" Well, if you see her," I replied in
the same tone, moving away, " tell her
I haven't forgotton to beware of for
eigners." "Just one more word," he entreated,
following me. "Is your aunt Edith,
Edith MackV"
" Yes, but how should you know V"
and in that moment it flashed upon my
mind like sudden daybreak. " And you
are" I stammered.
" A man who has loved her many a
year. To-morrow I leave Vienna for
England, to sail for New York. I can
jiot say more to you now than that I
legin to see my way through a sad, sad
mystery. Here is my card. Adieu I"
The bright glow left in the atmosphere
by the brilliant sunset had quite died
away, but it was light enough for me to
read the superscription : Le Chevalier
At'HILLE Roma."
I walked back to my lodgings in a
manner probably quite sane to other
people, although the distance was com
passed by myself in a condition of com
plete unconsciousness as to how. Like
the phantasmagoria ot fated events swept
before my mind the train of complicated
circumstances that had led to my finding
Aunt Edith's lost lover. And the beau
tiful romance at the end had resulted
from in y having disregarded her warn
ing to " beware of foreigners."
There Is not much more to tell. I left
Baden at the end of the month, and re
turned to Paris. Six weeks later I had
a letter from Aunt Edith urging me to
come home for her wedding, which
would take place prior to the holidays.
The Chevalier Itoma had long since be
V come convinced that hi "friend," he
consul at Borne, was the key to the
whole mischief, but his suspicions in
that direction came too late for him to
regain a clue to Aunt Edith. Several
letters sent to her name tit New York of
course never reached her. The surest
and quickest way to accomplish his de
sire, to prove to the heart he had through
so many years cherished how true and
loyal had been his allegiance, how deep
and sincere his love, was the one he had
chosen, and acted upon with such
alacrity.
A few weeks after my aunt's marriage
I received the weddlug-cards of Herr
Bch wager and Miss Kate Barton. After
all, merry Kate had accepted a " horrid
German" for her husband, and thereby
the truth suddenly dawned upon my
mind that I had been the recipient of
the Ilerr's exceeding kindness because I
was " neighbor to the rose."
- . . ...
A Terrible Traffic.
IN THE search for the body of young
Uevlns, which was taken from the
giave just before that of John Scott
Harrison was, Detective Snelbaker, of
Cincinnati, visited the Miami Medical
College of Cincinnati. He found in the
cellar of that Institution burled the body
of a young woman.
The janitor told him that about a
month previous a body-snatcher, who
went by the name of OabrielIe,luid come
to him and said that Dr. Cledennin bad
given him permission to use thecellarof
the college to store "stifl's" in and to
prepare them for shipment to Ann
Arbor, where they would be put Into
pickle for the use of students of the
medical college there next winter.
The detective visited Ann Arbor, and
a special to the Enquirer says : " There,
ranged along the side of the walls, were
three monstrous vats containing a large
number of dead bodies floating In brine.
Piled high above these were a number of
empty cofllns, rudely broken open and
rifled of their precious dead, while upon
a rougli table in the centre of the room
was a mixture of red paint and nitrate
of silver used for injecting the veins.
A paint-mill on a table at hand showed
that large quantities of this mixture
were prepared and used, aud scattered
around the room promiscuously were
empty boxes aud barrels, and trunks,
and casks, in which the bodies had been
shipped hither from Cincinnati and
other points."
Search for the body of young Devins,
whose grave at North Bend, Ohio, was
robbed some time ago, was prosecuted
vigorously with the aid of defectives,
after the finding f the Hon. J. Scott
Harrison's body in the medical college
at Cincinnati. The body was traced to
Ann Arbor, Michigan, and there dis
covered in the pickling vat of the medi
cal college. It was taken back aud reln
terred at North Bend with impressive
ceremonies.
In the meantime, the robbery of
graves at North Bend was brought to
the attention of the grand jury, at Cin
cinnati, and after a careful investigation
they returned indictments against Dr.
Morton, the resurrectionist, and J. Q.
Marshall, janitor of the Ohio Medical
College. Dr. Morton's whereabouts are
not known, but Marshall will be held
for trial.
The Russian Detective System.
During the Crimean war, again, when
the British fleet was lying at Cronstadt
and English manufacturer residing in
St. Petersburg asked a number of his
countrymen to supper,drank Sir Charles
Napier's health, and sung a thoroughly
" John Bull" song of his own composi
tion, reflecting upon the efficiency of
the Russian navy and the courage of its
officers in terms that would have driven
Admiral Popoff frantic. The next morn
ing, his unbounded amazement for not
a single stranger had been present the
night before he received a summons
from the Chief of Police, a personal
friend of his own, who, eyeing him with
a significant smile, said : " Mr. A ,
I find that an English gentleman in this
city, of whom you may perhaps know
something, has written a song against
our navy, and given several copies of it
to his friends. Now, I need hardly tell
you that this is a dangerous thing for
anyone to do just now; so, if you should
happen to fall in with him, you might
just give him a friendly hint to destroy
alfrthose copies, and to be more careful
in future." It is hardly necessary to
add that the hint was taken at once. On
one occassion, however, even these
masters of cunning fairly met their
match. At the same time when the
famous Kolvkol, (Bell), the revolution
ary organ of M. Alexander Ilerzen, was
in the zenith of its formidable renown,
the Russian Government, alarmed at
the completeness of the Information
which laid bare the most secret wind
ings of the imperial system, determined
to silence this tell-tale voice by kidnap
ping the editor himself. An emissary
of secret police presented himself at M.
Herzen's house in London, under an
assumed name, as a revolutionary pro.
pagandist acting against Russia. M.
Herzen heard him to the end, and then
quietly: "Use no concealment with
me, pray, my dear Mr. S ( calling
him by his real name), "I have been
expecting you for some time." The
thunderstruck agent attempted to utter
a denial. " Pooh, pooh 1" quoth Herzen,
producing his visitor's likeness from the
desk before him, " do you think I don't
recognize the original of this portrait V"
The crestfallen emissary retired in dis
gust, and the wary editor was henceforth
sufTcred to remain unmolested.
. . ..
Traveling In Japan.
ALONG ride on a Japanese pack
horse is an epoch In the life of any
traveler. As the animals are shod with
straw and as the roads are very rough,
they never attempt anything beyond a
walk even with the most violent induce
ment. The traveler is perched high up
in a hard pillion, in a sort of a valley,
the sides of which are composed of his
luggage, spare hats, shoes, girths and
straps rolled Into bundles ; his legs are
doubled up so that his knees touch his
chin aud the sensation is like that of be
ing on the back of a camel. Thus placed
he must perform his Journey ,or as an al
ternative he may be driven to the K,ago,
or litter. This mny either be a basket
slung on a pole, or a regular box with
doors and sliding shutters. The litters
of men of rank, such as were frequent
enough in the streets of Yeddo, but
which have gone the way of so many
remnants of old Japan, were often small
rooms gorgeously decorated and painted,
but the litters which the ordinary trav
eler must use are of the basket type, and
as provocants of sufTerlng and misery
are second only to the pack horse. To
the native, whose normal position when
not standing or sleeping is squatting on
the heels of his feet, a confinement of
several hours in a Kago, with scarcely a
change of position, is no hardship ; but
to the Europeah the agony of sitting
cramped up in the space of an arm
chair, with legs curled up, tucked in or
huddled together, for an indefinite
period, must be actually suffered to be
appreciated.
Temporary relief may be obtained by
sitting with the legs hanging over the
sides ; but in this case they either graze
the ground or come in contact with the
huge holders with which the road is lit
tered ; by stretching them out in front,
when they kick against the coolie ; or by
stopping altogether and walking, which
means loss of time, but which is the
only efficacious method of escaping the
pains of cramp. The Kago, however,
is much more rapid than the puck horse
and far more economical.
The coolies are well trained, sure
footed, stalwart fellows as a rule, four
to a litter covering easily their Ave or
six miles an hour and resting but rarely.
The motion, however, is very unpleas
ant, and is apt, like that of a swing, to
make the unaccustomed traveler feel
sick.
The Dead Sea.
IT IS not mere fancy that has clothed
the Dead Sea In gloom. The deso
late shores, and scattered over with
black stones and ragged drift-wood, form
a fitting frame for the dark, sluggish
waters, covered with a perpetual mist,
and breaking in slow, heavy, sepulchral
toned waves upon the beach.
It seems as if yet the smoke of the
wicked cities was ascending to heaven,
and as if the moan of their fearful sor
row would never leave the God-smitten
valley.
It is a strange thing to see those waves,
not dancing along and sparkling in the
sun, as other waves do, but moving with
measured melancholy, and sending to
the ear, as they break languidly upon
the rock, only doleful sounds. This is,
no doubt,owing to the great heaviness of
the water, a fact well-known, and which
we amply verified in the usual way, for
on attempting to swim, we went float
ing about like empty casks. This ex
periment was more satisfactory in its
progress than its results, whloh were a
very unctuous skin and a most pestifer
ous Btlnglng of every nerve, as if we
had been beaten with nettles. Nor was
the water we took into our mouths a
whit less vile than the most nauseous
drugs of apothecaries. That fish cannot
llvo in this strong solution of bitumen
'and salt, is too obvious to need proof ;
but to say that birds cannot fly over it
and live, is one of the exaggerations of
travelers, who, perhaps, were not like
ourselves, so fortunate as to see a flock
of ducks reposing on the water in ap
parently good health. And yet this was
all the life we did see. The whole val
ley was one seething cauldron, under
more than a tropical sun.
How Turks Live.
It is certainly a mystery that the In.
habitants of the Ottoman Empire did
not all perish years ago from the pul
monary diseases. Their feet are first
swathed in a coarse rag, which is then
wound round the lower part of the leg
and bounded tightly with twine ; on the
rag is tied a piece of sole leather, ham
mered into a rudely shaped sandal, with
sides rising one inch up the sides of tbe
I foot ; holes are cut in the upper edge of
the sandal and strings fastened over the
top of the foot. It is evident that their
feet are wet the moment they step into
mud or water over an inch in depth.
This they are doing constantly in bad
weather; consequently, their feet are
soaking wet for a week at a stretch, and
yet they live and multiply.
They violate every known law of hy
giene in the ventilation and often the
cleanliness of their dwellings, and yet
their children are generally sturdy look
ing, and the adults show fair average
physique. They Bleep in rows on a mat
laid upon the floor of their underground
huts. Sometimes tbe floor is covered
with them, and yet they do not appear
to sufTer for want of oxygen.
A Freak of Bees.
Some curious facts from the world of
nature crop up occasionally, which are
well worthy of consideration. For in
stance, It has been proved that the bee
may, under certain circumstances, turn
out to be anything but the pattern of in
dustry it is proverbially supposed to fur
nish. Australian colonists have from
time to time taken out swarms of bees
to their adopted land, in the hope of de
riving practical benefit from the pro
fusion of flowers with which the whole
country abounds.
For some little time the newly import
ed bees maintained their reputation for
industry, storing up food in the com
fortable hive provided for them, and sup
plying the colonists with far superior
honey to that collected by the indigen
ous honey-producers,the " melliphons."
Presently, however, the hives discover
ed unstocked at the end of the autumn,
notwithstanding the long summers of
the northern parts of Australia, and it
was found that the bees entirely neg
lected to lay by a stock of food, as was
their wont. Though the bees increased
and the hives were always regularly
tenanted, no honey was brought home.
It soon became evident that, finding the
perennial summer of the tropical parts
of Australia afforded them abundance of
food, without the intervention of long
winters,the bees forsook their old habits,
gave themselves up to a life of happy in
dolence, and no longer took tbe trouble
to convey their superabundant supplies
to the hives prepared for them. It short,
there being no winters to provide for,
the bees gave up the practice of storing
honey.
A Half Finished Wedding.
The young people of Cincinnati are
excited over a promised wedding that
didn't take place. The young man and
young woman had known each other
from childhood, and were prominent in
society circles. The wedding guests
were assembled and the loving couple
were on the floor. The minister pro
pounded the usual question to the bride
as to whether she would take the man
for her husband, etc., when, much to the
surprise of all present, she answered
"No." Thinking he misunderstood her,
the minister asked the question again,
aud again she answered " No." This
stopped the ceremony, and the story
came out.
The young man, addicted to the use of
intoxicating liquors, had promised re
form if the young lady would consent to
marry him, and had signed the pledge.
He had been on trial for months, but as
the bride had turned to him as they
stood side by side before the minister,
she caught the odor of whiskey on his
breath, and detected signs of incipient
intoxicatfon. She closed the extraor
dinary scene by stating that she couldn't
trust her future to a man Who had bro
ken a promise so solemnly made. Ex
postulations and entreaties werein vain.
The wedding did not take place.
If there were more such girls, there
would be less drunken men.
Q3T A case of a sensational character
has, says the Calcutta " Times," lately
formed the subject of a judicial investi
gation. Some natives were bathing at a
ghaut on the Hooghly,when a body was
seen floating down the river and tossing
its arms. A cry immediately arose that
the body was possessed by a ghost. A
native doctor who was present appealed
in vain to the bystanders to render as
slstance, but even the watermen refused
the use of their boats. With great cour
age he plunged into the current, and
with much difficulty brought the body
to land. It was found to be a woman
about 24 years of age. After restoratives
had been applied, she stated that she had
been for some time an invalid ; that her
relatives bad brought her, stupefied, but
sensible, to a burning ghaut ; that fire
had been applied to her mouth as to that
of a corpse ; and that she had then been
thrust into the river as if dead. The
woman was taken to thehospltal.where,
after lingering fifteen days, she died.
Her relatives were prosecuted, but have
been acquitted. -
Afflictions, like God's angels, will
move away when they have done their
errand.
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