2 THE TIMES, NEW BLOOM FIELD, PA. AUGUST 17. 1880. f ... 7 triumphantly, as If now he had men- Honed something bo crushlngly conclu- ivethat all further explanation was unnecessary. I plays it, as you Know, and I'll nlay It to-morrow, but not so hard as to hurt the young lady inBide, sir.' "And In the big drum Dolores was actually concealed next morning when old Captain Crlpps, as Innocent as a lamb of what had occurred during his absence, conducted 'a strong party of priests and police olllolals over and Into every nook and corner of the Valeria In search of the missing nun. We were all In nts of laughter while the old fellow did the honors of his vessel, and the Spaniards' faces grew longer as Uielr search proved fruitless and unavailing. They left not a oranny unnoticed, while the band played gayly on deck, and the big drum appeared to do quite As much duty as usual, though the broad grins on the faces of some of the old bandmen and the preternatural solemnity of Mat's countenance might have led any one to suspect that something was up. ' Martin was of course Introduced to the visitors as first officer of the ship, and one old priest asked him suspicious ly If this were the usual state of things on board an English vessel, band play, ing and flags flying as if for a holiday 'i " 1 Oh, no,' Martin answered cooly ; ' we saw that the Captain was bringing off a boatload of distinguished visitors the first thing this morning, and I instantly set about having the ship dressed and the music playing to do honor to their arrival.' " The old chap couldn't but be pleased at this compliment, and at last they all -cleared out, making a thousand apolo gies for having for an instant suspected any of our honorable number of com plicity in the nun's escape. We heard them as they left deciding to make for the opposite side of the island, where dwelt a tribe of fisher people who might have given the girl shelter. How we laughed as they were rowed ashore! Although there was still old Crlpps to tell, which to my mind was the worst part of all, our spirits began to rise with the success of our last move. " The bondsmen cleared up their In struments and retired, and Dolores was huddled back Into Martin's cabin, where breakfast was spread.and the key turned on her. I believe the captain was the only man on board his own ship who did not see the whole transaction ; but he was tremendously taken up with our Immediate seagoing orders, which had just arrived, and the anchors were to be weighed and the Valeria off to Lisbon without an hour's delay. " We all had to look alive that morn- ing, and it wasn't till we sat down to dinner in the afternoon, by which time we were almost out of sight of Bt. Michael's, that I had time to think of the little prisoner in Martin's cabin thouch. to ludzetfrom the moony look. Martin had never thought of anything else. Naturally the conversation at the Captain's table, at which the senior officers likewise dined, turned upon the examination of the morning, and in answer to a mute appeal from Martin opposite, who was unable to say a word, I boldly asked old Crlpps, point blank, what he would have done if the poor little girl had run for refuge to the Valeria from the tyranny of the priests "'Done, sir V thundered the old gen tleman, spluttering over his grog in his excitement, 4 I'd have done what every other Christian officer and gentleman would have done given the poor little creature shelter and protection from the rascals that were bunting her, and a chance of becoming a sensible British Protestant! Why, by jove, when those smooth-faced blackguards went sneak ing over my ship this morning and I bad to palaver and speak civilly to them I just wished the girl had been aboard, that I might have had a band in saving her. I'll warrant we'd have managed to keep her out of sight !' "Martin gave a gasp, like a whale coming up to blow, ana jumping up from the table unceremoniously rushed out. In a moment he was back again holding the little nun by the hand. " Of course old Uripps couldn't say anything, after the manner in which he had committed himself beforehand, And though he gave us a tremendous jawing about toe serious risk, etc., we had run, I' believe he enjoyed the lark as much as any-one; especially 'as his part in it didn't begin until all danger was over. I'm not sure that he would Lave liked driving that jackass down the vineyards ; but be was wonderfully polite to Dona Dolores, and made her as comfortable and welcome as possible, lent her some sermons to read, which she took very demurely, and evidently felt be had scored one to himself off the Tope by that move. ' ' ' " We got into Lisbon the next day and the girl was banded over to the English chaplain's wife, who rigged her out for ber wedding with Martin, which took place a few days afterwards.' "After that she was sent home to Martin's mother at Southampton, and I believe she went to school for a bit ; anyway, Martin got bis promotion shortly and left the service to settle down in Hampshire with Madam. And a rare little handful he's found her, I believe, for she can't help flirting any more than she can help breathing, though I really think she likes old Harry Martin best in the main. "Now you may argue," concluded the Lieutenant, putting his pipe back permanently into his mouth and speak ing through one corner of it to signify that his tale was nearly finished ; " you may argue that marriages are made in heaven, and I do devoutly hope Provi dence is settling a good match for me up aloft, but you'll allow, that I had a pretty good lot to do with getting Harry Martin his wife, after hearing this jam." Catching Sea Lions. CAPTAIN MULLETT, the noted sea lion hunter, In a recent justness chat with a Bt. Louis reporter, said : 1 You see, I was formerly a sea cap tain and ran passenger vessels between England, Australia and California. I first began to study the habits of sea lions oft' the Chlncha Islands of South America, the only place where they ex ist except off the coast of California. I became very much interested in them, and afterwards thought that I would like to huut sea Hons for a living. I have done so and have made money at it. About six years ago some showman persuaded me to go into the business, and I fitted out two small schooners, the H. C. Amy and the Phantom, with fif teen men on each. These vessel I am using now. I pay the men a small sal ary, just enough to live on, and then give them a percentage of what I get for the sea lions. They are employed the whole year, and when they are not catching the ani mals alive, they shoot them for the skins and oil. You see,the lassoers have to be very expert, and there are very few lassoers in the world, and it is for my interest to keep these I have. Our field of operations is on the lower or Mexican coast of California, as we are not allow ed to catch the lions in American waters. The Seal Bock, opposite Ban Francisco, is looked upon as a natural curiosity, and everybody who goes to California goes to see It so the authori ties want to preserve it. We are there fore compelled to operate off Ban Diego, which is the dividing line of California and Mexico. The first sea lion I caught after fitting out my vessels were for Bar num, six years ago, and that was the first one ever exhibited in this country. Our method of catching the lions is this : They go in rookeries of 100 or more, and we watch the shore to see where they will go into camp. This we can determine from the fact they carry their young on Bhore, leave them and go back to the water, returning at break of day. When we find a camp we dig trenches in the Band to hide in, or if there are rocks convenient we hide be hind them. The vessels are anchored some distance off the shore, and we bring from them, in email boats, cages made of six-inch fencing boards. When the herd comes ashore, the lassoers watch their opportunity and lasso one of the lions around the neck. Another lasso Is then fastened to one of the hind flippers, and the lion is forced into one of the cages. This must be done within a short time or the animal will not live. I give or ders that if twenty minutes elapse from the time the animal is lassoed until he is in the cage the men must let him go. This is necessary from the fact that if kept longer they struggle and strain themselves so that they die within a few days afterwards. After the lion is cap tured, a shot, to which a long rope is at tached, is fired from a bomb gun on the shore over the vessel : the other end of the rope is attached to one of the cages, and it is pushed into the breakers and hauled out to the vessel. On board the vessel the lions are not put in water, but are kept wet with a sprinkler. They are then taken to Ban Francisco, where they are placed in cars built for that purpose and transported across the con tinent, each car containing twelve lions. " But do you find a market for all you catch V" asked the reporter. " Oh, yes," was the reply, as the cap tain smiled, probably at the absurdity of the question. " I am the only man in the world engaged in the business, and I caught every sea lion ever exhibited in the world. On the 23d of Deoember took twelve to Europe, and on Saturday last, 1 met a carload of twelve at Omaha, Ten of them are sold to Bells Brothers whose show is at Topeka, Kansas, and two have gone to Cooper, Bailey & Co. 'a show. I caught the tea lions that have been exhibited at your fair grounds iu this city. "' ; ' : " v " They were caught three years ago. There were five of them at first, but there are only two left. I have not seen them since they were caught until to day, and I can assure you I was aston ished. They have grown remarkably, and I think they are to-day the finest sea lions in the world. The females are very small, and there are few males who reach as fine condition as those at the fair grounds." " What Is the average price paid for a sea Hon V" " The regular price Is $1,0C0 for a sin gle one, but where several are taken the price Is lower. I have caught within past six years 164 sea Hons, which have been sold In Europe, America, China and Australia. I am on my way to New York now, where I will meet twelve which I will take to Europe." " Are these for traveling menageries there V" " Oh, no ; they are all for gardens. The traveling companies there don't carry auimals. In the way of railroads and circuses, England Is about fifty years behind the times. The show people here are full of energy and enterprise. They sometimes get crazy over special ties. The craze now is for elephants and sea Hons. You can get almost any price for elephants now, and it is the same with sea Hons ; but the time will come when you can buy elephants ana sea Hons for ten cents a dozen, because they will cease to be curiosities." " Then you will go out of the business, I suppose i"' suggested the reporter. ' No. Then I will go Into the Arctic regions and catch the walrus. Blx months ago I sent a vessel there and captured five flue walruses, but both vessel and animals were lost. If I could have got them here I would have made $30,000." " Is there any visible decline in the sea Hon market V" 'No. It Is now on the boom. Sells Brothers have ten and W. C. Coup has ten; other shows will follow, I sup pose. If I bad one hundred now I could sell them at $1,000 each, but It is too late in the season to catch them. The season lasts from January to March But as long as they'll buy I'll supply the market." " Nearly all the showmen prefer the female sea Hons do they not ?" "res; they are smaller ana easier handled ; they eat less than the males and have the most beautiful eyes of any animal in the world. They are valuable show animals because they attract at tention. Showmen will give you from $10,000 to $12,000 for a hippopotamus, and yet Mr. Forepaugh, who is the best showman in the country, says that a sea lion will attract larger crowds than a hippopotamus." A Mother's Love. An exchange tells the following : Last Spring a little babe was left at the resi dence of Uriah B. Garman, in Harris- burg. They accepted the little stranger and did for it all that kindness could do, and it throve until a few weeks ago when it had an attack of cholera in fantum, and last week it died. The night after its death,about eleven o'clock a man and woman came to Garman's door and asked to see the babe. After entering the house they introduced themselves as the father and mother of the child. The couple were richly dress and gave every evidence of belonging to upper classes of society. The woman cried over the corpse and called it " her baby," and the man appeared almost equally moved. They ordered a nice coffin, and all arrangements to be made first-class. The woman explained that she wanted to keep the child but her mother would not have the scandal, and insisted on its being put in other hands. It is supposed the couple are either mar ried or will be ana that the child was born out of wedlock, though belonging to such a class of "blue-blooded" society that the parents of the girl could not bear the idea of having their circle known of the daughter's misfortune. They departed as they came and are un known. About Postage Stamps. I N printing steel plates are . used, on which 200 stamps are engraved. Two men are kept hard at work covering them with the colored inks and passing them to a man and girl, who are equally busy printing them with large . rolling hand presses. Three of these Uttle squads tire employed all the time, al though ten presses can be put into use in case of necessity. .After the small sheets of paper upon which the 200 stamps are engraved have dried enough they are sent into another room and gummed. : The gum used for this pur pose is a peculiar composition made of the powder of dried potatoes and other vegetables mixed with water, which is better than any other material, for instance gum arable, which cracks the paper badly. This paper is also or a peculiar texture, somewhat similar to that used for bank notes. ' After having been again dried, this time on little racks which are fanned by steam power, for about an hour they are put in be tween sheets of pasteboard, and pressed by hydraulic pressure capable of apply ing a weight of 2,000 tons. The next thing Is to cut the sheets in halves; each sheet, of course, when cut, contains 100 stamps. This Is done by a girl with a large pair of shears, cutting by hand being preferred to that of machinery, which method would destroy too many stamps. T hey are then passed to two other squads, who In as many opera tions, perforates the sheets between the stamps. Next they are pressed once more, and then packed and labeled and stowed away in another room prepara tory to being put in mall bags for de spatching to fill orders. If a single stamp Is torn, or In any way mutilated, the whole sheet of 100 Is burned. Five hundred thousand are burned every week, from this cause. For the past twenty years not a single sheet has been lost, such care baa been taken in count ing them. During the process of man- ufucturing the sheets are counted eleven times. THE INGENIOUS PAPER MAKERS. TO WHAT novel uses paper may be JL put in the every-day business of life is still absorbing the attention of nu merous ingenious manufacturers of pa per in this country and Great Britain. From time to time the Circular has pre sented its readers with the unique achievements of the skilled and euter- prlslng workers In paper. The present World's Fair at Sydney, Australia, of which too little Information reaches the United States, presents in one exhibit many of the novelties not to say won dersthat have been wrought out of pa per. The exhibit in question is a bouse built exclusively of paper ; the gas fix. tures, chandeliers, kitchen range, and parlor stove are of paper. Paper carpets cover the paper floors: paper window- shutters are supplemented with daintily worked lace paper curtains. Not only is there a large bedstead of paper, but the blankets, sheets, quilts, are all of paper ; and in a paper wardrobe are un dergarments, outer shirts, and bonnets of paper. In the dining-room is a paper table, set with plates, dishes, napkins, drinking utensils, all of paper. At latest accounts from Sydney, it was proposed to give a banquet in this building ; the eatables, were, however, not to be of paper. This novel paper display In Australia, though an extreme example of the uses to which paper may be put,also answers me question, irequentiy put by appre hensive men, as to what mankind is to do when the supply of wood for furnl- ture and building material shall have been exhausted. A woodless world seemed like the beginning of chaos come again. Now we know that paper can readily be substituted for wood in all the nesessitles and even luxuries for the household. The raw material for the paper so employed is, in most Instances, coarse fibrous grasses that grow wild, andean be had for the gathering. We dojnot forget that in many points in the United States wood itself is trans formed into paper: but that is only where wood Is still of such superabund ant growth as to be In the way of the farmer. In England, where timber is scarcer and far more valuable than in this country, paper is made from grasses and the variety known as "esparto" has already become famous in, com merce. This ana other fibrous grasses can be had for the cutting and gathering and grow spontaneously over vast areas. So, however zealously the destroyers of forests may labor, the paper makers are safe, and so too, Is the human family, from any inconvenience on account of the exhaustion of the wood supply. Paper will take the place of wood just as readily as the locomotive supplanted tne stage coacn. . . Good Effects of .Shot. Seventeen years ago a farmer near Long Branch heard a noise among his chickens one night, and fired a shotgun in the direction of the hen-house, Re cently he received $500 in an anonymous letter, saying that the writer had been made an honest man by being shot in the leg while trying to rob the farmer's hen-house ; had prospered since then ; was now about to die happy ,and wanted to reward the shooter. tig" Mrs. Thomas Jennings, of Battle Creek, tried to get over a fence, and James Boughtoa tried to help her. They both fell ; James was knocked senseless and had a shoulder dislocated, and Mrs. Jennings had a wrist dlalo- cated. , i j , A Big Success. " My wife had been ailing along time with dyspepsia and nervousness and was in bed two years with a complica tion of disorders her physicians could not cure, when I was led by leading a circular left at my door to tiy Parker's Oinerer Tonic Having been bo often deceived by worthless mixtures, nothing but mv wife's dangerous condition could have led us to make any more experi ments. But it was a.ibig sucoeas. Three bottles cured , her, at a cost . of a dollar end fifty cents, and she Is now as well as any woman; and 1 regularly does her household duties. 83, 4t. JUSSER & ALLEN CENTRAL STORE NEWPORT, l'ENN'A, Now ofTertlie public HAKE AND ELEGANT ASSORTMENT OP DRESS GOODS Consisting sf all shades suitable tor the season BLACK ALVA C CAS AND ' Mourning Goods A SPECIALITY. BLEACHED AND UNBLEACHED MUBLINB,' AT VARIOUS PRICES. AN ENDLESS SELECTION OF PRINTS' We sell and do keep a good quality ot SUGARS, COFFEES & SYRUPS And everything under the head of GROCERIES ! Machine Needles and oil for all makes of Machines. To be convinced that our goods are CHEAP AS THE CHEAPEST, IS TO CALL AND EXAMINE STOCK, 'i f No trouble to show goods. Don't forget the ' CENTRAL STORE; Newport, Perry County, Pa. The Blood is tie Life. LIXDSEI'S BLOOD SEARCHER Tft ranidlv Annnlrinor a nntlnnbl the cure of Scrofulous Affection , Cancerous Formation. Erysipelas, Bolls. Pimples, Ulcers, ' Bore Eves, Scald Head, "; ' Tetter. Salt itheum. Mercurial and afl Sklu Diseases. Tills remedy In ft Vncntahln nnmnminJ ..i cannot harm the most tender Infant. Ladles who suiyer from, debilitating diseases and Female Com- Malum, will nnd sueedv relief bv iiaine thu rem edy. . C. W. Llncott. of Messnnotamln (1 if. int. ed him of Scrofula of thirty years. Two bottles cured Mrs. E. J. Dukes, of Colfax, Ind., of ulcer ated ankle and big neck. Llndsey's Blood Search er cured my son of Erysipelas Mrs. K Bmeltzer, The BLOOD SEARCHER In ! (t .,,rof and most powerful uuriner ever known Vria 11.1)0 per bottle. a. it. bkllmks 6 CO., Frop'rs, Pittsburgh, Pa. To Regulate The Liver, Use onlT SELLERS' llVER JTT.I.H. ttin Tw.r and only true Liver Regulator. Established over 60 years. They cure Headache, Biliousness, Cost lveness. Liver Complaint, Fever and Ague, and all similar diseases like magic. Get the right kind. Sellers' Liver Pills, 2s cents. The ereat worm destrover' SEf.T. Wit' vwn. MIKUGE. "Expelled 400 worms from mv child. two years -old." ;Vm. Sarver, St. Louis, Mo. PUIU Uf UIU SELLERS & druggists! Price 25 cents ech. R. E. i;o.f Proprietors, Pittsburgh, Pa. Bend for circulars. iu ly. NOTICE! THE undersigned would respectfully call the attention of the citizens of Perry county, that he has a large and well selected stock of HARDWARE, GROCKHfES, , ' ' . " DRUGS, WINES ft LIQUORS, . " IKON. NAILS, HORSE and MULE SHOES, STEEL, ' IRON AXLES, SPRINGS, SPOKES, HUBS, FELLOK8, -SHAFTS. ' -POLES ft BOWS. BROOM HANDLES, . , , . WIRE, TWINES, ftc. ALSO, Paints, Oils, Glass, Plaster, ' 1 and Cement BOLE, CALF, KIP and UPPEK LEATHER, FISH. SALT. 8UGARS, SYRUPS, TEAS. SPICKS. xouAuco, cigars, ana bmith coal. Joha Lucas ft Co's.,' ' ' ' MIXED PAINTS, (ready for nse.) The best la the CHEAPEST. " " And a larire varletvof (roods not mentioned. allot which wera bought at the Lowest Cash rrices, ana ne oners ine same ro nis ratrons at the Very Lowest Prices for Cash or approved trade. Hit motto Low prices, and Fair dealings to all. Go and see him. Jteapeetfuliy, . .. , , . S..M. SHULEH, '" ' - - ' - Liverpool, Perry Co. Pa. 'FOTJTZ'S HORSE AND CATTLE POWDERS win enr or T)l a. No Boies will die of Couo, Bot or Ltras T Taa.lt Foul iowderr uedtatlme. . Fonti't Powder will csr mil prarvnt Hot Cboubx Xouut Powder will prevent 6irn m Fowls. ' ' Fouui Powder will Ineraue tbe qtuntlty of mile and cream twenty per oeuu ul aiafc ui butter Arm and eweet. . . C ' . Foati Powders wlH ear or prevent lmot muz PlBMiiM to wnlek Harm and CMtlaur lubjecu . Focti'i Powdiu wiu, aira Stiurwnui. ,dMmrrkrt.! , DAVWB.yoUTa-.PMpTi.wip. , -"'" a ' BAL'HMOJtJt, Md. -W For Sale by 8, B. Smith, New Bloom field Perry County, Pa. . . 4 ly
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