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THE BITER OF TIME.
Broad, and deep and swift the current
Ortime*s rushing tide,
Bearing on through sun and shadow,
As the season’s glide,
Face of friend and foe and lover,
On its bosom wide.
O the days when light was brightest,
Dear, lost days of old!
O the love that thrilled our pulses
With a joy untold!
How their saddened memories only
In pur hearts we hold.
Hearts that loved us, hopes that cheered us,
Voices dear and sweet,
Thoughts that perished like the flowers
’Neath our treading feet, •
Through our tears we see them drifting
With the river’s beat.
O our Father, when the passion
Of this life is o’er,
When the river bears us onward
To the farther shore,
May we hear again the voices
We have lqved of yore!
May we find the flowers that withered
At an earthly shnne,
Blossoming aga n, O Father,
At thy touch diviue,
Where our lives meet full fruition
In that home of thine!
Where deep harmonies forever
O’er the spirit roll,
Where the mocking past shall never
Vex the weary soul,
And the tired ones loose their burdei.s
At the heavenly goal.
audibly remarked to her companion
that “ something had put the old lady
oyt!”
Celandine Hall followed more quietly
into the large, airy room which was
dedicated to the use of the two factory-
girls.
“Goodness me I” cried Rosalie, with
a start, “ what is that strange rustling
noise overhead ? Is the house haunt
ed
Celandine smiled. “I suppose it
nothing more serious than rats in the
garret!” she said. “Do, Rosalie,
hang your waterproof cloak up. instead
of throwing it on the floor! There, the
noise has ceased now I”
Peaxts of the Catskills.
A LEAK IN THE ROOF.
Mrs. Drayton liad just put the tea
kettle over the fire for tea.
That bright, cheery New Hampshire
kitchen—not even the driving north
east rain, which poured in torren's out
side, could put a damper on its merry
aspect. Close to the window a bulfinch
whistled meditatively Tin its cage ot
woven wicker boughs^-ijjpomegranate-
tree on the other side WM' all sprinkled
with scarlet buds, and me very stripes
of the rag carpet were suggestive of
sunshine and cheerful thoughts. And
Mrs.' Drayton herself, one of those
plump, motherly, good-natured souls
who are bom to make home happy was
setting the table with white and blue-
edggd cups and saucers that had be
longed to her gTand mother before her.
The bread was whiter than snow, the
apple-sauce was pleasantly flavored with
cinnamon, and a freshly baked loaf of
“cup cake” occupied the center of the
feast.
She was reaching up for a little jar of
home-made pickles, when a pair of
strong arms encircled her wast, and a
handsome bearded face appeared"on t 1 e
level with her own.
“ My goodness gracious 1” said Mrs,
Drayton, “how you frightened me
But I do think, Harry, you get more
harum-scarum every day.”
He lifted her lightly to the floor.
“Do you want any more eggs, moth
er ?” he asked, “there are plenty in
the bam I” .
“I’ve got enough for to-day,” said
Mrs. Drayton, pouring the tiny pickled
cucumbers into the,plate.
“ Rosalie takes omelets, you know,
mischievously suggested the young
man.
A frown darkened Mrs. Drayton’s
face.
“Harry,” she said, “you’ve made a
mistake 1 ”
“Have I, mother deal- ? But you’ll
find that I’ve not! ”
“ Rosalie Hartley is a selfish, heart
less coquette!” cried M'S. Drayton,
excitedly.
“ Mother, hush 1” said the young
man, tenderly putting his hand over her
mouth. “She has promised to be my
wife.”
“Oh, Harry I Harry I”'
"‘It is so, mother dear,—and you
must learn to love her for my sake.
You will soon find how completely you
are mistaken in your estimate of her
character, and she will be like a daught
er to you I ”
Mrs. Drayton sat down, still with the
pickle-fork in her hard, aud began to
cry.
Now there was nothing in the wide
world that made Harry Drayton feel so
uncomfortable as tears. A whole dic
tionary full of remonstrances would
not have melted him like one of those
crystal drops.
“Didn’t you say there was a leaky
spot over the kitchen chimney, moth
er ?” said he. “ If I go up and look at
it now I can perhaps see where the
trouble is.”
And, thus speaking, he hurried away.
Mrs. Drayton looked after him with
tearful eyes, as she shook her head
doubtfully.
“There never was a better son,” said
she. “ If he had only selected Celandine
Hall I”
Poor Mrs. Drayton I When she took
the tw T o pretty factory-girls to board,
just to earn money enough for a new
parlor carpet, she had not dreamed that
she was setting a trap to catch Harry’s
true and loyal heart. To be sure it had
once or twice occurred to her mind that
little Celandine Hall, with her soft voice
and dove-like-eyes and the “handy
ways” that she had about the house,
would make a very acceptable daugh
ter-in-law, but Rasalie Hartley,—the
brilliant, saucy brunette with her loud,
ringing laugh, her cheap jewelry, her
abject following of the latest devices of
thefashion-pleies, the subrosa flirtations
which she conducted with the foreman
of the factory’, the good-looking young
miller down town the handsome car
riage-maker who was building the big
house under Ransom Rock, and her un
tidy fashion of leaving Celandine to
care for the room which they occupied
in common,—all these things were an
abomination to her mother-so jl.
“ Why is it, she sa d to herself, in a
sort of desperation, that sons always
select the women for wives that their
mothers most dislike ? I’m almost sure
that Rosalie paints, although I never
could detect her at it,—and there were
only three button* on her boots yester
day. A real womanly woman is as tidy
with her shoes as with her gloves. And
Mrs. Jessup told me yesterday that she
was flirting disgracefully with Mr.
Peckham, that Spaniard-faced foreman
at the factoiy. What can Harry possi
bly be thinkiug of to trust bis future to
the care of such a frivolous creature as
this ? ”
Even as these reflections passed inco
herently through her mind, Rosalie’s
shallow laugh echoed in the hall—Miss
Hartley had once beeu told that she had
a musical laugh, and had ever after lost
no opportunity of airing its sweetnessI
“Is tea almost ready, Mrs. Drayton?”
she asked, putting her. pretty blonde
head into the room. “I’m to go out
thiB evening,' and we are to be early ?”
“It will be ready very boon,” said
Mrs. Drayton, so coldly that Rosalie,
springing up stairs two steps at a time.
Nor was it all strange. For Mr.
Harry Drayton, who had contrived to
twist and writhe his six feet of humani
ty into the merest cranny of space close
under the eaves, in search of the leaky
spot in the roof, was even then consid
ering whether he had better twist him
self back again,—an undertaking not
quite so easy as it might at first appear,
or keep quiet until the girls should have
gone down stairs.
“They’ll laugh at me,” he thought.
“They are always laughing, bless their
hearts. I think I’ll preserve my incog
nito. It will be only a minute or two
before they go down to tea.
Rosalie gave a tremendous yawn as
she twisted up the yelloW luxuriance of
her hair, little recking that her affianc
ed lover was seoarated from her only
by a frail thickness of lathe and plas
ter 1
“How is that Greek knot, Celan
dine ?” she asked. “ I want particu
larly to have it look nice to-night. Ru
dolph likes my hair in the ancient clas
sic style.” -
“ Rosalie,” said Celandine Hall.,
gravely, “ does Harry know where you
are going to night ? “
“No, you goose*” said Rosalie.
“Why should lie ? I shall tell him I
am going to a sacred conceit with Polly
Wright and her sisters.”
‘But he will want to go with you.”
• Then I shall find some pretext to
put him off.”
“Rosalie,” cried Celandine, “is it
right for you to go to a party under
Rudolph Feckham’s escort, when you
are engaged to Harry Hartley? ”
“ You don’t suppose I am going into
a nunnery, just because I happen tQ.be
engaged ? ” said Rosalie, pertly. 1
“ Rosalie ” began Celandine, in
dignantly.
“ Now don’t go on lecturing me,
said Rosalie, waxing impatiant. “I
have promised to marry Harry Drayton,
not because I love him, but because I
am tired and sick of the drudgery of
this endless factory work. Harry
Drayton is a country lout—not half so
polished and charming as Mr. Peckham
—but he’s better than no husband at
all. Aud Rudolph will be my lover
still, like those dear Platonic creatures
in the French novels, because, you
know ”
At this mament, however, there was
sudden crash from overhead. The
plaster of the ceiling came down in a
limey shower of pieces, Mirectly into
Miss Hartley’s rouge-pots, and balm-of-
beauty ; and Harry Drayton, who, in
the agony of his mind, had writhed him
self a little further than 1-e had intend
ed, descended most unexpectedly into
their midst.
Rosalie screamed hysterically. Celan
dine looked as if she did not know
whether to laugh or cry. Harry Dray
ton sat up and rubbed his elbow-joints.
•‘I’m sorry to startle you, ladies,”
said he ; “ but upon my word, I couldn’t
help it.”
And then he explained .to them the
precise nature of the dilemma in which
he had beeu placed.
“ I couldn’t go torward on account
of the kitchen chimney,” said he; “ and
when I tried to hack myself gracefully
out, the ceiling gave way arid down I
came. And my collar is full of rain
from the leak in the roof, and I think
I’ve swallowed about a pint of lime-
dust.”
Rosalie turned first scarlet then
white.
“You were up theie over our heads,”
she said, “ in the garret comer.”
He nodded, calmly.
“You heard all we said ?”
“I am sorry to say—yes,” he answer
ed. “ I regret to be considered a
‘country lout,’Miss Hartley, but as
I don’t approve of the Platonic system
of love and lovers, I must beg to ab
dicate in favor of Mr. Peckham ! And
now, if you will allow me to retire, I’ll
send up little Tim, the cowboy; with a
basket and a broom to remove some of
this superfluous dust and lime from
your floor.”
Miss Hartley wept and bewailed her
self stormily, but she went with Mr.
Peckham to the party, nevertheless,—
and Celandine stayed at home to sew
buttons on the beauty’s boots.
While Harry, as'he unfolded the
newspaper which had come by the
evening mail, remarked incidentally:
“Oh, by the way, mother,—that
engagement of mine with-Ttosalie is
broken off 1” f
Mrs. Drayton’s face lighted up.
“Really and trully, Harry?” cried
she.
Yes, really and truly, mother. I
don’t think we should have suited each
other at all 1 But don’t you waut to
hear how comically it happened ?”
And he told her about the leak in the
roof.
Miss Hartley changed her boarding
place the next week,—but little Celan
dine remained. And Mrs. Drayton is
already beginning to flatter herself that
perhaps Celandine may be hei daugh
ter-in-law after all. Who knows how
love might weave his warp and woof ?
Perfectly satisfied.
The Catskill or Katzberg mountains,
were so named by the Dutch on account
of the catamounts with which they
were infested. The Indians called
them the Ontioras or Mountains of the
Sky, by reason of their clond-like ap
pearances. Their traditions held that
among these peaks was kept the
treasury of storms and sunshine for the
Hudson valley, guarded by a powerful
spirit, who kept day and night impris
oned. letting them out one at a time.
This spirit made new moons and cut up
red ones into stars. These mountains
with their dark and wide spreading
forests (abounding in those days with a
great variety of wild game) were doubt
less grand hunting grounds for the In
dians. Settlers of the upper Shandakeu
valley in the neighborhood of Pine Hill
often, while tilling the soil, found flint
and arrow heads, etc., which assures us
that they freqncnteri that part, and
aside from thauTthe scenery aud inter
est of the region to-day fully equals the
quaintness of the old legion. The
-mountains are rugged aud wild, many
places of them never yet trodden by the
foot of man, full of picturesque beauty.
The forests abound in cold and spark
ling springs, which wind their way
through ravine and meadow toward the
Hudson or Delaware, ferns and wild
flowers grow on all sides, and the smell
of the green moss and foliage, deepened
by the dew and borne on the cool air, is
delicious.
The wildest and most unsettled part
of the Catskills are in Ulster county,
and in the towns of Shandaken, Uar-
denburgh and Denning and surround
ing the Slide Mountain, which is the
highest of the Catskills. ’ The highest
peaks were always said to be in Greene
county until the past few years.
Measurement has decided the matter
differently, and it is now a well knowu
fact that the old Slide is the highest
peak in the Catskills (being 4,220 feet),
and surrounding it the scenery is wild
and romantic. Deer and bears are yet
to be found in that part of the moun
tains, For the past fifty years the
eastern face of the Catskills in the
neighborhood of the old mountain house
and nearest to the Hudson has been a
resort for people seeking rest from city
cares. At that time the Southern or
Shandaken Catskills wery a genuine
wilderness, and very little was known
of them. Occasionally an artest or
sportsman followed up the deep defile
of the Esopus Creek, through the
Shandaken Valley, and crossed over
Pine Hill to the headwaters of the Del
aware. Shandaken is an Indian name,
the definition being “Swift Water.”
and it is quite probable that this valley
derives its name from the swift flow of
the Esopus. The scenery along its
banks is enchanting and cannot be
equalled in the Catskills.
Trees, Logs and Lumber.
Up the Saginaw in a wide region,
reached either by the river or its tribu
taries, the-great pine saw-log, often
thre<} feet in diameter has its birth.
Pinf» TlW mnimv thinninrr nut
passfs to the furnaces to feed the fires
of the engine. There is seen little or
no sawdust around the Saginaw lumber
mills for the reason that it is all used
for the furnace flames; and, in general,
the cycle of utilities by which one
branch of the great industry is made to
feed or supplement another seems as
rounded as hnman ingenuity can make
it.
Sometimes, particularly in the more
modern mills, the routine as described
is varied by lifting the logs fronrthe
river on an endless chain; and a num
ber of minor mechanisms fill out the de
vices by which the lumber is cut and
distributed. One ingenious machine,-
working double emery wheels, sharpens,
the buzz saws on both sides of the teeth
during' a single revolution, and re
quires uo attention beyond simply the
fastening of the saw upon it and thi
unfastening after the work is done
Another flattens out, by % clever me
chanical expedient, the teeth of the! ...
saw, so as to cut a wider rent and pre*‘
vent clogging as the cut becomes deep
er ; fmaily, a system of elevated rail
roads takes the lumber-ladeu trucks
and distributes the boards at the points
in the yard or on the wharf whence
they are to be shipped. Some addition
al conception of the size and importance
of the industry may be derived from
the fact that the Michigan Central
Railroad Company takes away from one
station here 100 carloads of lumber tor
each day of the working season, to say
nothing of the large quantities shipped
from the river by the Flint & Pere
Marquette Railroad line, and even
large shipments by the lake barges.
Inland Wbalinir.
When we made tne landing at the town
of Waterproof, Li., the overflow had
reacted the second-story windows of all
the houses. On the roof of an abandoned
grocery sat a ragged darkey in the meal
complacent manner, and as the boat swung
in a lady passenger, who had exhibited tne
greatest curiosity about everything all the
wgy down from Vick&knrg, caught the
name of the town and hurried forward to
the captain ami said:
“Captain, they say this town is called
Waterproof.”
“Yea, ma’m.”
“B-.-t the water is all over it, you see.
The name is mconsiatert with facts.”
■Oh, they didn't have referenoe to the
town itself in oiling it Waterproof,”
chuckled the old man. “What they meant
was that the water would never reach that
nigger on the roof over there.'*
‘ Oh, that's it, eh? Well, that makes it
plain, and I don’t believe it will eithetl"
she aid as she retained to her chair.
—There are 91 cities along ’the line
of the Mexican Central haying an ag
gregate population of 898,609.
Pine forests, n6w rapidly thinning out,
once covered several thousand square
miles around the headwaters. Enter
ing that lumber region in the late au
tumn, the lumbermen establish camps,
’round which during the whole winter
long the axes resound, the tail trunks
fall, and in sections are rolled to the
adjacent streams for the spring floods
to bear away. Floating down to the
main river, the boom men pick out
out each owner’s logs as identified by
the brand, and gather them inside the
booms, which may be curtly described
as long tree-trunks chained together at
the ends, often inclosing a smooth wat
er surface of several acres.. The coves
of the Saginaw—called locally bayous,
a term borrowed from the Lower Miss
issippi—are especially adapted for the
gathering and organization of these log
armies. The military metaphor, in
deed, has peculiar fitness here, for the
logs are mustered side by side in com
panies, held together by a rope fastened
to each log by a device not unlike the
domestic clothespin. As these logs
down stream are wotked up by the tire
less mills, these upper booms are drawn
upon for more, until the freezing river
finds them quite empty, and another
winter comes on to yield its fresh sup
ply.
But the saw-log’s story becomes most
dramatic as it nears the mill and, loos
ed from the restraining rope, is steered
into the glade of open water that leads
up to the wooden slide. Enter now
tlie great lumber mill, aud we shall be
in at the saw-log’s death. Down the
slide on a wooden railroad runs a heavy
truck, fitted with two cross lines of
heavy iron teeth. With a plunge it
dashes below the water, still holding its
place on the rails. Then three giant
logs are floated above it. At a signal
the steam is let on, the machinery re
versed, the strong chain holding the
trucK tightens, and the truck itself be
gins to ascend. The sharp teeth catch
the logs, which, in a trice, are lifted
dripping from the water, whisked up
like twigs 100 feet to the mill, and roll
ed off opposite the first set of saws.
These saws are two in number; one set
below is of the buzz variety, perhaps
siz feet in diameter, and cutting, there
fore, through a three-foot log; but as
this semi-diameter is often insufficient
for a big log, a second and smaller buzz
placed above and in front of the first,
cuts the slice, which otherwise might
still hold fast the slab. One of the
largest logs weighs a number of tons,
and human strength alone would never
suffice to turn it after one of its sides
has been slabbed.
Just here comes in a beautiful piece
of powerful mechanism. At the touch
of the lever a stout beam, armed with
iron teeth, rises by the forest Titan’s
side. It snatches the wood, and in less
time than words can tell it the log is
tumbled over, and the framework,
rushing back and forth with amazing
speed, has driven the edges of the tree
athwart the saws, until the once rough
stick stands forth a symmetrical square.
Then, in another instant it is shifted
below the gang, a set of ordinary up
right saws placed an inch apart, and of
ten with thirty or even thirty-five
blades. Below an ordinary circular
planer revolves in front of the gang
and smoothes the lower edges of the
boards. The immense piece of timber
is run through in a few moments, and
What was five minutes before a rough
tree trunk has .passed into the inch
boards of commerce. Nor does the
work end here; for the dabs are passed
to a new machine, which grasps them
On the lake front, Chicago, stands a
blue-painted fiat car, on which is a huge
skeleton with a ‘ ‘story. ” It is of inter
est to all," for it is the skeleton of “the
whale.” This was known from Maine
to California, and there was some talk
at one time of sending his lordship to
Europe. Every one knew “the whale,”
and it has been gazed upon by millions
of people in its day. It belonged to
Mr. Fred Englehart, and he organized
what he called “the Inland Whaling
Company.” This meant his employes,
side showmen, ticket sellers, etc. They
had another car built, somewhat like a
freight caboose, and with bunks, tables,
stove, and cooking-place, all in very
comfortable shape. Tiiis car was also
painted blue, and both had “Inland
Whaling Company” on the sides. These
two and a baggage and tent car com
pleted the train. The whale was
stretched out iu flabby shape upon this
flat car, and great ropes and chains
kept the ‘huge mass or flesh from roll
ing off. The attendants had a mixture
containing carbolic acid and other dis
infectants to pour over his sluny hrown
hide, and this operation was continu
ally being done while on exhibition.
The mass was therefore always moist.
When the train struck Chicago, adds
the News of that city, which was the
headquarters, a side track was built on
the hike front, the tent pitched, and the
whale on his car was run under the
canopy. A little box -office was opened,
and that was all. But it was enough.
Crowds poured in to see the monster of
the deep, and when the deep-voiced
talker explained the capture, weight,
habits, etc., of the animal stood up
like a pigmy beside the whale, every
one was well satisfied that lie bad the
worth of his quarter in seeing such a
curiosity. It was the only one on ex
hibition.
Now they should visit him at the
lake front. All that remains of him is
a tew flapping pieces of canvas and rot
ting hide, while the frame work, bones,
and flesh are gone. In their place is a
lot of shavings, old barrels, sticks, dirt,
and the frame proves to be of stout
hickory, bent into whale shape. These
are the bones. The shavings were the
flesh. Some quicklime has eaten up
considerable hide or skin, but the tail,
ah, the tail was genuine, though the
rest was a delusion and snare.
— - AHalMbcrsIltv.-
The aland was given by horsemen
galloping about and blowing shrill blasts
on a bugle. Crowds pour out. Nobody
knows where the fire is; there is no
alarm-bell; and the diliberate way in
which things go on is a curious contrast
to the methods and ways of the Ameri
can fireman. ■ '
“It was over half an hour before the
crowd got on the right scent. Some
one had discovered smoke slowly creep
ing out of the upper windowd"and from
the tiled roof of a three-story building
on the -Hauptstrasse. in the centre of
the city; and in due course of time the
tidejpfTravel set in the.right direction.
Whfn I arrived at the scene of conflag
ration, or rather of smoke, I found
crowds of spectators, but I could dis
cover no signs of any firemen or fire en
gines ; neither could I see tout any at
tempt was Deing made to get the fire
under control. Many of the men and
vonicn lud wooden and leather bucte-
ets and tin pails in their hands, which
they had brought with them, but no
one Seemed to know for what use they
were intended. Among the few who
had not deserted the premises when the
smote was discovered, there was evi
dently a great consternation. Win
dows were thrown open or hurriedly
smashed out, and-1 never witnessed be
fore such a shower of worldly goods de
scending from a burning building. It
was the old story over again of people
losing their heads, or rather their senses,
at a tire. Looking glasses, wash bowls,
and pitchers, all varieties of crockery,
oil paintings, bric-a-brac, pieces of fur
niture, mantel ornaments, etc., were
raining down from above on to the pav
ed street with as little ceremony or care
as they would have been if thrown out
of the crater of a volcano. At one of
the second story windows, at least a
hundred feet from the smoke, I saw
two or three men and as many women
struggling with an upright piano, which
they were endeavoring to force out of a
window, but, luckily for the piano and
its owner, the opening was too small.
Meantime the smoke increased, but
no other evidence of flames appeared.
Time passed. Mr. Buggies asked an
American student if there was no fire
organization, and was told there was.
“ “ But where are tlie firemen ? Why
aren’t they here to put out the fire ?’
“ ‘ Oh, they’ll be here by-and-by;
they have gone home to put on their
uniforms. They are as particular as if
they were going to a dress parade,
most of them stop to shave and have
their boots blacked.’
“‘And the building on fire all tlie
While?’
“‘ To be sure; but you can’t burry
them ; they are not afraid of the fire’s
spreading or the building’s burning up
They are not so used to this kind of
business as we are in America; they
don’t have the practice.’
“More 'minutes went by, and there
was a stir in the mass of beings who
were quietly gazing at the smoke and
The Yia di S. Ignazio is a short, nar
row lane, which leads from the Collegio
Romano to the tribune of S. Maria so-
pra Minerva, crossing a portion of the
ground iormerly occupied by the “Is-
. o D eum et Serapeum” of the ninth region.
still descending-shower of household I Every time excavations have been made
goods from the windows. The crowd on either side of the lane, to build or to
opened right and left, like the waters of restore the houses widely line it, -some
like a mad bull, his big eyes standing
out like those of the giant in the fairy
tale.- He smashed out a window with a
chair, and, thrusting out his head,
screamed wildly to the people. ‘ Mein
Gott 1 will neimand mich vetten ? Ich
verbrenneheir—wosind meine Freunde?
Koinmt doch schnelle!’—which in En
glish would be, 1 Mr God ! will nobody
save me ? I burn here f—where are my
friends ? Come quick !’ Two or three
rriends finally rushed up to the man’s
chamber, and after a few minutes’
absence appeared with him on the
street, all dressed except his hat and
coat. I never saw a more happy man
than tiiis big, burly German, He
boiled over with gratitude to his
rescuers, and fairly hugged and kissed
them as they led him away to a beer-
shop near by.
“ By this time two fire-engines had
arrived, each of which was securely
tied with ropes on a large platform
dra^, and drawn by two horses. They
Were iidt over five or six feet lopg, and
looked like the small machines’ we have
in America for sprinkling our gardens
and lawns. The chief of the fire de
partment again made his appearance in
his carriage, and it looked as if the
warfare would soon commence against
the smoke, which was gradually de
creasing in density.
"‘ A new difficulty here sprung up.
Most of the firemen who first arrived
had disappeared and were nowhere to
be seen. The chief, however, seemed
to comprehend the situation. He call
ed two or thieepf his aiils. and gave
them directions to go to all the beer
shops in the neighborhood and summon
the delinquent members of the fire
corps to their duty. In due course of
time they were mustered together,
formed in line like a body of infantry,
and their chief with a drawn sword
marched up and down the ranks, aud
gave each one a critical inspection
througn his gold-bowed spectacles.
“Apparently satisfied that their uni
forms were in good order, and their
boots well polished, lie made them a
short speech, complimenting them on
their fine appearance, and told them not
to hesitate or falter in their combat
with tlie devouring element of fire
which they were expected, as patriots,
to subdue.
“Part of the speech, during the
cheering, I could not understand, but
presume he told tiiem that if any should
fall while performing their duty, and
were obliged to‘give up the ghost’—
and their beer—a grateful country
would give them a big funeral and see
them handsomely buried. He then
told them to break ranks aud proceed
to business. ”
Doc Middleton’s Doing*.
Egyptian Discoveries in Rome.
Caterpillars.
with almost human intelligence, and ad to
whatever part of them can be made so
become laths. Other machines take
the harder woods, ash, elm, or
convert them with equal
staves, barrel heads or si
finally the otberwiasuaelMS
The hairy caterpillars are now infest
ing the trees, and an eminent entomo
logist in New York was recently ask
ed:
“ Do not the birds eat these caterpil
lars ? ” asked the reporter.
"No. I know of no bird that will
eat them. The sparrows did eat the
measuring worms that were so plentiful
here a few years ago, and that nuisance
has now about disappeared. The pre
sent nuisance is what is known as a
hairy caterpillar. They multiply very
rapidly. I have counted 234 eggs in a
space about 11-10 by J inches. Each
one of these eggs was capable of becom
ing a caterpillar.”
“Is there no other insect that preys
upon these ? ”
“ Yes; there is a sort -of fly, the
tachina,.but there are not enough of
them. I am satisfied that the only way
to save our trees is for the authorities
to employ some one to kill them off.
Boys could do it. It would require
some one to climb the trees and collect
the worms and eggs and bum them.
“ What is the course of propaga
tion ? ”
“ First you see this bundle of eggs I
have spoken of. They are laid by the
females on the cocoons. In about four
teen days these eggs are hatched into
caterpillars. The caterpillars live upon
the soft part of the leaves of the trees.
You may see plenty of trees now with
out a whole leaf. Then the trees in
time die of lung complaint, for the
leaves are their lungs. Each caterpil
lar will eat say twelve or fourteen times
its weight of leaves, until it gets to be
about an inch and a tenth long. Each
caterpillar discharges its skin about
four times before it gets its growth. It
then weaves its cocoon of silk and the
hair of its own body, and then under
goes its change to the chrysalis state and
becomes a moth.
“ The species is well known to ento
mologists,” continued Mr. Edwards.
“It is indigenous to this country, and
has been known ever since entomology
was studied here. It was described by
Abbott and Smith in 1892-4 among the
lepidopterous insects of Georgia. You
may imagine how rapid must, be their
increase when one insect lays 234 eggs.
Fortunately, the rain kills many, and
other causes intervene to keep down the
supply. I was glad to ype that the
voraeioas insects spared the tnlip trees.
“ The destruction of our city trees is
pitiful, and some decisive action is need
8s further progress,
gry these caterpillars
and, apple trees, and the
they may jet be numer-
to get tote that sort of busi-
be mlhcient to stir up some
wtttrn to prevent it"
the ffed Sea n a particular occasion,
and iit'the open passage appeared a fine
carriage drawn by two spirited horses.
Lying back at his ease on the back seat
was evidently a military officer of some
high rank. He was in full uniform,
even to his sword, spiked helmet cap,
and-the inevitable goid-bowed specta
cles. I sawS>y tlie sensation liis arrival
had created that the was some distin
guished General. I asked a German
near, me if it was the Crown Prince
Bislbarck, or Von Moltke, but the man
stared at me with astonishment through
his spectacles, and .that it was neither;
it was Herr IVeisengarten, or some
sucli name, the Freiwillige Feuenvelier,
which meant that he was the chief of
lira department
“ The great official slowly got out of
his carriage, and, after carefully adjust
ing his spectacles, took a long stare at
the building from which the smoke was
issuing. Then he approached a little
nearer and took another stare. Evident
ly not satisfied that it was smoke, he
went over to the right of the bnilding,
and gazed long and earnestly at tlie
roof and windows; then he moved a
distance to the left, for another view.
The scene reminded me of the story of
tlie bluejav in Mark Twain’s ‘ Tramp
Abroad,’ where the inquisitive bird
was so nonplussed at the disappearance
of the acorns down the knot-hole.
“As soon as the man became satis
fied at •something or other he went
back to his carriage and rode away. I
inquired where he had gone, and was
told that, having become convinced
that there was actually a fire, he had
started to order out the fire engines.
The firemen now began to make their
appearance in squads of twos and threes
and half dozens. They were all in gay
uniforms, similar to that .worn by their
Chief, only not so rich. Handsome
swords dangled by their sides, and their
brass helmet caps glistened in the sun
light No engines had yet arrived, nor
'was there any evidence that the fire
buckets were to be brought into requi
sition. - Several Amerlcanstudents were
getting excited, or rather mad, over the
.slowness with which everything is done.
One of them proposed that they should
run through the streets, giving the
Alarm m American style, and see if it
would not hurry up the engines. It
was no soOner proposed than off they
started on a run. At the end of two
three blocks they commenced
screaming at the top of their voices,
feuer! feuer! which in English means
fire, and pronounced the same. I heard
the familiar alarm echoing through the
streets for several minutes and then it
stopped suddenly. There was an omi
nous silence. I did not see the students
again that day. I heard during the af
ternoon that they hae been arrested by
the police and locked up tor creat
ing a disturbance in the streets. They
won’t undertake again to give an alarm
of fire in a foreign city.
“While this little incident was trans
piring, the attention of the crowd, who
were still idly gazing at the building
from a safe distance, was attracted bv
a fresh horror, but one of a most ridi
culous nature. An immense German,
of Daniel Lambert proportions, sudden
ly appeared in his night shirt at a bay
window on the first floor—far removed
from any possibility of Are, frantically
screaming for lieH He had evidently
over-slept himself from the effects of a
keg of beer drank the previous evening,
when the unusual noise in the street—
it was about 11 o’clock in the forenoon
—suddenly awoke him. With a clear
head he would have quietly dressed
himself and walked down one short
flight of stairs into the street; but in
bis sudden fright he imagined the buflfi-
beautifui specimens of Egyptian work
manship have been brought to light.
Considering that no excavations have
ever been made underneath the public
ground, and considering there was no
reason why, in the very centre of such
promising land, other relics of the fa
mous sanctuary should not exist, I
asked the Archaeological Municipal
Commission to try the experiment, and
my proposal was accepted at once. The
works began on Monday, tlie 11th of
July—hard and difficult works, because
we had to dig to a depth of twenty feet
between houses of doubtful solidity,
propping everything on ever}’ side!
First to appear, at tlie end of the third
day, was a magnificent sphinx, in black
basalt, the portrait of King Amasis. It
Is a chef d'oeuvre of the Saltic period,
brought to perfection in tlie smallest
details, and still more interesting for
its lustorieal connection with tlie con
quest of Egypt by Cambyses. The car-
touches bearing tlie King’s name ap
pear to have been hammered, although
not so completely as to render it unin
telligible. The nose, likewise, and the
ureus, the symbol of royalty, were in
jured at the same time. Tlie explana
tion of such circumsiauces is given by
Herodotus. When Cambyses occupied
Sais, Amasis had just been buried.
The conqueror caused tlie body to be
removed from the tomb, to be flogged
and otherwise insidted, and finally to
be burned, the maximum of profanation
from an Egyptian point of view. His
name was erased from the monuments
which bore it, a natural consequence
of the “memorial daiuuatio.” This
sphinx is the surviving testimonial of
tnat eventful catastrophe. When, six
or seven centuries later, a Roman Gov
ernor of Egypt, or a Roman merchant
from the same Province, singled out
this work ot art to lie shipped over to
Rome as a votive ode ring to the Iseum
Campeuse, ignorant of the historic
value of its mutiiatious, he had the
nose and tlie ureus carefully restored.
Now both are gone again; there is no
danger of a second restoration, I may
remark, as a curious coincidence, that,
as the name of Amasis is erased from
the sphinx, so the name of Hophries,
his predecessor, is erased from the obe
lisk of Minerva, found in the same
Iseum. In these two monuments we
possess a synopsis of Egyptian history
between 595 and 520 B. C.
The second work, discovered on June
17, is an obelisk of red granite, in
scribed with hieroghyphics. The lower
portion only appears on the side of the
trench, and we are still anxious to
ascertain whether it is broken or not.
If the monolith is entire it will be of
the same size as the one in tlie Piazza
della Rotondo. Tlie cartouches show
tlie name of Rainses II, the Sesostris
of the Greeks. We thougilt at first
that the obelisk, like that of the Pan
theon, was a Roman imitation; but
Professor Schiaparelli, the eminent
Egyptologist, who came over from
Florence at tlie first notice of these
extraordinary findings, considers it to
be an orignal work, which would be
long accordingly to the fourteenth
century before the Christian era.
Doc Middleton, whose exploits as a
highwayman, brigand and desperado
are a part of the early history of Colo
rado, Wyoming and Nebraska, who
has been serving a five years’ sentence
in the penitentiary for stealing cattle
m the North Park, was discharged
from that institution lately, and imme
diate boarded the east-bound train.
He informed the prison officials that
he was going to a new country where
the name of Middleton was unknown,
and where he would have an opportu
nity of leading a new life among stran
gers. During his long imprisonment
he behaved himself like a man, and
conformed himself to the rules of the
prison to the letter, not receiving one
black mark. A few days ago before
his discharge, while at. work in one of
the shops of the prison, and intently
reflecting on the few days nure of
prison life, he put his fingers too near
tlie buzz saw. cutting it off. The
prison physician attended to the finger,
and the next day Middleton reported
to the warden that he was ready for
some light work. He was told that he
might go into the hospital for repairs,
if he chose; but he answered that his
service belonged to the State and he
was ready to put in the time faithfully.
During tlie early days of the Black
Hills excitement Doc and his gang
operated on the road between Cheyenne
aud Deadwood City, at times varying
the business of robbing stage coaches
by stealing cattle. Once .he was cap
tured and tried by a crowd of cowboys
and sentenced to be hanged. His arms
and legs were bound, and he was
mounted on a horse and driven under a
limb of a large tree, from which a rope
hung. A noose was made and tied
under his neck and the horse driven
away, leaving Middleton suspended in
mid-air. Two of the members of his
gang happened to be in the neighbor
hood, and after the cowboys had ridden
away they cut Doc down, and after
two hours’ hard work resuscitated him.
For several years after the occurrence
it was claimed that Doc’s ghost haunted
the territory, and innumerable stories
were written of its exploits. One night
the ghost attacked a stage coach, and
one of tlie more courageous passengers
shot at and wounded the ghost, which
proved to be the veritable Middleton
masquerading in the guise of a ghost
and carrying on his usual avocations.
During tlie early part of the year 1875
Middleton and a pal planned and exe
cuted ahold bank robbery at Deadwood
City, which was for a long time laid
at tlie door of the James gang) and
Pinkerton’s detectives spent thousands
of dollars hunting them, while Middle-
ton with his swag remained quietly
Deadwood laughing in his sleeve. .
NEWS IN BRIEF.
—Even dynamite is adulterated.
—Portions of Greenland are sinking.
—Freight cars are now built to carry
40,000 pounds.
—Detroit has a balance of $556,450.71
in her treasury.
—The females outnumber the males
in Alabama 17,247.
—Dublin castle was built early in the
thirteenth century.
-—Coffee houses in Boston are prov
ing very profitable.
. —Si* thousand Americans are resid
ing in Paris at present.
—There are reported to be 70,000
lawyers in this country.
—They swarm bees with a tin pan irf
Lynchburg, Va., streets.
—There are 23.000 acres of water
melons in Burke county, Ga,
—San Antonia, Texas, is to have a
$16,000 -home for fallen women.
—Mme. Gerster and her husband,
Dr. Gardini, have sailed for Europe,
—Tlie Palace hotel in San Francisco
cost $4,250,000, including the ground.
—Tlie California wheat crop for this
year is estimated at 56,950,000 bushels.
—Florida has 630 factories, employ
ing 2749 hands and about $1,680,000 in
capital.
ot burning cinders
“ His fright was terrible to behold, I
could see him tearing around the room
Southwest Savagos.
Of the 40,000 Indians located on reset
vatirras in the Southwest, the Navsjoes
numbering 15,000, have become largely
civilized. Their possessions in horses,
cattle and sheep are great and valuable.
lh;s tribe is nearly self-support ing, and
a few years will be no burden to the Gov
ernment. While still holding the tribal
relation, their system Of internal govern
ment is exact and^ust, and for the good of
a'L Only occasfo-ially do the younger
bucks ally themselves with the predatory
Indians and go on the warpath. Essen
tially the Navajoes are good Indians, how
ever strange this anomaly may seem. The
Zuus, a small hand of ancient stock,
closely allied to the i ztces in many of
their peculiarities, are found on a reserva
tion in the middle western portion of New
Mexico. They have many interesting
characteristics ss a tribe, but some of their
customs are even more barbarous than
esthetic.
Their moon dance, at which time the
young men are received into the brother
hood of warriors, is an orgie of a most
heathenish nature. During the latter part
of the month of March of each year all the
tribe are assembled at once place, guards
are thrown out on all sides, and no white
man or Indian belonging to other tribes is
admitted within the festive circle. Around
a huge fire blazing high they dance and
sing m unrestrained merriment under the
mellow influence of mescal, a fiery whisky
distilled trom the cams. At about mid
night the young men who are to receive
the honors of warriorhood, and thereafter
to be be known as braves, if they success
fully undergo the ordeal @f initiation,come
into the circle dressed in the uniform of a
Patsgoniaa chief, less the nose rirg and
nbbon.
With keen-edged knives they make two
vertical slits in the flesh on cither breast,
and having fastened there to a lariat of
raw hide about thirty feet in length,
which is held at the other end by a stake
set firmly in the ground, they begin the
wildest incantations, moving to and fro in
skipping and dancing attitudes, while the
warriors are indulging themselves in the
innocent amusement of hurliDg the toma
hawk, sharp pointed knives and other
missiles of sporting barbaric ingenuity at
the novitiates, who in the wild delirum of
stolid heroism must endure their fiendish
suffering until the flesh breaks away and
releases them from the cruel thongs. Their
ceremonies are now inaugurated for
duration of seven days, when all the tribe
ap|iear, from the oldest to the youngest,
only dressed in nature’s primitive garb.
Their practices in the succeeding festivi
ties are so hideus it is revolting to think
of them. And these Indians, too, are
wards of the Government.
Crops In the Went.
The condition of wheat in Indiana
on July 1, was 68 per cent., in Ohio 68,
and in Illinois 52. The area of corn in
Indiana was 101 per cent., in Ohio 104,
in Illinois 104. The condition of com
in Indiana was 84, in Ohio 83, and in
Illinois 85. There is a full acreage of
oats. The condition of the crop in
Indiana was 97 per cent., in Ohio 102,
and in Illinois 99. Live stock is in
—Ninety-three thousand acres of
land were planted with timber in Kan
sas last year.
—The area of Russia in Europe is
nearly 35 times that of the state of
Pennsylvania.
—Ninety-nine thousand shad were
caught in the Delaware during the sea
son just closed.
—The silk product in the United
States in 1880 amounted to more than
$41,000,000.
—The Indians of Alaska are sup
posed to be an offshoot from the Japa
nese or Coreans.
—Mr. Froude lias written an article
on Martin Luther for one of the Eng
lish monthly reviews.
Of the total fires in Michigan last
year, more than one-fourth were caused
by defective chimneys.
—Vincennes, Indiana, has a batter
dish factory which turns out 80,030 to
90,000 dishes per day.
The graduating expenses of the
last class at the Vassar College were
about $400 for each girl.
—Priests aud religious teachers hare
been expelled from 136 schools at Paris '
during the last three years.
—Nearly one-third of the population
of the United States is foreign born, or
foreign in the second degree.
—With a bonded debt of over
1,000,000 Louisville has voted to ex
pend $1,500^)00 on its streets.
■North Carolina has many tulip
trees more than 100 feet high, and mea
suring 30 feeriaround the base:
—The orange business is in danger
of being overdone. Trees are h«in<r
planted all along the Mississippi coast.
—George Washington’s grand
nephew, Dr. Lawrence Washington, is
railing a farm and orchard in Texas.
—Oscar Wilde’s agent says that Os
car is at least $30,000 richer than he
was when he first landed in New York.
The German army is at the present
time distributed over 304 garrisons, 39
of which have an effective of over 2,000
—Tlie Suez Canal is to be enlarged
and improved at an expense of $4,000,-
000. Tlie work will-, occupy several
years.
—Ex-Vice President Wheeler has
offered to give $10,000 toward a new
Congregational Church in Matone.
N. Y.
—Gounod, the composer, lives in a
monastic-looking structure, in Paris,
but the interior of his home is beauti
ful in appointments, decorations, etc.
—To her natural productions of or
anges and aligators Florida is adding
the cocanut, 50,000 trees of this species
having been planted during the present
ason.
—Since its commencement the New
York society for the prevention of cru
elty to children lias entertained over
11,000 cases, involving over 100,000
children.
A Yard of Beard.
good condition. The hay and flax
crops are above 90 per cent. The
ing above and around him was a mass Parmer, on the basis of these and of
scattering reports from other States,
Is the wheat crop of 1883 at
OOObus^tat
Charles Peterman, a farmer living
just outside the city, states the Kansas
City Times, has probably the longest
beard possessed by any man in that
place or vicinity. He is rather a short
man and the heard, which is over three
feet in length, falls below his knees.
But few people would notice anything
peculiar about his appearance, because
he keeps this hirsute appendage tied up
in curl papers and hid away within his
vest. In addition to its length, the
beard, which covers almost the entire
face, is very thick, and is surmounted
by an immense mustache.
“How long have you been growing
that beard?” be was asked.
“Oh, this is only a seven years’
jrowth. I have bad it nearly as long
Wore, but it was so inconvenient that
I cut it off. Its length now is dne to
my friends, who insist upon seeing bow
long it will grow. My wife puts it up
in papers every morning as religiously
as she puts up her own bair. ”
“Any other members of the family
affected in the same way ?”
I have six brothers and nine sistere,
all, except one brother, living in Ger
many. All my brothers have extraor
dinarily long hair. My .brother living
in this country is in Vermillion County,
Ill. His beard is a pure blonde, and is
fully as long as mine, which, you see.
is black. My brother’s head,” contin
ued Mr. Peterman, “was as destitute
of hair in manhood as a billiard boll.”
•The largest city in the world is
London. Its population numbers 3,-
020,871 souls. New York, withapopu-
lation of about 1,250,000, comes fifth in
the list of great cities.
—The express trains between Paris
and Constantinople, inaugurated on
the 5th inst., consume about four days
and four nights in the trip between the
two points. The fare is $90.
—The largest suspension bridge would-
appear to be the one between New
York and Brooklyn. The length of the
main span is 1,595 ft. 6 in., tbs entire
length of the bridge 8,989 feet.
—Tlie largest island in the world,
which is also regarded as a continent,
is Australia. It is 2,500 miles in length
from east to west, and measures 1,950
miles from north to south. Its area is
984,287 square miles.
—During last year tlie number of
persons killed by being run over or
knocked down by vehicles in the streets
of Paris was 103, besides whom there
were 1084 who in their injuries required
the aid of the Police.
—Ex-Governor Leland Stanford has
placed in his San Francisco home the
art collections purchased by him in
Europe last year, comprising 30 pieces
of statuary and 181 oil paintings and
water colors.
—A marked increase in ‘the sale of
etchings and a corresponding falling off
in that of engravings is reported by
dealers in prints. The visit of Seymour
Haden to this country last winter, and
the effect of his lectures and exhibi
tions, brought this about, it is said.
A mechanic of Paterson, N. J., is
building an experimental 16-foot long
propeller boat, with a new ale-cask for
her boiler, the fire being placed on top
instead of in the usual place. As the
builder is employed in a Paterson loco
motive works, and is not a “crank,”
the result will be watched with inter
est.
—The British and Foreign Bible So
ciety continues to be remarkably pros
perous. Since its organization it has
circulated 91,000,000 copies of the
Scriptures in 248 languages and dia
lects. The Earl iff Shaftesbury, who
is in great demand as Chairman in May
anniversaries, is President of the so
ciety.