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THIS tttymtilarii gfcnjg. mmm PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY . -AT- *t. 3ftEOIS FALLB, FRANKLIN COUNTY, N. T. TERMS—$1.00 PEfc TEAS, STRICTLY IN T^DVANCl All lttUrs and eommonteatlooi should tf se» dr«iMd to H. k. ROWELL, Editor and Pobllslier, ' k. «. Ileal* Fall*, »'. 1'. r p' ft ? N W 0if ••*•$ N^< * v Devoted to' Local News VOL. I, *= and /Hojme Interests. ST. HEGLS FALLS, N. Y., SATURDAY, 1^1 AY 7, 1887. NO. \9. :——-— ./. ing and running due cast fiom what is now the heart of the city\of Los Angeles. Hit cattle and sheep and horses roamed what were then grassy plains in almost countless numbers. He was A lordly hind owner, rich in all that constituted wealth in those days, but a drouth came upon the country once that swept away nil his vast herds and flocks. The heavens refused to 1am and tho grass failed to grow. His dead horses and cat- tle and sheen were strewn for miles along the plains, and old Don Jose be- came desperate. . He saddled his horso one day and rode into Los Angeles, where he sought one of the gambling hells, as prolific in those days as real estate agents and lawyers arc now. j •'The old Don got into one* of the nu- merous gunics of monte, that being tho favorite gambling amusement in .those days, and his ill luck followed him. Ho lost all his ready money, then his horse, saddle, bridle and at lost his rancho. S triding the tabb he sought tho outside r and then blew his brains out. Some years after his death, when the suprem- acy of the American Ciovcrirmcut had been fully established, a couple of Amer- icans arrival at the rancho and claimed to be its owners and demanded posses- sion; one of the straugcrs claiming to be an c-Hiccr of the law. The family, igno- rant of law, and American law at that, moved away without demur, a generous neighbor providing them with land from his own possessions. The rancho passed iuto many hands, ami the family have ull J Missed away save my client, a youug ilexican, fairly intelligent and witfti enough knowledge to know his rights. He came to me and asked me to take his almost impossible case and do what I could with it. I took pt for a want of something to do, a,nd I have made many importaut discoveries. Tho Mexican giants have long ago been confirmed to the Ybarra family. No record of trans- fers from them appear upon the county records. Could 1 but produce those gamblers anrl the papers that passed be- tween as witnesses, I could build up a strong case, even after all these years,\ \Say young feller,\ said Monte Sam, \what did ycr say thet greaser's name THE ALL BJNDi OF JOB PRINTING 8VCB AS Cards, Letter-Beads, Note-Head*, BiU-Hemds, Statements, £nvetepoe, HandfrttJt; Peefere, Sc., KZATLY AND jPRdMlTLY XXBCUTOD AT TES LOWEST LIVING PRICE! FOR CAJIL J W« loistt tkt f»tros«(« of tb« pnHk aat fMtr« to One of tho dynamite shells recently nuudc for tho Uiutcd States- Navy will kill, it is thought, a thousand men, blow up a man-of-war or destroy a Government building. • • Tho London Neics has informed its readers that M Buffalo Bill \ is not a wild Indian, as many of them have supposed. mt tho Hon. W. F. Cody in private life and a \member of tho United States Parliament.\ / -i--„ '. -*-- _^J | A correspondent of the Scientific Amer- ican says: A fortune awaits tho inventor of a successful perfect dash or buggy lamp, or a lamp to bo attached to a horse's breast. One that will not go out when most needed, and with sufficiently strong reflector to light tho road for somo distance ahead of the hbrsev -, _... . II . ....' _•_! A gentleman interested in tho com- merce of tho great lakes says that it is going rapidly to large hulls. Twenty years ago a propeller tkjt could carry 50,000 bushels of grain or 1,000 tons* of coal was considered a monster, but there arc many now in the tradq between Buffalo and Chicago and Cleveland and Duluth that carry over 100,000 bushels 1 of grain in a single cargo. Tho Onoko, one of the greati iron propellers, takes 120,0,00 bushel* of oats in a single cargo. Tho-e largo vessels are fast crowding tho smaller propellers and sailing vessels off the hikes. . N^ \COME SWALLOW, COME,\ Come, swallow, com*, for thee we wait; Come seek thy northern home anew, •Where palo spring flowers are delicate, And winjer skies aro changed to blue; Come, 8walloW| come, for thee we wait. Come, swallow, come, for theo wo wait; The thatch is warm beneath the sun- Hero tell of lovo to thy fond mate; To-day should see thy nest begun. Come, swallow, come, for thee we wait. Come, swallow, como, fpr thee we wait; Tho spring i« perfect hut for thee; Ah! welcome, though thou rfpeedest late Thy truant wings from o'er the sea; Welcome', for not iu vain we wait. Maguizne of Art. A Berlin correspondent writes that suc- cessful experiments have been made at Met/, with a navigable balloon, propelled by an elect rut motor. The balloon is tho invention of a German engineer named Wclkcr, who for some time was employed in America, where he perfected his dis- covery. The German Government has bought the invention, paying for it/ 1,000,000 marks down and another, 1,000,000 which is to be paid in install- ments. The speed of tho balloon ex- ceeds that of a railway train, and it may be stopped and directed at will, moving aginst the wind. . Many efforts have been made in vain in recent years to introduce the one-cent piece into common use in tho South. Tho New Orleans Timen- Democrat recalls tho fact, that several years ago \a newspayer imported some barrels of the coins and put them forth, only to find out that they returned in a very short time.\ At last tho despised coin is reported to bo win- ning favor in New Orleans. The Times- Democrat declares that \a largo number of houses are now willing to accept it and make their chanfco accordingly, and '^Iho public is beginning to recognize that) the cent is of somo value after all) Strange to say, at tho beginning of this movement, . the small dealers still hold back.\ ^Yhat Napoleon wittily said of'Russia, that it is a despotism limited only by as- sassinution, still holds true, ways tho Culticator. Tho last Czar, the'father of flic present one, was brutally murdered, and there is nevor a moment when tho autocrat is absolutely safe. Since the invention of dynamite tho position of this poor creature has become mono piti- able than ever, as he may bo blown to atoms at any moment, svith no possibility of previous warning. And oven more fcscrimui than this is the effect upon the millions of Russian peoplo who seem driven to plots and dynamite as tho only means for effecting reforms which in happier lands aro brought about by popular education and tho enactment of more just and liberal laws. MONTE SAM. , •'CAMP Sutnnx, Jan. 28, 1880. \Dsar Okl Chum Home,r-Here I am at last, the happiest one-hinged conpumptlve in South- ern California. You know when I last left Los Angeles I wns determined to find some quiet, sequestered spot in these grand old Sier- ras where I could lead a life of perfect ease and contentment, untrammtled by the de- mands of society, dress or business; and 1 have found the Mecca to which I have journeyed so tar. I am seated to-night in a typical o!d- tinjo mhicr 1 !! cabin, a relit! of the 'Days of Old, the Days of Gold, tho Days of '4»,» with mi old-time miner and prospector as my com- panion. I am leading a glorious life. Up with the lark in the morning, a both in a clear, cold mountain stream, a half an hour's fishing rewarded with half a dozen fine mountain trout that are immediately thrown into a fryiugtpan, with email on toast on the side, washed down with fragrant coffee, and I have a breakfast fit for any consumptive. TfiVn a day's t|raui]uug over mountain and vale iii-search of the agile deer or festive jack rabt.it . At night a seat before a blazing fire, for the nights in theso mountains are chilly, listening to an old-time tale of the early days of California, o£. whjch you know I am pas- bionutoly fond of listening t<> (although 1 am a tender foot Easterner), and then a splendid refreshing sleep at night. I tell you, Harry, my boy, it's immense. Now, then, I want vou talcavo your musty law hooks alone. Let lawing clients tako^are of themselves for awhile; drop all such as 'whereas the party of the first part' etc., and join moat my moun- tain homo. 1 have guns and rods enough for t>otb, and can prpmise^you a splendid time. Don't dissapoint nje, but come as soon as pos- sible. Your Chun}, r ' [ \HAL EDMONDS.\ This letter found me seated in my un- pretentious law oflicc, in busy bustling Los Angeles, pouring over what was to mo an important cure—in fact my first and only case; hence its importance. Many a lawyer accustomed lo rich fees und lo'ng-winded cases would not have given it a second thought, yet I had ac- cepted it with sincere pleasure and had given it such an earnest attention that I was beginning to feel sadly in need of rest; and yet the state of my financial af-' fairs would hardly warrant my, taking so ox pensive n luxury as a mountain trip. As my cyVs rested on evcr-gencrous llal'i Professor Ihown-Scquurd,\ says tho rail Mall (itwttf, \has been informing his students that death by, throat-cutting is painless from the moment the skin of the neck is severed, and that tho severing of the larynx produces complete antcsthesia. Moreover, a blow delivered with violence upon the larynx can produce instantaneous death, with syncopal appearances; and M. Hrown-Scquurd thinks that 'inasmuch as most assassins seem to l»o eogni/.antof tho fact, honest people ought to bo mado aware of it also.' .lust what tho con- clusion from these stitements is, wo do not exactly sco. Is it a plea for the intro- duct ion of a new method of capital punish- ment, or a veiled compliment *o the exten- sive and peculiar knowledge, possessed by tho French assassin!\ invitation I svddcnly resolved to accept it, cveh if I had to subsist on coffee and doughnuts ever after. To resolve was to act. Hastily gathering some traps to- gether, for my oflicc was also my bedroom, I posted this notice on my offke door: OUT or TOWN ON IMPORTANT Bl'MINKMM. \WILL RETURN IN A MONTH. Within tho past fow\ years several towns in tho Western Stales have been cxperi r mentiog with street pavements of brick. Manw miles of brick pavement, It is need- less to say, exist in llollarfd, and there arc remains of brick in Jho streets of Nantucket, Mass., but elsewhere in thi United States this material has bccn\ rarely, if over, used for. the purpose. According to the Engineering Neics, Blogmington, III., deserves the credit of being tho first modem town in his country to introduce brick paving on an extensive undo. The town is situated in the clay region and bricks aro cheap there fm well as good, and by careful selections of material it has been found possible to produce bricks so lough and ham lliut in Hloomington, where seven miles <ff streets aro laid with them, they have Uecn found, after ten years' experi- ence. Mumble, as well as cheap and con- venient. In Amsterdam, where, although canals intersect the city injall directions, a good deal of truffle is carried on by means of horses and wagon*, the pave- ments of small, w.liitlsh bricks show little sign of .wear; and, partly on account of their porosity and partly from the numer- ous joints which exUt between them, 'they are in wet weather uiucl^Alryer und pleasanter to wulk over than \tone or even asphalt. And I smiled with satisfaction as I pictured to myself how my 1 creditors would glare upon that) notice. | Tho next day foundl me at Camp Sier- ra, grasping Hal's ha>d and responding to his enthusiastic greeting. Hal Ed* monds was an old college chum of mine, who imagined that he had consumption, or at least he had persuaded his loving parents into that belief in order that he might return to California with me when I left our law college for my homeward trip. And herfjic was before me, look- ing the liicturc of health, as active and us strong as a mountain wildcat. \Vou arc a healthy looking one-lunged consumptive,\ I sarcasticaiiy remarked. \Thanks replied Hal, affably. \You soe,\ sinking his voice to an almost in- audible whisper, \this lung Is badly af- fected, but this lung,\ raising his voice s<> that it sounded like a foghorn, \is all right.\ And ho laughed merrily. \Say Harry, I am like that sickly Chinaman, that did my washing in Los Angeles. His sign read 'Wan Lung'—\ \Oh rats!\ I interrupted. \I didn't como up hero to be killed\ with sickly puns.\ - \Well nevermind. Come, I'll show you my retreat and introduce you to my chum x \ And proudly Hal showed mo all the surroundings of his >log cabin home, as well us the trophies of the many hunts he had taken. And finally, as his com- panion entered, introduced mc to him. J \Mohto Sam, Mr.. Davis, my chum, tMr. Davis, Monte Sniti.\ Aud tho in- troduction was complete. Reforc me stood a grizzled, gray- haired »pecjjpr*n of humanity, (dad in a rod shirt, Overalls, cowhide'boots and a wide broad brimmed sombrero. My heart warmed to him at once, for I be- held before mo one of those hardy old California pioneers. I extended my hand to receive a pressure in return that made me wince. , I endeavored to en- gage Sam in conveisation, but it was a onesided affair. Muttering something about \'tendin to the clogs,\ he abruptly left us together. \Queer fellow, that,\ said Hal as 8om left us. \I had quite a time scraping an nequaihtence with him. I met him in Pasadena, where ho was trying to buy <omo whisky without success. Some lime after that I met him again and this ime he told mc where he lived. He aid ho was a hunter and miner, that he ind a little placer claim up the mountains and that the hunting was ilways good. By much persistence I managed to #ct an invitation to visit 1 iin, which I accepted with alacrity* mid ninny's the good time ho's given mc. Nun has lived here for years and years, himself, which he Mivs is a counternurt of one ho had in im Marshall, as rumnas uvea nerc jor ye lie built this cabin him* *ays is u counterpart of < l^ldorado county, when .lit hj» calls him, first discovered gold in the historic year'40. You'll liko him when y>u know him better.\ As long as I live I believe I shall ever remember the glorious days that followed my introduction into ('amp Sierra. With Mlonte Sam uud his dogs to guide us, we hijmted the deer, chasing them over .mountains and ravines, through brush m#l boulders, often being rewarded,after an exciting chase, with a deer or doe, whose skins and horns were a source of pride to both Hal and me. One night after we had retired from a long tramp well laden with the spoils of th* cluise, and were resting after supper, lying full length before a blazing tire, I related to sympathetic Hal all my it Juggles aud trials since we hud la^t parted, mentioning at Just my first aud only esse, •tyyu see, lluK\ I explained, \this Don Josr Muiiu Autouio .ICMH Yburru, away bat k in the early days, re wived u grant from the (iuNeinineni of t'uUfoi uiu of three lenguc* of land adjoin war *'» \Jose Maria Antonio Jesus Ybarra.\ \And tho land was the San Miguel Irancho, eh!\ | \Yes that was its name.\ \Arpl lie lost it playing monte?\ \Yes.\ . * \Well I guess as how I kin tell you a little about thet.\ \You!\ I excitedly exclaimed, \what do you know about that?\ \Easy youngster, easy; mebbe I knows' all about it and mebbe 1 don't; leastwise. I can remember one night I was sittin in Joe O'Campo's saloon, in Los Angeles, a dcalin monte, when un old paid of mine —Horse Pistol Dick - we called him thet cause he ustcr kill men with that weepin, specially greasers, for greasers warn't wuth much in them days nohow. Well,, as V was a say in, I was doin the dcalin and Dick was rustlin thcr suckers, when old Dou Jose Maria Antdnio Jesus Ybarra cum in. He was a pretty wealthy greaser then, and we knew wc hud a good thing on hand. He commenced tcr bet at thcr game, and we let him win a little just to hold him. Bymbyo ho begun tcr lose, and purty soon wc had his coin, then wc had' got his horse and outfit and 'finally he staked his rancho agin a few thousands wo had, cause he looked purty full and we thought we could beat him. Wo won' the rancho, and Dick drew up a bill of sale for thcr place and Joe O'Campo wit- nessed it. 1 kinder remember 'bout the cuss blowin thcr top of his held off, but that happened every day then. Dick and I diisteu off North after that. Dick gin mo the dockinrent, and purty soon after that a gfenser ripped Dick wide open with a knife. Dick war drunk at tho time and didn't get no show,so he passed in his chips and the Dealer up above cashed cm for him. I kinder think I've got that paper yet, cause I hud reason to save a number of papers, after that. Ef it'll do ycr any good ycr kin have it.\ \Good!\ I exclaimed, \why it's worth thousands; givo it to mc, aud Til share all I make with you.\ \Oh nevermind, youngster, old Sam's got his little claim and he's got null to see him through this world without that.\ With that Sam rose and went to a lit- tle box that stood in one corner of tho room. First he took out a pick, spado and a roc ;er. \See them, youngster; them's my pardners.of the old times. Many an otniye of dust they brung mc,\ and he laid them gently down.\ Next he fished out immld pair of boofs; \that's another purd of M 1 .),\ and ut last, he drew forth a packet of papers. Care- fully he handled them and brought them to the light, where he stood silent and still with those letters in his hand, and a shadow seemed to pass over his face. I was burning with impatiencoto examine tho papers, but something in his mtmncr restrained me. \Youngster he finally said, \these are some letters from hmne : — maybe you don't know what that meant in '40und '.\iO. I've kept them for many a year, kept every one, until they didn't, cum cny more, and then I knew tho old folks was dead. Thur's one thar that nil the gold in Californy couldn't buy,\ and ho selected a faded envelope from tho pack and gazed reverently upon it. \Tell us about it, Sam,\ urged Harry. \Let Homer wait, and spin us u yarn.\ Sam threw himself upon his side,rested his head upon his hand and began : \I hud cum down fwun the north t<^ Los Angeles, just to take a hand in \\ik fun Commodore Stockton was a bavin' with the grcusers, for he and Kearney and a few others was a raising Cain down hero and the greasers wen; purty hot to- ward 'gringoes,' as they called white men then. Wall, one flay they had a big jam- boree on the Plaza. Then; was a hull lot of new Americans in town, a lot of soldiers that had 'listed and surved their time and had been dis- charged- they were all out lor a lark and in for a good time. I noticed one young chap among 'em who seemed tcr have a 1 fiimiiiar look to me. He wuz a standing in the street a lookin' at their show, when a big greaser cum along on horse- back ; he yelled to the young feller in Spanish to git out of the road. He says, 'Cuidado, perro,' (look out, you dog), and all tho greasers commenced to luff. This ypung feller didn't know no Span- ish, so he stood ther<\ and the greaser dug his spurs in the side of his hor-e and triedto make him jump over him, but the hyss couldn't do it; so he brung his front f£et down on that youug feller's head and smashed him into a jelly. I tell you we gringoes was hot. I knocked that greaser off that boss with u shot from my Colt's revolver, und ther balance of thcr boys cleaned the hull'crowd out, then, we licked up that pole young feller and took tim iuto a saloon jiud-luid him Out. Onv ol the boysseuirhcd his clothe- it ml found ihis letter. I •'•Hello, Sum, h*» vnys, 'this hrnv chap' 1 - j.'<i» the saline mime us ycr.' \I took the letter-and looked'at it. Sure nuIT, it sod, \Charles Sawyer, New Orleans.' I took it, and read it, and here's what it saicj^ \ 'BLOOMNODAM\! N. II., Jan. ft\ 1848, ^ •MY T)KAII SON—I >rite this letter to you, hoping it will reach you at New Orleans. My dear, near boy may pod keep and watch over you in your long journey. Vou have left us poor and heart-broken. It make* mo tremble to think what fwril* my darling boy may en- counter. I fear I shall nover sco you again; and oh, my darling boy.try to liecome a good and true man. Don't forget tho prayers you learned at your mother's knee. You will l>o thrown among bad and wicked men, but always turn to Him to keep you an, honest man. God bless and keep you. I cannot write more, but only pray that you will And Samuel and return with liim to the old farm. Father joins me in sending our love ami prayers. Write to me as often as you CUM. With love and praycin to our Futher. to yriftg you safely back, I am your loving 'MOTIIKR, 1 \I stood there with that letter in my hand a looking at that boy, and I seemed to ecc the old-farm away back .home in the States. It was all clear tcr me now. That little brother of mine, he was little when I left home, had growed up and followed me to Californy. He had gone to New Orleans and 'Hstcd with Tuylor and fought thcr greasers in Mexico, und then cum tcr Californy. Poor little boy! I could remember how he used tcr creep into my bed at home, and twine his lit- tle arms around mv neck and listen to BURIED the stories I ustcr tell him. thin' warmtrickTc down m\ I felt some- checks, and I knew I was a crying. 1 i ell ycr I felt awful. I just rcmemberel those old parents of mine, whom I hue not written to fer years. That was the hand writ of my dear mother, Cod bless ner memory! Wc buried pore Charley, and I swore vengeance agin ull the cussed greasers and their kind. And many's ther one us hcz paid interest on thcr debt they owed mc\ J writ home after that and sent cm some nioiiey, ancl told cm Charly Was with me axloin well. I think (Jod'll for- give tho lie I \told em then, cause I couldn't write the truth. \After awhile I got a lcttci) saying father was dead, and when no more let- ters come after that I knew mother must have died too. It kinder broke mc all up. So I moved up here among the mountaius to git away from thcr |>coplc in ther valley, and here I have lived lor many a year. Thar's towns and cities down thar now where I used tcr ride on ther plains apd hunt and fish. And cfen all thcr mountains seems tcr be all alive with people* But the greasers are ago in fust, and that's a heap of satisfaction to, mc. Ycr look something lika Charley, youngster. Ycr've got the same eyes and thcr same hair, and I kinder like you,and if the pnpcr'll do ycr any good) why take it. Old Sam hain't got no use fer any- thing much more, Yc'pt to be left alone.\ And the old man's head sunk upon his breast in silent reverie, as the scenes and thoughts of the past arose before his vis- ion. Silently Hal aipl I sought,our bunks and left Sam alone with his thoughts. The next day I bade ndiou to Hal and Monte Sam to renew my labors. With tho assistance of the papers and the presenco of the same Joe O'Campo, yet living, and Sam, I was able to make out a very strong case, sufficient to bring it to a successful compromise, from which my client and I reaped a, handsome rcmuncrat ion. Enough for me to build mc up a practice that to- day supports a wife and little ones in com- fort. \ • J ' Monte Sam is not forgotten, aiu^rvinny is the pleasant time l'vo since spstftt with him, listening to his thrilling stories of tho early days in California] He yet dwells in his mountain home, and woe bct^lc the Mexican, or, as he culls them, \greasers who disturbs his retreat.— II. C. Kate, in Golden Era. Horn-Books. One of the rarest, and certainly one of the most interesting books in the library of the British Museum, is what our ancestors culled-a \horn-book.\ It was, in fact, their primer, the ordinary means by which they begun their education; and 4°wn to the reign of Oeorge lLmust have been very common, for wc sec by an entry in the account book of the Archer family that one was sold in 1729 for twopence. At present there iM no book moreaiflicult to obtain. . The one iu the British Musuin was found uquirtcr of a century ago in a deep closet, built in the thick walls of an old farm-house in-.Derbyshire. It is said a laborer engaged in pulling down the walls of un ancient house recognized it as that from which his father had been taught to read. I'pon the back is n> jjicturc of Charles I. on horseback, giving some approximation to its date. It is a single leaf, containing upon tho front side the alphabet, large an<l small, in Old English und Homun letters, ten short columns of mono-syllabled founded on the vowels, und the Lord's Prayer: all set in a frame of oak, now black with age, and pro- tectee! by a slice of tratisj>arent horn, hence the name horn-book. | , There is a handle by which to hold it, and in the handle a hole for^i string, so it could hung from thcgridlc. A picture of 1720 represents a child running in leading strings with a horn-book tied to her side. A cheaper kind of horn-book had the'lenf of printed paper pasted upon the horn, und perhaps the.greater num- ber were made in this way. If so, it is net singular they shmild bo source, for they would be very easily destroyed. Shcnslone writes in 1742 of \Books of stature small,' While with pellucid horn secured all To sav* from fingers wet tho letters-fair.' The alphabet upon the horn-books was always headed by a cross, and 40 was frequently called the Christ Cross How, or in common speech, the Criss Cross Bow, this being the title under which a very worn specimen is catalogued at Ox ford. — Chrintian at Work. The totul number of Bible < issued by the Auiericun Bible Society Mine its organization in 181(1 is 4r\:t:i5.2.*>l. The number of languages aud diulcc t* in whiclv the Bibb- js printed to day Is M5. RKtiIC8'OF HKIU POMPEII. .XI'A^'EUM AN Preserved By AHIICS—TIK Story They Tell to IK - How lie An- cientH Lived — Kvldeiiucsj of Taste and Luxury* Very few people who visitPompeii and Ilerculancuin fail to be impressed' with the idea that however widdone's experi- ence of travel may have bi-en, or what ever they may expect us a globe-trotter in the future, they have never seen nor can ever expect to behold anything else in any way to be compared with what siirrounds them. Hcrculancum, to be appreciated, should lirst bdseeu, as it is 'like Pompeii on a small stale', but di- vested of many of the most* .interesting features of the latter. The city you are traversing escaped the visitation* gener- ally considered its destruction, but in re- ality its preservation. Thejremuins you are viewing had hmg since crumbled in decay, und you would not hive the pleas- ure of seeing the 'habitations or indica- tions of the manner of life nineteen hun- dred years ugo. The \vull4of the build- ings are low, and in nearly every instance roofless, and the dust of pumice. stone and lava jrives a general effect of whitish 79 A. D. brought anotli T calamity. While sports were being urricd on in the amphitheater, the volcu lie irrupti<m occurred that buried the cii r and inhabi- tants, who did not escape by flight, from the light of day for sevent sen hundred years. 1 So completely was every) race obliter- ated that the site of the bin ied city was forgotten and covered by vmcyards und orchards until about 1748.L Alter the discovery of Herculancum htuhdfaw'n at- tention to Pompeii, a man engaged as a vine dresser discovered the remains of walls and statuary. It was not known till eight years later the 1 remains were those of Pompeii. The ground was pur- chased by the*, Government, and excava- tions pushed on'tardily or otherwise, ac- cording to circumstances. It was not till the revolution of 1800 that tho work of excavation was carried on vigorously and intelligently. A sum of money was an- uually appropriated by the Italian Gov- ernment for the continuance of the work, about one-half the supposed extent of the city beirig still to be disclosed. A short journey from Naples or Castile- mare brings the tourist by rail or carriage DOORWAY, POMPEII. gniy, broken here and theVe with blots of color brilliant beyond lescription or imitation, though painted nearly two thousand years ago, being positive proof of the durability of the pigfuents used by those artist chemists of thai early date. But brilliant as the eolorsjure the theory of tints seems to have beenf unknown or unpopular, consequently th<i primary trio —red (known as Pompciad), yellow (rich and inclined to orange) anjl blue (a me- dium tone of lovely hue)—sjcrcnm at each other without any quiet tinjt to blend or harmonize; so that the cjfTcct of color must, when entire, at leawt have been gaudy. It is, however, in jthe design of their dccoratioiyfthoy seem; to have par- ticularly excelled. Many cljissk* subjects, some from Virgil and Homer,Narc seen. One house sjiows a complete illustration <»f the Uliad. There arc also/rnimals and figures showing the maimer of life of the people, together with plants and exquis- ite ornamentations of a fanciful character. But to say that these subjects arc repre- sented on the walls convcVs a poor idea of what is to be f«und there. Effects of perspective arc so arrangod as to carry BAKKK'S OVK>|. the eve '.icyond the upartincnt, through openings between imaginary column.*, into distant space along th(r» edges of the rooms. Plants arc represented as though, growing in a parterre at tpb wall's foun- dation. In mo4ern palueqs in Italy ono nlso finds that agreeable rOMFKUAX LAMPS. 4 | to Pompoii. A few steps froraHhe rail- way station brings the visitor to the gate of Pompeii. Just outside the entrance is a small hotel bearing the name of a well- kuown citizen of the 1 buried city, where parties can strengthen the earthly taber- nacle previous to enjoying the more in- tcl\ectual feast before them. On the right of the entrance is a small museum containing a variety of articles found in the excavations, such, as sculpture, bronzes, jewelry, bread found in the ovens, charred and black of course, but retaining its circular; cake-like shape, a little depressed in the center, and in some cases the words \siligo grano\ (wheat flour) are still discernible. ' The bronze articles, such as vases, lamps and articles of furniture, are distinguished by their elegant shapes and fine workmanship, and one can trace in modern productions that mrfny imitations have been made from them. ^ By far the greater quantity of treasures removed from the excavations arc to be found in the Museum Nazionalc at Naples. That is where the best preserved of the paiutings arc treasured. Beholding them apparently painted on the walls, at first it is a matter of surprise how they came there. »A modern adage, \Men and tant landscape, seen as it portico, embellishing the He Squared the Account. No Montanian can have forgotten how at a dinner party one day Governor Green Clay Smith and a purty of friends rose and left the room whcii] Biedler was till- ing one of his yarns, thus intimating to him that it was a \chestnut.\ Biedler bided his time. Several duys Inter (he wns the High Sheriff) he s^nt un inven- tion to the Governor und his friends to visit the jail and inspect the horse-thief lately captured. They came, much elated. Biedler admitted them into the cage und then drew the borts on them, und they were locked in. \Now gen- tlemen,\ suys Biidler, \I'm going to din- ner, but when if return I'll finish that story I began to tell you the other day.\ Off he went to dinner and left them there.. He was gone two hours, and when he got buck it took another hour jo finish his tale. Then he set them fre •, und they owned up that he had sq unreal the account. St. Paul Pioneer Press. lusion of dis- werc from a walls. It is not to be understood thiitjthc paintings are nil above criticism us j works of Art. Some are defective iu drawing and other particulars; but taken jicnerully as a whole the decoration is plejasing.. Kvervthing at Pompeii' is very frag- mentary, for that provincial Roman city of doubtful origin seems, l]ike some indi- viduals, to have been born to be unfor- tunate, having been in thf ycur O.'J B. Ci almost entirely destrovcdl by an earth/ quake which shattered the columns of the temples and forum anoj drove the in- habitant'i in terror from the place. . Tho Kmperor Titus seems to have thought of sonic plan for rebuilding the ruined city, but the stupendous undertaking was too much for his energies. Tlje people hud, however, gradually grown [to feel enough confidence in the pla-c thdir fathers hud so summarily been driven (rom to return in considerable numbers jind set about\ re-erecting their homes und restoring the fallen columns of the public buildings, which was done in many dases in a style of architecture differing fremi the original, forming a patchwork of [Greek,- Homun and other vnrieties. An exchange in tho mutter of inscriptions front the Osean to fie Latin language wns made. The year 'A NOLA O ATE. ,'moncy move mountains,\ has only to be changed a little to show that men and in- genuity can move even fresco paintings.. The following method was employed to accomplish the feat: A sheet of paper the size of the painting to be removed, was pasted entirely, over its surface, another similar one over that again, and again until a solid mass of paper covered the whole picture. Then means were taken to loosen the plaster on the wall behind the painting, and the whole of it wns safely removed, with the paper at- tached which served to strengthen und hold it together. When the picture was transplanted ond firmly fixed in its .pres- cnt place on the museum wall the papers were softened and gradually removed from the surface und the original fresco disclosed unimpaired. It being the nature of the dust and ashes at Pompeii, when mingled 'with water, to form a stiff patfelikc plaster of paris, the result was that when the mass was closed round the bodies *ji the vic- tims in the ruined city an exact mold of each form was made. At times /luring the excayation, hollows containing bones, with jowtlry and coins,were met with. Signor I\io*relli, observing this, under- stood the cuusC, and had filled with liquid plaster these antique molds, secur- ing cxa( t casts of the ill-fated Pompeiians aa they lay and expired, struggling in their death agonies. In some cases tho bones are seen to protrude, and rings may still be (discerned on the fingers. Some of these are preserved in the mnseum at Pompeii; others may be found in that at Naples. Though the horrible writhing of the tortured sufferer is distinct Invisi- ble in the agonized form, of course,, the surface is far from smooth or presenting the finished appearance of a ensj from statuary. It is rough and broken, and in parts deceptive. It was found that nearly all the human remains had ex- pired while looking toward Vesuvius. The city is of an irregular oval form about two mile* in circumference and was walled, except on the side nearest the sea. It had at least eight gates, probably more, of which the best preserved and apparently the most ancient is the NOIH. The streets are narrow, from twelve, to fourteen.ieet wide,including the trottoirs. SomeVare «*ven le-is und the widest only about thirty fed. Hows of high stepping- stones cros-t the stieet from side to side between the trottojrs for the convenience. EARTnEN JAR, FOUR FEET HIGH. of pedestrians in rainy weather. These stepping-stones must have greatly im- pedecj the passage of vehicles. The walls as before mentioned are low, and there is little left but the lower stories. There is reason to suppose upper floors were slightly built perhaps of wood, con- taining small rooms for the use of slaves. The walls facing on the street are blank in most instauccs, the windows of the house opening on the open square in the center. In some cases small shops filled the fronts of houses without communicat- ing with any other part of them unless perhaps a room at the back, and signs still remain showing the particular busi- ness carried on in them. In nearly every ens? a fountain occupied the (enter of the open square, inclosed by the homes at Pompeii, and according to Lord Lytton a receptacle for rain water (classically termed impluvium) invariably occupied a square in the middle of the tessellated pavement in the entrance hall. X^ e ram WrtS ai \ lowed to fall through an opening in the roof, which was sometimes covered with an awning. Near the .impluvium were placed images of tho household gods. The hospitable hearth, often mentioned by the Roman poets and consecrated to tho pires, was at Pompeii almost invariably formed by a marble brasier, while in some corner, often the most ostentatious place, was deposited a huge wooden chest, ornamented and 8tr3ngthened by bands of bronze or iron, and secured by strong hooks upon a stone pedestal so firmly as to defy the attempts of any robber to detach it from its position. The remains of three public baths, or thcrma?, are seen* They are very richly decorated; even more so than the houses. They show plainly for what purpose each particular part was destined. The first discovery of the kind made at Pompeii was the earliest authority on the subject of Roman baths. One of the few vestiges of roof remaining in the city is found at one of these baths, and is elegantly embellished with trausverse fiutuings, reducing the surface of the ceiling to a series of squares, elevated toward, the center, the fiutuings being depressed. Cincinnati Commercial. + -TEMPERANCE. To Take It Is Folly. Strong Prink is a nowor Of malice and strife, A poison that cankers The fountains of life. Strong Drink's a deceiver, As thousands have fouud; He tells me that pleasure J With him shall a»>ound. Strong Drink is a jailer; , Ah! has he not bound Ten thousand poor drunkards Like slaves tq the ground/ -S. KnowlcB, in Temperance Banner. Bound to Come'. As has already been noted, the cause of prohibition is making greater progress in the Southern States than in any other section of the country. Even in Arkan- sas, where whisky has been looked upon by the native as a sort of mother's milk which it was impossible to do without, the vote in favor of the total extinction of the traffic in all intoxicants has grown from less thau twenty thousand in 1882 to sixty-five thousand in September last, that number of Votes having been cast against license to seventy-five thousand in favor of that system of regulating the traffic. At this rate, If kept up, the tem- perance clement will soon have control of the State, and if they act wisely, can djr away with most of the evils arising flom free whisky. —Pittsburgh Chronicle. Some Facts Abont the Elephant ' Should you meet an elephant some night on a lonely road, that nad escaped from a traveling menagerie, it might be interesting for you to know whether it was an African elephant, or his Indian or Asiatic brother. Know then that the African elephant is the larger of the two, having bigger ears, a somewhat flatter head, and with four nails on each foot; whereas tjic Asiatic elephant has four nails on each hind foot and five on his fore feet. In lifting up an elephant's foot to count his nails much care should be exercised, as he is exceedingly sens' tive about his feet. But it is the absence of tusks in tue Asiatic elephant, or their partial develo ment, that constitutes the greatest diflf< ence. In this, however, you are liable to l)c mislejl, particularly in the night, as the menagerie elephant of African extrac- tion sometimes has his tusks broken off by his efforts to level houses and groves with the ground when enjoying a play- ful vacation. >It is the African elephant who^c tusks furnish the ivory of commerce. You might think that the tusks had roots like teeth, but they have not, but fit v firmly into sockets, the ivory at the root being ver thin and surrounding a pulp where S The IJAW an Bducator. One of the great benefits of the pro. hibitory law is that it outlaws the traffic. The partnership'between the State and the saloon is dissolved. The sanction of j> the State is withdrawn. , - Henceforth J;he traffic goes on against tyw, and not with its approval. That which destroys 60,- 000 human beings every year is made criminal in the sight of the law. The law will educate the rising generation that intemperance is an evil, instead of sanctioning this infamous business. The law has educated the present generation to look upon the traffic with favor and to consider it right and wise; but let it educate the other way, and though there might be \as much liquor, drank\ for awhile as before, it would not be longbc- : fore the traffic would go down under an aroused public opinion manifested by law. —National Temperance Adrocaie. Alcohol. S Professor Alglave, the director of thfl International Scientific Series in, France, recently delivered a nublic lecture on al- coholism, in which he stated that of 100 insane persons, forty had bc^n intem- perate; that fully one-half of our crimi- nals had been in the habit of drinking to excess, and that delirium tremens killed 2,200 peraohs every year. ThcTeason for the increase in the death-mteof alcoholic patients is not that there are a greater num- l>cr of victims, but that alcoholic liquors are much more poisonous than formerly, owing to the poorer quality and the ad- dition t<$ thorn of inferior alcohol made from rice, potatoes, corn, beets, etc. Of 1,872,0C0 hcctolitresof alcohol consumed annually, scarcely 25,000 hectolitre are pure ethylic acohol made from grapes, and other alcohols are real poisons, as may easily be shown. To kill an animal it requires about seven grammes of ethylic alcohol per kilogramme of the an- imals weight, while of amy lie alcohol it requires only abdut one gramme. To pro- duce death in a man of eighty kilo- | grammes weight it would require 620 grammes of the pure alcohol, but only eighty-eight of the other. Alcoholism is therefore prtlkiced seven times sooner with.the latflkfean with the former. COUNTING THE EMSPIIANT'B TOES. the ivory U being secreted. As. the elephant increases in years the hollow- in tjie tusk is filled up with solid material, and in extremely old elephants it disappears entirely and the tusk is solid ivory. So to determine whether an African elephant is real okl or not, bore into one of 4 his tusks as far below the surface as you can reach with a gimlet. The teeth of the elephant have a curi- ous way of moving gradually forward from behind to supply the place of a worn-out front tooth that is pished out of place by its successor. They nA'er have the mortification of knowing that they expose the fact that the'y have a fro^nt tooth gone, every time they smile. -The trunk of the elephant is its most remarkable feature. Cuvier s.iys it con- tains 40,000 muscles, which entitles it to travel on it. It is both hand and no*e, though it can blow it without any hand at all. It is a tender and delicate organ, capable of much feeling, and it is apt to make a man feel a little nervous to recog- nize that it is feeling around after him. — Texas Si/tings. [ Before and After. He didn't have his hnir cut before buy- ing his m»w spring hat. —Lij't. Tcmperavnce Notes. Maine has «ighty-six local Woman's Christian Temperance Unions. > Kansas has increased her population under prohibition from 950,000 to 1,500,- 000. Twelve counties have been added to the \dry\ list in Mississippi the past year. Of lfl) graduates of Delaware College, Delaware, Ohio, ninety-seven are Prohi- bitionists. 'The salono,* 1 sa}-s the Toledo Blade, ^isa political factor of dire portent to the nation. 1 ' - \Prohibition don*t \prohibit shouts the liquor-dealer, and then proceeds to draw his check for a generous donation to the liquor-dealers' fund, to be used in preventing the adoption of prohibition. Mr. Moody is. reported as raying that •'intemperance is ten times worse in Chi- cago than when he was there ten years ago.'' Chicago is also understood to IK* enjoying the benefits (?) of \high li- cense.\ The Legislature of Missouri has passed a bill rengnling the I iw of 1857, permit- ting' the sale of wine and beer in St. Louis on Sunday. and v placing the city under the general law as to Sunday ob« servance. Out of 645 sainples of wine examined in Paris last month, 4V) were declared injurious. The report, of course, only rcfered to the prenence of deleterious for- eign ingredients. How many wine drinkers have any conception of the nasty and deadly concoctions they are u*ing in a vain attempt to use something which \will not injure.\ • r • T JOHN MCCARTHY is the oldest boot- black in \New York, having occupied a stand near theAstor House-for twenty- eight years. He has over $20,000 in bank, and will soon retire and do duty as a shiniug example of the virtues o{ industry and ecouoiuy.
