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P a c k e r s ' S a m p l e T a g s , r e a d y p r i n t e d.
Tho village of Grindelwald was in a state"
of great excitement over the disappearance
of M. Rudolph Schuchmann, the wealthy
banker from Germany, who for the past
three years had spent tho month of July at
the Hotel of the Grande Moine. OpinMns
among the population scattered between
the Two Scheidecks widely differed in re-gard
to the manner of his disappearance,
some attributing it to a crime, others to a
simple accident.
On the 2d of August, 18—, the day of
the inquest into the details of the affair, a
troop of Grindelwald guides, bronzed and
seamed by tho toil of the daily struggle,
gathered upon the Place before the village
town hall. Admitted to tho audience room
at last, they seated themselves with solemn
visages upon the benches provided for the
pui'po;e and, silent, stern and impassible,
waited for the inquiry to begin Only the
agitated movement of the hat brims, twirl-ing
like wheels between their fingers, told
of tho fierce though restrained excitement
of these bravo and gallant men.
"Ulric Tagmer!" cried the Syndic of the
village, when assured by roll call that the
complement of the troop was complete;
"we are waiting for your deposition, " and
ho signed to a pale, gigantic figure, stand-ing
with humble deference in the corner by
tho door.
Tho man addressed advanced to the table
with halting, uncertain steps.
"We started from tho Hotel of tho
Grande Moine, ' ' he began, ' 'at 5 o'clock in
the morniig on Monday last, intending to
sleep that night at tho rock of the Schwar-eegg,
and tho following day to mount to
the Peak of Terror. I didn't think that we
should be able to make" the 'ascent, but
dared not refuse on account of my pride as
a guide.
"Moreover, M. Schuch, the name by
which he is known to all on tho mountain,
had promised mo fifty thalers for tho trip,
whether wo succeeded or failed. For three
hours we climbed without trouble up the
side of the Lower Glacier. M. Schuch was
in a very cheerful humor and frequently
•aid to mo:
" 'Why, this is nothing at all, Ulric; I'd
have done as well without you. '
" 'No, M. Schuch,' I answered; 'no, you
would not;' ho laughed when I called his
name in this way, but said nothing more,
for the ascent was becoming painful and
we had great difficulty in broa _ing.
"Soon after we had passed the Zazenberg
I noticed that M. Schuch had left the path-way
which had cut into the side of tlie ice
and was climbing the glacier some distance
ahead of me.
" 'Don't trust yourself over there,' I
shouted, as I saw where ho was going; ' 'the
ice is rotten. Come back and walk behind
me."
" 'Let ma alone, Ulric,' he answoied; 'let
mo alone; I am going to examine that roe':
of red snow. '
"It was then the misfortune happened."
At.this point the guide, until now deliver-ing
his statement with the manner »of a
well conned lesson, hesitated; his voice,
which had trembled more, failed him alto-gether.
"Go on; go on," cried the Syndic im-patiently;
"proceed with the recital."
"It was doubtless a bridge of ne*v ice
upon which M. Schuch had stepped, " con-tinued
Ulric, conquering his emotion with
difficulty ; ' 'but I do not know, I hoard a
cracking noise, a smothered cry, and then
M. Schuch was gone. "
"Then ho was not attached to you, as
usual," oried tho Syndic; "how could you
commit such an imprudence, you, an old and
sxperienced guide?' '
"It was not my fault," began. Ulric,
abashed; "as he did not wish it. " As Tag-mer
made this statement a sudden exclama-tion
buret from tho bench of guides.
"Sea here, you others," cried Ulric,
fiercely, turning upon his comrades; "you
know very well how such things happen.
When I tried to put tho rope around M.
Schuch's waist he repulsed and pushed ma
away, saying, 'You are not going to bother
me with your stupid ways.' What more
could I do? Is a guido to be worse than a
slave?"
Eenowed murmurs and gestures of disap-proval
protested against Tagmer's words.
"Your comrades are right," interrupted
the Syndic "and tho impression made upon
them by your words will be shared by
every man of sense. Your own report,
granting it to bo true, has already injured
your reputation as a guide. But what did
you do after, tho accident?"
"I do not know; I cannot remember,"
Btammered Tagmer; then perceiving the
hostile whisperings of the troop behind
him, and cut to the quick by the Syndic's
unfriendly looks, he tried again to collect
his thoughts.
" I think," said he, "I think that I ran
at once to tho edge of the crevasse, and
leaning my ifead over it listened for a
sound from M, Schuch," but all \vas dark,
black and icy, and roared like water in a
mill. Thon I called, perhaps a thousand
times, 'M. Schuchmann, M. Schuchmann!'
I heard my voice descending and descend-ing,
but nothing came back, nothing I"
' 'How long did yoa remain thus?' '
"I do not know," muttered Ulric, de-spairingly.
"Well, everybody knows that it was
two whole days bsfore yoji again made your
appearance at tho Grande Moine. Why
didn't you inform the authorities sooner?"
"I was ashamed, ashamed to show; my
«»face. Only think, M. le Syndic,; what it is
to a guido when he has to return without
his traveler!"
And this time his comrades supported
what he said; it was a terrible position, as
more than one of them knew.
"But why was it, Tagmer," continued
the Syndic, "that day before yesterday
you wero unable to point out the place
where the accident occurred, though four of
your comrades had gone with you for the
express purpose o'f proving your story true?"
"It has snowed since then, and I couldn't
recognize tho crovasso; it was impossible, M.
le Syndic, among so many exactly like it."
"Then Tagmer, tho gravity of your case
is very great, for you are accused of having
killed the banker, of having robbed him, .
and of throwing the body into somo of t«je
depths around you to conceal tho crime,
and M. Schuchmann was known to have
carried about him large sums of money.
Why did you arrange to go with him alone
on so dangerous ail expédition?"
Tagmer was overwhelmed. Tho breath
came from his chest in gasps, like the part-ing
of a wounded animal.
"I only wished," ho stammored, "if the
chance was given us, to bo the first giïide
who had over climbed to tho Peak of Ter-ror.
"
"Then it was by your desire that the ex-pedition
war; undertaken alono. Your
own account of tho accident locates it at 10
or 11 o'clock on Tuesday morning, yet
not until Thursday, at 0 in tho evening, did
you arrive in tho village, bowildered, inco-herent
au-1 giving such strange and conflict-ing
statements of tho aiïair that wo were
forced either to suspect you of a crima^pr
of bsing a ravin;» maniac. Stop, don't in-terrupt
raV when Tagmer would have
spoken. "waii and hoar mo to tho end. On
the «înr ,%r oi-o your departure from the
village you asked for, and I gave It to you,
a certificate of poverty for thé bureau of
the canton."
"The presence of money In your dwell-ing,
Tagmer, after what I have just re-lated,
" continued the Syndic, "must be ex-plained."
As these damaging revelations followed
one upon the other, a prolonged uproar
broke out among the troop of guides. The
•T-arninatinn for » while could not nroceed.
Stunned by tho evidence aganist him, Ulric
Tagmer answered not a word, but silent as
stone stood beside the table. Tho Syndic
was obliged to repeat his question.
" I live upon the road to tho Lower Gla-cier,
'' Ulric answered at last, his voice hoarse
and broken with emotion; "people fre-quently
stop at my hut for ropes and hatch-ets.
One day M. Schuchmann, in pity for
our poverty and our misery, gave a hand-ful
of gold to my wife. She buried it, for
our door doesn't latch, and wo are always
from homo."
"They tell me," said the Syndic, "that
your destitution is caused by th6 extrava-gance
with which you have gratified her
whims. Do you know what else they say?"
""No," responded Ulric, in a voice sud-denly
become firm and clear; "I do not."
"They say this—that the beauty of the
woman whom you call your ' wife "had in-flamed
the fancy of this wealthy banker,
and that because of it he has returned every
summer for the last three years to the
frozen regions of tho glaciers. His liberality
to the woman, to which you have just testi-fied,
goes far toward substantiating the
truth of this gossip. Perhaps you have
thought the same and meant to rid yourself
of a rival as well as to'seeuro the needed re-sources."
Submissive, speechless and resigned, Ulric
Tagmer had listened to the evidence against
him, but now a sudden flame of anger leaped
into his eyes; he beat his fist upon the table
and hissed the words at his accuser with the
rage of one who has suffered long without
revolting.
"Let them eome to me," ho shouted;
' 'those inventors of blackguard lies. Maria
Muller in the sight of God is my wife. She
is a bvavo woman; I love her; I defend her
against all who would insult her. Bring
them before me, I tell you; bring them be-fore
me—those liars who hide their heads
like hogs in their own filth.
The Syndic did not respond to this pas-sionate
explosion. Ulric was compelled to
give up his certificate and even his little
leather portfolio, its many pages crossed
and recrossed with the names of those he
had faithfully conducted in that land of the
sky; but as his ancient comrades in going
from tho room passed him by with averted
heads and unrelenting visages an ominous
silence fell upon the assembled villagers,
each one asking himself anxiously: "Is it
justic•e only *th at ha*s been* done t*o -day»? "
When the shadows of evening fell upon
the village, and the roads of tho neighbor-hood
were all deserted, Ulric Tagmer fled
from the town hall and walked with furtive
steps through the inhabited quarters of the
village. For more than an hour he fol-lowed
closely the rounded l>owlders which
marked the bed of the brook, turning sharp
to the left when the clearing was reached to
find himself upon tho threshold of a miser-able
hut crouched at the foot of the Lower
Glacier. To enter there was truly no need
to turn the lock of the door. A woman of
tall and commanding stature leaned against
the door frame, her face buried in her
folded arms. At the noise which Ulric
made in stopping upon the stones she raised
her head.
"Well," she cried, with an eager move-ment,
"well, is it ended?"
"It is ended," he answered, with a burst
of tears; "ended I" and ho threw himself
upon tho ground at the feet of Maria Mul-ler.
Little by little, sitting side by side on the
wretched pallet which formed their bed, he
told her of all that had happened at the au-dience
hall, and from time to time, as the
story proceeded, he would rave and beat
himself upon the floor with the inextin-guishable
rage of a maddened wild beast,
sometimes sobbing, sometimes laughing,
in a fury of helpless anger. After tho first
eager question, Maria Muller did not speak,
but when the agony of- her husband required
a recognition she would lightly touch him
with her tender, silent lips, reassuring him
by the eloquence of that mute but univer-sal
language.
* • * * • *
It had been perhaps thirty years since the
disappearance of Rudolph Schuchmann into
the crevasse of the Peak of Terror—thirty
years of brief and pallid summers and bit-ter,
frozen winters—when an extraordinary
rumor spread through tho valley. The
Lower Glacier had begun to move and was
descending' straight upon the hut of Ulric
Tagmer. There was no longer a possibility
of doubting it when examination was made
into the. condition of things immediately
surrounding it.
"'Tis the power of God—the hand of jus-tice!"
cried the frightened villagers, not yet
enlightened by scientific research into the
causo of this natural phenomenon. Tagmer
himself had been the first to recognize the
peril which menaced him, and only a day
ago he had seen a grove of sturdy larches
slowly swallowed by the moving glacier,
and a moment later a white and monstrous
pyramid of ice and snow standing in tha
place where the trees had been.
Often in the dead of night he would be
wakened from his slumber by the crash of
a falling trunk, toppled from its foothold
by the pressure of the glacier. Little by lit-tle
the heavy mass of this solid torrent took
from Tagmer his grove of walnuts, and
piece by piece, as the years slipped by, the
wholo of his meager pasturage.
At last, for want of food for the herd, the
almost maddened man was forced to part
with his goats, and with every resource ex-hausted,
to move to a corner of the higher
Alps and seek again to make a livelihood by
floating logs from the Iiutzchine Noir in the
direction of Interlaken.
After long periods of stagnation, when it
would seem as if, repenting of its course,
tho glacier intended to be still, it would re-sume
the onward march, the constant
changes in its extremities obliging even the
troops of guides to make a route for them-selves
that turned aside all human passage
from tho former hut of Tagmer.
In the spring of 18— great blocks of ice,
exhaling an intense cold, had advanced to
within twenty feet of the walls of this aban-doned
hut. At this epoch Maria Muller
died in the hut upon the higher Alps. For
thirty-six hours after his bereavement Ulrio
Tagmer never moved. When he regained
his senses ho lifted the body in his arms,
carried it to tho mountain cemetery and'by
tho light of tho moon buried his beloved in a
solitary corner covered with field flowers
and poppies. No one in the neighborhood
asked for the' unhappy woman, and per-haps
all were ignorant of her death.
But, now that Maria was no longer there
to do it for him, Ulric found himself, in
order to procure the necessities of life, com-pelled
to approach again the abode of man.
* « if # $ $
The village of Grindelwald had greatly
altered and improved, with the recent
opening of roads and the building of new
houses, but Ulric remembered it well. Only
he, tho miserable vagabond, the homeless
exile, had grown GO old, co changed, no one
recognized him. Forty years had come
and gone since last his feet had touched the
stones of a village, street, and two genera-tions
had passed away. Once in a long
while, in tho gossip of a wino shop, Tagmer
would hear a casual refercnco to tho almost
forgotten; story of Schuchmann's disappear-ance,
but happily his morose and taciturn
manner forbade them questioning him. To
this third generation, frolicking in the
(irindelwald highways, Tagmer was but a
witless, ago ridden wanderer.
Emboldened by the knowledge that he
still remained unrecognized, l^gmer dared
more and more to mingle with tho people of
the village, and, listening silently to the
careless chattering, learned that, with tho
exception of one other person besides himself,
all the actors in tho tragedy of his life had
long been numbered with tho dead.
That person was the former Syndic of the
village, and one day, while passing along
bafnra ln's /]wAiling. Ulric was alarmed to
see tue wan and austere face ol this feeble
centenarian peeping above the balcony rail-ing;
he dreaded to be recognized.
In the meantime, however, the progres-sion
of the glacier continued. Upon the
plot of land where the first peaks slided and
lingeringly melted away, others higher and
broader had risen in their places, and in
their turn melted away also, but with
every step gaining additional foothold for
the glacier itself upon the narrow strip of
land between the valley and tho higher
Alps.
It Kad taken the invader twenty tedious
springs to reach its present halting place, the
jagged points of its spreading flanks jostling
the very foundation of Tagmer's ruined hut,
to which, the only home that he knew, he
had long sinca returned. Ninety years,
fifty 6f them passed in absolute misery, had
martyrized the body of this man, rounding
his shoulders, robbing his head of hair and
seaming his flesh with wrinkles. He hailed
with relief the stroke of the moraine as it
knocked at his pillow—his time of suffering
was nearly ended; in a little while the over-thrown
walls of his humble homestead
would be turned into the walls of his sepul-cher.
But as weeks rolled by the state of things
was singularly modified. The glacier had
stopped again . and its base and snow
crowned pinnacles were rapidly melting
under* the p*ower*ful tem* pera*ture o*f July.
One morning, about a month after the
glacier had stopped again, Ulric Tagmer
left his hut and ran like one distracted in
tho direction of Grindelwald, crying as he
went: "M. Schuch has returned! M. Schuch
has returned 1'' His legs, enfeebled and stiff
with age, stumbled and bruised him at
every step, but what did he care for that
when M. Schuch had como back again?
A band of excursionists waiting upon their
mules in front of the Grande Moine, now
kept by the grandson of the former Moeren,
crowded curiously about him as he ran into
their midst, but Ulric, truly a grotesque
object with his weeping eyes, his bristling
beard and his laughing mouth, refused to
be stayed. "M. Schuch has come back,"
he cried. "M. Schuch is waiting!" And
the people, gathering in knots upon the
street, asked each other wonderingly: "Who
is this M. Schuch whose coming has driven
the old man crazy?"
Still running, still heedless of the throng
at his heels, Tagmer directed his steps
towards a cottage of neat and comfortable
appearance standing to the right of the
green.
"M. le Syndic," he shouted, pounding
upon the door, "M. le Syndic, come down, I
say; M. Schuch is here! M. Schuch is wait-ing!"
They trie! to silence him by telling him
that tho Syndic had retired and no longer
exercised the duties of his office, but Ulric
refused to listen,
"He is my Syndic all the same," he an-swered
stubbornly; "my own Syndic, and I
tell you that I must and will see him."
At this moment a door above.them opened
and a venerable figure appeared upon'toe
balcony.
"Good day, M. le Syndic, good day,"
cried Ulric joyously. "I am Tagmer, you
know, Ulric Tagmer; but M. le Syndic, M.
Schuch has returned. You must go with
mo and at on co to receive him.''
The ancient functionary recalled his
memories—a melancholy gracs returned to
his manner.
"I remember tho names," he sighed,
"and I recall the time; nevertheless I do
not understand you.''
"But I will explain to you, M. le Syndic,
explain to you in a minute. Tho base of the
Lower Glacier i3 melting, and M. Schuch—
you remember him, do you not?—the banker
who was last with me, Ulric Tagmer, the
guide!"
"I know, I know," gravely responded
tho Syndic.
"He has drifted in his crevasse over to
my door; his head is uncovered I know it
well; ho is not changed at all; but /un, M.
Syndic, run it is necessary''—and Ulric
dropped upon his knees and lifted his poor
imploring hands.
Terribly shaken by this incredible intelli-gence,
tho old citizen still hesitated.
"Tagmer—Schuch," he dreamily re-peated—"
I know tho names; I know them
Well, but what have I to do with those
ghosts of a forgotten time?"
All at once tho details of tha story re-turned
to the Syndic's memory.
"I see," ho cried; "I see—I see—wait for
me. I am coming;" and repulsing tho ser-vant
who would have sustained his totter-ing
footsteps he seized his ancient hat and
apple headed ¡"taff and hurried to the street.
"Guide me," he cried, as ho stepped to
Urlic's side; "guide me—I am ready."
"Certainly I will guide you, certainly,
monsieur, and guide you well; and a tri-umphant
smile brightened the worn face as
again the familiar formula slipped from his
lips—the formula that once it had been tho
pride of his life to utter, and that now, to
himself at least, contained a public vindica-tion.
"But hurry, M. le Syndic, hurry" and,
motioning to tho other to follow him, the
old guido turned, and with the throng of
villagers marveling at his heels passed into
the road to the Lower Glacier.
A half hour later the spot was reached,
that desolate, ruined and forgotten hut of
the outcast, Tagmer, and thsre before them,
in the midst of the soiled ribbons and whiten-ing
folds of a wadded cap, the head and
face of a man appeared, fresh, rosy and un-changed
in its framing of ice. The cold
which had prevented decomposition had
also preserved the youth of the features,
even the golden coloring of the long blonde
whiskers still flowing from tho chin.
Seizing his axe and brandishing it fu-riously,
Tagmer speedily disengaged, the
entire body lying in its crevasse at tho base
of the glacier, as if stretched in a crystal
cofBn.
"See, M. le Syndic, see," he cried; "M.
Schuch is here I Search his pockets; search
them yourself—you alone and no one olsel"
Overpowered in his turn by the guide's
insistency, the Syndic obeyed, and the
throng of villagers, beginning at last to
comprehend the scene, saw his knotted
Hngers thrust themselves with difficulty into
the openings of the frozen cloth and draw
forth successively a bunch of keys, a hand-ful
of gold and a watch, the "R. S." en-graved
upon the case incontestably estab-
The boat did not hit him with a shock, but
was carried against him with a sort of cur-rent.
We were square across his nose, and
could not have even seen his eyes, even had
it been daylight and a clear day. His big
head towered above us like a ship's side,
and the odor was something to make us
gasp and choke. The boat hung across his
nose for a minute or more, and then the
swell worked the bow around, and wo
drifted right alongside the fellow his entire
length, rubbing him all the time, but not
arousing him. It was only when we were
clear of his flukes that we dared to breathe.
Had he opened his mouth as we lay against
his nose we should have been sucked in like
a chip in a mill race. Had he given his
under jaw a fling he could havo smashed
the boat like an egg shell, and left those of
lis who escaped injury to be eaten by the
Sharks.
After escaping this whale we got into
clear water again and had a consultation.
There were men in our boat much older
than the mate, and he had the good sense to
consult them. You may have read of how
easily whales are "gallied" or frightened,
and have wondered that we didn't sound
somo alarm to scare them off. Firstly,, in
reply to this, the whales had not yet seen
us, and if we made a noise they might take
it into their heads to investigate. Whales
have attacked ships and boats and rafts
without the slightest provocation. Sec-ondlv.
our safetv would denend on how they
went away it alarmed, ii t:\i f
with a rush, as was likely, some one of them
would run us down. If they sounded, as
was also likely, it was hardly possible that
we could escape tho swing of som3 fellow's
flukes, or ride out the turmoil which they
would kick up. It was, therefore, decided to
remain as we were, and the oars were care-fully
drawn on board, and the mate used a
paddle over the stern to keep tho boat from
drifting about. She was headed on to what
sea there was, and was, of course, driving
astern all the time. It was hardly ten
minutes before we drifted plump against a
third whale, striking him near ths hump.
He slewed himseli,part way round in a lazy
manner, and the boat went clear of him,
every man feeling that he was over a pow-der
magazine. The night had now come
on, and just after we got clear of the whale
the breeze began to sharpen up and to drive
through the fog. It did not seem to take
five minutes to scatter it, and as the rem-nants
were whirling about us the mate
lighted the lantern and passed it along to
the bows. What became of the school of
whales is more than any of us could t e l l -
that is, while we suddenly found them gone,
no man had heard so much as the' move of
a fin. Whether it was some sound from
the boat, the sight of our light or the
knowledge that a gale was piping up that
sent the leviathans so softly away can only
be guessed at, but wo were a thankful lot
of men to be rid of »hem. The rule on
board of a whaler is to keep every boat pro-vided
with a breaker of water, a compass,
lantern, signal flags, a quantity of eatables,
a flask of whisky, and some rockets and
candles, for signaling at night. This rule
is supposed to be invariable, and I have seen
a mate broken and disgraced because his
boat was found short of her outfit. We
now began overhauling for our rockets and
c indies, but not one was to be found. The
lamp in the lantern began to burn dimly,
and we scfon found that we had no can of
spare oil. We were all right on the other
things, but just what we wero short of
might cost us our lives. By that time the
ship had certainly passed us and gone to the
west in her search for the boat, and even
while we were figuring this out she sent up
two rockets and burned red fire to give us
her location. She was about four miles to
windward, having worked past us during
the fog. A couple of rockets to answer her
would have got us aboard within an hour,
but even as we cursed the luck which had
deprived us of them the light in tho lantern
died away, and our last hope was gone.
"Well, lads," called the mate, as he
slewed the boat's head three or four points,
' 'it may take a little longer, but we'll get
aboard in duo time. The old ship won't
desert us, and as long as she throws up sig-nals
we shall know which way to pull.
Now, out with the oars, and give us a
chorus to go home on.''
It will seem to you that if our ship was
only three or four miles to windward, and
malting short boards from north to south to
cover a track not more than a mile wide,
and all the time sending up signals, it
wouldn't be much of. a feat to intercept
her. Two things rendered the case doubt-ful.
The breeze was coming up so strong
and the waves running so ugly that we must
soon lie to with a drag or be swamped. The
captain would be on the watch for our sig-nals,
and getting none in reply would ex-tend
his search, thus widening the distance.
After midnight he would almost be justified
in believing our boat lost. Each man rea-soned
it out in about this way for Isimsolf
as he pulled at his oar, and no one was sur-prised
when Mr. Converse began to pre-pare
a drag. After it. was veered overboard
and the boat trimmed she took less water,
but a little bailing had to be done all the
time, and not one of us had a dry thread
to his back. A bite of food was again
served out, and the men were told to make
themselves as comfortable as they could,
but with the spray flying over us, the
boat climbing and falling and lurching, and
the feeling that we might be cut off from
the ship altogether, no one closed his eyes
through the long night. Three times, at
long intervals, we caught the signals
thrown out for us. The last time the ship
was not over a mile away, and as the red
fire burned up we could make out hull and
mast and sails. She was still to windward,
and our voices would not have reached her,
nor did we dare change our position.
Luck was, however, with poor Jack for
once, and a strange piece of luck you will
call it. As daylight came, the ship was so
far to the west of us that she was only a
speck on the sky and water, but the gale
moderated, the wind shifted to another
quarter and helped flatten the waves, and
at . sun up, just after breakfast had been
served and the flask of spirits had been
passed, a whale rose and spouted within a
cable's length of us. Every man yelled
out in choius, for every eye saw a harpoon
sticking fast in his hump, and every one
knew the fish to be the same which we had
struck tho day before. It wasn't ten minutes
before we had a fresh iron into him, and
were looking for another shindy, but. he
sort o' humped himself together, rolled over
twice, and lay right there and let tho mate
churn him with the lance until the bloo3
was spouting ten feet high. He was dead in
ten minutes, with only a flap or two of his
flukes, and when he floated fin out, we
anchored to him, set our signal of "dead
whale," and were lying there as snug as
you please when the ship picked us up at 3
o'clock in the afternoon. There wer^ two
old Yankee harpoons in the whale, and he
had an excrescence on his under jaw weigh-ing
more than twenty pounds. It was in a
raw and bloody state, and was, doubtless
tho result of some injury. While he had
tho strength to run he had no inclination to
fight. He cut in 192 barrels of oil, and it
was only after wo began operations on him
that wo found our cut line, which measured
about 250. feet, coiled three or four times
around his body so tightly that it was sink-ing
out of sight in his flesh.—New York
Sun.
Aboye all Reward,
A handsomely dressed man, wear-ing
kid gloves and a plug hat, entered
a bank, and, upon being shown to the
president's room, said:
" I will take up but little of your
time, sir.. I want some money, not
much, but just what you are willing
to give."
" Give ! " gasped the president.
" Yes. You see that I could dress
in rags, get an organ, and sit on your
steps, but I propose to be more of a
gentleman. I know that a gentleman
is nearly always welcome, while the
groans of an organ are always an-noying.
The president arose, wiped a tear
of gratitude from his eye, pressed
ten dollars into his visitor's hand and
said ;
"Your gentlemanly consideration
is above all-earthly reward. You
have set a glorious example to your
contemporaries and—but I cannot
say more."
—Itch and scratches of every kind
cured in 30 minutes by Woolford's
Sanitary Lotion. Use no other. This
never fails. Sold at tho Lititz drug store
lititz, Pa. 8oc6
State Items.
Two little sons of Wit. McCreary,
near Li.umJie, were playing with
powder near the stoye. when an explo-sion
or the flask followed. Both boys
were badly burned.
John L. Hoy, proprietor of the
hotel at Va'ley Forge, was thrown out
of his carriage by colliding with a
lime cart and was thrown 40 feet.
His breast bone was crushed and he is
now in"a dangerous condition.
Jackson & Hodgson, clothiers who
failed at Oxford, have lial>iiiti<s of
$24,500, assets $16,000.
Wm. J. Haldeman and Miss Emma
Kredell, both of Pinegrove, were
married by Judge Green, at the Mer-chants'
hotel, Pottsville.
Michael Kane, of Ashland, was
committed to jail on the charge of
wife beating.
Thomas Dee, of Shenandoah, was
committed to jail,on the chorge of
robbing the store of Elhier Johnson.
Harry Rey nolds alias " Bunco
Harry," is alleged to have fleeced
John Lehr, a Chestnut Hill, Lancast-er
county, farmer out of $250 and was
held for trial.
William H. Kern, 30 years old,
dropped dead in AUentown of heart;
disease.
The Knights of Labor talk about
erecting a shoe factory and pottery in
Pottstown, the plants to cost about
$100,000. -
Michael Connelly is a car inspector
for the B. & O. R. R. Co. in Philadel-phia.
He fell in love with Miss
Annie May Tay.lor, aged 18, of Con-shohocken.
They went to Philadel-phia
to get married, but the ceremony
could not be performed because, it was
alleged, Annie had not reached the
proper age. Mrs. Taylor subsequently
had her daughter's lover arrested for
abduction, but 'Squire Haywood, oi
Conshohocken, dismissed the case.
Miss Taylor says she will get there if
she has to go to Camden.
No Ijon^er Rivals.
The Reading and the Pennsylvania
railroads have both discontinued the
sale of thousand mile coupon ticket
hooks, and another evidence is given
of the compact between the two com-panies,
as now managed, to get all
they can out of their traffic. The
Reading company is yet nominally
under the management of the receivers,
but really the control has been passed
to the officers of the road, who have
been chosen by the reconstruction
trustees. Lately when Mr. Gowen
was president he held an office with-out
power ; Mr. Corbin, who succeeds
him, finds all the power reposed in
his office. He and his general manager
manifestly administer the road with-out
hindrance from the receivers,
of whom Mr. Corbin is one, and to all
intents and purposes the majority.
The new administration has entered
into an offensive and defensive alliance
with the Pennsylvania railroad and
has reversed the entire policy which
has hitherto controlled it. It has de-clined,
alliance with the Baltimore &
Ohio, and shuts that company off from
au entrance into New York, which was
the inducement for the building of its
new line to Philadelphia. Being thus
blocked, it is now said that the
Baltimore & Ohio will throw up the
sponge and transfer itself into the
hands of its old enemies, as the Reading
has already done.
It is clear at least that Pennsylvania
no longer has two great railroads
rivaling each other in seeking busi-ness,
but that the Reading and
Pennsylvania have agreed to lie down
together to comfortable feeding upon
the public Carcass. The abolition of
the mileage ticket is a significant indi-cation
of this. Three cents a mile is
to be exacted from all railroad
passengers in this state, though in
New York, for many years, two cents
a mile has been the charge. Those
passengers who used the railroad
sufficiently to travel a thousand miles
in a year, have been 'able to get their
transportation at two cents a mile by
buying a thousand miles at once
This is the concession that has been
taken away by the agreement of the
companies. It has not been done in
obedience to the inter-state com-merce
law, which does not at all apply,
but is expressly restricted from appli-cation
" to the issuance of mileage
excursion commutation passenger tick-ets."
It has been done solely iu the
interest of the revenues of the roads.—
Intelligencer.
8T. ELMO HOTEL, KOS. 3 1 7 a n d 319
A.reh street, Philadelphia.—Bates re-duced
to $2 per day. The traveling
public will s t i l l And at this hotel tne
same liberal provision for their come
fort. It is Ideated in the immediate
centres of business, and places of amus-mentand
the different railroad depots,
as well as all parts of the city, are
easily accessible by street cars con-s
t a n t l y passing the doors. It offer
special inducements to those visiting
t h e city for business or pleasure. Your
patronage is respectfully solicted.
JOSEPH M. FEGER,
oc71y- fcPropr.
News Items.- '
0 \ «• 200 Chniamen were arrested
for gambling, in Philadelphia o i S n-dav
right.
Jrck Harrity, aged 50 years, was
run ( ver by the cars at Maueh Chunk
and instantly killed.
Several coal cars were wieclced in a
collision on the Lehigh and Susque-hanna
Railroad near Miuch Chunk
on Saturday.
The freight cars on the Philadelphia
and Reading Railroad have recently
been repeatedly robbed between Phila-delphia
and Reading.
Two miners named McGlone and
McMasters were badly injured at
Mount Pleasan', W> s iroreland county
by an explosion of gas.
John E. Moser, aged 19 y»ai>, an
employe of the Bethjehem Iron Gun -
pany, was struck by a hoist and had
his neck dislocated and both legs
broken.
Emanuel Naile, the 10-year old son
of David Naile, while ero-siug the
railroad track at Hunting ! >u last
night had his foot caught in a frog and
was run over and killed by an ap-proaching
train.
Citizens of Easton have petitioned
the officials of the Jersey Central Rail-road
to rescind the order compelling
the crew of freight trains on that road
to take them through to Jersey City
without change of crews.
Anthony Gallagher, Tea lerof a gang
of Pittsburg thieves and 'footpads,
was being taken to the county work-house
under a two and one-half years
sentence, when he jumped fivm a
rapidly moving train and made good
his escape.
The clock making industry of
Connecticut which has su-pplied such
a large portion of the world with time-pieces,
was started a century ago by
Abiel Pease, who whittled out his firet
clock with a jackkniie.
A workman at the Carson mint has
discovered that, drill points heated to
a cherry red and tempered by being
driven into a bar of' lead, will bore
through the hardest steel or plate glass
without perceptibly blunting,
A party of Russians caught in a
blizzard ill one of the new counties on
the Missouri river, in Dakota, used
their sleds for fires, and for three days
feasted on mule meat,»their only pro-vision.
A rooster of Griffin, Ga., tried to
cross the railroad track in front of a
moving train, but he started too late,
and the engine and 20 cars passed
over him. After they had passed the
cock stepped proudly from the track,
gave 3 defiant crows, and walked
away.
A despatch from Algeria announces
the death of the greatest lion slayer
that the worid'has ever seen, Ahmed-ben-
Ahmar, who was last year made a
knight oi the Legion of Honor. He
killed 80 lions and as many panthers
from the time he learned to shoot until
his departure for the happy hunting
grounds.
Some of his neighbors found a miser
living in a wretched hut near Howell
Micb. nearly dead from a lack of pro-per
food. They put him to bed, cared
for him, and then took some of his hoard-ed
dollars and bought him new furni-ture,
new clothes, and good food.
Members of the Women's Christian
Temperance union of Moorestown,
N. J., told a saloon keeper that if he
would sign the pledge they would buy
his stock of liquors at the market
price. He took them at their word,
and the fire water was all poured into
the gutter.
Hank Hewitt, an old-timer in
Arizona, went into a store in Tueson a
few days since, and after purchasing a
vest ordered his old one thrown away,
but soon remembered that he hid left
$280 in one of the pockets. He
succeeded in finding $260 of the
amount.
A disastrous fire occurred at Buffa-lo,
New York, on last Friday night.
The Richmond Hotel and several
other buildings were destroyed. The
loss in money will exceed $500,000;
the loss of lives is shocking. Between
thirty and forty were severely if not
fataely injured and a dozen or more
were burned in the ruins.
A thrilling scene was witnessed on
Saturday at Hazelton. Charles Her-ling,
a somewhat eccentric character,
conceived the idea of taking a sleigh-ride
on the railroad. He hitched a
team of horses, and lashing them drove
furiously up the track. The employees
in a foundry in the vicinity saw the
luckless man just as as freight train
came thundering round the curve.
They signaled to the engineer to stop.
He whistled down brakes and reversed
the engine, but an exciting race was had
before the train came to a dead stop
not more than ten feet away from the
sleigh and its occupant. Herling took
things very cooly. He said : " By
thunder! that was a big race, but 1
think I won."