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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1889-10-3, Page 5TIA.GEDIES OF T. BLANC, THEITEAR1870 WAS THE DARKEST IN,TIIE MEMORY OF MAN, Atrarty of 'Moven Lost, Three of Whom Were Ameeicane—The Dying Message Pencilled by a Baltimorean—A Bride's Sudden Disappearance In a Crerasse. It was about 4 o'clock in the afternoon after nine hours of as interceding a ride as I ever took—and I have 'severed a good deal cf European ground since then—thet we enter- ed the village of Unmeant in 1870, and halt. ed at our hotel. Aa we did tio we noticed thatiumaethingunutual had oocurred, Greer% of men and women were standing awennd in the little &gime in front of the village church all earnestiy discuseing soma app trendy im- portant matter. Many of the women were weeping, and there weo a ehe,de of sedness on all the faces that attracted our notice. At first we ettributed it to the war that was then ragitig only a few leagues away. We were not long in learning the truth, however, for we had hardly detoended from the diligence before the terrible announce. uaent wes made that eleven men had been lost ou Mo at Slane. Whab it meant to the dwellers in that oecluded village we eala scarcely realize, And even upon no, etrangert and sojournerfor e. day, it left an imprea- sion which the lapse of veers has not yet effued. An intelligent English gentleman, who had been at Chamount some time, and WOO conversant with the facto, TOLD US THE SAD SITORY. He said that on the previous Monday morning—this waa Wednesday, Sept. 7— three travellers hadstarteci with three guides and live wartime for the top of the moun- taina, Their names were John C. Rondal of Quincy, Mats.; Dr. James C. Beane of Baltimore, Md., and G. M. Corkendale, a &nitwit clergyman. The three guides were the best and most reliable in the village, namely, John Balmat, Joseph Bretton, and August Cattet—all well known and eeteemed by the professional mountain climbers of that time. The party had reached the Grand Mnlets and vent tho night of Monday there, setting the usual aignal to inform the dwellers below of their safe arrival. On Tuesday morning they com- pleted the asaent and reached the summit, spending the usual time there. On the afternoon of that day they were seen alosely descending the upper part of rhe mountain. They looked like fifes crawling over a white sheet. All at once, he mid, there seemed to be a veil thrown over them, and they vanished from hie sight, never M be seen again. At fiiso not mnoh anxiety was felt in the valley, as slight anow storms are not uncommon at that season. Bab when night came on, and there were no signals set at the Grand failulets, or any lights to be seen about the little hut where they should have spent the second night, fears began to take shape that some terrible oatiattrophe had taken place. As soon as the people had partially reoovered from the shock occasioned by a realization of what bad occurred, the Main of the village, who was aloo the chief guide, called for volunteere to go in search of the missing men. HOW FORLORN A HOPE IT WAS may be inferred from the fact he would accept no married men, neither any who were over 30 years of age. It was about 5 o'clock when these volunteers, thirty in number, with pacles of clothing and pro- visione on their backs, coile of ropes and axes over their Moulde' rs and alpenstocks In their beanie, gatheredin front of tbe Maire's dale, to get their final instructions. They were to go up to a certain point that night, examine the ground carefully as they went; then proceed next morning to the sumtnit ard signal back what success'if any, they had had in their search for the missing men, That night there came on, about 8 o'clock, a tempest of wind and rain, accompanied by thunder and lightning such as 1 have rarely listened to or witnessed except in the Swiss Alps. The next morning, looking from our hotel windows, we saw that snow had fallin upon the mountain sides far down toward the valley, and we instinctively felt Mot the efforts of the brave volunteers must have been fruitless, even if they them selvea had not fallen a eacrifice ta the fury of the elements. Bus about 10 o'clock that forenoon they were seen emerging from the woods, and were soon greeting their friends'yet with saddened faces. They reported that they had reached a consider- able height when the storm suddenly over- took them—a storm not of wind and rain, as we had had it, but a fierce tempest] of wintry sleet and snow. They had spent the miebt under the Vest shelter they could find— and small choice iMwas—and early the next morniug had proceeded on their upward journey, It was not far, however, that they could go, for the snow had fallen iu inch quantities that not only were tlI landmarks and patha obliterated, but it was impossible to make any progress with- out momentary danger of being hurled into some abyss which could not be avoided because hidden UNDER A TREACHER017S 001TBRING of snow. They knew, also, too well, that no hiama,n being could have survived such a night and such a tempest at a point above that which they had reached. And now, dear reader, you know why them was weeping and wailing that of ternoon of Sept 7, among the women and children, aye, and tnen, too, of Chamouni. Eight of their best and bravoed] ditizens had been wiped out of existence as suddenly as if the (meth had opened and ewallowed them up. Some of them left families and seine aged parents dependent upon them for support, They were all very poor for the season had been had for them. The Frosach and German war had kept away visitore to a large extent, and everybody was complaining ot the hard times ; so a subscription amounting to tfpward of 1,000 francs was raised among the stra gors who were thine, and distribut- ed by the Haire. It was several weeks afterward that I learned the sequel to We terrible affair. A week or more elapsed before it was deemed practicable to attempt another search for the misting men, and then only with the bare expectation of finding and bringing down their lifeless bodies. Where was no other hope. Fifty of the mostexporienced mountaineere of the village were, detailed for tido purpose; and after a song and tedious search they came upon tho stiffened corpses of several of the party i among which were Memo �f De. Beano and Mr. Corkendale. They were in 0 sitting posture, as though they had sat down to rest, end so had perished. In the cold hands of Dr. Beane Was found a note book bearing eeveral dater, tho last of which was that terrible eight of Sept. 7. The record stetted that they had been two days in the midrib ef a terlible snowstorm ; that they had trouble with their guides and the party had become teperated. They were oonsoious that they were loet, for tho record domed aa follewe : "Wo have dug a grotto in the enow at a height Of 15,000 feet. 1 have no hope of de. mending, my feet are imam, and I am ex- hausted- 1 have only etrength to write these words. 1 die believing in Jetua Christi, with the sweet thought of my tinnily, my frieudehips, and all. I hope we shall meet In heaven." Dr. Beane was a highly esteem- ed young physician of Baltimore and had in his possession letters from prominent officials connected with the Smithsonian Institution. The object of his visit to Chamouni and ma mum Minter of tho mountain was mainly for scientific in- vestigation, Mr. Randall, who perished at the same time, but whose body was not re- covered, I believe, until some days after, was a well known resident of Quincy, and I think was treaturor of the 'wings bank. It la mid that Mont 13lano claims at least one victim every year. Bub the year 1870 was preeminently ite own; for thie terrible affair—the worst that had ever been remem- bered at Charnouni—was nob the only fatality of that metwon. The other was in this wiee : Daring the previous month of July an English gentleman with his young bride visited Chamouni. The lady was very anxious to go part way up the moun- tain, so two guides and a porter were secured, and the gentleman, his wife, and a lady oompanion started en their upward way. Upon remelting the Grand Maids they found the ascent so agreeable that they concluded to go on still further. The gentleman and guides started on ahead for a short distance, in order to mark oat a peth for the ladies, leaving them in charge of the porter. They had gone but a Mort distance when they heard a succession of shrieks, and, upon hamening back to the spot they brad so reoently left, they found the lady competition standing alone and dazed with- fright. The bride and the porter had disappeared forever from the Moe of the earth:. As soon u the frightened woman could speak she explained that they were all stamping their feet upon the anow to keep them warm while waiting for the return of their male oornpanions, when it suddenly 'gave way beneath them, and in an instant the bride and porter were gone f rem sight.- They had bean standing ever a narrow but deep cremate, the opening of which was hidden by the anow. Those who have farmed the Myr de Glace will know ,what I mean. The treaoheroun crust had finally given way, and bhe snow falling in upon them, had forever shut them out from human sight and sound. Every„pcs tilde effort was made TO RECoNTBR THE BODIES, but without avail, for these orevaesem are sometimes bemire& and perhaps thousands of feet in depth though often nob more than two or three feet wide at the top, which rend- ers thorn all the more dangerous after a snow fall. I have heard people apeak of the ascent of Mont Blanc as a pleasant summer day's jaunt. But I am quite sure they have never tried it ; neither have I. The Mer de Gime was enough for me. There were at that time 300 men on the roll of guides at Chamouni, but a few onlyiof that number were allowed or licensed to take any one to the top of the mountain. Those who know it best fear it tho moat. A fee of 100 franos—about 82U— was paid to each guide who made the ascent. Two porters to each guide are also requir- ed to oerry the extra clothing, provitions, &a., of the party. The latter are paid consider- ably lesathan the guides, and none too muoh, for they share equally the peril and mare than share the toil of the ascent. They are a noble body cf men, bound together by very strong ties of sympathy and friendship. WIT AND WISDOM. -- Smart Attorney—You say the evening wore en; what did it wear on that particular occasion 1 Witness—The close of day, I presume. They Go That Way—Hogan made tho twelfth American balloonist who has lost his life while on a trip during tho hiet fourteen years. We the same as a man who smokes in bed, only a question of time, but it's fun while it lasts. Gentle Sarcasm.—" Mrs. Mulligan," said Mrs. Ginty, "is it well yer falin the day ?" " Yis, very well," "An' athrong " Yis, quite ethrong." " Then preps line able raid be to bring back the two washtubs yez ber- ried last Monday," Mrs, Jones—" What a lovely baby you have, Mrs. Smith 1 And don't you think it resembles it tether strikingly?" Mre. Smith I hadn't noticed it. Perhaps its nue is a little like Mr. Smith's," Mrs. Jones— "Ab yes; such a healthy color 1" Father -.My son, you meet nob dispute with your mother in that way. Boy—Bat site's in the wrong. Father—That makes no difference; and you might as well learn, my child, once for all, that when a lady says a thing is so, it is so, even if it isn't so. Mistress (returned from her aummer vaom Mon, to her cook) —I hear that you have aeon entertaining your soldier lover here, Didn't I forbid you „entertaining company in the kitchen during my absence? Cook—Yes, madam'but I took him to the parlor. little boy, hearing some one remark that nothing was quicker than thought, said he knew better than that; whiailing was quicker than thought. Being asked to explain, be said: "In echool the other day I whistled before I thought and got a licking for ha" Didn't know beans : Little Willie (to hie aister's beau)—" You can't gums what I've got in my pocket, Mr. Blinker." Mr. Blinker ---" No, I cannot guess. 'What is it, S. illie ? " Willie—" It's beans. Mamma said yo a didn't know beans, but I thought I'd try you." The editor of a weekly paper in Germany poked fun at T3iamarek for having knuckled down to the United States in the Samoan offish', and now the editor Oita in jail on a year's sentence, and wonders if there is not such a thing as being altogether too funny f or anything. In her breach of promin suit against Chas, Rey, Hannah Jeffreye, a Hartford domestic, said he was the seventh chap who had promis- ed to marry her and then went book on his word, It looks tough to toy with a girl e heart 'that Way, bat Hannah shouldn't get discouraged. Tit for tat. She (as he steals a Why, you you robber 11 shall have you arrested foe larceny from the person. He (kissing her ones more)—Very well ; I have given it back. If you make that complaint againat me I shall charge you with receiving atolon property, knowing it to be suob. Lawyer—Now, Mn Costello,will you have the goodness to &rumor me dirmatly and categorically a few pleinquestions ? Witness —Certainly, sir. "Now, Mr. Costello, ie there a female at] present living with you who is known ie the neighbourhood as Mee. Costello V' ;"Thera ha" " is ehe unclose your proteetion ?" "She is, "Now, on your °ebb, do yoh trutinbain her ?" "I do,' "Have you ever been married to her ?" "I him not" (Hero eoveral severe jurors scowled gloomily et Mr. Costello.) Is all, Mr. Costello; you may go down." °teeming countel—Stop one memento Mr. Costello. Is the female in, question your grandmother V' ea, she is. ' Shop, Bleep, mY 'lead Sleep, sleep, my heart From life spare I l'ulse evenly, be calm, be cold, Nor let the ciroam of days of old, The alternating hope and fear, The smile assumed, the ready tear, The firat sweet thrill, the fearful bliss, The broken vow. the last mad idea, The memiry woke, Thy slumber breek, • Sleep, Sleep, my heart, From life apart 1 Thy day loath come, and.now ie past, The huah of night loath fall'n at last, The time to deep, To root, not weep. ft is so still, No voice doth thrill Along my broken, silenced strings, To stir the painful quiverings, Heed not at all, If any call 1 Sleep, sleep, my heart, From life apart 1 It is so dark, from out the skies No ray shall amite thy lidded eyeo, Tho sun of hope Dawn yopier slope Bath vanished quite, It im the night 1 The darknees falls that thou may'st rest Hushed on oblivion's pulsoleas breast, Forgetfulnes Thy sleepimust bless, Sleep, Steen, my hearb, From life apart ! Let mem'ry nob thy slumber break, Nor hope allure thee to awake; If, eleeping, thou doest j ey forego, So, sleeping. thou shalt miss the woe, By happiness forgot, why 1 yet, Forgotten, thou mayst well forget. Sleep, Sleep, and rest, This, thia is beat 1 No more the pang of jealous boubt, That murders peace, and casts it out, The torture of the Mutt betrayed. The agony of hope afraid, The yeatning stifled and repressed, The passion rioting unconfessed, The mad desires that plead, unheard, The dream's fulfillment e'er deferred Till love, denied, Is crucified. Sleep, sleep. my heart, From life apart 1 The passions spent, Rest thou, conteut 1 This death -like sleep, calm, cold, serene, Better this than what has been, And worse might be, My heart, for thee. CORM DAY'S. Front Gate. An old and crippled gate am I, And twenty yearn have passed Since I was hung up high and dry Betwixt these posts so fast; Bat now I've grown so powerful weak— Deepised by man and beast— I'm scarcely strong enough to squeak, Although rm never greased. 'Twits twenty yeers ago, I say, . When Mr, Enos White Cams kind of hanging round my way 'Most every other night, He hung upon my starboard side And she upon the other, Till Susan Smith became his bride, And in due time a mother. I groaned intensely when I heard— Despite I am no churl— Mir doom breathed in a single word : The baby was a girl! And as she grew and grew and grew, loud bemoaned my fate ; For she was very fair to view, And I—I was the gate 1 Then in due time, a lover came, Betokening my ruin, A dapper fellow'Brown by name, The grown-upbaby wooin'. They sprang upon me in the gleam, And talked of moon and star? They're married now and live at home Along with ma and pa. My lot was happy for a year No courting night or day - 1 had no thought, I had no fear, Bad luck would come my way. But oh! this morning, save the mark 1 There came a wild surprise, A shadow flitted, grim and dark, Across my sunny skies. A doctor, with a knowing smile, A nurse with face serene, * A bustle in the houae the while, Great Soott 1 what can it mean? My hinges ache; my back is weak, My pickets in a whirl; I hear that awful dootor speak; It is another girl, Baby "Foods." It is stated on what seems to be good authority that food preparations for infants to the amount, of $10,000,000 are annually sold in the United States. According to one of the speakora at the recent meeting of the .Association for the Advancement of Science, "moat of these products are unwholesome," and tha Government was urged to take some action. If the truth was told at Toronto, here is an evil of pro. digious proportions, and energetic measures should be taken to make au end of it. The lives of thousands of infanta are dependent on various prepared "Mode" and It is of the utmosb importance that theme eatiolea should bo pure, nutritiout and wholesome. The purchaser must accept] them on faith, unlees he can procure an analysis and make oortaiin that the food he buys is what it purportcs to be. If a slaughter of the innocents is going on day by day, it ought to be not only known, bet stopped.— {N. Y. Tribune. Misunderstood the Second Syllable. The young woman (on the platform of Eiffel Towor)--" Doesn't it ceem strange to you, Mr. Spoonsanore, that so little mina - tion is noticeable up here ?'' The young man (eagerly)--" Not at all, MiSs Ethel. I have no doubt they* is a great deal of it indulged in here, but it can't be men front below. The elevation lo too great. And now, Mies Easel, you will —I am suro—you will peadon—'' The young woman (smutting his fortvard movement: by a framing look)—" I said oscillation, Mr. Spoonamore, not emulation.' (After a depressing eilenon—if I think, Mr. Spoonamorm it t thne to demend," Tho largeseit brook trout over caught on this oontinent was landed raooetly salipring crook N. Y. The fith weighed eix guinea] arid two outeet, end ita proportions and complexion were perfect, A poor digger in a gem pit in Ceylee found a large eapplaire. It wow immed- iately purehiteed from him for 4600, and was streightWay sold in Colombo for 41,200. By the tine it reaches Band Street ite Value will probably have risen to 4.8,000. LATEST FROM EUROPE. Tbe Dock Laborers' Strike—Suppressing Gambling at Monaco—Another Smoke- less Gunpowder. The dook laboreris are all working quietly enough now, but it took them a few daya to aettle into their placate again. Naturally they were irritated againob the men who worked while their comrades were fighting for their rights, and frequent aorimmages were the reault. On the ether hand, the direotore unduly favored the men who had sbuok to them in their hour of need and gave them the preference on all (maidens, and sometimes by meant: not entirely straight- forward. Burns was equal even to this emergency, and, with a degree of taot rarely equalled in a struggle of this kind, he has succeeded in omoothieg things over. The strikes in England, however, are not ended with the laborers resuming work. The London Milian are still out, and the bakers of the Metrepolk meet tedmorrow to air their grievances in Hyde Park, and as Burns is to address them a resort to a strike is not hapirobable. The fear among the capitalists, however, is that meows on this emotion will cause the strike leaders to organize a universal railway strike in Eng land, It would be by far the greatest labor trouble that England has ever seen. The cob drivers of London are aloe talking of striking, and Barns has informed them that his services are at their diaposal whenever they set about improving their lot. The Young Men's Chriation Asemiation will be glad to know that the Dew /Wavier/se &sae of Patio publishes the statement that the British Government has taken the op- portunity of the death of the Prince of Mon. Roo to reopen the question of suppressing the big gambling establishment there. Ao• cording to that journal the present Prince is O man of high principle, who is willing to give up the business provided he is assured of an annual income of 2,000,000 trams and if tho Great Pawers will guarantee the neutrality of his principality. From Austria comes a report of the haven. tion of another smokeless gunpowder. A correspondent telegraphs that it ha rs greater carrying power thou ordinary gunpowder, and oreatea a very thin transparent smoke whfoh is so slight that immediately after firing one shot aim can be taken again. It has no smell whatever. Daring the man. cevres at Bruck experiments with this powder were made in the presence of Arch- duke Albrecht and many 'Ohara of high rank, who all declared themselves satisfied with it. THE EXPLORER'S ENDLESS TOIL. The Great moment to Mangind of His Dias moveries. When Mr. Stanley wile last in this coun- try he oxpresiied the opinion that many people did not sufficiently distinguish be- tween more travellers and competent e x- plerera. Books of travel, ha said, aro often wanting in the qualities of minnto and ac- curate description needed to make them specially important. The well•equippsd explorer on the other hand collects, at the cost of eat immense amount of drudgery, material that is most useful in various branches of science. Mr Stanley mention- ed Burton as an example ole born traveller, and Speke as a great explorer. Tho scientific remits of Dr. Junker'a re• cent explorations in Central Africa, just published, area conspicuous example of tho rare enthusiasm and perseverance which the best explorers bring to their work. All his route maps are based on observations taken every five minutes during his jour• neys. At the end of each five minutes he entered in his note book THE DIRECTION HE HAD MARCHED ; and at the end of each day he computed his average direction and the (Distance travelled. At neatly every camp he was able to take the bearings of disMaat hills to aid in cor- recting any error in his route 'surveys. The notes he had taken en the way were then copied in pen and ink into his journal. They include a great variety of information, ouch as the geology and vegetation of the country, the character and density of the population, the political boundarlea crested, and all the explorer could learn of the streams ana rivers. When it is remembered that day by day for four years, during which Junker travelled some thousands of miles on foot, he kept up this laborioua routine, it is easy to believe that wonderful patience and per- severance wore not the least of the qualities he brought into ploy. The great geographer Sapan, °Hacking an inaccurate book on Germany's colonioe, recently wrote that " he aerves his father - and best who tellthe plain truth." Ger man explorers certainly excel in the faculty of minute observation and accurate report- ing. It is said by those who have visited the route which Wisenaann and Pogge fol. lowed half way across Aida that every ital. portant feature of topography for about three miles on either side of their path is clearly anMaocurately shown, on their route may. The other explorer, Nachtigal, whose extensive travels in the Si:hera and the Som clan made him famous, was marvelleuety painstaking both in the collection of data and ha preparing them for publication. He was seven years writing out hie groat work ; and it is a menumont of scientific obser- vation, and a worthy model for the study of all geographical writers. A while ago Mr. O'Neill took ever oighty obaervationa to determine the longitude of Blantyre, and his further Moans, carried Ont in the mine toilsome and consolontious runner, have led to considerable (Mango in the position of places on Use Nyman which had been accepted by geographers as generate. We often read the remits of competent exploration with little thought of the immentie labour involvedin the earnest endeavour to attain the exult truth. Major Powell testified four years ago that with the machinery then employer] in making the great topographic map of this country, it would still require about twenty-four omega to oomp"ete it. No explorer has eurpemed Livingstone itt musoientioue devotion to his businems, though, with bottler applianoes, some explor- ers have eichievegi in some mimeos more (meet resulte. The world has not yet seen n print, and probably never will, more than o thiPal of the material he oelleoted, and which he did not have time to peeper° for publioation. Hubby ---"What hied of stuff do you call ;his ?" Wife--" Why, my dem', that is angel ()eke." Maltby—m.0'mph 1 1 suppose it must be. I knew it woe never unmet for a mortal," Wiao Mould join the militia ?-4.11 pielP pookets, became they are aecuatemod to rifle practice ; Molters, hematite they can tand fire and shopkeepers, because they are predicted in counteriniarehing. MODERN ATILENS. A Bening of Motel( Speoialtsts—The Mont. or Doctor fitettlioniann—Tiie Runty of tke Ramie Greeks. It will be surprieing to many to know that Athene has an American aikido.' adilwali and Must the graduates of American colleges live Mare the year round and devote them. trivet to the study of Greek literature, Greek history and the Greek language. This aohool is supported by donotiens from Yale, Harvard, Cornell, Ann Arbor, the University et Virginia, Columbir, College and levered others of our great (*lieges, and It also receive% support from es number of wealthy citizens of Americana who are inter eatecl in the oleassiee. Its tuition is free, and the various oelleges have tho right to send such of their students ais have taken high rank in the awake. It is presided over by oompetent professore, and some of the great. est collegiate men ef the United States have been at ice heed, Prof, Merriam, of Cohan hie, has apent a year here, and during the twit yeew Piot. Tarbell, of Yale, has lectured to an studied with the atudents. It is not a large embed, told its students seldom number more than eight or ten per. sons. It iso school of specialises, and hi paym atbention to nothing else but Greek and the mamma. Imo year it had eight students and among theta were two meting lady graduates of Wellesley College, Maiesachtmetts, The Wellealey girls proved themselves fully Mae f pude of the men in theirwork on the Greek poets, and they oan patch up old statues, decipher inomptions and direct exemratien quite as well as their brothers, Theee stud. mats devote a part of their time to GMeek trarehitecture and they have done a great deal in nettling some of the questiona of Greek blistery. Wibhin a short distances of this Annarioan oohed is the home of Dr. 8ohliemann, tne greatest Grecian explorer. 11 has a marble batioription on its front in Greek meaning "Palace of Ilion," and it is nearer to es Greek palace than any private reaidenoe I have ever seen—it great Kure, three-story strum Jure of the purest pentelio marble. The edges of ita roof are orowned with weave marble statues which stand boldly out against this bluest of Grecian skies. These represent some of the figures moat famous in Greek history and poetry, and each of them it a work of fine art. In the front of the building are two porches or loges out into tho wails and looking mil through great marble Ionic pillars. The ceilings of there are frescoed, and they make you think of some of the prettiest features of the arohi Mature of 'Venice. The howl° Mande even with the street, but on its right and its loft are gardens, in which BEAUTIFUL STATUES LOOK OUT, surrounded by rose treee. Bushes of roses climb over the winding marble steps that lead up to the mansion, and every one of the many rooms of the interior reminds one of old Greeoe. The whole house is floored with mosaic in small bite put together in the shapes of old Greek vases and figures. You find Greek columns in the halls, and the stairs of the building are marble. The whole house is freemed, and many of the painting remind one of the wall of Pompeii. On memo of the walls are verses in Greek characters from the old poets. A beat of Homer stands on the marble mantel of the ball ' -room look- ing out between Jupiter and Hera. There are busts of Minerva and. pictures from "The Iliad." The library contains thousands of volumes, and its front windows give a mag- nificent view of the Parthenon. Dr. Sohliemann is infatuated with old Greece, and he wants nothing not Gicician about him. His servants have Greek names, and he never changes them, though the men may be different. It is Pericles who always opens the door, and Lycurgus lugs up the coal from yeuto year. He hat two pretty children, and I saw throughout the house the paintinge of Avdromache, his daughter, and I looked at the photographs of his little boy, who has the name Agamemnon. His wife is, yen know, a Greek lady. She is nearly a generation younger than her huaband, and she was a girl studying Est the great female school of Athens known as the Arsakion when Solillemann met her. She was the best student In her class, and when the learned doctor found that she knew "The Iliad" by heart the gossips of Abhent say that he straightway proposed. iSho was beautiful, however, as web as learned, and her protraib, which I saw on tho wall of the drevaingwoom, represents a very fine- looking lady. She is said to be as fond of Greek as her husband, and at a children's fanay ball not long ago her daughter wore a dress like those shown in some of the figures discovered in the excavations to Troy, Dr. Pchliemann is quite wealthy, and 11 18 said that he owns property in different parts of the United States. He came from America to Greece, and he claims American citizen ship from having been a resident of Call. fornia when ib was admitted to Statehood. He has not boon in Atheist during my vleit, and he is, I am told, in Perla attending the Exposition. The Polytechnic Institute of Athens 000 - bis the finest of Dr. 'Sohliemann'a diecov. eries, and I saw here a whole room filled with GOLD CUPS, GOLD MASKS AND GoLD PLATES, together with jewelry and other gold arbielet vehioh, all told, mutt in the gold alone be worth several big American fortunes. Theme things were all found at Mycenie, not many miles across the Gulf of Corinth from Delphoa, and some archreologiate suppme that under the present site of Delphi aro works equally voluble. Delphi was offered to the French for, excavation en oondition that they would agree to a certain treaty with Greece. This treaty ham, t am told, fallen through, and Delphi may yet be bought by Amerionna. A number of American scientists are thinking teriously of making excavations here. If they get the grant of the Govern- ment, however, they will laaVe to pay for the removal of the village whion now stands en ita alto, and Ibis will, it Is supposed, cost in the neighborhood of $100- 000 At Delphi was the groat oracle of the Grocion cult of Apollo, and It was here that) tome of the greratett of the Grecian games were celebrated. The Grecian oracles and their temples had great Meaner- ies and the tomple of Apollo had in the time of Pliny 3,000 etatues. When Sully bodaged Athen in '86 ho paid hit' troopt ont of the treesuriem of Delphi, and it rimy be that wider this village there aro pecks of paid cepa and gold vans, to any nothing of heitorioal relies mad works of fine orb. Even in the country dietriote you will find people who are limited on the Greek poebs and there are few Greek youths who have not reed whet we call the Greek elu- sion, The country people of Gteme are for different from thee of the cities. Ibis out. tide of Atlaenel that you find the picturesque ()Ottumwa and 11 18 here that yon See the fine Greek features of the pant. The girls about Corinth hove f ems that remind yeti of some of the noted Mottos, and I home seen meter Athens, girls who could pose for Minervaa or foe the goddees of love. I have seen several Apolloa bn petticoats and fez cape end 1 eau, ib 2 ace the other day which made me think et that of Achilles. The matetato of the Greek fernier and that of on of the regimen:Ito of the Greek army hero in Athens la the same. It may be called ilbe Greek national misname and it isitho queer - eel outfit you will find outside of Corea. If you will take the tailed and leanest man of your acquaintance And pus him in a short, round -about vont and white, girl eitirt ; if yen will put a mit, red, rimless cap on the side of his head and let bhe long, black tassel of this fall down over hisear, and then °lathe his feet in long, red slippers which turn up at the tom, you will have eerae idea of how these GADDY 00172TRY GREBES LOOK, Yon must make the vent gorgeous with brass, ailver or gold embroider:3., and it mud have long sleeves which hang down from the wrist. On tho toe of ee,oh red slipper there must be a red tassel as big se a chestnut burr and of the Name shape, and bright iitsginge must be wrapped tighb round the iialtinti. The white Miro moat come to the thigha and they must abend up as though starched, Theyemurst be so many that the breadth of the boittom will be ib least Es foot thick and the wearer mutt flirt them as he moves with a gay and giddy air. If yote would have him like a Greek soldier von must give a great belt and fill this with old pistols and knives, You must pat a sword at his aide and a gun in his hand. You *mutt othave off all but his mestache and give hint a Mout like that ef a drummajor when the bandi is reviewed by the Major. The women ate different. Their costume is a beautiful one and they look bewitching. Tall, atraight and well formed, they have large bright eyes, regular .feottueseand a wealth of brown or hawk hair, which bangs in braids down their backs. They wear in the fields a angle gown of linen, which falls from their necka te their feet, and over this they have a long sleevelees sack of white wool bordered with stripes of black. I have men some of them' on fete days and I attended a great national: dancetnear Athens. The girls had on their fine themes and they came out in matumee of Wks, embroidered with gold. Their heads were covered with' file silk veils,g, the ends of which were woven with stripes of gold, and were wound around atheir Oates so as to frame them in silk. Taey had on the long Mirbs of the week day, hub many of these were BMBROIDERED HALF THE WAX TO THE KNBE, and on their breasts they wore great squares of gold coins, which, string above string, extended from one side of the body to the other. These °odd coina were theirfortunes, and each girl had thus on her person thus dowry which she was to Ming her husband in marrieme. There are no marriages in Greece with - mit dowries, and every girlie expected to bring her share inbo the fund for the begin- ing of housekeeping. The dream, which are embroidered, aretmhde with a view to being used after marriage'and as mon as a girl is old enough to sew, she begins tio,work on her wedding outfit. All of these Greeks are proud of their ancestry and their country, and you will fled at Athens buildings put up by wealthy Greeks. Many of the best improvements of the city have come from snob donations. They have as much intereot in the welfare of their country ail we have id oure, and many of them come back to Greece to spend their last days. Winn it is confider - ed how many tbere are and how ablethey show themeolvea to be in all bueiness undertakings, it is impossible to look upon , the Greeks of to -day ae an ordinary people. They are steadily growing in wealth, and though at preeene the country of Greece has O great national debt and its taxes are heavy, its credit as a nation is good and its government grows better from:year to year. It will, of course, never take its old place ma one of the grub nations of the world, bub there is no reason why it should not have a good rank among the nations, and indeed it ought to have this to.day. FRANK G. CARRENTER. A Wonderful Walled Lake. Burlington (Iowa) Hawkeye :—The great- est wonder in tho State of Iowa and perhaps any State, is what is called the "Walled Lake" in Wrishe County, twelve miles north of the Dubuque & Pacific Railway and one hundred miles west of Dubuque City. The lake is from two to threo feet higher than the earth's surface. In some places the wall is ten feet high, fifteen wide at the bottom, and five feet wide on top. The sbones used in its construction vary in weight from three ton.s down to a hundred pounds. There fa an abundance of stones in Wright County, but surrounding the leke to tho extent of five or ten miles there are none. No one oan form an idea at to the means employed to bring them to the spot or who conatruoted 11, Aroun '1 tho entire lake is a belt of woodland half a mile in width, composed of oak. With this exception the country is a rolling prairie. The trees mnat have boon planted there at the time of the wall. In the spring of the year 1856 there was a great storm and the ice on the lake broke the wall in several places, and the farmers in the vicinity were compelled to repair the damages to prevent inundation. The lake occupies a grand sur- face of 2.800 acres ; depth of water as great as twenty.five feet, The water le dear and cold, mil sandy mad loamy. It is singular that iao one haa beer, able to ascertain where the water comes from nor where it goes, yeb it is always clear end fresh. Had Suffered Enough, A gentleman wee arraigned before an Arkanataw Juvtioo o n a charge of obtaining money ueder f also pre toxaemia He had enter.. ed ea store pretending to be a customer, but proved to be a thief, Your name it Jim Lioknaore," mid the Justice. "Yea Mr." "Ai you are (Merged with a crime that merits a leng term in the penitentiary ?" "Yee, ' " And yea are guilty of the crime ?" I nen." "And you ask few no meroy ?" tittrIlhxaC'e had a great deal of ireuble r within the lamb iwo FeeorS 2" " 'dies, Mr, I have," "Von have often wished that yeti were dead Vi "1 helm, plum your Honor." "You wentect to atrial money enough tie take you away Mom here 2" "You are right, Judge." "11 a man Mad Mopped up and shot you just as you entered the ritioretie you would have mid, "Xhaitir you, elm? " Yes tir, I ; but, Judgei how did you find" out as tondo about nae ?" "Same time ago," mid the judge with a dolman air, I WAS divorced froth my wife. Shortly eiterwards men Married. her, The remit ill conclusive. I elisehaege you. Herm take Milt fifty -dollar MIL Yoe have Buffered enotigh."—(Arkantaw Traeelee. Somebody has disioevered that nearly every no of the world's feaneue beanties was born in calmer, at a time when ate earth seemed to smilingfy welcome theme