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Heala NrIju Rewtorea Ike Senaea of Taate 4 Mnaell. - Try the Curo. A particle fa applied lata a-a aettrlli and la acrwaMe. - Priee M rnti at lrarUi t fc mall rwm.r.,1. tit eu. tLY bKi Ki, M Warrea St., New York. LUMBER IS JU3VA1SCING. SAW-MILLS STEAM ENGINES, SIIIKULE MILLS, HAT Pltlsr. Vc. U Tn want a t'lrat-rlaaa HAW MILL, ad forCataloae-e and pernial pnea to Introduce In Jour iretii a to A. It. t AKQUAH. (Limited). York. Pa. .. A. IT.Vw Yora City T"h work r,f an uindi really exe'afet at tri'a t r.virr. Ui'.e a trial. ifv ! i" ii r r i' i i i i St JEST BE DEWIN. Don't lop prounJ 'n' sruff yer feet, 'Ith varaat rria and stare; Tl.i-r's lots o' work fer evt-r' one: Cit up 'a' dew yer atiare. Sum critters act ei though ther Lord Hil m"l Viu jrst trr 't Eround tint stove uv proe'ry stores, 'N' chaw 'n' smoke 'n' brU "Ith mpty pocket.. n" "1th heda AlH.ut pi -nipty tew. Thnr calkel:it ion's all upet iLt uuylhm's ler dt'W. Ther man 'at et.t hls-wlf ter woric, 'N' lots ter ilow hi. tent. In iniHll 'n' hi concerns o' life. Hex got ttier proper bent. Ther kin" o work ain't no account, Thrr mall man 'n' tlirr irrcat At aims ter dew Iuh level Kin leave ther rc-t ter f rte. Kdith M. Nortii, In Yankee Dlade, THE GYPSIES. Something About That Most Re markable People. You who Lave seen these poopl. In the country, tenting t the roadside tr camjtin in the wood 4, or, maj-hap, on tho suburbs of a city, havo bad tUeso inestiiins arise in your xuinds: Who are taeso people? Where did they come frtm'. What is their origin? The pypsies fill no plai-e and take no part in the proat moTi menU of the world; they are a deipisel race of vaga bonds; and yet they jnt have a history. To write the history of a reople, though it be ever so concise, we must live in spirit, as it were, amonif a people vt a by-jrone ape, to note their appear ance, their manners and their general condition, that wo may form a just esti mate of their merits and their short comings; we must form a picture made by the impression of our researches in the highways and the byways of the his tory those before us have written, for whatever wo can find upon the subject, that we may trace it as clearly as possi ble uu the blank pao for others to soo. The jjypsies, all things considered, must lie regarded as tho most singular and most remarkable people on the lobe. They are without a history or tradition or religion; without literature or written language, and. as has been observed, "with nothing to bind them together but tho indelible, unchange able strain of their savago blood, and displaying a pertinacity of race surpass ing that of tho Jews." Kverywbere present, from I'ersia to Ireland, from Siberia toCentr.il Africa, and from Australia to America, and everywhere despised and oppressed out casts, they have always kept their race separate and distinct, with a riprid rx clusiveness which is unparalleled. From one end of the earth to the oth er, with few exceptions in language, in jihyMoal peculiarities, in their social and moral character, in their pursuits and their habits of life they are every where essentially the same. DiiTerence in climate appears to work but little ch.mire in their color or complexion. Chanjjes in food and in outward circum stances work but little variation in their physical type. They are not in fluenced by the civilization or the bar barism of any people among whom they may chance to sojourn. The word "'irypsy" is a corruption of "Kyptian." with the prevalent belief, founded on their own assertion, that they came from Eirypt. though recent evidence shows to the contrary. Some have sup;osed them to be the descendants of Ishmael; son of Haar. Ethnologists, by a careful investigation of their lanjjuasro, have discovered it to bo the old Sanscrit mingled with words of other languages, added or discarded, according to the country in which they lived. They are sprung from the lowest class of Indians; the degraded l'ariahs from the valley of the Indus. The indications are that the STypies entered Europe through southern Rus sia, in somo connection with the Tar tars of the Golden Honlo. IJefore the year l:Vio their roving bands seem to have scattered through Moldavia, Wal lachia and Itulgaria wbero many of them were seized and reduced to a most miserable state of slavery by the cruel Mulgarian nobles. Outwardly as within, the gypsies pre sent a strong contrast; some being strangely hideous, others very beauti ful. They are finny proportioned, ct medium stature, and light and sinewy, insensible to both cold and wet, sup porting great fatigue. They pride themselves on their small hands and feet. Corpulence, rarely occurs, and only ia the older women. Their hair is black or dark brown, inclining tocoarse ness. is often frizzled and does not soon turn gray. Their complexion is a tawny olive. Their teeth are of a dazzling whiteness and of perfect regularity. Their cheek-bones high, and their aqui line noso is overhung bj strongly ftiarkel brows, often knit in deep lines of thought. Eut the most striking feat ure is the full, dark eyo, now listless, then changing to a expression of myste rious child-like sorrow, presently blaz ing forth with sudden passion. They early develop and early fado. Tho gypsy character is a strange mixture of good and evil, and though black and hateful.totheoutside world, to tho Roman! it is all that is fair and lov able. They are light-hearted and court eous, but only to true and adopted mem bers of the tribo are their inmost hearts revealed. Their principal faults are childish vanity, professional cunning, indolenee, or a hot, passionate temper; but they are as ready to forgive aa they are quick to resent a wrong. Their faniily aiTection is intensely strong, a parent never chastising a younger child;, but a grown-up son meekly takes a thrashing from his fath er. They are exceedingly generous to such as aro poorer than themselves, oven though they are not of their own race. They love nature and dumb creation. They have a gift of tongues, readily adapting themselves to what ever country they are in and convers ing in the language spoken. There is among them a kind of wild, savage dig nity and independence of character. A gypsy queen will sometimes display a majesty of demeanor truly worthy of a gypsy throne They have a passion for rings, trinkets, and all kinds of orna ments, and frequently adorn them selves in the most heterogeneous man ner. Their domestic utensils are few, con sisting usually of a pan, a dish and a silver cup. Every gypsy camp hae a donkey or a horso for the conveyance of their effects. They aro fond of Lrandy, and both sexes are a llicted to the use of tobacco, which they regard as a great luxury. Tho only mechanical pursuit for which they show any aptitude is that of a smith. In this they sometimes excel. In IVrsla they have been known as skilled workers in gold and silver. Usually they are horse-jockeys or traders or dealers in kve-stock, and in rare cases they have been known to till the soiL In some countries they have ac cumulated wealth, but most of them are worthless, poverty-stricken vagabonds. The old women tell fortunes and the yonng sing love-songs. They have no religion, and most writers place them below the heathen, ascribing to them no principles, and charging them with serving no god but the god of gain and fraud. They have no word in their language for God or for immorality Hut outwardly, and for their own advantage, they are ready to adopt any religion, as circumstances may require. Their music is wild and weird, and in some countries it is proficient with power and beauty. Some of tho great est rr asters of the violin known aro found among the gypsies of Hungary and Ilohemia. Tho gypsy language is termed Ro man!, has no alphabet and no literature, except a few miserable songs and some folk-lore, which are passed from mouth to mouth. Altogether, the entire stock of Romani words does not exceed five thousand, though the number known to any individual is small. The Romani tribes consider it a curse if one of their race marries any one not of their own people. A common feat ure in the form of marriage is the breaking of a flower-covered pitcher by tho chief, who from tho fragments, lie they many or few, argues the future of rtie bridal pair. There are many curious gypsy prac tices, especially those relating to death and burial, such as waking tho corpse, burning the decedent's ellect. the fast ing of tho kinsfolk, and many others. A most interesting form is the custom complied with when a gypsy wife or child forever renounces the favorite del icacy of a dead husband or father. Like motives prompt tho dropping of the dead one's name entirely out of use, and the survivors who happen to boar the namo changw it to another. Another practice is tho leaving at a cross-road of a handful of grass or leaves, or heap of stones, a stick or some such mark to gude tho stragglers of the band. Many attempts have been made to educate them, but they appear to have failed. They aro content to live in tents or in holes in the ground, and wander in companies from place to place as fugitives or vagabonds, yet in Transyl vania they have a form of constitution, being governed by chiefs. To this dig nity every one is eligible who is of a family descended from a former chief; but the preference is usually given to those who have the most wealth, or who are of a large stature and not past the meridian of life. Scott, in his introduction to "Guy Mannering," describes the habits and life of the Scottish gypsies, and his famous character of Meg Merrilies Is founded upon no less a personage than the noted gypsy named Jean Gordon, whose granddaughter, Madge Gordon, became the queen of the gypsy clans. In lb50 there were supposed to Vo about five million gypsies in the world, though of later years they have greatly diminished. Of the seven or eight hundred thousand now believed to be scattered over Europe, more than half are found in the valleys of the Danube, and here they are most civilized, and for four hundred years have been an im portant element of the population. They have been condemned, and in some countries the laws were so strin gent that if they remained one month they were executed without even a form of trial. In the reigns of Henry VIIL and Elizabeth the gypsy tribes were marked out for general persecution in England. - In ltVJ9 four gypsies confessed, under torture, to having eaten a friar, a pil grim and a woman of their tribe; and in 17s J forty-five Hungarian gypsies were leheaded, quartered or hanged on a like monstrous charge. First racked till they confessed the crime of mur der, they were then brought to tho spot where their victims were said to bo buried, but when no bodies appeared they were racked again. "We ate them," was tho despairing cry. But in very rare instances has it boon known that they have eaten human flesh. The destinies of this wonderful people we know not, but can we not say with Dean Milmen: '"As of all mankind, they are In tho hands of tho All-Wise Ruler of the nni verso. His decrees will be accomplished. His goodness and His wisdom vindi cated." Joseph ii. Willits, in N. V. Ledger. Another Scieutillo Olarovery. A wonderful discovery has been at tracting tli" attention of scientists. A beam of sunlight is made to pass through a prism so as to produce tho sl.:r spectrum of rainbow. A disk, having slits or openings cut in it, is made to revolve, and tho colored light of the rainbo'.v is tnado to break through it and fall on silk, wool or other ma terial contained in a glass vesiel. As the colored lights fall upon it sounds will le given by the different parts of the spectrum, and there will be silence in other parts. . If the vessel contains red worsted and the green light flashes npon it, loud sounds will be given. Only feeble sounds will be heard when the red and blue parts of tho rainbow' fall upon tho vessel, and-other colors make no sound at alL Little Hattie, 4 years old, had, for somo misdemeanor, been told by her mother not to go out of the yard. Hav ing become wearied of her own compan ionship and seeing two playmates en joying themselves in a yard across the street, she called: "Charlie, come over here." "Oh, I can't," replied the un gallant Charlie. A period of thought, and again sho called: "Lu, play I'm Charlie's grandmother." "All right," answered Lu. Silence for a moment, then: "Lu. tell Charlie his grand mother wants him to come over and see her." Golden Days. Young Wife "I am going to make a nice cake for you to-night, Thomas. w Young Husband (with recollections of tho last one) "Ahem! I did intend to bring a friend home to tea." Young Wife "WelL so much the better; the more tho merrier." Young Husband "All riht, I will bring him. He served me a mean trick himself once" SWEET OOrioirtY. She adds not to my worldly store Of silver or of fold. The burdens that are mine to bear Her dimpled shoulders can not .Laro, Nor lieu-shell tinted tickers hold One Implement of toiL Though all the world should fro unfed. She can not give a numb of bread To ve a fainting soul; And yet .he 1 so dear to me. My fair faced baby, swoot Dorothy. In rlad content her aimlees life ; Flows on from day to day ; What tuoucU with mad ambition rife. And half distraught with toil and strife, Aloti the hurrj-liitr, crowded way Huron: ity sweeps on t Enoujjh that in the arms of Love She salely rests my w hile,-winded dove . My benediction crown I So dear, so very dear to me. My smiling babe, sweet Dorothy I She Is the chosen household queen ' The sovereign by acclaim! More loyal ubjects n"er, I wen. In courtly palace have been sen. Nor ton s more loving called a name, "La reiue. vivc, la r?.ne :" Her every w ish a law must be. To day the baby smiled on me!" The evening's ffl:d refrain; So lear to all no dear to me The household yet, sweet Dorothy 1 You ask me why she P so dear. This little helpless cbildf Draw close to me, I almost fear Lest angels listening, too, should hear, Aud, from the realms of day beguiled. Should come to claim their own. Why is she dear? I can not tell! Our holiest thoughts and feelings dwell lu l pihs to words unknown; I only kuow, as life to me. So dear my child, sweet Dorothy I And when across my path there strays A w oman, worn and sad. Whose empty arms and hungry eyea Tell me. by intnltlou wise. The babe that made her young heart triad Has passed beyond the years I loii ly Land clasp to reveal The ryinpatl.y lliat now I feel, Au 1 kins away her fnrs. As dear her bibe aa mfn to me. My winsome rhlld. aweel Dorothy I And when atrain I clasp ttic form So dear, upon my breast. And f-el the clinirlnfr flnpers warm. And kaow that sheltered there tram harm My frentle babe ran sweetly rest, I feel a sudden thrUi, So deep it is a Win t pain; And oi.ee, and twice, ar.d yet ga!n My lips with praises fill: Thauka, Kather. fur ILu gilt to me. My heaven sent child, aweet Iv.irothy. --Josephine C. tioodale. in tjood Housekeeping. A QUESTION OF INCOME. Conducting- Church Affairs on Busi ness Principles. It was a time of trouble with the Presbyterian Church and society of Illanksville. They had come to their annual meeting and found, just as they expected, that their assets were not etjual to their liabilities by several hundred dollars. 'This was no new experience but rather an old, chronlo ailment, that had afflicted them for years. Heretofore they had managed to tide over the trouble somehow, but this year the deficit was larger than usual it had been growing larger every year, in fact and it was agreed tha -something must be done about it. The chairman of the meeting called upon one after another to propose somo plan of relief or to express his views, and several gentlemen were not slow to do the latter, at least Squire Ilowncr took the floor and said, in his usual methodical manner: "I've made up my mind that it costs a great deal to run a church. What with the minister's salary, which is the larg est item, and the janitor's, and the organist's, and the insurance and re pairs, and the fuel and lights, and our Sunday-school expenses, to say nothing of our benevolent contributions, which to be sure are not what they ehould be, it costs a great deal of money to run a church; more it seems to me than it ought to cost more than we can afford to pay. And I think wo must contrive some way to diminish our church ex penses, so as to make the two ends of the year meet- If any gentleman can think of a better plan let hira speak out; but for my part, I say w-e must reduce our expenses, so as to make our income cover our outgoes. We must manage our church finances on business princi ples, if we expect to prosper." Mr. Snodgrass followed. saying: "Squire 1 loonier has expressed my mind exactly. We must lessen cur church expenses; we must cut our garment ac cording to our cloth. Wo know just about how much we can raise each year by slip rents; and what's the use of try ing to stretch the sum two or three hundred dollars, when we know it can't be done? I repeat, we must out our garment according to our cloth.' Mr. Mullins endorsed all that had been said, and added somewhat pomp ously, as his ma-nner was: "I am op-' posed tci all pretense of appearing to be a richer and more prosperous churcti than wo really are;" and, as if in imita tion of Patrick Henry, he exclaimed: "We must retrench. I repeat it, sir, we must retrench'." Others followed in much the same strain. Indeed, thcro appeared to be but one opinion upon the subject. The chairman said: "I am glad to observe so much freedom ' in this discussion. ' Nearly all present seem-to bo agreed upon retrenchment, , Now, .will some one suggest how and where wo shall begin? Will some one mako a mo tion?" There was silence in that room for the space of one minute; then Squire, Roomer aroso slowly, and said, with some hesitancy, as if the fubject matter was a painful one: "In order to bring , the matter properly before the house, I will move that a committee of three be, appointed to wait upon our pastor and inform him of our financial embarrass ment, and ask him kindly to consent to a reduction of his salary at least SUOO." The motion was supported by half a dozen voices, and afterward discussed vigorously pro and con (mostly pro) for an hour. Tho sentiment was evidently something like this: that their pastor was rolling in wealth on $1,200 per year, while they, the people, were put to all sorts of straits to raise the money. Tho times were ' hard; several who once rented pews had moved away, and two or three rich men had died. It was un reasonable to expect them to pay as large a salary as they did when wheat old for two dollars a bushel, and all branches of business were lively aai profitable; and if Dr. Slim was tho con siderate man they took him to be, he would look upon the matter in the samo light, If not, then but the alter native was not discussed. "Are you ready for the question?" asked the chairman. "Not quite," said a voice from a re mote corner of the room, and a plain. unlettered man, with a shrewd but kindly face, moved to the front, and it was announced that Mr. Hall had tho floor. "I don't often feci any call to mako a speech," said he, "but when I do, I gen erally call a spade a spade, and done with it. My preacliin' ia apt to be rather personal, so to fipeak, and perhaps it will be this timo. Squire Boomer says It costs a great deal of money to run a church, and he's right And it costs a groat deal to run a farm of much sizo, and a grist mill and a high school and a steaui thrasher and a good many things that we've got to have. Why, it was only last summer I was rilin' 'long with Sqniro Roomer past his farm, and ho stopped his. horso to show me the crop on that twenty-acre lot near tho road. He said ho had laid out moro than five dollars an aero in ditchin' that lot aud buyin' fertilizers and seed; said ho shouldn't get his money back in one year or two, but there, was a good deal of satisfaction in seein' how that land had come up under good tillage. Ilo said ho diin't believe in any 'penny wise' system of farmin". Fact is,' says ho 'if you starve your farm, it will sturvo you.' He says to-day wo should manage our church affairs just as we do our own; that is, on business principles, and I agree with him. If we starve tho church and the minister, they'll certain ly starve us. It's the liberal soul that'll be made fat not tho .stingy ono. "Mr. Mullins, he deals in general merchandise, and runs a pretty large establishment. He says trade has been uncommon dull for a year or more; but all tho same he is going to raiso the sal ary of his head clerk and book-keeper fifty dollars this year, just becauso ho was such a faithful fellow and looked after his employer's interests so well. 'I tell you. Hall,' says he, 'a man must Khow his hands that ho appreciates their work if he w ants 'em to take an interest and mako things buzz.' Hut when itcemesto the minister, he pro poses to work this plan by tho rule of contrary. All that's necessary to mako the finances of this church prosper, seemingly, is to lot the minister know that his labors are worth less by two hundred dollars a year than when ho ca-nc here. "Neighbor Snodgra?s fond of sayin' we must cut .our garment accordin to our cloth, but he don't always practice his own preachin. I went into his house last ovenin' to set awhile, as I often do, and Mis" Snodgrass was cut tin' out a checkered shirt for her hus band. She had the cloth spread out on the floor, and laid the pattern on this way and that way; but finally she said: 'It's no ti.se; there isn't cloth enough, John; you'll have to get three-quarters of a yard more to make the sleeves. Now, by his own rule, he should have said: "You must cut that garment ac cordin' to the cloth, sleeves or no sleeves.' Hut he didn't say any such ahing. Ilo just said: "All rijht, I.u einda; I'll get tho cloth to-morrow when I go to the village,' and tie-re's tho bundle stickin' out of his coat pocket this minute. "He and I are in the habit of help'n each other with a Lig job noa- and ther., in a neighborly way. Lt spring I helped him build a picket I-wo tho whole length of his farm on the high way. Ilo laid out to Lave lumber enotiph o:i hand before wo ln-irun, but ho fell short considerable; suid ho didn't make allowance enuugh for shaky pick ets, just as we don't for shaky olip rents. Now, you'd think, to be consis tent, he ought to have spread them piekets a trif.o more, or else finished up the two or three rods lacking with some of them old fence rails. Hut he didn't do any such thing. His sont his team off to the mill and had another load of pickets on hand before we needed "em; and he had a hundred or two left over for repairs, a surplus in tho treasury, so to speak. "We hear a good deal about cutiin" down our expenses, but not a word about iucreasin' our income. Gentlemen talk as if. in church matters, wo better wear a shirt without sleeves, as it were, than to buy a little moro cloth; we bet ter piece out a new fence with old rails, rather than to get a few moro pickets. Tho Bible tells about a timo when the lied is shorter than a man can stretch himself uu it, and the covcrin' narrower than that he can wrap himself in it! Seem to mo some of us have about got there. "It has been more than hinted hero to-day. that .the minister has mort money to spend than we do, and may bo he does. But that is none of our busi ness. We called him hereand fixed tho amount of .his salary ourselves; and I think it would be a mighty moan pro ceedin' to ask him to throw off $200, just because we've failud to do business on businoss principles to lay this load all tn his shoulders, when not a man of us bad tried to lift it with ono of our little fingers, so to speak. "Now I say that this paltry dobt of a few hundred dollars, that is such a bug bear to many, has come, not because owr expenses aro so largo, but becauso our income is so small; not becauso we pay out too much money, but because wo pay in too little; and -if every moth er's son of us will increase our slip rent twenty per cent., we shan't be likely to hear any more such whinin' ad we've heard to-day." "Do you offer that as an amendment to the motion to appoint a committee?" asked the chairman briskly. "No," thundered Mr. Ball from his seat in the corner. "Do you think I'd hitch an amendment on to such a mo tion as that? Not while I have my senses." After some confusion, the motion was laid upon the table, and the subject, from Mr. Ball's point of view, was un der discussion, with a fair prospect of a successful issue, ' when this writer left Interior. . A Matrimonial Kovelty. A young lady recently invented a new fashion for weddings that may be taken up by members of the fair sex who are crow-ded with engagements. Unablo to appear at her friend's wedding Bhe had her photograph specially taken for the occasion, and this portrait, with appro priate good wishes, greeted the bride on the morning of tho eventful day. This should bo taken up by Americans etpoc rially, who have friends in every quarter of the globe, and cannot be present in every place where they are wanted. i . An Object of Envy. There are plenty of women in this county who can -.truly say that they never envied Queen Victoria until they learned that she traveled with seventy- two trucks, nine maids and eleven CK'js WHEN THE SUN GOES DOWN- When the sun ?oes down And across the fading lea. Like the crooning of a mother, Coaios the niur i. ir of th; Pea, The golden clouds f 8ucct Chaue to sober, restful brown. And soft Peace i.i.:ui'. Ler maiitle When the sun goes down. When the sun poc down. And from out the flowing West The evening brecz- conn s sighing. Like a whisper from the blest, Come the little ones, awearv, ChnRing to their mother's gown, And they nestle in her bosom. When the sun goes down. 'When the sun poes down !" Cries the toiler o'er tl.u sea, "Sweet thoughts, by liitKr banished, Will came trooping bark to me. And the smiles of those who love me Taite the place r, duty's frown. For in dreams I shall lie with them, When the sua 'ics ilow u." .When the sun goes down The ills of hie recede; Hushed Is the voie of evil. And the neifish cry of freed ; Then, hapi y, homeward loot -teps Keho through the qniet to-n. And rest comes to tiiu weary. When tho sun goes J jwn. When thp sun goes down On this busy life for aye, Perhaps the niht that follows Will bo better tliar. the da; O. may its rising shadows Find us realy for a crown And the rest that surely coiuetli When the sun goes down. -Mortimer C. ltrown, in Good Housekeeping. CUPID'S MANY WAYS. Matrimonial Bureaus and Their Methods in Paris. A lie was standing in front of tho Grand Hotel pulling moodily on a hu;re ciar whose gilt garter, ostentatiously dis played, proclaimed its high price. Ginger-colored shoos adorned his huge foet, and his gray suit of somo fuzzy cloth in pattern reminded rce in turn of Sing Sing and a horse-blanket. The pink face and stubby mustache, that looked as if it were composed of brass wires, wore a familiar look, and 1 asked myself in w hat corner of Europe I had seen this parti-colored party before. Then I remembered that he was tho Western gentleman who had distin guished himself last summer by pre senting sovereigns to the waiters of the Einpiro Theater in London and went rolling up tho Strand one night firing bullets through tho top of the hansom, an amusement that cost hitn many shillings the next morning at Bow street court. lie was not emulating tho example of Dar.ao by showering gold this summer to any extent. Experience had sad dened him, and usurious Time had ex changed some of the gold on his cranium for some doubtful-looking silver. Jlo had returned homo to find that the cattlo on his ranch had been blown away in a blizzard (at least so his part ner explained), and he had come to Paris with the avowed intention of making a rich marriage. Ho was of timorous disposition, so I was engaged to pilot this passsionate pilgrim to the Mecca of moneyed matri mony. It was very eay by turning to the fourth page of my Parisian paper to find a dozen addresses where to apply for an heiress, with a fortune ranging from a hundred thousand to a million francs, and thoro was even the adver tisement of a Russian princess who wanted to get married, but she stipu lated naively than the intended hus band must bo "a prince do finance."' He said he thought sho would be apt to come high, and anyway ho was moro particular about the boodlo than the blood. There was ono quite famous match hatching house in tiie Rue Drouot, and thence we wended our way. Wo were ushered into a salon handsomely fur nished with whit and gold furniture and pale-blue hangings. No suggestion of business anywhere. A nice family looking sort of a place that gavo you a feeling of homo. Madame the proprietress bustled in at that moment with a smilo on her face. That is. there were several smiles, for her face was so fat and her mouth so large that one would not go round. She was a ponderous-looking party, with a palpably false front and tooth like dominoes. She criticised my friend of the amber top with a hungry and speculative eye, and catechised him with tho free dom of an American census-taker, dis secting him bone for bono and exacting a minute history of his past and pres ent. Then she produced an album full of photographs of females of every age, from the cradle to the grave, discussing their good points physically aa if sho were selling a horse, a conversation in which the Westerner, as a judgo of cat tle, took an active part. Ilo finally settled on a widow, a pert looking party with a stage smirk, who, in addition to possessing a fortune, was the crelict of a jockey. That fetched the client, for he wanted a companion in life who could discuss learnedly on fodder and tho "blind staggers" in the intervals of love-making. Tho question was now to arrange for the first meeting between the unfortun ates. That wa3 easily settled. Madamo agreed to take a box at the hippodromo for the next Sunday night, he might drop in between the acts like a casual visitor, meet tho widow and the next day learn at the agency just what kind of an impression he had made. Having paid madamo's fee of a hun dred Irancs ana uouhle as much Tor a box, my now radiant companion and withdrew. When I saw him again after a lapse of two weeks his face, wore a mingled expression of gloom and regret. "Well," said I, "and how do you pros per?'' "Don't mention it," he groaned, cov ering his face with his hands. "I de serve to bo kicked from here to Idaho by one of my own steers. If I don't, call me a dodo. It was all a bloom in' humbug!' "But you met the lady you selected? Sho was real?" "Ye-es that is, part of her. Sho was there in the box, and I chinned to her awhile, and the next day I called on niudame. She was smiling as ever but was so sorry. The fact of the mat ter was that the ldy, or apology for ono, sail that I didn't just suit. Sho would never marry a man that didn't have a Roman nose, because her hus band had ono and she had grown at tached to that kind." "That ought to havo settled tho busi ness." , "Well, it oi'.ghter. but it didn't. I finally cornered one, a rt'trular yearling, and sound as a dollar. She let itie '.line her an' w ine her for a week and then skipped out, sayin' that the tmsbanl she had thought was dead had turned up, and, of course, tilings was off. Now I'm; out about one thousand francs, and no wifo," with a further groan. "Well, what will you do next? Hunt up another?" 'Hunt thunder:' giving vent to a pyrotechnical display of profanity that made tho electric light flicker. "I'm goin' to mosy homo by the next boat and n;arr3- the poorest critter I can find, in D'-vil's Lako. No more rich mar riages in mine'."' Of tho ono-hundred-odd marriage' brokers in Paris tho largo majority are wumcn, and generally women who have hal very little to do with marriage o we understand it. Generally faded flow--ers of evil, who havo fallen bek en this business after their o'.n charm are gone, but who understand thorough ly bow to flatter and cajole the victims lured into their attractivo nets. Their transactions very often amonnf to downright swindling, butthe victims seldom complain for fear of being icaio tho object j of laughter and ridicule. Their principal prey comes from tbo provinces young men who have re--ceived some small inheritance, and who, dazzled with tho glitter of Paris ian life, think of setiliug down and. making a rich marriage in the gay cap ital. In most of the agencies no fee is ex acted, but the client must sign a con- -tract agreeing to pay from five to twen ty per cent, of the dowry as soon as tho match is consummated. There are ways, however, of squeezing money- out of tho unfortunate before the matter is defi nitely settled. Ono flourishing concern that found itself in court tho other day for havintr swindled a coachman who wanted to make a ricli marriage, had, according to the police, only brought about one real match in a year. Receptions given in hired salons aro the places where the best brokers ar range the meetings of their clients, and also at places of amusement. The poor er agencies havo their own parlor, gen erally well furnished, where the happy couples aro brought together. Tho first-class agents have dealings with the nobility and rich commoners, recruiting the female element from tho foreign colony and from tho provinces, where many widows, dying of ennui in their rural homes, are only too glad to be rescued by a rr.arriago broker. Tho lower-class agencies have dealings with rttired officers and department clerks and working-men of every description. A large and flourishing office in addi tion to its chief is en rapport w ith tho e-inployes of the Government registry and mortgage offices, where they gain accurate knowledge of the solvency of . their clients. Servants and governesses know that they can turn an honest pen ny by st:iiiding in with the brokers, giving information when the eliuihlo young sous or daughters of their em ployers will bo present at certain en tertainments. Besides the one hundred recognized agencies, matchmakers are to be found on all sides. The proprietors of tho restaurants ami cafes bring about many marriages between their pensionaries. It is a curious fact that most Parisians are always anxious to marry off their friends and customers, thougli they may never think of assuming the chains . of matrimony themselves. Some of the disreputable agencies em- - ploy women to work as decoys when they are off duty. They aro elegantly dressed and generally accompanied by a little boy or girl. They take up their station in some public place like tho Tuileries or on the benches of the Buis, . looking tho picture of modesty and . aristocratic reserve. In a discreet way madamo will attract the attention of a rich-looking provin cial, probably through tho medium of" the child who accouipanif her. lie en ters into a conversation and learns that she is a rich wilow whose husband was hilled during the war. He begs per mission to call, but it is a long while before she consents. If sho thinks him unworthy prey he gets no further than the first conversation, but if promising, tho permission is granted. He calls, is entranced by the quiet refinement of her flat, lie proposes in time, but sho only half accepts, holding him at arm's, length, but with a firm grasp. Then, sho finds means to borrow money of him, and finally throws bitu over, and' baits her trap for tho noi.t comer. Ono unfortunate who bad ben through this courso of. swindling saw tho woman, again 6omo months after he- had re ceived his dismissal. This tiiuo sho was accompanied by a little girl, where--as his sympathies had leen attracted be fore by her only chil 1 a son, whom she, wept over frequently when -ho called because he was so Like his father. Should he encounter madamo aaijc he might find her with twins, for the. agency hires intelligent-looking infait to add interest to their decoys. Pxrts Cor. N. Y. Journal. A Ilermll io a New Sprk Holedt The censu .brought out the fact that a man can li - in a. New York hotel for ten years arj never speak to any one or enter into any communication w ith any one except as to the eommon-jjlai'e af fairs ol eating and irinking. TMscham piou hermit lives at the Grntnl I'nion Hotel and is knojii as Bailey .. That is all that is known. about him There was a statement printed that the census in;ji had skipped ihvt hotel, and in writing to tho super sor to say that the st-iry was untrue and, that, the enumerator with the assistance- of' the clerks had made every effort to secure the proper in formation as to all permanent residents in the hoase, the proprietor, Mr. Garri son, added that there was one man called Bailey who, to. tho le-st of his knowl edge, had not spoken a word to a living soul since lie first came to live at tho hot 1 ton years ago and from w horn It had been impossible to obtain any an swers to the questions. There has been a story tvild of another similar hermit, who ueed to live at a large down-town hotel, but that one did talk occasionally. 'Wife "Henry, I fear we shall havo to liKk out for another house." Hus band "Why. 1 thought you were well pleased w hen 1 soourud this oue." Wifo "So I w as, and it still suits me just as well." Husband --"Why, then, this no tion of changing?"' Wife "Well, the cook and chambermaid boll object to the arrangement of the hajse, and to its being off the W at of th u favorite po liceman. We'll have kJ move back U I).- old locality."-- l'-ostori Budget. TP
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