. - - I - - -A.dvertit.ing- Kate. The large and reliaole rircolsMo 1 the BRia t'HIHX TOmmclwa it to tbe UTort! ronilcr&t u.u of adrrrtlfers wbwe favors will h iruerxeal at the following: low rates : 1 iDOb. 3 'fines ..... I.M 1 Inch, 3 months a.fiO 1 Inch, 6 months.......... S.M 1 Incn lyear... .t o 2 Inches, t months.... ............ 6.1 0 2 Inches, 1 year . . ...... 10.00 3 Inches. 6 months .. S.00 a inches. 1 year ............ .o comma, 0 months... lo.tO 3 column. 6 months...... 'M OO column. 1 year avoo I column. 0 months o 00 I column, I year 7a. PO Business Items, first insertion, lor. per line sutse)uent Infc ruona. Sc. jr Pae Adminii'trHtor's and Kxecutor's Notices, ft H Auditor's Notices ............ S.f-0 Stray and similar Notices 3 W "HelutNns or rocecdins ol hit corx ra tion or society and communications desiicnadto call attention to any matter of limited or indl Tidnal interest must te paid lor as advcrtimenis. Hook and Job Printing of all kinds neatly and exediousiy executed at tbe loweet prices. Asd don'tyou lorget It. ked HlilJ a tHKKI.4 tF.A., KiAr 1,200 a1. ti Z - S'Nte -io - 1 l.nliia J'-. i in 3 months. 1.75 null Mo-ida' iI-Id H month, a i0 is i'Hhin the jear.. :5 .. n-lt outside of the con-- " ear will be ch-med to u"1 - for ,, t.'i the ftDore term be Te J tlHKe who don I eonaalt inel I- . ,V'nii In advance mm not ti 'i!;. on the name tooilnir a those who !w""v.. . .iistioctlT understood rroc JAS. C. HASSON, Editor and Proprietor. "HI IS A FREEMAN WHOM THE TRUTH MAKES FREE AND ALL ABE SLAVES BESIDE." 81. BO and postage per year n advance. ., urn ' X rwTJ VOLUME XX VI I r. EBENSBURG, PA., FRIDAY, JULY 27, 1S94. "..K-nre i too snort. NUMBER -20. II I - - - I - - "TT" . - y- u s -.jlC "EL'EF FOR EVERT TYPE OF HCAOACnt. Cdiis,l Po,WTS Bespcctinq HEADACHE. is a rran- i.tl Tit rvci f.r K KsT. ..th-- thrin with kiii K- Al INK. f tin rhiltlrcn sntTtr ;h h-:il.toh, or . -in: N l.r that ricr. tir Kni FAi-iNft. I" -t r-mclv evr-r r.l il. S.tti', Mirf, wni tiilly t;m. k 111 action. . ;- - f ha!achf. e;r-r- .imftil lyp tiliui l-i r .luLirity or uterine im- inre ihcni t tanl !r KOPF-LINE CURES HiliCuS SOC - t44- w.;t. ptr-TT-s. NINVOUS PNOSTNaTlON, D'GtSTlVf AlLMINTS, WFAX ClCULaTtON, n tlCISSIS. MO ALL . r T.r-r V"C M ast" K' '' OL KOPFALINE f - ; Si h'-I.rs, rr-arhrrs, s M t r 'it' 1 M'-n, Wdin n . wli'f ncrv.-s are .'" -.v t j ! :i ! rI-T. , .! I 1 ;r-Hindrances and . ., price. 25 cents. ' v . . : - t ' - 1 1 . . . r sent t any ad- Sclc POMHTOHS, IJKELMANN &. BROWN DRUG CO. BALTIMORE, Mo.. U. S. A, no wonE oocions for mei "Tai'l I w i rti-;tiint iv. FPtlt TO to : t.'i.l in- x - K ci iuiff. no oxcitcj f . 1 n tciiiiis. .In-t tliink of it. iv 1 f...i:i i i;t:! 1 k ra'.U-.l Mitiidei ii- . :h.' I'V M . 1'itikliuiii, ami in it I :.ii -:t v. i. it l ui" S' 1 u rote to -. i-1 a :.. i- y re; : , t '' just what to iii- l 1 aui in st'lfiuli! lit'alth now.' liiMIHlli O com pound ;pi i 1 tTi' wc iVnecs ami ailmrtits : vi ml witii the si'X, and restoirs jr : -:.. Ai; lr.:.',-''i II it a a standard artl .T :,t 't in form of I'ilis or . n :e. e;i.t ( 1 .1 K. r r the ur- . f Iviilncy ComiOaiuta, t'l.f !,:: mil Ii. m no rival. Mr. I';:.:- :n f .-. !v ai'tsris letters of :..ry. K:c;-e t.4:i!ji f"t r-ply. ysndtao? cent s!3-ip tor Vrs. Piniiham D I Bvs'it'il -in. t'l trnrt hriAk ntilld GLIDE TO HEALTH AND ETIQUETTE Itcntiins a vnim" o! ai'iablc Intormation It ia$ mmy sate yours Lis a t. Pinnnam Med. Co., Lynn, Mail. from Pole to Pole t r- f. r : n d .mnnt rated tta r f -r - ... ii:-, t.f the Ldtiod. The Harpooner's Story- 1 w.n:y y :irs RiT 1 rii l'.i. '!ii , hn lire .: u liv l:u.l up -'iih t's-'.r. l. t;iimMWoiira '-.'. I . p:.rp!-- tktch-a all k r . - t' :, . rn-ii r-'ltcn. Take II :.- v.. -:y l :,.ily off. All out . ... v. i , il, -tr'.'viii. but ttie tt.t. "e rtcov- " . i i I t ,? cTcr Bi-cn mm ' ' . rtr- .iiiii. iitfnrSrun v, ":.. .1 : ... . f it . .-,-:nhr n t itn-n-. r A : it' :' y "r nr..t(tarii!A t-ipg .r. v 'I o.lit to tnuw of :-". . ; r, ti ru T. Visuiti. Tho Trooper's Experience. "'-- . ' At..-a,; HarchV. ' ''.?& ,v i i.. O' "ltlenicn : 1 l.avw 2 T -a, 'i j U -y t.- tri 'Hi Taiue of i ., d'j'-.iii t.ich time wa d lir.rirf i.nil-r canvaa X i called in thia I ) -.i. me tvjreftfor x tike yourSav - 1 . h r;iaIe ntV torM vi TV ijMta Well. I X. ;.iiien, 6k wnik fyer s Sarsaparilla j g " ' i-'1 v -ifTiv blood purifier- . . t ' '1:. -: the polDS oi Dr.J. ( . ''nRrTi bt Vfr .V o., Lowell, M It'.v.-i.U: IT' (1; a.i i tor li. POR ARTISTIC OB PRINTING TRY THE FREEMAN. W Trv:- V ,.....;. , i..a i in mm si i & t-v Our fi7.".! ' ,'T' "1 f"r Moderate Ft. ii: iniesK timethanthore .-lor. 'A.. r jihiito.. ith rleirr!p- -1 I,.., ' ! ' i i: i : 1 1 1 or not. tree oi ts.. ,f . ' " ' oi.tj.in I'atents." with "u.,,, 'ii ourritate. county, V cd:SMpw&Co. """ce. Waihington. D. C ANTIV-A.K- V I . . . ii n i i . "'IS .M r li Mm U' .. rl WLLt. IIJ. l.i 'Kb M. sAI.AKY nr' OMM1S- 1 I L I ..... . . . b "II. IN iV '' 'Ns "' !oii MK.N. i' 1.1 IWll ""MS to KK'IN1SKI. all ''( D ''""" lor terms to SJls Knrarj Co., ociiesterflN. T. V..O. ' .ri.r. ir nr.- 3 ICARTER'S 1I77LE IVER PILLS. clc TTcadarlie and naieve all tbo trouble Inrf dent to a tulioua state of tho synicro. such aw 1'iziiiess, Nausea. lmwsiu. listrem after catinp. I'ain in tue Ki.U-, ice VM11I0 tncirraoaft remarkable eucceee haa been shovn in curing ITcaflarhe. yrt Carter's I.ittlo Livor PiTta am equally valnatilo in ConAttia,tion. curing ana pro ntiiiR t)iiHannoyint;coiiiilaint.whtio th-ymLfX contall(li.rJ-rHf tliOrtoLua Utiniulatatho eaa aviJHW VAJC UUWOld, X-Vv-U JI lUt? QUIT a-rT--.l . Arli ft t hor vonl .1 bo a Itnoft t priceless to those who .iVr from t jiH-hstnsiu couil:itiit; butfortn JiJvtoly tlicirpotHliicsHdtHta notoud hre,a.ntl tfaoso Vrhooncetry them will had theao little pills vulu eM in w many ways that they will not bi wil ling to tlo uitbout tbc-ni. But after ail sick hea4 Inllie imnenf bo many Uvea that here Is where) vomaViooiirprpst boast. Ourpillacureitwuila otbeni do not. CartiT'e I.'ttle IJver nils aro very nmall anU Terr ca.-'y to take. One or two pilla make a dose, llii y aie strictly vvotallo ami do not gripe or j'i:rv. ImtliT Uiuiri;utluection please all who liso thum. in vinlsiit 2-ccnts : tiveforfl. Jdolil Ly raUUfcverywboru, or at at by iuaiL 3ARTER MEOIOINE CO.. New York. ?.Mil FILL. SMALL DOSE. SMALL PRICE HALL'S ?m The pTPat poiularity of this preparation, after its test of many years, should be an assuranre, even to the uiot skeptical, that It is really meritorious. Those who have Used Hall's IIaik Kknkwkk know that It ilocs all that is claimed. It causes new frrowlli of hair on bald heads provided the hair follicles are not dead, which Is seldom the ease: restores natural color to trray or faded hair; pre serves the scalp healthful and clear of dandruff; prevents the hair falling off or chanin color; keeps It soft, pliant, lus trous, and causes It to grow long and thick. Hall's ITaik KktT!wer produces Its rflVcts by the healthful influence of It vegetable jnirredicuts, which invigorate and rejuvenate. It is not a dye, ami is a delightful article for toilet use. Con tainintr no alcohol, it does not evatt orate tiickly and lry up the natural oil. leaving Ihe'hair harsh and brittle, as do other preparations. Buckingham's Dye FOR TH1 WHISKERS Colors them brown or black, as desired, and Is the best dye, because it Is harmless ; produces a permanent natural color; and, belnjr a sin trie preparation, is more con venient of application than any other. rRtriMD it B. P. HALL. & CO., Nashua, N. H. Bold bj ail Dealer In Medietas. , 0 Liniment ANY OTtJE STKIfJ 1 IT TTor FAIILY Uso. Dropped on susar sutleriiiif children love to ' tnke it. Every Mother should have it in the house, it qulckiv relieves aim cuiis iiii . nest and pains, asthma, bronchitis, colds, couyhs, cr.tarrh, cuts, chaps, chilblains, colic, cholera morbus, earacne, neanacne. raiupnig ihhkii, J intlammation, la unppe. lameness, mumps. tniiociilar soreness, neuralgia, nervous iicm ache rheumatism, bites, bums, bruises, strains, sprain -i. stinv; s. swellings, stiff joints, sore thioat, sore lil ies, tix.thache. tousilitis mid wind colic. Originated in imo by the late Ir. A- Johnson, Family rhysician. Its merit and cxeellenee have satisfied cvervbly for ncarlv a century. All whou--eit are amazed at its wonderful Ker. It is safe, soothinir. satisfying: so sav sick, s"iisitive su fft-rt r-; V- Internal and External. Th IV.-tor ripnaturts ami rfirt-t-tioiu on fvery Ittttle. I!l"-f.l l:niihl-t f r-f. Snl.1 fverywhtTH. I'ruv, X". tA. (T I flOO worth of lovely Music lorForty ; n I 1 1 . . Cents, consisting of too pages - 1 w full sie Sheet Music of the - Litest, brightest, live liest and most popular selections, both vocal and instrumental.; eotten up In the mot eleeant manner. In-- cluJinR four large size Portraits. ; CARMENCI! A, the Spanish Dancer, PADEREVJSKI. the Great Pianist. AULLI.SA PATH and MINNIE SEUGMAN CUTTING. aOOMKS ALA. ORDIM T9 Steel Picket Fence. CHEAPER . THAN t WOOD A s ii it 'i ! li . t i ' i r t i -TTtrtrtHHi mm ThihOf,eentfThwsPlctetFi'irU. Oat. fThlt faaetft n.-ttins 1 a beu.- ! iB lr,D ..r W .sod tu-t. Th-n writing for pri'-s filv uautitf, NuinM of Oat-, Iouble ol Hiucle. W nfrt- Wtr ataM mQuftvrur? brtr j Iroo Kiirlnc. relur, Himole KlCtinf. Vrm Shutters auS KlkK KSI'PK, (VlUr l,M.r. uJ ltat:iiiRv Itrmati tviil In.a Grill. M INK I)4lUKla W1MUMT St.lt. K VS. ftri'1 I I kind of W" IRK WOMiv. TAYLOR ci DEAN. 201. 203 & 205 MirketSL Pittsburgh. Pa. I v o:i NliHI) OLASMiS? CVliS LXAMINLU I KLC Soectac'es perfectly fitted nd K"arjnteeJ for z year. Artificial fvH inserted. J. DIAMOND. Optician, l tSM. isfti -p i S mlh St.. Pin SltllKfl. PA. 'ST- t5UGGIS at A Price 4 Al IS V HAKSr.S AV- f nt ttie hj;. I'l.ua-tsMi - t riUCKH aittl 4fu.t iolum-.v.s.i out--H A(.l- aj.'sl lIlNlil VVaatTsjU. ff ltll('lttn. f i ui.fl Curt x hi, !iu of tut'ifv llrtriit-iu K:' ta'slTaiitl save I in lttivrtcy 4.7.V Mnltt s-iuaj. b r:ii Tntiu VI :ni.rt.rtt. nrv'iiu Sjuhlle, ( 'nt tc' Vm. V. M. lil i::Y A 'KT4 0. t to IX Lawrtriut; .it , Cait luiiMi, O. trllCFMT? SAMPLES FKE u :. A. MitTTJim York .'it CURE SSCeC 3. it''l fd , 111 -':' 111 II 1 I II irVTj.Lrf GANGER arul Tumors riHtl) r no knK", Outtk Ire.', lire ukatiomv A BUSH. ua iLUH atk. CiiM-iaiiaii if LV.i i lO.. The daylight dies, the evening air is still, and very sail: Tb mul-.s.ream luuke. a drowsy hum About ihotr.y ol.l mill; Tb.r bleat .l ui p s -uud . lull and deep l-'r.iui tbo pastures tbel.iil. Now every rude :.nd jarring sound Thai vt scd the j.ar.sii d ,y Is hushed to r at, lb.- tired Kinds in Iusih-i s .lie raf: Ai nss ibc darl.eiiiu? llebls 1 hear '1 he schoolboys si. II at play. lo n the still r.tri'iin the city bells t "Hie dropping b ar and ibiu: On parp.e-.au.ia.e.l f el the u irlit. 'i 111' Ir inipiil u (.'.it. dr i.v s in. The dreamia? air H swe t aud rare Wita tbet smell of jessaunne. The Kloainin, like a halo frrave, ICests on tht? villaire church: Tho fading lifrhts irild tenderly The little icied p.rch: Or ever tbo yellow harvest moon Hath lit herruJdy torch. Or. miht the peace of the twilight hour lrop deep Into mv bn-nst. And .jt.iel there each daylight care Tnat on my spirit prest. That my heart might be unfettered, free. And like nature's heart at rest: toldeu Days. MISS BELINDA'S UEUS. How They Assisted the Little God of Love. When the city visitors who swarmed around Maple Outer and i'ejihlered their names liy the sooe in theliooUs of the village hotel btrolled out on the Maple roud they always stopped at the Unhide farmhouse and crieil: "How ex quisite! How pieturesue!" And, for the life of her. Miss lieliuda Hubble diil not know why. "It ain't as if 1 could afford a coat of paint to the old house," said she. "It's just a slate L-row n, with winter storms ainl summer suns; and the "rape ar !r's all a-lumhilu' down for lack of a brace or two of solid timber; and the well sweep ain't half as convenient as Mrs. t'ia'hoi-n's) new chain pump. ;io way you can ti.x it; and the stun' wall's all overcrowed with them pesUy rnn nin' vines and briers! To be sure, the four o'clock's and mornin' (rlories are sort o' pretty lty the fence, an.l there ain't no prettier hollyh.x.'Us in the country than them dark-red aud cherry colored ones jest this side of the pear tree. As for the !eehives, I always did like beeh'ves, even if it wasn't for the honey. My mother set a heap o' store by them beehives, and there they've stood, nine of em in a row, ever since 1 can remember. And there ain't no honey in ail the county as has jjot the llavor of ouru. I don't know whether it's Nipairo Carbuncle's buckwheat field or that there clover medder of Mr. Uar nell's as does iL Hut you can fairly taste the sunshine and the flowers in it!" And it was a ponuine sipht, atswarm-inC-time, when Miss Helinda issued forth into the black and booming clouds, all jrloved and veiled and tied up iu a mosquito nettino;, with a tin pan and skimmer in her hand. "I finerally have first rate g'oo.l luck with the swarms," said Belinda- "I don't know when I've lost one, if only folks would let me alone. Hut it's the metldlin' people that come to olfer their help that upsets me and the bees. 'Squire Carbuncle, now he's real sensi ble. He don't never come round inter ferin'. If he sees the bees makitf up their urinds to swarm he jest (rets up olT his garden chaV anil uoh into the house. For bees, they're dreadful sen sible. '1 hey have their likes and their dislikes, jest as human creeturs have ami they never could t?et alone with '.-'quire Carbuncle!" Squire Carbuncle was a quiet, prizzle hcaded man of fifty, who farmed a model farm, with all the new ma chinery patents liberally oiled with jrold. read the agrieul tural papers, and was always "just jroinjr to" write an article for the (Jentleinan Farmer. Miss Hubble herself was not much younfrer. She supported herself in a renteol way by ve-t-makino; for a fac tory in the neighborhood. "I s'pose." said Miss Hubble. "Squire Carbuncle '11 trt married some ilay, and I do ho- ; he'll choose a sociable wife that I can take comfort with, exchang ing1 patterns and chatti of an even in"; over the (rrilen feuce." "HelinJa Kublile is a sensible wom an," said Squire Carbuncle, in his deep, sonorous voice. "To my certain know ledge, she lias refused one or two i.hiilless fellows who wanted to marry her merely to be supported. She's a pood deal better olf single than mar ried." Miss Belinda never said a word when Squire Carbuncle's superb liver-colored setter killed her favorite Muscovy duck anil the squire, on hispirt, condoned the .Ti rise, when Miss Bubble's i s ck ens scratched up all his early lettuce and made havoc with his seeding mu sics anil pinks. "Neiirhlnirs orter tie neighborly," said Miss Belinda. "And dop's nature is dorr's nature!" "I munt stop up the cracks under the fence," said the squire. "Of course, Belinda can't help her chickens g-ettintr throujrh! No woman could." Thus matters were, when Miss 1! linda's cousin, Fannie Halkett, came to visit her a plump, peach-cheeked young woman who was cashier at a jrlove-store in the city. "Cousin Hubble," said Fannie, "why don't you marry Squire Carbuncle?" "La, Fannie!" cried the elderly dam sel, starting back so suddenly, that she stepped o:i one of the velvet-white paws of the pet kitten. "Yes, truly, why don't you?" said Fannie. "lie needs a wife and it would be very nice for you to have a husband. Now wouldn't it?" "Wo 'lonr," said Miss Belinda. "I never thought of such a thin-r! Nor him neither, do out, Fannie, and pick a mess o' white Antwerp raspberries for tea and don't let me hear no more such nonsense." "Nonsense!" echoed Fannie, laurh inr. as she weut olT with a blue-edged bowl in her hand. "Hut I think it isn't nonsense at all!" And among the Antwerp raspberry vines she talked the matter over with Julian-Hall, Squire Carbuncle's nephew, who had come to the farm for a week's trout tishing, and who had developed a very strong propensity for reading novels under the old pear-tree that overshadowed Miss Hubble's garden fence. "Wouldn't it le nice?" said Fannie. "Splendid!" Julian answered, lean ing over to put a handful of raspberries into the blue-edged bowL W hether he leaned too far and lost his footing or how it happened he did not know; but certain it is that, just at that moment, one of the beehives fell crash! over among the raspberry bushes. Fannie lied in wild fright, and Julian himself, recovering his bal ance as best he might, was driven to ignominious flight. "Who did that?" said Squire Car buncle, issuintr out of the door. "I'm aft aid I diiL sir!" confessed Julian. "And what am I to say to Miss Be linda Hubble?" bternly demanded his ti in le. "I'm sure, sir, I don't know!" an swered Julian "Such a thing never happened before in all the years that we have lived as neighbor to each other," said Mr. Car buncle. "Of course, the bees have got away and the glass, honey boxes are broken?" "I am very sorry, sir," said Julian. The squire, an eminently just man, harnessed up his irray pony and drove to town the next day. That evening he called at the Bu'oble farmhouse wiih a square package, neat ly done up iu brown pajier. in his arms. Fanuie Halkett came to the door. "My dear," said Squire Carbuncle, "is your cousin at home?" "Yes. sir," said Fannie, fluttering all over and showing tbe way into the best parlor, where the blue paer shades were down "and the stuffed owl on the' mantel transfixed the chance viit rs with its ey.js or glitter iug greeu glass. "'I ell h -r I've called on very par tii ul::r business," said the squire, so norously. " v'es, si.'!" said Fannie, and away she ran. "Cousin Belinda, take your hair out of those crimping pins at once." said she, "an.l Id. UK-- fasten this blue-ribbon bow at your throat. He's in the parlor. He's come to propose." "Nonsense, Fanuie!" "But he has! lie as good as told me so!" cried Fannie, .standing on tiptoe to kiss Miss Belinda's withered apple of a cheek. "Do make haste! Don't keep him waiting. Men don't like to le kept waiting." And she fairly pushed Belinda Bubble into the best room. "Miss Bubble," said the squire, sol emnly, rising to his feet, "I have called to ask if you will accept " "Ye,. S.-th," cried Mis. Belinda, fling ing herself into his arms. Luckily he hud b.thou,'ht himself to lay the square p.iekane down on the table. "Yes, dear Neth, I will. Fanuie told inevou was going to propose tome, but I didn't believe iL And 1 11 be it.-, good a wife to you as I know how. An.l, oh. Seth, I've always loved you since we were young people aud went to si Hiring school together !" The squire opened and shut his mouth as if it were some curious piece of machinery. "lOli!" said he, staring mechanically at the owl. "I hope," faltered Miss Hubble, "yon don't think I've Wen too hasty in ac cepting your offer?" "No, Belinda, no," said Mr. Carbun cle, swallowing down a lump in hi:, throaL "I am inue-h ob'iged to you f.r saying 'yes,' and 1 am quite convinced, in3' dear, that you will be a gojd wi.e to me." And so this autumnal couple, became eng iged; and the squire never told Be linda that it w:ts the colony oi Italian bees he had brought her, not himself, to lay as an offering at htv shrine. "Hut it's just as well," said the squire to himself. "I ought really to lie set tled in life, and Belinda is a most worthy woman. It is liest at times to abandon oneself entirely to circum stances." "Didn't I tcllyou so. Cousin Belinda?" said Fannie', exultantly. One wedding makes many, and neither of the elders was surprised when Julian and Fannie became en gaged shortly after. "The humming of lees will lie the sweetest music iu all the world to my ears after this," said Julian, fervently. "I always was partial to bees," reit erated Miss Belinda. Amy Randolph, in N. Y. Ledger. A Novel y to idler t m Hill. Ouite a novel suggestion in the way of bill-collecting was made the other day through the mistako of a man mailing two letters in this city. He had had considerable diiliculty in jmt suading a young woman that his go.nls had not !een sold to her for the mere pleasure of selling, and finally she had dismissed his messenger with the state ment that she did not want to hear from him again. Nothing was left for the merchant to do but to resort to the I'nited Slates mails. He accordingly sat down and wrote to the young woman a letter which was characterise d r.ither by terseness and vigor than by any terms of affection. Fortunately or unfortu. lately for him, he had a so cial acquaintance with another young lady in the same house, and while he had his pen he thought he .vould write to her, too, a personal letter. When he c.Mtie to direct his envelopes, though, he sent the dunning letter to his personal friend and his personal letter to his debtor. It is nee-dless to say that the mistake was corrected within a f..w moments after the re ceipt of the letters, but the debtor's chagrin at the revelation of her posi tion to another was so great that she paid her bill immediately. Washing ton News. llaml llnir Powder In the N":. vy. It has long been the custom of shrps lying at the Brooklyn na'vy yard to dis charge their owder as precaution against accident, and the regulations as to entering a man-of-war's powder maga.ine are of the most stringent character. It sometimes happens that a single catastrophe is responsible for extra precantioni that liecome perma nently imbedded in naval regulations, and doubtless the destruction of the frigate Fulton at the Brooklyn navy yard sixty-six years ago was responsi ble for the stringency as to discharg ing powder. The Fulton was a tem porary receiving ship, and one day while the ofiicers were at dinner a gunner entered the magazine without proper precautions. The result wasan explosion that blew up the ship and killed forty out of one hundred persons on board. Teacher "Tommy Simpson, have you any gol excuse for lieiug late?" Tommy (beaming) "Yes ma'am." Teacher "What is it?" Tommy "Wafilcs!" Harper's Hazar. A JIIXEIiS LUCK-PENNY. The Romance of a Daughter of the Australian Mines. 172. It is Saturday night on an Austra lian gold field. The bar of the "Jolly Diggers" is crowded. News has gone abroad that "Dog" Kellarey has broken out again, and as he always takes care to have his little bouts rememlKTed a crowd soon col lects. On this particular Saturday he has set himself to try conclusions with "Kangaroo Jack" of the M idas claim. It is a gorgeous struggle even old "Wall-Kyed Bill," who is exacting in such matters, is compelled to admit that. They light anyhow and every where, under tables and under chairs while the lamps flare, the dogs bark and the crowd expresses its admira tion in language full of picturesque detail. "Kangaroo Jack" tires after the twenty-sixth round, and his friends carry him to his tent minus one eye and plus concussion of the brain. Then, when "Dog" Kellarey counts his broken lingers, every one suddenly rememlHTs the unguarded state of his tent and vanishes int. the darkness, not to rcapjM-ar until the sound of the coach horn is heard on 1'ortugee hill. The arrival of the weekly coach, bearing her majesty's mails, is an oc casion of great importance, and ranks even Ix-fore new fiinls or Warden's de cisions. About eleven o'clock the coach creaks and groans up the street, to pull up before the flaming lights of the "Jolly Diggers." It is a curious, 'lumbering old construction, riding on leather springs and drawn by five strong horses a sort of badly brought up cross between an antique mourn ing coach and a dilapidated Indian ghari. The driver, to whom is intrusted the lives and hereafters of the half dozen passengers, travels the two hun dred ami forty miles between the gold lields and civilization twice weekly, an.l is alwa. preternatural ly thirsty. Custom, however, forbids his leaving the Im.x In-fore he has seen his horses unharnessed and led away and ex changed the usual pleasantries with his own particular admirers. When iu lue time heiloes descend, passengers, diggers, loafers and dogs escort him into the hotel and iu half an hour the excitement is over. On this iH'casiou, however, it is des tined to last longer; "Dog" Kellarey, advancing, invites the driver to take refreshment. After complying with the request, that individual gets out to the Vehicle, to ret urn wit h a bundle. Then, unwrap ping the shawls, he places on the table a baby girl. She cannot le more than two years old. and is fast asleep, her little head and its pretty curls pillowed on one tiny arm. Kvery one presses round to look, with the exception of "Dog" Kellarey, who has no curiosity in the matter of babies. Then questions ixmr in thick ami fast: "Whose is it?" "Where'd ye get the kiddy, matey?" "Whose youngster is it. Bill?" etc. Any other man would Ik' bewildered not so Bill Burns. He says slowly and solemnly, as if aware of his unique importance: "For 'Dog' Kellarey!" "What!" shouts that gentleman, "that's a lie, you Hill! Who sa3's the kill's for me?" "I do!" replies the driver. "Toll Waites of Wild Dog shoved It alumni, aloud with its duds, for yer. The little "un's father peggeil out on Saturday 'Flash Dick' of Wild lhg creek. 'Is last words was: 'Sen the kid to my add mate "Dog" Kellarey;' an' so I fetched it along, and the passengers made up the fare among'em, so there's notion' to pay there!" "old I licit pfirgeal mil!" the "Dog" mumbles slowly "add Dick peggeil out an" sent 'is kid to me!" The crowal is so tickled with the idea that it ventures uimiii a laugh. The laugh aleeiales him. and. sta'pping up aloiigsida- the sleeping child, he sings out: "The kid's mine, an" the man as laughs agin' "er laughs agin me. Now let's see "im as is game to grill!" He has evialcntly gone home, for no one answers. Sunday morning, and "Dog" Kell arey "s claim is the centerof attraction. Tin little arrival of tha previous night plays about his tent aloor. The "Dog." fearing harm to her from his crowd of visitors, carefully defines his boundary, and threatens dire penal tie's on the head of any man who crosses it. News, news! great and glorious news! News which runs like wildfire through tha Field, which llias from ta'tit to ta-nt from the pail ice- cell mi tha hill to Dutch Joe's across the flat, past the Kura-ka. alown to the Day alawn never stopping until everyone has heard it. " 'I og' Kellarey 's proverbial bad lua'k has turned at last he has lot tomeal on the Head, the new claim has turiia'd up trumps with a vengeance." It is full of gald spacks, sjiecimens and nuggets. Nat nuggets as small as iHas, but la -H.e as teacups. Not ha-re and there, but in a bigaleep lead, a for tune at every alriva af t'ae pick. The I.uck-pa'iiny, who has been sleep ing in tha shadow of the tent, watches ami chuckles at a piece of glittering mica. In his excitement the "Dog" sings out: '.Hoys! 'tis er 'as done it; there's the lass that brought me luck!" Three p. in. Maire excitement! A nugget weighing fifty pounds. Tha nia mster aif the Fiehl. a wannler of the country, ami a fortune to its linaler. 1'icks and shovels are thrown alown, tha roar aif cradles ami sluice-loxas staps as if by magic, anal the excited cmwal starts at a run for the claim. tin their arrival "Dog" Kellarey says liaithing. but far the saaamal time he carefully aints out his boundary. Ha Vln'"i his rcvo!var a:i the craalh, ready to his hand, and, bless you! the crowd undaTstanals what he means by that. The Luck-penny sucks her thumb ami crows contentedly; womanlike, she knows she is the center of attrac tiam. When the last visitor lias departeal i the "I log" picks her up, anal &aj-s, em- I phatically: "Kinchin! It's you as brought the luck to the old man. Now, laok here, three parts of that claim belongs to you, it daes!" And he meant it. A bright, fresh morning, with a few white clouds scattered about the heav ens, the better to enhance the blueness of the sky ln-yond. A happy spring breeze alashing round ctirners, ami playing the very mischief with silk hats anal alainty skirts, whistling through telegraph wires, and covering the harbor with a coating of continu ous white foam. A morning on which to feel thankful for existence. It is easily seen that something un usual is affecting the inhabitants of I'otts I'oint, that fashionable suburb of luxurious Sydney. At St. Mary's church door I find a large crowal assembleal. representing all ranks of society, and. for the first time, obtaineal some alim i.lea of the event I am aliatut to witness. In onler to make doubly sure I questiam an ancient lady, wha.se alress suggests connection with some charitable insti tution. At first she seems ina-linasl to tnat my thirst for information with con tempt, but finally a alesire for gossip overcomes her reticence, and she con descends to tell me all in one breath that "This 'ere is to l the wedaliu' o Miss Athelwatoal; not but that "er name ain't Athel w.hhI, but Kellarey. 'Kr as Mow'al the alms'aiuses down the stra-et which times hein' baal an a lone wid der as "ad no 'usbaml an whose son is aloiu "is last stretch, lie in" as innocent as a hate uiiImii-h. An rheumatiz' lein that bad, sha would curse, onlv she wotihln't. Anal Miss O'Siillivan. as lives in No. ii, said as "ow Miss Athel wood was worth well-nigh 'aif million of money if she was worth a jennv liait but that she shouldn't be, seein as 'aw she hail laeen liorn on the gadal alig gin's, anal every one k no wed them was gaioal times. And a prettier ami liettcr lady never stepped, beggin' "er pardon fair say in' sai." The old woman, ovce started, was haral ta stop. But I was interesteal iu M iss At helwanial. so ventureal an in quiry as t her parentage. "Ah! well may yer say that: not but what yer mightn't understanal, seein' as "ow ye're a stranger in these parts. The poor young aiear never "ad no fa ther to know but Mr. Athclwood. the lawyer. I 'earal tell she were just fetched up from them gold fields by a feller calla-d Kellarey a miner chap, who give her to Mr. Athelwoaial along of a fortune which "e saial was "ers. That's twenty year air more naiw the sama year as my good man was took by the perl ice fer the Orange btish rangin case, an "im nat never so much as 'avin' a 'aif penny of the money, but" I stoppa-d the alear add lady's family history by asking whom M iss At lud waiod was atout to marry. As I put the apiestiam an add and villainous! v alirty swagman plaeeal his roll of blankets alown at the church door and pushed his way toward us. "In Wggin' yer panlon," my laaly went on, "Miss Athelwaiod's a-goin" to marry, as it's not in my mind to re memlier a alook or a hearl. but I can't say which on 'em. Haide-ale-camp ta the governor, they alai say 'e is. Hut lajok! look, ere they comes!" Carriage after carriage radical up to the church aloor anal st ala.wti its load of fashiaiiablas. Then, amialst camtin uatns chaering, Mr. anal Miss Athel woaial arrived. She lookeal surprising ly lieautiful, ami I notia-ed that th add so. airman was sa overcome with as tonishment that he kept his eyes star ing at the da Mir laiug afta-r she had passeal thmugh it anal we haal rustical into the church ta see tha ceremony. My whole attention was al.-vota-d to watching the bride. I could not alrive har romance aiut aif my ha-ad. She went up tha aisle a homeless girl, tha prod uct aif a gohl lield. anal retunnd to the music of Menalelssaihn"s "Wealding March." a caniiitss and a nicml-r aif out- aif the oldest families iu F.urotM. After all the carriages had radlaal away ami 1 was turning to gi the ohl swagman taiucheal my arm. saying: "Mista-r! I"m a-goin" tai get yer ta alo ma a favor!" Asking him what it was. he replia'al: "Let's gai saima'whera out if this, where we're alone, an" I'll tell yer!" When we had ailjourna-il to a niaire fitting place my companion spoke. "I guess you'd call me a liar if I tol.l you that I was die man as brought up that girl as we've just see marriad? Hat 1 am I'm 'Dog Kellarey, sure enaiugh. "im as give er intai Lawyer Athelwaoal"s 'amis twenty years ago, with 'er share of the mine that panneal out sai rich." "Why alon't yam go to her, then? I hear she's been hunting high ami low fair you!" "That's ust It: I know she has. Hut al'yer think I'm a-gaiin into the cami jiany o' the likes o 'er frienals? Not me! 1'al le makin' a fiol ai' the girl, anal she'al Ik ashamed o' 'erself. Nai! I've trainpa-al close am four hundreal miles ta see her marrieal. anal naiw I'm a-goin' back intai the bush to-night fir good. I want you to write this "ere iu a letter for me it ain't much. Say: 'From "Dig" Kellarey to 'is Uuel-.-penny on 'er weahlin' alay," ami put in the corner, I ain't fairga.t yer, mind'." I wrote as he alirectasl, anal inc'aiseal what alo yaiu think? A baby's little woolen shoe! The ohl man hail kept this relic as his most sacreal treasure for nearly twenty years. tJuy Booth by, in Fall Mall Magazine. Ash V aaltita!iy. Ash Wealnesalay is sai calleal from the curious custom aif strewing ashes on the heaal as a sign of penitence. It was pnibably institute.1 by C.regairy the (ireat. who was pope from 5.l tai 0U4. Originally the ashes were conse crateal on the altar In-fore mass, sprinkled with hady water; and signed, three times wiJi the cmss. During this ceremainy the priest reciteal these words: Memento quaul finis es, et in cinerem reverteria. (Uemeiiiltcr that thou art altistaml must return to alttst I The ashes thus consecrated were then strewn mi the hea.ls of the oflia-iating priests anal the assembleal people. The ashes were usually obtaineal by burn ing the palms cauisacrated on the pre ceding (l'almt Sumlay. Conundrum " hat's the difference between a cat anal a legal document?" Answer "The one has clawses at the end of its pawses; tle other has pauses at the end of its clauses." Huffalo Courier. P.L0SS0MS AND GOSSIP. A Much-Needed Lesson Taught a Meddlesome Woman. "Joel Simpkins, you 1on't mean to tell me that some me has moved in the htAise by the river, alo you?" "No, 1 did nait say anybody haal moved in. I only said there had been two women folks looking at iL" "For the land's sake, what is this worhl eaiming to? Two women looking at the river haiuse! Well, I never!" When Mrs. Miranda Simpkins said. "Well, I never!" In that particular tam you were to understand then was nothing more to lie t-aid. But this time there saemeal to Ik, for she caintinued; "Well, all I have gait to say is that they must le strangers, for of course they won't take iL" "Hut they did take it," Jo e! insisted "anal the- are going to send their serv ant to clean it for them right away." "Now, Joel Simpkins, tell me all you know aliout the matter, and how yaiu found it ouL" "Why, Hill Jones told me. You know he has all the money he can make by renting the old haiuse. but ! tween you and me 1 didn't never lie lieve he would let iL Hut he has, sure enough." "Fair the land's sake them pa xir crit ters going in there! I tell yaiu what 'lis, Joel, it's alreadfui, and I feel it my duty to warn them. Where did you say they lived?" "lloaidiii-ss me, Mirandy. how bhould 1 know where they live?" "Why didn't you ask Bill Jones? There ought to be something done aliout iL" "Well, I don't see what it is to us, or what we can alo." "I'll tad! yaiu one thing you might alo. Joel Simpkins. Yam might sisk Freal 1'arsains why he alon't come 'round here no more. lie catue half a alaieli times to see Sally, and then stoppa-d cumin". If you was the right kind of father, you'd try to make a match 'tween him and our daughter Sally. Ili's rich Jreadful rich and our gal alon't want to have tai drudge the way I have." "Sally's a heap prettier'n ever you was but she's jest as bad when her tongue gets to wagging at gossip ami I 'arsons is a man with enough sense to uude -stand that he ought to keep away." said Joel but he said it under his breatli. May blossoms and the new tenants had come together, and, though the river house might lia haunted, a. tie aif the most lieautiful orchards anywhere " near New York was a part of the es tate. Mrs. Simpkins, directly she learned that a servant was cleaning the riv.-r hamse, started am her errand. As she entered the gate she looka-.l all anmnil, a if exp.-cting to sae the ghost then and then. After trying tile knocker at the front aloor with no result sha went around t the kite hen. Here she was met bj- a buxom Irish maid-of-all-nork. what was singing at the top of her voice, ami worked away with a will, seemingly not caring a tig for his ghaistship. On seeing tile stranger Biddy stoppeal, and, refting on her broom, said: "Morning, mum!" Mrs. Simpkins paid no attention to her greeting, but tdurteal aiut: "My fKHir girl, do you know where you le?" "Shure, anal that is what I alo, mum." answered Bidaly, with a cheery laugh. "Do you know this house is haunted that every night at midnight add John Smith's giiost gaies roaming through iL slamming doors and groaning jest dreadful?" "Yes. mum." said Biddy. "Aud aloes your mistress know it?" "Yes. nai iu a b'y told her the other day whin she came alaiwu here. "Aud is she eomiug in the face of all this?" "Nai, mum; she and Miss Nora are coming on the cars, mum." "Be you an idiot?" "Yes. mum or. that is, I alon't know, but Miss Nora can tell ye anything the loike of ye 'ml lie wanting to know whin she comtrs. She just tlotes on ghosts ami such things." "Well. 1 never!" exclaimeal Mra Simp kins, as she turned anal left the house, while Bialdy resumeal her song: "Me Darlint, Sweet Nora O'Neil." "It's my opiniam. Joel Simpkins. that they're a iucr lot alown there in that river house." said Mrs. simpkins, on reaching home. "What makes you j'think so, Mi ran.ly?" "Well, I went alown there to tell thetn alxnit the ght, ami woulal you ln-lieve it? That se rvant of theirs said she just daitaal am ghosts?" "What's their name?" "WNeil, I guess." "Didn't you ask?" 'No- I was so upsot I forgot iL Hut the Irish girl called aine aif them Miss Nor:u and when I come away 1 heard her sis. 'ng aliout her alarling. Miss Nora O'Neil. so I reckon that's her name- 1 jest think that Irish girl is a dumbed i.lioL" A few days later Joel Simpkins told his wi;'e that the folks had arrived at the river haiuse. Accordingly, Mrs. Simpkins calhd a second time at the hauuteal house. This time she was met by a middle agad laaly of title appearance, who greeted her pleasantly, but rat her fo n ally. "How alo you alo, Mrs. O'Neil?' Mrs. Simpkins said. "I am Mrs. Joel Simp kins and I am not ashamed of my name, either." "I am glad to hear of iL, Mrs Simp kins Will you walk in? You are somewhat mistaken in reganl to my name. It is not O'Neil, but Allen." 'For the land's saUes 1 thought it was O'Neil. I am sure I heard that girl of your" n singing almut her "dar lint Miss Nora O'Neil. " ' Mrs. Allen smiled, and said that al though her daughter's name was Nora. Hiddy'a song had nothing to alo w ith IL Incidentally, to invest herself with some importance. Mrs. Simpkins stata-d that Frail I'arsons the richest young man in the town, was paying at tention to her alaughter Sally. This remark provoked an inscrutable smile on Mrs Allen's face. Mrs. Simpkins inail. a long call, but was not inviteal to rcieat ha-r visiL She told her huband she caiuld not did out anything, ami was very sure there was some mystery connected with that Alien woman, for there were ever so inauy envelaipes on the table, and she could see tin name "Smith" plain as noth ing, and she was sure Mrs. Allen haat liccn reading them very letters Now. what business had Mrs. Allen with M rs Smith's letters, she would like to know? By this time Mrs Simpkins and har friends were a gxnl deal cxcitad over the myster3- concerning the iH-aiple at the river house. Mrs Allen and ha-r alaughter seaMiml oblivious aif all th. alark hints that were thrown out ab.mt then. Suspicion grew fasL Many things wara said of the occupants aif the riva-r haiuse. Ni Jenkins, who livil near, told his wife that lights burne.l there all nighL Kzra Burke saw a woman in white come to an upper winalaiw and loaik aiut with w ild eyes, lie knew it was a woman Wcause aif her long hair, else he'al "a-thought it were add Smith's ghosL" Conjecture ran higli. At lat it was ilecided that a aielegation of women ha-adul by Mrs. Simpkins should wait ujvun Mrs. Alia-n and alemaud an explanation of the mystery. "Fair such is our Christian duty," saiil Mrs. Burke, whoi-to.il high in tha churclL "It is my ait ini. m that their name is not Allen at all, but Smith, anal I'd not le one bit surprisasl if tha-y turned out to Ik some kin of that old John Smith whose ghost haunts that vary house, and whose grandfather, they do say, was hung." So the next afternoon the delegation started am itr. errand. "I'm just aching tai tell them what I think aif sua'h aloir.gs." Mrs. Simpkins said, as she raised the heavy bras, kuiM-ker and applia.il it with mi much energy that the aloor was openul al most immediately by pretty Miss Nora. "ilow are you, ladies? Walk right iu," she said, evialcntly rather sur priseal. "Mamma will lie here in a very few minutes. She Iras gone for the mail " Mrs. Simpkins nanlded to the others, as much as to say: "Just in tima-." Ami they f. dlowcd Nora intai the parlor. She tried to entertain them until her mother returnail. but feltajuite relieva-d when she saw her coming and went to the aloor to tna-et her. "Come right in. mamma. There are soma la. lies waiting for you." Mrs Allen was astotiisliaii ti find so mauy callers in ha-r parior at one time, but showeal no trace of surprise in her manner. "(iooal afternoon. India's; I am vcrv glad tai sa-e yam. It was such a lovely alay that I went fur the mail myself. I hope you have not Urn waiting long." Her greeting was so aurdial that Mrs. Jom-s afterwards said she was glad sha was not ha'ad of the da-h-gation. Afta-r one air two ineffectual efforts Mrs. simpkins abruptly Is-g.m: "Mrs. Allen, air Mrs. Smith, or what ever your iiama' is tin- I.nnl only knows. wa alon't! v.ehitva a'ome lu-ra-this afternoon to lit..! out who y.m are. You give your name as Allen, and g. t letters for Mrs Smith, ami we ain't used tii i;o sue'ii g.'i.igs on. and we have coma here to have you explain, if yaui can. la.r wa- don't want no mysteries in our iieighliorhooiL" Surprise remU-n-d Mrs Alla'n spcai-h-less for a moment: then she coldly s:iid: "I. ailies. I gave my name as .Mien simply liecause that was my husband's name, and, consequently, is mine. Mrs. Smith is my wiilouisl si-ier, who ra'sides with me- For ra-a-sons not nai-essary to state, I raeeive and an swer her letters That is Jiia meaning aif the supjKisa.il mystery which ha caused yam si much alistrass Like the ghosL it exists only in imagination." She 'casad speaking and glaneeai t ward the door, evidently expecting her visitors to go; but Mrs Simpkins was not easily routciL "You say your sister livas with you; it'saidd no mil' has ever sa-a-n her and that you never have no company. And can you tell us ma'am, who the poor critta-r is that roams about this house at night, all in white?" Mrs. Allen's faco was very stern as she answereal: "I had hoped that it would not In" nei'essary to go into the aletails aif this painful matter; but in order ti check malicious gossip I wil. exti'.ain that mv sister is a ooufirma-d invalid, and la-ft the city bai-ause she was on the va-rge of nervous prostration. We came hen that sha might le iterfeetly ajui.-t. and have avoided company an haT accounL She is not able to read or answer ha-r letters which all refer to l-us:nass as she aiwns ti msiderable r.-al estate in town. Now, ladies as I have nothing more to say concerning my priv.ita affairs I will Im. you goo-1 afternoon." Mrs Allen's tone and manner for bada further words, and the al isa-om1.tail wainien rose in a lmdy and marched out of the house. Not until they raa-ha-.l the gate alid Mrs Simpkins recover har powers of speech; then she es clainia.il: "Weil. I never!" Had Mrs Simpkins got a glance into the orcharal, where May blossoms made a thia'k, swa-ct-scented cartn-t am tiie grounal. she woulal have Ihiii even more amazul. and utterly a-nraga-d. Fair Freal 1'ars.ms'. and Nora Allen were seated there- She was holding a sprig aif the blossoms, which he had just broken off for her. and Fn.it was saying: "I wonder if those ohl gossips hava gone. Naira? What a clatter tha-y wamld raisa if they knew that I had just surrenalcreal my heart to tha fair est stranger that ever came to this queer old town;" The gossips haanl all about it later, when the w ashling Wils pealtiL Mrs. Simpkins veil teal her spile in ha-r char acteristic way. To this .(ay si. a can't uiiaic rstana! why Fred 1 "arsons ignored tlie chance to gain a wife and a. mother-in-law proticient in the art of gossip. N. Y. Journal. Not on th 11111a. A lady playing tha- h-ading part in a ma-laialrama a-arria-al w ith ha-r a a-ry cross Spanish jMiodla'. wliia-h slept iu ha-r trunk while sha was engagt-al in tha play. The littla- aiog was a sound sl.i-jH-r usually, but this evening was an exception, lie v. as w i.'.a- a w ake and sitting uiiaibser vail in the l".r-t en trance watched tha- play when tha heavy man seizes the h-ading lady, shrieking: '"Then, curse .m! I'll strangle yam!" Tha p.. -:1c sprang auitaithe stage, pnacurtil a tirm hold am the heavy villain's trams, rs and jerkasl away at tha-m until his mist r.-ss was obliged to arise from ha-r kt a a-s. st0 sobbing and plcaal with tha' villain to "spare ha-r life." and ra-turn the .aodle to the dressing-room anal lock him iu.
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers