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My white lx in a halo made of mist. My voice and vior no man mipht resist; All those who lravfd mc were but iass in hrt-atli. My prasp to nun, poor moths, meant In stant death. Hut now stranpe miracles have come to I ass. Man lias put harness on my limbs, alas! Mis turliires and his dynamos I turn. And far away his lik'hts mysterious burn. His factories hum. his street cars come and no. rriven by my sinews swiftly to and fro. Little thought I to round his ways and curves AlonR his system of intricate nerves f ir.sulati d copper, armored steel. To I'.ssh in liKlit or turn his shaft and wheel: Obedient to his lightest tou-h of hand, A willing slave to toil at his command. My voice transfernsl hum now makes the bupy Of swift machines where human toilers come. Hands clasped in mine to benefit thw race Kach rusliirip at hiKh-pressuro :.- ; ei pace To serve the world, pive life or li;bt and then llr'np other blessings to the sons of men. Imagine old Niacara lassXMl thus, i"o lit'ht a lamp or haul a city hut. To whisper mildly o'er the i. l. phone. To -r.-ss a frallit r. lift up building stone. A tiaJil made a chore-boy by the folks Who hold the reins ami make me wear their yokes. Hut never mind! I still plunge in the deep With miuhty antlum and resistless sweep; What matter little tasks I daily do To pull these pigmies and their projects t hrouu h ? They dare not meet me when my warriors all Flash countless scars and clah thein at my call. Yet will I serve them with my surplus strength. Perhaps do tasks unthouKht of yet. at b iik'Ii: Hut here within mv stronchold I defy And challenge mortals with my tierce war cry : They dare not brave my heights and deeis profound I am the monarch, this my battle-ground. I. KI MJAK J INKS. 1 CONFIDENCES. !; BY CLARENCE ROOK. s - " LVIA rose frmn her seat by the lire is 1 entereil, ami jfiivo me liT liaml ; ami irnni . ccruim niv ..i..-v miss in her eyes 1 saw that she knew that I knew "So you're hack in town at l;ut?" saiil Sylia. "Have you hail tea'.'" "No," I sai.l, "ami 1 will, thank you." Sylvia jHiureil me jut eup. "No siiiar ami xcry little milk, isn't it?" she said. "Ves," I said. "I've hail an excellent tinu paiMliug- up ami ilown the IU viera in the sunshine. Olad to jret buck, though." I sipH-l my tea in fiilence. Sylvia lay back in her chair, her fuee half-hiihleii by the fan with which she shielded her complexion from the tire. "Well?" sai.l Sylvia. "Well?" I saitl. "Don't vou think." said Sylvia, "that the oeeasion requires you to say some thing nice mid cousinly. I nm nuru you've heard " "Ves," I said, "I've heard. Aunt Kiiima wrote and told me about it as soon as well, at least, I suppose it was a.-, soon as I!y the way, when was it?" "When was what?" said Sylvia. "When it luippen? when did ymi?" "O, don't he silly, Jim," said Sylvia. And her foot waj.'jjled in the old way. 1 have always noticed that Sylvia's ex pression lies in her foot. "I suppose," I said, rellectively, stir ring my tea (into which Sylvia had put suir), "that it did happen. He did propose. Or did you?" "Jim, you're horrid," said Sylvia. "l'lease may 1 have some bread and butter?" I said. "Vou ean't rct bread and butter on the liiviera at least, you don't." Sylvia handed it to me. Her eyes Hashed a pathetic entreaty. "1 oiifjht to have said 1 was pleased, oughtn't 1? And that I am sure you will be very happy, as you deserve to i Ik'. "Well, aren't you pleased?" asked Sylvia, looking at. me curiously with arched eyebrows. "I thought I'dfrar was such n friend of yours, and I well, we hae always been " "Vou call him Kilf-'ar-how curious," murmured. "Now I haxe known him for years ami never called him anything but Jones; while you have only known him -how lonjr? A year? Less, I should think. And yet you " "It's not a question of time, at all," said Sylvia, turning' her face nway from nn airain. "Kdar and 1 know one an other thoroughly. We have, no secrets from each other. Vou may fret to know a person ipiite as well in two months uk in two years if only " "Quite so. Very projHT," I replied, wondering vnpiiely what was Jones notion of a secret. "Well, but why aren't you pleased?" said Svlvia. "I'm sure you're not and I think it's a little a little unkind of vou. Still." and Sylvia settled herself more comfortably in her chair, "of course it doesn't matter much." "Not much," 1 replied, put ting down my teacup; "nevertheless, yuu can scarcely expect a man to Ik- overjoyed when lie loses his best friend and his best cousin. Can you?" "looses them! "said Sylvia. "What do you mean?" "I have always noticed," I said, "that I lose more friends by marriage than by death." "Hut you don't suppose " lepan Sylvia: "If my friend is n man," I continued, "his wifr" dislikes" nie liecause I know more of her huslwind than she does " "How absurd!" said Sylvia. "And if my friend is a woman," 1 continued, 'her husband is just a shade jealous because he suspects that I have been making love to her." "How silly!" said Sylvia, shifting im patiently in her chair. "The worst of it is," I proceeded, "that they are both right as a rule. In this Hirticul.ir case " ".run." exclaimed Sy 1 ia. bringing-n expressive foot down tiJKin the hearth iiij;. "if you've only come back to be horrid " "I have come back," I saitl, "for the express purose of pivinp Jones away or whatever it is you do for your best friend when he is married." "That's nice of you, Jim," said Sylvia, leaning back contentedly. "Then you are pleased?" "1 think Jones is an uncommonly lucky man," I said. Sy lv ia w riukled her brows and looked curiously at ine. "If you think Kdgur is marrying me lor my money, that is not the ease." said Sy lv ia. "I shouldn't ilreain of such a thine;," I said. "Though, of course, it is lucky that I l.ave money," said Sylvia, "or else we couldn't we should have to wait." ()f course," 1 said, "a regular income is a convenient thing to have. And I don't suppose Jones has ever made i:t(H in any single year at the bar yet." lint he's clever." said Sylvia, "and he must wait his opjiortunity." "Ves," I said. "Vou weie surprise. 1, were'nt you?" said Sylvia. "Now confess you were surprised for once." "Well. 1 don't know that I was par ticularly. You see, I was staying up the river with him in August, ami 1 knew then was ouiething up." "O, but you couldn't have known thiii." said Sylvia, with a slight la nuh. "Of course I didn't absolutely know," 1 said. "And now I come to think of it. I think it was a little mean of J-iies and of you. too, Sylvia to keej ine in the dark so loii:. 1 could have done a good ileal for you in :ny ipnet way. you know brought yon together ami re tired tliscrcclly round the corner. A liltle seasonable frankness would have done wonders. As it was " "As it was." said Sy lvia, rather inly. "Kilgar and I were able to manage our own atrairs ourselves." "Still." I said, "if it's any consolation to y ou, ! don't mind assuring you that he's fraiili'jfelly in love with you." "Thank you," said Sylv ia, "it's pleas ant to hear it on such excellent au thority." "Of course I should have known there was a woman in the rase even if lie hadn't told me so." "What do you mean?" said Sylvia, v ho seemed to be getting a little lored. "Well, when a man leaves the river to spend his week-ends in town, it's fair ly safe to conclude that there's a wom an in it; and when he tells you so it seems to remove the hist veslige of doubt. Hut I must confi-ss he quite put me olT the scent. I never dreamt it was you he was after. I fear, Sylvia, you are a sly puss. Why, what on earth's the matter?'" Svlvia had turned white and had risen from her seat. "What are you talking about?" she asked. "We are talking about Edgar Jones; but" "Hut who was the woman? Jim, I :nsist " "My dear SyHiu " "Mr. Jones," said the parlor maid, holding open the door. "Hullo: old fellow back again?" "Ves," I said; "just in time to con gratulate you both and to give you away. Well I must be going two's comoany, you know, eh? liood-by, Sylvia." "1 shall be dining at the club," said Jones; "shall 1 see you there?" "1 think not," I said. Keally, I could have done no pood by staying. I'.lack and White. HiinHtril II o ii ml Steak. Try roasting a round steak in the fol lowing way: tiet a steak about two inches thick from the. Iest part of the round; prepare it by trimming olT all the pieces of fat. lay them on one side, and put the steak into an earthen dish. Tut a quarter of a teaspoonful of pep per i;;to a cup. turn tion it two gills of olive oil. and fill the cup to the brim with good vinegar. Pour this over 1 he steak, cover the dish, and let it remain two or three hours, turning the steak fi-'-qiiently. Put the bits of fat into a baking pan, and when the steak has soaked for the required length of time drain it and lav it upon the fat in the p::n. Moisten a few rolled bread crumbs with a liltle hot. milk, add some butter and season with salt anil pepper, a tea spoonful of Worcestershire sauce, and some powdered sweet herbs, if they are liked. Mix these ingredients together with the yolk of an cgtr, and spread the mixture over the top of the meat. Place the Kin in a hot oven and roast from 25 to 0 minutes. This steak may be served with a sauce or not. Itoston P.udget. He Wan Alive.' The grenadiers of the famous "Old lluard" will never lie forgotten in France as long as the memory of (brave mm shall live in the national heart. I'.ut some of them, at least, were as bright as they were brave, as the fol low ing trustworthy anecdote Wars wit ness: One fine morning, after fieace had 1-cen concluded lit-tween France and Ilussia. the two cmjicrors, Naole-n and Alexander, were taking a short walk, arm in arm, around the alacc park at Krfurt. As they approached the .entinel, who stood at the foot of the grand staircase, the man. who was a grenadier of the guard, presented arms. The emperor of France turned, and Hiiitiiig with pride to a great scar that divided the grenadier's fare, said: "What do yon think, my brother, of soldiers who can survive such wounds as that?" "And you," answered Alexander, "what do you think of soldiers who can inflict them?" Without stirring an inch from his po sition, or changing the expression of his face in the least, the stern old grena dier himself replied, gravely: "The man who did it is dead." -Youth's Companion. A Spur. "Pailiff." said a western judge one day to an officer in charge of the jury, "will you please inform the jury there will be a horse race in Merrick's field at three o'clock?" The jury had been out for 43 hours, but in less than 30 minutes they came into court w ith a verdict. Tit-Hits. LAKE MICHIGAN ALWAYS OPEN. Han It Is Hendert-.l nvlRable All Ihe lar A ro anil. Navigation on Ijike Michigan is never closed. Steamers run back and forth ucross the lake and betweeu the ports of the west shore of the lake duringtlie entire winter with remarkable regular ity. The first attemptsat winter navi gation on the translake routes wrre made by the Detroit & Milwaukee Kail road company and by the now defunct Kngelmaiin Transortation company many years ago. and the success of win ter ventures became established us the character of the steamers was improved and developments were made in marine enginery. Now winter navigation pro ceeds almost uninterruptedly, and the new car ferries steam back and forth with little regard for weather or for ice. The success of the car ferries on Ijike Michigan and the car ferry which defies winter in the Straits of Mackinac is probably the cause of the announce ment that negotiations are in progress looking to the construction of ice breaking freight steamers that will en able their owners to keep them in com mission on the Ijike Superior and lower lake route during the winter. The re port is without foundation. There is a vast difference between the navigation of Lake Michigan from one shore to tne other, anil along its west shore, and the navigation of the great lakes throughout their lengths ami through the interlake channels. Ice breaking is expensive, and occasionally the ice Hoes defy the crushing miTs of the best of the so-called ice breakers. One of the car ferries was recently stalled by a floe near Menominee, w hich defied not only the steamer, but the explosive power of dynamite. The trouble of winter navigation on the chain of lakes would occur in ihe intei luke channels and in the canals. Ow ing to the clogging effects of the ice it would be almost impossible to operate canals during midwinter. Another and a very serious bar to general lake navigation in winter is tin prevalence of snowstorms, during which nothing whatever can le seen. Snow is more obstructive to the sight than foe, ami during a driving snow storm it is inqxissible to see anything ahead, even in the daytime. Winti r.avigators on I-ake Michigan, who are never out of sight of land for any great length of time, exjierience their chief annoyance from the snowstorms. They manage to steam into port when snow is flying thick, because of their famil iarity with the route, but they occa sionally get into trouble while they are wrapped in "the tumultuous privacy of the storm." It docs not follow, by any means, that because winter navigation is success ful on I-ake Michigan it can be made successful in the upper and lower lake service. Milwaukee Wisconsin. SHE GOT THE CALF. It Warn by Vhlte Lie. Hat She Won the Trice. "Sjeaking of exerieuces," said a young matron in Hrooklyn at an after noon tea, "I can tell a queer one. When I went from New Yolk to Vir ginia to teach a public school in a small crossroads town I found the people very religious and sincere, while. I am afraid. I was neither. I went to church, though, because everylxdy was expect ed to go. One of the regular attendant was a sort of half lawyer, half farmei. who was no more religiously inclined than I was. and we became firm friend through our mutual sense cf humor. The one church was presided over by a worthy couple. Hy that I mean that the pastor, Uev. Mr. farter, preached while Uev. Mrs. Carter did evangelical work in teaching the Itible class. Sin had an air of omniscience that was de lightful, but it irritated my farmer-law yer friend, so one day ho came to tin and said: " 'I'll give you a calf if you will take down Uev. Mrs. Carter.' " 'What can you mean? I'm not a wrest ler. " "Never mind, he said, 'just join out Sunday school class and take hei flown." "Well, I joined the class. The lesion for the day was the account of the wnlk ing of the three men in the fiery t'ur nace. We were treated to a long hi-tnri-by our ttaeher on the lieauties of the triumph of faith, and as she stopped for want of breath my farmer friend. wh. sat Itehind me. gave me a nudge and said : " 'Xow's your time; take her down." "I braced up and said: " "Hut. Mrs. Carter, haven't you heard the latest scientific teaching utxtut Hint ii-currence? Haven't you heard that it is now believed these three men w.-re i-ouiplete suits of asliestos?' "It was l it likf ly that the good wrm nn hail ever heard of the substance, but she was not to le caught napping, so she replied: " 'Why er yes. I think so." "The lesson was brought to a snd-len close. The next Sunday we knew that the kites teaching of science hud !een earnestly discussed by the pastor .-.ml his w ife, for llev. Mr. Carter procccdi l to preach a sermon an hour long on the sinfulness of modern science. 1 got the calf." N. Y. Sun. Home Oatlea of Indian Children. There are home duties as well as pleas tires for the children. Hoys are re quired to look after the ponies, to lend a hand in planting, to help in the harvest; ami they ore often made to do active duty as scarecrows in the new ly -planted field, where, like little ltoxcp. they fall fast asleep. The girls help to gather wood, bring water, anil look atti-r the younger ones. As they grow older they are taught to cut. sew, and make garments. In former flays, the old Omahas say, no girl was considered marriageable until she had learneil to tan skins, make teutsand clothing, pre pare meat for drying, and could cul tivate corn and beans; while a young man who had not learneil to mnke his own weapons and to be a skillful hunter was not considered fitted to take upon himself the responsibilities of the pro vider of a family. Alice C. Fletcher, in Century. Ihe Senaltlve Cheekbone. It is a mistake to suppose that thetip of the tougue is the most sensitive part of the tKxly. Those engaged in polish ing billiard lialLs or an v other substance that require a very high degree of smoothness invariably use the cheek bone as the.ir touchstone fair detecting any roughness. I A Midnight Encounter. VKKNAL CHOICE was a pretty and commodious villa, and Oovecot tam a select and salubrious suburb. To the happiness of Mr. and Mrs. Maurice tireen lately made almost complete by the arrival of the veriest cherub that ever came down from Heaven there w ere but two draw backs. The first w as of Maurice's making. He had a ridic ulous fail about gas fittings. He le lii'vcd them to le in a chronic state of leakiness. He told his long-sutTering w ife almost daily that more gas escaped through nnsusM"Oteil cracks and defec tive joints than served to illuminate the cozy rooms of Vernal Choice. Mrs. Maurice (Jreen's bugbear was burglars. Nothing could shake her cou victiou that when a burglar took his "dark suburban way" his objective would Ik' by decree of fate. Vernal Choice. Thus it came to jnuss. that, nightly, while Maurice was turning off the gas at the meter he would on no account allow anyone else to do it, us "gas is such a fickle tiling" his little wife was on her knees in the Ix-droom. not. as might 1m siipjxised. say ing her prayers though she made the same kneeling serve loth puroses but tim idly cering under the flowered terra :-otta valances for the burglar that never came. Sometimes it would hapen that the iras popped out just as she was in the act of raising the curtain that might reveal the tragedy of her life, and then, w ith a little scream, she would seek the matches she never could put her hand readily on the matches and lijtht the delicately shaded candle on the dress ing table, ere proceeding with her search and her devotions. At such times, when Maurice ascend.il from the underground regions, where the gas meter meted out its dole, to the com pany of his wife alove stairs, she would rate him. right soundly for so gentle a little body, for what she styled his "ab surd fad" aliout turning the gas off. "What do a few extra feet of gas sig nify, when three precious lives might some night lie sacrificed for lack of a light?" she would exclaim, with as much dramatic fervor as if she hail been before a row of footlights and a crowded pit. instead of a blue-tinted corrugated caudle and a mildly scornful husband. When Maurice wished to le wither ing, lie was always studiously allitera tive ir his choice of words. He never failed to xoh pooh the burglar notion. He said it was "the merest tiiixuishine," and that there were "crowds of cost lier cribs to crack than Vernal Choice, you bet!" Mrs. (Ireen, as a rule, deigned no an swer. She hated slang, and wondered how a man of Maurice's sense except upon the meter question could stoop to its use. She generally refrained from saying so, however, like the sensi ble little woman she was. and. resigned ly filling the baby's feeding lxittle, and tucking the 1-ttle cherub with sundry crixinings in its bedside cot retired for the night, leaving Maurice to blow out the corrugated candle. It was winter, and it was midnight. Maurice had a cold, and so had the baby. The "little cherub," in fact, had a "touch of bronchitis." anil his hard breathing as he slumbered restlessly in his little cot. plainly testified the fact through the darkness. "I wonder," murmured Mrs. (ireen. as she lay listening to the troubled breathing of the child on the one hand, and the influenza snore of her husband on the other "I wonder if the little pet is warm enoneh. I'm anxious alxtut his little chest, bless him! I'd take him into my lied, only Maurice doesn't like it. The little fellow kicks the clothes off so! What could I do to prevent him from taking cold afresh? Happy thought! there's that little woolen wrap in the Fpare bedroom. It's either in the middle drawer of the dressing table or in the wardrolx. I know. "Poor Maurice! he would willingly go and find it for ine. but I wouldn't disturb him to-night for the world. I'm glad I succeeded in ix-rsuading him to sleep in his dressing jacket. Those nasty influenza colds need care, and I'm so apt t- uncover him in reaching over to baby. I'll slip into the next room myself." Thus solilxui.ing she quietly got out of lxd for where baby came in fear Hew out pushid the turned back IkiI clothes gently against her husliaiid's back so that he would not miss her. ami prtx-eeded to feel for the matches. The little receptacle at the lx-d head was empty. Not a match! "Oh. dear, dear, w hy will Maurice insist Uxn turn ing the gas off at the meter. csKfially w hen the baby is unwell ?" she sighed, as she slipped into her dressing gown, w hich fortunately was hanging on the brass knob at the fixt of thelx-d. Slipjx'rs she could not find. Nil drs M'randum! She knew to a foot where the wrap was. or at least she thought she il ill. ami she would know it the mo ment she laid a finger fn it. The lit tle cherub in the cot roughed in a chok ing manner. Light or no light the wrap must Im found, and. without further delay, the little mot her walked ginger ly into the next room. No one could fail to find the ward rolx. as it wjts the first article of furniture encountered on entering the room. When its iloor oxiied it was jx Visible to view one's self from the ledroom door, for it consisted of a three-quarter length mirror in which Mrs. Green was wont to insxct the "hang" of her latest cos tume. "I'm almost sure it's in the dressing table drawer," mused Mrs. (Ireen, grow ing accustomed to the darkness, and as sisted by a suspicion of moonlight that shed a pale, uncertain light lxth through the skylight on the landing and the window opjxvsite the wr'r-lK. Aiding uiMMt this, though she ignored the ward rolie fort he present, she crossed the riKim to the dressing table, and, after sundry clicking of little brass handles, and tentative pulls at wrong drawers, at last opened the right one, but failed to feel the wrap. "It must be iu the ward robe after all," she thought, and, accordingly, closed the drawer with some noise, tripjx'il across the dark nxjin, oiKMied the ward rolx? door with some difficulty, anil buried herself in its spacious recesses. Maurice was a heavy sleejx-r, and, consequently, apt to lx- a bit beinud dled on first awakening more especial ly in the dark. On this particular night, after appur. ntly dreaming for a full fortnight of "exeursii.ns and alarums," he awoke with a violent start. The rixjni, to him, was pitch dark. There was not even the suspicion of mxtnlight on this side of the house. IU-siies the blinds W'ere flown. He sat up. everv nerve and sinew taut now. He was fully awake. "Hy jingo," he breathiil. and he felt the cold sweat start to his brow, "sin was right. They've come!" He put out his hand to wake his w ife. He fi It her form under the bulging lx-d . U tiles at his side. He could hear the baby breathing huskily. There was only one other jicrson in that house un-aii-ounted for. That was the little servant maid. Hut why should she W trying drawers in the spare li.-ilroemV No. they had come after all. Mr. 1 1 recti was right. It was burglars. Maurice withdrew bis hand, which rested on the hillock by his side, with the thought: "I'll not waken -r. jM,r soul. She'd lx scared to death. I'll know the worst first." So thinking, ami with a sort of infatuation w hich was perhaps bravery to pet a glimpse of the marauder, he stole out of lx-d. but- : toned up his dressing-jacket, tix.k the little Ixilside chair by the li k. and. thus armed, his heart lx'ating like a muflled drum, stealthily turned the corner lx-tw-en the two r.xttus. A faint light came through t he land ing skylight. Heavens! the villain was at the other end of the rix.m. right op posite the d.ir. What he was doing he could not make out. for he Mk-d like a man seen through a mist. The wretch! Just then the draught along the landing tx,k Maurice shrew. IH on the Iwire !r;s. The influenza asserted itself. He foii'.'ht against it d.-sj i ratc ly for a moment. It but augmented the force of the explosion. Like a thunderclap he sneezed. There vv as a muflled exclamation in the room. Maurice rushed forward with uplifted chair. The burglar, too. had a chair, and was making at him with equal fury. Crash ! The house seemed to have fallen. There was a fearful clatter of falling glass, a pierc ing shriek, the sound of a lxxly- falling on the floor, and all was still, but for the wail of the frightened balx- in the rixim he hail left. What had he done? He kneel.il down, careless of the broken glass, and his hand rested fin a luire f.x.t. Sick with apprehension, he grojil else where, and encountered a plaited head ami a few curling pins. "A m:it-h! a match! My kingdom for a match:' he would doubtless have said, had he not lxcn so terribly upset. Just then a rectangle of light ap-Ix-ared and increased until. Kie and trembling, st.xid the little maid in the thxirway. a farthing dip in her hand, ama.ed to see the following trnth-au vivant: .V ".anlrolx il.xir. swinging iixn its hinges, with its long mirror smashed to fragments: a chair, with a broken leg. lying close by: a horrid man in a night shirt and dressing jack et, knc.ding at the fet-t of a prostrate woman in a dead faint, a dressing gow n and plaits, who was none other than the horrified man's wife. Maurice 'recti never turns the gas off at the meter now. except when he takes his wife and family away for the summer holiday. Mrs. tire.-n still looks under the lx-d for ossilie bur glars Wfore retiring fur the night, but Maurice has never dared to i-hatT her since he mistook his own f:rint reflec tion in the wardrolx mirror for a des-ix-rate burglar. Tit-I'.its. TURKISH PROVERBS. Two captains sink the ship. The tongue prx-laims the man. The soul is the companion of the soul. A true word is more bitter than poison. A thousand Borrows do not pay one debt. He who spits at the wind, spits in his ow n face. A little hill in a low place thinks itself a mountain. To the lazy man every day is a "Ttay-r-m" (fete). To-day's egg is better lhan to-morrow's f ow 1. The arrow which has. been cast dixs not come back. The teeth of the pift-horse are not to la hxikeil at. Eat and drink with a friend, but do not trade with him. He is a madman w ho, Wing rich, lives as if he were jxxir. The rose grows from the thorn and the thorn from the rose. If an enemy Ik as small as) an ant. think him an elephant. IVath is a black camel which kneels at every lxxly s door. Io gixxl and cast it into the sea : if the sea i1iks not recognize it the Creator will. He who has lived long d-s not know much; (but) he who has traveled much knows much. If a horse dies, his saddle remains be hind him; if a man dies, his name re mains. He who knows his business, he who knows his comjtaiiion. and he who knows his fcxxl dxs not get jxxir. Helieve not in the great; lean not on water: trust not in the dying flay: do not iH-lieve a woman's word, and do not trust to the courage of your horse. X. Y. Ledger. Citola t tne the Amerleaa f.lrl. Justin Huntly McCarthy was i.mx showing a young Amerii-ctn woman over Ihe house of parliament. In escorting her through the library of the commons lie casually uient ioncd, as a more or les interes-ting fact, that it w asagainst the rules for women to sit down there. "Is that really a law of the place?" a-skeil the fair American. "That :s sn." answered McCarthy, gravely. "Then." said his is:Ur, "you just see me break it." and. drawing up a chair, she sat resolutely down at the table. The Famine In India. Among the greatest sufferers from the Indian famine are the jewelers in Telhi. whoe bas-inetss h ruined, as hard ly any marruwrcs take place and every body wants to tsee ornaments instead cf buying. THE BOOK WORLD. M iss Itraddon has completed a new story which is called "Cnder lvove'a l.ule." Mr. Kider Haggard has finished a new lovel dealing with Iloer life, entitled The Swallow." S. K. riwk. tt has lxen taking a walking tour in Pomeraiiia, we are ad vis.il by the English pairs, no doubt with a view of acquiring "local color" for his new story , "The lied Axe." the scene of which is to W laid ia Pom rania. Mr. Ilicbard I.e Callienne contracted Ins sccmid marriage re-eiitly- when he made Miss Julie Norregard. a lxuulou oiirnalist. bis wife. The witnesses were Mrs. James Welch and Mr. Wil liam Sharp, of literary note. . Pit rrc liti. who is at present cn ac tive service on the French war ship l.ivclot. has produced a new Ixxtk. l:.iinuntcho." a study of I '.is. a van laudscax and manners, (iaston 1h-s-.-hanips !.i lares it to 1-e "the true Loti, he Iiti of the old manner." A y'f'Uiig woman has received the un usual honor of the freedom of a lxndon guide. She is a daughter of Ix.rd Am herst of Hackney , and, hav ing w ritten a "History of f.anlening in England." has just Ix-en honored by the Worship ful ( oinpan v of i iardeuer. Alexandre lluuias. the younger, is shortly to have his statue on the Place Maleshi-rlx-s in Paris. Subscriptions are already Ix-ing collected for the pur pose, ami as Iluiuas is a household name in France, it should lx-less difti ult to raise the money than it has un fortunately Imi-ii in the rase of many oth. r ilisting iiislml Frenchmen. FOREIGN NOTES. A London omnibus carries on an average of L'.'.'mi passengers a week. The Himiinlas export over IT.IKX.1,000 Ixoimls of onions annually. The average density of the popula tion in London is :.s,ooii jkt square mile. A man who can wash dishes thinks he would have Ix-en an excellent house keeper. In Italy there are more theaters in projx.rtion to the population than in any other country. A French chemist has invented a blue s ap w hich renders uniiti-essary the use of bluing iu laundry work. It is reported that Switzerland is to lx- the next country which will fol low-lie- example of lU-lgiuui and Italy on rci-koni ng 1 line up to o'clock in plwe of t w "ui- 12. Of the ."..554 suicides committed in I ten mark in t he ears !" to I s'.t5. f our 'itihs wire by men. and the favorite, iiion'hs wi re May and June. Threeout of tour preferred hanging. The largest telegraph office iu the world is in t he general post othi-e build ing. 1oiidon. There are over .. H op erators. 1.oiii of w horn are women. The batteries are supplied by 30.1MHI cells. Liissia has the largest military ex-pi-uses L'D--.iMt.it a year. England follows next w ith Sl'jl.ouu.tNMi. France with $lsr,,ooo,oM, (iermauy with $lo4, im.i.iiii. Austria, $s.ititnt,iou; Italy, $05.- I M II I.I M H I. Argentina's new census gives a total population of alxiut 4.i-.tJ,Ooit, of whom 1 ." 4 t..fx w live in the cities. The leading city, ltuenos Ay re, lias a population of ..'.. sJ4, making it the largest in South A merica. I ALL OVER THE GLOBE. Five sisters living iu Norway. Me., re eutly met for a family reunion for ihe first time in their lives, although they have always resided withiu leu miles of one another. The eldest fcis : r was married ami moved away from ihe iirciital home before the younpeat v as IxTn. A civil .'ngir.evr. met hanical engineer .r architect, in the employ of the (Jer tiii.n railways, must, on an average, kvait tili he is Ci or 4o years old before his j .-it ion is jK-rniKiient. The aver-.g- time they are employed on teiu-,-orary work lx-fore they are j.rnia nently aptviinted is 12 years. A farmer's taxes in Turkey areclai tii.l thus: (1) One-tenth of all crops mil fruils; (21 four xr cent, of lire "-ciiting value of house and lanl-; til) rive ix-r cent, on every transfer; 4 in annual cattle tax of 32 pence on .-very sheep and 21 ix-nce on every gout. The taxes are rigorously collected. The stale of Washington, and. in fact, the whole Pacific mast, is looking for ward to an unusual numWrof tourists, investors and home seekers this year, u.d business is on the increase already . Ten venrs ago t here w as a great iufluv f settlers, and it is expected that thia vcar's will almost equal it. The new telephone cable t-etweea England and France is now laid across he channel. It is 24 miles long and runs from Ablxitt's cliff, three nules vest from Dover, to Sangatte, four niles west of Calais. This is thetw-ond :elephonic line connecting the two nuntries. and the French government x ill shortly lav the third cable. mall Wan la Africa. Africa continues- to lx- the wene of small wars, incident to the extrusion of civilization among savage i-oplei. In the w etcrn Soudan a military cx-li-tion. sent out by the Loy al Niger coin .tuy to punish the emir of Nupe for raiding- its territory for slave., ha routed a force -of :.UKI natives and ,.--t upied the capital city. Hi.U. The king of IU-iiin. whose- country is in the same region, recently ma-ssacred ui FnglitJi trade exx-dit ion ; and the ltritish gov ernment has sent six war es.s-ls to the coast of IVuin ami will follow thetn with a military ex-ditioa. The forni ir operation has a certain diplomatic interest, lx-cnuse it is in territory where the French and Hritish "spheres of in fluence" touch each other. POINTED PARAGRAPHS. Iots of men might have lx-eu great if they hadn't luin too lay. A business man who plays checkers l-f. re tioon hasn't ery much to do. The young man who pets high w agas never wastes much time telling alxiut it. Any f.xil cr.n buy a carving knife, but it takes a w ise man to cane ronect- -y It is mighty hard to hunt up the old clot Ires you have thrown aside when vou were prosjicrous. Washington (la.) IV-moctat. L-r n crcr
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