LnXD A IIAXD. Life i maJe of ops and downs Lend a band ; Life ia madeof tboma and crown; If you wonU the Utter wear, Lift wme created heart from despair Lend a hand. Cwwe! are alone of gold ! Lend a hand. Diamond! are bought and sold ; But the crowns that guod men own Come from noble deeds alone .Vend a hand. Many crowns that many wear Lend a hand. Sever in the sunlight glare; Diamonds never in them shine. Yet tley hold a light divine Lend a hand. II.ilJ a light that ne'er shall fa.'.e Lend a hand. I.ea.ity, art hath never made; For three crowns that good wen wear Everlasting are, as rare ICiida hand. WVnlJ you own so bright a crown Lend a hand. Winn you see a brother down, Lead him from the deep, dark night, Place him in the moraine light Lend a hand. Gunrdian. A KEY" TO THE JIYSTEKV. I v;im but a ooor mechanic in those .lavs a locksmith by trade in dustrious, zealous and in love, as many a good fellow before me has boon and will be azain, I doubt not Hut niarriaire was a thins of the future, and each time it came near er it seemed to elin ahead acrain, and lve noor Emilv and rae as far from our goal as ever and with faint er hope each time. I had a mother and an invalid sister to support, and somehow or other locks wouldn't get out of re pair, or need repairing in suiGcient numbers to enable me to add a little wife to my list of womankind. Kmily was a deft little seamstress, and slowly, but steadily went on earning her wedding outfit saying cheerily : "Remember the tide in every man's life, John. Some day you'll take it at its full, and fortune will follow." Mess the patient little woman she did tired ict the trutli. An or.h r came one day for the re pair of a trunk lock in a distant part of town. I wondered a little, as with my bag of tools I hastened to obey the direction, that I had been sent for such a distance from the place and whether there were not locksmiths in that neighborhood. l!y an odd chance Kmily's word came into my mind. Was my tide about to turn. I found the house a small, plain cottage, with nothing about it indi cative of magic power, but rather suggesting that the inmates were waiting as well as John Rhodes, for the way to fortune. A sweet-faced girl, refined and well bred, admitted me and with a smile led the way at once to the work she wished done. It was in the front bedroom a well worn trunk that had seen its bet days and was rather rickety about the buckles and lock. I se t about the repairs at once, as the young lady's manner indicated haste, and while busily employed thought how much better this little live roomed house would suit Emily and me than the very evident sMpe nor condition of the working fur. fair girl I was Ia an arm chair by the window sat an elderly lady who seemed to watch mv work with rentle curiosi tv, and beside her sat the j'oung girL sneaking in a low tone, as if pleading. "You work hard, sir?" said the ladr, kindlv. "Yes, ma'am, from sunrise to sun set." I answered, filing awav at the old lock. "My mother has a great svmpa thy for workers," laughed the young girl, patting the elder lady's pretty hand, "and thinks I am to be pitied because I belong to the hive of hu man bees." I looked at her. She couldn't do hard work, I thought, with those slim fingers and rosy cheeks mu sic or teaching, perhaps, at the most. "Never mind, mother dear, my tide will turn some day," she laugh ed flgain, as I finished my small job tmd arose, "and then what a fortune it will lead on to." She was like my Emilv cheerin herself with bits of pretty sayings, got out of books, and it made me Fivl kindly toward her, as if I would like to serve her. My change came, strange to say, before long. As she paid me mv due, which I made purposely small for the sake of Kmily's cheering words, she askeU quickly : "W ould a lot of odd kevs be of service to you? AV have such a big bunch that it is only in the way and we would thank von to take them." It suited me very well, as I could work them over and save on them. so I took them gratefully as one big held them heap. up, jingling, in a "Ah," she said, half sadly, "if we only had now the closets and ward robes and all the locks those kevs once fitted, how quickly would our cares fade away 1 Tis hard, hard to ie so poor when our loved ones Suf fer!'' I could not answer for she did r.ot seem to speak to me, br.t felt (.till more willing to help her. She lot me out the door kindly. ' I am glad I went by your shop by chance," she said, "and decided to give you a job, for I think you look conscientious. Good bye I I went home thoughtfully pon- ut-nnp over mis new experience. Was the tide coming in ? As I hung up the tool bag in its place I remembered the keys the young lady had given me, and took them out to see if I could fit them t3 some locks then awaiting keys. As I took up the bunch one kev struck my notice. The like I had never before seen, and I knew that it was never wrought by a locksmith this side of the Atlantic, but came, no doubt, from strange lands, where they needed such curious things to hide strange doings. It was a fiat piece of steel about two inches long, and had four slits in the square end, two on each 6ide. I wondered what use it had ever served, and il it beloused to the young girl's happier days; but be ing a slow thinking man, and little sriven to romaneo I ti?n r key bunch and went to work at my I Jocks, thinking no more of the .. I 1 . 1 - . 1 r-uAugc key or me inmates ol the cottage. But the next day I was made to recall them by a strange coinci dence. I was sent fjr to come at once to a number ia a. fashionable locality, and on presenting myself at the' front door found it to belong to an elegant brown stone mansion, but with an air of solitude about it, as the windows were all tightly closed, save on the second floor. A colored man admitted me. and without a word led me up stairs to the second 6tory front room. He rapped loudly. "The locksmith, madame." The door opened, I entered, the black man went down stairs, and I was left with a sudden nervousness to find out my business ia this silent place. A tall, dark woman, richly dress ed, with wild, dark eves, was walk ing up and down the room, as if angry, or as I looked closer at her, as if excited by terrible fear of anx iety. She turned on me sharply: "Have you ever seen me before," she demanded, rather abruptly, passing by a table. Then my slow mind placed her at once. "Yes, ma'am, at a hotel, some two years ago," I answered in astonish ment. "You were sent for then to open a box ?" "Yes, ma'am, and couldn't." "You are sent for now to do the same thing," Ehe cried out, fiercely, and you must do it I can trust no other smith with the mystery you look trustworthy." A second time I was receiving a compliment for my good plain face, and (give credit where its due) to my mother's honest, straightforward training. I picked up the box, remember ing it then very well, also the long hour I worked at fitting keys to its singular lock without success, while the dark woman walked the floor then as now, with savage haste. I mechanically drew out ray keys, and they fell with a crash to the floor, for the first one I looked at was the strange key I had gotten from the young girl, and in a mo ment I knew that it belonged to this square metal box?. And I knew further, bv instinct '''.it great wrong had been "done through this strange kev and its mystery, and that it had fallen to my lot to detect it I heard the tide coming in, now, full and fast: -I bent down to pick the keys, and like a flash the young girl's word came into my mind. "Ah. if we only had the locks those kevs once fitted how quickly would our cares fade awy ! I secreted the steel key in my palm, as I held up the bunch to sav : "I need a piece of steel you see these will not answer with slits in the square end, to open this box" She interrupted me wiiQ a quicn gesture. "Yes, yes!" she cried brokenly that is the lost key ? Ob,' if it had but been mine long ago!'' She began her walk again. A thought came into my mind. I was determined not to lose 6ight of the box, and to struggle for it if necessary. "Will "you let the colored man go to the 6hop for what I need ?" I ask ed half fearing she would order me to go instead. "Yes, yes!" she cried, quickly. "I will go down and tell him," I said not wishing her to know what I meant to do. Hastily writing a few lines in the hall below, and wrapping the key securely in the paper, I gave the man his mistress' order to carry it to its address. And then I went back to the dark woman, and sat down by the box and waited. She never ceased to pacetho floor, and now and again raised her hand with a terrible gesture. I thought she was weeping. At last she came to the table. "What do you think is in that box?" she said, and a wistful tone came in her voice, as if she felt con fidence in me and wished to hear me speak. I felt sudden courage. The young cirl's voice was in my ears and made me brave. "Something that does not belong to you," I said, listening for the black man's step. "How do you know ?'' ehe cried hastily. The front door surely opened. "Your anxiety tells me, and be cause I have the key which you never owned. That box has been stolen ma'am !" There were steps on the stairs, but more than one person V. 1 did not expect my answer to come thus, but in that and all that followed I no more had a part. The end came speedily. "I did not steal it," came with a shriek from the dark woman as the door onened, and the black man ushered in the young girl and her mother. Then another cry rang out at sharply, "Sister?"' "Zoo? At last r The young girl drew near nie as hermother wnt up to Ihe dark woman and caught her hands, and handed me the key. I drew the box toward me. The di'rk woman rushed toward the table, and raised her hand. "I call heaven to witness that un til two years ago, when my husband died, I did not know that he had stolen the box said lo contain my father's last will, and truly thought myself the heiress." She paused a moment in pain, clutching her breast "I married a gambler, as you know, but you do not know tint I caught his terrible fever, and i.iat my only happiness since his death has been found at the card table. "I found the box two years ago but not the key. I feared to know its contents, lest it Bhould rob me of the means of prolonging mv mad ness. Hut at last conscience Btung me too deop.y, when 1 found out how poor you were who should have shared our father's wealth, and from which my husband drove you, and I resolved to -know the truth at last Open the box, sir, as by a strange chance it is your right to do." I obeyed. The curious key slip ped ia easily, and the lid fell back. The dark woman raised a folded paper from the inside. Slowly she looked at the young girl, who regard ed her with pitying eyes, then at her sister, who was weeping. "I see you both still love me," she said mournfully, "and that my wuu, cnecKerea me sua nolus your pity. God forgive the wrong done you. She read aloud the paper. It shared a great fortune between the two sisters, instead of leaving it to one. I rose to go, feeling that I had no more to do here, but the young girl caught my hand and cried out eagerlv: j "We owe it all to you ! We must thank you with mors than words. Until your note came, asking if the lock that key fitted, was of service to us, we did not know it was on the bunch I gave you. So long we had had that key. which grandfather gave me before dying, and no box to open with it, that we grew care less of it, and by chance it got on that bunch. .. The Bisters were talking and weeping together, and the one was pleading to 6a ve the other from her terrible infatuation. But as my storv is true, A cannot say 6he suc ceeded, for the lonely house and si lent black man and dark, fierce wo man are still the mystery of the neighborhood. Lut the tide led on to fortune for both my Emily and the young girl who cheered their hearts with the quotation, for my wife and I now live in the cottage where I first met the brave girl, who so well deserved her good luck. She comes to me often, and 8uin and again makes me tell the story of my discovering the key to the mystery. The d.irk woman ttill burns her life out with the fever of gambling. The Superstitions of Ena-thews. "What causes, aside from snow storms and accidents, make passen ger trains late in arriving at sta tions ?" inquired a Pott correspond ent of Division Superintendent Rawn, of the New York & New England Raid, at his office in the Union depot the other morning. "Well, they are innumerable," said Mr. Rawn. "Dut there is one cause of delay which is quite curi ous and almost unaccountable. Like sailors, engineers are very supersti tious. 1 suppose they become so from the coniparitive solitude and dangers of their positions. With only a fireman as a companion they are out in all kinds of weather, and I can tell you it is no pleasant tiling for a man to ride at full speed on a dark night, peering out of a little window into a blackness made more black by the bright glare of the headlight On all sides is darkness, and the little speck of monotonous track ahead is all that he can see. Certain engines, like certain ships, get bad reputations, and the men hate to run them. They consider them unlucky, and believe they are bound to kill somebody, and so will refuse to drive them at ton speed. This feeling is almost universal among engineers. We have an en gine on our road now which the men very much dislike to be as signed to. I was once on a railroad in the west which owned aa engine which the men were positively; afraid of, it was so unlucky." On his way up town the reporter called on Mr. Davidson, of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Road, and in conversation upon the topic he said : "Yes, all engineers are more or les3 superstitious ; their calling makes them s. At one time one of our fast trains from New York kept coming into Hartford from two to five minutes late. At firot I thought this was due to some mate rial cause, but at last, as the train arrive in New Haven on time, I de termined to find out the trouble. On the arrival of the train in New Ha ven the engineers were changes, and as the time was all right up to that point I knew that time was being lost between there and Hartford. I couldn't understand it, for the road is good all the way and time should be made up over it, instead of lost I went down there one day and ask ed the engineer what made him late so repeatedly. He said he didn't know, only the engine wouldn't make time. He had always been a competent man and was thought much of on the road. I got into the cab with him, and alter a short dis tance had been passed found that the engine was not doing its part I told the engineer to throw open the throttle valve. At first he re fused to do so, but when I repeated the order he did so and we reached Hartford on time. After that he was never late because of the engine. The fact was that he had got scared, but after he had been relieved of all apprehension the train came in reg ularly on schedule time. Once, when I was running a night train between here and Springfield, I had a queer experience. My fireman was a young fellow, who twice, when we reached the bridge over the Con necticut at Windsor Locks, disap peared from the cab. The third time i watched him, and noticed that he had gone into the tender and crouched down in the coal in one corner. When wo were well into the bridge I called out to him and he came into the.caT with a face as white as marble, and he was shaking all over. I asked him what was th? matter, and he said 'There's some f. 'low3 up in the rafters there and sometime they re going to chuck rocks at us !' You see the idea had suggested itself to him one night, and being superstitious, he had car ried it around in his head until he rrall v believed it." Hartford W. Life in the I'olar notions. It is impossible to form an idea of a tempest in polar seas. The icebergs are like floating rocks whirled along a rapid current. The huge crystal mountains dash againEt each other, backward and forward, bursting with a roar like thunder, and returning to the charge until losing their equilibrium they tumble over in a cloud of spray, up heaving the ice-fields, which fall af terwards like the crack of a whip lash on the boiling sea. The sea gulls fly away screaming, and often a black shining whale comes for an instant puffing to the surface. When the midnight sun grazes the horizon, the floating mountains and the rocks seem immersed in a wave of beautiful purple light The cold is by no means so insupportable as supposed. We passed from a heat ed cabin at SO degrees above zero to 47 degrees below zero in the open air without inconvenience. A much higher degree of cold becomes, how ever, insufferable if there is a wind. At 15 degrees below zero a steam, as from a boiling kettle . rises from the water. At once frozen by the wind, it falls in a fine powder. This phenomenon is called ice smoke. At 40 degrees the snow and human bodies also smoke, which smoke changes at once into millions of tiny particles, like nee dles of ice, which fill the air with a tight continuous noise, like the rustle of a stiff silk. At this tem perature the trunks of trees burst with a loud report, the rocks break up and the earth opens and vomits smoking water, knives break in cutting butter. Cigars go out by contact with the ice on the beard. To talk is fatiguing. At night the eyelids are covered with a crust of ice that must be carefully removed octore one can open them. ! The French believe that if a branch of mistletoe M hung in a tree with the wing of a swallow, the birds will fly to it from a distance of six miles. Hjme Life of Ibe Clear. The general arrangement of the buildings, besides offering the ad vantages of accommodation to be found in a large mansion, affords special security for the personal safety of the emperor, whose apart ments are completely isolated and unapproachable except by narrow passage0 that are strictly guarded. The gal tries at Gatchina have long been famed as containing magnifi cent artistic collections. One which leads to the emperor's private rooms is called the Japanese gallery, and here are assembled a number of cu riosities of the highest value, which have from time to time been pre sented to the great white czar by rulers of China and Japan. The Japanese minister, who was lately presented at Gatchina, and who is a great collector of both European and Asiatic bric-a-brac, stated that there was nothing intheeaetto com pare with this Russian collection, and that it would be impossible to replace many of the ancient and ex tremely valuable artistic objects that adorn the imperitU gallery. The ordinary sitting-room of the czar is a comfortably, but simply furniched apartment Little ele gance or ornament is noticeable, but a large writing table and other unmistakable signs denote that many of the emperor's hours are here "passed in close application to the endless business that devolves on the autocratic head of a system of bureaucratic centralization. The czar is an early riser, and the labors of his day commence at nine in the morning. Till one o'clock he is oc cupied in his study receiving the ministers who present their daily or weekly reports, and consulting with them over affairs of the state. It is especially significant of the policy of the present Czar that, while high officials have often a difficulty in obtaining an interview. His majes ty is always accessible to provincial d"eputations,which are sometimes composed of wild Khirgiz,sometimes of swarthy Kalmucks or skin-clad Samoyedes, and sometimes of illit erate Russian peasants who desire to present a holy picture to their great father, and to express their loyalty and devotion to his person. The emperor receives one and all with a stern dignity, w hich, though accompanied in most cases by a certain kindness of manner always leaves the conviction that Alexander III. feels himself an autocrat, and is determined to yield none of his prerogatives, but to impress on all that approach him that they are in the presence of an absolute, kindly master. This species of self-assertion was a trait in the character of the emperor ia his very earliest days, lie is devoted to music, and when a boy it was suggested that he might derive pleasure from taking a part in the musical performances of the palace orchestra, the then heir-apparent was delighted at the idea, and it remained to be settled on what instrument he should learn to perform. Characteristically this imperious prince selected the trom bone as being the instrument with which he could produce the greatest effect, and, lover of music though he was his performance appeared chiefly to consist in a well-sustained and fairly successful effort to drown the remainder of the orchestra. Although stern and even overbear ing to the majority of those who surrouiid him, Alexander III, ha3 always been a smpathizing and. af fectionate husband and fatiier. At one o'clock daily he lunches with his wife and children, and to this meal none but the closest intimates of his family are ever admitted. After luncheon if there are no further deputations to receive, or important business to attend to, the Czar goes out walking or driving, in company with the empress or his sons. In the evening thero is often a little music, of which the empress is as fond as the emperor, and her majes ty is a good pianist The Czar re tires to bed early, and by eleven o'clock all 13 silence in the imperial apartment During the daytime the empress occupies a room on the ground floor, exactly below the czar's study, with which it communicates direct ly by a small private staircase. The czarina's boudoir is elegantly fur nished, but in a simple style, and with no appearance of luxury,, ex cept such as is given by the pres ence of certain handsome pieces of furniture and ohjecls d'art, which remain to testify to the more extrav agant tastes of former occupants. The empress is an admirable mana ger, both of her time and of everv thing that pertains to the house hold duties. Her great intelligence and sweetness of manner ha.ie given her an extraordinary influence over her li -jsband, and all other persons who .:n; brought into contact with her. The Antchkina Palace, which she occupied as czarina, wa3 a mod el of honsehold management, and to her initiative is due the commence ment of sweeping reforms in the ad ministration of the other overgrown palaces. She is patroness, and takes as far as posssble an active share in the management of half the charitable institutions in Russia, ana particularly those that are con nected with the protection of wom en and children. Every morning, while the emperor is busy up stairs with his ministers, the empress re ceives the report from Mons. De lainoff and others, whom she intrusts with the supervision of the various societies in which she is interested. The empress' solicitude for the safe ty of her husband i3 well known, and it has been observed that she is never at ease when he is called away from home. The education and care of her children also engross much of her thoughts. The eldest son, the czarwitz, is in his fourteenth year, and resembles his mother in features. He is of an active and lively disposition, and, for one of his years is far advanced iD . his studies. Russian is always the lan guage employed by the imperial family when they are together, but when the boys are with their teach ers they speak French and Ensrlish on alternate days. Six hours a day are devoted to study by the young princes, but their education is not limited to sedentary studies alone. They ore also practiced in riding and shooting, and the czarwitz is, it is said, already a good shot and rides well. IjonJun Telegraph. r Hambusscd Again. ; I saw so much said alout the merits of Hop L'i iters, nnd my wife, who was always doctoring. - and never well, teasetl me so urgeutly to ect her some. I concluded in ha humbugged again; and I ; am glad I did, .. for in v less . than two months use of the RiUers my wife was cured, and she has remain ed eo for eighteen montlu t-ince. I like such liurobugging.--U, T,Str Paul A CallfbrnU Trial. Persoi s familiar with the early history of this country are well aware of the potent influence of elo quence on the uncultivated masses and how the fervent oratory of Pat rick Henry and Clay, and Webster and Corwin, and Crittenden, antl Tom Marshall, and iii old-time men of the primitive bar of human pleading. An episode of a similar nature oc curred out in the earlv days of Cali- forning mining, of which the writer was a spectator. The circumstan ces were as follows : A" miner ha,d been caught stealing gold dust That kind of business couldn't be permittee! in the mines ; forcible examples had to be made of all such offenders. Murder regu lated itself; there was a rough code of honor recognized and based upon public sentiment If the man who killed another had justifiable provo cation, he went unmolested ; but if he had killed his man without suffi cient r-:iuse, he probably paid the per-.altv with hi3 own liie the first i time a relative or friend of the mur dered man "got the drop on him." The only other public offence was theft ; that was so contemptibly mean and so vitally effected the in terests of the miners and their sense of safety, that they rarely ever failed to string the offender," even after rough courts were established and trial by jury granted. On this special occasion a bag of gold dust had been taken from un der a miner'B bunk by one of his working companions, and he had been captured with it on his way to San Francisco and brought back for a quick and effective trial. "ilave you any counsel ?" asked the iudie. "No, I ain't get no friends, nor anybody to talk for me; so you mieht as well cut the chinmV short' and pull me up." "If you will allow me to act as counsel for the prisoner, I'll say a few words for him," remarked a tall, ungainly miner, who was a stranger at that peculiar "diggins.' "All right, there's the jury. Bring up your client and let him plead to the charge." The prisoner stood up and admit ted the theft and at the request of the stranger stated tno circumstan ces which had tempted him to take the dust He had just gotten a let ter from his wife in the States, in which she wrote that her mother and one of his children had died and she begged him if he loved her to come home, even if he had to bor row the money of some of his friends, and she would help him to work and pay it back. He also sta ted that as ho had been unable to borrow the money, he hail taken tho dust with the intention of paying it back when he returned home. The letters were produced in court to substantiate the truth of his statement, and it evidently weakened some of the jury, but there were stern, unmoved men in the crowd, all belted round with knives and pistols, who knew that any letting up on theft would render gold dust unsafe ; besides they spoke up right and left, saying that they got just such letters from home as well ; that the same kind of sor row in their own domestic life came up every day or week to some of them, and the very mutual condi tion of deprivation and toil should establish a code of horesty above everything else. Of course, said they, the fellow can have his coun sel "to chin for him but wo must graft him to a hub all the same. It happened, however, that this tall, ungainly old miner who had undertaken the defense, was an old Methodist campmceting revival preacher, and, although he began very quietly, and cautiously tread ing on the dangerous ground of talking in the prisoner's defence, the firt judge, jury and spectators knew, he hael got warmed up to his old work, and, although he had the sing-song style of delivery of those old revivalists, his words rang out with all the thrilling eloquence of Clay and the fervid devotional ora tory of a Wesley or a liascom. One by one the human icicles began to melt around him ; one by one be gan to turn back to theirearly liyes, to their old homes, their fathers, mothers, brothers and sisters, the old church and Sunday school, and all such tender influences. Many a one of them was carried by that pecu liar voice and style to his old camp meeting days. It was no longer a mining camp ; it was no longer a court room, no longer a trial ; it was a camp-meeting, and the old preach er was leading them by still waters; he was reaching down and lifting thtm up out of the mire and clay ; and when he closeel and solemnly said, "Let us pray for the" soul of the man whom we that are innocent are going to slay," there was not a dry eye in the court room, the writer's included, And that prayer ! who can repeat or describe its fer vent words for the soul going to its Maker, fer the wife and little chil dren waiting in their di.su.ut home with love and hojes and tremulous expectation for him who would never return, listening to every footstep, responding to every sound? Never before or since has been such a trial and such a the mines of California, jury and audience rose defence in The judge to a man They did and cleared the prisoner, more : they made up a purse and sent the pew fellow home to his wife and children, and he dieljust what he intended to do returned the money to them in six months after his arrival at home. Tribulutious of the Funny Lecturer. When the train rolled away from Kenton, the Jester announced his calm determination to run away from all engagements. "I am tired to death," he said. UI have talked about six nights every week, ever since the 9th of January ; I have set vn until one or two o'clock a. m., entertaining people af ter tho lecture, and then been called up for six o'clock trains ; I have visited o2 coal mines, inspected 53 coke ovens, gone through 67 iron works, visited 93 schools, admired 113 handsome churches, gorged my self at 120 banquets, walked through ii-i wagon shops and z'J pump fac tories : walked and tlown the long streets of 19.S towns and admir eel everything I saw; I have climb ed W endless hills to gaze at SO views that 'Bayard Taylor said, when he was here, v.-as far superieir to any thing he saw in Europe ;' I have taken niy nose in my hand and lounged through two glove factories, Eve tanneries and three fertilizer works; three weeks ago I Jectarcd j daturuay night, sat up and talked with friends until two a. m., got up to a iseven o'clock breakfast, went to church with friends at 10:30 a. m., lunched yith some other friend at twelve; went o Sabbath school nt 2; sat in the JJible class and made a nice little speech to the children, I dined with some other friends at five, attending evening services at t:M, went to a friend's house alter ser vice, and when we broke up at 11:30 because I had to take a train at 4:1-3 a. m., a good old brother shook my hand warmly and said: "Well, well, we's all glad to have met you. And you have had a good long rest here with us and joull feel fresh for your week's work." If I felt as fresh as his remark, I would be even as a June cucumber. I have urn-! pired at two base-ball matches, ro a hor30 race, have written two com mencment essays for high school girls, held the cat in mv lap (and I love the devil a little better than a cat), heard the children say their prayers end taken a hand at draw poker to please the boys. I don't complain," the Jester said tucking his cap and bells away in hi3 valise. "I elon't complain a bit. All the people I have inet are love ly and lovable people and they do tne best to make me have a good time, but seven good time3 a week for six months is too much for one man to stand; I am all broken up; I am clean gene, and the setting sun to-night shall see me flying away from the rosirumed fiekl, headed for the National Surgical Institute, Philadelphia." And headed that way he was, and fly in that direction he did, follow ed in his homeward flight by a long flight of wrathful imprecations from disappointed audiences and impo tent protests of indignant commit tees and long and importuant bills of expenses from tho same, and earnest but unheeded expostula tions from the Rureau. "Lot 'em howl," the Jester chuck led as he tucked his head under the Pullman blanket, "let 'em howl ; I will sleep with sealed lips from here to Philadelphia, and if any man wakes me up at three o'clock in the morning and asks me to tell him a funny story, I will tear out his quivering heart and feed it to the monkeys at the Zoo. That is the kinel of a funny man I am. And the train rolled on. liurdetle in ihe, Burlington ILvxhcye. A Miner's Ingenuity. James McGlynn, a miner in the llallenback Colliery, at Wilkesbarre in this Stite, has found recreation and amusements during the spare time of the past nine years in the construction of an elaborate clock. As described by the reporter of the Ne w l ork Times, the clock stands about nine feet high, and is incased in an elaborately carved case of black walnut, consist of 405 pieces of finish. Each of tho pieces was turned in the mine by the enthu siastic miner with a tool that would msko a cabinet maker smile, being nothing less than a broken saw file. In addition to the 400 turned pieces in black walnut, which com prise the frame work of the clock, it lui3 03 moving figures, actuated by machinery, so deftly arranged as to produce interesting historical and liiblical scenes. It is the intention of the miner-mechanic to make the number of figures a hundred as soon as his means, which are rather lim ited, shall afi'onl .uch an additional outlay. The front of the clock shows three balconies, ri.sir.t .1, :ove a massive and elegant carved , -lestal, and up on these the moving :!rures appear. The lower balcony sLu .vsa proces sion of Continental soKii-'T lieaded by a mounted general ami march ins past, while the old Liberty Uell proclaims its welcome notes of free dom. A sentinel salutes the Conti nentals as they pa??, and just at the' moment ihe door is opened fro in an u pper balcony and reveals Mol- j Ij X iv.iit.i, I.Abu ui.1 viiiiiviif uiiiiii lires with startling and realistic ef fect. To show liOiV well the maker of! the clock has considered the detaila be actuated after the firiug of Mo! - ly 8 cannon, for the purpose ol ciear - in.fimHhn i.r.Tilnr?n.it ;,,,! Ovii me ijOivaer smoive. o..nui - taneOUS With tiUS the portraits Of ti:e: twenty t rresuients ot the Lruted .States pass ia panoramic view oa a balcony just above tho piitriutio tableau, of which Molly Pitcher, the central figure, and Thomas Jefferson holds up the Declaration of Inue pender.ee. The apostolic procos-sion is similar to those hitherto seen ia such clock?. The Twelve Apostles file past, Satan appears, and the cock crows in warning to Peter. A figure of justice raises her scales as the form of Christ appears, and during the scene a Iare repre sentation of Death tells off tht? min utes upon the bell. When one sees the clock, the tools with which it was maele, and hcare the miner's story of how he bought the weiod for it bit by bit as ho could afford from his spare change, he is sensibly impressed with human possibilities. Ttic fig ure's used in the biblical and hist.iri- eal illustrations weru cast by Mc- Glvnn in moulds of his own elesi-n ere is very tittle in the entire and the clock that did not come irom las hands. Now that it is finished, he scarcely knows what to do with it. A Mormon Wile's Death. The discipline of the Morcuon Church was never better exempli than in tho death of the legal wife of George Q. Cannon which took place on Wednesday last. Cannon knew she was tlying, but he stayed j in Washington to tight to keep a j polygamist in Congress, that the Mormon Church might be fully j represented in that body. Mrs. j Cannon knew she was el ying, but I telegraphed him to remain, at his) post. The poor woman, the moth-! er of eleven children, died at the aje of forty-six. The Meirmon journals tell U3she was a consistent Mormon, and was willing to sutler anything for her church. .She lies suffered very much. As hercharms began to fade she saw the man to whom in her youth she had devot ed herself, take cne woman after an-! other to fill her place, and to share j not only her husband, but the prop-j erty she had helped to accumulate, : and found at last tV.at l er life and! sufferings only resulted in her hav- j ing a iourm place in tne man s heart which she thought, in the long ago, f he had entirely won Come to think, we do not won- der that hp ti InoTnTihml litm tn f tlia Ti.mirra ti Iwi. I remain in Washington. The poori woman is described as bein a I - V, lllLAlHiriivii A A I A I A VU thoroughly womanly woman. If that be true, we do not wonder that she desireel to be alone as she ap proached her final release. Salt Lake j Tribune. We learn frorrj Mcsph. Moore S: ' Humphrey, that St. Jacobs Oil is 1 regarded aa the very best eellin ': liniment ever sold, and is giving the ' highest satisfaction. It lias affected ! many pood cures. Jarfao (Mirh.) j Daily Patriot. Li? Ill 'vis fa a A'eurafo;a. Cchiicc, Lunsaio, Backache, Sorar.ess cf iha Cht:, Ccut, CJnsy, Sara Tliroct, we Vj and Sprai.i;, Eurr.s and Scalds, General Dad!! Pains, Tooth, Ear crd Hcadacho, FrcsicJ Feet end cr;, end ell ctl.ee Pains and Aches. Ho TnTaU' on wrt'i nm St. Jirw C i a KuJ'c, turr. ."; sua riimji Ij:-n n K-raMly A trial entail tli ero'imnttw? trifling outlay uf i9 Oat. nil wr UTi-.i ilh minrj ha cira; iJ jiuo I'lf f i:i claim. iJimcUou in Uon Ltcpimcr. SOLD BY AH. EECGGIST3 ASD SCALES -in MEDicras. A. VC GrjEXEXl & CO., i'aliinnjfr, XCd.f C S- -A f'.il 9 XIX FY C. N. EOYD, DKl'GOKT (iuirke(. Pa. FM-: Chicago & North-Western- KAILWAY. Is ths CI,DEaT! BEST IXINSTIli; LITi-IV S EST EQUIPPED ! ar.d heECe Its Leading Railway OF THE- WEST AND NOHTHWEST I It Is the hortc3 ari'I !.?t rove le'.ween Chl.ugn ani ail pi'laif Sn Northern IlliimU. Iowa, Iiakots, V,yrtilnic, Ni-lirask. t'iiiiiijiTjia. trron, Ari.nai. Utah. Colorado, Llalio, Montana, .Nevada ami lor DE5TT.R, LE.4DV1LLE. SAL? LASS, CA1T ' 1 a vrnrmrs DEADWOOD, SIOUX CITY, OJcr Rnplds. I'ea M.'incn, Jultimbu, and all Points in i!ie Territories, an 1 (ho c' Al.Jo, for Milwaukee, eirccn Hay, Oshkosh. S!iebovan. Marquettn. Fond da Lac, Watertoirn. Houghton, N ecnali, .Mensata, Sw Paul, Minueafoifs, Huron. Voljra, Farsto, Hismarck. Winona, LaCrnsji", eratinn.t, and alt points in Xinncsota, Kakota, Wiscoujln and the XorthweH. At Conacil Blcrts the Tratcf of the Cnl'asro k Nurth-Wtstern and tne U. P. B'vs depart lircu, arrive at ami use the same j.iint Union lcpt. AtejhlMtro, rlo connections are ma-le with the Lake Shi re, Siiehiaan t:t;ntral, Hal!l:noro 6l thlo. Ft. Waviii an I Penc'vlvmin. nn l Chii-niru and rnn Trunk K'ys, and ta K:;afcee sad Pan hamiij: Routes. . at Jnnrtton ! ItlaiheOXLT USE rannln.- i i j ai cum wm ! Pn'tawSlcsjPr? ta j'I irvf ' 1 i '' Ti.-liet Arrant fVAig j-on TIt'kpts v!:s j 1 t!iijr,d. 1:11ml.,. -i:rTi..iri. .f.,.a ... '''h-'fdoni.t read over UieCliljjwtNurtii We'tcm i;i!w?.T. lfyon ih tne V.fft Trivelin'r Am; lions jou will ba juur Ttk-ts by tlii rami a- -axi willt.vki: xoxk otuk::. All T'.oief A irentj .-!! Ticets hr thf Tn-. JMabvis llcmiT.Jd V. P. it eica l Maoatt'r, CLieaso. .'V--vvrS:?;?-'- els tit 1 iii ia:ac tiuir oa j-1 T L17E5, TS3 SO WZLS, Kit lJ0i'. mm r .jr is eo 5 s 1 ,sj. li :r. Eiir.r.:: f2 Tiiat A ft jj.f7:.'yjf t-f fkJ'e l.i-ie grc,i cry-ZTZT Kfc , fSita.M co?: -1 cr hrpitl, ami ;...-e E j TAn r p pi "r p, r r 1 rj.ii.-M(,.-n mo ihe i'oo:W;rl( In r r J H ' ivi M h j H ViiLL SUHELY CU i i ' jx:CifiY UREASES, IRE ri L!VR COMPLASHTS, Wi'ilEa, COXSTIPATIOX, rKlXAItT n ;r..VE;. FEMALE WEAKNESS!:!, AStf JXilEVOlS l)!SOBDEEl, . ,y i ;;:.;7; .' cci'wH cf tiuu organs ami '?'). n:L'.-ri-.j tulrpotKr to !row eff disease. ' 1 Why unlTi'r Eilions pains and arhMt f'i Why tonaentcil wilh PilM. Constipation! j '.Thy frbUtf aril orsr disordered Kidneys! ' Wbyt adureasnroaa or sick headaches! 3 It la p-Jt np Itj Dry Vecatabla Form. In tin fm -4 ;li one pu..a 01 w -ii nuuf.1 auc qairu 01 .. V: ri 'iflnf. A1o in IJnnt.l Fw. Tin Cniwf- . . j (fuli-il. furthotw tUAtcanoot reAliijr propom it. fa f "i-Itai'tAtrltii cqcat ClciPAry In either form, fel a . i. or Yum D..:.r.(;is7. nurrz, i.oopm .. I.I.I.S. ClCniEBSOX & CoProti's. M 5--ul tho dry p--.st rai B ntlJXCTO t, TT. TOB Mlt BT 0 X. BOYD. KiinierMt, -K?a.) s.::r T1IEY CTJIIK Ut7. Ki(inytt, mid Urinary m it ft, Ntr- I 3 GS M3 8IGOOIN COLD. vm b ne? for a ea they win not or lortnyihlnif lim-urc or Uiu; luuna in tut-sn. Atik-jonr ifrrmrirt for Ho It!tttr9iir ! i-y VDm Uore sia ilvejK Take bo $ I. C n an KrtoiuteandtrrrsfntlhWtiv fC7 (Jj tit AOTCOtlCA. Bess IfS ZSSiKaO Ssnd ran C icrrui. a H AH I'.n !.re i-!.-li. JJ it n iii'M y.u. c ... itCTimtfr. s. v..a tm ji ;n.a a- .i.i roll BY C, X. DOYI, .S.inen.-t, la. i aoa k Co., Piiriuunl, Maine. Mar.l ljr. 1 (lHh.:iHl. A.l.ln.M.L The Somerset iienuui! 'u-d schedules (EST32LI3HID 13C7 ) hs' cf v. hg Papers cf VTcr.jn; B SfMMI iPIIIM. HAS DOUELE THE CIRCULATION 0? ANY OHER NEWS PAPER IN HE COUHY ! Will Ct rtafn the Gsrcra! Kews oFths Day. Itc Editorial ami Local DEPARTME ! TS Jspeuk for TkciusclTe. 2.00 : !. a rr.-.a: i:.w A YEAK SJ.OO A YK.VIt ! $2.00 A..YEAK! $2.00 A YEAR ! $2.00 A YEAR ! 52.00 A. TEAR! $2.00 A YEAR! S'2.00 A YEAH ' ?2.00 A 'TEAK! . s-j ixi a vdi: : :;ca a f.k '." A Y FA I t -in ::i WE HAVE THE BEST FA - CILITIES WEST GF THE MOUN . . TAIN. CSirVv'E are rej arod to nirr.ish on short notice, and i;t a great re duction on former prices, ail kinds of JOB WORK, such as : LETTER HEADS. liTLtllEVIKS, ENVELOPES, trsixESpSCAErwy , VIPITIXO CAKPS, AVEPMNT. f'A.:ra, rr.OC.KAMMES, HOUSE EILI-S. SLIl'UILL, - POSTKIW, L.Vr.ELS, TAOS, l.Ki.'Kin3 ! NtT ES O K A LI. K I S US. UOIMJEUsi, cinci'LAr..-, ,tc, nr. ' Onlerx from a ttistantc will rvvi ve jt' imj ; Bir.i ran-iui aittnlion. 1 AcWrw?. The SomeTsotHeralel, PRINT1SQ HOUSE ROW, Somerse, V. u.-iJiii.; : i. . .. t.l. u. 11:1k,., , Mail... A-r!t. -.$4)41. 'ji. If I ia. '' e.L. - .n0r" TIM .,!.. . 1.1111 'Kiijtmn s. ,i ... t , a. in., r.u w.19 l. m.. nrriv:- i re-!, a;. ' PEiNSYLV AMA CLMRAi RAi if.-. 'J.: TKA1SS .-:sj Un. . 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U aicr Street. a iiu ,. 1 ohv: Iir.,l.!r U IVuad i-'c.i'U Vl:l"lt.Y'K-ri !.. !wu.... li Liin.t:i I ti'itwri, ta.lilaorc l 'KI.J Iw.4 II: -' The f."xpr.M tr iln !r? 'TIH I'lt'-Kn.... . 'umbcr!a:i.l t ;sj A M ? bursa I:., A. ..vi., B.vs J t..d i, Thront;h Al 11 iv rive at Wasting"! :vu.ir at 1) .;; .. Y v..j .. r. a.: fi.ii-iIj,i,i;i M.: liiehisund il:; j Tt;roe:.:h kx'.Tvi - iu .. as. ; " - ' :n v. i.ii r- ( q a.; I'tSUutii-Blv i l A. M. v., TlTiush Mail inh, K::;-!f.'S tnii.s 'lailrr!: ArriAUim-Hlatii'U tr'iiia da.iy cji rit Su:. ijr. Ti.-kct officer, n-ner ;," 'i i st rifts, and He;.ut ivrcr-r I. 'j-. ritui-urh, I'i. i . K. T-f'HI'. nn. P I M. t'e'L-tUeiitrj, ""irr.lr. V:.rkt At. S SHERIIT-.S HALTl r virtue of certain trr.' f J". i 4 . rtliod.urt f timw-n K! 'f s . Vn.. and UBi':ri.i-!, there wiU W n r.t.;u- :ilv. a', ti; uurt a..ui-. a, ; .: Si i. rsot. Pa., t o Thu at 1 ocl.),k if. si., ai; i i;C riuut. till;, b.Ier, : ir tiaiin ol thu .lefvu.!ai!M'!i:r:i-!i T4rm.it...f.ia :'.' ' 1' itawinjf diWTi-x.'d real eut. tp. Mtaite . Samr.iit t'.wnalilp, Si.iiviMat ouniv, . . in:; landut Uarret F. rv.j.ri; - M.,;,- , nn Il.K-hirtftter attd t"l,r:.t! in V. L:t-; - ' t:tiniTia; c!!:t and one-null arn . aiurc r i tSTinir. tierea erectl a a-.-: ,.1,1! ,t htose and atnhie. wi h the .ifvurtt ni" Tjkeu i:i tt-uts. n tnr siit .m ..u..iti :.Iuier. A il i!:e rrirht. tl'Ie. I?cr?st s-.i rU'n tl.e ! romUm, J..iuith:in SciirK-k. ol. ia aiiii lu t"i- i-.i l.iKiri oettfrUvii n al ci&u. ..-1.1 ia ;;. :. t raliy t-nhi.. Sotneretiv.ii:!tr. 1 a . lrimiv lit III.iSt. II A .! ... r... ' .. -V ... " I uni A holier, omiaiLi:: in r-T' it. U - j tutvIr-K tbareon nrti.t u nr aa-i a s'-r 1 l'.3r.k bono ami atnh'p, wi-h tha a':-.nrt'-';n'i" i T.'trn in eipcutioa t tuo Situu.1 Wi.. 1're.l P. Walk. r 3;: I Jr..r!s .' .m.:r I Lx-i-nti rs of r. P. Walter. Hw i!. j NuTK'ii All rtii.iiAiurftiiii.iiii at tl.? :ii ' 1 Wlil llfl:.e Uu.ice tililL A lift 'It i i " i li-.o Ev.ii.-y la 1'-; m-le kiH;w:i t:;f t-.-o ; yaie wlil bereiiuire'l aar"n na tfiu pr i;er:T i kn" kei liown. iidicrwbe it w:!l !i 3u'.ii:i ; t' snij .it the rl.k l tto c.-t r.un 'i i.r. T"ij r : f-i'iaeol'fha pari:hase m-'ue iua?t In 'fuM n ' I I'fl ire Tliarwlay ot tW lir.'t - i A;- ! IJuurt. tlia time iUcl ly t'.i urt ! t '-u-: t the at'kn.iw Ivuirmen; ot i!re... nn.l r.o I nil 1 J arlcnowlcdceil until Uw parcitam m -nev i pi. i iu 1 an. juiiN" j. M'Ar.' .L::::. S!i--'-iys (Irrtri, 1 M- iil. Pel p. S. i i. Sicoo Vnn n!d ff my .nrmrf M? ne minrnl sr.". si.luc;-s;i f.r.:r.il !u r; t- r en- it wl.'l notcurucr It U uot ff'ii liit.-l rv a:iy or B!lot' r in.- T ins Vrn lu'i.. v. J lnr;t-s i t n.2 B!,.o exifSiifi .ti (p-i npiyoui'.- rtiinlbr h'wir-. .1iti'-lati.'it.ia InrAT1','!'lr,'Teiir!i ermsa; mtinn ) K"r lni-r::'lr:-i:t f-riT, ehlUs i. l i. v.-r, j Jumbau'.iA !ij)in:jiJiiorLiu.-uy lai'iirxi i- ? jfj Ni A:itrirh.it yxxir ti' e."-.iO 13, wwr iofl U"n. t o y- 'l 7'-:ir. i roi ', T-.q or i g-j at oaca lit fv.aL :.A. T.il yeirr neighbors anl xikt iri.' i.n ; Punt v v li t'uo -iiy r"!.fv. a-l rl c you aiixi tLcai. bcAiUWapiAjipukt. S. E. II A.X.T31XJ CO., OoUa.O'-:' Jla.-ai'!. aa - , iKj-.-.:.i iiiii ai.. i..:iAJi.u.-y; FOR A'E SY C. X. SOY I), VrurjM' nil, P Mart POTJTZ'S KCS3EAMD CATTLE POWSi f.rl-iH f -. I. i. it! rrum t ' l 7i ..I., i.. (1I7 i'ow ' T-j'T rfr" !? tJ'tAa ti wh i i i ' lull t a IV 5:'. .iA(.i BuiiiuicrjAiK-r-;. BAVI9 r. rctrrs, rrcsrictor ri::s5;.-.r3. Feb L ly. PATENT a .1.1.11 n.t 11 hndtivn in fin. T. V : 1 1 or In tiie exnrta atien.it:. i in lot t FfS : C t, are owl'e t. 1. . P'l'ti- : saae.1 l F.'.TEMT BtiStVrSS EXCLlIVlY. ; cli oMrti piinniA iu itfss ll.ii J kluu i--' !r-pm AS'HGTC?!. ... . . , ., W hen uimiei Jf urav. ini; I f-?n. na ( ptewlat.l!tT free f i-hr.'e: r.wl w ntslt . CHARGE UME3S WE OrJTA.r. ?AT;XT. ... w e ri'iVr, !ic '.: nl'J f".i'-l!M':r. mo I the Mmev Jfii'-r I'lVtet in. an i lo i.iLtii? ' 1 i t .'. S. I'aii-nt Oiil'U. l 'ir tin 'jir. 'i !""-' I an.l reifrene tn aeiu:i! ;i!cttl in J"ir vni i iirevnmy. a.'.ilreae i C. A. SNOW & CO.. IMiy.'Si; I'a'ent i-- Wa:iii!g:. i ,:GGLDI eifci:t .iar.t:w-ii lAP-i--' .fca:ln;Bt.if te ilian. fi luu" i tv... .P..I., A ln:t.r ve rO 'ft rliai.'-ei rem-' I pm-er.T. V araut UAaiiy.ai.-:.. w piu . Iu. ... -..-b ... t! j: r In tliCt. I-' i Any one -n'f do t';e wi.rk pmwrl I-a . . 4ta;t The'.iB'litJS lli W t nnlinarTwa-'r?. ft: furii!:'"! a i:..;u Yoa can devote y ar nM to WJ onlv Tmr ui-are B:..ra-r.is. fvU n'"rJla''j . nnlv roar ?ire t all that Is neefeil sent lr.'. 'r V.-iV..".: .-c,!i: - m W. ; j W j D. m., nne ,tv. r.,fil ;.; lira juuuatuwa txfirew. liaii, Kb,., . , Johnstown Axnmtiivi4tiuD are i'"'" " and tlwJuhiiMbwa Ar imtu.,'.5. n , c : ci min-juatlva. av . :. t I ''--'JV a;j'.p., -a.-,, - - ... T.-1. iX t. fo l..-r. rrr -iij .n 1:7. I p -n,i. :!. ir-i ;;:'' " ' Co , fuliiari.1, Jiaiiie. Ice. li
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