iiiiw CTiiweI jgfet art iff tlPMff B. F. SCHWEIER, THE 00IST1TUTI0I-THE TJHOI-UD THE UTOSOHfEIT OF TEE LAB. Editor and Proprietor. VOL. XXXIX. MI1TLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY. TENN A.. WEDNESDAY. JUNE 3, 1SS5. NO. 23. r.4KlNC AM" JlEKflSB. mi:i.1' s of i:riff by zny door, munio of Npriutj. ivi.s's shutl sing ever it. ore, ht-.-e the. gioritied siujf. VJ l"',: 1... p! ' mil be when this lifo shall ' W : r . - Ar"i ,,e ,.11:; iroiu iij ....- - ,,, liviii'- " Iuve.1, aud the loving , .li:in.-i to he. .1" f.- we are living is blossoming fc-.--At-oned with Jove, lwiu on IU "beaveuly Tii p" in 1. !; r.i' " ab-iv. .sd ! t'.ie TAiting f ir you and for Ilii.Z v e so mii'-li deplore, . ,, m.i the bappiness be. e '-' "ie evergreeu shore. j f l-'Oi;'-'5 cheering, propct so i v?"'uw tl vr.-si.'.ure of pain; ' n Cod's tiuie we sua!! meet over II" " A. I , ar de-ir one. ,n S''"-y. afiin. i STHOOI.KOO KOMAM'E. t was nil wry well for tlie Claver-I,,-.' (.erniaii Fr.iulin to t-!l Cissy to . niixinl attend, ami all very well for s.lrtliiil" ten-year-old Mamie to wade travel)' in monotone through one of the i '..ilest chapters in Xiehubr; tlie sehool ri.,i was disirevitigly hot, and Algy w,.mJ keep loping through the half ,i,Hii to make faces, and the Ger man baud :u t-iie square would persist t,a mjr that delicious trots-temps, n.l! altogether, lessons were such a aiis:ae, and German was so odious! ju 'ent ('issy's two anus flop upon u sticky oilskin table-cover, ;iud her two black eves named plteously from tbe r'nui'eiii to the ceiling, while from ter nor laden heart there burst one, two. three s:uhs. Oh, it's so hot, and so (lull and stu s.'i"' s!ie cried. "What a horrid tiling 3 s to lie a :;irl and not crown-up!" Mvdcar!" remonstrated the Frau-le-u, wiili .rntatitigcaiuiness tlie Frau ,e!u was phlegmatic. "V'.i. yes," continued Cissy pettishly, o! C 'jiv it's all very well to be like Finn au l (lertrmle, and do no lessons, tu set taien everywhere with uianiuia, :id?tto l4t!is and dances, aud have i.vrlv Jivsses and lockets and bracelets; b.l to lie just fifteen, like I am, and be iLi to iractice scales, and read nasty dry l)k oh, it is unbearable!" Fn'iu which oipbuist it might lje in ferred that Miss Cecilia Clavenng was i young laily of insubordinate and ilis rmileiitrd character, given to envy ber : jf is tlieir iegu imate pleasures and be wiil with unnecessary freedom her own Site of luiiilasre in the schoolroom. Such however was not tlie case gener i!y. Cousin .Tack was down-stairs in titrdrawiiiir-room, and Flora and Ger traile vere liavi'igr him her wwn par ticuiar ally all to themselves. This was t ievance, and, like uiauy older aiJ wiser jieople. Cissy made the most of it; but on ordinary occasions the fmuiieu did not find her by any means tie niiwt iiiiiiiana:eable of the young Gun-rings under her espacial care. Tliere were six of them boys and prls in the schoolroom, ranging in age from lifteen suuiuier Cissy to little four-tftv-uM l!eu, liesides the two older girls. Flora and Gertrude, and a young nuilJyw ln.se dirk and sunburned cheeks wwe tlie pride and delight of Cissy's bewt. when he gut leave from his ship, Hid 0 iiic hi Hue to tease and kiss his sL-iers alu'cctlier a formidable family tc provide for out of an uncertain pro fessional income, such as that of Hugh Claveru g, J. C. But then the girls were sure to marry well, except perhaps Mr Cissy, their mother assured him, dweilii.g with pardonable maternal van ity n the charms of her daughters' iliiiJs and persons. "All lUinirs are sure to come to an Mid if one only has patience to wait," reuiiirknl Cissy philosophically. Ni she Waited: ami at last. Minnie's 4nl! little voii-ec.iuie to the concluding s-ute-jce in the chapter, and at tlie same tune, although less desirable erhaps, tlliiiil outside ended the "Manolo" with a grand simulUneous fmtis- Tbc rraiiieiu laughed good-humor-wiy. aiitl, assiuuiiig a non-professional i'!!lui!e. tol.l Cissy and Minnie to put 141 their iivH.ks and make the room tidy f'iriea. Ciwt moved alnmt rather lazily to df tins Irhest. She was aw kward "nkiii. uiiaaiiily, and gaunt, present '&g in apjiearaiice an unprepossessing contrast to pretty, graceful little Min- Ai d. besides being loosely knit j"l auitular, she was extremely untidy ut her li;ur and clothes, and many M-staius Inhered about the front of tailless, and on her thin brown nerv ous hands. She was "the plain, one of fuiih,rs. Havering complained h-tlully doinetmies; but the girl was mit yet, so that it was impossible tieaily t foretell what effect good messing aid the magic enchanter hap piaess miht do for her iu the way of M looks. -'iy sto.l on the lauding, and peered wistfully over the balusters, while the JiuAful footman pliced ufion the iniln)ai Uble sundry mugs and tea fW. and two pUtes of thick untemt-wead-aiMi-hutter; Algy, by way of wislitig operations, shooting at inter- stra' 1"- or two from his pocket .7 ""'""eliding youth's legs and back. 1 was Uie same weitrvold routine re- "i? itself. ,.) is there never anything new?" fwyJ herself. ?a tlie I'raiilein called to her to et,, tea; :lj clsi(y efl 0g puzziU!r t.1 a 1 U1,'"lal problem that never 1 answers , and took her place esslv iu fr,.Ilt f OI,e of tle lljlrs of - "-"i-aiiu-i.utter, while the rau " i"ire,i out tea and scolded Algy. once the door oued. ''Hallo," ( riwi Agv wilU uja month "U'sJuk!" the i"1'1 'i"t",'l vourself, pray," said (,, ''krl'IT i-Jliteiv, as, dealing a . uu ) Ux on the ear to A!gy i route, -e his way boldlv up to the tea- I "I'leaie mav rw"k9 Slid. have siime tea. Frau l'ilrs. 'lavering said uie a cup if 1 asked give , Al"i .Tack I'ana seated himself be- VIO' fair i ni Aigv. lie was '"haired, Ull young feilow of two U Lli I- -i .1 T u'ee a, twenty, with sleepy blue fes Ui hr , o:ul snouniers casea .S, " Uoluespuu. "auh'1' o""1 il l" iu'e!" cried Algy tri tueJ? "1!"t what made you Watlr;, l'sst"l'bl up here, you M-iin? the u'-4's v''e, and the bread- r quiet i A'gy; you know very well, aui reuiotistrated Minnie. j "Shut up, Min girls are such caut ! iug creatures, you can't think, Jack." ! "Are theyf" said Mr. Dane, surlnir at the object opposite to him, which hapiened to be Cissy. "Has Mrs. Clavering gone out?" in quired the Frauleiu politely. 'Yes; they 5et off to drive in the park. 1 wouldn't go." "Awfully slow, isn't it?" growled "On, Algy," remonstrated Minnie innocently, "you know you like it when mamma takes one of us for a treat; and now you are going to pretend " "Pretend what?" sliouteJ Algy wrathfully. "Hold your tongue, miss ' I say it's slow; and I don't pretend any thing; though, of course, when mamma aiid the girls want a an escort, you know " The boy blushed; and Mr. Dane fin ished his seuteuce for him. You are kind enough to officiate. Most self-denying of you, I'm sure! What sliall I bring you from Norway, Algernon?" "Norway!" echoed Cissy from across I the table, "Are you going there, Jack?" i es, cousin. Any commands? " "I 1 thought," Cissy said dismally, "that, now you were m London, and you hadn't been here or seen any of us for so long, you would stay a little." "Couldn't do it," answered Mr. Dane pathetically, "much as 1 should like it. Cissy, my child." "Why?" inquired Cissy, fixing upon him a pair of incredulous black eyes. "I'm so hard up, if you will have it; I have hardly a sixpence." 'Then how will you pay for your journey to Norway?" inquired practical Minnie. "My dear children!" remonstrated the Frauleiu solto roce. "Oh, never mind let them ask I" said Mr. Dane equably. "I'm such a deucedly ill used fellow that 1 rather like complaining to people; there's no thiug like airing a grievance, Frauleiu. I'm on tick, Minnie." Minuie looked puzzled, and Jane, a rojml-faced damsel of seven, paused in the consumption of an appalling piece of inch-thick biead, called by conrtesy a slice, to inquire in an awe-stricken voice if "tick" were something dread ful. 'Xo," answered Jack Dane, "it's rather nice when you can get it; but you can't always, more's the pity." "1 know," said Algy "it means bor rowing. "And never being able to pay," fin ished Mr. Dane satirically. "But," objected the bewildered Cissy, "I thought people said always mamma, at least, says you are so rich, Jack." "I may or I may not be." "That's like the Delphian oracle." "Is it, Cissy? Well, I'll explain fur ther. There's a rider tacked on to my riches, as you call them. My father and yours laid their beads cleverly to gether, and ordained that, unlike every other fellow, I shouldn't come of age till I'm twenty-five; so I have only an allowance ever so much too small and a deuced mess they've made of It be tween them. "concluded poor Jack, tug ging fiercely at his slight fairMMistactie "It's a horrid shame!" sympathized Algy. And Cissy looked pensive and pitying, also a little mystified. "Jolly little thingl" thought Mr. Dane, as he watched her furtively across the table. "Well, then," suggested Minnie sagely, "yon must wait two years tni tiently, and then you w ill come into your property. . It is not so very long to wait, Jack." "Oh, isn't it?" grumbled the youug fellow sarcastically. "Who knows whether 1 mayn't be off the hooks alto gether by that time?" Before this harrowing alternative could be commented upon, the Frauleiu discreetly proposed an adjournment; and Algy, spitefully kicking over his chair, got up, and, by request, an nounced himself truly thankful. "U'e iwimllv walk nut at this hour." remarked the Frauleiu, addressing Jack Dane. "In the square gardens, you know," supplemented Minnie encouragingly. "Aud there's croquet, and lawn-tennis, and the Harcourt-s and the Browns aud the Vernon Carews, and lots more of our friends. Won't you come too?" "Minnie!" ejaculated the Fraulein reproachfully. Jack Dane did not answer. He was standing at the window, looking down from the giddv altitude of a fourth storey upon tlie dull monotonous street beneath. Presently a thin bony baud stole into his, aud a careworn little face rested for a moment upon his shoulder, so far back that he could not see it, al though he tried. "Oh, bother!" said Jack Dane unsen timeuUlly. "At least by Jove, you know I mean, what aqueer, jolly little thing it isl Dout go off In a huff now 1 was thinking. Oh, Cissv, don't be cross, aud please put your hand into mine agaiu!" "Are you coming with us, or do you want to stay at home with Cissy, aud wait for mamma?" inquired Minnie, with her out door things ou. Cissy went out with papa before luncheon," explaiued Jane; "and now she is to stay at home and translate her Uerniau and do her sums." "Well," said Mr. Dane doubtfully, 'I don't very much caie about croquet, Minnie; and I'm a perfect donkey about lawn-tennis; and I dou't know the Browns and those other nice people you mentioned." "1 suppose that means you dou t waut to come?" interrogated matter-of-fact Minnie. "The Herr Dane will nnd books and papers to amuse liiiu in tlie salon," in sinuated the Fraulein "Thanks," said Mr. Wane; "I shall fume down and own the street-door for you thougti first, and give Algy a part ing kick auu my uiessiujs. "What foi?" inquired that young gentleman, somewhat taken aback. "Aren't we to see you again. Jack?" "Xot ti!l next time," resiouded Mr. Dane oracularly. "No. Algy, I'm off bv steam to morrow morning." " When Jack came up stairs again,after closing Mr. Clavering'siront door upon the retrealing forms of his cousins and their duenna, he Just stayed long enough in the deserted drawing-room to collect a daily paperor two from various corners, and then marc!;ed boldly on to the second landing higher up Cissy met him at the schoolroom door, , carman exercise book in one baud and an inkstand iu Uie other. "I'm going into papa's study to write," she said rather reproachfully, Jack thought, "It's cooler there." ....., ..1-,. Mr. Dane eutreated. "It's not so very' warm here, Cissy.after all; and I waut to talk W you. "No " Cissy said, with provoking dig nity; "ou snubbed me just now, and you were very unkind when I was to sorry for you and meant to comfort vou. and I dou't like it, and I think oh, Jack, Jackl" And Miss Clavering. fairly turning tail, fled back into the schoolroom and slammed the door. Jack Dane reopened it, and. follow ing her in. seated himself close to her. aud added to his list of misdemeanors by recklessly shutting up the inkstand and llingiug the Germau exercise-book into a far corner. Cissy looked up, smiling through her tears. "Bother the old lessons," cried Mr. Dane disresjiectfully; "you slia'u't write another word to-nightl" "It's it's not the lesions.' sobbed Cissy, with quivering lips, "though they're bad and horrid enough; it's it's you you, poor dear boyl" "1 1" cried Jack iuuoceutly. "Oh, yes! I do so wish I had money to give you a lot, I mean." "You jolly little tiling!" cried Jack Dine admiringly. "Are you really so very, very poor. Jack dear?" "Why, yes. my dear! But.to be fair and above board, I ought to tell you that it's a good deal my own fault. A fellow ought, you know, by rights to keep within bounds. But I've beeu awfully extravagant; and now I'm ever so deep in the Jews' clutches, and they won't give me another hundred without the most rascally interest." "Horrid creatures!" cried Cissy wrathfully.. "And that isu't all," continued Jack. "Now I've beeu and lost a pot of money at Ascot debts of honor, you know, Cis, that a fellow must pay and I've had to forestall my next year's allow ance, or as good as all of it; aud what I'm to do- to ay the pijer goodness kuows! I shall have to pawn my watch and my dress coat next.' Poor Cissy looked bewildered and frightened; but Jack ouly laughed. "Won't you iisk papa to give you a little?" Cissy began doubtfully. "He won't, Cis; he's so dreadfully hard-liearted. Besides, you kuow, he has got all of you." "Oh, dear, oh, dear," said Cissy, comically remorseful, "how I wish I hail never been born!" Jack Dane began to whistle. "But can people live for nothing in Norway?" continued the puzzled girl. "Not quite; but perhaiis I shall get a little work as a bricklayer's assistant out there, where I'm not known, I think," said Jack Dane pensively. "I could do it; it's only climbing up a lad der, 70U know, Cis, with a hod of bricks, and then throwing them down where you're told and going to fetch more." "Oh, Jack," criexl poor Cis, in agony. "I 11 save vou every penny of mv pocket money see if I dou't! But, oh, dear, it's so very little only ten shillings a quarter! And oh, wait here a minute, while I go to my room aud fetch some thing!" Sue was gone before he could answer: and Mr. Dane got up and walked to the window, whistling softly to himself. Cissy came back, looking happy and excited, with a tiny silver-paer parcel in her hand. "Look here," she cried "this was Dick's birthday present to me, and it's the ouly piece of jewelry I have; and. it it wasn't Dick's present just before he went to sea, I shouldn't care about it a bit and I'm quite sure Dick him self wouldn't mind; and and," con eluded Cissy shyly, "you are to take it aud sell it, please, aud keep the money. Aud here's three-and-sixpence besides all I have left out of my last allow ance." J.ick Dane left off whistling and drew near. "You're a good girl, Cis," he said aj- provingly, coolly pocketing the four coins his cousin handed to him. "You wouldn't like to see me starve, I know; aud this, though it isu't much, will just do to keep my head above water a little while. What '8 this," he added "a locket? Oh, I say, though," as Cssy mutely held up for his inspection a small gewgaw of enamel and uiue-carat gold which might possibly have cost originally about seven shillings, ''you cau't spare it, you know!" "Oh, yes!" the girl cried eagerly. "I don't waut it indeed! See I am taking out the lock of Dick's hair, and I shall keep it in paper iu my drawer; aud it will do every bit as well. You are to take the locket, Jack." Jack looked at her. Her face, her veiy features, h id changed as though a magician's wand had transfigured them, "By Jove," thought the young fel low, "how handsome she is!" "You'll take the locket, wont you?" pleaded Cissy eagerly. She had crept close up to him, aud they were standing hand in hand. Suddenly Jack grasped her shoulder with his two hands, aud, holding her a little way fiom him, looked long and earnestly into her face "1 think you like me, Cis, a little, don't you?" "Like you? Oh, Jack, of course I do!" ci id Muss Clavering reproachfully. "I like you too," said Jack Dane; "aud I think you the jollieat little brick of a girl I Let me see how old are you. Cissy Often and a half ? I'm twenty-three. In two years more you'll be seventeen, and I shall be tweuty five." "Aud you'll have all uncle Thilip's money then, and be a rich man," said Cissy. "And youU be a woman grown." re turned Jack. "Yes, Jack, and give up lessons, and go to dances. Won't it be jolly?" "Awfully,"responded the sympathiz ing Mr. Dane. "And now, Cis, we 11 drive a bargain. On the very day I'm twenty-five I'll turn up here in this musty old schoolroom from the utter most ends of the earth, if I should hap pen to go to tliem and I'll bring you the jollieat of gold locketa in place of this, w hich will be sold, yoit kuow, by that time; aud in return you'll have to give me whatever birthday present I may cnoose to ask for won't you, Cis?" "If it isn't too expensive, and I can possibly get it,"aus wered Cis prudently. There was a slamming of doors be low; and Mr. Kane made haste to pock it his possession and retire to the window with a uewspaier in his hand, before his retreat should be invaded by aunt iinil CitusillS. "Tired?" related Jack afterwards. J in response to some complaint or lora s almut the heat aud the extreme dulness of the closing season, "l'es; I dare say you are tired. What else can peo ple expect, when they go crawling round that stupid Bow to make shows of them selves?" Whereupon the eldest Miss Clavering pronouueed her cousiu stupid and rude, and ordered him to go and dnus for din ner that instant w hich behest be obeyed. Some days later Cissy fouird an op portunity of discussing Jack's immedi ate prosiects with her father. The busy lawyer looked surprised, but was ready enough to talk to her about his nephew. "Why, yes," he sid, "Jack has been rather an extravagant young fellow; but it might have been worse; and ne has it to spend, after alt." "Wor-e!" exclaimed Cissy. "Oh, papa, how could it be worse, when the poor boy will hardly have sixpence after paying for his journey, and may even have to turn bricklayer s assistant when he gets to Norway?" "Nonsense, child!" rejoined her father testily. "Who has been tilling your head with such stuff ?" "More, papa," persisted Cissy; "he said he thought he should have to pawn his dress coutl" "I'll tell you what it Is, my dear,' said Mr. Clavering, laughing good b 11 moredly as he listened U Cissy's disclo sures "Jack has been 'greeuiug you, as Algy would say; and you're a soft hearted little lass to believe it all. When he left, he had a huudred pounds in notes in his pocket the remains of his last quarter's allowance after paying all hisdebts which 1 Insisted he should do If fore he went away. And in an other two years he will be one of the richest commoners in England; so save your pity for a more deserving object. And now go back to your books." And Cissy went, her eyes filled with hot indignant tears. Then Jack had made her bis dui. and palmed off silly stories on her, as if she had been Min nie or Jane, and gone off laughing at her credulity! He had even taken Dick's poor little locket why the poor child could not imagine, unless to prove his triumph and her own folly. There were sore and angry feelings in Cissy's heart that night; and the Frauleiu found her very inattentive to Niebuhr the next time Minuie read out selections from his works. It was curious too to observe that she never mentioned Jack's name either to her sisters or to Algy' a:.d the Fraulein. Other people however mentioned hi 111 pretty frequently and, as time passed awiy, wondered what he was about.aud when he would come home. Cissy thought she knew; but she had been deceived once, so she chose to keep her own counsel, lest a second mishap of the kind should draw renewed ridicule 011 her devoted head. "And he seemed so very attentive to dear Flora; and it would be such a de lightful family arrangement, in every way!" Mrs. Clavering said plaintively on more than one occasion, alluding to hopes of a tender nature in Which .lack was intimately concerned. But Flora, wisely determining to make her hay as weather permitted. without waiting lor a problematical sun still in the clouds, had already provided herself with a fairly eligible swain, and talked of tnmsseau and bridesmaids by the hour to anyone who would listen. So the time went on; and Cissy grew into a tall well-shaped maiden of "seven teen. There weie no more awkward an gles about her shoulders, aud her back, instead of arching into a curve as the ! t rauleiu had confidently predicted was straight as an arrow. Iler com plexion too hiid changed from sallow ness to a beautiful autumn tint, and her eyes, always black as jet, lit up her splendid skin and well-cut if somewhat irregular features with a radiauce that raised them at once to beauty of the highest type. Altogether the third Miss Clavering was a success iu the Ixndou season of 1S7G; aud Mrs. Clavering be gan to cherish hopes aud visions of a splendid settlement. . The first of August came Jack's birthday and the Claverings were st ill in town. They were to leave in a few days for Scarborough, in which north ern watering-place Flora was to be united to the man of her choice. Cissy roamed alnmt the Harley Street man sion and fidgeted with the shabby old furniture. The Frauleiu must have been surprised at the frequent inroads made upou herterritory; for Cissy.once freed from schoolroom discipline, had not given Minnie aud Jane much of her socivty. The schoolroom party had dwindled down to three now the two girls aud little Ben. Algy was at Har row, and was expected home ou that very day, and Johnnie was at a private tutor's iu Cumlierlaud. Schoolroom tea was over, the thick bread-and-butter all despatched, and the Frauleiu was contemplating a walk iu the enclosure with Minnie, Jane, aud little lien. "Won't you come, Cis?" Minnie shouted, half way down-stairs. Cissy declined the invitation some what shortly, and seated herself at the schoolroom window, with a volume of Tennyson, to watch for Algy. The Frauleiu was absent a long time so long that darkness set In, and the lamplighter iu tlie street outside began to ply his vocation, while Cissy still watched. There was a lamp just in front of Mr. Claveriug's hall door, which threw great shadows about the shabby schoolroom furniture, and par tially lit up Cissy's figure and face. But it was too dark to read; so Cissy closed her book, aud occupied herself instead with the dreaming of curious waking dreams. The others had gone out to dinner; consequently there was no such thing as dressing. A hansom cab rattled noisily aloug the street, and drew up suddenly at Mr. Claveriug's door. "Algy, of course," said Cissy; but she did not move. Th-n a step was heard upon the stairs it was not Algy's irregular one. "Only the footmau," said Cissy to herself, "or ierhaps the young man from tlie clockniaker's tj wind up the clock. How rude to burst into the room like that, aud frighten one so!" she suddeuly exclaimed aloud. "I beg your pardon," cried a fresh youn? tenor voice, as the girl's tall slim form rose aud confronted the per son entering. They stood close to each other in the dim uncertain light. Cissy's book fell to the floor and Cissy's nerveless hands were clasped tightly in Jack Dane's. Then Jack drew back a step or two, and looked at her. "How did you come?" asked Cissy, conscious, as though in a dream, of be ing int nsely commonplace. "Boat rail cab; ordinary nine teenth century mode of doing the thing. you know," answered Jack laconically. And where did you come from.'" America last. Cissy. I have been everywhere since I last saw you; you put me in funds, you know, and I was able to do the thing handsomely." UidiculousI" cried Cissy, growing warm aud scarlet, "Absurd I I never can forgive you jor that piece of non sense." Nonsense." echoed Mr. Dane' "nonsense, Cissy, when your jolly little leuuer heart made me the happiest fel low alive!" " Vou never wanted that stupid three-and-sixpeuce aud Dick's locket," said Cissy, half laughing, half crying. "You milHweu upon my childish credulity you" 'Stop, Cissy I" cried Jack Dane. "It's my birthday, you kuow, and you mustn't jaw a fellow. And I waut to know," continued Jack, with an odd niixtu.e of teuderuess aud hesitation. "lf you excted me, Cis, and whether you thought much aliout me these two years?" He had seated himself close to her and taken her hand, and their faces were very near together. "Did you. Cissy?" persisted the youug fellow. But Cissy would not answer, and, now that Jack had come back to ber, she liegan to wish him miles away again. 'I've brought you the loveliest of lockets, just as I promised," Jack Dane went ou; "and you sliall have tlie old one back too if you like, that is, when you've heard what 1 have to say. That's my part of the bargain and now for y 0111 8. 1 ou remember it, dou t you, v;usy?" "No," said Cissy hypocritically. "Oh, come. I like that 1 You were to give uie whatever present 1 asked for. And, Cissy," continued the auda cious young man, after a very slight pause, "I want dou't take your hand away, darling I waut you for my sweet wife!" Cissy's reply was smothered on his shoulder; but Mr. Dane must have heard it, for he seemed satisfied. When the Fraulein aud her youthful charges trooped noisily back into the room. Jack got up in the most natural and, what Algy would have called, "cheeky" way possible, aud said, "How do you do?" all round. Then hghta were brought in, and soon afterwards Algyhiuiself drove up iu a hansom, shrieking out boisterous greetings, and intensely surprised and delighted to find cousiu Jack domiciled with bis sisters The Fraulein however did not feel quite comfortable in her mind aliout Jack until the return of the dining out party relieved her from further responsibility. "I've just been asking Cissy to marry urn," Jack announced with character istic coolness, when greetings had been exchanged and ejaculations of surprise parried and answered. "Upou my word," began Mr. Claver ing, auius.-d. But before he could proceed Cissy ran away aud hid herself, with her mother and sisters in hot pursuit, 90 that Mr. Clavering aud Jack bad it all to thciibielves. Three mouths afterwards a wedding was celebrated at St, James's, Picca dilly, and Cissy wore a rich silk dress and orange blossoms. At the bride groom's watch-chain dangled a trum- ry little locket of uine-carat gold, which he he was an obstinate fellow. and, moreover, rich enough and hand some enough to set fashion at defiance insisted ou wearing; aud Cissy, when she was appealed to, ouly laughed none but herself and Jack knew that with it was associated the happiest of uieir-rieH A 'HoOLKtitUl XivM &KCK- The l'iBraeks. A re a people of the Mongol race Inhabi ting part of Russia and China. They were divided into four tribes. One es tablished themselves on the upper Tabei and became vassals to Kussut aud dur ing the last century took possession of the steppe betweeen the Don and the Volga, and were associated with the Cossacks of the Don. The Calmucks are described as being in appearance one of the ugliest of all the tribes of men. They are of medium size, robust and broad shouldered. Their complex ion is swarthy, face flat, fissures of the eyelids narrow aud oblique, and the eyes small, black and regular, ears long aud prominent, head large and flat, and hair coarse and black. They have long legs with feet turned in toward each other. Their ugliness is their title to purity of race. The marriages that some of the Cossacks have contracted with them have produced some band some women. Their language is harsh and abounds in gutturals. They are de scendants of the Scythian barbarians of an'iquity, and perhaps of the Iluns, w ho, under Attilla terrified the nations of Europe, as much by their hideous as pect as by their ferocity, A small num ber of the Calmucks have adopted Chrisiuinity.and others Mohamedanism but the religion of the great majority of them is the Lamaic form of the Budhisin. They are taught to obey tlieir parents, and to treat their wives aud elders with restiecL Theft is pun ishable by castigatiou, aud murder for the first time by fine and branding. The Calmucks are nomads moving about iu trilies. Their tents are of a conical shape, the floor is covered with a carpet of felt, aud in winter with the skins of animals. The household idols are placed on a kind of altar made of bags, coffers aud horse equipage. Their costume consists of a long caftan, a short jacket, trousers and boots. Their arms are bows and arrows and lances, they rarely use guns, although gunpow der has beeu know to them from time immemorial. Divorce is forbidden by law, but usage allows a man to send away bis wife. At eight years of age the boys are sent to the priest who teach them to read aud write. They marry early, the males at fifteen, the females at thirteen. The marriage ceremony consist in the couple holding a shoulder of mutton wrapped in cloth, and pledg ing their troth before their idols. They are extremely superstitious and will never enter upon auy transaction with out first consulting a priest. They are not delicieut in intelligence, have a strong memory and great keenness of the senses, especially that of sight. They do not reckon from any fixed date, but count by cycles of twelve, to which they give the name of some animal. The year is composed of thirteen months, each of which also bears the name ot some animal. Ax old wouiiui in iorwBhire crossed a bridge that was marked, without seeing the sign. On beiiig informed of the fact on the other side of the river, she tamed about Immediately, rec roused, and went home another way. Scmc of the papers want editor Dana, of the &'un, to run for Governor of New York. Well, he would make an honest aud efficient Governor. A Montreal auctioneer, as might have been expected, has gone crazy. How oonld it be otherwise, when for years he has been going, going, gone? A oc8HEo poetees begins: "All that I waut is a dingle heart.'' This would seem to indicate that she held the ten, jack, queen and king of that suit and was drawing for the aoe. "nor Id tlie Fanillj. Good humor is rightly reckoned a most valuable aid to a happy home life. Au equally good aud useful faculty is a sense of humor, or the capacity to have a little fun along with the humdrum cares aud work of life. We all know how it brightens up things geueially to have a lively, witty couqianiou, who sees the ridiculous points of things, aud who can turn an annoyance into an oc casion for laughter. It is a great deal better to laugh over some domestic mis haps than to cry or scold over them. Many homes aud lives are dull because they are allowed to become too deeply impressed with a sense of the cares aud responsibilities of life to recognize its bright and especially ita mirthful side. Into such a household, good but dull, tne advent of a witty, humorous friend is like sunshine ou a cloudy day. While it is always oppressive to hear persons constantly striving to say witty or fun ny things, it is comfortable to see what a brightener a little fun is to make an effort to have some at home. It is well to turn off an Impatient question some times, and to regard it from 4 humorous point of view instead of becomiug irrita ted about it. "Wile, what is the rea soii I cau never Cud a clean shirt?" ex claimed a good but rather iuiatieut husband, after ruuiaging all through the wrong drawers. His wife looked at him steadily for a moment, half incli ned to be provoked, then with a comical look, she said: "I never could guess conundrums; I give it up." Then he laughed, and they both laughed' aud she went and got his shirt, aud he felt ashamed of himself and kissed her, and she felt happy; so, what mightihave been an occasion for hard words and unkind feelings, became just the contrary, all through the little vein of humor that emptied out to the surface. Some children have a peculiar faculty for giv ing a humorous turn to things when they are reproved. It does just as well oftentimes to laugh things off. laugh ing is better than tears. Iet us have a little more of it at home. RuMia In I'eutrai Aula. A little east of the narrow tract now in dispute between Itussia and Afghan istan is that extensive protuberance called by the natives The Pamir, or The Koof of the World. Ibis wonderful plateau, furrowed by deep valleys, through which flow the head streams of great rivers, is the loftiest in the world, and stretches away for some hundreds of miles from 10.1M) to 15,(KJ0 feet above the sea. It is an elevated isthmus connecting tin we almost iuqiasnable mountain systems of Asia, the lhian Shan and Altai 011 the North, with the Hindoo Koosli and Himalayas on the Smth. Here history places the cradle of the Eurojiean races. Here lived our Aryan forefathers, who leaving the Pamir slopes, followed great rivers westward, aud finally pastured their herds iu Europe. Hither are returning now their descendants, the Slavs and Anglo-Saxons, sooner or later to con tend for the supremacy of Asia upon the historic ground from which their primitive progenitors are believed to have migrated. The Pamir ent its. waters . west to fertilize the Turkestan desert, gave the nations a passage way through moun tain barriers along its streams that poured eastward into the Tarim aud southward into the Gauges and the In dus, nurtured the civilization that Genghis Khan and lamerlane founded in lurkestan, and made possible the advance of Kussia into Central Asia. Though Peter the Great dreamed of extending Kussia s power far beyond the Caspian, it was not greed of con quest or commerce, but the need of defending herself against the barbarous neighbors across the Ural that first turned Kussia toward Central Asia. Ivan HI. put an end to the terrible Tartar invasions that for centuries wasted half of Kussia and laid its chief cities in ashes. But his successors did not free Kussia from the pest of pilla ging Kirghiz aud Turkoman tribes until they established the Mucovite power ip the large territory between the Ural Kiver aud the Aral fc-ea. . 1 hey sank wells in tlie Ust Urt t lateau to facili tate the operations of their army, marched against the turbulent Kirghiz, and after several hard campaigns they subdued these 2.000,000 nomads, who for over twenty years have paid their conquerors without a murmur their annual tribute. Untapped. There are two magnificent sources of wealth in Australia, one of which has been imperfectly exploited, while the other is almost nutapped. The Dirt consists of the subterranean channels of anoient rivers, wbioh have loug since ceased to flow and have been buried for ages beneath the snperincnmlient strata through which the enterprising miner now sinks his shaft. Each of these must have been a veritable Pac tolns, aud their golden sands have yielded a rich retnrn to many an adveuturous company. The second source of wealth is also subterranean. and will probably prove to be more precious than the first. We refer to thu nndergronnd nvers which have their origin in the fcre.it central depres sion of the Australian comment, where some superficial streams and the heavy tropical rains disappear, percolating through the penetrable soil, aud form ing hidden reservoirs, from whence at least two great bodies of water issue southward aud find an ontlet in the sea. Ever and anon one of these channels is pierced by the well-sinker, and there rises to the surface a perennial spring of the precious element in th midwt of a vast region that u liable to be parched with drought. Such a discovery has just been made at Moree, in the electo ral district of Uwydir. ainiut 3'JO miles north of Sidney. Water was struck at a depth of 130 feet, aud it rose 42 feet in three hours, "The value of the dis covery," we are told, "cannot be over estimated, as the country in the vicinity has hitherto Buffered terribly in dry seasons, I be qneetion arises whether, inasmuch as the country is beginning to be dotted with various points at which similar discoveries have been made, it would not be possible by sys tematic investigations to determine ap proximately the course of one at least. of the subterranean rivers that which is believed to have its on t fall near Port land so that boring operations might be conducted for the time to come on these places only where there is rea sonable prospect of success. Sexatob Edstis deserted bis gang when be stood ou the gang plank and turned his face awav from the President and looked toward Enrope. The office will seek the man, bnt mostly soma other man. ! .N r w . o I H airrluu. Some years ago au enterprising Eng lish publisher got out a reprint ol the Londou 1'iiuet of June '2.1 1815. Al though itilonr pages am but sixteou luetics Iouk by teu iu width, their cou tenU, more tbau their iz, form a cou trant to those of the mammoth Times of to-day. In place of being a record of natisual humiliation, they tell of Euglaud's ''crowuiug mercy" tue vic tory of Waterloo. The Tinut'i correspondent on this ocoaniou wa-i the duke of Wellington. Its only acoouut ol tbe battle is his dis patch to Lord Bathurst, the chief of the war department, dated Waterloo, Jnue 19, 1S15. This dispatch, which is comparatively niodost iu tone, occu pies Dearly the whole of the secouJ page, bnt the account of the battle of Waterloo fills less than a column. The rest is devoted to actions at Ligi y aud Qaatre Bras, to nulwtiiueut military movements, and to a short list of the more distinguished ersoU8 who were k'lled and wounded. In reference to the part the Prussians took iu the bat tle, the duke says: "I should not do justice to my feel ings or to Marshal Blucber aud the Prassiiiu army if I did uot attribute the successful result of this arduous day to the cordial and timely assistance I re ceived from them," In contrast to this military modesty is the boastful editorial on the next page. Here is a part ol it: ' Such is the great aud glorious re- salt ot those masterly movements by which the hero of Bntaiu met aud frus trated the audacious attempt of ti e rebel chief. Glory to Wellington, to our gallaut soldiers, aud to our lre all lee! Bonaparte's reputation has beeu wrecked, and his last graud stake bs been Ut in this tremendous con Bit t. Two huudred aud ten pieces of cauuou eaptured in a single battle put to bluxh tbe boastiug column of thj Place tie Vendome. Long and naugniuary, in deed, wa fear, tbe conflict must have beeu; bat the bold nest of the rebel Frenchman w is the boldness of despair, and conscience sate heavy on thoxe arms which were rained against their sovereign, against their oaths aud against the peace and happiness of their country. We coufideutly an ticipate a great Dd immediate deleciiou from the rebel cause. We are aware that a great part of the French nation looked to the opening of this campaign with a superstitious eipes-tation of suc cess to a man, whom, though many of tbeui hated, and many of tlieni feared, all had been taught to look on as the first captain of tbe age. He himself went forth boasting in his str?ugtb aud still more in his talent; ... but he did not take iutothe account that he was to be oppixed by abilities superior to his own. That unpalatable truth h s vanity would not allow him to beiiev, uor would it easily find credit with bis admirers; but the 13th ol Juue, we trust, will satisfy the most iucreduions. Two hundred and ten pieces of cannon! When, or where, or bow is this loss to be repaired? Besides, what has become of his invincible guard? of bis admin d and dreaded cuirasBisrs? Again, we do uot deny that these were good troops, bnt they were encountered by better. We shall be curious to learn with w bat degree of cool Leas, of personal courage and ssif-posseesion Bonaparte played his st eke, on which he must have bet-u well aware that his pretentions to em pire huug. It is clear that he retreated; nor are we prepared to hear that he fled with oowardice; but we greatly sus pect that he did not court au hcnorable death. We think his valor is of the calculating kind, and we do uot at r tmte his surviving the alxlicatmu ai Fontaineblean entirely to niocuuniui ity." Further on the article refers to Xev as a "perjured wretch," aud hopes that he aud bis accomplices iu baseness aud treason will be lett alone as marks for the Indignation of Europe and just sacrifices to Insulted French honor." An official announcement of the vic tory by Bathurst to the lord mayor, a list of the killed aud wounded, headed with the name of "Brunswick's faied cbieftaiu" some gossip about the battle from a gentleman who left Brnssels the day after, and a few local paragraphs comprises about all the remainder of the reading matter, the first and last pages of the small sheet being davoted almost entirely to advertisements. Tbe price of the paper was sixpence. Caught oa tbe Last Turn. "Well, how did this inveterate gamb ler, this Tom Mai lory, come oat, fin ally?" asked the reporter. "He loft every cent he had," said the man with the light-colored pantaloons," lost every cent he could borrow, and finally was driven to the necessity of going to the College Hospital wbeu he was attacked with typhoid fever. There be died. Tbe night he died there were several of ns who had not heard ol his illuecs before present, and I will never forget tbe scene. There were a physician, a minister, and three or four spurting men standing around his bed in the ward. When I came is he said to me: "Frank, old boy, bow goes it?" "Alright, Tom," says I; how goes it yourself?" "Well, I feel pretty bail," says ne, "and I don't know whether 1 am going to pull through or not." "Be is not going to pull throtsh," said the minister, "and I have beeu trying to impress upon him the neces sity of prepsriug for the next life. Mr. Mallory, be continued, "the physician here will tell you that you cannot live." "Cannat live?" said Tom. "No," said the physician, "T think it bnt right to tell yon the truth you cannot live an bonr longer." "Now, look here, said Tom, rising in the bed and looking like an animated ghost, bis eyes as big as moons, and the hand of death plainly marked upon his face, "yon fellows say I cannot live an hour. I'll tell yon what we'll do. I'll put np my pants against any pair of pants in the house that 1 live two hours." "1 knew it wonld please him, so I said; "All right, Tom; It's a go." "In an hour we saw that bis last hour Jiatl come, and I made his head easier on tbe pillow. When we were expecting to see him drop off he rose and said: "Lost again, by ginger! I BboalJ have 'coppered that bet," and he sank back on tbe pillow dead. It is difficult to persuade maaklnd that tha love of virtue is the love of themselves. There is so mnch to lament in tha world In which we live that I can spare no pang for the past. NEWvS IN BUIKP. Kansas is 10,000,WW :n riebt. There are over 275,00" school teach ers in this conn try. In 11-J0 the first striking clock was invented by a Cisteciran monk. The Umatilla Indians are buyiug and planting fruit trees in Oregon. Stockton, Me,, boasts of a lioy 15 years old who is G feet 2 inches tail. Several violent shocks of earth quake has beeu felt at Geneva recently. A Iittsburg barber has goue to Germany to receive a -'So,iMi legacy. At Belfast, Me., a womau aged 70 has sued a man aged 7'. for breach of promise. Montgomery, Ala.", will not allow no swinging signs on her streets after May 1st. German female telegraph operators receive a salary of $M0 a year aud get no vacations. A dollar, worth fCOO, accord lug to a recently issued catalogue, is tl-e silver dollar of li, An acre, packed as at a political meeting, somebody has figured outwill hold 25,000 ;ople. A Kansas farmer realized over 700 from au acre of watermelons which he shipped to Colorado. The Mexicans of South California carry all their water in waterproof bask ets niaile of willow. Cauadians resident in New York are moving in the direction of forming a social organization. The deepest coal-mine in Great Britain is tbe Ash ion Collery, sunk to the depth of lo.'iO yards. There are now 52,1 KX) growing trees in Washington, laid at regular Intervals along 125 miles of tine streets. The railway to the top of lookout 1111 un tain, projected by Colonel Cole, w ill be completed by June, 1S?5. An American circus is said to have just takeu in $tX),000 in four perform ances iu two days iu Toronto, Oat. The young women of Newark, N. J., have bound themselves by oath not to kiss any man who chews tobacco. Tlie larger portion of an English fortunv, which amounts to $ooO,ouo,has tieen inherited by a C-hicago womau. A Cincinnati gambler, who in his time had won aud lost over $200,000, died among the paupers the other day. The Chinese are re(orted to have decided to test the rights of the people of Tehama, Cal., to drive them away. Mammoth, Cal., once a flourishing mining camp, and populous, is now w ithout a soul w ithin its extensive lim its. A female lawyer, Mrs. Mary A. laonard, has been admitted to practice law in the V. S. DiMrict Court for Ore gon. The proiosal for doing away with the fortifications surrounding Paris is now meeting with a great many adher ent. The Berlin police assert that they have found proofs of an extensive plot to enroll the soldiers in Socialist socie ties. Where the gunboats lay when boui liardmg Vicksburg is now a huge sand bank, the course of the river having changed. Mrs. Cynthia Gruliii, of Waycross. Ga.. is the mother of L'O children, all of whom she reared to manhood aud wo manhood. The odd spectacle of convicts strik ing agaiust a reduction of waes is now afforded iu tlie Kings county, N. Y., iieuiteutiary. Seven hundred aud twenty-one Na tional bank charters expire during next vear, representing an agi'rega capital of f 10,000,000. The coming sexson, it is predicted. will see the rents of New port cottages lower than for several years, while ho tel rates will be reduced. Au itinerant anti-Semitic agitator has been arrested at Koiuafaii, Bohe mia. A number of pamphlets were found iu his possession. The heat and mosquitoes at the Danish scientific station in South Green land, in summer, are said to be sugges tive of a tropical climate. Iu a tax suit the Supreme Court of Wisconsin has denied that telephone lines come under the act authorizing the construction of telegraph lines. The Montana I isl at 11 re takes the Ijelt for ei-ouomy. The total appropri ation from the territorial treasury for all purposes amounts to but ',5oiJ. Au application has beeu made to the Swiss Federal Council for a con cession for the construction of a rail way through the Great St, Bernard. Minneaisilis girls have red-ribbon clulis, with the motto; "The lips that touch wiue shall uever touch mine." Beer is becoming the favorite beverage. The expression "Thank my stars!" is raiely heard from the mouth of a theatrical manager. We do not pre tend to know why; we simply state tha fact. While preparing a chicken, which. he had killed for the table, a few days ago, a citizen of Monmouth county, N. J., found a rusty pin stuck in the centre of its heart. An alligator was about to interfere with baptizing services iu a creek, at Jacksonville, Fla., a few Sundays Sgo, but the congregation objected and hand led hi 111 roughly. The Flatten Lake, at Pesth, has been frozen over since early in the month, a circumstance which for more than a century has not occurred,at least in lVceiuber. The Ixmdon Standard declares that the opiuion steadily grows that Natha- n el Haw thorne was the must consider able literary personage that America has yet produced. Quite a sensation was caused in Tucsou, Arizona, recently by a lion. which took refuge under a citizen's house. With the assistance of some firearms the intruder was soon des patched. A stump recently dug up at Mount Pleasant. N.C.. said to lie the only case on record of the petrification of Pal metto, is exhibited at New Orleans. The grain of the wood is plainly marked. lAusiana planters claim that the sugar cane this year contains richer juice than has ever before beeu known. owing to improved methods of fertiliz ing and perhaps some peculiarity of the season. The people of New Orleans are again enjoying the convenience of hav ing its streets illuminated, an agree ment having been reached between the, gas company aud the city. 7
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