mm fjeptoiel JUk at I If J3. F- SCIIWEIER, THE 003ST1TUT10I-THE TJSTOJ-AlTD TKZ E1TOSOEMIIT OF TEE LAWS. Editor and Proprietor. VOL. XL. AIIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 10, 1SS6. NO. 46 Here and Beyond. ltgaet of gold and crimson glory, Daxiling, Biimmering, far and near, gibing, each to each, the story 01 We s uujr vtiu jf oar List the story Of the swiftly wasting year! jjtri you cliff, hose lone recesses g;ow with autumn's dying grace; Dreamfully the lake caresses, 6arF" its leafy base, Vain caresses Autumn glows with dying grace! Ste&lfast 'mid the shifting splendor, gemlthed by the friendly kino, Sate yon homestead, whose dear fender gUD13 lo-uay my pugnm Sonne Dear old fender, Soufilit to-day a sacrel shrine. J$r this window, dim and lonely, a' here, in days now passed away. Two hare lingered long, one only gjdlT muses nere 10-aay Lone'.y, lonely. One who lingers here to-day! JIosSdr, while the scene is shifting Gosiy grows the autumn air; Leaves are swirling, clouds are drifting, Shitting, drifting. Change Is ringing everywhere. A HAT-MARK ROMANCE. Philip Nortbara, coming hastily out of the Exchange building one morning in January, slipped oa some ice at the top of the" marble steps and slid rapidly to the bottom. On bis way, however, he encountered a gentleman who was leisurely descending before him, whip ped Mm briskly from his feet and brougnt mm uowu vy uia biub iu me pavement below. This unexpected in troduction wits accompanied by a prompt removal of their respective hats. Phillip's rolled down to the curbstone, and the stranger's whirled along the pavement to be stopped and returned by sn opiortune boot-black. Fortuna tely no ixnlily damage was done to eitbtr of the embarrassed young men, who instantly picked themselves up, with mutually unnecessary apologies. Philip, perhaps, had some raison d'etre as he had been the aggressive party, bat the same haste to catch a train that had occasioned -the tendering of an apology made it naturally very brief, lie barely took time to assure himself that his fellow voyager to the sidewalk was not hurt, then clapped his bat ou his head and rushed onward with the same speed that defeated it Self a few seconds previous. We state that Philip clapped his hat on bis bead, but the truth is, he clap ped on a hat in every way resembling it, yet unlike it as a hat that we have never worn is unlike the hat of our everyday wear. Philip had not gone a block when be realized that he had made a mistake, and exchanged hats with the stranger, whom he had other wise incommoded by burling him Conn stairs. It would seem that destiny had been gratutously unkind throt'ffii Phil ip's unmeant agency to this inoffensive wayfarer, and for no apparent reason but her own wilful fancy. However, it would probably Le useless to return to their rencontre, even if Philip had had time. So he contented himself with examining the hat as he 8ed up by the elevated to his train at Forty second street, and was glad to find In it a hat mark, the initials W. W. C, neatly embroidered on a band of dark garnet silk and ornamented with sprays of floss silk vine. No one had ever embroidered a hat mark for Philip, and the rightful owner of the misappropria ted bead covering became at once in vested with a sirt of romance in Philips mind. The tat of it: elf was anything but romantic, being one of those hard, tuff derbys, that seem to have been in vented for no other purpose than to counteract any possible good looks on ! the part of the owner. "W. W. C." Philip pondered not a little over these cabalistic signs of feminine care and Interest: he examined them so closely, indeed, that, after the manner of ardent explorers, he made an unlooked for dis covery. Under the little silken band was tucked firmly a slip of folded paper Thinking perhaps it might contain per haps the full complement of the initials. Philip opened and read it. A great Bush passed over his face, and bis heart quickened with sympathy. On the paper were written these words, In a delicate feminine hand: Will: If you care to presetva this little souvenir you will some time know that I love you; too late, perhaps, for happiness, but not too late for ti uth. God grant that you may safely cross the ocean and cross back again to me. That was all. Philip's ardent soul thrilled with tenderness as he rever ently replaced the little scrap of paper in its hiding place and continued to look down at it like oue in a dream. How could he put it cn again with this sad secret hovenng above his brain? It aeemei a sacrilege that he, a stranger, should be crowned even temporarily with this "burden of an honor into which he was not born." Of course necessity compelled him to wear it un til be could procure one of bis own, but the pathos of those few yearning words gave him no peace. Even when he had ceased to be conscious of their act nil proximity to his curly dark locks and was again his own man, at least to the extent of a new derby, ho was not rid of their haunting EpelL The ad vertisements he paid for in behalf of W. C." would have purchased half a dozen hat, but they brought him no sign nor token from the missing owner, and as time wore on the strange bat with Its pathetic secret lay hidden in a box in Philip's wardrobe and be came a thing of the past. Meanwhile Fate, spinning her web of many tissues, spun for Philip, among other things, a hat mark of bis own. It was very, very pretty, and very, 'wy precious, and Philip felt like a tog who is for the Qrst time crowned with his royal inheritance when be knew that he knew that he was ad judged worthy to wear the favor of slender lily fingers whose lightest touch had thrilled him like a concen tration of electric batteries. Fate's name on this occasion, was Myra Brown She was fair and light-haired, with Pretty gray-eyes and a soft indepen dence of mind and manner. Philip had fallen in love with her at first sight, but she bad grown by slow degrees tram indifference to interest, from in terest to friendship, from friendship to well, the next step is scarcely per ceptible, but her progress eventually "'ultedina glorious attainment for ll'ilip. He could scarcely trust bim !f to the contemplation of his own Mies when he realized that the happi ness of this strong yet delicate and im passioned soul was given into bis keep ing, "1 bring you the first real lov of my wart." she said, lookinir him through ad through with her clear, sincere gray eyes. Always remember this. Philip the first real love of my heart" Philip stood abashed before the pur. ty of her gaze, remembering how he had written poems to this girl and that, and pressed pretty hands with a lervor that now rose up to accuse him. lie sighed deeply, having in reality nothing to sigh about, but a wholly unnecessary activity of conscience, which is often worse than its propor tionate degree of languor. rhilip had been two years in posses sion of the mysterious, secret-laden derby and five months married before these circumstances found any relation to each other. He was looking through his wardrobe one day, end came out to Myra with the hat in his hand and, sitting down, began to tell her its romantic history. Myra listened with her needle suspended and ber lips apart her lips paling and flushing with warm womanly sympathy. Her pretty eyes filled with tears as she read the little written scrap Philip placed in her hand She went over it silently two or three times, with a very sad, compassionate glance; then, to Philip's amazement, tore the paper into shreds and threw them from her out of the window. The wind lost no time in carrying them away. "Myral" he looked almost wildly after the flying pieces. "What in the world induced you to do that?" "It was the right thing to do. dear." she answered, with quivering lips. ".No woman should betray her heart in that way. If I ever could be tempted to forget-pride and dignity so foolishly I would be obliged to any one who would destroy the evidence of my folly." "But supposing I should find the owner the person to whom the paper was adressed?" "That isn't likely now, Philip; of course. If you do find him you can tell him. But, Philip," looking earnestly at her husband, "if I were you I would never tell any o:ie el$s. Such things seem pretty and interesting; but they are more than that. They belong to the heart's deep exierience, and we should not bold them lightly to talk of and smile at. For 1 think the poor girl who wrote those impulsive words would be glad to know they are destroyed. Be lieve me, Philip," smiling at him gent ly, "women can judge for women. I have done what is right." Philip's answer was bis usual one Myra looked particularly pretty, as she did just now. "You are an angel," be said, after ward, "and, of course, you are right; but I am thinking of the man's side, don't you see? That message belonged to him, whoever, wherever he is, and I would never think of stopping it on its way. To my masculine view, it seems, don't you know, a little like like rob bing the mails." "It isn't like that at all," said Myra, in a mildly argumentative tone. "1 wouldn't do that myself. And, besides if the mails are going to bring trouble to pec-ple, ihey vught to t3 robbed thv sooner the better." "Oh, my dear girl!" said Philip laughing. Well, of course! ' rejoined Myra, decidedly. "But it is so hard to make men understand things as they really are. Philip!" "Yes, my love." "I want you to promise me that you won't tell any one any one about the scrap of writing, unless you find tbe the person for whom it was intended. I want you to promise this for this poor foolish woman's sake. Won't you dearest?" "I promise for this poor foolish woman's sake." said Philip, looking down with rapture at her lifted eyes; and he was nearer to the truth than he knew. One bright Sunday morning not long after this, when there was a cradle in their house, and in it a little golden head, worth all the rest of the cold in the world, a card was brought to Mrs. Northain. It bore the name or Walter W. Carroll. She passed it to her hus band with a shade of annoyance on her face. "Ah, this is your old friend, Carroll, I suppose the one you have spoken of so often?" he rematked pleasantly. " Tea. I hadu't heard that he was back from England, though." Myra was running a brush over her hair, and looking at her face In the glass as she spoke. "I wonder if his wife Is with him? But what an hour to call! It can't be half past 9." "I.ucky we were up," said Philip, with a laugh; "or, rather, thanks to that brigand and pirate in the cradle there. lie never seems to enjoy his sleep until he has robbed us of ours. Shan't 1 go down and receive yoar friend, if you dont feel quite ready, Myra?" I am quite ready now, thanks," said Myra, promptly; "and don't leave the baby, please, till Maggie comes up." She passed Pbilip in crossing to the door, turned back and kissed him, and went down stair. A tall, brown and bearded stranger was standing in the parlor, looking at the door expectantly as she entered, both hands outheld in friendly wel come. "Willi" "Myra!" "I am so glad " "Such a lovely surprise" "And how have you been?" "I heard you were married." 'And you never wrote." Who can reproduce the first hurried ,nrA nt fmvtttncr after a Ion? separa tion? Speech and smile, and blushes and eager looks mingled inextricably. Everything is trying w geu ikuu . once. After a moment or two the mists of feeling clear a little; It is easier to speak, but not so imperative. if.o .at iinxi hv her friend on the ww " " J ... little sofa. The welcoming look had not gone quite out or ner lace uou she said impressively: "Will, I must ask you something now. Do you remember the little hat hafnrn von went away? I put it in your hat myself the night before you saueo." , , "Do I remember? I should think sol But imagine what happened. The very next morning I lest my hat It was knocked off my head and picked up by another man." "Yes, I know." said Myra quickly; "by my husband by Philip Northam." You don't say so! Your husband? And I got his hat in exchange. Hal ha! The long lost hats! It's about time we should return them now." But Myra was not smiling; she sat clasping and unclasping ber hands nervously, ,. , -Will, did you notice did you ex amine my little gift W asked with strange hesitancy, "Tou know I fastened it in myselt" .Yes, I Snow. It was awfully kind of jou, too. I felt so sorry to think that 1 couldn't have kept it" "And and you are sure you didnt see anything els9 with it? anything except the hat mark?" She spoke slowly, searching his face with her eyes. - "Anything else? he repeated, won deringly. What kind of a thing, for instance? I don't understand." She looked at him now with the brightest smile he had ever seen her wear. "Oh, isn't fate stranre, Will? Isn't it strange and good? It won't let us have our own way: it snatches us from the things we covet, but only to give us something so much tetter. I am glad for everything, though every thing." "What a remarkable state of mind. Do you think you could explain your meaning a little?" ".No," she said joyously; "I .never can; I never wilL I am too thankful. And then," she added deprecatingly, "a woman must always be mysterious, you know." "She always is, I know." "She must be," insisted Myra gently. "The conditions of her life are such. And, Will, I am going to ask you now to be a little mysterious, too." "But wherefore shouldst thou?" He gave her a comical look of dismay. "That I cant tell you, either; only if Philip if my husbaud should ever show you should ever tell you of his romance of a hat. It has nothing to do with you! You never had a like ex perience; no girl ever gave you a hat mark, or, if she did, you never lost it D.) you understand?" ' I dout, in the least; but I can fol low instructions. Will that answer?" "It is all I could ask," she answered, smiling on him gratefully. "And one other thing. You will not mind if I call you Walker, insteal of Will, as I used to?" "Walker is a frightful namel" he said, resignedly. "My wife calls me that when she wants to tease me. I suppose I can bear it if I must" "Oh, tell me about your wife. Walk er," was Myra's reply. "And to think you married an English girl! I know she must be charming. And you will like my dear, lovely Philip. lie is so splendid and so good." "Of course. Well, do you know, Myra, I often used to wonder what sort of a man you ever would really care for. You seemed so hard to suit" "Did I?" asked Myra, with a deep, deep blush. "Philip suits me." It was rather strange, when the time came for Mr. Carroll to examine his long lost and oft-regretted derby, to do so with an air of ignorance, to try it on at the mirror and become aware that it fitted him, and to further discover that the embrodered initials were the same as his own. And still more strange was it, in view of these coincidences to receive from the band of . Mr. -Nor-tham his own property as a gift "I am pretty sure never to Cnd the real owner now," Philip said thought fully. "The hat's an excellent hat and enough In style. And as the initials belong to you, why I really think you ought to wear it out, hat mark and all. And especially as it fits you 60 welL" "It docs lit me," said Mr. Carroll, looking down conGdentially at the hat as the sharer of a secret But, for the matter of that, the hat had a secret of its own. A Samoan Colic. Hugh Romilly, in his work on New Guinea, describes a Samoan ball-room belle. My partner at once rushed into conversation in broken English "Mv name Martha. What your name?" She was dissatisfied with my first name, but accepted the second on being told that my friends never addressed me by it She said it would be agreeable to know me by a name which she would consider her own property. "Come." I thought, 'this is making the running." Her next remark was a starter. "O, dear!" she said, "give me a glass of lim" (rum). Though a beverage seldom seen at balls, the Chinese host knew the taste of his guests, and rum was provided in ample quantities. Martha seemed to enjoy hers, and she proposed to walk in the garden after ward ; but first she made him take a sip out of her glass. Martha's affection, real or assumed (I fear the latter), now took a different turn. Oa reaching the garden she seemed not so much affected by the romanic nature of the situation as by a desire to annex my shirt-studs. "I beg of you your studs," she said. "Very bad manners gentleman refuse lady." I thought so, too, and handed them to her, when they were stowed away ia a most business like manner In the nightgown. I thought myself jus tided after this in mating the conven tional remark, "I suppose you like the balls?" She replied promptly: "Yes. No like dance; like talk, gentleman make me present" Fun With Flamingoes. "The? 're funny fellows, I can tell you," the captain declared. "I met a man H ft 117 n thn coast who told me that once when he was huntin' on the Florida low-lands he came upon a whole colony of flamingoes among the mangrove trees. lie watched their antics for some time some standin' on with their Iontr necks In uuv " . all sorts of curious positions, some stalking up anu oowh w parsons and he thought it wouldn't be a bad idea to play a joke on them. "So he took a fish-line, and when the birds flew away he fastened one end of i.. i;n tn tha rnnr. nf a tree and LUO uuu w -"w climbed with the other end up into another tree, ujwnra inner thA birds came back. and then the fun began. As soon as one or two stepped across uie ime, mo man in the tree gave it a pull, and the flamingoes began hoppin' and trippln' and dancln' about, now fallin' down, nowjumpin' across and really seemin' to enjoy it immensely. lie actually had 'em all a-skippin' rope, and there's no teliin' how long they'd 'a' kept it up if it hadn't been so very funny that my friend couldn't help laughin' out loud; that frightened them off. That may seem rather a brisk story," said Captain Sam; "but, from what I've seen of my specimen, I fully believe It" imi The wise corrects bis conduct by ob xving the faults of others. Thought is both wanting and super fluous to tte wretched. It is at times well to forget what thou art. ONLY ONE OF II IS KIND. A Queer IJIllo Old Man who Gets Alone by Following a Quo;r Dull ness. On a much-traveled up-town thorough fare a little half-story wooden shop stands between two big business blocks, for all the world like a diminutive chunk of ham betweou the abnormally thick slices of bread in a railroad sand wich. The little shop and ground on which it is built are owned by a shriv eled old man. lie has refused every offer to dispose of the property, not withstanding the exorbitant prices re peatedly proposed by neighboring mer chants, who desire to rid the street of the shabby little shop's disfiguring presence. The old man's mode of gain ing a livelihood is luMy as peculiar as his refusal to part with his real estate on the terms that have been offered him. The shop has two front windows. In one hangs a card bearing the legend: "Buttonholes inside," and in the other is another with the inscription: "Any button matched ten cent! only." Within the little shop are shelves and counters covered v.-ith paste lxard trays containing a larger collection of but tons probably than cau he found any where else in New Y'oik. There is every sort of button known to civiliza tion, from the plain white shirt button whose absence has caused untold mis eries in many a family circle, to the bold-faced metallic military buttou which saves a life now and then Iu war stories, by turning a bullet from its dead'y course; buttons of jet, gilt.ivcry, bono, glass and wood, plain buttons, parti-colored buttons, enameled but tons, plush-covered buttons, buttons with shanks and without shanks, rough buttons and smooth buttons, buttons that were invented yesterday, and but tons that were made haif a century ago. In the b.;ck of the eliop is a bench like a cobbler's, where tuts old man sits nil day cross-legged. A pretty-faced littie girl who look old for her size, waits upon customers. She is the lit tle old mau's grand -daughter. Neither the old mau nor his granddaughter is inclined to talk freely about tiieir busi ness. To a reporter, however, the lit tle girl said: "We match buttons and sew them ou the cjats or vests of gen tlemen and on the dresses of ladies. Oh, yes, we have a good many enstc mers. principally young men, who have lost a button or two and haven t any one to sew them on, or cau't match the buttons In the regular stores. We of ten have calls from seamstresses also, who need a few buttons they can't find elsewhere. You sea our collection is so large that we cau supply the missing buttou in almost any set. Where did we get such a largo collection? Grand pa has been gathering it for years, lie has a number of tailor shops and dress making establishments which he visits regularly. From these ha gets odd buttons by the hundreds, very cheap. We chrg6 c-.i!y teu eucsfTor any ton that may Le desired, o: course. some of tliem are worth a great deal more than that, but as the demand is ! greatest for the cheap kindi we make a j fa r profit in the long run. llow did ! grandpa conceive the idea of the bus:- i ness? I don't know, I'm sure. I neveij asked him, but I suppose from seeing j so many persons with buttons missing I from their clothes, , who would have ! them replaced if they didn't have to go I to any trouble. In adJition to supply ing old buttons and sawing them on while the customer waits, we also mend , ragged buttonholes or make new one3 j where they have been torn out" i DOIiLS AXD TOYS. A Very Extensive Industry. "No. that is not the face." "Look at this one." "No; that is not the least bit like ray poor Flora." And so they went down rows of silent, upturned faces, whose mute eyes seemed to stare appealingly at them. At the morgue? No, indeed, it was in a prominent toy store. A salesman was showinz a woman, who was dressed in deep mourning, and who now and then put her handkerchief t her eyes, the stock of bisqua-headed dolls. She wa3 not young, and expressed so much emotion that the reporter's attention was at tracted. He sought out the proprietor, and upon stating the case to him, the mod ern Kris Kringle looked rather solemn and said: "Oh, yes, I can explain the matter. "The purchaser there Is probably a mother who has lost a dear child, per haps many years ago, and who is now looking for a bisque face to take the place of the dead one of flesh and blood. and a doll baby upon which she may lavish ber affection and her motheny love for dressing and ornamentation." "Do you have many such cus tomers?" 'Well, not very many, but still more than you would suppose. Another set of customers of a similar character are those who, having never been blessed with children, purchase dolls on which to expend the affection aud attention which would otherwise have been given to their children. "Yes, there is quite a number who do this; they mostly keep the matter a secret, but of course, we know who they are, and I could give you tha names of some - of them and famish you with a first-class surprise; that's a fact. "Dolls could never fill this vacuum if it was not for the state of perfection the manufacture of heads iad faces cf dolls has reached. "People nowadays pay particular at tention to the expression of the face, and the making of glass eyes has be come such a high art that they dupli cate hundreds of human expressions. "Look at the faces m that row. Uhey are nearly human. Each eye has an individuality ana tne laces are an beautiful. "Purchasers generally desire the doll to hava the expression of a baby, but then, vou know, opinions as to the ideal baby face are so various that we have no difficulty in disposing of all the dolls we buy. "Sell many? I think we do. You would be astonished at the extent of or doll sales; thousands very week, and without any dull season, either. The demand continues throughout the entire year, increasing, of course, when Christmas draws near. The prices range from ten cents to one hundred dollars. The most popular are the jointed bisque dolls; they cost from $1 $1.50. Wax dolls have fallen from de mand and rubber ones are brought for rough usage. "Dresses? Oh, ye3, that's a large Kade. Every portion of attire that men and women wear must be kept on h?.nd for dolls. Shoes, stockings and slippers are sold In numbers, the same as those for 'real, live' people, and the s.Ves are very large. Good quality and ft are just as much demanded as if the purchasers were buying for themselves. Slippers cost from 50 cents to J2; filk stockings, 73 cents; roller skates, too. Oo, yes, they are now somewhat t.l a 'chestnut' You didn't know that doils piintd, did you? They do; dolls' pow der boxes and cosmetics are much culled for. French mourning toilets, fascinating niht dresses, table linen, handkerchiefs, gossamers (something riw), parasols, umbrellas, jewelry and iniilinery are always in demand. ' -Our new hats are trimmed with birds, to keep up with the fashion. -"Then we have dressing cases, combs, brushes, French hand-mirrors, bathing utensils, Turkish towels, etc., costing from 10 cents to $2. Do dolls bathe They just do. TVe have a bathing room for dolls that is very complete. Hot and cold water, lioiler, large tub, curtained alcove with shower-bath, mirrors oa walls, rugs on d or, just elegant; they cost from $10 to $l 'A toy to amuse a toy seems strange, doesn't it?" "But dolls are not considered toys by their owners; they humaniza them, and so we have to keep a complete line or diils' toys. "The novelties in dolls are a sleeping doll that awakens in the morning and says, 'Mamma, mamma!' when a stri.i is pulled, and a graceful lady who dnve3 daily in her carriage and bows in response to her friends' salutes. "A manufacturer has announced that he is going to put out a case of iuirr.oeapathic medicines made especial ly for dolls; this may decrease the bus: ncs3'of supplying arms and legs for dolls who have been unfortunate, if some one will but start a college for doll doctors. "In the line of toys we have lots of new things. A Jersey cow that low3 and can be milked. How's that? She is three feet long, made of leather; an ct ecing in ber back can be filled with ni.Ik, which then can ba drawn from i r in the U3ual way. A rabbit that runs fifteen feet with the characteristic jump; steamboats that will rival aCun ar ler in speed; ducks that can swim like well, 'like a duck;' a donkey that runs about and never balks, except when Iris driver wishes him to, when, by pulling a slilng, his donkey acts as tluncrli he had traveled a season with the Wild West sltow. These are al! new. "Then we have an electrical machine slicp; the power is generated in a cell buttery, and it operates an ore crusher, a aw mill, a lathe, grindstone, etc. A locomotive with a train of cars is bound to be iu great demand for boys; the locomotive runs by steam and has fVi Ui3 attributes of a big mile-a-mtn-utaeuglne. Eight cars consitituta the i V in; a lire stock, oil and timber car, 4..1i.oj;iM, "swo finity and roiir-pas- C: -jer coaches. Y hat more is needed tnan this toy to make a boy a practical railroad president? "There are also new and more com plete kitchen ranges, with all appurt-e-anrps. The renewed craze for base ball has brought forth a base ball ground with two sets of plaiers, who play a complete League or Association came. A fortress will delight the boys with warlike propensitlie3. "Back of a lake of water, with a fountain in U centre, Is a parade ground, on which companies of soldiers march out from the barracks and pa rade up and down to martial music per formed by a music-box concealed under the mountain and fortress which rises in the background. The Iiagnc, The Hague has its history, as what town in Holland has not? Here the Batavians did something remarkable in the swamps of the preadamite period. There the amphibious tribes foujht 2.0UO years ago with troops of classic home. In another place the people fcught with one another, or with some of their old dukes or counts till nobody w?is left to tell the tale. In reality scarcely a square mile of these meadows has not been the scena of one bloody struggle or another in the times when wars and neighborhood contests meant tke annihilation of one party or the other. The gallant Leicester, having I t en a moment stadtholder of The Iligueby the grace of his royal mis tress, Elizabeth, convoked here by a n .'.tonal synod. In those times the national dress was less gloomy and we can Imagine that the Duke helped to make the dull place for the moment picturesque. Prince Maurice lived hero and after him it became the seat of government A congress, whose action v as inspired by John Barneveldt and cu to posed of the plenipotentiaries of Spain and the Netherlands, was held here in 1G0S. and since that time The Ita;ue has been deemed an eligible f'iioe for conferences by the great pow ers of Europe, The brothers De Witt v ere massacred here by the people and tr.i place is shown to the curious. Toe uuve set in motion by the French Itev ci.tion overflowed all Holland. Napo le tt transferred the seat of govern ment to Amsterdam, where it naturally belonged, but after the Holy Alliance, with a marvelous lack of fores; ght hail ia 1S13, united Holland and Belgium into one kingom, called the Low Coun tries, tbe States General sat alternately at The Hague and at Brussels. The Hague never sustained a great siege liae those of Leydea, Harlem and Alk nar, which are much smaller and yt are all tbe objects ot pilgrimages made by devout students of Motley, who is read quite as generally in England as ia America. He is, perhaps, the only complete and comprehensive authority ia existence regarding the events of the moat interesting period ot Dutch his tory and even the French guidebooks find themselves obliged to go to him for details. A successful lawyer was asked to run for Congress, but declined on the gio'ind that if elected he would hence forth feel superior to trying a case of bora stealing, and that he wanted to do nothing that would make him feel too big for his profession. Anybody can soil the reputation of an individual, however pure and chaste, by uttering a suspicion that his enemies will IWIeve And his friends will never hear of. The big well at Belle Plaia, Iowa, stopped flowing one day last week. After three hours of rest it beg ia flaw ing again. Men will never know us by our faith, for that is within us; they know us by ou wor.23, which are visible to them. A SEARCH FOR AX HEIIt. A Georgia Gold .Mine .'lich Cauno Yet Uc Worked. Zidock lion ner was a monldcr in Carroll County, away over iu Western Georgia, when the war of the rebellion broke out He had a farm of 1300 acres which he tilled with tbe ai 1 of his family. Zidock himself had toma skill at the forge also; an-' when war was declared, aud everything that could possibly bo pressed into use for fighting purposes was wanted by the Confederates, he assisted in the manu facture of these implexea'-F. For do ing this, tradition in Carroll County has It, be was arrested and shot by Federal troops. Whether or not the tradition is true Is unknown, but he was killed in some way. After the close of the war his chil dren continued to live on aud off the farm for a year or two. Then, a3 they got into some legal trouble which re sulted in the seizure cf their farm for the satisfaction of a debt, they shook the dust of Georgia from their feet and have never beeu heard of since by Georgians. In 1S07 one George K. Zinboth carne into possession of the Bonner farm, principally because he squatted there, and no one disputed his right to the possession. Ten years later he went away, and its present owner took the farm, which he has held now for nearly seven years. Ui, too, used tbe property for agricultural purposes, and. as a means of adding to its productive ness, cleared away some of the timber, in which the property was rich. It was while preparing some of the denuded timber lands for cultivation that the owner discovered gold in the lot then in process ot clearance. A further investigation resulted in tbe discovery of more gold hidden away down uuder the loam, and gold in suf ficient quantity to pay to work it He kept the fact of his discovery of the precious metal a secret, and started out two years ago in search of the Bon ner heirs, in order t) perfect his title lie went to England and tried to fii-d some trace of the missing heirs there. He failed and came back to this coun tyy on the Oregon when she made her last trip, which ended at the bottom ot the ocean. Then he searched again through this country, and got Lawyer Henry D. Garrett, of this city, to as sist him. Mr. Garrett went to Cali fornia in search of some Bonners tliere, but found that they were not of Zv dock's branch of that somewhat nu merous family. Now the search for the heirs is necessarily at a standstill. But Georgia laws compel tbe advertise ment of the desire to find the heirs, and this has been done far and wide, Mr. Garrett has been oferrun with Bonners who come from Georgia, but has thus far failed to find the right kind, and unless somo turn up in four months' time the Georgia authorities will give the present owner,,, fbose nirno is bot a iwt lot ocv-.fc-i rea sons, a perfect tit.e. 3Xo gold mine is being workel on tbe property, it isn't in the market, and the owner won't reveal his identity nor the location of the property. He is a peculiar searcher for heirs, because ha only wants to get an honest and clear title, and has money enough of bis own to work tbe property. So this search is peculiar, as it lacks all the elements of a shrewd advertising scheme. Karly Venetian Auiiuina. The Venetian work differs In several important particulars from its forerun ners. The most striking peculiarity of Mosil and Mamluk work is the richness of the silver (and sometimes gold) Inlay which covers the greater part of the surface, in plates of various shapes and sizes, which are let into the bras3 and then chafed on the surface with the faces, fur or feathers, or the men, beasts and birds, which the design represents. In Mamluk work the large surfaces of silver inlaid in Arabic inscriptions, de manded luuiiite care in lilting and un dercutting the edges of the bed into which they were let, to prevent them from falling out In 'Venetian metal work this difficulty was avoided by re stricting tho inlay to comparatively narrow lines and securing it in a differ ent manner. In the older Mosil and Mamluk work the silver plate was held only by the close fitting of the slightly undercut edges of its bed. In Venetian inlay the surface of tbe bed was toothed with little projecting notches which penetrated into the silver, and helped the undercut and slightly serrated rim to keep it in its place. Another differ ence between the Venetian and the older Mamluk inlay is the mode of pro ducing variety in the effect The older ar tists trusted to the contrast of metals to produce this variety; but the Venetian S-tracens, employing a much smaller quantity of stiver, effected the same re sult by relief. The main design is raised, not by batiug out from the back, but by cutting away all the rest of the surface. Tiie raised design may be inlaid or not; It the former, it con sists of a thread of sliver let in between two thin walls of brass, all being above the general level ot the surface. The designs of the Venetian artist were mainly arabesque, for his teachers, the Mamluks, had passed from the stage of 0,'ure ornament to that of geometrical and arabesque decoration, before the Venetians began to learn the inlayer's art But apart from the decoration anl the process of inlay, the Venetian work is semi-European. Its forms are markedly different from tbe somewhat crude outlines of Eastern vessels, and were changed to suit Italian taste, and European coats of arms are sometimes introduced in the centres of salvers and tbe like. He must be a strc.ig man who can conceal his Inclination. At present when teletrraphlc mes-, sages are sent from the United States i to Brazil they must first be cabled to Europe, and sent from there to tiieir destination. This is not only very roundabout method but also very expensive, each word costing $2.06 for its transmission. A new en terprlze has been organized in New 1 ork for tbe construction of a direct cable to Venezuela and Brazil. It is called, in honor of tbe Emperor, the Pedro Segundo American Telegraph and Cable Company, and starts out with a capital of $2,000,000. The Im perial Government of Brazil and Re-! public of Venezuela have both granted very favorable concessions to the new ! company. Its cable will be over 4000 ' miles long, and is being constructed in England. It will probably be complet ed in a few weeks, and will be laid as soon as the equinoctial storms are over. SNAKES' IX A CAR. Experience of a Messenger Who Rode With a Cage of Serpents. "Yes, I've had some queer cargoes in my time," said an express messenger to a reporter. "I have a horse in my car every now and then. When you are told that our company has carried 120 horses since January 1, from and through Cleveland you will see that we are not unaccustomed to having horses in the car. I had an elephant once. Twas a little chap and a natural-born thief. He stole nearly all ot a basket of grapes, and when I tried U stop him he struck me on the head with his trunk. I had a white whale going from New York to the Cincinnati zoological garden. It died on the way. I've had tigers and panthers and lions axd babies and everything, but the worst cargo I ever had wa3 snakes. Twas cold weather and we had to keep milk cans filled with hot water around the boxes where the snakes were kept There were 15 or 20 of them. The man who had charge of them really loved 'em. He was as proud of 'em as a cat tle fancier is of blooded cows. He came into the car and pulled those snakes out of the boxes one by one and laid the great hissing monsters on the floor. They squirmed about and darted t'aeir bead towards me until I was nearly dead with fright 'Ain't that a beauty? the fellow would say, as he lifted a writhing monster and held it toward me. Its awful head swayed back and forth, its tongue darted out, and I thought my time bad come. That fellow kept pulling out snakes till he had, he said, over 100 feet of tbe finest snakes in captivity on the floor. But they weren't in captivity, you see. I begged the man to put 'em back in the boxes, and he finally did so. Ue closed the boxes and went back into the train. I sat down in my chairand assorted my waybills. Then, after we had passed Ashtabula, going east, I took a seat for a doz.i. I don't know how long I had dozed when I heard a terrible crash. It was somebody trying to break in the car-door. My first move was to seize my revolver. When my eyes got accus tomed to the dim light of the end of the car, as I fixed them on the door, I saw a sight that made me drop my revolver and yell with fear. Tbe noise I had heard was the falling of a pile of pack ages as a big python crawled over them. Yes, sir; the snake-owner had forgotten to leck one of the boxes, and the big gest serpent in it had crawled out. After knocking over the pile of pack ages he changed his course and was crawling toward me. Someof the bag gage bad fallen on him and be was evi dently in bad temyer, for he moved rap idly. I retreated to tbe end of the car toward the locomotive, intending to open the door. As I moved backward my toot struck some leathery object I turned, and great heavens! it was another snake. He darted bis hideous heaA toward me and I screamed for tieip. Td9 snake at the other end of .'he car was moving toward me. 1 was between two of them. Another was at that moment crawling out of the box. I screamed again, but the roar and rat tle of the train drowned my voice. Looking fixedly at the advancing snake, which some fallen baggage had injured enough to make him tbe most terrible of tbe two, I reached behind me to seize a poker that lay on a box. My band came do wn on the cold head of the other snake. I turned quickly about in time to see the snake draw back its head as if for a spring at me. I yelled again and again. Suddenly the door at the rear end of the car was burst open and the snakeman, followed by the engineer and conductor, came running in. In my fright I had not observed that the train had stopped. u 'Oh, is that all?" said the snake man, as he dragged his horrihle live stock back and stuffed them Into the box. 'I thought by the noise you made that somebody was a robbin' of you.'" It Was the Same ClrL This world is full of queer things that oiM! never gets 011 to. Now you can come down ia.st a big boarding house in the morning. A young fellow meets you and he's whistling about the night ingale singing of you of you, you know and you think how merry and free from fare he is. You hear a window open. Yo 1 don't put the two things together at all, but if you look up you'll see a girl waving her handkerchief, and you'll notiee if you look bark that the man has stcpid whistling and is waving his hand vigorously. Then you'll meet another fellow. He's whistling a bit of 'II Trevatore" in a careless, happy way. You liappen to glance up and you see a girl waving her handkerchief, and he tops w histling an I takes off his hat, throwing op a smile tliat goes up higher than the water from a tire engine. A little later you'll meet another man. He has a bad cough, a very bad cough, but he gets better, squints up skyward and waves his hand, aud a girl drops a smile uiHjii him. It's all the same girl, but the men don't know ot one another's existewe, and some day there will be a light, for all those i;ien will give the sig at the same time and they'll find it out. I'm of Roofs as Dormitories. one ot the features of life iu the tene ment districts in hot weather has long; 1 een the use of the roofs as dormitories. The practice has extended to the French Hat district, New York. The tenants of many of these buildings turn their roofs into moonlight picnic grounds and eat drink and make merry under the stars as gaily as if they were miles away from town. They sling hammocks be t veen the posts to which the clothes lines are strung and make couches against tho chimneys. The pet pug and the toy terrier chase the cats and flirtation goes on right merrily amid the twinkle of cigarettes and the popping of cliampagne corks. A now extinct maga zine once published an essay on what to do with our roofs, suggesting their con version into gardens, that the tenants could enjoy life out of doors without going to the country for it The gar dens lave not been laid out yet, but now that the charms of the roof have been discovered it is not unlikely that some builder will take the idea up. Tbe big Chelsea flats in Twenty-third have, by the way, a play ground for the child ren of the house up where the windows of the twenty-fifth story look out among the clouds. Take away the self-conceited and there would be elbow-room in the world. If the end of one mercy were not the beginning ot another we were undone. XEWS IN BRIEF. Forty-two new Ice factories have been started in the South during the past nine months. The editor of an Iowa newspaper bought the flowers for his grave before be committed suicide. At a fancy ball given in Sydney not long ago, a fat lady or 60 appeared is Mary Queen of Scots. It i3 estimated that the prune crop in Santa Clara county, California, this season is worth $l,2(X),U0O. Four of the prettiest girls of Cale donia, Mich., weie caught stealing watermelons by moonlight Ramon Vejar. of Pomona, Cal., killed a four-legsei quail, which is no in the hands of a local taxidermist The streets and squares of Berlin :onfain upwards of 4-",000 trees, and the number is constantly increasing. There are white Knights, black Knights and yellow Knights, for the men of labor have taken iu some Chi nese. A sfnglo orcharl at South Glaston bury (but probably the largest iu Con necticut) contains about 12,000 peach trees. Complete returns of the French census shows the population to be Zi, XjO.OuO an increase of only 500,000 In ave years. A 10-year-old boy of Belle Plain, Iowa, fell into the great artesian well at that place; but was forced out by the flow of water. More buildings are reported now under course of erection at Atlantic City than has previously been known at any one time in that place. The trustees of the City hospital of Boston have determined to admit female medical students, but they still draw the Hue on homoeopaths. A deposit of blood agate, contain ing stones large enough to be sawed luto slabs for mantels, has beeu found in Utah, near the Grand Kiver. The experts who have Investigated the insanity of King Otto, of Bavaria, report that the king's disease is incur able paranoia, which does not affect the duration of life. A French soldier of Napoleonic longings climbed alone to the top of the Pyramid of Cheops the other day. He fell to the base with blood, bones and flesh in a pulp. The latest "fad" among fashion able ladies in New Y'ork city is to go coaching with their gentleman friends on the new Fifth avenue stages In the dusk ot early evening. While working in nuntington (L. I.) harbor Mortimer Scudder found an oyster weighing three pounds four ounces, and measuring ten inches in length and six in width. Love-making over the wire seems to have been carried an in a Connecti cut telephone oilice, since- 16 switch girls employed there have been married within three years to subscribers on the line. A strawberry grower in Lanark shire, Scotland, ha3 cleared i.1,300 protit this season out of the crops of eround for which he pays a rental of 00 a year. Last season the profit was just 1,000. An opening for a school teacher Is reported by the Elraira, (N. Y.) Gazetlt in a town (Colesville) where the trus tees want to give the successful appli cant a salary of $1 a week and charge ber $1 board. A plan for supplying sea water to cottages at Long Branch for bathing purposes is under consideration of the borough councils. It is proposed te locate the pumping station near the Hotel Brighton. Three men sought shelter In a box car at Danville Junction during a thun derstorm. Lightning struck the car near the door where they were stand ing, shattering the arm of one, but not injuring the others. A young man found a handbag in a carriage at Tuscola, 111. It contained $i, and belonged to a young widow ia Atwood, and when the young man re turned it to her she rewarded him by marrying him the next day. John Adzeme, a farmer at Stellar ton, N. S., came to his death curiously the other day. He was riding on a loaded coal car on the Acadia railway; the bottom of the car fell down, and he fell through with the coal, and was run over by many cars. A six-jear-old girl in Florida drop ped her kitten into a well over fifty feet deep, and at her tamest entreaty her father lowered her down by tbe well rone. She got the kitten out all right and was pulled up again damp, but happy. The Burlington Coasting Club, wh!ch numbers &X, has decided to have another carnival this winter. Over 5'JO toboggans are owned in the city and 100 traverses, or bob-sleds, and therell be a tremendous lot of sliding. All the dioceses of the Prutestani Episcopal Chsrch have.w,,s dele gat j the general convention which meets in Chicago next month, except two. Among the prominent lay dele gates are Hon. Erastas Corning, Hon. George F. Comstock and Hon. Hamil ton Fish, of New York, Hon. Cort land t Parker, of New Jersey and Sena tor Edmunds, of Vermont Beggary, which in North Italy is an art aud In London a science, is in Naples at once a means of subsistence and of amusement Sturdy, well-to-do women, with bold, laughing faces, beg pence, and are impertinent and shame less If they do not get them. In Italy no families are so large as the Neapoli tan, and no people marry so freely and so young. A family of seven is usual; a family of ten is not unusual. 77e natural rate of respiration is from sixteen to twenty-four breaths per min ute, the average being twenty; and Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes has explained the popularity of the octosyllable verse by the fact that it allows the natural rhythm of respiration more exactly than any other. Experiments with the poe try ot Scott, Longfellow and Tennyson show that an average ot twenty lines will be read iu a minute, so that one respiration will suffice for each line. The articulation is so easy, in fact, it is liable to run into a sing-song. Tbe twelve-syllable line, on tbe other hand, as in Drayton's "Polyolbion," is pro nounced almost-intolerable on account of its unphysiological construction. From this it follows that while the poets disregard science in many ways with impunity, nothing in poetry or in vocal music is Ukely to win favor that la not calculated with strict reference to the respiratory functions.
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