r' nine I HOHWEIER, THE OONSTITUTION-THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE UWS. le1 t Editor and lrorrttor. w i linn mp 1 1illifiil j - j VOL. XLV. A THEMELESS SONQ. Tost. -pear leafless mn, I have no theme to-day. 1 or mi .- inu nut ii a jou could sine: go spread lor me your bright bespangled mnir. And imirimir In my Mr some roundelay .ml miinmir sweetlv as some bhell mlnht say yr lial'bliiiR wavelet from a volceleas sprlug onr. , Haje:., imnses CI 111 a, 4nd cm I lis melodious bard still loves to stray." Musk. HII.II .'lJi" "V VINE RlfllTf Slull "k tutor lor his melodies? trii loiiiilaius rare In wiudlug u I, .t L v :irk In 1 Iim htna .. ... . ' . . n J inn r 11119 werifl anno hn Co t arh ll" nltrhtlneale in shady dell .nd alle r thou cau'sl write a i i,rt,,,..i..ii Clartmuiit, If. H. JOHN' IHRWKX'S WIFE. The summer day wag dying In tho weft; along the low, far-ott' line of tho horizon tlf sky was full of flaming brightness, "'at mirrored Uself in the bine waters that seemed to meet it. Higher up, the sky was full of purplo shadows, (hot tnrougn iiere and there Willi lines of gold. Two persons walked along the brai-h a man, who saw only the brightness in the face of the woman by lii "iile, realizing in a vajfue way from her features, that held such a etna hi for him, the splendor of the sunset pageantry. Sin' was looking out to sea. Tho (unset fires seemed to glow beneath the la-dies of her eyes; its crimson ra diance made her cheek bright and tuuehe-1 her hair with shifting lights. "1 shall he pone three years," ho softly, his eyes still on her face. "Three years arc a long time," she answered, slowly. I know that," ho said; "but they cannot be longer to you than they will to me." sjlie did not reply, but kept her eyes upon tlie tailing brightness in the weft. 'Vou will write, often, I know," he laid, taking her hand. "Your letters will help to make the time seem short er." "But you are not sure of getting them," she answered. "Vou aro go ing fur away, and into a country where one doesn't enjoy the means of correspondence with a great deal of certainty or reliability." "But I thall know you have written if I do not get your letter," Lo 6aid. trustingly". John Derwent had a vast amount of faith in Agnes Brent. He loved her; xmseipu'iiily he trusted her. "And you arc going to-morrow?" She asked tho question with a little shadow in her face. "Yes, I start to-morrow," he answered. l,I shall not 6ee you again I have come to bid you good-by." She dropped tho long lashes of her eyelids to hide the tears that gathered there. iler betrothed husband was going away for three lonesome years, itie should miss him. Like most women, ewect words and tender caresses were pleasant to her. No onn hud ever cared for her before as John 1 'erwent did. To know that ihc was loved by some one that in that person's regard she was the one woman in the world was a knowledge fraught with pleasant emotions. They walked up and down the beach, while the sunset died away into som bre grayness, and till long after the yellow moon had started on her voyage up the sky. Then John Derwent kissed her good ly. She hung upon his neck, her warm tears falling swiftly, and would have kept him back. But he must go; and, with his kisses on her lips, lie whispered his words of parting and was gone. I wonder if the moon looked down on other scenes like that that night? Did it see other lovers kissing good byes and parting with trust in each other's faithfulness through the days or months or years of separation? The days went by. John Derwent reached his destina tion safely. The situation ottered to him was a lucrative one, and in his new Australian home he was quite contented, feeling that love was wait ing him by and by that would amply repay him for the long days of lone some hours that were sometimes his. Letters came regularly for the first fear; not half as often as he could lave wished them to, but as often as he could expect them. Pleasant, loving letters, that were full of tender little wishes for his comfort and happiness, and of longing for him to come back to her. It was so lonely after he left. It was pleasant for John Derwent to read such letters to know that at home one heart was so true and tender, that one heart thought always of him, and yearned for his return. 'If every man could have a love like that which life has given to me your love, Agnes," Joni Derwent rot home in one of his letters, "there would be much more happiness than there is at present fewer men who eoff at woman's truth and constancy. I never thought for a moment of doubt ing you, Agnes; I should not forgive myself if I were to do so. You are mj" ideal of all that woman should be tiuc, tender, womanly." You can see from that how much he ared for her what faith he had in her. The rlny was dying again in a pomp f purple glory. The sky had a gloomy look about it, despite its lurid bright ness w here the sun had gone down. The wind moaned across the beach, and beat against the rock, where the waters had lashed themselves into a white foam of fury. It had been a terrible day. The wni had spent its violence now; but he fchip that had struggled so nobly to Jve its crew had fallen a prey at last wind and water, and lay a helpless re -k a little way out at sea. Men and women gathered on the bore. They cast anxious glances sea- -ru, and watched the waves to see II ny semblance of humanity was swept 10 land by them. A woman stood a little way offfrora 'he others a tall, handsome woman in 0ch garments. She looks towards the Wrecked vessel with a little pallor on her face. Presently a wave leaped in ehore- ", and then swept back again, leav; lntr A firwlvtn I liii aanl SaanTHula "f'ed themselves in his wet hair and Nung to the man' garments. Bhe enea out to anm er, and directly there was a little crowd about the body. They took it up reverently, as though they were bearing the doad; perhaps they were. I hey might ba, for all they could tell then. The man was taken to some placo where shelter and care could be allbrd. ed, if there was any trace of life cling, ing to him, and medical aid summoned He was not quite dead. There were great gashes on his face and bruises on his body, and the waves had nearly chilled out of him the little life that other injuries had left him. But by and by he opened his eyes and looked around. He saw tho woman standing near to whose feet the waters had brought him, and a great light came into his face, and he whispered very faintlv, but still loud enough for her to hear him, "Agnes, darling, I have come back to you. I knew you would be true. Come and kiss me, darling." A cry of pain found its way to the woman's white lips. In that voice, so weak and low, and bv the wors, sho recognized the man before her. John Derwent had come back to her, and he thought her true I And for a year she had been the wife of another man. "Don't you know me, Agnes?" lie whispered. "I'm dying, I think. Won't you kiss me?" She sank down beside him and kissed his face, her tears falling on it like rain. Her husband came towards her, wonderingly; but she motioned him back, and he obeyed silently. "It's a difl'erent coining home from the one we thought of, darling," Der went whispered; "but I knew vou would be true, and I never doubted you for a moment, though I didn't get any letter for a long time a very long time, darling; but I knew you would be true." lie said these last words in a dreamy way, and they knew he was drifting out to sea again out to sea, past all wreck and storm ; and on this voyage there would be no coming back. Every"Vord was like a knife-thrust in the heurt of the woman who hud been so faithless, and whom he thought so true. "I'm sorry, deaf," he said, a mo ment after, opening his eyes and smil ing in her face; "but we can't help it. I can die easier with you by nie, thirl ing. 1 knew you would be true." The bitter thrust again ! She shiv ered like a guilty thing. "Kiss uiel" he whispered. And she kissed him, once and again, and John Derwent's life went out into the great Eternal sallied out to find the Happy Islands and the lands of which we dream died thinking that the woman he loved was true. It was better thus. Hut, I wonder if, in tho Hereafter, he found out how faithless she had been? Did it touch his soul with thoughts of bitterness or was the new life too far removed from the old to know any earthly care or disappoint lueut Who can tell? The Infantile Don't. Even the baby is the victim of re form. Methods employed twenty years ago are intolerable in tho nur sery of to-day. The infantile don'ts are almost as numerous as the etiqnettical negatives. Among the approved bra: Don't rock the baby. Don't let him sleep in a warm room. Don't let him sleep with his head under cover. Don't lot him sleep wilh his mout open. Don't "pat" him to sloep. Don't try to make him sleep if he i not sleepy. Don't let htm nap in the afternoon. Don't let him be kissed. Don't let him wear any garment that is tight enough to bind his throat, arms, waist or wrists. Don't have ball-buttons on the back of his dress. Don't have clumsy sashos on the back of his dress. Don't cool his food by blowing it. Don't feed him with a tablespoon. Don't nse a tube nursing-bottle. Don't change the milk you started with. Don't bathe him In hot or cold water. Don't bathe him more than three times a week. Don't allow a comb to touch hip head. Don't let him eat at the famft" table. Don't let him taste meat until he is two. Don't let him sleep on a pillow. Don't coax, tease, tormont, mimic or scold him. Don't whip him. Don't make him cry. Don't notice him when he pouts. Don't frighten him. Don't tell him about ghosts, booga boos or bad places. Don't shake him. The Court Was With Him. A vnnno- Inirvcr was making his maiden eflbrt before a jury in defense of a criminal. The evidence was all in, and he arose to utter the brillmnt ihoinrhfa that had been suraine through his brain. He was primed for a fine display of oratorical pyrotechnics, but somehow or other ue couia noi gei a start. His mind became a blank ana h stood tremblinir for a moment. Then waving his arms he began: "May it please the Court and gentle men of the jury My ahem I My . Officer, kindly get me a arm 01 water." He waited for tha attendant to return and tried to father his faculties. After taking a sip of water he began again : "May it please the court anu gentlemen ol tne jury, i am nappy- no yes." Alter a cause he again extended hia arm and exclaimed: "May it please the Court and gentlemen or the Jury. My unfortunate client ." xkia mnmaapd him as a particularly bad opening, so he again hesitated. "(jo on, counsellor." said tne juogo, encouragingly, "to far I am with yoa." Chicago News. It Is not work that kills men; it Is worry, work Is healthy; you ca irira- bear. Worry is rust upon the blade, j MIFFLINTOWN. BATHS, ANCIENT AND MODERN. BY RRI.E! EVEBTSON SMITH. We who are close upon the nine teenth century, and very proud of our "progress," might find one good opin ion of onrselves a trifle shaken did we look back into the history of the world i little more. We need not imagine that the world's march has been one nnbroken, upward progreKsion, until crowned by onr t oasted civilization. We may indeed he jnstly proud of some of our attain ments, bnt in other respects we may as justly humble ourselves before the civilization of the Anoiontu. This is true of ninny things, bnt of nono more so than in the matter of personal clean liness. It is only within a compara tively short time that modern sanitary science has snflieieutly developed to recognize the vital importance of per sonal cli aolineas, not only to the indi vidual, bnt to the race. Yet ancient nations knew this at a very early per iod, and even their small cities were abundantly provided with the means to insure it. From inscriptions and remains it ap pears probable that the cities of the Assyrian, Babylonian, and Persian em pires, had large, free public Baths; and it is certain that the Egyptians were amply supplied with them. Moses learned in all the w isdom of Egypt knew the sanitary valuo of personal cleanliness, and did not fail to give to freqnent bathing a religious import, that it might never be neglected among the Jews. It was probably from the Egyptians that the Greeks also ob t lncd their knowledge of the Batn and its nsos. Tho warm Bath must have been well .'Stablished in Greece, and the adjacent lands :-!,000 years ago, for Homer al ludes to its use among the Ureekj, and Trojans, as well as in the countries visited by Ulysses. Hippocrates that "mighty father" of the healing art speaks of the importance of bathing, as 1 e does of air, temperance and food, as if a 1 alike, being common things, were not properly appreciated for their preservative and healing qualities. The Greeks were probably the first people to convert their hot springs into capacious Baths, though the Jews also had several that were early famed for the cures ascribed to them. The liomans always carried everything to colossal proportions and the Bath was no exception to the rule. Acknowl edged as a publie necessity, it became a practice of ambitions men, wishing to carry favor with the popnlance, to erect magnificent Baths for pntdic ac commodation. These increased with the wealth and size of the city, until, in the reign of Tiherins, there were nearly 900 Baths in Borne, most of which were free, or nearly so;" while no villa was considered complete with ont being provided with suitable bath ing apartments." At first these Baths were for utility only, but as the seven-hilled-eity became unhenlthfully rich with tho spoils of wronged nations, a lavish luxury was displayed in thoir s'rnctnro and decoration. Seneca, Writing in the reign of Clandina, after speakiug of the costly construction of private Baths, adds "And what shall 1 say of onr public Baths? Wo have come to that pitch of luxury that wo disdain to tread upon anything but precious stones." The public Bath which Nero built after the burning of Borne, to divert tho suspicions of tho popnlice, ho justly regarded him as the ineendiory was a splendid structure, but small in comparison with some of the gor geons buildings of later Emperors. It is to the Baths of Nero that we first find applied the name of Thermir from the Greok Thermo, heat After this time it was applied to all the public Baths of Home. All of the many Baths given to Borne fty enecessive Emperors were of won derfnl magnificence, bnt those of Cur acalla are the most celebrated, because their remains have Buffered least from the savages of war and time. Every tourist who visits Borne is taken to see the vast ruin, and conntless descrip tions have been written; but none is better that than bv America's own artist-poet W. W. St .ry in his Koba di Koma, from which we make a few ex tracts. "Come with me to the massive rnin A Caracalla's Baths climb ita lofty arched, and creep, along the broken roofs of its perilous terraces. Golden gorses and wull flowers blaze there in the snn, out of reach; fig trees, whose fruit no hand can pluck, root themselves in its clefts; pink sweet peas, and every variety of creeping vetch, hero blooms in perfec tion; tall grasses wave their feathery plumes ont on dizzy and impracticable ledges, and nature seems to have de lighted to twine tbis majestic ruin with its loveliest flowers Look down from your dizzy height. Sunken in the ground are monstrous, inform blocks, the fragments of the ceiling that roofed with mosaics these spacious halls. When these great pieces fell Home shook with their thunder, and the people said- 'There is an earth quake.' Of the giant granite columns which once bore them np, nothing now remains save aba tered fragments Hrewed upon the ground The stat- nes and precious marbles of antiquity ire all gone, fave a few broken bits and relics, kept in a fenced-in-cham-ber below. The Farnoso family, and t' eir snccessors the Frati swept the place of every thing. Its ancient mar ble gneats, the Flora, the Farnese Bull, the Hercules, aud the Venns Callipyge, are now in the Mnsenm of Naples; and in the Villa Borghese and the Museum of San Giovanni in Laterauo, yon may lee portions of the mosaics of athletes which once adorned these walls. The doping pavement of black and white mo aic crumbles away daily nnder the tooth of time, and the reckless destruc tiveness of travellers. Sheep and goats nibble under the shadow of the m:s uve walls that still stand as firm as aver. . . . Nothing could le more peace ful, grand and beautiful than these monntainons ruins. "Let us reconstmst them as we itand here, and imagine them as they in tl.A i1.tr rf their nerft ction. (. t I U .U vuw ..j I They were begnn by Cnracalla in tho year 212, continued by Heliogabalus, land finished by Alexander Stverus." I The Baths themselves covered a vast, oblong rectangular space which, it is laid, may be roughly estimated as about eighty times the superficial area cov jred by New York city's great Madison Square Garden, on one floor of which nearly 20,000 people may 1 comfort ably seated at one time. "At each end was a large hall with a semicircular tribune all paved in the rioiit mowo. These were probably devoted to gladia torial exercises, to recitations of porta, mdto lectures by 1'hilosop hers aud Phetoricians. Connecting them was an jnmense oblong apartment called the oinacotheca, or cella-caldaria, wbsre vtu-e tho hot baths. On ona aid o JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. these and on a lower level, wa an an other cla-nber, similar in shape, con taining the cold baths, and c.dled cella friffidaria. On the other side was a vast circular edifice, called the lactmi cum, which was composed of a large central hall, surrounded by chambers, and containing the vapor baths. The modorn staircase, by which we ascond to the platforms of the ruins, occupies one of the pillars of the cctta-caldaria; bo that, looking down over the side towards the city, we see the cella-frigi-dtara, and opposite it the long hall of the cella caldaria; while still 1 eond rise the giant towers and arches of tne laconicum, through whose open spaces gleams the western sky. The cella caliiaria, which was surrounded by columns of granite, contained what wa probably the most magnificent of all the halls. "Outside the central building was an open space, surrounded by portiooes and gardens, and containing a gymnus inm, stadium, arena, and theatre, where games, sports, plays and races took place; and beyond the portiooes on the westerly side was a reservoir to supply the baths. Within the baths of this magnificent enclosure could be accom modated Ii'iOO bathers at one time." But, vast as they were, these wore not the largest publio baths of an oiont Borne. Those of Diocletian, which were said to have been built by the labor of 40,000 Christians at the command of that great persecutor, af forded baths to twice as many persons as those of Caracal la. Some portions of the remains of this struotnre are now utilized as studios, granaries, churches and prisons. In its very centre stands the noble church of Sta. Maria degli Angeli, built by Michael Angelo, and taking its form from that of the walls of the cella caldaria. "Here one still sees the massive col umns of Egyptian granite in their old places, and from the vaulted roof still hang the metal rings from which the ancient lamps depended. "Besides these there were the Baths of Agrippa, of Constantino, of Nero and Severns, and those of Titus. . . . . The extraordinary number of Thermae shows how universal among the Romans was the daily use of the bath. It was not confined to rich I classes, but extended to all, and was usually tanen auer exercise, anu do fore the principal meal of the day. which was then about three o'clock in afternoon." To this universal use of the bath is undoubtedly attributable the general health of the lloman people nnder ex cesses that would soon exterminate any people living under modern conditions. The superfluous and poisonous matter which otherwise would soon have car ried the transgressors to their dis honored graves, was daily removed from the system by the activity aud diligence o( those untiring little slaves, the pores of the skin. Entering the bath after open air exorcise in the gymnasium for these though covered by a roof wore always open on the sides to the free circulation of air the pores were ready to be stimulated to their proper work by the intensely hot air of the cella caldaria. These halls answering to the hot-rooms of tho modern Turkish Bath were heated by large stoves below them, much as modern houses are heated by furnaces. Here the bathers reclined on marblo slabs, and whiled away the time with games, or chat, until the perspiration, flowing freely, had effectually relieved the clogged system. This and the farther processes of shampooing aud doucning with tepid or cold water, seem to have been almost strictly ideutical with those of the best con ducted of the so called Turkish Baths of the preseut; and iudeed the latter is a lineal descendant of the Konian, as that was of the Greek Bath, When the Bomans established their seat of em pire in Constantinople they carried their bathing habits with them; one of the two or three pricings legacies which the civilization of that dominant and corrupt, but highly intellectual people, left to the world. The Turks, succeeding to the Em pire of the East, had the good sense to adapt some of the best things left by their predecessors. The religion of Mahomet advocated cleanline s, and the Turks soon saw that the Hot-air Bath of the Bomans served this pur pose better than any other form. For various reasons Christianity had but sorrowful associations with the great Baths of Rome. Christians had labored on them nnd in them as slaves to the hardest and vilest of task-masters, aud they were all dedicated t.i ancient croda. which were, in trnth, bn- deified vices. Hence, when Christian Borne rose upon the ruins of I'agan Home the great Baths were not re opened to the public; and gradually the nse of even private baths was dis continued under the pressure of a su perstition which held that all self-sacrifice was commendable; that no form of sacrifice could be more abhorrent to natnre then that of personal cleanli ness; cryo, the greater the filth, the more the merit. From the beginning of time pestilences have followed close npon war and famine. In Medieval Enrope, they sprang np and spread without such inducing causes. "They were the scourge of God for sin," said the people. It was true. War and famine were sins, and so is dirt. The Sestilences which under various names evastated Western Enrope all through the middle ages,wcro God's punish ments for the sin of filth. The Turk profited by his adoption of the Bath. lie found that the lloman armies were the least aflected by t ick ness of any armies in tho world, be cause wherever they went they estab lished their Baths, as existing remains in all eonntries conquered by the Komans amply show. The Turk, copy ing the liomans, did the same thing with tno some result. To tbis day the Turkish armies suffer less from sick ness than those of their (otherwise! more enlightened neighbors. The Duke of, Wellington reokoued ten per cent, to be 'deducted for sickness from the effective force of every English Army, even when it is supposed to be in tho best possible condition. Yet in "Moltke's Cnmpaigu" (Russo-Turkish, 1828-9.) the average number ol Turks in hospitals raw levies, in war time is set down at but five per cent "Thanks to their excellent state of health, cases of illneES are so rare" says Mr. Skene, writing at the time of the Crimean war, "that on one occa sion, when fifty men out of 3450 were in hospital, the circumstance appeared so alarming that an extraordinary con sultation was held." CrcinL in hU "Lettres sur la Turquie" writing of a time when the Russians occupied the Principalities conjointly with the Turks aaya, "It has happened that the same day, after a parade, 300 Russians bad to go into hospital, out of whom 160 died in a few days; while there was not a single ease of death in the Ottoman Army." Their Baths serve the Turk ish Armies of to-day, as they did the Roman legiona ol Otd, la lieu of boa. pitals. The hospital service of the lurks is abominable, but, thanks to their Baths, there are few, save the wounded, who are obliged to endure it. For the introduction of the Hot-Air Bath of the Greeks, Romans and Turks into modern Western Enrope, wjare indebted to David Urqnhart, an enthu- siaatio Englishman, to whose energy and con; a o the world owes a deeper . del t tbuu it is conscious of. More tban forty years ago Mr. Urqnhart's attec- ' lion whb called to the Turkish Bath as a curative ageut, when suffering from sun-strobe and not within reach ol medical aid. , Reasoning that his trou ble was caused by a congestion which could be relieved if the pores of the skin were fully opened, and having previously observed the action of the Bath in this regard, he submitted him self to the somewhat harsh and crude, but effective treatment of the Hot-Air Bath, as it thus existed in Constanti nople. As a consequence tho pores were relaxed, perspiration came to his relief, and the cure was complete. Eight years later a Dr. Barter was giveu by Mr. Urqnhart a copy of his . travels lu wlucn tins experience was re- iiikow. vii reitumx J. ciiuvioiiuu ui the supreme iraiortance of this Bath, both as a preventive aud a cure ot disease, flashed upon the mind of Dr. Barter. He immediately wrote to Mr. Urqnhart, offering men, money and materials if he would superintend the building of a Turkish Bath. Mr. Urqn hart accepted the position, and in 135ti, the foundation of the first Hot air Bath in modern Europe, outside of Turkev, w is laid at St Anne's Hill, Cork, Ireland. This Bath differed from its succes sors almost as the steam engines, which to-day thnndt r from the Atlantic to the Pacific oceans across our vast continent, differ from the model of Stevenson's first engine, now kopt in the Washing ton Patent Olfce. The principle was there, bnt it required much study, and many experiments, to bring either to its present degree o perfection. Tha first step toward improvement was ap parently backward. Dr. Barter looked behind the modern Turkish Bath to the 1 nrk s model the grand Baths of Rome, studying their remains and their history, and applying their prin ciples in the modest way which alone was in his power, he constructed s Bath which has been the model of suc ceeding ones in every part of Enrope and America, including even Constan t nople itself; for the Turks usually bo slow in innovations were qnick to fee the improvements in their favor ite institution. Twenty seven years ago the Hot-air Bath (still called Turkish) was intro duced in America by Dr. Charles II. SheparJ, of Brooklyn, N. Y., who went to Ireland on purpose to study the operations of the Dr. Barter's Baths; and thence to Constantinople, to see those of the Turks. Mr. McSwat's Economy. "I could never see," briskly obscrvec Mr. McSwat, as he leaned a new pant of glass 28x36 carefully against thi wall, laid the sash containing tin bi ok n pane on the dining-room table, removed his coat, and othcrwis cleared the decks for action, "why an; man should pay a glazier a $2 bill fo: a job of this kind when he can do i himself at a cost of less thau half tha figure Hand me that case-knife, Lo belia." Mrs. McSwat complied with his re quest and he began to dig out the hard putty and bits of broken glass still re inaining in the sash. "These glaziers," he continued "ain't satisfied with a moderate profit Thoy want to hog the whole thing. This pane of glass cost me 75 cents, and these three-cornered tin jiggeri and this lump of putty were thrown in. A glazier could have bought th ottfit for 50 cents, and then he'd havf made $1.50 for aborrt twenty minutes work. Catch me paying any sued price 1 Lobelia, take this putty anc work it into ouch 1" Mr. McSwat's case-knife had slipped and his hand had collided violently with a piece of broken glass. "ltilli ger, you have cut yourself!" exclaim ed his wife. "It's nothing, Lobelia," he said. "A man may expect a little scratch or twi when he's at work of this kind. Thit dinged putty comes out awful bar. I. Gol-lee for gosh all snakes I There V another gash. Get me a rag, quick Don't stand there with your fingers it vour mouth. Do vou want ma ti ' bleed to death right here?" "Don't work at it any more, Billi ger," pleaded Mrs. McSwat. "You'll cut your hands all to pieces." 'Who's doing this job?" roared Bil liger. a he wrapped his thumb in the handkerchief his wife had given him. "S'and out of my way I" For the next lialf-honr he pranced about the table, digging out hardened putty, prying out splinters of glass, and varying the monotony of the ex ercise by occasional remarks of a par oxysmal and incendiary nature. At last, however, he laid the sash ready for the reception of the glass. "Lobelia," he called out, "is the putty ready?" "Of cour.-e it is," she replied. "I worked it ti'l it was nice and soft and put it on the tabic where you could get it when you oh Billiuger! You've knocked it down and trampled it all over my nice rug!" "It'll wash out. Lobelia," said Mr. McSwat reassuringly, and ht gathered up the putty and rolled it into a lump again. "Xow I'll put the glass in. Anybody that can't put in a pane of common window-glass," he went on as he lifted the sash, "no matter how big it is, ougnt to be" Crack I "It's only a comer, Lobelia. It won't show. I can fix all that so it will" Crack I "Blame the everlasting dad-tquiz zlcd" Crash! Smash t Jingle! "Blank the whole billy-be-dash-blanked business I" Mr. McSwat tumbled the remain! ot lis 28x36 pane of glass on the floor, jumped up and down on them, and howled, while Mrs. McSwat retired to an upper room, locked the door, crawled under the bed and wept. Mr. Billiger McSwat the ext day paid a $5 bill to a glazier for doing the job, and told him in a voice of thnuder, to keep the change and be hanged to him I Musical notes. Invented In 1830, as now used, wen DECEMBER 16, 1S91. DLIG.N0SI5G LADIES' FEET. Shoes or foot coverings of some sort have been and will continue to be worn as long as thore is any one left to wear them, but fashion is making such a change in the styles that the shoe of the past, and the not very long past, either, and that of the present are widely dissimilar, indeed. In the days of old all shoos were made for service. Care was taken in selecting the stock, the work was all performed by hand, and the result was a shoe that bad some wear in it. In these days of cheap, ready made shoes, a great change is noticed, especially in ladies' shoes. Instead of being made exclu sively for service, they are made for show, and that is about all there is to some of them. A Times-Star reporter culled yester day at the shop of a veteran shoe maker, and gleaned some information on the subject of shoemaking in its many forms. "Isn't there even a great difference in the style of shoe of to-day and that of say fifteen or twenty years ago?" was one of tho questions put by the reporter. "There's where you make a mis take," was the response. "There are only five kinds of ladies' shoes, the button, front lace, side lace, tie and slipper. The styles, as you call them, are only difl'erent trimmings. There is a growing tendency for trimmed shoes, and some very fancy designs are got ten up. One of the tolerably late shoes is the undressed kid, and it will prob ably be very much worn. The mate rial is soft and pliable, cool, and is of about the same cost as dressed kid, of which most of the ladies' shoes aro now made." "What is the difference in effect be tween a ready-made shoe and one that is made to order, on the foot, with reference to corns and bunions?" was asked. "All the difference in the world. In rraking a ready-made shoe thousand of pair are turned from one style of last, and it is safe to say that on an average not one foot in a hundred will exactly conform to the dimensions of that last. Now, imagine the othei ninety-nine pairs of feet thrust into shoes that are not their exact shape. They are wider here, smaller there, the instep is too high or too low and many other kindred faults. This squeezing and compressing of feet is going to injure them in some way and the most common form it appears iu is in the shape of corns and bunions. Hence corn doctors are multiplying. "It is different with a shoe made by measure. The customer comes in, sits in a chair and removes her shoe. The first thing she is ordered to do is to place her foot on the leaf of the order book. Then we trace the outlins of the foot as it appears in its natural state with tha weight of the body on it. Then the usual measurements of the foot are taken and we are ready to prepare the last. A man to measure properly should be able to diaguose t customer. For ina'ance, a person with a fie hy foot can stand a tight shoe, whereas the thin, nervous foot can not stand one with comfort. All these little things count in making ease and comfort. When the last is prepared it will be the exact shape and size of the customer's foot. To fit this we cut our material and the result is that when the shoe is completed it is exactly all that a shoe is intended to be. The reporter was shown a number of lasts, each of which was marked with some lady's name. After one measurement shoes can be mado in any style on the same last and a perfect fit will be secured. One last was shown the reporter which the shoemaker had used in making a lady's shoes foi twenty years. The only alteration made on it in all that time was the tacking on of a piece of leather on the instep to make it higher. From this it would seem that the femalo instep im proves with age. The cost of a custom shoe, of course, is a great deal niort than the ready made shoe, inasmuch ar the material for one pair costs the smai. dealer almost as much as a finished ready mmis pair. Cincinnati Times Star. The Rule Sot the Exception. Ilusbtnd "These trousers that 1 want to wear on tho fi.hing party have not a singlo suspender button on." Wife (sweetly) "Then, John, if your party is drowned I shall be able o identify your body from the others." Hnsband(savagely) "No, you won't, cither; the others aie all married men, too." Smith, Gray & Co.'s Monthly. Toeing the Scratch. There had been some hard words be tweon Julius and Moses before, as near as I could make out. Moses was blacking my boots on the veranda when Julius came around from the kitchen, and began: "Look heah, boy; I'ze dun got my eyeball on yon, an' de f ut thing you know I'll pound you to squash I" Shoo! Does you know who you is conversin' wid?" demanded Moses. 'Doan' you talk to me dat way. black man " "Who's black man?,' "You is." "You was a liar, sirl" " "So was yon!" . "Look out, boy ! A feller dun can me liar one time, and the county had to bury him." "An' you look out for me, black .iian; I'ze mighty hard to wake up, but when I gits aroused I woz pizen all do way frew." "Shool I Jus; want to say to yon tint de las' fight I was in it took eight men to hold me. Doan' you get me mad. boy, doan' you do it." "Burnt I dass put out my hand right on yo' shoulder." "AnT dass put my hand on yours." "Now, what yer gwine ter do?" "Xow, what you gwine tor do?" "Shoo!" "Shool" And after standing In defiance for a moment, each backed slowly away and went about his business, to renew the "defi" at the first opportudUy, and always with the same result. Brook lyn Eagle. . A family of six brothers and sisters, living near Richmond, W, have a combined weight of ICS I pounds. c a .rifle over 280 pounds apleco. CHORES. Jt Poreum aiw.ivs used tossy WHn vvic-keil hi in Income and play ltl n Niy ilimu to Harry More s. "I've Hotter stay :ini ilo the cbures." No irrrrailon wix Id he t ike Kor all hi wi a th In Jellv eake; No tlail tun in or out of doors lie had hi stay and do I he chores. We drnie a wnodehnek In the wall, hut Jed he iialil no heed at all ; A circus passed tlirnuzh liwer Town, But busy Jed. he couldn't no down. The elephant went trainnlnK by And -IiihiH the earth ami touehed the sky. The titter howls, the lion roars, Jed situ at home and does the chores. Much like led Porcum are we all ho lone for neat tluncs and do small) We moil anions the trivial sods Within the itardens ol the K"1. V Idle the daik flusters In n above Klrh Kith the Juice of lite and love. We ran not reach and pluck them dowa. These fair nomecrtnates of renown. Whose Juice lile's early hope restores, For we must work and do the chores. Above ns sternly loom forever 1 he uttuhty Mountains of K ideavnr. And who so on their summit stands I.00K" on sun kissed table-lands. W e era-p our mountain-stalT to climb Their sky-enshroinled peaks sublime, Vp where the crystal torrent pom a And then we pause to do our chorea. We start with rouram In the heart To try the endlessness of art. In hoie that we may speak some day The o d Hie Spirit bids ussav. 1'iit ere we speak the word arlnlit The shailons come and It Is nii;ht. I'ut out the light and close the doors, Kor itood or ill we've done our chores. (Sam U'alfer . in "Yankee Blade." DAXOLIXQ HANDS. BY JUAXITA STAFFORD. What lasting mttuenoe a good, earn est, rngged-minded woman can leave behind her I This has frequently been borne in ni on my mind when I have heard Robert Collyer liegin "My good mother used to say,'' and then give some nuKget of wisdom or common sense that was a good and sufficient text for a whole sermon, or a sufficient "clincher" for home able moral argu ment of her sou's. One of her say ings, that no donbt she repeated often enough to keep it alive for ever, was this: "I can't abi.'e dangling hands!" Don't you hear her saying it! Don't you fee her saving it she, whose hands never dangled in all her life? That "can't abide" is an old-fashioned phrase, but it seems to mean more than onr modern "can't endure," does it not? One of the dictionary meanings of abide, is to dwell." It is very hard to dwell with dangling hands. An other definition is "to be patient with," and it is equally hard to be patient with dangling hands. Why? Mot be cause they may not be beautiful. They are often small, shapely and white. Not because they are doing disagree able things, for they are doing nothing. Then why? Well, because they are not just hind alone, bnt are also part of a 1 nmin being, and that hnman being, man or woman, is the disagree able thing about the hands, if I may be allowed to use somewhat peculiar, in volved language. You all know what I rueau. Dangling hands stand first of all for laziness, and who can "abide" that? The lay person not only does nothing for others but fhe does nothing for her self. Things ttiuxt be done. The lazy pcrsou is always the last one to wish things left nnilono that pertain to bet comfort aud case, and so some one else ninst take up and do what should it the v ork of those dangling hands. Again, dangling hands means selfish ness. If we go through life doing nothing with the instruments given to use. Home one loes something; bless ings are not dropped along the way, stones aud briars are left in the paths of struggling fellow mortals that help ful hamls should "gather out," warm ing fires go unkindled and some one is cold, the dark shutter is not flung wide open to lot the warm sunshine iu, aud some poor snfiVring one sits in tho dark. Is not this much? Dangling hands means shiftlenmc Opportunities Mip by, bits of happi ness and nintdrials for comfort go to waste, pleasures nnd dnties get lost, belter things than gold slip through the cracks of life's floor and are never seen again, the zest of living is gone, life is flavorless. Thore is a sort of opinion prevalent that if one noes nothing evil, he is good. It is not al ways true. So far as the doing nothing evil goes, he is all right, bnt he must also do aood if he would be good. We cannot stand still. If we are not marching forward we are marching backward. If we staud with dangling bauds, good life slips by us and we are left behind, and we might as well have turned onr backs and fled better, I think. A homely old proverb here comes to my mi ml "Handsome is that hand some docs," and so in no sense can dangling hands be beautiful, no matter how perf. ct their symetry or fair their color. If . ir hands and our faces do not stnti J for something beautiful with in, then to the clear, far-seeing eye they are not beautiful. Let us all say, and mean it as we say it, the go d words of Madame Collyer: 'T can't aoide dangling hands!" Exchange. A Lively Sitting. "I hyah dah wus a pooty libely time down till de pokah 'semblage at Mistah Jenkins' las' night." "Yes; I don' quit de game foh 11 o'clock." "Whiifioh?" "Well, I couldn' quito un'stan' some ob de pecoolyahties ob de pack of kyahds." "What wusit roused yoh spirhons?" I hel' foh jacks." "Yes." "An' in absn' mindedne6g, drawed foh erunddah." "Yes." "An1 filled de han'." Washington Post. Great Is the Power of Impotence. The half of the effectiveness of Im pudence is not realized by the great majority of mankind, which is fortun ate in so far that if they comprehend it it would be impossible for society to continue to exist upon its present foundations. He who has impudence is better dowered for making his way in the world than he who has beauty, strength, wit, intelligence or wisdom, all of which are yet esteemed good things in their way. He is even better provided than the man who inherits wealth, since by virtue ot this mighty quality he has command of the purses of others, is above millionaires, for of them he makes his playthings: beauty bows to him, virtue is under his fet; while as to learning and mere ability they are as chaff uhu the wind before good wholesale impudence. NO. 52 NEWS IN MKiEF. Germany has C,j0U,(HHt acres of for ests. Cannons were first used iu the ycat 131i The first English clocks were made In 10HS. lVtutoes were Introduced into Trel.uiil in ljSil. The first coa -h was made m Eng land Iu 1.VJ4. The as essed value of Xew York Slate Is $ t,77y.:tOS.74i. The cold comare of England is Ulaile of 2'2 carat golii, not IS carat. Etude .ol.i is usually about nine mouths writing one of his novels. Two centuries aud seven different men claim the invention of guapow ler. Creea Luke, Col., 10252 feet above the sea level, Is the highest lake iu the world. Wisconsin's wheat crop is estimated at eighty-six aud a half per ceut. of a full yield. B ilt 1 more, Md, boasts of a Xew found'atid dog that is an expert lu catch ing thieves. I'rinting was Invented at Meutt, by GulteiilftTg, in H.sl; lutroduceJ in to EngUiud in 1-171. The g.-eatest long distance luoycle riding record !s 745 miles in fifty-four and one-half I ours. fostollic-s were first established lu Franca iu 14 (it. The first Kugli.su pjst otlice was opened iu 15SI, the first Uer inan ollice m 1011. The average French family embrace three meinliera and the average Iris'j family five. In England the average number of members ot a family is four. More than $l,o;X0ml was received in London, England, iliirin the past year in dog taxes. The London police are vigilaut iu Mils direction, if no oth er. Sectacles were Invented Iu the (rear 1HIS0, but were not lu general use until nearly ltN) jeun) later. In Xew York it v the quantity ot huckleberries solJ is leu limes that of any other berry. Di ioil huckleberries in winter time, always bring a fair price. It Is pointed out as an interesting fict that people with a tendency to con sumption are never bahl. On the con trary, they usually possess a luxuriant head of hair. Melons were first called canteloupea from being cultivated near t'auteluppi, a village near Koine, where they had been introduced from Armenia by uili Blonaries. It is the custom in Lima, Peru, U, keep animals on the roots of houses. A calf makes Its first appearance on the roof, aud never descends until it comes down as beef. Lewlstown, Me., has a thiee-yeat-o'd g:rl who prattles iu French, rwed idi and English. Each of her pHtenls wi re of different nat lonalit v, and she iciiel up English from visitors, A new style or saddle cloth has th underside made like a wattle. The holes and their edges are Itiletnled lo hold fast to the liotse's hide and pie vent slipping If the saddle-girth is not fastened firmly. A railroad tunnel 4K1 feet long, lb lieing drilled thr.uo)i a mountain peak near the village ol li.iliia, l'eiiu., which is 15.IKMI feet tihove the leVjl of the sea and 0 HI Ii-ct alxive the perpetual snow Hue. There are .HUM clubs In the United Ktites, whose aggregate uieinheibhip Is SO I.IHH), and ou whose list are eu roiied the names of many of the fa mous men or the day. The output f matches lu tin. United Slates amounts to $l'2,0o00;,0 a year. One cubic foot or lumfer pro duces exactly 15,0 Ki sticks of matches, and mi ordinary match manufactory turns out about 4h,ku,ixh sticks a day. An Alabama man possesses a curi osity lu thushaiw of two trout grown together like the Siamese twins. The bisiy of each it ierfect, but thev are united by a iiiembiaue attached to their bellies. They are alive and fiisky. Tt Is not definitely known who brought l lie wheat seed to America. When this continent wasjiliscovered the only cereal that grew heie was maize. Wheat was introduced into Id tiaii by the Kou an. and it can be tiai.td back for l earl- 4IKHI years. The locomotives in the United States if coupled together would make a train .!oO miles long, the passenger cars Would tii'tke :t to miles more, and would carry 1 TiisIhm people. With the aldiliou of all the fieight cars t lie train would tie moie than 7oit miles long. Lieutenant Maxwell, of theUniUiQ States Army, says the climate of the lfcik 't s ad Is to one's ht at u re. When ordered to ttiat co.iutry tie was over tAcntv-oiiR years old and ha t reajhetf ihe age w'neu growt .i was supposed to stop, but during a re.sidei ce there of over a year he grew three aud a half 'nches. Some immigrants carrv tin trunks, ft is easy lo imagine what happen to a tin trunk when an ordinary trunk falis on it. "Why anytio ly should make a tiu trunk," a baggagemaster says, "is more than I can understand. They may be good enough to stand in a hotre to put things in, but they are worthliw for traveling." HOW TO STRAIGHTEN WIRE. Herewith is given a simple method of strBightening any kind of wire, either hard or soft, which may be use ful to the hoosekeeiier: lu the illustra tion A is a strong piece of wood, iu which Httong wire nails are driven n a zig-zag shape, as shown. A staple lO is driven in al ont the oentre of the wood, for the wire to pass through be fore going through the nads. 'lhe wire is then threaded through the whole, and a piece of ronud wood is fastened to the wire to pnll it through (Di. If the wire curls either way, this can soon lie remedied by knocking the oaiu, sidewavs alternately. A little prac tice will soon show how the curl can b broken. Down. A " i f f .Yftr " " . 'i 'i L 1 Vv "Lew , .
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