B. F. SOHWEIER, THE OONBTITUTION-THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE UWS. Editor and Propritor. VOL. XL VI. MIFFLINTOW1S. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 12. 1892. NO. 43. i XT AMOS BKTANT RCR3B1.I.. .11 o'ot'Pr' iast upon the. year True to IluU 111. 'ii art alieaily here: The iorr's arm e tin-e. eave Ihee ample 1 oom IwUI saturf s Aural slory anil its gloom. The earlv b!'sniii, iVIlcateaml c:iv. V-blch oi'Hicil I'" Hie rhimIo lap of May. Were 1 o n K since bulled out of M:l!t a ay. To .uniile "lili tlie dust o( common clay. The rav mi ' fragile f Hie Simimer tune, ttaei and "liirs and aroinntlc thyme. Were 1: i iiH-il in carrten. flelii and claite, but 0' a e all remanded to the shade. The "Mlen 101I nlitcli wreattied September's bio. , rde ihd ib i' nt. as hus tlielr wearer lion ; I Ik i lui y 1 I 1 he a-tf r now n past. V hit g' lUUns Moroni only late and ldt K gill i itiy (i.'tobei o.iii'e r.i rotun, h:ch In tie harvest time of trim and K'alo; In majesty be sirs upiei the rhinne We.ui: the kuld and ci imson all his own. rouu jim. BY MARION SACKKTT. He had always loved her. Fie loved her.when be was a tall, thin Ina of fif teen and she a goltleu Laired little witch of ten. They were near neighbors and gnat friends. She used to climb npon Lis knee, and with her pretty, dimpled arms about his neck, lay her so't warm cheek against his own, while he told her stories in the summer twi light. Love her? why boy as he wag, he would tmve died for her. And she knew It, the selfish little creature, and would laugh in the prettiest way, and cry out: "J ini loves me!" Jim loves me!1' lie was such a friendless, isolated boy, with neither brother.sister nor compan ions. His father, a etern, silent man, old, when Jim was born; and Lis mother, a poor, sickly woman, wih little to say to anyone. It was Nellie's hupiy, childish voice which awoke him in the morning. ti is great love for her that kept his young he;irt from freezing in his bosotn. L'.ve her? He worshiped her. So time passed, nntil Nell's parents both died, and a widowed aunt, (whose only son hod run awny to sea), cumo to take care of her. Then there came a day, when J im was twenty-one, and the girl six teen, w ben his old father lay dead in the lent farm house, and his gray-haired mother sat with hands clasped in prayer, beside his collin, while Jim with his face hidden from -view, wept miserable tears, not go much for U.e father lying dead, as for the patient love sitting besiJe. And so nhr, the girl he loved found him, and taking til hands in hers, whispered, "L'on't cry Jim, you've got me." Oh, the light that shone in his pale, tired face! Oh, the great wave of gladness that swe t across his heart at her words. Yes, thank t,i he had At, and that night he nuked her to be his wife, and she, hiding her Mushing face on his t react, promised that she would. 1 i J she Ijve him? Oh, surely, had she not known Lim all her life, who couid si e love bnt kind, good Jim? iV.it he most wa t, she wns too young to marry yet awhile. "Wait, why he would wait years. So tbat she loved him and would be his at last!" The summer and fall passed, and winter approachod. Then Nell came running in one evening, her golden Lair streaming behind hr, her lov-ly eyes aflame with excitement, crying out: "Jim, Jim, guess, guess." "Guess what, sweetheart?" he an swered, rising from the supper table. "Guess who has come." "He shakes his head gravely, "im possible. " "Well then. Aunt Lucy's son, Ralph, and sncb a handsome, handsome fel low." Nellie bad. never seen anyone like him in all her life. Jim a eyes darken and his heart beats quickly, a queer sensation taKes possession of Lim. Handsome?" he repeats rather weakly after her. "Oh, yes, veryl Such eyes, snch hair, such a laughing, merry face!" Not at all like her poor Jim's, who alwavs looked more like crying than laughing. "Would Jim go back.with her and see biro, and hear him talk? Such wonderful stories as be could tt.ll of the great world which neither he nor she had ever seen; and besides he played on the violin, and sang beacti uly. Would Jim come at once9" And so she rattled on while Jim's heart grew heavier and heavier, and with this heavy heart he went back with her, and was introduced to the man who was to bring him bitterest misery. Handsome, the stronger cer tainly was. with a bold, dashing beauty, which is hard . to describe. Face dark, with' flashing black eyes, gleaming white teeth, and a winning off-hand manner abont him impossible to resist, "Had he come to remain long?" Jitn asked. And there was tbat within bis breast which whispered, "Oh would he Lad never come." '.'Yes," the new comer thought "he should stay some time if his mother and little cousin would have him. He was tired of roaming and had money to live quiet for a while." (This with one of h s brilliant smiles.) 'lhat evening there was no good night kiss at the door. For the first time in her life the girl drew back when her lover offered to draw her towards him. A pair of keen, smiling eyes watched them from the door-way, and poor Jim went home with that wretched feeling in his breast which never went away Rfter tbat night. Ther9 were no more 1 appy evenings passed in the little parlor; no more pleasant walks and drives over the qoiet country roads. "May I- come in?" Ralph's voice would ak at the door, "would Jim care if Ralph went with them? He was so lonely. Alas for Jim th'nner and paler grew his face, rarer and rarer his smile. God a'one knew what he suffered as he hatched those two. As he listened to their merry laughter; aa he saw him leaaing over her chair sometimes with his hand resting npon her curls; some times lying at her feet singing to her in his1 rio i voice, his great, bold eyes fixed npon her face, charming the fool ih heart ont of her breast day by dny. God knows what Jim suffered as be noticed how she would start from his side, blushing and confused whenever that dark face showed itself, and Jim knew him tor what- he was a bad u-au a mnn who drank and caronstjd at the village taverh,. and went heme with his drunkenness npon him in the small hours of the morning. Once in his rain and misery he spoke to Nell, praying for the sake of old d lys to marry him at once. Telling her with his vetohed eyes fall cf tears, how desolate his life was; how he longed to see her in his home; how his heart hungered to call her "wife," and then it seemed as though the weakness of death came over him a he saw how wnite the girl'a face grew, and how she trembled at his loving touch, u she aid: "Vn nr.- ;tv -nstw.it. m'Zit." a" Hew?? "Tf With its thoniMd beau ties its bright warm sunlight, its onen ng flowers; bnt he who had aW, loved and welcomed these thing, 7ook no pleasure in them now. Colder . u 1 ertsXWU8Wt'darkerndd"- found0iei,??ing4Le W6Dt to BOek her "'1 inni two together, as they stood wr-M "1? 0t " tree- "-ms upon his breast, just as she had hidden 1P J,m ? achin heart og go. Her sobs fell upon the mght "Poor little pet." the traitor's voice was saying, "cheer up. he shall never - l y? frm me! Vhttt. may him with his graveyard face? We will go sway, lou have never cared for him fool, he should have known it, lanir ago." 6 "He knows it now," said poor Jim. standing before them. There was a sharp cry from the girl, then silence for one brief moment. Then his miserable voice went on, "Nellie, little love. 1 give you up, I give you to the man you love." A few weeks later Nellie and ner mother had sold their place and gone, while Jim remained alone with his mother and his undying misery. Pa tiently, and silently for her sake he bore it all. She was dependent npon him for everything He must not fad her. Two years passed and there came a night when mother and son sat be fore the fire, iu tlie great kitcLsn. It Lad been a terrible day. Bitterly cold and snowing hard, and now the dreary wind came sweeping down the wide open chimney moaning like human being in distils. Jim was reading aloud to his moth er, when suddenly there came a knock at the door, and a voice called, "Open! open! quick !" As Jim hastened to obey, a woman covered with snow Jell upon her knees before him. A white face was upturned to his.- "Jim, Jim, save me, save my baby. We are freezing." ltdont a word he took them in his arma, placing her before the tire. Without a word, though trembling in every limb, he undid her shawl and took her wet hat from her head, then he laid her baby upon his mother's bed, and bade her get food for the wanderer. While his mother hastened to do his bidding, he stood in pitiful silence, not daring to look at Nellie. Her hair wet from the falling snow fell about her white, childish faoe; her great blue eyes with dark rings around them, were fastened on his face. Her hands clasped and un clasped themselves. Her lips mur ninrod timidly: "Jim Jim look at me. Speak to me. May 1 am welcome. In all the world 1 have no one bnt you. Aunt husband both dead. Oh he was a cruel, bad man, Jim. I have suffered. But he is dead and my baby and I are all alone alone. I am homeless cold and hungry Jim," and like the little child tliit used to climb npon his knee she stietche l her arms toward him and sobbed bitterly, "Forgive me Jim forgive me. Let me stay with you. Let me be your wife. 1 love yon Jim I do I do." What could the man do, who had worshiped her all his life? What could he do but take her in his arms, weep ing over her while he kissed the child ish face; trying to forget the great wrongs he had done him and so soothe her tears away. Once again they were together in the old farm house. Once again they rat side by side as in the old days. Once again her ' beautiful face charmed him back to life and hap piness. He took her child to his faith ful heart because it was hers. She was his wife at last He loved her. He forgave her. So flew the year away. Jim working early and late that bis dear cnea might be comfortable. His mother grew feeble, she was passing away. Life was very quiet in the old farm honsa. There was little noise heard save the chatter of Nell's baby. She made music for them all. Jim had learned to love her dearly. She would sit for hours on his knee, and was always on the watch to see him come in, and would run to meet him clapping her little hands gleefully as he caught her up in his strong arms. Nell sometimes complained to him about the dullness of their lives. She wanted to go back to the excitement of the great city where she had passed the two years of her absence. "Would he not sell the 'farm' and move there?" Jim would look at her rather sorrow fully, "What, leave the dear old bouse?" One evening he came back from the village and found his wife talking to a stranger at the "gate." He was a tall, blond man dressed in the extreme of fashion. Nell's eyes were shining like two "Stars;" her cheeks flushed hotly as she introduced 'the stranger' to her husband as an old friend of Ralph's who bad been very kind to them all and, lifting his hat, turned away savins, that he returned to the city that evening. He had learned where she was and had looked her up. He was very happy to find tnat her troubles were all ended. And so he left them, and Nell with her arm through her husband's went back to tbe house singing merrily. Late one afternoon Jim came home from a distant field where he ha 1 been hard at work in the hot sun all day. He came with willing feet to his door. He was very weary. He would be glad to rest in the sweet twilight, beside his pretty wife and her little one. He would be glad to have his mother come to him, and kiss him in her quiet way. Ahl there was no hap piness like that of peaceful home. Strange the child did not run to meet him as was her way, and there wns no sound of Nellie's voice. He went in; only his mother rose to come to him. "NeKie and the child, mother, wiere are they?" he asked. She looked at him. 'Uid yon not see her, Jim? She went to meet yon over an hour ago." "Strange." He would get ready for tAa. They would be coming presently. He went upstairs. How quiet the whole house seemed without the little one, God bless her. God bless both mother and child, thought poor Jim, as he entered their room. All was neat and in order. The dying sun light fell upon the floor. In the tall trees outside his window the twitter of the birds came to his ear. How beauti ful was God's world.- How sweet the quiet countiy scene. He passed to the table. What was this upon which his eyes rested? A letter addressed to Lim. and in tbe handwriting of his wife. A strange faintness came over him as he stood with it in his hand, is eyesight seemed to fail him as he "Jimforgive mo 1 anaot bear this dnll life longer. M friend whom you Baw will help tin . .e will be good to my child. I have never loved you as I shonld. I leave you. Fsiget me, and good bye, forever, Jim poor Jim. He stood swaying backward and forward. She, tbe 'idol of his boyhood. The chill that be had loved in her innocent youth. The woman he had worshipped. She had left him, and gone to a life of shame. And at the bitter thought his great heart broke, and he fell upon tbe bed still with tbat crnel letter in bis hand. That night he lay dying, and in his delirium he fancied that she who bent above him, praviug Heaven to save him, and not to leave her desolate in her old age, was his false love. And toying with the gray hair of his mother, would whisper. "Oh beautiful golden hair" and when her trembling lips were laid against his own, he would sigh, "Oh sweet soft lips," and thinking thus, the dimness of death settled down upon his faithful eyes Poor Jim. THE CROCUS. This bright little flower belongs to the lridacea and includes a number of varieties. Crocus vernus, with its white, purple and striped blossoms, is, like the snowdrop, a harbinger of Spring, bursting from the earth before the snow has fairly vanished. Some fanciful persons have imagine! that it was one of the narrow, flag like leaves of this plant, which the dove brought to Noah when the ark rested, thus substituting the emblem of hopf for the olive branch of peace. The crocus is a native of the Orient and one of the flowers in which the ancients delighted Homer speaks of "crocus and hyacinth" and tbe hills of Greece were gay with their blossoms, regal in purple and gold. The po ts have always associated the crocus with the pleasures of hope and one address es it thus: "Thine Is tbe flower of hope, whose bue Is br g-ht with coming Joy." Crocus lnteum and susiana, or "cloth of gold" is, also, a spring variety, with small, deep yellow blossoms veined with darker lines of buff and chocolate. Their "gilded spikes and golden cups" form a pleasing contrast with other varieties. Crocus close so quickly in the shade, that they are not very satisfactory as cat flowers, but in gay, garden beds npon the lawn, their blithe faojs seem to tell of youth and hope and. the glory of living. A bed of croenses planted in the faU along some old hedge or garden wall, will bloom and multiply year after year with little care, and are also very attractive in grassy cornert, while in window boxes in the house, a sunny corner may be made brilliant for weeks. This flower has bee a dedicated to St. Valentine, though why, one can scarce ly imagine, unless that in its native habitat it comes into blossom so early as tue 11th of February. The word, crocus, comes from the Greek name for saffron; C. Sativns, or fall crocus yielding the saffron of com merce from its long, narrow, orange red stigmas. It has been quite exten sively cultivated in Kngland for this purpose. It is purple) and fragrant like tbe Sicilian crocus which also bios so ins in tbe fall. Nearly allied to, and much resemb ling C. Sativns, is colchicam autumu nale or meadow saflon, the latter differing maiuly in having six stamens insteid of three, and three styles instead of one. It belongs to the Lilacete, and, in the temperate countries of Europe, may be seen shiLing npon the green sward of moist meadows in early autumn, it takes its name from Colchis, an ancient country of Asia, celebrated in mythology as the destination of tbe Argonauts and the home of Medea and the Golden Fleece. The flower, which abounds iu Colchis, was mythically supposed to spring from some drops of tbe fluid which Mede prepared to restore tbe aged iEson to youth. It is highly medicinal and is popularly believed to be a preventive against every mal ady, the Swiss tying it abont the necks of their children to ward off evil. It is, to the botanist, a singnlarlv interesting flower. It rises directly from the new tuber in the autumn, its pale, purple corolla having six di visions, but neither stems nor leaves; tbe long, white tubular prolongation of the flower being its only support, at the lower end of which is found tbe seed inclosed in a protecting sheatn buried deep in the gruss, and ripening in tbe following " Spring when the leaves are formed, thns reversing the usual order ot plant growth and blos soming with the fruits of autumn while it finds its seedtime among the flowers of Spring. The illustration shows the flowers, leaves and bulb of Crocus vernus. A MATTER OF FEELING. "A woman is old or young, by com parison," once said a bright girl. "What do I mean? Well, I'll tell you. I'm twenty-four, an 1 I maintain I'm remarkably well-preserved. You'll agree that I'm rather too youthful-looking for a chaperon. But here my dear Aunt Jane has asked me to look out for Cousin irginia while she does some shopping in town. Virginia la eighteen, and she's a good deal of an ingenue. Well, I go shopping with her, and she asks me timidly if I think twenty-five cents a yard too dear for muslin, adding that her mother says I always had such good judgment. In the evening, there are callers, and I wear black lac, but Virginia comes down in white muslin and pink rib bons. She won't play, 'because mam ma says I must never, never play when you are about, cousin, one says yon have such a fine technique and such a I really professional touch, not a bit like my scbool-girly performances.' Then j I feel about forty. When we pass an ! ice-cream soda place and I propose a j refreshing drink, Virginia giggles and Bays: 'Why cousin! I never thought you'd be so silly as to be fond of ice- , cream soda. I tell you," concluded i the damsel, mournfully, "I'm begin- -ning to feel desperate, and some day I shall be rude to Virginia about Aunt Jane. And then that relative of mine i will soothe her daughter by remarking that she mustn't mind, for of course I'm getting old and a little crabbed." When an eminent pbysioian was visiting King Frederick the Great of Prussia during sickness, the monarob put to him this question: "How many people have yon sent out of the world?" f The physician, nothing staggered, replied 'Not so many as yonr majesty, nor with snch great honor and glory." Scisso BS-OBINDKB3 do not complain of dull tunes. 3 KEEK PEASANT OIRL3 AND HOW THEY LIVE. It is a warm day in May. warm as it would rarely be in an English July or Augnst; down from the cloadlesa bril liant blue of the heavens the sun sends his burning beams; already the fresh ness of spring has passed, and the earth looks parched and dry. Away in the distance tbe dark shadows are strongly defined on tbe hills, which lift their graceful outlines into the sky, their sides hardly clothed by a single tree or f-hiub. The azure srd gold of tbe island studded sea exteuds away to tbe verge of the horizin. A drowsy heat is in the clear fine air; great grass hoppers.aconple of inches long, flit from one of the tall amaranth plants to au otber; green lizards Hash here and there amidst the lower vegetation, or cri'ss the path with a speed that dtfiej capture, hastening to their litile white nests, which hang like fleecv balls from the branches of the few stunted bushes or are hidden amongst the stones; meek-looking goats with pendant ears, and tbin,dingy-colored sheep, patiently crop tbe dusty grass from wbich an English-bred auimal would turn in disgnst. Nothing preserves its green hne but the young vine shoots, destined to fade too into a dirty grey and yellow as tbe summer goes on and the heat increases. This is a Greek landscape; a land scape such as one may see almost any where in that wonderful ol '-young land of Uella. which awoke some seventy years ngo from a sleep of twenty cen turies. Iu the mi 1st of a field a peasant girl i ts on a stone, resting as people rest iu tropical or eemi-trop:cal countries, for the mere pleasure of being still, only her black eyes seem on the alert, glancing here and there, taking in all around her, and appearing to seek tor tbe least thing new or strange in tbe familiar scene. It is these eyes which chiefly distinguish her from the Orien tal, the Turkish, or Syrian woman, who could continue to ga.e at vacancy for hours together, her large full orbs showing no consciousness of any exter nal object. These same restless eyes lirht up a face certainly not retty, but distinctly refined iu type. Over her head she has twibted a kerchief of colored cotton stuff she prob ibly has an embroidered one for Sunday and feast days and from iti m .ter.al and the arrangements of its folds the initi ated could tell with accuracy what is her native province, and even her na tive district. Below her bed-gown-like white garment her bare brown ankles appear, while on her feet she wears heelless leather shoes. Around her waist a sash is fastened; she has a long apron, and over all a jacket of white woolen stuff bordered with black. What sort of life does this girl lead? Well, it differs widely enough from that of girls here; she lacks a good mauy of their advantages, bnt also several of their troubles and cares, for nhi lives in a land where tbe wants of man are few and easily supplied, where warm clothes or comfortable dwellings are little needed during at least nine months of tbe year. Probably when little Maria, or fho tine, or Sophia (it matters litt'e what name we give her), was born, her pa rents did not receive hor with as much joy as they would have done bad sue been a boy; at least unless they were well-off people already provided with sons enough. Daughters are expen; sive articles in a Greek peasant family they cannot earn mnch, and they niu t be provided with a dowry; for without it, however attractive tbey may be, thev will scarcely be likely to find a husband; and an old maid is deemed a di -grace to the family to which she be long", or at least a burden on ist re sources. So Photine's father, while she was still swathed up in tbe bi' ds and bau ds, 'es which gave ber no power of moving her limbs, made ber look like a juvenile mummy, and generally ren dered her infant life a misery to her, liegan to think of laying by something for her preeka, and her mother con sidered what collars and waist buckles and bracelets she would take out of her store to give to her daughter on her weddine day. But Phot i lie as yet was serenely in different to such matters, and lay peacefully in her little wooden cradle, formed of a block of wood Lollowed out in the centre, while her mother or an elder sister soothed her to sleep with quaint old cradle songs. When four or five months old, Pho tine was baptized and received an of ficial name, bavin g been nntil then only the paidakt (the baby). Her godmother carried her to the church, and tbe papas (the village priest), hav iug anointed her with oil, plunged her into great caldron of water, immers ing her whole body; then she was dressed in fresh garments as a symbol of her new position as a member of tbe Christian Church, and carried back to ber mother, who was waiting at home; for it is not customary in Greece for a mother to attend the baptism of her child. Ths years passed by, and Photine grew; by-an l-by she was able to toddle about, and when her mother went to the fields to work, she would carry her on her back and set ber down to play the livelong day in the sun, or to sleep in tbe shade of the gray green olive trees. In the wm'er things were not so pleasant, for then Pbotine, and her mother too very often, stayed at home; and home was only a one roomed cot tage, with probably nothing in it that we should call furniture; no table, nor chair, nor bed only a few water and wine jars of baked clay and a con pi j of big boxes to contain clothes and orna ments. On a raised platform at ono end theent re family slept, wrapped in rugs and sheepskins, and always fully dressed. Sitting on the floor, they ate their simple food of coarse anle-ivened bread, cheese made from tbe milk of goats or sheep, olives anl various veg etables prepared with oil, and now an I then a little salt fish. Yes. it wa very dreary in winter, and cold too, for the Ore iu one corner yielded more smoke than heat; and when in severe weather tbe goats and sheep were brought in to sleep in the house with their mas ters. Photine was often glad to lie d wn beside them for the sake of the warmth they afforded. Photine rejoiced when the winner air of February enabled her again to p'ay out of doors: and then too Ea-ter was near Easter, the greated festival of all the year. Lent came and dragged itself along, from "Clean Monday," when all traces of grease or oil are to be removed from eookinr vessels in preparation for the great feast, to "Great Saturday," I Easter Saturday), when the festal lamb was slaughtered bv each family. On Saturday evening all the inhabitants of the village flocked to the church for the Resurrec tion service, each carrying a caudle. Photine is very pleased to go, and ftnds holding her mother's dress, and loot 'ng with awe-strnck eyes on the gild 4 pictures of the saints and the ran igia. the A'l Holy Oie, th Vir gin, iu the centre, with her CKld on her Vnee,His band raised iu an Attitude of I enediction. Tht se pictures are stiff and conventional generally; there is a traditional attitnde and a tradition al ty.ie for every figure; and the same Saint Michael, Saint George, and f-'aiut Deruet-ius that Photine saw in her cuiiroli, may be seen in almost every village throughout the ltngtU aud breadth of Greecp. Juiit befcre midnight the priest, followed by the congregation, went out into the open air an I fluished the ser vice, standing before the church door. When he reached the part of the Gos pel narrative which tel s of Christ's resurrection, he paused, end waited till the sound of a bull told him that it was midnight; then raisinir his voice he cried, "Christ bath risen!" and all tbe peoplo, raising their oindles above their bea Is, answered, "He hath ris en!" Photene does not attend mnch to the rest of the prayers; she is gener ally rather tired, and glad to return home to tas.te a Very little of the sojp wh eh has been prepared from portions of the slaughtered lamb, and to go to sleep, while her parent i finish their supper with hard boiled eggs stained red, milk, and koulouro, or twisted cakes. The next day is a great holiday. The father wears his clean white kilt, his embroidered jacket, and red cap; the mother dons her finest ornaments, Ler silk apron, and embroidered veil. Photene and her brothers and sis ters have plenty of red stained eggs given them, and with these thev play a game very similar to what English boys call "haokiug," beforo they final ly eat them. The lamb is roasted whole over a wood fire, a long stake being run through its entire body, and kept perpetually turning till tbe meat is ready, and in the evening there is a great feast. There are other festivals too, which bring their own pleasures to Photine the feast of tbe patron saint of tbe church, when the village matrons dauoe hand in hand on the grass, their black hair hanging in long braids to their waist, and decorated w ith red tassels and ribbons and silver dins. The New Year, when the King's Cake, in which the lucky coin is hid den, is divided and eaten; the Day of the Three Kings (our Twelfth Dav), Ta l-h'jia as it is called in Oreek, which is the special feast of our little hero ine; the May Feast of Flowers, when theonng people go out to collect the purple and scarlet anemones, the gold en white chrysanthemums; and the big dog daisies, and form them into gar lands for their own beads, and for the decoration of tbe doers of their cot t iges; the feast of tbe I'ansgia in Au gust, that of the Cross in September, besides saints' days too numerous to mention. Photine's n'ewasnot sll play, how ever, even in her childhood. If the village ttoastei? of a school for girls,abe probablv attetded it more or less regu larly. The law of Greece requires all children to attend school between the ages of five and twelve: but this pro vision is not strictly carried out, and It may be that Photine received no edu cation at all, or that she was removed from school wun bnt nine or ten, and sftDj to herd her father's sheep and goats. Possibly, though, that eager desire of knowledge, which is a marked charac teristic of most Greek children, in duced tbe little girl to ende.vor, even though employed daring the o'ay, to learn something, an I that she attended an evening school, trudging along tbe road in the warm spring or summer nights, while the beautiful Greek moon, larger and brighter than the moon we know at home, swam in the dark blue of tbe (ky, and she sang to it softly "Pretty moon, that shines so brightly, Shine on me, that 1 may jro X - the schoo. and foot it lightly. That my 1eons 1 may know, l.ear.i to Mlteh and learn to sew. And the things of (rod to know. Who walk d on earth long years ago. Pr try, pretty Moon.- Photit e's religion is rather a vague thing, Bde tip of manv outward ob servances strictly execnt d, but lacking in inward life. She has quite a fund of superstitions. Wheu March comes,she binds around her left wrist a piece of red thread, to avert the danger of sun stroke, and to protect her complexion from injurv dur ng the approaching summer. When a passer-by regards her with too curious a glance, she stretches ont her finger towards h m o defend herself from the evil power of his eye. When the dark clouds are driven in long procession over tbe mountains, she crones herself with awe, for Cbdron, she thinks, is leading the eorrowf, I brnd of the dead across the earth away to the other world. In the house Photine, as she grows older, helps in the household duties, which, as may be supposed, are simple enough. With ber mother and sisters she pre pares the stuff and makes the clothes of the family, embroidering the jackets and eils in tbe traditional patterns which are handed down in peasant families for generations. Then she spina and weaves the cotton and silk studs, wbich are afterwards sold in the neighboring town, and perhaps helps in the manufacture of the carpets and rngs so well known in the West, but under the name of Turkey carpets. Out of doors she takes ber ehare in the lighter agricultural labors, gather ing the small black grapes wbich are known in England iu their dried form, as carrants, or the larger ones, whicn are to be made into wine, or the olive terries from which the clear, colorlefs oil is pressed, which is the snbstittie for butter in all culinary operations in Greece. Or, if ber home is in the Morea, she will probably be much en gaged in the rearing of tbe silkworms and in the care of pr paring the raw silk. But Photine is growiDg up apace; she is nearly s xteen, and her parents must begin to bestir themselves about ter marriage; tbey must ;et itbs known hat their daughter is to marry, and -hat she has a don ry. They have not long to wait for a suit able son-in-law. A youni Pull -tear, re splendent in whi'e fustaiella, em broidered jacket, an l red cap, has seen and admired Photine aa she danced with her companions on the occsion of the last Panegyri, or village festival, and he now hastens to make his pro posals, which are accepted. In 'a few weeks' time, Photine, dressed in her best array, is led by her parents to the church, and takes ber place before the altar with the youth who is to be ber husband. The papa places two cau dles in their hau ls, and their crown bearers (equivalent both to our best man and our bridesmaids) put on tbeir garlands of white flowers joined by long ribbons; prayers are recited, anil the wedding rings interchanged thrice between them. Then the Papat pro nounces, "J join in marriage tbe ser vant of God, Demetrius (or George or ! .aiicuaer) apd tLe servant of Ood, Pho tine." A glass of red wine is given to them, from whio'i first the man and then the woman drink, and the cere mony is over. So Photme is married, and most 1 kely she goei home to the cottage of her parents-in-law to help the women folk there, and to wait respectfully on Lusbaud and the other men of the household. There ber children are born and brought up. Probably she loses one or more of them from the terrible ague fever which is so fatal to the young in most parts of Creese, and then she weeps over them as she 1-tys them, dressed in white and c owned with flowers, in fieir little coffins. So amidst joys and sorrows ber life goes on for a greater or less number of years, nntil her bonr comes too, and she is laid away in the cemetery close by the little round-domed church, in which, as an infant, she was baptized, and, as a girl, married, in the shelter of those eternal bills which have seen so many generations bloom and fade in that old He'lenio land. Such is, in its chief features, the simple life of a Greek peasant girl. Mars Hatden, m. a. Lilian Gbkenx. IN NEW CALEDONIA. A. Island la the South F.clfla East o. Australia. East of Australia, In the South Pacific, lies the island of New Cale donia. It beiongs to France and has an area of 6,769 square miles, with an estimated population of between 43,000 and 75,000 people. The na tives are of the Papuan race and speak a language kindred with the Australian tongues. They are divid ed into numerous tribes, are well formed, tall, muscular, but indolent. Their huts are nearly conical in shipe and vary from ten to twenty feet h'gli. Work is begun by digging Bl'T or A MANGO CHIEF, fSH CALIDOIA a hole in the ground and then plant in? a tall stout pole in tbe center. A number of poles running up to this form the framework, which is woven together by a kind of basket work, and then tbe whole is made water tight by earth, additions being marie until the wall is several inches thick. Entrance is had by a door three feet wide. Many of the natives have been converted to Christianity and are in dustrious and sober. New Caledonia was discovered by Capt. Cook in 1774. In 1853 the French took possession of the island and established there a station for their Pacific squadron. During the recent yars there was considerable frictiou between England and France over the latter's scheme of making New Caleionia a convict settlement. THE LAW OF COLOR. A woman with blue-gray eyes and a thin, neutral tinted complexion is never more becomingly dressed than in the blue shades in which gray is mixed, for in these complexions there is a certain delicate blneness. A bru nette is never so exquisite as iu cream color, for she has reproduced the tint ing of her skin in her dress. Women who have rather florid complexions look well in varions shades of plum and heliotrope, also in certain shades of dove-gray, for to a trained eye this color has a tinge of pink whioh har monizes with the flesh of the face. Blondes look fairer and younger in dead black, like that of wool goods or elvi. while brunettes require the sheen o: satin or gloss of silk in order to wear black to advantage. BICYCLING FOR WOMEN". Doctor Stella Hunt gives this sensi ble verdict in regard to the exercise: "If onr girls realized the enjoyment, recreation and health to be derived from the wheel, many more would ride. The pleasure of cycling more than makes up for the criticism of Mrs. Grundy. Girls, if you would be happy and healthful, ride a wheel." To this we add the opinion of a no ted German scientist: '.'I cannot con ceive anything more graceful than a lady riding a bicycle in tuitable cos tume, especially wLen the trip is made in the country. To the fair sex, any and every health-giving exercise should be i ecom mended; it is for the good of hnmaiiity, and is summed up in one word, 'realm,' whose natural ifequenc is happiness." A TURKISH BAPTISM. I was once present at the baptism of a Turkish child and will endeavor to describe this ceremony, though it is one with w hich many people dispense, and which is neither legal nor relig ious. The child was only seven days old, this being the age when it is thought necessary to name him, and was lying on a bed covered with gold wire, which was tied to the bedstead with diamond pins. Some sait and a sieve being brought by the nurse, the mother took up the child and placed it in the sieve, and, g'V ng one end of it to the nurse, she took the other and shook it (lightly, while the nurse placed her mouth to tbe child's ear and called it loudly by the name given to it. Tbe salt was then sprinkled over it, and after a slight prayer the sieve was shaken once more, and while tht salt fell on the ground the child was chris tened. Calcxny robs the public of all that benefit that it may justly claim from the worth and virtue of particular per sons, by rendering their virtue utterly insiqnificenU WORLD'S FAIR NOTES. At an expense equal to about $500, an industrial school at Gnntoor, India, will make a notable exhibit at the World's Fair. The exhibit will be en tire.y of articles made by Mohammedan women, and it is stated that none of their work Las ever bteD exhibited at an mternat'ocal or national fair. A small clrawinir-room in the Womxn's building will be furnished with articles madd by tl o pupils of tLe school. Among the articles to be sent are a very ban ifome velvet portiere embroid ered with gold, velvet embroidered with gold for upholstery, a table cover of white serge embroidered with gold and silks, a piano cover, curtains of Indian materiel embroidered with silks, fancy wall decorations, handsome pic ture frames with gold embroidery, ta ble covers, regs, tea cozies, cushion overs, center pieces for table, trim ruing for evening dresses, altar cloths, etc. Some of the articles, it is an nounced, will be for sale. It is proposed that ono of Montana's contributions to the Exposition, to be made by women of the Sta e, shall be a fountain made of natural ore. The design will be selected by open com petition. It is sugg- eted that the base be made of native minerals, the bowl of silver and the cup of gold. Danphin countr. Pa., will send for exhibition in the Woman's building at the Wr rl J's Fair an elaborately carved table ft extraordinary h'storicnl in'er et. It will be composed of woods taken from the yoke or the fa-nous "Liberty Bell," from the house in which the first American flag was marie, from Washington's beadqnart rs at Valley Forge, from ti e old ship Constitution, and from a pillar in In dependence Hall. The npper surface will be inlaid with Indian arrow heads, relics of the Six Nations, with whom w) at is now Danphin county, was once a favorite hunting ground. Late advices from Sydney, New South Wales, sustain the view that, notwithstanding tbe commercial and financial depression existent in some parts of Austra ia, the Australian ex Libit at the World's Fair will be a great and representative display. From Sydney will be sent a remark able astronomical clock. Thi- clock is forty-fi-e feet high and twenty-five feet square at the base. Wituin it is exhited the motion of the sun. Mer cury, Venus, and earth revolving on its axis around the sun and the moon around the earth. The sun is to be represented by an electric light which will illuminate the surrounding plane tary bodies. Sweden's building at the World's Fair has been designed on the 'ines of the old Norse Stave ch' rches, but with more solidity. The building is being constructed in Sweden and will be sent to Chicago in sections. There is to be in the California build ing at the World's Fair a womaa's re ception room, to which every county in the state is expected to contribute some article of furniture, art of virtu. The women of Alameda county have decided to furnish for this room and donate a life-size po-tra t of Mi.-s Emma Marwedel, who first introduced t e l-roeoel rstem of education on the Pacific Slope. The framing will be of Calfornia woods, ma'le and carved by local talent. Miss Marwedel is now a resident of Berkeley, a-d well ad vanced in years BIRTHDAY OF THE FLAG. Idoo 14. 1777 Vsbered the Star, and BtTlpea Into the World. The Quartermaster General of the Army has formulated a report, with t lot of history regarding the origin wd gradual development of the Stars tnd Stripes. The clerks whom he set it work on the subject discovered .hat on June 14, 1777, the Conaress, n session at Philadelphia, adopted ibis resolution: "Resolved. That the flag of the ihirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white, in t blue field, representing a new con itellation." The thirteen stripes had been used oefore by the Philadelphia Light Horse, In 1775, but tha stripes were ilternate blue and white. Mrs. John Ross, who d:d upholstering on Arch street, Is supposed to have been the maker of the first fi;ig containing the stars and stripes. Although the .evo lution of June 14 was not promul gated by Congress until September 3, the flag was carried at the battle of the Brandy wine on September 11. And then, from time to time in the oation's history, stars were added to the galaxy of the field of blue, as new States were formed. A resolution providing for such changes was alopted in Congress April 4, 1813. Otherwise no change has been made- A FAN LUNCHEON. An original outdoor luncheon was ' given the other day at a chateau not far from Paris. The sixt- en guests were seated at four willow titdus, the tops of which represented an open fan. Over the tables were fan-shaped cano- j pies of colored silk. The menu was . written on email paper fans, tue sticks being of enamel and tied with ribbon. Bine was used at the forget-me-not table, pink at the rosebud, green at the fern and white at the daisy table. The , indivi' nal ices were served ia the form ' of email pulm 1-af faus; the favors wero silk surprise fans, the handles of each containing a souvenir. The gay colors of the odd shaped tables re-ting rjioa the smooth grassy lawn made an Bective pieture. Miss Alice Harris, a physicisn of fowa, has for several months conducted the Methodist mission at Sierra Leone, without assistance. If we wou.d read the secrrt hibtoryot our enemies, we would find, lu eacn nun's life, sorrow and Buffertotf anouga tj disarm all hostility. SEWS IN BRIEF. The Ancient. Greeks' Hily Land wa Elis. The new testament was first print id in Irish :n 1602. Seat'l", Wash., fishermen bavt foinisd a union. Ti e average man has 2,304,030 nores iu his skin. It cost the present Emperor of Chiru. 8lO,0'JO,003 to get married. A reunion of T'pippist Monks wIL oe held in Rome on October 1st. About eight t-pecies of whale ate scown on the California coa-it. The av-rae are that woxen mar ry is t went) -one, men ttfenty-six. The st.ul-eutraacing clarinet wa the invention of Denner, a German, in 109). The best draft horses in tbe coun try are reared In Oalo anl Pennsyl vania. The British Medical Association jow admits women doctors as mem ers. Thirteen ml'lions sterling have i'rea ly been t pent on the Manchester ship canal. An opal weighing one pound and a quarter has recently been taken out ot an Idaho mine. A man in Kirkintillack, Scotland, as fjed ten shillings lately for playing the bagpipes on Sunday. Four salmon, welchtns from eight o thirteen pounds, were caught in tbe tludaou River recently. A pet rattlesnake at New Smyrna, fK, recently committed suicide by biting i:self in the neck. The English mint possesses an iVcirical ma blue which counts coin wilh precision, and accuracy. A woman who recently died in tte N orris town. Fa , Ius-iae Asylum ''bad not sooken in the pa&t 11 years.' The first folio 1623 edition of Shakespeare is under process of re production by mens of photography. The Krupp wor:s !n Essen, Ger nany; contain 2512 furnaces. These consume ltGo ions of coal and coke daliy. A horse will eat In a year nlnb ;iixei b:s own weight,acow nine times, and au ox six times and a sheep six times. During the last financial year tfe Or -man Government paid away tl.S'O, 1 00 in pensions to naval and military officers. Father Cre, a French priest ata .ioned at Jerusalem, recently found a talent of the time of Khig David in his door yard. Do rot Jcd.T from outside appear-i-jcts. The f otball looks plump and fair proportioned, but there jb nothing in it but wind. Out of fifty-two artists who have jeen sinein this season at Convent Gaiden (Londonl Italian opera, only four are genuine lUliaos. The great cantilever bridg at TSi asara Falls is entirely composed of steel It is S10 feet i i length, weighs S.OOO tons and cst $900,000. A Japanese soldier has Invented a gnu which enables the posses-or to send a "cloud of U.nding dusi" into tbe eyes of a foe at a distance of twelve feet. In England thev do not chew gum, looking at the habit as vulgar and low, but the Australians have- already taVen kindly to It and are indulging cieeiy. The Military Weekly of Berlin sajs hat theie uave ueeu lv ministers of war in Spain during the century, tbe average time of service tit-lug six norths. Iu sp3aklr.g of the solidification ot a bo.ly by cooling, Professor Dewar s.ivs lhat wat-r can be made to become solid by the evaporation of a quarter of is weight. The Aeiicultural Department has a letter irom M n later Lincoln announ cing tnat tne pionii iiion against Amer ican shetp has been withdrawn by 7h 'Ugh honey is not so much an article of oiet low as it was with our foufathers, tnere were Cl.OO-'.OOJ pounisof It produced in tht United t tales last year. A Dexter woman became so infatu ated with the Chr stian sc'eotlst theory thai she laid away ber fase leetb, thinkinz that her natural ones would ?row again. Out of a t'tal or 73 034 paupers in almshouses i j tha Uuiied States in tbe ear covered by tiie eleventh census 'Jl.l5.r cent, were white and 8.85 per cent, were colored. San Francis-o, C i, has an earthquake-proof hotel. It is co nstructed of .ion and In the form of two hollow equities, one within the other, arxanged so as to brace ei-ch other. It is s:i!d that a natural deposit of material capable of use as a polishing ponder for met ds has teen discover d near Walcha, New South W:tles, and hat ii is being introduced on the mar ket. Sleeping in the Iirht of the moon when It is ne.tr t'ie full is said to be m j rio is especial y near the tro. ics. It lias no effort where ttie direct ray do not fall ou tiio head or eyes of the seeper. Among birds th t have the power ot imitation the narrot is the best; but, as u m.itter or fdct, its voic- is decidedly inferior to that nf the mynah, a siiecies or stiiriing. C iriously euongb, tbe raalo bird speaks In a h ch, clear tone, .Ike that of a chi d; while the female has a gruff voice. Not earth w- rms but anta are the soil-idlers of parts of Southern Afrioa. Ai.t hills exi-t by miU.ons, each cover ed by soil so r-rtild that a common say in Is bat an ox can be pastured on an m hill. A Fiji missionary oars tbat ninety per cent, of the Fiji Island population, which is 110,000, is found in church on Sunday. Tbt is mnch better than many civilized Nations can boat, com ments tte New York Mail and Er trees. Wanted The man who can address a Sunday school without beginning bis s eech with, "when 1- was a little boy." A gold coin rasses from o'ae to an other 2,0.i0,000 times before the stamp or iiupiession upon it becomes obliter ated by friction, while a silver coin changes 3,250,1:00 t-mee before it be comea entirely effaced. ' 5 3' .A
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