VOL. 1,1 V.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS OF
BELLEFONT K .
C. T. Alexander. C. M. now ci.
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
BELLEFONTE, PA.
Ofllee in Uarman's new building.
JOHN B. LINN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
BELLEFONTE, PA.
Office on Allegheny Street.
OLEMENT DALE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
BEI.LKFO.NTK. FA.
Northwest corner of Pl imoud.
y lM A HAsii.NUa,"
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
BELLEtOXTK, PA.
High street, opposite First National Bank.
m*. c. HEINLE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
BELLEFOXTK. PA.
Practices in all the courts of Contra County.
Spec.at attention to Collections. Consultations
in German or English.
w II.BUR F. REEDER,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
BELLEFONTE, PA.
All bus'ness promptly attended to. Collection
ol claims a speciality.
J. A. Beaver. J. W. Gephart.
JJEAVER & GEPHART,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
BELLEFONTE, PA.
Office on Alleghany Street, North of High.
w. A. MORRISON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
BELLEFONTE, PA.
Office on Woodrlng's Block, Opposite Court
lluu^e.
S. KELLER,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
BELLEFONTE, PA.
Consultations In English or German. Office
In Lyon'- Building, Allegheny Street.
JOHN G. LOVE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
BELLEPONTE, PA.
Office In the rooms formerly occupied by the
late W. P. Wilson.
BUSINESS CARDS OF MILLHEIM, &.
pi A. STURGIS,
* DEALEB IN
Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Silverware, Ac. Re
pairing neatly and promptly don-i and war
ranted. Main Street, opposite Bank, M llhelm,
Pa.
~T OTdeininger,
* SOTABT PUBLIC.
SCRIBNER AND CONVEYANCER,
MILLHEIM, PA.
AH business entrusted to htm. such as writing
and acknowledging Deeds, Mortgages, Releas- s,
Ac., wlll be executed wtih neatness and dis
patch. Office on Main Street
XT H. TOM LINTON,
* DEALER IN
ALL KINDS OF
Groceries, Notions, Drugs, Tobaccos, Cigars,
Fine Confectioneries and everything in the line
of a flrst-class Grocery st -re.
Country Produce taken In exchange for goods.
Main St eet, opposite Bank. Ml.lhelm, Pa. .
pwAVID I. BROWN,
MANUFACTURER AND DEALER IN
TINWARE, STOVEPIPES, Ac.,
SPOUTING A SPECIALTY.
Shop on Majji Street. 'tMo h uses east of Bank,
MUlbeim, Penna.
J EJSENHUI'H,
* J USTICK OF THE PEACE,
, . MILLHEIM, PA.
All business promptly attended to.
collection of claims a specialty.
• Office opposite Elsenhuth's Drug Store
TtA USSER & SMITH,
DEALERS IN
Hardware, Stoves, Oils, Paints, Glass, Wall
piper , coach Trimmings, and saddlery Ware,
AC,. AC.
All grades of Patent Wheels.
Comer of Main and Penn street , Mlllliclro,
Pt-una.
T ACOB WOLF, ~
FASHIONABLE TAII.OR,
MILLiIEIM, PA.
Cutting a Specialty.
shop next door to Journal Book Store.
jyjiLLHEIM BANKING CO.,
WAIN STREET,
MILLHEIM, PA.
A. WALTER, Cashier. DAV. KRAPE, Pres.
HARTER,
AUCTIONEER,
REBERSBURG. PA.
Satisfaction Guaranteed.
COMING BACK.
They say if our beloved dead
Should seek the old familiar place.
Some stranger would be there in-toad.
And they would tiul no welcome face.
1 cannot tell how it might be
In other homos, out this 1 know
Could my lost darling come to me.
Tuat she would never find it so.
Ofttimes the dowers have o una and gnuo,
Ofttiiuea the winter wind-* have blown.
'llia while her peaceful rest waut on.
And I havj learned to live alone ;
Have slowly learned from day t j day,
lu all lib s ta <ka to bar my part;
But whether grave 01 whether gav,
1 hide her memory iu tuy heart.
Fond, faithful love lia* bloseed my way.
And frieud-t are round m > true ami tried ;
They have their place, but hers to-day
Is empty a* the day site d od
How would 1 spring with bated breath,
Aud joy too deep for word or si-m,
To take my darling home from death
And once again to call her mino.
1 dare not dream the b'issful dream ;
It tills my heart with wild uuroat ;
Where yonder cold, white marbles gleim
She still must slumber. Uhl knows best.
The Way To Win.
Edward Stone stood impatiently upon
the top step of Uncle Dan's stately resi
dence. There was not the faintest sign of
life anywhere around—the whole front
part of the house was closed and darkened;
and having rung several times without
eliciting auy response, lie was about to
conclude there was no one within bearing,
when ahead was thrust out of the upper
window.
. "Young man, go round to the side
door."
Considerably startled by this unexpected
address, the young man obeyed. Upon
the porch, brushing away the leaves that
covered, it, was a young girl of fifteen.
She looked very pretty as she stood there,
the bright autumnal sunshine falling on
her round white arms and uncovered
head.
Setting down her broom, she ushered
him into a medium-sized, plainly-furnish
ed room which gave uo indication of
the reputed wealth of its owner.
The young man took a seat, brushed a
few flakes of dust from the lapel of his
coat, ran his fingers through lus carefully
arranged locks, ami thus delivered him
self:
"Tell your master that his nephew Ed
ward Stone is here./
A faiut smile touched the tosy lips, and
with a demure "yes, sir" the girl vanish
ed.
A few minutes later an elderly gentle
man entered with intsliafiti
ed features, and a shrewd hxik in the eyes,
which seemed to take the mental measure
of his visitor at a glance.
"Well sir what is your business with
me?"
"I am your nephew."
"So my daughter told me. What do
you want?"
"I was thinking of going into business,
and thought I would come and talk it over
with you, and ask you to give me a.lift."
"\\ hat better capital uo you want than
you already have? A strong able-bodied
young man wantiug a lift! You ought to
ibe ashamed of yourself! What have you
been doing?"
Edwards face flushed with anger at t his
j unceremonious lauguage, but feeling that
I he could not afford to quarrel. with his
wealthy relative, he gave no other indica
tion of it.
"Saved nothing from your salary, I sup
pose?"
No, it's only Ave hundred; not more
than enough for my-expenses. '
"Humph! You are able to dress your
self out of it, I peroeive. 1 have knoWn
men to rear and"educate a family on five
hundred a year; and if you have been
unable to save anything, you certainly are
not able to go into business on your own
I accouLt. When I-was at your age my in
come was less than three hundred dollars,
and I saved half of it. What is the business
you wish to engage in?"
"Stationery and books. Six hundred
dollars will buy it, as the owner is obliged
to sell; a rare chance. I don't ask you to
give me the amount, only lend it; I will
give you my note with interest."
"Young man. 1 have severaL-such pa
pers already. You can have all of them for
five dollars; afcd 1- warn you that it will
prove-A poor investment at that! I can
give you some good advice, though, which
if you follow will be wortji a good many
times the amount you asked.- But you
won't do it."
"iiow do you know that," saiu Edward
with a smile, who began to feel
more at home with his eccentric relative.
"I'd like to hear it anyway"
"Well, here it is. Go hack to your place
in the store, save three dollars a week
from your salary, which you can easily do;
learning the meantime-all you possibly can
in regard to the business you wish to pursue.
At the end of four years you will have
the capital you seek, with sufficient
experience and judgement to know how to
use it. Aud, better still, it will be youis,
earned by -your own industry and self
denial, and worth more to you that ten
times that amount got in any other way.
Then come and see me again."
"You'd rather have my money than ad
vice, I dare say," added Mr. Stone, as
Edward arose to go; but we'il. be belter
lriends four years hence than if "I let you j
have it . Sit down, nephew, the train you
have to take won't leave until six in the
evening. You must stay to tea, I want,
you to see what a complete little house-'
keeper I have, and niake you acquainted
with her."
"Polly!" he called out, opening the door
into the hall.
In prompt obedience to this summons a
rosy cheeked, bright eyed girl tripped in.
The neat print dress had been changed for a
pretty merino, but our hero did not fail to
recognize her, and liis face flushed pain
fully as he did so.
"Polly!" continued her father, "this is
your cousin Edward. He leaves on the
six o'clock tram, and I want his short stay
short stay as pleasant as possible."
"Polly is my little housekeeper"' he
added, "'turning to his nephew. "I hire a
woman for the rough work,and she does all
the rest. When she's eighteen she will have
all the servants she wants, but she must
MI 1,1,11 KIM, PA.. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1880.
servo her apprenticeship first. It may
stand her in good stead; she may take it
into her head to marry a poor man, as her
mother dul before her. Eh! my girl?''
.Mary's only reply to this was a smile
and blush. Our hero was considerably
em harassed by the recollection of the mis
take lie made, but the quietly cordial greet
ing of his young hostess soon put him
comparatively at rest.
At her father's request who was very
fond of his daughter's accomplishments
.Mary sang and played for her cousin,
ami his visit ended in singular contrast to
the stormy way it commenced. Edward
refused the live dollar note tendered to him
at parting for his 1 raveling expenses.
The old man smiled as he returned the
note to his poeketbook.
"lie's a sensible chap, after all," he re
marked to his daughter, as the door closed
after the guest. "It's in him, if it only
can Ik? brought out. We shall see, we
shall see."
"A good ileal for father to say," was
Mary's inward comment, who thought her
cousin the most agreeable young man she
had ever met.
Three years later Mr. Stone and his
daughter paused in front of a small but
neat, pleasant-looking shop, 011 the plate
glass uoor of which were the w •rds:—
"Edward Stone, Stationery and Book
store."
It being to early in the day for custom
ers, they found the proprietor alone, whose
lace flushed with pride ami pleasure as he
greeted them.
"1 got your Card, nephew, said the ohi
man with a cordial grasp of tlie hand,
"and called around to see how you were
getting 011. I thought it was about time 1
gave you that little lift you asked me for
three years ago. \ou don t hnik much as
if you needed it though."
"Not at present, thank you, uncle,"
was the cheerful response. Curiously
enough it is the same business that 1
wanted to buy then. The man who took
it had to borrow money to purchase it
with, getting so much involved that lie had
to sell it at a sacrifice."
"Just what you wanted to do."'
Edward smiled at the point made'by lus
uncle.
"It isn't what I have done, though I've
saved four dollars a week froui my salary
for the last three years, and so, was not
only able to pay the money down, but had
fiftj" dollars besides."
4 lira vol my boy," cried the delighted
old man, with another grasp of the hand
that made our hero wince. lam proud of
you! You're bound to succeed, 1 see, and
without anybody's help. I told your cousin
Polly that when she was eighteen I'd buy
her a house in the city, and that she should
furnish it to suit herself, and have all the ;
servants she wanted, and I've kept my
word. Come around and see us whenever
you can. You'll always find the latch
string out."
Edward did not fail to accept the invita- I
tion so frankly extended—a very pleasant
intimacy growing up •>... ♦.„. „ i
during the twelve months that followed.
Our'hero's business grew and prospered
until he # began to think of removing to a
larger place, llis uncle had given him
several liberal orders, as well as sent him a
number of customers, but said nothing
more about assisting him in any other way
until Christmas eve.. Entering the room
where Edward and his daughter were sit
ting, be said:
"1 masn't delay any longer the little lift
I promised you, s hcpliew, and- which you
have well earned." , .
Edward glanced from the five thousand
dollar check to the lovely face at his side,
and then to that of the speaker.
"You are very kind uncle—far kinder
than I deserve —but —"
"But'what, lad* Speak out! would you
prefer it in some other form?"
Edward's fingers closed .tenderly and
strongly over the baud he had taken IU
his.
"Yes, uticle —in this."
The old mau looked keenly liom one to
the other. „, r
"You are asking a good deal, nephew.
Polly, have you beeu encouraging this
yoUng"man iu Ins presumption." „
"Pin afraid 1 have, father," was the
smiling response.
"Then go, my daughter. I give you
into worthy keeping, a: d if you make
your husbund's heart as happy as your
mother did mine during the few short
years that she tarried by my side, he will
be blest indeed."
Hints in Regard to Liiflitaing.
*
It is"*never too soon to go in the house
tolien a-storiu is rising. When tlie clouds
are- fully charged with electricity they are
most and the fluid -obeys a
subtle attraction which acts at a great
distance and in all directions. A woman
told me of a bolt which came down her
mother's chimney from a rising cloud
when the sun was sliming over head. N.
P. Willte writes of a young girl who was
killed while passing under a telegraph
wire, 011 the brow of a hill, while she was
hurrying "home before a storm. The sad
accident 'at Morrisania, when two children
were killed,'' should warn every mother that
it is not safe to let children stay out of
doors the last minute lie fore the storm
falls. People should not be foolhardy
about sitting .on-L porches or by open win
dows whether the storm is hard or not.
Mild showers often carry a single charge,
which falls with deadly effect. It may or
may not be safe to stay out: it is safe to
he in the house with the windows and
doors closed. -The dry air in a house is a
readier conductor than the damp air out
side, and any draught of air invites it. A
hot tire in a chimney attracts it, so to
speak, jqd it is prudent for those who
would he sure of s ifety to use kerosene or
gas Stoics in summer, and avoid heating
the-ehimneys of houses. People are very
ignorant-'or reckless about lightning. 1
have seen a girl of eighteen crying with
tear of lightning, and running every other
moment to the window to see if the storm
was not abating, unconscious that she was
putting herself in danger. If every one
would liurry to shelter as soon as a storm
cloud was coming, and if they would shut
the doors and windows, and keep away
from them afterwards, and from wires,
stove pipes, mantels, heaters and mirrors,
with thetr silvered backs, which carry
electricity, and keep away from lightning
rods and their vicinity, and from metal
water spouts, with good rods on their
houses they might dismiss the fear of
lightning from their minds, so far as it is a
thing of reason and not iuipressiou.
Wliat Itrultm Uring.
Our best authors have, as a rule, made
very little money. Home of them, like
Longfellow, Lowell and Holmes, have an
Independence without work. Emerson and
VVluttier live very simply aud plainly, and
I this fact explains why their earnings sup
port them. Hawthorne was very poor un
i til he had been appointed Consul at Liver
pool ; I'oe was cJways in pecuniary distress,
aud would have been pressed by cireumslau
-1 i ees had liis habits been provident. Mrs.
Stowe made by "Uncle Tom's Cabin,"
which, in the same time, has had a larger
sale than any other work since the invention
i of printing, not much over SIO,OOO, al
though her publishers got rich by the world
renowned anti-slavery novel.
The most capable and industrious Utt* ra
ti ur can seldom cum more than $4,000 to
S.V>OO a year at the extreme, while un
questionably clever, energetic fellows are
obliged to content themselves with from
sl, joo to $'2,000. A glance at some of our
best known and most popular authors, resi
dent in or near New York, will show that
the ink they use is far from golden. The vete
ran William Cullen Bryant was moderately
wealthy; but he had not grown so by
his poetry or by any of the works to which
he had lent his name, but which he had not
written. He owed iiis fortune to his partial
| ownership of the Pvminy Post for the last
65 or 40 years. Worth probably $500,000
, or stioo,ooo at the lowest, and getting $50,-
000 to SIIO,OOO per annum from all sources,
it may be doubted if his entire literary work
would have yielded him S2O,(HH). ilryHiit's
love of dollars is wholly dispro|ortioued to
his professional capacity to earn them. He
has been writing in his slow, deliberate,
'painstaking and paiusgiving way for (15
years—be did the "Thauatopsis" at 18,aud
lias never quite equalled it since—and yet
at no time could be have'got $4,000 or
| or even $6,000 per aunuiu by the duvet use
of his pen. While the publisher has pros
pered the poet might have starved.
Parke Godwin, Bryant's sou-iu-law, is
a bnlliant litti ruttur as well as journalist,
ami is pecuniarily independent. He owes
his independence, however, to his interest
in the Pveniny J*ost —he has had no con
nection with it, editorially or otherwise,
| for several years—not to his literary talent.
The books he has published have returned
him a few thousandsot dollars, aud his lec- i
tures in the past have helped out his income;
but he would have been poor deprived of
what the Post has brought him.
Bayard Taylor wju> one of our nmst popular
authors —his books of travel have had a
very wide sale-—aud he has been remark
ably diligent with his pen from early youth.
As a lecturer he had been extremely popu
lar—lie cleared $40,000 year before last by
the lyceum—having made more as a lectu
rer than as author. His reputation as a
traveler and a describer ot travels did not
please him, notwithstanding it has been
profitable. His high ambition was poetic
and be was a poet; but the great public re
garded liim as a traveler. We doubt if his
-lA -1 ' 1 j fjoctbe, quj£f i 8 excellent, paid
him lor any part of bis great labor.' A
.a liberal estimate, if the times were what
they have been, Taylor might have been
worth $70,000 to SBO,OOO, much A which
he obtained lroin dividends on his five shares
of Tribune stock. Taylor drew a jour
nalism 1 salary ot $5,000.
Hieliard Grant \\ bite may be considered
a successful 'author, lie has been before
1 lie public over a quarter of a century, and
his {Shakespeare has gained him the title of
scholar on bolli sides of the sea. It is un
deniably the ablest work 011 the dramatist
that baa been produced by any American,
I and he is a man of large aud varied culture.
He studied law, and medicine alter gradu
ating, not with a view to practicing, but for
the sake of increasing his knowledge.
Now, beyond fifty, be literally wins his
Iwead by contributing to the daily press
and the magazines; he frequently writes
editorials for the l imes and Evening Post,
notwithstanding he holds a position in the
Custom House at $'2,500 a year.
George William Curtis, one of the dainti
est and most polished writers in the Repub
lic, ami yet a strong and jositive intellect,
has been for years engaged on the periodi
cal publications of the HarjKjr's. He
writes the political editorials of the Weekly
the Editor's Easy Cliair of the Monthly,
and until recently wrote the discursive, ele
gant essays which appeared in the llazar,
over the signature ot "Old Bachelor." His
salary iroui the Harpers is SIO,OOO a year,
which is one of the largest paid in the city.
I lie had but $4,000 until 1869, when the
1 death of Henry J. Raymond, and the desire
of the Times to supply bis place, induced
its publishers to oiler Curtis SIO,OOO. Cur
tis declined to become editor ot the Times,
preferring to remain with the old firm. Its
| members heard of the offer, though not
: through Curtis, and immediately advanced
! bis salary to the figure named —as much, no
doubt, from fear ot losing him as from a
sense of generosity. Curtis is a native of
Providence, R. 1., well bred and well edu
cated.
Machine OUIIH at .Sea.
Though the German admirality has de
cided that every German man-of-war shall
in the.future carry at least one machine
gun, mainly for use against attacking tor
pedo boats, though, of course, such a
weapon would be also well suited for a
multitude of other purposes for which light
guns are generally used in navy warfare,
the particular pattern or machine-gun to be
adopted has apparently not yet been defi
nitely selected. At least two German
establishment have designed and construct
ed machine-guns which have passed suc
cessfully through a series of preliminary trials
and which, it is reported; will now he tried
in competition with one another and with
several foreign pieces, swell is the Is or den
ied and liotchkiss guns, the latter of which I
has now been adopted by the navies in
Fiance, Holland, Greece, the United States,
Chili, the Argentine Republic, Russia and
Denmark. The machine-guns of German
manufacture are some of them Krupp's
and others from the Wittener steel foun
dry. The Krupp weapon is in form of a
revolving cannon, consisting of four barrels
twvnly-seveu inches long, with a calibre of
one inch. The projectile weighs half a
pound, while the charge consists of fifty
grammes, or very nearly two ounces of
powder, the whole cartridge, including the
case, weighing 355 grammes, or twelve
one-half ounces, while the total weight of
the gun itself is 359 pounds. The Wittener
naval mitrailleuse has also four barrels,
and, like the Krupp revolving cannon,
throws a bullet weighing a trifle over eight
ounces, while the charge consists of seventy
grammes, or two and one-half ounces, of
powder.
Gloves.
Skins with hair on were frequently used
iu the Middle Ages, as according to the
pussage of MuseoniaiiH quoted by (!asaubon,
they had been by the ancients. They are
frequently mentioned as having been worn
by husbandmen of England. Casaubon
notes the circumstance that the rustics of
our day made use of gloves. There is
nothing in that passage to show that he
was speaking of this country: he may very
possibly have seen it in France. In Eng
land, at any rate, "the monastery of Bury
allowed ira servants 2 iience apiece for
glove silver in autumn," (Pegge Missc,
Carr., j and at a later date, in L inehain's
account of the entertainment of Queen
Eli/alwth at Kenilworth Castle, 1576, the
rurul bridegroom had "a pair of harvest
gloves as a sign of gtxxl husbandry," Upon
the coronration of Petrarch at Rome as
the "prince of poets," gloves of otter-skin
were put on his hands, the satirical ex
planation being given that the poet, like
the otter, lives by rapine. The modern ladies'
glove of four-aud-twenty buttons has had its
prototype, for 111 the fourteenth century the
nobility of Frauce began to wear gloves
reachiug to the elbow. These gloves were,
at times, like the more familiar stockings,
which they must have much resembled,
used as purses. Notwithstanding their
length, it was always looked upon as decor
ous for the laity to take off their gloves iu
church, where ecclesiastics aloue might wear
them. The custom still obtains in the
Church of England at the Sacrament,
though it is plain that it had not arisen in
this connection iu the first instance, since
iu the Roman ritual the communicant does
not handle the consecrated wafer. It was, I
perhaps, regarded as a pnxff and syni- I
Ik>l of clean hands, for to this day persons j
sworn in our law courts are compelled to '
I remove their glove. There is probably, j
: tK), some relation between this feeling i
and acuiious Saxon law, which forbade
the Judges t# wear gloves while sitting on i
the bench. The gloves of the Judges were,
like those of the Bishops, a mark of their
rank. The portraits of the Judges, painted
by order of the Corporation of London, in
the reign of Charles 11, and hanging in
the courts of Guildhall, represent them
with fringed and embroidered gloves. Ii
was probably not in reference to the Judges :
that a cant term for a bribe was a "pair of
gloves." When Sir Thomas More was
Chancellor he happened to determine a
cause in favor of a lady named Croaker,
who displayed her gratitude by sending
him a New Year's gift of a pair of gloves,
with forty angels in them. Sir Thomas
returned the money, with the following let- ,
ter: "Mistress:-Since it were against good
manners to refuse your New Year's gift, I
am content to take your gloves, hut as for
the lining, I utterly refuse it.
The llxminoi K.
.. hung in
pears so comfortable a KV ls^. u L^K? 0 u *P
hammock is uot a sign of indolence, an
some who think that they have no t'nie for
res', except in the night, may regard it; it
is rather an index of good sense upon the
part of the own -r who is aware 'hat in the
busiest life there are minutes that can be
best spent in comfortau e repose. Even on
the farm in midsummer there are half hours
and quarter hours at noonday, or in th ?
evening after the heat and work of the day
is over, when the rest which an easy fitting
hammock affords is just so much clear
gain. Nothing that will give rest to the
weary body and at the same time div rt
the mind is out of place i t the farmer's
household. If there are children in the
family, there is nothing that can give them
more amusement ami comfort than a ham
mock. and the guests, whether of an hour
or a da}*, will not object to the pleasure
which it affords. Hammocks are uot ex
pensive, at least they do not now cost the
price that they once did, when they were
imported and fh -ir use was less general.
Two or three dol ars w*ill now buy a very
serviceable plain one; those that are elabo
rately madi of course c <siiug much more
Iu h mging the hammock it should t>*
placed fu the shade, either between two
trees up >n a lawn or upon the piazza hung
by hooks or screw-eyes placed in the
colums or posts. If more particularly f r
children it should be somewhat lower than
usual. For grown persons ti-e hook which
supports the head end i-houd be six feet
high a* d that for the foot four feet; this
well afford the most desirable position for
the occupant. The body of toe hammock
should be nearer ihe higher hook than it is
to the other, and this may be secured by
using a Hioiter piece of rope OH the head
end. There has been introduced recently
a hammock hung to a portable frame ; this
frame holds up and occupies but very little
space wiieu uot iu use. Of cour e, like
most go-.xl tilings, the hammock may be
abused —the comfortable rest which it gives
may induce persons to remain too late out
of d ors, thus exposing them to the chilly
or damp air of the uight, but this is uot tiie
fault of the iiaumioek, ana no argument
against its more general introduction as one
of the wholesome comforts of the fanner's
home during the hot mouths of summer.
1 lie Actum HI a CaiiipmeetiDi;.
Two actors from Detroit arc negotiating
with a person in a white necktie.
"Who's the manager i" said the leading
man.
"A committee has Charge of the arrange
ments."
"Well, who's at the front ot the house ;
who's in the box otlice ? We'd like to see
him."
"i don't think I comprehend exactly
wlm r -——'
"We're after two seats in the left side
parquet circle, D. 11., see ?"
"Keally, gentlemen, 1 can't "
"Oh, it's all right'; we have season
passes with Booth, and AlcVicker's aud
of course ?"
"We want to get in D. 11., you know."
said tlie other actor impatiently.
"What may D. H. mean?"
"Why, dead head, of course; we never
pay to get in any show."
' 'On, if you mean to go in, you may take
seats where you please, free. We charge
nothing."
The actors looked amazed.
"How do you pay your company ?"' asked
the low comedian.
"Our company, as you term it labors
without fee or reward."
The actors turned away, and the leading
man said, contemptuously:
"Borne amateur snap, 1 guess."
Into the Darkneua.
The ghost of a millionaire appears night
ly unto a widow and her daughter iu the
sacred ness of their own apartment in San
Francisco. When the spirit made its first
call it attacked the furniture, tore down
the picture and groaned tor an hour, while
the mother's hair stood on end and the
daughter buried her face in the bedclothes.
After wuiting during what semed an eter
nity for an interval of the disturbance, the
widow in fear aud trembling struck a
match. Her amazement was unbounded.
Everything was as she had seen it at retir
ing. The table thut had apparently been
turning flip-flaps for several hours, was
standing in the middle of the room with
the innocent expression it had worn when
she last saw it. Every chair wore its tidy
with the stiff dignity of a recruit on dress
parade, and seemed to resent the suspicion
thut it hud liecu assistiug in a supernatural
; high-jinks. Not a vase or picture was
broken, notwithstanding the fact that the
air had apparently been filled with frag
! nients of pottery and tatters of canvas.
There was no sleep for the family that j
night, though the day broke without any
repetition of the strange disturbance. Pre
cisely at 9 o'elock the next night the mys
terious kuock was heard agaiii at the back
door, and again the mysterious visitor iu
bare feet walked through the house. llis
misery had apparently grown more acute,
for at every step he heav d a sigh ami
occasionally groaned so wofully that the
widow, iu the fulness of her womanly
commiseration was tempted to ask, "What
is the matter with you?" The reply, it is
alleged, caiue in the unmistakable voice of
the departed millionaire, "Oh my soul!
Oh! uiy soul!" The widow went to her
Bishop and asked him to pray for her, but
he insinuated that she might be out of her
head. When she went home a fresh sur
prise awaited her. ller rosary beads, which
she had left hanging on her bed were gone.
No one had entered the house during her
absence bit her daughter, and the young
lady denied all knowledge of the missing
article. That night, however, mother aud
daughter, as they lay in bed with quivering
nerves beard their supernatural visitor tell
ing the beads as if in prayer. This was too
much for the widow 's patience, and hastily
striking a match and lighting the gas, she
searched for the missing treasure. There
was no trace of tlie beads or the mysterious
devotee, however, though the ladies could
still hear the beads and the sound of bare
feet moving slowly through the door and
into the darkness.
Suow at Great Attitudes Duea T.'ot .Melt.
The reason why snow at great elevations
does not uielt but remains permanent, is
owing to the fact that the heat received
from the sun is thrown off into the stellar
space so rapidly by radiation and reflection
that the sun fails to raise the temperature
of the snow to the melting point; the snow
evaporates, but it does not melt. The
summits of the Himalayas, for example,
anrotnitwH~ianp. than teu times the
snow that falls on them notwitnsiamiru &
which, the snow is not melted. And in
spite of the strength of the sun and the dry
ness of the air at those altitudes, evapora
tion is sufficient to remove the suow. At
low elevations, where the snow-fall is
probably greater and the amount of heat
even less than at the summits, the snow
melts and disappears. This, I believe we
must attribute to the influence of aqueous
vapor. At high elevations the air is dry
and allows the heat radiated from the snow
to oass into space; but at low elevations a
very considerable portion of the heat radi
ated from the snow is absorbed in passing
through the atmosphere. A considerable
portion of the heat thus absorbed by the
vapor is radiated back on the snow, but
tlie heat thus radiated, being of the same
quality as that which the suow itself radi
ates, is on this account absorbed by the
snow. Little or none 01 it is reflected like
that received from the sun. The conse
auence is that the heat thus absorlwd accu
mulates in the snow till melting takes
place. Were the aqueous vapor possessed
by the atmosphere sufficiently diminished,
perpetual snow would cover our globe
down to the sea shore. It is true that the
air is warmer at the lower level than at the
higher level and by contract with the snow
must tend io melt it more at the former
than at the latter position. But we must
remember that the air is wanner mainly in
consequence of the iufluence of aqueous
vapor, and that were the quantity ot vapor
reduced to the amount in question the dif
ference of temperature at the two positions
* ould not be great.
Xo Buiien street
Mogador, a Moorish town of Morocco,
presents few "tourist sights.' But an Eng
lish writer describes a negative one, the
non-appearance of businf is in the streets.
The windowless street J are all narrow,
some long and straight. Private houses,
merchants' warehouses, hostelries, all are
of one generic type, save those found in
blind alleys and slums. Iu binuess quarters
there is little or no appearance of business.
A caravan of camels is seen bringing
mterchondise from Timbuctoo; the proces
sion, which moves slowly, gravely, with
silent foot, heightening our sense of mys
tery, suddenly turns down a gateway
scarcely wide enough to admit it, into the
central court of a warehouse, and is out of
sight. We follow through the archway, to
find these ships of the deserted moored to
the quay with freights of almonds, gums
ivory, gold dust and ostrich feathers, which
might be of little value, for thev are tied
much as we tie up bundles of waste paper,
letting the paper be its own covering. The
outer feathers of the bales are brokeu aud
dirty. Imagine London with all its drays
out of sight in invisible warehouse squares;
j'uch is the coudition of commerce in Mo
gador. These camel trains are the poetry
of trade, a living link to patriarchal and
modern times. They have a look of im
mense sadness, as though willing to close
their long-enduring history.
Steel Plates.
It is reported from Sheffield, England,
that heavy orders are daily coming in from
Scotch and East Coast ship-builders for
light steel plates. The introduction of 9teel
into ship-building is causing an important
and growing trade, to meet the requirements
of which Sheffield manufacturers are intro
ducing improved machinery in the large
nulls. _ _
—The estimated population of Ohio by
the new census is about 3,200,000 —a
gain of about 540,000 since 1870.
Money l>y Telephone.
"Say, miss," said a rather hard looking
i customer to the young lady in charge of the
i central telephone office, one day last week,
t "say, miss, I'd like to talk with Mr. Joseph
i Snooks a moment."
i The lady called Snooks and turned the
s instrument over to the guest.
"Hello, hello! Mr. Snooks 1"
Snooks answered, and in the ensuing coi
i I loquy the lady could of course only hear
the hard looking customer.
"Snooks, old boy, I can't come up for
that money to-day; I'm too busy."
"Kb?"
"No, can't getaway."
"1 know, but I'm sorry; I've got to
meet Brace about your affair."
' 'But I'd jeopardize all your interests, i
positively can't come. Can you send the
money down ?"
"Down here."
"1 don't believe she'll do it, will she?"
"No, I don't know her. She's a hand
some girl with blue eyes and light hair.
Kuow her?"
"I'll ask her about it. Wait, keep your
ear there, miss, Mr. Snooks wants to pay
me four dollars, and says for you to let me
have the money. I'll ask him again to
make sure. Snooks, did you mean for this
fine young lady to pay me and charge it to
you?"
"Don't hear you."
"Yes, yes, all right. He says, miss, for
yon to take my receipt and let me have the
cash. You aie to put it in this telephone
bill. All right, Snooks, good bye, see you
to morrow," and he hung the mouth piece
on the hook.
•■Fine fellow, Snooks, he continued,"
looking pleasant at the manageress. "I
never heard of seudiug money by telephone,
did you ?"
"No," responded the lady.
"Perhaps you haven't the chauge
I handy?"
" res," said she.
"You'll trust Snooks, I presume." he
went on in a faltering manner.
"Certainly," she replied, "if he says to
lot you have it."
ou don't think the telephone would
lie, do you?"
"Assuredly not I'll just ask Mr.
Snooks."
*:Ne, no. He's a sensitive man; he
wouldn't like to have so much fuss over a
sina.l amount. Make it two dollars and
I'll give a receipt on account."
"I'll pay anything Mr. Snooks says. I'll
call him "
"Bather than bother him again, 111 make
it a dollar. Give me a dollar—"
"Hut I prefer to call him."
"Miss," said the man, "don't go near the
wire now. There's a cloud coming up.
Y'ou're going to lie struck with lightning.
Kather than that, I'd take filty cents, a
qu rtcr."
"Oh! I'm not afraid," and she ap
proached the instrument.
' Keep away from that wire'!" he howled,
"don't call Snooks. He might be struck.
If you don't care for yourself, have mercy
auiuunv __u u V- rxaxr til*
all the money in Brooklyn."
"i shall either call Snooks or a police
man,'' said the girl firmly.
"Make it a policeman and I'll go for him
myself," shouted the tramp, as he jumped
over the rail.
And then she called Snooks, who had
been swearing at his end of the wire in the
hope of making some one bear him, and
told him it was all right, she hadn't paid
the mouey.
Only One orlnfc.
A good-natured Griswold street lawyer,
iu Detroit, left his office unoccupied for au
hour about two o'clock the other afternoon,
ami some of the jokers in the block went
iu and built up a rousing hot tire in his coal
siove. He came back with his hat in his
hand and almost dead with the heat, and
was met on the stairs by a lawyer, who
said: "This is the hottest yet. The ther
mometer in my room marks 120 degrees."
"Don't seoui possible though it's a scorch
er," replied the other, as he went to his
room. He threw down his hat, took off
his coat and began fanning himsell; but
the harder he fanned the hotter he grew;
Two or three lawyers came in and spoke
about how cool his room was compared to
theirs, and were greatly puzzled to account
for it. Several offers were made him to
chauge rooms, and pretty so in he grew
ashamed of appearing so overheated, an 1
sat down to his table. In five minutes his
shirt collar fell flat, and in ten he hadn't
any starch in his shirt. The perspiration
ran about in every direction, and he seemed
to be boiling, when one of his friends
looked in and remarked: "Ah! old boy,
I envy you You've got the coolest
room iu the block." "Say," said the law
yer as he staggered over to the door, "I'm
going home. I never felt so queer in all
my life. While I know that tne room is
cool and airy, I'm so soaked and boiled that
I'can't lift a hand. One drink of brandy
wouldn't act that way on a man, would
it ?" ''That's just it," whispered the other.
"Brandy always acts that way, especially
if you drink alone. You ought to have
known better." ' 'So I had —so I bad. Don't
say a word to the boys—l'll make it all
right. I thought something must ail me.
and I was a little afraid 1 was going to be
sent for. I'm glad it's nothing serious—
I'll be back in about two hours."
The History uf the Tomato.
It is a popular fallacy mat the luscious
and health preserving tomato has its origin
as an article of food in this country. But
while there is some reason to believe it
was first found in Sout h America, it was
evidently cultivated centuries ago iu
Mexico and Peru. Dodoeus the Netherlaud
herbalist, mentions the tomato as early as
1583 as a vegetable to be eaten with pep
per, salt,and oil. It belongs to the night
shade family and was used in cooking by
the Malays more than a century and a half
since. It is extensively raised in South
ern Italy, and employed there as an accom
panient to nearly every dish, particularly
to macaroni. But neither there nor any
where else in Europe, is it commonly
eaten, as it is here, separately and in quan
tities. In England it is sparingly produced,
requiring a hot bed in the spring, and in
consequence is high priced. The Italians
formerly called it golden apple, and now
call it love apple as it was once designated
iu this country. The appearance of the
tomato on the table has greatly increased
in Europe within a few years; but in no
land is it a regular dish-much as it is used
for a sauce abroad-as iu the United States,
where it is also pickled, preserved and
mfected.
NO. 39.