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VOL. 58.
MISS PHIPPINS' PACK-
ET.
Mr. Wardlaw gave rae su3h a cool
reception when 1 laid before him the
state of my feelings with regard to his
daughter Elbe, that I suspended my
visits to her.
Not that I intended to give her up
by any means ; for a few years' hard
work and close application, 1 firmly be
lieved, would place me on a footing to
meet, even Silas Wardlaw's worldly
minded scruples.
I remembered how Jacob had toiled
his way to a wife—two of theui, in fact
- and, animated by the example, I was
bending every energy to win one su •
perior to them both, when one day a
piece of news came that poiuted out a
shorter cut to happiness.
15y the death of a distant relative I
had come in for a legacy of fifty thous
and dollars and could have the money,
so the letter said, any time I called for
it.
I kept my good luck a secret—at
least, told nobody but my landlady,
Mrs. Trevit, she promising not to
whisper it.
The executor who had the money
lived iu a town some miles distant.
I could easily ride there and bacK in
a day, and resolved to start on the fol
lowing morning ; Mrs. Trivet kindly
offering, for greater safety,to fix a but
ton to my inside breast-pocket, a ser
vice of which I thaukfully availed my
self.
The journey, till I had nearly reach
ed home again, was without iucideut
worthy of recital.
The executor, after taking my re
ceipt, had promptly handed me the
crisp notes, which I carefully bestow
ed in the pocket secured by Mrs. Triv
et's button.
The last few miles of the road lay a-
Jrng the margiu of a river, and it w ? as
here, just as the sun was going down,
that my thoughts were interrupted by
a piercing shriek, followed by loud
cries for help.
Springing from my horse, and fast
ening the rein quickly to a branch, I
ran to the spit whence the sounds pro
ceeded. •
Mr. Tagax, an old gentleman recent
ly come to lodge at Mrs. Trivet's,stood
on the river's bank calling wildly for
assistance.
"For Heaven's sake, save her I" he
appealed, as I reached the spot. "I
know not who she is ; I was sitting
here reading when I heard her out
cry."
A glance explaioed the situation.
A young and singularly beautiful
woman was struggling iu the water, in
momentary peril of being swept beyond
the reach of help.
I was ou the point of plunging to her
rescue, when Jfr. Tagax caught my
arm, and said, "You'll endanger your
own life if you venture iu with all your
clothing."
I felt the force of the suggestion,and
throwing my coat to Mr. Tagax, leap
ed into the river.
A few strokes brought me in reach
of the imperilled lady, who was appar
ently fast sinking.
Catching one of her wrists, I placed
her hand on my shoulder, and bidding
her keep it there, started to swim to
the shore.
She followed my instructions with
singular presence of mind, and in less
than a minute we stood safely on the
bank.
I looked iound for Jfr. Tagax, but
he was nowhere to be seen.
My coat, too, with the fifty thousand
dollars in the pocket, was equally in
visible.
I uttered a half-suppressed exclama
tion, and was about to leave the rescu
ed lady to herself, and start on a wild
search for my missing property, when
I bethought me that most likely Mr.
Tagax, in his excitement, had run to
call additional help, carrying my coat
along with him.
Doubtless both would tumd up in
good season.
Miss Philyra Phippins—that was the
name the young lady gave ine—was re
siding, she said, for the summer,in the
neignborhood ; and while taking her
favorite walk that evening, she had
stopped to pluck a wild flower on the
riyer bank, and catching her foot, had
tripped and fallen over.
I hurried home, hoping to find Mr.
Tagax with my coat there before me ;
but, to my chagrin, he had not yet re
turned.
I retraced the way to the scene of
the accident, but be was nowhere to be
found, nor could I discover anyone who
had seen him since early in the after
noon.
I hurried back to Mrs. Trivet's, but
still lie had not returned.
I looked for him in all sorts of likely
and unlikely places, but could get trace
of him in none.
At last the truth dawned upon mo
painfully that I had been robbed, and
MILLHEIM, PA. THURSDAY, JULY 10., 1884.
that. Mr. Tagax, in spite of his venora
hie looks, was no better than lie should
be.
To make a long story short, I saw no
moro of Mr. Tagax.
From the executor, who was a meth
odical man of business, I obtained
the numbers of the notes he had paid
me, of which I at once advertised a full
description, ottering a reward for their
restoration.
In ;ay trouble, I did not forget, to
call on Miss Fbippins, who was not on
ly lavish in her thanks, but. profuse in
expressions of sympathy for mv lss,
while her reprobation of the villiun
that bad caused it was even greater
than my own.
One day I happened to mention to
her that business would call me to the
town on the morrow.
"Might I trouble you with a little
commission V" she asked.
"I shall esteem it a pleasure, not a
trouble," 1 replied.
Excusing herself, she returned, after
a brief absence, with a sealed packet in
her hand.
"Here are some papers I wish deliv
ered to my guardian," she said.
"You'll find his address on the envel
ope."
Promising to see them safely in hand
I took a cordial leave,receiying a press
ing invitation to call on my return.
Next morning fouud me in the early
traiu.
At the end of a couple of hours we
stopped for refreshments.
In getting at my pocketbook I took
out Miss Fhippins' packet, and held it
an instant in my hand.
"This way a moment,if you please,"
said a man, who, drawing my arm in
his, led me to u private room, and said,
"I am a detective. I saw a packet in
your possession just now, the address
on which attracted my attention. Per
mit me to look at it."
1 placed it in his hand.
Without a word, he began to rip it
open.
"Stop !" I exclaimed, indignantly.
"That was entrusted to me by a lady,
and I cannot suffer it to be tampered
with."
The answer was a peculiar smile as
the man proceeded with his work, and
drew from the envelope a bundle, not
of papers, but of bank-notes, which he
and his companion inspected eagerly.
"A vouug man was robbed of these
lately—at least, they bear the advertis
ed numbers," remarked the detective.
"And it was I who was robbed of
them !" I exclaimed, as my eyes fol
lowed his.
The two laughed incredulously.
"There is a gentleman in this place
who knows me," 1 replied.
And I gave his name.
My friend was sent for, and at once
identified me.
"Oho !—it's plain enougli now !"
said the detective, when I had told ray
story. "Mr. Tagax and Miss Philyra
Phippins are only aliases for two of a
nortorious baud of thieves. The for
mer, most likely through the indiscre
tion of your landlady, became aware
that you were about to receive a sum
of money, and probably had his eyes
open when she sawed on the button ;
and the drowning scene was all a pre
concerted trick. Not caring to have
the money about him in case of cap
ture, Mr. Tagax managed to convey it
to Miss Philyra the same night ; and
she afterwards took the bold course of
making you the messenger to lodge it
safely in the hands of the accomplish
ed rascal who acts as banker for the
gang."
The two officers returned with me in
the hope of meeting the fair Philyra,
but tho pretty bird had already flown.
Now that I was prepared to renew
negotiations on a ca3h basis, I found
Mr. Ward law quite an altered man.
As for Effie—bless her faithful heart!
—1 was all the same to her, fortune or
no fortune.
WHAT THE DISEASE WAS.
Duinley came into the dining-room
and casting a sweeping glance over the
table, jammed down into his chair and
muttered under his breath :
"Liver again, of course. We've bad
liver every morning for two weeks."
"What's the matter, Mr. Dumley ?"
asked the landlady ; "arn't you feeling
well this morning ?"
"No, madam," he replied, shortly,
"I am suffering with liver complaint."
THE DIFFERENCE.
New York Broker—"No, dear,l can
not take you to Saratoga this year."
His Wife—" You can't, indeed ? I
should like to know why."
"I can't afford it."
"The idea ! Why, the Simpersins
are going to Newport just the same as
usual, and Simpersin has failed, too."
"Exactly my dear, and I haven't."
"Well ?"
"Why, I have to stay at home aud
pay my debts."
A PAPER FOR THBHOME CIRCLE.
PICKINGS,
Blaine is 00.
Tilden is 70.
Butler is 00.
llowitt is 02.
Arthur is 53.
Edmunds is 50.
Sec. Lincoln is 43.
Payne, of Ohio, is 71.
There are 9,000 French Canadians in
Lowell, Mass.
Fig brandy is the natne of a new
Calafomia drink.
Brazil's navy consists of 3,000 men
and fifty vessels.
The first copper cent was coined in
New Ilaven in 1687.
In the English northeastern ports 137
ocean steamships are idle.
The first printing press in the United
States was worked in 1020.
The first steam engine on the conti
nent was brought from England in
1753.
"The average of a locomotive is thir
ty years," said an old Erie Railroad
engineer.
The Germans increase their navy.
Many new vessels are now under con
struction.
There are 81,717 clergymen and 17,-
207,878 church communicants in the
United States.
The number of lives lost through dis
asters in the first quarter of the present
year was 2,154.
Tiie late John Collamore, of Boston,
left to his family an estate worth more
than 81,010,000.
Francis Jfurphy has secured more
than 4,000 signatures to his temper
ance pledge in Chicago.
Two slaves formerly owned by Jeff
Davis now own his plantation, for
which they paid $200,000.
The first telegraphic instrument was
successfully operated by S. F. B. Morse,
the inventor, in 1835.
The National Association of Ama
teur Oarsmen hold their next annual
regatta at Watkins, August 12 and 13.
Ten and one- half pouuds of coffee
were imported last year,for every man,
woman and child in this couutry.
Thousands of horses and mules have
been killed in the upper swamp coun
ties of Mississippi by buffalo gnats.
Of a class of 12 young ladies in an
academy in Hampton, N. H., a few
years ago, 8 liaye died of consumption.
There are 450,000,000 Christian now
in the world. At the end nf the first
century there were only 500,000.
A Baltimore man has been sentenc
ed to three months' imprisonment and
to pay a fine of $25 for lying in a horse
trade.
The health record of Cincinnatti is
reported to have greatly improved since
the flood cleansed the unwholesome
districts.
Within the last nine years 800
churches have been burned iti Ameri
ca, mostly through a defective heating
apparatus.
Ac2ording to the Medical, suicides by
drowning are more frequent during the
summer, while hanging and poisoning
in winter.
In the Public Garden of Boston this
spring there are 50,000 pansies, 15,000
daisies, 500 forget-me-nots, 1,500 Can
terbury bells, and 4,000 tulips.
A once wealthy drunkard lost his for
tune by profligacy, became a hermit
and the other day starved to death at
Leominster, Mass.
METRICAL, BUT NOT MUSICAL.
"You look like a poet," laughed
the funny editor, as the handsomely
dressed youngster entered.
The boy smiled and began fumbling
in his pocket.
"Maybe you write songs, too, "sug
gested the newspaper man.
"Yes; sometimes," was the an
swer.
"Have you got one for me ?'*
"Yes, I think / have."
"is it sung by long or short me
tre?"
By this time the young man had
fished out a document, which he threw
down, yelling excitedly:
"Neither, my friend, it is sung by
the gas metre.
It was a gas bill for $lO.
To spend two or three moments on
rising and retiring, in rapid frictions of
the whole surface of the body with the
hands is a more health-promoting op
eration, for most persons, than a daily
cold water bath.
MR. VANDERBILT'S VIEWS.
He Discusses the Causes of the
Recent Panic.
"Making Money Too Fast"—Over
doing Business—Building Un
necessary Roads—Floating
Worthless Securities—A
Cheerful Outlook.
'1 had a pleasant though not speedy
voyage across ill the Baltic,' said Mr.
Vanderbilt, 'and received a number of
dispatches at Queeuslown and others at
Liverpool concerning the financial
troubles in New York. After reading
and considering these and studying the
news given in the papers I was not at
all surprised at what had happened.
'lt was merely the result ot overdo
ing business. Trust companies and
other moneyed interests baye for a long
time past loaned large amounts of sur
plus money to builJ the railroads and
float bonds and other securities that
were not needed by the country. The
people in .the United States have for
some years been making money too
fast. They have not stopped to see
what value they were getting, but a
large class in the community have, as a
rule, and iu many cases familiar to us,
all made large amounts by placing on
the market securities which in ordinary
times would be considered worthless.
'1 hope,' said Mr. Vanderbilt, 'we
shall all profit by it, and that in the fu
ture our money institutions will keep
themselves within the law and be care
ful what securities they deal in. We
have seen railroad men, bankers and
others controlling large amounts of
money not only loaning their credit to
these tilings, but asking from others
encouragement and aid for what any
thinking man well knew .was not need
ed.
'We have seen moneyed meu me the
means of institutions with which they
happened to be connected for their own
benefit,and now the day of judgemnet
has come home to them. All sorts of
schemes are used and fail, one after an
other, to bolster up unsound projects,
and the innocent shareholder who has
already been swindled out ot large sums
is made to believe that a little further
aid will bring it all back.
'I must not be understood as saying,'
Mr. Vandeibilt added, 'or as meaning
that there are no good things left.There
are plenty of them .but iuvestors should
use more judgement in their invest
ments. The truth is, people want to
make money too fast. There is hardly
a good dividend paying investment
that is not sound. The one thing need
ful in many cases i 3 to get honest men
to administer them, and not men who
want to make a fortune every year per
sonally in stock speculations.
'lf the people owning property would
look more to the character of the men
employed to govern it, we should not so
often as we do hear of these panics.
1 hope now the financial scare has been
sufficiently great to enable those who
have survived to know the difference be
tween a good thing and a bad one. Con
fidence in good things is all that is
wanted. It is only the confidence given
to bad ones that destroys the good.
'No one regrets more than myself,'
Mr: Yanderbilt said, 'the existence of
these disturbances, inasmuch as so
many innocent people must of necessity
suffer. Every one has his own ideas of
the causes of such calamities. I haye
given you my views. If they lead any
one to reflect before action, I shall have
been fully repaid for the expression of
my thoughts. I hope all will go well,
and though the storm has had a large
sweep and carried much before it, I
have not yet made up my mind to aban
don hope for the future. I feel sure
that a sound recoyery is not far ahead
of us. It will surely coine."
A 31ATCII.
Mr. Clewdrop was slowly walking
down Alabama street when he saw one
of his friends wildly striding toward
him.
"What is your hurry ?" asked Mr.
C., catching him by the coat.
"Don't stop me !" yelled the other,
struggling to get free,"turn me loose."
"Anything wrong ?" gasped Clew
drop.
"No, no, but let me go."
"What are you rushing so for V"
"Oh, hang it I'm walking for a
match."
"If that's all," smiled Clewdrop,
feeling in his vest pocket, "I can give
you oue without your walking yourself
to death for a match."
TIIE CLANS GATHERING.
"Where is the bar ?" asked a gen
tleman, hurriedly, as he registered at
a Chicago hotel.
"Just around to the left, sir."
"Where is the bar ?" asked anoth
er gentleman, at the same place a
moment later.
"Just around to the left, sir."
"Where is the ba "
"Just around to the left, sir. By
Jove," the clerk continued, "the dele
gates are beginning to come in.'
Terms, SI.OO per Year, in Advance.
Starting a Newspaper.
Did you over start a paper ? No ?
Well,you ought to try it. Falling down
stairs with a stove on top of you is
nothing to be compared to it In point
of excitement. The name of the paper
was the /ferine, and it was started to
'fill a long-felt want/ Jerry Cochrane
was ray partner. There were several
very comfortable things about that pa
per. For instance, Jerry and I always
knew on Monday that we wouldn't
have enough money to pay the hands off
on .Saturday, and we never did. The
hands knew it. too, and so their nerves
were never shocked by a disappoint
ment. We ran that way for awhile,
getting more deeply into debt all the
time. At last, one morning, I entered
the office and found Jerry looking rath
er solemn. 'Jerry,' says I,'you want
a partner.' 'Yes, we need a now one.
Hob,' he rejoined. 'A business man,'
said he. 'A financier,' I observed. 'A
man who can take hold of the tiling and
turn it into money,' he concluded.
Then I'll get the man you want,' 1 said,
and introduced Frank Hitchcock, the
Sheriff. Jerry said Frank was the very
man he had been thinking of, so we in
stalled him at once, sir. lie ran the
paper with the greatest success until
he had turned it entirely into money.
When we wound up the concern
there was nothing left but two passes
one to Cincinnati and one to Burling
ton. We divided them, and went in
different directions.
'I got to Burlington feeling pretty
bad. I was about 200,000 miles in debt,
having managed to owe everybody I
knew. I would haye owed the strang
ers, too, only I had no way of making
their acquaintance. One day I remark
ed to Mrs. Burdette that I'd go over
and see if I couldn't get a job on tbe
Hawk eye. I postponed it for awhile and
one day the business manager came
over tc offer me a place. I could haye
hugged the man, but I didn't want to
be demonstrative, so I held back rather
coyly. lie asked me if I had anything
in view, and I told him I had. It was
the truth, as I had an idea of going out
to the poorhouse, if I could gft a ride
on the cars ; I was too proud to walk.
Well, he urged me, and I finally agreed
to take the matter into consideration.
I was to go in at 6 o'clock the next
afternoon, and I bid him a chilly good
day. For fear I'd miss the train, I
was down there at a quarter to four,
but when I entered the Hawkeye office
I walked in like a lord and called the
business manager 'Charley' slapping
him familiarly on the back. I tell you
his offeriug the place gave me a great
moral advantage, and I used it, the re
sult being that I was allowed the usual
pricely salary of a reporter.
I worked along for awhile, and finally
Vrot an interest in the Hawkeye. A
curious thing happened after awhile,
which has caused me to laugh many a
time. There was four of us on the edi
torial page, Frank Hattou, John F.
White and John Burdette, my brother.
Frank was the first one taken from that
glorious band, and he became First z\.s
sistant Postmaster-General.John White
followed by becoming Postm;ister of
Burlington, and my brother was then
api>ointed collector in the first internal
revenue district of Ohio. Frank was
born m Cadiz, White in Ravenna, and
my brother in Cincinnati, all in the
same State. I was from Pennsylvania
and didn't get anything. It
men for offices.'—Burdette.
The Uselessne3s of Profanity.
'Suppose you Are given to a habit of
profanity,' says Prof. Swing, 'you enter
luto conversation with a maD who nev
er swears; in other words a gentleman.
By and by you begin to perceive that
he is the superior man. Your remarks
haye a tame, flat, feeble sound to your
owuears. Your cheeks begin to burn
with a sense of your friend's excellence.
Your pert little oaths sound rough and
coarse and vulgar, as they are. They
begin to drop out of your sentences,
ashamed to remain in the company of
good, honest English words, until, as
you discover that you are carrying on
your part of the conversation without
swearing you feel easier, and your in
tellectual stature is increased by a foot.
Just observe this, my boy, and see if I
am not right.
'But you will rip out some time, oh,
yes, in some way you will. I know
some good men—some of the best in
the world—who will 'coufound it,' and
in New England even a deacon has
been known, under a terrible strain, to
'condemn it.' But as a rule, my son,
don't do it. It isn't an evidence of
smartness or worldly wisdom. Any
fool can swear. And a great many
fools do. I, my son V Ah, if I could
only gather up all the useless, uncalled
for, ineffective swears I dropped along
the pathway of ray life I know 1 would
remote- stumbling-blocks from many
inexperienced feet, and my own heart
would be lighter by a toil than it is to
day. But if you are going to be a fool
j i.>t because other men have been, oh,
my son, my son, what an awful, what a
colossal, wbat a hopeless fool you will
be.'
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Health Maxims.
Nature is very much like a shiftless
child who, the more he is helped the
more he looks for it. The more medi
cine a man takes,the more be wiil have
to take, whether it be anodyne, tonic
or alterative. The thinnest veil er silk
handkerchief thrown over the face
while riding or walking against a cold
wind is a remarkably comfortable pro
tection.
Exercise to the extent of great fa
tigue does more harm than good.
A hearty meal, taken while excess
ively fatigued, has often destroyed
health.
Chilliness of body often dampens the
spirits, sours the and renders
the whole man unlovely.
Cleanliness in all the surrounding pf a
E family mansion pays richly in many
ways, in good health, moral elevation,
personal comfort, and dollars and cents
besides.
Life is warmth, growth, repair and
power to labor, and all these are derived
from the food we eat and fluids we
drink and these should be good.
Nine-tenths of the inmates of insane
asylums who recover are those who are
sent within a year of the first manifes
tation of their infirmity.
The worst cold may be promptly cur
ed if, within twenty-four hours after it
has been taken, the patient will keep
warm in bed and eat little or nothing
for a day or two.
In going out into a colder air keep
the mouth resolutely closed, and walk
briskly for a few minutes,thus prevent
ing a chilliness which is always the pre
cursor of a cold.
The portion of the body which most
requires protection against the cold and
wind is that between the shoulder blades
behind, as it is at that point the lungs
are attached to the body and the
blood is easily chilled.
A good cleansing of the entire body
with soap and warm water once a week
is all the bathing the/iuman system re
quires for purposes of health, inordi
nary circumstances.
At every period of life, at all seasons
of the year, and from the tropics to the
poles, in clime and country the temper
ature of the human body in health is
the same to a degree, that is, ninety
eight of Fahrenheit; hence we should
eat in the winter mainly of warming
food, such as meats, fats, oils, sugar
and all the grains, farinas and starches;
in summer, the fruits and berries and
melons and vegetables of the field, the
garden and the orchard .which cool and
open and ventilate the system.
AN EMPTY TIN CAN.
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Picked up by two Tramps In the
Oil Regions with Startling Re
sults.
Two tramps begged some coffee at a
store in Warren, Pa They had an old
tin can,in which they said they intend
ed to boil it. They took tbe coffee and
went to an out-of-the-way spot near
the gas works. One of them began to
build a fire, and the other placed the
can on tbe ground. Seating himself on
the can, he watched his companion
busying himself with the fire. When
the latter was ready the tramp who
had built it picked up a stone and jok
ingly exclaimed to the other one :
"Get up there and produce the sup
per !"
At the same time he tossed the stone
toward his companion. It sti uck the
can with considerable force, and instant
ly there was a terrible explosion. The
tramp who was sitting on tbe can was
thrown several feet in the air, and the •
other oue was knocked down by the
concussion. The latter jumped up and
run away. The other one was picked
up and carried to the county poorhouse.
His hips and thighs aud the lower part
of his back were literally torn away.
He at first gave his name as Robert El
lis, but on being told that he would die
he said that Ellis wa9 not his name.
He then gaye to the authorities another
name, which is that of a member of
one of the most prominent families in
Pennsylvania. The authorities will
not roveal it, at the request of the dy
ing tramp.
The can which the tramps had pick
ed up was an empty uitro glycerine
can. Enough of the compound re
mained in it to cause the explosion as
stated, only a few drops being required
to prove extremely destructive. Simi
lar explosions through the careless dis
posal of empty caus are not uncommon
in the oil regions.
AN OLD FABLE REVISED.
"Look here, waiter," called a feeder
at a city resturant, "look ot the hair I
found in this turtle soup."
"Yes, l see. You have beard of that
famous race between the turtle and the
hare ?"
"Yes. What of it ?"
"Why, in this case the hair and tur*
tie came in even."