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(A full line at the v JOURNAL STORE. 1 Parents are invited to call at our J place on Penn Street. * MILLHEIM Sewing Machine OFFICE, F. 0. HOSTERM A\, Proprietor, Main St., opposite Campbell's store. AGENCY FOR THE World's Leader i > AND THE "WHITE SEWING MACHINES, the most complete machines in market. machine is gruaranteed for five years by the companies. ———i■—— Tbe undersigned also constantly keeps on hand all kinds of Needles. Oil, Attachments. &c. Sc. Second Hand Machines sold at exceedingly low prices. Retailing; prompily attended to. Give me a trial and be convinced of the truth oT these statements. F- 0- HOSTERMAN MILLHEIM, PA. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER (3., 1884. A TERRIBLE TEMPER. "If tt ere is anything especially ob noxiou* to me," avowed Miss Murphy, in solemn couclusi n, "it is interfer ence with the affairs of others ; but in this cas 1 1 said to mvscif, 'Duty, Mary Anne Murphy, duty !' " "Oli 1" gasped Jessica. She had sunk back in her rose-ribboned iat tan rocker iu quite a tremor or dismay, A very charming room this snburan parlor into which gold burs of sunshine slanted through the half-closed Vene tians. Worthy even of pretty Jessica —it, with its tiled hardwood tloor, its silyer-fox and bearskin rugs, its Mad ras draped wiudows, its quaintly mod em mantle of polished oak, its eccen tric chairs, its grotesque tables, its dainty aquarelles, its Chinese cabinets, its slender but admirably chosen col lection of bisque and Limoges. And surely eye, however critical, crave no sweeter picture than little Miss Ray made iu her pale blue surah tea-gown, cascaded with Vaiencienoes, and all her bronze-biighfe ripply hair braided in childish fashion down her back. But just now the loyely face was cu riously colorless, the purple-blue eyes wide and startled under their long lashes. There was silence after that sharp exclamation of Jessica's. Miss Mur phy could afford to be silent. She had dropped her small shell and it had ex ploded with a most satisfactory report. She sat rigidly erect in the conscious ness of duty done, every fold of her black silk visiting custume stiff with propriety, every pompon on the brown beige bonnet bristling with respectabil ity. "I don't believe a word of it !" de clared Jessica, slowly. If impolite, the remark was in no de gree insolent. It was simply the ut terance of a conviction. Miss Murphy was not offended. She removed her gaze from a gem of Van Elton's on the opposite wall to fasten it on the agitated little lady in th rocker. It took some endurance on Jessica's part to sit meekly under the scrutiny of those faded blue eyes—eyes tolerant, placid, beaming, as those of a benig nant old cow. "It is true, my dear. He said it. I heard him with my own ears !" This really was unanswerable. "They were in the front parlor," pursued Miss Murphy, folding her plump, tan-gloved hands with aggrava ting leisure and serenity. "I sat sew iug just behind the portiere. I never would baye stayed could I only have foretold what was coming. They had been talking about other things, and were silent for awhile. "Suddenly my Ned burst out laughing 'So you've seen her,' he said, 'and you don't fancy her, eh ?' Fancy her ?' ech oed Jack. 'Well, I should say not !' " "Well ?" urged Jessica, steadily. She would hear it out, she told her self—she would— every word of it ! "Well, then," slowly, to heighten by suspense the effect of her narrative, "Ned said, 'The boys around here all like her immensely. Roy Pates says she's a daisy !' " "Oh 1" moaned Jessica. "You must excuse that nephew of mine, my dear ; you really must. Ned but re peats what he hears. Besides, you know he is only a boy yet—just eight een. What Ned said is of no import ance. Please go on." She sat erect again very pale and im perative, indeed. "If you insist on hearing," hesi tantly, Jack replied. "Well, I don't. I did just at first. I confess for a while she deceived me. But a few days gave me enough of her.' Ned said. 'Why, we all thought you were in great luck to get her.' 'Luck !' cried Jack iu answer so loud,my dear,l fairly jumped. 'Luck ! Yes, the most con founded piece of bad luck I ever struck !' lam ashamed to say, my dear, but to be veracious I must say that here Ned, quite carried away by his youthful sympathies, inquired, 'Can't you get out of it ? And Jack said, 'Confound it, no ! That's the worst of it. I can't break such a con tract with any honor to myself. But I only wish some other fellow stood in my shoes ju3t now. I've promised to take her and I'ye got to do it, but it's a deuced hard bargain'—oh, my dear Jessica, you're not going to faint!" Jessica put out het hand with a slight repressing gesture. "No, Miss Murphy, lam not going to faint. Is that all ?" Miss Murphy was rather disconcert ed. Her shell had exploded noisily, it is true. But now that the smoke was clearing away she, at whose feet it had been flung, was not dead—not even wounded. "Yes, I believe that was all, for just then some one summoned Jack. But as he went out, he called back to Ned : •I'll s'ee you at Blyane's to-morrow A PAPER FOR THE HOME CIRCLE night and talk this unfortunate blun der over again. Be in my study at 10. I'll meet you tl ere.' " "And that really is ail ?" queried Jessica, quite her own possessed self a gain. Miss Murphy stared. To once more drop Into similes her balloon which had sailed up so straightly and securely at first had suddenly collapsed and was falling with startling rapidity. "I should think," severely,"lt would be quite enough." "Enough V" airily. "That's it 1 it's too much ! You know an overdose of poison occasionally counteracts the ef fect of a lesser quantity, and I think," with a smile charmingly confidential, "it is something the same way with gossip— don't you ?" It was Miss Murphy's turn to gasp. Such a girl ! But then one never could understand Jessica Ray. Miss Murphy thought it was time to go. With ttie cessation of conversation concerning personal affairs her inter est died a natural death. She was ad verse to wading in foreign waters. The inodorous pool s®urumed over with village scandal sufficed her. She feared aught else. "Good-by, my dear," with a bewild ered shake of the tinseled bonnet. "I am so sorry I had to tell you. Life is full of unpleasant duties. I never like to interfere iu other people's affair. 'Charity,' I always say ; 'charity and silence.' If there iaany I particularly detest it is tale-bearing. Well, as I said, I must be going! Goad-by, my dear. I'm so glad yiu don't mind." "Good-by," cordially. "We all thought," pausing at the door for a parting thrust, "that it was to be not only a marriage de conven ance, but a genuine love affair on both sides." "Indeed 1" said Jessica, brightly arching her pretty brows. And then at last the door closed on her visitor's broad, black-silk back. The blitheoess born of brayado died out of little Miss Ray's face. She went slowly back to the rose-ribboned rocker and sat down therein for a good heartsick, contented, mortified, miser, able cry. When she had been very, very young and charming, and Jack Sutherland an awkward lad of ten, their fathers had planned a marriage in the future. The planning stood,by the way, upon an agreeably substantial basis, looking at the affair from a finan cial point of yiew. Soon after Jack's father had died and Jack had gone to live with his mother's relatives in England. He carried with him the memory of a pair of sweet eyes, for all the worlc like big, blue, dew-wet for get-me-nots, for wee Jessica had parted from her playmate with a particularly tender and protesting farewell. Twelve years passed. Neither chafed—as in novelistic traditions bound—against the paternal decision of their childhood. No fair English maiden displaced his first love in Jack's loyal heart. As for Jessica, she had grown to think of Jack as a hero who was coming across the sea to claim her. When she anticipa ted that coming before her mind's eye forth pranced a snowy charger bearing a plumed knight. One day just two weeks ago it was she went down to the drawing room In response to the servant's announce ment. A gentleman standing in the window turned at her entrance. He came swiftly forward, both hands ex tended, his face brightening with gay admiration. "It is—it is—little Jesica 1" She knew him then. Without cur veted no upletid'd steed. By his side swung no jeweled scabbard. Around his neck was slung no mandolin. From his shoulder fell no cloak of roby vel vet. Not stalwart statured was he,nor raven haired, nor flashing eyed. Not the grand creation of her girlhood's sweet foolish dreams, in trnth, rather, his rivals would have said, a vety or dinary young man. But he had cornel Jessica's heart gave a great throb. A true woman though, ergo,an arch-hyp ocrite, she put her hand in his with an air of cool surprise, a touch of well bred reproof in her greeting. "And you are—Mr. Sutherland 1" Neither had in any way suggested the odd relation in which they tacitly stood to each other. Both felt the chain that bound them, for all its mas sive golden linns a very frail and brit tle one in ttie passionate strength of youthful impulse. Neither would be slow to fling it off if the bandage prov ed oppressive. Howeyer, it did not. The childish, iguorant, romantic af fection which had been smoldering in their hearts since the sorrowful parting of the playmates, at a word, a touch, a look blazed up into a pure, and strong, and steady flame. Of his courtship Jack Sutherland made short work. Putting aside the understanding be tween their fathers like the man he was, he wooed her for her own sweet sake. Just two nights ago he had told her in his quiet dirfefct fashion how dearly he lnvtd her. And Jessica— well last evening had ome the sapphire ring that—only last evening and to day this ! If Miss Murphy's neat lit'la shell had not brought death it had caused pain akin to it. "It's the money !" moaned Jessica. "It's the hoi i ible detest it le money he wants. It Isn't me !" And then a face witli clear brown eves and a kind grave smile arose before her and she broke down crying afresh. But after awhile she sprang up rub bing two small resolute (Dts in two very pink eyes. "I won't seo hi in to night. And I'll be in the library at 10. And I'll hear what else he has to—No, I won't 1 I won't evesdrop. But I'll meet him there and give him buck ins ring. When I break it he can get the money without taking me. lie's wel come to it. I hate it ! But I'll look my very loveliest—l will—l will !" And she did. As she came up to the parlors at Mrs. Bryant's "small and early" Miss Mur phy— always first on the field—looked at her in amazement. Quite a bewitch ing vision little Miss Ray to-night, rose lipped, star-eyed, smiling, her slim, dusk draperies of laee trailing softly behind her, a huge cluster of vio" lets at tin bosom. It was after 10 be fore she could escape from her compan ion and make her way to the library. Her hand on the portiere dividing the apartment from the morning room,'she paused. Voices. She didn't iutend to eaves drop. Of course, it was unintentional —all was said and over so quickly. E qually of course it was dishonorable, but I think as a rule we are apt to con sider questions of honor with extreme nicety when our hearts are very sore. "I've decided to take her," Jack's quiet voice was saying wearily. "It's the only thing I can do now." Ned spoke. "She's skittish, I know, but (byway of consolation) she may outgrow that." Jessica groaned involuntarily. Jack glanced toward the curtain. "Well, drop the subject." In a low er voice : "Keep it dark, like a good boy I don't want the people to know I atn such a young fool as to be taken in by a bag of bones, all paint and drugs." Jessica was plump as a partridge,and her complexion was a "bloom" patent ed by nature's self. The morning-room was unlit, save from the hall. Thank gooduess for that ! She felt herself growing faint and dizzy. Was that Jack who talked so—could it be—her Jack ? "Oh, come now I" laughed Ned, "you know you're exaggerating. She's not quite as bad as that I" "Pretty nearly 1" ruefully. "I dou't so much mind her skittishness—lcould break her of that, I flatter myself—but she has a terrible temper I" She must not faint, Jessica told her self frantically. Oh, she must not I Was that dark thing beside her in the shadow of the portiere a fauteuil ? She sank down on it heavily, weakly, ex hausledly. Horror of horrors ! It at first succumbed a second to her weight, then moved,protested with vig orous energy, shrieked. All faintuess banished, Jessica leap ed to her feet, her soft, quick cry of alarm mingling with that muffled roar of rheumatic agony. "That's aunt!" gasped Ned. "Jessica !" cried Jack. He strode forward and flung aside the portiere. The light from the library poured into the shadowy morning-room. It fell on Jessica standing just within very white and trembling, and it showed on the floor a large and ungraceful heap of crushed drab silk and bugles, disorder ed "front," and gruesome groans. Fur a moment they stood and stared —speechless. But Miss Murphy kept on groaning. "What is it all about V" queried Ned bewilderedly, helping his aunt to rise. "I—I," faltered Jessica, "sat down on Miss Murphy 1" "What ?" cried Ned. "We were eavesdropping," confessed Miss Murphy, with venomous csudor, " and Jessica took me for a footstool and " "My darling J" whispered Jack (no, not to Miss Murphy) "I thought when I heard your voice you were hurt or >> Jessica flamed up. "How dare you ? Stand back sir 1 Here's your ring." She tugged bravo ly, but it fitted well. "I have heard in what manner yon speak of me. No," disgustedly, "don't appear astonished ! Recall your conversation of yesterday morning with Ned Sales." Ned started at being thus abruptly referred to. Jack looked daz.'d. "I did not intend to hear another such conversation as that which had been repeated to me, but I did. If I'm— I'm," the rose crimsoning iu her cheek Terms, SI.OO per Year, in Advance. "skittish," bringing out the hateful word with a jerk, "and—and a deuced —bad- batgain," slowly, and if I've got a ter—ter—here's your ring !" She had wrenched it olf at last. But Jack did not take it. Ills dumb dismay had turned to uproarous mitth It was well a noisy polonaise was in progress ia the drawing-room. He laughed. lie kept on laughing. Sud denly the whole ludicrous misunder standing bursting on Ned he struck in with a very howl of delight, and they fell into each other's at ins like a coup le of crazy boys and supported each other and laughed. But recollecting Jessica standing there, Sutherland explained, between shameful relapses into laughter, "It was-a horse. I thought I knew all a bout horseflesh. I knew nothing. I have to take her—the idiocy is mine. I fondly fancied I iiad found a Maud S. Sim Smiley's famous nag could beat her. I gave a thousand for her. She's worth -ah, now you under stand I" For Jessica had sprung forward, mouth and eyes three swest, remorse ful "O's ?" "Jack—Jack ! And i.ow I talked just now 1" all riotous blushes. "I think—l'm afraid—l flared up so—l must have, after all, a—a—kind of a temper you said the horse had I" "I'll risk it !" laughed Jack. Heedless of Mrs. Byrant's small nephew, who had entered and stood stockstill an exclamation point of in quisitive delight ; heedless of Ned, who clung in silent, spasmodic convulsions to the portiere ; heedless even, this rash young man, of Miss Murphy—that ancient virgin who, rigid and frigid, glowered at him in an access of scandal ized modesty, he took his sweetheart in his arms with a good, long, loving kiss, and thus adoringly addressed her: "Doubted me, did you ? You—con temptible little—wretch 1" A Bad Business. 'So you don't want to canvass any more for the 'Life of Andrew Jackson,' said the proprietor of a subscription agency to a young man who bad just re turned from the country. 'No ; I believe not. The work is very pleasant and all that, yet I prefer to do something el.se. Believe I'd rather dig ditches or clean out wells.' 'Was your trip to the country suc cessful V 'Well, no, I can't say that it was. I'll give you a sample of my experience. One afternoon while riding along a couutry road, I came upon a field in which an old fellow was plowing. I waited until he got to the end of a row and then, approaching him, I asked if he would not like to look at the 'life of Andrew Jackson.' ' 'W'y, I looked at one o' his lives tuther day. Must have had more lives than a cat. Stranger,l'd like powerful well to lock at it, but the fact is,l ain't got the time. This cotton is mighty in the grass. Whoa, Ball, come around !' 'My friend,' said I, 'if you would like to look at the book, I'll plow while you sit down and examine it.' This pleas ed him veiy much, and taking the book he climbed the fence, weut into the woods and sat down in the shade. I plowed for some time, until I got tired, but, thinking that the old fellow would soon make his appearance, continued to plow on. At last I went into the woods and found him deeply interested in the book.' 'lt's too late for you to go much fur der to-night,' said he, 'so you'd better stay all night at my house.' 'I agreed, for houses in that section of country were far apart. We'l, when we went to the house the old fellow took my book and devoted himself to it the entire eyening. I knew that he would buy it, for I could see that he was deeply interested. The next morn ing just before I got rtady to start, I turned to my host and said ; 'Have you made up your mind to buy that book ?' 'No, but I did 'low to buy it but thar ain't no us'n buyin' it now.' 'Why ?' 'Case I sot up last night an' read her through.' 'That so ? Well, in consideration of the tact that I have staid all night; with you, I'll make you a present of the book.' 'Much obliged to you.' 'Not at all. Well I must be going.' 'Hold on. You hain't paid me yit. I charge you a dollar au'a half fur your night's login.' •Yes, sir, and he made me pay it, re gardless of the fact that I had present ed him with the book. No, I con't care to engage further in the book business.' —Arkansaw Traveler. San Francisco claims a largei area of public parks than any other city. There are eighteen parks and squares belong ing to the city .aggregating 11,161 acres, of which the largest is Golden Gate Park, embracing 1,013 acres. The Unit ed States Presidio Reservation is at public disposal, and makes a second great p'ark for San Franciscb. NO. 44. NEWSPAPER LAWS If subscribers order the discontinuation of newspapers, the MtPllshers may continue to send thon until all arrearages are paid. If suoacribers refuse or neglect to take their nevvsp ipers from the olliee to which they are sent they are he'd responsible until they have settled the bills and ordered them discontinued. If subscribers move toother places without in forming the publisher, and the newspupeis me aeut to the former place, they are responsible. AIIVBRTISIN O HATEB. 1 wk. 1 mo. 13 mos. 0 mos. 1 year 1 square * 200 *4OO J $5 00 f 6 Oft $ tft X " 700 logo 15 00 30 00 40 (0 1 " 1000 1500 2500 4500 %00 One Inch makes a square. Administrators and Executors' Notices 12.50. Transient adver. tlseinents and locals 10 cents ihm- ilne for fir>t insertion and 5 cents per line for each addition al insertion. Life of a Dakota Maid. A broad-shouldered, compactly-built young women, with brown face and herd hands sat in the Lake Shure depot last evening waiting for the departure of a train for the East. She had just arrived into town from Dakota. •We won't waste any time in foolish* a ness out our way,' she* said to a young man who seemed to be acquainted with her. 'There is no Joye-making on my half section. It's nothing but No. 2 whiat from May to August. That's what we are out there foi. Now.lown and manage a farm of 820 acres, and this year I took out a crop of eighteen bushels to the acre and sold it, got the cash, put it in the bank, discharged all my men but one who will look after things this winter and I'm off for a lit tle fun down East. 'Marriage?' said she, in response to some remark by her companion; 'that's what all the good for-nothing cranks of men that I see from plowing time to harvest can talk about. 'Whatdo I want to get married for ? There are more than 300 of us girl farm ers in Dakota,and we will hold a conven tion some time. I never saw a man yet that I would haye around. I intend to farm until I get money enough to live on comfortably, aud then I'll see. I'm in the habit of doing about as I please. There was a nice young fellow in my neighborhood; last July he tried to be very gallant, and wanted to help me whenever I did any work. If I chopped a little wood he wanted to do it. If I went after a pale of water he wanted to carry it. If I put a bag of grain on my shoulder he insisted on giving me a lift. He was a pretty, nice boy, but he made me tired. One day I wanted the hay rick on the wagon, and I took hold ot one end and clapped it up on the wheel so quick that it made him dizzy. 'Let me,' say he, but be only threw the whole thing down in trying to get the other end up. He didn't have the strength.' •Says I: *Oh go away. You don't eat enough No. 2 wheat.' Then I put the rick up in good style. 'We meet lots of such fellows out there. They are good enough, I sup pose, but when I want one I will send for him.' The World's Largest Organ. A recent number of the English Me chanic reports the completion of what is said to be the largest organ in the world. It was built by Walcker, of Ludwigsburg, and has been placed m the cathedral church of Eiga. This colossal instrument measures 36 feet in width, 32 feet from back to front, and is 65 feet high. It contains no less than 6826 pipes,distributed among 124 sound ing stops. Most of the pipes are con structed of metal, but paany are of wood, especially the larger ones. They are of all shapes and sizes, from the giant tube of thirty-two feet to the tiny whistle of an inch. Almost eyery va riety of tone ana pitch can be produced by this "king of instruments," the trumpet and the trombone, the fiddle and the flute, and many other instru ments are all represented. Human power is not called upon to supply the capacious lungs of this musical giant, the bellows—feeders being worked by means of a water engine of four hors power. In glancing over the list of stops some fine-sounding names occur, and if the sounds which they yield are as beautiful as their names would sug gest it will be readily admitted that the instrument is capable of producing heavenly music. Among such names are vox, angelica, harmonia, lethrioa, voix, celeste, etc. It is open to ques tion, howeyeer, whether the above is really the largest organ in the world, and it certainly is not if we take the to tal number of pipss as a standard of comparison. Our own Albert hall or gan contains 7428 pipes {and 111 stops, not to mention the liosevelt organ in Garden City, N. Y., with 7031 pipes and 115 sounding stops; and perhaps one or two others might be mentioned as containing more pipes, though few er stops. An Anecdote of Bob Ingersoli. Says a correspondent of the Chicago Mail : President Clarge,of the Illinois Central Bailroad, told me a good story about Bob Ingersoli that has not yet been in print. A long time ago it was, when many counties in the southern part of the State were under township organizations, and the supervisors sat as judgss in certain cases. "Bob" was arguing a case before one of these tri bunals, of which the judges were evi dently more familiar with crops than law practice. He brought all his elo quence to bear on the point, that the case in question was a great injustice to his client,and should be "thrown out of court." Continually returning to that argument, he reached the climax with a burst that, as usual, carried ev erybody by storm,ending with t he same appeal to "throw it out of court, sirs I out of court." It brought the judges up "all standing,'* and the presiding one slowly reached over, gathered up the papers in the case from the table in front of him, and as he gaye them an energetic flip out of the window.turned to Ingersoli with a nellevfed Smile and saiti ; "Bob, out I"
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