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VOL. 59.
The manner was more ungracious
than the words. Mr. Tracy looked ap
penlingly at her as he expressed bis real
regret for the carelessness which had
brought ber such a disappointment. He
had a very tender appreciation of the
fact that his wife's cares were very
pressing and burdensome. JShe seldom
got out, and this missing of a fine mus
ical entertainment was no light thing
to her.
There was no response to his apolo
gies'. She was recalling the time, only
a few weeks since, when he had prom
ised to go out with her, then had be
come absorbed in business, sent her a
hasty note to say he could not dine at
home, and she had seen no more of him
until half-past ten at night. It is not
to be wondered at that the cloud on
Mrs. Tracy's face deepened. It reflect
ed itself on the faces of the three chil
dren, one of whom, after a few whimp
ers of discontent over the unsatisfacto
ry dinner, was dismissed with sharp
I words from his mother.
"Well, well 1" exclaimed Harvey a
few minutes later, impatiently pushing
away bis plate, "if a man is to be treat
ed like a criminal because he has for
gotten some concert tickets,he'd better
look for a pleasanter place than home."
He strode away, leaving her, with
some reason, perhaps, to consider her
self a verj ill-used woman.
She was always busy about the house
or always trying to bring up arrears of
sewing. Intervals of leisure for read*
ing or going out were rare, and always
becoming rarer. She was willingly giv
ing her best energies to the work of
making the most out of small means,
taking her full share in the struggle
which her husband was carrying on to
get a foothold in business. But she
was forgetting that husband and chil
dren should not be left to live by bread
alone —that they lboked to her for some
thing more valuable than the mere
keeping of a house. She was mauy a
time so wearied with her round of du
ties in the care of their bodies that she
lost sight of their higher needs, not re
alizing that a smile or a cheery word
from her could go far toward making
amends for a much more serious house
hold failure than a poorly cooked meal.
Her face was rapidly taking on a look
of combined anxiety and impatience,
and she was forgetting the sweetness of
loving forbearance toward little faults
and shortcomings.
"Tug, tug, tug," she said, fretfully.
"I'm tired of it all. Harvey has no
more thought of me than if I were a
pack-horse. How would he like it if I
thought no more of his comfort than be
does of mine, I wonder."
The fretful mood and the fretful ex
pression,fast coming to feel at home by
long indulgence, stayed by her as the
hours wore on. The children looked in-
I quiringly at her when occasion brought
them in her way, but wisely made such
occasions as few as possible. As the
tea hour approached Mrs. Tracy would
not have acknowledged to herself that
her brow was taking on an added cloud
at the prospect of her husband's return.
MILLHEIM PA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22., 1885.
Ile.hnd left her in anger, after sinning
against her so unpardonably, and need
not expect to be pleasantly received.
If, nowever, he should come home
early, she might relax a little toward
him. But the hour came and passed
without him, and Mrs. Tracy grew
angrier. If he was staying away to
punish her, he might stay as long as he
liked —she would nevor care.
But as another hour passed she grew
uneasy. With all his trying want of
punctuality, Harvey ne'er really miss
ed a meal without sending her a word
of explanation. It was already growing
dark as she pressed her face anxiously
against the window pane, when her lit
tle boy rushed in.
"O mamma ! there's such a big (Ire
down town. Can't Igo and see it V'
She had heard an alarm an hour or
two before, but paid little attention to
it.
"No, of course you can't, Willie, it is
too late for you to be ont. But where
is the fire V"
"I don't know, but it's a great, great
big one,l know. Hear how the whistles
blow—and see, the folks are ruuniug
more and more."
She caught a few words from some
passers by which brought a look of dis
may to her face.
"The Phoenix block—and spreading
fast. Trouble with water freezing iu
hose."
Breathlessly she ran into the house
and threw on her wraps. Then, with a
few words of direction to the seivant
girl, she took Willie's hand and hurried
in the bitter co'd of the fast closing
winter night through the streets,becom
ing more and more crowded as they
drew nearer the business precincts with
others, who3e faces were all turned in
the same direction.
Her husband's office was in the Phoe
nix Block. A chill, deadlier than that
of the inclement air,struck to her heart,
as through her mind ran one after a
nother dread imagination of what
might be. She remembered his worry
about the safe—how little she had heed
ed him iu her selfish resentment over a
little disappointment 1 Her steps quick
ened with a wild fear as she thought of
the papers be had spoken of—she knew
thejirst instinct of his faithful soul
would be tq peril his life for the safety
of what otheis had confided to his care.
The crowd grew thicker as she near
ed the fire, until she could move only
with difficulty as she still pressed on.
They had not lived in the place for any
length of time and the faces about her
were all strange, until at length a fa
miliar voice said ;
"You here, Mrs. Tracy ? This is no
place for you."
She grasped the speaker's arm.
"Mr. Brand—do tell me ! Is it seri
ous? Is it the Phoenix ?—and have you
seen Mr. Tracy ?"
His face was more troubled than he
wished her to see as he tried to lead her
away from the crowd.
"Well, a large fire is always more or
less serious, you know. It began in the
Phoenix "
"I want to hear about it," she insist
ed, as he paused. "llow are things
there, now V"
"The fire went up the elevator shaft,
so there has been difficulty in getting
the occupants. But I do assure you,
Mrs. Tracy, tnat no lives are known to
be lost. The last I saw of Mr. Tracy
he and the other lawyers were working
like beavers trying to get out their be
longings."
"When was that ?" she gasped.
"Perhaps an hour ago."
"I'm going to get nearer," she said,
and, as her frieud could not dissuade
her, he took her arm and they slowly
worked their way toward the large
building to which the fire was now con
fined.
It was a strange and magnificent
sight. Winter had laid his pitiless fin
ger on every attempt to interrupt the
progress of the ruin, seeming to rejoice
in promoting the advance of the fire
fiend. All the noble enginery of the
fire department was in full play, but
many a bursted hose had been thrown
aside, and other difficulties from clog
ging ice in every direction were contin
ually arising. The tall, partly fallen
walls of the brick building were sheet
ed with ice, which shone and sparkled
in the gas-light like the famed Russian
palace, and against which many a
stream of water fell in rattling hail.
, Banks of ice, from leaking hose, lav a
cross the streets, while around the burn
ing building lay a piled-up mass of iee,
mingled with books, carpets, and furni
ture,which had been thrown out, to the
depth of ten or twelve feet.
The fire was by this time, however,
well under control, and painful interest
was now centered upon the perilous
condition of a man who could be seen
through the window of one of the up
per stories.
"That is the old watchman of the
building," exclaimed Mrs. Tracy's es
cort ; "he is not in any immediate dan
ger,but it will be difficult to reach him,
and it is feared he may loose his head
1 and fall. Some other men are on a bal
cony around the corner, not far below
him—they are positively in no danger
as yet, but I heard some one say that
they weie refusing to be helped down
A PAPER FOR THE HOME CIRCLE.
until the old man is safe—are dcing all
they can to encourage him. Mr. Tracy
may be among those."
To Mrs. Tracy'B eyes there must be
danger. Brick and portions of the wall
were continually falling. Aud Harvey
might not be there—nobody could know
certainly where he was. No live* are
known to be lost—that was how her
friend had phrased it.
The falling of a portion of the roof
drove back lookers-on and workers in a
confused crowd.
"Do go home, Mrs. Tracy," urged
Mr. Brand. "You can do no good by
staying ; you are risking your health
aud the child's too. I will surely see
that you have the very first news ofMr.
Tracy that can bo secured."
Her teeth were chattering and her
whole frame shivering, although she
had not realized that she was cold. She
felt that she could not go, but, after a
glance at little Willie, who would not
complain, she allowed herself to bo per
suaded.
Arrived at home, she was thankful
for the care demanded of her b/ the
sleepy children. But in due time the
clamor of the little voices was hushed
and then nothing remained for her but
to pace restlessly to and fro—now feel
ing as though another moment of sus
pense would drive her wild,now shrink
ing in dread from the thought of what
the end of that suspeuse might be.
lie had left her in anger. She had,
in her pettishness at his forgetfulness,
refused him look or smile; she had
been harboring bitter thoughts against
him while he was exposed to danger,
perhaps death. How far she had gone
aside from the ideal she had formed of
her duties as a true wife ! how far fail
ed in making for him the sunshiny
home they had long ago pictured ! And
now, what if she should never more
have opportunity to show him how
dearer to her than all else on earth was
his happiness and that of their chil
dren ?
In her misery it seemed that hours
had passed before she heard a footstep
at the door. And then she sprang up
in terror. Was it his step or that of
another, come to tell her—?
"Amy—at last, Poor wife, did you
think I would never come ? But don't
come near me yet, dear !"
But she clung to him for a moment,
aud then stood back in amazement at
his appearance. Smoke-b egri me d,
drenched, and with ice clinging to his
dress and hair—she would not have
known him except for his voice. A 8
she hastily brought him dry clothing
and hot coffee, he gave her au outline
of his experience for the past few hours.
"It was a tight place we were caged
in," he said, in concluding—"freezing
on one side and almost burning on the
other. But we got the poor old man
safe at last,and all my papers are safe."
"And would you really weigh any
kind of property against your life, Har
vey, even though it might belong to
other people ? Is that all you care for
us here at home ?"
"Well, Amy," he said .smiling at her
half anger, "if it were deliberately
placed before me to choose,l might,per
haps hesitate; but when all of a sudden
you find that a sacred trust is in dan
ger, what remains but to use your best
endeavor, even though there may be
risk in it, with faith in the kindly and
powerful arm which has brought me
out of it ?"
His voice had taken on a reverent
tone, and she could not say he was not
right.
But she lay down to rest with a great
thankfulness in her heart that she
could yet reach him with looks and
tones of affect ion,and an earnest prayer
that the lesson of the last few hours
might not soon grow dim and be for
gotten.
Hair Growing on the Dead.
McCONNELLSTOWN,Pa.Oct. 9.—TWO
years ago William A. Walters was bur
ied in the stone Chapel Cemetery, in
Woodcock Valley, Huntingdon county.
The other day the body was exhumed
to Wiliiamsport for reinterment. When
the coffin was reached by the diggers
they discovered that it had sprung at
the joints, and out of the crevices the
thediair on the skull protruded in all
directions. On opening the casket the
hair on the head was found to measure
eighteen inches, the whiskers eight
inches, and tiie growth on the breast
six .inche.-. notwithstanding the body
had been cleanly shayed when prepared
for burial. A similar instance occur
red in 1882 at the Cassville Cemetery,
fitteen miles from here. Upon exhum
ing the remains of Jacob Cresswell, the
skeleton, which had been buried for ten
years .had hair on it ten or twelve inch
es in length and as firm as during life.
"Oh! yes," said madam, after the
usual domestic racket had got itself
well under way, "oh yes, you gentlemen
want your wives to be angels!" J "Not
at all," replied Mr.Duesnberry, wiping
the dish water from his head aud face,
"not at all, but we want them to be
ladies." Aud then the row began all
over again.
Tricks on the Track.
Danger from whioh Engineers Save
the Publio and Themselves.
| From The Railway Review.]
One who is accustomed to railway
traveling can scarcely realize how
much he is dependent for safety upon
the engineer. Added to the responsi
bility of their station, engineers are
also ii constant danger of accidents
caused by the tricks of jealous rivals.
This rivalry, it is said, sometimes
prompts to the doing of utterly mean
tricks. A Nicklo Plato engineer after
his very first trip was laid off because
he had "cut out" all the bearings of
his engine. He wat> reinstated, how
ever, alter he proved that some rival
had filled his oiling can with emery.
Another new engineer was suspected
for burning out the Hues of his boiler.
Through grief at the loss of his posi
tion he died, and then a conscience
stricken rival confessed that he had
put oil in the tank so that it foamed
and showed water at the top gauge
when in reality there was scarcely a
quart in the boiler !
These intense jealousies, together
with the terrible anxiety incident to
their work, has a terribly straining ef
tect on the nerve, and statistics tell us
that, tLough Locomotive Engineers
may look strong and vigorous, they
are not all a hearty class. Ex-Cbiet
Engineer A. S Hampton, Indianapo
lis, Ind., (Div. 143) was one of those
apparently hearty men, but he says :
"The anxiety, strain and jolting came
near finishing me."
The Locomotive Engineers' Broth
erhood has 17,000 members and 240
divisions. Its headquarters is in
Cleveland, Ohio, where* Chief Engin
eer Arthur tor twenty years has ex
ercised almost dictatorial sway. It
was organized in August, 1863, by
the employes of the Michigan Cen
tral. It has given nearly two million
dollars to the widows and orphans of
deceased members.
Smith Had Misjudged Her.
There were half a dozen of them hold
ing down as many chairs in a suburban
drug store the other evening, when the
talk changed to .tramps, thieves and
burglais, and Smith said:
'Well, now, but I'd like to try an ex
periment. lam a little skittish about
these desperadoes, and Mrs. Smith
knows it and takes advantage to brag
about ber own courage. She says she'd
iust like to find a tramp on the door
step who refused to dust when she
ordered him to.
'Well?' asked one.
'Well, suppose oue of you rig up and
go to the frontdoor and demand some
thing to eat, and be mighty impudent
about it. It will give her a scare and
stop her bragging.'
The crowd fell in with the idea and
one oi the men donned an old hat and
coat and fixed up as a tramp. Ten min
utes later he was knocking at the side
door, while Smith and his friends were
posted across the street.
It wasn't over two minutes after the
tramp's first knock before he come out
of the yard. He came over the fence.
He was in such a hurry that he rau
thirty rods before he could bring up.
When Smith and the others reached
him he had his hat off and was feeling
of his head and gritting his teeth to
keep back a groan.
'Well' said Smith, 'what did you do?
'Told her I wanted a hot supper p.
d. q.'
'And what did she say?'
'She asked whether I would have
bone turkey or frlcassed chicken, and
while I was trying to make uu my mind
she kicked me on the shiu, struck me
on the head with a club, and pushed me
off the steps all at the same time,'
Andeveiyone of the group looked
back and saw MlS.Smith on the walk in
front of the house, apparently waiting
for somebody's return, and each man
gasped out:
'Well, I'll be kazooed 1'
BRIEF AND TO THE POINT.
"Been to Washington?"
"Yes."
"See Cleveland?"
"Yes."
"Did he 'point you ?"
"Yes."
"What to?"
"Door."
♦Did you see White strike Browa?'
'Can't be buie of it. The only thing
I'm sure of, mister lawyer, is that my
old woman came out with a pail of hot
water aud licked the hull crowd and
had over two quarts left fur next time.'
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have issued these hints in pamphlet
form for distribution :
"Thorough ventilation of dwellings
is essential to the health of the occu
pants. strict cleanliness in
youi person and clothing. Bathe dai
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Change your undergarments daily, or
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exercise you increase the susceptibility
of the system to disease.
"During the prevalence of cholera do
not neglect even the slightest diarrheal,
no matter bow painless at Brst."
Dr. Blister Gets Mad.
Kosciusko M urpby will not send fo*
Dr. Blister in case of sickness. Dr.
Blister was bragging about bis profess
ion and complaining that it was not
properly appreciated.
"That's so ; I don't tbink the press
treats you doctors right," said Mur
phy.
"You are correct, sir. We get all
manner of abuse from these would- be
humorists of the press. Almost every
paper contain# some slur at the doc
torn."
"It is not tbe editor's sins of com
misssion as much as it is his sins of o
mission that lam alluding to now. I
refer to the outrageous manner in
which you are systematically neglect
ed."
"Neglected 1"
"Yes, neglected. When a man is
married the newspapers invariably give
tbe name of tbe clergyman who per
forms the ceremony, but when be dies
the name of the doctor who attends
him is usually omitted in tbe obituary
notice. The doctor does as much to
facilitate things as the preacher, so I
don't see why he is snubbed in tbat
way."—Texas Siftings.
THERE WAS a case of assault and bat
tery before one of the justices the other
day, and a witness with a black eve,
several strips of eourt plaster across bis
nose and one ear badly lopped over, was
asked by the defendant's lawyer if he
saw Brown strike White.
'Can't say as I did, he replied.
'Did you see the whole affair ?'
'Mostly.'
'Well, how was it?'
•Well, Smith and me sot on the rea
per talkin' evolution. Jones and Green
sot on the grass talkin'religion. Brown
and White sot by the edge of the straw
stack disputin on politics. Three or
four boys was in the barn gettiu' up a
dog fight.'
'Yes—go on.'
'Fust I know'd, somebody called
somebody else a liar. Next I know'd
evolution, religion, politics and fighting
dogs was a-rolling over each other on
the grass, and every man kicking and
biting and bitting away for all he wus
wufch.'
'But did you see Brown strike
White?'
'Can't say as I did '
The Depth of It.
"How deep is that hole?" a9ked an
anxious inquirer of a laborer digging a
well.
"Don't know; never measured it,'!
was the none-of-your-business style of
reply.
"How far would I go if I should fall
in?" was the next question.
"To the bottom, I reckon, if you're
heavy enough to sink," and the ques
. tioner didn't pursue his investigations.
NO. 41.
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Arbor Day in the Schools.
(Circular to Superintendents.)
DEPARTMENT or PUBLIC INSTRUC
TION, HARRISBURQ, Sept. 28, 1885.
DEAR SIR : The general obser
vance of Arbor Day on April 16, in
response to the proclamation of His
Excellency, Governor Pattison, was
most gratifying. Many thousand trees
were planted, whose grateful shade
and luscious frnit will add enjoyment
to the lives of tens of thousands in
years to come.
In some parts of the State, howev
er, the ground was atill frozen or oth
erwise in unfit condition for the plant
ing of trees, while in many localities
the schools had already closed. That
the schools of the entire State of
Penusylvania may all have opportu
nity to begin this good work during
the current year, we name Thursday,
October 29, proximo, as a School Ar
bor Day, on which Shade Trees,
Shrubs, Vines, Ac., shall be planted
by schools upon their school-grounds
under the general direction and en
couragement of Boards of Directors,
Superintendents, and Teachers ; on
which also Fruit Trees, Shade Trees,
Ac., shall be planted about their
homes by the individual pupils—boys
and girls—by the teachers, and by all
others who may be sufficiently inter
ested in this important work.
The following suggestions from the
Arbor Da/ circular of March 3*l are
equally in order for this Fall obser
vance of the day :
"Select mainly such trees for plant
ing ou school grounds as grow well in
your immediate vicinity—maple, hick
ory, walnut, sweet-gum, dogwood, but
ton wood, ash, bass-wood or linden,
bircb, beech, locust, willows, tulip
trees, pines, larches, firs,and others too
numerous to mention. For shrubbery
and vines : Mock-orange, spireas, the
burning bush, deutzia, lilacs, wigelia,
hardy roses, honeysuckles, Virginia
creeper, wistaria, the tecoma, and oth
ers, which will give variety and greatly
increase the attractiveness of tbe
school-building and its surroundings
of grass plot and greenery.
"As to the exercises of Arbor Day,
these may be quite informal, if tbat
shall seem best—tbe essentlsi purpose
being the planting of Trees, Shrubs snd
Vines. But it will be eminently prop
er, where arrangements can readily be
made for a formal programme, to make
this also a prominent feature. The
reading of a selection from the Bible,
prayer by a clergyman of tbe neighbor
hood, readings, recitations and songs
by the pupils, an address by the teach
er or other citizsn of tbe district inter
ested in the work of tbe day,wtl! Afford
variety and serve to render tbe occa
sion more interesting and impressive.
"Let every teacher organize his
school for tbe work, and,in consuiation
with the Directors, have tbe grounds
properly prepared, and boles ready for
Trees, and Shrubs, and Flowers, and
Vines. Solicit the co-operation of the
whole neighborhood. Should tbe day
appointed prove inclement and unfit for
tbe work, postpone it until the follow
ing Saturday. How the superintend
ent may be best able to communicate
instructions to all bis teachers most be
left to his own good judgement. We
would suggest the use of tbe local press
as far as possible."
For additional suggestions as to
planting and programmes for tbe day,
see issues of the Pennsylvania School
Journal for March, April, and May,
1885.
It is hoped that the encouragement
of tree planting by indivividual pu
pils, as well as by schools in their
collective capacity with proper school
exercises—in a word, How to render
most effective the observance of Ar
bor Day by the schools—may find a
place on the programme of every
County Institute held in Pennsylva
nia during the present season. It is
suggested also, in this connection,
that not less than two hours of the
time of the Institute be given to the
consideration of this very practical
educational topic, in such manner as,
in the discretion of the Superintend
ent, shall seem best. In order that
the State Superintendent may have
the proper data from which to make
definite report of the results of Arbo
Day work for the year, he will be
pleased to receive by December 1 from
each County, City, and Borough Su
perintendent a statement approxima
ting as closely as possibe the number
of trees, Ac., planted within his juris
diction at any time during the year as
a result of the appointment of the
day. Very respectfully,
E. E. HIGBEE,
Supt. Public Instruction.