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Escritoires, ChUronieres, Writing Desks, Hall Racks, Slate aud Marble Mantels in the land. Busy all the time. Every Bid a Sale A PATER FOR THE HOME CIRCLE MILLIIEIM PA.. THURSDAY. MAY 2<.. 1887. A Panther on the Watch. I was talking with an old man tla other day who had been through two or three In dian campaigns, killed grizzlies, trap|se culiar sound down ln-yonil the spring. I can't tell you why or how I knew ilie sound was made by some wild ls-ast dropping to the ground from a tree, but that was my impression. It was a sly action tm tlie jiart of the heart, and on a windy night could not have !>cen heard twenty feet. It went through me like a Hash that a panther which had IKVII roosting in one of the big trees just across the open space beyond the spring had dropjiod down to attack tue, and 1 started for the shanty like a streak of lightning. I had vuade no mistake in juuip ing to conclusions. As ! bolted away a horrible scream overtook me, and I made clean jumps of ten feet after that. We had a couple of hounds at the cabin, and they were curled up and asleep u lien 1 left it. The yell of the panther brought 'em out might y aud il en, au d 1 su p |N(se this saved my life. That lscist wasn't thirty feet lx-hind me when the hounds met and jcissed me, and next instant there was a shindy which would have ui:ide your hair stand tip. 1 juiii|ed into the door of the shanty just in time tocolidc with my part ner and roll us lstli ou tin* ll>s>r, and in-fore we could get our guns .unl get out the affair was over—that is, one of our dogs had been cliawed to death, the other half kilhsl and the panther had made oil", it was certainly a narrow eseajs- tor me, and I was weak in the knees when 1 came to think it over. "Wedid not hear from the beast again for three days. We put out ninety traps along the swamps and cr-eks, and found a buudatiee of game in the woods, (in tlie fourth day,alsmt 10 o'clock in the morning, while my partner was cleaning his gun and dressing oil" some rabbits for dinner, I went out to bsik at some traps set tlie niglit ls> fore. My route was along the swamp si tores of a small lake, and it was a cloudy day with a cold wind blowing. I had my gun on my shoulder as I trnmissl along,and 1 had passed the third trap wit bout finding any victims, when I came under a large tree. As 1 was not looking for live game 1 had not surveyed the limits altove me. The space itctween tlie tree ami the water was not over ten feet, and I was looking ahead to locate the next trap when 1 stepped into a hole and fell spraw ling. That fall proba bly saved my life. I felt something graze the as 1 went down, there was a horrible snarl in my cars, and that infernal panther plunged into the water with a great splash. I had a shotgun with me, and it was loaded for small game. I was up in-fore you could count fifteen. My fall had thing the gun several feet away, and as 1 eon Id seize it I looked for the panther. Missing his spring the way he did probably disconcerted liiin, and his cold hath cooled his enthusiasm, lie floundered around, rlitnoil hack to dry land, and after indulging in a shake to get rid of the water, lie growled at me and dis appeared among the hushes. I sent the charge of shot after him,hut lie probably got oil'shot free. "Weil, I got it into my head that that varmint was after me and nolxsly else. My partner had not even got a glimpse of him, while he li;ul twice attacked me. 1 just left the traps ami made a lsv line for the shanty, and that afternoon we set a trap in the woods to catch his highness. The other dog was about dead of his terrible wounds, and we finished him and use him to lctit our trap. Two days and nights went by and nothing further was heard of tlie panther. Then my scare began to go off, and 1 set out to look over half of our traps, while my part ner took the oilier half. I took further a round the lake than before, and at 11 o'- clock in the forenoon I was through with the last trap and loaded down with game. As I couldn't carry tlie load hack to the shanty, I sat down on a log to shuck some of the mink and rats, and pretty soon 1 had forgotten all about the panther. 1 was near the butt of the log or fallen tree, the other end of which was very bushy. I had my back to this, and had worked for half an hour when it struck me powerful hard and all of a sudden that 1 was in danger. It was like a voice calling to me, and at the same moment a cldll traveled up my back. I wheeled square about, and there was that infernal panther creeping down tlie trunk as softly as a cat to get nigh enough to spring on me. At tny motion he stop]>cd short with a spit anil a snarl, and greased lightning was no where [compared to my movements. My gun was loaded with buckshot this time, anil I lifted her up anil fired at him from a distance of about forty feet, lie was hit by one or two of tlie shot, and tlie scream he gave was heard by my partner three-quarters of a mile away. As lie screamed lie made a flying leap to an other log, and from that lie went into tlie underbrush. "Do you want to know how far a panther can jump when ho lets himself out ? I measured the distance from log to log with a tape line, and it was thirty-four feet to a dot. I was looking dead at liiin, and I know he didn't touch the ground between tho logs, I wanted to pull up stakes for a new locality, but tbe fear of ridicule proven- D-d my Haying HO. My partner agreed that it wan a little Htningo I should Is? Hlnglud out in Hindi away by tbe brute, but an I had e*ca]Mg. One day when tho ice was going out of the Big Sioux river somebody cried out that a dog was going over the falls In two minutes the near est bridge was covered with people. It was a large black dog on a cuke of fifty feet square, which was coming down the current 'Call him off !' yelled twenty men. 'Throw hiui a rope!' howled a dozen men. 'Can't we lasso him when he's go ing under the bridge ?' 'l'll give SSO for him if he goes o ver and comes out alive !' yelled a fat man who put poison for his neighbor's dog the night before. •He'll be worth it!' said another. 'For heaven 'a sake give me a pole !' shouted a long-legged man who had shot two dogs that morniog, as he leaped off the approach of the bridge and waded through the old tin cans to the water 'a edge. 'Give that man a pole J' again yell ed the fat man getting red in tbe face and climbing upon the railing. 'Poor doggie, why don't those men save the helpless thing ?' said a lady who rode up in a carriage with her husband. 'A hundred dollars for the dog if be gets through alive !' whooped the fat man, recklessly raising his own bid and leaning out over the water. 'Hurry up with that rope 1' 'Bring a pole !' 'Doggio, doggie, nice doggie ! Come on !' But the dog did nothing but look meekly around and occasionally wag his tail as if he was trying to explain he never expected to raise all this row. The ice reached tbe falls, and as the forward edge glided over tho dog step ped back a little and then went over and out into tbe spray and toara. 'Some of you fools go below and pull him out 1' screamed the fat man. 'I kin lick thor man who says that air dog don't pull through !' remark ed a raw boned man who bad not spoken before. 'Course you can,' said another one in hearing. Just then the dog appeared some distance below the fall. He shot up out of an eddy and being near a rock, swam to it, leaped to the shore and ran back toward the crowd. 'He's all right!' cried every man on tbe bridge.' •Well. I'll be hanged,'said the fat man who had made the larco offers, as the dog came nearer. I'm a liar if it ain't the same blamed cur I've been tryiug to poison for two weeks !' It Touches Them All. One (lay in Willard'a hotel, in Washing ton, John T. Raymond, the netor, stood near the doorway reading a paper intent ly The article that engaged his attention WIIH a complimentary editorial about James (L Illaine. Just as the netor tinixhed bis reading Mr. Itlaine sauntered by. Mr. Raymond xtopicd him and said , "1 don't supjKise these tilings interest yon very much, as your name swarms li ver the surface of every paper in the coun try just now, hut perhaps you may care to read it." He pointed out the editorial and Mr. Itlaine read it through. "They say that public men become ut terly callous to uewspaper comment," eon tinueil the actor, "but I must say that though I have been in this business a great many years, I still manage to rake up a feel ing of pleasure when I read a oommen datry'notice. How is it with you ?" ".rust the same," said Mr. Blaine, with a quizzical smile as he passed the paj>er back. "It touches us all in one way or another." —Savannah News. Bucklen's Arnica Salve. Tux BEHT SALVE in the world for Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers. Salt Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Eruptions, and positively cures Piles, or no pay required. It Is guaranteed to give perfect sat isfaction, or money refunded. Price 25 ceuts per box. For sale by J. Elsenhuth. —First-class job work done at the JOURNAL office. Terms, SI.OO per Year, In Advance. DWARFS AND MIDGETS. The Whims and Oddities of These Little People. The dwarf business Isn't what it onoe wax.' Then, too,' continued Mr. Wheeler, 'dwarfs are running out. A few years ago they were springing up, though not very high,in all ]iurts of the world. It seemed to lie a sort of a dwarf age. For a while a 35- iiich dwarf could not earn a living salary, lie had to |m)mhcmh Home striking physical feature if he h<>|od to secure permanent sit uations with museum circuits. Now, how ever all this has changed. Ixits of tbe old time Lilliputians haw passed away, and a 40-1 tick freak can get a clinir in a first class curio hall if he is good-looking and intelli gent. The business was very nearly ruin ed at one time ly tricksters. As you have jKtssilily olmerved, midgets without excep tion have abnormally large heads. Unprin cipled showmen, when the dwarf supply Isx-amc inadequate, would take children with large heads and old faces and work them upon the circuits. There suddenly became such an influx of little folks on the market that none of the true midgets aside from Mrs. 8 trail ton or Admiral Dot could get work tiiat paid, 'fids has passed away, and there is no fraud about the present rep; resentatives of dwarfdom. 'I never saw but two perfectly formed midgets. These were Mrs. lieu. Tom Thumb, who is now Countess ltoacbud, and Princess Lucy. There is always some de formity. Take (ieuernl Thumb for instance He was badly developed in the torso. Oth er | atopic have poorly constructed limbs or arms,and almost universally they are doub b—jointed at the knees or elbows. You see the lack of stature must Ist attributable to something, ami as nearly as 1 can make out it is iu the joiuts. 'What is the most striking characteristic of these freaks ? Intemperance. There Is no class of people ou earth so given to drink. The males always like whiskey, and the females dote on Iteer. < Jen. Thumb was fond of smoking, but aside from him tobacco is not used among the men '1 never knew of but one family wherein dwarfs apiteared iu more than one genera tion. This occurred iu that of Admiral Dot. He is the uncle of Major Adams, the mid get clown of the Itamum show. Adams is twenty-one inches in height, and bis father is nearly six feet tall. Dot is traveling a bout the country now with little Jennie Quigley. They earn jointly SIOO a week. 'Shaking about Ifrincess Lucy reminds me of the event that brought her into prom inence. Years ago, when the Countess Rosebud was Mrs. Tom Thumb, a report was circulated that she had lieen blessed with a child. This was not the case, and the story was made out the whole cloth by one of Barnum's advertising agents. The Thumb family were unconscientious enough to take advantage of the canary. They had heard of the little Princess Lucy, and Mrs. Thumb sent for her anil offered to adopt her,send her to a convent for a few years,and then introduce ber to the world as her (Laughter. The scheme was a capital one, for it is iin]toHsible to tell whether Lucy is 4 or 40 years old. The princess declined the offer. She is now earning S2OO a week for being eighteen inches high. 'There are several instances where mid gets appeared in a single generation of the family. The Harris sisters are quadruplets They vary in height from thirty-six to for ty-two inches, ami are daughters of a very poor man in Eoatport, Me. The father, a mechanic, waa a magnificent specimen of physical manhood, large and powerful of build, and the mother was above medium sire. These sisters are badly deformed, all of tliem have double-jointed elbows. Be sides this they enjoy the reputation of being the homliest midgets in the profession. Young Foster, whose nom de nmsuem is 'Hop o' My Thumb,' is twenty-eight inches tall. He has a baby brother not yet a year old that weighed when ten days old one and one-half pounds. 'Lucv Zirita earns the largest salary of any dwarf in the world. She is a native of Vera Crux, Mexico, and is very small. Her head is proportioned nicely to her physique, but is shaped like that of an ape. Joseph Smith is her manager, and he gets SSOO a week for exhibiting her. The little women cannot win the affections of full-grown man kind, but the men are more fortunate. Baron Littlettngor married a lady over five feet tall, and is tlie happy father of four fine children. The late Commodore Nutt wed ded a Manchester, N. H. girl, five feet five inches tall, and left one child at his death. Minnie Warren sister of the Countess Rose bud, it is true, married a roller skater named Newell, who was with Nat Goodwiu in the 'Skating Rink.' Newell, however, while hanlly a midget, is greatly under sixe. 'Midgets are a nervous lot, and few of them are more than passably intelligent. They fiy off on a tangent like a dove from a hornet's nest. Hop o' My Thumb is the ugliest youngster of them all, and he fre quently indulges in spasms of rage. Dan gerous ? Well, as much as twenty-eight inches of humanity could bo expected to IK*.' The Art of Taking Leave. Not a few people have still to learn the art of taking have. Some will say, "It is time I was going," and then talk on niin lessly for ten minutes. They will even rise and keep their host standing ; by an effort they may succeed in getting to the.hall ! then a new thought strikes them ; they brighten visibly and stand for some min utes longer, saying nothiug of importance, but keeping everybody in a restless state. After the iloor is opened, leave taking be gins again. Very likely a last thought strikes the departing visitor, and his friend must risk a oolil to hear it to the end. There is no need to lie offensively abrupt, but, when you are re.uly to go, go at once— gracefully and politely if you can, but at any rate without tiresome delays* Rheumatism and Neuralgia eured In* a Days The Indiana Chemical Co. have discovered a compound which acts with truly marvelous rapidity In the cure of Rheumatism and Neural gia. We guarantee It to cure any and ev ery cases of acute I ntlammatory Rheumatism and Neuralgia in 2 DAYS, and to give imme diate relief iu chronic cases and effect a speedy cure. On receipt of 30 cents, in two cent stamps, we will send to any address the prescription for this wonderful compound, which can be filled by your home druggists at small cost. We take this means of giving our discovery to the public instead of puttiug it out as a patent medicine, it being much less expensive. We will gladly refund money if satisfaction is not given. Tux INDIANA. CHEMICAL CO., 4-1 y . CrawfordsviUe, lnd. If subscribers order the of . newspapers. Hie publisher* ny coiitluw® to semi iln'in until All arrearages*!"* P*W- . . If subscribers refu*e or ncMert to take tneir ne w<* papers from the ofllee to which t hey arojyni they are held responsible unttl they baveaettleU the Mils and ordered tbeiu illscontlnueu. _ . If subscribers move toother places w.thontm forming the publisher, and the ne wsgipe rr> •out to Ih^rm^rn^ mmffmoum 1 wk. i mo. I<* B * < * I Z?££ uir. *Js "z *. • |3 V" low 15 00 25 0° , JBm One tne i makes a edos*®- _Ad";tnmti}|cwi and Executors' Notices fi M. Tmnaient adver tisements find locals 10 cents per line for nrst Insertion and 6 cents per Que for each HdUltkm al Insertion* no. 21. ORIGIN OF FASHIONS. Mun'i and Woman's 8!svT to the Whims of those High la Social Station* la observing the characteristics sod changes of fashion it is impossible not to ridicule them. We msj become familiarized with a present fashion and see nothing prepostarons in the attire in which hnmaoitj may clothe itself; bat when we look back historic ally to the many devices which baye been used for her occasions we find abundance of anuaement in the rec ords of Insurious folly. The queen of fantasy has been denounced with the aorthpmas of the church, stigmatized with the ridicule of the stage and ap parently crushed by sumptuary en actments ; but " remrgam " is written oa ber brow and she stalks triumphant in every age. Many of the fashions of former days were invented to conceal some deform ity of person. Hoops, cosbions, poo lers and other monstrouß devices were substituted to make up for certain an kindnesses of Nature, who bad not graced all ber creatures with the forms to which they considered themselves entitled. Thus patches were invented in England in the reign of Edward VI. by a foreign lady, who concealed with one an eruption on her face, and to sucn a height was tbe fashion car ried that tbe ladies cut their black patches into divers grotesque forms, such as rings, crosses, crowns, etc. In a book published at tbe time tbe antbor has prefixed a picture of Virtue and cf Vice, in which virtue is modestly rep resented as wearing a plain black dress and hood, with a 'kerchief covering ber neck ; and Vice with a low-cut dress wears no 'kerchief over tbe parte which modesty should hide, and with a face variously figured with patches most curiously devised of all manner of fantastical conceits. Full-bottomed wigs were invented by a French-barber named Dnvilier for tbe purpose of concealing a deformity in the shoulder of tbe Danpbin of France, and, while tbe bean monde in England, wore their bair luxuriant, tbe bench and the bar were se en with the enormous wig, and tbe physicians ap preciated conjointly the magical effect that was paid to it by tbe world. To bide his ill-made legs, Charles VII. of France introduced long coats, reaching to tbe ground, and Henry, Duke of Anjou, wore shoes, whose points extended fully two feet, to con ceal an excrescence on one of his toes. So, also when Francis I. was obliged to wear his hair short on ac count of a wound be had received on bis bead, it became the'prevailng fash ion of the time. ' Conceive, if yon can, a beau and belle of tbe time of Queen Elisabeth, tbe beau dressed in his starched doub let, bis luxurious curls, mustache and beard starched to a point, his enor mous breeches pushed out to a most laughable excess, being stuffed with wool, hair, feathers, or other light material—to all which was attached a rapier of about four feet in length, sticking about horizontally from his side ; tbe belle with a standing ruff rising above ber head, her stays or bodice so long waisted that it reached to ber knees, with a large hoop farth ingale that extended around ber likes capacious tub, making it impossible for ber bean to impress bis love upon ber distant lips, and which allowed him only to come in contact with ex. tended bands. Yet such was the do minion of fashion that these creatures walked tbe earth, not with commiser ation of mankind, but with the 'same envy that the world now looks upon ber disciples who parade together as mincing monkey and the divinely drooping kangaroo. m NEEDED MORE THAN ONE. "John, do you remember when we used to swing on my father's front gate ?" "Ye* Maria, I da" "And the moon used to look so beautiful, John." "It did, Maria," "And the stars were so bright" "They were." "I wonder if the moon is so beautiful and the stars just as bright now as they were then, John ?" "I presume they are Maria." "Then why can't we swing on the front gate now and look at the moon and the stars and the blue skies, with their fleecy clouds, as we used to do then ?" "We can if we want to." "Then, John, let us go out to the front gate for awhile, and see if it will seem anything like it used to." "All right, Maria. You go out and try it awhile, and if you like it maybe I'll take turn at it." But Maria thought him too much of a brute to do anything of the kind. ASSOCIATION OF IDEAS. ''Say, grandma, do people always paint the devil with red clothes on because he is wicked and has evil spirits near Mm all the time ?" Yes dearie, red is the color of wickedness and sin." "Well then, is it because grandpa has bad spirits near M*p that his nose has got so red ?" And grand ma suddenly commenced to knit and she didn't know.—Aewarjfc Sunday Call.