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Escritoires, Chlffonleres, Wilting Desks, liall Hacks, Slate aud Marble Mantels In the laud. Busy all the time. Every Bid a Sale A PAPER FOR THE HOME CIRCLE. MILLIIKIM PA., THURSDAY, JUNE 1887. DOING WASHING. "I shall elutrge scvcnty-lixe cents for that Hw Iss muslin dress, with the flounces and luce insertion," said Itosuuioiid Uayforth,as sin- shook out a white, llutly mass, and pin ned it deftly tin a line which was stretched from a silver-birch tree to a tall, young mountain ash. "It's worth more than that, hut these fashionable ladies are so distress ingly parsimonious in their Ideas !" The orange glow of tho sunrise was just Hinging its sheaf of reddening arrows across the wooded side of Kplcelierry Mountains ; the birds were whistling their matin songs, ami the hidden waters of Kplocberry Greek were swirling with merry music around the gnarled tree- roots and uioss-oovered lmuld ers that obtruded themselves across its cur rent. | The wild clematis and rank fox-grape vines thai leu I vvreatlu-d themselves pictur esquely alstve the deserted /•harcoul-hurner's cabin were fluttering their tendrils in the morning breeze ; and the lire of dead sticks was crackling bravely under u huge kettle, where Miss Kayforth'i second tubful of clothes was already lsriling like a witch's cauldron. For she and t'lara Beton, Iter Moiu-mate at college, had OOUIC up here Is* fore the dawn bad uuAirbsl its js-arly banners, kin ilbsl tlteir tire and gone bravely to work. "Doesn't it seem ridiculous said Itosa nioml, as she sort<-d out half a dozen or so of sheer linen pocket haudkerchlefs, and plunged thctn up ami down in tlie bluing pail. "Last night you and 1 were waltzing in the ball-room with those two young army ortieers ; this morning we are getting out our wash. d ust, band me a few of those clothes-pins, Clara, ph-ase ! How romance and reality do jostle one another in this world, to- lie-sure ! Th*se handkerchiefs will dry directly, the sun touches them, and then we can have the lines for the large ar ticles. Arc you sure the starch isn't lumpy, Clara ? Miss Cavcndiss is so very par ticular atmut her lawn wmpiier*. And how are the irons heating up ?" Clara Setoii, who luwl just finished coiling up her inky-black hair, and had transfixed it with a long shell pin, into an im promptu furnace of charcoal that glowed under the *lo|ic of a prodigious rock, liefore which half a dozen tlatiroiis w ere s-t on end." "They'll is- in prime order in half an hour," said site. "Do you snpjioKe, Rosy, they'll be there to-night again ?" "The tlatiroiis ?" "No, the army officers." "Most likely," said Rosamond, with a clothes-pin in lier mouth, as she t*ssl on tipts- to hang a rilffied petticoat to the liri-eze. "1 lu-ard tlietn ask Flora Foster if we were staying at the Mountain Mouse. "IHi, did you '.' And w bat did she say ?" "She said she U-lleTtxl we were camping out somewhere.". "S.i we are," said Clara laughing. "And she added — the dear gossipy little thing! — that we were artists, who spent most of our time in sketching. There, Clara, the cjotlics-liiics an* full at last. We'll ad journ long enough t<drink our cold coltcc and cat some bread and. milk. Oli yes ! we're camping out — there e ni't Is- any mis take aliont that," she went on, w ith a laugh, as the two girls sat down In the shade of the hazel bushes to partake of their simple morning meal. "Hut 1 often wonder what the Mountain House jsnple would say if they knew that we were the French la m dresses to whom the landlord's wife sends their muslin gowns and Swiss polonaises to Is- done up." "What do we care ?" retorted Clara, with a shrug of her shoulder*. "Nothing in the world. Hut isn't it com ical, Clara, when one thinks back over it all ! Ilow we came here with our easel* ami our palettes, and our coloring tubes, ex peeling to make our fortunes as artists, (tainting woodland scenes on bireli-bark, and reproducing the sunsets on bits of mill board. And then we discovered that every farmer's daughter in the neigliliorliood was doing the same tiling, and that art was at a hopeless discount. And next— you remem ber Clara — we tried to play the piano for tin dancing, until tlie colons! fiddlers came o vcr the mountain and underbid us altogeth er. And we had no money to buy our tick ets back to the city, nor to pay our hotel hills, until— until— one fortunate day the laundress lost her teni|>cr and left at an hour'* notice, and I helped Mrs. bitch out of her dilemma!" "And now," said Clara, "we are making eight or ten dollars a week." "Out of the wash-tuli," said Ro*aiiiond, blithely ; "and lioarding ourselves. Oh, how thankful I am that. I sj>ent that long, dreary, dismal winter with old Aunt Abi gail, in a haunted hotito- where no help could 1h- induced to stay, ami then and there learned to wash and iron equal to any hea then Chinee !" "I believe, Rosamond, that you would laugh at anything." "Hut it is so ridiculous, " jiersisted merry Rosamond. "To think of the downfall that our lofty ideas had. From artist to wtudier womaii ! From Prussian blue and Veue tion red to indigo hags and starch !" And she jumped up and ran hack to the boiler, which was now spluttering and luil lriing like some infuriated monster. "It's luriling over, Clara— it's boiling over !" she cried, ill loud, sweet accents. "Help me off with it—quick or the clothes will lu- burned." "Allow me," spoke n calm, deep voice; and the next moment tlie kettle was swung off the impromtu crane upon the grass lu low, and Rosamond Ray forth found herself face to face with Captain Alford, the taller and handsomer of the two officers with whom she had waltzed the midnight before. While Harry Drayton, tin- younger cavalry man, advanced through the hushes, with Ids gun balanced over ids shoulder, and the countenance of one who was sure ol a wel come. "No this is camp," said he. "Yes," said Rosamond, steeling herself to the occasion ; "this is the camp. Won't you walk In, Captain Alford V And yon Mr. Drayton ?" "Hut I shall 1m- interrupting you." Rosamond smiled ; a cheery sparkle came into her soft, dark eyes. "A little," she owned. '"We are always busy at this time of day, Clara and I. In the afternoon—you will probably set; us tit the hotel, In our liest frocks and with our hair out of crlinping-plns." Captain Alford glanced helplessly a round. "Oh, I see," said he. "But just liere-you are " j "I bring tlo washing," explained Ilosa inoiul, m-rt-iii'ly. "Ihm't you *'•(< tin- < lotlies jon tin* Hues ? Ami we shall lw Ironing in 1 nil hour or two. We are working-bee*, <* ipt.iin Ali'ord." ••Couldn't w.' help ?" said llarry Dray ton, groiiiuling arms at onee. "I'm afraid not f" said Clara, reiblenlug. "Dh, Captain Alfnrd," eri<<! Rosamund, unable longer to ri-pn*ss le-r laught.-r, "ilon't look s<i ts-wlldered, ami I'll tell you the l - ■ ginning, the middle and the eiul of it lit j onee." "1 HupjMjse you are doing tlds for a joke," said Captain AI ford ; "or as a wager, js-r --haps. Ladies do sometime* ls-t, as 1 have heard." Hut Rosamond shook her head, still with the roguish dimples gleaming around her lips, the diamond-sparkles in her eyes." "No," saiti she, "we are not doing it for a joke, nor yet for a wager. We catuc up lu-re as artists, hut we soon found that we should starve to death on art." And she told the whole of her simple story. "No one knew it but Mrs. Field,the land lady," said she. "Not that we are ashamed of it, but' — with a sudden rising of color to Iter cheeks —'one doesn't like to lsi talked alsnit, you know." "Ashamed!" erted the captain. "1 should think not. Why, I never saw sueli plucky girls in my life." "You are regular heroines," applauded Mr. Drayton. Tliey sat and talked until the blue shadows crept ofl° the mountain -side, and the tramp of tlie guide's ft sit steps on the rocks warned the two officers that it was time to sot forth on their day's exjsxJition, and when they vanished into the gh-ns, Clara and Rosa mond stood watching them. "For the last time !" said Rosamond. Clara st:irt<xl. "Why ?" said she. "Why, because !" said Rosaiuoud. "You will six*. It's very easy to talk, tint they will not coim- hack to us again. If there is anything a man dislikes, it is to see a wo man strike out for herself." "Nonsense !" said Clara. "It is true," nodded Rosamond. "You will see." Hut Iter prophesies failed. The two hunt ers stopjM-d on their way back, to leave sonn squirrels ami a tempting branch of wild plums at the charcoal cabin. The next day they strolled up again. "It's a deal jollier up here than down at tlie hotel," declared Alford. "If we shan't bore yon," said Drayton. And so they kept coming until the end of the season arrived, garlanded iilsnit with still night frosts, scarlet leaves aud stealthi ly-dropping nuts. "I)o you know ," said Alford,mournfully, "the regiment is ordered to Arizona ? And I've got to report at headquarters next week." Rosamond vlewixl him with sympathetic eyes. "Is Arizona so very had ?" sabl she, "I—l shouldn't mind it," stammered the young officer, "if you were going with me. Tell me, Rose, would — would you Is- will ing to go to Arizona for tny sake ?" "Rut," faltered Rosamond, "what will Clara say to my leaving her, when we've always lseii in a sort of partnership, you know ?" Captain A1 ford's arm stole softly around Miss Ray fort li's trim wrist. "Hut suppose you form a new partner ship ?" said he. "As for Miss Seton — why there's Drayton worships the very ground she walks on, you know. Come ! nlmut Arizona ? It would Is- the Garden of Kdcn to me if you were there. Won't you say yes, dear Rosamond ?" And how Rosamond and Clara rejoiced in spirit that they had saved up enough money from the proceeds of their summer campaign to buy two neat, little trousseaux. "After all," said Rosamond, joyfully, "then- is nothing like Wing independent." "llarry says," whis|K-red Clara, "that 1 never looked so well in my life, as when I stood there hanging out clothe* on the mountain side." "And Will declares," added Rosamond, "th:it he fell in love with mc when 1 tried to lift the big kettle off the tire, and could not. D'-ir Clara, what fortunate girls we are." "And what liappy girls we are !" cried Clara. A ItKFORXED GAMBLER. Kvangellst Forrest mid Ills lVculliir Work in San Francisco. Kvangelist Nisi Forrest's broadcloth coat had not a speck of dust upon it, his white four-in-hand scarf was ndjush-d to a nicety around his 'mt-my-chiii* collar, and ids hair wa* hanged and plastered as accurate ly as vaseline would stick it, when lie ln-- gan operations on the souls of his very re spectable audience at the Central Methodist Church last evening. The refirnicd slmrt card player was the central brilliant in a setting of smart young women who sang more or less, and five gentlemen of various degrees of thickness, who formed the male portion of the choir. The cxliorter had the pulpit moved to one side so as to leave the platform free for his exaspearted The audience was conqiosod mainly of tlie ui'ilc sex, the fairer half of creation lieing bxi much mystitb-d by the reformed gambler's technical slang to appreciate liis sallies, while the men present atl'ectcd the bald head by a large majority. Forrest's vernacular frequently brought down the house, his al lusions to 'full hands' and 'straight flushes,' 'bluffing,' straddles,' 'antes,' and 'stoeke I dcals'ln-ing thoroughly enjoyed and appar ently appreciated. A particularly unique feature of the series of services is tlie ali s.'iicc of the collection plate. Out of regard for the conventionalities, hut evidently for no other reason, Forrest selected a text, 'Saved by Hope,' which he announced was to he found in eighth Romans, iMili verse, and paid no further attention to. The services were opened by singing, which lie started with the injunction to the young lady in frizzes, who played the organ, to 'let her go !' And she did 'let her go,' and the choir 'let her go,' and there was some noise there or thereal units. 'Glad to see so many of the hoys lu-re to niglit,' began the speaker. 'I feel that God called me unto the work for the boys. When a man of my age has spent fifteen years going down to hell and has been stop js-d, lie owes a debt of gratitude. That's what 1 owe, and I want to cash it. 'To-night I Jim uot going to talk to ceme teries. God only knows the secrets of the graveyards. Scores that lay out in Lone Terms, SI.OO per Year, in Advance. Mountain refused the Lord. When the cask is screwed down there 1* no chanes for a follow. When tin; era]*- is hanged In-fore til-- <lHr you can't cash your chock*. Twice in my life I have Li I<l at death'* door, once with a knife-wound and once with a '44' that left a bole in my neck I can put my linger into.' 'The revivalist described bow a parson in a Herman over a drunkard'* liody promised the wife and mother and daughter to meet Id in in heiveu." 'No, he went to hell !' cried the evangel ist. 'A gambler dou't want to go to heav en. H 'd have no one to play a game with.* The exhortor here fell Into a lachrymose condition, during which he dealt in consid erable sentiment, and related the story of hi* own conversion while dealing fan). He claimed to have heeu too wicked for de scription, ton low for the imagination to grasp, ami took huge satisfaction in thei picture of depravity which he presented. 'lint,' he shouted, smiting the pulpit a mighty thwack, 'l've found a game that pays. I've found a hand thai win* every hour of my life ; it's a hand no man can hold over, no man can bluff me on. It is the hand God dealt to me, and I won't lay it down until I lay it down at the throne of The converted gambler then depicted a girl initiated into a game of cards in a home, and a year later staggering up the street. Then, somewhat irrelevantly, he aasert el: 'A gambler has a heart as big as a church. God bless and have mercy on the gamblers of Sati Francisco. The only time I ever held a sure, good hand that couldn't Ik* done up 1 hold now.' 'A friend of mine I heljsvl plant in Lead ville. There was a man who held as big a roll as any man in 'Frisco, I found him lying dying from consumption. 'I don't want to squeal at the tail end of my life' he said. 'That isnt squealing,' I said. So 1 found a parson and set him to work on him. We all got down on our knees, and while we prayed he gas]**l, 'God, if there's any such a thing as mercy for such a one as me, give it ter me.' 'Men say tlicy don't like such a thing as a hell. Well, I lielieve in a straight, regu lar, A No. I hell. I know a feller who was an infidel who dropped off a Isjat into the river. They got him up and I done the bar rel act on him, and he was fixed, when the first thing he says was, 'Thank God !* 'Thought you didn't believe in God ?' said u duck who stood by. 'That's all right,' said the feller they fished up. 'lnfidelity is a good enough thing on top of the boat, but a pretty poor thing to go down onto keel with.' 'Now,you fi llers,lK.k out,or the devil will le- J il.lying euchre with you over a dry-goods IK>X in hell. That's good enough place for some poor fellows,anyhow. A few years a go in Mexico,l was playing a game of cards. This Mexican iluck I was playing with thought I hail took a card. I was accused of the act. It may have been an accident. It might have Wn a theft, I was in finan cial straits. The Mexican thought it was a theft. I will leave it to you. This fellow didn't say a word. He just pulled a gun and let her go, and I went down all in a heap. They took tue to a hotel. A Sister of Charity came and took care of me. 1 was a sharper to her. I was a Protestant and 1 never now see one of those women without uncovering to them. She asked me to accept Christ. I would not. I was bitter and wanted to let it out for this fellow. So when I was well I followed this duck down into old Mexico. We came together, but, thank God it was only a wound.' 'Speaking of his finances, Forrest said: 'To-night if I was called hoiuetoPhihulelphia 1 couldn't go. Why ? I haven't the mon ey to pay my own and my wife's fare back. Hut 1 would rather live as now, with a sure winner lor eternal life, to having all the money I once had. God help you to-night to get a winning hand. It's a square deal. I like to see a man come down and say : 'God 1 have lieen a bail, miserable, wicked man, and 1 want help.' That man means business. When I was a gambler I wore good clothes and had a cluster. I didn't walk much. I generally rode in a carriage and did the gehtlemau act,'— Han /Vaiicuco Chronicle. MARK TWAIN AS A SOLDIER. Ills Part in the Itloodicst lint tie Ever Fought in the Human History. The following is from The Balti more American report of the twenty second anniversary of the Veteran as sociation of Maryland : "Mark Twain responded to the toast, ''The Camp fire." lie was greeted with cheers and applause. ''When your secretary invited me to this reunion of the union veterans of Maryland, be requested mo to come prepared to clear up a matter which he said bad long been a subject of dis pute and bad blood in war circles in this country—to wit., the true dimen sions of my military services in the civil war and the effect which tbey had upon the general result. 1 recog nized the importance of this thing to history, and I have come prepared, [{ere arc tLe details. I was in the civil war two weeks. In that brief time I rose from private to second lieutenant. The monumental feature of my campaign was the one battle which my command fought—it was iu the summer of '6l. It Ido say it, it was the bloodiest battle ever fought iu the human history; there is noth ing approaching it for the destruction of human lite in the field, if you take in consideration the forces engaged and the proportion of death to survival.And yet you do not even know tho narao of that battle. Neither do I. It had a name but I have forrgotten it. It is no use to keep up private informa tion which you cati 1 * show off. Now look at the way history does. It tak ei the battle of Boonveille,fought near by about the date of our slaughter, and shouts its teeth loose over it, and yet never mentions ours ; don't even call it an "affair dosen't call it any- NO. 2H- WISWSPAMtB uw If subscribers oricr the dlacoHtin nation or newspapers the J ,nn^s£^L_ m Al send tluun nnUt all ai rwm** *r A . rK;KH„r l H? "SgEj J Jm LXI *4 00 # fVP ><" WW ?•• 10in 15mI i ,3.._?.g One Ino makes and Executor*' NotlWifttK llseinenU uiid local* WMd I*. Insert lon and 6 ouuU |r lfn wr eaeto luJrtltlon nl Insertion' i tiling at all : never even beard of it. Whereas, what are the facts ? Why these: In the battle of Boonaville there were 2,000 men engaged on U>o Union aide and abont as many on the otber—supposed to bte. The casuali tiea, all told, were two men killed out right, but ouly half of tbem, for tbo otber man died intbe hospital the next daj. I know this because bis great uncle was a second coosin to iny grandfather, who spoke two languag es and was perfectly honorable and upright, though be bad warts all over bini, and used to—but never mind about that, the facta are juSt as I say, and I can prove it. Two men killed In the battle of Booneville, that's tbo whole result, all the others got away— on both sides. Now then, in our bat tle there wis just fifteen men engaged on our side, all brigadier generals but rue, and I second lieutenant. On the otber side there wae one man. He was a stranger. We killed him. It was night, and we thought he was an army of observation—in fact be look ed bigger than an array of observation would in the day time ; and-some of us believed that he was tryiog to sur round us, and some thought he was going to try to turn our position, and so we shot him. Poor fellow, be probably wasn't an army of observa tion, after all, but t>hat wasn't our fault; as I say, be had the look of it in dim light It was a sorrowfnl circum stance, but be took the chances of war and he drew the wrong; he overstima tedhis fighting strength,and he suffered the likely result but he fell as the | brave should fall—with his face to the foe and feet.to the field—so we buried him with the honors of waa-and took bis things. So began end so ended the only battle in the history of the world where the opposing lorce was utterly exterminated,swept away from the face of the earth—to the last man. And yet yoa don't know the name of that battle ; yon don't even know the name of that man. Now, then, for argument Suppose I bad continued in the war and gone on as I began, and exterminated the opposing force every time—every two weeks—where would your war, have been ? Why yon see yourself, the conflict wonld have been one-sided. There was bat one course honorable for me to pnrsne and I pursued it. I withdrew to private life and gave the anion canse a chance. There, now, you have the whole thing in a nut-shell; it was not my pres ence in the civil war that determined that tremendous contest—it was my retirement from it that brought the crash. I left the confederate side too weak. Aod yet, when I stop and think, I can not regret my coarse. No, when I look abroad over this hap py land with its wonnds healed and its enmities forgotten ; this reunited sisterhood of majestic states; this freest of the free commonwealths the sun in bis course shines upon ; this one sole country nam&ble in tradition or history, where a roan is a man and manhood the only royalty; this people ruled by the justest and wholesomest laws and the government yet devised by the wisdom of men ; this mightiest of the civilized empires of the earth, in numbers, in prosperity, in progress and in promise ; and reflect that there is no north, no south any more, but that as in the old time, it is now and will remain forever, in the beatrs and speech of Americans, our land, our country, our giant empire,and the flag floating in its firmanent our flag, I would not wish it otharwise. No, when I look about me, contemplate these sublime results, I feel deep down in my heart, that I acted for the best when I took my shoulder out rrom under the confederacy and let it come down." He finished in a roar of applause that shook the room. An Expert's Opinion of Exercise. Take the heart—itself a very bundle of muscular fibres. We know that as long as we live, whether sleeping or waking that wonderful organ keeps up its wonderful contractions and expan sions. But, when we use our muscles, their contractibe force upon the blood vessels helps the blood along its chan nels, and thus takes a little labor from the propelling heart. It beats faster but with less effort. While helping the heart,muscular exercise helps the lungs also. More exercise means for the lungs more breath; that is, more air in spired and more carbonic-acid gas ex pired. By deeper breathings the inyol untary muscles are strengthened. While the lungs and heart are doing better work under the stimulus of mus cular exercise, the heart pumping the blood more certainly to the farthermost tissue of the body and the luDgs more rapidly purifying the blood, other or gans are benefited. The diaphragm, that muscle seperating the lungs and heart from the stomach and liver, is rising and falling, and,with the increas ed expansion and contraction of the walls of the thorax, is moyinsrallthe contents of the abdomen to activity. The liver, the great gland of the body, has not only more bkod sent to it, bat is actuated to action.
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