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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-
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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.