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A I'APKIL FOR THE HOME CIItCI.E
MILLHEIM PA.. THURSDAY. JULY 21., 1887.
The Strike at Groton
Gorge.
Arethusa Allen was only eighteen when
she came to Grotou (Jorge to take charge of
tlie district school —A slight, dark-eyed slip
of a thing, with a low voice, and such a
shy, timid way, that THE big girls ami the
rolielliouH boys at once juui|ied to the con
clusion that she would IS' conquered at once
iu Iter cap:U i(y of "school-ma'am."
They discovered their mistake, however,
ill a very brief |ieriod of time. Miss Allen
might IS' quiet, hut site had the spirit of a
■ loan of Are. She reduced her little flock to
order, atul she kept them there, too.
Mrs. Itiuns, who presided over the Gorge
House, .ALSO I tore testimony iu bclialf of
A roth una Allen.
"I didn't S'LMISC, when I first seen iter, that
she would amount to A row of plus," said
Mrs. Itiuns, who weighed throe hundred
]siuiids, aud stood live feet eight iu her
Ktoekings. "A slim, school girl-hstkin'
creetur like that ! And I hadn't a room to
spare, and I didn't SIS- how I could itossildy
accommodate her. Hut she s]toko up so
pretty-like, that she Hiulu't no friends aud
did'nt know where to go, so says I : 'IF you
don't miml a room over the laundry, I can
clear out some of the stores and put up a
eot-lssl till the season is over. It's a noisy
place daytimes,' says I, 'with them Chinese
cackling and scrceekiu', hut it's still and
jteaceable of nights. And if you'll help me
make out the hills ami keep the accounts,
Miss Allen,' says I, 'l'll consider it in your
board, for 1 ain't no scholar and never
wus. '
Mrs. Binns was an ungainly creature to
look at, hut she was as beautiful at heart as
the Venus di Medici's self, and Arethusa
soon felt herself at home in the little room
over the laundry, whose windows looked
out at the thread-like fall of a silver cascade
ami the unfathomable gloom of 'he fir glens
beyond. For Groton Gorge was as lovely a
place as ever leaned from mountain plateau
over the misty valley lielow ; and the Grot
on House was full of city boarders.
Nor was the domestic stall' contemptible.
Mrs. Hinns had all her servants from the
city during the summer season, aud to all
apjiearanees, everything went on velvet.
Until one foggy August morning, when
Mrs. Ilinus awakened to find herself racked
in every joint by acute rheumatism, and ut
terly incapable of moving.
She sent for Mrs. Mackenzie, the cook, to
give the (lay's orders ; hut Mrs. Macken
zie did not wait to hear alsiut roasting
chickens and joints of spring lamb, before
she IS-gan on her own account,
"Sorry to inconvenience you, ma'am,"
said Mrs. Mackenzie, with her arms akim-
IMI ; "but we ladies and gentlemen down
stairs have concluded to ask for an increase
of salary. And until you have conceded to
ttur demands, we shall Im- iiii]M-lbsl to resist
froui work."
Mrs. Binns o|ieucd her eves w ide.
"Ain't I payin* you good wages al
ready ?" sahl she. "And 1 can't afford to
pay no more — not a cent !"
Mrs. Mackenzie took a roll "of pajer out
of her apron-poeket and ojened it.
"I have here, ma'am," said she, pursing
up her thin lips, "the signatures of all the
ladies and gents at present assistiu' in the
mediterranean rcgises down stairs, inclu
ding the four waiters of the colored gender
ami the two Chinese washer-laundries : and
we won't none of us stay another hour
without you'll agree in arumeuLiry writ in',
ma'am, to raise our salaries."
And Mrs. Mackenzie tossed her head iu
spiteful satisfaction.
Mrs. Itiuns sank hack on her pillows.
"I can't give no answer," sahl she —'not
with this ] tain iu my bones. Send Miss
Arethusa Allen to me, please."
"GH, certainly, ma'am—certainly !" said
the cook,rising. "Sorry you feel so poorly.
Hut you'll liear in mind, ma'am, that we
shall expect an answer immediate."
And Mrs. Mackenzie withdrew.
Presently Arethusa Allen came in — for,
as it chanced, the district school had closed
a week previously, for the summer vacation
— and found Mrs. Binns disolvcxl in tears.
. "What is it, dear Mrs. Itiuns ?" sahl
Arethusa.
"The help has all struck for higher wa
ges I" cried Mrs. Itiuns. "And I'm payin'
'em more than I can afford now. And all
the prices of provisions have riz, and I may
as well close the place at once. Oh, Are
thusa, my head aches so 1 can't think I
What shall I do ? Tell me — there's a
dear !"
"Nothing," said Arethusa, quietly. "Just
lie down again and let me [send for a doc
tor."
"Hut the lmardcrs and the dinner ?"
"I'll see to that," sahl Aretliusa. "Trust
me, and all shall be right. Those people
down stairs have lieen growing idler, and
more domineering and inefficient, every
day ; and now they want yon to pay them
more money for doing less work. There
must Itc an end to this. You will empower
me with full authority !"
Mrs, Hinns sent for the cook.
"Mrs. Mackenzie," said she, "I am too
sick to parley with you, hut Miss Allen will
represent me fully. What she says, I
say !"
And she lay down ami turned her face to
the wall, with shut eyes, as if "he washed
iter hands of the whole concern ; w hile Mrs.
Mackenzie bridled ami turned to the slim
young schist! teacher, who in her heart she
secretly despised "as no lietter than a ser
vant herself, with all them airs and graces
of liern."
"Well, Miss Allen, said she, "what's
your mind on the subject ? The sooner tbe
question is settled the ltotter for all parties.
We ain't going to stand her imposition !"
Whatever idea Arethusa might have cn
tcrLiincd as to A-compromise was thorough
ly banished by the cool insolence of the last
remark.
"Yon may go," said she.
"Hey ?" said Mrs. Mackenzie, bristling
up like a setting lien.
"I decline to entertain your proposal,"
said Arethusa, calmly. "Pack up your
things, all of you, and the lionst? at once.
If you are cxpe-ditious, you may succeed In
taking the noon-train, that stops at the
Gorge.
And she paid their wages, out of Mrs.
Binu'S cherry-wood secretary, and dis
charged them, as the good lady afterward
remarked, "liorse, foot and dragoons."
Then she called a convention of the hoard
ers, and told the tale.
"If you won't mind a dinner of cold lamb
and lettuce to-day," said she, "with a des
sert of snow-pudding that I can wake my-
tmlf, I will promise you soiuetliing more
oiulMtrate to-morrow."
And they all ehwrfully eonm-NBSL.
.loliii, the Htalile-lioy, was the only adher
ent left, and he harnessed up the horses and
drove Miss Allen down the mountain-side
to U fiirm-lioiise, where livSL Mrs. IH-asley,
the loot Iter of the hlg Isiy who had IS-en the
HehiMil-mit'iim's worst enemy at lirst and
her most faithful ally ever afterward.
"Mrs. Ileasely," said Arethusa, "I want
to lmrrow your two daughters !"
"Jtless me, Miss Aretluisa !" said the
GIHHL woman, "what for ?"
"To help me at the (Jorge house !" aud
Arethusa told her story. "Joanna ami
Fanny are quick, smart girls. I'll pay
them a dollar ami A half a week to net as
waitresses."
"They'd oblige you, Miss Arethusa,
cheerfully, w ithout a cent," said Mrs. DEAS
ley.
"They w ill oblige me more by accepting
a suitable remuneration," said Arethusa.
"At this stage of the world, everything is
worth its money value, yon know. What
say you, girls ! Will you go ?"
"And welcome," said Fanny.
"If we can learn the business," said Jo
anna, who was shyer, and more distrustful
of herself.
'l'll make it my business to instruct
you," said Arethusa, brightly. "Pack up
your things. ITC ready to jump into the
wagon when I come back."
"Can't 1 do uothiug Miss ALLCU ?" suid
big Junius, w istfully.
"1 am going to get Susan Rich to do the
washing," said Arethusa. "If you would
turn the handle for l>.;-r sometimes —"
"I'll turn It ftpom now till doomsday, if
it'll help you, Miss Allen," said Junius.
Susan ain't half a HAD girl, neither, if she
didn't chuff a fellow so."
"Thank you, Junius," said Miss Allen.
"You will oblige me very much, iudeed."
Mrs. Ridley, who hud once been liouse
keejtcr iu a grand Pouglikeepsie family,and
now LIV<SL on her interest money, volun
teered as cook, with the assistance of Mar
iau Sevier, the rector's daughter, who had
s|S'iit a winter in New York and Liken les
sons of Miss Parhia.
"It will such fun, "said pretty Marian,
dancing up and down. "Aud Mark isto be
Arethusa's caterer, and seud in supplies to
her."
"Yes," said Mark Sevier— A college pro
fessor—who had just come home to the par
sonage to upend ids vacation —"the Gorge
House shall Is? lils-raily supplied, even if I
have to turn highway robber for Arethusa's
benefit. Hut I hope, Arethusa, there need
Is- no danger of our cowing to that extrem
ity. I know the farmers who raise latuVw,
and calves, and tender young 'broilers.' I
can put my brooks where trout do congre
gate, and hoys who would like nothing liet
ter than to catch them. I know where the
berry-pickers live, aud there isn't a melon
patch or a plum orchard that I can't press
into the service. You shall live like epi
cures at the Gorge House !*
"Oh, Mr. Sevier, how can I ever thauk
you ?" said Arethusa, who had scarcely
known how to manage this I>ortiou of her
duties.
"I)o not try," said Mark, gaily.
Ktiprasia Hoggs, the dressmaker, and
Kitty Plume, who woverag-cnrjietH, swelled
the ranks of wai trusses, as soon as they learn
ed that Miss Sevier was going into the
kitchen, and that Arethusa herself was to
give out the linen aud help with the des
serts ; old Mrs. Jenkins came as dishwash
er.
"Anything to earn an honest penny,"
said she.
And the waitresses, when oft" meal-duty,
were to act as charnls-rmaids, under Are
thusa's own direction, so that by night-fall
the new SLIFLF of attendants were all on ser
vice.
"Well," cried Arethusa, gaily, to MRS.
llinns, "what do you think now ?"
"I dunno what to think," said the land
lady, with a sigh of Intense relief. "It does
seem as if you hail witches' blood in your
veins, Arethusa."
The little band of industry worked well
under its enthusiastic young leader. Of
course then- were some "hitches," some
awk ward Besses, a few blunders. What
housekeeping machinery was ever entirely
devoid thereof ? Hut on the whole it was
a distinguished success. Gorge House had
never known a better season. Mrs. Ilinns's
treasury hail never represented a more sat
isfactory balance. And when the btwnlers,
driven by keen Octols-r frosts, weut away,
many of them had engaged rooms for the
ensuing season.
Mrs. Hiuns hugged and kissed Arethusa,
with the heartiest good will.
"My dear," said she, "if ever a fat old
woman as dou't deserve it had a guardian
angel, you're mine. And you'll be here
next season to help me ? Promise, now I"
"Oh, I couldn't promise !" faltered Are
thusa. "I am going to Europe next sum
mer, with — with Mr. Sevier.'
For one second, Mrs. Ilinus was struck
dumb.
"I might have, know 11 it," said she, re
covering herself at last. "There wasn't
never anything going on, hut Mark some
how always got mixed up with it. He's
the handsomest fellow hcrcaltoutn, as you
are the prettiest girl. I hate to lose you ;
but 1 can'T find it in my heart to grudge
your good luck ; and 1 must try and get
along without you as best I can next sum
mer, hut 1 do hope to gracious that 1 shan't
have no more strikes. — Helen Forrest (J rare*.
WlFE— 'What did you think of that hat
Miss FusSanfeathers wore to church this
morning ?'
Hushaml —'l didn't notice M iss Fussan
feather's hat. '
'lt's very funny you didn't see it. She
sat directly in front of you.*
'Well, suppose she did. Do you suppose
I go to church TO look at women's hats ?'
'Well, my dear, it's the same hat MISS
Fussanfeatlier wore to the theatre last night,
and which you claimed obstructed your
view of the stage.'
Husband concludes that he was caught
napping.
A German hits succeeded in accurately
photographing a flash of lightuing. In or
der not to Le behind the achievements of
the effete monarchies of the Old World, an
American has caugut a life-like photograph
of a elap of thunder, and is now experiment
ing on the rumble of the earthquake.
'Mr. Brown', said Dumley, 'I call to re
quest your daughter's hand iu marriage.'
'Her hand ?'
'Yes, sir.'
'What's the matter with askiug for the
girl?'
Terms, SI.OO per Year, in Advance.
Origin of the Haying "And It Wasn't
a Day for Ducks, Either.*'
In 1 mm, n year before the war, a party of
Northern Illinois hunterslibsltheniaelvoa to
the lukes of Minnesota for An annual duck
limit of a few weeks, making the journey to
Ht. I'aul, which was at that time hut little
more than a frontier village, hy a steamer
from Dubuque, la. AIIIOIIK T lie party was
n eliap natimtl Trail x, a powerful liar, hilt a
jolly Koohiiuttired fellow withal, whose
predominant weakness was readily excused,
if not entirely overlooked, by those who
knew Idm well, Al>e, that living his first
name, seemed to struggle more recklessly
and naturally with the truth when talking
aitout his prowess as a limit *r of game thau
on any other subject, flue day, as the
steamer was plowng its way through Lake
Pepin, a number of the male passengers
were Heated forward oil the boiler deck in
little knots passing the time away in con
versation. Abe was a prominent figure in
one of the groups and li.ul already astonish
ed himself fairly by the whop|M<rs lie had
successfully got off, when the mission
which himself and friends were out on, was
adverted to.
'l've shot a few ducks in my time,' broke
iu AU-, during a momentary lull in the
talk.
'How many did you ever kill iu one
day ?' queried a crow-eyed passenger front
down alsiut llurliiigtou.
'You may not believe me, sir,' replied
Traux, 'hut in the late fall of '27 1 went
out uluue one morning alsiut seven miles
with my dog and gun and brought home
'2Oll ducks hy actual count, and it wasn't a
very good day for ducks, either ?'
'You did that all alone in one trip ?'
asked the cross-eyed man as he put down
s line figures on an envelope with a jiencil
he had carelessly taken from his vcst-jiock
et.
'Yes, sir, I did,' said Traux, with a tinge
of ill-humor to his tone.
Those ducks would weigh about two and
a half ]>oiinds apiece, wouldn't they ?' cas
ually remarked the llurlington man, as he
kept on iitakiug characters with his pencil.
*1 should say tliey would," remarked the
uususjiectiiig Abe.
'Well, thau,' said the persistent querist,
'you killed just fOO pounds of ducks, and if
you can tell me how one man was able to
lug that weight seven miles, and carry a
gun at the same time, you can do some
thing that uo other liar in the Northwest
can match.'
Abe reflected a minute, and with 'That's
a whopper, isn't it, gentlemen ?' he invited
the whole party iu to the bar to take some
thing at his expense.
The remark, 'And it wasn't a good day
for ducks, either,' was uscl bauteringly on
Traux during the remainder of the trip, and
in time it became common on tbe Mississip
pi, w hence it spread uutil it became one of
the proverbial Americanisms of the times.
Mexican Criminals.
Tin- criminal classes iu Mexico are among
the most accomplished artists in their line
to be found anywhere on the face of the
earth, and possess, moreover, a marvellous
power of simulating innocence, which ena
bb-s thein to impose upon the most incredu
lous. They employ the latter faculty to
great advantage in securing situations as
servants, in which capacity they find ample
sooiK- for their genius. If you detect them
in thieving and discharge or puuish them
their vindictments knows no bounds, and
they will boldly threaten future vengeance.
Nor are they slow in concocting Bchemes to
that end with sundry gentlemen of the gar
rote or stiletto, who—outwardly as respect
able as anybody—prowl the streets nightly
in the interests of their employers. The
pleasant possibilities are that some fine eve
ning when you least expect it—perhaps as
you are returning from the opera, humming
a favorite morceau, or revolving sweet
plans for love or lucre, such fancies will be
disjielled by a sudden rain of cudgels upon
your devoted head, or, worse yet, by the
keen thrust of a naliaja into the back of
your claw-hammer coat just between the
shoulders. If you be not killed outright
and yell for the police, the chances are ten
to one (you being a foreigner) that the as
sassins will assert, in voluble Spanish, that
you attempted to murder them, and the po
lice will finish wliat they failed to accom
plish.—[Philadelphia Kecord.J
Too Late to Make Remarks.
A wagon loaded with wood and
drawn by a poor old horse, driven by
a negro, was standing on Montcalm
street the other day when a pedestrian
stopped and said : 'My colored friend,
did you ever hear of transmigration ?'
•No, sah. Is it suthin' new V 'Not
very ; it is the theory that man, after
death, takes some other form.' 'Might
turn into a hoss, eh ?' 'That's it;
you might turn into a poor old horse
like this, and be over worked and ill
treated, as this one evidently is. Just
back there a little way I saw yon beat
bim with tbe butt of tbe whip.' 'Yes,
I did ; but you look heab. I want to
tell ye right heab and now, dat if I
turn into an old boss,an' doan' kickde
dashboard in de fuss time I've struck,
I won't bev nuffin' to say no moab.
Dis old boss missed his opportunity
thirty years ago, an' he fcain't got no
remarks to make now.'
Is the hotel parlor, lip. m.
'Have you any idea what time it is ?' he
asked, after he had talked her to sleep
three or four times and waked her up as
often by laughing boisterously at his own
brillant ebullitions of wit, humor and bur
lesque.
'Kcally, I haven't,' she replied wearily.
'lt certainly must lie time I was going
home,' he continued, as lie made a move
in tlie right direction.
'Oh, I am sure it is very much later than
that,' she said, sweetly and innocently, and
then he went away with a hideous sus
picion in his manly bosom.
AFTER THE ACClDENT.—Bystander—
'Doctor, what do you think of this man's
injuries ?'
Doctor—'Hump ! Two of .them are un
doubtedly fatal, but as for the rest of them,
time only can tell.'
NO. 28.
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THK FEMALE DETECTIVES,
How They are Used In Secret Polled
Works.
Ao old chief in the detective service
in this and many other states, told one
of onr reporters, yesterday, that the
Pinkerton national dctectivo agency
was now employing a great many
women as operatives, often sending
them as far as New Mexico and the
far southwest to get evidence of the
most difficult nature to ascertain. He
says, in fact, that the Pinkertons have
found, in their long experience in this
business,that there are many cases
in which the patient search, untiring
energy, and almost fruitless sagacity
of the most experienced detectives a
vail nothing while an experienced
woman operative, with the use of a
little tact and finesse, can readily as.
certain the clew and proof desired. %
Tbe methods of female detectives
vary entirely with tbe circumstances
surrounding tbe case, and none but
those who have been thoroughly tried
and proven are ever employed by the
Pinkertons. "Now," said tbe old
chief,"speaking on the subject reminds
me of somethiog I have to laugh
about. There was in tbe city a short
time since, a lady who called herself
if I remember aright, Angeline St.
Cyr, or something of that sort. She
was dressed to & queen's taste and
wore a pair of $2,000 diamond ear
drops, and jewelry enough to show
she bad plenty of money at ber com
mand. She had a handsome figure,
and ber clothes fitted so elegantly,
and she dressed in such perfect taste,
that no one who saw her dcubted that
she was some wealthy gentleman's
daughter. She boarded at a quiet
house oo one of tbe sides of the streets
with a highly respectable family, and
conducted herself io tbe most ladylike
manner, observing all tbe proprieties.
"What I am going to tell yon now
will cause an interest to be taken in
the matter locally, for there are many
in this city who will recognise the
portrait of Miss Angeline St Cyr:
She was a very tall, stylish young
lady, wore a profusion of bangs and
back bair, bonnet of tbe small close
fitting variety, and was generally
dressed for tbe street in a French gray
silk walking dress, and tippet or cape
(ldon'tknow the name of it exactly,)
that seemed to consist almost entirely
of jet beads. She generally carried a
large poeketbook in ber band, or wore
it swung around ber shoulders with a
strap.
"Now, plenty of people who know
this lady well, will read 'this article,
and if any one of them ever ascertained
her business in Nashville, or saw her
do anything unbecoming a perfect
lady, I would be surprised to hear it;
and yet I had enough business with
her to know just about what she was
doing. Notwithstanding this, she
came here in the employment of some
very prominent parties, got the in
formation she desired, communicated
ber progress to the employer from day
to day, and when she left here kissed
&U ber lady friends goodbye, telling
them she was going to Chicago.
Tbey have never heard from her since
and never will, unless in the coarse of
ber employment she is sent here a
gain.
' I understood,'* said the old chief
"tbat she got SBOOO reward, io addi
tion to her $4 per diem and expenses
for the job, and I don't believe there
is a man, or less clever woman, who
could have worked up the case at aIL
She is io New Mexico now, and I
understand she is successfully follow
ing her occupation —Nashville A
merican.
A Singular Circumstance.
"The most singular case of deafness
I've ever had anything to do with,"
said the family physician, "is that of a
woman up on a Fremont Place. She
has such a frightful noise in her head
that she can't hear a thing except
when she's in a herdic.when tbe rattle
of the vehicle sort of drowns tbe noise
in her head, and she can then hear as
well as ever She observed this pe
culiarity of ber affliction,and what did
she do the other night but bring home
a watchman's rattle and a pair of
cymbals. She didn't say anything
until ber husband came home and sat
down to dinner. He began to ask
tbe blessing, and she wishing to bear
his remarks began to bang away on
the cymbals. He stopped right in
the midst of his devotions, and asked
her wratbfully if she was craty, to
which she responded by whooping It
up a little louder, whereupon be rush
ed over to my house and said bis wife
was a raving lunatic. I went back
with bim to try and fix up matters,
but just as soon as I opened my
mouth she let fly with the watchman's
rattle. The outcome of it is tbat my
friend gets his meals down town and
spends his evenings at the City Club,
while his wife, armed with her orches
tra, goes calling on her neighbors,
and fools the children into belieying
that the circns Las come again."—
Buffalo Courier.