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THE LOTTERY OF LIFE.
Tho "Rovno des Deax Mondos," con
tains several "Incidents in tho War of
Mexican Independence," from which
wo Keleot tho following thrilling soeno.
A captain in tho insurgent army is giv
ing nn account of a meditntcd nicht at
tack upon a hacionda, situated in tho
Cordillera, and occupied by a largo
fnrco of Spanish soldiers. After a
ariety of details, ho continues
IInviuL' arrived at the hacionda un-
perceived, thanks to tho obsurity of a
moonless niirlit, we came to a halt un
der somo largo trees at omo distance
from the building, and I rode forward
from my troop in order to rcoonnoit.r
tho place. Tho hacienda, so far as I
could fcco in 'gliding across tho trees,
lormed a mice massive parallelogram,
strengthened by enormous buttresses
of hewn stone. Along this chasm, the
walls of the hacienda almost formed
tho continuation of another perpendicu
lar one, chiselled by nature hernclf in
tho rocks, to tho bottom of which tho
eye could not penetrate, for the mists
which incessantly boiled up from bo-
ow did not allow it to measure their
awful depths. This place was known
in tho country by tho name of ''the Vol
adero.''
I had explored all sides of tho build-
oit except this, wnen i Know not
what scruple of military honor incited
me to continue my rido along tho ra
vine which protected tho rear of the
hacienda. Between tho walls and the
precipice, there was a narrow path
way about six feet wide; by day the
pass ige would not have been danger
ous, but by night it was a perilous
enterprise. The walls of the farm
took an extensivo sweep, tho path
crept around their entire basement,
and to follow it to the end in the dark
neas, only two paces from the edge of
perpendicular chasm, was no very
easy taslc, oven lor as practiced
horseman as myself. Nevertheless,
did not hesitate, but boldly urged my
horse between the walls of the farm,
houso and abyss 'if the Vohdero.
had got over half tho distance with
out accident, when all of a sudden my
horso neighed aloud. This neigh
mado me shudder. I had reached
pass where tho ground was just wide
enough for tho four legs ot my horse,
and it was impossible to retraoe my
steps.
"Ualloor i exclaimed aioua, at me
risk of betraying myself whioh was
even less dangerous than encountering
a horseman in front ot me on such a
road. "There is a Christian passing
along the ravine! Keep back."
It was to late, for at that moment
a man on horseback passed round one
of the buttresses, which hero and
there obstrusv.'d this accursed path
wav. He advanced towards me.
trembled in my saddle : ray forehead
was bathed in a com sweat.
For the lovo of Godl can yon not
return?" I exclaimed, terrified at the
fearful situation in which we both
wbro olaced.
"Impossible!" teplicd tho horseman,
in a hollow voice.
I recommended mv soul to God. To
turn our horses round lor want of
- -
room, to back them along tho patli
whioh we had traversed, or to dis
mount from them, these were three
impossibilities which placed us both
in the presence of a fearful doom.
Between two horsemen so placed up.
on this fearful path, had they been
father and Bon, one of them must in
vitablv beoomo the proy of the abyss,
But a few seconds had passed, and we
were already face to face the nn
known and myself. Unr horses were
head to head, and their nostrils, dilai
ed with terror, mingled together with
their fiery breathing. Both ot us
halted in a dead silence. Above was
tho smooth and lofty wall of tho
hacienda; on the other side, but thre
feet distant from the ws.ll, opened llw
horrible gulf. Was it an enemy
had before my eyes! Tho love of ray
country, which boiled at that period i
my young bosom, icu me to nope
was.
"Are you for Mexico and the In
suracntsV I exclaimed, in a moment
of excitement, ready to spring upo
tho unfortunate horseman if he ans
wered me in tho negative.
'Mexico e lnsurnente that is my
pass woid, replied the chevalier,
am tho Colonel Garduno."
"And I am tho Captain Castinos.
Our acquaintance was of long stand
ing, and, but for our mutual agitation,
wo should havo had no need to ex
change our names. Tho colonel had
left us two davH sinco at the head of
detachment, which wo supposed to be
either prisoners or cut off, for they
had not been seen to return to the
cami).
"Well, colonel, "I oxolaimed, "I am
sorry you are not a Spaniard for ynu
perceivo that one of us miiBt yield the
pathway to the other."
Our horses had the bridle on their
leeks, and I put my hand in tho hoi
sters ot my sadulo to uraw out my
piittols.
"I 6oe it so plainly," replied, tho
colouel, with1 alarming coolness, "that
I should already havo blown out tin
brains of your horse; but' for tho fear
lest mine, in a moment ot terror,
should prebipitnto mo with yourself to
tho bottom of the abyss."
I remarked, in fact, that tho colonel
already held his pistols In his hand
Wo both maintained tho most pro
found Bilehco. Our horses felt the
danger like' ourselves, and remained
as liumovauid us u ui ir icet were
nailed to-the ground. My exoitement
had entirely subsided. "What are we
going to dot" I demanded of tho ool
ouel. "Draw lots whioh of tho two shall
leap into the ravine."
It was in trutli tho sole means of
solving the difficulty. "There aro
nevertheless some precautions to take.'1
said tho colonel. "lie who shall be
condemned by lot shall rotiro back
wards. It will ba but a feehlo chanco
of escape for him, I admit; but in
shoit, it is a chance, and especially one
in favor of the winner."
"You cling not to life, thent'1 I
cried out, terrified at the sang-froid
with which this proposition was put
to me.
"I oling to lifo more than yourself,'
sharply replied the colonel, "for I havo
a mortal outrago to avenge. But tho
time is slinpiug away, Aro you ready
to proceed to draw the last lottery in
which one of us will ever ftsiistl"
How were wo to prooccd to tho
drawing by lott By moans of tho wet
finger, like infants, or by head and
tall, liko tho school-boyBf Both ways
wcro impracticable. Our hands im
rudently stretched out over tho heads
of our frightened horses, might cause
them to givo a fatal start. Should wo
toss up u picoo of coin, tho night was
too dark to distinguish whioh sido fell
upwards. Tho colonel bethought him
an cxpodicnt, of which 1 never
should havo dreamed.
"Liston to m", captain," said the
colonel, to whom I had communicated
my perplexities; "I havo another way.
The terror which our horses feel
makos them draw every moment a
burning oreath. Thr first of ub two
whosi horso Bhall neigh ''
"Wind 1 hastily exclaimed.
"Not go shall be the loser. I know
that you are a countryman, and such
as yon can do whatever you please
with vour horso. As to myself, who
but last year wore tho gown of a theo
logical student, l tear' your equestrian
prowess. You may bo ablo to mako
your' horso neigh to hinder him from
doing eo is a very different mattor."
Wo waited in deep and anxious si
lence until tho voice of one of our
horses should break forth. This si
lence lasted for a minute for an age!
It was my horso who neighed thc'firBt,
Tho colonel gave no external manifes
tation of bis joy, but no doubt ho
thanked God to tho very bottom of his
soul.
"You will allow me a mmuto to
make my peace, with Heaven!" I said
to tlio colonel, with failing vcico.
"Will hvo mmntes bo suthcienu
"It will," I replied. The colonel
drew out his watch. I addressed to
wards the heavens, brilliant with stars,
which I thought I was looking up to
for tho last time, an intense and a
burning prayer.
"tt Is time," said the colonel.
I answered nothing, and with infirm
hand gathered up the bridle of my
horse, aud drew it within my nngors,
which were agitated by a nervous tre
mor.
Yot ono moment more, I said to
the colonel, "lor I havo need of my
coolness to carry into execution the
fearful manoeuvre which I am about
to commence"
"Granted," replied Garduno.
My education, as I havo told you,
had been in tho country. My child
hood, and part of my earliest vouth
had almost boen passed upon horse
back. I may say, without flattering
myself, that, if there was an) ono in tho
world capable of executing this eques
trian feet, it was myself. I rallied
myself with almost supernatural effort,
and succeeded in recovering my self-
possession in the very face of death.
Take it at tho worst, I had already
braved it too often to be any longer
alarmed at it. From that instant, I
dared to hope afrcrh.
As soon as my horso felt, for tho
first ince my encounter with ihe col-
oncl, the bit compressing his mouth, I
perceived that he trembled beneath
me. 1 strengtheued myaelt brmly on
my stirrups, to make the tcmhed ani
mal understand that his master no
longer trembled. I held him up with
tho bridle and the bams, as every good
horseman docs in a dangerous passage,
and, with tho bridle, the body, and
the spur together, succeeded in back
ing him a low paces, fits head was at
a greater distance from thai of tho
horse of the colonel, who encouraged
mo with his voice. Ibis done, I let
tho poor, trembling brute, who obeyed
me in spits of bis terror, reposo him
self for a few moments and then re
commenced the same manoeuvre. All
on a sudden I felt his hind legs give
way under mo. A horrible shudder
ran through ray whole frame. I dos
ed my eyes as if about to roll to tho
bottom of the abyss, and I gavo to my
body a violent impulse on the sido
next the hacienda, tho surface of which
off. red not a single projection, not a
single turf of weeds to check my de
scent. This sudden movement, joined
to tho desperate struggles of my horse,
was the salvation of my life, lie had
sprung up again on his legs, whioh
seemed ready to fall from uudet him,
so desperotely did I feel them trem
ble I had succeeded in reaching, be
tween tho brink of the precipiuo and
the wall ot the building, a spot nomo
few inches broader. A few moro
would have enabled me to have turned
him round, but to attempt it hero
would have been fatal, and I dared
not venture, i sougnt to resume mv
backward progress, step by step.
Twice tho horsu throw himself on his
bind logs and felt down upon the same
spot. It was in vain to urgo him anew,
either with voice, bndlo or spur; tho
animal obstinately refused to take a
single step in tho roar. Nevertheless
I did not feel my courage yet exhaust
od, for I had no desire to die. One
last aud solitary ohauce of safety sad
donly appeared to mo like a flash of
light, and I resolved to employ it.
Through the fastening of my boot, and
in rcaon oi my hand, was passed a
sharp and keen knifo, which I drew
from its sheath. With my left hand
I began caressing tho mano of my
horse, all tho whilo letting him hear
my voice. Tho poor animal replied to
ray caresses by a plaintive neighing;
then, not to alarm him abruptly, my
hand followed by little and little tho
curve of his nervous neck, and finally
rented upon tho spot whero tho last
vertebno unites with the cranium. Tho
horso trembled, but I calmed him with
my voice When I felt bis very life,
so to speak, palpitate in his brain be
neath my fingers, I leaned over toward
tho wall, my feet slipptd from the stir
rups, and with onn vigorous slroko I
buried tho pointed bliid j ot my knifo
in tho seat of tho vital principal.
Tho auimal fell as if thunderstruck,
without a single motion; and for my.
self, with my knees almost as high as
ray chin, I found myself on horseback
across n corpse. 1 was saved! I uttor
ed a triumphant ory, which was res
pondod to by tho colonel, and which the
abyss ro echoed with a hollow sound,
as if it felt that its prey had escaped
from it. I quitted the eaddlo, sat my
Bolf down between tho wall aud tho
body of my horso, and vigorously
pushed with my feot against tho oar
cuss of tho wrotohod animal, whioh
rolled down into tho ayos. I then
arose, and cleared at a few bounds thu
plaoo that eeparatod the placo where I
was from tho plain; and under tho
irroaistiblo reaction of tho terror whioh
I had bo long reprosiod, I sunk in a
1889.
swoon upon tho ground. Whon I re-
opened my eyes, tho oolonol was by
my side.
Against Imported Beef.
ORANGKttS AND HUTC1IKK8 ASK FOR TUB
PASSAGE OF TUB DRESSED
BEEF BILL.
Leonard Rhone, master of the Stato
Grange, Colonel Thomas and Repre
sentative tnggart, appeared before
tho Judioial General Committeo lost
Wednesday and advocated tho bill
against tho admission of Chicago
dressed beef in the Stato.
Mr. Rhone said that tho Chicago
dressed boof Syndicate killed diseased
beet and sent it hero, lie said this
bill would prevent diseased moat from
coming into this Stato by requiring an
inspection on tho boof.
A. M. Warthmau, a Philadelphia
beef packtr, described the diseased
cattle that he had seen in the slaught
er pens at St. Louis and Chicago. Ho
said ho hud seen cattle suffering with
ulcerous sores in their throats.- with
lockjaw and with pleuro-pnenmo-ma
sent into the slaughtar-hooscsj Ho
said tbero was no way. of detecting
this diseased meat after it-yas dressed
for tho market. He said- tho Grang
ers' bill should bo adopted in tho inter
est of tho publio health.
Representative Taggart said tho
Chicago syndicate had driven the
farmers of Pennsylvania out of tho
cattle growing business. He said the
farmers had been unable to find a
market for their healthy beef.
Whon Colonel Thomas came beforf
the committeo ho was asked whether
it was truo that the butchers aud
drovern of Philadelphia and Pittsburg
wore the instigators of the Grangers'
bill. Tho Ctlonel said the measure
was entirely that of tho Grange. The
farmers wero heartly for the bill and
if it was passed they wanted all the
credit for it. Messrs. Peters and Kalt-
naner, two i'utsburg butohers, gave
tno commute a graphic description of
the d'suased cattlo they had seen n
tliH Chicago stock yards.
No representatives for the Chicago
syndicate appeared before the com-
muieo. inoy are expected to come
hero next week. Colonel Thomas
sent out word to-night o all the loeal
organizations of the Stato Grange to
send in their petitions for the bill. He
said that within tho next week or so
their will be petitions before the Le
gislature bearing the names of 100.000
farmers asking for the passage of tho
Grangers' beef bill.
General Grant on Guard-
It was a drizzly day, only a short
time before General Grant drove the
enemy from Petersburg and moved to
ward Five Forks and Appomattox. A
chill northeast gale made overcoats
comfortable even there, and more men
who could woro them than left them
off.
a sentinel down toward the river,
near somo stores, shivered as ho strodo
to and fro on his post, his guulock un
der his arm to keep off the wet. Ho
was a raw recruit from "Down East,'
sent out to help fill the ranks, of a regi
merit wntcn naci lost one halt its men
since the campaign began.
tie saw a man in a regulation over
coat and with a slouch hat, but with
tho steady oarnago of.a veteran, pass
ing along a fow yards away, and he
called out to him :
"Say,- friend, have you any terbacker
in yer clothes r
1 ho passerby was smoking a cigar,
"JNo, ho replied, "1 can give you a
cigar, out 1 don t chow.
"And I don't smoke, but I'm starv
ing for a cli aw," replied tho sentinel,
as be looked over to the other wistfully.
"An I chaw, and dasn't smoke on post.
oay, couidnt you stand on post a
minute till I run over to the sutler's
yonder t"
"I could," said tho other, with a grim
smilo on his face, and then ho added
"I will. Give me your gun and
orders."
"There isn't no orders, only to halt
anybody going nigh them stores, and
to stop 'em as has no business there.
bo tho sentinel relieved of his post,
hurried to tho sutler's for the desired
tobacco. Returning promptly he took
ins gun and quietly said :
"If I get a chance I'll do as much
for vou, friond. What regiment be
you in V
"Not any. 1 belong to headquar
ters."
"What, to tho General's gnard t
What s your nainoi
l ho quiet-looking man putted out a
cloud of sraoko and said : "My name
is Grant,"
"Great Jerusalem'!" gasped the sen-
tinel. "I have been relieved by Gen
eral Grant himself, and didn't know
him."
How could he, when not a mark of
tho General's rank was in sight, and
the poor fellow was yet too greon in
servioo to Know wuai a lauit no nail
committed in yielding post and gun
to any but his regular relief 7 The
Hartford Post.
Tall Tale of a Dog.
Last 1 all I received a letter from
my son saying that he and his wifi
and daughter wore ooming to pay us a
visit; ho concluded by sa)in: "Kill
tho fatted calf and put a bottle on ice.J'
I read tho letter aloud to my wife, tho
dog (an IrUh setter) Bitting up besido
me unu louKing so wiso mat i called
my wifos attention to him, saying:
"look at the judgel' After I had finish
ed reading, he barked to go out, and
did not get home until quite late, lb
oamo in tho sitting-room whero I was
reading, and mado such demonstra
tions that I followed him to the out
side door, and in the porch 1 found
tho lower part of the leg of a calf. He
wagged his big tail and jumped up
mo, saying as plainly as
piainiy as nn could:
"There s the calf, now you attend to
the bottle!" Boston Transcript,
A lady who had lost hor soldier bus
nana continued 10 aeoorato his grave
long after being remarried to another.
Une Decoration Day, whon a son by
her second husband was about 10 yoars
old, she sent him to strew tho flowers,
Having finished his task, several of tho
decor ttlng committeo camo up, and tho
i , : 1 , r-.-x " Munuin
ho had doposited saving. "This is the
grave of my forefather."
THE COLUMBIAN, VOL XX1I1.N0 5
COLUMBIA DEMOCRAT, VOL 111, NO 4S
W. 0. T. U, Convention.
The Columbia county W. 0. T. U.
met in Convention at Millviilo Jan.
17th 1889. On tho provious evening
tho Loyal L'gion gao an entertain
ment in the Frco Churoli, which reflect
ed great credit on tho porsonf interest
ed in tlm management, and in whioh
the children wero bright and interest
ing. Tho Convention proper opened
at nine o'clock Thursday morning with
dovotional exercises. The usual routitio
of business followed. The Secretary
reported siv local Unions in tho, county
with a total membership of 139 aotives,
and 31 honorary.
The following reso.
lutlons woro adopted That the officers
of each local Union shall oonstitulo a
uuuimineu m vimi, piuujiuL-ui. UUI4.UU-j
ot their town, and uso tnoir lntiuenoe
in organizing Lw and Order Leagues.
That the following persons shall
constitute n committee to devlso plans
Of work to bring about thi l'rolnbitory
Amendment: Mrs. Walker, Bloom Mrs.
Bariutz, Catawissa, Mrs. Kcie.nart, J gut
Street, Mrs. Dr. btnith, iierwick, aire.
Edgar Kxpv. Miss J. Kester and Mr.
T.O. Wilson, MUlville. Petitions from
Millville, Bloom, Catawissa and Ber
wick and Espy, woro read and present-
ed to committee. Thco petitions
pray tho judgo ot tho court as tar as
Eossiblo, to grant no lioenso in uolum
in County. On motion meeting ad
journed. Mrs. Dr. Smith conducted
tho dovotionai exercises oi ino alter-
tioon session. Tho address of welcome
delivered by Miss Jecnio Kester was
one with exceptional merits, xurs.
Trescott 'of Berwick respondod in ap
propriato words. The address of the
President (Mrs. Guio of Catawissa)
was replete with excellent advico to
workers, and should stimulate the
members for renewed action in the
ork. Greetings sent from tho Espy
Union were read, and business followed.
The Superintendents of departments
ont but Superintendent of Sabbath
were called upon to report, none pres
Observance. Mrs. Ronev, Stato
Superintendent of Mothers' Work made
an address practical and helptul in all
lines of work. Mrs. Trescott was
elected superintendent of Mothers'
Work. Motion carried tohave uttwo
Conventions a year. Thanks wero
tendered the kind pi ople of Millvill
for their generous hospitality, and for
use of tho church.
On motion Convention adjourned to
meet in Uaiawissa in sept.
The following programme oocupied
the evening. Music by t"e choir,
Recitation Miss Guie of Catawissa.
Music, Miss Hartman and Mr. Mo
Murtrie of Berwick. Loturo "M 'there
Work," M s. Roney of Phila. Music
by the choir.
Mrs. itoney in a clear and practical
way related tho needs of tho work, and
personal experience in her particular
line of work, and impressed her hearers
with its importance.
Miss Guie rendered her recitation
with tasto and ability. The musin
throughout was excellent.
Winter Proteotlon for Fruit Trees.
Where mice and rabbits are abund
ant they are tar more destructive to
apple trees than the borers If snows
fall to a considerable depth in winter,
rabbits readily travel over tho surface
and aro enabled to reach the bark on
tho stems several feet above tho roots,
and from this point downward as the
snow settles. But mice work under
the snow, and usually at about tho
same place where tho borers are found;
consequently tar paper wrappings will
answer the double purposo ot keeping
out tho borers and prevent the attacks
of mico. It is well known that rabbits
dislike the tasto and smell of animal
matter, such as grease, blood and meat
and for this reason smearing tho stems
of applo trees with lard, blood or stale
fat pork has otten been recommended
and extensively eo-ployed to prevent
the attacks of these pests. On the
other hand mite are attracted by suuh
appltcnitons, and while eating the
grease or blood from tho trees they
aro very likely to get a taBte of the
aweet bark underneath and continue
their depredations so long as the Bnnw
protects them from observation. To
prevent the attaoks of rabbits, the
stems of young trees should bo wrap
ned with cloth or bnrk fmm'ihn rrronnd
up to the lower branches! and these
wrappings should be left on until the
following spring. Then remove them
and lay osidu for use when they shall
be needed again, provided the materials
used for this purpose aro of a durable
nature, mo thinnest kind ot tarred
roofing paper is an excellent material
tor wrapping the stems of trees to pro
tect them against tho attacks of borers,
mice and rabbits, and is cheap and
durable. American A griculturist.
A singular loss of memory is report
ed in tho Jamestown (N. Y.) Journal.
A citizen ot that placo who had sever
al stiokes of parahsis a few months
ago has so far recovered as to be ablo
to go anywhere about thu city at his
pleasure, lie can converse intelli
gently on any subject, ho was familiar
with before his sickness and remem
bers all his old friends, but has not re
gained tho faculty of recalling the
names ot his most intimato friends,
although he knows peifectly well with
whom ho is conversing. Ho under
stands and appreciates what his
mends road to mm and oan converse
readily about tho subjects read, but ho
cannot, read a word himself nor tell
one letter of tho alphabet from
another.
Communion Wine-
Physicians who havo used Spcor's
Port Grape Wine, of Now Jersov. and
havo applied to it the utriotesv test,"!
pronouuoe it strictly puro and rich body
and reoomraend it to the aged and in
firm, aud for general use whero wine
is desirable, as tho most rliablo winos
to bo had. Mr, Speer also preserves
tho grapo juice fresh and sweet just as
it ruus from the pres; not by tho use
of spirits, but by eleotrioity extracting
tho fermenting principles from the ripo
grspos whon mashed; it is called Speer's
Unfermoutod Grapa Juice. For Balo
by druggists.
A gentleman recently returned from
n dl-lVA llirOllrth fhA emintrv (nnrna nf
New York asserts that bo has not vory
muoh objection to a cottngo that is
consistently Queen Anno all through,
but ho evinoes a strong antipathy to
tuuatj uuuaco nuu meir numu is legion
"that are Queon Anne In front and
1 Mary Aune at the back."
fche Was Hot a Widow.
IIKR i.ONtf .09T UDSBAND TURKS Ur ON
TUB J5VE OP IlEn WEDDINO.
Fourteen yeais ago John Lamb, a
well-to-do machinist of Ashley, married
Mary Crnglnand tho young couplo Im
mediately left for tho West, sottling
down in St. Louis, whero Mr. Lamb
secured a position as superintendent in
tho locouiotlvo works. After being
married two years a disagreement
aroso betwoen tho couple and thoy
sPparatcd, tho wife returning to her
homo in Ashley, somo years later
Mts, Lamb received a copy of St.
Louis Globe-Democrat giving tho ao-
connt of tho drowning of her husband.
Thinking sho was a widow tho woman
went into deep mourning And did not
resumo her position in society for a
long time. She said sho would never
marry again, but Bho changed her
mind when John Adams, a man of
good standing in tho community, pat
in an nppearance as a lover and later
a-ked the fair widow for ber hand.
Mrs. Limb accepted the offer of
marriage and Tuesday was tno aaw
agreed npan for tho ceremony.
Tho undo expectant had compioicu
nearly all hor arrangemants when, to
her surprise, her long lost husband jjut
in an appearance on oaiuraay morning.
Mre, Lamb was at hor parents' home
examining tho wedding dress, which
mo uressmaKer nau jusr, urougut iu,
wj,en th0 husband knocked at the door.
The woman's surpiiso know no bonds,
and she exolairaed: 'iWell I am not a
widow after nlll" Lamb and his wife
had a long interview, nnd tho result
wss a reconciliation. Adams was noti
fied of the circumstances, but he was
loath to believe thxt Lamb was tha
genuine husband. His intruded, how-
evor, settled all douius on mat point
by returning to tho West Sunday even
ing with her husband.
Two 81ang Phrases
80MK ANECDOTES OK CHARLES QOEEK,'THE
ACTOR AND HUMORIST.
Charles Queen was a good deal of a
wit, in his way, and was tho author of
at least two well known expressions,
"A onld day when wo get left," and
'Chuck full of bluo mud."
Tho origin of tho first expression
was this: "Mr. Queen had a friend in
Elizibelh, N. J., with whom he always
stayed when playing in that city. Ono
Sunday morning tho two started out
for a "bracer, but a buuday closing
law that had just gone into effect in
terfered with their project, tiowover,
V,re1 a rl6 nd. starlef 10 Jflv.
into the country, having made up their
minds not to return until they had
secured that drink. They had to drive
moro than fifteen miles before thoy
wero successful, and on their return to
the homo of Mr. Queen's f.-ieud they
were glad to get near the fire and
thaw themselres out, tho weather
being bitterly cold.
"Well, exclaimed tho hosts wife,
as she came into tho room where the
two worthies wero hugging tho stove,
I don't wonder vou two men aro
almost fri zun; the thermometer is only
ten above zero.
Yes" replied Qaeen, winking at his
friend, "it's a cold day but wo didn't
get loft."
Tho next week, while playing in
Now York, he repeated the expression
m one ot tho actors, who used lttnac
night on the stage, and in a tew weeks
it bad travelled from one end of the
United States to tho other.
One day, while walking along Broad
way, Uueen acoidenlly stepped into a
pail of blue caloimino that stood on tho
edgo of the side walk. He scraped the
calcimine off the best he could, but be-
foro he reached homo it bad dried on
his shoo aud on the bottom of his
trowsers. A friend meeting him on
tho street, stopped him, and asked
what was the mattor.
"O, nothing," replied Queen, '"only
I'm ohuck full of bluo mud." Detroit
Free 1'ress,
The Legislature
Bills have been reported fuvoiably
from the following House Coram ttees:
lrom Judiciary weneral 1'iovid-
jng for the transfer of certain reforma
tory institutions from ono county to
another, (itus bill is to enable tho
House of Refuge, in Philadelphia, to
bo removed to Delaware County.)
Also irom Judiciary Ueneral An
act defining the offenso of procuring
or soliciting persons to commit mis
demeanor or offenses putishable in
summary proceedings under the laws
of tho State. Providing, that any
person not an officer of the State, or
an agent in the employ of any city or
county or of auy incorporated society
ot tho btate, who shall willfully pro
euro or solicit any person to commit
any misdemeanor or an olfouso pun
ishable in summary proceedings under
tho laws of tho State for the puro-so
of thereafter prosecuting or aiding in
1,10 prosjeutmn oi such persons so
proourcd or solicited to commit such
misin meauor or ouenso punishable in
summary proceedings aforesaid, shall
be guilty of a misdemeanor and pun
ishable with fine and imprisonment.
Counties aud Townships Provid
ing for thu erection of new counties
from parts of two or moro existing
counties, intended to provide for a
now oounty out of parts' of Schuylkill
and Luzerne, with Ilazletoti as the
county seat.
Mining To prevent manufacturing
or mining curpora.ions from carrying
on company stores.
Municipal Corporations Two bills,
ono pruvidit.g for the division of tho
cities ot the Site in throe classes, all
containing GOO.OOO or moro to be of
first class: over 75,000 aud less than
600,000, of thu second clais; all others
to bo of the third class. Tho other
bill prov'uUs for the legalizing of tho
acts of the councils of cities incorpor
ated under tho general act of 1887,
which has been declared unconstitu
tional by tho Supremo Court
Judiciary General An act defining
tho offonso'of procuring or soliciting
persons to conimi, misdemeanor or
offonses punishable iu summary pro
ceedings under the laws of the Com
monwealth, and prescribing the pun
ishment for tho same.
0r Pnt ., .
Is worth a column of rhetoric, said an
American staiesmau. It is a fact, es
tablished by thetestimony of thousands
of people, that Hood's Sarsaparilla
does euro pcrofula, salt rheum, and
other diseases or affections arising from
impure state or low condition of tho
blood. It overoomes that tired feeling
creates a good appetite, aud giveB
strength to every part of tho system.
Try it. '
Soranton, in Iowa, has a man who
Bcattcrod shelled corn on tho ice sur
rounding an air hole, and then by do
llvering an incantation of gibberish
charms the fish to tho opening, where
ho knocks them on tho head while they
aro trying to get tho corj. He captur
ed a Btring of thirty, among them a
twenty-two-pound pike, lu that man-
oer last week.