A BASKET OF CHIfS. "I Jsciai! It dot teat til oatui' where tbat woman cot her tongu. II trows icuss an' wuss, imuii if!" and olJ Vsrrner BarVsr seated him"lf wearily oa n old ho.-s'.iand out io th barn. A domsstio norm had ben brwing t aevtral days, and now it bad ful ,lD'.y burst, and in iU fury Matilda, tbe daughter of the house, bad been decid edly worsted. Matilda waa an only child, but living ot Farmer Darber't waa another young girl, a niece, whom Mr. Barber said "waa like an own daughter. " The obeervant asighbor said there eeemed to be quite a difference in the treatment of the two girls. Tillie, u alia waa generally called, took a great deal of time to attend to her curling paper, and never very much time to upend upon domeetic dutiee, while poor little Moliie gave very little heed to pertnnal aJcrument except to keep her air tiJr. But then. Mollis' hair would curl any war. She had no us for curl-paper. Thie (urumer the Barber war taking city boarder "for a ohauge," Mrs. Bar ter ai i, but the neighbor aaid it would ron a lilt! nearer the truth if (he had taid "for tlie change. " Anion; them old Mrs. Wainwright had couie to stay for the u miner. It was necessary she should be somewhat eco nomical tli is year, but her reduced cir cumstance seemed affluence to the poor people at the farm. Tillie, who dearly loved finery, re- Carted her a a princess, unmindf til of the fact that her gown were a little passe, aud m.ida herself as agresable as possihl. Tillie did not care to propitiate Mrs. Wain wright so much for thai lady' own sake as for the sake of the very interest ing nephew who accompanied her. Bui Mollie. with a correct interior hdh of the fitness of things, regarded j Mrs. 'Waiiiwriglit as an ill-bred woman, I quite unlike her nephew in manner. Halstead Wain wright brought his aunt there and went away directly, but re- , turned in a week's time to see if the place ' euited her. ITe thou.-'.it be would remain a couple of weeks himself. And then , Tillie primped more frequently aud spent all her time iu dressing in her coarse i finery to aiUaci Ealstead Wainwrigui' attention. I Mollie worked harder that ever, aud i when she wu tired, heated and flushed, ' the brown rices of hair curled about her lorely face and preesed closer about her ' dainty ears, as if trying by their caresses i to comfort her a little. One day Tillie had arrayed herself in ' her beet and sat upon the front piazza ' ready to give HaUtead a smiling wel come when he returned from ramble iu ' tbe woods. , Be had already come in, but this fact ' was unknown to her. Ue was seated in Mrs. vtainwrisht room, ana this is what Tillie heard him say : "I declare, Aunt WainwrigUt! It's a ham the way folks here treat that poor Moliie! She was up before 3 o'clock hard at work, and has been working all day not an hour for rest! She looks ready to drop! And there's that lazy tillie, sitting round in her finery and sever seeming to care about Mollie!" "Ye, that is so." said Mrs. Wain wright. "Mollis seems to be nice, civil girl enough, though she doesn't make of me as Tillie does." "Good reason why she can't get a chance to make of anybody! But I fruess if it wasn't for Mollis' busy lingers you wouldn't fare as well as you do." UaUtead pulled a rose in pieces impa tiently aud centinued : "If Mrs, Barber would put a kitchen apron on Tillie and I set her to work there would be some tense in it. Mollie would make a better figure in the parlor. She's pretty Mol lie is." Tillie sat transfixed with rage, but she dared not mov just then. At that mo ineut Mrs. Barber's shrill voice) rung out: "Now, Mollie, you hurry np an' go an pick up some chips to set the kittle biha'. aa' while that is doin' you jest take down them clothes oa the line, cause yon know 'tis 'most time to get up per!" "There it is again I exclaimed Hal ctead. "Chips and clothes clothes and chips! They will kill her if she stays here much longer. I'm going out to help her," and he rushed out ot a side door into the back yard, where Mollie, with a tired, patient face, stooped over her bas ket, picking up chip. "Will Miss Mollie allow me to renew the day ef my childhood? I used to pick up chips for mr grandfather when i was a little lad. I don't think I have forgotten how. " lie took her basket from her aai gently, but with a very decided move meet, led ber laughingly to a chopping "There." be aid, making her seat her self, "it yourself while I fill the bas ket." Tor a moment she sat there, watching JUl-traa'a shapely hands as lie quickly r:ilhered up the chips, flashing his browu eves m-rrily upon her. Ha fears overcame her evident pleas ure u his kindneta. "Ij.'.feJ, I must not stay ber any 'imis.it!" "Why not?" he asked. "Bvuse Auut Barber won't like it!" Even a she spoke the basket was piled iii.'ii, and he placed it on the kitchen UMII':tep. Wiping the diut from his hands, ho tail. "What nest?" M .'Ay ';ooU her head remorstrat- inlr. -Oa. tWI.-thn! Here. I'll help you t-Ae tlien down!" Aud he actually be i Uiinz nt n '.iet fluttering its 'i i'.oai-M) in the genile breeze. Moliie Uvau to laugh, but didn't sea .: ceil.! prevent those strong i r 11 !i m Join;; what lliry chose. She i.c;-! itl.ie wouldn't se tliem. '!M'v i'.,d. She hud goue behind .l.u vi.., ht lite eud of the piazza and .!( I ! Mi.- p:ocejditi. C' . ',1 no !uugcr keep silent. SL u!.: 1 Imr luythej' nrul exclainitiJ ; "Ma! Ms! Do just look at Mollie! She's carrying on at a great rate with that young man! Actually ocaxed Mm out to help her pick up chip! And now th has got him at the clothes j linel My! I never saw such a hamelees nmi Didn t i tell you you d end out some day what she U?" Tillie was flushed and angry angrier than even her mother had ever seen her before. Mrs. Barber hurried to the kitchen window. Yes, there tbey were, Mollie blushing and laughing, while Halstead looked as if he were enjoying himself decidedly. There as an ominous silence) ia the kitchen for a few moments. Then IlalsUad deposited the basket, piled high with snowy clothes, upon the doorstep to keep company with tbe basket of chips, and, lifting his hat gracefully to Mollie, disappeared by the vine-covered porch. They heard the back gate click and thought he bad gone out. Mot so. He till stood near, thinking of pretty Mollie. "You shamelees critter!" cried Mrs. Barber. "Is this what I have brung you up for to go an' flaunt yourself un der our very eyes, a-flirtin' with Tillie's lover ia that way? Oh, I saw you, you horrid gal, a settia' yeur cap at him an' j co tin' him out to pick up chips!" Mrs. Barber paueed to catch her breath. "I ain't a-goin' to put up with this a day longer, you eelflsh, good-for-nothin', ' lazy critter! You pack up this very Bight ' an' leave this house to-morrow mornin', rain or shine! Do you hear?" Mollie's bright face; paled. "Oh, Aunt Barber, what have I done? ; I'm sure I haven't done anything wrong. I never meant to. And, truly, Ive worked a bard as I could. I don't want Tillie's lover or anybody's lover," moaned poor Mollie, "and I will go to- I morrow; I will not stay here any longer. " I Mollie turned to go upstairs. Her tears . were blinding her eye. She did Dot eeo Halsteat'., but he had entered the door ( and stood, pale and stern, listening to what they were saying. Tillie's angry sobs were sounding through the room. ! "Mrs. Barber" Halstead's voice was low with concentrated auger "Miss Mollie is not to blame. I went out there - uninvited. Don't blame her for what I did." IHe turned abruptly towards Mollis. "Please come here, Mollie," and he held his hand towards her. j She shook her head feebly and groped for the latch, etill blinded by her tears. "Com:" This time there was some thing almost imperative in his ton. "I want to speak to you. " She passed out the open door into the porch, while Tillie jumped up and shut it with a vigorous bang. "Molli," said Halstead. "ahe aaid you should go away from here. I wish you would, and com to me. I love you, dear, though I have only known you so short a time. Are you afraid of me? he asked, as she shrunk from him a little. "No." she said, softly. "Will you trust yourself to me, Mol lie? Surely I can't use you aay worse than Mrs. Barber!" He smiled a little at the last words. Somehow Molli felt like smiling, too. "Now, com around here to AuntWain wright's room aud talk this over," And Mollie went. It was arranged that they should all leave the next morning, "rain or shine," as Mrs. Barber had said, and that Molli should stay with Mrs. Waiuwright until Halstead took her to their home. It was Mrs. Barber's comments upon the abrupt departure of tbe trio which led Farmer Barber to repeat his exclama tion : "I declare! It does beat all natur where that woman got her tongue?" ' Chicago New. The Mrstertea ImIHk, Wlimo bad never seen a wheelbarrow before, and was much exercised as to how to set it in motion. He beraa br facing the wheel, catching hold of it with both hand and trying to pull I backward. Seeing the wheel would I - not turn, he let go and took fresh obser- vations. It dawned upon him at once, j for the native mind is quick, tbat aa the barrow had two arms it required two men to lift it, and he hallowed for one of his mate to com to hi aid. They both tried to get within the arms of the barrow, one man laying hold of the left arm with the left hand, while the right encircled hit fellow' waist, wboM right haad had hold of th other shaft, wail his disengaged haad was bound around Wlimo's neck, aai they were prettily yoked ; hut they cov ered ao ground, and bye and bye tripped each other aad fell pell-mell over th wheelbarrow, which of course, turned over. Then after an hour or two Wlimo understood how to wheel this barrow. Cape Time. Heps la Altikt, Those who are accustomed to think of Alaska as a land of mow aad ice will be surprised at the proposed plan of turning it into a large hop plaaunoo. This en terprise is projected by a syndicate of . Oregoa hop dealers. They bare bought - 1 Pt considerable territory near Fort Wran gel, and expect it to be the coming hop market. The reason which encourage the ya- .new i nop. lor uccs ar msay: ; i ns iiiramar, inougo suert, ausoei tri iiically hot, and it is biiv4 th sea son is lone .cough tor renins th ho.; Una is v.ry chVlp, U be Lad timet for ti.-naWi.:i.K-va... v- .u- ..il r-qmre. little preparation; the hop. I 1 1 .1 a iV7.a .a..', n could be gathered for half tbe price paid iu Oregon ; the freightage would all be in ' (uiliug vessels, which is cheapness itself. Ties are strong inducements, and if the j tiist is true, tho prospect, certainly, has ' eft-rrthiog in iu favor. Uop growers ' will watch the new expenmeut with in-1 tereeU j "What U the baby's name, Ada ?" was j t'ed a bright hale RrL 'George ! Henry 'f hot n peon. " "Why, I thought ! you were tjunin u iiaone nm rpr y(,ur ir.'.Uer. " "W'g did, ThorriDSon waj I tii cuuvintitu replr ouUi' Com- Ir-ilaivll. riMTATIOJAL. There are fi.IWSl whole and l.s.H frac tional school district in Michigan. The public schools of St. Louie giro employment to over one thou?nud tai h or. There are 300 women studonts in tho University of Michigan, distributed throughout all the deportments. In one of the public schools of New York city there are 710 children, all but ten of whom nie of foreign birth mid language. Embossed books, for the use of blind persons, have been prepared in more than two huudreJ and fifty language.! and dialects. Iu Paris the common public schools are provided with medicine cases, aud instructions are given for the use of tho retried ie The New York Legislature pans! a bill making the teaching of music in the public schools compulsory.. Governor Flower vetoed It. Jacob Gould Schurman, Cornell's new prwBident, is yet a few years under forty, but a noted scholar. Twenty oJ.l yours ajo he we a clerk in a grucerjr store on Prince Edward Island. Cornell University has given presi dent to three universities Kchaefer to Iowa, Jordan to Stanford aud Audrews t Brown. Eight members of iu Fac ulty have declined college presidencies. The School of Architecture of the Uni versity of Pennsylvania is to have a "traveling scholarship in architecture" with an income of 1.'00, which will ena ble the holder to study the best model ia Europe. It appears from the official records that last year articulation was taught to no less than 4.243 pupils in American schools for the ileuf. In t large number of these cases the infirmity dated from birth, and was inherited. Mrs. Sidg ick has just been apjvnuted Principal of Nuwnham College, Univer verity of Cambridge, England, to suc ceed the late Miss Clotigli. Mrs. SidS' wick is a sister of the Kight Honorable A. J. Balfour. leader ot the House of Commons, and a uiece of the Marquis of Salisbury, nSLiniOt-9 INTELLIGENCE. There are I clergymen in ; Church. thirty ordained colore J the Protestant Epi.nMpal The American Sunday School Union since its organization has established 80, ' 000 Sunday soh-.ols. "The (mild of Reformers of the Moth odist Episcopal Church" is the name of a new organization. It is said that th Church of England has an iucoine of iJUHM.oiR) a woek. In lrelin l there are ti'out 1,13",000 Protectants and nb.ut 4.0O0.000 Roman Catholics. A Chicago wii'ii-m, Mrs. Anne O'Neill, has given 10,0.0 for the erection of a rhiirch for the use of colored Catholics iu that city. The annual contributions to foreign missions of th- evangelical church are as follows: European sooietios. fJ.SV2.349; 1 untiro contributions. 793. 813; American societies. $1.1-5 c ; native contribu tions, 50718'M; total, $11,337,319. There is no missionary in Afghanistan, with hsr C.000,000 people. Annam illi 5,000,000, has only Roman Catholic mis sionaries. India has one missionary to 273,000 people; Persia, ou to 300,'0W; Thibet, one to 3,000,000. Missionary Re view. The minister who makes himself a specialist as a temperance reformer, or auti-Rjinanint, or a champiou of tho laboring classes, or a crusader aeaiust tobacco, or a defender of the Sabbath, practically cease to be a minister of tlio Gospel of Christ. He may be ail of theso and so subordinate them to his message, which proclaims the redemption of men and of society through Christ, as not to narrow his calling. He can not be. oue of these exclusively aud remain in truth a Christian minister. Cougre.i- "ouausc The Episcopal Church in England has 34 bishops and 24,000 other clergymen ; iu the United States, 61 bishops and 3,80-) clergymen ; in Ireland 13 bishop 1,807 other clergy inen and ia Cauada, 24 bishops and 1,300 other clergymen; in Asia. 13 bishops and 713 other clergymen ; in Africa 13 bishops and 330 other clergy men; in Australia, 21 bishops and 269 other clergymen, and ia Scotland. 17 bishops and 280 other clergymen; in scattered dioceses 9 bishops and 120 clergymen a grand total of 189 bishops and 32,729 other clergymen. anr abtd aatisti. Mme. Sara Derohanlt w ill coutribuU j a painting to too women's gallery of pic ! ture at th Columbian Exposition. ! The sculptor, R. H. p-.irk, has an or- der for a statue toronuount the Colorado exhibit at the Columbian Fair, and it is , to be made of solid silver. The collection of pictures bhown dur ! ing Ute Congress of the National Art As- .m..u iu ,f asuiullMI, IS SaiU TO Dart I been the best and ooiy whioit of Anwri. can art ever given in that citv. ! . ' 1 soctatun in W auhingtoa, is said to have Ltiarle Franco Feler, tho Belgian painter, lUnds on a different footinc , irom any other painter in history. Ha I An2 KArn aalalin.. . u . l i : . WM withot -luiua, uiuia, aim jiig worK Las been done exclusively with his faet. ZZ, ."-painten m turop. ; erc' "oughton, Eugen, Cieeri ar.a Lasallei-whose work com There are Are fan-painters iu Europe 1 . AlVwa PI,, 1 if i. t e """J1 'ar8. Trie- fans painted by them scllinc for from i!2u to VMt mii "Tho S-. iety of American Fakirs" is ' an organization of clever New Yoik art- ' its who held their second annual exhi- 1 bitiou at the Art Students' League. It i is a mock show of funny caricatures of painting which have attracted general attention the previous year. A youijj lady who made such b8; i; i lj I Uled for 'lcted and brilliant success P'nUti. of "X iard of Koses" sailed for t - urnpo lost mouth. A Utjt conil.iiit i. ui uiiicigrapiu-iii win pay ner ex li' - '"1 as aa art lud-ut in 'aria, dnrirc wnu-ii tiu,e it will hare tUj pruhts of l.er bl'iloll. PHILLIPS'. 1 Th e sh a de of a pa ra sol is a very acceptable thing in the summer months, but the reputation of Philips' cafe and Bakery cannot be thrown in the shade at any time the year round- Bread and cakes fresh every day We are sole agents foi Tenner's fine candies. Ice Crea m always-' Ca tering for parties and weddings a specialty. Special terms to regular boarders in the Cafe. M.M. PHILLIPS & SOX. EI.OO.MSUURG, PA. Hay-Fever Sufferers Should read our new 1 1 2 -page book . on the treatment and cure of Hay-Fever and Asthma. Sent free on application. " I have been i sufferer from Hy-Ferer J Asthma irora birth ?& yean. 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