SENTIMENTAL' BEING S HALE ARTISTS ARE MIGHTY QUEER FELLOWS WHEN SINGLE. The rlnter of Figure In Kntnrnlly Ilo mantle and Very Knalljr unit Very Read ily Full! In Love If In Income, However, Often Serve to Keep Him Rlngle. Very few of our younger artists nro married, but it may bo neccpted as a fact that they all want to be. Cupid finds no mark so tempting to his Mm ft as that presented by a- painter at his easel. Btudio life and sentiment are almost synonymous terms. Why this should be so is easily explained. An artist's lifo is almost invariably a lonely one. No matter how sociable his temperament may be, his working hours are generally spent in silence and seclusion. Being essentially of a sensitive nature he longs for such sympathy as women alone can give. The failure of a picture or its complete success are matters that re quire more condolence or congratulation than can be expressed by a brother painter. The kindliest of neighbors cun not go further than to say: ''Look here, old fellow, I am awful sorry that they sent your pictivo back from the acade my. It's a beastly shame. That's what I call it." Or: "By Jove, old man, you'ro in lnck. I know lots of fellows with a big name who have been working for a year back to catch the Shaw or Evans price, and you got it away from 'em all. But you always were a lucky dog." A woman Goes these things better. That is the reason ho wants to marry her. The painter is naturally romantic In his opinion girlhood is always an gelic, lie may have individual pref erence for blonds or brunettes, for little or tall or intellectual or womanly wom en, but the entire sex is still beautiful to him, not perhaps in its physical fea tures, but in its mental possibilities. Hence he is always in love and restrained from matrimony only by the difficulty of supporting two peoplo on an income tliut is barely sufficient for one. To be an artist you must bo an idealist. Stu dio lifo has extraordinary vicissitudes at times, but it is always made up more or less of visionary elements. Occasionally the artist's dreams turn into nightmares, and he has a very bad quarter of an hour. But when events disillusionize him he mopes for a short period and pro ceeds to fall in love with a new charmer. Last spring two young men, one a painter, his companion a sculptor, were joint occupants of a studio in New York. These departments of art do not always agree, inasmuch as the dust and dirt of a sculptor's modeling platform in terfere considerably with the purity of a portrait maker's paints. But neither of the young fellows was rich, and by club bing together they managed to pay the rent of a larger studio than they could have had separately. The sculptor made, as little dust as possible and kept it well down by frequently using a water sprinkler. Not to be behindhand in courtesy, the painter was patient, and by keeping a sheet of drapery in constant readiness was enabled instantly to cover his canvas when his comrade unavoid ably threw out a cloud of powdered plaster of paria. They were comrades in every sense of the word, and had a onion of pocketbooks as well as of sym pathies. On one occasion the sculptor was so hard up ou the final receipt of a commission for a large statue that ho was unable to buy the clay necessary for his model, whereupon the painter de nied himself cigars, took to a pipo and by this economy got enough money to pay for the necessary materials. Some time afterward the artist re ceived an important order and had not the wherewithal to purchase the large canvas essential for its execution. The sculptor said nothing, but putting ou his street coat went out for a walk. An hour later he came bock accompanied by a boy, and between them they car ried a canvas twelve feet long by six wide. It was a windy day, and the sculptor was quite exhausted by .the effort of getting his unruly burden past gusty corners. But after a few minutes' breathing spell the two friends em braced each other affectionately an went to work in their respective corners. So ideal a friendship as this ought to have lasted throughout a lifetime. But an event happened which changed j the current of amiability in the Btudio j and estranged the two young men so that at present they are not even nod ding acquaintances. One day the painter received an order for a sketch of a man in armor. The sculptor readily consented to pose fur his friend, and after some effort finally got himself buckled into a suit of mail. By one of those accidents that some times occur at the most inopportune times the sculpt or'H fiancee happened to call at the studio chaperoned by a lively married relative. In order to get into the armor the sculptor, who is of largo frame, had to strip to the skin. To get out of the suit of mail was not to be con sidered. So he had to stand awkwardly listening to tho merry laughter of the la dies over his comical appearance. His Qancee, encouraged by the witty com ments of her friend, made such fun of tho unfortunate sculptor that ho became furious and broke off the engagement. That evening he employed a truckman And removed all his tilings from the stu dio without vouchsafing as much as good by to his chum. The experience effected an entire change in his opinion of the la dies. His first inamorata was a tall, dis tinguished .TJ.ing brunette, lie is now imgaged to a little, round faced blond, who, despite her resemblance to a Fronclt loll, ia declared by him to be tho epi tome of all the charms and graces of womanhood. New York Sun. GRAINS CP GOLD. i There is no pride like that of A beg. gar grown rich. Mot he. Tho man that looks at everything through money never sees far. It is tho struggle and not the attain' nient that measures charactor. There is no bettor oxeess in the world than tho excess of gratitude. Be sileut where reason is not regarded and truth is distasteful. 1. lullor. Some women go to church to study the texts, and some to study the tex tures. Tho great secrot of success in life is to be ready when the opportunity comes, Beaconslicld. Harsh counsels have no effect ; they nve like hammers which are always ro pulsed br tho auvil. We erected the idol "Self" and not only wish others to worship it, but we worship it oursolvcs. All true work is sacred. In all work, wero it but true hand labor, there is something of divineness. One s self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property, which it is very un pleasant to find depreciated. As we must render an account of every idle word, so must wo likewise of our idlo silence. Craumer. Perhaps all men can not bo success ful, but every one cau make up his mind that he will deserve to be. Man is never so unhappy as when ha hates his brother, and never so happy as when he lovos him. i Tho road to ambition is too narrow for friendship, too crooked for love, too rugged for honosty and too dark for science. Friends are as companions on a Jour ney, who ought to aid each other to persevere in tho road to a happy lifo. Pythagoras. As there are no blessings which may not be perverted into evils, so there are no trials which may not be converted into blessings. Enforced companionship without con geniality is one of the miseries of lifo, and by no means one of tho least com mon miseries either. All the precepts of the divine law are linked together. Negligence in one single point may lead to the destruc tion of all. St. John Chrysostom. Duty rounds the whole of life, from onr entrance into it until oar exit from it duty to superiors, duty to inferiors, J dutv to equals duty to man and duty to God. Smiles, To-day's privileges 'can not be en joyed nor to-day's dutios discharged to morrow. To-morrow may nevor come. If it does come it will bring its own privileges and duties privileges made less and duties made greater by to-day's neglect. Looking 10 others for our standard of happiness is a sure way to be miserable. Our business is with our own hearts and our own motives. And you can not borrow tinio. There is no interest ac cumulating on the days as we pass them by. Every night the account is closed. SCIENTIFIC BREVITIES. THE "MAN WHO SMILES." "There is a man in our town" I le's not so wondrous wise, But in selecting goods for sale, The BEST he always buys. He has a line of IMPLEMENTS With which no fault is found, But through the Country far and wide. Their praises still resound. Farm wagons of the "Keystone" make ; The finest grade on Earth One glance at which will ser'e to show Their undisputed worth. Binders, Mowers, Drills and Rakes ; Farm tools of every sort, A list of which would be too long, So we must cut it short. The Farmer's GRAIN he buys for CASH, For CASH, his Buckwheat Flour; And the highest Market Price he pays That lies within his power Arc you acquainted with this man ? His trade extends for miles, He always tries to please his friends; He is "THE MAN WHO SMILES." B. W. MITCM1EE GRAIN, BARK. SEEDS, FLOUR FEED. BALED HAY, Etc. AGRICULTURAL I MPLEMENTS AND REPAIRS. BLOOMSBURG, PA. CALIFORNIA HERMIT8. RELIABLE CLOTHING A! DAT DOUSE Comes to the front with the LARGEST ASSORTOiEOT Artlllilul Thumlrr. A miniiituro thunder factory has been constructed for tho science and nrt de partment at South Kensington, England, with plates seven feet in diameter, which, it ia believed, would give sparks thirty inches long, but no Leydon jars have been found to stand its charge, ull being pierced by the enormous tension. New York Telegram. Professor Pickering reports the dis covery of forty small lakes in Mars. Expedience in electrical welding shows thai, tho metal is strengthened at the point of welding. Some recent investigators claim that the sweetness and fragranoo of the very best butter is due to a certain benefi cent species of bacteria. Aluminium sheets will make a much more durable and satisfactory roofing than sheet copper, now generally used in valuable buildings. It is said that on an avorage one op eration per day is made in Now York for tho removal of tho vermiform ap pendix, tho worm-like termination of the big Intestine. Chlorine gas, decomposed from sea water by means of electrical machines, is cmployod for disinfecting the hold, store-room, etc., of vessels of the Italian navy. The zinc-tannin process of preparing wood to resist decay is proving a great success. It hardens the wood and makes it much more useful, especially when usod for railroad ties. The new explosive, ammonite, by ths use of eloctrio firing and caroful tamp ing, does away with flumes, and, is in consequence, being introduced in mines whero the gases exist in explosive pro portions. The investigations of English and German experts are such as to lead them to limit tho lifo of iron bridges to seventy-five years, and in many in stances a shorter poriod of use makes thein unsafe. If it were possible to cut sections out of tho side of soap bubbles and then by some delicate contrivance handlo the piocos, there would be required 50,000, . 000 films laid one upon uuothor to make a pile one inch in height. I Among tho most remarkablo inven- ' tions at tho paper exhibit at Berlin was ' a set of papor teeth made by a Lubot ' dentist in 1878. They have been in ' constant use for more than thirteen ! years, and show absolutely no weal I whatever. It has been found that bicyclists whe rido to excess are afflicted with a ea I tarrhal laryngitis. Mouth breathing 1 and tho rapidity and pressure with , which large quantities of air are forced ' into tho luryux are said to be tho cause. Prim, a chomical expert, has deter mined by scientific investigation that tho air of London is purost at abonl thirty or forty feet from the ground, lower than that the dustisoncountcred, and higher than that the smoke from the chimneys roaches. Experiments are being tried in Ger many in making horseshoes of a mater ial the chief constituent of - which if paper. It is said to fit the hoof bettei than tho iron shoe, to be impervious to water, and to grow rough under uso, so as to become a safeguard against slipping. , . , AND MAKING AND FITTING .-.OF THE. Best, the newest ami Ulost Stylish, Lowest iai Price ; and to prove Satisfaction is our ii 1ca vor The best value for Money is to buy your Clothing, Hats, Shirts, Neckwear, Trunks and Valises of Corner ot Main and Centre Streets, BLOOMSBURG, PA. &1TB2Z0E&&ED QEOTBIMQ MADE TO QMDER, Largest Clothing and Hat House in Columbia and Montour Counties mm ing Is Believing." And a good lamp trust be simple; when it is not simple it is not cood. Simple, Eeautifttl, Good these words mean much, but to see " The Rochester" will impress the truth more forcibly. All metal, tough and seamless, and made in three pieces only, it is absolutely safe and unbreakable. Like Aladdin's of old, it is indeed a ' wonderful lamp," for its mar velous light is purer and brighter than gas light, softer than electric light and more cheerful than either. Look for tliin stamp Thr Rocrrbtrr. If the lamp dealer has n't the Retinitis Rochester, and the ntyle you want, eud to us far our new illustrated catalogue, k and we will (end you a lamp safely by express your choice of over 2,000 vaneuci irom iuc i.ar;en ixtmp aiorc in ( li uria. IlOCIIKSTEIt LA.ni CO., 43 Park Flace, New York City. 8& "The Rochester." sBgy r.rrrY"tiik I J THE POSITIVE CURE. ELY BROTHERS. DC Wvron BU, New York. Price SO cta.l SOt, All First-Class Druggists Krnm nrpcent flntf. will Lppn nn Kale tne Tm. I ported Kast India llemn Kemedies. Dr. II. 1 James' preparation o( this herb on its own ifdil ""nlriitti will rncitivr-lv rim- fntuninm. lion, Brimchilin, Atllnna, ami Js'nml Ctilarrh, and break up a fresh cnld in 24 hours. $2,50 per holtle, or 3 bottles $6.50. Try it. C RAD DOCK A CO. PROPRIETORS'1 1032 Race Street, Philadelphia. 13-l6-4t. d. BETTON'S PILE SALV Positive Cure FOR PILES. In uhh over .10 lenra. clrriil, JIlKllMt t-Hli nuuiiuln. At (IrtlKulNtf. or limited tm ni-etpt of uiwo-.ior, pvt ixjx. WIXUIMANN A MOWN DHUQ CO.. I I'rup., llultliuure, MtL liMMW. d THOMAS GORRRY Plans and Estimates on all kinds of buildings. Repairing and carpenter work promptly attended to. Dsalsnn Builder's Supplis.. Inside Hardwood finishes a specialty. Persons of limited means who desire to build can pay part and secure balance by mortgage Men I'mtnliiK Tlit-lr t.lven In tlln ftnlltude on tlio MoimtaiH Tops, Is 111:111 eentially 11 Kocial animal? Tlio scientists H.iy uo. lint in t!io luonntiiins of Calif' m: i;t there nro iihnoHt enough men who for years lmvo led a lifo of tit tor solitu lo to disprove tho generaliza tion. There mountain hermit enn ho found rent trH'd through the Sierras nnd tho eonst Mti.tro from one end of the stnto to the othr. They are particularly nn meroii through this region, centering shout tho Yoscmito vnlley nnd extend ing far hack into tho high Riorrns. Some of them were oneo guide in the vnlley, others have heen miners, nnd mime ngniu seem to havo taken up tho lifo of tolitude winply heenuse they like it. To this class belongs old P. It. Gibson "Old Gib," ns he is generally called who lives on a mountain ranch. Ho is eventy -five year old, but is possessed of ns much physical strength and endurance as tho average man of half his ago. Ho enmo thirty year ngo from Tennessee, whero ho left a wifo nnd a largo family of children. Ono of his sons camo to see him recently nnd tried to induce him to visit his former home, but "Old Gib" steadfastly refused to leave his little rnnch nnd solitary cnbin. He has never seen a railroad, nnd the stngo drivers from the nenivst station try their utmost to persuade him to go to town and at leant look nt n trnin of ears. But his in variable answer is: "Do you think I'm going down there to bo blowed up by ono of them there blamed engines? Not much:" Nearly ull tho men who live this life of solittido very long get a bit queer in tho head, and "Old Gib'' is no exception to tho rule. He has a rigmarole descrip tion of himself which declares that ho is "the best man in tho United F tates or adjoining territories, cither directly or Indirectly, financially, commercially, ec clesiastically or nr.chnrchified." Tho old man is a hard worker, nnd when ho ia not busy on his ranch he is working energetically wnking "shakes that in, clapboard split and sawed by hand from big pine trees. Old man Lambert, who has a cabin in the high Sierras some thirty miles back of the Yosemite, is another of the moun tain hermits. He has neither ranch nor mining claim, but lives by what he shoots and by an occasional few dollars earned from camping parties. He has lived olono in that same spot for years and years, and will In all likelihood stay there until ho dies. There are months nt a timo thut he does not see another hnman being. A party of campers ono mnmier found him making a huge stone wall that seemed to have no purposo whatever. In surprise they asked him what he was piling np those stones for. " Why," ho said, " a man's got to do something, np here alone, or he'll go WTong, sure." Cor. Augusta (Ga.) Chron icle. Schooling at Twenty Dollars m Trir, However moderate the expenses of a Piudetit of the I'.recent time may be they cuii hardly reach the extremely modest sum which sufiiced for Jean Marmontel, a French poet, during tho reign of Louis XV, for a year's schooling. In his "Memoirs" ho speaks of his school life as follows: I was lodged, ns was the custom of tho school, with five other scholars at tho house of nn honest mechanic. My provisions for a week consisted of a large loaf of rye bread, a little cheese, a piece of bacon nnd two or three 1 ouuds of beef. My mother had added to them a dozen apples. This was tho weekly provision of the best fed scholar of tho school. The mis tress of tho house cooked for us, and for her trouble, her Ure, her lamp, her beds, her hoimi'ooiii, including even tho vege tables of her little garden which she used for our soup, each of us gave her twelve pence halfpenny a month. Reckoning everything except my clothes, I cost niy father between four and five pounds a year. This was much to him and an cxpensoof which I wus very anxious to see him relieved. ttow It Fool to Ito In Railway Wreck. "A man who has never been in a wreck wouldn't believe how long it takes for tho cars to get through piling up," said another. "After the first crash there is a rebound clear to the bock of tho train, nnd then the whole thing takes another lunge, something gives way, and maybe three or four moro cars telescope. Then there's r.nother jerk backward and nnother hinpe, nnd it seems ns if tho cracking nnd groaning and tumbling keep on for five minutes. When a man is mixed up with tho trucks under tho whole stack it seems like nn hour." "Make it nn hour and a half," said an ex-brnkeman ns ho scratched his noso with tho only clawliko finger remaining at the end of a twisted and shriveled stump of a hand. The crowd knew how lie had been dug out with a derrick and laughed at tho joke. Chicago News Record. Kliiu'i Iuui;liter lu Turkey. Smyrna, Turkiy, has an uctivo circle sf King's Daughters engaged in tho prac tical charitable work for which this or ler is noted. By sewing, embroidering, scrubbing floors, blackening shoes, or nny work for which money would bo paid, they have distributed rice and coal among tho poor, visited the sick, edu cated children, provided medicines, paid rents nnd done other similar acts of charity. On holidays they divide into committees for the purpose of decorating tho rooms where poor families live and providing small remembrances for the children. New York Bun. Kovcr Remit CrltlcUia Mr. Santley, the eminent baritone, de clares that since lt-m he has rarely read a criticism thiit has been passed upon his singing. In that year he was taken severely to task for a performance at the Birmingham festival, and the remarks of the caustio critic so affected him that he determined to read no more criticisms. If other performers, distinguished aud not distinguished, would follow this ex ample, what heartburnings would be saved! London Tit-Bits.
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