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BY .AUK U. HIXOS. St0tu a- " ji- scsciiir ro.v rjtfs. - -SI M , Puw. ar-oae trm be ,-tn na Mailt will : e-Bael. (nfr iwe 10 b J .munctlv .naerttowl trom JAS. C. HASSON. Editor and Publisher. 'n If A FBIIMtl WHOM THX TBUTK XAXKI r&XZ, ASS AXA ABB BXukTBC BBHSB.' 8I.DO and postage per year. In advance. ;,, ti iP" - I .TrVou'; pater before you stop It. If top Sg&ssg,- i VOLUME- XXII. EHENSBURG, PA., FRIDAY. JANUARY 25. 1S89. NUMBER 50. ClintS Villi. nt ALL iLSt UiiV Best Coutrh njtni. IH"hhU ti I tlieve rise's Cur for Oorununrtion saved nir Hie. A. H. Dowv.u, Editor Eiinuirer." Kln tun, N. C, Aurll 5, 1SS7. Tho pent (up;h MexJl cine to 4' - ' tTRR roR JossrMmow. Children take it without ofcjoctiou. Hy all drngiste. 25c tunc J .... r... " Ewti'"u-', Svrup. I atpa pntxl, Uao B. J. LYNCH, UK ID KIIT A Iv KR, And Manufacturer Jt D-a'pr In EOIHE AND CITYMADE FURNITURE .as ass cz:m rais. LOl'NGES.BEDSTEADS, TABLKH, CliAIRS, Mattresses. Szc. 160.) ELKVENTII AVENUE, ALTO ON A. 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" of tuia i-.oUury JohbM-u, liiJiuiaeW, IU. Ayer's Gharry Pectoral, Dr. J. C. Aver Xi t At.n . . j fctf:d U' ''J ITU. 1 ; botUa,J. tan l . r... 1 4 - 10 , rr " - w Torli " CARTER'S VER WWi H PIUS. HE RUBBERS IS MARRIAGE A FAILURE? I marriage a failure? I ashed of a maid Whose life had gone out from the shine to the bade, Whoae akirta were all araggled and stained with the dew Or grasses the scythe of the years had gone through Is marring a failure! and turning her head To tbe long trodden path she would nevermore tread. Lament ng her fate, with an audible sigh. From out of her bitterness, answered me: "Aye." - . , U m arriaRe a failure I asVefl of a brld Wno lived ia tbe present with fulaess of pride, Whoe l.ps were just meeting tbe flagon of wine She must dr r.K to the lees In her revel divine Is m rria.re n failure? and quick In her cheek The happy heart-current was e iger to apeak. Her lira were apart and her es were aglow. As, out of her heaven, she answered me: "No.' Is marriage a failure? I asked of a man Whose volumes of nature were "read as he ran," Whose purpose in life was "to hare and to hold," Whose pais-ou was self and whose deity gold In marr-.ne a fa lure? and quicker he went No moment in folly like this to he spent But hearing lull well as he hastened on by, iio laushed in my face, and he answered me: "Aye!" I marriage a failure? T asked of a pair " Who stood in the sunset with silvery hair. Whose cvoni-igol hie was approach. ng u close. In odor of bay und in scent ol the rose It marriat a failure? and woman and man. Who, UMlmx together, had tested tbe plan. Who enteted the brook and kept on with iu How, Till rr aching the ocean they answered me: -No." T marnare a failure I asked of a beast. I'ntouchrd at the bands of a hallowing priest. Whose w.ll was bis law, whose muscle his boast. Who li cked on the world as hi brothel at mot H marr.nse afa'lure? and up from his lair. From cavorts of darkness, from loulncssot air, Cim ludly his savage and sensual cry. That told of has nature and answered me: "Aye." Is marriage a failure? I asked of the birds. Whea the-r mnsic of spring tacy were setting to wordv When ba Ulmg their houses on leafy estates And teaihl lg their young to be couples and males Is marriage a fnilnre? and out of the grove. The r odorous Eden of Innocent love. The sium-rs in answer were unineJ ac That echoes from everywhere uttered their No." I mama-re a'fiHnre I said" to myself. As 1 prerrd la tne eyrs of a tangle haired tit. And then In the graver and holier face Of her of my bosom thank God for His grace Is marriage a failure? and out of my breast, la p ty lor ail of such boodage unblest. With every glad pulse of my be.ng allow. The answ.r came swelling: VA thousand times. No." Ururj T. Utanlo, fa llt.'iJi j'ou Put'. FAMILY JARS. How Reuben and I Came to Have Our First FaUinar Out- ' Reuben and I had been In our ovrn little home only a month. We had como from our wedding trip to tha "little nt-st," as we called it. that had been made ready during our absence, by the lovinj thoshfulriess of those who were anxious to sec their chil dren well-started, without what Aunt Patience called the boarding-house risk. We were yoing through the rooms togetliyj, full of delighted sur prise at si-ht of all the attractive nnd comfortable articles of furniture, and Reuben was wliii-jering of . the great happiness in store for us in the new home,, when suddenly was flashed across my mind the words of Aunt Patience, whispered to me on my mar riage evening-, after I had put on my traveling garments. We were walk ing hand in-hand, when I said, under my breath: "Reuben, I wonder what Aunt Patience could have been think ing of v. hen she said to me at the last: lie careful. Annie, of a first word that may lead to a falling out, as if there could possibly be a falling out between us!' Reuben tightened bis clasp of my hand, and whispered in reply: As if thf re could, indeed, my dear!" Now I think of iL I believe that If I had been as lovingly watchful as my hiiaband. there could not have hap pened what did happen. The housekeeping worked along very frmooth'.y. I said so to my mother, who came to spend a week with ua after we had been married a month, and he answered: "Yes. my dear, every thing is new now, all the trouble comes when things begin to swro old; you have a new house, new furnishing, a new and competent girl In the kitchen, and i then, my dear, your married life is now; when, as I said, all these begin to grow old. then comes the trial of love and patience!" " Hut, mother," I answered, "if I thought that our love could ever grow old, I should wish to die before that happened.' I know, my dear," he replied. ' but it takes watchfulness to keep it youthful na 1 fre;-h. fo many make a mistake here and Imagine that it will take care of itself, and they become careless in trying to take care of it." " But a love that you have got to watch all the turte isn't the kind that is de.irable. it see ins to me. mother. Ours is the kind that will take care of it.self." Nothing more wn said between ua - upon the subject; but 1 told Reuben about the conversation, and we laughed together nt mother's fears. - - The long, beautiful summer waa passing fast away, and wo entered its last month, looking baJc upon the flown months, so fall of joy to us; the hist week of it had come, when one morning I rose to meet new emergen cies; my kitchen girl, who had been housekeeping in a bcne also, had gone awry for a week and I was left to a now experience. I had never cooTced a wht-lo meal in my life, and what if I should fail? The breakfast was not a formidable undertaking, for I had learned to make an omelet, and there was the nice, sweet bread that my girl had uiude before aho left, enough for a week. ho said. When we were seated, and UcuWa, helped the ouicict, he t-aid: ''We ...w iv., mis Is a greater succi'S' ihan Sarah makes of iu I have always said that thero waj no need of the first failures that we hear of among young wives Iu trying to get a tneaL A bright, graceful creat- '. ure like you could not help showing' : raccul results. My mother is that1 sort of woman, erery thing comes out j'Ul right without -.(.trss effort!' Before my husband went away tor his office that day, 1 said: " Tell me, Reuben, what would you like for din ner," for my confidence in my ability had grown with his expressed thought of it, "Well, my dear. I must own that I have, since we have been keeping house, missed the kind of pie that my mother made. I have sometimes want ed to ask you to make it, instead of Sarah, but I did not care to have you begin that kind of work just yet- But now that it is thrust upon you. I wish we might, have a blackberry pie for dinner." What could 1 answer but that it should be as he wished, while my thoughts flew towards the new cook book that was still in the box among my wedding presents. Sarah had re sented the idea of using it, and. alas! I had never thought it worth while be fore this morning to look into it. "You may send up some beef for a roast." I said, in an assured way. and I could not help seeing that Reuben felt that we were just beginning to live. I st about the day's work confident and happy. "It is just as Reuben says," I whispered to myself, as I sat down with my cook-book, and looked through the chapter on meats and veg etables first, "a woman with any grace and an idea of the fitness of things, is sure of making cooking a success, with out giving such constant care to it." The meat came, a very large piece; but then Reuben liked to do things in a grand way, nnd I was very glad of it, I could not endure an over-careful man who had even the suspicion of trying to scrimp about him. The blackberries were large, fresh ones. I put my kitchen in order, and de cided that I would begin at once my preparations for dinner. I quickened the heat of the range, turned to the pastry receipts, and followed down the column until I came to blackberry pie. I brought out my flour, lard, sugar and pastry-board. There was no rule for the proper quantities for one pie, and nothing exact as to the mixing of the crust, but I was not much disturbed by this, indeed I thought the compiler of the book had shown due respect to the "natural faculties of the housekeeper," and I 'put a generous amount of flour iuto the pastry bowl, and in the ecu tcr a lump of lard. The rule said rub the lard in, using the hands as little as possible. "If not the hands, what?" I asked. "Of course a spoon," my wiser self said to my first ignorance. There must- be water. I brought n pitcher. oured in what I thought would be a generous quantity, and began to stir the mix ture. "Stir lightly." stared at me from the open book, but it was not so " i easy to tir lightly as one might imagine. At last the dough seemed ready for the molding-board, and I emptied the bowl and began to roll out my cru.st- Such a time as I had! It took all my strength to get it into shape, but at last I had filled the crust with the berries, put on the pastry cover, trimmed the edge and placed my first pie In the oven, with a hope that amounted almost to triumph, that it would be even more worthy of the I name than a like effort of Reuben's mother. I sat down to enjoy the f eel i Ing, and had lived ' in ' imagination ! through all the praise that would be given me on account of my great success, when my reverie was broken by a sound from the oven. I opened the door; my pie was very brown and there was a pool of juice around it. I took it hastily out and looked at it in dismay. What coula I do? .-Plainly nothing. I consoled myaci for the lost juice as well as possible, and remembering that Reuben had once said he did not like pale pie-crust, decided that though : mine did Ioo a shade darker than his mother's, it was not surely spoiled. The Cre was certainly too hot, when the meat wa cooked I needed to make it slower. Following this decision the heat of the oven was reduced, and the. beef put into a pan half tilled with water. I meant to have some gravy. Sarah usually failed in giving us all we wanted. The dinner hour came, and I was dressed in a pretty muslin, and met my husband in the halL He met me with, those little words of greeting,' that women prize o much, that might seem small and even foolish when told, and I led the way to the dining room, as to the place ef my crowning. Reuben began to carve; ho was a long time about it, and he turned the meat several times before he cut the second slice. I watched his face eager ly. I wished to discover a sign of hia gratification before it was expressed. But I saw nothing to encourage my hope that he would speak the words that I so longed to hear. We had eaten for a minute in silence, when he re marked: "1 ordered a tender piece of beef, but he has sent me the worst roast I ever had." Plainly the beef was a great disap pointment, and he was trying to make me believe that he thought the butcher should have the blame. I tried to hide my bitterness, and began to havo a fear with regard to the pie; if that should be a failure I should be dis graced indeed! It proved worse than I had feared. Re uben tasted a piece, laid down hia fork and saia in tones that he tried to have roe think were those of jest: "A man never iinds the pie-crust of to-day what he reads of in novels, and a pie isn't fit for one to eat, any way, unless unless he feels that his stomach is up to the greatest effort of digestion, and mine isn't to-day." Then I knew that I had utterly failed knew it before I tried to tastu a morsel of the heavy stuff I had so recklessly put together, and had dared - to hope it might be even better than my husband's mother'a pie. Why do you try to wake fun of me?" 1 burst out- "You at least might have respected my intention?," I ad ded, as I rose from the table flushed and excited. Reuben followed me into our lilt! j parlor, au1 tried to c.plaiu. but it was not an explanation that J wanted. I had prepared myself foi unqualified praise; nothing but that would satisfy me, I can not tell how it became a quarrel, this discussion of ours; but when Reuben turned with a .simple good-bye with no kiss, I felt as if my married happiness was already wrecked. The afternoon wore away, and I was bathing my eyes in my room, when I heard a gentle knock, and Aunt Patience entered. I ran to her, and cried: Oh, auntie! I never needed you more in my life than I do now." With out eeemin? to notice my wet eyes and swollen face, she said: "I suppose so, my dear. I hear that your girl is gone, and young housekeepers find it very hard getting on alone before they have had experience." Then I sank into her friendly arms and told her all, not sparing myself in the least, and trying to take most of the blame of the falling out between Reuben and myself. "Oh, auntie." I sobbed, "I remember your words on that first night of our marriage; if I bad only believed it possible for me to speak a word that was unkind to mj' husband, I might havo been saved all this." "Poor child!" she whispered, as she did when I was a little gir! and in trouble, "it has come sooner than I could have thought, but let us rejoice that there is time to save vour married joy." I had dried my eyes, dressed myself in a manner that Reuben liked, and was full of the purpose to make up with him. when I heard his well known 6tep. He came in, gathered me to himself, and said: "My dear wife. I have been a miserable man all the afte noon!" Then he tried to take all the blame to himself, which I would not allow, and it ended by our going down hand-in-hand to meet Aunt Pa tience, who sat cool and calm in tho parlor. ' She had a few words of ad vice and warning for us both, and she said to my husband: "Your mistake lay in supposing that any woman could make a success of her first week's housekeeping when she had never received the training of experience. Could you have gone into your office and have made things run t-moothly at a first trial? Jo man is wise who supposes that his wife, though she has all the gifts and graces in the world, can be allowed a royal road to perfection in this department. He must be willing to witness with pa tience many failures in her experi ment in this direction." . When she had finished her little lecture, she said: "Now, Annie, if you will come with me to tho kitchen, I will make some tea rolls, and you may watch me." I followed meekly, and looked on. observing the smallest detail, and then returned to invite my husband out to supper. Aunt Patience remained with U9 through the week. She was the teach er, and I the learner, and when my girl came back I was the mistress not only of the parlor and dining-:-oom, but of the kitchen as well. I tried ex periments, . made failures, bad suc cesses, but watched results from cer tain causes,' and conquered at last, not surely without labor and thought, but the gain is worth all I gave to It, and now I can do a thing gracefully with out fear, and seemingly without effort, and Reuben's praise is more to me than that of all tbe world beside. Mrs. JJ. R. Baldtcin, in Christian at Work. - iau In tu .41 90 1. This individual is familiar in the tnidi t oils nnd the literature of every people fro i the enrli'-st tnuirs to the prea nt. I here are sior.es vhi li are &uposed to I ite Ictt-k to a pTtod earlier than th !i !ie of Moses, t.-l!iiv of th; man who was' p-.it to death fr gathering Kti. ks on 'h-i Mthbath, and m sent to the moon i- st-y ther ever after. A German stvry also t--Us atxnit a man who cut sii-ks on the J-'ahl-.-ith, nnd who whs can-nt up in the iomju, tugobs and all. It is iH'li.'ved that he in still to bo S-'CU, bearing his hur li-u ..I sticks. A similar story is lold iu Swahia, on'y in this rase ths p'Uiishinent was lor hav ing stoVn the wooj, rather than for Lr.akin the Sabbath. A Jiui.h yth relates that tho fe'low was guilty of stealing i-nlb:ios on Clms -m tn cv niig. His n.-;gliloi-s catiir t him n-t as h was making o l with tho plunder, and t'.ey "wished" him up in the iiio-in. There he is to-night with his sio'eu cabbages. In t-ouie ot the provinces along the Vorth ea the in n in tho moon was a Blieepteakr, nn.l tho fact ol h s bein- .oateddov.n as he is with -aubae.es is nc O'snt -1 for by saying thst he us-vi to cntic th shf.-p w;lh th.e verctablw. : t:!l f-.rtln r north the people t. Ik aiout a giant who lives in the iuon, and w..o is 8uposed to cause the ebb an I Mow of the t:d. Witen the giant stoops, thj w iter tows an-l when he stands erect, the water eli a .rain. In revnl n 1 the sun ia a female divinity, an-1 the nion ia her brother. luri-u their mortal lives npou theeaith. th I -roth, r teased his sister. he liew up in the air, ual became the sun; he coul 1 not i y so l.i-li. and became the moon; but he still pursues hia sister, hoping some day to surprise her. "When he is tired and hun.ry, in his last qti irt'T, he leaves his house, on a sled e h.irned to four dos. Mi l hunts lor several lays. tin his return, he eats co 'iiii'-li that lie again grows into a full moon." 1 he I 'ussians have several accounts to give of the phenomena of the u.oon. . ne is that a man was lookin.' for a Und wh re there w s no death. He too-- up h s a: od.: in the moon, but afu-r tin Lad lived then a hundr.-d years, mora or less, death loan t hi.u out, and came there alter lii -iu A furious stru.le leiw,rt-n tbe i o n and .leaih too place. While it was -oing on, the man waa caught up in thu sky, and now shines "as a star neiir tt.e moon." " Hie variety of these stories is by no me.ms exh-.nst -d, i ut enough have i-een irien that the reader may jude of their character. In tneni nil the luau in the i.i.n is a very bad fedow, or u coward. In a l. w instances h - is idel.tiiied w itil RO-ne hUioricai scoundrel. The French have a th'Hry that 1-e is JikIkk f-rar o, v ho was triusj-ort-d there for his treusin! .titers liuie been inclino.1 to think that Le is n n. carrying a bundle of thorns o i his thuu'dera in punishment loroiier to Oud the cheapest cjit iroui his b-i.L da U) re era to mis notion in the tjetpu Ijcanto ol the "I'-radise,": w hen he sp aks ui :tue gloomy, spots, upon t is"' body' iti.e moon's', "wuich below ou i'.-rtii i.'ivo ii- e to talk ol Caiu.' . MY MARY. How will it be In a hundred years? My Mary. We shall have passed through the vale of tears. Bottomed it hopes and conquered its fears. My Mary. Shall love be colder in that fair land? My Mary. Shall I stand apart in some bright band, And foci no more the touch of your bandl My Mary. Shall we have forgot the kisses sweet? My Mary. Keeping time with each fond bosom's best. Making an Edoo of our retreat? My Mary. see your dear lip parting to apeak. My Mary. Loving words are tbe solace I seek S-iy them aga.a, lest my faith grow weak. My Mary. "Love knoweth no ending." ia that true. My Mary. I joy to know it Is ever rew Ohss would hardly be bliss without yoB, My Mary. Love's fountain U there." I bear you say. My Mary And "Nearer the fountain, nearer the day," Glorious words to cheer by the way, My Mary. I see it all now, for ever more. My Mary. We shall be one and our love shall soar High as tbe throne on that nig hUess shore. My Mary. n'UUam Lyle. in DrtroU Fret JWtt. ' IN A SNAKE'S TURD AT. Almost Swallowed by an Immense Boa Constrictor. Aji Adventnre on tbe Amazon Catting the Hep: He In Two and Itescuinj the Victim of Its Voracity A Close CaU. Locating our camp on a suitable spot on the south shore of the Amazon, as nearly as that river can bo said to have any hore, Murilla and I proceeded to make daily excursions into the foiest in all directions, usually leaving two of the boatmen in charge of the camp, aud taking the other two along to car ry supplies. Tho concession proved to be a most magnificent forest. Mahog any trees wero there by the thousand, needing but tho woodman's axe and transportation down the river to fetch 250 pound i apiece. Tho tract was in tersected 1 y creeks in all directions, along which timber might readily be floated to the river. It was some ten daya after our ar rival at tho concession, when I took Murilla with mc for a short expedition into tho forest- It was a feast day with the Indians, and as wo intended to return before evening wc left them all four in camp, merely providing our selves with a round of- hard-tack apiece and some cold venison for lunch, At noon, where we sat down to cat our lunch, Murilla discovered ne.ir by a clump of low bushes bearing a yellow ish berry. This fruit he professed to rceognixo as a familiar variety which he had often eaten down toward the coast, though ho had never seen any before so far in tho interior. After testing them he pronounced them de licious, but of somewhat different flavor to those on the east coast. Wo both ate of the berries liberally without the least suspicion of injuri ous effects, I finding them, as Murilla declared, delicious Ten minutes after eating the first berry, however, both of us became thrilled with a strange exhilaration. We became almost de liriously happy, Murilla bursting out in the Portuguese doggerel with bois terous hilarity as though intoxicated with absinthe. As for myself, my whole nervous system tingled with pleasing exc.temcnt to the very finger lips. I was fairly intoxicated. I have a vague recollection of making a ludicrous resolve to check my own wild impulse to sing by nodding my head in rhy thmic approval of Murilla's vocal outburst of seeing Murilla roll over on the ground, and immediately following his example. Then all be came a blank. - This happened about midday. Not until nearly sunset on the following dny did consciousness again slowly commence to assert itself. I then awoke if a foggy idea of trying to extricate, one's self from a hideous nightmare can be called an awakening with a horrible sensation of help lessness. - It seemed as though the lower half of my body was numbed and paralyzed by heavy pressure from all directions. A vague impression that my lover limbs were dead and all the blood forced out of them into tho upper part of my body crept over me. ' My eyes seemed starting from their sockets almost, a singing waa in my cars and my bFcath came in labored pants; my throat was hot and dry with a raging thirst, I was not yet fully returned to my senses; like one drugged with chloroform, or a person freezing to death, my natural inclina tion was to let things tako their course. It seemed useless to think of trying to extricate myself from the vise-like embrace that appeared to clutch mo as in a rubber mold at terrible tension, from the waist down. It was only a nightmare which would pass away in a little while. And yet, it couldn't bo a nightmare, for 1 was dimly conscious of being awake after all. and not asleep and dreaming. Realizing this, by a supreme effort of tho will I aroused my well-nigh dormant faculties to a sense that some thing terrible was . the matter. The numbness had not reached my arms, and I tried to raise myself up I was lying face downward. Aa I strove to rise I was dragged backward several feet along the ground. Horrified and bewildered. I raised mj-self up with a frantic effort, sufficient to look toward my helpless extremity. My God! I was half engulfed in the throat of a monster boa. This hideous reptile, ' finding mo lying at length on the ground, stupefied, had deliberately set about swallowing me. . Sow 1 was b4so roughly aroused, the sensation was as though some power 'ful' suction pump were employed ia dragging ' me remorselessly down, .'down, down; inch, by inch into tho r slimy depths of my dovourer's stom ach. X was suffering no physical pain to apeak of; the dreadful pressure on the lower half of the body created only numbness there; above vaa e. Evaso of opp essiveness, but thero was an utter absence of acute pain. An indescribably sickening odor also emanated from, the monstrous reptile that was leisurely working me down . his throat It was the breatn from the foul and slimy stomach that already - entombed my feet and legs, and would ere long close over my head. Mad- j denod at the loathsome prospect, I gave a horrified 6cream of agony, and clutching frantically at the ground I struggled frantically to release myself from the deadly embrace of tho ser pent's throat As well might some modern C&nuto try to stay the tidal wave's resistless course as I to struggle for freedom from that living vise 6tretched like rubber about every hair-breadth of what it engulfed. As I struggled I could feci the hooked fangs of my de vourer clutch tho buckskin jacket I was wearing and hold me like a pair of hungry nippers, while the horrible suction-pump below seemed to bo worked with anxious energy. As soon as I realized tho utter hope lessness of accomplishing any thing by struggling a complete change catno over me, I became aa calm and col lected as if there was nothing to bo alarmed at ia my position. So cool and philosophical did I begin to ro vicw the situation that I concluded I must have suddenly gone mad. If there was the slightest hope of escape. I argued with myself, it would be in keeping my presence of mind and remaining perfectly quiet. Every struggle I might mako to get loose would land mo an inch further down into tho depths of tho boa's slippery tomb, by bringing into play tbe hooked fangs and arousing the activity of that j horrible suction force within. From my school-boy re col lections of ' natural history came the conclusion that my devourer must have been a good twenty-four hours engulfing me up to the waist, and that by offering a merely passive resistance I might keep my head and shoulders outside as long as hfo remained. From the time I discovered myself to be in the boa's lethiferous grip until the above sensi ble resolve was arrived at could hardly have been three ininulca. For the first time since recovering consciousness my thoughts now found opportunity to wander from my own sensations, and my first thought was of Murilla. What had become of him? Was he, too, being devoured, or was he alre;idy destroyed? A gleam of hope shot through my brain at the query. Pehaps he ia unharmed, and when he recovers from thi stupefying effects of the berries will be able to ren der me assistance. In my anxiety to see If Murilla were any where around, I tried to look about me. The movement disturbed the boa, and n gain he dragged me backward two or three feet, and again the pres sure from below exerted itself anew to try and drag me in. So long as I re mained perfectly quiet the boa seemed content to let nature take its course, and to remain in a semi-comatose con dition. He seemed to realize that he had undertaken a tremendous job, and one that required a great deal of pa tience. 'The least movement on my part, however, he would interpret at ouce into an effort of his prey to escape, and wou'.il reciprocate by trying to swallow me. Hours, that the horror of my position eem to lengthen into days, passed by; I thought I should go stark, raving mad, as I felt the fangs of my hideous devourer scraping against my buckskin jacket to try and inch me further down his throat. Tho heavy odor of the reptile's breath was like some overpowe ing drug, which, if distilled and applied in moderation, might even be toler- able to the nostrils. Darkness came, j and added to the terror of my situa- tiou. My nerves were now badly shattered, and. In tho darkness, my pngnt was pitiable In the extreme. How shall I describe tbe weird hor rors of that dreadful night? It seemed an eternity spent amid all the blackness and the mental tortures of hell itself. Morning dawned at last, although I never thought it would come and find mo in possession of my senses. Why it didn't find me a raving maniac, or a blubbering idiot, seemed the st angest thing that had yet hap pened. . My first thought was to ascertain whether the gutta-percha-like opening in my living tomb had gained on me during those awful hours of darkness or not, I waa lying all this while face downward, and. although by this time weakened ' almost to a state of helplessness, I used my left hand to feel the taut rim of the boa-constrictor's jaws. They were three full inches higher up my body than yester eve. The excitement of tho night I had just patsed through had ex hausted my emotions, and I remem ber that this sinister discovery awakened in me no senso of uneasi ness. 1 tried to form some plan of putting an end to my existence; but my brain refused to mako connection between my dim, disjointed flights of thought It was no longer equal to the concen tration of a definite idea. I was now beyond all active emotions. Onoo I fancied I heard tho cry of somo ani mal or human being near by, but I was too far gone to pay any attention. At last all seemed to bo over with me. It was as though the darkness of night had gradually closed over me again; a roaring noiso in my ears con tinued for awhile in the darkness, and then all was silent, I had sank into the uuconsciousnofcs of complete ex haustion. I remember nothing more until I came to my senses again in our camp on the river bank. A couple of days' nursing by Murilla brought me round so that I could sit up and listen to his account of my rescue. The cry I fancied I heard just befora sinking in to unconsciousness was from Murilla.'- The effect of tho berries had kept hlui j (stupefied until ihi daa cf tho second day, the close of tho night so full oC horrible experiences to me. He had awakened, weak and burning with thirst. Rising up, he beheld not a dozen yards away my head and shoulders protruding from the mouth of a monster boa, whose scaly body lay in- serpentine lengths among th debris of decaying forest fungus. Taking it for granted that I wa$ dead, and chilled with terro . he ut tered the horrified cry which I had. dimly heard, and rushed away to camp. Being an expert woodman, ho had no difficulty in finding hia way. The In dians had about given us up for lost. They had searched for us, but had never happened to visit the right place. Two were searching when he reached the camp. Trembling with weakness and terror, he told the Indiana tha fate that had befallen us. Returning with axes- and crocodila tpears tho party attacked the boa, chopping him completely in two Just below tho bulge in his body caused by my feet and legs, before ho could es cape. At the first blow of tho axe tha monster made spasmodic efforts to dis gorge in order to attack his assailants. He tried hard to escape, but the axes were skillfully applied, and h wh rendered powerless. The severed head and neck had to be slit open before I could be released. At first they thought 1 was dead, but were soon rejoiced at discovering a lingering 6park of life. Carrj'ing me to the camp, resuseitative remedies were applied, and I was, as you havo seen, finally brought around. In a few daya my health waa ran stored su3ciently to start on our re turn journey down the river, but my own mother would have failed to rec ognize mc. My hair, which was a dark brown when Murilla and I aaV down to eat our lunch of hardtack: and venison, was now as white as tho scant locks of an old man of ninety as white as you see it now. My nervous system had received a shock that left me a victim of nightmare and ne.-vous fears and tremors for years afte-ward. But a naturally iron constitution finally over-rode the ef fects of my terrible experience and left me ia possession of my usual ex cellent health. Boston Commercial JJtULtlTU FUMES OF TOBACCO. The Degre to Which They Are 1)11 lectins in Their Action. It has long been a cherished theory, at least of smokers, that the fumes of tobacco were to a certain degree dis infecting in their action. To put thie theory to a test. Dr. Vincenzo Tessa rini. of the University of Pisa, has re cently conducted an investigation into the action of tobacco smoke upon micro-organisms. Ho devised an ap paratus consisting of two funnel placed with their mouths opposed, and sealed with paraffiue. To each small end of the funnels tubes were attached, suitably arranged so that a cigar could be placed in one end, while the bac teriological smoker inspired at th other. The smoke was thus drawn into the large space made by the fun nels, in which was a plate with va. ious cultures of micro-organisms; control cultures were also used. The microbe were subjected to the smoke for from thirty to thirty-five minutes, during which time from three and a half to four and a half grams of tobacco wer used. The micro-organisms tested were the spirillum cholerae Asiatics;, spirillum Finkler and Prior, bacillus anthracis, bacillus typhi abdominalis, bacillus pneumonia;, staphylococcus pyogeneus aureus, and bacillus pro digiosus. The kinds of tobacco used were the large Virginia cigars, the large Cavour cigars, the small Cavour cigars, the best cigarette tobacco, j The results show that tobacco-smok ! has the effect of preventing the de velopment of some micro-organisms ; entirely, and of retarding that of I others. The Virginia cigars seemed j to have the most powerful effect, whil i cigarette-smoke had only a retarding inlluence. and did not entirely check the growth of any form. By first drawing the tobacco-smoke through water, it was found to have lost it germicidal properties. Science.- SELF CONTROL! Ita TJxprcaelou la the Co of the ITanda. There are few people who posses thai; absolute repose which marks tho "Vera de Yere." A person may le outwardly calm find acir .xjssessed uuderall concilium, and yet Cid a peculiar sustaining quality aud moral su;;ioi t in some small article held ia tho Laud. Iu this case a n ouiau has the advantage over the Merrier ex, as there are countless smell. ,g bottles, hon. bojin.rc Mud the all powerful lau es peclU'.y icsi,;ncd for tho uc of ucrvoua feuiiuine hands. A mau p!.3 s with his knlfo. finners his wrattU chain or flutters his hand kerchief, ami there are few who quite know what, to.lo w Uh their hands when they aro en tin Iy unoccupied. lawyers are keen observers of human Jdictt-yiicracii-SHnU oneof. I hem iu rtlatlng a story of a client icave mu point of In terest the fact of the absolute repose and quiet ot tha client's hands The coso waa l:ujioriuut and tbe oue most iutercsted vr.-is a woman. In tali'in tbe matter over v!ih her the lawyer observed with surprise that she kept htr hands empty uui ahsalutely quiet. They were uot even folde-1 to gether, but lay in repose- on her lap. throughout tho whole couvers-ttion. Tiio circumstance was au unusual one, as tberortrj few who possess Mifflcient self control not to feel an increased seuse of conCJcnco and self assurance when the hands nre supplied with soma small arti er, which seems to reuder them lssob-t;i;-ive and takes ava r.uy leclins of rc fusibility their owner may have ro gardiuK them. The School for tho Technical Training for Gentlewomen " opened in London last year, has begun its second year auspiciously. Tho eourso com prises instruction " in dressmaking cookery, millinery. upholsterinr . house hold management, domcsti ! economy, clear starching and fin laundry -work, book-kooping. hygiene, elocution, taaaca aad lavcstacat cr; t 1 r V
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