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VOLUME XXIII.
EUENSBUEG. PA.. FRIDAY. JANUARY 3. 1S90.
NUMBEK 47.
Job
raisnva of all kinds neati' :
oosly ea seated at lowest prices
it.
rp mv
juB t ie I
B. & B.
Eotr.o rate Dresa Goods Bargains for this
isotilli. u-Ii unusual ?alues as will make
trJ. live ly Id tbene Depaitmeota.
iO Va. so Inch Tricots at 23 cents-all
urk asouable colors, good serviceable fa
bric ; adapted for retool and Loose wear.
ot.' width -50 inches, 23 cents.
100 pes. double width suitings Id choice
Bew culvritigs. 30 cent.
Larue lot of Scotch, German and French
riaid, 1- inctiea wide, all wool, very styl
ish and tfftctlve, "5 cents. regular price baa
been 1.23. These aie plums for shrewd
buyer.
80 shades of 40 Inch, all wool colored
rjjuriuif rt-a at 3 ceuts, special value and
eijual to quality, usually old at 73 cents.
Anutrier line of 40 loch colored Casn
merts at 73 cents, worth fl.00
For Hoildav Fiesems la these Dress
Coods I)t'Pitments, we have put up 300
Pres ritterns In neat attractive boxes,
plain rclor-t and combinations to sell for
Jj.tO t:J-w) for the suit paltera. Every
one or these suit patterns at special low
price
For Kiwy work for the Holidays, larfest
ajnr'meiit of Ktbbons and Plushes at
special low prices.
Handkerchiefs aud Mufflers, special sale
la these Departments, all new designs and
at money siting prices.
Write our Mall Order Department for
ssruples or Infotuiatlon.
CtalTue free npon request.
BOGGS & BUHL,
Ho, Ill, IV), 111 FEDERAL STREET,
ALLEGHENY, PA.
Tho Favorite
M...1', in,, f.ir Thrmit and Lung Piffl
lilil.n lll 1 H bt t--U, uud still is, Aj't r's
l hiTi-y r.ctcr;iJ. It cure.s ( roup,
li....iln Cuiih, Uroni liltlH, biuI
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OILS! OILS!
TK- Stan.Iard Oil Company, of
i u:!iuro;t Pa., "make a specialty
ni.tnnf;icturing for the domes
; tra.'.e the fintst brands of
33iia.i!in;' and Lubricatin?; Oils,
Naphtha and Gasoline
That aaa be
KM FROM PITROUUH.
tt - l;il!tne comparison -with
k-i.nvn product of petrol
If you wish the most
fct : Ms : Satisfactory : Oils
ln tji I:: a.sk for ours.
STANDARD OIL COMPANY,
MTTSHURG. 1A.
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'HTHBOKn, PA.
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WE DO NOT PLEDGE
Ourselves to keep ahreBtt. but to kmr tbB lead
orer alt otn.ru id miiiui juu
prRC, : absolvtelt: Pisr, asd
WELL HATiRKB, RIPE Will
KIU AMD WI5IEM
At'prieaa tbat mka all otber dealer buttle.
Juet ttiiak oi It :
OT.rholU a. Co.'a Pore Kya. 6a jaara old.
Foil quart $1.10. or Slu.tM per dutea.
ttlll better ! , .
Klnch'i Oolden Weddlo. ten yea.;olJ. .tull
quirta SI -'S orfl'i.bO per iluaen.
Hetter atlll !
Kentucky BonrtwD. tea yeart old. .tall
umrtt Sl.'S. or Sl'i 00 per dosea.
And one of the aiit laleahla.Wbtaklet on our
Hot la
Tba Pure Elht Year Old Exp. rt Ouckachelm
r. Full quurli 1 u. or $10 per duxea.
There U no W BiKky thnt baa. ever been told
taat baa ; rrwa in lavor with the public o rauld
It as our old Export, and the ample reuoa la
that It ii utterly liupoaalble to duplioxte It.
There will n.v.r beany letup la the purity
and Doe flavor in any particular uf the Pure U all
lorn I a Wlnea we are. now lelllov atMeenU per
bottle. Full quart!i.:or $& 00 per doxen.
In roaklQv up your ordera pleaa. eAeloee P. O.
Money Orlet or Drait. or Ketfltter your order.
JOSEPH FLEMING & SON,
WHOLESALEiiSD RETAIL.
DEUGOISTS.
PITTSBURG, rA.
413 MARKET ST. Cr. wf tat DIoiI.
Jan. aa, ISSu. lvr
m. A SOLID
&TEEL FENCE!
HAUB OF
EXPANDED METAL
CCT IBOH STAIAL
SSKCTUINS NEW.
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For RinotNCis. fuOM'. CM!r,. F.?
CotHa. tt.tca, ArW, kaaaw 6aarU, Tiau
Sire-proof PLiSTkKISU LATH, DOOB VATS
Ac. Write fur lUuatrated CfcUiL-kTue: mailed free
CENTRAL EXPANDED METAL CO
Bard n are ilea bee it. 4tvc name of tbia paper
kllTH feTKELT, PITT.BIBU. 1A.
! the yreat rollee or KumtM OrBoe. where all
the hran.'hr. ul a complete Lumnena e J action are
tauKht Py Actual Kuaiaeva Praelire. The only
m.uibrr rroia Penan, of the ' Inter-State Kul
piea l'r.ietir A-fo'ialion ol Amerie." 1 he tu
eent Iranro bunk k-eplna: aoj ouaineas br en
v.alnn In tiunlor. tranaet:on. Practical Ooleo
Work and rlaukioa: are apecialtlea. ledivtilual
la-tructl.'ii Imni w a. at. to 4 r. . and I root 7 to
lii r. l l.e t 't advatitucet In hhor'-hsnd and
Tytiewrltlnrf the kiheat apeed la the aborlevt
tiaie Srnd f .r call'ifue
4 all aaa im the itadrDtiX weirtx
m bra ynm vl.lf txtei Expealllea. 1.1
lora a I . a ) wfleeme.
JA3lll'L.Uk WlLLIiM- A.M..
Preoiaeat.
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Clean. e- the
Xnal laaasrea.
Iollatiinal .on.
Ileal. Sere Ey M
KtBterea the
Sleaiaea ef Taete
anal kraell.
Try the Cure.
a bi
A particle la applied Into each neatrile and la
Bttreeable. Price AO ennte at lirult : br mall
rr.rl8tered.eoeU. ti,T BSUS, M WarreD SL,
lSew York.
ST. CHARLES
Charles S- Cill, Proorietor !
Tublo unsurpassed. Remodel
ed with office on ground floor.
Natural aa and incandescent
light in nil rooms. New steam
laundry attached to house.
'cor. Wood St. t Third Ave.
Pittsburgh, Pa.
1704. IHHi).
Pollclee wrlttea at abort notice la the
OLD RELIABLE "ETNA"
And other I'lret CImi Conpinlfi.
T. W. DICK,
A UE.VT rB T II K
OLD HARTFORD
FIRE INSURANCE GOMT.
(lUMMESCED BUSINESS
Eheesonnc, July 'Uissx
NATURE'S
CURE FOB
CONSTIPATION.
A HllIABI.1 KtlltOl
rer alee; at
Far TeraH Liver.
Bllloaa H.aacha,
Coatlveneaa,
Tarraat'a Eirrrreseaat
Seltxe" Aperliit
Tt la eertala In tta itw.
It la (.otie la Ita actl n
It la paUteable to the
taat. Il eaa bo relied
npoa to euve. and It earea
by anria aot by outrar
lo. aatare. Ih tot take
loleot purgative, your
aelvea or allow yoar rhll
d ran l take then, alwava
aao thla elawaat phar
nareotlcBl reparattoa.
whleh baa beoa lor mora
tbaa forty yeare a pahli
tavorlte. Sold a. druggist a
P " A r Ti a
TEPSU.
KSSEX1TAL OIIi,
WlNTIKOKEEX, PKrrEUliKST. PEN
n y royal. Spearmint, JLc.
of prime quality, bought ta any quantity for eah
ea delivery, tree brvkeraare, evaaiaUaloa, atocaao,
DODGE & OLCOTT,
mportera arvl Exporters, S William lit.. N. T.
Ao. n.'MB.-Sut.
r 1 1 w- DICK. ArroaKET-AT-uw
. . T -peaibpr. Pa. omee la bnlldlnr ol T
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Wry asd etlteetixBi a fpeiany. J
HER ANSWER.
1 Young Vn propood to ma laat night.
You -i2 t t man thatr lndooa. It's true;
Aaked me Vj 1o tola w fe, outrinhc"
Oood rucioua. dear ! Wbat did you dor
Poor boy! Ha looked ao bandaoma, NelL"
"Hamlwmel A clerk on vookly pay
Aak you a beauty and a belle!
but tell me vt hut be daxed to Bay."
Well first : he loved me." "Ob, that part.
Of course! Wua.1 eiser' '"And tbat be
thought
I waa the aort of clrl whoae beart
Would never lot itself bo bought.
He aaid he waa a man that I
Waa juat a woman; equal ao
la you tii, health, Lru.a we stood, and why.
You'd, think he never dreamed of bo
" That be waa poor need be no bar'
Well! what an attitude t take !"
" For Love would prove the guiding tar
To fame and torlnne, lor my sake
And then he begped my heart and hand.
'Such Impudence: who'd ever yueasf
I hope you luado h m underatand
H.a placer" "I did I told him Y'es!"
Madeline S. Brtdgea, m Puck.
BACK-YARD STUDIES.
Aunt MatUda'a Obsorvatlons from
Her Back Window.
When Aunt Matilda came to visit
us and insisted on having a back
room, wo were greatly disappointed,
fcr sister Mat tie and I had 6pent weeks
of our pre-iou vacation time in mak
ing all sorts of pretty nothing- to
beautify tha ff uest-chamber for hor
occupancy. We had not seen Aunt
Matilda for tea year. In that time
Mattie and I had grown from little
girls to younj' ladies in our toens and
members of the hiffa school. The
prmcipiU things I could remember
about Aunt Matilda were her rrelty
(fray curls and gold-rimmed glasses,
and that wht-n sho visited us I always
had on a fresh, white pinafore, and she
would suy ti mo:
Come here, my dear, and let me
wipe my g'.a-es on your clean apron."
Very proudly would I comply with
hf-r request, for we considered it a
roat honor to wear any thing clean
rn'jli to romo In contact with her
polished gold siHctaclo. Then when
bho had usod one corner of tho pina
fore so caref u'.ly as not to leave a rum
ple she would puts her plump, warm
hand over my curls and say:
What a tall Kirl you are growing,
Hetty, my child. 1 hope you are a
good girl at echool aud always mind
your teacher."
And I would answer: "Yen. ma'am,"
very timidly and go tack to my seat
on a high, hair-covered chair, where I
would make a desperate effort to sit
straight and keep from sliding off.
Father had moved West away out
to Colorado and. as 1 said, we had
not seen Aunt Matilda for ton years
when wo ri-ctjivJ the welcome news
that he was coming to pay us a visit,
and we all resolved not to let her go
away from us ajjain if we could help
it- Perhaps this wad the reason we
had tdcon sucn extra pains with the
guest chamber. I know, when !t was
all finished, Mattie and I survoyeJ it
with what we hopd was pardon
able prido. We had coaxed from
papa a new bedroom suit of polisT.ed
ouk which, with it broad mirror of
piute glass, ehono grandly in tho sun
light which 6treaiuel in through tho
curtains of tho yellow china pilk. The
big, pluh-cuHhionvl patent rocker
was resplendent in draperies of hand
painted silk, while tho wickor chairs
displayed their fine linen and satin
ribbons, and even tho ottoman was
fine in silk embroidery. As lor the
bed well, it waa simply lovely!
Shams were not out of date then, and
ours were marvels of fine lace and the
Chinese laundry art and the pret
tiest yellow satin bows in a corner of
each! The lace spread over a quilt of
yellow 6llesia, and the scarf of crazy
work in bilk and velvet completed the
ravishing picture.
When Aunt Matilda came Mattie
and I had the honor of escorting her
to this chamber of et:;te and. you may
be sure, we watched furtivtfly to boo
how it impressed her.
Terhaps we were the more anxious
because wo know tthe had opposed
father's coming Went, and we wanted
to impress her with the financial suc
cess of the move, and to show her that
truly :t.-thetic taste dwelt even as far
west as Colorado.
"Let me take off your wraps, auntie,"
said Mattie, setting her little hand-bag
cu tho floor by the dresser, and going
up to Aunt Matilda, who stood looking
about in a hesitating manner.
"Wait a minuto, my dear let me
toll you eomothing you won't mind
if your old auntie is frank with you, I
know. I've liTod over sixty years, my
dear, and I've found that in the end
it always pays to bo frank with your
best friends. Nov, I know you want
me to feel perfectly at home here, and
this room is very beautiful yes. very
beautiful Indeed but it is too large
and fine for a simple old lady like me.
Don't you see I couldn't really sit
against any of these handsome
draperies it, would be sure to muss
them and well. I shoulJ n't feci the
least bit at home here. I've lived a
very plain, quiet life, you know. Now,
girls, if you've a little cozy back room
somewhere, with just plain furniture,
so that I wouldn't tool that I was muss
ing any thing, I should enjoy it so
much."
In vain we protested that nothing
was too nice for her to use. and that
we had no other room good nough
for her. She silenced us with a grace
ful, girlish wave of the hand, and,
shaking the gray curls, an id:
.Now, my dears, you can not fool
me that way. if I am an old woman.
I am first-rate at a game of hide-and-seek
and I eha'l jut find a room for
mtself- In thia large houso I know
there Is a corner for mo somewhere."
And ure enough suo stepped
briakly across tho hall, and paused be
fore the door of a back chamber.
Ih any one occupy thk?"
Mattie shook her head, and casta
despairing glance at me, as she said:
"Hut it win never do at all, auntie.
It is ju-t a littl box of a room, fur
Bishop uj with cJd "ad ends. Wo
put M1m Bett in there when she
cornea to eew for us, and sometimes
Hetty and I sleep there when we have
extra company and hav to give up
our room."
Aunt Matilda opened the door, how
ever, and stepped in.
"The very thing," she cried, de
lightedly. "A rag carpet, too! So
homelike! And this nice splint-rocker!
I tell you, girls, for real comfort
there's nothing like a splint-rocker."
She stepped to tho one window in
the room aud put back the plain white
muslin curtain.
'Better and better!" she cried, clap
ping her hands in almost childish
glee. "Such a row of nice back
yards! You see. girls. I'm an inquisi
tive old lady, and I dearly love to
watch people's back yards. I get ac
quainted with them so. You can go
in at people's front doors for years
and not know a single thing about
them; but you can get a good idea of
what they are in a week from tho
rear."
So Aunt Matilda had her way.
There's ju6t one thing I would like
from the front room, girls," sho said,
and that is the vase of yellow marl
golds I saw on the mantel. They
smell so like home."
Mattie fetched them, and having
done what we could to make the room
convenient for her. we left her to the
enjoyment of her splint-rocker, her
rag carpet and marigolds, and wont
down-stairs to confide our disappoint
ment to mother.
The back yards, which Interested
our aunt so much, belonged to a row
of tenement cottagos just across the
alley from our house. The latter be
ing built la the middle of the lot and
running back a good way. was quite
close to the alley, so that a good
chance was afforded Aunt Matilda to
pursue her back-door atudies. for
which she professed such a penchant.
Our town was an Invalid resort, and
tho population in consequence a very
fluctuating one. We had. therefore,
fallen into the habit of paying little or
no attention to the families who came
and went In the Row. But now we
were destined to learn many things
from Aunt Matilda about our back
door neighbors. What impressed us
more than any thing else waa the kind
liness of tho comments she made uj.Kn
her unknown friends. Considering
that Bho openly avowed herself "a bit
of a gossip,' this seemed to us all the
more remarkable, as all the gossips
we had known showed a remarkable
penetration In discovering the weak
nesses and sins of the subjects which
they dissected.
There is a new family moving into
the red house this morning," an
nounced Aunt Matilda at dinner one
day. "Tho woman Is a nice, tidy
little body, and looks full of energy
but you can soo she is not welL fcho
has a bad cough and looks so worn and
tired that I feel sorry for her. Il3r
husband Is a tall, manly-looking fel
low, but ho, too, has a discouraged
look, and tho little boy there seems
to bo but one child, about ten years
old, I should judge looks as though
life had boon any thing but a joy to
him. I eh all like to find out what
their trouble is."
Father held up his hands with well
feigned horror. Matilda." he said,
"you are without doubt the most in
quisitive person alive. You embody
all the necessary qualifications of a
whole detective force."
Never mind," replied the little
lady, laughing, "so long as I injure
no one by it you ought not to grudge
a lonely old woman her only dissipa
tion." "I should think," Bald mamma,
"that if the lady is such an invalid
consumptive, of course, if she coughs
no bad you might see in that sufficient
cause for the family unhappinesi
Perhaps, after all, they are only tired
from a long journey and not really
unhappy."
Aunt Matilda shook her head.
"No, Martha, temporary weariness
does not mark bucq lines in the face.
Neither is the illness of one member
sufficient to permanently destroy the
family peace. Why. some of the hap
piest families I know have inmates who
are hopeless invalids, and all the other
members seem to make a point of be
ing bright and cheery for their Bakes.
No, there is 6omethlng more than this
trouble over there. Never mind. I
shall find out by and by."
A few days later r-ho called to mo as
I was passing through the halL
"Come here, my dear. Come and
look out of my window."
"lam on the right "track now. I
told you I Bhould find out. Do you
see?"
"I do not understand you, auntie,"
I aaid.
"Why, just look at the clothes on
the line, back of the rod house. Soo
that petticoat. It has yards and yards
of knitted thread-lace on it actually
hand-knitted, child. Ju-t think of it.
every etitch of the millions of them
requiring four motions of the hand!
More than that, see that knitted coun
terpane." It Is lovely, auntie,M I could not
help saying.
"Lovely! Yes, if one did not think of
the woman's life-blood that went into
it, and of the child's happiness that
went into it, of the widower and
orphan soon to bo made by it. Why.
think. Iletty. what a costly quilt it is!
Likely they had to break up a cozy
home at the East, and sacrifice prop
erty and business interests there to
come here for her health. And you
can buy a beautiful Marseilles quilt
for ten dollars! Yes, a very good one
for five. Fivo paltry dollars and
think what went into that! I walked
past tho front of the house yesterday,
and there were fine hand-knitted cur
tains at the windows. Why, even
tl.ose chock giugham kitchen aprens
hanging there have cross-stitch cm
broidery three or four Inches deep.
And the rugs that 6ho hangs out on
the line every day all hand work!
One has little cloth circles button-hole
stitched to a foundation pyramids of
them thousands of embroidery
etitches on a two-Ioet-by-three rug!
A yard of Moquette or Wilton carpet
could be bought for two dollars or
lens, and you know yourself, Iletty,
that it Is twice as pretty and durable
for a rug.n
"Perhaps she does not do all this
work herself. It may be given to her,
or she may buy it of poor invalids
who can do nothing else."
"No, child, she does it herself. I
boo her sit by her kitchen window
every day knitting and crocheting, oh!
so steadily! It is a north window,
too. The sitting-room fronts south,
and she can not sit there because the
sunlight would fade hor carpets. The
shades are nearly always close down.
And the poor child wanders about the
yard looking so homesick and lonely
that my heart achea for him. Ilis
clothes are nice and fit beautifully, and
his linen is starched and polished and
fresh every day. She does her own
ironing. I see her bending for hours
over the ironing-board, and stopping
every little while to cough. Look at
that line now, Iletty, and 6ee what she
has before her this week. There are
six white 6hirt-waists for the boy,
plaited every one, and to be done with
the poliahing-iron; then there Is that
skirt I first showed you. and a pair of
rufiled and tucked and embroidered
pillow-shams, and well, all the rest.
It makes me rick at heart to soo it and
think of that poor, starved little boy.
He has no mother, don't you soe? Only
a nurse and laundress. Sho won't let
him run the 6 1 root and get with bad
boys. She thinks ehe is very careful
about him, but she starves his very
souL She has no time to an
swer questions for him and help
him plan amusements, and cym-
I pathiae with him, and he can't play
in the dirt because he will soil his
clothes. Of course the husband has
the same trektment. II-t has to be
very caref ul about throwing hi papers
about or making a liu -r in tbs houe;
and when b corner homo el night Lis
wife is too tired to talk and coughs a
great deal. Tho ccagh worries him,
a.id he feels that he ouht to do some
thing more for her but he has done all
he can. poor man! Tho doctor has told
him to bring her to Colorado, and he
has done eo but she doesn't seem to
get much betler. and she never will,
Hetty, till sho stops that everlasting
knitting and fancy work and gets Into
the sunshine, and takes an in'restin
something outside of her Louse-keeping.
I am going to call on ht to
morrow. She is a new neighbor, you
know, and 1 ill tell you beforehand
just what I shall find. 1 shall ring the
bell, and wait a long time. Then I
shall hear doors open and shut, and
finally the key turned in the front
door, and I eball be let In. The sitting
room will be dark and have a close,
shut-up emell if it were anywhere but
in Colorado it would be musty. The
lady will raise a shade and let in ft
little light, taking care to shut out
as much Bunlight as she caa by draw
ing the knitted curtains close. The
room will be literally crowded with
hand-made fancy work, and every
thing will be painfully neat and un
used. I shall scarcely have introduced
myself until the begins to bemoan her
lot on account of this dusty country.
Sho will tell me that it is simply im
possible to keep things clean, and that
she wears herself all out trying."
The call was made, and Aunt Ma
tilda came home more indignant than
ever.
I tell you that woman Is dying by
Inches of fancy work aud lack of sun
shine aud pure air. She tells me that
her disease is not hereditary, but she
was always a delicate child, and it was
brought on by a hard cold. A hard
cold, indeed! How could any one keep
any lungs and sit all day by a north
window crouched over those fiendish,
Bhlning need'es?"
Aunt Matilda's usually mild brown
eyes flashed indignantly and then
filled with sudden tears.
"Oh, my dears, the pity of It! And
to think that Ehe is only one of many.
I saw a whole stack of Home Journals
and Journals of Fancy Work, and
fashion magazines, but not one single
useful book or paper in the house.
Talk about the suppression of im
proper literature. I sometimos think
journals of fancy work and fashion
ought to bo included in tho list, for
they Burely do tempt weak-minded wom
en to their ruin. I meant to go homo
next month, but you will have to keep
me a epell longer, Martha. Tve a
clear call to missionary labor in the
red house over there. I must have
the phaeton at least two or three hours
every day for she won't be able to
walk far at first, and you must help
me hunt up all the poor children you
know and if sho must sew she shall
make plain garments for them. But I
don't mean to let her touch a noodle
for a month if I can help it. How
will I manage it? You'll see. Where
there's a will there's a way."
And in Aunt Matilda's caso we
knew this to be true. Ella Beecher
Gittings, In Chicago Advance.
HUMOROUS.
"Gimme ten cents wuff o flesh
cullud court plaster, boss." "White
or black?" "Look heah, honey. I s a
gen'l'man cb color an Ts aware ob de
fac. but don you go rubbin' it in."
Time.
Singley "How much you resem
ble your sister. Miss Bjonee. I would
take you for her." Miss Bjones
"W-welL Mr. Singley, this so sudden;
but you may ask pa." Lawrence
American.
Indignant mother "You haven't
given the child any prize!" Teacher
"Alas! he has been persistently
lazy." Indignant mother "Well,
then, why don't you give him a medal
for his persistency?" Golden Days.
Book-agent Going from books
to babies, madam, that's a fine young
ster. Allow me to congratulate you."
Young woman "Sir. that baby is not
mine!" Book-agent "I repeat, mad
am, allow me to congratulate you."
MEMORIES.
Once more beneath ray yearning eye
The Oecp-secluded vale appears;
Once more I ace the xnoantaina rise
That, in the dimly cUataut years,
Heboid our taller parting tear.
The meadow path by which we walked
In those old day a that were so sweet.
The atream that talka as then it ta.kcd.
The low-roofed church, the village street.
That once was glad beneath her feet.
Each common object seems to aay
With me in mute, complaining moan:
The l.ghtls parted from our day;
She once vu here, but now ia gone.
And wo are loft alone alone 1"
I wander on, yet, as I go.
The Joy to view each well-loved scene
Is vanquished by the greater woe,
H, To think o: all thai might have been.
Had a bard fate not stepped between.
Farewell, once more, my heart's sad home:
Once more I go; yet, wheresoe'er
Through length of weary days I roam,
tOne memory, heart-enahrined I bear
This mountain valley green and 'air.
And the aweet Sower that blossomed there.
J. S. Mills, in Chamber Jcurnal.
STAMPEDES.
An Cxoitinfif Experience with a
Herd of Buffalo.
"I shall never forget that canyon,
not if I live a century," said a front
iersman, as the train was slowly creep
ing along over a deep, narrow abyss,
common in the Western country.
Why? ' I asked.
"Because," was the reply, "I
dropped into it once, or rather, was
thrown in, and had the narrowest es
cape of my life. I was what is termed
a oow puncher' In those days, aud I
did a little of every thing. The year I
have in mind 1 was guide for a party
of prospectors and engineers, and
under contract to supply them with
beef. Beel meant buffalo, and there
was plenty of it too much, as you
will see, in thoe days, though they
are all gone now.
"I generally worked ahead of tho
party an hour or bo, to b3 on the look
out for the Indians and game, and one
day. having sighted a big herd of
buffalo, I started off with one of the
party to kill soino, and have them
dressed by tho time the main party
came up. My companion was new to
the business, but I bad no idea that ho
would put mo into the scrape he did.
We weie about four miles from this
canyon, which is simply a big wash, a
cut, the sides almost up and down
and a thousand feet wide. A Lorso
can jump from the edge at some
points and fall fifieca hundred feet
without striking; that's the kind of a
placo it is. In cru&sing in the cars
you do not see tho steepest part of it-
"We started ol in high spirits. It
was a beautiful morning, and there
was something in the ar lhat stii
uiaUid mo. sTiething that is difficult
to explain, but exists nevertheless.
Tho country to the 6outh and east was
as level as tho sea; but to the west
rose the Rockies, blue and pink, and
here and there Isolated Duties. Away
to the northwest rose a cloud of dust,
which hung over the ground for hun
dreds of acres. That dust meant buf
faloes, and for It we headed,
"I intended riding slowly, and when
we got near to put on speed and
charge them. But all at once my
man's horse went into a hole, and
broke the cinch. I rode on and left
him to mend it, thinking, of course,
that he would follow. I had gone two
miles, when it occurred to me to stop
and wait for him. The buffaloes were
just ahead, and I wanted to give him
a fair chance. For half an hour I
waited, and then suddenly noticed a
movement in the hord, which was ap
parently coming in every direction.
The dust 6eemed to cover the euii.-o
horizon, rifing in tho air like a cloud,
and spreading to each side.
"In a moment I was in the saddle
and riding out toward it to soo which
direction it was taking, still not want
ing to leave my companion. Just then
I began to hear a roaring sound like
thunder. Every instant it grew loud
er, and finally I began to realize that
1 was being surrounded, and then it
flashed across my mind that it was a
6tampcde. In a second I was about
and away In tho direction of the
party; but I had boon standing in a
depression, and as I came up I saw
that I was in the center of a half-moon
of dust. Thousands of buffaloes were
dashing down on m, like an ava
lanche, and their flankers reaching
out a if to hem me in. I didn't waste
much time, and was soon on a dead
run. If you have ever seen a man or
a horse run down a track before an en
gine, animals leaping along before a
prairie fire, or to escape a cyclone, you
can imagine the ioelings which im
pelled me. It was merely a matter of
getting around the herd, but they
were closing In on me. and a fall, an
accident of any kind, meant being
trampled to death. I soon saw that it
was useless to attempt getting around
the herd; it waa too big and the start
waa too great, and so I simply ran for
it, ran for life.
You never saw a stampede?
Well, Imagine eight or ten thousand
cattle, perhaps more, impelled by
fear or terror, dashing along, crowd
ing together. A living glacier; it is
irresistible; nothing can stop it; a
surging, solid mass, rushing blindly
forward, with a roar and noise which
shakes the very earth. . Imagine
something like this, and you can re
alize something, perhaps, of ' the
features of a stampede. It is merely
the wild rush of terrified cattle or
buffaloes.
"I ran before them twenty minutes,
and of course gained, and. seeing
some buttes at a distance of a mile or
more, I thought I could make them,
and would consequently bo safe.
But life is uncertain, and so is riding
in this country, as, without any warn
ing. I came upon this canyon. I took
in tho whole situation at a glance.
If I went down, the animals would
fall upon me. If I 6tayed on tho edge,
they would trample me to death.
There was but one chance that I
could turn back tho herd, and I took
it I ran at thum, firing my rifle,
bowling them over, yelling and
screaming as a man cin only scream
if it is for life- But tho roar of their
feet was so loud that I doubt if they
could have heard me.
"On they came, liko a whirlwind,
and. turning again, 1 made for the
canyon. I reached the edge about a
thousand yards ahead, and, dismount
ing, I started my horse back to take
his chance, and flung myself over tho
side. There wasn't much time to
think, but I thought the best placo
would bo at tho edge. So I crept as
close to it as possible, and at the
steepest place, and waited.
"What were my sensations? Well,
I can hardly tell. I was protty cer
tain that my day had come, and I re
member trying to brace up, and I
thought of my old mother; but I didn't
have much time. Oa they came, and
then I was buried with earth, and the
next second I saw buffaloes go shoot
ing over the edge. They went as if
they had been shot out of a gun, clear
ing the edge and striking many feet
below. Hundreds of them, it seemed,
and, for all I know, thousands, went
over before they stopped. You see,
the tremendous pressure behind
pushed those in front on, so that they
could not help themselves, and it was
some time before tho front ranks
could stop the rush, and not before
many had gone over. I had been
saved by the hardness of the soil
above me. A part of it had given way
and covered me up, but a shelf of clay
held, and to it I owe my life. I
dragged myself up the slope, moro
dead than alive, and about the first
thing I saw was my companion rldl,g
up, while the buffaloes wore a cloud of
dust in the south. It seems that he
had, thinking to get the start of me,
.gone around find begun to fire into the
herd from behind, and had thus cro
atod the Btampode. Ho didn't know
any bettor, eo I couldn't say much.
"The bottom of the canyon was
about full of dead and wounded buffa
loes. I never saw such a aiht before
and never want to again. Perhaps."
concludei the old hunter, "you have
been under the fall at Niagara. Well,
just imagine the water living buffaloes
and you can imagine my situation.
My horse I never 6aw again. Whether
ho went into the canyon or not I don't
know."
Many animals ar3 S':Mect to stam
pede, but especially these that are ac
customed to herd. When they are
large and powerful the most frightful
results may follow. It sometimos o
c-jrs among elophanis, when entire
plantations are wrecked and fences
and houses are ruinod.
In tho sea-iion rookeries of the
Alaska coast some curious st -mpodus
and exciting incidents are often seen.
At certain seasons of tho year tho
Aleuts have a drive of "seevin-Lle," j
as tho lions are callod. It is -unr- j
ally begun in September or October. I
Tho largest and strongest Aleuts a:-o
selected for tha purpose, who, with j
provisions, repair to the vicinity cf I
tho rookery. At night, w hon tho sea-
t! Ana i 1i1t-,rr in t V)A ci nil o TK v ViinVi '
water mark, they make their first
tempt. Armed with- sticks, guns and
clapping bones, they creep down to
the water's edge, and finally, with
much skill and maneuvering, place
themselves l etween the 6oa-lions and
the water, and, at a given signal, rush
with ytlls and screams at th-jir vic
tims. The sea-lions awako. and hear
ing tho terrible noiso, dash away in a
stampede, each ono rushing in tho di
rection in which ho happened to bo
sleeping. In this way half may go
inland, while the rest he;id for tho
men. In the latter case there is some 1
danger, but, as a rule, the Aleuts es
cape injury. Tho sea-lions come hop
ping, floundering along, making mar
velous speed for such huge ere atu;os
and care nothing for the men in their
b.ind rush.
Tho stampede of the Bea-lions ends
disasterously to the most of them.
They flounder inland, and are then
followed and driven to the houses of
tho men by shouts and crios. Ihere
stakes are placed in the ground about
them, forming a rude corral. To the
posts Etroamers of cloth are attached,
and their fluttering in the wind pro
vents the foolish soa-lions from escap
ing. Other catches are added until
finally two or three hundred sea-lions
are corralled, whon tho final march is
taken up. Tho sea-lions are liberated
and headed in the direction of the
Aiout village ten or twelve miles
away, and driven there, the journey
taking from one to two week.
Among wild hordes the stampede Is
an exciting spectacle, tho animals lit
erally running away in a body. It is
the custom among Indians to create a
stamped among horses and cattle
when they wish to appropriate some
o" them, and, in the confusion that re
sults, not a few are driven off and se
cured. It was once my good fortune to
witness a stampede of eels. A certain
pond on tha Maine coast was fed by a
brook, but at high water the ocean
flowed in, so that it might bo said to
be salt at high tide, and frosh or
brackish at low tide. The conditions
seemed to be particularly favorable
for the propagation of eels, and the
muddy bottom was fairly alive with
them, many of them of large size. As
the tide ebbed, many oels went into
salt water.
One evening I had occasion to cross
the creek with a friend just at night
fall. The little brook iia I dwindled
dawn to a mere stream, a fool or o
wide, and as wo stepped over i. was
seen to be black with. eels. My coru
paision inrulvcr'cnliy stepped in uuiom,.'
thorn, :.iid at the instnnt tho liv:::;;
river broke add a remarkable eluu
pedo ' occurred. Hundred of forms,
ranging from two to three cr mo:e
feet in length, broke eway and d.tsh'jil
over the dry but slippery beach, cov
ering It in every direction wiih a
wriggling mass of e-A life. The terri
nod animals dashed up towards the
6horo and in every direction, though
ultimately turning and making for
tho distant water. Soma of them
traversed, to reach it, over three
hundred foot of drv land.
Among all animals the i.cl
alarm and sudden terror is l a'
have the samo result a wild i.r
rushing this way and that; even r.
men it is not uncommon. Ia
war sudden surprises have re"-j".
a stampede, whero hundreds of
ordinarily brave, have r.:-.h .i
!. v. ?
long to escape tho suprc-" o
danger, stampeded r-.n iboy
15. si.
if they were sea-lio?i- or buifjiio. (J
F. Holder, in Youth .-i .loi.:pit,ica..
TOO MUCH LEARNING
Alarming Increase la tlie Nuiulrei' ci I t J.
fesaiooal M?ti.
The alarming increao ;n b.f euev
ber of learned men form.i iho tiieie ci
a statistical work which l.:u
been issued by a Gottiugen pro.V
Dr. Lexis1 figures refer more espo..: .c '.y
to Germany, though they are not n u 'li
less applicablo to many other fh .1
both of Europe and America.
Taking the number of students rr
tered on the books of the twenty-ori"
Teutonic universities at 29,000 Bt :i .
heading the list with loss than 5.' V
while Rostock brings up the rear w:ih
something over 300 the profe--"r
hows that fully one-half of 11. a n
liopeful youths are doomed to a 11."? t f
poverty and disappointment The va--V
majority of these 29,000 burschen a'
looking forward to becoming lawyers
or doctors or pastors or Bchoolmaa'xri
or in some other way, either in pri
vate life or as servants of the etat' to
earn their bread by means of the t ;
"eation they are at present eo lal.
iously acquiring.
This is not the first time that a si r i
lar alarm has been sounded. No 1:-s j
a personage than Prof. Virchow re
cently advised young men to abandon,
all thought of finding a career in med
icine, and more than once, both lii
America and in Groat Britain, gu.-
have been published showing t;...'.
there are no pationts for half thedo.--lorvi,
or iio clients for half the lawyers,
or churches for a fifth of tho curaVs
who are every year lot loose upon t:.e
worid.
The rush to the learned profo3elc!.s
ncgan. It is Sometimos affirmed, af r '
iho . deprosion in Agriculture, a i
the corresponding reboaud from
irmrr.orcial prosperity cf fifteen or'
twtnty years ugo. This may, r.'-'inr'-.t
bo partially true. But, as t!"' .
--a mo phenomenon has been noticed ir. .
every other country, tho oxp'.anatu.:..-mu-it
fca sought a liltla deeper. 'PL
r.-:l caasc will, wo vouturo to think
'o fo;.id in tho ever-iucrcaslnr
t endency oa the jirtrt of pnrints find
their sons to look to the "gontloman
y pro'- ssions" instead of tha more
.ucrative arid moro certain callings of
a U::--!i 'g.-ritoe'' description.
In
(Htiiinj and America this trait is
pfi-hatw exhibited in its most e.v
:;'goratcd form, simply beeauo in
il.oe countries prof."--ir.-:al training
i tlioup and the pro. imln.it y educa
tion abundant or easy to attain, but
we Bee it everywhere ulso. Sir.co the
school boards brought th. ; Ureo Ii'e
within the reach uf every child, it is
notorious that these youthful grad
ates have displayed a repugnant o
the useful liv.--. in which they hj- i '
been born, 'i hey want to '. -t. r
themselves" by becoming city cie ;-.- :
or nursory governesses. It :i l -first
result produced by an unv
litato of afl'alrs. By and by educ..'-.
v i l get too common to bo rnu.i. '
able. It will tnen bo regarded si:
as a preliminary to any calling, fa. .
not as a necessary antecedent of wh.il
;he Germans call "bread studies."
A carpenter, or a blacksmith, or a
machinist, or a storekeeper will diti
cover that ho is none the worse for
being a good scholar, and will even
ii nil that in the enhanced esteem, tho
greater pleasure, and the enlarged
chances in life which it gives him. ho
is quite as much benefited by his edu
cation as if he had sought to earn his
living by means of it directly. Lon
don standard.
OUR NATIONAL WEALTH.
Three-Fifth of It I'o.aeaael by Tliirty
One Thuasand 1'oi-sona.
Let us inquire whether there is any
excessive concentration of wealth go
ing on in tho Unitod States of Amer
ica. Leaving more clamor and un
supported assertions out of considera
tion, on either eide, let us look into
facts. As lately as 1M7 there was buV
one man in this country who was re
j.uted to bo worth more than $o,0.
000; and though some estimated hi
wenith at $:.'', lHi..fV0, there is no good
reason for believing it to haro been tv;
great. At the smallest reasonable cj
timate, there must now bo more thn
2.50 person in this country whose
wealth averages over fjiO.OOo.CHX) for
each. But let us call tho number onl v
200. Income-tax returns show thai
the number of incomes when arranged,
in large classes multiplies by from
three to fivo-fold for every rod net ion
in the amount of one-half. For ex
treme caution, however, we estimate
the increase in tho number of incomes
at a very much lower rate than thin.
At this reduced rate, the amount ci'
wealth in the hands of persons wo. tti
over f.'iOO.OOO each in tho Untied
States would be about as lollows:
w persona at tJiVUM.iflO,
O 1U.IKX0IJ,
1.0 M " 5.000,010.
,50) .5IO.rtl,
7.UU0 " 1.0r0..k.al
r?J,0 0 fxX,JU,
H.0 i.'n i on .
CH'i.oOf'.H1'
6,(KI i.oofi....i
f, ."Vt.i.f" i,i. i
7,ini ,)
''. .li'. 0 ii
fei;.S.l ti.r.'.c i
This estimate is very far N o.v il,..
actual truth. Yet, even upon ih..
"lisis. we aro confronted v.-,ih !!.
startling result that 31." pe;-so'i
now possess three-fifths f v. !.., .
National wealth, rtr.l :id p " Ot.".!
according to tho highest es'.inmti
($G0,(XH).u0O.(00) wh'eh a-y or. has.
yet ventured to make of liio agrc?r'; "
amount Nor is this conr'usniT at- r.i
improbable. Thos. G. fcdn-ui uiun. n.
Forum.
A Rome girl bent a letter to nn
old flame the other day and the unkind
j man lit the gas with it Rome" (Ga
! Sentinel.