U ruMl-bed Weekly a
BHMea crciatum.
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' ..,ifi,i of the aounty
MlU
.-a, win the above terms be de-
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IT" I
rwe Dr' Or'" BXrgMa for this
vUili uub.-u1 values as will mage
1V in U.. IVpaitoiente,
tr! nv -
JO pi"S W
tnih Tricots t " ceDis an
iWewlPfs. smtceable fa
dsik lUOU
brio ; Jnrtl f"r fct"r'01 Bon,,
ljjyii. .V'li.V wWtf mlti-KU In choice
lh atu! rffcti. -i ww rvgular price bu
n-.u fi 'iirf riuas f,)r hrw,J
3t .b id of $ Ir.pTi.
u:rrfc Ml 30 Ct'I.ls.
nil wcul colored
Abrclal value aad
filial ..) iiua!'t, lisuitl'y -ll t 73 Cut.
V a..' -r Jir.f of -i'5 li " coloird C'aoh-
01
1' r
in
t iiufl', I a pot up SiiO
, c .', ir atul cd'iib'nati.iim to Hell fur
; ty i., jVJ CO far tie Piilt r""1- Every
o! t!i.-;,f uit patu rn at ti)erlal low
Fr Fancy work for :h
IliilitlftTS, larxst
aid riuahes at
i;-f'a! law prlcr.
II.. .IKcrcLI-.'fe at.l MuCl-r. ejwolal tatit
b Dfpartuir tit, all new JmIhos od
; u..ni y affnj prk-t-t.
Wr" nur Ma'l OrJe- D-rartruant for
isu'V'"'' "r ltj'oi omtlou.
frcf ti"'n '.kiu'SV
BGGGS BUHL,
ID. Wl. U!, a FEB-P.AL STUEET.
ALLEGHEHY. PA.
Beauty
I.i 'l.sirpj ftnJ uilniirtnl by all. Am on a
t-a tiiln; w Uich may bust be tloue to
tiT.lianco personal
Lcuuty U thn lily
ue of Ayer'n Hair
Vlor. No rnattor
-rliat llio coliT of
tlio hair, this ircpa
Tatiun Klves it a lus
tre and pliajicy that
aJi! gri-tkily to its
charm. Should tht
V.i:r Una, hassh,
nW'V- Aye
or twtruln gray,
Ayec's Ifalr Vigor
restore the
atrLZr-
tolar, hriiirr out a
Dew growth, and
and shiny. Fur
ri'n.Je-r t!. c'.'.I
..alp rhaui. cool, and
1 no butter preparation
tciITKV, Th-ro
la t!.f market.
" T ivn fra n ( r.nr.xv that A trll of
Avers H.i.r W'or ln convinced me
tl h: 1; u oeuttii rtn amcl!. Its u haH
r. t f'i!- cHu'-'i tho haJr ol xuy wife and
Umiphtrr to ba
Abundant and Glossy,
V .- .'. has p. von itit r:awvr strutted mu
t.b !:e a r-i"i t-ll". l.mTTh and arpear
1:, o.'1 K. Hr it tun, OaKlaiid, Ohio.
"My h:rr wu rom'11115 out (without
inr iiMaist-tni'e front nty Un eittier).
I tr. 'il Aver'.- H.ir Yor, usjnr only
tin" tottlt", .iu.1 I now ht. a. fin a
t.i l i-f limr -a anv imn niukl wish Xor."
-t:
f. Schiuittoa, L)u-kSou, Teua.
" I have mi'.l Avxf's ITair Viorinniy
f . .. . f.T u 11 j-tilvt of roars, and ro-t-
' : an t!" licit hair prparation I
of. I: k.'fin tho efulp rlwan, thi
bl - n:id live'y, and Jrl.-iT ven the
- -n .-Lr. My y.'n h.k -i It for
'i fiiio wi'li iiiont aiittttfiM'tor re
- ' !;. ii uin:u il. Juhoswu, M. li
'1 H.ll.'Mo.
" . !..i a b.-nm!Tvj htmh and drr,
I :t r is , j half a ImU) of Ayer'a
II. r r iifv tiai-!c and sliway. I
'.i:.r . t i,,y au,l (jrrlrn.lo (
..' -M. . ,. l(;i.'dy, leUvan. 1U.
Ayer's Hair Vigor,
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f'r tht tioraes
t Lmuils of
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I (lasoliiir?
Oils,
Ndplr.fci an.
HIDE m PETBQLEDH.
Wo
evrrv
ludltnoo
comparison with
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you
. a, j ua W
Stisfictorj : Ci
a t!t laui'a. t a,k for oura.
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-l Ufa r i nil""' ""thaactleadu-
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VOLUME XXIII.
WE DO NOT NAME
Ouneli to kp brit. but to kr-v tt laad I
OTer nil otfira la telling 70a
ri'RC AMOLVrrLT- Pl'BF. AJID',
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At'prleei tbat Bk all other llera butil.
Juot ttiiok 01 It:
f)erholt k Co ' Pure Kyo. B yean oll.
Full quart $1 AO. or lu.(0 per docea.
Still better!
Flnc&'a ttolJaa WeJain. ten.'yeari;ia. Trail
qurt l 'J or tll.uo per ilvaea.
Heiter itlll I
k.enturky Bourbon, ten yere old. U
oonrll or iJ UO per loieo.
AaJ on of the mult ileble.W klrklri oa ear
"Vile rare Flht Tear OH Exp- rt Oackechetm
r Fall quart SI 0. r 1 er doaea.
There UnoWnlrky thmt haa er ba aolil
taat ban grrva In lvr with the fabllo o rDld
l aa our old Kxporl. and tb rpl rioBH
Ibnt It 11 utterly lumlble to duplicate It.
ThT will nTer beany let ep la the pnr!t
and line 0ror 10 any particular ol the Pure I'all
loraia Wlnea ate are now alllaa at M eaaU per
battle. Full qearvi.'or 00 per doaen.'
la making up your order pieafte ancloa P. O.
Money urter or Drait. or Ken later year arder.
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ISISZTKJMS RVH.
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For ReaioBNres. Ou-on . Oawr . "
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r.i rr;ii'!lc Anuoiaiinu ol America." Ibe.tu
dent Iranrt book kcepin and onelne b en
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Work nd Bankin- ara epeeialtiee. lnuivUual
lotru!tl. a in.iu a. x. to r. m. and Iroui 7 to
in r. M. Tfc fcrit adrantaice In Sbor.lind and
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time. Seed fr eatalocu
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lolaat panrait-e. ..or-
elemi or allow Tour chil
dren tn take them, always
ne this aleitaat pbar
tnieuttcal protartio.
which h-e beon for mora
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TRAVELER'S NIGHT AT HOME, i
Oray twll!ght drawa bar curtain adowa the win-
dowed west,
Eaeh object, shadow-mantled, half aeen la, halt (
Is guessed; i
The atara o'erheadahow dimly, aa newly waked j
from sleep, .
And drowsily regretful of the trlgU tbeymnM I
keep; I
Sounda bare sharp dlstlnctnesathe sun-hours I
never know, 1
And aeeni uyoa the aenses to riper fullness 1
(rrow.
Aa, trembling up the valley, the ear discernetn I
plain J
The richly aolomn rumble or the awtrr, ap
proachiuc train.
The oTwrcrowded pare men t. neat th" white
electric glare.
Presenu the old-t me picture Joy Jostled by
Duspa.r:
But when the auburba nestle beyond the city
Kates,
The people Quiet gather about their cheerful
era tea
la ceat and cozy partora that breathe auca rest
ful air
Aa no spot else can oSer, be sot contentment
there.
Ah I fortune-faored mortals, with never cause
to roam,
y never Know how fondly the traveler loves
his borne.
Rehold the housewife tripping with anilou.
thoughtful haste.
To see the many units-knacks la pleasing order
rUced.
The dr--ss!i;-own and altppera rest, with an
invit n loon.
Beside hia avore J arm-chair rollod Into pleas
ant nooK
Before the polished hearth-stone, whereby the
footsTool stands
The very air seems fragrant with the touch of
lovini; bands.
The wh.la her eyes are beaming with an a-
pectanl light
Which says : "u. time the sweetest, my traveler
comes to-n.ght"
Within the curtained window his cherlahed off
spring twa.n,
The.r hopeful, eager faces closo pressed against
tho pane.
Peer out into the darkness, their swelling
hearts abcat
With keen anticipation, each anxious first to
greet
The music of his footfall at onoe he'aattha
door.
And J yful cries are ringing, while kisses by th
score
U s bearded face o'ersbowsr aa he enclasps
the r forms I
And lifts them to his bosom with strong but
gentle arms.
She, shunning demonstration, which oft savors I
of deceit, j
Her eyes lUe melting Jew:, gives welcone
trne and sweet.
Soft chides the clinging children, his wrappings
lnys a;de.
Then mod-stly preeees him, with pardonable
pndd.
To where hia chair awaits him beguiles him of
his tr.p
Removes tli.i Iald-cff garments, sets by the bat
tered f rip.
And ere he scarce perceives It, so deft and
dextrous she.
He slippered, gowned and seated, a child upon
each knee.
With merry word she leaves them, by house
held duties pressed;
The curly heads confldmg'.y are pillowed on his
breast ;
Their sllUen tresses stroking, he, la the bias
log crate,
Seea botn hia darlinga growing to man and
maid's estate.
The mystic vail is lifted that hides the future
years.
And on h. pensive vision a fair To Be ap
pears. Swift np the mount of Knowledge advancing
they are seen.
And white-browed Honor leads them and Virtue
I walks between.
1 About the table gathered each lowly bows the
I head.
While humbly and devoutly the homely grace
Is said;
No long-drawn Invocation to tiro the Throne
of Grace,
Nor abject self abasement with pride writ on
ita face .
But praise and service rendered for Ufa and
health preserved
This pla n thanfesg ving over, the waiting meal
is serve J.
No feast, however cosily, by lords and lad es
shared.
E'er gave more gracious pleasure than this by
love prepared.
The little heads are nodding, the bright eyes
atnve la vam
To look "1 am not aleepv." yst cioaa and close
a?a:n
Till aweet good-nights are tendered and
mamma leads away.
And drirtia down the stillness, ha hears a
small voice sny :
"Forever and forover, then halting e'er
amen.
Dear Jes is, don't let papa go away from us
aain."
His face is calm and tranquil again ahe has ap
peared. But she ran note the diamonds are shining la
h'.s heard.
Their eyes have audden meeting, bo need of
oihor si eech.
She nea'.les close besUe him, each takes the
fcai.d of each.
Agaiual h.a rugged shoulder she laya her
Rolden tresses.
And both are lost m dreaming of timid, first
care.oa.
When she a I aahful maiden and he aa awk-
wa d youth
She glances shyly upward, both catch the
p.r&aunt truta
And iau'li la ready chorus but still the rich
perfum"?
Of a dewy summer's evening seems floating
through the room.
God' a bte.i'E on the
surrounds.
fireside, whatever lot
That to the ho!y mnslo
of
edlock still ro
an d love corn
sounds 1
Where confidence unbounded
munion hold.
Where ch Urea's voices mingle let misers
hoarl their goll
ier re
this
Amblt'oua statesmen wrangle; within
hallowed 1 glit
Diajensioa never wanders nor Greed Ita pleas
ures Mofiit.
Oh! picture alt the raptures beneath the star-
gemmed dome.
The hoiir.t are clustered around the Night at
Home.
Charies Eugene Banks. In Arkaasaw Trav
eler. MARRYING A TITLE.
How and Why Mary Jane Brlra
Bocame Lady Fanfare.
Lord Fanfar wrv the fourteenth
poor who had borne that noble title.
There was nothing; very remarkable
about Lord Fanfare; he was an easy
going old boy. I don't think that at
any period of hts career ho would ever
have set the Thames on fire If he had
tried; but I am very, very certain
that he never did try. Tho Fanfares
were not a rich family: they had
been courtiers for generations, and I
don't think they got much out of it
Old Fanfare himself, when ho only
held tho complimentary title of Lord
Tootlo, had boon a royal page, and
had commenced life as a courtier;
then he went Into the guards; and
then ho did the wisest tti.ng tie ever did
In his Ufo. hobo;ted with the daug-Mor
of the lato proprietor of the Methu
selah pill, and he came into a hun
dred thousand pounds and the busi
ness. Then young Lord Tootlo sold
out ol the guards, and settled down at
the age of thirty-five to getting as
much fun as possible out of his wifo's
fortune and tho Mothuselah pill. Lord
si - at. jit t rem i i i i i aa h. i m. w -m v x a, i a i tv - i x x w i w - t r - if -w-i - w i er b "
FkUtKMA H WHOM TaTB TRUTH MASKS Till, All 1U ill ELA.TKB BZfilCB.'
El U A.
EHENSHURG, PA., FRIDAY. JANUARY in.
Fanfare was not unkind to his wife;
at first he was quite a pattern hus
band, but gradually a coldness arose
between them, for poor Lady Fanfare
failed to prosent hira with an heir.
At the end of ten years, however, tho
little Lord Tootle was born, and at hi
birth his mother died, and from that
time forward Lord Fanfaro dovotod
himself to tho rearing and education
of little Lord Tootle. Many were the
traps o.t for that wily old bird. Lord
Faufare; mothers cringed to him.
daughters smiled at him, widows
osled him. musical girls played at
J Lim. vocal girls equalled at him; but
i all In vain. Lord Fanfare wasn't a
j marrying man. and the ladles had
their labor for their pains. They
rest-nted that, the dear creatures of
j couroo they did; and then they had
: their revenge. It was Lady Kitty
j Candour who set it going; I mean
that it was Ladv Klt'y who an'.
started the run-.or of Lord Fanfare's
wickedness. You've only ?ot to
look at him." people said, "and you'll
eo that it's true at a glance. Why.
he dyes hi hair, and ho wears a chin
tuft all very wicked old in n dye
their hair and wear chin tufts; ho
goes to Tattersall's regularly, ho's
very thick with theatrical people, he's
a member of the Pandemonium Club,
and. to crown hts iniquity, he's a
director of a muslo hall company."
Why does he dress as if he wore a
tailor's advertisement?" said Lady
D ru tn thwack it, whose penniless daugh
ter Hilda had tried very hard Indeed
for the oil gentleman, and had miser
ably failed.
"And he paints, ma, I know he
does," cried the artless Hilda, "or how
ouuld he have the complexion of a
youth of seventeen?"
Ho has a wonderful complexion."
replied her mother, "but he needn't
have braced of it to all the world."
Now, the fact was that Lord Fanfare
kept his connection with the Methuse
lah pill very dark indeed; but he Lad a
wondorful complexion, and boing fond
of a joke, and liking to do a stroke of
business at the same time, he had al
lowed the omnibuses to literally bris
tle with his portrait, beneath which
was the following ridiculous advui
tisemeat: I am sixty-Eve to-day. and yet,
thanks to the Muthusolah pill, my
complexion is that f a boy of seven
teen. Fanfare."
You can't doubt Co word of a peer
cf the malm, you know, and the 6a'o
of the Methuselah pill was vastly in
creased. Tbe fact Is that Lord Fanfare wore a
chin tuft simply because cLin-tuits were
In fashion when he was a young bache
lor iu the guards; he wonttoTaltoreiJI's
simply because he'd gono to Tattor
sall's ail his life; he was director of a
mubic hall company baoau-ia ho was a
large shareholder, and because be
likod the littlo directorial euppers,
and bocauso In music hall matters he
was a very knowing old boy indeed.
Lord Fanfare and his friend and co
director, Mr. David Psalmanezar.
were eittinar in the diroetor-j' box at
the International Palace of Varieties,
each with a Bi-obdicgnagian opera
glass in his hand, and they were star
ing intently at the etae, upon which
tho three talented sisters, Laura, Cora
and Dora Flare-, wer frying through
their well-known entertainment.
1 'They're dirt cheap at a hundred a
wok." remarked Mr. David Palm-
' anczar. "Why, half the chappies in
town are over head and ears in love
with them, and they have to drink un-
limited whUkys-and-sodas our whis-
Kys-ana-soaas. ne added, witn a
laugh "to drown their sorrows; and
there ain't a doubt," said Psalmane
zar, who was a vulgar man. with a
chuckle, "that they're stunnors, and
that Laura's the etunningest of tho
three; but I don't think I should earo
for hr as a daughter-in-law," contin
ued Mr. IValmanezar.
"No. I think I hhould draw the line
there," remarked his LordsLlnu
Then why on earth don't you stop
it?" replied Mr. Psalmanezar.
"Stop ltl" cried his Lordship, "Stop
what?"
You've always been a good pal to
me. Fanfare." remarked Psalmanezar;
'it's no business of mine, but they do
say. Fanfare, my boy. that Spindles is
going to marry her."
Now. Spindles was a nickname that
had ben bestowed upon young George
Il'ewhard, commonly called Lord
Tootle, as the newspapers .; his fol
low chappies railed hira Spindles V-v
' hind h'.s back and to his face, because
hts principal cha--nrte.r;atic was a pair
of very thin, long legs.
"Don't chaff," said his Lordship,
angrily.
'Tm r.ot Chiang," renli.d his friend
and co-di:ector; "that's tho talk here,
and I believe U'b a straight tip, old
man."
"I'm immensely obleeged to you.
I'm sure," said his Lord-hip. lie was
an old-fashioned nobleman, and he
always paid ob!egd, for thn fimo
reason that ho wore a chin tuft not
becau-'o of his natural wickedness, but
because it was tho fashion ia Lis young
day a
And then Lord Fanfare bcuncod cut
of tho International Palace of Varie
ties as though he'd been a frog jump
ing out of a hot frying-pan.
Next morning ho sent lor his son.
"George." he said, addressing Lord
Tootlo, "when 1 die you'll be a rich
man. "
"We won't talk about that, father,"
said Lord Tootle; and he said it sin
cerely, for tbe young man. though a
"chappie," was fond of -Lis father.
"You know what the position Is.
George," 6aid Lord Fanfare, very
seriously. Fanfare Cattle is en
tailed, it costs a thousand a year to
keep up; you might, perhaps, let it
Xor three hundred pounds sterling,
and you can't sell it; to a poor man,
George, the castle is just a whilo
elephant. If you oHend rue. Tootle."
said his Lordship, severely, "you'll be
a pauper. Now, 6ir," cried Lord
Fanfare, in a tremendous voice,
r
I
what's all this
about
Flarer!"
"Father," aid Lord Tootlo, In a
frightened whisper, "I've asked her
to marry me, and she's hesitating
because I've nothing to set tie, and
mine's only a courtesy title."
Then for a full half-hour did Lord
Fanfare alternately entreat, bully and
argue.
But George Blowhard. commonly
called Lord Tootle, 6tood to his guns.
Then his father lost his temper.
'Out ol my presenco, sir!" he cried.
Til lock you up, I'll apply for a
lunacy commission. Hang me. sir!"
added tho old man. theatrically, "I'll
eave you in eplte cf yourself, or or
I'll perish In the attempt!"
Next afternoon Lord Fanfare called
upon Miss Laura Flarer at her bijou
residence In Fulham.
The lady received him very
graciously. "Charmed to know you."
the said, "charmed to know you
take a cheer
And then Lord Fanfare took a
"cheer." and carefully studied Miss
Flarer through bis eye-glass.
"Will you have a "b.-and-a?" said
the lady, who was hospitably in
clined. But Lord Fanfare declined refresh
ments. "Tootle tells me, madame," said his
Lordship, coming to the point at once,
"that he has offered to marry you."
"George la a dear boy." said the
lady. "I think we 6hall be very
happy," she added, with a sigh.
"Do you?" said his lordship, dryly.
"Let me tell you, madam, that my
son Tootlo is a weak-minded pauper!''
Til find the brains and the
beauty," said the lady, airily.
"B.-aias and beauty ain't much to
keep house on." remarked Lis Lord
ship, oracularly.
But your Lordship can't go on liv
ing for ever," said the lady, with one
of her sweetest professional smiles.
"You're 6ixty-five, you know, though
you have tho complexion o a boy of
seventeen," fcho added, tartly.
"There's nothing like plain speak
ing," said Lord Fanfare. "I like you
for it." Le 6aid- "Now, what on
earth do you want to marry my son
for?"
"I want to be Lady Fanfare," eaid
Laura tlarer, simply, ana she gave
her lips a professional bite that made
them look ruddier than the cherry.
"And if you married my eon, young
lady," said his Lordship, "you would,
I suppose er quit the scenes of your
early triumphs?"
"Well, I couldn't go on doing
turns' as Lady Tootle." replied Miss
Flarer. with a toss of tho head.
"And have you saved much money
out of your professional earnings.
Miss Flarer, may I n&k? enough to en
able you to maintain my son in the
position to which he has Loon ac
customed?" And tken tho lady laughed, a dear,
delightful. 6ilvory, unartifcial, musi
cal music hall eort of little laugh.
"There's a bill of 6ale on the furni
ture," 6ho said, "and I owe Psalm
anezar fivo hundred; but Tootle's a
Lord, you know," added Miss Flarer,
with a smile.
"No, he ain't," replied his Lordship;
"ho's only a courtesy Lord; he's just
electroplate, my dear young lady,
that's alL"
"I'll marry him all the same," said
tho lady.
"There's no other way out of it,"
thought Lord Fanfare. "Tootle's a
pig-headed fellow, and she will marry
him, and then the fat'll. be in the fire.
Madam," 6aid the old nobleman, "I
have other views for my son George.
Would you mind naming a figure?"
"It won't do, old gentleman." said
Miss Flarer. "I mean to be Lady
Fanfare some day or other, and it
won't da. If you was to paper this
room with bank notes, my Lord, it 'ud
bo no manner of use."
"And that's jour last word,
madam." asked his Lordship.
That's my last word," replied the
eldest and the plumpest of the three
plump Mis Fiat-era.
"Thin hero goes," ea'd his Lordship
to himself as be pulled up his shirt
collar, and then, to the lady's intense
astonishment, he suddenly dropped
upon his knees, he placed his hand
upon his heart, and. modeling himself
upon the lover of the melodramas, he
brgr.n as follows. In an Impassioned
tone:
Miss Flarer, you eeo at your feet
tho chief of his house, the fourteenth
Lord Fanfare, who begs to place at
your disposition his hand, his title and
his heart. Do not er blight my
young life by a hasty refusal. You
want to bo Lady Fanfare- Bo Lady
Fanfare be Lady Fanfaro Immediate
ly. Here is a epocial license." ho said,
and ho drew a largo envelope from his
pocket "There is a clorgyman in my
cab at the door; our nuptials can take
place at onceu I am, as you are aware,
a wes'thy man. Need I ssy more?"
At first Miss Flarer was taken aback
too much astonished ana t
aback to answer.
"You will have your joke." ehesaid.
I assure you I'm perfectly seri
ous," said Lord Fanfare, rising to his
foet. "Pray do not keep me longer in
eusponee, my dear young lady."
O, Lord Fanfare," cried Mis
Flarer, "I foci as if I was going to
faint You ain't laughing at me?"
"Madam," replied Lord Fanfare,
with a ehudder, "it's no laughing
matter, lean assuro you."
"Then if you really do mean it.
though it is so very sudden," said the
lady, "I think we'd belter havo him
up. But there'll have to bo v.it
ncsee, you know, my lord, and it'll
I
I
havo to bo put in tho papers, you
know; and I hope the license is all
right, for Laura Flarer is only ray
professional name, you know."
"It's Mary Jane Briggs in tho
license," aid hU Lordship, simply.
That's as right as ninepence," said
Miss Flarer. "O, you dear, thought
ful eld gentleman!" and then sho rang
thebcll- "Mary," 6he eaid, as her
smart parlor maid catered the room,
SI.CO and
1S90.
asK tne reverend gentleman la the
cab to step up, and call Parker, my
maid."
Within half aa hour Mary Jane
Briggs became Lady Fanfare.
"I wish your Ladyship a very good
morning." eaid Lord Fanfare. T11
pay off the bill of sale, and I'll pny
rsalmanezar. and Til allow your Lady
ehip a pound a week, and I'm very
much' obleeged to your Ladyship."
And that's how Lord Fanfare got
married, and the why and the whero
fore of it; and who shall say that his
Lordship was not a hero? London
World.
ORIENTAL CRUuLTY.
An Account of the Ordeal by FtoUlug
ou
as I r act Iced la Cwylou.
Reoently the district judge at Kalu
tara, in Ceylon, had before him throe
persons, including a village headman,
charged with causing grievous hurt
to four others by requiring them to
plunge their right hands into a cal
dron of boiling oil. Tho medical evi
dence described the hands as being in
"a sodden, suppurating condition."
the fingers being in some cases de
formed. In all cases the injured per
sons were unable to follow their ordi
nary avocations for about a month.
The facts of the case as stated in tho
judgment were these: A woman in
the village had some plumbago and
rice stolen from her; a headman mada
inquiry, and failing to obtain a clew to
the theft, announced that it would bo
necessary on the third day to hold an
ordeal by boiling oiL This appears
to be a not uncommon custom in re
mote parts of the country, and tho
formalities are as follows: Some oil
from nowly-gathored king cocoanuts
is manufactured by one of the friends
of the complainant; this is poured
into a caldron and heated to boiling
point Each of the suspected parties
is supposed to dip his hand into the
vessel of boiling oil and is at liberty to
er rlnklo as much of the hot oil as he
brings up with his fingers on the per
son of the complainant, who stands
close at hand. Any exclamation of
pain on the part of the suspected per
son is construed Into an admission of
guilt If no euch exclamr.tion is made,
the innocence of the party is supposed
to be established.
In the present ca?e the evidence es
tablished thut th- pressure on the ac
cused was not merely moral; they were
forced to dip thoir hands into tho
burning oiL No force seems to havo
been used la bringing them to the
scene of the ordeal; they collected
there in resp.oune to the orders of the
headman, who, 6eatod on a platform
opposite tho vessel of oil, appears to
havo acted as the presiding judge.
Each of the complainants deposed to
the tact that they were reluetant to
submit to tho ordeal, but were forcibly
draped up to tho caldron by tho
other two accused, and their hands
plunged into the boiling oil. They
had sufficient soif-controi to abstain
from calling out, except a boy of sev
enteen, who cried out lustily, and was
thereupon pronounced the guilty one.
Tho judge took the fact that it was a
custom into account but refused to
dismiss the prisoners with n. warning
as suggested by their counsel. lie
fined them one hundred rupees each,
with tho alternative of rigorous im
prisonment for ten months. London
Time.
IRISH
COAST POVERTY.
How the
feasants of Bantry Bay Get a
rrecarloai Living.
Besides tishmg up herring and hako
tho poor people at the head of Bantry
Bay firih up sand Sand raising, as it
is ca'lcd, is as Important aa industry
as catching fish. This kind of sand,
known sometimes as coral 6and. is
used as farm manure, and costs from
8 to 9 shillings a boat load a poor
price considering the toilsome char
acter of the work and cost of tho boats
required to carry it on. A sand-boat
costs 35 when now and 2 a year in
repair. Tho utmost a boat owner or
partner can do in a day is to bring to
shore two boat loads. Th-j proceeds
have to be divided among a number of
workers, while tho working season
lasts for a portion of tho year only.
In spite of their life-long labor from
morning to night in winter and sum
mer and in calm and in storm, those
Crofter fishermen are in a state of
chronic poverty. They do not live by
their scrappy patches of holdings.
They earn with difficulty from the sea
barely enough to buy sleeping room
and a foothold on tho lsnd.
They even do more than that; they
partly create, with tho help of the sea,
the very foil for which they pay rent
The deposit which they call ccral
sand they have ued to reclaim these
shoren of ruck and bog. They have
used tho Ke.-iwced lor tho pame pur- i
poir. cc.Ttir.g it up from the deep water
with a primitive machino, which may
be described as a marine scythe, and
tho sea'Tied has to be paid for, if not
as a septirate item, then as included
in the holding. Coral sand, seaweed,
tho refuse of house and pig-ity. and
basket loaJs of soil found among the
bowMers. the-'Q aro the ingredients
out of which, after years of work, the
crofter fishermen have produced the
tinv green pstches which dot Innumer
ably the rocky shores and the gray
brown sides of tho sterilo but Incom
parably picturesque mountains that
surround Glengraiff, the beautiful.
And the dwellings of these hard-working
people! They are more Ct for the
pis that go (rrur.ting and snouting in
and out of them than they aro for be
ings created in the image of God. A
dry stone box with e-arlhen floor and
without windows, two or three re
cesses etuflcd with straw for beds and
the whole tilled with peat reck, such
is the ordinary type of house where a
fisherman and his wife live with hall
a dozea or more children. In one
uch houe which I visited thoro wcro
seven children. London Daily News.
It wr.s only the other day thr.t a
man who swore that he wouldn't cut
his hair until Henry Clay was elected
President thought of a way out of it.
He let his wife cut it Texas Sifting"-
postage per year In advance.
NUMBER 4S.
CUPID'S FIRST WOUNDS.
Thoughts on tho Beautiful
perienoes of the Heart.
E-
The First Lot. Is Merely Preparation
for Better to Come How It Af
fects and Helps Botb Men
and Wumen.
There are those who hold that love
Is simply love, ad that one can love a
thousand times, and each time aa deep
ly, truly, humanly and spiritually with
the same exaltation and freshness.
But I hold that there is In that first
stir of tho emotion by the opposite eex
a turn given to life, a color to our emo
tions, and a lasting bias to our whole
being that never is given again. One
may love more wisely the second time,
and w ith a more lasting devotion, but
only the first love can give tho abso
lute thrill of unalloyed bliss and open
tho world to you as a place of joysome
work and worship. You are suddenly
awakened from boyhood and boyish
noes, from irresponsibility and a care
lessness concerning the future to a
feeling of marvelous responsibility.
Behind you is the tchool, and play,
and obedience, and tho father's house;
ahead is the exquisite pleasure of
working for and tenderly guarding
a wife, and there is the new home to
which your imagination summons only
flowers, and or.g, and peace, and con
tent Your love haa not yet had a
single jar. Here is a perfect thing.
The first love is rarely ever wedded.
It is not so intended. Her mission is
to prepare the way for a rational love
and a safe marriage. It is prema
ture, preliminary, in the nature of
things is temporary, and has nothing
in it of the homo-making. The mar
ried love is economical, deliberative
and practial; the first love is neither
of these. It sees the world In a false
light, because not a full light The
color of all things Is no longer the
red of life's sunrise, nor is it yot the
yellow of sunset; it is rose color. If
our fi-st loves were often wedded, the
result would, without doubt, bo a
vast amount of misery. Marriage
would. Indeed, be a failure. The
worst of all marriages are early mar
riages, and the next worst are late
marriages. Thosa that are vory
early are sure to be lacking in com
mon sense. Tho first experiences are
babyish, and the result is childish
quarrels. The two contend over
trifies, and, as for very late mar
riages, horo again thore is quarrel
ing over trifles, because ooch one has
learned to havo undisputed sway over
personal matters. Tho ideal mar
riage follows soon after the first love
has faded and tho disappointment of
burst bubbles and vanished air castles
ha3 woll healed.
If, unfortunately, the first love ends
iu a speedy wedding, there is first of
all the bob and r.onser.e to be pot
rid of. I do not mean that the gush
of first affection, tho overflow and
flooding of spring tenderness, are in
themselves nonsense, but they be
come nonsense when carried over
to our work-a-day world. They havo
thoir place, but not in the family. If
they get thero they have to bo got rid
of. And tho coming down from airy
castles to "cottages In some vast wil-
Uemess," and from that to plain city
flats, with a dally round of dreadful
prosaic duties, is neither easy nor
often successful. The chances are that
tho change will come as a collapse
and all auction will fail fiat into dis
gust Tho woman is likely first to
como to the practical Issuo, and will
either despise the 6poony style of her
partner, if he bo young and tender, or
sho will play a pettish part, as she
was used to do with her mother.
A woman rarely, although some
times, takes first love in tho serious way
that the boy does. Sho is never more
different from man than at this poiut
SI10 is more accustomed to affection,
and to ita outbursts. While it Is true
that a girl who has loved often is un
fit to be a true partner with one, yet
it must bo understood that a girl is al
ways in love. Her friendships are of
the same nature aa love. BJost girls
are by nature prepared to servo as our
firot loves.
A man can have only one first lovo;
I venture the surmise that a girl may
have several. In this way a noble
girl is able to break in and tame
and render marriageable half a dozen
lad3. I think I know one or two old
maids who were peculiarly burdened
in early life with lovers, but every no
of thorn first lovers. They were sensi
ble enough to comprehend this, and,
instead of feizing on one of tho sus
ootlblo youths, marrying him out of
hnnd, f.nd so secur ing an escapo from
old maidism, thoy did what was sensi
ble snd right and aro the happier for
5t- Bnt they keep souvenirs of those
days, and look them over with a very
gentle touch. lndood. I thiak those
lirt lores served them, and still serve,
to k'Msi their hearts warm. The ben
efit of first ioveis :nos-t largely to man;
and the injury cf its dissipation less
hurtful to woman. ,
First lovo affects different natures
according to their make-up. If one
bo already of a sensitive, gontlo and
rather soft texture, this Erst IJvo is
likely to rn-ik- hira actually Miotic for
j a time. Ho bocomes such a simi'.lo
ton that his friend feel that he must
bo taken in hand. The wisest of them
undertake to discipline him, to induce
i him to ro-traiu his gush and show
! soinoliifieoi discretion, but entirely
) in vain. I know u man, now of great
j rote in tho land, who carried her let
ters in his brca?t pocket till it looked
; liko a hugo von over his heart But
tho worst win he would pull them out
and read them to r.ny sort of acqua.nt
auce. Ton to one ho wouid vis.t
I wu.e ono not a familiar for no other
I purpose but to tell tho charms of hi v
iuimorata, and to read her letters. 11 1
; was a superb scholar, and bright
every tvay; but on this topic ho was
.' the laugh Ing-stock or the town. Tho
. whole thing went to pieces with a
j crash, for what girl's love can cn-
dure such silliness? He survived the
j diiHSter without . impaired. . brains,
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or .ertory, al cnw em 1 itw rt-mj drtfnJ to c&tf mAt eis
now fa av taafer of faml.a or tndimdual iiUe ar
suf a oaM Jot aJ aaaartuefneaff .
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tt.
which is more than sometimes occurs.
I never knew a man to belovo-crackod
with a second or third flame; but the
ond of a first-love disappointment is
alwuys serious, and sometimes disas
trous. It may lead only to a death of
entlment and susceptibility to wom
an's affection, or it may diolocate the
intellectual powers, or tho moral.
But not too much can be said of tbe
evil of entering wedlock without the
discipline of a first love. Men have
sometimes done this, and they are al
ways untamed, hard and severe. A
man with keen, critical Intellect can
never be st.tlsfid with an ordinary
mate. He will do by her as he does
by Smith's last essay will pick out
her faults and see all her blemishes
and failures. Tho poor woman is only
a magazine article, that he picks to
pieces iuatlnctively. He has never
had a first lovo toach him to trans
form people and things, to give the
rose-color to dullness and to tone
down the noonday glare of work-life.
He can not endure such bad habits as
ho will be sure to find in the best of
wives. Then if ho havo an Imperious
disposition and an Iron will, tho con
sequences are Injustice and misery.
On tho other hand, a man of peculiar
ly sensitive, loving disposition is sure
to look for first love in his marri,0.
life. He has a longing for that Ideal
which he never creatod audaciously
out of hand, and boldly declared he
had found, and then worshiped. A
woman may bo thankful she Is not hor
husband's first love, but that ha had
one that having worsluped, ho
learned after all was one of our com
mon humanity, and that goddesses
are not in corsets.
I noed not ask you if you remem
ber your own first love. You could
not love her now of courso not She
is possibly a dowdy of the worst sort,
married to a coarse follow that you
marveled she could tie herself to, and
yet you soe now it was all right; or
she Is a simple, plain, matter-of-fact
wife of a matter-of-fact husband, and
the farthest possible remove from
any thing ethereal. How you over
came to see angel's wings oa her is
your puzzlo. But she served you ad
mirably. A first love j ou mu.t have,
or ought to have, and she was really
a very judicious angoL She did not flirt,
nordid she help you to bo extravagant
In your fancies. When the npeil was
off she bocame a good frind, mid baa
been such ever since. There is, how
ever, quite a chance that your firi
love has never returned your letter
and. you liavo uovor rolurnecl hers.
and that you both need to think over
the warm sunrise of your lifo's loves,
and that it helps you In your wedded
state. Your wife is not jnalous, or
ought not to be. If she is sensible,
she will be thankful that some ono
camti before her to open her Jirniuie's
boul and toach him the amenities, of
love; sho has him now ail the mere it
herself, and. all the more of Lim tb.ro
is to have. She would bo iu u : d
prodlcarner.t if he had iiiver Lad a
first love before Leruolf.
So you t-eo that firot lovo hold a
place wholly distinct aud quite unique.
It Is not love la the sene of any o'.lier
lovo known. It is not logical or :ou-mon-sonsical.
It does not show per
sons in their true light, indeed,
sure of fkleo coloring and eU'j.vt
gance. It is a development of imvr-u-turity.
lti-jufaft of human evolu
tion. Yedded lovo is tlio wadding or
welding of two who have been carried
beyond tho poriod when they tau be
carried away from reason. "
That would make an interesting his
tory if one could read the 10ve$ of
tho fifty most rounded, strongest char
acters in history; but not the first
lov.s, for those would be almost tho
eamo etory retold. They rarely got
into a man's biography, or are re
ferred to in his autobiography. Hi
tries to let them drop out of eight
Ho counts only thoso later grappling
of his heart after one whom he dosiros
for a life's partner. The ancients never
told any thing of a man without giving
Lis lovo story. II jw doliglitful the
6toryof the patriarchs, and their wan
derings after wives, and their wooing
of kiaswomon! But we need not be
lieve thero was no romance of tho
other sort in their Uvea They. n
we do, hid this chapter of their lives.
It does not count iu the same way as
tho rest of life counts. One would
Buppose. In reading of the Orient,
that love had hen reduced wholly to a
matter of bargain and economy, yet
there is nowhoro else so much of the
idyllic and romantic.
Our first loves linger with us in as
sociation with the old school-house on
tho hill. They make inueio with a
brooklet that tumbled down the shady
willow bank; they are remembered aa
the perfume of tho long-gono cin
namon roses; they resurrect them
selves in our somber moods to toll us
that Ideals are as real as the practical,
and that our plain working life is
capablo of richer phases. 1 think
thoro may bo hints of a finer life Lore
' after beyond. Have you hny old lovo
j letters? Any old souvenirs of your
I dream life? It was well that you onoe
were soft and dreamy. Do not burn
tnom. St Louis Globe-Democrat
.Doing His Prettiest.
Mr. Bud worthy Bather clever fel
low, that young Dudelong, don't you
think?
Miss Tewstulos I really couldn't
telL Ho scarcely uttereJ a word the
whole tlmo he w as hero.
Mr. Budworthy Sly doe! He knows
when he is at his best Pncit.
Books were scarce in Puritan dny w.
and perhrtps that is tho reason tht
writers made tho most of tlx titles,
usiug such choico ones as "A Heaping
Hook Well Tempered for tho Siubborn
liars of the Coming Crop; or. Bieuit
Baked m tho Oven ol Charity. Care
fully Conserved for the Chickens of
the Church, the Sparrows of the
Spirit, and tho Sweet Swallows of Sal
vation;" "A Pair of Btliowsto Blow
02 the Dust Cast Upon Jafca Fry.'