Wee-sly at SSIU-UO. - - - l'l'.NN'A. f JAMES . HA U. The In rte and rrlmele rlrrulatl r rof li e Cam bria Ir k mass- eon cr rndfit 10 tl.e la vorable con sideration of ad vertiavts. where latoMwill ta lo ser! ed at the lo I low I low rate: 1 men, I time fiM 1 " . month. ........................... tjie 1 " toonUia..... t v, 1 " lyear 00 1 ' saeataa ............................. coo 1 1 year. k,;, a " I months. a.oa 1 year 1 eol'n monsbe...... ....... ........ ........ in an i " t months. so. 0 1 y ear. ........ ... ........ .. ........ fto.r, 44 I months........ ......... 40. On 44 lyear. ra.e0 Basinets Itemi. first Insertion loo. sar Una : aaeh ,..1 Circulation. - iy0. (; scBSCRirrios mates. .ar eaa ln advaae ,-nfJiV, H P"l within 3 moBtl 1 it not uaid witkta a montJ MM istha, I TS laths. TOO do la If not paid wiun io jr-. r tm I .... ...i.iinir oatHlil of tTis county Wrt.Utwniil per Jr "" b nid to L i tabseqnent Insertion 6e. per Una. Administrator's and Execator's lit does..... .M JAS. C. HASSON, Editor and Proprietor. H I A FmiMAM WHOM HI TEDTI M1III Fill, AKP ALL ARK UTU BUIOB' Auditor's rotiees a.oo 81. SO and postage per year in advance. Stray and similar Notice..... ......... LM lv kriolvJioru or mroctedin of an corpordtx&n mi"" ,,.t be auunouj aaumuiwi irum or tocirtv, ad eommvntcotoM deritned re cu.il ttrrt sL-Vr-. VOLUME XXIV. now to aa. starrer 0 limited or individual infnn- EBENSBURG, PA., FRIDAY. AUGUST 22, IS90. muMt oe aaui ot d odvrrtuemrntt. J01 PnnTuaof allklBds neatly aad eipedl oaslyezecBted at lowest prioet. Iton'tyou lore It. 1 NUMBER 32. (ill fhif . iJYtfyMY . P",1,,T.nt will the above urai be de aTlfi m and thou wbo don i eonauli taetr ri?1 HT.v pa-tnic in advance murt not es i '.i!,rT. .-.i ., the iaine footl n as toons wbo REMARKABLE .BARGAINS IN A !'' 1 hi' 1 Kmwii Mixture, wtra Imported to rm at M cents. W ' .... I . ti I . . ... nt at :;T' . cents. No better bargain In America In lre9 tioods. kjl)Ul l-'1' 'i'1 niu" ...hi - " 1 uuru iir;w iiuuun, r ALr imi' . sijm .1 iinr. (ir'linarllv aell from 1'-",' to 13 cents a vard. We bave marked t . 1... .... .Inn U.wiilth Alil l.. Z".... - -11 . . 1 ... (IT? Mi -m- Dress Goods. ofwhifhwe wish to sen-1 every :e:uer S;innlcs. Write to us and 'ivnA UAl your needs. i Fifty styles nearly all-wool ;;tni'y stnj'f aiumis, ou iuluw nitle, nt l'-"c. a yard. A lot of double-width cash- sere, new colorings, made spec- Jly for us, only 25c. a yard All-wool fancy stripes, in hoice new spring shades, 3G :hs wide, regular 50c. oods tocly 3Sc. a yard. 40 piott's all-wool mixture itiafrs, 5() in. wide, oGc. a yd. A lot of all-wool stripe tri jL, choice colorings. 3G inches Ki.le, IK' a yard. One hundred pieces, everyone 3.Tent in colorings or designs ; '..iils stripes, cheeks and cross es ; cashmere weight cloth, V. a yard. A lot of all-wool 50 in. side wil suhin 's, 75c. nualitv at I'V a yard. Another, 50 inch, all-wool ;nng weight stripe suitings, k'. a yard. h finer '-nods un to th finpst hs made in foreign countries "rissly for us, our stock is iplet.'. vUmniiT silks of every, de--pHon in very large varieties. ritj to our .Mail Order De- "lUi'tlt. Ifld TTnnnTTi o nn a. flUIUljl k UU., f'i ikns AVE., J1TTSBURGH, PA. 5? I . 1 iji u V , . j-, T'"". "Ml OMAN, SO MWMl I '' K " '. T'J CUVFM THE KKT. ' r: A. ' 1 ' 1 or you aural Ta a mum. 5 . . ff f, '"r 'll""ratt,l circular to ut Htreet. PHILADELPHIA. MACHINES mi ted. rlvultnrul K. PA. BARGAINS iui la IBISHIHC "l"-.. U SPECIALTY. Im '"' nn, . .! rc""l-aland parlect i h-i"''Tu 'u'nM' y'recea,and B.r n ' '"'l'1'n.eBU aenerall. rj-r7"yUARCO-LI 1HE PEOPLE'S STORE, FIFTH AVENUE, PITTSBURG, PA. lot of :w Inch, nearly all wool. STItirEI DRESS GOODS, marked down ..(l i" rctus, were soia at jo cents, in is is toe oiggeei ccdu wcrta ever :t"01) ..'. -1.. a Dam hi a r e en mem 10 aod da- thetn 10c '()..a let n f dVuhle-wldtD medium aod Dark Gray Alpacas, marked down to-day .a : fi'iitK tn cenia. W-iui ti ail-wool bne E.NULISI1 sriTIN'r.S. neat little plaids tn make a strllsb and -lb trarclinit u't. marked down to 73 cents, regularly sold at f 1 and f 1.23 a yard, i'-ie are n of tt! special barnaina. "nr-.( V lKr.S GOODS, bih XoTeltles and tlh cost French and German xporu-u Vtm Good. w bave slauht?red tb prices to wlod np tbe lammer senaon't ISltll'' vivh on hand, a large line of Cream and Light Colored FABRICS or all de. . 1 . . 1 . . - a 1 . K 1 1 1 fl I iiir - j . x . . . r V.-ntnin rtr Hirei mm iiniTiu wr-i. .nu, cuuiun iiucb 10 uiia xv iuu vJJ-,JIVo You ran !& uuiiey ty cumlDg to tMs Ores (ioods Department, CAMPBELL & DICK. NO MORE OF THIS! riiibrx-r Sha nnli-M worn rcfmfortaMr tight, . will ulieu aii iIT tli-frt. To reiiMoly this evil tiiu "COLCHESTER" RUBBER CO. offer a hie ith the lnsldo of the heel lined wita ruliber. This Hintr to the aho anl prevents the Hulii. r from alijiinir off. Call tor the ' Colrlieater "ADHESIVE COUNTERS' auljuucu walk, run orjump ln them. ROIJERT EVANS, r--v a5.j; i TJNDERT A K"FiR, A5I) MANUFACTURER Or and dealer la all kind ot FUKMITUKE, aTA rail Hoe ef Caskets always on haad.- Bodies Embalmed WHEN KEUUIRED. Apt SO It LILLY lilSURAIICE & STEAMSHIP AGENCY. 1KE INSURANCE AT CtlST. PI'IJCIES ISiiCllU l.N IHMJU KUJAULK UOXra NIKS AT VERY LOWEST RATES. STEAMSHIP TM'KfcTt SOLD AND DRAFTS ISSUEI PAYABLE ALLiFAKTS t)F ET'ROPE. ml. 13. IMnllon, Aent. LILLY. CAMBKTA CO., PA. February II, !. ly. Steel fence! n auk or EXPANDED METAL CUT mef arTEEI. . riATca, . . sonnKiftc Rnr. For rrrsioCMCes, CMuactati, Oaaarraeaaa. Faawaat QAaoiN Gnt Arbw, lodw Caarda, TrtlllM IVre-TMreer PLHTHU1M LATH. IKK)K H ITS. Aa. write foe lUuatrated Caudoanic: mailed free CENTRAL EXPANDED METAL CO ll Walrr SL, l-lllKhiurah, law Bardwar Sea kcea 1U - Ctv name of this paper ELY'S CatawrH CREAM: BALM . Cleaaisea tsie niira,"IAwrt. -aaata.. Xaaal . Faaiafra. Allaya Palat ' aid Imflanianaf ., Hernia HereFyrn Neaaea ( Taale mm ajeaell. Try the Cure. A particle la applied lata each nnatrlls aad la aa-reable. Price 60 rents at Ururetpta ; tf mall reclaiered. SO eU. ELY BKDS, M Warren St, New York. LUMBER IS ADVANCING. SAW-MILLS, STEAM ENGINES, SHINULE M1LI-S. MAT PHESWES. fco. ir you want a Flral-rlaaa RAW MILL, enrl lor Cataloona and special price tolatroduoe In yoar seeuoa to A. B. KAhUTAH, (Limited), York, Pa. KilEEnSJafJo! b bjow A. aMTT.Naw Taek Clf r Joo work ol all kinds neatly eiecte-l at this oltli-e. tlivv us a trial. ia) L&nJ WHAT SHE DID NOT SAY. "I wlek Vo tell yoa." ahe Brmly said, "Yes, once for all" here ahe caught bis eye "'When faith la ended and hope is dead She looked as If she would like to cry. Wnaterer of love hut that trma Is past. That dream Is over. You nerJn't eaJt, - The bitter truth ym must know at last: Oh : 1 will be atruas; thoa-b. I have been weak. "Dut now that you plainly understand" Hrr soft Ti.lee fulternl, ha drew more , near "I neel say no mora" here he caught her hanL Anil the word he murmured was simply -Dear?" And thti. as a loving woman ahould. She wrpt on his heart in the old awret way. And nheaald no more, batahe understood. Ah ! better far, what she did aay. . Mdi-Une S. nrides. In Judge HIS FIRST LOVE. Tr&ddlea Tells About It and How It Culminated. "We mast write stories or our love, my lord. " And rha-te onea. madam." Old Play. I thoupht it among the possibilities to fird you hero," saiil Traildles, who flunp himself In upon me ono cveninjf last week. "I'm in trouble affain, as usual. There's a younp friend of mine heels over head in love with the nicest Utile pirl in the universe. Every body in our crowd opposes their marriag-e be cause they're too young and haven't enouph money to buy the National Cap itol. Now he's a decent, hard-workinp, ripht-minded lad, and the dear pirl her self knows the importance of 1 we f steak and Irish potatoes in tbe domestic scheme. " "I declare," continued the perennial Traddles, 'I have no patience with the sordid obstructionists who seem deter mined to keep these twi younpstcrs apart. I do protest I'd like to be younjf anin myself merely for the joy of points through another first-love experience, how me the man who Las never felt the irresistible witchery of a pair of srii'l eyes and I'll enframe to fchow you a case of monstrously thwarted nature." There was a mere shade of banter In my friend's tone, but I was confident that under his airy manner lay the old kindly pravity which is the corner-stone of his chnracter. "Traddles," I replied, "I hope you don't believe there lives a man so in human as to deny that he has leen in love." "Well, drat rm! I have heard a ffood many of 'em m.v they didn't believe in it Whv. when I rememler nirown ' ----- -.j youth I want to pet ripht out of town I and take a nap under some rosebush inS a country parden, so as to make sure of dreaminp, the old dream again. Of all my pleasures of memory none is more rclishahle than those which come lauph infj out of my lxiyisli past, attended by the fond conceits aud the romantic dar infrs of school-day loves. I'm not sure that some of my maturer dreanis haven't lxen as welcome. He reliphted his cipar. and I pushed aside my work. "Never heartl tua.toryof my earlit-st love, did you?" he asked. I shook my head. "You shall hear it now." Traddles flung himself back in his chair and laughed long and loud. His color came and went. I seemed to read in his 1ok a mixture of mirth and tender regret. lVrhaps it was regret for lost youth; may 1m a chaste memory of a sweet companionship of two inno cent and untried souls walking hand in hand along a road bordered with king cups and daisies. "She was the daughter of our mem ber of Congress," my friend went on. "I was a lad at school. Our seats hers and mine were on the same line, separated only by a narrow aisle, in the little vil lage schod-hon.se. I must have been slout fourteen then. I recall that I had already eulti vated a friendly intimacy with Itrown's Oram mar, Sanders' Fifth Header and Somebody's Physical Myog raphy. I had also some indistinct no tions of physiology, and had lately spell-d down the school, bf'cauxe all the other fellows, including the girls, in sisted on terminating dishonor with o-u-r. Hut my chief claim to scholastic ' distinction then lay in tbe awe-inspiring fact that I had reached algebraic equation of the first degree. Thus, if A Itought a harness and It a new mowing machine at such and such figures, and A ' grandmother wanted a new ging liana frock, it was the easiest thing ia this world for me to ascertain therost'of it by a deft manipulation of that magi cal X. (I have since applied it to many unknown quantities, but I seem to have forgotten the trick. It never comes out right any more.) "Well, as you may ' guess, the little girl across the aisle and I soon become lovers. I have always felt sure it was that X that brought it about, and when I discovered that she preferred my sled to all others in the village, and used to have errands after school that b-d past my house, my condition of mind was simply blissful. Itut that was nothing to the thrill of triumph that ran through me when I bore her away to supper at a donation party in the very teeth of afeii-teen-year-old rhap who had come up from New York to spend the winter and who carried the unmistakable air of the city-bred boy, with endless good clothes and a real gold watch and chain. He had cast admiring eyes on my daughter of a Congressman and my victory gave me the grinaest satisfac tion. I often wondered how he could stand up and smile so untroubled when I glared at him. However, we became friends, and he himself went to Con gress, where he distinguished himself for eloquence and patriotism. He was shot through the head w hile leading a a charge at Five Forks. "How gladly and rosily the years went by! My little lover and I had reached the age when sleds must be laid aside, but all the time we had been weaving romances. My first and most inspiring thought was to run away and go to sea. The respectably dull life of a merchant man was not to be endured; but there was no war in which I could win deathless re nown and come home laden with prize money and decked in a dazzling uni form, principally gold lace. You must know that her parents were inimical to me, so of course I looked upon them as heartless and sordid beings, whose lives I would spare a little longer in consid eration of their daughter, the sun-kissed peach that by some unaccountable freak 3t nature had ripened on a crab-apple tree. "I determined on a whaler. Aha! That was try grand ppiortunity. A three years voyage would do the whole business. I secretly resolved not to w rite home, though a hat I expected to accomplish by that I do not recollect. I have an idea, though, that the dear girl for whom I was to carve out a blubber fortune was to mourn mo as one dead; that I would return home bronzed and bearded, indulge in a vast quantity of nautical talk incognito, and in the end disclose myself as her long lost love." I smiled at tbe enthusiasm with which Traddles recounted the details of his lavish romance, so very like certain memories of my own; bnt he merely re lighted his refractory cigar, and with his bead enveloped in a fragrant blue, cloud and his voico involuntarily taking on a gentler tone, resumed: "For some reason now out of mind, the whaling expedition was abandoned, and the object of my heart's adoration was sent away to a boarding-school. I saw her put on loard the train, and, as she was whirled into the distance, every roaring iron wheel ran over my heart. I remember that she had on her first long dress that day, and I can still see the crystal tears that stood on hei" cheeks when she turned on the platform and moved her lips in mute farewell to 'me. Oh! the-letters we exchanged! I will not try to tell yon what we wrote In that long separation. She was away one whale year, and when she returned I was gone from the village and had -begun my tussle with the big world. There were no more whalers in it for me; no gold lace, no romantic and magical acquisition of fame and wealth, but a very earnest, steadfast and plod ding devotion to a very prosy and com monplace apprenticeship. . At intervals the old dream recurred with painful fidelity, and, now and again, I was seized with spasms of unrest and dis content. "In the pangs of them I labored chaotically with other grand schemes, one of which involved writing a book and sending a copy of it to my girl lover, with the 'author's compliments on the fly-leaf. ISut that, and all my plans for similar grandeur, were re jected one by one in the press of Im mediate and hard necessity; and when, at the end of my apprenticeship, I went back to the old home for a, brief visit, almost the first person I met was the original of the image I had carried in my heart during six mortal years." "Dear me," I found myself sayinj (for the story had wrought upon , me greatly), "what came of youreunion?" "I am coming to that," was Traddle's reply, with the rapt manner and the far-away gaze of one whose vision is alight on the rainbow that always bends across the morning sky of life. "She had finished nor scbool . course, and been home I think about six months. When I spoke to her of our past and looked at my coarse clothes with a kind of sad humiliation (of . which I am ashamed) the adroitly changed the sub ject. I saw hor at church a few times after that, but well, our story had leen told and the volume was closed. The next time I left the village it was forever. About a year later some thoughtful friend sent me a newspaper containing an account of her marriage to the handsome son of the village store keeper, whom I remembered as a lad chiefly by the circumstance that he always had his hair dressed with some thing agreeable that we less favored youngsters were unable to achieve." "Have you ever met her since?" I asked, with genuine solioitude. "Yes, ance," he replied. "She chanced to be passing through the city in which J was living and stopped to spend a day with one of the comjianions of her loarding-scbool time. That was some thing like twenty years after I left the old home. I called on her and found a fine, matronly and most comfortable woman. Four sturdy boys bung ever her with a fondness that was beautiful not unlike tho picture Miss Mulock drew of Edna Kenderdine and her sons, all proud of their mother and as careful of her as if they had ben lovers. I loved those lads of hers, and told them so, much to their wonderment. "ISut the mother: you surely oh, Traddlesr 'I merely exchanged a few conven tional and quite unmeaning common places with her. There was no word of allusion to the romance that glorified our youth and to this hour tinges my life with a sw-et melancholy, in which is more pleasure than pain, (nod n'ght." Signor Mac. in Detroit Free Jresa THE RUSSIAN METHOD. A TTnlanei Way of ftsrartaar flaw Ha of Ist,neroua Criaulnala. . In the course of his tour of inspection through the Caucasus last autumn Prince Dondukofl-Korsakoff passed close ' to the village of Stary Yoort, where a native Colonel was not long previously murdered out of revenge, and where the murderers were being screened from the authorities by the inhabitants. As they refused to give' up the assassins the Prince ordered all the inhabitants if the Tillage to be assembled on his route two miles oft. Here the Prince refused to accept their greeting of bread and salt, and rated them right soundly ia the aevrest terms of the Russian vocab ulary. At the same time he ordered their elders to be arrested on the spot, and gave them one month in which to surrender the murderers. ' If they re mained recalcitrant at the end of that term the severest punishment was to be inflicted. With the usual obstinacy of the Chechenlls tribes, - who continue their opposition to Russia aa long as, if not longer than, any of the other tribes of the Caucasus, the murderers were not given up at the end of the month, whereupon a "military execution was : ordered to bo made. - At daybreak the village was surrounded by a cordon of troops, and all the inhabitants were dis armed and forbidden ever to carry arms again. Adetachmentof troops were then quartered in the Tillage, and 1,200 rubles was exacted for the benefit of the mur dered man's family. An elder was also appointed and sent by the authorities with a salary, to be paid by the village, of 600 rubles a year. The murderers have now at last been surrendered, and the troops consequently withdrawn. fet. Petersburg Cor. London Times. Mlaaowrla Klrat Settlement. The first white settlement " in the State of Missouri was made at St. (lencvieve, below SL Louis, between tbe years of 17:15 and 1T63, the time not being definitely determined. The city of St. Ixnis was settl-d by llerre Lin quest Laclede ln 1764. Laclede was murdered by an Indian who was bribed by an Englishman, wbo paid him for the horrible deed by giving him a bar rel of whisky. I SHE WHO HELPS HER MOTHER. There are gtrli who paint and girls whp play And girls who danc with grace. An frlris who steal our hearts away With charms of form and fare. Brut there's a rl whom I repect Much more than any other, And aa a wile I shall select The girl who helps her mother. Altbaturh It msy be oat of style. She grants her mother's wishes, Nor does hc Idle all the while Ili-r ma is washing dishes. She has a kindly. lvhi way' For parent, sister, brother; She proves a Idctotin every day. The girt bo helps her mother. She may not read the latest trash Nor sl'h for a flirtation. She may not care to make a mash Nor pine rr a sensation. Such Lues as hers with rrace abound And love fur one another. She scatters sunshine all aronnd The girl who helps her mother. Chicago Herald. JOHN WALTON'S FAI'M. How He Worked It Successfully on a Common-Sense Plan. "Hadn't you .better subscribe for it?" "I tell you, no.. I haven't tho money to sparer And if I had, I haven't got the time to waste over newspapers." said Llcn Sawyer, with some emphasis. "ISut you will gain much information from it in tho course of a year, sir," pursued John Walton. ' "I tell j-.mi I don't want it:" ' ' This was ppolten so flatly and bluntly that Walton said no more. but. folded up the prospectus of a periodical which ho had with him, :7ind then turned away. Kln-n Sawyer and I!en Orummot were two old farmers that is, old at the busi ness, though they had only reached the middle ae of life and after their voung neighbor had gone they expressed their opinions concerning lam. . "Ile'll never make a farmer," said Sawyer, with a shako of his head. "He spends too much time over those papers and liooks of his. lie's a loetlo mho slove farmin', in my opinion." 'Those are my sentiment," responded f'rummet. "I tell you, Eben, tho man that thinks to make a livin' on a farm in this section has got to vvrt for it." At this juncture Sam Uancroft came along. He was another old native of the district. "We was just talkin about young Walton," said Sawyer. "lie's rippin' his barn-floor up." said Ilancroft. "Rippin tho floor up!" repeated drum met. "Why, the whole floor was put down only three years ago." "The tie-up floor, I mean,"' pursued Ilancroft. "lie's got a carpenter up from the village; and his two hired men are helpin'." "Whew! I guess he'll make a farrucr'" And so they all guessed with a reservation. In short, there was some thing highly ridiculous in the thought of a man's thinking to be a farmer and a student at thi same time. John Walton was a young man. aud though Le had Wen born in the neih Irorhood, yet much of his life bad been spent in other sections of the country. His parents having both died, John had married, and now turned his thoughts to making a living out of the old home stead. lien tJrummet had a curiosity to see what was going on in Walton's barn, so he dropped in there. Ho found that the -whole of the fliMir, whee the cattle stood, had Wen torn up, and that they w ere digging a t ide, deep trench the wholo length of the tie-up. "What on airth is all this for?" asked Cen. "Why, returned Walton, who was busy in superintending the work, and also in working himself, "I am having a place fixed here for making manure. I mean to fill this trench up with good muck, and thus save the liquids which Lave heretofore leen lost I think, by proper management, I can get full double the quantity of manure which others have got on this place." "Do ye?" said Grummet, sarcastically. "Yes," resumed the young man. "It is a fact that the liquid manures could they lx saved, would fully equal tho solids, both in bulk and value, and when combined with well-xotted muck, and some other articles which shall take up and retain all the more volatile parts, I feel sure that they will afford more fertilizing powers and i properties than the solid manures can "You don't say so! Where d'ye larn all that?" . "Partly from reading and partly from observaMon. answered John, smiling at his good neighbor's open sarcasm. I don't suppose it costs any thing to do all this?" .--' C, yes; it will cost mo considerable before I get through.", "Yaas; I should rayther calkilate it. would." "1 swan!" Iten Grummet cried, as he met Sawyer shortly afterwards. "John Walton's a reglax hifaiutin. He's jos about as nigb to Win' crazy as a man can bel" . , Eh? crazy. lien?" ' 4t I don't mean, railly upsot, like folks who are sent to the insane asylum; but he's got his head full of all sorts of nonsense.? ... "Cut what in nature's he going to do?" . . "Why ho'sgoia' to6avo the liquids, as bo calls 'era! An he's goin' to put in somethin' to ta ce up the rvl rvhi ntary parts. ' i .. Voluntary iru? What are they, Ben?" -. "It was tA tomethin'. Bet I dona know. I woulda't'ask him. I s'pose be jest used the on landish- word bo's to get mo to ask him wl-at it meant an' then he'd show off his Iarnin. But I wa'n't so green. ' . "I wonder if he thinks he's a com in hero to show us old farmers how to work?" said Sawyer, rather indignantly. "I guess ho thinks so," returned Grum met. "Then I guess hell find out his mis take, added the other. '.Ies' you mark my words. Ben: Ile'll be flat on his back afore two years is out!" Autumn came, and after John Walton had mowed over a twenty-acre iield,' getting bardly hay enough to pay for tbo labor, he set men at work -digging deep trenches all over it- He had two dug lengthwise, running up and down ) the slope; and then ho dug quite a num ber running across these. They were quite deep and broad, and into them ho tumbled nearly all the stones that could be found in the fields. "A pooty expensive way of gettin rid o' rocks," remarked Grummet. 'lt' a better place for them than on the surface, isn't it?'' returned Walton, with a smile. "Mebbc. But what on airth are ye doin' it for?" , "Why I'm- going to see il nnder draining won't improve tho land." " L'derd raiding! What's that?"' "It is simply drawing off the water from the surface. This land is cold and wet; but if I ran get tho water to drain off among these rocks, the sun may warm the surface and give me a good piece of soil here." ; But it looked very foolish to Bon Grummet. He believed t hat "w hat was the natur' of the soil couldn't be altered." However, tho young man made his trenches tumbled in the rocks filled in on top with the loam he had origin ally removod; and then left it to work for itself awhile. A month later he plowed up two acres of it, and he could seo that tho soil had already changed wonderfully. After this was done be cut his way to tho muck-swamp; and went to hauling out that articlo which he deposited in various places, as ho deemed proper. "That's a cur'us contrivance," said Sam Bancroft. He and Ben Grummet had been at work for Walton at haul ing muck. He alluded to a large vat back of the house, into which ran a spout from the sink. This vat was ca pable of holding several cart-loads of stuff and was already half full. "That's a compost vat," exclaimed .Walton, who had overheard the remark. "All the slops from the house the soap suds and such stuff which most people wasted, I save by this means, and turn it to good account; and instead of throwing away refuse matter I put it in hero and let it rot and ferment and make manure." """''. "That all sounds very pooty," re marked Ben, after Walter had left them; "but let mo jes' tell you. it don't Ji.V.r He'd lietter let sich fandangles al juo if ho ever expects to make a livin' at farmin'." Before the ground froze up Walton threw out most of the muck back to his tie-up. which had leeome well saturated, and filled the trench up anew. When spring came Walton went to some of his neighbors and aked them to go in with Llm and send for some good scions to engraft upon their apple trees. lie ex plained to them jtist the plan he had formed for his own orchard. "How much will it cost you?" asked Sawyer. "Why," returned Walton, "I'm going into it thoroughly. My orchard is a large one, as yours is, and the trees are mostly thrifty and vigorous or could be made so but with poor fruit. I mean to make a thorough thing of it, and shall expend a hundred dollars this spring." "What! A hundred dollars! In your orchard?'' "Yes," "Jewhitiker an' broomsticks! When I git money to play with I'll try it." A little while later, and the grass be gan to spring up on the twenty-acre lot as it had never sprung up before; and as time went on John Walton was contin ually studying how to improve his farm. 'Good gracious!" ejaculated Elen Sawyer, as Hen Grummet and Sam Ban croft came into his house one cool autumn evening; "have you heard about John Walton's apples?" ; "Yes,? retarned Iten. "I was there,' and heerd the whole on't so I know I never would ave thought it. An orchard turn out like that! "And jos look at that twenty-acre field," said Bancroft. "Five years ago it wouldn't hardly pay for mowin'. It didn't lx-ar much else but pod gum. Now look at it. Think o' the corn an' wheat he's raised there; an' this year he cut more'n forty tons of good hay from ill" "We was jest talkin" alout you, Mr. Walton." said Sawyer one day, as John came into his house. "Ah!" returned John, as ho took a seat by tho fire, "I hope you found nothing bad to say of me.' "Not a bit of it. We was talkin' about the wonderful improvement you've made on tho old place and of the money you make." . "And do you think it wonderful?" Hut ain't it?" "Well." replied Walton, "I don't know alout that; but 111 tell you what I do know: 1 know there is no class of people in the world who may read and study to better advantage than farmers. Farm ing is a science, and he must be a man ef more than ordinary capacity who can master .it alL In short, there is no branch of industry in the world which may not bo followed to better advantage without a good education. But farmers must not bo afraid of newspapers and books. They won't, if they are wise, follow every advico which experiment alists give, but they may study and rea son and experiment for themselves. So I have done, and so I mean to do." N. Y. Ledger. A SEVERE REBUKE. How a Youna; Man Treated a Girl Who Wasn't Keakdy ol Time. ' A severe but well-merited rebuke ' was administered not long ago, says the New York Evening Sun's Woman-About-Town, to a society girl by a young man wbo has the courage, of very creditable conviction upon a certain common lack of the nicest courtesy among young women who are really very well bred", and who would not offend for the world if they stopped to think, lie told the story himself, as follows: "During one of my busiest weeks I invited a young woman to go With mo to the theater on a certain first night. When the evening came I reached her homo shortly before eight o'clock. I waited in the reception-room for some time. Then the rxiamrxia appeared. Wo chatted for a quarter of an hour longer, titill no signs of the young woman. I looked at my watch; it was just time for the curtain to rise at the theater. I particularly wanted to see the opening , of the play. "Then I rose and took one of my checks from my pocket. .'Madame, I. said to tho mother, 'hero is the check of Miss D.'s chair, and the carriage is at the door. Will you be kind enough to ask her to come when it suns her best. .For myself, I want to see the opening of the play. And I walked out." "And what did tho young woman do?" asked three breathless listeners all at once. . r - 4 Shecamein the course of half an hour. She had good sense enough to take the rebuke In the right way. She knew she deserved it. 4Oh, but I would never have forgiven you!" sighed the cUorus. BIRD-TIME. ohen rill from icy prisons rsce. Like children out to play. When meails with munlles green replace Their slccjiliip-fj.iwusof gray, Wbeu tassels dock the forest tents In wi7ar-l silence pun. And pliant earth no more resents The fondness of the sun, Vnat joy slong tbe hreezes bland At morn and eve to hear The music of the plumed band Thar hails the wakening year! A winged voice is everywhere. The sunbeams sinRii.tr shine. And every breath of tuneful air Is Ufc'bt as beaded wine. Unworn the ancient carols pour ? From throat of livlnc bird. ' The very strains that o'er and o'er. In vernal glnducss heard ; The turtles c-ooed in fir and pine. And mill the myrtles sung The riiKhUuirales. el I'ulestine, When Solomon wa young. As dulcet fine, as crystal pure. As tender, and as free, Tbe bluebird's warbled overture Wakes in our homestead tree; And the Konsr-sparr.iw, April's pet, Saiuu s his fellow, i-aiall. And trills his tremulous canzonet On every garden wslL The yellow-hnmmers pipe and beat Amono; the trnfrrant irlades; The redbreast flutes his solo sweet And lau.'hs his clad roulades; Tbo peewee from the corn -bouse thatch Repeats bis name all day; And the brown thrasher trolls his catch High on the hickory spray. The wren song litre a shower of aparks, Out ffahes, and Is still; Far peal .the notes of meadow-lurks; And rurther, on tbe bill. With cry of jay-bird and chewlnk, -And call of soaring crow, Tbe decier tones of nature link In quaint solleo. Tbe more, as greener follne (trows. The chimes of spring rejoice; The orchard (.'ladder buds end blow; To fcenr the kingbird's voice; The dun liy-i an her perching flings His puny plarh t f rheer; And the frreen bummer's happy wlngt Purr nt the tulip's ear. Tbe martens chirrup as they wheel; The orioles whistle pay; I hear licyond the iiliVr steal The bliiclcbinl's irurlint lay: And bobolin!;. Il.iy's l!,t delight, TLp brt , zy fl Ids along Comes scattering ln his sidelong flight A trail of tinkiiog song. Then oncae'i wave of joy that sweeps Across the open laTid Float echoes from the forest deeps ( That oliariu me where I stand. Thro' t-Uaded aisles runs silvery soft The black-thront's limpid tune. And vireos in tbe murmuring loft Enchant the vernal toon, Where tho bripht tanuger recites His clear mock robin hymn. And yellow-irarblers' notes like lights Thro' sylvan siiao.iw swim. And tbe saint wrx. 1 thrush, bird devout The sweetest of t ie choir. His golden Augehu rings out As from somu temple spire. 0 sir.li-ss sonpsteis: they are dead Wh' followed where ye leait. And listened at the f.iuniain-head Of Cieledy indeed. Your lays re luniruage seer and bard Translate to men no more. The only music left un marred At shut of Ellen's door. 1 can but hoje. In endl-.-ss spring. When I to Heaven rcpa-ir. The souls of birds on eur'.h that Firig Will join the anthem there; And I my gentle friends shall know In every fadeless tree. And thank the heart whose overflow Of love they brought to me. Rev. Theron Brown, In Harper's Dazar. CENSUSAKLN'G. Trials and Tribulations of the Enumerators. A Rare Ilerth In Which to Stndy Human Natur Queer Oueatlona, Queerer I'eople mill tbe Queerest of Answer. "If you want to have some fun study ing human nature." said a book-agent the other day, "get yourself enroll-d as a census enumerator for a district where the jeople are indifferently educated. I tell you canvassing for orders is noth ing to it, in the way of diversion. 1 know, for I was an enumerator myself in a thickly populated down-town East side district of this city ten years ago, when the last census was taken, and though I only made about fort3 dollars for two wecds of the hardest work I ever performed in my life, yet I have ap plied for the place again this year, and hope soon to engage in another cross questioning campaign with one eye wide open for fun. I'll meet plenty of queer people, I warrant you, and as I am authorized by the law to enter every house and extract the desired informa tion from any adult, under penalty of a fine for refusal to aid me, you see I have things pretty much my own way in the end, though I often have to do a heap of talking before I get what I want, and in some instances, no doubt, will have to call the nearest policeman. "Supposo the census enumerator be gins on one of those five-story apart ment houses,, with four sets of rooms on each floor, each set occupied by from four to nine persons. He start in tho basement as follows: ' 'You are the janitor, aren't you?' ' 'Yes, (resentfully, as is the way of janitors who think you want them to Show you an empty flat). 'How many families in the house? " "What you want tor know fer? (Sus piciously.) You can't 6cll no books here. (Glancing at your portfolio and blanks.) I don't want to sell books. I've come to take the census. ' 'Oh, they've all got some excuse to get inside the house, and some of 'cm '11 take any thin' they kin git ther hands on.' " 'But I'm a Government official, and I've come to take tho census.' " 'What's that?' 44 'Well, if you don't know what the census is, it's time you found out. I'm going to count tho pople who live in this house, and if you interfere with me I'll call a policeman and have you fined. Look at that and I show him my written authority signed by the Super intendent of the Census and tho local supervisor. The seal on this generally fetches tho janitor, and so I pass the watchdog and get inside the house. I rap on the door of one apartment and am confronted by a frowsy woman. 4 'Is tho lady of the flat in, ma'am? 44 'I'm her.' 44 'I've come to take the census.' " 'Ain't got any." "Then follow extended explanations, and finally we approach business. - 44 'How old is your oldest child?' '"Well, she's about that high,' hold ing up her hand about four feet from the floor. "About twelve?' I tugfe'est, knowing from experience that the exact year of the child's birth has fxen crowded out of her tired mind by many subsequent sorrows and privations. " 'I guess so.' ''And the next one? I continue. " ' h! it's only a wee bit thing.' " 'Yos, but can't you remember when it was lxjrn?" ' " 'Well, it was just afu r Tom was seut up.' " 'How long was he in? I say, jumping at tho clew. " 'Five years.' " 'And w hen did he get out? " 'Last Christmas.' " 'Then the child's almost six? " 'I guess so." " 'And how old's your husband?' " ' I duno.' "'Think now; did you never hear him say?' '"Well, I hard him say once he was born in tho year of the big wind in Ire land. "More poplo in this generation were born during, or after, or just before tho 'big wind in Ireland" than in any ten years before or since, I believe, but 1 persevere. " 'Is be older than you?' " 'Sure.' " 'How much?' " 'Not much.' -i " 'How old are you?' " 'It's none of your business, young man; don't be askin' imperint questions.' " Iut I must know, ma'am. If I don't ask you I'll be fined myself, and if you don't answer you'll be fined.' " 'Well, I'm thirty-nine. "It's truly wonderful how many wom en there are who are either nineteen, or twenty-nine, or thirty-nine, or forty nine. Do they hato to acknowledge that they have at last left the decado in which they have tarried for ten or fif teen years or is there an amazing but hitherto unnoticed decrease in the birth of girl babies one year out of every ton? Still I hold my peace and put down tnls woman as thirty-nine, though she is forty-five if she's a day, and I put down her man, who is not much older, as forty two. This is about as near as you can come with these people, and the woman has done as well as the average in the way of being willing to tell tho little she really knows. "But then there is another class of questions that generally causes more trouble than the ages, because the peo ple are generally quite unwilling to tell the truth with respect to them. These are the questions about the 'dependent, defective and delinquent" classes, as the last census sheets tabulated them. It takes some gall to ask a big, fiery wo tnam, whom you have been pestering for a quarter of an hour about her age, if any of tier family are idiots, or delormed, or criminals, and if so, how many and what are their special forms of disease or ras cality. Only a hardened ltook agent, life-insurance canvasser or liglitning rod peddler can do it every time with out quailing or minding the shower of indignant abuse that comes thii !cst and fastest from a mother who re.uly has a weak-minded son. or a hump backed daughter, or a jail-bird husband. I fancy that we get correct answers in the affirmative to these questions about once in fifty or so. "But a great deal depends on how you put the question. Only a greenhorn would say: 'Any of you crazy?" Your expert lxok-agcnt says: 'All theirminds correct? Speech all right? Can very body see? Is the hearing perfect with all of you?' I ti ll you tact is 'what at enumerator chiefly needs if be is going to fret through bis work quick enough to make any money out of it. It's no solt snap. The. temptation to sit uovvn and fill in tho blanks, totheliestof your own judgment, sooner than spend hall an hour with an abusive and ignorant family, is almost irresistible at times, j-et a heavy penalty attaches to such work, and justly, too. "At the last census many men applied for the place; of enumerator, thinking it a picnic, but when they received their books and instructions and began to prasp tho sie of the job, they resigned in large numbers. This year, to guurd against anj such monkey business, rin numerator who accepts bis appoint ment and then backs out without giving a satisfactory reason to the superinten dent, may be fined and imprisoned. "Tho city is so divided that each enumerator is supposed to have about two thousand individuals to inquire about. But he often finds that his dis trict is much more thickly populated than ho supposed. I rememWr h(t time I got into a room in a wretched house whore four families dwelt togeth er. The room was partitioned off into four rectangles, but not in the usual way, with wooden walls, but by chalk lines on the floor. "'How do you all mana;Y to live in such crowded quarters? lashed, joggoi out of my routine questions by their un usually sardine-like arrangement. "Oh, we'd peton well enough,' growled one man, 'if them Joneses wouldn't per sist in keepin boarders. " N. Y. Tribune. Tbe Seat or Government. Washington was not tho seat of tho I'nited States Government until l'K). The seat of Government was at Phila delphia from SoptemlxT , 1774, till De cember. 177'.; at Baltimore from lh-eera-ber '.io. 1770, until March. 1777; at Phil adelphia, from March 4. 1777, to Septem ber, 1777; at Lam-aster, Pa.. fro:n Sep temherC" to Koptemlier'tO. 1777; at York, Pa., from Scpu-mlier 1U. 1777 to July, 1778; at Philadelphia from July 177s, to June ltK 17s;;; at Princeton, N. J.. June SO to- Noremlier 20, 17st; at An nations from November 2rt, 17V1 to No vember :. 17S4; at Trenton from No vember. 17s4 to January, 17s."; at New York from January 11, 175 to 17.Mi, when it was removed to Phi'adeiphia and remained there, until lSOO, when it was removed to Washington. Qweer Nrrn. lu m Main. Court. The Skowbep-an corrt-soiideTit of the Fairfield Journal gixes the following de scription of the homelike apeara.nce of tho Maine Supreme Court room diui.ig the present term of e.ottrt: "Ladies i i the gallery bring their mi-dle-v-or'.; and sit out tbe hours of the session. It is inte-inting to watch -them thiiadintr no-dles, tying knots, basting, occasion ally pausing to catch somu portion of tho evidence and again to confide in a neighbor something relative to so'ne. newcomer, interspersed with the slight click of the scissors, all of which ten ! to impress the lookers-on with tho solemnity of the occasion and add per ceptibly to I ho -homelike' ai'lwiUil n. e of J our judicial residence.-"' ' n I C I
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