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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
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1 hi'
1 Kmwii Mixture, wtra Imported to rm at M cents. W
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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
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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-
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a. flUIUljl k UU.,
f'i ikns AVE.,
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PHILADELPHIA.
MACHINES
mi ted.
rlvultnrul
K. PA.
BARGAINS
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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
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For rrrsioCMCes, CMuactati, Oaaarraeaaa. Faawaat
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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
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CREAM: BALM
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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.
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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.-"' '
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