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HASSOJf, I mmn.dM 1 a. r.(J1,,.. l Circulation. - ISOO. fg. slSSCBIFTIOS RATES. - , re-.r cs-fft n adTanee -- - fl.MI i f 'tract paM within 3 months. 1.T6 i . It not paid within 6 months. 100 u .J it nnt i.ald within the J ear.. 9 Jb l A. - - -- , . aad those who don I eonsult taelr JAS. C! HASSON, Editor and Proprietor. 'HI IS A rBKSICAR WHOM TIB TBUTH Mill) FRKS, ASD AiL ilH 8LAYM BTtSIDTt-' 81. 60 and postaqe per f car In adnnce. - TlftCl 11 n 1,1 o ----- -- ir.i ""' be distinctly understood from ri.nr Dler beore yon stop it. If stop V, VOLUME XXIV. EI3ENSBURG, FA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER f, IS90. NUMBER 47. :" is too snort. I : I , M I -....M,,,,1iiiiiiMMMMsMsssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssass - Opens Wednesday, Scpto 3. .M,!' north se.'intf in uhhii. .. LADIES! l. ml rH'Bl,ss rnnnirn 10 vermin it m rt-nu joj it) UsIiibii Slr-'t. Nt-w York. fo ,f ifc. lr t-auaf nl iiutriiiHl l.acileH' L)okH." 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' 1 ,' "'u 'f yo.r.hf-:! orrr.ra, early H.si-.''" !"t raaulio.i.1. etc.. 1 w:!l .f ",;!'-i Iwlr-l fotulniug full ;''rVlr', PREEof rfcarK.u A 1L. rb .I...,, ;.i 1 ..., of Kb r k:"l dc-bibiatud. Addreoa, - ixu, Moodu, Conn. , i . .' v i' " all i . I 1 r- I LIFE'S LAUUtK. to come hero as you have." ONLY ONE KIND WORD. HE PEOPLE'S STORE, FIFTH AVENUE, PITTSBURGPA. BE : PITTSBURG : EXPOSITION ,.. m 1-Mios!t!on excursion rates oo all the railroads to FlttaburR will ludace :r nf vou to visit onrcltr. Ttis maDaeersflttio.rittabnrR lexposit oa are oiak- fV t '.I tit l .1 IBBllo ILIlurirnilliKi ruiDivniuiuK ui i v i'.I Vi" i.itii"it of th thousands who will come to see it. t,ok.t 1 ' .V. ,,,r nart hawino a show tbero. Itlwlll be principally of CARPETS. ,.i ly I .pre-.ents on ft ine many uevmrniicnwi iu uui ... - r'nn ct'nie tid ?see our storerooms on Kiftn Avenue, the laruest and finest In the ,i rP vo,, Wiu 8e the very finest and best Dress Woods of all kinds. Cloaks. Wraps. 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Ileaila here Ey t Brslerea the Messaea off Taatr and Nsnil. Try the Curo.HAV- A particle Is applied Into eaea nostrils and Ik amreeabie. Price M pent at IrUKtt ; bv mall reirUiered, to cU. LJY BKi M Warren St, New York. LUMBER IS ADVANCING. SAW-MILLS STEAM ENGINES, 5HI'(II.e MILLS. HAT PKKSSES.Ac If you wsot a rirai-lna N.IW Sf I I.I send tor Cstalouue aodipeoiai prloe to introduce In your rertinn to A. li. FARO.UA U, (Limited , York, I'a. M :. A. MfOTT.New Vurk t'lty j'VEHY Iti HY in 'uiiitina caiuntr should read 1 1 t.m k b . . U . u , . A i . .. p " Mira7-TrM' ' l ; A m aC att aTaT " Stop ty step we mount the ladder," Doth the Turkish proverb read; And a double t. ulh it teaches To tho one who stops to heed. Hurrylnir the climber stumbles, Meets with hindrance if not harm; Better far ascend more slowly. Sure of foot and strong of arm. So In all life's efforts upward. We but time and trouble waste When we yield to anxious impulse Nothing e'er is gained by haote. And the other lesson tanpht us By the saying is as plain Thouph by slnple rounds we clamber, We the ladder's top shall gain. Fear not then, nor faint nor falter. As life's steep you seek to scale; lie who constant climbs, though slowly, Can not 1 1 his purpose full. Rev. I. U. Strong, In Golden Days. WATCH CHARMS. Entertaining Stories Sometimes Suggested by Them. Chough of Little Intrinsic Value They Serve aa Reminder of Interesting Incidents Id the LI res of Their YVearera. If a man could get all tho stories sug posted by watch charms worn In tho city, ho would havo a book of narratives bigjrer than tho Doomsday Hook in London. Many a man who would disdain any thins like weakness in personal adornment will wear a watch charm from one year's end to the next when thcro is no possible excuse for it beyond soma legend of which he alone is the possessor. One of tho conductors on tho Pennsyl vania road wears a miniature lantern with a red glass, and gold wiro frame, in tho center of which is a bit of phos phorescent light that glows brightly however dark the night may bo. liut a lantern in such a placo is not especially remarked, for many many men on tho road wear them in ono style or another. The story about this particular one would never como out if wo waited for tho conductor to toll it himself. l!ut it has a story. Years ago, when this eamo conductor was a brakeman, in the days when a brakeman was really expected to attend to the brakes even on a passenger train, there was a collision and four men in the sleeper were killed. That was seri ous enough, but it would havo been vastly worse had it not been for the fact that this man, then in a more humble position, heard tho train coming behind him, clearly out of her tirao, snatched a red lantern and ran back there to givo the warning. The cngineor of tho tres passing train saw bint just in time to j turn OH the steam and put on the brakes, but ho could not prevent tho ac cident. Ilight at tho prow of his en gine, when tho wreckers camo to the placo, lay a rich man who had long been an invalid, and who considered himself indebted to the brakeman for his life. IIo made him a present of the little lantern, and now each Christmas ho sends to tho vigilant trainman, whohas sinco risen to tho ranks of tho conduc tors, a present which marks in some measure the gratitude even a suffering man can feel for ono who has saved his life. A Hoard of Trado man, not often left on the wrong side of tho market, wears a little gold grain of corn at the end of a pensile swing of his watch chain. It commemorates tho fact that in a mem orable squoezo which occurred some years ago ho had a sudden inspiration that it would bo a good timo to sell at the very instant when all tho men on tho floor seemed raving crazy to buy. IIo unloaded all the corn he had on hand, and the very next turn of the dial showed a notable falling off. Things grew worse very rapidly, and before the day was done the corn pit was simply one crowd of howling, losing speculat ors. . It seemed that nono of them had been able to save a dollar, and this ono man was nearly alono in tho fortunate inspiration that had saved him thou sands of dollars. Ono of tho best known men around the city hall wears a cluster of liear's claws as bis talisman. IIo never talks about them, but when some ono who knows ho was once a Californian directs the conversation for him this man can tell of some very thrilling experiences in the Sierra Xevadas, not tho least in teresting of which is an encounter with a bear ono morning when himself and wife were alono in the camp, and when nothing but good luck and the courage of the woman in the caso would havo averted disaster for all of them. He lived to see the brute laid ont cold and stifT in death, and then ho drifted into a de lirium that lasted for weeks. When he regained his strength ho found tho bear's skin tanned and spread upon bis rude bed in lieu of better covering from the bitter cold of tho mountains. Ho lay there In his weakness and worked away at tho claws till ho had taken all of them from their proper resting place, and when ho recovered ho had a watch charm made of them. Ho wears it yet, and is proud to say that he has never ainca Leva compollod to work for him self. From tho day he reached the mines ho has been called upon to serve tho public in some capacity or another, and so long as that good fortnuo at tends bim he will never giro up Lis bear's claws. One man, now at the head of a big baking establishment, has a common looking bullet swung to hischain. Some people think it is a homely sort of a thing to wear, and bo docs not quarrel with them; but if you ask him for tho reason of such a strange fancy ho will toll you it is becauso ho owes all bis good fortune he ever had in lifo to that load bullet. Years ago. when he was a driver and hired to deliver Lrcad for tho firm that ho has since bought out and made bigger than tho founder ever be lieved it could bo made, he was going his rounds, delivering bread, when he camo to the homo of a patron who lived away upstairs in a dark court. Right at tho door of the patron was another door which led to a dwelling that bad long leen vacant. The broad boy weari ly climbed the stairs, and was just about to deposit the regular order ct Lrcad on tho table prepared for it the night before, when the door to tho ad joining home was thrown open, and a man poke-d a pistol straight out and fired. Tho bread boy tumbled from the top to the lxiltoin ot the stairs, and when ho reached the foot he heard the angry voice of the girl in the houso he rnTved si-oring roundly tho man in the ui'Wcf d.imif il', who had tired the shot. "What did you mean nliooting at him?" dcinaiii I' d tho girl, "lie is the' bread m;in. and he has as good a right to come hero as you have.1 Tho householder had never killed a man in his life, but ho thought this early morning visitor could mean no good, and ho shot at him. He was as badly frightened as was the bread boy when ho found out tho true state of af fairs, and camo down to apologize. Th3 girl, rather too thinly clad for the street, came down also and assured her self that her favorite bread man was in no wiso tho worse for tho shot, though ho had tho bullet in his pocket, where it had lodged after passing through his coat. IIo won tho lady, and she won a husband who might never havo noticed her had it not been for tho bullet that she thought had closed his career. So ho wears tho battered leaden thing, and every timo he sees it he thinks how fortunato ho was to get shot for a burg lar and get savod for a friend in ono and the same moment. One of tho tugboat captains, whocarns his employers a pretty penny ovcry year, wears a rake a regular farmer's rake on his watch-guard. It seems a little out of placo on so nautical a waistcoat, but it is there, and if you want him to ho will tell you a story about it, He will tell you a much better and a lonTer story than this, but tho facts are about tho same. .When ho was a younger man than ho is to-day, he was only an ordi nary hand on tho tugboat for he has followed that business for tho past fif teen years be started with his craft ono stormy night to tow in a large steamer that was lying in the lake and that had been disabled. There was a high wind on, and for some reason or another tho tug refused to obey herrud dor, a thing that tugs very se-ldom do. Whon they camo near enough the steamer they tried ' to turn and get a line, but tho little vessel refused to do any thing of the kind and went jamb up against tho bow of tho bigger craft. She was slewed around so sudlonly that every man aboard tho tug, excepting the engineer, was thrown into tho lake. This particular fellow managed to fall right between tho vessels, and as he rose from bis involuntary bath he saw the tug and tho tow coming together, with him between them. Ho saw no earthly c banco to escape and had about made tip what little mind he had left that the end was come, when he saw a' rako reached down to hint frem tho lower dock of tho steamer. He grasped it without asking any Questions, and just as tho two vessels crashed against each ether bo was landed safo on tho bigger boat. He scrambled to bis feet and saw that his rescuer was a young wom an, not often seen on tho lower deck of vessels, but who explained that he had been thrown down tho stairway when tho tug first struck. She looked over tho side and saw tho man in tho water, and reached for him with the first thing that camo in her hand. Then she saw tho necessity of lifting him out of tho water, and was fright ened by tho very gravity of tho case into lifting him clear to herself and giving him a chance to clamber on the boat. Did ho marry her? Well. no. You sec, sho was already tho wife of ono of tho passengers; but ho thanked her with all an honest man's heart, and got a rake mado of gold and hung it to his watch charm. Then he went to work again harder than ever, and has finally risen to a placo where be says he can offer her a homo if it should ever happen that sho wants ono. A member of tho city council wears a nugget of gold in his chain. It was taken by his father from tho "chimney diggings" in tho days of gold mining up at Mount Shasta, -CaL "Tho old man knocked it out the very first thing ho dono whon ho went to work in tho morning," says the legisla tor, "and it was tho only diano he made at tho businoss all tho timo he was there. And it is tho only thing any of bis family over mado outsido of a saloon in tho world. That's why I wear it, and it's why' I won't part with it. See?' Chicago Herald. WIGS FOR EACH DAY. IIow a llalrleaa (irnllrnits Oocelves Ilia Intimate Friend. "So you do not believe that Mr. II wears a wig?" ho asked. 'Certainly not." "Where's your proof? "Look at his hair smooth, glossy and natural." "Very goeid wigs aro mado nowadays." "Well, did you ever see a wig grow?" "Not exactly." "His does, if it's a wig. "Are you sure of it? "Of course I am, that is, suro that his hair is bis own, for I have soen him on tho day when bo has had his hair cut. I havo seen it grow day by day until it noeued cutting. In fact, his hair is wonderfully vigorous. Hardly a day passes that I do not see II , and onco I remarked to him Low rapid his hair grew. " 'Do you think it's too long? ho said. Well, yes, I do, a little, I an swered. 'I'll get it cut this afternoon,' ho Said. "Tho next morning I met him, and his hair was cut and trimmed almost too closely. Where in tho world did you get tho idea that ho wore a wig? "My dear young innocent," was tho r'j.y, "wigs are so skillfully mado now that ono can't detect thorn. H Las a wig for every day in the month. Whon he wants to have his hair cut bo puts on his shortest wig. The next day lie puts on a longer one, and so on. step by step, as his hair prow. Finally Lis hair gt-ts too long and he Las it cut that is, he goes back to tho short wig and logins all over again. Seeing is not believing." N. Y Tribune. Cioorce Washington Kelk. Mr. Thomas Jre)iaiii has left at the Amerifiis liecorder office a couple of rdii"s that havo lioon handed down for (M years. One was a small hatchet, re sembling the one tleorgo Washington didn't use. that was given him by his mother, who died sixu-en years ago at the ago of eighty-six. It was given her by her grandmother when she was ejuito young. The other is a pint flask that is known to le over ono hundred years old, as it has bH-n in his fathe r's family that long. It is a queer-looking, short, round tlask, with the face of Cieorgo Washington blown in tho sides. IIo will now givo these relics to Lis chil dren. ' Rather Ambiguous. "I seo by your sign that you are a dU rinsing druggist." "Yes, sir. - "What do you dispense with?". With aeouracy, bir." '1 Wat afeii.l von did." Twas a little tliia, only one kind word. In tho hurry aud bustle of every day, : : But tho heart w as touched and the soul was stirred. And a rainbow of hope spanned the darkened way! Twas a world-worn man with a wclpht of woe, YVho was propinB- alone-, In the crowded stree t. When he hcurd a voice that was soft and low ; And a word that was warm, and passing sweet 1 "And the sluprrlsn life In his veins move! fast. And the liijht in his eye was the olden lijjht Twas tho one kind word, he had tact and pas-ed Twas the bine fa the uttv. where the stars shine bright. Twas a 9innins pirl. with a reckless air. Who was o.ie of a throng oa a sunay day. And her paint-d cheek and her etony stare Were the hi--n nt a soul on Us downward way! But a jrrcc tln came, and a kindly word, With a mesae;e of craoe to the errirp one. And the centered deptns of her nature stirred. Till she turned from the wrong, and the good . was won! y- Ella Dare, in Inter Ocean. "THE WORM.' An Interesting: Story of tho One That Turned. Shakespeare says something about worms, or it ma.y bo gnats or beetles, turning if you tread on them too se verely. The safest plan is never to tread on a worm not even on the last new subaltern from home, with his but tons hardly out of -their tissue pnprr, and tho red of sappy English beef in his cheeks. This is the story of the worm that turned. For the sake of brevity we will call Henry Augustus Ramsay Faiz anno "Tho Worm," although he was an exceedingly pretty boy, without a hair . on his face, and with a waist like a girl's, when he came out to the Second Shikarri3" and was mado unhappy in - several ways. Tho "Shikarris" are a "high-casta regiment, and you rnnst bo able to do things well play a bruijo. or Tide more than little, or sing or act to get on with them. The Woayn did nothing exempt fall oft his pony and, knock chips out of gate "posts with his trap. Even that bmrao monotonous after a time. He objected to whist, cut the cloth at billiards, sang out of tune, kept very much to himself, and wrote to his mamma and cisters at home. Four of these tuUigs were vices which the "Shikarris". objected to and sot themselves to eradicate. Every ono knows how subalterns are, by brother subaltTP.s, softental and not permitted to be ferocious. It is good and whede soni", and does no one any harm unless tempers aro lost, and then there is trouble. The "Shikarris" shikarredTho Worm very much, and ho bore every thing without winking. He was so good and so anxious to learn, and flushed so pink that his education was cut short, and be was left to his own devices by every one except tho senior subaltern, who contin ued to make life a burden to The Worm. Tho senior subaltern meant no barm, but his chair was coarse and he didn't quito understand where to stop Ho had been waiting too long for his com pany, and that always sours a man. Also ho was in love, which made him worse. Ono day after ho bad borrowed The Worm's trap for a lady who Lad never existed, had used it himself all the aft- ernoon, had sent a note to Tho Worm purporting to como from the lady, and was telling tho mess all about it, The Worm roso in his placo and said, in his quiet," lady-liko voice: "That was a very ' pretty sell, but I'll lay you a month's pay to a month's pay when you get your step that 1 work a sell on yon that you'll remember for the rest of your days, and the regiment after you when you're dead or broke." -The Worm wasn't angry in the least, and the rest of tho mess shouted. Then the senior subaltern looked at The Worm from tho boots upward and down again, and said: "Done, Daby." The Worm tck tho rest of tho mess to witness that the bet had been taken, and retired into a book with a sweet smile. Two months passed, and the senior subaltern still educated Tho Worm, who began to movo about a little more as the hot weather came on. I have said that tho senior subaltern was in love. The curious thing is that a girl was in lovo with the senior subaltern. Though the Colonel said awful things, and tho Majors snorted, and married Captains looked unutterable wisdom, and the juniors scoffed, those two wore engaged. Tho senior subaltern was so pleased with getting his company and his ac ceptance at tho same time, that be for got to bother Tho Worm. The girl was a pretty girl, and had roont-y of her own. She doe s uot come into this story at all. One night, at the beginning of the hot weather, all tho mess except Tho Worm, who bad "g'ono to bis room to write homo letters, were fitting on tho platform outsido the mess-house. The band bad finished playing, but no one wanted to go in. And the Captains wives were there also. Tho folly of a roan in love Is unlimited- The senior subaltern had been holding forth on tho merits of tho girl he was engaged to, and the ladies were purring approval, whilo the men yawned, when there was a rustle of skirts in the dark, an! a tir.:d. faint voice lifted itself: ; , 'Where's my husband?" 1 do not wish in tho least to reflect on tbo mora'ity of the "Shikarri.;,' but it is on record that four men jumpod up as if they were shot. Three of thoia wore married men. Perhaps they were afraid that their wives had come from home unbeknownst. The fourth said that be bad actevl er tho impulse of the mo ment. He explained this afterw ard. Then tho voice cried: "O, Lionel!" Lionel was tho senior subaltern's name. A woman camo into the little circle of light by the candles on the peg table, stretching out her arms to tho dark where the senior subaltern wa3, and sobbing. We rose to our feet, feeding that things were going to happen, and ready to believe the worst In this bad. small world of ours ono knows so little of the life of the next man, which, after all, is entirely bis own concern, that ono is not surprised when the crash comes. Any thing might turn up any day for any one. ' Perhaps the senior subaltern had been trapped in Lis youth. Men are crippled that way occasionally. We didn't know; we wanted to Lear, and the Captains wives were as anxious as wo. If he had been trapped Le was to be excused, for the woman from no where, in the dusty shoes and gray traveling dress, was very lovely, with black hair and great eyes full of tears. Sho was tall, with a fine figure, and ber voice had a running sob in it pitiful to hear. As soon as tho senior subaltern stood up sho threw her arms around his neck and called him "my darling," and said sho could not bear waiting alone in England, and bis letters wore so short and cold, and she was bis to tho end of tbo world, and would ho forgive her? This did not sound quito like a lady's way of speaking. It was too demonstra tive. Things seemed black indeed, and tho Captains' wives peered under their eye brows at tho senior subaltern, and tho Colonel's face set like the day of judg ment framed in gray bristles, and no one spoke for awhile. Next the Colonel sail, very shortly: 'Well, sir?" and tbo woman sobbed afresh. The senior subaltern was half choked with the arms around his neck, but be gasped out: "It's false! I never had a wife in my lifol" "Well," said tho Colonel, "come into tho mess. We must sift this clear some Low," and Lo sighed to himself, for Le believed in Lis 'Shikarris," did tho Colonel. We trooped Into the ante-room, under tho full lights, and there we saw how beautiful the woman was. Sho stood up in tho middle of us all, sometimes chok ing with crying, then bard and proud, and then holding out Ler arms to the . enlor subaltern. She told us Low the senior subaltern had married ber when he was home on leave eighteen months before; and she seemed to know ull that we knew, and more too, of his peo- . pie and hi past life., lia was whit and asby gray, trying now and again to break into the torrent of her words; and wo, noting bow lovely she was and 'what a criminal bo looked, esteemed him a beast of the worst kind. We felt sorry for him, thou jh. I shall never forget the indictment of tho -senior subaltern by his wiXo, nor will he. - It was so sudden, rushing oat of the dark unannounced into oi:r dull lives. The Captains wires stood back, but their eyes wore alight, and you soull sec that they had already con victed and sentenced tho 6enior sub lltern. The Colonel seemed fivo years jlder. Ono Major was shading bis eyes jviib bis band aiid watching the woman .'rom . underneath it. Another' was shewing bis mustacho and smiling juietly, as if Le were witnessing a play. Full in the open space, ' in the center. , 3y the whist tables, tho senior sub iltern's terrier was hunting for fleas. . cremoniber all this as clearly as ' hough a photograph were in my band. 1 remember tbo lok of horror on the .enior sub:Jtern"3 Lico. It was rather ike seeing a man hanged, but much noro Interesting. Finally tho woman a-ound up by saying that tho senior sub lltern carried a double F. SL in tattoo ju Lis lull shoulder. We all knew that, and to our innocent minds it seemed to clinch the matter. But ono of the bachelor Majors said, very politely: T presume that your marriage certificate would be more to tho purpose."-- That roused the woman. She stood up and sneered at the senior subaltern f of a cur, and abused the Major and tho Ct.lonel and all the rest- Then she wept, and then sho pulled a paper from her breast, saying, imperially: "Take that! and let my husband my lawful husband read it aloud if he dare!"' Thcro was a hush, and the men looked Into each other's eyes as the senior sub altern came - forward in a dazed and dizzy way and took the paper. Wo were wondering, as we stared, whether there was any thing against any one of us that might turn up later on. The senior subaltern's throat was dry; but, as bo ran hia eyes over the paper, be broke out into a hoarso caekro of relief, and said to the woman: "You young blackguard!" Lut tho woman had fled, through a door. . and on the-paper was written: "This is to certify that L Tho Worm, havo paid in full my debts to the senior subaltern, and further, that tho senior subaltern is my debtor, by agreement on tho -Mi'l of JrcLi'uary. as by the nx-ss attested, to the extent of one month's Captain's pay, in the lawful currency of the Indian Empire." Then a deputation set off for Tho Worm's quarters, and found bim, be twixt and between, unlacing hia stays, with tho hat, wig, serge dress, etc., on the bed. He came over as be was. and the "Shikarris" shouted nntil tho gun ners' mess sent over to know if they might have a share of the fun. 1 think we were all. except the Colonel and the senior subaltern, a little disappointed that tho scandal had come to nothing. Lut that is human nature. - There could bo no two words about Tho Worm's acting. It leaned as near to a nasty tragedy as any thing this side of . joke c-n. When most of the subalterns set upon him with sofa cushion? to find out 'ybj ho hal not said that acting was his strong point, he answered, very quietly: "I don't think you ever akcd mo, I .used to act at tomo with my 6isters." Hut no acting with girls could ac count for The Worm's display, that night. Personally, I think it was in bad tastes besides being dangerous. .There is no use in plajinr with, .fire,' even for fun. ' , . . . Tho "Shikarris" made hith president of the regimental dramatic club, and .when tho senior subaltern paid up bis debt, which ho did at once, The Worm sank the money in scenery and dresses. IIo is a good Worm, and the ''Shikarris" arc proud of him. Tbo only drawback is that be has been christened "Mrs. Senior Subaltern," and as there are now two Mrs. Senior Subalterns in tho sta tion, this is sometimes confusing to strangers. Dudyard Kipling, in The Woman's Journal. The Grrlt ?apolfoil' IJeart. Sl3y 6, lCr Dr. Actr-marhl. assisted by Tbe-mas Carswoll. pre-ce-eded to mke autopsy on. the body of Napoleon I. at Lonrtood. The post-niurtviuHts in-terrurtc-d by the darkness of the eve j icg. When going to continue the au topsy next morning the physicians found that the Emperor's heart had been almost entirely devoure-d by rats. A fresh lamb's heart was taken and placed in the dead man's thorax. Thus the body of Napoleon, which has re posed under the dome of tbe Invalides since lS-10, contains the heart of an animal instead of that of the hero of AusterliU- -i1- r.J Nellie "Strange that EtLel should marry beneath her." Clara "Why, George I? a splendid fellow.". Nellie "Yes, I know that, but he is so much shorter than Ethel.' Doston Herald. TOUJCURS ROl. "It is the time to love." be said, For g",a:sr.'.' M nr.? I here: T!e cuiIm art stc:!;r.e overhead; Ewh bird eii.frs to Us dear. O. caick n iwei : the spr.nc's fair prime ScrUy is Lcvc ccoe- c time." f ALd she nwrod. s:.viy. low; "1 krow not; it may It to." "It is the time to love." he aald; For in tLcse summer bower. With irrecn leaves dacc'Lt? overhead. Love hath to Utter hours Sweet maiden, in tbee eolden days I.ove with us more fondly strays." On ber Chech the rose Uusb turned: la L,ovo s lablos jou are learued." It i.s ti time to lore." he hald; ' ( "Anti.mn at tLe i;a!e doth stand, n-d leave rustling overhead. eiruif ar-l i.ut wiihlo his hand. Maldeu. tr ti.t se davs ol cneer Tbinlr vJ love inws not inure tiearl" Answered slic. with .I jwocast niilc; "Love, "lis said. La'.li uiuuy a lie." "It Is the time lo lovi" be said. "Ft iLio.icli tbe gr-iss Is ear, AH t.?e(U s l.rnnclic" overhead Sn. if it.c winter 'W-ar. Tto'vi snow wn.-uths twine. O, maiden Iloib Uovi ver biurs mow n-.f-tr Silent she. '-bile Love laughed luff, Fl'lWff arrow t jyivr: Sfirin? Is plao nd r-un rner him t. Sun itoT Klurm m mav mv f:-t. L't me wbi.pcr. v-Mh. t thee, Sra.sons all hclomr li-.,,." - . -Lucy Randolph FleralrK.tu Harper's Dazar. "51Y .TOILV A Story of F-ralrla Firos eai Pa rental Forgiveness. "I think it is smoke." ' And 1 think you are wrong." Tho first speaker was a young woman with a 6weet face, expressive of much silent resoluteness aud great self -ton -trob The second , speaker was an old man. whose faded brown eyes had a etartled look as if suspecting that peo- j pie wera about to bring him trouble, or elso asserting that they had already trou jht it. . . Tho old man was known among tho ranchmen as old John P.lasland. IIo owned a great ranch. The youn woman was called Hannah. "I don't know what her t'other namo is" the old man would havo toll a questioner. "She came from tho East somewhere, wanted to help my housekeeper, Mrs. Tuth erly, and I didn't caro. That's all I know about it. I don't care what her name is. I am a lectio 'spishus of what she wants: they all want some thing." It was tho mystery en wrapping Han nah like an atmosphere, and it was the old man's suspicion of her motives and purposes, that mado her presenco an annoyance to him in spite tif any words to the contrary. When be now hal told her that any sign of smoke abeiut. the prairie-region was a mistake, free simply replied: "If young John were hero, be could tell us." Tbe faded brown eyei began to flash. The husky voice trembled with petu--lance, "Youns John!" be snarled. "I guess if old John don't know, you won't pick up any information from that young man." . It might have seemed as if be were -angry with 'young John." No with the young woman who mentioned bis name, 'I know, I know!" be silently said, as be turned away. "Sho cares more for young John than old John. Too much going on between those young people. Next thing there will bo a marriage. I don't want hor meddlin with that young maa." - - This other young person, like Han nah, came from the East, bad proved very acceptable to the old ranchman, and was a great favorite with him. Tho ranchmen in the neighborhood, to dis tinguish tho two, called ono Old John and the other Young John. People sometimes" thought tbey were father and son. No, there was a Mn at tbe East who had oilended his father, and . had been forbidden to como or even to write to him. Tho old man wondered sometimes whether bo did not traco familiar features in this young ad venturer from tho East Any farcied resemblance was not pleasant to the old ranchman. He drove it from bis thoughts as Le would drivo a cloud ol mosquitoes from bis bouse. And Hannah, sho still lingered back of the barn, watching that smoky stain on the blue of tbe Bky. It was Sunday morning. The great prairie was always still and always secluded, though in reality any thing. but shut In. It bad such an openness to the wide, wide sky. There was no semblance of fence or wall in any direction until,' in tho west, one saw a fold of bluish color along the prairie's rim. That meant tbo Uoeky Mountains. "I think it is growing!" the mur mured. "That 6moke-cloud is rolling up bigger. What if it should como this way, and sweep over the ranch! ADd yet 7 does not think it is smoke. I -wish ' John were here! When will bo -come? IIo said be would be Lome on bis pony early this morning and go with us to church." "Hannah It was old John calling. ,Come! Mrs. Tuthoily says if we aro a-goin to church, we ought to be gittin' ready. Como! Watch in that sky won't gtt yoii ready!" - Hannah made no reply. It was of no uso to notice all Lis fault-finding or any of it. She Lad shown raro soif-control in Lor steadfast silence. Sho now turned and went into the bouse, while the old ranchman bhi:fSrd fel'ly to tho barn and began to harness tho horse , into the wagon. "1 have horses in abundarre. but they 'are all o:T with tiio t.ie n v. a '.chin tbe cattle." he murmured, and so, Jim, you must pull us to church. Humph! 1 s'pose the will sp.y we can't go that there is a f re out on thoprairio. Xo:i teuse! If my John was here, lie could tll about that smAr!" He dropped thr hancr.s a II banl lirig tbe ooils of a snnbe. What bad he said? "My John!"' That was ti e nam also e-f the onVnJhig son ia tho East. Ti e lather never Li10-.vir.gI7 mentioned thisforu cf name, "Vy Join." Lift ing the harness again, be now arrayed Jim in it. "What do I smell?" be asked. Young John would havo told bim "Smcko," but bo was not willing to smell any thing of the kind In the laeacume Hannah baa given occasional glances at tho suspicious northern sky. From a window sho chanced to look toward tho east In alarm, astonishment, terror. shedropped a bonnet whose green trimming would have ot o3 her fair face even as an app'.j treo3 emerald foliage sets oil its pinkish white blossoms. "Oh Oh Oh! I -did not look tbat way at alb and here it is right upon u.s! The v.-!nd must have fahiftod," sho ex- c!:ii:r:el. Ovor t.t tl:c right was a largo, tower ing cloud of a dun brown color, with merged, filmy edges, compact in the. center and of a deciicr hao thcro, :.s if Its heart were a scowl end a menace, signaling that its mission was ruin. "Sir. ftir-r-r!"' she sta mtnered as sho 11. et old John. "The f.ie will .soon l e upon us! Young John is not hero. Help mc harness Jim into tho plow!' "W-w-wbatV"' he stammered in reply, so dazed tbat ho was like one paisy-strii-kcn. Hannah flew out of tbe bouse and, quickly unharnessing .1 im, attached bim to t LiO plow. Fat Mrs. Tuthoily was l-lte-r in an emergency than ono wouii have supposed. Sho now crime up bravely, like an old-fashioned D'.it. li cruiser at a critical moment in tbo bat tle hour. "You drive the horse, Mrs. Tut'nerly. and I'll bold the pleiw, and wo will taako a furrow all about the buildings. Oh, if Mr. P.Ia.-!aud woul I just help and born t tie gras3 ou the prairio side of the f ar row!" Hannah was moro deferential in her style of adl-ess than was tho house keeper. Tbo latter was plain anl per emptory. "Here, here, o!J John! Como aTurhelp!" sho screamed.- in tho same brreath giving tta order: 'C5it up there lively, Jiai! Up with you, git-t-t!" She resumed ber c'ommanl to tho ranchman: "Iturn the grass all outride the furrer! Quick, sir. quick! We will all be burnt to a cinder if you don't fly round! Git up there," lUm! Faster, old boy!" After tbis last equivocal ot?0r, the f. housekeeper, rosy and puffin?, aum f ul.; eteered Jim down the oast side ot the 1. Tin-house. Hannah guided the plow, tu muscles swelling in ber firm, shapely i-xnds and along her bared browa wr!st. Her yes g!ance-d down ward to seo tbxt tbe plowshare was run ning right, and icn tbey were lifted to the beat ens. Thoj deep eyes of blue were filled with prajor's reverent sup plication. "God help us, God help ns!" sb" mur mured. Ilchind tho plow tottered tho old ranchman, kindling tbe grass out aid the furrow, and leaving a rapidly widening space- of black, firo-rav;i;-rd ground between tho ranch buildings and tbat awful conflagration driving over the prairie. . "Now the north side!" said Hannah. "Tbe oast si lo is of tho most conse quence, ready!" "Git up-up-up, Jim! Come on, old John!" screamed Mrs. Tutherly. The swoko was now all alout them, but Hannah would say: "The east side is safe! Thank God!" and press stubborn ly on. Tut where was young John? ' Moro than onco Hannah had prayed: "God keep bim.!"' Had ho been overtaken by that awful fire, scorched. suITocated, "burnt to death? Ho was souiewnero out on the prai:ie. His horse -.vrss wl f t. His pluck wrs great Ho know 'the1 prairie; but there was that terrible engine of flame, . without whe-eds, yet rolling on. tto horrible dr3gon ef fire, without wings, yetsteadily fl.virig! Who could escape all this1? Tbo north sido bad been furrowed and burnt over, whon Hannah cau;r!:t tbe ejuick b.at of horse's hoofs, n:il ou eamo beautiful brown I'.Ptty. bringing lor master, young John! "Thank God!" bo Fhoutod ns be loaped from Potty's steaming back, kissed Hannah, and tben ee-izing tbo plow-handles, cried: "LrriVO tlii.s west side and go for tbe south id ! tvuiek! Run. Hannah, fast, and bo firing thu grass up in tbe southeastern corner!" There was a crouching form that soon . appeared, a torch in bis wrinkled hand. His face wjs blackened by th'; soot of tbo burnt prairiti "Iff dou't si-n me! IU. don't notice mc. ltc ki?od her. I"vo been scorched and singed. T!iey don't notice :no." muttered old Ji.-lin.' They did notice hita when tho work of saving had he'-n completed, when out of a wide blackened waste rose up tbo uninjured buildings, safe lie-bind tbat Ion;, protecting furrow. Tbey found bim lying insensible at ono exposed . corner.' an expired torch in bis hand. Tbo beat, tho excitement ef tbo un usual olTort at bis ago, had overcome him. Tbey carried bim to bis bod. What did be murmur at last? "'Nobody cares for me boro," bo moaned. . "Send for my John!' "Your aon?" asked young John. The sufferer bent his head In assent "Nobody cares for mo here," b then murmured again. ".Send for bim!" "Wo will; but wo care for you. grand pa." said Hannah. 'We are your John's children." "W-w-what?" asked tbe old man. tho faded brown eyes opening wide in as tonishment "Yes. grandpa." said yenrg John. "Hannah an d I wc w o aro brother and sister; and and wo thought if wo camo. sometime it would coi.ie about tbat we col id tell you. and you would hear us and you would bo rvonciiod to fatlit-rand bo willing to s-o bim, and " Tbo old man boro broko in with a cry tbat came out of a heart om-n moro ten der and sincere: "Thank Gcd! Plesa you. bless you, nnd send for tny John!' "My Jc!;u'' camo. aud the coming wrought worl rs in tbo cl d f .it :.c r. Edward A. Kand, in Go.' leu R jlo. Aful -lawful. A Windsor Locks (Conn.) liul" pirl, just old enough to or.W-r tti- inlaut ohiss at the Suuday-r rbool, as iimbii ims u rejie-at a text tf Svripturf a ; the- oldr-r ones did at the conri-rt exe-wise's. Tv humor hor ambUion and make iva.o::a Lly Certain that she would suirw-J, tii niotiier seb'ot d tbo bri'-r text: "it I lawf'-.l to do good on tho SabbaMi day." and tauuht her until the reh-ur.s-d it several tiujos correctly. When tbe mi prome moment arrived, hov r, Un lit:!, orator eb-otrifii-d hor audi'-iii e and niorti.iod ber mother w nli tln proposi tion that "It is awful to do good on the Sabbath day." ALttrimoniitl Item. "I am very sorry that I did not got acquainted with you until 1 became a widower," remarked Mr. Smith to his second wife. "Whafdoyou mean Ly that?" asked the partner of his joys. "Nothing, except tbat I would rather you bad been i.iy first wife," replied tho fond husband, carelessly. "Why do you wish "that I had been your rt wife?" I "liocauso then some other woman would be uy second wife, darling." Toais Sif tings. ) ir I I I! 1
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