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Must lose its dross 1b tha hottest glow. Hut It caeth forth renned. Captain It. K Carter, ta X. Y. Observer. AUNT VBIGAIL'S WILL. What She 'Beoueathed to lne Roger and Dick. Coua- It ws ATjifraL Varley's three-Roore-and-teath birthday. She was a ricr widow, childle, and with no known relations have ttwo pentlemen cousinv Never was -cousinly attachment more Wautiiully ilVtrstratod, or cousinly ji-al-ousr Icns -amialily exempli Kod. than in the luily -walk and conversation of these two eollatoral kinsmen. They bestowed -no much affection on their common "relative that they had none left t waste between themselves. lloth wre several years younger than the lady, with a fair prospect, ac cordinptto the course of nature, of sur viving her; and how to supplant each other in 'her will, which she ha at last begnn seriously to talk of making, was the problem which at present engn'il their .attention. Oa .the morning in question, when Cons-m lioper callel to wish Cousin Abigail the usual "many happy retnrmii," he was not a little charrrined to find Cousin Dick there be fore him. However, he presented his annual gift, and went throuph his an nual speech without missing a word; aod seeing Tabby, the cousinly cat, perched snujrly on his rival's knee, by way tf not linp outdone in cousinly attention, he took up l'otnpey, the cousinly poodle, though dups were his abomination. "Well, Cousin Abipail. I hope your health continues good," said Cousin Roger, patting Pompey's head and glancing suspiciously at Cousin Dick, whom he devoutly wished at Jericho. ""Not so giKxl latterly as has been. The fact is," the old lady continued. I have been thinkinff seriously of send ing for Mr. Parker, with a view to settling iny worldly affairs without de lay." "Oh, there is no need of haste, cous in," broke in I rick; "yon hare many years before you yet;" mentally add ing: "What has possessed the old lady to put it off so long?" "Well. well. I suppose there's no hur ry alont it."' said Cousin Abigail. And yet," Cousin Roger ventured to hint, "it is always well to ! prepared: -.none of us can tell the minute or the .hour, you know." "And, after all, calling in a lawyer is cot so serious a matter as calling in a .doctor," said Cousin Dick, facetiously. The conversation was interrupted by the entrance of a young and beautiful girl, at whom Cousin Dick stared with .a surprised and troubled look. "Pardon me, ma'am," she said, in a voice remarkably sweet and gentle; not knowingyon were engaged, I came to see if you wished me, as usual, to read to you to-day." "Presently, dear." Mrs. Varley an swered in a tone that plainly hinted her visitors would not be pressed to stay if they offered to go. After an awkward pause the two cousins took their departure together. "Who is that girl?" inquired Roger, a soon as they reached th street. "You may well ask," said Cousin Dick: and. stooping, he whispered some thing in his companion's ear, at which the latter started suddenly. "Good heaven! the resemblance is certainly striking. Hut what is to be clone? Do you think the old Cousin Abigail, 1 mean, suspects any thing?" ".Not yet, I think; but no time is to be lost. I hare a plan which it would be wt-TlTor us to talk over together." And the two hurried rapidly along. Mrs. Varley had occasionally found the time hang heavy on hei hands, and ao had advertised for a person to fill the post of "companion" to an aged lady. It was thus that Hester Darling had become an inmate of the houae. At aa early an hour as was seemly on the morning following that on which we introduced them to the reader, Rog er and Dick again presented themselves before their cousin. "We have thought it our duty, cousin" bepaa Dick. "Our bunnden duty," put in Roger. "As painful as it is imperatire,"Dick continued. . "To pnt you on your guard, ma'am," Roger added. "Against a deceitful and designing person." exclaimed Dick. "Who is no better than she should bel" shouted Roger, indijgiantly. "Upon my word, cousins I do not comprehend a syllable yon have ut tered," said Mr. Varle-y; "nor shall I be likely to if you both keep talking at once. Come, Dick, you seem least ex cited What Is the meaning of all this?"' "What means, may I venture to ask," said Dick, "did you take to ascertain the character and antecedents of the young woman at present sheltered be joeath your roof?" "Why, none," replied the good lady. Her young and truthful face wer& recommendation enough on which to give her a trial." "Wc have ascertained her to be a most Abandoned creature," proceeded Dick, "and have deemed it proper at once tt apprise you of the discovery. ShooM she deny the" accusation, we are prepared -a ith abundant proofs." And the two cousins took their leave, with an air of exalted virtue, Mrs. Varley waa a lady of the strictest propriety and severest morals. Much as she pitied and befriended the pool and friendless girl, she must be prompt Ij freed from this foul and dreadful charge, or cross her threshold never to return. She went directly to Hester's cham ber. "You must tell me your pa6t history, child," said Mrs. Varley, in a deter mined but not unkindly tone. "Oh, madam. J rr ay yon pardon ma, . CLOUD AND SUNSHINE. I but I can not. can not tell it!" THE STARS. I "HE IS A FREEMAN WHOM THE TBLTH EBENSBURG, PA.. but I can not. can not tell it "Thwji it has leen one of ahame arid guilt'."' "Vor a time, of shame, madam," an swered the young girl, with flushed cheek, "but n.vrr of guilt" What was it that caused Mrs. Varley to start so suddenly and stagger hall fainting U a seat at Hester's dressing taUe? "Who whose likeness is that?" she exclaimed, in a scarce articulate voice, pointing to an open miniature on the table. "My mother's," Hester answered "Then you an-e Florence Marvin's child?" "That was, indeed, my mother's name." "More, you are the daughter of my only brother, tiorge Haywood, for Florence Marvin was his wife." With a stifled cry, she who had be lieved herself alone and friendless in the world fell on her kinswoman's neck and wept tear of mingled gladness and sorrow. Her story, which Hester had refused to confide to a stranger's ears, she now willingly impartud to one from whom he felt she had no longer an right to withhold it. That her brother had married ia opposition to her father's wishes, and had been disinherited in consequence, was already known to Abigail Varley Init what di.stant spot he had selected for his home, and what had befjalhui him there she had never learned. The story was sad enough; After a few toilsome, but not unhap py, years for they were spent in the loved society of his wife and child a dire calamity had fallen upon George J Lay wood. He came under suspicion of a fearful crime. A network of circum stances too intricate for man's wit to disentangle environed him, and he was condemned to die. The &tern judgment was carried into effect, and the exe cuted murderer's despised widow sought concealment for herself and child in it change of place and name. Long, long years afterwards the truth was discovered; but the judicial mur der had passed among the things irre vocable. The poor widow died at last died broken-hearted, but with onu consolation: She had lived to see her husband's innocence vindicated "And this, my poor child. Is the shame of which you spoke?" "My life has known no other." Not many days after, Hester was sent to one of the first seminaries in the land for she had yet time enough to avail herself of opportunities of culture hitherto be3ond her reach. Her aunt anil she kept their own counsel. Cous ins Rogers and Dick only knew that the object of their solicitude had disap peared and probably congratulated themselves on the success of their vir tuous stratagem. After a time, Mr. Parker, Cousin Abi gail's lawyer, was sent for, and after that the good lady seemed wonderfully revived in health and spirits. At her next birthday the prospect of "tnany happy returns" produced any thing but a happy effect on the two expect ant cousins, who began to think that, sifter all, th life tables might not le infallible. Hut her time came at last; and. within a decent period after the sad event, Cousins Roger and lHck were iuly summoned to attend the reading of Abigail Varley's mil. They were a good deal startled at the sight of their old enemy, the strange girl. Poor Tabby, as if seeking consolation in her bereavement, leaped upon the knee of her old friend Dick, who stroked her back pathetically, but a little nervously. Pompey, who took things more philosophically, stretched himself out for a snooze at the feet of Roger. Mr. Tarker, drawing from his pocket the document, pr.-e ded to read it. The introduction was long and formal. Hut, hark! there's something coming now: "To my cousin, Richard Figgins" Richard looked at Roger in triumph. "I give and bequeath" You could have heard both their hearts beat. "In consideration of the natural love and affection which I have long observed between them" Dick looked puzzled "'It favorite cat Tabby" Dij.; gave Tabby a furious stroke the wrong way. "And no more of my estate." With a fling that betokened a nxvt emphatic renunciation of the legacy, Tabby was sent mewing and spittifT to the furthest corner of the room. "To my cousin, Roger Smith" It was Roger's turn to triumph. "In consideration of the like natu ral love and affection" Roger began to feel suspicions. " "I give and bequeath my dog Pom pey, and no more of my estate." With a violent kick Pompey was sent spinning after the cat; and the fear of her who had so long kept the peace be tween them being no longer before their eyes, the pant-up enmity of years found vent in an uproarious fight, in the noise of which the voice of the old law yer was almost drownedi; but the words: "rest and residue of my estate niece, Hester, Haywood," were sufficiently audible, and Cousins Dick and Roger stayed to hear no more. N. Y. Evening World IN SCIENTIFIC FIELDS. ; . Trts revelations of the microscope are far more important to humanity than telescopic discoveries. Inventive Age. Nautilus shells are being picked up on the coast at Portland, Victoria. They live in the shallow Pacific seas about coral reefs Tjie size of an adult Englishman's head is said to average No. 7. The heads of Portuguufcc average from 6J to 7; those of Spaniards are a little larger; and those of Japanese exceed the Lnglish average. Germans have round lieads, Malays small ones. Although the thickness of the fiber of the finer furs has never been properly gaped, it will be a source of some satis faction to know that "the diameter of the human hair varies from the 'J5tith to the OOOth part of an inch, while the fiber of the coarsest wool is about the 500th, and the finest about the 1,500th part of an inch." Dr. Carl Eigexmaxn has Wen col lecting fish in San Diego for some years. In making up a collection recently for the ltritish Museum he found a new specimen of herring that lias pocket membranes for slipping in the dorsal, pectoral and ventui fins. The scales are large, the eyea have a glassy cover ing and most of tha head iatranrt.rBt. MASKS FRE AM ALL APE SLA7L8 BESIDE ' FEIDAY. MAY 22, 1S91. What are their years? The uifht't Bnfatbomed J deep Brisks back no answer, gives no glimmering; key; And still unknown and beautiful they keep The silent courses of ewruity. What are their memories of creation" day. When atartled caatos, from its kingdom turleU. Fh-st tnew its muter, and, with triad amaze. They ann the blrth-buntf ft 'ur trembling world? What have they looked on since with patient eyes. While million years uncounted rolled away? Wbo claims antiquity f. r man that die IWore auch reconla of tbe pa.t aa they? C-n thay toman the mystery explain. The why, the whence of his uncertain state? Unlock the riddle that he rcala in vain. And clear the tangled problems of his fate? Can they fashion to the future pi re. And tell the whither of man's nrixlous. quest? Make- life a less than weariness to live. Or stay the hazard of hi. a ild unrest? Oh. stars! nhat milni(?ht message, do ye ticar T min l-i crown weary with the year's in crease? The wistful eyes that watch you shining there Look out of troubled hearts that know not peace. O' ldcn Days. A CUKIOUS MANLY. John Rhett's Harrowing Experi ence in & Barber's Cbair. John Rhett, the handsomest young man in the county, he of the raven locks and with the beautiful black mustache that the women adored John Rhett walked into the barber shop in Yorkville for a shave. It was a cold day and there were three or four of his friends, liesides suv erul tonsorial artists, standing around the stove at the time; but the man who always did his work Wing idle, she walked directly over and threw himself into the comfortable chair. The barler was a tall, well-luilt young fellow by the name of Henry Casey, whom Rhett had known for a long tiiut. The usual preparatory process was gone through with and then he sharpened his razor and went to work, but he started off in a manner that made Rhett uncomfortable from the first. This was due to the unusual and seemingly reckless way in which he handled the razor. There was -n-tirely too much flourish about it to lifeike one feel easy. 11 would whirl it round in one or two circles before it touched the face, and then take it olf again in the same artistic style. This may have looked very pretty to a spec tator, but to the persun who formed the center of these concentric circles, Rhett thought it was any thing but pleasant. At first he was inclined to think the fellow was drinking. Hut he soon dismi.-ed this idea, for the work was being done well and skillfully and as no drunken man could do it. . Final ly he told Casey that he didn't like any such flourishes uround his head, and to stop it. Hut the only reply he received was the press of the barlier's finger against his throat, and a short hissing "keep still." This made Rhett mail, and he started to express himself very forcibly, but when he looked up at the man who stood drawing the sharp razor over his face, his anger gave way to a far more fear ful feeling. The words died on his lips and a sudden chill crept over his hotly. He hid looked into the wild, excited eyes of a maniac "Don't you move or say a word: if you do I'll cut your throat," came again in a supircssod whisper, as that sharp, cunning face beut near to his. "Do you knov," said the barber, as he kept on with Uue work; "do you know that this will be your last shave that I intend to kill you with this same razor the moment I have finished? "I have long wanted to make the ex periment," he continued, as he went rapidly on. "just to see how quickly it could le done. Perhaps you think 1 am crazy, but you are wrong. I only want to do this work in flic interest of science. I believe it will prove to be the most painless nnd quickest of all deaths. If I 6uccewd to-djiy, as I ex pect to do, my method may become the public mode of execution in this coun try, supplanting the gallows. You see what an honor it will lc to have started such a reform in capital punishment. My name will liecome immortal. There will be none of the suspense attending executions now; none of the terrible scenes at the gallows. You simply take the condemned man in for a shave and before he knows it he is in eterni ty." He kept on talking m this rapid, ex cited way, and kept on shaving. Rhett heard his friends conversing on the other side of the room and he turned his head to sen if he could tell them of his danger. But it was quick ly, jerked back in position and the barber told him if he did that again or tried to get out of the chair it would be the signal for his death. And the wicked gleam of his eye, more than his words, showed that he was in terrible earnest, Under the circumstances, the intended victim thought it best not to move again, and so he laiifthere as still as death. liut his brain was not idle. It was working with the rapidity of lightning and well it might. 'Rhett had always been regarded as a cool and brara young man; he had proved it on more than one trying occa sion. And he determined in this last extremity to te himself and to meet the sharp cunning of the maniaa with an equal cunning. Then commenced a fierce and hidden fcame between those two, a game in w hich one knew the prize for him was life, and, if he lost, the proilt death. "Henry," said the young man, and he smiled, though his heart was beating fast, "you shouldn't try to frighten a good customer in that way. Yon know you wouldn't kill an old friend like me." "IH show you, Mr. Rhett," half shrieked the tarber, and the gleaming eye grew fiercer and the voice trembled with passion. Rhett saw that this had only added fuel to the flame, and ha? began to despair of conciliating the mad "Yes," said Casey, and his wild hand grew wilder, and the razor pressed harder upon his victim's face; "yes, yoc must die this very hour for the sake ol science. Why, it will Ik a noble death. You ought to f etl honored to perish in such a cause." The young man was now thorouglily frightened, and he watched for an op-porlsanilBi- te fprrng f mm the chair anH rr-f rr AA i r r n ii ii !ii i iiii 81.50 and e;ape. lut he luokcti in vain, l nougn the barler occasionally relaxed the stern grip upon his throat, yet he still held him with his glittering eye. "You see, the criminal will not know that his hour is at hand The barber will be taken into the jail to give him a shave, and without a fear or tremor, without a single thought of death, he will be hurled into another world Talk about executing by electricity, but my method will not only be quieker, but more painless. "Just a stroke like tliis, and it's all over." and Rhett's heart pave a wild leap, for he thought his end haxl come. Casey, however, had only drawn the back of his razor across his throat, but with such force and rapidity that it burned like fire. The situation was growing desperate. In a minute the barber would be through with his work. With one hand he had Rhett by the hair and with the other was finishing up the job. while his lips kept muttering aud his body swayed with excitement. Rhett knew with the next sweep of that infuriated arm he would meet his doom. What ever he did must be done instantly. "Well, Henry," be said, as lightly as he could "sharpen up your razor well lief ore you start, for 1 don't want any bungling job." For he thought when the barln-r turned to do this he could leap from the chair and get away. "It's sharp enough for yon. Mr. Rhett," and the madman grew madder as he spoke, "it's sharp enough for joa, sir." He had already finished shaving. Iihett"s heart almost stoixl still. "Now we'll see if it needs "to be sharper," said Casey, with a demoniac laugh, and Rhett felt a sharp sting as the keen blade cut the skin on his throat. "Hut, Henry," he rapidly ejaculated, "I want you to make a success of this for it will be a blessing to the world but if you go on now I tell you it will lie a failure." The razor stopped "Why?" asked Casey. The maniac was interested Rhett saw that he hail gained a point and he knew his life depended upon how he used it. Ho had touched upon the men's pet mania. It seemed strange to him now that he had not thought of it lx-fore. "You will make a failure," he con tinued, "because you have told me all about it, and I have already suffered as much suspense as the criminal on the gallows. Resides, when I feel the razor giving me the fatal wound I will shriek out in agony, and the people will say that I suffered a terrible death. They will not believe you then that it would be the most painless mode of execution. So you see, Henry, you will defeat the vcrv object you are trying to accomp lish." The barber withdrew the razor and held it motionless in his hand Rhett breathed easier and Iiccame eloquent on the subject of the experiment. "Now, the next man you shave, Henry, dn't say a word to him on the subject, but all at once, in the twinkling of an eye. put him out. And I believe you will become a greater man than the inventor of the guillotine." "WeU. Mr. Rhett, 1 believe you are right about it," and he began to close the razor. The mania was wearing off, and in its stead there came a playful and mischievous humor. Patting liis customer under the chin, "Ah! Mr. Rhett," he said "you would look so much better without your mus tache. Now, djn't you want me to take it off for you?" Afraid to cross him in his humor, Rhett replied, though it almost broke his heart to say it: "Why, certainly, Henry, if you think it will look better." On went the lather and in another min ute the beautifnl silken strands were no more than the withered loaves of the fir-st. "Now, Mr. Rhett, if you had your hair clipped you would look splendid Don't you want me to take it off?" t)f course, Henry, clip it." came from those anguished lips. : He was willing to say or do any thing to get that razor back into its case. So the clippers were brought out, and in less than two minutes he was slicker than a new-born rat. Hut if his head was light his heart was too, when he arose from the chair, and never in all his life did he feel so willing and happy to pay for a shave and hair cut. Of course everybody laughed at him when he went out on the streeL and the wind blew cold about his head To his friends when they gathered around him, he told his harrowing ex perience, and be wa still as pale as a ghost. A committee forthwith waited on the barlnT, but they did not find any thing in his words or actions to denote insan ity. So some lieliered the story and some didn't and the barber kept on shaving. ... . Hut never again did he put hi., razor upon the face of John Rhett. W. M. Hobby, in Atlanta Constitution. A New Kind of IMoUlnir-Faper. A new process for manufacturing blotting-paper consists in taking un sized paper as it comes from the paper- machine and exposing one or both of the sides to the disturbing action of mechanical moans for opening up its surface; for instance, to the grinding or abrasive action of sand-paper, emery wheels, wire brushes or to the action of cards or scrapers. Such action separ ates and lifts the surface fillers. This process is said to produce a highly ab sorbent or bibulous paper, especially adapted for use as commercial blotting paper and for other purposes where an absorbent paper is required and having its fillers separated and raised and pre senting a Telvety . surface as distin guished from ordinary blotting-paper. Hy this procciii blotting can lie manu factured from any kind of paper, re gardless of the stock or material from which it is made. IIeal Hunter. Visitor What is your -work? Editor 1 put heads on the articles that appear in the paper. Visitor A nd what does that stoat fel low over there do? , Editor Ue puts beads on the men who want to write articles for us. Munsey's Weekly. It Stood A dying reporter in rror. idence wrote his last will on a paper collar with a lead pencil, and it stood to be admitted to probate. Perhaps the reason of it, however, was because ha had aly a pair of boots to wirl away. A Y "VVY A Cv Y 111 postage per year In advance. NUMBER 20. WHEN TWO TOGETHER WALK. Any lone and winding way Lonely l to one ; But when two toc-thcr walk Toward the setting sun. Swift of wing w ill paas tbe day. And full short will aeem the way. For they two are company Each to the other oue. When two at a burden 11ft, Each 1m twice aa strong; When two can together sing. lilitber is the song. Here a tear, and there a smile. This is life a little while; But when two together walk. Light tbe heart nnd stn ng. -Lou Valeria IVillson, in Uuod Housekeeping NATHAN'S BEAU HUNT. How He and His Wife Went After the Turnip Eater. The Canning Old Man IU-latM Tlla Kjpe rleae aa m Solemn IVatraiaB" to Uw( Jake, and Then ( After the IWar Illaneclr. It was early in the morning, and as usual, old man Nathan was hard at work in his garden. He had finished weeding 'his lettuce, and was just in the act of doing a little chopping to onions when Long J ake stepjicd over the garden fence and stood in front of him. "Mornin', old man." "Howdy, Jake." 'Old man." said Jake, thrusting his hands down deep in his pockets and dropping down on the liean arbor, "-tie-in" as I have been workin' so steady of late I knocked off for to-daj- thought I'd like a little rest, you know; every fellow does mostly. S'pose you take a holiday, too, an' we'll go for a hunt. Simmins says b'ar tracks was seen Sown by the Pint. P'raps wc might tumble crost a b'ar." "Mebby so, Jake," replied Nathan, as he took the quid of tobacco from his mouth, stuck it on his hoe-handle and seatedh imself on a head of cabbage mebby so; but more "an likely the b'ar'd tumble 'ross us. Look here, man, did you ever kill a b'ar?" "No, sir." ''Did you ever see one?" "No, 'cept in circuses," answered Jake, slowly. "Then yon better not tackle b'ars. You don't know nothin" 'bout 'cm. There's as much difference 'tween a show b'ar an' one in the woods as there is 'tween me an' a mule. Them in cir cuses is made to order, has to be drawed up, you know, to fit the cage. If they won't, why no tent in the country could hold two of "em. Great day in the mornin' man, if yon want to see what a outlandish thing a b'ar is, you mus see him in the woods; then he's in his element, an' sure's my name's Na- than you'd think he was an elephant. "Let me tell you something 'bout these creeters. and when I get through if you are still struck on huntiu' b'ar I'll not say a word agin it. Whi we ! was livin' in Miss'sippi I gardened for a livin", just as I do now, au" there wan't a man roun who made as fine turnups as I did I remember that in perticlar. I hed one Tied "bout eighty foot squar', chuck full of milky-white turnups pretty nigh as big as your head. WelL that bed was the pride of my heart. They was a sight! At first one was 'nough to last us all day, an' after while we just took half of one an' sent other half to Miss Jones our neighbor, who was an old maid an' not very good at raisin' things. "Well, one day Cinda came in puffin" an' blowin like some old steam engine. She drap down in a chair, an' rollin her eyes 'bout like somethin' was mighty wrong. She said: 'Lord, Na than, every la.t turnup's gone. There a'n't a leaf left of none of "t-m. I'm tired of that kind of business. Last week that old po calf of Miss Hannona broke off a picUet an d stole a turnup fo I could catch him. Ret 'taint noth in' but him. Git your gun, Nathan, an I'll take the broom. We 11 just go down to that old brier patch, where that beast stays, an' fix him so he won't pester our crops no more! "I was mad as a wildcat, So, while Cinda was puttin'onher stin-borfnet an' lookin' for the broom, I loaded up my gun. When loth of us was ready we started down the road that led to that brier-patch, an' if you had seen us you'd a thought we was out for a week's camp in a wood filled with wolves, for that's just what we looked like. It was right smart of a walk, so long f ora we ?ot there Cinda got so tired that she had to take her sun-bonnet off. "Wc was 'bout an hour gcttin' there, an' when we did we didn't see nothin but ourselves. I looked at Cinda an le pan to cuss. I was so mad 'cause there wan't nothin' for me to shoot. Cinda looked at me and said: 'You needn't be oneasy; he's in thar; he has to stay out of sight to keep folks from laughin' at him. He an"t only po. but thar an't much hair left on him, so he's sorter shamed you know. There's a place to go in that thicket somewhere; find it first, then'you'll be all right, Hava your gun ready.' We went roun and roun' that place, but blessed if we found where the door was. We was rather tired at first, but now we was tired all over again. Cinda says: 'Never mind, old man; I'll fix him. Y'ou git on that side and I'll stay here, and when I call him out you shoot I can give him a whack with the broom afterward' 'All right, says I, "go ahead.' Cinda begun, and said Snke, Suke,' till I was sick of hearin' it an' she sick of sayin' it. Then she walked up close to the briers, took hold of a vine that was runnin through it, an' commenced pullin' an' shakin' for nil she was worth. There was an awful crackin', an' twice I thought I heard a curus noise. D'reck ly Cinda said: I see him, the ngly, hate ful thing. He don't look like the same po' old brown calf; them turnups is be comin' to him, sure. He's got life in him, t'K), standin' up there on his hind le;rs an grinnin at me like I waa funny lookin. I'll show him how to grin." "With that she gived him a mighty hard punch with the broom, hollered: Lord have mussy, look out. Nathan,' an' took to her heels, leavin the broom an' her sunbonnet in the brier patch. When I looked up the road to see whert: she was goin to all I saw was her lef leg as it flew roun the corner. 1 wa just on the p int of get tin' 'stonisbed at her when I heard a noise right in front of me like somethin" was in a bad humor. Lord, I will ncrcr forgit that time! Right by me, standin' on his hind legs an' show in every tooth he Lad, was a b'ar nigh onto big as a horse. "For once in nir life I was akeertd. To l.rve and re) M. clreul.ticr of BBJa KVlui niiinrSai It lo U ; olderli'H tf l-n.J"T- ' jrv laierted at the Ml owl or in . 1 iaeti, S 'low 1 Inch, moh. 1 linn. mof! 1 I oca i yer I Inrbe, montrta tuck... 1 year I I dc I monthi ...................... . . . u . . o go . . .. 10 o .. sn & .. 40 no ii S Incbe. X yeer - etHlna . e naoalBS.... ......... .....-.. ctliai.t saaota...... eolama. I year i eotamn, months....... 1 eolamn, 1 Tsar RuIimi lmt. Brt aoert: n. 0a. abMo.ii.nt ln.en.lou, ar Una Adtalnl.tr.twr' aBi Eeeiitr Not!' Aadltor'a Nolle.. StrT and almllar Notice. arkeaoletwof or pr.waadm. .r ' ttoa or aortaty and rorBiaa!iai..tj ts oall attaotloa to an BaaUar of litt vidaal IntarMt ;ut b. pa .1 ! aai-. tioek aod Jab frlollB of all lnt- . xealaafiT aiecatad at tba loart.'t doa't jam lurc.tlt. .v r an' skeered bad. My hair walked aliout over niv head. "ttas s- brls:. ; , t. felt mighty creepy all down my b".t k No wonder Cinda had run: what in the name of go. did she punch a b'ar wi broom for? That's what rot lac Lilt L- notxxlv knows what a woman is to do:"thv has curus idees wmirt'nirs. That they has. an you don't have tt. married long to find 'cm out. i;.-:t'..' . n,n minchm had dolte the Wor'-: h m.,t l.n.l mtxA nn I thoUT',1 .! w i iirtiiai ' - rr cut me sure. I lilted up n.y gvi. finL but didn't hit him. I idif;t n- 1 1, lint was lookin so hard at hi:.. r.t I didn't aim straight Jf he wr.s ' . fore he was ravin' now. He dri-nrx- " down on all fours, riz up tall an' a. e art ful lookin", then come down au" forme, ltoth burrcls of my s. . u wa empty; then? wan't no time to lofi j there wasn't but one thing to do, a' that was light like man to man x.. Hie. I went at him an' hit him so hard that my pun fell In two, an' then I lijongi i I was done for. Didn't have m-n- t. pick up nothin. I was just stan i!-' there, big-eyed as a uiule. ... . blowin. dodgin, bowin and i-tra. '. . , tryin' to keep out of that fellow's .. ""He wa gittm' closer aa' -i 'sv: seemed to me, every ininit, but ! .' fit au' fit First thing I kno ' -paw struck my pants leg, an' jp. went clear down to the boilo-iu. 'i p.. wa close quarters, Vt me t-li j j.. close that I took to my hccLi. t went roun an' roun' that brier . till I was druik, an he after rr- :" " whirlwin. Lordy, Lorwy! My if was all gone, an' 1 was, tor. off was a tree It wan t much h: ;".". ' me, an' had limbs close to : . but that wa'nt nothin". I wii.'. ' ' to git somewhere where 1 couid ' for I was plum wored out I r my chance an made a tweak. 1. 1. tree I went, hand over hand an' :'t over feet "Rut up come the b'ar just like hi was a race horse. 1 wen? li'ger. ' " a little twig, an' off it broke, soft flat down on the groun". 1 taou;." -sure I was in purgatory, an' v,c ja... goin' to say my prayers whon i -the b'ar couldn't see me on itcv.-. the brush, an' I cut down the i .. home. Hut no use to th'nk 1 coii'" vrv away from that fellow; he .ir : in a second; and such a rao. ! was a big ditch that 1 had forgot so down I went to the very l)'.t."-: he on top of me. Well, sir, he Vi.i . t- . he weighed seven thousand iujui' though I don't know as he did J ' nearly smothered me 'fore he ! , stir 'roun'. He struck me on rn , ' - an pulled off half my scalp. chewed off these two ting rs, time he had bit a hole cler.r !- my leg I scrambled out of the d'... with: him close on behind W both ao full of mud that if it bs'" :. leen for the stingin" of tlicta 1ih.j a wouldn't have known the b'-tr frti.i inc.- 'l hud a good half mile t. g.iyet i didn't have much idee of i tthi' t . fori was 'bout a weak as a liKe put my best foot front an start,-.!, n-i didn't make such tad tiiue alter ui.'. f just got over my yard fence in t to keep him from takin' off the oth of my scalp, aa his havin to cliji'.- . ' of slopped him. I thought mv r-t was over then; but Cinda had a' I ! doors an winders slut fco tight I couldn't pet in to save my soul, t diihVt have a uiiuit to spar, so 1 f!:--"roun" to the back of the lum.v. hi., . to find somethin was open "r.iu:-' ' . but no. everything was tUriic. I ' wus in r. fix. There was a l:.iitk r . far from the back door, an" 1 v,-. . it It was hard to climb, an" was four feet from the grouu ti.t ..... caught holt of my ragged p-iiits ar.' pulled me down again. "Well, sir. I flew 'roun' that laci r like a kite an' yellin' to Cinda at ta, top of my voice to open the back dc-..r for me. After ld leen callin en' fly'"" for it seems to me half a d.iy. I bo' 'twan't mor'n ten minits, Cinda :pev - the door a crack an' 1 lourieel iu. ieU on the floor in a tit an' didn't comet., till next day. "Tom Uiers an" seven other n-1. managed to kill the b'ar that night. b. couldn't find nothin' big 'noug. weigh him. I couldn't talk for a wee'., couldn't walk for six an" try leg shakin yet The whole neigh bc-riiov.. pulled up stakes an' left an' no-v th.-.i. place ain't nothin but pines an' I rr Look here, young nn, you's Vi .iv-.b Next time you git such a notion you g fish in. Is you b'ar struck yit?" "Nope," answered Long Jako r.- ing up a bunch of shallots and st" back over the fence. "I'm goin to work." "A riplar soft he Is," said Natl. a -, himself. "I've saf-soapil hiru He's off, way off, if be thinks he':. ; to git that b'ar: he's my meat i .. killed dozens an' dozens of 'em never got a scratch from uon,s of . I'll git that tin to-night, an lay otv . morry, so I can eat b'ar meat all y. Dinged if I don't" Nathan "riz up" from the head - i cabbage, picked up his hoe, took "1J chew from the handle, put it ba'-? i his mouth and proceeded to work L';. onions. Philadelphia Times. A Moat Felieltoo. FarewelL There lived a certain cantankr rn. old clergyman who did not exactly hiv : . off by long chalks with his congrega tion, and ao at last he applied for and ro ccived tho appointment of "chaplain u? a large penitentiary." II determined to have his revenge on sundry of his parishioners who had aroused Lis ire, so he preached a farewell sermon, not a word of which could any one ob ject to, except tho sin-jularly inappro priate text, which gav great offense. It was: I go to prepare a place for you., so that where I am yo may be also." Rue w-wtioe in War. In the early wars with French and In dians many a winter campaign could never have leen carried on but for the snow-shoes, which alone made march ing possible. In the winter attack, of the savages upon the settlemeiita in Northern New England and inthe ex peditions of English and French troops snow-shoes were a necessary part of their equipment their baggage being hauled on sleds or toboggans. N. Y. Star. Wnere ta. Rri.l t'sai Frna. Manager (to leader of orchestra) I understand that that figure of yours waa played "by request." leader Yes, sir. Manager At whose reqneat, rasT I a&k? Leader At mine, fcir. -Puk.
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