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OLD RELIABLE ' .ETNA."!
Kail other t'irat C'lataa Compaalca.
T. W. DICK,,
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1794.
rnnnru. Jnty it. 1883.
Mountain House
m SillYIHG PARLOR I
CENTRE STREET, EBENSBURG.
'I 'HIS well known and tunir eKtabll.hed Sbarm g
1 I'arlor i now I(k-ip.1 . n Cealr. attvel. op
j 1. -1 . tlie livery atalle ot O'Hara. Itevis Jl iMlk
t-r, where tbe I nmnrn will le carrtrd ou la th e
liiture. SIIAV1.N;:. 11AI11 cmiNll AN Lt
il AMI't )l N done in the beateat and maat
iirnri.p iiiaon. r. I 'lean Towels a ).eol.liy.
.I..uieii waited on at tbeir residence.
JAMES H. O ANT.
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JL a ATTOJNEY-AT-I.A,V.
-Secll atteniwai alTen to eiaitna lor Pern
(lou Bounty, etc. -t)7-
THZ OLD-FASHIONED CIRCUS.
Owhero is the old faahiuni'd sluk' riiurej i-ir-CUi
That when we wore children drliyhud us
The JiiyotM excliL-oiciit In which it wuulJ cirlt
us,
la Kobe from the (rcscut-ilay ev-rlhin
sUou.
Iiuw cozy the rounJ. little tent thut tourlm-J us;
llow near wait the ring where we al all
around
On scats tif rough boards with folk' feet just
behind us
To k-in our buck onto with comfort pro
found. Yt-s, then we could $tt the i-lowa'a funny grim
aces. And laurh at his Jokrs for he taJttJ In thnte
days
And pick out our friends in the circlu of faces.
And join In the roars that together we'd
raise.
Otu thinff at a time and that leisurely acted
Increustsl not diminished the pleasure we
t..U:
Not twenty at onee our attention distracted
And Kave us a headache all over to look.
No side-show attnictfons defrauded us ever:
We a till there was for tbe quarter it cost.
And, satisfied wholly, went homeward with
never
A thought that one thiiiif was unseen or waa
llT-l
No kut.-c.itient "plays'' and no huuihiicwlnK
"races."
It. lit!!.-. I and hurried the circus we knew:
Ttnse things may le good ia their own proper
places,
And bo are "wax QirKers" and animals, too.
Alas.' We're afraid that the o'.d-fashloned cir
cus Has ffoue with the minstrels to never return.
And no combinations at present cau Work ti
Into tu it excitement for which we must
yearn.
H. C. IVslfc-e. in Itoodall'a ?su:i
WATCH FOll A CHANCE.
And When
It Cornea Make
Use of It. ,
Good
An lUnatrwtlon of a I-oet Opportunity a.
Kelatrd by a Sueee.sful Mau llow a
x'aruou. New York Lawyer
iot Ilia .start.
Xit lonp ayo four olit friends bat
down to a little dinner together in New
York. One of them was a famous
lawyer. They naturally fell to talking
over olil times, and, as men of fifty are
rather apt to do, whether rightly r
not, they agreed that youtijf men now
adays are not what they used to be.
"I have had a striking illustration of
that faet to-day," said the lawyer, with
a shm- of impatieuee. "A young- fel
low has had a desk in my oltiee for per
haps six months. He seemed bright,
and came to me with a recommenda
tion from a man in whom I have conti
nence. He said that if I would only
k'ive him a chance, that was all he
wanted. He was willing to 'do any
thing. and all that sort of talk. Well,
nothing but routine work has happened
to come in to b thrown into that lxy's
way, until about a week atfo. when I
was short for time to look up some
points about an important case
which is taking- up most of our
attention at the oflice iust now.
'Here thought I, 'is the chance for our
young- friend- Let's see if there is any
stuff in him.' I sat down by hiro and
explained that I should like him to
hunt up all the evidence lie could find
bearing on this subject. After having
made the tliiup as plain as the nose ou
a man's face, I added: 'Now, if you
want to know anything further aJxmt
this matter, come rhht to me. There
is no immediate hurry, I said, as 1
turned away; 'but inside of a week
shall want everything connected with
this point of the case put into perfect
order. He said: 'All right, sir,' and I
dropped the w hole affair off my mind,
for 1 have leen completely absorbed in
an enl:rely different part of the same
ease. To-day it occurred to me that I
hadn't heard anything from him, and
that by to-morrow or next day the pa
hts ought to be in hand. I went
around and asked him how he was (ret
ting on. He told me, with considerable
hesitation, that he had been meaning
to come a ix I tell me that he 'hadn't
exactly understood,' and so forth.
'Then why didn't you come to me, as I
told you to do?" 1 asked him. pretty
shortly. He stammered out a lot more
ulxnit its leing a big job for a little fel
low of his inexperience: and then I
fairly roared: 'I was trying to give you
some experience!' Then I got away as
fast as I could. 1 was afraid that
I should say something that I
should be sorry for. I.ut that young
man is done for as far as I am con
cerned. I shall get rid of him as soon
as I possibly can. What a chance he
had'. Just such a chance as 1 had at his
age only 1 seLvd it. I knew it was a
cliance. This fellcv acted as though
he didn't know a chance when he saw
it."
"How was it that you got your
start?" asked one of the party. 'I
don't ueJLiera you ever told us."
"Oh, it isn't much of a story, " said
the great lawyer, modestly; "but it
meant a good ileal to me just the same.
I was fixed something as this boy is
the one 1 have been telling you about
in the oflice of a law firm who were do
ing a big business. I had had a clerk's
work for about six months and was le
ginning to thiDk that I never should
get a chance to do anything else, though
I had seize d every opportunity that I
could make or find to tell the head men
of the firm that I was ready to try my
hand at anything they had a mind to
give me. Summer-time came around,
a.nd things were as dull a dull. The
ivst were all going oft" on their vaca
tions, and at last my turn came. I
pu-fir"i my trunk early in the morning,
.and Siiwl written my friends to expect
it try the first train that left that city
after ot'ice hours that night. I felt
pretty bfue when I wrote, too. I knew
they would ask me how I was getting
ou, and I wasn't getting on at all. I
had made tap my mind that I had been
a fool to think I ever should be able to
do any law business any way. I thought,
with some show of reason, that if I
really had any stuff iu me some of these
smart men at the oflice would have
f;und it out by this time and would
have given me something to do.
Well, noon passed, and it ran along
to three o'clock. It was a hoi day,
and I was beginning to think
that it was time I was clearing my
desk, when I saw the head of the firm
coining towaxd my desk. My heart be
gan to beat. I felt somehow as though
something was going to happen. 'See
here,' he began, calling me by name.
Here's something which ought to be
lone right away. The case itself isn't
a hard one, but it is coming on In two
air three weeks, and I can't see ta it my
self. You have metit ii.n.-.l that yon
would like any business w hich we could
turn over to you. You cau have this,
if you like, and we'll see what sort of a
brief you can get uj. lie went onto
explain matters a little. hii.I then left
me. My young friend down at the
office would probably have said I hat he
was very sorry, but he could not take
the job, as his trunk was all packed
and he didn't wish to nndcrtaki any
work until after the vacation, but such
an idea never entered my mind. 1
rushed to the teleorupU oilice, iMit
word to my friends that 1 was unex
lectedl v detained. Worked at my ease
all that evening and was up l.-ri .'ht and
early in the morning to go at it again.
It seemed to grow hotter and hotter,
but 1 p lid no attention tt tV- weai -wr
1 had mailt a memorandum of llie ort
inal statement so that I di-in'l need
to go to hirn again. Ill ten davs and
I never worked harder - my brief was
ready. My legs sh.tok when 1 went
to the front titliee and laid it Ik-fore
my employer. All of that night I wor
ried for fear I had forgotten something;
but I couldn't think of anything to U
done any better than I had done it.
The next morning I U-lieve it was the
happiest moment of my life tin- old
muu eame to me and told me my brief
was all right; and I never hud any lack
t,f work from that time on."
Another of the group, whose name is
as well known as perhaps any other in
connection w ith the colossal commerce
of New York, remarked at this point:
"You are righta bout the iinartanee of
recognizing the chance when it comes.
There is everything in it. lt is a pity
that ixiys can't understand it. Now,
my own experience was something
like yours. I was keeping books in the
old store of ci. , when lone
Iuy heard the head of the firm say to
one of the partners that lie wished tie
knew if somebody who could writ.'
some circulars and advertisements for
them. 'It ought to lc sou,c oik- who
kuows our business well.' he said, "and
yet he ought to know how to express
himself bettor than most business
men have been trained to." lie went
on more at length to explain
what he wanted, but the others did
not seem to know of anyltody
who could fill the bill. I went
home that night thinking all the
way almut those advertisements. 1 had
some knack at writing myself, but I
was naturally pretty bashful, ::ii.l I
didn't dare to stty right out that I
thought I could write anything so im
portant as Mr. seemed to think
this new- work to lie. Ihit the next
morning I screwed my courage up, and
told him that I had had a fair educa
tion an 1 w ould like to try my hand tit
those advertisements which I had
heard him asking about the day before.
He was a little surprised at first, but
he told me fully what lie wanted, and I
wrote the things wrote them over and
over and almost wore out a dictionary
and a thesaurus over it and they
turned out to be just what were
wanted. I believe that I might have
lieen keeping books to-day in some lit
tle back office at fifty dollars a month
if I hadn't caught at that chance. A
inan has got to lie faithful and honest
and ready in order to get taken into a
firm on his merits that goes without
snying. Hut I don't believe that I
should ever have liecome a partner in
that house, as I did a year after that
time (and that was the liegmning of
my success), if I hadn't seen my chance
and had the courage, in the face of in
experience and a knowledge that 1 had
no special ground for expecting favors,
to sna at it."
These sentiments were warmly in
dorsed by every man who was present.
Christian I'nioti.
OFFICEHOLDERS IN AMERICA.
More Than One II utidretl Thousand I vdtral
Kiuploves on the It.. Us (.real Variety.
The absorption of duties by the I'nit
d States has burdened the country with
the army of oiiieehold.-rs that still gives
an untitle influence to the party of the
administration, and that compelled the
adoption of the reformed eivi! s-r i.-e
as a measure defensive of the ri-rht of
the jK'ople to choose their own legis
lative and executive officers, unin
fluenced by the government. In Wash
ington's time the otliccholdcrs of the
federal government numliered six thou
sand, while now the government cm
ploy; an army of more than one hun
dred thousand. This cnormoti-; force of
oi'i.'t'holders includes constitutional and
statutory officers, engineers, laevvers,
physicians. statisticians, geologists,
meteorologists, hydrogruphers. metal
lurgists, astronomers, makers of charts
anil maps. sch)ol-tcachers. railroad ex
perts, skilled detectives, agriculturists
entomologists, liotaiiists, chemists, mi
iToscopist.s, gardeners, tradesmen, mer
chants, experts in textiles, china, glass
and the thousand articles im;xirteit
fr..m foreign countries and subj.-ct to a
tariff tax; clerks of various grades and
degrees of skill, from accountants to
copyists: expert machinists and mechan
ics, messengers and a host of lalxirers.
It is not pretended by llarjicr's Maga
zine that the employment of all these
persons, adepts or otherwise, is neces
sarily incongruous. There are func
tions properly within the jurisdiction of
the federal government that demand
the laliors of men of science and men
who are skilled in the secrets of com
merce and manufactures. Kut if the
government had been confined to its
original purjKise, if it had not gone
afield in strange pursuits, seeking vain
ly after what cau be I test attained
through the intelligent efforts of col
leges, universities and scientific associa
tions, the corps of learned, artistic and
mechanical public functionaries would
not lie one-half its present size.
FAMILY HEIRLOOM S.
How Jeweler. Supply Them to Their
( u. I oilier.
Almost anj' jeweler can supply one
with a set of family jewels, says a writer
In a London fashion weekly. Like old
furnlt"r. they arc often made toorder.
Sometimes a jeweler is visited by a cus
tomer who wants a pretty little story
suitable for telling to her numerous
friends and acU;iiiitances. The jew
eler is equal to the task. The lady re
ceives the story, in the course of a few
day., memorizes it, and when next the
family jewels are brought out to lie
show n repeats it in an off-hand sort of
way as if it were impromptu.
liven in this democratic age it some
times pays to pretend that one's an
cestors were great. I was show n an im
itation set of old jewels the other day
which a connoisseur might have mis
taken. Compared with the original the
j deception seemed perfect.
A TWISTED TALE.
Once ou a t in. ti is t '.. is true
Tin re iied -ii iu- iviiiual a ho
Itcli. v.-u UN i :tc':!iit hi :.l m..re
1 ban o'.h r i:i- u a..t ten tiavs o'er,
lie had m.-t . vci tii-iii" down pat,
i::!.;;!ot u. J ou litis and that,
A.iU '1-.1..U is ' t- tc to rcat and amall.
Tins uiau who tiseu: to know il w!L
ii- told the farmers how to till
't'h'-ir n. I. is. ::. ir L.i.s to owrflU:
lie tu'.J th - I t.-rcl-a-i . h, w tj sell
Tht ir Ko.'.s iii..t .h tti.-.r (Tains xnbjbl awell;
ill- to'd the v. rit- rs a :i jt to w rtle
it li't y tli-- it...i.1c woul-J ueioul;
1'rosIM r.' to tu- ta uu-jU fall
Whoheedi 1 h..:i uh.. Lne ilalt
Mu. li of his j-reci- y, time was SpeCt
In ,vi!tic al t'-io-rtm.ent.
And I'ro:d- :.-.'. U.'d olieii rake
Kor "i ":e,' soTiii- f'e u t,ii mistake
Th. r- wa-.:i I auvtli.i; hut wbat
lie 'i:t !i.- l.to-.v Li to a dot.
An-I n is.lom will.-: at I fie call
( f him w !io us. d to know it alL
lt-..t .!r:ii: 'e is it may sei tu in you
'Tis uii iii.t -.T.-i"-'.' than it is true
Tins m ;i iic'i r .i:-l s::i -le Ueed
'!' f.roe to oil., i i.I'.s tba- he'd
'l'ti-- l.i-.ii:i3 v ii.-r.-iiy ii- i-uu! 1 invent
A plan to lual.e - T-i:i;"le c ut
!.. .1 i'l- k ?l s.s in -d would not befall
'I l.i.-. u:an v. L.,. uvl to know It all.
( ir.e day h-- saw this !:now in fool
A farm, r tr to l-a 1 a muL.
The i ii.l i :uM-orB-2:iie and slow.
A:id tiiiVly r. f.i i to
Ari I as tii- fn.i r :u!i,-J and swore
!': unite hum; '.ic.aar.l all tbj more
it won't d-i any . f to maul
T!ie J. rule." sas! tie w uo knew lt ail.
"H it 1'if a I t'.'..- ;.'.i:i. y.u bel!
To ma:;.- t:iat uiul" i't-1 u;j and ifet !
1 h 11. lt!:-T !.,.. i; V I!. j.-, !i;.,- rijil
Ttic !. -.t. I'll -:i::;.i .' l .i-1 Lis tail?"
'1 h- t ir:... r .-.aiJ: It :il not do."
Th v, :.;a s .: 1 :.. s-..d he knew
i;.:r: i: The lu.ura! was suotll
if hirn ho used t.. k:.o it all.
There muv not hea m.-rai h- re.
Unt t . l- m ;:u i i ir- tty ilear,
,'.-'i-t- v. ry. rry. vr.iiv W ne.
Hut yi : iota-; . ay to i,.r .sui jiri.se
.'e us iy .um;i u; a -i:i.st a jact,
Aiid (.'(: o.;r . io- of v. :s i-.i-i tracked
'T'-rc well to n.w a;..l tui n recall
The tale of li.,:i ain k.:w il ali.
X:z.:i V. a'. rnia:i. m Chicago Time.
OVER THE AVIKE.
Familiar Tclo'jraph Talk As
Looks in Typo.
It
.Many A librt-vlat ions and Wlutt Tney
!Wean llow an ll;irrat..r .Imlea of w
l-e!low i.ah.n-er's Temperament auti
seatimenls ;o,iie sltort Storie..
There are pairs of men who have
liccn in dailv communication with ejicli
other over the same telegraph wire for
years, and wlto have never seen each
other. Lach is well acquainted with
the other's temperament, his moods, his.
disposition, and his sentiments. Tele
graph instruments and telegraph wires
are unfeeling and stolid-looking
things. Yet, through them a Dian is
able to convey emotions of sor.-ow or
joy almost as plainly as they may le
expressed facially. The fact is perfect
ly palpable to the man at one e'jd of
the wire, while he is receiving dis
ratehes, that tlie man who is sending
them is iil or well, or though the
sender may make use of no terms of
friendliness or of swear words that
he is in good temper or baL
In their conversation telegraphers
Use a system of abbreviations which
enables them to say considerable more
in a certain period of time than they
otherwise could. It is not quite as
compact as the Phillips code, but answer.-,
their requirements, very well.
Their tn. rnirig greeting to a friend in a
di-.tant city is usually "g- m.," and the
e ii :.. .i . . . . . o t. . i...
j -v-veii in i iii: i- e n iii . ii. , i.e.- it l-
I ters i f ci r.r standing for good morn
ing and food night. The salutation
may In- aeet -mpanied by an inquiry by
one as to the health of the other, w hich
would 1 c expr, ssc.l thus: "Ihv r It ts
niiig'.'"" And the answer would be:
"I in pty wl; hw- r u?" or "I'm nt ffg vy
v. 1: fra d I've gt t luuhuia. "
I.y the time thes" c:iiirtesies have
taken place some early messages have
come from the receiving department or
fi ni some other wire, unit the man be
fore whom they are placed says: "Wl,
hrs a fu: g..l darn ts cverlastiu yrind. I
wish 1 ws rich." And the other man
says: "No rest for wicked, min
jM-n.' tl.e hist words indicating that he
wants the sender to wait a minute
while he adjust; and tosts his pen.
1'rcscntly he clicks out "g. a., mean
ing ";. ahead," and the days work has
liegun.
Operators laugh over the wire, or
rather 1 1. ey con v.-y the fact that they
are amused. They do this by telegraph
ing "ha! ha!" Very great amusement
is indicated by sending "ha" slowly and
repeating it several times, and a smile
is expressed by sending "ha" oree or
perhaps twh'e. Transmitting it slowly
arwl rejs-ating it tells the jierpetrator ot
tlir joke at the other end of the wire
thai the listener is leaning back in hit
chair and laughing long and heartily.
Wiiehthe feeling lietween two opera
tors in two cities, instead of licingthat
of tvnlle affection, is that of strong
dislike, tlie fact cau lie made just as
apparent as though they were within a
few feet of each other. No personal
collision can occur, of course. This is
one of the drawbacks. Hut a man can
call names and make threats over a
wire with almost the same facility :is
by word of mouth. One of the favorite
resorts when two operators are quar
reling is that known as "'fighting cir
cuit." Not much is accomplished by
this, however, for when two operators
strive at the same time to call names
over a wire neither can succeed.
Telegraphers have an old story about
"lighting circuit." James Austin, who
is located on Newspaper row, who is a
Canadian by birth, brought the
story to this city, one of the
operators in the story In-ing
located at Toronto and the other at
UtiiTalo. After a successful exchange
of uncomplimentary remarks, they Ik
gan to fight for the circuit that is, they
both tried to send epithets over the
wire at once. They fought for some
time. Neither would yield. The man
at Toronto, who w as old and astute,
saw that the man at Huffalo was young
and stublioru and was in for an all
night struggle. The Toronto man
looked around for a proxy. He found
it in the clock wire, w hich was a wire
aUaciicd to the clock s pendulum, the
swaying of which acted to ojr-ii and
jh.se the circuit. He connected the
IhiiTalo wire with the clock wire and
went home to lied, h aving the Huffalo
man val. rously battling with the tick-t.ck-tick-ticlc
of the clock. The storv
1 concludes w ith the veracious statemen t
I that when the Toronto man reached
the office the next morning he heard
the ISutfaloman still fighting the- cloci:.
and that when the former disconnected
the clock wire and closed thecircuit the
latter snapped out triumphantly: "1
downed you at last, did I?"
"Fighting circuit" is probably, the
mot annoying occupation there is. The
very impoteiicy, the very futility of it
is maddening. Here is a man who has
offered a grievou.-s insult. Yet the in
sultee cannot get at the insulter to kick
him. They may lie separated by thou
sands of miles. The practice tif calling
hard names is not inf re pieiit. jvrssibly.
for that reason. "Fighting circuit" has
several tiires driven men to the verge
of frenzy. There is on record in the
archives of the Western I'nion office in
New York the tale of an excitable
operator who, after a lontr and unsuc
cessful struggle to say something mean
to a man in Alliany whom he hated, ami
who at the same time was trying tosav
something mean to him, suddenly
artse from his chair and darted from
the ojieratinir-room in New York city
and ran down the stairs into the street.
There ire gazed wildly around, look
ing for some object on which to vent
his anger. Near him a tieaceabV, mild
looking gentleman was having his
boots p:d!she.t The unhappy operator
riishea at n:m. struck liitn :u t!n lace,
and shouted: "Hlank, blank you. you're
always getting your Iwxits blacked."
15ut that was in the old days.
Not always, however, have differ
ences arising over a wire In-en with
out a bloodless termitiati. ti. It has
j Wn the case on a iiumlier of oc
i casions that the insultee has l.arti.-.l a
J tram for tlie town of the insulter. at:.t
upon the insulter lieing pointed out to
him the two have come together in an
affray, lint such instances are excep
tions. Kven though a tuan may li.ar.la
train full of thought of vengeance it i-.
likely to ooze out after a few hours'
ride, and the visit, instead of lH-intr san
guinary, may lc one of harmonious
peace and g.Kxl feeling. It may In
stated positively that no .arr.-l lie
.'tin over a telegraph wire has ever
resulted fatally.
They teil a good story up at the big
Ve-.trn I'nion ollicc on Fifteenth
street. One of the night men was send
ing press to Richmond. The operator
at the latter place said:
"What's the matter'.' You come so
heavy I can't adjust enough."
"Is that so'." responded the oier
ator at the Washington end. "Wait a
second."
Then came a pause.
"How's that?" asked the Washington
man.
"That's spl ndid," replied the Kich
mond ojierator. "Whit did you do?"
"I took off my cuffs," came back the
reply from the Washington man. and
even the relay and sonnde r exchanged
smiles. Washington Star.
CONCERNING DIAMONDS.
Their Salea Are Increasing with Wonder
ful Kapi.lity.
A diamond expert in London thus dis
courses on the product and distribution
t.f diamonds: "The Americans are the
finest judges of diamonds in the world,
.and insist upon having the finest stones
and the most ),ierfect cutting. It is esti
mated that they will take fifteen mil
lion lillars" worth this year. India
furnishes a market for large numlicrs
of white stones, as w ell as for yellow or
colored diamonds, or stones with flaws
or specks iu them. The natives invest
their savings 5d them and in other pre
cious gems as -we do in stocks and
shares. Russia's fancy is for large yel
low diamonds. China is ln-coming a
buyer, for very recently the empress
lias broken through the old custom
which prohibited women from wearing
diamonds in her country. She could
not resist the lK-auty of a superb dia
mond necklet presented to her. She
wore it at court and set the fashion.
Japan is also rapidly In-coming a con
siderable customer. With the opening
up of the world by rail w ay anl steam
ship communication the demand for di
amonds has increased marvel, msly. The
vorld now purchs-s about twenty-five
million dollars' worth h r annum.
Twenty years ago it was alout two
hundred thousand dollars."
MAKING THE BENCH.
A Carpenter Who Made II u Way to a
f utla-etetop.
A good story Is told of a I'nitisl States
senator w ho ln-gn life as a carpenter,
says the Youth's Companion.
"1 will not always lie a carpenter." he
used to declare, for it s-ems he had set
his heart upon sometime entering the
legal profession. He did not slight his
crjxnter's work for his day-dreams of
what he should do and become, but was
noted for his honest, conscientious
lalior.
One day the young man was planing
a board that was to Wcoiue a part of a.
"judge's liencli." when a friend, observ
ing his painstaking, inquired:
Why do you take such pains to
smooth that lioard?"
Instantly theyoungearpenter replied:
"llecause I want a smooth scat when 1
come to sit on it."
His friend laughed, and thought the
joke so g mm! that he reported it in the
shop, and the young man was bantered
not a little aliout the "judge's Wnch."
He always replied. gKid-iiaturedly:
"Wait and see. He laughs who wins,
and I may sit there yet."
And he did; but the distance between
the carpenter's and the judge's In-ncli
was paved with heroic struggles and
bolf-sacritiee.
When Snake-1'olson Is Harmless.
Nature seems to have provided that
no poison which acts externally shall
have any effect internally, and vice
versa. Thus the most deadly snake
venom can Ik' sw allowed with impun
ity, the juice of the stomach presuma
bly decomposing it and rendering it
harmless. Many experiments, says the
Washington I'ost. have lieen made to
prove this. On one ticcasion recorded
j by IIumlnd.lt one person swallowed the
whole tif the poison that could lie ob
tained from four Italian vipers without
suffering any had consequences. I n t he
same way the poison from the enven
omed arrows of South American In
dians can be swallowed with safety,
provided only that there is no wound
on the lips or inside of the mouth.
An Englishman at a hotel in New
York asked if there were any oysters
in the hoteL "Oh. yes!" was the an
swer. "Step right into the restaurant.
We don't keep them in the oflice." "I
think you misunderstood me," said Mr.
John Hull, "you know, I mean a Yrister,
don't you know, a lift a licllevator,
maybe you call it in tl.'s country "
MISS PRISCILLA PRUE.
Utile M: Prisi ilia lrue.
With her eyes of clearest blue.
And her c:iecl.s of rosy hue.
Livisi iu Ito.-tou. lou.- aif.i;
Aud the illat;.- people said
That this c'larimii.r little daid
W as enoui a to rr:i on;-'s Lead
l'or ftbc mui.,-J a. i.t oimpied so.
Miss Prisi ilia's yellow irown
Was the wonder of tin- town,
Where the lea.liti shade was brown.
In the Hotn'k-r (.-inf a;..:
Ah. her dainty. tripi.:-i fi-ct.
With their hi-'ll he. led l.tool- Jielite,
Made the dull'--' heart" to !.eat.
Tho they ibid her dancini.' ....
You uir and old alike she swayed,
1 his ailitrin' In tie maid.
l'houirh ihe was n .t prim and staid
bi!:e the f-i:k of lo'i,' a'o;
I'.verv you'.'u Ii otn f.ir and ! le I
la..ni.-eil lo wiu lu r for U- Slide.
Met I'r'.sctJl i ou;y si('!e d '
And ilem.:r.-ly aiisw. .-.i: "No "
!t-:t at la-t there cans- a day
When her heart was channel away,
When she could not an-er nay
To a Hoiaier. lonif ai'o:
So li-r Prave ev-s. clr an-1 blue.
And ber red lipi.. s,..ct-t and Irue,
Answered him w ii. i came to sue:
" Ye-H-caw-e i l..e ..o so '
!lo-,'!i Hu.Vet
AXOYEIiHEAIMr THREAT.
A Terrible Scandal, and What
Came of It.
"I'll kill h'.m if he comes here again!"
said Mrs. lleaeon Hayes, in a deter
mined tone; and one of her neighbors
Mr. Oates Walker coming into her
house to liorrow a hand saw of the
deacon, heard w hat she said.
Mr. Walker was a male gossip: for
there are men, as well as women, who
indulge in that species of recreation.
Mr. Walker pricked up his ears and
listened intently so very intently that
he forgot all a!oiit the saw and went
home without asking for it.
Now. at the time she made the little
sM-cch which heads this sketch. Mis.
Haves was in the woodshed, entirely
alone, and Mr. Walker was in the
kitchen and heard what she said through
the open door.
He had not the most remote idea
whom she intended to kill, but he went
home and laid his news la-fore his wife.
She w as astounded, though she had al
ways thought "that Mrs. Hayes wasn't
no better than she orter U; for she put
sugar in her tea every day and wore
white st. K-kings common, and kept two
lamps a-burning to onee iu one room,
and a ixttavagant woman was gineral
ly a bad wo. nan."
Mrs. Walker put on her lmunet and
called on Aunt Ellen Splicer. Miss
Splicer was very sharp-nosed, and
quite as keen after a scandal as a ter
rier after a rat. A thing was buried
pretty deep when Miss Splicer failed to
unearth it. Miss Splicer put on a clean
apron aud stroked the cat. The put
ting on of a clean apron by Miss Spli
cer was much the same as a judge upon
the ta'uch putting on the black cap.
"Did you ever hear that Mrs. Haves
had got a husband living?" asked Miss
Spiieer, sinking her voice to that low,
confidential tone we all know so well.
"Why. sartin!" said Mrs. Walker.
"The deacon's living, hain't he?"
"I don't mean the deacon. I mean
another husband."
"timid laws! what, beside, the dea
con ?"
"Yes, lesides the deacon!"
"Why, Miss Splicer! how you talk!
You take my breath away! Hear me!
I feel faint! Two husbands! Wall,
walk what is this world a-coming to?"
"Death and destruction!" said Miss
Splicer, with solemnity.
"Oh, dear!" said Mrs. Walker.
"Yes." said Miss Splicer, "when the
world is full of the wicked in ? hecp's
clothing a-going almut seeking whom
they may devour, then comes destruc
tion. Mrs. Walker, did you ever think
what that passage, 'in sheep's cloth
ing' meant?"
"I allurs thought," saiJ Mrs. Walker,
meekly, "that it meant to le dressed
iu woolen gowns, and woolen coats and
trousers."
"No!" said Miss Splicer, "it means
just such things as having two hus
bands, and pretending nut to have but
one."
"Sho!" said Mrs. Walker.
"Now I tell you w hat I know, but
don't you mention it to a living soul!"
-No!' said Mrs. Walker: "I'd lie
flayed alive, and burned ut a stake first!
Hope to drop dead if 1 wouldn't!"
"Well, in her young days Mrs, Hayes
used to Im sparked by Sam Jenkins.
They engaged some jn-ople said mar
ried. She sent him offan.l ttiok Ieacon
Hayes! The deacon was rich. Sam
was jxmr. Sam went west, and six
months ago he came back. He's been
seen twice, lurking around I Vac on
Hayes' house!"
"Oood heavens!"
"And now, it's just my opinion he's
after money! 1'lackmail!"
"Klackmail! What, the post office?"
cried Mrs. Walker.
"No. no: he's a threatening to tell
that she was his wife lie fore she was
the deacon's, ixpecting she'll pay him
to keep still. The pajiers are full of
such things. And she's determined to
kill him if he comes there again. Don't
you see?"
Mrs. Walker thought she did. and
then Mi.ss Splicer went out with her to
call on Capt. -Digby's wife, and see
what she thought
Mrs. Dighy was having a tea-party,
and the thing was discussed at great
length.
All the women agreed that it was a
dreadful, dreadful affair, aud some
ting ought to be done. Capt. Dig by
was called into the council, and the
captain scratched his bald pate, aud
suggested that they tell Parson Trotter.
So the parson was informed, but, be
ing a very judicious Trotter, he de
clined to interfere.
The story grew and spread until its
proportions were enormous. I)eacon
Hayes house was watched night aud
day, and Mrs. Hayes, when she went
out iu the village, was very much puz
zled at the way in which all her friends
and acquaintances avoided her. Even
Parson Trotter crossed to the other
side of the street when he saw her
coming-.
The good lady spoke to her husband
a 1 M.ut it, but the deacon only rnoh.
poohed! lt was all nonsense, he said,
on her part she only imagined it
One day those who were watching
the deacon's house saw Sum Jenkins
going toward it wit it a basket in his
hand.
The tidings flew the man was goinjf
to his doom! He must be saved!
Mrs. Walkt-r aud Miss Splicer, and a
half doeii other women, accompanied
by their husbands, anil Parson Trotter,
hurried to the deacon'.
The deacon's wife and Sara Jenkins
were sitting liefore the fire, for it KM
early in the spring, eating walnuts and
apples.
"It's too late! she's pi.ened hirn in
them apples!" shrieked Mis Walker.
"Miserable woman." said Miss Splic
er, "w hat have you done?"
"Done?" said Mrs. Hayes, wiping her
spectacles, iu a dazed sort of way
"done? I guess I don't underatand you,
Miss Splicer."
"What's the row?" said the deacon,
coming in just then.
"You wife said she'd kill him if he
came her-again!" said Mrs. SS'alker.
"Kill who?" cried the deacon.
"Her first husband!" exclaimed Mis
Spl iccr.
"I irst husband!" said the deacon. "I
guess you've got me there. Miss Splicer.
If I ain't my wife's first husband, then
I'm beat'"
"Ask Sam Jenkins aliout it! said
Miss Spiieer. maliciously.
"How in thunder should I know?''
cried Sam.
"And she wouldn't pay you the
money for the mad," said Mrs. Walker;
"and she's jfw hie to kill you instid! My
husband heard her say so! Didn't you,
Oate,?"
"Yes." said Mr. Walker.
"Now look here," said the deacon; "I
want to know w liat all this tomfoolery
means? And the sooner the better,
liatcs Walker, if you ve heard anything
tell w hat you know!''
"I hecrd your wife say she'd kill him
if he come here again, and I telle.l my
wife, and she tcUed Miss Splicer, and
she sed as how your wife meant her
first husband which was Mr. Jen
kins which had come back to git
money out of her for keeping the se
cret. And he'd eotne here twice to see
aliout it."
"Polly Ann!" v;tid the deacon t hiu
wife, "Mill you say what Walker says
you did?"
"Aliout Sam Jenkins? SS'hy. no, dea
con! Sain Jcnk ins haiu't tiothin' to me!"
"A week ago last Tuesday morning,'
said Miss Splicer, solemnly, "did you not
say out in your woodshed, while Mr.
SS'alker was iu the kitchen to borrow a
handsaw, that you'd kill him if he ever
come to your house again?"
"Lawful massy sake!" cried Mra.
Hayes, lifting both her hands. "I guesa
1 did. and 111 do it, too!" with deter
mination. "Who are you goin to kill. Sister
Hayes?" asked Parson Trotter.
Silas SVhittle's yaller tomcat!" said
Mrs. Hayes. "He's plagued my life
out all winter; and that particular
morning that Mr. SS'alker speaks of, lie
got into the woodshed and lapped the
itisi.les out of two custard pies that I'd
set out there to cool consarn him!"
"My friends," said Parson Trotter,
"our business seems to lie done. Let
us lie agoing."
"Not till 1 know what Sam Jenkins
is prowling around here after," said
Miss Splicer, angrily.
"I was after a dozen of eggs to set a
speckled hen. ma'am; but the deacon's
hens are ou a strike and 1'tc had to
come three times! Mrs. Hayes has just
informed me that the last egg of the
dozen was laid yesterday."
The busy-bodies departed, a little
crestfallen, but still keen after another
scandal.
Iha-s this sketch point any moral?
Io any of my readers know a Miss
Splicer and a Mrs. SValker? If not,
then they must all live in very delight
ful communities. Ohio Farmer,
THE WOMAN OF GRIT.
She It I Who Makes a Succaaa ot Aay
I ndertaklna;-
SS'ithout grit and sticktoitivrness nc
woman will ever succeed. She may
have the talent of a second Raphael ot
slie may have rare inventive genius, fac
ulties of the highest order rare as they
are precious, yet without genuine grit
and a determination to stick to her
chosen work at all hazards, sick or well,
warm w eather or cold, she might juat
as well lie as mediia-re as the multitude,
for she w ill never do one w hit better
than the woman who is not endowed
with one-half her talent.
f course it is hard, for, say what you
w ill. women are not made for work
they are more easily tired than men.
says the Philadelphia Times. Their
sensitive natures fee! the slights that
come from contact with the world which
a man can cast behind his back if he
oliscrves them, and it is one chance in a
hundred if he would even notice at ali
what lias made a deep and lasting im
pression on the tender heart of the
weaker memlier struggling in the toss
ing surf of life's great sea.
SVhen a woman determines on her
line of action she must learn to bear
what would seem absolutely barbarous
in the shelter of her own home, sur
rounded by friends who have only
words of praise for her efforts. She
must expect rebuffs and still stick to it.
He not discouraged. If there is any
thing in her it will rise to the top and
she will tie all the stronger for the
struggle, but she must stick. Day in
and day out must see no let up in
her energies. She must tie ever iu the
thick of the fight, and unless she goes
forth prepared to stand by her colors
the host of wagearners will sweep over
her prostrate form and she will tie for
gotten in the great struggle for exist
ence. Stublmrn. plain, unalterable
grit will place a woman in the first
ranks, where genius, without this
much cruder quality, could never hope
to staud.
Haodlts la ('antra. "
It seems that in Corsica you secure
your personal safety by keeping a ban
dit. In an article iu the National He
view Itasil Thompson explains that th
tax of supporting a bandit is not with
out its compensation. liandits are a
hidden power in the country. They
control the petty elections; they
menace those who are hostile to their
friends. Thus, while the existence of
six hundred of them is a real danger to
public security, it is no small advantage
to a Corsican to tie related to a bandit.
You suptsirt. you pay, protect the ban
dit; ami in return he places his gun at
your disposal. It is an exchange of
services. "He has a bandit in the serv
ice" Is a comm. u extiression. Are you
in debt? The bandit will pain you
time. Are you disputing the ownership
of property? The bandit will show
your opponent he is wrong. Have you
laud on which shepherds trespass H
will keep them tiff.