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NUMBER 1(5.
rton t be rcsiaw '"-
!CANS
SPRING DISPLAY
OF
QUALITY
AND
ELEGANCE.
V will'' :iv:ik.- unit e:i.ly ill tin- field with a Spriim Stuck if tin- Highest
''i'l'ii-'niM'i'iiil I'lTniK fur tin- Spring -:i-:tj is M increase tin- pun litti nii power
,,f vi.iir ili. liar 1 1 it l In' Itvuli'M. S'alnrs rv.-r hIIi-umI fur vni" nn : ii l'
in VMiir iiili'M'' Hi ii i ""i I'.n
I,,,!,!,. iainl::iil u'lail'S in .Mons. I Soys'
IT von wish tosii- tin' iii'vi'-t iilists fur tin1 st'i-soit ctimoainl sco us.
I f mhi wish to si'.- tin- very Ih-si i li-- ami iv;ia:ilr niaki'S t- mr am! si-r ns.
II vmii waul Viilno for voiir iiioiny finno ami si r us.
If mi want. lo 1 1 j " tin' full ptirrli.iMiijr jiiiwur of your ilollar sm;ihI it with
D. GANSMAN,
LARGEST CLOTHIER, HATTER AND FURNISHER,
ins i:u: i:.TJi a vi:.i i:, altouxa.
s-lt. R. IIKT.l'i"ii.
JPU.
This eminent.
Physician 1ms le
Vdtcl lir,iinit
to liis Spefisilty
Disrases of the
Kyo, K.ir, Nose,
Thruaf, Luiiir and
t ( Immie Uise:i?es.
CAMBRIA HOUSE,
Mi. mlays, Ftl.niary -J7. Marcli 1'7. .'iil
SeptcmlxT 11. OctoU-r
COMMERCIAL HOTEL, JOHNSTOWN, PA.,
Tin .-.l:is, l't l.i uary . Man li l!, April 2, May s. Juno 'JO, July IS, August lo,
Si pti iul'iT 12, Oi tol'i r 10, NnvoniU'r 7, I VooiiiUt o.
lie will , Hit Klien-burn every four we-w. thii fnvinit hla putiente the trontile anil expense ol
: vi-iitni t 'oluini'M". I . :i lie if ltif or.ly pli M.i:in :inil u en in the country who currier liM own
; uiimakliiR. nio.iel". il.uurains. etc . to Ulu.-lrali.' an. I innKe plain to all nililcieil the ruae ar..l nature
ol their .ll-ivi-iv l lii. wul i;im? hi i n-MiiiToiiJ i :itient :iiiil otlic-" wlu .ire in iie'vl ol meitli'til treat
I inr nt n i "ri tun iv to cn-ult t his ili.iinxui.hel physician, 'line iiutio.4 at tbe Institute will per-
mil only moil. hi., vi'ils to j.mr com in iinrty .
P lOM I.T.tllllN (Ml IXtMIWMIIi I'RKE.
ALL EYE OPERATIONS SUCCESSFULLY PERFORMED BY HIM
lironir llinen f I lie ro.
Sn -h ;n I r:i nu I :.'. I4J chnun. lnllA'li:itfrn
.r trie In).-. iI the Irix nl thf UhoMt.t . ui the lie
ti!i., dir. Tin 1 IftTsil nns. Spii-uis- ol the IMh ntu
I tm ruiininLT ovt't t tie the flifrk. I i,r t.t
N i l: Ji t hlin.lni-!'!. Fiinileut or mrtrr Sro Kvch,
i ri,.rrl l 0hth.inuii. ' S ymph ,1 ii I i.t i t'Ui:l
tmt, lirtt H'ott hfP r l.rown tnien on the t:tll.
I hlvt-eiiul-ir phtliluit-.. .;iftc.r- r milk whitn
-Hr uti flit-no. il.ir. mi:i ir i-ippnitf -n t.ie
in r A itt;i nrit!i. Kal'irttr out the l;i!iti.
.rr. lMMlrn-. of e ! htl- anil erP. art'!
i.thrr tl i.eu!i to ulilrli tlio ec T it- s'uri.hmen
air Int. le. I'offitive anl rapl.l .-uie tu:innt:el.
A Honl A Im.ii( nlnrrli.
It U the tunru-' memtrine. t w 'mh rful ?eml-'
nu -1 envelope tirrtunlt n ihe ilel t-uti t
ttii airiAiitl liM'tt par'fji en. thut c;it-irrh tiiakc? tta
ti.iiaf h tl.l. Hnee 4-fltutil l cits inlet the
erv iil,il! nntl iu:ike- lite a toitir'trawn ttr:it1i
-I mi.-ery unit iliff:.-e. tlu'lirnr the nni e ol ht-:ir.
inc, truui met itiif the piw( r l s e'ii . .l-fi n ititf
t ii tio-ulty ol inell. taint mi the li-- 1 1 h. :t nil kill
ic thi Tettiied .e!ure ol t:ite I n. ul i.iu.i y lv
refptntc on trout a hi in pie oi,i m tin- tieail. It
a.-jult! the ii- Tnt'Ti!on lintr'ti ail n e'oii
th tfonert n.tuikc the tlelicate co' and insitiif
inllMtiiii Mt ion. Hloiiiihin. unl ilentli. ithir,i;
?tiort of total er.o!'cat li-n will .snre health to
tin patient itn nil it! levinf r. Ji'e iin;lv prin'ras
tih:ite. .wuherini leaitinu to :t frttitl terniuiat ion.
I r Sal in h; ly a treaitnent. local rol ci,ti t u
tlonal untile the cure ol this tlreatl disease a rer
i
lHseas s of Women, such as have nallled the skill ol nil otlier physicians and romedics. quickly
cu ed I'mn'iTJ. iuiu .rs. hiironl. an l t ,.l ...ui xro ths curcil without tbe use ol the knile or" caustics.
-N" euttlnu'. ISO pain. iNn danuer.
i .Manh.MMi pcrie.tuil ly ri-slo-ci i 'lick, nam c-s and certain cure lor Impotence, lost manrood
l eruiatorrlci i los.-ci. weak ami nervous .lolnitv: alno lor prostatit's. verlii ceie. and all private dls-'
eies whether In. in impru.leiii h.iMis ol youth it sexual functions, speedily and permanently cure.l
; oniiltatioii tree and strictly cmin lcrnal. Aiisolutc cure icuarantee I. No risk incirrd. Free ex
a iiiiua iion ol the urine each person apply tin; I. ir me. i ical ireat meut shou Id biinu a to 4 ounces ol
urine, which will ni en e rareiul chemical an. I microscopic exa "i (nation. Small minors ranee s
wiris. moles etc.. rcnnne. I wi; bout at- iil4. knilo. t.:ilu or war. No method. Klectroysi.' Koiieuso
ti' scientill.-allY treaiei and creit by a ue er-lainr.it u etii ,1. A I. Ires all coicinimicatlons to itox
VTio i 'i.iuiuhus, Ohi". Kxaniliialloii sun riHiKiilinllun Irre lo evrrylmily,
1 On r Al terl Krnifiil Appear T ! Ilrliirr F.isrli Vlt.
4 aihlrria all iini.iiuuii . Ii mi in K 7l
"Seeing- is Believiner."
rfTjTWTta . &uuu, tump
aJ'JJir'M- A mast be s,mPIe; -when it is not simple it is
ij . "'"ii .nucii, uui io see ine ivochester " t- tk rQ
V w' impress the truth more forcibly. All metal, V?JM
If tuu-h and seamless, anil mnrlo Jr. tl.r.. r,;.M i..f7?fy
- .
.ya nwiicij, wyranii unpreatzaoit. .Like Aladdin's
of old, it is indeed a "wonderful lamp," for its mar
velous licrht is nurer .-!ni! KriWit, i: u.
'
softer than electric light
T.nrik for this ntnmn T... t.
on
fitvjy . " "f yc you want, srud to us for our new
fPrV""- Tr Mr,"J,"U a l..m safciy bv expr-vouV cl
VVf?' vanctlrs fTum thc Lt Lamt. Store ,n?h"Pl!Ty01
srcrJ iiocimvriiu L ine :... i
and we will srnj von a ..,,,
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TO i'"rkl "'"rUL JcfUnns-H the lud, aWiu injltmmntion, hc.,1
3Uli ELY BROTHERS, 56 Warran Street NEW YORK. OUG
IteEsHnii Fire Insnrance Aneacj
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The Doetor has
been for years it
Professor and lee
lurer in several of
our largest Metli-t-al
Colleges, and
has earned reat
fuJiit ;is nil author
ity ari'l antlior on all
Slll'jtvtS fOllftTIlill?
hi;: Si'.ji ialty.
EBENSBURG, PA.,
May '22, Juno H, July 17, August 14;
Niivt'iiilwr ', 1 'cenilu'r -i.
tainty, ;ind has never fa'teil. Kvtn when the
ilt.e&e hail ni;ili triirlitlnl inroad on ilelicte
c onstitiit Ions, henrlnic. sinell anil (ante have been
recivered ami the il isra'e tin rouyhlv driven out
Itrwiilc DIichocii.
The iloc Tor treats no acute ilinciseii but makes
an i'Ii! ire rpeirialty chron ic arid lonir stamlinic
llieass. fuses iciven up by ol ner iliciors and
l.ront.iuifi it incuraliie, he most desires to Fee.
'I'lis lix-lor has treated ovr IS.ikK) casea In IVnn
s Ivania in ilie last twp.ve years, many ol which
have ti-en Kivnii up ain.'uranle. some to be blind,
others tlel. and a larue nuuitier to 1ms luvalds lor
Inc. Km leholil now they see and hear, and
many are on the hitch road to roeovery every ilay.
The iloetor Is urr umle.t with the laruest coliec.
turn ol nne Instruments ever Imported to this
Country lor tjaiiiinlnii and Ireatiiii: chronic dis
eases ol the Head. Kiice. Tliroat. Kye Heart,
l.nnus, Stomai h, I.ir. Kidneys, hladdi'r. Skin,
r.rairtaud Isrv ous Systiin. I'lincer-i. l'uinor.i.
i'nes rwi-l.lnus. I tld ores. Kits, faraiysis, Neu
nilteia. Klreuiiiatisin. iripsv , mt. Si.-k Head
ache. Mebility, Kepression ol spirits. Hxeases ol
children. HerefUary diseases, r tc etc., nd In
tact all Iiidk stanilum and chronic diseases.
Fr Trmililrs I'lirrd,
In an astonishing iulck time. He will relieve
you ui all roaririij, hissinu and mucin noises
heaviness, itchiiiic. psin. ruimiin ol the ear. will
c!o-e up a hole In it drum ol lilty years stanilinic.
will In-crt Ariihcial Kar rinu ol bis own Inven
tion with astonishingly KraiiiyliiK results.
mix
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""o""-i .iiinii ijaa ii"iu,
and more cheerful than either.
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HK - .TEK. 11 IK nmBdp.l rr hfiin'l II.. .. t
.,fi Tk.: " """'.' miaiiisne,
choice ut over 2,UUO
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New York City.
9r?5rD in
HEAD
FEES BROS.'
Shaving Parlor,
Ham Street, Near Post GFlTice
.The undrrslirnrd desires tn inrnrm it.
lie i bat they bave opened a shavlmc par or on '
Main si reei. near the post olbea nhare barberlnic
In nil Its I. ranch is will fs earrieil on in the
Juiure. Kverrthlnic neat ant! Clean.
Vour patronaxe solicited.
MAN'S'
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AT TWENTY-ONE.
lh'hohi: My hoy, a niystir retl
llanos j i.sl within thy n a h.
ti.it lies Injyond tin Idstrous folds,
Vv'liut tie il or woe that future hol.ls,
AVIuit snowy M'uk thy crown uphuldn.
With jeweled tla.sli thy heart emboldsj
Hut T ine uiono may touch.
And Fortune point the truldcn tralL
But hurk! T'' wondrous hour dotb wait;
Fati' holds aloft her seal.
IHit tiaek' Youtti's pleasures seemed fair
Hast tasttsJ all thi sweeteneil share
Tih late to call them tiek. for there
Time steps iK'tairn and ioinls to where
Thi' ilraiM-rii s reveul
The splendor of thy man's estate.
Alii but thy smile prows e'en more bricfa:
Deep thrills thy glance with pride:
Tliou'dst not e.chanf.'e yon fruittul lield
l-'or chiUiluaMl'M fragrant. Moulin; yh Id?
llow .', ells thy strt ii-'th. its jhiwi r lo wield
'Mid vines lii' wealth a but half contvaleiL
In virtue l:r It trird
Aud in tlie hours of purest li'ht.
ln-ss on. mv lav. straight to the Roal,
Nor wander off In doubt:
Si.m" other ;iu:h may swui more fair.
Sum" other burden free from care
Stand not, w ith iiucsliotiin;,', idle stare
Li t conscience all thy works comuure.
Auay! with joyful shout.
And faithful honor puard thy souL
CJeori--e K. Uowen, tn Inter Oeeaa
A ROMANCE OF IIISTOIIY.
An Incident of Mexican Cruelty on
the Toxas Border.
A little restaurant overlixikino; the
San AnUinio river. Two men witli
chairs tilted back ami feet against the
prnj fliiio; rail of the haleony, were
siiiiiKttio; tlu-ir evening cigarettes.
'1 he iln-.li lay aliove them Hive a hat's
wino;. ready to fall swiftly atnl smhlen
ly, as it does in southern latitudes.
Until m ere 3'ounir and of punUy pres-em-e.
Vestern suns ami winds had
tanned their cheeks and hnrued in the
red i f youth to a rich tropic line.
Across the brow of one a brow
whose boyiiw contour moved women
with mother instincts to sudden lon'
inr to caress lay Ioom waves of soft
yellow hair. ISeneath looked out eyes
of dark iray, heavy with the lonjr
thoughts of those early, desperate,
days days whc.i a republic worked
out in blood her Ion"; probation. "I lo
i.t'uT had a fairer countenance, more
lightsome and full of happy promise.
Xo dark prophecy brooded in the
sunny shadows of the brijr'it blue eyes,
and laughter sprain.' as litr'itly to the
lip as the blush to the cheek of a maid.
Superadded to-niht to his native
exula-rance was sum.' foreio-n eleiuent
of joyotisness, which seemed to master
spirit and muscles alike. He was fall
of movement. Tossing away a half
fiuished iioarctte, he claspi'd hish inds
back of his curly head and broke the
silence with suilJcn sjieech.
"Ned, 1 am too happy to smoke; I am
the happiest matt in all this border
land. Nellie llerudon has prtmixil
to he my wife. It's a secret yet. but I
couldn't keep it from you any more
than I could keep my love from her.
There is uot another woman like her,
north, east, south or west. lhd you
ever notice the (.'old of her hair? It is
like sunshine spun into threads. 'When
ever I look at her J thiiili of some
quaint old .words my mother used to
re al out ot a boon lonoj 3ears aj,'o
when I was a boy back in my old
(Seoro-ia home. They went this way:
'Whose shoe's latehet I am not worthy
to unloose.' 1 MipjHisu the preachers
would call that irreverent, but Sod
will lear me witness there's no irrev
erence in my heart when I think of
her."
At Harvey Armstrong's first words
the color was washed out of Ned Fos
ter's face as with a spoiio-e, his very
eyes seemed to pale.
Urinjrinp; the chair to the prouniL.
conceal ine; his face with his huinls, he
leaned over the railine; and looked
down into the sluirg-isli waters of the
river llowine; a few feet lielow.
How old and wise they looketl, those
waters, in their calm, unfretted flow.
"tiood for you. old fellow." he said,
as he extended his hand. "May you
have centuries of happiness. If any
man deserves her it is you, Harvey."
This was in the summer of 1S41.
In the autumn of ls4J, when Presi
dent Houston ordered out (Jen. Smier
veil to the Kio Srande to organize
troops and avenge the insult ine; mi,ls
of Vasipiez and Woll, Xed l'oster was
aiuon-e the tirst to respond to the call
for volunteers.
AlM.ut tine hundred and eie;hty miles
south of Saltillo, on the road to the
t ity of Mexico, is an old fort, known
in history as the Hacienda .Sahulo.
To this place, on the 2iith of March,
1S4'. were brought the recaptured rem
nant of the unfortunate Mier exjiedi
tion, that gallant band of three hun
dred aud sixty men, the flower of
western militia, who went forth to do
battle for the honor of tlie j-omi(f re
public and were so treacherously
ileal t with by the followers of Santa
Ana, to whom they surrendered as
prisoners of war. All readers of Texas
history know how the terms of the
treaty were broken and the betrayed
men showu no mercy but inarched into
tbe interior, subjected to incredible
hardships, and finally imprisoned miles
away from home and friends.
I'eelino; keenly the indi"-nity of their
treatment, and fearing worse at the
hands of such perfidious foes, they
overpowered the ifiiard and escaped,
to le retaken ten days later and re
turned to the same inclosure whence
they hail lied.
All this is history; but we have no
written record of that interval between
the esca-H and the recapture, when the
little company wandered, lost and
.helpless, amonp; tl,e fastness of un
familiar mountains; no record of those
ten days and nights when the sun rose
and -set but to mark another anil dark
er exjierience in the calendar of human
pain.
Ned Foster and Harvey Armstrong1
were aiiioiij; the nuiiilxr. Stronger
than the multiplied threads of the ca-:bh-
had prown the bond of friendship
Wtween these two men in the awful
realism of danger and sufferinp;.
For four days the weary and footsore
had traveled down a deep canyon
whise sleep sides narrowed and nar
rowed, until they closed and barred
them in. Then ine retracing of those
same steps.
A few, sorely weakened, pave up the
truj.'gle and dropped out of the ranks.
Some became deranged and, wander
ing off, slipH'd down the rocky ravines
and were Willed.
On the evening of the tenth day they
were met by a Unly of Mexican caval
ry and bidden to halt and give up their
arms.
After three days rest, in which their
half-spent lives were restored by those
arts of healing the Mexicans know so
well, they were carried, handcuffed in
pairs, into Saltillo and thence to
Sal ado.
The hoary walls of the old hacienda
looked down in sinister strength as the
thinned ranks filed in. Eight Mexicans
were outside digging a trench. Ned
exchanged a look with Harvey, his
companion in irons, and whispered:
That means deatli. He was not
wrong. At two o'clock ot the same
day the prisoners were ordered out and
ranged in double line against one of
the walls.
The ollieer in command then read
the written decree of Santa Ana, pres
ident of Mexico, a decree which pro
nounced for these men a fate so in
genious in its torture to mind and body
that it might have been conceived in
the subtle brain of a Herod.
Every tenth man was to be killed,
the decision to ' e made by lottery.
Into a jar were to lie dropped one
hundred and seventy beans one hun
dred and lifty-three white and seven
teen black.
Each man was to take out a bean.
Those drawing the black ones were to
lie shot lie fore the sun went down; the
rest spared death, but retained as
prisoners.
It wits a dark and cloudy day, this
'Jflth of March, with high winds that
whipped the sand into great waves and
blew it across the plains.
lSeyond the door of the courtyard
nothing could be seeu but the llvin"
- o
sand.
Over all spread the dusky canopy of
the heavens.
A Mexican soldier mounted a stool
an 1 held aloft the fatal pitcher.
The roll was called.
As each hand was slowly lifted and
poised for one single instant above the
mouth of the ju r life an I death must
have met and made salute.
Ti e game was for souls, and the die
was a Mexican ln'an!
Foster's name was called near the
last and he carelessly ilropjied in his
left hand, with perchance a reminis
cence of childish days when h.- had
done such things "for luck," and found
he had picked up a white lie an.
As he returned to his place Ilarvev
passed him, and Ned saw in the white,
drawn face of his friend no sign of
fear, but the mental anguish of (Jeth
semane. What was it he ha.l said last night in
one of the pauses of that long march?
That jierhaps, even now. a baby
voice was waking faint echoes in his
little home, aud that the anxiety he
was Waring for another was sharper
with pain than any physical torture he
had experienced.
Neit looKeil at tlie smooth wnite oval
of t he vegetable seed in his hand and
made a resolve.
When he looked up Harvey was just
raising his hand. Ned noticed how it
trembled.
When the fingers were withdrawn
there was something black outlined
against their bloodless tips.
The change in his face was that of
deatli.
With a quick movement toward his
friend, Foster made a Midden thurst
anil gesture, and- how it was no one
could ever explain but after the slight
confusion and pe re mptory orders to fall
inline Harvey was seen standing in his
old place stat ing with bewildered gaze
ut a white object in his open palm, and
Ned. erect and calm, with brow of
more than mortal beauty, awaiting the
signal of death.
As soon as Harvey regained control
of his confused faculties he made fran
tic, pitiable efforts to communicate
with his friend, but was silenced at the
point of a musket and compelled to
throw himself face downward with the
rest, while tlie seventeen d'jomed men
were led forth, bound together with
cords, their eyes bandaged, and shot
repeatedly until life was extinct. They
asked the privilege of being shot from
the front, but were refused, and made
to sit upon a log near the wall with
their backs to he executioners.
Six were taken out first, then six
more and then five.
Darkness fell like a great funeral pall
as the last shots were fired, and stars
shed their holy candle rays above the
dead; the dishonored dead, lying in
one great heap, body piled atop of
body. Nora C. IVrry, in Omaha ltee.
Spoony anil lMtln't fare Who Knew It.
The newly wedded couple boarded
the train at a village station and a
crowd of alout a hundred people saw
them off. The groom was a strapping
young tellow, with sunburned face and
hands and bear's grease on his hair,
.while the bride might have been the
"hired gal" on the same farm. They
'had no sooner taken a seat than he
put his arm around her and liegan to
caress one of her hands. A voiee in
rear of them cried out "Sxons'" but the
bridegroom gave no sign. Pretty soon
he pulled her head over on his shoul
der and there was a titter from the
rear of the car. The head stayed right
there, however, and Josh got both her
hands in his one paw. Three or four
voi :es :ried out: "Oh!" and 'Ah!" but
it was fully two minutes before he
tenderly pushed her away and rose up
and looked around and said: "We are
married. It was a case of luv. We
sparked fur seven years. She's mv vio
let and I'm her towcrin oak. We've
got one hundred and eighty miles to go
and we arc goin' to spoon every durned
rod of it and if thar's any critter here
who thinks he can't stand it he kin git
out and walk!" St. Louis Republic
"Where- the) Apostles Are) Honed.
All that now. remains of the apostles
of Christ are in tlie following places:
Seven are sleeping the sleep of the just
m Kome, viz: l'eter, Philip. James the
Less Jude. ISartholomew, Matthias and
Simon. Tlie remains of three lie in the
kingdom of Naples; Matthew at Sa
lenro, Andrew at Amalli and Thomas at
Ortona. One, James the I Jreater.was bur
ied iu Spain, at St. Sago de Coinpostclla.
I f the exact wherea Units of the remains
of St. John the Evangelist, there is
much dispute. Mark and Luke are
buried iu Italy, the former -at Veniie
and the latter at I'adua. St. Paul's re
mains are also Wlieved to Ik."" in Italy.
Peter is buried in Koine in the church
which ln-ars his name; so, too, are
Simon and Jude. James the Lesser is
buried in the church of the Holy Apos
tles. ISartholomew in the church on
that island in the Tiler which ln-ars his
name. The "Legends of the Alxostles'
place the remains of Matthias under tit!'
altar of the renowned ISasilicw
I
hESEUT
PHANTOMS.
Wierd Visions That Lead Trav
elers Astray in New Mexico.
Vast Ifrjr Strrtrhrs of Territory tVItere
tven trie Willi liraata lio Mail from
Lrk of Wster-Strsage Storlrs
ol the l'lalua.
One of the wierdest of desert scenes
is the mirage, and no more curious
stories have been told of them in recent
years than by I Van Duke, of San Fran
cisco, who, as superintendent of a great
t attle range in New Mexico, has lieen
much in the saddle during the last few
months, and has seen many of them.
Mr. Duke, who, according to a San
Francisco exchange, lately arrived in
that city, tells of quaint towns Ix-yond
the American border tieing refracted in
the skies and made to appear a.s actually
existing on the New Mexieo desert-.
Tlie towns vary in size, and the domes
of churches anJ of government build
ings, the stores, and all the outlines
stand out in clear view. The air is so
thin and pure that a real object fifty
miles away does not appear to lie more
than five.
"In riding over the plains I have seen
many of these strange mirages of
towns of Old Mexico." saiil he. ' "The
spires of the' churches, with their white
crosses, the adolte buildings and every
thing aliout them are complete. Killing
at a distance one takes them for -real
towns, and it is only after learning
that there can lie no such cities in the
vicinity that he gives up his idea of go
ing to them. Many men have lcen de
ceived by them, as they have been by
the mirages resembling lakes.
"Not long ago an American named
Frank Seyliold was journeying, from the
old town of Juarez.. Mexico, to Los Pa
lomas, in New Mexico, with a lot of
merchandise'. About forty miles south
of Iteming, in Chihuahua, he saw a
tieautif ul lake and pulled over the plains
to get water for himself and team, as
Imth were very thirsty. He drove for
quite a distance and still didn't appear
to get an)-closer. Still the lake was
there bvfore him in such lnauty and
naturalness that he never thought but
it w:is genuine, and kept on. He could
feci, as he thought, the' cool breeze
from the lake, and was encouragiil to
push ahead.
"At length after going several miles
and getting no closer the fact of its be
ing a mirage of the desert dawned on
him and he w het-led his team around to
get back. lSut night came on ln-fore
he reached the road. He pushed ahead,
thinking to reach it anyway, and thus
got hist and wandered around till he
could not reach the road.
"He had. therefore, to stay where he
was, and in the morning he renewed his
searcli- It was no, use, however. He
could not find it, and after wandering
around a good while longer he un
hitched his teams, le-ft his goods, and
proceeded in the direction he supposl
Los Palomas was. it was four days in
all ln-fore he got back, and in that time
he hail 'no water and suffered greatly.
It was a wonder he got through at all.
"Another case I know of occurred last
summer. A Mexican got lost on the
plains, was tleceived by the mirages,
and went hither and thither inquest of
water. Finally he was deceived by this
so much and had gone so long without
anything to drink that he be-came de
lirious, and. whipping out his revolver,
shot himself to get rid of his sufferings.
"His hand was unsteady, and instead
of intlicting a fatal hurt he shot him
self in the leg. He saw the blood ooz
ing from it, and in his crazed condition
drank it as it came from the wound
Strange to say, it revived him so that
he partially -ecovercd his reason, and at
last got back to where he could get
w ater and lie treated. He eventually
reci .'ered.
"On the vast dry plains near the Mex
ican lairder last summer a great many
coyotes went mail because there was no
water to drink. In this mad condition
they would bite anyl-ody they found.
Two Mexican lioys were sh-cpingoii the
ground in their blankets one night
when a mad coyote attacked and bit
lnth of them, tine of the boys after
wards died of hydrophobia from the
coyote bile, but the other finally got
well.
"There have lnen several instances
of pis ple dying down there of hydro
phobia from the bites of the mad coy
otes. Kath.-r more of them have oc
cur nil over the line of Mexieo than any
where else. It was the excessive dry
ness that caused the coyotes to get
crazed. At such times they are danger
ous, and oue must look out for them."
A PARTRIDGE BRINtiS LUCK.
Htrisns;e MiperatiUo i Anions; the J'rlml
tlve I 'oik ot .Maine.
In regard t j the habit of partridges of
flying into civilization, and a popular
superstition regarding them, an Au
gusta man said to a rci-orter of the Ban
gor (Me.) Commercial:
"One llew on our premises and was
captured. Then came up the question
wht ther we should kill the bird or al
low it to live. At that time there was
a general superstition that if a part
ridge came to a house where a sick ier
son lay, and the bird was killed and the
sick person ate the broth, it would ef
fect a cure. There was a girl sick at
our house, and the doctors had given up
her case as hopeless. Some of the fam
ily said kill the partridge and give the
sick girl the broth. But the sick girl
and others were for permitting the
partridge to live. We were equally di
vided, and agreed to let one of the
neighbors, whom we saw coming to the
house, decide whether the partridge
should lie killed or not. He said kill it,
and we did, and the sick girl ate the
brot h and pot well."
LAST OF THE CENSUS.
Coi.OR.ro"a assessed valuation in
1SSO wasST4,471,0'J3; in lMHj it wasSlS8,-Vll.n-i.
The larger cities in our country are:
New York. 1,51:S,.h)1; Chicago, l,O".i!,570;
Philadelphia. 1.044,S'J4.
Si terixtevdext I'orteb estimates
the cott of the last census at eleven
cents for each person. A good many of
those enumerated are not worth the
coe-t-
Js 1S5S the United States produced
7S4.000 tons of pig iron; in 1VT0 tlie
product was l,sti3,000; in lsso it was
s,s:i-"i,000; in lS'.H) it was 9,20i,7o:; tons.
Thk United States census reports of
stock give these figures: 14.0.v;,70
horses; S.'JtM.KU mules; 16.019,591 cows;
3o,s75.G4S oxen and cattle; 43,431,13o
sheep; U,CXy,luG swine.
AN UNHAPPY PEOPLE.
Troubles of JTewtah ColonUts la the if
ireatla Kepublic-
It is learned from the Jewish lrogress
that the Kussian Jewish colonies which
have lieen planted in the Argentine Ke
public by Karon Jlirsch are already suf
fering from the hostility of the Argen
tinians, or, as the Jewish lVogress
says, are subjected to "persistent per
secution by the Spaniards and Portu
guese of the orthinlox church." . The
climate is unfavorable to them; the
conditions of life are not what they
looketl for; they cannot pursue those
industries which they like best: the
government is not over friendly to
them, and now the natives have turned
against them with the intent of driv
ing them out and of preventing othur
of ISaron Hirsch's beneficiaries from
joining them. It is certainly hard for
the poor Jews who have gone and for
those who desire to go to Argentine,
where there is room for ten million
new settlers. The government of the
country has for years past lieen anxiotts
to obtain immigrants from Europe and
has offered inducements to newcomers
which have In-cn accepted by Italians
and some Germans; but, as soon as a
few hundred Jews go there, there is
opposition. The Argentinians are as
intolerant of Judaism in the nineteenth
century as their Spanish ancestors were
in the fifteenth.
The Jews of Russia, says the Xuw
York Sun, are in a plight indeed. The
government of their native country is
anxious to get rid of them and they
do not find it easy Ut learn of any coun
try in which they will lie welcomed.
Turkey will not permit them to enter
any part of its territory excepting Pal
estine, which few of them desire to go
to. Austria will not receive them; Ger
many will not receive tkicm, and even
the Jews of German nativity are kept
in fear of an anti-Semitic outbreak. In
France there is a strong anti-Jewish
sentiment. In England parliament has
been asked to take measures to prevent
the continuance of the Jewish influx
from Russia. Spain and Italy are no
more to In thought of than the Scandi
navian countries or Ireland. We should
suppose that Kussian Jewish colonies
might lie formed -in the countries of
northern Africa, especially in Algeria,
under French protection. We ! not
see why the aucict home of the race.
Palestine, is so unattractive to the Jews
of our time.
This American repulilic seems to le
the only eountry of the world to which
the Jews of Russia can come with any
assurance of peace, protection aud
prosperity. We had a very great Jew
ish immigration last year until it was
stopped by the enforcement of the quar
antine laws in Scptemlter anil by the
president's proclamation, which was
applicable to all immigrants. It is not
likely that there will be any great ad
dition to our Jewish population this
year.
SLEIGHING IN THE SOUTH.
An I'nwonted Snow tall Reaalterf In Nome
Onerr Attempts at I'nttcr-Maklnc;.
Sleighing is a rare thing in Atlanta,
Ga.. and so vehicles with runners are
not numerous. lint th inhabitants
managed to enjoy the snoe-fall of last
winter just the same. The Journal of
that city says a few genuine cutte-rs
were to be' seen, but the improvised
sleigh did just as well. la -pipes, pieces
of fiat iron and planks were u?ed for
runners, anil were fastened to the axles
of the vehicles. Atlanta was going to
make the most of the snowstorm, and
she took a sleigh ride. One gentleman
sa wetl out a huge hogshead and nailed
it to a pair of skids. He looketl like
King Gambrinus as a double team towed
him over the frozen In-autif ul. A lad),
who evidently had some fancy for
the style of the Esquimaux sat on a
cushion on a flat wooden sleigh to
which was hitched a small black pony.
There were no shafts, but long traces,
just as the Laplanders use. The lady
was wrapped and hooded, and in her
arms she held a rosy-t-heekeil, bright
little baby, muffled like a papoose of
Iceland. Two men, who liked to kill
two birds with one stone, constructed
a sleigh on the design of a river skiff.
A man of family and of originality built
a double sleigh with a children's addi
tion. On the front and larger sleigh
he and his wife sat in two wicker
chairs, aud in the smaller, which was
towed by the larger, his two children
tilted back in little rocking chairs. Six
young gentlemen, one of whom runs a
furniture store, faste-ned six huge retl
nxking e-hairs on a wooden frame with
runners. Two stately and dignified
mules made the rockawa slip like a
greased toboggan.
The Shah'a I.I t tie Joke
"In an art. exhibition of London,"
wrote the shah of Persia in the journal
he kept during his last visit to Europe,
"we were looking at a painting repre
senting an ass. I asked: 'What is the
price of this painting?' The director of
the exhibition, wno was a corpulent
man, with a white beard, looked up
the price-list, and said: 'One hundred
English pounds, which are equal to
two hundred and fifty Persian toman.
I answered: 'The price tf a live ass is
at the most five pounds; why should
this be so dear when it is only the pic
ture of an ass'' The director replied:
'Because it causes no expense and eats
neither hay nor oats. I said: 'Although
it causes no expense, it can, on the
other hand, neither carry burdens nor
give a man a ride. We both laughed."
Itabher Tret-s In the l ulled State.
The plants which produce the princi
pal portion, if not all. of the rublier
supply, are native's of tropical America.
As there is no similar climate in the
United States, it is altogether unlikely
that any of these tree's could be culti
vated Ui lie of any commercial inqior
tance in this country. Although an al
most tropical climate prevails iu the ex
treme southern portion of Florida, yet
occasional low temperature, even in
these portions, would be fatal to the
permanency of these plants.
llofi mm S m u cxler.
In the Netherlands dogs used to be"
trained by smugglers to cross thefron tier
laden with parcels of lace, at night. A
quick -scented dog was despatched ahead
of them, who, when he smelled custom
house officers about, turned Hack and
warned the others, who lay concealed
behind bushes or in ditches till all was
safe. At the end of the journey the
leading dog sliowetl himself alone, nor
did the others come up till a whistle
was given by the cuausiguee to tdiow all
was safe.
MKiKATOJiY SERVANTS.
They Come and Go with the Free
dom of the Wind.
To-llsy Thry Are Here and To-Morrow
W here Are TheyT-A t'aae Which
Many of (lor Headers Will
A ppreclate.
In the matter of keeping servants
one can never tell when the lightning
will strike. To-day she is here, and to
morrow where is' she? Ths domestic
harmony is fair and lovely as a sum
mer day; then suddenly and without
any warning whatever the girl appears
with the remark: 'I must leave on
Monday, ma'am." The lady of the
house is prostrated with consternation;
fche reminds the girl of the dress she
gave her for Christmas; promises her
fifty cents a week more wages and an
other night off, but these arguments
and petitions are useless; the girl is
adamant in her determination. She
had made up her mind. Other jx't'ple.
make up their minds sometimes, but
they are as pliable as wax compared to
the servant
After the lady of the house has had
her scene with the servant, t,tie reports
the matter to her bet ler half, -who re
marks complacently: "What, Mariar
going? You can't -persuade her to stay?
Nonsense! You women never know
how to do these things. You lack
diplomacy and tact- You have to
handle these matters gently. !et me
tackle Mariar." So in a blithe way he
approaches Maria and says:
"I hear you have some thoughts of
taking your departure?"
"If it's lavhr you mane, you have
hurd right," is the answer.
"Tut, Mariar. I know you don't in
tend doing anything of the kind. Get
that idea out of your mind"
'I goes on Monday," replies Maria,
and plunges her bunds into the tub and
says no more.
The reasons for her going are many,
for Maria is but a type. Sometimes it
is to visit a sick sister, brother or
cousin; sometimes the climate diesnt
agree with her; sometimer. she is going
to marry the coachman around the
corner and have a house of her own.
Again she ts going without any appar
ent reason. She likes the family: the
wages are all right; there is nothing
the matter with the missus but she is
just going. She is a bird of passage,
and when the inclination comes to fly
she spreads her wings and vanishes.
You might as well try to imprison an
eagle as to keep her when her soul is
bent on flying.
A family on Sproat street had an ex
perience with one of these restless souls
which will long remain a sad memory.
The yearning to lie away as urong as
that of the robins when winter comes
always seizes the faithful domestic
when the house is full of company. In
this case a second cousin, his wife and
two children were making a visit at the
house' of the Sproat stret t resident,
who is of a hospitable disju.sitioii and
doesn't mind how much company he'
has if the wheels of domestic aifairs are
moving smoothly. No soouer were the
newcomers fairly installed than Maria,
or to speak more specifically, and not of
a type. Katie, approached the lady of
the house.
"You'll have to find a new girl,
ma'am."
The lady gave a miniature shriek.
"Surely you are joking, Katie," she
faltered.
"I'm not joking, ma'am. I never
joke."
"But you would not leave me like
this?"
"I give you fair warning, ma'am.
That is all a poor girl is expected to do."
"But the house is full of guests and
what will they have to eat?" -
"That's not my lookout, ma'am. Per
haps they can cook for themselves."
The lady liegged and implored, and in
answer to all her stixplicationscame the
firm reply: "I leave on Clumsday,
ma'am."
That afternoon the lady explained
the situation to her husband In tremu
lous tones. "What shall we do. dear,"
she exclaimetL "What shall we do?"
"Never miiiiL, love," he replied. "A
girl like Katie shan't phase you. We'll
get another girl soon and meanwhile "
"Meanwhile"
"I'll get up early and fix the fire"
"Ah"
"And start the furnace "
"Oh"
"And sweep off the sidewalk "
"You darling."
Then they embraced tenderly. His
brave, helpful nature sustained her
drooping spirits in the hour of trial.
The first thing he did that night was
to purchase an alarm clock and when
he went to lied, set it for six
o'clock. Before dropping to sleep, he
remarked, reassuringly, to his wife:
"Don't worry, now. The cloek'll go
off. I'll put on the coffee mylf."
It seemed to him that he had hardly
sunk into slumber when he was awak
ened by a horrible din as though a
boiler explosion had taken place under
the bed. He sprang up in affright and
reached for his revolver, while stars
danced before his eyes. Then he dis
covered that it was only the alarm
clock. He pulled on his trousers tbe
wrong way and fell over a chair in try
ing to get them on, at which he said
something that caused his wife to re
mark, in drowsy tones: "KetnemluT,
we have guests, dear." Then the
owner of the voice sank into slumber
once more, while he, half attired, w ith
his coat and vest on his arm, devoid of
collar and carrying his shoes, started
downstairs. It was very dark. He
never knew lefore it was so dark at
six o'clock. Did Katie have to get up
at this hour every day? If so, he did
not blame her for leaving. Confound
the cat! Who would have thought she
was sleeping on the stairs? Where
were the matches? Is there anything
so hard to find in the dark as a match
box?. Ah, he has found it. Striking a
light he groped his way toward the
cellar stairs. To his chagrin the
furnace had gone out and for half an
hour he labored as faithfully as Her
cules at any one of his tasks, covering
himself with dust and glory. Soon the
fire was burning cheerily and he made
his
way upstairs into the kitchen.
now in ine world does Katie make a
Are without kindling?" he muttercL
finally he lighted a lamp and went in
to the woodshed. "I ll ,,,,, W)mt.
kindling in a jiffy," he said. So say
ing, he chopped up a board and met
with no further mishap than to injure
himself with a flying splinter.
.or . , ...
As be passed through the back yard
- with the kindling he glanced toward
the east. "I wonder where is the god
of day?" he remarkeiL Then he start
ed the fire in the kitchen stove aud put
the kettle Vki. It was so dark that he
was tibliged to keep the gas lighted.
"It's fuiinv the sun doesn't come up,"
he commented as he drew his shiver
ing form nearer the fire and watched
the tea-kettle, whicli was now emit
ting steam and whispering the while
oue of its soft lullabies. lSetween the
puffs, the kettle murmured: "Wouldn't
you like to go to sleep whoa, w hoo a
nice early morning nap puff, puff the
sweetest sleep of all the night? whoo,
whoo." While this rhythmic measure
was going on and he had nearly yield
ed to the influence, a liell rang out the
hour. '"One two three." Then there
was silence. The other lclls followed
and they all struck three times. Were
the liells i iad? Three o'clock? lmnis
sible! Had not the alarm clock gone
off and had not the clock lieen set for
six o'clock? Then why should all the
bells strike three? Were they wrong?
Or, was it possible that the alarm
clock had gone off at two o'clock? It
was more reasonable to suppose that
the fault was with the alarm clock. He
had heard that they sometimes explod
ed before their time. With many silent
blessings on the clock he silently stole
upstairs and crept into lied. Mean
while the kettle downstairs went right
on murmuring: "Whoo whoo he's go
ing to take his morning nap puff
puff!" At the same time his wife whis
pered: "Is breakfast ready yet, love? '
"No," was the gruff response. Then
she sank into dreams and he followed
suit, his bluml-ers being broken by ex
ploding alarm clocks and the flying
splinters of kindling wood. Suddenly
there was a loud pounding. lie started
up just as another clock had gone off
in his dreams.
"What is that?" he exclaimed.
"It's the milkman, I think, dear,"
said his wife.
At the same time, in corrolioration
of her statement, a sonorous voice
arose from below:
"Mi-Ik!"
"Why doesn't he come in the middle
of the night?" growled the husband as
he arose and threw a blanket around
him.
"My dear, you are not going down
like that? You will catch your death
of cold."
"I don't cre," he answered, desper
ately. As he opened the back door the
wind blew in upon him and the snow
covered his bare feet. He looked like
a bleached Indian chief as he stood
there wrapped in his blanket. He
coughed in a funereal manner as he
was roughly greeted by the wintry
blasts. The milkman, who was cov
ered with snow and had icicles on his
beard, regarded him in amazement.
"Mornin. " he said.
"Never mind about exchanging any
civilities, my friend," returned the
other with chattering teeth. "Just
pour tiut your milk."
Can't."
"Why not?"
"It's frozen. Rut I'll leave a cylin
drical chunk of ice in the jar, and you
can thaw it out." With that he clat
tered his pails and disappeared whist
ling blithely as though life had no
cares. The husband returned to the
kitchen with the cylindrical chunk of
frozen milk, intending to melt it near
the fire. But to his consternation he
found that the fire had gone out. The
kettle was puffing uway despairingly,
singing very softly: "Whoo-whoo
you've got to build the fire again
whoo-whoo puff-puff" and then,
after exulting a moment the steam
suddenly ceased coming from the
spout. While setting and lighting the
fire once more, he soliloquized upon the
migratory propensity of servants and
told himself that the next girl they em
ployed would have to sign a contract to
remain at least a montlu By this time
he was getting quite warm w ith in
dignation, and, although the atmos
phere was so chilly indoors, he wouid
soon have been comfortable. He knelt
on the floor before the stove and began
blowing at the fire, his temper not tie
ing improved by his ineffectual at
tempts to fan the flame into promising
projiortions. The flame wavered, iluf
tered, looked as though it might te
come a promising conflagration, and
then went out- He wrapped his man
tle more closely around his form and
was about to give audible vent to his
feelings when he heard a light voice
behind him:
"You had better go to bed, love, and
allow me to make the fire."
It was his wife, and there was a sus
picion of laughter in her bright, blue
eyes.
So saying she knelt in turn lefore the
stove and soon a cheerful tire was burn
ing. Then the kettle began to sputter
again. "It's all right now she knows
how to do it whew, whew you'd bet
ter go to bed puff, puff "
Then followed a day of tribulation,
the guests being given an explanation
which they received good-naturedly.
In the afternoon the wife went to an
intelligence office and left word to have
a girl sent at once. That evening there
was a timid knock at the side door.
Tlie wife went to see who was there.
A familiar and welcome voice was
heard:
"It's me Katie. If you please,
ma'am. I wants to came back. I've
changed my mind about lavin'."
The wife indulged in a series of rap
turous exclamations and Katie was
once more installed in the bosom of tho
family, where she continues to reign.
Detroit Free Press.
WOMEN OF EUROPE.
QrEF.x Victoria possesses a small
cabinet of Rose du Barri china that is
valued at f ir.0,000.
Ex-Em prkfs Frederick of Prussia,
the queen regent of the Netherlands,
and Empress Augusta, all hold the
positions of regimental chiefs in
Prussia.
The widowed Princess Nazel is the
only upper class woman in Egypt w ho
is allowed to see men and has this priv
ilege through the siH-cial order of the
sultan.
The editor of El-Ahram. an Egyptian
journal, is a favorite with the khedive.
w ho has, as his latest means of showing
his approval, conferred the order of the
Chefakat upon the etlitor's wife.
One of the few women who were priv
ileged to call Mr. Gladstone "W illiam"
tlied recently near Livcrpiiol in her btth
year. She was Mary Ann McKean, and
for more than half a century she was iu
the service of the Gladstone family.
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