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CARL RIVINiUS, -PRACTICAL- -AND DEALERIN- ' j' VS. l ft- n I I ! ; - y Si ' : " I: ?li -- 'J if "Seeing: is Believing." And a good lamp must be simple; -when it is not simple it is . " l . ..... ,y ... y UCI'IVII1C3C words mean much, but to see " The Rochester " will impress the truth more forcibl v. All mt-il tough and seamless, and it is absolutely safe and unbreakable. Like Aladdin's ci oiu, it is indeed a "wonderful lamp," for its mar- J velous lisht is purer anH r. i . suiter man ciectnc ngnt ana Z rIA J. K.i Look for this stature-Tun Rochester. If the lampdealer hasn't the nnina Rocbrster. and the style you want, srnd to us for our new illustrate! catak"" and wr U srnd you a larao safely by express your choice ot over 2.UUU yaxict.es trom the LatKeit LamD Store in. the World 3 UUU ot ii tsrtu LAaiP co.t 4i rurk Pltct, New Yorfc City. W "The Rochester." .VP HAY-FEVER 1 VVaw AND COLD-HEAD fry t'mw in a triil, tnvf or 50c qmrKiy atmurlh-tt. JC ctsaniua Vie the nrt. tUl lrurif)ut xtnt by mail oil Trrriiit of prim. L fl A ELY BROTHERS. 56 Warren Street NEW YORK. DUC ELKHART CARRIAGE AND HARNESS TO. iu3. "'"""r4" (PyfX CO CfJ lr-Mt niinfartnnni 4;X..'Ut biujcKacd HArnoes tbia rVge-f l m , v v - ri- irm ht t.nh i if n-t sctiBfacior.. Wr t ant fornvo-ni V tijr ma Acaut (lotoeU f. .mlr for yiKt' W nti your osrc nr Jur. Kux:njr ai-. VVt ta&e ail Uut riux ul Uamifitt in btu(jyui;. WHOLES ALP" PRirr"! ftprlna VnH, S'.i't am Mill t. . .j -VJ " T". to ,,'0', rO. 41. VfaaOlt. S43.laU VUI"" W :.vr l II M K ' II !: Ss t. s-ii); ftouble l'.t!T. !I8 yto S..S.,. !.in- W.H.II.-M and I I y Net-. idpt-fuoiit oil f.,r ctbb wit h oruVr. m.Iui:a illiu- iW. B. PRATT, Mountain House STIR SH&YIHG PARLORI CENTRE STREET, EBENSBURG. 'THIS well Iiqowd ami l. inn et,.l.lihel Shavinn X I'arlnr i now iiicateil on Outre Ktreel, ni 'iie (lie hverjr MaMa l ll'Hun. Ihtyi Sl ,ui, tiere the l.umiie.ii will I e parried on In Hip lutbr. SHAVINC. 1IAIH I II1MI AMI MIA.VI'UOINU 0oe In the l.eslent n,l uiot ariinic lunuiirr. IMean Towel a Keeiaiiy. tLi.ie waited on at tbeir reliui'e. JA.MKS H.IMNT, r'ronrtor CASSIDAY'S Shaving Parlor, EBENSBURG. 'PIUS well-known Shavinn r-rlor If located on rJnn.ntr n"r lbe ' ""nty Jail. I.h re- V. . V ,'"n handaomely reiurni.l.e.l. a erel ,." ""M it every modem roi.Tenion.e. and "A' L .'f l"'"u'- neate.t. ami te,.t Mini,, in li.lwomtueiiwii.. will rive every attentimi' to l.iner. V uur .alPihave lied KOUKKI' CASSIIIAV. . i , I ; ; I li.-lil with :t Sprnii; SHx k rtli 1 1 1 ir n l . anil I'll i M n-ii'S ) I ( t t '( I '. j- Watches, Clocks JKWEMIY, Silverware, Mnsical Instrnineat? -AMI Optical GoodG. Sole Agent FUK TJ1K Celebrated Rockford WATCHK8. Columbia ami P'rpdonia Wafchps. In Key and Mem Winders. ,ATU,R SKLKOTIOV of ALL KIND j of .IKWKLKV always on hanl. "j I-" Mv line nf Jewelry Is unsorpassed lli.nie and see for yourself before purchas in? e where. t-if ALL WOKK nrAUANTERD J-J CARL RIVINIUS. K"nstuiru. Nov. 11. lS5--tf. made in three pieces only. hnVVitr thin . " . L fe1" "S"1-. light, more cheerful than either. r 4av o pr,Ur. Ajyplifd into the nostrils it is twtttl, alUiy utjtammatinn, hfub No-m Road in Anienca wl:uir Iffagcn. waj. Smp with pn. 27 to So. iuarantwl same at !j4 , flue a Watiom, Koud Curia. Scc'y, ELKHART, IND. pedicle written at inort notice In the OLD RELIABLE 1 ETNA" T. W. T3ICK, turnx rK tut. ' OLO HARTFORD MIR INSURAKGROOUT. IIUMMKHOHl BIT.SINtSS 1794. Khenghnrv. July l. 18a. FEES BROS.' Shaving Parlor, Mam Street, Ncar Post Office ' -The nnderftiicned ilwlrei to Inform the pub lic that they have oiiened a nhavlnv imr or on j Main mreei. near the ot o 111 re where harherlnic ii nil iw nrnriiD -wiii im carriet on In lite future. KvervihinK neat ani! eiean. V our patronage soliciied. Itlii 11 KOI. MMaax i a I OJ I KJJ If l"C Ii U I J ON SOME UuiUi Man, who tiiiiM: hemes, il:tits and t-ities, Mau, ho has i inpire over all the ix-rao, Master of music, color, and of verse, la Not worth a ha i'ny. Say that the coin is struck upon his birthday. Sooner or later Ui-aili w ill lap his slioul.l-r; Theu where Is ho who schemed so very deeply? There Is the ha'p'ny. Thus lo myself, while wearily pertisintr Mustv oUl Uetnls iu iliamtHTs in the temple, lVcds that the title U.tv uiou their pu'ea To an old mansion. All the rich owners Fathered in the churchyard. ' just reineinliervd. moit of them fort'olteii: Yet are their names here signed upon the parchment Just us they wrote them. Hearts full of hojie of many an attorney Must have loped high when spiuuin out these h-mrthy 1sh1s, in the days when the longer the deed the Longer the bill was. Here is a marriage settlement: how jovful Was the fair bride who signed her maiden name there: Husuaml, and w ife, and children all are buried. Lent:. lon? ai;o now. Yet I can touch where lay her penile fingers. And 1 can wonder if her life was happy. Whether her husband treated her with kind ness. Or like a husband. dose "this Indenture:" I must cease to ponder Over the dead past lawyers are not poets: Work must be tlnished ere I cau Uepart hence Home to my dinner. St. James Gazette. TIIE COUNTRY DETECTIVE His Work Is Harder Than Ilia City Brother's. Ills Only tellable Assistant I'aually Is Ills Trunty Kcvolvrr A Case In Which One I aeil Ilia Weapon with ICeuiarkuhle Klt'ert. "Tlie tletoctive business, ay way you take'it," s:ii j a memlier of tlie prt fession, receutH', "is interesting and oxeitinir, but ut hero in the "wilils of Wejst Viririuia' the dangers go 'way by those met with in regular city work. The city detective has all the help and needful accessories tie wants; out here he lias to Ik.- the entire force himself, for when lie is wandering around aiii.nir these mountains lookinp; for un escaped murderer or train wrecker he can't have an army of jxilice oflie.rs at his l'ck and call, lie and his revolver have to be the whole thinif, and the only help he frets is what he has at the end of his weapon. It makes him self-reliant and pretty hard to tfet cm;.' lit in a bad place, but he has a harder time than one thinks, keeping himself free. lie plays a iame of risky solitaire, in fact, and 't he worst of it is he doesn't en fret into the pa pers like his more fortunate, but 110 braver, brother iu the city." "All ri-ht," said one of his listeners, us the country detective stopped to re liirht his ci-rar, ' j ahead wifli your ?tiry. It reminds you of " Vroiif ao-ain. ymiirrnan," returned the oilieer, binilin,, "fur it d.jesn't re mind me of any- hair-brea.lt h escapes. Fact is, I have U rn lucky in not iet tinrf into any very close places and I never did a thin;r that would warrant my huvinp my picture published in the newspapers." "1 should hope not!" exclaimed the youn' man, fervently. "Hut," went on the other, without noticin; the interruption, "we had one man down in Kanawha county whose life was one of the saddest and at the same time the busiest of any liian'B in the state. Never mind his name; he was al the head of an agency, and died only a few months a'o. lie had had mor.t exciting incidents in the course of his life than any man I ever knew, and. if it is ever written out in full, it will prove as interestin;. as any half dime novel you coald limL lie. was a tall. I hui man, with he quietest ways imaginable, and, strange to say, as mode -l us a (fill when talking- f any of the many line 'catches he made, lie had been a newspaperman lon be fore he became a detective, and that jrnre him a capacity for listening; in stead of talking himself. He rose rap idly in the last profession he took up, and there is hardly a well-known case iu the state which he wasn't connected with in some way. He always acquit ted himself well, too, and hhowed he understotMl the business clear from A to Z. 1'erfectly fearless and as ajjile as a ti'er, it wasn't often that he was cauyht unawares. lSut once he came near bcinfr lost, and by the grossest piece of carelessness he was everfftiilty of. He had two men, as desperate as mountaineer criminals always are, iu his oflice. They were handcuffed, but that was all, the guard having pone to pet the town oflicials to carry them to jail. My friend was entertain ing' them in the meantime, and he pot up to speak to the porter in the hall for not half a minute, about petting them some water which they had asked for, when he heard a movement in the room. He stepped quickly back in time to see one of the men reaching with loth hands for a pistol belonging to the detective, which lay on his desk. He had his hands on it In-fore my friend could speak, but the detective prompt ly threw a chair at him, knocked him down, and, jumping1 clear across the room in one spring, he had the weapon and was covering the other prisoner before either of them could move. He saved himself by his presence of mind that time, but he told me he wanted me to kick him if he ever left another prisoner in reach of his dangerous 'toys.' "Five years ago he was on a famous case a train wrecking. It was a hor rible thing; two men turned a train into a switch running down the river, as they afterwards confessed, lieeause they had a grudge against the cn pineer of the train. Several people wife killed, among them the conductor, who lost his life trying to pet a braUe man out from under a burning; car but that is another story. As I said, my friend had this case, and the way he worked it was worthy of the man. 1 never saw him to tireless as he was this time; he followed his men from farm to farm and town to town, work ing as a common laborer here, as a brakeman there, a machinist in an other place, but keeping them in sight all the lime. Not once in three months did they ever pet over half a rnile away from him, anil he knev every move they made. Anil his reward came at last. 'I hey li a J crossed into Ohio and were working as harvest hands all three of them for he had yscd so many disguises they didn't know him and one night one of them yot drunk and between his tears ol repeutance and drunken tilceougns lie let the whole thing out. The detective pumped him carefully and got every particular and then put him to bed be fore his partner came home. The next day the drunk one sobered up, and the minute he came to his senses he knew lie had let the thing out. He went to his partner and confessed. That evening as the detective was going home from the fields through a stretch of woods they came on him from behind anil both of them went at him with rails taken from the fence. He pot turned around before they had struck him more than once, but he was so dazed he couldn't pet his pistol out Then those two devils stood up and beat that poor fel low over the head like they were striking' for a blacksmith. Thej knocked him to his knees three times, but they didn't know their man. He was grit from hair to heel, and the third time he went down the pistol pot out, and as they started to run he emptied all seven shots into them, every one taking effect, which was cer tainly remarkable, considering his con dition. One of them was killed ami the other was wounded in both legs. They were all three quiet when the rest of the hands came running up, but the detective came to iu time to tell them who he was and what had hap pened. It was a fine thing for my friend in some ways, though it ruined his health, and small wonder. People pot to thinking that a man that showed as much fight as he did must be of some account, and they gave him em ployment right and left He told me afterwards tnat those seven shots he fired did him more good, pave him more satisfaction than any he had ever made before. He sai.l that every time he heard the cartridge po and one of those scoundrels scream it made a pood taste in his mouth. I could understand that, too, for I've felt it myself, in my time " "What tecame of him?" asked one of the group. "Well, he never really recovered from the terrible hammering he pot on the head that time. He was never quite as steady after it, and a year or so ago his mind went. He imagined he had hundreds of cases, of all sorts and kinds, and that he was being shadowed all the time. I've known him to get up in the middle of the night and with his revolver patrol the streets in search of the men who were following him. as he thought. He used to give the news paper men fake murders, too, una he'd get them worked up over the details, aid after they had hunted for hours for particulars, they'd discover it all came from my poor old friend's troubled brain. He had to give up his business at last, and the minute the pressure was taken off he took to drinking. He dieti a few months ago, a raving mani ac That is only one incident, but it is enough to show you what I said that tlie country detective has a hard time, take it all in all." Everard Jack Ap pleton, in lk.'troit Free Press. OUT OF SIGHT. Idealistic Art In Theory mil I'rkotlce for the Youne; Mlml. Harry is a ten-year-old boy who indi cates a disposition to In-come an artist. In this he is assiduously encouraged by his father. The lad has a "box of paints," brushes, pencils and plenty of rough paicr. Harry's father is de voted to the theory of realism in art and literature, and occasionally lec tures the little boy on the duty of try ing to represent things just as he sees them. "If you are always accurate, faithful, true to the fact, if you try to give in miniature a representation of what your eyes really behold, you will be always in the right wty. Do you un derstand what I mean, Harry?" said the father, recently. "Yes, papa. I think I do." Not long afterward Harry invited his father to come and see his picture of a mountain. It consisted of a consider able quantity of sand and gravel shoveled around and upon the projec tions of a rough bowlder in the back yard. "You have not quite caught my mean ing, Harry, though you are certainly very conscientious," said the father, jocularly. "It's magnificent, but it's not art. You should not use the ma terials of your original in copying it. That would bo to make a model. You must try to draw a picture of what you see; draw it with pencil and paper, and colors, too, if you like. Don't draw anything you don't see. I dare say that is the easiest way of telling you the sound artistic rule." Soon Harry came back with his draw ing pad. "Here's a picture of a pigeon, papa." "Pigeon! I don't see any pigeon. Why, there is nothing but a straight up and down line, and two others meet ing it at right angles." "Well, papa, that's the comer of the fence. The pigeon went around the corner just when I was going to begin. You told me not to draw anything I couldn't see." Youth's Companion. HOW ANIMALS BEAR PAIN. The Mute and I'atlent Soflerlna; of the Lower Ordera When WuuudeU. One of the mst pathetic things, says the Yankee IUade, is the way in which the animal kingdom endures suffering. Take horses, for instance, in battle. After the first shock of the wound they make no sound. They War the pain with a route, won dering endurance, and if at night you hear a wild groan from the battlefield, it comes from their loneliness, their ls.s of human aompanionship which seems absolutely indispensable to the comfort of domesticated animals. The dog will carry a broken leg for days wistfully but uncomplainingly. The cat, stricken with a stick or stone or caught in some trap from which it pnaws its way to freedom, crawls to some secret place and Wars in silence pain which we could not endure. Sheep and othereattle meet the thrust of the butcher's knife without a sound, and even common poultry endure in tense agony without complaint. The dove, shot unto death, flees to some far olT Wugh, and as it dies silence is un broken, save by the patter on the leaves of its own life blood. The wounded deer speeds to some thick brake, and in pitiful submission waits for death. The eagle. strucTc in mid-air, fights to the last against the fatal sum mons: There is no moan or sound of pain, and the defiant look never fades ( from its eyes until the lids close over them never to uncover again. I DAMAGED FOR REYENUE. . New Scheme for Obtaining Money Without Workinc. I'eopU Who Claim Payment for Injuries That Are Never Kerelved-WuiiMa Are Atlepta l:i the LIUrep. utuble Bualueea. "There is a certain class of people vho make a pood living by claiming la mages for injuries which they have lever received." said Sergeant John Me sweeney. of the New York police, to a Journal reporter. "These fakirs are constantly trying new schemes," he continued, "by which to make it appear that they have lieen disabled through Wing assaulted or be falling down somebody's stairs or Wing knocked down by soinelw dy s hor.-', taking care that in every instance the :x rson claiming' to W at fault is amply able to pay. "Women are very clever at this new tri.-k, and it was through a pretty little idow, w ho staggered into the station Souse one day, that I pot the first inti--nation that the g-tme was Wing gener tlly worktsL "The woman was in the greatest dist ress apparently, and was scarcely able ;o stand. When I had given her a chair he said in a faint voice that she had just been run down by a wagon, and that she was certain she hail received internal injuries of a severe nature. "She had taken pains, she said, to take the name of the firm, which was painted on the wagon, and as it was one of the biggest dry poods houses in the city, she proposed to make them pay roundly for their driver's careless ness. "I at onee offered to send for a hospi tal ambulance," the sergeant went on. "but at this she bridled up and declared that she would allow no one but her family physician to make au examina lion. Then for the first time 1 Wgan to susiKct that the woman was not as bail ly hurt as she pretended to W, and I think she must have divined my thoughts, for she suddenly jumed up, ami, thanking me shortly for my trouble, starti d hastily for tlie door. J was too quick f r her. howm-r, and lurred her passage into the street I told her that she could not leave until die had sipncl a paper that I would prepare releasing tlie firm from all re sponsibility for her alleged injuries. "Of course, I did this only as a further test of the woman's veracity, and it worked Wautifullj-, for she not only signed the release, but reluctantly confessed that her whole story was a myth." A remarkable case which occurred but a few days ago was that of a man who feigned death in the face of a sur geon's threat to cut hun open in order to tiud out what he had died of. "I had just come on duty the other evening," said the sergeant, "when a man ran in all out of breath and gasped out that a man had just l-en knocked down and killed in the saloon at the corner W-low. Suspecting nothing, 1 posted the dozen or so officers who liajv pened to W within call on a dead run for the spot, telling them to bring back the dead man and every body they might find in the place. "In a few minutes they returned with thirty men and won en prisoners, and in the rear of the procession was the dead man, laid out on a window shut ter. "After locking- up the crowd in the cell room, the murdered man was placed n a table and a hurry call sent to(ouv-ert-.eiir hospital for an ambulance. "Trie story 1 pot from tlie prisoners in chorus was that the saloonkeeper, who, by the way, is a wealthy man. had struck the man on the head with a bung starter, and that the latter had promptly fallen down dead. On hx ik ing at the man I could see no evidence of life whatever, but when I felt his pulse I found that it was Wating away as regularly as a clock. Certain now that the fellow was shamming. I determined to pive him a good scare, so when the ambulance sur cou came we called all the turn's friends into the room and told them we were going- to t-ut him open. "The surgeon made a great fuss pet ting out hLi aws and lancet but the fakir was game and didn't Wtray him self by the flicker of an eyelid. The crowd was all agape, of course, and as the surgeon and I tore off the man's waist-'oat and shirt the "Women cov ered their eyes and proaned- " 'Here goes,' said the surgeon, at last, and, grasping the fellow on the table urmly by the throat, he ran the back of his knife quickly down the man's bare breast At the first touch f the cold steel the eyes of the corpse Uew wide open, and with a yell that . ..ul.l W heard a bhx-k he tore himself from the surgeon's grasp and in two jumps was out of the door and on a .lead run for the Kast river. "Seeing- that the game was up. one of the fellow's friends iu the crowd con fessed at last that the saloonkeeper hal merely pushed him out of the door and that he had fallen down and pre tended to W dead in the hoje that he might W admitted to a hspital, where he would come to life and as soon as possible sue for heavy damages." A trrt ltcoTery. William (iilWrt, who lived during the reign of Queen IClizabth. was the most distinguished English scientist of his time. He was a physician of great skill and had an exteusive prac tice, but found time to pursue studies not directly connected with his profes sion. Magnetism received much atten tion from him and he wrote a Latin treatise on this subject which gave him enddring fame. The theories advanced in it were new and most of them cor rect The one of greatest importance was that the whole earth is itself noth ing but a large magnet and that it is this which explains both the direction of the magnetic needle north and south and the variation and dipping or incli nation of the needle. This was Wfore GilWrt's time never suspocted. and he is therefore to be credited with hav ing made a discovery which marks an era in the history of magnetic science. Fuller included tlil Wrt among the "Wor thies of Enjrland" and predicted truly how he would W afterward saved from oblivion. "Mahomet's tomb at Mecca," he says, "is said strangely to hang up, attracted by some invisible loadstone, but the memory of this doctor will nev er fall to the ground which his incom parable book, De Magnete will sup port to eternity.' Chicago News. A LOVE STORY. Do I know that fair maiden? The one tetauaini? there In the hull, drensed In white. With the rose in her hair I did. my lear fellow. Kor many a day. Until her affectione Were stolen aw ay By a man with a title. Who wild evo-W-s told Of his great expectation And ancestry old. A coldness between US There rapidly crew. So I asked her to choose Iletwecn red blood and blue. You know how It ended. I was left iu the lurch. And sometime next autumn She'll walk into church With the 'dute." it a charm I've been brew ing some time Doesn't make her uew lover Appear less sublime. I've looked up his pedifrrt-e, No. not in "Uurke." e: But up at Sintf i in ; In the record of work Performed by the con vie u; - And now, in the hall. 1 A sheriff and warrant Are waiting my calL And I think, w hen his lordship, Is out of the way. The maiden will pose Aa your friend's fiancee. -J. Manning Roberts, in Brooklyn Llfe- TIIE BARRICADE. The Trouble It Caused the Opera tor at Louville. The station agent at Louville sat with his feet on the window sill, hands plunged into his pockets and a scowl upon his face. His eyebrows were straight and the scowl brought them down into a long line across his fore head; this, with his heavy mustache, made him look quite fierce. Ever and anon he would glance at an inoffensive little yellow paper Tying on his desk. Each time he did so the scowl grew fiercer. Finally he let his chair down with a bang, snatched at the telegram, and, for the fiftieth time, read: "Samcki. W. Tcttli: 'Tlie L & K- manager has appointed Miss Laura Walcott as assistant telegrapher at your station. Will be there on Wednesday. I. W., Secretary " Then he crumpled it up and tossed it into the waste basket "I "won't stand it," he growled "They have no right to treat me so. Why'did I ask for an assistant at all? Idiot!" With' this consoling remark he paced up and down the large, bare room. A man in the lonely position of station agunt is apt to contract the habit of talking to himswlf. "A woman!" be said, pausing in the midst of the room and running his lingers through his hair with inartistic rcsulti. "Here all the time, and no respite tor me! I'd have to keep on company manners eternally chairs on four legs, no smoking, wouldn't even whistle, I suppose. 1 have an idea that women always have head aches!" He paused and contemplated the sit uation again. It was too much. "I'll resign first!" he cried; and im mediately ticked off a message to that wffeot In an hour back came the answer: "Nonsense! Can't let yon off. What has struck you?" Samuel Tutt'.e suid something, but he said it very low. He at Wit up right for quite a while, and then a wicked smile crept into his face, "1 believe I'll be ready for Miss Wol ott when shti arrivws. I'll not W dis turbed by her presence, cither." This rather enigmatical remark was explained the next morning, whun, in oWdience to orders from Mr. Tuttle, two carpenters put iu appearance at the Louville station, and before noon had constructed across the middle of the large room, where he had held sway so long, a higl Ward fence of aggressively yellow pine. After their departure Mr. Tuttle walked among the shavings with a sat isfied air. He moved all his Wlongings to one side of the novel division line, and for the next two days worked away, again a happy man. On Thursday morning Laura Wol colt stepped off the express and came towards him with pood will shining from her brown cj-es. She was a hap py little thing, who. in her brief strug gle for existence, had learned to make the Wst of conditions; so it was with a most cheery smile that she unsus pectingly extended her hand to her sworn enemy. To tell the truth, Samuel Tuttle was rather taken aback, and felt slightly ashamed; he had somehow expected she would know of his antagonistic feeling, and met him in a suitably dis tant manner. There was no backing out, however; so he led her around to the door opening into her half of the room, and said: "This is your oflice; you will find everything in place." Then, with a stiff Ww, he retreated to his own do minion, without daring to glance at her. She stood still as he retreated, with a puzzled expression in her eyes; then she heard him on the other side, mak ing a good deal of racket getting set tled. Finally, a faint blue curl of moke rose over the fence. At this. Miss Wolcott sat down with a look of dawning intelligence, mixed with a hurt expression, upon her pink-and-white face, as she taw the fence was a new one. The smile grew as she grasped the situation, until there was a network of dimples around her mouth; she nodded her head sagely in the direction of the fence, and set to work quietly. Mr. Tuttle, for his part, wondered what she was doing to keep so still; the novelty of the situation perplexed him so that he could not enjoy his solitude. Along in the afternoon his curiosity made it imperative that he should consult her aWut a message, so he sauntered around to her door. She greeted bim with the same cheery smile, appearing utterly oblivious to any strangeness in the situation, and innocently gazed straight up into his eyes. When there was no longer the slightest pretext for his staying, he went back. Somehow his side looked forlorn and disorderly, and he awk wardly tried to put it to rights. This went on for several days, and their acquaintance progressed. He even owned to himself that she was "a nice little thing," and he had Wen a fool in regard to the fence; but it wouldn't do to give up. It was an noy inp. though, to W obliged to go out of one door and in at another to com municate with her; so. one night after he had guue home, he cut a square hole in the fence. From his table, through this ovening he could catch frequent glimpses of her brown head as she Wnt over the telegraph instru ment; but this dies not necessarily point to any scheming propensity on his part Frequently he caught him self staring at her steadily; sometimes she caught him, too, and then they would Wth laugh he, rather confused ly, she, merrily. (iradually she brightened up her half and even carpeted it; there were flow ers in the window, and new-made friends frequently dropped in. She see tiled a capital entertainer, and Sam uel Tuttle watched proceedings with quiet and envious eye. His half looked cheerless, and he felt out in the cold. She was as pleasant as ever, but ier sisted in treating him as a business acquaintance; she never laughed and joked with him the way she did with other callers. He Wgan to feel ag prieved. and his eyebrows were often drawn down into a straight line, much to her secret enjoyment In a reckless moment he cut a gate in tlie hateful barricade: after doing it, he felt rather nervous as to how she would take it When she came in she stopped short for a moment, and then said: "How nice!" Mr. Tuttle could have blessed her. The gate stood open the greater part of the time, and he had a full view of her; they even conversed at odd moments, and he Wgan to feel con tented with life, and whistled again. She had no headaches and surprised him by singing to herself now and then. In short, Samuel Tuttle was W coming more and more entangled by this careless, happy little woman, and he did not even try to extricate him self. Hut the fence! That monument of a perverse moment! Fvery morning he groaned when its staring yellow face met him, and he was daily over whelmed with contrition when Laura Wolcott's bright face greeted hi in. Something had come over her of late; she did not avoid him, but she was quieter; she did not look at him so bravely as at first Samuel Tuttle was Worried aWut it for he could not understand; and a dozen times a day he wanted to cross through the gate and end it all by tell ing her his feelings: but he was afraid she would simply look at the. fence and smile. He knew he could never endure it if she should. " One day a message came for the operator herself, and with a little cry she rose. "1 must po home," she said, as he came to her. "My mother is dying." He did not think of anything to say, and silently helped her on with her things. "Thank yon." she said, as she stepped out of the door, her eyes full of tears. It was very lonely for Mr. Tuttle the week she was away. The office seemed dingier than ever. He sat one day looking through the gate, out of sheer force of habit, when an idea came to him so suddenl .- that it took his breath away. He laid down his pen cil and went outsidu; presently became back with an ax. There were blows and crashes, till, finally, Samuel Tuttle, red and perspiring, stood triumphant amidst the ruins of the long-hated fence. His spirits rose wonderfully after that and he could breathe easier; he was wildly anxious for Monday " morning and Miss Wolcott's return. He saw her coining down the street and rose to meet her, with a great wave of tenderness surging over hiin as she stepped in the door, a black roWd Jittle figure. She hesitated in Wwilderment as she looked across the cleared room to where Samuel Tuttle stood with a Wseeching look in his eyes. She had not known Wfore how the fence had wounded her feelings, and she was suddenly overcome. "Laura!" he cried. "0 Laura!" as lie quickly crossed over to the chair into which she had dropped. She did not repulse him, and sobbed out her pent-up feelings on his shoulder. "I was afraid you could never give my the fence," he faltered. She Wpan to laugh through for her 'tears. "Oh. the fence," she eaid. "It was hateful of you, SamueL but I forgive you now." Cotton Woodruff, in Dem orest's Magazine. A Mioik-M-r with Two Price. I was buying a pair of spectacles not long ago from the man who has sold me every pair I ever had. Several people were standing at the counter. I laid down one dollar and fifty cents and started to po. He called me back. "Two dollars, if you please, Mr. By stander." "Why why," said I, in astonishment, "I thought it was only a dollar and a half." "Two dollars, sir. I never sold a pair of spectacles in this shop for less." I added the other half dollar, and turned to go. Again he interrupted me. "I wish you would step back into the rear of the shop, Mr. Hy slander. I have a geological specimen I want to show you. " I followed him meekly. At soon as we were out of bearing of the others he shoved a half dollar into my hand. "There's your geological specimen.", he prowled. "Don't you ever play me a trick like that again. You never paid two dollars for a pair of spectacles in your life." I fell that I had met a genius and was humbled accordingly. Cincinnati Tribune. THAT LAWN MOWER. A Wicked HaiUad I'lay It oo 1 road and roollah Wife. A lie) fast (Me.) woman pot indignant the other day at the shabby appearance of tlie lawn aWut the house. After mowing down her husband with wrath, she was soon on the lawn herself with the lawn mower. Hack and forth she pushed the machine, while the sun Warned soft and' melting on the down trodden woman and everything else. From a shady nook her husband tim idly watched her determined display. For an hour, in which she must have traveled a dozen miles, she work ed, but, sad to relate, not a blade of grass bowed lo her indignant endeavors. Finally her husband picked up cour age enough to address her: "Hadn't you Wtler turn the machine over, my dear?" She did turn the machine over into the putter and swept into the house with a look that kept her husbaud at a distance for several days. PERSIAN POETRY. The Knowledge of 1 hat I-angoage I'oe aeeeed by lirltl.lt Offirlala. Sir Kdwanl Straehey, in a recent pajM-r on "Persian Poetry" in the At lantic, speaks of the knowledge of that language and literature required by an -arlier pencration of Knplish oflicial in India: "With the other institutions of the mogtlls we took over the use of Persian in all oflicial business, and the munshi, or Persian scretary and interpreter, Wcaine a part of the staff of the J.'ng-li.--.li oilieial in charge of jx,litii ul, rev enue and judicial business. The lan guage of business was soon discovered to Ik- the Language of a new ami fine literature; and volumes illustrate the enthusiasm which the magistrates, judges and collectors in our older provinces, and our administrators in those newly annexed, our txililical agents and residents in the native courts, and our military officers threw into these Mudu-s from the time when Warren Hastings set the example. "Hut then a generation of spx-ulative reformers arose, who asked why we should not act in the spirit of the mo guls, and, instead of carrying on their ncthod with literal servility, make Knplish the oflicial language, and so bring the several nations of India into a new and more intimate connection with our own literature und civiliza tion. A retired Heiigul judge expressed the general opinion of practical men when he said that 3011 might as well make Sanscrit the oflicial language ia the courts of Westminster as F.ng lish in the administration of justice iu India. "lie, indeed, though a man of abilit3 and eminence in the company's service, could s-c no inconvenience in the em ployment of Persian in the administra tion of justice; and such is the force of habit that when he had occasion lo take notes of an important trial at the Somersetshire assizes he actually wrote them in Persian rather than iu the Kng I:sh words in which the evidence was given, just as had done many 3ears be fore when tr3irig dakoits at Jessore. "Hut though the general opinion of the native as well as the ICnglish ofli cials was against any change. Lord Auckland, by the advice of Sir Charls Metcalfe, took what probably now seems to every one theobviousl3 reasnn able course, and 13 his orders in 1:7, finally confirmed in 1SJS by the home government, all oflicial business was ti W carried on in the vernacular lan guage of the countrt. "Persian remained, and remains, the language of diploma3". It is not re quired in any other branch of the pub lie service; and it is not possible that men so hardworked as our Indian civil ians and soldiers now are should find time and euergj for a purclj literary nudy. They all fall back on their Homer and Horace; or, yet Wtter, on their Shakespeare and Tennyson." NEGROES AS MECHANICS. They Would lie Successful If Their Illth Notions of l.lb-rty Old .Sot Interfere. Can the negro W trained as a me chanic, or is he by nature adapted to other work than that of an unskilled laWrer? The question maj confidently W answered in the affirmative, says ex !ov. Iwrj'. of Mississippi, in the North American Review. While this answer cannot W successfully contro verted, and while it ma3 have a ma rial Waring 011 the prosterity of tin; otithcrn states, jet it involves grave questions, the successful solution of which would tend to a Wtter under ;tanding of the two sections of this rreat nation. The negro was held in oondape in all th colonies save one In fore the adoption of the federal consti tution, and w hether or not he was the prime cause of the 4frcalcst war of mod ern times it is unquestionably true that he regards his liWration as tlie result of that struggle. Prior to the wi;r there were a large nu-nWr of negro me chanics in the southern states; 111:1113' them were expert blacksmiths, wheel wrights, wagonmakers, brick masons, carpenters, plasterers, painters and ahocmakers. They lnx-ame masters of their respective trades by reason of sufficiently long service under the con trol and direction of ex'H'rt white lue clutnics. During the existen e of slavery the contract for qualifying the nepro as a mechanic was made lctwe-n his owner and the master workman. Now the negro Wing, in his own words, a "freed man," w ill not consent to ro straints. He cannot divest himself of the idea that apprenticeship in its most modified form is a spcic of slavey for a term of 3ears. He may Ik assured of the relation of master and apprentice aa it exists in almost ever3 civilized coun try; still he is slow to embrace it He appreciates the advantages of sticrior skill, 3'ct his teachings of liWrty are to his mind inconsistent with the exer cises of altsolute and continued author ity over him. A lng Aaka for Help. In East Iloslon lives a remarkable dog, which is a mixture of Newfound land and mastiff. His name is Nero, and his master Wlieves he can under stand every word that is spoken to him. Not long ago Nero entered a lumWr yard where he was not known, and limping up to one of the workmen held up an injutNHl paw. Nero is not so hand some and gentle in appearance as he is intelligent and the man ordered htm out Nero walked away as far as the door, turned around, came back, and again held up his wounded foot The man stopped his work, and pently tak ing hold of the paw found a safet3-piu imbedded deep in the lhsh. He ex tracted the pin, the dog wincing at the pain, and when the little iperation in surgery was over the dog licked his paw and then thanked his Wncfactoras plainly as a dog could, afterwards trot ting away as if nothing unusual tiad happened. Nat oral Blunder. "You maile these boots, didn't you?" asked a mad man w ith a bad fitting pair of shoes. "Yes," said the shoemaker, looking up from his last "I made "em." "Well, confound it! I told you to make one larger than the other, didn't I?" "Yes, and I did." "No you didn't, either. One Is smaller than the other." "Hut change that big boot onto the big foot and see if it won't fit" said the shoemaker. "Hy gum! you're right. One is bigger than the other. Shoe and Leather lUs-vieiw.
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