-A.tlvrertit-8iner It atuw. Tti. 1 rare and relUM. circulation l the(' bkia ak eonimenila It to tho tav.irahie consideration of 1 rcrt larr who., favor will ta ia.rtd at tb. following: low rale : 1 Inch. S'lmaa .4. ..9 I M 1 Inch, I month. 2.M 1 Inrh, month l.M 1 lorn I year .oC 3 ItH-uea. 6 month...... fl.uc XlocbM.i yam IO.iH S lix-hs. mouth .. K.ou lorh... I yor . tooi.ioo.e month.... ................ ...... lout. X column. S month 4 column 1 year avoo i column, 6 month.............. ...... o oo 1 column. 1 year 76.00 Hualneu Ileal . Oral insertion, lue. fr I to. (oxeOeo( Inm-tiooa, be. jer lm. Adwinlatrator' and .fciceutor Not Ire., .fa to Auditor' Notice z M Stray and ilmllar Notice. V 00 'he.oluiwo or proceed I n ol any orx m tlon or aoci.ty and eomsnuut'-atlon deaitctd to call attention to any matter ol limited or mdl vidua! Interest muat t paid lor a advrrtiMiienta. Book and Jot matin of all kind neatly and eisolouaiy executed at th. loweat rtce. And don'tjoa forget It. BF.1KKI KM, AMIIKI CO., I':NNA., Ill' jA.nrJ.l . IIASM., 11 Ugaranteed circulatl.-n. 1.2M) a anlior rii Ion Klf. On. ropy. 1 jwir.rmh in advance ' ,1.. tio II net )ui.l within :'. ,l do li nt M wiil'infi lunnift. j ,10 ou II not witl wiihm Hi ' ' - -To tron ronljinn outside ' count, ,.ou. additional .er ,r will h. chanced to nay puaUKS. ; . . 7. , . -t .iiMiiicll understood m.u; JAS. C. HASSON, Editor and Proprietor. "HR IS A FREEMAN WHOM THE TRCTH MAKES FREE AHD ALL ABE B LAVES BESIDE." 81.50 and postage per year In advance. mm time forward. I 1 mZu nuu " caiwits iomrwi.- 1 I VOLUME XXVIT. E BENS BURG. PA., FRIDAY. JUNE 2. 1S93. NUMBER 22. 1I1.0 I ! a "re ' l" norI- If 1 Oi il UY aa V uv u 1 a- CANSMAN'S I ; I i t SPRING DISPLAY OF QUALITY AND - ELEGANCE. n-.. .i i.l.. -.vi- il.-.. 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J . lj t J j . - U it U .. ;i il I J I "Seeing is Believing:." rtTfmivwiXbm. sina a gooa tamp jwii'"i:'tt'. mast e simP; "when it is not simple it is VC not Pood- beautiful, Good these 1 ..iy xuius mean mucn, iui io will impress the truth more fnrnhlv. All mfil tough and seamless, and is apsosuiay sajeaxiil unfirfacable. Like Aladdin S of old, it is indeed a "wonderful lamp," for its mar velous licrht is rmrer nnd rinWiter thin trie KrrK softer than elertric light l ook for this stamp Tub RnomsTti. tf th hmnHw v.. t i. i- Roth tcr. and the stvle vi.n . . , . j l una c win srrui you a lanio I varictirs trom tht- .utreit Iimp to lltvim L. .TIP as HAY-FEVER V I 1 Cold-head y' C fcwi u nt a Liiii'd, ttnvjr or p-inU r. AppVfd into Vie ntritx it is t" t "ry uf'rr(tl. It cl.ansuH the fund, alUiy injiammtitutn, hftU L il f tht wrt.t. S'oJ hit tlniqiist tr srnt. by vmil tmrrrriot of ins. M 3UC ELY BROTHERS, 58 Warren Street NEW YORK. OUC lN5rt a i 3.. "arH h'amSSS, ' "' tn-onomrr fr ll Mr Aa p OnnH Vn-, 0 "vi- X rn fn aril l.rii.Ml nmnnfR-t.imN in A n...w. . : V .J i . .- . -- fciin .t. a llotf .' a emmiiH- (.tor- nj mnnn. itotf.' Irtewmiiw- t.t.r- n .iy vv - I Clot t.n. M.uiu.erL4iiii WHOLESALE Spring Waians J !." rut fortOTir Wn(ri?DKi-nt tl"tos'l A2 i va r L.lt.-k surrfys!7lusHI(, 1.1.. w i HI I 1 . : .. . .. an -ll frr $1 to i.w1 l'hforat ro. 47. Vivian S43 wata. u nrrT w'.m 3 Oyn HARNESS 7ia nrm nl .V.. r ip r-cit oir f'r t mtfi iriii Ira W. 3. PR ATT, Mountain House M SHAYIKG PiRLQRl CENTRE STREET, EBENSEDEG. JAlltS II.IUM. l'ri..rii:tr CASSIDAY'S Tills w,u-nnwn shavlm, l'rl..r l I. rnf. on 'i.ii'i-It "y'1.- 1 'n'y lall. ha re- ' mi'iir.!. .trr,I. .ia rvrrr inixlrrn ninvrnirni'i., nu, 1 ' ailentiua to t.'A.NSJItAV. I It in wi u..wn an.l n.nic emnhllnhe.l Shavmx 1 frl "lit .,,, I,;U,, i. n IVntre nrwl, i.p. n.e lurry Ht.ii.iv i ( i-Mnrii. ImvIh il l.mh .. .' '''"' """ ' "" will I e rarnnt mi in the nii'V", SH"l'Xi;. HAIK I ITIINK AMI 11. Mil Nil ,i.,ne m II, r i.palrnt an.l uiut ' 'uaiiiM-r. 'lean l'orl a sperlalty. " '""' aite. un at their rrndence. I ; M ! I . li.'l.l u illi :i Sniinir Slurk if tin' Hlilu'-t f iniii iniiav oi in'w ihm n" - . -, an. I t hil.li'i ii's Watches, Clocks IKWKI.IIY, Silverware. Musical Instrnment? AN I' Optical Goods. Sole Agent K K TH K Celebrated Rockford WATCHK8. Columbia a"l F-pdonia Watches. In Key and Stem Winders. i.AWIE SKLKCTIOV of ALL KIND of .IKWKLKV alwayp on hand. "j tW M lin nf Jewelry is nnKurpasspfl tJi.tne and see for yourself before purchas nu elvshere. l-if ALL WOKK orARANTEKD.I CARL RIVINIUS. Kiensonrij, Nov. 11, 1R85 tf. Si w r m see i ne iocnester made in three pieces only, and more cheerful than either. uiiit rn.l .. f.. i ., " . iuu4icii i4iai.iKuc. safflv bv r Stvre in the Wot id. CO., 4i I'ark Place, New York City. "The Rochester." r 50c T CARRIAGE. AHD HARNESS KFG. lal nnnm 1.1 n.id iui ui. priv- H Mtml'tarr. Wr- auitfiBsluppiuf PRICES. vo .,. (uarnt)w) 1 1'ir laii.4. . 7.H.)IM). Vnon a Y W ..... .rL. onr -'4 mtw Aaarww -J m X . Scc'y, ELKHART, I N D. Hollde written at fiort nvtre In the OLD RELIABLE "ETNA" -! oilier Viral 1'lan rompanl. t wrsii i'ok tiif. OF,T HARTFORD FIRB IKSURAKCR CfliUT. IHIMMKNCKII Bl'SlNJ-SS 171)4:. r:teohar..laiy "t.lSHi. Mam Strcet,Ncar Post Office- I'.Tbf un.lrrxtKnr.l itmlres, tn Inform th. pnh lie i hat they have npene.1 vhavlnv paroron Main irr.l, near the )Mt ultlee where harberina: In all ItK hruneh' will i. rarrieal on In in. luture. K.rervthlDV neat and (lean. Vour patronage aulictteti. ItUBA B Vv( DEATH'S LITTLE GIRL. The little pirl who dictl last nlpht was such a ;.rt'tij t'hilit You woi.l.l have thotiLrht that lKath. Instead f fr.n nini.. uiill have Mmiled: You wouhl huve thon-ht that he would like to ' Di't-ht r at hor iiuy, . And th.it i-onU'ut iUi iKt!luT her he'd hurry on hi.- way. For alie as such a little thirr, with hair like curl nit' irolil. Just I'itf t iiou'h to lau.rh and play, and merely thr-' yeiirs old. So Ir.niK-fiit bhi' tried to catch the aunbeama In her hand And uhy he wanted her himself I cannot under atanU. There is a little picture book that grievously la torn. There is a little shoe I know her litUe foot ho worn. I There is a lit ile Noah's ark. with painted tieasts unu in t'H If Heath deired to please her there, why didn't he take these? The little irl w ho died last nlpht, what can she be to him? For l. uih is tiictured black and stern, and plti- Uhs and irrini: And she knew nothing of such thiiurs, for she was t.rifht imt fair. And sweet and tender as tho smilo tliat angel faces wt ux or will she f.-ar when she awakes to Biit h a wondrous change. And w ill sin- cry. us children do, at things she liudi so strange And will I-ath care for her as we hare cared In other days. And w ill he love her as we loved her, in all her gentle ways? And If ho w ill not do these things, oh. tell me, tell me w hy He stopiK'd upon his way last night, instead of pasini; ty; Audit lie. loved her less than we, from whom she now is gone. Why didn't he just leave her here and hurry quickly on Curl Smith, in Ladies' Home Journal. THAT YELLOW CUSHION. Its Contents Gave a Start to a Foolish Couple. It was a sofa cushion of faded yellow silk, badly stained in half a dozen places and clumsily ripped down one edjre. A handsome luhl cabinet was its resting place and it stood in the smaller drnv" in?-room. Kvirytiiinjr else around was hand some ami tasteful, the general Bclwnie ."f the coioriufr beiiifj a brownish red. The bilLms starino; yellow of that dilapidated cushion was the one incon gruous sjHit and the e3re was irresisti bly drawn to it. None of the family ever even men tioned the yellow sofa cushion, though I often noticed one or other of them would turn toward the buhl cabinet and stare at its contents thoughtfully. However, the tale came out at last without my asking- for it. I was dining at the house one Christmas day, and my host lifted his glass and said: "My dear, in remembrance of the old yellow cushion, the lest Christmas box we ever had." and then the pair of them drank the toast. Nothing- more was said then, but afterward in the small drawing room my hostess nodded toward the buhl cabinet and asked if I knew the histo ry of its curious contents. I said: "No." Slie seemed surprised. "I thought Douglas (her husband) had told you the story years ago, but as he hasn't I'll take upon myself to do it now. It will be something to talk alxntt, ami we old folks are often hard put to it to tiud subjects for conversa tion. "Now, you always took ns for rich squatters from Australia, didn't you? Perhaps, then, if yon didn't know you'll be surprised to hear that we had another life I w fore that, a life in the whirl of society in London, a life as different from the other as possibly could lie invented or even imagined. "We married very young, Douglas and I. lie was just of age and I was only eighteen when we set up house keeping on our own account, and I'm afraid we were both very, very brain less. We'd got plenty of money, and our one ide was to have as good a lime as possible. "We went everywhere, did every thing and lived in ducal magnificence. The expenses we were let into were something awful to contemplate and our limited income went no way to meet them; but to withdraw from the scene was a thing which we were far too young and happy and foolish ev;i to think of. so we kept on dipping into the capital time after time 'only just for this once.' "It will complete the sum of our foolishness when I tell you that jew elry was one of our greatest extrava gances. I doted on gems, and Douglas loved to see me wear them; he said that I set them off so well, ami so they were a poxl investment, or something usually witty. And we g-ot more and more hard up and had fewer ami fewer resources to draw ujKin; and yet we gave small thought for the future then, so happy was our present. "tine morning; a crash came. We woke up to find out that my jewel ox had Wen xdnndered. 15y afternoon all London was ringing- with the news of the ro le ry. It was so odd in its de tails. Nothing but stones hail leen taken away. The gems had lieen forced from the settings and the bat-, tered gwldwork left littered in an un tidy heap. "Under the public attention which watched their efforts, the police au thorities strained every nerve. They searched the house for signs from cel lar to g-arret. They watched suspicious persous. They had "theories innumer able. They 'confidently expected to lay hands on the thief to-morrow.' "I'.ut nothing came of it. The daily bulletins in the papers became shorter, and at length ceased; and in a month's time wo ourselves hal given up all hope of seeing the jewels again. Torn fi-om their settings they would be easi ly carried away and disposed of; anil, moreover, it v as probable fhat most of tlu-m had been reground, so as to re move the faintest chance of identifica tion. "To any couple possessed of the least grain of sense the Iosa would have lxen a warning, but to us it seemed only & spur to new extravagance. Douglas said life would be unendur able without new jewelry, and 1 agreed with him. So we started to re place what had been lost. And, oh, what fools, silly, silly fools we were! What's the use of repealing; a tale of such follies? We spent all, and then, worse still, were owing money. There was a bankruptcy and a shameful sell ing up of our stock and sticks at the beginning- of the winter season. "Kvery thing and everybody seemed against us then. At the sale things we had given amnils for went for as many pence; and the proceeds were all snatched up by the creditors. After it our relations wrote prim letters to say that they washed their hands of us. "liouglas had leen broug-ht up to no profession and knew no trade. We couldn't tell what to do. We were penniless; we were in despair; we were unable to keep even those humble two-roomed lodgings any longer. It was awful. "Then a curious note reached ns written in a straggling, scratchy hand, and signed by the man who till recent ly had lieen our butler. It was word ed half in the third person, half in the first, and was so painfully resjiei tful in places that the sense was almost lost. The writer had taken a liberty, a great lilierty, but he could not help seeing- how things had leen going for some months past. He hoped we should pardon his presumption in see ing. "Further, he had done a thing that it I was not his place to do at all. He had taken upon himself to interfere with our affairs which was a great liberty for which he craved pardon, but knew from experience how hard it was to get a new place after leaving an old one without money. "And so he sent a sofa cushion, bought at the- sale, which he would most respectfully beg us to accept. The cover was not worn much,' but the inside was valuable. If we ripped up the silk vte should see. After which, hoping no offense, he was our most obedient and obliged se'rvant to com mand. "A yellow silk cushion came with the letter. Douglas stared at it up and down, not understanding. 'Was the man mad, do you supKsc, or drunk,' said he, when that letter was written?" 'He's underlined "rip the silk," ' said I. "Then ripped it shall In:,' replied Douglas, and brought out his knife. "And, then, what do you think? In and among the rest of the fluffy eider down were some two score of little balls of feathers tied around with line cotton. Douglas opened one and found a diamond. 1 took another and a great emerald dropped iuto my hand. "And then I began laughing and crying- and In-having so stupidly that I hail to lie down on the sofa and turn my face away from the white heapof down in. the middle of the carpet. "l!ut after a bit I pulled myself to gether again, and Douglas showed me his gleanings. There was a double handful diamonds, rubies, emeralds and more diamonds and more rubies, and a great opal that gleamed and burnt in the lamplight like a blaze of colored tires. "Then a thought struck me and I gasped out a faint question as to whether they were really ours. " 'Yes said Douglas, 'all yours. We paid our creditors to the last penny and it ruined us to do it. Now we must start afresh, and, thank Providence and an honest, thoughtful servant, we've got something to begin upon. In tlie first place, they will provide us with passage money to Australia, and I don't think we shall be quite penni less when we land." "Well, we went. Douglas became a gTeat squatter, the owner of many miles of country and of a million sheep, and we made happy invest ments. And what we won was not flittered away in jewelry or in stupid emulation of people richer than our selves." There was a silence for some min utes, and then I ak-d about the man who had stol.n, for his master's future licncfit. the precious gems. "Didn't I tell you? Why. he waited on you at dinner to-uight. We hunted him out when we came back and wanted to do something big for him. We could well afford it, you know, and, moreover, felt very grateful. "lfut he's a most eccentric person. He wouldn't accept anything. If we'd pardon the lilierty he'd taken that was all he would ask, unless, indeed, he might come into our service. What queer people there are in the world, aren't there?" Chicag-o Post. POET C Afl PET-CLEANER. T Alii.t I!laatruu ISMOlt of On of Tmty.t'a Lmi t. The poet Tennyson had his little mis haps, just us less gifted mortals do. line afternoon, says the Youth's Com panion, he called on some frien.Ls, learned that they were not at home, and decided to leave a note. The house maid took him to the draving--room, and gave him pen, ink and paper. When signing his name to his polite little missive, Tennyson, by a jerk of theellnrtv, overturned the ink bottle; an.l great was his dismay at seeing a large jhd of ink spreading1 rapidly over his friend's new white Persian carpet of matchless beauty. Horror-struck, he rung the bell. Up ran the servant. "Do please help me!" cried the poet. It happened that the milkman had just left a can of frothing- milk at the door, and the intelligent housemaid re-memlH-red in the nick of time that new milk, if thrown over wet ink, would remove" all traces of the desjxuling- fluid. Accordingly she overturned the jug upon the large black pool, and with house flannel and cloths set about rubbing- and scrubbing; at the stain. IVwn went Tennyson on his hands nnd knees, rubbing- and scrubbing with bis little helpmeet. His agony of mind lest his old friend should knock at the d-or and suddenly appear on the scene tif disaster he often descriled in later days, declaring- that it "reached the in finite." Hut with such a god will did this strange couple work together that every trace of ink was removed. "Here is a five-shilling piece, my pood girl," cried the jxH-t, "and tiod bless your With that he seized his hat and made for the door. Some weeks later an in vitation to dine with his old friends reached Tennyson. Hi' went; and the carpet was in no way alluded to on either side. The Muk 41s. Although the musk ox is still plenti ful in the Arctic regions of this conti nent, it is Wlieved that there are not more than rive or six mounted steci iiiciis of the creature in the United Stat-s. I hie of the latest received was ordered three years ago, ami. finally de livered after seventeen hundred miles of sledging- and a great many miles of other travel. According- to the best authorities the odor that gives the musk j ox its name cannot he traced to any one special secretion. GOVERNMENT RUILDINGS. The System Ooverolngr Their Erec tion and Cost. How the I'lana for New Ilullni'ic Are EuarlkMrod suad I'm Tlirta .ay C'oucrwMMuea Tito NHI f l'roM-r KrtrU-tio In many of our cities and large towns the m.tst noticeable structure is the government building. - There are now nearly four hundred such buildings scattered through the country. The numlicr has Ix-en greatly increased in recent years, and the expenditure for construction has become a larg-e an nual item in the appropriation bills of congress. In 1VJ1 the amount expended on this account was more than four mill ion eight h undrcd thousand dollars, which was one-fifth as much as all the ordi nary expenditures of the government in 140. This great ex tension of the sys tem has taken place gradually, but the policy seems now to le firmly estal lished. Within proper limits, says Youth's Companion, it is an extremely reason ble system. In a little town the rent of a corner in a store for a post o ti ice amounts to almost nothing. The town grows, and the p.K.i otiice requires larger quarters a whole fl.aor tin the street level in the center of busiiifss. The town transforms it.-k-lf intu a citv. land and rents iuereav. and the expanse for the hire of a building, which must In conveniently located in the very heart of the city where reuts are highest, becomes large. A still further increase of population, and now other departments of the gov ernment begin to apjiear in the city. If It is on the coast or on the lakes, a dep uty collector of customs is appointed. The federal courts have business now and then iu the city. An internal rev enue office is established, or a branch of the pension or the land orticc. Under such circumstances it is cheap er for the national government to in vest, once for all. the capital needed t erect buildings than to continue t-i pay rent. The only question is. at whai point it becomes a matt.-r of economy to build rathe.- than to hire. Naturally the people, of a growing town are eonvin.-cd of the ncvessity for a public building long before con gress can see the matter in tiie same light. The congressman from the dis trict, anxious to make himself popular, urges the importance of the building on his associate:, and sometimes succeeds in obtaining- the consent of congress t; the project liefore the building is really needed. Formerly authority to erect buildings was inserted in appropriation bills, and there was a great chance for log-rolling" that is. C mgressman Smith would help on Congressman Jones scheme if Congressman Jones would help Con gressman Siailli. At present each build ing is authorized by a separate a-t. but there is still some opportunity for log rolling. All g-ovemment building is done un der the superintendence anil control ol the treasury department. First, con gress authorizes the building and appro priates mouey for the site and the struc ture. Next a lot i.s selected, approve anil purcha-sed. Plans are made by tht sutHTvi.siug architect, und the building is erected. The custodian though he may lc, and frequently is, the postmas ter is under the direction of, and re ports to. the secretary of the treasury. The reason for this is. perhaps, that in the early days government buildings were chiedy for the offices of collectors of customs, who are under the secretary of the treasury, and only incidentally for post otliee use. No doubt the eagerness of communi ties to obtain a costly and ornamental building at the g-ovemment expense has caused this system to Ik abused. At tempts have lecn made t lay d wn certain conditions which mu,t he :.atis ti-d laefore a town or city shall 1 deemed to need a government building. Thus, it might Ik' required that the population shall Ik' so many, or the re ceipts of the p.ast oliice so niu -h, or that there shall I e other uses than the post office for such a building. No such restrictions have twn made, anil whether a town is to have been a build ing or not is frequently a matter of favor, or even of accident. lua.Nmu.-h as a government rarely takes a backward step in such eases as this, the chances are that hundreds, of new buildings will be erected during the next few years. luipola. Detroit has a bachelor of the com pulsory sort, but Detroit won't have him long-, for another fair one has claimed him as her own. He has Wen disappointed so many times that lately he has been almost impetuous in his at tentions. She is a widow and an im provement on all her predecessors in his heart. The matter was settled :i week ago in a rather roundabout way. They had been talking- on women in general. So you think," he said, "that wom an is prone to jump at a conclusion?" "I certainly do," she responded earn estly. "And you are like all the others?" 'I hojie so." A great thought came to him then, a thought which in imperial minds would develop into a coup d'etat. "Would I were a conclusion," he sighed, with such a sigh that within five minutes two hearts were consol idated. Detroit Free Press, A Jcalon Olrlee iMt-kr. A story is related by London Truth of a French official who was possessiil of a very pretty wife and a particularly jealous U'HitH'ratnent. This oiiicial had frequently applied without success for a certain post. At length his wife pro posed t. interview, the chief in person and see- if she could obtain foriicr hus band what he had failed to procure for himself. Ou this being- sug-gested the latter remained silent for a considerable lime, lluctuating- between ctnhition and jealousy. At last he devised a safe course. "Yes, my dear, you have my sanction. Hut upon one condition only that you paint your nose a deep reL" The lady, it is needless to say, did not proceed "with the interview upon these terms. It was afterward commonly said, however, that, the story having reached the chief's ears, he good-naturedly appointed the careful husband to the putt. THE FIRST LADY OF FRANCE. t"h.iarax-trrt.ti-a and It-ally- LII-of the Wife of lTe.ldeiit t'atrnot. Mme. Carnot is a brunette, with dark blue eyes, a pale complexion, delicately molded features, and hair as black and glossy as black satin, says a writer in the Iadies" Home Journal. Her expres sion is at otiee intellectual and charm ing. Outsideof heroflicial duties, which ' are many. Mine. Carnot leads a very quiet and domestic life. She rises at eight o'clock, and her first breakfast, consisting of a cup of coffi-e ami a roll, i.s served to her in her dressing-room. Until ten o'clock she occupies herself with her private correspondence, which always includes a letter to one or the other of her children, only her young est son. Francois, who is at school in Pans, laeing at home. At ten o'clock she joins the president in his library and aids him in examining the volumin ous mass of letters which arrives daily .at the Elysee. Her thorough knowl edge of mdern languages and her in telligent and unfailing good sense make her a valuable assistant. The second breakfast, or lunch, is served at one o'clock in the breakfast-room of the palace and is usually a very simple re past. (Juests are seldom invited, to luncheon at the Elysee. as With the president and his wife prefer entertain ing their friends at dinner. Lunch once concluded. Mme. Carnot. on the days of state dinner parties or balls, gives audi ence to her chief cook. Then she drives out, cither to accompany her husband to the opening- of an exhibi tion, or the inauguration of some char itable institution, or to some other of ficial function. The ordering- and su perintending of her toilet alasorbs a good deal of her time, and is really one of her official dutis. the dress of the wife of the ruler of state exercising a widespread influence over the commer cial interests of France. Then she is interested in a numlaer of charities, and drops in from time to time to see how her proteges are progressing. 'When M. and Mme. Carnot cannot dine alone dinner is served at seven o'clock. Every year alaout the 1st of Julv the president and Mme. Carnot g-o to Fontainebleau to spend the summer, taking up their alaile in a wing of the well known palace. Thvir quarters have laecn scrupulously arranged so as not to encroach on the historic portion of the edifice, and in that manner the convenience of the tourists and sight seers that come to visit it is fully re spected. It was Mme. Carnot who se lected, out of all the summer palaces that are placed at the disposal of the ruler of France, that of Fontainebleau. for she remains deeply attached to the spot where her chil.llio.xl and girlhood were passed, and which, is hallowed to her by the memory of her father to whom she was so devoted and helpful a daugh ter. QUEEN LILIUOKALANI'S PLIGHT. In saarrhlnc for Her Iat llabmil'. Ilf-I -u. 1 1 v. sli loaad Aiaotla-r Wile. Several years ago a Dalmatian sail or named Jerko Dominis. after in numerable adventures, hairbreadth es capes ami feats of valor, found his way to the Hawaiian islands, where he mar rinl Liliuokah;::i, the daughter of a native chief, who in due time became queen, making him the partaker of the honors of royalty. As king he bore the name of Hermann I. For twenty years, says the London Telegraph, lie gov erned his subjects satisfactorily, and toward the end of lsJl he died. His son. Hermann IL, is only six years old. and his widow is the regent. Now. this lady, knowing that her late spouse was a European, has laccn nuking strenuous endeavors to discover his relatives, and whenever a ship touched at the port she always made it a point to go on laoard and question, the cap tain as to whether he knew of any Dominis, of Dal mat ia. For a long time the widowed queen's endeavors to rind King Hermann's relatives were unsuc cessful, but lately the imperial Aus trian corvct Fasana touched at the Sand wich islands and the dowager queen went on laoard and asked -the admiral whether he could tell her anything of the Dominis family, of Dahnatia. He answered in the negative, but. no ticing the lady's desire to learn some thing alaout them, promised to make in quiries in the marine department tn the war ministry. The latter was then referred to the foreign office, which published an advertisement calling upon all the Dominis of Dalmatia to come forward, whereupon there was . repetition of what occurred when the American spiritualistic medium called for the spirit of Smith. Thousands of Dominis are said to have reported them selves, personally or by letter, for the name is a very common one in those parts. King- Hermann's sister was. however, discovered among them, as was also his lawful wife; for it appears that the late king married in Dclmatia when only a sailor. This woman now demands that the Hungarian govern ment should help her to her rights. She diaes not seek to liccome queen of the Hawaiian islands, but she asks to lae declared the legitimate heir to her husband's property. Should the Hun garian government refuse her its help, the energetic widow is determined to set out for Honolulu and appeal direct ly to her successful rival. Queen Lili uokalani, the widow of her own hus band, TVo N'ewa. The Boston Itudget has a story of a colored man who went into " a fish market in Richmond to buy a dinner for his master. After looking about for a few minutes, he stopped before a pile of shad. Apparently his suspicions were aroused. He took up one of the fish and held it under his nose. "What do you mean by smelling of that fish?", asked the dealer, indig nantly. "Didn't smell de fish nohow," an swered the negro. "Only spcakin' to him," "Indeed: And what did he say?" "I jes' ax him for de news at de mouf ob de ribber, an' he sa3-s he done clean forgot, for he ain't seen no water for fo' weeks. Dat's all he said." Not a New Idea. The idea of printed dresses for masquerading- is not a new one. At least twenty j-ears ago a young lady wore a party dress of white cloth which had been through the press of the Kansas City Journal of Commerce. The cloth bore the imprint of tlie daj's news, taeing a rcpnaduction of the regular tiail r nancr of that date. SAILED INTO NO PORT. Ships the Fates of Which Are Mysteries of the Atlantic Many Have Iloubtleaa Fonnderext la Field of lra White Oihrra Havr -1-lmp.d In" Alter All If ope llavd IU-n AbaadiaiML Crossing the broad Atlantic, nova buried under blinding mists, now tossed by driving tempests, where float vessels derelict more dangerous than the mountainous icelaerg, where fire is more pitiless than on land who shall say what tragedies are not there enacted? Anil when mystery shrouds the fate of those who have trusted themselves upon the treacherous waters never to return, how much more terrible the tragedy! A stately ship steams from the har bor for a voyage across the sea. No alarm is felt when it does not reach its destination on the day it is expected. Two days or three days pass and it has been detained by head winds and storms, the agents say. A week goes by and still no news. Then the story is that the machinery has broken down. Other vessels arrive over the same path, but bring no word of the missing ship, and anxious friends and relatives are comforted by the assur ance that the vessel has drifted out of the usual course of travel while mak ing repairs. They are told the shipcould not sink. Its strong steel sides could defy tlie waves. Its water-tight compartments would keep it afloat after any collision, and it could not have burned, else its irou hull would have Wen sighted by other vessels attracted by the glow of the flames. Another week aud a month and hearts grow sick with hojae de ferred. Perhaps then a bit of wreckage is found Waring the name of the doomed ship. More delay without news, and finally even the agents and owners give up hope. Then the insurance com panies pay, the vessel is officially lost, and another is added to the mysteries of the deep. There follows invariably the cruel hoax of siime Idiot or worse. A sealed bottle is picked up giving alleged news of the ship. Usually discrepancies in the letters themselves pronounce them bogus, but before this is discovered the feelings of those who have waited so long in vain are harrowed by a tale of storm and fire and a despairing fare well. Fortunately, however, the mystery docs not always end in a tragedy. Sometimes even after hope is aban doned the ship comes limping iu with machinery disabled or perhaps under sail alone, with all on board safe. Sometimes after having drifted far out of the course it is towed in by another ship. Or, even iT it is lost, the passen gers are frequently rescued by some passing vessel. From the stout steamer President, which was lost more than half a cen tury ago, to the Naronic. the list is in deed long. Tlie names of some of these unfortunate vessels have become his toric The President left New York just thirty-two years ago for LiverjaooL with thirty-one passengers aboard. It steamed out of sight forever. Hope, however, was not abandoned until the liritannic arrived at Itoston without bringing any news of the missing ves sel. There were no transatlantic cables in those days, and tlie news could only W brought by water. Shorti3' laefore the liritannic sailed there was great excitement at Liver pool over the arrival of the Ori.-utaH which resembled the President, from Egypt. The Oriental was at first su posed to be the long missing President. In the New York Herald of Friday. May 7. 1S41. appeared the following account of the fate of the President: "Its probable fate was met in the im mense fields and islands of ice which we recently described as intercepting its course to the east. She could not swamp in a mere storm. It has run against an ieeWrg at night aud gone down head foremost. "tJod have mercy upon the soul of poor Capt- Roberts and all his passen gers. Roberts was the first man to cross the Atlantic in a steamer, and the first to fall a victim to his honorable enterprise." Then followed the names of the thirty-one jaersons comprising the pas senger list No marine disaster Wfore or since, . probably, has been the cause of so much excitement and speculation as the mysterious fate which Wfell the City of ltoston of the Innian line, The City o Dos ton was in its day re garded as a remarkably line specimen of naval architecture, carrying freight, mail and passengers. The vessel had Wen built under special survey and had received the highest classification at Lloyds" and the Liverpool Associa tion of Underwriters. Its length of keel was 305 feet and length over all 'i'li feet. It was 3'J feet wide and 27 feet 0 inches deep. Under the old measure ments its tonnage was M.-i'S. It had two engines of S'M horse-power each. The City of Hob ton was of iron, and its ribs and Warns, and. indeed, its whole framing, were securely bound together by heavy springing platea and ties. It was divided into eight com partments by seven strong and well secured water bulkheads, reaching from keelson to upper deck, lies ides steam power the City of 1 lost on could spread a great deal of canvas. Wing ship rigged. The City of ltoston left New York January -JS, 1S70. and cleared from Hal ifax three days later for Southampton and LiverpooL It had aboard, Wsides the crew, 112 cabin and steerage pas sengers. It carried a cargo of cotton, flour, beef, wheat and copper ore, weigh ing s.K) tons and 9."7 tons of coal. The machinery weighed ol0 tons. Nothing was ever heard of the 6hip after it left Halifax. February 23 an English government steamer was dis patched f rom Halifax to search for the missing steamer, but without result It was hoped up to that time that the machinery had broken down and the shtr was pnn-orH innn.t-- -il nlone. The excitement throughout this coun try and England over the fate of the City of ltoston was intense. When in" March a dispatch was received from Liverpool stating that the ship was safe the joy was boundless. The news was announced in the house of repre sentatives, where business was imme diately suspended, while the inemWrs congratulated one another on the good tidings. In this city preparations were made to fire cannon in the City Hall park and otherwise to celebrate the safe arrival of the missing vessel. A second dispatch arrived a few hours later which put an end to the preparations for the celebration. It announced that there was no founda tion for the news that the City of JSos ton was safe. The disappointment re doubled the anxiety felt Wfore. Mr. Inman three months after the ship sailed, in a letter to the board of trade of London, gave as his opinion that the City of ltoston had got into a big field of floating ice. where it had probably foundered in a storm. Itottlcs containing alleged news from passengers aboard the City of 1a is ton were found yearly for half a dozen years after the disapjiearance of the ship. As. late as lsitf it was surmised that the vessel had Wen blown up by dynamite, exploded by an infernal ma chine. The winter and spring of 1&70 was a season of terrific gales that swept the Atlantic from north to south. At the same time that the llo-.ton was missing the Samaria, of the Cunard line, and the ironclad Atlanta, which had Wen sold after the war to the presidentof llayti, were also supposed to W lost. Another steamship which, like the City of ltoston, was never heard of after leaving port was the Pacific, of the Collins line. The Pacific sailed from Liverpool fortius port in Februa ry, 1S.V5. The ocean was scoured for some trace of it by steamers sent out for that purpose, among them Wing the Arctic the vessel which went to the Polar seas in search of Dr. Kane. Whether the Pacific foundered in a storm, was sunk by a collision with an other vessel or by running into un ice cerg or was burned was never learned. The fate of the Erin of the National line is still fresh in the memory of all. The Erin was one of the stanchest ves sels u float at the time it started on its last voyage. It was built at Newcas tle in lSiit, and was of 4,.r0U tons. It was 415 feet long, 41 feet wide, and i;5 deep. It left New York IiecemWr 2s, is,!, for Liverpool with a crew of r5 men under charge of Capt Tyson, The deck cargo consisted of .V2 cattle. The Erin was sighted Urcembcr St off 'ape Sable, proceeding cast under a full head of steam, and that was the last seen of it. The British steamship Creole, Capt. Darling, picked up a life boat January 9 containing ten ash oars and Waring the name "Erin." Near the boat floated a life buoy, a steam er's bridge and an awning. The Gallia, which arrived a few days later, re ported that it had passed through a great numWr of floating carcasses of cattle. In spite of this hope was not aban doned. Capt- Darling of the Creole had reported that the boat which he picked u"p bore the name "Erin of Im don," when as a matter of fact the es sel was not a London ship. The fact that the Florida had lost 40 cattle was given as an explanation of the Gallia's find. News was expected for a long while from the Azores, but none came. It was not until the Timos from Gibraltar and the Astral from Rotter dam arrived at New Y'ork, the former passing over the track of the Erin without reporting any news of the missing ship, that hope was aban doned. Three months after the Erin sailed a bottle was found containing a letter purporting to have Wen written by one of the dozen cattle men alanard. stating that the ship was burning and death by fire or water in the great storm which was raging at the time was a matter of a few minutes only. The London board of trade, in its re port on the loss of the Erin, stated that tlie vessel had probably Wen over loaded, but the board did not venture the opinion that it was this that led to the loss of the ship. The Erin, the board declared, had prooably found ered in the heavy January gales. Of the fortunate cases in which the human freight at least oT ships long missing has Wen saved the must re markable probably is that of the Dan mark of the Thingvalla line. The Danmark. Capt. Kuudsen, with 7'.'0 Norwegian and Swedish emigrants left Copenhagen March 20. So long was the vessel missing that its loss seemed assured. The City of Chester, of the Inman line, Capt. Ilond. which arrived at Queenstown April 12, reported that iu latitude 4l degrees north, longitude:;? degrees west, it had passed the aban doned Danmark. The fact,' however, that the Wats of the Danmark were re ported missing seemed to indicate that the passengers might W safe, and Un chains fastened to the bow of the aban doned steamer led shipping men to W lieve that it had Wen in tow of some other vessel. It was not until April 22 that news was received of the Danmark's passen gers, all of whom were safe. The ves sel had broken its shaft in a storm April 4. and lay helpless in heavy seas. Fortunately the Missouri, from Lon don, Iniund for Philadelphia and Haiti more, fell in with the almost sinking ship. The Missouri took the Danmark in tow, but on the following day, as the disabled ship seemed likely to "sink at any moment, it was cast adrift The Missouri, previous to this, had taken aboard but twenty of the Dan mark's passengers, but now it jet tisoned its cargo and took aboard alL Most of them were left on the Azores, but the Missouri brought 370 to Phila delphia. Engineer Kaas. of the Dan mark, was killed when the shaft broke. The list of marine accidents and mys teries might W multiplied indefinitely. It is to W noted, however, that the adoption of international codes of sig. nals and regulations and the advance, in the art of shipbuilding are render ing the percentage of accidents smaller each rear. Chieuiro Tribune. Tranalent lleauty. The peculiar customs en joined upon the Russian and Polish Hebrew women make sad hav.ac with the striking Wauty that marks many young girls of that race. Not longagoa wotuan apparently of middle age and showing no trace of giaiad looks came to a physician interested in an east side clutrity. She seemed dis appointed that he did not recognize her, and giving her name she said: "I have lxi-n married and have cut off my hair." At the same moment she pusluxl back her headdress to show her ugly brow n wig, designed to make her unattractive to the world of men. Thre years ln fore she had l.ecn a girl of rare Wau ty and especially distinguished for the splendid adornment of her abundant locka.
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