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Ii i i I .ii i Ii i ii. iii'p. will i f ivirn.'i; mi in M.i 1 ' I M ! , 1 1 A I K I I ; I I I M i A .N 1 1 Ni; i..filf III lh l.,':il--l ilM-1 lllu-t r I 'l,-al I il fpri'i.t'ly. i.ir.l on at tiieir reridfiH'ex. .IA.MKS ll.il NT. ! 1'rnprn'tf.r i I., CASSIDAY'S Shavin &5?lor,i EBENSBURG. 'UK km wn Ina Piirl.ir l. lecateil m . -i-l . i. a i t tn- I 'mi i.l y J ul. Ii i" re t. il.ls..in, (j l,'-ltrtn.i e.. ,.U(eit-l. 'i ii ry iii.-!iii i iiveiiifiii'", hiuI ' i'im ii 4 ii.aif-t. ji!.i I.e. i h..' In .u.'Tia li ii in .tmrk'f i f..nt.c ' w. ii mil izue evry iill. iitii.u lo -iiir ml r.ii ..li.-ii.,t lil iHl.li 1' Al KAY. "M. T: i 1 I f), tftT tt-t sua wsm nlCMT? sample. fie .. a. MOIT..rw Vorat.'itf te fa I rife irI a m -t F1 'II i I JAS. C. HASSCN. Editor and VOLUME XXVII. RLVIN1 US, PRACTICAL Watches, Clocks 1 KWKI.IIY, Silverware. Mnslcal Instrnmnnt? e s x. : . Sole Agent - Kt i K 1 11 !: Celebrated Rockford WATCHKS. In Kry ami Sti'ni Winders. uAHUK SKI-KCTIOV of AM, KIM of .IKWKIiUY alwaypon hand. f.f Mv line of .Icwelry N uosnrpassprt ; :.nn' rtnd see for yourselfliefore pure1 has nu ft;- wlit-re. JAI.I. WOllK PFARANTEEP jfj CARL RIVINIIJS. .-n'.nrir. Nov. 11, lHrt.V-tf. WAGON? A N I w sun i-vs. '.luliluHv fli-ii r.vK" ; ns IiIjt. liiiix'.iL'ii as n lv'n;i. c'J hi.n.ir lv nu'ii i .f life pr. -mpt .sliipnu'iit our W'r'iU- (ii 11. ( S.-i,d A i y. .ii Icr i.ur r.'i.' -r N. Y. f t 'tis p:ijvi' BUSINESS. 0 5 And :n it is not simple it is 'fzVfi'lliVv Jcaut:ul, Good these ' see " The Rochester ' AA.lir. 4111 IWt.11. v VT . ?K'f J7 J ,) .i . l.. ri' Kin ill liiicc pic-t: VJlllv,' brighter than gas ILht, more cheerful than either. iikstfu. If the lniupdenlrr hrmn't the irrnnlne m-uJ to u-i lor our new illti-.trntcl c iui!.ktii. rrs your thoice jt over i,lOt J. urk Place, New York City. 1 Ane Kocnesxer. 1 pHAY FEVER f5r ' r. Apri td into the mtriU it is . . - w u-i.t'j i.i ri.tiii o.uri'in. note 50c srut ni nt'iil fit. r 'aHRIAGE AND HARNESS KF3. !?) i i CU:r.ae:ii.-tiili"ue. ,irr".. 7I It llhl, itunii I fin Mili:KI m l.-,orau' lii-livri r oimnd Kunil C'artM. - t.it ''it J. -it tier, 'Sv5358?9, i 1.1'. ami M N .. V V a - .V , ITlt-l. 11-U1. piilloips written at iort noMce tn tlie OLD RELIABLE 1 ETNA" ail ofitr rirol t lami Cuiiipan tu. T. W. DICK, ut' r I KK THE OfO IJAItTFOim i-IHE inuiiiiH;rj ilim M KNl'KU IUIS1NKSS 1704,. rrnnrnra .Inly l. Shaving Parlor, Main Street, Near Post Office ttn.'l h unilerslunf.l il.-lrrs t Intorro the puh llr Ihat lluy l ave i.iientvt nhaviuvf par or on Mam r'rmi, nenr the p"bt office where liarherlmc in nil It hraiielie h will ne carried on in the future. Kvrryl hinif ne;tt and clean. V. ,.. r ,..ron te-.l lei ted. yyy II IIKI'I IJ. M. I . I-iiv-uiam tnSrKiiui, KKK.NSIil'Kli. - - ! Htlre on llluh airtwt in rimi li.rmerly 03- .... ii.. u ..i.in I 'ui in ielcKrai-h "in- IjuniHtJ Proprietor. THE OLD DAKN roof. I can s.'t' the harn r.of standing as it loaned to III. -ft ill,' rra-is Its f.irin Is l.mly jiuuitfil In mi'miiry'i kx.Ling- ri- - That Nl..iii.' rKifof shlnrli-s. with In mossy 4 iial of fray. Which f..rmi'.i the playirround for our fun on many u .siiininiT day. It was Imilt just ly tht" orcharU. and the eaves dr.HlM-J tl.iwtl r.o l,iw Tnat tli.'y a!rast l.iuli-U tlio crass-tops, where l!n ,lais- l.l.is-;'iiiis lilow: Ami au :jiili-:r,M: .-roa iu where you came 1om ii u ilti a whirl. To yii 1.1 a s;iicy luncheon to eaih hdnt'ry Uiy uaJ k'irL fllr N-tt-r than the coa-stlnu on a Mir UMfrp-an- sli.le Was the ecstasy of sittintr on that barn r.M'f for a ri.le' After crawling slowly upward to the sharply- poillteU IK'aU To hoi. I n ly the edj?es while you play at hide Uitd seek. An.l then with fun and frolic as yo'i looked your wary clasp. To feel the sliding islldiup' and to give . hap- l tra .p. As you fouu.l yourself drawn downward, with tin reasia;' uiolion iKiuud. For a ra:. l ro!l through clover, on the softly w aitiuf (rruuud. Alice Crary. in Wide Awake. NAT LACK'S rAlillOT. Story of a Homarkable Man and a Remarkable Bird. "Kv-pr liear of Nat Lask's parrot?" aslcetl Jim liortlon, of I.ittK' Jltn-k. Never was such a reinarkalile parn t. 1 don't think. Hut then, Nat l.ask was siiinewliat of a reiiiarkalih man. lie was an old Arkansas and Mississippi river lMiatsnia-.i. Ho nsoti tt run Ih tween Little Uoik and New Orleans in I he ef'"' old times Ik fore the war. lie owned twenty ni,'o-ers otiee, and they all yot their freedom just ln'eause Nat was such a remarkalde uiun. There was a ixmI many niters runniri-; away about that time, and makin"; tlu-ir run for -rood. Nat jave it out that he'd like to see any of his !,ret away. For every out" that pit away, he said, he'd set another free. Less than a week after that one of Nat's hest niyers 1 timed up missing, and he eouldn't he found. Over the l.rler. sure. The runaway's wife belonged to Nat. 'Suse,' saiil Nut, l'ye know wliar .Iik is?' " Ves, massa. " "Wall then, you jes' g-olong- an' jine him!" So he kept his word and set one slave fret beeausi; another had suc ceeded in riiniiinir away, and he showed what a remarkable man he was by si-t-tin' free the wife of the fugitive. And N.rt wouldn't take lia-dc his i" r eilh.-r, and his iii-o-i-rs kept runnin;r away, and he kept .ettii: others fret? t;i match eiii, until lie hadn't one left. 'Kn't make no diirnee,' Nat tisd to say. "NolMxly tlitln' "bleeye m? to set my niirers fr,-e. 1 nst alout the time the war broke out Nat wa . in New Orleans taking on ear".-o. On the levee one tlay he w;is passiri, an old voma:t who was SfHiiif parrots, when one of the hi it Is yelled out: 'Damn f.ml!" That fetehetl Nat up standi ntr. and he as Let I tin; woman whieh parrot had addressed him in such familiar tones. 'lie knows me. said Nat, 'but I swar 1 never kut.wcd him!" "Nat didn't have to wait for the old woman to tell him which parrot it was. lor the bird yelled out its compliments to him ae-ain on the spot, and Nat was so li !. l.-.l with the parrot that he Ihiu'IiI '.t. lie was s taken up with hi lo w companion that he paid no at tention to aiiylhintr else ull the way back oil the trip to Little K i.-k. .-ell he arrived there he j-av up his lxiat. "tioiii" to tpiit Itoatiu',' he saiil. 'It'll take all my time uow un to 'tend to this parr. .U "And if he didn't quit. ri','ht there and the:t, I hope to holler! lie tied liiinself up to tdat parrot and had no time f..r auvthimr or anvl"o-lv. Then the war bcan tt stir things tip, an-1 one tlay Nat said: "Thar's (join' ter be the deuee ter pay 'roii:;d hyah 'fore lony, an' 1 take to the woods!" "lie was rtit h1 as his word, lie ttvk his e-iui anil his parrot, went "way back into the wilderness :ilonr I'.i- Mam mclee creek anl put up a Miiijf lo cabin. And it was there that the par rot came out strong. The woods were full of ffaiiio vtild turkey, leer, lnar. jttiiitlii-r. The creek held plenty of wild ducks and iLree.se. Nat trained the par rot to hunt. The bird pot so he could jrive all the calls and cries of the wiltl turkey lietter than the wild turkey could it.clf. ami he never missed tret tin;"- the riht call or cry in at just the ri-ht time, lie found out that a lost fawn, or a fawn hidden by its mother, couhl summon its mother or some o' her tleer iuiekly to where it was by a plaintive Ideal intf, and the parrot j,'ot on to that bleat only too quick. He im itated the unearthly screech of the panther mi ably that Nat used to say it was nothiiiir out of the common for Hobby that was the parrot's name to call as many as a dozen bi- fellows around the cabin of an evening' ami set them all to lightine- at once. Hobby couldn't only do the tpiack of a duck or the gabble of a goose to perfection, but he could manipulate those cries so that you would think he was a whole flock "of thicks or geese. So, if there were thicks or geese Hying over, it was no trick at all for Hobby to let himself lot-M" just as if it was a 'o.en or so fowl jabtiering together, ami a Hying Hock, hearing him going on, would say to themselves: "The."" ducks must have struck g-MKl luck down there in the creek. Let's drop down and get a piece of it.' And when they had dropped tlown near enough Nat, hid in the bushes, would tumble a half dozen or mi Kfore they could get on to the way they were fooled. Hobby liked to hunt wild turkeys lst. If there was a turkey within hearingofhim.it couldn't resist that seductive call of hi:;, and when it came within gunshot and Nat put a ball in it. Hobby became a very tiend in his gloat ing over its death struggles. He would Hy around the jioor bird and laugh and yell like a demon. Hut if Nat hap pened to miss the turkey after Hobby had called it up, then in ay lie he would get fits. The parrot would fill the woods with language that Nat used to say made him sit tlown ami w ait for the shower of tire ami brimstone that he felt sure must lie sent down on them for that bird's wickedness. Ami he'd Hy at Nat and pull his hair out in bunches, and make vicious grabs at his FKKEMAN WHOM THE TRCTH MAKES FKEE AND ALL APE SLAVES BESIDE. 'HE IS A i:iu;nshukg. pa.. Friday, august a. is,3. eves and face. At tnese unfortunate times, whieh. luckily, were rare. Nat used to lie down on his face and let Hobby peg away and pull at him until his frenzy passed over. Nat kacv when that was by the bird perching somen here near ami easing himself jj bv simply yelling: 'Damn fool" Then Nat would get up and start for home Hobby would tly to his usuaT""pls " Nat's ".hou'.der. where he would at ::i tervals yell in Nat's ear: 'Damn f,ol.'' Nat never jawed back. He said that he knew he deserved all that Hobby gave him at such times. There wasn't any thing too ban for a man ho missed his turkey. Whenever Nat would take his gur. to. go out hunting. Hobby would cock his head on one side and say: " -Turkey.' "If Nat would say: 'No,' Hobby would say: " 'Quack, quackr "If Nat replied in the negative. Hob by would make the peculiar bleating sound of the fawn interrogatively. If Nat saitl he wasn't going after deer. Hobby would say, decisively: "'liar!' "Turkey, ducks or geese, deer and ltear were all the game Nat hunted, and Hohhy knew if it wasn't any of the first three lie was going out after it must of course lie ltear. Hut he always wanted to know what the hunt was to Ik- lie fore he started. He was of no particular use in a ltearjiunt. " 'I jes" take him 'long to do the swar iti, Nat use to say. "Hut Hobby always went out for lear with the greatest enthusiasm, ami once he wasof actual service. Nat had started a bear, and it went into a thick swamp a short distance, where no man or dog couhl get. Whether Hobby saw the liear or not, or whether he hail a stroke of genius, all at once he Hew from Nat's shoulder into the swamp. Such a hair raising collection of yells and exple tives as he tumbled around in that swamp no living thing had ever heard before. Hobby was evidently directing them straight at the ltear, for the frightened animal came tearing out of the swamp with a smash and a crash that a hurricane couldn't have made. Nat said the ltear' s eyes hung out, its terror was so great. Nat down.etl the War wit'h a couple of rille balls, ami out of the swamp came a couple of terror-stricken cubs, with Hobby yelling and cussing right ln-hind them. Nat captured the two cubs alive and took them home, against the vclieineiit pro tests of Hobby, who yelled his favorite opinion of Nat in the hitter's ear all the way in. Nat showed great fond ness for the cubs, but they were a jer pet tia! thorn in Hobby's side. He wa wildly jealous of them, and gave both them and Nat continual Uts. Nat kept the i uli in the cabin, and one night, after he'd lia I them about a week, he was awakened by a noise. He heard Hobby swearing like a pirafe and the cubs whiiiiug. Nat listene 1. and by by he heard the cabin door opened. That was an easy matter to do. for n i"h'ui.' fa-tened it. and it swung on u leather hiirje. When the door ten-net! and let the moonlight in. Nat saw that it wa. Hobby who had pulled it open with ids bill. Nat lay stiil to see what the parrot would do. and what did he do but drive ltoth of those cubs out. tii;ping them with his bill, and talk ni'r to them worse than any canal mule driver ever talked to his mules. Hobby not only drove the cubi out of the cabin, but he escorted them some dis tanee into the woods, and they under stood well enough that they were to keep on going. Hobby came back to the cabin chuckling like a little fiend, and close 1 tin door and went to sleep. The whole proceeding1 had increased Nat's veneration for the parrot so much that In said he couhl no more have in terfered than he could have' inter rupted a preacher in a funeral sermon. A few flays after that Nat took down his gun to go out hunting, "Turkey?" saiil Hobby. " 'No, said Nat. 'We're goin atter bar.' Hobby bristled tip, and yelled at the top of his voice. " -No. no! No. nit!' "He rememlHTcd the trials and trib ulations that had come to him throu-jh his last lcar hunt, and he wanted no more ltear in his. And he wouldn't go ln-ar hunting, and never could be in duced tog, i again. "Nat and Hob lived that hermit life on the I!ig Maiiiuiclet for more than twenty years. Then one tlay Nat came into Little I lock, alone and discons.t late. Hobby was dead accidentally shot by Nat himself. I don't know what ever liecame of Nat, but he was a remarkable man. Ami there never was such a remarkable parrot as Hobby." N. Y. Sun. JOKES AT THE FAIR. IN MlHWAY 11. I"A XCK. "I Suppose you hear a greater number of tongues than anv ('nan! "No. sir, the Woman's building is right over in that direction!" lntcr-4 (ceati. II txnlcAl'i Kii.-"Not going to the fair? Your fortune doesn't seem to be doing oil much good, old man." " hy, ii tlear lxy. the governor left me only three million. If I went I would want to stay a week at any rate." Truth. SAKK ll ItINt T1IK WoKl.li'S l'AIIt. Chicago Man "There goes the luckiest man in the city." Hostoii Man -"Successful in sjteciilatioii, eh? Chicago jlan Speculation nothing! He has no relations and not a friend in the worhl.".l udge. A tthk Faik. Attendant "Two dol lars, please." Yisitor 'What? 1 haven't ltceii buying a thing!" "No, sir: but ou and the lady have been standing here just twenty minutes breathing, and I've a mortgage on the air for ten feet in each direction." Truth. FARM NOTES. Limk salt and plaster are auxiliary fertilizers. Cl.ovK.it aids materially to keep down the weeds. Co.NsntKK your market as well as you crop. I ) Kt a v I n t organic matter in the soil gives warmth. IUFKr.KF.ST kinds of grasses do not do well in meadows. I'VKitv kind of fotttl is relished by some kind of stttck. I r is the raising f ptt.tr crops that inqtoverishes the average farmer. TakI.no good care of young stock lays the foundation fur future development- TWENTY. Sweet and twenty, and fair as tht day; l'U uly of lovcra are bound this way. Sweet and twenty, with eyes that shine. And li&ttoiue curves that are rare and tine. Iiimples that play at hide-and-seek Cm the lender mouth and the rounded cheek. Never bad maiden a lily-white hand "softer and nucculicr to command. Never had maiden a foot more lik'ht 1 o dance a measure at worn or uh-'ut Sweet and twenty can row and ride, ttverthe rippling wavelets glide; Harness and drive and climb and flh: Make you many a dainty dish: Talk In Knlish and French and German Which the sweetest, you'll not determine Sweet and tweniv has life before her. And all w ho meet w ill of course adore her. Hut wha shall come to her after all yueen ui rcii'tt, or to serve, a thrall Only the a tars attove can tell. Ltumh stars that hide their secret well. II an -er a Hazar SHE WAS HIS MODEL. S'-t Her Picture Was Galled Artist's Wife." 'The "Now." said Richard "Lacy, with a sigh which denoted intense joy, "iny chance has come at last!" An old friecd of his, who had made great fame and some money as a novel ist, Kdmund Shelton, to wit. had se lected him to illustrate an edition de luxe of his famous novel. "Claire inge low," which you have no doubt read, and had offered very liberal terms. Here was the opportunity for which Richard Lacy had been waiting ever since he came to London, a youth of seventeen, more than ten years ago. He was a struggling artist, who painted pictures (which never sold) in the daytime, and earned his bread and cheese at night by designing for the stationery trade, and such black-and-white work as he could get hold of. He managed to make about six hun dred dollars a year, one-third of which went for the rent of the gaunt, bare studio in which he worked, and the little bcdr.tom attached in which he slept. The purchase of materials ex hausted another third, aud on the re maining two hundred dollars he lived, but did not grow fat. L'uless he could in some way arrest the attention of the public he would probably remain all his life an ill-paid designer. True, by some freak of. fortune, one of his pictures had once been exhibited at the Koya! academy. Hut it had been "skied, not a single critic noticed it, and it was reproduced in none of the il lustrated catalogues. liven now he was in debt for it very gorgeous frame. A timid rat-tat at the door interrupt ed his soliloquy. '-Come in." A tall young girl stttod lnfore him. She was not exactly lteautiful. but with an ar ist's instinct he at once noticed tlie line poise t if her head and hersaajK ly hand. She was meanly dressed, and she hesitateit. "t'.tod morning." he said, at length. "Model?" She nodded gravely and handed him a card. "Mary Hlacknottd" was thei.ame it Is ire. Lvidently she was a beginner at the justness. Tlie old bauds never called tn him, for they knew his means would lot allow him to engage a model, ex--ept very ttccasionally. "Well. 1 may lc wanting a nittdel .hortly," Lacy said; "may I ask what four terms are?" She stated them. They were ridicu lously low. "IVrhaps you can call to-morrow, and I could then say w hether you would be likely to suit me." When Richard Lacy had hail three sittings with Marj- Hlackwood he begau to wonder how in the world he would have got m without her. Not only had she read "Claire Inge low." but she seemed thoroughly t t un dcrstuiid the somewhat diflicult char acter of Claire. She was ever ready with useful suggestions. He admitted to himself that she really inspired his ict nil. lie h Hiked forward with eagerness to her visi s. Not that they were partic ularly lively affairs. Miss Hlackwood spoke only as occasion demanded, and Lacy was not one of those artists w ho t-an talk and work simultaneously One tlay when she came he wis al most prostrated by a more than usually severe headache, a complaint from which he frequently buffered. In the middle ofthe morniug's work she sud denly jumped up. "Why, Mr. Lacy, you are ill.' cried. "Only one of my headaches," he said, faintlv ami wearily. "You know. I often have them. Hut I think I will sit ttown a bit " ' Then he fainted. When he recovered consciousness he found himself lying tin the only couch which the studio Wasted, while Mary Hlat-kwotMl sttntd over him with a bot tle of smelling salts. "Where do you keep the tea?-' she asked, with a smile. "I must make a cup at once.' Years afterwards he remembered the quiet joy w ith which he watched her quick, graceful movements as she set altout preparing that lea. "Hy the way," Lacy said, as he con- ....o.. ll.- ..infied the tea. "how came I i .. ."i t -- oil this couch?" "I carried you there," said Mary, with a suspicion of red in her cheeks. "Oh er I see!" "I nursed my mother for three years In-fore she died, and I know what to do; ami you aren't very heavy." Froin that time they were no longer artist and model, but close friends. Richard suddenly discovered that it was necessary for Mary to sit four times a week instead of three. Then he said he would like to paint her portrait as "Clare Ingelow" for the academy, which would open in a couple of months. It was about this time that Richard found that he could talk an! work as well. They discussed everything; and the man discovered to his surprise that in all domains of knowledge outside art, the woman was hisequaL It was remarkable that their discus sions never emits! with the sittings. Richard said that perhaps if he tttok more exercise he might have less head ache, and so he fell into the habit of ! escorting her to her rooms. And even . at her tl.mr he reniemltered many tilings J that h wanted to say. f v 81.50 and During one of these walks Jlary re marked that the portrait, was nearly comnlcted. "tif course you will call it Claire In gelow?" she said. Yes. I suppose I must," was the re ply, "but I could suggest at least two better titles." "Indeed: And may I ask what they are?" "Well, one is 'The dearest girl in the world.' and the other, " Portrait of the artist's wife.' " She was silent. It was dark, and the road was deserted. His arm crept round her waist. She looked up, and fier lips met his descending to meet them. And so it wis arrangeth The picture, lteing at last linishcL was dispatched with much trembling. Richard saitl it ought to In accepted, the subject w as so tine. Mary said it ought to U accepted, the handling was so masterly. They were both right. The eagerly exHs-t-d anil much prized vamishiing ticket duly arrived, but attacks of headache hail lately 1k eome more frequent and more severe, and on the eventful day he was incapa ble tif movement. The doctor cross-examined him close ly and then said: "I think your best course is to consult an ttcnlist." "I can see perfectly well," Lacy said, with st tine astonishment. "I know 3-ou can now," the doctor an swered; "but I feel convinced that your headaches proceed from weakness of the eyes." Richard's brow liecame clammy. He saitl nothing aKtut it to Mary and went privily to a great specialist in Harley strtet "Yon must have absolute rest for two or three years," said the great man. "Hut I can't I must live!" "If you don't rest 3011 will be blind before you are thirty-five." With great dillieuity he gathered suf ficient courage to tell Mary. She re mained silent a little. "Then, of course, you must give your ptxir eyes a rest, tlear," she said. "Hut how?" "Well, you will have the money for the Vlaire Ingelow' drawings, and pcrhais the picture will sell. Some one is sure to buy it." "The money for the drawings won't last six months, and pictures by un known artists never sell." "Well, I can earn a little." She was determined to keep cheerful for his sake. He closed her mouth with a kiss. "No!" he said. "I shall give myself six months' holiday; that is all I can afford. And then I must liegin again end take my chance. IVrhaps the doe tors are mistaken. They often are." "Yes, very often." echoed Mary. It was the tlay of the private view, and Lacy sat in his studio wotulericg if any among the brilliant crowd at Hurlington house had cast a pasi-.ing glance at his picture. Toward dusk a telegram came, reply paid. "What is name and address." it ran. "tif lady who sat for Claire Ingelow? Mark Ffolliott. Hetlford r...v." Now, every one knew Mark Ffolliott. He was the solicit"! r. and acted for half the aristocracy. What couhl it mean? Lacy telegraphed Inick the required information. He went to see Mary next m in ling. "Richard, dear," she ln"gan almost immediate lv. "1 know I am a brazen minx, but I think we ought to get mar ried at otiee. Then I can keep an eye on you to see that you don't work." "Don't joke, old girl!" he said, with a tremor in his voi. e. "I've In-cii think ing, and I've made up my mind that I ought to release you. as there is no prospect now of my lteing able to keep even myself, to say nothing of a fain- iiy." "What if I refused to lie released? "I must insist on it." "Then I shall sue you for damages for breach of promise." Mary went softly up to hi m. Then she showed him a letter whieh she had that morning received from Mr. Mark Ffolliott, of I led ford row. It set forth, with the usual legal for mality of phrase, how the writer, catch ing sight of Mr. Lacy's picture at the academy, had leen astonished at the likeness which it lsire to a Miss Nor ris. who, twenty years since, had sev eral times visited his ofliee in company with her uncle. Sir James Norris. who was an old client of his; that Sir James Norris had died altout a year ago, in testate; that it had lieen discovered that the deceased left no relations except his niece, and that the latter hail mar lied a gentleman named UlackwtHl and subsequently died, leaving a daugh ter; that Mr. Ffolliott hail hitherto been unable to trace the issue of this nurriage; ami, finally, that he was con vinced that the original of "Claire In gelow" must be the daughter of Mrs. HlackwiHHl and heires.. to one hundred and fifty thousand dollars and a coun try house. "Man-," Richard said, "accept my congratulations! Hut, of course, a girl with one hundred and fifty thou sand dollars and an ancestral hall won't throw herself away on a penniless artist." "Won't she?" was the reply. Richard Lacy puts A. Ii. A. after his name now and paints portraits for five thousand dollars apiece. Hut Mary al ways tells the children that the Itest portrait their father ever did was that of "Claire Ingelow." Huston Ulole. Insuring a. Cool Hummer. lie had been seeking olliee, but was now on his homeward way. "I say," he exclaimed to an old ac quaintance whom he met on his jour ney to the depot, "you people aren't worrying about your ice supply this summer, are you?" "The subject has given us some Itoth er," was the reply. "It's unnecessary." "Do you think so?" "Of course I do. You noticed how late spring was, didn't you?' "Yes." "Well, you can't keep oflice-seekers out of Washington, and you can depend on getting a cold wave every time one of them strikes the executive mansion." Washington Star. They Mere All C.ullly. In preaching against the sin of flirta tion a French priest pTcw quite warm in charging the female mcniliers of his congregation with the offense. Sudden ly he tiMtk off his skull cap, ami, pre tending to throw it, said: "I'll throw my cap at the worst among you." Im mediately every woman ill the cougre Ifatktu ducked her head. postage per year In advance. NUMBER 33. LAUGHING PHILOSOPHY. If nature dt -Un-i to charm the eye W 1th liowcr of every hue, lit joichi.-. though at tiurht they din. U'h Diil lie happy loo? Why not why not Why nit le happy loo? A thousand creatures frisk and fly And aeel and sfs ud. and woo; Shall we the common law deny? Why not U happy too Why u.t why Hot Why not Is- happy too? Sijuirrel and 1s t- with rapture ply The arts their fathers knew: If these rejoice, why so may I: Why not tc happy too? Why not why not Why aot be happy too? The l-eady brook po lautrhini? by. The birds sin? in the biue. The very heavens exult, and cry: Why not Is- happy too? hy hot w hy not Why not lie happy t.o? Pora Uead t.oodalc, in Journal of Kduc tion. 3IY WIFE'S LEGACY. Why We Didn't Get a New House and Furniture. "I don't like to calculate upon such things," oliscrved my wife, "but if Aunt Jane were to die. I should not lie a bit surprised if she left us that old fashioned set of silver that belonged to my great-grandparents." Out of consideration for the printer, I w ill omit indications of the emphasis with which she usually spoke. If the reader will kindly consider every second wortl printed in small caps or italics, he will have some faint idea of her manner of expressing herself. "It is a very handsome set," 1 re turned, glancing alstut our modest din-ing-ro.un, "and will hardly accord with our furniture." "It wouldn't look at all well with that sideUiartl," returned my wife, promptly, "it's so very shabby oh, of course, 1 mean the sidelioard, not the silver." "I suppose, then, if such a thing were to hapjH-n, you would want a new side IsianL" She nodded. "I saw a lovely one down town to day; antique oak, lteautifully carved. I do admire oak so muclu" "lint the rest of the furniture is wal nut." I objected. "Walnut is altogether out of style," she said, with a disdainful glance at the chairs whi;h we h:wl once admired: "and a siilelioard is so much the most expensivo piece of furniture in a dining room that it tl(Hsti"t cost much more to get a whole set than just that one piece. And even a walnut sidclsiard, new, would not look well with these chairs and this table." I said nothing and the tacit surrender was acewpted by my w i.'e. Thenceforth it was untlersttHsl that if Aunt Jane should ltcqucath us the silver, we were to purchase a new set of tlining-room furniture. The next evening, as we were again at dinner, mv wife remarked: "I have ltceii looking at carpets to day, and saw one that just suits me; rich and snUlm-d. you know." "CarjH-ts." I repeated, in some sur prise. "I didn't know that there was one needed this season." "Why, stupid," rejoined my wife, petulantly (the emphasis was all upon the pet name), "did we not agree that the tlini:;g-room must lie refurnished? Atnl thi:, cariH-t is so old aud worn, of course it would not do with all new furniture." Again 1 acquiesced silently, and she proceeded tit make plans for meeting me the nest tlay, to cxa mine and choose the carpet and furniture to lie pur chased later 011. Well, if my wife's re lations left her hamlsomesilver, I must, of course, pro vide things in keeping with it She met me according to appoint ment, and, having inspected the arti cles, gave me to understand that my taste was so execrable as not to merit a moment's consideration, and, an nouncing her own choice, suggested o tolly: "And now let us go and look at the wall papers." "Wall papers. I echoed. "of course the room must be re paiHTed if it is refurnished. As for the wot d work. I suppose there is no help for that; it will just have to lie re grained. Can they make that natural wood finish on wihkI that has been painted?' I stared aghast; that silver was going to cost me a pretty sum. Hut I was helpless, entirely so; my wife had made, up her mind. That evening she was much elated at the prospect of Wing surrounded by such things as she had that day se lected. There' was but one cloud on her horizon. "The dining-room will be nicer than the parlors," she remarked, plaintively; "I'm afraid they will look shabby." I saitl nothing, hoping that if she were not contradicted she would not pursue the subject further. Yain hope! She had fixed it in her own mind that silence gave consent, and when I came home the next evening hail assumed that the parlors were to le newly fitted up. "Don't you think," she said coaxing ly, "that as long as the parlors and dining-room are to lie torn up, and we are to have the painters and paper hangers here, we might as well have the whole house done? It would lie very little more trouble, and then it will all look nice together, you know." "It would lie considerably more ex pensive," I remonstrated. 'You miglt draw the money out of the building association," she sug gested. 'Our savings in that institution are doomed." I said to myself. Aunt Jane lingered a long time. In justice to my wif., I must admit she had liecome oblivious tif the fact that all these improvements depended upon a legacy which could only lie pustessed after the death of her venerable rela tive. A "day or so after she hail decided that the house was to Ik- thoroughly renovated mv wife said to me: "I have Iteen examining the parlor carpets, and find by using the Itest parts of botli. and buying, a wide border, I can get quite a new carpet for our bed rtHtiii." "Can you, indeed!" 1 remarked with pleased suprisc. There was fine thing that she would not want, anyhow. "Yes, and the carpet that is now on Tb limiDd rellatila circulation of the ' conMderatmu of ad vert ir tioe lvor will I inverted at id. ioiiowiiik iuw nm . 1 luob, 3 lm. l'iU 1 inch, tnontli jf-JJJ 1 tDcti, niootb i met. iy..-.- I iih ijb, ' .. llnrliM.I Tear 10 " lochM. fl mouth. .. a locben. ) year - V eoloiun, 6 niuntb... ooluran.0 mootn....... ... e.iluuin . 1 year I poiunio, 6 tuontbi... 1 column. I Tear 10. OC. 2l uu 40.UU 7fcl0 Kunlneti Itemf, Brut infrtlon, Kic. pr l!t fntMO.Dt tnixrrtloD br iter 1D. Adiuiairtrstor'a Dd ; fceculor' Notice... ti r0 AnditoT'f Notice. -- - Nintr anil .ttuli.r Notice awl -Keolat miu or ropellnr ot any hth ra tlon or rociety and oumviunlratlon deFl(0d to call attention to any matter of limited or Indl vidual Interrat mui.1 t aid ir i advertiruiemi. Kuok aid Job rriotin of all kind, neatly and ezedloariy exerated at tbe loweM rice. And doo'tyoa loriet It. it has in it enough good to cover the children's rootn, if I put the worn part under the In-d. Oh inaylte I'd ln-tter put that fin the children's riHim," she added, reflectively, "and give that one to the children. Theirs gets such hard wear tint an old one w ill not last any time." "True." "As long a we don't have to buy a Itcdroom carpet," she remarked, insin uatingly, "don't you think we might have a new set of furniture?" "No!" savagely. She burst into tears and called me a heartless monster. To pacify her I had to promise the furniture, together with a new silk and a sealskin, that the mistress of the house might lie as line as her dwelling. "It diH-s st em a shame." she said a few days afterwards, "to sjiciid so much money on this old house. That's very handsome and expensive pajter that we looked at. and to substitute an arch way for the folding diMirs will cost s. imcthing " "An archway!" I gasped. This was the first that I had heard of such a thing. Hut my wife sailed right tin. unheeding my exclamation. "And then those lovely carpets cut up to fit these small rooms, tts!" "Yes, it is a shame," I replied, hard ly crediting my senses. Not all had been lost, though much had been in danger. "I am so glad that you think so," re turned my wife, briskly. "I was so sure you would agree with me that it would Ik? w iser fr us to find a house that suits us lietter, and buy right away. Real estate is cheap now. they say, there is so much in tht market." ".., tried to put "ti a knowing look; if she nail know n half as much alsnit that subject as almut managing me. I should have felt impressed. As it was, 1 objected weakly. "My tlear, I don't know where in the world I could get the money to buy a larger and lietter house." "You could sell this," she replied, nothing daunted. Thinking cunningly 'to turn her own weapon on herself. I retorted: "Hut if real estate is a drug on the market I do not w ant to sell." "There are those shares of stock, couhl you not scil them?" "Hut that stK-k is going up daily; if I wait six months 1 can get double w hat it would bring now; or hold it and draw a big interest on my investment." "Well, what else are you going to do? Ytiu said yourself that we must have a larger and better house." Thereupon I mental bade a rcget f ill farewell to the st-K-k. and the money which I had expected to make by holding it. My wife occupied her leisure time f r the next three weeks in looking for a residence which should be in all re spects suitable for the furniture we were going to buy. What she would desire next 1 could not guess, unless she should lKeome thoroughly dissatis fied with me. At the end of the period mentioned 1 came home one evening to tind het in tears. "Aunt Jane's dead," she sobbed: "the pi tor old la !y died this morning. I have jst eotne from her house." . s Aunt Jane had In-cn at the point of death for tli ." past six months. I was hardly surprised tri hear this bit of news. I tlid my lK-st to comfort my wife, however, and comported uij'scif like a dutiful iiephcw-in-law ut the mournful ceremonies following the death. When I returned home the day after the funeral, my wife met me at the distr. her fae flushed, her eyes blazing. "What do j'ou suppose that old cranio has done?" "What old crank?" "Aunt Jane," "I'm sure I don't know, but you must remcnilier. my tlear" "Oh, I know she's death She would n't give her things away under any cir cumstances. Siio lias left me JlttO in cash and tiiat tlear old silver to my second cousin. John Scott!" I could hardly hide a smile, but I managed to saj" "What a pity!"' "He'll sell it, and spend every cent on liquor and cigars." Then the blaze in her eyes was quenched by a fliKtd tif tears. I did my liest to sitothe her, but mv efforts were useless. I assured her that if her cousin sold the silver we would buy it. "I don't want it!" she declared; "I won't have it! I won't get a single new thing in the house or a new dnss fir that sealskin or anything. I'll just stay here with things as they are. and John Scott can keep his silver, and j-mi can keepyour buihlir.g association mon ey anil stock, too. So there, now!" After that I did not try to assuage her grief. I was afraid that consola tion might cost more than I could pay. Waverley. Aa the Yankee 1'ronouneed It. Cunning in the use tif language to give false impression is a 'i ankee trick celebrated in song and story. Many in stances of its use come to light in the testimony given in courts. An illustra tion of such dishonest craftiness is re lated by a Maine gentleman. A man came to him wanting him to buy a share in a county lottery in which the principal prize was a horse. "I'll take one," he said, "if you'll warrant me I shall draw the horse." "Oh, 3es," said the seller, glibl3 pocketing the cash. 'I'll warrant j'ou to get the horse." The horse went in another direction, and the ticket holder, meeting the seller said, jokingly: "I thought j'ou warranted me to draw that horse." "Oh, no," said the other, shrewdly, "1 did not saj- warrant, but want. I said I wanted you to get the horse, and 1 did." Hangor Commercial. Held a Ootid Hand. I was traveling not long ago in Amer ica when 1 met a man who used to tie coroner in a town out west, who told me the following card story. Said he: "I was once sitting down to a game of cards with a Texas man. a half-breed In dian, and a fellow named Dick Jimson. The ante was five dollars, and there was ni limit. There was five hundred dollars tin the cloth, and when we 'showed down' the half-breed held a 'straight, Dick Jimson held au ace and three kings, the Texas man held four aces, and " tood heaveus!" I inler ruptetl. "and what did you hold?" "Well," he said slowly, "Win" as I was the coroner at the time, 1 held an in quest on the Tcxab man." Loudon l-'ioaro. E j auy.
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