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KINI if .1 KW Kl.liV always on Imn.l. Mv lin .if .lowelry Is unsiirpassfrt t Vine Hint s fur yonrsflf In-fore purr hat 111' t'lv wl'tT'". CARL RIVINIUP. V. Mnstnr, Nov. 11. lHH.1--tf. ellevinir. 9 icn it is not simple it is frtf&f'fi&h JicnutifuL Good these T see " ine K.ochester " fnrrihlv. All mril viZZr.-. more cheerful than either. s.tltlv liv extirrssvour choice ui over '.tlllil St, re in the It'urtJ. jnl r. Apph'id into the tfntrils t is f., ti, r.ittiM iiiji.tuim-i'utn, r.ruvt ; 50g itt ' m.nl. oil r'fii'f. of ;vv, ..i n'liTl" I'Mf " . ' a-"- 1 rn:c Mm an .-.7.1 to t 'Ml, HAuiA 2tWL7.3-W ntii' l I h'' t" V-'tt; HM. V'iit.oncree. inn utl liLouil iJttxtM. 171)4. l-Ol. folli'lns written at ihort no'ice In the OLD RELIABLE 1 ETNA" oilier 'irl ! 'miiira. T. W. DI CK, jJ NT FOK TIIF. 1 1 viiii ) ivnw itdMMKNUEIi rSlNKS 17D4:. Kiertiitura Jniy 1KHU. FEES BROS.' gh i Parlor JlLa' V AA0 ' FEES BROS.' Mam Street, Near Post Office fftThf iini olcr'itr-ril ili-Hlrn to Inform the int- In- that tliy liac o.cnil nhiivintf ar or on AUiti Mrcei. n.-iir the ."-t oltlce wnere iinrntTiiw In nil It l-niiiche ( will re curried on lo the future. Kvervi hinir iieut au! clean. Your inironiise m.ltciied. kkf:s hiio.s. II t lOi'KK. M. I).. r.lYKH-IAN St'kllKOl. KHI-NHI'K1. - - I'A. w--lMliceon MIkIi aircct in r.-.tn lormcrly ix ... .. .v it.- u extern I'uloii 'leleKrai''' i AT -1 if4 k 50cl v "-HI 153 ri 'IS !p3 !i I V IT Vw-Jl 1 i 'I ii a 111 iy ih r Proprietor. J'KOYWEACi: C0TTA(iK. Why Captain Sol Buddie Conclud ed He Wouldn't Build It. " I'nivi.lcnee eutt.icv.' Mrs. IVinsrlo, in:i'.t;n. it sliuil snid t'apt. Sol Kti.lillf firmly, as hi- ia..-.i'il his liu;.'. .up for another t up of ten. :ml wiped his forehead with a red tiauduna haud Kereliief. 'Well, eaptain." saitl Mrs. Trinfrle, in tones of amiable aetinieseeiiee, "yon 1m'"ui.' a seliolard, and havinr Ihh.U learniii moreover, it isn't for ine 'to tfuinsuy you." .Mrs. I'rinjrle. ma'am." said the eaptain. enipliutieally rappinr his spee taele ease on the table, "your senti ments do yon honor. When a man eomes to my time of life" Mrs. I'riiiK'le made a little h-preeatory m ivemeitl of her pretty fat hand. i inly forty-live, ("apt. Huddle," softly .s,i-."j-est'.l Mrs. l'rinie. The eaptain liowed eotirteonly. "Not In ini used to tin1 soeiety of uniiulilc ladies liUe ytttirself, Mrs. l'rin'le, I don't ipiite know how to undeeeive you a t. my years." tnitsi.le. timiultuous waves heat noisi ly a'rtinst the shingly shore, as if in sist i:i),' that C'apt. Sol Huddle should le delivered up to them; inside, the only sound uhii'h hroke the stillness was a pensive mew from Mrs. lVinirle's Per sian eat. The eaptain paused ajrain. t.M.k up the eat and thoughtfully !.iired out some milk for it. "My eat on lioard the Moriiinr Star would never take his milk without a soonful of -fro; in it." he said, r.-miiiise.-ntly; 'lint he tried it tio miieh for his strength; he was always aml.itious. thai eat was 1 m ambitious. Laid liim-s-lf out to eat up all t he ship's ek roaehes. thotiLrh he knew they'll tlisa yree with him; and there was a fum-ral soon a f t.-r his funeral. He took a lot of eoekroaeh.-s with him, too as many as he eoiil.l hold, ptx.r ehap." ('apt. Mil. Idle heaved a sitrii U the memory of his departed favorite. "As to my years," he resumed, "they " The tjuiet Mrs. l'rinfrle. who was not linifli jfiven to interruptions, did a nu.st uiuisiial thin- she interrupted the ;:(. tain a.iin f. r t he third time. "A m m i . as you'' as he looks." she said. "A ud yon. ('apt. l.mldie, don't look a day i ivi-r f. .rly-ti ve." The eaptain uain Ixuvtil with nauti eal yraee. "S.-eii . you've -et your n. ii.. I t.ii it. Mrs. I'rinjrle, we'll make it so; tliouh, if any .piestimis are asked, the faets will jo aai.ist it." "No one will be mi impertinent," said Mr. i'rinjrle, as she l.toked pensively down at her pretty slipper. The eaptain passed his cup for more tea, a lKrverae to which- he had lately taken a -Treat faney; its novelty u peaVd to him most stronl'. In his seafaring days at this hour like the depat ted eat he liad j.'enerally par ta!,'ti of a soothinjr lx'Vera.- with rum in it. Kut the widow had gradually weaned the eaptain from sneh an u:i kttlylike 1 werntre as rum in the (lay time, ami he found ever fresh delight in tea tea with cream in it tea by the bucket tea containing four lumps of sii;rar to each supply. At ten o'clock every niht. however, the widow's fair hands brewed her lodger what he was facetiously wont to call "a stiff nor' wester." Then, the eaptain sat thoughtfully ly the fire, living his voy aes over ajain, and full of simple, reverent thankfulness that he had leen spared to drift into such a pleasant haven of peace. Mrs. I'rinjriecontinued to knit, as the cat drowsily purred on the captain's knee. The captain put down his cup and took up the plan of a very snnr, two-storiid cottage, with a veranda vunniiifr Jill round it " 'Providence cottage, it shall lie, Mrs. rrinle;" and he looked about for a pipe spill. Mrs. lVintrle handed him one with something of a sih. "For more than six months," said the eaptain. meditatively drawintr a Ion breath and carefully usin his little tiner for a tobacco stopjn-r "for more ttran six months I've Ik-cii laiil up in jxirt, mi to srM-ak, and yet in siht ami smell of the sea." "Yes, you can certainly smell it," said Mrs. Frintrle, dubiously. "And when the lishin lniats come in, it's a liitie hit eh stroll jr." "Well," .-.aid the eaptain, admiringly, "a trifle, niayW. for a delicate lady's nose like yours Mrs. l'rinle; but there's not an unp'easant flavor at tout it to a man who s spent his life in com munion, so to speak, with such smells. Why. every port has a different smell, ami you j;et to know the lay of the land by it lonf In-fore you drop anchor." "Aren't you tired of the siht of the sea?" somewhat incoiiseiuently asked Mrs. l'rinle, aain lillin the captain's cup, which was blue and white, with "A Present from Yentnor" on it in Ik ild. clear characters of preen. Mrs. Prinle lived alxmt a mile beyond Yen t nor, in a snu little eottape, whose par.len ran down to the sea, "No, ma'am. I ain't." returned the eaptain, meditatively. "'Cause why, Mrs. Prinple? The sea pets into a man's blood and heart and brain. When he poes down to the ships, like wise iishinp smacks, it's liccause he's drawn to it, so to speak, lie can't help it. The wonders of the dcp are al ways wonders to him, thotiph lie's s-cn them all his days; the harvest of the si a its dead men's lames, its coral caves, where, savinp your presence, tlios.,- fish-tailed hussies, the mermaids, sit waitinp for you with deceitful niur nitirinps and delusive soups is afore him ever in the nipht watches; every wind that blows, every whale that sjx nits, is known to liiin almost as well as its Creator." Mrs. Prinple shuddered. "It's a cruel, treacherous thinp," she said "a cruel, treacherous thinp. I sometimes wake at niphts and draw the clothes over my head to shut out the noise. It makes me shudder, and yet I can't leave it." "You're ripht, Mrs, 1'rinple," said the captain, drawinp his chair a little closer to he.- "you're ripht. It is a cruel, treacherous thinp, with its elianping winds ami hunpry, foaminp waves, its never-reslinp, ltcvcr-cn.tin ebb and flow, its little baby ripples and soft surface a-shininp in the sun. And then, when yon slide down into it just to feel its soft toil eh, why. as like as not," continued the eaptain. rather ashamed of his oratorical Uipht "w hy. as like as not, there's a shark waitinp to prab and drap you down to Davy Jones' locker." . HK 18 A FREEMAN "WHOM THE TRUTH MAKES FREE AND ALL ABE SLAVES EESIDE." UKUNSBUKG. PA., FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER J, IS93. Mrs. Prinple looked frlphtcneil, so the captain hastened to reassure her. "Its a wonderful place is the sea, Mrs. Prinple. such a lot of spare room in it for rubbish. I should like to take two or three of these contractors who've sent in estimates for Providence cot tape and bump 'em down into Port Uoval harbor, so that Port Koyal Tom could just open his jaws and contract for them. One would think I was po inp to build a palace instead of a tidy little six-roomed eottape." "Ah, but the masterful way in which you rule and direct them, (.'apt. Hud dle:" sail Mrs. Prinple, adiuirinply. "You've a natural pift for the ruliiipof men." "Maybe," said the eaptain. pleasant ly; "but that's a dill'cicnt thinp from the rulmp of women. Mrs. Prinple. You can't clinch any little difference of opinion with a handspike when you're arpuinp with lovely woman. You've pot to keep your hand on the helm all tie; time and not let her know it." "Yes." rejoined Mrs. Prinple, thoupht fully; 'women like a stronp, master ful hand that'll puide them; but they won't Ve driven." The captain shifted himself in hin chair. Suddenly it dawned upon him that t he matter mipht In- one capable of iH-rsonal interpretation. lie hail never tried ids hand in that direction. It seemed to him that the howlinp wind outside, as it blew auionp the unfinished rafters f the Providence eottape. was jeerinp at him for his lack of skill in the direction of the fair sex. He stirred his tea and took another lump of Mipar. Anil the whlow. too, thoupht f many thinps in her iv.iet, pciitie way as she sat by her side of the tire. ('apt- Hud dle, with his wonderful llow of lau puape and quaint descriptive jxmcr, had Ik'cii a prcat source of comfort to the amiable Mrs. Prinple. And now in a couple of months Providence eottape would Ik finished and the captain cease to remain her lodper. How kind lie had b. en when that "land-shark" of a coat man tried to cheat her out of a sa-. k of coals! The captain, alb. -it a man of peace, had knocked the fraudu lent coal man into the middle of the cellar, and refused to allow him to de part until he put his head throuph the circular iicniiip and humbly apolo pie.l. It was soiucthiiip to have a prcat. stronp, pentle the captain was wonderfully pentle to her sailor a 1 ut the premises. Ah, well, she would take her nephew .lack ami his pretty bride, Polly 1 1 umphrcys. to live w ith her un til they ha.1 saved enoiiph money to hue a house no thrifty fisherman at cntnor ever married before h had lioiiirht a house and try to forpet the captain's pleasant ways. Then she re me'.ulHTetl that .lack was a little un certain in his teiuK-r, and that the eap tain was, except when justifiably roused by fraudulent coal men, as mild' as a lamb. Suddenly Oapt. Huddle rose from his chair and crossed over to Mrs. Prinple" s side of the room. "Mrs. Prinple, ma'am," he saitl and his flow of lati puape seemed to have returned to kiln "Mr-;. Prinple, ma'am, what would yon think of a man who was safe in port if he ventured out to s;a apaiti in a new craft a craft that mipht be lop sided and cranky, with shiftinp ballast, pi veil likewise to shippinp bilpe water" there was a touch of real pathos in his voice as he drew this touehiup pic ture "and iiiayln' that wouldn't an swer her helm? What would you think of such a man if he was to leave his snup hunk in port and po driftinp up and down, a-steerin' all over the points of the compass penerally?" "I should think of him whatever you thotipht of him. ('apt. Huddle." said Mrs. Prinple. "Il is not for me to set my opinion apainst that of a sea-farinp peiitleman like yourself. Hut if the man you speak of is the man I take him to lie, then " "Then what. Mrs. Prinple, ma'am? eaperly inquired the eaptain. "He he would stop in his bunk in port, as you nautical gentlemen say," returned Mrs. Prinple. The captain's face glowed with ex citement, lie to k up the plans ol Providence eottape to cast them in the fire. Mrs. Prinple gently stayed his hand. "What are you dtinp?" slu asked. "Mrs. Prinple. ma'am. I'm poinir tc commit these plans to the flames," sail" the eaptain. "unless you'll let me givt them to Jack and Polly." "W-what?" "Y-s, Mrs. Prinple, ma'am, I am that lublicr," saitl the captain, with re pressed excitement. "Why should I po building a house like Provi lenee eottape. when my Providence is here! This is my port; and if so lx" you'll al low me to cast anchor and stay here" "In command?" queried Mrs. Prin gle, scarce knowing what she had said. The captain took her han L "No, Mrs. Prinple; but as first oliicer, with you in command, and Prudence and the cat to swab decks." "Ye-es," said Mrs. Prinple; and the captain, forpetting the cat. kissed her. The cat walkiil out of the room, her tail stilt with indignation. Outside, the wind howled dismally among the brick wo.-k of the partially completed Providence eottape. Ten o'clock struck as the widow brought out her family Hible, and Prudence Pemlterton, the maid, sat coyly down on the edpe of a chair just inside the parlor door. The captain opened the Hible rever ently. "Now we'll have our sailing or ders for tit-morrow," he saitL 'Mrs. Prinple laid aside lies, knitting, 1. Miked at the captain with tearful eyes, and placed his spectacles on the open Hible, thus tacitly taking command of that gmtdly mariner, ('apt. Sol Huddle, who put on the spectacles and some what laboriously began to read. G. D. Harpin, in Chandlers' .b-o-nal Oui-en irtrli'n Uliilit Name. 1'he oft-raised question as to (Jneen Victoria's surname is thus answered bv a recent writer: "She is, of course,, a Guclph by ancestral lineage, w hich is traced by the genealogists from Kin press St. Cuneponda, consort to Km peror St. Henry IL, A. I. lttiL IUtth are canonized saints and Ixith were solemnly crowned at Home by Pope Hem-diet VIII. Hut all this relates merely t tlu' pedigree of Princess Alexandria Victoria prior to her mar riage in lsJO to Prince AUx'rt, of Saxe-Coburg-dotha. 1 his prince was of the ancient house of Saxony, whose family name is. and has during more than four centuries la-en, Wettin. Obvious- ly, therefore, the (iuelpli princess la- came upon Iter marriage Mrs. Wettiu." JOYS OF TROUT FISHING. ltrlef Hut (irapltic I'm Picture of a lay wltli Koil ami I.iue. Silent as an otter, the man moves into the water till it curls alxtut his knees, says a writer in ( luting. A -i arm sways back and forth, and an Insect flutters softly upon the surface of the p.xil some yardsaway. (Juickly the arm sways apain, and again an insect kisses the surface of the water. A flash of a silvery crescent, a plash in the water, a sudden, stronger swirl in the wriihing current; then a sharp, metallic discord rasps out against the song of "the birds. The man's eyes blaze with a swift, eaper light, his cheek Hushes slightly: there is then exultation in every line of his face. His right hand clinches upon the wand, the raspiiipdis cord ceases, the wan.l arches t. a semi circle and quivers with perilous strain, while two keen eyes rivet upon a shift ing, swirlinp commotion that maddens the water here, there, back, forth, nn ceasinply. A ball of snowy spume ujxin the surface, a spatter of jeweled ilrops. a tinted sha'jx- curving in air an in stant, an apprehensive. "Ah!" from the man's jtarted lips, and again the lith. wand curves and strains. So is fouudit the pix.il ripht. till skill conquers. Within the fatal net gleams a shining Wily and pcarl-lxtrdcrcd tins above a streak of olive pemmed with ruby snanples. The man's face plows with pride as he carefully Wars his crptive to the shore, ("p in a fraprant bier of freshest preen within the creel a dead king lies in state. All day the silent man creeps hither and thither tlong the stream casting, fightinp. waiting, noting many things, until darkness falls; then homeward through the scented shadows, with a whisp.-rof fall ing sonp from darkened copses. The man's feet are tired with a healthy weariness: the creel strap ;uts deep into his shoulder, but his heart is light and his soul at peace. Not one evil itlea has entered his mind all day and he has learned much. That is trout fishing and do you x-ople with money and leisure bear in mind the fact that if you spare the nxl you may spoil yourself. STARVLLING colleges. Ijirly Slruul.-a f.r Kli.trntc of (lor S.-li.M.la an.l I ui-.itl-a. The American college of the middle of this century, like its Knglish original, existed for the work of the church. If the college dies the church dies was the buds of its apiH-al for money and influence. Its duty, says David Starr Jordan in the Popular Science Monthly, was to form a class of educated men in whose hands s iotil.l lie the preservation of the creed. In the mouths of ipnorant lueii the truths of the church would Ik- clouded. Kaeh wis, church would see that its wisdom lx- not marred by human folly. The needs of one church indicated the needs of others. So it ca.ne alxiut that each of the many organizations called churches in America established its colleges here and there about the country, all based on the same general plan. And as the little towns on the rivers and prairies grew with the progress of the country into large cities, so it was thought, by some mysterious virtue of inward expansion, these little st hxls in time would grow to be great uni versities. And in this optimistic spirit the future was forestalled and the schtxils were called universities from the beginning. As time went on it appeared that a university could not be made without money, and the source of money must be outside the schtx.ls. And so has ensued a long struggle lK-tween the American col lege and the wolf at the door a tedious, belittling conflict, which has done much to lower the name and dig nity of higher education. To this educational planting. without watering, repeated again and again, cast ami west, north and south, must Ik- ascritxt-d the unnaturally severe struggle for existence through which our colleges have la-en forced to pas-., the poor work, low salaries an-1 hu miliating economies of the American college professor, the natural end of whom, according to Dr. Holmes, "is starvation." AN EXTRAORDINARY HALIBUT. It Wel;h-d 313 I'ouuda and Waa Speared ly a l inlit-rman. A few days ago there was landed at St romness. Orkney, a halibut of extraor dinary dimensions, measuring eight feet ten inches in length and weighing no less than two hundred and forty live txiunds. says the Ixintloii Field. The lish was discovered by two lads w ho were engaged in hauling loltster creels at the back of the Holms, a dis tance of alxtut a mile and a half from St romness pier. It was observed on the sand apparently asleep, and as they had no appliances with them with w hi di to attempt a capture they marked the spot and returned home to acquaint their father. Armed with a kind of harpoon, to which a lir.e was attached, they went back to t lit place and found the huge lish hail not moved. Carefully watching an opportunity the father succeedc in planting the har p.x.n in the back of the halibut. The weapon entered the spine and rendered the lish powerless, but on account of its siA and weight it was only after considerable dificulty that it was got mi lxiard. In its stomach was found a variety of small lish which weighed upwards of six pounds. It was at once carefully licked and dispatched by steamer and rail to the Loudoa mar ket. . IWt- lintewd niaekamltli. At Norristowu. Me., V. H. Logan, a horsesb.xT, made nine miniature horse-shix-s from the metal contained in one silver dime. Kaeh slne has the nuui Wr of holes usually found in horse-shiH-s of the ordinary s"i7.e, but, strange to say, the smallest cambric needle is bxi large to lxj used as nails in these miniature wonders. Logan has made ailidavit that cwry one of these tiny silver crescents were made with the same hammer and punch used in mak ing shoes for the largest sized horses, llow it w as ever done is a mystery. A I-ittl Strong. An author engaged a young lady tyix-writer to take down his new novel from dictation. At the passage: "Oh! my adorable angel, accept the confes sion from my lips that 1 cannot exist without you! Make me happy; come and share my lot and be mine until death us do part!" his fair secretary paused and ingeniously inquired: "Is that to jfo down the reat?" AAA.fl lit 1 - 1 1 w r o SI. SO and LOADED WITH EXPLOSIVES. An Apparently Altandoned IWtat Which Kururl! a 'liiluui C'n-w. Toward the close of the recent war between Chili ami Peru, the Peruvians found themselves quite shut in from the outside world by theChilian block ading fleet that lay off the liarlx.r of Call ho. With two exceptions, the Peruvian navy had all lx-en captured or destroyed by the enemy, and these two remaining ships. vess-ls.of low speed and little jxiwcr, were moored lK-hind the breakwater, absolutely useless for purposes of war. With all their jxiwer of opposing the enemy gone, the Peruvians turned their at tention toward destroying some of the hostile ships that lay it few miles off. a constant menace to the city of ( allao. Frequent futile attempts were made to blow up the Chilian cruisers with torix-diH-s. but the Chilians were t'xt alert, and succeeded in avoiding or de stroying the deadly mi.-silcs. One fore noon, says Ilarjtcr's Young People, the picket vessel of the Chilian licet, a small steam gunb.at. was cruising in shore to take a near hxtk -at the town and fortifications. While steaming slowly along a lat was discovered drifting down with the current. A near inspection proved it to Ik- a fine new wha.lelx.at. with oars and sails and complete outfit. The commander of the Chilian steamed close up to the lx tat and ordered tackles rigged for hoisting the prize on ltard. The tackles were luxiked. and the men walked away to the pi of the liat swain's whistle. Suddenly, as the Ixiat left the water, a terriiie explosion tixik place, tearing the lat to atoms and crushing in the gunlxtat's side at the water line, so that she filled and sank. leaving her startled crew strug gling in the water. Mitst of them were rescued by Ixtats from the foreign men-of-war lying near, but some were never seen again. The lx.at was a cunningly-devised weapon, hav ing a double bottom lilled with a pow erful explosive, with a fuse and deton ator coiiinjeted to the lx. Its to which the tackles hooked. When the strain came on the lxlts. as tin- boat ros from the water, the fuse was. ignited and the cv plosion followed. MUSIC TO BANISH INSOMNIA. A Iintlon l'hHlf-iaii. Ineciiloiii I'lan for ItanUliiliK Midnight Torture. Music as a curative agent has In-cn known and valued since the earliest ages, and the recently established guild of St. Cecilia, in London, whose professed object is t t apply the sixitii ing influence of melody to patients in hospitals and elsewhere, is only carry ing out the prescriptions of physicians who flourished two thousand years ago. The Athenian din-tors "banished fever by a song." Thales found music most c tlicacious in the plague, and Au lus ( iellius even went so far as to main tain that it prixluceda lx-nelicial effect in cases of bites and stings. In their work on "Psychological Medicine" Drs. Hucknill and Tul.e remark that music is the first recorded remedy employed for the relief of madness. A novel, ami jxtssihly a useful, suggestion in the same direction is mentioned by Dr. J. (i. Hlackman in the latest niim Ikt of the London Medical Magazine. It is that a music lxx. worked by an electric motor, mipht lx.' advantapeous ly employed in cases of insomnia. Some car , no doubt, would have to be exercised to see 1 hat the mechanism worked properly before it was started, as nothing would be more likely to drive sleep i.r:.incntly away than a musical box out of tune or liable to un accountable and abnormal spurts of energy. 1 1 would jiI.mi be trying to a nervous patient in the stilly night if the electric current were turned iT al together and the Ixix became mi lde;dy silent. It is possible that a burglar in one's l-drxtn might lx- siMtlu.-d and induced to surrender his lntoty by the unexpected strains of "Home. Sweet Home." but it is also possible that he mipht not. One or two interesting in stances are recorded in the article of the benefit which has resulted in hos pitals from the musical treatment, arid the sleepless Mini might do worse than try the prescription contained in it. UcfiK-d FluaiTH. A florist who has one of the largest greenhouses in the city derives no in considerable prolit fron the renting of flowers and plants for private con certs, public dinners, receptions, balls, weddings, church services, and even funerals, the things most in de mand lx-ing palms and nibltcr trees. The charges for the use of these plants for a sinple evening seem pretty steep to the uninitiated. He explains why: "You think tifty dollars ttxt much for d ress i n g M r s. "s j ta rl or 1 a t T u e si 1 a y ? Come into the greenhouse. There, you see that jtalm? That was worth thir ty dollars on Monday. I will sell it to anylxxly ti-day for ten dollars. The leaves are split, and two of the stalks are broken. And that is only tine instance. We are suffering dam age like that, and we have to charge a price that will insure us against txt great a loss. Fifty dollars wouldn't cover the damage that is done to our property at some of the swell recep tions." Origin of a ( ttinintNi . -j in The expression, Mind your IV and Os," is of comparatively recent origin, dating perhaps from the invention of printing. P, D. J and Hare letters of the same form in the "lower c:-.se" ip. d, q. b), differently used, and the say ing was a warning to printers to get their letters in the right Ikixcs. Other explanations exist; one is that when wigs were worn it was diliicult to Ik graceful and remain ln-wigged, so that men were admonished to mind their pieds (feet) and queues (w igs). A third is that the tapsters marked P for pint and 1 for quart against the names of men who ran up scores at the inns, anil were adjured by their customers to mind their Ps and Os. The lirst sug gestion seems the lxst. Maculflirnt Temple. The temple of the sun at Palmyra covered a square of twenty-two yards on each side. It was approached bv a J maguificent avenue over half a mile long inclosed by rows of columns and statues. The temple of Diana at Kphe sus was four hundred and twenty-live feet long, two hundred and twenty five broad, and with statues and col umns innumerable. Of this Itiagni li ce nt structure not a trace remainsevcu of the foundations. AAA, Kin . postage per year In advance. NUMBER 34. HIS I5AIJY FACE. It's Disfigurement Brouznt Happi ness to James Ellis. "Jirr.my LUis is imh-ed a funny loy," laughed Julia Costello to a friend. "They say he is head over heels in love with you follows you, is to be found somewhere near you most of his time. They ted me you have complete ly I itched the Ixiy," rejoined the friend. "I must confess he seems to act very foolishly. No matter w hat I do or say, or ipnorc him, 1 can't scare him away. I have never done the slightest thinp to encourage him," Julia solx-rly re plied. "What's the matter with the lx.y, then, that he hangs around you ao much?" the friend askeiL "I don't know," Julia slowly said, ami added in a wistful manner. "I won der w hether J itnmie w ill ever lx. a man wiil ever lk like a man." "He's a pretty Ixiy, anyhow," laughed the friend. "Pretty as a baby," t-aid Julia, join ing in the laugh. The subject of this conversation was not a Ixiy. but a man of thirty years. A man of full stature, yet witlwthe ex pressionless face of a baby. It was round and full. The skin was of a soft pink color, with a tinge of darker color in the cheeks. The eyes were larpe and of a lipht blue, and opened in an ininx-cnt surprise when their owner was spoken to. He had a little chubby nose and a small mouth. There were no lines or shadows on his face. He vvas a pretty man; so pretty that his face was repulsive to man ami to womankind. There was nothing alxuit the face to counteract the seemingly expressionless vacuity there. Strangers continually asked: "Who is the man with the baby face?" The reply was always Jimmy ICllis. The man James Lllis was a wallowed up in the ly Jimmy. Another characteristic heightened the effect of this tx.yishucss. His voice was pitched an octave higher than is usual in men. He spoke in a light, chattering tone that went off into a screech. He talked and laiighed like a woman. All his male asvx-iatcs as he be.-ame older grew away from him, de riding -the man with a baby face and a woman's voice. Womankind seemed ever to lx- making sport of him. James Lllis was extremely sensitive in respect t'i these characteristics. He was conscious of tiie fun and sport others were having at his expense. In consequence he gave humanity a w ide lx-rth. While he did so, he haled that big baby face of his. It made life mis erable to him. It angered hi:n at times to hear his own voice. He hud tried in vain to coax a grow th of whiskers to hide the face. A tuft of yellow hair here and there was all that .uade its appearance. In despair he had piven up any further attempts in this direc tion. Ni d withstanding' these outward sipns. James Kills was a man of true, honest and honorable instincts and aspira tions. He delighted in the pleasures of a robust mauhiKxl. Hewasan all-round athlete. There was not a better horse back ritler in the town in which he liveiL His mother had died when he was a child. His father diid wluu he reached his majority, leaving him a home in the Pennsylvania town of H and two farms lying near the vil lage. An aunt had Ih-cii installed as housekeeper over the home. James Kllis was a lctter manager of the farms than his father had been be fore him." He pave them his constant attention. There was no part of the work on the farm he could not do. Those under him knew what he expect ed from thein. James Kllis not only knew how to manape the farms better than his father, but knew how to live and enjoy life and that which he made better. There was not a lx-tter library in the town than his; he had collected it himself. He was a lover of art. James Kllis was a talented man. His large hunting dog heard many a soliloquy that for originality and brightness would have rivaled the mental calilx-r of by far the greater numlx.-r of his fellow-townsmen. James Kllis' life had la-en, however, a failure, as he hxikcd at it an unhappy failure a miserable existence, caused bv a baby face and a woman's voice. His greatest happiness, and at the same time his greatest tinhappincss. was his love fr Julia Costello. He was not content unless near her. He wor shiped her. It was the love of a strong man: the only love of a lonely life, lie hail known her from childhtxxl and had always loved her. He loved her ltecause lie could not conceive how life could la- complete without her. He cause he la-lieved that with woman the lx-st gift to man this woman, could he alone reach the great bless ings of existence home, love, happi ness. He was miserable la-cause he had la-en and was no more to Julia than "Jimmy." He felt that, w ith his baby face and woman's voice, he had failed to awaken the chords of love, to sound the depths of her heart. She liked him, respected him, but he was only "Jimmy." her Ixiy playmate. Shortly after the conversation la tween Julia and her friend, James Kllis succeeded in gaining a loiig-lixikcd-for opportunity. Taking Julia's hand in his, he saitl. in his squeaky voice: "Julia, darling, 1 love thee, I love thee. This love is the sweetest, the only thing on earth that makes life worth the living to me. He mine. Ixive me marry inc." Julia could not help but see the ridic ulous in the voice, in the face, and in terrupted him several times as he (txkc, saying: "Oh. don't, Jimmy! llon't, Jimmy!" Silence ensued. He began again: "Won't you give me your answer? Cau't you love me?" "Oh. don't' Oh, don't, Jimmy! "Julia again pleaded. "Can I hope? Tell me something, " James Kllis urged. "I hardly know what to say," Julia answereiL "I have never thought of such a thintr as vou have Mxiken of. It seems funny. You seem but the boy 1 played with yet I hardly know whether to bid you to hoe or not to hoja. I might answer la-tter in a month." "I'll wait the month," the man readi ly said. "Make it two months. "Well, let it le two, then." "Four months might be better yet." "Make it, dear, jut as you wilL 1 AclvertiKinq: Kntew. Th Itnt Bd rellaMe clrrnUtloB ol trie 111 t m kkm a ii eoujwetialf it to the UvurHlla cuOHlderttiou of trfrrtlneri wtiooe lavon will t iDertel at the lollowmn low rmie : 1 mr-b. 3 'linen I 1 lnrh,3 month"..... 1 iDob, C moDlbi.. - 1 mrd I yer 2 Inches. tuootbH.... Vlucbea.i er a lurhet, 6 uioolbl .. t IdcIuk. i year . - - t olotunt o uioDtha.... column. month..... column 1 year ; column, fl moriMm I column, I yeaf .M 5 m; e .uo in d n .uu 1IW lO.Ofc au 00 av 00 40.00 7iO KuiIdmi Itepip, firt incertlon, l(c. per Hue ueuent Inrertlona. he. tier lne Aiiuimii'trator'ii and i txrculor Notice, fi r" Auditor' Notice 1 - stray ami luiitar Nonce X i0 -lie.lutioni tw rjceeilinif ot any cor r tlon or KiK'iety and coiiiuiunl'-atloti ilei'lir li d to call attention to any waiter of limited or indl vidual inlercft must lie ald lor af advertiimeDI. ttook and Job I'ritiUn of all kind neatly and exediouHiy exneated at the lowert rlcc. Aid doo'tyou lorKet It. am content if only in the cud you will ";x mine." Si it was decided that at the end of four months she would give her answer, yes or no, to his suit, or whether he might hope or whether it was hopeless. This was February June might wit ness the making of on'- life or it might not. While James Kllis was content to wait, he was not hopeful. le was only Jimmy" to Julia. Jimmy, the Imy the play mute with the pretty face ami a woman's voice. Julia wished a man for her husband, representative of man IuxkI and strength. lie feared the decision. The time crept on fast; weeks had flown, a month passed. There w as no change in Julia's feelings that he could detect. It was in the latter part of March that." in the dead of night, afire-alarm was sounded. Men sprang from their Ix-ds, jumped into their clothes. It was a country town in w hich every man and many women were needed to tight t he dread fiend. It was soon discovered that a wcathcr-lxiardcd dwelling-house had taken fire at the nx if. When the crowd reached the house the top of it was w rapped in flumes. James Lllis was among the first on tin ground. It waa thought that every soul had left the house. There w as a terrible scream. In the second-story rix.m. by the blaze of the tire, could la- seen a woman. The bhxxl froze in the men's faces us they lot iked at the awful scene. They 1. Hiked at each other, then back lit the woman. Who would maUe a move to save her? Like a flash James Lllis rushed toward the house, kicked open the dixir, disapM-arc.l, fought his waj through the smoke anil heat in the sec ond story until he reached the woman. He dashed out a window and helped her to the ladder that had been raised. As the crowd watched. James Lllis disappeared. Anot her second and there was a fall of heavy timlx-r into the house; a column of sparks went up ward. Seconds passed. The tire was making headway rapidly. Jair.es Lllis had not appeared. At last anxious watchers crept into the house and came upon the lxxly of Kllis lying at the lot tom jf the stairs. He had lx-en knocked dow n by the falling timber. The tin had not reached the place w here he was lying. He was tenderly picked up. carried out of the house and to his home. The falling timber hud struck him in t lie face, cutting and tearing great gashes the whole length. The hot cmlx-rsof the w.ixhI had burned great red blotches ah ng the w -u ml. It was oniy after weeks of careful nursing bv the faithful aunt that James Kllis was pronounced well. He had re covered from the wound to fall into a fever. It was June when the doctor told him he had done all he could for him, that it was for him to grow in strength. It was not until that time that James realized that a great change had taken place. "Jimmy" with the baby face was a thing of t he pa-t. There was unuyiy scar on the forehead, another on the chin, and one on the cheek. There were red patches where he had been burned. He was no longer prette, lie was ugly, yet not repulsively so no uglier than many other men. With the fever had also gone the woman's voice. It wus now like that of other men. It was four months since that day in February that he decided to venture out. He waited until it was dusk. Then he made his w ay to the home of Julia. He was ushered into the parlor, whe.c a half-light burned. In a mo ment Julia came, coming quickly to see her "Jimmy" the much talketl-of and admired hero of the night of the fire and to congratulate him on his recovery. She rushed up to him. and, taking his outstretched hand, ex claimed: "Oh, Jim " stopping startled as she looked in his face, then stammering, continued: "Heg pardon Mr. Kllis I'm so glad to see you!" The man was surprised into formal ity. "Mr. Kliis!" J ulia hail never ad dressed him thus la-fore. What did it mean? As the evening passed they tallied of the events of the past months. As he sKike in that low, tender, pleading, manly voice J ulia listened enraptured. There were chords in her lx-ing that were touched, and responded as tl.ey had never done la-fore. There was something in her Wing that went out to the man the scarred hero. At last, ill low, passionate tones, he pleaded: "Julia, darling. I have come for the answer promised, that can make life the sweetest thing on earth to me. 1 have come now to know whether 1 dare hope for happiness. I'm disfigured now- ugly, but I love you love you, if Itossihle. more than I ever have. Can you love ine?" As he held her in his arms, Julia, tenderly caressing the scars with the tiis of her lingers, whispered: "These don't disfigure you, dear. You are not ugly to me." William A. Mc Cleary, in Leslie's Newspaper. Killiklulrk. There is one thing that cannot la got in eastern towns any more, and that is killikinick, or kinikinik, that is much used by the Indians to mix with tobacco. It is still smoked by them in the west, but they gather o!il, enough for their own consumption. Several plants have received this, name, but they have no right to it, for the true killikinick is the inside ark of the young willow, that h. a-elctl off by the Indians, who spread .t on their blankets in the sun to dry for a few days before using it. It makes a mild pleasant smoke when used alone, and if mixed with tobacco in a pipe softens the taste of the weed. Father of the Navy. Admiral Paris. "The Father of the French Navy," died recently at the age of eighty-seven. His lirst important service was jx-rformed sixty-w-ven years ago. when he accompanied Du mont d'l'rville in a voyage which added considerably to our knowledge of the Pacific islands. Cnlike most sailors oi' the old schiail. he early appreciated the advantages of steam. It was un der his command that the Caja- of (hxxl Hope was first doubled by a French steamship, and he lost an arm at Poiuli cherry through an accident caused by a steam engine ashore. During the Crimean war be was captain of a two decker, and won the rank of vice ad miral. He was appointed curator of the naval museum at the Ijouvrc after his retirement in IsTl. He devoted his orlicial salary to the improvement of the collection uuJtf bib ciiarge.
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