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'HE is A FREEMAN WHOM THE TBCTH MAKES FREE AND ALL ABE SLAVES EES DE." 81. 50 and postage per year In advance. tr i ' VOLUME XXVII. EHENSBUKG. PA., FRIDAY. OCTOBER 20. S93. NUMBER 41 iff i ftp vVi; OILS! OILS!! 'Hi.' All.uitif Ki Cinin Co., o I'lll-lnirir, liiako :i specially ,,t iii;iiiui'ac(nrin,Lr fur the iitnncs-ti,- tra.U' the finest braruls of !l!i;mi!!;iiin.i: and Lnbrit-nin Oils, j Naphtha and (lasiilint1 That r.in he m FBOa PETRQLEOLl V.'e rhalleno comparison with .iTV known proilurt of potrol tii!i!. Ifyouwisl) the most H : Dcitaly : Satlsloctcrj : Oils in flie market ask for ours. ATLANTIC REFINING CO., j 11 r;--i;t Kt '. in. it , riTTS!;ui:f;, v.. P. 11. H. SCHEDULE. "i-h.-iliilo in ft i "M:iy M':: ..'( ... xl i r-on kait. I -T--' ru i' lllllli lutinn r. r m j:i in i .... I 1 "I til j I mi ji in i . i; ! m I ! It) j I :l III j h :: i "i i - 'I. J ' III J ! i i I- r I .! r i.i :;. i fr r. n i: x j r. r,' . . . i-r .Ii .ii V. ( . i J .1 I I' . . I ! t hi ryr lfritiioti. 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T'lielo ofti n ti lls us t..ries I f a stiip lie li:is ut si-a, Aiul Hit- nopibVH :iu.i tne clorii'H. II we're v'.ki I, tor Tt.ni un.l l:ie: And 1 ilreuin tf.at h..iih-v Uere Huilin? Is it lmII.uiI l.t.ri; of mine. Wit Ii tin- soft ; ind ni'M r failinr,'. Ami tlie m eat h r ill ua va t.ii.-. Oh! the U'lU will all Ik; rinirlng With a merry, tuneful din. The liird unl all he sinis'inv. When my ship t'ouii's int She is I'rinliijJ j.if'.s for mother, Ai..l for f itii.-r au.l tin- Kiy. A i I i: i y 1 1 : 1 ! . I .4 1 v 1 r I l.t r '. shall I sunn li-re.l deep in toys: Jl. r h Id is full of tr. iure 1- rum the u lands ol lue main. And lo r fair , ere,v at li-isuie Are sailing home araiiL (Hi! the ii.iu.iuie past all rhyniiu?. And I he joy that will Is ;in. h.-u U'l the 1. lis ara elt.mii.tJ, And my s!up ei.mes In! There are .storms and sudden dangers 1 1 i.linic eruell y ar. .nnd, Wi.i r.- j:isi sin li iK-ean ranvers As n:y fairy l ark are found. I".l..w. I.r- alh of heaven, t hi.-id her. Ami i.i le 1.. r sateiy U. .m.-. A I s.uii. day I sl.uil ttiel her - ' M v snip fi,iii o'er tJie foani' .!i! ti e )i:r.t i w ill all U-sLisii:; Whi n h. r eiew Ilie li.m n win: The U-1U will all l e rinin;' vV h-n m v h '. p eomes in ' ' Mary J Karrah, In St. Nicholas. AT HUCKLKIiKIiliY HILL. .attIora Cauo Trouble nnd Tor risy Gnindpa Counor. I'vTy year pinpV tlK-k to Hitekli Iioriy hit: from away up in Su-uIk-ii i-mity. N. Y.; from flour 'over in Mc Ke:i!i i-.iiuity, iiu? furt lnst- i:irts.if I'ot l.T iiuinty, :in.l ili.stritit s.-etoms nf l'iiur;i I'l.utity, s:iys a l;.ntuu.' (Pa.) eiri-.'s:viii.K'nt of the New Ytirk Sun. 1 1 m-l; l.'!oi ry hill is tin- only pline within a -:ulii:sof tifty mill's wIkt.- tin friiit fur v!ii.-!i it is iiaiiit-il .t. w.s, in any ipriiitity, ami tho pinplo of all that on n I ry Win;,' especially fmul of hn-.-kle-lerrii'.s they thinU Ipitliii) of irivin a!l iHLTht an.l a part of a day to vt on tin- pr..!i!ie liarrens if 1 1 tieklelierry hill, ln-re several s;uare miles of n i'.hin Imt herrj- huslies anil swonl-U'la- lrai-.es spnail beneath th.; scorch . - sun. The lull is one thodsainl fret ilmve the. valley of i'i:ie en-ck, in east 'I'.'i l'.-tter county, an.l alxiiiiuls in si-ameil li il-es ami tuaibleil lieaps of In. se r.n'ks. Whole familii-s camp fur lays mi tins firliihlin harren t pielc luiei.le' i rries for market. As many as : me tin nisaii.1 live hntiih-.'.' persons have lieen on the hill at one time, whore ilaticinr pl.it forms, hunly j,'urilies, open air ;-i:i m ils, lirass hands, an.l al! kinds of fa';in selicni 's are in full blast t am:i .e a:i.i licei-o the visitors. I.ihe ail 0-0,1,1 lup IclelH-rry districts, llu.-ileiM-rry liill is a favorite hat'.nt of raltle.nakes, ami tliey o-imw tliere to ex I r.i ir.linary si.e and virility. These snakes keep many piekers on the move fri.t:. one part of the bx Ik-itv patch to another ji.;rt, for tln-5- are alv.ays a o-..tid. an.' some huckleberry visitors .lo n it o.-.ro to dispute territory wilh them, Int retreat to other r- : - ; sooi. as itu-yeaii niscover a rattler or near one in their vicinity. Others, though, are loath to jrive np a jil picking place because a rattlesnake or two are taking tliins comfortable there and don't care to be disturhe I. nnd they pitch iu with clubs and rout or slay the reptile tenant of the sjvit. So at almost any time of day a visitor may see Inen, women it ml children, some of them pale and terror-stricken, moving away from some particular h c.iiity with uup-h haste, ami others thrashing away in the bushes with ciubs :iii1 holding their own against tin- snakes. Not a day psisses that some one isn't bit by a rattler When the ln-rry pick ers return from the hill to their various homes they fetch with them stories of ju.-er and excitinjr expirienees with rattlesnakes that some one has had. This recital has come to Ik? known he: calxmls as the annual crop of snake stories from Huckleberry hill. The atherin of this crop is awaited with more interest by many people than the picking of the huckleberry crop. Anions the best of these stories that have reached Uonlette, which is thirty miles from the hill, but which sends a caravan of huckleberry pickers there every season, are these: Mrs. .Inston, of I.eetoui.i. had found a patch whore the lierries were espe cially fine and ubundant. She was rapidly tillinsr her twelve-quart pail, much to the envy of Miss Still, a friend of hers, who hiidn'l struck extraordi nary luck. Suddenly Mrs. . I ustoii picked lip her pail and walked away from her rich find without saying a word. Miss Sliil jazed after her in ama;ement, ami asked her if she wasn't coming back to that lovely spot. "No," said Mrs. .Inston. "You can have it if 3-011 want it." Mis . Still thanked Mrs. Juston effu sively for her srreat penero.sity and un selfishness, and was soon sweepino; the iM-rries into her pail just where Mrs. .Inston had picked up her pail so stid denly and walked away Miss Still was in a jxisition that brought her face almost even with her pail, and as she was picking away, two l.-iir rattlesnakes rose ur from somewhere behind the pail and stuck their tijfly noses over the side of it. not two feet away from Miss Stilt's face. For an instant the yotmo; woman was unable to move, Imt then she recovered herself, sprang up, and ran. ' Hello, Emmy!" said Mrs. Juston from her new picking spot, luutfhiujr at what she thought was a irood joke. "Did you see 'em?"' The secret of Mrs. .Tuston's peneros it was revealed to Miss Still, and it made her so anSTj' that she stopped running, hunted around until she found a club, and hastened back to her l.ueklvlcrry pail. The snakes were stiil tliere. and Miss Still pitched into them. They were u'ly and foup-ht her hack so fiercely that she had to thrash around in the bushes for several minutes Iwjfore she laid them out, and after she had laid these two out shis had to kill another bi-,' ..tie that came on the scene to see what was point: on. While Miss Still retired amon the proup 01 picker at a distance to rest and be eonpratulated on her pluck. Mrs. Juston. seeinp that the land had 1m en cleareil for her, re turned to the choice piokinp patch that she had so unso'.fiishly renounce ! her claim to in favor of Miss. St 11. nnd resumed her picking there. When Miss Still went back Ut p- on with her pick iag she was knocked out more tluiii su.- had been by the first sipht of the two rattlers leerinp at her over her pail to find that Mrs. Juston had taken jiosses sto:i of tluse bushes. She remonstrated with her. "1 pness I was here first." was all that Mrs. Juston would say, and Miss Still had to retire to such luck as she could find. Mrs. Juston's pail soon pot so heavy with lierries that she let it stand on the pround while siie wont hero and there with a smaller pail which ,lie carried as it was filled to the bip pail and emp tied its berries in that. She was m..k inp the fourth trip to the bip pail, which would have tilled it even full 01 the very nicest In-rries that had ever boon picked 011 the Hill, when other pickers near heard her pive a tremend ous yell, and run away, pale as a shoe! and her eyes bulpiup. Miss Still am', others ran to the spot. The J'oini'; woman pot there tirst. She discovered the cause of Mrs. Juston's alarm. A:, enormous rattlesnake lay coiled on top t the h.r.cklelHTries in tl.o twelve-quart pail, with his head erect and his tail more thanhummirp. Miss Still prablx-d a club and went for the snake. The tirst whack of the club somehow missed tlie snake, but it hit Mi-s. Juston's pail of berries, upset it. and sent its luscious contents scatter iiip on tho prou::tL Tho snake went over with the Ix-rries. and was ready for tiyht in a second. MissStill paveitto him, but in ilealinp with him she didn't seem to 1k1 able to pet away from Mrs. Juston's spilled liorrios, an.l even when the snake pot enouph of the club and turned to wipple away in the brush MissStill didn't appear to W able t follow him, but stood in the midst 01 the spilled ln-rrios and danced alumt. stiikinp at tl.e snake that was away out of her reach, so that by the time the rattler disappeared in a crack in the rock Mrs. Juston's Jberrics were tram pled to a pulp. Some of Mrs. Juston's friends said that Miss Still did it on purpose, but Miss Still went oif smil inply to her pickinp, and said nothinp. James Connor, apod seventy, and his pran.lson Charley, aped ten were amonp the huckloliorry pickers on the hill. Grandfather Connor pot tired, and pot in the shadow of a rock to take a nap. Grand son Charley perched on the riek and ".1 -"it to oliservinp thinps. After old Mr. Connor had loeii snoo.inp a few minutes lie ojx'iied his eyes, raised his head, and told his prandson that if In didn't quit punchinp him in the back he would pet a switch and dress hi . jacket. Grandson Connor hadn't been punehinp the old. man in the back, and said so. Mr. Connor dropped olT t- sleep apain. Ily and by he woke up with start, sternly address-'d his prand son apam. cnarpmptne noy wun puncli iup him in the back, and assurii p him that a repetition of it would brinp on his liea.l dire punishment The lx im pleaded his inn. K-ence of the charpo, and the old man went to sleep apain In a short time he awoke with a start an.l exclaimed: "Tin re you po apain, jou jrunp ras cal! Now I'll trounce you well!'' lie rose up to carry out histhrea. when the boy's eyes, which had Ik-coii: ti::i--l on the old man's back, bopau 1 btilpe, and he shouted "There's a snake on your back, prandpa! There's a snake on yor back!" Grandfather Connor, feolinp a wi-ipht there, had planeed over his shoul ler, and saw a snake writhinp and wrip plinp and rattlinp there, hanpinp to Connor's clothinp by its teeth. With a yell like a wild Indian the old man broke across Huckleberry hill, howlinp at every jump, and his prand '.on briap inp up the roar, boilowinp like a bull calf. The sipht of the old man dav.hinp wildly aloiip with a b.p rattlesnake hanpinp to Ids hack created preat ex citement amonp the proups of pickers that the frantic procession tore throuph, anil s me proups broke up in a panic and rushed yellinp in all direc tions throuph the bushes. Connor ran more than two miles, the snake ciinpin;. to him, when he passed a man named Henry Clark. Clark pazed after tile lly inp old man witli the snake trailinp ami contortinp tn-hind him before he re ali.ed the true situation of altairs, an. then he started in pursuit, (.'on nor was poinp so fast that Clark chased him : quarter of a mile ln-fore he came u with him, the old man runninp all the faster the more Clark yelled to him t stop. When Connor's pursuer pot with in rea-h of him he prabbed for the snake and caupht it firmly by the tail. He pave it a yank, and jerked it Imse from its fasteninps on the old man, but like a Hash the rattler threw its head and whole lenpth of its body back and struck at CI irk. The latter mechan ically jerked his head back, or Viie rat tler's fanps would have struck him in the eneek. As it was they sank in his sleeve at tin" shoulders, and before the snake outd relea them Clark seized it around the neck with his loft hand and held it there until he choked it to death. Connor in the meantime had dropped exhausted to the pround, and it was a lotip time In'f.ire he could Ik revive.L When the boy eatne up, pantiup and cryinp. and told his story the circum stances of the ease were plain. Conn ir had laid down near where the snake was in hiiiinp. and the rattler, not lik inp the proximity, had struck at him and hit him in the back, but his shirt was so thick that all the old man felt was the thump, which he thought was his prandson punchinp htm. The third time the snake struck its fanps hail caupht under one of Connor's suspend ers, and lxnrome fitst in it. It was hanp inp there when it was discovered by the boy and his grandfather, an.l the old man's terror started him on his wild effort to escape from a snake that was fast to him. This rattlesnake measured nearly five feet and had ten rattle - MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. Ax electrician in Nashville, Tenn., saj-s it would be ilanperous for women wearinp crinoline lo cross the electric car tracks. Tiik larpest private collection of minerals in America is supposed to Ik; that of Mr. Clarence L. 1 lenient, of I'hiladelphia. r Its estimated value is f rJ5.(MH. An island has been discovered in the Atlantic in latitude 2J deprees two minutes north lonpitude l.'IT deprees .VJ minutes west, which is only feet across. It i said that there are, 275 "lady clerpymen" in Uie United State. I WHERE THE WILD TK1NGS GROW. O for the bosky gardens, Ixsep in the rrt-eu old woods. Where the oak.s have woven curtains To shelter their sylvan broods. Where the pine-treea murmur and whisper Secret we ionir to know O to rest in the shadow U hi re the w ild thinys grow : There by the brook's clear mirror. All on a summer's dar. The iH-es. the birds and the blossoms Have it their own sweet way; Tliere, in the tender tw.litfbl, llarred by a iroldt-u trl.-am. Hushed in the deepest silence. The wuod-fcrnsdrciiin. There many a prassy pathway ' l-eads to a fa.ry scene. Where the partridge berry s coral Lights the dusk of the inUTirreen: Where the bells of the precious twlu-U-iwer In the fragrant spaoea blow O to rest in the shadow Where the wild things crow! Mrs. M. F. Hutu, in Outlinik. TIIK NEW YOIiK GIUL. Jenny Did Her an Injustice, and Was Sorry for It. "I almost wish I hadn't been invited." said Jenny, as she st.xxl lie fore the dressinp-plass pinninp around her neck the old piece of white la-e Aunt Ilar bara ha I piven her. t Jenny! 1 only wish I could po! I wouldn't care w hat I had to wear," cried Madpe, who, with red llannol ba-ulape a'mnt her throat and a b ittle of eolith mixture in one hand, sat by the tire watchinp her sister. ''It's just my luck to be laid up with this h rnd cold." "And it's just my lu.-k to have to wear this old blue cashmere," said Jenny. "1 tlo wonder what the pirl from New York will have on! ' an.l Malpe looked rellecttvj. "Madpe! You've said that at lc.ist twenty times! Of course she will In dressed to death. She won't lose such a chance as this tosh .w off." "The street dre.ss she hail on yester day was perfectly lovely!" said M.dpe. She wont by here twice, und I h-i:i a pood look at her. 1 only wish I louhl -ee ail her clothes. I mipht pet some nioas for my own. Find out how lonp she is poinp to stay w ith i:ia Kast:.ian, Jenny, and do pet well acquainted w ith her. so you'll have a lot to te:l me when you pet back." 'Indeed I shan't! I'm not poirp to toady to her for anylxxiy. She is stuck up enouph as it is. If you'd just .-eon the way she looked at me when Klla iCastman intnxiued us yesterday in Sill's store! Evidently so surprised that Klla should know anyone who .vould wear an old water-proof cloak and carry a cotton umbrella. I rover will for-rive her that look." "Now, Jennie! you're so sens rive, vou know, l'crhaps you only imag ined -he looked surprise. L" "No iiaapi nation alumt it. I pn -ss I can see. I only wish she weren't "inp to bo at the party. It will just sr- -il it for me. Now. low d h's this arr: npe meiit strute you'.'" turninp lor no." sis ter's inspection. "Well, you hok very nice, consider inp. I don't like that hreastpiu exact ly; but of course you're obliped to have somethinp to hold the lace. 1 wish you had some ilowors; they always add so much to a dress." "Flowers! at this time of the rear! and in Westbridpe! You mipht as well wish I had diamonds." "Jenny, isn't it time you were p inp, my dear'.'" called Aunt Barbara's mild voice frofn the foot of the back -talr-way; and Jenny caupht up her water proof cloak, threw a "fascinator" over her curly he;td. and, with a partinp plance in the flass, hurried down into the sittinp-riHim, Madpe followinp with the lamp. "Yoil.i'c very well very well, in le.il." sai.l Aunt Ilarbara. "Oh! Aunt ISarhara! I know I'll le :he worst dress4'd pirl there. "Try not to think of your clothes, my lear, ami b.' s. pleasant that, other peo '.e won't think of them cither. You voa't enjiy the party if you let envy tixl tisi-outo:it into your heart." "I know but it isn't always easy to i- pleasant, particularly when ore has to wear a thick, dark dress to a arty. Cat it's no use to talk alumt it. We .an" t help K-inp p.xir. and it's ri ) lis praeo. Is Huldah ready? I uiiht as well po out the kit-hen way." Old Hnl.lah, who had lived with Aunt Carbara for ten years, was waiti ip by the kitchen stove, intillle 1 in a bip plaid shawl and a thick black worsted hooil. Jenny didn't like to take the old wom an out at nipht, but her aunt wouldn't let her po throuph the streets alot e. "You'd ouphter or let me see how you looked. said lluldalu as they went alonp the path loadinp to the front pate. "1 ain't never seen you dressed out for a real party. "Oh, I'm not worth lookinp at. IIul ilah. 1 haven't any finery, you know, and you've seen me is. this old blue cashmere fifty times." "I hearu down to the stor; this momin' that that pirl that's visitin" to Squire Eastman's had flowers sent all the waj from New Yrk," said Huldah, slowly. "Come by express. 1 puess she'll Ik as fine as a fiddle." "Oh. of course," replied Jenny, a lit tle sharply. And then they tr.tmped on in silence, the hard snow crunchinp u-nier their lis't. The people in West-br:.-!pe never cleaned off their side walks i;t winter: the snow always lay on them until thawed by the sun Mr. Wiipht's house, where the narty was piven. was liphted up from the irround ll.xir to the attic; and Jennie feiv q-tite excited when she saw that the steps were covered with carpet, and that the doctor's boy, w ith white cot ton ploves on his hands, stood in the vestibule waitinp to open the dixir. She bade Huldah "po.xl nipht," and ran liphtly up the steps, wonderinp if. un der the circumstances, she ou 'lit to sH-rik to Tim. She thoupht it would hardly do not to reeopnize him in some way, as he was lliildah's nephew; so she compromised, on a little noil, anil then hurried up the broad llipht of stairs to the second story in the wake of three pirls who had pone in just le fore her. The doors of the front parlor were open, and Jennie saw Mrs. Wripht and Cert ha staudinp just within, the latter wearinp a pale blue nuns'-.'cilinp trimmed with white laoe. I .!. bone I won't Ik the onlv one 1 in a thick dress," thoupht Jenny, sigu I iixg involuntarily. One of the pirls in front of her turned uddenljr and looked back, and Jenny reeopniziil her as Edith Alden. the pirl from New York, in whose honor the party w as piven. She nodded as indifferently s she could, and the next moment they were in the dressinp room. The room was half-full of pirls, all chatterinp like mappies; and Jennie's heart sank like lead as she saw that nearly all wore lipht dresses, ami the few whose dresses were dark had turned them in at the neck and filled in the space with illusion or silk, so as to pive them a pretty effect, while all wore little ornaments in the shape of chains, fancy pins, or bracelets. On! if only she could slip out an l po horn.-! Cut it was tx late for that- Half a dozen pirls had already spok.-n to her. She made her way to a far corner, and lK'pan slowly to unbutton her lotip cloak, droadinp the moment w hen t-h.; should stand revcale 1 in her piai.", ilark dress, with the ancient hair breastpin as her only ornament, and just then she heard some one say: Icnd me your plove-lnxik, l annie. I never can button these ploves with my finpers." Gloves! Jennie had never thoupht of ploves! The only pair she owned were dark brown, and were reserved ex. la sivcly to wear to church. Oh! what could she do! It was bad oimuph to have on a dark, heavy dress but no ploves! Tears of wounded pride rose so thickly to her eyes that she could not see to unfasten the "fascinator," which had caupht in the breastpin. She heard the pirls tnx-ip out, caper to see what was poinp on 1k-1ow ; but she stixxl there fumblinp with the breastpin, and wishinp oh, how earn estly! that she hadn't come, and won derinp if she would ever have the conr ape to po downstairs. "Want to use 1113- plove-h-xik, Jen ney?" asked Klla Eastman, on her way to the dixir. "I no I I didn't brinp my ploves." faltered Jenny, without lookinp around, and drappinp desperately at the "fas cinator." "Well, I came very near forpottinp mine," said Ella, in an ii different tone. '-Come on, Edith. Are you ready?" "Almost. Go on, don't wait for me. I'll follow- you in a minute." "I'll wait at the stairs fot you. I want, to look down into the hall," said Klla, as she left the rixm. An instant of hesitation, then swiftly the pirl from New York crossed the rix.m to Jenny's side. How sweet she 1.x iked in her white crepe with pearls on her neck, and a preat bunch of tea roses on her breast! And how carelesslj- she tossed on a chair her piumj- Ian ami lace Handkerchief. Thou, as in a dream. Jenny saw Ler plunpe her hand into a bine plush "party-bap" and heard her say: '"It is too bad you forpot your ploves. Can't you use these? They look as if they'd fit you. I always brinp tv.o pair, so that if I tear one pair I i.avc another ready. And I w ant you t have these- roses, too. See how pretty they liKik apaiust your dan; dress. They scarcely show at ail on mine." Then so quickly that Jenny scarcely knew how it was done the roses were pinned on her brt ast, and with a little smile and nod, as if well pleased with the effect, the pirl from New- York was p. me. Jenny stood tere a moment, dazed, iK'wildered. with a lump in her throat, tears in her eye.-, anl the pretty ploves in her hand. Only the arrival of a fresh bevy of pay younp puests aroused her. "Why, Jenny Cole, that you?" said one. "How nice you lxk, Jenny," from another; and. "Where did you pet tho-.-exquisite roses?" cried a third. "Ihey were a present. answered Jenny, slowly, as, drawinp on the ploves. she moved so as to see herself in a lonp mirror. She hardly reeopnized herself, so much did the Wautifnl flowers add to her appearance. And, oh! how happy and pay and well satisfied with every thinp she felt as she deseend'il the stairway a few minutes, later and joined the merry crowd in the parlors And to think that she owed it all to the tfirl from New York! Madpe was sittintr up in bed with an old shaw l around her shoulders when Jenny came in at midnipht. "l've just iK'en takinp my medicine," she sai.L "Did you have a p.xxl time. Jenny? And, oh! where did you pet all those roses?" "The sweetest, dearest pirl in the world pave them to me," answered Jenny; "and she's cominp to call on yon to-morrow, Madpe. I told her about your cold, and " "W ho is cominp to call? "Who is the sweetest, dearest pirl in the world?" interrupted Madpe. "Io explain who you mean, Jenny." "I mean the pirl from New York," answered Jenny. "What? That hateful, stuck-up pirl who lixiked so surprised when Ella in troduced you? The one you wished wouldn't be at the " "Don't say another word," inter rupted Jenny. "O, Madpe! I am so ashamed of myself." And then she told her all aKviit it. Florence It. Hallowell, in Demorest's Mapazine. Ktinslan I cnormnee. "Why does Uussia linper in ipnor nnce?" answered David S. Jordan. "Let me tell you a story. When I was in collepe at Cornell there came a bripht younp Russian to study by the name of Dabrolehoff. Thisyounpman was of quick perceptive powers and deeply interested in the propressive practical sciences and questions. He studied very hard for four years, did much more work than any sinple term required, and graduated with the hon ors of his class, lie removed to New York and entered into a successful practice of civil enpineerinp. Some time later I learned that he Had pone back to his native land. I heard no more of this younp man outside of a few scientific articles in some European mapazines for nearly ten years. W hile makinp a tour of Europe I Wthoupht luyself of him, and wondered why his brilliant parts had not lonp since broupht him into prominence. In Uus sia I made inquiries and there learned, tit my astonishment and sorrow, that the student had Wen suspected of trea son, tried and sentenced to Siberia, where he had died in filth and chains." First Ceppar "Are you blind by nature?" Second Ceppar "No; only by iirofession.' Drake s Magaziue. THAT BOSTON MAID. That Boston maid 1 much admire because ahu puzzle UK-. Profound she is in commonplace as well as ripar'.ee; Of suus' t or of promenade, of anowatorm or of d-w. Il.-r sss-.h is polysyllable, and thus is ever new. We walke.1 together she and I one evenlnc in the rain. And saw a raintxiw afterward. And yet it wets iji.ite vain For nn- 1. 1 try to translate her. "AipM-otis va- p.r." "hue," "Pristiiat c arch concentric' these, pcrhaiHi, il! pive a clew. Like other maids, she loves Ire rri-ara, and soda water. to.i; Hr.t It: their nomination she Is apt to rattle you. "i '. .fi-'eal.-d confection" Is the one, and I am 11. t quite si. re Just what she calls the other in her pet nomen clature. Though angular in speech, she is a pretty pirl to see, At:d then-fore I admire hT much, although she pt i ..It -h me. Prop.,. : 1 dare not: yet of life a year or two would F'.ve To ktiov. just how- she would frame yis. ,r yet a negative : J. A. Wal.lron. in Jude. DAWSON'S UMDRKLLA. And Misa Lovelock's Provision for r, Rainy Day. Patter! pat! p-it". Tlie rain was prur inp down on the plass portico. A sud den storm had swept up out of a clear sky. Everyone was caupht unaw ares. The stray cabs were seized in a moment, the omnibuses crowded lx.'fore you could look around. There war. actually only one umbrella in the stand by tlie d'ir of the Cafe do I.uxe. I stxxl. in a new hat and a lipht pray frx-k coat, and eyed the umbrella spccnlat i vely. I knew tin-owner. Ho had just pone in to h:nch. He was a larpe and lonp lumber. I was in a hurry. Perhaps the storm would pass. I oould send it ! ark by a commissionaire. I was very apt to take cold, and my apixiintment w as really very iiiitmrtant. Thus prompted of Satan. I put my hand toward the umbrella. At the moment I ixTceived. like a s':i;.re vil lain, that I was oliserved. In f:iot, I was not al-ne- A younp lady of most attractive appearance st.xxl a few feet from me. alni'ist under the jxirtico, pazinp wistfully out into the wet. She wore a summer costume. She l.x.ked at her watch, then apain at the storm, and murmured, disconsolately: "Oh, I shall ho late." An instinct of peiieros ity overcame me. Without another thoupht for my sensitive chest or my lipht-pray suit, with a firm proprietary air, I laid hold of I law son's umbrella. "Allow me," said I, "as cabs seem unattainable, to offer vou an um brella." A plad lh'lit leaped into her eves. "Oh, I couldn't," she said "What Wi iu'..l j ou h "I don't mind a wettinp." I answeroil, heroically. "Pray take it. You can send it bade here at your leisure." f Dawson could not have much more than finished his soup.) "I couldn't think of it." she repeated, "You will -ret soak-'d throu"h." A sud-len thoupht struck me. After all, I had no business to lose sipht of Dawson's umbrella. "Perhaps," I ventured to suppest, "our roads lie the same way. It's a larpe umbrella." And I ojkmic.1 it. It was not a very larpe umbrella; but how could I know that? "I po this way." sai.l she. with a mo tion of her hand w estwards. "My way," I eriiiL "Come, this is providential." We started. "If you wouldn't mind takinp my arm." said I. "we should lx lK'tter shel tered." "Oh, perhaps we should. Thank you!" and she nestled quite close to me. Wewalkcdsilonptalkinp. My loft shoul der pot all the drippinps, but somehow I was indifferent to that- "Are you sure you are thoroiiphly sheltered?" I asked. "Perfectly," she answered "Cut you're not. I'm afraid. You're t-xi kind. Mamma will lx.' so prateful." I liked this simple friendliness. "I thoupht there was 110 chance of rain tieslay. You are more careful, Mr. Dawson." I could not repress a little start, "You know my name?" She lanphed merrily. "It's on the umbrella half an inch lonp." she said; "I couldn't help read inp it." There it was Joshua Dawson. 4 Calceolaria Villas, West Kensinpton, W." Somehow the address annoyed me I myself live ill St. James street. "A straupe way to make acquaint ance, isn't it?" she asked, wit h a coquet tish planee. "DellpMfuL l!ut you haven't al lowed me to make acquaintance with you yet. Haven't you your name any where alout you?" "My name is Lydia Lovelock." she said: "don't yon like it? It's prettier than yours." 'Certainly prettier than Joshua Daw son," said I, wishinp Dawson had chanced to be a duke. "Joshua Dawson isn't pretty," she observed, with candid .-ves; "now, is it?" "Then you wouldn't take my name instead of yours?' I asked to keep up the conversation. "Your umbrella's enouph to take for one day," she said, with a blush. As she spoke, she slipiMil and ull but fell on the shininp pavement. She pave a little cry: "Oh. my ankle!" and leaned heavily upon me. I hold her "P- "I iK-lieve I've wrenched it badly," she added "Oh. what a lot of trouble I'm pivinpyou, Mr. Dawson." She looked lovely I pive you my word, positively lovely in her pain and distress. I don't think 1 said so; but I said something', for she blushed apain as she answered: "That's very nice of you; but how am I to pet hon.e?" "I must come with you," I said. She shook her head "I can ma nape now." "Cut you'll never be able to pet out." "Oh, yes. Cut perhaps the rain's ahnost stoppeit may 1 keep the um brella? There are some steps to mount to our dix-ir,and " Now, could I do anything else thai press Dawson's umbrella tijton her? She took it and, with a last bewitching smile, vanished from sipht. I turned and almost ran hack to the Cafe tie Luxe, determined to make a clean breast of it to Dawson. When I was fifty yards off I saw him under the portico. The manager and four wait ers st.xxl round him in disconsolate at titudes. One or two of his remarks he was talking very loud reached my ears. I changed my mind. I would wait till he was calmer. I turned away; but at that instant Dawson caupht sight of mo. A second later he was flouring the story of his wrongs into my car. Hero came my fatal weakness. I let hi in go on. He took me by the arm and walked me off. I could not escajie him; anl all the way he thundered against the thief. "If it costs me twenty fxiunds. I'll brinp him to justice!" he declared. Ceally, I dared not break it to him just yet. Suddenly, from round a sharp corner, there came tijx.n us almost runninp into us Lydia Lovekx-k herself, wilh Dawson's umbrella iu her hand. He had been narrowly scanning every um brella we passed. lie scanned this one, and cried darting forward: "My umbrella!" With a little scream Lydia turned and (led. Dawson was after her like an arrow. I pursued Dawson. Why, oh, why, did she run away? Surely she must have recognized me. It was a very quiet street we were running up, and our stra ripe procession attracted little notice. The chase was sixn over. I caupht Dawson just as he caupht Lydia. For a moment we all stood panting. Then Dawson gasped: "My umbrella! Thief!" Lydia soem.sl very apitate.l. Of course I came to her rescue. Avoiding Daw son's eye, I hastily told my shameful tale. Lydia' s face briphtcriud, but still tliere w as apprehension in her looks. "This lady, !eiiove me." I said, "is entirely blameless. Of course she thoupht the umbrtlla was my own. My sole consolation, Dawson, is to thir.k that had you Ik-oii in my place J ou would ha ve done the same." "I don't see." remarked Dawson, rudely, "why it consoles j'ou to think mo a thief." I preserved a dipnlfied silencw. 'However," he continued, "if this younp ladj- has quite finished with my propert.v, ix-rhaps she will lx' p.xxl enouph to give it me back." L.vdia did not take the hint- She clung to the umbrella. "If if J'ou would 1k so kind." she stammered, "as to lend it to me for to day the weather is sliil threatening I would return it tomorrow." "Your request, madam, is a modest one," answered Da wson, sarcnstieal I v; "but. as ynu observe, tne weather is threatening and I want my umbrella. Kindly pive it mo." "Keally, Daw son, to oblige a lady " I lx-pan. "Why don t j'ou tuj- nor an um brella?" sneered Dawson. "If she would accept it. I shoul. I be " I stopped. To mj- surprise. Lydia laid her hand on mj- arm and said: "Oh. do. please! And may I keep this till we pet to the shop?" I d:il not understand her; hut we. turned rott nil ami Wpan to walk, look ing for a shop. She was a very stmnpe girl. She lapped Whind; I had to wait twice for her. Once she t.xik a turning as though to leave us, and when I called her back she pouted Sndileiilj- Dawson hxiked up. , "It rains," he said. It did "Put up the umbrella," said Dawson, rouphlj". "Let the ladv have it," said I. indip-nantlj-. "We'll share it." grinned Dawson. "You can pet wet." Cut Lj-dia did not put it tip. "The rain's not much," she faltered. It was now jxiurinp. With a muttered oath, Dawson snatched the umbrella from her. Ljdia shrieked and ran away like a frightened rabbit ran at tlie top of her speed up the street again. "Stop, stop!" I cried "Stop, nry dear Miss Lovel.xk." "Ilolj- tHiwers!" exclaimed Dawson. He had oiKlits.l the umbrella: :i he did so there was a thud on the pave ment two. three thuds. In amaze I hxikeil down. There laj- a silver cigarette-case, two purses ami a gold watclu Dawson burst into maniacal laughter as he x tinted at L.vdia's retreating fig ure. That girl could run. For a moment I st.xxl tlumfoiinded What a revelation! Dawson chuckled in Satanic glee. Sadlj- I stxijH-il down and flicked up the purses, the cigarette-case and the watch. "Great !" 1 cried; and mj- hand few to my w aistooat-pockct. It was mj watch. I did not prosecute Lydia, leeanso I could not have overtaken her, nnd for other reasons. It was altogether too sad, tix disheartening, t.xt disappoint ing a discovery. Dawson, however, olisorvi-d that it seemed to him an ex cellent example of jxK-tic justice in real life. St- James Gazette. Rosaon for Pnlltene. The supposed English lack of grace in discourse and in the blandishments of social intercourse is a matter of con tinual amusement to the French. They have a theory that if an Englishman shows himself gracious it is because ho has some jersonal end to serve w hich, moreover, he is prouder of serving than be is of Ixjinp pracious. It is related in a French paper that M. Prudhomtne, while traveliup bj rail, fell iu with an Englishman who talked steadily w ith him in French for an hour and a half. When they parted the Frenchman said: "I am very happy to have had this opportunity to exchange my impres sions with an affable gentleman such as you the more so from the fact that, as a general thing, your countrymen are not at all communicative." "Ow!" said the Englishman, in very bad French. "I only talked, you know, Wcause it pave me a chance to prac tice my French!" Youth's Companion. An F.atraiucwnt Monanli. The sultan of Turkoj- is said to ! the most extravagant housokcoiK-r ir. the world. According to a recent esti mate his domestic budget runs thus: Eepairs, new furniture, mats, bc.ls. etc.. i.1.(K(i.0;n francs; toilet requisites, including rouge and enamels for the ladies of the harem, und jewelry, ftO, ;). 000 francs; extra extrav tganees. l.o.i.'ii.i.ts'O francs: clothes and furniture for the sultan iH-rsoiiallj'. 1().ihs).mx francs; douceurs urn! w;t;;es. M.OtHI.0ih) francs; gold and silver plate. I J.rtiKi.uo.i lrancs; maintenance of five carriages and horses. ..rtKi,0HI fraties a total of 1 7 j, 000,000 francs, or more titan fc-:;s,(Ho,-000. I X : f it l mi
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