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VOLUME XXVIII.
E BENS BURG, PA., FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 1894.
L-W"' 4tiul .viwwtidouiDerwlKo. i
NUMBER 24.
, ri.iut- ' 100 noru f
ril I
7QuiC. net-iEf for evER Type of
A ur marur
4 HEADACHE.
t tS it j I rj vcrv hei.Iachff a
t '. .i- - :- jiayrr ul the crn
'l v i. . t lA nerves f.r kRST.
l 'r . .1, i. CH"iht: them with K.oi-K-
AL1NIC.
--ui "
1 f hrn chiJ
hrn children suffer
tfjdache, or
uny one cisc .r that
matter, use Koi'Kalink.
(ll 1 titc Ik--i remedy ever ol
ii t.-rrii Slc, hute, won
d.-rlully tjuik tu action.
. . i , i . . u .
'T-vU d-trtr-iti -i.lv -i'ntul type pet uiui to
r, suffsrii.. tr-iii incfiulamy or uterine irri-
fL.jUirc them tv tud tor
KOPF-LINE CURES
iBlCNl, NIBVOOS PAOSTPIAT.OM.
Mlii
j,m. w citcuutiim,
ti-i.Jwl.-1'il -" w!..-fcm-tve mtegoeson.
KOPFALINE
-Tjliubif fvt T' J Scholars. Preachers,
M i-i.m Mcr.ti.ut-. K.lltf.r. Men. Women
L j fhu jrcn rfr tv.ily hiht nerves jie
j ill litdv to ci u.il ol cid. r.
j-JuieU - it- un.U-r jll iircunislanccs and
Viiui.v PrKe, 5 int.
Jiby Jru.. '-'- w-. ucr..iiy. or enl to any ad
i j& tctcii i we
Sot P.OMli.TOHS.
NKELMANN A BROWN DRUG CO.
BALIiMOHt, Ma.. U. S. A.
"NO MORE DOCTORS FOR ME!
1st aid I as consumptive, sent rue ta
IM, told ma to keep quiet, no excus
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uy I fbanJ 3 halo Ixxik raiieti 'taiu
UrtitU.' b? Mn. 1'iukliatii, and iu it I
Lid out whit ail-J me. 1 rote to
, ft lovely reply, told mo just what to
nd 1 km iu spiriidid heakh now."
MLPISI(HAM'Scvorp'oU
quera U those weaknesses and ailmeuts
i:er!tiit witu the Sex, aud restores ler-
All Uru2;ists -ll it a a tanIdrft artl-
k, ut tent by m .il, in form of rills or
lituje. on receipt ol M.UO.
for tue cure of Kiilnry Complainta,
rrjrx. t'tia I'oini outid Ia9 no rival.
Mr, r'nitliam f,e lv at.tn letters of
sj. ta.lo53t.4!iip for reply.
I. Pinknam Mad. Co., Lynn, Mali.
from Pole to Pole
ttt PajrBiLLi ba demonstrated (la
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The Harpooner's Story
, lfori. June 1. J3S3.
ilJ CAih it tu.-Tw.Mv Viirt a.- 1
Urpooer in ti.e North in.-, when rla
-rt j(tri crew ad mj -1C w ere laid up with
rry. Our todlc Were bloated, i;umwollea
1 fcieeata, terth t.K.e. purple blolehe. ail
rt-to' jur Liekth teemed rotten. Take It
iJiri(cre lireltv badlv olf. Ail out
eju a-cideaialiy dt-atroved. but the
-u.a bad a cupi. doxen bottleaof Araa'a
"ttrititia gt ui that. Wa reoov
1 oo n t .. Srr tuTi 1 have ever teea tai-Q
-i;tx.uit fcaj oUicrtreatineDtforrtcunry.
' 1 teeO a jvd deal of it. eciQlf DO OleB-
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a .i-i nm, 1 n,ou;Lt you ot'htu know of
w' euj y .u be to I..
J-iUUi: oui. IPU T. WlNOlTI.
Tha Trooper's Experience.
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- ffur to te.ti!'y to tiia -iat value of
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i fJrij,r tiJ vear, duriii which time wa
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j . i .i uuuei eu,B
I" brnajht nn . h.- i. r.lU.1 in ti.ta
'r "teldt tarn." 1 hKl thee aorea for
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a, t ,.!.e t.f whit h wade my aorea
ri'tr r..:tl!;, au l I a-n now quite Well.
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' '' 'radii-ate. lh. polaona ot
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Like a sheltering roc wun the simoom is nigh;
LtUe j -irit.g- :u tbu uoirl cmbouercd wa
hud
l.llii.- r:n lo tht prus- thuils wiihered and dry:
L.Le deb to tLe flowers wheu till: sun has de
t IlilLd
is the -u'lI of k-nUness, in s mtathv' gojse.
To tue weak and the wewiy, w ho taiui by the
way;
Who faijt and are sad, as life's cherished
i nze
Is a it u. hed from the grasp in the heat of the
dy.
It cotucs like the rainbow. Korjeo -s and bright:
Oa tue brow ot the cloud, portentous aud
da-ud:
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lilfht,
V Le.n the mzht baa been loru and tears have
been shed.
'Tls the aoug and refrain that the glad angels
saug
When the Peace-Prince was cradled in pover
ty's arms:
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Whose solate and succor humanity warms.
O, these words are the sweetest on earth or in
Heaven!
Kin luess and charity peace and good-will
Till a love thai is Godlike to all may be given.
And each humau heart with kindness shall
thrill.
Lizzie P. K Hansell. in Christian Inquirer.
WONDERFUL WHISTLER.
How Hia Aocomplishment Won a
Valuable Customer.
It was a perfect night and the incom
ing ocean lines deemed poised betweeu
two firmaments, ao truthfully were the
stars rerJecte.1 iu the placid sea. The
hour was late and gradually the pas
sengers drifted away into the bril
liantly lighted salmis, or sought their
staterooms for a few hours' straying
umju the. invisible islauds of Urearus;
and only a few were still huu tiling the
decU's luooii-llecked promenade.
Suddenly the scholarly lookiujr aud
spectacled young man from Chicago,
w ho hail been sitting quietly among' a
group of friends, with his eyes turned
somewhat wistfully toward the uol
now distant homelands, begau to
w histle boftiy a street soug that had
lingered in his mind since he heard it
on the wharf the day he sailed. His
companions listened in delighted sur
prise. Never from mortal lips had is
sued more dulcet sounds; the voices of
a hundred nightingales were all con
densed to form the liquid sweetness of
his notes. The straggling groups of
loungers all about the deck drew near
and listened in entranced delight.
"Hravo!" 'Encore!" "Encore:" came
from every side;, and warbling the
changes of various melodies, he dually
thrilled his hearers with the measures
of dear "Home, Sweet Home."
Silence, deeper than all uttered
praise, settled on every souL Only the
music floated upon the listening air.
liright eyes smiled out across the sea
through mists of homesick tears, aud
Helen Harper, w ho was standing near
the liag, furled for the night close
round its lofty staff, reached up to
loosen a starry fold aud draw it down
across her lovely lip.
"Well," said her mother, her brisk
voice broken by a sudden closing in
her throat. "1 reuaetu oer of reading,
years ago. a poem entitled 'Whistling
in Heaven. The idea leemei strange
almost irreverent to me then, but 1
am now fully prepared to think that
the angels' songs may well have such
accompaniments!"
"How did. you acquire such an un
usual accomplishment, Mr. K?" asked
the younger wouian. "Did you. like
Hiawatha, learu of every bird its lan
guage?" "1 think hit tier' s description of the
'barefoot boy with cheeks of tan'
echoing all the voices of the fields
would picture my childhood days bet
ter," he answered. Aud then, turning
to Mrs. Harper, he said:
"Your remark reminded me of an ex
perience I had a number of years ago
although I guess it's pretty late for
story telling."
"Do let us have it!" they all ex
claimed. Mr. K. looked cut over the star
gemmed waters reflectively, "it was
more years ago than I realized w hen I
recalled the incident," he said. "I was
little more -than a boy and had just
started in, with a capital of hopes, to
make uiy own way in the world. J was
traveling for a wholesale house in
Chicago and covered small inland
towns within a radius of a few hun
dred miles of thai center. While rea
sonably successful everywhere else, 1
was kept dissatisfied by the fact that
the largest dealer in a Michigan village
iu my circuit would have uothiug to do
w ith . me. The home firm observed
with displeased surprise that Mr.
Gray's uunae was uever on my order
sheet, aud time after time I renewed
my solicitations for his patronage, only
to be grutUy and unceremoniously dis
missecL "Oue rainy day in early spring 1 was
in the town, and as my way led past
his door I gathered my courage for a
last attack. There was the usual terse
dialogue, and then the proprietor
turned abruptly away and weut into
his little private ofiioe. which was built
up like a huge box in the center of the
store something after the fashion of
Tim Liakinwater's den in the otlice of
the Cheery ble brothers.
"Outside the rain poured furiously,
and I sat down on an empty cracker
box tt wait for it to slacken. I began
w histiing'in an undertone, as much to
rally my Spirits as anything, 1 guess,
and presently the door of the office un
closed the width of a couple of inches
and the rasping voice of the obdurate
storekeeper called:
" 'John, w ho's that?'
" The oung man from Chicago, sir.
answered the lanky youth, respect
fully. "1 finished the air.
"'John,' came the voice again, 'tell
him he might give us another tune.'
"I complied, aud at its close the
dealer was sitting beside me on the
cracker box.
' 'Give me your book, young man.
he said; "when you want an order for
your house here you can just whistle
for it.
"He slapped his hand down on his
knee and laughed at his own joke aud
astonished me by giving me at oitve a
large and important order. That was
the beginning of iL He became one of
our best customers, always insisting,
however, upon the fulfillment of my
part of the contract. A little insight
into his character proved that the
somewhat harsh exterior covered a
heart as big and tender as a friend
could possibly desire, and the year of
our acquaintance resolved our relations
into tbone of remarkable confidence
and comradeship."
Mr. K. paused, the serious look deep
ening on his face.
"And then?" Helen Harper knew
that there must be more to the story.
"Our acquaintance had covered a
period of three years," he resumed, "in
creasing all the time iu intimacy and
mutual esteem, and oue day as we re
turned from a late drive through the
country together Mr. Gray said, with a
little nervous shifting of the liu.-s
and a catch iu his usually smooth voice:
1C, I've a favor to ask of you. I'm a
bluff sort of a mau, as you have reason
to know, but 1 kuow you'll give uie
credit for a reasonable share of com
mon sense. W hat 1 want to say is this:
You've been coiuiug to this towu iui
quite a spell now, aud like as not you'll
keep right on coming as long as you're
ou the road. Every time you have been
here for the last three years you have
been in my store, aud you've humored
the old man by sitting there along iu
the twilight aud whistling for him.
Aud 1 tell you now, wherever I am that
music is good euougli for uie. Now, tny
boy, wheu you come here agaiu aud go
iulo my store to ask for me they win
tell you that I am dead. 1 kuow it- We
need make uo words about it. Aud
then I waul you to take this horse aud
drive over the hill to that little ceme
tery you cau just see up there, and find
where they have laid me Then non
sense, boy, 1 kuow what I am talwi.ig
about!) 1 want you to sit down on toe
mound that coveis me aud whistle.
W histle the hymns and sougs, the airs
from the operas and the songs of the
street, any aud all of them'
"I expostulated w itli him, referred
him to his perfect health aud tried to
laugh away his morbid fancy, but it
would not do. Iu a miuule 1 had
promised aud his hand had closed over
mine with the earnest: 'Thank you,
lad, thank you. 1 shall hear you!'"
The wouieu drew their wraps a litt'.e
closer, and one of the men said, nerv
ously: "Deucd uncomfortable statement!"
"Well," contiuued Mr. 1C, "I was
sent on another route after that aud it
was nearly a year before I agaiu vis
ited Mr. Gray's town. I ha.l heard
nothing from hiiu in that time aud
our odd agreement did not occur to
me uutii 1 saw the unfamiliar faces at
the store. I asked for my old friend
ouly to learn that he had been dead
three mouths, aud 1 am not ashamed to
say ttiat a chill, sharper than that of
the autumu air, ran over me
wheu I remembered my prom
ise at our last meeting. I frank
ly owu that I tried to get out of
it, but taking the horse 1 drove out lo
his pleasant home, just on the edire of
town. His widow greeted me very
kindly and I at once made known my
errand, which was to secure her con
sent to the canceliug of my rushly
niade agreement. To my surprise she
held ine to its fulfillment.
""Mr. Gray was very much in earn
est wheu he made his singular re
quest, I am sure, she said. A few
moments before he tiled he told me to
tell you that lie would lie listening. 1
did uot understand what he meant
then, but you have brought the expla
nation. 1 must insist upon your keep
ing your promise to my husband.'
"Well, I drove up over the hill to the
little cemetery that he had pointed
out, and while the glow faded from the
western sky and shadows grew and
purpled into twilight, I sat upon the
grave anil whistled just as I had prom
ised, perfectly conscious all the while
that he w as listening."
The story was done and the little
group had sa'd "good night." Hut the
teller of the tale, Herman II. Kohlsaat,
How publisher of the Chicago Inter
Ocean, still sat iu the moonlight, softly
whistling and thin ting how a shaft o.
liquid silver was shining in a window
that he knew, touching the sunuy head
of bis own little Katlterine, who, like
Thackeray's little maiden, would soon
be waking and making a prayer at
home for him. Grace DutUe koe, in
Chicago PosL
DELICIOUS PUDDINGS.
Cot-oanitt liirixo. One and one
half pints of milk, one-half cupful of
milk cracker crumbs.oue-half cupful of
sugar, two eggs, one-half cupful of
eocoanut. butter the size of an egg.
Mix, and bake about one hour.
Cottage Prmnxo. One cupful of
milk, one egg, one tablespoonful of
baking powder, two table-spot infills of
melted butter, one-half cupful of sugar,
one pint of flour. Mix. and bake one
half hour. Serve with liquid sauce.
Ckanbkkrv I't'liKlNO. One cupful of
sugar, two cupfuls of Hour, two tca
spooufuls of baking powder, butter
the size of an egg. Hreak one egg into
a cup. beat, fill up with milk. Stir all
together aud add oue pint of cranber
ries. Hake.
English I'lvm Ifiiixo. One cupful
of molasses, one cupful of sweet milk,
one cupful of chopped raisins, one-half
cupful of butter, three and one-half
t-npfuls of flour, one teaspoonful of
f.otla. one teaspoonful of spices. Steam
three hours. Serve with liquid sauce.
Dklmonk'o l'l imiso. One quart of
milk, three tablesponnfuls of corn
starch, six tablespoonfuls of sugar, the
yolks of five eggs. Mix, and cook five
minutes in the double Ixiiler. I 'our
into a pudding dish and bake one-half
hour. Heat the whites with six table
spoonfuls of sugar, flavor with lemon
or vanilla, spread over the top and
brown in the oven. Good Housekeep
ing. LITTLt BITS Or NEWS.
The Isle of Man has no pawn shop.
OtEEX Victokia speaks ten lan
guages. Glass blowing is represented on an
Egyptian monument dating- -2.00'J 11. C.
In the space of one minute the
. polypus can change its form one hun
dred times.
Iris a point of honor that Moorish
women never know their own ages.
They have no birthday celebrations.
'. ' S Chinese the letter ' "i" has 145
ways of being pronounced, and each
pronunciation has a different meaning-.
The parish of St. Marylebone has as
many as three thousand buildinj's, offi
cially described as factories aud w ork
hhops. Plaster of Paris, mixed with an
equal portion of oatmeal and a small
quantity of sugar, soon settles cockroaches.
ANEWHAJll'tSHIRE TEST.
I
The QrasahopDsr Crop la One
That Nevar Fails.
Farmers Oat One llollax a Huahel from
the StatUi for ilwrvwattna; Xkxm Lil
ly aud MMtructiv
luaeeta.
New Hampshire has a new crop.
Grasshoppers. The state pays the
farmers for the produet. The price is
one dollar a bushel. Mr. A. T. liur
leigh, of Franklin, last year gathered
ninety bushels, for which he received
ninety dollars. Of course the state
does not pay for the cultivation of the
ittseets. They are a plague, and a
bounty of one dollar per bushel is pro
vided by law for their destruction.
A Itoston Herald w riter met Mr. Hur
leigh the other day, and was led by
curiosity to inquire how ninety bush
els of the lively little fellows could be
captured.
"The farmers have been troubled by
the grasshoppers more or less for the
past twelve years," said Mr. Hurleigh.
"We do not know where they orig
inated or how they came, but they are
here, and it seems that they have come
to stay. They are worse some years than
others. In 1S&5 1 caught one hundred
and nineteen bushels. My best catch
was thirty-nine bushels in oue day.
In an area two miles long anil one
mile and a half wide five hundred
bushels were caught and destroyed,
besides those plowed iu when too small
to hop out of the furrow. These grass
hoppers hatch about the first of June,
aud are so small one would uot notice
them were it ut for the rustling noise
they make hopping in the grass. At
this period you cau destroy them ouly
by piowing them in."
"Pardon iue; but this process would
bring you no bounty. What I wish to
kuow- is how you catch them."
"I was altout to say that those which
are not plowed iu we endeavor to
catch. In order to do this they must
be altout half grown aud able to jump
or fly. We have constructed a tnachiue
which carries two pans of galvanized
iron eight feet long, sixteen inches
wide, four inches deep, aud having a
back eighteen inches high. These pans
are divided iuto three sections aud
fastened to wooden shoes, into which
they are set about one aud one-half
inches from the ground. This ap
paratus is attached to a pair of wheels
with a long axle one that runs
through the wheels about eighteen
inches being the liest. The paus are
tilled with an emulsion either kero
sene and water, soft soap and water,
chloride of lime and water, r any of
the soup powders are good. Each sec
tion of the pans holds about three gal
lons of water, ami has to be refilled
for each catch. To catch the grass
hoppers to advantage one should take
them early in the morning or at sunset,
when they are on the grass feeding.
Two men and two horses are needed
for each machine, as one horse could
not stand it to drag the heavy ap
paratus through the crass, for one must
drive fast to catch the little pests."
"What is the extent of the injury
they are capable of indicting?"
"To tell how much damage they do
is like valuing something you do not
have. In three day:, they will simil a
piece of grass that would cut two tons
per acre, aud in one day they have de
stroyed a half acre of onions."
'Have you endeavored to get rid of
the intruders by other methods?"
"Yes. The grasshoppers hatch ev
ery season. Y'ou cau easily find their
eggs in September or October, or iu the
spring. We have tried burning, roll
ing and drowning, as well as plowing,
but the grasshopjier machine is the
only thing that will conquer them.
There is but a week or ten days that
you can catch them, this being w hen
they are about half-grow n, and before
they can fly far. The bounty of oue
dollar per bushel, which we receive
from the state, just about pays for the
time and expense of catching."
"I suppose the farmers generally are
wagiug war on the hoppers?'
"To a greater or less extent all of
them are lighting them. A neighbor
of miue caught sixteeu bushels last
season."
"What was your loss last year?"
"They destroyed more thau half of
my hay crop, spoiled six acres of
oats, ruined half an acre of onions,
and damaged my carrots to the ex
tent of forty or fifty dollars, besides
clearing out an acre of beaus so clean
you would not know that anything had
been planted on the laud."
The New- Hampshire law, offering a
bounty for grasshoppers, was passed in
ls'ji. At the otlice of the secretary of
state iu Ount'or.l it w as learned that
"in 1M4 there appeared on one or two
farms in Franklin and one farm iu
Canterbury a certain species of grass
hopper, or locust, that was very de
structive to vegetafuu. The insects
did not move around much, but ate
everything clean where they located,
and became tso thick that they could be
collected in large quantities. They
diller from the common grasshopper
in that they are not so lively and come
in much greater numbers. It was to
cause their extermination that the law
was passed. Of the common kind of
grasshoppers a bushel could hardly be
collected in a season, but these locusts
are so plentiful that they can be gath
ered by the bushel, aud farmers rig up
machinery for the purpose."
To lie alleu KliJ.tli.
Children have been admirably drilled
in Bible detail They know more
about it than three-fourths of their
Sunday school teachers. . They- have
learned the story of Moses till tuey
can say it as jat as the multiplication
table, liut 1 do not find any living in
terest iu Moses. There is one of the
grandest life stories iu history, aud
they seein to have no feeling
about it. Aud that need not be so.
1 remember one of my Sunday school
teachers in Chicago telling me how
troubled the had leen because she was
afraid she whs not making the stories
of the prophets interesting to her boys,
l.ut one day she was cum f orbed, for she
heard from the mother of oue of them
that the lad had come home the Sunday
before. aud, alter bittiug silent J
awhile, suddenly burst out at the din- .
ner table: "Well. 1 do thins: Elijah 1
was a line fellow; and, if ever I have a
k d of my own, 1 mean to call him
Elijah!" Of course, it is ouly a rare
teacher who can teach that way.
Brook Hereford, iu Contemporary Re-
THE OLD SPITE LANE.
The Spite Lane runs along the line 'twlxt
Slovum farm and ours.
A narrow spate between each fence where
nothing grows but ho w era.
The relic ot a silly feud that smoldered many
years.
That caused harsh words between the men and
roused our mothers' leaxa:
A country quarrel loug ago, a quarrel arm aad
set.
Here where lives are narrow and people woa'f
forge U
We children keep the quarrel not. although its
mark Is plain.
For there between our meadow graea still runs
the old Spite Lane.
Sometimes when father sits about, at peace
with all the world.
The country paper on his knee, the amoke
w reaths bout him curled,
I drop a hint on foolish spites that run to cruel
ends.
And bow much nicer It would be it utigUors all
were friends.
He'll sup out: -No! I'll tight it out: Them
SlocuuiM cau l beat us."'
Iiut he ain't as hearty in It now as what he
u.-e I to I e:
Wheu 'cross the line he'd shake his fist and
fairly almost swear.
While ol' man Siocutn with his men would
hol.cr: .--Jest you dare!"
But. then, I hone limes, 1 think, are gone; they'll
never come again
And some bright day we'll tear away the silly
old pue Lane.
For, often In the eventide, when at the pasture
bars
The cowbells tinkle In the dusk beneath the
summer stars.
Sweet Laura Slocum ateals away to meet me
once again
No as?ry words can tKen be heard across the
old Spile Lane
Old feuds, old hates, old quarrels harsh, young
hearts cau end them thus.
The feuevs murk a lovers' lane just w ids enough
lor us.
The Spite Iatne runs along the line 'twlxt
Slucum's farm aud ours;
It marks a path of sullen wrath but naught
grow s there save Mowers'
Koy L. McCardelL in Puck.
A PLOT SPOILED.
Wby Mr. Willoutfhby Didn't Get a
Wished for Loan.
The sun had just dipped behind the
steely surface of the frozen river; the
chi.l of coming tw ilight sent a tremu
lous shiver through the woods, tinkling
the icicles like a string of fairy bells as
it wenL
"Good, seasonable weather," thought
Squire Mcrriford, as he came out to
look at the big thermometer that al
ways hung, summer and winter, beside
the porch door. "Halloo, Steele! Is
that you?"
"Ye-s. squire, it is I," said Milford
Steele. "Is Josephine at home?"
"She's at home, but the fact is
she's pretty considerably engaged just
ut present."
"Th.. t means I suppose, that Leslie
Willotig-hby is calling?"'
Squire Meiriford made no direct an
swer, but fctared hard at the thermom
eter. "Perhaps" went on the merciless
i-atecbist, "you could let me have the
money you promised toward the church
debt this evening? There is a vestry
meeting the day after to-morrow,
and"
The squire couched dubiously.
"Well, the fact is," said he, ""it ain't
convenient just at present. The
churcli'll have to wait- I'm makin' ar
rangements to let out all the cash I can
spare now on bond aud mortgage. A
inau dou't get such au opportunity
every day, Steele, vou know."
"1 should think not," said Steele,
dryly. "Nine per cent, seems like a
very nice little arrangement, but sup
pose the question of usury is raised?"
"It won't be,"' said the squire, confi
dently. "It's between friends, you
kuow."
"1 need not ask who this liberal
hearted friend is," said Mr. Steele;
"Mr. Willoughby, of course."
"Suppose it is!" cried the squire test
ily; "what then?"'
"Mr. Merriford." said Steele, earnest
ly! ''you are au older man than I am,
yet I cauuot forbear from entrealiug
you to pause and reflect before you in
vest your whole property in such an
uusafe speculation as this. What
do you kuow about this Leslie Wil
loughby?"' 1 kuow he's Chief Justice Chapman's
nephew."
"He says so."
"And he owns four thousand acrwa of
land out west"
"According to his owu account"
"And he might be a member of con
gress it he chose."
"Bather improbable that."
"And he owns a lot o' property in
the up-er part of the city of New
York." "Pardon me. but I do not credit all
this. I sincerely believe that he is de
ceiving both you and your daughter."
The squire grew very red in the face.
"1 wasn't born yesterday, and it aia't
for vou to set up to dictate to roe. And
if Josephine fancies him more'n she
does you"
'She is quite welcome to her prefer
ence," sharply interrupted Steele.
"Good eveuing, Mr. Merriford."
He walked quickly away down the
snowy road, the blood boiling in his
veins, lie loved Josephine Merriford
heartily he respected the good-heart
ed old squire, but just now he ieit mat
he was almost banished from their
counsels.
"If I eould but prove all that I sus
pect." murmured he to himself as he
crossed the little bridge that spanned a
brawling rivulet
A baud fell on his shoulder at the
same instant.
"Hallo, Sprowle! I'm punctual to the
second, you see."
Steele stared round, without immedi
ately answering to this unexpected
greeting.
"Well, then. Mr. Leslie Willoughby,
Erq., if you like that better," cried
the strauger, with a burst of laughter.
"Have you. raised that sunt of money
yet? That's what I want to know.
Because old Samuels is getting crusty,
and The deuce!"
Just at that moment, looking full
into his face, the stranger discovered
his mistake.
I am not Leslie Willoughby," said
Steele composedly, "but I can tell you
where he is. Just at present he is
making love to Squire Merriford
daughter, and trying- to induce the old
man to lend him money."
"That won't do, you know!" cried
the man, who was evidently aliltle the
worse for liquor. "Nohow you can fix
It, that won't do. No lovemaking!
'Cause he's married to my sister Eliza,
Peter Sprowle is! I don't blame him
for not livin' with Eliza she's got a
temper like vinegar; but he ha n't no
business to make love to au other girl
not while I'm around."
"Vou have arrived just in time then.
Perhaps you wouldn't mind letting the
young lady kuow that your friend is
already married."
"I'd just like to put a spoke in Pete
Sprowle's wheel! I believe in honor
among thieves; but I'm hanged if I
don't think Pet means to do me thia
time."
Josephine Merriford was a. very pret
ty girt, cherry cheeked and dimpled,
with innocent hazel-dark eyesand a
red, laughing mouth; and the fire-light
made a fair picture of her aa she sat by
the great, old-fashioned hearthstone,
with Leslie Willoughby suspiciously
close to her.
"It's easily done," coaxed Mr. Wil
loughby, stroking his long, waxed
mustache. "Just to step do w n to the
nearest parsou's aud, whew! we're off
to New York, man aud wife, by the
eveniug train."
"But poor papa, Mr. Willoughby!"
'Tie wou't mind, once it's over. I
can easily telegraph to hi in from New
Y ork. By Jove, won't that meddling
old beau of yours Steele ia his name,
ian't it? stare?"
And Leslie Willoughby indulged in a
hearty laugh at the idea; but Josephine
colored, and then grew pale.
"Dou't Leslie," she replied: "Mil
ford Steele has alw ays been a good and
true friend to me."
"I dare say, I dare say. Well, Josie,
just you get your father to advance
that oue hundred dollars and we'll
give 'em all the slip. We'll take the
eight train "
"No. you won't not if f know it."
interrupted a gruff voice. "For my
sister Eliza, your lawful wedded wife,
Pete Sprowle, you kuow she ain't
neither dead nor divorced. And you're
no more Justice Chapman's nephew
than I'm stepfather to Queen Victoria
and your name ain't Willoughby
and you're a confounded scoundrel and
a villain, Pete Sprowle that's what
you be."
And Leslie Willoughby, struggling
to his feet with a face of wrath and
confusion, found himself face to face
with his respected brother-in-law and
coplotter and Milford Steele- (
"Slanderer! this is your work!"
gasped he, aiming a blind blow at the
latter.
"Aud I am proud of it," declared
Sleele; "or, rather, I shall be, when
I've kicked you out of this house."
Word and deed were simultaneous,
and in another second Josephine and
Steele were alone in the room.
"Oh, Milford!" she faltered, "can this
be true? or am 1 dreaming?"'
"It is true. Josie, that you are saved
that yonder miscreant is a mai ried
mau, as well as an unprincipled ad
venturer." 'Iear Milford. how can I ever thank
you?" she murmured, lifting- her soft
orown eyes to his face.
"I will tell you, Josie one of these
days." .
Squire Merriford eould hardly be
lieve his own ears when he heard the
t"Je-
"1 came precious near being an bid
fool," observed he sagely, and there
was some truth in. his remark. Chica
go MaiL
DIZZIED BY SUCCESS.
Ludicrous Awtlea of m (treat Mma
Loadoa !MraiL
fpoxa m
James Hinton, the celebrated aurist
and essayist, was one of those men w ho
are absolutely obliviou s to the impres
sion mule upon the world by their own
eccentricities of demeanor, lie w-aa an
odd little man. As some one once said
of hiin: '"There never lived a man
with a whiter soul, a warmer heart or
a shriller voice." He wrote a book that
st.t the world talking, and also leaped
at once into a tine medical practice.
Oue day J. C. JearTreson w as walking
along a London street, when he heard
his own name uttered in a high treble.
He says:
"Turning quickly round, I saw a
little, fragile man dancing about the
pavement in high excitement, to the
considerable inconvenience of way
farers. It was James Hinton. Jump
ing up to me, he shook my hand, with
convulsive tags, as he ejaculated:
" T am so very glad, so inexpressibly
glad to see you! 1 have ao often wished
to see you and tell you all that has hap
pened! "Having, by this time, shaken my
hand with more than sufficient cor
diality, he stepped back a few paces
and, in doing so, blundered against a
stout lady, and knocked a small boy
down into the gutter. After viewing
me in the right perspective, he danced
up to me again, and then danced before
me. ejaculating in the higuest notes of
his shrill voice:
"T am so delighted to see you! There
is so much for us to talk about! So
many things have happened i that I
want to tell you about! Do yoq know,
1 am a successful man. a very f uecess
f ul man? I became a success . all n a
minute. Isn't it ludicrous? Y'ou never
expected me to be a successful man.
No one thought it in the least degree
possible that 1 should be a success. No
one! no one! no one! See! that's my
carriage! Those are my horses! Is it
not absurd? Do. my dear fellow, say
it is absurd that I should drive about
Loudon in my own carriage!'
"Having thus in complete innocence,
entertained a London crowd by his au
tics, he "stepped into the wonderful car
riage and drove away, beaming." "
GEMS OF THOUGHT.
Nobility consists in virtue. Don
Quixote.
Better not be at all than not be
noble. Tennyson.
Moiiestv, prudenee, wit and civility
are the elements of true nobility.
German lroverb.
Character is not cut in marble, it i
not something solid and unalterable.
It is something living and changing,
and may lecome diseased as our bodies
do. George Eliot.
The face of a woman, whatever be the
force or extent of ber mind, whatever
be the importance of the object she
pursues is always an obstacle or a rea
son in the story of her life. Mme. de
StaeL
W fear it (.aaaat t
The expression "from pillar to post"
is derived from a custom practiced in
the riding schools of olden times The
pillar was placed in the center of the
ground, and the posts were arranged
two and two around the circumference
of the ring at equal distances. Hence
"from pillar to post" signified goii.g
from oue thing to another without any
definite purpose. . .
METAPHORICALLY SPEAKING.
V b.at Ba JSVawaat by
Cold
riot bins;.
When we speak of warm or cold
clothing we use as absolute a metaphor
as when we talk of the sun going
dowu tor the "ri-.y fingered dawn."
Clothes can communicate neither
heat nor cold to the body. Fur is not
warm nor linen cool, says the Phila
delphia Press, except as they serve as
conductors for the heat generated by
the body itself. Fur aud wool are ex
cellent non-conductors of heat, that is
they do not allow the heat of the body
to escape so easily an some other ma
terials, and the reason why fur is one
of the poorest conductors of heat is
not, as might W supposed, so much be
cause of its thickness aud weight as
because of the air which ia
mingled with or confined between
its fillers, confined air being one
of the most effectual non-couductorsof
heat know n. Newspapers are another
of the liest non-eonductors of heat
and a sheet of one folded and laid be
tween the. shoulder blades will w arm
that posterior region as effectually as it
warms the hearts of its readers who
happen to te of the same politics. Of
course the colder the atmosphere the
greater the escape of btwiily heat and
the greater the necessity of its conser
vation by non-conducting clothing.
And clothing should always be varied
to correspond to the variations of
temperature, a fact which is recog
nized and met by the Chinese, who
peak of the weather as "one jocket
cold, two jocketa cold" etc. Of course
there can be no rule applicable to ail,
and the ability to getrerate ai.-J main
tain heat must be the criterion. Chil
dren aud old people have less of this
ability thau those in the prime of life,
and consequently need greater protec
tion or conservation of w hat they do
generate, and. in the case of children
at least, the dictates of fashion should
never Ie allowed to interfere with
those of health and comfort. -
PAINSTAKING FORGERS.
TttaAr KzToeta to Obtain the kiiaatarat o
Prominent Baskan.
"Mn try in every way possible.
said a prominent bank president re
cently, "to obtain the signatures of
New Y'ork bankers.
"Their object is evidently to use
them in committing forgeries. At
least we stispect so. and for that rea
son try to be as careful as possible in
signing lctu'rs.
"Iu this bauk we have many letters
from the west of such a trivial nature
.hat we suspet an ulter:- r uiciive up
on tiie part of the writers, aud if we
answer them at all do so by typewriter,
eveu to the signature.
'One iorger or counterfeiter in Indi
ana is exceedingly systematic and per-si-leat
in his efforts to obtain l ic sir
nitures of our odicers. As regularly
as the year comes arouad he writes
inclosing a ten dollar bill, and re
quests us to send him me of our new
ten dollar national bank notes iu ci
cluine. "He always gives the same reason
?or the request that he wants U f u-r
his collection. at course that is non
sense. We believe that h- wanti a
new bill so that he may discover if we
have changed our officers and get their
signatures.
'Tie never does get them, though.
We always return this bill with a
typewritten letter on paper et-atain-ing
no names excusing ourselves on
the ground that we have no circulation
outstanding."
GASTRONOMIC GEOMETRY.
A Problem Tht t Waa a Poawr fur a Pa
plexw.l sludtt.
In the Massachusetts institute of
technology- the students of architec
ture have to solve som every abstruse
problems in descriptive aud analytical
geometry in' connection with architec
tural forms; and the shades and shad
ow's cast by a certain ring at the bot
tom of a column called the torus, and
the angles and intersections made Ly
iiuppo-sititious sections of this ring, are
exceedingly perplexing to new stu
dents. One day a student came to another
student, a young lady, who had a rep
utation for knowing about these
thin.Ts and confessed his inability to
understand the first prvaeijde of a cer
tain problem.
"Oh. it is easy enough," sa;-l the
young lady. "All you have to do is to
consider the torus a doughnut, w hich
you bite so and so. and you will see
what the sections are."
The young man went away, reflect
ively, aud i.t it day came back, looking
very pale and miserable.
V hy, what's the matter?" exclaimed
the young lady student-
"1 Miss 11.." the young man gasped,
"I've eaten a whole dozen of dough
nuts, 'and I've bitten them in oblique
uud transverse sections, and up and
down uutX croaaaays aud- every way,
anil Fve made myself sick at the stom
ach, and I can't understand that prob
lem any better than I did before!"
GASTRONOMIC GOSSIP.
Gallic salad tastes better than it
sounds.
Hash should be only warmed up, not
cooked.
Shah are now the finest of the finny
favorites.
The special virtue of planked shad
lies mostly in the name.
The preserving of citrons has become
an important industry.
Bon. eh e-e-gs to be at their best should
be cooked twenty minutew.
If a man becomes w hat he eats we
should all be cackling now.
A tatv spring salad is made of
chopped onions and tomatoes.
( a.A is more moHrishing than tea
or coffee, and les stimulating.
Whole-wheat flour i a great con
server of the teeth and the stomach.
M USiCAL NOTES,
Ml'Mc halls are crowding out th
Parisian theaters. The Eden theater
has applied for a license to become a
cafe chaatant
Kino Oscab has composed a fine
pathetic ie to the memory of the late
M. Gobi X, whose works he greatly ad
mired, I ring himself a composer and
distinguished musician.
The opera of "Richard III." by Sal
, vayre, haa been produced in Rouen
with trtinendous success. It is said to
be a production of the first rank, and
bound to be heard in all the principal
opera house of Europe- -
Elm Btx 1kiiisnn.il. i