J-rL III" -A lv ei-tiesiiiL-; 1 . it i ?!-. Ttie lanreaod rel arda rirrolatioa d Ibe t'i. aaia Faaaaan fi inoiroat ii to the lay. ra foct-idrrativa of alren.!er .bote larors , i inserted tne following lo. rate : AiDeb.S mo ..... t BO I Inch, a month.... z I Inch. 6 numb.... j 1 Inch .year......... ................... t p t Incite 6 moms..... ...... ........ ... "io Inches. . year ...... in 00 S Inchea atooUiS .. o-j iDctie. I year ............... cotntnD, t month.... ....... 1s t column. 6 monta. ...... ..... ......... os CelvtDn 1 year as oa irotumo, S month. ....... ...... ...... au tie I column. I year. ............ ......... ?.t6 ftafltie Item. hrt insertion, he. per lis. fnrwquent Insertions. &e. r I'ne Aiunniitmlor and tmoitor Notlee ft: a Au.liUrt Notiee - ,e tray aDtl itni:ar Notlee H4 " Ketduttop or proce. tuna ol ot ccrp. r tKa or oriety au.l ronmum-ation .iV-iKo-dto rail attention to an mailer ol limited or Bill Tidaal iuieret mut-i l paid t..r a advert I'lueaii. M k and Joh f rmtina ot ail klntt neatly aait eieJloUMr exeeaifsl at the lowerl prices. And ( K,.. ATiKKI '.. lt'S !s'A., ,;l JtHr K. IIASU., j , . uisti-n. 1,H) id , .. I paltl vkltlitli a tnonilin. I. IIMl I'hl't UIII t UJ. 11 ,.,.! (.ai,l i:liui Hie el . -i frW,IUH fUli-lllO of the CtiUDlv ,",r,r-n''i-r 'r will l chanted t". ni will the aluve term lie le L-io IT. I1J " ,.l n iou i oonsun torn IAS. C. HASSON. Editor ana Proprietor. ' HK IS A FREEMAN WHOM THE TROTH MAKES FKEE AND ALL AUK SLAVES BEt-IDK." t- t ,, m -mue MM.tinic Hiom h. (,. i ( ,11-tmctiy uinirtotd troi; r,,'lM. 81. SO and postage per fear In advance. v()LUMK xxviii. u, ,,,e ,",ori i ElltiKSIiUKG. PA., FRIDAY, AUGUST 31,1894. NUMBER 34. uuu ljuy ioi e I it. Iff 1 VY CVI-ft' I )' KV ft xsJSr ZHnTS. Irvf n WW ! I I II I II I . I I II L 1 1 r 1 1 I . mt. iff for every Type of au'i- clNAL Po,NTS Respecting HEADACHE. I"2 vvrv hri-!.nrh( i is a - i rarr .-I Hit 'un- M.clit- thr-m nrh kot-K- A LINK. 5- hn chiMrin sutTcr v itli iH-jilach. or .'Dc -! t -r ih..t .iter, u-r Ki hM ik, ;- U M r- intr.K t-v.-r -l- ! Sat'", s il i W'fli- rtully t.uii.l. in acli.ri. -ul.iritv iiii-rinr ini- itnrr thtm t -tjini tr KOPF LINE CURES MOUS DimiLITY, MCnvOUS PMOSTIITiON, U-CCSTlVI AlLMf N TS, WfAR ClKCULATlON, BR HClSStS. AMO All, .. . , i.t i v .- v .-! . m rn. KOPFALINE u 1 .rs. Prf-ai hers, h ! i 'i M rn . W 'nifii . f 1 wli.iv: iitma ire r t i.l- i. !.,!.. .'rTiil .) any aJ- 5,. Pwifnirtons, I NiCELMtNN fc BROWN DRUG CO. Bill UJRE, Mo., U. C. . -HO 0RE DOCTORS FOR ME! rTaij 1 n h r-'Ti-iiiniiitivp. Fent t :, t"' J ii.- keirp tinet. n excito .:.! ii tei.iils. Jut tliiiik -f it. I . .nui a !.:;: lioi.W called '(Juide in i. Ms. I'mk hani, ami in it I , i ...it wf.it a: .1 iji. So 1 wrote to - . ti y r- ;is , told no' just what to . :.tl 1 j:ii ii S' i'liiid health How.' IO!.llE.PiN!(HArScvoXoaubred ; rt i 1 !!n'-! iknessf ami ailments . . t w ilii tl.e sex, aud rebtores or- ' : !. ;. A. 1 ir . !' it a a sf:inl:rd artl- I-. .r -M iv mill, in form of l'ills or . :r: i. . n !.. e.'-t of .H. i t iLn ,-u-.. . f lii-Iney Complaints, Tt. : pi' .oiind j no rival. Mr I'.i.k' i n f .-. :v twers letters of ,. ry hi.. tn: f' t reply. 'y5""t? tf"l s.j 'ins lor iWs. HinUr-am tW If!!.! ui 33 . - j-i luitr.-itcd book, entitled I "GLIDE 10 ft'! IH t.uo FTI0UE1TE." 9 I Itc Him , . m nt taiuablr Information. M j " ,J'i - 141. JWUi,. ti a t. P.nham M.d. Co.. Lynn, Mass. From Pole to Pole - ' r of the boKMl. The Harpooner's Story. a:-- . r S rtfi ra.il'i, hen rive P r' f : -ir.-l r.n ! w . -if l.Ai.i up ith or. .-r : . r.'- t.i .at.-tl, ;itiiaMiWoUa - , :': i . , ..irj.i L-l.u-ht' all i r ; -. . Ui, ,t r.tt-n. 1 kc 11 v, u ;-j r-':y t.llyotf". Ail uUI - e . . . t.-.H. v i. -tr.'Vt-Ll. but Xhm . t! ien t..-ttl-a -f ATIH'I u that- We rerov- f " : , r !:..a'i I l-a fVfr Wfn tllf D '! r t r-aim ntfor turvy, J i .i. ,i , it . ..iiiif nj m-o- t ' ' -r ;- ' f :i irwaf arillA bcinf ' : : " . i ' i.;1 t . i v Liiv kuuw of I U" 7 "M'I1 T WlSOiTI. I The Trooper's "xperienoe. I K 1 ) f ii v i .--ui'nifn-n : t hav t- a ; -a tJ -y ,j ij fi 'it value of "r "" " i-k. W e t-v lii ataliotird j ar, (J nri liicT tune wa i i e;i H-iraf undrr ranvaa f ' -ik : n i cIIt-ii in thla -1 l k.irt-.." 1 t.t t!ic-e vre for i ii.tl td Viktf your ' f m ( ii. Aile mv ore 1 t K. K..HKH, ". afiafJ Jtjiemn- r 1 V tfiWk x fyer's Sarsaparilla g 7 r -?v.'v r-ctfve blood purifier- slJr. J. i niirmpn bt Aer A. o., Ixjvrell, M J t. .; i .ru.-i.ui l'ro II ; a.i but;., i fix Si, f OR ARTISTIC OB PRINTING TRY THE FREFMAN. '-u V.. , Mnrk- olitaiiH-il.nndallt'rt- A 1 tor Moderate Ft. i',l,-r!t"'"iie U.S. Patent Office. a..i((. ! tent in 1,--. tune than t hn ho-e v vi'.. ,,r'''A1'--' ,r I'lioto.. with desrrlp "tl."' (i.',,1,"' 'f I'lt-nt-it.le or not. free of ' . "" ''"e till UMl. iit i- nerareiL y.,,-- .. . - - tt?,:ri fatents."' with lit 111 Vi.iirSlHlp intv o- C-"ti'ir!A, I'.'irts., l "U pittnt Qffice Washingtoni 0 c at i Price 53-' :S(. .s '; ; ' . ut i .. a I'i.i.'i, M...t i iVL'.'M"rr' ' "nii am. ti. '-l'. 9-' loiin-'tllor' k-s-,.'; ;'n "'' ' or liu- 1 1 . ; ' s' t.i and -wive fcl. . ' ' ' M l.i.l ll-UUOl a . 'L , -' lr. .lit . , ' ,,! ' - ' V e Free l.i i "'-;v a unr in. - ULr"se si., Cuicumau, O. mm nun iCARitKS ITTLE IVER PILLS. ?!-lf Helarho and rolievn all tbo tronMs Inpf-dt-nt to a WHouh btAtoof the synteui. sucu atl N'auses, Drowsinu. Distretu after rating. faiu iu tuO M.l.. A;c While their moet renjaraaMu aucceus litut boen shown iu cujrtug Upatlache. yrt Carter's Little I.Iver Pm ars einn!Iy ' ilual lo in Constipation, curing aud pra-Ti-ntiuft thisannoyinacomplaiut.whilo they also corTtMtallliaorl.-rwf tiiHHtoma bumulatatlia livt-r and rualaUt tiieboweld. ; vc a il tucy only Arl.athey trr-nli bi almost priceless to thoete who fcufivr from tietlittnssinBcomi(auit; ln;tfr!u Xiatoly tbii-tMMhuisi.n uotouii !i:re,aini tboa vrhucucotry lUcmtill haj tbee little pillsvalu fitil iii o maiiy ways tUut they will uut bo wil ling toUu uitbout tbeiu. Uut after all sick ba4 Islhftbanoof bo many lives that here I where tt. make mi r tfiirrt U.&t. Our piltdcureit whila ctlu-rH nt. t ait-rd J.'tfle Uver Pills are very Rmall anJ Tv ta-v t. tak. Oiti r two jalla luakea dota. '1 ii. v aisruily VPiu-tablH anJ a nt gripe or T-i:r ,Mit l-y tLtir futlu&t titjzi pleaae ail who u- ti tn. la A.iit .t-cnta ; five for fl. 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I J UJ sVa ' v-aa.v CYliS LXA.MINLU I KLE Spectc"es perfectly fitted nd guarantee J for 2 y car. Artilicial ryes insert d. J. DIAMOND. Optician, r-tihM. isAi. it S ith St.. 1'iriSKl Wtl. PA. WANTKI)K: neraelic men to sal our Choi, e anil Colnlilet, line oi Nuicery -s v.-i, auU neel til.li HimIi itlar Mild ei tniulpMotl paid Wetkly P yiDa atol perinaiieiit ikiilii.ii ku .raufeeu and cue.-er HSureil to kuii'I uieu special ibdueeuieulK lo beankuera. hii eneuce no. ueee.-iary. t.ieiuaive territory anil ;iur u choice ol aauiv yiveu. 1 H. not tieiay but upt.ly lo Al.l.KN N'I'liSKHY iroaera and frupaiialora, Ko;hoter, N. Y. aui;i 4ui Sw wMt ut 'jha, a Ml-" f " " . aweit INI t s I. K4 HmJ.n, M. l?"K AI.LIHK NEWS. KtAU THE IKEt. CURE - THAN I WO0O i lliiHiiHllll V Hfcr Xa-0 MAN. 1.&U par ;ear. WHEN BABY GOES TO PtF 3. When 1-utii- takes the baby, an J the noJdirw litt:e he 1 tiives to' i that it n weary and would like to H. to I ej Au ail o! i?i ;u h 111 e stillness 'bout the house. I e::im. i i erei p And evt-i ljoa s M.t iit hen the buby kous to sleep. Sometimes I (jet so frightened that I almost iisi' ;it!i - If 1 eh " i t t.. mat - a I it of noise it scares nie nui- t i.. t'eatli. When iro'n He:,ih a tiny eyebrow I see a half-win- . p From lm blue eves, when baby haa almoat k one to sleep. And lien at last a twinkling of a tiny amile all) ar On liis that aiik'el kisses softly touch as dream ihk.' hears. I yive a n-h of irladiiess. that is full of thanks, and deep. That the woiid can once more move ou. for baby's (f.nie to sleep. fcdnaril N. Wuul. in Atlanta Constitution. WAS IT STEALING? How a Brutal Husband Was Taught a Needed Lesson. "Spe-akino-of the disabilities of woin cii, si.me people uoul.i have juu lic lieve therv; vvercj Hone iiowatiays be cause women are more favored in this land than in others, that their rijihis are well eioiii.rh protected aud tliev have iiothino- to wish for. Why, it was only this niorniu 1 heard of a woman knoekeil iluwn by her husband and called a thief for taking nioiiey from l:is pocket, as if it had been his money ouly and not hers that she bad worked hard for. Her little boy, with other chil.ireii, had o-,,t into some trouble some ctty offense - and it was t. release him that she V;.s liunt inX around for money. Iler husband never rave her any. although a well-to-.lo man and &he a liard-workino; vvoiiiati. " 'l lic speaker paused, and there were many iucs.li..iis asked and a tfem ral buzz f conversation. Tliruiti it all Mrs. A reus sat mid listened. She heard no names, and she was very at tentive. What if it were Ellen, the sister w lio had been like a mother to her, married to such a penurious man? She should not feel easy till she saw her. At the first ifood opportunity she ordered her carriage ami. putting in some cushions, almost snnliiio- a her tears, she told lleiiuis where to drive. It was at the other end of town, at the foot ol a lane leading up to a smal I. shabby looking ,u. that he slopped the horses, and she ot out to walk. The w indow shades were down, and she walked around to the back door, pushed it open, and passed into the kitchen, tin an old louno-e was the prostrate form of her sister, w ith suf fering in her face. ' Ellen, is it true," she said, "what I have heard? Did he dare to raise his hand ajraiust you, after all these years? Tell me quickly. Vhere are you hurl?' "Oh, no! Oh. no! It was only the words. They startled me so. 1 1 was what he called me. I hit the table the sharp corner. I hurt my side. I believe 1 did fall, aud it is very sore; but 1 am o-,iinir to iet up." She made a resolute effort, but fell back with a white face and an exclamation of pain. "You must yo home w ith me. You are all worn out, and there is no one here to nurse and care for you proper ly. Eie perfectly still, my dear, till I come back." Mrs. Arens called to Dennis, who drove away for help. Then .she went about ihe house pickinir up w hat would be ueedeu, and when Dennis returned, her sister, quite unresisting, was lifted into the carriage, carelully wrapped up and driven away. Hiram liiake. on cumin? home that nirht, found no tire, no wife, no sup per, no son. Such au experience had never hapetied before in the whole course of his married life. He had been hard at work all nay, aud had had no time to think of the occurrence of the moriiiiio-, but now it came back with a troubled insistence. He went to a house not far away, where lived a woman known as "old Emeliiie," who sometimes came to help his wife. He hired her now to come and Kct him si.iiicthiiio- to eat. Then as he moved uneasily about the room, from window to table, tryinjr to read, and putting his paper dow n arain. little 1'aulcame iu with a scared look. He said his mother was at his Aunt Kuby's, and that the doctor said she would be sik a lono; time. "Don't wonder!" sniffed old Emetine, casting a black look at llirain IMake. "1 t's a wonder she wa'ti't took sick a lono- while afore. She hail work euoug-h for three women to do here." At the end of a week the man ac knowledged to himself that he had never been so miserable in his life. He dismissed the hired men after the day's work, for the faithful wife was no longer there to feed theiu. l'aul re mained at his aunt's much of the time, only . initio- home now anil then to re port the slow progress of the patient. Eoiteriiif in the lane one evening. Hiram Illake saw some one leading a horse very carefully, who inquired if there was any hotel near, as some tlo no was the matter with his horse, and he wished to find a veterinary surgeon to examine it. Mr. liiake did au unprece dented thino- fur him. He asked the stranger in, while he went for a neigh boring doctor skilled in the treatment of animals. He prescribed some rem edies, ami the st ranker, who said his name was Dixon, was invited to stop with Mr. liiake, such was his utter loneliness, lie accepted frladly for a few days. The old housekeeper "Tum bled at haviiio; another "to do for;" but after the first day she made no further complaint, saying-: "Mr. Dixon was a likely man, . and pleasant spoken; some difference betweeu him and Hi I.lake " and she prophesied "they would not pull together lono;." Mr. Dixon was so solicitous for his horse, and worked so persistently for its comfort, that it excited his host's .miimeiit. "Hut that is my religion." Mr. Dixon answer -I. - to make evervthiuy an " I -ie as happy as it is in my power, t'nu have a yood beast there," and he io in ted to a strawberry roan named I'eter. "My wife is fond of that horse." Hiram lilake's voice sounded strange ly to him. "lie looks overworked." "Yes.' He has Wen doing the work of two horses lately. I must let him rest a bit, or he will be nothing but f!:in ani Kino:,; but tho-e i-.nor'h-r wav to get along. One can't do as he would like to. hut as he can." "I wish you would let me take down the partition between these two stalls, they are too narrow for I'eter to rest well. A horse needs plenty of room, and I shall sleep Wtter for it. too." Once a proxsal like this would have Wen met with derision, but Mr. Illake was surprised at his own readiness to assist, and, while one bathed the stiff legs, the other brought an extra meas ure of meal. "You would soon spoil the critters." He spoke jocosely, aud a little awkwardly. "Oh. 110." said his companion, earn estly. "I am only pleading for their rights." "I didn't know they had any such particular rights." Mr. Bake brought the words out slowly. "h. yes. every living thing has rights we are bound to resK-ct. We can make a heaven for them here, if we w io. and for ourselves, too." "I thought Heaven was a long way off, with an angrv Ood to rule it." "Heaven is right round us. or we can make it the other place, as manv do. I see no anger iu ('oil's dealinos with us. He has given us this beauti ful world. It is the most Wtuidlcss love day after day; but we are slow to learn the lesson, and to do by each other and by every living creature even as he is doing for us all the time." Hiram. Illake thought a long while over these words He had never heard anything like the ideas expressed in them. One evening, seated on the piazza, the two men quite alone. II irani ei'.ed the case of a Woman who took money from her husband's jiocket. ami asked his friend if he did not think it was taking what did not Whmg to her. -Mr. Dixon inquired into the c;im if she worked without wages if she re ceived half of the income regularlv; and. having lcarnvd the facts, declared he thought it was a plain case of stealing. Hiram shifted uneasily iu his chair. He did not exactly like to have the woman branded in this wav, although he ha., invited the criticism. Hut Mr. Dixon continued: "Yes. a man that will force his wife to have recourse to sueh extremeties a wife who is only a toiler, not a sharer in the - I- ets of a home that man is a thief of the worst t pe. K..r what should he live but to make her happy? Instead of that, he is laving up bitterness for himself, and sorrow for all around him." Hiram l:lake shifted his weight from one leg to the other. He had not ex pected this climax, and he hastily changed the subject. "I have been thinking of building on to the kitchen, and putting more windows in. My w ife always said it was too small and dark. hat do you think?" he asked. "I should build a new house, and move this one away, if I owned it, and could a If or. 1 it." "1 hadn't thought of that; but I guess I could do it." Hiram took so Kindly to this view of the situut ion that t he next time l'aul came home and told his fath. r he had heard his Aunt Kuby sa lis mother was never coming t' this .muse again, Ilirum only rubbed his hands ami said, cheerily: "She's right, l'aul; your mother never will." He had an architect to draw the plans, aud Mr. Dixon gave many sug gestions. Iu time the house was fin ished and furnished, even to a row of plants in the broad bay window. The old hoilsekeejier knew the names of some favorites, and even contributed a few- herself, with much pride. At last, I'eter, harnessed to a low. easy carriage, was sent f..r the long absent wife. Little l'aul was the driver, and could scarcely contain his excitement. His father had cautioned him to say nothing about the new house, for he had planned a surprise, l'aul Wgan to tell about the horse. "It's yours, mother, your own. No one else can drive I'eter unless you say so. Isn't he fat? And the new carriage is all yours. Isn't it soft and springy?" Mrs. ltlake could hardly believe her eyes. Of course she hail heard some thing about the new building, but that anything so tine had Wen pre pared for her, it would have taken gn at faith indeed to believe. Iler hus band followed her from room to room with a delighted face, finite tired out with going over the house, she sat down in the spacious living room be fore the plants, one mass of bloom aud fragrance. Some of them were Mr. Dixon's gift to you. and this is mine." he said put ting into her hand a deed of the place, and a bank book made out in her name, with a cash account of several thousand dollars. "It is heaven on earth, llirain!" Those words aaiu! At last he felt he had done something to be worthv of them. W. A. 1. Neal, iu Woman's Journal. &Mvtiir line Fare. tietting into a third-class carriage at a suburban station, a guntleuiau found the only other occupant was a travel ing minstrel with a large harp in a green baize overing. Presently the station where tickets were taken was reached, and as the train journeyed on the gentleman was startled at hearing a sort of .muflled whisper issue appar ently from the harp. Seeing him look ing rather curiously at it. the man in charge of it remarked: "I'm sure you are a gentleman who won't cause trouble. The fact is. when I haven't made much money it comes cheaper for my little girl to travel with the harp;"' and. hastily undoing the baize covering, out stepped a business-like young damsel of about ten. Loudon Answers. lit r. r Tat. A funny man is nmu iug the compa ny generally at the expense of one of their number. He calls the little daughter of a guest to him aiftl com mences thus: "Can you spell needle Kosie?" "Yes," said the little one "n-e-e-d-l-e." Wrong," said the ques tioner. "You should sjK.ll it thus u-e-i-l 1-e." "I Wg your pardon." correct ed liosie. "1 don't think there's an "i iu it." '"Did you ever see one with out?" inquired the humorist, amid the the laughter of guests. There was a silence for a moment, and then Kosie returned the attack with "(an you sell pin?" "I'-i-n," answered the fun ny man. "Wrong!" laughed Kosie. "If there was an 'i" in it it would, you see, W a needle!" MILLIE'S (iltEKN PEAS. The Part They Played In the Scheme of Human Events. Millie Mitchell was only six j-ears old. Iler mother was very poor, and sewed for her living in two small rooms of a dingy New York house not far from East llroadway. One bright day in summer, a day that made even the shabby ami dirty street seem pl.asaut because of the breeze and sunshine that were blended there, Mil lie's mother said to the child: "You've Wen very good for three whole days, and 1 promised you that if you didn't worry and fret me the least bit for that length of time you should have something nice to eat oil the fourth day." Millie jimiM-d for joy. Her blue eyes glittered, and the red lips curled away from her tiny white teeth in a glorious little smile. Even in her coar.-.e gown she was very pretty, and if she had been arrayed like some of the children w ho then were romping in the up-town parks, watched by their careful nurses, with her yellow lloss of hair neatly combed and daintily be riblxuietl. you might even have paused and saitl of her: "How Wautiful a child!" "I guess w hat it is!" she cried. "It's green h-;is! It's green peas!" "Yes." saitl her mother; "and I shelled them on the sly, and they'll soon be cooked. Ami there'll In? m tatocs. tto, w ith some meat left over from yesterday. The meat will be cold, for I haven't got time with my sewing, to heat it. Uut two hot veg etables, Millie, think of that! And now you can run out into the street for a little while, and when you come iii 111 have everything ready. lint mind you don't stay long, and remem ber not to pass the corner." To pass the corner meant to invade the great bustle and breadth of the thoroughfare near by. Millie would not have dared to do that, even if she hail desired. She simply trotted along the pavements of her particular block, just as she hail done countless times before. The merry wind blew back her silken hair below the ragged brim of her hat, with its one old crumpled scarlet rose nodding on the crown. She was going to have green tieas for dinner, aud she was magiiilicently happy. Certain residents of the street knew her. and smiled to her from their doorways. To some of these, as she trip ed along, she would say, with a mellow little laugh: "We're going to have green (H-as for dinner!" Some answered her laugh rather coldly. Others answered it in a hiiinaiier way. Still others gave her a sigh of pity. They were all aor p-'-ple. but there were gra :es in their poverty, sel f-iiiiporlance and pride. Soon she reached a grim, ramshackle tavern iu tiie middle of the block. I 'roui its door a big man with a pulfed. purplish face had just emerged, lie side him was a thin, frail boy, with sunken cheeks. The juan had gripte.l the hoy's sleeve, and his frown was full of threat. "Oo home," he growled, "and tell your mother that if she sends ye here agin when I'm takin a sociable glass, I'll send ye back to her with the life Wat half out o' you, so 1 will!" The Wy gave a faint cry of pain. II is father's hand hail clutched bruis- ingly what slight flesh there was on his fragile arm. Millie came to a standstill, and stared innocently into the man's face. "I'm inning to have green peas for dinner!" she said. "I've Wen good for three whole days, and I'm going to have "em!" Here Millie put her head on one side and critically surveyed the wan. sunken-cheeked boy. "I guess he'd like some greeu peas for his dinner. 1 guess he ain't going to have anj'. I wish he was." As she danced away, with a faint hum of song on her lips and the breeze blowing her bright hair, the eyes of the bloated man followed her. His hand tlropicd from the flimsy sieeve of the Wy and presently it slipped into one of his own pockets. "You said there wasn't anything home to eat? He drew out half a dol lar and gave it to the Wy. "That's all I ve got left, but it'll buy something. J won't take no more drink to-day. I gu'ss I can work off this spree Wfore to-morrow nioriiin". (jo home an' tell yer mother I said that. Hurry, now, an" HI trudge on after ye." The p-ile Wy, with his coin close gra-.pe.l in one weak hand, hastened dow ii the- street, lie knew too well his father's good resolves how- soon they me ted in air. liut at least the an nil want from which he and his lit tle sister and his sick mother were all three suffering would W appeased for a short t iiue. Fifty cents meant so much! Ten cents would buy lots of bread. Twenty cents would buy a good deal of meat. And then there would W twenty cents left. And that for to-morrow might stave off actual starvation at leatt all ot her day. As he thought this thought the pale boy, sK-eiling to his miserable home a few streets away, blessu.l that same little girl roin the lowest deeps of his grateiul and astonished heart. Meanwhile Millie went buoyantly or., with the old crumpled rose on her hat Whhiug up aud down in the sum mer wind. Soon she met two girls who seemed to be quarreling. One was larger than i the other and appeared to W very old indeed She was possibly sixteen years old. while her companion could not have been luore than fourteen. "I won't go back home, Kate," said the younger girl, who was pretty, wilh a face pink as a seashell and great liquid eyes, lull of dark, starry oiiu low. "Father's drunk half the year. Of course I love mother, but slie'a always got the young ones to mi.id. No. I ll earn my owu living the Wt w- " . "Susie!" cried the other girl, with a horrilied accent. "Yes. I will! Oh! you go along. Kate. 1 know what I'm talking about Ain't I got a first-class chaueeV" "No; it's wrong." "Wrong? Oh! go along with your 1 notions. Won t the liowery l'aradise give me eight dollars a week to dance only aWut a half-hour every uight iu the new pantomime? I'm to be one of the Moonlight Fairies. Why. Kate, just think! My dress'll W all white laee and silver, and a pair o silver wings and spangled slippers and a wand and a big half-moon on the top o' my head!" "lKm't go. Susie!" urged Kate. "It'll hring you into bad company." "Had company! Any worse than my father drunk most always?" "Your mother needs you at home," Kate persevered. "It would break her heart for you to run away aud leave her." "Hut she won't let me join the show if I keep on living at home," said Susie, with an obstinate pout. "She s right; she's right. Susie. Oh! say, do give up all' this! What are your little brothers ami sisters going to do without you? W hy. they can't never go out at all if you go. No more play for them oh! say. Susie " Just then Millie paused and looked, w ith her infantile candor, full iuto the faces of the two girls. "I'm going to have green peas for dinner to-day, 1 am. I've Wen go.nl. and ray mother's cooking the greeu peas now." Instantly the attention of the two was caught by the child's confidence and Wauty. "Ain't she a funny little thing?" said Kate, kneeling Wside the child. "I ain't always good," said Millie, gravely. "Oh. I guess you aiu't ever very bad, are you?" said Susie, looking down, her pout lost iu amusement, so facile was her disposition. Millie pondered this Seriously for three seconds. - "I fret and worry my mother." she replied, conscientiously, aud looking down with shame and wonder whether her elders would speak to her after such a confession, lioth girls laughed with delight in the child's pretty sim plicity. "It's very wrong for a little girl to fret her mother that's what mv mother says," said Millie, stoutly per sisting. "And what if you was a big girl?" said Kate, not 1-Hiking at Susie. "No matter if 1 was as big as big " Millie paused and her eyes roved for a comparison "as big as the engine house." she ended, surprised by her owu imagination of attaining such size. "You dear little girl! Whose girl are you?" saitl Susie, trying to clutch and kiss the child. Hut at the tone of praise all Millie's joy cam. rushing back to her. "liut now I'm good and I'm going to have green peas for dinner!" cried Millie, skipping with delight past Susie's rcacn. and then strutting im portantly away. As the girls watched her their faces w re sweet with smiles of delight and humor smiles that gave them again for a few moments the l.xtks of their less troubled childhood. When Kate, turniug. caught this look on Susi -'s face, a deeper satisfaction came into her own. "Well, let's go home, then." said Susie, as Millie disappeared. "Wasu't she a dear little thing"'" Kate was too wise to risk any ref erence to Susie's former mood, for a word of argument or moralizing might have thrown her back on her ob stinacy by renewing her sense of the monotony of home aud the attractions of the Howery l'aradise. All that Kate saitl was: "Let us have green peas for dinner. Susie. If there ain't any in the house 111 run round to Mullen's for some." "Yes, I'm good. too. now. Kate." said Susie, with a look of tears and smiles. "Ami I'm going to have green peas for. dinner!" she cried, imitating the very accents of Millie, skipping in her fash ion and then strutting away impor tantly by Kate's side. Kate still said nothing. Suddenly Susie stopped and looked earnestly at her friend. "The Howery l'aradise won't have me for a fairy, if you want to know, Kate." "Well, I'm just as glad. Susie! And we're With going to have green peas for dinner!" Kate's failure in attempting to imi tate Millie's tone mrle Susie laugh more than before, and the two went happily away with arms round each other's waists. Meanwhile Millie entered the little kitchen where her mother stood with the flushed face of a toilful yet tri umphant cook. 1 guess dinner must be ready by this time." saitl Millie. "It is." said her mother, and pointed to the pine table, with two plates and three dishes gleaming from its coarse, clean cloth. Millie, with a gleeful smile, climbed into her own chair. "You must have hail quite a long walk," saitl her mother, as she took the remaining chair. "I spse you stopied and talked to people: you gen erally do, the ueighWrs tell me." "1 talked to a few people," answered Millie, "but I guess I forgot what I sai.l." "Oh. I know, you little goose," laughed her mother, as she uncovered the peas. "You told them you were going to have green peas for dinuer." "Yes." said Millie, with an intellec tual abstraction caused by whetted ap petite. "I guess that's what I did tell 'kui. but I aiut quite sure. I I guess 1 was pretty excited, atd didn't "itactly know just vvhat I said." Her mother laughed again, and helped her generously from the dishful of teas. And Millie ate them with a fine -elish and in splendid i.-tiorance of how wholesome and imMrtant a part they had caused her to play in the mighty scheme of human events. Ed gar Favvcett, iu Youth's Companion. I'nfortunate M. Ie I.caarpe, The great aud unfortunate M. De Iesseps in his extreme old age finds himself a very poor man. He married late in life and has a family of thir teen children. It is generally believed that the blunders of the Panama were not criminal on his part. Hut recall ing his past great services to com merce in the construction of the Suez canal, it is proposed by a major ity of the shareholders that driug the rest of M. De Iessep's life he shall W given an annuity of OO.UOU francs, or aWut Sl'-'.otHJ, and that after his death and till his youngest child is of age, 40.btnj francs a year shall go to the widow and childrvn. This illustrates that there art cases when great cor porations show they are not soullessi. A VOICE OF BYGONE DAYS. foul J 1 tut hear the vo'ce once more Thai ihlilleU my heart IU days of ytA lis wet. puiLeiu, tentler power Would tool he niy spirit s Hardest hour. lW-fore these notes ot jov or tain. 1 h- war bin? b.rtl would c. a-s,- lta strain: And huv nun l.hl'v .n the um, Kuraplun d hear lis rival iu. Oh. woudrous power, sweet mit Jivtnel For wl.u ii my wearied s .ul doth piue. Oh. may 1 h- ar lis sounds on high, 3ttld angels' Voices Iu ti e sk. Helen V ilkie, in t'hauiters' Journal sophy clai;es fi:k;iit. How a Plucky Little Schoolma'am Wte Frithtenod. A school ma'am in the far west a hard worked. scantily paid little drudge, vv ho "Warded "rouud" at the various farmhouses, log cabins and oue s: or 'led shanties w ithin au area of ten miles, ami consequently enjoyed a panoramic view of human nature in a pleasing variety of aspects this was not the sort of a career that Sophy Clare had looked forward to wneu she graduated with so much r-'l it from the Massachusetts state iktiiiiI school aud carried off her biue-ribWned di ploma! Hut sh ha I com. out west, lure. I by glittering prose. ts and fair promises, which had t' rued into mere will-o'-the-wisps on a nearer view, aud now it was eituer work or starve with our courageous little Yankee. So she had taken the West Athens district school at twelve dollars a month aud her board "After all." said Sophy, valiantly, '"it's rather fun to teach here in the wilderness. One sees all sorts of char acters 'Warding 'rouu.L And I'm sure, if I were a novelist, I coul i make mv fortune by pen-and-ink sketches of their strong poifi's. To W sure, it's a long walk to the school h..us and rather a lonely one but the forest path is so lovely, now that it is all carpeted with the gold and crimson of fallen leaves, and the roar of the river in the glen Wlow ami the rush of the wind through the tree tops is grauder than any orchestra. And involuntarily the little sch.iol teacher broke out into the refrain of a song as she walked along with light, elastic steps, her empty lunch-i-us i-t on her arm. and the scarlet-frilled hood tied around her fresh little face. For the western sun had clipped Wh.vv the edge of the woods, and Sophy was on her way home to Hose a Harkiiis. the miller's, where, just at present, she was making her In. inc. with Mrs. liarkitis aud the twelve little Ilar-kinsi-s a seven-mile walk from the old, red schoolhoiise on the river shore. Hut as the twilight darkened, and the purple shadows Wgan to clu.t.-r, like spectral li rures, in the silent aisle of the vviKids. -ophv Clare shrati with in herself, and involuntarily quickened her footsteps. "'1 hey shot a War in these woods, last spring." she thought within her self, w ii h a little apprehens ve thtitupof her heart. "And Charles liarkitis was ouite sure he saw a nautiier stealing through the underbrush in Dead Man's glen, only week Wfore last! I wish 1 hadn't stayed in school so late, cor recting those comHsilii'iis!" And as Sophy lied swiftly along, her scarlet hood gleaming like a tropic bird, through the dark aisles of the forest, her overstrained imagination converted every rustling leaf into the stealthy tread of a wild Wast. Hut suddenly, as she reached a copse of dar.i pines at the W-id of the path, the sound of low, iiiulHi'd voices struck upou her ears. She paused with a curi ous sensation, as if every drop hi blood in her veins were standing stilL It was two men crouching by a fall en log which lav iu the piue cpse, mantled over with gol.l-green m-rss. ami half hidden with tall weeds. Evi dently, they were quite unaware of the approach of anyone and. as Sophy shrank back iuto the shadows of a blac.i-green laurel tmsh, she could hear their mutter. si wonts quite plainly. "Hut to kill her!" said tine. "And she's such a little Wauty. loo!" "l'shaw!" grow led the other. "IVon't W a fool. Hal Tucker. It's only one stroke of a sharp knife and the thing's done, and can't W undone." "Hut it seems so cruel!" "Stuff and u.nise use! Ain't it done every day?" "Hut what will the children sav?" "They'll miss her. I suppose, just at first, but they'll soon get accustomed to another one." "Would you do it at night?" said the man called Hal Tucker. To-night will I the best time." said the other. "HarkLis" folks are all going out to singing school to-ni.-ht. and the coast will W clear. You have the wagon at tl.e door to carry it away, and I'll undertake to make a clean j b of it with my new kuife Wfore she has time to cry out." "I never hated to do a thing so in my life," said Hal Tucker. "The more fixd you!" gruffly retort ed the other. And then the sound of their voices, receding through the dense unilergrovv tn of the forest, grew indis tinct, and finally died into sil.-tiee. while Sophy Clare stood, pale a?id paralyzed, with one band clinging to the laurel branches aud her chcstiiut browu hair blowing about her fright ened face. She kuew Hal Tucker very well a goo t-natured. shi tless, tie", r-do-vveel. who lived on the proceeds of any odd jobs he could get iu the neigh borhood, aud had no imre idea of pro viding for the future than if he h id Wen the grasshopper in I.afont aitie's fable. And the voice of the other man was also f; miliar to her as that of one Jereu-iah Slocuui, who Wre no envia ble reputation among the simple set tlers of those wild western regions. And. with a thrill of the heart, she re memebred that Jerry Sloeuiu bail Wen sittiug by. the night Wfore. when Mil ler liar.. i us, who was one of the school trustees, had paid her her mouth's sal ary iu clinking silver dollars. "It's I they meaii! " cried Sophy, out aloud "They mean to murder me, and all for the sake of that wretched paltry silver! "One stroke of a sharp kuile, and the thing's done and can't W un done!' O merciful heaven! Cau il Ihj that there ard such brutes in thj world? ll-rkins" lolks going to singing-school to-niifht, and the coast will W clear!' Oh, the peril 1 should have been iu if 1 had not Wen fortunate enough tJ overhear those horr.bl words! 1 must hasten home at once aud tell Mr. Harkins. Hut, ol if I should vhauce to meet these rufiiauaon the road again T" She ?totl still and listened, but no sound greeted her ears other than the rush of the wind in the tree-tojrs over head aud the murmur of the river W lovv and the wild Wating of her own bearL At all risks," he thought, T must get home. 1 can't stay here in the forest all night, though perhaps toe a-rils from wild Wasts would W less than the dangers from uiv own kind! And flying in desperate haste through the gloomy put lis. where the first faint silver rays of the starlight were Wgiiining to irradiate the scarce ly visible wav, she came at last iu sight of the tdd stone mill by the waterfall, with the long, low- dwelling m the liarkitis at its side, all shiuing with welcome lights. "Supper's b en ready this half hour." said Mrs. Harkins, a lean, fretful feiuaie. w ho always wore a suiilmiinrl. winter or summer, indttors or out. and shutM.sl an ui nd the bouse in flapping carpet slippers. "You're late. aiu t you. Miss Clare? And, good laud alive, how pale you W!" "1 I wal .ed very fast," said Sophy, with a eoiivulsivecatchiiig o; the breath anil turning paler than ever as she saw. lounging on the woolen settle, jnt within the huge stone chimney, the Very man whose voice she had heard half an hour ago in the twilight wools Hal Tucker hiiusell! Involuntarily she drew back, falling almost into the anus of honest llosea Hark ins himself, who had just coine iu from the mill, with his working clothes tin, and his hair and eyelashes powdered ov.-r with flour. "Ilel-lo!" said that worthy. "You aiu't a-goin to faint away, W you, Miss Sophy?" Hut spirit and courage had come back to the Yankee schoolina'aui once again. She drew herself up and Itintel to the lurking vagaWud ou tne wide. vvotMlen settle. "Mr. Harkins." cried she, "you are a constable, are you not?" "Wal, I guess I W," answered the miller, staring with all his might out of a pa r of pale-blue eyes. "In that case." said Sophy. "I call upon you to arrest that villain that murderer!" And she pointed straight at Hal Tucker. "Eh?" said the miller, his eyes more like over-ripe goose Wrries than ever. "Eh!" cchiHsi Mr. Tucker himself, comiug upright, all in a heap, like a jointeti ti ll. "I heard him plotting iu the woods this night," she gasped out, "with hs confederate Slocum! Let him deny it. if he dares! ' T swau to gracious, I was there!" f-aid Hal. seratchiug his head. "Me aud Jerrv!" "Let 1 i in deny." went on Sophy, with an unconse.oiisl y tragic cited, "that be" was pl.dimg to mur.lec wilU a sharp k lilt when all the I i a ri. ui , were at siiiging-seh-Kjl to-night! t'ii! Mr. Harkins. arrest him! l".r heaven's sake, save my life! It was I that was to have lusrn the victim'" The tuilier stared harder than ln-fore. Hal Tucker seiz-l his h.-ad in Win bands, as if apprehensive that it luignt split if u.l safely guarded. "Hold on. Miss Clare, hold on!" said he. "You're clean wrong, as it hap pens! "T wasn't you at ail as we was goiu' to murder! ti.md I -or I aWve f.r bitl! It was little Polly's ct I auili there! And the missus wanted to turn it iu toward the butcher's account, and she wanted it took away on the sly. lo calise of the childr. n. And me and Jerry we thougM it would Ik- a g .! chance to-night, when they was all o'f to sin j-iu"-sc-htoL Hut the cat's out of the bag now, I reckon'." Sophy Clare sat down on the old patchvv irk-eovered lounge, w ith a burst of relieved laughter that was a.m .st hysterical. The miller clapcd his liHiuls mi his thigh with a force that surrounded him with an a u re tie of flour dust. Mrs. Harkins smile.i grim ly under the shallow of tne sun Wim, t, ami the children, one aud all. set up -j, howl of deprecation over the Iaieof their Wlove-1. wuoily lamb! '"Mr. Tuc.ier." saitl S.ijhy Clare, an so n as she was able to regain com mand over her voice, "d.m't take po.tr little Snow flake away! 1 will pay her value to these god iieople for the sake of the lelief I now feel. A id the chil dren shall Uot los their et-" "It's only a lamb!" sai l Miller Har kins, who did not know w hat seutiuacut was. "Hut it's the children's darling," pleaded Sophy. And so Snowflake's life was savetL and Sophy Clare's fr.ght ail went lor nothin .'. Hut she could never pass Jrreitcsh Slocum afterward w ithout a stiu.Ider. And the very sound of 111 T -cker's voice, speaking in the twiligc., was enough to blanch her cheek. For she had oeen terrildy frightene I po r little Sophy Clare! Amy Kaa dolph, in N. Y. Ledger. .ntelow I'murtr In Afrloa- An effort is Wing math- in Lngljial to form a society with the ohj.-ct of preserving nu ; of the SM-ci.-s .f South African antelopes, which are in danger of soon lccoiiiiiig extinct. The scheme, wh ich is Wing pnuuotcd and supported by a nuniWr f well known sortsmeu ami scit-nti-ts. i-t to inclose a suitable tract of country in the district near Fort Salisbury with a wire fencing of. say. forty-live miles in circumference, and drive into this in clostire small herds of the still exist ing siecics of ant. 1ih-s which it is de sired to preserve. At certain n-:iihis of the year, to prevent overcrowding, a nuniWr of sjieeiniens would W let loose or exported ftr the use of zoolog ical societies. To carry out the plan a comparatively moderate eapital would W- required: and it is said that the liritish South African company will re ceive .. petition Wfore lotigaskiugthcir consent lo the fencing iu of the pro pt.sctl preserve. W orkliicnften'tt C'lulm in 1 In i; la mi. The clergymen of the Church of F. gland are forming workingtnea's cluW throughout England. Ireland and Set it land. The object of the--organizations is to elevate the laWrcr. nil 1 the aim to do it by means of lectures and cheap coffee. Has it ever struck the statesmen and high oiiicials of t he Church of Eu gland, an.l of other lands, that it might W a gd idea t. form clulrsof capitalists ami employers, and impress upon th. ui the laet that- laWr has its needs anil rights, aud that if it were treated fairly we would have few.r strikes and less need of workiug lueu'b clubs? 7 n
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