br,:i s Freeman
. . u u u & .. pr,x( a
Advert isin Jtates.
The larreand t labia rlrrnlatloo ef the Caw.
ia limn cmmenai It to the lavoraMe
consideration of advertiser wboee larors will b
Inserted at the follow leg low rate :
1 lDf-h, 1 time . ... ....... II .50
1 Inch, 8 month. .................. ......... :L0
1 Inch, 6 month........................".., a as
Inch 1 year... .lt
3 Inebe. 6 month.... ............. 6 e
S Inrbe, 1 year In CO
Inche, 6 month g e
loebe. I ye&r . 1.00
4 column, 6 month.... .............. ...... 10 ce
i column. 6 month.... su.oa
W column, year ........I......... S3.M
. column. 0 month........ ao'oa
1 column, 1 year "--""1111""" T.0O
Bndnee Item, flirt tnertton, 10c. pel
lobwqueot Insertion, 6c. per Hae J--,
Adminltrator' and iLjtccator Notice, ft aa
Auditor' Notice ................... 2-50
Stray and almllar Notice ." i im
a-Rcsolnt ton or proceeding ol any eor.ra-
tton or society and commnni-atlon deimrd to
call attention to any matter ol limited or in.ll
Tidoal intercut mart I paid lora advertisment.
KiK'k and Job Printing of all kind neatly and
exedioasiy executed at the lowet prices. A ad
don tyoa forget It.
;1 jaMES H. hau-m
M.a(V
rAi i
Li-iil.lH.n.
b,rrlpH- -
...., .n a.lvRnCf
..1.50
within 3 months. 1.75
f.i-i.l within t month. 2. no
J, i .nd within the year., a-aa
to
.i,im outside of tbe county
"f'0 W.rr vear will be chained to
. ...hi ma above terin be. de-
' i ihi'-e who Jon i eoneult tneir
B- in advance most not ex
.. ic l-io ' ..K .........
JAS. C. HASSON. Editor and Proprietor.
"BK IS A FREEMAN "WHOM THE TROTH MAKES FREE AND ALL ABE SLAVES EEC IDE."
81.50 and postage per year In advance.
""jt'he .li-ti'ictly understood Iroc
he -Mine iuouuk e iuuw wuo
-ifll!''- . . . .
VOLUME XXVIII.
-" r:ii:iw,iiS i1ootDrwim
EBENSBURG, PA., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, IS94.
NUMBER 43.
ram Li Ki n n n 1 m ;
DRY GOODS,
T
. i
:l till
ill
i' line ol" ll.lics' Co:lt
auil'ria co ntv. We
:ir I'ti iii ."". )i i to -1 .I'll for (lie In st.
:il i-:i- v:m.I a any other Hat in the
:l leadv to show our ".'noils.
DREXEL'S
V."tiON OF
OD LI'ER OIL
uLV PURE
HYPOPHOSPHITES OF
LIME AND SODA.
SdWT!0l. BUOMCHITIS, COUGHS,
t:.;S. ASTHMA. SCROFULA.
1 : SEASES. NERVOUS DISEASES,
SEASES OF CHILDREN,
c cough, anaemia.
:tlEAk DEBILITY, ETC CTC
: cure by Its riTitrltivc
a trw- cmiiision, nt
C. :;:ikly:i.ss.uiil.ilc!.
.:i".n on blood, tissue
;cj ic: prove mc nt fruin
Oil is cp:c!a!ly
! :! '.r rntarzrmcnts,
- .-.' :nnHi. frv-r dvs
r:s. 1 of flrh, dis-
U i. a rtf, t cure.
L:ver 0:1 i th- very
' . 'T-i-:, lTnrhitis
- thf.;t. hoars
- -s ot rhtsi ami all
: oscastil couditious
--r bntt. Sold by
to any address on re-
j R:ET0SS,
ttann & Brown Drug Co,
BALTIMORE, MD. U. S. A
$40
OO PER
P0R
JWJHG VQHKERS
! hu jiart'f the country;
'i w. furnish. V"ii im A
1 t 'it. You ran pT,Q
.k."ri!ih .-nir r !..-
r. jtijr. -1 i,u rifii ntrik.
in !( .!. Jf will
':' V.i-h;.--. Ai y our
' r- in A ittfiht v fr.w
"Wfl Wi!l ourwot kT.
; ' '. ii.ak. a h ilar.
w - k f. il- inak m.iro
' i-iad in tlirt- ilays
ii". ni.l fur irte Lsook
H- HALLCTT & CO
liturjuaji. ,
Box 880,
PORTLAND, MAINE.
Musk lor Fortf ;
iiiT ..f i-jo pact's
-....-I uic ol the -
: -.t .mi m.t p.rutar -
! .r.i instrum.fntl. -!
! -jnt mojoDtr, in- -
- ' !' rtraits. .
vo i.i Dancer. '
' - omit Pianist.
J-ntEHjy'
0P.KMuSICALECHOCO.S
I r,
CAN
LiiI;i N'SSES WANTED.
Mil 111 iil 1 1 I I ; l 1 1 1 1 1 i n i ii i
-SPECIAL
CLOTHING, BOOTS, SHOES,' AND
GENTS'
.Nuiliinir tlrosior, nothing more stylish than a lilack Suit this
r,iv:i-t -A .vifks in Cheviot, (.'lay, Worsted, Trecot ami Corkscrew. Our efforts in selecting our fall
tht- !ii.'-r''s' .ilue, the best made, the finest fitting Clothing for the money. Give us a call and see
. iict have Itoon m. 'irked to the tree-wool standard and we are ready to defend our claim to sell the best goods for the
.j tii 'n y. Consider this an invitation to come and examine our goods. The prices speak for themselves.
JS'OTICE .1 FEW OF OUR FRICFS.
.. . .... :it S S.IHI, w.iltll KI.fMI
-,i;t-. ----- at 1U.IN), win-Ill l:;.IH)
,. Mils .... :it li'.(H), w..rtli 15.IHI
... :. - ; - - - - :il N.IH1, w.ntli '(. (H
, i. .... at .'i.imi. woiih S.ihi
. , - - - - - nt 7.IMI. worth UUHl
, .... ;lt U Ml. worth rj.l")
----- at lo.im, worili H.lHi
... . i:. .in 1 t.. - - 1. .". 1. ". sl.7.". ix. .i.2r
s'.ri. ihi an.l i.
K: . - I'.inl. IV.. in -1 In H, - - - L'-V., :'.-"m-. ami -VV.
We Will Now Ofiijr You Great Bargains in Slo's.
i ,: , i ... - -ii.... .... . ." to .?::.( hi
' ----- .Sll to l.."ill
! ... In. hoi-. ----- l.-J-'ito 2.7."
1 . , - 1 f. -Ihh-s, - .10 to
: 1 l o! 1 1
u ill r.
? I . i (ij to sI-'lIM). tin- tinest
w mim- on a few prices on
Fine ( h er Shiri'
ci unit rv fi r l!."ll.
MY DRY GOODS AND CLOTHING
Next Door to Bank, CARROLLTOWN, PA.
CARTERS
ilTTLE
IVER
P.LLS,
?IcV IlMwlache and rolioro all tbo tronbl9 fcrf
T.t to a l ilious stato of tho Byatrn?, BUch ad
I'izzjnesr, "ausca, Lrowsiiat. Iistrvsj after
eating. 1'aiaiu tuo Si I &c Whilo thrirniobft
xeiiiiaxkiUjle success haa bevti shown in cnrirag ,
JToa&che. yt Cert-r'R Littlo livrr TfXlft am
equally valuaiIoia Constiition. curmp:BiiilprO
X' L.tiiig thiaacnf-yincopl1111 hilo t.ty aiss
crrrrt all mi. rs of thecoma-.htimii!atetha
J: vt-r and rtgulnte tho boweid. lv-a iX Uicy ouly
cured ra m rarj
Ac'betbpT'W'.Til-l toalTnoetprivlrstntioaBwh
uf:T frumtUifxiitrt-ssingcomi.laint; butfortn
r.atoly thcirpxMiiif.flili'-t 3 liotoud hrra.iwiU t!ios
vhocitcetry tlicm will timl thcae littl pillavalo
ebio In o iiiany xrayn that they will not bo lU
-g to do without 1 iiL-xn. But alter allsick bead
Is the bnne of po man? lirea that here fa
ven;aVe our pre! boast. Our riillscuroitwhila
C'tiiors do not.
tirt.r's Li tile IJrcr Tills aro vry pma'.l an4
Terr caiy to fciko. Ot.o or two fill matoa dosa.
Tin y "o strictly vc-iietable aii l do not gnpo or
piir". t:itl T tb. ir peiitloat tiim please all who
risotiieai. lo vialitat 25crnts: live for fl. Sold
l.y dru-iata every Lbio, or m ut by mail.
3AKTER MECICINE CO.. New York.
.MALL FILL. SMALL DOSE. SMALL PRICE
W.L. Douclas
S3SHOENosTQMuEEAKfNTi
tOKUUVMX ,
FBFNCrl A. ENAMELLED CALF.
$4.35-0 FlNECAIf &i&NGAnCl
$ 3.50 P0LICE.3 SOLES.
4,so.2-W0RKINGHENs
EXTRA FINE. "
2.l 7 BOYSSCHCOLSHCEi
LADIES
...nil 4 I 7
seno roa CATALOGUE
WU DOUGLAS,
BROCKTON, MASS.
ey by pnnkini W. I
Voo can nT"'"n
re tlic laiRw u""'"v' ,; "
advertised siioei "i 'fcV-m anl
and
v
uarautee
Tricc oa
i than
yoor
a"y""" t,t1v von. we can. Dy
kieaicx -
J. D. LUCAS & CO.
)UlJI-S Siu.
Mountain House
STAB SH&YIHG PARLORI
CENTRE STREET. EBENSBURG.
I'HIS well known and lone established Shavmit
X Karlor i now located -n Ontre treet. i
(nUe tbe livery table ol O'Hara. Ihivl a- l.uth
er. where the l.iisme? will I e carried on In Ihe
lutiirr. SIUVIM:. 11A1K I TIUMI Al
SHAMI'iiOINO dune in the beatel and ni.isl
artiftie manner, i'lean Towel a specialty.
sa,Ijaoiaa waited on at their retdenre.
JAMES H. II ANT.
I'roirietor
0 rJ
nnl.fll I liM.I'"
wearing S-'"'"- fnr ,h.vnlue civrn
- - We nave intra
where at lower pi " s:tute. If
V.- Til r av.tr. . i
SALE-
FURNISHING GOODS
CIM1IM1Y!
season. We hare a tremendious
IVtir Our Prices on
I'.lrK-k Ih-nriHta, - CMIc.,
l'.lark llt'iirit't a. - - - - - 7.V.,
"Hack Ili-iuiitta. .... Jl.im,
(':ihnicr's, in all colors, - - - .W,
i':biluui'r's. in all rolors, ...
AM-Wool Cloth, in all colors, ... :t.V.,
iiiitrhaiii. - fx-
Fim
Tint rlc:icii Muslin,
Kim- I'lihlcaclu'il Muslin,
l'in r.ltu-hi'il an.l 1,'nlilcachol Cotton Flannel,
Fin' Uliic I'alico, ....
A full line of ntankets, ...
How Do You Like These Prices
Fine Floor )il Cloth, 1 van I wile,
Fine FHr l iil Cloth, H van Is wiile.
Fine Floor Oil Cloth. '2 yanls wide,
Fine Table ( il Cloth, assorted.
littin.'
irnients in the country, and thev are
. .lei-sey or Cloth, from -Id'. ii. to 1 .'.", the lest. Fine
We also have a tine line of Trunks the Cheapest and
TIPS FOR THE QUEEN.
Tliey Are f'nlloil l -riiilt.. Hut Sbr Clta
Tlifiii tli.nt Ilit Shiiw.
Oiiei-ii Vii-toria (.'rts inure tin;, than
my otln r funet in:iry in Creat I'.ritain.
wliat iimre. -vlie inily. n trvt
in:r tin-in. I f eoiirv they are not
alli-l tips. They are called i-riiiis-tes.
hut it is all the same. An cx-.'it-taehe.
writing in the New Yi-rk Tril
i:ie. s;iys that aiming the must ciirioiu.
f them is her riirlit to every whale r
-1 !!i"f,"e n capture.! on the coast of the
uniti-.l kin'iloni ami lronrlit to lainl.
ilo'Siof thes j'riiiisiti-s ilate hack lo
t he .la vs of the Norman killers and it
: ppears t hat in the case of the whale
the monsters were divided between the
'.ovcrcifrn and his consort, tho tieeli
takino; the head in order that herward
role mirht lie replenished with the
whalclxttic needed for the stilfeninff of
li.-r royal rarmcnts.
Another of the queen's backsheesh
is a certain iniinler of manitici'lit
I'asl'.inere shawls, which are dispatched
to her every year from the kinrdoin of
Cashmere. They vary in value, as a
rule, from three hundred to twelve
hundred dollars apiece and the queen
is accustomed to present one of them
as a wedding present to every younj;
rirl of the ari-t.-H-racy or in whose fu
ture she is in any way interested.
Kvcry tailor holding a patent of "Pur
veyor to her Majesty." if he conforms
to ancient tradition and usarc. should
present her with a silver needle each
year.
Another class of royal purveyors is
called upon to present annually to her
a talilc cloth, while from other sources
she is entitled to an annual contribu
tion of such varied tips as white doves,
white hares.t urryconibs.lirt toiijrs, scar
let hosiery. ni.rhtcaps.kiiivcs.laiicesand
rosslMiws. Moreover, at the corona
ion the lord of the manor of Addin
. -ii must present to the sovereign a
.ii.- h of jxit tajre" composed of "almond
:ilk. brawn of cajxins. snjrar, spii-cs,
liiekens piirjxiiled and chopped." At
the same ceremony the lord of the
manor of ilaydon is obliged by virture
. f his tenure from the crown to pre
sent the monarch with a towel, the
lord of the manor of Workshop jriviny
the sovereifrn a "ri;rht-handed jrlove."
These arc onlj- a few of the various
backsheesh to which Queen Victoria is
entitled by tradition and usaye.
How the IK-c See.
We are so used to regard inp the
world around us from the standpoint
of our own siht that it is hard to re
alize that to other creatures, far out
numlK'riii": us and. perhaps, quite as
important in the economy of nature,
it must look quite dilferent. The
honey We, for example, is supplied
with a pair of compound eyes with
hundreds of facets, each capable of
sijrht by itself, and several occelli or
little, simple eyes more closely allied
to our own. How these eyes are used,
what are their separate functions,
what sort of imapes they can present
to their owners, all remain questions
as intcrestiiifr and well-nirh unsolved
as they were Ik-fore the days of our
powerful microscopes. Notwithstanding-
the fact that hundreds of en
tomologists have l'en and are inter
ested in this subject, we yet are only
at the stajre where we can aflirm that
the honey lee sees a very different
tiowcr from the one in which we ol
serve her in search for sweets, al
though of what that difference is and
how it is produced we can form but
little idea.
stock in Cutaways Single
stock have been to give
how we have succeeded.
I tmy Ci oo sj.
worth
w rth
worth
worth
worth
wort 1 1
worth
worth
worth
worth
worth
90c.
11.10
1 .'"
-JIK-.
50.'.
Ii0c.
S'.
KK-.
Sc.
l(k'.
Sc.
pair.
S,-.,
7c,
H'.,
75c. to
4 a
on Potters' Oil Cloth?
'4h j kt yard.
!l.rH', ht yard.
5."h(. jkt yard,
'Jih: t yard.
jn-r tvnt. cheacr in price
Hats from .r1'.
l'x-st you ever
to 1.50 Cr the
saw. Come one
HOUSE,
THE ORIGIN OF THINGS.
TllK design of the American tlar wa.
probably lmrrowed from the family
arms of lien. Washington, which con
sisted of three stars in the upper por
tion anil three bars across the es
cutcheon. Watches originated at Nuremberg
as early as H7T. They were at first
called NuremlHTfT epfrs. which they re
sembled Ixith in shaH" and size. They
were often fitted into the tops of walk
ings ticks.
Tin: first Knjrlish look on stenogra
phy, so far a.s known, was written by
Dr. Timothy ISrifrht in l.'iSs. Its earlier
invention is attributed to the bat in
poet Knnius, to Seneca, Cicero and sev
eral others.
lil'NH are said to have been used by
the Chinese I h? fore the Wgrinninfr of
the Christian era. The oldest dated
piece of Kuropean artillery Wars an
inscription declaring that the gnn was
cast in
Ma kink insurance was practiced in
Home 1. C. -fj. It was very general in
Kurope Wfore the discovery of Amer
ica, ami it is altogether probable that
the ships of Columbus were insured for
their full value.
Coats of arms were first employed in
England during the reipn of Richard
I., and Wcaine hereditary in families
in the following century. They orig
inated from the painted banners car
ried by knights and nobles.
MEMENTOES OF A PAST RACE.
I'AnrcAit, the Indian chief, gave his
name to the Iventuck3' town.
Match Chunk, I'a., is an Indian
name, meaning W-ar mountain.
I'oi'oiikkki'sik, X. Y., has an Indian
name meaning a pleasant harbor.
An Indian word meaning younp
grandmother gave a name to Kokomo,
Ind.
Cohassrt, Mass., was so called from
an Indian term signifying place of
pines.
Milwaukee was the Indian name of
a Wisconsin river. It means rich coun
try. Pembina, the Dakota city, is said to
have an Indian name meaning red
Wrry.
CiiifoPEE. Mass.. was called from an
Indian word signifying the birch bark
place.
CocniTi'ATE, Mass., was named from
an Indian word meaning the place of
the falls.
Keokuk, an Indian chief, furnished
the name of an Iowa town. The word
means sly fox.
The Ivaws or Kansas Indians gave a
name to Kansas City, Mo. It was
adopted in l;iy.
Whittling on Shipboard.
Whistling and let us honor this
sweet tradition is very much against
the proprieties of sea life, writes l.ieut.
.1. I). Jerrold Kelley, in an article on
"Superstitions of the Sea," in Century.
You may, in a calm, if not a landsman,
wih with sKthing whistle San Antonio
or St. Nicholas, and a lagging wind may
lie spurred in consequence by these pa
tron saints of the mariner; but once
the ship is going, never, wise and wary
passenger, whistle if you fear keel
hauling, for like the padrone in the
lo.hlcn Iegend you maj- find
Only a little while apo.
I was whistling to SL Antonio
For a cup-lull of wind to till our sail.
And instead of a breeze be bus sent a gale.
FOR UNCLE
SAM.
Obtained
Cavalry Serle
Very Cheaply.
The government has Wen picking up
horses for the cavalry and artillery
service vary cheap in Washington and
Oregon this summer. The average
price paid was seventy-five dollars for
each animal, which is uncommonly low
when the style of animal required for
the army is considered. A government
purchasing agent says: "We inspected
recently at The Dalles, Pendleton.
Walla Walla, Ellensburgh and North
Yakima, and at each place found about
one hundred awaiting examination. I
selected such as met the requirements,
which are that they must W bays and
grays, fifteen hands hl,'h and upward,
and from four to eight years old.
These were passed upon by the gov
ernment oflicials, and, if found satis
factory, were accepted. They were
purchased at a very low price, as the
sellers had but little money, and were
anxious to dispose of their stock. The
animals Wught are of fine class, and
especially suited for cavalry purposes.
The lowness of the cost of horses this
year may W attributed to the small
demand, which is insignificant when
compared with the supply. Never W
fore during the fifteen yearn or so that
I have Wen inspecting horses for the
government have I seen times so dull
in the stock regions, or the stock deal
ers so anxious to sell their animals at a
small price. The small demand Is, of
course, due to the supplanting of horse
cars by electric and cable railways, the
shutting down of logging camps and
lumWr industries on luget sound, and
the general dullnessof trade. In Port
land cars which would require thirty
five hundred horses are operated bye-able
and electricity. Then the freight
cars operated ou these steel railways
have shut out trucks and delivery
wagons on which a large nuinWr of
horses were used."
SONGS
OF THE
BATTLEFIELD.
What
Peculiar Amoelatlona
Produce
Thiw Powerful Auxiliaries.
Association, which has so large a
share in the ojerations of the human
mind, often contributes much to the
effect of music, says Laura A. Smith in
Lippincott's. Some airs possessing no
intrinsic merit owe their influence on
the destinies of nations almost entirely
to this principle. The making of a
national song is one of the things to
W attributed to happy accideut; it can
not Ik; accomplished by taking thought
or by any amount of burning of the
midnight oil. Monarchs have no power
to command it, and often the greatest
poets and musicians are most in
capable of producing a truly national
hymn. No. the great popular lyrics of
the world have Wen the result of acci
dent and the vent-hole of fiery feeling
long confined. What but accident
caused the song of "My Maryland" to
prove the chant to which thousands of
the soldiers of the confederacy kept
time during lsilH;.V And could any
thing W more fitly credited to chance
than the extraordinary popularity of
the "Mallrough"s sVn va-t-en guerre."
which was due to the fact of a provin
cial nurse having lulled to rest the lit
tle dauphin, the son of Louis XVI.,
with this air? Had he not written his
one undying lyric, the "Marseillaise,"
probably Kouget de Lisle had never
Wen heard of. And who speak of Max
Schucckcnburger when they talk of
"Die Wacht am Ilhein?" Verily, the
making of a war song is a deed of
arms, not a mere effort of the pen.
OUR LEGS TO VANISH.
In the t'oorae of Another One Thouaaad
Iran Men May Ceaae Walking.
Dr. Emil Young, professor of physi
ology at the University of tleneva, is
in great distress concerning the future
of our legs. He suggests, in an essay
in the Semaine Litteraire, says the
Westminister tiazette.that in the course
of one thousand years the human race
may have lost the necessity of the use
of legs, and retain those niemW-rs of
the body solely a.s ornamental survivals.
Men refuse more ami more to walk,
though walking Is the wholesomest of
physical exercises. Steam, electricity,
the rope railways, tricycles, and
bicycles have changed the whole
asjH'ct of Swiss touring, as he says, in
his own generation. "Everylwjdy
seems anxious to get everywhere any
way except by the use of his legs." In
another generation, he supposes, our
traveling balloons will bang outside
our windows, or our eleetrical coaches
stand outside our doors. They will W
produced so cheaply that every man
will have his own chariot. Hence our
legs will lircome superfluous, then
they will W crippled, and shrunk to
hideously small dimensions, until at
last they will finally disappear. Our
arms, on the contrary, will correspond
ingly strengthen and lengthen.
"While our legs remain," says Dr.
Young, "let us march all we can."
NAMED AFTER THE PRESIDENTS
Philadelphia Maintain Her Record for
1'ifct riot it. ill In Her Nomenclature.
Of the twenty-three presidents of
the United States John Adams has the
largest numWr of namesakes, twenty
three, in the Philadelphia directory.
James Kuchanan ranks next, twenty
one men of nearly as many vocations
W-aring the name of the only Penn
sylvania president. There are fifteen
Andrew Jack sons and fourteen Andrew
Johnsons. The name of the father of
his country is borne by eight day
laWrers, one caterer, two waiters, one
janitor, and one real estate dealer, or
thirteen men in all, says the Record.
The grandfather of Iteujamin Har
rison has three namesakes, while one
laWrer and one upholsterer have the
name of Tippecanoe's grandson. There
are four James Monroes and the same
numWr called John IJuincy Adams.
One histler, one puddler, and a
weaver are known as James Madison,
and a bartender, a clerk, and a super
intendent answer to the name of
Zachary Taylor. There is but one
Thomas Jefferson, whose occupation is
not given, and the only John Tyler is
a weaver. A brakeinan and a minister
of the t.ospol are Franklin Pierces, but
there is nobody with the name of Pres
idents Van Huren, I'olk, Fillmore,
Lincoln, llrant, Hayes, Garfield,
Arthur, or Cleveland, except aa a
handle to the surname.
lining and t.oing. Collector (mad)
"When are going to pay this bill?"
Debtor "Never. What's the use? Aa
long as you are coming after it, why
should I W going to pay it?" Detroit
Free Prea.
HORSES
Animal for
TOOK HALF IN RATS.
How China' llocir Km proa M It I rated
the tVoree f the Petttilenee.
A ree-n t numWr of the North China
Herald, juj. received in this city, tells
this story of the Empress I o wager of
China:
"A rather good story is told among
the Chinese about the empress dowa
ger and . the plague. The empress
Keeps constantly burning, day and
night, in her palace, eighteen lamps,
which represent the eighteen prov
inces of China. Not long ago one of the
lamps, although it received precisely
the same attention as all the others,
was burning very badly, and the em
press sent for the chief imperial as
tronomer to learn the reason. The
chief astronomer having carefully con
sidered the matter and consulted the
archives, told the empress that the
lamp which was burning so badly rep
resented the province of Canton, which
was alxiut to W afflicted with a serious
epidemic, in which the god of pesti
lence had determined to take off eight
tenths of the people.
"The empress was very much con
cerned at Wing told this, and asked the
chief astronomer how such a dreadful
doom might W averted from eight
tenths of her people in the province.
The chief astronomer said that the god
might iH-rhajvs Ikj moved by prayer anil
offerings, and everything was done to
placate him bj- the empress dowager's
orders. After this the chief astrono
mer was asked what success had Wen
achieved, and, after much considera
tion and consultation, he replied that
the god of pestilence had consented to
compromise but this was absolutely
the Wst he could do for four-tenths
human Wings and four-tenths rats.
Thus the frightful mortality of rats and
human Wings at Canton this spring is
explained."
HAVE THEIR OWN METHODS.
The Caaaowarlea Puniue a, Plan of Their
Own for Catching llah.
The methods employed by the casso
wary in catching fish differ materially
from those of the common fish-hawk.
The fish-hawk employs very much the
same methods as the birds of prey,
while the cassowary fishes according to
a method of its own and uses a good deal
of strategy. A numWr of years ago I
was standing near the bank of a river
when I saw a cassowary come down to
the water's edge and stand for some
minutes. apparently watching the
water carefully. It then stepped into
the river where it was about two feet
deep, and. squatting down, spread its
wings out, submerged them, the feath
ers Wing spread and ruffled. The bird
remained perfectly motionless and
kept its eye closed, as if in sleep. It
remained in this position at least half
an hour, when it suddenly closed its
wings, and. straightening its feathers,
stepied out on the bank. Here it shook
itself several times, whereupon a num
Wr of small fishes fell out of its wings
from amid its feathers, which the bird
immediately picked up and swallowed.
The fishes had evidently mistaken the
feathers for a kind of weed that grows
aloiiir the river bank and which resem
bles the feathers of the cassowary.
The smaller fishes often seek a hiding
place in these weeds to avoid the larger
ones that prey upon them.
TIME AT THE NORTH POLE.
The Man Who Clint Keaehea That Point
Will Meet with Surprise.
If ever the north pole is reached the
adventurous spirits who get there will
find that they have actually out
stripped Father Time altogether; in
fact, he will have given up the rate en
tirely, for at the northern and south
ern extremities of the earth's axis
there is no fixed time at all, says the
London ;ioW. At any moment it can
W noon or midnight, breakfast time or
supper time, work time or play time,
whichever one likes. Clocks will W a
fraud ami delusion, for at the tole all
degrees of longitude converge into
one. and therefore all times. The pos
sibilities of such a position are endless.
Not ouly. too, will the clocks W out,
but the calendar as well. It can W. at
will, either yesterday or to-day. or to
morrow. We have heard a lot of fool
ish people ask w hat the use ami pleas
ure can W of getting to the north pole,
but a little reflection will show us ad
vantages can W gained there which
cannot W found in any other part of
the gloW'. There, at any rate, instead
of licing like the jh m r inhabitants of
lower latitudes, the slaves of time, we
can turn the tables and W its masters.
MEMORIAL SERVICE.
Sixteen Hungry lloj Filled with Veal
Pie In IMckeua Pleshop.
An exchange tells the following story
of the pieshop in London Wfore which
Charles Dickens used to stand when,
as a child, he drudged in a blacking
factory. Every day, on the way to
and from his work, he paused to de
vour the viands with his eyes, and
sometimes he pressed his tongue to
the window-pane, as if by so doing he
got a taste of the good things which
were "so near and yet so far."
An American railroad man who ad
mires Dickens hunted up his pieshop
when in London in order to gratify his
curiosity and his sentiment. It proved
to W a mere Wx of a place in a poor
quarter of the citv. but the original
business was still carried on there. As
the traveler peered into the shadowy
interior, a voice was heard at his el
Ihjw: "Please, sir, will j-ou buy me a weal
pie?"
The ow ner of the voice was a small,
disheveled person, with whom a pie
of veal, or anything else of a "hearty"
nature, would have agreed right well.
"How 'many boys do you think this
shop will hold?" asked the American.
"I dunno. About fifteen or sixteen,
I should think."
"Well, go and get fifteen Wys, and
bring them back here."
The boy studied the man's face for a
moment, as if to make sure that he was
in the enjoyment of his senses, and
then with a yell hurried into a side
street. Hardly a minute elapsed W
fore he returned at the head of a pro
cession of sixteen gamins, of assorted
sizes, unanimous in appetite and hope.
This ragged battalion assembled
close Whind its Wnefactor and fol
lowed him into the shop, where he an
nounced that he was going to give all
the boys all the pie they wanted.
They wanted -a great deal, as it
proved; their capacity for "weal pie
was something marvelous. Rut their
W-nefactor was as good as his word,
and sixteen happy and satisfied Wys
left the shop singing his praise.
ENGLISH LIFE.
Aa It la Viewed llr an Educated
'atlve
of the Orient.
ISehvamji Malabari. of India, who
visited England in ls'.K). considered the
English climate as the most remark
able of all the things that came under
his notice. He thiuksa race that could
conquer such a climate ami carve the
comforts of life out of it, deserves do
minion over all the elements of nature.
He says, in "The Indian Eye On Eng
lish Life," that it makes one laugh to
hear the English talk of their "fine
day."
One may speak of a fine five minutes,
a fine half hour or hour nothing be
yond that, so far as I could see.
The climate of a country reflects it
self pretty clearly in the temjter, habits
and general surroundings of the peo
ple. It is mainly the climate, and the
peculiar mode of life which the people
have to live in oWdicnce to climatic in
fluences, that make them so keen about
everything.
The quantity and the manner of
their eating puzzled and sometimes
frightened me. Men and women eat
freely at shops, in the streets, train,
"bus, or railway carriage. There is an
absence of d.licacy and deliWration
aWut the matter, at which the grave
oriental may well lift his eyebrows.
In no respect, perhaps, does the av
erage Englishman show himself so
slow of imagination and wanting in
taste as with respect to his daily food.
He eats what his fathers ate Wfore
him. The cook knows nothing of
proportion in seasoning his f.xxl; knows
little of variety, and has a rough, slov
enly touch. The English are heavy
eaters, as a rule. I have never had a
regular dinner with friends while in
England, W-ing unaccustomed both to
their hours and their dishes. Rut I
have had to put in an appearance at
lunch or breakfast, to catch a friend
aWut to leave town.
On one such n:casion I saw a com
pany of piK-ts. philosophers and fanat
ics at table, presided over by a young
lady, the daughter of the house. I sat
there, wiping my forehead they did
the eating, I the perspiring as I saw
slices of Wef disappearing, with vege
tables, mustard, etc. I was pressed to
join, but pretended to make a horrified
pr (test.
The host then asked me slyly what I
thought of the food and their m.xie of
eating. I replied, instinctively: "It is
horrible."
The reply set the gentlemen roaring,
and my hostess blushing. Rut I could
not help saying what I felt. How can
a little stomach hold such an enor
mous lunch? The waste of vitality in
their climate, and under their condi
tions of life, must W enormous; and it
has, of course, to W replaced.
BURIAL OR CREMATION?
W hat the Noted Frenati Author. Have to
Say Concerning Them.
S.ime of the noted French authors
have leen giving a Paris editor their
preferences in regard to burial or cre
mation. The Roston Herald summar
izes theirexpressions: Alphonve Daudet
says, as to W-ing buried or cremated,
that either would te exceedingly dis
agreeable to him. and when one re
memWrs that Daudet is a great suffer
er from an incurable disease his an
swer is a triumph of hope. Henri de
Rornicr frankly curses the editor for
spoiling his dinner by such a query,
anil Armand Sylvester is very French
and poetic, for his says: "To Uinnie a
puff of smoke in the sky or a blade of
grass over a grave, that is the choice
given to us. Well. I prefer the ground,
from which flowers spring for lovers."
Sarcey. the grea t critic, replies: "Theo
retically, cremation appears to me the
favorable method of disposing of the
rubbish, the Ixxly. but I am not in
tolerant or exclusive in anything."
"Rurnedt burned:" writes Sardou. "It
will afford me great pleasure to W
burned. Warmly yours." Another au
thor says: "You ask me which I pre
fer, to W burned or buried? After ma
ture reflection. I regret to say that I
desire neither the one nor the other."
Emile Zola signs his name to the most
sensible "preference" of the lot. He
writes: "My personal choice in the
matter I have not yet considered, and I
believe it is lest to leave the thing to
the decision of the loving ones we leave
W'hind us. They alone can have pain
or pleasure in it."
ETIQUETTE FOR GIRLS.
Always rise for an older person.
I.N entering a room the gentleman al
ways follows the young lady.
TllK young lady always scats herself
first W-fore any gentleman will do so.
I.N making intnxluctions the young
man is always presented to the girl,
never the other way round.
It is a lady's place to recognize a
gentleman first, as it depends on her
whether the acquaintance continues or
not.
Never introduce any young man to
your girl friends without first asking
their permission, atul then say: "Miss
D., I want to present (or iutroduce)
Mr. A. to you."
It is sufficient to acknowledge an in
troduction by a simple lxw, unless
there is some special reason for more
cordial forms. Handshaking is not
gxxl form in an introduction in a ball
room. HINTS TO HOUSEKEEPERS.
To rkmovk odors from a sick room, it
is a gxxi plan to sprinkle coarse
ground coffee on a shovelful of burning
coals, and thrust it into all the corners
of the room.
IIakd putty may W easily softened
by passing a red-hot flat piece of iron
over it. so that it can then W removed
with the fingers or the edge of a knife,
without any difficulty.
Cake needs to rise to its full height
W'fore browning, especially sponge
cake. The lightness of this cake de
pends, first on thorough W-ating, sec
ond on baking just right.
TRY.
In the water for purple and blue cal
icoes, soda added.
I'ukifyino jars from grease, by soak
ing in strong stxla water.
Fok washing ceilings blackened by a
kerosene lamp, stxla water.
In the rinsing water for pink or
green calicies, vinegar added.
Washing an oilcloth with a flannel
and warm water, wiping dry. and rub
bing a little skim milk over. I'ihhI
Housekeeping.
NAPOLEON FOND OF HOMER.
He Thought the Poet Waa tbe Encyclo
pedia of lit Time.
The emperor, says Figaro, admired
Homer in every way, and thus ex
pressed himself on the subject:
"The Iliad, as much a.s Irenesis and
the Rible. is the sign and token of its
time. Homer in his work is px.d. ora
tor, legislator, geographer and theo
logian; he is the encyclopedist of his
time. Homer is inimitable. Father
Hardouin had the temerity to impugn
this sacred monument of antiquity
and to attribute it to a monk of tin
tenth century, an impertinent imle
cility. Never have I le-n struck with
his Wautics as now (lsl'.l. and the sen
sations which he arousi-d in me confirm
the justice of the approbation accorded
to him by the whole world. What
strikes me especially in reading the
pages of his work is the grossness of
the customs as compared with the ele
vation of the thought of the ejxx.-h. We
see heroes killing their own lcef. pre
paring it with their own hands, and
yet pronouncing discourses of rare elo
quence ami worthy of a high civiliza
tion. In the Odyssey I greatly disap
prove of the combat of Isus against
Ulysses on the threshold of his own
palace, lxth disguised as W-ggars. I
consider this episode wretched, coarse.
unlecoming and unworty of a king.
And then, after having eliminated
everything that I find objectionable. 1
feel what still affects me, I put myself
in his place. I am seized with the fear
of Wing Waten by a common fellow.
It is not given to every prince, to every
general, to have the shoulders of his
guards or of his grenadiers, to convert
himself into a street porter at will.
"The gxxl Homer remedies all this
by making his heroes so many collosi;
but this is not the ease with us. What
chance would we have if we still liv-d
in the happy days in which physical
strength was the real scepter? It would
come to this, that Noverras. my valet,
who waits upon us. would W king over
us all. We must agree, then, that civ
ilizat ion diHs everything for the mind,
and favors it exclusively at the expense
of the body."
ANNOUNCING A KING'S DEATH.
How tbe New Waa Spread That Victoria
W'aa ueen.
Some quaint and delightful glimpse
of '"Old Windsor" are given by Iady
Elvey in her "Life and Reminiscences
of ;. ,T. Elvev, Knt." He re. for in
stance, is an announcement of the
death of King William, which probably
i a unique delivery by one of the men
to whose lot it has fallen "to tell sad
stories of the death of kings:"
Roach, the W-lfry keeper. says
the Westminster liazctte. seems to
have received a broad hint that the king
was r.ear his end. and waited aWut
until he received the news that all
was over, when with haste he repaired
to the deanery, arousing the inmates
by ringing the Wll at the cloister en
trance with all his might and main. It
was uscl ess f . r the butler to ask him,
"What do you w ant here at this time of
night?" His business -was with the
dean and no one else. This distin
guished person, aroused from his slum
Wrs and clad, not in his surplice, hut
in another garment which should W
"always white." called from the topf
the stairs: "What is the matter. Roach?"
"Rilly lie dead, lie I to ring the W ll?"
"What Rilly?" "The king, to W sure."
"Oh. yes. Roach: you may toll the Wll."
Thus was the news spread that the
king was dead, and that the young
lTincess Victoria was queen.
STAIRS IN SAMOA.
ow a Little Inlander Carried Water to a
Second-Story linoni.
In Samoa, where he makes his home.
RoWrt Louis Stevenson has done much
in the way of instructing the natives
in European nicthxls of work. He
tells an amusing story in this connec
tion. A new house boy had Wen en
gaged, and on his arrival was los-t in
awe and admiration of the magnifi
cence of the mansion.
He was given a large bucket of wa
ter and told to take it to the lied room
up alxwe. He looked up an.l. point
ing, asked if it was there. On Wing
answered in the affirmative, he seized
the bucket in his teeth, and Wfore
anyone could remonstrate he had
rushed up one of the rost9 of the
veranda. The whole family ran up the
staircase, and when they showed him
that that was the usual metlnxl of get
ting to these rxms. he wasoverjxiw
ered with delight, and for two or three
daj-s could do absolutely nothing but
race up and downstairs, chuckling
and crowing in an ecstasy of joy. And
when detachments of his friends came
to visit him they were always taken to
see the stairs the first thing.
SCIENCE IN COREA.
It Ki plain Phenomena tn a Way Peculiar
ly Ita Own.
Education in Corca is of the Chinese
order the committal of whole lxxks
to memory. On all other subjects than
knowledge of Chinese, says the Roston
Transcript, ignorance is the fashion
when it is not a reality. Philosophical
speculation is stated to W' common, but
Corean notions of natural science are
indeed very chaotic, if the following
story may W accepted: "A well-known
merchant of t bemulpo was asked by
one of his native employes a man of
some education whether or not he
had ever seen a sparrow which had
died a natural death. The ihtm.ii
questioned did not rcmemWr that he
had. He was then asked how t he for
eign servants accounted for such a
phenomenon, for such it was. consid
ering the vast numWr of sparrows in
the world and the huge families they
raise every year. The answer to
this query W-ing unsatisfactory, the
Corean gave his explanation, which
was a popular one. He said that dying
sparrows Wtixik themselves to the sea
shore, dived into the mud anil lx-caiue.
clams 'How else", he triumphantly
added, 'could you account for the num
Wr of clams along the coast?"
. . .
Unmanned Hi Opponent.
Dramatic effects are hazardous agen
cies to use. as it is not impossible to
spoil them by an anti-cliruax as a
memW-r of the English parliament
found when, at the close of a fiery ad
juration to the government to declare
war, he cried out: "Unsheath the
sword!" and, drawing a dagger, threw
it on the flxr. "Ah!" cKilly said an
opponent; '"there is the knife, but
w here is the fork?" A shout of laugh
ter was the result.