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B.-k and Job rTiitm of all kinds neatly and
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don tyoa n.rget u.
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VOLUME XX VI IT.
S . n F 1 11 1 M-miapKifB I1 1 J IIIUDI 1NH I
EBENSBURG, PA., FRIDAYS DECEMBER 21, 1S94.
NUMBER 50.
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1 in.
I Milts.
-nits.
als.
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Pants, from 4
Will Now
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We
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llress SI
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reads That
W Honesty
Ansa. .
WWING TOBACCO
ovst ttat made, and
:. tl?ea Jt eaves
tTrim " ever Deiore.
r'UJ lmitntiri-na Tnoinr.
t the genuine. If your
(?? aak himto
M It for you.
pRKERaBEOS.. Ioufcrffle.Kj-
F in in in lllti.
i r... ' f u,vriv Mumc for Forty
twrv Music of the-
F -'v:i-it and most Dooular
L tm . i. ,f" v",-,1 ani Instrumental.-
t v e"st '1"?nt manner, ta-
ftUf ;c-' Portraits.
fKif a c. 7 pa"'" Dancer.
-' &EUGMAH ctrmma.
11
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"Km i no TtfW,
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IAc Methods, Live Men and
ut im ' n
ntrixb'ction of the Economy Clot I ring and I )rv i.xxls 1 louse
iiii . I ry JihmIs, PHMin :ui. lii.t--. :ui.l ;'iit" l"ni iiiliiti-r JimhIs. By tlu- rlinarv un til. mIs tin- r-Uiil
in lli- iiianufiu-tun-r. Im.iIi mu-i liavt- tli. ir profits ami l.y tli time tho pxxls n-a-h tin- wcan-r tlu-y rtxt
--" si-" the material an. I laUir ar n-allv worth. The l-'eoiiomv ( 'I. t,iiti.r : .1 Ilrv IIimhIs House hmmmns
lii r Utween maker aii.l ii.iimiicr.
.r..His- to (lisjnse with this system of .louMe j.jotlts an.l to
ah ve aetual eost. This means '.'lothiii '. I li v i ; mhIs. l'M.ts
it we mils eut priii-s exeeelin.rly low- in or.ler to win voiir
: we must keep them.
NOTICE .1 FEW
at? 4.50, worth 7.001
at S.OO, worth sl(.(Nl
at 10.00, worth 13. oo!
at 1J.50, worth .."0
at 5 cents a pair,
at P2.0O, worth 15.00
at 14.00, worth L'0.(H
at 5,(H), worth K.0O
at 7.0O, worth 10.00
at 0.0O, worth 12.00
at IO.imi, wor.h 14.00
. 1.5o, .1,75, L'.IMI, sj.-2.25
.5t, c;.(K an.l :.50.
25c :i5c. ir.il 50c.
Si.
Offer Yon Great Barpins in Shoes
25 to 5:l.oo
,S0 to 1.50
1.25 to 2 75
.20 to 1.50
t-jv 'A -have also a fine line of li. lies' Coats from $4.00 up to .15.00. the finest iittinpr frarnients in the country, and they are 3.1 per cent. cheaer in priie
;!..iti in :i 1 1 v otli.r store in Camhria county. A full line of (iloves, 5iic and npwanls. Also a full line of l!ahy Coats andCaps We will now give mu a few prices on
01:XrLS' XTJTtlVISIIIIVG GOODS,
I ;n. I n.i. vvi ar fr in ."5c up to $1.( 0 fc r the Inst. Fine Ivt" Shirts, Jersey or Cloth, from 40c. up to 1 .25. the best. Fine Hats from 50e. to 1.50 tir the
-i 'iir 1 ".ii 1 lat isas xh1 as any other Hat in the country for 2.50. We also have a tine line of Trunks the Cheapest and l!ost you ever saw. Come one
4il ;:;. We are always ready to show our roods.
Economy Clothing and Dry Goods House,
Next Door to Bank, CARROLLTOWN, PA.
CARTERS
Kittle
PILLS.
Sick Bnularhe and relieve all tbo troubles iscf
ect to l'i!lom eta to of the system, suoh aa
Ihzzinesa, Kauaea. Drowsineas. listrens after
eating, l ain in tne Ei.lu, &c While thf-irmosft
remazkabto auccess has been shown in curing 4
Headache, yet Carter's Little Liver Mis arsj
SKiually valuable In Constipation, curing and pre
venting thlsannoyiDecomplunt.wbilo they also .
correct all disorders of thoBtomachtimn la to tha
liver and regulate the bowels. voa if they only
cured
Act-ethey wonld bo almost pricclona to those wha
I eu.'erfrotnt!iisdu.trcfisin(;ccmx.laint; bntfortu-
Sataly thelrpoodnwdrs notend hero. and thoss
Who once try them will find these little pills vain.
6ble In so many ways that they will not bo wit.
ling to do without them. Bat after ailaick bea4
Is Oie bene of bo ms-ny Uve3 that here fit where)
TTBniakeonrgnatboaat. Our pills cure it while)
cthcra do not.
Carter's tittle IJver Pills are very small ami
very easy to take. One or two pills laakoa dose.
They are t-trictly vegetable and do not gripe or
yam", but by thfir gentle action please all whu
esotbe-m. In Tialsat 25ccnts ; flveior $1. Haiti
bj druista everywhere, or eent by mail.
."5ARTES MEDICINE CO., New York.
V A! 1. FILL. SMALL DOSE. SMALL PRIGS
W.
S3
L. Douglas
.ak, tfl M . tt tu r REST.
Snub
IS THE BCST.
NOSOUCAKINO.
5. CORDOVAN.
A-Z 5- F1NECALF &KWARCI
3.4? P0LICE.3 Soles.
2.L7-2 BOYSSCHOOLSHflEi
OC ri rvi .-."av--
a-..-i trID r a.T At nIMP
nnoctCTON. MASS.
V.a ess S)e wtoey by prcB.in
! " " e sVe'rhei"rt msnufactnrer, of
7ueIb eVi Tin the world, and euaraatee
phr?cend(hl
wearing oiiaiitics. the value given than
wherTh" r raVeP Take no .nbtitute. If yoac
5eriroVuPpriyVou.wecan. Sold by
J. D. LUCAS ifc CO.
)ulyl3 6tn.
Mountain House
SUB SK&YIHG PARLGRi
; CENTRE STREET, EBENSELTRG. '
. . .a' V
'I'HIS well-known and loriK estabtlahed Shavrna;
A farlur is now located n Ontre street.
posits the livery stable of O'Hara, liayls . lath
er, where the business will t-e carried on 1b Hit
l.ture. SHAVINO. HAlK CUTTINU A1
SHA.MI'IM)l.N(i done In the beatest and ami at
artistic manner. Clean Towels a specialty.
ssLale waited on Ht their residences.
j JAMES H. (I ANT.
- !roiritor
$2?-:
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TOWN
Lively Times in Prospect.
a, ip v m
at Carrolltowii. nit-ans : Sweeping Reduction in the sale
allow the j.ul.lie to huy .lirtH t from tin- maker at a ve y small
an.l SIhms LVi ir ii-nt". lower than the usual rates. We" n-eo.'-
eoiiliU - nee anl voin- patronage. We must lo
v r
OF OUR PRICES.
TVt io Oin Prices on Try
A full line of Henriettas in all colors, ...
Fine P.l ick Henrietta, -Fine
P.lack llenriet a, -
Fine lUack Henrietta, ....
Fine Cashtiieres, in all colors, -Fine
Cashmeres, in all colors, ...
Fine AH-Wool Cloth, in all colors, ...
Fine (iin:haiii, .....
Fine l'.leachel Muslin, -
Fine Cnlleacliel Muslin, ....
Fine rleachel ami l'nh!eachel Cotton Flannel,
Fine l'.hie Calico, -
A full line of I'.lankets, .....
A full line of Horse P.lankets.
How Do You Like These Prices
Fine Floor Oil Cloth, 1 yarl wiile,
Fine Floor lil Cloth, 1 ' yards wiile,
Fine Fkor Oil Cloth, 2 van Is wiile,
Fine Table Oil Cloth, assorted,
THE MARKETS.
Pittsbcho. Dec. 18.
WHEAT No. 1 red. 57a5sc; No. red. M
OTc
CORN No. 8 yellow ear. new. 47Ha8J;
miitnl ear. new. 46,447c; No. 2 yellow aiieiied.
new S.(,iyo.
OATS-No. 1 white. 28J.18?; No. 2 do.. 87H
d'Uc; extra. No. 3 white. iM&o6c: mixed. :i
(Sc.
HAY-Chotce timothy. 81i.Oflai3.50; No 1.
timothy. $1 1.00&11.:S; No. timothy. 15
10USD; mixed clover and timothy, Slo.Ouaiu.d":
pAckm. t7.Ui4j,T..VI: No 1 feeding urarie.
g.tA)o.9.i1; w ft if .in bay. 814.OiG.15im.
; riUiTEK Elifin creamery. SM-To; Ohio
, fancy creamery, 21 S-'3j; fancy country roll,
. 17 2, 16c; low grades and cooking, Oiloc.
CHEESE Ohio finest new. llal'V; New
i York new. HH13c; limberirer, fail make.
Wc: Wisconsin awiss, 13il3o; Ohio cwias,
HHaiSc.
Eliijsj strictly fresh Pennsylvania and
Ohio cases. 2Ji&lc; storatce. 1710;; bcuthern
and estern. -i ii.afo.
POULTRY Large live chickens. 40i50j
per pair; live chickens, small. 3o&40o; spring
chiCKens. 4'' Oc; ducics, 50 j,.;5c per pair, as
to size; dressed poultry, 9jl0c per pound;
turkeys, llilicpcr pound: due, ilj,12o;
spring ch ckeua, loatlc; live turkeys, 8V3.Ko
per pound; live geeie. 7jc7t$l.UO ier pair.
East libbhtt Pa.. Dec 18.
CATTLE Receipts more liberal this weak
and with fewer buyers on hand; the market
i- opening alow, with pri es HI to IS cents
lower on all gra le except prime weights,
l'rime, ta.u0.6.a: good, S4. IOJ.4.5H; gouO.
butchers. f 3 114 15; rough fat. $1.65
6t3.1"; fair light steers. -i.ao 43.43;
liglit storkers, iif3.15; good fat cows and
heifers, fli 4l l-'5; bulla, stags and boiogna
cows. JK uOiiJ. 0; fresh cows and t-pnugora.
J3 -to": good feeders. .3.25,33.65.
HOGS Receipts liberal and with a fair de
mand; the maricet is flow with p ices a
shade lower from the clo.-e of last week;
the quality of t-tock very poor today.
Pbila.lelph as. S4.tH4 1.6-'.; best heavy Yo k
era and good mixed. $1.45 41. 5 eomm n to
fair YorKers. 1.254-35; pigs, 14.15 4.35;
roughx. f3.dUia4.25.
tSHEEl - bupp y is ho ivy today; demand
only fair and market slow a a decline of IS
cents; other markets dull also. Ex ra,
HUUA3.2 good. $.'25a-'.65; fair. $I6i!&l i:
common. 5"C9l.: yearlings, tl Hit l.i
best lambs. l3.l:ii4.UO;' o mmon to fair lambs.
2.00 3. IS; vralCilv-s. 95.5UJa.5U; heavy and
thin calves, $2.uua3.Uq
CisriNNATi. Dec. 18.
HOGS Market easier and lower at 4.iMi
4.60. receipts. 4,3 HJ head; shipments, l.ttoo
bead.
CATTLE Market steady at tS 25714.65; r
aelpta, 1,1 O.I.e-id; shipnient-t. 6XKJ head.
SHEEP Market strong at 1.25a 1.50: re
Be pts, 1. 4'Si head; snlpments. 60U head.
Lauibs steady at t2.75 &3. 7a.
Nbw York. Duo. 18.
WHEAT Spot market easy. No. 2 red.
store and elevator. afloat. nXiac; f. o. b..
bHic afloat; No. I northern, oac; No. 1 hard,
' W - de ivered.
lOK.N-bpol market easy. No. 2. S3c new;
56c for ol I; old No. S while. 5-; delii-erel;
steamer mixed. 49c bid; No 3. 4e!4a48Hic.
OA 'IS Spot market dull. No. 2. .-.4a40:
: No. 2 del vered. a35c; No. 8, 3:-IH,c; No. 2
. whiw. 34Vio; No. S white. Hc; track white
western. Mo.4-'o
CATTLE European cables quote American
tve s at 10aila per pound dressed weight;
efri erator beef. 7itM- Exiorts today.
673 beevca. (W6 sheep and 1.810 quarters of
b ef.
bHEEP AND LAMB Mar. eta active and
firm. 81ie-p. p or to pr.me. 92.6ua3.&;
lamb , ordinary to fair $1 " t4 .VI.
HOUS Market Arm at (4 7 15. 10.
T Form a Trass.
Chicago, Dec. 19. Manufacturers of
"bedsprings. mattresses and bedding, met
in secret session at the Sherman honse to
form a national association, which will
regal ate the output of poods and control
prices. Delegates were present repre
senting the trade in all sections of the
country.
A 17. 8. Coos. I V.ry 111.
El Paso, Tex., Dec. 19. Theodore
Huston, United States consul at Jaurez,
Mexico, is very ill and is not expected to
live. ' He was a resident of Malcolm,
Ills., when he was appointed conttul by
I'renidoiit Cleveland.
lU-altT luvs liis
him silmiist as
to l.r.ik ilown
more t:ian make
(ioods.
45c.
00c, worth 00c.
75c., worth $1.10
$1.00, worth 1.25
22.Sc, worth 4tc
::oc, worth 50c
:55c, worth 00c
5c., worth Sc.
.Sc., worth 10c.
Oc, worth Hi:
7c, wortli 10c.
m, worth 8c.
75c. to $4 a pair.
on Potters' Oil Cloth?
25e. r yanl.
3h er yard.
f)5i;. kt yarl.
20c jier yard.
A GOOD LESSON.
Respect for the Court Taught aa Appli
cant for Citizenship.
Judge J-Vrris is a man who lelieves
in maintaining the dignity of the
courts. While he does not use his po
sition to be captious about it, yet he
never fails to impress on a person who
displays a lack of respect for the court
and through it the law, that the court
, must lie respected and itsdignity main-
" tained.
, An instance how a man can be taught
that respect for the courts means re
.spect for the law was giv-jen by J ndge
Ferns. The person referred to was art
applicant for citizenship. He went to
court dressed as if he had left a cow
.stable, whxre he had Wen cleaning the
stalls, liis clothes were dirty and his
boots' were covered with tilth. When
the judge had looked him over he
asked if he realized he was in a court
of justice and was an applicant for one
of the greatest privileges that could lie
grantetl him. " The man hardly an
swered. The judge called his atten
tion to the condition of his clothes and
boots, and told hiin to go home and get
ou the lest clothes he had. just as if he
was to Ih.' married, and, if he passed
the examination when he returned he
would Ik; given papers of citizenship.
The man returned in a few days, well
dressed, and showe.d by his manner
that the lesson had not lieen hist on
him. He had :t holcsome respect for
the court, and was, no doubt, impressed
with the majesty of the law.
English as She la Spoke.
A correspondent in Battersea who
has made a collection of the gems of
oratory used by some of the vestrymen
in his neighborhood, writes: "Most
parishes can boast of supplying some
fine specimens of 'English as she is
spoke' by vestrymen, but in this re
spect Datterseacan 'take the cake. In
a recent'discussion on sanitary matters
a vestryman talked about tubular dis
eases and 'tripod fever, and he wanted
'a crematoria' in every parish. An
other member would not accept a
statement upon the 'h ipse t dixter' of
the chairman. At this same vestry a
member declared the chairman ought
to be 'like Potiphar's wife, above sus
picion. When it was proposed to give
a deserving official 'an honorarium' a
member wanted to know whether it
would not be an inducement to the of
ficial to waste his tiie. 'If he attends
to his duty he won't have much time
to play the honorarium.'" London
Telegra ph.
Cataract Victims.
Four of the most eminent men in
Europe are at the present time suffer
ing from partial blindness. In all
cases the nature of the ailment is the
same, namely, cataract, and all the
illustrious patients are hopefully seek
ing relief in the resources of medical
science. Mr. Gladstone has had sev
eral operations performed upon one of
his eyes, the result of which, it is be
lieved, will be almost fully to restore
his vision, while the other eye is still
sound enough to enable him to read
and write. Sir William Harcourt's
eyes are both much obscured, and must
soon have relief or be altogether dark
ened. He will prese ntly place himself
in a surgeon's hands. M. Jules Simon
is in a like plight, but hopes to have
the opaque veil entirely removed. And
Sio;. Crispi, in whose case the ailment
has not proceeded quite so far as in the
others, has already sought the services
of a skilled oculist.
A QUESTION IN ETIQUETTE
BY RICHARD HAMILTON POTTS.
Rows of aristocratic-looking houses
to the right of me, a park to the left
of me; a lunch-party four long blocks
ahead of me, my home, in the far dis
tance, behind me; a cloudy sky, from
which descends a fine, but steady
sprinkle, above me I wish I could
add, and an umbrella a damp, and
rapidly growing sloppy pavement be-"
neath me; no possible car or omnibus,
no cab-stand. Oil, for a plebeian
street, with its multitude of conven
iences! Hut my mind refuses to grasp
the bliss therein conveyed. It flies,
instead, to the feathers on my hat, the
velvet on my gown.
I had left my home rather hurriedly,
and, deceived by a hypocritical little
ray of sunshine, had lieen lured forth
to find myself in this plight. Of course
I could mount the steps ot one of the
irreproachable houses that line ray
path; but there I should be tied, and
the rain would only increase, and I
should late for the luncheon. No, it
is impossible.
I quicken my steps. I have pro
ceeded to the crossing; the drizzle is
maturing into well-defined drops that
come faster and faster. Despair has
me in his fell grasp. I see my pet cos
tume a bedraggled and ruined wreck.
I retlect on the state of my finances,
which precludes the possibility of up
rising above cashmere nay, even
serge again this winter. I give my
skirts a vigorous hitch that would lead
one to forget my ankles and retlect on
my knees, and make a for. ard luuge
more remarkable for its desperate en
ergy than its grace.
"Er pardon me," says a manly
voice, a trifle hesitatingly, at my el
bow. I start violently and my skirts seek
their proper level. A large umbrella
is sheltering me; the rain no longer
patters among the feathers that crown
my head.
"Allow me to share my umbrella
with you. I see that you are without
one," adds the mairly voice.
"Ob, thank you," 1 say, as I recover
.somewhat, and gather, from the own
er's general appearance, that he is a
gentleman and, in all probability,
means his protection in kindness and
not as a means to getting up a flirta
tion. Perhaps I ought to refuse his
aid, politely and graciously, of course,
with the simple remark that I have
not far to go and so shall not require
his assistance. Maybe I should draw
my self up, in the approved insulted
maidenhood style, and say:
"sjir! I thank you, but I can get
aloi.g very well by myself."
If he looked a trifle less respectful
and gentlemanly I think I would sac
rifice Mme. lioland's latest, and as
yet unpaid for, effort in my behalf;
but I am sure he is not going to say
any thing the most prudish could ob
ject to. At any rate my situation, un
til now, has been really pathetic; 6o I
shall try olteying my own instinct,
and if I have cause to resrret it I shall
know better in future, and the experi
ence will not hurt me.
We have traversed a block in silence.
He walks by my sale, perfectly grave
and quiet, and only seems to glance in
my directiou to see that I am well
protected. I am thankful that I took
his offer the way it was meant, and
did not give him reason to regret his
generous impulse. On we pace, and
there enters my mind the quotation:
, "Thou art so neur and yet so far."
Tiut, seriously, he certainly is verj
nice not to try to get up a conversa
tion which would only make me thor
oughly stiff and uncomfortable. I can
just hear an ordinary man beginning:
"It's a damp day;"' or, "l'retty wet.
isn't it?" or "Have you far to go,
miss?" or addressing some equally
commonplace sentence to me.
It seems strange, though, to walk
- along so close to anyone and not utter
a word. I wonder if 1 ought to speak;
but no, he appreciates my position.
What could I say, an3-way? I will
thank him when we separate, and
that is all I can do. I may not be
gracious enough, considering his po
liteness, but how can one be gracious
to a stranger? Oh, for a surreptitious
peep at a book on etiquette!
Instead, I take a quick look at him.
He is very frank looking, and he has
straightforward, steady, brown eyes,
as I discovered in my first startled
glance at him. Altogether, it would
have been impossible to have snublied
him. Perhaps I um a little shaky in
my conviction, and 1 am trying to
justify myself, but
Here I stumble (thanks to my van
ity in wearing French heels, which
diil make me a trille unsteady), and
should fall were it not for his quick
assistance.
"Thanks," I murmur, - with my
cheeks burning. My eyes meet his,
and a pause ensues; but then a pause
has been ensuing ever since we met
or that is came together.
"I hope I am not taking you out of
j-our way," I add, with a happy inspir
ation. "Not at all," he rejoins, earnestly.
"I trust yon will allow me to see you
to your destination."
"You are very kind. I am going to
nine hundred and twenty-seven on
this street, so we are nearly there."
In another moment we have reached
the door, and I look up at him grate
fully, and say:
"I thank you very, very much."
"Pray do not mention it," he an
swers, as he raises his hat; and bowing
with a charming smile he turns
and runs lightly doA-n the steps.
Lunch is nearly over, and I have
been unusually silent and distrait.
Even the announcement of a new en
gagement has failed to arouse me to
more than momentary interest.
Did I do right to accept half that
umbrella? or should I have declined it
courteously, but conclusively? Of
course, no man could pass by a girl
who was in such a fix as I without
some slight compunction, particular
ly if it were so evidently in his power
to assist her. 75ut, having made the
proposition, would he not have felt
more respect for me had it been po
litely refused? Or would he have
thought me a prude, and regretted his
chivalry?
"Er yes, thank you, very chival
rous." All the girls laugh, and I realize,
with a start, that I have answered
Lulu's simple request, if I would not
have more ice cream, somewhat ab
sent-mindedly, to put it mildly.
"You must be in love, Nathalie,"
laughs Lulu, and, like a simpering
school miss, I blush, which makes me
"so angry that a further accession of
color waves up to my forehead, and
the conviction is strong within me that
I resemble nothing more than a full
blown peony.
"Reflect on my appetite, and don't
say I'm in love," I answer.
"Talking of being in love, you should
see our handsome neighlior," said
Lulu. "He is a young physician, but
well known. Perhaps you have heard
of him Dr. Ilernard Ilurke."
"Why, he is the doctor we are going
to have if any of us are ill!" I exclaim.
"Is he really nice looking?"
"Indeed, he is. I have been trying
to develop some interesting disease
ever since I first saw him," she replies.
"And, by the waj" she continues, "he
generally passes here just about this
time. Come to the window and watch
for him. Nathalie, and I will wager
you'll manage to get up some ailment
within the week. The stakes to be
soda water."
I jump up as she speaks, and make a
rush for the window, closely followed
by the rest of the girls. As I get half
way across the room my high heels
again fail me; my ankle turns, and I
measure my length on the floor. The
girls laugh, after the manner of girls.
A tumble is to me generally a source
of infinite mirth, and I cannot blame
them for their merriment. I try to
rise, but a sharp twinge of pain in my
foot causes me to sink back with a
groan. No doubt I turn pale, for the
girls become sober and cluster around
me anxiously. Every moment is agony,
but when I am perfectly still it is not
so bad. What is to be done? We con
sult anxiously.
"I shall send for Dr. Iturke," declares
Lulu, seriously. There is a burst of
laughter, and even I smile.
"You owe me a debt of gratitude for
this," I murmur, rather weakly, to
Lulu.
I am beginning to feel faint and
sick, and after I am helped to the sofa
I lie back with my eyes closed, while
Sue Dal ton fans me, and May Dostwick
runs for some salts.
"Here's the doctor," whispers Sue, at
last in my ear. "Under other circum
stances I could pity you more," she
adds.
I open my eyes languidly and look
up. Shades of my rainy morning's
walk! It is my knight of the umbrella!
"And shall I be able to walk with
out a crutch this week?" I ask,
anxiously.
It is a month since that never-to-be-forgotten
luncheon at Lulu liradley's
and my foot is still in statu quo, as it
were, although I can tret around the
house and am in the parlor, now, with
Dr. lSernard Durke. It is the first time
1 have seen him alone, and we have
never mentioned our rather unconven
tional walk.
"I am quite sure you will be out by
Saturday. Perhaps you will still need
a slight support a cane or" his e3'es
twinkle "an umbrella."
We both laugh.
"Did you expect me to refuse your
help that day? Tell me what you
thought of me. But if you think I was
brazen, do please gloss it over as much
as you can."
"If I had thought it at all out of the
way for you to accept my offer I never
should have ventured to make it, lor in
that case I should have had no right,"
he replies; and I wonder that I never
thought of that before.
"I should have been both disgusted
and disappointed if you had declined
my slight service," he continues. "I
will tell you just how it was. I walked
behind you for about a half-block, de
bating in my own mind what I should
do. We were both going the same way,
and I saw there was no shelter you
could seek excepting a doorway, which
involved tedious waiting, and would
have been an impossibility if you had
an engagemen t. To pass you seemed
impossible, and to walk liehind you,
too selfish to be thought of far a mo
ment. " 'If 6he takes my offer the way I
mean it,' I thought, 'I shall respect
her and admire her good sense. If she
treats it as an impertinence it cannot
hurt me, and it will not prove that my
impulse ought to have been suppressed.
Judging by the independent poise of
her head I think she possesses judg
ment, and will lie grateful to me.
"I must acknowledge I felt some
trepidation as I approached you, and I
voted you. in schoolboy vernacular, a
regular trump," when, after a search
ing look from a pair of beautiful eyes,
you smiled so sweetly and allowed me
to hold my umbrella over you."
I glanced at the doctor.
"Was it not strange that we should
have met again that very day?" I be
gin, hastily.
"I think it was fate," interrupts Dr.
Burke, audaciously.
And then he goes on and says bo
much that I quite lose track of it alL
But we agree wonderfully; and I have
a great respect for fate. Demorest's
Magazine.
FLOCKING TO FRENCH CITIES.
French Farms Left Largely In the Hands
of Children and Old Men.
The complaint of overcrowded cities
and decaying rural population is heard
in France, and one very probable ex
planation of the diminishing numlvrs
and virility of the French peasantry is
given by Jules Simon. He thinks, says
the New York , Post, the compulsory
military service has a gtnxl deal to do
with it. Peasants have to leave their
farms for three years, and go unwill
ingly enough, it may be. But they
find themselves better clothed and fed
than they were in their lives, and
though compelled to submit to strict
discipline and hard work, enjoy a life
far less fatiguing and dull than that
they have been accustomed to. When
their time is up. it is not strange that
thousands of them refuse to go back to
the plow. They drift into the towns to
find work in factories, with absolute
lilierty after working hours, and to ob
tain that contact with their kind for
futile gossip and that sense of playing
a part in the affairs of the great world
which make up so large a part of the
attraction of cities for the poor. The
result is, says M. Simon, that agricul
ture in France is largely in the hands
of children and the aged and the few
young and middle-aged men who have
lieen too philosophical or too torpid to
lie lured away by the fascinations of
city life.
"SNAP Tht WHIH" fN AFRICA.
Tests of re HeTore Which the Itrmvest
Ml;!. I Ounil.
Among the Hadendowa. a Sudanese J
trile wlrnse name was painfully fa
miliar to us a few years aj-o. voting
men who aspire to renown challenge
one another to a dreadful contest.
After ceremonies cartel wl.ie'i may
Ik declined without inf:iny. however,
unless t lie youth refusing have f..-,;.'l:t
once already and trhiniphe i public
notice is given and at the time ap
pointed all the population of the vil
lage assemble. The charipio:is are
stripped to the waist, and they carry a
whip of hippopotamus hide four feet
long, one inch square at the bae. with
edges newly trimmed, as sharp almost
as a knife. At li signal they exchange
blows methodically ;uid keep it tip un
til one owns defeat, or. very mm h
more frequently, stumhhs :ind falls
exhausted, but still il.-iianl. II'.xxl
streams at the first eut. as thoui'ii the
whip had been a sword almost, hut
they often hold out for half an hour.
Dr. (itinther says he has seen sc::rs
reaching to the very bone. The prize
of these contests i-. a title. ".'. kim-i-l-Benat"
Protector of the Mai len
which the victor bears until defeated
or married. We can believe that the
young men think it worth liirlitiii.r for.
audit would Ik- interesting to know
what advantages the title g:ve ex
actly, how the maidens regard '.heir
protector, whether l.e has a:iy oi'.lcial
position toward them, and so forth.
A custom like this ha- spread, of
course, among neighboring t..vn
under various forms. Th;;t .f the
Abyssinian braves is .1. vrilu- i by
Mansfield Parkyns in the London
Standard. The girls th.-mselve- p-lay
an active part there. V hen y ting pe
ple are gathered for a:;iu-ment ;::'lcr
a church festival, for inst.-ino oie of
them will Wgin pceliier a sTra v of
green millet, which is fu:l of pith. Mcr
lover's ldi h xl runs void probably, but
he must smile or own himself a e ;iveii.
When she has eut the pith into bit-, an
inch long he stretches out hi.- bare
arm. The example ?-et, every girl who
resjx'Cts herself and has a lover fol
lows it. The young men forma circle,
with their arms extended. Blithely
then, and with many a jest, doubtless,
the maidens arrange their bits f pith
upright in some fanciful design on the
bare flesh and then set them alight.
They are nearly an inch thick, and
they burn very slowly, but the hapless
youth must stand and smile as well as
he can till the blood and juices of the
seared flesh extinguish them. It is. in
fact, a peculiarly horrible form of tat
tooing. DOWN THE ANDES.
A Rough r-id Kxeitiiii: ir-deon Hie Traiw
an.liue Kailivay.
A correspondent sends an interest
ing description of a crossing of the
Cordillera de b-s Andes, in the present
state of the Traiisamiiuc railway. The
letter says:
"By seven a. m. we were at the first
inn tn the Chili side. We there char
tered a four-horse carriage to .'.rive us
to the end station (on this side! of the
railway, which feat was accomplished
in two hours" time. I call it a feat Ih.
cause the road is all along the river
cut into the mountain side, and often
there is hardly room for four horses
abreast to pass, ami when I lM-ked out
of the window into the roaring river
Ik-Iow I often wished I had Wen on wy
mule. We did the distance Wtwecn
the two end stations in a'..iit half the
time usually employed, only being on
horseback for seven hours and two
hours in the carriage. At the station
we were told that there would W no
train to Is Andes till three p. m.
next day. but we might telegraph for
the contractor's engine to take us
down, which we did. We had only to
pay thirty dollars for it and saved a
whole day by doing so.
"At aliout ten a. m. the engine ar
rived, and a very flimsy thing it looked.
We were put on a small 1-emii at the
back of the boiler. the driver
and stoker standing in front. We were
stion spinning along, through tunnels.
Dvcr bridges and round cur-.es on a
track of alxmt two feet six inches gauge
at a rate of thirty miles an hour, and
it was all that wc could do to h..! on to
the jolting and rattling little machine.
I don't lielieve I ever p;iss 1 a worse
half hour, expecting eveiy moment to
see the engine leave the track and to
le dashed into the river Iw-lmv. Stones
on the line, which made us all jump
off our seats, animals running across
the rails, sudden desperate curves
round the corners of the rocky cliff
nothing seemed to daunt onr driver,
and the noise was so great that it was
impossible to ask him to slacken down.
After we had gone half way, however,
he lost a kettle nvcrlo:..rl audi si pped
to pick it up. and then I remonstrated
with him and told him to slacken speed,
as I did not care to risk my life for the
sake of getting to Los Andes a few
minutes sooner. lie said there was no
danger, but drove more slowly, and we
got into Los Andes an hour ami two
minutes after monntin;- this imVrnal
machine, and rigiit glad I was when
we drew up alongside the platform
with our bodies and luggage safe and
sound."
Supreme. Courtesy.
A Bengalese magistrate, having lieen
infonned of the whereabouts of a mad
dog, armed himself and went to the
place where the rabid animal lay by a
house door. He learned upon inquiry
that two women were in the house and
sent word to them that he was alxmt to
shoot the dog, ami. therefore, they
should not be alarmed by the report,
and that as he might not inflict a fatal
wound at the first fire. and. in fact,
might miss, they should remain within
until notified. Such a supreme cour
tesy is in marked contrast with that of
western civilization.
Ku,u:lity of Sex.
It is natural for a woman to resent the
imputation that the feminine mind is
not so strong as the masculine, and this
spirit of independence was early mani
fested in a schoolgirl living in a Massa
chusetts town. She had, too often,
perhaps lieen made to .vcknowlcdge
the superiority of her brothers. One
day her mother remarked up-n the ap
parently utter lack of intelligence in a
lu-n. "You can't teach a hen any
thing." she said. "They have ruined
more of the garden than a drove of
cattle would. You can teach a cat,
dog, or pig something, but a hen
never!" "llm:" exclaimed the child,
indignantly. "I think they know just
as much as the riKsters!
DANGER TO THE WOULD.
China a Monaco to the Civilization
Of All T .an rig.
Japan Within Hc-r Kishts In Her F-ffort)
to Maintain a Hold I pon t om
F.sc-lufiv Nationality of
the Chinese.
Sir Edwin Arnold is a warm partisan
of the Japs, but h- had the privilege of
witnessing the grand army mancc c-rs
of some two or three years since, and
no one will deny to him a knowledge
of the interior economy of the country.
Sir Edwin Arnold, says the London
lh:ily Crapkic. will not countenance
the belief of Mr. furr-n that the Jap
anese government is desperately occu
pied wit h domest ie jx.litics.
"1 am surprised that so intelligent a:t
observer should not have known how
iittle the Japanese houses of parlia
ment count six-ially or politieally
against the policy of those ministers
whom the emperor appoints and whom
he removes at his sole pleasure. V hen
the deputies make thenis Ives imjvissi
ble they are simply sent home: when
they refuse supplies public fund-, are
taken" quietly on account: and when
they bring things to a deadlock the
emjH-ror and his advisers carry on the
business of the country, after dissolv
ing parliament, which, amid all thes--vagaries
the lively working of new
and generous w ine remains steadfast
ly loyal and ardently patriotic."
That the two countries had equal
rights in Circa, and that when one in
creaseil its, force the other was l-ound
to do the same, was the writ. r"s con
tention fn short, that Japan has d..ne
uthI is doing precisely what England
would have d.-ne under the same cir
cumstances. "In the present struggle
Japan unquestiona l.ly stands the cham
pion f progress, of justice, and of in
t rnati. !i:.l development, so that the
partisanship shown in certain quar
ters against her has in it an clement f
stupidity which cannot, therefore In
easily excused." Mors interesting than
this, though, is Sir Edwin Arnold's re
minder of one of the forces "which,
more pot ntly tends to hold China to
gether in her intense and exclusive i.a
tionali'y." namely, the extreme anx
iety of the Celestial to le buried at
home. "But if some high ecclesias
tical authority, or the Vermillion Pen
cil itself, should decree as they well
might, that Confucius should lie sat
isficd if a pinch of Chinese dust were
thrown into the foreign grav -then
the floodgates would le open to a gen
eral Chinese immigration intoall lands.
'ne jx reeives how heavy the obliga
tion is. and at the same time how bind
ing, when again and again, at San
Francisco nn-i other ports of embarka
tion. Chinese passengers are stopp. d
carrying in a carpet-bag or a hat-lx.iv
the l.i!cs of their relatives. But win n
any such general emigration of t hiiia
men iccurs as that which I am f re
casting, it will le a social and industri
al deluge. The markets of the world
will Ix.- literally swamped with the
most industrious, persevcrinc. fearless
and frugal six-clmcns of mankind who
w;ill everywhere underbid lalior and
monopolize trade. a. they have done in
Singapore. Pcnang and many other
spots. The danger to civilization that
China represents consists in this rather
than in her unwieldy strength and
slothful resources, the incl'icacy of
w hich for aetual service Japan has al
ready exposed by the brilliant com
mencement of the present campaign.
"For these and other reasons it is to
the interest of the civilized world that
China should nt Ix-come more homo
geneous or any larger than she is at
present, and alxive all that she should
not intrigue with the seeond colossal
standing menace to human progress,
the Russian empire, against the free
dom of the Pacific. That (ierniaii jour
nal had the true instinct in scientific
politics which lately w rote that, in the
war just declared, the sympathies and
gixxl wishes of civilization were due en
tirely to the side of Japan."
AMERICAN PLACE NAMES.
Thk Blaekstone river, of Rlnxle Is
land, was named in lienor of William
Blaekstone, an Episcopal minister and
early settler.
Bi.At kwki.is Island was named from
James Black well, its former owner.
The Indians called it Minnchanmx-k,
the "island place."
The Colorado river took its name
from the color of its waters, the Span
ish word meaning red. It is muddy
only at high water.
Point Comfout was named by the
first colonists in 1C07. The name was
liestow-ed on account of the good chan
nel and safe anchorage.
Cape Lookoi't is said to have Tx-en
thus named by sea captains, who, when
they saw it. l-cgan to look out for Cape
Hatteras and its storms.
The Big Sandy, in Kentucky, took
its English name from its sandbars.
Tiie Indians called it the Chalteroi,
meaning "the sandy river."
Cait. Canaveral, in Florida, was
named by the Spaniards from theabun
dance of flowers in the vicinity. The
name means "Land of the Rose Tree."
Ciovf.uxok's Island, in New York
harlxir, was so called in hopor of tiie
redoubtable dov. Wouter Van Twilh-r,
immortalized by Washington Irving.
WITH THE ELECTRICIANS.
Thk Pittsburgh (Pa.) :hamVr of
commerce w ill. it is said, insist tint
Pittsburgh street cars be equipped with
safet- fenders.
The organizers of the new telephone
exchange in Clyde. N. , report that
they are meeting with the lxst of suc
cess in presenting the claims of their
system to the business men of Clyde.
The lighthouse board, through Capt.
W. S. Schley, is testing a sub-marine
telephone in New Y'ork bay, connect
ing the Scotland lightship with the
shore. It is the invention of Irof. L.
Blake, of the Kansas university.
There will be a general awakening
of the storage battery manufacturers,
growing out of the refusal by the court
to grant an injunction asked on the
Brush patents on the chloride battery,
says the Electrical Review.
It is reported that the Pennsylvania
Traction company is considering a
propositim from a syndicate of Boston
bankers to build and equip an eh-ctric
line from Harrisburg. Pa., to Philadel
phia. 103 miles, for fs.ooo.ooo, puaran-l
teed apecd to be M miles an Lour.