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VOLUME XXIX.
EUENSliUHG, PA., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER , Is)5.
NUMBER 35.
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CHEWING TOBACCO
is the best that is made, and
at ONCE tries it. and saves
money and secures more
(satisfaction than ever before.
A.V OLD imitations. Insist on
having the genuine. If your
denier hasnr it ask him to
get it for you.
JIO. FIIZKR & BROS., LonirifflcD
Constipation
Pcmanils prompt treatment. The re
nits t-t nol.' t. may Ihj serious. Avoitl
all liarsh ami ilra-stic purgatives, tlie
toiul.-iuy of wlii. li i.s to weaken tli
'..w. u. The bost remo!y Is Ayer's
I'ills. I'.fins purely vegetalilo, tli'-ir
a. ti-.ti in pmiiipt ami their effect always
'...lie!';. -ial. They are an a.liuirahlo
Liver ami AfterMinnor pill, ami every
where en l rsMl hy the profession. )
" Ayer's I'ill-i aro highly ami univep
anllv "s".ken f hy the- people- aU.ut
I . re I make, ihiilv us" of them in my
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poi t. t t.iin.
' I ran reromTneml Aver a I'ills ai'v
!l r. h.i iiil h'llir JToveil
their
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family." J. T. llesi, Lcilliswlle. I'a.
" For several rears Ayer's I'ills liave
Leeti u.n-il in my'family. We Hul ihein
au
Effective Remedy
f..r
roiitip:ition ami imlipestion, ami
r ..iii. ..nt iliem iii tho Lou.te.
M,lt-s ;reiner, Iiwt-11. Maiw.
I l,.lVe use.! Aver's Tills, for liver
tr.iihhs
ml lmlineMioii. iliirmtl many
ami liai e always Iiiuml llieiu
prompt an. I etlo n ut ill t lieir at lH'U.
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UNCLK SAM'S INDIANS.
An Official Estimate of Their Ooet
to the Government.
A ItlrHoult ami Intrieate lrotileni That
II. Never lleeu A 1 1 eluut etl Hefore
Warfare nilh tho
Keil men.
In the eoinplete Indian census report,
just piiblihetl. an i ut eret ino- at ten pt is
ina.le for the tirst time to cast up in
lio-urcs :in ao-o-re.raleof the y iverutn.iit
cxp.iidit urcs on account of the red men
reidiuo- witliin .in- ti.ir.li-rs since the
union was estahlislicd in ITs'.i. The re
sult ,,f this remarkable attempt indi
cates in the statistics presented that
the "-io-antie snn, ,,f ,. J.illioii one
hmi.li-e.l and five million .mI.1 dollars
'?l.ln.". .'!'.. ::-JT was spent by the ,iverii
inent up to the year 1 s'x. either Um.ii
the Indian directly, or indirectly be
cause ..f Indians. ( '. .unt iuo- in. how-
eier. me civil ami military expenses j
I. .1- 1 1 1 nans since t lien, toe-i-t her w it Ii in
cidental expenses not rceojnied in the
ollieial tio-iires o-iven.it is safe to say
that up to June ::tl. I yi.'i. a further siiiu
"f ?l U.TsiI.i-.-js may be added to the
fi.reo-. linr litrurcs. makinr a frainKij'
.rreiate of ? 1 .-i.11.IMHI. Hull chai'efeahle to
I lidians to date.
The problem, says the VashiiiLrton
Star, is sueii a ditlieult and intricate
one that it has never been attempted
before. The prime factors ciitcrino; in
to ! he problem arc: ill The expenses of
the wars wa'eil between the federal
irovernuient an. I the Indian tribes since
the date mentioned and the uiailiteii
aneei.f our standino; army in the vicin
ity of the resorva t ions: rZ the claims
f tin- states for indemnity for ex
penses incurred in rcp.-Hiro- Indian in
vasions: lot t he i-i v tl and e.Illcat i .lial ex
penses incurred ..ii account of Indians,
ami Hi the cost of pensions to the sur
vivors or widows of soldiers si-rviiij. iii
Indian wars.
t if course, a lar'c amount of treasure
wa. spent in wars with the American
Indians prior to the esta Id ishiueiit of
the federal ir.ivernnient in 1T''.I. In
deed, ever since the white man ap-M-ared
wit hill the present territory of
the t iiilc.l Stati-s then- has I n war
almost continually, hccfinninir on the
Tacitie side in I.".:;'.i. and on the Atlantic
side s.M.11 after the year lt'.uii. Since tin
foiindino; of our e;..verniiielit t he
I'nited States army, except when cn
iaired in t he wars v it h l.reat Kritain
and Mexico, and dunno; the civil war.
has been used almost exclusively in
the Indian service, and has been sta
tioned I a rifely in the Indian country r
a h .ii-' t he f r.mt ier.
In their calculation the I udian ci-nsiis
experts ..uiit tin army expenses inci
dent to the wars with Kiijlan.l and
Mexico, and the civil war, with it
seipiel of reconstruction, and safely
counts two thirds of the total ex
penst s of tin- army as charo-ca hie .ii
reel ly or indirect 1 to the Indians. The
total -xpeiises of the army from lT-'l
to 1 s;iu V ere found to be j l.7i." .VJ 1 . IM.".;
but .ledu.tino- ;.r,l t.'.Ml.iHiT forth.- for
eii'n wars and the civil war. the re
mainder is Jl.-Jlo.i'. hi. s.i. Fully two
thirds of this sum. or sii7.uT::..'.s, it is
estimated, was expended for Indian
wars and for army service against the
I u.liaiis.
'l'o this sum the census experts add
t !.e c. nciises of the I ml ia ii civil a. I l.i ii i
i-tiatioli for tin- -rio,l belween 1 T
in I -'M. amount in,. t. V4 I. u J..u..'
.f ii. on. 1. 1 ii fi i mi H i' 1 1 rei in hu i-se pa : t 'cu la :
st.iti foe expenses incurred b. t'l t
in Indian wars, and .':."-' nmr.
for pensions to sii r v i vor . or w i.h.w .
Indian war?., and then the total f..o'r
up to f 1 . In". '.'I'.'-oT'.'. ' ii ii T in" in. a
-...r.r,-,t,., al.oc. ?'l I 1.7 -.I I'.-'S 1..I . ill'
administration expenses and a pi..p..r
ti .Hate share of the army expense
sine l-'.m. tin- (.'rand total become
$1 .".'" .i.miii.iiiMi a billion and a iinaitei
of dollars.
The J n. 1 ia M wars under the jrovcrii
melit of the I'nited States arc stated to
have numbered more than 4ii. and to
have cost the lives of about P.l.nun w h ite
men. women ami children, in. In. lino
about :..iiih killed in individual encounter-.,
of which history takes no note,
and of ::u.ihio Indians, including- s.auo
killed in personal encounters.
lt has been the policy of the national
.'overn meiit since tin- year ls-js to re
fund to the states and territories the
nioiievs paid out by them ill supprcssiiiir
Indian hostilities. This liability is
based on the fact that the federal jrov
cininclit has treated the I lid iatis eit her
as nat ions .r as wards of tin- nation,
thus kecp'mr them from control by the
severa I states.
Speahinif of the number of Indians
ii, .w in the I 'nited States, as show n by
the reM.rts of special ai'etit s, a ml t he
number slipose.l to have lived ill tin
past, thee, nsiis editor says: "It is not
probable that the present area of the
I ni ted States since t he w h ite man Cami
llas contained at one time more than
:,i.i. imi Indians. IIi;rh er t imates w . re
made in the early days, but the avciMjv
evi ii then was about I .ihhi.ihhi. Iii1--'.m
we have -Jts.-J.YIcivili.c.l and uncivilized
Indians. Tliroii;'h almost four ccn
tiii i.-.. warlike band-, have resisted, and
manvof the- I ml ians are st il I resi en"
pro: i-ess. Tin -re arc not In tribes out
..f anv of the '-"" or more now in the
l'nitid States but that have been in
revolt, and those exist inir as tribes are
Ii. .w- remnants, with a few exceptions,
too p. Mir or too few to hyht, or they con
sider it too darie-eroiis."
CRICKET FIGHTING.
One of tho Favor-it Soort of Chlo
tikiiil.lerH.
Tliet hini-Ne are inveterate pamll rs.
ami never Ue a irtunit y t.. let.
matter how trivial the eaiise may
). One f their rreat inst it tit i us is
eri.Uet ti-rhtin-. the eriekets Leiii":
faiij-'ht. feil an.l traine.l earefully as a
lil.Mxle.1 horse.
Tliere is a fixed .liet for them, part of
the fiMMl e..iisistin,r f honey anil IkiiIimI
.hesttiuts. If they K' t Niek they are fe.l
with iiio-init.-s. Trior to liffhtiii"
their weight is asi-ertamej an.liluly re
eor.le.l. there l ili": a fi xed refrulatiotl
as to their size ami weight.
(n the diH.r of the house in whieh the
tijfht is to take plaee the record of each
cricket U pasted up. and the owner of
the winner jfets ten per cent, of all the
U-t.v
The cricket pit is a low tub placed on
a table, and. after vei(rhilir. the com
batants are put in it and tickled with
straws until they rush at each other
with loud chirrups and fijrht until one
of theui is killed.
HOMES OF RIVER PIRATES.
'av-a In the louiitiiii sl.leN Arf Watehed
Mith Aae hy Longshoremen.
Alonjr the west shore of the Hudson
river, between West Toint and Ksopus,
accordino; to the New York World,
there are several sidehill o-iiino-s that
are supM.sed to lead into bio- recesses
not yet explored. liariiie; men have
made the attempt to discover the inte
rior, but have been frightened into a re
treat by all sorts of iuiae;inino.
At MarllM.roiioh, 1 1 ic-hland and in the
famous Storm Kino; niountain. at t'orn
wall. thesi- rocky iipeiiiiijrs are watched
by loiijshoremcii, w ho have reason to
believe that valuable property is con
tained t herein.
A t'ornwall fisherman says lie be
lieves that one of these caves, near the
foot of Storm Kiii"T. is the rendezvous
of a Kane; t.f New York thieves, w ho re
ceive and disMise of their ill-jrottcii
slock on a strict mercantile basis. lie
remembers that about the 1st of April
he and his father saw a small boat, in
which wire four men. put ashore at this
point. It was an inky black iiio-ht.and
it was not safe for small craft in the
wind-tossed water of t'ornwall bay.
The fisherman watched tin- landiior
and saw tin- company, who were dis
tinguished by t he lanterns t hey carried.
Work their way up the mountain side.
About t vventy minutes after t he laudiiio
the lights were lost sic;ht of at a point
about one hundred feet from the
water's ciljre.
The supposition is that these inei
entered one of t hose mercantile caves
to make ready for the year's business.
No one has ventured near the place,
although several hunters say that there
is an openiiio; at the sxit di-sio;iiated by
t he I 'or n w all man. It is believed that
this cave is the main resort of river
pirates and robbers, who plunder in
the Hudson river valley, ami if so
then- is considerable daiio-cr attending'
a visitation to tin- locality.
This site is particularly lonely and
deserted. It can be located by passeii
rcrs on the day boats as they are pass
iiir. It is about three hundred feet
west of the place when- an attempt
has been made to ijuarry stone f.u-crushiuo-.
and to reach it one must run
the risk of beino; bitten by the most
poisonous snakes.
MALAGASY COOKERY.
uri'Kt Care t aken In lrearliic ttie S 1 111
.le f-'ooil.
Cook in it beinc- an art. every race has
a sty 1c of its ow ii. The Malagasy, like
the jcntle Hindu, knows how to pre
pare his mess of rice, says Hu- Loudon
Tcleo-raph. It is not boiled to a mash
as in Kii". land, or as our potatoes are
sometimes pulped, but, covered with a
proper siillicieiicy of water, is carefully
treated lint il the "-rains are swollen tit
to burst ami yet remain full, intact,
soft and rather mealy. The manioc
root is an easier dish to prepare. It is
soiiiet iiin-s served Iniiled. as yams and
sweet jN.tat.H-s, anil ao;ain as a sort of
eld n .rri.lo-e. Native cotTee they un
derstand how to make, and tin- aroma
is exec 11 lit; but tea. alas! y..ii have to
look to the brewino-of that from start
to finish if you desire a drinkable cup.
Toultry ami e-aun- are eaten fresh, and
the cooks have a clever and withal
cleanly trick of dipping the dead ani
mals in boilinc- water, which enables
them to plu. l; t hem easily and .piickly.
The preparation for trussine; comes
later. There is no lack of variety at a
Malagasy table, but. all the same, you
miss the wheateii Hour bread, siio-ar
ami condiments when cloyed with rice,
fowls, manioc and t-'v The staple
fuel is bunch e-rass, which when dried
burns fiercely, ami settles into a jrlow
iiit ember that (fin-s off a deal of heat.
All tin- cooking is done on earthen
hearths, ami tin- roast inir. Loilino- and
bakiiic- in hie; iron pots. Tin- o-rass beino-
slie-htly aromatic, the odor is as
ao-rccahle as that of a hardwood tire.
MASS FOR HOMER.
The Cure C leverly Tiirne.l the Tahtea on
1 1 14 Jokem.
T.y order of t he archbishop of Taris a
re.juii-m mass in the nature of a cere
mony of reparation was celebrated
lately. It was titt intr that this should
take place at St. Kustache. where the
cotlin of Moliere should have been
taken after his death, as that was his
parish. The artists of the t'omedie
Francaise, tin- Odeoii ami the Opera
Were present.
The day followine- the Moliere mass,
two you lie; jesters fresh from tin- boule
vards presented themselves gravely at
tin- sacristy of one of the larjjvsl
churches and asked to see the cure. He
pivi' them audience.
Vc desire." said the holder of the
pair, "to have a mass said for the re
pose of tin- soul of Homer."
"It is a very W" "I idea." replied the
cure, without so much as the lifting of
an eyebri iw .
'And when will you say the mass'.'"
asked one of the young- men, a little
surprised.
"Wln-n you brine; me the h-o-alized
not ice of his death." replied the can-,
who courteously conducted his visitors
to tin ih m ir.
A tiiMiil Kea-ion tor a Momliii; Nap.
It is claimed that one of the reasons
for the undisturbed mornino; sleep es
IHfoially for children and delicate and
nervous tiers, ins is based on a well-understood
scientific theory. We are told
that the vitality of humanity is at its
lowest ebb between two and half-past
three in the mornino;- This lieino; the
case, it would naturally re.piire some
hours to restore the e.piilibriam. lt is
verv easy to see that if the cares of the
dav are taken tip In-fore this is secured,
the individual would start in handi
capped by a certain lack of force.
Where the rest continues uninterrupt
edly until the voluntary awakenino;,
it stan. Is to reason that the system is
in much Ixtter condition to -n-iform
its allotted task. So imiiortaiit to the
wcll-lieiiijf of the individual is this lit
tle understood and scarcely appreciat
ed quality that we call vitality, that it
is well worth while to see to it that
every condition is made as favorable as
possible. To this end. undisturled
rest, with the Wst stirroundinM, is a
thine- to which a fXifnl ileal more atten
tion should Ik? paid. X. V. lcder.
A llamlKto Organ.
A IiuiuImhi ortfan has t-eeii built for
the Jesuits' church at Shanghai, and is
said to surpass organs made of metal.
Ashaml-oocan bet.btained of all tlimeii-sion-.
from the thickness t.f a n ii to
pieces of a foot ill diameter, this natural
material costs little more than the sim
ple laMjr, aud the notes are lieautifully
soft aud pleasant to the ear.
WORLDS EXPENSIVE BRIDGES.
The strueture lultlne New York anil
Itrooklytl lleailti the 1.11.
The very latest official computation
puts the total cost of the Krooklvn
brido-e at 1 1 T.Jsy.s.-,.-,. The bridtre w hen
contracted for was to cost 1u.sixi.ihhi.
At least, such was t he orio-inal estimate
of John A. Koablino-, w ho in Ist'.T put
the cost of the bridje at J7. ihhi.ihhi and
of t he approaches to it :;.smi.tHHi. Ac
tually, the bri.lo-e cost ihhi.ihhi,
which was not much .f an increase
over the original tie-ures when the dif
ficulties of tin- iiiidertakiiie- eame into
account, t he bri.le;- not beino- opened
until sixteen years after the original
stiniate was uiaile. Siibs-iUint ex
penditures, which have brought tin
total cost up t. the present tio-ure. arc
due to the acquisition of new ap
proaches and to improvements iihii t he
structure which were not ami could
not have been calculated upon when it
was opened twelvu years ai.
The l.rooklyii bridge is the most ex
pensive work of the kind in the world,
cxcccdiii-r ill cost any other brido-e (.f
which authentic ti -litres are available.
The brido-e over the Forth, in Scot
land, cost ? 1 4, ihhi.ihhi. the Victoria
bridge in t'anada cost f IJ.otHi.iiiiu. the
bridire across the Vulirii at 'aratov, in
Iillssia. cost 4. IHHI.IHHI. The cost of
London brido-e w as ?n. ihhi.ihhi. of Water
I.ni bride-e f."..r.iHi.(HHi. ami of the West
minster bride-e -ri..rilHI.INHI.
With the enormous increase of via
duct work for railroad piu-imscs in 1 he
I nitcd States the profession of "bri.lo-e
builder" has become a very ini" n tant
one. steel ami iron Work liavino- laro-elv
sii jierseiled masonry, since by improved
processes iii their manufacture struc
tural iron ami steel have materially de
creased in ci .st
GOOD AS GOLD.
How I nun.-. I Hallway I I. ket May Ite Ke
leeme.l at Slight Coil.
Some men with valuable unused rail
way tickets on their hands sell them to
scalpers, w l.ilc ol h.-rs o-o to t he railway
company t hat issued them and obtain
their value in money. Most men. how
ever, do neither, ami accept the loss
when the ticket is worth less than one
dollar. Indeed, many men do not real
ize that railway companies stand rra.lv
to redeem unused tickets, even of small
value, so that the companies must be
richer by many t hoilsands of dollars x-r
year by reason of this ueo;lei-t or io-no-ran.-c.
Kvery railway ticket bears t he name
of the o-eneral pas.s-iio;,.r aircnt
of th- road issiiino; the same. It is a
simple matter to inclose the ticket with
a let ter directed to the cviicral passeli-o-,.-
ao-cnt. askino; him to refund the
money paid, and explainino-t ),,- reason
why the ticket is left unused ill Unhand-ot
t he purchaser. It is courteous
to inclose a stamped envelope ill which
the money may be returned.
When all these thino-s have been
done, says the Xew York Sun. the
i ipany usuall y aekiiow lc.lovs t he re
ceipt of the t i. -Let holder's com in ii ii i.-a-tioii
and promises to invest io-ate the
matter. The investigation consists in
the proper i.lent itieat ion of the ticket
ami a little b .kkeepino; t o set all rie-ht
in the accounts. Then the purchaser
receives from t he coinpany a check for
the amount due. alone; with a letter
re. piest in;.' ack now ledo;iuen t on the part
of the recipient. That closes 1 he trans
action, and there is no material loss on
either side.
FRENCH LOSSES IN WAR.
Six .Million Men Sal. I to Have t'erUheil In
the Warn of the l ast Century.
Ir. Lao-eiicau of the French academy
of medicine has been iiiakiiio; an esti-iii-ate
of the deaths by the wars of
France for the past century. lie funis,
accordino-to t he New York Sun. that
the civil wars of the end of the eight
eenth century and of the republic up
to and iiiclu.lino; t he year I sun cost the
livesof more than "J. l jil.iiu.l Frenchmen.
From the year lsnl to Waterloo, when
France was tio-htino; Kurope in arms,
more than :!. I.'.u.ihhi Freiichuieii were
cii-r-urcd and nearly '.i.tiiM.tHi'i perished.
I n. h-r tin- restoration. Louis Thillipe
ami the second republic, wln-n there
were campaigns in Spain. . recce,
an.l AIo-'uts. the army included less
than -J1.-..IHHI men. and the loss in battle
v. 'is only twenty-two per thousand.
Lvcu in the brilliant African campaign.-
t!ie mean annual loss was less than l.r.u
men.
Next came an era of frequent and
bl.Midv wars, the war in t he 'i iniea.
the war in Italy. he war in t'hina. the
war in Mexico, and final l y t he w ar w it h
Trussia. Out of rather less t han :'.ll.
t Kin French soldiers sent to the Crimea
'.i.Yi'.i:. perished. Of the ".ml. nun that
t.x.k part in the Italian war nearly
p.i. nun perished. Nearly I.ihi.i perished
in t he expedit ion to China. The med
ical statistics of the French in the war
of ls7u have not been published, nor
have those of the Mexican u udert a k iii;..
The effective st relict h of the French in
ls7u-71 was I.41M.1M111 men. The number
lost is not iositively known, but it is
believed that the wars of the second
empire co, t 1 .ilii't.UiKi lives. lr. Ii itfi'
neaii -stimati-s that the small wars of
the third republic have been fouo-ht at
compurat ivcly small cost of human life
He estimates the total loss for the cen
tury to have been IS, IHHI.IHHI of men,
mostly youno-.
BAD CHIMMIE FADDEN.
Ite M btltehaveA llinkielr on itoaril a New
York Car.
A small boy carry in a bitr catre. with
a parrot in it. j-'..t aboard a Third avenue
"L" train at Fourteenth street the
other day and took a scat next to a
benevolent-look inp; man weariii"; a
white tie, says the New York World.
The Imiv set the caov down in front of
him and, as the train started, the par
rot bee-ail to mutter in most unintel
ligible fashion. The lcnevolciit-look-ui
L man -glanced up from his pap-r and
said :
'Nice parrot, isn't he?"
"Yep."
"Is he yours?"
"Nop; m" uncle's "
"W hat s his name?"
"Chimuiie Fadd u."
"Can he talk?"
"O' course; hello, Chimmie!" Wndin";
over the eajre.
"W hat tell: what fell! what fell:"
screamed the bird, without an instant's
hesitation.
The beiievolent-lookiiip man (fot red
in the face, and a pirl across the car
piplled. ilther passeiifrers laujfheil.
also. The owner of the white tie g-ot
In-hind his newspaper, while the small
Kiy looked innocently out the window.
AN M. T.'S INFATUATION.
A iMIMr sllC IIIIII KKM K.
The peneral impression ainono- Jim
Tereival's friends was that he mic-ht
have done a (rood di-al l-tter for him
self than he .li.l in his matrimonial
vent lire.
An M. V., with a j-afe s-at an.l de
cided abilities, youiio-, o-iXNl-lookjato;,
well connected, but havilio- only a
limited income, he was just the man
w ho should have married money, and
this is exactly w hat he had not done.
He met his wife in Taris during a holi
day trip. She was a pretty, viva
cious Irish woman, lady-like and at
tractive, but she had no fortune, and
was of no particular family. The M.
T.'s friends shook their heads over the
match, and all fell convinced that Ih--fore
lono- he would find out what a
mistake he had made.
There could ! no doubt that under
tin- circumstances his marriage was an
imprudent one. With his eiht hun
dred pounds a year Tereival had
subsisted comfortably i'imu;'li as a
bachelor, but as a married M. T. he
found that his income went simply no
way at all. To cut himself off from so
ciety ami to live with his w ife in econom
ical seclusion was, of course, out of the
question. It would have made him un
popular with his const it ueiits. as well
as with certain influential friends in
town, to w hose o;,MMl i.ftices he looked
for st-ciiriiio- somt post in the ov.-rn-inciit
when his party came back to
power. And as he had no profession,
but had 1 auiichcd himself for o;.h..1 or
ill upon a parliamentary career, it
would have lx-cii madness in him to
prejudice his cha nces of political pre
ferment. The natural consequence followed.
Tereival e;..t into debt. He consoled
himself first of all for out rmiiiinc; the
constable by the consideration that his
party must soon return to power, and
then he should be able to recoup his
present ex-M-nditure. Hut the radicals
remained "in" session after session;
the looked-for general election came
no nearer, and Tereival l-cc-an to feel
very luo;uf-ious indeed. He already
owed nearly one thousand pounds
a crushino; liability to a man with
a small income and ho capital: in
deed, he did not attempt to distruise
from himself that unless smuethinc;
very unexn-cted turned up he must
soon In hopelessly insolvent. 1 1 is wife
had lone; 1-ccn uic;ino- immediate ami
ririd retrenchment, but. each time she
mentioned it Tereival shook his head.
The house was in committee on a
bill which was Ix-inc- fought tooth and
nail by the opposition, and lire-cut
whips had It-ell issued to the members
of both parties to In- as frequently as
possible in their places. Tut there
were many dreary intervals of debate,
when no bio; division was imminent,
and dm inr those intervals Tereival did
not alw ays remain in the precincts of
the house.
lb- mio-tit no doubt have sin-nt them
at home or in escorting his wife to -.lie
or other of the numerous s.n-ial func
tions which, for his sake, she so re
lio;iously attended. Hut in his worried
state of mind the dullness of a domes
tic eveiiino;, or the yet deadlier bore
dom of a political conversazione, was
uninviting. He preferred to forget his
troubles in more eiiliveliini -scenes.
Within a mile of the Talace of West
minister tliere is. as all the world
knows, a famous theater of varieties.
It is under unexceptionable manage
ment; it puts forward the strongest
ami most enterprising programme of
the kind in London. One evciiiiio; lur
ine; a particularly drowsy debate a fel
low M. T. had siijrjresteil to Tereival
that they should run across to the .
and set- the Tainlow dausciisc. Terei
val had complied. After that nijjdit
he went to see her pretty retrularly.
.lust In-fore the .dance the staire was
darkened; behind loomed a back ground
of murky clouds, e-Ioomy as the sky
before an iinpeiidino; thunderstorm:
then a brilliant blaze of sunlight burst
upon the shadowed scene, and whirl
injf wildly in its da.lmo- rays ap
peared the famous I la in how dansc use.
What a sio-ht that was! How dexter
ously she manao-.-.l her mass of (,'nr
o;eous ilraperies, which floated all about
her, and sw irled and spun like a rc-volvino-
wheel. At times uothino; but
the tlashino; hues of thesi- roln-s was
visible; at other times a lovely face,
crowned with e-olden yellow Licks,
st 1 out aiuone; 1 ln-iii. radiant, spirit
ual, superb - and then, while this en
traneiiir apparition smiled and the
audience c'apcd and shouted, rum
blings of t h il m Ier r. .1 led u pi ui the air;
clouds overcast the sunliirht; and,
amid their o;athcriur t,'l.'iii, ttie Kaiu-l-ovv
goddess faded slowly from the
scene.
If it had ended with his merely a.l
1 1 1 i r i 1 1 o- this ravishino; lK-auty from a
distance, all mio-it have la-en well.
Tut such infatuation as Tereival's was
not satisfied to confine itaelf within
those modest limits. A strong desire
came over him to make her personal
acquaintance. He inilit, of course, to
have withstood it. lt should have been
jN-rfectly obvious to him that, in piv
ino; way to his desire, he wa volun
tarily thrusting himself into the path
of dano-er.
Tut lie (rave way, nevertheless. He
went farther. He actually addressed
one or two letters to the youiifj- lady.
To his c;reat chao-nn she sent him no
reply. At last, in despcratiou. he pro
cured an introduction to the manager
of the X.. and la-souo-ht that gentle
man's aiil in his foolish and culpable
project.
".I ust so," said the manager, rather
coldly. "Well. Mr. Tereival, I will
communicate your wish to the youno;
lady, and will then let you know her
reply. I cannot hold out hopes that it
w ill lie favorable, for a nuiuWr of oth
er e-eiitlemen have desired introduc
tion to her. and have all la-en refused.
You sec, she is a simple, modest jrirl.
who is merely usin"; her talent to sup
ja.rt her family, and has no desire for
a circle of male admirers. However,
as I said, I w ill tell her that you wish
to le introduced."
The followiiijF tiipht when he ought
to have la-en in his place in the i..... ,c,
listening to the ministerial leader's
statement, he was hovering near the
stage door of the X. He had made up
his mind to follow- his goddess home,
and so find out her private address.
Tereival hail a cab waiting for him
at the corner. He noticed another cab
drawn up opposite the stage dix.r. He
strolled up and accosted the driver.
"You're a lucky man to have such a
charming fare," said Tereival care- j
lessly.
"Oo said I 'ad a charmin fare?" re
torted the man, suspiciously. Then
he added: "If that's your sort, you no
feller, you may save yourself the
trouble of doin the civil to me. For
she's a thoroughly god young "in. man.
1 can tell ver. and won't stand no fol
lowers f.M.lin' around - not she:'
Tereival affected to laugh and
strolled away. In a few minute. he
saw the girl hurry out and get into her
cab. Then he jumped into his own
having instructed the driver to follow
the other vehicle and keep it carefully
in sight.
When they had driven alxuit a mile
his cab stop-. I. The M. T. got out.
lie saw the young lady alighting fr.-m
her cab alx.ut a hundred yards ahead.
She turned and walked rapidly away.
W ith a l-atiiiLr heart and trembling
steps, hi- followed her. keeping an in
terval of seveuty or eighty yards ln--tween
t hi-iii.
She had not alighted at her own
door, but at the end of a street of pri
vate houses, down which she was now
walking. Tereival realized with a
certain thrill of uneasiness that il was
T htreet, the street ill which his
own house w as sit ua ted Cut some lut:r
worse was in store. The young hi.i y
stopia-d. apM-ared to In- carefully scru
tinizing the liumU-rs. then, afler some
evident hesitation, she walked straight
up to the d.N.r of Tereival's house and
rang the lelL A minute later she was
admitted.
All at once the truth flashed Umiii
the unhappy M. T. There could, of
Course. In no doubt upon the subject.
This young lady, annoyed and fright
ened by his a-rsisteiit attentions, and
seeing that silent disdain had no ef
fect in stopping them, had taken the
ready and effective method of report
ing him to his wife:
Tereival leaned against some iron
railings, near which he stood and
wiN-! his clammy forehead with hi
han.lke rchic f. His dismay was al
together li-voii l words. If he had
In-cii on bad terms with his wife it
love on either side had ceased U-tween
them - if she had not K-eti rlVctlv
lon.l and trusting toward him In ui.l
have sLmhI the thing In-tter. Tut a--it
was he felt like a man who had sud
denly received a k hock-dow it blow.
Ilis knees were trembling violently:
a sense of sickness, of faint lu-ss. stoic
over him; in the face of this fearful ex
Jiosure his infatuation for the lancu-c
seemed to die: for the first time he
seemed to realize w hat an abject id;..;
he iiad la-en.
It was a long time la-fore he could
make up his mind how to act. II.
patrolled the street for more than hal.
an hour la-fore he had decided and a
bad half hour he found it. Then he
t.aik a sudden resolution. Mt. would
go in and make a clean breast of tin
whole affair to his wife. That, aftel
all. was the most honest, and, proba
bly, the most prudent course. She
might, or she might not la-lieve him;
but he would tell her all the truth,
express his sincere ia-hitt-iice, and
throw himself upon her mercy.
He nerved himself to the effort. He
went in. He entered the drawing
room. His wife was now alone, she
looked up at him with a cold, altered
expression, that made him wince. Tut
he la-rsevcred. He spoke. Hetoldlicr
all. She averted her face, and hear. y
his confession to the end in ominous
silence.
"And so. Jim, my make-up, mv
goldeii wig. and my wedding drajeries
to say nothing of the shifting lights
an.l the shadows thrown upon one,
ha filed even your a-netration, eh. sir?"
Jim was staring at his pretty wife,
w ho had now risen and stood la-fori-him.
smiling archly, in evident enjoy
ment of Jiis obvious relief and astonish
ment.
"And you fell in love with my- make
up. For that is what it comes to,
iha-sii't it, .1 i in"."
"T.y Jove:" he exclaimed with em
phasis, "that explains it. It was your
eyes that did it. little girl. They drevv
me to the theater night after night t
worship you. I could not resist thcit
sH-ll. 1 could not explain it to myself.
Yet I felt there was something half
familiar in their magnetic influence
upon me. To think I never guessed.
Ty Jove: I was a duffer. I ought to
have known that no such ot her eyes
were to la- found in all Kngland:''
"Or in all America, either?" ques
tioned the Tainbow dausciisc, playful
ly. Jim's explanation was. uncon
sciously, the most diplomatic that he
could ha vc ih-v ised. Those incompara
ble eyes la-ame.1 upon hi in with tender
nessand loving humor.
"Hut, I say," asked Jim. an idea
striking him, "these social functions
which you have la-en attending so as
siduously for the past few months
have they la-en simple blinds to dupe
your unsuspicious husband eh. Jen
nie?" "Xot at all, sir. I went to them all.
Tut as my 'turn' at the theater lasted
only ten minutes or so, I was able to
go there as well. T.esi.les," she added.
with the slightest tinge of playful re
proach in her tone, "you have nt la-en
at home enough lately to miss me very
much, have you, Jim?"
"Ty Jove'." he cried. "Til turnover &
new- leaf in that respect to-night."
He went up. placed his arm round
his wife, and kissed her fondly. She
leaned her head upon his shoulder and
held up a pink slip of paia-r to his
eyes.
"There: I tear old J ini!" she exclaimed.
"Mr. Y has paid me--w hat do
you think? Fifty pounds a week.
That is a check for ten weeks' salary.
At this rate your Uainlx.w o.aldess
w ill siam dance you clear out of debt
won't she, Jim?"
And she sm did. London Truth.
EPIGRAMS OF LINCOLN.
Wk cannot escape history.
Lkt none falter who thinks he is
right.
Comk what will, I will keep my faith
with friend and f a'.
Al.i. that I am, all that I hope to be 1
owe to my angel mother.
Til kuk is no grievance that is a lit
object of redress by mob law.
Tins country, with its institutions,
belongs to the people w ho inhabit it.
1 Ai TiioKi.F. no bargains for the presi
dency, and will la- bound by none.
FoK thirty years I have been a tem
perance man, and 1 am too old to
change.
Xo man is gixnl enough to govern an
other without that other's cou.-euL
A BOTTOMLESS PIT.
Kmloratton of a l'eeullar t air r ortaimtioa
in I riirr.
Among the m.jst remarkable of na
ture's wonders t he subterranean pit at
Jean Nouvcau. near Yaui-luse. France,
which reaelii s a ilept h of live hundred
and fort v feet, while n.nih.-r.- more
than twelve feet wide, has only recent
ly la-en explored. The French "society
of ."-la hs.logv o-avi- study i erected a
derrick at the month of the pit which
la-gills w ith a fl.tllli-I tittecll feet w i.le
at t he top and narrows down t.itlinr
feet al a depth of ala.llt twenty feet.
From here down the crevice in the
ria-k. for such it is, extends vertically,
getting w i.l.-r as it extends decja-r. un
til at a depth of a I -out four hundred
and seventy-five feet it is twelve feet
wide. At this ;a inl tin- shaft o'a-ns
into a roomy cave in w hich just la-ticath
the oa-ning of tin- vertical pit a thick
layer of clay, containing remains of
Im.iu-s. la.th human and annual, was
found. The explorers found no evi
dence that the place had ever la-en vis
ited by man. but tradition has it that
criminals w.-n- thrown into the "la.t
toiuless pit ." as it was j .pularly cal led
in t In- in-ighl m rl, a al. and t hi- remains in
the cave just la-Heath the shaft tend to
corrola.rati- this la-iicf.
The descent made into the shaft was
exceedingly ditlicilit; it established the
fact that there must la-a further cave
far la-low the one now kn-Vii. but the
crevice t hrough which it is accessible
is clanked up wit h debris and l.wl.lcrs
so that it will la-a very difficult mailer
to penetrate further into the cave than
has la-.-ii .'ion.. The ileea-st point
reached in t his crevice is five hundred
and ninety-three feet underground.
re at q u a ni il ic- i f water rush 1 hr. ngh
the shaft at every time there is a storm,
st il 1 no trace of water w as found in t he
cave explored, which proves that some
ot her subterranean exil must exist.
USES FOR OLD RAILS.
A l.n-al Amount of ltar!Ml- ire Fencing
1. Mh.1i- of 1 h-m.
In speaking of the use of old rails re
ceti'lv. says the Kailway Tev'n-wer. an
o:licial of the Pennsylvania railroad
staled the life of a rail oil the Telillsyl-
vania lines west i al.ut eleven years
and on the Tetihsv Ivania railr.ia.l only
nine v ears. The difference is perhaps
due to heavier tratlic on the Tetinsy 1
vania railroad. The friction .f con
stantly passing trains wears on the rail
until it must la- replaced by a new one.
Tin- company pays twenty -four dollars
a ton now twenty-two dollars and
the rails used oil that line average
eight y-ti ve ja inn. Is to the yard. When
it has passed its useful stage the rail is
r.-pla 1.
The old raiis that are taken out from
time to time are gathered up every
month and sold to junk and scrap deal
ers at twelve dollars a ton. It can read
ily la- seen thai the company pays only
tv clvc dollars f..r 1 he u-e f raiis per
toll. The price received from the scrap
man is a g.Mal figure, w h.-n it is known
that t hi- rails, when soid. are of no use
to the company. Kails thai are not
much w oru are sold to fadorics along
tin- road al eighteen doilars ja-rton.
where they are used for sidings and an
swer the pur-a.se .juitc as well as new
rails. There are many Uses to which
the old rail is put. A great amount of
barb-w ire fencing is made of railroad
iron and very often the raiis are Used as
foiindat ions for ;arge buildings. There
are not many a-..ple who know that
the Masonic temple ill t hicago rests on
a foimdal ion of steel rails, layer upon
layer, six feet deep.
A CANINE CURIOSITY.
' Koier," a Hit; New rouii.llanii Tramp
IK of I'm -iii-..
There is a Newfoundland dog at Tut-in-Hay
that is certainly a curiosity. His
name is Kov-er and he is known at
every house and hostelry on the island.
Years ago he was named by Mr. Jav
Ciaike. 1 hi- m :! 1 iotiaire baiiKcr and
ow n.-r of iibra :tar. t he cliff-girt little
island that nestles in the laooui of
Tut -in-Hay. hardly yet separated from
its parent mother by a narrow line of
shoals. Mr. Cooke had no use for Kover
and gave him away when he was quite
young to a family on t he i-land of the
name of T. a-lting. In t he course of time,
says the HulTalo Commercial, the K.a-1-fing
family moved away and T.. .ver. who
had grown into tine prop, irt ions, was
left alone without a master. Several
times attempts were made to domicile
the brute, but they were of no avail.
He cither would not forget his old mas
ter or else had determined to la- true to
his name and lead a roving life. At
any rate, for the past three or four
years Kover has la-en the tramp dog of
tin- island, without any home. Kvi-ry-b.aly
likes him. and thure is not a child
that d.a-s n..t have him a piece of meat
or crust of bread. He makes the rounds
from house to house, and always seeks
the kitchen door first. He is round,
fat and sleek, and lives on the fat of
the land and is the common proa-rty of
the island.
tier Con unit runt.
It is often hard tit determine hit from
"g.aal wit" in the ease of children, and
Some of their flashes of prec.a-it y scent
Hot to la- unconscious- but rather the
fragment of some remembered knowl
edge. A tilth maid of five, who tia.l
la-en listening quietly to the puzle-.
ami conundrums of the older children,
seemed at last t divine the mcth.al of
their construction, and, after some
thought, asked: "What could you get
on a very high, steep mountain?" T he
answers were ice. snow, r.aks, eagles'
nests an.l the like, to all of which tin
1 it t le oln- H-rsistetlt 1 V s!i. a ik her head.
W hen asked to tell the answer she tri
umphantly cried: "Nothing:" "Hut
why?" asked the others, in a breath.
"T.ecause you couldn't get up tliere
after it," was the demure reply.
COMMERCIAL POINTERS.
Cai.ifoksia evajmrated pears are ex
ported. KxpoKTSof Irish wool were prohibited
in ir.21.
A Sanih sky ill.) gritcer sells eggs by
the peck.
KMii.ANtt imports ( ;,oo,tMO worth of
potatoes every year.
Sri. ih At k of zinc is used to render
molasses pure amla-r color.
Amkkicans used fr..ti'.'"..or.s pounds of
oleomargarine last year.
It is estimated that the annual Kales
of Herman toys in Euglaud amount to
i.-J.(HHI.lHHl.
It is calculated that over lU.tHHl.tHK)
Is annually spent in tobacco aud pipes
in the United Kingdom.
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