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I:ut the little roseliud nods on by the wall, Caressed by the winds so free; And the blue-eyed girl Swings in the mad whirl I'nheeding the song and me. till, wise little rosebud and wise little girl. Why turn to the dark ere you must? Xd on and laugh on Till your pleasures are gone. Live to-day! For the morrow trust! Johnstone Murray, in Womankind. A QUEEU ADVENTUKE. It liaiuMMicd aliout seven years ar. 1 hul liecn traiKsacting; stmie business in London, and was returning: by the aftoriitHni mail to my lioiuc in the coun try. lJcinjj the only occulta nt of the cur riajjrf in w liich I rilc, 1 bioUc tlie teilinni of the journey by reading, in the dun lig-htof the chill IK-ccdiIkt day, some of the several jieriodicals with which I had furnished myself at the tiookstall previous to my departure lrorn the sta tion. The papers at that time were full of accounts respecting1 sc. ft -tart ling out rages ctiuuitted just previously by a baud of deserale nihilists, who, in their own particular mt-nner, were levying war uioii civilization iu a well-known European capital. The lejnjrts were alaniiiiig-ly graphic, and an air of in security was engendered oy reading them, for rnuior had it thi't the ramifi cations were well-nigh limitless, ex tending into other lands lieides their ow 11, and it was plainly hiuled that Eng land was shortly to rece:e ix social share of their attentions. I read on until the growing darkne'-s rendered the operation too ditlicult to Ix- longer indulged iu, ami then mused 11 1 Km what I had read fntil, half my journey beii.g accimplislitd, it became necessary for me to change my train. Willi a quarter of au houi to spare, I entered the bullet attached to the sta tion at which I haj stopped, with the object of obtaining' some needed re freshment. Having eaten nothingsince breakfast, -I was hungry, nud hokc;l round for something substantial where with to appease m appetite. The only available thing beside the usual sandw ich was aCermau sausage, which I lugan to tackle without the least compunction. Althou;,. not an edible that I usually indulged in to lie correct, 1 had never liefore tasted it the inelegant polony seemed to my sharpened palate quite toothsome food, anil 1 ate vigorously, and felt, as 1 1 lieved, all the letter for it when the time came to resume m v journey. 1 had a eompanien this time, a man who, like myself., was closely wrapped, and who occupied the seal directly op posite to the corner one in which I placed myself. In his hand 1 noticed t hat he carried a small, oblong parcel, incased in brow u paper and tied with a strip of thin string, so at ranged as to form a loop for the fingers that held it On starting, my fellow-traveler made a few commonplace remar ks alxut the weather, and later on, with an air of decided sociability, offered mehisllask. 1 am aware that it is not ordinarily ad visable to accept hospitality iu I his w ay from a stranger, and it is a thing 1 al ways set my face egaitisl. but, in this instance, I broke through my custom and took the proffered drink, and then, drawing my wraps closely around me, snuggled into my corner, and tried to make myself comfortable for the rest of the ride. I had not lieen long thus ensconced when a kind of drowsy stupor liegan to creep over me, which steadily increased, despite repeated efforts on my part to shake it off. As I bat in this semi con scious state, my 'hough to reverted to the nihilistic literature I had Ix-cn read ing, and instant ly it occurred to me t hat the brandy I bad been crinking wa drugged. The thought was not a pleas ant one, and somewhat alarmed by it, I made a farther attempt to rouse my self from the lethargy into which I was falling, but without success. Suddenly I lost consciousness entirery.antl every thing became a blank. It wa-sonly for a few moments, how -ever, for my senses returned as quickly as they had left nie. although my power of ;u'tion was quite gone. I seemed liko a person under the influence of some mesmeric spell, from which there is no escajM. In this condition my gaze in stiiictivelv turned to my conpanion, and 1 noticed, us I thought, a mysteri ous change in his appearance. II is com plexion had assumed a malignant air. his eyes wore a wild look, and round his mouth there curled a cunning smile. As I sat watching him, lie licgaii tv undo the parcel in his hands, and draw ing away the paper in which it was in closed, exposed to view a box apparent ly made of tin. A little hinged door on one of its sides, which he presently opened, showed that, the interior was filled with a siieeies of clockwork ar rangement, and instinctively I guessed that the tiling 1 Ix-held was one of thos.; diabolical inventions which have come to be known by liie term of infernal ma- hiiies. On behclding this horrible engine of destruction, which, for aught I knew, might be fnsed ready for its dreadful work, mv first thought was to stretci out my hand for the communication cord, and, by stopping the train, letthc authorities know the manner of man they wejt carrying; but, on at tempt itig to rise, I found that my limbs utterly refuse-d their office, and I was as he-lp-less as though I had Wen Itound hand and foot. My companion, evidently divining ny intention, spoke. "You are powerlcs to move, he said. addressing1 Rie. "The xtion iiiihilie.l from my Ibusk is a sjxfial dectct io 1 w hich will prevent act ion on your part for some lime to corte. So sit. still an. I listi'ii! You k now . doubt less, what this is." he mtiniu-d, i-oinliu"; t; the li. which Ir.- had pl:o-ed on tbe scat lesiie j.ini, ard most likely vo l guess what I aui av the : ai time. In casr you ilu not, I will tell yon atemcethat I am one of that noble band who have for their object, in Mfc the emancipation of man kind from the runny of authority!" "In either wends, you are a nihilist n elynamitaid?" I suggested. 'lse those- 1erms if you like," lie re plietl. "'1 here is nothing iu a name. Acts are the things whereby men are judged. l!t'iirw!ial I have to say! TI: society to which I lielong has elecreed the immediate doom of an authorita tive rule?, aud with t hat object has elis patcheel emissaries far and w ' te car ry out its behests. A big blow is shortly te; lie st ruck, and there is not- a country in the- whole of Eurtipe which will es-e-aje it. liussia. (Germany, Austria. France, all are' e'emde'inned, ami even England, the- vauuletl homo tif the free, is not to lie exempt. At the present moment, there are 111 picke'el men. arme-el wiih the meKst eleatlly bombs, in London itself, awaiting the signal to e-eunnience'. One more' worker is re epiired, and I am e-emimissioned to find some one to supply the want. I have done so. anil my choice falls upon yeui!" I stJirte-el ill iny seat at these werds. tit tercel 111 a fiercely earnest tene. He conclude'd : "Yeui, yes, yon must, liecomc one of '.is; must enroll -oursclf uutler the ban ner of emancipation, ami strike a blov for bU rly!" "And what if I ref use?" I inquired, as quietly as my excitement would allew. He h-ane-d feirward, ami hisseel rather then sjHike iu my e-ar: "If yeu will not elo this, then you yemrself are eloome-il! Mark me, un less you jtin our ranks you will never leave this train alive!" "Who will prevent me?" I asked, again inak ing a vain ende-avor to rise. "I will!" he shoute'd, fiercely. "I elefy you!" I exclaiiue-d. with a firmne-s I elid not really fe'e-l, thiuking t hat a eletermineel attit tide might ies.si - bly overawe him, for assassins are in variably eowarels. 1 was mistaken in my man, however, for on hearing my words he put his hand under t he e-loal. that, eiive'lopenl him and elrew forth Milliard, the shnrp-Mintil elge of whie-h he felt critically w ith the tip ol his lingeT. "1 will give you one minute in whie-h tj cejiisider your de-cision," he said, "aud if at the end of that time-vein re main obdurate', then this blaele jren's straightway through your heart!" In order. I suppose-, to amuse- himself during the interval he pr:e-ke-el several holes with the point of the- insti ume-iil in his arm just aloc the wrist, from each of which the blooel sepuirted in small, purple jets, shewing how sharp was the w capon's e-dge. In a litt le w hile he said : "The time is up. What say you now?" "What I said liefore," I replied. "Do your worst!" Instantly he sprang to his feet and e-luU-hed me by the throat. "t'eivv artl !" 1 e-ried, half choking, as I was, and struggling in his iron grasp. The e-pithe-t seeme-d to madden him. for his faere lnt-ame liil with sudden rage, his eyes glared wildly and his breat h came in t hick and hurried gasp:--. "You shall never say that again!" he-shoute-d, tightening his hold until the bl.K'l swelled up iu my face and my e-ye-s se-emeel ready to burst freun their socket s. Willi the e-ne-rgv of elet-pa'r 1 made 'on final :i I teni t to ree-ove-r my miwci f ai-linn. and felt tha' I was suce-e-e-O ing Tin e-tTect eif the potion wis evi dently working olT. ami with us' re turning to my limbs I realized that now was my time. ('eiie-e-utrating all the strength I had into one tremendous effort, I manage-el to free nivse-lf from his grip and immediately close-el with him. We struggled viole-ntly together for a few seeonds, neither gaining tin mastery, and the-n I stumbled and we lolh fell to tbe ground, he upH'rniost. It se-emed that my hour wa-s come, for in his baud he held the deadly wcaKm. As i saw the gleaming blaele descend in one swift stroke I raise-d my voie-e and shouted "Tickets, please! All tickets ready!" It was the summous of the -eille-etor. 1 rubbed my eyes ami loeked around. There was my fellow travele-r sitting quietly on the seat opiMjsite, re-garding me. with an amused expre-ssien on his face. "lleen sleeping?" he querieel, as my gaze caught his. "I supjKise 1 have," was my hazv re ply. "And tlreaming, 1oe," he added, with a smile; "unpleasantly, I should guess, by yeiur manner." It wa.s se. The sultstantial repast of which I hae partake-n had lee-n the means eif bringing on a heavy slumlier which laste-tl right em te my jotirney'.s e nd. and the fearful adventure through which I had lie-en passing was not, as I had imagined it, a thing ef reality, but tinly a heirriel nightmare, engen-ele-reil by the reception of a mass of in eligestible foenl into a constitutionally dyspept ie stomach. My companion, of course, was no more a nihilist than I was. The only fusible article insidt his brown-ptiH-r parcel was a Ikix containing a hundred choice cigars; anel his ila.sk, he assureel me, held nothing more iujurious U the system than a quantity of fine old t'eignae. As I relateel to him the experience through which I had gone he indulged in a hearty laugh, and, while I could not refrain from jeining him. even at my own exjiense, I inwardly registere-el a vow to give ("ernian sausage a very wide lierth for the future. Tit-Bits. THEIR NAMES NOT KNOWN. A New York man w ho rMse-overeel a lire in a tenement, early a few morniogs atr aremse'd the sleeping inmates by firing a pistol several times in the hall. A new York !lerist has just aid $li.0oo for the sede rights to I he Mich igan carnation known as "Mtirella." It is a very large flower of a elecp reel color. A KietX clerk went chess mael recent ly. He threw tip his Ksition, played chess all day long, aotl when he ceiul l find no partner played alone. Finally he Iniught a rope ami hanged himself. A yeiiug woman of Lyons, who had probably ri'ad "Hoccaccio," but not Kogers" "Cinevra," shut up one lover in a trunk when another kmx-keel at her eloer. She then went out ami for get ail aliout the matter till the next day. when she found the man ill th"; trunk dead and the ioliee unwilling to ae-cept her explanation. . THE STORY OF AN 1. 1). B. "Well, old mail," e.il an unfamiliar oiee, as 1 was waiting for my train at Liverpool street, "you're not a day older, t'.oing home to ten. in the same old, ;teaely fashion? What, don't you know nieV 1 ishoulel have known you any wiieie!" With puzzleMleyesTtiirneel and stared at a big, bror..e-d leardeel man whom I hail no reeeille-tiein of havinpr sie'n Ih fore. He laughed loudly at my er plexity so louelly tliat several people stare-el at u, which as a staitl e-ity man, hating to be conspicuous. I very much elisliked. Consequent ly it was in no frienelly iasJiion t hat 1 eye-el thestranger who thus noisily e-lainieel ae-epiaictane-e. "Don't you renu-mber Harry IKiwn ham," he sa"nl. at last, "who workeel miller you in that tlug-hede of an eifiw-e king age w he-re I supiose you're still giiiuling on in the same old way? Shake!" he adeled, peremptorily, thrust ing out a. huge sunburnt hand with which he gntsia-d mine till my lingvn were rtrushe'el. "Now yoti must come? ami eline w ith me. Your w ife? Oh! she won't mind j-our playing truant fir once;" ami in a short time my master ful acquaintance anel I were se-jile-el op isit eaeh other in a well-known le-staura nt. Yes. I tliel now rejnembf r him. Hut he was cJiangeel inib-ed from the slim young fellow w ho had Ut-n tJieflightietit clerk in the office, iinel whose fchort-e-oming-s had, after inniimenible gruudi-bug-s on the part of tlie firm, leel to his dismiss;U. Oce-asional surmise-s had since bet-n indulgexl in by his femie-r comradets as to his i-jtxeer, none ef tiiem of a oomplimeut&ry k'uid, as I candid ly remarked. "They weren't so far wrong," he an swered, oarelefssly. "1 was never fit for humdrum life and Wicks aud mortar. '1 he ivilil frcedemi of uncivilized regions v as my iele-ul. Would you like te hear my aleiit.ures? tlwiugh your rigitl re sectability may be somewhat rudely isliockcel." Of course I assenteel. One aJwayshas a certain curisity aliout an ae-quaint-ane-e who eliyapjienrs in imiecuuions j,-uise, and turns up years aftei w ards with all the external signs of wealth which Downham showcel in rather tew preinotinceil a fashieni for goewl taste. "When ha e you come from?" I saiel looking at his breinze-el face, curiously "Freun Seiuth Africa. Iiii'lel nt Southampton two elays age. Am I go ing Imck? No, sir, not. much. It wouldn't lie healthy. The e-ountry's oo hot -in all senses. I've made my pile, and am going to settle down in the south of France, when my siste r's lte'n living as a (,overtiess for yeeti-s. IiKr girl, she'll know what leisure anil lux ury are now; ami there's a charming place I've liought there. Climate anil surroundings justsuit me, for my eJiest, big as I look, sometimes gets w rong. "What have 1 done in South Africa? All sortes ef things. Hut my last and most. er iat.her seh. successful pa rt was that, of an I. D. I ." I hxikeel at him in some perplexity, for what, he meant I could not gnss. He watchi'd me with an amused smile. "You rsee-m puzzle-l, olel man." he said. "It's nothing to do with elynamite (I starteel being a nervous man). Not but w hat explexsions of a sort are son." tiieies its eonsequence. I thejtight you knew what these mysterious initials meant. They're as plain in South Africa as A IJ C in your firgy island. I. 1). It. means an illicit diamond buyer. Au illicit diamontl is one which has lie'e'ii conve-yetl gooel word that. Shake-spearean, isn't it? from the mine in other than le-gal fashion. And there's a elul of legality, let me tell you. in diamond eligging. There's a tug staff of oilieiaJs to loek after it. Illicit eliamonds are usually feuind and elis-pirse-el of by the Kallirs ennplo.M-el in the mines though by no means only by I hem anel seld much lelew Ihei rvalue to well speculators like myse-lf. who take tJioir cJii;nce in iew ef t.he big predit." "Wliat?" I g;isiel. "Then you have ce-tually liought' stolen preiM-rty!" "Well," hi, saiel. enxlly refilling our glasses, "that's erha.s your way eif putting it here. It's not eurs iu South A:'rica. I!esides. I think I've he-aril e-ve-n in this resee'tiible city of money le-nd-e-i-- buying reversions fer a imre' song, and sieculateirs purchasing stoe-ks and share's from di spenelent hohlers. knetw ii;g secn-tJy that theise stocks and snares were going1 up in a elay eir two w 11 li a IhuhkI. Also of house's and land bought, from private, knowledge ef a s;.eeely ele-nnnd forthem. fora trifle, the se Hers lie'ing quite igi;erant of it. llavent you hi-sinl of such things?" I el id net reply. I was too much Uset. I!ere was I, a head clerk of many yi-ars standing, dining anil drinking cham pagne at the cost of an illicit diamonel buyer. "However," he nstiinel, somewhat tartly, "1 don't ask for your approval ; I simply wanted to amuse you with the -tory of my adventures; so you may ii.iagine I'm soliloquizing. "Why should the mining companie-s have the ni.inoMilv of all the diamond yielding districts?" he continued, in a t'e-rce tone (and I thought it Iie-st to elrink my chanijMigne sine-e t Jit- twit tie w as oKneel, and My nothing the'se adeiitunrs some-tinies e-arry reveilvers, I 5e liete). "There's a big profit in these things. The law is very strinyent. and there's gntit difficulty in passing the st-.nes from the finilea- to the I. I). 1. I.ut the profit tempts )ieeiile and in all classes, teie. let me tell you to engage el i re-c.t ly or inlirectly in the traffic "I liegan very niexhtst ly. and as ca ital iiicrea-K-tl I ine-reaseil my swcula tions. At last, suspicion was awakene-d, and I was seare-hed when leaving the fie'lds. Hut the searcher, though very pertinae-ious anil clever, had lieen seen by me lie fore I saw him. I was smok ing a big Dute-h pijic, ami this gave me an idea. 'Sublime tolmcco that from tJie east, to west! Y'ou elon't smoke yet, I suppose.? No! Oh, joue missed a good de-ul of life's pleasure's. Well. I epK-ei luy four diamonds into the big bowl. covered itwith "liaccy.anel v cut on puil.iigand chaffincr the se arch er. w ho w as burning toilistuigui-ih hiui-e-Jf. I knew that thus defeat would make him niore pertinaeious than ever. And too it was. Now I had I -ought of a Kaffir some. i. tones of great value, and how to get tieem out safely puzzled me not a little. Some fellows under similar eircumstanci's had recently tried vari ous dtxlgets which had lexig leen epii ia r. false boot heels, hoi low rid ing w h i ps, and so on, and Ln each case the dia monds had been discovered with very i' n pleasant onseepjone-es. For ye-ars of em:pulsory working at t he brealvwater. for instance, inay tie the result, and yet I was determined to chance it rather than lose these stones, which I shall never forget for the trouble they cost me. "After perplexing myself day and night my enemy X always liovering about near me a sudden ielea flashed into my bruin. I had a jvxrt ieolarly ugly bullelog who was of asurly elisjiosi tion, ami was much laughed at on ac count o: my fondness for him. The elog v.ere. a thick collar which was a neces sity, and that collar pave me the "tip. I remeiveel it, cut slis in t he insiele anel put the diamonds in them. As I was leaving- the fields. X, of course, jiounced on me, anel I affected a certain amount of uneasiness, .which produced on his mind corresKntling glee." Hen Downliam paused and 0eneel his ioeketlook, ami from it he took the photo of about as ugly, ferocious and elisreputable a bulldog as was ever asse ciated with heroes of tine Hill Sykees class. "Isn't he a beauty?" he sakl. fondly, ns he handed me the ploto. "1 shall al ways love that ioor dog; he died on tlie vojage home from tlie absurd preju elice. of some of the passengers w he didn't appreciate his play fid nature as I'm pretty sure and putshed him over board; a t any rat he disnpjieared. Yes. si r. t hat dog got my best haul t Jirough ! " "Didn't X sMrch him?" I timidly epieried. "Se.irch him! Everybody gave him as wide a lerth as they coidd they wen under delusions about him, pretty cre-ature! No poor Grip lay down, while the clever X was fussing about me, anel grow led at him. "Send that in fernal elog ef yours off,' he said, irri tably, and little did he think wlien I oKeelicnt.lv did so that be was sending off the biggest haul of I. D.'s he was eter likely to find. Of course he found nothing on me. and his r-Lge was a cau tion. However, he went off, ami some elays later I started homewards by leis urely stages. "I feit pretty secure by this time, and carrieel Uie diamonds in my pex-ket. Iiowever, as the train left the station for Capetown. I chanced to set one of the. diamond fields elettctivts jump in to thergnnirtl van. That was a suffie-ierit hint to me-, to make things snug, but how to get rid of the eliamouds t his time 1 could not see, as Crip wasn't accom panying me that journey. IxxkiDg lound tJie carriage, I saw a broken black liettle uneler the scat- There was my cache, as the I ndiatxs say." "Hut surely the detective," I milelly intersed, "would have looked under the scut?" "Well. I suppose he would," elulv re narked Downhaiu, "unless he were as bigan idiot as somepeople. J ust wait, my good friend. In-fore -ou credit a man w ith congenital ieliocy." I shrank back silent. He looked fierce and dagger-like, and on the whole I began to w ish I'd gone to Liverpool street for some other train. "What I did," he resumed, "was this: I wrapjied up all the stones in pieces of newspaper, and carefully put them into the lottle, tilling up the-spacee by more paper as tightly as possible. Then I looked care lets-sly- out of tlie window, smoking, but my eye always on the guard's van. When I saw notnxly look ing out of course the chap tlwuiglit I hadn't seen him, and was probably tell ing the guard what a fine haul he was going to make I quietly droppd tlie breken tKtttle clear of the line, marking the sot one's eye gets well trained eitit on the vehlt, you know." "At the next station up came tlie de tective. They have power to search sus pects, you know, and I was ae-corelingly rummaged again. Hut this chap, Z. let's say, was as unsticeessful and as riled as X. Of course, I hadn't a dia mond about me. And mut-h inelignation did I elisplay. Some days later 1 went back to the place where I elropped my black bottle, found it and its contents intact. After that Iliad no more ndven turefs with thtse stones, and they partly liought my place in the south of France, "Yes, they're very clever, those D. F. D.'s, and have many fieople in the'ir pay, both black arul white, calleel 'traps. They dem't usually make mistakes, but they eliel in ruy case. What do you think? conclude! Downham, empty ing his glass. What I thought I certainly was not going to say, and, ineleed, I hardly knew when I was. It was an aw f ul ex-lKrie-nce for a ste-nely-going1 man of business whose career has leen as un til filed as a duck pontl. I parted from him. however, with much outwanl e-ordiality. but I have not seen him since. I sincerely hope he will n-niain at his place in the south of France, which I snail carefully avttid if I ever visit the continent. t handlers Journal. In Ileal Life. "You have no heart," Pale, but tearh'ss. she stooel liefore him. and looked him squarely in the eye. She was poor, but proud. Adverse ftrtune hat! reelueeel her wardrolie to :t calie-o basis, driven Iter anel her only iiirviving mother to the top flat of a Wa leash avenue apartment lieuse. anel hanlenisl the lines aliout lier still beau tiful mouth, but it could not elim the luster of her blue-black eye or tame the uneoiK jiierable spirit that animate-el every fiber of the lissome form staneling cre-e-t with unconscious grace and await ing his answer. "You have no heart," she repeated. "No, miss," replied the butcher, "but we've got some mighty nice liver. Will that do just as well?" Chicago Trib une. Kdue-st Ion In Old Pern. Education was mouojiolized by the Incas and the nobility. The teachers were called "a mailt a " The "quipu" were the hooks. The epiipu was a small c"inl from one to two feet long, made of variously colore-el threaela twisted together. From this other anel thinner conls were hung, forming a fringe; all the conls were of elifferent colors. The colors representee' obje-cts, such as gold, silver; sevmetimea white signifieel ieace; red. war; but. they were chiefly used for calculation. WILLFUL WILLIAM. The Autocratic Methods German Emperor. of the Ilia PavMlon for Saying and Itolnc Things In A ttenaavtionml Manner lie I tterly Ignore the Makers ot the K nip l r. The most interesting figure in Europe at present is the young tierman em-pe-ror. He is tlie last of the kings among men who go Uethe housetop to prielaim that in their esacrcd M-rsens the stivereign rule's by "divine right," and that a king is still "the Ixird's anointed." Like to Webster'sedd seddier, he is a ruler that has come dow n to us fnun a former generation, or rathe-r a former age, the tlark or the miihlleeuie. when there was no pre-tension that royalty might not aspire to which was not reaelily acknow leelgeil by the jopular mind. The elde-r king might anel did claim that a divinity elid he-elge him aliout. and that the lejer who touched only the he-m ef the. royal mantle would elepart wheile anel c!e-an. and his claims to anythiiitr. natural or supernatural, were conccdeel to lee gienl. "The king can elo no wrong" is still a ple-asant legal fiction, but it was. once a matter of iepular lielief. Neilioely really lielieves it now. but the yeiung enqienir trie's te make it ajqu-ar as if every tmely lielieves it, anel he l::cs no doubt convinced himse-lf that he elen-s. How he ran do so in view of the criti cisms made upon him and his condue-t by even a jiart of the press of his own country and the e-aricature and rielicnle of the foreign newsjaers. esiiecially of the London Punch, seems inconipn-hen-sible. That he is not. at all like eine- of the. old kings of the middle aires, as he pretends to lie. who rulenl alesolutcly. w hose will or w him was the only law- of his suhjects. is easily demonst rate-el. neit only by the fact that the iH'ople have their representative le-gislat ure. who make the laws, impose taxes, and make or refuse to make appropriations, but that his olel chancellor. banishe-el and stripieel of all authority, can and eleies arraign and elefy him aud his jkiI iey. and cannot lie silenceel or punished fer his tilieluracy. The truth is that Emperor William is really a make-lielieve survivor of the old seirt of kings who ruled autocratically, absedutely. and. as was contended, w ere kings by di vine right. He does the most extraordinary things and says them, and all the world, even in Ilerlin. looks on at the Kectacle and laughs as if the kaiser were a king of a sprightly bur lesepie set liefore them on the stage. lit is always in evidvnee in one way or all ot her. and always suggesting an e-leler sort of royalty. At the lm liquet of the Hrandenburg elii't, stieaking aprojios of the silver jubilee of I !u empire, l.e made a iiumlier of exceedingly florid and se-n-time'iital refereni-es to the special grae-e of Heaven to him anil his house since he has lieen emieror. He exalted king ship ami nis graniltather directly. and thereby, iudii-ectly. himself. "What have we witnesseel," he sail, "and w hat has In-en elTecttnl. we owe sedely to the great Einpe-ror William and his trust in (ioil. The entire e-ele'brat ions of the victories of the German arms, whie-h were held in 1'M culminated in the glorification of his lersonality. which has liecome nothing less than holy tt us." Not. a word about the eilel chan cellor, who was not royal except in his majesty of mine anel purpose: but who was the master of William and who really won all those vietories and eiut of them constructeet the mighty German, empire, with comparatively insignifi cant Prussia as a nucleus, ami out of its king create-el an emperor, anil gave this brash young swashhucker a chance to make himself so interest ing and pictur esepie a pcrsemagc. Ileferring further to his grandfather, and as if to wholly obliterate Eismarck and what he had elone. the einieror said: "It is our sacnel duty to prese-rve tils perseinality anel hallowe-d memory against all comers." incluelir.g. ef course. Hismarck and all that group of great statesmen anel soleliers who planneel anel fought with him for the making of the empire, and who gave William II. the opportunity he is now enjoying of iosingas an eild-time kimr. to the (mat amusement of the I'.'th century. The czar of Kitssia is a n-al autocrat, but eve-n he is an tqi-to-elate monarch. He eloes not send hyste rical messaires to Mr. Krnger, write solids or iaint tdle'gorical pie-tuns. make ri eliculous sMet-hcs or pretend to W ab solute with the Eeiclistag .ssiying nay to his prhemes of elmation. taxation, or militarism. The young emperor is a source of universal inten-st. neit emly lieH-ause of what, he elen-s, but of the e-v-lectation of the more extraerdinary er ridiculous things he may elo next. lb keeps alive, by his prancing and posing, memories of a royalty that is foreve-r past, and suggests, not what a kins; is. but what a kingwould be if llith century civilization and political progress would let him disport himself t the top of his tient. XoIkxIv except England and Hisman-k pets really angry with him. liarring memliers of the family of his grandfather that he turns out of eloors or loe-ks up in their castles when the royal humor takes him; he is not offensive, but amusing. inU'resting and pieturesque as a preteneler to a sort ef inaje-sty that has no existence outside of history. Philadelphia Tele'graph. SHARKS' FINS ARE HIGH. Bmailar Srrt-. ud C'hlnerwe. SUtmm A re (ireratljr Kaert-iae-d. Chinese politicians are doiilithss making great capital out of the- fact just now that the price of sharks" fins has gone up entrmously of late-. Whether this is really el ue to these- hot sea leviathans becoming seare-e-r. like whales, or to their displaying more ac tivity in evading capture, is disputable, but tbe fact n-maius that their tins, as a delicacy, are In-coming elearer and dearer. It is generally supiosc that sharks" fins are never eaten outside of the celestial erupin. iiut they e!i occasional ly figure iu select liauquets in England auel France. Sofarasknown they have not lieconie a staple luxury in this coun try, however, though bey an oce-asion-ly serveel at luimpiets g-iven liy San Francisco epicures. The Chine-se are very fond of them. anel. notwithstand ing the cost of the last war, still show such a desire for these delicacies that the price is still rising-. FADS IN THINGS TO EAT. Artlelen of I Mel W lilt h Are Alleged by t rni to Have Me-dit-inal alue. Celery is invaluable as a lood for those suffering from any form of rheumatism, for eliscase of the nerves, and nervous elyspe-psia. I-ttue-e for those suffering from in somnia. Wate-rcress is a remeily for scurvy. I'e-aniit.s for indigestion. They are e-spee-ially rt-e-oiiimcnde-ei for corpulent lialn-te-s. Peanuts re made into a whiile'soiue and nutritious soups, are lirow util and ue-d as e-olTec. are e-ate-n as a reli-.h simply hake-el. eir are pn--pare-l and scrve-d as salted alniouds. Onions are almost t he lu st nerv ine known. No medicine is so useful in cases .if nervous prnstr.it ion. anel there is nothing else that will si quickly n--lieve and tone up a woniout svstm. Onions are useful in a'.l cases eif coujrh.;. e-olils and inl! ucuza ; in consumpt ion. in somnia. h prop'iobia. seurv v.eiave-1 and kindred liter complaints. Eate-n every other ilay they s(,n h.,, e a clcariiig and whitening effect m the t-oiiijilexion. Spinach is us-f ul ti thos,. with grave! . Asparacus is used to induce rs irat ion. Carrots for sufferers from asthma. Turnips for nervous disorders and for seurv v. I 'aw lie-ef roves a "Teat l-enefit to mtsiiis of fniil -onst it ut ion and to those' suffering from e-eiisuniptioii. It is e'liopM i t'ne. se-asniicd w ith salt, and heatinl by placing it in a el ish ef hot w a-te-r. It assimilafi's rapidly and affords the lest rmurishme'iit. F.L'ir-- e-ontain a large anxjunt of nut riiiient in a iiimjute-t. quicklv avail able fe.rm. lU-aten up raw with Mir.tr they are- used to e-lear and st re-nut hen the- voii-e-. it h sura r a tul 1 inoti jui-v" the- l-at-n white eif fU!Z is ti re-lie-ve hoar.-e-in-ss. Honey is w holesome. stre-n-the-ning, e-leansimr. healing and nourishing. Fri'sh rijH- fruits are e-xelent for purifying the blooel anil toning uji the svsleni. As sjx-eific r ii.ih! ie-s eiranires are- ape-rient. Sour eirances are highlv re'e-,ni! nie-iiel.-.! fur rhen mat ism. Ci ;! ill "Tries for erysijielas are- ucej xternrdly as well as interr.allv. I.e-iiions for fete-rish thirst iu sie-k-ne-ss. for b:lioiisueNS. low feve-rs. rheu matism, e-oiighs. e-ol-ls. liver ceniiplaini, etc. l.lacklM-rries as a tonic. I'seful in ali forms of diarrhea. Tiiii;:,tii.-s :re a nwcrfu! aperie-nt fir the liier. .. mt, re-iirn renieeiy for eiys-p-epsi:' :u il indiii'stion. Toiraloes are in v a I i.i I !e in nil e-otni:t:on of thesvs-te-ni iti which the use of e-alomcl is in-elie-.-it.-d. I'i'j's are ajie-rier.t and whoh-some. Thev :;re s:iid t i be- valuable as fi5l for those si ffcri tig from e-ane-er: thev are iise-i e- t'-rn.i ', ly as wi-II as internallv. Apples :ir- useful in nervous d s npsia; tbev are- nutritious, nie-d ie-inal ami vitalizing; t he-y a"i ibg-st ion. clear the Viiie-e-. c.irrii't the acidity of the stotn.ie-h. and are- tain hie in rheuma tism, inseiinti'a and liter trembles. An apple e-emtaiiis as unu-h nutrinie-nt as a Hitato in a ple-asaiite-r and more wholc sotne forni. tirajie-s dissolve and elislexlge Travel and e aleuli and bring 1 he stomach and Imvvcls to a heal t hy e-ondit ion. Pie plant is wholesome and ajnrient; is exci-1 le nt for rhfiniiaf ic si!tTi-nrs and useful for purifving the blinvl. Htiuse keeitr. ELECTRICAL FLASHES. It is expecteil that the e-lee-tric light, of the future will lie obtaine-d by the utilizing of broken er alternate cur rents. Ele-ctrieity is now applieel tei the type writer. A ree-ect invention provide-s means for moviug the carriage anl mller of the machine by e-le-ct rieity. If ail the tele-graph line's of the world were combined and stretche-el in one straight line they wotile reae-h vsi.:vm miles, or enough to encircle the earth TkI time-s. The process of e-lectro-rine-ing is lie' ing prefern-d in Er.glanel to galvaniz ing, csreciai!y for the tulies tif lK.iilers for marine- work. The aelhesion of the zinc to the iron is e-ensiden-d sue-r:or to that obtained by the old process. An -e-ctrie loring plant has lieen cr elereil for the Slate salt tunics at Hal lein, Germany. The plant will com prise a high-pressure turbine, e-oupleei ebrect to a eeiitinuous-curn-nt tlynanio and two toring iiiachine-s. In what is known as the 7-e-rener sys tem eif electric we l lii-g t he e h-ct rie are is elct'e-cte-el in any de'sired ebree-tiem by means of an adjustable horse-shoe elee--tro-magnet. The arc is drawn out like a blowpijie flame of extraeirdiuary in tensity, anel is niaele to elo we-hling and brazing in j.ositions ordinarily epiite out of reach. THE MUSICIANS. Wagner's "Walk ure" was given 17 times in successien at tlie Argentina theater in Home. F. II. Cowen. the composer, has lieen selected to conduct the Manchester anel Liverjieml Philharmonic iwieeTts. in sueH-e-ssioii t the late Sir Charles Hall.. The once elistiuguishe-d prima elotui.i. Mme. Ku lka Gerste-r. w he), afte-ra short but brilliant e-an-er at Her Ma jesty theater anil also in the l'nitil States, partially lest her singing voie-e. is at-out to start a vocal acaelemy in IVrlin. During her recent stay at Keiiue the pope ret-eive-el Minnie Hauk in sjeci: I auelie-nce. ami gave her ermissien t. lie prese-nt. at the private mass cele brateel by the poH himse-lf in his pri vate chapel on New Year's elay. A few elays afu-rvvarel the singer was pre s nted to the queen of Italy, at the queen's own ele-sirc, anel sang a few swings at the Qnirinal. Tna ;atlanet, "Yes, I tol i him that it was said that kis-ses were much sweeter in the dark" "Anel he ttirne-el down the ga?" "The ieliot die nothing of the kind. He just sat there like a stick and tsaiJ that if a irirl were as banelsome as I. he thought. darkness would eletract freun the pleasantness of the occasioai, lt w;is a very nie-e ceriiniIinienl. tiut there is time to speak and to act." -Cincinnati Knquirer. Heptili-s anel fishes are not general ly provide! with eye-1'ds. the-se proteee tions lieing to them unuect-ssary. 1 t r C' L e i f Catalogue. NEW VORK. " Fn ir
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