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' ,;" '.: ii 't pmd wnhm month. s.t J" J: J.id wiiliin Uiejear.. una outside of the count, x-""3 Tier year wl" l" charged to -e- .....i ,n atHive terms he de- ,o c,!1r .J.ewho don I consult tnelr -s. J ..r m advance must noi ei 1 ' '. .mc lootlniraattiose wbt JAS. C. HASSOIM. Editor rcf Proprietor. HI 18 A FREEMAN WBOH TBI THCTH M1IU FRKK AID ALL. ABB SLAYSa BBbTDK.' 8I.0O and postage per ear In advance. lttmrii un'ii 11 attention to any matter of limited or lad doal Interest must be paid lor a adrertUmMla. Book and Job fiintln of nil kind neatly aa4 eatousiy ezernud at the lowest prtcea. A4 ill tfnn lAtwjti i . ....... . 01 atnri It. If stoi. 1 w-ryv-w -w-r-- sr-w w iuuii Book i loakm rj;.;; ;o,f..-, t ii . i ,i n; EBENSBURG, PA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1896. NUMBER 48. ! i!" too snort. dou'tyou forget It. US N i i lis I N U ii i ii i ii it r A HAND SAW IS A GOOD THING, SHAVE WITH." BUT MOT TO B u n L J) ,q THE PROPEFJ THING FOR HOUSE-CLEANING. Xiie Indestructible "Maywood" BICYGLEE. THIS S75.00 COM , J rL.fclt BICYCLE 15 5530 WITH COUPON. E "" '.' iy KO' MAYW00D S V- jj;Vw Model No. 5 N . 1 Frit. . 1801 Oct. 3. 18f3 Ian I. 1K5 .Tan. 21. 189 Othfru FeiKilns I'M r' 3 !rnnnrt nifl imp!rt bicycle ever made. Adapted for all kinds of Ms i.- rf material that i mt. 'o,nh fif wirji; simple In construction. j.ijt iiiZf'. ni-r: lias few parts; Is of snch n iry constmi-tion that its parts ,. :, in :m :;. i-i fi'ii: : no hnllnw tnldui: to crush in at every contact; a frame . . :in di that its ad jiistmc :irts wrvu as its connect in; parts; a one . i a ti.i.'i n parts; always ready to uivc ri-!iable and rapid transportation. , , . .li.iiimn 1. (fuarantu'd for three years. Made of i-inch cold ..::.-t and sir.muest metal for its weii:lit knowni; joined toiiether with r.::.:i:s 1:1 sneli a niaiiti r t hat It Is unossillc to hreak or any part work t'ii ''V "i'lipliciT v ami diirahility; the crentcst comidnation of incenuity , !:!) ii. t.i build a frame withont liraien joints and tnlirac, as you know 'riVii.v!-r-:dc nnd fracture at hrazen jii:its. and lulx-s when they are hackled i i ir-" i n " i"-1'-' u-ineh: warranted w ood rims, piano wire tangent spokes ill it" -Larue harrci pattern. Tl KKS "Arlinrton"' ilosepiie or lor- U i -x le-pair. r some other ti.-st-class rrienmatic tire. IIKAKINfiS Ball ... 1... In ........L n . 1 ., . .n V- . . 1 . I .-tt V.tk 1 ! .'1 ml I II K Wilms. I iiiim urA'l LIII ieuifcis. v l t . i....t s'ee'. eareiiiiiy Temperea ami nariieneit. ill urn firrule -f ii'Ji.i I It... I r-'t. iruin i; .1 an" iianiriirii. .......- K I UC i t.. r. ir :i i inn Tiieiit. t ii KS I ;ir eelehr.itril one-piece crank, fully pro v i-' 'i:-; ii'i i n' "i r puis. KK H'll Shortest. -' inches: 'oiiL-est. 37 inches. I1EAK l'icr f'" In destructible: fork crown made (nun un-harrel steel. HANDLE "r-r i 'l-' a'1 1 admsfnd'-: easilv ailjnsted ti ar.v posit ion desired: rani's horn fnr-'..vri-i. 'Ahull- P. .V- 1'.. (iilliam. or some other tirst-class make. rKliALS , ririt" !: ';'H hearing. FINISH Knanicled black, w ith all hiiirht parts j-. l K.i- li Ilievele complete with tool hair. pump, wrench and oiler. Weight, ao--iri- t-lals. saddles, etc.. 27 to : . pounds. ... neei il Wholesale I'riee. Never before sold 4 In nni'kr-' in' ro'iiu' i ne " . tftt in-yeie. we v . i ! '.. 'iri!;.' a special coupon o:T- r. tivine evi rr I -r a chance t.i u't a first-class wheel at the in.v v-T iit'i-r.-1. On receipt of J.C-.on f'd eitn 5 l - i. t.. a:niii- the above Hicvele. securely crated. .'J.lt... ,tf.- delivery. Monev -eliinded it not as 4 ' ..r arrival and examination. We w il shut 4 -'.i i-nviii '( examiiiatioii. for .C.iiO and coupon . i. s tit " ith order as a tnarantce of itoikI faitri. tr'l-iadinc warranty with each Bicycle. This is a ..! it--tine an I vnii cannot afford to let the oppor- ji-s. AJ.lrcss all orders to CASH BUYERS' UNION. I Coupon No. 2006 GOOO FOS1 IF SE.HT WITH OACCR FOR No. s Maywcod ...Bicvcle... Ml West V.n Buren Street. BiCo6 CHIC HO. ILL. ? -5-4"5-M-'f -M- mil SasaiASS and RMKESS ESFQ. CO. ll.tie KctlU to tontnmert for CI yran. r . i::.. tiieiii tao iloaler s proiit. Ve are the iWJ. -tuutl !irirl mnnulaeturers in An.er i a -I-: liritr VciiU'l : ad 1 larness this way- ftiiip v- ! ; ri i let:' t e.van.'ine hefiire anv money Is I .: -i. We p iv freiiiht tw.th wnys if not sntistne t . i. Warrant for2 years. Wby puynnpirrnrf 10 I i -1 .-r.I'T f..r yon? 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Everything the fanner sella Is low. w ho sells low to him ? We have repeatedly refused to join, find have therefore defeated windmill combination, and have. since 'So. reduced the cost of wind power to 1 what it was. ' i nrouea crautuae. ana Dccause we are price makers, and are 1 saiest to aeai witn. and because we are the sole originators 1 ui an mat is pooa in me mtwern steel winamiu and I lower, THE WORLD HAS GIVEN US MORE THAN HALF ITS WINDMILL BUSINESS. we believe ID low prices, inch erades and lare sales. We make short j hand with Ion? nower stroke nnmwL with ttet seamless v ...i . " " r :r -.7,1 rrr r: i i iiiut: cviinuers, lower man iron ones a z rn incn i -f-A. We DreDav freight to M branch honses. Send now let beautifully illustrated catalogue of up-to-date ideas, as mis appears bnt once. Our imitators may not nave I print our latest plans. fo one knows the best mm. r-urnp or trice until no Knows ours. 3!Res &Shor.t-bc?nd ':;) (Sisnut St.. Phiiada.. Pa. - . ! ' r.. ! for ho! I ' - i: a. u.lrucllon IU ';rj. thcirt-hsnii i T,De-ritina. :il:S. Correspondence. '- .i La. . Practical Grammar. (.LiEi..! .n. m..l (Dinpaiim, tc '" '. !M o-T:iiniMC pood 1 " 1 ;.ii,-' il!i linns ' " ' - HI..1 1-ltTkS fclilK I- tltlLTu Tut l ...... .....V . tim nfli A "a M. A.. I'rTsWU-nt. FOR ARTISTIC JOB PRINTING TRY THE FREEMAN. r-,'1"''-5 ."timmllvof Liver Com- "isness, ,Ta c dice, Uyspetv IIP) jyj J::pitir.n- Mala.eu Wore Ills al T.l.eH'tlivIJverthaiiaTiT V i v sntTai wKt, rnn CM 11 Dr. S . n fi .i,l'a T Trtitrrir- '.'-'"I'e.l fimi'lv Tnedicinf. .t.s i iv i, (iifl'LY VUC. -OCCIDENTS OF LIFE Wr-ite to T. S. Qcincey, I'm w t l'jfi, Chicago, Sccrc t iry of the Star AccmF.N-f i 'Mi an v, for information '' - irtliiig Accident Insur--.. Mention this paper. I'y so doin you can save Has paid over $iU0.U 00 for Be your own Agent. -"AI. EXAMINATION REQCIREP UZE pi-1,, RAXLE GREASE . i.i, . ar unKurpassed, actually -f any crfher brand. No lel'HP L ttiiajnitju t 'KTTIIKfJKNI'INB, A pamphlsK of Inform af loo and ab- fif1 Y. si nut of io iws,iibuiiiK How taf e--'.- ontain Hii'ents. tis Tnule7V V'-V Marks, C.pynfhta, sent frcr.&rtf )3ttl Itrwndway. jT FRAZER AXLE GREASE Best in the World! Get the Genuine ! Sold Eierm-hfire! LUa WAMTPH BY SAtVS'L WELLS & CO.. 67 VINE ST., CINClNNAii, u. PF-T fXPORTCRS OF CIPSENG IN THE U. $ tui urrn binti4 ..ii.Kw-srmri-sTf- THE BUSYBODY. She sits liehind the curtains drawn. Or else behind the shutters: She watcher every coat and hat And every dress that flutters; There's not a thins the neighbors do I'nlesa they Beck to pester By shutting doors and windows, too That doesn't interest her. She knows what kind of meat they buy. What kind of servants buy U. Who calls on who and when and why. And no one can deny it. She hears the door liells when they ring. And. thoufjli she may be sleejiinK, lp from her slumbers she will spring: To do her little peeplnfr. It's really fun. no folks aver. To see her dally dodging; A matrimonial spat to her Is food and drink and lodging. And should some husband come home late, O Vreome with curious capers. He mithl as well proclaim his state In all the daily papers. She'll tell you what the lovers say When on the steps they're spooning. And each piano, far away. That stands In need of tuning. About her knowledge of affairs She often grows elated. And seems to know most everything Kxcept just how she's hated. N. Y. Recorder. ERIJOIiS. Errors in matters which either are history, or one day will lie such, are trrievously common. Men who ought to know lietter make must remarkable statements altout thing's, anil then wonder at the derision ihey exeite. For instance, at one of the noon-day jxilit ical meeting's a hectic gentleman who seemed to lie right in the confi dence of a great many great men, am! who told aliout them with rapid-fire sjkhh'Ij, took up the question of the I'nited States army, and declared that it isn't any thing like t he army of Valley I-'orge and Hunker Hill, but that it has dwindled to a sort of select dancing club in blue clothes, lie suggested that there are no campaigns any more. lie alluded to certain occasions when he charged that the army had set out to conquer two dollars worth of eofTee cooling Indians and had sjient $12.0M. (KKi in tloing it, the chief result lieingto give several regimt-nls outing vaca tions in good trout countries. Th--speaker kept on at this rate and was applauded right along. Intoxicated by the success of his generalities, he com mitted theerrorof particu'arir.ation. He declared that, "for instance, the recent alleged outbreak in .Jackson's Hole was a war without bloodshed, in which no man was injured or rendered uncom fortable." This is a great error, as can readily be proved by consulting wit h William Ciary. Mr. Crary is a young man who lives in a once-booming town, where he sold real estate in an addition called Halcyon Heights a poetic place, with a brickyard in it and a great futiircant! i big cornfield ln-fore it. M r. Crary is a . man w ho is always out after exieriencc. and when the first intimation came from Jackson's Hole that there was a chance for an aspiring coroner up that way, he decided to go out and look :t the killing and get sonic souvenirs. He arrived in l'exbnrg with a deter mination to sell his lifeasdearly as .is vible. and to get a good assortment of kodak pictures in furtherance of the transaction. At Itexburg apjieared one Lewis, an elector in the precinct, w ho represent d that the horse he offered for sale was .inil ai'.tl f ep tie. nt:d also i a;:d. Ci ar 'ad bouirht his fare in the stare. Im he opportunity to purchase a hrs might not present itself later, so h. bundled his cargo nj-on the vehicle and. with the assurance t h:it lie would tell (len. Coppinger, who was some where oer near the foothills that a stagcftil of lieutenants was coming, he -larle.l away gayly. Now. the plain facts of it are that !x"wis was a ferocious liar. The horse was or.e of those big-!x:-ncd, pan-footed 1 easts w ! icii. I hrce in' r.ntcs a ftcr be i::g mounted, resolve then. seizes each intooiievast ridge pole.ard w hich shove a!org at a floundering motion which shakes a man's lxnits off unless he is wary and experienced. These animals i burn. vniinil. bruise and stupefy the rider in half the time required by the elephant to nccismpijsh a similar pur jKise. Mr. Crary lasted three miles, and when the stage drew ti ft he mournfully declared that his spirited animal had thrown him ami he had sprained his ankle. The licast hatl done nothing of the kind, but Crary knew his men. Immediately there was wild conten tion among those four lieutenants, who. detached from their commands, w ere now en route to join them. Every one of them wanted to win glory bj conquering the liraddened steed of the Idaho desert. Naseby. of Angel island, won. ami the other three disgustedly settled back to lie to one another aliouT the experiences in horse breaking w hich they had hatl since leaving the Point. .Vase by rushed on ahead, ami in a min ute or two w as out of sight, w hile Crary. in a semi-reciimlM-nt attitude in Nase by s scat, wondered w hat the army man w ould do to get out of it. He found on ' in 15 minutes. At the next turn in the trail they found Naseby lying in a swoon beside the way, the vicious an imal standing near. The proper re storatives brought the false Naseby out of his fraudulent faint, and he re in ted with great circumstance how the horse hail bolted ami had leaped an ir rigation ditch 40 feet broad, had waltzed all over the neighloring country, and had finally stood straight up in the air on one hind leg. and, reaching around rearward with the other, hatl kicked Naseby in the small of the back until he felt life oozing out of him. In a delirium of delight the other officers insisted that Naseby didn't know how to ride anything more vio lent than a (ireek fishing skiff on the Sacramento river, and they insisted on showing him how the thing should lie done. Crissette, coining from Fort TTobinson, obtained the great favor of the next mount, and as the remaining two soldier men yelled encouragement and directions at hini Naseby under bis breath Verrged Crnry to keep still about the horrible truth of the horrible beast. "It is an honor." he said, "to be thrown and butchered up by a vicious horse, but to be liattered up and down like a jiebble in a child's rattle by a thunderous, clumsy lieast that wouldn't run away if dynamite was exploded nnder it is to lie guilty of conduct 1111 Itecoining an officer and a gentleman. Oh, of all the torturing things of this life, that load of equine lumber is the worst. Hi. Grissettc:" aloud, "don't give him too much head or he'll get away and you'll find yourself Mazeppuing over into the Wind river country !" Lieut, Orissette laughed scornfully, and dug his spurs into the beast's Tank. They disapieared out to east ward. "I'll bet eight dollars his hip liones are up under his ears in a quar ter of an hour." Naseby groaned in con fidential tones to Crary. The latter re fused to take the let. The other two military men set themselves aliout making their companions comfortable, cheerfully promising Naseby that hi broken leg should In reset in three hours, and his ribs, fractured by tin spirited horse when it stood iikh him. should lie dug out and trimmed prompt ly. "It is all the fortunes of war. oltl lxiy." said Henderson, of Douglas. "Think what fame it w ill lie for you to go lolling around the post with a pack of broken bones, received while on duty at the front. I envy you. Only you must let me give you some lessons in horsemanship lx-fore you try any more of these unknown and fiery mountain lieasts. They are wild as lightning streaks." Naseby and Crary thought of tho rumbling, slow, stupid oid crate of I tones which they had ridden, and "Hello!" yelled Henderson. "There's t'rissette. Wounded, to!" There is no need to tell of the lie of firissette. It was simply irreproach able, and Naseby ami Crary. looking a? each other, were ashamed of the paltry anil weak tales they had told. And when an hour later they picked up Henderson antl Benswick mounted and cheerily rode away, Henderson soaretl in the mountain clouds of fiction to de scrilte the wicked spirit of the horse, w hile every man of them excepting the untried IVnswick knew the animal had simply hobbled along just out of view of the stage. Antl Henswick! It is distressing to guess what his thoughts must have lieen. He realized jierfectly well that the four other had lied alioul thir fearful experiences antl had mere ly been shaken and rocked into human pulp, and yet he swore positively that the mount had stood upon its head and hatl turned three somersaults in the air liefore picking him up in its teeth and shaking him like a eorn-Kpier. "I can ritle lively horses, but this one is too lively." he said sadly, and bin led alioui a dislocated eollarlione, a eaved in skull and a broken arm. They all agreed that 1. would be suicide for anyone to try to master that ani mal, so they all squeezed into the stage and left it to follow if it should choose. Did I tell you that, although there were comfortable seats, every man of them seemed to prefer resting on his knees? They were proud men. those four officers, and although each knew th other was vilely lying yet they all per sistently toltl and retoltl of their hurts, and when they got to the main body it was odd to see how every one of them insistetl that some other fellow was the worst sufferer and ought to go first to the surgeon. and how finally, in Spartan fortitude, they all decided lo liear their injuries without medical assistance. This is the first, time the history of the ease has been recited, but when next anyone remarks in your hearing that no soldier or officer was injured in the course of the Jackson's Hole campaign, you tell him he is mistaken. War is indeed a terrible thing. Chi cago Record. A ;uiiiiii4u vvi V luT. II Tortured Himself In Order to tiet l'laced on the Sick LI.U A case showing great cunning and perseverenee, as well as toleraiwe of much self-inflcted pain continued for many months, is worth telling, says Chambers Journal. The convict w;s most determined and resourceful in his efforts at malingering. He liegan by runuiug a piece of copper wire into his knee, by which he nearly lost his leg. He then produced a numlier of ris round the knee joint, and kept i.p a great degree of swelling and inflamma tion by means of a rag and thread pushed into the wounds. I'pou the dis covery of this he took to introducing lime Itelow the skin. On anothee cc casion a bandage was found firmly bound round the man's thigh, the re sult being, in medical phraseolcgy, "extensive swelling and lividity of the thigh. The doctor ordered his limb fr be envelojicd with a large piece of g'M I:, jiercha so as to checkmate the prisoner's malpractices. The latter, however, by means of a strip of sheeting, antl the skewer to which part of his dinner was attached, formed a tourniquet, and l:y it compressed his leg so much during the night as to quite neutralize Ihe medical treatment it had received dur ing the day. The imposture was at length detected by an order of th.- dec tor to expose the limb outside the led clothes to the view tf the ollicer day and night, and from that hour progress was toward complete recovery. SHE LEARNS ITS VALUE. Young Oirl'a Method of Isieeoverlus; Her Engagement King's I'rice. Two young girls dressed in stylish tailor-made gowns entered a tate street jeweler's shop. They asked to see diamond ring and for a few mo ments pretended to be very much in terested in the gold circlets antl theii brilliants. All at once one of them fished in her ocketlook and produced a ring set with a most- beautif ul emer ald. "Could you duplicate a ring like this?" she'asked. "Yes," said the jeweler. "For how much?" The girl hesitated just the least bit asking that question. The jeweler glanced at a frieud, winked ami smiled. He toltl her the price ami then the girl asked: "This is a rather valuable ring, isn't it?" "Yes, quite valuable." "Well. I shall see mamma first, ami if I decide to have the ring duplicated I will let you know." "She'll not lie back," said the jeweler, after the door hatl cloa-d. "Happy creature! She really never intended duplicating the ring, but she was mortally anxious to find out how much her fiance had paid for it. For that was her engagement ring, anil you know she hatl to know how much the trinket was really worth. His depth of affec tion is largely measured by the value of his engagement ring. Now she's happy. Did you notice the lieatifie ex pression when 1 told her my price? Happy youth! They are pretty much all alike." Railway Accident Caused by Heat. A jja.ssenger train on the North Brit ish railway met with a curious accident which engineers attribute to the intense bent which prevailed on that day. The train when rounding a curve left the rails aud ran on the ballast for nearly 4uO feet lie.fore it could lie stoped. This state of thing was brought alsout by the spreading of the rails from expansion caused by the heat. According to the rcjiort the thermometer on that da' and at that point registered 128 degrees. The derailing occurred at noon while tlie track was exposed to the full rays of the sun. The expansion took place w ithin a few hours, as an inspector had pased over the road during the fore rioon, and everything apjieared to lie in the usual condition. As the train, npproacihed the sjot the engineer saw the rails were Icully warped. fnl al though he at- once applied the brake, it w as too late to stop. The curious feat tire of the mishap was that the engine re mained on the track, having gone safe ly over tlie spread rails. In connection w ith this account, comes the statement that the road had not been kept in the very liest condition. N. Y. Ledger. Wrong Construction. Wife You saw Mrs. Browner last evenirg? Eufbard Yes; but hot to speak to. "What a whopper! They tell me yon were :-itting with her for more than two hours." "True: but it was she wh6 did all the talking." Spare Moments. A GYPSY DAXCEK. INCREASED COTTON PRODUCT. Improvement la Agricultural Methods In Twenty Years. Some recently published figures antl other data with regard to the growth of cotton production are interesting, says the Savannah (da.) News. Iu ISij the average yield per acre was "i jiouii'js. During the 20 years the acre age devoted to cotton cultivation in creased 12S jier cent., while the pio tl net ion increased 1S3 per cent. That is to say. the farms of the present Jay nre much more productive than were those of 20 years ago. The rep son is, as every practical farmer knows, that agricultural methods have ben greatly improved during the time. In vesors and chemists have laliored with the farmer to the end of bringing the lands up to a higher state of productive ness. The former have produced new implements for the cultivation of the soil in an improved and at the s-vme time lalior-saving manner. The l.?er have instructed the farmer as to the chemical elements needed for tic en richment of his soil, and the fertilizer manufacturer has, provided thos ele ments in convenient form for utiliza tion. IIule-o-tl:umb fanning has lo a great degree given way to scientific farming. Those farmers who have not their own test titles and text books ne readers of gotxl agricultural periodicals, which supply useful and aceurae in formation with regard to soils, fer tilizers, etc.. to take the place of guess work. The farms, like everything el.-e, is progressing. "BOYS ALL OVER." How Two Toungntera Experimented with s Polsoa Ivy. Superintendent Kimball, of the life saving service, told a story of two boys, end it is so "boys all over," as most mothers would say, that it ought to lie printed. The now accomplished titlicer says that when he was a boy he had a chum, and both were poisoned year after year while running about the woods by oison ivy. One day, says the Washington Star, they heard or read something to the effect that if persons would swallow two or three leaves of the ivy they would never again be af fected by it. To relieve themselves of the regular summer and often-recurring annoyance they decided t$ take a few leaves of it as medicine. Mr. Kim ball was of an investigating turn of mind, and found out that on the under sitle of the leaf there was a very fine dust. He told his companion that as they were experimenting it would lie well to see if it made any difference whether one side or the other con tained the poison. He rolled up his three leaves so as to cover the dust, and his friend rolled his so as to leave the dust sitle exposed. With a glass of water and as little chewing as jiossible they swallowed ftlnvir doses. The result was something hjfrible, especially for the lioy who took the dusty side of the ar gument. For weeks after he could not shut his mouth on account of the terri ble condition of his mouth and throat. He had to be fed w ith liquids by a quill, anil it was only a miracle that he did not die. Mr. Kimball fared somewhat bet ter, especially as to his mouth anil throat, but there was trouble enough on the inside to make up for it. And there was no cure worked. The next season they suffered as before. "Now, wast that like a boy?" :a what everylsody said, and what all will say now. PATRON SAINT OF BARBERS. At the date this story commences, about the year 1743, there resided in the West Killing of Yorkshire, England, n family of ancient iedigree and great wealth. This was the family of Sir (ieorge l'asely, a gentleman of the old English school. Sir (Ieorge was married, though not until he was already" an old bachelor, but his wife was a young and lovely ls'ing, of tender age. compared wilh his own, for when she became Iidy l'asely she was but III years of age. Sir (ieorge doted on her, and, indeed, she was worthy his fondest regard, !e ing everything in jn-rson aud mind that the heart could wish. But, alas! the destroyer. Death, came, and the same hour that made him father took the gentle mother and fond wife to her long home. Time rolled on, and the sweet child grew daily more like what her mother was, while Sir (ieorge loved her with a deep aud absorbing affect ion. There was a young man, a wild and reckless spirit, that claimed to lx' next of kin to the l'asely family with Sir (Ieorge, and would doubtless, from some peculiar cause know n to law, lte able to establish his riirht to the es tates now hol'len by Sir George, pro vided he should die without issue. Therefore the birth and growth of lit tle Louise 1'asflv was watclsed with jealous care by Ernest Kenwood, who hoiet one day to jiossess the broad Pasely estates for his own. Four years had passed since thebirth of Louise, who proved to be a sturdy ami beautiful child, when Kenwood saw that he must bring his designs to nn issue, and not leave any longer his hoes to chance. He therefore formed the resolution of adopting:oi!ieexifedi ent lo rid himself of her. fur. as we have seen, she stood lietvvccn him anil the rich lands he so much coveted. He was not naturally a hardened villain, but that most powerful incentive to evil, that most thriving agent of the Evil Spirit, avarice, was goading him on to the brink of jierdition; and he was an orphan ami had leen reared lacking the fostering care and godly counsel that forwarns and fore arms youth against the temptations of manhood. It was late one mild summer's night when he came to this conclusion; he recalled to his mind that at a wild and secluded sjiot some two milts from the immediate neighliorhod of Sir George's estate, there were encamped at that very liour a band of gypsii-s, w ho he at once conjectured might lie of service to him in the plan he proposed 1 execute, viz., to rid himself of Hie little Louise Pasely, heiress to the estates that he was determined to possess. I.ouise disapjieared on the sulse qe.ent night and on the following morn ing, when her altsenoe was discovered, consternation tilled the hearts of all. Alexander the Greavt Started the Fashion of Shaving. The confessor of Francis II. of France refused him absolution until he had completely removed his leard. An ancient German was by tribal custom not allowed to cut off his flowing licard until he hatl killed his first man in bat tle. Altout the year 200 B. C. the Koman Emperor Scipio Africanus inaugurated the custom of shaving among the Ko man nobles. Henry I. of England wore a beard until a courageous preacher leveled his eloquence at him to such good purpose that he submitted to be shaved. From the time of Julius Cusar until the advent of William the Con queror the Britons wore mustaches, but the clergy, after the conversion of the islanders, were forced to shave by law. One of the early popes established the shaving of Koman Catholic priests in distinguish them from the patriots of Constantinople. The priests of the Creek church still wear beards. Peter the Great of Kussia laid a tax on tiear.ls aud delinquents were forced to have their faces shaved with a blunt razor or to have the hairs pulled out with pincers. So everybody shaved. The first shaving was done by order of Al exander the Great, w ho forced the Greek warriors to cut off their lieards, as be found them awkward inifiedi ments in the hand-to-band contests cf that time. . Twelve years, with all the changes that so long a jierioil of time brings, have passed since the loss that had so w rung the heart of Sir George. He had grown gray and many a wrinkle crossed his manly brow. A gypsy band were in the Wet Kill ing of Yorkshire, England, and the lit a tit i fill danseuse Minitti. with her handsome companion, was perform ing to the delighted villagers of the country. It did not esca;e the inquisi tive eyes of the spectators that her companion, Fernando, watched with loving eye each motion of Minitti. The little town in the environs of ' which the gypsy band were cneauied was onf day thrown into commotion by one of the inhabitants declaring that an article of considerable value bail lieen stolen from his house. One of the inhaltitants even reniemltcred to have seen a female of the trilic near the door of the house whence tin jewel was missing, and was ready to make oath that it was none ot her tlian Manitti. the danseuse of the trilie. This was quite sufficient, and ujion such strong circumstantial et idence the 1 M-a ii t i f ii I girl was seize! and rudely carried before the justice of the county for examination. In vain was all proof offered by the trilie as to her innocence; no court would heed a gy psy'sevidenee, anil the justice was forced, though com passion was in his heart, aye, and it l.eamed broadly from his countenance, too, to commit the girl. Immediately after the justice had pronounced the sentence, and the weej ing girl was about to lie liorne away by the officers of the court, a young man stepped suddenly forward from the crowd anil said, while he thrust aside the rough hands that were extended to seize Minitti: "Stand back, if you would not have me take your lives. The girl is inno cent I stole the jewel. Why should you charge this upon that gentle Wing, in nocent and pure, aye, purer than the Lest of ye! It is I w lioam guilty." "Thou!" cried the gysy girl, "im possible, Fernando!" for it was her comjKinion of the dance. And the gen tle, gn'rl, rejoicing to find one friend so near her in this fearful moment, threw her arms aliout his neck and wept iion his breast. "Even so, dear Minitti," he replied, "but fear not for me, I shall soon, lie released again. Keep up a brave heart, dear girl." As he said these words, the justice directed officers to release thepirl and commit the yotmg man to prison, glad of an opportunity to clear one v Imm h could not find in his heart to commit. The justice was Sir George Pasely, and that same night while he. sat alone in his study, musing upon the. exam ination of the gypsy and the singular circumstances relating to it, a serv ant announced that a stranger de sired to see him. He was admitted, and the tall, gaunt person, of tle gypsy leader was lte fore him. Sir George mo tioned him to a seat. 'Judge," saitl lie at oroe. "I am a" man of few words. I have, come here on a ria'ter of biircss. and w ith your iiermission w ill speak at twice to the jioint." "Go on, sir." "Twelve years ago." continued the gyvy yu hstachiid." The old man sprang like an infuri ated animal ujmn theiersonof thegyjt sy, and, seizing him by the throat, had nearly thrown him upon the floor lie fore the gyisj' sufficiently recovered himself to release his week from Sir George's grap. "Stay," said the. gyjisy, casting off tlie justice with an ease that showed at once bis superior physical mrr. and with a degTee of couiHisurc that proved him lo lie no stranger to scenes of jiersonal conflict, "no iKiwcron earth can make me sjicak unless I i lioose. Now, deal with me. like a man. and I will do so; re--rt to force, and I am dumb forever." "Speak, then." said the old man. trembling in. every limb, "speak what of my child?" "As I said before, thus is purely a matter of business ou my jmrt, con tinued the gyjsy. "Will you pive me 5HO if I w ill return vour daughter to you?" Without a word furtlwr Sir Gwrge drew a bill uion his banker for the amount KH'itied, saying to the gipsy as he exhibited the draft, honest Iv drawn and filled tip: "Now, sir, sieak. a.nd if you give :iw faithful intelligence iqioit your lwmor the draft anil nainey t-liall lie yours" "Enough. I am satisfied. Now, Sir (Ieorge, tlie. girl that was tried U-fore yo to-day charged wit.h theft, is thy daughter." "My Cod!" exclainwsl the agitated jiarent, scarcely able to contain him self, "bring her to me at -nce." "Stay, sir." continued the gypy, "first let me explain to you my own agency in tlie affair." "No matter, no matter, I forgive you bring use my child." "But. I ask no forgiveness: first let me explain. I learned this seere-t in a distant land, from a man who had lieen paid to destroy your child, but who. taking a fancy to her. preferred to save her life, and adopted her. When I h'ariHtl this from him he was on his ilealhlni. f ;irn:i- ed him tobringher to you I ti-dor. so. and now only de mand payi:ciiT fi r my expenses." At the t" ;'":::tion of an hour, during w liieh Sir :-.n:e could hardly con quer his ii:!ii:in ?, Minitti, the lovely dani'!i-J-. i.ercc Sir George's aiart meut, aJKi wa at inu-e. clasped in his arms. "Oh. heaven!" said tlie fattier, while he alternately pressed her to his heart, and held lier from him, that he might see more clearly her womanly jierfec tious, "I thank thee for at last return ing her to me so lieautiful. so penile, so lovely, aye, fo pure; there can te no guile or deceit in that, face." and Sir ( Ieorge was almost lieside himself with iy and delight. "Louise." said he, the tears streaming from his eyes, "dear, dear Ixmise." "I do reiiwinlier that name." said she. musing', "it comes over m". like a dream, long, long forgotten." "Ah, my child." said Sir George. "Nothing on earth shall again sejmrate us from each other." "But, fatlier. dear father." said Louise, bewildered anil over-happy, "will you release Fernando?" "Aye, at once. The brave fellow who v oulJ have saved thee at the expense of his ow n lilKTty slmJI lte suitably re warded." As he spoke he wrote an order for his immediate release, which was dis patched forthwith by a servant, with directions to bring the gyiy to Sir George's apartment. In the meantime Ixuise's early history was crowded UHn her astonished ears, almost in a single breath. Fernando came at laet. little dream ing of the denouement that was await ing him. He was surprised to find Minitti in the comjiany of Sir 'rge mill at. once rightly conjectured tJiat his relescse was owing to her interces sion, but his astonishment was In-voinl description when the true position of ihe matter was explained to him. Sud denly he liecame sail, and a t.-ar even trembled i,n his handsome eye, when the justice asked: "What grieves you, my friend?" "To realize, sir. that M initt i's finding a father must lie the cause of our sep aration." "How so, sir?" "Would one of your blood and stand ing in the world marry a child to one of the proscrilied race?" "Aye." said the justice. Louise should lie yours if you were the the I won't exactly say what, after the proofs of af fection you have show n her." Fernando ressed the tearful girl to his breast saying: "Iear Louise, blessed lie the jwiwer that overrules us all." "IVar Fernando, how happy we shall lie now, with every optort unity for im provement and all the fine things you have taught me. to read, to w rite, and everything. I can improve them all." "We will, indeed. replied Fernando. Then, turning to the justice, he said: "The t rial is. jiassed. and now I, too, w ill speak. One year since I made a vow on quilling my studies that I would seek a wife who should love me for myself alone. Being of noble birth nay. start not. it is true I assumed these rustic farmcnts, and determined to wear them until 'I found a heart and proved il worthy cf my love. I saw Louise as a gypsy. I loved her at once, yet I deter mined to keep my oath. I tested her affection in every reasonable way. and learned to love her for her purity of mind, as well as her ext raordinary licauty. and when the time had nearly come for me t take away l iv gypsy wife to my liosom. lo. I find her of gentle birth like myself, w hile eueh has truly proved theot her's love." Fernan lode Cortez was indeed lorn of the blood royal of Spain, antl in this ro mantic way had chosen himself a wife. We Plight make our tale more complete bv adding to it. but still we could only show that happiness was the future lot of the pypsy tlanseuse. Buffalo Times. Foouore. Blisters, which are. necesstirily so wry painful, should lie bathed on go ing to bed with strong salt and water, for which, if they are very t-nler, it is an excellent thing to add just a very lit tle vinegar and fine jmuiuletl alum. If . the blisters come tip very high it is wise to let out the accumulated fluid by run ning a darning needle through the iper surface of tlie blister. If it is al lowed to break lite surfa-e of the skin it is apt to liecoiiie very sore, (sometimes Wing very difficult to heal. Burn ing feet may 1k-. i-elieved by making a bath of one gallon of hot water, one ounce of bi-carlonate of sttda and one pint of bran: let t h mixture stand until it is cool enough for the feet to lie im mersed iu it. then soak the feet for 15 minutes. Good Housekeeping. -ot-rtttS AT A CHURCH FESTIVAL. Contracted for by Subscription In the Khlnelmnd Village of Oberrlngelhetsn. It is a custom of the country iu Ger many to get drunk at the consecration, of a new church. This custom baa Wen regarded as unlovely and un christian by many influential German of the new school, most notably by Em peror William II.. but still it remaiaa ii n re formed, and the comic weeklies do not tire of depicting the scenes, iu and out of the jK.lii-e court, that follow th con.'cration sprees ami fights. Soma three weeks ago the festival of a new church was celebrated in Oberringel heiin, in the Lhine country. In antici pation of tlie usual trade in exhilarat ing liquors a saloonkeeper who dooa business near the sacred edifice adver tised thus in the Khineland Observer: "Jacob M tiller herewith pledges him self for a subscription price of three marks (75 cents) to serve every ona of his guests with as much wine as he can drink on the occasion of the church coivsecrat ion. "Inviting my friends and jiatrons to visit me in rcsjKiie to this request, I remain, resjtect fully yours. "Jacob Mu Her." Within an hour after the new spapers containing this advertisement ap peared. .",9 oitiz ns of little Oberringcl heim liought subscription tickets from. Muller. At the current price of or dinary loose wine in the Khine country, each of the 39 and their colleagueis in this sieculation bail to drink 16 large glassful s before he could begin to bene fit by the suliscription tariff. Tb final results of the speculation cannot lie known until the police court reports of the Olierringelheim district arrive with the newspajiers from the continent. LIFE IN THE GREAT CITIES. Ita Tendency la Not to Firrnl. Na tion. And as to the tendency of the jrrowth. of great cities to enervate nations there is no proof of it at all unless we identity the life of freat cities w ith the passion for idleness and pleasure and self-in-duigence, which sometimes, but by n-t means universally, accomianies their growth, says the Ixnidon Spectator. When you get a large proletariat lin ing, as that of ancient Kome and pos sibly of Nineveh and Babylon did, ou the alms of the rich and jtowerful, then no doubt ou have the conditions of a thoroughly unna'ural and unhealthy life, and no one can wonder at the rapid decay of such cities and of the -.ation which gl.iried in them. But where the honest working class far outnumbers I he proletariat, where the middle classes of tl istributors and manufac turers and professional men are labor ious and energetic, and even the class that lives on its accumulated wealt't contains a considerable sprinkling of serious tnd disinterested workers, we io not lielieve that there is the smallest evidence of any greater danger in the life of the city than in the life of the agricultural village of the iiastoral trilie. Indeed, we should refjard Olive Schreiner's picture of the life of the modern Boers as indicating a condi tiim of things more prolific of morbid elements, with its almost complete ab sence of any stirring or sictive intelli gence, than any kind of modern liif that is honestly laborious at all. The rioer life is too sleepy, too destitute of stirring thought or effort, to be alto gether natural. It needs at least the old element of danger and neeessary vigilance to render it even bracing. J ATE A BARREL OF EGGS A DAY. Shipwreeked Men Subsisted on Them Solely for Twelve Isaya. "Do you like eggs?" was the question that stirred up a " '4'.-er" to make some talk in a Bangor stiwe the other day. He was an old man, says the Lewiston Journal, and he straightened up to somethinglikethe height of his prime as he answered: "1 ha J a surfeit of theni once. Twas toward 5i years when I was on th way home from California. We left the isthmus ou a good bri?; liound for New York, but ran into av coral reef in t he Cariblean sea and werei wrecked. It was a patch of sand just out of the water, but-you ought to see the flocks of sea fowl that nestled on it! They had to move out of the way to give us room to stay there, and that was altout all they would do. Their nests were every where, an J there were eggs in abundance. We ate altout a barrel of them every day during the 12 days we were there. Some of us got off in a lioat antl went to San Juan, in. Nicaragua, where we got a vessel to go after those we left on the reef. That vessel was c mnnnded by William Ijiwrenee. of Bath, who was killed by a man named Wilkinson while he was a policeman there. We tried to get to the teef. but bad weather stove us up so we had to set in for New Orleans, where we found the rest of the men rescued by another vessel. But eggs" the old. ni'in's face, took on a peculiar expression. UNABLE TO MAKE THE CHANGE. Fredirament of the ( ashler of a Itown town Ktnurt with Ilia Cauh Kegletvr. -There were three in one pa rt aud. two in the other. They were standing licfore the white-aproned disjienser of refreshments, says a Chicago exchange, and one of the three invited theent're party to have something. Thedispcrser dealt out the order of the three, look thedollaroffered in payment and handed back 3"i cents in change. The other two, stand-ng a short distance away, were not served, as there was a mistake on the part of the cashier. The bill amounted to less than a quarter according to the refreshments served the three. The host examined his coin and then looked, surprised and grieved. "I gave you a dollar, he said. "Was it a dollar? How much chatjjo did I give you?" "Thirty-five cents," "Well. I w ill have to wait until some hody buys. I don't dare open the regis ter, as there is a false balance on it. Every time I open it it means a purchase charged to me. Sorry, but we w ill have to wait." The man to whom the change u coming stood by and waited until Ihe cash purchase was made before he could get his money. He was the only one in the party who did not enjoy the kit na tion. He remarket!, gloomily, that he never had much use for cash registers, anyway, l! i.-rL3 . - I ir ii
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