People were! But your father be sure Thought it rather tare; And your mother 00 BaF Wh another n the way. What a heaven Vanished then! {You were seven, 1 was ten.) Accidental, Un the road (Sentimental Episode), was gushing, " You were shy; You were blushing — 80 was I; I was smitten, ware yom {All that's written Here is true); Any money? ot a hit, Don't let any Body know, ~Chicage Telegr aph Sleep, When the evening, shadows creep Stealthily, Hiding every hill and dale, Hiding all things with their veil, When the shining day doth die, Sweel is sleep. When the evening shadows eresp Stealthily, To the daby in her nest, Longing for her Quiet rest, Hushed by loving lulisby, Sweet is sleep. When the evening Stealthily, To the weary hesrt and brain Bringing tranquil peace again; All our cares and sores five. Sweet is sleep. Sages) : WUOWS ated] OVER THE SNOW, Hark the herald | angels sing, Glory to the vew-bore King rang out from the choir, and the organ ist, a slender, pale-faced girl, with grave, beautiful brown eyes, thems, ali her sou! in words: Joyful sl! your voices rise, Sing the anthems of the skies; WR the celestial hosts proaiaim Christ i» born in Bethlehem the triumphal reliearsal, their books, only ihe choristers thy too glad to K:0De rena nod, Ty | Dew voluntary. “Good right Mise Englehart.” “Good night. Miss Katherine! “Good night, Katie, and & merry Clivistmas eve.” were the cries, as. one by men and maids ieft the clioir ar: t down the stairs and out into ih white Christ. mas night. Miss Eoglehari's smilip mile brown eves shawered them all. momen: sno allie white, piercing woonlight streaming through the pasted oriel over the altar, and the cope dims licht below. A fia of gas lic the « owered, anc with apt away Ong, By 4 By Taal jubilant new voluntary. VOLUME XIII. dollar! May I ask what yOu mean by the Question? " ‘Not now, DADA, piense; Harry first.” she answers, in the same sirange voice--a very quiet though it startles her ia her. ** Look here, my g “1 know you of old~—know your high- drawn Quixotic notions about things in general, and points of hover conscience in particular. 1 wam on't lot us have any of them here, if you want to be Harry Hatton's wik fhe lad has come fairly by his fortune ~jet him keep it in peace.’ They are at the house with words—words harshly and menacingly spoken, They go together into the parior, and there, as Mr. Englehart has predicted, they find young Hation alone, A tall and proper fellow, this Harry Hatton, with a handsome face, and eager, happy eyes * AL last.” 1 will see 1 and ories, coming forward, both hands outstretched, **just as ps- tienoe was ceasing tw be a virtue. Thank you for bringing her, Mr. Engle. hart. Come to the register, Katie, and warm those cold (ttle paws. stately papa been telling you the good news: He AWS he her it} i wii Iorware, eves, smile, all alight w= wove and joy. Last night he was in despair—Iast night this cozy parior had been forbidden ground Sorrow and weeping had endured for norning. This time yesterday he had y a beggar, and Katie had been re- ! Di n——-to-might he was a rich man, Latie might be his for the asking. 3 shart, after a genial, father- F sort of a nod, had slipped away 1 leit them together, “Why don't you speak, little gi eries jubilant Harry, © as the power gpecch frosen within vou? Wish merry Christmas, Katie, and I my capital fortune, {00Ks Up at him with ¢ «as fll of LIQ L0VE, i *1 wish you a merry Christmas with | my heart, Harry; but congratulate you on what?” “ Why, hasn't the dear old dad been i Then wonders will never pehiaw! Of course he has oR that my uncle is dead? oor oid Mr. Hatton—yes, 1 know aor hb ® bi i ypu by KY8L ie Katie, all. And house shall have a “And ail is mine, xt April the oid Wik Why don't capaiie of it—but a piteous yawn from heaven to earth. “Harry, you mean to keep this in- avy “Keep it?" Harry looks at her in with a haltlangh, ** I had forgotten you, Jimmy. Weil, I won't play any more; snd here, take x.” Jimmy jumped up and seised the proffered greenback with glistening yes, but keep itp" “Resign it to Rose Hat'on— Mrs. ightiully * A most likely idea, and quite worthy I have had poverty or seven-and-twenly row when the golden shower hard work ing hiscap. “ Ah!" she's a brick, she tered down the steep stairway. * No- rr of the boy what blows the beliowses. ‘cept her. Don’t 1 just marry that long-legged rooster ‘scorts her there sometimes, und the choir for good.” Btill a few moments longer lingered Miss Englehart on her knees; then she, § that Have her drunken brute of No. no, Katie; in the nine- A they get, “So I perceive,” she says, quietly, iis ing off Ler finger and lays ¢ table before him. “Oar en- = kid Here is your ring.” He stands gazing at her, utterly be- into the shining coldness of the starry cold lay the Christmas snow. ** green vule” this to make fat the yard. } sky, filled w stars. Could that No kirk- spread the le atk other might, so long don't ¢ exclaims, I “* Katie,” bh “you this? “1 menn it, Harry. apa had let | fe Ini poverty—obh, a and and with you wi al out now—now that youtal that woman—worse t 80 have been one whit fairer than this ? “ 1 " Katie. Wilh s greatstart the girl came back over eighteen centuries, from Bethie- hem to the town of Southport. A tall spoke her name. The gentle eyes flashed, in Ww to the pale leaped, and as he had * But this is all nonsense, Katie,” he nonsense! to ber face fading out. “J—Katie,” Rose Hatton, a headstrong, schoolgirl, elopes with 0 of trouble in her brown, tender eyes. “1 thought you hsa done talking of him, paps.” voice, shed the subject forever.” “Let me see. What was it { did say, yesterday *” says Mr. Englehart, bland. iy. I am his sister's gon, and to “Her father forgave her before he rwill *“ Look here, Katie,” says Hatton, still st ol a Will that satisfy you?” knew Rose Hatton,” Katie an- ** She was proud and obstinate, ie would die of starvation sooner accept as charity what is hers by Harry. Under these circumstances, I | He comes close and stands before her, to meet Harry no more. You're a good és must either choose between re- inglehart pats paternally the little band on his arm—* and at any sacrifice | pleasure to inform not be required.” “Papal” the girl cries, her whole Barry, poor as he is. Oh, papal I am | not afraid of poverty—not afraid of | work ; neither is Harry, and—" “Oh, pool! my dear, pooh! has never changed, and never will. No, | no; it is sometning infinitely better than that. Old Hatton died suddenly last night, before making the proposed new | will, and ail is Harry's.” i Katherine Englehart uttered a faing, | startled exclamation. : **And the old will, leaving all to! Harry, stands, and his only daughter is | disinherited and left out.” i “ Left without a stiver, my dear, and | serves her right, say I. Bhe ran away | with a worthiess scamp, agsinst her | father’s will, and, like ali fools, has paid | the penalty of her folly. She supports | herself and her five children by sewing 80 I have been told, and you know what sort of support toat means Serves her right, I say again. John Hatton has done what it was his duty to do—what I would have done in his place—cast her off aud left her to starve with the pauper she ch ise.” In the moonlight the face of Miss Engiebart grows white a8 the snow itselr, but she walks on and does not Bay a word. *‘ However,” eries her father, cheer- fully, “ that is not » hat I want to Lay. Rose Hatton's case need never be yours. All is Harry's, and, except his poverty, I neyer had any objection to Harryas a son-in-law. So when be comes to wish you merry Christmas, my dear Katie, 1 give you leave to name Ry day.” A strange light comes into the brown eyes; a strangely resolute expression gets the pretty. soft-cut mouth. ** Is he coming to-night, papa?” “You will find him, I have not the slightest doubt, at the house before you. It wowid be hypocrisy for him to pro- fess any grief for that old skinflint unele, and Harry is no hypocrite. a - have seen him since his uncle's cath? ’ “ Certainly, Katie, and was the first to congratutate bim. *I trust you with- draw your objections to my suit’ now, sir!’ he says to me, in his haughty way; ‘Ism John Hatton's heir after all!” A trifie hot-headed is Harry, but a good fellow in the good fellow! I have no doubt, e willmake you an excellent hushand. “He means to keep this f so odd a voice that her “Keep GH os do “You must.” “It 1 resign it, I am a pauper as be- You will not disobey your ou. 1 love you, Harry,” she says, with a “*1 would wait- “Thank you,” hie says with a short laugh; ** that is poor consolation. You waiting may be easy Iam a man and don’t choose Since I must lose you in any merry Christmas.” : “Hurry!” she cries. But he is gone | ~gone in a fine fury, banging the street | door after him—and it is her father, white with passion, who stands before her. » » . - » Twice the Christmas tide has come | and gone—twice the joyful anthem of | ** Pease on Earth, to Men Good Will," | has sounded down the stately aisles of | Bt. Philip's, and the time is here. Once | more it is Christmas eve; once more | altar and pulpit are wreathed with ever- greens, once more the voices of the | choristers rise to the vaalted roof; once | more the slender, pale-faced, brown- | eyed organist sits at her post, her white | fingers evoking wondrous music from | those peari keys. But the face has a | raver beauty, the dark eves a sadder | ght than of oid, and for the silk and | sables of other days her dress is deepest | mourning, plain of make and poor of | texture. The last piece is sung—something grand and old, and triumphant; and “good night, Miss Englehart,” one and all ery, as they flutter away and down the stairs, She smiles ber farewell, but .ingers afier they have gone, 88 is her custom; and 8s her hands float over the keys, and her eyes rest on the music, she is thir king of an- other Christmas eve, three years ago, and of her father and lover who stood by Ler side that night. . She has lost them both—the lc yer then, never to hear ols or see sie, @ {ather one year ago. A great fin come -had involved wd lawyer Englehart, snd swamped him. He had broken down under the blow, and in less than three { EAVe i | again, | She dreaded Christmas— the old pain i SOU aie y did not regret what she Better l and pov. ill gotten gain—hwtter Over forever Of & man capable of wronging the living anda ¢ ad. She had oat him, but t censed to love him, While ored his sins, her pure pravers followed Dim in his reckless wanderings over the world Shie left the organ st asi, sud slowly quitted the church. Unlike that other Christmas, no moon nor stars shone White, LW oeaselesaly, the snow fel She put up her umbrells and hurried home the home of a boarding house took her belated and solitary supper, ran up to her own little sitting room. A fire burned in a grate, and her BIRARO~-80@ relic stood open with some new music apon it. Before sitting down to her ong practice went to the window and ued out Ail the world and stil and ghostly, sand faster and inser snow was Inlling. As she stood tall, dark figure of 8 man the gy and cme plowing through the snow to the front door. “One of the boarders,” she thought, “be Sad as i WH to had dons | ery } uer Wane ness § thay RING (ie she had n : B(x t} she the } s the iy : opened gule x She left the piano. tina tice, window snd went to the Before she commenced Lier prac- nd hall uneonscionsiy, she began SOILly to sing the oid anthem: Hark the hemld ! angels sing Glory to the new-born king, Peace nu earth--and merey mild God and sinners reconotled, Then she stopped, conscious that the ‘oor had opened, and that did not advance. “Come in," shi stopped with a took her at her word, sh eame forward. **1 have come hack, Katie,” he said, “Will you forgive me and shake hands? ® He took both hers without waiting for leave, and held them fast, *1 only reached Americas yesterday,” he went on. * All tl years I have been in Europe, get you and be happy. and I bad neither forgotten you nor been happv. You were right, and | was wrong. 1 have co back to tell you so, and to ask you if you have forgotten me.” * Forgotten you # she BOSt with = sob. Harry! ‘IT am n ner * Rosie and the litle omestaad, ari drunk hiraself paiter with went proflered sald, "and shiat the re 18 8 (rau WwW Cr'y, Du iy 2a ui Us LUE QOOr, and uy O forgs [iw repeats, 0 We aL th rungen hoshand to death I iried to my duty, Katie, before I away—1 sought out and i her a portion of her father's lortune. She was proud, as you told me she would be, and refused it with rm. ‘I am poor,’ she said, * almost bet I will pot take as a favor from you, Harry Hatton, that which i my right. Keep all, or give all.’ Ikept , and. if I could have Iorgotien might have kept sll to the end. ve you so well, my Katie, that | SX nothing hut you ; of my We will b £ wiil he together. Say you forgive me, Katie: you have not ssid it vet. She said it then, hol her happy tenrs moistening damp coat-collar. “You and are Lo § énd Cl with Rose,” he says, present! transport “she's » soni as ever lived, in spite t and right g atrimony f { that, rel echo her sentiment!’ “I think I will risk it, though.” said Miss Englehart, lroking at him, hand. some, and big, snd brown, with adori eyes. ‘Oh, Harry! to think [ dia n know you, striding through the snow up to the gate. | was just thinking, with ever so little of a pang, that no gift would be mine this year, while all the time the best and dearest of ali Christmas boxes was coming to me ove: the snow.” “Christmas Las brought yon sour over, and New Year shall bring you your husband,” said Harry. And New Year did. ————————— Odd Statistics. 4 Detroiter heen for the lastiwo years collecting and arranging statistics of an odd nature, and it lus book is ever published readers will fied nothing dry about it. He goes rig to business on page one by estin ating tht the number of lickings received by the average noy up to his fourteenth year at 125. This inciudes the spanking process during infancy. Out of every 100,000 people in this country 19,000 get up cross in the morn. ing. but only a hundred or so remain in that condition very long after breakfast. Out of 60,000 men only 700 will put money on a bet. The rest will crawfish around and fiaally back water on their assei tions, Only ten women out of every 800 who start out on a journey by raiiroad con- suit a railrosd map or have the least idea of the direction they take. Four hiundred apd ninety-eight worry about their baggage: 497 are certain they took the wrong train; 400 wish they had never started. The risk of being bitten by a dog is greatly overestimated. add fins 4. » Ose siarving, YOu, ¥ UL 3 ‘pat dle, @ him ela his already i 0 atte = ng 14 #1 Sid has et up a row with the humsn race, and those two are ready and willing to die. The number of men who can put in a at their own fireside is on the decrease, pleasant is on the increase, and swear they will see a lawyer about it only fifteen carry out their intentions. Only one woman in 5,000 pays the firs price asked for a bonnet, and only one milliner in a 1,000,000 expects her to. The time oceupied by the average man in buying a full suit of clothes is just one-fourth the time occupied by the average woman in buying a single pair of siockings.— Free Press. A Strange Recovery of Speech, The East Portiand (Oregon) Tilegram gives the following sccount of the man ner in which one of the mute inmates of the insane asylum near that city sud- denly recovered his speech: For years Mr. Armstrong, a dumb inmate of the asylum, has plodded along, attending to his duties a8 a trusty, faithful man, being unable to speak a word. On Sun. day Inst the inmates were given a romp in the handsome grove, which is sur- rounded by a high wall, in order to sun themselves. One of the inmates, a rather wild individual, imagined Le was » squirrel, and away he went scampering up one of the tall fir trees to its topmost branches, and would neither return to solid ground for pleadings or threats. As usual, Armstrong was near at hand and volunteered to go up and bring him back. He had climbed about thiity feet from the ground when a limb breke and down came Armstrong bouncing among tue branches, finally 8dting down upon the ground like the hammer of a pile- driver. The wardens expected to see were doomed to astonishment. as Arm- strong sprang to Lis feet and burst out in a volley of profanity that would have put a trooper to blush. He hep up swearing without intermission for at least ten minutes, while everybody was d with astonishment. He had red his speech and to-day can us wel) a3 any person, and to say is drawing it mildly tNTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., PA. SUPERSTITIONS, a —— m—— GILYAKS AND GOLD, | How Certain Little Ocenrrences in Every hay Life are Hogardod— 3 hel Influence “ge y x3 | Upon tee Wes FPorsons vw he are Ine 3 he Gilyaks and the Goldi are the two | dueed by “Gumens” 10 do Foolish | tribes found in the greatest numbers on | Things, : the Lower Amur. The length of ter-! W niking down Chestnut street Po- ritory over which the Gilysks wander | cently in a pouring rain a handsomely. extends trom the mouth of the river | dressed Indy was seen to stop suddenly, a village ealled Tombofsk or Gorin. | and | situated 350 miles from Nikolaefsk. 1 | up carefully a common pin, tried to learn thelr numbers, but was not | Accidents sometimes ocour to the successful, their arithmetical ideas be | feminine toilet which render a pin, for I asked, for instance, | Unrious Habits of the Natives of Siberia. i ‘oO | the instant, one of the most valuable‘ol | possessions. and the natural supposition { was that such a one had befallen the killed, what was its populstion, to indy In question. But no, she lad which he replied that they had sixty | merely dropoed the pin into her purse wore women, sad the children | 8nd quietly went ber way, while we re aad not counted, Mr. Collins, | ted the Fayme from Mother Goose, years ago, gave their wil. | more thrifty than practioal: as thirty-nine, with an es Bee a pin and pick it up: popu ation L880, The All the day you'll have good luck; Gi ilyaks differ both in and in See a pin and let it lay, I Bad lock you'll have all day, Lhe superstition is a common one, Lured by ali classes, and doubtiess viginated in past ages when pins weére cares and valuable, We often hear it quoted as an instance of Stephen Gi. rard’'s economy that he was never known to pass a pin without picking it up, but { the question is an open one whether the fact was due to motives of thrift or | sirply to the old superstition This is the season of building, and it | Is curious to observe how, when a lad- | der is erected ngainst 8 wail, many per. by Mauchu merchants. | sons— in fact, the majority of passers-by hereditary omses it is no doubt | —go round it, out into the street, rather by their filthy manver | than pass under, although danger of life Ahey are sald never |or limb from so doing there isahsolutely sh, ard though constantly on the | none, And of those who sturdily walx it possible, get into | under probably more than one remem. it. A leiegraphic engineer told me that | bers uncomfortably the ill lack which he one day gave a Gilyak a piece of | is said to sttend the set, soap, which he put in his mouth, and The evil repute which stiaches to alter chewing it to a lather, pronounced Friday is well-nigh world-wide. Amone Their habitations are | sailors the prejadice against this day is might be expected’ The | especially prevalent. Wil of timber and mud, and In order to disprove and counteract around three-fourths of the interior of | it in some messure a wealthy English wall is a broad divan, with flues | shipbuilder once built a vessel which On this | was begun on Friday, finished on Fri. they sleep. In center of the | day, christened “The Friday” and butiding is a platiorm, under which. | lsusched on Friday. It was with diffi. in winter, the dogs have their habita- | culty that men were found to man her, tion, and sometimes also a bear. | but tampted by high wages a crew was at last obtained and she set sail on Friday. Unfortunately for the success dreds of pieces of dried fish, from | of the experiment she was never heard ch medley is emitted an odor any- | of again. thing but like that of a spring nosegay The last two omens regarding Sunday their mode of traveling in summer is ave originated in the days when 'y boats, which they propel with oars, | it was a penal offense for a man to kiss pulied nol gether, but alternately. In | his wite on Sunday, and when Melohis. winter they travel by dogs and sledges. | edec Jones was put in the stocks for They eat surprisingly little, and subsist | oa ling on his sweetheart one Sabbath almost eatirely on fish. A piece of : afternoon. salmon & foot long and two inches thick There are intelligent and well-educs- will suffice a Giiyak, I was toid, for a | ted peopie whom nothing can induce to day, ard when traveling the same | uvon x mourning garment when not in amount serves for & dog. They have black themselves notion of a Supreme Being. I is your religion P" 1 asked “We have none | be rep. To another 1 said, “To whom you pray? “To the skies,” | answered, They are commonly said to worship the bear, and some mem- i i ge in which # bear is confined and fed. From time to time he brought out to be made sport of, and once a year each vil. inge takes it in tarn to provide one § i ‘ad a village In which the missionary was ¥ § they INOS ol mngunye abits from ali the other In form they are diminutive, usually below rather than ! i | } rabove five ated, the | many of their tribes of the on ooiar of the skin the Chi. nese, hair black and nos luxuriant, with little on the face. In intellect they are They do not learn the Rus. 1&1 HAVE ho Ti Ta | aelr dis ihe | and 1 believe they signs whatever thers; and syphilis, the last having been ori gi- nally brought aggravated of iiving. $0 wa than are fishing tackle, hunting weapons and al must ! tlie “What \ : 8 (sx) Yak heard a Indy upbraid- peed IL the keenest remorse on i of her sister, because a few days previous she had tried on a black mt belonging to a friend visiting al the house. To reason with her and endeavor to prove that any connestion en Lhe two events was impossible, comlorted her bul iittie—and to-day it {is that none of the family would upon any consideration do the same thing again which Every ose knows the origin of the much ceremony sand eats hid | custom of burying the dead with their LISI more than once wi Ler Was fees lo the ensl, an custom universal rue that worshiped the bear, but | among Christisn nations, sand adopted they aiways denied. So far at first that as the Lord is to come in they have any religion at all, it is #0 the east the dead may arise and stand Shamanism, the I feature with their faces to him in the resur- that when they have rection, The usage of centuries hiss vii to depreceate or advantage to crave rooted this custom so deeply that it is ey have recourse toa 8S tn priest, | little wonder that when it is departed who periorms certain cere nonies and 1 the superstitious shade their veads incantations, there being usually ¥ prophesy that no good will come nected therewith the drinking ol Chines : : ntoxication of the whol . make rough wood, which they use at their ceremo- nies, and in sickness they are wom about their persons as charms. [a hed one Gilyak to sell me his gods, bu at first paying that he in sickness, He ¢ his mind, however, and after my leaving his house sent some after me for One feature of their religion struck me as noticeable, which was that they did not eail in the aid of a Shaman at times : din id of joy or thanksgiving, as at a wedding of ad. ao Crane | rs of thistribe havea © bi Lwrd 51 is ap slo ANNALS, Is Kile they Aas ial Ol Any Chit thy wy ad a insurance agents ave the pie who have any idea how n, sensible In other respects, rom insurisg their lives by the r on their own par! or on that member of their families, that t might shorten their lives, snd are sober business men who die and leave their estates to endless iitigs- tion rathier than make a will, because of the vague fear lest thus * setting their house in order” hasten the day of d os of Desttated, gale, eal. . From the same fear men refrain from but only when they had something to | ali ring or adding to an oid house, and get or something to fear, as in sickness | we have known 8 man prominent in his or al death. | visited two Gilyak vil neighborhood, wealthy and otherwise inges, and was much interested in this Hberal iis family, who year after miserable people, year lived on in a dwelling which was Both Gilyaks and Goldi are alike in | & continued mortification to his wife that they purchase their wives and | and daughters, resisting ail their en. practice polygamy, A Gilyak will sell | treaties to rebuild, so fully was he con- lis daughter for eight or ten dogs, a | vinced that if he were so to do his death sledge and two onses of brandy: or, il would soon follow. she have a ** good nose," sie may feloh an a little more. A rich Golld, in provid. people. ing a wile lor his son, will pay from 8801 «Rae to $100 for a gir! five vears i. Bhe : wiii then be taken Ww father. in~law’s house, brought up with her future husband, and when the girl is twelve or thirteen, and the husband eighteen, the marriage will take place Weddings, however, are expensive things, for all the relatives expect to be invited, and they sometunes | drink several gallons of Chinese khan- shin. The drinking of this, I am toul, caares not only intoxication, but among these people violence akin to madness. It is sold by weight; but its tmporia. fil i5 not your prayers, child; yom'll have seven years trouble, lady to the writer, when the latter had broken her doil's looking-g AES, augury was fulfilled, but a: four of seven were the black years of the Inte civil war, the trouble was by no means Lait her shatterer. oo Country folk—some in jest, some in earncst--transiate the voi~e of a chicken coming to-day.” and we remember an { old indy who invariably made prepara | tion for compsny when the warning is strictle orbidden by Rus: | note was sounded upon her premises. sian law. Bhould a Golld who has | In thirty years, she declared, the sign many wives desire to be baptized, the | had never 1ailed. Bussian missionaries compel him to! The same o'd lady had asa pet a eat {ns black sa any which ever figured in {tale of necromamey. Keep a black happy arrangement, being returned to their respective fathers at half price. | her favorite was commended on, ** keep these matrimonial | heard that | money.” She was wealthy, but a few { miles off lived an cld black ocrone, mis. { tress of u cat as black as her own, who | (the negress not the cat) had the credit Te sig {of witcheraft and who, in spite of her Words of Wisdom, | reputed Sapnestion With the devil ad iscre "oe 3 Jo. | the ownership of the cat, h ard wor pn of speech 18 more than elo 10, kee onl and body together. & 2 i } and one super- Joy finds its expression in almost every | iti ren | — the thread of Re pathway oi lite. | every-day lives, and which meet us at That flower that tollows the sun does every turn. Few of us are weak enough to let them influence our action, yet most of us remember them unpleasantly now and then, while very many of us, did we own the truth, have one or more omers which we would prefer not to encounter, ** I cannot bear to have my left eyelid quiver,” said » Indy of cultivation and average intelligence ** Of course, | be- licve there is nothing in it, but then 1 can't help feeling, when it does so, as if trouble were coming.” Plenty of people who ought to know better are firm believers in the supeisti- tion that it is uniuck to place the shoes which one has worn during tue day otherwise at night than with the toes pointing to the door and cannot sleep in peace unless they have done so. Yenrs ugo the belief in the evilomen of spill ing salt was so prevalent thet it was ridiculed by Addison in the Spect dor; but the superstition still holds 1s own, The evil may be averted by throwing a pinch of salt over the left shoulder, s charm which is Sleagly n relic of the old heathen ceremonial of casting rice in the air and pouring libations on the ground as a proprietary offering to un- seen spirits. Among ithe signs which ave supposed to foretell death are the ringing in the ear, known as the death. bell; the death-wateh (a peculiar noise caused by a soall insect ou its way through wood), or a portrait falling from its place on the wall, and each of tliem has more than once gi persons a fit of the blues, When the eyes of a ©o shut they are ghastly eno science to give color to that they are watohi who is soon to follow ch. nces to stumble rider may be excu thereat are none no unmarried jadies.—New York 0). The heatt ought to give charity when the hand has not the power, _ Beauty in a woman is like the flowers in spring; but virtue is like the stars in hieaven. The mind has more room in it than most people imagine, it you would fur- nish the apartments. Loveof truth shows itself in discover ing sand appreciating what is good wherever it may exist, Human nature is so constituted that all see and judge better in the allairs of others than in their own. The heart is a loom and it may weave whatever iL pleases. It may make life a continual progress toward triumph. A man need only correct himseif with the same vigor that he reprehends others, and excuse others with the same indulgence that he shows to himself, That man is very poor inwardly that can express ail that is going on in his | soul. Language is too coarse and too superficial for the expression of high and deep feeling. The Norwegian fishermen always carry with them on their expeditions a kind of tslescope called a water tele- seope. This is a tube three or four fect long, with sn eye piece at one end, The other end, which is open, is placed in the water over the edge of the boat, and a little practice easily enables the ob- server to distinguish objects at a depth of from ten to filteen fathoms. The fish- ermen are thus enabled to discover shoals which would otherwise go uuno- ticed. They then give the signal, their comrades surround them with seines and they frequently make wonderful haus! in places and under circumstances that would never have been suspected but or the use of the telescope. TERMS: $2.00 6, 1881, VIGILANTES, How They Put Down Borde Huang If a door epens withouy apparen | eause the Germans have a saying, whieh | has come ncross the water to their | American descendants, that a spirit has | in a Missour! River Town. entered, and the cold, nervous shiver | For the pust three months the busi. which most persons have fell more or | Bess men and respectable citizens of | ies often is held to result from footfalls i Pierre have be én secrclly organising a uver the future grave of him who ex | VIgliance committee to protest the in- periences it. | Lerests of the own, and to rid the com. There are sick nurses who, st the bed. | munity of roughs, eat throsts and gar. side of the dying, never fail to open | raters that infest that lively little town, door or window that the parting soul | The commitiee is well organized and may pass out. The superstition is, I | drilled. They have a capiain and as. think, of Bootch origin, snd the reader {sistant and all provided with breech. will remember Meg Mervillies at the | loading shotguns and heavy revolvers. dying bed of the gypsy, chanting : { Ihe organisation numbers shout two 100K Oi] SRE i {hundred of the best citizens of the Come death and end life. | place, but it was not until lsst week Tragic stories are related in various | that their services were calied into of the country, a: home and | T¥iUisilion, abroad, of evil resulting to the unlucky | A Httls over a week ago a character guests al dinner parties of thirteen. | Damed Arkansaw, and the man was Many intelligent and educated people | 5iied the * Kid last summer, with a harbor this suspicion. Bismarck, it is | £*& of followers went over to Bast Said, refuses under any circumstances | I ierre and began making themselves a to sit down to a table with the iatal | little too Rumerous with their pistols number, and # prominent business man | Arkansa® would occasionally pull out of New York is reported to owe his stact | 18 pistol, cock it, and request some in life to the ready tact with which he | P#aceable citisen to come to him, and if suddenly remembered a pressing en- | the Jeast hesitancy was observed in com- gagement, when the failure of two in. | P'YiBg with his request the result would vited guests Lo appear at a dinner given | }° ® VOUEY of pistol shots, after which by A. T. Stewart reduced the number ATERnsaw would put his révolver back present to thi-teen, to Mr. Stewar's | \2 Lhe hoster and resume his search for never remove their wedding ring, and | Alter; it only gave a tittle spice to his who, were it to slip off accidentally, | Performances. His entire gahg Was wouid surely expect some dire misfor. | “0Wposed of just such men as himeelt, une. (and on one afternoon inst week they ** 1 should think his ears would burn,» | FUoceeded 'n creating terror wherever is common remark when a person is | 'HeY made their appearance made the subject of a continued con. | Afr creating all the disturbanee versation, and ‘so many stitches you | they cond, fad taking 8 prisoner Away take upon you, so many lies will be toid | from a United States deputy marshal, shout you," is as frequently quoted they went to West Pierre, with the when n rent is hastily sewn up without | AvOWed purpose of returning and clean. changing the torn garment. ing out the town. They did return, but In nearly every land the moon is the | Were met by 200 vigilantes, and two subject of numerons superstitifns. She | Pundred shotguns staring them in the reguintes the changes of the weather — pliases must be consulted in soap making, in killing meat, in planting, in | dosens of the common pursuits of life, | j and to see the new moon through trees | Arkansaw and gang got on the war- over the left shoulder, with no money | P™ hand each one stra ving on three or in the pocket, is thought to be terribly | [Our revoivers, the entire outfit, about unlucky. | 180 outlaws, cow-bovs and buliwhack- 4 ers, went over to East St. Pierre to Should a coal pop out from a wood | “elean gut” the boys, as they termed 3 4 {it It was about ten o'clock when foretells a suitor for her heart and hand, | they got in, and went directly to the and if two spoons come together in the | §.p on house. now and then shooting sugar dish & wedding in the family is | 00 light in some house ns they to be expected with equal certainty. | nassed by They shot everything— ** Sing before breakiast you'll ery be. | To 0 0 lights, men, horses, and a fore supper,” and ** Blessed be the bride |; take it. sitet the sun shines on™ Lave passed into fa- | “weery minute would be heard the miliar adages. : sound of the pistol. Suddenly those Swallows building in a chimney bring | ih, 4 100k no part on either side, hoard good luck to the house, ont not to the the lond ** bang,” * bang * of the shot. : ‘ } ; 14 bo v idnt among our scquaintavee wives who | OF 1Wo would take effect, but that didn't idistely and never show themseives again in East Pierre, NUMBER 52. RE es CGA RELIGIOUS NOTES AND NEWS, The Luwerans of the ral council are discussing the gq of having bishops, King John, of Abyssinia, be that # pation ought to be Christian, has ordered mil the Mosulmans in his dominions 10 be baptized or jeave, The trustees of the sor David ©, Swing is pastor, have raised Lis saisry from $7,000 to $10, The debt on the Methodist chureh in Sa Lave City, Utat, haa pooh red goed rom ? to throuch the efforts of ial Moors The membership of the ; tions! ehurches in several of ths Bates aud interior States has fallen but in © lifornis it has advspoced per cent, ia ten years. while the tion has incrensed fifty per cent, The iw'st theological seminary Lomi] Ky. is a busy place, of ihe professors and fifieen students preached at different and shout Loalsville a few Se Dr. Bphraim Epsteim, born in and formerly s professor in the reformed theologies! seminary Olilo, lias been appointed a Baptist mis- west, A movement has been started am the atipies of Charis to build a st Wash n, it is propaged wo the on ha. on the fifth of Marsh, the day after the insgguration dent Garfield. The Comberland Presbyterian mis. | sionaries in Japan report the bi two young men, both of whom wil pre pare for the ministry. One of will gradoste from the Ombs medical | schools néxt February. : The Baptists have sevén whites in Wash ; | members, and thkiy-three colored | ehigrches with more than 4.006 members, The women have established a women's | Baptist home for neely women in the churches, The journal Clergymen, 83; ob m WY were adults: confi 619; ¢ mmunicants, 6.994; Sunday-school scholars, 9,761; parish school scholars, If anybody will look carefully at the end of his thumb, he will fad that the surface is ridged with little threadiike Hu ellen then’ 0 His 0 olasted. gun and heard the tramp ol lwo hus- tune, and be who does it is doouned Bre aiinntes Tasrohing in lige, hears through life to failure in everything he |, or x Pos WRETOREIH undertakes. If & strange cat adopts a house volun- tarily a8 Ler home she is believed to bring good luck to the household. Numbers of intelligent people keep a. pocket-plece of gold or silver for ** good luck." ** The devil dances in sn emply pocket.” And others, generally old people, would pot for much leave a horeeshoe found lyine in the road without picking it up. An old horseshoe bring: good inck, doubly so if found by the owner. Horace Greeley kept always a rusty | others were killed — Deadwood Daksta horseshoe over the door of Lis sanctum, | pn. and the more or less decorated horse. 3 : shoe which plays such & part in modern | ' or amentation is simp y the revival of Called Him Gould, an old superstition — Phelodelphia Times. | Une morning, nol many days ago, a . aumber of Texans sat around the stove in the office of 8 hotel in San Antonio, roasting their heels and talking of Mexi- oan i A New York drummer entered the place, registered, and was saking ahout breakfast, when one of the men approached him and said: “Hello! Mr. Gould. My name's Me- Thomas; got your letler and was look- {ing for you.” was going on, and pid roldiers say it flying in every direction before a deter. mined fire of the vigilantes. Arkansaw, & little braver than his iin hesitating be sealed his own doom, for almost 12 » moment fully fity shots were fired, and the cutthroat brigand Arkansaw fell to the ground riddled h bullets, A review of the ground Corns. Corns consist of layers of thickened epidermis--the transparent coating that | protects the sensitive true skin beneath, Ibis epidermis is in constant process of formation from the true skin, and is ns constantly being thrown off in minute | particies. It is as destitute of feeling ss thenalls -a8 ulso the scales on thelegs of fowls anion bodies of fishes—which are only w Taigers, Pwho saw il was a osse of mistaken iden. tity, and offered a chance for fun. Every boot-heel came down off the stove, and every mouth was turned side- Ways ‘0 spit. “@Gorightinto breakfast; lotsof time or business,” continued the man, and tiie hungry drummer disappeared in the dining room. ¥ hen he had finished breakfast he returned to the office to find it empty, He picking his teeth when the landlord edged up and said: : : : “Boys rather got the start of you, Mr. skin beneath, giving rise 10 successive Gould." 8 inyers of thickened epidermis, which “How's that #° “Why, McThomns owns a twenty-four | horse coach line running out of here, and he dropped the boys a hiot that you | were sfler it to complete your south- west line, While you were in at break- fast the boys formed a stock company, bought him out, and are going to make you pay for the whistle” Corns are among the “ exerescences of civilisation. A higher civilization, however, which shall conform the shoe to the foot, instead of the foot to the shoe, will know of them only as we know of the crushed feet of the Chinese women, A thickening of the epidermis having heen caused the points of special ww oh al Between the vilal feroe beneath, and the pressure of the shoe above, the oen- If a splinter is eft in the finger the flesh above and around it will die, and new skin be formed below, which will in time lift the splinter out. But | * “040850 5) og go for them. My name in the case of corns, nature's efforts ave! . 4» by the persistent pressure | W tat, aren't you Jay Gould, of New from above, which constantly enlarges | York®” the corn from below. Sai 3 * Not quite; I am Sam Smith, of New The first step toward reliel is tose. |g on : | “(reat heavens! Bat the bays will Meanwhile remove the pres- | have yout scalp! You answered to the name, and they raised eight thousand { dolinrs here in two minutes to buy out {the line. You'd better fly.” struction. sure from the corn in whatever way may be possible, i A pointed knife ran down carefully belween the layers will casily Syne Bic “Batlcan't. I've come here to do e Cw t nada YY times it can be picked out with the nail, | NC) vor mind the business. One side after soaking the foct three successive |.. i). other will pant for your blood as warm water, The soaking | soon ss the game is exposed. They will itn | be back in twenty Winuges I arubsbing 1 a. | The drummer pic up his But as the cores always fill ap | San ry Sr he met a man tha shotgun in bis bands, and then { he hurried. He turnea a corner and — | heard Spe oye ory #4 hak)» oe hes } i he flew, and he didn’t fo is wings A Curious Atiietion, {until he was & hundred miles AWRY, ~~ William B. Ferguson, of East Spring. | Wall Street News. field, whose peculiar and dreadful | sn malady was fully detailed in these col umns a few years ago. is now passing through the period of frightful spasms which recur at this time every year. It is now twenty years since Mr. Ferguson was first attacked with this unknown disease. During this annual season of horrible suffering the paroxysmes come on regularly at seven o'clock in tue evens. ing and continue, with slight intervals, tor about three hours, leaving him pros. trate and exhausted, Precisely at seven o'rlock the next might they recur, and g0 on for three or four weeks, when they suddenly stop and leave him for another year. When in these spasms the mus cles become rigid as bars of steel, and the body is thrown into frightful con- tortions. No known oc.use for the ma'ady has ever been assigned, and al- though Mr. Ferguson has spent large sums of money in searcu of medical as- sistance, no relief whatever, even of a temporary character, has ever been found. A few years since he spent a week in Cleveland at the medieal col lege, and the {acuity and all the leading physicians of the city for several nights witnessed his spasms, but none o! them had ever seen a similar case or could dingnose the disease.—~Erie (Fa.) Dis- puloh place. emoval of the cause. P————— A Case that Puzzles the Physicians. The Chicago doctors are puzsied and interested by a pecuiiasr case in that city. Willie Crawford, aged fourteen yeurs, son of William Crawford, cap- tain of & tugboat, has for seven years been sweating blood at times, and ately hins had severe attacks which alarmed his parents. His infirmity comes on hita usually atter taking cold. Great black patches appear on his body, from which blood drops the mize of a pin head exude. Blood flows from his mouth, nose, eyes, stomach, and even from the bladder and kidneys. No pain accompanies these discharges, but they make his blood thin and weaken him, Sudden fright or excitement will tem- orarily check the flow. He is mentally Bri ht, and his father, mother, brothers and sisters are strong and healthy. The physicians who have taken an interest in his case propose sending bim to Ecin- purg ‘and London for examination by the Academy of Surgeons. Counterfeit Gold Coin. Although there is very little gold coin in oration the counterfeiters have set afloat a bogus quarter eagle which is about as nearly worthless a piece of money of its pretended value as can well be. ‘the imitation quarter eagle is made of a peculiar composition, has a clear silvery ring, is elecirggi, and contains about ten cents worth of silver. Store- kee and others who have not hand- Jed much gold recently are not unlikely to be deceived by this cheap imitation of a two and a half piece.~— 3 Detector . 5 smn -, At a ball at Schwargenburg, Saxony, a young man entered, haviag what a peared to be a cigar in his mouth. He went to the chandelier ay if to light it, an d a terrible explosion ensued. The lights were extinguished, the walls partly gave way, some of the davoers were covered with blood, and the Jong man was blown to pieces. He ha killed himself by means of a dynamite cartridge. A French physician claims io have Cleveland. He is 80 modest about his established two fi k that one of his friends there was hui tne other day to find that the hed yon e@ met an 1 ay. ied eu Hie word Brash’ i the make-up facts—that widowers commit suicide move frequently than warried men, and that the presence of children in a’house diminishes the tend-~ ency to self-destruction in both wen ead women. The physician probably g ot mean the presence of cther does n the ma- people's children, ranges of hills, wound round and round If hie will take a | be will find that there is 8 good deal individuality in the way which these No two thumbs inall te world are exactly alike, | mountain ranges sre | as the Alpsor the Sierras, the geograp | establishing a rogues gallery. | ever a criminal is exnmined by the law, { Smeared with a little mmoblack, ‘par | tially wiped and then pressed down on a i piece of white paper, &n engraving | police records. It serves jus the same | purpose which is served by our photo. | graphing our burglars and pick | The accused can be identified with great | | certainty. Nothing short of mutilating | or barnivg the thumb can obliterate its | features, metimes a ghastly proof of jguiit is furnished, a murcerer red- is " wit . antah . dr a tehen or in » child's get side chambers, and to werk day Bot be said of thst living in 1 | fingers’ end upon a white wall, and so | leave in the color of his guiit a photo- | graph on the sceusing wall. His | ture is left just as unmistakably as ifhe | j and thus great crimes have been brougit | tw light, snd deeds of blood made to tell | their own story. i | the tip of the thumb stronely marked as { it is, yet admits of strong family likeness, | Brothers and sisters who will take jm- | pressions of their thumbs will find re- | semnblances among each other that { wiil nol find when comparing them wi {the thumbs of strangers. Even thus | minutely does th .t 8 range thing. wiry | ilkeness, descend. What wonder is it | that faces Jook slike, voicessound alike; | Low can it seem strange thet members | of the same [amily should have similar. ities of temper, of mental aptitutes and hereditary diseases, when such minor | peculiarities as the texture at the end of {the thumb, spd its ranges of hills, {should niso have family resembianoes | in the midst of (heir infinite diversities. | “The hairs of our heads are all num- | bered,” and not only so, but esch hair if examined with a powerful glass shows peculiarities nsstrong as the trees of a forest, aiike. Everything, from the Sualiest to the greatest, is impresse: a specific cLaracter and individuality. The Cre- ator's invention is exhaustiess and he no more repeats himsell in the raphy of a thumb than in the by of a continent. Now if anybody this, let him take a little bisck, or anal ine color, and try. He wiil ncquire an ous spect for it that w qt 3 more Every 8 twrday. ; a haa How a Boy was Poisoned. In one of the public schools of 4 lyn, a boy thirteen years old, : very quick and bright, was found to be growing dull and fittul. His face was le, and he had nervous twitchines. uit school. Ing become a {¢ was obliged to showed that he smoker of cigarettes. When asked wh be did not give it up, he shed tears, said Lie had often tried, but could not. The growth of this habit is insidious, Se + oe . The xcs the brain, the n us & , the A the power of application, are all im- paired by it. “Its cigarette,” is really; “it's poison.” German and French have recently protested against a convention of Su teachers was recently in to check it. It was presided eminent surgeon of a royal ary, who stated that many the eye were directly caused Parents, save your children irom th A forgror Allow, them ve you. w rise up snd bless for restraining | them. —Christian Music Bands and Bridges. . Bands of music are forbidden to on most of the large world. A constan waves, ——- in . As first the tions are very slight, but they will in ¢rease as the sound waves contin come. [Ihe princiral reason why bands aie not allowed to play when certain bri the s sion bridge at Niagara falls, for Instance, is that if Er ocemitns Gf any kind} ey w eep sf 1810, § this regular _ cause the : to the bridge than a ‘neavily foadea horses. There are in of “With y total mem into La ts to fight.
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