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HENRY A. PARSONS, Jr., Editor and Publisher.
NIL DESPEHANDDM.
Two Dollars oor Annum.
VOL. X.
RIDGWAY, ELK COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 1880.
NO. 8.
" Strike While the Iron's Hot."
Strike while the Iron's hot)
Strike and with a will ;
lie is no skillful smith
Who let the iron eliill.
Ere tlie Iron harden, strike,
Shape it to vhnt shape you liko,
To the scythe or knile or sword,
To slay or heal or mow the sward,
Strik while the iron's hot,
Strike with hand and heart;
Quickly turn the bar,
And smite on every part.
Bring the sledge down with a swing
Till it makes the anvil ring.
So great master workmen wrought,
So struck the iron while 'twas hot .
So, when the time is ripe
To net, or think, or say,
The. precious moment seize
Before it pass away.
Shapen the action to your ends,
As the smith the iron bends ;
Let the word and lit the thought
Promptly into deed be wrought.
Strike while the iron's hot,
Or do not strike at all;
Strokes the cold bar will break,
Not fashion, when they tall.
If you're slow in arm and brain,
All your labor will be vain;
The quick ol head and quick ot hand
May rise from serving to command.
John Francii Walter .
THE TURN OF AN ACCIDENT.
It was sx o'clock of a crisp October
morni'jjt, pnj Jolm Boyd, farmer, rous
ing '.rom hi9 sound nig Fit's sleep, sprang
o'jeofbed with the alert readiness of a
man who knows the value of the first
hours of the day. It was a tavern bed
from which he jumped; home and its
cares were many miles away ; but a lon
ride lay before him, and he washed and
dressed briskly, as one in haste, hum
r1!". a ol-riial air meanwhile, as be
came a man who felt himself in good
spirits, and bad ample reason for doing
so. For, be it known, this year had
proved the best for farmers since John
had besn his own master. Harvests
had been large, prices high, and John,
on his way back from the annual mar
ket, carried a sense of freedom and lib
eration at his heart from the final ex
tinguishment of a mortgage on his farm
a mortgage which had pressed as
heavily on his conseitnee as did the
burden of Christian on his shoulders
The. burden was lifted now ; and, fur
t her than th..t, John carried in his fat
red wallet two fiundred dollars, over
and above, toward the expenses of the
next yenr. He had never been so ' fore
handed ' before, and the sensation was
ajiyul one. 'My neck is out of the
collar now,' lie muttered to himself as
lie brushed his thick brown hair. ' I
thmld be a tool indeed it I put it in
agiin. No more mortgages for me!'
Then, his toilet completed, he ran
downstairs, two steps at a time.
Farmer-like, his first visit was to his
horses. They were munching their
corn satisfactorily; and after a look or
two, and a pat, John returned to the
inn, where a jangling bell announced
breakfast. It was smoking on the table
a substantial meal of the kind univer
sal in taverns thirty years ago; and
John Boyd, whose appetite was of the
kind proverbially said to accompany a
good conscience, was doinn it ample
JUSti.-e. when a sudden instinct led him
to thrust hi hand into the inner pocket
wuiuii itPtct iue two hundred dollars.
The wallet was gone!
In the suddenness of the shock, John
felt himself pule, and then flusn pain
fully, as he confusedly tried to remem
ber if he had taken out the wallet, and
when. Under his pillow that was it.
He rocoiiected distinctly, orsoit?eemed,
putting it there, for security's sake,
'j-n ne went to bed ttie night before.
nth a muttered excuse, he left the
table and hurried upstairs. The door
of his room stood open, and a maid
servant was putting fresh sheets on the
bed, tho soiled linen lying in a heap on
the floor.
Toward this heap John hurried and
began turning it over.
Have you lost something, sirP' asked
the maid.
John straightened himself up to an
swer. He had not noticed the maid be
fore, though she had waited upon table
at supper. Now fie observed that she
was young and rather pretty fair, with
a trim, sltnder figure, beautiful glossy
hajr, neatly dressed and braided, and a
pair of sweet, apprehensive blue eyes.
He.' voice was soft,, too; and she had a
shy. modest manner which suggested
an idea cf refinement. All these facts
Farmer Boyd absorbed in a flash, and
instinctively noting, weighing, estimat
ing, by that wonderfully rapid process
of which the human mind is capable,
while yet his thoughts were full of his
money and his loss.
'Yes. I am looking for my wallet,
which I left under my pillow. Did you
find it?' J1 . '
The girl's face blanched to a deadly
whiteness, and her eyes dilated as with
sudden terror.
'No, sir,' she said, her voice trem
bling and sinking away as she spoke.
I didn't see any wallet.'
John looked uther distrustfully; but
there was something in the pale face
which disarmed suspicion.
I'd like to search the bed,' he went
on. 'It may have slipped under the
mattress.'
Together they turned the mattress,
but no wallet was visible.
That off horse of yourn has got his
shoe loose somehow,' announced Mr.
Nash, the landlord, at the door. 'I
thought I'd better tell you, so's you
could stop to the blacksmith's as you
pass, and get him to put in a couple of
nails. Why, what's the matter!"
John explained.
The landlord looked very grave. He
whistled softly to himself for a minute,
with his eyes fixed on the tumbled bed-di.-g;
then lie went to the stair head
and called his wife. Presently they
came in together, the landlady a face
very red and troubled.
Such a thing never happened in my
house before,' she protested. 'But
there's only one person been in your
room since you came besides yourself,
and she's the person you must reckon
with,' pointing to the maid, who. with
white cheeks and downcast eyes, leaned
against 'the wallas if awaiting sen
tence. O.i, indeed, indeed I didn't take It!
I ik-vw uw any wallet," she said ; but
her voice was drowned in Mrs. Nash's
louder tones.
'And pray who else took it. An vmi
suppose? Who else had the chance?
Answer me that. It serves me Just
right for taking in a girl with ho recom
menda girl I didn't know nothing
about, not so much as her name, or
where she come from, or who her folks
are. Five weeks tonnorrow. that'a nil
the time she's been in t.hn hnimn oir
but this is the end of it. It's the last
time I'll ever have n. beln r Hnn't kn.
all the long and short of, so you needn't
feel alrald to stop with us again no, nor
none of your friends, either; and as for
uui, tun sue pacKS tnis day.'
,' Id better go for the constable, hadn't
I" if vou re sum ft. mm tinW tho
Pillow you put it,' suggested the land
lord. 'Oh. don't, nlefiqe; nlnncn ilnn'f. '
pleaded the girl, weeping violently.
' Give the gentleman his wallet back,
then, and perhaps he'll let you off.'
' 1 can't. I haven't cot it. f nmr
saw it. Oh, please believe me. Don't
send me to jail .' she urged.
The 1 and lad V onlv nnswernri hv n
sound expression of disgust. And
throwing her apron over her head, the
poor girl wept in silence, saving no
more.
John had held bin
altercation, sharply eyeing the parties
concerned in it meanwhile. The Nashes
he knew something about. They were
of good reputation as far as he was
aware. The maid was a stranger to
mem, as to mm; out spite ol the err
cumstances, and her manner, which was
naraiy less suspicious, he could not
bring himself to believe her guilty. He
was not a hastv man. and he was a iust
one, with a kind heait to back his tem
perate judgments; and after a few min
utes' reflection he made up his mind
what to do.
' I can't swear that I put the wallet
under the pillow or anvwhere else.' he
said. ' I'm pretty sure that I did. but
my thoughts about it are confused
somehow, nnd it may be that I left it at
Bolton, where I slept on Tuesday. I
don't want no injustice done on mv ac
count. So don't cry like that 'address
ing himself to the girl. ' I'll tell you
wnat i n no. uet tlie bay shod during
the day, will you?' to Mr. Nash' and
if you'll lend me a saddle I'll ride back
to Bolton and make inquiry there. If I
find the money, well and good; if I
don't, it'll be time enough to talk fur
ther nbout it to-morrow.'
1 I'm sure it is very good of you to take
so much trouble,' declared the landlady.
' But whether or no, the girl don't stay
lure. I'll have no suspected thief in
my house.'
' There'll bo no thing to suspect her of
if I find the wallet,' rejoined John,
dryly. 'Don't give the poor thing a
bad name till you know that she de
serves it.' Then he left the room, un
mindful of the look of gratitude which
shone upon him from the blue eyes of
the girl, who had dropped her apron,
and gazed after him till he was out of
siht.
His reflections were not agreeable as
he retraced his footsteps over the dusty
highway traveled but yesterday v:ith so
light a heart. The loss ot his money
meant a great deal to John Boyd. The
pressure of anxiety seemed to settle
again upon his shoulders, as he thought
over tho probabilities of its non-recovery.
'But I won t give in without
a light for it,' he thought, grimly, as he
urged on his horse. Miles seemed
doubly long when measured by a heavy
heait, and what with dust, heat and the
continual effort to clear his mental con
fusion 83 to where and when he last
had seen his wallet, the young f irmer
was fagged and dispirited enough before
noon was fairly come.
He slopped to dine at a little tavern
attached to a toll-gate, nud with some
vague hope that the money might have
been picked up on the road by some one,
mentioned his loss. The toll-keeper
shook his head.
' Bolton's your only chance,' he said.
' If 'twas on the road vou dronned it.
there's na likelihood that you'll ever
hear of it again. The dust's eight
inches deep, 1 should say, and there's
been three big droves of sheen and one
of bullocks along since yesterday, so if
your wallet was a-lying tuere, they must
have trampled it under pretty thor
oughly. It is buried deep enough, you
may be sure, unless, which is just as
likely to happen, some one ha picked
jt up and made off with it. Your chance
is a slim one, I reckon.'
Cold comfort this; but John was
forced to agree with the opinion. De
spondingly he rode through the after
noon, scanning the way as he went; for,
despite the toll-keeper, a faint hope still
lingered in his heart, though the track,
deep in dust, and churned and trampled
by the crowding droves, presented a
sorry field for either hope or discovery.
He had gained the top of a long hill,
from which Bolton was dimly visible,
wheu a movingobject far ahead caught
his eye, and he rose in his stirrups in
order to see more clearly. As he did so
his horse made a false step, stumbled,
and threw him forward in the saddle,
so that his head grazed the horse's
neck. It was in this position that a
tiny object, a patch of red not over an
inch square, in the dust beneath, caught
his quick eye. His heart gave a little
leap; then he called himself a fool; but
all the same he dismounted to examine.
Already a random hoof-stroke had
buried the red patch from sight, but
John recollected the spot, and stooping,
dug and scooped till again it became
visible. His fingers recognized a solid
substance. Trembling with excitement,
he continued to dig; another second the
object was uncovered, lifted out, and
with a wild, incredulous whoop of joy,
John Boyd held in his hand his wallet,
buried deep by the liurrving herds, and
uncovered for one passing moment that
his eye might detect it, and no other.
Except for that luckv stumble, he too
would have ridden over the lost treas
ure, and never dreamed what lay be
m ath his horse's feet.
'And some folks say there ain't no
God !' was his mental comment, spoken
half aloud. Then for John Boyd's re
ligion, though a homely, was a true one
he bent ins head and said a few words
of thanksgiving; after which, jumping
on liis horse, he took the backward
route, eager to tell his good fortu le and
exonerate the poor girl. who. as he now
remembered with self-reproach, must
have passed a painful day under the
stigma of undeserved suspicion.
The heat was yielding to evening
iresuness, ana ne urgea ins Horse, im
patient to set matters straight; but.
with his best endeavor, it was after
eleven before he at last drew rein in
front of Nash's hotel. He was expected,
that was evident, for lights were burn'
ing. and both Nash and bis wife hur
ried uut to meet him, wearing faces of
lugubrious length, which only In part
changed to cheerfulness when they
heard of the recovery of the wallet.
'There, what did I tell yottr" cried
thohUBband. 'Haven't I ben assaying
and a-saying ail day that likely as not
this Scare would turn out all for noth
ing? And you wouldn't listen to a
word, but just kept On to that poor
thing inside there, and she's nothing to
blame all the time. 1 declare, it's too
bad the way women act to each other
and folks calling them " the softer sex!"
A man would be ashamed to be so nara.
Well, do tell! and so the money was
a-lying there in the dust all the time!
Well. I'm mighty clad, for your sake
and ours t x. Go right in, sir, and wife
'11 give you some, supper. I'll see to the
horse.' "
Mrs. Nash waited on the meal in
grim silence. She seemed only half re
joiccd at the denouement.
' It's mighty queer,' she remarked, as
she set the last dish on the table. 'I
don't feel as if we'd got to the bottom of
it yet. Why didn't Lucy deny more
positive?'
'But she did,' said John, between
two mouthfuls; 'she said she hadn't
got it.'
'Whv, course she said as much as
that. You didn't expect her I o say that
she had got it, did you?' rejoined the
landlady, with a fine scorn. 'But she
didn't speak up violent and bold, as
you d expect an innocent girl would.
nut sue was innocent all tne time,
you know.'
I ain't so over sure about that, re
plied Mrs. Nash, with a shake of her
head. ' It's a queer business.'
Hurrvins out to the barn next morn
ing in the best of spirits, a low siehing
sob called John's attention to a bench
outside the kitchen door, where sat a
hgure crumpled up into a forlorn little
heap, in which he recognized the pretty
maid of the day before. She wore her
bonnet, and a bundle lay beside her.
Her lace was hidden on her arms.
which were crossed on the back of the
bench.
' Why, what's the matter?' said John,
turning back.
The girl looked un with a start. ' I
beg your pardon,' she faltered. 'I'm
just going. I didn't mean to stay so
I An a
'Going? Where?'
1 1 don't know where,' she said, de
jectedly. 'I'd try lor another place,
only tuere doesn t seem much chance
of getting One without any recom
mend.'
' Do you mean to say that they are
sending you nway from here?'
Yes.'
' But, in the name of goodness, why?'
' 1 don't know. Mrs. Nash says she
don't like to have servants about who
are suspected of stealing.' The blue
eyes filled again as she spoke, and she
h A her face.
'By George! I never heard of such
injustice in my life,' shouted John.
' Now, Lucy, if that's your name, you
just sit still where you are Don't stir
or move till I come back. I'll see Mrs.
N ish. I'll put things right.'
To out things right seerns easy enough
to a trong, hearty man, with justice
and argument on his side, but that is
because he do's not calculate properly
on those queer hitches and crotchets of
human nature, especially woman nature,
which have no relation to justice and
fair dealing, and are unaffected by ar
gument Mrs. Nash proved impervious
to John's choicest appeals. Her mind
was made up ; she ' didn't watt to hear
no more on the subject ;' finally, her
temper rising, what business was it of
his. she demanded, what help she kept.
or if sjie kept any help at all? He'd got
his pocketbook back; accounts were
squared between them; there was no
timber call, so tar as she could see.whj
he should meddle with her concerns.
The upshot of the interview was that
John flew out of the kitchen with his
face as red as fire, tackled hi3 horses.
threw valise and feed-bag into the
wagon, flung the amount of his reckon
ing on the table, and addressing Lucy,
who. pale and terrified, stood, bundle in
hand, prepared for flight, called out:
' Now, then, my good girl, you've lost
one place by my fault, and I'm blamed
if 1 don't offer you another. Will you
jump into my wagon and go home with
me? My old woman's been talking this
long piece back of getting a smart girl
to help along when she's laid up with
the rheumatics; so you're just the one
we want She'll treat you fairly
enough, I'll be bound, and you shall
have whatever you were getting here.
And if you behave yourself vou'll be
well used, not turned out of doors for
nothing, I'll engage to that; it isn't the
way up in are parts,' with a vindictive
look at the landlady, who stood rigidly
planted in the doorway. ' We don't set
up to be extra Christians, but there's a
little honesty and decency left among
us, which is more than can be said for
all places. Well, wh.it do you say P Yes
or no. There's my hand on it if it's
yes.'
He held out bis broad palm. Lucy
hesitated, but for a moment only.
' Yes, I will.' she said. ' I've nowhere
else to go. and you seem kind.'
Another moment and they were driv
ing off together down the maple-shaded
road, whose yellow and crimson boughs
danced overhead against 'October's
bright blue weather. There were peace
and calming in the fresh stillness of the
early day. Gradually a little color stole
into Lucy's pale cheeks, and John's hot
mood gave place to wonted good humor
and chee.
' You've had no breakfast, I'll bet,' he
said, with a smile. 'And no more have
I. I was so mad with that woman that
I couldn't swallow a mouthful, but now
I be-in to feel sharp enough. We'll
stop at the next tavern, oouthwick.
frn't it? Five miles and a half. Can
vou hold out till then?'
'Oh, yes, indeed,' with a grateful look
out of tne blue eyes.
John s tone grew more and more
friendly.
' We'll have something hot and hearty
there,' he said. 'You look pale. I
guess vou didn't sleep any too much last
nifrllt. '
'Oh. I couldn't sleep at all. Mrs.
Nash told me that I must po the first
thing In the morning, and I felt so
badly'
' I shouldn't think you would want to
stay with a woman like that.'
'But it's so dreadful to have nowhere
to go to. And besides' She stopped
abruptly, with a look like terror in her
eyes.
'Have you no friends, then?' asked
John.
' No.' The tone was very reserved :
but reserve could hardly fail to melt
under so sunshiny a presence as John
Boyd's, and before the long day's ride
was done he had won from her the main
facts of her story.
Lucy Dill washer name. Ilermother
had married for the second time when
Lucy was twelve years old, and three
years ato, when the girl was barely
fifteen, had died, leaving her to the
protection of her stepfather.
' She didn't know what sort of a man
he was,' said Lucy. 'And he wasn't
that kind of man when shi was alive.
I was too young to notice much, and
mother always put herself between him
and me when things went wrong.
After she died it was dreadful. . Elkins
that's his son came home to live.
He never lived there before, and and
he'
Wanted to marry you?'
Yes t and his father said I must.
But I was afraid of him of them both.
And people began to come to the house
bad people, not good and I began to
suspect things.'
' What kind ot things r
It was not easy to get an answer to
this Question. In fact, the terrified and
inexperienced girl had hardly dared to
formulate her own fears; but' John
gathered the idea that coining or other
unlawful practices were going on, and
Lucy, only half comprehending, had un
derstood enough to startle and frighten
her into making her escape. She had
effected this by night six weeks before.
and her great dread was of being dis
covered and forced to go back. John
reassured her as well as he could.
' You 11 be just as safe at the farm as
if you were in an iron safe,' he pro
tested.
But, spite of his assurances, the lurk
ing terror never left Lucy's eyes, though
weeks sped safely by and nothing oc
curred to aiarm ner. Jivery sudden
noise maae ner start; tne sight of a
strange figare on the road blanched her
roses to paleness. Except for this fear
fulness, she proved an excellent ' help '
in all ways, quick, neat-fingered, sweet
tempered. Old Barbara wondered how
ever the farm had got on without her,
and John in his secret heart wondered
also. It never should be without her
again on that he waa firmly resolved.
' Lucy,' he said one day, three months
after she became his inmate, ' I'm tired
of seeing you jump and auivtr and scut
tle upstairs whenever the peddler or the
ragman comes along, it s bad tor you,
and it worries me almost to death.
Now, there's just one way that'll make
all sate, and set your mind at ease, and
that is, that you just marry me out of
nana, ana give me tne right to
protect you. Once my wife, I shouldn't
cure if your stepfather and all the
gang came after you; let them lay
fiuger on you at their peri!, while I'm
alive andhave the right to interfere.
Will you, LucyP It's the best thing to
bo done, trust my word for it. I don't
mean to pretend that I'm doing it for
your sake entirely," added John, 'with
a br.md smile, " lor I ain't. I want you
for my own sake the worst way, but
both ways it will be a gain; so, unless
you have something against me, .say
1 es," Lucy, and we 11 have the parson
over to-morrow, ana make all sale
Will you, LucyP'
'Oh. how could I have anything
against you?' replied Lucy, with the
sweetest blush.
' Well.' declared John, a moment
after, as he raised his head from his
first long lover s kiss, ' now I forgive
airs. Jsasur tiarper s aaxar.
Victoria's frown.
As described by hermaiestv's mineral
ogist, the crown of England's queen is
quite a bauble, it wasmadc by Messrs
Kundell 5c Bridge in 1838, with jewels
taken from old crowns, and furnished
by command of her majesty. It consists
of diamonds, pearls, rubies, sapphires
and tmeralds, set in silver and gold; it
has a crimson velvet cap with ermine
border, and is lined with white silk.
Its gross weight is thirty-nine ounces,
live pennyweights, troy. I lie lower
part of the band above the ermine bor
der consists of a row of 129 pearls, and
the upper part of the band of a row of
1 12 pearls, between which in front of the
crown is a larae sapphire partly drilled
purchased for the crown" by his
majesty, King George IV. At the back
is a sapphire of smeller size, and six
other aupphires three on each siae
between which are eight emeralds
Above and below the seven sapphires
are fourteen diamonds, and around the
eight emeralds 128 diamonds. Between
the emeralds and the sapphires are six
teen trefoil ornaments, containing 160
diamonds. Above the band are eight
sapphires surmounted by eight dia
monds, between which areeight festoons
containing 148 diamonds. In the front
of the crown, and in the center ot a dia
mond Maltese cross, is the famous ruby
said to have been given to t award ill
calledVthe black prince, by Don Pedro,
king of Castile, after the battle of Va-
rj, near Vittorio, A. D., 1367. This
ruby was worn in tho helmet of Henry
v. at the battle ot Aginrourt. A. u
1415. It is pierced quite through, after
the Eastern custom, the upper part of the
piercing being nlled by a small ruby
Around the ruby, in order to form the
cross, are seventy-five brilliant dia
monds. Three other Maltese crosses,
forming the two sides and back of the
crown, have emerald centers, and con
tain respectively 132, 124 ard 130 bril
liant diamonds. Between the four Mai
tese crosses are four ornaments in the
form of the French fleur-de-lis, with four
rubies in the centers, and surrounded by
rose diamonds, containing respectively
eighty-five, eighty-six and eighty-seven
rose diamonds. From the Maltese cross
issue four imperial arches composed of
oak leaves containing iza rose, table
and brilliant diamonds; thirty-two
pearls form acorns, set in cups contain'
inr fifty-four rose diamonds and one
table diamond. Tho total number of
diamonds in the arches and acorns is
108 brilliants, 1 16 table and 559 rose diamonds.-
From the upper part of the
arches are suspended four large pendant
pear shaped pearls with rose diamond
caps, containing twenty-four very small
rose diamonds. Above the arch stands
the mound, containing in the lower
hemisphere 304 brilliants, and in the
upper 224 brilliants, the zone and arc
beinar composed of thirtv-three rose dia
monds. The cross on the summit has a
rose cut sapphire in the center, sur
rounded by four large brilliants and 108
smaller brilliants.
Tucker, a lunatic, assailed Wood with
a butcher knife at Sandusky, Ohio.
Wood was unarmed, but he threw the
madman on the floor and clutched his
throat. TuckeT struck again and again
with the long b)ade, and Wood choked
wjih all bis nikht. The fight lasted
half an hour, an ended in the death of
Iwth men one l.Tpm stabbing, and the
other from chokin
FOR THE FAIR SEX.
Fashion Notes.
Stockings are now made in all the
colors nnd combinations of color that
enter into other fabrics.
The gold and silver laces follow
closely the patterns of the Mechlin and
torchon laces, and are neither pretty nor
becoming.
Many marazin collars are still worn.
both of white and black lace. Two
plaited pieces of "dantelle de Pau"
make a very pretty collar.
French thread hose are open-worked
in fanciful designs on the instep, as are
the fine silk hose intended to be worn
with the low cut shoes and fancy slip
pers. Silk kerchiefs bordered with lace in
serting, a band of silk jardine embroid
ery, another band of lace inserting and
a border of lace are the latest fancy for
the neck. '
Among the many colors in silks are
changeable " gorge de pigeon," with
blue heliotrope and blue, nre color and
water green and mauve with gray;
these silks combine admirably with
satin.
Beaded fichus of nearly the same shape
as those old-time crotcuetea shoulder
afghans worn by ladies in the house
and under their wraps, nre among the
imported Parisian novelties for street
costumes.
Straws lined in various colois in
shirred silks or satins are fashionable.
and the outside may be trimmed with
ribbons the same shade ot the linings,
but richly brocaded in all kinds of
flowers in rich hues, while clusters of
blossoms to match those of the brocade
are placed in front or at the side of the
crown, or perchance under the upturned
brim.
ITnnqfi alinnera are cut verv low in
front, and have a right and left bow;
that is, the loops and cut steel orna
ments are di lerent for each side of the
slipper, while the bow in the middle
may be of a third arrangement still.
The loops may be of black velveteen or of
any shade ol ribbon matching either the
hose or some portion ot the toilet.
Newi and IWolei for Women.
Twelve States have now extended the
right of suffrage to wonienso far as to
vote lor all school oinciais.
Manchester, England, has a society
of female painters to which the other
sex is not admitted, even at the yearly
exhibitions.
An American woman writes to the
English queCn that an American farm
er's wife works ten or twenty times as
hard as.an English Iarmer s wife.
Some time ago Miss Hester Parker, of
Bangor, Me., pressed a number of very
pretty autumn leaves and sent them to
the Queen of Spain at Madrid. Re
cently, Miss Parker got an autograph
letter from the queen, acknowledging the
receipt of the leaves.
A lady passenger on the ship Rotter
dam, which arrived at flew xork re
cently, was detected by a customs in
spector with forty yards of broadcloth
wrapped around her body. She was in
charge of two physicians, who were es
corting her to the hospital, "seriously
ill."
An American lady in Paris, anxious
to inaugurate a novel entertainment, hit
upon the idea of a " sap-bubblc party."
I he guests found tables furnished
with soap and warm water, and clay
pipes gayly bedecked with ribbons, and
tliev vied with each other in the agree
able pastime of blowing bubbles. The
more serious business of eating and
dancing followed.
A Female Hat Black,
Her face is her fortune, ns many
another s has been. 1 he best pictured
woman in America, write the New
York coriespondent of the Boston lfei
aid. not even excepting Maude lsniin-
eouibe andiMary Anderson, is a pretty
girl at the cashier's dejkof a fashionable
millinery establishment in the metiopo
lis. She poses as a hat block before ihe
camera several times every week of her
lite. Ihe fashions shown in ttie plates
used by lulf the milliners in the United
States, as well as in the mil
linery pictures m three of the
leading fashion weeklies, are all pro
vided by this concern. They are ob
tained by photographing the fiats that
are regarded as be?t illustrating the
new styles. Ibis girJ,as you Eee, has
what may be called a negative face.
Her features are small, regular and
without any strong characteristics,
making a face that is both pretty and
commonplace. With such a face, any
possible style ot hat or bonnet is be
coming, and she is recognizable in all
the pictures. Her lace is her fortune
or, at least, it is good for about $10 a
week.
A Terrible Duel.
A sickening account of a duel in Mo
rocco is given .by a correspondent of
tbe Republique Franuiise. Two young
men ot noble birth were paying their
attentions to the daughter of a neigh
boring chief, and aa she showed equal
favor to both of them, it was arranged
by mutual consent that they should
meet in single combat and fight
a duel to the death. The con
ditions of the duel were that they
should meet on horseback, each of
the combatants being armed with a
rifle, a revolver and a hunting-knife.
They were placed a hundred yards
apart, and upon a signal given by one
of the seconds, they set their horses at
full gallop and rushed at each other.
For a few moments tli9 spectators could
see nothing but a cloud of dust, from
out of which were heard two succes
sive reports of a rifle, and then
a third, followed by the neighing of a
horse. When the dust had cleared away,
a shocking sight met the gaze of the spec
tators: one of the combatants, coneea'ed
behind his dead hortc, was taking aim
at his adversary, who still remained in
the saddle. The latter spurred his
horse and m de it rear, the noble be.ist
receiving in his chest the bullet meant
tor his master. Ihe ridei, as soon as lie
was dismounted, rushed forward to
grapple with his adversary, but a
second shot rractured his left
shoulder. Nevertheless, he retained
sufficient strength to discharge
two chambers of his revolver, both
shots taking effect. A hand-to-hand
combat then ensued, the two adversar
ies, neither of whom was able to stand,
stabbing each other repeatedly. When
the seconds and spectators at last in
terfered the two were picked up dead
one with his teeth firmly set in his ad
versary's cheek, while the latter's hand
was thrust into a gaping wound in the
other's chest.
TISELT TOPICS.
The Oermantown Telcaravh says that
since the law to prevent tiie spread of
contagious diseases among the cnttie oi
New Jersoy was passed by the legisla
tiirfl nf that State, little has been heard
of the pleuro-pneumonia which at one
time was quite prevalent tuere. xne
report of the State treasurer states that
the gross sum paid last year in the
proper enforcement of the law was
923,431.81, of which veterinary surgeons
received $14,624, and other sources of
expense the balance. Eighty head of
affected cattle were killed, for which
$954 were paid by the State.
Wabash. Indiana, has walked in ad
vance of many larger and older towns
by introducing the e'jctrio light in its
streets. Four electric lamps of 3.000
candle power each went into commission
recently. Tho lamps, suspended mid
way ot tne iron nagstatt on tne court
house, which towers two hundred feet
above the business part of the town,
were furnished with electricity by a
No. 5 generator driven by a seven-horse
power engine. According to contract
the machinery was to light one mile in
diameter from the court-house, and be
equal to a gas-burner 2,680 feet from
the light. The council placed men at
different parts of the city to observe,
and they reported satisfactorily. At
Arbana. five miles north, the light was
said to be beautiful. The Detroit Free
Press says the teat has given general
satisfaction.
Some Italian physicians have been in
vestigating the peculiar condition of the
miners who worked in the St Gothard
tunnel. They have discovered that the
labor in remote galleries engendered in
the intestines of the workmen animal
cule resembling trichinre "The gene
ral appearance of tho St. . Gothard
miners," says the London Times, " par
ticularly those of them and they nre
in the majority affected by the malady
in question, is described as deplora
ble in the extreme. Their face3 are yel
low, their features drawn, eyes half
closed, lips decolored, the skin is
humid end tho gait difficult. If they
at with appetite they cannot digest, and
when wine is taken it is invarinbly re.
ected. Let a man bo as strong as he
may, three or tour months' work in the
tunnel ser ously miures his health, and
at the end of a year, of a little more, te
is a confirmed invalid." The inve3ti
gators have given the worm the name of
anemia ankylostonia, and the malady
arising from its presence is said to be
epidemio in Egypt and Brazil.
According to tho report of .the board
of trustce.3 of the ce'ebrated Greenwood
cemciery, Brooklyn, for 1879, there wore
231 lots sold last veal, making a grand
total of 23.076. Theto were 5.132 burials.
making an aggregate of 199.747.- The
gross receipts amounted to $453,207.0ti,
The gross disbursements, including in-
ve-tments which aggregated $271,000
aroounled to $440,908.28. Thegennral
fund for the improvement and permanent
cure of the cemetery is now ,5fi5,2iil .31,
nn incieif.e during t he year of 13,479.15.
During the year 345 lots were enclosed,
nnd 190 monuments and 482 headstones
were erected. The report says: The
interment in Greenwood, in a private
lot, of a favorite dog, elicited much com
ment, and was the occasion of many re
monstrances, addressed to the trustees,
requesting them to prohibit such inter
ments in tho future. The intensity of
feeling exhibited could not but bo re
spected, and tho board accordingly
passed a resolution prohibiting hereafter
all interments of brute animals in the
cemetery.
Tricks olLlttle Llciilinnts.
Tho large elephants, after btingmade
to fctand on their hind legs and elevate
their trunks, were allowed to go back
to their stalls, while the keepers went
to a small shed, partitioned off in one
coiner of the room, and brought out
five small elephants, three of tho Afri
can species, which had almost attained
their full growth, and two small Asi
atic elephants, c illed Venus and Adonis,
aged respectfully four and six years.
These two are the most amusing of the
whole- collection and there seems to be
no end to the tricks they go through.
The moment they came out one of the'
keepers took up a large dinner bell and
called "Don!" Upon this Adonis, the
smaller ot the two, slowly walked up
and, catching the bell by his trunk, be
gan to ring it. The keeper then turned
away to give his attention to Venus,
when Don began to tire of his work ana
the ringing became fainter and fainter
and presently had almost entirely
stopped, when the keeper slipped up
and struck him across the nose with his
stick. At this Don gave a howl and
began to ring the bellfuriously, grow
ing louder and louder every minute,
until at length the keeper returned and
held out his hand to take the bell. But
the little eleghant was angry now and
would not give it up, and kept ringing
harder than ever, as though determined
that since they had wanted him to ring
it so much he would give them enough
of it, nor did lie cease until the keeper
walked up and forcibly wrenched it
from him.
Then the keeper took Venus down to
a place where a double cable was
stretched across the stable, about a foot
from the ground, bhe was commanded
to get on there and walk across, which
she did, moving very slowly and per
forming the feat without a single slip
Next Don was called up and commanded
to go through the same performance.
This little elephant got upon the rone
and began to walk, when the keeper
turned his back away. Suddenly, when
Don had got about one-third of the dis
tance, he looked around and seeing the
keeper not looking he quickly supped
his hind feet off the rope on to the
ground and thus propelled himself
auicklv to the end and hurriedly disap
peared into his shed. This sly trick
created great merriment among the
on-lookers. It was found, however,
that this trick had been taught him by
the keeper himself, who is preparing
Don for a clown's part, whose business
is to burlesque things. The keeper had
purooselv turned his back awav. as that
is the signal tor Don to go through his
trik of deception. Mr. Craven, the
trainer, says the elephant has more in
tellect than any other living animal, and
believes they can be taught to appear on
the stage, taking parts in a drama the
SRine as individuals. Philadelphia
limes.
During 1879 forest trees were planted
on vb.oou acres ot land in Minnesota.
In Dreams.
She comes to me in dreams,
Just as ot old;
With form ol fragile grace,
The sweet remembered tnoej
Even her garment's fold
la just the same
In dreams she comes to tne, -
Only in dreams.
She oomes to me in dreams,
No change is there,
No gathering shade of gloom,
No hint of coming doom,
Is on her lace so fair.
In dreams she comes to me
Only in dreams.
She comes to me in dreams,
When glittering light
Shall drive earth's clonds away
And with its welcome ray,
Bring the long-looked-for day,
Heaven's morning bright
Then will she come to me;
Or must it ever be
That I her face shall see,
Only in dreams T
A. Hallowell, in the Boston Journal.
A,
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Jail birds are confined in guilt cages.
Boston Transcript.
A cat recently died in Philadelphia in
her twenty-fourth year.
Pheasant brown is one of the most
fashionable spring colors.
A household with a baby is founded
on a rock. New Haven Register.
The home stretch Putting up a
clothes line. Ntw York Nttvs.
Thejewel for a frilled shirt-bosom is
a diamond in the ruff. Picayune.
Ships nre frequently on speaking
terms, and they lie to. Dcston Tran
script. There's the sickle, the bicycle and the
tricycle, but the most worthy of these
is the sickle. Rhinebeck Gazelle.
Walking boots are all cut high and
made of French kid foxings, with fine
satinlaine uppers, constitute the choice
walking boot of the season.
When lovely woman hears strange news
What lorui of speech so efficacious
To give expression to her views,
As this plain English " Goodness gra
cious!" Mr. Allbort, the retiring traffic mana
ger of the English Midland railway, has
occupied his plnco for twenty-six years,
at a salary of $20,000 a year. He now
takes a seat at the board worth about
$1,000 a year, and is presentni with an
honorarium of $50,000. His family is
to receive a service of plate, and his por
trait is to be painted.
Tho unseemly haste with which some
persons go for the shoes of dead officials
waa. ludicrously illustrated in Washing
ton whea Judge Hays died. About mid
night a mercher of Congress and his
wife were aroused by a ring at their
door. A note was ham.Cd to the halt
awake member. He reiuri. ' Judge
lavs is dead, advise me pfelftly
what to do to secure the place." THeV
answer was: " uetter not disturb tne
President to-night; it would I e u little
more decent to wait until , utter the
funeral."
The Common Law.
What is called the "common law,"
is, in the united htates, with some
modification, the same as the "com
mon law of England." The phrase
means, in lact, ancient custom, us de
clared by the courts. Suits are con
tinually being brought, in which arises
some question of law or equity that has
never belore arisen. 1 here is na act or
statute law that applies to it. Ihe
ccurt then decides the matter accord
ing to the general principles of justice.
The l ud ae, ;n announcing his decision.
lays down a rule that, under certain cir
cumstances, a certain lesult follows.
This decision, if not reversed, becomes
a guide and rule for all inferior courts,
and usually for those of equal dignity.
l he whole body ot Filch decisions forms
the common law of England.
When a lawyer is preparing to argue
a ciue, lie searches through mo volumes
of reports to Had decisions upon simi
lar cases. Of course, there are rarely
two suits where the facts aro entirely
alike, and consequently the lawyer on
one side undertakes to prove that the
decisions cited do, and the opposing
lawyer that they do no:, apply to the
case on trial.
The phrase usually employed to show
that tho common-law principle is an
cient is "whereof the memory ot man
runneth not to the contrary "that is to
say, nobody can prove that at any form
er time the law or custom was differ
ent. The common law governs only when
there is no special act. A statute
supersedes or reverses common law.
Indeed, tho statute is usually passed for
that purpose; nnd when it is repealed
tho common law comes into force again.
Our fathers came to this country from
England, and naturally brought English
laws and customs with them. When
they separated from the mother coun
try, they retained the old laws, ana
bui't the new ones upon them. Tho
New York constitution of 1777 adopted
as law within that State the common
law of England, and the statutes also
as they stood on a certain date, so far
m they were applicable to the new
State.
Aa our national customs have de
parted further and further from those of
Ureal li it tin, the common jaw oi me
two countries has be.ome different.
Yet, even tow, there are no very wide
differences, and decisions by English
judges are often cited in our courts as
establishing the law.
Countries which do not supphment
their legislation with what we call com
"ion law, are governed by a "code."
This is a collection of laws and princi
ples, to which all cases, as they arise,
are referred. Fi ance is governed by the
Code Napoleon, whiih also forms the
basis of legislation in a general way in
some other European countries.
Our Stale of Louisiana, which came
to us by purchase, has always been gov
erned for the most part by a code,
which was modified from theCode Na
poleon. But the English common law
is also in force even in that State.
The result of living under the com
mon law is generally satis factory , be
cause, as a rule, the judges of both Eng
land and America have been men of
wisdom and justice. But they have not
all been of euuu! intelligence and integ
rity, and their work is, of course, not ill
perfect. Chicago Lidqer.