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HENRY A. PARSONS, Jr., Editor and Publisher.
- NIL DESPERANDUM.
Two Dollars per Annum.
VOL. X.
EIDGWAY, ELK COUNTY, PA., THUESDAY, JULY 29, 1880.
NO 23.
The Faces We Meet.
Oh, the faces we meet, the faces we meot,
At home or abroad, on the hurrying street!
Each has its history, dark or bright,
Traced bo clearly in legible light;
As with pen of gold
Of the finest mold, '
Diamond pointed
And lightly scrolled
Some, telling that fortune hath graciously
planned
Their sketch, and wrote with her soft, white
hand.
Others, where harrowing grief and care
Have loft in stool their traces there
Stoel that outs like the sharpened sword,
Slowly carving each written word,
Through anxious fears
And sorrowing tears
Each furrowed line
Its import wenrsj
And we road that " lilo is a stern warfare,
To battle and to do, to sailor and bear."
While others, the iron hand of sin
Branding each line and sentence in,
Leaving forever its harrowing trace,
Where once was purity, beauty and grnco;
The soul's doop scars
Like iron bars
O'er windows bright,
The visnge mars;
And wo road, " Life's a wild bacchanalian
scng,
The province of selfishness, ruin and wrong."
Faco3 so old, yet so young in their years,
Whore pinching ponury blights and scars,
And the bony finger ol poverty writes
What merciless misery e'er indites;
Where pain and want
And hunger gaunt,
Iiig oy and beauty
And hope avnunt;
" Lilo is to wonder starving and cold,
Shunned and forsaken toil and grow old."
Oh, tho luces we meot, the t ices we meet,
At homo or abroad, on the hurrying street!
Beautilul luces with soul-benmiug eyes,
Visions of angels lint walk in disguise!
Faces gHid and as gay
As the blue skies ol May,
With no more of care
, Than the rose on the spray!
Others sal, yet more sweet with submission's
8( lt tone,
By treading the wind-press of sorrow alone.
Pititul faces upturned so to mine,
Wistful and eager, as if to divine
It huiniin charily, pity or love
C mid be lo'ind 'nenth the dome of the
heavers ubove.
Little li.cis so old,
Thin with hunger and cold;
Foci s lurrowed by toil
After perishing gold!
Oh, the heart U ott burdened with sorrow
reploto,
By the tales Unit are read in the faces wo meet!
A lit Wellington.
The Ghost cf ths Laburnums.
the
"Why do vou not invite me to
Laburnums, Fun?"'
" Because it is so lonely there, Rae."
' For that reason I shall come," said
pretty Raphaella Fairlie. "I shnll come
and keep you company lor a whole
week, just as soon as I can get away
from the city. I knew you and Phil
were moping," nodding her curly head
sagaciously.
A sudden gravity went over Fannie
BrudemTs ten tie countenance, yet her
eys brightened expectantly.
" I should love to have you there, of
course," was all she said.
Wlien train time came and Fnnnie had
left Hue's pretty studio and the city,
the little artitt slill wit daintily touch
ing the photograph she was coloring,
and evidently closely thinking of some
thing else. She was not sure that Doc
tor Philip Brudenel would exactly ap
prove of her going to ihe Laburnams,
but she meant to go, for all that, for she
loved him, and she could plainly see
that he had caves and perplexities of
which she knew nothing. And though
they Had been engaged over a year, he
made no proposal of marrying soon,
only looked moodily when the subject
was apppoached. Rae so enjoyed his
company that she could live with him
in the black hole of Calcutta, she de
clared to herself, but probably Philip
did not think so. Anyway she was go
ing to the Laburnums, his home at Low
shore, because she felt that her love
gave her a right to know wha- was
troubling him.
Ten days later she locked her studio
door and steamed away to Lowshore,
nnd soon the depot carriage had set her
down at the door of a tiny cottage hid
in laburnum-trees.
Fannie kissed her affectionately.
"What a delightful apparition you
are, Kae," the said, and Jed her into a
little sitting-room.
Everything was very plain, and very,
very tiny, Hue thought, accustomed to
spacious city apartments ; and when
Fannie had taken her hat and traveling
sachel, and gone to spread a lunch for
her, Kae looked around and saw thatthe
carpet was threadbare and the furni
ture extremely old-fashioned.
Suddenly a door opened, and an old
ladv. leaning on a cane, tottered into
the room. Her face, bordered by a
snowy cap. -tiaa a Birange, white, putty
look, but she yet showed signs of bav
ins been verv pretty in youth.
" What are youP" she asked Rae. " a
fairy P Do you think you can better our
fallen fortunes P No, no 1 that can never
be."
Rae's cheek burned under the
strangely significant words, but she
guessed immediately that the old lady's
mind was wandering; thenuannie en'
tered the room.
" Come, mother, come and rest now,"
the said, gently, and drew her from the
romu. fane came back, saying to Kae
" My mother is demented. Do not be
troubled by anything she save."
It was evening when Doctor Philip
brought his fine presence into the tiny
home. His start of delight on behold
ing Rae was succeeded by a rather sad
smile.
"What pleasure did you expect to
find here, child P" he asked, holding
iier nana.
" Perhaps I did not come for pleasure,
Philip."
"For what then?"
Profit."
I fiid very little of that here."
Two days passed. Rae saw olainlv
what the life was at the Laburnums
monotonous, meager: but ever since
Philip bad first brought his Bister to her
studio, Kae bad loved Fannie, who was
older than herself, and patiently be
coming one of the sweetest of old maids.
So she enjoyed sisterly talks with Fan
nie. Philip was absent most of the
time.
In one oi the3e confidential chals
Fannie said:
" You ought to have come in the earlv
autumn, Kae it is prettier here then. In
November we have nothing attractive
literally nothing. I have often ex
pressed tlie wi3fi to rbilip to have you
visit us; but he always speaks of the
contrast between your life and ours
you in the city, with access to so much
that is entertaining, and we so shut out
from the world. But because it is you,
I think, Rae, that I will show you the
House in tfie hollow."
" The house in the hollow, Fan?"
' Yes. our ancestral home: for Philin
and I came of a prosperous race, poor
as we now are, and the old house is full
of what is beautiful and rare. Get your
hat and we will go now."
Through long lines of laburnums,
across a tiny kitchen garden, along a de
caying orchard inta a slope still green
in the November sunshine. At one end
of the valley which opened toward the
sea. where white sails were noiselessly
flitting, stood a large and handsome
house of painted brick, with oriel win
dows and other picturesque effects.
" It is not an old house," said Fannie
" It was built by my grandfather, in his
last days, as a wedding present to my
mother. 1 he old house which had for
merly stood here he had nulled clown
and this built. He intended to reside
with his only daughter when she mar
ried Israel Beaucaire, a French Jew.
whom he had chosen for her. But my
mother fell in love with her music
teacher, Ross Brudenel, and eloped with
him, and grandfather wrote and bade
her never to come back. But when
Philip and I were fatherless, mv mother
came, in her great extremity, and begged
her father's assistance Grandfather
gave her this cottage we have now, and
allowed her a small income with which
to bring us up, but never forgave her.
At last he died, willing all his property
to a distant cousin in India, who has
never come for it, The house stands
empty, with all its beautiful furniture,
and the rich fields lie fallow, while
Philip barely supports us with his
small practice. Lowshore is a distress
ingly healthy place," with a faint smile.
The interior of the house was finished
iu rich foreign woods, the floors polished
like glass and laid with costly rugs and
tapestries. The lurnlturo was of ma
hogany and velvet, long mirrors and
dark paintings adorned the walls. It
was indeed n handsome house, speaking
ut almost limitless wealth.
" There are thousands of dollars worth
of silver in the bank at Shoreborough,''
said Fannie, "and rents accumulating
there which will be a small fortune in
itself. But we have nothing."
" How hard ! how cruel!" cried Rae.
' I should not think your grand
father could rest in his grae to have
you and Philip, with all your refine
ment and culture, spending your live3 in
a hand-to-hand scramble lor bread."
" They say ho does conic back and
wander uneasily about here," said Fan
nie, carefully closing shutters and doors
and comirg out into the sunshine.
" But of course such stories are told of
all such places. Philip Buys he does not
believe a word of it," with a marked
emphasis which made Rae turn and look
at her.
"But you do, Fan."
"Twice people have tried to sleep
there and declared that grandfather ap
peared to them. 1 should not dare to
try it, for I am a timorous thing at best,
and"
The intensity of Rae's thoughts made
her quite deaf to what further her com
panion was saying. This fortune was
Philip's right. No wonder ho was sad
moody find hopeless ol their marriage
as he was situated and seemed fated to
continue to be.
The will was made immediately
after mamma's marriage," said Fannie,
standing under the laburnums and look
ing up at the great house. "Poor
mother says he told heron his deathbed
that he made another will perhaps in
her tavor. But what she says goes tor
little. Her state is very strange since a
fever she had just after Philip came of
age her talk so wild and foolish and
yet she seems to understand some things
in our affairs that we do not see till
afterward. It is almost nncanny to
think over the strange knowledge she
has had during these past years," and
Fannie fell into a fit of musing.
They walked back to the tiny cottage.
Rae's veins thrilled with excitement.
but Fannie went soberly about getting
tea. They kept no maid, this poor
disinherited iamily, and Kae learned
that Philip's own hands tilled the
little kitchen-garden, while every labor
of the household was performed by
Fannie.
She could not sleep that night after
she had gone to her tiny bedroom. The
moonlight seemed to disturb her and
make her brain wildly active. What
influence strung her nerves P for when
all was still and the night far advanced
she rose. and. dressine. donned her warm
sealskin sack and cap. and came out
into the hall. She took a buncli of
keys from their nail there, and, selecting
one which she had seen ifannie tane,
held it tightly in her slim, while finiurj
as she went out into the night.
In the moon s white light she went
steadily through the long lines ot labur
nums, across the tiny kitchen-garden,
along the decaying orchard, into the
hollow, bhe stood a moment before
the great still house, listening to the
roar of the sea. Strmselv enough, she
did not feel afraid. If she thought oljthe
presence oi an unseen spirit, it was to
appeal to it prayerfully lor help.
Another will. It must be. At least
It would do no harm to seareh.and that
is what sue had come lor.
She left the hall-door wide open and
let the moonlight flood the tiled hall.
It streamed through the chinks of the
shutters, which she opened, one bv one.
as she fitted keys to drawers of all
kinds, x ue taste was no light one, lor
in every men was cabinet or escritoire,
But there were no pacers anvwhere,
Many things which must have been the
personal property ol old bquire Brud
enel she found, but nowhere his will.
" Oh, if I only could if I only could !"
she said, sadly, " and it would restore
Philip to his righto!"
Kat, tat, tat the sound of a cane on
the tilted floor. Rae turned tor the first
time, her eyes wide with fright. The
enthusiasm with which she had enter
tained her generous purpose bad made
her utterly forgetful of herself. Now
some one was coming.
The door swung slowly on its tar
nished silver binges. A quaint, bent
little figure, leaning on a cane, advanced
into the room and paused beside a
handsome carved armchair which stood
before a table. Lifting tho cane, the
bent little old woman knocked smartly
thriee on the seat of this chair, filling
the room with a hollow sound, then, re
suming her leeble walk, she passed out
of the apartment by another door.
Tremblingly, doubtingly, Rae curi
ously approached the chair. The blows
of the cane seemed to L ave disturbed or
broken the seat, for it was awry, plainly
revealing a cavity beneath. Turning
the chair to the light, Rae looked within
and saw distinctly a folded paper.
It was a large sheet, yellow, and thick
as vellum. Her hands trembled as she
unfolded it and redd: "My last will
and testament, Paul Brudenel," and it
dropped to the floor.
snatching it up sne ran ran swiiuy
Corosltles of Advertising;
In the winter of 1858, a young sign
painter in the Bowery found his busi
ness failing, and, having nothing else to
do, went along Harlem lane painting
his name, occupation and address on tho
rocks and fences. Several business men
were struck by the novelty of the
method, and employed him to advertise
their wares in a similar manner. His
customers increased in number. He
traveled with his brush and paint up
thn Missouri river bv steamer, and
across the plains and Rocky mountains
by pack-mules in 1858, when that ex
pedition was not the easy matter it is to
day. His signs appeared under the
palmettos of the Gulf and among the
flowers of the Antilles. He reached
Oregon ; he daubed the pyramids ; the
rnilwnvfl were hedged in bv his handi
work. But his success was harassed by
a competitor, who was as bold, as push
ing, as adroit and as irreverent as he
was. He converted this etemy into a
friend, snd the two together continued
flow a Ureat Pianist Got a Wife.
Liszt was at Prague in the autumn of
1840. The day after his arrival astranger
called upon him and represented himself
as a brother artist in distress, having
expended all his means in an unsuccess
ful lawsuit, and solicited aid to enable
him to return to Nuremberg, his place
of residenee. Liszt gave him a hearty
reception and opened his desk to get
some money, but found he possessed
only three ducats.
" You see," said the generous artist,
" that I am as poor as yourself. How
ever I have credit, and can coin more
money with my piano. I have a minia
ture given mo by the Emperor of Aus
tria; the painting is of little value, but
the diamonds are fine; take it, sell tho
diamonds and keep the money."
The straner refused the rich gift, but
Liszt compelled him to take is, and he
carried it to a jeweler, who, suspecting
from his miserable appearance that he
had stolen it, had him arrested and
thrown into prison. Tue stranger sent
out of the house, and flew noiselessly the profanation of nature, and the whole for his generous benefactor who inime
and almoin r to Fannie's door,
"I have found it I have found it!"
she cried, flinging her arms around tha
amazed, white-robed figure who ad
mitted her to Fannis's chamber.
"Found what? Are you sick? Are
you crazy?" asked gentle Fannie Brude
nel. "The other will within a chair an
old armchair in the house in the hoi
fne.fi of the countrv near the main lines
of traffic was degraded into a vast billboard.
"We traveled over a million and a
half of miles, sir," said the arch vandal
1 . . . . n tvra Vnrn h. nnn a
WUOSe nuveutuica " UlbVU glYCU.
"Dainted more than ninety thousand
signs, and used more than five hundred said the jeweler.
diately called upon the jeweler nnd told
him that the man was innocent, that he
had given him the diamonds.
But who are your" said tho jew
eler.
" My name is Liszt," he replied.
" I know of no financier of that name,"
low. A ghost showed it to me
dia-
answered Rae, holding the paper aloft.
There was a knock at the chamber
door.
"Sister, what is the matter?
disturbs the houseP"
It was Philip s voice.
I have found the will ! Come in and
read it!" cried Roe, dragging him in.
She gave him the paper; she lighted
a lamp, lie was lorced to read
gling for calmness as
read to the end. Yes. late, but not too
late, the precious document was found
the second will of Paul Brudenel, uncon
ditionally bequeathing all he possessed
to these two, his grandchildren.
in the exciting tail-
no one
"Verv possible." said Liszt.
"But do vou know that these
mnnris nrn worth 6.000 florins P"
So much the better for htm to whom
T travc them."
" But you mu9t be very rich to make
sup.h presents."
"Mv sole fortune consists of three
ducats," said Liszt.
Then you are a fool," said the jew
eler.
"No." said Lizt. "I have onlv to
i to read. Strug- Uncling the coin in his own pockets to move the ends of my lingers to get as
he proceeded, he Indicate that he was prepared to back much money as I want."
barrels of linseed oil, mixed with five
hundred barrels of turpentine and a hun
dred and fifty tons of white lead. I say
tons, sir, and will snow you the oooks
to prove it." -lis
imnmed with exultation in men-
What tioning this stupendous fact, and seemed
10 ureatne W11U uiiuouhj wiieucva no
recurred to it. lie overwhelmed us
with Azures. and begged that, it any
body Questioned their authenticity, he
would either -put up or snuc up,
all his assertions. "Then you are a sorcerer," said the
The firm has over eighteen hundred jeweler.
agents, he told us, and in addition to " J will show you the kind of sorcery
painting it has facilities for distributing that I employ," said Liszt.
nnd nnatinor hills in evcrv citV. The Sppinir a piano In the back parlor of
! exciting talk which followed cost of painting the name of any article the jeweler's shop, the eccentric aritst pnWhns for her, it may be, some chast
heard a slender cane go rat-tat- containing not more than ten letters, 8at down to it and began to improvise a pnpA memories of an early love which
eacu aooub eiguti muues iuug, is wuuuu , ravisuing mi. a ucuuluui juuue mujr
one dollar, and small posters are de- made her appearance, and at the close of
liravo,
FOR THE FAIR SEX,
An Economical Fashion.
For the correspondents who ask what
to wear with black silk skirts, there is
nothina- prettier, more dressy and less
nrrnhlv tlinn a pnnt haFdUB of lidht foU-
lard silk of some quaint color and pat
tern on a cream ground. Other colors
n.rn iisflrl for t.hi around of such basaUOS,
but the effect is not nearly as good as
those of creamy white when worn with
anv Mark Bilk demi-train or else long-
trained skirt left over from a former
sensnn. Whfiti worn with long skirts
these basques are of course meant for
the house only, and are then sometimes
cut square in the neck, and this square is
filled in with India muslin, or else a mull
Helm in folrletl thorp, leaving? an Open
point instead of the square neck. If it
is intended that the basque shall also
serve for the street with a short walking
skirt of black silk, it is cut quite high in
tin? neck, with a Directoire collar and
revers, and its only ornament is facing
of colored Surah and large, handsome
buttons. The skirted basques and those
with habit backs are the patterns used
Sometimes the panel coat basque Is
mnrle to serve this purpose. This has
the sides extending in panels that reach
to the foot of tho dress skirt, while the
front and back of the skirt are quite
short. Bazar.
Old ninlils nnd Confirmed Bachtlon.
Thpren.ro men and women who, like
some flowers, bloom in exquisit 3 beauty
in a desert wild; they are like trees
which vou often see growing in luxuri
ant strength out of a crevice of a rock
where there seems not earth enough to
support a shrub. The words "old
maid," "old bachelor," have in them
other sounds than that of half reproach
or scorn; they call up to many of your
minds forms and faces than which none
are dearer in all this world. I know
them to day. The bloom of youth has
possibly faded from their cheeks,
but there lingers round tho lorm
and face something dearer than
t.Uat. She is unmarried, but tue
Thorns nu,1 Roses.
From morn till night John's hammer rang,
The tale of labor tolling;
But oft he marked, with envious eye.
Squire's Hardy's cosy dwelling.
One day the gquire himself came by
" My horse baa lost a shoe, John,
And that's the least of all my o ares,
But cares don't oome to you, John,
The lightning struck my barns last night;
My child near death is laid, John;
No! life is not what folks suppose,
'lis not ol ro9es mado, John."
And then the squire rode sadly off,
John watched him in amazement,
And, as he watched, two faces bright
Peeped from the opon casement.
Ho heard his wife's voice, sweet and low,
His baby's merry laughter;
John gave his anvil such a blow,
It shook each smoky ralter.
' 1 would not chango with squire," suid ho,
" For all his land and mmoy;
There's thorns for him as well ns me,
But not suoh roses bonny )
Frederick E. Wcalherly.
tat past the floor, but when the blue
morning light dawned and Fannie be
stirred herself to get breakfast, she went signed, printed, distributed and hung in the performance exclaimed : "
first to her mother's room. everv citv east of Omana at a cost of Liszt!"
"Philip," she said, coming back, about six cents each. Over 3,000,000 " You know him, then?" said the jew-
motner has had one oi her baa nights "(tutter-snipes" are distributed ior one eier to his daughter
again, one uas oeen up and away, i tobacco-manufacturing concern in a
must have slept very much more soundly year, and a certain patent medicine was
than usual; she never eluded me before, "billed and painted" in seventeen differ-
She is very much exhausted." Cnt States one year for thirty thousand
Philip went instantly to attend bis dollars. A "gutter-snipe," let us add,
raocner. v nun, wie next uay, biib js a lo.ie. narrow bill usually pasieu on
"I have never seen him before," she
said, " but there is no one in the world
but Liszt who can produce such sounds
from a piano."
The leweicr was satisfied, the stranger
was released and relieved, the report of
keeps its vestal vigil sleeplassiy over the
grave where its hope went out; and it
is too true to the long departed to per
mit another to take his place. Perhaps
the years of maiden life were spent in
self-denying toil, which was too engross
ing to listen even to the call of love, and
she grew old too soon in the care of
mother or sister and brother. Now in
these later years she looks back calmly
hiilf-cherished hopes, once
attractive, of husband and child, but
seemed restored to her wonted condi- the curbstones of I prominent streets. In Liszt being in the city flew, and he was wi,ich lo'n" long ngo, she willingly
nit inrp nlnees the bill-stickers' pnvi
story, they closely questioned Mrs. i0ges are valuable, and there is a good
Brudenel as to her visit to the house in Ap nf enmnetition where anv are to let.
the hollow, and tried to discover if she Thpu mnaist. of dead-walls, lences and
had any knowledge of the hiding place hoards, nnon which one concern usually
of the will. But nothing could begained acquires by purchase the right of ex-
from her disordered mind. She would
only shake her head and smile.
" How dare you go on sueli an expedi
tion to that lonely place at such an un
canny hour, Rae?" asked Philip, the
next evening, when, embraced by his
arm, they had talked over tho happy
prospect of their immediate union.
" I was inspired," she answered, laugh
ing, but with a look ot awe creeping into
her beaulitut eyes. Then, as she recon
sidered that strange night, she gently
embraced him :
All for love, Philip. It wa3 done
all for love."
They Wanted to Live In the Stars:
Very near U3 sat two young people.
He wore the face of a man who shaves
throe times a day, and that white ncck-
ii 1. . J ... 1- -i... I r
no iiau never seen uie suuiigiii. uuioie. r 1 1 i, . -,i,,t
There was pearl powder on the shoulder ?P1on.V,,los? space he as encroach L
of his oo,it...nd .itenflpr.rlrenmv lnU in bill-sticker's war is chiefly damaging
her lovely eye3. lhey sat nnd looked
up at the stars, and they didn't care for
any solitary thing nny nearer to this
earth. "Mortimer," she murmured
sotf ly. " Mortimer " Lis name appeared
to be Mortimer, though I couldn't learn
whether it was his front name or his
r. . .. it ir :.... .1 iii,a : a
niiei uamc iuyii iiui, uw, u , I ' ,i,si, rn Ipbs tho mitcome
it we could only live apart irom this " "7,.. he is an
rip nnr 11 I v ........ . - .
industrious, honest nnd sober person;
hibiting their advertisements; and as an
example of the prices sometimes paid
wo may mention that, during tho erec
Hnn nf a now hiiildinfir on Broadwny,
three thousand dollars were offered for
the use of the boards surrounding it.
There are also "window privileges," of
which theatrical managers avail them
splvrs. exhibiting their prosrrammes and
lithosraphs in the windows of the
smaller stores nnd saloons, and reward
in? the tradesmen for their permission
with three or four gratuitous tickets a
month while the season lasts. But the
average bill-sticker does not limit his
operations to the extent of tho privileges
which he has purchased ; ue uaa iw-
lpa inatinpt. In Tint, nil one of his POSterS
in every position where it can possibly
attract attention, and through his lack
of principle he sometimes becomes m
volved in dispute with the competitor
to
thn ndvprt.i.aers whose posters are being
distributed, as the combatants efface the
nil a of one nnother as last as uiey are
put upon the walls. The bill-sticker is
also open to tho charge of being a
nuisnnee. from his habit of using his
naste wh-re it is obviously inappropri
ate; but, charitably overlooking these
waited upon and feted by the nobles.
who besought him to give a concert in
their city. The jeweler, seeing the
homage that was paid to the man of
genius, was ambitious of forming an
alliance with him, and said to him:
" How do you nnd my daughter?"
"Adorable !" was the reply.
"What do you think of marriage?"
continued the jeweler.
" wen enougn to try it," said Liiszt. -"What
do you say to a dowry of
3,000,000 of francs?" he was next asked.
" I will accept it," was the reply, "and
thank you, too,
irnvp nn for present duty. So to-day, in
her loneliness, who shall say that she is
not beautilul and dear. , . , ,
So is she to the wide circle which she
blesses. To some she has been all that
a mother could have been ; and though
no nearer name than " Aunt" or " Sis
ter" has been hers, she has to-day a
mother's claim and a mother's love.
Disappointment lias not soured but only
chastened ; the midday or the afternoon
of her life is all full cf kindly sympathies
nnd gentle deeds. Though unwedded,
hers has been no fruitless life.
It is an almost daily wonder to mo
Well, my daughter likes vou and j. orm,0 women are married, and not
you like her," said tho jeweler; "the a je,3 marvel why many that I see are
busy and sordid, unsympathetic world,
in one ot yon glittering orbs oi golden
radiance, living apart from all else, only
for each other, forgetting the base things
of earthly life, the coarse greed of the
world and its animal instincts, that
would be our heaven, would it not,
dearP"
And Mortimer, he said that it would.
' There, heart of my own," he said, and
his voice trembled with earnestness,
'mv own darling Ethel, through all the
softened radiance of the day and all the
shimmering tenderness of night, our
lives would pass away in an exalted at
mosphere above the base-born wants of
earthly mortals, and far beyond the chat
tering crowd that lives but lor to- day.
our lives, refined beyond the common
ken"
And just then the man with the gong
came out. Mortimer, he made a grab at
Ethel's hand and a plunge for the cabin
door. Ethel jnst gathered her skirts
with her other hand, jumped clear over
the back of her chair and after him, and
away they went, clattering down the
cabin, upset a chair, ran into a good,
sweet old Quaker lady, and banged a bad
word out of her before she had time to
stop it; down the stairs they rushed,
coilarcd a couple of chairs at the nearest
table, feed a waiter, and opened the
campaign without skirmishiug. I am a
man ot coarse moid and an earth-born ap
pe ite myself, and I wouldn't live in a
star so long as I could find a good hotel
in America; but long, long before I
could get seats at the table for my family,
Mortimer and bthelhad eaten two biuo
fish, a little rare beefsteak, some corn
bread, a plate of hot cakes, two boiled
eggs and a bunch of onions, and the
waiter had gone cut to toast them some
cheese.
MOltAL.
I have, during my wanderings, met
several people who wanted to live in a
Star, where earth-born people with hu
man appetites couldn't trouble thorn,
and I always found the safest place for
an earth-born man when the star-born
soul started for the dinner table was be-
hind a large rock. Distrust the aspiring
mortal who lives in a plane so elevated
that he requires the use of a telescope
when he wants to look down at the rest
of us. And if he ever wants to board
at your humble table, charge him $15 a
dowry is ready. Will you be my son-
in-law r'
"Gladiy!" replied Liszt, and the
marriage was celebrated the week loi-
lowing.
A Test in Pronunciation.
Tho followins list of words commonly
mispronounced was collected by Prof-
lessor A. d. llutton during his worK in
Wisconsin institutes. Perhaps teachers
will do well to look them up :
Accurate, European. Kecess,
Address, Excursion, Reduce,
Advantase. Exemplary. Robust.
Lxtant, Romance,
Finance, Roof,
Frontier, Room,
Fruit, Rude,
Gras3, Schism,
Greasy, Shut,
Health, sit,
and if in a bleak winter you should see
him starting out at midnight on his
round, with ladder, brushes and paste,
to cover his boards with announcements
that will be fresh in tho morning, your
antipathies would vanish. Scribner.
Too Rough for Texas.
He was just from New York, where
he had been on the police, but he had
left that city for some reason and went
to Galveston. The first thing he did
was to apply for a position on the Gal
veston police. He was a determined
looking man with a bad eye, a nose liko
a hawk's beak, and he was built all the
way up from the ground like a bank
sate.
" Do you think you can make arrests
and guard prisoners?" asked the Galves
ton chief of police.
The applicant smiled a smile that
mado everybody in the oilice feel posi
tively uncomfortable. It was the kind
of a smile that John McCullough, as
Othello, smiles when, toward the last,
he begins to see through " honest lago."
" Suppose you had six prisoners and
one of them was to run off; would you
leave the live and lollow up the fugi
tive?" asked the chief of police.
"Why, no," responded the hard-
faced applicant, "I'd shoot the live who
didn't try to escape, so I would know
where to look fortliem when I got back
with the body of the other one."
"That's all right in New York, but it
is too rough for Texas," replied the
chief of police. Qalveston News.
Shot Off Ilis Coat-Tail.
Sometimes in the heat of battle an
incident win ucuur tuuii win set me
men in an uproar ot mirth when carnag
ia rife all around them.
At Bull Run, when the fight was at
its wildest, one of the lieutenants of a
Western regiment stepped off to get a
canteen ot water, as he stooped down
to fill the canteen, a cannon ball tore
awav the entire skirt of his coat, and
knocked him down, ne got up, tinea
his canteen, and as he came back the
men ereeted him with yells of laughter.
and he went through the war by the
title of the " Bob-tauea lieutenant."
Allies,
Almond,
Area,
Been,
Bouquet,
Broom,
Canine,
Chancellor,
Column.
Condemning, Hostler,
Construe, Houses,
Corrollary,
Creek,
Dance,
Dtfict,
Demand,
Digestiou,
Direct,
Hcrcditaments.Soap,
Horizon,
Down,
Due,
During,
Duty,
Lquation,
Hymning,
Idea,
Institute,
Italian,
Kettle,
Lien,
Livelong,
Matron,
Mortgage,
Mortgageor,
Peremptory,
Prairie,
Soon.
Squalor,
Stalwart,
Stolid,
Stone,
Tableaux,
Territory,
Town,
Truths,
Tune,
Tutor,
Volume,
Wednesday,
Whoop,
Won't
Tho World's Railroads.
There are in the world over 200,000
miles of railroad, nearly one-half ol
which, or 86,000 miles, are in the United
Slates. Europe has nearly 100,000, and
the remainder of the world only about
25,000 miles. There are, however, more
miles of railroad to the square mile (one
mile of road to every forty squhr i miles
of area) in the United States than theie
are in Europe (one mile of road to forty
four square miles). In the United States
there is a mile oi railroad to every 580
people, in Europe a mile to every 3,471
persons: which, ol course, is only an
other way of saying that the European
railroads run through lar denser popu
lations than tcose ol the United Mates;
but. on the other hand, the populations
of Europe do not travel as many miles
annually as do the people of the United
States; and although there are six
times as many people in Europe as in
the United States, they have only 12,000
more miles of railroad.
In Asia 36.000 people, in Africa 9.000.
have only a mile each, while in Austral
asia there is one mile of railroad to
every 1,100 square miles and 1,040 peo
ple; and Canada is very little better off
than Australasia, bo that tho people
of the United States patronize the rail
roads more than the people ol any other
an! every other country.
Winking photographs are said to be
produced in the following manner : One
negative is taken with the sitter's eyes
open: another without chanze of posi
tion, with the eyes shut. The two nega- upon nearly every dress this season
not. But this 1 know, that many House
holds would bo desolate indeed, and
many a family circle would loso its
brightest ornament and its best power
weie maiden sister or maiden aunt re
moved ; and it may blesj the Providence
which has kept them from making glad
some husband's home.
Yonder isolated man, whom the world
wonders nt for never having found a
wife. Who shall tell you all the secret
history of the bygone time! of hopes and
love that once were buoyant and fond,
which death, or more bitter disappoint
ment dashed to the ground ; of sorrow
which the world has never Known ; oi
fate accepted in utter despair, though
with outward calm! Such there are.
Tlioovr.pptnf.inn nt wife, or home, lias
been given up as one of tho dreams of
youth, but with groans and teats; now
he walks among men somewhat alone,
with some eccentricities, but with a
warm heart and kindly eye. If ho has
no children of his own, there are enough
of others' children who climb his knee
or seize his hand as he walks. If he has
no home, there is many a home made
glad by his presence ; if there is no one
heart to which he may cling, there are
many loving hearts that look lovingly
toward him, and many voices shower
bensdictions on his head. "Life at
Home."
Fashion Notes.
Wide canvas belts are again worn.
Fans grow more and more fantastic.
Japanese parasols grow more and
more popular.
Kid a loves are worn only on cool days
in summer.
The handsomest dust cloaks are of
pongee or fine mohair.
Gold lace, gold braid and gold cord
are worn ad nauseam.
A touch of the antique prevails in all
fashionable coiffures.
The dressiest round hats are of cream
white Tuscan straw.
The feature of the season is the
plaited or shirred waist.
Linen costumes and linen dust cloaks
never go out of fashion.
Fine twilled or satia woven cotton
fabrics are much in demand.
All fashionable costumes show two
fabrics in the composition.
Biscuit, red and almond shades of
color, are very fashionable.
Corah silk is similar to Surah, but is
figured in printed designs.
Slight draperies around tho hips have
taken the place of paniers.
Black costumes take precedence in
the favor of American women.
Black laces are again fashionable for
dress caps for elderly ladies.
Plain black ice wool shawls look
handsome over black silk dresses.
Plain effects are sought for in cos
tumes for all occasions at present.
Corah and Surah silks take prece
dence of all others for summer wear.
Something resembling a collar is seen
ITEMS OF IXTEHEST.'
A sun shade An eclipse.
Out on the fly Various fish.
Road to matrimony A bridal path.
A four in hand is worth two in the
bush.
Electric lights are talked of for Lon
don streets.
Fifty ladles are struggling for medical
honors in Paris.
There are nine tenant-farmers in tho
British parliament.
When the day breaks what becomes of
the pieces P That's the q uestion.
The individual who points with pride
is the woman with a handsome ring.
The State of California has 50,000
people less than the city of Philadelphia.
Lisle thread gloves for traveling and
silk lace mitts for full dress are de rig
ueur. France has 36,000,000 people and $600,
000,000 revenue the largest ratio
known.
A barber is not always a wise man if
his labor is mostly head work. Water
loo Observer.
The Tokio (Japan) Times says that a
shock of earthquake is probably felt in
some part of the island every day.
Bows for the hair are worn in the
morning and upon unceremonious occasions.
We do not know as green apples be
long to any secret fraternity, yet they
seem to have the grip. Marathon Inde
pendent. No man, says the Oil City Derrick, is
capable of gracefully licking a postage
stamp in the presence ot a pretty post
mistress. The individual who saw a mouse
fighting with a peice of Limburger
cheeso readily realized that the battle i3
not always to the strong.
Among the postoflices recently estab
lished in the United States were " Baby
Mine," "Blow Horn," "No Go,
"Buss" and " JNecessity."
Henri Rochefort, French editor and
agitator, was welcomed on his return to
Paris by fl.UOO persons, who sang the
" Marseilles" and cheered him.
It i3 claimed by some medical men
that smoking weakens tho eye sight.
Maybe it does, but just see how it
strengthens tho breath Uawkeyc.
A young man has been duping people
in the West by selling them an electric
corset, warranted to cure anything that
any one happened to be afflicted with,
including consumption.
Fred (to Tom, who has looked
through Fred's MS): "You didn't
know I was an author, eh !" Tom (to
Krpri 1 : " No. I didn't: and if you taKe
my advice, you won't let anybody else
know it if you can help it."
The common house-fly wears the belt
for persistent perseverance. One of
these creatures will go a thousand times
to the same spot on a man's bald head,
and yet there is nothin gained by it
any way.
Two boys in Paris settled a dispute
by having a duel with knives, which
they thre-v at each other. One was
killed, and the other arrested. Tho
lather of the latter, who had lately lost
his wife and daughter, has become in
sane. ' I didn't know a man could be so
much made up of water," said a hot man
on the corner yesterday, wringing the
sweat from his brow. " Ob, yes," re
marked a hotelkeeper who came along,
" my experience is that man is a regu
lar sponge." Chicago Journal.
Several men lately swam the Missis
sippi liver above New Orleans on a
wager. A reporter on the race says:
None of them seemed to be putting
forth much fl'ort till it was discovered
that an alligator had struck out from
shore as a competitor, and men wen,
every man did his best to keep the alli
gator from carrying off the steak3.
rrt,n..A ao manV rpASAnB vhv nlillrlvon
week and leed him lots ot soup, or you'll are adapted to picnics. If the cake gets
lose money on him. Ilurltnjton Hawk- jammed into the pickle jar, as long as
eile' tlm frnatinir doesn't melt it mnkea net
difference and a trifle of leaf mold with a
Chioago had but 109,260 inhabitants few black ante scattered over the cus-
In 1801, and was then the eighth citv tard Die answer to nutmeg with them
in the Union. It had 896,977 in 1870, Children's palates would make good
ana was nun in rank, it now tms 4!5,. sole taps, they are sq
(HID and is lourw. Uaven Iteytwr,
tives are printed on opposite sides of the
I paper, " registering" exactly. Held be
fore a flickering lamp, or other variable
source of light, the combined photo
graphs show rapid alterations of closed
and open eyes, the eitect being that of
rapid winking.
An amateur iarmer sent to an asricuU
tough.-ArsM I tural society to put him down on the.
yiiuium iioii vi t vail) ugjt uiu mi.
" Solid colored muslins are much worn
in the country ana at watering places.
Navy blue and gray blue flannels re
main the favorite fabrics for bathing
suits.
White Surah silk collarettes ' and
looped bows trim many white wool cos
tumes.
Sashes beaded ana finished with bar.
rels, spikes and. tiwselsi aie much, worn,
The Prouunclation of " B."
Ninety-nine out of every hundred
Northerners will say institoot instead of
institute, dooty for duty a perfect
rhyme to the word beauty. They will
call new and news.noo andnoos and so
on'through the dozens and hundreds of
similar words. Not a dictionary in the
English language authorizes this. In
student and stupid, the "u" has tho
same sound as in cupid, and should not
be pronounced stoodent or stoopid, as
so many teachers are in ILo habit of
sounding them.
II itis avulgariimjto callja door a doah
as we all admit isn't it as much of a
vulgarism to call a newspaper a noos
paper P One vulgarism is Northern,
and the other Southern, that's the only
difference. When the London Fundi
wishes to burlesque the pronunciation
ot servants, it makes them call the duke
the dook, the tutor the tooter, and a
tube a toob. You never find the best
Northern speakers, such as Wendell
Phillips, George William Curtis,
Emerson. Holmes, and men of that
class, saying noo for new, Toosday for
Tuesday, avenoo tor avenue, or calling
a dupe a doop. It is a fault that a
Southerner never falls into. He has
slips enough of another kind, but he
doeBn't slip on the long " u." As many
of our teachers have never had their
attention callea to this, I hope they
will excuse this, notice. Southern