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HENRY A. PARSONS, Jr., Editor and Publisher.
NIL DESt'tbANDTJM.
Two Dollars per Annum.
VOL. X.
EIDGWAY, ELK COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1880.
NO 36.
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My Little Woman.
A homely eottnge, quaint and old,
In thalcb grown thick with green and gold
And wind-sown grasses)
Unchanged it stands in sun and rain
And seldom through the quiot lane
A lootstep passes.
Tet here my little woman dwelt,
And saw the shroud of winter melt
From meads and tallows;
And heard the yellow-hammer sing
a tiny welcome to the spring
From budding sallows.
She saw the early morning sky
BluBh with a tender wild-rose dye
Above the larches;
And watched the crimson sunset bnrn
Behind the eummor plumes ot tern
In woodland arches.
My little woman, gone away
To that lar land which knows, they say,
No more sun-sttting!
I wonder il her gentle soul,
Secu-ely resting at the goal,
Has learnt forgetting!
My heart wnkes np and cries in vain;
She gave me love, I gave her pain
While she was living;
I knew not when ter spirit fled,
Hut thoeo who stood beside her said
Sie died iorgiving.
My dove has found a better rest,
And yet I love tho empty nest
She left neglected ;
I tread the very path she trod,
And ask in her new home with God
Am I expected?
U it were but the Father's will
To lbt me know Bho loves me still,
This aching sorrow
Would turn to hope, and I oould say,
Perchance she whispers day by day,
" He comes to-morrow."
I linger in the silent lane,
And high above the clover plain
The clouds are riven ;
Across the field she uaed to know
The light breaks, aud the wind sighs low,
" Loved and lorgiven."
Good Worth.
SOUTH BRANCH FARM.
The Taneys bad lived on tbe South
Branch farm since colony times, and no
Taney had ever cheated a man of a dol
lar. "They lent no money, and they
borrowed none; they never sat at any
man's table, or asked n guest to theirs.
The Taney pew front one was filled
every Sunday, come rain or sun. Sirs.
Taney, a iniddle-ngcd woman, with Iter
gray hair in a tight little knot behind,
and wcarinz the same rusty, black gown
and bonnet fur a dozm years, was al
ways like the others present. But some
Utiles she was asleep. For this was the
one hour of the whole week when phi
could sit down on a cushion and fold
her hunt's. The air was warm; tin
music soft and sweet; no wonder site
slept. Sometimes tho works that wen
read stirred her soul; it seemed as if
ber ch Id hood woke, as if the tears must
come to her lo'g dry ejes. But they
never Cid. By the time she had walked
home with her son W illiam, ths story
of Bethlehem, or heavenly glory to
come, had faded into a doubtful dream,
and all tbat was real was the South
Branch farm, the price of pork, or the
fall of totatoes. After church, dinner
must be ready (piping hot, too, on ac
count of the boarder), in half an hour ;
then she had the sheep to look affrr,
and the poultry to feed ; then milking
The Taneys never had kept any "help."
Mrs. Taney had brought up six children,
been sole cook, seamstress, tailor and
dairymaid ; yet her husband, old Ben.
always had said : " Sarah's not a
capable woman. No Taney blood in
her."
Ben had been 'eaf five years, but his
wifo went on carrying a groaning load
on the back which lacked bone. William
was a harder master than his father ha J
been ; the very oxen felt the lash oltener.
and their corn fell off one half. He sat
in the kitchen now, with a book before
him, while his mother and youngest
sis'er, Letty, were cooking supper.
"Take that butter oil the table," ho
said, suddenly. "Molasses will do.
What are you cooking meat for? It's
not necessary. Put it back in the cel
lar." " Yes, William," replied his mother,
submissively. "Only I thought the
boarder "
" We can't afford to keep him like a
lord. You'll have to exercise economy,
mother; I can't be always here to look
after things. How am I ever to pay for
the meadow lots if the money is going
away in tbia style?"
"In what way, William?" Mrs.
Taney's scared eyes wandered over the
spare kitchen, the smoldering coal in
a corner of the grate, tho half-starved
face of her little girl.
" I try to save, I am sure. What
way do you mean, sir P"
"Oh, every way!" closing his book
with a bang. " There's a leak at every
corner. Why, 1 toil and slave the year
round. But with such a lot of mouths
to feed-"
He glared at Lsttv, who shrank into
the pantry. She did not come out dur
ing supper, and her mother dared not
call her. The girl was crying as usual,
and her te ns always exasperated Wil
liam. Poor Letty felt the horrible guilt
of her hcaity appetite sore upon her.
She was always hungry ; hungry enough
to faint now.
Mrs. Taney forgot to eat her dry
bread, or drink her milk. The meadow
lots! It was to buy those lots that her
husband bad made their lives bare and
hard and wretched from their wedding
day. Tho good wholesome produce
from the farm, which should have fed
the children, had gone to market, while
they ate the refuse; the money which
should have educated them had been
put in the bank to buy these lots. When
her baby was so ill no doctor was
brought, and her child died; the money
saved went to the lots; the mother had
begged for a headstone for the grave.
TLera was Letty, growing to be a
woman, half-clothed, without a sparkle
of fun or pleasure to lighten her young
life; while poorer girls dressed and
went out. and had comnanv. and en.
joyed, as the girls should, days tilled
with comfort and happiness. Everv
penny thus saved William laid by for
the lots." Yea! those twelve actors
hid come to be the absolute God (for
these people. Not a happy life, nor
uoa, nor heaven.
After supper his mother followed him
out.
"William," she said, desperately,
" how many years will It be before you
can buy the lots?"
"Years? The lots?" in unfeigned
amazement. " I how on earth can you
understand business?"
It was the first time she had ever
spoken in this way.
"I don't know. But I'm afraid 1
will not live to see it. It is so long
She went back 'to the kitchen. The
dishes stood untouched upon the table
and Letty was seated upon the steps, a
basket ot red peaches beside her, which
the boarder brought down from his
room.
He was a young man, a teacher in a
Virginia country school, who had come
up to these hills geologizing in his sum
mer vacation.
" I brought them from the McBride
farm, Mrs. Taney," he said. " They are
a very common kind in the Shenandoah
valley," handing them to her.
Mrs. Taney's features grew warm.
" 1 remember a tree just like these at
home," she said, " by the old mill. My
old nurse used to hold me up to pull
them for myself."
"Your little girl tells me that you
came from Fauq iiier county. It is a tine
country."
"It is the most beautiful in the
world," said Mrs. Taney.
She stopped and went i t hastily. She
felt the tears choking her. She could
hear Mr. Burke tell the child that his
school was in Fauquier, and that he had
often passed her grandfather's house.
It was for sale now, with a dozen acres
about it; would sell very cheap, no
doubt. Land had depreciated sitce the
war. "A quiet comfortable little
homestead, too," he said, "as any in
the State."
Mrs. Taney paused in her work.
"Oh, if I could only show it to Letty,"
sho said to herself. "The dear old
farm. The sunny porches, and tbe
Bourbon roses, and the great oaks, cen
urips old." She had never spoken of her
old home to her other children, but to
Letty she had talked of it often when
they were alone. Letty was like herself ;
the othets were all Taneys.
She came to the door.
"Do you know, Mr. Burke, if there
is an old negro on the place a gar
dener?" "Uncle Tod? Oh, everybody knows
the old man; and his stories about
the CleveJands, de family, as he calls
them."
" We were the Cleveland. A nd old
Tod is really living yet?" she laughed
for the first time in a year.
When Letty had gone in Mr. Burke
paced up and down the porch. He was
a manly, large-natured fellow, and his
heart ached with pity for the poor,
pinched lives of this child and her
mother. All he could do to show kind
ness was to lend books to Letty, which
she devoured eagerly, for she was fond of
reading; in fact sue tiad obstinately per
sisted in staving at the tree school until
she had educated herself.
William Taney waited until the young
man had gone, and then he went into
the pantry where his mother was strain
ing milk. Something in his manner
made her set it down, trembling.
'You have bad news to tell," she
said.
" No," with an uneasy, stricken laugh,
"mcst folks call it good. Fact is.
mother, I've made up my mind to
marry "
'Oh, William." her old cheeks color
ing.
"1 made up my mind three months
ago. And the girl s courted, and the
wedding's to be to-morrow. There now.
No need for you to look in that way. I
am generally pretty close-mouthed about
my own business ; you might know that.
And I don't choose to have the matter
cackled over at home. The girl is Miss
ausie Crawford."
His mother came toward him. He
was her son after all, and this was the
turning point of his lifo. She DUt her
arms about him and kissed him. "God
bless you, my boy," she said.
But be stood as immovable as a log.
" Don't let us nave any fuss," he said.
You had better sit down. You're
shaking all over. Well, that's all.
I here' ll be no wedding hubbub here. I
don't hold to spending money in feeding
a lot of guzzling fools. The Crawfords
have a regular blow-out in the morning.
But you don'; want to go, I reckon ? "
uneasily.
I should like to see vou married."
she said, timidly.
Uh, nonsense. There s no sickly
sentiment about me. I'll have Sophy
home by supper time . You'll have to
see to things here "
tie lighted his candle and turned to
" by the way, she was here a month
ago."
i es. Mrs. Taney remembered dis
tinctly the gross-featured, black-eyed
young woman who had swaggered
through the farmhouse in her cheaD silk
and gilt jewelry.
"She came just to look at her new
home, and well, she rather took a fancy
to the south chamber. You had better
fix it up for her."
"My room, wiiiiamr"
" Yes. It's all the same to vou. O
course you can go up to Lnty.
letty, wiio bad been at work inside,
came out, sobbing, and threw her arms
about her mother. She knew that this
had been her mother's room for thirty
years. All Mrs. Taney's children were
born in it the baby died there.
William stopped and came back, say
in?:
' Now look here, it's iust as well tn
speak plainly at ones. I'll have no op
position to my wife from you, Letty.
uor num irom any otaer woman. 1
am the head of this house. My dear
wife shall be mistress of it. She brings
me a snug bit ot money, and I'll not
have her nor her family insulted in it."
"jay son."
But he had stalked off to bed.
There was no time the next day for
Mrs. Taney or Letty to even think of
the coming trouble. They were up as
usual, two or three hours before day.
kindling fires, milking and getting
breakfast for the six harvest hands,
Then came washing, a dinner at noon,
all the work of a farm, in short, which
falls on a woman, in addition to which
was the cleaning and preparation of the
room which the bride had chosen tor
her own. Mrs. Taney moved sluggishly
through the latter part of the work.
"What is the matter with you,
mother?" asked Letty.
Mrs. Taney laughed feebly.
"I don't xnow; I feel like a clock
tbat is nearly run down."
Letty made no reply. The child had
lately been absent, almost indifferent,
while her mother talked, apparently in
her own thoughts. Could it be, the
mother thought, that Letty, also, was
forsaking her? Mrs. Taney had only
had one other daughter tho baby who
died. The other children were sons, all
of whom, except William, had gone to
the West and married there. She had
often wished they would ask her to visit
them, that she might see their children.
But they never did it.
While they were hanging out the
clothes that afternoon, Mrs. Taney
heard a tap, three times repeated, on the
orchard fence. Letty's face colored.
She dropped the clothes and ran behind
the apple tree. As she came back ber
mother saw her thiust a note into her
pocket. Mrs. Taney grew suddenly
sick at heart. Letty with a secret.
Letty carrying on a clandestine love nf
fair. While Mrs. Taney stood, doubting
whether to ask the child for her confi
dence, Letty had disappeared. A tew
minutes later the girl went down the
road in a clean dress and sun-bonnet.
It was but a trifle, yet it stunned the
jaded woman, as a sharp blow would
have done.
Mr. Burke, coming over the fields
that afternoon with a natchet and a bag
of specimens, was amazed to see Letty
standing in the road in earnest conver
sation with a man. "A coarse, red
jawed, beery fellow," was his angry ver
dict. The fellow talked long and
earnestly; then took Lettic's hand and
pressed it reverently. Burke turned his
back on them and struck across the
bills. The girl's mother should hear of
this at once, lie said to himself, decid
edly. Then he slackened his speed.
What was it to him? Why should he
vex himself about the girl? Or meddle
with ber affairs? He went slowly bask
to the hills. But the hot blood rushed
with a strange beat through his vein).
In an hour Letty was back and nt
work with redoubled vigor, to make up
for lost time. Her mother scanned her
innocent, meek face with a breathless
terror.
Surely there was no guilt there. She
would not doubt her ; she would not ask
a question.
" I have dressed the table with flow
ers," the mother said, " and made a cake
a real bride's cake. I hope William
won't be angry. But this is so different
from weddings in Virgin! t. Oh, Letty,
if you and 1 could only go to the old
house and sleep for one nigbt in the
room which was mine when I was a
child, 1 think just that little thing would
give me years of life."
"There they come!" cried Letty, as
the big Crawford carriage was seen
dashing up the road. She grew very
pale and shrank back. The girl had
always been alraid of her brother Wil
liam; and his wife, she suspected, would
be as hard a ruler and a more vulgar
one.
But Mrs. Taney led her to the porch .
" You mutt welcome them, Letty,"
she said.
The bride watched them from the
carriage window with keep, jealous eyes.
Her father had given her a hint a to
her future course.
" You've made a good match, Sophy,"
he said. "Bill Taney's got as l.ng a
purse any man in the country, and hi
old farm's comfortable. But the old
woman an' her da'ater will be a draw
back. They'll try to run over you
roughshod, likely. Just take your stand
at once. Let 'em see you will be mis
rees in your own house.1'
"Trust me for that, pappy," said Miss
Sophy.
The whole Crawford family had ac
companied her to see how she ,. would
hold her ground.
When poor Mrs. Taney stepped for
ward, therefore, her thin face reddening,
and her hands held out, the brido re
ceived her welcome with a careless nod.
"I hope you will be happy in your
new home, my dear," said the gen tie
lady.
Oh. no doubt, ma'am ! I generally
hold my own pretty well. Come in,
papy. Come, hue. 1 want you to see
my house before it. is dark. Here is the
living room, liul must nt that up into
a parlor double quick, too. D'ye h?ar,
Mr Taney?' laughing loudly. "Yon
l.cedn't trouble yourself, ma'am, toshow
the way. Come along allot you."
William stopped and '.coked with
sudden pity at his mother, than followed
his wile, who went talking loudly up
the stairs.
Mrs. Taney and Letty ph ced the Eup-
per on tbe table, the bride came m,
the noisiest of the noisy party. She
went hastily to the head of the table,
saying: "ibis is my place, i believe."
William gravely motioned his mother
to a seat among the strangers! His wiie
bore herself as though she had been
mistress for years, and found fault freely
when the humor seizea tier, me bread
was dry as chaff, tho butter was bitter
with salt, she said.
"That s your idea of cooking, mother
Tanney, eh? I'll give you a hint or tw
to-morrow, we young people have
progressed, you know."
' Not that I mean to take the work
out of their hands." she said to her sis
ter aside. "No, No! It we feed 'em,
they've got to earn their bread."
Letty overheard the whisper, and her
scared face grew a shade paler.
"Very nice old silver. William." said
the bride, directly, weighing tbe spoons
on hei finger, and then reading the
mar.
" Cleveland, eh ? You must have that
altered, please, to our initials. I can't
use spoons with strange naruej on 'em."
William glanced uneasily at his
mother. But the latter did not speak.
Very well, my dear, il shall be as vou
please," he said.
as the aavs lengthened into weeks.
tbe bride found her sway becoming
more absolute. It occurred to William,
sometimes, that she might share in the
work, uut like most farmers of his
class, be used to see his mother drudge,
from morning until night, and vaguely
supposed it was her natural condition of
lite. Sophy carried the keys, and dealt
out the provisions. Her ruddy, animal
beauty pleased him; it was a pity, he
thought, to mar it with bard work.
Meanwhile, Mr. Burke hid taken
lodgings with a neighboring farmer,
lie kept a close scrutiny on Letty,
solely, for her mother's sake, lie told
himself. She met the "beery fellow"
twice, and took long walks with him;
she received letters from him by mail.
The geologist found this matter inter
ested him more than his fossils, even.
One morning. Lettv came into the
room. William stood joking with his
wife, before going to the field. They
looked at her with astonishment, for the
gin was always silent and shy.
"Brother. 1 want to speak to you,'
she said, catching her breath.
"WelL go on." said SoDhv. im
patiently. "What are you afraid of?"
wttjr spoke directly to William,
ignoring her. "The potatoes and
apples must be picked over, and the
cellars are damp. Could one of the
hands do it?"
"Good gracious! Po you want har
vesting to stop?" cried Sophy. "You
and mother Taney can do it at your
bisure. Do you suppose your brother
pays men such ruinous wages to wait
ou a lot of women ?"
"You have always dono it," said
William.
" Mother is not well, William."
" W ell, mana ge it as you like. I can't
be bothered with the kitchen work,"
he burst out.
Letty left the rocm hastily.
" That's right, William. The truth
is, you're too open-handed. You can't
afford to keep a parcel of able-bodied
women in idleness if you ever, mean to
buy the meadow lots."
" That's a fact!" The mention of the
lots keyed his courage.
When he came back that afternoon
he found Sophy resplendent in a pink
flowered muslin, entertaining half a
dozen girls in the parlor. He stopped
to joke and romp witn them. The next
moment the door opened, and Letty
stood like a ghost on the threshold.
" Come to mother!" she said.
"What is the matter?"
"You have killed her, I think,"
quietly.
The poor old woman had sunk down
on the floor of the cellar and lay as if
dead.
William trembled as ho lifted her.
The doctor of the village happened to
pass at the moment.
"No, she is not dead," he said, after
examining her. "Great exhaustion.
It will be a long illness. She must have
rest and careful musing."
Letty stepped forward. " She will
have both. Mr. Burke, will you carry
her to Mrs. Wright's, across the road ?
one has promised to give me a room."
The crowd about her were so stunned
at the child's action that they did
nothing to oppose it
Mr. Burfco promptly lifted the thin
figure in his arms, and had laid her in
Mrs. Wright's shaded spare room be
fore William had recovered his senses.
" Don't vou see how disgraceful this
looks?" Sophy cried, shaking him.
" Your mother turned out! What will
folks say?"
He hurried after Letty, scolding and
ordering them back. But Lstty did not
answer him.
"Mrs. Wright will chareo boarding.
D'ye hear?"
" I shall pay her,"satd let y, quietly.
Mrs. Tancv's illness lasted for weeks.
William's wife smoothed the matter
over to the community as best she could.
" The Wright house was more quieter
than hers. She was willingto pay the
boarding to insure comfort to dear
Mother Taney." etc. Secretly she re
joiced to escape the trouble ot the sick
woman.
When Mrs. Tanev waj able to come
down to the porch of the cool farm
house lor ttie lirst time, she sent tor
William and his wife. The doctor was
there, t.nd Mr. Burke and Judge Wright,
and little Letty and a man whom Mr.
Burke at once recognized as "the fel
low," and so he turned his back on him
contemptuously.
" iou ve got quite a color, Mother
Taney," said Sjphy. " You'll soon be
roady to come over. Help with the
canning, chP"
" Mrs. Taney," said the doctor,
grave.y, " needs a long season ot re.- t
before her health is restored. I have
recommended a change of air, a jour
ney" William exchanged alarmed glances
with his wife.
" Whv. vou must takes U' for mil
lionaires, Doc." she cried. " Change i
airP Journey? That sort of prescrip
tion suits city fine ladies. But farmers'
wives, who have to earn their living,
can't take time for such folderols."
The doctor would have answered, but
Lntty put her hand on his arm. Ttiero
was a faint pir.k on her cheek and her
blue eyes sparkled like steel.
" Fortunately my mother," she said,
gently, " is not in such a strait. I have
made arraneemcnts tor her to take the
ournev. We are going to-morrow to
Virginia. 1 have bought her old home
and we shall live there. She will have
a long change of air."
William turned ghastly paic.
" Bought! What money had you?"
" Her own share of the estate." said
Judge Wright, calmly. " Letitia is o.
ae. bhe seems to have been always
under the impression that she and her
mother were dependent on you. She
camo to ask me about it two months
ago, and I, as guardian and executor,
had nothing more to do than to hand
her over her share, which was. you
know, in bonds. She has chosen to in
vest it in Virginia land. Mr. Hipps
made the purchase tor her," nodding to
the beery lawyer, who nodded gravely
back.
Mr. Burke move! suddenly over to
his side, with a beaming recognition.
' How do you propose to live on this
farm?" said William.
" My mother will withdraw her por
tion of the estate," said Letty. "She is
entitled to a third, you know."
" Withdraw? Thirds!' Why.I'veuse
for it. I f she does that I have done with
the meadow lots!"
His voice was like that of an enraged
dosf
"You seem, William," said Judee
Wright, "strangely to have fonrotten
the position of your mother and sister.
xouhave drawn me interest ot your
mother's money. It must all, of course,
be refunded. Little Lettie has a clear
head. Sho will manage very well. By
the way, she has suggested to mo that
your wife should send over the Cleve
land silver, and a.l other household
property belonging to your mother be
fore her marriage."
When William aud his wife went out
of the gate he seemed to have shrunk
into a smaller and older man. The last
words heard from btm were "lots: it's
all your fault," in a fierce bitterness.
The Journey of the Pens
A rapid penman can write thirtv
words in a minute. To do this he must
draw bis pen through the space of a rod.
sixteen and a halt feet. In forty mini.
utes his pen travels a iurtong. we
make, on an average, sixteen curves or
turns ot the pen in writing each word.
Writing thirty words in a minute, we
must make 489 to each minute; in an
hour, 2S,H0O ; in a aay oi only h ve hours,
144.000: in a year ot 300 days. 43.200.010.
The man who made 1,000,000 strokes
with bis pen was not at all remarkable,
Manv men. newspaper writers for in.
stance, make 4,000,000. Here we have,
in the aggregate, a mark of 300 miles
long to be traced on paper by such a
writer in a year.
Noses Classified.
Francis Grose, in his appendix to
Hogarth's "Elements of Beauty," de
lineates eight typical noses. Ttiero is
the angular; tho oquiline or Roman;
the parrot's beak ; the straight or Gre
cian; the bulbous or bottled; the
turned-up or snub; and the mixed or
broken. Of the latter, by the way, the
noses ot at least two illustrious men
may be taken as illustrations Tycho
Brahe and Michael Angelo, the latter
of whom owned his ungraceful appen
dix to a violent blow lrom a companion
with whom he was at variance, and
who thus disflgured the great artist for
life and instantly fled. To these may
be added the orator Cicero, upon whom
nature seems to have bestowed a nasal
organ of a type decidedly "mixed," if
not broken. Plutarch in his life of the
Suerulous Roman, says that be bad a
at excrescence on the top of his nose
in resemblance of a vetch cicer in
Latin from which he took his sur
name. Pliny says, with more prob
ability, that the name originated in an
extensive cultivation of vetches, just as
others had previously been surnaaied
from crops ot other kinds. However
this may be the fact of Cicero's snub
nose may no doubt be accepted, and it
accords with the traditional belief that
this description of noses is usually
indicative of a fiery, quick, impetuous
temper. Cicero having possessed
this characteristic in a marked degree.
Horace seems to regard the short nose,
with a little turn-up at the end, as the
mark of a person given a good deal to
jibing and jeering. Martial calls it the
rhinoceros nose, and says that it was
hiahly fashionable in his day, every
body affecting this kind of proboscis as
an indication of a satirical humor. The
" angular" nose, as Grose calls it, is the
lone, clearly-cut, pointed organ, and was
no doubt, the type to which Horace al
ludes when he says that it is indicative
of satirical wit. The "parrot beak " is
the nose with which Mr. Punch usually
adorns his caricature of the sultnn or
khedive, and is nkin to the typical Jew
ish nose all over the world. The t ight
types given embrace every description
of the feature, and students of carica
ture are strongly recommended in the
treatise alluded to to make themselves
perfectly familiar with the simple lines
by which these curiously comprehensive
sketches are effected.
A very singular fact has been ob
served with rogard not so much to the
shape of the nose as to the setting of it
in the face, so to speak. To .be strictly
correct from the artist's point of view,
the nose should be accurately in the
middle of the face and at right angles
with a line from the pupil of one eye to
that of the other. As a matter of fact,
it is rarely or never found thusphced.
It is almost invariably a little out of
" the square," and the fact of its being
so is often that which lends a peculiar
expression and piquancy to the face. A
medical writer points out tbat there are
anatomical reasons why a slight devia
tion from the true central line may be
expected, and that the nose which is
thus accurately straight between the
two eye3 may be considered an abnormal
one, and that the only absolutely cor
rect organ is that which deviates a little
to the right or lef t. London Globe.
Old Saws Reset.
A bad thing never dies.
A bad lock invites a burglar.
A bald head is soon shaven.
A clean hand wants no washing.
A bad day never has a good night.
A black hen will lay a white egg.
A constant guest is never welcome.
A blind rtnn would be glad to see it.
A bankrupt apothecary, a new doctor.
A contented mind is a continual feast.
A careless watch invites tho vigilant
foe.
A charitable man' is the true lover of
God.
A bad workman quarrels with his
tools.
A boaster nnd a liar are cousin-f er
mans. A book that remains shut is but a
block.
A bad bush is better than an open
wild.
A clear conscience laughs at false ac
cusations. A common jeerer may have wit but no
wisdom.
A courageous foe is better than a cow
ardly friend.
A bird is known by its note, and a man
by his talk.
A voung barber learns to shave by
shaving fools.
A civil denial is better than a rude
compliance.
A broad bat does not always cover a
venerable head.
A bird may be caught with a snire
that will not be shot.
A broken friendship may be soldered,
but will never be sound.
A bridal for t he tongue is a necessary
piece ot i urn i Lure.
A Relic of the Ancients.
A Roman villa has been discovered
near trading, in the Isle of Wight. The
external walls, as at present cleared.
measure about fifty-two feet by thirtv-
seven feet, and inclose about six or seven
chambers, with passages, etc., con
nected, there is reason to believe, with
manv others. In addition to tessellated
floors, remains of hypocausts, flues,
fresco paintings, roohng tiles, coins
pottery and other interesting relics.
there are the remains ot a mosaio pave
rrent. with a design upon it of unusual
character, and one which is worthy of
careful study and attention. The de
sign, though grotesque, is doubtless
symbolical, and may.be connected either
with the mythology of the ancients or
the early introduction ot Christianity
Moreover, a new chamber bas been
opened up, inclosing an interesting
mo aic, the central design ot which is
representation of Orpheus, playing on
the lyie, and surrounded by animals, as
usual. The border is an unusually good
example of what is known as the guil-
loche pattern, l'ottery. glass and coins
have been also found ; among the latter
several brass coins ot tbe reign of Vic
torintu, a. u. vwj.
West Dayton, Iowa, comes forward
wnu iuj vumupiun linage oi uie season
T) C. IV Itrnwn nnfl R Piamtn am
that by the use of chloroform and drugs
whose length is twenty-seven feet, an
d
wuicu ia icu incuen in diameter, lie
is
five inches between, the eyes and
eyes are fiery red.
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Some Singular Delusions.
The police central office in this city, as
well as the courts and the newspaper
offices, appears to have its special mono
maniac. As in the other cases the de
luded person is a woman, and like the
others she is a poor harmless creature
who excites pity notwithstanding the
absurdity of lier disordered fancies nnd
the sincerity and earnestness with which
she narrates her imagined wrongs. She
believes herself to be under the espionage
oi 2,000 detectives, who follow ber in the
interest of the tier man consul, who she
thinks has secret flices in police head
quarters and deep designs against her
peace and comfort, sue tells alt this
with a rational air and quiet manner
until she perceives that she is not cred
ited, and then grows a little excited and
becomes noisy.
Some vears ago a man with a similar
maria infested the station houses nnd
newspaper offices. He imagined that he
was pursued, not by detectives, but by
doctors who wanted his body for dis
section; and be would narrate to nny
one who would listen long tales of the
methods they pursued to capture him.
As proof of the truth of what he would
relate he would produce on old ropy of
the London Times, in which was
report of the trial of a physi
cian of London on a charge of conspiracy
against him. Ot course the report only
disclosed that he was insane, but this
the poor fellow could not recognize.
He disappeared several years ago. His
natural successor seems to be the unfor
tunate creature who appe red at head
quarters recently. Another unfortunate,
familiar in the newspaper offices, is an
old man who claims to know where
Stewart's body rests, but who
says that the executors refuse to
take possession of it, not to
escape paying the reward he
will tell you with great earnestness, but
because one of them wants the grand
mausoleum which Mrs. Stewart built at
Garden City ireserved for himself! He
tells his story with such plausibility of
manner and incident and detail, too,
that one hardly suspects bis sanity until
he reaches thisastoundingclijiax, when
his manner changes instantly to fierce
ness. Tho little Miss Flite. of the court
house and city hall, is a woman of forty -five
or fifty, and evidently very poor.
She visits the public buiiuings once
every month and makes formal demand
of the various officials lor her rent for
the uso of the buildings. Her mania is
that she is the owner of the public prop
erty of New York. In her demands for
her money she interrupts proceedings in
the courts and other offices, hut she is
never violent, and is easily induced to
go away. She accepts anyth'ngin the
form cr shape ot a check as payment,
but if refused this tender sho threatens
a writ of ejectment. New TorZ Tribune
The Ruquet.
TUe latest thins in dances is called
the "raquet." and is neither a waltznor
a poika, tnougu the best parts of both
are preserved. The girl is taken around
the waist. The music strike i up with
a crash, as though a now volcano had
broken out, and the girl will clin.-
tightly as though frightened, if she
understands the dantc, and the young
man will reassure her by a gentle pres
sure, if ho understands the dance, or
knows anything at all. At the second
crash '.hey dodge, as though some one
had t'irown a blacksmith shop at them.
anu i.ucy start in. They begin by im
itating tne struggle tor me, representing
a per&on who is drowning, but at each
crash of the cymbals and bass drum
they dodge and scoot to one side, then
dart back again, .jam each other side
ways, and than as tho crashes of music
become more tcrnticar.d deafening, they
try to drive each other throuzh the
floor, by main sirength, get desperate
and claw and tear nnd pull, and all at
once tney go raving muu with, hydro
phobia and the delirium tremens, and
gnash their teeth nnd rave, and suff-ir
the most terrible agony and it is all
over. It is a short dance, as the desisrn
is amttfcmcnt at d not murder. But
phort as it is, it is said to be very sweet.
here it has been lnirtuuccd it seems
to give the most perfect satisfaction.
many young peoplo preferring it to the
siow ana solemn polka, or the cold and
treeztng waltz. ftc's Sun.
Statistics of the Production of Beer.
Some official tables connected with
the production of beer in all the Euro
pean countries and the United Slates
have been lately issued under auth.irirv
of the Austrian government. The fol
lowing is a summary ot the m-oductinn
aunng iB7u: The whole (German em
pire pronucea ia.aiu.aio hectolitres, or
a J,B1 1, 1 17 British barrels ; Great Britain,
36,597,550 hectolitres, or 22,375,019 bar
rels; tho United States of North
America, 15.400.000 hectolitres, or 9 435..
252 barrels; Austria-Hungary, 11,184,681
hectolitres, or 0,838,000 barrels; France,
o,sii,iK!U hectolitres, or a barrels;
neigium. v.BOLuru nectoilires. or 4.BU1..
778 barrels; Russia, 2,300,000 hectolitres,
or 1,406,174 barrels: the Netherlands.
1.6(0,003 hectolitres, or 978.2(8 barrels:
Denmark, 1,100,000 hectolitres, or 673,
518 barrels; Sweden. 930,d00 hectolitres.
or 568,583 barrels; Italy, 870,000 hecto
litres or oil utiu oaneis: iswitzerianei,
721,000 hectolitres, or 448,753 barrels;
Norway, 615,000 hectolitres, or 376,000
Dari-eis. Tho greatest production in
proportion to the copulation is in
Belgium, where 167 litres, or a little over
341 gallons per head, were manufactured ;
ana tne smallest production was in
Russia, where the ratio was only three
litres, or a little more than tive'and one-
quarter pints for every inhabitant.
Tree Culture.
A correspondent of the New York
Tribune remarks that when we know
what the future will require, it is wise
economy to provide for it. Ten years
hence not less than 20.000,000 railroad
ties will be needed annually; fence posts
by the million will be wanted: while
tbe immense consumption of lumber of
all kinds will be largely increased.
The farmer should provide for this
certain demand for ttie future. There
are millions ot acres of rough land, bill
sides and untillable spots which could
be clothed with forest trees growiqg
into money. Trees also mate the coun
trv more fertile by drawing down more
rain.
M. Fautrat, of France, after four
years of observation, reports that pine
and resinous iorests extract a greater
rainfall from passing currents than any
other description of words. His ob
servations also show that the foliage of
some trees intercepts one-third, and
that of other trees one-half of the rain
fall.
IIUMOROUS.
What the editors throughout the
country want is a more lib'.ral supply ot
anti-lean ppeketbooks.
" Love," says a writer, " lightens the
heart." It has been known to have pre
cisely the same effect upon a pocket
book. Knowledge is better than wealth, yet
how many people in this wicked world
who prefer the inferior article. Keokuk
Gate City.
All I know about good or bad lukiz
this : Our good luk we attribut to our
shrewdness; our bad luk we charge
over to somebody else's akount. Josh
Billings.
The other day two Milwaukee cooks
got to fightin g and upset a stove and a
table covered with dishes. Professor
Bjorenstern Bjornson, who happened to
be present, arose and asked who was
calling his name.
At a London bazar recently a lady
banded round her baby to be kissed at
sixpence each. If it were a girl baby '
we would have paid tho price and taken
a due bill due in sixteen years. Go
wanda Enterprise.
Among the newest hats for ladies is
one called " Sunrise." So called, prob
ably, because a man has to get up be
fore sunriso every day for a week to earn
enough money to pay for one. Norris
town Herald.
This is game season and we want to
caution our tportsmen that it is just
about as safe tj pull a gun over the
fence by the muzzle it is to lead a
mule out. of the stable by the tail. iltcf
dletown Transcript.
There is one enterprising woman in
Indiana who deserves a medal. A prize
was otlered for tho mother who pre
sented the greatest number of her chil
dren at the State fair. Mrs. Smith and
Mrs. Line were each accompanied to the
fair by nine, but Mrs. Lino gave birth to
a tenth on the eroundn and so took the
prize. Quincy Modern Argo.
For the Corious.
Mezzotinto owed its Invention to the
simple accident of the gun barrel of a
Bentry becoming rusted with dew.
The swaving to and fro of a chande-
ier in a cathedral suggested to Galileo
the application of the pendulum.
The process of whitening supar was
discovered in a curious way. A hen
that had gone through a clay puddle
went with her muddy feet into a sugar
house. She left her tracks on a pile of
sugar. It was noticed that wherever
her tracks were the sugar was whitened.
Experiments were instituted, and the
result was that wet clay came to be used
in retming sugar.
The art of etching upon glass was dis
covered by a Nuremberg glasscutter.
By accident a few drops of aquafortis
feu upon nis spectacles. He noticed
that the glass became corroded and
softened where the acid had touched it.
That was hint enough. He drew figures
upon glass with varnish, applied the
corroding fluid and then cut away the
elass around the drawing. When the
varnish was removed the figures ap
peared raised upon a dark ground.
The shop of a Dublin tobacconist, bv
the name of Lundyfoot. was destroyed
by fire. While he was gazing dolefully
into tho smoldering ruins, he noticed
that his poor neighbors were gathering
the snuff from the canisters. He tested
the snuff for himself, and discovered
that tho fire had largely improved its
pungency and aroma. It was a hint
worth profiting by. He secured another
shor, built a quantity of ovens, sub
jected the snuff to a heating process,
gave tho brand n particular name, and
n a few years became rich bv an acci
dent which at first he thought had com
pletely ruined him.
blue-Tinted Paper.
Tho oi'icin of blue-tinted naner canio
about by a mere slip of tho hand. The
wire oi w uiiam Jv.ist.an English paper-
maker, accidentally let a blue-bag fall
nto one ot ttie vats ot pulp. The work
men were astonished wheu they saw tho
peculiar color ot the paper, while Mr.
East was highly incensed at what he con
sidered a grave pecuuiaty loss. His wife
was so much frightened thut she would
not confess her agency in the matter.
After storing the damaged paper for
four yea? s, Mr. J ast sent it to his a sent
nt London, with instru-aioES to sell it
for what it would bring. The paper
was accepted as a '"purposed novelty,"
d was di3posod of at auite an advance
over the market price. Mr. East was
astonished nt receiving an order from
his a?ent foi another large invoice of
the paper. Ho was without the secret
and found himself in a dilemma. Upon
mentioning it to his wife, she told him
about the accident. He kept the secret.
and the demand for the novel paper far
exceeded his ability to supply it.
Ll.hographing,
Tho art of lithographing was per
fected through suggestions made by
cldent. A poor musician was anxious
to know whether music could not be
etched upon stone as well as upon cop
per. Alter he naa prepared his slab,
lis mother asked him to make a memo
randum of such clothes as plie proposed
to send away to be washed. Not hav
ing pen, ink and paper convenient, he
wroto the list on the stone with the
etching preparation, intending to make
a copy of it at leisure. A" few days
later, when about to clean the stone, he
wondered what effect aqua fortis would
have upon il. Ho applied the acid, and
in a few minutes saw the writing stand
ing out in relief. The next step neces
sary was simpiyto ink the stpne and
take off an impression.
The wifoof Charles Barret, of Strath-
roy, Canada, was walking with her
husband through his wheat field, when
she was attacked by a monstrous blow
ing adder. Thehrst blow was on ber
leg, at the knee, and the second lelt tho
snake fastened to ber skirts. She en
deavored to shake him eff, nnd ran.
but fainted before she bad gone ten
feet. Her husband then caught the
reptile by tbe head in a hay rake and
it was killed. When inflated it was six
inches in diameter and five feet long.
The date of the earliest eclipse of the
sun, recorded in the annals of the Chi
nese, when " on the first day of the last
month of autumn, the sun and mo"n did
not meet harmoniously in Fang," or
in that part of the heavens defined by
two stars in the constellation of the
Scorpion, has been determined by Pro
fessor Von Oppolzer, of Vienna, to have
been the morning oi October 23, 9,137
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