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1 VOL. XI. " : RIDGWAY, ELK COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1881. , , NO. 37.;
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The Deserted Mill.
Drip, drip, drip,
t The eagor flow is still,
Ami only drops of water fall .
Beneath the unused mill. ' -
All moldy are the tags of meal,
And moss Is grown upon the whoel, '
So silent and so still.
Drip, drip, drip.
Upon tho fruitful fern ;
"The silontjtimbcrs of the.whcol
Are powerless to turn,'
And where a blade of grass is seen,
The gaping joints it grows between,
Parted, will not return.
Drip, 'drip, drip,
Into the stagnant pool
Where glides tho Bpotted water snake,
Among the cresses cool,
And, silent in his coat of mail, .
Ail slimy creep the cautious snail
Upon the window stool.
Drip, drip, drip,
Upon the oaken floor,
And broken from its rusty lock,
Hangs, silently, the door,
Have, when a gust of wind goes past,
It groans upon one hinge still fast,
Then silent as before.
Drip, drip, drip,
Upon the rotten deal,
Between tho timbers in tho roof
Tho shadows softly steal ;
Aud from a corner of the houso
Slyly peeps forth the cunning mouse
That eats the moldy meal.
Drip, drip, drip,
Upon tho well-worn stone,
While MiK'Rics at tho window buzz,
Monotonous in tone.
No more llio miller grinds his com,
For he, good man, is dead and gone,
' The mill is let alono.
TWO SECRETS.
"Yon iWt Eif an it, Hetty ?"
Loyd . Sutton? a good-looking, manly
young fellow, loaning on the half-open
field gate, looled earnestly in the face
of the yonng girl on the opposite side
of the fence.
She shrank from meeting his eye as
she answered:
" I am not accustomed to Baying what
I don't nieau."
lie made no answer. Hetty scratched
industriously with a bit of wild-rose
bt?(n n the tuiok of the beech tree
which overshadowed them. Suddenly
the ili-cnvpred thut she was uncon
teions'y trm-inover the initials " L S "
und "11 W." the latter her own cm
in the hcridi 1 rirk. SLe hastily with
(Utv her l.ind uud threw away the rose
s'tm.
" D.i yon remember what yon said to
luc, Hetty, tLc day 1 cut those letters?'
nsked the joiiiig man.
Son.etljing foolish, I daro ray," tht
answered, with affected carelessness
" You told nie you loved me," he
paid, In a low voice.
lletly Bfooped and plucked a sprig o(
clover.
" Perhaps I thought bo, thon," she
f aid, iutently examining the blossoms.
" And only discovered your mistake
when this rich popinjay from the city
made his appearance," said Loyd, bit
terly. She looked up with a flash of her
dail; eyes. She knew very well that she
was doing something unworthy of her,
mid lowering herself in Loyd's opinion,
ns well as causing him pain, and his re
proach stung her.
"I- have a right to like or dislike
whoni I please," she said, haughtily.
He seized an unlucky grasshopper
which at that moment lighted near his
hand and savagely crushed it to death.
Hetty looked at him in surprise. It
wai so unlike Loyd to deliberately hurt
p.nylhing.
"You are cruel!" bhe said, indig
nantly. -" Not half so ciuel as you. Hetty, I
had no idea you were so heartless and
mercenary."
The word escaped him unawares.
Hetty flushed hotly.
" If that is your opinion of me you
ought to bo glad to hae found me out
in time," she said.
" Perhaps I ought," he retorted, bit
terly. "Then I hopo you will be satisfied
as I am !"
She gathered up the skirt of her blue
lawn- dress and turned away. Lovd
passed through the gate and walked by
her side along the grassy meadow-path.
" I didn't mean to offend yon, Het
ty," ho said, in a more subdued tone.
"I am not offended. I don't in the
least care for your opinion of me," re
plied Hetty, biting her lip and turning
away her face that he might not see the
tears in her eyes.
They had reached a point where the
pathway branched right and left, and
coming along the latter was a portly,
fashionably-dressed, middle-aged man,
twirling a cane, with which he was de
capitating the tall weeds and tield
daiisit s. On catching 6i'ght of Hetty he
qniokened his pace.
" Mr. Frisbee will see me home. I
won't trouble you further, Mr. Sutton,"
said Hetty, with an air of great dignity,
i.s she took a step to the left.
Now, this left-hand track was the
most direct and frequented way to
Hetty's home; but the right hand path
way, leading along the little stream and
alder hedge, had ever been tho favorite
with herself and Loyd.
Tho young man paused now, and
standing just where the two diverged,
said,' iu a low tone, agitated, yet full of
decision:
I' Hetty, decide now, once for all !
Will you keep on with me down this
path, or will you go with Mr. Frisbee on
the other? Chooser
She hesitated, - and her color went
nud came, ;
" Yon have no right to' speak to me
BO," . 1 - -
I hava a right." he replied, firmly
" the light to know whether the girl I
. love is false or true." . .
Settj, like Loyd, was high-spirited,
his look and tone angered her.
"Go your own-way, and-1 will go
mine. I" she said,, proudly. ,
And- ithoitt andtlie'r wortl-ehe turned,
down the pathway by which Mr. Frisbee
was approaching.
Loyd, as he reached the gate, turned
back to look at the two figures slowly
sauntering along the green meadow.
" I could never have dreamed it of
her," he thought. I believed she loved
me. And to cast me off for a fellow
like that, whose greatest reoommenda
)ion is his wealth 1 Oh, Hetty, that I
should have been so mistaken in you I"
And Mr. Frisbee, as he walked by
Hetty's side, admiring her girlish beauty
and her pretty, coquettish ways, and
thinking how he would "show off" his
young wife among his friends did the
thought never occur to him, as to Loyd,
that this girl, yovmg enough to be his
daughter, could not possibly find in him
any attraction save his wealth ?
But poor Hetty, since her father died
bankrupt, had experienced enough of
poverty's ills, and heard enough from
ber mother and sisters to learn to look
upon riches as the key that could open
to her the golden store of life's pleas
ures. Loyd could give her comfort and com
petence, but as Mrs. Frisbee she could
have an elegant city residence, carriage
and servants, balls m winter and watering-places
in summer, with everything
else that she might desire.
Not that she was light and frivolous,
or longed for more worldly pleasures ;
but for the time being tho picture had
dazzled her, and in her present angry
and resentful mood against Loyd, what
wonder that she listened to all that Mr.
Frisbee had to Fay, and before she
reached home had accepted I he rich
widower's proposal ?
And yet somehow Hetty felt in her
own heart that this was the most miser
able evening she had ever spent.
As the days went by Hetty grow no
happier in "the contemplation of her
brilliant prospects. She turned with a
species of loathing from the man she
had promised to wed, and her heart
went out more and more to the lover
whom she had discarded.
They sometimes met, but he was dis
tant and proud, and it was not for her
to make advances. So she decided to
let her engagement become publicly
known, and one day went over to Mrs.
Sutton's and asked Sue Sutton, Boyd's
cousin, to be her bridemaid.
" Yon ought hardly to expect it of
me, Hetty," Sue said, with some spirit.
" i think yon have treated Loyd badly."
" How so?
"Because I know he loved you, and
I used to think you loved him. You
certainly did behave in a manner to en
courage him."
" Ferhaps we were mistaken in fancy
ing that we loved each other."
" If you were mistaken, Loyd wasn't,
I have never seen a person so changed
and unhappy," said Sue, with tears in
ber eves.
"He didn't appear to be unhappy
last evening, flirting with Josephine
illis."
"Oh, that was merely put onl She
flirted with him and he humored her, as
a blind. I know Loyd how proud he
is, aud that he would never allow any
one to suspect how he suffers. But
when we all came home from the party
where ho had heard from Mrs. Carter
that you were really engaged to that
Mr. Frisbee oh, Hetty, he looked so
wretchedly, and we heard him walking
up and down his room for hours, and
tossing about on his bed! I'm certain
he couldn't have slept a wink all night."
" Where is ho now?" asked Hetty, a
little tremulous.
"I don't know. He went out before
breakfast, and I haven't seen him since.
I believe his heart is broken, and that
he will pine away and die, or perhaps
take iiis own life, said aae, with tears
in her eyes. "And he had been look
ing at your portrait, Hetty, for I found
it on his table, propped up against a
boos."
" My portrait? Why, he sent it back
to me.
" Did he? Then this must be a copy,
Wait a moment, and I will get it for
you to see."
bhe was hardly out of the room.
when Hetty heard a well-known step in
tne nail, ana the next moment Liovd
himself entered. Instinctively she had
drawn back, and the great book-case
screened her from his view. He did
not, however, look around, but throw.
ing himself in a chair, leaned back with
closed eyes, and seeing him thus she
was struck with the change in his an
pearance. His face was pale and bore
unmistakable traces of suffering, re-
pressed by the strong will which she
knew he possessed. But now, alone as
he thought himself, the strain seemed
relaxed. He bowed his face in his
hands and groaned.
Hetty's heart beat fast and the tears
rushed into her eyes. Oh, if he would
bat bend from that stubborn pride, she
would give up Mr. Frisbee, wealth,
everything in the world, for his sake 1
But for her to make advances never!
Loyd rose from his seat, and walked
across the room to tho book-case. Het
ty shrank more closely into her corner,
and the high-backed arm-chair hid her,
She heard him rummaging about behind
the books on the shelves, and then she
saw his arm extended to the light.
holding up two glass vials. So near was
sue mat she distinctly read the labels,
one of which was "Laudanum." This
he thrust into his breast-pocket and
seizing his hat, turned to leave the
room. But at the door he caused.
went back to the table, and scratching
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a lew iiurneu nuts on a Bueet oi paper,
left it lying open and went out.
Hetty, almost as pale as her lover,
instantly sprang up, and seizing the
paper glanced over it, murmuring
brokenly as she read :
" Deab Mother : Can no longer bear
agony seek relief home -tell Johnny take
good care of you go beforo you meet you
in"
Hetty was trembling all over; but
now a great light, as it a sudden re
solvo, dawnt-d upon her pale face, and
without a pause she rushed from the
room, crossed the lawn, ana witn light,
swift step3 . followed the retreating
figure down the road. She overtook
him. . Ubt as he turned the clump of
cedars near the stables. Was it there
that he designed to commit the terrible
deed? ,
Loyd. (urned p'n bearing her breath
lessly call his name. He looked a good
deal surprised at seeing ber no longer
e. but Hushed and with disordered
curls hanging about her forehead.
'Oh, Lovd, don't do it! lor my
sake, don't !"
"Hetty, what ails you? Don't ao
what?"
" You know : vou didn't see me, but
I was in the room when you took the
the poison, the laudanum. Oh, Loyd,
don't kill yourself don't !"
He looked at her steadily, witn a
curious working of his countenance.
Why should I not? You would
not care," he said, gloomily.
"Indeed, indeed I should! she
sobbed. " Oh, Loyd, I could not bear
it ; it would kill me 1"
Her pleading, tearful eyes were up
turned to his. He looked down into
her face for a moment, then took both
her hands in his.
" Hetty, you are going to be another
man's wife."
" Never, Loyd never I I was wrong
forgive me I"
"Yon don't mean to say, Hetty"
his face lighting all over asjwith a flush
of new life "you don't mean to say
that you do really love me ?"
les, Idol I always did love you,
Loyd. I wouldn't have told you but
for this but for that horrible poison.
Give it to me, Loyd, that I may feel
vou are safe."
lie answered by tailing ner in nis
arms. There was no ono near to see
them. And then he gave the deadly
vial into her hands, and Bhe flung it as
far as she could into the neighboring
pond.
" Life is worth living for now. Hettv."
he said, as wiih her arm in his, and her
hand clasped in his own, they walked
toward her home. "But Vou will
never know what pain I hare suffered."
Most people said that Hetty had done
right in choosing Loyd Sutton, after
all; and Mr. Frisbee indignantly went
back to the city and consoled himself by
selecting as his wife some other young
and pretty woman. His marriage took
place about the same time witn Hetty s.
Some three years after this, Mr. Loyd
Sutton, acomfortable and happy-looking
pater familias, said to Ins pretty wife:
' X believe that any man can keep a
secret from his wite; but no woman can
keep one from her husband."
"Don't yon, indeed, dear Now, I
think just the contrary."
He laughed knowingly.
" Ferhaps I can convince you. I've
had a secret from you, Hetty, ever since
we were married.
" indeed I won t you tell it to me,
Lovd?'
" Why, yes, as I don't see any reason
in Keeping it longer to myself. I
wouldn't tell you at first, for fear yon
should feel mortified in knowing it,
Do you remember when you pleaded
with me so earnestly not to take my
life? Well, the truth is, I hadn't the
least idea of swallowing that laudanum.
I merely intended to use it as a remedy
for the pain I was suffering from a ter
rible toothache.
" Yes," said Mrs. Loyd Sutton, de
murely, but with an arch glance of her
black eyes, " L knew that all the while,
dear. You see, I read the note you left
on the table, telling your mother that
the pain was such that you could not
wait till to-morrow to take her to town
must go at once, to see a dentist, and
that Johnny would bring her, and you
would meet her there. Then I knew
what the laudanum was for."
Mr. Jjoy1 button opened his eves
very wide, and gave a low whistle.
" lou see, love, resumed his wife,
stealing her arm around his neck. " I
had no other way of letting you know
nowl loved you and regretted mv folly.
It saved us both from being very miser
able. But" with the same arch
look "don't you think now that t
woman can keep a secret from her hus
band as well as can a husband from his
wife?"
And Loyd Sutton, kissiner his wife.
hid the manliness to acknowledge him
self convinced.
.in Ark Built In Fear of Another Deluge.
A few miles below Otho, Ala., there
is an old negro namea iuoses, wno
claims he had a revelation from the
Lord, in which he receive"d information
that the world Would again be destroyed
by water. He was so convinced that
the destruction would be by water that
he at once began the work of building
an ark. He has thus been engaged for
several months, and the result of his
labors may be easily seen from the
river, xnis arK is very unlike the rep
resentations of the one built by Father
Noah, and would doubtless not with
stand any severe gales, such as might
be expected in a cruise of forty days
and nights. The oddly constructed
vessel or houso is placed on a high hill,
ready for the rising water. It is com
posed of several apartments, about five
feet wide and ten feet long, which are
placed on top of each other, Each bus a
small portico, and spires, with feathers
as ornaments. Approaching tne dwell
ing oi tne negro, one Has to pass
thip.ugh a very elaborately decorated
arbor, over the entrance to which are
the words: " Welcome, peace, rest and
happiness. Lolumbus Inquirer.
ltotlischlld and the Artfet.
Tho late Baron James Rothschild was
persuaded by his friend, Eugene Dela
croix, the distinguished painter, to sit
for him as the model of a beggar, as
much by the way of a joke as because
of his capacity for excellently assuming
the appearance of a mendicant. While
he was thus disguised one day in th
artist's studio one of Delacroix's young
friends and disciples entered, and was
so completely deceived by the model'i
wobegone appearance, that in passing
out he stealthily pressed a coin into the
old man's hand. Rothschild greatly
enjoyed his success in his assumed
character, and took the money ; bat he
afterward made inquiry concerning tho
young man, and learning that he was in
needy circumstances and eking out an
existence by teaching, became a very
useful friend to him and the source of
til VlCl4 Qtll Jul nailiininva ,1 v - - - -
J'WVIUH1J Kill.
11AXDWRITISG.
Some Carious Pacts About Letters nod
Manuscripts.
" Yei. I am an expert, if you call one
an expert who has passed fourteen years
of his life poring over specimens of
handwriting with a magnifying glass.
In that time a blind man would know
something about the peculiarities of
penmans-p."
This was the remarK oi Mr. Henry
Sevier, whose home is in Philadelphia.
where he combines the avocations of a
conveyancer and a writing expert, and
it has frequently happened in the last
few years that he has been called on to
make long journeys through the coun
try to aid in determining the genuine'
ne38 of handwriting.
Are there many experts in the
country?"
'No; there are generally ono or two
in each large city who have taken up
the study of handwriting lor the p eas-
ure and interest which they find in it,
but as far as real experts go I don t
think that there are more than three
in America; the others are amateurs-
amateurs certainly with considerable
knowledge, but still only amateurs."
" What is the hrst step you take when
a piece of forged writing is submitted
to you ?"
" I must have also some of the Penn
ine writing of the person whose name
has been forged, and, if possible, some
too of the person who is suspected of
having committed the crime."
"And then?"
" And then comes a microscopic com
parison of all three. The first step is to
determine whether or not the name is
crooked. Now I suppose you under
stand everybody understands that
handwriting is peculiar and distinctive.
But no one but those who have dug in
handwriting all their lives know how
very peculiar and distinctive it is. The
oak and the hickory nave dinerent
leaves, but those leaves are not more
different than Smith's Bs and Jones'
Bs, and supposing a fraudulent oak
wished to produce a leaf which would
be mistaken fcr a hickory leaf it might
possibly throw off an imitation whose
shape would be all rignt, but whose
veins would be all wrong that is what
we judge by ; it is the inner motive.
One man may write your name so that
it will deceive a bank cashier or a pro-
bato cynrt, but he cannot do it so that
it will deceive me.
" And how do you judge?"
" Well, let mo illustrate. Here is a
sheet of paper written by a copying
clerk; you see the same machine-made
letters over and over ncain. To vonr
eye there is nothing individual about
it at all, for the reason that you go
hunting for those little marks and
flourishes with whieh people seek to
individualize their writing that pro-
cess would be much use trying to re
cognize a beauty of the regency by the
position of her patches. An expert goes
brst lor the capital letters, which were
first learned and which contain most of
tho unconscious individuality of the
writer. Notice these Ns, each of them
shaped in the center imperceptibly, and
ending in a slovenly turn, now up, now
down, getting more and more slovenly
us the pages go on and the hand tires.
See here; ho has changed the position
of bn pen from between the index and
thumb to the next two fingers, and the
writing, to your eye, is that of another
person. But follow those Ns; den t
you see they are all the same ?''
" Do you believe that character can
be read from handwriting r
Most assuredly I do every one
does. If you will take a letter from a
friend and examine it closely you will
see the characteristics of his mind re
flected again in the characteristics of
his letter. If he is a wild, care'ess sort
of fellow, there will be a wild helter
skelter gallop of the pen over the paper;
if he is methodical, accurate and pre
cise there it will be again. I saw a very
curious illustration of this some years
ago when I was traveling in Ireland. 1
stopped at Kildare castle and while
there was shown letters written by about
eight generations of the Fitzgeralds,
To an expert tho heredity shown in
these notes was startling. . ui course
they were diverse, but there was an
under similarity among them all as
well marked and recognizable as the
Hapsbnrg nose. From the villainous
scratching done by Silken Thomas,
down to the civilized steel penmanship
of the present earl, the hands were
various but alike."
" How do you account for the differ
ent styles oi penmansnip in vogae
among dinerent nations ?
" That is a point I was coming to,
You can tell a German by his handwrl
ung as reaauy as oy nis tongue, or
Frenchman either. Spain and Portugal
write as a rule one hand,
Yxrtktla Talw
writes altogether another, and Greece
" .
still a third. There are race distinc
tions, just as the FitBgerald hand is a
family distinction. Writing divides it
self into great groups before it is separ
able into small ones and into indi
vidual units. Take the stiff angular
writing of the Gorman where there is
but little originality and you see the
product of a system. Compare it with
the utterly untrammeled hand of
America, and we are forming a national
hand, and you will see the enormous
difference. There is no prettier writing
than the cramped but symmetrical hand
of tho nuns in the irench convents.
Here, again, after cause look for effect,
There is more in the scriveners' art,
young gentleman, than is dreamed of
in your philosophy." .
Among the remarkable operations
performed in Germany recently by emi
nent surgeons, those in which the
stomach or the abdomen had to be
opened have been at once the most dan
gerous and the most successful. After
the achievements of Dr. Billroth, of
Vienna, in the removal of cancers from
the stomach, comes now Dr. Schin
zenger, a professor in the University of
a reiburg, . with two cases in which ob
structions in the entrails had to be re-
movod. In one case, that of a woman, a
section of one of the intestines had to
be cut out and the severed ends sewed
together. In both pases epeody j
coierj fulloffod. . '
FOR THE LADIES.
Unrmaa Wives.
Some statistician has discovered that
in Germany the best ages for marriage
among women are from twenty-five to
thirty-five years; that few take place
before nineteen, the number slowly-increasing
until twenty-five is reached,
when the high numbers appear, reced
ing after thirty-five. Few German girls
marry before nineteen and few after
forty. The Uorniatf girls are taugni
housekeeping thoroughly, and by the
time they marry they are able to take
excellent care of a house, relying but
little on imported cooks. A German
lady's kingdom is her kitohen; her
parlor she enjoys, but to display her
talent as a pianist or conversationalist
she would not sacrifice her ability to
appeal to the hungry sentiments of her
husband and his friends. Probably if
there were more marriages before nine
teen there would be less happy homes
in Germany and less wives of experi
ence, discretion and good temper.
Kewa and Notca for Women.
Amelia Wells, the queen of the gyp
sies, la said to oe worm suu.uuu.
Girls of fourteen are sen, by Mormon
missionaries from Sweden to Utah.
A Michigan woman has gone to Eng
land to bring back 300 servant girls.
The Philadelphia Sdhool of Art Nee
dlework receives "workers," charging
them $10 for a course of lessons, and
paying them by the square inch for
their work.
Mamie Richards, a Wisconsin school
mistress, is to have a medal because
she walked doily to and from her
school, through five miles of dense for
est, in which were prowling wolves.
Miss Abby T. Pierce, seventy-five
years old, raveled the stockings made
from the fleece of " Mary'B Little
Lamb," and arranged bits of it on pieces
of card to sell at the Old South fair in
Boston, earning thereby $150.
The empress of Austria is a woman
of simple habits, but she nevertheless
ppends a great deal of money. It is
said that lief last hunting trip to Eng
land cost $200,000. She smokes a great
many cigarettes, practices gymnastics
regularly, and rises at 5 o'clock in the
morning. . ,
Moorish woman dress very gayly in
their homes, but when they appear in
the public streets they are enveloped
in white muslin or calico lrom head to
foot, and glide along like ghosts, thick,
white veils covering their faces. In
private life they are fond of gorgeous
coloring.
A pretty anecdote about Queen Chris
tina of Spain is related by Mrs. Lucy
Hooper in the Philadelphia Telegraph.
A short time ago a foreign lady of rank,
who was conversing with her mojesty
respecting Spanish manners and cus
toms, asked the queen how she could
endure to sit through a bull-fight.
" Ah 1" said Dona Christina, " you know
I am very near-sighted, and whenever I
go to a bull-fight I always forget tj
tako my eyeglasses with me."
Fashion Notes.
Balaycuses remain in vogue.
Bridal roses are again in vogue.
All midwinter wraps are very long.
Moire is again nsed as half mourning.
Two box plaits form the back of
new
skirts.
Ostrich feathers trim
new evening
dresses.
Leopard plush is worn by young
women and children.
The new colored ties are finished with
chenille fringes and embroideries.
The muffs matching the bonnet, and
fantastically trimmed with anything
that one has in the houso, will be car
ried this winter.
New linen colors have long points in
front, and needlework borders; although
sometimes they are nearly coverel with
embroidery and edged with lace.
Fall triple-plaited fraises ara in
vogue, made after the futlnon of the
ruffles in portraits around the neck of
Sir Walter Raleigh. They are called
" Raleigh Cuffs."
New shoes of silk f elvet for evening
wear are laced up the fronts with slender
cords of gold or silver, and the toes are
covered with embroidery worked in
silver or gold threads.
Velour ottoman silk is a novel dress
fabrio which promises to be very popu
lar for bridal and evemng costumes, it
comes only iu white and very delicately
tinted shades of color.
Half-fitting paletots of plain dark
cioth, more especially of a dark ereen
,,-. L.rtmn.ii.u.ntnmn
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season. Thev have no trimmincr do
side large fancy buttons.
Carriage and traveling shawh of
camel's hair beaver in plain colors, with
gay plaid linings, ate a novelty ; so are
velvet beaver shawls, gray on one siua
and black on tho other, with bright
borders.
Amonehich novelties in plnsh are the
Siberian bullion plushes for clonks and
trimmings. This material often costs
as high as $35 per yard, and shows a
very heavy pile pointed with either sii
ver or gold fleoks.
The lutit extravagance in French hose
is a new stocking of cream white lace
in open work designs to be worn over
another one of spun silk tinted a flesh
color. The lace stockings cost twenty-
five dollars a pair.
Rich moire antique,' 6uch as delighted
the btately dames of olden times, is to
be a favorite material for bridal dresses
this winter. The new moire fabrics,
however, show smaller wave than the
watered material formerly manufac
tured. The only sure and efficient way to
warm cold feet is to d p them in cold
water, and then rub them briskly with
a coarse towel.
When others are uffuriug, drop a word of
kindness and sympathy. It ifcey are suffering
from a Cold give thorn Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup;
a few doses of this valuable remedy will afford
ins.ant relief, and a twenty-",?- sent bottle Fill
Wit iU wont oougtv
IN THE MORMON HOMES.
flow Thcr Bolster Up 1'oIygninT by Threats
' In Their Creed.
When o good Mormon dies who has
" lived upto his religion," and has had
a dozen or two wives and fifty or sixty
children, he does not become a mere
angel like an ordinary Christian he
becomes a god with a world of his own
to reign over. A Mormon wife who op-
Eoses the polygamous marriage of her
nsband goes to perdition and is " de
stroyed." A Mormon who obeys the
mandates of the church in most re
spects, but neglects to " go into po
lygamy," becomes a mere angel, who
must be a kind of celestial servant to
the gods and other angels. His wife
must share the same humiliating fate.
The dootrine of " blood atonement" is
simply this: That if an apostate's throat
is cut, the spilling of his blood upon
the ground will save his soul. If he is
left to dio a natural death, his soul will
go to perdition. A great many apostate
souls nave been saved in Utah. This, "
in substance, is the Mormon religion.
Its vagaries, however, are constantly
branching out in every direction, and
in the course of time an enormous intel
lect will be required to comprehend and
expound tho entire system.
Ono of the oldest citizens of Miners
ville is Judge Rollins, who passed some
time in California in the very earliest
days of its settlement, and was formerly
the posseEaor of a handsome fortune,
which he lost in milling operations,
He is an American by birth and is
strongly attached to the Mormon faith.
If my memory serves me right 1 ha
only two wives, with whom liwdneiis
in peaco and contentment, I mi mi
prised that a man of his iutellueiji e
could believe in all the Mormon j irt iu
about visions, angels, revelations i In
casting out of devils, miraculous nvs,
the laying on of hands, etc. Hfl wu
firm in the faith, however. He took iue
over ono evening to witness a meniiiK
of the choir of the Minersville chuieb.
The structure in which the little convo
cation was held was plain and unpre
tending. The Mormons pay great at
tention toUbe musical department of
their religious services. The "young
people" present were gay and light
hearted, and in no wise different in
appearance from a similar gathering in
1'rotcstant community, 'ihey sang
the songs of Zion" with effect, and
evinced great interest in tho musical
art. Evidently the female portion of
thorn gave little thought to the dark
future which polygamy unfolded bef6re
them. Aiterwavd, at the judge's house,
I met Captain Sam, an Indian chief,
who was on a beggins tour, i ne Mor
mons are liberal in their dealings with
tho Indians, invariably treating them
with great kindness, regarding them as
tho descendants of the Lamanitos, who
conquered tho Nephites. Considerable
success has been met with in converting
the Indiana. The entire Navajo tribe
are said to havo become Mormons. I
saw a delegitiou from thi tribe at
Beaver City. The chief was decked out
with featlier3 and gewgaws in a manner
to nuite come up to the standard ct one
of Cooper's copper-colored heroes. The
humbler members of the party were
also well adorned, and all were well
armed and well mounted. They were a
tino body of red men, and in answer to
an inquirv, etated fiat tney were on
their way to Salt Lake City "to ask
.'resident Taylor a question.
At tho hotel in 'I' risco l met a very
intelligent-gentleman who had passed
half a lifetime in Utah, and had t raveled
through almost every portion of it. In
the course of an interesting converta
tion ho said:
I was intimately acquainted with tho
late Joseph A. Young, Brigham's most
talented son. He was a man of noble
personal appearance, and of the most
brilliant talents. 1 have heard him
preach wiih an eloquence that drew
tears from the eyes of his Mormon list
eners, in the pulpit he was tne em
bodiment of dignity, graoe and intel
lectual power. Then, after the audi
ence had departed, I have known him
to laugh and make sport of the de
luded creatures who had been listening
to him. To me he made no secret of
the fact that he was an infidel of the
most pronounced type. He took me
into the library once and pointed out
elegantly bound volumes of Hume, Vol
taire, Paine, Volney, and other distin
guished writers of that school. He
believed in ho eiistlng religion. I re
proached him for continuing such de
ception, and urged him to go forth into
the world and win tne nouie name nis
abilities entitled him to. " Pbhaw!" he
replied, with a smile, " the human race
loves to be humbugged. Homeooay
will get their .money, and I might as
well have a share of it.as anybody else."
His mental splendors were clouded by
an unconquerable vice. At times he
drank to excess and made great trouble
for the church. On one occasion, when
under the influence of liquor, If irf.iwtel
to a party of Mormons on the'r wiy to
labor in the fields and deii-Ktiy m
marked : "There go some of my fat In r
slaves." His contempt for humamia'UiH
was unbounded. He died a prematura
death ut Manti from the effects of a pro
tracted spree. Ho was the only r-'ully
promising son in Brigham's faw 1.
San FiancUco Chronicle.
Aged 110 Years.
Centenarians in America must look
to their laurels. French papers report
that there is now living at Luzy, in the
department of the Suone et-Loire, an
eld woman who, born April 21, 1700,
is now in her hundred and bixteenth
year, and who is in complete possession
of all her faculties, one was a oaugmer
of one M. Pidault, who at his death, in
1787. was a . tenant of the Marquise
d'Aicuilly. She has lived under the
Government of Louis XV., Louis XVI,
the first repnblio in all its phases, the
nrst empire. Ijouis ivui, unanes a-,
Louis Philippe, tho republio of 1848,
the second empire, and the republio of
to-aay,
There was an awiul state of
affairs in
a little Michigan town where
a type
setter substituted the word " widows "
for "windows."
"The windows
washing badly,
t le village."
The editor ''wrote
of the church noed
Theyjirea disgrace tp
Mnn. .
Like to tho falling of ft star, .,
Or as the flights of eagles are; . .. -,
Or like tho fresh spring's gaudy hne. ..
Or silver drops of morning dew ;
Or like a wind that chafes the flood,
Or bubbles which onr water stood; '
Even snch is man whose borrowed light
la straight called in, and paid to night, -The
wind blows out, the bnbble dies ;
The spring entombed in autumn lies ;
The dew dries up, the star is shot ;
The flight is past and man forgot.
Dr. Henry King.
HUMOR OF THE DAT.
"How does that soot you?" asked
the chimney. " I think that you are a
thing of flues habits," answered tha
poker.
It is not strange that when the sexton
peals the wedding bells the contracting -parties
should be paired off. Toledo
American.
A boot and shoe shop hangs out the
sign: " Cast iron lasts." weauanow
does, but we don t want any uoots
made of it.
When the ruined physician placed his
door-plate in pawn he was heard to re
mark: "Had i signed tne piecige, i
would not now havo to pledge my sign."
A church choir consists of one ac
complished mnsician and a lot of other
folks who aro densely ignorant of music.
The accomplished one is the one you
are talking with.
An old man who had been badly hurt
in a railroad collision, being advised to
io the company for damages, said:
Wal. no : not for damages. I've hod
enough of them ; but I'll just suo 'em ,
for repairs."
A MATTEB OP riiONUNCIATION;
Said Master Jonos, " Now munt wo go
Wituout delay to tne uee-pot."
Laughed sweet Miss Jone, " I nhould Bay so
Let s start at ouee to tne uay-pot.
Smiled Mrs. Jones, " In quit-It step, oh,
We'll all run down to tno uep-poi."
Groaned Mr. Jones, " It's mighty hot
To drive you all to the dee-pot."
These conflicts of pronunciation
Would not bo if they'd call it "station."
Aorrwou n ueraia.
Scandinavian Hospitality.
The most striking quality of Scandi
navian character seems to be hospitali
ty. Throughout Norway, Sweden and
the far North the author was heartily
received by every ono, lrom the king in
bis palace to the .Laplander in his tent.
During five years of almost incessant
travel, in the course of wnicu every
part of the peninsula was visited, Mr.
Du Chaillu was coollyitreated only once.
The Swodes and Norwegians have the
reputation of being reserved and cold,
but this ii true of them only when they
meet strangers of the class best sug
gested by the word " tourist." To any
one whose interest in them cannot bo
measured by a stare or two and a few
impertinent questions they uro unsus
picious and communicative, as well aa
cordial to the vcrgo of affection. Mr.
Du Chaillu went among them freely,
conversed with them in their language ,
wore garments like their own, and took
part in their labors, sports and ceremo
nies. The treatment he received in re
turn causes him to speak most enthu
siastically in praise of thoir sociability
and kindness.
As in all other countries that retain
primitive habits, hospitality in Scandi
navia always implies eating and drink
ing. The poorest fainier or fisherman
always has something to offer the visi
tor, and lack of appetite is generally
construed as a slight. The author men
tions one occasion on which, to avoid
hurting any ono's feelings, he ato thirty
times in two days, and drank thirty-four
cups of coffeo. Often strong cheese is of
fered just before a meal to provoke ap
petite, and in the cities a formal dinner
is preceded by a smorgua or lunch, at a
table crowded with alleged appetizers.
On a single smorgas table tho author
noted smoked reindeer meat, raw sal
mon with poached eggs, law salmon
freshly salted, hard-boiled eggs, caviare,
fried sausage, anchovy, smoked goose
breast, cucumbers, raw salt herring,
several kinds of cheese and as many of
bread, and a salad made of pickled her
ring, boiled meat, potatoes, eggs, beets
and onions. There were also three
kinds of spirits on the table, and from
these and the vanous dishes the guests
helped themselves bountifully, and
then did justice to an excellent dinner.
Jiaryer's Magazine.
Sausage Madi from Horseflesh.
That popular delicacy, Cervelat-wurst,
or brain sausage, has lately been the
occasion of a prosecution at Dusseldorf.
It was proved that a certain specimen of
this article contained horseflesh, and
the proseoutim askod for the pun
ishment of tho fabricator under the
provisions of tho new law against
the adulteration of food, May,
1879. lhe defendant made no conoeal- ,
tuent of the matter. His sausages, ho
boldly confessed, were composed of
two-thirds horseflesh and one-third of
bacon, with the addition of the neces- .
tary herbs and spices. He said that he
freely told this to every one who wished
to know wlnt they contained. After,
editing an opinion on 'behalf of horseflesh,
he declared th-it good Cervelat-wnrst
could not be prepared from any other
animal. The f amous Got ha and Bruna- -
wick Cervelat sausages, he said, were
invariably made with horseflesh. The
Italian "Salami," as many have pro
bably learned iu Italy, is prepared with
dorkey-ttesh. Tho sausages of . this
Dusseldorf fabricator are sent to many
of the best known houses in Germany.
The use of horseflesh has increased so
very largely in recent years that one is by
no means certain that at a fable d'hote
whether he may not be partaking of it
nnder some deceptive nomenclature. -It
was asserted at the trial, and was '
not contradicted, that the dainty little
Vienna sausages at the Dasseldorf ex
hibition were made of horseflesh. The
court declared that the charge of adul
teration was not proved, and. tho de-.
fendaut may cow manufacture horee-'
sausages without fear of punishment
ahd with a quiet t'ouBciencs.
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