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HENRY A. PARSONS, Jr., Editor and Publisher. NIL DESPERANDUM. Two Dollars per Annum.
VOL. XI. RIDGWAY, ELK COUNTY, FATtHURSD AY, DECEMBER 8, 188L NO. 42.
Afternoon.
Sing, my heart, a cheerful song,'
Though the shadows, growing long,
Show tho sua descending;
Lifo hath boon a Joyous day
Faith and lore nhftlt smooth tho way
To a happy ending:
Sing, my heart, a song of peaco
Whilo tho shadows still increase.
, 'IIail, oh heart tho calmordays
Groot tho cooler, milder rays
Of tho sun descending;
If old ago should come apace,
Wolconio it with gentle grace,
Tatieut wait the ending:
Sing, my heart, a song of peaco,
' Whilo tho shadows still Increase.
C, C. DavtO ',
AUNT JEMIMA'S ADVICE.
" No, my dear," said Aunt Jemima,
nn old lady whose logic was far superior
to her syntax, " don't you never ask no
advice of nobody, but just find out
your own opinion and what it's founded
on. If it ain't got no foundation, 'taint
worth saving; if it has, be sure it's a
good one, and then just stick to it.
Don't let nobody do your thinking for
you. We've got to give in our own ac
counts when tin) last reckoning comes,
and straight or crooked, right or wrong,
we havo to meet the judgment. No
body can shift or shirk that, and the
sooner we learn to be responsible to
kind cf depend on ourselves, and sort
of bear our own weight tho better for
us hero aikl hereafter."
"Oh, Aunt Jemima, how solemn
your tone is, and how you shake your
bead at me, when all I asked was your
advice about the picnic to-morrow!
Frank Abbott asked mo to go with him,
and just by the same post comes a note'
from Kate Hunter I do like Kate; she's
so pleasant and she begs me to go
with her and her brother Harry."
"Jest so jest so!" exclaimed th
old lady. " That's jest what I'm talk
ing about. You've got what I call a
double invite, and you come to mo to
decide which of 'em you ought to take
np with. Now, see here, Gussie Staf
fc V J. You're a mighty nice girl, and I
lve you most as well as if you was my
tat'ral born child; but I ain't going to
tpile you for all that. You've got
senses of jour own; you'vo got your
eyes, ears and judgment. Go to work
and use nil three. First try your eyes,
and they'll show you that Frank Abbott
is one of the haud-tomest young men
going, and if you listen to him you'll
tind him as slick a talker as there is np
here in M'ateiford. Now, it's your judg
nicnlV turn, ar,d what does it say?
lake curt, C'ussie; don't be deceived,
lhautv's only skiu deep, end Satan
LiuiHcltV a smooth chap as far an words
go. Look deeper; compare Frank's
idleuem with Harry Hunter's industry,
r.ud you'll find that he has spent his
fail.ei's money, while Harry has already
nuiile a nice home for his mother and
sister. Besides, Frank's nothing but a
flirt, und if limy Hunter shows a
young lady auy attention he's sure to
mean it."
" Thank you, Aunt Jemima," cried
Gussie, laughing heartily; " thank you
I will be sure to pay attention to what
you have said. I knew you could set
me right, and I rely on yonr judgment."
"There !" exclaimed the old lady,
getting quito excited and shaking her
forelinger adnionihingly at her merry
favorite. "Ain't I jett done telling you
not to rely on nothing nor nobody, but
to exercise your common sense and
make up your own mind ? Why. bless
ui, if it isn't twenty years and more
since I advised any one, and never
from that tiino till now has any one in
duced me t speak a word of counsel."
"Why,' what happened then, auntie?"
inquired Gussie, with becoming serious
ness. "I'll tell you, dearie, if you just sit
down here on this stool at my side.
Never mind narry Hunter. Ho is sure
to go by at tea-time; but that won't be
for a half-hour yet. I'll tell you when
to look"
"Oh, nuntic, I hope you don't think
I was "
"Certainly not," chuckled Aunt Je
mima, eujojing theblushes that mantled
GuRfie's rounded checks, as so many
evidences of her regai d for Mr. Hunter.
"I only thought you might want to
send his sister a message about the pic
nic. But I was going to tell you about
my experience in advico giving. You
eeo I was younger than I be now. I
didn't wear caps nor specs, and my hair
wasn't much gray, neither ; and yet the
girls all called mo auntie, and sort of
come to me with their troubles, even
then. There was one in particular that
seemed to set great store by what I
said, and u as al way s wantin g my opinion,
if sho bo much as bought a pocket
handkercher. " ' Aunt Jemima's got so much ex
perience,' she used to say. 'She's a
lirst-rato judge of things.'
"Well, one day 6he was shopping,
and I with her as usual. She was
going to buy a silk dress, and let me tell
you, my dear, that it was not a trifling
matter to buy a silk dress in those days.
" Folks were different then they did
not throw their money away, but sort
of thought it over a spell before they
spent it, and tried to be sure that they
got the worth of what they gave. There
was a great pile of silks on the counter
that had been opened, displayed and
pushed aside ; the clerk was fetching a
lot more, and yet Fanny (that was her
name) didn't seem any nearer being
pleased than when she ilrat started in.
"You've got a notion in your own
mind, and nothing here strikes your
f anoy, isn't that so V
" Why, yes,' she admitted, and tried
to describe a dress she had seen at a
young friend's the week before.
It was a costly brocade, and far be
yond the oontents of Fanny's purse to
purchase it; but, us a perverse whim
would have it, that was the only kind
she liked or cared for.
What color was it V I asked.
"She began to tell, but I couldn't
quite make it out fron her description
Just then the young man, who was well
nigh exhausted rolling and unrolling
and we could scarcely see him behind
tho piles he had raised around him
opened a piece that I thought mighty
fine. It wasn't just exactly a brocade,
but yet it had a small figure in it ; its
color was changeable green and blue ;
and it was what I called a good, service
able article.
" There, Fanny,' says I, what do
yon think of that?'
" ' La ! I don't know,' says she, a-rais-ing
her eyebrows kind o critical-like ;
' it isn't just my idea.'
"The poor young man was shifting
from one foot to the other ; he looked
as uncomplaining as Patience herself,
and I guess he'd been glad of a monu
ment or anything else to sit on for a
spell.
"As you read in stories, its a great
privilege to wait on a really pretty
voung miss, but just consider how you'd
like it if you were a clerk, and your tea
time was passing unnoticed, while your
customer, however nice-looking she
might be, kept shrugging her shoulders
at everything, and making you nearly
smother yourself in piles of goods.
"As for me, I couldn't stand it no
longer. I pitied the young man, and I
says to Fanny, quite decided, says 1 :
" 'fanny, take that dress, even it it
ain t just your exact idea. .None 01 ns
get just what we want in this world, and
if we find what is serviceable and looks
well we ought to be thankful. I advise
you to take it,' says I.
" She looked sort of undecided for a
minute, and then, breaking out into
good-natured smiles, she said :
" ' Well, Aunt Jemima, I am glad to
take your advico. I never could be sat
isfied with my own tastes. In fact,
when I see so many things I can't tell
which I want, and I dare say I have
tired you.'
"Mere sue gave the young man such a
melting smile that he forgot all about
his supper, and frisked round, doing up
the silk into a parcel, with his admiring
eyes fixed on Fanny as long as she was
in sight.
" Now vousee, Gussie, my dear, that
I actually committed the weakness of
advising that young lady, and from that
hour my trouble began.
" There was a family living hero at
that time much esteemed for the enter
tainments they gave. Dare was their
name a mother, repnted a rich widow,
with two daughters and their invites
were sent out for a great party, so that
Fanny had to hurry up the making of
her new silk, which she expected to
shine in on the occasion;
"1 took a great interest in Fanny; so,
when I went over to see her dressed,
and found she needed some trifle from
the dry goods store, I ran off to get?it.
" I noticed great bills stuck in the
windows about damaged silks just re
ceived and for sale below cost, but I
didn't think much of it till, by-aud-bye,
when the party was over, and poor
Fanny who had promised to stop in
and tell mo how she had enjoyed her
self arrived in a flow of tears.
"'Oh, Aant Jemima,' she cried, 'I
can never tell you how wretched I've
been to-night! I shall always hate
that Mary Dare. She has such a mean,
jealous disposition, and never loses an
opportunity to hnrt people's feelings
and make them appear silly. It seems
there are cheap, damaged silks in town,
and she pretended to mistake mine for
one of them. "Why, how nice you
look !" says she, coming up to me when
I went into the parlor. "I declare
those damaged silks make np almost
equal to the genuine article I" I didn't
understand her. " This is real silk,
Miss Dare," says I, feeling dreadfully
uncomfortable. "Oh, yes, I know I"
she returned, winking and laughing;
"butreallynow.it doesn't look at all
bad. Any one, in a poor light, would
take those water-stains for changeable
shades." Then I saw her whisper to
the other girl, and set the story going.
Wasn't that ill-natured in her, Aunt
Jemima!' exclaimed Fanny, in a burst
of indignant weeping.
" I agreed with her about the young
lady's temper. To tell tho truth, I
never did set mueh store by the family,
and when they were found ont, some
months later (they went off in the
night leaving piles of unpaid bills and
rent cf their house and furniture still
due), I wasn't among the astonished
part of the community. I hadn't ex
pected much better of 'em. Folks that'll
invite you to their house to make you
miserable ain't generally of much ac
count, " Fut, you see, this little occurrence
kind of set Fanny against that dress.
Of course, any one with half on eyo
could see it wasn't one of the sp'iled silks;
but Fanny was very pretty and had lots
of admirers two things that are apt
to make enemies of other young women,
and she had her share.
" Among them, Mary Dare's story got
whispered round, and though there
wasn't one of the lot who was not ready
to say the worst she could of Mary's
veracity, they all somehow agreed to
accept this story of tho silk dreas.
"Does that strike you as strange,
Gussie ? Just think a bit, and you will
remember a dozen Buch cases in your
own knowledge.
"But to go on with Fanny's green
silk, that I had advised her to buy. She
soon heard the story, and vowed she
would never wear 'the unfortunate old
thing' again.
" Of course, that was only silly talk.
She put it on, that very afternoon, to
go out riding with Judge Stanley's
family. Miss Jessie Stanley, the judge's
daughter, had been abroad and traveled
everywhere with her aunt, Miss Parker,
who was Mrs. Stanley's sister, and a
most elegant lady, so every one in
Waterford said.
"Fanny was the very first they Lad
asked to share their drives, and I was
glad of it, seeing. how uncomfortable
she felt over the Dares' story. I sort
of took a peek or two out of my win
dow, which ain't just as handy as I could
wish for noticing that way, but I man
aged to get a glimpse of Fanny, In a
white chip hat, with daisies, andablaok
jacket, and though the judge's family
looked grand enough, I thought she
hadn't no need to hang ber head.
"Bat there's no relying on the
humors of yonng folks. I had run over
to sit a bit with her mother, when she
came all in a flurry. She did not see
me at first, and so broke out, in a half
crying tone :
" I wish I had never seen this horrid
green silk that Aunt Jemima advised
me to buy. Just think! Miss Jessie
had a delicate blue Frenoh mnslin on,
and Miss Parker's was a lovely buff,
and my changeable green just killed
them both. Miss Jessie said so her
self, and I know she will never invite
me again.'
" ' Fanny !' cried her mother ; but
Fanny saw me, and altered her tone.
" 'I don't mean to be cross, Aunt
Jemima,' says she, 'but this dreas
seems bound to make me unhappy.
Miss Stanley and Miss Parker looked so
cool and elegant in their exquisite
French muslins and Valenciennes laces,
while I must have seemed like a com
mon country girl baside them in this
old-fashioned green silk.'
" ' And yet that same silk cost a right
smart price,' says I, 'and it is real
pretty, too, to my thinking.'
" I just hate it I' says Fanny, burst
ing into tears again. 'I know the
Stanleys have heard Mary Dare's story
about it a being damaged thirty-cents-a-yard
things. Sue Foxly, the dress
maker, told them. She was there sew
ing, and she's a shameless gosBip.'
" ' So much the better,' says Fanny's
mother. 'Nobody credits a story
teller.' -
"'Oh, yes, they do I' cries Fanny.
' She get's half her custom for the
amount of gossip she carries.' "
" Why, Aunt Jemima !" exclaimed
Gussie, "that seems just like Patsy
nare. we ail Know sue carries tales,
but it is so amusing to listen to her,
that we all get her to sew for us. Of
course we don't believe half she says. "
Aunt Jemima shook her head, with a
twinkle in her eye.
" I shouldn't wonder if Patsy Hare
was some kin to Sue Foxly," says she ;
"but which half of Patsy's tales do yon
:'v( credit to, Gussie ?"
Gussie laughed and couldn't tell,
then Aunt Jemima went on :
"After that awhile, young' Philip
Stanley comes back from Europe. He
Ivad been studying how to be a doctor
in foreign parte; and I havo heard that
he gave his mind to hi? work whilo
there, and was ever after i credit to his
folks. You'd have thoi ht so, any
how, from the fuss they made about
him. They wasn't content with a small
celebration, but had to give a big grovo
party, so that all the town-folks could
come and make him welcome. Of
course, Fanny was asked, and of course
she wore her best dress girls didn't
have one for every day in tho week
then and mighty pretty she looked,
though she didn't know it herself.
"Everything was of the finest and
best, and the young doctor was bo
agreeable to all the girls that they just
forsook the other young men and clus
tered 'round him.
"The heft of 'em was dressed in thin
white stuff, and some one compared 'cm
to fairies. This set Fanny thinking
over her green silk, and made her dis
contented, as usual.
'By-and-bye up comes a storm; the
rain catches the poor fairies, and sends
'em flying from the dancing-ground into
the shelter of the pavilion, where Fanny
had gone some time before to sit by
Mrs. Stanley. They were all either
damp or draggled, and as the day grew
cooler after the rain they shivered like
a lot of wet sparrows, and had to put on
shawls and things to keep them from
getting cold.
"Then came Fannv's turn. She
looked as fresh as a blush-rose in a cir
cle of green leaves, and Philip Stanley
told a person I was intimate with that
he never knew green silk was such a
becoming material for a lady's dress
before, and that if he ever manied his
wife should always have one."
un,Aunt Jemtma!" cried Gussie
Stafford, clapping her hands and break
ing into a pleased laugh; "you're
telling me about mamma and papa, un
der different names."
' Not so very different." returned the
old woman. "Elizabeth Frances was
your ma's name called for her two
grandmas, according to the proper way
of doing things; and, though your pa
called her Bess,' I often call her
ranny."
"And it was through her desoised
green dress that papa fell in love with
her !" mused Gussie, tracing a flower of
mai color in ner own pretty gown.
"Oh, it wasn't just that foryour ma
was a mighty pretty girl; butl'spect the
contrast between them damp girls, in
draggled finery, did set her off like.
Any way, I told her so when she com
plained to me about the green silk (it
was a habit she'd got into), and at the
same timo told me that Philin had
spoke to your grandpa for her.
" ; weu, says J, 'you're what I call
a girl in luck, Fanny; and if you ain't
thankful for it and do your best to
deserve it, never call me Annt Jemima
again ! And now about that green silk;
1 1 i -r m -. . . ... '
rcmeiuuer wuai i say, ior it s the living
truth. Don't never ask my advice any
more, for I don't never again intend to
give it to no one.' savs I. And I lmv
kept my word.
" Gussie, come quick I Hush I don't
make a noise I Kemember the window's
open, and he may hear you. It's Harry
Hunter there he goes! As fine a
fellow as there is in the State; and if
you trifle with his feelings you're not
your Aunt Jemima's pet-that's all.
" 1 give no advioe not a word of it;
but I ha7e my opinions, thank good
ness 1"
A Slight Mistake.
" That's a fine linn ha rnn'u .nt
there," said Yeast to a friend who had
recently laid out considerable money
iu a now resilience.
" Yes," replied the friend, "I think
made a urettv craaA harem" n "
"Any incumbrance on it," quoried
Yeast, cautiously.
"Well, yes; my wife's mother is
stonninc with Tin inn, nnn Vint ).
U ' juwv ft.. liL.
health is not the best, and the chances
are
But Yeast suddenly remembered that
his Wife had told him i.n linm tl
and he started off at a pace that would
nave uuue creuit to a professional pe
destriaa. Statesman.
FOR THE LADIES,
filrl roitbora.
At every station in Finland, lays the
author of "Land of the Midnight Sun,"
I had a young girl for a driver; and
these children of the North seemed not
in the least afraid of me. My first
driver's name wan Ida Catherine. She
gave me a silver ring.and was delighted
wnen sue saw it on my linger. I prom
ised to bring her a gold one the follow
ing winter, and I kept my word. She
was glad indeed, when at the end of the
drive, after paying, I gave her a silver
piece. Another driver, twelve years of
age, was named Ida Carolina. The tire
of one of our wheels became loose, but
she was equal to the emergency; she
alighted, blocked tho wheel with a
stone, went to a farmhouse and bor
rowed a few nails and a hammer, and
with the aid of a farmer made every
thing right in a few minutes; she did
not seem in the least put out by the ac
cident; she chatted with me all the
time, though I did not understand
what she said, for 1 did not then know
the Finnish language. She was a little
beauty, with large blue eyes, thick, fair
hair and rosy cheeks.
Mnrrlnge Customs of A.plrtillnn Nntlves
When a girl is betrothed her mother
and aunts may not look at or speak to
the man for the rest of his life, but if
they meet him they squat down by the
wayside and cover up their heads, and
when he and they are obliged to speak
in one another's presence they use a
peculiar lingo, which they call "turn-
tongue. This queer dialect is not
used for concealment, for everybody
understands it, and Eome examples
of it show that it has much in common
with the ordinary language. To give
an idea of the state of formality into
which life has come among these sup
posed free-and-easy savages, mention
may be made of the duties of the bride
maid and groomsman. When the mar
ried pair have been taken to the now
hut built for them, for the next two
moons the groomsman and the husband
sleepon one side of tho firo, the bride
maid and tho wife on the other, tho new
married couple not being allowed to
speak to or to look at one another. The
bride is called a "not-look-aronnd," and
the pair in this embarrassing position
are a standing joko to tho young people
living near, who amuse themselves by
peeping in end laughing at them.
JS a I lire.
Fashion Kolcs.
Bed and white make an admired com
bination for evening wear.
Esthetic yoting ladies cling to the
small sunflower floral garnitures.
Whether bodices are plain, gathered
or plaited in qncotion of figure.
The most fashionable flower garni
tures for ball drosses are of water lilies.
Velvet, plush, moire aud satin all
frequently appear in the same costume.
Ladies' riding hats are a little lower
in the crown than they were last season.
Some large hats have the crowns
completely surrounded with silk pom
pons.
Young and slender women l refer
low round waists with belts for evn?ug
wear.
Ulsterettes reaching nearly to the
knee take the place of long ulsters thin
season.
Heavy double box-plaited ruchings
adorn the bottom of the skirt of many
handsome costumes.
Bhine crystal ornaments are now
made so flee as to simulate diamonds
wonderfully well.
Bed paper fishes with blue eyes are
the latest novelty in Japanese hanging
ornaments for rooms. -
Lonar collars uro worn by children.
girls in their teens, young ladic, ma
trons and elderly women.
Ombre de Burmah is a new cloth for
ladies' suits. It comes with u wide
fancy border for trimming.
Some novel imported hats are made
entirely of a thick network of erystuls
and boads, which inlhe evening glitter
use a mousanu coioreu gems.
Medium sized fans are carried instead
of the immensely largo ones bo lately
popular. Beautiful evening fans are
made of rose-tinted ostrich feathers,
with mother-of-pearl handles Portia
fans are also shown, made of delicate
mauve-tintel feathers, with sticks of
chased silver.
A single wide ruche at tho edge of
the skirt is a favorito' trimming for
simple dresses. It is five or six inches
wido and is laid in treble or quadruple
box-plaits placed an inch apart. It is
then stitched in the middle and the
edges are allowed to fall forward and
almost meet.
In the line of winter chapeau there
are a few pronounced changes, which
might be classed as exaggerated style.
The "huge" poke takes the lead in
society Headgear, This style is very
becoming to some faces, and particu
larly when the wearer tips the bonnet
over tho forehead.
Girls as Wood Engravers.
A contemporary asked a wood en
graver why he did not employ girls.
His reply was: "I have employed women
very often, and I wish I could feel more
encouraged. But the truth is that
when a young man comes to me and
begins his work be feels that it is his
life's business. He is to cut his fortune
ont of the tittle blocks before him.
Wife, family, home, happiness and all
are to De carved ont by his own hand,
and ho settles steadily to his labor, de
termined to master it, and with every
incitement spurring him on. He can
not marry until he knows his trade. It
is exactly the other way with the girl.
She may be as poor a the boy, and as
wholly dependent upon herself for a
living, but she feels that sho will prob
ably marry by-and-bye, and then she
must give up wood engraving. So she
goes on listlessly; she has no ambition
to excol; she does not feel that all her
happiness depends on it. She will
marry, and then her husband's wages
will support her. She may not say. so,
but she thinks so, and spoils her work.
Leffcl Mechanical Newt.
Our Legacies.
If somo hand is quite still
That we have loved and kept in ours uatil
It grow so cold;
If all it held hath fallen from its hold
And It can do
No more, perhaps there are a few
Small threads which it held fast,
Until the last,
That we can gather np and weave along,
With patience strong
In love. If we can take
But some wee, eingle thread, for lovo's eweo
Bake,
And keep it beaten on the wheel
A trifle longer; feel
The same thread in our hands to add unto, and
Hold nntil our own grow cold,
Wo may take heart, abovo the wheel, and
With weak hands, which begin
spin
Where those loft off, and going on
Grow strong.
If wo bend close to see
Just what tho throads may ho
Which fillod tho quiet hands,
Perhaps some strands
So golden, or so strong, may lie there still,
That we our empty hands may fill;
And even yet
May emilo though still our eyes be wet.
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
An exchange asks " Do beets pay?"
Dead-beats never pay.
It takes just three people to keep a
secret properly, but two of the three
must be dead.
In view of the buckwheat season the
New Haven Register calls in a loud voice
for scratching posts.
When six young ladies sit down to
talk about a new dress pattern a small
boy with a tin horn is a refuge for the
weary.
"Are you feeling very ill ?" asked the
physician ; "let me tee your tongue,
please." "It's no use, doctor," replied
the poor patient; "no tongue can tell
how bad I feel."
No woman would be happy to be the
only woman in the world and havo all
the men worship her. She wouldn't be
satisfied. She'd want another woman
or two to envy her Boston Post.
It is useless for physicians to arguo
against short-sleeved dresses. The Con
stitution of the United States says :
" Tho right to bear arms shall not bo
infringed." Buffalo Express.
It is feared that the enormous
manufacture of wooden toothpicks is
utterly destroying tho forests of
America, but then the young man who
spends all his salary for good clothes
must have something to eat. Hawk
eye. TJntil. churches are furnished with
mirrors women will continue to keep
their bonnets on during tho service.
Without a looking-glass a bonnet once
taken off could never be put on again.
That is to say, we never saw or heard
of such a thing. Boston Transcript.
"Will you hold my baby while I look
ont for my baggage ?" asked a woman
of a railway employe in a Ouicago de
pot, the other day. "No," said the
roan, "but 1 will hold your bagfoge
while you look ont for your baby." He
held a baby fjv a woman once and she
never came back for it, and that wa
what made him so careful.
Sights oa ft Bond in Palestine.
The old maratime plain of tho Philis
tines (which is another name for Pales
line) lay along this coast, from Gaza
northward, and it was considered a land
worth struggles. This Joshua found.
Dut in vain do we look for the "roses
of Sharon and the lilies that grow" in
this land so renowned once for its
roseate beauty. Still, we are told that
in the vernal season it is carpeted like
a Texas prairie, with flowers of various
hue and loveliness. Along tho dusty
afternoon road wc pass innumerable
caravans of camels, led by Arabs on
donkeys. The Arabs generally sits on
tho remote pjint of the es cocygis of
the auimal, and without stirrups. He
swings his bare brown feet and legs, while
the little beast, like Juhis, alongsido
of his father, trots inequo pede. Plenty
of women, with fnee3 here apparent,
and in long, blue, cheap cotton man
tles, and sometimes with head crowned
with burdens of fruit, pitchers, straw or
wood, are mot in the way. Some ruins,
mostly of churches, here and there ap
pear, while square, windowless, Turkish
guard-houses are seen at intervals, at
whose doors are the white-dressed, fez
capped Turkish soldiers with guns and
cigarettes. These are the police who
are supposed to guard the road; but to
our observation no guard is needed,
except in the dark mountain passes,
and there Turkish engineering has been
careful to have as few guard-houses a
possible.
There is not much to see on tho road
until you come to Bamleh. Beggars
und backshish, and some old relics as
crusading reminders are here, and one
very conspicuous object. The latter is
a square tower and winding staircase.
It is off the road and has a fine view
of the surrounding country. It is over
1,000 years old, and has many Moslem
associations. Bamleh has been the
scene of much contest. Indeed, every
little spot here in Judea is full of
memories, from the time Israel came
down from the Moab mountains into
the Jordan valley. The road is not to
be mentioned for its ! convenience and
perfection, only for its historic relig
ious and testhetio interest It was
built in 1869, by forced labor, and in
deed its rough and stony incomplete
ness looks like anything but the result
of cheerful work. It is supported by
tolls, so much per head, on every animal
on the road. One should not complain
of the road when it is remembered that
before 1869 there was not a bridle path
to Jerusalem. It is said that the sultan
promised the Empress Eugenie to build
a road to Jerusalem if she would come
that way, and this royal courtesy is the
origin of the road. Congressman Cox.
The Bt. Louis Republican says if a11
the big farms in Missouri were divided
up and sold, leaving one-half, and in
some cases only one-fourth to the owner.
it would be an advantage both to tho
proprietors ana to the state,
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Victoria 0. WoonnoLL arrived In New fork
the other day from Europe, where she has been
for eome years.
Fma at East Cambridge, Mass., totally
destroyed the works of the American Rubber
company, consisting of five buildings, together
with valuable machinery and stock, causing a
loss of t5OO,OG0.
Br the caving in of a stone quarry at
Rondout, N. Y., two men were killoi and two
others soriously hurt.
A kitmbeb of girls employed in the rag room
of a paper mill at Holyoke, Mass., have been
taken down with smallpox.
Dcnuia a fire at Bcranton, Ta., an old lady,
named Mrs. MoOarthy, and a Mrs. Reid wert
burned to death. .
Mb. Hunter, the Philadelphia tax recolTcn
has made a report declaring that thousands oi
dollars have boen stolen annually by a ring oi
clerks in the offices of the tax receiver and
comptroller.
A man died the other day in a New York
hospital of leprosy.
P. M. Swalh, a Boston drug broker, has boei
crippled by tho Paciflo bank troublos and hai
suspended, owing about 1200,000. Four othei
failures took place in Boston.
Jom Hajxiabd, president of the broker
Mechanics and Laborers' Savings bank
Jersey City, N. J., found guilty of concealing
tiio insolvency of the bank, was sentonced tf
eightocn months' imprisonment
Mn. AXDBZW Caexmu has made the princely
donation of $250,000 for free library to be
built at Pittsburg, Pa.
Ht a collision between two traius near
Thompson, Conn., tho conductor and engineer
of ono train were killed and abont ten pnijoiif
were injured.
South and West.
Focb men in a wagon passed through Aber
deen, M:ei., Bta'ing that they wero from a point
near the Alabama lino and f oing t Arkansas.
They encamped throo ".iles west of Aberdeen,
and next evening some persons pawing by
found them lyin ; dead on inattfeattM, covoroil
with quilts, each with his head split open as
though with an ax.
A boileb in Jamoa Henry's shingle mill,
Grand Rapids, Mich., exploded, killing tho en
gineer and another man. The mill was do.
atroyed, and a residence adjoining badly shut
tered. The Osago City (EauBas) savings buik baa
suspended. The Danford bank at Hmincwell,
Kansas, has also suspended.
Cruio JonnAX and Parker Jordan (colored)
were lvnched in LeQoro county, Miss., for tl.o
assassination of Robert Caliua, a white man,
and James Holland mot asimilarfato at Darda
nolte, Ark., for a murder committed to yean
ago.
TwEsrrr-xwo Ktati'9 were i-c-preniit-d at tin
National Butter, Cheefo and Egg cnnveutiim,
held i'j Cedar Rapid, Iowa.
Moke than lilty liiuMin;,--, compri ing tho
busineas portion of Aiigit-t:, Ark., were de
stroyed by firi', i-ntailing an estimated total
loss of f 200,000.
Tkk earlier, president aud directorx of Dm
I n ken f'itr.nniH' I an!t nf lYI'di cniin'y, fia..
b vi- l .i-i indie:?;!.
At tho N'a-liorat Dairymen's convention, in
'.Vin llapi Is, Iowa, iho manufacture of oleo
nnrgarinn and other adulterations in dairy
pro Iiic'h was drnomicod.
Dej.eo.vte8 from all parts of the United
Si.ites and Canada wero present at the IrieL
national convention held in Chicago. Tho
cou vi nt ion adopted resolutions favoring full
supp'irt by all the Iriaii societies of this cong
I i v of the land loagno in Ireland.
Two colored mou in jail at Oxford, N. C, or.
charge of murder wero taken away by a boJj
of masked men and banged ; and on the same
day at Yazoo City, Miss., two colored men who
confessed to having murdered three men were
lynched.
l'ltF.siliEXT D. O. Eels, of tho Cleveland
(Ohio) Commercial National bank, was eitthig
in his oflicc, cutting coupons from some bonds,
and at the name timo talking to a friend, when
an unknown man who had entered the office
quietly walked off with a box containing $117,
UO'J in negotiable bonds. Tho box wafe not
missed for nearly half an hour.
H.viiRV Weston, foreman of tho Gold Tark
Mining company, Leadvillc, Col., was Bhot and
Killed by Bagley, a discharged blacksmith.
Bagley fortified himsolf in his cabin, which
was surrounded by a crowd and besieged for
eight hours. Finally a largo quantity of giant
powder waB placed near the door aud ignited.
Tho explosion following tore tho cabin to
pieces and Bagley was found with a bullot-holo
through his heart, having evidently committed
suicide.
John T.vyloii, head of tho Mormon church at
Halt Lako City, Utah, has just taken to him
self another wife, a wealthy widow.
I'liiE aud an explosion at Minneapolis, Minn.,
caused tho dcaih of tlireo firemen and a citizen
and the destruction of a cotton mill and four
flouring niilU. The pecuniary loss is about
$570,000.
From Washington.
Skcbetart Fomer has issued call for $20,
000,000 of the extended six per cent, bonds of
M61.
Tub government receipts during November
fall a little short of $30,000,000. The expend!-'
turos aggregate more than $18,000,000.
Tue appendix to the report of the secretary
of the navy this year contains the report of the
naval advisory board, convened last June to re
port to the secretary some plan for the general
improvement of the navy. The board recom
mend the building of thirty-eight unarmored
cruisers, five steel rams and five torpedo boats,
the whole to oost in round numbers $29,000,
000. DuniNO November there was a reduction in
the pnblio debt of $7,219,126. The debt leea
cash in the treasury is $1,778,285,310.65; cash
in the treasury, $215,012,866.00.
A uarulB tablet has been placed in the Bal
timore and Potomao depot in Washington to
mark the spot where President Gar Hold fell.
Dumno the last year the life saving service
rescued from wrecks 108 persons.
Di'Ei.so November tho following coinage wa8
executed at the United States mints: Total gold,
1,221,830 pleoes, worth $9,098,360; total silver,
2,300,000 pieces, worth $2,300,000; total ruinar
coins, 5,310,000 pieces, worth $53,100; total
coinage, 8,861,886 pieces, worth $12,851,760.
The total foreign commerce of the United
States during the last fiscal year was $1,675,
021,318. Exports were $902,877,818 J Import,
1612.651.628.
W. H. Tbesoot and Mr. Walker Blaine, with
two secretaries from the state department, havo
departed for South America as special commis
sioners, with instructions to urge a settlement
of the conflict of Chili with Peru.
Foreign News.
Pdbino the recent Btorm in Great Britain
fifty barges were sunk in the Thames and
many vosscls went ashore. In London forty
porsons were injured by falling walls.
The Bank qf Prinoe Edward Island, t small
institution, has suspended payment. The
cashier, Mr. Brecken, who has fled, is enid to
have permitted worthless ovordrawals to the
amount of $300,000.
Seven persons were drowned In "the Tbaufos
by the sinking oi the steam-yacht Lucerne after
i collision with the ship Dundee.
Elevkh persons have boon sentenced to im
prisonment in England for bribery in parlia
mentary elections.
AirniCB Lefboy, whose murder of an old
merchant In an English railway carriage last
July created great exoitemcnt throughout Eng
land, was hanged at Lowes, Sussex.
Six out of a crew of seven seamen wert
drowned by the capsizing of a vcesel in Tiinitj
bay, Newfoundland.
The body of the Earl of Crawford aud Bal.
carres, who died in Docomber, 1S80, has beet
tolen from the mortuary chapel in Scotland.
A Panama correspondent reports thai .Arty
officers and nearly 1,000 men employed cn Do
Leeseps' canal have died of fovor since last
January.
1 Ireland tho proceedings against the two
sub-inspectors of police who were declared by
tho coroner's jury in county Kilkenny to bo
guilty of murder havo been quashed by tho
court cf queen's bench. Miss Reynolds, a
ccnbplcnous no-rent agitator, has been charged
with abetting a criminal conspiracy to prevent
lie payment of rent.
A Dobu.n cable dlepatoh to the Now York
Uerald says: It is generally believed here that
tho present orisia Is the most important of the
whole land movement, for the poople have
clinched with tho government and have thus
far successfully resisted all the strength of co
ercion. It is a startling fact that two-thirds of
tho routs are not being paid and that the ton
ants have no intention of paying them without
heavy reductions, which tho landlords refuse.
The land courts are bo slow that the ft is yet
no remedy whatever for the troublos,
Tho Life-Saving Serrlce.
Tho following is a synopsis of tho report of tbf
superintendent of tio lil'o-saving service: Al
the close cf the fiscal year the service included
183 stations, of which 113 were on the Atlantic,
thirty-four on the lakes, and six on tho Pacilic.
The number of casualties on tho Atlantic coast
within the scope of the service was 151; on tb
lakes, 01, and on the Pacific coaxt, 0. On board
the vessels wrecked wore 1,830 perBons, of whom
1.851 wero saved and twenty-six lost. The
lumber brought ashore by lifo-ttaving appli
ances was 403, and succor was afforded to 407
at the various stations. One hundred and
seventy-eight vessels were helped by tho life
saving crews to get off when stranded, and were
piloted to places of safety. The estimated
vaJun of tho vessels wrocked within the scopool
tho service, togother with their cargoes, was
$1,031,752. Of this amount $2,828,C30 was
saved and $1,220,072 lost. The general super
intendent of tho servico recommends the estab
lishment of additional stations at a number of
points on tho Atlantic coast and tho lakes, urges
-that the compensation of keepers and crows be
increased to a living rate, and makes an earnest
appeal for legislative enactments and appro
priations which, in his judgment, aro necessary
t'i keep the eervico from decay and dissolution.
A Hoy-lYdiiler's Strange Whim.
The boy peddler, with twenty-nino
fine suits of clothing, twenty-four over
conts and thirty -three pair of kid gloves,
has his homo in Reading, Pa., and is
well known to all traveling commercial
mon who get along that way. Periodi
cally the boy breaks out in local adver
tisements announcing an addition to
his extensive wardrobe, as follows :
"Thomas Jefferson Cummings has the
honor to announce that he has just
added another suit to his fall afternoon
wear, and now his fine wardrobe con
sists of forty fashionable full suits,
twenty-four overcoats," etc It is his
boast that he can appear on the street
every day in the month and wear a
different full suit of clothing each day
and allow at least three changes on
Sunday. Cummings is about eighteen
years of age, peddles notions, with a
basket on his arm, helps to support a
widowed mother, pays cash for all
he gets, sells close and works hard.
On the streets of Heading his appear
ance is that of a Beau Brummel.
His dress is exceedingly loud, his
weakness running to green kid gloves,
corn-colored ribbons, pink eye-glasses
and silk hats of the latest style. In the
country, on business, his appearance is
that of a poor, humble, meek and lowly
Hebrew, and his customary salutation
to the people he calls on is: "Have
pity on a poor boy and help him along."
The vounc man r pyppcvIi'tio-Iv
affable and agreeable, and succeeds in
selling large quantities or goods at very
fair prices. The farmers have a strong
liking for him, and when they visit
Beading on business and see the well
dressed young man sweepLiar past in
broadcloth, kids and gold-heau cane,
they little dream that the young mk.' is
the peddler boy they know so well at
borne.
Mis savincfi bi-a enfivolv imwAotnyi rn
n j uiyeouu ill
clothing and articles of adornment. At
uu jo uuu DCCU iur wce&a. 10 is
then OUt On thn COnntrv birrlm-ai-a n,'n
- w.j .0,.,u, fum
ing money in a small way. He neither
smoKes nor annus, and has no expenses
worth speaking of. Then, suddenly,
he will brAalr nrtt. In nomtinn v
- " - A.VMMAU, sou tuu
fashions for a week or more, and as
suuaeniy alter disappear. He generally
leaves home on Monday morning, in
variably starting before da
that his acquaintances may not see him
m ins oouniry maKe-up. He carries a
large basket filled with goods, and ho
orders his fresh supplies shipped to
-"" ivAULa uuug ma route, un.
ouiuraay nignt ne generally returns,
looking decidedly weather-beaten, but
if there is an opera or theater in town
ne is generally in the front row of the
paraquet by 9 o'clock, dressed to rival
the most fashionable swell in the land.
He is quito a favorite among commer
cial men, who know him as "Collins,
the boy miiiiorjBjrew j8 oarrently
reported that he is to be married, and
that an insurance has been placed on him
(marriage insurance) of $125,000. Cum
uiings claims that he has the largest
wardrobe in the world of any person of
his age. He is five feet five inohes tall,
and weighs 129 pounds,
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