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W ill attend to all i.u.k,. cmruuii Ui his care with proln ptiitiai ainl tiit l:ly. ruiiN a. rnu ArroKSEY-AT-LAW. ti L tti. M'MK-y"niHfii ou tuilvrtiirti, Ac. i T.ir 11: I.inilU-ll) HJ'C'k I)U Jl. S. KIMMELL, T"ti'i-r tit- I'nt-it'nul -rvif t thf ritiief n .I 's.ii(.--i Binl virnuty. I itit-x j..nilMiniily 1 1 iruL'i hr ran t- Ii.uimI ui hu nfficf m Main I) U. 11. niU'BAKKK l.-tvlrp- h ;.n.''.vi,rtinJ rvtt-tt thf iti Ti8 M tlii-qr t 4f lntuilui. ! I) I! W M. HAITI! th- fiti-fi --.iiifrH-l Mini vniiiity. irtif i I)u K. W. IU.olH.II, ti lM M !'ATH It FHYU'IAX AM) K.W.. T-i;i1 r hi fr'Kf t4t tltf ptttple if Snimrft mi'l v i' :ti ' t y . , alir in to n fonntry proiiip fv aU. iht.Vl to. an W fr.ijti'l at ftti-f iay i.t-iit. tiiiit- ritenniilly t-tiiea ict. ttif on it-i finivr f lian.rti'l. n tr Kn'l'T " I) U. J. M. I.IH THKR. 'HYH IAN A.NO Sl"K.'N. Ha- li-Mi.i i--niaiiQtlv in rN.rit-rw-t 6r the .ilt-vtti Matti "tnft, I) :. J. s. M Mil.LKN. .-. aii iBl aTtfiitm to thf rvH.fTtinn of i.ir lutnir' Anirn! ttJ li!-rtfl. Ali i --rant in- K'iaruiitinr'l MiiiMiacttiry. 'ttiir IU Har I) l'KNTIKT. rfi'i up-Mair ill CiMik A. Heeriu Klia-k. DU. vm. ( dLI.lNS. liKNTlT. "rt."e u. k !ict)ir' Hlia k upstair, where he i;u, tiioiiil a: ail tinted n-ini to do ail klll'W "i a.rk. ui-ti ai. lil'.tinc. n-Kiiiatiiiir. ixtracriiof, An tn .al leithof all kind aiut of the he ftmt' r.ai ,iu. nti. Ail work ffuaralitfed. I)' J. K. MI1.LKH !'( nutuit ti:ty mn ate) in I'-Tlin lir thf pna- t t u iT--tKi. ('ih- tt(.piwiU' Ujaj-.t-a K ri-. itT iore. m miiet County Bank. C. J. HARRISON. M. J. PRITTS, IKbllIKT. CAHHIEB. 'olieeiiou ma.1- in all parta of the Tniied State. CHARGES MODERATE. Pjttti-v nisfimjs to ni1 nMMifV Wt ran bf ar-iin-!iti.t ty .irart on Nvw York in any um. .nt hi.iL Mrti4'V and vlual --irl ii.f i lM.--,,.! rt'it -irratfU affw. with a hax- Ail Lffcal HoUUv tATWL CURTIS K CROVeT SOMERSET, PA. W'M.IKS. SItKIi.HS. t'AKRlACl-?!. "I'kl.St, Ai!4. BU li W AirfiNS. AS1 LA-TLH. AM) Wl-XTEKN Wi.KK Krnilied ib Sliort NorWe. Fmnting Done on Short Time. T ork i. Blade iHIt of 7WawAy H'-aaf, ii'tt the HfM inmt f.t sin. ul.4aiitiaily " ultttroclcd. Neatly FinbdieiL aud arrauu-d tt F ve Saltwfactiotl. Srplr Crly TirstCss Trfcaen. 1. ;iriiiir of All KiuiL- in My Line Iiooe i !xTt N.aiee. Pri-e KKAA iNABI.E. and All Work Warranted. li to.! Kxani'.Be my k. and Utm l"riee. 1. w w.k. and furuMi 'ir f, Wind kewieuiiar the plaee. and rail In. CTJRTISK. GROVE, I La of I uurt lioue) HOMWv-tT. PA. (M1AKL UtiKKMAN, MERCHANT TAILOR. tAinve H. ffiey'n M.e.) Latest Styles, and Lowest Pries. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED. Somerset, Pa. nn 26 VOL. XXXV. NO. i CWITHIN C. SHORTLIDGE'S j O ACADEMY, tol.i-)iK ASD if u. Mt.nn. i-.i. 12 -cue from PhUadel- i.iia. rixtti nv mrtr-nn fvt-ry vxvu-, even ra-oka. tif. Vi extra chanr-. No incidental ex ! p-Miac. No examination h-r adwii4u. Twelve I ex--riei.i-ed uw h aii nvn and ail ffradualt-a. ; ss-ial opportunity for apt amilcnui to atlvaiice ! rapidly. --i-eiai inll fc-r dull ami hat kaard ty-. Patron--or stt).lcnl mav t-lert auv !i.i j e. criw the ree-nar Knrrli'-h ViMitidr, -; lne-a. I'ta-atcal It'll Kin-ine-tlii niunw. stn j d.liln tilted at Media Acaoriuy are IM,w IB iiar- wl Wic. pl-hice-on. mid leu art'ier I olieires and t l'olyrcchme s.-hooi. It tndeiit writ totoilc--i . in . in Ixm, lo in and loin lMi. a ! irradiauni- (U rr ta- in Uie r.nuOK.r il ; il'innoimi. A Phi-aura! and chemical ljt..rato , rv 'iymuM.-mm and hail oniund. Law volume j add.-d to Lii.rary iu la. Mcd:a ha seven . ch'inh. and . u-ni;M'ntn-r rharvr wrtif-a .r- hil.ni" thf -Hlr f nil iiiimv'aiiTiK rtrinkn. Fur , nr illuniuJ i imiiaj- .l.Jrt iht- PniM-itai nl j iT"irn-iir. .tu Trij.v i. iMn.;i A. M, , (y.ir.ir( irrwlH-ik, Jf-ilin. Ia. u4-'--Ivr. September Bargains. i-wain t.n.iliifM. k in all lH-.artmf!H j Juniijc the niontli of July, an.l liave mti.J. ) trrx-.! n-liir tiii!w tiin.unlinut our Mn. j Iiiii'i-r il ilii iuaT. no matt.-r wli.-rv tln-v j liv. m ill Hint il )rn-liy I., llit ir ailvanliun- ti ; wnil t'-ir aainiUi friliilli. j We ki ItliK-k Silks. Oili.rvil Silks, ami j VI'k: Wiail lrt--snKSuninHTiajrliii; j .itt..n Vii.sli Fai.rics. ll,irv. Tittlei-wair vi. KinliniU-rk. (.'l!ap anl "iiff. 113!llliTrtiH-t, Im-!. Thin White JhLs, I.;nii Ijiit- Curtain. Milliiii-rr, l'n-e Tnnmr.i,i, llin:..i,, Iji.TiiV ami t liildn-ns' Suns ainl Wrttw, and Mens ami li;s' Fur niliin hh1. Kivr h; -tun nm- in otie. ur M;iil nl r luiii-Mi xii-iiiL iivcr ull tiif Mai. uinl Ti-rrituricj. North. Went ami Suilh. ."at'-faiturr ilraliiijo. iiaraiiteeil, a all hii?'ine'. i ilniu- mi j'r.ijrrt'sj.ive iiU-aM. ."ilk" ainl !rv .mp.l mir (rnat sH-ialty. JOS. HORXE & CO.'s RETAIL STORES, 613-621 FEiTO AVE., Pittsburgh, Pa. ALBKKT A. IloKNF- J. Scott Ward. HOBIE & WARD Eaton fe I3ros. NO. 27 FIFTH AVENUE, PITTSBl JIG 11, I'A. SPRING AND SUMMER. 1886. NEW GOODS EV22Y SAY SPECIALTIES IN E'twk'lrrit lw. Xiturtrrji. Whiir itimUt Hnntf 4rrrftf;yV, Jh-rm T:-imn;itif. I'tmrrj, f.'Arw. r mt. .VuWoi Hrl M-riMj I'u-i rmrttr, luf'tui ami tJtt'Mi-rn' V4hin. F'inrti Wa, AWi J't FA M r WOKK. Gents' FiiniisIiiEi Goods, 4c, &c. Your Patranag. Is Respectfully Solicited. ,(nlei by Mail atteiided to with Protnptneiw and lnpatch. AN OPEN LETTER. I .IXTiORI Pi.. ' M IT 1'4. 1H. I Mb. t '. N. HYi. Sihkkit. I'a. 7vo- Sir: in tc1ilyini lo the merit.- of your Matiilrake Liver I'itK wortis hiil tuc iti ex-rei!i:r my ju-t jiirr-'i:itioti of their iriaal ainl cur.ithe n'ja rtieH. a well a the uti ankahlc Ianelit- I have reii-iveil from tlnir ii-.-. h'nr a Jaily nnil etlii-tivecure iiir liver il;"eai', 1 hey an iitirivnUiI. a hliaal pu rifier thev Miriioo- all kihmn nuietiie?. It mav trutiit'iillv tdii that their m tim uu the iivi r ii- miiTeral, not a ulaml or tiuee!t fapint: their an.iTive iiirjueiHe. I lieartily rwotiimetnl your Matnlrake Liver Pills to any otie nutr. riMi; fmm Iivi-riiiuiplainl. Yours. f L 1'kLAI'TKK. Tin- alive teiinioitial canien',oliciti'l and is all the tiinri- :ipjne;aiil. TheH- iiill! are iniiititr theiaTit iiiaiic. Tin y nn-not a 4it'tit n-niwly. a. ti t lin-tniila i on even Uittle. Try thern. Yon will timl ju-r what you watit. ali at my tire. w heie vi'ti will -ec Ihetinent Mini ut' ini in then iiiiity. ohm I the at am! prieu- i.wt. ;4ii';fiil!v. C. N. BOYD. Mammoth llli k. Shikbi-kt. Pa. EXCELSIOR COOIC STOVES IIKTS SATISFACTCfiY. EIGHTEEN SIZES AND KINDS. All Pmters can lie Mai! MA X I FA ( 71 'Slit B r L L mill k tB. !)L1 It J.VJJ 0i- SALE UI' R. B. Schell fc Co., auxl-'-lyT. StiMKRSlT. PA. PURE RYE WHISKEY FOR SALE BY THE Gallon and Larger Quantity. I have accepted the agency for the celebrated R. C. Landis l)Wi!lery and will have constantly on hand a lance nupply of thi faizsiua PL'RE KY Copper Distilled Whiskey, whir. I wiU retail b, the salh, or la buw j u.Aantiuea. m ORDERS FILLED IABI DAY AS RECEIVED. "VS sHotv n-Hii al icy houae oci WeM Mam street, SianerM, Pa. GEORGE AI M AX. PAP SAI P." TEA H EiI.EX. 1 V7I OALL . (Xiiaml m frtnm. UnU era and Sheet -inin Work. Second hand Liunctea and hoiler on hand. Uoiatiiur Knanne. and M a ehinerr a Specially. TU't MAS VARUS. dccW-'tC-bT. " AUeghmy tUa, f. 15). SMILE WHENEVER YOU CAN. Whrn thhurs Am i uu to uh you And the worM mum u-iiie down. . li't wmnr your time In ttrtxing. But drive away that (hmn ; Since life to oft perplexinit, T'- uiv'b the wiwMt plau. To low all trial bravely And aniUe abeue'er you eao. Why .bould you dread the morrow. And thtui donaji ulay ? For a hen you burrow truulile Yon al ay have Ui pay ; it i a siani old maxim. Which abould be often preached Ion1 (Ti the briilre befe yoa I mil the bridce u reaeJted. Y'ou ttiitht be upaivd inni h niifhinr If you a 'him keep in miu.I The ibouxat that good and evil Are aiwaya here eombined ; There uitlat lie aotnethilu; wanting. And though you roll iu wealth Y'ou may uiin from your t-u.sket That preeiow Jewel nealln. And thoturb you're scroti- and sturdy You may have an empty purw t And earth ban many trial Which 1 eou.ider worsei ; But whether juy or aorrow Kill up your luonal pan, 'Twill make your pathway brighter To auiile heue'er yoa can. MIDSUMMER FIRES. CHAPTER I. Tii-morrow would lie niiiL-uiiimer day. The- buh a uijsh its wUing. Chit over the level, shilling x-a he xertueil to lie ; blixxl rtM and ruddy jutrple jjleaiuetl the thmliUiiu; wavtn of the Uuriz-m ;.rmy and guiUen caiiie the rippling wave!" fnun timt distant jiath of the nea to the yellow isundi. of the Manx inaid. A iath, winding up a headland, led from the woU-ni liore to a white road. The rel leaiu of the sun.-t waa ujn it, and tiie njiaix: healiu-r Uiuilwanl glowed ruddy, a m mie prl.-. suuiiu-ml IntUring along the th. There were three of them, sifters, i ne w as a chilil, Nen-ie ; the others, Meta and Kate tjuaitrotigh, were on tite lia)y lior-der-land of girlhood ainl womanhood. We have no piftareiue national jptrb of a foreign land wherewith to Het them forth they wen; dresd as hundreds of ojrls in 1 nn Inn might be t!reeed, though they eutne of ko pure a Manx race an to je jiroud of the days when Knglish peo ple were lookcnl ujiou as foreigners in Man. Neseie a.i full of life; he dam-ed aheal, or she lingi-red behind ; he sprang to right or left over the broken ground of the head-land; what her winters waited for hail evidently no Mrong hold on her thoughts. At lant she struck in with this : "Ye'U lie utterly foolish, you girls, idling here any longer foi those lads." Ilerativut Ixire the North Country lilt and the soft, sweet tones of the Manx people. '"Uo you think they'll be leaving their fishing for the " "Hist 1" commanded Meta. The girls were all at play in a scene, but it was play with a serious vein in it to MeU. "LUi? I'm full of resjiect!" and wild Xiiie threw out her anna and made a gay, tiowing reverence in a circling fash ion to the hills and the green mountains. ' lUit the boys are not so, and I'm think ing they'd only be hindering us if they were here." '"Still, we promised " Kate put in. "And they promised, too; and if they break their promise well be free from ours, I say. Hocotue, we'll be awfully late, and there's a lot to do." Then they walked on a bit faster. Xes sie was out of sight, but yet they were closely follow ing on her steps. S3 many turns ami la-mis and shoulders there are to these Manx headlands that one may la? easily out of citrht. A shout burst forth into the still sum mer air, and the next moment Nessie w it tt waving arms and with yellow hair flying as the light wind caught her, was seen on the topmoeit bit of green. "Hoi.t ahoy I" and her anus gesticulated. There was a bout skimuiing along the Imy Peel Bay. One unbounded head was in the stern of tlierounL deep boat; it Vicionged to a fisher lad, who was the working chum of three scarlet-capped youths. One of these last was a limtl trough, a cousin of the girls; the others were his friends, lads who, a year or two back, liad been with him at King Wil liam College at Castletown, but w ho, be ing Knglish, were only in Man for a sum mer jaunt now. And now it had lieen for the delecta tion of these same voting Knglii-hmcn that the finings of that midsummer even ing were lieinit made so much of. Thi they mean to land or not?" asked Kate. "Undoubtedly " was Meta' divisive I word. "Io thev not know it is for them I that we are making this delay?" In a very short time the boat was out of siirht. w hich means that she was well under the headland and lauding her crew in bite Mraml Cove. Njuie tew mo- Dienlrt .more and three young men in limiting flannels, and each w ith a rough pea jacket atop, appeared from diiiiilier ing up the fai-e of the headland. Then the larty went on more gwiftly. First m to and across the white sunlit roadway, then down an opposite lane, rough aud stony and untended. Thi lane finally lost itself on a furry common, where short, sweet, mossy grass was Hutched irretrtilarlv bv a savagery of gorse, and furze, and strong, waving bracken. Meta, walking apart, pulled the bracken ; Kate and N'essie, w ith en ergy of a more talkative and less solitary humor, tiade the young men bring out their knives and slash away mossy branches of gorne and furae. "Where is all this to go now?" asked IVyle Philijiwvn, the elder of the two KnglUdi brother. "Is thi common the haunt of of the enemy?" A twinkle lighted np a would-be grave Ctce. "t Ih, don't?" Meta'a exclamation was instinctive. "There T cried the Ma jtuui of the party. "Take Meta's homir fir yonr key note, Philipson, or youll 1 setting as all in danger of the evil influences of the hour." Eh, Willie!" and Nettie flung her vig- on his small self against her cousin, her- !!f,nU1 ith but ondle of prk kiy rurze, leu oe Uie worst ol me three. You ought to know better." .. "Blettsed are the immunities of ignor ance V the youth exctaimed, "I do DfMt ear tliat at all," quk-kly young Iltilipum rpjilied. "I wish to know I wish to "Meta will tell you then." -The girl was still in her aiient humor omer- perhaps a dangerous humor for a nature just a degree prone to niysticise over things. These w ere men from the outer world, the brave outer world of which she dreamed ; the faithless outer worl which she knew ridiculed any ancient tintafy of custom. Should she l? silent. or should she lie brave nd show that j she was not too w eak to acknow ledge her l weakness? One second she hat! for hes- nation, but no more. j "Will you " came the question point ; edly put to her "lay your comniands npou me. Miss Qnultrough, and tell uie j while I obey T How light and yet how true did he look as his clear-browed eyes met here. Meta flushed with pleasure. Was there really a sensible man going to listen to her old wive's fables, and listen with re spect? The delight of this flushed through her anil nuide the delicate Manx face of the girl radiant. Manx feminine beauty has not had much eulogy, very likely; but where will you find more del hate features, brighter intelligence, and purer expression than in the faces of the girls ot .nan.' .Meta tualtrougn was a picture, with all the loveliness of those island women. "Yon mean it?" was her cry, and her tuv was full of enthusiasm. Her blue t yes tmk a tire of brilliancy, and the clear delicate pink of her complexion heightened its color with one tjttick flush. gone as soon as it was seen. "Assuredly I mean it. Ignorance h; no charms for me as it has for your cousin there. Hut I do not promise faith, mind you." A shadow fell over Meta's radiance. .A very uuicK-cveit Young man was this. He saw it, anil read, too, in hi: kindly, sympathetic soul the measure of her trouble. So r-ading, he at once set himself to gladden her again. He wa thinking what a lovely study her radi ance would make for some girl saint v'. i Middle Age religion. I "Kvery one has a chink in his armor, you know ; and though I am matter of fact personified, you may just may" he smiled, "find me vulnerable some where." The rest were ahead, every one of them latlen with green or sun-dried stulf for the burning. These two gathered up their bun lens and followed, talking all the way. From the gorsy common the track was homeward for the girls, and they crossed a meadow, stopping at its furthest side by a brook, where grew clumps of golden marsh marigolds. These were wanted ah much as the dry stutf, but not for burn ing. "I thought not," said FIgar, the young er of the Philipsons. "They're far too pretty. You have some in a bow l at your house. They come far liefore the lilies of the Lonilou lesthetes, iu my opinion." This young man was not, like his broth er, an artist, but a trailer. To put his status quite plainly, he wax a clerk in a tea merchant's office. And here he was trending on to the debatable ground of lily worship. "Very well out here," said young Qual trough, rather testily ; "but not the thing for girls to wear on their dresses. You dou't mean that?" "I was thinking of that," and the other marked the wonl. "Miss Qualtrougb" he turned to Kate "do not let him talk you out of w earing them." Kate had worn some only the evening befi ire. "Xo, I shall not jcertaiuly I shall not," she cried, laughing. Nevertheless she wore only mac that night. "What do you do with these? What is their virtue?" Doyle asked of Meta. "You shall see if you can be jaitient. Their virtue ? I cannot say." "F.mpty seer!" cried he young men. "Yes, we've reasoned out the tires, but here I don't know whereto begin. We always do it the children always do it." " ' "What?" We lay them about on the door sills unil the w indow sills, and w e strew them about the outhouses. It is for 'goisl luck.' We all w ant good luck." "S we do, but I'd like a reason to see why 'good luck' lurks within the mysteries of these marsh marigolds more than in other rlowem." "Can't give it you, but you shall have the 'gmsl luck' if you'll have a flower; or shall I keep it back from you ?" "No uo. rive it me." "How excited VuU are! I've found the chink in your armor, I've found out you'r stiiierstitioHs, and I'll just punish your weukdess" Meta parodied some of his own w-onls "bv not giving vou the flower." " r the gtsal luck '. h, you w ilL" "No." What was mastering this very proud discipline of matter of fatl? Hi -in-tanned face flushed, and something canied him out of his former wise self. He ran luick to the htook, w here lie saw one sUirry golden blossom left, and plucking it, he brought it like a trophy to Meta. "This is for you," he cried. "There is 'good luck,' infinite good luck for you, and if Tor you, tlu ufor me. You have given me your faith." A shout from the rest interrupted him. Could he ossibly lutve been going to say tiiat he had faitli in those old wives' ta bles iif Meta's. "Oh, bequick ! they are all waiting for us," and MeU ran before him. She could by no means fate any talking in such a passionate strain as this matter of fact youth was developing. She felt hot, and she ran up to the others laughing and talking gayly. Certainly her humor had wondrously changed. CHAPTEK il. The sweet midsummer eve closed in, and the gray of the night came on. Stran gers from the foreign land of England wondered as they drove home from their day's excursioning at the fancy of the peasants for setting light to the gorse ev erywhere. AU the young Qualtroughs were out in the grounds with Willie and his friends. Mr. Qualtrough, gray-headed and wise, went out too. Perhaps he laughed over it all, but there had never been a Mid summer Eve be could recollect without the burning of witch fires. No, indeed ; and if hischildren had shown themselves very advanced in the common sense of the age and neglectful of the old customs, be, good man, would have been just one degree uncondiirtably mrprised. They had all had a merry sapper Manx folk are primitive, and supper is set ESTABLISHED 1827. SOMERSET, PA., SEPTEMBER 8, 1886. not ret wholly cast into oblivion; and then alt went oat. Two of the girls threw light sliawls over their heads, Nes aie stuck on a gray felt hat of her father's and they went gayly round the house and through the uiikept luxurious flow er garden; then through the kitchen garden, where monstrous eabixujes sheet ed the beils with their crumpled outer leaves; where the strawberries blinked rosy from amid a tangle of long suckers ; where alleys were made by trained apple trees, w hose green yoang fruit promised joys to the lads and maids in the days to come. "Ah f suddenly young Philipson ex claimed. "The Corrin's fire at Ballaseggan V and Mr. Qualtrough turned round. Thete had come a golden, springing, flashing light on his glass houses. "Horrid!" Nessie exclaimed angrily "Ami ours not alight yet. Jim is ItorriiL1 I specially gave hiin orders to light up early, because Mona C'orin declared they would have the finest show. Ill lie speaking to hiiu to-morrow morning." "Do, dear, do," Willie, her cousin said. "I w ill." And site ran on. In a mo ment she was seen flying np to the wooll en ladder which led up to what they called their "lookout," a square miniature tower which gave a grand view over miles and miles of Ctrmlaml, of distant mountains, of western sea, ami a sight of all for strangers of one bit of savage, stonu-lmttered Calf Uf Man. "Grand!" she cried joyously. "Grand! We're alight now ! Eh ! I'll not heed Mona hav ing the start, we'll lie far the tiniest." A )mle golden fire liegan to shimmer on a near by hill, it spread ant! spread until verily the w hole ot the hillside was a tricksy flashing dance of tire. 4Our gorse is not there?" Doyle won- deretL "Eh ? No. This is my private busi ness. Jim ami I did mis in uie morn ing." "So! That is how Jim does his weed ing r tier tatner Degan. 'Yes. That'll lie his manner of weed ing of Midsummer Eve! He couldn't do less than obev Km mistress ! 'No, Mr. Philijson,"slie went on. "The bits of fuel we got this evening are on the other side, Look! I saw Jim run across mly two minutes ago ; he'll lie lighting it up now. he was right. A hillia-ky lift of tiie land was singled all at once with patch es of flame, ruddy flame, golden flame, flame tlud eputted and fizzed as it muster ed the juices of the green bracken. "We have an extra grand show to night girls," Mr. Qualtrough beg 'n. "Who shall say our old customs are dying out ? But 1 expect it is as much in your honor as in that of the fairies antl w itches," he nodded to the young men. They, seated like tiie girls, on the bat tlements of tiie- miniature tower, were gazing here anil there, as one quarter, and then another was made alight. Beacons, like stars, blazed out far away. Evidently the w hole neigl.tiorhood was f one mind. "We will nit accept that idea to-nig'nt, Sir, IoyIe answered. "No, no; let tis not tempt the powers. But can we not go among it all ? Two minutes will take us where Jim is." " h ! if yon like." So they "left the gardens and trumped over a field to the hillocky ridge. There was a gissl deal of talking and laughing. as might be supposed, but among it all Meta was again silenL She was wearing her one marsh marigold stuck under her bin, as a girl might wear a brooch. She was very careful of it, keeping her light wrap well away from it. What ibtngvrof cold could there lie on such n sweetly warm summer night. She lingered behind. But among such a gay string of merry folks w hi would notice tine straggler? Nessie was by Jim ami talking hunt and fast. No one paid anv heed to her, but we mast, for the subject of her talk ing aflifts our story. "There were nine lots, Jim." "Eh. mirwee, I'll know that ; and nine have I set the light teti," refining his words real Manx fashion. "Then where are they ? Six seven eight," she counted. It's beyond me, uiissee: but nine'll lie the numla-r I kindled. Sure, by token 1 only ten matches in my box here, an' ine I left for my pipe, l'fah!" he blew on to the pipe bow 1. "It's nigh out sin '1 be, missee, with me talking an' talking." He here look a good whitf to ward off the Inllilliuent of his won Is. "The Uiys must have matches, I'll by no means go without my nine!" Nessie was always a bit self-willed. "Eh. missee? let be. I wouldn't in terfere " "Interfere!" "Sure" "What stuff!" Netwie's play had no faith no faith of the timorous sort, at least. "I'm as strong as the fairies. If they put the tire out I'll light it again! That I will r She ran liack to the young men. Whereat Jim raced the inevitable and bestowed all his active care U am his pipe. He shrugged his bent shoulders ; pcrhajis it was at the foolhanlinessof young maids. All at once a new blaze of light sprang into the gray night. It came with a sudden flash just behind where Nessie antl the boys stood and talked. One golden flash there was: dry gorse liad caught a smoldering spark, left at tht very tail, as one might say, of Jim's ninth match. Then tiie flash died dow n ; then another blaze, and a brighter more golden blaze. A quick, short cry on the top of it: "Ah!" Meta's fcst treading on the unseen dry gorse had pushed it tow an! the dying match had kindled the flame antl, her dress, a soft muslin thing, had l-n caught by iL There was a rush. All were first and all were last, it seemed. Meta was down upon the ground before the rush and cry were done. Every flame was out, ev ery smoldering spark was hurried out of life. For one moment Meta lost sight and sound. Then memory flashed back one sight and one sound IViyle Philipson she had seen tear off his coat and she bad heard him give one cry. "Meta! myown!" "How the soft gray night echoed the words! Had she dreamed them? Was she dreaming still ? There was now no fire, the flickering lights of the distant hills were paling under the breeze her father stood over her bidding her not to "be afraid." "Your coat has suffered.' This she heard Mr. (Jiialtrongh say to a dim, shad owy figure. The voice was low, and such as comes w hen a man's inner self is trembling. Doyle made a light answer. Men do answer lightly, even when perhajw the gravest question of their life is fighting for its answer w ithin them. He pushed his anus into his coat sleeves, and all at once he found that in crushing down the rising flame of Meta's dress he bad got his hand burned. A week hence the ytwirig men hail to go away from Man. Willie (Qualtrough was to drive them to Iouglas tin tiie morrow, so as to be in time for the boat. A good hour's drive this was, ami they must be np betimes. He and his friends had strolled over the fields from his father's hijuse ; they woultl naturally say good-bye to the girls and the Liiuiltroughs of Brace Hill. Again it was a Summer night, again, the girls were wandering aliotit the old garden. Meta Was aloft in the "lookout," Kate was below meeting the young men, Nessie was cliasing a w hite butterfly. Ioyle Phili(iou had many ilays back come to the solution of one grave ques tion ; but, not being a rich man, and be ing hororahle to what some lolks might call an extreme degree, he had comman ded himself to hidethelove hehad for Meta (itialtmugh. Nay he it was who had hastened the departure from the island because, seeing Meta day after day, he could not keep eye antl tongue in cool obedience. And the sweet, Uizy hours of evening had come, und Meta hail chanced to lie aloft, and the others had chanced to drift into the company of eacji other w ho talks of chances ? The would-be matter-of-fact young ar tist was mastered. He told his story ,and all his wise commands were scattered to the winds. What they two said only the night heard. It was an old story made new, and there is always a golden originality aliout the telling of these old-new stories. Meta and Doyle were coming down from the " lookout," the rest were in a group. " It is arrant noneseue, Kate, for you to drive into Douglas at such an hour," So spoke Willie Qiutltrough.thegiri's cousin. He and Kate often squabbled, cousin do so. " Thanks," she pouted. "Aut I'll judge best for myself. I have shopping, and the shops are fresh in the morning." "That are they. And the shopmen are sleepy." " Y'ou shall wake them np for me," she was persistent. "Oh ! Willie!" The cry had actually trembling in it. Kate made a little start and again a second start, or rather droop, backward to Willie's sitle. Elt 1 Unit's done !" Willie was a mas terful cousin ; he made no ado, but drew Kate's hand within his arm. "He told me he shouldn't do it till next year, when he's coming again " "lib! Willie" Kate's vocabulary was growing stunted. "And now that'sall moonshine. Io yon mean you never saw it ?" "lear how could I ?" She was cling ing to Willie in a way that her cousin un mistakably approved. Before another Mitlsummer day came round there were two Miss Qualtroughs the less at Brae Hill. Ioyle Philipson docs not, so much as heretofore, parade bis matter in fact, and he is going to make his Academy fame, so he says, by a picture which shall have fairy worship for its motive. There is going in next year a marvel of a Saxon maiden, a golden haired Saxon maiden by a rocky shore, wearing a goldcn-hued marigold. The critics say it is beautiful. It is Meta. AU the Yrar Homitl. Where Burns was Born. Five miles from Kilmarnock is Irvine, w here Burns made his unfortunate start as a flax dresser, and. worse still, contrac tetL in the opinions of his biographers, sery many bail habits ; antl nine miles in another direction is Ayr, where in the Suumier time omnibuses run regnlurly to ami from the station U the cottage in which the poet was bom, the monument erected to his memory, the Auld Kirk of Alloway.and the Auld Brig o' Doon the three hitter la-ing situated all clone to each other, and about a mile to the south of the former. The straggling High street reucheil, one stajn finds the inn on the right, in which Tain and his dear companion Soiiter Johnny are said to have got " ft mi together." An oil painting alsive the door represents the hero re luctantly bidding good bye to his com panions of the evening, in That hour, o' night's Mack arch the kcy-tane. That dreary hour he mount his ljvat in ainl gives a fair idea in a rude, country way, of the start for that memorable ride. The bouse is a plain subst4intial Scutch building, two stories high, with a thatch ed roof, ami remains very much what it must have been when, as the story gis-a, Dugrtld Graeme of Shanter am! John Iavidson, the drunken shoemaker, the originals of the iem, used to go there on market days. The nxitn up stairs in which Tarn was "glorious" is still point ed out ; but the chairs of the Carries' farmer and Soutcr Johnny have lieen recently purchased by the Ayr Burns Club, and placed in the memorial risiin in the rottnige where he was born at Alioway. The original drinking cup, or " rattp," of the inn, is now the property of some private individual ; bat the pre sent landlord shows a fac simile in a well executed piece of dove-tailed woid-w ork bound together with a silver hoop,which is filled and emptied by enthusiasts, as well as the old one. A Western Fashion. " Mamma," said Miss Penelope Waldo, of Boston, " I don't like this Mr. Breezy from the West whom we met last night. He is extremely uncouth." " How 7" inquired the old lady. We were discussing horseback riding and he said that he rarely used the sad dle and rode bareback on almost all oc casions. Of course one can dispense w ith a saddle if he wishes, but for any body to ride about in his bare back is unnecessarily Western." And the old lady thought so, too. .V. K Ttmn. Bob Ingersoll says: "No American can be truly happy unless he spend each year s little more than his income. or ale The Central Engine of the So lar System. The visible globe of the sun is l.'U,tXX times as large as the earth ; within tiie surface so seen their lies a nunw exceed ing the earth's $9),MN times ; the mater ials present in the sun s irloiie of our earth at least we know that iron, cop ier, zinc, sis limn, magnesium, calcium, titanium, and a number of other metallic elements are present; hydrogen is cer tainly there in enormous quantities, and lr. Henry Lh-aper proved also that oxy gen is present, while no astrououicr doubts that those other elements which have not as yet been detected iAthe sun are really present in his mass. Now have we any evidence as to the way in which the mighty mat of the sun is disposed w ithin that surface which encloses w hat we term his volume? though in reality one can hardly say what his volume is, seeing tlutt there are portions of his mass outside the surface w hkh bouiitls his visible globe. Is the sun's mass uniformly distributed through out that visible globe, I,'siO,0OU times as large as our earth? or is it concentrated toward the centre? or, on the other hand, is the denser part near the sur face, so that the sun is w hat Professor Y'oung once suggested, a gigantic bubble ? There are three lines on which we can seek for au answer to these questions. First, we find that the visible surface of the sun behaves in in a manner utter ly inconsistent al.ke with the idea that this surface is near the real surface of an inferior giolw, and with the idea that the visible surfate is part of a mighty vesicle or bubble. The spot zones are carried around at different rates, according, to their distance from the equatorial solar regions. Not to follow Faye and others in niceties of circulation (far from justi fied by the evidence we have ), I may say that the equatorial zone gains about one rotation in seven on the spot zones, or, roughly some, 2.70uO,liO miles in aw days say Ll.omi miles per tlay. Such a j velocity as this,clMeon ten miles in a minute, could not possibly exist in a cloud-laden region (such as the visible surface of the sun undoubtedly is), and as affecting regions exceeding the whole sulfate of the earth thousands of times, unless that cloud-laden region were very far away from the real surface of the sun, and therefore from the frictional effects of the true solar rotation. The real mass of the sun, however distributed, can only rotate as one; the visible cloud surfate has many rates of rotation ; therefore there must be an enormous distance be tween the two. Secondly, calculation has been made by compeWnt mathematicians respecting the amount of polar compression which would arise from the rotation of a globe such as the sun appears to be, at the aver age rate of rotation indicated by the -far spots. It is found that the polar flat tening would be well within the measur ing capacity of our best instruments. But if there is one thing certain alsmt the sun, it is that (without such capacity) his apparent globe is not flattened at all. It is absolutely certain, tlien. that the real globe of the sun lies far within the surface of flow ing clouds w hich we see antl measure. Thirdly, our earth has her story to tell alxmt the sun's interior. We know from the earth's crust tliat, for periods of time which geologists now estimate by tens of millions of years, the sun's power has been at work on the earth's crust, by ruin, wind, and storm, fashioning antl refash ioning the structure of that crust, now fonning layers, anon cutting them up.but throughout leaving clear traces of his ban-Ii work. Croll estimates the dura tion of this part of the earth's history that is, of the time during which the earth'scrust lias been fonning under so lar action at fully one hundred millious of years. In other w on la, our earth tells us of at least one hundred millions of years of sun work, at the sun's present rate of work ine. It is a matter of no im portance whether we snpjiose that the sun has worked all the time at his present rate, or has sometimes worked with more energy, sometimes with less. It is the quantity of sun work, not the way in which the work has been done, which alone has to be considered. Now all physicists antl astronomers are agreed in regarding the sun's emission of heat as due wholly or almost whollv to solar gravitation, resulting in the steady con- traction of the sun's mass. To get from i the sun of past ages the amount of work j which our earth tells us he has actually done, we must suppose hiiu once to liave lieen very much larger than he is now how much larger we cannot say. I take it also that the change w hich takes plate in the aspect of the sun's corona as the numls-r of sun spots varies, and the alternation of the physical con dition of the corona in such sort that when there are many spots, its sjiectrum indicates the presence of glow ing hydns geu, whereas, when there are few. the lines of hydrogen are few or wanting correspond also w ith the theory tiiat tiie time of sun spots is a time of great emo tional activity. For the rush of ejected masses thmugh the conmal regitm woultl cause the hydrogen present there (not as an atmtophere, but irregularly distribu ted ami moving amund the sun ) to glow with greater lustre, so as to show the lines of hydnigen in the spectrum of the corona. It is, at .my rate, remarkable that all the tacts known to us in regard to the sun spots themselves, to the colored flames, and to theconina,shoulil agree in continuing tliat which is al ready alf but demonstrated by three stnmg lines of evidence, that the real working moss of the sun is very much smaller than the globe we measure as his, ami that all the phenomena which gives so great an in terest in the study of the sun are due to tremendous forces at work tens of thtMM- j That-9 what j nU A dinner," re antls of miles below the surface which j Bobby, as he leaned back in his limits our view of his globe, and hides I with ,tf ;L. utllBjrt rroin us me processes oy wnicn tne uie of the solar svstero is maintained. R. A. Pboctek, in Harper') Mtufiz'tw fur Srybwi brr. Sam Jones says that he has taken an account of stock, and says that he is worth T30. Says he : " I've been offered f-ViO a night to preach, and do you sappose if I wanted money I'd be bangin' 'round your old camp meetin' here? All I want is money enough to get me home. I dont care whether I get that. I ran get weather, this. UL o WHOLE NO. 18:34. Fat People and Fluids. The question whether water is fatten ing or otherwise has been much discuss ed. Fonnerly it was generally asserted that the victims of oiwsity should morti fy the flesh and ret luce the fat by af stainingas luiu h as possible from liquid ami remaiuing in a continual state of thirst. Latterly the opposite lias la-en ai tirmetl, ami I am told that a reduction of weight is one oftiie results claimed by " the hot water cure," provided always the water is taken hot as possible, pain fully hot, and in great quant lew. Experi ments have been made in Paris by Ir. LVbove which controvert Isdh these dta trines. These exeriments indicate that, provider! the same amount of solid fil is taken, large quantities of water make a man neither thinner nor fatter. They were carefully made- on a friend who took weighed quaut'.iies of 61 tlailv. antl while these remained equal doubling the quantity of water hod no measurable effect on the weight of Uie body. Still, it is quite pi-ible that the old theory of thirst cure and the new theory of hot water cure may both be correct. Both violate the) natural conditions of health. Scalding hot water, I ke tea or coffee, or grog of suiiiiar temjierature, unquestiona bly iujui-es the Us t.i, stouiach, and other organs concerned in the early stages of digestion, and it is very pmbuble that tit- ficiency of liquiils impedes the latter stages, whereby tin cayiue, by the aid of the digesting fluids, liecomes converted into chyle and bl "L A fat man may easily liecome thinner by mjiinn lus health. " Banting " is liungerous. as many who have fairly tried can prove. The ditticnlt problem is to reduce the fat without reducing the strength al the same time. A skillful trainer will under take to bring any man down to his light ing weight, tliat is, to the best condition for violent exertion, but as soon as tiie discipline of the trainer is relaxed the otiesity.i when ccnrtituiioiial, returns, and a long continuance of high training is murderous. Periia o the old prescrip tion, " Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open, w hen followed witn juilictous limitations, Is the best. Eat less, sleep less, ami walk more, are safe injunctions, provided tiiey are olieyed in niodenttion. The fat man who use malt liquor as a daily beverage deservm to lie buried un der cross nituls at mid night, according to the ancient modes of degrading the w ill ful perpetrators of Ji lo ir r. OailiriuMt Millmine. Ingersoll on Napoleon. A little w bile ago I stood by the grave of the old Napoieon a magnificent tomb of gilt and gold, fit almost for a dead deity and gazed un the sarcophagus of black Egyptian marble, where rests at last the ashes of that restless num. 1 leaned over the baiu-tr.nle and thought of the career of the gn-atest soldier of the modern world. I saw him walking upon the banks of tiie Seine, contemplating suicide. I w biiu putting down tiie mob in the streets of Paris ; 1 saw him at the head of the army of Italy ; I saw him crowing the bridge of Lsli, with the tri color in his hand ; I saw him in Egypt in the shadows of the pyramids ; I saw him conquer the Alps and mingle the eagles of France w ith the eagles of the crags. I saw hiiu at Marengo, at Clin, aud AusterliU ; I saw him in Russia, where the infantry of the snow ami tiie cavalry of the wild blast scattered his legions like winter's withered leaves. I saw him at Leipsic in defeat and disaster driven by a million "bayonets luck upon Paris, clutched like a w ild beast, banished to Elba. I saw hiin escape and retake an empire by the force of h is ge nius. I saw turn upon the frightful lal- I tie of Waterloo, where chance and fate comnided to w reck ti e fortunes of their former king ; I saw him at St. Helena. ! with his bands i-mened behind him, gaz- j ing out upon the sad and solemn sea. I j thought of the orphans and w idows he ! hod made, of the teurs that had lsi-n shed for his glory, and of the only wo man who ever loved him, pushed from his heart by the cold hand of ambition. And I said I would ruther have U-cu a French peasant, and worn wisslen sbts-s. I would rather have lived in a hut with a vine growing over the tltsir and the grapes growing purple in the kisses of i the autumn sun. I would nither liave I been that js r pea-ant with my loving wife at my side, knitting as the sun died out of the sky, with my children upon my knees, their arms alsmt me ; I would rather have been that man ami gone down into the tongueless silence of the dreamless dust, than to lutve been that imperial impersonator of force and mur der known as Napolean the great. And so I would, ten thousand times. An Ant-Hill as a Compass. If an Indian loses the points of the ; compass on a dark diy w hile traveling in the mountains or on the uu-usas, the first thing he does is to hunt up an ant-hill anil set himself riidit. The opening or , doorway of thi-ae ant-mounds invariably , points lo tiie northeast. I have hod is - ' casion to test antl verify this statement scores of times, anil I never knew it to i fail. There are manv curious and inter- esting signs of this kind tliat are iepciid- ed upon by the Indian for his guidance j ami instruction that Lhe white man would i pass unnoticed. The giftof detecting and prolitmg by the minute and instructive signs, marks and U-ssons of nature, seems born in the IndiaD. as much superior to the white man as the keen scent of the bltsslhountl is to timt of the ordinary dog. The Indian will follow with accu racy a trail that is perfectly invisible to a white man, unless he I a trained scout. tor. .V. 1. EtriuiHj V'ml. The Good Things or Life. turn. " Bid-by," said his mother, " I'm ashamed of you." The minister, who was dining with the family, laughed heart ill . " Bobby appreciates the good things of life," he said, " like all the rest of us." " Dou't you think it was a good din ner? Bobby asketl of the minister. "Yes, intleed. I mjoyed it very lunch." "Ma said she thought you would, be cause she ditln't supp-oe you got very much at home." X. F. Old Conveyances. The first mail craw h was started in 174. and in IS44 there was not a single mail running by road oat of London. In tact, tiie tvwhing system. Iiki those of ciippcr-shit and wet-plate photography, was hrms;!it to prrfeition only to g dow n alfutt immediately before the in troduction of n5critr method. The mails kept wonderful till v . mi etaet wen that art.ple Used to tins; their watches by them. A few of the time-hfi's of the mails, with their stopi-axe. are given. The Bristol, the IVvonport. and the Holyhead were the fastest mails oat of Lmdon. the lost named doing 'J-V'i miles in 'Jr h-sirs and -V minutes, an av erage pace tf a little under ll) miles an hour including stoppages. But th wear and tear of horseflesh to keep up this pace in all weathers, and against bud state of road must have been fearful, and it is no wonder that the Postotf.ce often had great difficulty in getting their contracts taken up. Mr. Home consiilered that the pace was too great, as the mails con stantly drove over people and killed them. Indeed, accidents of all kinds were common; the "Beaufort Hunt' was upset twice within afiMrtn'gliL Thesv accidents often an fnun what Mr. Har ris charitably calls the " indiscretions of the coachman"; but whatever their cause, they were frequently lamentable and severe. One of the oldest oat h pniprictors made it a maxim never to employ a coachman who had not had an upset, for the reason that without ut h an experience" he would not know how to get a coach up again, Titere can be no doubt that there was a great deal of reckless driving and racing. Catastnqihes also h.ipiiened tun nigh getting off the raid in a fog. and fnun collisions, and in addition to these causes, a thonsu-hly fractious or vicious horse might pne an equal sounv of danger. Mr. Harris en larges on the subjects of coachmen, guards, and accidents in as many enter taining chapters, and he neatly tapers 4:f his subject by a dissertation of the early days of railways. Coaching left its mark on the railways in several respect. The distance between the rails on the narrow gauge of railways Is the same as the width lietween the w heels of the old mail coaches, viz, 4 feet Sj inches. Even to the present tlay carriage may Is- seen on some of our lines painted to resemble three coach tsuhes placed end to end, which seems to have ts-en the original idea in tiie construction of railway car riages, though it La pmbably never in curred to one traveler in ten thoiksaml, obvious as the imitation is. Many of the old mail coach guanU posset 1 into the service of the railways, and not a few "down the road men"tlid the same thing. I7lf ;-Cf.lor. Ute Pappooses. The I'te papptaise w hen quite young is placed in a buckskin or raw hide recep tacle with a straight board buck. The buckskin opens down the centre of the front. The puppiaw is placed in it, and the eds.'es of the buckskin are drawn tiu'btly together by buckskin thongs, as you would uMvasbta-. The child's arms are pinioned down by its side: no part of the Usly can Ih moved except the head, which can ! mlled slightly fnun side to sitle Strajis are attached to the Ismrd to enable the squaw to sling it acn her back or hang it in the branches of a tree. Y'ou very seldom hear a I'te iipie cry. I have seen the little things stand ing up against the tree in the boiling sun in one of these barbarous strait-jut ket receptacle. The flies were craw ling in and out the corners of its eyes, and great tears were chasing each other down its cheeks, but not a w himper nor a sound was heard. They are kept laced up this way, except at short intervals, until they are large enough to learn to walk. They are taught to ride a horse almost before they begin to walk, and it is curious to see the little things, often three and four on oue horse, and clinging to his buck antl to each other with the tenacity of monkeys. The children of 5 years old anil up are often bedecked with war paint and bead and silver ornaments un til they are hanlly recognizable. Great silver riugs are snspeni led frotu their ears, silver plates three and four inches in di ameter hang upon the breast. Time, four and sometimes five pairs of silver bracelets of Navajo designs adorn th anus. Beaded buckskin uus-easins, a bright little Navajo blanket, otter-skin i trimmings in the hair, rings upon tiie1 ringers, a brass or silver armlet alve the elbow, and several necklaces of Is-ads. wolf s teeth, tfcc. a buckskin belt five inches in width and gorgeously worked with lieads, and you have a I'te child dressed and ornamented acconling to the fontl parent's idea of artistic taste. The Public Road Law. It is a general dm -trine of law in the I country that the lands in the highways j belongs to the owners of land lying along j each side. The farm only extends to the ; mad anl the public has only the right to ' pass ami repass in an onlerly manner, and k p the mad in nqaiir. The farmer ; owns the highway, the soil, grass, trees, I stones, gravel, anil eve rything else upon i the surtiii-e, or under it, ami may use them in any way that dts-s not altect the ; public right of aassuge, and the law will ; pndect his ownership in them, just as much as if they lay inside his own fence, i Notwithstanding the fact that the fanner ons the land of the road, he cannot use j it himself for any pur)-that at all iu i terferes with the public rights there. He cannot put his wosl pile, wagons, or pig ! pens thereon, and if he di-s. and the ! traveler runs into them at night and is : injured, be would nt only I- liable for . the private. iamagt-siistaftit d, but he may Is indicted for obstnu tiiig the pubiic highway. No person has a right to pus ; tun- on the side of the fanner's highway ; any more than in the endowed land, nor ' can be hitch a horse to a tree there with out being liahie for the tresspass, it a pcrxiU lets his rattle go into ;he higjiway he is liable for the tn-siis they eoiiunit by simply being there unlawfully for the injury they do to the l or by the 1-arking of the trees, ami lor any other damage they may do. If while there they his.k, or kick or bite any person, lawfully using the way, he would be li able for the injury. The Maine Campaign. The Maine State- Committee have got in returns of estimates w hicli are pleasing to them. The intention is to make the campaign, beginning August -4, when Mr. Blaine will tire the first gun, one of a continuous fire all along the lice, to the clone. The tariff antl pnihibition ques tions will be conspicuous ; but the reconl of the IViiHs-rats in the session will be a prominent feature. Texts for all the en suing elections will be struck out, and Mr. Blaine's idea is not only to carry tiie State, but by a majority so great that it will go far to float him the Presii lential nomination. Already they are reviving the song of 1MO which electrified the whole country and contributed greatly to Harrison's election, namely : Oa .' hare Jon heard the new (rota Maine Haute ' Maine ! All hoort and tme ' Twenty thowand to the tune, etc Why is a tits-tor never is used to see sickness. sea -sick? He
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