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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
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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
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m miiet County Bank.
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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
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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.
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All Work Warranted.
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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,
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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