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TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, NOV. 30, 1881, $1.50 Per Annum, ? . - , , v -w yr V ' IT V r V Little Dancing1 Leaves. Little dancing leaves Tn the garden bower, Which among yon grlovos ' Not to be a flower ? " Never ono i" tho light loaves say, Dancing in the sun all day. Little dancing leaves, Hobos loan to kins yon; From the eottago caves Vestling birds would miss yon We should tiro of blossoms so, If yon all to flowers should grow I Little dancing leaves , Oraasos, forns and sedges, Nodding to the sheaves Out of tangled hedges What a dull world would remain If you all were useful grain 1 - Uttladancing loaves, Who could do without you ? Every poet weaves Borne sweet droam about you. Flowers and grain awhile are hero; Yon slay with us all the year. Liitlo dancing leaves, When through pines and birches The great storm-wind hcavos, Your retreat ho scrchos; How he makos the tall trees roat I While you only dance the more I Little dancing leaves, Loving aud caressiDg Ho most joy receives Who bestows a blessing. Dance, light leaves, for dancing made, While yon bless us with your sbado ! Lucy Larcorn, in St. JfidioUm. THE KEEPER'S DAUGHTER. A lighthouse on a rocky coast Out side, thunder, lightning, wind and rain, and preat black waves duelling up against tho rock at the foot of the tower. In aide a winding flight of stairs leading to au octagon-shaped room containing the , plainest furniture. The occupants, a girl of eighteen, talj and lithe, with black hair hanging in massive braids to her wnist. and luminous gray eyes under Btrnight black brows. Her dress of gray waterproof cloth was short and ecunt, and hung in wet folds about her limbs; aud strangest i f all girdles, a coil of rope encircled her waist and trailed one rnd on the floor. By her aide a boy of . fourteen years, with his bine blouse open at the throat, and a faded plush cap on his dark curls. Thcso two wore bending over a man who lay in all his magnificent length on the floor. A picturesque-looking man, with fair hair clinging in dripping masses to his fore Lead; a curling golden beard and a White firm throat, and one might be erMiaded that the closed lida with their long fringe s dovered a pair of steel blue eyes. " Reckon ho's a goner, Liz,",'said the boy, as ho paused in his vigorous rub bing of the man's hands. The girl was forcing some liquor from a tin cup between the blue lips, and did not answer directly; but when their patient gave the faintest possible sigh, she exolainied, joyfully: " Bee, Neddie, he breathes 1 Now work fast," whereupon they both fell to rubbing him at a great rate. . "When Allen Mclntyre opened his Ayes he looked about him confusedly. The odd little room, the girl with her black braids, and tho boy looking so like her that one would at once recog nize the relationship; the drenched con dition of all three, and tho strange languor through all his frame what did it mean ? lie closed his eyes wearily, and then the boy spoke up in this bluff fashion: "You came near going under.Jcap'n, but Lizzie pulled you out." Then Mclntyre remembered all, and languidly raised himself into a sitting posture. "It is too wild a night to be afloat in a little craft like that," said the girl, making a gesture seaward, where a tiny boat had broken up an hour before. 'It was fair wheu I left the shore," replied the man. "I ventured further than I intended. Then the wind went down, and I could only drift until the storm arose. I have a recollection of a fierco rush of wind and wave that upset my boat, and a blow on my head, prob ably from some part of the boat as I went over." " Yes," said tho boy, "there came a flash cf lightning, and Lizzie and I, looking out, saw the boat capsizo. So Lizzie caught a ropo and ran, and I after hor." 'We're used to that sort of thing eh, Lizzie?" Lizzie nodded, and tho boy continued, animatedly: ' You see, my father keeps the light, bat he is sick now, so Lizzie and I tend the light we always do when father is sick or gone to tho mainland and we've pulled out more than one fellow more than half dead. Why" 'Never mind that, Neddie," inter rupted his sister, gently, and the un spoken reproof in her voice had tho ef fect of making tho lad look somewhat shamefaced as ho went back to the first part of his story. Well, sir, we rau down the slope at the side of tho cliff out there, where the waves were tearing up like 10,000 wild horses. And every time it lightened we could see you bobbing aroundout there like a pieco of cork. We were afraid of your striking against the ledges, so Lizzie fastened one end of the rope about her waist and I held the other while she went straight iu and struck out for you." Mclntyro uttered a low exclamation ! turned his gaze from Neddie to Neddie's sinter. The boy wagged his head proudly. " Ah," BaicLho, with gleaming eye, that's nothing for our Liz to do I She f nught you, and I pulled yon both in. But you re monstrous heavy I I thought we'd never get jma upstairs." mclntyre laugned as he rose rather doubtfully to his feet. 'I feel a trifle shaky, he said ; and then, It is easy to see that yon are brother and sister. I am Allen Mcln tyre, at yonr service, Miss Lizzie," and ho bowed in a fashion that gave the lie to his declarations of shakiness. "Of course I realize that you and your gal land brother here have rendered me a great service ono for which you sh ill not go unrewarded, although I can never hope to fully recompense yon." Lizzie raised her head haughtily. " Sir, such work as we have dono to night wo do not for wages. If you feel strong enough, I will walk with you to the nonse. I think tno storm is passing over, wo live a quarter or a mile from the light. Our accommodations are plain enough, but there is no other house on the island. " Oh, I am as good asjnew, now," said Mclntyre; "but will you leave this boy here all alone." She smiled. " Ned is not afraid, and ho can tend the light as well as I." " Very well I will go with you." He waved a smiling adieu to tho boy, and followed his guido down the narrow stairway. Two days later a small sailboat put out from the island, which, when it returned, brought Mclntyre luggage. Lizzio's father, who was laid up with au attack of rheumatism, had taken a fancy to the young man, who expressed a desire to spend a few weeks there at any price they might charge. Captain Clvde straightway ordered Neddie off in "his new boat to the mainland for the gontlemau'a traps. The youngster obeyed this order with alacrity, for the good-humored ease of tho stranger, to gether with his evident appreciation of "our Liz.," had wrought favorably on our Neddie. Even the maiden aunt, who kept the house, smile 1 frostily at the prospect of this pleasant addition to their family. Mclntyre, who had been wandering about three or four hundred miles from home in search of a quiet place to spend the summer, congratulated him self on having drifted to the very place. " Although it was an expensive style of drifting," lieremarked, with a smile, as ho inclosed a bank note in an envel ope, to be sent to the owner of tho little craft which had slipped him out into the waves abroa3t of the lighthouse. A week later, as he sauntered shore ward, there camo to his ears a wildly sweet strain of melody. As lie listened in amazement, for he had seen no musi cal instrument about the place, ho be gan to realize that it was a part of Strauss' artist life waltzes that he heard a strain that he often whistled. He stepped round the jutting of the cliff, and there, leaning against the granite Wfdl, was Lizzie, her chin dropped care lessly on a little red violin, as she drew tho bow across tho strings. She flushed like a guilty thing when she saw Mo lntyre. " Youwhistled that the other day," she faltered, " and I liked it so much it haunted mo all tho time." He stepped forward. "Why, Lizzie I Is it possible you play like that without notes?" " I don't play much now," she said, drawing her dark brows over her eyes. " A party of ladies and gentlemen came here to visit the lighthouse once and overheard me playing. I heard one of the ladies say : The idea of a girl with a Addle 1 So I thought per haps it didn't look well." 'Not look well, indeed!" and ho laughed in merry scorn. Why, child, did vou ever hear of Camilla Urso ?" "No." " Well, she is a lady, aud she makes tho most exquisite inusio on a fiddle and thousands of people go to hear her. Why, Camilla Urso herself would listen with pleasure to your music, Lizzie," said Mclntyre, extravagantly. ' Who taught you to play?" "No one. This violin belonged to my father, and he learned me how to tune it. I pick up tunes that I hear, but I nover heard anything half so beautiful as the tunes I hear you sing and whistle." ' Mclntyro smiled; his repertoire of music consisted of snatches of operas, waltzes, rcdowas and German airs, which had dimly associated iu his mind with nights of brilliant gayety; aud he wondered dreamily how this pure minded, healthy-souled girl would look upon the elegant dissipation carried on by the set of which he was a favorite. A sudden glow warmed his heart as he thought that not one of the lino ladies who hud swung languidly through the mazes of that very waltz of the great composer's could have rescued him so bravely from the jaws of death as Lizzie had Lizzie, who stood there so quietly, with her little violin hanging from her breast, and her fingers straying lovingly over the btringa. " Tell me about Camilla Urso," she said, presently. " Did you ever hear her play ?" ' Yes, indeed I I have a paper in my trunk containing a little sketch of her life, which you mayread for jourself, and which w ill tell you better than I can of her talent." For a moment Lizzie's eyes met his own, a look of shame and distress gath ering iu them. " Mr. Mclntyre, that will bo of no use I cannot read." " Lizzio 1" , Her violin slipped from her grasp and would have fallen to tho ground had not Mclntyro caught it. and she cov ered her face with both hands. " But Lizzie," persisted her com panion, in some perplexity, " I do not understand. There are "good pnblio schools in the oity, and surely your lather must have known that it was his duty to give a girl like you an education, to say nothing of Neddie, who is growing up such a splendid young fellow." " It is very kind of jou to say such things of Neddie and mo ; we are com mon people, and ours is a common life. Neddie did spend two years with our uncle who lives in York State. Ho went to school there. But father doesn't think much of book learning." Aunt Jane never had time to help me, and Neddie is too restless to keep still long enough, I suppose." She continued quaintly, "You who live out in the world look at these things in a different way ; but I know of many who are just where I am. Why, there is a whole family on that island," pointing to a tiny speck away to the eastward, ' who cannot read or write. Once in three months, perhaps, they go to tho main land. I scarcely ever go. I suppose I shall always live here, and I am con tented I think," and a look of doubt gathered in her eyes ; " at least I was: But lately I have wished so much that I could read and had books for it is so lonely here iu the winter." "Well, dear child," Baid the young man, gently, "this gives me the priv ilege of paying my debts, doesn't it V" "Your debts?" echoed Lizzie, in sur prise. " Certainly. Did you not fish me out of the water a week ago? Well, now you shall put your six feet of driftwood to some service. I will teach you to read and to write." After that Mclntyre proved the most faithful of teachers, and his pupil made steady progress in her lessons. Neither was the violin any longer in disgrace. Lizzio played to attentive ears while learning a deeper lesson than cither at first realized. Mclntyro was the first to wake up. He was a man cf the world, and understood himself, or thought ho did, thoroughly. Accord ingly he started one morning for a stroll along tho beach to think it over. As the case now stands." ho solilo quized, as he lit a cigar and threw away the match, " it is either Lizzie or the world; and I confess tho -world has charms for me." His gaze wandered absently over the swelling waves, and lingered on a far off sail that dipped and rose, dipped again, until it sank below tho horizon. His lip curled involuntarily as he thought of the delicate ladies in his set, and how wretched they would make the poor girl'B life in their own high bred fashion. No but would they, though?" A faint amusement lingered in his face as he recalled Lizzie's rather stately carriage and stately dignity that redeemed her from being common place. He laughed out. " It would be fun to see her among all those peacocks. Poor Lizzio 1 What a shame that she has been neglected ! If she had received half the advantages of any one of my acquaintances she would have surpassed them all. Well, well, it is high time I returned home. I have been here six weeks. Yes, I will go away to-morrow and forget her, as she will forget me." So saying, Mclntyre threw away tho end of his cigar and started into a brisk walk along the shore, coming directly upon the object of his thoughts, who was pacing to and fro, drawing primitive musio from hei violin. She wore a scarlet jacket over her gray dress, and a white handkerchief tied over her head and under her chin. His heart throbbed faster at the sight of her. "Fool!" ho muttered, "to think I could leave her. Now, then my man, "'It's all for love, and the world well lost.' " Lizzie greeted his approach with a mile, but played to the close of tho strain before she spoke. It was a little German air that he had taught her. " Is that right?" she queried, aa she finished. " I cannot tell you." Then, meeting her look of astonish ment with his own earnofct gaze, he said: " Lizzie, will you care very much when I go away from here ?" Her eyes dropped, the red blood dyed her cheek and brow for a moment, and then faded away, leaving her quite pale. , " I think it will bo well for you to go," she said. "And why, Lizzie, will you tell me ? You need not fear to tell me anything," he added, as she hesitated. She looked away from him, and her voice was almost inaudible as she an swered: "Because because Oh, I cannot tell you I You know " "I have thought of going, Lizzie; but I realized to-day that I cannot leave you ever again, dear." Ho put one arm about her, but she drew away from him, trembling from head to foot. " Don't, Mr. Mclntyre ! I want to remember you kindly, and I cannot if you use such language to me." " For heaven's sake !" he cried, in as tonishment, " tell me, have I said any thing wrong to you? Is it wrong to love you ? If that is a sin, then I am the gteatent of binners " " 1 do not forget that yon are a gen tleman, and I but a poor, ignorant girl, who knows only what you have taught her." "But, Lizzie, I ask you to bo my wife, and you have not answered me. I do not boast when I say my suit would not be rejected in most families of high standing where I am known." "Ah, that is the idea," she exclaimed, hastily ; "if, as you say, you do care for me" she stammered a little over the words, 'you would soon grow weary of my stupid ways. I should shame you every day of your life, and your grand friends would wonder at your choice, and I Bhould die of homesickness." "With me, Lizzie ?" "Yes, even with you!" Btniling and blushing as she met his eyes. He laughed he was so sure of win ning her and kissed her mouth. "Well, sweetheart, I will live hero then, and turn keeper of the light after youi father. Will that suit you ?" "Don't deceive yourself, Mr. Mem tyre. We would not bo happy together, and think how terrible it would be bound together forever." He laughed exultantly and with a great deal of amusement. " Faith 1 I think it would bo a mighty pleasant thing. Come, Lizzie, you can deny me no longer. Do you not see that your own happiness de pends upon your answer? Now kiss me, dear, and tell me that vou will take the life you were so brave to savo into your own keeping." He drew her gently toward him, but she faced him suddenly, with great tears trembling on her long lashes. "Do you think it costs me nothing to refuse you you who have made my life so beautiful these few short weeks ? I am rude and ignorant such a wife would burden and disgust you in time. It is for your good that I refuse to ac cept what seems like a heaven to me." And then, swift as a deer, she flew along the shore, leaving Mclntyre to strutrgle between aDger, amusement and wounded self-love. All that day he tried to speak with Lizzie alone, but she gave him no opportunity. At last, in very despera tion, he tapped at the door of her father's room. Captain ClyAe was again suffering with rheumatism, and the young man found him in the easy chair, while Lizzie hovered about him. Captain Clyde," said Mclntyre, as he blocked the doorway with his broad shoulders to prevent Lizzie from escap ing, "I wish to say a few wcrds to your daughter in your presence, since she re fuses to grant mo that, privilege else where." " Say on, my lad, she would be proud to hear whatever ou have to say to her." Well, Lizzie, I will go away from here to-morrow, and Btay as long as you bid me. When the time is up I will return- to claim you for my wife. You shall seo that this is no idle, passing fancy." His eyes, grave and sad, rested on the girl's flushed face, and tho bluff cap tain's eyes widened in amazement. "Speak out, gal," he commanded " Havo you anything to sav to this young man, who woes you like a gen tleman ? Shall ho come or no V And Lizzie answered, with downcast eyes: "If he comes one year from this time, and still cares for me, I will be ready." "And is that all, Lizzie?" ho said, stepping toward her with outstretched arms, ' No, I'll be bound !" said the old man, with a sly twinkle in his eyes. " When I went courting, my little girl used to kii8 me." And reaching over he gave Lizzie a little push that sent her into the arms of her lover; where upon they all laughed, and Lizzie, after kissing Mclntyre, shyly Blipped from tho room. A whole year passed by, anoVnot un happily to Lizzie, who had faithfully endeavored to improve herself. She spent the winter " on the mainland," with some friends. She studied, read, watched the people about her, and, never coarse herself, despite her com monplaco life at home, she fell easily into the new groove. Although not un happy, tho girl's cheek wrs paler than of yore, and her eyes held i wistfulness that had grown in them since parting from her lover, for occasionally this thought crossed her dreams for tho fu ture: " He may notcome at all he may forget." But Allen Mclntyre was truer than most of his kind; for the early fall brought him again to Lizzie's house. VThile he waited in the old-fashioned sitting-room, the door was opened hes:'(, tatititfly, and who was this before him? Allen had left ayoungjpsy, magnifi cent in Ler way, with coal black braids and flushing eyes, -v et scarcely the figure for a drawing-room in her short gown and thick coarse shoes ; a daughter of the sea, sun-brcrwned und fearless. But this was this Lizzie? A graceful woman iu trailing robes, and the shin ing hair braided and coilod about her head, resting in a coronet a queen might envy, above the low broad brow. Paler than of old, her eyes downcast but shining softly through their happy tears, her mouth smiling triumphantly. Was this Lizzie ? Why, not a womau in all his brilliant throng he remem bered could compare with her, Every sunnier a handsome gentleman and hia dark-haired wife visit the light keeper's home ; and every fall they return to their stately home in a far away city, where the lady doe the honors of hor grand house with. a grace that charms all. And yet Allen Mclntyre laughingly aomsr hii wife of " fishing fcr Liui.1' CONFIDENCE MEN. How They Operate HetweenlNew York find l'hilndrlphla. A Philadelphia letter to a New York paper says: The bunko men who operate between this city and New York have been reaping a harvest of late. The leader of the gang has in foar instances represented himself as a nephew of AnthoDy J. Drexel or a member of the well-known banking house of which Mr. Drexel is the head. One of the victims was Mr. Evan Ran dolph, an experienced business man, whom ho swindled out of $110. Tho second was Mr. Hazlehurst, a leading member of the Philadelphia bar, whom he caught for $2,400. The third was Mr. J. A. J. Sheets, a prosperous lumber merchant, who lost $2,900 by his confidence in the scoundrel. The fourth victim is no less a personage than the Hon. George Sharswood, chief justice of the supreme court of Penn. sylvania. In the latter case, however, the amount involved was only $ 10 Th e story of this operation was given to your correspondent as follows : ,.As I was strolling up Broadway, in New York, a well-dressed young man addressed tne by some name not my own, which I do not recall, and seemed both confused and incredulous when I told him that he was mistaken. He, however, apologetically said that I bore a striking resemblanceto the gentleman who he supposed me to be, and that he wouid be grateful if I would tell him who I was. I gave him my name, and he left me with every mark of courtesy. I had not gone much further when an other gentleman, youthful, well-dressed and of remarkably pleasing manners, crossed the sidewalk toward me, and extending his hand, addressed me bj name and professed to be delighted to have met me. His face did not seem unfamiliar to me, but I could not re call his. name, and I supposed my puz zled look led him to relieve my mind, as he said : Ah, I see you don't remem ber me I am F. A. Drexel, Jr. I have been studying art in Paris, and returned only last week.' ne then asked many questions about the welfare of promi nent Philadelphians, with whose names, occupations and social standing he seemed thoroughly familiar. He also conversed very interestingly on art matters abroad, mentioning incidentally that he had been an extensive purchaser for the account of his uncle's as well as himself. We walked uptown, chatting thus pleas antly, and not a suspicion that my com panion was not what he represented himself to bo entered my mind. At length he mentiomd that he had just received a very expensive painting from Paris ono for which Belmont's and Vanderbilt's agent had bid against him, but which he had bought for 50,000 francs. 'It was a very steep price, and I don't know how father and Uncle Tony will like it,' he faid. He then invited me to look at his treasure, which, he said, was only a block or two away. Nothing was occupying me particularly at that time, and 1 consented. Turnmp; down one of the cross streets we came to a handsome brown-stone house, into which we entered after Jinging the bell. While we stood on the steps my com panion told me that he had drawn the grand prize, 11,000 fiancs, in a lottery designed for the benefit of some Pari sian art association, and was only wait ing in the city for the moniy to come to hand. He then would go to Phila delphia and visit his relatives. The door was opened by a liveried porter, and we were admitted to a saloon parlor that seemed to havo been turned into an office. Mr. Drexel introduced him self to the gentlemanly individual who occupied the desk, and said that he had brought me.mentioning my name, to see his famous picture. The gentlemanly individual was sorry that the picture had just been sent to Philadelphia, and he showed tho express receipt in con firmation. Apologizing for tho disap pointment, my companion made a move as though to go away, when tho gentle manly individual, after a brief consulta tion of what seemed to be a book of ontry, said : 'Mr. Drexel, 1 received the remittance of your grand prize, 11,000 francs, this morning. Hero is tho money,' and he counted out what teemed to be that amount. The gen tlemanly individual then suggested that it would be well to take some tick ets in another lottery drawing for the benefit of somo other art association. Drexf 1 was willing. He said ho patron ized such schemes lor the benefit of art, aud always turned his prizes over to deserving artists. I had scruples against such methods, but he insisted, and T handed him $10. Then they brought out a numbered chart, and gambling implements. I saw at once that the whole thing was a trick and device, and I repossessed myself of the $10 which I had given my companion, and which was lying on the table, and made my way out of the room without opposition. The psoudo Drexel came along, and agreed entirely with mo in my estimate of tho character of the place. I still had confidence iu him, losing it only after suits had been brought to recover money falsely so obtained ." Money often leads men astray. Some of them will run after a dollar ; but a hound doar is more avaricious. Ho will follow a bcent. I5y contracting a severe cough aud cold, I was conipf llej to give up my daily work and l.iscp to tlio Uoutso. A uuiglihor rii.-omiuemUd ii. o to try a bottle of Dr. hull's Cough Syrup. It wai procured and usoJ ; to luy astoiiislmu ut i !iuf Vili mnUuituiU'OUd. 1.UW. W. Ouyto, Waverly, MJ. Dr. Holland's Last Verses. The following verses appeared In the Touth'$ Companion, over Dr. Holland's signature, and they have a peculiar interest, in viow of his death: If life awake and will never ceane On the future's dietant shore, And the roc o of love and tho lily of peace Shall bloom there for evermore Let the world go round and round, And the sun sink into the sea; For whether I'm on or nnder the ground, t h, what wilr matter W me ? , HUHOIl OF T11E DAY. President Arthur weighs 215 pounds, David Davis, 315. Total, .530, The government is no oh a solid 'founda tion. " I'll jump at the proposal I" said tho lively Miss Lulu. "Lulu, my ' dear," remonstrated her mother, "re member this is not leap year." The Fisk University negro singers were refusfed accomodation at - i ouj? Toronto hotels. As soon as this be came known, a number of wealthy white famlies tendered their hospital ity. The washerwomen at St. Petersburg , cannot wash the buttons off the Czar's cast iron shirt. This is about the only consolation the Czar derives from the situation of affairs in his unhappy do minion. Should a man shave up or down?" asked Angustus. " That depends," re plied the barber. When I shave you, for instance, I always shave down." Tho emphasis on the last word nearly broke Augustus' heart. It was a Boston girl who asked : Why is it that two souls, united in the impenetrable mystery of their nativity, float by each other on the ocean currents of existence without being instinctively drawn together, blended and beautified in the as similated alembio of eternal love?" That is an easy cne. It is because butter is dearer and a good sealskin sack as high as $500. The neces scries of life must experience a fall in price before two souls will readily blend in the assimilated alembio and so forth. SCIENTIFIC NOTES. The precision of modern engineering is forcibly illustrated by tho recently accomplished feat of picking up a long unused ocean cable from a depth of 2,000 fathoms. The Bcientifio engineer ing which locates a fault with so much exactness and so readily finds a mere thread two miles under the sea must, add much to the security and value of ocean telegraphic property. In his address at the York meeting of the British association Professor Huxley predicted that fifty years nence, or in tho centennial year of the associa tion, whoever undertakes to record tho progress of paleontology will note the present time as the epoch in which the law of succession cf the foripa of the higher animals was determined by the observation of paleontolgical facts. Experiments by German scientists in ascertaining the peculiarities of the electric light, establish the fact that it is not only healthier than other methods of illumination in leaving the air purer, but that it increases the power of the vision in some respects, especially in distinguishing colors. Bed, green, blue and yellow are modo much more distinct and marked under this light than by daylight. When the earth in which a plant grows is much warmer than the air the plant grows very thick, ceases almost altogether to increase in height, and finally shows deep transverse rifts which make further growth an impossi bility. These effeotswere produced by M. Prilleux, who used a largo dish 'cf earth, in which he planted tho seeds, and kept the earth ten degrees warmer than the moist air of the chamber. Tho Monileur Industriel, in an article on tho influence of temperature on the resistance of steel, statos that it is the presence of phosphorous which is the main cause of the variation in strength. Iron, which contains none of it, main tains the same breaking strain in various temperatures, and gave only a slight variation of the limit of elasticity. It follows from this that one of the best means of avoiding the breakage of wheels, tyres md axles of cars and loco motives is the employment of pure steel free from phosphorous. Throwing Up the Brick?. A correspondent in Germany writes: German bricklayers do not carry the bricks up in a hod. They are generally thrown up. One man stands at the pile iu the street, and one man is placed on each staging to throw to the man above through a hole iu the scaffolding. By this succession of relays bricks are thrown np five stories. I have never seen a "muff" made, but I usually watched the game from the other side of the street. Another custom con nected with house building is for the owner to give an entertainment to the workmen when the walls are up. Tho fact is advertised to the community by a great crown of flowers placed upou the top of the building, with numerous flags aud decorations. Work is sus pended for the day, and the workmen meet the owner and the invited guests around tho festive board, au I afterward tlance with their wives and daughters. It is well known that tho Germans have us i"1 "v holidays as possible.
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