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VOL. XVIII. NO. 18.
TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19. 1885.
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THE SWIMMER.
Lord of two elements, with bounding heart,
And tingling blood, and mighty strength of
11ml.,
Stroke nfter stroke, ho swiftly cleaves apnrt
The lambent emornld waters bearing htm.
Or diving through tho vast, dim under
world, He seeks the fnhled mormniils hidden there,
Rising to shake his looks all spray-om-pearlod,
And draw a lone breath of the summer air.
Again he idly floats a lit tle space,
Lotting the lucent weight of each cool
wave,
Caressing as a kiss, his happy face
And all his outatrotched length of body
lave.
Thon from a height, with free, exultant
spring
Ho dives ngnin, and feels himself a king.
Julia Iitlo Yountj, in the Current.
AT THE STAKE.
A STOUT OF THE MIDDI.K AOES.
"To thestako with her! Away with
the sorceress! God's curse bo on licr
lot her evil doings?" shouted iho mob.
It was cnrly morning, yet even at that
houi tho judgment hall of tho littlo
town of Rourtlonnis was thronged with
the populace. Men, women and children,
old and young, tho noblo and tho
burgher, priests, soldiers find common
people, crowded tho spacious hall and
cried madly for her blond.
Tho evening before a icmnle, closely
veiled and attended by two servants,
whoso dnrk countenances bespoke tho
sons of Ethiopia, had arrived at Hour
donnis and put up nt ono of tho princi
pal hostelrics of tho place. Strange
rumors soon arose respecting heft Her
garb, her mien. ,hcr language and her
complexion were s:iid to bo thoso of
a Saracen, against which accused
race tho chivalry of Kuropo and tho
church itself warred in vain. These ru
mors gained additional strength when
the landlord of the inn where sho had
(topped wns heard to say that ho had
scon her practising sorcery, a charge
easily credited in that nge, and ono
which few, especially in a case like this,
had the hardihood to disbelieve. In less
than an hour the whole population of
tho town was about, surrounding the
hostelry, and crying out for vengeance
against tho sorceress. Such commotious
were both frequent and sanguinary in
that superstitious ago.
Tho soldiery, however, interfered by
arresting tho unsuspecting victim of
these rumors, and at an cnrly hour tho
Sirisoner had becu brought into the
udgmcnt hull to await the mockery of
trial.
"Answer me, daughter of Belial!"
said the judge, as soon as tho murmurs
of tho mob allowed him to be heard.
"Will you confess your crime? Speak,
or you diel Know you that tho rack,
aye I fire itself awaits you if your ob
stinacy continues?"
Tho prisoner wns a slight girlish crea
ture, sitting with her face buried in her j
bands, directly opposite, to the judge,
(she was apparently young and her ligurc, I
so far as could be seen through tho !
thick veil which shrouded her form, was ;
light and agile as that of a sylph. To
the judge's question she made no answer, i
Sho only shook her head despondingly,
and thoso nigh her fancied they heard
her sob.
At theso fearful words, repeated now
for tho second time, and growled forth
with an ominous fierceness, appalling
even to the hearer, the prisoner wns ob
served to tremble, whether with fear or
otherwise, wo know not, and lifting her
veil up with a sudden ctlort, she roso to
her feet, turned hastily uround to tho
'mob, and disclosed a countenance of
such surpassing loveliness to their gaze,
that even those who had cried out most
unrelentingly for her blood now shrank
abashed into silence, whilo others who
had been less eager for her condemnation
audibly murmured in her favor.
"What would yo havo of mo?" Bho
said, addressing tho judge, and for the
first time, standing unveiled beforo him.
"As there is a God in whom wo both
believe, I have told you only tho truth. 1
am a stranger, a foreigner, a defenceless
woman, but not tho less tho allinnccd
bride of one of your proudest noblemen,
"the count do Garonno."
The tone in which sho spoke was low,
but oh! how touchingly sweet; and her
words wero uttered in broken French,
with a perceptible Oriental accent. Loud
murmurs rose in her favor as she ceased
speaking. The tido was turning. But
the judge now spoke.
"Out on thee for a base slanderer of a
noblo of France and a ho'y crusader!
Thou the betrothed bride of Garonne!
As soon would the ciigle mate with the
vulture. I tell thee, woman, that thy
story of having been shipwrecked in
coming to France, and ot all thy train
having been lost except thy two Ethio
pian myrmidons, is a foul lie, and I am
almost minded to wring tho truth from
thee on the rack."
'I have snid it," said tho prisoner, in
a firm voice, for 6hc felt that her life de
pended on her firmness, "and if you will
give but one week, one littlo week, and
I will prove it before man us well as God.
I came from Syria in the tamo fleet with
my lord, but undercharge of his mother's
confessor now a saint in heaven! but
being separated by a (storm, in which our
galley was shipwrecked, I was thrown
unprotected on your shores. I am a
strauger here. My servants even have
deserted ine. I do uoouc harm, 1 plot
no treason. All I ask is to pass ou my
way. Oh!" sho continued in a burst of
emotion, "if you havo a daughter, think
what would be your feelings if she was
thu3 to bo set upon iu a strange land,"
and she burst into ten is. Agaiu the
crowd murmured iu her favor.
"Woman!" sternly interposed the
judge, unmoved by her emotion, "look
at tho Yictim of your sorcery, and seek
no longer to deceive us by your' lies.
Send forth Philip tho Deformed I"
At the words of tho judge, an official
bearing a white wand stepped into a sido
room, and in a moment reappearctl with
a cripple hideously deformod, whum the
populace recognized as tho land.lord of
tho hostelry. When confronted with
tho prisoner ho glared at her with a look
of demoniacal hatrod.
"Know you this woman?" asked the
judge.
"Ay, to my cost," answered the crip
plo. "It is through her incantation that
I am the being I am. It was but yester
dny she camo to my inn, attended by two
heathenish Ethiopians, whom I have
heard palmers from tho Holy La'nd say
are kept by the l'anims God's ban bo
theirs! I no sooner beheld her than I
recognized her to bo tho sorceress who,
three years ago, brought on mo the dis
ease by which I am crippled. I could
tell her among a thousand. The curse
of God light on her for a chi'id of tho
evil one," and tho witness gTound his
teeth together nnd glanced fiercely at the
prisoner. A low murmur of approval,
at first faint and whispered, but gradually
swelling into a confused shout, rose on
the nir as ho ceased.
"Ho is a perjured wretch," exclaimed
tho prisoner Avith energy, "whom my
scrvauts detected in an attempt to rob
my poor cdects; hence his malice nnd
this chnrco."
"Silence, woman," sternly interposed
tho judge, "or. clso confess. Will you,
n child of Belial, malign a Christian
man.'"
The testimony for the publican had
worked a completo change iu the flue
tunting feelings of the mob toward tho
prisoner, and tho words of tho jtidgo
wero answered back by a shout of ap
proval. The prisoner was seen to turn
deathly pole. Sho did not reply, how
ever, to tho question, but shook her head
despondingly, as if conscious that all
hope was over.
"Lead her away." hoarsely crowded
tho mob, while tho denso mass of peoplo
swayed to and fro in tho excitement, as
if they would have rushed on the de
fenceless victim.
"Again I ask thee, woman, wilt thou
confess!"
Sho shook her head despondingly,
buried her face in her hands and mur
mured something; perhaps it was a
prayer. The mob burst once more into
commotion.
"Whero aro tho servants of this
woman? let them be put on tho rack,"
said tho judgo.
"They have escaped," answerod an
oflicial.
"Vengeanco for tho sufferers by her
incantations!" hoarsely growled a voice
from tho mob.
Tho judgo no longer hesitated, but
yielding to tho popular current as well
as his own prejudices, sentenced her to
be burned at high noon of that very day.
A wild shout of exultation rose from tho
frenzied mob as tho scntenco was pro
nounced, but over tho din swelled tho
fearful cry. "To tho stake with her
away with tho sorceress."
It was a few hours earlier in tho same
day when a noble knight satin a hostlery
of the little seaport town of . He
was of singularly imposing cast of coun
tenance. His features were of the true
Norman outline, with a lofty intellectual
brow, bhaded by locks of tho richest
chestnut hue. Hischcek was embrowned
by a Syrian sun until it was of tho dark
est olive color, but tho clear white of his
forehead, which had been protected
from exposure by his helmet, betrayed
tho original purity of his complexion.
His form was tall and commanding. Ho
sat apparently absorbed in thought, but
was aroused from his rovcrio by the en
trance of a retainer.
"Are tho horses ready?"
"Yes, my lord," said the man.
"We will mount into the saddle at
once then; how far did they say it was
to Bourdonnis?"
"Six leagues."'
"Wo shall reach it beforo nightfall;
lead on."
Tho party which set forth from the inn
was a gallant sight to behold. Knights,
j squires, mcn-at arms ami otner retainers
j swelled the escort of the young count to
tho number of nearly four score, while
I tho pennous waving in tho air, and the
occasional sound of a trumpet cavo a
I liveliness to tho escort which attracted
tho attention of the passers-by of every
rank and sex, and drew many a sigh of
envy from them. But who might pre
tend to be the equal of tho renowned
Count Garonne, a crusader of untar
nished fame, a gallant still in the flower
of his youth nnd the lord of half a score
of castles scattered over the wide do
main of France.
At the head of tho proud array rode
the count himself, conversing gaily with
a knight at his side, whom he familiarly
called cousin.
"Aj', by St. Dennis!" said the count,
sho is a divinity such as even our sunny
provence doth not olTori. Such eyes,
such hair, and then, by my faith, such a
voice! It pained my heart to part from
my sweet Zilah but sho would have it
so nnd so she comes in company with
Father Ambrose and a score of my best
knights. Her maidenly modesty dic
tated this, and 1 was forced to submit.
Wo were separated, . however, by that
heathenish storm, and I suppote her
galley put into Genoa."
"I long to sco your princess, nor do I
wonder at your love, since she freed you
from a Moslem prison. I am all impa
tience to behold her but look at the
knave coining over yonder hill. He rides
like the fiend himself."
"Ay! and by (St. Dcnuis ho is a black
amoor; a scarcer thing here than in
Syria."
Even whilo they spoke the horseman
rapidly approached, and before many
minutes drew in tho rein of his foaming
steed at the side of the count, whom he
appeared to know. The recognition was
mutual. The man instantly spoke in a
strange tongue, and with violent ges
tures, while, with an agitated voice, the
count appeared to question him. But a
few minutes had elapsed, however, be
fore the count turned around to his
cousin, and exclaimed, in a voice trem
bling with emotion, but with an attempt
at composure:
; '""Zilah has been wrecked, and only
she and two of her train, with a few
common sailors, havo escaped. Her
strange companions, her foreign tongue,
but, more than all, tho accursed perju
ries of a thieving innkeeper, have
brought on her the chargo of sorcery, a
tumult has been raised, sho has been
arrested, and God of my fathers!
may even now bo suffering on the rack
or at the slake. Oh! why did I ever
leave her? But, if a hair of her head is
harmed, I will hang every knave of
Bourdonnis."
"Let us on at once, then; we may yet
arrive In time."
"Pass tho word down the lino," ex
claimed tho count. "On. knights and
gentlemen; we must not draw rein un
til we reach Bourdonnis."
After a few minutes of hurried con
sultation with the servant, who stated
that he and his fellow had escaped in
tho night of tho tumult, and each, by
different roads, sought the port where
they supposed the count to be, tho gal
lant array sot forward at a rapid pace,
nnd in a few moments nothing but a
cloud of dust in the valley and on the
hillside was left to tell of their lute presence.
It was already high noon in Bourdon
nis. A littlo out of town, in a gentle
valley, was tho place chosen for tho in
fliction of the horrid sentence. For
more than an hour indeed ever since
tho condemnation of the accused the
populace bad been pouring thither in
crowds, until now a vast multitude,
comprising nearly the wholo population
of the town, surrounded tho place of
execution and covered the encircling
hills like spectators in an amphitheatre.
At length tho procession came in sight.
First marched a body of soldiers; thon
followed tho magistrates of the town;
directly after appeared several monks;
and then, clad in white, with her hands
tightly pressed together came tho victim.
She made no answers, it was observed,
to tho words of tho monks on cither
hand, but ever and anon sho would
kiss a crucifix which she carried,
and raised her swimming eyes to
heaven. In that hour of bitter agony,
whut must have been her emotions !
She, tho daughter of an emir end tho
affianced bride of one of tho proudest
nobles of France, to be hissed at by a
mob, und end her life in unheard of tor
ments at tho stake! Oh! if her lover,
she thought, only knew her peril ! But
olas! he was away. Well might sho
raise her streaming eyes to heaven as to
her only hope, nnd well -might sho turn
away from the ministers of religion who
sanctioned her sacrifice and trust only
iu that cross which was her lover's gilft,
and tho emblem of the sufferings of one
whom that lover had taught her was the
only true God.
At length they reached tho fatal stake.
But if Zilah shuddered at its sight tho
feeling was checked before it could be
seen by the populace. Calm and col
lected, though pale as tho driven snow,
she stood proudly up whilo tho fatal
chain was affixed around her blender
waist, and with eyes upraised to heaven,
appeared to be only an indiffcicnt spec
tator, instead of the chief person in tho
fatal tragedy. Not a repining word
broke from her lips. Tho first agony of
death had passed away, and she steeled
her heart to her fate.
At length all was prepared. Over tho
vast assembly gazing on her, hung the
silence of the dead. Men's breath came
quick, and their hearts fluttered when
they felt that in another minuto tho aw
ful tragedy would bo begun. Every
eye was bent intently on the fatal
stako as tho executioner approached
with the fiery brand. For tho last time
Ziluli opened hereyes to tako a final look
on that earth to which sho was soon to
bill farewell forever. But what sent
that sudden flush to her cheek? Why
that cry of thrilling joy, the first audi
ble sound which hud left her hps i.ince
her seuttnee? Sho sees a troop of liery
horsemen, covered with dust and foam,
thundering over the brow of tho hill in
front of her, and in the very van of tho
array sho recognizes tho pennon of the
count ot Garonue waving in tho noonday
sun.
Onward camo tho rescuers. IIore on
horse, knight after knight, retainer fol
lowing retainer, they swept like a whirl
wind down the hill, shouting their war
cry, "Garonne a St. Denis and Ga
ronne!" tho panic struck crowd opening
to the right and to tho left before them.
Iu vain tho soldiery who guarded the
victim attempted to resist the rush of
the assailants. They might as well havo
withstood tho ocean surges in their
might. The shock of tho horsemen was
irresistible. Foremost among them,
cleaving his way like a giant, rode the
count himself, his tall figure and power
ful charger rendering him conspicuous
over all. Nothing could resist him.
He seemed like an avenging spirit come
to tho aid of the suffering victim, nor
were thoso wanting who saw in the sud
den appearance of tho rescuers, and
their indomitable courage, proofs of
supernatural agency. A universal panic
seized on the crowd. Soldiers ns well
as populace broke and fled. In a few
minutes the count had gained the stake,
when, springing from his steed ho
rushes forward, and with one blow of
his huge sword, had severed the chain
which bound the victim to the stake.
"Oh! Henri!" hysterically said the
rescued girl, as she sprang forward and
fell fainting into her lover's arms.
"Zilnh! God be praised that you are
eafet Curses on the villains. She faints.
Ho, there, water, you knaves, or I cleave
you to the chin."
But the maiden had only fainted from
excessive joy, and when restoratives
were applied, she speedily recovered.
Our story is done. The terror of the
populace, the humble apologies of tho
magistracy, tho merited punishment of
the perjured publican; and tho speedy
union of tho count and tho converted
princess aro they not all written in the
chronicles cf tho noblo house of
Garonne. Graham'1 1 Magazine.
SELECT 8IFTINGS.
Pilgrims were formerly called palmers, "
from the staff or bough of palm they
were wont to carry.
There are three lunatic asylums in the
United States which havo brass bauds
composed of patients.
The increase of suicide is scientifically
ascribed to the fastness of modem life,
to forced education, and to the increas
ing difficulty of existence.
The franking privilege was abolished
in Great Britain in 1840, nnd in the Uni
ted States in 1873. The discontinuance
of the privilege saved to the government
of this country $2,220,000 annually.
Six ounces of gum Arabic is said to be
sufficient for a day's rations when no
other food is eaten a diet common to
the Moors of Morocco during the season
when the gum of tho acacia tree is run
ning freely.
A remarkable specimen larely exhibited
to the London Zoological society was a
Brazilian snake which had partly swal
lowed a livo lizard. Tho lizard had
nearly succeeded in eating its way out,
through tho body of tho snukc, when
death overtook both creatures.
"Tho sorrowful tree," flourishing only
at night, is a singular vegetable of the
island of Goa, near Bombay. Half au
hour after sunset the tree is full of sweet
smelling flowers, although none arc to
be seen during tho day, as they close up
or drop off with the appearance of tho
sun.
Coal is an almost unknown luxury to
the Chincso of San Francisco. Their
mode of cooking is to have an empty oil
can serve ns a stove, upon which they
place their tea kettle or a cooking pan.
They start a lire with two or three small
sticks of wood, which they add to as
they burn, and in this way they manago
to establish a good degree of heat with
little expense.
In tho father's house the Roman father
had absolute authority over the son ; ho
could chastise, rjrt in chains, exile or
sell him as a slave; he had power of life
or death over him. The Bon's property
became the father's, he could assign a
wife to him, divorce him when married
or transfer him to another family by
"adoption." The son only escaped nnd
wns "emancipated" by a salo of his per
son three times repeated by his father.
WISE AVOKDS-
There is not a single moment in life
that wo can afford to lose.
Troubles spring from idleness, and
grievous toils from needless ease.
Adversity is tho trial of principle;
without it a man can hardly know
whether he is honest or not.
Ho that studies books alone will know
how things ought to be; and he that
studies men will know how things arc.
Sympathy is a Icllow feeling with any
ono in trouble; it can only bo fully
developed where like experience ex
ists. Base all your actions upon a principle,
of right; preserve your integrity of char
acter, und in doing this never reckon on
the cost.
Good is slow; it climbs. Evil is
swift; it descends. Why should we
marvel that it makes great progress in a
short time.
Thoughtlessness is never an cxcip-o for
wrong doing; our hasty notions dis
close, ns nothing else does, our habitual
feelings.
Let an independent thinker show a
fearless fidelity to his convictions, and
the shafts of bigotry and envy fall help
less and harmless at his feet.
The tiu in Crop.
This is a great gum year in Maine,
especially on the Penobscot. Tho logs,
knees nnd bark nro not tho only valuable
parts of tho great timber tree, for tho
gum is worth considerable even in its
rough state, just as it is hacked from
tho crotches of too old trees.
There are two or three firms in Maino
which buy large quantities of it from
lumbermen and gum hunters for the
purpose of refining it, as they say. Hut
as a general thing the refining consists
in adulteration with resin. They throw
it into a big kettle, bark mid all, and
boil it into about the consistency of
thick molasses, skimming the impurities
oil as they riso to the surface. Then, if
the purposo be to adulterate, some lurd
or grease and a lot of resin is added, and
in some cases a little sugar. The mix
ture then beccmcs thicker, nnd nfter
more stirring is poured out on a slab,
where, while it is yet hot it is rolled out
in a sheet about a quarter cf an inch
thick, nnd then chopped with a steel
dio into pieces half an inch wide, and
three-quarters of an inch long. Theso
pieces are wrapped in tissue paper and
packed in wooden boxes. Thcro are
liOO pieces in a box.
Some gum is treated in th's way with
out adulteration. The best gum comes
from no particular locality, but always
from tho biggest trees. The loggers, in
their many idle hours by tho camp tire,
whittle out miniature barrels from blocks
of cedar or white pine, hollow them out
and fill them with the choicest gum tho
woods afford for gifts to their sweet
hearts, children or friends wlicn they
"come down" in the spring. 1'ortUml
Me.) ltets.
THE MULTICAULIS MANIA.
BISB AcTD FAT,!, OF THE OB EAT
SILK-CULTURE CSAZ8.
A Year when mulberry Trees Were
1'la.nted In I : very Mate nursling
of th Rubble.
The year 1820 marked the origin of
the Moms multicaulis mania, which raged
as a fever from 1830 until it culminated
and collapsed in 1839. Congress had re
ferred an inquiry pn silk culture, in
1825, to the committee on ngriculture,
which, in 1820, ;reported in favor of its
promotion, etating in the report that the
imports of silk goods in 1825 were nearly
double tho exports of breadstuff's a
fact scarcelv credible now. Tho samo
year Gideon B. Smith, of Baltimcre,
planted there what is claimed to have
been the first .Morus multicaulis trco in.
America. The secretary of the treasury,
Richard Rush, was directed to provide, a
manual on silk culture, nnd the famous
"Rush Letter" was accordingly issued in
1828, together with several other treati
ses, and circulated broadcast. In 1H30
an article by a Dr. Pascalis, on tho Morus
multicaulis, in tho American Journal of
Science, directly started tho mulberry
fever. The Massachusetts legislature, ia
1831, provided for a manual of silk
culture, which was mado by a manufac
turer of Dedham, Mr. Cobb, and most of
tho States began to offer bounties and
premiums on trees, cocoons and. reeled
silk commonly ten cents a ponnd on
cocoons and fifty on silk. A Teport to
Congress in 1830 proposed a grant of
$40,000 to ono M. D'llomorguo for tho
establishment of a normal school of fila
ture at Philadelphia, where sixty young
men might have gratuitous instruction
for two years, and for traveling about
tho country to teach silk-growing to far
mers; and this "silk bill," though de
feated in 1832, and reported against ns
unconstitutional in',1835, would not down
till 1837, when still another committee
reported as a substitute a scheme to lenso
public lands without rent for cultivation
of tho mulberry-tree or tho sugar-beet.
The wholo country now went wild.
Tho fever seemed only to get fresh fuel
of excitement from the pa nic of 1837. Or
chards of the multicaulis were planted in
every State; farmers .everywhere set
their wives end children to feeding
worms; multitudinous books, public doc
uments, periodicals on silkcultnrc, consti
tuted the bulk of tho reading of the day ;
stock companies for' raising and manu
facturing silk sprang up like puff balls:
silk conventions were held, and a
United States silk society was organ
ized. A thrifty nurseryman on Long Island
gave help to tho excitement by a canny
plan. After selling a considerable sup
ply of trees to New England dealers, he
started off ono night by tho Providence
boat, and with great pretense of eager
ness mado tho rounds of all his custom
ers, excitedly ofl'ering fifty cents apiece
for trees. Of course he didn't get them,
but he presently was ablo to sell all he
had for a dollar instead of fifty cents
apiece.
In Burlington, New Jersey, over 300,
000 trees were raised; in December,
1838, offerings at one dollar per tree or per
twig were refused at Boston sales, and
five dollars was sometimes got for trees
one season old. It was satisfactorily
proved again on paper that an aero
of trees was good for $1,000 worth of
silk, but the price of trees had no re
lation to figures, even tho most rose
colored. One farmer sold $6,000 worth
of trees from three-quarters of an acre.
In a single week in Pennsylvania $300,
OOo worth were sold.
In 1839 tho bubble burst, and the bi
ters were bitten. Among them was the
speculative Long Islander. He had
caught the disease by whicli he had
profited, and had sent an agent to France
with $80,000 to buy a million more trees.
When they came, they were worth a part
of a cent apicco for pea-brush. Somo
speculators endeavored to get even with
fate by shipping a cargo from tho East
to Indiana by way of Now Orleans in an
unseaworthy ahip heavily insured, but
the goods unfortunately reached their
destination. Multitudes of meu were
ruined by tho crash. But Americans
havo a faculty of falling on their feet,
and some of tho unhappy mulberry-growers
of the thirtios became the successful
manufacturers of later days. Jlurjer'e
Magazine.
Photographing tho Dead.
Familiarity with corpses seems to harden
people, from doctors to undertakers:
and even photographers after death,
get to be as brutal in their treatment cf
the dead as do tho others. A friend of
mine saw a photographer arranging a
women to be taken after death, lie was
trying to make some drapery about her
hang to suit him, but it kept slipping
off; so ho took a big pin out of the cud
of his waistcoat and pinned the drapery
to tho flesh. Ho did not seem to think
that he had done anything out of tho
way, and when ho was spoken to, said :
"Why, what nonsense; sho can't feel
anything." Still I should always have
my impression about that photographer,
and doubt if he would not do t ho same
io a live person if he wero not afraid of
ihe consequences. J'hiladiljihiiu liecord.
The Dudo of Long1 Ago.
John Bath McMaster, tho historian,
thus describes the American dude of
1800: "Tho pantaloons of a beau went
up to his armpits ; to get into them was a
morning's work, and when in to sit down
was impossible. His hat was too small
to contain his handkerchief and was not
expected to stay ou his head. His hair
was brushed from the crown of his head
toward his forehead and looked, as a
satirist of that day truly said, as if ho
had been fighting an old fashioned hurri
cane backward. About his neck was a
spotted linen neckerchief; tho skirts of
his green coat were cut away to a mathe
matical point behind."
LI PE S DAV.
Into the field of life we pass
At early morn. The jeweled grass
With sunbeam? kissed'spreads nt our feet;
And youth, like morn, all pure nnd sweet
And bright is filled with rosy dreams;
While in the purple heavons gleams
The star of fortune and of fame,
Anil in its light we read a name
Oh, dream, most swoet, it is our own:
More glorious still, it shines alone!
The sun speeds on; the star no more
Is seen. Illusive dreams are o'er.
Fortune and fame so coy and fleet
But mock our weary, way-worn feet
Ambition's fairest prize has flown;
A name appears, but not our own.
What have we thon for all our pains?
For all our prayers! Are there no grains
Of good to show? Has all been lost
In that our cherished plans are crossed,
And dissipated each fond dream
As snow flakes melt within the stream?
Ah, no! Bee how our souls are filled
With wealth ot harvests we have tilled;
With meekness, patience, love and truth;
Blest springs of everlasting youth ;
Bright jewels of the crown within;
Ripe fruit of life's sharp discipline;
On whicli there dawns the twilight gray
Of day that dies not with the day.
George W. Crofts, in the Current,
IIUMOU OF THE DAT.
A woman may bo truo as steel, but
thon you know some steel is too highly
tempered. Paris Btacon.
Philadelphia girls aro learning to fid
dle. Poor things! It's their only way
to draw a bow. Binghamton litpubliean.
Adam and Eve were the only people
who never bewailed the successful days
of their ancestors. Waterloo Observer.
Alas, how easily things go wrong,
A pleasant drive with a girl along.
A whole month's salary gone to pot,
And a wailing cry for wnat is not.
Mervhant-Traveler.
Most men will stand a clip on the head
from a barber, nnd don't get extremely
mad if ho pulls their nose. St. J'aui
Herald.
Said he: "I always carry somo wood
with mo." Said she: "Yes, I always said
you would never lose your head."
Graphic.
Umbrellas in 1845, according to a re
ceut writer, weighed about three pounds
and a half. The men who stole umbrel
las in 1845 must have been quite muscu
lar. Neuo York Graphic.
"What is it?" shrieks a sensational
divino, "that puts out the lamps of hu
man joy?" Wo would timidly suggest
that tight boots can come about as near
doing that same as anything outside of
tophet we can call to mind. Chicago
Ledger.
A SAD EXPERIENCE.
Wly u to the picnic goes the dude
And leaves behind the dusty town,
And on an ant hill in the wood
(,Uiite unsuspectingly sits dovn,
What artist's iwiieil can portray
Tho sudden start, the frienziod mien,
The speed with which he hastes away,
To seek some lone, sequestered scene!
Boston Courier.
"Are you papa's boy?" "Yes, sir."
"And are yon mamma's boy?" "Yes,
sir." "But how can you bo papa's boy
and mamma's boy at tho same time?"
(After a pause) "Can't a nice carriage
have two norses?" Chicago Sun.
"I aw observe that you have a fine
collection of plants here," said a dude,
whilo making u call upon a young lady.
"So all my friends say," she said. "I'm
vewy fond of plants myself," he con
tinued ; "I'll venchaw to say you eannot
name my favowrite plant." "I think I
could," sho Baid, with an arch smilo.
"Pway name it, then." "Tbo thistle.
Huston Courier.
A Persian philosopher being asked by
what method he had acquired to much
knowlcdgo, answered: "By not being
prevented by shame from asking ques
tions when I was iguorant." According
to this notion, a five-year old boy travel
ing in the cars with his mother ought to
acquire enough knowledge in a journey
of fifteen miles to split his head wide
open. Jfurristoicn Herald.
''I wear No. 0" and she looked at her hand
'Twas the hand of a goddess even,
"Ami yours, 1 suppojo" and she shot him a
glance,
"Aru something over seven."
"No! only just over a six," he snid,
As he plai'ed his hand upon hers.
"Why, really," she laughed, "if that be iO,
You certainly ought to take honors. '
"Oh! give thorn to mo nnd I'll take them,
dtrnr."
She looked demure; nnd just heavens.
His mustache went rushing against her lips
'Twas a cose of sixss and sevens.
Hoston Globe.
Statistics of Suicides.
New York City 1880, 152; 1881,
100; 1882, 199; 1883, 159; 1884, 229.
IS FOURTEEN CITIES IN IS).
City. Population. i'uiri'.Vj. Ort in
London 3,;ii.l,.H'ji 354 i0,700
Ntv lurk l,Oo,57 .Vi mkhi
ll-rMn l,l,it') 80S 8,700
l'lnllillt'lllll M6,iM) OS 12..MK)
Vienna. IVli.lllS 3, '.HO
lihlii w ft-H.JSg 14
lti..i,yu f.-,,--: si ii,.Kq
r&lrutta 4)As.1 es T 400
Kox'uii Hi.'J.VU 4,1 fl.ll.KI
Ktliimoru :;:i.I9.) H 11.' 0
l'oM'iai'n It.'iWM ID Mut
tCliuburiiU S?.Mt T ((.now
Havre Mil, 11,10 II 4,300
Honolulu 14,114 S,4U0
IN BIX CITIKS IN ISfvJ.
Cit'K Population. ifuiVoca, Ona in
l.omlon .....4,100.000 ;iw lO.so
tw York i.nio.w I !SJ 8,m)
Itrriin l.MO.ooO 401 li.nou
iliiiiilnir 4..MMI l-S io
Uruasi-U ...... 40j,ooo 11 4.000
Alouicli lo,ooO ti 4, Don
In New York iu the eleven years end
ing with 18S0, 1,193 men and 328 women
committed suicide. These figures come
from Dr. Nagle, register vital statistics.
From some few of tho cities mentioned
doubtless the returns are incomplete.
Seat York Sim,