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TIONESTA, PA., .WEDNESDAY, FEB. 15, 1888.
S1.50 PEIi ANNUM.
Dr. Charles Terrell, of Fnstvicw, Va.,
recently chot a quail, tho plumage of j
which vm puro white A white qnnll i
la about as rare a tight as a blue monkey. I
The Mississippi Ilivcr hud been so low
the past year that steamboat men have
found It very dillicult of navigation, ami
are almost ready to abandon water trans
portation from St. Louis south.
There is no limit to the morbid curi
osity of somo people, as evidenced by
the fact that a showman has olTcrcd
$10,000 for tho body of I.lngg, the dead
Chicago anarchist, for exhibition pur
poses. It is regarded as a remarkable fact
that the Hcv. Dr. T. Do Witt Talmnge
dictates his sermons to his secretary at
the rate of ISO words a minutes. These
sermons are read weekly by millions of
people in this country and abroad.
It is cstimatod that pin factories in
England turn out 10, 00,000, 000 pins
yearly, and that other factories in the
Union bring the number up to 19,1100,-
..000,000. This is equal to about one pin
m Ann tn .......... :l.t. L....A .t. ;. 1
mii; iui luiinoiiaiil, lac cue CDIiecl
States. "
The London firemen are about to be j
uniformed for duty lu asbestos cloth, a !
material which has already been ud.iptcd I
by the Paris tire brigade with satisfac- i
tory results. Equipped in this incom- j
1.. .:!. I.. .... i a 1
vu.biuiu i,ii.tn:i, iiiu iireuiau is jiruc
tically master of the flames.
Taper, like electricity, has not begun
, i reach tho end of its rope. Paper
bottles are among tha novelties. Thoso
uie lighter than glass b.Htles and less
liable to break. Tho time may come
w hen a large portion of thcordina y arti
cles of the household will be made out
of paper.
A Chicago paper recalls an extraordi-
parv pi ce of account int work performed
byCahier Ilenrotin, of the Merchant's
. ' ,
Loan aud Trust to npany, just after the
"big fire. The books of tho banks were
entirely destroyed by the flames, but
with no datgj except the pass books of
the depositors aud his memory Mr. lleu
rotln restored n'l of the 1,500 accounts
so successfully that every depositor was
satisfied.
Thv feat has never been paral-
lalcd.
rastcur's method of innocu'at'on has
been simplified by a Hungarian physi
cian. Instead of taking the spinal cord
of an infected rabbit and attenuating
its poison by drying, Dr. Hoegyes takes
the spinal cord, rubs it up with water
containing chloride ol sodium, of which
n solution ol anystrengih can be made.
The dog is then immersed in this solu
tion, and after fko or six immersions in
tho bat a secures "complete immunity
from rabies."
This is not the first period in the
world's history when great men have
lived to ripe old age. Oeorgo Washing- !
ton was rot far from thrco score ami ten
when ho died; and his great antagonist,
George III., died at tho ago of 8'..
Thomas Jetferson lived to be 83, and
Madison to be 83. A large number of
the men who have played leading parts
in building up our .country, from the
Involution until this time, have enjoyed
many years of life.
The year 1887 was oue of almost unprc
re lented railroad construction and earn
ings. According to the Jltilimy .I,,- near
ly L'1,000 miles of roud were built, at an
expense of about :l2.'5,OltO,000, or S'.'.'i,- I
000 per mile. Five hundred and forty- J
five million tons tT fvjii.rl.f .,,.....!
v. nviu IHVl I CUi I
and from month to moiitli the reports of I
earnings have shown steadily increasing I
figures over the corresponding period of
the previous year, which was also a yeur
of favorable earuius.
-
A Boston woman of brains has invent
ed a new way of making herself useful
and making money at the same time.
She studies the newspapers, posts herself
on what is going on iu the worl 1, use
the scissors freely, pastes, writes, aud
icvisus careiuny unui sue lias a con
densed digest of the live topics of the 1 mau- ytars il llai1 "een fllvori, "P
day. This she reads to a class of wealthy I KhJsand Com'hcT f
women, who pay her well for ftirnishiii
them with information concerning what
they ought to be ablo to talk intelli
gently about.
What startling results oue finds in our
railway statistics f We have 340,000 miles
of tracks enough to girdle the earth u
dozen times, with several thousand
miles left for sidn-tracks. More than
half of these lilies were laid dowu at a
cost o" f,0i)0,000,000 enough to pay
the public debt four times over. There
are 50,000 engines, 80,000 passenger
coaches, and a million freight cars, mid
over 4,000 Jiateuts' huvo been tuken
oat for inventions iu railway ma
chinery and upplances. Every year
300,000,000 tons of freight re carried.
For moving this freight tho companies
receive an average of i.i'J cents per ton
per mile, and for each passenger carried
thev get 2.61 reuts per mile. It requires a
hulf million employes to run all these
roads. And yet it was only fifty-six
years ago that Peter Cooper run I he first
team cur fiom Baltimore to Ellicott's
Mills ut the unpara k-led speed of a mile
in tvery tour and a third minutes
PEPITA.
Up in her balcony where
Villus through the lattices run,
Spilling a scent on the air,
Betting a screen to the sun,
Pair as the morning is fair,
Rweot as a blossom is sweet,
Dwells In lior rosy retreat
Tepita.
Cften a glimpse of her face,
When the wind rustics the vine
Parting the leaves for a spar
Gladdens this window of mine,
Pink in its leafy embrace,
Pink as the morning is pink,
Swe t as a blossom 1 think
Peplta.
1 who dwell over the way
Watch where I'epita is hid
Bafo from the glare of the day
Like an eye under its lid;
Over and over I say,
Name like the song of a bird,
Melody shut in a word,
"Pepita."
Look where the little leaves stirl
Look, tbo green curtains are drawn!
There in a blossomy Llur
breaks a diminutive dawn;
Dawn and tho pink face of her,
Numo like a l.sp of the south,
Fit for a rose's small mouth,
I'epita I
frank D. Sherman, in The Century.
TOM'S EXPLOIT.
'Alloo ? 'Kud 'im holt I 'Bad Mm
ho(T I There hain't henny meat hat the
station 1"
" English Tom," as tho boys called
him, w, a tenderfoot if ever there was
one. lie went from Castle Garden to
Galveston, Texas, and then came direct
ly to the far frontier, where he was em
ployed at one of the stage statii ns. lie
had not been in the country over a month,
and therefore was new to the ways of
tho people, and also to lifeon the border.
At that time the s:ago line extended
from Fort Worth. Texas, to El I aso,
pas.-cd on westward through .New Mexi
co and Arizona, and had its western ter
minus at San Diego, Cal. Branches ex
teuded from San Antonio to Fort Con
cho, ami liom Mesilla, N. M., northward
tllr,,llfl th'it Teriitory to Colorado, but
V,,'"- 'rt rVrth' hen
quite u litllo city, to San Diego, a d is-
tame of about 1, M0 miles. This was
the longest stage line in the world. And
what a country was traversed by those
heavy, rocking couclus with their four
wild mules 1
i: rom Fort Worth to El Paso, a dis
tance o ,00 miles, there was not a town.
The lirst place of any importance west of
fort Wo. th was 1 ort Concho, over U'OO
miles uway, and one of (lie frontier out
posts. About every thirty ra les was a
stajje "station," occnpied'by a "station
keeper," a "slock tender" and a guard of
about, four or five soldiers. Further west
was Stockton, still further Fort Dav.s,
and then 1.1 Paso. A few saloout, a
umber of gambling places and a store
or tw.i comprised tho ' town" at each of
th;se forts; but all iilnn that stretch of
,0 i miles there was Bt human habita
tion ( xcept the stage stations. The four
or live so.diers at each station acted as a
guard in case Ind ans a tacked the place,
as tl ey often did. J-ach stage also car
ried one soldier, who sat bes de the
driver, and who was supposed to repre
sent tlio l nited Stales jinny in case the
cou h was ambushed by Indians or at
tack d by road agents. The drivers drove
about sixty mi. e. Every other station
was a "sw ing'' station, where the mules
were changed. a'ld pve:y other station was
a "borne" one. where the drivers livel,
stopping at ono "home" station when
going west and tho other when going
cast. Life at these far oiittiosts of civiliza
tion was drea' y and monotonous enough,
but st II it had sonic simple pleasure.s.uud
not intre.iueotly hardships and pet i Is.
The second station west of Fort Davis
was a "home," nn I was called Van
Horn's Wells. The stage company had
spent considerable money on, or rather
iu these wells, but at a depth of about
two hundred feet they were as dry as at
the top. The next station westward was
Eagle Springs, and here was a large
spring of clearest water. The distance
between the two stations was twenty,
two miles, and two men were constancy
employed hauling water from Kngle
-i r " OHn"J mw mvtl llliu unites lib
Vsu ""rn's Uulls- The poorest mules
fU Jom?? with
oprmgs to supply tue men and mules at
iuib wilier-WHLfou iour oroKen.oown
animals that could not, by any possible
urging or abuse, be induced to go faster
than a veiy slow walk. The wagon was
a common alfair, containing barrels that
were tilled through the bung. The road
between the two stations led along gul
lies and wa-houts where the tall grasses
aud bushes afforded easy ambuscades.
Sometimes it led through "small canyons,
whe e tho Indians had been known to
hide behind the rocks and shoot the men
on the wagon. The only water in that
region was at I agio Springs, and for
Apa
"tiiglin Join' mado his appearance
at Van Horn's Wells in the summer of j
1877. The first thing he did upon arriv
ing at the station was to become the pos
sessor of a wolf-skin cap, with a long
tail hanging down the ba k. The boys
told him, that the cap was the proper j
thing, and so he sweltered and suffered i
and wore it. i
Indians had murdered the driver of 1
the water wagon, and the company had !
considerable dilliculty in getting any
one to undertuke the dangerous aud
monotonous task of hauling water to the
men and animals at Van Horn. Finally
"White Buffalo," a reckless vounsrehan.
who hud lost his last cent with the inoute
players at port Pavis, was induced to
tuke the p'uee at double pay, and "Eng
lish Tom" was sent to till the barrels
with water and help "White Buffalo."
The latter smiled when he saw his as
sistant, but said: "He'll do, I reckon.
I'll try him anyway."
A coyote hud jumped up from some
bidding place near the road and started
awav with a long lope. "White Buffalo"
rea bed for his rifle, but "English Tom"
sprang from the wagon, waved his wolf
skin cup iu the air, and started after the
fleet footed coyote as fast as he could
run. 'I hen it was that he exclaimed:
"'Eud im holf! 'Lad 'im huff! There
lnvu't heny meat hut the station I"
The rifle dropiMtd lrou White Buffalo's
hand and he fell on the teat in fit of
laughter that threatened to result in
serious convulsions. It would be easier
to catch an antelope than a coyote, and
even if it had beeu shot no tivilzed man
ever heard of eating one.
Jinny a joke was played on "English
Tom ' during the weeks that followed,
and his mistakes and absurd blunders
seemed to promise a fund of inexhausti
ble fun for the drivers. Bcdde the bovs
felt a strong contempt for the Knglish
man, for it was thought ho was some
thing of a coward. Hut there came a day
when the lives of a dozen men depended
t'ti'in Knglish Tom, and he nobly did his
duty.
'1 lie summer had nearly passed away,
no more Indians had been seen, and the
Superintendent was thinking about put
ting a cheaper man in White Buffalo's
I dace, when one morning tho station
leeper at Eagle Springs found Indian
sigi.s near the water, lie dared not fol
low the trails any distance, but waited
until later in the day when White Buf
falo and Knglish Tom arrived. The
former made a careful examination of
the footprints around the spring. Then
he saddled a mule, and, without faying
a word, rode away, English Tom tilled
the barrels with water, and then the men
went into the station and eat in silence
and waited.
The sun sunk behind the hills along
tho ltio Grande. Soon tho "too-hoo,
too-hoo" of owls echoed dismally
through the canyons.us if the birds knew
there was trouble in the air, and the
men in the rudo cabin looked at each
other. One tried to tell a story and
another essayed a song, but the story
fell tlat and the singer lost the key.
Then they relapsed jnto silence. The
station-keeper was the first to speak of
the thing tlicy were all thinking about.
'I wonder if he will try to 'pipe' 'cm.
It will bo risky to eomc back on the trail,"
ho uaid. Tho bari-.or had b.'en broken,
and they freely discussed the situation.
Would White Uutfalo endeavor to fol
low the Indians in order to ascertain if
they were only passing through tho
country, or would ho make a Ktill hunt
in case they contemplated an attack on
one of the stations or on a stage- onch?
i i.ey were sure there were nt least a
dozen Indians in tho baud, and perhaps
there were more.
It was about midnight when they
heard the feet of the mule iu the rocky
gulch. White Bullalo stripped the sad-
j die from the steaming au.nnil, turned
the tired beast into the corral, and came
in. His supper had been kept hot, and
I he sat down to eat with a very serious
' face, but without saying a word. Eng
j lish Tom was highly excited, and finally
! burst out with: "I snyl You know, hold
J fellow, count you tell bus ha bit habout
I tho blooming Hindians, you knowr"
i "Not much to tell, ' said White Buf
! falo. "1 here's tilty of them, and twenty
; of them didn't cross the range. They're
; ou foot, and will piobubly try to get the
1 stock here or at Van Horn. They may
j try for the mules on the water wagon,
j but I don't reckon they'll attack the
stage.
I i'ue men took turns standing on guard
I that night, and early the next morning
White buffalo and Knglish Tom started
for an Horn with tho water wagon.
I Tho latter drove the four sorry and lay
mules, and White Buffalo stood up in
the frpnt end of the wagon with his rille
in his' hands. He kept his eyes on every
I bush and ro. k near the road, und several
times he left the wagon to scout ahead
' tuiough some little canyon or gulch.
! They nad traveled to a poiut within a
: few miles of tho station when he laid a
hand on Tom's shoulder and pomud to
a range of low hills about tin ce miles
ahead. In that clear atmosphere ob
jects are visible at a great distance, and
a party of Indians could be read.ly seen
descending toward the Nation.
"The boys at Van Horn don't know
there are Indians about, and I'm afraid
they'll be caught off their guard," said
the frontiersman. "Pull up the mules.
They don't see us, and maybe they'll get
behind that butte directly."
Then the men waited and watched the
Indians trail out of sight behind one of
the hills. After that they tried to get
somo speed out of the mules, but the
load was heavy and the mules old, aud
weak, una lazy. White Buffalo was
about to suggest that they mount two of
the auimtls and try to reach the station
ahead of the Indians when bang! bung!
a dozen rifles spoku from the high
gra s that lined tho gully. White
Buffalo swayed a moment as he stood,
tried to bring his ritlu to his shoulder,
but staggered, and then plunged head
first out of the wagon, dragging his rille
with him. Two of the mules were shot.
Tho others stood still. English Tom
sprang from the wagon and raised his
companion. A wave seemed to pass
over White Buffalo's face, as a strange
look came into his eyes. He sat up.
He laid his Winchester across one of t no
spokes of the wheel, and as the Indians
sprang out of their ambush he fired
once, twice, thrice so rupidly that one
could hardly have counted the shots.
Three Indians fell, and the others,
takeu by surprise, jumped back into the
gully. English Tom sprang beside the
wheel mule und b; gau stripping off its
hurnea. Meanwhile Wh te Buffalo was
fii iug rapidly and the Indians began to
retreat, 'loin tried to induce White
Buffalo to mount the mule, but the lat
ter only said :
"Hide, you blamed idiot 1 ride for your
life and theirs:"
The old mule was getling excited, but
English Tom held her. Then he bodily
mica uis companion 10 ner uacK, sprang i
on behind himself, and jabbing his heels
into the animal's ribs, started on a swing
ing gallop.
It was no easy tusk to hold a wounded
and dyinir man on the mule, but Tom
did it- They ha I approached within
hulf a mile of the station, uud Tom could
see several of the men sitting uuder the
shadow of the cabin and playing cards.
He was about to yell ut the top of his
voice to attract their attention, when
once again the litesof umbushed Indians
spoke from their hiding place. He had
been intercepted by the Indians they
had seen before the wai;on was attacked.
Hang! bang I went the rifles aud bam.'!
bang! replied Engli h Tom's six-shooter.
Once the mule stumbled. It had beeu
hit, but did not fall. The wounded man
hung on sumeho v, and Tom emptied his
pistol with a rapidity and accuiaey no
one supposed him capable of. The liht
was over iu a few seconds. The mule
had not let up on h s gallop, aud iu a feu
more bounds would have carried ita
riders to safety, but a ball found its
heart and it plunged to the ground,
hurling the two men over its head.
Wh te Butralo lay where he fell, but
English Tom was up in an instant, and
standii g boldly beside his fallen com
rade he poured a steady fire from White
l.u alo's " Winchester," which the latter
had slung to a strap. The men at the
station heard the tiring and came to the
rescue on the run. 'Ihe Ii.dinns re
trca ed on seeing their approach, but
fired a parting volley, and Knglish Tom
fell.
They found him lying on his ba-k. A
ball had struck him full in the center of
tho forehead. Tenderly they carried
him to tho station. They buried him
nenrthe house, and many an eye was wet
with tears as they heaped stones over his
grave. White Buffalo eventually recov
ered from his wounds. Nobody knew
the poor Knglish boy's truo name, none
knew his people, but on the pile of stones
White Butralo erected a neatly painted
slab bearing these words :
Here Lies the Body
"Knuisb Tom.'1
of
He Was Only a Tenderfoot, but Ha :
Lost His Life to Save Those :
Who Have Krected This :
tslab in Honor of :
His Memory. :
Bept 2-', 1SS7.
Chicago Mail.
National Capitol rages.
For years it has been tho privilege of
the pages in the Capitol at Washington
to n:ukcquitea lot of pocket money each
session in collecting autographs. The
pages of tho Senate, for instance, will
toileet the signatures of all the Senators
in an album, turn the book over to some
youngster in the House, who gets the
Congressmen's names, then to one of tho
pages in the Supreme Court for the auto
g.aphsof the Justices, and finally to the
riding pages of the Senate who are con
stantly going between the Capitol, the
White House, and the several depart
ments and bureaus of the Government.
The latter tret the names of tho I'resi-
i dent, the Cabinet and the other promi
nent o.i.c.uis. r or such a collection the
boy who starts the book has received
whatever he could get out of his cus
tomer, trusting t Ins own sharpness and
the latter's generosity. Wheu begets
his money aud if 10 is the usual price
he settles with the other pages who havo
assisted him, on such terms as they were
witling to make. The ordinary terms of
settlement have been $5 to the contrac
tor, $ 1 to the House page, 2 to the boy
who gels the President and Cabinet, aud
fl to the youth in the Supreme Court.
But an equal division of profits is now
demanded by tho boys. I took an album
wh ch had been sent me by a friend In
the West to one of the Senate pages the
other day, and asked him to get the au
tographs of tho statesmen for me as ho
had done before. I had formerly paid
him (10 for such a job, but he informed
me that the boys had organized a union
aud had advanced the price to if 15. He
said that the "kids'' in the House kicked
because the Senate boys were making
more money than they, and had struck;
so it became necessary to organize and
have a stated card of rates.
"Don't you see," he said, "people who
want autographs somehow always come
to the Senate first. We have got for
getting the names of sevemy.six Sena
tors, and havo given the 'kids' iu the
Seuate $2 for getting 32 i names. Wheu
they happened to catch on to a job they
got the if i of course, and gave us two
for the Senators' autographs, but for
every one book they get we get a do -en,
and they kicked about it. So we had to
agree to pay them as much as we got our
selves. They won't torn h a book less
j than fr. There was a kid in the House
who cut under them, and got some names
not long ago for 3. but wheu the other
boys found it out they got hold ot the
book and tore out the leaves." ye,c
Ymh Trtlun.
Scenes of Cai na?e at the Pyramids.
Long after Barneses II., Cambyses
came, and on the pyramid plaiu con-,
quered the Egyptians, mutilated the face
of the Sphinx and broke into tho true
outlines of the pyramids ruthle-s con
queror, vandal and destroyer that he
was. Twenty-four centuries after, Na
poleon, with his conquering hosts, met
the gold-covered Mamelukes, who, rid
ing as swift as the wind and as a flame
of fire, hacked the bairelsof the French
guns with their bladesof Damascus steel.
It was like a blazing volcano. All was
Miiol.e and blood and mutilation, as
though an earthquake hud come.
Drooping their heads to the sa Idle-bow,
the feaness Mamelukes rode forward and
met the awful volleys of the invader, but
only to sink in .the sand. Without
horses then, nnd laying upon their
bucks wounded, they cut at the legs of
the enemy with their keen sabtes, never
yielding until conquered by death.
And there, close to the Sphinx, ouo
can see now the very place whence came
up the clouds of smoke and flame amid
the yells of the demons who fought,
where lay the masses of deol and dying,
w in re the depleted ranks of the victims
moved along with bri-tling arms and
broken stuudurds -moaning uud sw irling
like the sea that refuses to be quiet after
the storm. .V ribmt'i.
The Annies of Europe.
"Tho bloated armaments of the great
military poweis of Eurone" disnluv iheir
proportions in a very striking maimer in
Cu.oucl Vogt's work on "Tho European
Armies of the I reseut." The mobilized
strength of France is set downat '.',o.".l,
l.iS troops, exclusive of the territorial
army, which is equally lurue; tiiat of
liiis'sia at 1,1122,-10.1; liermauy, l,-iJ3,ti!'0;
and Austro-Ilungary, 1,0. io,!!.!.',. Tho
military strength of Italy has now at
tained proportions that would have beeu
deemed incredible ten j ears ago. Includ
ing militia, it is said to amount to 2,:s. ,.
:- - mcu. If, ho.vevcr, a similar iuclu
sionbemade iu the ca e of ilussia, the
unlituiy strength of that power will
probably be lound to exceed evcu that of
the I'ren h republic. Compared with
these figures the numerical pio.iortions
of the Bliti h Hrmy ought almost to sat-i-fy
the members of toe Peace Society.
Including our mi itia uud volunteers, ut
well us the Indian army, we can u.-t
mu ter TSI.ii", troops. And tlieso have
to stne for the defence of territory dis
i ribu'.ed overu very much wider area than
bat ruled by any of the other powers.
.iki Cvurt Jvuma!.
BOWSER AND A BURGLAH
THeiR MIDNIGHT MBEETINO DE
SCRIBED BY MfiS. BOWSES.
The Appearance of nn Intruder 8 ul
denlr Taken the Courage Oat ot
Her Hons! fill Husband.
For some weeks past I have been ner
vous about burglars, but every time I have
suggest d that we ought to have a bur
glar alarm he has replied :
"liosh I Burglars know what houses to
enter."
"But we have something to steal."
''Certo'nly we have, but no burglar is
going to enter a house when he knows
that the owner stands ready to shoot
the top of his head off. Don't you
worry about burglars. '1 hey all know
mc, and know enough to keep away
from me."
Then Mr. Bowser crossed his hands
under his coat tails and walked up and
down in such a self-satisfied way that I
took courage. Next day he brought
home the gun aud the club, and as he
deposited them at the head of the bed
he exclaimed:
"It's simply to give you more confi
dence; understand ( For my part I'd
give $"00 to find a burglar in my house."
That n:ght, soon after midnight, I
heard something fall in the house, nnd I
nudged Mr. Bowser into wakefulness and
told him of it.
"It's that infernal old cat!" he
growled in reply. " You've got burg
lars on the brain, and I hope one will
come 1 "
Ten minutes passed, and I was sure I
heard some one creeping up stairs. I
nudged Mr. Bow ser again aud told him
so, but he replied:
" Mrs. Bowser, if you wake me up
again I'll go dow-n town to sleep the re
mainder of the night. You can be a
lunatic on shorter notice than anybody I
ever heard of. Now go to sleep and 1"
The reason ho stopped there was le
cause a lantern was hashed in our faces,
and a stern voii e exclaimed:
" H either one of you make a move to
get up I'll blow your bra. us out I"
The burglar had come. Tue victim,
who9e blood Mr. Bowser was hungering
for, stood over us. Tho midnight
marauder, on whose lifeless clay the
Coroner was to sit, was ready to bo "sot"
on. I confess 1 was badly frightened,
but I did not lose my semes. I knew he
was there to rob, and that he had all the
advantage, and I d.d not move a finger.
"Come, old chap." continued the
burglar after a moment, "1 want your
services. Get out of that!"
"Take all we have, but spare our
lives? " pleaded Mr. Bowser.
"That's what I'm going to do, old
duffer! Climb out o' that and hunt me
up your wea.lh!"
With that he lighted the gas, sat down
on the edge of the bed, and Mr. Bowser
brought him both our watches, our jew
elry, and the $2110 hidden iu the dresser.
I never saw Mr. Bowser so obliging and
thoughtful. He even rummaged the
dresser to find my last rhinestoue pin.
and lie Slid "Yes, sir!" aud "No, sir!"
to that burglar with the gieatcst respect.
When everything of value up stairs had
beeu collected, the old man said:
"Now, old double shins, wrap that
swag iu a towel and bring it down stairs
for met"
"You won't kill him!" I gasped.
"No, marm; I haven't the time to
spare for that. What's that gun and club
for?"
"To defend ourselves from burglars. I
wish I kuew how to shoot."
"Kxa.tly ma'am, and I admire jou
spunk. Here's your watch and jewelry
back, aud I hope you'll pardon this in
trusion. Sorry you've got such an old
fuuk for a husband. Come aloug, old
shingles!"
Mr. Bowser meekly followed him down
stairs, got out all our choice si.ver from
the safe, found him a ba-ket to carry off
his plunder, and was then driven up
stairs while the burglar made off. Mr.
Bowser got into bed without a word,
and I sat up and listened until I heard
the rascal go. Then I said:
"Well, Mr. Bowser, you wanted burg
lars. We've had a real, live oue, aud the
house is leaned out."
"And who's to blame for it? Mrs. Bow
ser, I didn't believe you would ever dare
to speak to me again I"
' Who's to blame? Am I ?"
"Who else can be? Here for forty
consecutive nights you've kicked me
awake from two to ten times to whisper
'Burglars 1' into my cur! You got me
off my guard ;"
" But I told you I heaid a burglar in
the house!"
"But I knew better! It was your
business to have been awake sooner and
have given me a chance to net the gun.
Ah! if I could have got that gun!"
"But you never even piotesied."
"Protested! Do you think a man of
my standing is going to bandy words
with a burglar ( My iict'ou was taker,
with a view to save your life."
"Well, let's go down and see what's
left."
Not an inch would he move until day
light, and before we got up he pionii-ed
me a -ilk dress not to mention the affair.
No sooner had ho swallowed his break
fast, however, than he posted off to Po
lice Headquarters uud the uewspiipeis,
and the result was ucolumu article, with
tho heads :
"Terrific Fight for Life - A Burglar
Catches a Tartar A Midnight Visitor
Flung Thro .h the Window A Faint
ing Wife and a Cool Hu-band."
"Mr. Bowser, did you tell 'em any
such . vain us that ?" I asked b in, after
rt-adi' g the aci ottnt.
"Yarn! .Mrs. Bowser, do you know
who you are talking to ?"'
" But you never offered thj least re
sistance, uud you even suffered him to
cad you names."
"1 did, ch! You, lying there iu a
dead faint, knew all that witit on, eh I
Very well. Mrs. Browser; I'll send ihe
doctor up to examine into your mental
condition. The strain has prububly been
too much on you. Poor wotnuu ! Poor
womuu I" J iff i oit J-'ne I're-t.
The distinguishing point in one of the
counterfeit bundled dollar bank b: Is
flouting a' o it th" country is a black eve
worn by the tioddess of Libel ty. Evi
dently I lie com terf'iicis hid a grim
sense of humor when making that plate.
Thev reasoned, probably, that a country
of liberty should promote liberty of no
tion ill making luoiiev. Hence the
black eye given to Liberty's Goddess.
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS.
Good GrncL
There are times when gruel is about
the only fare allowed the invalid by tho
physician. When things come to this
Btrait, it is fortunate for the patient if
some one in the house happens to know
how to make it. Indian meal gruel may
be made palatable in this manner: Wet
.two tablcqioon fills of the meal to a
smooth pasto with cold water, and stir it
into one pint of boiling water. Stir
occasionally while over the tire, and let
it boil half au hour. Be very careful not
to let it scorch. If it becomes too thick,
add more water. Season with salt,
sugar, lemon juice and grated nutmeg.
A tiny piece of butteris an improvement,
if it is not forbidden.
How To Hang Picture.
When there are to be mauy pictures
hung in a room, tho walls should fee quiet
iu color and not elaborate in decoration.
A wall with surface of the sligthly
roughened stucco coating, or of paper of
a single tone of terra cotta, dull green,
blue or gray, undoubtedly shows pictures
to the best advantage, but if the pictures
are not ninny nor very choice, then tho
general effect of the room should be tho
main object in view. A beautiful and
effective wall decoration is not by any
means always nn expensive one, and very
harmonious results are o ten obtained
from using the large sheets of cartridge
paper which come, iu good tones of dull
blue and terra cotta, and arranging a
wide freizo of some harmonizing or con
trasting color, in which a conventional
design has been stenciled. Or if the
owmrof the room lacks the time and
ingenuity for such work, paper for this
purpose with a graceful, flowing pattern
iu chrysanthemums, or other large snowy
flowers, in subdued colors can now be
obtained at very small cost from any
paperhanger. A narrow molding of
cherry, mahogany or gilt is a pretty finish
to be tacked on where the freize joins the
wall covering, and upon this should be
placed the books for hanging pictures.
. If some of the money which is spent
in overloading rooms with trumpery
ornaments that give them a cheap, tawdry
appearance, was put into the wall deco
rations, the whole effect would bo much
more satisfactory nnd artistic.
Cretonne cut into two widths has been
used for a frieze with very good effect.
It is to be put up with smail brass tai ks.
One ingenious lady took cheap Notting
ham lace and painted the pattern in har
monising tones, making a charming
frieze for her drawing-room. Vein t
Tribune.
Recipes.
Plain Ltoiit Pruuisn. One pint of
boiling milk and nine tablcspoonsful i f
Hour mix first with a little cold milk.
When cold add a little salt and four
well-beaten ejrirs and bake in a buttered
dish. Serve as soon as it is done.
Plain Lemon Pie. Add to boiling
water enough of the pulp and juice of
lemons to render it quite acid; then
sweeten to taste, and thic .en iust enough
w to. corn starch to make it like a tiiiu
jelly. Fill the baked crusts, and bako
about fifteen minutes, then frost them if
desiied.
Meat Croqcettk". Two cups of
chopped meat, two cups of bread crumbs,
two cups of hot milk. Season the nn at
w.th salt nnd pepper. Beat the yolk of
one egg, add the milk, a teaspoouful of
melted butter, bread crumbs mid meat.
Form into small flat cakes and fry in
butter.
Minced Beef. Three pounds of raw
'ocef, lean, chopped tine, five soda crack
ers rolled fine, t'.vo eirs .well beaten, ono
and one-half teaspoonfuls of pepper,
three slices of pork chopped, one-half
cup of milk, and salt to tasie. Mix all
thoroughly, mako into a 1 af. Bake two
hours. 'I bis should be sliced cold for
tea or luncheon.
Ouanok P'ddino. Grate three
sponge biscuits iu enough mi k to make
a paste; teat three eggs and stirthein in
with the juice of a lemon and half the
peel grated. Put a teacupful of orange
juice and one of sugar, with half a cup
of melted butter in the mixture; stir it
well, put in a dih with puff paste
around it, and bako slow one hour.
To Warm Ovi:h C'oi.o Mutton. An
excellent and simple way is to cut it, if
loin, iuto chops, or if leg, into thick
sciliops, and dip each into egg well
J eaten with a teaspoouful of milk, then
iu line biead crumbs, and fry in plenty ot
very hot Jat. If your citinibs are not
very fine and even, the l irgeri runib-will
fall off, aud the appearance be spoiled.
I'i mi'kin Soul-. Peel and cut into
small pieces three pounds of pumpkin,
put it iu a sauce pan, with water enough
to cover it, add a little salt; let it boil
gently until s ft, diain und puss it
through u tine colander, put three pints
of milk iuto a stewpuu and in in witli il
tho straine 1 pumpkin; let it come to a
bo I, add very little white sugar, pepper
uud salt to taste; serve.
Fim:i Potatoes. Peel them and
boil iu salted water; do not let them
boil until they are soft. Beat one egg,
and have ready some line cracker ciunibs;
roll the potato in tho egg, aud then iu
the ciacker and fry in I utter until a
light brown, turning frequently thit tie;
olor ma v be uniform; or the potatoes
may be dropped into hot lard. Iu this
a e. a cloth should be laid over a plate
and the potatoes should be dra ued for n
moment iu this beiore bending to the
table.
The Origin of John Bull."
The name John Bull, us applied to the
lingbsh people, is lirst found iu Aibulh
not s hulk rot, "History of Europe," a
book sometimes erroneously ascriued to
Dean Swift, lu this satire Arbutliiiot
calls the French Lewis Baini iu uud the
l utch Nicholas Frog. "Johu Bull," a
comedy, by George ( olem in, tlm
younger, was performed iu ISoS. Tie
lil, a Tory newspaper, suppor'ed
by Thc-odc re Hook, was liist published
in 1S20.
Blue Eyes.
There is some reason fur the admim
tioti geueia.ly felt for blue c ws. A
counoi-scu. in eves slates that li ne
tenths of ihe railroad men, pilots nn I
others who are selected for their lue.i
iicss uud correctness of vi - ion have blue
ee.. Lrowu eves are beaiiti.ul. Gray
eves usually denote intelligence, una
ba el eyes bespeak a ta - nl for music.
i he commonest color of i cs is gray aud
he rart violet. 1 t .
OUT OF THE SKY,
Earth Is dumb when I call her now;
What enre clods, thomh the sotil entreat'
Blie couM lnuch, if I laughed, I trow,
Cold is her heart in its winding-sheet,
Little cares she for want or woe
Tears pierce not tlirou ;h the thick, coM snow.
Bo I look, with a hnpolese cry,
Up to the sky.
Out of the sky the sunt) nnis glanc-n,
Out of the s!cy the rain tomes down:
Sleet that glistens, and snows that sweef
Over the hill tops, hire and brown.
And every blessing that mortals know
Falls to earth like falling snow.
Dropped so gent'y nn I silently,
Out of the sky.
So to the clouds I stretch my hands,
t'p to the dull sky turn my face,
Somewhere, past all that shifting gray;
Love, I feel, hath a billing place,
If I wait, they will fall, I know
Peace nn I comfort, as falls the snow,
Though I know not, nor ask not why,
Out of tho sky.
.4!!u'ou Mary Ftltowa, in Current
HUMOR OF THE DAT.
We have always pitied the calendar.
It could never get a day off. Durlitgton
Fr-e f'oii.
The camel has four stomachs. The
greedy boy is apt to envy the camel;
i'oifui Pott.
Don't run against a chimney sweeper;
he's liable to bring soot against you.
LoueU Ci'iten.
It was a bald headed man who origin
ated the motto: "There's plenty of room
at the top.'' B.i'on Butljtt.
It was the man who picked up the
dollar which some ono else dropped that
met with a lo3. Stttem;in.
Hardly n week pases but we are re
mind d that we are constantly surround
ed by perils seen and kerosene. Spring
Jiell Cnim. ,
Whence comes this cry for cheaper
wool when you can buy a blue army over
coat, good as new, for $2? Fort Wayne
(2'er.) Gai.tl.:
Natural gas is one of the most socia
ble articles ever heard of. It is con
stantly taking part in thousands of
house-warmings. Fitttburg IltlLtin.
When bigeernTni inflict the gloom
Of jeers and taunts provoking.
Hnw naturally we assume
That they are only joking!
TidBits.
In the front parlor, 11 p. m. : Ethel
"Harry called to-night, papa. He was
too witty for anything and all smiles."
Papa "Yes ; 1 can smell the smiles yet "
Tote i Tojiia.
"Wc'vo got a hen that laid two eggs
in one day," boa-ted a six yenr-old girl
to a companion. "That's nothing! My
papa has laid a corner stone." Phiht
ddtliia Time.
The doctor "Well, perhaps, Mrs. Ed
riaghnm, you eat between meals!" Mrs.
E. "Oh, no, sab; 'cept, ob course, I
cut dinnah 'tween break i as' and supper,
an' to on." Harper 't lluar.
Diet of tbo Stone Age.
Borne curious evidences of tho diet of
our prehistoric ancestors of the "stone
age" were recently brought before tho
Odontological Society of Great Britain
by Mr. Charters White. Mr. White was
sine k w ith the thought that, as particle
of food bee ime imprisoned in the dental
tartar, sealed up in a cat arcoiis cement
and can be made to rO'cnl them-eUes on
solution of this material, it would be an
interesting revelation if tho tartar found
on the teeth of tho stone age could be
made to give up its secrets in a similar
luanncr. Ho accordingly decalcified
some witn uliiilQ Jiydroeh!oric pcid
and examined the sedimentrlTcTcTwteui
of masses composed of epithelial scales
mixed with the contents of starch cells.
Ticside these, Mr. While was a' lo to
identify portions of husks of corn haira
f;o n the outside of the husks, spiral ves
sels from vegetables husks of starch, the
point of n fish's tooth, u conglomeration
of oval cells, probably of fruit, barblets
of feathers, portions of wool, and some
fragments of cartilage, together with
soinu other organic remains which he
failed to recognize. The fact that
vegetable tissue should bo found in such
a state as to be easily reconi.uble, after
a lapse of probably not less than 3,000
years, is certainly remarkable.
It is to be hoped Mr. White will lose no
time in examining the teeth of I haroah,
lianieses II., whoso well preserved
mummy now ornaments the Egyptian
museum at Cairo. The public is c urious
to know what tho old gentleman ate for
his last breakfast. HcieiitiiU: Anuricun.
Diseases of Iniuginalioii. '
Physicians are justnow having a crush
of patients who have, or think they
have, throat troubles and are uliaid of
cancer. The trouble of Germany's ' rown
Prince has started up a regular cancer
scare, and tho physicians are profiting
thereby. Some years ago, just after tho
death of Charley Ba kus, Iticanlo, and
Flood, ull from kidney troubles, there
was a similar sca'e among theatrical
people about kidney diseases. 1 hey
went to the doctors in flocks, in a y of
them possessed of the idea that they,
too, hid kidney troubles. A singular
fact in the experience of one plus. coin
was that of the scores of a tois who vis
ited him none of those who were sure
they were a'iiicted ha I any trouble.
'I hteo actors theie were, however, who
submitted to the custom iry examination
in a spirit of fun. Ecery one of them
had the trouble they ha In t expected to
find, and two of them base since died of
Bright disease. The physician in
que-tion do su't know what has become
of the third. X. ,c Vi Timet.
The "Mud" Store.
" The Jhid Stoie " is a term app'ied to
a retail shoe store in a estei u town.
Tho cutei pi i-ing proprietor ot this place
hit upon the scheme of buy ng a largo
stock of cheap go nl-, loading them iu a
loose pile in a team, besmearing part of
the lot with mud, and then having them
exhibited ull over the town as da na-ed
goods that must be sold ut any pike.
The idea was profitable for a time, and
peop'e swarmed to the stoie to g t some
thing for a'liiost nothing, us tl.ey
thought. After a time I uyers foutij
that they were ihe vioiiines ot a humbug.
The " .Mud Mine" suddenly c o-ed-up,
to the relief of bone-si vlcsi.irs. .sV
tcullur ft'ifrrar,