If Ifniib feifaet ail pife ist " 18" B2 . THE COKSTITUTIOir-THE mHOS-ASD THE ESrOECEMENT OF THE LAWS. Editor and Proprietor. S VOf - XXXIH. M IFFLI NTOWX, JUNIATA COUNTY, PEXXA., WEDNESDAY, JULY 30, 1879. XO. 31. -- - - B B t I . - - . - - ' is J 1 1 HELMBOLD'S COMPOUND To I '1 rLUID EXTRACT buchu PHARMACEUTICAL. 1 SPECIFIC REMEDY FUR ALL' THE STORM. Ft; on the brink of dav. Thoo atandeat aa tbe herald of the dawn ,u .U.DISM, last flickering spark In the rich blaze of morn. Above the eternal ano-a. By winter scattered oa the mountain height lo shroud the centime thy Twaee glow W;th a prophetic light Calm ia thine awful brow ; As when thy preeeuce ahrined divinity Between the naming cherubim, aa now I's shadow clings to thee. Tet. aa an angel mild. Thon. in the torrid noon, w th shelter ns wing. IKt o'er the earth, aa on a weary child. A aoo'biug influence biiiig. And when the evening dies. StiU too thy fringed Tenure cleave the light, Tae last Had glimmer of her tearful eye. On the dark verge of nijjht bo. aoon thy glories wane ! Thon. too. must mourn the rose of morning abed ; Cold creeps the faUl shadow o'er t'iy tra u. And settles on my bead. My heart a, years go by Yearns for the charm that wooed its raviahed gaze The sympathy of nature wakes a sigh. And thus its thought betrays. r Thon. like the cloud, my aoiu. Dost in thyself, of beauty naught pos-uws ; Devoid the hj of Heaveu. a vapor foul. The veil of nothingness. Romance of an Old Cream Jug. DISEASES or THE ri iilER KIDNEYS ! "Oil, mother," said Ruth Wallis "how I should like to get out and get a few apple . blossoms." j "NtuiT and nonsense,' said the Widow j WallU, austerely ; "haven't you got work to do milk to skim, butter to work over, j dishes to wash, and two dozen shirts just in from the laundry to finish off Ix-fore j dinner time? t Jo alxmt it at once and don't let nie hear any more folly atout apple hliwaoms" I For Mrs. Wallis Ix-longcd to the work i ing brigade of the worM. and did not lx--I licve in jestbetie of auy kind. Buttercups and red sunsets and ma:iv "1 vc just a month to stay here !efore I must go back to my dingy old law office again," meditated he. "A man can do a great deal in a month." And he ant himself regularly to work to win the treasure which he had vearned for deeply. lay afttT lay he strolled to the old farm house, now with this excuse, now with that, a handsome, courtly, middle-aged man, whose w inning manners would have attracted any one, and who was as much at home under the whitewashed ceiling of the widow Wallis's best room as in a man sion. One day he spoke of the old cream-pot. "Kuth's cream -pot !" said Naomi, the eldiT sister, a hard-featured, loud-voiced spinister of nine and thirty. "Wasn't it a strange provision of Grandmother Crocus's will that Kuth can never part with that old piece of cracked alisurdity, unless " "Nuami, hush '" and Kuth had sprung across tnc nx.m and laid her hands on her sister's lips, and with blazing eyes and color as deep as one of her own scarlet geraniums said, "Our family affairs shall n be talked of to strangers." "Ami a st ranger " said Mr. Napier, gravely. "I am Sony for that Kuth. "Only only Naomi, please to rememlier that this is never to lie spoken of. "IVar me!" said Naomi, bristling up, ''Here's a prettv how-to-do alxmt an old cream pitcher. That self-same evening Mr. Napier fol lowed Kiuh out in the garden w here she had cone to water her carnations. "Kuth," said he, "are you determined not to tell me the secret of that cream pit f Yes," said Kuth, resolutely. "Nor let me have it on any terms f "Please, Mr. Napier." said Kuth. "don't ask me. I cannot. Well." said Mr. Napier, "here is vet a thin! dcimwiL If I can't have either secret r (Team pitcher, can I have vou f" "Me : ' j "Yes," said the staid lawyer with A liftma Indian. During the month of Marcli, our mining camp in the Black Hills, had a mystery which the sharpest could not unravel. Tools provisions, gold-dust, clothing, cooking utensils and other truck were stolen away in spite of the closest vigilance. There lie ing no other camp within three miles, anil the inhabitants of our town being aliove suspicion, we had a puzzle on our hands. All the thieving was done at night, ami arti cles were carried off even with a double row of guards around the camp. A ravine, having two or three feet of water in it, and crossed by a. bridge, divides our camp, and it was at length concluded that the thiif came and went by this dark nuid. One night in April guards were posted along the ravine, which then contained thirty inches of ice-cold water, and the night was a freez ing one. Soon after midnight an alarm was raised, and the guards tired uon some man or animal coming down the ravine into camp. At least twenty bullets were fired, but the unknown got away. Next morning evidence was found indicatingthat the mysterious strangiT was an Indian named "(ten. Scott," who had been driven out of our camp at the close of winter for stealing, and had been frequently seen on the hills alove us. Ns white man would have dared the ravine and its rush of ice- water for what he could steal, but it was j elieved that 'Hten. Scott would, and that he was the thief. Preparations were, there made for running him down. No one in camp went to work, but all turned out for a sort f Fourth of July, it Ix-ing known mat "itencral Scott had tight in him. Twenty-one miners, all well-armed, turned out on the hunt. Half a mile alovc camp we struck the 'HJcneral's'' trail, or the spy where he had descended and ascended the ravine. At this point two of the missing camp-kettles were found, lie had stolen five altogether, and four of them must have Ix-en taken from pure cussedness. The can content themselves with leading such a life. Kagpickers do not confine themselves entirely to gathering nigs. They collect old liats, paper, boots, bottles, cut glass, iron, hrass and a quantity of other goixls which. to a majority of people, in spite of old John Smith's adage, "Everything is useful," ap- pear utterly worthless. I he work of col lection is not a small portion of the rag picker's lalxir. When he arrives at liis haunt all these articles are assorted, the bottles and rags are washed, the while and colored rags and paper separated, and each kind of material arranged! ready for sale at ihe neareit junk. Very often the ragpicker nuils more valuable articles than those he starts in search of, and he often profits by the servants' carelessness, which frequently causes the ashes tc yield a silver spoon, some garment that only requin-s cleaning to be matte saleable, or articles of glassware or crockery with neither break nor blemish upon them. In addition to these bonnes IxHiches of the business, his quick eye do tects the com or bit of jewelry which has lieen lost the evening previous, and the find er seldom troubles himself as to the owner ship of these goods, but disposes of them at the nearest pawnbroker's as quickly as os sible. The ragpickers could not live by their occupation only for the junk stores, and the latter would do little business with out the ragpickers. The junk stores serve the same puqx.se to the ragpicker that the stock exchange docs to the broker, with the advantage in favor of the junk store that no tee for membership is required. Here, dur ing the afternoon, the ragpickers assemble to dispose of the goods collected during the orenoon, to discuss the probabilities of a rise in their particular line of goods, to gather the latest scandal that may be circu lating relative to some of their numlx-r, or to settle disputes which may have arisen in the morning on the street, but which could not be sctth-d there owing to the presence of their natural enemy, the policeman. The strangely softeiiins eves. "Dear little Kuth, 1 have somehow lost uiy heart to you news of Ihe ":ener:.l " l!,.l,:.J,l these last three weeks. 1 can t go lack to us, knew our mission, and was hound to the old life without you. I am not a voting have the first shot. Hist bullet t.i.iii, -!,! a man. but I have never loved before, and" furrow along the scalp of a miner named "Hut," interrupted Kuth, with mantling j Chalmers, from Pittsburg, knocking him cheeks and a quiver in her voice, "am 1 . vcr. It was evident that the Indian ex good enough .'" tx-ctcd no favors from us. and after his shot By way of answer he took her in his ' there was no intention of granting him anv. arms and looked tenderly into her face, and to Kuth Wallis it seemed as if the whole of paradise had opened to her in that moment. "Here it is," said iliilh. with glistening eyes and smiling lips. "The old cream trail ran hack to the timlx-red hills and was 1 " " - ''"" - uy ai easily followed. Aftr-r a slow and careful ! wh .nn f'jnn a most interesting study, hunt' for a mile and a half, we suddenly got ! fml !'"' ri?k amo"S lbe s,?,!,s of tl,e n,t" iscovcred j . . . ., " - ' ..I ... .7: . iiiiuiuii, i;;iwh-i lilt- -o.iiitl vlLUilll Jl llltr l-t' nwiLj y-fl x-tin Etrtion or Iiu-nH.s hortnt!i of i:,Troailti ith Tnoueht- of tiea-iea .jTjni-of Vision. Puia in th Back, t'hv-st, xtiri. Eu-a of Ilix-i to tUe Ued, Fai fflru-Biince. n'1 Dry kin. ilt-tx' -vnitttom- n allowHl to go on. rr treaufiitiv tnlIDtic Fit Mni Con- s:sihn foiloV. V fafit the conntltntion !THtl it rMjuirs the tit of an s'ijf'jmiins invMiicii!- to trnei hii ami 3 "Helmbold's Buchu" DOES TV rVF"V c bv . tinted rainlows had always been a stand ... i.... a ...i -i... a.... i.i . ..;.. .1..... :..!. i ; tiii !' i". ij. I, ami sue i.t .tiid ill H nil- : m i , 11. .11 liunik ; derstaud how a man of sense could possibly The ccrimaniac forg even tnie love in ' prefer golden hair to red, or a daisy pink j the fascination of the piece of old Knglish complexion to honest freckles. j ware that Kuth laid in bis lap. j And her two older daughters, Naomi ami j He took it up w ith a loving touch. Maranda Ann, agreed with her entirely on i "Hut I thought it was a di-cnv of the j this as on all other subjects. i Medcs and Persians that you were not i Kut Kuth was different. Kutlitreasun-d , part with it '.' but was the next moment strut k and broiiL'ht j up half open rosebuds in surreptitious j "You didn't understand," said Kuth, down. When he fell he rolled into a sink I glasses of water, sowed lljwer seed under , coloring radiantly, "I was nevi-r Jo rt j hole and was apiin at bay, having a frcshly j the dairy window, read ixx-ms in her own! with ' 'Inuidiiioiher ('ncu's Will loailed revolver in hand." The veils of the metropolis, and here daily they may lie seen at their liest and worst. The proprietor of the mart for old rags iron, brass, rope, hot-tli-s, etc., is one of the busiest of men about this time, for none of his customers are over honest, and he well knows from past ex- ght to he the no " iwn. nv. it. iim tilt; tin a iitijnn j . . .. . .... . i driving thn men to cover, and the next I to cheat the buvvr dunng the weknewhewascn.in2a valley for the w'''""? r qmU often ans,-, shelter of the timlK-re.1 hill lK-Tond. The ' T'". , ' T " S"I11,',"!,? Indian knew the risk he ran, and as he flew j "f u!,. ';'' V" outwe.gh a. ns the valley he zigzugg.-l his course to ! m"" " their murder- ! Mfvtv is tiitHt dcsinililt. Thf nunMrkers The fellow liad his camp under a letlge of i 'TVk , 7. , ., L..k. i...t i.:t..si i - i7. ... 'f the articles 9..I.I, even if they have J shield him' fr.7m the weatheri it U.atne too W !" b"" ,M! "f thertMe. which hot for him when twenty men, each taking ,sf J"SI b,m."1,t fam, f,!r' Tul? 1 1. .a :,:.. . A ti... i I;.., '"i's of paving for the men-hanriise is " l".'""., "1 " V. ...V. ...v. ....,....; .1 Kuchrert at a Hors-Ra. ; embarrass the ritlemen rtwly to tire. When to . called upon to lu.lt he uttered a defiant yell you the IS UNEQUALZD & j'l ! ay remeilT known. It la nrescrtbed bv r'tiil ort '!,,,nf"t physicians ail over the -V. IU 3 autism. 5permatorrbua, Xeoralgia, Nervousness Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Constipation, Aches and Pains, -nl Debility, Kidney Diseases, Livej Complaint, Nervous Debility, Epilepsy, Head Troubles, Paralysis, General Ill-Health. -;:nal Diseases, Seiatica. Deafness, Decline, Lumbago, Catarrh, Nervous Complaints, Female Complaints &c H.iathe. P)n In the Shoulders, Coneh. "iae, s)Ur Jitoraarh. truption. Bad tbe Mouth, Palpitation of the tPnin In the region of the Kidnevs, w a tfcnoMtnd other painful pvuiptoms 1 oir-prinii- of Kvoiwrxia. Helmbold's Buchu Invigorates the Stomach, "T -"T to beaithv action. In cleansing i!',i .r" Impurities ana linpartlinj ... .uU Tutor to the whole gvstem. trial wllL be quite enmclent to tMLfT ' " ,uo"- beitating of its valuable ""Nlalqualitt ,. pKK'E .1 PER BOTTLE Or Six Bottle, for 5. tSj1 to "J aJJress free from observa- tVit,,"y consult by letter, recelv ""ention as" bv calling, by "nng tb, foiiuwing questions: tnatvll? nm' nt post-office address Vfoi ana Mat, aua your nearest express ij""-ami sex? OocnrlltlllT 4 H r!rUor "Inale? HoJ . ' "'"'Kht, now and In healtht 5- ,rPK Mxe ?oa n s'ckt H1,vTu'pl''I'0,,-co,orof hair and evest ai.T Jou "'""t'U'if or erect gait t oa.mLw",M,,rt reservation all you atm i, your case. Kik Iom) one dollar iw inn fw- Your letter will then "natnS r",'n',"n.and we will ive you miKB ,L oar and our candid ""'leiu ip "VW"" attend to eorres '"hKrJl' f " leneis should b addressed fc'phU pj "' ""-rt treet, Phlla H. T. IlLLMBOLD, druggist and Chemist, Philadelphia, Pa. SOLB ETESTWUEKK nr Consumption of Timber. We have now atxnit fo,()iM) miles of rail road ; the annual consumption for tics or sleeptTS alone is 4o,"mi,0imi. or thirty years' growth cf 75,'Xh acres To fence these roads would n-quire at least l:io,iHi miles of fence, which would cost $ 4","i,i)oi to build, and take at least l.",sMi,oHanniial ly to keep in repair. We have TV! miles of wire, which requires in its putting up noo,ihmi trees w hile the annual repairs murt take MHi.iMHt more, the little, in- v Xew York reporter lately accompanied significant lucifer match consumes annually J a chiffonier or professional ragpicker to his in its manufacture :;ini,ihmi cubic feet of the ; Avn ; u,.tt citv. It was situated near Me tinestpine. The bricks that are annually , haiies' allev, in the Sixth Ward. Knter Imked rdpiire -J, 000,000 cords of wooij, in tltc ball way tlirough adoorless openine. which would sweep the timber cU-an from .i,ih hi acres. Shoe pegs are quite as im portant an article as matches or bricks and to make the required annual supply con sumes loO,ooo cords of fine timlier, while the manufacture of lasts and hoot trees takes .VrfiKHi cords of maple, lieech and birch, and alsnit the same amount is re quired for plane stocks and the handles of tools. The packing boxes made in' the United States in 1S74 amounted to I2, m 10,1100, while the timU-r manufactured in to agricultural implements wagons etc, is more than 100,UUU,OU. The farm and rural fences of the country consume an im mense amount of IiiiiiIkt and tim ber annually, but as we grow older as a nation, this consumption may, and pro!l ly will, lie reduced by the more general use of live fences or hedges OurconsumptHW of limlxT is not only daily on the increase, but our exportation of tiuils-r is also rapidly increasing. Our staves go by the million to France annually, walnut, oak, maple and pine to Knglaml, and spars and docking timber to China and Japan. room, and cried when the honeysuckle vine said except to my husband." was raised from licfore the porch pillars. I "Why didn't you say so lie fore :" ! "Kotting all the posts and lmrhorinsr cur- j "No that you might have taken 1111 I wigs anil spiders" said the widow severely, i th- ssike of the old cream piicher, " ' "But the flowt-rs are so pretty.'" pleaded i Kuth, a litl'm piqued. Kuth. j He drew her gittly to his side. ! "Pre'tv." si'irtMl the w id.w. mm If the I "My mm darling." asid he. "1 hm- term were a svnonvm for all absurdity ami : Ix-tter than all the old china that is in i weak-mindedness, "I do think, Kuth, you j world.' 1 are alnvt a fool." j Which was a great admission for Wyn- I So upon this golden May morning, when j field Napier to make. ' the lillies were nodding theirpurpleplunies j A month later there was a wedding in ' and the apple blossoms spread their sheets j the village church, and after the wedding '. of billowy pink over all the orchards Kuth ' came the wedding breakfast, ami not a few j was condemned to milk skimming in the ! of the guests wondered that the centre or I dairy and the finishing ot the stuns in the j nanient on the table, on such an auspicious kitchen. j ix-casion. snouiu ne an old cream pig. Nhe was standinz in front of the milk! room window, busy with shining pans after all there was a certain poetry in the occupation when all of a sudden a whis kered and must ached face presented itself, all framed in tl-e casement. "tJoodness me:" cried Kuth, with a violent start, which had nearly upset one of the vessels and then recovering her presence of mind, she added : "What do you want!'' "I beg your 1 anion," said trie appari- i ,, , .1 . -. nines 01 w in wuien retiuires in 11s iiuuiu 1 Hon and Kuth lieiran to perceive that it ' , -, , . . ., . 1 , up nooJshi trees win e the annual repairs, had rather fine eyes and was no longer a .... ,.. ' I very voting apmriiion "I am afraid 1 startli-d you." "Yes you did, rather," admitted Kuth, "but if you're a tramp, please go on, we never give to tramps. And if you're a sewing machine agent or anything of the sort, it's of no use. And" "Y'ou are mistaken," Slid the owner of the dark eyes with a comical curl of the lips "I am uot one of these I am in the china business" "Oh," said Kutli, beginning to compre hend, '-vases and little dogs and parrots for cast off clothes. Kut we wear all our things out and mother makes nig carpets of them afterward." "Very latidible of her. I am sun-," nodded the stranger. Kut may 1 ask what you will take for lliat twisted (Team pot on the shelf just over your head .'" Kuth glanced up with startled eyes 'It was my lirandmother Crocus's" she said ; "and it's so old fashioned we never use it. .Mamma keeps radish seeds in it." "Exactly," said the stranger. ' "It's very old and that's the reason I wan't it." Kuth thought of the men who had leen reported as traversing the country in search of antiquities, old furniture, and articles of vertu. Could this lie one of them i "It's mine," said she coloring deeply. "My lirandmother Crocus left it to me in her'wilL" "Wouldn't you rather have ten dollars to buy yourself a new hat ?" said the strangiT, eoaxingly. "Oil, a thousand times" fried Kuth eagerly. "Tlien it's a Iwrgain, said the gentle man taking out a pocket liook, which seemed perfectly apoplectic with bank notes "No, it isn't," said Kuth. "I I couldn't sell it, indeed." "Ah," said the stranger, "pcrhaiis there are old family assia 'iations connected with it " , , "Oil, no, I m .er saw my grandmother Crocus" Kuth replied, rather hewildcre.1. "Say twenty." said the s! ranger coax- inglv. "Its no iw," d.flare.1 Kuth, "I cannot sell it." You are devoted to old china, thcu . "The fa-e came nearer ami the eyes sparkled as if their owner had found a kindred soul. "I hate it," said Kmh- The dark eves recoiled a juice or two. "Then you'll let me have the old cream pot for twenty dollars " sai'i 1 persua sively. . ... But Kuth would only reiterate with down-cast eyes and deepening blushes "I can't sell it." Mr. Wvnfield Napier, walked awaj, pulling his moustache and pondering over the old piece of English ware which had so attracted bis attention. "I'll sit down formally before that crcam pot," said he ; "ITl lesiege it. It shall be mine, or I shall know the reason why. For Air. Napier was s connoisseur in ceramics, and the moment his idle glance cTard turough.V; j room window, as ne orau- - ' " . n i.1a riion on the niece of Kng- in some instances eke out a good living. Some have retired rich from their findings other have i-iied junk ston-s and given up the hook and hag for more profitable and less uncertain business The averajre earn- i . ... - :..l r... fiance, an.l it was plain wc had not yet won ' , " "W'y "-' ."' for the fight. Aff-r a brief coasultation five of ; J1" a 'ay, and often this sum is matcrnU the ininers made a flank movement to gain I increased by finding money or other , i.i.;. .-.1. x. .i n-i.:. valuables On this amount they not only . ... 1 1 1 c ie I've, but save money. The Italian m-z- l-Dfd, they could .pick off tl.eIndo,.Vr.:)rtd w clothes and live on Ihe cheapest and com monest goods the market affords. All miners were answered with shouts of de-' "Speakin' of liorse-raein', said Jailer Ilmlsiill, of Virginia City, Nevada, to a select coterie in the city jail, the tricks of the turf licing under consideration, "I had my dose once, and I'm a horse thief if I haven't kept it tlark for eighteen years I was keepin' a big stable on IJ. street in ti and there was a sight o' racin' going on in them times and I wanted my fin iu every thing o' that kind. I was younger and fresher than I am now. Two" horses were brung up from (jenoa to nm for a thousand a side at the track near Long Valley The nice was to come off on Saturday, and there was some heavy bettin' on the thing. I was holdin' back for points Ix-fore puttin' up any coin. "Kill Harness comes; to me a Tluirsday and put up the prettiest job I ever heard tell of. You don't rememlier Kill, I s'pose! Well, he was lynched over at Piochein '71. poor fellow. We took Hardy in, an' it was agreed that the swag was to be divided equal. It was a pretty job an' the chief Deauty 01 it was that it was so easy an sim ple. It was just for Hardy an' me to take the horses the night afore the raceau' speed 'em round the track till he found their pace. It wouldn't lie no trick, then, at all. for us to haul in all the pools and clean up hand some. The nags were in my stable, which made the business just b easy. Friiluy night mean' Hardy set to wirk an' cot the jockeys blind, stavin' drunk, an' by mid night they was as limp au' senseless as a pair of lines Hardy and me, w hen we'd ;ot em so they couldn't tell a stirrup from a distance pole, laid 'em out in the straw in an empty stall an' took the black and gray out for practice. It was a pretty moonlight lit, clear as day, and evervthiti" worked sliek. I nxle the black, an' it lieat the gray easy, although thev were both powerful good goers Then I took the gray an' Har dy took the black, so then: couldn't be no suspicion of roots ag n one another, and still the black a most distanced the gray. "We jest laughed till the tears rolled lown our jaws when we led them horses back to our stalls to think of the soft thing we had on the boys, an' Hardy an' me was quite willin' to put in alxmt two hours rub- hin down them fivers so as to remove all signs or the work they'd been through. The race was mile heats lest two in three, an" nie an" Hardy was on the track rood an' early next day takin' evert'thin that was offered agin the black. Wc both had scatls in them tunes an when the start was made wed about five thousand on the black between us. We let up Inttiu' lest out of pity for the poor devils that t"ok ns up so innocent and eamT. Every now an' then Harness an' Hardy an' me would meet an' go an' take a drink an' roar w ith lau-.'liin so you could hear us a mile. "When the horses start ert Hardy an me felt bigger'n old Grant. It kind o' surprised us to see the way tbe gray lifted his feet through, an' when be come in a length ahead o" the black it kind o' made us feel uneasy about the gills. Of course wc knowed it was the dtirned jockey fault, an' I managed to git to him an' "slip five twenties into his fin. " 'Let her out this time.' I scz. 'If the black wins you'll get two hundred more.' "He gave a wink and nodded. Uovs you kin roast me if that dunicd gray didn't distance the black in the second heat! In ten minutes I - Wind drank an' knowed no more till mornin". Then I oiled un niv with their long ranee rifles. This left fif teen men in a Isnly, and while most of them were sitting uown tne t.enerai suuueniy 1 ,,.:,.,,,,,- ,., ,n m:lIi(. ,m , .,, . ! shooter and started ,mt to find Har.lv. If I rase up and advanced ujion us hobbling -,.k ,,, '. Italij(ns . had found him he wouldn't a lieen " water- .n-ao.uMi on nis woum-ei, , eg. i.c an.-. , tl-l.t Ion- I was sure he'd put the job up 7 " . ! return to their homes in Italy. The dwell-j '-' o" the track rruLiy mirlil. e was w-ithtn pistol shot More any one moved . j of mme of the .. w,. didn t hrppen to me t. Friends looked out and he blazed awav as fast as he could tire, I , . ... :(,ili I l.-n,. 1 - urn ifin'ltil B ilitll. I'vni u llir llisaiin'- i - ,. m .- i 11. able and disgusting scenes witnessed are taken into consideration Mow I-Jt-J It lTo lie Cu 1'otiued. Life with ItaPricer. Eronomy In Irew. at the well, had fallen on the piece To be sure, these are hanl times and prudence is needful ; but, my dr ladies that is poor economy that hauls you to buy cheap goods simply liecause they arc cheap. In the long run this plan does not pay. If you buy but little, buy gixsl material. Everybmry could contrive to have three dressi-s in wear. If it is important to have one really gixxl dress it is equally impor tant to have a good second Ix-st to save it. Many pcxr women destroy a liest dress by wearing it at unsuitable times simply be cause they have no other presentable in which to go out. A richer ncighlxir could save her silk on a rainy day by wearing a coarser and more suitable dress We know a lady who, on a small income, manages to dress handsomely in all occasions going out a great deal in fashionable circles It takes science, but she is equal to it ; she buys one good dress a year, this she has mile up iu the prevailing stvle, and sets it aside as her very liest for dinner parties sunny Sabbath's and the like. The last year's liest dress is remodeled into an excel lent second best, which is most used of the set. It serves for afterrnxm wear, for gen end street wear and dull Sundays Then comes the third best, which is made, most likely, of several old dresses ripped apart and turned to the best account. This is for very common use, bu: looks very well even in the street, for the materials of which it is made wee of the best in their day, and such goods have a perennial youth. The other accessories of her toilet are always elegant. She never buys cheap lace, which wears out in a season, but procures the real, which lasts for years Again she saves all her pieces every scrap of silk, satin, or velvet and is never at a loss for the materials for a bright-colored how or a headdress wourfding a young man, Charles Jmlson, of New Jerwy, and knocking the hat fpm an other's head. Even as he went down, his finger pressed the trigger once more, Send inT a bullet sniontr tbe clouds. Anv com- nn net ions of conscience over the "t-encr- The refusal of the parricide Lnpradf to al"s" death were wiix-d out whi n we came I guillotined recalls the man "guillotined to investigate his camp on the ledge. Here '' persuasion," of Chavette. were proofs that he had stolen from his own ! ' 'Hut I say, you know, slid the cxirii race as well as ours. He was doubtless, an ! Holier, VvtTylxxiy is waiting. The magis outlaw from his trilie, or he would not live I ,n,-' are there, the clergy are there, the thus alone, and the two white men's scals soldiers (who are to present anus to you in his camp told of cold-blixxlitl munl. rson j'i"t as if you were the PreUWnt of the some lonely trail across the hills. Kcpublic) are there everylxxly is there. mm I All they are waiting for is you only you." " "I don't know replied the con demned man. " 'I'm a new cxcCuUoiht; you are the first person I've had to guillotine : give me a gxxl send-off, can't you ? Help me to ilischanri a disagreeable duty. Just put yourself in my plur-e' "You just put yourself in mine.' "It can't be any question of expense; don't you know that everything is paid 1 It won't cost you a penny; the Nate stands treat.' " I haven't akcd the State to stand treat to anything. ' ' 1 nine, now, old fellow, let's understand each other. You mayn't think so, but this resistance dtxtn't proceed from your own iM-ttcr nature some one has put you up to the fiixir creaked beneath his feet, as though it was alxait to separate and swallow him up. At the end of the passage an -t her doorway, which was partially barricaded i by bundles of rags heaps of iron, coal. Nines etc., was fount!, and he entered a lownxifedcellar. Inthiscavern, which isper hajw 15 feet long by 12 hronil, there were at least twenty human lieings of lxrth sexes huddled together. The flixr seemed to be all one bed, and was littered with rags of every iieci;Hiiii, nunc me stem u j j 1 nomine, mere ix-ing no vcniuuiion. mu ting or crouching round the flxr in groups of threes and fours were several homely females old and young, who were occupied in assorting rags by the dim, flickering light of a candle. The miserable rays of the candle gave the den a weird, lonesome and dismal appearance, and the light fell strange ly on the faces of the occupants, the majori ty of whom were withered and wrinkled mit of a'.I semblance of humanity. In this den the reporter found that ' the ragpicker and his family work night and (Uiy. While one is making the rounds in quest of bones coal, cinders or old bottles the balance of the family are at work assorting the gather ed stTaps in their den, and selecting what they intend to sell to the junkmen. "The business was good, years ago," re marked Black Paddy to the reporter, "but the trade of late years, is greatly depressed, and a Ixxly cannot sell for as much as he used to." "Who is to blame for this ? asked the reporter. "Why, these heathen Italians; snhat the likes of us are obliged to be out nearly all the night." Paddy is one of the kings of the rag pickers He lives in the "Bay," as.be styles it, which means Baxter street. He claims to have come originally from Ire land, and says he is one of the oldest in business in this city. P.ultly is always boss over a well filled ash barrel, from which he often drives the Italian with threatening gestures with his long iron hook. It is claimed that Black Paddy is worth a small fortune. All the week he culls rags and carries his large hempen bag, but on Sun day he dresses up in gorgeous style. Paddy, after relieving himself in some slight de gree by the outburst against Itaiia's dark sons proceeded to say, as he swung his rag-h(x)k in dangerous proximity to the re porter's nose, that the business is now if? most entirely monopolized by the Italians who can "live on nothing a day and get rich on it." Paddy complained that the Italians start out too early in the morning, and to find anything grxxj he has to follow suit, or have the labor of traveling round it. You have taken a totally erroneous idea ot the affair. hat, after all said and done, does it amount to? It's a' nothing a mere formality. Let us look into it in de tail. Y'ou are called and wakened early and given a comfortable breakfast order whatever you want. Nothing is so very dreadful alxmt tmt, is there f Then you have your hair cut it's healthy this hot weather, and makes you feel fresher. Then you go calmly and pleasantly out for a ride. In a ca-arriage; understand I While you arc driving along you amuse yourself chat ting alxmt this ''mt nn! other thing with the priest, and you never feel the time pass Well, w hen yoiLget there they come out to meet you, they open the dxr for you, they help you out of the carriage, they do everything in their power for you. Then you go up stairs only a step or two, and the ascent is so ea;y that you'd almost think you were going down stairs You bow to the public, and well, la-fore you have time to turn round brmr! all is over. (Smiling.) And everylxxly goes home satisfied. That's all there is six nit it.' " Captnnnca Cocktail. "A relic of old decency" in the form of a dilapidated specimen of humanity, with a vari-colored nose, walked into a Montgom ery street saloon one evening, and jauntily walta'd over to the lunch counter, remark ing to the In-keener, en jxixait, "Mix me a stiff cocktail, please," and proceeded to lop off a section of corned beef as large as a basalt block, and covertly dumped aliout a half-pound of crackers tlirough a hole in the lining of his coat. The cocktail being ready, the customer leisurely swallowed it, and taking the measure of the cocktail dis jenser through the bottom of the glass asked: "Has frtxisey' been around here to night ?" B. K. replied that he had not the honor of that individual's acquaintance. "What don't know Goosey? Why he hangs around here every night. You must know him. He walks in this way." He walked towards the door imitating where anMind. an" I f Mind he'd gone to the bay. "It wasn't forty-eight hours afore the whole town was howlin' with delight at the way Hardy an' me'd lx-en eat up. It was that cussed Harness an' his gang. They'd loaded the shix-s o the gray with h-ad, an' then put Hardy an' me up to our little game. It was" said Mr. Birdsall, with tears in his eyes at the mere memory, "the lowest down shemianigHn that ever was played on two honest pien. Only think what.would have happened if Hardy and me had met. He was huntin for me just the same as I wa after him. The game was blowed before we did come together, an then after five minutes' talk we started for the lay to see Harness He skipped Ix-fore we got there, an' although we followed him for more'n a month, he kept ahead of us They gave him his il(e over at Piixhe, though," added Mr. Binlsal!, cheerfully, and then he sighed and relapsed into toliaeco moke and silence. have not left this room before I have finished my beer I'll break this pot over your bead. He then emptied his glass very deliberately and, as the man took -no heed of the warn ing he did as he threatened. He went up to the fellow and knocked him alxmt tbe head with the pot till he fell howling on the ground. Bismark then asked the waiter: "How much for the glass?" and having paiu tor it he walked away leisurely, with out anyone having dared to molest him. Even at that time he was a man of some political standing and the acknowledged leader of the conservative party? but, true to his principle, he always tixk tbe offen sive, attacking adversaries wherever he met them, and with all weapons Bismarck's attitude in Parliament hal, of course, been much noticed at court. The king, Freder ick William IV, had taken a great liking to the Junker, anil when the post of Prussian i mister at rranklurt became vacant, he thought of offering it to Bismarck. He was rather surprised, however, when this latter, without asking time for reflection. declared himself ready to accept the king's proposal. "But you are aware that it is 1 very difficult post, and it involves great re sponsibility i" said the king. "Your majesty may at all events give me a chance replied Bismark, "if I do not succeed, I can be recalled at any time.1 The position which he at once assumed at rraiikfurt created considerable aston k-shment there. Austria was at that time the ruling xwer in the Bundesrath, and the minor German states not only suffered this 'wing as legitimate and unavonlable, but they actually favored the pretensions of Austria; for they saw in the House of Hapsburg their natt.ral protector against the Hohenzollern, The last representative of Prussia at the Bunt had not Ix'en able to resent this and had quietly consented to play a humble second part, Count Thnn, the Austrian minister and president of the Bund, being unmistakably No. 1. This had gone so far that Bismarck's predecessor had, likehiscolleagues, allowedCount Ihun to be the only member to smoke during the committee meetings No consideration could prevent Bismarck from protesting against this He took a cigar out of his pcx-ket, asked Count Thun, to his amaze ment, for a light, and puffed away freely long after the Austrian minister had thrown his cigar away. It was but a trifle, but that trifle required more courage than any of his colleagues possessed, and Bismarck acquired thereby a personal position which his predecessor had never enjoyed. We have recalled these stories though they are uninqxirtaiit in themselves because we have thought it interesting to show that Bis marck's "historical" audacity if such a term may be used has its origin in his na tive, inlxirn daring. Bismarck has never Ix-en mean-spirited. He has not begun to talk loud and proudly, and to lie aggressive siuce he has la-come a great man ; on the contrary, he has risen to what he now is be cause he spoke and acted boldly ami proud ly when he was but a very small personage. He certainly hoped to win the game he its playing, but he could not conceal from him self that all would be over if he lost it. What would Prince Bismarck be now, if, after Duppel, Prussia had lcen beaten at Sadowa, or after Sadowa, at Gravelotte t He thought of this out be was never afraid. The ioor gcntleman-tarmer, the Junker, who had to contract debts in onler to be able to live in town, became successively an ' influential politician, a parliamentary leader, minister at Frankfurt, St. Peters burg, Paris; prime minister, chancellor, count and prince; but still remained ready to give his adversaries new chances of d featingand crushing him. Wedding Gift. In different countries are different nnxles. The penny weddings in licotland are pecu liar. Invited guests make contributions iu money (oue shilling is the general tribute, and half a crown is a princely offering. Out of the sum thus collected the not -very -costly expenses of the feast were paid, ami the surplus went toward buying the furni ture. Iu the wedding of the poorer classes in Ireland this levying contributions on guests never takes place; for, however pxr Paddy may be, his pride revolts from the appear ance of poverty on such an occasion. Thern is a collection, how-aver, to raise a sum for lilx?rally compensating the clerical gentle man who "has tied the knot," and in the house of a rich fanner this swells up to a good round sura. In w ales among the small farmers and traders Hie custom prevails to this day of "bidding," not single guests but whole families to a wedding. That such an event is to come off, with the where and when, is duly advertised in the local newspapers. with a request that all persons who, 111 time past, have been similarly obliged in that manner, will attend, brimring presents for the bride and bridegroom. Besides this. particular and almost peremptory invita tions in writing are sent to each household on whom the b-be-wedded folks may have some especial claim for former generosity under like circumstances Iresents of all 9orts fixxl, furniture, flour, fuel, table and cliamlier linen, even sheep, lamb, calves goats and ponies are among the gifts In Germany there is the "pay wedding," at which the bride receives her guests with a basin before her, each person depositing a jewel, silver srxxin or a piece of money, at the same time apologizing for the donation being so far la-low value, compared with the damsel's deserts In some parts of Ger many the rule is that the expenses of the marr'age feast shall Is? met by each guest paying for what he eats and drinks just as if he were in a hotel, but not at fair hotel prices Thus the entertainment sometimes extends over several days, and the young couple often realize a sum out of the profits sufficient to start them fairly in life. From one to three hundred guests are often pres ent throughout these festivals Sometimes the flow of presents takes a very different course. Iu Poland, a lady is not regarded as eligible for double bless edncss until she has wrought with her owu hands cloth and garments for each of her future lord's friends (groomsmen) afom panying liini to the altar. In Norway, the clergyman has to lie pro pitiated with two or three bladders of mince-meat, made by the hand of the bride and a bottle or two of brandy. In tht country most presents made on wedding rcasions take the tangible form of larder supplies at ieast, among tke peasantry and artisans In most countries, at the present time. wedding presents may be said to alxun This system of inviting people to a bridal reception and expecting them to make a valuable present has become a serious tax. amLtliouL'li much money is thus expended, the result is generally not quite satisf.n--ton . A lisent-Mlndednesa. Aa Auction Joke. novel husband that Itlsltiark'a Cuitraae. Bismark's life is full of authentic anec dotes recording his singular fearlessness As a child be dix-s not seem to know l.at danger is His mother is in constant fear alxmt him. If he dix-s not get drowned he will certainly break his neck. Many acci dents happen to him, and be often has very narrow escapes 'ut somehow he always dix-s cscaix1. A he growsolder he lx-comes more prudent, but still he d.x-s "not know fear. In Gottingen, where lie went to law, he got involved in four duels on the day of his arrival, lecausc, quite regardless of the respect due by a freshman to his seniors he coolly anil deliberately insulted four of these who had taken the lilierty to laugh at hi in. While in the army he saved his servant from drowning at the risk of his own life. For this di-ed he got a medal. which for many years was the only deco ration he bait He wears it still ; audit is said and we readily Ix-iieve that he is finite as proud of it as of the iiumlx-rless riblxms crosses and stars which now cover his breast. After 14-S Bisreark's courage was displayed on other fields He was among the first, and certainly among the most conspicuous of those who, while all around were carried away by the revolution or despair of Ix-ing able to resist it, stoixl up boldly and agitated oenly against it. He took the lead of the reactionary party and lx-came very unpopular. The liberal press in Prussia attacked him with great violence. In Parliament he met with ve hement opposition. He seldom lost his temper, but he never retracted a single word of his attack on the revolution. Some allusions having been made to the fate which generally awaits those who try to re sist the demands of a great people for liber ty, he merely shrugged his shoulders He is of the opinion that "death on the scaffold may be a very honorable death." While he was canvassing for his election at a place called Rathenow, an old farmer asked him if he thought it were of any use "to fight against those Berlin democrats 1" "It is better (o be the bummer than the anvil," j replied Bismark. He has alwavs managed Mr. Wa'teisa is to say, in a Rood many respects. lie neither drinks, smokes, nor chews, stays home at evenings, never gambles and gives his wife all the money that she wants. It is said that all men have some idio syncracy or hobby. Mr. Waite has his. It is .1 deep rooted mania for attending auction sale and buying articles of every description, t la Toodles, with out regard as to whether they will ever j be of any practical use to him. As long as he gets them at a bargain he is satisfied. A good joke about this peculiarity of his was related the other evening by a friend of his. Mr. Waite went to au auction sale of a dealer in starting goods, where he bought two hundred dumb bells at twenty cents a pair, and carried them home in triumph. He sto'etl them in a cellar where they re mained for six months or more, Mrs. W. got tired of seeing them oc cupy so much space, as she wanted the eellar for some purpose of her own. So, imagining that her husband had forgotten all about his novel acquisition she sold the dumb bells for a mere song to an auctioneer. That evening Mr. Waite returned home with a hand cart. His face was flushed but triumphant. 'What have you got in the cart, dear?" asked Mrs. W. "Iumb bells, darling.,' "What!" "Iiutnb bells. Bought tw o hundred pairs at thirty cents a pair. Paid more for them than the others I got, but you know it will never do to let the price of dumb bells drop. M r. Waite took one look at the ar ticles. Her worst fears were realized. They were the same dumb bells that she bad sold in the morning. Mr. Waite had chanced to be in attendance at the sale where they had been offered and had bought them in at a third ad vance ever the price which he had at rst aid. One free .llmi In Italy. Here is a gixxl story of the late King of Italy, "11 re Galantuomo," as his subjects liked to call him: "Going to the theatre one night in a gray coat, the King observed that the daughter of the Emperor of Kus sia and the Princess Margherita were in the house. He must pay a visit to the foreign irincess, and it was too late to return lo the luirinal to change his dress 'I am all black but the coat,' he said to his atten dants; 'if some one would lend me a coat !" He espied a young marquis, one of his aides-de-camp, near and sent for him. The coat was quickly exchanged, but a Strawberries sod ice-cream," she cooed softly, as a dozen glaring signs with that magic inscription thereon nn-t her dove-like imze. " Lime, hair and cement," quoth he, as his eagle-eve despairinslv took iu a weath- erlx aten shanty across the street, fomiimr a sad contrast to the p:ila-e which, if man once enters he is lost, if a woman gix-s with him. "I haven't had any this season."' said she with a woman" pen-option that his thoughts weje wondering from the sublime to the ndit ulous. "Nellie, where dix-s your father buy his building materials .'" and our young man increased his gait to eighteen laps more to the mile. "Why! what do you " "Of course not. you know I 1111:111 you know those are mighty tine fellows wh.i run that lime institution over there see it ; right across the street. Well, Vou see, I've promised them to talk up their business. They're gixxl, square lxiys and I must fecak to jour father alxnt them. He is a kind old gentleman, your father is and en courages economy. It was only the other day he spoke to me very kindly alxmt niv extravagance, and brought up as an exam ple a remark he heard an ice cream dealer make that I spent more monov for ice cream than any man in town. Your father is such a persuasive old gentleman, and he talked so nicely a)x:ut it, that I then and there made a solemn resolution that I wouldn't spend a rent for ice cream this season." The last ice cream lalxiratory bad Ix-en passed. He smiled a smile of grim satis faction and felt he had done it well. He tallied one for himself, and decided he was a schemer' that could match any woman bent on having a dish of ice cream at his expense. He lixiked over his left shoulder at the panting creature, whom he was dragiring along at a tremendous gait, lo set how she tixik it. The dove-like expn-ssion of her eye was lost, and there flashed on him such a look of contempt and disgust from that loveU face that he felt bad. " "You see, Nellie, your noble father " And then it struck him all of a sudden that Nellie's father had Ix-en dead for four years. A Private Koom. white tie was still wanting. The marquis When he was on the offered his ; but Victor Emmanuel, seeing the waddle of a goose. Having reached the city only to find that all the coal, iron, I the entrance he vanished into space. When scraps rags "- have all disappeared, and j the barkeeper recovered from the paralytic everything that a cent could be made on ' stroke of astonishment, he prescribed for 1 1 . I 1 . l. 1 htf titmolf tl, An.-Mtra W ihl Rbie-CI-ASA." has been gathered from the ash barrels by the one who was ahead of him. After gain ing a good deal of information from Paddy, the reporter left him and went on his way to lie the hammer. xint of leaving Hathcnow a mob surround-1 one of his senanls at the dixir of his box ed the carriage in which he was seated with with a fresher one, walked up to him and . . . ... - . . . . . t , 1 : .: 1 1 his rrienn .Mr. on Ntechow. Mones were suentiy iook on u uc nm innn n vu thrown at him, and one struck him on the j himself, then brushing his hair at the glass shoulder, lie rose, and picking tip the he said, ' Do I look King of Italy?' This stone that had fallen in the carriage, hurled' familiarity, in which he occasionally Jn it back at the crowd. It was a multitude dulged, did not involve a loss of dignity, against two men, but nolxxly dared to stop for he knew how to check any undue pre Bismark's carriage. In li0, when the , sumption. Once a Koman noble, whose tide of political passion was still running sympathies were rather with the old re very high, Bismark went one day into a ' ffi me than the new, said: 'I wonder Your tavem at Berlin to take a class of lieer. A I Majesty drives in the Corso; we Koman charged two drinks on a customer's card, man near him, feeling himself supported by . princes do not go. Ana we, cing 01 0 ..... a- W . U 1 la 1 ' onlu.l V inriV I mtntttlllOl Trifh pii7zlel Jit the itVa that men and women in range of the front door. and fell tn mnt-ilizinir on the ftdvisabilitV 0 . . . 1 .. 1 1 ;t mounting a small howitzer somewhere with- a memoer 01 tue rojai lauiuy Bismark a stately dignity which he could assume I looked at him, and said quietly, "if you when occasion required. " A writer in New York says I am re ininiled, by the announct-mi-i; that some of our chilis will have their rooms in the hotels at Coney Island this year. as they did last, of an amusing incident in that connection. Nome of the windows in one of these club rooms "gaze" on their private veranda and some on the public one, and a few of the niemlx-rs dining there one after nixin were much annoyed by people pa 1 ing through. One big, burly fellow twiire offended in this way, although warned that it was a private nxm. S-eing him enter a third time, one of the memlx-rs who answers to poor Pillicoddy's description of himself, being '"small but desperate, diriin utive but determined," rose and barred bis way. "You go out the way you came in," said he. The man, with a swagger, "would see it he would." The gentleman forced him hack, the rough's friend's t.iok his part, other memlx-rs of the club joined in, and in fewer minutes than are required to read if, the in truder hail made a paralxilic flight through the air and landed in a promiscuous leap on the veranda. He picked himself up ami approached his adversary, his countenance expressing rather a species of surprised curiosity tlian ungovernable cboler. "Is th's rcaVif a private room ?" asked he, in tones quite unlike his former ones 'Yes and you'll find it out," was the vigorous reply. - In place of an explosion of wrath there came from the lately truculent intruder the words : " tronlda'l hare yunt lift!ti'jn for a th'mmnii ri'tllnr .'" ' i ' ( r u, I: !s m 1 if . t m !' .-' Sir'; fat m u il !tt: hi m lish china, his soul coveteu ... Ma4i - : -Tr V-r-