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VOL. XXXVI.
MIFFLINTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 8. 18S2.
NO. 5.
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(iOOD-MGHI.
There's a face in the mirror of loveliness rare.
Encircled by round, d!mp:ed arms, aweeUj bare.
Watte linger, piok-tipneO, hide and seek in her
hair,
A-UUcg ii off for the night.
There's a pair of brown ejes, rather sleepr, it'
true
Ked chef ts that outrival the peaches in hue J
A mouth ma le of rose-bud and holding a few
Bent hair ptna tween teeth pearlr white.
There" a flutter, of white angel wings, I suppose ;
A dropping oi snoes and a showing of huae;
A patu-r of little bare feet and ten toes,
A-running across on the floor.
Then darkness a ghost kneeling down bjrthe bed;
The tiniest prayer that ever was said ,
A pulling of blankets ail over the head.
And a sweet Uttle musical snore.
AFTER MASV DAIS.
A loux luxurious room, all wiue-color
and cold. elvet carpets were under
foot : silken curtains draped the windows :
from cabinets of ebony gleamed exqui
site gems of chiseling; ou the wall hung
delicious morsels of color.the chandelier
was all abluze; ia the wide steel grate an
anthracite lire leaped and sparkled with
innumerable reflections. Without, the
r:dn fell, the winds howled drearily, the
trees rocked and groaned this desolate
autumn night. Here, all was light and
warmth and luxury. One of the massive
doors swung back and a girl cunte into
the room a little, slight, childish fig
ure, clad in a trailing blue silk dress, a
dainty, youthful face, with features a
trifle short for classic perfection, big,
azure eyes, cheeks like pink roses, and
pale gold ringlets fa'ling in glittering
showers to her waist. She came over
to the mantel and stood, with idly
clasped hands, looking up at the pie tare
above it. Snch a wonderfully handsome
face, olive-skinned and Greek featured;
bright and reckless and boyish on the
whole; but one instinctively knew that
back of it lay an impulsive, passionate
temperament. So absorbed the girl
stood she did not hear the door upon and
and some one enter.
'You won't to be positive you'll re
cognize him, Iva," laughed a voice le
1 ind her.
She turned swiftly, a little shyly, her
face luminous,
The lady who had entered and now
stood regarding her with a happy,
quizzical smile, though elderly, was
straight and imposing and stately. Her
s ft satin robes swept the nch carpet;
an exquisite morsel of Mechliu rested
on her dark hair. One glance at her
f:ice and grave eyes involuntarily rever
ted to the pictured oue above the man
tel, but the face of the mother was as
that of the son, aged and exaggerated,
colder, 6teruer. Xow, as she glanced
up at the cold young face of him who
was the last representative of a grand
race, all the proud ador.it on of a moth
er came into the keen, old eyes, and she
could well say, with the Countess Dani
eheff. "Forthat name aud that son,
everything. For the rest, nothing."
"Wliat exquisite flowers, Iva!"
For just where the foamy lace flowed
back from the girl's slender throat.nest
led a cluster of pink, fragile, hot house
blossoms.
Yes; Mr. Lawrence sent them."
"Mr. Lawrence! Take care, little
girlie! My prophetic soul tells me that
Mr. Lawrence will grow a great deal too
fond of you if he is not that already. He
is a very wealthy min, dear an honor
able gentleman but Cyril holds your
promise. XoMiing ; nothiag." she rei
terated, almost passionately, '-shall
break that"
"Dear Aunt Alelaide, am I likely to
forget it when I loved him so? Three
rears since he went I was 15 then
and it has seexed like three centuries."
Hark, how it storms. It is not omi
nous of his coming home, howevcr.dear
I am going up to my room a while, but
le sure I shall hear the first sound of
carriage wheels."
She left the parlor and Iva Russcl
walked to the window, and drawing
aside the curtain looked out:
A dreary blustering November night.
The rain fell heavuY, steadily, uncom
promisingly; the wind wailed and shrie
ked like a thing iu pain; the trees
writhed and flung their huge arms aloft
For the girl who stood there, looking
out with such sweet, glad eyes, all the
joy of the present all the hopes of the
future, lay in three little words thrilling
through the heart ar.d brain "Cyril is
coming!"
"Ah!
She was turuiug away, when she
stopped (short, with a terrible Rasp. Her
blue eyes, dilated with fear, were rivet
ed on the window.
Against it was pressed a face as white
as the face of the dead. Wild dark eyes
traveling around the room, then fixed
themselves ou her.
Eyeu as their glance met, she sprang,
to the casement and flung it open with
a cry of breathless, bewildered recogni
tiou.
-Cyril, Cyril!"
The man came slowly, dazedly into
the glow, the li-ht, the sparkle of the
room. From his overcoat and slouched
hat the water dril led. Ilia face was
that of the portrait above the mantel,
but woefully changed, wan and worn
and haggard.
"Iva," holding out his hands with a
sad' weary smile, but uot offering to kiss
her, "dear little Iva!"
"Cyril!"
It was just a whisper. Into her eyes
had crept a vague dread.
"Iva, where's your mother?"
Up stairs."
She could only answer mechanicdly
and in monosvlables.
What a different home comiug to that
which she had expected.
'You yoa got my letter! You were
expecting" me?" nervously, with a swift
glance arour.d the bright, cozy room and
back to the little silk robed fisrare be
fore him; "butoh.Iva, Iva!" the words
breakiug from him passionately, his
voice hoarse and thakng "yon were
sot expecting my wife."
"Your wife!"
"My wife." , . L , . .
He nun" himself on his knees leside
l.er low chair. He caught her soft,
t arkling hands in his own fierce grasp,
aud then he bowed his handsome, hag
gard face upon them.
"Listen, Iva," breathlessly, rapidly
"It was iu London I met her. V e boar
ded at the same house. She was an
English girl who supported herself and
her invalid father by teaching. One
night the house took fire. My room was
1 the firemen could
not or would not find it She led them
through the rain of sparks, aud flame,
and falling timbers, till they burst open
my door and dragged me out, uuwuj
ous. She bears the marks oi those burns
In carrying mo out I was struck by
falling beam. For weeks I lay ill and
delirious. When I awoke to reason it
was to find that she who had saved had
nursed me. Every scrap I had iu the
world, was burned money, letters,
clothes, everything. And' all these
weary weeks she had been supporting
me, ministerinp' to me.
As I grew stronger I came to sec what
thorough woman though she was
she strove to conceal a love for which
I was most unwishful, most unworthy.
Dear, what could I do? My honor led
me through dishonor I married her.
She is here to night at the hotel she
and my Why. "Why don't you curse
me, Iva?" lilting to hear an anguished,
pallid face. '-Had ever man a more
bitter task than mine has been to
night?" Stonily the girl had heard him. Every
tinge of color had faded from her face
and left it deadly white.
"You love her?" she questioned very
low.
He dropped his dark young head with
a groan.
"God help me," he said, 4 no."
"Cyril!" cried a fond, proud voice
from the doorwav; "Is it you. Cvril niv
darling boy ? and I did not hear you
And his mother had rushed across
the room and clasped him in her arms.
"Wait a moment, mother " drawing
back hastily from her embrace and stan
ding up before her all white and nerv
ous. "I have something to tell you first
L am married.
"What?"
She stiggered back as though from a
blow.
Yes, I have told Iva " he began his
voice low and hurried.
But she silenced him with one swift
imperious gesture. Xow you saw that
her stern old face did not belie her. It
was flashed darkly with passion ; her
eyes were blazing.
"And you dare yon dare to come and
tell this to me me? in the presence of
the girl to whom you were liouud in
honor! Out of this house! Out this
moment, I say ! You are no eon of
mine.
He did not cry for mercy as a weaker
man might have done. His temper was
a reflex of her own. He turned to go as
quietly as ha had come. On the sill he
turned siuiply as a sob smote uiku his
ear. To his dying day he never forgot
the picture that met lus eye.
And William Lawrence, entering un
announced with the freedom of an old
friand. drew back in bewilderment
In the centre of the rich, gaslit room,
stem and dark-browed and unyielding
as was ever a mother Sparta, Mrs. Cal
vert stood; and at her feet, where she
had flung herself in passionate applica
tion, the kneeling figure of the girl, all
shimmering in silk and costly laoe aud
pure pink blossoms. Her clapped hands
wore uplifted l'i ploringly: her lovely;
tear wet, childish face was white and
quivering.
"Aunt Adclaute Aunt Adelaide
don't ! Kememl-er if you loved him;so
did L"
The man in the doorwav caught his
breath sharply.and Cyril Calvert dashed
away with hasty strides into the stormy
November night
"God bless her! God bless her! my
first and last love!"
"Good-bye, dear. It's getting late
I must be going."
Anu a uttle soinbte clad figure by the
fire laid gently down the child she had
soothed to sleep, and began putting on
her wraps.
C nl Calvert s wife, a pretty, fragile
Eugiish girl, with eyes too bright for
health and a scarlet tqot ou either cheek
rose too.
"It's too dark to go alone, lva. ait
for Cvril."
"No, no, dear," hastily.
"Is she as hard as ever, Iva?"
Iva shook her head sadly.
"Yes, the struggle between her love
and pride is fearful. It is eating away
her life."
I'm sorry we ever came,, Alice Cal
vert said, fretfully. "Cyril would have
it so, and now I have not the strength
nor the means to leave. He is working
very hard, but journalism gives very
light support to a novice. Without you
Iva, I do not know what we would do.
You. and that annonymous friend who
is so inexpressibly good to us. Yester
day there came a basket of hot house
fruit I saw the gentleman as he stood
wrh the messenger at the corner of the
street pointing out the house. His
face was so strange to me, but I shall
know him if I ever see him again. It
must have been from him there came
two mouths ago, when we were so hard
up, that S-'tO bill in the printed enve-
l"!-"
"God bless him tor a good ana true
friend, whoever he is."
"Good night, Iva!
"Good night Aiice!"
And she kissed the baby and his mo
ther and went away, A block from the
house she met William Lawrence, avd
they walked home together thr jugh the
snow ana siarugui.
T....I na mur from flint rdrrlit wllHll
Iva Russcl was waiting for her lover,
William Lawrence stood on oia .lira.
Calvert's doorstep.
He sent up his card to Iva with one
line inscribed on the back;
"She is dving. Come.-
len nunuies later mri -....j,
-."1 41. .itr iii the frost V.
yellow twilight
. . . i 1 .4 Afr I nir.
il'v 11111 wu uiuh -, -...
rence?" , . , ,
"I was passing, and, having heard
that she was very ill, stopped to in
quire." What a clear, crisp, amber nigut.
Bright and bracing and invigorating,
with a breath of winter on its frosty
sweetness.
Even Iva RusseL pale and worn from
I - lliu r.kort fftlt a
strange, new thrill of peace and happi
ness. , ,
mi L I tntSl T 1)1 tl'tTli
ened room. Cyril, kneeling by the lied
inev won wua
his face buned iu lus lianas ana uui
looKing ni. . , .
"Iva! Iva!" Alice Calvert s hot fiii-
irers closed feverishly over uer u- ieu-. .
'Who laiuisr
Wiliinm Lawrence came a step lor-
ward into the light .
.. v - fi i . ilnns mm-
"les. it is ne, uncv o
an. "lv cyni, i
who has ueineuucu u - o- .
Iva Russel lifted her pure fair face
and looked at him.
IIOW U1111U it
When two hours later they went from
that quiet room, leaving behind theto
H . TiT:ii:m T.nwTpnce car-
peace eternal. m,
riedCyril's child in his . arms. They
' bronght him to an old woman, sitting
sat ana lonely in her splendid home.
iva opened the door and pushed him
gently before her into the room.
They saw the wee one toddle across
the floor; they heard his pretty, lisping
baby voice say the word they had taught
mm,
"Danma!"
Then, as she caught him to her with
ered breast with a quick cry. they drew
back reverently and shut the door.
Knowing Cyril s cause was won.
"You are tired," Witliam Lawrence
said, gently.
"A little"" she smirt-d.
He stood oposite her, aud ahe
thought as she had thought many
time, of lnt5 what a grand honest gen
tleman he was, and how securely one
coma trust one s happiness in his hands
felt, with a hot glow of maidenly
shame that even her heart should con
fess it to herself, that this strong, new.
ennobling aliccuon which had come to
her was the love of a lifetime, and no
brittle, childish passion.
At the door he paused and turned to
her.
"What a bright, beautiful night, iva!
How different from that other one, oue
year ago, when the sweetest hope of my
life was crushed a hope that has of late
sprung np and blossomed again! Dear
1 have hoped 1 have fancieu that p. r
hns after all "
The Uttle hand he had taken lay con
fidingly in his. Her happy eyes looked
np to the frosty, glittering stars.
"Yes," she said, softly, "after all!"
S elter from Frost.
The importance of providing shelter
for such half hardy plants as winter
spinach, onions, strawberries, etc., has
been mentioned belore, and should have
!een applied before this time. In sea
sons when we have plenty of snow dur
ing the entire winter, covering for such
plants is hardly needed at all, but such
seasons are not common in the south
eastern portion of New England; in this
region i- is much more common to have
the land more or less exposed, especial
ly late in the winter, when the sun runs
high aud the uiphts are cold. It is against
such frequent freezing aud thawing that
the shelter is wanted, and if it is only
sufficient to shade the ground from the
sun aud prevent frequent thawing, it is
better than a heavy covering, which is
apt to smother the plants during a thaw.
There is another sort of covering to be
used in spring on the hot beds I mean
of course, the mats and shutters used to
shelter the glass in frosty weather. These
mats aud shutters are usually made on
the farm during the cold and stormy
days of winter. The mats are made of
rye straw, the coarser and larger the
better, and the grain should be well
threshed out, so as not to attract rats
or mice to make their nests in the mats
when stowed away in summer. There
are two sorts of frames used in making
mats, one is a rectangular frame of 2x4
inch spruce, 6 feet four inches square in
the clear, jliced on legs so as to b
about 2 J feet from the floor, and across
this are tightly diawn as many strings
of marline as are to be used in tying the
mat; usually eight or nine strings are
used. One side of this frame is made
movable, and is secured in its place by
stout hard wood pins at each end; this
moveable side is where work begins in
tying the mat; the straw is laid on in a
small, clean handful, and tied down
tightly by given the loose end of the mar
lin or spun yarn a half hitch around the
tight string which is made fast to the
frame; when the mat has been tied for
about two feet from the edge, the mov
able side of the frame is moved forward
and secured in its new position by pins
while the portion of mat already made
is allowed to drop over its edge, allowing
the workman to reach over and tie about
two feet more of the mat The edges of
the mat where the butts of the straw are
ii regular, are easly trimmed straight by
placing the mat upon the floor with a
straight edged piece of board over the
edge to be trimmed, and then chop off
the irregular ends with a hatchet
The other sort of frame used for tying
the mats, is shaped somewhat like a
common carpenter's saw-horse; it is
built higher however, so as to bring the
top about 1 feet from the floor. The
top is made of two pieces of inch board
placed an inch and a quarter apart, and
between them the mat is pushed down
ward as each handful of straw is tied on
top. In this frame a mat may be made
of any length desired, usually eight feet
is about the limit Any one unaccus
tomed to the use of these mats would
be surprised to see how efficient they
are in protecting hot beds from iroet;
w hen placed over the glass and covered
with shutters, it requires a very hard
frost with high wind to freeze through
them. The shutters are made of ( inch
pino matched boards, 6 feet 4 inches
long by 2 J to 3 feet wide, and secured
by three cleats, one at each end, and
one across the middle, securly nailed
with clinch nails.' If kept well painted
they will last for many years. The
shutters are often used without glass as
spring advances, to shelter plants on
fiosty nights, throwing them off by day
so as to expose the plant to the open
air: this enables the gardener to use his
glass and mats on other beds containing
more tender plants. It is customary to
put the glass upon cold frames contain
ing dandelion and rhubarb, about the
middle or latter part of January, cover
ing at nights with mats and shutters. If
the beds are well banked with eel grass.
or horse manure, they will not freeze
enough to injure these hardy plants, and
the growth once started will progress
rapidly as the sun gets higher. When
the rhubarb leaves touch the glass, the
frame is built up with an additional
plank or two placed on the lower on
and held on its edge in place by means
of nickets nailed on upon the outside.
The rhubarb will grow three feet long
if the glass is raised so as to give it room.
Tt i a verv acceptable sauce in early
spring, before it can be pulled out of
doors, and the forned article is much
mor tender that what grows outol
doors.
Married for Money.
In the dining-room of a stately mansion
on the banks of the Mersey were seated
two gentlemen. The elder one was tall,
pool-looking, with flashing; black eyes,
which inspired the beholder with some
thing akin terror when they were lit up
with passion; the other one was fair haired.
with bue eyes and a rrcrry smile ever
plaving about his face.
The first gentleman was Harry Wilniot,
the master of tbe house. Before him wa s
placed a large table, covered with papers
apparently bills which be was examining
with a gloomy and dejected countenance.
After being thus employed for rome lime,
he pave the tableau impatient push, and
said to bis friend :
"I wish this piece of business was end
ed. By-tbe-way, have you heard that I am
goine to be married P
"No replied the other, whom we mi'tt
not forget to introduce to our readers as
Mr. Clarence; "and may 1 ask on whom
you are going to confer tbe honor of your
hand I"
"Miss Harper."
'X cannot say that I admire your choice,'
replied Mr. Clarence: "abe has nei'her
blood, beauty, wit nor common sense,
"All that vou say is too true, aad be
tween you and me, cannot bear ber my
self; but then sbe is rich, and if 1 do not
get some money, 1 shall have nothing; be
sides, my creditors are becoming clamorous
and, af ier all beauty is but skin deep; and
for blood, sbe is the daughter of a toy-
maker, but highly respectable people you
know."
''Well, but yiu have laid nausbt about
her want of wit and sense," said Mr. Clar
ence.
1 he urst is a dangerous weapon in a
woman's hands, and the second I hope-
she will acquire in time."
"How trae it is," renarktd Mr. Clar
ence, "that gold u the god, the wife, tbe
friend, and tbe mom y monger of the
world 1 But what is her fortune I"
"Fifty thousand pounds, which I can
as sdre you, will be very useful to me, as I
am not worth so many pence at the pres
ent moment
"When is Ihe wedding to take place ?"
"On tbe lOlh of March."
''Well, I wish you much happiness; but
remember, a man cannot possess anything
better than a good wife, nor anything
worse than a bad one. But 1 must now
av farewcIL
When Wilmot was left alone his reflec
tions were anything but pleasant ones. He
bad a babit of thinking aluud, or talking
to himself, perhaps on the same principle
as the village school-matter, who gave as
bis reasons for doing so first, "ihat be
liked to talk to a sensible man;'' and sec
ond, "that be liked to hear a sensible man
talk.' Be that as it may; wc wlI listen
what he says.
"Clarence thinks I am a fool, anil I al
most thinK so to going to be married to a
woman 1 all but hate 1 for what I Gold,
hard, round, unthinking, unmeaning gold,
Ah! how different to Helen Aubrey! bue
has every attribute to make a man happy.
ft bat a pity it i? sue has not money, and
what a bore it is we cannot do without it !
That Miss Harper seemed to le talking
very lovingly to Captain Dent last night.
Oh, if the jade turns out a flirt, I shall go
hilt mad I and I think I am nearly so a!
ready. Theie was some truth in what
CUrence said above a good wife; and if to
a'l my other troubles ths.t of a bad wife is
added, what shall I do f However, it is
no use meeting troubles half way; they
come quite soon enough without, I think
go and see Aliss Uu a One mav
spend a happy hour there; and I suppose I
must even bid good-bye to that when she
gets to hear of my marriage, for although
she is as good as an angel, she is a po r
as Job, and as proud as L-icifer."
ft e must now introduce our readers to
Hawthorn Grove,the residence of Anthony
Harper, Esquire; for although Anthony
was only a toy maker, yet, on account of
his great wealth he being the richest man
in the village he was usually styled the
squire by the population; that na the
seeminz deference always paid to him.
made him consider himself, his affairs,and
his property to be of the first importance
in the county. Mr. Harper was not an ed
ucated man. He was wont to declare that
he considered the whole system of educa
tion a great waste of time and labor; and
yet witual (and curiously misplacing them)
he bad a fancy for using long words.
Shortly after the conversation with Clar
ence, Air. Wilmot called on Mm Harper;
but before we describe tbe interview, it
will be but polite to describe the lady. She
was tall and thin; her hair was red, her
eyes were pina, ana ner icatures were
large and sharp.
After making the usual pome inquiries
about her health, etc., he faid :
'What a long time it seems to look for
ward to before I can call you mine !"
"Oniy a fortnight you know; but papa
was sayine thut he was afraid tbe marriage
set'lemenU could not be completed in time
the lawyers are so slow in their work."
"What seed have we for settlements!
exclaimed ft' llmot "Do I not love you
fondly, madly, passionately t W ill not all
that 1 have be yours? Oh, do not delay a
moment beyond the 10th of March! I
hardly know how . I shall .wait even that
long or, at least," be mentally added,
how my creditors will.
To which Miss Harper replied.
"Well, I wiil ask papa about it"
"Do, my darling; and now, farewell! It
is like tearing soul from booy to leave you
even for a short time. Thank my stars, 1
have got away at last 1" he muttered, as
he walked down the stairs.
Mr. Clarence paid bis friend, Mr. Mai Tin
a somewhat early visit one morning, and
found him sipping his coffee and looking
at the newspaper.
"Have you heard the news, Malvin f
exclaimed be.
"No," replied tie latter, laying aside
bis paper, "what is it? Did you win at Ihe
last Derby races, or discover a new cut of
a coat or been fascinated by a pair of
bright eyes?"
"No; you are entirely wrong. In the
nrst place, you know that I was not at the
Derby. Your second guess is stil! more
ridiculous, as I trust always to be above
such trifles. Besides, you know beauty un
adorned is adorned the most; and as for
being fascinated by bright eyes, I prefer
fascinating; it is infinitely more amusing,
and 1 flatter myself I am pretty skillful at
it and could pick a wife from among the
fairest damsels in tbe land u 1 only chose
to ask them."
"H-imph!"' returned Mr, Malvin,
like that now; it is so very modest; but
you may be thankful that none cf the
ladies are here, or they may give you some
new ideas on the subject; but tell me, whit
is tne news I"
"Hairy Wilmot was married to Miss
Harper last Thursday."
"No, you dont say so! He has married
her for her money, of course I
'Yes, and she married him forms posi
tion in society, so it seems to be pretty
equal, with this slight difcrence that she
has got tbe one. but he has not got tbe
other. Mr. Harper settled all his wealth
noon her. so that he can't touch a penny.
"ft'elL it almost serves bim right If a
I man will so desecrate marriage, he de
serves all that he gets. Better have a wife
with a fortune in her than with ber un
less you can have both together. That's
my sentiment but how are tbe happy pair
now I"
"Tbe happy pair, indeed ! They are
chewing tbe cud of disappointment and
be endeavoring to get accustomed to his
wife's ways "
"Well, well," said Malvin. "I wish
I wish bim much happiness
"And so do I; and don't wish that he
may get it; By the way, I saw a note of
her writing, and Just looked for all tbe
world as if a spider had walked into an
inkstand, and then walked out of it along
tbe paper; such a scrawl !
"Well, I wonder what the future Mrs.
Clarence will be like. I shall expect ber
to be a perfect paragon of excellence. With
your fastidious taste, take care you don t
pick up a crooked slick at last, old fellow;
but I have an engagement and so I must
wish you good Pioruing.
In the private room of a hotel sat Mrs.
Wilmot, painfully regretting tbe past and
reflecting on tbe future, waen Mr. Wilmot
entered the room, and addressed her with :
"Matilda, dear, I want you to let me
have five hundred pounds.''
"You are very obliging. You have done
nothing but ask me fcr money since I mar
ried you. I have come to the determina
tion of lending you no more."
"Before tbe month is over 1 will seek a
divorce."'
"Do so, and set all tongues in town
talking about you."
"Confound the woman !n he muttered,
as he strode out of the room, "she knows
my weaK points, if sbe knows naught else;
but what must I do I One thing at least 1
wl'1 do. and that is, to warn all my friends
never to marry for money.
Shooting CbamnU.
To tell a buck from a barren doe in
early autumn at any but the shortest
distance requires long practice, aud even
mistakes not infrequently occur; for the
latter have also a misleading propensity
to sneaking aliout aloue, and at the sea
son of the year of which I speak reseru
ble the bucks in all but the position of
the boms, which very slight difference
can, of course be detected when the ani
mal is quite close. Oaly the day before
I had killed a barren doe, mistaking her
for a buck, anil though they are perfect
ly legitimate gam ;. yet it is ambition of
the cognoscenti to kill only bucks. My
glass assures me, however, that not only
is the animal a buck, but the large
sue of the horns ranks him unquestion
ably among the very largest-the so call
ed "capitals-lxx'ke." I let him proceed
half way down the gully, bringing, mean
while, my ritle very slowly ny to the
shoulder. Hire he halts, apparently to
survey for the last time, the ground, be
fore lie makes his rush. This is the de
sirable moment, and, though the buck
will get a nasty tumble of some sixty or
seventy feet, for he has barely enough
footing. I prefer a lotg and steady stot
to a much eljoei running one. My Ex
press, the same that iu the Far West has
rolled over, iu not dissimilarly wild sur
roundings, many a proud bighorn gives
forth its loud reort, and the solid bul
let, (a preferable missile to the asnal ex
panding bullet for snch small game as
chamois, )propelled by what Continental
sportsmen consider a terribly large
charge, L c, five and one-half drams,
pierces, as I afterward discover, the
wary old fellow from end to end, send
ing him his legs turned upward, to the
bottom of the precipice, where he lands
with a dull crash. Twice more do I
shoot at chamois coming singly down
the gully, aud from precisely the same
fatal spot does my quarry take its head
long plunge. The last head, however,
comiug quicker than the proceeding oues,
the beaters being by this time close be
hind, makes an examination with my
glasses impossible; and so, to my cha
grin, I find when all is over that my last
victim is a barreu doe. By this time the
drive is drawing to a close, and wherever
one looks one sees, generally m the most
lmpossiUI places, beaters descending
from the heights above. As one watches
now one, then the other, edging bare
footed along fearfully narrow bands of
roek, terrible abysses yawniug at their
side, one can not fail to see that these
men are not moved so much by the poor
pay (about half a crown per diem) as
by the inherent love for sport, to follow
such an exceedingly dangerous vocation,
while they could earn as much, if not
more, in their ordinary calling. The re
sults of the drive when, after the numer
ous reports of the keepers had been
heard, one could form a correct estimate,
were the following: About ninety cha
mois were in the drive to start with.
About forty broke back through the line
of the beaters, or escaped at the sides,
whie the rest came to the four guns, who
with thirty-one shots, killed eleven
head, namely : seven bucks, all with the
exception of my first one, of moderate
size, three barreu does, and, unfortun
ately, also, one mother doe, who, hav
ing lost her kid iu the frantic rush, ap
peared quite alone, aud hence, being
mistaken f r a buck or barren do paid
with her life for her numatronly conduct
A Few "Hows."
How mnch happier life might be if minds
could be trained t forget past trouble.
How bard it is to avoid listening and lik
ing to listen to scandal about our neigh
bor. How tame life would be without trou
bles and difficulties to overcome.
How few value or cultivate a good pair
of legs and un.
How the old are forgotten by tLe young
How unfortunate that so many of the
aged should make themselves unattractive
and even repulsive to the young.
How strong we feel when we have never
been sick.
How many men and wom.n are there
without a weak spot somewheief
How whiskey does bring out a man's
true nature and show tbe makeup and
and artificial side of moral character !
How much better is a "dog's life" than
the lives of some men and women.
How few new brooms, after all, sweep
clean Miess there is a clean sweeper be
hind them.
How sorry some people are for faults
which tbey will commit next month.
Th Royal Tombs of Aastria.
A correspondent writes of a short tour
in the Austrian and Bavarian Tyrol and
most delightful to Salzburg and G run
den, on the beautiful Tram Lake, and
to Ischl, where the Imperial Austrian
family pass the summer. At Ischl tli6
River Tram runs swiftly with a clear
green, and, with the hills and mountain
on every side, the scene ia lovely. To
walk in the pine forests beside mountain
torrents or flowing brooks, to p.niell the
delicious cyclamen on the high, mosFy,
rocks is a great boon to the invalid, as
well as to the strong, and all is so ac
cessible. Here the banks of the river
are built np on either side with walls,
except at some places, and there are
promenades, seats, and cafes all along,
and a band to play a cheerful scene,
and withal so old a look.
The trip down the Danube to Vienna
is accomplished in about nine hours,
while the trip up the requires twice as
long a tim. . This river is not so bright
and beautiful as tbe Rhine, but is mas
sive and imposing and broad in it effect
I mean the mountains are big and round
and so sharp, it looks more like the
dwellings of the Nibelnngen. Tbe castle
where Blondel sought Richard Cceur de
Lion, atd found him with his song, is
still imposing and magnificent at a sharp
turn in the river, which takes many
sharp turns. You do not land at Vien
na immediately from the river steamer,
but chauge to a small steamboat which
takes yoa by a cauid almost to the mid
dle of the town. Iha inner town is en
circled by this canal on one side, and ny
a sort of boulevard on the other.making
about a two mile circuit, and called the
"Rinf,, As all the streets radiate from
this ring it is very easy to find one's way
about. The city is very Bhowy, wi'h
almost endless fine buildings around
these boulevards, and buildings are still
going up ; a splendid opera house in the
Renaissance style, Rathans, ministries
of this and that, academies of arts ana
sciences, and the palace, which is im
mense and contains treasure chambers,
library, Ac, ie. A private collection of
paintings, the Liechtenstein, has the
best portrait Rembrandt ever painted
(of himself it is), and it is certainly
wondeiful; also the best Van Dyek, a
portrait of the Princess d'Este, together
with many others of less importance,
but all good. An old gouty man went
about with us ar d pointed out the beau
ties like a lover. He has a book in which
all the famous artists and others have
declared that this Rembrandt is the best
existing.
There is also wonderful collection of
paintings at the Belvedere a master
piece of Durer's, the "Tritity," a great
many Titians (among them the famous
"Danse"), a large collection of the Ve
netian school, the "Jupiter and Io" of
Correggio, that has been so often en
graved; the "Ecce Homo" of Guido.and
the "Mater Dolorosa" that we see every
where. There is also a collection of old
armor, embroideries, ivories, missals,
jewels, and wood carvings that is the
richest imaginable. Each ivory (and
there are cases of themis a gem before
which one could worship. A helmet of a
Doge of Venice and his shield was of
mnch interest; indeed, the whole collec
tion deserves real study. The royal
treasure chamlier has the crown jewels,
which are gorgeous, with no end of old
jewelled clocks, watches, carved crys
tal goblets, dishes, and enamels.
We went to the Royal tombs and I
was glad to have gone to Maximiliaus's
sarcophagus, and to pay homage to the
martyred hero. It is covered, and so
is the wall behind, with bows and long
hanging ends of satin ribbons of differ
ent colors, with inscriptions and mot
toes embroidered by royal and mourn
ing friends, and there were three or
four silver wreaths. A Capuchin monk
took us down in the vaults, and it was
very solemn to be there the trees wav
ing aboye through a small grating, aud
to hear the life aud stir of the busy j
world aliove, and all this royal dead still
forever. They are all there, from the
founders of the family, from Rndolph
of Hapsburg down. The friar pointed
out in oue division the sarcophagi, of
four Arch duchesses and four Caiserin-
nen, without even naming them, which
was almost democratic for royality. The
Augustines have tbe imperial hearts,
which can be seen through a Uttle grat
ing in a small crypt and enclosed in
brass vases. Another church has the
entrails and the Capuchins have the
bodies, and the money, they receive
from showing the sarcophagi purchases
bread and soup with which they feed
180 people every day without asking
who they are.
Short of Meat.
A Met nodi t minister travelling iu
Michigan was entertained by a family,
whose hospitality was greater than their
means, aud who were short of meat In
order to spread a good dinner for the
parson, it was decided to slay the pet
hen which belonged to the little boy of
the family. This was a sacrifice, but
the interests of religion and hospitality
seemed to demand it, aud so the birds
neck was wrung, After dinner the mi
nister was asked to lead in family de
votions, which with true clerical cour
tesy he consented to do. The family
being called together, all knelt down on
the flo r, which was of b irj-i, liberally
adorned with knot holes. While the
prayer was going on, a loneiy little
chicken, one of the children of tne de
ceased hen, cam9 running under the
house, lamenting the loss of his mother
The afflicted little lad put his month to
a knot hole, and sympathetically said to
the chicken: "Peepy, peepy, I didn't
kill your mother. They killed her for
that big old preacher's dinner." That
"big old preacher" was startled out of
all sense of prayer-fulness, and suddenly
brought bia devotional exercises to a
close.
Cig; irotts.
i A co: respondent writing from New
York a ys I ran across a cigarette fac
tory the other day. Whew! I wouldn't
write or, rather, you wouldn't dare
print what I saw. Dirty butts of cigars,
fresh from the filth of the muddy
streets, are the cleanest and nicest cf
tne material user1 in compiling these
precious roads to ruin. I came down
town on a Madison avenue car this
evening, and on tne tiil end there were
little chape, the eldest shout fourteen.
Each smoked a cigarette a'- d spat his
lit Je life away. I ventured to ask if
they enjoyed the odor. They said they
did. And the taste? Certainly. On
inquiriug I found they had a well-known I fa"Tery of the settlement of JA.rt
i..i . k'1- Me., ou the Fourth of Julv
brand of cigarettes, noted for its
"opium soak" and its terrible smell
when burning. Poor little rogues.
They can't last long, Tbey were pale
and sii'klv, puny and offensive. Men?
They're men already in thr ir eyes. They
and a majoiity of our little lads are full
of the slang of the day, np in all the
cutches, and abundantly able to hold
their end in conversation. I subse
quently saw thee three boys iu Niblo's
Garden. It would have surprised yon
to hear them talk. A blind man might
reasonably think ho was listening to
three old men. Nothing was new.
They had seen it before, and better
done than that Down went the boys,
but before they felt the first breath of
the fresh air from the street, each pnny
haud held a cig:oette to the vile smell
ing month, and puff! puff! tliey sickened
everybody in their vicinity. This is an
old grievance of mine, and I dou't care
to bore you with it, but I feel it keenly.
Day by day the vice grows stronger.
There was a time when cigarette-smok -ing
was confined almost entirely to
Cubans, w ho anew what good tobacco
was and made their own cigarettes.
Gradually the habit spread. Dealers
followed suit. Makers became un
scrupulous. Little dirty boys were sent
out t pick up ciyar stumps. Other
equally disgust ir.g material was also
utilized. Opium was made to do duty.
Cheap pajier took the place of rice
pajier. I wish these bovs could seethe
stuff paper is made from. Wouldn't it
turn their little stomachs? I trow, I
trow. The cheap paper, the old
stumps, the opium, and the c Verticals
used io make them "strong" deserve to
le shown up. Parents have no influence
with their sons. Why not? Because
they smoke cigar or pipes themselves.
Tho lioys charge all the good advice
they get to their father's desire to keep
them down. There is but one way to
deal with American boys. Reason with
them thmu"h their eves. If avery
nicotinetl stomach was made public;
if every time a fellow died of too much
cigarette the fact was made known; if
the proud boys could be shown a rag
factory and stump-grindery, it seems to
me thit cigarette business would be
wound np very soon.
f.rlr'-StrlkeD.
'I caroc to tell you this morning that
yon might as well stop them proceed
ings iu chancery for a bill of divorce,"
said a soft-eyed thing about 27yeartoid,
as she came into a Laramie lawyer's of
fice vester.iav.
Decided to live : getter as mau and
wife again, hey?"
"Xo, not that Xot that. You see
O'oadiah strtdicd away to Leadyille two
years a.o, ar.il kind of give me and the
kills the grand shake. Since then I've
been rustling in my gentle, unobtrusive
manner to make a stake. I've wrote to
him occasionally whenever I had leisure,
aud kind of rounded hiin np for not
chipping in with his assessment, but he
never represented. That kind of irri
tated me, an d I asked yon last week to
get me a divorce. If I paid all the as
sessments myself I thought 'twould be
no more than square to get all the divi
dends. But this morning I cot news
from Lead vi lie that has changed my no
tion a little about the divorce."
"Sent yon some money, did he?"
"Xo, not that. He didn't even write
to me, but I got a paper with a big blue
mark around a piece in it, which con
veys the iut iliirence that Obadiah was
hung there on the 10th by request It
seems that he got to jumping lots and
stealing horses between meals, and peo
ple got dowu on him. Then he salted
a claim over on Buckskin, and sold it tor
340,000 to a tenderfoot from away dojn
East He made several flowery breaks
like that, and the lmpular feeling seem
ed more or less turned agaiui t him,
Several aet-ks ago Obadiah stole a pair
of mules from a man who lu loDtred in
Kokomo. aud next night went back to
get a neckyoke and monkey wrench that
tieloiif ed to the wag n, aud happened to
run right u.to a passle of vigilantes
lookiu' for a job. They took Obadiah
over to a tall, limber tree, and let him
stand on a bronco pony plug under the
lowest limb while they tied a clothes line
around his windpipe. Obadiah told
them that he was not much of a bare
back rider, and he didn't know whether
he coul-1 do the trick or not They slid
the clothes line over the limb and hit
the bronco a lick with a quirt The
bronco was a high-life plug, and had
iieen raised iu luxury, so he got mad
when they hit him and he lit our some.
That left Obadiah in a good deal of
suspense. He wiggled around a little
aid got embairassed, and didn't seem
to know what to do with lus hands for
a while. Then he became more calm
and competed in his manner, and the
crowd made a present of him to the
coroner. I wrote the authorities to
send me his check book and a state
ment of Obadiah 's bank account, and
whatever you're out on this divorce
hooraw will be all right, understand
I'd rather let, the vigilanteea fix up my
Uw business than to die of old age wait
ing for chancery, anyhow. . That's the
kin J -f grief striken relic I am."
NEWS IN BRIEF
Thi silver half dime of 1.S02 i
thd
scarcest af all American coins.
Canadians continne to obt ii'i con.
paratively lar;e umnliers of polled
Aberdeen cattle from Scotland.
It is found that the effect of the
electric tight in conservatories in s'i ul
ulating to the vitality of the plants.
In 1849 the expert trade of France
amounted to li),0 0,0()0 ; iu 1ST!) it
had sunk to 34,000,000 sterling.
Out of every five children ou the
roll of the Ioulon Board-Schools,
only four attend school an any given
day.
It is iroiM.ed to celebrate the 23th
anniversary of the settlement
next
Twenty five thousand Secimeus of
spwers in glass Dottles lave beeu ar
ranged by C.iptaiu Hidden, of Cincin
nati. The revenue f France received
from direct. and indirect taxes in th
year 1S1 exceeds the estimates $40,000,
000. The Amerijaa maiziues published
in Loudon are very popular among En
glishmen.
The United States iu 1881 consuiu-
ed three times as niu-h cai.no.! ralniou
as they did in 1HS0.
The Mormons expect 1.000 converts
from London next m utb, cornprUiaj a
numlier of families and aliout 3(H) nj
niprried wom.ui
The administrator of th- Mark Hoi-
kins estate in San Fraucisco was re
quired to give a bon 1 i:i t!w sum of
$13,000,000.
A paper mill at Holyoko, Mils. ,
made 24,500 pounds of paper in twenty
four hours on one machine the bi-je'-it
run on record.
A colored tailor from North Carolina,
is said to have made $00,000 in Boston
since the war. He gives t-mjdoymont to
over 100 persons,
Some of the Policeuiau in Montreal
complain that they can't kvp their
hands warm with woolen gloves aiid ask
for fur ones.
Emmons Blaine the ex-Senator's
youngest son, is a clerk in a railrond
office at Fond da Lac, Wis. He is study
ing the business.
The residence of !-uuator Ben Kill,
at Athens Ga., has leeii sold to Profes
sor. Speer, of the University of Georgia
It originally coot $30,000. '
Tne cotton S'ates consume 42,2oJ,
244 bushels more wheat than thev
raise, and pay to the Xorth for wheat,
com, oats, aud hay, $1."0,000.IKM. an
nually. Maryland's latest achievement is u
diamond-track terrapin wliL-b weiyh
five pounds and two ounces and whose
bottom shell measires 8; inches in
length.
Los Angeles County, Cal., claims
9 500,000 grape-vines Waring, and 3,
000.000 planted last winter; aud tk,000
bearing orange trees, and 100,000 to
begin next year.
Out of 1,000 000,000 letters deliv
ered bv the General Post Office, in Lon
don, Engiand,the proportion cf missing
property and nou-proivrty letters are
only 04 per cent
Princess Louise's determination to
pass tiie whiter on this comment has led
many American society people to select
the Canadian Capital as their place oi
winter residence.
Notwithstanding tbe tcnble power
of the electric eel, equal to fifteen Ley
den jars, there is a httle parasite fish,
two or three inches in length, that
preys npou it utterly oblivious of its
shock.
The organist of St Paul's, iu Lou
don, has published a statement oi the
cost of the new big bell, and along with
it an appeal for contributions. Tin
total outlay for casting and hoisting
tiie monster into position he gives as
$15,000.
The Upper Mississippi lend fields
include 2,000.000 acres 200,000 in
Iowa, 400,000 iu Xorthern Illinois, and
1,400,000 in Wisconsin. Tbe value of
the gross amount of the lead produced
in the fields siucu 182r is alxmt $70,000 -000.
Mr. Kimball, the church "debt
raiser," h:is assisted ill freeing 175
churches from burdensome encumbran -ccs.
The largest amouut he encounter
ed was on the Memorial Presbyterian
Church, Xew York city (Rev. Dr. Rob
inson's), 8110,000.
The areality ot the iiopnlution of
England and Wales that is, the mean
area to each person, which iu 1811 was
19,9'i4 square yards and in 1871 was
7,928 square yards is now 6.955 square
yards to each person.
A Statue of Oakes Ames, facing and
pointing to the west, and one of Oliver
Ames, facing east, are to crown the
monument which is iu process of erec
tion at Sherman, Wyoming Teritory.
It stanus upon tne highest point oi hind
on the Union Pacific Rail wav.
The Duke of Hamilton has decided
to sell his magnificent library at Hamil
ton Palace, oa the celebrated Beckford
collection. This collection was made
by William Beckford, the author and
tiaveller, whose eldest daughter m.trned
the tenth Duke of Hamilton.
The lot wliich Mr. W. W. Corcoran
deeded to Columbia College, in Wash
ington, for budding purposes, at the
corner of Vermout avenue and I street,
has a frontage of 'J feet on the avenue
and 152 f- et on the street This location
is in the heart of the city.
During the past year 1.532 persoiia
died in Loudon of small-pox. Of these,
3'25 had been vaccinated and C37 neglec
ted th( t precaution, the remaining 570
leing doubtful of the population of
London 3,620,000 are vaccinated and
190.000 are not
Twenty five years ago the city of
Aibany.with a population of 67,000 con
sumed 350 lbs, of opium and 375oz. of
morpliia annually. Xow, with a popn
latioh of 91,000. there are 3.500 lbs. of
opium aud 2,500 oz. of morphia sold
every year ia that city.
There is still living a leneal desctmd
ent of Martin Luther, in the person of
one Herr W. Wolters, of Stuttgart ne
was formerly a Court actor, and claims
descent through Luther's daughter Anna
The male line has long since been ex
tinct, the last representative of it hav
ing died iu 1720. This was Professor
Luther, of L ipsic
Of tbe fiftj one metaJs, thirty wera dis
I covered i i this century.
Great truths are often said in the few-
' rat words.
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