A J ( I , ' , the OOISTITUTIOI-THE 171101 AID THE E5T0E0EMEIT 01 THE LAWB. Editor and Proprietor. B. P. SCHWEIER, MIFFLINTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENXA.. WEDNESDAY. JAN UAUY 3. IS83. NO. 1. VOL. XXXVII. MM EIJIli III Hi IL f I Hi H,I 11, "IRE SIl.UI IX.Mf lH OS. lep down Uhe ga the rwedj bouows. And swar tnro1 me neaJuwa low, Swift o'er ita staining pebbles. Pluming not In lu ceaae'.ei Sow, 1 fee brook tbat cornea lo n from the mouniaia To Uir ocean must eni It Sight, A the bnitntnns th.u lawne1 wiin the moroiug Must tie on the threshold of slant. he ferns tj the tirooksltle arowlnjr, And the recti a inej murmur ami sigh, And the wl'Jowa and meadow graaws Keep time as the brook sweep liv, And the ocean w calmly waiting, Bat never a ripple will tell, When the wavelet the hroutUs brairufj Shall be merged in its long, low swell. And there Cometh a mval siiiaft That lUrMeth the fnneral prre Cf the day as It glide down m the western kr And dies in Its crimson Ere; And unrlit with its swift wing momuiiiz. The brightness sweejieth awar. And setteth the s'al of darkness on the tomb of the vanished ilar. And so it lm Lttie recketb How ra.:Lm 'irr- dawn ma; lie ; It as surely wears on to the g oaiutng As the brook Cowetb on to the sea. And however fair be its evening Its brightness will aoon he gone. And the waning light and the gathering !-au Will whisper: "Ihe night cornet h on." HIVE'S SC!t LIGHT. Such a wetting ! "No bridesmaids, no music, no break fast ! "I declare I should not feel as if I bad been married !" exclaimed Marion Willonghbv. throwing herself down upon a low chair in her own clegantly- appomtcd drawing-room, ai-d graving oil tbe delicately-tinted gloves which served as a finish to her exquisite Tar lsiaii toilette. There was only one other occupant of tbe room, a man, tali and handsome, staudiug with one band retting lightly on the back of her chair. She did not glance tip as she spoke, or note that Chester Tborley 's face had List its color. "You are speaking of Mies Marviue's wedding ?'' he said. "There is one essential to most mar riages yon have not enumerated in your list of tilings Licking. Was love wanting, too ?" "I believe she loves him. "She certainly mast do so to an al most absurd extent. "Tney are to go housekeeping in a small Cat iu an unfashionable locality where be inubt be away trom her from early morning until six o'clock. "He occupies some salaried position ck-ik in a Lank, 1 believe and she is a girl w ho niicht Lave married anybody." "Honest labor degrades no man, Marion,'' was the firm, quiet answer. "Even a clerkship is not always to be found, and I would rather break stones in the street than live on money acquir ed dishonestly or doled out by charity, though in such a case I would ask no woman to share niv lot" "This looks like breaking stones, does it not" she laughiiigly answered, letting her own jeweled fingers close over the n aii's hand wUere it rested a band w hose shape betokened its aristocracy, and w hich was w bite and sott as a wo man's. At her light t n;h Lis strong frame quivered. lie lent ard let bis lips rest an in stant caressingly on her hair, for this gill beside him watt his affianced wife. "It could break Etoues, tnough, dear: and I don't know but that it would make of me a better man. ' '"Suppose I lost niy money, Marion? 'Suppose it all were swept away from me in an hour, and 1 bad position of fered me, a position w hieh would enable me to Live but very humbly, very much as your lriend is going to live, tell me what you would do ?" j "Yon are only talking to try me, Chester, and 1 bate such questions. j "In the first place, it is entirely out of reason ; for even wi re it so, papa, yon know, is Tery rich, aud our home conid aiwajs be with him." "I have said to yon. Million, that I would rather starve tnan est the bread of charity. "Therefore, putting this possibility aside, tell me still w hat yen would do." Her fingers relaxed the r bold upon his bind. Viae tLere significance iu the action? He smiled bitterly as ne saw it. His fac was very pale now. Except that he sail stood behind her chair, she mast have noticed it. "You are utterly Un d this after noon, Chester. "Have I not just told you that Edith Marvme's "wedding was more like a funeral than a wedding 1 "Have yon nothing more agrceble yen can find to say to me ?" The mail shook oft" a certain some thing which seemed to envelope him in to an almost visible cloud, and answered with the old courteous grace which" suited him so well, and bad made bis power with women almost a proverb. Money aJ ays seemed to ixdoug to him by an iuhertiit right It was so very natural that be shonld le rich. , He koew so well :-ow to ixpenl bis wealth. He gave it so generously, yet without ostentation, that no man envied him it Yet he knew a half-hour later, when be leit Lia farewell kLs on Marion Willoughby's beautiful lips, that it was farewell to all his hopes and happiness. The blow had already fallen. He was a ruined man, with scarce a dollar be could call his own he who bad Had no wish ungratinea nioiiej might procure in sli Lis thirty years oi i it. i.mi fnllen. tco. through no fault ot hie own, though ti.ere was feeble corn lot t in that. There was comfort, however, in tlie knowledge that he owed no man, aa.i that he niitlht start alresh in the world, with no burden on his broad shoulders or conscience. True, there was a deep wound ju his heait ., . . . He had loved Marion to well that to feive her tip -.. t voluntarily renounce lieaViru's MiuligLt. But ail Ler life Jiud W-cu spent aniui luxury. 1 1 was to her a necessity. Deprived of it too would fade and droop ; and Utter any lot than to watch her fctruigle, aud know that be had brought it upon La. Besides, she had made her choice. To Ler a weddiuff meant flowers, immc. mends, the toilette of the bnde. The iuture, the commuuiou of two beaits. the solemn responsibilities in curred, wort-but secondary considerations. "Good-fcTe.my.darlhig I' be said, 'as they parted. But when she added, "Until to-morrow." be answered neither yea nor nay. "To-n arrow" the world knew that Cuester Thorley s ship had one upon the rocks. Manr of his business associates would have held out to him a hclpio" baud. but firmly and kindly he refused every oner. He WTote Marion a few lines, recalling to her mind the conversation of the day before, and releasing her Uom her vows LU 11 1111. Two years passed, and the little world w hich had kDown Chester Tborley s well, knew him no more. He had entirely dissppeard. M .rion Willoughby was Mniiou Wil lonfrhby stilL - If she suflerod she made no sign ; but those who bad seen tlie one fiwrkjmc stone, wbijh had born the pledge of uer engagement to Chester Ihorky, noticed that she woi e it si ill ; and others, yet more narrow watchers, observed that aiway, w hen she entered a crow, ded room, siie wo; Ud t ike a hasty g!ace about, as though expi f tit g to find srtme one not tuere. She was as yet but twenty-two, a Ik lie and a beauty still. The third winter T Lis altsence she went to sneud several weeks witli an aunt "I caEnot sjmre yon,' her father had said when the invitutiou had come. But she, going cloe to him, and lay ing Ler bead a moinrut on Lis breast, had said "I think, papa, it would lie best." They were simple words but he in terpreted them aright Tbe old wound w ould not wm its bleeding. She wanted to go amid new scenes, so be only kissed her, aud bade her re member that the old father awaited her return. "You have not been thaNigh the sUiel works." some one said to her, one dav. "It really is a nio-d interesting sight "Will you join a party, it we make one to visit them, Miss Willongbbv ?" "With pleasure," she auswerd lightly. And her aunt, charmed with the bril liant success of her beautiful niece, smiled at Clay Clayton's numerous de vices to en-nre Marlon's society. He waa the great 'catch of the place. She had beard something of some early disappointment in Marion's life It would be a splendid triumph thus to obliterate it, and already t.he felt quite sure that the tint Lry iu the juTs own bands. Tbe morning appointed for the exie- uition dawned (eaiitifiil aud blight. They seemed indeed lue drone.-", in truding upon some busy hives of work ers? as tbey entered the treat building and looked about them. department alter depaitiueiit tiny vL-ited. watching with interest the deli cute, subtle machinery and its wonder ful workings. Marioi''s cheeks fl.i-kcd with interest. aud Clayton, noticing it, thought 1st- had never seen lier look more beaumul. To-day be determined be ninsi speak, when suddenly he heard a little cry, ai,o gl incing up, taw her standina quite apart from tbe group, Lu eyes nblnZ"., Ler hps quivering. At a iitth! di.static; trooi her, adjust ing fcfnie piece f machinery, was a mau in a workhig 1.1 um-. Her cry also attracted him. :u I he looked up. Their eyes met. His face gtew deathly pale, but ht gave no other sign of recognition. che went straigl.t towards hio ooa- vions of all, with hand outstretched. Chester ! she said, in a vt-iet-Fcarce louder than a whisper. "At last !" He bowed lov iu respoi.se, nud totk no notice of her band : but the old, daunt less bride was in the uplifted bead aud fearless glance. lid von know that 1 was here ? she questioned. o, he replied. ! sm n longer in vour world. 'You will come '.c see me'" "I cannot" Here Lis voice broke allttla. "Mr. Chivton,"-she said, "let aue present my lriend, Mr. Tborley. ' fei.ite ot the innate bleeding of the man, some of the instietive surprise at healing "a steel-worker addressed by jiim VUlkmtiby a friend made itself apparent m tlie manutrhe yet strove to concent Tlieu tbe lrty parsed on. He wondered, nowever, why Marion lingered a moment in the cltiee to ad dress the suiierinteudcni some question as tliey came out into the uir. He had meant, too, t-j uc& ix.r on ilie way heme tue questiou which all tlie day, and for many days, had Ueu trem'o Uug on Lis hps, but there was a new ex pression in her eyes and about her mouth which instinctively told him that this was not the time to plead his cause. Hud that fellow iuslde, who toaed so like a gentleman, been any other tuau a workman, he might have nuspi-cted him as in some way r sixiusible. li waa quite singular enough as it war that Misa Willonghby should hive ad dressed him as frien.t Doubtless some man who Lad seen better days, and lor whom she felt a womanly sympathy. "Can I see Mr. Thorley ?"' Tbe mistresa of the humble little cot tage looked op. amazed, at the lieauti uu yonug lady who asked the question. "indeed 1 suppose yon may, miss. 'He's gone up to his room where he speuds all his evenings, aud not a bit of supper to-night has he tone-bed. "Shall 1 cad him down "No, let in-; go to him." """" "It's the first room to the riht of the stairs, nii-s. "He's the only 1o.1ct I have, nd von are his first visitor." - But tlie giri ncotiodnoi me woras. A strange vision she surely ws a. she stood an instant outride his doors, clad in cot!y velvet and rich fnrs. Then ohe sol lly turned the hiiidle aad tiitemL He did ut hear bcr. He had thrown Liuel; vyju Lu s)Ia .iid I uried h f head ic lis cushions. He was so ttdi, so motioiih', she Lhonght he iuu-t be sleeping. Sue swifily irossed the room, aiid hivii'g her nand gently Um his shoul der, called bis name. "ileaveDs !" be cned, and would have started to h;s feet but tiyst she held bun buck, fidhi.g on tier Laces be s.de lam. "Chester," she pleade.t, "you would not come to me. "My pride is hse than vou.-s my love greater. .. "I have come to you. "JJid voti think that my heart n'!tid ! the nnworthy words for which you have t punished me sll these years . . "I have tned so Joug fc and you -bo long and so bopelessly- Andshe bowed her beautiful head aiid soblied outright. "Hush, t'ear. bush. You shonld not have come here, Marion. "It might compromise yon." - - "Comi rotnie. me with tty future bus' and? "See, Chester," and she held up the hand on which cleaned ibe rirg. "I have never bad my freedom." ' "My own brave girl," be said, bis voice softening even while be girded himself up to the strength of which he stood in such need. .... ' But the hcavpnyon have ojifned to me cannot U "I am foreman in the works where vou saw me to-day, Marion", "My knowledge at:d love of mach inery stoodjrie in good stead. "I lieTiiftf this opening and secured it. s . - "To-day I was adjusting some diffi cult piece of work I dared not trust to the workmen. "I am in receipt of a liberal . salary, which I am laying aside, dear, living as poorly as I can, hepmg one day to buy aa interest in the bunuiess. "One or two improvements I have made are rapidly advancing me towards tins aol : but it is still far on. 1 can not ask yon to wait, nor to forget the years of Ldwr which have helped me reach it" . "1 have waited already too long, Ches te"" fcbe whispered. "I am ready now to ieconie your wife." .His tace grew deadly white. "Do cot tempt me," he said hoarsely. "Oh, Chester," she said. "When I have bo much money, why Bre you so cruel and so proud "I cannot ito back to a life of ease ami dependence," he answered "even with yon, dear love, to - brighten it. Biss you for coming to me Marion. Klot-s you for showing me all that a no ble woman may be. The memory oi this hour will lighten all my iuture years." "Chester, you do not understand me." she persisted. "1 ask you to return to no life of dependence. "I will forget that I have a single shilling in the world except what you give we. I will share whatever home you oiler me even thi-. "For better, for worse, darling, we pledged ourselves, aa sacredly as though already ti had stood before God's altr. In (iod's sight I am your wife. "I claim my right to share your dark days, ss well as those on which the sun of prosperity may shine." He strove to answer her, but Lis yoicn broke. Siie had conquered ; but woman-lite, she gave to him the glory of hervictory as she sobbed cm her happiness ujon his heart A month later there was a quiet wed ding, at which were neither rlowers. nor bridesmaids, nor music ; but Marion Willoughoy missed nothing. It was after the ceremony bad been performed that Chester showed her a oo:-uiuent which had heeu his wedding gilt from the firm he hadservedso faith iu.lv, and which adndlted him as s junior partner fiotn that date. Hut she smiled halt-sadly an sue look ed at it through a mist of tears. "You said omv, dear,"ihc whisjiered, '"that flowers, to live, needed sunlight "My darling, I had uot then made the wonderlui discovery that lved makes sunlight everywhere, "With your heart my home, be its outward adornmects what they will, I envy no king bis palace, no queen her throne." The Faaiilon in Mowers. The decrees of fashion in flowers are almost as inexorable as those respecting dress particularly in the manner of wear ing them. A young man who should now appear in wide trousers, instead of those which clucg to the h'g, would be subject to ridicule; so wou'd he be frowned on it he wore a red rose when it was tbe proper thine to wear s white one. Just now men wear large white rosebuds in their button boles on evening occasions. This fashion lacks origiD&iity. Tbe men are wear! as Iitrge white rosebuds in London. Bast season the man of fashion here wore tbe Btnalltst white flowers he could find, the flower most in use at present is the rose, either of a delicate pink shade oPwhite. When a bride does uot wear the tradi tional orange blossoms she adorns herself with white loses aud ball opened buds, t he bridesmtitlg carry colored roses, most of a pink tint The groom wears a white rosebud when the bride carries whi roses, and the groomsmen hare flowers in tneir coats corresponding to the uouque carried by the ladies tbey escort Corsage bouquets for evening panics or street wear consist simply of pink or while rwes tied in a loose bunch. If move than one kind of buds are used those ot the same color are grouped together. All flowers must have their own stems, which should lie long. At dinners, instead of bouquets at each plate, small baskets of flowers are placed iu frout ot each guest At lunch eon partus there is usually s bunch of roses for each guest, which is fastened on t'xe corsage efter luncheon is over and worn ou the street A London Tonnonal Saloon. According to a correspondent, London bar'.ier shop are queer in convenience. J went into one the other day and nearlj broke my back trying to pose for a bair ctit and and s shave in aa ordinary w jort en chair. Tbe barrier is proveraally loquacious every " here, and very much concerned about ibe abeolutenceds of your bead and hair. Mine informed me that that my hair was very thin, and needed singeing- I demured. Just as 1 was about to rise, however, he said : "You won't be ea'isfiee unl.ss you have that hair winced.' Determined to get as much ex perience as I could in a short tiiie and tor a Line moDey, 1 resumed my back-aclitng attidude aid the phage lighted his taper, grasped the comb, applied bis toich, and in tn Instant my bead was covered, like little luius's, with a lambent flame. You sVkiH have beard that unfortunate barner f queol ! You see ! had spread toe bay rum and tonic pretty i'.;ckiy before 1 made up my mind to undergo tlte glneiDg, with out washirg bis hands, and hair and bands Were victims of grand pyrotechnic dis play. I rose with some haste and great indignation, and ti listed that the young man was satisfied. Uerealter I shall bave my own way in that shop, rid that young man won't be so profu: wl.h bis recom mendation. . . The Valley ol tue Yosemite is pub lic property, aud the question ot pro hibiting the sale of liquor tharein is agitated in Cahfjrnii. Bwlato Bill andC outer. In 1887, says Bbffalo Bill, I was post guide sod scout at Fort Hays, Kansas, Before that time I hud met General Cuter when be was stationed at old Fort Fletcher but 1 was not well acquainted with him. One evening early in June be came into Hays with only a lieht escort and was on a forced o.arch to Fort Larned, which is sixty five miles from the former place. At tbat'tinie there were,ct course, no railroad connections. When the General expressed wish for some guide to accompany bun. the commanding officer detailed me, and orders were given to start at daylight the following morninc. At the time mo best loDf-distnnce horse was bit;, monse-col ored mule, and as 1 bad htard what a litditniae traveler Custea was I knew that only my best runner would do to keep ahead of the 'Whirlwind, as the loUians called him. I thought I would be prompt and ahead of tbe General at daylight but wben 1 arrived he wss already on the ground with bis Staff and orderlies. Wben I rode up I noticed him eyeing tbe animal t was riding and wben 1 announced that I wss to be bis guide he assented, but said I woutd bave to get a better bore. It would I would find, take something better than so old mule to keep ahead of biro, I vig orously maintained that the u-uie wouid get over the sixty-five miles as quick as any horse te had, and be seemed to be satisfied when tbe post commander spoke up and conurnied what I bad said. For the first ten miles I bad to use the spurs lively to keep the General trom riding ovei me, but after crossing the bmoky Hill river and getting on into tbe Mml-bills tbe mule got bis second wind. He commenc ed to leave Custer's Kentucky tnorough bred,snd the soldier in time acknowledeed that 1 was riding a pretty good horse.- For s long time we kept up this rapid travel ing, bis escort being scattered out for miles behind, and as the country was dangerous the General called a bait, to let bis men close up ard become less convenient tar gt U for vagrant bauds of Indians. Wben we started again 1 made up my mind to show bim what a good mule could do, and I struck a gait which astonished bim so much that he did not rail for another ha t. We lett the escort to follow as best they could, and before noon the General and myself rode into Fort Lamed. The escort straggled in for hours during the day. The next d-.y 1 returned to Hays, while be took command of bis regiment and soon after bad his big fnut at J'awnee Fork creek. 1 met bim frequently after that and guidud bim in several expeditions, l'oor Luster ! I was ibirty-five miles from him when be killed himself. Y es. killed himself ! The Indims who were in the fight of the Little Big Horn say Custer killed himself, and ir'jni the Indian religion 1 am convicted that they are right H.J was the only r.ne who was not mutilated on the bl'xxly Ce'd, and the red warrior will not mutilate the body of a man who takes Lis own life. ili nk that Custer fought till all bis brother i fllT8 died. and. no Ueno li support bim he died by bis own band a 'id ended ta career of as brive a man ss ever wore spurs. Tlie Uive-Away Game, Do you koow, ' said a man wno was selling jewelry from a dry goods b -x to a reporter, -"that tbe Americans are the cas:est humbugged of any in the world ? It is true, and 1 bave helped to bumtiiie i hem alMiiit as much as the average mao." Somebody had just been reading an 'ac count of the Louisville lottery drawing. which brought for k this Fteccli. "Csn't you tell us seme of your exper ience in thai line?" asked a man near. "Well, you wuld laugh to know what fools people make of themselves some times. About two weeks B20 1 was down in Brunswick, where I saw a fellow run ning a perfectly square game, but whi:h was the most out-and-out steal fever beard of. Hid plan was simple, and hundreds of the very best people of the town flock ed to give him a triaL He rented a store and put a show case across tbe counter in tbe center. In the show case he had, 1 know, my bat full of $20 gold coins, piled in one corner, and in tbe other about tbe same sized pile of silver dollars. A dice box and six dice completed nis outfit By paying fifty cents a man bad one throw with the dice. If be threw s i sires he took the entire pile of gold: if he threw six aces be was entitled to all tbe silver. Of course be knew no one ever threw all the sixes, neither was it psible to get the sixes to come all in a buncu. A man aught as welt expect te get struck by lightning from a cloudless sky at noonday as to throw six sees ; it fit almost an im possibility, that's alL Well, the fellow made several burdred dollars and left "Did you ever hear how easy it wss to loA a man with soap? continued the peakcr. "We street men know that as an old story, of course. 1 was down to Troy several months ago, when a fellow came along almost strapped. He went to a grocery store, bought a few bars of ibis transparent soap, cut it into small pieces about the size of one's thumb, wrapped it in tissue paper very neatly, and then cov ered the package witb tin foil, sprinklin? tbe whole with a bottle of cologne to eive it a good smelt TV ell. sir, that fellow got on a box aad soon gathered a crowd by some nice talking, and proposed to take out all the grease from hats, cmls, etc., that could be brought in. Tbe first case presented was that of the city Marshal, who walked up with a great spot on bis coat which be wanted taken out The tellow earned a sponge well saturaved with benzine and arnica, winch of itself will take out almost anything, and by using a bit of tbe soap soon bad tbe Mar shal's coat free from grease. That started the soap sales, and in two or three hours, it being Saturday and s crowd in town, the soap man bad sold 'it worth, nearly all ot which was clear profit. " Stopping to draw a breath the jewelry man continued bis interesting storv. "1 tell you you can humbug anybody. I am not unlike tbe rest -of the woild. I be lieve I would bite at my own tricks if I could get in the crowd While I was al Brunswick, Ga., 1 took revenge on the town by p symg what we tern a 'give away racket.' It w a mighty fine thing to play, but a very dangerous one in some localities. 1 bad been using a big umbrella larirc enough to cover fifty people, wben me night on the street a crowd of sailors, led on bv some ot tb town boys, threw rotten ejgs at the umbrella and broke up ihe crowd. Then 1 resolved on the 'give away racket' A fellow has to be mighty carpi ul a'KHit wurking it, or he will el caught out. It caa only be played once in a town. "Tbe way to do it is this : Get a lot ol fine gold rings, which cost about $1 a dozen, and propose to be advertising acme biz gold concern in JN'ew Y'ork. 1 'led mine the lrazen gold of tan Knu ciec-ts stated that I would show the crowd a thing or two, and soon got tuem inter ested. First, 1 made a speech in which I stated my business, then I commenced to offer the rings at any price from two cents up, telling I hem that they conid not be bought for less than 4 apu.se at jewel er s, I lut out about tweaty rings at two I cents, sod then asked everybody who had - bought nnc to bold them up. Instantly j every ring was in the air. Oiow, said 1, sddressir.e the crowd, this is your money, Mt 7 'Yes,' laid a dozen. 'And you give it freely for the rlnus r 'yes, rme sgain in chorus. 'Very well, nere s twenty cents for you, sir, aad twenty cents for you, sir, and so on around the crowd. Tbey commenced to wonder what in the world I meant ; said I was craay, and a lot ot other things but I only told them 1 wits-advertUing goods for my house, and bad plenty more thines to give sway. Next I took up some ot my handsome diamond studs, which I explained were Lake George diamonds, equal to any on earth, etc, and that 1 was gouu to sell tbeni for twenty-five cents up, tbe mors one paid the better it would be, of course, for him. Twenty studs were soon out and Uic same speech made. Then I made the crowd hold op the diamonds, and each man ?ot fifty cents back who had bought "The thing began to get very interest ing, and the crowd numbered 800 or 400. Then I got out some beautiful gold-plated sleeve buttons, whicn I explained could njtbe bought for less than $12. These I proposed to sell for fifty cents each, giving to si who bought a dollar additional as before, each time doubling tbe' money gift Tbe buttons soon went off, as hud the other tbins, and I was ready for tbe final bite at the crowd. The twenty pairs ot sleeve buttons bad been sold for half a dollar, and I bad given back twenty silver dollars. That fellow's a darned fool,' beard sll around me, but I replied to this by saying that last week, in Macon, I bad given away $1,000, and tbat I was ready to co it again. ' "The crowd was perfectly crazy to see what came next It was watch chains. The chains were sold at any price from $2.00 to anything above that one wanted to give, I telling them tbe while that the more tbey paid the better it would be fiir them. 1 hinted that tbe watches would come next, and this leu tbem off like a lot of madmen. 1 be trick now was to seU as many chains as possible at $2 50 1 had a devil of a lot ot chains, and so I sent them out ngbt and lett The dollars came rushing blindly at me and I raked tbem in like chaff. Then I got out of chains. . Previously I bad prepared two big red silk handkerchiefs, exactly alike, and as soon as tbe chains were all sold out I took tbe money, and, in the presence of the crowd, lit d It all up together, and after making a speech, proposed to throw tbe bncdle into the crowd for tbu best man to take, liile talking I purposely dropped tne bundle into my box by my side, in which I bad the other handkerchief, in this wss $10 iu stiver and some paper to make it statld out liks the cne I had drop ped. All this had been arranged before bat d, of court With z whoop I swung the lag around my beaa after stopping to pick it up where 1 first dropped it and up it went into tbe air. Great beayens ! you should bave seen the mob ! I never saw an) tiling like it. Tbey fought like tigers over ibe LacCketnhief, while I took occa sion to leave tLe spot 1 bad also arrang ed to brine the thin; to a climax about the time the Albany train left so I was driven at once to the depot I was just $2b0 ahead. But I got very weak in the knees while waiting at the depot I was a b'.tle loo soon, and about a dozen young men came up, raising lie very mischief of a noise, which 1 thought was for me. and it proved to be true. '1 hey sa-w me aud came around rr.e, lausbing and knocking each o.ber like crazy n.en. I didn't know what on carlb was the matter until they finally told me it was tne best joke that bad ever been played on Brunswick, aud although ttey bad been victimized, they wanted to assure me it was all ri ht "1 bad sold the chains to nearly all the best men of Bmnswick, some of tbem pa ing me as high as (0 for them. I was satisfied to leave, and bad my revenge. Y'ou may put it down for fact that any average American crowd can be hum bugged tbe sanae way every dny in the yenr." Writer ( ramp. Tins aliment consists tiaiuiy of spasms caused by excessive labor of the muscles of the hand, especially of the fingers. It is not confined to writers as tlie name would imply bn. persons are liable to it who are engaged in sewing, knitting, drawing, pldyiug on the pimo and iu otler employments which de mand continuous use of the fingers aud bands. Only those, however, seem to have a special tendency to it who are of a nervous diathesis have inherited an undue nervous sensitiveness. Writing is a very comp'icate J process, involving the harmonious action of sev eral small muscles of the fingers, and a few of tho hand aud forearm. Some of these mdscles draw the fin gers in toward each other; others draw them outward; still others turn the hand to the light or left. The spasms so act ou these muscles as either to cause the thumb and forefinger to grasp the pen convulsively, or to twirl it ou its axis, or to b'ft it snddenly from the paper. In the earlier stages of the disease there & a slight, hardly noticed sensa tion of tension iu tlie Land. II the trouble progresses, the band becomes fatigued, and there is a tremor of the fiugvrs; the formation of strokos be comes more and more difficult; the spasms and weakness increase, and the tension becomes painful, and extends to the forearm, and even to the muscles of the shoulder aud breast Iu some patients neuralgic pains may be added. Rosenthal regards it as somewhat analogous to stuttering, and says it may le termed a "stuttering of the muscles." Tha lighter forms connected with on impoverished condition of the blood (atasmia), dytpepsia, or over-exertion, may be arrested by the rest of the band and a tonic treatment of the system. The severe forms are incurable, tlionh they mny lie helped by pro- i lonk.-d re.t, and by whatever will tend to moderate the nervous excitability. Ceakoed his tune: Fogg says that ielleni is the most fickle-minded mau he ever saw. For the last six mouths he has been talking about Lis fine country house, with its spacious rooms, grand viaws and splendid surroundings and not an "out about it "Well, says Fogg, "will you believe it, ba told me to-day be had sold and mighty glad be was to got rid of tte old rattle trap. Tes, sir, Seliem is the most changeable fellow I ever saw-, " The Aaault an Tt-t-Keber. The dark line in front lit up with blaze of fire ; rifled and big guns roared and crackled ; rockets whizzed oveihead and at the magic word "Charge !" the whole brigade sprang to its feet and rushed straight at the blazing line, the battalion on the left meeting so bet a fire tbat five officers and sixty men went down before they got to tbe ditch. For an instant the onward rush was checked but the bngler beside- Sir Archibald sounded the "advance." A wild cheer was the response, and the Highlanders dashed forward with a bound, and, after a race of some loO yards, found them selves under the great sand heaps which formed the enemy's stronghold. Xo time te stop now over they went, clam bering and climbing, using each other's shoulders as ladders ; sticking their ri fles into the sand as posts to hold ou to; one way and another they got over and inside, to begin that short, ghastiy work, the beginning and -end cf a "fclonoua victory. There was no pause on the parapet, but each group of soldiers as it gained the crest dashed at the euemv. and the melee became general and desperate. Ti-e Seventy- ninth and Seventy fifth could e seen in a large knot engaged iu a baud to hand fight with a body of rebels who were desperately -defending an inner line of works, which met tho front line at right angles and was strengthened by redoubts at fie angles. Tbe men gsliantly stormed these, which were as resolutely defended. Ueus. Alison aud Haleny, the former revolver in Land, were in the thick of it ; tho Scotchmau on foot, leading a dozen different as saults, where the Highlanders nisliod in and bayoneted the Egyptians. Tbe fighting bad lasted about half an hour ; there was still a strong redoubt to le taken, and a crowd of men went at it The enemy's fire was extraordinary brisk and rapid ; the air was alive with bullets and shells. The Highlanders in front of the enrtain fouud themselves fired on on tlir. e sides, and a great number began to retire. That was a ticklish moment, but the officers suc ceeded in stoppiug them, aud they were reinforced from the second line, and agaiu went on. The point iu the intrenchment which tho Highlanders carried bad been fortified with much care, and was apparently the key to the position. A strong line nearly two miles long bad been constructed, at right angles to the mniu line to guard against a turning movement; a Second line parallel to it in the same direction. Everywhere redoubts bad been con structed, and wherever there was cover there the Egyptians stood. Gen. Hauley however, rallied the men who were standing thickly, but in lo formation, inside the front line which they bad just carried, and led them straight along those intrenchments, getting on both sides of them, and thus taking their de fenders ui reverse. As one of the Black Watch iiays: "I p tho bank we went, aud it was fa 1 of men and they turned on us like ruts in a trap; but the iulau try did not stand long. However, honor to whom houor is due, the artillerymen stood to their guns like men, and we bad to bayonet them. As soon as that job was done 1 saw two regiments ol cavalry forming on tLcrmht Trepare for cavalry' waa given, and iu less time than it takes to write this we formed iu square and were waiting for them ; but when tkey saw this they wheeled to the right about and off; they would not face a square of Scottish steel. Just then two batteries of onr artillery came into tbe field iu fine style, and our men cleared out and gave them room to work. Onr men helped to wheel the guns into position, and so far as we were concerned the fighting was ove.r A Blind Colorea aiau. There is, in belma, Alaoatiia, as hostler, gardener and general workman a negro named Dick, twenty -four years old, who, since bis fifth birthday bas been as blind as tbe proverbial bat. The amouut of work he does and the neatness, accur-tcy and dispatch with which all bis chores snd odd jobs are done are simply marvelous. lie attends to several horses, ieeas tuem, washes their harness, and, when occasion demands, can hitch up a team as well as well as any one. Bis stable yard is a model ot cleanliness and the garden is well worked. He wahe3 tbe c uriaes, horses and wagons, oils vehicles and sees that they are all right before allowing tbem to be taken out of the lot lie is as light hearted as most Africans, and can en joy a joke and lauh at it, though he wastes but few moments in idleness of any variety, his old yanety, bis whoie mind seenung'.y being bent upon a careful discharge ef bis various duties. He is as itout as an ox, and is a bad man to tease, as a bantering lotfcr found out to his sor row not long since, lie had been tormen ting Dick until tbe laUer's stock of patience gave out when be turned furiously on his tormentor, and the first thing thai individ ual knew be was landed, all bruised up. in a heap some jartts away, l'erhaps tfca most remarkable gift the man has is bis ihitily to tell within a few moments the time of day. Day or night, when asked what time it is, be replies without hesita tion, snd is rarely turiher off from tbe ex act marking of tne dial than ten minutes. To test this gift after having talked with bim about his work the reporter quickly asked: "What time is it, Dick?" 'Halt-past ten, came the iuintj lista response. A. look at the wa'ch shoved thit at that instant It w s 10.20, within fo'ir niinites of the time guessed by tbe man, who probably knows not the appearance of either watch rr clock. He goes to his home some blocks distant to remain during the nu,ht bat is always on band bright and early as the morning sun to begin bis day's work. In all sorts of weather be never fails to be on time. He is seldom sick, and then only sligatly indisposed. Teh meanest mau: The meanest mau on record sent through a post office presiuea over oy a woman a postal earn a;Kina did not prevent his return to Char on which was written: Dear: Here's ths he to 1 by its next tr lia.' I met him after uttaua oi ini scanoai. Ana men me last was la Greek. The Year aad th Calendar. I'n the day after the 4th ot October, i 2, the Jtople of Italy, Spain aud P.Htngal wrote the date October l.. Ten days had been dropped altogether. lis was liecanse of the adoption of what is known as tbe Gregorian calen dar, liccanse it was decreed bv a bull i-sued by Pope Gregory XIII. The early division of time was very irregular and inaccurate. Tbe reckon ing by mouths did not bring out even years, and it was only when astronomy became something like an exact science, that the actual length of the year was known. In the t.uie ot ancient K nie. there were but ten months and the Roman kU'gs fixed the length of the year at thiee hundred aad fitty-five days. Wben this inexact division caused trouble, an extra mouth waa inserted here and tuere to restore the system to a degree cf order. We owe it to Julius Csa-ar that the year was fixed at three hundred aul sixty-five days, with an additional day oue in lour years. Tue fourth vear in which the day is added is bissextile, or as we call it, leap year. The year of loo 1-1 days is knowu as tiie Julian year. But evei tbts is not accurate. The tne solar year is 3115 14 days, 5 honrs. 43 minutes and 49. seconds long. That is, it is 11 miuutes and 10.US sec onds shorter than the Julian year. The Julian calendar was adopted fortv-six years before Christ, so that in A.D. 1j82, more than sixteen centuries Inter, the error had amounted to about ten uavs. It was this error which the Gregorian calendar corrected. But in making the correction it was necessary to guard against a similar accumulation of error. That obj -ct was accomplished iu this wav. The errisr amounts to verv nearlv eighteen honr? on a century. Accord ingly ,it was decreed that each year whose number was divisible by one hcu- dred should not be leap year unless it were divisible by four huudred. Consequently tbe year liXX) will not be a leap year but the year 2U0O a ill be one. Three leap years are omitted t very four hundred years by this plan, aud the result is that the average civil year dif ference will amouut to a whole day in something less Hum four thousand years. The new system waa adopted gradu ally. By the Kouim Citliolic world it was adopted almost at once the last of the Cathohc countries making the change tu 17. But it was not until 1,00 that rrotestant Germany adopted it; and iu Eaglaud and Amino the Gregotiaa calendar was cot nsed until Tbe Greek ehurch Las never sanc tioned the change. In Huasia to this day the t Id style is in use, and the error. which waa only ten days :n L2, is now more than twelve uavs. The Hussion Christinas does Lot come uutil tv-irly a fortnight after all the rest of the CLrist- Lui world has celebrated it. It is also a curious fact of which few aid probalily aware, that untd one hun dred and thirty years ago, the year be gan in tugiaud and this country, not with the first of Jauuary, but ou the twenty-fifth of March. Before that tiius', however, tiie prac tice had became cuuimim of indicating tiint there was a donl t to which vear the lavs iu the first three months belonged. Thus iu the old Bostou newspaper of be last century we see sueii dates as this: February 4, ITiJ 4," from which anybody cau discover that the date, ac cording to tbe Gregorian c.deudar, is reuruary la (eleven davs correction!, 1TJ4. Ibe vear is a varri-jg quantity accord ing to tlie standard by which it is meas ured. Uf course, it is the time within which the earth makes Inr pussage around the sun. BHt if this time be incas-nred by the period of the earth's return to the same apparent place in the heavens, as seen from the snu, it is a "sidereal year; 3tio days, hours, 9 miuutes, 9.tl sec onds. The time in w hich the earth makes the circuit from her perihelion, that is, the point of her orbit where she is near est to the sun, aroiiiid to the same point again, is the "anomalistic year, itk days, 6 boms, 1:1 minutes, 43. t soconda. xhe "tropical year, however, is that which astronomers bave se erted as ti e trne solar year. It is the time included between twj "vernal equinoxes." Tuis vernal equinox is that instant :n the pring of the year wben the equator of the earth, if extended, would pass through the center of the snu. It as also the time when the davs aud nights, ail over tbe glo'ne, are of equal length. The period betweeu two vernal equinoxes is 303 days, 5 hours, 4H min utes, 4 0 seconds They Civ't ! C-i. M Charleston 1 met a man lroni Bing- hampttn, .N. Y., who was aged for some sort of cotton machinery, and almost the first thing he said to me was: "Hw do you minige with tne hotel waiter?" "Why. 1 bave to fee them, of course." "That shows bow green you are. I am go'.cg to stop here four days, aud 1 won t pay 'era s cent.'' "Then yon won! get much service. "1 won't eh! Weil, you -just watch me and learn a thing or two. See that? It wss a lead half dollar, neatly covered with gold foil, and at first glance it seem ed to be a twenty dollar gold p;ece. When the Hew Yortur's trunk came ud stairs and the two darkies lingered around for a quarter apiece, tbat "twen'j " appeared to view, snd be said: "Sinsllest I've got to-day. I'll hte you before I go." Tbe same thing was worked on tbe table waiter, on the waiter who brought up ice water, and on several other colored indi viduals, and when we were all ready to tske the tram for Savannah, the trunks went down on be wagon snd we walked totbi depot. Two minutes befire the tram pulled out the Sew Yorker turned to the African with his gripsack and said: "James, will you take this coin and sq-i'S u" w lb the bojs ftjr m-V Yes, sab." ' Pia-e it caretUi'y in your pochct and don't lose it." '-She's dar. sab.- Ize millyuns o times obleeged t yoo." "Never mind that Well, we srscfL All tho way down to Savannah that tve niae mv companion chuckled over his keenness lu beatin? the colored population but when we reached the latter city his chin took a drop. We were not clear of the oepot wbea he was arrested for pas. iD counterfeit money, and all hisexplan- wnl in Alansm. and lie told me tr ,,aWr ccst him $63 NEWS L BF.IKF The sum of $5,173 was realized last year by tbe gold and silver "sweep" at the Bluish mint The cotton-giu owners of north Texas charge a to.l of one-twelfth tor ginning the UK It la said tbat tbe receipts of the Gloucester fishermen will lm .t,OlH,0Oi in excess of last year. There are nearly seveu hutidnil Chinamen iu the New York and Brook lyn S ibbath schools. The Xew York Commission immi gration is said to !e pcuuiless and its expenses average SotO a day. The wac-s of the crinder of tli Delaware Irju Works were cut down from twelve to seven dollars per week. Nine huudred claims have lieea docked iu the Court of Aiulwma C.aiuis. It is believed ti4e total will reueh 4 l'lr. Six thon-aiid petitiors, bearing 679,000 signatures, iu fa7or ot aSuuday Closing bul for England, Lave already 'jeen presented to Parliament. Congressman HiZ.lt -lie. of Jlia sonri. is the owner of aa eaormoiu or chard, from wluc he tiiis exi has ship led J3.000 barrels of apples. Advices from Adelaide;. Sonth Aus tralia, state lli.it the Legislative Coun cil and the Hon&e of Assembly bave re solved to hold au exhibition tu lyj. Petroleum ranks fourth iu value among the exoorU of the United States, grain, cotton, aud j rovisioiis alone sur passing it ; even tobacco it iar be jiud. The drinking of laser beer is in creasing in popu.nrity iu Eugl.uid, aud Germau brewers are contesting1 hotly foe supremacy iu the London m irkets. During the past twelve mouths American ne-apers have been received by mini in Ln-lau 1 at the rate of more than 28,000 a day, or lO.nOJ.OOi1 a year. There are at least a hundred worueu practising niIiinue in Chicago, regular ly certincat-s.1 under the present statu tory enactmeuts bv the State B ard of Health. The profits at the Imoerial Theatre Lxidon. uuriur the six nurLta Mr Langtry played "As You L.ke It." averaged JCVJ a nijiht, or jCDOO for the week. Mr. Hoilis Hunnewell. who has al ready given Weliesley, Mass., a puhlie library buildinsr. costiusr 75.00! I is now erecting there a town ball worth about ?100 00 ). The German Empire Las nowuliout 34,000,000 acres of forest, valuad at $400,000,0t'0, aud appropriates SoLNl.OOO every year to iuerea.se and maiatam ib growth of -trees. Neither Sir Garnet Wolsoley nor Sir Beaichamp Seymour has a son to keep aJiVd the peerage each b.is wou. The admiral is nnma-ried, aud Sir G.ir uet bas ouiy a daughter. It is stated that before tlie end of the year India will Lave I2.0-. U miles of radwsy. The mileage has increased 100 per ceut iu the laet threo years. 1'he courtry is Incoming onrcomiietitor in supplying Europe with breadstuff. The exports have iucreasej aliout one tturd since 1S79, being $.";;,ilO0,!MHi last year. British capital i rapidly im proving India agriculture. it is estimated that tlio tolal num ber of cigars manufaotnred in Xew York iu a year is 2ti boo.000. - aad of eigar etees 2J'J,b(Kt,0JO ; 2",C00 persons are employed iuthe busines. During the last ten years cattle ia Xew S uth Wali-s have increased very httle, but sheep have gone from sixteuu millions to thiity three millions : beet consequently gTows steadily dearer. During the E-zvptian war a Columu of leaded telegraphic messages cjst thrj London newspa;ers from $l,0i)0 to 1, 200. Seveu shillings aud two enoo (aliout Sl.bOer wjrd was the rut charged. A genuine sungaxoo rat was recent ly caught iu Tehvma comity, Caliloruia. it looks very much like "tlie Norway rat, but has shorter fore legs ami a pouch for its young, as do tho kan garoo. Tne managers of the UoyaiL.ibr.irv at Stockholm are about to sell 3,000 duplicates of old and Very rare books. principal German. Most of thein were among the spoils of the Thirty Years' war. TLe exports of the Domiuiou of Canada during tue List quarter, not ia- ciuuiug iriusu Vyoiiim' in, amounted to about S.HJ,0.,Oi!0. while tbe imports for the same period amounted t J jS-11,000,-000. The amouut of dutv collecte' 1 was $700,000. An enormous bnuch of grapes, carefully euclosed ia a glass ease, wa shown through Michigan by a peddlor, who bad for sale sprouts from what he said was a vine of tue same variety. The exlubit was at lengfn discuvtvd to be wax work. The eldest sister of a we 11-knowu English Marquis is declared to have re cently married a baker. Her ago is ii), and her btisliaud's exactly hnt bcr own. Thelady.it seems, was a patroness of a charity school iu which tiie young man learned his trade. Tbe King of Greece speaks Eng lish, French, German. Greek and Dan ish. Their Grecian Maj.aties, iu con versirg together, use tue German lan guage, iu speaking with their children they employ English, aud they speak Greek to the general household in tho various royal residences. Tlie fish-distributing car of the United States Fish Commission has been distributing carp throug'i Minne sota. Soma 16,000 young fish are car ried at oue time. The loss of fish is small, hardly worth counting, loin;f leas than ouo fish t j the thousand. Ill inois is to be tully stockel with Ger man carp. Bents in Scotland still coutlnua to falL A large farm in Berwickshire was rt-cently relet at 83000, after having for many yeais commanded $430. This la a reduction of about 35 per cent. The conditions of the new lease are saLt, iu addition, to be very liberal. Mrs. Wilson, of Oregon, got a di vorce from her husband on tbe ground of infidelity and cruelty List year. He reformed and wanted to marry her again. She consented, bit he afterwards changed Lis mind, ami she is now suing him for breach of promise. The latest st) le for parlor stoviji ia a comoiuatiou of brass, irou and tiles. I he facings are of polished brass, w hile the interior is of bammeted iron, and encaustic tiles form a frame-work !. tween tiie mantel aud the grate. i V V A.
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