fill B. F. SCHWEIER, THE OOISTITUnOJ-THE UHTOI-AUD THE EUPOEOEMEfT OP THE LAVS. Editor and Proprietor. VOL: 'XXXVII. MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY. PENN A.. WEDNESDAY. MARCH 14.1SS3. NO. 1!. OLD TIMES. . TUere's a beautifm long on tae slutubruos air Tnat mils larougB the valley of dreams; It comes from a ulune where the rotes were, Ani tuneful seart, and bright brjirn hair That wares in The rooming beams. Sort eye of azure, and eves of brown. And snow-white foreheads are there, , A glimmering cross and a glittering crown, A thorny bed and a couch of down. Lost hopes and leaflets of prajer. A rosy leaf and a dimpled hand, A ring and a pligtiied tow ; Three golden rings on a broken harvl, A tinj track on the snow while saud, A tear and sinless brow. There's a tincture of grief in the beautiful scoff THat sobs on the summer air. And lonelines felt in the festive throng Muks down In the soul as it trembles along From a clime where the roses are. . We heard it first at the dawn of day. And it alleg es with matin chimes; But years have distanced the beautiful lay, -And its melodj Dowetn so swiftly awaj. And we call it now "Old Tiaies." BO?E rlLf. Fred Dayton assisted bis wife's cousin, Jenry Searles, into the carriage that was waiting for tier at the station, She had been his wife's Lndesmaid, and he sighed as he looked in her smil ing face. It was three years since that so-called happy event occurred, but though she was a trifle cere Hard and dignified, she had the same hsi j y smile, neat, trim appearance that he so well remem bered. "You will find Fum y a good deal al tered," he said, taking a seat by her side. Jenny catt a si mew hat surprised glance at the grave lace of the speaker. Why, how ? Has she been ill ?" "Weil, no ! I can't say that she has been ill," was the hesitating rply; "but she she's changed. Marriage don't seem to have agreed with her veiy well." Jenny looked earnestly into the frank, kindly face of tLe sjieaker. Was it his fault 1 for there must be a fault somewhere. The house, as the carriage stopped in front of it, looked as ii it was all shut up. If Jenny had expected to see her cousin in the hull she was disappointed. Fred looked slightly disconcerted as he glanced around. "Fanny's in her room, I suppose ; IU hunt her up." "Ah ! there you are, Fan." Here a dowdily-dressed woman made her appearance at the other end of the hall, whom Jenny would have failed to recogLize hud it not been for the warm embrace and eager greeting. After leading the way to the dark and rather untidy sitting-room, Fanny's animation all at olcc forsook her, and, throwing Lcrself upon th sofa, the burst into tears, much to Jenny's sur prise and consternation. "The sight of jou reminds me so of the happy putt ?" sighed Fanny, as sue wiped away her Uara. "And tne present is not less happy, I hope ?" suggested Jenny, feeling for her cousin's husband, who looked fool ishly conscious that he was in some way considered to be at fault. "Fanny's only reply was a mournful shake of the head, which, rightly inter preted, meant that she never expected to be so happy again as long as she lived. Putting liia hands in his pockets Fred walked to the window, whistling soft y to himself with an ill assembled air of unconcern. "Ii you knew how that noise goes through my head, Fred I" remonstrated Fanny, as she rang for Ann to take away her cousin's tilings, Fred ceat-ed whittling, taking himself out of the room at the same time. Fanny gave her com-in a look, as much as to say ; "Tou tee what I have to put up with "if" Jenny now had opportunity to ob serve her more particular hy. Tt was tiMrlv dinner time, and still she had on the calico wrapper she had worn at breakfast ; not much soiled, but still faded and wrinkled. In asking and answering questions the time passed rapuily until it Tiouriv time for liimer. "I had no idea it was so near dinner time," said Jenny, rising to her feet, as she glanced at her watcn. a s hard iv cive yon time to dress." fin f I shan't make any change in my dress ; there'll be nobody but hus mind.' band at dinner, ana you won "No, certainly, I tha'n't mind," There was more than this on J Jenny s Vint he checked herself. There could scarcely be a greater con trast than those two presented at the ;-tai.iB ioth of nearly the same ..o Bn.l both endowed with more than -Q"! nomnnal attractions. At the time of her niariiuge, Fanny had been called the prettier ; but it was nmt the .jontrary now, and all the dif ference lav in the drets and expression. It was impossible for Fred not to no tice the difference, and make menUl n.rr.rr.cnt .m it llOt Vfcl V flattering U th wif ,.t 1.13 choice. The contrast was too marked to escape her notice, th..n,rl it was easv to see that she as- cribed the change to their different "Ah ! vou won't think it's worth nek after vou re mar- 1 with laneh. Tei haps Miss Jenny will think her husband worth dressiug for." retorted "if m.p does. I hope it will be for a husband who cares enough for her soci .,wo.i ia .vmiLnf at home out t,. t chance the subject, k... ... ii ... I,. omiMivor bv the ad- vent of babv. It was a loveiy child, and one would suppose would be au ii ho in 1,111.1 fhpir hearts to gether, but instead of that it was rAiMt.nl kniu nf JVMltPlltlOIl. m.na n.,no wont nn for some days. A.UUO ' ' wvi - - Jenny observed with pain that Ired was in the habit ol speauwK his evenings out. For while after she came he staved in, but mortified as weU as irritated by his wife's slovenly appearance and fntiul complaining, he gradually, absented hiaiseli, until he rarely spent au evening at home. "Is Mr. Daytor out this evening 7 inquired Jenny, as, entering the sitting room, she glanced around. "You need never ask that question, returned Fanny; "he's always out. Jennv ha1 lone- wished for an oppor tunity tn T'k wriih riAr cousin. After a "And A.1, nn Vnnw what the end 01 this will be Fannv f "Euui, I suppoBe," was the bitter re as I see. It is something for which I am not responsible." "But I think you rre, FanDy." "I?" replied Fanny, opening her eyes widely; "what can you mean ?'' 'J ust what I say, my tiear cousin. When you married Frederick Dayton no man was more domesticallv inclined or fonder of his "rife and home than he.' "He got over it bravely J" exclaimed Fanny, with a bitter langh. "He don't act as if he had the slightest affection for me, and seems to prefer any place to his home.' "And is not this in a great measure your own fault ? Nav. look not so an gry, dear con in ; I love you too well to see you recklessly throw iug away your happiness and his. Did not the altera tion you speak of f pring from the change in you? we cannot love what is unlovely. 2o man can love a wife who tckes no pains to make her person neat and at tractive or a home that is full of bick erings anu oiscomloit. iietore your marriage you would have been terrified at the i lea of his catching a glimpse of you in uie attire in which you now al low hfm to see you all day. Why should you set k to look less pleasing in his eyes now than then ?" . "It is impossible for a married wo man to dress as she did when a irl, and no man has a light to expect it," 'Every man has a ngut to expect his wife to have snflicicnt respect lor him to present a neat and tidv appearance. xou uid not consider it too much trou ble to dress when Judge Bany culled on yen. And last evening, at the party, when Mr. Howard picked up your hand kerchief, you received it with a look and smile such as I have not seen you bestow upon yoar husband, even when he took twice the pains to pleae you I" "You are very severe," said Fanny, her eyes filling with tears. "Faithful are the wounds of a friend, My dear Fanny, two ways are open to you. l'ou can cither make home to your husband tbe dearest place in the wcrld, and yourself one of the most be loved and happy of wives, or you can alienate his afiections, driving him to haunts and companiouship that will wreck the peace and happiness of both.' Here thty were interrupted by the advent of visitors. Jenny returned home the next morn ing, so she had no opportunity of know ing what effect her earnest appeal had upon the better feelings of her cousin. It was some months before Fanny and Jenny met again, and then it w as at the marriage that tiiinsformcd the latter into the loved and loving wife of the husband of her choice. The happy smile cn the f.ice cf Fred, and which was rt fleeted back from the smiling eyes of his wife, told of the happy change that had been wrought. "Fred sjieuds all his eveumgs at home now," said .canny, giving her cousin a significant look. "Why shouldn't I ?" cried the happy husband, "when I have the dearest wile aad the pleasantest home in the world!" Old Songs, and New. Of the old sentimental songs you can well say that they never d:e out nor will any new ones, though there are a great many beautiful ones lately written, ever replace them. There's "Annie Laurie," can you imagine it to be very old I Well, it is, and lovely women and silver-tongued tenors still linger tenderly over the words of Douglas to his sweetheart Annie. I have heard a song lately that you can pre dict a growing popularity for if you de sire. It is, "We Ji ever i?peak When Me Pass By." Both the words and the sn are pretty, and it will hold with the pub lic. Then, again, there are Ike regulation sentimental songs of the preseut, such as Only a Psnsy ulotsom," "When the Clouds Koll By," and dozens other. These are all termed popular, and deserve lo be so. But, to my idea, there arc mire pretty soups hidden away that seldom come to light, except in some refined private circle where some charming, modest little lady sits down at a piano anil gently touching the ivory keys, pours out a warm, flexible voice in some such song as "Auld lunin Gray," "Love's Young Dream," "Long, Long Ago," or ol me later sougs, --ome Back to Erin," "Jamie s on the Stormy Sea." Ah, 1 can reinemuer my moiuer, with her silver hair, sitting at an old-fash ioned mtlodeon, that pumped so hard I used to sit on the floor under it at her leet and work tbe pedals with both nanus while she played and sang that song, l he quaint, old-style words were better suited to a song written ages ago man 10 one ui as recent origin as it is. Speaking of Lone. Long Alto,' Thomas U. liaylcy, an Englishman, wrote that with hunger s pangs gnawing at his v.tals. He had a large family and was unable to provide food for their sustenance, ne had, also. lust risen from a sick bed, where brain . . a . i r - 1. . Tt van fever had connneu win u wsa. a great song under those circumsiancea. FtHter was a wonder. He was as well known through his songs to Americans as Dickens was through his sionts w iu English, but wis known to very, very, few personally. Of his song, "0,d Dog Tray," 125,000 copies were sold in the first eighteen mourns aner us iiuuuwi. Hi. f Jld Foiks at Home" was the best thing he ever wrote, and 400,000 copies were sold by the publishers tnat nret issued the sonc and Foster received 16,00 as i... h,r nf this sale. 1 tell you it s al . th nublisher that makes all the money. We grind out the song, may be . eironii nresfure for some necessary of life, never knowing and often not car ing whether it wouia -caitu uu . "am Ac "r Iwenhun," f An Irishman at a St. Louii livery stable was deluded into giving a brief sketch of his life, where he came from in Ireland, where his brother was, what his daughter Kate was doing, who were his net neighbor details of personal nuu. j - delw Y..IL,;, to himself. A short Urr one of the parly withdrew time iuikm- " , . no;Tiiiiorjno and Hotrv.it nimwu - o AlVeaL the Irishman, was . , deugmuo answer came Who s uie :- B u baCk: r 'rirelaTd." "Meelia murh J&Sdttta. aropphig the deX( exiw Ler voice. trumpet, . h, veUed out: Grabbing w f m in St father. 1 m ica. " A A 4. . Tfk- i I Ii V the voice. I got yer "He went w i iott,r. Uncle Jerry is ' Mealm-s land. Oive goin to ui"-" The Toioe was my lore trumpet, Blent and Meal hung P rf saying: "iiowy . invenshun this is. Lost on tno Frame. Ho one unacquainted with the difficul ties of western travel can realize how hard it Is to keep a straight course across a Kansas prairie. Gnus from two feet to .two yarls high cover mile after mile with 'an unvaried sea of green waving; billows. There are do trees to guide the eye, no fence to restrain the sups; but footpaths come to notice constantly trail made by Indian, buffalo or wolf, and every trail but the right one may be fatal to the trave ler. A man may be lost half a mile from bis home; and for a child, of course, tbe prairie is doubly dangerous. It is not un common in Western Kansas for small chil dren to wander away from home and never be seen again. Mr. Joseph Clements,a neighbor of mine, lately from home on tbe plains of Kansas, related the following adventure while in search of a lest child, which occurred just before he left that State lie owned a very large and a very valu able hound, which his two boys. Jack and Oscar, bad named Kowdy and which was their cous'ant companion in all their bunt ing expecit'ocs. Thev bad trained him to hunt for them, so that by merely lettincr Liui smell one of the boy's garments he would go out and track its owner at any distance from the house. About a mile from Mr. Clements' home was a small board cabin, belonging to an industrious German and bis wife Mr. demerits bad sometimes seen a httle yellow-haired boy playing near the cabin. One mcrmng, just as tbe family were ris ing from the breakfast-table, tbe German's wife came to the house in great dulress. "Mein Hanka ! mein llanka is gone! Mem kind it lost 1 Help me find Hanka! Ach ! mein Gott I (child) 1st lost !" she cried, over and over. Tbe family gathered around her aud learned from her broken words that her little boy had wandered away from the cabin and was lost. He had been gone since daybreak, and she bad no idea which way he went. Hit husband was sick in bed, she said, and couhJ not help her search for the child, and she had come to the neighbors for aid. Mr. Clertents and his boys were, of course, eager to help the distracted mother. but as ste bad no idea which direction tbe child bad taken, they hardly knew what course to pursue. Father. I believe Kowdy could find him, if he had something of the child's to smell 1 said Oscar, eagerly. "I don't know. He has not been used to ttackling any one but you and Jack. We can try him, though," said Mr. Clements. "Get ready and come with me, and bring the dog." He told the woman that if sue would take them to her cabin and give them one Hanka socks, they would enduavcr to find child. S-ie swiftly guided them to the rude home where her "man," as she said, lay sick. A wagon, a plow and stveral farm tools were scattered around. Inside was a scanty supply of household furniture. Mear the door lay a email pair of wooden sboe, which Hanks had kicked off. Kowdy walked up and began to smell of the shoes, which encouraged the boys greatly. Tbe mother brought out a small sock, and Oscar, taking it for Kowdy to smell. then pointed on over the prairie, saying : "Seek hifn, Kowdy !' Kowdy smelled the little sock, wagged his tail, looked wistfully up in Oscar's face, ran away a few steps, then came back, and squatted down by his master's side with a low whine, as if he wanted to understand and could not. Oscar drew the little sock along tbe ground a few feet. Kowdy followed, smelling and whining, and when Qxar stopped he ran on a httle ways, looking back to see if Oscar approved, beeing doubt In their faces, he went back, re peated the action three or four timep, untd it seemed useless to try and make him comprehend what was wanted, and the poor mother was growing almost frantic. r inally Oscar threw the little sock tar from him, and the dog, with a glad bound, rushed after and brought it proudly back, with head erect, as if be were sure now he had done what they wished. But at their looks of disappointment he dropped his ta'i, and slowly started lo carry the sock back to tbe pce where he bad picked it up. liut as be dropped it from bis mouth, be stopped, snuffed the ground, ran tbis way and that a moment, to catch a warmer scent, then ran along slowly, with his nose on the ground, as If deeply interested in something. 1 hey a'l followed, trembling with expectation and hope, which might yet be sadly disappointed; for it might be only game which Kowdy had scented. iiut on be went, scenting every tuft of grass or cluster of prairie fl jwer. stopping an inetant, no and then, and snuffing with a long, slow biea'b, as if to make more sure tt at he was right, while they eagerly followed him. Tbe mother was with them, in her excitement and anxiety continually asking: "Will be tint mein liaukaf" Suddenly tbe dog stopped, and held his nose high In the air, snuffing at a tall weed. The mother in an instant sprang f rward with a cry, and caught a small shred ot calico from the bush, shouting : It is Hanka s dress I 11 is mein Hanka s!" The dog st tried on. For two long hours the company followed him eager, bopefui, anxious. Now the odor of the trail seenied strong, and the dog sure; now it was taint and he would retrace his sups and search hither and thither for the scent before he tound it again. At last, striking an old buffalo trail. tbey saw plainly in the dry dust the track of a child's foot. "Tis Ilauka's rp.irr (rail)! 'tis Hanka's sporr! Mein kindl mem kind ' screamed the mother. Anc again ran, cioseiy ioi lowinir the noble, eager dog. Scenting a trail over dry dust was now difficult for the dog, but he kept on brave ly, seeming almost as excited as the mother or Oscar, who was wild with de light at hat his favorite was accomplish' Down and up the hillocks the track led, unlil nresently Kowdy stopped. His whole manner ceanged. The nose was no nlnnal on the ground. With un- -.(goj bead and outstretched neck, he went straight nn wiia uaeu, cavilcu kuc Mr. Clements and Oscar knew that he left the track because he had ecentea the boy where he lay, but they dared not tell the mother, least the child should be found dead. . . . in an instant longer the dog rushed furiously lorward and thty heard his joy. ous bark mingled with me souna oi i nhiM a scream, tor once a clad and wel sound, which the mother echoed shriifeiuir wildly : "Ach I" mein Gott I mein Gott 1 mein Honks t Mein Hanka lis found! Mein b-itwl mem kind 1 " Thev soon were beside her In her al' ma-t deliriou. joy. while tbe dog seemed to share tha general exultation, running to the Dov as n lay m u licking his hands and face, then rushing np to Oscar and sseming as proud as any body at his success. They carried the weary utile wanderer back to tbe rude -cabin, where the sick lather and Jack Clement so anxiously waited for them. While Mr. Clement re mained in the neighborhood, the German family were his warmest friends. But words could not express their grateful appreciation of the service he had rendered them. Making Oll-PaioUugs. Oil paintings, 24 by S6 inches, finely mounted and stretched, are sold in New York at a profit for fifty dollars a hun dred. Eight artists have bsen known to produce 125 of these painting in a day. Lv-gc handsome fiat Dutch gilt frames for the paintings sell for SI. These are wholesale rates. The pictures retail from i2 apiece up, and one of them has been sold as hiit h as $250. Tbey are sold chief ly by peddlers, who carry stocks of them through all the mining towns of the W est. Many show an amount of lalior and skill in execution which it would seem impos sible to command for ten timis the price that is asked. They are all landscapes, as nothing else sells so well. The paintings come in many sizes, but the price does not vary much. They generally represent a river, mountains in tbe distance, a bit of country with fences and trees end beie and there a farmhouse. The tints are well blended, and at a distance produce a pleas ing effect. Tbis is especially true of the picture intended for tbe Eastern trade. Thirteen years ago, when tbe industry was begun, loud, flaring coins and brad ef fects were in demand, but now such paint. ings are only wanted in tbe West. There they want the gayest of colors, and, above alL they must have a castle. Ostles of the most remarkable design are thrown in anywhere. They are created on tho slcc of a steep mountain or an island in tbe wild woods. They must have plenty of turrets and battlements. One ot the larg est of these oil-painting manufactories is in Greenwich street, where there are rooms tilled with racks containing hundreds of finished psintiniis. On an upper floor a reporter saw eight persons, six of whom were young women. They were bard at work and painting very rapidly. The pro prietor is an artist who studied four years under Gerome, in Fans, rinding very little money in hiirh art, he invented a process for the rapid production of cheap paiL turns. The paintings are made on heavy muslin which is first wet and strt-tched tightly on long frames. It is then cut iuU the required size, and stretched by a machine on a square pine frame, where It is made fast. iext the muslin is tinted a light blue, and after this has dried it is ready for tbe painter. A coating of oil is first put on it, and then a stencil plate is laid on the muslin. This stencil is of thick paper, with all sorts of odd sbapes cut in lL A boy stauds on one side ot the table and a girl on the other, near them are several small pots of paint. They daub the paint into the boles in the stencil plate with great rapidity. When the s.inci! is removed tbe muslin is seen to be spotted here and there with paint. Another stencil is then used, whose holes correspond to othtr parts of the niUflln, and more stencils follow, and when the work is done the muslin is com pletely covered with a patch-work of va ried colors It is then bauded to a young woman, who blends the background. She uses several brushes in running the colors into each other, and finally goes over all with a large earners hair bruth. The re mit is surprising. The patchwork be comes a harmonious combination of blend ed lints. Tbe muslin then goes to a man who blends the foreground in the sune manner. .Next it is dried and passes to the finisLer, who works from a model hung on her eascL She outlines the tiees, fen ces, shrubs and other accidents of scenery with extraordinary rapidity. Tbe colors are mixed ready to her hand, and she has simply to lay them ou. A fourth and more skilful artist gives the finishing touches of light and shade. It finally goes to the artist, who may be called the architect. He puts in tbe palaces, castles, houses, and boats. The rapidity and skill with which all work is due to long years ot practice. The paint used is common house painter's paint. In the paint room are rack containing small pots of paint ot oUCO diflereut tints. Mr. Levin says he is obliged to sell very cheaply in order to compete with artists who paint at their homes. He has 100 different styles of pictures, but some sell much better than others. He has tried figure-pieces, but they did not take welL Tbe paint stands the test of time very well, and is swf tened and unproved by age. When handsomely Iramed these painliDgs, Mr. Levin says, are sometimts hung in private galleries among expensive paintings. Bo He Had. Tbtre was a crack under tbe kitchen door a crevice huge enough for one to pat a hand under asd early in No vember Mrs, Cripso began saying : "Aow. Cripso, don t let this day pass without nailing down a cleat to stop that crevice. It will let in more cold this winter than two tons of coal can drive out." And Cripso begin replying : "Certainly, my dear certainly. That crevice shall be stopped this veiy day. On fifteen different cccat-ions in No vember she reminded him of the fact that he had forgotten the crevice. In December the number of occasions was twenty. During the month of Januaiy she spoke of it twenty-two tunes. In February she began refeinng to the matter at each meal, and the other day 6he nailed him down with the remark : Cripso, I am going down town, and IU stop on my way at d ask a carpenter to come up and hx that door. Til fix it." "No you won't ! Tou just let it alone. Ill have a carpenter here before night, and that door will be hxed. I say I'll fix it myself right away now, and in nve minutes be bad saw and hammer and cleat, and was at the job. Mrs. Cripso went oil chuckling over her victory, and upon her return her hustiand said : "Well, the old crevice is shut up. "You fixed it. eh t" "Fixed it better than any carpenter vou could have sent np, and in ten minutes, too. Come and see." She took one look at his work and then sat down and whispered : "Cripso, you just missed it by a hair's breadth." "What ?' "Being born a fool ! You have nailed the cleat to the floor inside the door I So he had. He had shut the crevice and door, too, and when he came to realize it he walked slowly out into the back yard and tried to saw his head off on the clothes line. Gen. Joseph E. Johnston has been made sick by w earing colored stockings. A Noted Danlsb IMIrr Woman. Sirs, Nielson, a noted dairy woman in England, took a tour in Sweden and uer many, and in these countries learned to make butter on the Swarta system, and skim mile and when cheese as practiced by Swedes and Germans. Then she re solved unon cxtendmz her travels. She knew only her native language and i smattering of German, but with the slend er linguistic equipment she bad tbe cour age to make a tour in England, r ranee, Switzerland, aad Holland, picking up knowledge everywhere. She contrived to eet such an insucbt into the dairy systems cf these different countries, as to be able to make butter on tne Norman system. Camembert and Brie cheeses as they are made in France, Edam as it is made in Holland, Cheddar and Cheshire as they are made in England, and Gruyere according to the most approval bra process, aire. .Nelson has a shop in Copenhagen, where she sells her dairy produce, the king being one of ber regular customers. Her work in the diary begins at 5 in the morning, and is finished at 1 in the afternoon. Mrs. ftelison is then off, by train, to the city, where she is always to be fooud from 2 o'clock until 8, returning to ber country home by the 9 o'clock train, ready to be gin the same round of work tbe next day. It would be interesting only to practical dairy maids to describe Mrs. JNeilson'e methods in detail. Her dairy which ts also ber kitchen, where cooking and cheese-making go on simultaneously is but If feetsqare, and yet three kind of cheese Derby, Edam, and Camembert have been seen in process of concoction together. Tbe mislrees devotes her personal super vision to the most critical parts of tbe work, but is assisted by her pupils, of whom she has generally aliout a doeen boarding in the house. For it will not ex cite suprise that her fame has spread far and near, and that farmers are only too glad to send their daughters to study un der such an Instructor. Tbe girls si ay for various periods' from six weeks to two years, usuully about six months, and those who stay but a short time are charged proportionately high fees. All have to work as bard as any ordinary dairy aiaid, while at the farm. Must of the pupils are the daughters of small farmers. One was pointed out to Mr. Jenkins, however, whose father owned forty cows. This young.lady was about to be marrick, and her parents thought themselves fortunate in securing for her, under Mrs. Meilsou, tbe knowledge by which she would be enabled to turn the dairy, that was soon to be her own, to the best account. It is, perhaps, worth mentioning tbat 'Mr. Neli son takes no part of the dairy business himself, and had at first but small fai'-h in the success of his wife's enterprise. So she began by buying her milk of her hus band at what he ragarded as a remunera tive selling price, and has continued to do so to many other farmers as well, but Mrs. Mielton is still Daid for every quart at the market value, just as Lis neighbors are. As Mr. Jiicls m's pupils do most of the work, her outlay for labor must be very small, and she makes, according to h -r own statement, between two and three times as much for ber butter and cheese as she pays for ber milk. She must, evi dently therefore, be doing a prospeious busines Her profits are of course, all the greater, from the fact tbat by keeping her own shop she has to make no allowance for those of the factor and retailer. Lo: Ins his Reputation. Years ago, in the early days of the Corn- stock excitement, Pat Holland, now post master and coroner in a little town in Co chise county, Arizona, was the most re spected man in the State. He had the reputation of being a dead shot with a pis tol. Of course, this accomplishment made him feared by everybody, and there was no man in ireinia so bold as to cross him in public. Pat acquired his reputation by shootiDg on the stage, and could knock an apple ou his son's head with an accuracy and carelessness which combined to im press tbe public far more thi-n the manner in which the painstaking William Tell performed the feat with an arrow. Finally Pat sccared a young lady who would allow an apple to be shot off ber flaxen roll, and when Pat executed the feat he would throw his keen eye at the girl, and then poll his orbs up into the gailery, and with out looking at his mark, send a bullet through the fruit. This was put down on the bills as "Pat Holland's psychological feat of shootiDg from memory," and drew crowded houses. One night he advertised to shoot apples from twelve ycung ladies' beads in succession, and only take one look at tbe crowd. Piper's opera house was packed with men at $1 a head, and when the curtain rose, twelve immaculate ballet dancers were in hue along the wings, each with an apple on her bead. Pat stepped to the footlights and bewed amid tremendous applause. He bad a six-shooter in each hand, and the stage manager announced that he would shoot the last six apples with his left hand. Casting his eye along the line, he took a long breath, a steady posr ion, and then faced the audi ence. Lifting hia aevolver, he began to shoot in rapid succession, and the apples began to fly out of sight amid the breath less silence of the audience. The curious part of tbe performance, however, lay in tbe fact that by the time Pal cad fired six shots all the apples bad disappeared, yet he kept right on banging away with his left hand, amid roars of laughter and de rision. To cap the climax, two apples got tangled together and remained dangling from the edge of a scene in plain sight of the audience. Tbe trick was at once ap parent. Each apple had a fine thread attached, and at the shot wis jerked quick y out of sight. The supca behind the scenes, who pulled the slrines, got con fused at Pal's rapid firing, and half the apples disappeared before the time. 1 wo were snatched off simultaneously, and the strings overlapping in the air brought the apples together, where they hung to the edge of the scene, the string's being on each side. This ended Holland s career as a public soloist on the pistol, and the pub lic gradually came to look upon him as sn ordinary mortal. Soon after that he got into a street row in Pioche and fired twelve shots in a densely populated portion of the city without killing a man. But for at tempting to do too much at once he might have gone to Congress from this Stare yars ago. Sugar has been denounced by mxlern chemists as a substance the effects of which on dyspeptics are deplorable. A writer in the Mtdicin Practicien does not partake of these fears. He cites the case of a dys peptic doctor, who, lor twenty years, had a terror ot sugar, but who now consumes .1 ounces daily without inconvenience. Entering tbe Seld of experiment in this direction he found that a dog ate SO grains of sugar with 200 of other food, and six hours after its stomach showed but little tcol: tbe mucous lining of the stomach was red and highly congested, and tbe congestion ol the liver was notable. An animal; opened after eating 200 grains of food aad no sugar showed ttO to 100 grains of food undigested. Sugar; than, favors the secreticn of tbe gastric Juica. Tha TrafedT rt Krcpt'ao Aire. Rifaat Bey, who left Cairo January 1st, in charge of a Circassian guard, is more fortunate thiin Mahmoud Uami Baroudi; ha wif. although a lady of rank, and supposed to have been sub jected to "pressure" in high quarters to induce her to remain in Cairo, persisted valiantly in her resolution to accompany her husband into exile. The prefect of police, it is said, was sent to Mnie. Iiifant to urge many reasons why she should not forsake her native land. Was she aware Rifaat Bey's destination was Malta? It was a Christion country; attempts would be made to destroy her fattb, to compel her to turn Christian. To all this 51 mi. Rif.iat's answer was the answer given by Ruth long a where her husband went she would go; if he became a Cunstian, she would be come one too; his people should be her people, his Uod her ttod. ery touch ing, and, so far as the lady in concerned noble also. But whether Rifaat Boy himself deserves to be the object of such absolute devotion, an incident th'it occurred on the platform last nignt givea one cause to doubt. Kuaat was calmly seated in a first-class carriage; and tbe exile s impaseive dignity and calm whilst the sound of women's wuil- iiiirs came from the waitiug room im pressed one as quite heroic, whilst one was allowed to hold the ouiusion that it signified iudiflerenee to his own misfor tunes. In an adjoining carriage were Mme. Rifaat and a female slave, both of them closely veiled aud attired in the black baggy gowns Egyptian ladies float about in; niystenons balloons known to be human only by the voices that pro ceed from them. These ladies were silent and apieared naturally dispirited; but two hue little boys, the eldest being about ten years of age, stood at the carriage window, aud talked away cheerfully in French to the European visitors who had come to wish them good-sieed. Presently this expression of fine fortitude, and a brave aceptunco of banishment by a whole family rather than that its honored head should go forth a solitary exile, was woeftdly dis turbed and the head of the family him self made to appear in anvthing bu au amiable light. From the black crowd J of wailing women in the distance sud-1 denly one woman broke, tiirowing off the grasn of those who tried to hold her and, rushing up to Rif tat, her veil all toru and her beautiful face (one of the most beuutilul I haveevtr seen) literally bathed iu tears, cried (in truth with an exceediugly titter cry). "For tho love of heavuu give me back my child!" She spoke iu Aiabic; but her gestures and her despair were so elcqueut that the Eugli h gentlemen round the carriage started, aad in delicate comp'ission drew buck trom her and let her plead her cause as she might, but they had not taken into consideration the hihdisdaiu a dignified Oriental puts into the inter course with women, iutaat Bey, who hod a cigarette in his mouth and con tinued smoking while the wit wJJ creature pcured forth her complaint, only took it out oi his mouth to say one word, signifying "Be ott with you, and as a hideous bluck .Nubian came np quickly, the bey nodded to biin with tne same gesture with wLiuh he might have ordered the slave to brush away a tly. Then the story was whisered round that this was Rifaat's first wife, whom he hail divorced. But an Egyptian. like most easterns, sets great store bv Lis sous, even though he bus grown to hate their mother, and so Rifaat carries away iuto exile the only child of tli poor deserted creature, whom I should judge by her fair complexion and lovely oval face, and also bv her perfect knowledge of French, to have been a Circassi ui slave; chosen fur her beauty and trailed iu accompli dimeuts, like the Fnir Penian N iu the "Arabian Xighta," aud married as tbe Fair Yrtiau herself was to be thrown a. i lo as lightly. After all, the Nubian eunuch would seem to have reasoned with the poor mother more compassionately than Lis uuattrac'ive countenance promised, for alter a time she returned with her veil arranged, and only weeping qciftly. She patscd lUtaats carriage with bent head, aud only stopped at the adjoining one. She had brought sweetmeats with htr for the bey, aud put them into tis hands, and kissed biin. weeping; w; ile he ac cepted all her fondness with a placid ludifereuce which led one almost to hopo his stepmother might follow out the tradi'i ms of story-laud and give him cauao to regret the attcction he valued so lightly. Alter a few moments the Nubian came near the carriage and seemed to reniud the weeping woman she had promised there should be no freeh disturbance. This time she walked back to the oilier women quietly, and until the train had started we saw no more of hor. L iter, one of the saddest scenes I have ever witnessed was that of the black -gowued women round her. their guard of eunuchs stanuiug with clasped arms watching them, whilst tney wailed over her in the mouotouous note Egyptian women dwell upon in lamentation. The divorced wife and bereaved mother was dis iaguishal le by her torn white vul and uncovered lase, and slso by her silence. She seemed to have exhausted grief, or at any rate her sense of mourning, aud sat there amoccst the dark fiinires almost as though she were dead and these weri the funeral cuests invited to bewail her. Pom pen still lielnlng Weaitti. New excavations hare Dfen made at Pompeii, bringing to light some curious things. A bouse was recently uah earthed on whose walls the pictures were as brunt as when first painted. Ihe. walls them selves were clean and fresh. In this bouse was found a shrine in the form ot a httle temple, such as every one has read snout m Bulwer's Last Days of Pom peiL Beneath the temp e also were found fix staluttes of bronze of exquisite workmanship, four of Jiein Homeric deities. The chief fi jire is as Apollo with bis lyre, and along with it are an Escutapius, a Mercury and Her cules using partly Latin names, as most do. Tbe d it co very leads an intelligent foreiencr residing in Naples to remark th u every now and then there are attain able ocular demoustra'ions of the way in which Herculaneuia and Pompeii were overwhelmed. The notion that they were drowned in floods of Uva is pre:iy much overthrown. Instead ot that it is held to be settled that the destruction was effected in two ways: Fuat, by the ejectment from the volcano of pumice stone and fine ashes and secondly by drenching rains, which immediately followed, forming to: rents of thick, mud paste, and overwhelming thus with rushing of moitar the territory on every side of Vesuvius. It ia thought likely that this mud hardened a fast as moistened plaster of cf FaXU. titi Uius burled Hercuianeuin to a depth ot 43 and and Pompeii to a depth of So feet. Tatas wad X-aboucheia- These gentlemen are among the lights of London. Labouchera is a man equally cordial in his likes and dislikes. What is rarer in England, he has tho courage of his convictions, and when he wants to say a man is a scoundrel he don't go fishing around for gentle and circum locutory forms of expression. He has always been a man of means, and his fortune has steadily grown until it is now very large. I have seen him often in the House of Commons, of which he ia an important aud powerful member. He does not look to be the kin '. of writer he is. He is the mildest man nered man that ever scuttled lraud or slugged an enemy. In figure he ia be low tbe middle height, and just a trifle inclined to stoutness. His composure is perfect. He has a full, large fore head, a rather prominent nose, and dfep piercing black eyes. His hair is curly, and just turning gray, and his beard, which is worn full and pretty, long, shows many white hairs at the chin. I should take him to be about 40. He wears a "plug" hat, which is also true of every other member of Par liament, excepting Joseph Cowau, the the wealthy owner of the Newcastle Chronicle. Labouchere's favorite cos tume is a black Trince-Albert coat, dark trousers, black scarf and turn down collar, and natty little boots. He walks about a good deal of the time with bis hands behind his back and a reflective look on his face. He has been in America, and I am told that he was one of the original Califorriin '49ers. His hand-writing looks like the tracks of a dnck on a white floor. Labouchere has bad some bi.ter news paper fights in his time. The worst was the content with Levy-Lawson, the the proprietor of the Daily Telegraph. Law sou sued Labouchere for lilnd, and won his case, I belieye, though the defendant carried on bis own ctse in court with wonderful skill. They had physicial set-to in the street, also, in which, if my memory is np to anything, Lawson oi)3ued the hostilities by whacking Labouchere over the head with au umbrella. Labouchere' first departure in the weekly newspaper line waa when, in company with Edmund Yates and some body else, he started the World. In that paper he handled the financial department, I think. Afterward he got rid of his share in tho World and founded Truth, It may be added that the paper has never been the same since he withdrew from the staff. Labou chere s second venture devotes a good deal of its time to the task of proving tho total unreliability of what appears in the World an undertaking that is not often difficult of accomplishment Edmund Yatos is the towering genius who speaks of W. D. Howells as a man possessing "an assurance which is na tional, aud an ignorance which is also, perhaps, national. " This is what Ed mund thinks about America. I saw him the other night for the first time, gentle reader, aud you may accept my word for it that be is about the sort of looking bird you would expect to utter such a statement. Mr. Yates is built upon the architectural design which follows the lines of a tin roffec-pot. He is much the biggest nt the bottom. He has the figure of an alderman and the manner of a superior Ix-inr. in the centre of the vast waste of his shirt front there rest, like a clnuip of rocks the middle of Sahara, a big pearl. surrounded by diamonds. On the least bulky finger of his right hand it would be a hideous satire to call it his little" finger there ia one broad gold ring and also a couple of narrow ones. On the corresponding member of the left hand there is a big, flaring cat's eye. It is Mr. Yates' ht ad, however, that most remarkable. This head is scantily patched at the aides with wrinkled, grayish hair, aud on the crown there isn't any covering to keep off the rain. The ears are like the sails of a yacht, and the eyes are Uttle, twinkling gray beads set close together and incessantly rolling about. The nose is thick at the end, and has a downward curve, Mr. Yatos jaws are immensely broad, and have a flabby, run over look about them . OIlsTw. In came a gentleman and sat down and says to the man waiter, very nice and trentle : "Have you some nice I roviiicuce River ojsters?" "O! yes, says the waiter. "Real nice ones, now?" fays the gentleman. ', why, certainly, says the waiter. "WelL I wish you would open for me a dozen, please." "All right, sir," says tho waiter, and he was coming away. "Wait a bit. says tbe gentleman; "is the butter nice and sweet?' We have some powerful fresh bat ter." says the waiter. 'Do you have nice fresh milk?" says the gentleman. Well, it's generally so considered,' says the waiter. "W eli, how are your crackers, nice and fresh?" says the gentleman. "Never had no fault found with our crackers," says the waiter. "Then, if you'll take aud make me up a nise bittle stew, John, I'll be much obliged to you, says tne gentleman. Then he lit him ko. When 1 saw him coming, I says to myself, says I: "How on eaih will that man remember all that ere?" But he inarched right np to the pipe, and jest opened hia mouth, and sats: 'One's two," and that was all. Dr. Ankrit and 31. Fsyt both agree that cyclones, tornadoes and trvnible are one and the same mechanical phenomenon and that their powerful action is ue to U.d force in tbe upper currents. Early marriages are boeoiLlng leu common in He land. NEWS IN BRIEF. Q teen Victoria weighs two hundred pounds. A Pittsburg compmy is cianainctu--ing glass shingles. It ia now prorxwej to make railroad rails out of paper. Of the 1,150 convicts in the Ohio Penitentiary but 17 are women. Classes in Photography are t ba fashionable in New Orleans during lent, Flour eoes from Minnesota to Europe insured all the wav thronuh ai der one policy. Governor Butler says that Massa chusetts takes Iietter care of hersoliiien I than any other State, A handsome monument in honor of Christopher Columbus is to be built by the people of Caivi, Corsica. Mr. Spnrgeon has received S1500 as royalty on the sale in America of The T.jasury of David." The King cf Siam buys his house hold furniture by the ton at the raid o! over a thousand dollars a tou. The brightness of fair hair ia thrown out by velvet coats of a suado between chocolate and maroon, Hazing is an expensive luxury iu Hartford, Conn. ThiiWn students have been fined $10 and costs each for it. Ex-Governor Warmoth has purcha sed in Maine the machinery for a beet root factory on his Louisiana planta tion. Beer has been made in Germany of tho fruit of Ptelea triioliatu, the so called hop tree, and it was said to be very good. Representative Herdoa, of Alabama, who was believed to be dying of con sumption several weeks ago, is so much improved that his physicians now re gard his recovery as very probable. A great deal of lawlessness aud ras cality is said to pvevail in Alexindrnt and Cairo. This is one of the results of the "late war." The builder who helped Lafayette to lay the corner-stone of the L'uuk. r Hill monument, fifty-seven years ago, still works in Boston. Ex-Governor Cobb, of Alabama, is credited with granting 2ii2 pardons dur ing his rectnt term of olhce, or some thing over one a week. Ihe Government hires a vault in a safe deposit company iu tot, Louis for the storage of silver dollars, and ha. about four million dollars iu it, Concealed in a carload of kindling wood, billed Chelsea, M iss , customs t'fliciids at Bangor, Me., found fivrt hundred pounds of Can.uhaa butter. A San Fraucit.co grocer had a wo man prosecuted for theft, though she was 1)6 years old, and what she stole was a handful of snuff, worth three cents, The chrysanthemum is the popular flower of China. When they emigrate to other lands their fa von to flower is carried with them and affectionately cultivated. The Rev, CdwarJ Everett Halo lias lieeu selected as the aunuid orator be fore the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Brown L'niverbity. at its meetiuir on J one 19 next. A somnambulist cirl cot out of bed at Prescott, Minn,, and walked across half a mile of ice aud snow to the rail road station, clad in her nitrht clothus only, and was waiting for a train when awakened. Postmaster General Fawcett, of England, was attended duriuz his severe ilhiess by a lady doctor, who was a re lative. Ihe voruitr htdiea of the Lon don Post Office are now to have a doctor of their own sex. Minneapolis, Minn., is to have a new hotel to cost $S37,li00. It is to be fire-proof, seven stories high aad contain 407 rooms. Stone, brick and iron will be the materials. Chicago parties have contracted to build it. The Rev. George Allen, of Wor cester, Mass., will ou Thursday cele brate bis ninety-first birthday. Ho is aid to be the oldest man ia Worcester, tbe oldest clergyman in the State, and the only survivor of the Yalo Class of 1S1:J. A gentleman in Lawrence, Macs., has offered A prize to any young lady ii. that city who will decipher a k-tier wuich Horace Greeley sent to him. Ihe letter was written in Mr. Greely's hie roglyphics, and the owner is utterly un able to read it. A small lake, which s suid to be the source of the Mississippi river, in stead cf Lake Itaska, which has hither to been credited with that honor, has been named Lake Whipple, alter Bish op Whipple, of the Episcopal Church, whose n iosionary diocese covers ail that region. George III, it is now sa-d, first used the phrase 'pe ic" and honor" at the opening of Parliament, Nov. IS, 1770, when he said : "1 indulged in the hope of being able to continue to my subjects tbe enjoyment i f peace w itii honor aad security." The State of Inli tna has a per manent school fund of 5,170.01 'jrit wincn is equal to SiZ ol per capita lor each child of school axe in the State. Ihe fund cannot be reduced iu any way. as the counties are only allowed to use the interest thereon, aud are held re sponsible for any lueses. Near Metz a tame bear was walking ia the woods and suddenly carao upon au Alsatian hunter, who pointed his gun to tire, when the bear stood on his hind legs and daaeexL 'the hunter thought it was the devil and fled. Xue representatives of France who viniled Y'orktowu on the occasion of tha Centennial celebration, had a dinner in Paris, recently, commemorative oi the event. General Boulanger presided and Minister Morton responded to the toast in honor of the United States, L juis of Bavaria ia now hav'ng built on the isuiud in Lake Cuiemsee. Upper Bavaiia, a chateau which is ta be jn exact re( roduction. on a reduced scale, of the famous chateau of Louis XIV at Versailles. Several of the royal architects ar- now busy at Versailles, studying and copying even tho smallest details of the palace. Private advice from London staU that the Prince of Wales has instructed a well-known firm of musical instru ment makers in New Bond sireot to supply instruments of the hrst quality to "tne eighty performers who lornie. the orchestra of the Alhambra Theauru, . London, and whose instruments were destroyed in the conflagration of tne theatre, charging the eost to the Princ of Wales. - i. ri 1 I I Hi sponse. "But there u no neip "t
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