'I .' I. rf ft 1 B. F. SCHWEIER, THE C0I8TTTUTI0I THE UHOI-AID TEE EfTOEOEEIT OP TEE LAW8. Editor and Proprietor. VOL. XXX VI I. MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. MAY 23. 1SS3. NO. 21. TaK Itl iiKKN OF THE WATK.K. The voices of I.r. .ks an.l of fountains, ihe burden of bountiful streams ;,,,!'?M!t 1""r-l 'rein tlie mountains ith the rauilx.w's miraculous Uimis, lh.'.l secrets of j oy ami sorrow. The "-.-cords of f..r.-st or fen A language no -met i,,av lH.rrow To read its rich Meaning to men A 11.1 lien, through 'niigi'istaiire,iii,-.-,utiti-d J lie deep rivers roll to the main, Ami 1 the M-a-wiii.1 above them have chanted V cird ix lns ol passion or jiaiu. The ti.le, in their rhythmic emotion, To the (pit lii-riiig waters untold Tlie ititinite grief of the oeeau On the breast of the billows outrolleil: A 1-AKISI AN NOVKI.KTTK. She was (inly a jnmr sew uig-gul noth ing more. Her days were s-H-ut in a factory, where, with hundreds of others, she worked tal ly anil late to cam tlie imor pittance that gained her daily mead, ami her nights were sient iii a garret, where the noisome smells fn Ill III II the court UIow and the curses ami cries sometimes made her shudder. lint she w as no hen line. The other girls said she was nut even retty, hut her braids of Ion;:, fair hair were bright and soft, and her eyes, though her face was pale, were sweet and pure, and in spite of her life, as it w as, she w as innocent as when long ago her mother had died in the same garret where she now lived. She was not even a Christian few in l'aris are, 1 U-lieve anil then churches are not for jNHir iHHiple, you know and when her Stindavs came they were such days of rest after her hard, hard week that she was glad to lw away from the crowd and rattle and noise, and sit by herself alone. One day there came to the factory some gentlemen, all friends of tlie pr prietor, who walked through and looked at the machines, how the gills worked them, how nimble their lingers were, and how the clothes were cut all matter of fact enough to the girls, hut curious to them. They all laughed and joked and said something to the girls, and one stop nil U-foreherchairaudsuid, "What lieautiful hair!" touching just so gently some one of the long golden strands. She Mushed -very red, ami they walked on. " Her name?"' " Marie." said the proprietor. " Yes. pretty hair, hut nothing else; she isonly a jioor sewing-girl, not even one of the heads of the depart uieut; only a very IHmr girl, Monsieur." As the stranger w alked out there was caught in his coat a long thread of hair, which he laughed at, smiled, ami then loosing slow ly, placed it in the rich lock et he wore on his chain and passed out. lie did not return again, hut one day passing on the lioulevartls she heard her name called. 'Marie'."' A gendarme in uniform stepjutl up and handed her a card: Monsieur Henri tie J-amics, Marquise de l'laiuc!iiine." She was surprised, Gentlemen do not 1m it her themselves aliout jnmr sewing girls often: and then a marquis. Who was he? What could it mean? " He is here, Manfsclle. and wishes to sjn-ak to you. Will you go?" she followed, she did not know why, and when the soldier stopped at a rich saloon, and the door opened, shesteplied ill and saw- the gentleman who sjmke at the factory some weeks ago. Then, she hurst into tears " Mon sieur, don't, for l.od's sake. Monsieur, I am only a ior girl, and what can a mar quis want with me? For God's, sake, don't, please;" and she buried her face in her hands. The long fair hair fell in its tw o braids dow n over her shoulders, and as she sank almost on the lloor it covered her almost like a cloud. Monsieur arose; he was an old man. past tiltv; his hair was gray and his face was hard, clear-cut, ami cold, and his eves were like steel just so clear and sharp ami cold: he w alked to the window of the rich saloon, and tl e:i, returning half wav, leaned with one hand on a chair aiid the other tciideriy, ever so tenderly tor a hard old man, rested for one moment on her fair hair, and it trem bled. , , 5v many strange ways and much IiI.hhI had Monsieur come to lie standing in that place, ami then for one moment there seemed to float U-f ore hint a vision of fair U.rraine, a youth long ago, a face sitting in a cottage, and two long braids of hair, a promise that when he returned, with wealth and fame, she would 1-e his. Years of toil ami paiu. of success and triumph, and a return to find her married to a churl, a common country imasant, and they U.th gone to l'aris. , . , Since tlien Monsieur was Known to 1 a hard man a very hard man; and w hen w hh his legions in Africa 'twas said was a tierce one; but he was high 1T1 court and all praised and honored him. He stood for a moment thus and then wondered to himself half aloud; "Marie, is that your name?"' ' Yes, Monsieur." Your mother's name?" ' Yes, Monsieur." . ' Was she from Ifcisle in I,irraine. it U....;uitr The hands were removed from tnei face now and the fair sott eyes were raised womlrously, but the face of Mon sieur was haul again, only just m the comers of his mouth, where the curves were, there was a trembling, a v. gm dream of something to 1 sud, which di.il w ith them unspoken. He took her hand, though, tendeil, and as he led her to the door he sbm-H-d as she turned and kissed her. llore 1. .1 1. . . -nj in it If sue ' lOOKCO r J ;v in" she thought oiu-ii oi im , ....... -.,...1.1 all mean. tnken ill iH-auie uih.ii her one day m .....I fell luit tlial some .....,. and fell ''"V1"" ... ,..P i.,.r ing time, She was .., "-"",. ,1(.ar a manin old ..urn she th.mgl. t-Wl hid in the heavy curtains As 1 n however, she was, weak tb ,t s her eyes, and then, ha gl j divan.n.K. 1 Ua did i siw undenieath inscribed "Marie del i,iie.- -vviane de Lisle," that washer mother's name, and the jioor weak hand wandered up to the pale f;ice, and she wondered what could it ineau. Well, the days passed, and she recov e 11 W:ls m Jlll'' iiml sl,e ,uust k.. i nose around the chateau said not mi sue coulit not stay. Smiehow her neart would not let her; and so one night when all were sleeping, she arose and wandered away lack to Paris. She did not go Uu-k to the factory. ' might find her there, ami she dreaded him now, somehow, with an indefinite fear of she knew not what; and so, with other poor girls, she worked intheifVx, where there was much talk now of the war. There was revolutionary talk, too, of what "the reds" would do were the army aw ay, and once in a w hile when she dared ask, she made timorous inquiries of "Monsieur the Manpiis,"soshe called him, and once when his name was read aloud as the leader of a desperate charge, and only retreated when borne back by soldiers, she shuddered. This time also passed, and l'aris, in "saUits" and "red cais," was in an up riar. XaiMilcon hail surrendered, l'aris had fallen, and after the enemy left the city was crazy, wild, mail, and furious w ith blood ami tire; but she worked on. What was it all to her, only a poor sewing-girl, except that bread was haul to get, and at that very poor and dear? liut one day she heard there was to lie an execution. What was that? Only something she had heard of. never seen; and so in the press or the crowd she hast ened to where Ii Commune waved its red tlag, and where the ruined, blacken ed walls showed where I-i Commune's vengeance had fallen. There were three hostages only three. One a young man, a chasseur, in his rich uniform, lie was handsome all said. His eyes were bound; he stood against the wall. A crash, a roar, and he fell forward on his face, while his gilt uni- lonn was draggled m the dust. The second was a priest in his black sombre dress and lieads; he looki-d up once, ami then died, as the oilier licrore; and the third, he was a general, the said, and had defied the people. There was a press forward to see, and Marie was pushed forward to the foremost rank. .She looked. He was a man of over sixty, with white hair and features clear-cut and hard and very cold even then; he stepinil up proudly and smiled. 1 he l!ed m command gave the orders, one" "two" there was a rush from the foremost rank, a sudden cry, and then a girl's form was seen to be lying in the anus of the hostage, "three, lire shouted the lied, but somehow the mus kets didu t roar, and somehow the Sa botes in the crowd raised a faint cheer which deeiiened into a roar, and a sug gestion was heard to put the Ued in his place. Paris, esiieciallv common l'aris, is quick of feeling, and when the poor girl explained in her tears that "the general" was dear, verv dear to her; that lie nan saved her life once when-she was very ill. Aye, more, he was her mother s lover long ago in Lorraine; that she had died while married to another man, and and that she loved hint. Would thev? She was not fair; she was not pretty even; but her jule golden hair covered him like a halo and cloud, ana lieu Paris, erstwhile so furious for his blood, raised him and her on their shoulders. and a wild, furious array marched a way down the street to where La Commune sat w ith closed portals. 1 a Commune was. however, easily got at, and when tne w ild array burst in with its hostages born aloft, it was only too happy to grant what- was wanted, and when they re turned, like a sea going out, the two were landed close together, and lie, the great general, the proud marquis, folded her in his arms and kissed her, w hile the tears stood in his eyes. They w ere very happy. To von see that couple yonder that tall gentleman with gray hair, riding behind the Marshal of Prance? A ell, that is Monsieur the Marquis, and the tall lady, with hair like a sifnlieam, is his wife. Thev are married! es; and though the red ashes of I-i Commune are crush ed out dead forever, as they ride on the boulevard many a cap is louciieu inai wav, for thev are alw ays very kiihi 10 Paris in "sabotes," she never forget ting though Stie IS llOv Jiaoaine me Marchioness, that she was once only a poor sew ing-girl. Curious t.nuibliii); Scenes. The Piutes are having a grand pun In the day tune thev" meet on the sunny side of one of their wickiiqis, irom which r-c,..-wings by tying blankets on po es to break the wind. The gamblers who en- .!. tu-.k littles ea,re in me louniaiiK-in - oifthe groun.L, about W feet apart and parallel w ith eacu oinei, am; r.M. .. ' . ... . i. wl eross-lefnred. otlt- seives ou mc , . side the l-oles. 1 "ere are gene. . . ... .....1. unit, un.i tlie or ei"ht uucivs on k u i,,.., , ...... stakes', which range from ?i to sit) in silver, are sunraum ...... between the parallel in.li tach side is furnished with six or eight short sticks and four long ones. Two st rings are then procured, and when it is decid ed Thy chance w hich!side shall take these shells, the game begins. low motonoiis chant, accompanied by'striking the ln-les with the longsticks ind the swaving of their bodies to and fro as if keeping time with the chant and noise made by the sticks, is com menced by the side who won the shells, i two bucks who have tiossession of the shells move their hands and arms . a ti. shells from one hand to the othVrra'id finally cx.nceal U.th hands under their blankets and cease -moving them. This seems to I the signal for one of the bucks on the other side to ' l.aml the shells are conceaH- ;" if he iriiesses right the shells " .1.wv..- to his side and two of the .l ort sticks. Then the chant and its ii.ioiits is taken up by mat e aiidwitinurf until the shells are won back by the other side When all me snon i-"' - . " .i...- .r-.nie are deiK: of a stige-brush fire this gambling con-V- t -md considerable money clianges tniues, a nd com rer cUMn,u ar t'tha wlv outside the gamblers ' S5 on for hours, api-areutly as Cuch interested in the game as the players. - i lon netected in the SOI' When aii uio ,. -, i,.,,.' sometimes they come up in front tif the all hotie was aUindonedand dej side the game is. UCT-"'rV.; '... ti... I camn. First you hear a kind o' sigh ed inevitable. We read of ing the sticks l-eing lu V'l "t cml, kind o' asthma-like; then in the moon-1 children who. when the flames chant and beating me lV " ; n ,ht you'll see a black head a-lookiu' j tered the ship, and all was iiir to and iro ..... ...... V..I....1 1'n she comes, a little at a horror on the deck, "continued Trapping the Turtle. "Xo, they ain't in win," said an ancient skipjier at the Fulton Market dock, as he rearranged a piece ot scant ling under the head of a blear-eyed tur tle that was lying in the sun. "It looks cruel to keep them turned on their kicks, but water is dashed over 'em every hour or so, and I reckon they have an easy time of it; but it is rough to put 'em out in the sun lief ore a res taurant, and tack a placard on the shell. 'To be served this day.' That, says I, is takin' an undue advantage, but you can't exjiect feelin's in men that deals in food; all they care for is to fill you up.' I'm down on Vm." " How so?" itsked his coniiiinioii. " I struck here a month ago." replied tlie Skipirr, "on my smack, from Key West. The cook and all hands went hum Mystic, so 1 had to shift-like for myst-lf.I signed papers with a restaur ant man up the street here to provide three square meals a day, and one day I In-ill' fond of turtle, I brought in a young green that I'd kept, ami request ed to have it made into soup. Wall, the next day I droped into the market, ami there was that very turtle for sale. Ye see, 1 had my private mark on him. I didn't let on, but on the way to din ner 1 picked up an old shipmate o' mine, now on the imlice force, and in vited him to try tlie soup. Wall, the waiter brought in some black stuff, and soon its I'd tasted it. 'Salt junk scasen- ed.' I says, 'send the lxss.' hit he came, a-smilin' all over, but I brought linn up with a round turn. Says I. This "ere soup's kind o' weak, I reck on, says l; mat turtle Kind o- waned through, and he went so f;ist he'scaught up with Fulton Market, and,' says I, 'ten dollars down or the turtle,' or,' says I, 'I go with my friend here, who," savs I, 'is a iiarticular friend o' the Mayor. Wall," said the old man with a grin, lie planked down me u-n dot dollars and we walked out. It's windy when they get the bilge ou old Sam. No salt hss mock turtle for me." "Then yon are in the turtling busi ness?" asked his coiiiiauioii. "Wall, sort o' half an' half," was the reply. "We fish in the Havana trade all winter, and m the spring, if we come North, fetch all the turtles we can. There's always a market for 'em. Where do we catch 'eiu? Wall, mostly 'round Markeys (Marquisas). Tugoscs (Tortugas). Then we buy a likely lot from the Conch crawls at Key West. S'mrt? Wall, some thinks it s sHrt. I used to think it sport to go crow shool in' when 1 was a vonker, but when the old man sot me out in the cornfield to hoot crows all day, it didn't seem so funny. S it's with turtlin'. e git surlitted with it. Almut this month around the Tugoses is a good time, ami so on up to midsummer. The Keys are lUiut six or seven in iiuiiiIkt; notiiin ou 'em but sand, pusley, and bay cedar bushes. On (ianlen Key there's a big fort, but there's oiilv two Kevs thai turtles comes ashore on. and why that's so I'm blest if I kin tell. On Logger head Key, to the westward, the logger heads come up, and I never see a green turtle there yet, but on Fast Key,aU.ut live miles off, there you git all the green turtles ve want. What's the difference? Wall, if you had the two made into steak, you'd tell like enough, the loggerhead is bigger, tougher, and uglier, and brings about one-third what the green turtles do, the latter bein' line form, delicate- like. The loggerhead is jest like an old New Bedford whaler, while the green turtle is a regular dipiicr ship. Wall, as to how we catch "em. We run down to the Keys, and lay the smack off, and late in the afternoon put ashore m the dingiesand make camp in the bush es. Then one hand takes a walk round the beach clost to the water; in that way he strikes the tracks up, at onct follows 'em up, and so finds the nest. Kggs good? Wall, its a matter o' taste. I've seen turtle eggs on the galley stove forty-eight hours, ami they never changed a bit ; cook in' don't alTi-ct "em a mite, and the only way I ever saw 'em eaten, was when they were taken out of the turtle half lormed, lookitr liKe yel low gra'ies, and dried in the sun until hard, and eaten like cheese: they kind o' taste like it. "Turtles don't generally come ashore until after dark. Kvery twenty minutes or so one oi tlie lianas takes a round. and when he conies to a track easy to see by moonlight or stars up he rushes, and if the turtle is layin' she won't move, and you've got to wait till she gits through; but if she's jest through or aUiut diggin' she'll tum and make tracks to the water in a way as is a caution to sinners. The first time I tackled one she got the start on lne, and I ran up liehind jest m tune to catch aUiut a barrel of sand. She threw it with all four flipiiers like a Mississqe- pi stem-wheel steamer, lillin' my eyes 1 jest sot dow n ami yenod wimc sue slid off into the water. Jhit a good hand will slip up, and w ith a grip jest U-hind the fore ilipjiers send a big one over. - J. his done, lit, inpcrs are sin with a knife and made fast by rojie yam, and she's ready to ship and left "right there. If it's a big turtle the turner gives a sing out, and a couple o' hands go ou the run to give him a lift. I've liecn one o these men, and i ami no babby, a-tryi"' to lift a big logger head over, and couldn't. She struck my mate over the head with her fore thpiier the first time I raised her, and he went down just as if he'd liecn sent for, and his jaw looked like the gang plank of a tread mill an gornied' up. The next lift she took hold o' my foot; and talk aUmt bull dogs', she nigh on to tuck me overUwrd, the other men beat in' her with scantlins. But, Ixinl bless ve! she w'as a-niovm' for the water all "the time, takin' us right along, and throwiu' sand like a wind mill. At last, in she got, and the only satisfac tion I cot was a ride. There was a shoal niece tliat ran off aU.ut two hun dred yards, and as she hinged off, I nrablied her by the Uick of the neck and she towed me to the edge of the channel quicker than I ever went through the water afore. "Turtles ain't so stupid as ieople thinks. I've often watched them, as time, but afore she leaves the water she makes sure there ain't no one aroiimt; then troes for the U-ach, crawls right up close to the bush where the water; young military officer removing from never reaches and where duriu' the day i Ids writing desk a lock of hair, and plac it's almost red hot. Then she picks ' ing it iu his liosoin, that he might die out a place and commences to dig with : with that sweet keepsake upon his heart; her hind feet, until a hole about three feet deep is dug, and into this the eggs 9K dropped sometimes a hundred, niore or less. When she's done, she covers it up, and, instead ot goin' right back and there you see the cunniu' o' the brutes she crawls along the edge of the bush a ways, and then strikes tor the water, in-rhais two hundred feet from where she come up; so all ye know when ye find tracks is that the nest is somewhere letween.eni. and a green hand is like to make a still hunt for it. "Sum-times as many as a dozen are turned in a night, and sometimes nary on. They like bright moonlight nights though. The next morning we git 'em into the dingy and then rig a block and tackle and git "em altoard the smack and run for Key West. Most skip'iers that make any business of turtlin' have crawls on the flats on the northwest side of the Key. Crawls? Wall, crawls' a place where turtles can't crawl out. Xothin' but a fenced in place in four or live feet of water, and into this all the turtles is put to lie kept till called for, as Capt. Kidd said w hen he buried the Mt o' gold. On the.se crawls, or those of the Conchs, we call when we work up along The turtles are taken out and stowed ou their backs and dashed with water, and live for any time. "What are the C lis? Wall, they're a irt of the imputation of Key West, livin' in a part called Couchtown. ami sup'Kiscd to live ou conchs. But I never see one eat one, and 1 reckon notiiin' but groiqiers would tackle 'cm. The Cotu-lis have a curious way of cat chin' tur'les with a jieg. Sin-arm ye might call it, but the sjH-ar is a H-g, lookin'jest like almut two im-hes oil the end of a three-sided file. That ere is made fast to a long groujier line almut as big as our cod line, ami made to lit into a long pole. With this rig thev scull over the reef with a dingy, and when they sec a tunic asleep ou the bottom or lying' on top, they let him have it. You'd think such a plug would pull out, but it don't; suction keeps it in, and a big loggerhead will pull a Nut a couple o' miles afore they git it alongside. Then.'agin, it don't hurt the critter; only sticks in the shell, ami can be worked right out, which a liaiiicd siear couldn't. "There's another turtle they git ou the reef the hawksbill ; they're line eat in', but the shell is the most valua ble, lieiu' made intocombs and the like. On the South America coast they take the shell off bv roast in', and lettm the critter go to grow another. I Mil ye ever seeatJallapasturtle ? No. Wall, there's a terrapin for von. Iind tur tles four feet long and three feet high that'll tote along a man or three of 'cm just like a horse. 1 lauded ou the island in ''! and brought away a half a dozen ot cm. the whole island is marked with their tracks leadin' from the water up into the cones. They're the biggest land turtles a-livin', but there ain't much call for 'eln except for curiosities. I he biggest sea turtle to day is the leather turtle, sometimes weighin two thousand iRiumls. the kick is made up of one piece, haviu' no scales like the others. Thev are pretty rare, liein' found only out to sea. 1 here s a big one in New J.ndou they say. 1 lie owner gave it led eyes and stuffed it all out of slia)e, and shows it every year as the great sea monster, and actually don't know himself what he's showiii'." The (iallapagos turtle mentioned by the skipier is fiom gigantic slock. Several years ago some workmen exca vations in lower India, when they came ou to what was evideutly a house; at least such the natives considered it. It was carefully unearthed, and turned out to be the shell of an enormous tur tle that lived during the tertiary jieriod. It was fourteen feet long and nine feet high, and competent naturalists express ed the opinion that when alive it must have Ijccii twenty-live long, it was a laud tortoise, ami crawled almut like our common wood tortoises of to-day, making footprints as large as those of an elephant. In the West'-rn country known as the J ..ill Junls hundreds ot fossil turtles haveU-en found, their in teriors tilled with solid rock, once the sand or muddy hike or sea bed in w hich they lived. ()n one of the Government expedi tions a turtle, iicrhaps thirty feet in length, was found, which, curioiisity enough, had rudimentary characteris tics, showing it to 1 a missing link, as it were, connecting other forms. It was a forefather of the great leather turtle til to-day. Its length from flipper to tliplHT was over seventeen feet, making it the largest turtle yet known. lealh on the Ocean. A terrible memorial of the recent dreadful loss of the steamship Navarre was fished up a few days ago by a smack, whose icopIc found iu their trawl the Unties of a man and woman tied together, with their eyes bandaged. Proliably the mysterious deep never yielded up a secret more shockingly sug gestive then these corpses. Whether the man and woman were a married couple, or sweeharts, or brother and sis ter, we know not; but their Unlies, fast ened together in death, tell a moving story of devotion, just as their bandaged eyes convey a most luithetic picture of resolution and anguish. In the wreck of the Cimbria it will U rcmemlicrcd that the survivors sjmke of seeing some of the emigrants at the last moment cut ting their throats to shorten the final struggle. Most narratives of disaster at sea contain jiassages of this kind, tell ing how those who seemed of a shrink ing and timid nature when all was well stood forth most noble and iH-rfect tyies of heroes w hen danger was supreme ; how the swaggerer, the bully, the tyr ant proved an abject' cur, casting him self down uiN.n the deck hi his terror, alternately praying and sh irking in the agouv of his fear: how some, unable to await the approach of the last mom ent, destroyed themselves, while others, w ith folded arms and contracted brows, stood motionless titmu the sinking hull. going to their death like men lost in thought. One of the most lKithetic stories in the language is the account of the loss of the Kent Fast Indiaman by fire in ls'-", for the reason that a hundred part n il lars are introduced bv the writer relat ing to the U-havior of the iieople when ith secm- the little had mas- uproar and to play . as usual with their toys in tied, or to put the most innocent and unseasonable 'uuestions to those around them;" of a of another writing a few lines to his father, and enclosing it in a lmttle, "in i the hoi that it might eventually reach its destination, with the view, as he started, of relieving hun Irom the tong years of fruitless anxiety and suspense which our lnelam-honv- fate would awakeu"'; of the older soldiers and sail ors seating themselves over the fore- hatch under w hich was the magazine. so that they might be instantly destroy ed when the powder caught iirst;of cow ards drinking themselves msensiiiie or writhing in their terror tqionjthe decks; of voting girls praying calmly amid a kneeling crowd ; of brave men standing collectedly with their eyes on the setting sun, whose light they never 110111 to see again. It is a wonderful and thrilling picture, and how often has it ln-en re-IH-ated since in other ways and amid other seas! The last is not, indeed, the worst, but it is among the worst. The Navarre is but one of scores of ships w hich have gone to their doom offering, In-fore they took the filial plunge, tin most dreadful of all pictures of human anguish ; but the suffering sheeinlmdied seem to survive yct.Vven in death, when we hear of those two coriseS tied to gether coming to the surface, with their eyes blindfolded, and when we endeavor to realize by tluue devoted, silent wit-ni-sses from the lied of the ocean some thing of the terror and the resolution, the fear and the courage, the wild des jKiir ami the passionate supplication to Heaven which made up the picture of that as of all other wrecks of a similar nature. " A Week's Cliltlt;e. Thev had gone down to the seaside for a week's change. The day w;ts a (icrfect one, with now and then a capful f wind blowiiiif out of the little round clouds that swelled up over the horizon like bubbles. "Will von go out with me?" asked Helena. "With all these flaws.-"' he said, ".lust as you please, then I will g alone." "Alone! What in heaven's name could von do alone?" "I am not Grace Darling nor Ida Iiewis," she said, the laugh brHitening -.it the rich color in her check: "but 1 fancy I could pull a Unit alT.iut iu these smooth waters." ' "Life would lie much more comfort able, Helena, if tht.i'e were siiethiix you were afraid of in it! Well, here we go." and he gathered up his lazy length and reached his hat. "If we drown it is vour fault." It doesn't much matter almut drown- in", she sud, swinging ner nai as iney .....,t -.I,.i,t the shiiiL'le. and unaware that she spoke in other than a matter- il'-f;u-t way. "If we drown together." Are von. so indifferent to life in such a hurry to get through" Oh. no. no. never! Jut it is all so blest that I am half the time afraid some thing will hapien t' "But the worst that could liapiicn is death, and' "N, indeed; the worst that could hapiien would lie that you might look at some tit her woman'.'' and then they lmth I......1..-.I L now iie well the habit of her jealous i-angs. and ran along to the Uut, it signifying little that neither oi mem l ..., i.i'm-li .,f nnvtliiiiLT almut a tmat. and that thev were running liefore the wind directly in the track of the sea going steamers. ..i -....I. i ...vtl.in.r 1. tiiorp lierfiH-t V said Helena, half reciiinlH iit in the stern. sea and sky making a sapphire ami lapis lazuli ring almut her. "We seem to le alone in this great hollow shell of the sky and sea. It is like our old lover days over again." Onlv U tter," he answered her. "( )nlv Utter," she rc-ieateil. 'U'o'i.nist cimie out at ni-'ht. w ith the sea and the stars and the freedom of the Dili vorA ulone toirether." and as thev sailed, he fold her histories of the old craft that had ploughed these waters lire-ships and phantom ships ami recit ed to her verses of his own induing, for now ami then he turned off a little song as M-fect as a iearl. "That is the strangest uung, sue s;iid, "that von, who don't know what music is, should have me writing oi such verses, and I, who am music s confidante, cannot write a melody." fc V..it ntf si me lodv " he said. And just at that instant there was a roar a rush, a ringing of t'lls thai souinnti m their ears like gongs, wild cries, a vast. black hull towering over tiiein, a crasn. i sweep of many waters, and men noiu- nigness. ilulf :in hour afterward a fisherman found a broken Unit afloat, U.yom-siile up, a man entangled iu me rigging, ins head aU.ve water, unconscious, hut .lu-o Ti-iiiiiiiin' his sail sm-eilily, he took the half drowned man ashore. And after the sicktiessaml delirium of weeks. us . retchiHl and desolate a mail as walk ed on earth, Leonard Vance took up his colorless life, alone, as he said, till the sea gave up its dead. For Helena was never found. I scr.qied the moss away, the other day. from a stone set up without a crave, and overgrown with bramble pscs, to read the name umn it, Helena auce, msiai sea, aged is. MmlU-nl Value of Vegetal!. . Asiiarairns is a strong diuretic, and forms part of the cure for rheumatic patients at such health resorts as Aix- les-Bains. Sirrel is cooling, and forms the staple of that fw.iorf' tvulu fx which Kreiich ladv w ill order for hcrselt al ter a long ami tiring journey. Carrots, is containing a quantity ot sng.ii, .m I liv some People, while others complain of them as indigestible. With ;ird to the latter accusal ion. u may i., ....... ,rl..M I iii lLLssin-r. that it is the vellow core that isditlicnlt of digestion the (inter, a red layer, is tender mmgh. In Savoy the pcasnius nave recourse to an niiiision m i.inoi.-. s-iecific for jaundice. The large sweet la vi.i-v rich ii those alkaline ele ments which counteract the jmhsoii oi rheumatic goiu. n siowiy (- weak broth, and eaten with a little Nepaul pepiier, it w ill be found to lie an .inihle article of diet for patients of studious and sedentary habits. The stalks oi me eauuuowei nae me ......... f.et .r vnliie. onlv too often the stalk of a cauliflower is" so ill-lmiled ami iiniialatable that few inrsons would thank you for projmsing to them to make part ot their meal consist oi w uiinnn mi art r e. 1 tinilps. in tne same -.?v ttru ..ft.-ii thoiiL'lit to lie indigesti ble", and U-tter suiteil for cow s and sheep than for delicate people; nut, neie me r ...it li. -s willi the cook as much as with the root. The cook Uuls the turnip badlv, and then lmurs some nutter oer it -..'..I the pater of such a dish is sure to lw the worse for it. Try a letter l'l, .1 tl, -.11 1. sniil -ilmiit our let n.tt. ., ... i. -J Tin nhnit. has a sliirlit narcotic notion, of which a French old woman. fWtnr. will know tlie value, and w hen proiH-rly cooked it is really very easy ot uigesuon. Tns first and ereattst of ail faults is to defraud ourselves. Langtry on VVnmeii. "Since you have Uen in this country. Mrs. Ijingtry, have you met many American women?"' "No, I have not met a great many, for my theatrical duties have U-en so heavy that I have received but few vis itors "and have really refused nearly nil in vatat ions although I have had many friendly offers of hospitality wherever I have U-eu. But the American women I have met I have U-eti charmed with, and of course I have seen thousands and thousands of the American fair six. for my matinee audiences are almost entirely composed of women." "And w hat impression has the Ameri can woman made upon you. Mrs. ljtngtry? What do ytu think of her?" "What a question to ask one!" and Mrs. Ijingtry threw up her hands in astonishment. "I really don't think I can answer that. I ilou't think it would U' delicate for me to discuss the matter. I think it cannot lie exK-cteil that I should pass judgement on the American women." "l!ut von must have some impressions of their manners, appearance, dress, etc. It would undoubtedly interest Ameri can women to learn what the l.nglish beauty thinks of them."' "lically this question has so sunn iseil me that 1 don't know what to siv. but if you think it will really U-of interest 1 w ill try and tell yon what I think. In the first place I think American women have verv prettv faces, so bright and winning. One sees many more pretty faces here than m Kligiaud. Then I think they have U-autiful hair and very pretty hands ami feet." .."And their figures? "WeP mst take the liln-rty to say that I ll. ' their figures are geneially Imd. The American standard of figure is altogether too plump to please me; but. again, i do not see w hy my opinion should be of any interest in the matter. I have-U-en called "scraggy' in one town t 'visited. '"And where was that?"' "Well. I think it must have U-en in Pittsburg. I think the must disagreea ble things were said of me there." "1V you admire the dress of Ameri can women?"' "I cannot say candidly that I do; on the w hole. I think they dress too smartly for the street, and too simply for the theatre. I think they mix their colors badly and have too many U.ws ami ends on their dresses. To my taste a woman cannot U too simply dressed for the street. A dress of simple neu tral tints please me U st. I saw a wom an iu the street the other day wearing a gray ulster a blue dress and scarlet kidgioves. Just think of thai!' and Mrs. Imgtry almost shuddered with horror at the thought of scarlet gloves "ami she also hail a '""y t ''' of daffodils; That was rather a gay iiiixtureof colors, was it not?' "You want to know what 1 think of the ma liners of the American women? I think them charming, so free and open. The American women an so in dependent and there is such a delightful lack of sclf-conscionsncss almut them. They are, too. very bright in conversa tion, ami the freedom and frankness of their manner impresses one instantly; it is also, different from the reserve of the general run of Knglish women." l-elaiilng Iflouta. 1-1... ...I. -...l-.,r.. ..r ..'l..rl :ui.l lii11:ic. A in .1" .. .r,' - ....... ed floors, w here all the cracks are tilled in with putty, are as piani m ciosci room as elsewhere iu the house. If vmi have moved into a house win-re the cracks in the closet floor have a suspic ious look, get them well rublied iu with concentrated lye the first thing, in quautitiesthat w ill harden in the cracks. This will keep you neat, if it is not ...... ..4 ... lt:.v :k feu i-l.ii-ts finish ed off this house cleaning with the hard and jmlished surface. If you can do this, however, it is worth all the trouble it takes. The yellow pine siain makes a Uautiful bright finish for a closet floor. When all the woolens you can spare are put away, with velvets ami r...-o li.t.i.r in. iii tli. tr b:i'-s so that ther do not crush, get all the smaller articles iu a trunk or chest, u you nave not a cellar chest or closet, an old starched and shilling table cloth will do lo make . I.-....L- I i . . ; t . r i.r shelf lillill"-that Will entirely protect, and can lie sefed over at the top of the whole contents, n lien closets ami woolens. &c, are attended to. take a day's breathing timeaud rest. Keep yourself strong, and see that you do not U-gin to take up car-icls, ..1. ll.u.ra .....I turn Hint t ri-sses out of doors, except on a bright, warm day. -I. i.. ;ti ..-;i. ..t Allele are jnium- in mi -u. ...- ... this writing, in spite of May in the al-m-i :i. I el it In- settled, warm, lie fore the larger oiHT.itii.iis U-gin. You can have pictures luted irom me wans, tin- glass rillilH'd oil will! wiuiing aim im fpnumi i-i .1 .1 1 u-itl. lin.4.'l oil ami all stored away iu a siure rimni out of the dust and away from the walls oirsoii it previous day. The walls do not get as much attention, otherwise, as they should. Take down all curtains, shades and lanibreipiins, ami w ijie and U-at thoroughly, getting them previously ..nt .f tne wav. Then take up vonr caiH-ts, and clean your walls. Brush iaiereil walls wun a son towei annum the brush; scrub painted walls in clear water, no soap, but use a nine ammonia where there are dust marks. Lime water is again recommended for use on ..il ,..........t.Ml ll.M.rvr th:it are not hard finished, and treat your ceilings as you ... i.:.... -.... t .... . . r do your wans, in iisuui, i u ... white-washing, according lo me nnisn. If you have had the forethought to pro .t i.. .... ....I v.. r..r ti... i.tr.tti-.. ..r me .in t -m i.t i ! . . blue check, this can come off and lie washed at anytime as the mauress is kept free from dust. If not, let it go dowu into the yard and give it first a thorough dry nrusinng wun a whisk, then go over it again with the whisk lainiH-ned; so as to cleanse it thorough ly. It must have a giMxl sunning alter this. Very few people wash their pil lows, yet there is hardly any article of constant use that needs washing more. T1...U ...... Im. .lrf.iiiw.,1 inta hut soait slid.-. Ill) J ..... ... .... .. .-- "f .....1 ..liif..! ;ilu.i.t mio :it 14 t ilne so t hat ..'. .- .., ...... the gathered dust win ue wasiien out oi them, then hang across the clothes line in a good breeze and sun, iiriung mem frequently to have them drv evenly. Varn.xh for writing on glass may be made of 3tX) gnuni ttuer, 30 grains wau darac, and 30 grains mastic. Dissolve and add benzine until the varuiih itr parts to f loss a roughened appearance. Use oohl. A tcheme is said to be maturing by whioh several Muskegon, Michigan, capitalist intend to become the pur chas. rs of a nnmber of townships of pine lands in Florid:, estimate.! to lie cspabie of proJncing 1,000,000,000 feet cf lumber MiiliilK'il iu a MeniKferto. "Don't talk so loud," said the watch man ; "vou'll wake the oudad." "That" what ?" "The oudad."' replied the watchman ; ' that s what they call it ; he s a lovely bird and has a voice like a buzz saw. And when he buzzes, gosh ! S let him sleep," and the watchman silently led the way past the oudad. "Cheese it," broke out the watch man again. " Io vou hear that ? "' An elephant had evidently kicked his coui 'anii hi. 'Are the elephants apt to U very restless at night ?" "Oh, very. And when an elephant is restless, there's a ginnl deal that's restless. They sleep on one side till that's tired and then they flop over on the other. That was a flop we just heard." " What's this ? " asked the rc-miler, iHiinting to something iu the path. "That," replied the watchman, fol lowing up the obstacle with his lantern, "seem to U part of a camel. But where's the rest of him? Oh, here it is. They st retell out well, don't they? Those are magnificent humps made expressly for this circus, tin.. They are harmless." " What, the humps ?" "No. the camels. And they make im noise at night unless they find shingle nails in their fiN.il. Then they com plain." "Iloh'tget tint near the business end of that thing," said the watchman, lift ing up his lantern so thai it was even darker than U-fore, "that is a mule. Never interfere with a mule's plans, ami in approaching him always allow for a contraction and subsequent ex pansion of the muscles. Next to the miileaie the zi bi'a-striH-i Minies. We never venture to use soap ou those striies. Here are some very rare things, and they are as queer as they are rare. They never make the slightest noise either when pleased or when frightened. Thev are the ginilTs. Nooneevi-r heard a giraffe murmur. Mwrve the length of their neck. What a winter resort for diphtheria ! You can get something of an idea of their length of neck by picturing in your mind's eye f.uiryanN of sore throat ami the amount of vine gar and salt required for one gargle. The giraffe is indeed a difficult tiling to keep ; he dies so easily and a!niot w ith out provocation. "This animal here," continued the watchinan, st ill walking by the stalled animals ' is not as you might have supni.-ed, a 1 1 .i il -ii i goat. No; this is the sacred bull. It is said he was taken from the 1'opo." " Is he very sacred ?' a.-ked the incre dulous reporter, "Yes; he's extremely sacred. He gets more sacred every day. The amount of reverence he inspires in his kec-rs is only equaled by that of the mule."" Having reached the end of the stalled animals the wa'chuiau announced, by a twist of his lantern, that he was almut to come uimn the ferocious wild Vasts in cages. He then put out the lantern, and he and the reporter sat down on the railing that protects the caged ani mals from the sH-i tators. It was a lit tle early for the usual midnight roar of the animals, but not half so early as the visitors had thought, for soon there came from the cage lurk of them a noise that start 'ed lmth of them out of a week's growth. It was the greeting . if an African limi. It only required the roar of one lion with g. n h I lungs to start the whole me nagerie. That beautiful bird called the emu was the first to reply to the lion's call. The reply was nothing more than a mild form of sneeze, but it went a great way. And iu less time than it takes to rocoid it the congregation of animals that were endowed with any sort of au apparatus for making a rack et had tuned their pi-ics and were blow ing and U-lIowing to see w hich could make the most noise. It was a lively place to Ik- in w ithout any light. Bui that did not seem to make any differ ence to the animals. The halmon liaik-i-d and the rhinoceros grunted. And the louder they l-arked and grunted the louder the lions and tigers roared. Then the elephants joined in the general dis order, aui I when they united iu the chorus there was no peace for the wick ed. Mie elephant is usually considered sufficient to supply one family with all the noise it wants; but when twenty elephants lift up their voices in one sympathetic lamentation, nothing but the dis-n-st coal mine could ever furnish a sift: hailmr or a sure retreat. Add to this the hair-spl'tting noises of the cockatoos ami the macaws, the mourn ful lowing of the Nubian rhinoceros and the uiiiiarallclcd snore of the hiii- Himtamus, and the effect is appalling. 1 lit- watchman looked at the reH.rter tint the rclmrter eved the watchman. Neither could s-H-ak. And it would not have made any difference if they had spoken. They might have roared until thev were blai k iu the fce and still not have U-en heard. Kadi grasi- eil the other's hand and Uiltiil for the entrance with as much haste as though pursued by the whole menagerie. tile III Hair UreMiu-; Hairdressers are )-giiniiiig to com plain of the prevailing styles. They say that the fashion Mrs. Luigtry introduc ed of wearing the hair draw n back iu a small knot at the back of the head and lluffy in front has taken away all the profit they once derived fioui their call ing. KlaiHir.ite coiffeurs are no longer the f.ishoin. Kxtreine simplicity is now in vogue. Nothing shows off a well fiiriued head or a pretty face so well as this simple and natural way of wearing the hair. Il is inirted very accurately in the middle ami the knot is worn low on the neck, so that the full shaH- of the head is revealed. The bang has gone out of fashion and in ns place our the fluffs Of course, this arrangement is verv trvinn to uglv faces. Mauv women pass as I antics simply on account of tueir hair, and to them the present fash ion is verv obnoxious. Thev evade it by having braids of twisted coils at the liack coming up well on the head and a verv fluffy fringe in front. The wig- makers, however, have made money. The majority of ladies do not care to cut their hair so as to make it fluff up iu front, and very few have hair that is available for this style of uf decorat mu, Therefore, the w igmakers provide the fringes with the exact shade of the hair, and thev make it so natural that it is imim.-siliie to detect where nature leaves off and art U-giiis. The Jaimnese indemnity fund Umils, amounting to iLS.'JT.i'i, have ln-en placed in the treasury for cancel lation, the proceeds, less the Wyoiniii-. prize money, to be paid to Japan. NEWS IN BRIEF. Mrs. General Diaz is nineteen Vears old. CuthUn; 'ir1 .'i-vered at EiniH-ror Francis Joseph suffers irom a cancer. Onlv twelve T..v... I....: . . n: .ri.-.'r.i ...... legislators are ;ities of the State. There is ?--.J7.1.v:.J:J xtate treasury of Iowa Ms'l in the -Si,.all-,mx rages i Chattanooga ;1!1.l 111 Kasteru Tennessee. --a.ni "Yr" AV" AV r"r, "ran, of Washi., ' tn, iIjh-s not mpidly improve. " Keystone Coal CoiuKinv of Po.. hurgh has defaulted on itli ondl -Iii.ils have occurred in Cevlon 1 tweeiKalhohcsand Buddhists" t ille d Avr.iy, is offered for sale. wmm'iked'n'T t0t'" Tor will make it the largest luthewoiui. f..rr i" Fr:",Vi-s,-' ls-nger statistics for lehriiaryshowa net gain of b;7 T,,'"-!!-'VV!"" -'"'f'eeslmro. I.nn. aie now connecled by telephone, I he Shah ..f I'....:., i - . ,... i -' iH-i.eves m a "'! gver nt. He has Ion l....i . ' Longfellow w ill stand U-tH-ii Ih-v Wer in Wi-MminsierAlalev" ioik has fall, ,, fro,,, 1 in .;itoln, lo, 1 he latest ..- ;...!.. ...... from Mil... ";: " ru- n'lN.'rt"! I,ins " 'arm, with . -.no Over ,.lll.IIMi .j:tU,u ...... . now dailv - " .uer HOW Ollt I ir.tlKrl. II... w tiiiuiel. .' -in n Ilem-v t; r i . . .. ,,i ;-, , r,' ' ";ls, "'iiti:l.iit- III vOl for a Pill, he I.r-. r.- ... t ItiH-k. Ark. -" "" Thrfc-i;r:h ,,r n... .. .... . . the Texas ,...;.. . ' "'itsir Mexicans. J -'-e hegnn-s ami Heir Kriiini il... i- . i . 1 - 'iniii iKer is to -There are .,- .-. I.7s;; ,.,,.,, j ' I nucleates, acconli,,. ,,!;!,.. tlScoliipemlllllii. UM Henry Halm, of l;i.... , .hat y ields luly.ir - i ...... An Aiisi i inn i-.:i. i .. .... , , , oiii ,an uses Uie tele i nun- I.. i.r,,..i - station o station. -Of the- :S'.IH-I..KH, acres of land j Mississi-,1,, .. 1 1, ... . '." '""h r cultivation. ' -"'l,'s'-i Col. W. C 11 oL ..I- I ... .. T..v i . t . - j ' " K eoiintv. le., has lost .Ul ..t I .m .1 -. 1 ...... . ' siitt-ii (HI i,.s nun he . since iHrcmU-r . Mr. IVp'Ii id 11.....1..1 :.. 1, . T..v .... i-rai-Kett, te.xas. thev have a c. L ti " light chickens .... 1 ... 1 " ""-'.I) . M.lhogaiiv. eli..i,v 1 ... . cedar are Used as tii..l I.,- .1... . ' ". , - - in.- iwh.iesr, IH-ople 111 soim. pans of .Mexico. ,.,-or .K,,,' ,,f I'ave " - en kdl.,1 east of the Yellowstone riVer, in Montana Territory, this season. --Londoners have a superstition that loreigners u ho gamble in Kn-dis'i r-.n. way cars are alwavs iinsn.-.-..r,.i In Washington eitv ss.-. mm ikll, Wol tll of linn-. H, .r.u.j I "1 . - . --- '...cii, oecause it U-longs p. the national government. M-iscow has v.itiil -Niii 1111.1 -....1.1.. . rllr equal to almut .-rl.i.lKHi. f,,r fe.s u conmi-tion with the coronation of the czar. South Australia has a 1 .... .1. f ... ..r JT'.i.n;. Its ,1,-ht had grow n from 1 1. miit,iNMj in 17.; to nearly .fimti ixn, j -4. -It is proposed to s.. ,1, .,..,.. .. .. Massachusetts State Constitution thai women who are l:nnis n, ,v i. i . justices of the jH-ace. The lmrtrait of Gi-i.er-il C,.t .1.... was coiiimenceil bv l.e I r -....I '1. e.1 i.y l.ierstailt, has U-en pla.-.il in th, .- ... in. .HUSH- 000111 01 uie t mte House. -A sexton who was diggin-r a l'i-.ivi- 111 the Santaudi-r i.Mcvic.o t v.. dug up a coffin conlaining jewels to the .uiie 01 many uiousami dollars. The liHith amiiversary of the birtli lay of Martin I.uiher is t..l. l....i i..- the rrotestantsall o.-r (;..,,,,-,..,-.... .1. . b'th ofNovemlH-r. with extrao'-ilimirv (Nllllp. There are now Iloin oi Cath, ..lie chHivhes. with J.tj priests, within t.'ie liiM-estiot Jiist. m. where 17 vears there were but IKtchuirhes. with'.! Jcl.-l- gyinen. Fanners iu the I'nited States have Il'.JIO.-.'.V! .; of eai.it.il h.v..t...l ;.. their business. This sum includes farms, implements. lives'm-L- t...-tii;...sI ind fences. - -General Nelson A. Miles, who is at lis time one of I he mist 0..1.11I .r iiiiccrs 111 inecotiuirv. ivi stx-n. In stw. iiiouiii s leave ol ali-em-e 111 the Fast. ielieral Miles has comm. mil of tht M il it ..try liepartiiicht ol ( olumbia. H is estimated that not fewer 1 1 ia 11 pHum iH-rsons now arrive weekly in St lain and are tor-van led to the remote Northwest llV the Northern 1 ....ll.. .. ... I Manitoba lines. LniiiU-r is imw U-in-j maim fact io .-,l fr straw, the .standard size U-iic :! inches in widlh. U fis t in length, and the thickness the salin; as the average surfaced IhkioIs. There are over Im ill s.i in.rs i.wi ii.. lions in Italy, ami the dcmsits show lliat the H.ple are saving at the rite of ?l.-,lM',tliHI a year. There are now on dc-msil alinosi -FJuti.iNKi.0u ri pri seiite.1 by almost J,ikk,im Uniks. - u clevcn-iNiiuni Ih.v with eight teeth was Unn iu the Almshoiisefii-. New Haven Coiiiu-eiicnt r..,-...,ti. . mother U-ing a widow, whose hu.siiai.il men aiMiiu tour months ago from injur ies received on a railroad. The chief of the btircauof statistics reimlts that the total IMirts t.f domestic breadstuff's diirin" rei.ruary and during the two ami eight, months elided February -N :m. with the corresMiuding months of lss-f were: renriiary, iss.;. .l..77:;.iKi'., lss-;, cll,17.",l'.:!;twonioiithseiiileil February J-1, -j:;i.iiw..;, issj. $a;; i.-,-,TlT; t-iubt months, clI'.M n.llJ, lssj, eUj -j:; - i-;j. Tlie main 1 1 1 i 1 1 1 i 1 1 -' for 1 he ...-.. F.xiHisitioii, which opens at Imisville, Kv.. on tlie 1st of A ii.iisi is n..- i.. .. siitlicicntly advanceil state of construc tion to give some idea of itspro-mrtions. It will l one of the largest of the kind ever built, covering an area of f.77.4Ki square -eei, oemg interior tin! v to the main buildings at the Ijindoii Imposi tions of 1S.11 and lsiij, and the Centen nial Exposition. 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