B. P.
SCHWEIER,
THE 00S3TITUTI0I-TEE 115101-151) THE ETTOEOEMEHT OP THE LAWS.
Editor and Proprietor.
VOL. XXXYII.
MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. MAY 20. 1SS3.
NO. 22.
A SI MMEU SONG.
Good morning, O wWt moruiug
Kivs me with sun and wimi '
Ami without word of warning
Then let xhr heart be taken
V lilt many b.ii.v ;,
To heirtUes,.!, awaken
. ron,' ou' t"e bluebird skv
1 lie robins' silver liuting
I. pon the majile tops,
The sparrows' pay disputing.
In every he.lj.-e or copse;
The lark's long, mellow whistle
n 2 ',erth''1,U are "" J Woist;
Tlie finch upon, the thistle-
The w ood dove, echo-voiced;
The pha-hesoft!v railing-
The warblers' bidden choir
W here apple flowers are talli'ii"
And darts the oriole's tire "
The swallow builds her dwelling
t if clay from sunny pooU;
The doves their loves are tclllii-r
The scolding wren o'errules, "
I p starts the golden flicker,
And hurls his notes aliotit;
The blu. jays tilt and bicker
The cuckoo's a sly scout;
lint hark: from laM year's still kl-
How cheerily pij.es" the quail.
And bobolink notes upbubble,
J-'rora yonder pr.is.sy swale;'
The blackbird free from trouble
l'ours out a gossip tale; '
Loud laughs the crow at pillage,
On fields of planted corn; '
All drunk with spring's distillate,
All mad with joy this mom!
Good morning, O sweet morning,
Good cheer unto my songs;
Come ye in throngiug measure;
As spring birds cume in throngs.
BAKKV.
Miss Al ira il Hurt was a little brown
old maid, who lived in a little brown old
house with her cat, Debby, and her
woman-of all-work, Prudence, sharp of
tongue, long of visage browner and
oltler than the mistress herself. There
was nothing of grace, nor beauty, nor
sweetness aliout Miss Abigail's life;
everything was dry. and hard, and
husky. Indeed, some people were so
uncharitable as to say that her heart
was like a very much dried-up kernel iu
a nut-shell, and would rattle if she were
to le shaken hard enough. But I never
quite lielieved that. 1 always said there
was a soft sjiot in Miss Abigail's heart,
to be found when the tinie came to find
it.
One spring twilight a boy opened
Miss Abigail's garden gate and walked
up the path between the rows of strag
gling lilacs, lie was not a boy who
lived about Uaperstowu or he would not
nae uaicu wmicir, a am uir,
for
Prudence's sake, besides havi
ving noth
ing to venture for. He was an un
kempt, starved-Iooking little sieeiuien
of humanity. His coat was a world too
long and patched at the elbows; and
his trousers were a world too short and
patched at the kuees. His hat was
guiltless of brim, and through a hole in
the crown bohWd a little tuft of hair
which had once leen brown, but was
now wofuily faded. He went straight
up to Miss Abigail's porch steps. Miss
Abigail was silting on the porch in her
high-backed rocking-chair so intent on
binding off her stocking-heel that she
heard neither the click of the gate-latch
nor the footsteps on the hard-trodden
path, and she did not look up until the
bov's figure interiiosed itself lietween
her work and the lading sunset light.
lie doffed his tattered hat-crown.
'If you please, ma'am, will you
mav I have something to eat?"
It was not at all a tramp's manner of
asking; there was a manliness in the
voice w hich Miss Abigail could not help
but notice, Perhaps that was the reason
she looked at the boy sharply for a
moment liefore she answered. In that
moment, Prudence, tall and angular,
stood in the door, with a shawl thrown
over her head, and her right hand swath
ed with soft cotton.
"I'll have to git Jonas Barrow s man
to do the milkiii'," said she. I can't.
I've burned my hand that bad.'
The bov looked up quickly. "Can t
I could I milk for you?"
Vs I have intimated, Prudence did
not like bovs; and that she sometimes
expressed her dislike in a very forcible
manner many of tlie village urchins
could testifv. Xow, she surveyed this
bor, standing by the porch steps from
his" lare brow n feet to bis brown head,
not forgetting the faded little tuft, in
dumb astonishment.
"You might let lum try, Prudcnte '
said Miss Abigail, thinking ratlierdubi
ously of the nervous, mouse-colored AJ
deruev in the yard.
"I choral on a farm all last summer,
explained the boy, eagerly, Syncing
from mistress to maid "1 want some
supper, and Til be glad to do sowethmg
to kit for it." . . ,
" Well, you kin try it,' said rrudence,
after a momentary deliberation. It s
better'n begging a favor, anyhow.
She led the way to the kitchen, and
took a shining tin pail from the dresser.
"Here's the milk-pai V sue said to
the boy, who stood waiting; an be
cow's in the yard yonder, layniaj
comes w hen the work's done.
And rrudence smiled grimly as she
went about setting out a lunch of biead
and butter ami cold meat. Me felt
morally certain that the nighty Aldeiwj
l eifer, used only to woman-kind, would
be much more likely to spread a pair of
l,vine w ings and fly away than allow
herself to be milked by a boy.
le can't do it " she sa. t .Miss
Abigail, w ho presently brought 1'cr knit
ting w oik in tlie kitchen. " 1 he heifer 11
"tSSSdtS'be-di-l. Soon he
apfared in the d.xn way, his pad br.m-
"111 Seated rrudence.
' 4'ou didn't think I could?" sa.d the
bov, smiling brightly- Prudence
' 'o I didn't," admitted 1 ru.iu.ee,
w'Snt there a bit of cheese left
Prudence thought tin re w .u
while she was fmV'S
lar the boy gave hunse fahealt h n i
bmgat the pump, con nS w m JIe
rii-
and it tastes good. .,
To be sure it ui.t. - ;ied
thought of a hi tender
vears and years before, ere
ith. How btrange . crav.
this little vagrant, '- '7, lirin!rto
ing at her kilch.n who tod so
Ler remembrance uuor
early put off the mortal for tue
i V,sentlv. when tne uoj
islied Lis
foi-i- . " Kiuie anu
uvZ;T . -w 1,Iate a "letluKlical
o " ,Wh,luh i I,leaswl MLss Abigail
liZ? mla V.1011 lie glanced from Pru-
.1 .. V "ial"I'',S WAr I'fr with arms
to Jtiss Abigail.
r JJ'i1" .i." f,,r "'' s"!1!," said he.
May be I'd best le getting along. Y01
Jon t want a t,oy to work, do you?"
tm i107-1.?. Wolk!" cclKjeil rrudence.
1 'hi I ever! '
.1 .'M't'sidd Miss Abigail,
shortly. And tl,w,;t ...... .?.'
ough that sl,e could not help thinking
T V. . uu,t Ira" lltl"' ,lf wl h had
iif hted 111 the bud so long U-fore.
Wtv far are you going?" she asked.
1 uon t know, ma'am. "
'And w here have vou come from?"
l'rH eded Miss Abigail.
"Treseott, ma'am. Mother died there
tha monthsago." There wasautthctic
quaver in his voice.
And then, with little questioning, he
told his simpler story. His name was
Larry Olmstead, ami he was twelve
years old. He had lived in Treseott a
long time he and his mother; thev were
very ioor, but they had kept a" little
home together. His mother had taken
m sew ing, and he had worked for the
neighboring farmers summers, and gone
to school w inters. And he had leen
n.ippj, lor an thev were so poor, until
mother died.
"Then I stopiied w ith Deacon Staples1
a six'll: he said be Wlllilil to trv mu
But they w ere going to bind me "out to
him, and so I nm away."
'None to blame, niither," interposed
rrudence, with a great deal of emphasis.
"I've seen old Staples, down to Treseott.
He's that mean he'd skin a mouse for the
hide and taller!"
"I've leen trying alone for a chance
to work," continued the 1hv, smiling
faintly. He was very near to "tears now,
but he hel.I them back sturdily. "But
there don't anyliody seem to want me.'
Miss Abigail was moved more than
he would have cared to own bv this
recital. Even to her. w ho had lived for
self so long, there was something inde
seriliably pitiful in the thought of this
little wanderer Kittling alone w ith the
world, buffeted bv fortune, driftimrhere
or there, as chance miirht dictate. It
had grown dark now the Limits had
long since been lighted; and there were
mutteriiigs of distant thunder 111 the
air.
"It's going to niiu." said Miss Abi
gail. "You needn't go bt-niglit; you
may sleep in the stable loft."
Barry thanked her.
Tlie storm broke with great violence.
And while Miss Abigail listened to the
sharp peals of thunder and the pouring
of tlie rain against the windows she
thought of the lonely little wayfarer in
the stable loft with a new, strange throb
of pity. Morning came, merrv with
bird song and glistening with mvriads
of rain drops, rrudence was up bet hues.
but, early as it was, she heard the sound
of an ax inthe wood-shed; and when she
opened the door Barry smiled at her
from his post by the chopping-block.
I don t think 1 paid enough for my
supper I eat such a lot, ' he said, "so
I ve split some kindlings, and 1 II milk
for vou this morning if vou want me to."
l'rudence brought the milk-nail w ith-
out a word. But w hen she had prepared
Miss Abigail's morning meal, she made
ready a good substantial breakfast for
Barrv, also. lien he had eaten it he
took up his hat crow n.
(o out the wav vou came in, 'said
rrudence, " 'r else you'll bring b;td
luck."
Barrv gave a little incredulous laugh.
but he went out to the jiorch. Miss
Abigail was there taking deep breaths
of the fresh air, and she bade him a
kind "Good morning" as he went off
the step and down the path again le
tween the lilacs, exulierant in growth
but meager in bloom.
"I wonder w hy my lilacs do not (lower
more freely." This Miss Abigail said
to rrudence, who had followed to the
door.
"1 dunno," answ ered I rudence.
Barry heard and turned. "I guess
it's liccause vou leave tlie old blossoms
... 1 .1
on," ne sam, uesiiaiuigij. .uiuim
used to say 1 must pieK me uiossoiiison
one vear, it 1 wanteu any next."
And then he went out of the gate,
closing it carefully lehind him, and
along the moist, brown highway.
"That is a very uncommon boy," said
Miss Abigail, looking after him with
serious eyes.
"Yes." assented rrudence "lies a
clever "nough little chap for a Ikiv."
To think of his knowing about the
lilacs," continued Miss Abigail medita
tively. "1 must cut off all the flowers
this spring."
"An' he got as good a mess o' milk
from the heifer as I could ha' done my
self with a well hand," l'rudence went
"Yes. he would have lieen handy
alout milking and getting the wood for
you," said Miss Abigail.
An' uringui tne letters 110111 inr
post-offiee," proceeded rrudence. "Jl s
a good piece over to the village iu muddy
walkiu'." t..
So it is." said Jliss Ai.igaii. rne
"aed reflectively along the road which
wound, seriient me, to tne little iianuei
a mile away. Barry was cninning tuc
hill, a mere, pitilui, lonely sjiecK, m tne
distance, as ne was a ineie iiisinmiicoui
atom in the great b.tdy of humanity.
Miss Abigail s ejes iineu.
We might nave Kepi mm, sue sam.
Taiu't too late yit!'' put in l'ru
dence. , , , . , ,
The two women iookcu mio cacn
others eyes. .
If vou could mate mm near, ucg.ui
Miss Abigail.
For answer rrmience mioou 10 mc
road, and sent a long, quaeims c.j
after BaiTy.
"B o-o-yl"
Tint the little figure they were watch
ing plodded steadily on.
."Gimme the old tin horn out er the
kitchen. Miss Abigail" called rrudence,
excitedly, "quick .
Miss Auigaii, sutm
' i..n.rl.t .if tbiiifiicr.ius-
was, WlUlom a iiio-.p... -
ness of the pnx-eeding, ran to the
kitchen, snatcneti uie uoiui. .......
r-.in out with it to I'nidence. And
Prudence put it to her lips and blew a
,u,ile"r.L, so loud, that it startled
thV bird into silence , and set theechoes
riuffine from niua5
"He c'n hear that if he c'n hoiii-auy
thiiin." she muttered. . a
lie did- HestopiL 1'rude.u-e flour
. . T .u i,..m iii frantic excitement
There was a moment of suspense; and
iWence turned to Miss Abigail,
f'Wk.-shes.iid
AVhen Barry, breathless with the Iiaste
. V j " a. hed the ctttage. Miss
Aw4awwaitingonthelr:.,
"We made up our minds to keep you,
said she, "so long as you don't give too
mucii trouble."
"O, thank you, ma'am!"' cried Barry,
Indeed, 1 II try to please vou."
I am sure he lias succeeded; for the
lilacs have been 111 blttom three times
since that morning, and he is-with Miss
Abigail ;et, growing tall and strong
and manly as the years go by. He tills
the bit of a farm, which had so long lain
unimproved and in winter attends
school at the village where he is in ex
cellent repute. He is, withal, so faith
fill and helpful and kind that rrudence
is fain to aiMitheginatie the horn after
this fashion:
"Ilarnsoine is as harnsoine' does; an
you're deserviu' of a lied o' velvet, old
horn, for tlie gimd deed vou done that
day."
A Kemarkalile story.
In the Surrogate's Court, of New
York, on the th of Mav; much excite
ment was created by the development
ot a ieciiliar, interest nig and romantic
story. 1 lie principal actors are young
men of high social standing and wealth
1 he story is as follows :
In lstjO, Win. Tilden, a relative of
Samuel J. Tilden. died, leaving an es
tate valued at J,."hHI,(KNI. He divided
it equally between his four sons Wil
liaiu, M llano C, Mariuaduke and Bev
erle B. lilden aged 2il, 1.,, 1J, and tf
years. Josiah M. Fiske, Win. T. Blod-
gelt, Ifctvis Hows, Charles Tracy and
X. C F.ly were appointed executors. In
1870 the executors employed an Italian
iiai not Biaxi as tutor anil manager for
the bovs, and they were sent to Kuroin1
In 1'aris they occupied the rooms form
erly occupied bv the l'riiice of Wales
and other members of the Koyal family
of i-.ngland. They then proceeded to
Berlin and lived in suinpthous style ex
lieiidiiig in sixteen months alioiit ",-
IHHI.
The eldest of the four, William, pur
chased a alace iu Cobiug for ln,(NHJ
and with it the title of Baron. While
in his jKilace he bei-anie very much in
terested in the w ife of the former
owner and very soon was under com
plete control of her husband, to whom
he gave a imwer of attorney and jierniit-
til him to purchace-' all the furniture
for his palace.
In 1S72 the executors discovered the
condition of affairs abroad, and by the
payment of a very large sum of money,
the young man was extricated from his
ditliculties. The four then conceived
the idea of a kill iu honor of Americans
in Germaney. They hired an immense
hall at great exieiise, and gave the ball,
which was widely commented on.
When they returned home the execu
tors footed up their expences for two
years and tour inojths at 51(v
They were sent to Harvard College,
but did not remain there. William was
made an executor of the estate, and iu
1S77 a partner in the business formerly
carried on by his father. This he was
compelled to give up owing to his in
ability to manage it. Many account
ings were had for which large counsel
fees were paid.
In 1S77 Gustavus G. J. Thekiud was
ap'Hiiutcd guardian of Beverie B. Tilil-
en. lie received JtlJ.Ai, and afterward
it is alleged, was locked up iu Ludlow
Street Jail for eleven months for misai
propriating jlo.l.xio belonging to another
estate for which he was the attorney.
From the accounting now in progress
before a referee it apu-ars that the two
eldest sons have been itaid 5-175,0110
more than their share. It is also charg
ed that a mortgage for $100,'.I00 on
Jersey City property, with the interest.
was collected by the executors, and that
one of them dcisited the money to his
private account.
1 he estate is 111 a bad condition and
will yield but 100,000 to each or the
youngest sons. The executors are charg
ed with procuring ratifications of their
lets bv threats. Beverie B. 1 lldeu now
seeks to have the various accountings
ojiened on the ground that the expen
ditures were foolish and rash, unneces
sary and contrary to his father's will.
He also claims that the executors
should be charged with the unnecessary
exenditures. The executors make a
general denial, aud declair that they
have accounted for every cent they
si tent, and that the hoys, when they came
of age, ratilied their acts.
Nary a Stick, Jir.'
"Xo, sir, stranger, I wasn't driv out
by the overflow of the river," he an
swered as he patched away at the old
harness on his rack-riblcd mule.
" Land-owner close you out ? "
"Xo, sir. You s;e, I didn't exactly I
till any sile, and had no crops to fail." j
"Been cutting steamboat wood, may-
lie?"
" Xary a stick, sir."
"We looked him over and none of us
could make him out. He was tall,
gaunt and ragged. His mule was old.
IHKtr and discouraged. His cart had
been cut out with an axe and dressed
down with a hoe. lie halted in front
of the old-fashioned Arkansas tavern,
and it was the landlord who put the
questions:
"Maybe ye lost yer lamiiy by swamp
fever?"
"Xever had a family, sir.'-
" Kinder prospectiu' fur walnut, eh !'
"Xary a prosiect."
"Stranger," said the landlord in a
vexed tone, "maybe you've no objec
tions to tell this crowd jist how ye cum
to be in sich redonced sarcumstances ?
You sartinly don't look purty. and I
don't believe ye're rich."
"Gentlemen," said the stranger as he
turned his back on the mule. "I'd jist
;is soon tell ye all about it. I'm a living
proof of the fact that old Arkansaw is
no place fur a high-toned gentleman or
a fust-class mule, and we are on our way
into Tennessee. This is a purty good
kentry fur a mule with a stiff knee or a
man with a scrub eddication, but when
it comes down to Greek and I-atin and
eat in' with three-tine forks Arkansaw
is fifty vears behind the world! Morniu',
cents mornin'. in three different lan-
gages."
ii lores.
Gloves have the honor of sharing in
the censure of modem medical dictators,
who declare that they injure the skin,
and bv being worn very tight check the
circulation of the blood. There is little
fashion can do it tries to prevent the
imitation of the vulgar by declaring
sometimes for sac gloves which reach
tlie shoulder, or with the same length in
an innumerable number ot buttons; now
that they shall be worn 011 the dress, and
now on the bare arm; and now that they
shall be ptiuted, then beaded; now tliat
they shall have nifties or insertion.
Bjonistjenie
visit London.
Bjonison is soou to
l'welry in tcliwrk.
Mrs. Mulford, wife of the clerk at
the Arlington Hotel, Washington, ha.
finished a jiatchwork quilt that is not
merely a quilt, but a work of art. it
is a iioetu iu patches a symphony in
samples of silk and satin. It is seven
feet square and is coinimsed of forty-
nine different blocks, arranged in rows
each row seiarated by a division ribbon
of dark red satin, and each block divid
ed troni each other bv a ribbon Ihi1
of the same texture and hue. Around
the whole is a Itorder of drab brown
satin, traversed by seven rows of stitch
ing 111 various silks. Die pieces ait'
chiefly silk, with many of satin and a
few of velvet, lhere are about l.lNio
pieces in the quilt, and everv piece has
a history, there are in it simples of
silk from a wedding dress, made hun
dreds of years ago in England, when
the looms wove silk as enduring as
time. There are iu it sitcciiiicns of the
latest styles of gentlemen s cravats.
And lietween these; two epochs are hun
dreds of pieces of different times and
all iMissible shades of color arranged in
blocks of a general arabesque pattern.
the whole presenting a unity of designs
that is marvelouslv symmetrical, and a
blending and shading of colors that is
artistic in the highest degree. Only an
artist, with a him, bold hand, a quick,
accurate eve, and a true perception of
the harmonics of art, could have made
Some of the pieces are mere shreds
sie, and none ot them are large.'
With these materials are displayed taste
and judgment, and the result is not
merely a guaiut guilt but an araltcsqiie
in art.
The blending of the colors is the most
iidmirable feature of the whole work.
The arrangement of the pieces is equal
ly satisfactory. The general result ol-
tained is consequently artistic. Two
of tiie squares containes a piece of
brocade silk, of the- now fashionable
olor, crushed strawlierry. It came
oin the wedding dress of Mrs. JI11I-
ford's great grand-mother, and is llu
years old. Another square contains a
fragrant of her own wedding dress,
Stiil another holds a small section ot
her husband's wedding vest, one of
those patterns iu light silk which were
fashionable before the war and which
having gone out of fashion, has lieen
replaced by nothing half so elegant
either in texture or in style. Again,
another block has a piece of wedding
dress of Mrs. Mulford '3 bridesmaid.
Miss Sherron, with her initials worked
in it. This is the only block in the
whole quilt which Mrs. Mulford did
not woik with her own hands. Hun
dreds of these pieces were sent to Mrs.
Mulford bv her friends. ' One block is
tiled the Beach Block, ltecause the
wife of Hon. Lewis Beach, of Xew
York contributed most of the pieces in
it. Hie predominant colors here are
purple, crimson, black, light blue, green
and others. In one corner a crescent
moon, attended by stars, gleams out
f rom a field of blue. Iu the centre a
luster of leaves are beautifully worked.
Yerv much of the work is difficult
needle work, done by Mrs. Mulford.
Many of the pieces have various designs
painted on them by the same lady,
whose abilities as an artist are highly
appreciated by her friends.
Another block contains a piece of
Thos. Jefferson's carriage lining, which
despite that 1'resedent's well know de
mocracy, was of silk. Tlie Jaianese
embassy sent another block. On one of
the pieces hi this block is painted the
minister's name in the strange, uncouth
Japanesecharacters. Mrs. Mahone sent
some pieces, which were arranged in a
handsome block. Iu this occurs one of
the few pieces of velvet in the quilt.
One block contains a piece on which is
scratched a lifelike sketch of the fox
and the stork at the famous dinner
where the fox was worsted. The ex
pression given to the expectant but dis
aiiitointed fox is iierfect. He is sitting
on his haunches, licking his chops, while
the stork, with his bill deep into the
norrow-necked jug, seems to say briskly
ind hospitrbly, Help yourself, Brother
lievrard! In another square the saga
cious starling is dropping into the pitch
er the iiebbles that w ill enable him fin
ally to take a drink. In one block is
a piece of silk from the curtains ot the
lute House. Some of the blocks have
hi them pieces of silk which are not
made in this country. Mr. Lambert
the silk manufacturer of 1'aterson, X.
J., in linitorting patterns from Lngland
has sent samples to Mrs. Mulford to be
worked in the quilt. Mr. I-milieri was
so struck by the crashed strawlierry
silk of 110 years ago that he manufac
tured a quantity exactly like it. in one
of the squares Little Boy Blue is blow;-
ing his horn, in all the glory of the Ken
sington stitch, and in another a little
girl on a stile seems to be in doubt
which side of the fence to come down
on. A very elegont block contains a
piece of imitorted English silk, in which
a iierfect strawberry, with a cap still on
appeals to the eye for approval of its
perfect shaie. Oue block holds a num
ber of elephants. Another has pieces
sent by Senator Piatt's son, a part of
his cravat, in which little pigs, with a
ring in their tails, are ambling along
with a larger ring on their backs. But
the quilt; to be fully described, would
require far more siwce than this article
can afford. It has been seen by Minle
& Proctor's decorators, who pronounce
it the ffliest piece of decorative work
they have ever seen. It has been seeu
by a favored few at the hotel, who are
in raptures over it. It is really a su
perb affair. Mr. and Mrs. Mulford left
W aslnngton on Saturday for their home
in Salem X. J., and took the quilt with
them.
Oprn Fires.
Whether it is of wood or coal, the
virtues of an open lire are these:
By its peculiar heat aetion it warms
the air of a room less than its walls
aud less than the occupants of the
room, producing a comfortable warmth.
It gives the most thorough venti
lation, and it is the most cheerful
as well as comfortable source of
heat. Its faults are its expifsive
ness, aud the greater trouble required
in taking care of it.
Why does an ojien fire give a comfor
table heat when the heat from a system
of pipes is often oppressive, and "some
times stifling? Because of tlie great dif
ference ltween the ways in which the
fire and the hot pipes disjiense their
heat. The heat rays from an ojien
fire pass directly through the air with
out much heating it; they heat any
solid object in their way, whether it be
the walls and furniture of the room or
the person of the sitter7but they leave
the air itself cool until this is heated iu
turn by radiation from the walls. The
occupant of the room does not have to
wait for this secondary radiation; he is
impartially and promptly wanned, like
any other solid object in the room, by
the direct glow of the fire, w hile the air
around him may remain comparatively
cool. It does not, in point of fact, get
to be quite as warm as the walls and
lurnitiire, while by choosing a lessor
greater distance from the fire, or by the
use of screens, you can adjust the heat
of direct radiation exactly to your jkt
sonal comfort.
This is not the case with any other
system of heating. Warmed pqes, a
stove at anything short of red heat, and
.1 hot-air register directly heat the air
itself leaving the walls comparatively
cool. The room is full of hot air. which
you can not tcmier instantly to your
comfort as vou can temiierthe radia
tion of the open fire, while the walls re
main cooler thau the air when these
heating appliances are used, and ab
stract heat from the oceuuints of the
room instead of supplying heat to them.
as they do when wanned by the open
lire.
The cheerfulness of the oik-ii lire re
quires no eulogy. But the oK-n flame.
whether of wood, soft coal or hard coal,
is a costly luxury. Soft coal is with us
one of the most exiiensive kinds of fuel;
but it is worth remembering that one
good lump of it iiniii a hard-coal tire
will fill a room with cheerful flame lor
hoars.
For these reasons the open lire is the
most comfortable way of heating. As
to its virtue in producing ventilation,
111 oiieu hie is iHtwertul enough to
draw into the room all the air it wants.
mid forthispuriKisewill useiiidiscriuiiu
utelv all oiienings, whether inlets or
utlets, if necessary." If, as often hait-
liens-, w hen this is cold and the house is
not tightly built, thelireiiiayeasilycau.se
too much ventilation, so that the feet
become chilled, and the temperature of
the room does not reach a comfortable
degree of warmth. In such a case a
register supply ing warmed air from a
furnace K-low is a necessary supplement
to the open fires; a similar coiucnsi
tion is needed iu large buildings where
hot pities are used to warm the halls.
The oiien lire, indeed, is often, in our
climate, a luxury for a single room,
rather than a siilhcieut me. lis of heat
ing the house; but the oik-ii tire is a
great comfort. Other sources of heat
mav usefully supplement it; but no
tther, at whatever exiiense of niouey
anil scientific contrivance, can take the
place of it. I have known more than
one builder of his own house who has
found out that its winter comfort was
by no means wholly decided bv the
height of the thermometer.
Of the heat furnished bv an ordinary
oicn coal lire only about one-eighth is
utilized m a room, lhis waste has led
inventors to contrive various means for
retaining a part of the heat thatescaix.-s
directly up the chimney. The principle
is to warm an ascending current of air
in proximity to the tire, but not to an
excessive degree, and to disengage the
iir near the top of the room. Gallon
has devised one of the best of these
contrivances, but it is little known in
this country. In any fire-place the
forms and materials employed make a
good deal of difference w ith the amount
of heat saved. Brick and tiles are liet
ter than iron for the lucking; the grate
should project a certain distance into
the room, and a projecting chimney
piece absorbs and radiates a consider
able amount of heat. The fashion, now
going out, of concealing the mantel
piece with a lioard, suitable trimmed
ami decorated, was thus a thrifty as
well as a pretty one, the fringes and
other coverings of the false mantel
piece serving to retain ami distribute
the heat of tiie lire beneath.
The hob is an attachment that should
be found upou the grate of every open
lire. Any one can make a good hob in
five minutes. Take a piece of stout
wire one-fifth of an inch iu diameter
and twenty to twenty-four inches long,
U-nd it into the shape of a long capital
U. five or six inches broad, put the
jKiints of this U Lietween the two upier
grate bars and bend down tlie loop of it
until it stays level, and you will have a
convenient movable hob, and quite as
good a one as can be bought for money.
The hob and kettle are very serviceable
for evajKirating water, according to
the plan I have recommended for keeit
ing the air moist. A hob thus makes
the grate fire in the parlor more health
ful, while the tea-kettle simmering
upon it adds its own element of domes
tic comfort.
SKrt amoiii; Zuili Children.
One day says a writer, I siw some of
the children playing at "breaking hor
ses," One juvenile demon was leading
a band of four or five others, iu the
pursuit of a big bristling boar. Lasso
in hand, the little fellow watched his
chance, and twirling the flexible cord
once or w ice rapidly in the air, sent it
like lightning toward the head of the
boar. The latter made a desierate
dash only to run his snout and forefoot
into the coil, which, held by the com
bined efforts of all, quickly precipitated
him, in a succession of entangling
somersaults, into the shallow river.
Iu an instant another lasso was dexter
ously thrown over his hind feet, and
his captors, regardless of mud and
water, wild' with vociferous glee, be
straddled him and held him down.
The leader tore off one of the legs of
his trousers, aud with this he bandaged
the eyes of the squealing animal, wrap
'ping another piece around his snout .so
as to smother his cries. Thus equipied,
the hog was set at liberty. Two of the
little wretches jumiied astride him,
while the others prodded him behind
and at the sides. Thus g. aded, the
poor beast ran uncertainly in all direc
tions, into conals, over logs, headlong
into deep holes, precipitating his ad
venturesome riders; not, however, to
their discomfiture, for thev would im
lueilsitely . scantier up, drive, push,
lead, or haul him out aud mount hiiu
again. The List I saw of them was
toward evening; they were ruefully re
garding the dead carcass of their novel
horse
A KmMan Kaliuay.
'1'lj; liusj a i government litis decided to
const-uc-t a r.tilv iroia Petrjlolt, ou tiie
CaspUn Sea, to VladiUnvk, in order to
shorten the present route from M cw
and "ther n.-nuufacturinsc centres to the
markets of Persia and Central Asia. The
lei-igth of the road will be 50 vcrstK. It u
believed that, with '.he am ot this route,
Ibiasian manufacturers will be aiile U
compete succewf ally with their nvals. The
prelim tiiry mirvev are aliedy bcinj$ made
and it is Mid thst the entire construction
work will be unJert-.kja during the com
ing summer.
Cincinnati has had seventy-nine
urders and one hanging in ten years.
Mr. Keene's rlrture.
Gossip as to the affairs of James It.
Keene, the Wall street ojierator, took
the form recently of a rexrtthat lie had
mortgaged his Xewpnrt projierty for
$7.,i RJO and that he had sold one of his
liest pictures, a study of sheep, by Uosi
Boiiheiir, to Jay Gould for ' Sbi,iNHl,
though the price that he taid for it two
yeais ago was j-JI.ObO. u was also as
sorted that he had closed his account
with his old-time brokers, S. M. Imki
cock V Co.
Mr. Kerne's friends suggested, that
if he had mortgaged his Xewpnrt pro-
ierty tor 5i.",(iiK)t he had done a very
good stroke of business since he paid
only $U,iKin for it when there was a fine
cottage iiiHiii it. This cottage was
Imnii-il alxiiit a year ago. As to the
side of the picture, doubt was oiienlv
expressed that Mr. Keene had wittingly
sold it to Mr. Gould or parted with it at
'4 loss.
Mr. Keene dined at IMinonico's
recently. Alxiiit Instable was a gather
ing of Wall street men. John Pondir.
listening attentively and saving little.
was vis-a vis to Mr. Keene. Mr. Keene
was blandly stirring his coffee when the
nqiorts were mentioned to him.
"They are unfounded and malicious
stories,'" he sid tlacidly. "There is
not an atom of truth in them. It would
lie licnoath my dignity to characterize
them and those who originated them as
they ought to lie characterized. Of
course. I sold one of inv pictures."
"Was it sold to Mr. Gould?"
"No. I did not know that it was
sold until I heard of it from Mr. Pon
dir. The fact is, when I Umght the
picture some of my friends did not like
it, and I heard some high art criticisms.
hie of the gentlemen at the table said
that the background was not worked up
enough. Mr. Pomlir lNiught my pict
ures for me. and he wanted, for satis
faction to himself, to buy a call on the
picture for a year for Sl.tHio, and I sold
it to him. I lielieve that he sold the
picture to some friend of Mr. Gould's
for himself. As to my reasons for sell
ing, I desire to say only that my house
was burned, and that I did not wish to
store the picture. My family are going
abroad 011 the w.'tli, on the Arizona,
and they will not return lor at least
three years. Tlie object of their visit
to Kurope is the education of my child
ren. I authorized Mr. l'ondir to dis
Hise of the picture, and he did so, and
then informed me. He liought tle-ui
and knew more abnit them and their
value than anyliody else."
"Was the price paid for it Sli'i.thiu?"
"Yes. The story that I paid cfi'l.tMi
for it is made out of whole cloth. The
cost was more than $10,ikio less. In
deed, one way and another 1 have
cleared fully c'i.ihhj upon the picture.
But it is rather hard that a man cannot
sell a thing that he has no place for
without a license from the rumor mon
gers." "Something haslH-en said, Mr. Keene,
bout the .Nile of one of vour racing
atud."
Indeed. Well, that's the first I
have heard of that. Why, I have a hun
dred horses. At this time I have at
least a dozen in training at Sheeislicad
Bay. Xow, I suppose that if I wanted
to weed out four or five that were nei
ther goers nor stayers, that would lie
fresh material for the rumor mongers.
1 repeat that I havedispocd of nothing
except w hat I had 110 use for or no
place for, as any man might do whose
house was binned, and who intended to
go abroad. I intend to go abroad for a
w hile and rejoin my family."
"Vou have still a large gallery of
pictures, have vou not?"'
"J have. While we are on this suit-
ject I may as well niv that I have twenty-live
more pictures that 1 would not
mind disiosiiig of as advantageously as
I did the Boniieur. I am willing to sell
liccause I am looking forward to the
greatest financial convulsion that ever
shook Wall street and the entire coun
try, anil I cxioct to buy back pictures,
or anything else that I sell at less than
half of w hat 1 sold them for. When I
come back from Kuroe 1 shall not lie
surprised if I find that the purchaser of
the Bonheur is shaken out of his hold
ing and willing to let me have it back
for a good deal less than he paid for it.
The great financial convulsion that 1
have spoken of is not, in my opinion,
far off."
The Indian Corn 1'ropof 1KS3.
The latest reports from the Xorth
west represent the agricultural outlook
as brighter than it was a month ago.
The winter wheat, which, it was then
thought, was so damaged that the crop
would fall twenty per cent, short of the
average, has survived the severe season
better than was supiosed possible,
' while the recent weather has la-en
favorable enough to enable the Western
farmers to finish seeding spring wheat.
The apprehension of crop deficit-nces on
the l'acilic slope has been allayed by
the heavy rains which fell hist month.
But, despite the improved wheat crop
prosiects for 1SS15, there Ls reason to
lielieve the yield will not in any case
exceed the average and may fail Ik-Iow
it. Iite as it is, it is not too late to
point out to farmers over the whole
country the inqiortaiiue of getting out
of the soil this year the best crop of
Indian cwrn they can produce. Where
the long run of cold weather has killed
the wheat crop there is still time enough
to replant the ground with corn, and
proluibly 110 grain pays the producer so
well as com. The estimated value of
last year's corn crop has been put down
as over twelve hundred miiliou dollars.
But if fed to hogs and cattle it is much
more profitable than if sold for exporta
tion and distillation. During the last
two years disastrous failures have been
exjierienced in portions of the largest
corn producing States, which might
have I ice 11 avoided had due attention
been given to the selection of seeds.
The great desideratum north of the 4oth
parallel is to get the corn crop to ripen
liefore the period of autumn frosts, and
often a single week of backwardness is
fatal to the success of the producer. If
seed produced two or three degrees
north of the locality to lie planted is
selected the crop will "rijien in a week
or two less time than native seed."
The geographical limit of the profitable
cultivation of corn is the August isoth
ermal line of 7 degrees, which extends
in the northwest to or beyond the 4ith
mrallel. Though Dr. Kichardsou and
others have shown that "maize riiiens
well at the lied Kiver and Carlton
House" in the Saskatchewan Valley
its cultivation is so precarious lieyond
the Upper Missouri that it should only
be attempted to select spots little ex
posed to early frosts. The farmers in
the Central and Southern States, how
ever, should this year put forth unusual
efforts to produce and secure a largtt
crop of this important cereal.
The Tl. krt-Itnyer.
It is very amusing to watch some
la-ople buy oiicra tickets. The other
day alioiit four hundred jieople tilled the
Academy of Music lobby in Milwaukee,
and crowded the stejis and sidewalk in
front of the building, eagerly elliowing
ami pushing their way toward the ticket
window, w here the t reasurer was deal
ing out the little bits of pastelioard.
An elegantly dressed, refined appearing
and very pretty young lady, who lives
iu a palatial home in the Seventh ward,
worked her way to the window, and.
spreading out the diagram, with one
hand 011 each side to make sure of it,
asked the ticket-seller the price of re
served scats.
'"The general admission downstairs
is fifty cents,' replied the seller, "re
served seats seventy live cents. Up
stairs twenty live cents admission and
reserved seats fifty- cents."
"What Ls the qier.i for this after
noon ?"' asked the vouiig lady, as she
carefully scrutinized the badly disfigur
ed diagram, so many of the seats hav
ing lieen marked off in advance.
"" "lolanthe,' ina"am."'
"Oh, I'm so sorry; I thought it was
'Martha,' ' she remarked, and then con
tinued:
"Well, I want four seats, anyhow.
They must all lie together. Let me see.
1 guess 1 w 111 tKe lour 111 this row,
iminting to a section of the dress circle
where every seat was marked off.
1 hose .seats are sold. '
''Is that so? 1 am so sorry. We want
ed to sit along there. here are some
good scats, please?"
Bv actual time the young ladv had
clutched the diagram for eiht minutes
it this laiint. The crowd was swelling
and the people were fast In-coining very
impatient. 1 he treasurer said:
'ilere are thi'-e very good seats to
etherand out; right back of them, that
will make vou four."
That won't do. We must sit in the
.same row, and 1 don t want seats wav
low 11 in the parquctte."
Then she look the diagram out of the
window and holding it 110 In-fore her
.111 her eyes over and over it for two
minutes. Ihe red, red blood liegan
rushing toward the seller's face as he
heard people clamoring for tickets. But
he uttered not a word.
Finally, after asking ten more ques
tions of alxiiit the same nature as those
mentioned, she ioiiited to four seats
and said she would take them, handing
him a live dollar lull. In an instant he
returned four tickets and one dollar and
twenty live cents in change. "This
isn't right,' she suid, taking up the
money, those seats 1 wanted are only
fifty cents, ain't they?"
Everything, madam, down stairs. I
told you seventeen times, is seventy live
cents," was tlie somewhat short reply,
aud getting the diagram out of the
young lady's hand, he passed it over
her shoulders to some ladies w ho had
Ueii jiaiieiitly wailing, and the fair
opera ticket purchaser reluctantly pass
ed from iu trout of the w indow. She
stood there tor full fifteen minutes, aud
that is an awful long time when three
or four hundred a-ople are waiting to
be served. There were other instances
just as amusing. The most of the
y oung .aibes who Iiouglit tickets carried
hand-bags, in the depths of which were
three or lour small purses containing
their money. It would take from one
to live minutes for everyone of them to
find the right purse U-l'ore they could
pay for their tickets.
lliey Werent Sautlulelitr.
Among the score of us who rushed
into a railroad eating house in Missis
sippi at the call of "twenty minutes for
dinner," was a chap who had his mind
up to say something unplcasa it when
he came to pay for his meal. He was
grow ling when he Went in and he jawed
all the while he was eating, and when
he slouched up to the desk to pay his
seventy-live cents he broke out with:
"Them sandwiches arc enough to kill
a doe:"
"What sandwiches?"
"Why, them 011 the table."
"But we have no sandwiches 0:1 tl e
table, s"ir, arsisted the landlord.
"You haven't? Well, I should like
to know what you call them roasted
brick-bats on that blue platter?"
'You didn't try to eat one of those?"
"Yes, I did:"
''Then, my friend, vou had In-tter go
for a doctor at once! Those are table
ornaments, made of terra-cotta, and
were placed there to help fill up the
space! 1-uido' catsl but you must have
lived in a ane-brake all your life!"
The traveler rushed into the car and
liegan to suck at a hramly-tlask, and
he didn't get over looking pale for three
hours.
And they were sandwiches after all
real good ham sandwiches made that
(lav. The landlord had adopted that
particular style, instead of usiua club.
The Aurora In Miniature.
J-alHiratory experiments have fre
piently lieen resorted to produce the
aurora in miniature, and the resemb
lance to the original has lieen extremely
close, but an artificial aurora on a large
scale and with no electrical lii ichineiy
has lately liceii effected by l'rofessor
I.eius!roem. He seli-ctcd a station just
within the Arctic circle, iu Xorth Fin
land, where there were two mountains
close together, and having altitudes of
2,'iO0 and :i.tvt n feet. Iu accordance
with the well know u f;.-t that electri
city gathers njion points, two hills hav
ing clearly defined conical summits were
selected. He lielieved that aurora was
the result of an endeavor 011 the pirt of
certain forces to establish an equilibri
um, and assumed that electricity was
lassing from one hill top to the other.
Reasoning that if by any means the in
terchange could be hastened the effect
would liecouie visible, the summits
were connected with their ba-H-s by a
network of copjier to serve as a conduc
tor. Immediately an archof tlieaurora
apjieared, estimated to lie at least '.W
feet aliove the top. An examination of
the currents produced in the w.res
showed them to be positive. The spec
troscope clearly revt-a'ed the well known
lines of the aurora. Although the dis
play was only of short duration, there
could be 110 doubt of it3 genuineness or
of the sucuess of the experiment.
It is estimated that 3J,0U,000 hu
man Iteings lie every year,
There is a Bible in llellou which
was printed in the year 17!s.
Land in Hot Springs, Ark., recently
brought f 112 iier front foot, 1
One never kuevs a man until he
refuses him something and studies the
effects of the refusal. One never knows
himself until he has denied himself
something. -
NEWS LN BRIEF
Over exercise on roller-skates has
killed four ambitious Louisville girls.
General pardons were first proclaim
ed at coronations bv Kdward III in
l.!27.
Paraffin was first obtained from
coal in 1STJO and from mineral oil in
1S4S.
A rich deisit of silver has just lieen
liscovered nine miles from Gaiusboro.
Tenn.
The total estimated supply of red
wood thulier in California is lio.S-J.Ytnio-
0oo feet.
Alexander Mitchell lias in his house
in Milwaukee probably the finest library
in the West.
The new ly-discovered placers on the
Agua Fria, Arizona, are attracting con
siderable attention.
Sir Charles Dilke has a framed col
lection of caricatures of himself clipped
from comic p.iiiers.
Kiiqieror Louis X.iioleou served as
iecial constable in London duriinr the
Chartist riots iu lsjs.
Hudson's Bay is to lie explored to
see whether uiain steamers cannot !
run in the brief summer.
At a steno-'ranhic evhibition nr.
Paris a mstal card was exhibited which
contained 1I,Ikn won Is.
M. Patrick rode a quarter of a mile
on a snow-slide near tiiincy, Cal., last
week, and esca d unhurt.
A garfish live feet long, weighing
sixteen -Mninds, was caught a lew days
ago in the Alabama river.
The March fires representing 7,
ii0,i n 11 1. This is .I.ixhi.ikio more than
the .March record of last year.
Wagons are N-ing constructed in
Milan to 1 vey Italian gnqics direct to
the wine factories of France.
A tliirteen-car-o;d Kir in Ieds.
Ontario, weighs 17.1 iuiiis and is 20
pounds heavier than her 'father.
ilkie Collins is not a very rapid
worker, and seldom writes more than
ten pages of manuscript a da v.
The Hon. Oliver Ames expects to
siciid $ tin ,i 11 mi n building hisnew house
on Commonwealth avenue. Boston.
'Hie season in Canada promises well
for crops, the snow having gra.lually
disap'iearcd without destructive floods'.
Two expcneii.-etl French jentlemen
are l-crfi-cting arrangements to establish
an ostrich farm in Medina county,
Texas.
Seems as if thev did nothing but
declare semi-annual dividends in Boston,
where they announce a total of ?s UJ -77i
for April. " ' '
The California wine production, as
measured by receipts at San Francisco,
has risen from :!.:i;tii(j7 gallons in ls7'.
to 7,iHm)iiiNi m l.ss-2.
There are hi, (Ml suiuuu miles of
almost unbroken forests iu North Caro
lina, comprising nine, chestnut
oak,
maple, beech ami hickory tiiiila r.
Louisa B. Stephens is the first
woman to lecmne President of a bank.
She succeeds her lale husbxnil in tl,
First National Hank of Marion, Iowa.
Mr. Baillic of Ilochfiior, one of the
largest landed proprietors in Scotland.
died at Florence a few day ago. He
owned but. 000 acres, principally iu Inverness-shire.
Frederick iMiglnssdenics the state
nieiitslliat he is worth ?liMl,otm, or $1-10 -000,
and declares that both his fortune
ami his annual income are very greatly
overestimated.
The police of .Mui'ie;iMilis, Minn.,
have ln-eii oidi-red to halt a-destrians
found in the streets after midnight and
to compel them to give an accurate
account of themselves.
An Knglislmiaii w ho wears a corset
in order to 1 educe his waist, and who
laced it six inches tighter than his nat
ural size, declares that the sensation is
rather pleasant than otherwise.
Dr. Ziegler, the eminent Swiss car
tographer, whose death has just been
announced, was born in lsn, and was a
pupil of Carl Bitter, w ho hashecn called
the creator of modem geography.
Col. Cyrus M. Wheat on, who died
at KchoUith, Mass., last week, aged S2
years, had lieen tow n clerk of that place
for more than to years, and at the ago
of St was a in lx r of the tate Legis
lature. A painted advertisement in huge
white letters iimii the rocks of Lookout
Mountain caused a spirited horse to run
away one day last win k, and horse and
driver went headlong over a cliff and
were killed.
A very significant proof of the re
duction in coal waste resulting from the
efforts of the Anti-smoke Association is
seen in the fact that in ls2 there was a
decrease of is:",17;' tons in the civil
brought into London.
Xot more than half the usual supply
of maple syrup has U-en made in .Maine
this season, ow ing to unfavorable con
ditions of frost and snow dining the
winter, which prevented a copious Slow
of sap at tie' usual time.
- Mrs. Fletcher Webster, who has
U-en verv seriously ill for manv weeks
at a hotel iu Boston, has lat-n removed
to her home in Marshiield, Mass. Her
illness was partial paralysis, attributed
to a draught iu a railroad car.
A capitalist offered to erect at St.
Paul a i7.H,00 hotel provided the citi
zens would subsi-rilie c2i.W,ijoi, to be
paid on the completion of tht building.
The offer was accepted. Kansas City
Ls now looking for a similar offer.
Mrs. Craycroft. the sister of Sir
John Franktiu, died last week at her
house at lin king at the age of W. She
speut the greater irt of her fortune ou
tlie expeditions which were sent to the
Arctic regions in search of the famous
explorer.
The venerable Archbishop Pureell
is again in seriously failing health, and
the gravest apprehensions of his friends
are aroused. Paralysis has attacked his
organs of si-ech, and he can scarcely
articulate above a whisier. He Ls living
at the Convent of the Ursiilines. St.
Martin's, Ohio.
. ugelo Mariano, a pilot of Para,
Brazil, is the survivor of three wives,
by whom he has forty-live children, still
living, and through w hich children he
is called gminliiaia by IP.) iiersons,
great-granditipa by isi,and g.eat-great-gr.indinipa
by 2-10 more, his living des
cendants niiiiiliering Oort persons.
3s; patents and designs were issued
recently to citizens of the United States,
Xew York reeei val , Pennsylvania 4
Ohio '!J, Illinois .'to, Massachusetts At,
Xew Jersey , Michigan 20, Coiinec ti
nt IS, California 17, Missouri and Iu
ciana 15, aud WLseonsin 11. Tweuty
dve patents were issued to foreigners.
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