v I I- 1 i - B. P. SCHWEIER, THE OOMTITUTIOI THE THIOI-HT) THE EXTOEOEMETT OT THE LAWS. Editor and Proprietor. VOL. XXXVII. MIFFUNTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. "WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 7. 1SS3. NO. 15. r . ... . lieuiember, when the timid Dawn nnclaw, UerbS!S P1C the SUQ, bright remember when the pensive night reDose Beneath her silvery veil i terJerdSSat hen pleasures call thee, when thy heart is light, When to sweet fancies shade invite at night, last, through the deep woods rin !weet voices, murmuring Remember! Uemember, when Fate's cruel hand has broken For aye the tie that bound my life with thine; j"cnu When, with long years and exile, grief un spoken. Impairing heart and blasted hopes are mine. Think, of my love, think of my last adieu Absence and time are naught when love is true. Long as my heart shall beat. Ever it shall repeat, Kemember! Kenieniber, w hen beneath the cold ground lying. My broken heart forever is at rest, Kemember, when some lovely flower is trying Its petals soft to open on my breast, Thou wilt not see me; but my souL set free. Faithful in death shall still return to thee. Then hark to the sad moans Of a deep voice that groans, Kemember! A CHANCE WOBD. Myra Sidney was sitting m the win dow of her little parlor waiting the slow rising of a storm over the opposite sky. Kveu city streets have tlieir opportun ities. This street in which Miss Syd ney dwelt was in the outskirts of a su burb, where building lots were still ge nerously measured. It ran along the ridge of a slope, and 'Miss Sydney's house had the further advantage of standing opposite a group of vacant lots, beyond which, above the roofs and chimneys on the lower streets, a line of blue hills was visible, topped with woods and dappled with cloud shadows. Many au autumn sunset had she watched from her front windows; many a soft spring rain and whirling snow storm. To some natures there are both companionship and compensation In the changeful aspects of nature. Myra was one ot these. She would not have ex changed her little house with its wide view for any other, however magnifi cent, whose boundaries were brick walls alone; and sky, and sun, and hill, made for the leisure moments of her busy life a perpetual and unvarying feast. The room in which Miss Sydney sat expressed its owner, as rooms will, whether meant to do so or not. In no respect of size or shape did it differ from No. 11 on one side, or .No. 13 on the other, yet its aspect was anything rather than common-place. The pre vailing tint on the wall and floor was a soft olive, which made a background for brighter colored things; for the old Indian shawl, which did duty as a por tiere; for a couple of deep-hued eastern rugs; for pictures of various kinds and values, and a sprinkling of bric-a-brac, odd rather than valuable, but so chosen as to be in thorough haimony with its surroundings. Everything had a use. Xo pitfalls vawned for unwary guests in the shape of minute tables, Queen Anne or other wise, laden with trumpery biscuit or Sevres, and ready to upset with a touch. A couple of short old-fashioned sofas flanked the fireplace on either side, two or three easy-chairs and a nrm-set, low table, laden with books and periodicals, completed a sort of circle where teu or a dozen persons could group themselves around the blaze. Miss Sydney herself, slight, vivid, and very simply dressed, but without an ungraceful point or fold, was in accordance with her room. The clock struck seven. The black cloud had crept to the zenith, and now a strong gust of wind swept from be neath it, bringing on its wings the first drop of rain. Miss Sydney rose and shut the window. At that moment the door-bell rang. "It's two girls with a parcel, Miss Myra," said Esther the parlor-maid, "They'd like to speak with you, they SS&V " Miss Svdnev went out into her little entry. The g'irls about the same age, were of the unmistakable shop-girl type. "You are from Snow & Asher's, 1 think?" she said in her courteous voice. 'Yes'm. Mr. Snow said he wasnt sure Which of the underwaists it was that you took, so he sent both kinds, and you will try 'em on, please?" "Certainly. Are you to wait for theni?" "Yes'm." Miss Syducy made what haste she could, but before she returned the rain was falling in torrents. "mus wait till it slackens," she said. Y ou 11 1 very wet if you don't. Have you far to go?" , , . . "She has," replied one of the gins, with an enibarrased giggle. "1 m pretty near by, and the horse-cars run just in front of the door. But Gary has to walk quite a long way, and hershoes are thin, too. She'd better wait, i guess, but I must go, anyway.' Miss Sydney glanced at the shoes cheap, paper-soled boots, with a dusty velvet bow sewed on the toe of eacn, and she, too, concluded that by all means "Cary" must wait "Come in here," she said, leading the way into the parlor Esth?.r had now lighted the lamp. A little fire siarkled ou the hearth. Myra urew an easy chair close to it. "Sit down Juri have a thorough warming," she said. " & a chilly evening." "Yes'm." . , i pi... i.-..at M. velvet-bowed .I..-- ..S.:i. -..I f.r M of bUttOBS, out to the fire, and half from mbarrass r. .. i.uni tsi shade her lace. It w as a small hand, with an amyous red gem on the iorennger. ---were all bitten to the quick, Miss sju- ney noticed. . , ... , t .... . t, band was not lie i ace suaueu vj , rr... l..n-n OVflS UaU straight-forward, honest g0'. . j timw was that mouui was rauier swc; " . delicacy of modeling, just torderwg on fragility, which gives to the early youth of so many American women a "n i A f.. winch softly banded liair and a low knot w 'ould auu. but with the bad taste n ure which became her least. Ail ue front hair was an uniempi. "V- - "bang." At tne uac - -; , , jute switches, braided mY "V". bit lined erection was peituou a - . . with blue, and ornamented draggkdcock'staiL The dress, of cheap maferial, was blue also, and was frilled aud flounced Into a caricature oi we prevailing fai.ir.n .. . .. i unit) oi soiled wntch Tndedthe rVsuk, beneath toll"" w overlean muslin tie, hung a smart iocket of yelI ?. lender WTists. Beneath the ltmd rurtled 8kirt a PrtO fht 1 cotton PP Though Tn t&t k Syd.ne3r noted the9e del" thf tlme lt Las to describe haiM,!i?i8,;red ?'ilh a fu-v that na indignation, she said: My chdd, bow coul.1 you think of coming out on such a day as this with- "I haven't any shawl." "Well, a jacket, then." '. I havent anv oin,,., k matches this dress," glancing compla down at the berutlled skirt. .i .yLu wo,,1'l raUier wear a jacket Uiat uidu't match tour rf . viiuu vbU a cold, wouldn't you?" "Y'es," admitted the eirl. in rather an unwilling tone. "But the only one i-ye got is purple, and it looks horrid with this blue." Xoting disseut in her companion's face, she added: " We poor girls can't have a wrap for every dress, like rich ladies do." "2so," said Miss Svdnev m.ntK- know it. 1 never attempted to have a different wrap for each dress I wear. l cannot afford it either." "Cary stared." "How began, then changed it to. "But vou and us are quite different, ma'am." "There was something wistful in face which touched Myra Sydney. "It win oe time wasteu, l dare say," she said to herself, still, I should like, just for once, to argue out the dress-question with a gill like this. She is one of a great class, and. poor thmus. they are so dreadfully foolish and ignorant" She made no immediate reply to her companion, but rose and rang the bell. "i am going togiveyouacupof tea," she said, "llark! how it rains. You cannot go yet, and you will be less like ly to take cold when you do go, if you start well warmed. Besides, 1 was'ut to have you stay. I should like to have a little talk ver the question of dress, which is interesting to all us women." . She smiled brightly at her guest, who. as if dazzled, watched the entrance of the tray with its bubbling kettle, its crisp, dainty cakes; watched Myra measure the tea, warm the pot of gay Japanese waie, and when the brew was ready, fill the thin-lipped cups and drop in sugar and cream. "How nice!" she said, with a sigh of satisfaction. Her heart opened un der the new, unwonted kindness and comfort, and Miss Sydney had little dif ficulty in learning what she wished to know. Cary Thomas was the girl's name. She had lived "at home" till two years ago. JJid she like the city? Yes, she liked it well enough, but it was not much like home to board. She and another girl that worked at Snow & Asher's had a room together out in Farewell street They had pretty good times when they were not too lull of work, but in the busy season they stayed so late at the store that they didn't want anything when they got borne, except to go straight to bed. They got seven dollars a week, and more wnen there was extra work to do. "Can you lay up anything out of that?" asked Miss Sydney. .No. ma'm, not a cent; at least, 1 dont There are some girls in tue store that do, but they've got sick friends to save for." "ow," said Miss Sydney, having thus felt her way, "to go back to the jacket question. As I told you, 1 can't at all afford to have one for every dress." "Can't vou, ma'm; and w liat do you do, then?" "I buy one jacket which will do with everything! wear." "But that isn't a sun, saiu ary doubtfully. "Xo; but is it absolutely necessary that everything should be a siut?" "The girls at our store think so much of suits," she said In a puzzled tone of self-defence. "I know some people have a iancy for them, and they are very pretty sometimes. But don't you see inat they must cost a great deal of money, and' that working people, you aud my self for instance, ought to manage more carefully?" Do you worK, nia ain. "To be sure I do. You look sur prised. Ah. vou think tuat because a have a little home of my own, and live in a pretty room, i must oe a uue umj with nothing to do. That's a mistake of yours. I worK neariy as many uum a day as vou ao, ana earn wa part of my own income, and I have to consult economy to keep my home and maKe it pleasant, and among the things which Ican'tafford tohave,are "suits." "I wish you'd ten me now ji-u u. ma'am." . ., .... "I wilL though I'm not in the habit of talking quite so freely about my af fairtbut I'll teU you, because it may eive you an idea of how to manage beU ter for yourself. In the hrst place I top two or three colors. I have a m,-fi or two. and an olive-brown, atlSs yeUowish-green that you see and some ngnw uu, ; - y - vellow. .Now wiiu auj - Emie bonnet will do The one I lne is black, with a little jeTaM pa feliow, and it goes perfectly Jek.. ..'a. .i -,ir.s. and so does S black calhmei jacTet, aud my pa rZo and gloves, which are yellow also. SS?n S TseeThat there is an economy and a blue one ana .3 , - ----- nrnt a ainereui. ',.. rtferentgloves and jJJK" "Why, yes, it does seem so, a I think?" askea juj, b-" - . . ill tHaiilt Villi-7' ::ftseeuis -.h JrUwhowork in stores, is that SSSf for being what they caU 4lithanfor being either neat or KT A voung girl can look her best pretty. A yous b . ou a;lJ in a simple urc, riavs likes me best in And Mf. ;r Sure. he never LrnST.oti:es"-Uestoppe W&yourbror?"rS Tlmn she smiieu ai. u - - - ; i8Uk o flush as mantled in ?u..PseK evoked by the for such a deep nusu Sy's cheek isldoia mention ot frieuiL His "N'o'm, ne j"- - -. Vminelive opposite. "re.isoutmthe XinTa'nd then he calculates voup for himself- "Does he ever come to the city?" "No. not once since I was here, but be speaks some of coming down along toward spring, and that's one reason I like to look as stylish as I can, so's not to be different from the rest when Mark comes." ul think in his place I should prefer you to be different," said Miss Sydney, decidedly. ".Now, Cary, don't be of- iended, but what you girls aim at is to look like the ladies who come to the shop, isut it? 'stylish' as you would sav?" 'Yes : I suonose it is." admitted Cary. 'H ell. then. 1 must tell you the plain truth; you utterly fail in your attempt. Xo one would mistake a "girl, dressed as you are at the moment, for a Udy ; nobodyl but" disregarding the deep flush ou her companion's cheek "If I went into a shop, aud saw there a young lady as pretty and as delicately made as you are, Cary, with hair as smooth as satin, and a simple gown that fitted ex actly, and a collar aud cuffs as white as snow, aud irhaps a black silk apron or a white one, and with neat shoes aud white stockings if I saw a girl dressed like tliat, with nothing costly, nothing that any girl raiinot have, but every thing fresh aud neat and pretty, 1 should say to myself, 'There is a shop girl with the true instincts of a lady.' And Cary dont think me impertinent if Mark came to town and saw a girl like that among ttie crowd of untidy, over-dressed ones at Snow & Asher's, 1 think the contrast would strike him as it would me agreeably!" Miss Sydney paused, half frightened at her own darling. Cary looked stead ily into the hre without speaking. I he rain had ceased. Myra rose and threw back the blind, revealing the moon struggling through the edges of cloud. Cary followed her to the window. Her cheeks were a deep red, but there was a frank aud grateful look in her eyes as she said: "1 must be going now, maain. You've been ever so good to let me stay. I shan't forget it, anu I guess you're about right." '1 wonder if I said the right thing, or have done the least good?" queried Miss Sydney, as she watched her guest depart. It was some weeks beiore she liad oc casion ag-.iiu to visit Snow & Asher's, and she had half forgotten the little in cident, wheu one day entering the shop in quest of something her attention was attracted by a face which beamed with sudden smiles at the sight of her. it was indeed Cary, but such a different Cary from the draggled vision of the wet evening. She still wore the blue dress, but the flounces had been ripped off, aud the front was hidden by a black silk apron. The tingle of nair was smooth like ordinary waves, a white collar with a knot of blue ribbon was round her neck; one of the objection able rings had disappeared, and so had the yellow locket. So changed aud so much prettier tvaithe little maiden that Miss Syauey scarcely knew her till blush aud smile (tomted her out Mie waited on her customer with as siduity, and under cover of a box of ruffles they exchanged confiden ces. Did M iss Sydney tliniK sue looted better? She was so glad. The girls had laughed at her at first, but not so much now, and her room-mate, Ellen Morris, had got herself au apron like tier's. Miss Sydney left the shop with a pleased amusement at her heart She meant to eo otten, to keep a little hold on Cary, but circumstances took her off to r lorida soon af terward, and it was late in April when she returned. "lhat girl from buow Asher's was here to see you about a week ago ma'am," said Esther, the evening after her arrival. "I told her you was ex pected Tuesday, and she said she would come to-day, for she wanted to speak to you particular, and she was going away. There she is now." Cary Indeed it was, with a steady, manly looking young fellow by her side. "lt is Mark, Miss Sydney," she said by way of introduction. Later, when Mark had walked over to the window to see the view, she explained further in a rapid undertone; He came down about two months ago, while you was away, ma'am. 1 came out to tell you, but you was gone, and day alter to morrow I'm going back with hiin to Gilmantou. 1 told him he must bring me out to-night, for I couldn't leave here without saying good bye to you." "You are gomg to be married t" "Yes" with a happy look "to morrow morning. And oh, Jliss Syd ney, what do you think Mark says? He says if he'd found me looking like the rest of the girls at tne store, witn raise hair and jewelry and all that, he'd never in the world have asked me at alL And I did look Just like that, you know. It was what you said that rainy night that made me change, aud except for that nothing would have happened that has, and I shouldn't be the girl I am " 'Bread on the waters" tuougut Myra, as a little later she watched, the lovers walk down the street. Never Xo More. n j h.H -inot nit hia ovster sIijd ODjaed tn the nuhiic the other day, when in came a man wh i asked: Got any rawrf Yes sir "e have some ot the large oyster -i I ever saw." - ' . .. nr; mrttm Aakeri and piven. and s 11 seemed to be perfectly sv.isfactory, 1 .1 1 n 1 .1 . the man oruereu a uvwu wu www. "I've got a alUxtil joutractioo of the i.r ihH ilimat. an sooietimes 1 choke. If auyiliiug happens to me, run me to the aoor wnere 1 can net ui air and then rush tor drink of water. The caterer promised to ODjerve the -.,!; n hni it wu only wben the twelfth V. . V "J " . and latt oyster was taken in between twj rows of leeiu wnicu ruoj out nae ten penny nails that anything happened, t hen the ester suddenly raised one leg, bis eyes bulged oat, and he began to skip arouni 1 kc a goal dodging a club. Tne cnoke had come. MiMrpr T..ii him hv the arm ant UJhcred bun to tbe do f, sod then bitrried to tne rear ena 01 me reuauraoi f . i.ik f water. When he returned ith it, ball expecung to see tbe customer 1. ;.. . m the 3.r in ino airmies of suffo- caliou, no one w in sifCiit. Tbe man as n in the a r, uor at tue uoor, nor around tbe door, lit was two blockr away, u-l the twelfth oyeter had gone down to keep tue company of the other eleven. 1 . ... . .rM Icr iinfirlier ii:th thinff won t UN v.n..j 3 " happen in that p'.ace again. Some other mtn with a Goniracieu inrom may sian in . - th. rrTt hit t hafvM hP hit 4 Mtll IU JIIJ " his sec wd oyster, he wdl be dispatched wiih hickory club, and hi body sent to some medical college, to find where tbe loose spoke was. A Detactlva'a Discovery. "Where did these burs come from?" and Mrs. Popperman pulled three real old-fashioned burs from her husband's coat as he lay on the lounge the other evening. Xow, it would have been very easy for Mr. Popperman to have told where the burs came from, but he thought it would be a good joke to mystify his wife, so he pretended to be surprised. "I I don't know." ''Have you been in the country to day?" "Xo." . "Well, it's very singular how a busi ness man can get burs on his clothes in Xew York." "Well, I'll tell you. The health offi cers have planted burdock bushes on Broadway to purify the air and prevent the horses from having the blind stag gers. Sometimes I brush up against these bushes." "Ohl" Mrs. Popperman eyed her husband suspiciously, but said nothing more. The next morning two more burs were picked from his pants. "Xow, I want to know what this means. I went to Xew Y'ork yesterday on purpose, to see if there was bushes ou Broadway. There wasn't one. Xow, I want an explanation." "Well, I'll tell you, my dear. These are burs. They are the fruit of a re markable tropical plant which is now ou exhibition at the Fifth Avenue Ho tel. This plant is twenty feet high. Occasionally I go into the hotel, and, while standing under the leaves of this plant, the fruit, which resembles burs, drops on my clothes," " What is the name of this singular plant?" "The botanical name is Luinty turn olius." After Mr. Popperman had departed the next day his wife sought a detec tive. "My husband comes home every night with burs on his clothes. Xow I want you to follow him aud find out where he goes." The detective undertook to solve the mystery. Xo burs on Mr. Popperuian's clothes that night nor the next The third night he returned with the usual complement. The next day the detec tive called upon Mrs. Popperiuau. "I've discovered alii" "What! Is my husband then false to me? Does he go to the country to visit some woman, or does be spend his after noons at Central Park?" "I followed your husband two days. He attended strictly to his business. The third day he left his otlice about 2 o'clock, and" "Went in the country?" "Xo ma'am. He came to Brooklyn and rode to the vacant lot which he has just purchased ou Schermerhorn street. While superintending the erection of a fence around the lot he often came in contact with the burdock bushes, and there is where he gets the burs." "Oh, I am so glad. You have done your work well. Good day, sir." That evening when Mr. l'opierman returned his wife threw her arms around his neck and said: "My dear, I'm so glad to know that you are not a villain." "What do you mean?" "Well, about those burs, you know. I put a detective ou your track aud he told me that you got the burs in that lot on Schermerhoru Street, and that you are innocent" "Hal Ha! So you put a detective on my track, did you?" "Yes." "Good joke;" and Mr. Popperman laid back in his chair aud fairly roared with laughter. "Yes, dear, and here's the detective's bill, which you have got to pay." "To shadowing Mr. Popperman for three days, at S'J ir day, $27. The laughter subsided, and for au hour it was so quiet that you could have heard a bur drop. An Alleged Miraelo. An account from Lafayette.Iudiaaa, says that Agues Walter, a young lady residing in that city, was recently un able tb move and was blind; now she walks and can see. Eight years ago she was seized with cerebro-spinal meningitis, which left her lower limbs paralyzed. She had gone to Oldens burg, Ind., to enter a convent, and was taken ill the second day after she ar rived. In a few weeks she was taken home, and for eight vears she has been a constant sufferer. The best physi cians of the city have treated her and pronounced her incurable Dr. l ount has been her physician for three years. She was in convulsions most of the time, and these would continue as long as two and three weeks. Dr. Y'ount states that she presented a most terri ble appearance. lor weeks at a time she had no nourishment whatever. Re cently a young lady friend, Miss Kins man, returned from Europe and brought with her some water from the fountain of Our Lady of Lourdes. This Miss alter has been applying and drinking. A nine days' season of prayer was be gun by herself and other members of the church. This terminated when she was removed in an unconscious condi tion to the church. She at length was revived, took communion, and instant ly she could see and walk unaided. She believes that prayer did it Dr. Y'ount and others pronounce it a most marvel lous case. When the doctor and re porters called, she walked across the room to show that she was indeed cur ed. Her case seems miraculous, and there are many more besides herself who are familiar with the case who at tribute it to the power of prayer. Female Infanta, The Chinese custom of killing the female infants of a family is, of course. admirably adapted to keep down ex penses and obviate inconveniences, but as public opinion in England could not be reconciled to so simple a remedy, other channels of relief have to be sought in that country. In the case of persons of high position, who groan under the infliction of six .or seven daughters, the (jueen has in more than one case evinced her royal sympathy by selecting from such quiverfuls her maids of honor; but maids of honor are limited in number, and are generally endowed with a barnacle like tenacity of life and office. Under these circum stances the owners of "AY e are seven" turn to the sister-hoods, which promise to be to Protestant young ladies the re lief valve that convents have long been to Roman Catholics. There is scarce ly a family of rank now which has not a member among them. The daughter ot an Earl Is managing a child's hospi tal in a provincial town as Sister Somebody. Lmdlas ot Seville at a Ball-right. "The ladies of Spain, except In some remote town in the mountain regions. have laid aide the natlocal costume, and dress accordine to the dictates ot Paris, preferring even the French fan to their own decorated with (be incidents ot the bull-flint and the serenade. In Seville, says writer, the black lace mantilla is still worn at churco, and to snie ex- lent on tbe street; but the ha, is the cover of toe new fasmon, more s tbe pity, and tbe high combs have gone al together. 1 do not know why a woman. even a plain woman, shou'd be so utterly fasc aating in a mantilla, thrown over a high co!ub and falling gracefully over tbe shoulders, stepping daintily in high heeled shoes with pointed toes, and inov'mz her kuve fan with just that non chalacl air so accurately calculated to wound but not to kuL In the whole assembly I saw only one or two na tional costumes; the mantilla and the uiifh comb, with tbe short petticoat- brilliant in color. Xo'.hlig could be more becoming, and it mates one doubt whether woman's strongest desire is to please, and whether it is not rather to follow the fashion, when we see a whole nation abandon such a charming attire. "But the white mantilla is tie rigueur for a bull fight, and every lady wore one. lt was a little odd to see ladies in the open liglt of a brilhaut, cloudless day, and in the gaze of tbe public, in lull (as it is called) cotume of ths b ui-r-Kiru; but the crem n) -white mantillas softened somewhat he too brilliant display, and threw over 'be le the htrinmy of sublued splen dor. What superb Spanish face, blonde, soft, with a silken luster, falhag in lovely folds that show its generous and exquis itely wrought figures, each leaf and stem and fljwer tue creation of dainty fingers! Such work as Ibis, of snob a tone and SneneM, in sici la-g m intilhu, sweeping from the hea i to tue trin, is scarcely to be fojud m the shops nowadays. These were heir-looms, grea'.-great-graod -moth er's lsce. long yellowing, and growing rich in locked cbest. worn only oa stale occa sions, aud now brought forth t make a bull's nolid-ty. "We speul a goxl deal of tbe waiting time in scrutiniz.ng tbe pacxed seats for beautiful woui-n, and, 1 am aorry to say, with hardly a reward adequate to our tunety. 1 am not sure how much the beauty ot the women of Seville is tradi tional. Tney have gjod points. Graceful fi'ures are a A uncommon, and One teeth: and dirk, liquid, laree eyes, which they ae perpetually in oetllaac destructive to peine aul security. And the fan, the most deadly weapon of coquetry, gives the coup de grace to lhosj whom the eyes bave wounded. But the Seville women have usually sallow, pisty, dead com plexions, l'eth ips the beauty of the skin is destroyed by cosmetics, for there was nut a lady at the bull-fight who was not highly rouged and powdered. This gave an artificiality to their appearance n mama.' Beauty of feature was vtry rare, and Mill rarer was that animation, that stamp ot individual character, loveliness in the n!ay of expression, and rpriht- huess, tuat cuartn in any assembly of A.uericn women. Ho, tbe handsome women in the rinir were not numerous enough to make any impression on the general oitss, aud yet the total effect, wiih the blonde Inc.-, the artificial color, the rich toilet, aud the ag.tation of fans, was c'larmiag.'' Keform In Prison. The lion. Mitrun U. Bvee. of Wis- cois'.n, arrived in Cleveland recently on a temporary visit. The gentleman is a handso ne man, apparently absut 50 years of age, with a military bearing. II is cireer as a prison reformer dales from bis connection with the Stite Senate of Wisconsin. Kjvee believes that the crim inal of to-day who goes to t'.e State prisou is irretrievably ruined. "All pen alties," said be, "should contemplate the reformation ot the criminals, and when leforinition is impossible life imprison ment luuat of necessity be tbe confw- qu'.'uce. socic'.y mul protect itself. Whenever any individual disturbs the peace of society he should be promptly restricted of his liberty. 1 bis being done the safety of society is assured aipunst him, but this gives the State no authority to bebsse him nor to blot out his manhood, but tbe su'e should surround bun with the best moral influences at her cjmmand and save bim to the State an 1 his family if possible.'' Bovee believes in reform schools and State prisons, but they must be conducted oa a ditf jreut principle from lhat now in force. He attacks the jail system of tuis country and ad rotates in its stead employment house, and says en forced ldlene&s is pernicious in its effects and that men waiting trial bad better, even if luuocent, have employment. liovee also protests against capital punish ment as a barbs'ous taw and argues that the States of Maine, Hbode Island, Wis consin and Michin, which had repealed that law, are just as well protected with out the penally as they bad been w'th it. He has aiven tbe subject ot crime and its pumshmeais greater consideration than any other Individual in tti Uuiten States, and has made a public canvass of nearly half the States in the L nion, leaving his impress upon tbe pjnal codes of nearly every S aie he b is visile '. He will de liver public addresses in tight Southern S;a'e this winter to open up the question of prison reform and industrial schools for boys in the South. The Night-Shooter. In the Adirondacks once came a re markable episode in the annals of the night-shooter, but which is true to a word. We had paddled barely zuu yards from where I killed a deer, when we heard another one walking among the grasses at the head of the lake. The moss-covered log rustled through the rushes, with the weird half-circle of light spreading shoreward with each sweep of the silent paddle, and again the white outline of the deer seemed to grow out of the gloom ahead. Splunge, splashl it is walking toward us. Now it stops! and in the full glare of the headlight we see a beautiful, fat doe, her coat beginning to assume the blue tint of the winter covering. With head outstretched, she gazes earnestly at the lantern, while we sit silently aud admiringly in the impenetrable gloom enshrouding the dugout behind the light. After satisfying her curiosity she turns to feed, and the canoe steals upon her. ' Now she is watching her shadow, cast by the light, on the lily pads and grassy water. Another quick stroke with the paddle, aud L prod her in the ribs with my gun. At the first punch she stood like a beautiful statue. At the second I would stroke her with my hand, but I fear she, waking from her astonished trance, would kick over our dugout in her terror she gave one great bouud,ca using our log to oscillate violently and showering us with cold spray, and then we heard her bounding up the hill. The Bad Boy Away Frona Homo, "Oh, people are not all as good as you and I are," said the groceryman, as he watched the boy making a sneak on a bunch of erapes. "But did you go to the circus?" "Circus? Well, I should assimilate And it is a wonder I am not there yet Hut, whatever you do, don't ask pa if be was at the circus, 'cause he will kill you. Y'ou see pa and I drove up to the race-track, where the circus was, in the evening, and after the circus was out we waited to see the men take the tents down, and after they had gone we started to drive home. It was darker than a squaw's pocket, and I drove out on the race-track, and the old horse used to be a racer and he pricked up his ears. Pa took the lines and said he would drive, 'cause we were out pretty late and ma wonid be nervous. 1 told pa I didn't believe he was on the right road, but he said he guessed nobody could fool him about the road to town, and bless me if he didnt drive around that track about eight times. .Every time we passed the grand-stand, which pa couldn't see on account of his eyes, I laffed; but I thought if he knew the road so confounded well I could ride as long as he could. "After we had rode around the track about eight miles, and I was getting sleepy, 1 mildly suggested that we had better stop at a house and inquire the way to town, and pa got mad and ask ed me if I took him for a fool. Then he drove around a couple of times more. and the man that keeps the track he came out with a lantern and said,'Uel- lor l'a stopped and asked tnni what he wanted, and he said, 'O, nothin',' and pa drove on aud told hiin to mind his business. We went around the track again, and when we got to the same place the man was there, and I guess pa thought it was time to inquire the way, so he pulled up and asked the man what he was doing there, and the man said he was minding his own busi ness. Pa asked him if we were on the right road to town, and the man said if we wasn't in a hurry he would like to have us drive on the track all night, as it was a little heavy, and he wanted to get it in condition to speed the colts the next day, hut if we had to go we could drive out at the gate and take the first left-hand road. "Well, pa was mad, and he wanted to know w hy I didnt tell him we were on the track, but I told him he seemed to know it all, and it was dangerous to advise a man who knew it all. He didn't speak all the way to town, but, when 1 put out the horse, he said, 'Hennery, if this thing gets out your pa will have the reputation of being drunk, li you tell of it you are no friend of mine.' So I sliall not say any thing about it, 'cause it is a bail boy who will go back on his pa." t.mbalmlnc- Taugbt, A "School of embalming" Is in pro gress m Detroit, and, after several re fusals, a reporter gained an interview with Prof. Kenouard and asked him about the proceshe is to teach. The professor is a man of medium height, heavy build, a little over 40 years of age, and Las a marked French accent. He began by referring to the popular prejudice against embalming, and said that he didn't wonder that the old methods excited such a prejudice. One great advantage of embalming is, that is destroys all germs of disease, so th:it it is impossible for the living to become affected from the remains of those who have died of contagious maladies. This is not the case with bodies placed in an ice box. Embalming prevents decay, and there is none of that evolution of gases which no ground can wholly ab sorb, especially the cemeteries of large cities. The features of the dead can also be preserved for a great length of time, and repeated tests have shown that embalming, to a large extent, restores the features when through death by violence or delays of various kinds titty have ceased to be life-like." "How about the process itself." "It is a very brief one. The old Egyptian process occupied 70 days, while now it occupies scarcely an hour and a half. Nor dues the present pro cess necessitate a removal of the cloth ing of the deceased. In order to use the ice box as is commonly done, it is demanded that the body be compara tively unclothed up to almost the last hour before the funeral, but in embalm ing, the friends may, if (hey wish, ful ly clothe it immediately after death and before calling in the embalmer. That this is so, is evident from the fact that the process is in the main similar to that in which morphine and other medicines are injected beneath the skin of the living. By the passing of a hypodermic tube into one of the con venient arteries, an antiseptic fluid flows into the arterial system and pre vents those changes which so greatly add to the frightf ulness of death. A body thus simply and quickly prepared will continue as at the time of deatb,or even in better conditioner six months. Or, if thought best, it may be covered with a slight but impervious fluid pre paration which will resist all agencies of destruction for ten years or more. In this length of time the body will be come greatly shrunken, hard as wood and in color like mahogany, but noth ing more. In fact I liave some such bodies in my rooms at Rochester, which I prepared in Colorado ten or more years ago, and which 1 was permitted to exhume and take .bast as speci mens." Pro. Benouard has ten pupils in his Detroit class. He was formerly a drug dist, but went into the embalming business thirteen years ago, and since then has instructed hundreds of under takers. Ashland, the Borne ot Clay. A drive of a mile from Ashland south east along the limestone turnpike that paves the stteets of towxs and highways about them, brings the visitor to the home of Henry Clay. Tae road is dotekl mitu be an til ol suburban resi dences most of the way on the north, and part of the original Ashland larm is soon presented on the south. It is beautiful fields, green with tne noted Hie 'grass tht is credited with the creation ot the famous stoek cf Ket tuoky, bat it is now thefproperty of the AgiiiuitirU College. Further fo the soutu is the home of John Clay, the only surviving son of the founder of Ashland, who lives the quiet life of a farmer on soma two hundred acres of the old homestead. Beyond Ashland is the home of the lata Thomas Cisy, a- other son. and it is still in possession of his family; bnt the Aahhtud a hose aged trees were planted and whose mansion was planned and fashioned by Clay him self, is now the residence ot his grand daughter, Mrs, McDowell, and her ac complished and hospitable husband. It was long the reticence of James B. Clay, the ouly son who reached national distinction as a pul lio man aud who was twice elected to represent tbe Lex ington district in Congress. He died in the prime of life, and tbe citizens of Liexington and the Stte contributed to ttia purchase of the property for an Agricultural College. The College was not successful on the plan adopted, and Colonel McDowell, a Kentuckiaa of cul ture and fortune an 1 the husband of the only daughter of Henry Clay, Jr., who fell at bueoa V lata, purchased Ashland, and it agaiu became the home of the Clays within the last Tear. The man sion La 1 been rebuilt by James to arrest decay, but the old foundations were un touched, and the new Ashland mansion is the exact counterpart of the original, in both architecture and material, lack ing only the sanctity of ag. Colonel McDjwell welcome the friends of the Clays to the home they regard as one of tne shnnes of patriotism andstateenbw- ship, and his wife hears with filial firide the homage paid to tbe grandaire she more thau idolizes. She is a thorough Clay, with alt the marked features and complexion of her grandfather, softened in refined and e egant womanhood. The architecture of the house is as original and novel as it is beautifu'. A piJared portico fuces Lexington to the northwest, from whiclt th imposing statue of Clay, two miles distant in the LexiDgtoa Cemetery, is visible between the forests which ekirt the road and towj, and single-storied wings with gables to the front, flank the main structure and ad l to its palatial propor tions and internal comfort The o ipa cioas gronnds are a forest of shade, variegated in type anl threaded with walks aid drives aud beautiful with shrubs and newer. It is a home worthy of Henry Clay, and that exhausts the power eulogy. Colonel McDowell in herited Clay's love for horses, and bis stable would have delighted Clay wheu he was m walled tue horse-racer, because he believed that men and women and all the creatures committed to their guardianship, should attain the highest measure of perfection, The quality of his stable may be understood when 1 speak of "Dictato"," a twenty-year-old horse, fcr whom he paid $25,000 only a few w eeks ago, and could sell him at an advance to-duy. and of a fitly for whom he refused $10,0D0 at two years of ae, and they were but two of many kindly exhibited, the least valuable of which a yearlings, would rate iu the thousands. "Dictator" is, learn, tiie must noted horse on the continent, and the royal disdain with which he tt :ps the earth leaves no doubt of his self-appreciated nobility. All that is about AsQland has the appearaLO J of grandeur. Its gently undulating fields, neat as a Lan astjr model farm; the clearly exhibited fer tility of the Boil; the high-bred cattle grazing on the biue-gr.is coated lawns, aud the primeval forests which fresben the fascinating landscape ajd stand as sentinels over the beaa'ilul fields, all tell why the home of Henry CUy was to him the dearest tpot of earth. Turning from the hospitable home of the desjvudants of Clay, it is most na tural for the visitor to bend his steps to the grave of the great Commoner. Xo direction is needed, as it towers aliove town and loiest and guides the wor shiper to tbe shrine he seeks. Ou the northwestern suburb of the town is the Lexiugton Cemetety, one of the most beautiiul resting places for the dead I have ever visited. It is grandly and bouutifnlly "haded by forest tree, va riegated with tvergreens and fragrant hillocks and sadijn ravines are all dotted with the records of the dreamless sleepers of this lovely City of the Silent. Neui the centre on a gentle eminence with a large velvety lawn around it, are the grave and monument of Henry Ciay. A broad base of Kentucky limestone twenty feet high, encloses the dust of the beloved aud lamented statesman, anl by hissile is the partner of his joys aud sorrows, who survived him a full decade. Facing the sonny Soutn is an opeT grating that offers full view of the beauUiully chiseled marble tombs which contain the dust of the Clays, Ou the top of the marble siruapbagis are tbe simple words, Henry Clay. O J the large base is erecjed a reand column of ii ite limestone, nearly oue hundred feet iu height, and ou the pin nacle is the life like statue of Clay, fac ing the home his name and love have made immortal. With all his grandeur of character and attainments, his destiny was dust to dust, tue common destmy of al1, aud the heart and tongue whose eloquence inspired the liberty loviug people of every clime are silenced loi- eer, but nis memo y anu nis leaemuga will endure while the Itepublio lives After half a century of distinct ion in both hemlspber 8, and victories aud de feats which are alike immortal, the story euds m the pe useful sbades of Lexington C.ni stery. and records, atter all, ouly the brief but fretful journey froa the cradle to the grave. Cheyenne's Cattle Trade. Cheyenne has been made and is sup ported by the cattle business. There are downs of men who began business ten years ago with a capital of from $oU0 to $1,000 who are now worth from ?Jo,000 to 100,OUO. Xot long ago 1 visited the Kmgman ranch, six miles from Cheyenne. On this ranch is the .largest herd of thoroughbred Hereford r" ... - . - . i; : cattle m America, a uey ate uue speci mens and no mistake, lt beat any cat tle show I ever saw. In the large barn, which cost $4,000, 1 was shown eleven fine Hereford bulls, worth from Jo00 to $1,000 each. Some had been imported from England, ine .territorial siock laws are very stringent A cattle thief would be hung there almost as quickly as a murderer. Every butcher in Wy oming is required by law to keep a complete record of every animal slaugh tered. That is, he must Keep a dook in which is given the date of purchased, the age, sex and breed of the animal slaughtered. This record is at all times open to the inspection of stock growers and their employes. The hides of slaughtered animals must be kept at the place of slaughtering for at least seven days. To if axk hominy waffle", to two tea cups of hot hominy add one tablespoon ful of batter; wben cold, add one cap of sifted wheat floor, a little salt, and enough milk to make a stiff batter, and two eggs well beaten; mix well and bake in a warns tin. Thx next shorthorn herd book will contain the pedigrees of 4,800 bolls and 6,000 cows and heifers and will be pub lished in two volumes. The Wild Turkey. The wild turey was once found scat tered over the whole of the North American Continent, bnt. as the axe of the pioneer was heard advancing further and farther westwards the noble bird which raised in Audubon raptures of en thusiastic admiration lias been pushed towards the frontiers of the settlements, until each succeeding year sees its num bers diminished, so that ultimate exter mination is a matter of certainty. In liouisiana, Alabama. Mississippi, and Arkansas there are still many fastnesses inacosttible-to man where the wild turkey will find a binding-place for many years to come. The same obscurity and iso lation, however, which protect the wild gobbler afford shelter and immunity to his formidable enemy the wild cat, who incessantly preys upon him, aud m ike his life conditional npon cunning and vigilance. Nor is its finely flavored meat unappreciated by the swamp fox and weasel, which selects the young birds for its evening repast whenever it la passible to catch them. Oceasional !y the Mississippi and other big rivers arise daring the nesting time, anl over flow the lowlands and the islands npon which the turkeys breed. The young bird, unable to fly and too delicate to resist the inflaeuce of the wet, sickens and dies. In order to appreciate the finest sport that any game bird in crea tion affords an English sportsman should become acquainted with an American turkey-hunter. Having made the wild habits of the bird and its exceeding sly ness his especial study he has learnt to use a call, which modulates the note of alarm and the doloet whisper of bird -love, or gives forth the mimic sounds of joy at tne discovery of food hidden under tbe failing leaf and npon tbe swarming ant-hill. The hunter knows that tt-e cracking of a twig under his foot, the clatter of an alarmed squirrel, the scampering of a deer (hrongtt the forest, will rouse the wild turkey's easily excited suspicions, and prompt him to immediate aud headlong flight. The implements of this peculiar sportsman are few and simple, conaist of the call, generally made of tne large bone of tue turkey's wing, and a sore rifle. The bird changes its habits with its haunts, growing wilder where it is most pursued. Oauiiug in wisdom and cunning according to ttie danger of its surroundings, the old gobbler is so wary that no ordinary sportsman can circumvent him. "I once huuted regu lar aft n the same biril, said a famous Mississippi marksman, "lortlirex years, and never saw him but twice, I knew the critter's yelp as well as that of Ales c, my old deerhoand, and the bird's track, was as clear to me as that of a leg hauled along a dusty road. I hunted him always about the same scratchiiis. and when I called he would run from mi." Let us taae an imaginary scene. The day wears towards ncou, aud the patient hunter has met with no "sign." Suddenly a slight Bound is heard, not unlike a thousand other woodlaud noises out enough to satisfy the listener's prac ticed ear. Stealthily he intreuchea him self behind a fallen tree; a few green twigB are arranged before him through which peeps the nrnzzle of his trusty rifle. Thus prepared he emits his call, ai.d gives one solitary female cluck, so exquisitely modulated that it chimesn with the running brook aud the rustling leaf. Half a mile ctf a splendid gobbler is lee J ing. As he scratches up the herbage that conceals his food he giyes utterance to the sound that hrst attrac ted the hunter's notice. His wings are awry, the plnmage on his breast seems soiled with nun, his wattles are con tracted and pale, when suddenly ho starts, and, instantly every feather is in its pi ice. He raises his uuinty head full four feet from the ground, and lis tens. What an eye flashes, what a stride is suggested iy that lilted foot. Again the cluck greets his ear. L prist s the head with lightning swiltuess; the bird starts forward a pace or two, and answers to the caJL He is uneasy, and picks np his fcoi pettishly, sniootliiDg down his feathers, aud at last springing np to the limb of a tree to peer into the wood. An hour passes away before the framed hunter ventures npon another caiL Tbe wary gobbler is satisfied that it comas from no human lips, and there rises to his mind tne picture of some disconsolate mistress. But he is au old bird, aud has escaped with his life by a miracle upon previous occssions. He has grown extraordinarily cunning. He never roosts for two successive nights upon the same tree, and rarely gobbles without running away from the sound himself has made. But the last cluck has fairly roused him. He begins to strut; his slender lithe body swells; the beautiful plumage of his breast is ruined his neck curves, his wattles grow scar let. The long leathers of his wings brush the ground, and the tail rises and opens like a fan. Ou he comes, with a bitching gait, glowing in the sunshine like purple and gold. The siren cluck is twiee repeated, and scaice tilty yards intervenes between him and the murder ous rifle. The hunter, anxious to draw him still nearer, in order to shoot him through the head, fools him to the top of his bent- At length he hops upen a fallen stump, some twenty yards distant from the doom that awaits him. The sharp crack'cf a ntle rings through the forest tae glittering plumage, the proud step, the pieiciug eye avad him not, aud withont a movement of the muscles he has fallen a headless body to tbe earth. To those Eng'ish sports men and they are many who find pheasant shooting tame, we would rc- oommend a vt-it in the snperb autumn of North America to tbe Southern States, in the hope that many such gobblers as we have described may fall before their unerring bullets. Fading Mineral. Tt mav tint Im cenerallv known that many minerals lose their color or lade wheu expooed to light, .experienced collectors frequently keep their most finely colored specimens in a dark place. r luonte is especially naoie uj iaue. Amazon stone, however, sometimes traiiid in color when exoosed to light A greenish gray foldsptr from the grauite veins of Ammeberg nas ueeu iouuu tu assume a bright emerald gieen wben exposed to the a r. Experiments made by placing fragments in sealed tabwi and exposing tuem to the light for a year led to the conclusion that air and moisture had no influence, bat that light alone effected the change in color. 77ie treatment of leprosy is becoming a hard problem in India. In the Bom bay Piesidency 9,433 cases are under treatm nt t V f i
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