Sr. At
B- F. SCHWEIER,
VOL. XXXVII.
THE MILKI.NU HOI K.
" 1 1 J 1l
' r? T,.r-. ?,uJ iui.et'y .
- - - "'uk your bead tuul vi v
t.u r looking for lnald.it'.plain to !
l'.ut he won't be hen. .1. W
Xtilmtlv initio Wltll n .1 1
. -- utar oi.i lion.
N. even to carry uiy pail; fw you see.
Donald s irone u l.iiii .i ' ., wu BeBi
And Donald U vVnh
Aiul all twwiiiA nf . i i . i
II -L i luing:
1 never dreamed that he would nut su
It was only a woman's v
I wonder if Daniel has ever learned
The motto of "Try and trr again."
I t hink, if he had, it miKht hve been
lie had not learned in vain.
Ami there needn't have stn-U-ned Wln
u this fair eveuing, the tn.adow wide.
Ami 1 iieetln t have milked alone to-tual.t
V 1th UoUmIv at mv "-",
What was it lie raid "to me yester ere.
..i.r.u.up auom aimut my eye'
ll's strange Ikw clever that Donald can be-
. , . uv , , n .
N.w, Itossy, old cow, yon musn't tell
That I've cried a little whilemllkiug you
r..r don t you see? it is nothing tj me
... wiuuc lO Ua
If he chose to go whistling down the lane
I t'ttiMtf In HI1IT rrt 1
Hut it a lonely without him, after all
No w isn't it Uossy dear? '
1-h.yk! who's that? Oh, Donald, It's you!
Did vou tpeak? excuse me what did
you aaj.
"May you carry my pail." Well, at
I suppose, if you try, vou may.
Hut. lnolil if I 1.9.1 ., I V-.
1K you think it would have occurred to
Not to be vexed at a woman's way.
Hut to try what coaxing would d'o?
HOW HE riMSHKD HEB.
ne wouiu snow ner what it ineant
to rebel against hiin. True, she Lad
asked hiin to let her go to her mother
r. ii
who was ill but who would attend to
his wants if she went? lie had made it
plain enough to her; what more could
she expect? - But she was not satisfied.
She had declared her intention of going
anynow, and sue had said she did not
see any reason why she should stay
away when her mother needed her so
much- It was only a few hour's ride,
and she would come straight back just
as soon as mamma was better. Eobert
w;s angry, but when he thought it
over he would surely see that she was
right.
She had reasoned so, and putting to
gether a few articles which she would
heed, she locked up her things secure
ly, went down stairs and told Jones,
the waiting-man to say to his master
that she wouli only be gone two days,
leaving everything in Jones' care, she
went out into the street, hailed a cab,
aud was driven to the train.
Robert Xesbit received her message
and became deeply indignant. He felt
himself deeply aggrieved. His author
ity had been set aside, his comfort ig
nored, ana he determined to make her
feel the weight of his displeasure. lie
would punish her so severely that she
would sever again defy him.
He went to his office, but was so
silent and grum all day that his part
ner wondered. Xext day he did not
come until about noon, when he. an
nounced his intention of leaving the
city. This was a sudden resolve, but
the former said nothing. Xesbit was
a peculiar man, and liked no interfer
ence in his affairs. He only asked: "If
letters come, to what point should they
be forwarded?"
"Send none until you hear from me,
for I have not decided yet where I
shall go," was the reply.
A week passed two, three, then a
ruouth had rolled away, and no word
ha.i come from him. His partner had
a letter from his wife, saying that she
had w ritten to her husband again and
again, aud received no reply. "Was
lie ill? Was he away? What was the
matter?''
He wrote telling her all he knew,
H-hich was simply that his partner had
gone away some weeks before.
Laurel had never so needed a hus
band's consoling love. Her mother, to
whom she had been devoted, lay on the
bed of death, and her anguish at seeing
this dear friend about to leave her was
augmented by her husband's unjust
and cruel treatment. Her delicate
health was failing, her suffering was
ihteiie. If her husband would only
come'. Each time the bell rang her
heart would give a quick throb, and
tea.- lieating.
At last the sn.sieuse of watching and
waiting the blow that would surely
fall was ended. The blow fell, the
good, kind mother smiled on her for
the last time, and died with her loving
''es fixed upon her child.
After the funeral she returned to the
city and went straight to the office, but
tar Lund had not sent any news of
ms whereabouts. With a stifling heart
"lie turned away. She then went to
uir home, but there she met with dis
appointment also. The house was closed
a"d iocked up, the servants were all
g'JW,aiul there was no one there to tell
fcer anything. There was nothing to do
u,'t to return to the depot and wait for
ll train to take her back to her girl-
""xl's home. In a few hours she was
sobbing in her brother's arms.
"eh Id him all, and asked him what
must do. The dark light that
khej into his eyes boded no good for
"s brother in-law should he meet him
'h uresent state, but he told her he
'wild attend to it for her; she musto
"Wsuid liedou-,.
Kut rest was impossible; sleep was
"flfram the wide dark eyes. They
" lp.2ht and hr limw anil cheeks
burning; before night she was de-
-""uawith fever.
. ithesaiim lu n.-jt T.anrol was ill'
at home her husband in
(lilt . . . . .
tl('ul city clianced to picK up
jlr, and read this notice: "Died
jjAJfuaoimt, near the town of ,
r5- EllsWAfKl mnthoi- Walter G.
T and Mis. Eobert Xesbit"
, ol heavens! Laurel's mother
And he had acted as he h
about his w ife ' r.; t t . .
thm,.,hf v " " . naa never
WW ,a moiner 8 "Iness anvthing.
KleT think of him?
;T""WW uun uome at once."
saw th7t M TZ??1 ??
, , . -""iiwu uau uied seve
ral days befor. IT i. . .
home as soon as he could possibly get
-,t
He went straight to the depot and
bought a through ticket for home. He
knew it was useless to go to hU house;
it was locked and he had the keys. He
re mere would l tin nn. f .t. .
fice He could not goout to Clarmoimt
mu u.e next train which left in tw
hours. He could only go to the nearest
te egrapi, station and send a message to
let them know he was coniimr. Ha
was just writing the message when he
. ma name called. Ha lonk.i
around. One of the young men in the
u.uue nanueu mm a messasre whirl.
jut oeen received, addressed to "lar
Su, oi esoit, liarleigh & Co." It
contained these words:
Wire Xesbit at once, if vou rt.- i.u
very ww. W. G. Ellswood.
1 think this message concerns v
"o.c man ii uoes your partner, Mr.
csutu xnere is no necessity to send
t out, 10 uis nouser"
But the operator received no renlv
Looking in Xesbit's he face saw that it
was deathly in its hue. He offered him
cltair, but the stricken man only
wrote the reply: "Coininc: meet me
ai me station," and w alked out of the
olhce.
He w eut straight to the depot, w here
ne iiau to wait a short while tliat seem
ed an eternity before the train moved
uu. uu me way uis inougnts were
full of remorseful agony. He had acted
unjardouably. He had been very hard
and cruel toward his young wife, and
now she Was very ill probably dying
and he not w ith her. He felt that his
cruelty in leaving her without a word
had its share in bringing on her illness.
The carnage was waiting for him at
the station. The driver said in reply to
his eager inquiry: ,
"Miss Laurel is very low.'
'Rapidly he was driven to the house
where he had spent so many pleasant
evenings, where he had first met Laurel
in the bloem of her girlhood, his own
sweet Laurel; would she know him?
Oh, merciful God! would she be living?
At last the bouse was reached, and he
sprang from the carriage. At the steps
Walter met him.
"How is she?" was all he could utter.
"Just alive," answered the brother,
coldly, not taking his proffered hand.
May I see her at once?" asked the
now utterly crushed aud .'remorsefuj
man.
She had asked for you. Of course I
cannot refuse her wish. She has jut
recovered consciousness. She heard the
carriage and is expecting you."
Silently Robert followed the brother
of his wife into the room of death. As
they entered Laurel raised her hand and
stretched it feebly toward her husband.
A sweet smile lit up her pallid face, her
bright, sunken eyes. He bent over her
and kissed her lips, her forehead; he
was shaking like one in a chilL He
bent dowm by her and held her hand in
both of his.
"I am very sick. Itobert, I am so glad
you have come, for the doctor says I
must die. Oh, Robert, my husband,
how can I leave you and my baby, our
baby, our little girL You will have to
take my place as well as your own 10
our little one. Robert, sue will nave no
mother. Xever mind, dearest, don t
grieve so. iou must u..v
heart for baby's sake. i win meet,
mamma sooner than I thought,"
A suasin of pain passed over the beau
tiful features and made her oblivious to
all around. Robert knelt looking at her
In blank misery. He was powerless to
relieve her. He rose and bent over ner
in agony. He called her name wildly,
begged her to forgive him and live for
him. He cursed nimseu.
next breath he prayed witn iremuious
fervor that she might be spared, only a
while. .
"Oh God! I cannot stand It. I cannot
bear it" he groaned as he flung himself
down on the bed besideher. The move
ment roused her and she laid her hand
on his head.
"Robert, darling you must, no- 6
.. , t am weak. Robert, i
un tnis waj. .
Zrf-kiss me. my husband, our baby
-take care of her-good-bye."
The young We bad gone ou m
beautifulform. iMW'-"'rjl
SS but they had not told ber. Both
aeau, uui w. j .miss is
i.,,riKi in one eiavc o
WC1C
.. . , A Ttnhflrt lives
crreen upon 11 w uaj,
o
. x.a f that crrave always
on witn me ainmu " - - .
uu" .. tt. . .komml man.
ith the
fallimr over him. nSB.v--
,g o -V ia RIlbdued.
The old imperious ---
K adTrfhe is aboa gentler and no-
bier man.
intended for anyoneto
rrlr This food while eating.. &"
wash downhistooa m
has wisely placed sau ,
nous places besides a
fluid torJ nrf thefood after masti
chemicaonjof a 8uitA.
caUon. . iw ? ; .wallowing. Dnnk
ble condition : for ffje eating
ing every few minui e lt
Washes it down gia portions of
chemical '0ftn0f mosternicious
the food. One of we Mveral
habits to nJtb tig; better
tumblers of The stomach wdl
drink warm dnnks. , " when ,t
not digest one PWf wYoO degrees of
has a temperature be low
Fahrenheit; neitter J flnid w fir
atom of food until au v snould
abeorbed. SJ$?t of on-
hours after. - ,
THE
MIFFLINTOWN,
.
TatUMnns Am-m Crimlnml.
Tli I
6' taiujoers among European
tc i reucu soiaiers ana Jr rench
cnminals. Tlie idler and more disrep-
uutute me man, the more time he pas-
i arresr, me more isjie likely to
be tattooed. The ltg vacuous leisuie
vi prisons, uarracka aud inianl-rootns is
reiievea ny the art of tattooing. Ver-
minion ana cnma ink are chiefly used
.. nuiuuer oi emuiems are en
gravea on the human frame. Mere fan
tastic pictures are most common, then
come amatory devices, hearts, clasjied
hands, and the like, patriotic and reU-
Biuua anu proiessioual symbols, and so
forth. One man was decorated with a
picture Of a carriage, coronet anil all in
which a lady sat and watched the efforts
or two grooms to control her fiery
norses. .sometimes the caricature of
innce Jiismarck is tattooed. Shoe
makers and carpenters decorate them
selves with pictures emblematic of their
trade. Two foils and a mask are the
"nioko," as the New Zealanders say, or
tattooed crest of a fencer; a gunmaker
marks ms arm with the picture of t
pistol. A man's bodv sometimes be
comes his dossier, a record of his career,
and may be of considerable use to the
police. Criminals often proclaim their
bad luck, as ttiey think it, in the tat
tooed inscriptions on their arms. Some
write "no luck" (pas de chance), some
proclaim more poetically that they are
born under an evil star." One philos
pher has been known to tattoo himself
thus (he was a pessimistic Jail-bird),
"the past disappointed me, the present
tormeuts me, the future appals me" a
bitter experience of life. The inscrip
tion niort aux otKciers Francais is from
the arm of a rebellious private. The
criminal class in Italy is not less addict
ed to tattooing than the same order in
France. Tattooing has sadly dwindled
from a sacred and secret rite in the
Marquesas islands to the employment
of the leisure of thieves and undis
ciplined soldiers in Europe. Oddly
enough, these latter very frequertly
tattoo themselves with religious em
blems, their religion lieing probably
much on a level with that of the South
Sea islanders. Luck, and the lioiie of
securing luck by the use of sutiersiitious
devices is at the bottom of both creeds.
Oddly enough the famous claimant was
not tattooed while the origmol Roger
had been a good deal tattooed in his
boyhood. In this case, as in many
others, tattooing has proved of service
to law and police. Criminals, who
have all the interest possible in being
unrecognizable, are just the persons
who perversely stamp themselves with
marks that are practically indellible.
A slap from an open hand on the place
will often bring out the old mark in red,
at whatever pains the wearer may
have been to efface the decoration.
1 h indjaa Cora Crop.
The November report of the Depart
ment of Agriculture gives the total
yield of the Indian corn crop this year
as approximately 1,577,000,000 bushels.
If this estimate is correct the product
this year falls about 40,000,000 bushels
short of the crop of 1382, notwithstand
ing a large increase of acreage. This
is the third crop "in succession," we
are told, "below an average, following
six successive crops above an average
yield, or twenty-six bushels per acre.
and the quality of the crop in the
frosted belt is said to be very poor.
This report is Hot flattering, but it will
be well if the present deficiency of the
corn harvest turns out to be no greater
than the department estimates it. I he
Chicago correspondent evidently fears
that the crop is generally overestimated,
and states that "lowa has not enougn
corn for home consuB.pt.ou," while
Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan
are virtually in the same predicament.
Though it is notilikely that there will
be "any scarcity of corn in this country
betore me crop oi iom is secureu, me
fact that for three successive ysars this
most important of all our cereal crops
should have been cut short by untimely
Northwestern frosts emphasizes the ex
pediency of extending its cultivation
south of the thirty-eighth parallel. Un
less the spring opens early in the North
west and the corn can get a goou start
so as to mature oeiore me miuuie or
September, it isalways liable to injurious
frosts. The great atream or tropical
vapor traversing the United states in
summer (under wmcu aione can oo
found the temperature and rainrali
necessary for the perfection of this
tropical plant) is projected from the
Gulf coast, and after reaching me
Missouri and Ohio valley is dedected
eastwardly to the west end of Lake
Erie. Within the area overspieau Dy
this "vapor plane," ana a small rain
i.it sniithwest of Lake Michigan, we
must look hereafter for our chief supply
of corn. Next year especially it is to
lm .rreatlv desired that the acreage of
corn within this area shall be largely in
creased.
Bob Tom Paper.
The latest agony in fashionable
writing paper is me uovo uu iiuut
green shades, of note size," said the
manager of the stationery department
of a large book store, in answer to an
inquiry. "As you see, mey ns icijr
very pretty colors, and there is a large
demand for them. Blues of all tints
continue to be fashionable.'
"Is there anything specially new m
the shapes of papers!''
NO It IS OniJ Ul lUO suaura, ."o
r..lur sized commercial uouj wms
tul tandard thing. In correspondence
cards this style, known as the 'ragged
eTce ' is still the favorite. Iou will
see that we also have a large lme of
these cards wmcu are
in tl.A Corner. J.UO
mostly asked for are those decorated
wit flowers."
'What direction does fashionable
taste takeSn thematterof callingcards?"
'-Light weight cards are the proper
ladies using the large size and
getieTVh!l fircards?"
'The small hand-painted ones are
mostly used. We have a vaneiy oi
different Tfigures, but the favorite ones
laiulscapesQd flowers. Sdk dinner
"aTsWl called for. but not so
S aV formerly. Here is a line of
Se same kind which attxaUng a
;Lt ipa1 of attention, x ou see mey
frfof aU shades, and they have these
WUe sSver and gilt Venetian orna
menUm the corner. ...
Hj tnpre :
fr th holiday trade in
coming
CUU"U tj
writing i ... ; -h- t:nt
not uj -r .Ki. u
v. .himr nv in this line
01 Tto be ii thS Tway of handsome
"f-i? for oldmg paper. 1 have
mme loverdelllnsta them. The
SSSSS usedtheir construct
MesUk, plush and leather.
OOISTlTUTlOI THE UH0I AID
JUNIATA COUNTY.
LODg LJrer.
Tbe Montville section of Cocneetiont
is paradise for old people. Within a
radios of two mUea from Alfrn raoun
tain, that historic knob on the Thames
river midway between Ne Loudon and
Norwiou, are to bo found mora old
people than in any other part of the
State. There seem to lie a subtlu. nn
defined something iu the air that helps
old pejple to live on and on hereabout,
and to keep their spirits buoyant in the
utter absence of hope of ever being abe
to cross the dark nvor and join their
friends on tbe other shore. A few
months ago Noah Chainpmau, the old
est Masoj in the State of Connecticut,
died at the age of ninety-seven years
and fix month, and only abort time
before that Gay C. Stoddard, of Oalea
Ferry, a hero of the war of 1812 passed
away at nearly the name age. Both
these men were active workers iu the
troublous time of oar late war with
Great Britain, aud lent invaluable aid
at the time hen Commodore Decatur's
fleet wait blockaded in the Thames
river by the British squadron. The
historic old earthworks, nor crumbled
aud green with age on the top of Allyu's
mountain, which were cieated by Doo
tur to prevent the British from asoeud
ing the nvt-r, have barely outlasted the
lives of these two remarkably aged men.
Across the liver from here, in Ledyard,
are more tiiau a score of elderly ladies,
all of whom are widowed pensioners of
the war of 1812.
Directly pposite Allyu's mountain,
ou the west bank of tue Thames, in
this town, are the beautiful grounds of
the Kitemaug association, and organiza
tion of Nuraicu geutl iuau who came
down here summers to Cith catfidi aud
pi ty biuoole and v jit their ceutunarion.
Directly in the rear of their park stands
the hum', le cottage of Marvtu Smith,
who is uow in his iiun lrxitu year. lie
will be one hundred next sjiriug if he
lives. And yet this mau of so many
yeats does not ljok a bit over sixty.
lie is au old farmer fisherman aud is a
Javix.teol the KiUtuaogers, and their
fcueata a:e luvi-r a jly givtu to peep at
the old gentlemen. Nor should hia
worthy tiouse be eon-udered at all
bkc.ward iu coming forward with a
griat ue. She is eighty-aeveu aud has
just celebrate I her birthday. Tho oc
casion was a pneuoiuuuu uue. jlany
acre ilur. . Children of the fifth gen-
eiaiu n wire piesent, but none were
younger ana none se.-med to enjoy
theui&eivcs bttter than Air. South him-
seiL Mrs. Smith t Jok as much interest
iu the birtuday reunion as would a
young girl. Sue got out some beuquiit
work and to set an example for her
nieces and gtaad-nieces, and d mnrely
stitched aud chatted with the rest.
She comes of a lamily remarkable for
their longevity. Duriug the day, with
out the aid ot her classer. she wrote
letters in a bold, touud hand to each of
her three s sUis. Mrs, Eunioe Deer, of
Waterbury, aged eighty-four; Mrs.
Prudencj Lord, of (iris wold, aged
ninety-three; Mrs. Ciiarity Clift, oi
Mystic, aged seventy-eight. The com
buied aes of these five persons aggre
gate 411 years. Mrs. Smith is of Mystic
stock.
Mr. Smith is a small, wrinkled man
with a long, white beard, which is the
only feature suggestive of his great age.
He is a little hard of hearing, but reads
without the aid of glasses. Be is act
ive as ever, and goes out to oyster iu
his little row boat as easdy au.l as liaaili
ly as he did ten jears ago.
"How does it feel to be a hundred
years old, Mr. Smith?" ashed the re
porter. "I dou t know as it feels any dif
ferent than it did when I was fifty years
old," was the reply. "1 don't feel auy
older now than I did twenty-five years
ago."
The old man is not anxious for news
paper notoriety, and some times is de
cidedly non-commuoicative. Again,
when his interest is excited, ho will
talk nmnteruptedly for hours uiou the
changes that have cMDe over the world
siuoe he was a boy. lie saw the first
steamboat that ever came up the river,
he bought the first stove that was ever
used in this town and lived down the
opposition of his town people iu conse
QueiiCd. He had lived long enough to
have a railroad run through his front
yard, and he had noted the successful
nse of the teleriph and the telephone
and the spread of newspapers. All
these things interest him, as he is posted
on tbe worlu' work; ''but for a man of
my time of life, says he, "1 must be
looking toward other thau these puuy
inventions of men."
1-eter liMn' Itad Fall.
One of the most wondeif ul accidentf
that can possibly happen to a man and
leave life in him is that experienced by
l'eter i . dates, son of the famous hotel
keeper at DeWit, Iowa, l'eter Gates
is superintending the work of the mine
of the Gunnison Mining and Exchange
Company, of Davenport, Iowa, which
is in Treasure mountain, Gunnison
county, Colorado. The great altitude
of the mine brings winter about it very
early. As early as the middle of Sep
tember snow-storms commenced, l'eter
writes that he left the cabin with his
report and vouchers ready for mailing.
an overcoat, kuh.nging to one of the men
and a gunny sack filled with clothing,
and all strapped together on his back,
all in "apple pie" order and then
'1 fell over the cuff on my way down.
I intended it to be my last trip for seve
ral months, but it came near being my
last in fact. I had gotten one hundred
feet above the cabin when a snow slide
turned loose, knocking me instantly
from the trad. For the first four or
five hundred feet I struck the groud
but four or five times and my last fall
from the top of a precipice to its bottom
was about one hundred and twenty feet.
It seems incredible that I could have
tumbled down three succeslive preci
pices without being killed, but every
thing was in my favor. The pack I was
carrying and the snow which I went
down with helped to break my fall. I
am badly bruised about the hips and
body, but with rest and a lower altitude
the doctor thinks 1 will come out all
right in a month or so."
Ihe letter was written at Crested
Butte. Mr. Doe says that to one who
has seen the place of this accidont.
Peter's escape is of a piece of luck that
may be termed miraculous. Tbe cliff
which Peter was swept from had an al
most perpindicular height of 1,000 feet
from the bottom of the precipice, and
it was the great masses of snow which
had accumulated on its sides that
broke Peter's fall every 100 feet, and
then went on down with bun to the
next one.
THE EJTOEOEMEIT Of TEE LAWS.
PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 5. 18S3
I'ndergrouiid BaUwavt.ln Loadoa.
As every American knows who has
visited London, tbe underground rail
way system is one of the most extraor-
nary systems of locomotion in the world,
Subterranean London is literally honey
combed bv tunnels branching off hi all
directions, so that, while wagons and
hansoms rumble overhead, innumera
ble trains shriek and groan as they
thread their way in darkness beneath
the busy thoroughfares. When it was
proposed to construct this underground
railway system, much opposition was
made to the scheme. It was believed
that the thundering of the trains would
shake down the houses above, and that
to enter the long tunnels would be cer
tain death to any person venturesome
enough to attempt it.
hen the opposition was overcome.
after a long struggle between tbe pro
moters and the citizens, and the first
portion of the system was completed, it
was soon discovered that instead of the
underground railways being a public
danger, thev were in reality a great
public benefit. They took an enormous
amount of traffic on tbe already crowded
public thoroughfares, and provided
siieed y means of communication with
the most distant parts of the metropolis
such as was impossible under the old-
fashioned modes of traversing the
streets of London. Indeed, it is owing
to the underground railway system that
tbe tnglish metropolis uow possesses
means of rapid communication such as
is possessed by no other large city in the
world. Tbe system consists of two
rings of subterranean tunneling an
inner aud an outer. The outer ring was
long ago completed. lthin the next
six months the inner circle w ill be com
pleted, at a cost of something like Ilo,
000,000 a mile. Underground London
will then be ramified by a complete re
ticulation ot tunnels, and it will be pos
sible to reach any part of the gigantic
suburbs m less than an hour.
When the original objectors to the
underground railway system apiteared
before the promoters, they based their
opposition to the scheme mainly on two
grounds that it would cause a vast
diminution in the value of property,
and that the noxious vapors and the
locomotive smoke would prove highly
dangerous to public health and safety.
Neither of these objections has been
seriously realized. Where proper
ty was injured the Metropolitan Kail
way Company gave compensation; and
as for foul vapors, all danger from that
source was obviated by the numerous
air boles which were bored through the
roof of tbe tunnel, and the open charac
ter which was given to all the stations.
One danger, however, which was not
dreamed of in connection with the un
derground railways, was the presence of
infernal machines in tbe tunnels, and
the instantaneous death and injury of
unsuspecting passengers oy their explo
sion. 1 he terrible affairs which occur
red in loudon of late, cannot be attri
buted to an explosion of lire damp.
With tniius traveling continously at
three minute intervals through the tun
nels, tout air would inevitably be driven
through the air holes or out at the open
stations, which are situated at very
short distances from each other.
Oliver Wlntlell Holmes.
Mo-nory is a net. One finds it full of
fis'a when he takea it from the brook,
tit a tlozeu miles ot water have rnu
through it without sticking.
GjJ bless all good women. To their
solt haniis and pitying hearts we most
all come at l.ifit.
Put uot your trnst in money, but put
your money iu trust.
When a strong brain is weighed with
a true heart it teems to be like balano
iug a bnbble against a wedge of gold.
Controversy equalises fools and wise
men in the same way and the fools
know it.
I fiud the great thiug in this world
is not so oiiii'U where we stand as in
what direction we are moving.
If the sense of the ridiculous is one
side of an impressible nature, it is very
well, but if that is all there is in a man
he h id better have beeu an ape ai.d
st'KKl it the head of his profession at
one.
Travelers change their guineas, not
their clniraotera.
There are three little wicks to the
lamp of a man's life brain, blood auJ
breith. Press me brain a little, it
light goes out followed by all the others
Stop the heart a minute and out goes all
thrte of the wicks. Choke the air out
of the lungs and presently the fluid
ceases to snpply the other centres of
flame, and all is soou stagnation, cold
and darkness.
Thrt are a good many real miseries
in this life tbat we caunat help smiling
at, but they are the smiles that make
wrinkles not dimples.
We most have a weak spot or two in
a character before we can love it much.
People that do not laugh or - cry, or
take more of anything than is good for
them, or nse anything but dictionary
words, are admirable kubjects for bio
graphers. But we don't care much for
these fine pattern flowers that press best
iu the herbarium.
Faith always implies disbelief of a
lessor fact iu favor of a greater.
i would have a woman as true as
death. At the first real he, which works
from the heart outward, she should be
tenderly chloroformed into a better
world, where she Can have an angel for
a govern ss aad feed ou strai ge fruit,
which shall make her all ever ugain,
even to her bones and marrow.
Why rtau't souieoody give us a list of
thiuga which everybody thinks and no
body says, aud another list of things
that everybody cays and nobody thinks?
The Faveuwuu of BetliB.
Fifteen hundred cab proprietors and
drivers have petitioned the Berlin City
Council that no more wooden or asphalt
pavement be laid down. Some of tbe
petitioners say that the accidents are
from fifty to seventy-five times greater
than on the old stone pavement, and
it is further alleged tbat the expense of
repair is much greater. The worst stone
pavement is perferable, they declare, to
wood or asphalt. Yet in France the
wood and asphalt seem preferred, and
only last summer several streets could
be seen in London in which the stone
pavement was being replaced by wood.
At the present moment tue fashion
able cure for dyspepsia ii hot water,
which, after all, is only an old fashion
revived. The London Xewi, comment
ing upon this, lays that the hot water
treatment is taken externally in London
as a cosmetic, and internally iu Ameri
ca for the stomach, ahd that a scalding
propaganda la in progress.
Wacoa HbNl tiap.
This Gao in Colora"o has au interest
ing history. Its uatue is odd aad there
is nothing in the physical formation of
tbe place to suggest so odd a name.
Only a circumstance, an incident, gave
tins tunny name, it was in JST.l, dur
mg the Kaker expedition to the San
Juan, lie bad created great excite
ment by the report of the discovery of
rich placer mines in the Juan county,
then the home of the Ute Indians, it
was a terrible experience for the bun
dreds of poor fellows who followed Mr.
baker over the mountains of Colorado
to make their fortunes. Those who did
not starve to death, or die of exiiosure,
re' u rued to their homes, in the East.
swearing vengeance on Baker, who kept
out of the way. The rich gold mines
now owned by Senator Bowen, in the
Summit district, is the region discov
ered by Baker, and to which he tried to
lead these men. It was bere he lost his
way, his provisions gave out. and his
m -n, many of them, took sick and died
irom exposure, and to this expedition
which bad started out with Mich bright
hop's, had a sad ending. In picking
tneir way up me narrow passage between
the shores of the Bio Grande river and
the bluffs of granitA rising to a height
of 1,300 feet, on reaching the end of the
canon they found a number of broken
wagon-wheels, broken axlei, and other
pans of wrecked wagons. They knew
not now this debris came here, but sup
posed the Indians had murdered some
emigrants or pioneers and destroyed
their conveyance. But this incident
wassutlicient to name the spot "Wagon
wheel Gap." There was much specula
tion as to where this ajon debris came
from. It was afterwards learned that
these wheels, etc. were the remnants of
the rremont expedition of lfvK Fre
mont was on his way to the Pacific
through the canon of the Kio Grande.
anu toot an outlet by this narrow Gap
The hardships and suffering which he
and bis men endured in huntr g for this
route were Deyonu conception. Winter
set in, and the snow lay on the ground
very deep. Bealizing the folly of mov-
in? on .Fremont decided to go into
winter quarters ; he selected a wooded
spot a few miles from the gap, but the
cold and snow during this terrible
whiter was more than even these hardy
men cduiu endure ; many of them died
from exposure ; the cattle aho died.
At last the pathfinder found it necessary
to march with all speed to a Doint south
of Santa Td,recruit his band and secure
horses and cattle. It is no wonder that
his wagons tumbled from tbe rough
trail and were broke?' on the rocks be
low. It has been said, "there is nothing
hi a name." There seems to Rave been
something in this one.
Taakl I the Wrung Man.
'Have you seen a man come ud to the
desk wiuiiu the last half hour with side
whiskers snJ yellow gloves ?" asked an
excited young mm at the Sherman
House of thecleik who stood tIacidlv
behind the desk
'I don't know exactlv. Did be have
black side whiskers ?"
"Yes "
"And yellow rib'.d gloves ?"
"I think so."
"And a silver-headed bamboo cane ?"
'l don't know about that," said the
young man dubiously, studying for an
instant to remember whether the man
did have such a cane, "but he wore a
high silk hat.
' Oh, yes," said the clerk, "that wag
. What is the matter ?"
"Why, while I left my sister in the
railroad office a few minutes ago he
came up and took her by the arm and
attempted to speak to her. She resented
his insolence but he insisted on talking,
and she was about to ask protection
from one of tbe olhce clerks when be
turned on his heels and came in here."
"Tbat could not be," said tbe clerk,
confidently ; "he wouldn't do anything
like that."
"Well he had yellow gloves, a high
hat, and black side whiskers, and if I find
the beggar I wid teach him what it is
to insult a young lady whom he has
never met in that fashion. " The young
man's tones were ferocious and his eye
had in it the legendary blood, and the
clerk thought it might be as well to give
him a chance to discharge his extra htal
of steam. "Where is the fellow ?" in
quired the avenger. "In parlor D,"
replied the clerk, and the avenger shot
off up-stairs without waiting to take
the elevator. Those who had over
heard the conversation waited to see
tbe denouement. They hadn't more
than about ten seconds to wait when
tbe avengor came down. He had
thought it best evidently to take the
elevator this time, as being more com
fortable. His aquiline nose had a tri
angular scar on it, his left eye was
larger than it had been ten seronds be
fore, and his hat looked as if it had
been blown into the street and returned
to him by a newsboy. "Did you see
himr" inquired the clerk sympathe
tically. "I thought I had," was the young
man's response as be asked a bellboy to
brush his coat off, "but I discovered I
was wrong. That man has black side
whiskers, a h'gh hat. and a silver-head
ed cane but he doesn't wear yellow
gloves."
"I thought you had tackled the wrong
man," said the clerk, pleasantly, and
the young man went out by the Clark
street entrance, limping painfully.
Wire Fence.
Barb wire fence is apparently an in
nocent production, and yet it is raising
botherations in three States. In Texas
the complaints and objections of the
cowboys against this new fashion among
ranch holders, of enclosing their broad
acres with barbed wire, have led to
much cutting of the obnoxious fences.
and the Governor has just declined to
call an extra session of tbe Legislature
to consider some means of putting a
stop to fence-cutting. He is therefore
considered to be bidding for the cow
boys' vote. It suits these roving indi
viduals to "round up" their cattle or
water tbem on the streams and fields
that are now shut against them by the
new style of fence, and where they
have been so long exrebing a commons-
right, it is exasperating to find tbat
there is no such thing in Texas. If it
only were not "barbed" any one would
say that as a political issue a statesman
had better be "agin the fence" than on
it. The two other States which are ex
ercised over the wires are Missouri and
Illinois, wherein two opposing decisions
are reported from two United States
District Courts, as mentioned a day or
two ago.
Thi Shropshire sheep have dark faces
and legs, are about one-third larger
than the Southdown, and clip nearly .
twice aa much wool.besides being mnch
more profitable.
TH "Staadard" Saaaou
At Governor's Island, New York, tb
picturesque and famous spot where tbe
sun is made to go down daily with a
Dig bang at tbe nation's expense, there
has been some little confusion of opin
ion as to how the piece of ordnance that
uttets the bang would be affebted by
trie new time system. By a reputation
of the War Department, the operation
of the gun must be carried out by the
corporal of the guard. There are many
corporals ot tbe guard on Governor
Island, and the salute is accomplished
iu tnis way;
une corporal oi the guard as noon
draws near fixes his eye upon the Wes
tern Union time ball, which can be dis
cerned with the unassisted human eye
irom me guard house. V hen the ball
falls the corporal says as much to
another corporal, who instantly sets the
guara nonse clock. The second corpe-
rai men tens a third corporal to set all
the clocks on the island. While the
third corporal is setting all tbe clocks
the second corporal hunts up the hour
provided lor sunset in the almanac, and
writes it down on a slip of uaper. A
fourth corporal carries this slip to a
dfth corporal at Castle William. The
fifth corporal waits until the clock, as
corrected by the third corporal, marks
the hour designated on the slip of paper
iurnisnea by 'the second corporal
and then gives a signal to a sixth corpo
ral, whereupon a bugle is blown, the
gun is discharged, and the sun has gone
aown ouiciaiiy.
thirteen handsomely uniformed Gov
ernor's Island corporals, who were ad
dressed by the reporter rencrntly, said
cheerfully: "Oh, it's the other corpo
ral who knows all about that." A
fourteenth corporal smiled decorously
and said: "On Sunday and thereafter
the gun will go off four minutes later
than it has l-en doing."
A venerable battery waterman with
an exceedingly handsome nose was
asked by the reporter if the new time
would affect the tides.
"Efso be," he answered promptly.
it w. ren't fur ther fact thet the tide
depended opon ther changes ur the
moou end ther force ur ther wind, it
mought be; tut ez it does depend opon
those 'ere, I don't reckon ther will be
no change."
A Cave im Devonshire, ErtlMil.
Of Kent's Cavern, in the vicinity of
lorquay, a remarkable cave, consisting
of a great excavation in the Devouian
limestone, a writer says:
'it is entered by a narrow passage
some seven feet wide and only five feet
in LeighL 1 he central cavern, which
is almost 000 feet long, has a number of
small caverns or corridors leading out
from it. Its further extremity is ter
minated by a deep pool of water. In
the bed of this cavern modern research
has been rewarded by gome deeply in
teresting discoveries. Over the original
earth bottom of the cave is a bed or
layer of considorable thickness, in which
are contained strange mixtures of hu
man bones with the bones of the ele-
haut and the rhinoceros, the hyena.
the bear, and the wolf, intermingled
with stone and flint tools, arrow and
spear beads, and fragments of coarse
pottery. The animal remains testtfy
to the presence in the ancient forests ot
Britain of beasts t f prey which long
since have become extinct. Speculation
may be exhausted in the endeavor to
account for tbe curious intermingling in
this cavern of the remains of human
beings aud wild animals. The place
may have been used successively by
man and by the lords of the forest; or.
as the presence of the rude weapons of
man might seem to indicate, the beasts
of the held may have been brought into
this natural recess as trophies of the
chase, and their flesh and skin used for
urpoeesof food and clothing. Noth
ing less than the most persevering and
enthusiastic search could have discov
ered the interesting remains which, for
a vast period of time, bad been buried
this retreat; for the fossils were
Covered by a thick floor of stalagmite
which had been formed, there could b;
no doubt, by great blocks of limestone,
which had fallen from time to time, ex
tending over a very lengthened period,
from the roof of the cavern, and hail
become cemented into one mass by the
lerpetual percolations of lime-water
from above."
Mght Air.
An extraoraiuary fallacy is the dread
of night air. What air can we breathe
at night bat night aiiT The choice is be
tween pure night air withont, and foul
air from within. Most people prefer
the latter. Au unat countable choice.
What will they say if it is proved to be
true that fnily one-half of all the di
aeases'we suffer from are occasioned by
people sleeping with their windows
shut? Au oj eu window, moit nights
m the year, cm never hart any one. In
gretl citiea night air is often the best
and purest to be had in twenty-fours.
I cocld nndeistand shutting the win
dows in town during the day than dur
ing the Bight, for the sane of the sick.
The ahiense of smoke, the quiet, all
tend to make t Lie night the best time
for airing the pa'teut. Oue of our
ri.'h. st medical author, ties on consump
tion and climate, has told me that - the
air iu London is never so good as after
Its o'clock at night. Always air yonr
rojni fiom the outti ie air, if possible.
Windows are made to open, doors are
mat e to shut a irath which seems ex
tremity uiflieult cf apj r jheusiou. Every
room n.u t be aired from without every
pawage from with n But the fewer
passages there are in a hospital the
better.
Watching One' SeU.
"When I was a boy," said an old
man, "we had a schoolmaster who had
an odd way of catching the idle boys.
One day Le called out to us, 'Boys, I
must have closer attention to your
books. The first one who ses another
idle I want yon to inform me, and I wJi
attend to the case.' "
"Ah," thought 1 to myself, "there Is
Joe Simmons tbat I don't like. I'll
watch him, and if I aee him look off
his book I'll telL It was not long be
fore I saw Joe look eff his book, and
immediately 1 informed the master."
"Indeed,' said he, "how did yon
know La was idle?"
"I saw him," said L
"Yon did? And were yonr eyes on
yonr book whea yon aaw him?"
"I waa caught, and I never watched
for idle boys again."
If we are sufficiently watchful over
our own conduct, we shall have no
tune to find fault with the conduct of
others.
Editor and Proprietor.
NO. 49.
Aaatent Man Ben.
No matter bow thrilling may be the
repirts ot something which tus occurred
and which has not been seen by the
readers, it is almost invariably the case
toat some person in the croup of listen
ers can relaie a persona! experience which
completely overshadows the reported
event. Particularly Is this tbe case among
old sailors those ancient mariners who
have viveu up tarpaulins and sou'wester
for tbe comfort and tobacco smrke of
tug offices and vessel agents' quarters.
"Talk 'bout Sunday night's irale,' siid
one of the guild, as he bit off the yellow
end nf a very black clay .pipe-stem yes.
terday, "why, "iwa'n't a pa'ch to a three
days shake-up we ha-1 tff Point ail Bar
ques in '68."
"Who's 'we ?" asked a companion.
"1'hey wuz half a d-aen of us jest
here, while all over tbe bay there wuz
a score of other fellers. All of us gX it
too. way up our nose! The gale struck
us 'boat i o'clock one tuornin' witbojt a
mimt's warnin'
"Andje tal ev'rytbing set I s'pose,"
interrupted a veterao.
"Vea, we wux Just bormiu' along with
a good healthy breath after us all night.
All of a ikld-n we heerej the dumdest
racket, and before anybjrty could get on
deck all our canvas and string were fl -p-pinir
like nets over our heads. VV-li, we
got out our axes and cleared awav every
thing to the deck."
"An' I s'pose vou pounded around in
the sea for three days thereafter-' was the
next interruption.
"Pounded 'round? Well, 1 should say
so, aad we weren t aloue. the next
moroin' you could count a dozen hulks
runxin' wild aod very light. The seas
run like eg Ur mountains 'pou my word,
1 b'lieve tney wenl plump fifty feet high
"What year was Itis?" asked an old
red-faced mariner who had been cuewiug
a toothpick as he looked qi.ietly over
what appeared to be a joum ii or ledger.
"Sixty-eight," was the response.
Turn in," quietly continued the ques
tioner.
"What lot?"
"Didn't you hear the belli"
"Bell for whatf
"Callin' in that yarn."
"Ho, 1 didn't. What er you given'
me, mat.?"
"Well, here's a record in this book of
where you sailed with ms all the season
of '67, 'C3 and '69. as my mate, and i
swear we went through no such racket
as you've been givin" us."
"Well, it. might nave been in ii or
"Come off! come ofT!" was the chorus
which ended the discussion."
Work of a ilutcber'e Saw.
reiiorter lately watched John
Battersby, of AlUmy, w hile cutting
sirloin steak. The otieratiou suggested
au arthmetical calculation:
"How many bones should I guess I
had severed in the course of my career?
1 hat s a poser sure enough. Ever since
was a boy I have been constantly at
work, ana iu the thirty years' work I
have done a heap of bones have been
parted by my saw! 1 would like to
have a cent for every quarter of beef
I have cut up. I'll bet vou my average
would sum up to teu quarters a day. I
have cut that amount up individually.
A fair day's work for a man is three or
four carcasses."
How many cuts are there in a
carcass of beefj"
"That depends on the way it is
divided. If tltte loins are used for
rousts instead of steaks, there are not
nearly so many cuts. 1 would say that
in one circa.-s of beet we will make
from lUO to 123 cuts throii'ih and
through. A fair average would be 110
cuts."
With his information tbe reporter re
sorted to artlmietic. The butcher has
worker at the block for thirty years.
Taking 3u0 as the average uiiiulier of
days in which he worked each vear, the
total would be !,IM days. If on each
day two carcasses and a bait" were cut
up the total number of carcasses would
be-22,5U). The Imuics sawed will
average two inches. There being llu
cuts in each annual, or an aggregate of
4i.,0t0, it is seen that Mr. liattersb?
has sawed o'J.'iilJMH) inches of bone.
Keductd to feet the total is 412,301),
which is equivalent to 14 1-10 miles.
Iherefore, in thirty years, the butcher
has sawtd through bones which would
over that distance.
Habit of the Panther In California.
Whatever may be the habits of the
panther in other localities, we hve the
authority of Mr. Livingston Stone for
tbe statement that those about tbe
McCloud liiver wdl always run from a
log, no matter how small he is, aud
when closed Uioii will spring into a tree
to a height of even twenty feet. So
intently will the panther watch the
barking aud excited dog from his Posi
tion ou the branch that the hunter can
come as near as he pleases and take
deliberate aim. Xear Mount Persephone
panthers' tracks were observed to be
thick at the base of a vertical wall about
twenty feet high, forming the foot of a
precipitous mountain side. Once upon
the summit of this rock the panthers
were safe from white man, Indian or
dog. Though the panther is so coward-
with a dog, perhaps from inherited
fear of chase by a pack of wolves or
wild dogs, he will encounter and con-
quirthegrizzly bear. Combats between
tnese two animals seem to be not infre
quent, and the Indians have found dead
bears that have been killed by panthers.
but never dead panthers that bears
have killed. The panther is said to
spring on the shoulders of the bear and
cut through the throat wit its teeth.
An ingenious method of ornamenting
walls, ceilings, paper hangings,eto.,has
been patented. This invention consists
in preparing the wall with a thin layer
of plastic material consisting of white
lead, whiting, plaster of Pans aud oil of
turpentine, and producing relief orna
ments of various designs upon this plas
tic mass by means of combe or other
suitable implements.
In Corea the social position of women
is very low. They count for nothing
in the eyes of the law and are wholly
without influence. There is one pleas
ant side to this fact they are cot held
responsible for their actions. Theo have
no wedding eeremonies. bat as soon aa
a man has paid a certain sum to his
bride's father he earriea her off and
treats her aa he likes, she having no re
dress whatever.
It is estimated tbat about one-ninth
ot the population of Canada is engaged '
in the lumber business. The value ot--' .
the annual product of Inmber in the
Dominion ranges between $3o,000,000 -and
$10,000,000.
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