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VOL. XXXVIII.
MIFFLINTOWIY. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. MAY 21. 18S4.
NO. 21.
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IKmnlnfllr.
We ! been friends togKber,
Id sunshine and In shade,
S cce first beneath tLe cresmut treat,
In infancy we played.
But coldneiu dwell within thy heart,
A cloud is on thy brow;
We have been friends together
SLaii a light word part tu now?
We have been pay together;
We have laughed at bitter Jests
For the fount of hojw was pushing
Warm and joyous in our brea.su.
t!ut laughter now hath tied thy lip.
And sullen glooms thy brow;
We have bt-en gay together
gliall a light word part us now?
We have been sad topetber;
We have wept with bitter tears
O'er the crans-crown craves where (lum
bered
The lie of early yean.
The voics which were silent there
Would bid thee clear thy brow;
We have been sad topether
Shall a lifclit word part us now?
tOKrV YEARS AFTER.
Long, straight, ana monotonous
stretched the highway connecting the
scattered hamlet in a remote part of
Holland. Shade there was none, the
only trees for miles around being the
tall poplars which seemed to look down
mockingly on the scorched ground
Dazzlingly white and interminably
dusty the thread seemed to stretch be
fore the dark blue eyes of a young man
who had bevn trudging along alone for
several hours, and who at List gladly
took advantage of the slight shade cast
by a pile of stones to throw himself
upon the ground by the roadside and
stretch his tired limbs as luxuriously as
the unfavorable circumstances would
allow.
There was nothing at first sight to
distinguish this wayfarer from many
others who passed over the same high
way frequently students from a small
university town not far distant but a
close observer might have detected a
light iu the tired eves look in? over the
dusty landscape which twenty years of
We do not often- kindle, telling of
strength and power the light before
which meu involuntarily bow dowu as
showing a leader and ruler among them.
Oaiv a few moments he gazed dream
Ev over the uninteresting country, then
sought rest in another way. Drawing
trom his pocket the pieces of a flute, he
quickly Joined them together, and was
soou iUiing the air with strains of music
soft, low, lender and pensive, as suited
his own weariness and the langour of
the sultry summer day. Despite the
energy, determination, and strength
niaiktd in every leature of his face,
this young man could be none other
than a musician, for neither the inborn
genius was wanting nor the evidence of
ino-l caret ul and patient training.
He ha l long forgotten that he was
tired and hungry, that the road before
hiai was at least three inches deep with
dust, and the sun pouring down rav
which seemed fairly to scorch every
thing they touciied, when he was startled
in the midst of an impassioned andante of
Beethoven's, by a stiange choking sound
behind him, something between a sob
and a sigh. Turning, he found, stand-
mg a few steps from him. a young girl
with cias-ped hands and bent head a
girl with hair fair as Sax and eyes blue as
torget-me-nots growing in the held close
by.
The young man was on his feet in sn
hisliuit, weariness forgotten in the pre
sence ot so lair a companion; but the
half-saucy compliment he was about to
utter died ou his l;ps as he saw a tear
stealing slowly down the delicately-
rounded cheek of the girl, who seemed
utile uio.e than a child.
"Ah, my child," he cried, with quick
sympathy, unwittingly speaking in Ger
man bis moeher-tongue "you are in
trouble I Can 1 help you ?'
"No, sir," said the girl softly in the
s:iu,e language, raising her head and
gazing at the young man with an iano
cent awe and reveieuce which touched
him deeply. I don't know what it is;
but your music I can't tell if it is
gladness or s-orrow. As I heard you
play, tiie teais would come. "
"Aie you so fond of music then,
child?" asked the young man, delighted.
i ufii't thins i was before, sir,
the girl answ-red simply. "But
haven't heard that kind of music."
" Won't you sit down here fci a no
n eul 't 1 will play again if you wish;
oui in si you inust ten me vour name."
Tiie gn l took a place beside her cora-
;union quietly and unhesitatingly.
" Mv name is Greta. And yours?"
1. 4 f r I . .
-"ner iiuini i-ntz, of course.
And yuu aie you en angel dropped
from some passing cloud, cr a fairv
risen from the earth, to appear so sud
denly before me ? I mean" laughing
ut, ier oewiiaereu air where did you
couit- now
"I have len to the Chapel of Our
Lady lnDoi f Sessin to count my beads,"
Mie answered slowly : and then
" And then ?" asked Fritz, looking
ai.minngly at the lovely innocent eyes
gazing dreamily into the distance, while
uc caiessmgiy arew through his hands
one of the long flaxen braids falling
over the girl's shoulders and below her
wain
And then I went into the wood
over thsre, and have been there ever
since."
I0in2 What ?" Fritr nBi-sistpd
'Gathering flowers to adcrn tout soft
yicuy uair t"
" Domi? iiflfh'ntr hut lin nn tTi crraM
listening to the brook trickling by, and
"turning me clouds sail past, and hear
ts what the birds sing to each other
'or i understand almost all thnv q v
A1, sir, it is so quiet and peaceful and
wyely there ! I hope, whan I die, they
ul bury me there under the trees,close
by the water. Nowhere else could I
st so Well."
"tVondeiinelv F.itz mieA at this irirl.
jo widely different from the rustic beau-
ie h"i met before on the high roads.
n ltllOllt. a ll,n.,k. .1 ...;
hich he usually indulged ou such
occasions, ha almost reverently took
"fe of the unresisting hands loosely
ld on the girls knees, as he said
7 gently
tti y f hilJ' you are t0 yonn? yet to
"M of death. A great many happy
s will pas?, I hope, before you lie
fT ues:ae tn brook. Shall I play
wuo inn
""you again ?"
"acemore the sweet strains
floated
Z" air.
while Greta, with
jk; 1 " wiue-open, almost wor
Pirigeyes which never left the young
hice, listened as if fearing by any
stfcv; or """tion to break the spell
tohSf 0Ter her- At ,ast Fritz st"1
and t put hu flute into his pocket,
a L?m? ba k n brown hair with
i4lhmgiyhilke f the hesw claimed
butaw tey 1 shan shc yoa, GreU;
same, 1 am Retting abomin-
ably hungry. What am I going to do!
for my dinner ? I was told that there
was a capital inn in the neighborhood.
kept by a German woman a certain
.Mutter van lann where an uncom
monly good venison ragout is comet imes
to be nad. can you tell me if it is
near r"
"res" answered Greta quietly ; "you
will come with me, please. The inn is
my home, and lam Mutter van Taun's
daughter."
Good natured hospitable Mutter vau
Tann came bustling forward herself to
receive the guest her daughter brought
to the door, ushering him immediately
into the smoke begrimed inn-narlor.
just then without an occupant.
I es, multer tired and huuirv too."
he exclaimed in answer to her greeting.
"Dut quite happy m the certainty of
getting the very best dinner here that
was ever cooked by the very best look
ing landlady in Holland I"
1 be buxom lanlady beamed.
l snail ao my best to prevent your
regretting naving come to my inn, sir.
v nat snail I give you r"
"Nothing more nor less than one of
your celebrated venison rayouts mutttr,
which are said to be unequalled by ary
thiug in the kitctieu of the King him
self." Mutter van Tann's face fell.
"Perhaps you dont know. sir. that
the rajtjuU are very expensive," she
said slowly, eyeing furtively the rather
shabby dusty coat and boots of her
guest.
.No matter, mutter ; my whole heart
is set on one of your rajouU."
iney cost tour gul-ieus."
"If they cost four hundred. I must
have one."
Ah, young man. that is all very
well ; but I know the ways of students
like yourself 1 More than one have I
had in my house who ordeied one of
my very best ragouts, and then away
they went with their purses as full as
they came, leaving Mutter van Tann
four guldens poorer."
"Come, come. now. nutMtr;" cried
Fritz merrily,seizing both the landlady's
hands and compelling her to look
straight into his honest blue eyes. "Tell
me do i look like such an out-and-out
rascal ?" :
"No, sir, that you don't!" said the
landlady, meltin t and laughing in spite
of herself. "Where do you come
from ?"
'From Berlin."
"Berlin, sir ? Ach, that is where the
old King lives, aboat whom people tell
such queer stori s I I am a Prussian
too, and right glad lam to meet a coun
tryman I t ell, I suppose you must
have your way ; and I must be off to
see to the ragout. Come along, Greta,
ana try or once to neip your mother.
IIave you been wasting your time out
there with the birds and fishes again all
the morning ?
"There, mutter scold me instead of
GreU ; for it was I who wasted her
time this morning, and haven't finished
yet, for I want her to stay and entertain
me w hue yon are off about the ragout.
i must nave something to console me
for your absence, you know."
With a smile and a frown Mutter
van Tann departed ; and Frit turned
to Greta, wno had been standing in the
window, paying very little attention to
her mother's remarks.
"Won't you come and sit here on the
sofa, Greta ; he said gently, with a sud
den change or manner, "and talk tome
a little about yourself while I am wait
ing ?
The girl obeyed immediately, ami a
long conversation ensued, consisting
cnieny ot questions irom i ritz in re
gard to his companion's life and occu
nations, which she answered iinreserv
edly, being at last led on to talk freely
of her thoughts and feelings, and re
vealing by degrees the secret depths
of her pi re, Innocent, dreamy nature
to the young man, who listened with
reverent sympathy, his astonishment
ever growing deeper at the strange dis
similarity between mother and child.
aoon Ureta begged for more music.
and Fritz, after gratifying her wish
asked her if the could sing something
for him. The girl assented readilv.
adding after a moment's thought
My favorite is an old song taught
me by grandmother, which I can sing
in German as well as Dutch. Per
haps you could accompany it with the
flute?
The air was very simple and marvel
lously sweet and mournful. After
Greta had hammed it over once or
twice, Fritz's quick ear enabled him to
accomplish the desired accompaniment;
and softly the sad plaintive air floated
through the shabby smoke-stainea inn-
parlor into the kitchen, where Mutter
van Tann was absorbed heart and soul
In the ragout.
"What a melancholy song you nave
chosen, Greta I ' be exclaimed, when
the girl had finished, trying to speak
cheerfully. "Can t you give me some
thing more lively as a rememtrance to
carry away with me?"
Tears rolled down the gurs cheeks
as she stood silent for a moment ; then,
without a thought of harm,impulsively
clasping both hands around her com
panion's arm, she leaned her head
against his shoulder as she murmured,
in a voice choking with sods
"You are gelng away I Ah, when
we meet again, we snail oe oia ana
cold I" The words were an echo of
her song.
"JSo. Greta, dear child," cned the
young man, touched to the heart by her
gnet, ana scarcely mowing waat ue
said in bis desire to soothe her,"we shall
not be old and cold when we meet again,
but vountr and happy, for I will come
again next week to-morrow 1 1 will
not leave you, ureta."
A lovely smile of joy and gratituae
shone through Greta's tears as she
looked np at the young man bending
over her, Softly and reverently he
Dressed his lips on her fair hair and
gently put her away, just as the door
opened to admit a most appetizing odor
and Mutter van Tann bearing in triumph
the savoury raaout.
"Here. sir. is sujh a dish as you will
not get every day, though, I suppose,
I shouldn't say so I" she remarked, with
complacent pride.
I assure you l appreciate my gwu
luck, mutter," said Fritz gaily ; "and
there is only one tning neceasuj w
complete my happiness."
'Is it Deer or sennappa, sir t
'Neither. It is the company of your
self and your daughter at this best of
dinners." . . ,
Oh. sir. we shall be very pleased, I
am sure, if you are not to i proud to sit
down with such simple folk as GreU
andl!" .
Quickly the ragout ana a Dome oi
Mutter van Tann's best wine disap
peared, the repast being enlivened by a
runnint fire of Jokes, compliments' and ,
stories between me lanoiauj
guest, in which Greta took Terr little
part. At last there seemed no excuse
for sitting longer over the table ; and
Fritz, who had for a moment relapsed
into thoughtful silence, rose to his feet
witn a nair sigh as he glanced at Greta.
Then, turning to the landlady, he said
4uifuy
-it js growing iaie,Aiurier van lann,
and I must leave you. Will you allow
me to send to-morrow some remem-
brance of my pleasant visit nd vour
kindness to iue,as a foueenir of Frederic,
x nnce ot trussiar"
For an instant the landlady stared,
men laugnea scornfully
Ach, sir, you young gentlemen will
have your jokes I Wasn't there one
here last week who told me he was
King of the Cannibal Islands, and must
have a baby's tenderloin for his dinner?
-o, ir, .aiuiier van rann Hasn't lost
her wits yet 1"
on, wen, nuuie r, it s no matter, any
way i- laugnea tne young man. "But
u s uigu time i wassnowingyou 1 don't
intend making off without paying for
the ragout.
The landlady locked relieved, while
r ruz mrust nis nana into one pocket
i ft annhiA. ; .1. : v. : . ... v i
-.- uua,uS ui Buarcu at
last with an exclamation of most com-
ical consternation.
upon my wora, couia anything be
more aosuru r l naven T a penny any-
n noouti txio 4
lor an instant Mutter van Tann
ueu speecmess ; men, seeing mat tills
was not intended as a joke,
"Swindler, rascal I" she exclaimed.
"But, mutter," cried Fritz, almost
choking with laughter.
"Oh, you smooth-tongued, impudent
scounurei, to aeceive ana roD a poor
widow who was fool enough to trust
you i x ou a rnnce inaeeo,you snabby,
lying, rascally musician with never a
penny to mess yonrseu i-
"But, viutter," put in a tearful plead-
ing voice, as a soft hand was laid on
the angry woman s arm. "I am sure he
nas lost nis purse, lie would never
"Oreta, you are a perfect fool I Look
at aim i tie uasn t even me attcency
to pretend to be ashamed of himself,
but stands there laughing, as if it were
the best joke m the world I Oh, the
viuaui
Just then the landlady's attention was
diverted by an unusual sight the view
irom tue winuow or a very nanasome
travelling-carriage and pair of coal -
black horses drawing up before the inn,
while an elegantly-dressed gentleman,
betore whom the footmen bowed respect-
iuny, sprang irom tae carriage, and in
an instant was In the inn-parlor.
"inank Heaven i" he began, as he
caught sight of Fritz ; but the young
man interrupted him hastily, speaking
in French and requesting to be addressed
in the same language.
"I knew you were in this neighbor-
hood," the new-comer continued, "and
have been looking anxiously lor you
since yesterday, mere is Dad news
from Berlin. our father is very 11
you are summoned to return immedi
ately. There is not a moment to be
lost r
With a burned cry of dismay, the
young man started to his feet, and fol-
lowed closely by his friend, hastened
towards the door. On the threshold be
turned for an instant, with a farewell
elance at Greta, who wasirazinir at him
w ith a grief -stricken expression which
he never foreot.
Adieu, Greta," he said gently "un-
til we meet azain 1" I
The next moment the cloud ef dust
in t i wakM iT tlift sir ft lv-!pru.rtiniT
carriage was all that remained of Mut-
ter van Tann's truest.
Forty years had passed. All Europe
was ringing with the glory and renown
of the warrior-King of Prussia. The
years which bad sprinkled his hair with
silver had, in return, crowned him with
undying laurels, and the proud accla
lo, ua mo jnuuu
mations of
agiaterul people bad be-1
s towed upon him the surname
upon him the surname of
u'cak. I
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It was one of the King's few hours I
few
of repose when the ambitious visions I
of the soldier and statesman were held
in check by the magic of music, which
up to the day of Frederic's death was
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uh. JU"J.'U" I
mouaxuu ivhibou a aou ui tun uiu-
oir.riVim t Sana Siiiift 1l4tAtiin(T nrASTTI. 1
i.wau . i
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master and friend yuanz was drawing
from the piano, where, at the King's
desire, he was trying for the first time a
collection of Scandinavian r uutsludcr.
Motionless the King listened for some
time, then arose, and began slowly pac
ing up and down the room as he spoke.
Ah, yuanz, they are all very well 1
But I have never heard one of these
sontrs which touched me so deeply as
one 1 heard years ago in Holland, but i
which, to my regret, has completely
passed from mv memory. 1 think you
have heard me speak of it Dexore r"
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careful inquiries were made in Holland
for the inn and the family who lived
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country, with the hope of flding the
I r.- wkw.1.-is vrm an ivurMr i ttr Tha 1 im I
!.'T" rtr.",
liiuillj. I
"les, yes. Uuanz I know. It is
tranr ro,or th r4mAmhranr nf mc.li I
a s,mT.i ontr din tn m thonrh the
:ivi r. ;.t,ii,:i.
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getting old and childish, old friend.
Thank you ; we will have no more mu
sic to day."
The old musician took his leave, and
Frederic stepped through the low win
dow out into the June sur shine, into
the luxur ant leafy beauty of the gar-
dens of Sans SoucL Old Quanz's Fott-
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VZZ rr&nri i?
half melancholy expression had replaced
eagie eyes uo, iou 84444.
soft as he strolled away from the Palace,
sunk m that saddest and vainest of re
grets regret for a vanished youth I
Half unconsciously, lost in reuospec-1
tion, he directed his steps down one
the side-aileys at some distance from
the Palace, and, turning an abrupt cor-
ner. came suauemy anu uuouoerveu
upon a soldier who had thrown himselt
urjon a bench, where he was reading a
letter upon which Frederic saw tears
slowly falling.
At this sight the King's face grew
hard and stern again : and, with low-1
eribg brows, he stopped before the un-
conscious soldier, exclaiming scorn-1
fully I
"What, a soldier in me Army oi i
Frederic crying like a schoolgirl I Has
your sweetheart frowned upon you i
c" ' . .. . I
Sire." stammered the soldier jpnng-1
intr tn his feet, almost sneeehless with
.consternation, "the letter is from my
mother."
The King s brow cleared a little.
"Is she iu trouble?"
"Yes, sire. Site is growing old. and
is too weak to work. She can earn no-
thing, since she has lost her health, and
isuj ue sent iroin ner nome tor want or
money w pay me reut. Ail lur sons
art dead but myself, the youngest, and
1 1 can do nothing to help her. Sire,
I think that for such a cause even a
soldier of the Great Frederic need not
i uiusn to sneu a lew tears. '
"Ycu are right. What is your name,
ana wnere ao you come from r "
"Piter Gelder, sire, and 1 come from
Holland."
'i Very well. Piter Gelder ; I will look
lover the conduct record, aud. if I find
I nothing against you, 1 will see what
can ne uone ror your mother."
"Sire, sire," began the man, fairly
tremoiiug with joy aud rratitude ; but
-r reuenc waved bis band impatiently.
"tnougn 1 words of thanks give
me no pleasure."
The King bad already turned to re-
trace his sups, when suddenly he again
laced lue happy soldier.
I . .
"nter ueider, can you sing any
Dutch YolksliederV "Yes sire "
you one endlBg' with the
words "When we meet again, we shall
ne old and and cold'?"
i x es, sue. ft.
"Sing it." "Sire, my voice is rough
I ana untrained."
I "Xo matter sinz 1
With a trembling but by no means
unmusical voice the soldier obeyed the
royal command ; and the King, with
bent head and half -averted face.hstened
again to the melody of the song which
I had so deeply moved him forty years
Deioie. w u h the last notes Piter looked
up deprecatingly and half fearfully .and
was amazed to see the change which
had come over the features usually so
haughty and stern : they were now
soft, tender, and dreamy as those of
the youth who had first listened to the
plaintive words nearly half a century be
lore in utoiiana.
"Where did you learn the scng.Piter?"
"From my mother, sire. It was
taught her by her grandmother, who
composed it."
"Tell me your mother's historv."
"Sire, she was born in Holland, where
ner mother kept an inn "
1 "Was her name Van Tann ?
I Yes. sire GreU van Tann. She
lived at the inn until she married my
father, with whom she was afterwards
very unhappy,
"Why did she marry him ?"
"sire, it was to please her mother,
My father was supposed to be very
rich, and my grandmother had been
very unfortunate and lost i early all she
possessed. For several years my mother
refused all oners of marriage ; she
could not forget a travelling musician
who came once to the inn. and never
cared for any one else. At last she
sacrificed herself for her mother's sake
but it was afterwards discovered that
my father was not rich, as he had rep
resented, besides which he drank im
moderately, and ill-treated my poor
mother shamefully. Finally lie died,
ana was ionowea in the same year by
my three brothers. My mother has
worked hard ever since for her support,
and, until she lost her health, was very
comfortable. That, sire, is all there is
to tell."
very weih lo-morrow you shall
hear from me, Piter bcldar.
i he soiaier was urt in a haii-stupe-
"eu cwic,uiiuoiiuk uow aouu ncsuouiu
wke from what could be nothing but
la lauiasuc ureaiu. n uu wiue-openea
I eyes ne gazea aiier me uepaning mon
I .. u 1 t , : . i .1 . :
"thTiS"
bead bent low and his hands clasped
behiud his back, while upon his soft
ened melancholy face was still visible
the strange transformation which the
memories awakened l.v a simtl strain
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f..i i.. t .1
. ,,. fl,ii ,i .,
TOrtulm)a alr, Avheu we meet
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WCH.C4 "
handed two papers sealed with the
rr.. M4 ,....i
. J
ipovA nr uhsAncA fi.r a. month th wn.
ond was ths deed of a fine farm on the
nt H.,iia,,d. with th words
written beneath "To the heirs of Mut
ter van Tann, in payment for a venison
rajouf. Frederic."
Drinking- Old Sho
"Talking of old shoes," sail the doc-
tor, as he bit off the end of one of the
reporter's cigars, "they come handy in
various
Old boots and shoes are
made into Jamaica rum, also into the
richest of jellies. ot only are old
shoes utilized, but cast-off linen is used
to make coffee and sugar!'
"Oh, come, now!" exclaimed the re
porter, "you are trying to stun me."
MNo, x am not. xui mese ytars.
.. i . . .
vou have hat you were
HILifiliK wmw -
from the West Indies, you have sim
worn-out linen."
uvH 1tii lollv snnlren nt 1 mm'o hv
. . "",.J . , .
OOUing U wiu uouta.iu ouon iu
li a pressure of about two atnios-
Dheres. The tannic acid in me leather,
combined Win. salt, makes tannate of
soda, the eelatiue rising to the top.
From this, with suitable navormg
material, the jelly is readily made.
The shirt coitee is made irom old
skirt linen and sweetened with culls
aud collar sugar, both coffee and sugar
beimr made in the same way. me
ftor 0'n hT5? "
with nitric acid, which, acting on the
U,mte contained in the fiber, produces
glucose, or grape sU1rar l his, when
. . . .j.
that he may have been drinking coCee
made from the shirt from a hated rival;
may have spread his despised mother-in-
law's old shoes on his breakfast toast,
. nnaffwl from the bro-
a frtrnnV"
4xaclly You may be invited to
witn me dayt wnen my Wlfe
will doubtless say: 'Wouldn't you like
a little of Bridget's old thoe for your
hot biscuit, or will you nave a drink; oi
the doctor's old shirt?"
"Doctor," said the reporter, solemn-
hy "is all this true?
"Certainly." said he. "you dont
think I'd tell a lie; and, by-the-way,
WOuldnt you like a Santa Couz sour?"
".No-no," said the reporter, and he
hurried home, lookuig in me glass, and
gaw that he was looking very pala and
haggard.
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-wuic4u uncmcu u uivtca,
1534 B. C.
Ticket semlplnf.
The developments m the recent trials
of railway conductors in Philadelphia
and elsewhere for embezzlerrent bring
to light a new feature in the so-called
business of ticket scalping, and explain
very clearly one ef the principal reasons
for the crusade which is being waged by
the railroad companies against the gen
try whose boast it is that they can dis
count the standard rates of the compa
nies. There was for a long time an ele
ment of mystery in this jieculiar traffic,
which was partially dispelled when the
methods of the scalpers were ventilated
in the courts and by the clear exposi
tions of railway officers on the subject.
It is apparent that the scalper derives
some of his support from some of the
various links, large and small, of the
longer lines between distant points. As
a matter of course, rates by the various
l'nes between important centres must
be uniform, and the longer lines, by
reason of their neater leneth and time
of transit, could not, and very properly
so, nope to obtain any considerable pro
portion of the through traffic save bv
the operations of the scalper, who buys
for the intending traveler who falls into
his hands a regular ticket by one of the
longer routes, sells it to him for a dollar
or so less thau it cost, collecting a bonus
from several of the short lines compos
ing this route as a reward for diverting
the traveler from more direct lines, and
pocketing a fair profit on the transac
tion, although the passenger may not
be so fortunate, as the greater lenetL
of time consumed on the trip, and con
sequent increase in cost of meals and
sleeping accommodations, may more
than cover the saving in the cost ot the
ticket, and the traveler has no compen
sation for his lost time.
But this and other operations which
the scalper is wont to consider "legiti
mate," would scarcely explain the mag
nitude which bis profits must assume to
maintain him in the traffic, aud these
late trials furnish the information neces
sary to complete a solution of the mys
tery. The testimony showed that the
railway employes retained the tickets
collected from passengers and sold them
at nominal rates to the scalpers, who re
sold them to travelers at a discount
from standard raUs, the company thus
carrying two or more passengers on the
same ticket.
These disclosures emphasize with
painful clearness the moral character of
the scalping enterprise. For years past
it has been the aim of railroad compan
ies so to adjust their rules and regula
tions as to relieve conductors from even
the slightest imputation of dishonesty.
vt nether this has been from motives of
self-interest or not, is immaterial to the
point of issue. The result has been ap
parent in the esprit du corjn and the
morale of their employes. The leelinir
that, in view of the safeguards thrown
around them, they were above suspi
cion, has wrou 'ht a remarkable change
in this class of employes, and has made
the position of railway conductor a
higldy honorable, as it is a responsible
and exacting calling. But just as this
condition of things has been so happily
consummated, a new element of evil
arises, and it is not strange that amongst
such a host of employes some should be
found willing to listen to the temptines
of the scalper, and become eventually
his willing but guilty tools.
in the cause of morality, and in be-
nair ot an important and deserving
class of railway employes, we can cor
dially endorse the efforts of the trans
portation lines to utterly abolish this
traffic, which has long been a misdemea
nor in renusylvania, and we earnestly
hope that the various States will speed
ily take cognizance of the growing evil
and, by statute similar to Pennsylvania,
put the scalper under the ban of the
law and compel railroad companies to
redeem for cash, from passengers, their
unused or partially used tickets. In
the meantime the traveler will do well
to consider whether he can conscieuti-
ously aid the scalper or incur the risk
oi riding on a stolen ticket.
Tut In Household art.
During the last few years the general
standard of taste in our homes f'a
chanired materially for the better. Be
fore South Kensington and kindred in-
nences began to make themselves Mr-
taste was at a low ebb indeed. Textile
fabrics were poor and bizarre in des-im;
interior decoration, upholstery, cabiret-
work. glass and china, lewpiry all were
to the last- degree wanting In tae,
Common sense seemed to be disregard
ed in almost every department of fur
nishing. Our condition in regard to these mat
ters is slowly improving. The last ten
years have been unusually active ones in
the matter of reform. People are be
ginning to be independent of the capri
ces of fashion in the furnishing of their
homes, and are finding out that a piece
of furniture once good is always good;
that rich simplicity is preferable to
gaudy display; that honesty of construc
tion and design is the best policy in the
long run; in a word, that there is seme-
thing in household art after all.
Still there are some people who cling
to the erroneous Idea that large expend
iture is necessary to secure artistic
effect, or supposing that a house to be
artistic must needs be luxurious. "Oh,
should like so much to adorn my home.
but I cannot afford the expense," said
one of these persons in my bearing.
Now, of course, she had a quantity of
furniture and upholstery in the house.
and every year she went on buying the
same miserable shapes and flimsy stuns
and crude colors, because she was too
careless to look around her and buy for
the same amount cf money articles that
would commend themselves at once.
More money Is spent injudiciously in
house-furnishing, than in any other de
partment of domestic expenditure.
There are hundreds of humble, unpre
tending homes scattered up and down
the land, plain farm-houses among the
New England hills and the cottages of
artisans in the great cities, that are, in
point of fact, adorned in far better
taste than those of millionaire aristo
crats. We wish people who live In our
houses to be comfortable and refined.
consequently when you enter the parlor
you will not find the chandelier of
brightest brass and cut-glass, the paper
covered with sunflowers, the centre
piece of the rug an elephant recruiting
iu the jungle, or a Royal Bengal tiger
in the act of springing upon his prey,
and the pictures of the kind that bring
forth the exclamation: "Oh I what a
handsome frame 1"
London has 3,000,000 working peo
ple.
London has 9,500 cabs and Parti
.600.
Tn Bjona,"
An example is recorded in the annals
of the French navy of a crew who vol
untarily sacrificed themselves for the
purpose of avenging their cruel treat
ment by the captain. The case was
that of a twenty-gun brig, the captain
of which, nicknamed the Hyena, hail
been sent to the Antilles oh a ecial
mission, where he remained nearly three
years, living himself onshore, but never
suffering neither officer or man to quit
the vessel, except a select few who
brought him reports of what took place
on board, and what was said concern
ing him, and who took back t's orders
to the lieutenant whi commanded in
his absence, who, however cruel an'1
harsh these orders were, had no choice
but to execute th :iu. His mission ter
minated, he came on board, apparently
gay and hppy in the thought that his
success would be well rewarded on his
arrival in France. He could not have
failed to see the gloony looks that were
cast upon him when he stepped on deck,
but he did not appear to mind them,
and went s.raight below to his cabin.
They were in tne channel of the Ba
hamas when a sudden squall of wind
began to blow. The captain was sum
moned on deck and gave orders for the
instant reduction of sail. The lieuten
ant gave the order "all hands on deck,"
and then repeated the captain's order.
the quartermaster threw his whistle
into the sea, tore off the badges cf his
grade from his c uffs and walked sadly
hack to the forecastle. The breeze ke,
increasing in violence.
"Lower the topsails," screamed the
captain.
"We will not," was the reply of
hundred voices.
The captain turned to his officers:
"To arms, gentlemen; there is muti
ny on board."
Not a word did they answer, but
with the exception of the offiu-er of the
watch, they retired in a body to another
part of the deck. The breeze freshened
to a hurricane, the vessel lay with her
broadside to the waves, which poured
over the deck incessantly; still no man
stirred, until a few of the worst men in
the ship went aft to the captain and
said:
"We shall all be lost What Is to be
done?"
"Down with the spies." yelled the
crew: "we will die together."
The pale and trembling captain
snatched the speaking trumpet from the
hands of the officer whose duty it was
to transmit hia orders to the crew, and
cave ttem direct: but they only elicited
a mocking laugh in :eply. The brig
had now fallen into the trough of the
sea and was lying almost on her beam
rnds.
"Pardon! Panlon!" shrieked the cap
tain. "For God's sake cut away the
niasts."
Still nobody stirred. All at once the
masts broke away and the vessel right
ed; but th9 whole masts, yards and
spars being held beside the brig by
means of the cordage, beat against its
side like batterin-rauis.
I will pardon you all," cried the
terrified captain in his agony, "if you
will cut away the rigging."
The ex .-ltement of the crew had now
become so great that in their delirious
thirst for vengeance theyiushed over
all intervening obstacles anl surround
ed the captain.
"Thou shalt die, thou and thy spies
after thee." they yelled in reply.
'Help gentlemen, help," he screamed
to his officers, "I promise you promo
tion, crosses, what you will!"
Not an officer moved; and soon amidst
the roar of the wind, the dashiug of
the waves and the blows of the masts
against the brig's side, threatening
every instaut to beat it in, there arose
piercing shrieks from five men whose
clothes had been torn from their bodies,
and who were being tortured by men
laboring under the frenzy caused by
the anticipation of death, and the offi
cers looked with indifference on the
bloody spectacle one alone quit them,
and be went below, opened the powder
magazine, and an instant afterward the
shattered bodies of the tyrant and his
victims were tossing in the foaming
water among the fragments of the ves
sel. Of all on board, one alone survi
ved, and that was a little cabin boy,
who was picked up directly afterwards
by an American vessel.
McGulbau Cnicken Fichu
They are not very rigid in court for
malities in Colorado, so to speak.
"I don't see the prisoner anywhere."
saii the Judge at the Bone Valley ses
sion, as he brace! up from a little judi
cial nap preparatory to sentencing a
horse thief to death. "Where is he,
Mr. Sheriff?"
"I'm blessed if I know," said that
functionary, who had been absorbed in
collecting a horse race bet from the
clerk.
" Was he a big, red-head! man, with
a scar on his cheek?" asked the foreman
of the jury, who was shuffling cards
for another deal.
"That's him," said the Sheriff, who
had been looking around under the
benches without success.
"Why, then," continued the foreman,
''about half an hour ago he cards,
gentlemen he asked me to step out and
take a drink, and I see your raise and
when I told him I held a flush he said,
'S'mother time, then,' and walked
out,"
"The deuce you say!" thundered his
Honor. "However, he'll probably be
in town agam next week to see the cir
cus, and some of you fellows must re
mind the Sheriff to shoot him off hand
save lots of trouble. This court will
tow adjourn for McGuthen's chicken
fight."
-A. Land-Lubber's Gait.
"Say, boss, will you give an eld sailor
something to get a bit of grub?" said a
weather-beaten fellow who locked as u
a ragman had a mortgage on him.
"So you are a sailor, eh?" kindly in
quired the philanthropist.
"I used to be, your honor."
" W bat was the name of the craft on
which you chewed hard-tack and tarred
ropes i"
"I I forget now."
"How many masts did it have?"
"Didn't have none," uneasily replied
the old salt, as he shifted his position.
Was It square rigged or school er-
rigged?" persisted the philanthropist,
fixing his glittering eye upon the tramp.
iiian i nave no sails," growled the
vagrant.
" i ben what in the name of all that
floats was it?"
"It was a mud-scow on the Mississip
pi, blast your eyes!" yelled the discour
aged wretch, as he bitched op his trou
sers and sloped away with a land-lub-ber's
gait.
Th s i.u Nona.
Speaking nf the sailing of the first of
the three vessels which are to rendez
vous at L pernavik, an 1 from that semi-
arctic port proceed to rescue or relieve.
or uiacover the fate of Lieutenant Gree-
ly and his hyperborean colony, it may
be said that for nearly f )ur hundred
years the mystery of the north has fas
cinated" the explorer and the savant.
The Cabots in 14'J", and the Cortreal,
w uioughby and Udbert after them.
had penetrated the "thrilling regions of
luick-ribbed and eternal ice' long
before the Pilgrim Fth?rs had hew!
tue lira timber on the coast cf Massa
chusetts, and until 1813, in which ysar
j.oss and farry set out on their expe
dition, every great country of Europe
was contributing its stanchest ships and
its best mariners for that evolution o; a
driaui the discovery of a short nir'h
west passage to the told and spice-bear
ing regions of the Indian tropics.
But Ross and Parry were the last
Arctic explorers of what may be termed
the mercantile era; the vision of rapid
communication with India ty way of
i ne norm pole had faded in the fierce
light of experience. But experience
had taught.that though the frozen deeps
would never open a path for freighted
argosies, they yet surround the mystery
of the north pole, m whose wintry
shadow the most hidden secrets of the
currents of the oceans and of electric
disturbences of earth and air were kept
in silence.
With the expedition of Sir John
Franklin, In 181.S, the history of purely
scientific polar expeditions commences.
In every case they have been attended
with hunger cold and death, and in
many cases with the total destruction of
ship and crew. But the problems to
be solved are, in their ultimate result,
so far mor6important to commerce than
the once sought northwest passage,
that nations contribute of their reven
ues, aad the most gallant sailors and
enthusiastic scientists risk their lives
with pleasure in continued explorations.
The first attempt to reduce the scien
tific results of polar investigations to
conformity with systematic Inquiry was
made in 1SS0, when Lieutenant Wey
precht, of the Austrian polar expedi
tion proposed the establishment of cir-
cumpo'ar stations; that is to say, that
eoionies or naval, military and scientific
men, supplied with provisions for two
years, should be placed in the highest
latitudes, and tlie:r records should be
compared and the facts discovered be
made the basis of future investigations.
and it was desired that year by year
mese outposts of civuizatiou should
advance their march still farther to
wards the pole. After many miscar
riages eight of the maritime powers, to
wit, Kusaia, England, Germany, Aus
tria, Denmark, :weden, France and
America sent out colonies. This was
in lStl.
America sent two expeditious, one
to l oint iiarrow, and one under .Lieu
tenant Greely to Lady Franklin's Bay.
This expedition, with a total of twenty
live members, was conveyed by the
Proteus to its destination, and after
landing stores and provisions for two
years' maintenance of the adventurers
me vessel iclt mem in their icy homes
on the l.Ah of August. 1S31. From
then to now no authentic news of them
has been heard.
Mobster Retutins Wobttor.
The present tariff agitation calls to
mind a curious incident in the life of
Daniel Webster, who began his career
by advocating free trade, but became
afterwards the leading champion of
the protective system.
About the year lt4t. he was invited
to a great tariff dinner at Philadelphia,
which proved to be one of the most
magnificent banqnetj ever given in the
United States. The immense hall of
the old Chinese Museum was engaged
for the occasion, and profusely decora
ted with hags and banners.
The splendor of the scene was greatly
enhanced by the circumstances that the
hall had wide galleries extending its
whole length, which were filled with
ladies, all in their brightest attire.
Of course the interest of the evening
centered in the speech of the great ora
tor, who was then at the height of his
renown, and in the full maturity of his
powers.
1 oung persons of the present day can
form no idea of the breathless interest
with which the vast audience listened
to the words of Mr. Webster on this
occasion. No individuals of to-day
tower aloft above the community as the
great men of that day did, such as
ebster, Clay, Calhoun, Preston and
others. Nor can present readers imag
ine the intense curiosity of the public
next morning to read the speech in the
newspapers.
Tne writer of these lines remembers
that morning as though it were yester
day. It seemed as if the sun stood still
till we ciuld get the newspapers. At
that time no Philadelphia paper had a
corps of reporters at all competent to
make quick work of a two hours'
speech, which requires eight men to
report verbatim with the requisite dis
patch for an early issue. The conse
quence was that it was 10 o'clock the
next morning before the Whig paper
appeared.
I here wes a saucy little Democratic
sheet published then, called the Penn
sghanitin, edited by the late Colonel
J: orney, which played a nice trick upon
an expectant public. The editor hunt
ed up Mr. Webster's great speech on
the tariff delivered in 1824, which was
thorough-going argument for free
trade, in direct opposition to the oration
of the evening before. Colonel Forney
struck off a large edition of this speech
as a supplement to his paper, heading it,
in his largest type:
' Webster's Great vptecn on the Tariff."
The newsboys made the town ring
with this cry soon after sunrise. Ho
race Greely, who bad come over from
New lork on purpose to bear the
speech, and was anxious to get an early
copy for publication in the New York
Iribune, rushed out of his hotel and
bought several ef them. Many thou
sands of copies were sold before the
oke was discovered.
The Democrats were naturally in
great good humor to see that Mr. Web
ster thus arrayed against himself. The
Wbigs could not be expected to relish
the jest, least of all of Mr. Greely, who
vented hit anger in unmeasured lan
guage. Mr. Webster himself, who loved a
oke, took it in good part, laughed
heartily, and said to the friend who
handed him the paper:
"I think i cmey has printed a much
better speech than I made last night."
Governor
Hoadly ot Ohio to a
good talker.
NEWS IN BRIEF.
There is a strike in the Koyersford
Pa., foundries
Faith cures continue to be reportetl
in Stratford, Conn.
Kerosene oil is solidified In Russi
and made into candles.
Tt is claimed that the population ol
the Black Hills is 40.000.
Ireland's population is 61,000
3,099.000 less than in 1341.
Richly-carved dining chairs are
upholstered in alligator skin,
Thus far Uncle Sam has received
$200,000,000 for public lands.
Natural gas if- to be used fer fuel
at the Pittsburg water works.
Fire destroys an average of ninety
ch'irches a year in this country.
The costs of th3 Belt-1.8 wes case
amount to a little ove: 23,000.
There are now 100 miles ef shelves
of books in the British Museum.
Within five vears Denver has grown
from 25,000 to "5.0C0 inhabitants.
The oldest peer in Great Britain
is the Ear! of Buckinghamshire.
A ten-foot alligator was captured
recently near Waxahatchie, Texas.
The Latin languages ceased to bt
used in the English courts in 173L
Six sawmills in Minnesota hope to
cut 100,000,000 feet of Umber this yeai.
-Six thousand slaves were liberated
in a single province in Brazil last year.
A catering company in New York
Is a success; its customers are families.
-There are stored in the vaults in
Wall street not far from $1,000,000,000.
Von Moltke is called "the man
who can be silent in seven languages."
In nineteen private galleries ol
New York, are pictures worth 56.000.-
000.
The marble quarries around Elll-
jay, Ga., are among the finest in th
world.
Tennessee has 33 cotton mills In op
eration, with 1,161 looms and 73.87
spindles.
Hundreds of young women work
for 45 cents a day making shirts in New
"4- 1
x ora city.
The American turquoise is usually
blue when found, but turns green from
exposure.
Rumors are again all nit to the
effect that the Pope will seek an asylum
iu France.
Cuba, it is reported, produces st
present one-third of the cane sujar used
in the world.
Brutality to mothers, says a lead
ing Massachusetts Judge, is more com
mon than wite-beating.
Henry Guy Carleton has resigned
the editorship of Life, but is still a
contributor to the paper.
About 2.C00 pictures have been ad
mitted to the Paris Salon. More than
3 000 have been refused.
Terrapin is said to have Increased
about 500 per cent, in price during tha
past twenty or thiity years.
It is said that Prince Victor of
Wales will l raised to the peerage with
the title of Duke ot Dublin.
The calico and print goods made in
Lowell in 18S3 would twice encircle the
earth and some would still be left.
Among the wives of Utah there
may be found, it is said, wmen from
nearly every nation except France.
Men from 21 to Cj years of age
may frequently be seen playing mar
bles in the street of Angel's Camp,
CaL
In twenty years the sales of single
packages of patent medicines in Great
Britain have increased from 6,601,017
to 18,457,990.
Carlos Aguero, the Cuban revolu
tionary leader, is a man below the
medium height, aud weighs only about
115 pcunds.
Nearly 40,000,000 pounds of maple
sugar wereproduced in this country
last year, t'ennsylvania supplied tho
largest amount.
During 13S3 the importation of
coffee reached 525,763.479 pounds, or
about 104 pounds for each inhabitant
of the United States.
The Dshebel Naibs, an isolated
mountain in Algeria, 800 feet high, is
slowly sinking into the earth. Already
there is a deep hollow around its foot.
The announcement is made by for
eign papers that cigarettes are rapidly
going out of favor fourteen million
leas having been consumed last year
than during 1882.
A famous Irish piper. Patrick Co
han, who played before the Queen and
the Prince Consort in 1801, aud after
wards before the Prince of Wales, died
recently In Dublin.
Mme. De Cuzien, long known as
the most eccentric inhabitant of Lyons,
France, died recently, and left her Ior
tune of 15,000,000 francs to benefit, in
various ways, the women of that city.
Cable Dickinson, an eccentric of
Hartfield, Mass., who died recently,
left a will giving $100,000 to founding '
a hospital lor tne indigent sick of Hart
field, Whately and Nothampton.
Stuyvesant's pear tree, at the cor
ner of Third avenue and Thirteenth
street, New York is the oldest living
thing in the city. It was planted by
Governor Stuyvesant in 1647.
The capital acquired by Henry Ir
ving during his two American tours
will, it is said, be largely devoted to
building in London a new theater of his
own, on models and plans designed by
himself.
A bean-eating tournament at Toua-
wanda, N. Y.. under the auspices of
the Grand Army of the Republic, was
won by J. Baker, of Tonawaiida, who
devoured six pounds of beans in forty
minutes.
In the town of York, Maine, is to
be seen a birch tree, about 4u feet high,
two roots of which have lifted a block
of granite computed to weigh 20 tons,
about 12 inches. The tree Is still
growing, and the rock continues to be
raised and poshed sideways at the rate
of nearly an inch a year.
A bill has been passed by the Bel
gian Chamber of Representatives, by a
vote of 61 to 21, forbidding sol lie ra to
vote at elections, and allowing clergy ma
to vote only at the places in which they
lived before they entered tne priest
hood. Electricity as an illuminating power
Is extensively used in the cotton mills
of Fall River, Mass., and so well is it
liked by the operatives tiat recently la
a mill where the proprietors refused to
introduce it the employes struck against
ail work by gaslight.
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