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THE 00I8T1TU T10I THE TJJIOI AID TEE UTOEOIXHT OP TEE L1TB.
Editor and Proprietor.
VOL. XXXVIII.
MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. JUNE II, 1SS4.
NO. 24.
IN TUM STUBS.
A Hnrf of shadows from the iky,
Wide tirl.ls witlwut a flush of pm,
fi.ant iifele branches tossed ou hLjjh,
A sullen wt, a wintry aoen.
The rushing of tb swollen brook
Comes ou 'Ue in'1 bo,h ,ad 'n1 cold
n, bmls am sileut In their nooks,
Tbr fl.ivrrsare prisoned 'neatti the mould;
ne wood that wrre so green and fair
Have noriiiog now to make them glad
No BiuiiL-tio. no bloasotn-glow ;
" Auj m.iiieliiuea Life U jut as sad.
bean tint feels its yooth is pat,
" Vhi !.v are dull with heavy care 1
A louely lot 'mid stranger cast j
Hew drear and sad It is to bear !
Or bcn a udden darkness falls
i here lately shone Love's brightest glow,
lb, Lad..w of IVsnair appals
The soul, and lays Its courage low.
r j thm feel tbat aanuht can heal
Our acLing hearts or soothe their pain.
Vt look on bih ttie dawn is nijjh,
'Jiesun aid surely rise a-ain.
i jnovdrop starting from its sheath,
Ynai:g crashes in the sheltered lane,
inl till ed daffodils beneath
Ifceorcbani-bouBhsare green again.
Ami, X ,be thrushes bow they sing'
" Thefkviarks bow they suriin high !
Sear iiie b:th come to everything
IWtuixt tbe joy tut earth aud sky.
Ibennliiue snn dispels the storm
Finn scei.es no longer bleak and bare;
E'en so bath Life, with all its strife.
Sweet Spring-tide seasons fresh and fair.
(INK OFTHK FAMILY.
There were difference of opinion and
titten-ess of speech in lennistoun
Manor House.
The Stjuire had pone o't in the morn
in" with his hat pulled down over his
ees, hud banged the door behind him,
lud kicked away Topsy, her ladyship j
Ma.tef a Huffy white animal always
um'.er suae one's feet liad snubbed
his bailiff wrongfully, and did not apol
ogize, came noaie late for breakfast and
r:ed the butler, and, J'when he saw
iiie V'ii i, his language was hawfuL"
that iiwciioiiary reported, after taking
iu tlie le'.tera.
Lady Cecilia had a headache, and tea
and toast iu bed, and was heard to mur
mur to her pil o that "dear Reginald's
misfortunes must have affected his
bran."
Miss Ciss:e, their own fair daughter,
remarked coniidentially to her looking-jr'a-a,
-Now, my dear, ou've two very
s;!y cluidren to manage. How are
you to persuade them to kia and be
fneacs ?"'
To go back to the beginning of txou
Ves. They all came from the London
tad S.iutli-'Wessex Railway, which suc
reeded. in sp.te ot herceopposltwn from
tlic Squire and a few other landowner,
in exteiidibg itself across an outlying
piece of waste land b- lont;inR to tlie
Deiiiiistotia estate, and placing iu the
Squire's reluctant hundj more ready
oioi.ey than lie had ever before p
sessed. He amused himself with it iu
his o way dabbled in shares, bought
anJ sold, ran up and down to and frum
Luiuluu utteiier than he hid ever done
in his hie before, took the advice of
Inends kuowinc iu investments had
;x nioiitl1 mtene enjoyment, six
weeks of gTownig cousiernation and
nckueis of heart, aud a bad quarter of
an hour, when he came to confess his
THgaries to the family man of busiuess,
od realize the pme he would have to
pay for his raiue ot ejaculation.
Iidy tecilia behaved admirably.
it is not for niielf, dear Lady Mal
lowdaie.'he sobbed to her paiticular
frieLd and cuntidant, the great lady of
tee county, "1 can face peuury, utter
destitution as it will be- without a
murmur but my children I Poor Cis
tie must give up her season in town
tiit Lus seut away her maid already .and
fays siie will get her dresses made in
the village. Aud though we can still
xeep Reggie at Oxford, he must sell all
bis hoises and for tbe future live with
lu iiis aiijwance. People say, Wny
ot go abioad and retrench ?' But my
n.-ljjiid wouid be miserable, dragged
nay from ail his home interests ; and
uieiy it is better to face our troubles
amongst friend who know u3 and w Ji
not desert ua on account of our pov
erty ! '
"IVsert you ? Never 1" cned Lady
Mailowuale, with a sympathetic preas
ure of the hand. "What difference
can mere waut of fortune make to us 1
Cissie shall come to me in town next
ilay for one week only ; and I'll take
care to keep Gerald well out of her
ay." was the muttered sequeL
"I khew you'd say so. We've done
all we iHjssitily can. All the horses,
except Reginald's old cob, are sold;
the hunters, Cissie's mate, Lady Grey,
the carriage-horses, my ponies all are
piuv. Only one gardener is left. Souf
fict has had notice "
"Xo !" ejaculated Lady Mallowdale,
la a tone cf sincerest commiseration
then mentally "I wonder what wages
be got ? I must secure him. Mallow
dale leads me such a life about the Den
istiiun dinners !"
"Jones, our faithful old butler, stays;
shall have a plain cook, a girl from
the village for housework, and a lady
help." '"Good 'racious, what's that ?" ask
ed laiy Mallowdale, who was behind
her generation. "I've read something
in the papers about ladies being serv
ants ; but do you really mean to have
one V
"Of course I do Just think of the
comfort and the saving 1 I call it prov
idertial, my meeting Mrs. Crawshay
that winter, and reading all her letters
to the paers and speeches ; and it seems
the very thing we want. Jast think
a nice wall-educated girl, used to good
society, who can take the place of a
great clumsy housemaid, dust one's
china without chipping or cracking, or
der the dinners lor one, and, most like
ly, show cook how to make all sorts of
delicious little dishes that cost nothing;
do up j, ly lace for me, make my dresses
and cans, aud do all that my maid used
to get twenty-live pounds aud all my
last year's di esses for and at the same
lime be a companion and a real friend !
She can study with Cecilia, play duets
wiiU her the bass, of course write
my letters for me, aud do a thousand
things besides."
Lady Cecilia stopped, out of breath.
"But did you ever hear of such a
person ?" asked her friend doubtfully.
"Dozens 1 Here's a note from one
the very thing 1" aud Lady Cecilia,
who had talked herself into the best
lwiiible spirits, produced It in triumph.
"Poor thing, an orphan, only anxious
to lind a home where she may be of use!
Ada St, Clair such a pretty name t
will do housework, all but the rough
work, and act as lady's-maid if required,
and asks only thirty pounds, and. to be
treated as one of the family ; and
would you believe it ? Reginald won't
hear of it says he'll go to Boulogne
oouer than have her in the house, and
won't read or hear a word on the sub
ject I"
"Dreadful," declared Lady Mallow
dale, "after all your sacrifices !"
Lad? Cecitia. however, on her arrival
at home, found that, aftrr all, she was
to have her way, Cissie having taken
the Squire in hand and coaxed him into
a state of grumpy acquiescence.
..o"Ada SL CUil lndeed h8 growled.
Sounds like a young woman in the
Stereoscopic Company's window Bet
ter get a decent housemaid. Walt till
Reggie comes home I Your mother'll
wish her far eaougt then I"
Cissie laughed and argued, sorely
against her own secret inclination.
"I could have dusted the drawing
room, and made mother's caws aud
bonnets,anisewu to Topsy and the love
birds, without having an intrusive fe
male spoiling our evenings," she
thought; but she was a good-natured
little body, and from the earliest days
of her sensible girlhood had petted aud
spoilt her silly little mother more tlian
was perhaps quite judicious.
" "One of the family I' Well, I sup
pose, that being the case, the correct
thing will be for me to go and meet her
this afternoon," she observed some days
later.
"Rather you than I, russ." said the
Squire.
"Remember, you've promised to be
civil ; and you must find a man and
horse to take the wagonette and me to
the station."
Cissie was in good time at the little
roadside station, and in no danger of
mistaking the one lady-passenger who
alighted, a tall slight girl carrying a
Mentone basket, who. with a rustle of
many flounces and a glitter of jet
fringes swept majestically along the
small platform.
"Miss St, Clair, I suppose ?" said Cis
sie. "I hare come to met you."
The young lad? raised her long pale
eyelashes languidly and bowed distantly.
"Have you had a pleasant journey ?"
Miss St. Clair surveyed Cissie with a
pair of keen biue eyes before replying,
noting her weather-stained tweed suit
and rather battered felt hat.
"Thanks," she drawled still more
distantly and languidly. "Is there a
carriage here ?'
"Close by. Can I help you to see
about your lnggage "
"Thanks if you'll be so good." She
motioned to a huge pile of dress bas
kets and trunks, handed ber basket to
Cissie, and swept oft slowly towards the
wagonette.
"Takes me for one of the maids,"
said Cissie to herself delightedly, "and
means to show me my proper place at
once. What fun P
The drive was an almost silent one.
Miss St. Clair receiving Cissie's remarks
with frigid graciousness and making
scant response. As they alighted, the
Squire suddenly apiteared.
Ah, CIss, come along with, me I I
want you. How do. Miss SU Clair ?
You'll find Lady Cecilia expecting you"
and he carried off his daughter, leav
ing Miss St. Clair eyes and mouth
open, and the aristocratic composure of
her demeanor considerably disturbed
standing under the portico staring after
them.
It was awkward enough meeting
again at dinner, though Cissie was
good-tempered and Miss SL Clair evi
dently not troubled with over sensitive
ness. There was an undoubted restraint
over the party, and the evening was, by
mutual consent, cut as short as possi
ble. "I don't like her," said Cissie to lier
usual confidant, her looking-glass, that
nigbU "Her language and her dress
are ooth too fine. Black tulle and silver
for a quiet dinner l But she's deep ;
and, though I'm sure she isn't a lady,
it would be hard work to prove it and
do no goud either."
Three or four weeks passed unevent
fully. Half of Lady Cecilia's visions
were realized. Tbe interesting Ada
seemed determined to justify her de
scription of herself. She was up early
to assist Lady Ceiilia to dress, aid
down in time to make the breakfast, if
Cecilia gave her tbe chance, which was
seldom. The lighter part of the house
work was done thoroughly and with
magical rapidity, to the bewildered ad
miration of her rustic assistant. Cook
however opposed any invasion of her
domain.
She's an interloper, she Is ; and I'll
have none of 'em in mv kitchen."
As for the faithful Jones, he thus de
livered himself
"Whatever my opinion may be.ma'am,
I keeps it to myself, and treats her with
the respect due to an 'obby of my la
dy's." Nevertheless he sternly declined as
sistance in plate-cleaning and table
laying, and received all orders from the
lady-help under protest.
Miss St. Clair was not musical, so the
duet-playing was Impracticable ; but
bhe wrote Lady Cecilia's notes, made
her caps exquisitely, took Topsy and
Mouton, the poodle, out for their daily
airing, and finished oil some mighty
performances in orewel work which had
been abandoned in despair by Lady Ce
cilia, listening tbe while with the pro
foundest attention and sympathy to the
good lady's gentle stream of small
talk. In fact, she made herself so in
dispensable that Cissie felt herself
"crowded out" many a time, and had
hard work to combat a rising sense of
injury.
"It's mean of me to the last degree
just when I ought to be so glad of any
tliing to make the poor little mamma
happy nowadays too, when I must be
wita papa as much as possible, to keep
him from moping about; finding fault
with the men, and fretting over the im
provements which he meant to have
made this year. I do dislike her more
than ever since Sunday. "Oh, you
wretch I" she exclaimed suddenly to her
pretty pink reflection. "I've found
you out I Last Sunday T Yes, you've
bated her ever since she took your Sunday-school
class, and Mr. Athelney said
what a help it was to have any one so
well up in the routine, and he carried
home her books for her. You're jeal
ous, Cissie Dennistoun jealous of
Herbert Athelney I As if he cares a
button for youl And yet and yet,
when ne said he couldn't bear to see
any one else on my poor mare, and gave
papa such a fancy price for her, I did
tninK that he Never mind ; he may
marry Ada if he likes ; and she'll live
at tiie Vicarage, and perhaps ride past
here on Lady Grey sometimes. "On,
dear oh, dear I There" with a proud
little toss of the head "there's my last
moan ; and now to behave like a gen
tleman" Cissie's views of her own sex
were not exalted. "She shall have my
class every Sunday morning, when he's
sure to be there, and go, instead of me,
to the Mallowdales' garden-partj he's
asked ; aod we'll have him here to lawn
tennis and dinner he offered to teach
her when she said she didn't play ; and
and you're beaten, you spiteful
thing I" and she shook a pretty little
fist at her own flushed face in the gla5,
aud marched away bedwards with the
step of a conqueror.
"Why do you. rjever go out with
Ada ?" asked Lady Cecilia plaintively.
"You're very unkind to the poor thing,
Cissie. Every morning she has to go
my errands alone down to the village
and afternoons too sometimes. It doesnt
look as if we really considered her a
one of the family."
"Ada can amuse herself," said Cissie
shortly Ciss had grown somewhat
sharp and irritable of late. "I saw ber
chatting away most happily to the che
mist's assistant the one with the red
whiskers in Love Lane. She puts on
ber interesting silence and melancholy
only with her indoor dress." Cissie
stopped as the subject of ber remarks
entered, rather Dink and excited.
"Dear Lady Cecilia, such an escape
we have had 1 Poor Mouton a butcher's
cart right over his poor dear paw I
Fortunately the young gentleman from
the chemist's was passing, and told me
what to do. I ran all the way home
witli him-iu my arms Mouton, I mean
and have sponge! and bandanged
him, and he seems quite recovered."
She paused, breathless, and Cissie
crimsoned with self-reproach. By way
of penance and atonement, she took
the first chance of suggesting that Miss
SU Clair's lesson in tennis had better
come off soon.
"Why not to-morrow ? I know Mr.
Athelney is disengaged : and we can
get the Mayhews and Freddy Brand
just a nice party for dinner"
Lady Cecilia approved ; Ada acqui
esced sweetly, and withdrew to arrange
an effective toilette for the occasion.
"I met Medlock to-day," announced
the Saulre the next day at luncheon.
"He's going back to Leicestershire to
morrow, and taking Athelney with him.
I never knew he was staying at the
Vicarage. He's coming with Athelney
this afternoon, of course. He was com
ing to call ; but I told him that would
do as welL lie's tennis-mad, I believe
plays splendidly. Another teacher
for you. Miss St. Clair."
"Thanks ; you are very good," mur
mured the fair Ada confusedly ; "but
I'm afraid so many people my recent
mourning you must excuse my appear
ing." "Nonsense I You went to Mallow
dale, Dont be shy 1"
"Very good," said Ada sweetly.
But later in the afternoon, when Cis
sie went to Miss St. Clair's room to an
nounce the arrival of some of the guests,
she found the shutters closed, a smell
of eau de Cologne, and Ada with a wet
bandage on her head,"totally prostrate.'"
Cissie sympathized, and did all she
could to make her comfortable, and
conscience-freed enjoyed the rest of
the day thoroughly.
Ada cam? down pale and extra lan
guid ths next day.
"1 am going to try what fresh air will
do," she announced. "No, tbanks.MLK3
Dennistoun ; I'd rather go alone."
The walk appeared to have done her
good. She came in so fresh and bright
that the squire was actually compli
mentary. "You look another woman I" he ex
claimed. "By-the-way, is Monton still
under medical treatment? I'd have
sworn it was his face I saw looking out
of tne chemist's as I passed "
"I was there getting something for
myself," said Ada demurely. "It has
done me so much good."
"Then let's send for Athelney, and
have tea on tbe lawn and more tennis.
No ; he and Medlock were off by the
early train. Brand then, or somebody
or I'll play you two."
Half an hour later the Squire and
Cissie were indulging hi some prelim
inary practice, and Ada, having settled
Lady Cecilia and ber crewel-work com
fortably on a garden-seat, was arrang
ing a picturesque rustic tea-table under
the shade of a big cedar, when the
Vicar's tall shadow preceded him across
tbe lawn, accompanying a second
shadow, belonging to a stout hilarious
elderly gentleman in semi-clerical at
tire, carrying a racket.
"Hallo I' ' shouted the Squire. "Not
gone yet ?"
"We missed our train," began Mr.
Athelney.
"He fell asleep over his clothing-club
report ha, ha 1" broke in Dr. Medlock,
in a voice tbat shook the evergreens.
"Lady Grey had a cough, and he sat up
all last night with her iu tbe stable ha,
ha. ha 1 I saw the balls going from my
bedroom window ha, ha I And now
Tve dragged him here. Awfully hard
work It was, Miss Cissie ha, ba ! Why,
Polly Polly Loveday I You here ?"
and he faced round suddenly and cut
off Miss SL Clair in a quiet retreat by
the far side of the belt of rhododen
drons. "How In the world did you
get here ?"
Miss SL Clair faced him for a minute,
first grew red, then Dale, then gave a
pert little toss of her head.
"That's my affair, Dr. Medlock. Tm
doing no harm."
"Why, Dootor Medlock, do you know
Miss SL Clair? What is it?" and
Lady Cecilia struggled to her feeL let
ting all ber crewel-balls patter down
upon Mouton s nose.
"Know her. Lady Cecilia? Why,
I've a letter In my pocket from her mo
ther I Don't you remember our old
nurse Loveday ? Here it is
" 'Pollv's gone for a lady-help, and
has cast off her poor old mother. She
always was a genteel girl, and wanted
to play the lady. She gets twice her old
wages, and does half tbe work, and sees
the best of company ; but why should
she be so secret about it ?"
"Old fool I" muttered Polly unfllially
and emphatically.
She had quite lecovered herself by
this time, and stood looking Dr. Med
lock in tbe face, with a saucy defiance
that seemed far more natural than her
former languid serenity. The Squire,
as yet uncomprehending, put his arm
around his wife, who clung to him
aghasL
"Polly, Polly to think that yon
should have come to this I Our best
Sunday scholar, and such a favorite of
my wife's I Such an Interest she always
took in you when you were our house
maid and a very good one yon were
I'll say thaL But" the situation seem
ing to dawn upon tbe Doctor "do you
mean to say you've had the audacity to
impose on these good people, you
naughty girl ? Ha, ha I By Jove,there's
tbe best of the joke to come ! Your
mother says
'There's an honest young man after
her as is able to keep her comfortable ;
but I'm afraid she's having ber head
turned by a young clergyman In those 1
parts who's leading her to think far too.
much of him.' "
"Oh, atop, stop!" broke in Cissie.
Dont be severe upon a woman. Doctor
Medlock. Perhaps she can explain."
"Thank you, Miss Dennistoun ; you're
very good, I'm sure ; but I'm happy t
say I want none ot $pur kind excuses,"
Polly interrupted. "It may be a relief
to jour mind to know tbat I'm engaged
to be married iu a month to a young
man in a genteel way of business, who
intends setting up for himself at Mi
chaelmas as chemist and drupgisL" -
"And I've taken her to Mallowdale
and introduced her everywhere 1" moan
ed Lady Cecilia.
"That was part of the bargain," said
tbe undaunted Polly. "I'm sure n
one can say I've not done my part."
The girl was mistress of the situation.
Doctor Medlock and tbe Squire even
looked at her with a sort of admira
tion. "You young hussy," said the former,
"what put such a prank into your
head?"
"Reading and observation," was the
reply. ' I found that ladies were get
ting good pay for playing at being serv
ants 5 so why should not a servant get
the same for playing at being a lady ?
My bast mistress gave me all her cast off
dresses when she married, and, as far
as look goes, I'm Bure I'm as good as
any lady, and, as for the work, a great
deal better."
The Squire fonnd that the disclosure
was proving too much for Lady Cecilia,
who was making arrangements for a
speedy fit of hysterics.
Cissie and the Vicar were both stand
ing dumbfounded, blushing like two
peonies. It was evidently time for hint
to assert himself.
"Now, my good girl, the best thing
you .can do is just to go indoors and
write to that good old mother of yours,
and say you're going home to her to
stay till your marriage. Yon shall
start to-morrow comfortably, and have
your month's wages."
"Quarter, If you please. I am not a
domestic servant."
"Quarter then ; and youll bold your
tongue like a sensible girl, not only for
our sakes, but your own and your che
mist's eh?" Polly nodded. "Now
be off and pack np 1"
The Vicar and Doctor Medlock" here
discreetly bade farewell.
"Now cheer np, Cecilia," said the
Squire, turning to that lady ; "there's
no harm done. No one will ever hear
more of iL It might have been worse
if Reggie bad been at home. He's had
a providential escape, I say."
"Oh, Reginald, Reginald, I never will
have my own way again as long as I
live !" cried his wife penitently.
The Squire laughed.
"Well, well, we've both made some
mistakes, and I wish mine were as easily
forgotten as yours, my dear."
lie picked up tbe crewels and, with a
resonant kiss, replaced Lady Cecilia in
her basket-chair.
Cissie, smiling and blushing, was busy
at ber table under the cedar tree making
a pleasant suggestive clinking with her
caps and saucers.
Monton composed himself anew to
repose, the rooks overhead cawed peace
fully as they sailed homewards, aod the
setting sun sank on the last day of dis
cord at Dennistoun.
Bars Cars ta Tartar.
There are no sidewalks in Galata,
and everybody goes in the streets. As
a consequence, the first week's fatali
ties of Uie horse ear company included
four Armenians, three Turks, a Nu
bian, and a Greek, children and dogs
not counted. Business was equally
good tbe second week; but tbe third,
they had the misfortune to Include a
Pasha. It was a bunglmg piece of bus
iness, for they did not kill tbe Pasha;
they only mangled him. And when he
Kot around again be put in his whole
time working for an Injunction against
tbe road. It was shown m evidence
that the company did not want the
Pasha or the other people killed, tbat
they had been at considerable expense
to dispose of them; and further, tbat
it had rung Its bells, as by law required
and so was not responsible for the peo
ple who got In the way. The Pasha
filed his answer, and said that he had
heard the bell; that any one not dear
could not help hearing it; but that it
was not his bell, and he could not be
expected to look out for every slave
that rang one in the public streets. If
the slaves were to be bell sheep for the
Pashas he thought it was tune for the
latter to resign. It was a very pretty
quarrel, and occupied a good deal of
Government time. But finally a com
promise was reached and an arrange
ment adopted which has continued in
use until tbe present time. Tbe speed
of the car was not slackened nor its
right of the way denied. Bat In con
sideration of the crowded state of the
thoroughfares and the impossibility of
making the populace turn out or mind
the bells the company was handicapped
with outrunners. Each car was pro
vided with a negro, armed with a club
whip and tin horn, whose business it
was to run some fif ten paces ahead on
the track blowing his horn. They are
pietnresque fellows, these outrunners,
in their red fezes and green shirts, that
are open nearly to the waist.
Atfvlea to Mj Soa.
Did yon ever hunt for something yon
didn't want to find? asks Bardette?
People frequently do. No man wants
to find a horizontal collar button, nor
does the gentlewoman who carefully and
anxiously looks under the bed every
uiUht for a man, really went to find tbe
man. She believes there is one there,
but she wonld be greatly disappointed
and surprised to find him. Never look
for things you do not want to find, my
son, It is hard enough to find the
things you wanL If you do not want
to find faults in your friends, do not look
for them. If yon do not want to find
your enemies, do not hunt for them.
They will hunt for yon, my son. And
a hat is .worse, they will find yon, too.
1 bave known men who passed all
their lives bunting for things which no
body wished to bave discovered and
which only made the finder miserable.
There are men who can't smell a helio
trope held at their lips, but have a nose
for carrion that would be a fortune to
some poor struggling buzzard. He
never looks for a good point about any
man. He finds the spots on the sun,
and sees not one ray of its brightness,
A clear running spring brook gives him
the hydrophobia, and a mud puddle is a
reviving Turkish bath to his mean little
souL If he could go to heaven, which,
praised be all goodness, he never can, he
wouid be of all men most mlseiabie, be
cause he could find no mud to throw at
the angels.
Faunas an4 Docs.
The dogs are a blessing to the Turks,
ff a Mohammedan gets very drunk and
wants to run amuck and is afra d to go
out and kill a man for fear of the after
consequence, when he gets to feeling
real nice and murderous he takes his
knife and goes Into the streets and
sticks it recklessly into the first dog he
meets. If he is real murderous he kills
two, anil so great is the respect for the
canine tbat be gts more reputation as
a "bed man" out of this proceeding
than If he had killed four or five mere
Mohammedans. A pasha ranks nearly
jp to a dog in point of secular respect,
tut the dog holds over him in religious
sanctity. The dog has the right of way
in the public streets, and I have seen a
heavy pack train turn aside for one ly
ing asleep on the cobbles. So fully
assured are they of their social position
that they have lost tbe sensitiveness
one expects from the race in civiliza
tion. One day in the fish-market a
greasy, yellow fellow walked into a stall
and selected a good sized fish while the
vender's back was turned, hauled it
down and began licking it preparatory
to making a meaL A Turk never
allows his religion to drop Into mat
ters of loss and gain, and the owner of
the fish sacrilegiously Interfered with a
club. A civilized dog would have taken
the hint and departed, but this canine
saint bad too much respect for his cloth.
Relying on his sanctity, at the first blow
be sat down on the pavement by the
bsh and lifted up bis band to heaven in
a howl. He shivered and squirmed and
wrinkled his skin as the blows grew
more persuasive, but It was some min
utes before be was convinced that the
affair was not a joke and that be really
was not wanted. It is the foreigners
who abuse them mosL I kicked one so
bard behind that be tilted clear over
and struck on bis nose. He did not
pay any attention or make a sound.
He just tilted back into bis old position
and went on sunning himself without
tven looking around.
Horn tii story tlrsw.
Tfne lowest name printed on tbe stone
W) In the doorway of a Court street
sOdujg, Boston is only an inch or two
a-.e the threshold. To add to the
Crtiiy which may be experienced by
'rtai-fett vision none of the names
on the rt are in very large letters. A
near sigtVd man was observed rubbing
bis nnee aiig this slab in a downward
direction. As he settled lower and low
er, absorbed to his inspection, two or
three people stepped to look at him. In
order to get to iht, last name be was
obliged substantially to lie down in the
doorwav. By this time the two men
had increased to Bvo, and five was
enough to do the buslnea. When the
near-sighted man had got on his feet
again there was a orowti. The crowd,
or rather the inner ring of kt looked at
the man with curiosity and trest, and
the man returned it with aitst and
auiinvaure. ,
"What's the matter?" he aaied,
sharply. Nobody answered him.
"I understand there's a man druaiaw
fainted in the doorway."
The oflicer elbowed his w,ay throng
the gathering throng. "Where is her'
he demanded again. The near-sightec
man had passed on. The drunken man
was nowhere to be seen. No two people
told the same story. Tbe officer ended
by clearing tbe sidewalk. But pulsations
of the original excitement continued to
throb about that doorway for hours.
Everybody knew there had been a row,
but nobody agreed as to the cause. A
Uiief bad been arresied, a man bad been
obbed, a street fight had taken place.
Late in the afternoon one ragged ur
chin was explaining to auolher in front
of tbat awful theatre of o rat ions bow
this was the place where "the big codger
had hit the little codger and dnv bis
whole front teeth down bis neck." The
awful mystery that hangs about most
street excitements hung about this one
all day.
Anotliar Kalla of Washington.
In the office of the Rogers Iron Com
pany at Ausable Forks, Virginia bangs
a document in the handwriting of
George Washington, whtcb Is an object
of much iuterest to visitors. It is a
memorandum for arrangements which
were ro bo observed lu entertaining at
Mount Venion of the Count de Ro
chambeau, who was expected to visit
Washington tliere. It reads:
JIEMOUASUfM FOB THE SEBVASTS:
''They are to cross at Colchester and
lodge at Dumfries.
'They will, for themselves, get enter
tainment at the best public bouse in
the town, aud direct dinner to be ready
for us at that pluce by 12 o'clock to
morrow, and by no means to exceed iL
"They are to draw public forage fpi
their horses, this being laid in at that
place.
"They are to set out at 5 o'clock to
morrow morning for Fredericksburg
and put up at the best tavern, where we
shall lodge, draw public forage there
also, and are to wait there for our arri
val or further orders.
"Geo. Washington."
"Moot Vebnon, 11th September,
17S1.
"N. B. Public forage is to be drawn
for the horses of the Count de Roch
anibeau, etc."
This document was found nearly fifty
years ago among the papers of Benjam
in Graves, wbo was tbe third sheriff of
CHntou county. It has been in the pos
session of his grandson, II. D. Graves,
ever since. '
Chanced H anda.
At the beginning of the oil excite
ment in Pennsylvania a very religious
old farmer wbo owned forty acres in the
center of the ' belt" had offers for his
farm until he couldn't sleep uights.
They began at $4,000 and went up to
SdO.UOO, but to each and every would be
purchaser the old man steadily replied:
"If tbe Lord bai put coal -lie under
my farm it isn't for me to dispute his
will."
One day however the agent of a syn
dicate came along aud asked what figure
the old man would set on his acres.
"I've bin offered toO.OOO."
"Yes."
"I've bin saying as how tbe Lord put
the ile there for some purpose of his own,
"Exactly."
"Well, now, if you could convince
me that about one barrel in ten of the
ile from this farm would be used for
people to read their bibles by I reckon
I'd set my figures at aoout ftX),000."
In less than three hours the farm
changed hands.
Boston has 55,573 school children.
Cape May la to have a 100,000
ler.
Fig brandy la a California
drink.
FUhiag Traps.
Among other exhibits in the Nation
al mnum of fisheries, recently opened
in Washington. Is the model of a Greek
netting boa, which. In all respects save,
one resembles the ordinary boats to be
found along onr coasts, and that excep
tion is a peculiar projection at the nose,
which is said to be the last vestige of
the ram which adorned the prows of the
Roman triremes two thousand years
ago.
Every nation seems to have its marine
architecture represented. The lug-sailed
boats fmm Scandinavia, the lateen
rigs of the Mediterranean, the unwieldy
jtiuksof China, the rakish, piratical craft
of the Malay, are all exhibited; but the
masterpiece of the room Is a model of
the three-masted schooner, Lizzie W.
Matthewson, of Province town, whose
graceful lines and beautiful proportions
elicit unqualified praise, and it was to
this model that a gold medal was given
at I,ondon, last year.
The ensemble of the larger room is
perfecL The fishing nets, which hang
in graceful loops from the ceiling, the
life-size figures of the fishermen clad in
the garments of their calling, and poised
in attitudes typical of various peculiari
ties connected with their hazardous
trade, the plaster cast of the cuttle-fish,
with its spreading tentacles, looking like
a huge spider suspended from a mam
moth cobweb, together with many
other strange and grotesque objects, all
meet the eye at once, presenting a novel
spectacle, which is greeted by exclama
tions of surprise and pleasure.
In the cases arranged around the
room are found thousands of articles
representing the growth and extent of
this interest. Beginning with the rude
club of the savage, one can gradually'
trace the successive steps of improve
ment np to the most complex traps of
civilized ingenuity. Hooks of stone,
wood, bone, and of wood and bone,
with the barbs fastened by winding
with the sinews of beasts, scarcely
wilder than the barbarian fisherman,
are shown in conjunction with the pro
cess of making the steel hooks which
the boys use when they take their Sun
day rlslilng trips up the Potomac.
The rudely sculptured float of the
Alaskan Indan can be contrasted with
tl e brightly-painted bob from the fac
tory of a Yankee manufacturer. Un
couth stone knives of wonderful struc
ture bave a ludicrous appearance in
comparison with the gleaming steel
from a Massachusetts cutlery. Artifi
cial flies of a thousand delicate sh ides,
filmy shells and shimmering spoon
books, recall to the angler hours passed
in casting for tbe greedy baas or troll
ing for the lively pickereL
in another case is the collection of
reels, and tbe spectator can almost hear
the familiar click, click of the snap as
the line Is drawn by the frightened and
struggling fish. On a large drum cov
ered witb a beautiful shade of blue
plush Is arranged tbe collection of fish
ing rods, from the eight and ten ounce
split bamboo, bass and trout By rods to
the heavy grades used in capturing the
gamey salmon.
American workmen excel the world
In the manufacture of fishing rods, and
since the London exhibition tbe export
trade in this branch has been multiplied
several times. The superiority of
American rods consists in the combina
tion of lightness and flexibility with
tenacity and strength, and in the inter
national contest our representative not
only made the longest cast, but the (lies
were never snapped from his lines,
although the contestants lost many.
Turning from the implements of the
angler one notices the nets and traps of
the fishermen who find not merely sport
but livelihood in the cappture of the fish
A net made of human hair, from the
Fetjee Islands, is exhibited, but it is
not stated whether the hair is from tbe
head of a missionary or noL Nets of
the most delicate workmanship, from
Japan and the far East, are shown.
The primitive traps of the aborigine
and Uie intricate inventions of civiliza
tion can be seen.
Kapoleon.
On the Avenue de Keyser, in Ant
werp, tbe broad stone-paved street that
leads from the Cathedral square to the
Zoological Gardens stands a circular,
windowless building. After paving a
(ranc for admission I was left to grope
my way along a narrow, dark passage
way, which only came to an end when
a quintette of toes tried to dislocate a
staircase. Stumbling upward, day
light finally appeared by the opening of
a small door. The scene was bewilder
ing; the transformation was as wonder
ful as it was sudden. A moment before
I bad been propelling my way through
groups of jolly Belgians who thronged
the avenue; now I stood on the battle
field of Waterloo, one of those marvel
ous panoramas of battle scenes that
picture the conflict with startling
reality. A clear sky, save for a patch
of black clouds in the east that threat
ened a thunder storm and a few lurid
shafts of flame shooting from burning
buildings, gave a mocking brightness
to the scene of blood. All around the
eye ranged over imaginary distances of
bills and valleys aud steep-roofed houses
until the earth and sky joined hands
and dropped the curtain. While yet
taking in tbe wide view, I walked to
the wooden railing that incloses the
platform, and leaned over. The first
look almost mesmerized me with horror.
I shuddered with a terror painfully
real. There lay, almost within reach,
a dead soldier, bis sabrecut face both
bloody and pale, bis eyes glaring with
transfixing glassiness, bis teeth protrud
ing from the bloodless, shrunken lips,
his hair tangled in bloody masses. Be-
' side him, almost hidden in the long
; grass, was his gun, snapped in two,
I whi e hi-t helmet, res'.ing on a bed of
j violets, faded snd dying from the crush,
; lay near bis dead horse. It is supiosed
i to be 5 o'ch ck In the afternoon. To
the right is a deep ravine, a ready filled
witb dead and dying soldiers. On one
side is a British square, each man a
citadel of strength as dt fiance and cour
age gleam from his eye. One noble
fellow, pieroeJ by a ball, la dying, bis
right band clutching his coat with a
terrible grasp. One can almost bear
the death rattle of the berol Bearing
down upon them with a wild, reckless
abandon is a corps of grenadiers and
the Milhaud cuirassiers, with drawn
j sabers, with which to add to tbe groan
ing, bleedin; beaps in tbe ditch. Here
one is thrown from hs saddle, aud is
being dragged to death over the up
turned earth; there a shell from au
English gun is c-eaving a horrible path
way through a line of begrimed uni-
I forma. Over all is shed the reflection
from burniug barns and hostelries.
S irroundeJ by a scute or officers a sol
der, plainly attired, though his uni
- betokened military rank, la acxi-
ous'y watching the straggle and ques
tioning tbe peasant at his sid
Napoleon reads his doom and his
at ntencel One sees Napoleon every whee
in Europe. Canvas and paint, marble
and stone, clay and terra cotta, wood
and wax have all been utilized to pro
duce his form and features, and even
the rocky wall that juts into the Rhine
where the Lurlei nymph once kept
house is said to portray the very like
ness of the great Emperor, but as far
as I could see the jagaed edge might
have represented Robin Hood or Ben
jamin Brown wita as much correctness
had not the guide b ok assured me I
was mistaken. The saloons of Ver
sailles aud tbe Louvre-picture bim as a
pretty-featured boy posing at h-s
mother's knee; as tbe Consul, standing
in stately attitude before his fellow
ministers; as tbe husband, surrounded
by Josephine and her children; as the
determined and almost unconquerable
soldier at the Pyramids, at AusterliU,
at Wagram, at Jena.
But Brussels cans the climax. In
one of the rooms of the Weirtz Gallery
is a stretch of canvas which for blood
curdling awlulness and condensed hor
ror cannot be equalled bv same of the
martyrdom paintings in the Roman
galleries. In the midst of hissing,
darting flames stands Napoleon in
belli Clad in a military costume, gay
with its colors and adornments, be
stands erect with folded arms. Crowd
ing closely around him are scores of
wild eyed creatures who, with an im
petuosity of revengeful grief and in
tense hatred, are reviling him as the
author of all their misery and unhappi
ness. A mother defiantlv holds a leg,
reeking witb blood, before his eyes a
ghas'ly relic of a'boy murdered in bit
tie; a father bears in bis armsahiedous
head all that is left of his only son; a
brother carries 'he trunk of a brother
slain at Waterloo, and confronts the
great maker of war; a child In the
background is borne down with the re
mains of her father. One leaves the
room with a feelii g of discomfort that
haunts bim like a bad dream ior days
alterward.
1 saw Napoleon still again In London
at Madame Tussaud's exhibition on
Baker streeL An .xtra fee admits the
visitor to tbe Napoleon room. In its
center, lying in state on what was bis
own camp bedstead at SL Helena, rests
Napoleon, clai in his chasseur uniform
and covered with the cloak he wore at
Marengo. In one corner of the apart
ment is seen the famous carriaze cap
turea from Napoleon at Waterloo a
remarkable old vehicle, having carried
its illustrious owner to Muse w, to
Dresden, to Pans, to the Mediterran
ean, and finally to Waterloo. Now
it is shown for sixpence! Inside it is a
w nderful combination of secret
drawers, writing desks, diniug tables
that fold out of the way, powder
magazines, gun cases, sword scabbards
and pistol pockets. In fact, it was bis
armory, bis dining room, and his bed
room combined. Tbe rest of tbe room
is filled with touching relics the coun
terpane used on tbe camp bed on which
he died, stained witn his blood! His
coronation robe, faded aud ciurnpled;
a tooth brush taken from his dressing
case; a golden snuff box; his war atlaj
bewiidenngly marked aud re-maikU;
his knife, fork and spoon ued at SL
Helena, and bis shirt and drawers even.
France still has bis impeiial crown, but
tbat has ben decreed by the Frence
Senate to be ignomuiiously sold alone
with tbe other crown jewe's. Tnfimg
and silly you may ssy to attach any
importance to these reminders of a
great man, but nevertheless one looks
upon them wiJi a curiosity that soon
deepens into awe.
The end ot my sight-seeing of Napo
leon was reached wneu 1 eutared golden
doomed Invalided through the biah
roofed church where doz.-ns of shot
suined and suell-torn bauuers each a
history in itself tell more eloquently
than words of the glorious victories of
the dead Emperor in Italy, in Austria,
iu Prussia in all Europe, in fact.
Beneath these old war tlas tue crippled,
battered soldier from the adjoining
hospital kneels before a golden Madonna
and reverently crosses his palsied hands.
V e as reverently lean over the marble
wall and gaze long and earnestly at the
massive porphry mausoleum illumined
by golden aud crimson and yellow-uued
rays of sunlight that slime through the
stained glass windows a mighty rock
covering a few specks of dust and
scattered pieces of withered bones all
that is left on earth of Napoleon Bon
aparte! flaring Cness Blindfold.
There is nothing very remarkable in
playing a game of chess without seeing
the board. When one mastered, the
trick is not only fairly easy of perfor
mance, but tbe fact tbat tbe process is
purely mental rather facilitates than
impedes the action of the mind. To
the blind folded chess-player, there is
present a mental picture of the board
with the pieces in position. He can
change the position of the men as
easily as he can think, and after be hat
once mastered the difficulty of fixing"
the mental picture, it is distinctly be
fore bim. Some players, who do not
m tbeir common process of memory
use picture phantoms, work out the
moves as algebriacal propositions are
occasionally worked, by phantoms of
sound; but as a rule, chess-players are
mental-picture-readers, and can at
pleasure call np any one of several
pictures of boards as they lait conceived
them. The most difficult feat, and one
which very Tew mental chess players
can accomplish, is to play two or three
games simultaneously, tbe moves made
by their opponents being told them in
close sequence and the.r own moves
being directed after all the reports of
the proceedings of their opponent have
been received. Thus, if there be sev
eral plavers against tbe one mental
player, he must be told and remember
what each of his adversaries has done
before he begins to give the instruc
tions for his several counter moves.
In this exploit the most perfect devel
opment of the menial faculty of dis
tinct picturing and the displacement
and recall of mental p'cturea at will is
exhibited. The prodigious difficulty
of the feat can be realized in the at
tempt to perform iL Even the expert
blind-folded chess-player can larely
succded in accomplishing the perfor
mance we have attempted to describe.
The Rothschilds own 1400,000,000
of Uni'ed Slates bonds.
Washington territory promises a
large yield of fruit this season.
A swarm of bees, nine miles long,
recently visited Oaxaca, Mexico.
Forty cords of oak wood will yield
just about tea cords of tuerchauUble
charcoal.
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Staten Island censuses 40,000 resi
dents.
Prince Leopold's widow will have
to s'rng le along on an annual Income
of 140.000.
Rowell has mae up.vird of S0. -
000 nut of the various walking matc'uC3
he has entered.
The refflnin-r Duke of Cohunr is a
studenL Tbe King of Bavaria is an
artist dreamer.
A scheme is on foot for estaWsh-
Inc turtle parks nn the coasts of Pro
vence. Algeria and Corsica.
More than sixtv p"r "nr, of the
adult male population of New Mexico
can neither read nor write.
The largest cotton emwer in
southeast Arkansas ha tv-t ween S.OuO
and 9.000 acres in cultivation.
Whooping cough nh the"inTTri-ny
old as w 11 as vnnfr persons on the Pa
lfic coast, it is reported.
Bismarck. It is said. sp'k' Frne,
nndentarKis E iglish an I Italian. a'ks
Russian and is acquainted with Polish.
Cremstion establishments under
the control of the G vnifn'nf t t
be found In all the chief c; ties of J itain.
On the South Park Railroad. Colo
rado, is a line of tree stnmp of an un
known kind in all stages of petrifica
tion. Five-cent cigars, a correspondent
who alleges accurate knowledge avs,
are rmoked by most Congressmen in
Washington.
The world's tin production
amounted last year to 4"."70 tor ah- ut
one-third of which was consumed In the
United States.
Proportions of gunpowder as mido
by the government are seventy-fiv" parts
nitre, fifteen parts charcoal and ten
parts sulphuf.
A missionary, who has completed a
translation of the Dmk of Mormon into
Spanish, has gone on a pro&elyting Uur
in Mexico with It,
Italic tyi. It Is s.vrt. wa first in
troduced by Aldus Pius Manntins in an
edition of Virgil, pnuted in liiJl, and
was first called A Mine.
Tbe Mtyor of Vienna, AnstrH. r
rently received a donation of 100 0 0
florins and a seale l-tter. wliic'i is not
to be opened until 1390.
According to the laws of Wyom'ni
there shall I no d?sritn)nar.i m nn lj
in tnat Territory wiih regard to sex in
the pay of any kind of work.
Mary Allen ot Decatur connfy,
Iowa, has captured fifoeen yoiug
wolves, for which she has received in
bounties the sum of $15.
Dwelling houses at llai'ev, Idaio,
are invaded by an insect which eini'3
an odor, it is mid. s sirkei uig tLat
"all who smell it want to d.e."
The cigarettes manuf.ctnrel la
Vera Cruz, Mexico, are all made by
women and children, and tney earn
only twenty-five cents per day.
The Prince R.yai of Greece U
described aa "a la 1, nob e-lu-)kirj
youih barely out of bis teens, lie
looks like his noble aud queeuly
mother. "
The Empress of Austria Is visitiL
Amsterdam incognito for the purpuoo
of consulting distinguished physicians
in regard to the nervous disorders with
which she has been afB.cted.
Over 2100 lives, it is fi'ired, wpra
lost during tbe first quarter of Uie year
by disasters which resulted in tbe loss
of not less than ten lives each,
The greatest distance ever ridden
on a bicycle without dismountm is
stated to be 230 miles 4ti'J yards. The
feat was a ccoiupiisned iu Loudon, in
1SS0.
The Government has paid out
since the close of trie war near SoVi ),
OuO.000 in pensions to tbe so'.dieisof
tbe Union, and is now distributing
among them over $C0.00O.0UO a year.
The eldest daughter of Lord Lyt
ton, though ot.ly 14, has taken up the
family pen and written one of the most
blood curdling ghost sloiies tbat has
seen the 1 glit for many a day.
A society has been formed at Port
land for tne purpose of punlUhiug rare
historical documents, especially those
relating to Maine, called the Gorges
Society.
Dr. Trottski says that the relative
frequency of the pulse iu smokers and
nou-smokers is as 1 ISJ to IlHJ , and
regards the danger of bmokiug m re
siding In this fact.
The rojues album of the Berlin
Criminal Court has been increase! by
334 photographs during the past yr,
thus swelling tbe same to a total of
portraits.
An estate costing 1,100.000 'r. Is to
be bought In Algeria, wheie two hun
dred poor children of Uie Djnr. merit
of Uie S- ine ( Paris) will receive instruc
tion in agricultuic
A gentleman In the French Consu
lar Service, XL Poguon, will shortly
start for the Lebanon, to copy Uie text
of tbe Assyrian Inscriptions concerning
Nebuchadnezzar's murtary operations
in Assyria.
The cigars consumed in Germany
during the past year amounted to a
total weight of 37,3oo tons, while l he
quantity of tobacco consumed in ad
dition reached a weight of 36,oi)S
tons.
The judicial statistics of Franco
for the last five years show that there
has been a yearly average of over 3 0
men tried for murder in various de
grees, while the average i uaiber of
execution s amounted to but five a
year.
In 1SS2 the London sas coinoantes
real zed a net profit of 117' 3J,
equ.tl to 10 42 pet ceuL Oo ti e stuck
aud share capital r.iis.-.!. In lSal 'In
net profit was Xl.lU'i 'JJ!, equal lu tf 03
per ceut. ou tbe stuck aud snare capi
tal. Berlin has a population f 1 .!-',-392
as appears y the teusu ot ISb 1,
including 2U.3S7 soldiers. The iu'hih
was 41-J.7J) hi ls.'s, iujiudiu 17 .A7
soldiers. An iucn-ast of dcsj.uTii ni
years would satisfy oca a Camao
The consumption of water within
Uie metropolis ut 1-oudon U a, the rate
of about 31 gallons er hal per day.
Of the total quantity, o'J.U'V.uikj if
gallons are obtained from the TUjuvs,
and 71,UO0,OUU Imui the liver Lee, the
New Hivcr, anil u.her su'iice.
During 1S3.1 there were made in
this country 5,177.S)0,dV2 cigars, a'tmt
forty for every suiid oi ioUicc used.
About 3u.OAI.UUU weir- Unpolled, llm-l
making a total of about 3,l kl.tXiu.:.U.
or iul for even num. wuiitai. a.-.d
child iu the United Stales, and ijU iS
I wvery luau over 21 yean of sr-
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