THE OOI8TmiTI0I-THX UK0I-1ID THE CTPOIOHCEIT Of TEE LIU.
Editor and Proprietor.
F. SCHWEIER,
VOL. XXXVIII.
MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. JUNE IS, 1884.
NO. 25.
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I TIIK toASHKS.
W iloni tar a little toirMm,
The taw kiisinn our fret;
Ar :ind m elowi gil bright weather;
Ifce nioraiug auU you were ftweeC
I thought, 3-1 you stood there .lrming,
Twas ou that lights the day;
A d ttie watar, glaiiclns ud gloaming
Ami hurrying ever away.
Vocal with brief li,:ht laughter,
A. )aM you il tW to the sea,
Seemed ta linser a little, and after
I think it agreed with me.
Flushed with the wind and glowing,
Silent vuu st.iod awhile.
Hair in thesuuligu- blowing,
Smiling a creamy smile.
Tlie wators sail. "Love is a treasure."
"A Treasure," my sou! replied;
"And the paiu of it, and the pleasure,
Sweeler than all L-eaide."
An.l I saw the wavelets glitter,
U m'. but to kiss your feet;
And the wind sang, "Life may be bitter,
;ut U.vini! can make it sweet."
Aii.l l tujhed and loitered around you,
Surely finding you lair;
And the merry itu kissed aud crowned you
y.nvii of the inoriuug there.
Eivtv fair xhuiihI to love ou,
Si-mi-d proiel at your feet to fall;
Am! ihe laik, Miii.'ing liich alwve rou.
Sir., you acre the fairvst of all. v
And w.ircelr a word was sjiokea.
But r mmiIs to ea.-h other spoke.
Till tli- dxtuiur Wl was broken.
And e s-arwd aud smitt-d and woke.
And ao in tlie gloiiouii weither,
la the uiorniug blithe and gay,
Happy iu being locether.
Happily wandered away
THE Uh.IKl-SS.
Artele Fayton gave a vexed little tos
of her head a gesture intended to b.
awfully annihilating to Mr Harry
Browne, standing on the lower step of
the pisr.za at the Seaside Hous.
"Very well, go, of course. Mr.
Browne, if you prefer; but reullv, I
tliitik it is too liad of you."
"Of course it is," added pretty Miss
Hunter, with rfce golden locks and
baby blue eyes that were considered
irreiitiole by the generality of the j
summer sex. "Of course it is too liad,
when you know that to a dozen ladies
storing at the Seaside tliere are only
such a few gentlemen. I know what
the trouble is, though, dont I, Mr.
Browne? You are tired of us ttie
same over and over and you are re
serving; your forces until tlie much
talked of and anxiously expected beauty
and heiress arrives upon the scene."
Harry turned lazily around and
sniiled.
"I am afraid I have to incur a great
risk in contradicting a lady," he said
good hunioredly.
Haughty Adele Fayton (lashed him
a half indignant, ha'.f sarcastic glance
from her black eyes and said,
"And when the heiress has arrived,
I dare say Mr. Browne will suddenly
lose all his interest in his solitary boat
rides and fishing excursions, while we
forlorn maidens gut through the day
as wll as we can,in lonesomeuess. M r.
Browne, you are sel6sh."
"Well, yes, rather, if always want
ing the best of everything concerned
ta what you call selfish. But 1 will
redeem my character by proving to
you that which will doubtless set your
hearts at rest. I don't believe iu your
wonderful coming beauty aud heiress,
to tiegin with. And in the second
place, I would commit hari-kari before
I'd marry an heiress. Now am I vin
dicated?" He bowed and walked off, just a lit
tle to the discomfiture of the ladies on
the piazza went to the beach where
his boat aud fishing tackle awaited him,
with more of a disgusted, Impatient
look on his face thau was customary
with him..
"What a lot of idiota a fellow cornea
across in the course of life. Because a
lot of p-etty giils lose their heads when
a wealthy beau comes along, they
argue, with a woman's senseless persis
tency, that the men aie as mercenary
as themselves. Marry an heiress, not
if she were as beautiful as as Venus,
aud every word she dropped was trans
mitted into a koh-i-noorl"
Mr. Browne pushed off in his surf
boat, dashing aud plunging through
the breakers like a sailor, born and
bied. He rowed out a mile or two to
another tubing bat containing a
couple of bare-fijoted boys eight and
ten, with wide-rimuied hats, and bright
tanned faces and brown eyes. A tall
lad of sixteen, worried aud anxious
lucking, who was evidently dismayed
at the increasing swell of the sea and
the refreshing south wind, was of this
company, and also a young girl with
lovelv dark gray eyes grave aud
thoughtful, yet bright and flashing as
she looked at Harry while he rowed
nearer and nearer iu response to the
Lallo of ttia boys.
A decidedly nice looking girl; hardly
what one could call handsome, and yet
the pure, fair complexion, ever so
lightly sun tanned, the scarlet mouth
a tightly closed, the waving, deep
gold colored hair thickly braided and
banging down to her waist, and the
dorious gray eyes made a whole that
Harry Browne quite thoroughly ad
mired as he pulled alongside and spoke
to her.
"You seem to be in some difficulty,"
he remarked, touching his hat cour
teously. She bowed.
".loe is rather demoralized, I think.
Tliere is no danger, is there?"
Harry glanced at Joe's scared face,
and the restless antics of the tiny boat.
"If you had a man in charge who
knew his business, there would be no
shadow of danger. As it is, the young
man has no excuse for venturing so far
out"
"We were fishing," she said, in a
pleasant, apologetic way, "and I didnt
realize how far we had gone. Well,"
aim a troubled look thstwas moie
anxiety than fear, "we must do the
best we can. Perhaps you would tell
J' what to do with the boat."
Harry replied,
"If you w ill allow me to exchange
places with your pilot, I will row you
ashore, I am Harry Browne, of ,
brokers, street, at present stop
ping at the Seaside House,"
"Yuu are very kind, Mr. Browne,
hd I will accept your offer. My name
1 May Harper."
She laughed as if the oddness of the
mutual introduction amused her, and
Harry made up his mind that she was
Hie nicest girl he had met in many a
day.
"Weil, then, Joe, you jump In here
kid row yourself to shore. Yo wont
bare any trouble to take yourself only,
will you?"
The alacrity with whtah tbe lad
changed from the Bella" to the "Sa
die" ni sufficient answer, and neither
Harry nor Miss Harper could help
smiling as Joe put for the shore.
"I dare say he thought it was all
right," May said apologe Icaliy.
"He'd no business to think so,
though. Shall I take you straight
back. Miss Harper, or would you rath
er fish a while longer?"
"If you please, I will go back. Aunt
Jane will be worried about me."
She leaned against tlie side of tlie
boat, trailing her hand in the water,
while the two children sat quiet as
mice, watching Harry with awe and
admiration as he pulled long, steady
strokes that sent them spinning along,
bile Harry thought.
"She is the most sensible girl I ever
came across. Pretty, modest, digni
fied, pleasant, with no sham reserve
about her, any more than too much
freedom. And what a thorough lady
she is! I know her as well as if I had
met her a thousand times."
And May, sitting opposite him.
watching the water as it danced and
sparkled, though if ever there was a
true gentleman in manner, speech and
action, it was the handsome stranger
who was rowing her to shore.
"Will you tell me opposite to which
hotel I am to row you?" he said, as,
after a most delightful hour's conver
sation, he rested on his oars and waited
her commtuids.
She laughed.
"Uli, no, not at any hotel. I am
stopping at one of tbe fishermen's cot
tages, about two miles further down,
on your left."
Harry w as delighted at the prospect
of continuing with her.
"Yes, 1 know where you mean. The
place we call Handy Beach.
"Ves; and you cant imagine bow
lovely it is there old-fashioned, rather
crowded quarters, to be sure, but with
not the faintest vestige of anything
like fun or style."
"And you actually are boarding there,
Miss Harper? Why didnt you come
to one of the hotels tbe Seaside for
instance? It's a nice house, and pleas
ant company is there,"
May smiled.
"Xot L I came to the seashore to
enjoy myself and get away from com
pany, fashion and dress and tiresome
people."
"And you have succeeded iu enjoying
yourself at Sandy Beach?"
"Admirably, these four weeks. You
are the first devotee of the world that
I have seen since I came here."
Her eyes sparkled mischievously as
she gave a glance across at him.
"Is that really so? I hope, then, you
will not condemn yourself to such iso
lation any longer a least from me.
May I join in your solitary amusement,
Miss Harper?"
A faint flush crept softly over her
rare pale face as she said
"I am not sure Will aud Ben will
agree to such an arrangement. They
are my inseparable compauious in my
rambles," and she looked at the two
little lads.
Harry gravely produced a handful of
pennies, which he gave them.
"Now, young gentleman, may I es
cort you and Miss Harper on a charm
ing excursion I know of to-morrow?"
"I must take it conditional, then,"
said May, laughing. "Promise me you
won't tell any one there is anybody
down at Sandy Beach, will you?
Occasionally fishing parties come to ar
range with Uncle John 1 call them
Uncle John and Aunt Jane Jawksou
horrible, isat it? but I always con
trive Uiat no one sees me, for I am
determined not to be drawn into society
this summer, if I can help it, 1 don't
want to see company. "
"But you dont regard me as com
pany?" "No," she replied, "I dont regard
you as company."
After that it was all up with Harry
Browne, and be went back to the Sea
side House acknowledging that he was
In love at last, and with an unknown,
obscure girl, who, doubtless for other
reasons than her dislike for society, per-
hans for pecuniary reasons, was stay
ing at Sandy Beach. He liked her all
the better for it ; he honored her good
sense, and he was over bead and ears
in love.
The next three weeks were the most
blessed ones he ever spent in his life.
He disgusted Adele Fayton and her
friends daily by his persistent neglect
of them. He continued his solitary ex
cursionssolitary till he came to bandy
Beach, where May was always ready to
accompany bun, or entertain htm, or
bewitch him, until one uay no toiu uer
be loved her dearly, and that it was tlie
one wish of his life to have her for his
wife.
And May. with her soft eyes shaded
with tbe tenderness of love and trust
unspeakable looked in his handsome
face and told him she had loved him
from the moment he had rowed up be
side her that summer day.
As he took her in his arms and im
printed a lover's kiss on her red lips,
and nut hia arm aiound her slim waist.
his heart gave great throbs of thanks
giving for this blessing on nun.
The piazza cf the Seaside House was
a bright, bewildering scene, with the
ravlv dressed kola standing in earnest
conversation as Harry Browne came up
to the house. Adele Fayton tossed her
dark head saucily.
"There 1 Didn't I say Mr. Browne
would be on hand to greet the heiress ?
You men cant withstand sucn a tempt
ation, Mr. Browne, she has arrived at
last."
"She? Who?"
Adele lauirhftd sarcastically.
"There isnt the least use pretending
von dont know what 1 mean. You
know 1 mean the heiress."
Harry smiled a sort of pity coming
over him as he remembered how much
happier he was than the one who should
be fortunate with this wonderful new
comer.
44 Yes, I really bad forgotten IU Ar
rival Visl4 aha t"
Bertha Hunter went np to him in her
riiihinr manner.
'I prophesy you will be the very first
to go wild over her. She is just what
1 imagine you will like. Great dark
gray eyes and golden hair ; and so ro
mantic ; I wonder you never came across
w in vour solitary rambles. She has
been staying down at old Jackson's cot
tage all summer ; out wieu mj ixiuyoi
always tad curious tastes and ideas.
After all events, she ta here now, and I
am dying, to lnsrouuce jou,
He stood confounded for a moment
Vila katrlul fr realize it.
May his darting, the heiress whom
tie had declared he would rather com
mit suicide than marry. Jy, to her
cheap blue flannel suits, with no tftovm
or veil en her bands or face, she th
great Bmrees, wnoee movements am
sayings were chronicled in the dail
papers whose dresses were copied bv
lees favored mortals, whose preseuct
was as welcome as the sunshine.
"And she is pretty, too," Adele Fay
ton raid, a little vociferously, as if It
were quite a shame ; "I raw her as sh
went to her room."
Harry glanced composedly up at the
array of faces and said :
I am glad you think Mav is urettr.
I think she is the loveliest girl living.
So you did not know that I was eu
gaged to her. "
1 here followed a lull in the merrv
chatter that eloquently expiessed tin
dumbfounded astonishment at Harry':
announcement.
Life la aa lea-PaeK.
In the story of tlie Jeanette's cruise.
as told by Capt. De Long in his diary.
occurs this narrative of a summer day
in the Arctic's realms :
June 21st, Monday. The advent and
departure of another day to record ; and
except that it is the longest day in tht
year to some people (though not, ol
course, to us, since we have the sun the
whole twenty-four hours), it is hardly
worth recording. Observations show
us that we have drifted, since the 19th,
eleven and three-tenth miles to S 63 E.
Discouraging very. And yet my mottc
is, "Hope on, hope ever." A very rood
one it is when one's surroundings are
more natural than ours ; but situated
as we are it is better in the abstract
than in realization. There can be no
greater wear and tear ou a man's mind
and patience than this life in the pack.
The absolute monotony ; the unchang
ing round of hours : the awakening to
the same things aud the same conditions
that one saw just before losing one's
self in sleep ; the same faces ; the same
dogs ; the same ice ; the same convic
tion that to-morrow will lie exactly the
same s to-day. it not a little more dis
agreeable ; tbe absolute impotence to do
anything, to go anywhere, or to change
one's situation an iota ; the realization
that food is being consumed and fuel
burned with no valuable result, beyond
sustaining life ; the knowledge that no
thing has been accomplished thus far to
save this expeditlou from being denom
inated an utter failure ; all these things
crowd in with irresistable force ou my
reasoning powers each night as I sit
down to reflect on the events of tlie
day, aud but for some still small voice
within me, that tells me this cau hardly
be the ending of all my labor aud zeal,
I should be tempted to despair.
All our books are read, our stories re
lated ; our games ot chess, cards and
checkers long since discontinued. When
we assemble in the morning at breakfast
we make daily a fresh start. Any
dreams, amusing or peculiar, are related
aud laughed over. Theories as to wheth
er we shall eventually drift X. E. or N.
W. are brought forward and discussed.
Seals' livers as a change of diet are pro
nounced a success. The temperature
of the luorulng watch is inquired into,
the direction and velocity of the wind.
and if it is snowing (as it generally Is)
we call it a "fine summer day." After
breakfast we smoke. Chipp gets a
sounding and announces a drift . S.
IS. or s. ., as the case may be. We
growl thereat. Dunbar and Alexey go
off for seals with as many dogs as do
not run away from them en route. The
doctor examines Dauenhower and Iver-
sen, his two chronic patients, Melville
draws a little for this journal, sings a
little, and stirs everybody up to a real
zation that it is daytime. Dauenhower
talks incessantly, on any or all subjects,
with or without an audience. The
doctor moralizes between observations.
I bmoke; Mr. Xewcomb manes his pre
parations for dredging specimens; Mr.
Collins has not appeared, his usual hour
being 12.30 in the afternoon. Mean
while, the men have been set at work;
a sled and dogs an despatched for the
day's snow for washing purposes. The
decks are cleared up, soundings made,
berth deck inspected, and the work of
painting, scraping, or whatever is on
hond commenced. The day's rations
are served out to the cook, and then we
commence to drift out on the ice to dig
ditches, to look at the dogs, calculate
the waste in the ice since yesterday,
and the Drobable amount br to-morrow.
The dredge is lowered aud hauled. I
get the sun at meridian, and we go to
dinner. After dinner more smoke, more
drawing, more singing, more talk, more
ditch and cai.al-making, more hunting.
more work, more dog inspection, ana
some attempts at napping until 4 P. X.,
when we are all around for anything
that may turn up. At 5.30, time and
azimuth sight, post position in caoiu,
make chart, go to supper at C, and dis
cuss our drift, and then smo&e.taiK ana
general kill-time occupations until 10
r. jl, when the day is ended. Tbe noise
subsides, those who can, go to bea;i
write my log and my journal, make the
observations for meteorology untu mia
night. Mr. Collins succeeds me four
hours, Chipp him four hours, the doctor
next four hours, Mr. Collins next six
hours, 1 next two hours, Melville next
two hours, ana i ena me aay agaiu,ana
so it goes.
M rwrtber.
A few days ago a Detrolter and his
wife were making a tnp tnrougn tne
State Prison at Jackson, ana bot n were
much impressed with the countenance
of a certain convict in one or tne snops.
He looked so melancholy and down
hearted that the lady's sympathies were
strongly aroused, and the gentleman
was certain that he could discover evi
dences that tbe man had a great deal of
moral worth in his character. One of
the guards was appealed to for infor
mation, and be replied :
"Yes, he is very well behaved one
of the best In tbe prison."
"He seems sorry for his offense," ob
served the lady.
" Yen'm "
"And I know be would be honest if
pardoned," added tbe man.
"Yes'r. You might speak U the
Governor. 1 believe the offense was
tritlinff one."
Do you know exactly what it was f "
"Why. I believe he came from youi
city. I think he entered a house in tbe
evening, choked a lady senseless an
then stole money ana jeweiry."
W why, when was it ?" gaspet"
the lady.
"Oh, about two years ago."
"And he was sent for five yean r
asL-Mi the man.
"Yes'r. It you desire to press tin
matter, I'll "
"Press be hanged I" blurted the De
troiter. "Here's the very woman h
chokAd and robbed ! It was my ewt
wif hn nearlv killed I Mary. I guest
we wont slop over him any further V
AliMat Brake the Sabbath.
Vn a Htv not a thousand milea from
rtartfnnl Oinn.. is a Drivate snorts-
man's association, and every year, in
August or September, they have a
grand excursion to a favored pond, a
dav's journey off, and some twelve
miles into the forest, away from any
habitation, and spend some two or
three weeks.
One of the number whothad been
brought up in the good old puritanic
way to reverence the samiain, toiu me
writer how near lie came to fishing Sun
day. Some or the party spent Saturday
evening fishing, so as to have a supply
for Sunday. Sunday morning, my in
formant says, he arose at break of day.
All were In their bunks, sound asleep,
and snoring as tired sportsmen can.
I'uiung on his pants ana supers ue
went to the lioat to see what success
the evening fisherman had. There
were eels and bullheads lying in the
bottem ot the boat in abundance. In
the stern of the boat was a fishing pole
with the line in the water. "Thinking
it wai very careless to leave it in mat
iit r tioirun milliner in the line, when
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something struck the bait and ran out
with the line at a rapid rate.
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" it hat w as i to ao7 xou a now a
new fiah Siimluv hut there was a Dole
and line aroin? overboard unless I pull
ed them iu. I thought it was right to
save property and landed a three pounu
pickerel. As the bait was on tlie hook
f vu-1ii.la.l t.t thrnur it in the water
and leave it as I found it and say noth
ing about it. But the bait nau no
sooner struck the water thau there was
a splash, and whirr went the reel again,
liracious! What next? You know
nothiug would tempt me to fish Sunday;
lint I must save nronertv and in SO do
ing lauded another pickerel as large as
me nrsr,
"I always like to leave borrowed
property where I find it, and the line
was thrown in again, and I started for
the shore, when, to my surprise the
whizzing sound of the reel painfully
'rretini niv ear. I hastened back just
in time to catch the pole as it was being
lrawn overtwara. iiy conscience re
buked me for going near the boat, for
you know it is strictly against my prin
ciples to fish Sunday; but I must save
the pole, fish or no fish, and in comes
another large pickerel, i nis nine me
hair, was takpn anil I was riirht glad of
it, for I now could leave the pole and
line where 1 loumi tnem wuuoui uy
Janger of their lieing lost.
"I liautnsii I.jpW ti rjimn and luckilv
found all asleep and as musical as when
I left. Hastily undressing myseu, i
jumped into my bunk undiscovered.
After a time the cook got up went to
the boat and came back with the pick
rel, exclaimi.igr 'See here, boys, how
is it you eaten picxerei in uie uigm.c
This amused the sleeDV fishermen, aud
:tiey declared that there were no pick-
. . . ... m. 1
rflfl w lien they leiu l uey accuseu me
?ook of patching tliem Sunday. He
Irmly protested his innocence and said:
If I had just taken them they would
uow have been alive.'
All this time I was apiarently sleep-
nrr a,,im.flv When I Put 111) theV Were
Jmum t,i inn ai the three larirest nick-
srel that had been taken during the
week: but how they came to be in the
hoat was a mystery. The final conclu-
on was that the greeny nan uiusi nave
jumped into the boat to get something
u eat, and forgot to jump back again.
This to my mind was a very satisfactory
xpianation.
Tlitfv were ivmked for our breakfast.
lint I huil no annetite for the daintV re-
last. All Sunday my conscience was
ill at ease, ana l reaa my mum uy un
hour, and I dont believe I could tell
u.-tiotl,ar I roilliner in ReneSlS Or
Bevelatious the Utter, I tliink, be
cause visions ot pickerel were ueiore me
M the time. Xot a chapter could I
read without hearing tbe whizzing of
the reel, or seeing those yellow bellies
turn up. Now, 1 tell you, that is the
noamat f mat came ta fishing Sunday.
and I don't think anything would tempt
to get into a uoat again suuuay,
to save some one trom drowning.
Hanry Clay' Daughter.
Jnat to the ricrht of tlie entrance to a
amalL lllv-kent. almost unused grave
yard, at Lebanon, O., a little city
famed tne Mate over as neing me nome
for years of the most gifted orator of
Ki j l imn Thomas (Vrwin is a stained
and moldy stone sarcophagus, less than
three leet in neigni ana six ieet in
length, inclosed by a rude fence of
barbed-wire, stretching upon clumsy,
unhewn posts. The yard bears every
evidence of neglect. The ground
around it is sunken, and the grass and
briers clamber up the dingy stone
himb's side and sho7 a disposition to
cover it from view. Tbe poor neglect-
U a at rancrpr to the attention
of love-guided hands. A cluster of
sweet violets now mi tneir origni races
from the grass near tne neau or. me
timh hut thev came there bv chauce.
A little later on, the grave will be
showered by the blackberry -s pretty
m. t.tia hiraaima. but the brakes upon
which they burst to bloom were planted
Minra hv binillv nature.
And yet beneath those rough slabs of
stone he the remaias ol a nome young
j.it-1 nrmn whom in lite was bestowed
the extravagant love of one of
. j . .
America's grandest minueu men; a
rl whosa ultimate death sad
dened the life of one of the country's
broadest and widest statesmen. Tbe
neglected grave contains the remains
of a beautiful woman, over whose rest
a fining monument should be
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erected by the people whom her father's
brilliant talent so amy serveu. out it
ia nuWtMl. uncared for and almost
unknown save to a few outside of
f-hanon's limits.
if la imnleasant to think that the
nf such noble narents is thus
permitted to suffer long years of almost
utter negieci muiou- a icti uu
know tbe story of her birth and of her
UhAil father's merits, but true
It is that in that humble grave lie the
remains of a oaiignter or nenry iay
tne man whom Kentucky honors above
-iii wn- the man who labored so grand
ly in the interest of the nation, and
who was within a step oi uie i resi
dential chair. Around that grave
i..otnra a mniirnfnl- romantic historv.
I.IUOM.14 T - --
It was related to a reporter, by one of
the old citizens ot leoanon, wuue
standing beside the stone sarcophagus,
within the rusty Darueu wire mciuauiv.
ti.ilrl M.o ronnrler.
- i - -
"Heury Clay, you know, was one of
iha four nmmineiit Prudential candi
dates m 1824, striving for the election
against three otner canaiuaies jonn
Quincy Adams, Jackson and Crawford
He received thirty-seven electorial votes
fnr th noiitinn.
"The Electoral College failed to
make a choke, and when the work of
electing a President devolved upon tne
House of Representatives. Clay, seeing
that he could not win himself carried
bis strength over to Adams and secured
the latter 's election. In March of tbe
following year, when Adams organized
his Cabinet, be tendered Clay the
Premier's portfolio. Clay went on to
Washington, and after he had familiar
ized himself with tlie duties of Secre
tary of State, he returned on a visit to
his home in Kentucky, to see his
family, among whom was a beautiful
and intellectual daughter, Eliza, whom
he particularly loved. Eliza, at tuai
time had just turned her twelfth year,
but she was wise aud womanly for her
years, and it was one of the principal
objects of Clay's long and tedious
our uey to Kentucky to bring raiza to
Washington with him on his return.
Travel in those days was not the easy,
luxurious affair that it is now. The
cumbrous stage-coach was the only
public conveyance that traversea tne
pikes, and the trip from Kentucky to
Washington City was both long ana
wearying. Henry Clay and his daugn
ter started for the Capital from Lexing
ton, Ky., early in August. Miss Clay
was rather delicate, physically, and
found travelling by coach a very dis
tressing affair. The hotel fare on the
route did not agree with her, and the
various changes aud discomforts she ex
perienced brought on a malady inflam
mation of the bowels, 1 believe that
became so alarming when Lebanon was
reached that a stop was made here ana
medical aid summoned to attend the
young lady at her hotel. She grew
worse instead of better, and one night,
after a delirious flight, followed by a
brief period of consciousness, she died
in her father's arms.
It was impossible for Mr. Clay to
return home with the remains of his
dead child, so it was determined to
bury her here temporarily. The inten
tion was to remove her remains to
Kentucky, and place them in the family
burial place.
'Mr. Clay, sad-hearted and weighted
down by grief, completed his journey to
Washington. 11 is busv and not un
troubled life at the capital, as Premier
of Adam's Cabinet, is a matter of
public history. Tlie glass over his
daughter's grave, and the snows of two
winters covered its mean appearance
with sjiotless mantles of white, and yet
no move was made to have the remains
transferred to Kentucky. In tbe third
summer, I think, this rough sarcopha
gus was erected by Mr. Clay, who
seemed to have determined not to dis
turb his daughter's rest. The inscrip
tion upon the upper tablet tells her sad
story briefly."
1 tie reporter leaned over, and after
taking up with a kerchief tbe water
that filled up the depressed portions of
me lettering, maue out the following:
in lite memory or fcliza 11. Clay.
daughter of Henry and lucretia Clay.
who died on the 11th day of August,
HJ5. Cut down in tlie bloom of a
promising youth, while traveling
through Ohio, hence from Lexington,
Ky., to ashing ton City, uer parents.
who have erected this monument to
Iter memory, console themselves with
tlie hope that she now abides in heaven.
'This graveyard is a combination
affair," said the reporter's companion.
"belonging to the Methodist and
Baptist churches. It has been but
little used for a long time. During
Mr. Clay's life, the grave was kept
clean by the sexton, but when he died
no one seemed to take an interest in it.
and the leaves and briers were allowed
to climb over it without hindrance.
The whole graveyard was allowed to
develop a rank growth of grass and
underbrush, and rubbish rapidly
accumulated.
Hla Klacdom.
Kaiser WiUielm of Germany "looks
every inch a king." He is six feet in
height, well-proportioned, and weigna
two hundred and fifty pounds. His
mother, the Oueen Louse, who beard
ed Napoleon in behalf of her conquered
country was the handsomest woman In
Europe. The Emperor in his best days,
was noted for bis manly beauty.
An anecdote brings to light tbe genial
side of the royal octogenarian.
While staying at Ems to drink its
famous waters, the Emperor vauted an
orphan asylum. After listening to the
recitations of the children, he lifted a
bright girl of six years into his lap, and
said,
"Xow, my little fraulein, let me see
how well you have been taught. To
what kingdom does this belong f" and
he held up an orange.
Looking up timidly into the Empe
ror's face, tbe little one replied, "To
the vegetable kingdom."
"Very good, little fraulein I And now
tell to what kingdom does this belong?"
and be held up a gold piece.
To the mineral kingdom."
"Better and better, little fraulein!
Xow look at me and say to what king
dom do I belong?"
The little girl hesitated. Was the
great Emperor an animal? She looked
at her teachers; they were a little start
led. With a half-frightened look, she
turned to the Emperor, and said,
"To the kingdom of heaven."
"Ys res. nir little fraulain." an
swered the Emperor, with tears In his
eves: "I trust I do beieng to Uod's king
dom. Aud you think it Is time I was
there, do you not? Well, the day is not
far distant."
Mrm. OraadJ.
Who was Mrs. Grundy? It seems
strange, indeed, that so little should be
known about the antecedents of Mrs.
Grundy, who is always so anxious to
know about other people, but the fact
must be admitted that Mrs. Grundy's
origin is enveloped in the profoundest
mystery. Nobody knows who she was
or how she first entered society. She
was not even a character In a play, like
tbe immortal Mrs. Malaprop. She
first made known her existence to the
public on the ISth of February. 1800,
in a drama entitled "Speed the Plough."
bv Thomas Morton, where one of the
characters alludes frequently to her
mysterious influence by the wonts,
"What will Mrs. Grundy say?" lie
yond tli is nothing is known of her.
There is, of course, the possibility that
she was the wife of Solomon Grundy,
of the nursery rhyme, who was born on
Monday, christened on Tuesday, etc.
and got through his existence on Sun
day; for tbe rhyme expressly says that
Solomon was married on Wednesday.
Perhaps Solomon Grundy was a solar
myth, and Mrs. Grundy something of
the same kind. Thomas Morton is un
fortunately dead, and has carried his
secret to the tomb; and once more the
world, which knows so little about us
greatest men, will be deprived of all
further knowledge of one of its most in
teresting women.
A CM Taa Mam.
"W bas utsstd throoffh a terrible
crisis," said the Man with the Cold Tea
Scheme, with much sovemniiy, v ine
Thin Man without a shirt collar. "It
should teach this country a grave lesson.
We are vountr. we are nrosperous, but tne
insane ambition to accumulate wealth
leads our business interests from legiti
mate channels into speculative ones.
"Xot been there yourself, nave your
asked the Thin Man.
JXo, sir."
"Scorn to accumulate by such
means?"
"Yes sir."
"Condemn them?"
I An .-r omrvhutinall " mnliftd
. uv. uivw cwynww.j , -
the Cold Tea Man.
"Like to have money though, would-
ntyou?"
"Jarphly. I repel your insinuation
with scorn. Monev is not happiness,"
continued the Cold Tea Man, scratch
ing his head with a match. "It is at
best but an agent for the transmission
of happiness, and when that agent ap
proaches us in a questionable manner
all precedent tells us to refuse the
advances."
"Ycu been refusing any lately?"
Deigning no reply to this remark the
Cold Tea Man continued: "Simulation
is the bane of a country. By it rail
roads are built and hundreds of persons
are killed by them. OU fields are opened
up and men are blown to atoms snoot
ing the holes. Steamer lines started
and boats sunk in mid-ocean, engulfing
those unprepared to die. Coal deposits
developed and men cremated in the
bowels of the earth. Gold and silver
mines worked, and a happy country set
br its ears on account of a super-abund
ance of trade dollars and surplus of
minerals in the Treasury vaults. Mills
started "
"See here, .Goshorn, you have been
reading newspaper editorials lately,
slnt you?"
Yes, sir; I have. Why do you asar"
queried the Cold Tea Man in surprise.
"There's where you get your weas oi
speculation ain't it?"
"1 may gather some from tnat source,
Mr. Jarphly."
'just so. 1 knew IU four years
ago you would have gone to the edito
rial columns for your pabulum, and
then we would have beard about the
great progress of this glorious country!
Railroads building in all directions!
Our great mineral wealth being devil
oped 1 Millions of steel rails ordered!
Hip la I Whoop 'em upl uo it wuue
you're young! Epluribustal"
"WelL sir," sternly remarnea tne
Cold Tea Man interrogatively.
"Well, sir, answered the Thin Man,
with a finger on his nose, "it is only an
Illustration of the old adage about the
devil sick and the uevil well. It is the
nature of humanity to accept things
without question when they run its
way, and howl murder when they get
hurt. One thing I'd like you to reilect
upon. It is speculation that has made
this country the great one that it is,
and it is bold careless financiering that
has raised it from a poor, pauper noth
ing to its present financial altitudilum
among tbe nations of the earth, and it
is ingratitude to forget it." ine iOia
Tea Man was snoring.
faUIa Early Cawtablp.
There is a story of the Sunday even
ing meetings at Patti's house during
the winter after she had returned from
her London season. From these gath
erings Xilsson was seldom absent, and
among tlie most diligent visitors were
Gustave Dore, the Vicomte Darn, Ba
ron St. Armand, and Marquis de Caux,
who were such insepe rabies that they
were called "the three-leaved clover."
Adelina looked forward to the meet
ing with tbe Marquis with glad excite
ment, lie did not keep us waiting
long, but tbe meeting was also a part-
big. The marquis had to go with the
Empress Eugene to Biarritz, and as he
expected to remain for a considerable
period, he asked permission to write to
Adelina and receive intelligence con
cerning her. i ma permission was given
wnn uie understanding that the corres
pondence was to pa through my hands.
and was to be conducted by the marquis
and myseu. 1 bad to report the small
est details of tbe happenings to Adelina.
and his excellent pen gave us the most
plqaent descriptions of all that went on
In Biarntz.
One evening it was after a perform
ance of "Traviata" the marquis re
mained with us after a few friends had
departed from Adelina's dressing-room.
As he always repeated conscientiously
the town gossip to us, Adelina turned
smilingly toward aim and asked:
"Well, marquis what Is there new;
wnat is ram taixing about?"
"The newest thing," was the answer,
"is that we are engaged."
I must admit that this answer start.
led me, and that I looked at Adelina
with my curiosity on a tension. Her
features seemed enlivened by an inex
pressible loveliness. Sm.llngly she said
to the marquis:
"And why not? I hope it would not
De unpleasant for you."
At first embarrassed, then joyfully
moved, the marquis was only able to
stammer the words:
"No, certainly not. 1 would be the
happiest of mortals if it were true!"
Blushmgly Adelina extended her
hand to the marquis, who was almost
beside himself with joy, while she said:
-I, too, would be happy."
Wildly the marquis pressed the prof
fered hand to his lips, intoxicated with
oy be clasped Adelina In his arms, then
hurried away speechless. But Adelina,
in a long, warm embrace, whispered
the sweet confession to me:
"I am very happy."
It was an unfortunate marriage for
Patti.
A. ratr Show.
He had a doubtful expresssion on his
phiz as he entered a hardware store.
and he spore about tne stove traae, tne
Wall street panic, the Greenback con
vention and several other matters be
fore he finally said:
"1 think it is time to put up fly
screen doors."
"Certainly."
"You have springs, I suppose."
"Yes, sir."
"Have you a spring which I can ad
just?"
"We have. Here is one which a boy
ten years old can put on. The time f r
intricate springs has passed and simpli
city is the rule."
"Let's see. I wonder if I can put
thatonr"
"Of course you can. All yon want
are a screw-dnver and three screws.
Here this end goes on the door that
end on the casing. See? When you
have it oo take this wire and turn here.
Whan tbe spnns has the rioht force
I
woman could put on one or tnose springs ,
with her eye shut price fifteen cents."
Bones hadn't lost any ot bis aouoirui
expression as he started out. He walk
ed feeling of his ear, and trying to re-!
member just what the dealer said, and 1
in half an hour he was at work on the
door. Tbe dealer had held the upper
end of the spring to the northwest,
while his door opened to the northeast.
He sat down and thought and thougnt,
and finally decided to try it, anyhow.
Mrs. Bones come out ana neipea mm
and the spring was finally put on.
"Xow what?" she asked, assneopen-
ed the door and saw that it remained
thus.
Why, we turn the ratchet, I sup
pose."
Eatchet what's that?"
Hanged if I know. I've heard the
boys say: "Cheese the ratchet,' and
that's all I know about it Oh yes: be
said I must put this wire in the holes
and turn."
"Well go ahead."
Bones turned and turned. The spring
stiffened and the door flew open.
That's just like you," she said as she ;
umped back. "What on earth do we
want of a spring to hold a door open?"
-That's so that's so. i-et's lane it
off and turn it end for end."
This was tried, but it was no good,
and Mrs. Bones cried out:
You might have known il? It takes
a man with brains to put on a spring!"
And I've got more of 'em right in
my heels thau your whole relations
have in their heads!"
"Then put on that spring!"
"I'm going to when I get ready.
There's no particular hurry, as I cau
e."
"Maybe it's tired!" she sneered.
"And maybe you'd better attend to
your mopping!"
She went in ana Bones tried that
spring six different ways, then lie
went off and borrowed a gimlet, an
inch auger, a crowbar, a jack screw and
a pair ot pincers, and he tried six other
ways. He turned the old thing until i
tbe tension lifted up one end of the
1. 1 V. I I i UA I
gate to the alley fence for the ratchet.
but the door bad no spring to iu He
put the spring on diagonally, crosswise,
leotghwise, top for bottom and bottom
for top, and about 4 o'clock iu the af
ternoon Mrs. Bones came out and found
him pounding it with tbe crowbar,
while the door had been wrenched ai'urt
and heaved into the alley.
I said you couldn't do it," she re
marked.
"Couldn't do what?"
"Put on that spring."
'Who's tried to put on a spring? We
dont need any door there, and I've
taken it away. It isn't at all likely
that we will see three flies this summer,
but if a fern do come around we am t
going to murder 'em. SpringI I was
just fooling you. That was a btirglai
alarm, and the reason I didnt put it on
Is bucaiue we haven't anything to bur
glarize. Even if we bad I'd let 'em
come. A burglar can't live unless he
has a fair show."
Wladum la Clothing.
Dr. Richardson of I.ondon says: I
agree that the tax ot carrying clothes
from tbe waist is uttereiy uigiisuuanie,
and that the parts that should bear the
burden are tlie shoulders, aud none
other. In this regard women ought to
be placed under just the same favorable
conditions for movement of the body as
men, and the greatest emancipation
that women will ever have achieved
will have arrived when she has discov
ered and carried out this practical im
provement. Any one who will for a
moment think candidly must admit tnat
the dress of men, however bad it may be
in taste, or in whatever bad taste, it may
have been conceived, is, in respect to
health, infinitely superior to that of wom
en, in the areas oi tne man every pai t oi
the body is equally covered.
The middle of tue body is not envel
oped in a number of close layers, while
the lower limbs are left without close
clothing altogether; the center of the
body Is not strained with a weight
which almost drags down the limbs
and back; the chest is not exposed to
every wind that blows, and the feet
are not bewildered with heavy garments
which they have to kick forward or
lraz from behind every advancing step.
The body is clothed equally, and the
clothing is borne by tbe shoulders; it
gives free motion to breathing; it gives
freedom of motion to the circulation; it
makes no undue pressure on t he digestive
onrans: it leaves the limbs free; it is
easily put on and off, and it allows of
ready change in vicissitudes oi weatn
er. It is told of the late eminent surgeon.
Mr. Cllne. the teacher of Sir Astley
Cooper, that when he was consulted by
a lady on the questions how she should
prevent a girl from growing up mis
shapen, he replied: "Let her have no
stays, and let her run about like the
bova" I gladly re-echo thu wise
advice of the great sunreon; and I
would venture to add to it another
sureestion. I would say to the mothers
of Encland. let your girU dress like
vour bovs: make no difference what
ever in respect to them give them
knickerbockers if you like with these
exceptions, that the undergarments be
of a little lighter material, and that
thev be supplemented by an outer gowr
or robe which shall take the place of
the outer coat of the boys and shall
make them look distinctly what they
are girls clothed, cap-a-pie, and well
clothed from head to foot.
SUUac Daaert.
The project for filling the Desert of
Sahara with water is creating a great
deal of discussion among foreign.
especially French, journals. Xatnrally
tbe Question has arisen, how long it
would take to fill the whole basin of
Sahara, and some startling figures are
given in connection therewith. Five
thousand years, it is claimed, would
be required to fill up that vast sea of
sand were the water to now tnrouga a
passage 100 feet wide and 23 feet deep.
with the velocity of four miles an hour.
Under the same conditions it would
take 4000 years for the waters of the
Mediterranean to fill the valley of the
Jordan. With a channel 100 times
greater capacity it would do the work
in forty years. At the same rate it-
would take 400.000 years to fill the
Caspian Sea to the level of the Mediter
ranean, fortunately. X is only a
portion of Sahara that can be made
into a lake or inland sea, and doubtless
there are middle-aged men to-day who
will live to see this much-talked-of
feat accomplished.
There are 2,700 languages or dia
lects spoken on this globe.
A Milwaukee man worth $000,000
has married bis hired srirL.
drop those slots thus. See? Why, aj
XEWS IX BRIEF.
There are So.000 Hebrews in
Xew
York city.
London has 3,000,000 working peo
ple. Foreigners own 21,000,000 acres in
the United States.
France exports one pullion dollars
worth of eggs annually.
Xearly 40,000 000 pounds of male
sugar were made in 1383.
The new City Hall in I'hiladelphia
has already cost $8,21C,900.
P. Lorillard & Co. have donated
$.".000 to the Bartholdi Fund.
The beet root sugar manufacture
is being overdone in Germany.
The number of volumes in the
British Mnseum is 1,300,000.
The Episcopalians will build a
$.-00,000 Cathedral at Albany, X.Y.
The available cash in the treasury
of the U. S., is upwards of f 150,000,000.
English colleges have suffered
greatly by the Agricultural depression.
There are 40.000 persons in Xew
York deuendent upon crambunz for a
living.
Tobacco of all kinds contributed
iu lStvl nearly $4o,00U,0U0 to England's
revenue.
A wild cat weighing twenty pounds
was recently killed in Sumter county,
Georgia.
The Bank of England has just
opened a reading and eating room for
its clerks.
Rome celebrated recently the 2,
CTTth anniversary of its foundation by
Itouiulus.
Italy has 4.800,000 lemon trees,
which produce 1,200,000,000 lemons
per annum.
There are over 8,000 French Cana
dian operatives working in the mills at
Lowell Mass.
Boxing as a part of the drill has
now been introduced into the French
and English armies.
Yankton, Dak., is to have a pork-
packing establishment with a capacity
of 1,000 hogs per day.
A piece of property has just been
sold in Xew York city at tbe rate of
$--20 per square foot.
"Tom Thumb's" proiierty in
Bridgeport, Conn., was sold a few day's
ago. It brought $13,420.
Ostrich eggs boiled were recently
among the attractions of a bill of fare
at a San Diego, Cal., hotel.
The production of sorghum syrup
increased from 7,000,000 gallons in
1S00 to 20,000,000 in 1SS0.
The city of St. Petersburg has a
population of 928,010. only a quarter of
whom were born in the city.
Tlie woods of the United States are
estimated to cover 3S0,00O,(XiO acres, or
sixteen per cent, of the total area.
The Insurance business iu Xew
Hampshire was larger last year thau
ever before, and the losses were less.
"Bagasse" tbe refuse of the sugar
mill, is to be used by a firm in Xew
Orleans for tlie manufacture of paper.
It Is proposed to make the river
Seine ninety-eight feet wide, to have
Paris a seagirt, at a cost of $20,000,000.
On the South Park Railroad, Col
orado, is a line of tree stumps of an un
known kind in all stages of petrification.
It is estimated that $1,000,000,000
of securities are kept in safe deposit
vaults in the vicinity of Wall street.
X. Y.
It is estimated that about 40,000
people are devoting more or less atten
tion to silk culture in tlie United
States.
In Montana the law prohibits a
woman from marrying until she is lrt
years old, and a man cannot marry un
til he is 21.
A Springfield," I1L, watch factorv
employs 1,200 hands and sends ont 500
watches a day, making a total of about
150,000 a year.
A single grower is reported to have
between eight and nine thousand acres
of cotton under cultivation hi South
west Arkansas.
Under the law throwing the State
printing open to competetion, it is calcu
lated that New Jersey will save about
$40,000 this year.
In order to obtain in marriage the
daughter of a Hillsdale, X. Y., farmer,
a young man has contracted to work
seven years for the farmer.
According to statistics, novels con
stitute nine-tenths of the books read in
l.ngland, and nineteen twentieths of
the books read in the world.
There are now 126,343 pupils in at
tendance on the schools for girls iu
India, while only a few years ago no
woman was allowed to learn to read.
An orange tree is reported from
Xewnansville, Fla.. which, although
only a few months old and about eight
inches high, contains a small orange.
Wyoming, X. Y., has a Presbyter
ian church that already owns two or
gans and now it has received a bequest
of $21,000 for the purchase of another.
In France there are now 4.575
milea of navigable rivers and 2.900
of canals, while in 1S52 there were only
4,190 miles of river navigable aad 2,440
miles oi canal.
London's pauper population, ex
clusive of lunatics in asylums and vag
rants, numbered, on April lo. of this
year, W.223, against 'J3,0oC at the same
tune in la&S.
A Mormon elder was treated to a
bucket of tar recently at Water Valley,
Miss. It is said that Mormon Ism is
making headway in some of the counties
of that State.
The average duration of life in
Russia is said to be but 20 years. The
high death rate is ascribed by a corre
spondent to the paucity of medical men
in that country, and to the habits of
the rural population.
Of the 2584 students enrolled In
1S32 in the German University. 6.172
studied medicine, 9.117 philosophy.
5,526 law, 3,55S evangelical theology,
and 811 Catholic theology.
The manufacture of perfumes from
Florida flowers is becoming an import
ant industry. It is said that a process
has recently been devised for extractfng
the sweet flavor of the cassava plant.
Vessels of the Austrian Lloyds,
although engaged in commerce, are
closely connected with the imperial
marine, figuring in its reserve as trans
ports, despatch vessels, and light-armed
cruisers. The officers all wear uniform.
The desertions in the British army
in 18S3 were 3,717 altogether. Deser
tion is prevalent almost exclusively
among the very young soldiers. Of tne
3,717 cases reported last year only 617,
or just one-sixth, were those of men
having over three years' service.