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THE OOISTITTJTIOI-THE THIOI-AID THE EFFOBOIMEIT 01 THE LAVS.
Editor and Proprietor.
B. F. SCHWEIER,
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NO. 40.
MIFFLINTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 1, 1SS4.
VOL. XXXVIII.
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C'HAKITV.
Tl.e rich ui.n gave bis dole, not ill -content
To find his heart Mill moved by human
woe;
The poor man to hU neighbor simply lent
The scanty saving he could scarce forrgo.
The one passed on and asked to know no
more;
Theother's wife all niht, with pity brave,
1 hit neighbor's dying child was bending
o'er.
And never deeming it was much she
gave.
Oh' God forgive us that we dare to ask
Solace of costless gifts and fruitless sighs!
Scorn on the sigh that shuns the unwel
come t.i.sk.
The dole tlut lacks the salt of sacrifice t
gilded palm the crushing weight can
lilt;
No soo-hing sigh the maddening woe
rail cure;
'Tii u,ve that jjives its wealth to every gift ;
1:1 would the poor man fare without the
poor.
A FUU KOMASCE.
It was uiia-niorawg m fair Loudon
town. It might have be-n night-fall in
the City of the Clouds for all outward
evidence to the contrary. Masses of
dingy vapor rolled up against the window-panes,
stirred now and then by a
sooty little breeze, from nowhere in
particular, that disirsed them not,
only made a little black eddy and de
parted. Indoors it felt at once hot,
clammy, choking and smutty. The
loom ; airy and spacious. It was
one 1 the best privaft sitting-rooms
Langham had to offer.
Imogen Itay had just declared "It
felt like a chimney on lire beihg put
out with wet blankets.." Mm was
leaning against the window-frame as
she spoke, gazing into the grimy sea of
vajKir, half-interestedly, balf-abstract-ed!y.
She was very beautif ul even by
that hideous light; with the singular
beauty only found on the farther shores
of the Atlantic : delicate, fragile and
marvellously brilliant.
S.e looked like a poem, a melody, an
artist's dream. She was a matter-of-fact,
business-like danisel,pract'cal and
self-reliant as became a citizen of
"Airth's greatest nation." Her com
panion was leisurely finishing his break
fast. He might have been a dignitary
of the Church by his dress. His stal
wart build, and a general suggestion of
open air life that pervaded him, seemed
to indicate a sailor or a colonist, but the
noble, intellectual head, with its silken
mane of snowy hair, the massive fea
tures with their curious expression of
indolent shrewdness could belong to
nciie but the original of the face that
smirktd in the Gnqihic and scowled in
rWie Illustrated on the side-table, and
had been for the past week decorating
the photographers' windows in vei)
ui xed couipany ; the face of the teiu-
poiary lion of Loudon literary society,
ehe irreat lrans-At .antic poet, punoso-
pher and critic, Everard Holt, whom
the liteiaiy world aforesaid had for the
past week been delighting to honor.
You have rcur wish at hist, Inio
ten," he said; '-this is q uiie a Ioudon
iar .ieular ' according to Guppy.
Yes. I thought we should lose
s..iiH-rhiiiir if welett without a fog
but 1 have got a thicker one than I ex
pec ted here."
Sneaking, she glanced out In the din
i'!h-u :md in at asuuaie enveloiie which
sii lie.d daintily and respectfully. It
was fastened by a big red seal bearing
a coat of arms and a coronet, at which
si. lrlanced with an admiration un
worthy her rice.
"This is a gloomy ending to our holi-
dav. dear." said Everard, looking
towards her anxiously.
He looked towards her. not at her,
tliMPhv iietravinz what rjuiny of his
casual acQuaintauces Jiever perceived,
that he was blind totally, hopelessly
blind from some accident late in his
life at the very zenith of his popularity
and usefulness. He had accepted the
calamity characteristically, tried pa
tiently and fairly every possible means
of recovery, men, uiese railing, wiui
the ume zet with which he had been
wiit to turn to some fresh branch of
study, he had applied himself to the
mastery of every art ana device o
w hich the lost sense nnght be supplied.
He had a marvelous memory and a
curiously sensitive nervous organization
and he had Imogen, his loving, de
voted adopted child.
-Nothing can spoil our holiday, or
our home coming," she added quickly.
"From r.rst to lat all has been pleas
antness." 'And you don't regret the old coun
try in your heart of hearts?"
'I am verv glad to have been bere
and seen England and English peo le
lor mvself ; but my heart of hearts is
and aiwavs will be American. Oh, it's
good to think that in a fortnight more
we shall be ui.i'.er the Chislehurst elms
Everard and Imogen had sent a year
wandering happily about Europe to
gether, tlight-seeiug, making friends,
collecting materials tor anew work and
a course of lectures, and finding them
selves welcome and honored every where
by Everard 's brethern of the great
craft of Ixwk-making.
What time do we leave this ?" Ev
erard asked presently.
"Not till live," Imogen replied rather
disiuallv, "and I've packed my last
scrap aud read you every line worth
reading in all the papers, and there's
nothing left to do but sit and long for
some fresh air after all last night's elo
quence till the fog rises. Ugh I how it
stems to close one in and strangle one.
"Fogs after all have their hunts."
faid Everard. "it is jiossible, I believe,
to go right through aud find light and
free air beyond. Should you like to
try. law all ready."
"So am I, but stop -let me put up
your things first and start with a ch ar
conscience."
"You are too late for once, oh most
scrupulous of guardian angels. I have
packed. Did it myself in a fit of inde
pendence aud consulted the chamber
maid on the result. She says i have
ieft nothing out and made a beautiful
job of it."
"Uncle, are you tired of me?" with
a iiaiued ring of reproach iu her voice.
"Imogen, are you jealous of your
antiioritv over me. and afraid or my
ascertaining the limits of my powers ?
There is better work in the world for
von. mv dear, than playing aog-in-a-
string to a blind old man ; and when it
comes, I want you to feel that though
I prize your love ana service oeyouu an
ehw nn earth. I can live without you.
my darling." He spoke slowly, as if
watz-iiinff to detect some sign ol her
0
mood.
"Now eet ready. In ten minutes, if
you can," he ended briskly, starting up
1 i-:.... A.uw TIia vaitr
W diawn 8forwa"rd IZdtohoU
wue breakfast accessories, and Ever-
ard, ignorant of the change, came heav
ily against it. He laughed, ascertained
with rapid touch that nothing was
overset or injured, and left the room
lightly. Imogen, knowing his ways,
did not attempt to interfere or assist,
but stood aside watching him with a
loving wistful look in her shiniug eyes.
"Do without me one of these days I
He cant, with all his pretence, and he
shall never be asked ; never, never 1
My darliug uncle, the liest. noblest,
wisest of men. It is only too much
honor for a stupid little thing like me
to be permitted to give him my life's
best love and he lias it." She winked
away a bright little tear from her long
lashes laughed a little, and drew out
of the big envelope a decidedly mascu
line looking epistle, iu bold black char
acters, with a big scrawly signature ou
the last page, "Geiald Adare."
It looks plain enough and easy
enough to answer," mused she, "and
it's neither one or the other." "lie
says" running hastily over the con
tents "he relies on me to tell him
whether he may really avail himself of
my uncle's invitation to Chislehurst.
If so, he thinks of starting at once for
the States, bv the same steamer as our
selves, if possible. He is at Liverpool
awaiting; my reply, &c. Now what
does it mean, or what will he under
stand by my auswer ? He used to talk
of wishing to see America, aud i..haps
of settling down there, though uncle
only laughed at the notion ; and now it
seems as if he were in earnest. If I
wiite him a cool little note telling him
what is strictly true that the doc
tors recommended perfect restand quiet
to uncle for some time to come ; if I
gently put him off for the present, why,
it will be for good aud all. 1 teel it.
Some other fancy will come between us
and there will be the end of our friend
ship. I Late to think it i I don't mind
saving so when nobody can hear me.
Shall I sav 'Come r He'll come fast
enough. He'll see our beautiful home
aud what Americans are at their best ;
not the rubbish that disgraces our na
tion all over Europe. He'll understand
then what my dear uncle is a prophet
that has honor in his ow n country ; and
If he comes, he'll never go away
again. Why should he ? He says he
is a cosmopolitan, with no local preju
dices (unless he has one in favor of the
place where we happen to be tounai
he hates his Irish estates and his title,
and would gladly hear the last of both
one and the other. Shall I say 'Come'?
and vet "
Here Everard's footstep was audible,
ana hastily concealing the letter, Imo
gen hurried on her hat and Newmarket
and went to meet nun.
"Which way ?" he asked, as they is
sued from the portico on to the greasy
navemeut.
"This way looks the clearest. If you
keep straight on and then turn right
rouud and come back we can't be lost,"
argued Imogen in her iguorauce. and
they started. Unfortunately they came
to a street which did not go straight
on.
"Well, we can take this left turning
aud keep straight aloug here. It cer
tainly grows lighter at the end." They
groped on cautiously, guided by the
area railings. Then came a noisy cross-
ins of some main thoroughfare. Imo
gen looked at Everard doubtfully and
turned to the left again rather than at
tempt to pil t him over. It was grow
ing brighter, fading from dim to paie
copper color ; there must be sun some
where, and in the distance was a ;
glimpse of trees, that Imogen decided
must be "one of tiie parks," but which
turned out to be an unknown square.
Then a policeman, against whom they
ran blindly, helped Everard across a
street and put them in the direct road
home which proved to be by such dis
reputable back stieets that Imogen got
alarmed and made for the first open
space.
Then the fog lifted, showing a large
c ear street with something like a cab
stand at the far end, and along it they
sped merrily.
"Why we've got home without know
ing it; there's Portland Place down
that turning," cried Imogen; delighted.
"It doesn't seem like our part of the
world," said Everard, who had the ears
of a trapper ; "but places sound diiur
ent iu tins atmosphere."
" e shall come toa name presently."
Down swooped the fog again before
the words left Imogeu's lips, and when
they got to a name it was one tuey nau
never heard of. The situation was be
coming monotonous. It had been
amusiug enough at first, when tha
brighter atmosphere seenieu to ne at
the end of every street they turned
into, while Everard made guesses at
places aud people, like a schoolboy play
ing blind-man's buff, and laughed at
his guide's helplessness. Xow he was
silent and Imogen auxioas. It was
giowing thicker aud thicker, till even
her way-mark, the area railings, failed
her if she lost hold of them, aud had to
be recovered by groping. She felt Ev
erard drag on her arm as she led him,
and his face, as well as she could make
it out, looked diawa and overspread
with a hue she had learnt to mistrust.
"What are we to do?" she asked,
trying to laugh. "I can't turn back
in search of the cab-stand. 1 forgot
how many turnings we have passed.aud
pol'cemen seem to have vanished from
the face of the earth."
One o'clock boomed from an invisi
ble church s eeple.
"It's quite a new part of the town,"
she went on; "large houses, and no
shops."
"We must bate come far out west
without knowing lt.aud I never thought
of bringing the wraps."
si. stood nerulexed. leaning against
the railings of a large house looming
ulnft tlirimirh the murK.
"I'll tell you w hat I can do I I'll ring
and ask our way. uy uiun 1 1 uiiu
nt that sooner r"
a ml iid the steps she led him and
gave a vigorous pull at the bell.
A f.Kitinan answ. red it promptly.
v are lost in the fog " said Imo-
tren : "can you direct us to the Lang-
ham Hotel?"
Th man's face trrew doubtful.
I dont know that I can, miss. It's
a good long way from here but I w ill
inquire."
"Xo; if It's far off, tell me where I
can iret a cab."
"Well, if you go straight on, turn to
th ritrht. and take the trura . street w
your right again, you may find one on
the stand or, there's Toke's livery
stables close by." ""V
"That's better."
But a glance at Everard made her
Is there any one in the house who can
go for me. and let us wait nere t"
Thomas stared at the audacious pro-
" . i ,.tl,.rif
Ur can some one auow mo mo
and i U,t this VZd'tfbreUa.
Thomas had heefd of umbrella-
snatcliers, overcoat thieves, and looked
as if it were worth more than his place
to fall into that arrangement either.
However, Thomas was young and
impressionable, and Imogen's face aud
voice worked on his tender heart.
"I'll inquire, miss."
Aud, crafty in his way. he went
with his story, not to the respectable
old butler just then crossing the hall,
butshatp to the right, through uiorn-iug-tooui
and library, to his young mis
tress' own sitting-room. He was back
in two minutes with "M-s Langton's
compliments, aud will you and the
gentleman please step in.'
1 hey gladly followed him as he re
trace! his way through the softly-car
peted, richly-furnished rooms to the
veiy heart and centre of the house's
comfort and luxury. A long, low room.
lighted by a silver lamp at the far end,
near which, on a couca, lay a girlish
figure.
1 cannot rise to receive you," she
spoke iu a sharp, though musical voice;
please excuse me aud come and sit
down."
Imogen felt, as she approached, the
keen, exhaustive gaze of a pair of the
brightest, darkest eyes she had ever met
yes disproportionately large for a
tiny, eager white face. She found Ev
erard a seat, aud then said : "We are
iu great dithculties, aud all through my
foolhardiuess. Will you help us ?"
W ith pleasure. 1 hear you want a
guide and a messenger ; you shall have
oue directly. Was it not odd ? 1 was
just lying speculating ou what I should
do if 1 were out alone in the fog, when
your ring came."
The bright eyes ir.vl lett imogeu aud
wandered oil to Everard, who now
moved within the circle of the lainp
ligbt, "I excuse me," she faltered, sud
denly excited, "but may I not know
your name, please"
"Everaid Holt."
"I knew it." she said triumphantly,
producing a large photograph from au
envelope. "My uncle brought uie home
this last night. He was at Willis's
Kooius."
"Was he not Colonel Pyers-Lloyd,
who returned thauks for the army r"
"Xow how could you possibly tell
that ? e are not at all alike."
"I cannot judge of your faces, but
vour voices are the same."
She clapped her hands in a gleeful,
childish fashlou.
"Delinhtf ul I You recognized the
Welsh accent. How pleased he will
be ! Don't you know he wa there as
the representative of Cymric poetry.
aud he has more titles than you would
care to hear as a bard "
"I know his translations well, and
Lave read his monograph ou Cymric
versification."
"You must stay and see him. He
will be home to luncheon, and will
never forgive me if I let you go. Ycu
will stay. I will order the carnage as
soon alter as you please."
Eveard wailed for Imogen to reply,
w hich she did with quite unreasonable
hesitation. Miss Laugton was in earn
est. Her uncle acquiescent, it would
be utterly aud supeiriuously ungracious
to decline her request. She could not
accent with her wouted grace! ul frank
uess. though she tried to be cordial.
She was transferred to the charge of
.a sedate maid, w ho assisted her to re
move her wraps aud the traces of fog
aud soot through which she had been
suui;linr. aud freshly priukel and
smiling she relumed to her hostess.
"I wonder what ails me ?" she assed
herself, as from the room door she be
held her uncle and iliss Lanzion in iuu
tide of talk. "Why does the air of
this ulace thrill me into a fever of self
consciousness? I could fancy Miss
Langton the dark lady that all fortune
tellers are agreed shall cross my pain i
Absurd. '
The dark bright eyes, charged with
their curious magnetic attractiou,rested
on her as she advanced, and she blushed
like an em arrassed schoolgirl. I he
servants entered directly alter, wuu
Drenarations for luncheon, which was
laid on a table within reacu or miss
Lamrton's couch. Imogen sat sileiitly
observant. Her traiuing in art bad
been thorough enough to teach her the
value of her surroundings. Each de
tail of the room seemed to have been
specially chosen by someone of a very
peculiar taste, with money enougn to
irratifv it.
The n.cKenug ure oi sceniea woou
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on the wide heartu gnmmereu over
carved wood, wrought brass, rare china,
curiously mingled tmts or color.
screen of exotics masking the street's
ugliness, aud thegilt-and leather of the
sumptuous bindings. liooks were
everywhere, and piles of papers, stands
of engravings aud photographs, all
clustered round the -central figure of
the eirlish mistress of the house, at
whom Imogen had hardly ventured to
elance at first. She was young ; much
younger at the second glance ; at the
third glance, handsome. The original
type of the face, fine and noble, worn
aud shrunken by long continued pain
or care that had drawn fretted lines be
tween the eyebrows, and curved the
lius distressfully. A cloud of dusky
hair was swept back and upwards and
secured bv two eolden pins. Her dress
was a loose gown ot dark crimson vel
vet, edged with grey fur, from the
sleeves of which her tiny waxen hands
peeped out, weighted by one massive
gold ring.
Hhe presided gracefully at the table.
on which the china and glass were art
studies, and each piece of plate worthy
a separate line in a collector's cata
logue.
Colonel Pyers-Lloyd did not appear,
and nobody missed him.
Everard, his momentary famtness
passed away, was bright and interested,
He feit the influence of the surround
ing atmosphere (not to speak of the
luncheon being the perfection or gooa
cheer), touched the beautiful things
about him delicately aud appreciatively,
listening to Miss Langton's few words
of clear description and luncheon over
fell into one of his happiest moods of
talk, that an admiring biographer would
have given all his spare cash to over
hear. Imogen was courteously inciuu
ed in the conversation, but she soon
sink into silent thought. Mie had
never seen her uncle so completely at
his best in Btrange company, frank and
pleasant as he al ways was. Miss Lang
ton though saying bttle, seemed to
draw him on by some mysterious sym
pathy, from general topics to personal
experiences, tm Imogen usieneu won-
denngly to his stories of long-past strug
gles, and cherished aspirations, thoughts,
fancies, successes, failures; sacred
things, that she had not dared to toucn
had onlv crazed on from afar with rev-
ence, brought for the handling of this
curious stranger.
"She is playing upon him the
witch I I hate her. How can she do
it. though?" and she resumed her
study, half in admiration, half in re
pugnance. "She could bewitch me, too, if she
thought it worth while,'' she admitted
later on, reluctantly.
The afternoon slid on imperceptibly.
Everard. worn out by latigue and un
usual excitement, laid his head bwk in
his large arm-chair and slept. Miss
Langton smiled a pretty kind smile it
was and gently lowered her lamp,
then pointed to a low chair by her
couch, invitingly. Imogeu slipied into
it, unwilling, but drawn by the sjieii or
the dark, speaking eyes. She held hers
averted in silence for a moment, and
then a soft little hand stole round her
neck, aud a kiss from two burning lips
dropied on her forehead.
xou are so beautitui, so loving and
so true; he has told me all about you,
and now I am going to make you at
wretched as 1 am mjself." Aud Imo
geu felt the dash of hot tears ou ht r
cheek. Imogen sat trembling, waiting
for the next words. When they came
not, she timidly lifted her eyes. Miss
Lamrton was Ivmir back on her couch,
her hands clasped hard over her breast,
her lips moving silently.
"Do you love him?" she asked sharp
ly, with a glance at Everad's noble
placid face.
"Dearly, oearly. lie has been more
than a father to me all my life. I am
not his niece. I am nothing to liiiu
but a friendless, nameless, little out
cast waif, that he picked up."
And you are ready to leave him for
so poor a thing as Gerald Adare?"
Miss Langton drew forward a small
stand on which stiod a miniature easel.
A large photograph was there, a por
trait of a tall, handsome young niau,
leaning against a tree, holding a great
Irish deer hound in a leash.
Yes. he is a poor thing but mine
own mine own," she murmured, and
turned again tolmogem "1 ouknow ltr"
"That is Mr. Adare Lord Adare, l
mean."
"Where did you meet him?"
"At a table d'hote at Prague "
"I understand," very dryly. "When
did you see him last?"
"In Paris, hist month." Ami Imo
gen felt the letter rustle guiltily in her
pocket.
"Aud now he lsgoiugto the states?"
"I am not the ruler of his actio is,"
cried the poor harrassed beauty, fairly
roused. "He may go it he likes, and 1
dare say he wilL I hojie so. 1 don't
call him a poor thing, if you do." Miss
Laugton lay silent; when she spoke it
was calmly and sadly.
"Yeu must let me tell you all 1 cau
about your cousiu Gerald. He was my
father's ward, but he lived with his
mother, for six months out of every
year. He was a loveable, pretty little
man, and we were laitiuui ai lies on uie
whole. I drove him to persist in going
to Eton, and lie did fairly welL Then
came Oxford, with less credit. I fumed
and raged at the rejiorts that reached
us, aud at last worried my .father into
taking me to see him at college, and
speaking my mind, as of yore. He lis
tened to mv exhortations with a dif
ference. 'Maudie,' he said, when I
had done, 'will you take me for good
and all, and make something of me?'
Such a happy time followed. :eveu
long years ago, my dear. Seven long
years! We were to have been married
when he left Oxford with a resieciabie
dearee but then came my father's ill
ness and death, lou know Gerald is
a large landowner in the west of Ire
land. Lord Adare's will had left
everything in his wife's power until
Gerald should come of age. iiy only
comfort was m Gerald s promises: ' e
will work together, there, Maudie.
Only wait till I have the power and you
to teach me how to use it.' Castle
Adare is a black spot on the face of
the country yet. e should have mar
ried on his coming of age, but Lady
Adare fell ill. She didn't die, only
kept him wandering about the Conti
nent for three years, men ne came
back to me. All was in readiness;
dresses, breakfasts, settlements, every
tlune in readiness for his return two
davs before the wedding. He would
hardly let me out of his sight w nen ne
came at last, I see his face now as he
stood at the foot of the staircase the
nieht before, looking up after me.
Good night.' he called, and something
else which I could not hear; I turned
to listen, slipped souieliow. aud then
remember a long, loug space of time,
when I felt myself falling and heard
the rinzinz crash on the marble floor
of the lamp I carried before the shock
came, and all was blank blackness.
They said it was an injury to the brain;
then some biternal displacement; it was
smne. nerves 1 don t Know wuar.
only knew in the short flashes of con
sciousness between long intervals ot
speechless torture, that they gave me
very little longer to live. Xever mind
the story of the black time. I don't
want to trade ou your sympathies."
Imogen stole one tiny hand into Miss
Langton's, but kept silence. "Gerald
behaved perfectly. Ahl my dear, think
what it must have been to both of us
when the terrible discovery was made
that I was eoiug to live. I forced his
freedom on him and sent him from me.
I bid him never to return unless I sent
for him, and he has obeyed me. Do
you know Dr. J uuus Coie? He is a
countryman of yours. Charletan or
none, his cures have been marvellous.
and I resolved to try him. In six
months I could use my arms, In a year
he says I shall be as well and strong as
ever I was in my life. Dr. Cope has
iust returned from Paris. He met you
there and Gerald, and. jtola me w hat
he heard. Surely, I sa'd, Providence
gives me one chance more, if I can
stoop to beg my lover back from her,
Give him to me, Imogen; you are
young beautiful happy in your
home."
So she pleaded with an impetuous
rush of words that checked all reply
from Imogen. The two girls had
clasued bauds and were silent for an
instant, Maud from exhaustion, Imo
gen seeking words, a meiaucnoiiy lit
tle smile tutting across ner pretty nps.
"How do I know that he is my lover?
ne has never told me so, and shall
never be tempted to do so. I think
could have made him love me, perhaps
and I should have liked to try but
Maud, I never could have loved him as
you do."
"Send a letter, dear, and let me go
home to write mine. Here, take and
read this ; it is all that' baS ever passed
between us," and she tossed the crim
son-sealed envelope into Maud's lap,
Everard stirred, yawned, and sud
denly sat up.
"Imogen I Miss Langton I "What
have I been doing ?"
"Xo harm, dear uncle the carriage
has only just tome to the door, and
Miss Langton ana I have been very
hatpy."
"Why It is clear," cried Everard, ril
ing and drawing a lull breafH,
"And starlight," said Imogen. "You
said there were limits to every fog, and
light aud freedom on the other side of
it. Good-bye, Maudie."
"God bless you, Imogen."
SjmnlMl Uola.
Keceutly a venerable-looking old gen
tleman, with fast-whitening full beard,
thick gray hair, eyes shrouded by sjiec
tacles, aud the respectable dress of a
well-to-do fanner lectured in Galves
ton, Texas. The old gentleman was
the exoiient of the most visionary of
theories in regard to the Arctic regions.
He was Mr. Auiericus Symmes, son of
John Cleve Symmes, who, iu 1324. pub
lished a little book promulgating a
theory. The multitude knew it only
In connection with Syuuues's Hole, the
grolesqueness of that idea fasUniug it
(irmly upon the popular mind
Mr. Hvmmes says: I come before you
in obedience to my father's diug re
quest that I would keep an eye ou
arctic explorations and see how they
would bear out his theory. I have done
so. 1 have watched the explorations
of Lieutenant Greely, and they certain
ly bear out what the world of scientists
has long called a visionary idea. They
fought that theory, as exemplified in
this little book. It was published by
my father In 1824, and was then gladly
sold at $1 a volume. Xow it cau be
got nowhere for less than $12, if, in
deed, a copy is anywhere for sale. I
know of but one man iu this city w ith
oue. aud he would not take $-0 for it.
'According to my father's theory.
the earth is hollow, globular and open
at the poles. The shell of the earth is
about lOUU miles thick, and the dis
tance from verge to verge of the shell
at the oenings is about 1500 miles.
The edge of the verge is about 7iP
north latitude, and it is the coldest
lace ou earth. When you advance
over that you can see very clearly, and
the temperature becomes much war
mer. At about frJ north latitude is
the true magnetic pole, and when you
get at 82 the pole is behind you. You
are then going south, and will see large
nocks of wild birds and great numbers
of wild animals. This is very different
from the Newtonian theory, which
places the magnetic pole at tKP north
latitude, which is now supposed to be
surrounded with eterm.1 Ice aud is the
coldest spot on eartlu
'Now, for the proofs. Greely in his
explorations found the weather to be
growing warmer as he weut further
uorth. People will believe Greely, but
not Xordeuskjold, Tuttle, Sarben aud
lggius. They went very far north,
aud found a laud ou which grew big
trees,where tnere were warm water and
large rivers. Nordenslj Id thought it
was Siberia. Wiggins found the same
country inhabited by a strange people.
How could he have found these people
if he had not been going so ith and if
it had not been in the hollow of the
earth? Where could they have come
out if they had continued to go if not
at the south pole? Captaiu Wiggins,
Tuttle and Sarben all saw these people.
and they asked them how they came
there. It was a wonderful country,
with multitudes of game, elephants,
mastodons, gold mines, men seven and
eight feet high and women nearly as
large. 1 hey asked him how he came
there and were very friendly.
'Greely made several excursions.
The further north he went the milder
became the climate, and once he saw a
valley sixty miles wide aud full of
game. Don't that compare with
Symines's theory? The next trip lie
took he found tue further he went the
milder became the weather. He waded
brooks and swam rivers. How does
that compare with Newton, who says
this is a place of great cold? And yet
people won't believe in Symmes. They
won't come and let me convice them.
I stand solitary aud alone, the only
believer.
"Newton says the pole is surrounded
by the ice; Symmes by au open sea.
Explorers didu t know what to do when
they found the magnetic pole. On
Captain Parry's third voyage he took
reindeer, and thought to gain the north
pole over the ice or perish. He found
the weather growing warmer, the ice
thinner and streams of water abundant.
At 80 degrees he found the water flow
ing with a stiff current. How could
that be if it didn't go in at one pole and
out at the other? Look at the fish al
ways going south aud never returning.
At'82 degrees 40 minutes Captain Parry
couldnt find a cake of ice strong
enough to bear him up, and the sun
was so but it melted the pitch in his
boats. When he got past 80 degrees
the compass flickered and pointed be
hind him. He was passing the magne
tic pole. And so it was with Captain
Koss, Dr. Kane, Captaiu Hull and
others. All found an open sea. Cap
taiu Symmes, then a resident of New
port, petitioned Congress to send him
out on an expedition, but was ignored.
Had lie gone he would nave found the
open sea and that country where Greely
says he spent two such pleasant years.
He says it was the paralise of the
north. Captain Symmes said that the
magnetic pole was at 80 degrees, and
beyond that, at 83 degrees, the land
which he called Symmeszonia."
Advlo. to Ola Men.
Don't presume on your age.
Don't be vain of your handsome gray
hair and whiskers.
Don't get yourselves up as models of
propriety in public and get full of booz
in private.
Dont think because young men are
young they are fools. They probably
are, but yoa were young once your
self. ' '
Don't take the front seats at ballet
shows. Your bald heads reflect the
light unpleasantly.
Don't say vulgar things before ladies
and excuse yourself on the ground thai
you are old enough to be their fathers.
Don't forget that age must respect
itself before it can command it troni
others.
Don't sour the world on you by sour
ing yourself on the world.
Don't fool with temptation.
Dont be too wise.
Don't try to make love. The old
fools are the biggest fools.
Don't make your love for the world
make you forget that a man never getf
too old to die.
Don't try to be a boy. Your grand
sons wiL, attend to that part of the
business-
Richmond, Texas has a mule only
three feet seven inches high.
Ax old gardener says 'My advice to
those who raise their own vegetable is
to raise your own plants. They will
give better satisfaction than those yoa
buy of the professional plant grower,
bo starts them in a hot-bed."
Uur-3lKHtel Folks.
"You have no idea of the number of
absurd things that happen in our busi
ness," said a salesman in the store of a
prominent optician. "Net long ago a
well known Third street broker, whose
ideas of life go but a little way beyond
margins and futures, walked briskly in
and said that he wanted a pair of 'gold
siiectacles. There were a number of
frames lying on the counter at the time
and iu a business like way he began
tn ing them on. Finally he got a pair
that apparently suited him, aud, after
inquiring the price, walked to the door
and looked out into the street.
"These are excelleut," he said, "I
can almost see the print ou the paper
tliat gentlemen is reading on the plat
form of the car going down the street- "
He threw down a $3 note and was about
to rush from the store. He was rather
crestfallen when I called him back aud
asked whether he wanted glasses in the
frame or not.
"There's an old fellow, a regular
habitue of the Mercantile Library, who
has his glasses changed on an average
twelve times a year. Oculists rarely
order changes in glasses inside of two
years. Every day at a certain hour the
old gentleman comes down the street
and, stopping iu front of the door.peers
back into the sb re at the test card, on
which are priuted those large black let
ters. If he experiences any trouble in
discerning the characters he at once
has his glasses changed and goes away
contented. Not long since the mis
chievous store boy, learning that he
was on his way down here to make his
daily test of bis optics, pasted a piece of
tissue paper over the card, thus giving
the letters to a person standing at a
distance a blurred appearance. Dismay
spread over the old man's face as he
squinted at the card. After taking off
Ins glasses and wiping them vigorously
he carefully adjusted them and made
another effort to decipher the character
and failing to do so satisfactorily came
bursting in, amazed at the sudden
change in his sight. Meanwhile the
tissue paper had been taken from the
card and when the examination was
made for new glasses his own.of course,
were found to be all right. But, not
fully satisfied, he retired to the pave
ment aud as lie was wont to do daily,
took his long distance scrutiny, which
apparently gave him satisfaction, for he
scratched his head and meditatively
aud with a puzzled look resumed his
stroll down the street."
At this juncture two fashionably
dressed young ladies entered and the
communicative salesman was for some
minutes absent.
"Now there's another case," he said,
as he leaned over the show-case after
the fair customers had departed.
"Those ladies wanted artificial eyes,
but of course we could not accommo
date them. Fashion has everything to
do with these odd freaks. Both of these
young women have as sound eyes as
either you or I. Oue of them said she
wanted artificial blue eyes and when I
set the case of glass substitutes before
her said emphatically that they would
not do. I informed her that they wert
of the very best quality and a very good
article. Then with some embarrass
meut she told me that she wanted a
pair of delicate glass optics to wear
over her own. She had had her hair
which was presumably black
b!e;iched to an ultra blonde hue and of
course wanted eyes to complete her en
semble. I smilingly told her that such
a thing was impossible. She said she
bad read that the ladies in Paris had
adopted this method, the invention
having been made by a skilful French
optician. Of course that was all bosh
and probably a story started by some
inventive newspaper usan."
"IX yoa have much of a demand for
aruhcial eyes? '
"The demand is very lively and
seems to be increasing each year. It
springs from accidents and advanced
myopia. Yes, we have fitted them to
children, but they are never fitted to a
child under seven years old. There is
no truth whatever iu the statement
that artificial eyes have reached such
perfection that they move just like an
ordinary eye. In some cases where the
artificial eye fits the socket neatly it
will move when the socket moves, but
not without the aid of mechanism.
Davis, of New York, manufactures
the best eyes, which are made of the
Quest quality of glass. The demand
for hazel eyes seems the greatest.
"Next to the artificial eyes comes the
single eyeglasses. They retail at 75
cents each, and are purchased mainly
by professional people and the dudes
who grace the corridors of prominent
hotels. Some swell reporters have
caught the craze of late. The single
glasses do not aid in the sight in the
least. They are made of ordinary glass
and are simply an affectation borrowed
from the English.
An Australian Intoxicant.
Their own stimulent, kava, they con
tinue to use in great quantities, and
many of the Europeans have contracted
a liking for it- All the Wlirrapans have
a taste of it, and marvel that any white
man can acquire a penchant for such
stuff. Its flavor resembles soap suds
more than anything else one can com
pare it with. The root used is botani
caliy known as that of the piper methis
ticurn; it is hard and woody, hence the
object of Uie chewing which liberates
the juices of the roots more freely than
any other process. Europeans grate
tha rmr. atii! nnnnrl it. hilt, arlmit thnt
the liquor is not equal to the chewed,
In Samoa the preparation of the kava
bowl is attended with very great cere-
mony, only the young unmarried girls
being allowed to chew it. The root is
cut up into fine pieces and the girls who
are directed by the prettiest of them,
first rinse their mouths, take up a piece,
and when sufficiently masticated ' and
formed into a ball, spit it into the bowl.
The chief girl then calls for water, and
after washing her hands directs one of
her companions to pour on the water
while she stirs the root with her hand.
When enough water is in and the tails
are properly mixed with the ingredient,
she takes up a strainer made of fibres of
the hibiscus, and passes it from side to
side of the bowL When the strainer is,
saturated she lifts it high above the old negro turns aside and takes a by
bowl and squeezes the balls through the ; path. The boy shouts, the old negro
strainer in her hand. This is continued ' does not hear him. Anether hour.that
until the kava bowl is ready. It is con- seems an age, draws itself along. Ue
tended by some of the Europeans who hears a wagon. lie is almost wild with
use chewed root that the mastication ' joy. The dnver. though a surly fellow
is perfectly dry and is a mere crushing ( lifts the bag up, and the boy happy and
process, but of course an amount of i thankful, is rescued just at a time when
saliva nu it get incorporated in the pro- j he does not think that he could stand
cess. The medicinal properties of kava it a moment longer,
are tonic and nervous sedative, and it r ,
is to these effects, and not to lta flavor, There are 1,652 ckrks In tte Pen
that the taste for the drink arises. 'oa office at Waahingboiv,
B.onaiun-up-' Cattla.
The busy times on the plains are con
fined to the round-up seasons, of which
there are nominally two. although the
first, which begins about May 'M and
coutiuutes until June 1, and the secoi.d
commencing some three weeks later
and continuing well into August, are
so nearly together that they might well
be called one season. At these round
ups, certain designated men, accompa
nied by a foreman or captain, start
from some given point and travel over
a l the ranges in their distnet. They
take with them wagons containing sup
plies sufficient for their probable stay,
and the brands of every owner in the
district. As the work is very severe
upon the horses, especially in "cutting
eut" from the herd, each man has from
six to eight horses, riding one, herding
the others, aud driving them aloug with
the wagons. In active work a horse
should be changed every three or four
hours, and the rider, when he feels that
his animal is exhausted, rides up to the
herd, lassoes another, and quickly
changing the saddle, sets his tired horse
free. At the round-up all the cattle in
the district are gathered together in
one vast herd and driven to the rendez
vous near the centre of the district.
The work of identification and brand
ing the calves then begins. The owner
ship or the calves is ascertained from
the braud of the mother, and a similar
brand is placed upon the offspring.
It happens, however, that in numer
ous instances the calves become separa
ted from their mothers, and it Is a mat
ter of impossibility to ascertain their
owners. Thess estrays are called
"mavericks." and become the joint pro
perty of the association of the round-up
district in which they are found. These
mavericks are, by a rule of the Colorado
association, sold to the highest bidders
among their members at the end of the
season, and the proceeds paid in the
general fund provided for the mainten
ance of the organization. The receipts
thus realized friquently amount into the
handsome sum of from 3,1.00 to 15,000
per year in each district. Al the sec
ond later round-up the same branding
process is carried out, and the addition
al feature of "gathering beef" is added.
This consists in selecting such cattle as
are in desirable condition for shipment,
and may include all of the different
brands. An inventory is made of the
cattle so selected, and a copy forwarded
to the different Inspectors and agents
along the line of route the cattle will be
driven or carried to market, as well as
to the parties to whom they are con
signed. When the cattle are gathered
and the branding of the calves comple
ted, the work of separating the herds
begins, and the difficult task of placing
the cattle of each brand in separate
herds is accomplished. These are then
dnven to their proper ranges by the
herders.
The round-up party, which is in con
siderable numbers, is generally accom
panied by a man or men from each sur
rounding district and from the adjacent
States aud Territories, who are f uruish
nl with all the brands of their districts
jr States, and who are present for the
purpose of identifying any cattle which
aaay have strayed from the ranches of
Dther districts. Owing to the seeming
facility with which this class ot proper
ty might be stolen, the greatest precau
tions are taken, of course, to prevent
Kittle stealing, and to this end the po
lice and inspection service is rendered
is nearly perfect as possible. There
are employed in Coloradoalone upwards
of 30 stock inspectors or detectives.who
are coustautlv travelling over the State,
examining hides in butchering estab
lishments, and inspecting brands, espec
ially at shipping points. Their opera
tions, however, are not confined to this
Mate alone, but extend to all points
whence cattle are shipied. Some are
stationed at Kansas City, Omaha, Paci
fic Junction on the Burlington and
Missouri, aud other points on the
routes to market. These men exercise
the right to examine all manifests and
compare them with the brands of the
cattle shipieil, and also with lists which
they have with them.
If they discover in the shipment dif
ferent brands from those on the mani
fests they cause the arrest of the ship
per, if they believe the animals stolen;
otherwise they demand and receive
payment for the strange brands, and
turn over the amounts so received to the
proir owners, so that with an honest
?nforeement of this rule cattle stealing
is next to impossible.
To Mill on Horseback.
Down In Arkansas they still send a
boy to mill on horseback.
"There are few sights more sugges
tive of hopeful patience than that of a
boy sitting on a bag of wheat that has
fallen from his horse, ne starts to mill
joyously. The great event in the life
of a young country boy is to be entrust
ed with a milling exidition. He sleeps
very little the night before the journey,
so active is his mind concerning the
prospective trip. His father helps him
on the horse and he sits on the bag as
proud of his position as a king is of his
throne. Every object along the lovely
road interests him. He plucks the
blooms from the dog-wood, and almost
falls off when the horse reaches around
to bite himself. He rides into the creek
to let the horse drink, and spits at the
minnows that swim around. After he
goes up the bank, on the opposite side
of the stream, and pursues his course
along the road, he notices with alarm
that the bag is slipping to one side. He
sits still further over to make the bag
b tlance, but yet he is not satisfied, for
it keeps on sliding to one side, and at
last it falls off. He cannot restrain his
tears, and though he knows that be
. cannot lift one end, yet he tugs at the
bag. The old horse snorts, nibbles the
grass and lashes the boy across the eyes
with his tail. "Whoa, you old fool!"
aud the disconsolate little fellow weeps
afresh. He cannot leave the hag. fear
ing that some one will steal it. He
must wait the tardy coming cf a passer-
. by. He bears the sound of hoofs and
he listens intently, while the swelling
buds of hope burst into full bloom. He
is doomed to disappointment, for the
j horse has no rider. Thunder rumbles
J in the distance and he will get wet. At
, last he sees an old negio coming along.
His heart beats h'gh with hope. The
NEWS IN BRIEF.
The Thugs were suppressed in
India in 1530.
There are 50,19ti postoilices in the
Unite! States.
Florida now has within its limits
1202 miles of railway.
It Is estimated that one voter in
seven cannat write.
Bavaria has a beer brewery to every
1000 of her inhabitants.
A 95-year-old resident of New
Bedford, Mass., rides a bicycle.
A fashionable revolt against late
dinners is reported from London.
Two gallons of alcohol can be
mane from a bushel cf coru or rye.
g Queen Victoria during her reign
has added 18-5 titles to the jieerage.
One animal in every 10 dies in the
cattle cars between Chicago and New
York. The annual payroll of the United
States Government amounts to J20.000,
836.95. Truf.l;s are found in California
under the oak trees, at a depth of oue
or two feet.
Dried orange peels are now being
used in Paris as a substitute for kind
ling wood.
In fifty-six years Mexico has had
fifty-four presidents, one emperor aud
oue regency.
The milk supplied iu Boston lias;
improved in quality under the new milk
inspection law.
A twelve-year-old girl in Nevada,
herself an expert shot, has opened a
shooting gallery.
Female students are to be allowed'
to compete for positions as surgeous iu
the Paris hospitals.
It is illegal to catch lobsters in the
waters of Maine between August 15
and November 15.
- A common sign in Britisli India
eads: "Animals of all kinds stuffed ou
the shortest notice."
The coming corn crop is estimated
at 1,207,000,000 bushels, fifty per cent,
greater than last year.
An early autumn Is Indicated by
rich various colored tints in foliage in
many rural localities.
The French Senate has voted to
abolish the offering of prayer at the
beginning or its service.
Three lepers live within a radius of
10 miles of Granite Falls, in Yellow
Medicine county, Minn.
A former citizen of Georgia, his
daughter, and two sons all died on
August 4 in different years.
The peanut crop or Virginia will
reach 2,500,000 bushels, an increase ol
30 per cent, over last year.
Southern people are beginning to
use the Tennessee mountains somewhat
extensively as a summer resort.
In 17s the Bunk of England issu
ed small silver pieces wortn five shil
lings; they were called bank tokens.
The French savings bank now con
tain an aggregate of over seventy-two
aud a half millions of pounds sterling.
On an average, twenty-four post
age stamps to each person wire sold in
the United States during the last fiscal
year.
Berlin oculists as,rt that the dust
from the elevated railroads has added
nve per cent, to the profits of their pro
fession. No less than fifty-seven exposi
tions, it Is said, are to be held n the
United States during the remainder of
the year.
There are said to be more than a
quarter of a million women in London
w ho work with their needles for a bar
subsistence.
One hundred and fifty thousand
dollars is estimated as the sum spent
daily in the twenty-five thousand beei
shois of Paris.
The wheat crop of the world fot
1S84 is estimated at 520.000,000 bushel!
or 100.000,01 J bushels more than last
year's harvest.
Because they couida't get along
with the Chief of the Department, th
firemen of Gaiuesville, Texas, recently
resigned in a body.
Greek fire was invented by Callin
icus, an engineer of Heliopoils in
Syria, in the seventh century, to de
stroy Uie Saracens' ships.
Thirty thousand two-horse buckets
are employed in the business of New
York city, upwards of $20,000,000 an
invested in this industry.
A girl only 17 years old was arrest
ed in Boston a day or two ago for
bigamy, and she admitted that she had
two husbands, both living.
The Falls of Foyers, in Scotland,
is 200 feet high, and Niagara 104 feet.
The highest in the world is the Fall ol
Oreo at Monte Rosa, 2,400 feet.
Two fortresses, well known in
modern history, are shortly to be razed,
viz., Koeniggratz, in Bohemia, and
Souderburg-Dueppel, in Schleswig.
The assessed valuation of the rail
road property in Iowa is complete!.
The total mileage is 7105, and th
assessed valuation is 529,SfO,30U.2G.
In England alone it is estimated
that there are nearly 25,000 women and
girls who gain a part at least of their
daily bread by the making of gloves.
A log cabin in which he spent the
earlier years of his life from necessity,
has been used as an abode this summei
from choice by one of Oregon's wealth
iest citizens.
Jealousies about stock, land, etc.,
between the white settlers and UmaUlla
Indians in Oregon threaten to cause an
outbreak. The Indians are reported to
be very restless.
From recently published tables it
appears that the average time of sick
ness among males is about nine days in
each of their, working years. In women
it is a trifle more.
The splitting of a tree near Redd
ing, Shasta county, CaL, by lightning,
recently, disclosed in the hollow trunk
a skeleton. Three bullet holes were
found in the skull.
The ordinary expenses of Tope
Leo XIII amount to 5,000,000 franca
yearly, and other expenditures may
bring the amount up to 7,000,000. lit
epenus iw.wu or it in aims.
A kite,lG feet high and 11 feet wide,
whose covering required 24 yards of
muslin, was raised from a Grand street,
N. Y., house top recently. It took
four men with gloved hands to hold iu
A draft on New York city for$WO.
drawn over thirty years ago, wat
found among the effects of miserly
old woman who diod in Oswego recent
ly. It had been sent by a son who
now dead.
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