Sep Mill ill (t il ,A gjf. SCHWEIER, THE OOISTmmOI TEE TOIOI-UB THE EJFOBOEMEJT Of THE LAWS. Editor and Proprietor. VOL. XXXVIII. MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. OCTOKEK 15, 1SS4. NO. 42. ii nun niIKE OME PAY. ,,,e ,jav t.t Hud that Youth was ; ' i'iV, bi take ftwd things and 111. , v n. i.r.K -K.n, ever growing, Tl' ','". J, b.'-l'l- dreamland still ; ih.ui tii" year have rent worhl- It''..,,l,. :i,ui..i.r. j uirl,N on. aaily looked upon ; U('J.' ,1,. some still regret, I wouder, 'V i fi:'! 'a Jays the good time gone? i his dust-heap of dead f,H.r'v car. V' TOW"'l. , - , i ,Ae ami :i aim memory discloses, SUuiiiC aiVr Youth's carouse ; H,-b.- "" 1-' '"' "titorgotteu f-e. Vt'. : voice tar away ,. .' Vr-. leave us still souie traces, tfZi- -" echoes haunt oia haluug- u:bt v'x- otieii turuea today. i!- 'i r"! m 9;,vr lv a reams uu- lir.k".-n. Kl u:-'pt. by stars unseen, Sc,", r ;i, a iiu as they have s)oken, " v1K,K i,t joy that miht have been, Viii :.'-ae.artiii! summer day yet Bc'n-e: tlie puri..ui western bars, Ut't :u.ls found taint, as if some far-otJ He:rt.'.aTliU.; laip with tired, trembling yc ;i,t ccs smile lu the stars. Mamma. 1 '"tist teU hini," said 0,r,R? Svecuev. weeping and wringing frr Unds: "there would be a curse turn me if I prat used such odious de ceit upuu turn. He is so pood tliat he nil; hear uiv story with indulgence." ''lio and try hini," cried Mrs. Swee ae. str:kma a dramatic attitude and ubtiiig to the door. She was an lras-i-:ble' l '.t'e dame, with a mass of pray cirls which quivered as she stamped trr'f.i't. "Ves! co and tell Mr. De &.y of Koydale, that Miss Grace Swee nr. whoui he wants to marry, eloped t".i ears ago with a circus rider, who took ter to America and wanted to teacli her to jump through paper hoops. Verv indulgent he will be, I should lL::ik. Not a doubt of it I" -But, mamma. 1 should only have to te.l l.im that I had been deceived !'' s.ibrd (.trace, purple with shame. "I brlirved my husband was what he rep rreiiini h imself to be, aud I thought our marriage was valid." "XhUhIv else will think so," sneered Mrs. s wer-uey. "'You made a runaway liiteb with an adventurer, who turned oat to have a wife still living. Then ioU came back to us whimpering for furgivtiiess, and bringing a baby In lour arms. We did forgive you. We iini hushed up your escapade, saying :Ut oti had gone to stay with some friends of ours, aud we hastened to put our baby out to nurse, so that not a sl.uI ia this place knows ot your dis erace. . . . Well, when we have dohe ail this; when we have restored your character and put you in the way uf luaKiii aii hoboiaUe marriage, you icu needs kick down the results of our efforts, aud talk of making your sUuie puuhc ! Thank you, miss ! You liuJerstatnl what gratitude towards parents is : L.jk at your poor father, wbose heart you w ill break !" "But. mamma, what must I do?" c;inl (inu-e, in desiair. "If 1 keep this sei-re; fr.;m Mr. le lioy and he discov ers it aftei wards, what w ill he think of uie?" "Look at your father, I say," repeated Mr-. Sweeney, with another tragic ges turr. au l a new stamp of her foot. Mr. eeney, who wm 9eated In an armchair hear the fire with a comic uewspup-M- ou his lap, uttered a doleful SLivci. When there was any talking to be done, he generally allowed bis wife to Jo it, deeming her more proficient in this art than himself. But he could talk too w t.en occasion required it. Uis iLii from his seat a spare lanky man, :th yellowish-gray liair, a piwe-ntz, an! shepherds'-plaid trousers he put Lis tii.-k to tlie grate, with his coat-tails uijiler his aims, and said querulously : "(Irai-e. I think your behavior heart less. You know what trouble 1 have Ud to bi:n; uu you children, with my limited income. ' One of your sisters is Ui.pily married, b.it two are still un provided f .r. Then there are your three hi others'. Mr. De lioy has gener ously nioinised to send the eldest to college, and to give him a living by-and-by ; he is going to obtain a post under iroveniineiit for Frank, and to put Jack ihttt the navy . If you like now to take this hre.i,', out of your brothers' and s.steis' mouths, we caul, of course, stop you. Your mother aud I will. I daresay, ih,d a refuge in the work-Loii- some day," and Mr. Sweeney snivelled again." "Oh papa, have pity on me !" implored Grace, "I want to act rightly, and uiust be guided by you But you know 1 cannot give up seeing my child." "'Who wants you to give up seeing it ?" exclaimed Mrs. Sweeney shrilly. "Your liii-b.tnd won't keep you like a slave. Y on w Ul be able to go out with out his spy iug ou you. Besides, if you like, we can have the child brought bere. and sav she is an orphan whom e have adopted the child of one of your father's old friend's." "Yes. of one of my old friends," echoed Mr. Sweeney, ratifying the false b'od as solemnly as if he were putting U;e seal to a highly meritorious deed. A few moments of silence ensued, durin? which (Irace sat with her head bowed in her hands. The poor girl's nguish was extreme. Falsehood had never lieen one of her sins ; she loathed 't. Two years previously, when little hi -re than a child, she had eloped with ati adventurer, who had described him selt as a struggling artist, and touched ber w ith h tale of his woes ; but she bad acted thus, less because she truly loved her deceiver, than because she could not stoop to the hypocrisy of hav iug stolen interviews with him after her parents had forbidden her to hold iutercouise with the man. Iler fault bad led to miserable consequences, and, since tier return home, she had bten biost unhappy in Xte'mg obliged to tell but ruths to all he- pareuts' friends about what she had done during her ab enee iu being compelled to see her cbild clandestinely, in hearing covert reproaches from her family, and so forth. There was now a prospect of escajie from this wearisome life by her marriage with Mr. De lloy, but she re quited her new lover's affection too heartily to bear the idea or practising au imposture ou him. Yet how was fheto act consistently with her duty towards her patents? Her mother, who had been anxiouslv watching ber. at last put this peremptory question : "Well, Grace, what do you decide? ur fate is bound un in vonr answer. for you must know that if tou resolve to publish your shame, we shall be con victed of falsehood before the world, so that we shall have to sell off everv I ,u l 10 leave Uie couutry. Now 'Oh mamma, how cau you think I wish to bring any trouble on you ?" wailed Grace, as she raised her tearful eyes, "Well, but do you consent to let yourself be guided by us, who know better w hat Is for yor your interest than you do r" "It is my duty to obey you." said Urate with a sigu. "Of course it is your duty," rejoiued Mrs. Sweeney sharply. "And uow go upstairs and dry your eves. Mr. De Koy is coming iu au hour, and he must not see that you have been crying." Mr. llolaud De lloy was. iu fact, couiiug that day to beg Grace to fix the date for the wedding. It was the fam ily discussion ou this important ques tion which had produced the foregoing sceue. Punctually to the time appointed the master of Koydale Manor clattered up to the door in a dashiug wagonette, w hich he drove himself, aud on whose panels was painted the escutcheon of oueot the oldest families in the county. The De Koys might have taken for their motto, like the Uohausof France, Prime Je duiyne, for they could long ago have been ennobled had they cared about titles; but they preferred their foremost rank iu the squirearchy to a low one in the peerage. Koland De Koy had iu him a good deal of the pride of birth, but it was a proper pride, which impelled him always to act up to the highest standard of honor, to be generous, urbane, lordly iu his hospital ity aud surroundings. He was a mau of about five-and-thirty, who had trav elled a great deal and picked up much worldly experience without losing the freshness of his heart. His large wealth had enabled him to satisfy every whim; but his tastes were simple, and he had recently come back to Eugland from a long tour iu the East, determined to enjoy the life of a country squire in all its pleasant homeliness. He had been smitten with Grace Sweeney at first sight, and his manuer of accosting her when she entered the drawing room with a forced smile ou her pale tips, told how he really loved her. "WelL, my darting, when is it to be?" he asked, after he had taken both her hands and kissed her. "Oh Koland, are you sure that I cau make you happy 1"' she faltered, raising a timid glance towards him. "What a question !" he rejoined, laughing. "Let me look into those blue eves of yours aud read my fate in them." "Let me look into your eyes," she exclaimed, suddenly laying her small bauds ou his shoulders, and gazing wist fully at him. She met the amused glance of a pair of hazel, eyes, clear as. truth, unquailiug as courage. "Oh Koland. will you promise to bear with my faults t" she cried, in a toue of in describable entreaty: "What faults can you have you child, you?" said he, stroking her cheek and drawing her head ou his shoulder. "But will you promise to be indul gent, aud always to believe that 1 love you ever so deeply ?" "Yes, I'll believe that." he replied gaily ; "aud now, when shall we fix the j wedding ? Shall we say this day month ?" "Yes," murmured Grace ; aud she yielded her left hand to Koland, who placed upon it the betrothal ring a beautiful turquoise set with diamonds. lt was a fine thing for the Sweeneys to marry their daughter to Mr. De Itoy, for not only were they allying tbemselvee to a man of great name aud affluence, but they were virtually mak ing their fortunes. Grace's lover was not the man to retract the promise he had given of providing for his future brothers-in law ; he was rather likely to do much more thau was expected of him. Mrs. Sweeuey lived in a very fever during the preparations for the wedding, fearing lest some untoward thing should occur to darken her hopes. She absolutelv forbade Gaace from go ing to see her child, w ho was out at nurse in a neighboring village ; and this grieved the young mother, who was very fond of her baby : and suffered woefully at the idea of never being able to own the poor little thing. The more Grace reflected on the equivocal condi tinna in which she was going to begin her new married life, the less could she lielieve that any blessiugs were in store for her. However, the wedding-day was drawing nearer and nearer, ana at length it came. Grace could no longer recede now. When sha had been at tired in her bridal dress and wreath,and stiod alone in her room for a minute. iust before the bridegroom was to ar- rive, sue inrew nerseu ou u mronuu prayed in agony uiai iue iu ul uatu w hich she was about to commit might not be visited on her. Then she rose ; her sister were calling to her that Mr. Le Roy had come ; and soon she was driveu off to church in a post-chaise aud four, iu company with her lather and mother, both radiant. The weddiug was very brilliant one of the gayest that had been witnessed in the country for years. All sorts of great people attended the ceremony ; and. at the wedding-breakfast, Grace had to listen to many a pretty compli ment on her beauty and maidenly vir t ues. She retired, by-and- by, to put on her travelling-dress ; then her mother came to her, flushed with exultation, and kissed her. "Grace, dear," she said, not unkindly at this parting mo ment "let me give you some motherly advic-e. Never, as you value your hap piness let vour husband know anything about the past. It may be that. In an affectionate impulse you might be tempted to confess to him ; but if you did you would repent it, for a woman never gains anything by lowering her self in ber husband's eyes. Besides, you would destroy Kolaud's peace. Bear that in inlnd." . These last words were ringing in the bride's ears as she started upon her hon eymoon. IL Two years passed, and they were, on the w ole. happy ones for Grace. Her husband's affectiou for her was so ten der his atteutious were so constant and delicate, that the young wife could cling to him with an entire sense of trust and love. Gradually her peace of mind returned, and she discharged the duties of her new station with serenity. As often as she could she went to see her little girl ; but these visits excited no suspicions, for the child's nurse was Grace's foster-sister, aud Grace was eodmother to one of the woman s chil dren. Martha Toose such was this person's name was a rednecked honest-hearted thing, who felt devoted towards Mrs. De Koy, aud treated her child with the utmost klndnes passing it off aa an orphan alec ot her hus band. It had been thought better to let this arrangement subsist rather than remove the little girl to Mr. Sweeuey's house, where, as Grace well knew, it would not get such careful tending as from Martha. Soou, however, Grace was enabled to see her child frequently at Koydale, for within a twelvemonth of her marriage a baby-boy was bom to her ; and as Martha Toose had had an addition to her family a few weeks be fore, Mr. De Koy himself suggested that his wife's foster-sister should be engaged as wet-nurse. So Martha came to Koydale: and two or three times a week honest Kichard Toose would trudge over from the village in the afternoon, bringiug his children to see their mother, and with them little Rosy "the orphan." Mr. De Koy, who was fond of ehildreu, liked to see all these brats racing altotit his house and grounds ; and, from the first, lie took a particular faucy to Rosy, who was not shy before strangers like the other bumpkin children, but would clamlier ou to his knees whenever called. So all would have goue on as well as ditceit can go, ir, uuhappily, the mind of Kichard Toose bad not got disturbed by prosperity. So long as he was poor he had worked hard aud beeu a well behaved fellow ; but since Mrs, De K iy had beeu in a position to make his wife secret gifts of money, he had worked less aud takeii to drinking. When Martha obtained her situation at Koydale, Kichard ceased to work at all, and speut almost all his time at the public-house. He did not prate iu Lis cups, for his rustic shrewdness warned him that he might kill hisgoldeu-egged goose by incautious talking ; but his dull soul became inflamed by ambitious ideas. He wished to become a farmer ; then he settled down to the notion of owning a public-house. The proprietor of the Trotting Donkey in his village was going to retire from business, aud offered to let Toose have his fixture's aud goodwill cheap. To Grace's dis may, Martha was as much seduced by this scheme as ber husband. It pleased ber to think of becoming the mistress of a thriving roadside iuu. aud she au swered sharply whea Grace combated Iter whim, saying that she could not bear to let Rosy be brought up iu a public-house. "I s'pose, niarui, your child woau't ketch more harm there than moiue," replied Martha iu her broad dialect. "But, Fatty, see how your husband drinks. Aud be will have more temp tations to do so if he becomes a publi can." rejoined Grace, coloring. "Moy man doaut drink ; aud taiu't your bls'ness if he dew," answered Martha rudely. This was the first uucivil word she had ever spoken to her mistress, aud it cut Grace to the soul, the more so as she felt her helpless dependency. She had to desist from her opposition ; aud meanwhile, the Toose couple having circumvented Mr. De Koy, obtained from him a sum of money to buy the public-house. As soon as Grace's baby was weaned, they entered upou the pro prietorship of the Trotting Donkey, and from that day a shadow fell on Mrs. De Roy's life. There was a colduess between her and Martha, and it increased as the Tooses began to lose more and more of their honesty in their new trade. They had no Ulents for business ; aud feeling llutt they would always have the De Koys to fall back upon if things went ill, they were neither industrious nor prudent. Their house became a booz ing den, where credit was given to the lowest village topers, with whom Toose and bis wife would sit drinking by the hour. Then gambling and fights took place on the premises, and the police iiad to make a bad report of the house to Mr. De Koy. who, being a magis trate, took the thing to heart, and re monstrated with the Tooses, They an swered with an independence which shocked him ; but Grace pleaded for her pnieij'S (with what sickuess of heart Heaven knows !), for she feared being debarred from seeing her child. At first the Tooses had continued to bring Rosy to Koydale once or twice a week ; but soon they left off, saying they had not time to go out. Then Grace had to go aud see the child at the inn, where she perceived that it was getting ne glected,. dirty, aud was learning ugly words rroui tne "uouKey s - uisrepuui ble customers. One of the worst pangs that a mother can know, that of seeing her child ill-cared for without beiu? able to remedy the' evil, thus fell to Grace's lot : besides which, now that the inn was always crowded with loaf ers, Mri. De lioy dared no longer drive up in her carnage to tlie door loo ire quently, lest she should excite atten tion. Au affiout which she received one day eventually obliged her to cease her visits altogether. She had driveu up to the inn ou a summer afternoon, when there was hol iday in the village, aud she saw Rosy being dandled ou the knees of a grimy fellow of bad character, the village blacksmith, w ho was amusing himself by giving the little thing sups of beer out of a quart pot, while a throng of rustics w ho looked on guffawed with laughter. Seeing Mrs. De Roy, the blacksmith got up with Rosy in his arms, and approaching tbecarriage.hic coughed in a breath that smelt of liq uor : "Oi say, murm, this bit o' a girl is just the lolkeness o' yow. If oi see'd yer together, oi'd think she were yourn," and he grinned. The man only meant a joke in his heavy fashion, but Grace turned pale and faint, thiuking her secret was out, and she drove home well nigh hysteric with terror. She did not see Rosy to speak to after this for three mouths. Sometimes, as she drove througn the village with her tenderly-nurtured boy, lying on the lap of his new nurse on the front carriage seat, sae caught sight of the poor aban doned mite playing iu the mud of the road with uu washed children, and once she saw Rosy with her little head band aged up in brown paper, and looking pallid aud ill as it she had bad a fall Yet the mother dared not alight to fondle her child, because of the gaping clowns who were near. All this was horrible, and the secret torments told on Grace's health, so that her husband trrew uneasy about her, and talked of taking her on a tour to the South of , i . , , Europe a proposal wuicu ouiy maue her worse. Meanwhile the misbehav ior of the Tooses was growing more and more scandalous, so that, worried by the complaints of the police, Mr. De llov aud his brother magistrates had at . . n., last to take a severe reaoiuuuu. auey determined that Richard Toose's li cense should not be renewed at the next sessions. Roland announced this purpose to his wife one day at lunch eon, adding considerately mat ue uiu not iutend to cast off the couple. "I think of giving t hem money to fcoui- erate to Australia," he said ; "Richard is a strong fellow, aud will do well ou a sheep farm." "To Australia!" echoed Grace In consternation. Do you meau .that they should stay there all their lives ?" "Why not ? They have come utterly to erlef in this couutry, and may get a fresh sUrt out there." "And Rosy ?" Grace was about to say. but checked herself. Her child was altotit to be taken away from her, probably for ever, and she dared not say a word to save it. The poor little waif seemed doomed, anyhow, to a life of neglect, for even if it remained iu England with the Tooses what chance was there that these lost people would give it a fitting education ? So more shocking dilemma ever stared a mother in the face; and Grace could only re flect, as she wrung her hands, that the retribution for sin, though it may be delayed, comes with a crushing force. Roland went off to his study to write some letters, and Grace repaired to the drawing-room, where she sank moan ing into a chair ; she dared not even cry, lest her husband coming in should ask what ailed her. She could only stare with haggard eyes through the windows ou to the park, where the yel low autumn leaves were littering the grass, soaked with rains from a leadeu sky. -Suddenly she saw the dismal figures f Richard Toose aud his wife coming over the lawn s!d. by side. Martha was crying; Richard, gesticulating with a big umbrella, appeared to be scolding her. It was evident that the pair were going to the Hall to try and propitiaU Mr. De Roy about the license. Aud so it proved, for they presently rang at the door and were ushered by the servant into the magistrate's study. Hereon Grace's heart leaped. Anything was better than the unknown, aud the uubappy mother hoped for a moment that the Tooses might obtain their pardon and turn over a new leaf. So she waited with anxious throbs iu her bosom. She waited a quarter of an hour then another theu ten minutes more, when all at once a hideous fear made her spring up ; what if the Tooses should try to coerce Mr. De Koy by telling him of the secret in his wife's life aud demanding hush-money? Gace tottered into the hall and heard a sound of loud voices. Curiosity prompted her to listen, but as the words reached her indistinctly, she stole ou tiptoe to a room that adjoined the study, and was ouly separated from it by a door-cur-taiu. She arrived just at the end of a loud altercation iu w hich Kichard, his wife, and Mr, De Koy were all three taking part at the top of their voices. Hitherto the Tooses Lad apparently had no intention of betraying Grace, but the secret came out iu an outburst, of Richard's wrath. "Well, squire, oi waut a thousand pounds, or oi'll let all the village know that your lady was married afore she took you, and that our orphan Rosy is her child." "What?" thundered Roland; and it was evident that he had made a threat ening gesture, fur Richard shouted : "Hands off, squire I ol be ouly tellta 'ee the truth. Ask mol old oomau." "lt'sjti ue, squire," screamed Martha, thus interpolated ; "aud it's toime 'ee kuowed it, for oi woan't keep the child no longer.' "Speak, then," said Koland hoarsely: "but speak low, aud conceal uothiug." Grace fell on her knees. She was like a passenger on board a ship which is going to wreck honor, happiness, her very life were all going to be dashed to pieces ! Sue could not hear what was being said ; aud perhaps she lost consciousness for a time, for when she could next hear, the confession had all beeu made ; and it was her husband who was speaking, sadly aud gravely : "Say nothing to a soul about this aud you shall be well paid," he said to Richard Toose. "If you speak you shall not have a nuy. Now go." A few minutes later Roland had left the Hall in his dog-carf, aud half an hour afterwards that vehicle returned without him. Grace, sending out to the stables to inquire of the groom where his master had driven, learned that Roland had gone to Mr. Sweeney's. "To my father's," she murmured. "He goes to my parents instead of coming to me. . . All is lost, then. . , lie means that we shall be separated. Oil merciful God, have pity on me." And she cried as if heart-broken, in. Twilight had come aud Grace sat in the drawing-room with no light but that of the flickering fire. She hugged her boy, who was sleeping ia her anus; aud her tears trickled over his baby face. She had made up her mind that his father would take him from hcr.aud that sho would be driven forth as an outcast a mother, childless aud hoiae less. Her ouly hope iu the world was that Iit mother would assure Roland how she, Grace, had wished to tell him lliti truth, but bad been prevented ; aud that Roland would be touched. But what a slight hope was that 1 A sound of wheels was heard In the aveuue ; it was Roland returning home. Grace started up clasping her boy to her breast, and listened. She heard a voice in the hall her husband's but there was another voice blending with it, a laughing child's voice like Rosy "si Could it be hers? but no; Grace doubted the evidence of her senses. The door of the draw ing-room opened and Roland entered carrying Rosy. "Roland !" cried Grace, staggering forward, and her husband caught bet in his arms. 'My darling," he said, "the Tooses are going to Australia aud I wish to adopt their 'orphan' ; will you be its mother ? I will be her father." Grace wasgoiugto speak, but Roland checked her with a kiss on the lips. "Hush I" he whispered kindly. And this was the only allusion which this true gentleman ever made to the secret in his wife's life. Thibetans. Some of the customs of the Thibet ans are very curious. At parting, a junior person takes off his cap. bows, and puts his tongue out. They pull their cheeks in order to show surprise. Turning up the tig finger means ap proval, and turning np the little finger means the contrary. The rest of the fingers signify an indifferent qiality of thing or person. All the men and women smoke. The nomadic Thibetans do not bury their dead, bnt throw them to wild beasts and birds of prey. Iu the capital of Thibet the clergymen de cide as to the disposal of the dead body, whether it shall be burned, or thrown into a river, or burled, or left as pry tor beasts and birds. The RKsa;a Man's ParadlM. "How do you keep track of all these trunks?" an old baggageman was asked iu New York, as his attention was di rected to a pile of trunks that seemed in inextricable confusion. "Easy enough," he replied. "It may seem a d lli'-ult thing to you to bring order out of this chaos, but to the true baggage Smasher' such a task is noth ing. 1 1 is his regular, every-day diet, ami when trunks are piled mouutalu high around him aud some old woman is following him around, shrieking a description of her green covered grip sack in his ear, aud claiming that every bag in view is hers, he is elevated above the vulgar thlhgs of earth aud walks iu Urn baggageman's paradise. "Trunks are always bound for some place, and by keeping north, couth, east aud west iu miud, it is easy to classify them in a general way, aud then by grouping all that are checked to gj over a certain railroad or steam boat, the classification is made clear enough to avoid confusion. "Smie smashers possess remarkably retentive memories. When trunks ar rive, no matter how many, their sie, color, weight aud special marks of identification are stamped upou tie smasher's memory without any special mental effort. Wheu called for he cau pick out the exact spot where a trunk was placed, from its general descrip tion, without the bother of searching for the check numlter. Wheu the thousands of truuks handled by the smasher are considered, of every con ceivable shape and size, the feat is wouderf uL Such men are as scarce as they are valuable, aud cau do the work of six men. They receive additional compensation, but are not paid what their services are worth. One of the best at this business I ever kuew is an old fellow calle I 'Blind Billv,' because he is minus an eye, who has handled baggage on the New Jersey Centrai for years at the Liberty-street ferry. Oue day last fall, while handling a load of trunks from Loug Branch, 'Billy casually remarked: 'Hello, S. A. C. has got a new cover on since lt was here last,' referring to a large trunk having those initials ou it. 'Get out,' said a green hand. 'What do you know about it?" I know enough about it to back my opiulon for $",' said Billy. The green baud, believing he had a sure thing, covered the bet, aud I held the stakes. The trunk was delivered in Jersey Citv. The owner toid me expressmau that it had been seut to Jxig Branch about four mouths be fore, and the orter at la-land's hotel had in some way ripped off the canvas cover, and it had beeu replaced by a new one. I paid the money to Billy, aud he is uow looked upon as the king of the baggage smashers." Ttia frluase uf Wale. fals. It is a curious thing to note the sort Of people that Allien Edward delights, to surround himself with, and who idesuite tlie high-minded speeches he may make in puiuic wneu laying a foundation stone or declaring some hospital opeu, but too plainly show iu what direction his real and individual tastes lie. 1 fancy that iii no other place or at no other time Is a better exemplification of this to be found than lu the guest list at Greenwood I'ark during the race week, lt is indeed surprising, w hen one considers the po sition of the Duke or Richmond, who is the third ieer of the kingdom, that he should lend himself to such a course merely to please his future King. It is in fact all the more surprising still w hen it is remembered that the Duke is oue of the foremost Conservative peers in the House of Lords, and a man who for political ability and statesmanlike qualities takes rank second ouly to the Marquis of Salisbury and Lord Cairns. During the race week is about the ouly time that Goodwood l'ark has the honor of a stay of any length from His Grace or his family, his estates in Scotland being now his favorite country residence, and, instead of extending his hospitality to m-m whom one would think would be more congeuial to him and his gen erally exhibited tastes, he fills his house with" national and political nouenti ties men who. if racing and actresses were abolished by act of Farliament, would never be known except as pos sessors of titles on which they reflect no honor. Take the young Duke of Portland, for instance. What on earth does he amount to, or of what earthly use is he to the country of which he is a boru legislator? He Ls a young man or alxiut seven ami-twenty, who five years ago was elevated Trom the position or plain Mr. Cavendish-Beutiuck, a subaltern iu the Grenadier Gua-ds, to that or the eighteenth peer of the five hundred-odd of the kingdom, w ith a ducal corouet. hundreds of thousands of pouuds a year, and several splendid residences, both towu and country. Like all other shallow young men who "come into money" or a sudden, he straightway went on the turf. Before then a com laritively obscure, personage, albeit the know n heir of his uucle, the late Duke, who was supposed to be a leper, he at once leaped into prominence and notoriety as a new memlier of the 1-rinee of Wales' "set." 1 don't meau to Ray that the young man is fast, at least not in the w ay that the Earl of Shrewsbury aud the Marquis of Hunt ley are fast, but he certainly keeps fast company. He poses as a goody-goody youth, and is b'guly spokeu of by all old ladies. I rather fancy he has as good a time as the others on the quiet, and, lacking the honesty to show it, prefers to pass for a prig. At all events, what ever his means may be, aud his acci dental title, he is no person to shove over the heads of men who do some thing besides breed race-horses, and w hose achievements are more beneficial to their ountry thau the wiuning of the Goodwood Cup, a victory this year gained by the Duke of Portland's horse St. Simon. Then Sir John Astley 13 another of the favored couple of dozen who miugle with royalty on this occasion. Sir John Astley is an aut hority on horse -racing, if any body cau inform me what other qualification he possesses for association w ith swells I should be pleased to hear it. Mr. W. G. Craven is auother regula tion pal. Though he does not possess a title himseir, he Ls the nephew of the Earl of Craven, and aside from his horsey accomplishments he is the com plaisant husband or lady Mary Cra veu, a certain vapid daughter or the last Earl or Hardwicke, a lady who, though some years his senior, had her name considerably "Involved" with that of the Prince when he was quite youug. A husband who looks over such triries, you know, isn't half a bad fellow in Albert Edward's estimation. What other recommendations for mix-' iu ou equal terms with the best In the The great majority of farmers regard laud Mr. Craven possesses I know not,' ice as a luxury they can not afford to except that he is an extremely band-, indulge iu. They are too far from some mau, au excessively immoral ( town to have it delivered to them by liver and the father of oua of the great- dealers, and they are at no pains to pre est young biack-uards in England, a serve it for their own use. They con ynuih who the other day deserted on sider it a costly luxury which only oi the most bew itching "pocket Ven- wealthy town people can afford to use, uses" as was his young wife for the and wliich farmers cau get along wlth uiichaste wife of auother man, with out and still be very comfortable. They whom he eloed to parts unknown. . do not appreciate the economic value of There are many others, but these ice or the comfort lt insures during ex will suffice. I defy any one to tike the tremely hot weather. They rarely seek entire list of guests at Goodwood aud to estimate the money value of ice. Miiut me out one who, aiiart from his , City people loug since ceased to cousid mere title or jieculiar attractiveness to cr ice simply as au article of luxury, the princely instinct, would be or could . They uow regard it as au economical lie fairly considered a proper person to thing to buy and use in their houses. exalt iu the eyes of the people at large j by maki'ig him the companion, of the future sovereign. I . oriental Karsaius. ', j The inevitable necessity that a Leav-1 uniiue or Asiatic fw.1 t ost mora ' thau double the actual value of his goods, aud allow himseir afterward to lie beaten down to something less than half what be originally assed, is a cause of bewilderineut to the untrav- elled Briton, and a continual sore rank-, nug in the bosom or an unwary tourist t"ey are several degrees corner uian uie who has fallen a victim, Asan instance air in Uie room where they are served, of how ingraiued is this idea of trading, During the past few years iced tea has I remember a story a friend of mine generally superseded that which is hot. iu the navy told me of a Greek mess-1 Other drinks rendered very cool by the man on board his ship who was paying use of ice have taken the place or hot his first visit to Euglaud. The first I drinks. Ice-cream is no louger cousid tiuie be went ou shore to buy provisions ered as a luxury to many, but u regard he was in a butcher's shoDand Inquired ed as an economical disli. It costs less the price of some prime" beef he saw , to freeze cream and eggs than it doeste hanging up. "Fourteen pence a cook them. It is more pleasant to work jmuud, ' was the reply. "I will give you : over a freezing apparatus than over a eightpeuce," "aid he, iu perfect good hot stove in July aud August. Besides faitn, aud without a minutes hesitation, j the article that is prepared by freezing This somewhat startled the butcher; is more grateful thau that prepared by and it was ouly after a considerable heating. Berries, peaches and melons auiouut of difficulty that the Greek was can be kept iu excellent condition seve uiade to understand that hU system of j ral days by the use or ice, and they are trading was not in accordance with ' much more pleasant to the taste if they English ideas. For long afterward he are chilled liefore they are brought to spoke of Euglish shop-keepers as "won- j the table, derful people they have but one price. Ice ia as economical in a farm-house But the ship's hawker or the small as is oue lu tlie city. It Ls productive shop-keeper in the east is differeut. ! of as much comfort iu the former as in For a good thorough-paced scoundrel the latter. Ice is even more essential in trade he carries off the palm. He! in the country than in the city. In the looks at his customer, makiug up his latter every grocer, butcher, and uiilk uiiud how much he may ask him, I dealer keeps a supply of ice in a suita which is usually about three times as' ble receptacle for the purpose of keep- oiucb as he thinks he may get, that being about live hundred per cent. beyond the actual value of the article, The year before last, w hen 1 was quar tered iu Alexandria, 1 went into a 6oiii-tf to buy a trine 1 saw m the window. I asked the price. "Ten francs," "Nousensel" I said. "Five sir" "Two" " Oue franc only." Eveutuallv, I bought it for two large . .' i ... if pi.L-.iers. vioui yem o-uaoiJeuuji;. , j But it is the passengers by the Peuio-1 sulaFaud Oriental Company's steamers who are the most readily recognized objects for ileecing purposes; so much so, that a special expressiou hits beeu strung together to denote oue of this highly fovored victim baud. A few days after i was seut out to Aden, I hail the imprudence to go out shopping ou the day that the Peninsular and Oriental boat called into that port. I inquired the price of a few ostrich feathers. "Seventy rupees," the man said. "Do you take me for a Peninsular ane Oriental passenger fool?" I asked, having been instructed by old hands as to the little ways of these innocent Arab dealers, and Uie proper respouses with which they meet them. "I beg your pardon, sir," he replied, and of fered them to me for twenty-five ru jiees. I got them eventually for five. Iiglits In Central America. At eight o'clock in the morning. Said a traveler, we started on Uie Ferro Curnl Railroad tor Rio Sucio. We rode until four in the afternoon through a woudrous country. On either side for miles were hundreds or banana plantations in differeut stages or growth. One can form some idea of the vast number of bananas consumed wheu they see these plantations and hundreds of thousands of bunches ready for shipment. As we whizzed through the woods rresh beauties would greet Uie eye. The tallest trees I ever saw, with apparently no bark, loomed up against the sky; then a forest or cocoa palm, cactus and many other beautiful trees, and below a perfect jungle of shrub and undergrowth. In these very tall trees are the orchids, or air plants, so choice and expensive in the North. Their scarlet blossoms are very conspicuous in the midst of so much green. From Rio Sucio we started for San Jose ou horseback and immediately began the ascent of the mountain. There was something about our situation so awe-inspiring that for a time we rode on in silence. The dizzy heights above, the high wall on one side and guir or valley ou Uie other revealed by the dim light of thejautern which light our pathway. The seene w as grand beyoud description. As we ascended we could see the mountains high, high above us, and looking down, tlie vallev far, far beneath. Now and theu we crossed a mountain stream rushing and tumbling down the preci pice. The roliage on the mountain side is dense and beautlfuL Finally we liegan the descent, and for twelve miles this was a most trying time. Finally we were met by Father Iievkowicz eight miles from San Jose, with carnages, and a few miles over rough roads brought us to the little city. Narrow streets and buildings very compact greet you on every side. The Wire Ace, Iu history we have the golden age, the irou age, the age of brass, and the other pel iodssimilarlj marked. Future annalists may well describe the present iwrlod of our history as the wire age. Iu no part of the economy of our daily lives are we divorced from wire. It is our slave, and yet au ever present mas ter. Sleeping, we repose ou wire mat tresses. Eating, we see foods which have passed through sieves, and which are sheltered from insect appetite by wire covers. Calling, we pull wires to ring curled wire gougs. Traveling, we are conveyed by cable or electric rail ways, hoisted by elevators hung on wires, aud hurried over wire bridges. We announce our coming by telegraph or telephone w ires, and we thread our way by night through streets lighted by means of electric cables. Across our fields are strung thousauds of miles of barbeil wire. Our clocks are set by wires, our watches are run by wires, our books are stitched with wires, our pictures hung by wires, and our poli tics managed by wires. Atlanta, churches. Ga., has 26 Methodist Eeo.umy ud lee. They find that the money they spend for ice is saved iu other things, L!y means of a refrigerator or ice-box they can pre- serve during several days articles of cooked and uncooked rood that would otherwise be wasted. They find that a supply or ice saves much ruel and a large amount or labor in co-king. Few kiuds of food or drink are appetizing that are of the same temperature as the surrounding air. They must be much hotter or considerably colder in order to be grateful to the taste. In the summer they are most enjoyable when iug the goods ue stores and sells in good condition. They can be moved rroui the dealer's refrigerator to the customer's house in a very short time aud without injury caused by heat. Iu the country matters are different. ! Farmers produce most of the articles ' for the supply or their tables and obtain i others in tolerably large quantities when they go to the market town. They use very little rresh meat during the summer on account or the dirhcultv in keeping it in the raw or cooked state, They have no facilities for keeping even a carcass of sheep or lamb. If they kill a sheep in midsummer they are obliged to preserve a iiortiou of it iu pickle or dispose of it to some of their neighbors. The flesh they consume Ls therefore limited to salt meat or poultry. Very much salt meat is undesirable during the summer as It produces thirst. Few fowls are in good condition to eat In the summer except early chickens, and they furnish expensive food. By having a supply of ice the farmer cau have a sup ply of fresh meat at a very small cost. The value or ice iu the dairy cau scarcely be overestimated. Very tine butter cannot be produced during the hottest weather without it. Neither can it be preserved or sent to market. Milk cooled by ice is one or the most grateful drinks that cau be used in the season or haymaking aud harvesting. Ice-cream is as cheap rood as farmers cin obtain during the heat or summer if they have a supply of ice with which to prepare it. Milk and eggs are cheap, aud rresh fruits furnish the lst flavor ing materials. Ice is as desirable in the case ot sick animals as with human beings. Farmers who have ice-houses ou their places find that they afford a good many returns on the investment, while they afford comfort that cannot be purchased by money. A Kesalar Down-RaMir. Some t'me Jizo, in New Hampshire, au old patriarch of ninety-live winters was gathered to his rathers and a cou ple or temperance elders Trom a Massa chusetts city happening to hear or the circumstance, am inking it a good op portunity to pickffp facts for a venera ble example, waited upon his surviving relative, a hard-handed old farmer, who was round in his shirt-sleeves leaning over a five-rail fence thoughtrully chaw ing a wheat straw." "We called to ask you some questions about your grandfather. He must have been a remarkable man." " Ya-as jess so, he was a very reg'lar man" "Ah, very temperate in his habits, I suppose." "Yas, he geu 1y got up 'boat five in summer, 'u six in winter and allers took a glasrof Jamaky rum first thing 7ore his chores." "What I did he use stimulants? "Iley?" "Was he addicted to alchoholic bev erages?" "No, he wan't au eddicted mau, but he allers took a litUe more Jamaky and smoked a pipe jes after breakfast be was a very reg'lar man, was gran sir." "Well, I suppose a little liquor might have been required at his old age." "Yas, so grau'sir often said, aud his 'leven o'clock was a horn of rum an' molasses, tho' he gen'ly took a little clear sperrit after it jes before settm' down to dinner." "What, and did not all this dram drinking affect his health?" "Lor' bless yer, no, bnt I used to tell him he oughten to drink a mug of cider at diuner, but he said a pipe of nigger bead terbaccer after dinner an' bis four o'clock grog au' a little gin an' sugar afore supper set him all right." "Great heavens! Why, I thought you said your grandfather was a very regu, lar man?" "Reg'lar! So he was, reg'lar as a clock, and when he bad a horn or two arter supper, and was settm' afore the fire over a night-cap of old Jamaky, smoking his pipe, my gran'father " "Hang your grandrather! The old man must have been preserved in al chohol and tobacco or he would never have lived so long" and the elders withdrew, satisfied that they had neith er a remarkable illustration nor fright ful example to suit their purpose. Travelling third-class is now being very extensively practiced by the Eng lish people, the first fciud second-class carriages being litUa patronized. NEWS IN BRIEF. Buffalo is to have 11. M gas after ( );tober 1st, Loudon has an average of 2,000 births a week. Six new Persian war vessels have rust been launched. Yanderbilt's boii-ehold expenses are ti'iO.Ooo a year. There are iW Oermau officers domiciled at Welsbadeu. California produce figs eight inches in circumference. A mica mine has been opened ia Orange Co., New Jersey. Rubenstein is to give twenty-live concerts in this country. A balloon that will carry liiO soldiers is a new invention. Connecticut has been visited w ith frost every month this year. The- records of the Greely expedi tion fill three large chests. The Kothchilds own f4tX),tJ,0UO of I'liited States bonds. The most fashionable ladies now wear scarcely any jewelry. The famous Dark Day of New England was May 17sx. One third of the bind surface oi the glol is covered with trees. A terrible drouth has depopulated a number of districts iu Mexico. Crossing stones on her avenues are pressiugly needed in Atlantic City. The rents or French flats are ou the diminuendo scale lit New York. The annual mortality in Great Britain Trom intemperance is 4u,oU0. The University of Tennessee has made Talmage a Diet or or Divinity. Seven hundred skulls were found in a sand bank near Columbus, Ohio. There are l.'M 0t masonic lo lges iu the world, with 14,lijO,.Vt:t member. A cave full of honey ls said to have been found near Santa Barlara. Cal. New York market men say the crop or potatoes will be very short this year. It is said that over three milium trees were planted lu Great Britain in 1C,. The confectionery trade or the United State amounts to J.;2.uOJ,lHA yearly. It costs about S42-",uOu annually to pay for the transportation or our foreign mails. There is a new town iu Tom Green's couuty, Texas, called Daiu sight. In the United State there are o7,- 000 pauper. These are paupers in alms houses. Consumption causes more deaths than any other disease does lu New Orleans. The wholesale cost of the oysters cousumed iu New Y'ork vearly is Jj, 0UO.0OO. Thousands of canary birds are being shipped from Mexico to Europe almost daily. The ptal service of the United States costs the Government this year $4i,2.-,90u. The oat crop of Southern Georgia has been harvested and the yield is satisfactory. Symptoms of failure in Pattl's vocal jwweis, are being discovered by well-known critics abroad. The number of visi;ois to the read ing room of the i'.ritisli Museum is 1 ti,lKX per year. We have now .100,000 school teachers, and an average or more thau CO pupils Tor each. The pay-roll or the army and ex penses of the service amount to $12, 0OO.U00 per annum. Arizona, which gave us 17.000.oou pounds or copper last vear, expects to make it i"i,0uu,ouo this, In Canada, one peison in every 17, i'!0 is an inventor; in Suith Carolina, one in every -Jl.lSJ. New York city has tweuty-w idows whose wealth is estimated at from f 1, 000,000 to f -,UOO,ooO each. France has but 77.040 naturalized persons out of a population of over thirty-seven million jople. Tlie Iajuisana Legislature has in creased the appropriations for piiUic schools by I4o,000 this year. It is estimated that the mines of California alone have added $l,200,0UU, OUO to the gold supply of the world. A Hollander has on exhibition in New York a table composed or 30,0U.s pieces. It took him thirteen years to make it. A queer horse plague has mani fested itself at Winnemucca, Nev. The animals fall dead without apparent disease. Prof. A. H. Sayce has deciphered au Assyrian tablet which gives an account of a transit of Venus l,Oo years B. C. Th) railways or Pennsylvania, it is said, carry about one-rourth of the freight transported by all the road throughout the country. Since 1S02 the United States Gov ernment has collected from distilled spirits taxes amounting to the enor mous sum of $ 1,017,OU,000. The total sinerfieies of the seas in Uie world is given as 2ol,ttlj.'.iio square miles, and that of all the continent and islands as 34,3."4,iioO square miles. According to the latest results or the finest instrumental tests, as to the propagation or electricity, au electric signal travels at the rate or 10, 000 miles per second. Fly stings have caused the deaths or three persons at St. Petersburg, recently. It is supposed the insects had previously settled on cattle inrect ed with the rinderpest. The United States Agricultural Department reports tkat oOU,000,ow bushels of winter wheat nave been harvested in the United States this year. Twenty-niue per cent, of the acre age of Europe, it is estimated, is still in timber, and rorty per cent, or the territory or Russia L in forests. Twenty-seven per cent, of Germany i in timber, and. it is said, but four per cent, of Great Britain. A subterranean stonewall, four feet high and twenty feet wide, runs iu a northeasterly direction through th counties of Copiah, Claiborne aud Jefferson. This fence is composed of immense blocks or brick-shaped sand! stones, covered with the drift or soil of centuries and it id only seen by excavation.
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