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.