V. ' I B. P. SCHWEIER, 4 TEE OOISTITTITIOI-THE UHOI-AID TEE ETF0K0EME5T 0? THE LAYS. Editor and Proprietor. VOL. XXXVIII. MIFFLIN1WN. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 3. ISS4. NO. 49. 3 -7 11 1 4 TIIIC "SiSD-JlAX" Twilight U hern, and the baby la weary Weary of laughing uil wary of play ; Sleepy-by comes, :iuj the eyes of the dar ling ouiil clov, like a rail, on the srenee of the day. Calm! v il lira iu tli anna of the mother. Holy ami pure, like an angel, it seem, One little smile and a sweet little dimple. And kil.y baa gone to the land of the l reams Huh! nut a won!, not a footfall around her. Tuiu lo ii the clothe of the little, white neT ; Turn down the liclit, for the "Kind-man" has found her, Am' auels are cuanliug the baby at rest How. a i l.mk on this mother's own trea sure, Idol ol home and the comfort of all, &dly I think of the woe without measure. Sorrows that ding and the trs that will fall, A I'm rivalling my own without number. Haunting at niglii when I'm longing tor rest, "d keep her a baby forever, to 1 umber Aud Minle, iu her dream, on her Ami mother's brea-st. Hush! Iain fearing my thought will awake uer; Baby, sleep on, while ihv anzls attend bw-et, li"ie darling I the "6and-mau" has louud her : a D' ji Daoy u grown may lie still be a friend. AN OKIK.NT!- KSCAPAIIt- Over the walnuts and wine after din ner, at the new hotel in Oriental Cairo, a party of Knglish-siieaking tourists were discussing in rather an irreverent wanner a subject that was deserving of more respectful tieatinent than it was receiving from the good-looking broad shouldered young American and his fair-haired English comiwinion with the silky drooping moustache, who, for the benefit of their friends, were giving a description of their scramble up the Pyramid, whence they had returned just before dinner. "A truce to your sentiment !" cried the American, Harry Thorue, when his triend ventured to speak: of a fantastic legend of the spirit of the Pyramids. "Think of the condition of that man who pushed you up !" "I flatter myself I had the ad van! age of you, Thorne," returned Lloyd Xor ris, with a shrug of the shoulders ; "for anything more appalling than the state of that copper-colored villain who dragged you would be difficult to im agine 1 Washing in the Jordan seventy tunes seven would be scarcely too much to purify us from contact with such fel lows.' Harry Thorn's pretty sister Florence was listening with eager interest to this conversation silently at first ; but the dolorous sigh which was heard in the pause follow ing the last remark called attention u her direction. "What's the matter, Florry, my pet?" asked her father. "Are you mourning ovr the bad fit of your last new dress or the uncleanliness of the Bedouins of the desert ?" "Neither, papa ; but, if you all knew how ardently I desire to ascend the Pyr aD id, I am sure you wouldn't oppose me so heartlessly in carrying out sul-Ii a project." "Now, Florence, don't be a donkey!" grunted her brother. "My dear, put such an idea out of your head at once," was her father's dictum. "It certainly is the last place in the world for ladies ;" while her mother added "Surely your brother's experience ought to settle the matter for you, my child !" "Mr. X orris, do you think it so very ld ?" cried the girl, turning with a last remnant of ho to the only mem ber of the party who had as yet said nothing she was not accustomed to opposition from this quarter. Lloyd Xorris was lying back rather lazily in his chair when thus addressed, and. before answering very slowly, sur veyed in a somewhat absent-minded, meditative way the lovely flushed face of .the girl awaiting his decision so anx- iously j "I am sorry to say anything disagree able, Miss i lorence ; but 1 am airani it would have rather a damaging effect upon my rtspect for any lady to imagine her hauled about in so free-and-easy a style by such a pair of fellows." Florence drew back, flushed with vexation ; and the next remark came from the other end of the table, where, unnoticed, a raw-boned, masculine looking American lady had been listen ing to the whole conversation. "Gentlemen, you are all quite mis taken," she said emphatically. "Ladies who are moderately strong can ascend the Pyramid with very little inconve nienced I know what I am talking about, for I have been up there twice, and hope to go again before I leave Cairo." Florence glanced gratefully at this unexpected champion ; the others a little startled found nothing. to reply for a moment ; and in the pause which followed the stranger rose, and, cross ing the room, walked out on the adjoin ing verandah. "Upon my word, that's a cool old ladyl" murmured Harry, as all, with the exception -of Florence, rose from the table. "Are you coming into the garden, Miss Florence ?" asked Lloyd rather denrecatinglv, lingering behind the others, and turning to Florence, who had not favored him with a word or glance since he had expressed his un welcome opinion." "Xo, I thank you," responded the young girl frostily ; and she dlsapieared on the verandah. Miss Araliella Brook was standing at the farther end, looking down into the street ; and to her Florence imme diately made her way, walking quickly, as if she somewhat doubted her own resolution. "Madam," she began nervously, -I ttg your pardon. You said, 1 think, that you have been up the Pyramid?' "Yes, Miss Thorne, I have," an swered Miss Brooks, with an amount of energy which somewhat startled Flor ence ; "and I hope you will not allow all that nonsense to which you have been listening to keep you from going up too I" "You really think It might be done?" Interrogated Florence, not giving her courage time to evaporate. "I mean, do you think ladies could do it alone, without a gentleman ? Two ladles to gether, for instance " "A gentleman I" ejaculated Miss Brooks, in sonorous, scornful accents, loud enough to cause Florence to glance nervously in the direction of the gar den, dreading possible auditors. "I should like to know what possible good a man could do you 1 Dont talk non sense, Miss Thorne ! Any woman who respects herself and has the least atom of common sense can go wherever a sua can eo. Why shouldn't she, i should like to know?" and Miss Brooks, uttering an impatieut sound that was something between a sniff and a snort, took her departure. The next morning, some time before her usual breakfast-hour, Florence ap peared in the breakfast-room to see her brother for a moment before he went out, as she said. That young man, not accustomed to such attentions, received her somewhat distrustfully ; but a total chanee came over his face when she pre ferred the request she' had to make. "Harry, I am very anxious to see Louise this morning about a the dress maker, you know. Do you think you could manage to get her over here J" "Oh, certainly," answered Harry, with remarkable readiness "nothing could be easier I Do you think I might go there immediately ?" "les; the Milliards breakfast out rageously early." S within two hours Florence was clos'ted with her friend, discussing plans which would have made the hair of her masculine protectors stand on end. "Iconise, you are to invite me to spend the rest of the day with you, and we win leave me note! within half an hour," was the announcement which greeted the visitor almost before she had entered the room. ' ery well, dear and what then ?" asked submissive Louise, turning and t istiug In a vain attempt to see the back of her new dress in the mirror. Well, then." continued Florence. "you are to entertain me by taking me for a drive ; and, if you should happen to take me to the Pyramids why. of course I couldn't help it !" Florence I home, what are you nu to to-day ?" cried her friend, suddenly wheeling round. "Stop this cowardly beating about the bush and tell the truth at once I Are you going to meet any one there? Is it Herr von Wal deck. or Teeddy, or the Marquis, or " JNousense. L uuse : you are deplora bly frivolous and depraved !" rescinded t lorence, in scum and disgust ; then. remembering Muss Brooks "What can I possibly want of men at the Pyra mids ? Xo ; I wish to 20 up the large Pyramid." "But, my dear," Louise exclaimed. in mock surprise. "I thought your par ents had settled that question already?" "How dreadfully stupid and disagree ably you are to-day, Louise 1 Of course you understand that they are not to know anything about it. If thev are so blinded to my real interests and show so little sympathy with my thirst for knowledge and investigation, it is quite time I took matters into my own hands. luen. too, I have another reason, which perhaps I will tell you later. Any way. 1 am resolved to go, and, if you refuse to go with me, I shall go alone :" Of course 1 will go," resionded Louise meeklv, "though I confess I have never had anv desire to ascend the Pyramid. 1 have always heard that it nearly splits you IE 1 :'? and bursts off all your buttons!'' A few moments later the two eirl were seated in a carriage which they had hired at the door of the hotel, and were soon driving over the bridge and past the Khedive's Palace. For fully a quarter of an hour an unwonted silence tiad reigned, when at last Louise turned authoritatively to her companion. Xow, x lorence, I wish to know the true reason at which you hinted a while ago whv I am to be dragged up there to-dav : for of course I know that your thirst for knowledge and all that is mere nonsense." "You are not polite, dear," Florence responded calmly ; "but I don't mind confessing that my devotion to history and tho relics of antiquity would not alone have been enough to make me un dertake such a scramble. Well, Louise, if you had heard the pompous dictato rial speech which that tiresome Xorris made yesterday, wnen i expressed a wish to mount the Pyramid some im pertinence to the effect that no lady who would do such a thing could hope to be honored with his respect you would not wonder that I feel obliged to show him what I think of him and his opinion ; for of course I shall take great pleasure in telling 111111 to-morrow wnere I have been." "Ah," said Louise, with a sidelong glance at her companion, "you are quite right 1 I was sure your friend Mr. Xor ris was a most insufferable prig 1" "How absurd I" exclaimed Florence, with unaccountable vexation. "Mr. Xorris maybe rather particular in some of his ideas, but nobody with the least atom of common sense would cull him a prig." The only effect of this unmistakable snub was a merry peal of laughter from Miss Hilliard, in which Florence after vainly biting her lip was at last com pelled to join, and silence was banished effectually during the remainder of the dove. On leaving the carriage at the Pyra mid of Cheops the two ladies were as sailed by a perfect mob of importunate Bedouins clamoring for the privilege of escorting them. The young ladies each chose three of the least objectionable looking of the Bedouins, and the others retired. With an awful sinking of the heart, Florence surveyed the long row of stei, each over a yard high, up which they must be pulled in some fashion. Suddenly there was a jerk, a tear.some thing driven like a liammer into her back, a straining as if her arms were being wrenched from their sockets and every limb torn asunder, and the first three steps were pissed. But what had been the meaning of a quick succession of cracking, tearing sounds, like the explosion of a child's pop-gun, which were audible at the first step? Alas, the two girls understood it but too well, and the eloquent glance exchanged as they were allowed an in stant in which to take breath only needed Florence's doleful exclamation to explain all . "Yea, every single string burst I . On they went faster and faster, until Florence, gasping, groaning, almost weeping, felt that every bone in her body must be broken or reduced to duIp Why had she entirely forgotten her very small Arabic vocabulary? Why could not she remember some ex pression with which to implore these fiends to moderate V'. thank Heaven, a word had occurred to her I With the energy of despair, she cried, "Yalta, y alia !"-n& the men flew on with redoubled speed. "Florence," came a voice f iora above, uncertain between tears and laughter, "you are telling them to go quicker ' Jstonna. istanna " And now, to I lor ence's inexpressible relief, she was set down for a moment on one of the steps. But even such an exceedingly mauvaxs aunrt-d'kture as this must have an end, and the top of the Pyramid was reached at last. Utterly exhausted, the girls threw themselves upon a low seat , tmt IKtwere they to rest. Again the Bedouins began their wild dance around them while deafening importu nate cries of " liiikhshuh !" sounded in their ears ; and it was not until Louise had thrown among them the handful of loose change she usually carried in her pocket for beggars that the men disap peared. "Well, MisThrrne, are you satisfied? Is ascendiug the Pyramid the delight ful experience you anticipated ? And how do you feel as to historical associa tions and antiquitis now?" -Oh, my arms," groaned Florence irrelevantly. "And my back 1" wailed Louise. "Think what a pair of guys we shall be going home 1 Look at this great tear in my flounce ; and there isn't a string left anywhere !" A long silence followed, while the two girls, totally regardless of nerhans the most Interesting and striking land scape in the world, ruefully examined their tattered toilettes. But even the most careless and frivo lous must at last be impressed with such a sight as met their view ; and the two friend3 gradually relajtsed into a dreamy reverie while, forgetful of aching liuibs, extortionate Bedouius, and ruined finery, they gazed out over the prospect of mingled life and death, fertility and desolation. The quiet was interrupted half an hour later by the return of the Bedouins, who put to flight all serious reflections by their repeated demands for b-ikhnliLh. Florence, somewhat frightened by their gesticulations, drew out her purse and endeavored to satisfy their demands by thoughtless lilerality. But, alas, they caught sight of a few glittering gold pieces, and, pocketing the silver be stowed upon them, grew every instant more exorbitant in their demands and more threatening in their gestures. "They declare they will leave us here all night if we do not give them every thing in our purses," said Louise, with a white face. As she spoke, the men angrily turned to depart, reiterating their iuteution of leaving the two girls to their own de vices, when Florence sprang desier ately towards them and threw the purse into their midst. "There take it ; it is all we have !" she cried hysterically. "Xothing could induce me to stay in this dreadful place all night." The men grinned, retired for a mo ment, and had a hurried consultation among themselves ; then, to the girls' utter amazement, one of them ap proached and began over again the im IKirtunate cry ' ' Uakhxh isA bakltxlt Lh ! Louise managed indignantly to ex plain that they had already given every penny they had ; but, to her consterna tion, the man still continued his de maud, at the same time pointing to the ornaments they wore fortunately very few and of little value that day. "Xo, no!" cried Louise ; and the men really departed, with the cheering infoimation that they should not re turn. "Oh. Lvulie. wLal shall we do?" cried Florence, in an agony of terror, "Must we call them back ?" njertamiv not;" her mead ex claimed, almost sobbing with vexation. ' It is too outrageous. e can t go down alone, of course ; but ierhaps some other party will come up." For what appeared hours the two girls waited alone in the midst of the deathlike awful desert. At last the sound of scranbliug steps greeted the delighted ears. Looking over eagerly. their disappointment was at first intense at seeing only the returning figures of two of their persecutors ; but, in their terror and loneliness, the sight of any thing human was something 01 a relief. "I suppose we must do what they ask," muttered Louise, fingering her silver bracelets regretfully. Fortunately her watch and cnain. as well as t lor ence 's, were hidden under the outer garments they wore. Just then the tw. men appeared at the ton with their accustomed demand this time in triumphant jeering tones significant of success. Silently each of the girls removed her bracelets and ear rings and surrendered them into the ra pacious grasp of the Bedouins ; but this was not enough. I hey roughly seized a hand of each ; and the two friends saw that they must part with their rings as well. "Thank Heaven, my gloves were too tight to allow of anything but this plain gold riugl" muttered Loui-e, while Florence laid a milk-white i-arl reluctantly in the outstretched dirty hand. Another ring had been below the pearl a peculiar arrangement of tur quoises, so small as to have been almost hidden by the pearl. This Florence made no attempt to draw off on the contrary, closing her hand very quickly and doing everything in her power to hide it. Unluckily she had not been quick enough ; the man saw her mo tion, and, imagining from her reluc tance to part with it that the ring was of value, insisted upon having it also. "Xo, no, no 1" cried the girl. "You surely have enough ; this I will keep." "But, Florence," said her friend, frightened by the gleaming eyes, the clenched fists, and the angry menacing movements of the barbarians in whoee iwwer they had so completely placed themselves, "that ring is worth nothing comparatively. You surely will not allow all the other things we have sac rificed to go for nothing just Jor that trille ?" "Oh, I can't I can't I I must keep my ring !" cried the girl, fairly break ing into a fit of hysterical weeping ; but the Arab seized her hand, tore off the ring with a jerk, and the next instant the terrified girls found themselves be ing dragged down to the ground even more expeditiously than they had as cended. Their carriage awaited them at some distance, and they were soon driving along the shaded road to Cairo, as mis erable dejected, sorry-looking a pair as could possibly be imagined. 4 Ixiuise, promise me solemnly never to tell a soul of this escapade," said Florence imploringly, as they drove swiftly towards home. "I should die of mortification if my friends espe cially Mr. Aorris heard what we have gone through." ' in course 1 suau Keepquieu, wuix responded. "But now I should like to know the secret of your affection for that tramiery little turquoise ring. At first Florence obstinately refused any account of the ring ; but a judi cious mixture af coaxing and reproaches soon put Louise in possession of the facts or the case, uoyu xortm uu been the donor, having asked Florence nraar it aa a. fruard to one presented by her father which was rather large for her slender anger. "It belonged to my mother when she -. .u.hnnitriri ha had said, "ana Is of so little value in Itself that I can surely ask you to accept it. I shall lie more grateful thtni I can express if you will wear it. Wear it as long as you consider me a friend worthy a share of your esteem." The words had been simple ; but the glance and the pressure of the hand had meant a great deal more, as I lor ence bad more than suspected, as she blushingly allowed Lloyd to place the ring on her hnger. "And now It is gone, and I can't ex plain what has become of it!" she moaned, as she finished her story. "He will imagine that I dou't care for him, and I think yes, I do believe that I like him better than all the rest I" Florence was deposited at the New Hotel during the dinner-hour, so was fortunate enough to gain the shelter of her own room unoloerved. On the following day IJoyd Xorris noticed with unspeakable disappoint ment that Florence no longer wore his ring'. The meaning of this he inter preted iu exactly the way she had feared ; but he was much perplexed to understand a stul, deprecating, almost pleading look that he had caught uini turning suddenly once, when Florence thought herself unobserved. Monsieur le Marquis de Lamagnere joined their party in the garden after dinner, but was received with such scant courtesy by the' only member of the company who had any attractions for him that, with sorely-wounded vanity, he soon said good eveninsr and disapieared. making a remark just before leaving which brought the guilty blood to Flor ence's pale cheeks viz., that he in tended ascending the Pyramid in the' morning. The next afternoon Forence was sit ting alone in the verandah before din ner, musing sadly over the loss of her ring and the consequent marked avoid ance of her society by Lloyd Xorris, when she was startled by a voice at her elliow. "Mademoiselle is looking pile ; I hope she is not ill ?" Glancing up rather impatiently, she saw the Marquis de Lamagnere bowing beside her, aud ausweted his polite in quiries a little shortly. As she turned her head, she saw something which seemed to drive every other sensation but dazed incredulous amazement from her mind, for theie on the little fiuger of the white hand which the Marquis had appeared to place rather meaningly on the balcony-rail before her glittered the ring the loss of which she so mourned! .She could not be mistaken ; there w:is the same fantastic arrangement of the stones even one missing, as she re membered. With a desperate struggle tor self iossession, she made some com monplace remark about the weather, and, after chatting easily for a few mo ments, left the balcony, as not for worlds would she have questioned the Marquis on the subject, or allowed him to suppose she had noticed the ring. A few moments' thought told her that he must hare fallen in with one of her de spoilers during his visit to the Pyra mids that day, and from him purchased t!p rinir. What lo do ia such an emercency was a problem far too weighty to be solved without assistance; so, in stantly resolving to call her only confi dante to her aid, she retired to her own room immediately a'ter dinner aud wrote Lou'se a dolorous account of what had happened. As she was preparing to go out on the following afternoon, a chamber maid brought a note to her room ; and, recogniz ng the writing, with beating heart she tore it hastily open and read : "I leave to-day a place where my presence can cause you nothing but un pleasantness, myself the keenest pain 1 I can scarcely trust myself to say fare well to you. so write a few lines Instead. Your ceasing to wear my poor little ring could of course have but one interpre tation for me. .Need you have added such a refinement of torture as to force me to see it worn by a man whom I must of course now consider my suc cessful rival ? It was an action of which I could not have deemed you capable. I have loved aud still love you truly and deeply, Florence ; such love can injure no woman, and I feel that I have done nothing to deserve this treat ment at your hands, .farewell! May you be happy with the man you have chosen I I cannot however stay to wit ness your happiness. "I X." "Florence, Florence, what in the world has bapiued ?" were the words which interrupted the convulsive burst of sobs with which Florence had greeted this heavy blow ; and the young girl found her friend Louise kneeling be side her, with affectionate arms thrown around her, while tears of true sympa thy mingled with her own weeping, even before Louise knew what had taken place. Florence's only answer was to place the note in Louise's hand ; but she felt vaguely comforted at the presence of some one who knew aud sympathized with the whole story. "Oh, my dear Florence," exclaimed Louise, after reading the letter, "this is dreadful I But you will of course tell him the whole story now ?" "Oh, no, Louise I How could I Xo, he has given me up ; I shall never see him again. How could I tell him all about that miserable excursion when he declared that he could have no re sist whatever for a woman who would do such a thing ? Was there ever a be ing so utterly miserable as I am, I won der?" Nearly an hour Louise siwut in ex hausting every argument and persuasion that could enter her ingenious little head to induce her unhappy friend to alter her resolution ; but all in vain. Biddinc her adieu at last. Miss Hilliard iiaused for a moment in the corridor in deep thought ; then, with a resolute nqd which set all her sort urown curis danc ing, she muttered energetically, "Stupid little troose!" and started down the stairs at such a pace as almost to upset a stout old gentleman just then labori ously ascending. Instead or continuing ner way to tne street, she hastily entered one of the smaller reception-rooms, where, with out giving her courage time to evapor ate, she rang the bell and asked the ser vant who immediately enterea 11 iir. Xorris were in the hotel. A few minutes later Lloyd appeared, looking a trille surprised at the sum mons. They were closeted together nearly half an hour, after which the young lady sent a servant to ask Miss Thorne to come to her for a few mo ments. - "I am not at all sure that she will not suspect something and refuse to come," said Louise, as she parted with Lloyd at the door ; "but I have done my best for you, and wish you success with all my heart." Louise's kind wishes bad a speedy fulfilment, for, almost before she emerged from the hotel, her f nend un- suspiciously entered the reception-room. and, with eyes somewhat dazzled upon coming from the brightly-lighted hall into a room fast growing dark with the shadows of evening, she walked directly into the arms of the man who she now felt had grown dearer than all the world to her. "And can you possibly care for a woman who would go ou such an ex pedition? Have you forgotten what you yourself sa'd 011 the subject V asked Florence saucily, half an hour later. "Ah, darling, dou't remind me of that imiertinence, which alone has been the cause of all this unhappiness 1 How shall I atone for it? Shall I do penance by taking you up the Pyramid myself to morrow ? ' But Florence shook her head very decidedly. "Thank you, Lloyd ; one such excur sion is enough for a lifetime !" Miirmiuu. It appears that believers in witchcraft, like many other foolish people, not oub fail to profit by the experiences ot others, but, in many instances,' their own experience seems to be lost on them. Notwithstanding the fact that several well-known witch doctors in Koss-shire have recently failed to per form cures iu a number of cases in which man aud beast were said to have beeu "witched," the credulous and superstitious still resort to them for the cure of natural diseases, as well as of ailments attributed to the malign influence of the occult powers of dark ness. Instead of serving to shake the lielief of the devotees ot demonology in the reality of witchcraft, these failures on the part of the witch doctors to lrform cures have had no other effect than that of discrediting themselves in the eyes of the superstitious, by whom they are regarded as impostors. In deed implicit belief in witchcraft is not infrequently associated with ostenta tious professions of religion, self-right eousness and ardent Sabbatarianism. A few days ago a fishing smack, which hailed from a certain village situated on the west coast of the mainland, had occasion iu course of its calling to pro- ortree. Before startin on the ceed to Portree. Before starting on the voyage a witch doctor was, as usual, called to sain the craft, which he did under cloud of night by spitting on it, describing several cabalistic characters on it with a wand, and muttering Gae lic incantations. Having thus perform ed his part, the witch doctor informed bis employers that the vessel was now sained, aud might with safety proceed on its voyage without skaith or acci dent of any kind. Being thus assured of immunity from danger of any kind, the smack proceeded on its voyage, and ou entering the Sound of Bona struck ou a sunken reef and at ouce became a total wreck, and the crew of two young men were w ith difficulty rescued by a boat which put off from Bona to their assistance. The witch doctor, whose popularity had beeu on the wane for some time previously, is discredited, aud regarded as an uniniturated impos tor. 11c hv not ap)eai'ed in public sim-e. For the removal of small fore'gn objects which niay by accident find their way into one's eye, the witch doctor has long tieeu regarded as a special:st. For the successful treat ment of sueh cases it is necessary that the witchdoctor should receive his fees in anticipation of a cure, and that he should not see the patient; indeed, '.he greater the distance between them the easier is the cure irforuied. The usual course is for the patient to send a verbal message, accompanied by a handsome fee, stating the particulars of the acciieut, to the witch doctor. Having received the message and the fee, the professor of demonology, after going through several mysterious per formances, such as rolling about bis tongue in his mouth, turning up the whites of his eyes, and muttering Gae lic Incantations, places bis finger on his mouth, and, in presence of the messen ger, removes a short hair from his tongue. The hair is supposed to repre sent the troublesome object iu the pa tient's eye, and immediately it is pro duced the patient is relieved. The other day a man by no means deficient in in telligence, residing in the Parish of Lochcarron, met with a slight accident j to one 01 111s eyes, ami ioruiwuu a messenger was dispatched a distance of several miles to a witch doctor, who, after going through the usual mysteri ous erformances, somehow failed to effect a cure. Recently an old woman, who had been an adept in curing such cases, died In the Parish of Applecross. Being such a successful witch doctor, her fame spread far ami near, and patients from all quarters consulted her for their ailments. Oh one occasion a man residing on the island of Bona had an accident to one of bis eyes, and having sent a message unaccompanied by a fee to her to cure him, she, after having gone through the appropriate performances, found on her tongue not the usual hair, but a full-grown and well-develojied specimen of the pedicu lus vesttimetitit, which genus of Insects are said to find congenial breeding places and ha'py hunting-grounds on the persons of West Coast Islanders. Ancient Pari. Spots which were once part of an cient Paris are disappearing every year before the demolishing pickaxe. From a hygienic and sanitary point of view, these relics cannot be regretted,but the antiquarian or artist may be allowed to sigh as he sees picturesque corners re placed by broad streets of stone houses in the bastard Italian style of architec ture. Another relic of ancient Paris is about to be done away with, through the opening of a street on the side of the Impasse du Pont-aux-Biches. This place, some centuries ago, was a narrow passage, beginning in the Kue Xotre Dame de Xazareth, and forming a con tinuation of the Rue du Pont-aux-Biches. It derived its name from a bridge over a sewer, and an inn, of which the sign was two hir.hts, or does. There were no doors or windows in this passage, which was about two hundred feet long and very narrow. It was blocked up by barrows and trucks, and often unfortunate wretches who were without a shelter made it a refuge. A fact that cannot smile is nevei good. There is no moment without some duty. Inu is an editorial in the Xew Tork Commbbcul Advebtisib oiy'How we treat the immigrant." We did not know that tee Ccmmebcul ever treated the immigrants, or anybody else, but if it does, it can be to only the very best brand. Kuf.Die fast aat ri.s.at- A Parisian correspondent thus writes: As Empress, the fair Eugenie was chiefly remarkable f;r the taste and splendor of her toilets. Of her might be thus paraphrased the epigram on Charles IL she never wore a shabby thing and never said a wise one. Like most Spanish girls, she bad received a very limited education. She was very narrow-minded and un Intellectual, though very sweet and winning in her manners. The witty and appropriate remarks which she as Km press was called upon to make in public were all written for her beforehand, and she was as carefully coached in them as ever was an actress in the speeches of a new part. In fact, she had no talents except for dress. She tried amateur acting at Compeigne, in imitation of Marie Antoinette at the Little Trianon, aud, despite her beauty, even her flat terers were forced to confess that she was a failure. She was in her element whilst inventing new dresses ball toil ets in puffed tulle with a chain of dia monds drawn through each puff, dress es iu silk and velvet with the low-necked corsages hung with diamond fringes, others all in the costliest lace clouds upon clouds of poin d'Alencon or point a I'aiguille mantles of genuine east ern cashmere, stiff with golden embroi dery there was no end to her magnifi cence and to her caprices. She institu ted the rule that at the summer parties at Conipeigne no lady was to appear twice in the same dress, so a fortnight's invitation entailed upon the lady accept mg it the purchase of a wardrot of forty-two dresses at the very least, as three clianges a day were requisite. with an addition of some two or three especially magnificent ball dresses for possible extra occasions. It would have leeii well for France had the Kin press confined her attention to her gowns and ber gewgaws, and left politics alone. She tried to reign. and invented a secial toilet iu which to preside over Cabinet meetings. She did more than anybody else to bring about the war with Prussia, her reli gious convictions as a Spanish Catholic having persuaded her that a war with the country of the infidel and the here- llc "lul?e crusaoe ana one specially blest by heaven. When left a widow she tormented ber son s life out with her parsimony, and her bigotry and her exactions. She kept him on the smallest possible allowance consistent with his position as a royal Prince and the associate of the sons of (jueeu Vic. toria. She would not even allow him a sufficient income to keep a second horse, or to take rooms in Indon during the season. A French hairdresseron Bond street placed a suite of rooms over his shop at Uie disposal of the young Prince Imperial, remarking with a smile that his princely guest could pay up all ar rears of rent when he became Emfor. It was to escape from home worries and home exactions that the poor boy went off to Zululand, there to lose his yoiaig life beueath the spears of a handful of savages. What a contrast does not the Em press Eugenie of to-day present to the beauteous girl-Countess described at the beginning of my article. - 1 have seen her once within the last few years. It Wtti on the occasion of the brief visit that she uiA'le to Paris some months ago. A pale old lady, with bleached hair and a crippled gait, shrouded in crape and cashmere, was mounting slowly and with difficulty into a car riage on the Place Vendome as I 's passing by. "That is the Empress," Raid A sidewalk lounger as the. rarriatre. I drove ofT f toji fiojl rfMo(rriivAil lir When last I saw her (in l$7uj she was a painted, powdered, penciled, liewig ged caricature of her former self, the radiant youug soverign that I had seen in 1C4. Xow she looks like the ghost of the dead Empire, the wan, joyless, faded image of what once was the most dazzling vision of beauty and splendor and queeuliness that the sun had ever shone upon. milinaa Mules. Soou after the war Atlanta became a great stock market by reason of its su perior railroad advantages, its admira ble position as a distributing fioint for Georgia and the surrounding states, and also because of the enterprise of its local stock dealers. The city has more than held its own in this respect. The other day a leading livery stable and stock yard man said: "1 anticipate a great season in our business a greater one than we had last year." "Has the b.isiness fairly opened yet?" "Xo, but we have information which points to very large proportions for it. You see we have two seasons for horses aud mules. The horses come in during the months of August, September, Oc tober aud Xovember. The mules begin to arrive in Xovember, but business is not brisk until December. It contin ues then until April. About fourteen carloads of horses have passed through Atlanta in the two or three weeks for points south and east. Our local sup ply is just beginning to come in.' - men is me more vaiuauie to At- anot up abeve the 8urface of the ground lanta. the horse or the mule trader" aml found it9 progress barrea by the The mule trade by far. In fact, Ljdewalk, a floor of a dwelling or any very few people kjiow how big a thing ;thingelaef it grew a hard round knot it is. There were ,000 mules isold f rom ; to the end which gradually increased my yards alone last season, and the city's iu bulk until it slioved everything be trade eoes to about 15.0 Kj for a season. I -n. i ,,.1 .1,,,.- ..... rhey bring mules here from Kentucky, I Tennessee, Ohio, Indiana, Missouri and ; Illinois. Atlanta is one of the best markets the stockdealers in those states can find." "Who buys all these mules?" "They are distributed all over Geor gia, both Caroliuas, Florida and Alaba ma. The Atlanta market is relieved principally by wholesale. There are jobbers in mules all through the south who come in here and buy them by the dozen, the score and the hundred and then peddle them to the farmers all through the country. You would be surprised to know how much simula tion there is, too. The market is watched very closely, aad there are men ready at all times to scoop up a good bargain for any number of mules." V nat is the average price or a mule in Atlanta "Well, that Is not an asy question, They are brought here from four to awn Tnurl A fnnr.VMritn mnta . already broi ls worth fr7m $125 to ' ne renkei TArt,er, Dfember 1 the Germans wUl 1 100. though the best of a drove sells -'Oh Ito Dreiared IlellOrxhere's 1 f.or,lnsuranc Purposes. Th often for fJ00 or more apiece. Even the courier" prelrM' llenoDere s , money is to be given to sick and dis averaging them at $12-5 and you have , .general, I'm pained to inform you ' W ' for the $15,000 mules received here tnat you are defeated " I nearly $2,000,000." I -That so? Well. boys, come up and . ?"?WSSS A tuUnt ef the color of flowers, Mons. Schnetzler, eon tends that only one coloring substance existo in plants, and that the various colors of flowers are due simply to the modiflcatioDa made in this tubtanee by the acids or alkalies eontalned in the plants them-elTM, A Queer fftnutlas flaae. I Cujco, the ancient capital of the old Inca empire of Peru, is situated ntgn up among the Andes, at a point so ele vated that, although under the tropxs, it has the climate and products of the temperate zone, says a writer in St. JVVioiiu. It still has many remains of Inca architecture, distinguished for its raassiveness, which are likely to en dure for centuries to come. Oil a hill, or eminence, nearly a thousand feet high, over-looking the city, are the re mains of the great Inca fortress of the Sac-sa-hua-man. in the storming ot which Juan Piarro, the brother of the conqueror or rem, was siiiiu. mw fortress was built of gigantic stones, or rather rocks, and their great size and the accuracy with which they are fitted together astonish all who see them. In front of this fortress is a curious donie-sliaeil mass of rock, called the Bo-da-dero, anil sometimes also La Piedra Lisa," or "smooth rock," be cause its convex surface is grooved, as : . 1. 1- I. f 1 ... ... c. . . i.u.'ki. 1 while In a plastic state, between irregu- lar and unyielding walls, aud then bar- : 'enna. dened Into shape. A mass of dough, I One single oyster will produce 123, forced up under the outspread bauds, 0X,Cli0 young oysters iu the course of would give something of the same up- ( one year. pearance iu miniature. But the hollows j An Alabama farmer obtained eight of the grooves on the Peruvian hill are gallons of mohisses from Iw water smooth and glassy. It is said in the melons. old chronicles and traditions that the In Pittsburg 2.5,000 pupils are en Inca youth, long years ago, amused roiled iu thr, pubIic spools, with themselves by coursing, or sliding, ! tocher. through these polished grooves on fes- xhere ar ov. 3 ago nerson . youth of Cuzco. I " . There is oue advantage, and it is n L.-61!1 Arthur pays taxes in great one, too, which these boys possess j .e.5rtrk -vear t0 the amount of over the northern boys, who live In the 1 , land of ice and snow, and that is, it is Oue grain of Dakota wheat in three not necessary for them to toil up a long years produced two bushels of grain. and slippery hill, drawing after them This is authentic. their heavy sleds, which grow heavier! The lightest, pleasantest 'article iu with every step they take, so the lonirer j the world is said by Englishmen to f they ride the harder work it is for them . the American buggy. to get back to the starting place The -Dynamite Is a drug in the Mexican Cuzco ly sits down at the top of markrt. It haa fal!en ,n pnCe Uola $i the r-ck in one of the grooves, aud with 1 10 3- cetji a pound. a slight start away he goes with all the I " , . . T1, ,K. . . . . speed imaginable, until he reaches the 1 "1 about f third of littora, landing in a soft bed of earth; de, "L tUe w"rU don then be picks himself up, runs around , "a British empire. to an easy place of ascent, and Is up ! William Miller Is a Wisconsin tu- again in a minute to repeat his ride. . uier who hasmadeJl.utXiW out of U.- Our wemcra River. Xestled among tte root-hills of the; Coast Range of Mountains, in the neighborhood of San Francisco, are miny beautiful towns and villages, in which a large portion of the inhabi tants of the City of the Golden Gate have established their ier:naneiit resi dences. Most of these places are easy of access by train and steamboat; and In every resiect they offer advantages which are seldom eLsewhere the con comitants of suburban living. In the matter of climate they are especially fa vored. The temierature is mild, dry and equable; the air pure and fresh. and there is perfect freedom from the mala rial fevers, as well as the burn winds, the sand storms and the extreme heat which afflict the city. Any one of these pleasant neighborhoods, with its soft and balmy mixture of sea aud moun tain air, its bright sunshine and semi tropical growths of fruits ant hwers. is well adapted to infuse new life into all classes of invalids, while to those who are affected by weak lungs the cli mate proves remarkably invigorating. Among these outlying, picturesque and salubrious villages which might be named is San Rafael, situated about fourteen miles from San Francisco iu a northwesterly direction, and looking out upon the nppC. 'n,, of tne bay Its climate corresponds cl?W to that of Mentone, in Southern Franco, but in the provision for the comfort and convenience of those who seek the ben efits of a genial temerature, not alone in winter, but throughout the entiie year, the California town greatly sur passes any point along the Rivera. It is not suiprising, therefore that such delightful ami health giving retreats as San Rafel are sought out more and more by the people of the Eastern States as places especially for winter sojourn, and that the opinion has taken a firm hold upon those who have visited the California sanitariums that they are far preferable to the better-know u neighborhood of a similar character in Europe. Fun ay roplara. About 3) years ago a resident on Ap sley street, Amherstburg, planted op( site his residence four young poplar trees, which had been presented to him by an old Scotch friend who originally brought the seed from the Orkney islands. Time passed ou. The trees grew aud towered high above the sur rounding buildings, so that birds of the a r built their nests among the top branches far out of reach of the school boys slingshot. At last the trees stop ped growing upwards and turned their attention to multiplying roots. Four wells in the vicinity were completely choked up. After a while the roots tj-ulr another fralr WJiorovar An. tic8 and m.Alle tremendous efforts to proDairate their snecies. Withiu a ra- dius of a thousand yards they sent up up millions of shoots. And then the owner got mail and made firewood of the old trees to the great grief of his neighbors. Sugar la Una. General Strongly, who was once Governor of Arkansas, could stand de feat or success about as well as any man known to the thrilling history of this country. Once, while-his chances of victory were in the bands of bis friends, assembled in State convention, the General and several supuorters sat in the rofundaof the leading hotel. The ' result of each ballot was brought by a courier. reivitur returns from the fortv-first bal 11 cu, miu me ucuci., '"c 1 c- lot, "if Jackson climbsmuch more he'll duwn me." 1.11 1 i i . 1 1 let's have something." leading the way to the bar. -Whit will you all take? "BUI" addressing the bar-tender. (rf m a hiKkv annr t .1 ... 1 . -j I changUiebTvoteandyouareelecbrf. "That so? Say, Bill, you may put little sugar la name." NEWS IN BRIEF. There are said to be 100,000 Qua- kers in the whole United States. There are five persons of foreign birth in the United States Senate. There are over 27 j,0C0 school teach ers iu this country. A treorgia boy of eleven years s serving a term in prison for murder. Quail are now so abundant in Cali fornia that they throng the roadways. The sale of intos:cating liquors .Is prohibited in ben comities in Missisnip- ( pi. The value of minerals exported from Awtnlia last year was $U.lv4, IV). Prof. Max Muller of Oxford Uni versity la an accomplished tricycle ri der. Mackerel, it is reported, swarm it the surf at points on the California coast. Johano Strauss has celebrated his ; fortieth anniversary as a director in , prooucis or tne iarm. Hiram Grubler,a miser in Kbiigers- tiit&n Pa h ia rVmxl inaunu ..una- i v - -r. VVI1IU lUOailG VVVii U10 loss by theft, of S2.5uu. A citizen of lies Moines, IoWa, has donated the city sixty acrea of laiiJ to be used as a public park. An Ohio ex-Governor, ouce a man of large wealth, is now selling cigars by sample to retail dealeis. There is a tree in California jj feet high and 14 feet in circumference at the base of the trunk. Hundreds of German children u christened Lisa now iu honor of Wa uer's Lohengrin heroine. It is estimated that an average of thimbles are annually swalioWrd by the babies of America. The Senate House at Kingston. X. Y., was erected 16T0, and is the oldest public building in the country. 5weet Snow died in Cleburn count , Ala. He, his wife and two children have all died within four weeks. A Boston savings bank cashier says it is the poorest dressed people who de posit the most money as a rule. The island of Cuba is threatened with the cocoanut bugs which the plan ters fear will devastate the crop. England makes 000,000,000 gallons of beer every year.Germany 0i HI ,000,0" J and the United States G J0,U00,0UU. Wild geese are passing south a month earlier than usual and this is said to be indicative of an early winter. Five years in thC penitentiary is the penalty just inflicted on i negro at Lees bmg, Florida, who stole a little ovej. Uk laeuteuant Schwatka Is going to employ himself, after his arctic work, in cattle raising in tho Aleutian Iv lands. The oil tanks of the Pennsylvauia oil region are uniformly -2S feet high. 90 feet iu diameter, and coat $8,oy0 each. People who have buffalo robes would do well to hold on to them. They will xn be valuable as curiosi ties. There is such a glut of apples in Xew York that -farmers are selling their crops as low as eizht cents per bushel. The temperance societies of Xew York will celebrate Father Mathew'a birthday anniversary with greiit enthu siasm. The cotton seed which is shipped from the Mississippi Valley to Europe in a crude state comes b:ick to the South as pure olive ou. The abolition of the business tax U being agitated in Pittsburg, and licen ses for the different elasses of business proposed instead. The first persons In the world 10 protest against negro slavery in Aaierk were the English colonists at German town as early as 1W8, Buffalo bones, gathered from ilo Westerns plains, to make fertilizers of, are said to bring more per cwt. at the factories than wheat. Americans hand $1,000,000 per year in small change to street mendicants and vagrants, and no one can see that a bit of good has been done. The Episcopal denomination has been growing very rapily in Scotland during the past thirty years, having gained over oO.lXfJ members. A fine of a shillingeach wad im posed upon two London newsboys for offering their papers for sale to peop!a going to church on Sunday morning. A man in Greenville, 3. C.. ha been blind for years, yet drives alone hi a buggy, aud runs both a sawmill and a gin mill that is, a cotton gin mill, One thousand Chinese sailed in one vessel from san t rancisco ror China a week or so ago, to celebrate the X ew Year. All were provided with certifi cates. "uaat J el'C,onU IP? n, 'Tl'. W mose roiu The rOUjrn sum uncut uauivwu c- ' ; ' -1 f J V I
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