NO. 51, s MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY. PJSNNA.. WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 17. nfI,,ir.I!r '" H. X'.; 1 our nel of graeo V m "'i ,.r fr.'iti iwitfUlwr, -!,'.m,b',1,h,,c'", A ,'r'utl. -I. ia ' gniued. :i t.ur Hi-Tit." ,,v,'r- ,W!fi.-ur laulwtoase v" ,T,.ftt ,llM-oer. ,ut ! H I--' :JI'".. rre ti.uk to curalwr in1-'..; ,.), s..mT dowers j;.revi" 1 . : ,--.-l,ni-'-- t!ltfU anJ '"'" t :tli tli-- liwug. l'll?-rr,lr,-h'.ike!inysave I-":li ',7 .in te.tr tomorrow ; J?.".,:rU .-hame our clamor, ,-tv.!i-.'r the l-t '?2b iurtu.T.v tnyrficglauwar; B'I";if"'""r,u"J mB E' ;Tra.-t!.irK-iv1i,i, T ifJlK-u-iKlT le-u Louie T'fe'aiir!.tilMl.lvfc'- I lud leeu warned jut a year when j uju . . riil. troll- hrtlA Il.dirrto iuv JU. had been partieu- The only child of wealthy lir'v sunny. i,j gt eiiliWii vears oia 10 i.enaai fl niiij larnster. some years iT'ior l.iu 1 loved with a warmth M'vwuaarJ by u.y satisfaction when Mttat the affection was mutual Mr fader warned him that such a m cliilJ would prove troublesome ; tot"kual tad no fears on that point, tad as yet our wedded life had cast lit & tno-jjJli of si.a low uiKin us. Xowai'd tlien i did indeed notice cCb my LuUiLd-s face a grave, preoc tiiiexpresi.mtuatl failed to un drrsuiid, but I knew lie was intrusted wti important isMirs. and. loving hia w !eion as he d:d, it was no wonder Si Lis wind should entertain Its con-eer-seva when he rested from its au in tis beautiful home at South Ken BLton. I guessed not that scenes in tel-tit hfe were the phantoms so fre qaently arising before him, haunting UmeTeDinhis present happiness, un RjpecteJ bv his joyous girl-wife. I wis nowabout twenty years old.aud kajfier than ever, for a beautiful infant bujUd crept into our life and love. Aii,w!iat icarvellous hopes clustered louidtLe rose-pink lerctauiutte whereiu reposed what the papers announced as our "son and heir!'' Kendal used to pact n.v cheeks, calling us a couple of tabids, wheu he watched us together ; but I knew he was as proud of our little FuLik as uivseif, though his smile was Bcuifct atiJ his loiks were so subdued a- he LeM the wee dimpled hand in his "fsn Xrfer shall 1 f ort the morning when w becacie aware t hat lby was not the aLd heir" that Kendal had a liv tf scin, aiid that I w as a step-mother. W were breakfasting togetlier in our favorite roniu, and the ilo wers were nod iiX4 m at us through U.e 0en windows, wLiist the caLai les sang their sweetest, win myhu-band received a black-bordered letter that turned his face nhastly wlalras he jierused it. I hurried to j't L;m Iraiidy, fearing he was goiu to faint. 1 Bw-ssi-d that somethms; was ia in hh banking or professional af fairs, tut I could not annoy him with 9'JtttioLs, aud sileutly I knelt beside t'.iu, i'utuir my ai ois around him. Ue story -was told by-and-by, quickly ttil abruptly ; but it was very long ere lial:zl then nth that I was a sec otal wue. In the early days of our ac qnaiataace K-ndal had heard me speak isparafr'.Laiy of a friend's marriage, voiLgtLat nothing sliould induce me to marry wM.nv.-r ; it was then that btLad most uiiiortunaiely resolvnd to keep t! fact f his previous marriage private; and I cull well understand UiwiLuch s;ifft-rir:g the deception had ctoedkm. A? a vnutli of t wenty-one he had met tis trst wife, the pretty daughter of a ytwiiaii-farmer, and the belle of the vil lv?here his guardian Colonel Grant tcslieil limine truui college for his va atioa, lie was delighted for so pleasant t acquanitance to 1-euile the tedium of tin stay at the Hall, and their dance ttfieharveat-hunie was the prelude to very warm friendship. Their constant "et-r-gs in the sunny meadows and ily lanes were a most agreeable Ainwfr.,iu the hard studies in which kttidal had beru engaged. o word ve of syaajatiH-tic friendship had been ttlianged bt-twopn them when he re tarsed to college ; but. whilst his labors twre soon drove his pretty companion bm hi mind, her weaker nature was tottp-etely clianed by the past few weeks. Ey-and-hv he was recalled to village by a stern note from his JvUrJ,ia' wbo informed him on arrival Alice Graham was believed to be twpelpss consumption, and that she M deapairineiy betrayed the secret of r luve to Ler mother, who had, un oownto herself, appealed to Colonel want fur liij advice. Kendal was tn h. '"i w hen he saw the change a girl he ha.1 left so rosy and bloom J;nd. though he knew he did not ije all the blame his guardian and r "wis evidently considered his he could not hold himself entirely m in the matter. It was a Riui affair. My husband of it with a trembling voice, and u aeep agitation. It seemed as though "wry tendrils of Alice Graham's life twn,ei round one woo realized that pity was the utmost feeling of iiearttowarlsher. Her father in fctiLn juarriage ; his strictly honor- efuardiana.ivijg course, that 'the difference of station Z u,TTnt,!d the courting." Her U.T ' !'1,ia but she looked in ? ivJ llls h, itrt w&3 like to break," aust the village doctor believed it was krcliauce for her cure, and Alice 6chem m h("drm: whispers of such a ". ai'i-eared quite a new creature. ext? ?! "Iil,ried then in obedi bt., Grant's wishes and the on of his own Rood feeling.and, us guardian's death from a fall in J "unting-fleM, he came into posses- , s"lstautial provUion. Iiis frl.m " bad kept him much away 'ffllx'iiie.imt he always treated his it J ,Ul Uw kindest consideration.and reHl s-'nef to him when, in con Le v' ' ' U:t" sud,len tidings of Colo tost s :iCLlJ'"t, a premature birth 14 "y.'"uiig mother her life. The in 4 "w-"aj! Kecdal's one solace oe felt iv;,cu he held his first-lwrn "uiJ, and uiy heart grew dry and JrMe ana u-::i.i wit which my ! : i hard at the thought that such emotions had been excited by auotheftbau my little Frank. As Kendal's duties called him away from the village. Alice's mother pro posed to take charge f the baby ; and, seeiug that she bad lately adopted an orphan baby of a late neighbor's and that it was thriving most admirably, be readily agreed to allow her a certain sum fjr the child's support. About nine months had elapsed, w lien lie heard from Airs. Graham Uiat the cuild had succumbed to an attack of croup. Wifeless aud childless, he hur ried down to look ujhju the tiny new niade grave, close to that of the mother for little Willie was already buried. The farmer was ill with rheumatic fever, aud Mrs. Graham was so worried and upset that Kendal did not speak with her long. He put away the past from him as a dream, and from that day to this he had never brought himself to visit the neighborhood again. What, then, were his feelings on read ing the letter received this morning V It was from the Vicar of Sprtngmead, announcing the death of the aged wo man Graham, who had been long a widow, and enclosing a letter addressed to "Willie's Father. During her last illness she hail fully confessed to the clergyman the imposture of which she liad been guilty, begging however that it might not be revealed to her son-in-law till she had passed beyond his wrath. Kendal's bov was still alive and nearly seveu years old ; it was her neighbor's child that had died in infancy, but her great love for her grandson aud dread of losiug him had tempted her to take advantage of the circumstance to re tain her darling with her. ily blue-eyed baby alive," cried Kendal, us if speaking to himself 'given back to me as it were from the grave 1 I can even forgive the cruel wrong in the joy that is swallowing up every other feeling the joy to know that my son is not dead !" At that moment I almost hated my husband ; his heart seemed so far from me and my baby that a passion of jeal ous anger seemed rending my soul, With bitter cutting words did I re proach him for his deceit, and bis only answer was a silent look of pain ; but Then, incensed by his quiet manner, 1 began to hint that the child's training had not been such as to fit him for our house, I saw my husband angry with me for the first time In his life. "A child of six or seven," said he "can scarcely be considered as trained to perfection even Frank at that age will sometimes need our fond correc tion ; but I suppose he will be no less our much-loved son.". "Frank has nothing to do with the present matter," was my haughty reply; "my son will always be a gentleman." I was ashamed of my words as soon as spoken, but Kendal made no reply. He walked up and down the room for several minutes ere he said "I am coin? down to Sorinirme;id to day, and shall probably bring Willie home on Wednesday evening. (Jome, mamma," he added tenderly, "I know I can trust your woman's heart towards him." "You are mistaken," I rejoined quickly, 'if you suppose I shall trouble myself in the least concerning him. I never arranged for the trying life of a step-mother. Frank's nurse has quite enough Jto do. But the boy is old enough to attend to himself now. If you take my advice, you will send him to a thoroughly select school for some time before you bring him home." "You must allow me to decide that matter," said Kendal coldly. "My house is my son's home. 1 will take care that no trouble concerning him shall fall upon yourself or nurse. Mil l'cent," and he tried to take my hand "do nat let us prolong our first disa greement. You must know how deep is my love for my wife and our baby, but you would despise me in your heart if I felt no yearning towards my first born. "J "I have no wish to make matters un pleasant," returned I, withdrawing my hand. "I only wish to know where the child is to sleep, for nurse will ob ject to have another in the nursery, and the rooms are all disposed of." "He can have the small red room for a bed-room," answered Kendal curtly. I had already meant to turn this reom into a day-nursery by-and-by, and I was not at all pleased to fipd my plans frus trated. Without another word or look towards my husband, I hurried up stairs to my baby to pour into his un conscious ears all my indignant and tu multuous feelings. My husband tried no more to recon cile me to the fact of the child's resi dence with us. I saw that he was as displeased with my conduct as I was w ith his own. But surely I bad reason to be angry. Not only was I a second w lfe a position to which I had a strong objection but a vulgar farm-bred boy was to come amongst us, stealing from my baby tlie father's love and the rights of the first-born that should have been his. I Bitter tears did I shed that day beside the cradle when Kendal had left for Springmead with a "Good-bye, Milli cent " called from the bottom of the stairs. I Imagined that I bad already become less dear to him, and laid the whole blam90f the unpleasantness upon the boy who had come between us. "Never mind, my baby I" I cried, pressing my lips to little Frank's velvet cheek. "We will love and comfort;one anotherftbrough it all." Ou Wednesday morning I received a long fond letter from my husband, full of tender words for myself and baby, blaming himself for his secrecy, and pleading very hard for a mother's love for his son, however troublesome he might prove at first. He said that he had already seen my parents, having stopped for that purpose when half-way to Springmead, and that they had treated him with forbearing kindness he could never forget. Instead of add ing this letter to the precious packet in my dressing-case, I tore it up after the first perusal ; I was far too angry with my fate to be Just towards my husband. I asked my cousin Mrs. Tudor to spend the day with me, and she came tollmen, accompanied by her tVo chil dren, and her sister Miss Clemence their presence would take away some of the awkward nervousness with which I looked forward to Kendal's return. I did not enlarge on the facta of the case, but told them simply that Mr. 5y had been deceived as to the death of hi first wife's child, taking it for granted that they were aware of pre vious marriage. My neither surprise nor curiosity, whatve their feelings may have been. -Miss Uemente hJped Willie would oe a good boy, and give me no annoyance; and Sri Tudor, turning to her boy and girl, expensively dressed in the height u laKiuon, no(iea tney would be good friends with the new cousin that they wouiu new mat evening. it wa nearly six o'clock when a cab drove up to the door, ana I heard my husband's voice through the open win dow. A tastefully-spread tea waited upon the table for we had made the luncheon our dinner, as Archie and ueaixice iudorcouM not be kept out late. We were laughing and chatting pleaaautly when Kendal came in : little I rank, in bis very best lace robe, lay f;ist asleep in my lap. and I had no in tention of waking him by disturbing uijr puaiuun in any way. My husband greeted mv relatives verv cordially, though 1 fancy he was disa greeably surprised at their presence ; at any rate, ne went back into the hall, saying, "Kun up-stairs with Martha, Wilhe, and get yourself tidy, for tea is quite ready. "I have engaged a nurse for Willie at a registry-office," said Kendal to me iu an undertone ; "he is far from strong, and Martha will see to him entirely. Sturdy fellow this I" he added, turning to Miss Clemence as he bent to kiss the baby. I knew that he wanted me to look at him, that he might read my feelings in my eyes ; but I kept my face resolutely bent down, in deep displeasure that a servant had been added to our house hold independently of my own will and choice. Kendal was thoroughly nervous when be brought his son into the room, and bade him shake hands all round. My careless glance as I touched bis hand revealed a thiii, pale child, very awk ward and frightened, in a black sailor suit of country make, presenting a marked contrast to the self-possessed little Tudors who stared at him with the curiosity incident to their age. It was a relief that be was not vulgar looking; however 1 chose to mistake his shyness for ill-breeding, and deter mined to punish Kendal thoroughly through the child. Little Willie sat beside his father at tea, and, finding his child so little noticed, Kendal lavished upon him a fondness that inflamed my jealousy every moment. His first choice at table being a slice of very rich cake, of which the smallest morsel was suffi cient for children, my husband, with the thoughtlessness of a man, heaped his plate with it. I knew that such a meal after a long journey would cer tainly harm the boy, but I had not the grace to clothe my remonstrance plea santly. I turned to Kendal with the cold remark "That slice should be divided between the three children ; no child should eat so much rich cake." "It won't hurt Willie," said Kendal obstinately ; and, without noticing roe further, he turned to converse with Mrs. Tudor. I noticed however that after the first taste little Willie only crumbled his food, gazing rouud the table with crim soning cheeks, and gulping down hia tea as though forcing back something in bis throat, I was becoming as nerv ous as the child, for I had a horror of scenes, and 1 knew very well what was coming. "Eat your cake, Willie, like a man," said my husband, as a lull in the con versation took place. "I am afraid be has a very poor api tite," remarked Mrs. Clemence ; "he has eaten nothing as yet," Dismayed to find himself the object of general attention, Willie hastily swallowed a piece cf cake, and then what I had forseen took place. He buried his face in his small than hands, and, pushing away his plate, burst out crying. If my husband had been ab sent, I must have taken the motberfess boy in my arms and hushed him as I did my own Frank : as it was, I looked at the sleeping child on the couch, and remarked that he would be ill all night if suddenly awakened. Miss Clemence told Willie nobody would love him if he was not well-behaved Mrs. Tudor said something about "spoilt children;" Archie abruptly produced a stick of chocolate from his jiocket and forced it betweeu Willie's fingers, and little Be atrice twined her arms around his nock, whispering. "Please don,t cry, cousin." "The child Is tired out," said I ; "he cries only from fatigue. He had better go to bed and have something to eat there." Kendal was very much annoyed at this public manifestation. He gave me a look almost of disgust at tlie indif ference of my tones, and then, raising Willie gently in his arms he carried him away. The last sound I heard was, "Grannie 1 I do want my grannie 1" and the walling cry haunted me through out the evening. From that time a great coldneesarose between my husband and myself; whilst outwardly the same united couple, both were conscious that a barrier, in the shape of little Willie, ready separated us. He was left entirely to the manage ment of his nurse, a personwhose cring ing manners towards myself at once prejudiced me against her. "That boy is always crying, "said my husband irritably one morning, as he pulled on his gloves in the hall. "I wonder what is the matter now." "It is perfectly dreadful at his age," returned T. "Mamma will be here next week, andl am surethe noise will quite upset her." "Willie must go to school next quar ter," said he ; "it wijl be altogether better for him than this house." He turned towards the door, for our fond adieus were things of the past ; but I saw before us a return of the old happy days, when Willie should no longer be an ever-present source of dls agreement, and my heart went out yearningly towards my husband. "You might srare me a kiss," said I, coloring, and I put my hand on his alTnere was a sort of affection in his look, as he answered sternly "When I have once seen you kiss my child, I shall know you care for such tokens from me. Till then, let neither of us pretend regard, Millicent." "Be it so," said 1, white with angry pude "You will never see me kiss that boy. I hate the very sight of him!" "Take care of what you are saying." remarked Kendal quietly ; "those are dangerous words to utter." He bad just left the house when Wil lie's screaming reached a huiher pitch than ever, and I hurried up-stairs in a rage, determined to exercise my author ity for once, to show the child such an annoyance was unbearable. Pushing open the door of the room where Mar tha gave him his meals, I beheld a scene that fully accounted for his cries. The nurse held both h!s wrists in a cruel grasp, and was beating him unmerci fully about the head. "say I'm tipsy again, you rascal I" said she In thick stupid tones. "You'll tell your pa I was tipsy all night, will you, when I whs rolling In agony with the spasms T I've half a mind to kill you. I have and I will too, if you go tale-bearing to your pa I" I wrenched the child from her hold, and confronted the astonished woman. My fear of intoxication was completely overpowered by my indignation, and I spoke calmly and decisively. "Go to bed, Martha ; you are unfit for your duties to-day. When you are I letter, 1 shall see you again." Her angry gaze changed slowly into a dull stare as 8ja perceived my firm ex pression, and she sank into an arm chair, where I knew she would sleep off the effects of her over-indulgence. I slipped the door-key into my pocket,aad retreated, in my excitement carrying V ilhe as easily as an infant. Frank's uuree looked thoroughly surprised when 1 entered her domain with my step-son sobbing hysterically in my arms ; but my recital did not astonish her. "I had no idea it was so bad as that, ma'am," said nurse, "for Martha keeps herself to herself, and seldom allows her fellow-servants inside her rooms ; but we all suspected she drank, for we smelt spirits often enough." "But why did nobody tell me?" I asked, crying myself as nurse gently revealed the blue marks on Willie's shoulders. "This child has been treated barbarously." "Well, ma'am, we didnt think It our place to carry tales so long as you were satisfied. Many a time have I told Martha that Master Willie didnt ought to cry so much, but she always said she had your permission to punish him as she chose when he was troublesome." I felt the reproach her woros con veyed to my conscience, and I knew it was deserved. "Get him some breakfast, nurse," said I ; "the things were only half laid on the table, and be has had nothing this morning. Now, Willie, I want to know all about Martha come, tell mamma everything." "She hasn t been quite so bad before," replied the little fellow, looking up into my thcv, "but she Is always sipping some stuff from a bottle In her pocket, and it makes her so cross. Last night she was angry becauee I was in here playing with baby, and she sent me to bed without supper. She said that I took tales to the other servants, and that I had no business here ; she told me you wouldn't have me touch baby because I was only his step-brother, and I was in his way, and you'd be glad if I was dead but that's a story. Isn't it?" He fastened upon me his great earn est blue eyes, just like my husoand's. I was crying fast crying away all my unnatural hardness and for answer I stooped down and kissed him. "I knew it was a story," said Willie. "I do like you to nurse me, mamnm ; it feels like grannie." "Did Martha dress you this morning. Master Willie ?" asked nurse,returnlcg with some bread-and-milk and a little minced chicken. "No, she sat up in the chair all night. She was asleep there this morning when I went in to tee if breakfast was ready. I had dressed myself, and 1 woke her np and told her so. 1 began to err .and said she was tipsy when she stared so oddly at me. and then she hit me be- bause I tried to get away to tell papa. "Master told me I was never to in terfere with Martha, but just attend to baby," said nurse indignantly, "else I'd have found out directly why he was screaming. Never mind. Master Wil lie ; it's all right now." "Nurse," suggested I, "I think we could have Master Willie's little bed in here. I wish you could undertake both the children, or, at least, try it for a time. I can rely ou you, and of course your wages will be altered. He would not be much in your way." "I am quite agreeable, ma'am," said nurse, "lliby has taken wonderfully to Master Willie, and he always does what I tell him ; but I cant have that naughty cough in my nursery, sir, I tell you." "I don t cough for fun, nurse," de clared Willie. "I '11 try to keep quiet I will indeed." "He has a nasty hacklnir coush at nights," said nurse to me, when Willie, with the tears all dried, was playing bo- peep with baby in the berceawutta. "It goes right through you, ma'am. I doubt if he's long for this world after alL" "What a foolish idea!" said I hastily. looking at the white face and slender frame, and wondering, with a sudden flash of horror, if my lack of love was thus to be punished by Heaven. The womanly yearnings, crushed hitherto by jealousy, broke down every barrier then. 1 was myself at last, and my heart opened wide to take In my hus band's child. I longed to see and speak to Kendal again, and looked forward anxiously to his return. I was sadly disappointed when Mr. Tudor came In to tell me that my husband, who shared his cham bers, had been summoned to Exeter on legal business and might be detained some days. He had sent a list of cer tain requisites, and !theae I packed at once and despatched to the station to follow him. I eould not bring myself j to write one line of all that I felt. Mr. Tudor soon relieved my disquie tude as to dealing with Martha. After a brief interview between them, in wldch be acted for Kendal, she quietly accepted a month's money in lieu of no tice, and bestowed herseil and her be longings in a cab, with a few threats and impertinences concerning myself and her late situation which highly amused the cabman. "She's gone !" shouted Willie, clap ping his thin hands for Joy. "Won't I have a good time now, mamma ?" After this Willie's health did not seem to improve, and, broken-hearted. I realized one morning, as the rtsm sun was parting the gray clouds in the east, that all my care for my patient was in vain. A slight attack of pleurisy, anx iously watched by myself and a West- end physician I had summoned, bad taken a fatal turn on the previous even ing, and we had telegraphed directly to his father, who had proceeded to Ire land from txeter, Closer my boy clung to me with all his feeble strength. Baby was crying in the nursery, missing my presence there ; but even his voice could not draw me from that bed-aide. I would have died myself to save my other child. cut off in the very blossom of his days a victim perhaps to the neglect which bad left his warning cough unattended to. Unspeakably dear had Kendal's son become to me ef late ; his innocent lips had prattled to ma of batter things than my careless thoughts had hitherto heeded. One evening footsteps came hurrying up-stalrs,and I was quickly poshed aside by my husband's hand. I knew what his first-born was to him as I noticed his evident distress. His emoticm pained the child, who was placid himself with the shadow of coining peace. "Doctor Steane. tell me there Is hope there must be hope 1" appealed my husband to the physician, who stood at tbo foot of the bed. "I'm not afraid, papa dear," said Willie faintly, as Doctor Steane sadly shook his head. "But I cannot I cannot let you go, my poor little boy I" A solemn silence fell over us, broken only by my husband's sobs; my own heart was too full to find relief in tears. I started convulsively when at tlie last there came a great cry, "My mamma!" and the little arms were stretched towards me. How could I ever have wilfully put away my boy's tenderness? Just then I would at any cost have pur chased a renewal of our term of love. The rest is all to me as a dream a vision of frightened faces, morning shadows superseding the candlelight, and a little figure calm as the flowers on which the sun was rising an indis tinct memory of stifled sobs, agitated whispers, a baby's cries, aud through It a boy's clear voice faintly recalling his daily prayer. 1 knew I was forgiven as I stood in the stillness of the solemn room and tenderly looked my last at him who would so soon be removed from our sight. The heavenly calm of little Willie's face spoke peaoe to my trou bled soul ; the love that had giveu him rest held pardon too for me. I could not bear to remain there long; one mother's kiss I gave him a parting kiss that refused to part and then I left him as before, with the pure white roses strewn around him and the lilies on bis breast. And my husband, who had followed me in unperceived. took me in his arms with a fondness that hand a new element in it. "Dear love," said he, pressing his lips to mine, "I have learnt all now ; and what remains untold I read in his eyes that morning as he looked npou you. Heaven reward yu, my Milli cent !" I put down my head upon his shoul der and cried there for the first time since our sorrow cried out all the feel ings I had no words to tell. Sugar In Mexico. Sugar-cane was unknown to the An cient Mexicans, who make syrup from honey and maguey juice, and sugar from cornstalks much after the man ner so extensively experimented upon of late in the United States. Sugar yane was introduced by the Spaniards from the Canary Islands first to Santo Do mingo, thence to Cuba, and soon after, by natural sequence, to Mexico. The first sugar-canes were planted in this country in l.r by Don Pedro de Atienza. The first cylinders were con structed by Gonzalo de Velosa. The Jim sugar-mills, use! at that time by uoe Spaniards, were worxea ny ny draullc wheels, and not as now, by horses. Baron Humboldt, who exam ined the will of Cortez, tells us that the conqueror left several nourishing sugar I Unions nar Cuyoacan. in the valley of Mexico, where now (owing, it w sup posed, to the cutting down of the trees) the oold is too great for one to grow. The hacienda of Atlacamulco, like many others, in Mexico, Is a little king dom within itself, quite independaut of all the world. Its fort-like walls are strong enough to stand sieges, and within them are buildings enough to form a respectable village. Besides the usual number, hacienda adds a house for boiling sugar, whose furnaces Haze night and day; a house with ma chinery for extracting the juice of the cane, refining rooms, drying sheds, etc, all on the largest aud most generous scale. This being also a coffee planta tion, there is a great mill for separating the beans from the cbaz, sheds in which the coffee is dried and assorted, and a distillery where aguardiente (rum) is made from the refuse of the sugar mills. Men, peons and horses are counted by the hundreds here, and the owner is ab- eolute monarch of all be surveys. Be sides fields of sugar-cane stretching away as far as the eye ran reach, are coffee groves containing fifty thousand young and vigorous plants; plains upon which unnumbered horses and cattle range, beside miles of uncultivated land wnere deer, quail and ouier email game "find a' 'happy hunting ground." About eighteen miles from Cuernavala are the temple and fortress of Xochicalco, one of the most remarkable ruins in Mexico. They lie upon a rocky eminence almost a league in circumference, which is cut into regular terraces faced with stone. The temple on Its summit is seventy-five by sixty three feet in area, of hewn granite, beautlfullysculptured,and was constructed hi the usual pyramidal-ter raced form. But, sad to say, this tem ple of unknown gods, where pagan priests performed their sacrifices, has been desecrated by modern vandals, and Is used as a sugar factory. In this fa vored region everybody's thougfata turn to sugar-making, as naturally as spooks fly upward, it is asserted mat Mere crops may be reaped within a year af ter the cuttings are planted. How Oolu arc caught. A (rreat many cannot see why it Is they do not take a cold when exposed in cold winds and rain. The fact Is, and it ought to be more generally understood, that nearly every cold is contracted indoors, and is not directly due to the cold outside, but to the heat inside, A man will go to bed at night feeling as well as usual and get up in the morning with a royal cold. He goes peeking around in search of cracks and keyholes and tiny drafts. Weather strips are procured and the house made as tight as a fruit can. In a tew days more the whole family has colds. Let a man go home tired or exhaus ted, eat a full supper of starchy and vegetable food, occupy his mind inten tly for a while, go to bed in a warm, close room, and if he doesn't have a cold In the morning it will be a wonder. A drink of whiskey or a glass or two or beer before supper will facilitate mat ters very much. People swallow more coias aown their throats than they Inhale or receive from contact with the air. no matter how cold or chilly it may be. Plain, heartv suppers are good to goto bed on. and are far more conductive to refresh ing sleep than a glass of beer or a dose of chloral. In the estimation of a great many this statement ia rank heresy, but In the light of science, common sense and experience it it gos pel truth. A tnuottag which seems to keef for wt ions- tuna ia nrer red bv precipl- tattna- dissolved sum witb strong aloe- hoL expressing and drying. The miss k perfeoUy white, and eaJuy soluble in wajac. Strong Hoa. The present emperor of Russia is said to be one of the strongest men in his empire of Herculean individuals. When the heir apparent he one day visited bis father, the late emperor, to complain that his mail was tampered with. The emperor sent for the chief of police, drew from him a confession of guilt, and cbided him in the presence of the Czarowitz The latter said not a word, but handed the crestfallen functionary a sign of how great was his anger in the form of a silver rouble twisted into a roll. In his younger days this was a favorite visiting card of the Czarowitz. He could strike a poker against bis arm aud bend it, bite pieces out of china cups, feats which were in the repertoire of Thomas Taphaui, the celebrity of Is lington. Taphaui was a drayman, and sometimes, when exhillrated by the vast portions of liquor supplied him by ad mirers, he would take his horse's plact between the shafts. He had a playful habit of twisting heavy kitchen pokers into a coil about the necks of trembling countrymen. One night, after having astonished a tavernful with his drink ing powers became upon a watchman peacefully slumbering in his box, and threw box aud man over the wall of a burial-ground. In 1871, Mr. Gregorie, claimiug to be 71 years old, astonished the physicians and the public in a town near London by carrying seven hundred pounds with ease, lifting an ox, and performing other wonderful feats. A celebrated London physician who ex amined Gregorie describe him as an ex aggerated study by Haydeu. His shoulders were prodigious and bis bl eeps almost incredible. Gregorie's strength, rather than a source of pride to him, was the cause of anxiety. Al though the mildest of men, he lived in dread that he should be provoked to use his strength against a fellow being. He was afraid to nurse his own child lest he should give it a fatal squeeze. Near ly all individuals of uncommon strength make up inbulk what they are deficient in height. Stanley, the African x plorer, describes a strong man who was five feet five inches, and rather dispro portionately slender. He could toss an ordinary man ten feet iu the air and catch him in his descent. He would take one of the large white Muscat donkeys by the ear and with a sudden movement of his right toot, lay the sur prised ass on his back. He could carry a three year old bullock half way around his master's plantation. Once he actually bore twelve men on his back, shoulders aud chest a distance of 300 feet. Middle-aged people who re member the dawn of interest in mus cular excises recall Dr. Wiuship. the originator of the Idea which was subse quently embodied in lifting-machines. The astonishment that the doctor's per formances created was equal to that of the Berllners a few years ago at Jorg nery's feats. The most wonderful of these was known as the trapeze feat. The Frenchman hung suspended by his legs from a swinging bar, and, by sheer muscular strength, lifted a heavy horse aud rider off the stage, suspending them several minutes, and then letting them down gradually and evently as ne raid ed them. Mervine Thompson's achieve ment at Hochester. N. l ., last year was however, in the opinion of competent judges more surprising than this. Thompson laid bis face downward on a firmly-fixed ladderand resisted the ef forts of a team of powerful horses to pull him fiom that position A news paper writer, in reviewing this wonder ful performance, remarks that the little mention with which it escaped could happen only in a nation where strong meu were common. The same feat in 1075 gave William Joy the name of the Lnglish Samson. 1 he medical faculty of Vienna thought the strength of Joseph Pospisc-hilll worthy of discussion at several special meetings. This man held a table suspended by bis teeth while three gypsies dauced upon it. He and one of his brothers bore upon their shoulders a sort of wooden bridge while a horse drawing a cart full of stones was driven over it. Pospischllli's strength was thought to reside In his neck, aud his bones were said to be twice as large as the usual sue. Tha Sedau Cbalr. The sedan chair seems to have origin ated in England, and was brought from London to Pans by M. de Moubrun in the time of Louis XII. After the fire of London, in 1660, the streets were impassable, and so people of quality went on their business or pleasure in sedan chairs. They became in time such a nuisance as to obstruct the high ways. Sedan chairs continued in use in Paris up to the time of the Revolu tion, and possibly longer in the provin ces. When the Duchess of Nemours went in state from the French capital to her principality of Neufchatel she undertook a journey of twelve days in a sedan chair, and her august person was "toted" by relays of carriers, forty in number. 1 1 was thought to enhance the high quality of tlie person in the chair to nave what was called an aboy eur, or howler. He kept some distance In the lead and cried out: ".Make room fur Madame la Marquise," or "Madame la Presidente!" In the musee of the Trianon several sedan chairs have been preserved. Mme, de Polignac, to com memorate a French naval victory, had a mast aud sail rigged ou her chair and so paraded Paris. Teaching Daughter. Every mother ought to teach her daughter practically how to keep her house in order; how to make bread and do all kinds of cooking; how to econo mize so as to make a little go a great way; how to spread an air of neatness and comfort over her household; how to make and mend her husband's clothes; in a word, how to be a good housekeeper. Then, if she has no do mestics, she can make her ramily happy without them; if she has domestics. she can effectually teach them to do things as they ought to be done, and make them obey her. She can then direct her domestic affairs, and be mis tress of her own house; which, sad to say, too many in these times are not. Domestics soon ascertain whether their mistress knows how to do things, and if she does not they have her in their power, and almost always take advan tage of it. But do not get the false notion that the domestic virtues or a woman preclude the highest and most accomplished education. Some of the most intelligent, refined and finished ladies in the land have been the most excellent housekeepers. Sinn aointillate more durififf the au roras than at other tunes, according to Belgian astronomer. soakatpaars Boom. A writer from London says: it would be ancient history to so many of my readers to write of the house Shakes peare was born in that I will not run the risk of being quite so tiresome. There is an idea prevailing that the three antique ladies who have the house and museum in charge are the last liv ing descendants of the great poet's family. This Is fiction, unfortunately, but if tlie old ladies have not in point of fact any blood relationship to the Shakespeare family,tbey are thoroughly saturated with the conviction that the little house ou Stratford on Avon is, with the events that have made it fam ous, the one important and imposing spot on the face of the earth; that it is, iu fact, the axis aronud which every thing ebe revolves. They also balieve firmly in the greatness of their own po sition as guardians of these world-revered relics, and, joking aside, it is one of great trust, and probably could not be confided to more zealous hands. The greatest care is taken that no ac cident should occur. Gentlemen are not permitted to bring a lighted cigar over the threshold, a match is never lighted iu the bouse, nor any kind of light or fire introduced. The building is closed at dusk to prevent the neces sity of the former, and is heated by steam, which is conveyed through pipes from half a block away. The houses ou either side of the Shakeepeare birth place were torn down a few yean since to prevent danger from fire. During the tourists' session hundreds of people daily make this pilgrimage, and hundreds and thousands of times probably the three little old ladies in their grim black silk gowns, with vel vet silencers and what the English call "dress-caps" ornamenting their scant locks, repeat the explanatory remar ks to group after gro4 of visitors, begin ning with "Be kiud enough to place umbrellas aud walking sticks upon this, the old table of the poet's father, next turning your atteutiou to this, the living-room of the family, unchanged iu any respect since the childhood of the great author. After the father of the poet died this room was rented for a butcher-shop, which accounts for the defacing of the Moor; loo, also, at the chimney with its corner seats; here William Shakespeare, as a lad, doubt less little dreaming of the great future before him, often sat on a winter's ev ening after his return from the village school. Visitors are permitted to sit a moment in the chimney seat" this in tones at once solemn and patronizing. "We next have the second or best room iu the house, and off ot it our poet's bed -room, but a poor place, ladies and gentlemen, to shelter the king of intel lects. And so from room to room. While our party is in the poet's so-called bed room, I.ear the second old lady, who Is evidently just beginning the tour with a company, chanting the unchang ing refrain word for word a0ur old lady did at that point, and as we de scend the narrow, crookl staircase, after seeing the long upper room which has the autograph of Sir Walter Scott cut With a difi-.md upon the window pane, we run against the third of the weird sisters lust as she is saying: ".but a poor place, ladies and gentlemen, to shelter the lung of intellects." The Shakespeare house id like two houses, now that there is a partition wall cutting it directly through the center from garret to cellar or ground floor, which was put there "when the poet's father met with reverses and rented part of the house as an inn." This is now called tne museum, where in are collected the various relics of Shakespeare, his family, and a few in teresting objects pertaining to his time, notably the form or desk from the vil lage school the poet attended, aud vouched for by the best authorities about Stratford as authentic. Every smallest object is religiously guarded as something sacred, and in noticing this care and solicitude one cannot but bless the happy chance which awakened these sleeping old villagers to a realiza tion of the treasures in their midst. Lightning Boa. A lightning-conductor consists essen tially of a long piece of metal, pointed at the end, whose business it is, not so much (as moat people imagine) to carry off the flash of lightning harmlessly, should it happen to strike the bouse to which the conductor is attached, but rather to prevent the occurrence of a dash at all, by gradually and gently drawing off the electricity as fast as it gathers, before It has had time to col lect iu sufficient force for a destructive discharge. It resembles in effect an over do w pipe, which drains off the sur plus water of a pond as soon as it runs in, in such a manner as to prevent the possibility of an inundation, which might occur if the water were allowed to collect in force behind a dam or em bankment. It Is a flood gate, not a moat: It carries away the electricity of the air qu etly to the ground, without allowing it to gather in sufficient amount to produce a flash of lightning. It might thus be better called a light-ning-preventor than a lightning-conductor; it conducts electricity, but pre vents lightning. At first, all lightning rods used to be made with knobs on the top, and then the electricity used to collect at the surface until the electric force was sufficient to cause a spark. In those happy days, you had the plea sure of seeing that the lightning was actually being drawn off from your' neighborhood piecemeal. Knobs, it was held, must be the best things, be cause you could incontestably tee the sparks sinking them with your eyes. But as time went on, electricians dis covered that If you fixed a fine metal point to tho conductor of an electric machine it was iinpooslble to get up any appreciable change, because tne electri city kept always leaking out by means of the point. Then it was seen that if you made your lightning-rods pointed at the end, you would be able in the same way to dissipate your electricity before it ever had time to come to a head in the Bhape of lightning. From that moment the thunderbolt was safely dead and buried. It was urged. Indeed, that the attempt thus to rob Heaven oi its thunders was wicked and impious; but the common sense of mankind re fused to believe that absolute omnipo tence could be sensibly deded by tweuty yards of cylindrical iron tubing. Innooenoe Is bike polished armor, it adores and defends. Ia ihb Financial Ljnb. "How did you like that hymn? -Which oner "Why, the last one that was song, "Ninety and Nine." "I think, aa lie name indicates, thai It is below par," NEWS IN BRIEF. Sicily has had a cyclone and Tokio a typhoon. Cayenne pepper is a popular reme dy for colds. General Butler smokes fifteen ci gars a day. Vienna has an International Fish el ies Exhibition. Belva Lock wood is said to be an expert rifle shot. Portland, Ore., has lost $1,000,000 by fires this year. SanramenU is shipping sweet pota toes to Montana. A woman has been fined $'20 iu Seattle for tending bar. The East will hold the base-ball championship for 1335. Lyons silk manufacturers are locat ing mills in this country. Geo. Wm. Curtis favors the useful ness of Arctic explorations. The Metropolitan Railroad iu Lon don runs 1,211 trains daily. The towers of the Cologne cathe dral are 511 feet in heighth. The fine dust of tea will stop the now of blood from tool cuts. Captain Eads is enthusiastic over his Tehuantepec ship railway. Rabbits damage Australia to the extent of 10.000.0u0 per year. In Egypt provisions are scarce from the River Nile to the Red Sea. Tlie French vintage for 13S4 nearly exceeds the famous one of 1374. The dentist to the court of Italy Is an American, Dr. Chamberlain. The number of Quakers In the Uni ted States is put down at lOO.UUO. Baltimore boasts more pretty young ladies than she has had for years. England sends 10,000.000 barrels of rum every year to Madagascar. A Georgetown, Ky., duck has three legs aud feet, all fully developed. The population of Paris, accoid ing to recent returns, is 2.236.92S. Baroness Burdett-Coutts is in fail ing health, and rarely enters society. The Russians are reducing their war expenditures by $4,500,01)0 yearly. Among the last victims of cholera at Naples was an old woman aged 103. More than half the voting places iu Chicago were located in liquor saloous. The Grecian Prince George has en tered the naval academy at Copenha gen. Opium has increased twenty-five per cent, in price since the Chines war. Yale's champion clog dttneer vt last year has become a student of di vinity. Southern California ia at present the abode of about three thousand In dians. New York shopkeepers say that collections now do not pay for shoe leather. Far more women than men aie said to have fallen victims to the cholera in Naples. infant mortality in Franoe is com puted at from 2u to 23 per cent, of turn population. During a review at Berne, a sol dier stepped from the ranks and shot himself dead. Jefferson Davis has no male de scendant to bear his name, although twice married. It Is said that there are only five persons of foreign birth in the United States Senate. At Regent's park, Loudon, about 50,000 plants are given away yearly to poor applicants. Buenos Ayres is opposed to the ever increasing arrival on Its shores of Italian emigrants. Athough Canton, China, has a pop ulation of 1,500,000 there Is not a news lapcr in the place. A popular sport In Red Bluff, on the Pacific coast, is fishing for rats with a hook and line. Steel pens and blotting paper are despised by Bismarck, who uses quill liens and blue sand. A New York artist exhibits a stu dy from still life and the name of it is "A Tramp at Work." The Social Science Congress has recommended the abolition of all private lunatic asylums. Oranges, both foreign and domes tic, will be cheaper this winter, it is thought, than ever before. The electric light is said to hve been found cheaper than candles for the illumination of British ships. Somebody who alleges he has made the count says that music is mentioned just 165 times in the Old Testament. Dahlias, which are of Mexican ori gin, were first introduced into Germany by Dahl, and were so named after him. Since 1S00 the total appropriations for the erection and maintenance of the White House to date amount toll, 700,- ooo. Chess is the oldest game now In use It was originally played In India, where tradition says it was invented 5,000 years ago. An immense bluff, half a mile iu length, near Benton.Montana, recently fell into the Missouri river, filling that stream half way across. Violence is feared by the Governor of Arizona unless unless the extended immigration of Mormons into that Ter ritory is restrained by law. A Lynn (Mass) man, who has beeu president of a gas company for thirty two years persists In lighting his own premises with candles and lamps. The restoration of the front of St. Mark's Church at V en ice has been com pleted, and its modern appearance dis gusts every true lover of the antique. A band of from 200 to 500 bisoni were seen In. the National Parle some days ago. They were watched by a gamekeeper, so that hunters could not molest them. An organization for the suppression or regulation of noisy trades in locali ties where residences predominate is among the societies recently started in Leeds, England. An Indian In the Cascade Moun tains shot and wounded an elk some days ago. and, before he could reload his gun, the elk charged and killed him with his sharp feet. A young Finnish songstress. Miss Alma Fohstrom, at present in Berlin, is by many looked upon as a successor to Pattl and Nilsson, while others do not think her very promising. It was formerly a common practice In England for those who were sick to wear a kerchief on their beads, and still continues to the preetst da ainorjg the common people-in many pfeei 1 w m -
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