1 it i B. F. SCHWEIER, TEE OOJSTITUTIOI-THE UIIOI-AJ) THE E5T0S0EME5T OF TEE LAWS. Editor and Proprietor. VOL. XXXIX. MIFFLINTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. MAY 27, 1SS5. NO. 22. 111 ili&l tin -Mmk: nil r 1 WHKN I AM dead. How much would I care fbrlt,could I kuow 1 .at when I am under thegraxsortbe.tow L1';',Velr,., Ka''",, of Uto-s brief day ftihlMl aud quieily put awav rim spirit lei loose I'roiu mortal bar, snd somewhere away among tbc stars U.m-uiticbUo you think it would matter tbeu .Vl.at praise was lavished upon me, when, rt batever might be irs stint or store. It ueiilie.r cumd help or barm uie more?" if while 5 w.isto;!iR,ihey badbuttboaeht " f'fU-i. out a tiufcer.l would have caught Jladly such aid, to buoy uie through iituv bitier duly 1 bad to ito; rhougb i,eu it was doue they said (may -be Tooih.-rs). though uever said to me, tbe word of applaus 1, so crwed. w hose orlh rlad been the supreniest boon on earth If granted me then "We are proud to kuow I but ou of ourselves has trluui bed so." What use for tbe ro if it be not flung lb swimmer's grasp to the rock has clung? IV bat help 111 comrade's bugle blast heu tbe peril of Aipiue heights is past? What need tbat tbe spurring pasau roll W beu tbe ruuner is sate beyoud tbe goal? WLat wortb in eulogy's bluulcst breath, bru wbisjK-rud iu ears tbat are hushed In death? So' iiu! If you bave but a word of cheer, .eak it bile 1 am alive to bear. ' JO H.N KUFEK.NSw"lLL. "Mr Jjyce, surely yiu do not can aot mean what you say?" "I always nieau what I say, Mr. Aius lie; and, when I said just now that i :ai!iit pe rtnit your engagement to uiy laughter Constance to continue, 1 am aot await! of having made any depart ure from the rule." Mr. Joyce, when lie had anything un pleasant, to say, always used formal aud Ualcly 'phraseology. "It is only a week to day," resumed ;he younger man, fixng his dark eyes an the merchant, "since you, iu this very room, told uie that nothing could aiake you happier thau to give Constance into my keeping. If you meaut what you said then, what have I done to de serve this treatrneut to-day?" Mr. Joyce looked slightly uncomforta ble for a moment, lifted a letter, aud -aid it down again; but soon his ordi nary look of seK-eompIaceut superiority came back. 1 uiust confess that 1 am rather sur prised at your remark, Mr. Aiashe," he uid. "I have, if you will remember, said nothing agaiust you persoually,aud, it you will Uke the trouble to think, you will not, I presume, find much difli itilty m discovering the reason why that which was desirable a week ago is not equally so to day." "if you allude to my uncle's will " Mr. Jovce bowed. 'I was sure I had not deceived my self iu the estimate of Mr. Ainslie's powers." he weut ou; "I do alluue to Vjnr uncle's newly-discovered will." 'From vhich I am to infer," re turned the young man bitterly, "that you accepted" the wealth of John fled fern f r your daughter, aud not Wilfred Ainslie." "You ate really too subtle in your de duct inns," smiled the other, "and must pardon me if 1 do not exactly follow you. I cau say ouly this, that when, a week ago, you asked me for my daugh ter's baud, believing you to be the in heritor of your uncle's fortune of four hundred thousand pounds, as well as of the large but ior estate of Rerifem Manor, which scarcely pays its own ex penses, I lielieve i bad no objection to give my sanction- to your proposals, as the prospect for my daughter was all that a father could desire; but since that time a will has been discovered by which your late uncle most extraordi naiilv, I will allow has left everything, except the estate, which, being entailed. Us yours by right, to your cousin Lau rence Maruain, the only son of his younger sister. This alters tbe case en tirely. 1 really feel for you very much, Mr. Ainslie, but I cannot permit my daughter to marry iwverty. "1 should be the last to wish her to do so," replied Wilfred earnestly; "but 1 a 11 far from an icipatiug, even for myself, the fate that is implied by that word 'poverty.' 1 have inherited no thing from my uncle, it is true, save an estate whicbj as you remark, scarcely pavs its ow n expenses; but 1 will try to get it let tbe fishing and sliootiug are good so that it will bring iu some thing, and, for the rest. I cau work. I have youth, health, and strength three great advantages; and, if I can add to these such au incentive as the hope of calling Coustanee mine, there is nothing too hard for me to do. I will work day aud night, and " "Ah, yes, I seel" interrupted the mer chant prince, surveying him with a cold muile. "And for what length of time, Mr. Ainslie, do you purpose coutiuuitig this unremitting toil?" "If vou meau," said Wilfred, locking ratlier puzzled. "how long our engage ment might last, 1 would say that in two years I shoi.ld hope to be able to provide a borne for Constance, which, if not so large and maguiticeut as this, Vet should be one " 'Winch she would not despise. Quite so very satisfactory indeed. And now may I ask you aquestiou, Mr. Ainslie? What can you do?" The eager light which had kindled m WiPred seyesat the auspicious open ing of the merchant's s(ieech died out, iMid a flush overspread hi handsome face. "True, Mr. Jovce." he replied slowly. "What can 1 do? Whenever I sioke to my uncle of studying for auy profes sion, lie nsed to say, Mtedfern will be yours some day; learn to be a good land 1 i. that will be profession enough for you;' and now this is the end. But" more hoefulr "surely I can do some Ihing! An M. A. of Oxford " "You might take orders certainly," broke iu the other sarcastically, "lted I Tti is a fair living, is in your gift, and l he present Kector cannot live more than ten years, l'erhaps It ungkt be woith waiting for." "I'erhais. Hut, when I take orders, I hope it will be from some higher mo tive than that of waiting for an old man's death." "Just s ; you are much to be com mended. But unfortunately, Mr. Ains lie, I see nothing else; and you must ex cuse my saying that I object to this rather hinle.ss prospect for my daugh ter." "But if she should herself wish," be gan Wiirred, with a despairing clutch at the last straw; put his auditor did not let him go on. "You are only wasting lime yours and mine l y urging these considera tions. The engagement must be en tirely broken off. As I said, I am very sorry, for I will not conceal from you, Mr A iuslie. that I have a very high re gard for you; but my child's welfare must lie my first thought. What Wilfred's ' first thought" of this paternal 8 jlicituda was he did not wv; but there came a strange gleam inUj hueyes. The next iusUut how ever he said quietly this""3 she Constance kuow of all wnii!'?ard rmyself of IIr- Ralfcrn's you " fewuunutes before I saw "Your determination is unalterable, -Mr. Joyce?" "it is," "At least I may see ConsUuce once again?" said Wilfred, rising. don,t kuow," returned the other; yet perhaps I might consent to your seeing her for half an hour not louger in any case than half au hour, Mr. Aiuslie if I am assured that, after what I have just said, you will mate no efforts to entangle her into vows of un changeable constancy and " "Mr. Jiyce," interrupted Wilfred haughtily, "if 1 have lost my fortuue, I have not with it lost all sense of honor." "I'ity,"said Mr. Joyce to himself, droppiug bis polysyllables, as Wilfred left the room. "1 like him far better than his cousin; but what cau 1 do? Curious thing that both cousins should be so foud of my girl I I hope she.wou't go fretting after this fellow; but there is no fear broken hearts are as much out of fashion now as p-riwigs. 1 won der where 1 put that Stock Exchange list?" He was soon deeply absorbed in it, while Wilfred slowly mounted the stairs. The little passage-at-ttruis with Mr. Joyce at the end of their interview had done bun good; the proud conscious ness of injured, merit had made his blocd circulate more freely, and had raised his spirit from the dead level of despair. Xo; with his fortune he had not lost everything. A little hope stole into his heart, whispering that perhaps Constance would not belie her name, and that some day he would be able to give her a home equal to that which he would take her from. With this reflection Wilfred opened the door of Miss Joyce's boudoir. Con stance did not hear him. aud yes, he must stop. If only for a second, to gaze at the picture reflected in the larqe mir ror. Ah, how lovely Constance was just now! It seemed almost cruel to disturb her happy reverie, especially as a glance at the little hand revealed a miniature of Wilfred himself lying within it. "Wilfred," she exclaimed, "when did you come in? 1 am so glad; ' I was not expecting you for. oh, ever so many long hours yet; so 1 was doing the next b st thing to looking at you iu reality." With a bright smile she held out the miniature, but there was no answering smile from Wilfred as he caught the lit tle hand and pressed it to his lips. "Constance, Constance" the ords seemed to force themselves from him "oh, my darling, how I love you!" She drew back with a half-frightened expression. "Wi.fr. d, what is it? Why do you look so strange and pale? Are you ill?" Her remark recalled him to Uinise'.f. "I am not ill, Coustauce dear; but I have had some news this morning that will make a great difference to me.". She locked at him, but did not speak. "It seems that, after all, my uncle had made a will as long ago as in which Le has left everything I mean all his money to my cousiu Laurence Markhatn." "Oh, Wilfred, what a shame! But" after a moment's pause "why did he do that?" "I don't know; I cannot account for it The only thing I cau think of is this. In lSOS Maikham staved with us at Iledfern aud, strangely enough, that was the .'only time that my dear uncle and I did not get on together. Some thing was always wing wrong between us, aud he frequeAly threatened to dis inherit me; and it seems he had done it in some fit or passion. It had been hastily done, for his will is not regularly drawn up it is just written ou a sheet of note-paper and witnessed by two of the servants. He must have forgotten it however, or thought that he had de stroyed it; for he has always spoken to me as to his heir. "How strange! Tell me, Wilfred have you asked these sen-ants what they remember of it?" "They are both dead." " Wilfred, I ni sure your cousin bad been poisouing vour uncle against you." "Don't say that, darliug; it souuds a little uncharitable," "I'm not uncharitable, Wilfred," she returned rather vehemently; "but 1 dou't like Laurence Markhaui, and never could; aud I believe he did do it " "Xay," he said with a quietness of look aud maimer that formed a great contrast to her flushed cheeks, sparkling eyes, and impulsive gestures; "1 have uo reason for thinking that he did me auy harm, and, eveu if he had, It would uot alter the case or make him auy the less mv uncle's heir." "Wilfred" opening her eyes wide iu her astonishment how quietiy you part with your spleudid tortuuel" Wilfred sighed deeply. "I thought it hard to part w ith it this uioruiug," he answered; "and hard too was the thought that 1 should have to leave lledfera. for, even if I cannot get it let, as I hope to do, I cannot afford to live there any longer. But now 1 could give it all up cheerfully aud without a pang could 1 only by so doing retain that w hich is more to me than money or lauds yes, eveu thin life itself," he added in a low tone. "And that is?" asked Constance.half awed by his manner. ,-, It was a tryinfc moment for w urreu. For the Instant he wished that he had not sought this interview; but he had doue so, aud he must go through with it now. ii "Constance," he said, taking her hand in his, aud looking into the blue depths of her eyes, "my income will be very, very small not more than one hundred pounds a vear. if so much." She smiled up at him aud answered brightly . , . . "It is very small certainly; but it doesn't matter a great de d. " "I am afraid it does, Constance dar liu" " "Money isn't everyf-Mtur, I have heard you say bo yourself often aud often." . He did not answer for a moment lie was wondering how he should tell her of what was evidently so far from her thoughts, and wishing earnestly that she had, of her own self, been able to see a little cf the position of affairs. "Do you know, Constance," he be gan, "that my whole income is not nearly equal to your dress allowance?" ." Ye but I can do with fewer dresses, you kuow, aud papa will give me a lib eral settlemeut--he al ways said he would and, besides, he will always give me as much money as I like. Wilfred, she asked suddeuly. "why do you look like that?" "OU Constancel" "Xta dual mean that yoa are golnx to leave me! Wilfred, vou do not, you cannot mean that! Why do you not speak? Wiiydoyou uot say that you are not going away?" "Because I cannot. My Constance, I am come to say farewell." "But you shall not say it; you are not to go!" And then her tone suddeuly chauged from iinperiotisness to entreaty, she cried, "Oh, Wilfred, you won't leave me?. What should I do? Wil fred, you don't know how I love you. I don't care if you haven't fifty pounds a year. If I have you, I care for no th.ng else. Oil, s..y you will not gol" "It must be," he a iswered firmly. "Xo, no ! Listen, Wiirred if you waut to make money 1 will wait oh, so patiently!" "My own Constance, it cannot be your father " "Yes, Wilfred" eagerly "he will help us. Come let us speak to papa." T have doue so; he knows all. He knows that I am w ith you now, aud for what object" She steoped back and gazed at him with wide-open eyes, then said, in a low still voice ''He knows that you are here to bid me good-bye, aud he did uot prevent your coming?" Wilfred turned away. He could not bear to see the look of hoiieless anguish on her white face hopeless, for she knew her father's nature so well. For the next few moments no sound broke the silence save the ticking of the mar ble timepiece; then Coustauce spoke again. "Wilfred," she said and her voice was calm and firm "he cannot prevent my waiting for you aud I will wait for you." "My true darling! But, Constance dear, you do not kuow what your prom ise implies, I have no prospects abso lutely none. It might be years " "Well, I don't mind how many. Five, ten " "Xo, dearest; I see now that it would be utter selfishness in me even to wish to bind your bright youug life to so hojieless a prospect as that of waiting for uie. Besides, eveu should I be wil ling to do so, I have your father's ex pressed wish to the contrary --expressed iu such a way that I could not with honor disregard it. X'o, Coustauce, we must part now ay, now," he repeated almost bitterly, as the cl)ck struck a quarter to one. "Mr. ,'u'ce limited me to half an hour." How the ensuing few minutes passed Wilfred scarcely knew; his next cohe rent thought was, as he went down the staircase, amid all the moulding, gild iug. stained glass, and rare flowers, that his life-star was set and his future oue dark cloud of ray less desolate blackness. Three weeks had slowly rolled away since the day on which Constance and Wilfred parted. Toe poor girl had tried to bear bur trial bravely; but she found it hard to do so. Every oue remarked that she was not "looking well;" and her father was not blind to the same fact; but, with his theory concerning modern hearts, he was not much con cerned as j the ultimate result 'Of course she feels it somewhat, poor girl," he would say to himself 'it is natural enough; but iu a week or two she will be all right " And on the strength of this conclusion he allowed three to pass in peace; then be began to change his tactics. It was a bitterly cold morning in De cember, 1874, and Constance was re clining in a low easy-chair before a bright fire, thinking, as was her wont when alone, of Wilfred, when the open lug of Ber door roused her. For a mo ment a half -delirious hope possessed her; the next it was stilled by the sound of the measured step that announced Mr. Joyce. "Fapa," she cried, rising, "I never expected to see you at this hour of the morning!" "Perhaps not," smiled the merchant; "but I have come to the conclusion that one may spend an hour profitably else where thau in the city." "So you are going to stay all the fore noon with me? Oh, how kind of you ! There, sit down" puUiug forward an other easy-chair "we shall bave such a nice timel" Mr. Joyce looked rouud him rather uneasily, theu sat down aud gazed into the fire, then at his daughter. "You are not looking very well, Con stance," was his first remark. "1 I dare say I shall be better by-and-by," she replied q-Jietly, a slight color tinging her cheeks. "I hope so. I am afraid, Constance, you are thinking too much of of that unfortunate affair young Ainslie's, you kuow." Constance did not answer she could not "Very unfortunate affair yery un fortunate indeed," went on her father. "His uncle used him very badly." Still no remark from the youug lady. "1 am really very sorry; but, as it was, of course" he paused, evidently hoping for some comment, but none came "there was uo help for it" "Papa, let ua talk or something else." She felt as if she could bear his remarks uo longer. "Yes, my dear, quite so in fact, it was of something else that I wanted to seak to you. I have that is iu short, Constance, this morning I had a propo sal from a gentleman for you." "A proposal!" 'Yes, a proiosal of marriage.'' "Tell him, papa, that I am very much obliged to him, but that I cannot ac cept it" "My dear " "Papa, it is only three weeks since I was tbe betrothed of Wilfred Ainslie; how could I think of another?" "Be reasonable, my child. I have owned that that was a very distressing affair, but now it is past. Wilfred and you bave parted; aud I am sure he would be the last in the world to desire that you should ruin your prospects for bis shkc' "He would indeed. And do you think that I " t A "And," went on Mr. Joyce, not heed ing the interruption, "he would be grieved did he know what a morbid state you have allowed yourself to get into. Whv, Constance, you have not eveu had the curiosity to ask the gentle man's namel" "It does not matter, papa, as I do not mean to accept him." . "It does matter; and, although you are so unzrateful to him, I shall tell you He is Mr. Laurence Markham." "He!" exclaimed the girl, springing to her feet "I would accept almost any one in Great Britain sooner." "ConsUuce, I am surprised to hear you speak m such a way or a man against whom the finger of scandal has never been raised a steady, well-principled young man. haLdsome if you wish for beauty and, last, not least, oue who adores you." ' "I cannot help it." "Coustauce," said her father slowly, "if you are inexorab e, I will tell yi,u something that otherwise you should never have known. I foresee great commercial difficulties ut hand. You do not understand these things, but 1 may tell you that, uul- ss swine ;owei f til aid is interposed, I shall be ruined; I shall not have more than the miserable beggar who craves alms from door to door." Coustauce turned white and trembled. "And mv marriage what can it have to do with this?" "Everything. With ready money at. the time when it will be wanted, shall be saved; with the owner of four hun dred thousand pouuds at my back, all will be well; if not But no I dare uot think of that " Coustauce was trembling in every limb; not only the magnitude, but also the indefiuitenessof the calamity fright ened her. "And does it all depend upou me?" she faltered. "All," rettirued her father solemnly. "If I marry Iiurence Markhaui?" "You are going to consent! My own sweet Coustauce, I kuew that I sh uld not appeal to you in vaiu! Y'et, believe me, my beloved child, had the man been other thau what he is, never should I have asked you to couseut. But you will be the adored wife of au upright honorable man; you will have saved yourself from sufferings that you can not imagiu; you will have saved your father from a dishonored grave! My Coiistuice, how cau I thank you?" "But," she protested, with one last effort, "I have not consented yet" "But you will, my own sweet girl; I know you will! Still I do not wish to appear unreasonable, Constance, nei ther would Mr. Maikham. By his par ticular aud I will say, most considerate wish you will have three days to think over it ' I kuow, I know," she interrupted, "but, oh, papa, leave me now." "And what theu?" ' I will do my best," she replied. X'ext day the thought of the man w ho would be her husband came prominently before her; and this by no means les ened her trouble. Constance had never liked La irence Mai kham, but she could assign no reason for her dislike; no one had ever by the slightest word assailed his character even Wilfred himsell had sometimes taken bis part Her father bad sicken truly of Markhaui 's love for her; she had long known of it aud per haps it would not be such utter wretch edness after all, she thought Wednesday morning dawned rainy, foggy, and pitilessly cold, even with great tires in every room, she shivered, theu wondered how she could ever Lear the hardships or a poverty so great that it would possibly not admit of a tire at all. A man iu ragged gacments passed, looking blue and wretched; she remem bered what her father hail said of beg ging alms from door to door. Another idea here intruded, and demanded con sideration. Since Monday forenoon Mr. Joyce had never once alluded to that which was uppermost in her mind; but on this evening he said, as she rose from the dinner-table "At nine I-iurence Maikham will be here; my Constance, what answer shall I give him?" "Send him to me, papa, aud I will auswer him." "You will say " With an ex pression of painful anxiety he looked into her face. "I shall not fall you, papa; do not ask me to say more." "My beloved Constance! Was ever man so blessed in his child?" But uo ray of brightness gleamed from the pale still face as Constance went quietly out of the door and up stairs, past the brilliautly-lighted draw ing room, to her own boudoir, where, iu darkness, but for the bright fire, in silence, save for the tick iug of the clock, she waited with the calmness of despair for the hour of her doom. Ting, ting, t'ng a quarter to nine footstei in the passage outside the door, lie was before his time. Ah, well, what did it matter? It was ouly fiTleen min utes less of sickening suspense. Tbe door ojiened he was in the room; but she did not turn her head. His steps came nearer, he kuelt down beside ber still she did not look; tlieu a voice that was not laurence Markliaiu's breathed her name. "Coustiucel" She looked uow, looked right into the loving brown eyes she kuew so well, and heard the soft tones that weie to her the sweetest music in all the world murmur "My darling ConsUuce, mine on more; now we shall uever part again I't The three weeks that had been so try ing to Coustauce Joyce had been little less so to Wilfred Ainslie. Mr. Joyce's question of "What cu you do?" had presented itself to him in many and various forms, if not in actual words. "If you were younger, Mr. Aiuslie," "If you had ever had auy business training, Mr. Ainslie," were the words which grew too familiar to his ear, aud uever failed to send a cold chill to his heart Ou:y oue opening pteseuted it self; through the efforts of Mr. Parker, the family lawyer, he was offered a clas sical mastership iu a school near Lon don. Workham Academy seemed to be his destiny, for nothing else presented itself ; so, on the eveuing of the day tbat Coustauce had made up her mind to save her father, he slowly wended his way towards Mr. Parker's office, to tell thai worthv gentleman to inform Mr. Grinduovthat Mr. Ainslie would accept the responsibility of instructing the youth of Workham Academy in that most useful branch, a knowledge of the tongues of Greece aud Koine. It was not a very brilliant prospect certainly; and Wilfred, with that in stinctive putting off of the evil day common to all, let it be rather late iu the evening ere he presented himself at Mr. Parker's office. So late was it that he feared, as he knocked at the door, lest Mr. Parker enthusiastic worker though he was should have gone away. Such however was not the case; never theless something wonderful had hap- peDed the old gentleman liad fallen asleep! The consequence of this un heard of event was that, when Wiirred entered the room, all was dark, save lor the light of the lire. MrI'arker started from tbe depths of his easy chair as the door opened, and the light was bright enough to enable him to recognize his visitor. "Ah, Ainslie, it is you! Well, what is it to be?" "I am come to say that I accept Mr. Grindboy's offer." "Very good I shall write to-uisht. Idout fancy you will like it, my boy; its ouly recommendation is the hand some salary. 1 wba your uncle But there it can't be helped; still it was a great pity a great pity." "It may be all for the best; and per haps my cousin will do more good with the money than I should have done." "Xo, he won't, nor half as much good. Can't fancy what yo'ir uncle was thinking of. 1 was looking over his will just lfore aheiul just befote you came in, and wondering over t There it is ou tbe table; sit down while 1 ring for lights." Mechanically Wilfred had lifted the sheet if paper as the old gentlemau sM)ke. and sat down with it before the blazing fire. The next moment he had sprung to his feet, with a hal; -articulate exclamation; and, as Mr. Parker looked rouud in surprise, Wilfred put the paier into his hand, and pointed to the mid dle of the sheet. Mr. Parker looked, wiped his specta cles, and looked again, as if auy looking could alter the fact that the paper ou which was written the will dated 1S0S bore a wa'.er-mark of 13741 As the two looked at each other, Iiurence Markham, by some strange coincidence, entered the room. "You here, Wilfred!" he said in an airy manner. "'I say, old fellow, what are you going to do?" "Take possession of his fortune, Mr. Maikham," broke in the lawyer sud denly, fixing his eyes on Markhara's face "take (tissessiou of his fortune. A clever foijrery, this will very clever but still a forgery." Laureuce Mai kham turned white as death. "What do you mean? The will is properly signed and witnessed!" "Yes, witnessed but unfortunately by people who were dead by 1S70, and therefore could hardly have signed their names in 1874, before which time the paper on which this valuable document is written was not iu existence!" lie pointed to the fatal mark as be sjioke; and, carried away by the mad ness of the moment, Laureuce ex claimed "How could I ever have been such a fool?" He saw the slip next moment, but it was too late Kith his auditors had heard; and nothing remained but for him to throw himself on the clemency of his generous cousin. His suit was not rejected, for Wilfred, when telling litst Mr. Joyce and then Constance of his altered ptospects, merely said that there had been a mistake, aud made no allusi in to Mr. Markham's schemes for supplanting hi in. Xothing happened to delay the mar -riage of Wilfred aud Coustauce; Mr. Joyce, for private reasons, being eveu more anxious than they to have the cer emony performed. However, it so chanced that his jieciiuiarT anxieties were never justified; lurtiie crisis iassed by hiiu harmlessly. Tbe UaobaD Tree. The most elgautic ornament of the African forests, ami one of the most in the world is the tiaobab tree. The shores aud islands of Lake Xgami were stud ded here and there by single trees or groins of baobals, towering like castles with their trunks and bare, leafless arms above the other trees, looking somewhat gray and rough like granite rocks, aud theu smooth and metallic, where the old bark peeling off had exposed the new and allowed its peculiar copiery tint to shine through, giving a large portion, according to the light or shade, a red, or yellow-gray, or deep purple tone. Xo external attack even fire seems to in jure this tree; it is uot easily injured from within, and when it Is cut down it coutinues to grow fh length while lying ou the ground, and the roots, which extend fifty yards from the trunk keep their vitality. Adanson in lib- description of the bao bab or monkey-brtad tree of Senegal, stiles its diameter at thirty feet, giving ninety feet of circumference, and a height of from seventy-five to eighty its the average size of full-grown trees. He supposes many of them to be as old as the pyramids of Egypt The spreading branches sometimes droop so much with their weight, and that of their dense foliage, that the stem Is hidden from sight., and only the enormous mass of verdure is seen, ofteu loO feet through ami seventy-five feet or more in height. The fruit is eatable; the pulp is sweet aud of aa agreeable flavor; the juice, when extracted aud mixed with sugar, forms a beverage very ueful iu the pu trid and pestilential fevers of the conn- I try. The fruit is transported into the J eastern and southern parts of Amca, and the Arals pass it ou to the coun tries round Morocco, whence it finds its way into Egypt. The negroes take iart of the damaged fruit and the ligneous bark and burn them for the sake of the ashts, from which they manufacture soap by means of jalni-oil. They make a still more singular use of the trunk of the baobab; they expose upou It the bodies of those amoug them whom they consider worthy of more than tbe ordi- naey honors of sepulture, luey select the trunk of some baobab already at tacked aud hollowed out by insects or fungi; they increase the cavity, aud make in the trunk a kind of chamlier, iu which they suspend the body. This done, they close up the entrance of this natural tuib with a plauk. The body becomes perfectly dry in the interior of this cavity, aud forms a perfect mum my without further preparation. Color of Start. Optical peculiarities are known to exist iu the milking ofobservatious in relation to the color of stars. Prolessor Struve fouud that Sir William Her schel saw most objects with a redder tinge than they have since proved to possess. There are many examples of very sliarp eyes being uuable to distin guish colors correctly, among whom was George, Duke of Marlborough, who was au amateur astronomer, aud possessed good sight in other respects. Others have had this aiugular physical defect iu regard to particular colors ouly: for instance, Dalton tonne Dal- lon who, though so conversant with the laws of the spectrum, could not dis criminate between scarlet aud brown, aud of whom the story is told that he bought pink stockings instead of drab colored, and went to a meet ng arrayed iu them. So also were two celebrated men, Troughtou aud Dugald Stewart, affected, but their peculiarity consis ted in confusing scarlet with green, and pink with blue. To the former the riie cherry aud its leaf were of one hue. ouly to be dis'.uiguished by their form, yet his eyesight was sharp enough fot the. examination or the minutest sub divisions or graduated instruments. There are many men whose toagoes might govern multitudes if they eonld govern their tongues, And Tbey Went. Charles anil his girl have decided not to go to the seashore thissuiuiuer, but. instead, to stay at home and take in ail the ball eauies. This couple went to ee the Yales play the Hartfords the other day; and. as l)eodora had never seen a game of la!l, harlie told her to ask him to explain every thin.' shedidu't understand. At the very outset, when Capt. Rem sen's team showed their drilling by run ning to their position iu the field, she asked, excitedly: 'Oh, Charlie, what aiethey rtmuing for? Aie they afraid?' 'That's discipline, my dear.' Who's this man that lookssomethiiig like a sailor? What does he do?' 'That's Charlie Daniels. He's the umpire. What :s an umpire?' 'Wait a minute, and vou 'II see.' There! what did he ?ay?' 'He said, 'play, low ball I' 'Play low ball? Is it going to be a low ball game? There' what did he holler then?' 'One ball. Six balls gives the striker a base, you know.' hat madehim strike at that with out hitting it?' 'lhey can't always hit itr 'Why not?' l'ecau.se there's a curve on it' 'There he hit it. W.tsu't there a curve on that? What is he running for?' 'Too bad!' Childs let It go by.' 'Is that what he is running for, oe- c:iuse Childs let it go by? Who is Childs, anyway?' 'If Childs bad held it he would have been out' 'Would Childs have been out?' 'Xo.no! The other fellow.' 'What other fellow?' The man who hit the ball. Oh.' 'What made him start to run, and then turn to ruii back again." Can t you seef' 'Xo, I can't see, aud I'll thank you not to answer so impatiently; if you do I will uot ask you auy more about the game. 'Pardon me. I will endeavor to. At this point he was interrupted in what he was about to say by Il;in-en's marvelous catch and the uproarious ap plause which followed. Deodcra was all excited, too, without knowing the reason why. Say, Charlie, what is it all about.' she asked. 'Iiemsen, liemsen!' shouted Cliailie. Remsen, Kemsen!' shouted a hundred others. 'What about Kemsen? Fray do tell.' 'Didn't you see that daisy catch?' 'Yes, I saw him catch a ball, but it seemed to be awkwardly done. He didn't do it near so gracefully as the l ale boys, lie almost tumbled down when he caught it.' 1 hat sit He had to a'most tum ble down to reach it' 'Why dulu't he do as the Yale boys do get nearer to the ball, so he wouldn't have to tumble down? Say, Charlie, what is the empire running for?' 'Umpire, my dear.' 'I prefer to call hiiu empire. He's a sort of a Czar, any way; liesides he looks like a Kussiau. But v. hat is he running for? Aud he ruuj for both sides aud cross lots, too.' 'He runs so he can see who gets to base first the ball or the player.' 'What! Is he near-sighted? I can tell from way back here. Besides.what difference does it make, any way! Say, Charlie, what is that girl iu the car riage waving that blue handkerchief for?' Yale's color is blue. 'I thought the ones who got beat were always blue. Why didu't that man out there catch that ball?' 'Oh, that's Way.' His way, is it?' 'Xo, no. His name is Way.- 'But he didu't try to catch it' 'l'erhaps he couldn't see it 'Is the game out now?' 'Three more innings to play. 'What are some going for?' Got their money's worth, I suppose.' 'So have L Let's go.' He said "AuienI' And they went Value of India. A writer on a Freuch paier publishes a long article iu which he endeavors to show that the consiliences of the loss of India would be less serious to Eng land than is at present generally sup posed. He points out that iu a finan cial point of view not one farthing of the Indian revenue comes into the En glish exchequer. Great and populous as India is, her income only sutliees to meet her wants. Since the East India Compauy ceased to exist, the Indian budgets have constantly shown a deficit and the Indian debt, insignificant in ISoS, when the company was dissolved now amounts to Xl."7,0tX,IKW sterling. From a commercial point of view, cer tainly, ludia is a most important outlet Her trade with England amounts to XSO.OUO.OOO sterling, but this is only one-eighth of the whole foreign com merce of the United Kingdom. Again, England is at present the country whose commerce with India is increasing most slowly. Jin an article iu the Ecvn)niste Franonse of the 11th of April, M. Maurice Jamtel was shown that the exportation of English pro-luce into India has only augmented 23 per cent, from 187'J to 1884, whilst that of French produce has increased by 50 per cent, that of German products by 84 per cent and that of Austrian products by 240 percent The importation of Indian products Into England in that period of live years has augmented by only 2 per cent It has augmented by 20 per ceut into Austria, by 71 per cent, into France, by 120 per ceut into Germany and by the enormous figure of 1,842 per cent into Russia. In short, if England is not in the way to lose the market of India, she has at least the annoyance of seeiug her European com petitors, Russia iucluded, making more rapid progress thau she does herself. If India ceased to belong to England, it does not follow that she would cease to be an outlet for English goods. Mr. Cobdeu ridiculed the idea. He held that India was not commercially indis pensable to England and that io other respects the itossessioD of India was disastrous. What the tail is to the peacock India is to England. It is the plume of Luglaud, aud the English people have never participated in the disdain of Cobden for such showy orna ments. Eternity is crylBg out t0 Ju louder and louder as you near Its brink. Rise, be goiugj Count your resources; learn what you are not Ct for, and give up wishing for it; learn what you can do, do it with tbe energy of a man. raat flying wild Fowl. "I've held my watch on about even kiud of wild.duck there is," said au old time wild-fowl hunter, "and I cau tell just about to the sixty-third part of a dot how much space any one of 'em car get over in an hour. There's uo rail road train ou the coot iueul that can hold a candle to oue side of the slowest duck that flies. "The cauvaslwck cau distance the whole duck family, if it lays itself out to do it When the canvashack is out taking things easy, enjoying a little ruu around the block, as it were, it jog through the air at the rate of eighty miles an hour. If it has business some where and has to get there, it puts two miles behind it every minute it keeps its wings flapping, and does it as esy as you or 1 would step into Frit .'sand call for beer. If you don't believe it just fire square at the leader in a string ol cauvasbaiks that are out ou a business cruise some time when you get the ehauce. Duck shot travels pretty quick. but if your charge brings dowu any one of these ducks at all, I'll blow you off to a pair of the best there is iu the mar ket, with trimmings and all, if it isn't the fifth or sixth one back from the lea der that drops. If you have the faint est idea that you will briug the leader down you must aim at a space not less thau ten feet ahead of them. Then he'll ruu plump against your shot. When he drops you will find hi in a quarter ol a mile or so on. "The mallard duck is a slow coach. It's all he wants to do to go a uiile a minute, but he can do it when it is ne cessary. His ordinary, every-uay sty .e of getting along over the country gets him from place to place at about a foi- ty-live luile-an-hour rate. The Ma. k duck Is about an eveu mate for the mal lard, and the pin-tail widgeon and wood duck can do much better. The red head can sail along with ease and cover his ninety miles an hour as long as he feels inclined to. The blue-winded teal and its handsome cousin, the irreeu winged teal, coti'd fly side by side for loo milp4itiir1 liikA the ili-it ini-p nt-k and ueck, for one can fly just its fast as the other, and to go lot) miles an hour j is no hard task for either of them. The j gad wale vou don't know what a gad wale is, I'd bet! 1 thought not Well, it's a duck that doesn't get e.ist very j often, but is veiy well known in the! wesi. It is something like a mallard. only harder to shoot, because it is noli so unsusectiiig as the mallard. Tiie giulwale is something of a daisy, too, ou the fly, and will win money for you everv time, if vou liet it t-an make its' ninety miles an hour. "May be you wouldn't think thai a goose could almost double discount the! fasted fast express train that runs on! our railroads, but it can every time. I j mean a wild goose. It has a big, heavy I body to carry, but it manages to glide from one feeding ground to another j with a suddenness that is a caution to , wing shots. To see a flock of honkers i moving along, so high up that they seem to be scraping their backs against the, sky, you'd never believe tiny were tra-l veling between eighty and a bundled miles an hour, but they are. The wild goose never has any time to fool awav, but his gait is always a business one. The broadbill duck is the only wild fowl that can push the canvasback ou the wing. Let a broadbill and a canvas back each do his best for an hour and the broadbill will only come oul teu miles behind. A hundred and ten nii'es an hour can be done by the broadbill, and he, consequently makes a mark for a shotgun that a greenhorn wouldn't hit once in twenty-seven years. Animals are capable of leing tra-ned by mau to enhance enjoyment Conse quently, it becomes the duty of man, so far as this is true, aud no counter claims interfere, to develop and train the powers and enlarge the range of the enjoyments of those auiinals that c.iu.e Into close aud frequent intercourse with himself. There is abundant evidence, moreover, that many animals are capa ble ii social happiness which is greatly enhauced aud refined through their asso ciations with m u and his activities and sports. We need ouly name the dog, the cat, the horse, the ox, the cow, the sheep, uot a few ot the feathered tri'ne, and also the monkey. These enter more or less completely into s;iecial pleasures by the?r intimate intercourse, with man. They become more sagacious in their judgments, more sensitive in their feel ings, and widened iu the number and refinement of their sorrows and joys. As mau learns to know them more inti mately, he also becomes more sensii ive to the indications of joy and sorrow which they furnish, and more impelled to further the one and mitigate the other. In consequence the duties of men to the animals with whom they be come closeiy connected are largely in creased, and iu proportion are less easily evaded or denied. The moral discipline to gentleness and self denial, which is sometimes wrought bv his dog or liLs hor-e in an otherw ise morose and selfish aud brutal master, is not infrequently noticeable and effective. Coiitrariwi.se, the hid den brutality or selfishness whicli is sometimes wreaked upon one of the pets of the househi Id, by au otherwise deco rous aud well-bred mau or woman, has au important moral significance its a manilestation of unfeeling and seitish uess. if mau owes these duties, so far as animals themselves are concerned, and especially those which are intimate ly associated with man, their claims upon us are in some respects similar to those which may be urged by our fellow men. A Healthy rro'a-wtioa. "Journalism must be a healty profes sion," said old Mrs. t'quages as she, laid the paper on her knee and ruMied her eyeg'ass with her apron. "What makes you think so?" said old Mr. Squagg. "Because I see the w riters who used to bave pieces iu the paj-rs when I was a girl are s'.iil living and writing away the same as ever; they must be very old." "Who are they?" asked Mr. Squaggs. "Well, there Is 'Veritas' for one, and 'Anon, and 'One who Knows,' and 'Vox Populi,' aud 'Justice,' and 'Pro Bono Publico,' and X Y Z,' and 'Tax payer," and many others. I see some ot their names every day, and I declate if the sight or 'em dou't bung back the old school days." Then the old lady gazed meditatively Into the tire and old Mr. Squaggs weut out on to the back stoop to indulge in a quiet laugh to himself. Ureatxtcss. If yon want to End out bow great a man in, let him tell it lata-! tell. NEWS IX BRIEF. Eus'and's first book aii'.'lx-n was in 107o. Cleveland's salary will be $1.'V7 a day. Watches were first constructed ia 1470. ' A storm moves thirty-sex miles per hour. A hurricane moves eighty miles per hour. The value of a tou of silver isf'lT, 7i4.84. The Crst iron steamship was built in l.'iu. Modern needles Crst came into use in 1545. Coaches were first built in England in loo9. Japanese laws compel fish to be sold alive. The Russian press is iu a dying con dition. Victoria, B. C. talks of a JSo.OtH) theatre. Venezuela has more territory than France. Illinois spent fi.O.'O.OnO for charity last year. Pere Hyacinth is lecturing in Sau Francisco. The thst horse railioad was built iu ls.rtJ-oT. The United States has 13,".o!,2uO milch cows. Cliihuahua,Mevco, is to tie lighted by electricity. The Uritisli navy estimates for l8So are ?ol,'.2,.VA. Floating saw nulls are used on the lower Mississippi. Florida's assessed real estate valu ation is 5oti,it42,ftV. The pajier cigarette is said to 1 going out of favor. The skating rink fever has reached the Sandwich Islands. The weight of an ostrich egg is equal to 28 hen's eggs. Xew Zealand freehold farms are valued at $17o,Ht,Kio. Chos. Hauls, of London, invented the pendulum in 1011. Clocks which keep excellent time may be bought for jl. They have orange trees in Florida seventy-live years old. Two counties iu Idaho semi Mor mons to the legislature. Women In Paraguay have exactly the same rights as men. InlVristhey celebrate a divorce by a grand dinner or ball. Tennessee has sixteen coal mines in successful operation. Oscar Wilde projioses to cotte over again and bring his wife. The Peking lliiztiU is the oldest newspaper in the world. The Java sugar and coffee trade is iu a state of depression. Germany will increase her torpedo boat llotiila to 1 A ves.-els. The railway from Sua&iui to Ber ber will cost J::.",'XK1 a mile. Mammoth Cave, iu Kentucky, re ceives 3,W.) visitors annually. Foxes are recited remarkably plentiful iu sections of Maiue. Cedar Rapids, la., will buy water works to tloixl her proosed sewers, In over three fourths of the coun ties of Georgia prohibition prevails. A Duluth policeman slept ou his post, was dismissed and Went crazy. Many white people patronize the Chinese theatres iu California cities. A devil-fish of ten feet spread was recently caught at l'uuta Rausso, Fla. A factory in UK Rapids, Mich., makes 2o0 gallons of wood alcohol every day. Michigan made over three and a quarter million barrels of salt last year. At Hiiiesburg, Vt, recently, the therniiiuit-tt r fell o2 degrees inside of 0 hours. The average age of the Guards gone to Egypt was 21, average height 0 feet. Thiity-four female Arab soldiers were killed in a recent battle with the British. "A descendant of seven Russian counts" has been irsturalied in MU waukee. Tho Cologne IS'izfttf. Bismarck's official organ, has a daily circulation of .'!1,7j0. One-half of Florida's orange crop is raised within a radius of twenty-four miles. Of the 32,0)0 Indians in the Ter ritory of Dakota ."'.O.OOO sjieak the Eng lish language. Xew Oilcans contains seven white women to six meu and four negro wo men to three male negr.ies. There are only 2') Russian cities w ith a population exceeding .jU.uijO and ouly 1-'U count more than 1'J,iho. Mexican soldiers are said to be ot all shades of color, ranging from ueaily a pure white to a perfect black. A large saw factory is to lie built in West Oakland, Cat, during the pres ent year by an Eastern capitalist, The southern part of Africa has 70,000 tame ostriches, producing Jj, 000,000 worth of featheis annually. There are, it Is calculated, 7.V2 miles or street railways tramways, as they are called over there iu England. Experiments made iu Paris show that the crocodile can bring its jaw together with the- force of over oOO pounds. A cave of unknown exteut is re ported to have been discovered in Jose phine county, Or., 20 miles south nf Grant Pass. A congress is to assemble in Sao iHmiingo on September 10 to decide whether the remains of Christopher Columbus repose there or iu Havaua. A consignment of bumblebees was lately sent out from England to Xew Zealand to assist iu the fertilization or eloversced by carrying the pollen from blossom to blossom. A salt lake, reported in Hidalgo county, Texas, is oue mile in length, 5 miles in circumference and from three to four reet deep. Its bed consists of crystals of pure salt - The robbery of a Meudocino, Cal., stage coach lately was averted by the borses, which, having become excited at the warlike action of oue of the des peradoes, who discharged kia gun, dashed off at a break-ueck speed and left tin robbers in possession of the road, - ( 7
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