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MliTLINTOWINV JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 12, 1SS5.
NO. 33.
. - - . .,
r,iB tl ouuttered thought
JJW ""'I'""-' Iraulu'
,,T:fiXi rm:.' t is stirred.
', ,..riM'"!t umii . need
'?U' tU- ;ivsi.le scattered mmJ;
ir "";,, .-"-! .ry.
' ttei-'i' 'f Mv an., care.
ubJ"?. ..V uo., WW.'.
:irt of aiieli race;
r'tl..l tli i-r.sent hou;:
,1-eJ i tnulttp led
rst
: . i .....I 1 r it T ti MliU13
,rrr Muiu
't
... t,..ter wrnllL Le&r'il
y"V'v nes .1 t'ueyeaii
n ,r . j ,,i ,.ur loutuj kuo.T.
..,'gaaiJ "r thuru-iiued way.
..fail. i o'Mlr e"":
.. ,.vri.rJ i.-r evt-rroore.
-:;tc UV bii y reaping tie'ds.,
itriM- if"! harvest yie.d.s,
ub --rii4 world:
xio ' 51 '-"l:')- l!H'
..iu,cit,'..td Wuhi to couie out
.i -dJ '.2 to ta".k over a little busi
T. -Kl, ... n lit- should arrive before
ft lev .'U uni: to hiui uJil 1
Zl li kii-a a:ul jK.lite to Lira my
" jje jj rt;i.:y a vny well-meaning
.... ,..,:.. it :Ui. and the most
t..uH.K.k-k.tir 1 have ever bad.
Z'j sectned a little out of sorts late
asdl!" sure would be most grate
liitie a tent son from you."
"iVs Kii-l'iTil l'.lair. the rich tea
ffiertU:. t--l to llis JuKliter in
.ia,,.ru::.-'.on Uaving bis pretty villa
c aicla.i'Ul f..r tl.e city, with an
Vl; 0f j.,i;iii'is condesceusiou
r riiV.Bil u..iu:fet bis sentinieiits
t i Wiii t Uxilt-kee;ers and tbeir
K ." i eledieiit daughter, as
ir'itotiO'H il' I'-'i i.'.bers guest tliat
ekiz I'i'-uly sled; but certainly
itt'r:Ly Ua uit-rcLant would have
e uiuuJi'- character if be liad leu
i nt:r of bis tie Uirain r on that occa
b3:for no s.iui:er had the door closed
cm. tie serv.iiu who uhered bini iuto
it '-reJcti of !iis joujiir mistress than
-t.talj us.l-sLed and iiublusaius be
J.i 'H-.hz !r:rl iuto bis arms, only
rvirx' ii'-r alter leaving uion her
r rui iijc. at lcisl balf a doea warm
lhii. n.'t ap:-.ir'.iis in the least sur
yjei or dirc.'iiivrtcd at this greeting,
Ure ai;;u-h:ng'.y the situation for
fr.wrt miiiutcs lfore she bluAingh
Jftiturk atid ei.de.tvored to bring in
airi'il in? l:ke or.ler ber soft brown
itt,-likh'witli the dainty ruffles at
L.td Ik-u-me souiewtiat dis
it'hI ly Hie welcome she bad so
utahi-mly i.veii her father's guest.
"ltv-4 li'iijt.rue since I have seen
tea. Hurry,"' she remarked, with a
brriilerxj glance from leneatli the
feck"u?5:es shading the large gray
pes
"lili-.'Uld thiiik so indeed quite an
Kr!"rr.-pn!iileii the Uiok-keei)er dis-
iy. "I ru.u..ured to ;et away lialf
it!.. Kfoie the tiaie your father
fcilmtfce should lie home, hoping to
fee jf'U ai'ise- but he'll 1 sure to turn
?MT" he's exjiected it's just m
ki:-'
"Ildny. do you know why my father
La::: fur you to-night?'
"lhaver:t an idea, excepting that
I'Si'Qjt-'.'.i! ; aiciul the branch of the
test'ta :l Il.ii.-kong."
"'I caii ten y-iu a little then,
Z- I lordij think you will be as
liorl ks LiV father seems to expect,
(h of the men in the house out there
as Just (!ieij; he 1 ad rather a resjK-n-i-t'ie
j"SUi:.ii. I l-!ve, and papa wants
tujfLd j.njiut to Ukt his place."
"A? if anything c.'uld induce me to
ave E::.'Ui.,( an. you. lora!" cried
"J vullj man. ,; Whv, the separation
jt.'i pruUhly ht- for years!"
"1 am afraid you must go. Harry,"
u-tiie f!rl s rather sorrowful response
"ldukoow luy fattier; your refusal to
' La wishes w i mid piobably make
Mhirir very like an enemy of him,
'A retiler uiatteis between us even
ifcw Uijurle? s than thev are at pres
et"' ""Uora, I must speak to vour father,"
the jrtuug man exciteilly. "When
hU ti.at his da'iqliter's happiness is
p".vr.l, he eau't be heartless enough
L'rtfu- our united piaers. lie seems
J?, Mt-er kindiy toward me. Any-
: '"uld be 1 letter tl.au this uncer-
-V, lcar Harry, lielieve me, it
c Ik miiv exchangiLi: uucertamtv
, ,' f";t:ve resignatiou of all our hopes.
ul-.w my father well, and it isu.se-'-e
from myself and you that
? ' "i-ik-y far better than bis child
..'.' eclaied over and over again
lrfw.il i,ever give bis consent to
. t10-" man tKK)rer than
a:'d 1 be will never re-
!
iS Wll.l.'
p.-ieju auv.se me to go off to
-,:t!i t!ie probability of never
, K-aazain, Ii.,ra? Nothing can
.'wthai, that, surely!"'
t!;-k' 1 1 n" 1 Ulli ijave time U)
(iini ' t uf il "ny tllis morning,"'
T ' 011 ll'e of tt,a,s-
tar"! n1"" ,,al)a uow 1 l)ave SO
Ka ; ''Uo -'.v to juu. I must see
WnT, d you IU;'"'ageto come
tot k ilrs'la-v at lhis time for
''." -M' fber is going to a
die city on that evening.
5sIoUr? 1 ca"-" responded Harry,
tJZ- ,!, ' "ned to admit the
'flM,il,!i,l,U:(.11t.
i.i
"Win. v.m ..r.Mv.wt n,T
,c s ever a most excellent qual
" uUi:ni i t i.. . .
r 1,
a i uuie my uaugii'
ik.ri-'
".: jou comfortable
'oufi f i So" l'H'" responded
ti.w' y eni,lr''1-v- MI suppose
lV.i :" 1 dispensed with
hLty ".v g
"dy-the
::
us a bottle
l'ie-1-;.''
'- yiiu." be?au lhe merchant,
iyu ,' , - . a.
:t. in V, v e c,niiact with that
rle t i'kof wliich you have
Cln. ''ell.ka"d the transaction
"""v tl i"3 '? tlhing very like
s Kh.r , 1 P"nis. ot at all a
1 r... ...
sir.
.IT. J I
i a little bitterlv.
Vi '"'thingelseLo av whi,-h
V.
5WiV.'U m"tk! "early, my boy.
Lh?Ul of the death of
secretary at Hongkong, and
i t
itsi'v,...; U' f 1,1 13"' 11 the room, evi
i; orti'!;':, , Wllli Ijii'iself and all
k'e"; 1::'Ve 10 teU 'ou that
"-iL Lews IliinTi A m-riu
am ca!led upon to send some on t.
mi nis place, it's rather a good posi.
uu w t ureu auuie one we can
irusi. 1 ve ueen rttber pleased with
uie way you ve uoue your duties lately,
and I've been thinking heml in short
1'vj made up my mind to give you the
"But, sir," begau Wynn, iu desper-
auiou.
4.. .L. . . I ....
ju, uo inauKsi i Know you appre-c-'.tc
:t and all that, oi course, and I'm
-! ie we shall be satisfied with vnu
Cmild you le ready to go next month?'
1 w ill think it over, sir. I supiose
ii ia not necessary 10 give jou my an-
!"er lor a uay or iwuf
-AO, certainly not," replied the
a,ercnant, a little surprised at Wynn's
way oi receivmg sucu a "piece of good
uniuue.
inen ionowea an announcement
wnicti, for an instant, caused the book
keeier to turn hot and cold with light-
uiui: lajnuuj.
"1 erbaps you will be interested In a
piece of family news which has given
me the greatest satisfaction, Wynn
My daughter is to be married,"
Impossible! 1 mean, sir, I had
beard nothing of it," stammered poor
ynn.
""Kh?" exclaimed the merchant, star-
n. g at bis companion in astonishment.
"So. I suppose not. The fact of the
matter is, llis JJlair doesn't know of
it hen elf yet; but she will, of course,
be as pleasvd as I am. The letter only
came to-day from an old friend of inine
who has made millions millions, my
ooy in sugar, and writes proposing a
marriage between his only son and my
daughter. The younif man Has seen
my Dora somewhere, it seems, and was
quite smitten with the sly bttle puss.
lie is coming to us on a visit next week
s ow haven t I cause for rejoicing to
day. Wynn?'
Tray accept my congratulations.
sir,'' replied the book-keeper lugubri
ously.
"Uy-the-way, Wynue," the merchant
went on, after a moment's pause Cevo-
ted to golden anticipations, it mis
struck me that you have been rather
dowu In the mouth lately. Are you
out of health?"
" Oh, uo, sir, thank you not at all!"
responded the young man hurriedly.
rather disconcerted by this unusual
solicitude in his behalf.
The delight with which the merchant
bad that day beard of the success of
business schemes likely to make an itn
portant addition to the banking account
of the Grin, and especially anticipations
of the brillliant marriage to be made
by his daughter, had tilled his heart
with a sort of comfortable condescen
ding benevolence and goodwill to all the
world, which descended even to the
affairs of so unimportant a personage
as his book-keeper.
"Have you had any bad news?
"Xo, sir."
"Perhaps you are In debt. Don't be
afraid to tell me the truth, Wynn. I
feel quite a fatherly interest in you, I
assure you, and I might do something
to help you. 1 shouldn't at all mind
advancing a hundred pound or bo."
1 thank you most gratefully, Mr.
Blair; but I have no debts."
Then there is nothing else for it
boy; you certainly are in lovel"
Wvnn started, blushing to the very
roots of his hair, but could tlnd no
words to reply, while the merchant
stared at him for a moment, and then
laughed uproariously, rubbing his hands
with glee as be exclaimed
"There, I have it at last! Come out
with it.young man; what's the trouble?
Won't she have you?"
"Yes, sir," stammered Wynn, in an
agony, "but she is rich and i am poor.
Her father would never consent."
T'ooli, pooh! is that all? You sure
ly ought to be able to manage that
somehow. Is it indiscreet to ask who
the young lady is? Do I know the
family?"
I am afraid it wouldn't do to
mention her name," said poor Wynn,
looking wildly about for some means
of escape.
Well, do I know the father?"
"Yes, sir:"
The merchant reflected for a moment
then brought his fast down upon the
table w ith a vehemence which made
the wine-glasses rattle.
'I have it new 1"
Wvnn turned fairly cold.
"You needn't say 'yes' or -no,' nor
commit yourself In any way; but I
think I've got your secret. It's old
Brooks's daughter! I've seen you twice
with the young woman lately. Old
Brooks got the better of me in a busi
ness transaction the other day, and ld
like to be even with him. Any way
whoever the girl is, I'm disposed to
help vou."
"How, six?" gasped Wynn.
"Why hem! if the old fellow won't
give his consent, why shouldn't you do
without it? What do jou think of elo
ping with tier?"
"What sir?" cried Wynn, hardly be
lieving his ears. "You really advise
me to do that?"
"Yes why not? What's more, I'll
give you the price ot the license for a
wedding-present and lend you my car
riage any night you like to be off, be
sides throwing in my blessing into the
bargain! I know a clergyman a few
miles from here, who would do the job
for you willingly, especially if I gave
you a note to him. I did him a favor
once."
"And you positively will give us
your blessing and assistance, no mat
tr wt.n f hR vonnir ladv mav be?" ex-,
claimed the book-keeper involuntarily.
"Positively," replied his employer,
firm in the conviction that there was a
delightful opportunity of becoming re
venged u,xn a man who had assailed
him in his weakest point bis pocket.
"I w ill help vou without asking any
questions. We must teach the grasp
ing old sinner that his daughter's af
fections are not an article of merchan
dise. Xobody need 1 ashamed of you
for a son-in-law, Wynn, my boy."
"Thank you, sir," responded the
young man faintly.
"Just consult the young woman, and
if ail's right in that quarter, let me
know the day, and the carriage and the
price of the license shall not be want
ing. I shall not go back from my
promise." . .
Wynn did not fail to keep his appoint
ment at Richmond on the following
Thursday evening, finding Dora at
home and alone, as he had hoped; and
the next morning, when Mr. Blair en
tered his counting-house, he found his
book-keeper waiting anxiou-ly to speak
with him. . .
"Well, Wynn. is anything the mat
ter?" asked the merchant, a little sur
prised at seeing the young man at so
unusual an hour. "Has anythine new
turned up about the American affair?
No, sir," Wynn summered, blush-
!!. ,. ..rioai- aplinnl-ffirL "1HII1
sa
not here to speak of business.
I must
beg your pardon for trespassing upon
jum inue at uiis nour; out you were
soveryiud a few days ago as to
promise "
'Well, out with it, man!"
"That you would assist me "
a.ua uio young woman! I re
niemlier now!" exclaimed Mr. Blair
laughing heartily. "8o you have seen
her? What does she think of my
pianr"
Mie baa consented, sir," faltered
the book-keeper, keeping his face care
fully hidden behind the lid of a desk in
which, to all appearance, he was search
ing busily. "On the day after to-morrow
evening, if convenient to you
The sooner; the better! My boy, I ui
quite ready to keep my word." As he
spoke, the merchant turned to his desk
and filled up a cheque, wtrtclitie hand
ed to his companion. "Theta is the
wedding-present of w hich I spoke. Of
course you must get a special license.
My carriage will also be at your service
at whatever time and place you choose
to appoint, uy-the-way, what- does
the young lady think of the China pro
ject? I hope your marriage will not
affect your decision with regard to it."
"She is anxious that 1 should do
whatever is most pleasing to you, sir."
"Ah, I ee she is a sensible woman!
I should like to call in the course of
the evening, after the ceremony is over
and offer n v congratulations, if you
and Mrs. Wynu - intend to remain iu
London."
"Thank you, sir. 1 was going to ask
something of the kind. We expect to
be at the (irosvenor Hotel."
"Should you like a week's holiday?"
"Not at present, thauk vou." an
swered Wynn, feeling guilty that he
was extremely likely to be given a
much more prolonged hohdav than he
desired.
"Very -yell, my boy. I wish you all
manner or luck. Return in the course
of the morning, and I will give you the
- t v. 111 J 11ICUU U1C
eleigyLiaiu"
About nine c -clock a m. on the dav
of the marriage Mr. Blair, adorned
with the unusual splendor of the light
kid gloves and a white neck-tie, and
carrying an enormous bouquet of roses
and orange blossoms, entered the Gros
venor Hotel and inquired for Mr. and
Mrs. Wynn. He was told that the
gentleman had been at the hotel in the
morning and engaged rooms for him
self and wife, but bad not as yet ap
peared with the lady.
"Ihen 1 wnl wait in their rooms un
til tney arrive: it caat be long now,"
replied the merchant; and he was shown
into the pleasant little sittin? room re
served for the pair whom the astute
clerk bad already settled In his own
mind to be bride and groom.
Mr. Blair liad not long to wait.
though in his present state of good
humor he could very easily have borne
a longer delay than the half hour he
passed in well satisfied musing over the
good luck which lately seemed to have
attended his eveiy moment. lie had
received a letter from the young man
whom be hoped to call his aon-m-law,
appointing a day lor his visit to Rich
mond, aud the prospect of this mar-
i iage was above all a source of self
congratulation with him.
Then too this evening's event affor
ded him indescribable amusement, as
he pictured to himself the wrath and
consternation of the man who he had
firmly convinced himself had injured
him deeply when he discovered that bis
only daughter bad bestowed herself
upon an impecunious book-keeier. All
alone to himself Mr. Blair chuckled
with malicious enjoyment over this
most delightful of jokes, and rejoiced
in his own share in bringing his enemy
to confusion.
I wonder how soon papa is to be
told of the happy event" besolloquized.
"Who knows? Perhaps it will be a
family party to-night!"
Later the merchant had taken out
bis pocket-book and was deep in an
abstruce calculation as to certain weigh
ty transactions which might be under
taken when a little of the wealth of his
prospective son-in-law had filtered into
the firm, when there was a sound of
footsteps in the halU pausing at the
door, aud Mr. Blair knew that the bri
dal party had arrived.
Thrusting the book iuto his pocket
and seizing the bouquet, he rose and
stood in readiness, when the door was
thrown open by the waiter, aud, sui-e
enough, Wynn entered, having on his
ai m a lady closely veiled.
The merchant advanced, liowing low
with outstretched hand, which was
rather hesitatingly taken by the
book-keeper, who muttered only a few
half-incoherent words of thanks in re
ply to the congratulations offered him
Mr. Blair scarcely noticed tbe young
man's evident confusion, so occupied
was he in vainly trying to discover his
companion's identity through the" thick
yeil whicn she naa nor, as yet raiseu.
There seemed to him sometning oauiy
familiar in her figure, though, much to
his chargm, he saw instantly that she
was certainly some incnes snorter man
Miss Brooks.
"And your wife? Am I not to have
the nleasure of making her acquain
tance?'' he said, feeling somehow vague-
uneasy.
Then the veil was slowly raised, to
reveal the face of the merchant's own
daughter, pale, frightened, beseeching;
but still for a moment me man iaueu
to understand.
"Dora!" he said, in Dewiiuermenu
What are vou doinz here?"
Dead silence followed; then the fair
est of the merchant's castles In Spain
fell with a crash.
!'Can it be possible that you are this
man's wife?"
vou
vrv much difference to you.
Y'ou
cant miss me, you know, for you never
needed me, aud I needed so sorely some
one to love me!"
The book-keeper was holding his
wife's hand firmly all the time; and on
ly drew her closer to him as he added
"We are far from deserving it, I
know; but I hope you don't forget that
you promised ns your blessing, Mr.
Blair."
The merchant was about to speak,
but suddenly checked himself, and,
turning abrubtly, walked to the win
dow where, in total silence, be stood
motionless for a few moments, battling
with the bitterest disappointment of his
To his own surprise, even in tne
midst of his almost uncontrollab e an
ger, something In his daughter's pa
thetic words caused him a pang of gen
uine self-reproach, as he . suddenly re
alized what a lonely neglected life his
child had led, while, in his pursuit of
wealth, had never known or cared for
any needs she might have which money
"Yes, dear father, it is quite true,
id the girl's pleading voice. "Won't
rrv in rortrive usr it wu ""
could net supply. Was it strange that
she should have sought abroad what
she could never hope to find in her own
home? Then, too, the deed was Irre
vocable; no amount of opposition could
render the marriage Illegal; and, after
all, Dora might have done worse, for
what Wynn lacked in fortune be partly
supplied in business capacity.. While
these thoughts were passing rapidly
through his mind, something else struck
Mr. Blair most uncomfortably. If be
were to cast off these young people in
anger, might they not in return make
known to all their friends his own ridic
ulous part in this affair? Might it not
even come to the eais of the detested
Brooks? This decided him.
"This is a great disappointment to
me, as you of course must know.Dora,"
he said at last, turning to his compan
ions, who were awaiting his words in
almost breathless 8usinse. "How
ever, the deed is done, and I suppose
the most sensible thing is to make the
best of what I must consider a rather
bad job. I promised you ivy blessing,
Wyun. aud you shall .have it, upon two
conditions. The tirst is that you and
I suppose your wife shall go to China,
as I proposed." -
"We are quite willing, sir," the
book-keeier replied eagerly, "Aud
the second condition?"
"That you never, either of you, dis
close to auy human being who was the
promoter and instigator of your elope
ment" "I promise, papa," said Dora.
"And so do I, sir," said the young
husbaud immediately afterwards.
A Otfujiola Sni storin.
Midday, everything sweltering and
seething in the suu that happens to be
exiiosed to it; everybody bubbling pos
itively bubbling with perspiration that
happens to be in the shade; thermome
ter looks as if It would burst I am
afraid to say how high the mercury has
risen in fact, the perspiration pours so
into my eyes that 1 cannot see the small
figures. Rock aud sand pain the eye by
their glare. A black, dense, mud-colored
cloud suddenly appears on the hor
izon at the south, at tirst a speck, then
growing larger and larger, rolling rap
idly towards us, now iu the distance,
now- nearer and nearer. Down go tents.
and up in the air go straw ' huts and
sheds, while the palm branches wave
and nod like the plumes of a hearse
caught in a gale, or of the helmet of a
kaight at a mad gallop.
On, on it rolls, that grimy, fast-rid
ing cloud. Now I cannot see twenty
yards ahead of me. The landscape is
suddenly enveloped in a black shroud.
It bursts upon my hoveL Away, away,
away go my half-answered home letters.
Who shall catch them? "Go run after
them; quickly, quickly, boy." I am en
veloped in sand. Over goes my only
globe lamp crash! My bottle of seven
days' allowance of limejuice it totters
and capsizes. Down come the spiders,
and away bolt the rats whom I en
courage to run about and eat the scor
pions, centipedes aud white ants. In
comes a flock of little crimson-headed
bat. aud tumble exhausted. 1 nave
no doors or windows to be blown in,
and there is no fear of a shower of
broken glass, such as I have seen dur
ing a sirocco on the shores of the Le
vant. Books, sketches, writing paper,
manuscript, linen, lie scattered on the
floor. I was going to say no, the earth
we have no floors here in Ethiopia bur
ied in a moment in black dust; and over
goes my only bottle of cognac, kept for
medical purposes.
I put my head out of my window,
was I going to write? I mean a square
hole in one of the four mud walls form
ing what is called bv courtesy a bouse.
I was blinded as quickly as any-inhabi-taut
of the cities of the plain was by the
band of tte angel. My eyes were in
stantly filled with sand, every molecule
if which was a burning spark every
particle a scintillation. It wearied me
to Mud my way to my washing-stand 1
meau my pile of old wooden cases, on
which was balanced my basin an old
biscuit tin, with a classically-shaped
red amphora in it. Fiuding it at length
1 cleanse my eyes, smarting with Uie
fiery dust, and put on a pair of huge
green goggles aU glass; these are the
only kind that keep out the sand.
Thus armed I looked forth into the
moving mountain of sand. A burning
blast like unto the breath of a fiery
furnace, scorches my face, dries up my
skin, stopping every pore, I look into
the beaveus. The sun was a blood-red
ball of Ore floating "all In afhot and cop
per sky," while along the horizon hung
a lurid light, such as one sees on the
ocean before a storm. In the distance
trees, huts and tents were invisible, but
near one could just make out the wind
ing, lead-colored Xile. lashed iuto bil
lows. A dense cloud, which enveloped
all, seemed raining tire, the atmosphere
as if seething, boiling, sputtering. And
now waltzing, whirling along the banks
came the "devils" (shay tarns), as the
Arabs call them, the sand, spouts
aerial giants each indulging in a pas
seul, their high, fantastic figures rear
ing their heads from earth to heaven.
Oue is reminded of the djin of the
"Arabian Knighta" let out ef the
casket in which King Solomon had
sealed him up, and rising as a tall col
umn of smoke. How grim and grew-
some are they ! No doubt the fanciful
ghouls, efreets and genii of the Arab
folklore drew their origin from such as
these. And a destructive element are
these rolling spiral sand billows pow
erful agents of disintregation, having a
griuding, roughing action on rocks aud
stones as they ride the whirlwind,
accelerating destruction in a country
replete with decaying pedigrees of decay
a country where all changes are not
of life, but of destruction where the
characteristics of the scenery around
are heaps of rocks breaking into frag
ments. And these gusts of sand penetrate
everywhere, into clefts and fissures of
stones, eating into and sapping their
foundations and acting with immense
mechanical strength, lifting and rolling
rock over rock. There is a weird and
ghastly dance all around, in a dull and
lurid glare. Now I am euveloped In a
heaving mountain of sand; the air is
stilling, my mouth is parched, speech is
impossible without wetting the lips, the
tongue is swollen. I never before
properly understood "the darkness of
the Egyptian plague" which "could be
felt" Half an hour the sand tornado
has swept by. I can hear the rush of
scared horses, mules, donkeys and cat
tle, as they rush madly by, having
broken loose; the tremendous guttural
roar and grunting cf camels, the howl
ing of dogs, and the shrill screaching of
vultures and kites flying before the gale.
All nature groans. Half an hour the
Dongola caruivel of the wild elements
of the "Soudau" is over.
A v . V a battle
tin news bf war,
belongs to the
A Kmim Mr.
Occasionally in the spring there comes
a day that seems to have all zones and
seasons condensed into brief space.
Two or three such days are indelibly
nxeu in my memory. The morninir
may dawn upon us clear, cool, and soft.
witu sparkling dew, and tne song of
tnousana meadow larks. The sun
comes grandly up above the clean cut
horizon. We feel no languor. It is c
delight to live and breathe and move.
The sun mounts toward the zenith, and
the air begins to grow hot It Is Insuf
ferably hot There is no tree, no hill.
no rock, to give a cooling shade, and
tne aeep-uue Sky contains no passing
cloud to give us a moment's respite
ftom the sun's blinding rays. We think
regretfully of the umbrella that yester
day's wind turned inside out, and de
termine to put up a tent as soon as the
weather Is cool enough to encourage the
ecort
. But atmospheric stillness never lasts
long in Kansas. The wind begins to
mow, and our stilling breath grows
more free, r rom the south the wind
conies, reaching our ears with a mur
muring sound before we reel it in our
faces. The prairie grass and fields of
grain rise and fall, first in waves, and
theu in heaving billows. The wind In
creases in force and becomes a sirocco.
scorching our faces worse than the hut
test rays of the sun could do. There
is no dignity in walking. We struggle
with our skirts and wraps We tie our
hats down, we hold on to' them with
both hands, and still they escape us.
and we rush madly after them. The
clothes on the line at the next door flap
wildly around, beating out their hems
and splitting in every weak spot, while
the washer-woman is striving to keep
her balance long enough to rescue them
before tbeir total destruction; lucky is
she if they are not snatched from her
grasp and scattered far over the prairie
never to be recovered. Great tumble-
weeds come rolling like hoops across
tlie plain. Here comes a market-bask
el escaped from tne hand ot some urcn n
who for a moment forgot to be vigilant
We start to catch it for him, but i:
eludes us, and goes bumping over the
prairie for half a mile or more, and Is
soon out of sight. A canvas-covered
carriage is seized by the wind and roll
ed down the street On the next house
comes toppling down the stove pipe
chimney. Three or four "claim shan
ties" are laid over on their sides, and
the builders of the large house in the
upper part of the town will have to
begin to-morrow putting up their frame
anew. We think about tornadoes and
cyclones, and then remark quietly,
"This isn't anything; just an ordinary
straight blow." Clouds of dust till the
air. penetrating the thickest veils, red
dening our eyes, and sifting through
the cracks of doors and windows to the
utter ruin of all good housekeeping.
The only comfort is in the thought that
tins state of things cannot last long; as
a change will surely come soon.
And here It comes. In the south
east, a black cloud appears, moving
nvTidiy. ' We toon anxiously to ee if t
is funnel-shaped, and a few nervous
persons retreat to their cellars, or caves
, that is, artificial excavations that serve
as outside cellars for some of the
hmses. But this Is not a tornado.only
a Kansas shower. First comes a cloud
of dustsweeping with the rapidity ot. a
whirlwind, and veiling the town from
sight. The lightning blinds our eves,
and streaks the black sky with chainsof
light Housewives bring sheets and
pieces of old carpets to stop the cracks
of the doors and windows on the wind
ward side, and "hurry" must be the
word, for in a moment the rain is upon
us, not la drops, but in blinding slteets
moving hor zontally along. In a few
moments the roadways are streams of
running water, the tubs and rain bar
rels and cisterns are overflowing. The
fanners exultingly exclaim, "This in
sures the corn crop." and the local edi
tor writes for his item column, "What
slanderer said 'Drouthy Kansas?"
It is no longer rain ; it is sleet and
haih Next comes a rift in the clouds, a
perfect arch of rainbow, and the clouds
roll away out of sight leaving the clean
washed earth dotted with flowers. The
afternoon wanes. The winds axe still.
The sun sinks in a blaze of golden glory
and almost without a twilight the day
is ended. In the ocean of dark blue
ether above and round ns, the moon
and stars are shining. - It is the perfec
tion of glorious night We linger in Its
beauty, unwilling that sleep should,
claim the best hours of the 24, but at
last, the thought of to-morrow's labors
and vicissitudes drives us to our coucn.
We fall asleep, to awaken perhaps in a
few hours and find that the bee-covering
is insnfflcient We wrap ourselves
in all the blankets we can find, but are
still cold, and grow colder. The south
wind has given place to a norther,
which creeps in through the seams of
the windows, lifts the carpet in billows,
and drives us back to our warmest
flannels, and our rekindled fires.
In weather, as in almost all phases
of this prairie life, it is the unexpected
which usually happens. Vv hat adjec
tive is there, applicable to weather, that
may not be used in the superlative
degree here! I do not wonder that it is
called "Sunny Kansas," but it is also
windy Kansas. Yes, it Is drouthy
Kansas, but it Is also fertile, beautiful
Kansas.
A Diver's Good rortnne.
The old divers are fond of recounting
the glories of their craft and are
specially Impressed with any informa
tion as to the fate of the vessels of the
Armada. This spirit has been fostered
no less by the successes of the ancestor
of the Mulgraves than by the good for
tune of John Gann, of Whit stable,
England. The old diver was, many
years since, employed on the Gal way
coast and used to pass his evenings in a
public house frequented by fishermen.
One of these men, repeating a tradition
which had long existed in the district,
told Gann that one of the Spanish ves
sels had been wrecked not far from the
coast and intimated that he himself
could point out the spot Gann, hav
ing finished his special job, made terms
with the fisherman and they were both
out for many weeks dragging the spot
indicated for any traces of the wreck.
They were at last rewarded by coming
upon obstructions with their grapnels.
Gann brought out bis diving apparatus,
and sure enough the truth of the
tradition was vindicated by the finding
of a number of dollars which had origi
nally been packed m barrels. The bar
rels, however, had rotted away and left
the gold stacked in barrel shape. With
the money so recovered John Gann
built at Whitstable, his native place, a
row of houses, which to commemoratt
the circujW4cv be called "Dollai
Row'
Shop Lilting.
"Ton would be most wonderfully sur
friaed," said one of Omaha's prominent
dry goods men, to a reportor yesterday,
"if I ebouid tell you how many people
cd who they are, that have a mania,
s they call it, for 'nipping' aiticles
eveiy time they go into a store, and
hiding them under tbeir clothing. Why,
I'll stake my honor, "he continued, "on
the assertion that there are no less than
one hundred profeisioual shoplifters in
the 61,800 population which goes to
make up the life and soul of this town.
No, they are not all among the low,
hard-ap class either. In fact a very
large majority of thed move among the
upper circles and have plenty of
money.
The merchant contended, when asked
why, that to prosecute and expose them
would be very detrimental to his trade:
"I get pay for everything thoy steal, so
wbtt's the difference?"
"Make them pay double price foi
what they buy?"
"In some instances, yes; but let me
give you a pointer and eite a little case
tuat happened in my store only one day
last wobk."
"All right, fire away and talk slow.'
"Well, you see, we have got all these
people, or at least nearly all of them,
spotted so closely-that it is impossible
lor one to come to the store without our
knowing it and keeping an eye on her.
This particular case was an elegantly
dressed woman. She was out shopping
in a handsome rig, with livened driver
and stylish horses supposed to be her
own. oue came into our store and
went to the lace department. Before
going out I received a note from the
lady clerk who waited on her, saying
that she had stolen several pairs of
gloves and silk hose and was about to
get away with them. 1 called the wo
man into my office and asked her about
it At first she became very indignant
and threatened to send her husband
down, who she knew would paralyze
me for offering her such an outrageous
insult, but I was cot to be frightened
in that manner, and when she found
ont that I knew she had the articles
hidden about her garments, and pro
posed to satisfy ber that I knew by
having her searched, she broke down
completely aud offered to givej me 8100
if I would let it pass and never give her
awav. The woman buys any amount
of goods, is wealthy, and has no excuse
whatever for stealing, bnt she said to
me then that she didn't know why she
took those gloves and hose; that she
had no use on earth for them, but
couhlu t help it Thar were worth
about SI. 50 a pair, bnt charged her So,
which she gladly paid and went away.
At 'another time a well-known woman,
whose name I will not meLtion, came
in weanug a tilk drees, the goods of
which we had niu-sed and I knew it
The next day we tent her a bill for the
dress, and you can bet she paid it with
out saying a word. Numerous times
have wn missed gloves, hose, bolts of
ribbon, handkerchiefs, etc., bnt we
generally know who takes them, and
wnen they come m the next time we
respectfully request pay for such arti
cles and the pay is always forthcoming.
I don't know bow other merchants are
harassed in this business, but if the
shoplifters were cot known to ns we
would be sU len blind.
It is Dot probable that Omaha is any
worse on in this respect tnan otner
towns, but possibly Omaha has more
of the shoplifting class than many
places of its size. Many of the mer
chants complain, and why they don't
cause some arrests to be made is strange,
As stated above, no donbt they would
to a certain extent injure their trade.
It is quite noticeable also that when
cornered and brought Into close quar
ters nearly all of the professional shop
lifters make the same defense, as an
excuse, for their crime, and that is,
that it ia a mania they can't control and
are not responsible for.
"What kind if actions do they go
through to get away with the goods?"
was asked of the gentleman interviewed.
"You would be amused, bo said,
to see them. While pretending to
look at goods they lean away over the
counter, play the blind racket, and get
down with'their face almost against the
counter. While in this position it is
easy enough to rake off with one hand
anything lying near, and stuffing it
under their cloak. It is noted that
those kind of people always wear some
kind of a loose saonne or cloak, hot or
cold weather."
Antlpatblm.
Some strange cases of antipathy are
rfvorrird in the lives of eminent men.
Erasmus was made feverish by the I
smell of hsh. Ambroise Parr had a
patient who would faint at the sight of
an eel, and another who was convulsed
ou seeing a carp, liardan was disgusted
at the sight of eggs. A king of Poland
and a secretary of France bled at the
nose when offered apples. A huntsman
in Hanover, who would attack a wild
bear valiantly, ran away or fainted
whenever roast pig was presented to his
view. A person is told of who fainted
whenever he saw a rose, and similar
stories are told of antipathies to lilies
aud honey. Tycho Brahe abhorred
foxes, Henry IIL of France cats, mice,
spiders, eta, and Marshal d 'Albeit
pigs. There was "once upon a time" a
lady who could not endure the sight of
silk or satin. The man who would
faint whenever he heard a servant
sweeping is not so much of a stranger,
and the one who was similarly affected
by the sound of a bagpipe invites uni
versal sympathy. Boyle was overcome
at hearing the splashing of water.
The jueen. Horses
At Windsor it Is considered the cor
rect thing, after the inspection of the
royal apartments and chapels, to visit
the royal stables. Admittance to the
stable yard is gained by the registration
of the visitors name at the yard gate.
Why this formality should be observed
I do not know, for it would hardly ena
ble the authorities to find any person
disposed to steal anything, and more
over, there is nothing to tempt the most
incurable kleptomaniac No man of the
least discriminating taste in horse
flesh coula be induced to take a present
of any of the twenty or thirty royal
hacks that are usually kept in the
Windsor stables. A mile in 16 minutes
would stagger most of them, and an
India-rubber jockey would not be safe
iu tiding any of them over a patch of
thistles, much less a post and rail fence.
Nearly all of these ringboned and spa
vined chargers appear to have come to
the royal stables at the coronation of
their venerable mistress and to have
remained ever sinu 'n royal seclusion.
Tn. Bad Land, in iMtota.
The buttes themselves, varying in
height from fifty to two hundred and
fifty feet, are beautiful objects to con
template either at a distance or at short
rauge. When, viewed from afar off
they appear to lie crowded closely to
get her. and as Mr. Winsor so happily
remarks 'in the hazy distance seem
like ocean billows stiff ened and at rest."
Their tops are of variegated colors aud
their sides are striped with broad bands
of different shaies, the coloring of
which is very ricli. The summits of
the buttes are on a level with the gen
eral prairie, while the whole valley ot
the Bad Lauds is some hundreds ot feet
below. This tact con-oliorates to sotue
extent the geological idea that the Bad
lauds' bottoms were "at some remote
period the bed of a great lake. When
examined closely, the buttes present a
most fantastic and gorireous array of
color that is positively dazzliug to look
at The spectator viewing teesestrauge
freaks of nature for the first t'rue is
almost struck dumb with awe aud as
tonishment at the utter lavishness and
waste of delicate shades and tints of all
colors that are here so profusely distrib
uted over miles and miles of nature's
canvas.
Iu some cases the whole side of a
butte is plastered thick with a rich
crimson that would be the delight of a
painter's heart could he but behold it.
Others are striped with alternate black
and brown, while again others are of
blue or brown or gray or else vary from
a dazzling white at their summit to a
sober dark gray at their base. The
writer observed a number of buttes,t!ie
tops of which were a fiery red, the in
termediate being girdles of pure white
and the bises a distinct and positive
yellow. Nmie again were completely
red, but of different shades from top to
bottom. There are a great many bare
clay aud sand buttes, and also a uuiuber
that are composed of very hard vitreous
or pottery -like slag, either a green or
brown or else dark reddish color like
iron stains.
While the actual comiiositioii of the
buttes appears to be a crumbling, volca
nic scoria, yet there is little doubt but
that their present condition was brought
about by hres which raged through the
country lu days gone by. In fact,
some tires are still burning in the Bad
Lands,oue of which, when seen at niaht
from the Xorther Pacliio train which
passes i ear, has the appearance of a
volcano In active eruption. There is
another lire fiirther back in the Bad
Lands which has been smouldering
ever since the country was knon to
the whites, and according to Indian
traiition from the time when the Great
spirit upheaved the land with an earth
quake. The truth of the matter is, the
Bad Lands are one vast bed of lignite
coal which runs through the buttes aud
hills in solid veins from four to ten b et
thick. This lignite was probably ig
nited by fires that sometimes prevailed
over the plains, set by ludians, ami the
coal I eing iu continuous veins, has
been burning, no doubt, uninterrupted
ly beneath the surface for years.
Intutitll. Inmincc.
Chickens, two minutes after they
have left the egg, will follow with their I
i- t I : - : ,1
ejes iue mojeiueius i crawling msecw
auu i, b uiruj, jiiuiii iii.-iiaut- oiiu
direction with almost infallible accura
cy. They will instinctively appreciate
sounds, readily running toward an in
visible hen hidden in a box when they
hear her "call.'' ome young birds also
have an uinate, instinctive horror of the
sight of a hawk and the sound of its
voice. Swallows, titmice, tomtits and
wrens, after having been confined from
birth, are capable of flying successfully
at once when libeiated, on their wings
having attained the neieisary growth
to render flight possible.
The Duke of Argyll relates some very
interesting particulars about tlis in
stinct of birds, especially of the water
ousel, the merganser and the wild duck.
Even as to the class of beasts I find re
corded: Five young polecats were found
comfortably imbedded in dry, wither
ed grass, and in a side hole of projier
dimensions for such a birder were forty
frogs and two toads, all alive, but mere
ly capable of sprawling a little. Ou ex
amination the whole number, toads and
all, proved to have been puiiiosely and
dexterously bitten through the "rain.
Evidently the parent polecat bad thus
provided the young with food which
should be kept perfectly fre.sh because
alive, and yet was reudered quite una
ble to escape.
Tins singular instinct is like others
which are yet more fully developed
among insects, a class of animals the in
stincts of which are so numerous, won-
derf ul and notorious that it will be pro-
bably enough to rei'er to one or two ex
amples. The fern lie carpenter bee, in
order to protect her eggs, excavates in
some piece of wood a series of chambers,
in special order, with a view to a pecu
liar mode of exit for her youug, but the
young mother can have no conscious
knowledge of the series of actions sub
sequently to ensue. The female of the
wasp, sphex, affects another well
known but very remaikable example of
a complex instinct closely related to
that already mentioned in the case of
the polecat Thi female wasp has to
provide fresh, living animal food for her
progeny, which, when it quits its egg,
quits it in the form of an almost help
less grub, utterly unable to catch, re
tain or kill an active, struggling prey.
Accordingly, the mother insect has not
only to provide and place beside ber
eggs suitable living prey, but so treat it
that it may be a helpless, unresisting
victim. That victim may be a mere
caterpillar, or it may be a great, pow
erful grasshopper, or even that most
fierce, active and rapacious of insect
tyrants, a fell and venomous spider.
Whichever it may be, the wasp adroit
ly stings it at the spot which induces,
or in the several spots which induce,
complete paralysis as to motion let us
hope as to sensation also. This done,
the wasp eD tombs the helpless being
with his own egg and leaves it for the
support of the future grub.
Ill habits gather by nnseen degrees,
as brooks make rivers and rivers run to
seas.
It takes bnt thirteen minntes to lead
an elephant on a train, while it takes
twenty for any sort of woman to bid her
friends good-bye and lose the check for
her trunk.
An Englishman has discovered that
kissing to be Scriptural, must be be
tween those of the same sex. We nev
er knew that it was orthodox for hand
some ladies to kiss each other so fre
quently, but we always regarded it as
a needless waste oi precious material,
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Berlin has an apothecary shop nearly
40o years old.
Mobile, Ala., was founded by tho
French in 1711.
Three Georgia weekly newspapers
are edited by women.
California produces 100,000 boxes
of grapes every year.
The Brooklyn Directory for IdSi
contains ls0,0x names.
The seed of the petuuia grandirlora
is worth i"i)0 an ounce.
The late Lord Dudley's life wasin
suied tor over 1,500,000.
A doen humming birds are grouped
cm some imported bonnets.
"Shepherd" on a Western ranch ia
enlarged iuto -sheepherder."
The debt of Memphis iu 1ST! was
5,000,000 now it is 2,.VXH.
Texas has l.(KJii,iiOii heail of cattle
belonging to non-reidiits.
The population of London is shel
tered by iiOO.OoO dwellings.
California has on hand a surplus of
GO.OfK i,i j bushels of wheat.
Mammoth Cave, in Kentucky, re
ceives 3,fX)0 visitors annually.
Large deposits of mica are said to
have been found in Xev Mexico.
There Is a gorge in Yellowstone
Park where no sound can be heard.
Over 40 i pO0,00U cent pieces were
coined iu the United States hist year.
Between ." ) ,000 and tiO.Ooo people
annually visit the White Mountain1'.
The capital invested in wild animals
in this country is estimated at $4,000,-
000.
The farms of the United States are
worth at least one thousand million dol
lars. New Orleans was founded by a
company of French adventurers lu
174:5.
The Duchess of Montrose lights
her training stables w ith the electric
light
An insect is ravaging the oyster
beds in the vicinity of New Haven,
Conn.
It costs annually il,J0O,ooo for
links aud pins for the freight cars iu this
country.
A Livingston county (New York)
woman is the mother of tweuty-seveu
children.
Sing Sing prison has 1.0-jO imates.
: sixty-five being murderers serving life
sentence.
Mr. Dana has see u New England
women eat live different kinds of pie at
oue uie il.
There are now over 8,000,01)0 stoves
in use, and the average life of a stove is
live years.
Fifteen thousand transient guests
lodge in New York every night, it is
estimated.
The death rate of Dubliu baa
jumped to per l,00o, the highest
since lbSX
Sjiecimen postage s,Liups are no
longer furnished collectors by the pos
tal department.
The annual value of the milk i.r.i-
'duct of this countrv is about i,af rt,,.
national debt.
Xo je33 tUim forty-Seven candidates
are running tor Sheriff m Phillip,
county, Kan.
A ton of gumarahic is used weekly
at the government envelope factory at
Hartford, Conn.
There were nearly 1.000,000 pounds
of sugar made from soighum cane, in
Kansas, last year.
The population of Stockholm, in
creased between loCo aud 1SS4 from
100,0110 to JIm.ooo.
Cigars by the cwt. buving them
by the hundred and telling the dealer to
wait for his money.
Russia wants immediate action on
the Afghan question in case Lngland
reoi ens the discussion.
Governor Hoadly, of Ohio, aays his
expenses as governor are annually aL
least four times his t.ilary.
A double w hite rose flowering on a
red crao apple tree Is one of the sights
of South Farmingh.ini, Mas.-..
No few than 111 dead lxxlies were
received at the Paris Morgue last
month. 40 of them in two days.
Ex-Marshal Bazaiue, w ho surren
dered Metz during the Frauci-Prnssiau
war, is reported destitute at Madrid.
According to statistics not more
than five per cent, of the persons living
in New York city own their houses.
--Mount Hood, Ore., was illumina
ted on the night of July 4 with red cal
cium lights, visible all over Oregon.
Tom Reed, who has been re-elected
to Congress from Maine, was a crack,
oarsman at Bowdoin College in l'stxl.
Vaccination is carried out so
strictly in the Prussian army that not a
soldier has died of sniitllpox since la75.
Senator lnealls,who has been visit
ing the Indian Territory, speaks favor
ably of the habits of the Indians there.
Henry M. Stanley is disapiKiinted
in not obtaining financial assistance
from England for the Congo compa
ny. Paper flour barrels are made iu
Connecticut at a cost of twenty-three
cents each. Wooden ones cost seventy
five. It is estimated that the. average
consumption of eggs throughout the
United" States amounts to 43,000,000
daily.
A Japanese inventor has just made
from seaweed a paper transparent
enough to be substituted for window
glass.
In Geruiauy teachers employed by
the Government travel from place to
place and give instructions in bee
keeping. A convict iu an English prison
perfected the style of lawn-tennis rac
quet now the most popular among Bri
tish players.
The timber woik of the domes of
the Church of St Mark at Venice is
more than M0 years old and is still In a
good state.
S. W. Talrnadge, the crop statisti
cian, reports that the total wheat crop
for lss." will show a shortage of 152,
000,000 bushels.
Recent experiments have demon
strated that the heating value of coal
is d.minished from lo to 2a per cent, if
it is used while wet
A company In the upper part of
New Jersey 13 making a counterpane
and pillow shams of paper, which re
tail at to cents a set
A well has recently beeu discovered
in Jug Tavern, Ga., which, it is said,
runs mineral water half the year and
freestone the other half.
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