! IS! j II I SCIIH 8CHWEIER, TEB OOISTITDTIOI THE UHOI-AID THE EIF010IXEIT OP THE LAWS. Editor and Proprietor. VOL. XXXIX. MIFFLINTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 16, 18S5. NO. 38. 1 ART AST. T My cherished and mouUu, th. marnii?ht.-ii ,UUIUl um- JpZSX RiJ Halted by the il VirShSJSSVi. gracious preaoe " D" J uiicufc u in i m .1 lifted to love'i paradise, My life's best teacb, mis8ed , loftily .bore me .hints gfi2i','ncir:5iint ,h. to earth veiled spirit yet divine In transient gleams of loveliness athwart the summer's thousand shrines! I way not look up., the face by year, im mortal cl.riti-.i, ' W del",e I'uinptuous seek, the boon awhile lo n. denied- rom holy ground I seek and strive, by lore and sorrow puriried. But I can touch tht loving heart, and reach thy listening ear, WlUi the olden mafiic 'of the words, that thrill alar and near; Their music sways from earth to heaven "U-x4 niylu, my uiollirr dear."' ' la it a fancy passiug sweet? do I live It and dream aright? for the burden of sorrow is laid aside, au.l the world is rilled of hunt; From the heights with luminous rose aglow comes the answering wish: "Good aihtJ" Oh, for the rest of this precious hour to hal low my workin-iays! Oh, for the prayerful siretijjtti to soar where the halcon summer stay si By the dwelliug-place of my beautiful one, to baa, in the heavenly rays! Hush! a spell divine eufoldeth G uides in blessed sleep, Through a wind-stirred path of roses. Where my sainted reap; Where Uie Lord's recording augela, All life's treasures keep. anh remote is faiutly gleauiiug As some pa: lid star; Miue the soul's true vivid dreaming. In blest worlds afar; Near the nilit unto the dawning That no storm -clouds mar. Shadows here, veiled splendors falling On the laud divine; Love unto its own is calling All possession's tuiue; In the privilege of being Father! wholly Thine! Let none call me; do not wake me From my dream of blins; -la. my nether hie foraken. Granted all in tbis, Heaven restores all Tune has taken. With my mother's kiss! MRS. PILTUVS PARTY. "What are you going to do with yourself from now till Monday, old fel low eh?' "Oh, the usual thing, I suppose?" "And what may the usual thing be?" "Weil, as it's a. Patti night, I may drop in at Covent Garden this evening, turning up at Hatton Garden to-morrow morning just as good music at one place as the other, you know and at the Zoo tomorrow afternoon per haps." "And this afternoon?" "Oh, I shall stroll into rrince's as likely as not, after which I shall call in at the pleasantest house 1 can think of for nve o'clock tea!" Tou'U be enjoying yourself all the time, I suppose Montie?'' "Er.joying mvself ?" 1 echo, the nov elty of the thing sinking me. "My delicionsly primitive friend Arthur, enjoyment' is not a word of the period; we kill time mat a uu'.ti . uiv of killing time is as good as another, my dear boy; so sup- nose you slay uiai eutaui Uean down at Inlands my little box instead. Visions of the unknown Mrs. Pilton arise before my mental eyes, and Ibe gin languidly to cast about for a decent "-YcVre quite too good, my dear Arthur; but really " . -Notisense, man; youre coming, and there's an end of it ! Why, you've never Zemfbetter half, and yet I've been Srt3 eighteen months! I'll pnn trjas good entertainment It the t wo Garden's, Pnnce s Zoo, ket- grows tttiiiy'?. n ijjg a My good fellow, i re; ? ,iahttau ' "vnnr hospiiamy KtrpuSiUvelymu-tdecUB. ." such k MV excuses," m- Sow dont make any T'nSnd1oreou in half an I wake up to lU ( arrj tatKW pUng his . uivM on g ferencewith Uie J no9piuiity! I what my Lu.tairlmy mous Td'ntUtothemev, ntlybac. comes Arthur for hU unwilHitfcaP' t8 rignti Kate knows you elnaDs w bet so often bribed U .uainted with all of tiat shew well au jled ft.iend, Yhlm There is my 1 rious fnend, . a I respond?1' .Jprtred? P! Look sharp, 01 th the train." have descended ad, hading ban fmTcUmber""' wnu-ied away W nel-aav through a ffir Uy fTam doomed to tSs Jsof lookir.g and on consci fl Funch f tnd LKof It may roef01' .f"t Uie iiuntenanc. roef; u,e contemp.-nanca. fhfexP &?1 ?.maU faml- t me ' -'r Arthur?" f 3 myo SJ m.V !rl ... ' youngster only six .rEtft W'"' o'theirhon. J ? tnlnk 1 despondently, I revive slighUy when, on arriving at .w?ifUnd my htess awaiting us on Clustering roses climb up the tender support of the verandah and make a pretty frame-work for the pr- ,tgf.Kate rilton- Although slight still, she is an embryo Juno, and gives promise of a rieu maturity for, wife and mother though she is, it U evident thut she has not yet developed into the glowing womanhood that at present is but charmingly suggested. Kate, my dear," saysArthur. 'this is one of whom you have often heard uie s: e.:ray old friend Montie Bird." ."And h. until the present moment has deseivedly born the title of his 'bored friend'?" I .1.1 --- ""u, u w nu uncov ered head 1 bow low. I am aware that the remark is not complimentary to Arthur, but to that I am supremely in different. Willi easy grace she extends her hand. vvau oiuiUUt A meaning for us, Mr. Bird, and we will u j m uuw it so ior you." Nothing like matrimony for an anti dote." Arthur says oracularly. "Surely you are not a bachelor, Mr. Bird?" asks Mrs. Pilton, raising her eTeS Questioning tjt mina an1 uii sweet eyes they are, I o! serve. "1 have that inealcuable misfortune," I answer meekly. She looks at me quite pityingly; she evidently thinks it time for me to be appropriated. "I'll show you something that will make you foreswear celibacy!" and With tll0ap wnrri Arthur (mcHHilutAa furiously in the diiection of a remote part of the garden that I have not hith erto observed. My eyes follow his movements, and I discern a nurse carrying what is evi dently the hope of the Piltons Arthur's son and heir. I am not in the least bored now I am fairly alarmed. I shall have to ad mire the phenomenon in question, and, in my utter ignorance of the subject, it is quite possible that I may, in my misapplied datteries, most unconscious ly satirise the weak point of the prodigy I feel that a cigarette will do much to steady me. "Do you and your son permit smoking, Mrs. Pilton?" 1 ask, prepar ing to fortify myself. "Smoke is our native element, she replies, smiling graciously. "Come to its own mother then little treasure!" It is perhaps needless to say that I am not the "little treasure" addressed, that fortunate individual being the in fant who is surveying us with wide open baby-eyes. He is a bright cheek ed little fellow, and, resting as he does in his mother's arms a minute after wards, one is reminded of the count less pictures of glorious maternity and rosy infancy that have smiled down from exhibition walls. "I've got a surprise for you, Ar thur," exclaims my hostess; and I no tice a subdued excitement lurking in the bright eyes. "Give me your anger dear." Her husband obeys, and she forewith takes the offered digit, and, inserting it softlv between the rosy lips of the baby, rubs it along the tiny gum. I, meanwhile, am in lost profound pity for y.c email arxwimon nf hnmanitv. feel ing that it must be a most undesirable process to have one's mouth opened aud one's gums felt, and no to have any choice in the matter. "TV ell?" asks Arthur, with a blank look of non comprehension on his face. I seem unconsciously to nave com municated my views to the Infant, for he begins to resist in a very marked manner. Mrs. Pilton 's lips drop at the cornei s in the loveliest disdain imagi nable. "Mr. Bird, will you feel?" The baby's long suffering gum Is transferred to me, and I place my finger very gently on the spot indicated. She looks at me somewhat anxiously. Am I inspired? I rather think 1 am; but I try to wear my laurels meekly, and to keep the triumph out of my face, as I turn to Arthur and say "Your son has his first tooth, my boy!" . . . You don l say so, jiuuuci "Oil, it's very plainly to be feltl" I i- ith on uir nr HiiiierioritT iiiai. for the life of me I realty cannot resUL If it were not for the little dimpled encumbrance with which they are laden I am sure Mrs. f nton wouiu u bands; as it is, she contents herself with a glance of undisguised admira tion at me, and exclaims sorrowfully "And yet you are a bachelor Mr. B"Let me at least feel that I am pos sessed of your compassion," I say, with unblushing hypocrisy. 'Oh the pity of it!" she answers lightly, throwing up her boy, and . thro pressing him closer to her "Didn't Us own papa feel its new toothums? Naughty papa!" Thereupon Master Pilton Is made to chastise his revered father on the cheek with a round fist that has been taken out of his mouth for that purpose. 'I suppose the little fellow scampers sbout a good deal?" I suegest, wishing to supplement the advantages I have alteady gained. "My dear boy, babies don't run about at six months old!" laughs Arthur; and i think I detect a little retaliation in his tone, as if he considers It my turn now to be discomfited. Fearing to lose my laurels, I discreet ly drop the subject. w.. ..in.imtlnn for hit hostess sub- sea uently increases when, later on, as wesiiaowuw "'"'"' .a,n. as entirely forgets her first born as any lady "in society" could do. I feel sure tnat in ner case it a vmj p- . hiivion whereas with the wo- uaieub uim""j ... . man of fashion it would be most genu ine- but it displays a certain tuuatc uki. which I highly appreciate. ir.jin hv davhirht. and iret the meal well over before the gloaming be eins. After dinner, Mrs. Pilton does . tin tn tha drawinir-room. but strolls round the garden, book in hand. This looks inviting, ana tne conse quence is that I with my cigarette and Arthur with his cigar crave permission to join her. "Tennyson is he your favorite?" I ask, glancing at the booK in her hand. 4I have no more a favorite poet than I have a favorite flower," answers Mrs. Pilton, picking a rose from a cluster tnat she passes and putting it among the soft laces that seem to caress her pretty throat. "I have my browning mood, my Longfellow mood, and to night it happens to be a Tennyson mood." " 'Maud,' I perceive" so remarking suo ii anus me tne Dook. Somehow I really do not quite know how it happens, but we sit down, and I begin readine to them. Pnni mv that I read well, and I have an innate wuvicuon tnat tends to conUrm the popular verdict. 1 know I acquit my self creditably to-night, for I see the bright eyes grow very luminous, and even Arthur throws away his cigar in order to listen more intently. In ac cordance with my request, Mrs. Pilton sings "Uatfi, Batti," from the inviting looking heap before her. This suits her fresh soprano admirably, and she renders it with just the mingling of co quetry and contrition that 1 have ever attnbuted to my ideal Zerline but have never before beard. By a natural transition "La ci rfarem" suggests it self, and we suddenly discover that our voices accord most delightfully. Were I in town, I should in all probability be listening to Patti and Maurel in that identical duet, but I quite thiuk that the present performance pleases me more Later on, when my hostess has re tired, leaving us to the enjoyment of a quiet smoke, Arthur asks triumph antly "Now, my boy, after to-night you'll agree with- me in thinking bachelor hood the greatest mistake going, won't you?" "Arthur," I reply very gravely, "you add insult to injury. After appropria ting the nicest woman in the three king doms, you actually ask a fellow if bach elorhood is a mistake! My dear friend it is the only alternative you leave ns after seeing your wife!" ,By Jove," laughs be, in high glee, "that's not half bad! I'll tell Kate that to-night-!" Irrespectively of all jesting, I think to myself that my hostess cannot be ap preciated by Arthur in fact,I inward ly resolve that she is to good for him. My Sunday passes delightfully, and, as a natural result, most speedily. Over the fields to church in the morning, baby-worship in the afternoon, and de sultory conversation in the evening that is the routine. It is with a feeling unaccountably resembling regret that on Monday mor ning, at breakfast, I realise that it is the hist meal of which I am to partake at lose lauds. "Pilton," I observe, as, with a hear tier appetite than I remember since my scboolooy days, I make alarming in roads upon a delicious compound that chances to be before me, "you are for tunate in being blessed with one of the most essential elements to man's contentment here below; you are pos sessed of an excellent cook. This is simply unrivaled" here 1 indicate the contents of my plate. "Do you really like it so much Mr. Bird?" asks my young hostess, as she beams on me Irom behind the glittering urn. She looks fresh aud glowing with beauty as she sits there arrayed in her crisp morning muslin, the daintiest of which is enhanced by a cluster of daz zling scarlet geraniums, which, together with their green leaves, seem to supply the place of a brooch. "It is simply perfect, I assure you, Mrs. Pilton. So many delicious fla vors seem just suggested, and yet thev are so delicatly blended that it is im possible to say which preponderates a culinary poem, if I may be permitted the expression. " Husband and wife exchange laugh ing glances. "Congratulate Arthur, please Mr Bird, upon the dual blessings of wire and cook combined. I made it, and we call it 'Kate Pilton 's pasty'!" I endeavor to look the admiration 1 feel. "If ever I discover a lady kind enough to rescue me from the slough ot bache lorhood, may I ask for the receipt? I shall beg for it in the name of Mrs. Bird now unknown." "My dear fellow," exclaims Arthur, "you might just as well ask her gra cious Ma esty Queen Victoria to pre sent you with the largest diamond from ber regalia; you are just about as likely to get it!" "The receipt is an heir-loom." ex plains Mrs. Pilton, "and known only to members of our own family. I even send cook out of ber kitchen during the manufacture of that particular. It descended from my great-great-great-STandmother, and has remained uual tered ever since. "And, in the ruinously radical days of so-called reform that are drawing upon us, I trust that it will remain un altered to the end of the chapter; may no innovation be introduced here!" I reply, helping myself again to the pasty. "Your appreciation delights me, Mr. Bird. I am more sensitive on that subject than on my rendering of 'Latti, Uatti,' do you know?" "Naturally so. Others may vainly try to emulate you in that charming song; but none can even attempt the auda city of rivalling you here." "I am so vain about it," replies my hostess merrily, ' that your compliments extreme though you may think them, I receive as only a fitting tribute. 1 am sorry to deny the receipt to the future Mrs. Bird," she adds arch!y; "but I ever mean to be the sole manufacturer so, whenever you taste that pasty, no matter the time or place, remember Kate Pilton is near!" "Then I sincerely hope that I shall most speedily taste it again!" I say, with earnestness tha seems almost de vout. My visit to the Roseland has been a thing of the past for a very long while now. For many months it remained a pleasant green spot In my memory; but gradually the mists of time have al most obscured it, and at the present moment my recollections of it are of but a shadowy nature. This is perhaps partly owing to the brevity of my visit, partially the result of my being inten sely occupied since then, and also great ly attributed to the fact that Arthur and I have drifted apart. I have not heard of him for quite two years, and I have not the leisure even to regret the circumstance. After the usual amount of study, I have been chlled to the bar, and am now a barrister and not a briefless one Some attribute my success to high con nections in influential quarters, others to my natural qualifications and address I prefer to attribute to the latter. Either way, here I find myself, the head of a handsome bachelor establishment in one of the fashionable squares a trifle dreary perhaps, but what of that? "Montie, my dear," exclaims my sister a pretty matron who not only rales her own household in an exem plary DMiih, bat deems herself emi nently fitted to conduct mine also. "why dont you marry? Only that 1 wanted to confirm your position; it would make you seem so much more substantial, you know," "I don't thing I much admire sub stantialities. Amy that is only another name for heaviness; and marriage it appears to me, is somewhat heavy and wearisome not in your case, I know, mv love," I add hastily, fearing some personal allusion may be suspected. "Now, my dear boy," answers Amy, removing her hat, by which I infer that she kindly intends favoring me with a good deal of sisterly counsel, "don't be d rawly you do drawl aw fully, you know, and a wife would very soon snake that all out of you; I would If Charlie could spare me to stay with you for a little while. Don't pretend to shudder!' "Certainly not," I reply meekly, hap py that she has mistaken the reality for the imitation. "Well," continues my affectionate relative, taking in at a practised glance the general appearance of the dining room in which we are sitting, "you dont seem to understand that servants are insutlicient to make a comfortable home; besides this, you want some one to take care of and direct it all." 'And also, 1 presume, to take care of and diret t me," I suggest. "Precisely you most of all. Sow this sideboard, for instance is a splen uld pieceof furniture, and those bronzes am simply magnificent; but observe this," says my bustling littUysister, ad vancing to the first named article, and very carefully writing "D-u-s-t" on the surface of it "and this" proceeding to one of the bronzes aud most consid erately wiping the nose of the warrior it represents. "Well?" she says inter rogatively. I am at a loss for an answer; so I only reply "Am I to admire your caligrapby, my dear? That word is written very nicely, though perhaps a trifle too large still great allowance must be made for the novelty of the materials you have ustd; and as to that warlike individual you rather unpleasantly suggest the idea of bis having a cold in his head." Amy deems my remarks an unworthy answer, and continues as if I had not spoken. "Now the long and the short of all this is that you must get a wife." I rise, stand with my back to the fire, and speak with the most unusual decision. "I decline to do that. Amy." There is something in my tone which seems to end the discussion, for my sister, though looking slightly surprised refrains from urging the point further. She shifts ber ground. "Well," she says, with the air of one making a compromise, "do the next best thing then, aud engage a lady housekeeper." I still demur. "Your last suggestion Is merely a forerunner to the flrst alternative you mentioned particularly to the mind of lady-housekeepers," 1 remark despon dently. "Not to the mind of a genuine lady housekeeper," answers mv sister, with a world of scorn in ber tone. "Let us arrange it now, Montie," she continues energetically. "I have ill You will be going to Paris next week, you say. I undertake that when you return you shall see a lady installed here who will look after your interests a trustworthy superior gentlewoman who will make your home quiet a differeut sort of a place altogether." So it is arranged that during my ab sence in the sister capital I am to be provided with a superior gentlewoman to superintend my establishment in the future. If an idea is distasteful to me, I usu ally try to banish it as speedily as pos sible, differing in this respect from most !ople. On this occasion I succeed so well that during my stay In Paris I be lieve it entirely slips my memory. It is only when I am homeward-bound that I think of it, and the recollection does not enhance the delights of cross ing. I suddenly remember that I am ar riving a train earlier than I am expec ted, and I fear that by doing so I shall take the ''superior gentlewoman" at a disadvantage. As I rattle up to the door in a cab, just in time for a late breakfast, I look up anxiously at the house, thinking that I may catch a glimpse ot my acquisition at one of the windows. Not so, however. When the servant opens the door, I ask immediately "Has the lady arrived yet, James?" "Yes, sir; but, not expecting you un til the evening, she has gone for a walk before breakfast she often does sir." "Just so. I'll not wait for breakfast James, but have it at once." I say, re solving mentally to make my apologies for so doing when the gentlewoman presents herself. Accordingly breakfast is laid. I know not if I am tired of French edi bles, or if the meal looks unusually tempting; but I feel just in the mood to do ample justice to it. After telling James that I shall require nothing more I proceed to take some steaming coffee, of which I seem to stand in need after my nights traveling. That done, 1 com mence an attack on the dish nearest me which happens to be "goodly to the eye." At this moment I hear a knock at the door, and the subsequent sweep ing of a woman's skirt along the en trance hall and up the stairs, by which 1 presume my acquisition has arrived, and gone to ber room to remove her walking attire. In adherence to my text of not waiting, I do not allow the circumstance to interfere with my re past, but begin to be active with my knife and fork. But, after having tas ted the morsel it conveyed there, I pause. I have frequently heard of memories and associations being recalled by cer tain strains of music to certain people with others, particular scents will re vive particular recollections; but never until now do I realise that the very same remarks may apply to the seuse of taste, for suddenly the flavor of the pie I have commenced reminds me ot what? Of what, in the name of won ders that is puzzling, does it remind me? I put down my knife and fork, look at the delicious compound fixedly, and try to think it out. I endeavor to support my pet theory of a prior exis tence by concluding that I have par taken of this excellent dish ' during a former life. If so, and this edible is only a sample of the culinary art in those past ages, how greatly we have deteriorated In our cutstnef Wait a minute by Jove, I have it! I sudden ly recall a careless remark laughingly uttered a long time ago "So, whenever you taste that pasty. t no matter the time or place, remem ber " I never finished the sentence even to myself, for at this moment the door opens quietly, and not only Is "Kate Pilton near," but she actually enters the room! For once in my life I am energetic; I litterly bound from my chair in my ut ter astonishment. Yes, verily Kate Pilton no longer the Juno in embryo, but the Juno in full perfection, as she steps into the room with stately grace, her long cling ing black skirt trailing majestically be hind. A sorrowful looking cap, white as snow, rests on the queenly head, but all the rich beauty that was so freely promised two years ago has been amply fulfilled in the glorious creature who stands before me In the sad dignity of her young widowhood. "Is it possible," I exclaim, as I ad vance with extended hands to welcome her, "or do my eyes deceive me? I surely am addressing Mrs. Pilton?" 'None other," she answers, with a smile as charming as formerly, though more subdued; "and In you I recog nize " "Montie Bird, Arthur's old friend, whom I hope you have not quite for gotten." "I had quite forgotten the name," she replies, "but not the owner of it. My husband used to esteem you so highly." We neither speak for a minute. The little word "used" only confirms the sad story told by the deep black that fits her graceful figure so perfectly. I conduct ber at once to the breakfast table, and she takes ber place quite naturally, facing me. "When truly earnest on any subject, I am a pitiful sturubler in the choice of words; but, please, Mrs. Pilton, try to understand how delighted I am to see you again, however much I regret the sad circumstances that have led to our meeting," She Inclines her head in acknowledge ment of my sympathy. "And your little boy? He is a fine fellow by this time I conclude?" I re mark, wishing to turn the subject from a painful channel. The sweet lips quiver as she raises her eyes, full of a mute agony, to mine. "The same calamity a fever that left me a widow also rendered me child less; they both 1 would rather not speak of it just yet, if you please." She could make mention of her Tins band with apparent calmness; but the loving remembrance of baby-kisses, baby-prattle, busy baby-bands, silences all speech, even the speech of sorrow ! After recovering herself, she avoids further mention of their trials, and speaks pleasantly and cheerfully, just as a woman should do to a man just returning from the fatigues of the workaday outside world. "Mrs. Hilton," I remark, as on the conclusion of breakfast, we draw our chairs round to the fire, "have you ever in your infantine days, read the Ara bian .Nights?" "'llead' is too mild a word I have devoured them," she laughingly an swers; "but I always thought, had 1 been Scheherazade, I would rather have lost my head at once than have to rack that unlucky member every night for fresh marvels. ' "1 fear that you srarcly appreciate the philanthropy of that excellent young lady in saving the lives of so many of her charming sex. But, do you know, by some mysterious agency, I could feel myself transported to the land of caliphs, viziers, and Mussul mans, and even by some still more ex traordinary freaks of nature I could be lieve myself returning to the times of giants, fairies, and genu. I he idea is so vivid that it required the merest stretch of imagination just now to transform James, when be came in with that letter, to a slave bearing me sherbet." "How so?" asks my lady-housekeeper. How charmingly she undertakes the art of listening! "Well, do you remember bow a cer tain Bedredden Hassan, of Oriental memory, was restored to his sorrowing relatives through the manufacture of his celebrated cheesecakes?" Mrs. Pilton nods in token of assent. "Strange to say, your admirable pasty formed to me a veritable re-introduc-tiontoyou." "Why, of course; the similarity Is striking! Th9 fact is, 1 m a nineteenth century Bedreddin Hassan, and, like him, I am the sole manufacturer, the only difference being that I do pepper my pastry. I nearly offended your cook when I insisted upon making it myself." "You actually bearded the lionness io ner den?" "I did indeed, my only weapons be ing the pretiest compliments I could think ot concerning ber dinners and luncheons; after that, she asked me for my receipt; but I could not give that up," says Mrs. Pilton shaking ber pretty head until the sor rowful white adornments it tremble with her emphasis. "I am like Bed reddin Hassan, and keep that to my self." "Do you know," I exclaim, a happy thought striking me "I am altogether so much impressed with the circum stances of our second meeting . that I think I'll write out the history of Mrs. Pilton 's pastry." So saying a crave per mission to light a cigarette, and begin thinking it out at once. Aud here it is written in fact, it has been finished some time: but an ending came to the whole story which makes the resemblance to Bedreddin Hassan cease. If my memory does not lead me astray, Bedreddin Hassan mar- ris before the cakes are mentioned, while I Here a soft hand is laid my shoulder and two laughing eyes scan the above unfinished sentence. "Cant you get on, you silly old Montie?" "Well, you know," I reply medita tively, pulling my moustache with one hand and holding my pen with the other, "there is an absurd prejudice among the narrow-minded against sec ond marriage; so " "Well, teil them then, you great big coward, that second marriages have been successes, from the days of Jacob downwards, and impress upon your readers if you have any that Kate Bint is the very happiest woman in ex istence. It is true, my own dear hus band;" and my Kate's ripe lips .are pressed to mine. A person truly noble cannot be in sulted. The heaviest dealer in poultry .game and produce in the the country is a citi zen of Indianapolis. He started with a capital of $5. His yearly sales now foot up more than $1,250,000, Bow to Eat Mtr. As a universal rule in health, and, with very rare exceptions in disease, that is best to be eaten which the ai- petite craves or the taste relishes. Per sons rarely err in the quality of food eaten; nature's instincts are the wisest regulators in this respect. The great sources of mischief from eating are three, quantity, frequency, rapidity; and from these come the horrible dys pepsias which make of human life a burden, a torture, a living death. By eating fast, the stomach, like a bottle being filled through a funnel, is full and overflowing before we know it But the most important reason is, the food is swallowed before time has been allowed to divide it in sufficiently small pieces with the teeth; for like ice in a tumbler of water, the smaller the bits are the sooner ire they dissolved. It has been seen wit i the naked eye, that it solid food is cut up into pieces small as half a pea, it digests almost as soon, without being chewed at all, as if it had been well masticated. The best plan, therefore, is for all persons to thus comminute their food; for even if it is well chewed, the comminution is no injury, while it is of very great im portance in case of hurry, forgetfulness or bail teeth. Cheerful conversation prevents rapid eating. It requires about five hours for a common meal to dissolve and pass out of the stomach, "during which time this organ is incessantly at work, when it must have repose, as any other muscle or set of muscles after such a length of effort. Hence persons should not eat within less than a five hours' interval. The heart itself is at rest more thau one-third of its time. The brain per ishes without repose. Never force food on the stomach. All are tired when night comes. Every muscle of the body is weary and looks to the bed; but just as we lie down to rest every other part of the body, if we by a hearty meal give the stomach five hours' work, which in its weak state requires a much longer time to perform than at an earlier hour of the day, it is like imposing on a servant a full day's labor just at the close of a hard day's work. Hence the uuwis om of eating heartily late in the day or evening; and no wonder it bus cost many a man his life. Always break fast before work or exercise. No laborers or J ictive persons should eat an atom later thau sundown, and then it should not be over half the mid day meaL Persons of sedentary habitr or who are at all ailing should take ab solutely nothing for supier b yond a single cup of warm drink. Such a sup per will always give better sleep and prepare for a heartier breakfast, with the advantage of having the exercise of the whole day to grind it up and ex tract its nutriment. Never eat without an inclination. A tilt Swindler. A good-looking, middle-aged man, vlioso slow step betokened feebleness of health, entered a little shop down town and purchased a wicker basket for $1.25. He took out a roll of bills looked them over, and then said; "I And I have nothing smaller thau a $10 bill "if you will send your boy to my office with 3.72 in change, I will give him a $3 bill in payment." The boy was sent out a few minutes after the man had gone, with the change for the $-" bill in bis pocket. When he reached the top of the stairs on the floor of the building in which the man said he had an office, be was greeted by the purchaser, who took the change. "My boy, I find I haven t got a $5 bill said be" in a very benevolent way "Would you mind waiting here until I go down into the street and get this $10 bill broken." The office boy was anxious about the $3.75 which he had given the man. He looked at the man sharply, as if to dis cover his game, but be appeared to have such an honest face that the boy de cided not to say anything about it, but would keep bis eye opeu all the same. As soon as the mild-mannered man had reached the street the boy followed, but kept out of sight as much as possi ble. He soon discovered that the man with his money had recovered the act ive use of bis legs and was hurrying down the street at a surprising rate of speed. The boy hesitated no longer. He ran swiftly down the street until be came up behind the fugitive, and then drawing back his fist delivered a sud den blow at the man's backbone, which had the effect of tipping him over upon the sidewalk. "Give me my $3.75," said the boy, thrusting his band into the man's face. The man pulled out the change, gave it to the messenger, and theu without waiting to explain the matter to a policeman who came up, rushed around the corner in great baste. "That man has been playing that little game for several months and has made money by it," said a business man who saw the incident and heard the boy's story. "Boy, you are a plucky fellow and will make a first-class policeman if you keep on." "No flies on me," he replied, as he gave the merchant a wink and threw a banana skin at a stray dog. Skt f tha WalpolM. The Marquis of Cholmondely, intends to avail himself of the Settled Estates act, In order to sell his family property in Norfolk, which comprises upward of 20,000 acres of the most higly cultivated land in the country. The partridge-shooting has always been of the highest class, and there is first- rate pheasant-shooting, the estate be ing richly wooded, and the plantations are well dispersed over the property. Houghton Hall the historic seat of the Walpoles. will now pass into pos session ot the descendants of shrewd Sir Robert, who built the splendid bouse (second in Norfolk only to Hoik- ham) when be was Prime Minister, its erection extending over thirteen years. The mansion is a very stately building of stone, with colonnades, wings, and cupolas. Sir Robert's famous collec- I lion or pictures was soiu dt nis ucgeu erate grandson In 1889 to the Empiess Catherine for 45,000 and they have since been the mam attraction of the Hermitage Palace at St Petersburg. I There are good gardens, and the park, i though flat, is plcturesqe. as it contains much fine timber. Houghton ia with- ; in an easy drive or aandringham, a circumstance which will add materially to its attraction in toe eyes ot many possible buyers. The estate has been surveyed during the last three weeks by Sir J W. Ellis. As many as are the diffioulrtea wbioa virtue baa to encounter in this world. bar foroe is yet ruperiorl UC11LUTED CUWB'(. tm Lasaoa that was Taught them by aa t noot rnt TendrftMM. 'T have seen a good many daring deeds performed and coarse jokes ier petrated by cowboys," said the agent. "One morning a traveling man arrived at the depot by stage. He bad a small sample case and satchel. He was below medium height and rather slight, but he was very neatly dressed and wore a silk hat. He was traveling for a New York jewelry house. He was about au hour early for the train east, and he opened his grip on the platform, took out a brush, aud dusted his clothing and his shoes. He then drew out au old newspaper, leaned up aginst the side ot the depot, with one foot projected in front of the other, and began reading. "Meanwhile three cowboys had saun tered up to the depot. Tbey all eyed him closely and watched his operation. When he began reading they huddled together and talked a while in an un dertone. Presently one of them a big six-footer left the group aud 'negan to saunter carelessly about the platform. with his head in the air, iusectiug the rosters on the building and the cornice. When he got around where tiie travel ing man stood, be lifted his big broeau and planted it firmly on the jewelry man's foot. No apology was made. The traveling man merely looked up, drew his foot back a moment, then placed it back where it was. The cow boy passed back to tho other two. They all chuckled and joined in the conversa tion. "Soon the cowtmy started out again on a similar round, gaping at the roof. When he reached the traveling man lie tried to bring down his coarse boot on the extended foot. The traveling niau jerked his foot back suddenly, and the brogan came down with a thump on the platform. Another conference and chuckling followed. Finally the cow boy set out on the third round. Jul as he was about to raise his foot to plant it on that of the traveling si-an. the latter looked up quickly and sa uJ " 'See here, there is my foot and its going to stay there. You step on it it you want to; but I want to tell you that before you can get oil of it l win :ii you.' "huch a volley staggered the cowboy. He looked at the foot, and then at the small possessor, aud finally moved oiT without stepping on it. Another con sultation followed. "The traveling man calmly read his paper a few minutes, and then took from bis satchel three apples, he looked at them a moment and suddenly threw them a few feet into the air, and theu quickly drew a revolver, tired three shots, splitting each apple into a dozen pieces betore they reached the ground. He replaced the cartridges in the empty chambers of the revolver, and returned it to his pocket. "The cowboys witnessed the act with out saying a word, and soon, complete ly cowed, turned and left the depot The traveling man tola me after they bad left that he would have killed the three of them had the fellow stepied on his foot again, and I think he would, as be was quick as lightning. He then showed me a medal he carried, which he won as being the most rapid shot in New York." . ratnoiM Koaiar. Fifty years airo his renown spread all over Europe. This was Ernest Mensen. His exploits make the pedestrian feats of the present day look insignificant. He was a runner who first came into notice by running from Paris to Mos cow, a distance of l,7l0 miles, iu thir teen days and eighteen hours. In is.!; he ran through Central Asia from Cal cutta to Constantinople, bearing dis patches for the East India company. The distance Is 5,015 miles, and he ac complished it in titty-nine days, one third of the time taken by the swiftest caravan. A favorite employment for him was the messenger extraordinary of sover eigns. He ran from country to country beariBg letters and dispatches of the highest import, and always beat moun ted couriers when matched against them. He never walked, but always ran. Invariably he took the direct route to his destination,climbing moun tains,swimming rivers and guiding him self through forests in a way known only to himself. His food was a small quan tity of biscuit and raspberry syrup. His rests he took twice in twenty-four hours, when be usually leaned against some support, covered his face with a handkerchief and slept. If he was compelled to remain quiet any length of time be complained of giddiness and rush of blood to the head. In 1S42 be was employed to discover the source of the Nile. Starting from Silesia in May, 1843, he ran to Jerusa lem, thence to Cairo, and up the banks or the Nile Into Egypt. Just outside the village of Lyang he was seen to stop and rest, leaning against a palm tree, his face covered as was his wont. He rested so long that some person tried to wake htm. They tried in vain for he was dead. Death or Aa Kanlnent CuloaiftU Queensland, is at present rejoicing over the death of an eminent colonist. For some time past the country has been terrorized by a bushranger named Riley, who, on a small scale, tried to emulate the exploits of the Kelley gang, the members of which some five years ago ended their career in New South Wales. He "stuck up" stations, "went through" gold diggers, and in June last robbed, of all places iu the world, a flourishing hotel on the Cape River. But, as usually happens, the pitcher went too often to the fountain. In other words, the bushranger, happening to meet a police constable to whom be was known, attempted to stab him, but not succeed ing in committing murder, was prompt ly shot in his efforts to escape. When the Kelly gang were annihilated in 1S, there were p easaut prophecies to the effect that bushranging would from that time disappear. No dou!t this plague of a wild country is so rapidly decreasing in Australia that it no long er troubles the settlers, save in Lie more out-of the-way parts of the colonies. But until every section of the babitabe portion of the antipodes is settled, we may expect to hear of a highwayman or a foot Dad makmzfree with other men's property, just as robbers of thisdescrip-1 tion haunted the English roads up to the era of railways Iu the more lonely districts of western America the 'Toad J agent" is still one of the contingencies ot travel, and, indeed, only recently, a , party of excursionists over such a well-1 known route as that of the Yosemite , Valley m California, were relieved of ; some of their property by one of these picturesque individuals. SEWS IN BRIEF. .o ancient Rome a cattle dgj vr was called an agitator. The population of the world is es timated at l,4iK),0WJ,00o. An inch of rain Is counted lOutous weight of water to the acre. New York contains 41 square utile of territory and Chicago 35. The title of "count" can now be purchased in Spam for $2.50. It is affirmed that China will declare war if Ruspia invades Corea. The Romans never adopted long hair, considering it effeuiina'e. The annual gold bullion product of Georgia is estimated at $100,14.10. An aspar tgus diet is now recom mended for certain kidney diseases. The Masons of Cleveland are erect ing a temple at a cost of $100,000. Norwegian beds are short aud nar row aud double beds are unknown. There are 00,000 families in Lou don, each of which lives in one room. The olive crop of Italy is estimated to be worth about 200,000, 000 francs. The trade of Thibet iu musk amounts to half a milliou dollars vear- iy. It is said that such a tiling as a good-looking Arab woman does not ex ist. The free lunches served at New York saloons cost about $11,000,000 a year. Birch and boxwood soons to the number of 120.000.000 are made in Rus sia annually. Mitterwonzer U the name of a Ger man actor who is coming to this country telore long. The United States raises half the total number of hogs annually produced iu the world. The South Church iu Peabody, Mass. . has not been closed for a vaca tion since 1713. A liiihaiu, X. C, tobacco factoiy sends 5,000 cigarettes to all chinch fain that it hears oi. There were over S.OOO.OOo inhabit ants in Ireland in 1S4"; there are lea than 5,000,00a now. A new rifle, callable of discharging three bullets at the same moment, has been made in France. The Brazilian production of dia monds amounts iu yearly value from $1,000,000 to $l,5oo,ito0. Lincoln county, Tenu., boasts of a woman Betty Franthain who is re puted to be IVJ years old. The population of the United State is divided into 2-",51S,S20 males and 24,030. '.M females. Counterfeit ten dollar bills of the issue of 1S75 have apieared in Pitts burg and near-by towns. Twenty-eight States have adopted laws restricting the practice of medi cine to educated persons. The amount of capital invested iu the clock aud watch iuterest in the Uni ted Males is $100,000,000. Steubenville derives its name from Fort Steubeu, which occupied the site of the town in early times. At the Waltham manufactury each watfh undergoes no less thau 3,740 op ens ons before it is finished. T tie smallest salary a minister in the Presbyterian Church of Australia is lerniitted to receive is $1,500. Montreal Is to have a botanic gar deu seventy-five acres in extent in the beautiful park on Mount Royal. The British Government spends over A'j.OOO sterling per year in photo graphing the faces of criminals. The United States Government has 400 John Smiths' In its employ, and SCO each of Joneses and Johnsons. The potato, introduced in England, in 1000, was first eaten as a sweatmeat, stewed in suck, wine and sugar. It was an old Japanese execution er's sword that suggested to Mr. W. S. Gilbert the idea of the "Mikado." There is a society in Memphis the object of which is to furnish cutlius U its members at greatly reduced prices. With 4,575 miles of navigable rivers and 2,900 miles of canals, the French railways encounter some competition. The thirty-eight States of the Un ion contain 2,200 counties. Texas leads off with 151 and Georgia follows with 127. The newspa(iers of the world have lust been reckoned up at about 35,000. thus giving one to every 40,000 inhabi tants. A new recruit is charged with at tempting to poison a number of soldiers of the Tenth Cavalry at Fort Whipple, A. T. Dvorak is said to be composing his music for an opera that is being ar ranged from Shakesiware's "Twelfth Night." ' The annual cousumptiou of impor ted aud domestic cigars is sixty to every man, woman and child In the United Hates. The battle of Moutmoreuci, I-ower Canada, which preceded the capture of Quebec by two months, took place July 31, 1759. An election for a champion liar is to be held at Giles, Arizona, and the successful candidate is to get a medal and a serenade. Hungary has an Insurauce company which pays married men from 100 to 500 florins in the event of the elopement of their spouses. Paris, III, which has been without police for fifteen months, owing to a hitch between its Mayor and Councils, now has a force. A colored woman only 37 inches high, though 27 years old. lives on a Florida plantation. She claims never to have been sick. The army and navy of Great Bri tain furnish a full pro rata ot that na tion's convicts and a due proportion of them are commissioned officers. An esthetic St. Louis judge has de cided that three chromo lithographs, a bust of Longfellow aud a $5 oil paint ing, legally constitute an art parlor. The hardening and tempering of ct per is supposed to be one of the lost arts, but a Boston inventor has shaved bimself for years with a ropjier razor. Only about 150 pounds of each beef animal is St for canning, hence to pro vide 3,00o,00) pounds of canned beef or 500.0CU caus would require 20,000 cat tle. Europeans find the heat of Algeria a great obstacle to agricultural work, and to avoid much of it they propose making harvests at nia-'!!. by a f elec tric light. Very
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