filial will ! pjF. SOHWEIER, THE OOISTTTUTIOI THE UHOI-AID THE EHOXOEMEJT OP THE L1TS. Editor and Proprietor. VOL. XL. MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. MAY 26, ISS6. NO. 22: Molly t the Gate. I .1 jf-r 0 "iBU ,Uis mornln' behind ISb over the gate there to kiss m ., ,f:JvViit lass around old Killarnr, rJIaJ my be" 18 80 LciiT' l'm to d.e. t -t Jl her face now, as fair as a daisy ' beautiful Lair and her pretty bare ial xt! I'm afc"11 they'll bs thlnkin me craiTi . , lie frienJs that I pass and th- strangers I greet. yow Joc't you be mockin' my grief wid fo"y. AtJ trjin' to fill up my heart wld good cheer, 5aK (ten co one can take the place of joy ilo'iiy. rm atoi iway unless she is near. 1'a iratchla' tie ui birds, and wonder to longer -jit none builds a nest without help of la mate; yu', only half life I live while I wan der. And I'm c ,irS riCtt back to my clrl at tie cate. A GIRL'S FOLLY. A small, BujerIor cottage of bright itJ trick, sweet-scented woodbine trail ing orer its rustic porch, a green lawn before it surrounded by flowers, and a ekirming country landscape spreading out in the distance. Inside, in its small but very pretty parlor, on the red tabel cover, waited the tea-tray, with its caps aiil saucers. The window stood o;n to the stil.. warm autumn air, aid the Frencu porcelain clock on the Wnte piece was striking five. A slender girl ol some twenty years came io. She "as very lovely. But her bright blue eyes bore a sort of weary or discontented look, and her bright brown hair was towewliat ruf 1M. Sue wors a print washiag-dress of black and while, neither very smooth cor very fresli, and a lace neck-collar fastened with a bo- of black ribbon. She had made an appointment to meetRegii aid Vavasour, a rich young gentleman who had made her acquaint ance down by the willow walk, and her kver, Thomas Wa'.kyn, had told her te would call that evening. Just before te left, she said: 'May I ask you to do me a little fa vor, Thomas?" "What is it?" he repeated. "If you would not very much mind going houie by the hill and would leave U s note at Miss Ford's. I particularly wish her to have It this evening." He paused for au instant, not reply ing. She went on hurriedly. "I see that It is disagreeable to you. I have offended you too much." "Sot that," he answered, holding cat his hand for the note. "But I can tartly spare the time for the long way this evening, as I have to call at Kil lick's for my fatLer. However" he sail no more, but took the note. I "Good bre, Thomas." f "Good !ve." ' "I'm glad he took the notel I shall ' be safe now." I Jl;ss Alison Rece w as a clever yourf lady. The direct and near way to Mr. ,Watkvn's home would lead him past the willow walk, She had devised this impromptu note to Ler dressmaker in tte afternoon to prevent his taking that usual route. Had he seen young "avaour cooling his heels within the precincts of the willow walk te would inevitaly suspect he was waiting to keep a lover's trust. Alison was busy in the kitchen next morning when she heard her mother open the front door and some one coine in. "It is that chattering 11 rs. Ben nett," thought Bhe, as she dried ti e tea-spoons. "Alison, come here," called her mother, in a ipuick voice. She went to the parlor just as she was her sleeves turned back at tlie wrist, a large, brown Holland apron on. Very pretty she looked with it all. But it was not Mrs. Bennett, who sat with her mother; it was a enerah!e, white haired old gentleman Mr. Watkyn, the eider. "I am come to ask about Thomas," said he. "1 believe be came here last night," Miss Aliaou; "at what time did he leave you?" A prevision struck her with a sort of tirror ttiat something was wrong. "lie left quite early, ' 6he faltered. fi"Well, he has never come home." ' "Not come home?" she said, with a v.titening face. "I sat cp till 1 o'clock, and then I thought the mist might have kept him; that h) had stayed at some friend's house. 1 knew not what to think, and that he would be home the first thin? this morning. But we have not seen him, and I cannot hear of him." Mrs. Recce was Impressed with the frightened, guilty look that Alison could not keep out of her countenance, and began to feel uneasy. "Cannot you tell what time it was when he left jou?" she demanded, sternly. " "It was after dusk. It was just after ncstt before the mist came on. It mast have been near 7 o'clock." ' "Which road did he take?" puitued Mrs. Ii-ece, And very reluctantly Al ison answered, for she foresaw it would bnnj on further questioning. ' "The long road round by the hill." Round by the hill?" echoed Mr. atkyn, in alarmed surprise. "Why fltd he take that road?" Alison flushed and paled alternately; her hps were trembling. The fear creepin? upon her was that he and Joong Vavasour had mtt and quarrel ed. Perhaps fought and injured one another fatally. In these dread mo ments of suspense the mind is apt to injure up far-fetched and unlikely thoughts. s.sked him to go around that y, she replied, in a timid tone. "I wanted t;m to leave a note for me at toe dressmaker's." n3d Mr Watkm sank into a chair, Pitting his hands before his troubled If rV1 11 a11'" Le breamed faint Scar " IUU3t taV6 faUen down the Alison uttered a scream of horror. Ueteived by the mist, he must have h. i, too near the edge," continued "leivi map. "Heaven grant that it av tot be so, but I fear it. Was he to attempt to cross the plateau on Web. a r.ig!,t?! Catching Up hIa uati Mn Watkya went out swiftly. Mr. Reece grabbed daughter's hands. They were icy an!i t!9011' wbat Vsed between you ""J Thomas last night?" - -uoa't ask me. mother. Let me follow Mr. Watkyo. I cannot rest in doors. Oh, it cannot, cannot be as he fears?" "Not one step until you tell me what passed." said the mother firmly. There's more in all this than meets the eye." "He asked me to give up talking to jar. vavasour." "And you refused. Well?" "He told me I must choose between them," continued Alison, bursting into tears. "Oh, mother, it was all my folly, all ray temper; ue eould not see that, and when he went away he said he went for good." Mrs. Reece drew in her thin lips sternly. She was thinking. "And what does it mean about your giving him a note for the dressmaker? 1 do not understand. You had noth ing to write about." The girl had got her hands free and flung them before her face to deaden the sobs. But Mrs. Reece was a reso lute mother at times, and she extorted the confession. Alison had improvised the note and sent Thoma3 around the long way to deliver it, and so keep him from passing by tie willow walk, "Oh, child, child!" moaned the dis mayed woman. "If he has indeed fallen over the Scar it is you who have given him his death." And it proved to be so. In taking the two miles round between the cot tage and th farm a high and perpen dicular precipice, called the Scar, had to be passed. The tableland, or pla teau on the top, was wide and perfectly safe road by daylight, since a traveler could keep as far from the unprotected edge as he pleased, but on a dark night or in a thick fog it was most dangerous. Deceived by the mist of the previous night, Thomas AVatkyn must have drawn near the edge unwittingly and rallen over it. There ho lay, on the sharp rock, when the poor father and others went to look for him, his death tike face upturned toward the blue sky. 'Speak to me, Thomas, speak to ne!" wailed Alison quite beside ter lelf with remorse and grief, as she knelt jy him, wringing her hands. "Oh, Thomas, speak to me! I loved you all Jie while." But Thoma3 neither spoke nor noved. The voice that bad nothing jut tender words was silent now, the leart she had so grieved might never Deat in sorrow or joy again. , Xo person had seen or spoken with aim alter quitting her the previous light, save the dressmaker, little in lustrious Miss Ford. S.le had an. iwered his knock herself, she related, ind he put the note into her hands, saying, Miss Rsece had asked him to eave it in passing. "What a thick mist t is tiiat has come onl" he remarked jo her in his pleasant chatty way. "Aye, t is indeed, sir." she answered, and ihut her door as he walked away. For many weeks Alison Reece lay k-ery ill with brain fever, hovering be :ween life and death. Some people said t was the shock that made her ill and took her senses away; others thought ibat she must have loved the poor Foung man to distraction; no one, save :.er mother, knew it was the memory Df her last interview with him, and the scheming to send him on the route that led to his accident, that had well nigh killed her. Bat the young are strong in their tenacity of life, and she grew better by slow degrees. One warm April afternoon, when the winter months had given place to spring. Alison, leaning on the arm of tier mother, went to sit on the porch. She was very feeble yet. It was the first she had sat there since that mem orable evening with her Ill-fated lover. There she remained thinking and dreaming. They could not persuade her to come in, and so wrapped her in a warm shawL Sunset came on, and was almost as beautiful, curious, perhaps, that it should be so, as the one he and she bad watched together more than six months before. The brilliant beams shone like molten gold iu the glowing west, the blue sky around was flecked with pink and amethyst. Alison's eyes were fixed on the lovely scene with an enraptured gaze, her bps slightly parting with emo tion. "Alison, what are you thinking of?" 'Of him, mother. Of his happiness. He is living in all that glorious beauty. I think there must have been an uncon scious prevision in his mind b7 what lie said that evening as we watched it, that he should soon be there. Oh, mother, I wish I was going to him! I wisi I could be with him to-morrow." The mother paused; she felt inclined to say something, but she feared the agitation it might cause. "Well, well, child, you are getting tetter," she presently answered. "Yes, I do get better," sighed the girl. I suppose it pleased Uod that I should." "Tune smoothes all things, Alison. In time you will be strong again and able to fulfil life's various duties with a zest. Trials are good oh so very good! for the souL But for meeting with them we might never learn the way to Heaven." Alison did not answer. Her feeble hands were clasped in silent prayer, ber face was lifted to the glories of the evening sky. It was at the same sunset hour, an evening or two latsr, that Alison, who wa3 picking up strength daily, strolled away to the churchyard. She wantd to look for a newly-made grave in that comer where so many of the Watkyns lay buried. She could not see it; the same grave stones that were there before were there now; there was no fresh one. "Perhaps they opened the old vault for him," thought Alison, as she sat down on a bench just inside the gate, for she was too weak to walk back again without a rest. The sun was going down to-night without any loveliness, just a crimson ball, which seemed to give red light to the atmosphere, and to light up really the face of a pale, tottering man who was coming up to the gate by the help of a stick. He halted when be reached it. Al-son turned sick and faint with all manner of emotions as she gazed at him, fright being uppermost. "Alison!" "Thomasl" . He held out his hand; he came inside; his pale, sad face wore for her its old, sweet expression. 44Oh, Thomas, I thought you were dead," she burst out in a storm of sobs. "I came here to look for your grave. I thought I bad killed you." "They thought I was dead at first. They thought for a long while that I should die," he answered, as he sat down beside her, keeping her hands in Ins. "But the skilful medical men have raised me up, under God. I hope in time U be strong and well again." "Can you ever forgive m9?" she wailed, bitter, painful tears falling down ber cheeks like rain, I"shall never lurgive myseu.-' "No Then you must atone to me instead, Alison. Be all the more loving to me during our future lives. We must pass them together, my dear." "D: you me in it still?" she tasoed "Oh, Thomas, how good and true you are. ir I can only be a little bit wor thy of you." T ey walked homa slowly, arm in arm. Neither could walk fast vet- Mrs. R-ece came to the porch to meet them, uod is full of mercy, she thought. "I did not tell her, Thomas," she said; "she was so dreadfully low when she came out of the fever. I meant to tell her to-night" "I have told her myself; it was best so," answered 1 nomas Watkyo. WEALTH AND XOBILITT. The Lack of the fr'oriiior Prevents too Proof of the Latter. Edwin and Charles Thome, the younger, (the latter favorite actor be ing then alive), were walking together several years ago, along Union biuare. isew lork. in the distance thev saw their elder brother William approach ing. His manly chest the I homes are a thick-breasted race was ex pauaea to its luiiest, ins iieaa was thrown back, and his entire appear nnce justified Edwin's whispered re mark to Charles: "Our elder brother appears to be redolent with the pomp or pride." When nilliam accosted them he was evidently laboring with some suppressed emotion, lie finally found voice to say, in deep tones: "Me boys, it is all true. There is no longer a doubt of our high descent. We will have justice done us at last." "Will you be kind enough," said Charles, "to inform your younger brethren what in the name of Jericho you sre talking about?" "Yes." said William, loftily. "I have discovered that I am the Duke of Normandy, and now, my dear Count " But he could proceed no fur ther. His two brothers were actually laughing at him, and with a boisterous, ness that attracted the attention of passers-by. When Edwin could com pose his visage ho said, with mock dig nity: "I suppose we should make obei sance low to you, my lordly brother, but I am sure you will pardon me when I say that you make a very queer-looking duke." Turning away indignantly, William addressed himself to handsome Charles: "Brother, I have a proposition to make to you." "Xo, not me," said Charles, starting back In alarm. "I see by your count enance that the noble 'juke is about to give me a financial brace. My younger brother here has much more of the coin of the realm than I possess. Try your blandishments upon him," and he pushed Edwin forward. At that tima "The Black Flag" was just pouring ducats into Edwin Thome's purse. His share of the profits averaged from 51,000 to 4,0C0 weekly. - H never played to a less than an $300 house. Looking at him appeahngly William said, speaking in a less lordly strain: "S.-o here, Ned, I'll give it to you straight. This thing is not a guy. "I tell you it has been looked into and I'm a sure enough duke. It will be a big thing for the family to have the title proved. , But I haven't got a nickel. You lend me f 1,000 and I will go to Paris and get all the papers in proper shape, and then, when I come back, we will all get a big boom in the newspapers." Sje here, my noble 'juke,'" said Edward, mockingly, "I'm willing to squander upon your noble job-lot the price of just one red drink. Come, hie with me to the nearest hostelrie, and-1 will save the duke of Norman dy's life." And thus was paltry lucre allowed to stand between the Thorne family and the demonstrator of its noble descent. I re-echo the sentiment expressed by William when he muttered: "Base brother, begone!" Schooling of Sailor Boys. Th ppal wrinollnir of the sailor bovs does not begin until they are trans ferred to tne training snip at ab mrt AVhilA aboard the Minnesota they are piped out of their hammocks every morning by a shrill note from the boatswain's whistle fol owed by i. . ii it the sing-song cry: "au nanus up a immt- n Tli rrv Is taken ui and passed along from hammock to ham mock by the waking Boys untu au i.nva tiimhkd out. Then there is a great scurrying to see who will be dressed ana nave nia nauimo-oa. auu bedding lashed up first. Abe ham mocks are stowed in a netting on the deck above during the day. The boys ro f,iri,i,i,lBn to lav their hammocks on the deck or across the guns, but must hold tnem ironi me uuio ujcj am carried ta the snar deck until they are taken by the stower. A few hours are spent neany every uiuiuwg tlift decks and Dol- ishing the brass-work about the ship. At noon all hanas are pipeo uown ui dinner nnn t sunset the bugler sounds' call for hauling down the colors. Five minutes later cornea supper. After supper nammocas are piped aownt ac o nn ,,i ami An hmir later the crew la OVUUUWf uw ordered to turn in and keep silence. Talking after Deatime, swearing, on.i ntiinr hnviah offences are punished in several original ways, the most common of which Is to make the offender "toe a seam" for several minutes at a time or send him aloft to "keep a mast-head iookouu- iujb mreiaM nhmt their clothes nuu io - - or their hammocks are obliged to carry them on their shoulders ior au . nnrninff IITltll ttlPV 8X6 CUHX1. Solitary confinement on bread and water for live aays is me wmci v ... t- .-oui tiv a r.ourt-martiaL Only boys between the ages of 14 and 18 years are received at the training shlD From the moment an apprentice enlists his pay is s per mu, .u i i i o nioaa where ha aciuires the rudiments of a prospective profes sion as a sauor. t .i jit,, tn ntndvina' arithmetic. geographv.and United bates history while on me iraiiHiiK-ouiy, nTiilar nractice in DJXing, 3UD Klcu . " t . fencing, rowing, and sailing boats. When qualified for sea they are drafted to a cruising practice ship and visit Europe or the West Indies. After re- r rtnrq ap t wo weeks. boys are transferred to naval vessels w all parts of the world. ThUis usuallj . mnnthi after enlistment. aooui, , and he is not apt to be changed again until he is of age. Then he may re ceive his discharge or be re-enlisted ai will. CHARMS AXD SPELLS. Cnglish Farmers iu this Country who Believe in Them. 1 ears ago a number of emigrants iioin jjevonsiiire, Lancaster, Cornwall, Yorkshire, and other counties of Eng land settled in northern Pennsylvania, near the iNew York line. They have some of the finest farms in the state. and arc the best of citizens; but many of them cling with singular tenacity to a strange Denei in the efficiency of cer tain charms that have been used for centuries among the class to which they belonged in England. The charmed ring cure for epilepsy is one oi incse. uniy a lew days ago a jeweler m one of the villages was called upon hy a resident of the settlement, who had with him his daughter, a sick ly girl of 15. The girl produced nine r.ngusn twopenny pieces, from which the jeweler was requested to make a ring to fit the girl's middle finger. It was necessary, tlie farmer said, that a portion of each coin should be used, and the rest of the pieces saved and return ed to his daughter. The coins were given her by nine boys, as near her own age as they could be found, which would give to the ring a cliarm, which when she put it on, would cure her of epilej sy, from which she was suffering. This, he maintained, was a cure that never failed. If the victim of epilepsy was a male, the coins must be presented by nine females. Some of these farmers keep the skins of adders iu or on their houses and buildings, believing them to be a cer tain charm against lire. To cure ague the patient is taken to a Sot where two roads cross, and an oak is found as near the spot as possible. A lock of his hair is lifted up and driven into the tree with an ash peg. The patient must then tear himself loose, leaving the hair stiek iiii in the tree, and walk away with out looking behind. Sufferers with erysiiH-las, by wearing in a silken bag around their necks a toad from which the right hind leg and the left fore leg has been cut, until tho mutilated reptile dies, will get well of the disease. The tongue cut from a living fox, these charm believers say, carried about the jH'rson, will ward off diseases of all kinds: but as the ierson carrying one of the.-sc fox tongues will surely die if he should happen to meet a fox at any cross roads, the charm is seldom invok ed. One old resident of the settlement carries in his pocket constantly an im mense tooth from a human jaw. The tooth, he says, was taken from the mouth of a man after he was dead, who was hanged m Hertfordshire more than 100 years ago, and was carried by the present owner's father, grandfather, and preat-grandfatlier. It is carried as a preventive of toothache, the tooth from a dead person's mouth beirg a cer tain charm against that malad , Tlie owner of the tooth says he never had tlie toothache in his life. A double hazelnut carried in the pocket r about 1,1k TWircT, is 'i 1 an n .am a1 tt irf twin. ful ailment. The charms for the diversion of warts believed in by many of these hon est larmers are numerous and most sin gular. F'or instance, if a persou with warts on his or her hands will write down the number of them on tae band of a tramp's liat without the tramp knowing it, he will carry the warts away with him that is, that they will gradually aisappear lrom the person s nanus ana appear on tuose or the tramp. Another way to get rid of warts is for the jK'rson to see a funeral pass unex pectedly, wherever he may be, and as it josses rub his warts quickly and rejeat the words, "Warts and corpse, pass away and never more return." Green peas may also be used to advantage in taking off warts. Let tlie afflicted person take as many peas as he has warts and touch each wart with a different pea. He must then wrap each pea in a separate piece of paper, and bury them secretly in the shade of an ash tree or under a hazel bush. If peas are not in season and the person with warts does not enre to try the efficacy of any of the above-named charms, let him select as many pebbles as he has warts. Sewing thein up in a small bag, he must take them to where four roads cross and throw the bag over his left shoulder. This charm will never be resorted to, however, by persons who have no mali ciousness in their hearts, for if by chance any other person should find the bag and open it the warts will appear on his hand. A wen is usually a troublesome and unsightly thing to be afflicted with, but the victims of wens need not suffer long if they believe in the English charm. Take a common snake, hold it by the head and tad, and draw it backward and forwards nine times over the wen; then cork tlie snake in a bottle and bury it If that fails, the patient must not repine, but simply wait until next May Day. Rise early in the morning of that day before the sun has disturbed the dew. Go to a graveyard, and by pass ing the hand three times from head to foot over the grave, collect tlie dew that hes on the grave of the last young per son who was buried in the yard. If the victim of the wen is a woman the grave must be that of a man, and rice versa. Apply the dew immediately to the wen, and a cure i3 guaranteed. The charm for curing noseoieea is a curious one. II a person is suuject to nosebleed he may effect a cure by going to a person of the opposite sex and re questing him or her to purchase a piece ot lace, sucn as may oe speciiien, ior me person making the request. When the lace is brought the person must take it and neither pay for it nor return thanks for it. He must make a necktie out of the lace and wear it for nine days, and he will never have the nosebleed again. if the person is too modest or gallant to get the lace in that way, let him catch a toad, kill it, and wear it around bis neck in a bag until the stench sickens him. His nose will never bleed again. If a person has cramps m the legs or feet at nitrht. he has but to place his stockings in the shape of a cross on the floor in lront ot his uea wnen ue reuura, or lay his slippers under the bed, soles nnuvird Plainer the shoes under the coverlid at the foot of the bed so that the toes protrude is also a sure preven tive of cramps. No one wno wears a snake skin around nis neaa neou cw have headache. If one feels a sty com lot him take a hair from tlie tail of a black cat, rub the eye with it nine times before midnight on the first night of the new moon, and the sty will die. Her Laugh Wounds His Conscience. TrrKton business man's wife has been away on a visit to the old home i in Ker city. He had lived, during her absence, ostensibly at home, but really has been living on porterhouse steaks at the hotel, and has just been elected president of a new whist club in which he had a young red-cheeked girl for a partner, and while of course he deepl regretieu tne enlorced absence of hit It was one of those calm, clear spring own dear wife, he was managing to gel mornings, when nature seems too indo along without pining away very rapidly, lent to rouse herself to the ordinary rou 1 he other night lie and hi roseatt tine work, but lies like a sluggard for joitner had just swept the boanl. They another nap ere she encounters the fa had had a thirteen-trick hand and the Ugnes of the day. rest of the fable was nowhere. "captain Sterne, having risen and puU- ,T.!,wlstown man went home a' 5,1 bimself into his clothes, came out on lO-.dO. Things looked just the same. He the long piazza, doused his face in a composed himself to write his custom- basin of fresh water, scrubbed himsell ary letter, beginning, "It is now half, vigorously with a coarse towel and past 8 o'clock. I have just come in from made a few half-hearted passes at hii my work on -the books. Iam awfully shaggy locks, tugged at his brown beard, tired, dear, and miss you so much. I and with a squint at the sun he reniaik don t want to hurry you home, and I ed: want yon to stay as long as you feel like '-It's a pretty fine morning, and I it, this time, for I shall not want to let think it s a mighty good time to look you leave me again, etc. etc." after my bee bait. Wouldn't you like He finished the letter and stamied to go 'long with me and help me course awl directed it, and then took a look at gome bees?' the starlit evening, and thinking he, "Of course," I answered, ,:it would would finish his cigar (he never used to afford me great pleasure." smoke.in the house) walked out to the We guljied our breakfast of brown corner. When he got back he heard a corn bread, dried venison and black rustle m the d nmg-room and looked in. coffee, and set off across a stretch of The light had been moved. There ,iue barren toward the dark line oi was a head bending over tlie light. Hi wo.h1s that marked the confines of Cedai wife's smiling face looked up out of the hammock. In the twilight gloom of Urf radiance beneath the sliale and greeted hammock the stillness was oppressive, urn. She was reading -.lie letter. His The whole world was a mass of bewil heart dropjied down hii trousers' leg. dering beauty. He felt like death. "Thar they air, shore 'nough," ex- "I'm reading a charming letter from claimed the captain, as we emerged you," said she. "So kind of you! It from the shadowy forest into the edge sounds like those you used to write be- f a grce,, B:Mit, the shadows fore we were married." The lady read still lay on the green grass, it through and read it aloud. On a half rotten stump was a piece ol "If she'd only a got mad I'd been all pine bark, in the hollow of which was n right" said the Lewiston man, Tucs- chunk of honeycomb, and a swarm d (lay; "but she didn't; she laughed. 1 buzzing yellow jackets and busy brown Every one of my yarns twisted her up bees were feasting on this general fr and she laughed until she made me sick. I i,1ik.q so conveniently placed befor I never got such a roast and the worst ! them. of it is I have lost all my reputation fot "Ves. jest as I exjieeted, they're t veracity. If I say I'm, going to the takin' the bait like good fellers. Now. lodge She lets OUt one of theill laughs; if von'll iist u-:ite!i m m show von and I Stay at home. If I say I have, been making up a trial balance at tlie otlice and it kept me late, she draws that laugh on me and I wilt. It's terrible. I feel meaner every day. If it keeps on I'll have to G it with a sealskin cloak. It's my last resort, but if this thinj keeps on and worse comes to worse I'll have to stop taking degrees and ante on the seal-kin." LKTTEU-WKITIXG. The Materials 1'neU by TL'ltra-Fash- ionable Correspondents. Sealing wax was once the rage with fashionable letter writers six moutlis and even three months ago. I'ltra fashionablo women use it no longer. The rage for decorating the backs of envelops with large blots of red, blue, black or green wax, in which was im pressed a monogram or initial, spread among women generally. So fashion has now tabooed it and returned to the habit of using ready-gummed envelopes. But fashion has not tabooed the 1110:1 ,strostiesin the way of rote paper which are im-wited in large quantities from Berlin, Paris and London. The loudest of these still continues to be what is called the Mahdi, but its novelty is wearing away. This is a rather coarse pajK-r of a flaring red, the edes of tlie sheet being ragged like the leat edges of thi alwavs fashionable "uncut" book, This pair Las been in favor much longer tlian was its immediate predeces sor in the letter pajier craze a paper which looked as if its edges had been partly burned and tiie rest of it subject ed to the combined effects of smoke and water. Queer-looking paper it was, and for a time dealers had a large sale for it and a lively demand. Afghan paper is a comparatively new thing, the favorite colors in this a linen paer being orange and flame color. Under the same name the same quality of paper appear in dark blue, pink, ecrue and brown. These are now the favorite with the ultra fashionables. Those who prefer to send to corres pondents burning words of love or chill ing reproofs on more modestly tinted paper use what are known as linen cloth papers, which come in tan, rose, pale pink and grays, and in pearl, cream and chalk whites. They are heavier than the ordinary linen papers and much costlier. If the fair correspondent has patience and a good pen she can possibly write a letter on tho most recent im twrtation, a sort of etching raper. Coarse, rough, either white or cream colored, it very closely resembles the etching paper used by artists, except, of course, that it is much lighter iu weight. In order to give an idea that one is fi ancially "solid," presumably, th shrewd paper-maker has introduced a paper which is called modern bona, it is a sort of parchment which very much resembles the paper on which English "five pun" notes are printed, and is therefore in great favor among Anglo maniacs. It also resembles the pair on which American railway bonus are printed. Pale pink and delicate grays are tints sometimes used in this stylo of correspondence material. The very latest and now most popular paper with young ladies is a delicate, pretty paper, the foundation of which is a very delicate peachblow color. If it were not an imported japer the recent flurry in society about the late Mrs. Morgan's ieach-blow vase might ac count for this peculiar shade being used. Traced on this foundation are weird fig ures and flowers and such distorted landscapes as go to make up w hat is called art in Japan. Other more deli cate designs remind one of a sort of combinatonof Kensington art needle work and modern wall-paper designs. These are thrown on to the pajer by water marks, and the contrast then, or when contrasting tints are used, cer tainly makes a very handsome paper. Ragged edges are a characteristic of nearly all the.ce papers, and the envel opes used are invariably the large square ones, which are as popular now as when they were first introduced. Moods as a Test of Character. I have found moods to be very poor tests of character. Having cut through the crust of a most forbiding mood, produced by bodily derangement aud constant and pressing labor of the brain, I have found a heart full of all the sweetest and richest traits of hu manity. I know men whose mood is usually exceedingly pleasant. There is a glow of health upon their faces. Their words are musical to women and chil dren. They are cheerful and chipper and sunshiny, and not easily moved to anger; and yet I know them to be liars and full of selfishness. Under their sweet mcod which sound health and a not over sensitive conscience an 1 the satisfactions of sense engender, they conceal hearts that are as false and foul as any that illustrate the reign of sin in human nature. WILD HOXBT. A Bee Hunt in Florida. mi- to folW a hv his ronrse Von , Sio u-hon n rot his nwss l.e tiies in a I straight direction for his home. Tha't what makes people say a 'bee line' whet they mean to take a straight course from one place to another. You kin al'ui tell tf it's near by or a far ways off bj the way the lice flies. Ef he goes straight up'ards, you may know his home ain't fur off, but ef he kindei ris-s gradually, in a slow, nnsartin sort o' way, you will understan' that it's a mile or two off. Now, watch me course this 'ere one. He's most got a bait, an' when he is satisfied he'll go off like a bullet." Carefully we watched the banquetci as he rose from the feast, poised himsell for a moment, and was off so swiftly that I failed to see him start. The ca tain's more exierienced eye, however, followed the brown speck as it disap peared in the distance, shading Ins eye with his hand is he gazed long and ear ncstly in the direction of the cypres swamp tliat lay beyond tlie little glade on whose margin we stood. '"Y yi'.'' exclaimed he, "I'll bet twe bit3 I find that tree. It's one o' th?ni big cypress yonder in the swamp. Come on, they're aplay in' cut this time o'day, an' ef we kin "keep tlie course, we're dead sure to find the tree." Away we went, splashing through a marshy savanna, and tearing our way through the tangled thicket beyond. Quite through tlie swamp we passed, aud as we emerged on the pine level be vond, covered with dwarf iralmetto and golberry bushes, the captain stopped short again, and remarked: "Well, I'll be shot if I couldn't swear them les were in that swamp, but hello! Here they air agin. I thought that last course was not straight enough up for the snamp. llol' on a minit. I'll git a fresh course f 'om one o' these critters a sin-kin' these are golberry blossoms. ,: Most intently he watched the one se lected for the experiment. The greedy little t-uicure buzzed from one little white Ifower to the other, until he was so full he could hardly fly. Then, witl' trembling hesitation he arose, with evi dent regret, being poised for an instant soas to recover his equilibrium, then plump into the air he went, disapiearing among the interlacing pine boughs. "Aha!"' ejaculated the captain. "1 knowed it: I tell you I knowed it. Th tree can't be fur off now, and I'll find it in no time." I had become deeply interested 111 the proceedings now, and I watched the captain with increasing anx ety, as he carefully examined every likely looking tree, suddenly, with an admonitory Sh-h!"' he stooped and assumed a li 1 tening attitude. The suspense was pain-' ful, but I could hear a sort of low, dis tant roar, like tlie murmur or many voi ces. "That's them. Hear 'em?'' said the hunter, with his eyes beaming witt pleasure. "Them's the drones playin' out. The workers don't have no time to play less'n they're agwine to swarm. Them" dandy fellers are out for a frolic, and a'ter'ards they'll go in and Mattel the silly old queen. Let's go, we've ;u good as got 'era now." Very cautiously and carefully we made our way forward. At last the captain stopped and gazed earnestly at a ! tall pine treesomo yards in front. Jt leaned, slightly and about 4') feet above the ground there was a well-worn knot hole, at which the captain kept gazing. " Yi, yi!" he said at last. "I knowed it. That's the tree. Don't you see 'em: Come roun' this way where tho sun won't blind you. The drones is done gone in, but I kin see tho workers winin' in an' out. Them bees is bees, shore's you're borned. But I reckon I better brand that ere tree, so '3 the nex' feller that comes along will know thai it air done located by Captain Jeames Sterne." So he whipped out his pocket knife and began cutting his monogram in a smooth place in the bark. After much pain and labor the job was completed, and a cranky looking "J" and "S" that was rather top-heavy, stood out in bold re'ief. The captain eyed his handiwork with evident pleasure, and then we sat down in the shade to rest. "When it gits a little later in the sea son, an' we're certain of gittin' a good chance o' honey, we'll take the ole 'ornan an' cyart an' ax in some o' the settlement folks, an' we'll all come out here an' have a bee cuttin'. From the looks o' that 'ere tree there must be a sight o' sweet stuff hid away in that 'ere holler." Poverty of soul is worse than that ol fortune. Ife's harmony must have its dis cords; but a3 in music pathos is temper ed into pleasure by the pervading spirit of beauty, so ars all life's sounds tern pered with love. "Is the bank sound?" asked the vis itor. "I should doilar," replied the teller. And then everything grew se still and quiet you could hear the fail ing due on the thirty-day notes. Modes of Salutations. A French traveler, says an exchange, reports tnat every race among whom he has sojourned has its own mode of salu tation, not excepting the great Yankee nation. He informs bl3 readers that, however, a few polite and European Ized Americans may salute one another, the characteristic national salutation is "Hello!" We fear he is right. The telephone is accused of having fastened the stigma upon us, but in truth the tele phone only adopted a word familiar to all boys and most men. The Irish say on meeting, "God bless you!" Oa entering a dwelling, "God save all here !" The Arabs say on meeting, "A fine morning to you!"' The Turk says with dignified gravity, "God grant you his blessings." The Persian salutation is familiar to all the world for its comic quaintness, "May your shadow never grow less." The Egyptian is a practical man. He has to viru his taxes by toil under a burning sun, and accordingly when he meets his fellow be ask, "How do you sweat?" The reader is probably aware that in those low latitudes all is well with a laborer as long as he perspires freely. Tne good Chinaman loves his dinner. "How are you digesting?" he kindly inquires on meeting a friend. The Greeks, who are keen men of business, close bargainers, ask one another, "How are you getting on?" The national salutation of Naples was formerly, "Grow in grace!" At present in all parts of Italy they use a phrase equivalent to "How are sou?" The Spaniards, "How are you pass ing it?" The French, "How do you carry yourself?" Tlie Germans, "How does it go?" The Dutch, "How do you travel?" The Swedes, "How can you?" mean ing, "Are you in good vizor?" The Russians, "Be well!" - The English-speaking races, iD addi tion to the juvenile and telephonic "Hello!" say, "How are you?" and "How do you do?" We also take off the hat,shake hands, embrace, bow and kiss, as, in other climes, tieople rub noses, touch fore heads and take off their shoes. The American in Italy is surprised to see men embrace and kiss each other, as in the Bible lands. The Italians In turn look upon our hand-shaking as cold and ridiculous, the bobbing up and down of the arm having no meaning whatever in their view. The touching of the lips of gloved fingers, if more graceful than hand shaking, must also seem to people of the east as professional and expression less. The bow, as a mark of respect, is a custom used by all nations, and one that had its ori'in in ancient times. Teaching to Memoriae. A prominent man, who professes te be a teacher of memory, says: "la a few lessons I enable one to memorize the most difficult things without an effort. "How can that be doner" asked a reporter. "Oh, it's a matter of association, ac cording to a system I have worked upon for twenty-five years. I take a person and in a few hours can get him to repeat or reproduce a long poem which I have read to him twice or at most three times. He can repeat it backward or forward, or give you any line that you may call for by number. I bad a boy once only twelve years old, who, after learning the system, went to hear Beecher preach, and afterward repeated the sermon to an audience without having taken a single note. Of course, he did not give every word Mr. Beecher used, but he covered every point in its regular order, just as the preacher had done, curtailing it to be able to deliver it in half the time it originally took." "Do many come to you to have their faculties cultivated?" "Yes, a great many of all classes come, students, reporters, lawyers and preachers preachers and lawyers par ticularly. The former to acquire an aptness in memorizing sermons, and the latter to memorize authorities and dates. Orators also, who memorize their speeches. Then, persons who are going in for an examination come to me so as to learn to memorize dates and events, location and rivers, histori cal, statistical and practical facts, etc I had a navy officer here not long ago who was pre paring for an examination for promotion and he perfected himself in the system so that he could without difficulty remember anything he desired. There is an old lady between seventy and eighty years of age who. with her daughter, has taken instructions, and she says she fiuds no difficulty In re membering and repeating all she reads. She says she can take ten poems she has read and repeat them alternately, a line from each." A Description of Mme. Rachel. Mme. Rachel created a decided sensa tion at Washington, where her audience did not need printed translations, and could applaud or weep in the right pla ces. She had aged much since I used to visit her at her country seat at Marley, near Paris, but her histrionic talents were in no way diminished. Pale, with jet black hair, a small regular nose, a mouth mobile enough, but rather sweet in its expression and tender in its lines for the heroine of tragedy, and a large forehead, quite protruding itself over the straight black brows that shaded her wondrous eyes, she was the very eiu Wliment of feminine intelect. Her figure was slight, and her mental entire ly dominated her vital system; but her limlw, with all their delicacy, had a firm look, and she was rather lithe tlian fra gile. The fall of her drapery would have made any sculptor despair did he not see that itself was but the reproduc tion on tissue of lines into which the Grecian sculptors wrought their marble. Beware of Crimson Feathers. Persons who were abroad on Seventh avenue during the shower recently were startled to see a lady on the street with several crimson streams iouring down her face apparently indicating a serious case of assault and battery. She was mopping the sanguinary fluid off her visage with a handkerchief, and looking as though she would like to sink through the sidewalk, and when it was perceived that the new crimson feather in her spring bonnet was the source of her misery this didn't seem very surprising But the observers need not have laughed 1 so loudly. NEWS IX Ruicr. An elevated ra.hoil i3 prep ted for Paris. At Albuquerque they throw dice lor colli as. An unprecedented!? heavy snow storm has visited Dundee, Scotland. Citizens of Macon, Georgia, send out 51,000 a month for lottery tickets. "Angels oa horseback" is a new dish, invented at a Santa Fe restau rant. Daring the la-il five years CO.000 persons have died cf consumption in Paris. California is said to be adicted just now with ten thousand invalid tourists. In Sweden the coyemrnent runs the drinking 1 laces and puts iu e.tch a free library. The mayor of Toronto has been removed from otlice for lack of property qualification. It is reported that 1.10 patents for manufactuted butter a'e registered in the patent otlice. There Is much complaint in Lon don as to the difficulty of getting good domestic servants. Over 2:1,000.000 lobsters were cap tured and canned on Prince Edward's Island last year. The language is saddled with an other word. A wheelman speaks of "circumbicycling" the world. The only presidents who were never iu Congress are Washington, Taylor, Grant, Arthur aud Cleveland. A Wisconsin minister was dismiss d from an orthodox pulpit becausi lie built a fire under a balky horse. The number of paupers in London exclusive of lunatics in asylums and vagrants is reported at I'Jj,3jO. Soup kitchens Lave been orened in London this winter where fo ip is sold to the unemployed at one cent a quart. There are living in Partington, New Ilaumshire, three men who voted for James Monroe at. his first election."" A quantity corrosive liquid w.i thrown upon the statue of A!eaml: Dumas in Paris a couple of wefc a;. Land in Connecticut, uvn which pine trees were p'.ared a few years ago is now worth iluo an aoro for iu tim ber. A Merced, tCal.,) woman, who at tempted to oeu a ci.ii of powder with a hatchet, )3 now attended by a physi cian. The wealthiest resident ttf Read ing, Pa., i'as become insane because six men we.-e killed in au aeck'eut 111 h s mill. The French pitch hasboeu adopted by the Dresden Court Theatre. The purchase of new wind iii3traiuent3 will cost J 1,300. A newspaper of CastMon. Vt., boasts that not since is.10 "cave intoxi cating liquors been openly sold or drank in that place. Five thousand row physicians will be graduated from the lul incorpora ted medical colleges in the United States this year. The sea has thrown up rew land worth a million in fro-.it of Mr. Mully'a place at Far Rockaw.iy, Long Islaud, and he claims it. The terrapin taken annually from the waters of tlie Ciirs.i;tv.ke foot up in value nearly a million and a half t'ollars, it is s.ated. Tlie tcp of the historical tower St. Jacques, Paris, lias recently been uti lized by the instillation of a meteoro logical observatory. Norwich, X. Y., lias adopted a novel method of raising money for cemetery uses. It is to have a comic opera for this t'rpose. A mercantile agency reports the record of business failures during the first quarter of l-"l as better than for any similar period since 1S7:J. Vice Chancellor Bacon, with whom that title l-ecoim-s extinct, is now in the t3th year of hisage and the is oideat Judge on the English bench. Descendants to the number of oil) survive Mme. Marianne L:-veii!e, who died recently at St. Michel de Vaiuaaka Can., at the age cf M year. Slates which rojfe 1 Carrick C.istle for 300 years are found to Le perfectly sound. Yet the Irish nuarrir3 whence they were taken are all but idle. A plucky 13-year-old girl grasped the bridle of a runaway l:or;e in Sac ramento the other day and quickly brought the animal to a standstill. The recent Chinese troubles in Washington Territory have caused many of tho Celestials to dr:f: into Kaisas, so a Topeka paper report?. A boat race for $100 between the crews of the war vessels Tennessee and Powhatan, at Key West a few days ago, was won by the Teunesee's crew. At Griffiu, Ga., recently a man who had been mayor of the city and one of its mo:-t prosperous and popular citizens, died a pauper in iU poor house. Mate, a Paraguayan tea, U a very popular drink in South America, which has never been introduced into the United States. It is said to be very stimulating. Tlie French think of sen.iing over to the United States to borrow for the exhibition in 160 the key ot the Bas tile. Lafayette presented the key t j Washington. A Brockton (Masa.1 workman has sued a manufacturer for 7S cents, and been awarded 511 by the jury's verdict. The suit cost the county bJ0, and each of the parties 330. Hoboken, N. J., has a mayor who was first elected upon a Democratic and next on an Independent ticket, and now the Republicans have nomina ted him for a third term. London ha3 now 4C0 newspapers, according to the "Newspaper l'ress Directory," (of London.) for 13s(. Wales has S3, Scotland 10.;, Ireland 102 and the English provinces 1223. The British Admiralty has ordered that in future all large ironclad3 be longing to Her Majesty's navy are to be furnished with not less than four electric search lighU and mirrors. A medium, who was to have given given a spiritualistic wince the other afternoon in New York, was found dead on a lounge in Irs room by the woman who expected to form "the circle." Walter Emery, of Kenne'uunk, Me., recently captured 800 bees while they were swarming in the woods. He daubed bimself wi h honey the bees alighted thereupon, and in this way he transported them home without re nelvina a atiua .! f "r-V T" vr
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