A. B. F. SOHWEIER, THE 00XHT1TUT10I-THE OTI0I-1ID THE UTOEOEKEIT OP THE LAWS. Editor and Proprietor. VOL. XL. MIFFLINTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. JUNE 9, 18S6. NO. 24. Walt. TlVag'-i 'tis bat to shed tipoo its grave my jjen now are falling thick and fast? jt m, go luck and bind the ripened TwHcft wasting in the harvest field. r niglit of noeJ has come; tbo- poor. ' deallwvM AieiH I have mj sustenance to yield. 11 me - h anJ from aim eye tbe iJt w them wipe nil they are clear and 1 live them there !n other years! ilriliinks 1 thought I uo'er should mourn or cry. fi0 hu ith sad, repentant hands tinner tbe unkind words my lips have And t:J 'k years though on Ksrchins suiids Eat siy to me their sting is lost and Jea i." Let ill mv fair days die, but those I niairr-1 With jln4inoss anl sin I humbly ask Tu luve tliein back, uawounded and un scarre.l. To live tht-m better, this to be my task. Cinst th.'U i..t wait, but now, O hurrying tear?, E'"en Vkhiln I lay at thy swift-fiolng feet Atoueniest tur the past, of prayers and tears That in my cap of ruo shall be some sv.el The sliivrriu vines cling closer to the wall.", Around the house the wind creeps with cry, AuJ while the midnight snow weaves cruel pa'.ls. I and my soal are waiting the reply. ebexkzi:r tlubee's moxet. "There, I've caught my foot in a hole in that old carpet again, and broke tbe china milk jug," said Patience riunier. "1 do wish, grandpa, that you would let ma hire Dorcas Wood to eave that new carpet of rags. This one isn't decent, nor safe to walk upon." Ebenezer Plumer, who was scruti nizing through Ills spectacles the Fi nancial Article in the paper, looked up with a snarl of dissatisfaction, which showed tbe "entire range of his yellow stumpy teeth. 'Then v.hv don't you mend it?" said he. "Because, grandpa, it's past mend in?," declared Patience. "I've darned it and patched it, and patched it and darned it, until there ain't three square feet of the original material lett. -a.nl we haven't dared to shake it for the last three yeare, because if we did we knew it would fall to pieces. We are not paupers, grandpa," urged the girl In her vehemence, "why should we not live like Christians?" "You're very rich, aren't you?" sneered Mr. Plumer. "Quite a mil lionaire, I wonder you condescend to cook and wash Wishes for an insignia cant individual like me. " "I know I've nothing of my own, grandpa," admitted Patience, "but" o. and you never have,' growled the old man. "You're a careless, wasteful, extravagant creature, and Charley Mercer is just such another. He was here thn morning to ask me to lend him five hundred dollars to buy out the good-will of the store at Deep Hollow. I told him I'd see him further first I'd just as soon throw my money into a well as lend it to him.'" ."Grandpa!" "Well, what now?" "You refused him?" "I Just did. And I'll do it again. Oh yes, 1 know that you are engaged to him and that you expect to get mar ried on my money. But you've mis took your calculations there." "Grandpa." cried Tatience, in a choked voice, "do you remember those nights when Charley Mercer watched with you, when you had typhoid fever? Do you remember that the doctor said his care and vigilance saved your life?" "Doctors are always talking some such stuff," said Mr. FJumer. And besides he was well paid for what he did. Didn't I send him half a bushel of seed potatoes the very next spring?'' Patience turned away with a sigh. "Grandpa,"said she, "you are selfish and ungrateful. Oh, 1 must say it I cant keep it any longer! You are nar rowing down into a perfect miser!" "Aniiser, am 1?" screeched the old man, fairly framing with rage. 'And selfish? and ungrateful? Well, in that case, I don't trouble such a very One young lady as you are to stay here and wait on me. Go aud get married to your Charley Mercer, as quick as you please, and live off the crust in the gut ter; I won't have you here another Uy." "I spoke too hastily, grandpa," said Patience, coloring. "But I spoke noth ing more than the truth. Yes, I am going to marry Charley, and e shall struggle on as best we can. We cannot live a more poverty-stricken life than I lead in this hous-?, where you have tap of gold end packets of treasury bonds bidden away, But I do not want to leave you unprovided for. I will stay here until you can get some one 'se to come." "1 tell you," reiterated Mr. riumer, "Iwon't have vou In the house! Clear oat! Pack up your things and go! Pve given you board and lodging long enough. Go I say!" So Patience inirriedlv itartced tin her few belongings, tied ou her faded bon net, and took refuge with old Miss uocfcer, who kent a ttmad and needle Jtore, and let out the upper part of her H"use to lodgers. 0 Sooner hail aim Ipfr. the tirmse tcau Mr. Plumer hastily trudged up Kairs, with an unwholesome perspira "on creating out on his forehead. so people know all about the bag of eagies and the leather wallet of eovera Jnt bonds!" muttered he. "People know everything, I believe! How do thevGnd it out, the praying, peeping yihains? Well I must find a new hid Place. I shall invest it all in a day ?r two, in that Gold Mining Companv oi it!" he cried. "Ill bury it in the bouse y chimney of the old At the northern boundary of the 5J la'f hidden by overgrown apple Jes and swampy lilac bushes, were c leaning of the house originally oc cupied by Ebenezer Plumer's father. -uui ng remained of it now save a "busier stone chimney, and an angle r. ceuar wall, concealed in rose "f'ers and wild weeds. Tramps sleep "ere Simetimes of summer nights Eaivnj8 a rumor of lh place being rd. and jost beyond- wound' the "WsilU Ca'dntrv rrwrt nrrhprl rwpr With r- fiunv Jioun am ureeK, dus untu Jf.en. nA pandered a moment and (hen an"idf PntPiwi Viia hruin ' !'I'v Imaple-trees, and boarded on either aide by a close-matted growth of perfumed white clover. Thither crept old Ebenezer Plumer. with the gold and bonds buttoned se-? cureiy under nis coat, and a mason's trowel in his hand. For it occured to him that if he could secrete his treasure behind one of those huge misshapen stones In the chimney, it would be tbe saie3t repository. It was a sultry summer dav. and Ebenezer Plumer was no longer a strong man. ine Dig drops or sweat stood on his brow as be toi'ed. and at last he sat down to rest lie mizht even have gone to sleep, if he had not been roused by a sound of voices, where some one was walking behind the old wen ciose to tue road. Why," said Ebenezer to himself, "it's Mr. Carson, the President of the Gold Mining Company. And that other one is Major Sheldon, the Secre tary." lie was about to scramble out of his retreat and challenge their attention, when the sound of his own name deci ded him to remain for a minute or two longer. "I've almost knocked the side of the house down," said Mr. Carson, sharply, "and no one is there! I won der what can possibly have become of the fool?" "I hope he hasn't taken fright," said Major Sheldon. "Confound this tin cup the water leaks out at one end faster than I can swallow it at the other." "It's essential that we get the money into our own hands at once," said Mr. Carson. The steamer sails at noon to-morrow, and we must tail with her. And money we must have. "Oh, I dare say it will be all right," said the Major, serenely. "lie's such an egregious old blunderhead that he'll believe whatever you choose to tell him. IIow he will stare, to be sure, when he finds oat that thera is neither gold mine nor Gold Mining Company that he has just lined our pockets with his funds! Ila! ha! hal "Hut he'll never find that out," shouted Mr. Ebenezer Plumer, scramb ling to the top of the ruinous old wall, so that his green and yellow counte nance glared upon the two unconscious conspirators from a frame of thistles and weedy-like trees. "He may be a fool, but he ain't fool enough to be taken in by youl Get out of here, yon miserable swindlers, or I'll have you carted oS to the pound. You're tres passing ou private property, do you hear? Get out I say!" In his enthusiasm he flung a huge stoue down at the pair it loosened the rest, and an avalanche of bricks and mortar followed. Tne Honorable Fer nando Carson and Major Sheldon took precipitately to their heels, with a sort of vague idea that the Day of Judgment had come without warning of any de scriptionand poor Mr. Plumer, falling backward, was half burled in the debris, from which rose up a suffocat ing cloud of dust and fine lime. . "My money!" he gasped. ymy money I' And then he recollected no more. W ben, vaguely and by slow degrees, his senses returned to him, he was lying on the old calico lounge at home, his forehead bandaged, and a smell of camphor pervading all the air, and he could hear low voices in tbe adjoining room. "Dear Grandpa," said Patience. "I'm so sorry I said what I did to him! Because he has brought me up and educated me, and I owe everything to him. Oh, Charley, do you think that is a judgment on me for my undutiful words?" "Xot a bit of it!" said Charles Mer cer, cheerfully. "Don't fret. Pay the o'.d gentleman is sure to get better. He's a jolly old file, after all, and we should miss him terribly if anything were to happen to him! But you heard what the doctor said, that it was nothing but a scalp wound. How do you suppose he came to be there of all the places in the world?" "I can tell you," interposed a strange faltering voice trom the calico lounge, "lie was making a fool of himself. That's how he came to be there." 'It's grandpa," cried Patieuce jump ing up. 'It's the old gentleman," said Char ley Mercer. "Come in here, you two," said Ebenezer Plumer. "I've been pretty near the edge of the other world, and things dont look to me as they did tweuty-four hours ago. Who was it found me?" "I did, sir," answered Charley Mer cer. "I was coming across the lots and I saw the lime dust rising up like a column of mist So I ran to see what tin matter was and took yon on my shoulder and brought you home the best way I could. Though, to be sure you are no light weight, sir," he added with laugh. "That's twice you saved my life," said Mr. Plumer. "You and Patience eught to hate me, Charley, but I don't believe you do." Oh, grandpa," sobbed Patience, whose pretty eyes were red with weep ing "Indeed, sir, we don't," said Char ley. "Where's my coat?" said Ebenezer Plumer. "On the chair, grandpa, close by you," answered Patience. "Iland it to me." He took out the bag of gold from his inside pocket (Hallo," said Charley Mercer sotto voice, 'nq wonder he was heavy to ciirry" "Here," said he, 'take this, children. Divide it between you, and set up your housekeeping as soon as you please, "Grandpa," cried Patienoe, do you really mean it?" "Of course I mean it," said the old man. "Why shouldn't I? I've got enough left in government bonds to support me twice as long as I shall UveT And after aU I might have lost it in that swindling Mining Company. Don't I tell you that things have altered in my eyes? Take it, and be tom. And I believe I shall be all the happier myself." , . ,. "Oh, graudpa, you're such a darling," cried' Eatience,'tendeily kissing hjm. "We never can thank you enqugn, sir," said Charley, fervently. And in speaking of it afterwards, Ebeneaer Plumer declared a?.0 began thoroughly to enjoy himself untU he had gotten rid of those gold eagles. JV Jr. ih. hr. investment I ever made when I handed 'em over to i Pa tience and Charley," be said, with chuckle. Tourelot finds that the new star ol aimed to nave peex. dromeda ia a part" or me ur?' Molodes the tbebry of the toirth and thus of new stars. PLAYIXO IX AX ILLINOIS VILLAGE Au Experience that Recall Old Barn storming Ilojr. A Chicago manager who had just re turned from a tramp on the road with a comedy company tells us his experi ence in a small Illinois town where be made a date by mail merely to fill in the nnocoupied time between the larger cities. The town had been elaborately billed, and seats had been on sale for a week, yet when the company arrived not one ticket had been disposed of. "How do you account for this?" asked the manager of the merchant at whose store the plan of the house was spread. "Why," was tbe reply, "you charge Arty cents. Our people never go m stiff as that" When the manager went to looTc at the hall he found a room capable of seating perhaps 200 persons. It was heated by two large stoves at the rear and ventilated by several broken win dow?. The scenery which the com pany carried was made low for emer gencies, but still it was just twice too high. The ceiling was eight feet above the stage and the scenery was sixteen feet high, and there was a pillar square in the centre of the stage. "How about music?" asked tbe man ager. "What music?" asked the proprietor. "Why, our piece is full of singing. We have to htve an orchestra. Our con tract calls for ao orchestra." "Does it?" said the proprietor, very much as if he wasn't just sure what an orche tra might be. "is there an orchestra in town?" asked the manager. "Guess not Never heard 'o one here." "Well you must get a piano, then." "Planner! There ain't one in town." That settled the music question, so the manager turned his mind on the vexing question of putting a quart of scenery into a pint measure of stage space, and finally ended by concluding to play without scenery. When tbe night came the manager entered the hall and found a dozen boys and men standing around one of tbe stoves. "Well," said the manager, "it's 7.30 we'll open the doors now;" and he passed among the men and boys to take up their money. "I'm the fireman." said the first "I 'tend the stoves." "1 roll up the curtain," said another, and so on some were ushers, some had peddled bills, some carped water for tbe actors. "What do you do?" said the wearied manager to a stalwart looking chap sitting behind the stove. "Me?" "Yes, you." "I ain't right in my head," was the answer. "Xo," put In several of the by standers; "that's so, he ain't; he ain't got no sense," and they seemed to think that ought to settle all dispute about his right in the halL And it did. At 8 o'clock not a soul bad come to the door. About ten minutes latr a man came up, showed a tin star on his breast, said be was the marshal and walked in. In five minutes more five men, five women and a string of chil dren came, announcing that they were the village board and families. Behind them came a few persons who effered sums ranging from a nickel to a quarter t get in, and one man came up and actually planked down a whole halt dollar with a reckless air, but not a word. "Just imagine if you can," says the manager, "how all this struck me. My company was composed of fastidious ladies and gentlemen, who were costing me in tbe neighborhood of $1,000 a week." Well, tbe curtain went up and tbe play began, but it had not gone far when tbe fellow warranted not to be "right in bis head" fell off the front bench in a foaming fit "Jes' stop yer play a minute," said one of the trustees; "he'll be over It pretty soon. He has 'em every little while." So the nlay was stopped, and the young man was rubbed and rolled and water dashed in his face. When be came to, the play went on, but it bad not gone rar when ne toppiea over In another fif. This tune the leading lady left tbe stage ana aeciarea sue would not ro on azain. Others of tbe company follqwed her lead and began to put on their street clothing. The mamtger announced that under the circumstances he could not go on with the play, but would be back in that part of the country sometime and give them the rest of the performance. Mucn to his surprise the audience accepted this Dledee and filed out without making any demand" for the money that had been paid, "Talk about your old days of barn storming," says the manager, "but they can't bold a candle to the present right here in Illinois.' j HCXTIXG THE SPARROW. The Once Welcome Bird Now Martyr to me inirraumuc Republics. For a few years after sparrows were first introduced to this country there . k; hntinM (inn a in them, and orders far consignments of the birds came irom we m In those days there was a cunning old lav In Wash in 12 - ton square, and he made considerable money uuiiug - -little stranger was not then accustomed to the cute ways of the New xork Knights of the locust, and it Is said that the officer nearly doubled his salary by erecting little houses for his feathered friends up in tbe trees and robbing the nests of their young before the birds were able to fly. He brought the youngsters up by hand in coops in his back yard, and when they were old enough to take care of themselves he sold them to estern 'buyers at fancy PlA?tustaiM) of tne Mingratituae of republics" rnnst be record Ul the cass of the pugnacious British . Wfl He was welcomed and feasted when he flrst made his appearance. The Legis lature passed a law making It a mis demeanoTto kill him. The Park Com missioners appropriated money to house, . . j him and in everv way hewas as tenderly cared for as human beings are In the hotels on Blackwell's oeiuiss , . .a ho, taken rlace. menagerie, freed twenty pairs of- the WrdslnCtralPark to tie spring of 1865 sixairs lrf 'Trinity chuT$hjard. sriSina4r4rhVfe. pair, Ln tfniou nuare. He thought then he was opening a fountah of bless ings on tbe country, and he has often said so sinje. But recently his tune was different. In discussing the spar row question with a reporter, he gave utterance to this heartless language: "If the sparrows continue to Increase as rapidly as they have been doing of late, we sball have to do as they did In France and Prussia put a bounty up on their heads. The farmers say the sparrows are ruining them by eating up their grain as quickly as it is planted, and by their aggressive behavior they are driving many of our song birds away. At first we had but a lew doz en to destroy the insects, and we never supposed they woule eat us out of house and home and attack our pretty song sters. But they are doing this; doing it by individual daring and cunning; doing It by the hordes in which they appear." "How numerous are they now?" "It would be as easy to count the rain drops." "How can these little fellows capture the trrain planted under tbe ground?" 'They know just where it Is planted and dig up the earth with their tiny claws. One or two sparrows can do no harm, but when they descend like a black cloud on a wheat field there won't be much of a crop left to spring up." "What song birds have they driven away from the Park?" They have made war on oursmall early songsters, including the yellow bird, the bluebird, and other warblers. There is scarcely bluebird to be seen here now, where a few years ago they were quite numerous. The sparrows have even attacked the robins, thrushes and catbirds, but these can bold their own against them." 4 'Why have the Park officers come to be knowu as the sparrow pol'ce?" "Don't know, unless it is that t'.iey are paid to protect the sparrows." Tue director of the menagerie said that sparrows were now to be found, in great numbers, in all the large cities and towns east of Salt Lake Cny. They are particularly strong in St. Louis and its vicinity. In some localities in the interior of the State of Xew Jersey the sparrow is in great demand as an ar ticle of food, aud sparrow pid is re garded as a great dj'.icacy. The bir 1, as a rule, are plump and fat. T is pro fessional hunters usually perform their work at night in the vicinity of hay ricks, where sparrows pass the night. Tbe method pursued in catchiug them, which is known as bat-fowling, requires the presence of four sportsmen. ' Oue carries a long heavy stick with which be beats tbe sides of the rick and starts the game. Another bears a lan tern at the end of a long pole toward which tbe birds fly when awakened from sleep. The other two hold close against the roosting haunt of the birds a wide-mouthed net into which the sparrows dash bewildered by the noise and dazzled by the light Sparrows are too cunning to be taken in traps and the method described Is the most effective one yet discovered to take them alive. Great numbers of them are shot down daily on the farnu by men and boys engaged for that special purpose. They are as unpopular witfi the fartnpr as the muskrat op barn rat. THE WROXO MAX. A Green-Looking Stranjrcr who Wore Out TtireoCunfldenoo Men. "Why, Mr. Smith, bow do you do? It has been so long since I saw you down at Alton, that I had almost for gotten you," said a confidence man, stepping up to Jones, who was rather a rustic looking man, and shaking him warmly by the hand. "My frieud,rou are a little off there," said Jones, "my name is Brown, and I'm from Janesville." "O, beg your pardon. You look so much like my old friend Sjaith that 1 could have sworn that it was he." And number one walked hurriedly away. Jones had proceeded but a few blocks when he was accosted by number two. "Well, we'l! if this isn't my old fripnd B:ovrn, from Jam-sviile. When did you coce dowu? Left all the folks well, I suppose?" "My dear sir, you are mistaken. I'm not Brown.from Janesville; I'm Greene from Peru." "'Pon my life, but you lqok just like Mr. B.rown, and am, so anxious toseehlra." 2j umber two passes quietly out of sight, and soon number three comes across Jones, standing leisurely in front of the hotel. Sure of bis cue, he pro ceeds: "Hello, Green, old boy.found at hast! I've been looking all over the city for you, and, by jingo, here you are. Let's step around the corner and take some thing." "Mem frend.see you anyding in mine eye dat green looks? Mine name kih Herr Bautelschneider, und I am von Ejypt, und I am already nod; lqng here peen. I dink I not know jou si.cwt so goodur as y&u knows me, eh? Yas vou dinks?" Thus number three passed on, and, when the trio came to compare notes resolved unanimously "that they had struck the wrong man " Maple Syrup Miracle.; "I reckon it's the best syrup you ever seen or anybody else. Come out, boys, all of you and try Itl Bring qut a pint dipperl That tumbler there is first rate. t was. syruped qq a wooded hillr side, whore there is a grave of the sweetest maples m the Stale of Maiae. It's elegant, I bad to tight with my wife before she would let me market it. I had to throw twq children over the back yard feuoe before that sweet eame into town. The affection of my family for it is something wonderful." The speaker was a hearty looking man with a j jvlal way. The procession armed with breaking utensils, filed out of the Au burn store into the street, and sur rounded his wagon. Tue maple frC,?. merchant ha4 a collection ct watering mouthy around fc43 'cart. The plug came Out finally, and out of the keg spouted a clear sparkling itream of cold water. The erow4 saluted it with a howl, acme joker on the road, the man explained, nad exchanged his keg of syrup for a keg of water. He wasn't a very mad man and he bought cigars for the crowd, before he drove away to and the man who had turned maple syrup Into water after the manner of modern miracles. Rte may be pastured with advan tage at this season, "and 'makes ectl; lent green food untn tras4 la reads, Unless tjatpled KPQn toa much no in jury will da done tbe rye by pasturing upon it, and a crop of grain may be se cured later in the season. PCEBLO VA 8TTMES A Kiranse People Their Peculiar fances and Festivities, Juige L. Bradford Prince, who is an enthusiast m Pueblo archaeology, has just returned from a visit to the Tunkue pueblo, foriy-five miles south of here, about whiju interesting rumors htve been afloat, but little has been known until now. It proves to be one , the Pueblos that went down In the Evolution of 1030, and was destroyed by fire. It was very large. The walls are yet distinctly traceable, and the Ones of the houses well marked. The square of houses surrounding the es tufa, or underground council chamber, u about 1 SOU reet on each side. Tbe estufa itself is about fifty feet In diam eter. Judge Prince found many pieoes of pottery of unusual brilliancy of colors, and also stone axes and ham mers. Scorched corn in pots was found which went through the conflagration over two hundred years ago, and Is in a remarkable state of preservation. J adze Prince has been several years engaged hi unearthing the mysteries of the ancient Pueblos, and bis home here aboands in rare relics. Among the latter is the only set of Pueblo i'Vls known. It Is composed of stiange? ures and curiously-marked stones, eighteen pieces in all Though the Pueblos claim to have embraced the Catholic faith, it s known that they still reverence idols the sun, moon and morning stars. Although they present their children to the priest for baptism on the eighth day after birth, they go through an ancient sun-wor-sbippins ceremony with them four or five days before that. They are a very secretive people, and it is impossible to discover the nature of this ceremony. The twelve thousand members, and they are known to have remained at about that number since 1S00, care frilly guard this ceremonial secret There are now nineteen towns left, only one having been abandoned within tbe last eighty-five yeais, and that the Pecos Pueblo, the extensive rains of which are still visible on the Atchison, Tcpela A Santa Fe road near Glorietta. This once populous city was reduced to eleven inhabitants in 1840, and, taking with them the sacred fires, which had been kept burning for untold ages, they journeyed to Jemez, where one of (hem was chosen Governor last year. In the year I'A) Coronada found the IVcos Pueblo populous and flourishing, but its in habitants wasted away by war and disease in three hundred years untd only eleven remained. The Pueblo Government Is a pure democracy. On each Xew Year eve they elect officers in every town, the principal officers being the Governor, the War Captain and the Fiscal or Treasurer. The latter also has charge of the celebrations, and heralds proc lamations and the news a walking bulletin-board by virtue of his lungs. Every town has a patron saint, and that saint's day is the great event of tbe year. They rival each other in the extent and loveliness of the demon STatioia and in ht-spitality, for every fc'jtiae Is open and tl stranger is welcome to the beat it ailords. The ceremonial dances at these cel. ebrations partake of the nature of the drama, livery one of them tells some story of ancient days. It is the tribal mythology preserred in song and dance. The Matachinos is danced by twelve men and one woman, the belle of the Pueblo. It represents the trials of Montezuma in reaching perfection and the possession of ideal female loveli ness. Tbe woman they call the Malin che. Montezuma is represented by some active and ambitious young mau. Who, in the course of the danoe. meets with all the annoyance and diuicultles that can be heaped upon bim by bi3 tormentors. He is attacked first by one and then another, and overcomes them in turn, winding up with a ter rific combat with an Indian decked out in imitation of a bull. Then he claims the maiden and is. happy, even nis late pombatants joining in the praise of the victor. Mrs. Prince saw the Zaricbe, a dra matic dance, typical of the sufferings and final victory of Hoo-pah-wah, the Aztec Achilles. She describes it as follows: "Two Indians are ckoaeu and dreasod just al:ke-or, more correctly speak ing, are painted just alike, as that is their adornment for the ceremony. You can get only a faint understand ing of the effect by a description of the painting. Fine white lines radiate from the mouth and eyes. One-half of the body from the crfiwa of the haad to the head to tie sole of the foot, is painted a bright yellow and the other half green. A buckskin pad on the end of a stick is dipped in white paint and the figure patted with it, making what looks like little snowballs, e&bt & ten inches apart, rU cvjt t"h.e body. The efjfect js vtry &au a&d striking. A cu rious neeklade, of what are said to be bones of extinct animals, is worn about the neck, and the finishing adornments are feathers and bows and arrows. There are two dressed in this way and exactly alike. To each is faste-Gd a rope made of th ;t;au ja of' hides, paintfd Ta.o andv yellow, and the op posite ends of tbe ropes are fastened to pasts. When all is ready, weird, nqian music strikes up. ar;d tie dance begins in mournful measure, increasing in fervor as Ugoes om The coritflrtio&s become alarming, but a bvariy aUke as the moyerapuU u( double clog dancers On tii minstrel stage. The ropes are finally broken, and when that happens there is a great rejoicing, The assemb led people st)QUt and laugh and sing as tUousU ail worldly Ills were banished and paradise at hand." The dual representation In this dacce is a mystery which the Pueblos refuse toreveaL Tbe festivals generally occur during the winter months, the summer being given to agriculture by the pen, while the women make PAtteri of odd design ajyl br.ty'colo. '- - 4 SCS-QVLAB; CAqE. family Peculiarities Which Reap poared In the Fitth Generation. A singular and actual case of mis taken identity was related recently to tne historian. A gentleman living in one of our surburban towns had an intimate J friend whom he was In tbe habit of meeting at the depot in Boston every j evening, and they generally occupied seats together on the ride home, Qne evening lie enter-jd rt,e tra.in as usual, and saT, he supposed, his friend seated there, lie took the vacant place beside him, and greeted his friend with: "Good evening, Walker." I His salutation was returned, it was bis friend's voice, but tbe speaker looked a little puzzled. - While engaged in conversation upon general subjects, In which the gentleman noticed a rather constrained manner in his friend, he chaneed to glance behind him To his astonishment there was another "Walker" sitting a few seats back, ne looked again at his seat mate. Wonderful 1 In face and form they were identical. The voice was that of his friend, also. Only by a slight peculiarity in dress did he realix j that the peison in the rear seat was tbe friend he was looking for: A more per fect "double," was never seen. He rose and seated himself by the other. Walker, is this really you?" "Of course it w, Jones. What Is the matter with you?" "Good gracious! If this is you, who is that over there?" and he pointed to the seat he had just quitted. Walker looked a moment. It seemed as if he were before a mirror, so exact was the resemblance. Then he rose and approached the strancer. "I beg pardon, sir, but may I ask your name?" he said. The gentleman looked at his double, started in surprise, and then said: "Certainly, sir. My name is Walkerl" This capped the climax. "I knew it. I knew it!'' broke in Jones, excitedly. "How could be any body else?" Explanations followed. It appears the doubles, although now meeting for the first time, were natives of the same place, and, though not immediately re lated, they finally succeeded In tracing their origin to a common ancestor some four or five generations back. It is thus that family peculiarities of feature and voice will sometimes reap pear in successive generations in totally dist'net branches of the same parent stock. Persian Ladies Gunsufling a Doctor. A while after a troop of veiled women, stately in the long mantle which muf fled them from head to foot, visited the camp. They had leimed that a physi cian was one of cur party and desired to cousnlt him. Improvising a medical office at once under a tree, the doctor sat on one of the rooUand proceeded to feel pulses and examine tongues. Their faces be could not see. It was a novel sight to observe this group of ignor ant peasant women, in parti-colored garb, seated in a circle before bim on tUe grass giving bim an account of their ailments. The traveler in the east Is often aswed to prescribe for tbe sick, be he actually a physician or not. I have been repeatedly requested to serve In this capacity, and sincerely hope that the list of mortality in non-CbrUtian lands has not been thereby increased. Luckily neither coroner nor munici pal records exist in the happy Orient. The physician, however, labors under a peculiar disadvantage in Persian prac tice, even If hU qualifications are not too carefully examined; for be is not permitted to see the face of his female patient, and is thus deprived of one cf the most important points in forming a diagnosis. Tha native doctors require no other diploma to enter on the profession of medicine than a supply of infinite as surance sometimes called cheek. They are generally itinerants who go from village to village and announce their profession on arriving. Extraordinary remedies are given. Having prescribed, the physioian de camps before th,e results become per ceptible, aware that a comrnonjsequence is death, Fortunately for them, this tesult is generally quietly accepted as the Dat of Kismet or Destiny. God Horse Man. The Creator has taken the jve-uest care to mane tbe whala hoof as light as possible. "Happy thought," says man. "I,et us bang a pound or so on each hoof and make the horse waste his strength in lifting it." He has made the wall exceedingly strong. "Happy thought! Let us weaken it by cutting it away." He has made this wa.U neurl aa Lard as irn. 'Happy thought! Let us sofiea it by "slopping." He has furnished the hoof with au elastic pad called the "frog," so as to prevent any jar when the horse steps. "Happy thought! Let us cut away the pad and make the horse's weight corn.; upon a ring of Iron." Again, the SC.'i? of ti(6 hoof has been formed aivtwU of successive layers of exceedingly hard born. It bids defiance to bard aud sharp-edged objects. So the sole inspires man with an other happy thought "Let v.4 t-r it so thin that It not (y&f ri tiie pressure borje'n 'Weight upon a sto.i but that it yields to the pressure of the human thumb." The coronary ring, from which the fibers of tbe wall are secreted, is guarded by a pent-house of hair, which causes wet to shoot off as it does from tl;e eaves of a b,cus. "Happy thought! Let us dtip away the hair and let water makes its way into the coronary ring." So, after working his sweet will upon the hoof, man wonders at bis weakness and lays down the stupid axiom that "one horse oan wear out four sets of legs," which Is equivalent to saying that the Creator did not know how to make a horse. Tu Become Rich. If you would be rich you must go out on Twelfth Night to a cross-road where five ways meet, one of which leads to a church; and you must take with you in your bands a gray calf -skin and an axe. When you reach tbe cross-road yot must sit down on the calf-akin, the tail of which must be extended in the direc tion of the road which lea Is to the churchyard. Then you must look fix edly at the axe, which must be made as sharp as possible. Toward midnight the goblins will come in multitudes and put gold in great heaps round you, to try and make you look up, and they will chatter, grimace and grin at you. But when at length they have failed In causing you ta took aside, they will be gin to Ute bold of the tail of the calf skin and drag it away with you upon it. Tiifen you will be fortunate if you can succeed in cutting off tbe tail with the axe without looking about IQU aud without damaging the a$c If you suc ceed the grains wiil wniWi, and all the gold will remain by you. Otherwise, if you look about you or damage the axe, it will be all up with you. The cost of manufacturing steej us been so reduced in Enrlasd by tbe Bes semer process that steel ships can now be Luilt at the same price as iron ones. WTOECfa THE KICKER3. A Blacksmith Explain tbe Intrica cies of the Trade. "IIow do you manage a horse when he refuses to be shod?" asked a reporter of a burly blacksmith in South Balti more one morning. The blacksmith drew the hoof of a large horse between his legs before an swering the question, and bending the toe till it nearly touched the forelock, replied: "This is the first thing we try as being the handiest remedy we have in the shop. We just twist the toe up in this manner and it tightens the mus cles of the leg until the horse can't move. It is the pain that makes him docile. He stands there patiently after that and takes the nails like an old pine board. "If tliis don't work though as it often does not with linrsp-t from tha rnnnfrr we have another remedy. Do you see that 'twitch' yonder?" The blacksmith nodded bis head to ward a carriage spoke dangling from the wall with a piece of clothes-line tied to the end of it. "That is the most magical thing ia horse-shoeing you ever saw. We wrap that rope around the beast's upper lip aud a man stands continually at his head holding the spoke. The latter is I used as a jack-screw. Every time the ' brute kicks a new turn is taken in the j clothes-line until the beast get3 as much 1 a he can stand. The fight, as a rule, j never lasts long. After a few turns the ' most obstreperous kicker is knocked out. i The pain at his nose draws his attention away from his feet so completely that I think you could cut bis leg off and be would not know it. Yes, sir; if it were not fi r the twitch simple as it is there , would be lots of horses unshod or black- simtlis walking around with broken beads. You may talk about twisting a pig's tail or getting the bulge on an ele phant, but for bringing a beast to his senses this little device beats anything that was ever -made. , "The worst horses to shoe entirely are those tliat have what is known as 'blood' I iu them. Good stock will show itself in a blacksmith shop every time. I was ! shoeing Preakness several years ago and j was unaware of the fact until I had wrestled with him several minutes. He had cast a shoe while training at Pimli ' co and was brought to a shop in north j west Baltimore where I was employed. The beast laid baek his ears and stood perfectly still until I ha'd got hold of , him and was in the act of leveling his j hoof. Then he came down on me like a sledgehammer with both his thighs. His eyes flashed and he stripped his , teeth clear back to his jaw-joints. When ; he felt me weaken, he drew back bis leg , like a bowstring, and before I could re cover, sent me sprawling into the dirt. Luckily, there was no shoe on his foot at the time, cr I might have received an imprint that wo'ild have followed ma to ny grave. I have several marks now from horse-kicks all over my body. A man is never a hotseahoer until he has the trade mark stamped upon his coun- , tenance, they say. I "In this part of the city we shoe more , mules than any other kind of stock. ; Sometimes w have as high as six in the siiop together. I hey doze and doze here before the fire until a red-hot cinder strikes one of them, or perhaps goes . down bis ear. lben there is fun. It j would have been ju&t as safe to have dropped a spark into a keg of dynamite. . for a mule never stops kicking until ' tltere is nothing left ih his vicinity for twenty-five feet all aronnd. I have seen I a mule glue bis front feet down there to that little hole in the pavement and feel ' all round these rafters with his hind legs. A mule will kick when you are looking at him or kick when you are turning away. It has always betai the policy of blacksmiths ucwr to trust the animal, even whtu ho is dead. '"Vonng horses are also very fiery, but they generally come to terms after receiving the second set of shoes. A horse's supreme intelligence soon teaches i him that the operation is performed fbr his own good, and be submiu to it. At first they have often to be led into a dis tant part uf tle shop and a handkerchief Hit wvt-r their eyes to shut out the sparks. After a few lessons they become accustomed to the sound of the anvil, and it is hard to drive them past a shop without letting them come in, "The most difficult case U shoe I ever encountered was in Chester county, lVnnsylv;,r,:,a, several years ago. A UVVii uauied Pugh had two mules that he wanted shod. I was not working at the business then, and the animals was taken over to the shop at tbe cross-road. The first blacksmith who came out was kicked Utfva UinFs before his body Ttw k the ground, and had, both legs I'lDPfii. The two mules were driven home and had to go all winter without shies, for there was no blacksmith in the country who liad courage enough to shoe them. In the followuig spring the owner built a crib around the bad mule and hired a man from a neighboring county to come down and shoe hiiu. The mule was tightly wedged in be tween the bars of the crib when the blacksmith came up. At sight of the tool-lox and the blacksmith's apron the mule gave an unearthly yell and and pro ceeded to kick the rear end of the crib away. One of bis feet got through the liars, and before he could extricate him self three farm luuids had seizal it, and in a few minutes the blacksmith was busy hammering on the shoes. To put on the remaining three was found to be comparatively easy. "Simetimes we have to string a horse up if he unusually stubborn. Re cently we had a case here in which we had to use tliat pulley up yonder. We tie the rope around the leg below the knee-joint, pass it over the pulley and draw it tight. The beast is thrown forward on his front feet and rendered helpless. His remaining hind leg is used to keep his body from falling. In this predicament he becomes an easy victim of the blacksmith. "Yes, sir; it is not at all uncommon to see a horse standing on two legs and two blacksmitns, pegging away at his re maining hours with all their might. Th saves tune, you see. n we nau a hammock to swing under his belly we could stick all four of his sheesonat the same time. "Horseshoeing has its redeeming side, although it is pretty dangerous. Our pay is good; it is a healthy business, and after one has worked at it a year or two he coiMt-a to like it. Some men have a kmtok of getting on good terms with a horse at first sight. I knew a man who could overcome a horse just ty looking into his eyes and speaking to him. Others can never go near the hindquar ters of a. Uvist tliat has no blind on." Three white deer, said to be the ever seen in that section, have recently been captured iu the Lake Pleasant country, N. Y. " NEWS IN BRIEF. The city of Baltimore owes $33, 121,901,73. Favorite winter resorts heated apartments. It costs $3,000,000 a year to sup port the churches in Jfew York city. M. De Lesseps predicts that the Panama Canal will be opened before 18SS. A Massachusetts man 83 years old married a girl ot 19. She is his third wue. New Hampshire still has ninety eight surviving veterans of the war of 1613, Canadian Inventors petition for the adoption of tbe American patent law entire. 4 In January 2.350 Canadians left for the United States in search of em ployment. Efforts are to be made to stop smuggling between the United Stated and Canada. Ohio has coal in thirty different counties, and put out nearly 9,000,000 tons last year. There were 10.C'4 marriaces. 93G divorce suits and Oo'J divorces Iu Chica go last year. Over two thousand patents have been issued on sewing machines and attachments. Susan Fennimore Cooper, daughter of the novelist, is educating 100 orphans at her home. The first newsnaner in the United States was iu 1704, and wathe Boston Zoroaster, who reformed the Magi, was a Isactria king, and flourished about ZM B. C. More than 3.000.000 trees were planted in Great Britain during the season of 1881-82. The capital reauired to build tha proposed ship canal to Manchester. cugiauu is AS,UUU,UW. Gould's annual Income from divi dends aud interest on his holdings amounts to Jo.000,000. The demand on the United States treiisury for one and two dollar notes is on the increase. The Boston Transcript is the only daily paper in the world owned exclu sively by ladies. In Illinois the value of 10,508,791 torn of coal mined In that State last year was $1.40 per ton. Coouskins are used as a substitute for money in Calhoun, Ky., their value lieiug fifty cents a piece. In the days of Ovid girls were taught to smile gracefully. There was no giggling or simpering then. Insurance Duplications state that the losses by fire In the United States last year aggregate $103,000,000. - Sixty millions pounds of copper are said to have been produced by the L-tkf Superior copper mines last year. In the la.it fonr years $300, 000,000 has been spent building, new railroads and improving old ones In the Southern States. Apples are being shipped to Xew York by philanthropic farmers in Hew England to be distributed amone the poor gratuitously. Melssonier has painted 420 Diet urea. His new paintintr is three metres In length, and shows the knighting of Francis L by Bayard. If is estimated tliat tbe cattle and stock interests of Tennessee amount to JitO.OOOO.OOO, and the great interest or Tennessee is grasses. A Californian has perfected ar rangements whereby 240 families from Alsace and Lorraine. Germany, are to settle in the Golden state. Holyrood Palace is built on the site of an abbey founded by David I, In 1128, and several of his successors are interred within its walls. Tbe controversy in the church in regard to images began in 720, and was finally extinguished in 870, when the iconoclasts were ex-communicated. Money seems to possess no attrac tions for Miss Vera Manning, a niece of Cardinal Manning. She is heiress to 3,000 annually, yet prefers convent life. There are 9.C95 coke ovens in the neighborhood of Connellsville, Pa, Of these 778 are idle. The remainder are running from three to five days per wets. At the sale of the Murphy library in New York recently, the "Jesuit Re lations," written between 1034 and 1079, comprising forty-two volumes, brought J3G00. Elijah Youngblood. aged 65, of Coffee county, Ga.. has captured 991 deer during his hunting career, and hopes to make the number 1000 before he retires. "American bars" are everywhere taking the place or the wine shop and even of the ordinary cafe in Paris, just as clubs have taken the place of aristo cratic cafes. In 1C70 the Huguenot element formed one-fourth of the entire popu lation of New York, and this propor tion was maintained during the eighteenth century. Cai L Bath, who was Provost Mar shall at the time of Lincoln's assassina tion and who executed Mrs. Surratt, is employed in tbe Railway Mail Service and is stationed at Detroit. About the year 1500, clocks which had been too expensive to be used even in many cities, are found In many private houses, but still only the very wealthy could purchase one. In the year 1591 Queen Elizabeth used a thousand vessels of glass and silver at one banquet. Wines, if made in England, were boiled with spice and sugar: tl best wines were brought from Spain and France. A death certificate was so filled in by a Chicago doctor as to have it ap pear he bad killed his patient. He wrote bis own name inadvertently in tbe siiace where the cause of death is spec I lied. The Caps May (N. J.) members of the Grand Army of the Republic are t erect a monument costing $14000 to tbe memory of the soldiers from that county who were killed in the civil war. Spurious honey (clarified treacle and simple syrup) is largely sold in England. A small piece of honeycomb trom which the honey has been extrac ted, is placed in the centre of each glass Jar. -I
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