B.V SOHWEIER, THE GOIBTITUTIOI-THE UHOI-UD THE EETOEOEHEIT OP THE LAT8. Editor and Proprietor. VOL. XL. MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNAt. WEDNESDAY. JULY 14, ISSG. NO. 29. fl,,. lnii-.ieriiij; Hand. 'T vonnc maid of motion fleet; :"U; petal' drifted snow ywm wbite blossoms grazed her vM.mins breeze wm fresh and clear, b ue sky crowned a perfect day, ,rrtht cue cliorus fllled the ear, Thick ntkes tlie orchestra of May. .,M(T-rtierUeJ, w youuc and fair. HVfP 1 n"Ilce'1 Iouk and well, .r.!(muJ they took her quickly, wuera Jlia3-Tin household chanced todwelL exhort m;liin hcr bk'8 sPa. ' piintK auJ fooJ f"r those in neeJl aeJ ail tb sweetnera vt her face, i rejected in her deed. S'-e lifteit up the hearts struck down Kr litVIoiifT sorrow and despair. And by he presence, shed around TLcir butubie home her love and care, did not seem to make a task of what Iwl'ell so fair and free: jut nothing more could crushed hearts ask. tub bcr moat welcome ministry. Ot, Ure Is beauty in the spring, AdJ strain:? delifiht in summer days Bat oh, what joy one hand can briuj( Vlien touclied by love'a trausceuJeut grace. MOLLY'S HOUSE THIEF. There's the shotgun, Molly, and here's my revolver, Both loaded." Tea, Tom," "Now. mind, child, there isn't one dunce in tea thousand that there will It t soul near you. If I thought there was, Molly, I wouldn't leav; you. You aaJen-Und that?" Tes, Tom." "If any one does come, it will be a neighbor or a neighbor's boy. The basdits and des;eradoes hare all joined traveling shows. If you don't go scar ag vourself to death, you will be all right." 'Yes, Tom." "But there's a lot of moral support ia a shooting-iron, and maybe you'll feel a little sater with these." He stooped to kiss her, feeling her lips tremble a little as be touched them, liui she smiled as she raised her head, lad her pood-bye was quite steady. Tlucky little thing," he said to him self, as he rode down the trail at a long, swinging lope. At fourteen Mary Allison's mother died. Then her fathtr, with broken beallli and spirits, gathered up the wreck of his fortunes and went away to the green wilderness of a Kansas ranch, leaving the girl in an Eastern school. Tom's college course being at ia end, he went with his father, and presently found himself making a pro fitable business of sheep to the remem bered rythm of Greek and Latin elas tics. Mi' hen,, four years later. Miss Allison had been properly graduated with much ceremony and white mus liu, her father, too, had "joined the majority," and she found Tom living in precarious fashion at the hands of a native housekeeper, and enthusiasti cally glad to welcome even this very inexperienced head to his small house hold. That was in July, and on that radi ant September afternoon, Tom found himself imperatively called to the near est town twenty miles away. The woman who ruled the kitchen had taken herself over the creek to "visit her kinsfolks," and the herders were at all ends of the earth with their docks, when Tom sank out of sight behind the low prairie swells. Miss Allison had the whole green world to herself as far as she could see. The simply built house had the New England requisite of space within, and the southwestern necessity of deep porches without Somehow the empty rooms had all kinds of echoes inhabiting them, now that the exercising manly presence was removed. Miss Allison ioade her afternoon toilet, and took ter sewing-chair and work-basket out to a shady comer. It was easier to dream than to sew. Truth to tell. Miss Allison had no spe cial vocation for employment for the cake of work. She sat now with slen der brown bauds clasped behind her Lead, and drifted on a tide of aimless fancies. She awoke with a sudden start, broad awake, after a most unaccus tomed fashion. All her senses came hack to her instantly. The whole wide heaven was aglow with sunset, an un broken, undecked arch of color fading down through every tender tint to the cool gray of the short twilight. She took it all in at a glance, and against the glory a man's figure standing black and motionless. She was on her feet at once. Not a neighbor nor a neighbor's boy; some body coatless, bare headed, with white, drawn face, and a helpless arm swung in a blood-stained bandage; She stood speechless, motionless, an awful, helpless terror clutching her heart. The moral support of Tom's armory was quite out of reach in the bouse. That the roan was already wounded that he looked as if the merest push of her unarmed hand would be too much for him, did not natter. Such an appearance in the heart ot that calm loneliness was not J be accounted for in any ordinary fashion, lie might be the climax of oy dreadful sequence of events. If Jkss Allison had reasoned, she would have found herself afraid of what had happened, rather than of what might come. "What do you want?" She came forward a step to say it, and tried not to let her heart choke her voice. The figuie put up one weak, appeal 22 hand, uttered an articulate sound. nd dropped forward face down on the grass. Miss Allison looked about her a mhi- .AU the little flashy pools in the Prairie caught the reflection from and shone red in the glittering Poom about them. A slender new men and a single great white star S calm in tlie fading glow. She &W it a't on.l con. 1..,. If n itl. Prostrate figure lying black before She went toward him over the grass, neither spoke nor stirred. She hered lack her dress and touched ' with i;tr foot, it was an involun 7, hulf-uncouscious gesture; but the Jfonuu ia Ler reacted simultaneously. n instant she was on her knees him, touching the cold hands and cm?10 l!as tinted!" she said aloud, ir I0011'- Tuere was that redeem- w?r2U? ily,nMUa Allison- Her wits re a. hand in an emergency, tii s y minutes camphor and ammo Tl. Uou their appointed work. "What is the matter with you?" she asked, crisply. We looked up at her, standing straight and tall in ber white dress. "I've eaten nothing for forty-eight hours," he said, quietly. Speech and voice were clear and sort Miss Allison found herself conscious of a glimmer of friendly interest. "Can you get into the house?" with matter-of -fact coolness; 'i will find you something to eat." lie raised himself weakly as she turned away. Miss Allison looked up presently from her struggles with the cooking-stove lire, found him standing in the doorway regarding her out of hollow, sunken eyes. She had lighted a lamp, and Tom's revolver lay within reach. A faint smile crossed the man's pale lips. Miss Allison saw it, and a little Hash of temper seut color and light into her cheeks aud eyes. "I need accounting for?" answering the flash. "You do, certainly," sharply. "There's bread and a glass of water beside you. lrink it and lie down till this coffee boils." lie obeyed her. When Miss Allison went to him piesently with her coffee, she found him asleep. And from the wounded arm a dark stream dripped slowly. Miss Allison set down her tray, and turned faint and sick. Then she roused him gently. "Look at your arm. What is the matter with it?" "I have been shot," drowsily. "Is It bleeding again? Can you get me " falling on" into unconsciousness, half sleep, half stupor. "Oh, dear!" desperately. "He's going to bleed to death! You must wake up!" seizing his shoulder, and speaking with a ring In ber clear voice, lie opened his eyes again. "I will help you bandage your arm." The apron that she had tied over hcr white dress was in strips, and she was bending over him, ber hands not quite steady, ber face pale. There was blood on her hands and gown before the work was done. "I am very sorry," looking up deprc catingly. lie had long-lashed, woman ish eyes, and bis face, if not handsome, was certainly not ruffianly nor coarse. She poured his coffee and cut his food. A man with on 9 hand is not ex pected to be expert with knife and fork; but be ate and drank with a re finement that made his evident eager ness more marked and touching. Not a word was spoken. Miss Alli son, behind a table, with her revolver in her lap, watched him closely. All at once a conclusion flashed on ber mind and took her breath away "You are one of the horse-thieves! she said slowly. She was leaning to ward him, her lips apart, bcr eyes very wide open. He laid down his knife and fork and looked at her silently. And then the Inconsequent woman's logic asserted itself. This man was a fugitive from justice, certainly; but there he was to her power hungry j wounded, and Interesting. And. somehow, the Allison blood bad a trick of taking the losing side. She arose impulsively. "They are after you," she said, in a half-whisper. "The whole community is searching." "I know it," despondsntly, "I have been in the brush for two days. Some body gave me this," touching his arm. "I was starved out, worn out, and came here to surrender." "FinisU your supper," abruptly. Then she went away, and on the porch paced steadily up and down for ten good minutes to the starlight Through the open window she could watch her visitor, and she had her re volver firmly clutched. He bad finished his meal when she went back. "I don't know anything about you," she said, severely. "I don't want to. You are a young man, and you do not look as if you were entirely hardened in crime. I am going to give you an other chance, 1 don't know whether I am doing right or wrong," breaking down In her moral tone, "ldon'tca si" She stopped and caught her breath. Tuen she hurried on, forgetting every thing, woman fashion, in the excite ment of the moment; "The eastern train passes at four o'clock. It's only a bigual station, and there will be nobody there. I'll take you down in time for it, and that will give you six good hours of sleep. Tom isnt coming home, and you can have his clothes." She opened the door of a small room behind her an orderly, half-filled store-room. "You can stay here. Nobody will come; aud if they do, I I am armed!" valiantly giving the information as a warning as well as an assurauce. He obeyed her speechlessly. He heard the lock click as be stretched bimself on the couch that waited him. And to two minutes he was asleep. It did not seem much more than that time before he woke, to find her stand ing beside him. "Here are Tom's clothes. You have ten minutes to get dressed. I've ripped the coat-sleeve, you see; and there s a traveling-shawl. The horses are ready." She was waiting for him as he came out. A slight, dark-clad figure; a white face, with wide, shining eyes aud resolute, firmly set lips. After all, being clad with a semblance of order and decency, he was not such a desperate-looking character. He paused at the door. -Who harnessed?" "I tlid." , "And are you going alone? "Quite alone." "And coming back alone r" Shewas whiter than ever, and her eyes filled with tears as she looked up at him. Anything less like a heroine never figured in an adventure. You poor childl" There was noth ing but kindly pity in his voice, -1 on wUl take your revolver?" glancing to ward it as it lay on the table. "Hadn't you better," gently, "let me load It?" . . cn "It is loaded. Tom said so." "Tom was mistaken. See," Rawing her the empty chambers. " Tiere was the' faintest light to the room, carefully screened observation. She had sunk her chair at the discovery of Tom s Sunder. His face was to ong reUet as, with one hand, be did his wor slowly and awkwardly. ,.. v.m;.. .a reins. The trail was darkness of the west burned a low. re light "There's your train. The station Is just ahead. I sliall wait here till I see that you get away." It was the first word that had been spoken. She pulled ber horses down to a walk. "I hope," forcing herself to improve the occasion, "that you won't do it again." "Get caught for a horse-thief?" pleasantly. "I certainly shall try to avoid it." It did not sound penitent. Mis? Alli son experienced a revulsion of feeling. "lou bad better get down here," she said, severely. He alighted slowly and with diffi culty. Then he turned toward her, and she saw his face pale in the shadow of Tom's slouched hat "I do not want you to think that I do not know that you are saving my life, and that not one woman in a thou sai d would have had the nerve to do what you have done," Tiiere was no question of earnestness in his voice now. I hope you'll mend your way s, then. "Will you tell me your name?" not heeding her speech, "Mary Allison." "Thank you." He turned and took a few steps away. "Excuse me," diffi dently, forgetting his abandoned char acter. He was at her side again. "Have you have you" desperately "any money." "Very little," quietly. "Take this, then," dropping a purse into his hand. "Aud I wish you'd tell me," with a sudden impulse, "did you take the horse?" "Upon my word, no." sue bent towards to him. CJood-byo," putting out a bare while hand. He took it with frank earnestness, held it a brief minute, and then the darkness swallowed him up. A month later Tom wanted that coat and hat, and failing to find them, raised the usual masculine whirlwind about their disappearance, "Molly AllUon, you're responsible! If the country produced image-venders, I should say you bad been making a trade!" She shook her head, but with the color mounting to her face. He came back from the station that night with news. " Visitors coming, Molly." "Who and when?" "Bob McKenzie. You doa't know llob. Ue was a classmate of mine. He's coming next week to spy out the land. I havent heard of him since I came out here." Rob McKenzie alighting at tho small sunny signal station one day to the next week, found a stylish apparition in a white dress and pretty garden hat waiting on the platform. "You are Mr, McKenzie?" a pleas ant voice said. "I am Mary Allison. Tom sprained his ankle last night and couldn't come. Mr. McKenzie seemed rather a quiet young mant Miss Allison drove her j ponies and chattered away to the unre-1 strained delight of having a stranger to talk with or rather to and some one fresh from the good times that seemed doubly good to recollection. "I suppose everybody here shoots more or less. Are you an expert with firearms, Miss Allison?" They were sitting within doors to the slight chill of the October evening. Tom answered for her. "Molly says she can, but I don't be lieve it An awful little -coward Is Molly." "Is she?" quietly. "I shouldn't think it" Somebody opened a door incautious, ly, and in the strong draft the light went out It was McKenzie who re lighted it, and in the faint glow as he bent over the rekindled lamp bis face came out with an odd effect against the dark background. "Oh, my! ' to a gasp from Molly's corner. McKenzie turned toward her as the lamp flamed up. She was staring at him with wide eyes full of perplexity. "Are you civilized beyond lynch law yet?" he asked, irrelevantly. "Why? A private grudge against any one?" "One likes to see all the peculiar in stitutions of the country. Da you ever hang horse-thieves, for instance?" "We don't always catch them." drilv. "Did you ever miss a coat and bat, Tom?" "Molly gave them away," In slow wonder at his companion's drift And then, catching bis sister's blank face: "What have you baen telling, Mary Allison?" "Oh, Tom, I I gave them to a horse thief, and I believe it was Mr. McKenzie. Tom sat staring. "Truth, Allison." And then came the story. "There were two of us taken together. I don't know who they mistook us for. I dodged the mob and took to the timber. I never knew what became of the other man." "I suspect he is the one I helped out of the State the night I left you alone, Molly." w . Some weeks later Rob McKenzie was going through the ceremony of fitting a diamond solitaire on Miss Allison's left hand index finger. "Oh, the beautyl Where did you get it?" "I brought it with me," coolly. "Upon my word, Rob McKeuziel And you took this for granted?" "I made up my mind, one night to September, between here and the Mis sissippi River, that I would marry Molly Allison if I could get her; and I did my best" Charactpr In Byebrowst It is a common thing for men to judge of others by the- expressiom f the eye or general makeup of the f, but sonic men have fixed ideas which depend pon smaller things than these. I know 1 - : .. .1 n .rnrv ATI A HV II1C a man wn ju"S" vv J r T curve or slope of his eyebrows. In b"s estimation heavy eyebrows denote a strong character, while light eye brow indicate a weak or flippant tenipernient If the brows are straight and Square they show a direct and earnostduiractcr. If they have anun itrt in curve he esteems the owner waertog. The eyebrow with the bewtiful curve and graduated ending hTS -ns to persons of an niuguuk Ifve and amiable disposition. If they tnrn ud at the ends the owner is of a Sus turn of mind. The man who humor A NEW IXDrSTRY. A Man Who Makes a Living by Wearlnir New Shoes For Other Folks. ! Something peculiar In the gait of a man who was distributing little hand bills attracted the attention ot a re porter on Saturday, and be put out his ( hand for one of the slips of paper. The I man gave it to him in a furtive manner, i and then waited for it to be read. I What met the reporter's eyes was: i "Wanted. New shoes or boots to be i broken in. Any man having tender feet, which make it uncomfortable for him to wear new shoes or boots, can have them adjusted to his feet before he puts them on by addressing or call ing at No. , street" "What kind of a contrivance have you for breaking in shoes?" asked the reporter when he had read the circular. "I wear them," was tlie brief res ponse, as the man thrust forwarl a shoe such as may be seen to mat ' a shoe stoie window, labelled: "S'.ioes ut tender feet," or "Fat men's shoes," "Humph!" said the reporter, "I'd rather break to a pair of new shoes in the first place than to tackle ttem after they have become fitted to somebody j else's feet." "Oh, but that Is where' you are wrong, was the rep'.y. "You see I fit them to your feet; not to mine. Hoes this pair of slices look as if they were a fit for me? No. Well, then, you see I have padded my feet in exact con formity with the size and shape of those of the owner of this pair of shoe'. Oh, it is artistic work to do that. I don't use any measure, but I do it by the eye. I can break in any shoe, from a six to a ten, so that it will feel like slipping your foot into an oil stocking when you put it ou," 'How long does it take to break in a pair?" "Oh, thiit depends upon how partic ular the customer Is and how long he has to wait. I wear them all the way from one day to two weeks, and charge accordingly. Some of iay regular cus tomers pay me three or four times the cost of the shoes." "Do you get much to do?" "Well, sometimes I have more than I can possibly attend to, but at other I have no work, or else 1 shouldn't be shoving these circulars, ' and the man went on tucking the bits of paper under the doors of the houses. Won by a Tear. "Oh, uiaimiial I should sv. like to go to the oiera with you and my sisters!"' said little Hester Howard, as she entered her step-mother's dressing-room with her anus full of laces and bright rib bons. Mrs, Howard stood before the glass, arranging a wreath of pink flowers upon her hair, that was still jet black sind abundant, in spite of herlifty yours. She was in full even.ng dregs, and her two young daughters, Ethel and Julia, hi white muslin and bine oiera cloaks, were attitudinizing, hi turn, before the cheval glass in the corner. 1'I.ai. ..av v.-t.l rirl rtf 1$ and 20, with high colors and brunette complexions, and eye ana miir like their mother's. i Hester was but sixteen, A little shy, sensitive creature w ith pretty blue eyes and a sweet pea complexion, and wavy, flossy hair exactly the color of com silk, when it has ripened in the sun. Hester was as gentloa-s she looked. And being greatly kept down by her stepmother since her father's death, she seldom ventured so far as hhe had done now. Hut music was her fission and her delight. And "Lurline" w;is the oieratliat night "Lurline" with its pretty scenes, half real, half fancy, and its sweet haunting airs. 'f do so wish to go!" sighed tho poor little girl, as her stepsisters stared and tittered, and her stepmother bent her arched, black brows into a very decided frown. "Absurd non:seiL-e'.'' said Mrs. How ard, dismissing the subject with a wave of her white-gloved hand, "You are nothing but a child, as I have very often told von, Hester, and yon will remain at home unseen, until the proper time ar rives for vou to go into society." "And that won't be till we are well marned out of the way," said Julia, laughing affectedly. "So make us :is beautiful as ou can this evening, Hes ter. I hear that Richard Huntington has just returned from Europe, and as I am desperately in love with his estate (which he calls, very oddly, 'My Rest,') I intend to set my cap for him, at once. Then, if Ethel manages to secure Colo nel Latham and his immense fortune the coast will be clear for you, littleone. How I should liko to see Hester's own deliberate choice, mamma!'' Mrs. Howard merely shrugged her shoulders, by way of reply. Then, after holding a general review of the girls and their toilets for live minutes, she led the way down to the door, where a hired carriage awaited them, the driver of which had strict orders to wear a gold band around his hat, and to appear as much like a liveried servant as he could on these opera nights, Jeft alone among the disorder of the dressing-room, which she was expected to set right, Hester had a brief cry over her unhappy position and hcr disap pointed hojies. "If onlv they would love me! ' she sighed, "ilut no one lias ever loved ine since poor papa died aud no one ever will again!" 'Rat-tat-tat," went the knocker on the hall door, where a carriage seemed to tie drawing up. The only servant had a holiday that day and she would not return before the' next morning. Hester, in her shabby wrapper, and with the marks of tears on her face, was forced to answer the door. A carriage was drawn up at the curbs'.one, and a young gentleman in evening dress stood on the steps with a lovelv flower in his coat. "What a pretty little servant maid," he thought, gazing with the deepest in terest at Hester's doleful countenance. "Here, let me out. Pick Huntington! Puu't stand there staring at my niece, but come here and give me your arm. Hester lighted up all over as this im-iK'i-tive voice spoke from the carriage. It was her father's aunt, for whom she was named. Miss Hester was wealthy and unmarried and fond of her niece in her own odd way; and the few pleasures that the lovely orphan girl could remenvr Ut since her father's death had come to i.er through Miss Hester's direct or se- - .IIHllliiV "Where are tliey all?" grumbled the old lady, as she came forward on the ami of the young man, who gazed at voting Hester all the more admiringly since smiles had taken the place of tears with hcr. "Gone to the opera, do you sav Always gadding! Here I bring my godson, Dick Huntington, to call, and there is no one at home to receive him. Why didn't you go with him, midget? You did want to, eh? I'll wager that is the reason for those red eyes. Well, bathe your eyes and wash vour face and you shall follow them with me anil Dick." "Hut aunt, I have nothing in the world to wear," cried Hester, aud then she- blushed as the dark eyes of the young man seemed to pity her poverty. "Aye, aye! They are all dressed out, I'll warrant, the dolls, and John How ard's child is left penniless. We'll set that all straight, Hester; I've just come from my country home on purpose. Yowity go home with me in a day or two; but iit tlie meant hue, Dick, make them take off that largest trunk and carry it up to the room that I always have when I aia here; and you eomo with me, Hes ter. Luckily we are both of a size, so that I can soon turn you out in proier style. No wardrobe or jewels for my niece, eh? We'll see about that, Madam Howard later on." Mr. Huntington could scarcely le lieve his own eyes, when young Hester returned to the drawing-room twenty minutes later. In place o( the pretty girl whom ho had Liken for a servant he saw a radi ant young princess, moving majestically in silken roues. A velvet bodiee with costly frills, a silver-gray silk skirt, a blueo;era cloak, white kid gloves ou the small hands, and the most charming of French satin boots on the tiny feet -the golden hair waving ami curling le neath tho hood ot the cloak, the blue eyes meeting his enraptured glance, only to fall bashfully beneath it the next In stant the bright, sunshiny face that had leen so sad on bus arrival it was ail a dream of bliss, for which the gxxl fairy U-side them made allowance in her own odd way. "Yes, I know youth and happiness and love at first sight, you romantjo little idiots! Go on to the carriage, if we are ever to see anything of 'Lur line.'" 4 The carriage and the hors were Miss Hester's, and they seemed to fly, so soon was the oiera-house reacheil. "Mamma, where can Mr. Hunting ton be?" whisered Julia Howard as the second act began. "I was told that In would certainly be here, and I so wished him to see this particular toilet of mine. First impressions are so w hy, there he is, mamma! In tliat box near est the stage to the right. An elderly lady in gray satin is with him, and the prettiest fairy in gray silk and velvet his sister, I suppose. She is not at all like him, however, and jh, K.ainiua! mamma! It i3 certainly Aunt Hester Howard and that detestable little wretch of a Hester, all dn sd out in that al surl fashion. Wliat will you do, mam ma?" Mrs. Howard dared not utter the an swer that rose to her lips, Oiera glasses were constantly turned to tliat box and whisiicrs of admiration reached her from leaders ot the tun. "So fresh, so lovely, sc childlike," the whispering chorus ran. Mrs. Howard was called a woman of I'm w.rld, and never liad she more fully pi'oveu her claim to the title than now, as she fanned herself languidly aud ac knowledged the new debutante as her "dear little Hester." Xo one read the secret of lha rage that nearly suffocated her; and even Hester was deceived and believed her self to be loved after all, when one year Liter her stepmother and her stepsisters kissed and wept over her as Richard Huntington, her happy bridegnxnn, took her from their arms and put hcr into the carriage that was to bear them for the honeymoon to the sweet seclu sion of "My Rest." Relics of Uaebarism, Ouce a year, on Goal Friday, the Mexicans select a victim for the whip ping, and sometimes more than one. The selection is made by taking the worst one of the lot. This is deter mined by all making a confession be fore a priest of the year's misdoeds, and the one decided to be the worst sinner is selected as a sort of "scape goat" to bear the torture. The martyr is prepared at the church by being stripped nearly naked and by being prayed for. Then he is made to carry a heavy cross full ten feet highi with the cross arm ot five or six feet In length, and made of wood six to eight inches in diameter. He carries thrs cross for a considerable distance to a place selected for tho purpose, where there is another large cross erected. Arriving at the upright cross, bo car ries his cross around and is then per mitted to lay it down. Here the bus iness takes a turn not quite so agreeable to the candidate, for he finds a crowd of worshipers surrounding him. Two of these worshipers are armed with large cactus bushes of what is oom monly called "tree cactus" or "cane cactus" on account of its being used to make walking sticks of. This cactus grow to the height of three or four feet and is armed with thousands of needle like spines fully an inch long. The main stalk is as large as a man's wrist at the ground, brahlng off as it rises, and each branch having many lateral branches, from three to five inches in length, all fully armed with necdie-like thorns, which are very poi sonous, tho prick causing very palniul, festering wound3 In a short time. Seizing one of the cactus bushes by the butt, and which has been trimmed for the purpose, two begin the ceremony by striking the candidate on the naked back and marching around the cross, the rest keeping up anontinuous shout ing and singing, with music by a sort of wind instrument Having whipped him around until their bushes are broken up, they form a procession and march him back to the church door, where he is stopped. Here, with sticks like laths, the adhering pieces of cactus are scraped off ot hint and placed on the ground to the door where he is next to enter, walking barefoot on the pieces of cactus. After this the victim is allowed to be taken to his home to get well or die, as thJ case may be. lie Is not al lowed to pull out the thorns until they come out by festering, and It frequently occurs that six or eight months elapse before he recovers. I went to see one of these ceremo? nics through curiosity, and I am not curious enough to go to see another. The sight ot the bleeding victim, sub ject to a torture that far exceeds burning at the stake, ia no attraction to me, though the poor victim never uttered a smgle groan during all the performance. Flower-pot stains can be removed from window sills by rubbing with fine wood aahea. Afterward rinse with cold water. WORK FOR WOMEN. rho Neighborhood Darner and the Professional Duster. There was a call lately, says a writer, Tor a new trade, adapted to the com plexities of the modern city house that of the universal tinker. Now, with an extension of the same idea into the woman's kingdom, a correspondent sighs for a neighborhood darner. Most ot us wou'd agree as to the convenience; but the correspondent was not, per haps, aware that the system recom mended Is in practical operation in Paris. In the family where our home was whan there, punctually one day in the week cam a hi raccammodettse, and having b?en established in a back room and given a cup of coffee, set to work on the ruin three children and an Im patient man bad wrought She had for ber pains ber meals and 20 cents a day; and she bad a clientele of nearly a dozen families, from whom she drew occasion ally something beyond the daily franc. To some she gave but half a day; but matters were so systematized that she was rarely without work. Very con venlent the American boarder found ber for the ripiug aud cleaning of old gowns and the darning of ho3e, which, in her devotien to the monu ments of 1'arls, she had no time to touch. Since the reign of bric-a-brac set hi we have professional dusters in the cities. It should be comparatively simple to introduce also professional menders, l'erhapi a difficulty would arise as to the amount of payment, since the women who mend for their families do not roll in wealth, and even 50 cents a day might asem to them ex travagance. And the sewing woman who drags her life out on the same sum boarding hersalf, would robably scorn lesj. Rut, once give ber patrons, she might find her life both easier aud more beautirul; and the tired housemothers, seeing the economy aud the relief, would wonder why they did not do it before. Under the present system the thrifty women fret and tire themselves over the endless task; the sentimentally philanthropic and tho unthrifty give away, to the increase of poverty often, and the old clo's men profit by the im providence of the bachelors and bus bauds. A little more co-operation every where would lighten women's, work. Here, for instance, to a town of J,bX) inhabitants, one woman for years made her pin-inoiiiy by the brewing of yeast for her neighbors. She has gone out of the business now, her husband object ing; and the women are left lameuting tlie lost convenience. Yeast is plenty at the grocery patent yeast; but they all prefer the home-made when they can get it S , could they once get it, they would prefer tho neighborhood mender. Horace Grocley's Rusticity of Manner Mr. Greiley never entirely lost the rusticity of ways and manners acquired lu his boyhood. One who had found it dilhcult to secure sufficient raiment Mr the austerities of a New England win ter cou'.d not be expected to consult the fashion plates very sedulously, the whole matter, however, as such matters are apt to be. was absurdly exaggerated He bought clothes enough, ami ex pensive ones, but unfortunately he did not know how t.i put. them on. To save his life he could not have tied his neck-cloth neatly, and if he lost his buttons it might be necessary to remind him of it From the noise made aliout this, one without due Information might suppose him the first distin guished man who cared little for ap parel. Without much trouble the names of fifty might be given of thoae who were negligent in the same way, with Dr. Johnson at the head. The superficial manners of Mr. Greeley were those which a boy would be likely to acquire to a rural country or in the pursuit of a mechanical busi ness. Doubtless he had no arbitrary graces and did not know when it was proper for him to take off his hat and wheu to put it on. If he had ever in dulged iii tea he might possibly have poured it Into the saucer to cool, and it U just possible that he might have used his knife when he should have used his fork. He might even have been capable of asking a second time for soup. Judged, however, by one test we do not think that he could have been sub stantially an ill-bred man. Accomplished women were fond of his society. He wa3 absent-minded, brusque, and plain ' in fieecli, and so a little forgetful of j the artificial amenities; but of the ill breeding which springs from a disre gard of the recognized rights of others ! he had none at all. A Hollo Tree Full of Trout. A short time ago a singlar occur i re: ce transpired at the wood camp on , Wolf Creek. Cal. The land on which1 the timber is being cut is extremely j rattg-.-d and broken by huge bowlders ami rocky cliffs. Over these rocks the ! little streams which form Wolf Creek j come tumbling down from their snowy sources on the mountain tops. Neat one of these streams a couple of sturdy woodsmen set to work to fell a large pine tree which stood close to a high, smooth wall or granite. About thirty feet from the foot of the tree, at which point it seemed to be decayed, the trunk divided into two large branches one leaning over against the perpendic ular wall of rock. A small stream of water poured over the, rock, and, fall ing upon the limb, fell to spray down along the sides of the tree. The water made the woodchoppers' position very uncomfortable, but they kept at then work, and soon the tree began to totter and fell with a resounding crash and broke in twain. The men followed its course with their eyes, but their gaze turned to a stare of wonder and their surprise found vent in a loud shout, which ran from mouth to mouth and sent its echoes ringing through the mountains. "Fish! fish in the tree!" cried the woodmen, for from tUo Up of the tree poured a vausw of water as it fell, and with it a hundred or more mountain trout, which were left squirm ing and wriggling helplessly upon the stony ground. The excited woodchop pers crowded around acd began to pick up the fish as they could, all at a loss t j account for the presence of the trout in the tree top. The most plausible theory is that the water caused the tree to de cay and become hollow, and the fish, being swept over the rock, fell down into the tree. In whatever way theit presence there may be accounted for, the sight of the tree emptying itself ot its lively contents was wonderful, it not to say startling. EXPENSIVE ODDITIES. Which are Bought by Wealthy Peo ple For Their Dogs. In 1879 there was not over S4.000 in vested in the United States in dog col lars, while to day over -O0,0iN is an nually expended in this line of canine adornment. Many a dog belonging to a Boston or New York dude or dudine posesses a collar which cost more tliau the entire wardrol of many a man or woman of restwctable social standing. and it is said tliat once a New York gentleman sent a dog collar worth $13, 000 to a young lady whom he fancied rattier than her dog. The collar wxs made of gold and ornamented with dia monds, rubies and garnets. 520 is con sidered a not extravagant sum in these hisluonable cities to be expended ou their favorites, or rather :AJ0 is quite an ordinary sum to pay for a dog collar. There is as much fashion in a dog col lar as there Is in the cut of a coat, for each breed of dog has a different collar to suit his particular line of be.iutv or the color of his lair. There are collars which are gems of artistic skill, then there are other collars which almost strike awe Into the be- holder from their warlike asjct; then 1 again there are silk, velvet, satin and 1 feather collars decorated with bells .Mid bangles. In the cities of Philadelphia and New York the bangle eollar Is ex- tremely fasionablc, and it is considered quite a mark of honer for a young lady to ask their gentleman friends for their , Pierre Wamlveff, correspondent of monograms or a new j.'i piece to attach tile Moscow Uazcite, is in Chicago in it to their dog's collars. Many a prou I , vestigating the labor troubles. " ' pug, when a pug was fashionable, could be seen in the cities with a S-"iJ) dotr- collar and about tweutv $" pieces at tached to his collar. In truth, the man ufacture of the dog-collar has brought alout the ncecssitv of the dog. Ladies who Wforo detested dogs have Un ; UV"UU" ovw qnau ana part known to purchase largely after thev : ridSes. came under the fascinating Influence of i an exja-nsive dog-collar. Dog men will lr,e 8m;l11 Bam clams now caught to tell you that fashionable Rostou and Oyster Bay (L, L) harbors than to New York ladies generally purchase oysters. their collars first and then have the A man at Los Angeles bas corn town scoured for a dog to tit it. Men, 1 nced to manufacture perfumery out too, who have determined to 1 ultra- ot California flowers, and claims great fashonable are not unlike in this repi'!. "'cctsj. The handsome dog-colUvr brought ou tlie, A suit that has been dragging dog craze. through the courts for nineteen years Boston, as before remarked, is par ex- was dismissed in Yolo county (Cal.) the t-ellcnce in the city for dogs, it being other day. said that a dog of any pure breed what-, A Flint, Mich., physician recently ever will easily bring ST. to Slim, while received eighty-four bushels of horse in dog-collars Boston spends JCii,!. radish In payment for a bill for profes New York can not show such figures. ' iional services. San Francisco is now spending J l'l,mii in dog-collars and it Is estimated thiti within tho tift five years this city will inoio than double that amount. Phila delphia stands hhih in the estimation o! og men. but there the dogs patronized arc .u. me siiwucr uiecus. m Minnie- apoiis the dog men hud a congenial city. It is siiuj.lv overran with dogs curs andgiioddogs-and th peculiarity of the townspeople of M,.inea;,JU that ti. all ti.i-. n . !.; ""J . "'""' worth a fortunp cago, too, shows well, si-ending a good Worl" a Iorlune deaUf mouey in dogs mid on their col-,, T"8, plemsphone, an instrument Urs. The people of st. Imis are loth tha unltes J,e tone ot the violin, viola, to part with dollars for doirs and much ?ndJio"b'e ba3S u recent inven less so for collars, while Denver, for it.s tlou of a Buffalo musician, small siae, is mentioned in terms of re- But one Chinaman now lingers siKH-tful admiration. Kansas City, M.. within the borders of Guernevillo, Cal., is lilxT.il in purchase, and it is exjeeted he has chanced his name to Ma that within a few yiw there will be honey and cut off hi3 queue, larger MH bases there thau in St. Louis. A brewer in Providence is about to The cities which send most in dogs turn his establishment into a soap Tac it ltd dog-collars are in this order: Bos, tory, under the influence of the new ton, Philadelphia, J'ev York, Chic:,"", prohibition laws in his State. m1'!, r ri,!lcLs,-f".T ,t:iuati; -A boycott has been established in ...n. 1111, ihkju .,uuis3 in .,CY1 1 orK, tioiu ew XONC conies the ru! w hit-It govern the style, for New York are esjiecially manufactured the latest novelties. In the eastern states big dogs are in demand, the western states are undecid ed, but tako a mixture of large and small, while .Nui Francisco is pro nouncedly for the small dog. The pug has lieconie vulgar. When tlie pug nas a high-priced animal there was not a woman of wealth in the east of tastt ami position who did not have a pug. Pugs were imported wholesale. A puy was no longer a rara avis, but has. iu decidedly out of the fashiun, Protu tlx oU-se and ugly, ill proportioned pug. liiiuiiu iu itiiectiou sei nseu hjiou mt fiurly mastiff, the huge Newfoundland, the sagacious St. IVrnard, the treachery "' "" . " '"-"'. "i.-m:i.i.iiu Always nign-iTiceii, tiieiv values rost higher. Fabulous sums were given fn any of theso kinds. But the suit ol )mpulai'ity of the nilstitt, the collie and the Newfoundland is already in tht wane and that of the fox-terrier and the St. Bernard is in the ascendant A fashiouablo dog's dress does not al ways solt'ly consist of his collar, as did the Maori chiefs' full dress when invited to a British ball. There ate tioots fot dogs who are afflicted, with sore feet; there are coats for dogs, anklets lot dogs, and, alove all, barney tor the, pretty pets. The full dress harness at first excited a little ridicule, it leing made so that a iuiuiIxt or straps should go around the dog s body, and so that when he came to a umddv crossing the lady could pick hiin up and carry him, across the street in the -i-ifao manner a man has to carry to a railway station a nuuilH-r of iKirasnls loosely done up in a xhawl. It soon became the rage in New York, and the ladies declared tliat tli Hoots ami me inn dr-iss preventeii a, gnat deal of pneumonia. It was, aftei a good deal of thought decid.il thai u rMtuuu wiv ieu uv i-ouar uiw chain, as the sudden haul upon tin divg s neck when ho turned a cornel against his mistress' inclination was noticed In many cases to cause a n' of blood to the dogs's head; so inventioi was brought to iiear, and -after Severn scientific meetings on the part of tin ladies; the manufacturers were told U make an extension liamess. so that the strain should be brought upon tin shoulders. Housewives' Scrapbook. Lard may 1 made perfectly sweet bj b iling a pared potato in it A bit of soap rubled on the hinges oi dooi-s will prevent them from creaking Window plants in Germany are oftei watered with cold tea or coffee. Tin effects are said to he beneficial. The great secret of sweeping withou' making a big dust is to have a d.tmj broom, take short sweejo aud keep tin broom near the floor. By rubbing with a damp flannel dip led in the best whiting, the brown di coloration may be taken out of cups it which custards have been baked. . Two Long Islanders bad an odt match at Westhaven for $100 a side one picking tlie feathers from foil chickens in less time than it took hi competitor to skin twelve eels. NEWS IN BRIEF. The new Colorado Stat boose will costfl.OCO.OOO. Fowlerville, Mich., it is said, bas fifty widows acd three widowers, The Russian Government has de cided to attempt tea cultivation upon a large scale. Judic, it is stated in Paris, made 503,000 (13,000 per month) by her Am erican tour. Four weekly newspapers are pub lished in the Chinese language in San Francisco. A goose owned by Nelson noyt, of Craftsbury, Vt is said to be ov9r sixty years old. It Is stated that a large body of very fine chalk has been found in the Mojave desert New York capitalists are about to establish a mile race course' at Eliza bethport, N. J. American women to the number of thirteen, are studving at the Univer sity of Zurich. It is estimated that one hundred million oranges will be gathered to Cal- "orn,a lDla season, , Each of the hands on the House of Parliament (London) clock weighs one hundred pounds, it is stated, The man who never does anv harm might crawl Into a cave and stav there 10 years without being missed. The Customs Department has de cided that regalia for use in Odd Fel lows Lodges can be Imported duty free. The game preserves of a single owner on Long Island, at Ray View. iuere w said to be rore money in Everybody has heard of Oscar Wilde, but not everybody knows bis full name. It is Oscar Fingall O'Flau ertie WilU Wilde. The Japanese believe in bathing. Public bathsare so numerous at Tokio that there is one for every three hun. jred inhabitants. dred inhabitants. . m; , ' m g 1tMth.? nCtl' who began saving Chicago slaughter "uusrauuw iiiiu mansion auu IS , Cj if,,- iritti a..n..ti.. f k Knights of Labor, against strawberries picked by Chinese laborers. I A cat's eye valued at JIj.OOO Is one or Ceylon's gem exhibits (among a ureat number of lesser gems) at the Iioudou Colonial Exhibition. A cave large- enough to accommo ' date all the citizens of the town is to be dug at Clifton, D. T. It is designed as a safeguard from tornadoes. 4 A New York woman who is fond 1 f notoriety has bad the hoofs of her horses gilded, and they create a sensa tion when driven in Central Park. The fear that he had contracted danders and that his family would do usewiie, so worried a Uanoury man that he committed suicide recently, A bedstead made to order by a Milwaukee tirm is H feet wide and has nine compartments, each intended to bold one of the purchaser s children. A burial service near Adrian Mich., consisted of a poem and an ad dress by the husband of tlie deceased and the recitation of a poem by his daughter. An engineer on the Stonington (Conn.) road bas filled the position for 31 years and has traveled in that time a distance equal to forty times the cir cumference of the earth. Bluish fogs have prevailed in tho trly mornings at Cleveland, Ohio, of 'ate. and people who assert that a like appearance bas heretofore preceded outbreaks of cholera there are getting anxious. An encouraging item is gleaned from New Orleans papers to the effect that a female base ball club has gone to pieces in that city, and the manager committed to the workhouse as a va grant A monument is to bs erected by New Orleans, at a cost of $10,000, to the memory of the dead membors' of her Die department Thirty of them lost their lives while in the performance 0f tijejr duty as firemen. , fi ,, ,,.. ,., : .lKSc!lS!,?f5..,,' sum of money for services at one of the houses he had set fire to, and which the owner handed him a3 a reward for bis heroic efforts to put out the flames. Alice, consort ot tho late Jumbo, is I sud to hive wicked gray eyes, but to be not malicious. Her weight is said to b3 about four tons aud her height to the shoulder 8j feet Jumbo's weight ' wlicu in life was ten tons, and bis height Hi feet. A clergyman (Evangelical) of Hartford, Conn., Insists that it is wast ing public money to give S10 for a prayer a few minutes in length and that it is, at best, a custom that is an un desirable survival of the union of Church and State. Strangulation is denounced as a barbarous method of executing crimi nals, to a message by Governor Mc Euery to the Louisiana Legislature, in which he asks to adopt "a less cruel manner" of taking oft prisoners sen tenced to death in that State. I Tho Vlrumia nanitantinn noami A . f, ' ' ' l- n.UIM.UIHU J JCI.Illil w have a sort of charm for criminals larinz historic names. It is now boarding George Washington, and during the lust year has done a similar service for James K Polk, Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, and Daniel Webster. i I bi), rr lay gasping feebly, but i ry iiiiiiiiii ii ''iV"
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