unfa f wild mi Segitfcat, R- I. BOHWEIER, THK OOaTlTIITin-jnnt IIHniaT W rrowncy in m m t in Editor and Proprietor. VOL. XL. MIFFLINTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 4, 18S6. NO. 32 -.w saw HUVMHiaUi V AB UIOi The Snowdrop. Born of th winter, re and cold. Thou beauty of the melting mow, Ic eraceful sweetness doth enfold Xbe charnif to which fur hearts do grow. Emblem of all that's chaste and pure, Tbon brins'st to mind the form of one That in my heart for aye'll endure, jlie choicest flower of primal sun. Ami unowdrop. thou mnst do thy part, , ;te otbf r beauties ol life's show, Tba: biooin awhiie, and then depart. To where or what we never know. All life is like the flower that sheds Its perfume to the early morn. jit moro ft droops, at ere 'tis dead. inJ none for it will weep or mourn .Ami arly love is like the flower Ttot bursts in biooin but for a day, Tarns to its god, for one short hour. An J then iu fragrance dies away. Oh. tiui". Oh, fate, why in thy wrath ltrof the objects loved so well. When meaner things obstruct thy path? Tbe finite mind can never telL PROFESSOR CADMUS. Upon a very stylish street in a very jtyhsh section of New York City stood the Flanders mansion. Its biz mahoR nv dxr, deeply set between the heavy carved portals of brownstone, frowned down upon tbe avenue, as If it beld itself aloof and apart from the hetero geneous crowd of humanity that drifted ty, au day long, jjeninu me piate glass windows tun? heavy Oriental curtains of rich colors and patterns. veiling the art treasures of the great parlors from the vulgar gaze; for, as Majjr t ianaers usea to say, "it ain't worth jour while wasting high-grade oats on Ohio bogs," by which he meant, no doubt, that the common, everyday, toiling herd are very little better able to appreciate testhetic and beautiful things than animals. Four stories high was the Flanders mansion and every story bristled with a sort of un defiuable aud yet very real air of su periority and aristocracy, as the Italian street sweepers used to think when they leaned on their brooms In the "Avenue" tor a minute or two, and stared up. In a Mtting-room of the Flander's mansion sat a private tutor. lie was a meagre young man. with a shiny suit of clothes, 'invisibly" patched shoes. and a mournful countenance. His white hands held a Latin grammar, his blue eves wandered toward the door as if in expectation of some one, and be shifted his position slightly and un easily in his chair. Dark hair hung in abundance to his neck, a pair of eye glasses surmounted a finely chiseled "Grecian" nose, and an old-fashioned, thin black tie was wound carelessly under bis collar. lie was not hand some, nor ugly, and a looker-on would have been compelled to acknowledge that plenty of worse figures and a vast number of worse looking faces might be found in an hour's walk in the crowded streets of Xew York. "Professor?" The young man rose, and looked toward the door, saying: "Miss Alice, I am glad you have come." "Am I late?" 4'Five minutes. But I am not in the habit of scolding, am I?" and the youthful professor smiled as he glanced at the eighteen-year-old Alice Flanders, as she advanced to the window and took a seat by his side. It is a very strange thing to record, and it seems unaccountable, but Alice blushed. Professor Charles Cadmus observed it, and became nervous, hold ing the Latin grammar upside down, and twitching at bis collar, which did not need attention. It was very hard to speak, so Alice thought; and it grew harder every day, to recite in a matter-of-fact way to the blue-eyed tutor. Professor Cadmus hemmed and made a pretence of finding a place In the book to begin the recitation, when he chanced to look in Alice's eyes, turned toward him; and, dropping the book, he eently took her fair hand. "What in the world taking Alice's Land had to do with the Latin lesson, even young Mr. Cadmus might not have been able to explain; but, he Baid: "Miss Alice?" "Yes," and Alice did not withdraw her hand. "Do you remember our lesson to day?" "Yes," very faintly. "May I ask the verb we were to re cite?" Amo.' "And its meaning?" said the profes sor, while a lump as big as an orange rose in his throat. Alice laid her hand on Charles Cad mus' shoulder, took his hand in both of hers, and said: "Amo means I love." "Alice forgive me, you cannot re pulse me! Alice I love you. liow often has the words risen to my lips, in the six months since your father en gaged me to teach you. How I have murmured them in my dreams! Alice, my darling, can you ever love me?" There was a short period of silence, and then the girl looked shyly up, whis pering "yes, Charles, I do now." The very front of tbe Flanders' mansion might have split in twain if It had witnessed this scene; but luckily, it didn't. The clock over the sitting room ticked on, telling of the seconds and minutes with a dutiful regularity, while the girl aud her lover remained in the same position. "Well, by all that's great and good, if there ever was a sight like this!" roared Majjr Flanders, marching he was so corpulent that he couldn't walk into the room. The very hair on the major's forehead rose up, as he gazed at the terror-stricken couple cow standing. Professor Cadmus did not attempt to apologize, but said he would quit the house if his employer Pleased. The miij3r, too inflamed with anger to clearly articulate, roared gol" Alice cried bitterly. The trujov stood by the fire-place, pointme with his clinched list to the door of the room. The young tutor was a picture of agony and remorse, but at last he hurried in a bewildered state of mind from the apartment to his own little chamber on the fourth floor back, where he began to pack his few possessions in an un wieldy valise. In ten minutes Professor Cadmus was passing through the vestibule of the Flanders' mansion, when be beard a man's voice say: "If you plaz3, sir, wait a bit." Ah, Jamei" "Jeems it is," faid the jolly-faced Irish butler. "And not a one in the house, barring Miss Alice, la sorrier to yougo." "I can't help it now, James." "I suppose that's true, sir. Iwisb yon could. If it is not a liberty, may l ass you wnere your address will oe "Where," echoed the tutor, as he glanced vacently around him. "I've not decided where I'm going. You know, James," in a whisper, "why I leave." "All the house does, sir. And sorry they are for it. We all heard the master roannV Mattering: in a half-dazed wav that is was -an ngut," tne tutor shook "Jeems' " hand, grabbed his old valise, ana was in tne street. The butler's speakinsr about an ad' dress led Mr. Cadmus to reflect that he had better go to a cheap boarding- nouse, wnicn ne Knew, in another part of the city. This he did. in the course of an hour, and wasassigned to a room near the rafters, as his exchequer was low, where there was such perfect ven tilation, through cracks in the walls mat ball a dozen former occupants had contracted chronic rheumatism. The tutor knew nothing of this: and. as t'.e day had been full of trouble for him, he ate a large supper, and drowned part of his sorrow, with four ''good fellows," fellow boarders, in a bottle of wise, In the course of an hour the tutor confided to his four new friends the fact that he desired employment. "What kind?" Inquired No. 1, with interest. "Any kind; I'm about dead broke," confessed Professor Cadmus. "Not particular as to locality of city?" inquired No. i!. The professor said any locality was the same to him. No. 3 wanted to know wtat hours the stranger preferred, and learned that was of no moment. "Then we can fix Cadmus," said No. 4 to his comrades, "for old man Swipes wants a b'.l collector at a per centage." So the tutor, in the course of a couple of days, found himself regu larly employed by Ezekiel Swipes, law yer, to dun unwilling debtors. It was bard, disagreeable work at first; but a hungry stomach is a fine stimulator of the energies, and the tutor learned in tbe course of a few weeks to look peo ple brazenly in the face, announce bis business and stand still while he was abused or cajoled. At the end of Eix months Professor Cadmus was more meagre in appearance than ever; but, though be had not acquired much cash, he had gained great assurance, and could browbeat debtors, even wealthy ones, with ease. lie was walking, briskly for him, up a cross street one day, when be heard a voice say: "Professor!" and saw James, the butler, at his elbow. "Ah, James," said poor Collector Charles Cadmus. "You're not looking well. Sir," and the butler eyed the tutor's haggard face, and shabby attire, as he shook his head. Mr. Cadmus smiled sadly. "You're not the picture of health and vigor sir!" The tutor acknowledged this. Alien he asked for "Miss Alice." James said his young mistress was in the city, and had been going out hi society a good deal; that the servants thought it was on account of her father's wisn. sue was moody almost all the time at home. James believed she was breaking her heart. "Where shall I see you again. sir?" said the faithful old butler. I don't know, James. And I don't know when. Maybe never." "Why?" The tutor explained that he thought of going tolas old home in Connecticut; and, bidding his friend farewell, hur ried on about his weary work. AVIilln Mia rut nr n-.-u trvin? to catch a few winks of sleep on a slow night train in fTmnoMiniir. a VOPk later, he heard a man, occupying a seat in front, say to his fellow traveler: "Yes, old Cadmus is djad." The tutor was all attention. AioA Mnn.liv " tllA fp.IIOW in front nrnreerieri- "But. though he's gone, there's one thing he didn't take with him." "His money?" inquired the other man. 'VrvuVo rirVif TTn would have had a hard load to carry: it he had taken it all in gold. He left over a hundred thousand." "And no heirs?" "None they can bear of." The tutor begged pardon, and as he did it he buttoned his shabby coat closer; but he inquired of the stranger, a l.o .ilmnrwl t Ilia sidfl. if the de- ceased gentleman referred to was Tal- ... V . w - . i 1 I . .. Tha Dot Uaamus, or uiicuueiu ujuuij. iuo stranger said it was. Thanking him, with his pulse beating rapidly, and all sorts of vogne hopes floating dizzily in his head. Professor Cadmus went back to bis seat in the car and tried to sleep. And his hopes, wonaenui to say. ro realized. He arrived at his na tive village toward daylight. By nine o'clock he had seen a lawyer. By ten be learned he was the only next or kin. trvintr to lend him money at six per cent, and no se curity, but his own note at hand. There was no will, and before sunset proceedings were oegun ui umhu legal acknowledgment of tne poor, shabby, half-starved tutor's right to the i HnAMv.na In "Vnrthern Con es La ue ruuiiuuuj - - necticut eyes of one hundred thous- and dollars, leri ny aiuui. There was a meeting, a month or . hotvwn th tutor ex-tutor now, and Major Flanders. In the ma jor's own mansion. And then and there the major swore, after he had heard the whole story of the legacy. the only thing prompted, mm w nrao tllA loV6 for hlS Ho lltVIA uuuu daughter, whom ho wished to jpreserve from the norrorsot "cbs-" " - . oont.1: and the tutor asked permission to pay bis respects to Miss Alice, before he left the house. It must nave taaen mm m .v., "o thrmoii with this formal. social duty, for the street lamps were lighted before ne arose "b.-" Madam Flanders appeared and asked the tutor, "for old acquaiuuuw to . - -t: - With Alice's Drieut i stop Ml UiU". -- , - j es and merry eye3 now, too. plead- ey III! r what couiu mo j""6 but to give a favorablejreply do ti tfllL Of There is not u""-" " , course there was. a formengagement announced ana tne vrs ".-y Charles Cadmus anu - ---era arrived in due time. There were orangT blossoms, and a great crowd of hionable people in tbe church, and the mellow strains of the organ ana surpliced clergymen; and J boiler, said there never was such a wedding on Manhattan Island. -Excessive rope Jnn.fig death of an 11-year-old Louisville girl. IN THE "V ROAD JUNK SHOPS. Cnriotn Article Irf-ft in the Cars by Fmwcnsera Not Many Claimed, but all Ilcligtonsly Preserved. The queerest looking junk shop in the country is located at Ao. 4 t ront street, .New lork citv. Even-thins from bent hairpin to a plethoric pocketbook can be seen there. Battered and rusty tin cans repose alongside dainty wra3 and fancy reticules. A good many of tne tin cans were once "growlers," but most of the them are dinnr pails with the capability of doing the growler's worE. au ol this miscellaneous mass of property ts in the keeping of the property clerk of the elevated railroad company, and all of it was picked up in the elevated cars. Whenever an honest train man finds anything he leaves it with the dispatcher at ' the end of the route, with the number of the train, the hour and the direction in which it was going. The dispatcher then makes a minute discription of the article and sends it to the property clerk's ofiiee. There it is placed away with a number ed tag attached to it to wait until an applicant for Its recovery appears. "You have no idea," said the gentle man in charge of the oflice, "what variety of knicknacks we get here, and what queer people come to hunt for lost property. You see over iu that corner those loosely covered packages? Well, they aro bustles. We now have on liand 183 bustles; large bustles and small, white, blue, red and purple. never knew how many designs there were in this article of female attire un til we got this collection. Next to the bustles, wrapped up in thick yellow pa per, are some other interesting things fale hair and such. When the ladies lose these things, they try their best to get into the thickest of the crowd, and forget all about their loss. I have been here three years, and in all that time only one bustle has lieen claimed." 'How about the false hair?" 'The false hair is asked for, but most of the time a messenger boy or child is sent for it. Even if the article is not valuable we never give it to messengers, aud Insist upon the losers calling in per son. That is done to avoid cheating. Nearly every day some attempt to re cover lost property by a person who am not lose it. The loser tells some of his or her friends about the loss, and, if the thing is valuable, one of the listeners may claim it Before they get it they must Rive an accurate detailed dcscrii- tion, with the hour it was lost, the di rection of the train and the number of the train." "Do you get much money?" "Weil. yes. considerins everything. Several times we have had pocketbooks containing $100 and f:J00 and over brought here by the finders, but of course you know such cases are rare. Small chance is also found and kept un til claimed. We cannot tell very well whether the claimant is the owner of stray half or quarter, as it isn't often that a man knows just what the date of a coin was or that it had any private marks. In the case of pocketbooks. however, the matter of accurate descrip tion is easy. In a year I suppose we get iu between &j00 and $1,000 in money. The value of all the property amounts annually to $10,000 or more. Sometimes some valuable trinkets, pieces of jewelry and diamonds are recovered. This speaks very well for the honesty of the coimaiiy s eniplovees. w hat tho value of all the property lost is, including the recovered and unrecoverea, it is impos sible to siy. In the rush to get on and off the train in the commission hours, when all the stations and cars are crowded, it is a very easy matter to lose things. Then, again, people who have been shopping forget their parcels, and their hurry to get off, the other passen gers do not notice their friends' absent inhidedness. There are always some passengers left in the car, and the one nearest the lost article usually calls the attention of the gateman to it, because be knows or thinks the other iople are looking at him, and he becomes honest through cowardice." "How many different articles have you here now?" "It is impossible for me to enumerate all the different curiosities we get, but I think umbrellas take the lead in num ber. Silk umbrellas are claimed; but just take a look at that stack of ging ham and cotton parachutes. We have enough on hand to keep the rain off half of Manliattan Island." "Are there any peculiarites about the claimants?" "They are as varied as the assortment of plunder. There is one man, and a well-known one too, who comes here about twice a week to get back some thing he has lost. He used to come that often, but now Ids visits are less fre quent The trainmen know him now and watch out that he does not leave the car without his bundles. He is not a crank but is simply fearfully absent minded. Sometimes he comes for an ..,i.r..n! a rane. a book, a basket of fruit and whatever he happened to be carrying and could not imt a pocket" , . "Have you many women claimants?" "Thev are our best customers. They can lose a thing easier and make more fuss over it than an oia-iasuioueu cuuu f h.ivii The women too. arc in tne ma jority of claimants for things they didn't lose. It some or meso women get mcu pockets picked in the cars, they come down here aud insist that we ought to make good their loss. The most pecu liautf ase though is tliat of an old lady who lives in Harlem. She lost a woolen shawl last October, in one of the early evening trains, and she has been coming here regularly once a week ever since, to look for it She is all right, I sup pose as she reported the loss immediately after leaving the train, and the descrip tion was sent down here, n e have the description yet, but the shawl has never put in appearance. "Here is an instance of how people will be dishonest and try to steal from their friends: A diamond in one of the earrings worn by a lady became loose and dropped out It was noticed by a gen tleman who pltked it up and turned it over to the ticket agent where he got off, taking a receipt for it That dia mond remained here for three months and during that time we had no less than thirteen claimants for it Some of them described it pretty closely, but all of them forgot to say anything about its being slightly chipped in the back. The lady who lost it had told her friends about it and showed them the mate, but of course she never told them about its being chipped. Those friends of hers thought they could get it, and several diamonds precisely similar were brought here by the claimants to prove that it was theirs. Every one of these claimants was a Woman, and all were richly dress ed and seemed to belong to the wealthy class. The owner bad to co away from the city tbe morning after her loss, and it was not until her return that she proved property and got it back. She wrote us two letters about it, but it never occurred to her to refer to the lit tle break untu she came into the oflice." "What do you do with the property that remains unclaimed?" "Every two or three years we have a sale. When we get too much of the lumber to keep conveniently, we sell off the oldest articles. Oh, no; there isnt mucn realized on it, and what the com lany does get doesn't pay for the neces sary clerk hire. Knive, handerchiefa, pipes, carpenters' tools and, in fact, nearly everything you can imagine are put up at this side. Second-hand deal ers, street hawkers and the men who have stands on the street corners are the principal purchasers. If you lose any thing in an elevated train never think it is cone forever until you call upon us. We'll keep it for you if it comes into our hands, even if it is only a bone collar button." The Sources of the Nile. The notion is quite prevalent that the explorations of the past twenty-five years have completely solved the prob lem of the sources of the Nile. Tbe fact is, however, that the mystery of the Ni'e is not yet entirely dispelled. We have fuller knowledge to-day of that later problem, the sources of tbe Con go, than of the interesting question that Uiilled the geographers for ages until Speke partially solved it Lakes Victoria and Albert Nyanza were discovered respectively by Speke and Sir Samuel Biker, and for years these great sheets of water appeared on the map as the twin sources of the Nile. In 1870 Gessi Paslia, one of Gen. Gor don's assistants, circumnavigated Al bert Nvanza in a steam launch. The dense aquatic vegetation at the soutliern end prevented hiiu from reaching the shore, but from the masthead he could see no river, aud during his journey he did nut discover a single important trib utary, t nm his voyage dated tne no tion that Albert Nyanza is not a source, but only a backwater of the Nile, into which the river iours merely to emerge again a little further north. In the same year Stanley, travelling due west from the north end of Victoria Nyanza, reached a large lake, which he supposed to be Lake Albert, not know ing that Gessi had nxed the soutliern limit of tliat sheet of water. This lake believed from native information to be about 140 miles along and to cover about 5,000 square miles. Its north end, a little north of the equator, is sup IHised to be sixty to eighty miles south of Albert Nyanza. Its native name is Muta .N zicre. A year later Albert JN yanza was ex plored a second time by Masou Bey who, reaching, the south shore, wade a very important discovery that nau esca ped Gessi Paslia. He found a river coming from the south about 1,300 feet in width, reddish in color, which pour ed its sluggish stream into Albert N' - anza. tenner mis river iiur jiuui Nzice has yet been explored, and geog raphers are divided iu opinion as to whether the large lake feeds the Nile or the Congo. The question has some lnmueal as well as geographical interest, for the reason that the Jieriin uouierence last year agreed that the northeast limit of the C01120 Free State should be the water parting between the Congo and Nile systems. Muta Nzige feeds the Nile, a theory that is supposed by the best cet'aaihicul authority on several excellent grounds, a large region trib utary to the hike cannot, as at present figure iiiu-h longer on the map of the Congo State. Stanley argues the Muta zige must empty into the Congo, because, in his opinion, the Lira and Lulu, tributaries of that river, have not space enough, without the help of the lake, to collect their large volume of water. It can be said, however, that without the lake they have as mnch drainage area as some other important African rivers possess. Without enumerating the many reasons for believing that Muta Nzige is one of the sources of the N ile, it may be mentioned that it is very diflicult to ex plain how it is that the Nile emerges from Albeit Nyanza with nearly double the volume of water it pours Into it un less tliat small lake is connected with the far more iiniwrtant source of supply just a little south of it There can hardly tail to be an anipie supply of volunteers for African explo ration sen-ices as long as there is light still to be shed upon so interesting a problem as the sources of the Nile. A New Sort ol Knavery. The latest scheme for squeezing the purse-proud Congressmen is what is known as the "crayon racket" An enterprising but impecunious young artist is accredited with its discovery. There are several others who are work ing it with him, and with astonishing success. The "crayon racket' ' is piayeu something after this style: The young artist usually finds out something about his intended victim in advance. A vain man is particularly susceptible." After having discovered a Congressman . with the necessary amount of vanity, and this is by no means a difficult matter, he buys one of his photographs, which are upon sale in the lobby. Then by means of the "solar print" process he drawsin a life-sized crayon, Ten dollars is a fair price for one of these pictures. After the crayon has been completed he has it framed and takes it to the capitoh The member is invited to inspect it in his committee room. The artist tells him tliat his face is such a stronir one and shows so much intelligence that he drew it from sketches made in tbe gal lery simply to show what he could do. If the victim desires to purchase it he will sell it frame and all for $50. In nine times out of ten the combined in fluence of tbe flattery and the crayon gets in its work and the artist makes a very handsome profit upon his small b vestment A Desperate Move. 'John." she said to the young man who had been courting her for five long years; "John, I sat for my photograph to-day. 1 suppose you want oner" "Oh, yes, indeed." "By the way, John. I had them taken especially for friends in California, and they want my autograph on tlie cards. Now, John, I don't know whether to sign my maiden name, or wait a few months until after I am married. I suppose you do intend to get married in a few months; don't yon. John." It was a desperate move, but she won, and in two months both will be made one, MARRIAGES I3f TURRET. Hon. S. & Cox Telia the Whole Story. Although polygamy is the law of the land in Turkey where a free bachelor may become enthralled to four wives, if he desires to throw himself away in that costly and reckless manner still, it ap pears, the forms of betrothal and mar riage are quite elaborate. "As soon as the boy attains the mar riageable age his father and mother cast about to find him a wife." The moth er looks around carefully in all the lia remsof her "set" that is, the rooms separately and solely devoted to Turkish ladies, in the households of friends. When she finds a damsel tliat she thinks would make a nice, high-toned daughter-in-law, the fact is reported, with full particulars to the boy's father. If he likes the description, which is the best photograph he can get, the mother's next step is to call on the damsel and in vite her to be one of a party to the Turk ish bath ; for bathing parties are as fash ionable in Constantinople as picnics are in Hoboken. The bath, in fact, is to some extent a picnic. Cooks are kept busy preparing for it and it ends in the banquet The ladies go in full dress, attended by servants, and "as soon as the parties meet, there is a series of end less compliments." The candidate for mother-in-law jays special attention to the young girl who is the "queen of the May" on this bathing excursion. The bath and banquet, coffee, sherbet and cigarettes, are beautifully adapted to bring out virginal attractions, both phy sical and mental, to the eye of an ei-r-ienced would-be mother-in-law. She knows a good deal about the young bather at the conclusion of the picnic, which "may hist three or four hours." Then she makes a second and more detailed report to her htisliaiid. If it is favorable and he audits it, she lKiys a visit to the other family and "iops the question" to the girl's mother. She always blushes and is very much surprised, but feels duly honored by proposal, and promises to lay it bef- re the girl's father. If he consents, the two old governors hold a meeting, come down to business, and fix up the dower and the "happy day." The dower is payable half in advam-e. The other lialf is held back as a sort of alimony for the wife in case of repudia tion. In Turkey this precaution is a wise one, for divorce is easy, and a di vorced wife is under the painful penalty of remaining single for six months. Dunne that time the half dower is handy for board and cktfhes. In the Ottoman tuipiro marriage festivities generally begin on Monday and last four davs. Four different trades ot invitations are sent out for these different days, beciuuins with cards to the high dignitaries of the place, and ending with oien doors to all acquaintances. The bridegroom and the bride, each in the separate estab lishment of their relatives and friends, .'o through this ceremonial. On the fourth day the afternoon of Thursday the two parties gather in tho house where the couple are to live, tho women in tho harem-uk and the men in the se-lam-lik. which means in English each sex on their own side of partition. Then the display of the bride's presents is in order, in almost as civilized a fashion as they do it on I ilth avenue. But on the morning of this Thursday there has been a gorgeous procession of carriages from the bride's old home. One of these a galvanized if not an actually golden chariot holds the bride, and the other vehicles contain her good clothes and worldly wealth. When she reaches her new home the bridegroom has got there in advance and meets her. He tenders his arm and escorts her into the female part of the domicile where he is admitted on this exceptional occasion and seats her upon a throne. Then he retires, holding his head down, and scat tering small coins about him by the handful, while the ladies hasten to cover their faces with their handker chiefs, although if these have been mis laid they take their skirts or anything else, as the face must be covered, in the Orient, at any expense of mere feet and limbs. After sunset the bridegroom is expec ted to visit his bride "by the inside door which leads to the harem." His friends play all sorts of pranks to detain him, but he is supposed to be justified, under the circumstances, in getting there as soon as possible. Making Girls Straight. The Hindoo girls are gracefully and exquisitely formed. From their earli est childhood they are accustomed to cany burdens on their heails. The water for family use is always urougni by this way. The exercise is to strengthen the muscles of the back, while the chest is thrown forward. No crooked backs are seen in Hindoostaii, Dr. H. Spray says this exercise of car rying small vessels of water on the head mieht be advanhisrcou.sly introduced into boarding-schools, and private fami lies, aud that it might entirely super sede the present machinery of dumb bells, black-board3, skipping ropes, etc. Tho young ladies ought to be taught to carry the jar as the Hindoo women do, without ever touching it with their hands. The same practice of carrying water leads precisely to the same result in the South of Italy as in India. A ne- apolitan female peasant will carry on her head a vessel full of water to the brim over a rough road and not spill a drop of it, and the acquisition of this acts or knock gives her the same elastic gait Kasterit Palestine. Captain Condor reports in Eastern Palestine a great number of menhirs, dolmens, cairns, and circles of laree stones, like those of Great Britain, Brit tiny, Arabia, and the Himalayas, lie found 500 in the small area which he was able to survey before his work was stopped by orders from Constantinople. His conclusions are different from those of Fergussou, who has had the latest say in regard to rudo stone monuments: "The conclusions suggested in the pre ceding chapter, after a consideration of monuments other than those of Syria, seera thus to be coniinued by what we learn from the monuments of the Holy Land. The menhir u the emblem of an ancient deity, tbe circle is a sacred in closure without which the Arab still stands with his face to the rising sun. The dolmen, whether modern or prehis toric, is (when free standing) an altar rather than a tomb. The cairn w not always sepulchral, being some-times a memorial heap." A Tine bears three grapes, the first of pleasure, the second of drunkenness, and the third of repentance. MICE IN A BARREL, ORGAN. How they Converted a Noble Instru ment Into a Sausage Machine. Signor Giovanni Cannlo Is an I&liau gentleman with a turn for music, who some years ago bade farewell to the figs, macaroni, andfunnochioof his native lair in balmy Padua and accepted a call to New York city, to the end that he might peg shoes during the day and em ploy his leisure evenings profitably with a hand organ in the sylvan sliades of Gramercy Park. The organ was com paratively new for an instrument of its kind, certainly made some time iu tho last century, and beyond lacking several teeth from the barrel and having the chronic bronchitis and touch of asthma naturally incident to tropical hand or gans in this climate, was in superb con dition. It cost Giovanni four dollars just after the war, and for some years he struggled to save up pennies enough to buy a consumptive monkey in a red flannel zouave dress, owned by the pad rone, but the monkey died of disgust lwfore the bargain was complete, and Giovanni went out and recklessly squan dered his hoard on a new shirt and bade the one he liad brought from Italy a sor rowful farewell. Gramercy Park may be conservative and lack electric lights, a surface rail way, beer saloons aud other modern improvements, and some ribald and en vious persons who live on Madison avenue and run up livery bills and are otherwise enormously swell, have even gone so far as to say that Gramercy Park is sleepy and looks something like a cemetery; but nevertheless it is musi cal to a degree and there is no citizen of its sacred commonwealth but is captious when it conies to hand organs, and an imperative local ordinance is that the grinders keep at least within an octave of being in tune, and furnish airs com posed wme time within the past few cen turies. Yes indeed: Gramercy Park may be a little slow and may 1 nervous about accepting modern kickshaws, but she knows good music and insists on having it and the hand organs coming right up to taw every time. So when ( J ii -vanni Canio came in possesion of his costly outfit he felt himself lnuiad to live up to his new shirt, and not play to any but haughty and exclusive ears, and with this noble ambition fixed in his soul pre-empted the right to grind for Gramercy Park, and has lieen unolli cially recognized as organist iu chief ever since. Giovanni was on the alert and realized his social resiwnsibilities, and gave Gramercy Park the lest rota ry melodies coins. When Harriznn and Hart got out a new piece you would be sure to hear doleful reminders of the most rollocking air in Gramercy Park before a mouth had passed; Giovanni kept track of Colonel John A. McCaull. worked 111 an occasional touch of the Bijou, and whenever there was a ru.sh at the Casino he would give the opera a turn which was somewhat wheezy, jer haps, and on the wrong key, maybe, but solidly on deck every time. This spirit of enterprise won him both pen nies and recognition, and Giovanni has been enabled not only to be thoroughly solvent at his lodging, but to lay a lit tle by every season to get another shirt by and by when this one drops off, so as to insure being always able to keep up an appearance in harmony with the place of his choice. lie never had any serious dnliculty with the orcan. hen he wanted a new tune he would take the kirrel to the iiadroiie, who, after hear ing the desired tune whiswed, would merely knock out a few teeth and insert others and the chancre was made. Snue- times a dillicult piece of music, like a "Mikado" medley or a potjiourri of Wagner, would bother the imdrone, but by hammering in a few dozen tacks on the kiss and breaking a few teeth iu the treble the air would come out close enough to satisfy Giovanni. One morning, recently, however, Gio vanni noticed that an important note was missing from the "Crowing Hen'' jauilwree, which was his latest novelty. In the evening another note wasdni- led. Next morning two more, and by the third day there was a hiatus of a whole octave, and a very imiortant octave, so that the "Crowing Hen"' lost its brightness and consisted princiKiIly of whoos, sneezes, and profound grunts. lie consulted the iKUlroue, who iook out the barrel but found all the teeth iu position. Next day the gap between the cruuts and groans was longer, and then a new trouble arose. Twice when Gio vanni was grinding for one of the haughtiest of his patrons he felt an im pediment as though something luul been inserted in the machinery, and fan cied he heard a faint squeak from the interior. On applying extra power, however, the obstacles would lie ground fine between the cops, and the progress of the "Crowing Hen," such as it was, would continue. On the evening of the fourth day, Giovanni nofieed another curious complication, which was that his organ was emitting something else quite as powerful as the music, and not as pleasant, and he e.ierieiiced a sensa tion as one who lives to leeward of a fertilizer works. He thought at first perhaps the time had come for another change, but a brief investigation con vinced him that the organ, in addition to its bronchitis aud pulmonary troubles, had contracted dyspepsia or something, and so went again to the padrone, who made a surgical opening and uncovered the works. The mystery was solved. Two romantic and music-loving mice had set up housekeeping within and raised a family, and one of tlie young sters would now and then accidenhdly get foul of the cogs and be minced. The others when hungry would refresh themselves with a light snack off the catgut connections which worked tho valves, had gone completely through the treble, and were well into the bass. There were fragments of mouse in most of the reeds, and two or three dried tails spiked on the teeth, so the whole thing looked like a mausoleum. The padrone says he can't clean mice out of an organ and make a good work manship job of it for less than $2, and Giovanni only has tio cents in bank, and will need that for another shirt next winter. He is heart-broken, and as the case now stands the musical circles of Gramercy Park will be famished for some weeks to come The Profits of Kom Farming. In this time of agricultural de pression it is gratifying to know rose farming is akin to a silver mine if sil ver currency be in ''boom. " At Kezanlik, a cultivator entered a railway carriage with two small boxes in bis hands. The contents represented bis lianest transac tions for the year. Good goods are wrap led in small parcels. The boxes contain ed essence of roses, valued at 2-50,000 francs. The rose-trees require as much care as do vines, and only produce at the end of five or ten years. An Astonished Boar. A man named Ed. Wilson was brought into the Sisters' Hospital in llel.n, M. T. from a camp in the timber beyond Gloster, to be treated for injuries received by falling from a tree into which he had been chased bv a wounded bear. The way it occurred was this: He and another man were chopping wood in the timber west of Gloster. While so engaged Wilson looked up and saw a huge bear placidly contemplating them from a distance of aliout fifty yards. The bear was sit ting upright, with its "anus" appar ently folded, and seemed much interes ted in their manner of cutting and splitting of cordwood, as if it might have some notion of going into the business itself. When described the bear was standing perfectly still, showed no signs of hostility and was simply and only an interested spectator. Th wise thing for the men to have done under the circumstances would have been to leave the bear alone. S thought Wilson's companion, and he did as much. But Wilson thought dif ferently. He had a Winchester ritle, and, noticing that the bear had a white spot iu the center of his breast, just the right size for a nice mark, he said he believed he'd take a shot at it. The other advised him not to do it, and be came suddenly conscious that he was wanted at camp. ilsou looked at the bear again. It still sit motionless, and the white mark on its breast looked so tempting that, without more ado. he raised ins gun, aimed and tired. Uut instead of hitting the white, which would have beeu a dead shot, the bul let struck the bear in the shoulder. The wound did not cripple the animal much, but sened to suddenly enkindle in its breast an eager desire to eat a woodL-hopper. The next thing Wilson remeinliers he and his coniaiiio:i were doing the j great tree-climbing act, with the bear within smelling distance of their heels. Wilson, in his excitement, climbed up a limb which was too weak to lvar his weight The limb broke and he fell. The distantce to the ground was aliout thirty feet, and he came down bang on top of the lear, which, on ac count of its wound, had been unable to climb the tn e. The jolt which the Desir received from 170 pounds of fall ing mortality was to it a new feature in lnau-liiinting, and it startled the an imal so that it diil not wait for further !nrticulars,'but fled in great alarm and soon disappeared in the woods. On examination it was found that Wilson's back had been so injured that he v;is unablo to walk. His compan ion therefore set out for camp and brought assistance. Tlie St lujrslcs of Famous Woman. Clara Morris' mother was a cook in a restaurant in Cleveland when Clara was a lanky girl of fifteen years of age. Manager John Easier advertised for soine extra girls for the ballet in a pan- toiume, he was getting up. Clara ap- tilth. plied for a place in the extra K;illet. u js asderted tint Mr. K..brt Gar She wore an old, faded calico dr, ; rt !t WilIk a ml!e t., aVl,u being in ii.m lt too short for her long legs a thin j terviewed by a reiHii t-r; but when he shawl and a ragged woolen scarf wrap-, js cag-lt uy 0I, i,e jiovi., t0 hki filte lx.fl around her head. W hen the extra : w;tj rVace. girls were no longer required Clara was 1 , . n . , ,? m, . .1 1 tx-Governori Curtm, or l ennsyl retamed for small mrts. That was tlie , t-; .u, ... 1 , 1 ' 1. , " , , .1 . .- 1 ania, Kukwjo.1 of Iowa. It ucsey. of beginning of the great emotional act-! , , , mi ress, Clara Morris, who, by the way, is of English, not of American, birth. The sweet ioctess Lucy Liuroui was a mill hand. Pretty Maud Granger, with her gold brown eves and shawlv form, first earn- ed her livelihood by running a sewing- j machine. Sarah Bernhardt was a dressmaker's ' apprentice: so was Matilda llerron. I Adelaide Benson began life as a child's nurse, and Lady Hamilton as a house-maid. Miss Bnidilon, the well-known novel ist, was a utility actress iu the English provinces, performing principally 111 pantomime. Christine ilssoii was a poor Swedish lK-asant, ami ran barefoot in childhood. I Jennv Lind, also a Swede, was the ' daughter of a princi.l of v.mng ladies' boarding school, and U vond rather nar- row circumstances had no especial dilli- cnUics in 01 n er to sain celehr it v. the trench actress Kaclicl had as hard a childhood as ever fell to the lot of ginius. Bagged, barefoot and huu giy, she played the tambourine Iu the treets and sang and lagged for a dole. Naturally she was Illiterate and vulgar, but overcame loth these dniwljacksat the same time that she gradually acqtu- red renown. 1 Charlotte Ctishinan was the daughter of poor eopIe, who, however, gave her an excellant education in the public schools. In order to maintain herself she aspired to become an oiera singer, but accidentally losing her voice, !- cauip an actress instead. Adelaide Phillips, the singer, n.-w dead, was a Treasury girl, and so for a time was Sara Jewett, the actress. Tlie mother of Clara l.ouise Kellogg strained every nerve to give Clara a musical education, and at one time was .1 professional spiritual medium. Miss Kellogg failed three times. Each time she retired, not discouraged, but to tie vote herself to the further developnwnl of her voice. Finally she took the p :! lic by storm. Her first failuit s .w.'ic her last. A Hostess with Tact. "You bilk of tact!"' said the short -hand n'iorter. "I remember a exse of tact that was as pretty as anything 1 can imagine. It was at the house oi a Governor of a Western State. His wile was one of the most relintd and charm ing women lever knew, and she was Yhock full' of tact. The Governor ha 1 to give receptions to influential men in the State, and you can fancy that some of them were very uncouth and lined u- eated One evening there was a large dinner party, and a rather rough old cove, a very wealthy and important man, was the chief guest Of co'irse he sat at the right side of the hostess. The dinner went along very nicely: Beyond making a few rather gauche remarks, the old Western fellow 1 liaved pretty well. But when the finger-lniwls were put on the table he was lather knocked over, ami like, many other heroes of such storiirs he took bis up and drank out of it. X.v body happened to sec hiiu except the hostess, and quick as a wink she sig naled to the senants. They removed every finger-bowl before anybody could touch them, and Jhe old fellow doesn't know to-dav, if he's living, what a mis take h". mmle. Now. that's tact!" Manv pray who do not worsYp GoL It u easier and handier for men to flatter than to c raise. NETS' IN BRIEF. Cattle ranges in Montana are re ported over-crowded. The town of Falasata. Ma?., Las celebrated her 200th b!rlhday. It is a rose of clear trreen that the Parisian florists now talk about Too much rain has seriously injur ed peach trees in parts of California. A round million wasspent upon tlie new Cotton Exchange in ew York. The Core an Government has deci ded to abolish the custom of selling of fices. Spain's royal baby has four nurses, who take turns in administering pare goric Two boys in Bo3ton, made ill by pol on in brown cloth, barely escaped death. Primrose 1 hina has been introduc ed by London dealers for Conservative dinner parties. Bouquets of jonquils or ("affydo wndiliies are seen tied upon the new sunshade3 in London. The question of using bloodhounds to pursue the Apaches is being discuss ed by the Arizona press. The streets of Corry, Ta., are now lighted with natural gas, supplied from a point forty-one miles distant. A Buffalo court has decided that ten thousand dollars is sufficient recom pense for the loss of one's reason. Miss Lillian Saiith, of California. a young girl of 14 years, has broken 323 glass bails in succe-son with the rifle. Plate glass in311rar.ee conuunies iu New York received hist year SSS0.000 in premiums and paid out S170.3OO iu losses. The insurance feature of the Broth erhood of Locomotive Engineers ha paid to families of niombers sinM 1S;7 the sum of 51,8.50,00'). The German National Industrial Exhibition at lierlm In K-S. Inn beeu unanimously decided upoa by the pro visional local committee. News from the volcano centre is to the effect th.it, the insertions ate very favorable towards the volcanic tirei be ing soon "active" again. Colonel E. K C. Judson, familiarly known as "Sed Buntline," diet at his home, "Eagle's Nest,' N. Y., and was buried on Monday, June 10. A mountain grouse, while pursued by a l awk, flew into Like City, Col., and through a pane of three-elghths-iuch plate glass that cost i7i', The great monument to Victor Emmanuel at Turin, casting SIjO.OOO has been erectel by King Humbert entirely at bii own private ex;jense. After bring lined t2j for having uumerc fully chastised his boy, a inta. H )S.i, CaU, res'dent quarreled" with his lawyer and got "buUly doie up" by Jim. A seven-foot-long kite was sent iver 2000 feet into the air at Karitan, ill., recently. Three men au I a wlnJ- 'ass were require! to diaw it back to 1 ah it.f.ovt.d, .int. ".'(.laur, ui J.uuoc 1. U1H1, aro the ot:!y "war governors now living. O the SXX) communes in Italy. more than 4U00 are totally unprovided Ila -"3. n-ere are .,1,?, uwea- "J? "'ro,lu". S5Ve liel to 101,14 persons. A Southern contemporary thinks It might be worth knowing that not a single uietnoer 01 Hie l mteu state States Senate either wears a wig or dyes his moustache or beard. A jearl that is d..fiared the largest In Euroie was sold in London lately for S31-Y). U was two inches Iou and four incliei in circumference and weighed three ounces. ,1. ... . 1 1 1 "f . it J . r creatly irr.tated by the arrival of more Juaii hundred Germans from Uremeu " the woo 1 httings. of a largo " " "' 11 was a ueiiuau crnm who re- marked that "in crder to prove the ab surd irregularities of English pronunci ation it will suice to st.it 3 that the word Doz is pronounced Dickens." Part of an auoieut hu'.!, in which there was a rust-eaten cannon, hasbeen round by dredgers near the Charles- town, Mass.. nr.vy yard. It is sapposed l!:t the vessel sink in llevolutionary davs. It was disclosed at the hearing of a Cambridge, Mass., man recently on the charge of sv. indl'.ng that since 7'J be has sqiucdared the greater part of a fortune of flj7 000 left him by bis father. Mrs. De Yo.mg, wife of the pro prietor of the San Francisco Chronicle has given an entertainment in which the principal feature was a series of tableaux vivauts illustrating scenes from "Don Juan ' It is expeoucu c.iai, tne uuig-.trian Assembly will shortly pnyliiin the union with P.oumeiia. The l'orte will not attempt to prevent it, although Turkish troops Rre being masked on the K..111: el an frontier. William U. Itldeing, writing wit tily of gradu3tioi.s in England, stvers: "The occupants oi the M t.fc-t cushions are treated with the softest manners the occupant3 o th-i hardest with an appropriate asperity." Ir. Carl IVters sta'e 1 recently at the meeting of the 15erli:i Society for German Coicuization that the territory now owned by the Gennaa Eist Afri- c.m Society measured about JO.'JOO Germaa square niiie.i. j:1ucock Item in the Waj ne,ville, lr.. n, ,.,.,.. "s-an.'av sti.o..! :it th school housrt every Sunday a'. 0 Z J a. m. Let us try and have a good turn out at each m eting, and lead theso little ones as well as ourselves, In the way that good men go." A well-known centenarian, deceas ed at Paris, was a parrot of fum) anil glibness of speech. Ii belonged to no less than ten families, being lmni!ed down by will to the cii liferent owner of the hous hi which it was born. The last words of the bird, which ditdat the a,;e of 103, were Grace pour Marie Antoinette." Azirlin Milford, Penny., was a regular attendant at church. Some of the ady members of the church wrote to her that they preferred she sliouJd not come to the service unless she was better dressed, ishe afterward stole s'Ui.e articles of personal adornment, was caught and sentfrtm-.d to four months iu the pei-.iter.t.'arv. .! 1; y 1 Sii -?
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