to 1 B. F. SOHWEIER, the ooisnrnnoi-THB unoi-nr th kkoioeheit op id lath. Editor and Proprietor. VOL. XL. MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 25, !SS(J. NO. 35 www ia?!iyyfe w t " -- 1 ; After a Little While. is rtrauge, sweat aolace In the jilt all tbe woes we. suffer here below is dark acd hideous garment For us to near, wither we will or no, pjnst with a relieving smile. After a little while. So jn,.r:a! Toauitnc T at hath certain end; Though far unto the ocean spaces gray ffe al a" J 531,1 tlicut a chart for friend, ilwvetlis sky-line, hunt and faraway, frt. ijcnis at last the one enchanted Ule. Altera little while: rA Lfn our can- come turouging UUc nJ st Wuii mure of auguish than the heart can bear, Ttob friends desert, and; as the heedless t!st. Eu love pass by us with a stony stare, L;! u itbdraw into some ruined pile, . Or lonely forest aisle And cootemi'.ate the uever-ceasing change. tlhrrrbT the processes of Cod are And from our pretty lives our souls es trange, Till, tallied ttoiuLt, Wt fiI the rest in currents of exalted that must our cart s be- fui'e After a little whilel A CHANGE OF HEART. Tli? school-directors of District No. li, IVrry Township, were holding a meeting. Xobody would have thought it. Tlie chairman was leaning against his front rale with his cheeked shirt-sleeves turn ed lack and a:i axe in his hand, survey in? the other two members of the board, wim stood outside the fence. It was a meeting, nevertheless; and to object was nothing less important than the selection of a teacher for the fail tenu. 'Lyinan Doty spoke to me about laving the school," said the chairman, duhiuii-ly. "Lyman Ikity!" echoed Steve Ten ner, a stalwart young fellow, with thick brown hair, white teeth and a square chin, lo make up for his lack of down right good looks. "Why, Lyme Doty couldn't teach a baby, lie quit school before I did. long enough, and he hasn't stuJa-d anything but potatoes and win ter wheat siuce, that I know of. Better Sick to his farm eh, LarkinV"' 'Gu-.-s you're right," resiKinded tlie third iiiemU-r of the board, a little man with a cheerful faee and a tuft of gray lair sticking straight out from his chin. AnJ the chairman nodded his agree ment. 'Well," continued little Mr. Larkin. with an air of importance. "I've had an application that I guess will suit. 1 It's a sort of relative of my wife's, ami just as nice a girl as ever was. fcmart, too. She l' t a certificate for t wo years, last examination. She'd make a splen did teacher, Molly Sanborn would."' "Saiil-mi!'' said Steve Tenney, sharp lv. "Anv connection of the Sauborns over the liver?"' That's where she's from," said Mr. Larkiu. -She's old John Sanborn's girl In in that died last winter." Steve frowned. '"Von won't nut her into that school. then, with lnv consent:" he said deter minedly. "What?" said Mr. Larkin, with a Mi. while the chairman stared. ' What would you think," the young on rest nided, "if a man sold you fifty head of sh.-en. at a gxd price, aud half of them died off in the next week, of a disease he must have known before hand':1 That was the trick John Sanlioni served me. And he laughed in my face when I wanted my money back. No, sir! 1 can't conscientiously consent to putting any of the Sanlorns in that School. lad lot, in my opiniou!" Mr. Lai kin's small, bright eyes snap ped. "Old S;uiliorn w asn't any too straight, and ever UkIv knows it," he admitted. "But what that's got to do with Molly is Hh re lh..n I can see. She's as fine a irl as yuii ever set eyes on; not a bit of her father al t her." ''Well. well, light it out lietween you." said tlie chairman, good-naturedly, and returned to his wood-ctiopping. The till young man and the little old one walked on up the street talking briskly. Mr. I.arkiii was hot and indignant; !te was cool ard immovable. 'There ch lift seem to be any mercy in yon," said the former, almost tearfully, as Sieve was preparing to turn in at his fate. '-If they'd lieeu left off, it would different: but they're poor as jioverty, and MuHv needs tlie place the worst way."' '"Vou hadn't mentioned that," Slid tlie young man. turning back. "Jf tint's the case" Mr. .aikin walked away triumphant five minutes later. But Steve Tenney had surrendered 'ith a had grace. "I couldn't hold out after that, you he said to his mother, relating the story over their tea; "but I don't ap prove ,f it. There's nut much good in no.ii iicg-.ni two weeks later, when the in st e.r.l wave was Ieiopuia front lir.relies ami incn asiii!r the tin? attraction f kitchen stoves. Neve Tenney held to his oidiilon con cerning la new teacher, and acted Wrdii:r'T. He did 3,t call at the school-house jfie Erst itr ;ls was ,;s custoui, to leave " regi-Ver s.g jf anything was wanted tlie chairman having turned hese duties over to his vounger col league. He sent the register by a bov, and "as utterly indifferent as to whether anything Wus wa,lt iie tunied the uljw t when the new teai hcr was men and llt- avoided Mr. Jerkin's Wnl wIiere tllC ta'"I"'r Tlie litti,. man made him a call, how "w, a luoiitli or so after school had be gan. "f'tiess you'll i,aVe to own up to being . the t.,i,s, steve," he began. 4iWe "Ul ' had a teacher for years that's fcen the Sittisfa -tion Mollv does. The --iTTii rave a unit hpr ;ill of 'em." iut steve w;is unimpressed. My opinion has vet to be altered,' -4, rainer ,iimu- ni.Ir. Ijukin looked discouiasred. v ' "I'ke about needing a new tairld Wat'r Pad," he said, as he Tfr , ' told her she'd better come to Jo about it." . "That si liool-house liad a new broom rftn, and a water pail the term be- Sifi ti,e you,,g director' And Mr. Larkin took a discomOted leave. The next Sunday evening, the young man, sitting In a pew of the small wooden church with his mother, and allowing his eyes to rove about during the rather long sermon, suddenly dis covered a new face, and sat studying it for the remainder of the evening." It was that of a young girl not a remarkably pretty girl, but fair, and fresh, and innocent, with a bright intel ligence in the dark eyes and a sweetness In the full lips. "Who is she?" was his first question, after the services were concluded, ad dressed, as it happened, to little Mr. Larkin, who had come in Lite. "lhat.J" the latter related, in astonishment. "Why, tliat's our teacher tliat' Molly Sanborn. That's my wife she's with, don't vou seer I am waiting to take 'em home," Steve Tenney found himself wishing quite frequently after that that the new teacher would come to him about the broom and water pail. Xot that he should furnish them if he should tiud that they were not needed; but he felt that he should not object to an interview with the teacher. lie even mentioned the subject to Mr. Larkin, carelessly, when he met him one day. "Well, you see," was the response, "she sort of hates to come to you. The way you felt aliout her having the school has got all around tow n, and I s'pose she's heard of it. She can't help what her father was, Molly can't, and she's real sensitive." The young man looked disturlied. That afternoon he left his work at an early hour not, however, admitting to himself his punwse in doing so and strolled down the street, turning off but he iersuaded himself that it was not intentional in the direction of the school-house. "I might as well go in and see about ihat broom and water jail," he said to himself, when he stood opposite the lit tle bare-looking building. And he went in accordingly. The little teacher looked considerably startled when she, opened the door to him. Slie dropped the spelling-book she held, and her voice was hardly steady as she expressed her gratification at see ing him. JCvidently, Steve reflected, some Idiot had jiointed him out to her at church the other evening. He sat down in a front seat, feeling unpleasantly ogretsh. She was hearing the last sjielling-class. How pretty she looked, standing there in her dark-blue calico dress and white apron! What a sweet voice she hid! though putting out "hen, men, pen." to a long line of fidgeting youngsters could liardly show it to the best- advantage. When the class was dismissed, and the hist small student had rushed, whooping down the street, the teacher and the young director stood looking at each other with some awkwardness. "I thought I'd come in," said Steve it List, aiiolnireticallv, and see if, anv mmg was neeamg. " He did not mention the fact of his lieing some six weeks late in the jier formauce of his duty. The girl dropped her eyes timidly. "I don't think so," she murmured. "What a brute she must think me!'1 Stev; reflected with some self-disgust. lie turned carelessly to the coiner where the broom stood. "Isn't this pretty far gone?" lie said. with a conscience-stricken glance at its stubbly end. And the little teacher nodded. "Your water-pail seems to leak," the director went on, indicating the empty bucket and the wet floor. "Yes," the girl assented. "I'll see that you have new ones," Steve conclued. And he was rewarded by a grateful glance from the te;icher's soft eyes as she took her hat from its nail. He took her lunch basket from her ami as thev started awav together; and having taken it, could hardly surrender it short of Mr. I-irkin s gate. He was a little reluctant to surrender it even then. Kor their first awkward ness had quite worn off; their walk had been far from unpleasant; aud they were feelinz yerv well acquainted. lie walked home in an agreeable ab sorption, repeating to himself the thinsrs she lial sanl. ana recalling ner prcuj wav of saving them. He did not pause to consider thut it was old John Sanborn's daughter of whom he a thinking; he was only conscious that she was a bright young girl, whom it was charming to look at and listen to. His pleasant mood was rudely inter rupted by little Mr. Larkin, who drop ped in that evening. 'lAine Doty couldn't have the school," he observed with a chuckle, "but it looks as though he was going to have the teacher!" "What?" said Steve, with a sudden, unexplainable sinking of the heart. "lie's bansrinsr around considerable, anvhow," said Mr. Larkin. "Went to visit the school List week; and he was asking me to-day whether Molly's got any way of getting home Friday night. He slid' he'd just as lief take her in his buggy as not. Molly generally walks; but ! guess she'll be glad of a lift." "You don't mean to tell me," said Steve warmly, "that she'd have any thing to do w:ith hiinV" Mr. Larkin stared. What could Steve . . i ..ll T . . 1 . WitiHsr,t'e care wan wnom om umi -daughter had to do? lint he only said, ueprecaungij : "Well, Lyme's a good, steady fel low." ' . .... "Humph:" was the scorniui rejoiu- der. . . The voung man mused long and seri ously when his visitor was gone, ana went to bed with a lighter heart, having come to a linn conclusion. When the new teacner cioseu scuooi the next Friday night, she was feeling ...o.or wnm out. as she was apt to teel at the end of the week ; nor d id the pros pect of her four miles' waiK iiou.c at-i c toclreerher. She locked the door anu starieu uou the path with a sigh. . A neat little nugsy was couuui; .... n. ro.nl Mollv crave a start as me driver pulled up tlie horse and sprang to the ground. It was the younj director, aud was coming toward her. I won t make any excuse, ii " he said, with a humorous sol- . . .1... T.. rOTtinfV enmity. I won l say iiwi a r, over to the river on business, and hap ,ned to think you might like to ride The truth is that it's a carefully laid plot. Will you be an aider and abet ter1"" The little teacher laughed apprecia tively as he helped her into the buggy. -I must stop at Mr. Larktn's and leave my dinner-paiL" she said demure iiiir l tlm front gate. He stooa starum " j- director as thelatter assisted the teacher to the ground, and sat down on the norse-uiocK to wait for her "Lyme Doty was here after Molly just now, ue sain, almost gaspingly, sent him down to tlie school-house." we met him," said Steve. "You see," lie adued. makinir a bold attenn at carelessness, but shaking neverthe less in a shame-faced way, and avoiding the little man's eye "you see, I feel as though it's my Iwunden duty to keep i.jme iruiy away iroin uer. I'i re im pudence, his hanging around hei that way." The little teac her came tripping back, uuu me young uirector s uuggy whirled away in a eiouu or dust. "Meve Tenney's taking Molly home in ins ouggy," said .Mr. Lai km joining ins wue m me Kitciien, and siiiKinsr da zedly into a chair. "I guess the world '4 coming to an end." "Steve Tenney ain't a fool," his wift responded, practically. "I knew he'd get over that ridiculous notion of his and esiiecially after he'd see Molly." ".says he s doing it from a sense of duty, ' pursued Mr. Larkin, chucklin siowiy as tlie humor of the situation dawned umui him. "Wonder how fur his sense of duty'U take him?" -i suouiiin i ue surprised at any thing." said Mrs. Larkin, mysteriously. I he Lai kms and. nerhans. l.vme Doty were the onlv ieople who were not surprised when tlie new teacher gave up tlie school at the end of the term, anu was quietly married to the young uirector. The chairman of the school-board is wondering over it yet. . PREPARING tXJK ( HI ISTMA& Designer for Holiday Novell ion ready Hard at Work. Al- "Few people sweltering in thisugust heat have an idea that we have women hard at work at the present time rack ing their brains over hat shall be the new designs for Christmas cards next winter," remarked a dealer to a reiorter. ".Not only that, but it would surprise you, iierhajis, to see some of the entirely new and elegant models for next Christ mas already made. Just wait a moment and I will give you a surprise. " The dealer brought out from a small back room a pile of large flat pastelioard boxes. They contained the cards re ferred to. Most of them were in white satin and plush. There were fifty dif ferent designs. One was a banner S by 12 inches in size, with white satin folded down each side and ti?d back with gold cord to represent curtains. The picture represented tin angel, the face b.'ing re markably pretty. Another was a stan dard banner, leaf-shaped, covered with white plush and having a border of gold cord. On the centre was the represen tation of an artist-s palette containing a hand-painted picture. Through the palette was put a bunch of dried grass. Another handsome design was a pin cushion of white satin, with white-plush bonier and containing emlinssed flower In colored plush. A very beautiful de sign was a jewel-box 18 inches long by 0 inches wide covered with pink plusii and bordered with gold cord. On the top there were embossed flow crs in plush, and the whole was lhied-with light-green satin. A number of the models were made in Japanese silk, which is to be a prevailing novelty for the coming holi day trade. , One of these was a wall pocket in white, with a corner turned back. On the front there were eml Kissed flowers in plush. Another odd design resembles a jiocket-liook. It is covered with pink plush, and the corner is tuni ed over, showing a lining of green silk. The point where the part turned over meets the plush is marked by a bug of white plush and gold wire. A very p.etty design is a white satin satchel bag on which is embossed in white plush a half moon and an open lily with natur al colored leaves, all in plush. 1 tesigns of autumn leaves, in white plush and gold, with hand-painted winter scenes and gold-wire bugs at the stem, were also shown. The Polly of Hair Itye. I regret very much to notice the grow ing popularity of the custom of dyeing dark hair locks light among my fair country-women. 1 was present at an afternoon reception at the house of an American lady the other day, and in my immediate vicinity sat four ladies, all Americans, each one of which had her hair dved of a different hue. One head boasted of reddish chestnut locks, an other was of a red-gold color, a third was canary yellow, and a fourth was of the palest gold. 'ow, there is nothing positively immoral about the practice of dyeing one's hair any more than there is in painting one's face or of blacken ing one's eves. Hut all these lierform anccs tend to give the person that in dulges inthem a highly improjier aspect Moreover, to certain constitutions some forms of this hair-cokinng process are highly injurious. A most lamentable case of this nature has just come under my own observation. It is that of a young French married lady, who, not lieing content with her own hair, which was of a prettv light brown tint, went to a fashionable hair dresT and went through a tiresome and oft-reieated process to change the color of her tresses into a golden hue. She was forced to remain some hours every morning for several days with her head coated with a sort of paste, and this process had to bo nieaied every month, as the blende colou wears off as the hair grows out It results in agonizing headaches. I have seen her at a soiree with the Lirge tears running down her cheeks from sheer excess of pain. The other day her sufferings culminated in an attack of insanity. She was removed to an wvimn and the physicians in attend ance give very little hope of her recov ery If there exists such a malady as a brain-poisoning she is undoubtedly its victim. . . . , The hair-dyeing business is o no means a cneap ainiiseuienu mi purposes to which the unfortunate lady aforesaid submitted herself, and which 111 1 1tzt 1a4 reneated every month, S10 for eacii application is demanded by a fash ionable liair-aresser. a uoiuo w most potent and popular -of the blonde hair-dves costs $i Each bottle suflices to color a good head of hair just once. Some of these dyes destroy the hair, causing it to fall out by the handful. Others produce terrible headaches, that result being by no means uncommon. Hut the sufferer usually attributes to the malady to neuralgia or to dyspepsia anything in short, rather than its real cause. lfnnnr recommends a mixture of equal parts of partly desiccated alum and citric acid as a non-poisonous sub stitute for oxalic acid. The mixture must be reduced to a fine powder, and might be dispensed wnere oxauu acm i. ov for and the dispenser Ira his doubts regarding the intention of the purchaser. PERSIAX HORSES. Wonderful Speed and Eudnrance or Very Short Measurementa. Mr. Wolf von Schierbrand, whose bubble pricking letters froni Persia were not relished by the subjects of the Shah, is back again in the United States, and one of his early calls after his arrival in Xew York was at the otliee where he got his first lessons in incisive journalism. The Persia of reality is far different from the Persia or romance and imagination. It is a kind without roads and without civilization. The rough bridle iiatlis sje;ik unmis takably to the tourist of a non-progressive ieope. The saddle is in general use, and the best horses are the Arabs, and after them come the Turcomans. Some of the latter attain to neat size. anu are useu ny tlie rich for display. i ne average l urcoman is a fleet and hardy horse, capable of coiner from lt 10 i.o miu-s wniiout rest, lie is educa ted to get along with very little water, and to subsist on balls of highly concen trated food, the two principal inirredi ents of which are suet and barley flour. When the master contemplates a raid, he gradually reduces for a iieriod of thirty days, the food and water allow ance of the hor, and thus inures it to pnyauon. (trass does not grow m the vicinity of Teheran, and the princiKil food of the horse is barley, except for two mouths each year, when the daily ration is of herbs possessed of laxative proiierties. Out-sale of the gates of Teheran is the race course, the longer circuit of which is about five miles. Only one meeting is held each twelve-month, and it is at the lieginningof the Persian New Year. the oiieuing of Spring. Arabians, Tur comans, and a cross lietween the Cos sack and Turcoman eomiiete, and the chief race is live circuits, or alwut twenty-one miles. Mr. Schierbrand saw the distance run in 'J7 minutes 47 sec onds. Either the time taken was not correct, or the winner was a wonderfully good horse. The purses were of gold ind silver coins, tied up in little bags. which were pitched to the successful joe-keys, who caught them in their tur bans. .No entrance fee is charged to the races, and no betting system is car- ied out. About two hundred thousand persons cheered the contestants, the wails of the city lieing dense with peo ple. I lie outer walls overlook tlie course, and from tliem the siiectator gets a grand view of the horses. The Shah witnesses the siiort from a pavilion, its do also lus officers aud members of the different legations. The jockeys are mainly boys, but sometimes a heavy weight, a full-grown man, acts as pilot. liie Aran from Hagdad is prized more lighly than any other breed of horses. Tlie ordinary saddle horse has an easy anter, and he is sure-footed, but Lizv to a striking degree. The tourist has to use the lash freely to maxe any kind of ! kI-mI bct-vcen tlm rd Mntnw wP'tH mark the course or the rough braiie paths. A Piltt For I life. A correspondent writes. At the time of which I write I was a settler in Da kota, north of the Northern Pacific lioad. One day iu December 1 went to a neighboring town to transact some business in connection with mv farm. At two o'clock I skirted off for my fifteen-miles drive due north. Every thing went well at first the team jogged along at a good pace, knowing that they were going home, and I hardly noticed that the w ind had lulled u: til I saw a heavy bank of clouds ahead of me. I felt sure that this indicated a change in the weather, and made up my mind to getahome :is quickly as possible. T he horses rescinded to iny call in a cheerful manner and rattled along at a good pace. 1 suddenly remembered that I had brought no overcoat or rugs with me, and had even neglected to bring any gloves. The clouds in the north sud denly liegan to rise and grow blacker and blacker, and a cool wind came sweeping down. In a few minutes the whole sky was overcast with dense clouds and a line dusty snow was seen filling the atmosphere, and sifting into everv iKirt of mv clothing. I was con vinced that this was a "blizzard," and from its appearance it promised to lie one of the worst kind. Every minute the sky got darker and the wind blew fiercer, and every moment the cold in creased and the blinding snow came thicker. I was now thoroughly aroused to my danger. I knew that if I did not reach some house in a short time I should be iost on the prairie and prolv ably freeze to death. I could not locate my exact jwsitioii from memory, and to see was iniHissible, as in the blinding snow I could barely find the truck before me. I reckoned that at the rate I was traveling I must have gone ten miles out of the fifteen, and I knew there was no chance of being able to reach liome that night, for even if the team could have kept the track I should have frozen in the wagon. Tiie wind was howling and shrieking like a thousand demons, and every de mon voice in that fearful wind seemed to scream out for the possession of my little, lost seir. The terror of my position seemed to mike me even colder, and as I sat shiv ering and shaking in the storm I re meniliered that a new danger had arisen, for the next feeling would be a sense of calmness and rci-jse indicating sleep, and before it was everlastingly too late I made up my mind to get out of the wagon and try to walk by the side and lead the horses, so as to keep myself awake Hut another danger now arose; the snow was drifting into every little hollow and piling against every little ridge. The horses were quite blinded by the storm and ref used to go ahead. They turned round with their tails to the "wind and tried to run with the storm. My fingers were numbed by the most fearful pain I ever experienced and my ears were stinging with the frost There was no time to lie lost Seizing hold of the horses' heads I held them while trying to remember about what part I wai in. The extreme peril of my position seemed to quicken my facul ties, and 1 judged that I must not be far from a certain haystack tliat I had seen iu a slight hollow as I drove past in the morning. As the darkness of night had not quite set in, I thought I could perhaps manage to discover tliat haystack, and then I could pull out euough hay to cover myself or perhaps creep into the stack myself. It was a desiierate effort and I made up my mind to try it Hy carefully leading the horses along the ridge, I tried to note every little hollow on the left-hand side. For a long time I discovered nothing to reward me for my efforts and the night was coming on. while the cold grew more intense and the wind howled fiercer than ever. Suddenly I thought something had broken the force of the wind foi the moment, which could only be caitsed by some building or haystack. I im mediately led the team toward vhit l hoped was the haystack. n.i wn lighted to find that I soon ran full tilt ut iTir.i ii..l .1 ; . . . me ery luing i was lookinsl iuiu:iiduuujhiiiiiiiiiiu. aoovt tor. I all things, to be a mother of children. - Hv dint of verr trreat sfTort T mnumi to unhitch the horses and let tbem run Iotue. I thought it was only f:iir lr give them their liberty and let them run uome u they could find the way. And now my main troubles arose. I tound 1 could not pull out enough hay to make a covering for myself, and my Wands were becoming so benumbed that i was hardly able to do anything. Hv tins tune the darkness of night had set in and to the other terrors was added the certainty that I must soon succumb to the fatal drowsy feeling that was -Taiiiig over me. I wanted to get on the lee side of the stack and lie down out of the wind and sleet. It was only by a most determined effort that I aroused myself and strove to think haw I could save my life. Agaiu the exi gency of the danger seemed to shairen iny w its and I saw that my sole chance lay in setting fire to the stick and warm ing myself by its flames. i r . Aiy ungers were so numbed and mm. ful that 1 could with difficulty find int matches. There were only a few in the Ihx I discovered, and the furious wind made nie more nervous than ever. 1 knew tliat I must set it afire from the leeward side or the fire would not hist long, for if it had the wind to fan it there would lie no chance of its continu ing till morning; so I tried to light it from the sheltered side. I first of all pulled out enough hay to make a little pi'e, and then 1 carefully struck a match by rubbing it on my trousers. Fortun ately the first one was enough, and I soon was surrounded by a nice blaze. The flames increased rapidly, and I thought the whole stack would soon l consumed; but luckily the snow that nad collected on tlie sides aud the top melted as the lire approached them, and in mis way partly subdued the rapid si .read. iu about a quarter ot an hour 1 w.v thoroughly warmed through aud through except my feet and hands. These extremities I now knew were frozen, but how much they were frozen t was unable to telL The heat thawed the snow from the ground, and 1 wa aii'e to stand on the bare prairie sod. After a little rest I pulled a lot of hay, aud placing it in a heap, sat down ami wsii led for the dawn. When I look kick at it now it seems like hideous night mare. Surely never was there a more desolate position for a human being. and surely the means to save a life were ji'-tilied. Hut at the same time the fact of setting another man's stack on fu-J never struck me as being unreason able. I sat and watched the greedy flames d.-'it out and flare up with the most in tf 3n iitmciu My only hope 'was that me nre might not go out. Toward morning the last vestige of hay was gone. and nothing remained but the emliers. As a List resource I was compelled to stir up the ashes and stand in the midst of the Lust remains of the lire. I was at times almost choked by the fumes, as they were swirled by the furious wind into my face. When daybreak came at last I looked round In the gathering light, and thought I saw a shantv down the "slough" (valley). As the light in- rrexsed I was able to see clearly, amid the falling snow, it was a house. T he farmer received me with every hospitality. lie would not listen to my offering to pay for the stack, but seemed delighted to think that it had saved a human life from a painful death. He drove me home after breakfast, where we found my horses lving before mv stable door, both frozen to death. IlnllyinK a Roily. There is nothing a bull v dislikes more than being himself bullied; aud the man who ridicules everyone else is ordinarily the most sensitive to sarcasm. At a criminal trial "the counsel for the plain tiff had threatened, and in some cases had cruelly brow-lieaten, the witnesses, when it chanced that a hostler, who was simplicity personified, was called to give his testimony. "Now, sir, 1 liojie we shall have no diiliculty in getting you to sjieak up!" said the attorney, in a very loud, com manding voice. "I hoi not sir!" shouted the wit ness, at the top of his lungs. "How dare you speak to me in that wav?" "I can't speak no louder!" screamed the hostler. "Have you lieen drinking?" "Yes, sir!" "I should infer so" (fiercely) "from your conduct; what have vou been il linking?" "Coffee, sir!" hoarsely vociferated the Knight ot the stable. "Something liesides coffee, sir. you've lieen using! lVm't look at me like that. sir!" (furiously) "look at the jury, sir! Did you have something in your cof fee?" 'Yes, sir!" "Wliat was it?" "Sugar!" "This man is no fool, your Honor he is woise!" stormed the counsel. "Now, sirrah," turning to the wit ness, ''look at me! What liesides sugar did vou take in your coffee this morn ing?" "The hostler collected his forces, drew a deep breath, and in a voice that could have been heard blocks away, bel lowed out: "A spiine! A spune, an' nothiu" elsel" Bay of Biscay. The scheme of M. de Lessera to unit the Medditerrauean Sea with the Bay of Biscay by means of a canal from Nar- bonne to Bordeaux, is being revived in France. The distance between the two cities, as the crow flies, is at least two hundred miles. The exiense of con structing such a canal, of dimensions requisite to admit the passage of large men-of-war, even though the Oironde river could be partially utilized, would be enormous. Punish your passions, lest they punish you. Electricity is now applied to the bleaching of cotton and linen fabrics. Moderation is tbe silken string run ning throrgh the pearl chain of vir tues. Judge O'Gormon, at New York, recently refused naturalization papers to an Englishman who admitted that be bad not read the Constitution of the United States. MARRIAGE IV PERSIA. Great Importance of the Mothers-la -aw in that Country. 1 In Persia a girl marries to fill th I'li4ce of ner husband's confidant and I frlwt. ...1. K 1 L .1 1 1 1 I he marriages of the rich are eec?nil!v dictated by policy; while tho-e of the middle and lower classes are often ar ranged by the parents. Ixive matches are the exception. Persians as a ru! try to arrange what they consider suita ble matches for their children. Polyga my is the exception aud not the rule, aud where there are two or more wives there are also two or more establish ments. Neither lodgings, money, ser vants, clothes or jewels are held in com mon, and the only source of contention is the society of the husband. Hut the wives instead of being jealous rivals, are usiiauy me Dest oi irieims. While it is quite true that theoretically a man can be rid of his wife by savin" before witnesses, "Thou art divorced yet practically to obtain a divorce ir Persia is almost as ditlicult as it is in Euroie. In Persia the poorest of women ao not marry without a settlement, which has to lie made good in case of divorce; and at her marriage her rela tives exact from the husbaud an ac knowledgment of a far larger portion than is actually paid to him. It Ls tlx liability to iuiy this, the "mehr," that lestrains the husluind from divorce save on the strongest grounds. In Ciisi-j where mutual distaste is very strong, n ud divorce desired by Ixith parties, the matter is simply arranged by the wift agreeing not to exact the whole or even a iirt of her settlement. There is another safeguard against frivolous di vorce; a divorced man or woman does not find it easy to make a resjiectabk marriage. The marriage of first cousins is the favorite union. The reason is that cousins have been acquaintances and iriends from childhood, while to all the rest itf the world save her brothers and sisters, the young girl is a veiled mys tery; so tluit, unless there is a mutual disinclination, or too great a disparity of age the Persian youth looks naturally to the "daughter of my uncle" as his future wife. Often the cousins are be trothed from childhood. As a rule. classes do not mingle in marriage. The sons of merchants wed merchants' daughters, the young tradesman mite with his like, and so with the members of the servant and soldier classes. Hut in Persia, as everywhere else, ex traordinary personal al tractions soon lieeome known and have their advan tage. The beauty of the lower or mid dle classes need not aspire in vain. The mother of the King s eldest and favor ite son, the most jiowerfiil man iu Per sia, was the daughter of a miller, who caught the Shah's eye while washing clothes at the brook side. Manv a lioor ind handsome girl is wedded without a portio" for her l-ea:ity"s sake. The young wife does not immediately assume the responsibilities of her posi- ioii. Carefully tended as a bride lor the first year of her wedded life, she willingly remains under the tutelage ol her mother-in-law, if she have one, or if she be the daughter of a widow her mother usually aeconqianies her to her new establishment. Mothers-in-law have a better time iu Persia than iu some other countries. There they are regarded as the natural guardians of the inexerieneed bride and the proper care takers of the young mother and her in fant offspring. From the mother-in-law are learned the arts of housekeei- ing. I iiiler her eyes an purchases are made from the hucksters or female jied Lirs, for a visit to the bazar by a young wife before slie has blessed her husband with children would lie considered a scandal among the upper, middle, or tradesman elass. Only among the very loor or the villagers does the young wile, save on ceremonial occasions, leave the shadow of her husband's roof tree during the first year of her mar riage. Hut the first year of her wifehood ha.- lassed awav, and relatives and friends have been summoned to celebrate the happy birth of a sou or daughter. If the former, then iudeed is the position of the wife a happy one. She receives the congratulations of her friends and acquaintances and holds high les.'ival. Her husband dignifies her by the title ot Mother of Hassan," or w hatever the little otre's name may lie, and from that dav her owm name is no longer used. If j she is only blessed with a daughter, still) she is not cursed with sterility, that ter-.' .1 s .1 . . . .....I ul.fl ,.. Willi i Ulllt? IIUUUII. I UC VV-.U 3 , ror of the 'Oriental ilstmilmtTmlB By and by ! hoi-e that heaven may bless her with a the Mi aV are ,ai(1 ' son. Consulted in all matters, the Persian wife is her husband's trusted confidant and counsellor. "Hut she is veiled, the poor thing, closely veiled, exclaims the pitying Englishwoman. Yes, she is veiled. And loth would she lie to part with what she looks on as a distinction and a privilege. To her the veil is a badge of modi-sty and the token of re spectability. And has she any accomplishments. any education; or is sue merely me mother of the children? These quest ions are easily answered. Many of the Per sian middle-class women are highly educated according to Oriental ideas. They read and often write poetry; they sing and play as a rule well, and are miss tresses of all the arts of plain and fancy needlework; cooking Ls a second nature to them; pastry making and con fectionery are among their pleasures. The accomplishments of the lioor ones are naturally of a more needful kind. They are good cooks and bread bakers; they make the clothes of the entire household; they often are able to add lareelv to the daily income ny tneir knowledge of some btisiness or trade, and none of them are idle. A Carious Custom of Divination. In Berlin there to an association of theological students bearing the name of "Wingolfites," which has for years observed on the ednesday before As cension day tlie curious custom of divi ning for the emperors destiny. I he way of doing this is unique. The mem bers of the association proceed from Berlin to the village of Pichelswerdei en the Havel, aud here they celebrate the anniversary of the guild at the V U- hehnshohe restaurant. They immedi ately climb up an oak tree in the centet of the garden and seat themselves on the branches. Beer is handed up from the ground and after the third glass has been drained the president delivers the aniiiversary speech, after which a cheer is given for the ecpror. Then at the word of command all glasses are burled to the ground amd the notion is that the emperor will live as many years as there are broken glasses. Thi3 year twelve glasses were broken, so that the emp peror should yet be a eeatesarian. THE SALARY OP A JOCKET. Utirse-Racing an Expensirc and Dan gerous Business A Rider's Salary. If any one believes that horse-racing s not an expensive business when one's torse doesn't win he has only to look iliout him to be satisfied. A stable of y twelve horses or even eight is not iept up short of from $10 to $73 a day, exclusive of jockey fees and railway .ransportatiou. There is a trainer at a salary of from $M to 200 a month, a "oreman at $7. to S100, and there are arenerally two darkey grooms for each iiorse. Then there is the feed-stable Dutfit to be kept up and an endless array m nitie tilings to be bought Then ;here are the entry fees aud forfeits :hat in the course of a season amount to t great deal of mouey. The jockeys take a great deal out of the profits, too, when there are any. Ike Murphy, the colored jockey, who just now enjoys the distinction of being- silled the Archer of America, receives $;,)! "J a year from llaldwin for the first all on his services, and f 2.0u0 a year from Corrigan for the second call. That is, when Haldwin has a horse in a race Murphy must mount for him. When Haldwin has no entry or it was witli- Irawn, then Corrigan can call on the jockey. When neither has a horse on, then Murphy can ride for the owner that jays him the liest. What with sal ines, fees, gratuities and a turn unw ind then at the pool box, Murpliv is aid to have an income of Jl.Vu.o a year. hen he w ins a bi i.id mi .wiiected slake the lucky owner usually ives him from V to $l,0uO as a pres ent. Lucky Haldwin gave him xtra the year he won the Derby with Volante, and $7o0 the other dav when lie won it with Silver Cloud The next best paid of the jockeys is Duffy, rider for the Ilaggin stable.' He receives $."i,0A) a year straight, and can ride for auylKKly eLse when Haggiu has no horse iu the nice. These are the two lest riders on the turf. Last year Mur- hy won fifty-five mounts and h st but lglity-nme. Duffy won thirtv-tliree mounts and Iost seventy-nine. Kelly is rider for Porter Ashe, and Withers, the boy who was injured the other day. rides for W. ii. Harnes. Both are well paid. Many may think it absurd that jockeys should be enabled to earn such large sums, but, when the hazard ous nature of the business is taken into iccount and the skill and judgment re- pnred considered, the boys do not seem jverpaid. It is the most dangerous occupation in the world. The liability of horses to Iwilt, stumble, toshv, or to do any one of the dozen things that horses tinder I excitement are likely to do, is almost sure to result in disaster if indulged in lu "er preent residues over niaeiy at the frightful speed with which they , 'oe years. go. The accident to Withers and the A young woman of Ithaca has t'eath of his horse, Forrest, the other ! nearly oue thousand silk worms sus day. wits a startling. illustration of the landed in paper cones, .and all spinning perils of tlie track. . Again, some horses industriously. indeed most race horses iof high blood f jjeloclpede is the new name of a and mettle are inclined to be . " They frequently run and headstrong. away in their exercising and training gallops and become uncontrollable, j Mich brutes are a constant menace to t grooms and jockeys, and accidents are far more numerous than the public hears. i Tho Drawer in Iocked. A woman Irom her earliest conscious ness inclines to reminiscence. As she grows up slie stamps each notable adven- that his creditor was dea l, hunted up ture and each pleasant friendship upon , his family, and paid the debt with lu her mind by some token. Our dime j terest museums, with their meagre collection ; Rose Leslie, whose immense aizj of odds and bits, would pale Into noth-' made her famous as a circus attraction, bigness when compared with the bottom has died iu Lowed, Mass., aged twenty drawer of a girl's bureau. This she . five years. She weighed 0l. pounds, generally devotes to her keepsakes. At i and measured five feet three inches iu ." she liegins storing it with horse-chest- j height nuts and broken bits of colored pencils ; Maine gr.xiiu who could talk no given by her dear friends. Some of French, and a French bride who could these are the mysteries of the "secrets" which are the life of childhood's free masonry. By Hi slie has a gold-piece, generally bestowed by a bachelor uncle, 1 aim iiernaps some lOKeu irom souiej friends that are dead. There are pressed four-leafed clovers, pincushins ' w ith zoological tendencies, gray flannel rabbits and such, a few carefully pre served valentines, some bottles that once held jierfumery and now present : onlv a f:uled recollection to the nostrils. At 17 she has some faded violets, some l.u.L-4 . . f ltii- i f.u- apMiw ftf ili-vnraitrT, jieel,' and carefully tucked in a further-1 most corner a bundle of notes tied ur the drawer which holds the valentines, and still, as the years pass, comes a pail of the weest shoes, kicked out at tht hi-el, and a silken curl which shows a uvery goi.i in tneiignt. Aiiennisine KecpsaM-s are lewer ana are ouei er me Finally, after a long time, some one lays away in the drawer a thumlied r. d testament, with a lock of gray hail and a threadthin wedding ring. Thee the drawer is locked. Hindu Religion. It is rather sad, to perceive how com. pletely some European observers mistake . and misinterpret the Indian people or the question of their religion. They ' style them "idolators" imagine tlud Hindus attribute divine qualities to th uncouth figures, the red stones, theling ams. carved snakes, and grim Bhowanis . which they worship, because they find! Mahadeo adored in one place, Gunpati. in another, Kali elsewhere, and trees, rivers, and cows objects of prayer, the suppose the Hindus, one and all, poly-; theists. l et it would tie almost as un just to ascribe polytheism to Londoners ' iiecanse one church is dedicated to St. Matthew, another to the Holy Trinity a third to St. Bridget All these various , gods aud sacred objects are for the edu-. cated Indian mere "aids to faith," uiani-1 festations more or less appropriate and elevated of the all-pervading and un- divided Para-Brahm. t.ven the pool peasant of the fields, and the gent! Hindu wife, perambulating a peepul tree smeared with red, will tell you that the symbol they reverence is only a symboL There is liardly one of them s ignorant as not to know that oom monphire of VedantLsm, "every pray er which rs uttered finds its way to tlie cars of Keshava." A eurtout discussion Is now taking place at the London Astronomical So-1 ir. ..!:... 1 that the photographic camera sees mor than the eye, and Mr. lUynard main-! tains the contrary. As photographic! r,iat nn aArnrrtmff tn th mat an.' 1 .s thanower of the human eve also var-: iea in different individuals, it is proba ble that the discussion will continue foi a couuderauls time. NEWS IN BRIEF. Chicago gamblers last year cleared 5300,000. Albany, N. ., is the oldest town in the old thirteen colonies. A steam laundry in Keno, Nev., U driving the Chinese to despair. In some places in Arizona there aas been no rain In three years. Sitting on the roof is becoming a summer night fashion in New York. A woman with a hot kettle foiled i telegraph pole p'anter in Sandusky. The lateat feminine folly is a bed ipreau made frjin old kid glove backs. A chicken snake, killed in Florida, was found to contain a china- nest-egg. A plow, rigged to a locomotive, is cutting sod f ir embankments in Jersey. The honey crop of Los Angeles county, Cal., i3 figured to be 1,000 tons. When Cleveland society is much agog it is said to "wink its eyelids loose." An exchange apologize. for a mis print of "monkey dudes" for mouey dudes. A Santa Barbara. Cal.. beekeeper has extracted five tons of honey this season. Arthur Rehan, brother of Ada. will take "Naucy & Co." on the road next fall. Railroad buiidiug promises to b unusually active in Arkansas during (the next year. j Youthful criminals have increased t amaz'nglv in number in France within the past live year3. I Los Angeles. Cal.. ladies have pledged themselves to eschew song birds iu their millinery. An average of fifty unaddi eased postal cards are daily mailed at the r"" !--.. ' Pinafore ls bein New lork post-office. given aboard a lesoit a short . real ship at a summer distance out from Chicago. An Amador County (Cal.) man has applied for a patent on a process foi making butter by boiling tha cream. Aa ear of corn measuring eighteen inches in length was recently taken from a field near S) lvanio, Georgia. A Preston (Ct) man lias a cat whose favorite tidbit is a nics fat grass hopper, which the captures for herself. A bright boy in Wolcott. N. Y., has taught a drove of hogs to run after him whenever he sif.gs "Yankee Doo dle." Mrs. Marina Wright of Addison. ' Vt, is over IUJ years old, aud has lived musical bicycle so fashioned that the , riurcan kick out melodies, waltzes aid reels as he travels along tl.e road. Robert Smith, of Lexington, Iud.. lost his nice black hair as the result of typnoid fever. Now kis head is cover ed with hair three inches long, very kinky like a negro's but as white as snow. Fifteen years ago a man quit Ber lin, Canada, Dv.iug a temloilar board bill. The other day he ret u rned found sieak no English, were married the oilier day in Lowell, Me. They both had understood the unspoken language c courtship. A Marechal Niel rose tree at Lon don, Out, is a pecti'iar one. On one side the roses are crimson, and on the other lily white. The tree has not been grafted, "budded," or tampered with iu any manner. A bi? turtle was caught near Lin coln Parish, lt , and its head was cut off. Three days later a chicken found ;he cad and w "ckin? ,t; the,-:1. Wf , caught tl.e c when chicken -Harry L. Falk, swimming in the Cone3tos;i Kiver m?.ir 1, Pa.. saw a black boss w-.tl.itt arm's length of him. He gniblic.I for it, was lucky enough to catch his fingers iu the gills, and swam ashore with a line fish. Five vears hm Lida Garrison, of iv,lisoUt Tex., fell rr0!11 a tree, and hurt herself so that, she has not since been able to use her arms. She has succeeded in learning to piint, holding the brush with the toes of her left foot The one baby that is said to have been born in the White House was christened "Henry Walker," is now forty years oid, and lives in Mont gomery, A a. His mother, a niece of President Polk, was visiting her uncle when Henry was born. A Macon (Ga.) negro is gradually changing color. Two years ago he was as black a person as ever was born, but now his skin, besides being dotted with big blotches of white, is assuming a color similar to that produced by the mixture of dun and light-brown col ors. Frank Butler, of Prairie City, IIL, says he saw a snake near Nigger Creek which was black on one side and cream colored on the other. It was as tig around as a man's thili. He threw stones at the monster, but these mis- hounded irom its nucK as u it were ' rubber. An eleven and three-fourth pound bster has just been caught off Win- throp, Mass. It measured over all twenty-nine arid one-half inches, large claw eleven inches, and small claw ten and three-fourth inches. It was a re markably symmetrical lobster for one so old and large. A train hand in the Salem railroad yard on a hot night heard a chicken's peep coming from a freight car. He went in, and among a lot of egjs found one through which a chick had stuck its head. Tbe little fellow was removed and now thrives at the train hand's uome. Mme. GovuII, aged one hundred n fourteen years, and formerly maid of honor at the Court of Emperor Paul L. was buried recently In the cemetery of Smolensk. Russia. B-hind the tears walked with firm step the younger sis ter of the deceased, aged one hundred and thirteen years. ( .L rr:f'."l,"" " -
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