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Editor and Proprietor.
VOL. XL.
MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 3, ISSG.
NO. 37,
Tine and Palm.
A lonely tree, tbe rowan grew
A moi) 2 tbe boulders; loug and lone,
The wilil moor beared beneath the bine
In heathery swells vf turf and stone.
They'd wandered east, they'd wandered
west.
With dance and muric, song and mirth.
That sunburned group who paused to rest
On that one smt of shadowy earth.
With beat and travel overcome.
The bandsman tslnmbered. On the crass
XjiT leathern pipm and cymbaled drum
And bright eaked bat with bells of brass.
With 1. soft ltiiKhs and whispered fun,
U.itbeeyes and lips of loving red.
Two cirls sat stringing in tbe sun
The ruwau berries ou a thread.
Acaiust a boulder mossy grown
1 saw tbe singing woman lean
Her dark, proud head. Upou the stone
She had placed her gilded tambourine.
Though no! asleep, she did bnt aeem
Uaii conscious, tor tho hot tun kissed
Her cheek and wrapped her heart in dream
Like tome glad garden wrapped in mist.
liito the tambourine I dropped
My modest tribute unto art;
The children, threading berries, stopped;
The woman wakened with a start.
She rose and thanked me, bright and free.
Then added, "God is good to-day t
One hour 1 am in Kapoli
And this is Scotland far away!"
Ar.d 1 remembered, as I turned.
How, lone in. Norland snows, the pine
Dreamed ot that lonely palm which yearned
vn burning crags beneath the line.
LILIAN.
They Lad been enzaged a month,
Tbe village bad buzzed audibly over tbe
news that Jack Murray had came borne
from Arizona to marry bis old play'
mate, Janette Prayn, and bad further
more bought an interest in Gray ton
Mill?, and poue into business with all
his energy. The wedding- was arranged
for October, ana meanwhile
Yes. lie was bound to Janette.
There was no forgetting or ignoring of
the fact but Lilian? II is heart tugged
at its chain each time she spoke to him
or looked bis way. Tbe silken bond
bad become a fetter. Janette was the
Janette be had always known a wo
manly presence, gracious and gentle-.
but be bad come home to find Lilian a
beautiful surprise. Biizht, audacious
wilful, almost reckless, she darted
from gayety to gayety like a bumming
bird among ruses. A dance nere, a
ride there, a midnight row, flowers.
music, little notes of invitation, boxes
of bonbons from week's end to week's
end the bright routine went on; and
Jack, whom it did rot m any way con
cern. kept np his impatient protest.
"Can't vou see. Janette. that it is
wronz for vou to allow Lilian to go on
in this way? A girl of sixteen should
not be permitted such entire freedom.
You ought to curb her a little. It is
wtodz to the child au injustice. You
stand in the place of a mother."
"Jack, dearl As if I possibly could
curb her?"
"Well, her father some one ought
to."
"But she doesn't do anything wrong.
She likes to be gay that is natural;
and these young people about are boys
and girls that have grown up with ber
neighbors and classmates. I do not
see bow she possibly could be harmed."
"But she is away from home nearly
every day, and all her evenings are
taken np with Tom, Dick and Harry.
Her own people scarcely get a glimpse
of her."
"Well, it's vacation now, you know,
and besides, in a little while, when 1
am gone, Lilian will have to settle
down. S:.e will know the weight T
care soon enough."
Janette wa3 smiling tenderly but she
could not smile away the gloom from
her lover's face.
"J have scarcely patience with you,
Janette," be said almost angrily. "Set
tle down? Tbe girl is utterly spoiled
for anything like domestic life. Do
you suppose she will ever fill your place
to your father and the children? It was
very unfortunate for her that she was
left without a mother."
Tear's filled Janctte's eyes. She bit
Ler lip hard in tbe effort to restrain
them. Why wa3 Jack always so se
vere in bis censure on Lilian, and
through Lilian on her? Why did be
alone seem to regard with intolerance
thia bright young creature whom all
the world loved.
This sad questioning bad been grow
ing daily in Janette's meek, loving
heart Suddenly Jack flung himself
" -lna-Ti hosMft her and kissed l.er cheek.
"Don't be sad, dear. I only meant
that she that Lilian seems too-mde-pendentof
us all. and for so young a
girl but of course, it Is not your fault,
ianoftat,d Khall I shall I reason
with her? Do you think it would do
"Not the least bit in the world, dear;
but you may try."
Tair aa trv the verv next morning
T.nt. vrir rhildren and went
dOUCtw - . .
v, ,him. in eive him an op
nnrtnnitv to deliver bis lecture In good
i trofnnrwi Lilian dawdling over
iota i.rpakfafit. untidy as usual, but
- as usual exquisitely c'.ean. Uer wrap
per bad a torn sleeve that showed the
Wv of one rounded arm her hair was
tumbling from Its bilky braids.
She
looked like a fresh-crushed rose.
Jark had dressed himself with
un
usual care; but, then, he was going up
to the city on business.
tt-,.ll T ilionl'
"How nice you look?; she said with
a smile, briebt and indifferent. I am
..', a au not cet bom till
thin morning. I waltzed my feet
rjpi. through my slippers
"We?" .
George Archer and
i. oritrt rr.p. 1'
Harry Chase
I'm sorry I'm so
"T TrrWed tO gO UP to
? "St. m. f tPrnooa. I don't
.rjiij.e ivm
see how I can."
.it it coa hnw vou can.
He bad
rt th window, but now
cek andleaFed himself near her,
at the breakfast towe. Tni
.n- r nuiz e to Trie, .Lillian.
A puzzle am I? Will you
some coffee. It isn't very warm.
have
Why
Tot aTuzrie. either; only.it
.eeml sKe jou are so different from
you wW. to J"
ber?" she asked, witu "Vrpful'v on
Tmii- balancing a spoon careful.y on
the edge of be. : empty would
not spend beV'tlmVromping about with
J crowd of insignificant young men, for
-
- "But I am a very Insignificant per-
i on " she retortea, caimiy.
watting your thought and time on peo
ple who are no way worthy "
Lilian's Spoon fell With a rlnf tor inta
her CUP. She rose and crcssA tho
room quickly.
'Ah. now vou arm anttrv " JurV aai.1
leaning back and looking after her!
l ou are offended. "
"Xot a bit offpnrl1 T nnll tVinnrrht
I would get some work, Then I could
listen to your lecture with some com
fort. This is Harry Chase's glove."
She had begun to mend the torn finger.
"Is he one of the Insigniflcant people?
Surely," she looked at him archly.
"you can't aay that of a millionaire's
son?"
I 8hOUld not S.1T it in anv rasA if T
thought he was really dear to you."
"Harry? Oh, no. He's a good boy
he's devoted to me; but I should never
think of marry in him."
the other, I suppose, is the favor
ite." Which other? Georce Archer. He's
lovely, isn't be?" Yes, I like (Jeorge,
but I like him so much that I can't
love him. Don't vou see? Well. then.
there Is Louis Best, the two Whittaker's
they certainly go into the list and
snail l name any more?"
a. r, ,
"ii isni necessary." Jack was
looking straight across the table, trying
to keep back tbe angry flush that be
felt rising to bis cheek. "I see you
have no use for my advice. You resent
my interference."
"I dont resent anything. Come here
and sit by me. I am willing to hear all
you may have .to say about mv friends.
Of course you won't be Just to them;
tnat's not to be expected."
"Xot to be expected? I should very
mucn like to know why I have any
motive to be unjust to your friends!"
"Oh. well," she said, resignedly, "the
trouble is. Jack, you're in love with me
yourseir."
With a startled air he looked at her
an instant. Then a smile broke slowly
over bis face.
"Well, that is a singular assertion,"
be remarked, after a rather long si
lence.
"Yes; but the most singular thing
about it is, that it's true." she retorted.
with a perfectly unmoved air. That's
where the singularity come in.
He bit bis lip, still regarding her
with a sort of puzzled yet tolerant look.
Suddenly his whole expression changed.
"Lilian," be said, abruptly crossing
to where she sat, "I wish to God you
were more of a woman or more of a
child. I can't understand you. Do
you try to bewilder me to make your
self a mystery?
"I don't try to make myself any
thing," she retorted, raising her free,
calm dance to bis troubled face. "I
don't see why you can't understand
me. I understand you. I have ouly
been afraid that Janette would under
stand vou. too."
"But if this that you say is true if
I have been so unfortunate as to give
my heart one way and my word auotuer
surely you might have some thought
for me. some consideration! Why do
you delight to make me suffer?"
"Whv? Because Tou ought to suner,
Jack. Because, if I met you half way,
you would throw Janette aside without
one qualm of conscience Janette, who
is worth a dozen sucn women as i am.
may be frivolous and triflng. Jack;
but I have my own ideas of honor,
too."
"You are a miserable fhrtl" he said,
slowlv and bitterly.
"That's not true. Jacki ' dui uer
rminc face wore a strantre. hard smile.
- . . . m Q
Talk of honor you .talk oi nonorr
You bave neither heart nor con
science"
".Tack!"
Her voice stopped him half-way in
the sentence. A burning hush naa
spread over her face, and the next in
stant Ph burst into a wild passion of
tears, and rushed out of the room sob
bing like a hurt cruio. J.nai was mc
pud of Jack's reasoning with Lilian
When they met at dinner she was ner
bright, pleasant self again, smiling and
talking gayly; but Jack felt that the
distance between them had widened to
a deep, impassable guir, mat neiuier
word nor smile could cross.
Lilian's terrb'.e frankness had defined
his position and placed it openly before
his eyes. And It had only shown him
an undreamed of force and courage In
her character. With the restless pas
sion ber mere beauty had inspired, there
lie-un to mingle a higher iorm oi au
to iriit inn. and for the first time the
thought of breaking the engagement of
Janette took lomi in m uijuu.
bw, mlRht be done with ner mu cou
ent. if he could make up his mind to
throw himself entirely on her generosity
aui tenderness. She had been so good
to hint always a menu, a siair.
he could remember, almost. Would
s'le be less good to him now, if he came
to demand from her the willing sacrifice
of her dearest joys and hopes? He
knew she loved-had loved him always,
and man's logic, by degrees, made it
ery clear in his mind that this love
should flow to make his happiness, and
to the total renunciation, if need be, of
her own. W by else were women made
compassionate as angels and heroic i as
-.2TT vind hanuv Janette. little
dreaming that she was expected to pose
to either or both of these difficult po
IftioS"ondering at Jack's atrange
ttless manner, went on smiling
above her lace ruffl3S and
breweries and her happy dreamy
It is not to be wondered at that jack
out off ftwn day to day Janette's dis-Konment-But
a time came, after
one of Tutan's rare evenings at borne.
Xn she bad been more lovely, more
Sous, more tender, subdued,
thoughtful and loving than he had ever
Saru7mlstakablenessin
5 willful anxiety that not
ill rer pt T smnel could cover; and
au wninir her hand had
on this especial
in
with responsive kindness.
"J"0." 7fcHiMr.nd restless, his
e" . It the thought
least tne ngui. "
te4 . . imiusht him some
thg widely 'different By breakfast
Hm tbe whole household vvas in a wild
time uie " . disappeared.
.rr bed was unruffled;
but on its' pillow lay this little note,
addressed to Janeiw.
tmnViiMl or unhappy
' m,wn freJ. glad
am to be Tmar ed7 Tell papa-tell
etulu 7 . rf,rfinr Janettel lou
dear, pn'" "-fh You bave
much.
Will rV.. mfnrt VOU.
your Kinu. H' v.," -. nr fa has
kind.gooaJ?rvv-
- . Miii TfT nii uic. tv
Ana W"-zr;n ia me, and
know that, wherever I am, I must al
ways be your own true, loving
"Lilian."
And this was the end of Jack's fever.
ish dreaming, of bis plans and hopes
ana strong resolves! Hi8 high-built
castles lay in ruins round him; but no
one knew, think God! of the wreck
and havoc in bis life! Janette bum;
sobbing on his shoulder. He shuddered
as be kissed her, thinking how closely
she had passed to a keener and more
lasting sorrow. He could not comiort
her, be was too deeply hurt himself.
J. he excited talk, tbe conjectures of
the assembled household maddened
him. No one had any definite ideas on
the subject; but what could it matter
whom she bad married? George
Arcner, young Wbitlaker, little uarrv
Chase she was lost, gone beyond his
reach lorever, beyond the passionate
following or bis thoughts. Of what
avail had been bis manhood, his strength
and ardor, and determination? Pate
bad cast them aside like straws in the
wind and to another man had been
tossed the treasure he would have
struggled and have died to win. It was
all over. It was all over. These words
kept repeating themselves through his
brain. Whether be discussed the mat
ter gravely with Dr. Trayn, or talked
soothingly to Janette, or answered tbe
children's thousand questions, this sad
refrain rung in bis ears: "It was all
over."
As the days went on the fact of
Lilian's flight was followed by the dis
covery of another fact that George
Archer and Harry Chase were both
missing. This established at once the
personality of the bridegroom. Archer
had always been a favored admirer of
Lilian's, and as Harry, though an ad-n-ifer
alio, was Archer's bosom friend.
the sequence, of course, seemed very
plain. Harry, who was exceedingly
wealthy, and the soul of generosity be
sides, must have placed money at the
disposal of the young couple, for
Archer was not known to have any
visible means of support.
"But what a rash step it was for Lil
ian so young, too to leave ber com
fortable home and go off with one who
might be a worthless adventurer for
anything that was known of him in
Grayton."
And so the tongues wagged, until
Lilian came back and stopped them.
It was the day before the one ap
pointed for her sister's wedding. Yet
they had received no word from ber,
bevond her little farewell note, until
they heard her voice on the porch. It
was nearly twilight. Tea was Just
over. The children were dawdling at
the table, Janette was talking to the
father near his desk. Jack was smok
lug, and the roses from the iorch were
trailing over and nodding their pretty
red faces throuzh the window.
Xo one heard the gate click, nor the
footsteps, but they all heard Lilian's
Urst word. "Home! home!" she called
out in a gay voice that broke into a
sob
Wicked, heartless girl! Unfeeling
daughter! The tempest that met her
was a storm of kisses and embraces
of sobs and laughter. But what was
Harry Chase doing, holding bis bat
auolocetically. in the background, with
ins usual little mild air of wonder? He
was doing nothing, quite contentedly,
until Lilian drew him forward with
both her pretty hands, and said, "My
husband." when he proceeded to kiss,
shake hands and even embrace his new
relatives with prompt enthusiasm
"Harry Chase," cried Janette, in
utter aniattment. "You don't really
mean that you've married Harry Chase?
Is it a ioke. Lilian?"
"I think it Is an excellent joke for
me " said Harry, radiant.
"Of course I've married Harry,
You didat suppose I'd nurrv any one
else?" Lilian asked reproachfully.
Certainly not." said Janette, still
bewildered. "But you were always
playing off little pranks on Harry, i ou
know vou were."
'Win has ciavea tue unai one," saiu
Harrv. with an air of fond ownership
'there are no mora prank's to ne iaia
at Mrs. Chase's door."
Mrs. Chase! Mra. Chase!" The
children seized on the name instantly
and began a wild dance of delight
around Its owner. It was altogether
such a wonderful idea that Lilian
should be Mrs. Anything.
Jack had kissed her heartily with tue
st had shaktn hands and congratula
ted the smiling Harry, and then stood
apart, looking on like one In a dream.
He noticed the large, oeaumui uia-
monds that glittered from the briue s
fair neck and ears.
Poor, empty, worthless heart," lie
thought, bitterly, "you have brought
your price! Though all the years of
his lire ne never Knew wuy jjunm mw
married Harry Chase.
But Janette knew in lime, n ow
Jack was dead, and she had uvea
through her widowhood, and her chil
dren and Lilian's were courting and
being courted, she learned the unwrit
ten romance of her sisters me. xuey
were talking, as gray-haired women
will, of love and marriage, and the
heart's deep joys and sorrows, when
Lilian said, earnestly:
'You bave wondered often, Janette,
about my marriage, because you know
me too well to believe, as many did.
that I married Harry for bis wealth:"
"Oh. never lor mat, aear,- jauenc
said "I know you never did dui i
have wondered sometimes if you
married him for love."
"Xo," said Lilian, simply; "I mar
ried him because I loved some one else
because I loved Ja--k."
"Jack!" said Janette, niusning u
d. iL-ttl at her. "My Jack?"
OWW W ... - .. . . .1
"Your Jack." She smiiea soiuj aa
she said the words.
"Oh, Lulanl" , .
iiv.g i invert him dearly; so deany.
Janettel I can tell you now it Is aUso
long agol Janette, i suppose
nature like yours couiu uoc
" - v,r wild, foolish heart endured
through 'those weeks after Jack came
back from Arizona and before I went
away with Harry, x weni., uevu,
rna bear It no longer. I was so glad
when he asked me to be bis wife. '
tvor Lilian!" Janette's
tears are flowing fast as she holds her
S'shands. And I never dreamed
"No one dreamed of it, dear-Jack,
. r n i ii Tjiiiau. calmly. 1
ifrfS it down, years and years ago.
. j t wn haonr with my aear,
good Harry, in our comfortable, com
coor..,rrJ Yet. tou sea I've had
myShe.Tut ""ber eyes were full of
teanK,: t And vou loved Jack,
7VnBwhe7ovedme, Oh, that
aim
I am glad that I loved him Lilian
said.
Every couple ia not s pair.
THE MOUNTAIN LIOX.
The
Terror of tho Ranchers
Southern California.
of
Of all the sly cats that can be found.
the mountain lion beats them all," said
an old hunter in the San liernardino
country. "Some months ago," he con
tinued. "I went Into the hog business
on a small scale, bought two dozen
shoats. and for a week I lost a shoat
every night and could not for the life
of me And out who was the thief, t or
the first three nights after I missed one
bung around tbe pen until nearly
morning, but it seemed as if tho mo
ment I stepped out one of tbe shoats
stepped off. so I got a friend to watch
with me, and we fixed up a big dry
goods box and got into It, and we sat
there alongside of tbe pen. I reckon
we kept awake until four o'clock, when
we fell asleep. I - was awakened oy
bearing a shoat squealiBg, and out I
rushed and my friend after me; but tne
shoat wa3 gone, and just as we were
about starting for the house I happened
to cast my eye toward a big log that
ran into the hoc pen. and there were
two of the greenest eyes you ever saw.
I didn t wait to hud out what it was.
but let fly with my rifle, and the next
second out came the biggest mountain
lion I ever saw. I wasn't ten feet from
him. and as he went 1 took him over
the head with tbe butt of the gun and
mv friend, carried away with excite
ment, was finishing him with his knife.
He was six feet loug, the biggest one I
have ever seen here. And how do you
surnose he worked it? 1 ou'd never
euess. You see. there was an old hol
low loz that I bad fixed up as a drain,
but bad used it for some time back to
run water into the pen. and through this
that cat would creep until he got well
in. and then he would reach out a claw
and crab the shoat. as they slept around
the entrance, and It would be dragged
into the loir. and. of course, nothing
would be seen. It was a cute piece of
business.
"The mountain lions are not as com
mon as thev were once, but you can
find them around if you are inclined to
hunt. I'll never forget the first one I
ever saw. 1 had teen in me mountains
prospecting you know every body
prospects here and about 4 o'clock in
the afternoon It began to snow, anu l
was certainly ten miles from home and
had to make it. so I began the down
trail. It cot dark about C. so that
1 had to almost feel my way, and the
snow was flvinir thick and fast and
nearlv six inches deep. I reckon I had
gone along about two miles when I
thought 1 heard low, soft step behind
me. I pulled up ana listeneu, anu tne
noise stopped so quick that I thought
it wa3 an echo, aud started on again;
bu: the moment 1 moved I heard the
soft step coming on, and as I hauled up
a second lime I heard a twig break, and
then was sure that I was being loi
lowed. A frieud of mine was dogged
In that way once by a Mexican and
shot at. and it occurred to me that per
bans some one was after me, thinking I
had something valuable about me. At
first I didn't know what to do, as when
I stopped the thing behind me did the
same. I must coufess it made me
nervous. You know if you can see a
thing it's all right you know what to
do; but when something Is following
you In the dark it's a different thing.
So I waited a moment and then ran
ahead for a hundred yards as fast as I
could go and made a rush for a
treo and stood behind It. It was a
good scheme, as I completely fooled my
follower, and in a second or so 1 saw a
long, black figure, like a man crawling
nlnni? on hands and knees, going so
carefully 1 could hardly hear it from
where I stood. I had my rifla ready,
and Inst as it cot oiuosite me I fired
The animal leaped ten feet, I should
say, into the a;r, an I fell back with a
suarl a dead mountain lion. I don't
know whether it would have touched
me or not. but it looked very
su?nictous. I didnt take any chances,
"I never saw or neara oi one lacn.-
linir a man. bnt. I can tell 50U What
they will do: Tiiey will whip a gnzziy
bear every time, and the grizzly is king
on this coat. I had It straight irom au
old partner of mine in the mining busi-
nmi He was over in tne lioekies, anu
well up one time, and on this particular
occasion, oa au elk hunt. Tliej bad
lawn after the eauie nail a uay, wneu
all nt. on thev heard a fearful roar in
the brush, and rushing in they looked
thrmir-h ami K1V a 11 2 KT1ZZ1V UUU
mountain lion having a regular rough
and-tumble of it. They were jumping
nKinr. sn and rollinir over and over so
r-ist that thev could not wii who was
gotling tne oess 01 il im
they didn't want to siiooi tor lear 01
spoiling what they caueu we iuu, ,
SX27 TvldenUy W
squeeze the lion, which was so slender
that it wiggiea anu squuuiea uuiw mo
.-atr tmt .ill the time scratching and
tearing just as you see a cat when sbo
is flshting. W un sucn taciics w wo
if. .liiin't tniM lonz to finish the bust
. tim hair was living from the
ucaj, uiv : ,,i
grizzly, and both animals were covered
:.. t.i,i nn.i wnummir and roar in ir
W1UI U1UUU -
1 1 1 . . -.1 lliam 1
so that you couiu iiao uou" -mile
or more. All at once the bear
made a break and tried to run, out ue
was that weak he fell over, and as the
tTi-nbmtpslavon their sides the man
iimm hnth. Yea. the bear was
done for. The hide was completely
irood for nothing. I
believe the mountain lion would have
got away all right; the only Jul
matter witn nw i
hmVon and it was we!l torn up.
vn s t lia treat hold of a grizzly is to
knock an animal over with its claws or
paw, and throw its arms about a man
on1 nnOD7P but a mountain lion will
.... h .rcitoh an oulck that there
Isn't much chance to come out alive."
Jean.
c-ooi- and daintv as the wise-eyed
j,a ninned asalnst her breast; slen
uc.ff. 1 - , . ..
Anr on. ffrlCFIUl US IUO Kill
. ,0 that brush airainst her skirts;
sweet and fair and lovely as the June
itoolf that is Jean.
.. .. I.T1- -t
the summer skv above her sunny bead;
me suuiuici .limniH.
blue eyes nae a uin vl
a CUrVea ienu ulu -"-5
lurk ana wveiy hum
nt- anft muslin draperies anu
WJZEZZSZ: AThe 75
7 . ... LI..I J
snmmer morning seems sweeter for her
c ...j . M flnri.r. nml in
r.iwnra anu liio new uunw
rripndiVwav and the smaU brown birds
SttlM Sttto confidential
t her whoS Uiey rthTnow and
Trieuuiv way auu un ouuu
alone tie path sing little
'ove.
m. . uol1 ia rrvQ cacTr.VVn ftTln
ine wuuu, --
Sta rtwond toe bill, to which
ill .
broad, white turn-pike sweeps and
leaves the shorter road to quiet and re
pose; the grass is soft across it and the
ground sparrow has her nest in the
wagon tracks.
The grass is studded with daisies.
white aud yellow, and sweet-williams
blossom gayly among the purple this
tles. Beyond, in the fields, the corn
waves, a dark, green, shimmering sea,
over' the slope and out ot sight. A
clear green sea, broken only now and
then by a stately mullein stalk which
rears Its yellow head above the shining
corn and seems to look, with an air of
possession, over the broad fields.
In the shadow of the fence the dew
is not yet dried, and glistens bravely as
stray sunbeams find their way to It.
The birds sing their merriest, tbe sun
shines its brightest and through It all
walks Jean with downcast, happy eyes.
While you are away, you will not
forget you know what?" her compan
ion says holding closer her warm right
hand. "You will not forget, Jean?"
'As if I could, you foolish boy." she
says with a happy laugh. "But you may
forget."
les. when I forget to live," he
says. "Oh, Jean! what would the world
be to me without your""
A very lovely world still," she says,
but be shakes his head and they walk
ou in silence.
Tbey walk oa, down the hill and
through the village streets and up the
rickety platform where, once a day, a
roaring express train stops and brings,
for a moment, some of the city s smoke
and din to the quiet country.
The station master, in napping straw
hat and patched corduroy trousers,
lounges on a truck In the morning sun
shine. A good-natured old couple sit
close together in startled anticipation
of departure, and a blase young fellow,
whose satchel hangs by a strap lroni
bis shoulder, smothers a yawn and
opens his dull eyes further to take in
more of Jean's fresh loveliness, as she
comes forward.
"It ia the last time, Jean," her lovei
whispers, "lou will never go awaj
from me again. Think of it, my sweet
beartl The very last 'good-bye' that w
need ever say."
The sweet, red blushes chase each
other over her rose-leaf face and soft
white neck, which tne linen collai
guards so Jealously.
'The very last," she repeats sottiy.
"Let me pin this daisy on your coat,
Don. Xow! You will think of me
when it is withered and you throw it
away. And l win keep tneie m my
hand until tbey fade and think oi you
every minute and know that you are
thinking of me." And so they talk aDd
laugh, and his fond eyes watch hex
ilower-llke face that smiles and blushes
under his tender gaze.
And, at last, he holds tight her slim,
soft bauds, as if ho would never let
them go and say. I can hardly let you
eo, but It Is the last time, dear, our
last good-bye; are ou not glad?"
"Good-byo," she whispers. "Jtot
just a little time, i snail keep tne
flowers, Don."
His lips touch hers and the train
speeds away. He catches a last glimpse
of the fair, flushed face, a last smile and
a last wave of the hand; then the gipsy
hat has vauished and fair-haired little
Jean has gone.
It is ttrangelv daik and dreary as ne
walks away. He walks slowly back
the way they came, but the sun is hot
and glaring; the dew has dried away;
the birds sing harshly ana tne color ana
the beauty has faded from the flowers.
It is a very dull and prosaic world.
much unlike the fairy land that be
passed through a little while ago.
Xoise, confusion and excitement.
Cries, sobs and eager questions.
How did it happen?" "Who was to
blame?" "A broken rail.'" "An open
switch?"
A crowd of swaying. lostliDg and
sorrowful people.
Eibowmg his way ihrouga tuem
conies a white-fac?d man, with a droop
daisv in his buttonhole. He strides
straight to the door of the waiting'
room from which come moans and sobs;
thrusts aside the official who would bar
bis way aud who shrinks back from bis
arawn. desperate race.
A soiled white dress, a crusuea gipsy
hat and a white, unturned face.
He takes ber in his arms and, Willi
no word, bears her out from the noise
and crowd. People make wy for him
and turn their eyes away, and eyes are
dim and lips ouiver.
Out of the crowd he goes ana lay ner
ntlv down on the soft grass.
There Is blood on her white ioreneau;
he wipes it tenderly away and smoothes
back the fair, tangled hair, uer nmp
hands still hold the flowers that have
nar.il7 withered,
her smaii cold hands, her
ite , md ner bJ tne oJdt
?Sb D
renlv.
Holding fast ber flowers, with the
Imnnv smila that still lingers ou her
lips, Jean has gone swiftly terribly
out of all possible harm and misery.
i(pr head is heavy on his arm ana to
his iassionate cries there is no answer.
anu no uuries uis gray, uossam
d hoUs her dear
r " "
and bo buries his gray, haggard face in
i i...nii
I U.bllll.
"The List good-bye that we need ever
say," be moans, -on, jean, my umuu8,
it was. But take me with you come
for me!"
Ttnt her lira do not answer or move,
though he watches them witn nis
breath. Then he folds her hands upon
her breast and clasps her fingers about
the faded daisies and bows his head,
Wh:le the shadow, that never will be
lifted. comes down and takes mm into
its embrace.
Skins of a Thousand Horses.
Th interstln2 fact was learned by a
reporter that tbe bides ot about 1.0C0
hnrva and the skins of at least ten
times as many sheep are cut up into
coverlngs for base balls every season.
Bv one manufacturer aione tiireo ions
. m ikk IBMao
of yarn are usea a year tor uw
1 no niae anu uui uou
and comes from Philadelphia. Out 01
ISUV " - ,
twelve dozen balls are cut. anu oun
one sheep skin three dozen. Two strips
nf th wilier are reouired for each
" "-"-":;- ,, rndinr at each
. rr.l It-- f Jh nther
a enu so mav. wcj "
V.A I 1 ., nrAnn.l the Mm ICUl- X.aCU
Piecefor Leagua seven inches
toBo
a I nn.la TllB DiPCeS af6 CUl WllU a
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Old-fashioned blue Siiaker yarn u useu
for the Inside ot a League ball, which
U wound tightly around a small rubber
ball weighing exactly one ounce. I he
Improved League ball ha now double
t; nM of one hide, which Is re-
a garded as a great improvement
THE COUNTRY STORE.
How They Do Business W here TUey '
Have Time to Do It That Way.
An elderly woman, with keen gray
ejes looking sharply through steel
bowed spectacles, enters and casually
examines several bolts of lawn lyiDg
on the counter.
"Ah. good day. Mrs. II ." says
the proprietor, coming briskly forward,
anticipating a sale, "looking for lawns."
"2s o, I doao as I was," says the pos
sible customer, guardedly. "I was just
noticing these."
"They're pretty patterns. I just got
them in."
"They're all so light"
"Light colors are all tba rage this
summer, tiut here's a black and white
piece that's just the thing for you.
Now, isn't that neat?"
"les, rather; but it ain't just what
Hike. How much is it?"
"Fifteen cents a yard."
"Ain't that dreadful high for lawns?"
"Not for lawns ot that quality. Just
see how fine it Is?"
"Yes, but they're selllug lawns ev'ry
mite and grain as good as that in the
city for eight and nine cents."
"Impossible, Mrs. II 1"
"Indeed, tbey are! And one of my
neighbors got a good piece for seven
cents."
"They are not such goods as this."
"It's pretty nigh the very same thing.
I hadn't calculated on giving more
than ten cents."
Why, Mrs. II , this cost more
than that at wholesale!" I
"Oh, I guess not. Anyhow, I can't
give but ten cents a yard."
"I can't take it."
"I won't give any more."
"Well, just examine that lawn close
ly now."
"It looks well enough, but I ain't at
all snre that it won't fade.
"I'll warrant it not to fade. It's a
standard make and fast colors." I
"Well, how many yards ate there in
the piece?" I
"Thirteen; Just a good full pattern." ,
"Eleven would bo a great plenty for
me." 1
"Now, IH tell you what I'll do. I'll
let you have the piece for fourteen
cents a yard, seeing as it's all I've got
left." i
"Can't you say an even twelve cents
to an old customer like me?"
"No, really, I couldn't."
"Fourteen cents is too much for
lawns that's selling ev'rywhere for ten
cents."
Oh, I think you are mistaken."
ell, see here, I'll give you tweive
ana one-naii cents a yara ror it. i
No, couldn't go below thirteen
cents, and wouldn't let anybody but
you have it for that."
Well, I'll give you thirteen tents ir
you'll call it twelve yards."
But there s full thirteen yards in
the piece." .. 1
Well call it twelve aud I'll take it."
"Can't do it."
1 reckon you'll throw in thread, and
buttons, and waist-lin:ngs?"
"Couldn't do It Tor that money."
Well, say thread and buttons, then?"
"I'll throw In a siool of thread."
"And a card of hooks and eyes?"
"Well, I don't know yes, 1 will."
"Now, why can't you say buttons.
too?"
'I really cannot; I'm losing money.
now."
"And you can't make it 12 cents a
yard?" I
No."
Well, 1 guess I won't take it. I
ain't needing a lawn dress this summer,
anyhow."
Neat Ilrplics.
Andrew Jackson, it Is related, was
at one time entertained at dinner by a
gentleman, and among those present
was oue of those people who 01 ten ucu
men mw J
type of that offensive class or Amen -
cans who are always trailing tneir
nationality in the dust in the effort to
exalt their individual independence.
This particular gentleman, over the
wine and walnuts after dinner, in order ,
to emphasize hU own independence of
disposition, of which be was loudly
boastful, remarked with a rare exuioi-
tion or self-complacence to General
Jackson. ...
"I always vote against you. sir.
ine company was naiurauy reuucicu
speechless by this unexpected discio-1
sure, and tbe scene actually
lOOkeu
squally; but General Jackson pu. a
stopper on the boastful individual and
avoided further trouble by smilingly
remarking:
battles of my country that you might
enjoy that privilege."
Another instance ot a nappy re-
Wj-tW- cM
but whether judge by courtesy or in
fact, the writer can not state-who
must have had the faculty or quick anu
appropriate reply pretty we.l developed.
it the storv related of him is true.
bad been a fierce secessionist, and the
fact was not forgotten when, after the
war, he re-entered the political arena
of his native state. Speaking at a cer
tain place one evening in the interest
of hia own candidacy for Congress
some one ln the audience, who evi
dently bad a good memory, inquired:
"Didn't you speak nerejuss oeiore
the war?" . . .
1 did," promptly responded tne
"And didnt you say we wouiu wmp
the durned Yankees with pop-guns?"
'I did," replied the unabashe djudge.
"but, confound 'em, they wouldn't
fight that way!"
Triad.
Three things to love Courage, gen-
tloness. affection.
Three thlnffs to admire Intellectual
diimltv. zracefulness.
Three things to hate Cruelty, arro-
1 gnce. ingratitude.
1 Three things to reverence ikeugiLu,
I ... m :1
justice, Kuaenuu.
Three tnmgs to wdu lui-ucai, -
tPArrni SDiriL. iricuua.
. . . Mt
Three thmif3 to like-orduuty. good
.1 uumvs
Three
overscrupulousness,
) Th thines to a
WW Innnaritv.
'"J"';u U rn imrr. im-
iurauuSjiv.v.- . .
I V.A tnnTllA
SW to be prepared for
-De-
cay, change, death.
colored veiyei i
Aeevta wdl wi worn this snm -
They are la subdued tints.
velvet mantillas with
. 8iik-warp white materials
J iSEred for mourning dresses for
tnformal occasions.
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AFTER DINNER JV ENGLAND.
An Agreeable Hour, How It I Spout
Various Customs,
After the ladies leave the room tho
host invariably changes his place, and
port, sherry, and cigars are placed
before him. Tbe servants now disap
pear, the guests draw up their chairs
and pass the bottle themselves, always
to the left, and many take this oppor
tunity to select a companion for the
after dinner talk. It may be ungal
lant, but I confess that I often found
this hour the most agreeable of the day.
The English men ot position are gener-
Ially well bred when they are by them
selves; more of them are more highly
educated than is common with Ameri
' cans of importance; they have passed
their lives among works of art and in
the atmosphere of high politics. They
know pictures and china as well as
game and wine. They have not only
seen the famous places, but met
the famous people of other countries,
and they make, on the whole, the most
agreeable after-dinner company in the
world. To a stranger they are espe
cially amiable. If he is Interested in
English life, they tell him all he wishes
to know; they invite his criticisms, and
if they sometimes say something dis
paraging of his own countrymen or ot
the Institutions under which he was
born, it is not in an offensive way. As
men of the world they offer an opinion,
which you may accept or dispute as you
choose, and they are not affronted
if you censure mildly in return, lhey
are genial over their wine, but not
quarrelsome nor Indecorous.
After dinner conversation and cards
form the principal amusement. Some
times there is music, but not often, for
the English are not artists In temiera
ment or taste; they do not make good
music, nor, as a rule, do they keenly
anniwiat it. Thev have a higher
1 relish for painting and sculpture and
architecture something that they can
see and handle. Music is too imagina
ble for the burly British nature to
grasp. But whist or a round game is
invariably proposed. The stakes are
usually small, but no one plays without
some wager. At times tbe players be
come very inteut, and I can recall
instances of gross ill-breeding over the
cards; a testy old peer or a stingy dow
ager was commonly at fault.
In many houses the hostess rises at
11, and this the ladies know is their
signal. Good nights are exchanged,
everybody shakes hands, seltzer and
brandy and sherry are brought in for
those who wish them, and the gentle
men light the bedroom candles for tbe
ladies. Then the whole company
, to th f ,t of tn8 ereat sUir
. lIin m-mian of ladies
,,,,3 to the 'upper giliieries, the
raceful uirls in Dink and white and the
- ,ai,ina i vict. and din.
monds. each carrvine her candle, while
,h. f vanih.i ancestors look
down on the scene where thev. too. once
, a hrii1!n. n:lrf
1 The men linger for a while, but are
soon mvlted to tne smoking room.
For this they usually change their
dress. When I first went to England
ouly a few wore smoking jackets, but
latterly iu many houses the men came
down toward midnight in gorgeous
satin suits, with variegated trousers
and caps, and the effect is very pic
turesque. Tricks in All Trades, You Know.
"Do vou keep boarding-house ther
mometers?" said a young lady to
a clerk in a hardware store, recently.
I "Certainly, madam." replied the
clerk, and he produced the article re
' quested, which the lady took and went
away.
"Boarding-house thermometers,"
thought a reporter, who was present at
the time. "What on earth are they."
and he asked the clerk if he would ex
plain the characteristics of a boarding-
, thermometer.
. - . , Q saw ln bere
. - . f mjle3
" - York, where she has board
ers during t'ae summer. She, of
course, puts advertisements in the
.1 -1 i 1 ni noM savi n T that her house
, mosquitoes,
has to prove
' ona of these boarding-
; trnermometer3 that are warranted
1 t rorutr hiirher than 90 decrees
, . - t This g!le iu
. hpr ,,ls.
nen
- ' M in thecitve
, . . . llf . . Tlipv visit
. toe many country houses said to
oae of the first things
"aStaJ at tue thermometer,
hiph thf v find rezisterlng about SO.
Th tnnm t lint, in the nit y it w.is about
w aQd are tn:lt tui9 u a
Seoul house. If people would not look
,v ,hormlim(,,pr on a hot div they
wL5
n uv . ...v
1 ...o iiwrmamH mn.
-
Just the game a, tne other3 are but
what should really 09 93 degrees is only
made to be 80 degrees. You would be
surprised at the number we sell."
A Fashionable Mistake.
He had been to the city and weut
home brimful of news.
"You 'member the Smiths?'' he asked
his wife, "th Silver Crik Smiths, them
as got rich on the'r gran'feyther a
money."
Ym she remembered them.
i mn 'em. They're way np; live
in a eran' house oa a street they call
'thavenoo." They ride m a double
kerrlage and have no end of money.
She said she s'posed as much.
"But, dumb sakesl 'Mandy, you
.TAiihin't want ter change places with
her. I see her a mlnnit an' I didn't
hAv tha heart to sceak t'uer."
She said she'd like to know why;
stuck up thing!
"Nn. she ain't. Mandy. not now,
sha's bin humbled lite down to the
dust. She's as blind as a bat."
1 Riind! She euessed not.
"But she is. Fust, she didn't kuo
' m.Zm; that's rid down hUl and playel
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ia(7 wilii iirr ucu sua "-
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, to. .,;"-' -C;"; rite
the streeng, Now, Manay, now u you
like to be her?"
XtiTvtua made during the past two
rears have shown that the Biver Rhone
has cut for ltseir a cnannei m w
m ot Geneva, through which It
j flow8i een parallel bukt, ! an
' ordinary stream on the eprin s suriace.
The Rhine makes a aimilar passage
through Lake Constance.
" . ti-.. : !... th af reets all uresseu up m uuo
, sudden affection, cioe, ana a ieeue m..
void Idleness, flip- leading her along. He was tied to a
Rrnxtnir. anu sue uau uuit wui"
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Florida is getting canneries.
Sandusky '8 got the yacht fever.
Crawford peaches make the best
peach pie.
Summer would not be half without
the piazza.
Gold has been discovered in the
south of France.
In France the sa'e of cigarettes to
boys is forbidden.
The Germantown Ttleirai,h says it
doesn't like carp tl.!i.
The rrov:d-iu;e Star is to l33ue a
penny evening paper.
Bancroft h.i 4,000 rose bushej in
his Newport garden.
Parnell's brother m Alabama has
400 acres of loaches.
Newport "expects" that ilr. Childs
will buy a villa there.
Newport people are taking steps to
improve their beach.
A.bed of meurschcem has been
found near Albany, Or.
Sketching without a permit is for
bidden ln Central l'ark.
A llichmond, IuJ., well has struck
a vein of Blue Lick water.
Thousands visit Grant's Mt. Mc
Gregor cottage every week.
There are sixteen thousand colored
school teachers in t!ie suth.
Wahington wore II irtforJ cloth
ing at bis Urst inauguration.
For country, the canvas shoes for
children outlasts the leather.
The Tallahassee, FLi., rink will
henceforth be a market house.
Everybody, it is said, goes to bed
at 10 o'clock at Long Branch.
''Out of wealth," is a softer way
of expressing impoverishment.
ButterQ.-h, hjw prized in New
York, used to be thrown away.
Cheap pi ices for wool are crowd
ing out the sheep-raisers iu Maine.
There are about eight thousand
registered cattl : brand 1 Iu Montana.
Sign at Atlantic City: "Bring
your faces ia and have them multiplied.
Thousands of jck rabbits in east
ern Nevada are dying of tape-worms.
A company has bet?n formed to build
a hundred room hotel at Bartow, Fla.
Or the 4,030 works published in
this country last year :C1 were novels.
Krupp. the E-en gun manufac
turer, owns '-'jYi iron ore iniues in Ger
many. A school for training nurses is to
be es ablished in J.i;.m uihIit charge
of a lady from Boston.
Vies Chancellor B.icon is t!ie oldest
juiK'e on the bench in England. He i3
eighty -eight years old.
Au East Jordan, Mich., ui.m is ac
cused of hanging out a si'.i reading
"Knew Syder for saile. "
An old man's prayer th.it his house
should burn was answered after his
death lit Carthage, Teun.
Details of inventions trior to 1C17
are not known, as no records cf patents
were kept before that date.
In one British regiment one hun
dred and six men have died iu the past
two months in the Nnidan.
In Germany if false information
is glvtn to a new.-p r, t reporter ho can
collect damans ot its author.
It has b-en ilt.nonstrated at Pitts
burg that for bw.hng meats
gas hits not proved a success.
natural
A beautiful white black snake has
been captured near Je-.vell, Md. It Is
six feet long and as white as milk.
TlieNewYoik state ca;itol has
already cost ?l,501,W:5. and nolody
preteuds to set tho day when it will be
finished.
Mr. Evarts wears a No. 1 1 ::h:rt
collar. No man with so small a neck
was ever elected President of the Uni
ted States.
Japan now has 37 papers devoted
to educational matters, 7 medical pa
pers, t) sanitary journals, i oa forestry
and 2 on pharmacy.
The Pennsylvania Horticultural
Society go by a calendar of their own
his year, the society s meeting nights
being stamped in red.
Manchester. Va,, has produced the
largest diamond ever found in this
country, weighing twenty-three and
three-quarter carats uncut.
A Hindoo loom complete is nartli
sixty-eight cents, ai.d weaves shawls,
silks and muslins which the most ex
pensive apparatus caanot equal.
A number of tlie Iudian girls at
lie Carlisle school have been placed
with private families d.iring the sum
mer months to bo Instructed In domes
tic work.
A eold mine has been discovered
oue and a half miles from Union Point,
Ga., the ore from the vein of which
assays forty dollars ier ton, and the
surface ore assaying sixteen dollars
per ton.
A deposit of blood agate resemb
ling Scotch blaod stone, has been dis
covered on Grand river, near Cisco,
Utah. It covers a territory three niiJea .
square. X ne stones are large enougu
to saw hit) slabs for mantels and table
tops.
Further discoveries of gold are be
ing reported in the northern part of
Western Australia, bever.u men are
said to have made their way into Syd- '
ney from the supposed gold hclds. They
report the new field as likely to be the
largest m Australia.
The brick yard on Fisher's Island
L. I., Is the largest In the Lnitea
Stales, covering over forty acre of
land, and giving employment to m
men. Four miles of railroad track
run from the vard to the clay pits. The
company has contracted to supply 250,-
000,' JUO brick ior tne ew j.ui. cuy
reservoir.
The Charleston Xeics says that ia- .
creased attention has lately been given
in South Carolina to the cultivation or
fruit and the vine. Thousands of
acres are planted each year with water
melons. Dunng the past lour years
more than 100,000 peach trees hava
been planted in Barnwell and Aiken
counties, and it ia estimated' that at
least 70,000 of these trees are now in
bearing condition.
A lady who had entered suit against -the
Illinois Central railroad for the
recovery of 110,000 for personal In
juries and loss of b&ggige sustained
in an accident on the road, has jiut
been ruled out of court She aeknowU
edged that she was ridicg on a pass at
the time of the accident, and the court
ruled that "as she bad paid nothing for
transportation she could not Collect
damages,"
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