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B. F. SOHWEIER,
TEE OOIHT1TUTI0I-THE TTHOl-UD TIE OTOXOIXEIT 0? TIE L1S.
Editor and Proprietor.
VOL. XL.
AIIFFLINTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY, PENNaT WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 15, 18S6.
NO. 38.
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Her Letter.
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Tbe wirnls and birds unt, too.
yjawyou thro' tbs villags highway
in Pf9 vonr Pre,,y no8e Pn Class,
lo see ii In the pigeonhole lor you,
Kepoeed a letter,
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Tbey sane jour secret to
ill lb D0 cared to listen to their song.
Vo were sot dreaming asyoa passed along
Tie font aisle, of soma one's eyes of
blue.
Ot I know Letter,
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Prnel
Beneath tbc pines you grew
Then you tuuk that letter from your
tnidic.-, anrt,
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Of poppies I kcow,
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flh I rat. If tou but knew I
wood lards saw tbe sweet words that
jou reau
in, saw you bend your pretty golden
head.
AnJ press your rey lips upon the two
ivisses irom yoar sib,
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A BUNCH OF WHITE LILAC.
So much? It is too much!" said a
ifL tilaiutive voice behind me.
I turned to see a small creature
Uridine on tiptoe ueiore a nower stana
t tbe entrance to Covent Garden as I
was passing.
In this position, her head was about
on a level with a Luge bunch of white
fiUc; and the rough straw bat pushed
hack, and ti e fair curls glittered in the
sunshine, as the little face was fairly
buried in the fragrant Dloom.
stopped short; the bright hair and
the m e lionets both arrested me.
fcwift as thought, they had caught my
meoiorv back to a bowery seat under a
white lilac clump, and a golden head
cdoq a level with my shoulder, and a
face that for fairness and sweetness
night have put the white lilacs them
selves to the blush.
Somehow I could not help wondering
if this face would be like that face, as
these blossoms were like those of the
past, faded now more than half-a-dozen
years ago.
And it was startlingly like. So like,
tbat I could almost believe that three
times half-a-dozen years had vanished.
and my little playmate. May my May
(jueeo, as I used to call tier stood De
lore me in the lilacs.
The child looked up at me, frankly
and conliding'.y. out of those great blue
eyes that might have been May's eyes,
forgetful that there had ever been a bit
ter auarrel and a Darting.
What a folly in me to be thinking of
ber now! But, thinking of her, some
bow I could not help answering those
soft, appealing eyes.
"You wanted the . flowers, . little
me?"
"res, sir. Tlease sir, the big white
ones."
"You like white lilacs?"
Tbe flower-girl lehind the stall was
sinidincr out a treat, sweet bunch, re
sponsive to the coin I had laid beside
it. But the child was snaking ner
small head.
"I like those belter she said, polnt
uz to a mass or yellow daffodills.
"Bat Little Mother, doesn't she just
loves the big white lilacs?" They're for
ber, sir; and will you make this buy
them?"
She showed me her penny. over
tthich the rosy lingers were shut jeal
0us!v. "Keep your penny, child, and I wiil
buy the liUcs for you."
But she shook her head.
"No; Little Mother was crying this
morniiig when 1 woke up did you
kaow grown-up ptople ever cried?
and she told me it was because she had
no white lilacs on this May-day. Wasn't
that a funny thing to cry for? And
then she told ine she was Qieen of the
May once, and she had to get down off
her throne, and wander away and
away from the white lilacs, and out in
to the col 1. dark streets here. I don't
thlLk they're cold and datk, do you?"
the little thing added, looking up at me
fai the sunshihe.
Suddenly a wondering expressing
grew in her eyes.
Tou are not going to cry, are you?"
she asked.
If Little Mother had felt the blank
sense of misery which had been closing
in and blotting out the bright day from
me, as the child prattled on, she would
have been too near to despair for tears.
1 could only hoi her pain was less than
mine. The small band I took into
mine had torn open an unhealed
wound; and now It must lead me until
I could see her Little Mother face to
face, and know if it were indeed my
lost sweetheart. May Elliston.
"Xo, no! I am not going to cry," 1
aid. "But I ara going home with you
to see your Little Mother. See, we will
tale her all these lilacs."
"Yes, but I must buy them myself,"
she decided. "I didn t tell her so; but
I promised myself to take my bright
new penny as soon as I had done my
lesson and Little Mother was at her
work and wouldn't miss me."
So the bright new penny was laid
down on the counter beside my coin,
ad the little maid, her pinafore heaped
with a gsy bunch of daffodils amongst
the lilacs, trotted on, her free hand
trustingly in mine.
It was not until we were some dis
tance from the stall, and the knot of
wayfarers about it, that I could give
'oice to the questions burning in my
heart.
"What is your mother's name?"
"Why, Little Mother of course!
What else should it be?"
"And your own name?".
"Bertie."
"What else?"
"Why, nothing else!" she said with
wonder in the uplifted eyes which were
so like May's.
My heart grew heavier and heavier.
For Bertie was the name f May's
Kapegrace brother who was lost at sea
when my little sweetheart had not
much more than entered her teens. She
hl all a young girl's romantic devo
tion to him. What more likely than
that she should have named her child
after him?
There weie ugly stories whispered
about of Bertie Elliston before the ves
sel was wrecked in which he was flee
ing from his country out of reach of
the law, it was rumored. But May
would he sure not to believe the stories;
ta was never a half-hearted partisan.
If eveiy one had not known that the
esselweut down with every soul on
ward, it might have been supposed that
7 had gone to her brother some
where, when, after the death of her
granaiather, her last remaining rela
tive, she simply disappeared with the
iorcune tne oia man bad left her. ho.
cause he could not carry it in his grasp
ing, miserly hands into the other
world.
i. hat was just after May and I had
naa our bitter lover's anarral: anrt
when I came back to the old Tillage to
look for her, she had vanished. And
now to find her again not my May,
but this child's mother.
I could not bring myself lo question
mo cuuu auuui. uer tamer, oae naa a
bit of black ribbon tied round her
straw hat.
I dared not even think of It. I tried
not to think at all, while she drew me
gaily on, her feet dancinir over the
rough ways of the dingy streets, up
wuicu sue turned, as ner bright eyes
were dancing over the fragrant blos
soms heaped up in her pinafore.
Up the dingy street, up and nn the
dark staircase of a dingier house to the
very garret floor. Surely it could never
be May Elliston, tbe heiress, lodged so
uiru as uiisi
Little Mother!"
There was a slender figure In black,
stooping over along, while seam over
ner knee.
It must have le?n the sun that shone
full on the window where she sat which
dazzled me, for 1 seemed to see a halo
shining round Uie drooping golden
head, tbat never lifted though May's
voice it iras May's voice, faltering
with tbe sound of tears in it answered
the child.
"My little Bertie back airain already?
Why, you couldn't hare got as far as
the park, darling; and it would have
done you good to play there in the sun
shine. Did dolly get tired and want
to get home?"
She was stitching away so busily
that she never glanced round.
"Wait, darling: I am just finishing.
Then we'll go out together and take
all this work borne, and if they pay us
this time" this in a lower tone
"we'll get a nice dinner that will make
up Tor the breakfast."
"Little Mother, see!"
The child had slipped behind her,
and was showering down the fragrant
blossoms over her shoulder Into her lap.
"White lilacs!"
It was with a wild sob In her voice
that May cried out, and she gathered
up tbe fragrant lilacs and buried her
face in them.
When she lifted her face they were
all shining and wet, but not with de
And when she lifted her wet eyes, it
was straight into mine that they
looked.
Slowly the yielded her hand into
mine, outstretched for it.
"I Vina Ml iftorall thau rem "
"And changes."
l'erhaps my voice was bitter, for
after that first impulse to draw her to
me, to claim her in spite of everything
that had come between, came the re
vulsion.
I looked down at her black dress,
and I seemed to see, under the mock
ing heap of flowers, and the coarse,
white work, tbe little left hand with
the wedding-ring upon it.
Xo, I couldn't forget tbat she had
forgotten that she had given herself
to some other man! I touched a fold
of the black dress, letting go her hand.
"He is dead. May?" I said.
She gave a startled glance at the
child, pressed against her knee, ab
sorbed in bunchiug the flowers to
gether. "Yes, he is dead."
And then, very softly, lifting up her
lovely eyes to me:
"If you know so much as that of
him, Donald, it is likely you know alL
But let his memory rest; he was sorry
enough at the last."
"Sorry! But first he brought you
down to this. Your fortune "
"Gone!" she said; and with the hand
I had let fall she gently stroked the
golden head of the little one, intent
upon her task, not heeding us. "His
child," she said. 'Donald, when I
parted with my last sovereign lor me
simple cross that marks his grave, that
Sacied to the Memory' made nn
memory ever sacred to me. so let ii
rest, untouched by any slightest breath
of unkind word."
1 looked down into the drooping face
of the girl my May Queen once; and
suddenly I knew that, try to dethrone
her as I might, she was my queen stiu
and mistress of my fate.
'And because of that stone, sacreu
to his memory." 1 said bitterly, "De-
cause of that, May. you are going to
send me from you again, more wretched
than when we quarreled ana partea.
years ago?"
"Send me from you againi"
Tner was a frightened gasp in the
sweet voice; ar.d in the blue eyes lifted
to me a look that told me I might ven
ture to do what thereupon I did that
is, to catch both of her hands in mine.
to draw her to me, the lelt nana as
well as the right.
Then, suddenly and sharply.
"May. what have you done with your
wedding ring?"
"My wedding ring?"
"Oh. see. all the poor, pretty flow
ers spilt!" the child broke in, trying to
push us back from the fragrant show
ers lying about our feet- "Oh, Little
Mother, see what you nave uoue
i fit tun start tbat went through
and through May, as I still held her in
my arms. ..
a mi thpn she looked up at me, smil
ing tremulously, blushing ravishingly.
"Ah, now l see wow. .ucivro
done! It is her 'Little aiotner- mat j
misled vou into fancying l couiu cc.
have been false to yon! Yes, I am her
Little Mother'-the only mother she
has ever known; for her own mother
died before she could remember, She
is poor Bertie's child, ! nald."
I stooped ana caugut up u
.atHni, hr flAWn
one rapMirousi , r- ,L
again, bewildered and staring, in the
midst oi ner uiosjhiiu
Blessings on ner pretty -
just what yours was, May, wneu
first remember it."
She shook ner neau.
have been as pretty as
that." she said simply, lowering ber
voice that the child should not hear. ,
'But my brother ana i wem 7
alike," ,
Her voice soiieneu.
"IrtAr all. be had never sailed on
that ill-fated vessel," she explainecu
"And when be wrote me to come to
him, after grandpapa's death bad left
m alone in iiiw wuiiu ,
m . it hrt left vou an heiress," I
answered in my own mind, but never
?rom tSt & thls one 8jUable f " I
aloud. t ,, -ymtjnued.
of cou r5" . zrrr
"And I bad to awPP". - -
nf for nun u ' v
badlv known before,' she
e red, with a pained glance at the child.
"I never thought you would care we
bad parted in anger, we two "
I stopped tbe last words with my lips
on hers; we would never be two again.
She whispered, clinging to me:
"Never ask me of those years, Don
ald, if you love me. Only, he was sor
rysorry at last,"
The tears vanished in sunshine in
May's blue eyes a I made her look at
tbe child amcng the flowers.
"Little Bertie never shall be sorry
all her bright life long, if I can pre
vent it," 1 said. "I owe her all that
fortune can give her for bringing me
again to woo my love among tbe white
lilacs. Sweetheart, long ago I bought
back the old place, for the sake of that
white lilac bower, where once you re-
raemuer it .-you were entnroned May
Queen, and ever since have been Queen
Mav. Wa will hn mnrri! n-mnrrnw
May, and will go down there while the
macs are sun Dicoming.
The Dreadtnl Devil Fish.
A jolly party of ladies and gentle
men went over to Santa Rosa Iife-sav
lng station to enjoy the fine surf-bathing
on the gulf beach. One gentleman
rushed himself into a bathing suit in
double-quick, and, with a triumphant
cheer, plunged into tbe briny, scoring
the first header" (not a charity), and
swam out some ten or fifteen feet sea
ward; his triumph was short-lived.
however, for he discovered, by the
bright moonlight, an enormous devil
fish within - a few feet of him, which
hoisted its dippers above the water and
splashed threateningly. With a yell of
dismay, the gentleman made for the
shore much faster than he went out,
and, while each breaker took him off
his feet, be imagined himself in the
clutches of the horrid monster and
made frantic efforts to escape from the
impending danger, finally reaching the
shore, safe in limb but tearfully weary.
When safe ashore the gentleman and
bis companions viewed the monster,
which slowly moved around or calmy
floated near the surface, not more than
twelve or fifteen reet distant, and saw
that it was a large devil fish, such as
are often seen on the Florida coast.
which seemed desirous of having their
company. "Bush" Hutchinson says
that he and another of tbe crowd
walked along the water's e'ge some
200 yards down the beach, and that the
fish kept them company, timing its
movements with theirs, and stopping
when they did, swimming or floating
as near inshore as It size would allow.
Bush says it appeared to be about
eight feet across, and that it occasion
ally elevated its flippers playfully above
tbe water. It finally disappeared for a
time, but after on was discovered near
the first place, when all bands scampered
ashore, and concluded they didn't
want to bathe any more that night a
very sensible conclusion, though it is
doubtful if tbe fish would have harmed
them, unless they had "run agin" it.
New Post Office Decision.
. The Postmaster General has Issued a
circular to postmasters concerning the
acts authorizing the extension of the
special delivery system to all postouices
in tbe United States and to all mailable
matter. The circular says that on and
after Oct. first, every pos'.master will
be held responsible for the immediate
delivery of every article of mailable
matter stamped with a special delivery
stamp. Such immediate delivery must
be made, except on Sunday, when the
article is directed to a person residing or
having a place of business within one
mile of the postoffice, but the postmas
ter will be at liberty to make such
delivery beyond such limit', and
to receive tbe compensation thereof
as in any other case. The hours
within which immediate delivery
shall be made shall be at least
from 7 a. in. to 7 p. m., and further
until the arrival of the last mail, pro
vided that such arrival be not later
than 9 D. m. At third and fourth class
offices the postmaster must provide the
means, and pay expenses or such deliv
ery, and will be allowed the full com
pensation of oO per centum ot tne lace
value of all special delivery stamps on
matter properly delivered from his
office and recorded as provided in the
circular.
. New Postal Card
Th new nnsta.1 card adODted about a
year ago will soon be superseded by an
ntiior which lias been Drenaring at the
Bureau ot Eugraving and Printing. It
consists of one piece or engraving
instead of two pieces, as on the present
card. A head of Jefferson, a miniature
portrait after the original in the &tate
Department, occupies a central place
nn thA unner third of the card. Over
his head, in light letters are the words
"United States." in panels, sup
ported by scroll work at the left and
right, are the words "Postal card" In
distinct letters. Under tbe head are
the words "Oae ceut" and beneatn uie
border line encloug the line of desig
nation m thrt line "Nothing but the
address to be on this side." The Post
master General may decide to print tne
new cards on wnite paper, in uuvcn
inir f.ir tha reason that white paper
furnishes a better ground for written
characters. As there is a stock of
about 12.000,000 postal caras now on
han.i it. i nmhabla that the new cards
will not be out for a month or two.
The Ackcn Family.
m,. iVon fomtitf of Middlesex
county. New Jersey, hai furnished four
sons whose great age, ueigui, uu
weight are remarKaoie.- ine oiaesi,
uniitam i ff.l vears of ase. six' feet in
height, and weighs 240 pounds. The
next, llenry,lS Ol years vi asn,
i and wniffhs 200 DOUndS.
Capt Samuel, the third brother, is 7o
years of age, six feet five inches in
height, and weighs 22o pounds. The
voungest is Theodore, and he is 73 years
bf age, six feet three inches in neignt.
and weighs 230 pcNinas. iue couiu:irou
8"s of the four is 312 years, an average
of 73; the combined height twenty-iour
feet eight lncnes; ant me u w
:.!. CD, nnnnilo an sverklTft of
The brothers are all in good health, and
bid fair to li ve many years yet.
Tt.m-nir thA twentv-four days of
the Monmouth Park meeting lob races
were run. and there wms not a single
postponement on account of the
weather. The aggregate of stakes and
purses amountea to sjuaaj.
Hiost successful owners were the Dwyer
Brothers, who won iwemy-iwu
d 33.10o. A. J. Nassau. iui una
with eight races and 22,505, princi
pally earned by The Bard.- Then
comes J. B. Haggm, whose stab.e cap-?1--a
roc and S17 S13. while the
Freakness stable won eight races and
amounts ranging from f 1000 to J10,Q0
HOW THET USE TOBACCO.
Peculiarities of the Tobacco Trade.
Tricks and Oddities of Smokers.
"How do men smoke?" repeated the
man or Knowledge, as he tilted back in
his chair and lit a cigar. "I should
answer that by asking another question
that is, Why do men smoke?' You
tell me why a man uses the 'noxious
weed,' and I will tell you how he does
it There are an infinite number of
reasons why men smoke. Some men
smoke because the are nervous, some
men smoke because they are phlegmatic
many merely from habit, a very large
number do it because others do so, and
a small minority smoke because they
reauj enjoy iu
"A nervous man will smoke because
he thinks that it will soothe his too ac
tive organization. Such a man will take
short quick puffs, one after another in
constant succession. A nervous smoker
I can spot every time.
"Then there are the phlegmatic
smokers. They are followers of Sir
Waller Raleigh, because they want a
stimulant and they think, or pretend to
think, that tobacco will stir up their
sluggish temperaments. Such men
take tobacco as a man would take a
wuisky cocktail. A great many men,
in fact I might say almost all men who
have smoked for any great length of
time, smoke more from habit. To see
these men fumigating always disgusts
me. They don't seem to think of what
they are doing. No thought of the
pleasant sensations which thev are or
might be experiencing seems to enter
their minds. They puff away and emit
the blue volumes of choice Havana In
combustion as if they were so many
Chinese. They smoke as they would
sleep or dress for dinner. Their one
idea eeems to be to get through and
light another. You will see a man pull
ing away on a stump of a cigar, everv
little while looking at it impatiently
ana wonaering if he will ever get
through so as to start the next one.
Now. why should they do this? Tney
are not enjoying themselves. Tbey
simply seem to consider It a duty to get
away with so many cent's - or dollars
worth of cigars in a day. And they
rerform tbe task.
"Now, smoking is one of the most
delightful experiences in the world of
seme, to those who can appreciate it.
Some men are, however, so coarsely
made as not to have any knowledge of
me nne pleasures or life. You set be
fore such a man a dainty dish, a pate
de foi gras. a few exauisltelv browned
frogs' legs, or any other of the triumphs
of a French chef's art, and what wdl
be do? He will swallow them down like
so much corned beef and cabbage or
pork and greens. He is so crudely
constituted that his palate cannot ap
preciate tne niceties or the culinary art.
In the same way. if you set before him
a dainty glass of rare old sherry or
Madeira, he will gulp it down with no
more knowledge of iu virtues than if it
were a 10-ceat glass of Jersey lightnir g.
So it is with some smoker, . Oae oi
your cross-grained men will pnll away
on a choice culling from the sunny
fields of tbe West It dies with no more
satisfa.-tion than if it were an old clay
pipe full of navy plug. Probably he
won't enjoy it as much. With a man
of finer grain, however, it Is different.
"I enjoy, above all things, the sight
of a connoisseur of the weed at work
on a fragrant Havana. He takes a
dainty puff. Then he draws the cher
ished 2o or oO-center from his lips and
gazes at it lovingly, meanwhile emit
ting from his lips a slender thread of
blue smoke. Then he will pause and
the fragrant, soothing narcotic will
seem to penetrate through every nerve
in his body. That's the wav a man
ought to smoke. I've no patience with
those fellows who hurry through their
smoking just as they hurry through
their dinners, never etopplug to enjoy
it. Such men rush through life in the
same blind fashion. Tbey don't snow
what real enj jyment L. Smokers have
all sorts of peculiar tricks and oddities.
One man I once knew had a trick of
constantly knocking off Uie ashes with
his little finger. He would keep .that
little finger wagging continually, and
when there was no ashes he would burn
bis finger. But it was a habit which
he seemed wholly unable to overcome.
Some men whom I have known would
always swallow the smoke. The nico
tine laden vapors which they would
take into their stomachs must have
kept those organs in a constant state of
distension.
"Others seem to find an inexplicable
delight In making chimneys of their
noses and sending the smoke in volumes
through these orfices. I once knew a
man who had a peculiar trick of shut
ting one eye to look along his cigar
with tbe other as he put it into his
mouth. He was a bashful man and
never thought of flirting with the girls
on the street, but that habit used to
get him into no end of scrapes. How?
Why the girls all thought be was wink
ing at them.
Tbe peculiar habits of smokers will
sometimes run through a whole family
I remember a f unny instance ot that.
A man came to me in my office one day
and represented himself as a brother of
an old fnend of mine. He was a shab
by, forlorn-looking specimen and I was
not inclined to believe his story, espec
ially as there was no personal resem
blance to his brother. But I sat and
talked with him awhile. He told a
plausible story, but still I was not in
clined to believe him, and finally I told
him to clear out, that I couldn't be
bothered with him. Then my better
feelings came to tbe front and I gave
him a cigar. He took it witn a sad,
forgiving smile and lit It. ' 1
"He hadn't taken but one puff be
fore I was on my feet begging his par
don. After taking that puff he bad
taken out his cigar with a peculiar Jerk
and had blown tbe smoke out of the
corner of bis mouth in a manner which
I had noticed and laughed over a hun
dred times when with his brother I saw
him do it. I knew then tbat I was not
being imposed upon.
"But talking about smoking makes
D9 think what a wretched habit it is,
after all. It is expensive, dirty, re
pulsive. Will I have cigar? Well, yes;
thank you. Have you got a match?"
A Great GcueraL '
Toipnl.v mn atro tne name of Crei-
sau was never fpjken of, but Moltke
has made tbe place famous, just as Bis
marck has thrown lustre upon Varzln.
Here in rural quiet, far from the
or.Hvitv nf thA ritv Field Marshal
Count von Moltke has set up for him-
1 1 I ttiA
self a j. uscuianum, wuere u
ntmnit. sprliisiftn he recruits his Strength
after the fatigue ot tbe winter. Hav
ing intercourse only with his nephew
and bis Immediate neighbors, he asaem-
b'es here new forces for his work.
Chatting on tbe way, we came at last
to the village of Creisau, and soon we
arrived at the castle. It is a plain,
quadrangular building, with one story
and a high gable. General von Moltke
acquired this seat with the money
given to him by the grateful Father
land. On both sides ot the iron steps
leading to tbe hall are great cannon
taken in the French war at Mount
Valerien and afterwards presented by
the Emperor to the Count. Tbey are
bronzi, and are covered all over with
reliefs and chased work. In the hall
itself are three beautiful equestrian
statues of bronze, resting on colossal
sockets. The central figure Is that
of tbe Emperor, with mantle, helm it
and flying plume, the right band
raised. An inscription says this was a
gift from the Emperor on the sixteentn
anniversary of Moltke's service. Bight
of this statue is an artificially executed
copy of Rauch's monument of Freder
ick the Great. On the third plinth
stands the excellent equestrian status
of Moltke himself, a gift of the Grea
General's Staff. On tbe walls of the ves
tlbule are large bronze busts ot the
Prussian Kings, with those of tb
Crown Prince and Prince Frederick
Charles. Entering the sitting-room we
find it simply furnished, giving a true
picture of the Field Marshal's modesty.
Here is the low field-bed, with a plain
writing desk, while large maps hang on
the walla. In the upper rooms ot the
castle are many family portraits. In
these rooms, too, are kept the gifts
made to the Count frona time to time.
Beneath a glass shade is a small marble
bust of Napoleon III., a gift of the late
French Emperor to Moltke, made when
be was at the height of bis power,
lironze busts of the late Grand Duke of
Mecklenburg, of the King of Saxony,
and portraits of the Emperor, the
Crown Prince and Prince Frederick
Charles also adorn the rooms. All
these works of art were tbe gifts of tbe
Princes themselves, and were accom
panied by cordial words expressing high
praise of this faithful counselor.
Count von Moltke likes when staying
here to go over his fields and to prune
the young trees planted In the park.
Home-grown fruit must appear on the
table, and the Count then speaks with
pride to hla guests of tbe produce of his
lands. The school which he has is
often visited by him, and he listens to
the teaching, questioning the young
ones himself at times. It was late
at night when we left tbe portal of the
castle by moonlight. On the corner
pillars rise gladiators larger than life
size, Tbey keep guard at the entrance
of tbe residence of tbe man whose name
will be spoken of so long as any one
asks after the architects of the German
Empire.
SOME SIMMER Gilt US.
A Few Samples that May be Found
Everywhere.
The. unlucky girl who is one of six
or seven big sisters.
' The giddy girl who wears short skirts,
tight shoes and dotes on Saratoga.
Tbe elephantine girl who bowls twice
a day in an ineffectual effort to re
duce her weight.
Tbe engaged girl, who, with an anx
ious stir, is always expecting a tele
gram from "him."
The envied New York girl who has
more stylish dresses than any one else
in the house.
The subdued girl with older sisters,
who wishes tbey would marry oft and
let her have a chance.
The particular girl at Ocean Grove
who will not permit herself to be hugged
anywhere but in the ocean.
The lively Atlantic City girl whose
craze is caramels, and who thinks tha
sweetest thing in life is dancing on the
pier.
The sensible, modest girl who behaves
herself, and will be married well when
all the ragin; belles have become old
maids.
The ing nious girl, who, in the ab
sence of young men, dirts with the
botel clerk and bathing master just to
keep her hand in.
The smart New England girl who
goes botanizing in the mountains, and
paralyzes the young men with, long
Latin names.
The ugly girl, with a blue-blood ped
igree, at Mt. Desert, to whom every
nice young man has to be presented
as soon as he arrives.
The stupendous girl in a litchen
green costume and a Rembrandt bat.
who carries her chin in the air on the
front seat of a Newport drag.
The eccentric girl who sits on the
beach at Sea Girt alone, or wanders in
the woods and doesn't seem to want
to know a soul in the house.
The shapely girl at Narracansett
Pier who looks best In her bathing
suit and spends her afternoons iu the
water or lounging on the sand.
The athletic girl who Is camping in
the Adirondacks, who has cultivated
her muscle by smashing the pestiferous
insects that abound there.
The inexperienced girl who is tickled
by the attentions or a played out
beau, and thinks the other girls are
jealous when they advise her to dis
courage him.
The harpy Klrl wh vrent to Europe
earlv in the season and slipped several
nice Pans dresses through the custom
house, in which she now flourishes su-
Perbly- ... V ,
Tne flirtatious gin wno goes uoauus
with callants without a chaiieron at
Lake George, and has been doing so
for successive seasons without any ap
preciable result.
The desperate girl nearing 30. with
an extra bottle of bloom of youth, and
a trunk load ot jivenile sashes, who
feels that "now or never" is the time
to decide her fate.
Th sentimental cirl who carries a
yellew-crtvered novel to the breakfast
table at Cii May and whose stock of
conversation Is confined to a rehash of
the latest silly fiction.
Bar Harbor is gayer than many
other resorts.
Ani gold jewelry that an immersion
in water will not injure can be beauti
r.,lr laanJ hv shakinsr it well in a
bottle nearly full of warm soapsuds, to
. . . . . V. 1 V. kAAH
which a little preparea cuai. uu rou
added, and afterward rinsing it in
clear, cola water and wiping it dry.
A. simple test of the quality of leath
er belts is thus given by the London
Jffcftanical World: A smaU piece of the
belt is cut out of the strap and put into
vinegar. If tbe leather n thoroughly
tanned and of good quality it will re
main unaltered, and even show, after
some months, only a somewhat darker
color, while if it has been insufficiently
prepared with tannin the fibres swell
and are converted into a gelatinous
mass in a short time
BOYS AND GIRLS AS MODELS.
Ifites ot Humanity Who Pose as Sub
jects for as Artist's Pencil.
There are several hundred persons In
this city whose business is to sit as
models for artists. Young girls who
are particularly beautiful are engaged
every day in the year, and may earn
from SI 50 to 12 a day. They must
keep still for hours, and often stand or
kneel hi tiresome positions while pre
serving their gracefulness. An artist
who has a handsome studio uptown
was visited the other day hy a reporter.
He was drawing designs for Christmas
card. A small blonde-haired boy half
naked was sitting in a chair made fast
on a table, which is called by painters
a throne. His mother, a handsome
woman of 25 years, stood near the
throne with a pair of reins tied round
her waist, the other end which the lit
tle cherub held in his hands.
"What is the purpose of this arange
ment?" asked the reporter.
"Don't you see?" said the artist
"We make tbe little fellow think tbat
his mamma Is a horse and that he
drives her. I have to keep two things
In mind: first, to make tbe picture;
second, to amuse the boy. That Is not
so easy a task as it might seem. At
tirst, perhaps, daring the first sitting I
only play with the child or get bis
mother or brother or sister to play with
bim, until I see some pretty or natural
movement or catch some striking ex
pression on his face."
"He does not look particularly
pleased at present," the reporter re
marked. "When I wish to see him laugh," re
joined the artist, "I request his mother
to caper around like a wild horse.
Sometimes she must make a car horse
of herself, and stop every moment and
let bim take up passengers, and when
ever she stops I get a good chance to
put in some good touch."
"Don't many of these artists paint
out of their heads, so to speak?"
"No artist who does not paint or
draw from life, as painting from mod
els u called, ever gives his picture a
look of reality. We may be able to
paint a marble floor from a small piece
of marble, or a brocade dress from a
yard or two of the material, but even
to do this we must have made studies
of large surfaces of marble when op
portunity has offered, and we must
have spent several days In studying tbe
folds of drapery In a dress worn by a
living model before the special material
of the brocade can be copied into It."
"How do you procure your models?"
"There is no difficulty in obtaining
any material or substance, for we can
get at any time a piece of it. But the
most important of all things tbat can
be painted or drawn are the forms aud
faces of men and women and children;
and for that purpose we must employ
people to pose for us. As a rule the
models form a caste and are usually
known to each other."
"How old are your youngest mod
els? '
Srme begin to sit when tbey are mere
babies. I have often wished that some
rich children could see how patient
these little ones can be when they un
derstand that they are earning money
to buy food and clothes. There is a little
girl who lives in a tenement house on
the west side who is very proud to sit
for me. I make a chalk mark on the
throne where her little feet should go,
and she will carefully keep on the mark.
She has a few minutes for rest at inter
vals during each hour, and a long rest
at dinner time, but she will keep very
quiet while I am working and not
move without leave."
"What other expedients do you re
sort to in order to keep the children
models quiet?"
"Patience will accomplish almost
anything. I have a little boy who
found a stuffed bird in my studio, and
he is always quite happy for an hour if
I let bim play with it."
Second-Hand School Books.
"What becomes of all the second
hand school books?" was asked of a
veb?ran dealer by a reporter.
"That's what people are all the time
wondering" he replied. "Tbe general
public have the idea that tbey go where
pins, needles, hairpins and such things
go to. that is. tbey disappear somehow
or other and no one knows where to.
Y'ou m ty be surprised to learn it, bat
there Is a large and increasing trade
done in second-hand school books alone;
so much so tbat we have now a regular
school book exchange, Y'ou see. boards
of school trustees are all the time
changinz the books their pupils study,
unless not allowed to do so by law,
which is the case In some States, aud
in former times, when they made a
change, they either sold the discarded
books for old paper or burned them.
But now they are more economical.
They hunt up the school-book exchange
and are allowed to trade their dis
carded books for those they want, of
course paying something for doing so.
Why, through the agents, booksellers,
school trustees, and others, we keep
track of changes of this nature made
in any important school throughout the
United Statas.
"I have a book here, indexed, which
gives the towns In which a certain pub
lisher's geography is used. To give you
an illustration: As soon as I hear that
a school Is going to substitute another
geography for that one, 1 make a bar
gain for the discarded ones, and at
once writing to the towns where it is
still in favor, probably will have the lot
sold before they reach here. It is the
same way with dealers in a town. When
the public schools branch off from a
certain book the dealer has no further
sale for them, and so he is glad enough
to get rid of bis stock to me, and I can
dispose of them where they are in use.
I h tve on file blanks from all localities
on which are given the names of the
school books in use In the vicinity. Of
course, I take the books at a discount."
"How much do you get for a second
band school book?"
"As a fule, about half price. The
demand for the regular second-hand
ones is now particularly in tbe farming
districts and throughout tbe south.
Take a farmer's boy who has been to
school only a few months and has not
much spare money, and he will eagerly
buy a school book but little worn when
he can get it at half its original price.
As to the demand in the south, there
seems to be a greater appreciation of
the advantages of a more general edu
cation, and my agents all report a
marked Increase in the demand for
schools books there." .
The power of persistence, of enduring
defeat, and of gaining victory by defeat,
is one of the forces which never loses its
charms.
A Story that Doesnt End in the Usual
Way.
"I want to tell you a story; may I?"
This proper petition came from a clerk
in a down-town banking-house. I was
willing, and this is the way he went on:
"Ten years ago two young men went to
work for the same firm in Wall street.
Their salaries were the same, their op
portunities even, their tastes similar,
and, generally, they were on a par all
round. Both married, neither adding
much to his dollar-and-cent account in
that way. Tbey climbed along together.
Eight years ago they were drawing a
yearly salary of $3,000 apiece; but in one
particular the twain differed, and this
lift erence was in their method of taking
re of their money. A at the end of
each week took his salary home and
handed it over to his wife. B looked
out for his own funds himself. When
A wanted funds during the week he
went to his wife for it; he took but a
certain sum from home each day for
lunch and incidental expenses. When
II wanted funds during the week he
lived into his own pockets for it. He
iidn't need this was his boast he
Jidn't need any petticoat financiering in
his family. B had lots of fun at A's
expense as the weeks heai-d themselves
up into months and piled into a year,
but A seemed rather to have the whip
end when, at the end of the twelfth
month, be asked B to conijKire bank
oooks. B had $4:1 to his credit, sole
remnant of his whole year's salary. A's
tccount showed credits that amounted
to S.t.UUO. That wife at the purse
strings did it. But B was set in his
way. He went on enjoying himself;
prosje-tive rainy daysdidnt annoy him:
the theatre and the dinner-table, excur
sions and good fellowship these kept
liini fat and happy. And the first year's
5,U.J tliat Mrs. A accumulated grew
in increasing ratio year by year. On
last New Year's day it had become,
through safe and shrewd investment,
something like $OU,UUU, all in hardcash."
"And, to boil the story down," I in
teijeited, "Spendthrift B, who hasn't
wted a cent, has to go on toiling for a
living, while, thanks to his trust in his
trood wife, A gives up labor and is set
tled down to enjoy his remaining years
in ease."
"Now that's where you make your
mistake," ejaculated my tale-teller in a
tone sublimely sarcastic. Because you
newspaper men are always so good, and
because your goodness always brings
you happiness and shekels, you imagine
that the same rule holds good every
where. And, as I've said, that's where
you make the mistake. This is isn't a
unday-school chestnut. No; A isn't
living at his ease; no more is B toiling
for a living. Fact is that last New
Year's B, the scalawag, calmly eloied
fmm this town, and Mrs. A and that
loO.'XH) of hard cash went with him."
Intelligent Gratitude of a Dog.
"You may call it instinct, if you like,
but I shall insist that it is intelligence
that make some brutes behave as sensi
bly as they do," said an Allegheny gen
tleman in conversation with a reporter
last evening, and then the gentleman
added:
"I've hail all the proof I want of it.
In the door-yard of an unoccupied house
adjoining mine, were twelve little pup
pies uttering their first yelis. Their
mother an old black and" white mon
grelwith an eye to the safety of her
lame, new family, took them one by one
md laid them in a narrow area, down
by one of the cellar windows. One of
the aiies happened to 1 out of the
window, however, and liefore night
every one of the puppies hul crawled
through the oieniug and fallen to the
cellar floor, some six feet In-low.
"Next morning we missed them, and
from the whining of the mother, siiiik-
sed the puppies were all dead on the
haid cellar floor. But later m the day.
day, the maternal brute set np such a
pawing and howling at the cellar win
dow tliat I made up my mind that there
was some puppv life lielow. Accord
ingly 1 broke into the cellar, and, to my
surprise, found eight of the little family
of d"s still alive and kicking. ne by
one 1 took them up and placed them in
the di wr-yard grass for the mother to take
whatever care she might choose, and one
bv one she laid each one of them b;ick in
the area of the broken cellar window.
"This comtielled me to stop up the
hole in the broken pane to prevent the ,
puppies from craw ling through again. )
t hen when it was done me om mot ner
brute, leside herself as she was with joy,
and anxious to devote every second ot
her time to the recovered puppies,
crawled up lalKriously oat of the area,
and leaving the litter alone, came wrig
gling and sneeezing ami all but laugh
ing, np to me a stranger, licked mv
hand aud I held it down to pat her head.
'o. that s not instinct. I hat is a.-
piain aud as intelligent a 'Thank you
;ts a human being ever uttered."
K-a oration r Cliillon Prison.
It is said tliat the Canton de Vaud is
.ilxnit to repair the .'astl; of Cliillon
md to make it a residence lit for human
habitation. Wc see no reason why one
of the most interesting buildings in the
world should not lie rescued from damp
md decav, so that it may aflord shelter
to happier human beings than the luck
less prisoners who once pined within its
clooiny dungeon walls. The lake which
laves and gently kisses its foundations
is said to In SUl feet d.-ep licnearh the.
windows which still dimly light ISonni
vard's cell, and in the seven pillars
which Bvroii has immortalize'! the iron
rings to which the early reformers were
liained are deeplv imbedded. The fur
row wrought in the stone pavement by
Ikmnivanrs footsteps during the six
years of incarceration is still visible.
md across Ins cell stretches a wooden
beam black with age, from which ii is
iid that the condemned were formerlv
suspended. We entertain no doubt that
the dungeon occupied for many genera
tions by nameless prisoners, and celebra
ted by Hosseau and I,ord Bvron. h:is
brought in a good revenue to the syndic
of the Canton in which it is situated.
To 1 on the Lake of Geneva without
visiting Chillon would be tantamount to
putting "Hamlet" on the stage without
assigning a part to the Prince of lvn-
mark. Even, however, ir Chillon ce
repaired and modernized, the How of
English and American visitors win
probably know no decline.
Children are unconscious philoso-
puers. xuey reiuau iu yuu iu lurtca
their enjoyments to see what they are
made of.
A child is laughed at when It tries to
iktth ft liiutnv snrl TPt irrftvn nervui-
' rasp at and capture bat little else it
Ibis world.
NEWS IX BRIEF
Always have the change when yoa
beard a street car.
Bostonians have developed a craze
for the moonstone.
-The Toledo Blade flashes in favor
of cindered streets.
Harvard students may omit Greek
or Latin in future.
Mussels are much esteemed as a
delicacy at Cape May.
Golden-roi parties are being given
now by rural belles.
Carnegie is to build a Scotch castle
near Cresson Springs.
The averao employment bureau
is a delusion and a sham,
Seventy-two acres in West Duluth
Minn., sold for fOO.OOO.
A machire for drying C3h has been
Invented by a Pensucola man.
Cantaloupe has taken the place of
berries at the morning nieaL
A Lowtll co-operative association
makes 120Ibs of butter dally.
Lisle thread stockings are only
half the price of last summer.
Robert Kershaw, of Terry. N. Y.,
has a white robia with pink eyes.
A New York family has a Mt.
Desert house built entirely or logs.
Mrs. Goodacre, of Wayland Mich,,
is 60, and is teething the third time.
Damage by hall iu the vicinity of
Inkster, D. T., covered 30,000 acres.
Twelve old ladies at a Parma,
Miclu, q-iilt!i!g, ajgre;:ated 012 years.
The Michigan forest fires have
driven the bears from their leafy lairs.
Pacific county, Washington Terri
tory, has no en I of oysters and clams,
Signal service ofTieers in Ohio are
aggravating called weather pedlars.
The wealthiest sections ot New
York aie called the tenderloin districts.
A AVashington .Si ir writer says
tyrotoxicon is the lofty name for dirt.
Boston is trying a noiseless pave
ment of grauita blocks set on cjnerete.
Mr. Girardeau, of Montlcello, Fla.
will save ten tons ot watermelon seed.
Piloting into and out of Philadel
phia is not so proutab'.e as it once was.
A man In Campbell county. Ga.,
had twenty-three sons killed In the
war.
The surface of California still vi
brates with t.he treal of l.lKJO pound
bears.
Among South American cannibals
a tattooed man is thought unfit f jt
food.
A tin can, holding $2,000 in gold,
has been found on a MahoaU:g, O.,
farm,
There are one hundred and forty
nine Grand Army posts In the State of
Maine.
The ore output of I.eaJviIIe fer
i ily reached 1000 toss a uay for every
working day.
The output of the mineral prod nets
of the United States In 1S:4 was valued
at $403,2iM,C2J.
It is believed that the California
wine crop this year will reach 27,000,
lJ0 gallons, the largest yet produced.
The product of the silver mines of
Bolivia is estimated at !, 000.000 ounces
The Bolivian government levies -a tax
of four-sixths for each ounce of silver
mined.
The Sliver King mine of Arizona
has paid since lsTO, il.500,000 in divi
dends and has produced something like
SXVAIO in silver.
The total value of all minerals
raised in the United Kingdom m 184
is reported at i.''il,2'!2,02'; at the mine,
as against i!u4,j3o,i&l in loi'-i.
Sir John Lubbock's Clearing-House
returns show that the volume of trade
during last year was less than that of
the previous year by S.j00,'AJO,0O0.
A lot of dairy cows have recently
Iieen shipped from S.m Francisco to
China, where the natives are turning
their attention to the dairy business.
The "Wa IVnn," a locomotive
b'lllt in Philadelphia in lCo, was the
first railroad engine ever run in Cali
fornia, and is still doing good service la
that state.
A Hindoo, who enjoyed himself by
denouncing Christianity in blasphemous
terms at Ocean Grove, has lieeu sent to
jail on the charge of disturbing relig
ious meetings.
Of gold and silver the mint au
thorities estimate the production in the
United States in lsSl at $:M.S00,000
gold, and $4S SOO.iiW) sliver (coming
rate); total, ;7'J,G.iu,000.
There are only on thousand peo
ples men, women and children in all
of Harlan county, Kentucky, yet the
murders and assae-i nations during the
year outnumber the births two to one.
Not very many years since toma
toes were known as love-apples, and
were regarded as poisonous Last vear
the canning establishments of the Uni
ted States put up o2,:!22,'J.j2 cans of to
mato s.
The nnmber of railway servants
employed per mile in the United King
dom lias risen from 1G.7 in l,7o to 19-tij
In 1S8.J. Thai is to say with the growth
of traffic, increased precautions, etc., it
takes three more men to work a mile of
railway now than it did eight years
ago.
Shakespeare's birthplace, the trus
tees report, was vidited last year by
nearly 14,000 people, who paid the
usual admission fee. The trustees have
over 2-"00 in consols, and purchased
deeds of lease and release from Sir
XihnClofton to Hugh Clofton (dated
January lY.O) for the property at New
Place (Stratford on-Avon), where Shak
espeare spent the last days of his life,
and where be died.
Tbe live stock of the United King
dom steadily increases. The cattle
this year number 6,211,127, an Increase
of 4.7 and 7.5 per cent, respectively on
last year and the year before. The
sheep and lambs cumber 20,037,217, an
increase of 3 9 and 7.1 per cent.; and
the pigs number 2,i2,323, a decrease,
of 1.4 per cent, on last year, but an In
crease of 2.9 per cent, on l-is'2.
The saving effected by the cable
Tstem of propelling street cars isstrik
dgly shown by tbe fact that a 375
norse power engine operates 10 miles
of double track road in Chicago, doing
the work of nearly 2009 horses. It n
estimated by engineers tliat a 2400
horse power engine could move all the
street-cars at present in use in Naw
York city, a work for which acar j 13,
Q00 horses are required.
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