T 1H.1 miOlMZHM ft' Urn till. ft 1 B. F. BOHWEIEK, TEE OOISTIT U T10I THS UIIOI-AID TEX QTOXOHCZIT 01 TEE LAWB. Editor and Proprietor. VOL. XL. MIFFLTNTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 17, ISSG. NO. 47. VThen the Mists Have Cleared Away. yfhr a the mists liava rolled in splendor, From lbe beauty of the hills, Ami the sunshine warm and tenders, Falls In splendor on the rills, e way read lore' shining letter In the rainbow of the spray. We tiliall know each other better Wht-n the uii.its hare cleared away. If we err in human blindness. And torift that we are dost. If are u;is the law of kindness When we struggle to re just. Snowy winirs of peace h:ill ooTer All the iaiu that cloiitU onr way, Wht-n the weary natch is over AuJ tte in:su hare cleared away. When the silvery mists have veiled as From the faces of our own, Oft we deemed their love has filled US, AuJ we trad our path alone. We should see them near and trnlv, . We should trnst them day by day, Jteitiirr love nor blame uudu!y. It the mirta have cleared away. L VINTAGE TIME. 5iuce bTie was a wee, toddling babe, Lucet'.e had been a worker in the Vine Tanls. Sj had her mother and her graudmother b-fore her. Once their launly hid been i oble, even great; but one of those mighty convulsions whicn have so often shaken France robbed their greatest ancestor of everything save ti'.s wife and children. After that they were peasants, but a remnant of the proud old blood still ran in their veins, now and then burning in one or another of them as it did iu the days of the family's ancient glory. So It was with Lucette. From the days of her childhood, when, beside her mother, the purple fruit had been slowly and wearily stripped from the vines by her little fat biown hands, she was never like the cbildreu of the other peasants, and Lever like h.r own brothers and sisters. At uo time would she gambol, sport aud frolic with those who sought her fur play or companionship, and there was ever a flash la her eyes and a cr.rl in her lips which forbade familiarity. like a hermit or foundling forest bird, she grew up by herself alone. Except in the cold months, she al ways lived out of doors; so her health was perfect. Despite the rough lile she lived aud all her toiling in the vine yards, she was daintily aud exquisitely ikaped, and her hands were as tiny and symmetrical as those of any princess. True, they were brown with the sun shine, and so were her arms away above her elbows for that matter, but no artist or sculptor would ever have parsed them by unnoticed witheut pay ing that fervent tribute which is al ways the award of genius to elegance and beauty. Still no one up to her 20th year had ever dared to tell her that she had unusual beauty and grace. There was that degree of regality about her every movement, and that oold, quiet firm . ness in her voice which prevented pretty speeches even from hr. own family. "You must unbend," said her mother, one day, "else you will never get a husband." What do I want with a husband? No man shall ever call me wifel" she cried, her eyes glowing like the eyes of a serpent. "llowelse shall you live?" rejoined her mother, a coarse woman, in whom there was only plebeian blood, and who had only ilebeian instincts. "How shall you live without a husband? Your father and I cannot keep you "Kn me!7' exclaimed Lucette. Tftpn mel Wheu mv work in the vineyard is not enough to pay you and mi tvher fnr thn little 1 have from you, tell me so, and I will go away but not with a husband." After that she was left alone, but her mother thought it extremely unreason able and ungirl-like in Lucette not to want a husband, Alany a nanusome, strapping young peasant was madly in lnva with I ipr and Rhe might have looked even higher if she wished, for the sons ot some of the gentlefolk were far fpnfTi Wind to lier stately charms. But that same stateliness and her cold face, firm mouth and dauntless eyes Vent, a whip Imn. ssable distance be- t - 1 - Mr fnMn Lustra nrid hpr admirers. Eer parents and sisters made constant clatter about her stuooomneas, uul navo that nnr when the eirl's angry eyes seemed to burn into her mother's soul, they were caret ui mas none ui th.ir tfriimiutnir rp.iT.hed the ears of T.MPaT la Sometimes, when she was apart by herself in some shady corner of the vineyard, where the fragrant grapes and their broad green leaves hid her fmm m,a piiri.ma evp which otherwise were ever bent upon her, a warm, soft yearning tenderness would rout all her pride and hauteur and leave her face radiantly beautiful. Handy, very rare- 1 V Soma Anu cm U7 hpr thus: and. If It chanced to be a man, ceaseless tumult came into his heart. Strangers, isslug through the coun the vlnevards. Ktnirir niih har aueenllness. would turn away with a sigh when, in answer to their questions, they were told that sue was only a common yeaaam. . dnalitpr o,, ..r thom hmrpvpr Casaban. a Spauisti sculptor, sighed so deeply that Lis heart chords never again ceased vibratinz. But he was a great artist anri earn f a errand old family Whose pulses throbued with the crimson tide of royalty, his grandfather having been king. So Casaban 's pride checked the tuui.-tnata vrnrta ha Wnuld OtherWlSC have said to Lucette. lie hurried away from her, tut he carried her image wuu him, in his h?art and In his eyes, throueh all his wanderings. Italy and ton S-i iin lua nivn homiLiful couutry. failed to so'lace him. The splendors of hi home seemed to mock him, ana me l ght words of his old friends and com and ribaldry onca amused 'him, now wounded him .ike so i. l I.i vain hn locked hini- te.f m his studio with his chisels and marble; he could only thinn 01 me bioiize woman whom he had met mo!.g the merry grape-strippers or She had only deigned to give him one l(w,u- j,. that tr.s diieh a look as a lion make her talk, he asked her some ques which she an swered briefly and coldly, and then tir,.oH nn-. or,i waikMl off with firm stei and her round shoulders fir11 iiu nroudiv lust as some high-born proudly-just as some high-born -., n,ii,t have zone fiom her lowest men . ... " ha hftrt :aL The w omau oi jjiv . . . t.ha statue trt.lU Home unknown goddess whom the fS'y emphasized her strange, to ,.. i...a . a iih iir vet. when ecarceij ITor arms were bare of fat ent away, he left his heart in her . .. and went, more iue months came aau J, : Cowlythan ever before, it seemed to him; and vintage time was coming again. The nearer the anniversary of his last glimpse at Lucette approached, the more Casaban 's mplanehniv eued 4You are iu love, my son.' said his mother one day after midsummer. Tint. Tits firitia still rlatasvA hi - sw umu UUWilCU UlUi 11UU1 acknowledging the truth even to hlm- mi, oo uo irownea ana swore that she was mistaken. Though he was, in a measure, deceiving himself, he failed to aeceive her. 'Tf mil arM nnf In inn. -.. l. J . uuw .VW JUU UQ spfeJily made to fall in love," she con tinued. "Your friends, your art, everything is now set aside to make way wr a snmore oppression wbuh no finft Pan farhnm thii(rh ctmrti wna la obliged to suffer because of it. If, as you say, tove is not its cause, love can ut least be its cure. Some sweet, dark- eyed Spanish woman, with her soft spells and resistless enchantments, can bring back the old ring Into your voice, restore the smiln which utJwl tn nluv upon ysur mouth, and dispel the black ciouu wmcu now encompasses you. My son, I must find you a wife." ci r. la...!..! .i n .1 n lln His mother's words had aroused and restored mm. lie was more like his Tl a I" lira. I OAtf O rrj i n than Iia lia4 hnnn vum uv4t 5imu vnta uu uwa m;cu before since iucette's eyes bad pierced ucoiu inun waajvauquisueu a i. last and love was again triumphant, as It always is in the end. II is mother saw the change come over him and smiled to mina now correct uer surmise naa been. Bending over bis mother's chair, he kissed her. "It has been my own stubbornness which has made me so morose" he said, "but it is over now, since your words have shown me my foolish slush- nesa. It did. inded. need a aweet Spanish woman's spells to make me as I should be, and, bebola, such a one has already woven her soft web about me! Yon have completely exercised my demon, dearest mother, with your powerful enchantments, and I am quite myself again. You need not seek out a wife for me now, for I should not have time to woo her. 1 am going abroad again next week." The color deepened In bis face as he finished speaking, and looking down he began picking at a Dutton on nis coau Ilia mother watched him intently, her eyes sparkling with silent amusement, and she lauzhed quietly under her breath. She was silent for a few min- ,,tja anil tlia !rciamina in hia PVfLI and the warm glow on his cheeks told her that ne naa entirely rorgoiten uer presence, and that some other woman ailed his thoughts. When she spoke again it was half jestingly. ' l nave no aouot you win tecene much benefit from the Journey," she said. Instantly he raised his eyes and re garded her curiously. "What a peculiar stress you lay upon journey' " he exclaimed. "Your ears are abnormally acute to day," she said, with laugh, arising frnn hpr rhair. Then StermlnZ forward and kissing him, she continued: "tti 1, you must not lorget your nign station, wherever and to whatever your journey may lead you." lie understood ner anu auempieu no further concealment. a nrincess would do no discredit to the grandson of a king, would she?" he asked, putting nis arms auoub uer. "No true woman would do him dis credit," she answered, quietly. For a moment ne was tempueu to ieu her alL,butsoniethin5. he could scarcely tp.ii what! restrained him. and. kissing her again, he led her back to her chair and walked away. The next wsek he left Spain. When ha roaphad France it was in the height of the vintage, and the whole country was rich with the heavy ouor 01 tuo einonml oratiM. and full of the songs and laughter of the giapa-stnppers. The season had been good ana me vintage was unusuahy rich; s every body, save the disgrunled few who ni.a cnmnhin was aulto content MOTJ- jvt , . and happy, me iuu uu uuu .hiih rrpt(i Casaban everywhere was accepted by him as an auspicious omen. that his mother's words had broken his foolish pride and stirred him into returning to Francel IIis heart was overflowing with rap turous joy and his soul was full of CICOW. . ,. g, M. Vnwn. Spain adored ana an tue reoi. oi -unv onii rKnwtfa. was auouu out ing everything upon the daughter of a 7r,rr.nn Fronfth DeAsant. Yet, lowly as was her origin, in her he saw more . i L . a kail A VTA 1 womanly grandeur uau uo him the hiah priestess ot a lost faith or Jn1 aavsvvlsfl AnlA the empress oi some ueu . . nita and. f-hrlSt- ; ko hnmhlest. His whole use, ujuu(s " - , . life had been lived among royal and noble surroundings, ana uiiou8" " he had never once been awed or etn . .i ih. CTt-oai- And vet he Darrasaeu uj u , was now shaken and confused at the thought of once more iaciun .. . a hrnnzn woman, and offering himself at her feet He thought that this new emotion -" -' . ilin h what was to him Lucette's subirme greatnea. Perhaps it was this; is. a liwA For three days he hesitated, fearing . . nmin in whose hands, all unknown to her, he had placed ta. and future. '".n,r; vineyard where ne anew " - , avomea ua. f One nlgntwnen uw wwu liaht. softened all the narshgray Undscape. Caban, t in a fantastic maze ot - , .o bv himself along TwTn the home of Lucette. . For a - -- S onVau occasional green n', Tnt where it glimpse , h .--; bthe BWnfooS urfacroAhe .fuggishriver smootn suiia. . of S r5S soTof natural amphl an openiuii . . stream theatre on this point the among the trees. At " .,flaaUow side by gaming ye l0?,, for a moment, and asau -Z-ra -vaneinir as he did so ne ww - Into the openmg iro" ""vrITr h it tvok but a single glance to tell the was the stateij mDhitheatre walkea sow., ---- - gue anu h was bareneau and stooa v, r mass down her I nUDK " - - " i, h jT riec drapery Z oaca. ;nnt mnd have ana nressive , hpr bosom was from fjts".a by her rough, loose fS "ace was upturned 1 . t 1 Jacket and her eyes were fixed upon the moon. iiau sae uiuuen it pause in its course, and had it obeyed her, Casaban would liavA fatf. Yin anrnriflA If. BAamo.1 i him that such a woman might control ' tae untverse. t or several minutes sue stood there, motionless, in the yellow sand by the silent river, in the bright mooniigui., wituin turee yarus oi tuo man whn si fna.llv lnvpfl hnr. Ahp seemed, more than ever, the Woman of Bronze. So Cleopatra'micUt have'stcod some night on the banks of the Nile," thnncht Caiahan? "nnlv Clponatra was softer, weaker and less queenly." Lucette, all unconscious of Casaban's her brown bosom and siglied. Instantly the coldness went out of her face, a smile came upon her lips and a soft, tender light into her eyes. Her whole personality underwent an entire change. ana irom regal statuesqueness sue was transformed and relaxed into all that is indicative ot yielding womanly gen tleness. Casaban watched her In wrapt amazement; sooner would he have ex- npcfprfl nnanf l.io mnrhlp flcmrpa Put out of the cold stone with his own chisels. to sonen ana reiax. Still amilinrr on1 Trif h nnnthpr fiitrh r.iiretiA Irnplr. slnvlv anil loanlnff for ward seemed to be tracing characters in f ha catiri with liar flntrpr Than shA again looked at the mxn, kissed her Angers to it, sprang up and darted away, leaving a melodious ripple of eirlish lauchter ringing in the air after she had gone. Tor aln!i7timn after her dADartn re Casaban stool as if in a stupor. He nnnM nnt halipva hid U)nu4 and t'aought at last that be must have been dreaming. That haughty woman couia never so unbend! I hen he hastened forward to the spot where she had knelt, and looked down to see if she really had traced characters in the sand. He read his own name, "Casa ban," and he staggered with a resistless and incomprehensible dizziness. What a strange woman she was more than avar a mnrrpl tn him. Still he felt that he must hold some small place in her thoughts, else sne wouia not nave writ ten his name in the sand. Could it be that she loved him? He dared not hope that. And then her kneeling and kissing her hands to the moon; was that pure accident, or was it a part oi her religion? He thought so powerful and magnificent a creature must have some religion unlike that of other mor tals. Throughout the night his head was full of Lucette and her strange caprice. A thorough artist, he sets about weaving a curious labyrinth of capricious whims and fancies, centering them all upon Lucette ana ner varying moods, and so completely were the two tht it would be diffi cult to decide whether the part she played In his dreams was more iamasuc and irrational than that which she Dlaved in his waklnz moments. The next day they met in the vlne- vard. and she was once more tne cu:u. i.nitrtitv Woman of Bronze. Uazmz upon her face then, it seemed impossi ble to Casaban that sue naa ever smueu or that she ever couiu smue. Again and fl'tnin fhpv mpt- her cold face never once relaxing into the meerest sem blance or a smile; ana ner voice was always ice ilself. At last, when he could restrain himself no longer, he told her that he had loved her ever oiuki tha last, vintacm time, p.nd that he had come back to France to ask her to become his wife. He watched her ad the while he was speaking, but there was no sign in her face to betoken that she was in any way moved by what he had said. 'You do vourself an inlustlce, or aiu vnn intend me one." she said in that same icy, pitiless voice, "and in either case I can only refuse what yau propose. Xoman in your station should n fur humble and fortret himself as to offer honorable love to a peasant's daughter, and there is at least one noaunt 'a danuhtpr who will not suffer herself to Jbe made the toy and wantou of even a royal lover, uo cac to your f.jmlltr vnnr friends and VOUr art. and inooa ma nrtipra l am and what I am a peasant's daughter aud a grape-strip- perl" No other woman snail ever uo iu wifel" I swear, he exclaimed impai. uouslv. "I offer you honorable mar- -io.. ortA tha first, lnvp, of mv life. t'milv art avprvthinir should be put aside for you, were it necessary, uunu is not. My family will receive my wue without criticism, be she peasant or nrin ini rnn will do my race aa iuvvuui - - Vnn will ha the inspiration Vy CV W w " . . . which will make me gioruy my art, u crtnriiled bv me it ever is. Once more vnn to be mv wue." "And once more must I decline the honor you offer me. I do not forget illnoea nnnr and neither Will VOd forget it in the days to come when the mention of it would grate narsuiy ui-uu Thunl trtn a woman should UlT ClU9. AWUt wvw, " " love the man whose name and hand she accept. .., ftvn. mm nrttmniT me. iucui "How strangely you ask that ques tion! I do not understand you." 'I saw you write my name m mo a ninhf anrl it. mada ma hOD9 S&UU IMK t"6" -- that you at least sometimes thought of me." Fa. mnmont. flAr face softened and t,- atroa triistpned more kindly. But she soon controlled herself and an BWCiCU W - ---- "A woman writes me name ui mn oho iacpq in har heart not in tbe uiau w . . . . treacherous and ever-shining sana. "You are willing, men, to uurui. mj ; t,a hiat. mv hones!" he cried. Vh. God. If I could only move you to compassion." She stopped ana iaceu mm. ..T nn nr-a raaiiv wi much in earn est," she said, "lower yourself to my level. Jruton your geuueiuau a for the peasant's blouse. Toll in the vineyard as I do, and when the vintage is done, it you are i.m i""" be your wife. That will make me safe. anu uu uuo . "... i , . wife with doing that wnicu we uuauauu has not also done," "1 wiU do it," he said, kneeling at .mi kiHinir her nana as 11 ner ic?cw - r sne weic mu , .. ... I, la arnrrl All thrOUffh the i xma flrraar lanv. . v. nrira if he had never known any other sphere in life, Lucette lt if 't hi lnnff neriod of proba mm nun one sumo ui :r' . ih. hrava Casaban never once murmured against her coldness or the task which sne naa uupuacu. ,7 . i ,o. .nma tn her with dreadful news. A vicious horse bad bitten Casaban in the throat and he " With a fart RtamDed with was , . -. annirht him. His nam anu wuw -o - . ber knees oeaiae uiu vw-. upon her bosom. . "You love me?" he whispered. Yea!" she cried: and vet I have Ea:- riQced your life!" "I die happy," he said, with a smile. The peasants, awed and hushed, stood around them with bare heads. They saw the color of death come Into Can can's face, but still his head rested upon Lucette's bosom. Alter a mue n-hila har f.ithpr hpnr. nvpr llPr but llO recoiled with a cry ot horror. Th-3 other peasants then pressed forward anu suuuuereu, tor uiej s.iw u um j woman with her dead lover clasped 1b ber arms. XAIOIiEOX IL The Melancholy Story of Great Em pcror 9 oun Napoleon the Great, thought if ho had only a son to rule after him- that he would found a mighty empire that would be ruled over by the Bonaparte family for ages. There would be a Napoleon I, Napoleon II, Napoleon III. Napoleon IV, and so on until per haps there would be as many as there had been King Louises in France, as many as sixteen and more. At length In the year lb 11, a son was born to the Empress Maria Louisa, Napoleon's wife. Then the soldier emperor thought he was very nappy. Rut suddenly wars broke out again. His empire had been built by war, and by war it fell to pieces. It melted away like fairy frost figures. The little prince was called, for a title, the king of Home. When he was a year old his father set out with a great army to fight Russia. Then the empress had the lit tle boy's portrait painted. He was a very beautiful child. The beautiful portrait had pamteu upon it the decorations, ribbons and stars that indicated the titles, the great emperor meant for his son. It looked odd to see such things upon a baby a year old. The likeness was sent to Na poleon, and be got it Just betore a oat- tie. He tenderly loved the child, who. indeed, seems to be the only creature be ever did care much for. Hut the warrior's star went down. When the king of Rome was 4-years-old it sank to rise no more. Napoleon be came an exile at St. Helena. The em press went back to ber father, tbe emperor of Austria, taking her son with ber, and his father never saw him any more. In Austria, the boy who was to Inherit a great crown, and be the em peror Napoleon II, was not even allowed to keep his own name. He bad been called after his father, but the Austrian ruler hated the name of Napoleon Bonaparte so much that he never allowed it to be mentioned. To the boy was given the name of Franz Von Reichstadt. So the child who was to have been such great things never had any title or empire or fortune or anything else, lie was a kind of hanger-on at the court of Iiis grandfather, and nobody cared much for him or showed him any par ticular respect. He who had been so beautiful a cuird became a paie, eerhrdS youth, with not very good health. He was melancholy, rather. He could not forget he was the great Napoleon's son. and that he was quite helpless to do anting worthy of the name, ne did not know what to do witn nimseu, ana that, perhaps, was the reason he did not live long, lie said of himself once: "My birth and my death that is my whole history." One would think, with all the work there is to uo m tne world, that he might have found some way to be of use. but he did not. He died at Schonbrum, one of the Aus trian royal palaces, near Vienna, wher he was 21. Nobody seemed to care. Literary Women. tra .micpra-nrwl is one of thO few literary women of America who really dress well. . Olive Thome Miller is far from tidy. Miss Murfree fCharles Kgbert Crad- doc) dresses very plainly. c.rjm Kinir. the new writer to whom Charles Dudley Warner is acting as literary god-fatner, is ootn eccentric aud untidy in her attire. Her hair usually looks as if it had been brushed tbe wrong way and her hat seems to be chronically defying the laws or grav itation. . . ; Kate Field has exquisite taste in dress. Celia Thaxter is frizzled and bangea, berucbed and benbboned, and so are Louise Chandler Mouiton ana ima Wheeler Wilcax. Mm Annirr.ni. Mrs. Howe'slamented daughter, the gifted founder of the Boston Metaphysical iuu, was ea: ively untidy. Her collar, when she wore one at an, was mvanauiy ciwmcu. George Sand was entirety luuiueteui to what she summarily dismissed as the silly vanities of hnery," ana tonnffrir nnnr etre belle" is what she Invariably declined to do. During her retirement at Nahant she frequently a.loDted a bov's costume for her rough country walks, donning a "blouse and gaitero." Charlotte Bronte's dress was very simple and quaint. Sie ii said to have been " dainty- aa i mo " her boots and gloves. Among the literary women oi w day Mrs. Julia Ward Howe is usu ally ill-dressed, ana ner -two scnu bhng daughters." as she calls them, follow their mother's example. Frances Hodgson uurnets wears esthetic gowns. r:ind Howe, the novelist, is occa sionally resplendent. She adopts the classic style ior evening uicaa, m ap pears in flowing UreeK draperies, wim an Ivy wreath on her beautiful head. Jane Austen, though neat, was quite regardless of the fashionable and be coming, and Maria Edgeworth's dress .o . hv nna nf her contempora- nao mm v - . ries to be "neither beautiful nor fash ionable." , . , r t aronm affacta a Quakerish style, and is frequently seen in a little. flat, old-rasnioneu uouucw m"""- with a single bow. riuouh Kmart. Phnlrjs dresses care- Ad 1 1 J... lV- . "... - . lesaly and with little regard to fashion. rerlt From Lightning. Dr. Andries estimates that the peril from lightning is now from three a fM orantar than it Was fifty rears ago, owing to the vastly increased J . . . i . ... .1 .. w tha electrical lnieusuy muuw j charging of the atmosphere with steam and amoko at all centers of population. The real estate and personal prop erty in Philadelphia subject to city tax for 1887, according to the statement of the Board of Revision, of Taxes, amounts to 1023,679,312. Bye If sown now, will grow, and as itishardv, will furnish early green food before the grass makes its appear ance In the tyring. A CTLTIVATftD NOSE. What is Xccessary in Order to Se cure a rorfuine. "You haven't a cultivated nose," said a manufacturer of perfumes In a large store down town to a customer, who admitted that he could not remem ber that his hose had ever been sub jected to any particularly invigorating process, but he asserted that he had perfect confidence in his ability to pick out just what he wanted. "That is the trouble with almost every one," continued the dealer, "who attempts to select a perfume when not used to it. That man who has just left here will not be satisfied with his pnrcbase the next time he takes a smell of it because he will not find it to ba what he expected. After a nose that has not been raised in the business smells four or five samples of cologne, the flavor of each will linger In the nostrils and then an inferior and poorer odor, if introduced to these lin gering scents, in almost every case will form a pleasing combination that is thought to be satisfactory. For the tune being It will be, but afterward the compounder of colognes will be called a fraud. The sense of smell is widely different in individuals, and tbe imag ination helps along wonderfully. As a matter of experiment I have placed the same kind of cologne in twelve bottles labeled differently, and have had people take a smell of all the bottles and detect the resemblance of each one to the flower mentioned on the label. Again I have seen noses so acute that they would put out from a combin ation of odors each ingredient and rarely would any be missed. This is a wonderful thing, but the nose can be trained to do it, and tbe cologne maker must have the faculty in order to make up any kind of cologne from a given sample. This explains the method by which the famous colognes are imitated and a dealer can hardly start a new brand on the market before every one in the business is making the saui thing. "Tbe best perfumes are made from flowers. The effort that is being made to extract perfumes from petrol eum and other things will prove abor tive, as they can never equal the del icacy of the odor of a genuine flower. Tbe amount of cologne made iu America is enormous, bat it does not approach the quantity manufactured in Europe, where its use is well nigh universal. In this country perfumes are made from the original flowers only on a small scale, and even then it is too expensive to go into general competi tion on such a basis, Tbe o tors are nearly all imported in the shapes of oils and essences, and from these as a has the colognes are made. In many for eign countries whole communities are supported by cultivating and gathering flowers. The cut flowers are usually placed in large vats, upon which a pro portionate amount of water is poured. Aiier it has stcod for a certain time the pr.Kess of evaporation is hastened by heat, and the oil in the flowers passes into vapor. This is men conuenseu. and the oil is found floating on tlie water. The oil seems t costain the aromatic principle of plants. To make essences from the oil it is usually mixed with alcohol. Some of the oils are so volatile that they cannot be gathered in this manner. They will fly off in the process of distillation with water, and the delicate sugges tions of sweetness are lost. To obvi ate this a heavy or mixed oil is em ployed. It Is usually the finest grade of beef suet. This by heat is con verted into a liquid state, and tbe flowers are put Into it. The odor of the plant will pass into the fixed oil and be held a prisoner. Some alco hol is also used in this method, and it i3 in the shape of beef suet paste laden with the fragrance of many beautiful flowers that much of our per fume is imported. "The famous attar or roses is made from the Rosa Damascena, which grows like a weed in Smyrna and in some parts of Turkey and Frauce, though the growth is comparatively small in tbe latter country. The na tives of these places collect this oil in a s'mple manner. The roses are placed in water, and after decomposition sets in the oil floaU on the surface and it is absorbed by cotton balls deftly dipped into the liquid. The cotton under pressure gives up this oil, which is bot tled and sealed. A bushel of flowers will produce only a few drops of oil. The genuine is the most expensive oil in the market, and worth $32 an ounce. It is adulterated with oil of rhodium, wav and other substances, aud the price is arranged to suit the pur chaser. The strength of this oil makes it sickening in its natural state. The adulteration has reached such a high state of perfection that even the most expert are deceived by it. "Patchouli is made from a natural plant growing in great abundance in the Malay islands, and is a great favor ite as a perfume. There is a growing demand now for lavender water. It is made by mixing rose and orange waters with the oil of lavender, and has a re fined and pleasant as well as refreshing odor. The English oil of lavender is the best that is on the market, and be sides being used as a perfume Is a fa vorite article In bakeries as a flavor for cakes and fancy products. It Is a high stimulant and efficient aid to digestion until the system becomes used to it, and then It is liable to breed one of the worst forms of dyspepsia, Tbe laven der shrub and the jessamine plant are cultivated to a large extent In England and France for this industry. The genuine heliotrope is not as fine an odor as the imitation. The latter Is known as the white heliotrope and is made from a combination of violet and van illa, and has a soporific tendency if breathe! for any length of time, Ber gamut, which with musk forms the staple perfume of the colored popula tion, is a comparatively cheap oil. It is made from a small species of 1 emon, the best quality of which grows in the Wand of Sicily, and is cultivated speci ally for this purpose. The fruit is picked while hard and unripe, and it takes about 400 to produce a pint of oil under pressure. Bergamot la a slight irritant, and it is said will raiseShair on a bald head. The distinguishing mark of the tube rose it strength, while the violet Is light and pure. The verbena was once a great favorite, but is now rarely called for. The rose geranium makes an elegant p'rf ume and is nearly a triwi as the attar of roses. The lily of the valley produces one of the richest perfumes, and the lemon, orange and daffodil are mucn taougui, oi. "But the best parf umes are eombina- fmnanf the orlzlnal odors. There are about 100 ot them, many of them hi.h have had their day. The secret of a combination is to mix the odors so that none is prominent and all are lost. The best two are the ancient eau de cologne and tbe cashmere bouquet. To mix the odors so that they blend perfectly Is difficult. One great obsta cle is that when the odors are mixed one or more of them will fade awav and disappear, having seemingly b en neutralized and worn oat by time." MYSTEItlES OF KNCLISH COFFEH. General Adulteration or tho Cup Which Cheers but not Inebriates. Neither on English soil cor on Eng lish ocean steamers have 1 found it possible to get a good cup of coffee unless I Durcbased my own Java coffee and stood over tbe coffee pot while It was being brewed. And even then I had to watch most carefully to prevent its being spoiled by the addition or what Englishmen consider a great im prover of foreign coffee namely: a pinch of home or Belgium bitter and black, hideous chicory. I very well remember the difficulty I had with a kind landlady of an Lug liih country Inn in persuading her not to fling a bit of chicory into the pot of coffee she was making for me out of pure coffee I had brought with me she, the kind old heart, constantly asseverating she should not charge me a farthing for it, and that it would mightily improve my beverage. Less chicoiy (succory, genus chicorium) is now grown In England than formerly; but ua immense amount of it is Im ported there from Belgium, France and Germany, in which countries this per ennial plant is largely used for food for men and cattle. There was a time when a thousand acies of it were under cultivation in a single district between York a ad Stam ford, and those English farmers who were given to its cultivation claimed that it was not exhausting to the soli, but rather an improver of It, when crops of wheat were allowed to follow It- An average yield or fresh roots Is about eight tons per acre. Late in the autumn the roots are taken up, cleaned, and laid away. The common price of cliicory roots in England is about X i 10s per ton. There is a heavy excise duty upon chicory, and the Euglish growers of it claim that this duty is levied in an obnoxious manner. In all good English grocery stores pure coffee can always be bought, as well as coffee mixed with chicory. The sate iu England ot coffee adulterated with any mixture is visited with heavy penalties unless the mixture is duly labeled. I have seen in English grocery shops tbe packages duly marked "pure coffee," and "coffee mixed" with a certain per cent, of chicory. Most purchasers bought tbe mixture. But worse than chicory is adulterated chic ry. And it is said that most of the chicory in English shops is adulterated with beans, carrots, parsnips, and beets, and colored with pigments, especially an earth known as Yeuetian red. Tbe Salt Mountain of Palestine. Palestine possesses a remarkable salt mountain situated at tbe south end of the Dead Sea. The length of the ridge is six miles, with an average width of three-quarters of a mile, and the height is not far from 6'JO feet. There are places where tbe overlying earthy deposits are many feet In thickness, but the mass of tbe moun tain is composed of solid rock salt, some of which is as clear as crystal. How far this deposit of salt extends be low the surface of the ground, no one at present knows. At some points, this ridge, which is on the shore of the Dead Sea, approaches very closi to the water, and at others it recedes until it is fifty or more yards from it. Just here the water of the Dead sea is much more salt than it is at the north eud, where the Jordan enters the lake. This salt Is a government monopoly. The same is trua of tho silt that is contained in solution in the Dead Sea itself. If Arabs or the natives of the country were found getting salt from the shores or tbe Deatfsea or from this salt mountain, they would be ar rested at once. Most of the salt used tn ITohrnn JorilttnTom !1TUi AiSPWriPrfl in ia tV VU wi-a v.a.x. mt aw ti-.-Q naif, nf l'uWinp rnmpa from these sources, but it is gatnerea unuer tne ... . .. . . . iirooin r r varnmant nnip.pr-1. ana the revenue is supposed to go to tbe government. Some Uses of Gloves. Tbe reien of Elizabeth may fairly be considered the turning point in tbe his tory of gloves. Through long years, and keeping in line with tne growtn oi re finement and courtesy, the glove had beeu invested first with one association and then another, given part and lot in this custom and that, until it bad come to hold a very prominent place In the economy of life. Both at wedding and funerals cloves were offered as gifts so commonly as to be recognized features of the social ceremonial proper to theso occasions. Either for peace and in 8QOeSi This makes a very stylish cos favor, or defiant and in deadly anger, t.ume, if tbe wearer is tall and has good it has come to be as binding upoa ordi- ip(rs- It jg worn everywhere and even nary transactions as a written deed, and as evident of purpose as if the presence of lis owner had enforced its evident intent, ramcuiany aa ioeu of love, as though it gave in pledge the hand and regard or a lair laay, or as a cartel of war. threatening so much of the vemreful punishment as the hand it had covered could inflict, did the glove play its part m times when both these sentiments were especui"' cuerisueu and avowed. It was made the aegis oc trail, ensuring to chapmen and chaff- erine purchasers of the wares they of- fered peace and protection: anu m agreements of greater moment the glove was made witness of a promise riven and the pledge of its f allillment The donation of land to a church, and sometimes even the offer of bodily ser vice, was made good by the placing of a glove upon the altar; and in the transfer of land or, in occa sional instances of kingdoms a glove was made a veritable lease by virtue of which possession was taken and held. As securing saro passage, like a pass port; as an offer of amity, llks as though a friendly shake of the hand were proffered; even as a good bribe, when it was often "lined" with good gold pieces, to tempt men from tbeir allegiance, or Induce them to view a suit favorably, the glove had many a momentous message to convey, many an important negotiation to open or to bind. If every farmer who cuts down a tree will plant a young one in Its place the result will be a constant supply of timber and fuel as well as a profit. WOES OF A CANDIDATR Ichemea That are Devised fbr Mak ing Politicians Come Down With the Cash. A young man wearing a serious air uid a bilious-looking straw hat walked briskly into tbe sheriff's ettlce. The binding of his Prince Albert coat bad loosened its hold in many places, and the lapels bore the finger marks of a long struggle with hard times. A frayed black tie had climbed high on ut overworked collar, and his shoes looked as if tbey wanted to breathe iway their wearied spirits on a garbage pUe. In tones mysterious and deferential, ind with a very-important-bnsiness ex pression on his face, he inquired for L'anute R. Matson, the Republican can didate for sheriff. Being shown into that gentleman's private office, he took the candidate aside and began: "Mr. Matson, I have the honor to be rand worthy Begum of the Dt&plaines street Scandinavian Incorruptible Po litical and Social Club. We have on 3ur roles the names of 500 of the most Influential citizens on the west side. We are independent in politics, but having Investigated the character of "That's all right; how much do you want?" interrupted Mr. Matson. "We dont ask anything for our sup port, but we are " "Certainly I understand you are going to fit up headquarters for the purpose of carrying on an unrelenting warfare against corruption in politics. How wouid a fiver suit jou?" The young man took the proffered bank note and departed. "That's tbe hundred and fiftieth club I've been asked to help," thebigblonde candidate siglied. "Every ward has a half-dozen. There are Matson clubs. Davis clubs, clubs with fane ful names, and clubs without names. A half-dozen needy gentlemen get together in the hack room of a saloon and organiz3 a club. They have letter-heads printed and let themselves loos on the candi dates who are fools enough to be bled and the club has served its pur pose." 'Are any other schemes worked on luckless candidates?" Mr. Matson turned an injured, in credulous expression ou the ques tioner. "Look at thi3," he said, as he pulled a drawer from his desk. It contained three or four dtzen blue, red, yellow, lavender, or rose-colored bits of paste board. "All tickets to benefits that will never benefit anybody except the committee; for balls which no oue will dauce, and entertainments that will entertain ouly a few fellows in hard luck. "What else? Well, cast yeur eye over that," and tbe weary candidate took a religious weekly paper off his desk. In one of the columns was a number of cards printed in large display type: "Vote for C. It. Matson for sheriff,'' was marked with heavy-blue pencil lines. "Vota for George R. DavU for treasurer." "Yote for Michael ScU weisthal for treasurer," and on through the list of candidates of both parties the advertisement ran. "Nobody escaped, you see. We'll p. 11 get the bills be Tore election. I did not order tbe card, and the other can didates were probably not consulted. This is the newest scheme that has been sprung on us, and it looks like a good oue, "That isnt all. Fifty newspapers have been started since the campaign began. Either of them will support tbe candidate who gives it the most mocev. Each has a large circulation amon:; the laboring classes; it is a familv paper and reaches every home in Chicago. Then come the illustrated papers. They will print your picture and a sketch of your life for a consider at on. Then jou will be asked to pur chase a thousand or two copies." "Do tbese fellows make any money ?"'' "Tbey must rrofit by their schemes or there wouldn't be so many of them. Manv weak-kneed candidates give up. The touchers' often make threats of opposing the election of candidates who refuse to come down, and scare ( - " : them into buying the schemers oil, i . !...-. t . , . i ii nn nnhannv nna caiiuwaie a mo i nere comes s suBi)itiurwuiK w i.j . He probably has a child to bury, or hU mother-in-law is dying, or his landlord is about to turn him into the street. He's a life-long Republican, and can help me in his ward. I'll just step out at the side door. Good-day." Individuality ot Dress in Scotland. There is more individuality of dress In England and Scotland than in Am etlca. Every man has his suit cut to please himself, and a favorite costume is a short sack coat, pautaloons rather full above tbe knee and fastened tight tha. leir test above the calf. Than a nair of Ions thick woolen stock- in( nm dd to where the knee breech ena tne feet are clad in strong gentlemen going about with ladies on th. tr.t am an clad. Add to this a helmet cap or a Derby, and you have a pretty fair idea or one ciass or. zwicu nr Knirlish dress. Many of the swells about the watering places wearciotnes 0f colors as bright as those of Dolly varden'a. and I have seen some young .- -lorf in wida red and blue stripes 0 flannel, others in suits as white snow. and others in jackU or piusn a There seems to be a mucn i,, o-pntlprnan of leisure class here th!ln with us. and in the Trossachs and arK)Ut Loch Lomond, wnere 1 wens to through the region made famous by slr Walter Scott, I rode for miles .a mile- without hearing the word business once. Manufacturers who favor free wool are so greatly in the minority that it is unfair to take their expressions as rep resentative. Sheen win eat more be more content- ad and thrive better on a new than on an old range. Frequent change of range for them is important at this sea son of the year. The rigid economy forced upon shep herds in the last two or three years has convinced a good many that tbey can produce wool a trifle cheaper than they once thought they could. The beautiful red plumage of a South African species of birds has been chem ically examined ana rouna to do aua to eopper. When the birds are kept from food containing copper they entirely lose the tint prodoced by that mineral JffiWS IX BRIEF- Between 3000 and 41)0 hor3es are killed annually in Sioin ia bull fight ing. The great tunnel under the Severn was opened for tratlic 1 ist week for the first time. The annual corsumption of egg? in Berlin is 101,107,P2, cr 113 to each individual. A rich vein of gold quartz was re cently discovered by a cloud burst at Pine Grove, Xev. A California apricot tree four years old, this ear yielded a crop of 1753 pounds of fruit. Washington, N II., has a tame hen-hawk whit-h lives peaceably with a number of chickens. Mount Papandayang in Java wa split by au earthquake Into seven peak? rach about TOOu feet high. Seventy-six tH-rsons hard eomiuiL- ted suicide this year at Mount Carlo on account of losses at play. A Dakota artesian we!! sunk fot railroad purposes is raid to cure all desire for alcoholic drinks. Street railways iu 2Zo cities and towns of the United States have in use 61,500 horses and 10,800 cars. South Bend, Ind.. is supplied with water by l'J artesian wells with a capa city of ld,lKiO,000 gul! ns daily. Embossed books for the use of blind person have been prepared in more than 2.rJ languages and d;a:ect3. Gold briclc3 are to be nsed as tb foundation of a throne to l o built al San-Hal for the Chinese Emperor. A Georg'a dog tore the burning clothing from a gitl and saved her lifa burning his mouth aud paws badly. The directors of ilie mint report a production of 5:U.SiA),OXgoM and j,"1,- ti00,i)00 silver for the calt-udar year. Tbe Connecticut river and its trib utaries furnish power to 2l'9S mills. which represent 11,020 hoise power. The ancient city of Damascus is in a prosperous condition. Its trade with foreign countries are rapid:y iacreas lug. The Virginia tax rolls show only 1234 persons paying over l1-1'! yearlj tax and only 60 who pr.y S'h.0 and over. During the last veir 4(X'D foreigners have been naturalized in Trussia and 33,763 Prussians emigrated during tlie same time. A rattlesnake is a queer pet be longing to a Norwich man who Imndit? her fearlessly though lier bite has proved fatal to animals. A Texas man has 101 bullet wounds on his body and 00 bullets ranging in size from a duck shot to au ounce ball still remain In his flesh. The longest river In the world with the exception of the Mississippi and Missouri combined is the Niie, which is over 40UO miles in length. The Mikado has ordered that the English language be taught in the pub lie schools of Jap-in, ami the son of the Premier has come to this country tc make arrangements for school text books. An English clergyman is said to have warned his hearers of the speedy end of all things and then closed his discourse with au appeal for a liberal contribution iu aid of the new church tower. The banquet to General Paine, the owner of the Mavilower, and Edward burgess, her designer, by (he l-t-tern Yacht club, st Marbiehead was a bril liant affair. Fireworks and champagne were abundant. The city nf Glasgow owns its four teen miles of street raiiwav. which bring au annual rental of c70,UO0 to its treasury. The fare is a i :iny a mile with reduced rates morning and even ing for the working people. The French Society f ir the Pre vention of the .Yb;isH of TuL.iCJO, of fers a priz-( of KJ fran-s for the best sries of e.says on the effects of tobacco on the health vf uien of letters, and Its influence on the luture of trench lite rature. We trmt wage-workers will road. niaik, learn an I inwardly dig-wt the fact that, of I'i.oJO inn, who. last pnr.g; ".-.truck" on the Mi.aouri Pacif ic railroad system, only 2 l'J have ever again secured their place. ew men were found and tlie work went for ward. The Frro KinilcrgirLen depart ment of the National Woman's Chris tian Temperance Union is making rapid advancement, one lady having given nearly one nm.iim dollars i-jr the esta lshrncnl and maintenance of these In stitutions hi the State of Miussachu- -.-- Two sisters living .it Fayette, City, la , with the husband of one of them. have been arrested at tb.3 instance ot their brother, for conspiracy to deprive aim or his share in a large estate by rep esenting him to lie insane and hav ing In in shut up iu an asylum. An lS-inoutli-oM child in Texas crawled out of its mother's bed the other nLh;, was not missed until mor uins, when it was tracked across sev eral farms, under wirj and through rail fences, for four miles, and was 'ound unharmed in the brakes of the North bosque. Professor Fischer aal Peuzoldt, of Erlangen, have established the curi ous fact that the feuse of smell is by tar the most delicate of the senses. They find that the olfactory nerve is ahle'to detect the presence of 1-2,700,-000,000 of a grain of mercattan. Adam F.ememuiid of Garfield was shot in the head on a southern battle field twenty-three years ago. Many surgeons tried to remove the bullet and failed. Recently it was easily extrac ted by one of Iteinemund's neighbors, the bullet having worked to the sur face. Mr. Kllncr, in the T.evue ludustrielle. gives tlie followiug simple method for testing leather to be used tor belting: 'A small piece is cut on me oeit anu placed in vine;ar. If the leather has been perfectly tanned, and i3 therefore ;f good quality, it wiil remain im mersed in vinegar, even for several months, without any other change than becoming a little darker in color. If, on the contrary, it is not well impreg nated with tannin, tbe & res will promptly swell, and after a short time become converted into a gelatinoca
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