ty H waP Wiy wm B. F. SCHWEIER, THE OOflSTlTUTlOI THE TTITTOI AID THE EfTOSOEMUT OF THE Li8. Editor and Proprietor. VOL. XLI. MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY, PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 2, 18S7. NO. 6. Girl's Story. Tt,t od.-iii:f, Cray, picturesque old grange Hi ix" tlirce hundred years of change VstU all tlicir varying seasons pass, A n J hw'-i" like sands ibat through the glass C)f lime keep dropping, one by oue; We live, aud lo I our lives are gone, .And death and change, and hope and fears, Fill UP !lieasure of the years. Here, in the pleasant pallery. With carved oak panurled round, I see A girl's I rown eyes and shining hair t oi.ed on the shapely bead, and fair, aj. n:uing face, whose charms engage The heart lite seme enchanting page, Where grief and love and tears prevail, In .-weet Clarissa's moving tale i A wistful, lovely face, and one It moves the heart to look upon ; 1'cor c!.iUI whose eyes, through tears of ve, Lc-keJ dew n a century a.;j. And t-a"'. one ir.oruing bright with iJay, Her brave young lover ride away ; Vuea bv the caemeut on the stair The light of lite grew dark for her I His letter told her, "thine till death !" He fell in f-lit. tbe legend saith, "ovi red witn glory, and U s ears Were thr.l.ed in death with conquering cheers ; Am! she strove ever to endure Her gnef, and helped the ysnering poor, Ar-J iiveil mi wedded til! she died, Atil i" beaveu l satisfied. WuMAN'S 1JLUXDEK. "Mutlins and crumpets made to or der."' Thus ran the written notice, penned, to. in characters nearly ap proaching half-text, stuck up in one of the few "principal shops facing the main street. T.'te unimportant village of "Lam meiton" lay somewhat lar away from any tow;, and therefore did a fair amount ot steady going business on its owe account. Foremost of ail ranked the repository or store of Janet Lisle, it; which she sold stationery, news Mi'r?, the magazines ot the day if i!u: otdeied in time, besides a variety of . eful odds and ends, the was also t:.e village postmistress, and carried out the duties cf Ler office with a uiuiked regard to promptitude. In each cf these pursuits, however, she wns aided by her pretty and also wiu m.u.o niece, Kisie Falcot-bridge. Iu all reality, Elsie was more mis-tre-s of the postal department than Juntt Lisle herself. It, was she who ordinarily undertook the dispatch of that tw;ce-a-day letter-bag, bestowing upon each missive previously the due official stamp-mark. "Janet Lisle's r'.;.t taiid, in fact," as every one said. She, ieo, it was who made the muffins ud cruttpt-ts muffins and crumpets which were sd popular in the village that no one ever dreamed of having a tea party without also having "muHius tnd crutQjtts"' to match. 'Oblige me with a two-cent stamp. Miss FalcoubrMge, won't you?" and a somewhat elderly man at that moment Stared her full in the face this neces sarily, however through the gap raauein the wire- network marking off the spot allotted to the post-cfii x de partment. She handed him what he required. "And a registered envelope, also." he said. A Tain she bad fulfilled his request. "Thank you," and without much ado fce deposited a twenty-dollar note with in the same. "All right," he soliloquized, as old geDtlemen are so fond of doing. "Come, that's done, at any rate," he added, in self-congratulatory fashion. Then came aloud, queslioningly: "In the letter-box? or shall I leave it with vuu?" "You can leave it here, sir," an swered F-'.sie, quietly. Others were now coming in fast, de manding this and that, and in adopt ing a calm exterior lay her only chance of attending rightly to each petitioner. Janet Lisle also was unusually busy that afternoon. Miss Veal, the richest old lady in the parish, gave a large tea party that very evening, and muffius and crumpets were accordingly being sent off in startlingly large quantities. "Is there any letter waiting for me to-day, please?" asked a somewhat timid yoice a few minutes later on. "No, Miss Josephine, nothing." "I am soirv. Disappointing is it not?" The two speakers seemed fully to comprehend each other. There existed, apparently, a sort of pleasant sympathy between them. Both were pretty. Both looked good, and also thoroughly il earnest. Only, that the assistant post mistress, appeared full of brightness and life, and the girl now facing her wore the aspect or being tired of life fc'.re;tdy. "Yea, very. I am sorry, too." "Thank you. You are always klud. 1 will look la again to-morrow, if my dots? sj will not trouble you too much." "Not at all, Miss Josephine." The last-named was already moving ray to make room for some one else. Elsie Fa'.conbndga bad, however, not jet completed her business with the ute lawjer's daughter. "Auntie," she whispered, "take my p'ace Lere for a moment." Janet Li3le nodded in ascent. "Bo come In here an instaut with me, won't jou?" and Elsie signed that Miss Josephine should accompany her iti'-o the cozy back parlor, where all a now in readiness for tea. "The fact is, Miss Josephine. I've done the most stupid thing imaginable tday made a mistake, and prepared nearly twice the number of crumpets that will he wanted by anybody. Isn't it ab surd of me? You don't mind no, I'm sure you won't. Miss Josephine help me nut of my trouble." "jlut how?'' came, hesitatingly, iu tesinie. Then came ah! so bravely, for it is fever dillicult to tell the plain truth in such matters "I cant. It's iu:: impossible. We have no money. Boi.t you understand?" , '''Vbiurd!" was the interruption. 'Why, it's a favor I'm asking of you: don't you see? I kHew you would be ti to-day, fur certain, and would be I'leiid me. Ifg only that I want you, " ) ju don't mind the trouble, to carry non e a dozen or so to your sweet mother. Many's the dozen she has or ancd from us in the past, when, per we haven"t been able to Buoply her. une can not forget that fact.'you mow, in ahuny. So there they are, Miss Josephine, all hot and ready-but-tere.!, ror 1 dun't think vou know how " lt Jourseif, You had better go out this way, by the side door, and then no one will be the wiser for the favor you've done me." For one brief instant her worn, pale iact.1 companion had bent down im u.u, ve,'y.ana laid 1,er 0WI tt cheek It V i ,Lls!e'8. and the next, wholly Uidi le to speak, slm had disappeared. 41 thanV.,ier heavier mail-bag to-night taan usual, wasn't it. JSlsie?" "res, aunt. Thank you for doing it np lor me. At any rate, the registered letters did not occupy you a long wune.'' Xo. child." Meanwhile Elsie had been engaged in penning a dozen words or more upon a large sheet or letter-paper, aud the fol lowing morning, side by side with the well-known "muffin and crumpet" statement, appeared the following: "A young lady, clever and well-edu cated, desires at once a good morning or uauy engagement as governess. le-ruis moderate. Excellent references. Apply for particulars within." "All that advertising in the news papers is only throwing money away,1' mused tdsie. "I'll man ije things tor her a little better la this way, perhaps. l snail never rorget her miserably care worn face last evening." Miss Josephine had. in a most inex plicable way, won the woman's entire sympathy, and also admiration, of El sie. Aud yet the latter never seemed to forget the difference in station that s!.e considered still existed between her favorite and herself. Sue only knew that the lawyer's daughter was a very mode! of sweet patience, and that she and all at home were as poor as any church-mouse. "Oh, im p exclaimed little Bob Tra- vers that morning, as the letters were brought iu. "What shoals of letters! What a lot of governesses we shall have, mother! 1 do declare if It won't be just like an evening party." "Hold your tongue, Bob!" urged his father, peremptory. "Leave the room." Letters of importance had to be dis cussed, most ot them bearing reference to what Bob had termed the "evening party." Some applicants declared they were experieuced, because middle aged. Others asserted that they were young, and therefore generally regarded as Laving an attractive way with chil dren; which latter statement was yet worse. The last described young ladies would perhaps prove attractive in other ways, and fall desperately In love with the quiet bachelor Uncle Fred. Xo, that wouldn't do at all. and in a deci ded fit of ill-hutnor Bj'j's father threw the entire batch cf letters into the Ore, As usual, when perturbed in mind, "mother' turned the current of con versation by addressing Uncle Fred. "I wish, when passing Janet Lisle's to-day, you wou'd ask for our maga zines." All was hurry-skurry, as U3ual, three or four hours later on in the post-office. A variety of small packages required immediate weighing; aud it was at this very juncture that Uncle Fred placed his foot upon the threshold. Some thing had, however, just caught his eye, and without more ado he beat a hasty retreat not, however, to a great distance off. "The very tbmi!" he ejaculated. "The re! We have been bunting about all this while and to what purpose? Particular within.' Eh? "IVhy, Til go in at once and Inquire." Uncle Fred was a widower, and had therefore made his home of late years with his sister Folly's family. Any thing, he thought, was better than liv ing alone. lie was rich too, and a highly cultivated man, with a peculiar faculty also for engaging iu the per formance of kindly actions. Like the rest of the family, bowever, he had onl lately come into the neighborhood. "Will you excuse my troubling you about the notice in the window?" Elsie started visibly an instant. Yes, of course. This was not the firs; occa sion upon which she had seen that certainly striking face. Yesterday, of course, when be had sent off that regis tered letter. But Elsie was instantly all attention. Yes; she could tell him all he required to know and did so; and even as she spoke Elsie's eyes sparkled brightly aud lovingly. She was doing now what it rejoiced ner true woman's heart to venture npon trying to help her favorite. "And Miss Falconbridge thought that the young laly in question might 1,-e fully relied upon in her guidance of little children?" he asked. "Oh, dear me! Yes Most cer tainly." "You ca give me her address?" Elsie noted it down quickly upon a slip of paper. Before the end of that certainly eventful day Miss Josephine was en gaged as daily governess in me lamiiy of Uncle Fred't sister, at the moderate salary of two hundrel dollars a year. Some months have passed away slnee then. Kiud Uncle Fred, that he ever is, has just appeared m the large, old fashioned hall, and is assisting "Miss Josephine" in; putting on her cloak, previous to taking her departure for r.ome. lie aud "Sister Folly" also, aie both made of good stuff, as folks say and Heaven bles3them for it! only wish to make her feel at home with them. And for this reason, therefore, it seems that Uncle Fred not only, on this special evening escorts her to the ball door, but also a short distance on the road towards home. As he says, the evening is so lovely, and the balmy, out air will do him good. She is telling him why, she does not exactly know something about their troubles at home since "dear father" died. She likes to talk of him even now, she says not to be forever silent about the one whom they had lost, as is the fashion with so many people. Uncle Fred quite understands her, aud agrees with her also and yet, strange, perhaps, somewhat, on his part, he has never once referred, in thus chatting with her, to the one trouble that has served so sadly to shadow his own life. Xo; he only listens o her owq, it seems. "In fact, you know," went on "Miss Josephine," quite simply, "he bad not a penny left in the house. It was too dreadful, sir." She paused a moment; then went on, in the least degree nervously: "Shall I tell you what I did?" "Yes." "I advertised, then, in the county paper don't be shocked, please. At any rate, I did it for the best whether right or wrong, I don't quite know." "Go on." "I merely said, then, that a widow aud her daughters all born to better things, as it had seemed were suddenly thrown into the lowest depths of pov ertyand asked for help. Uncle Fred gave a sort or slight nervous start at this moment, but "Miss Josephine" did not notice it. She was thinking only at that instant of the terrible struggle which had urged her to take such a step as that which she was now describing. "And the result?" he asked, quietly. "What was it?" "Xo answer came," she returned, gravely, but earnestly. "Fossibly those who read the words did not believe in their truth, or possibly some did so rho were not in a position to aid us." "I see," and Uncle Fred spoke now, as if dreamily, "Therel I must leave you. Miss Josephine. Very sorry for it very sorry, indeed. Have Just sud denly rememsered something. ou'u excuse my running away thus abruptly; won't you? Will tie a trine more court eous next time. Horribly bard-hearted of the leop'.e; waoi't it. Miss Jose phine?" And thus talking glibly as lr, loo, be did not exactly know what he was saying Uncle Fred lifted his hat and disappeared. The following Thursday morning, just as "Miss Josephine" waj starting for her usual daily oc;upation. a letter was placed in her hand by the postman; aiter reaamz wnicu, that youug lady marched deliberately up-stairs again, removed her hat and cloak, chased away with her pocket-handkerchief a great many tears that for some reason or other would insist upon pouring down her cheeks, and then set to work to re-read the following words: "Deau Miss Josephine: Pardon my abrupt leave-taking yesterday; but 1 will now explain. Returning home expressly by way of the post-office, I did a small stroke of business there on my own account. "Miss Elsie Falconbridge was out, having gone to spend the evening with the widowed, and, a'asl n w childless mother of her once, and so lately, too, tailor lover. We have, however, al ready spoken together you and I of this unlooked-for event, and also of the brave way in which Miss Elsie bears the heavy blow. "But I would now speak of some thing else so seldsh are we all in this world, you see. I persuaded the eool dame, Janet Lisle, to assist me in some thing which was puzzling me not a lit tle. "I heard last evening, for the first time, of course and also from your own lips, most strange to say that a twenty-dollar note, which I had sent you in answer to your advertisement asking for aid, never reached you. It had not, I now find, been miscarried In the ordinary way that letters do occa sionally go astray; but it was as impos- posslble, you will presently see. that it should ever have reached your abode, a3 the residence of one of the ancient patriarchs. "The letter containing the amount named was, it appears, although plated in a registered envelope for which 1 duly paid, never dispatched; and la the hurry-starry of the moment it was never entered, either. In the official book. The fault was, of course, my own, quite as much as that of any one else; but every one was asking hurried questions at the moment, and my letter yours, rather paid the penalty. Then, as fate would have it, it landed itself otherwise than in the legitimate post-bag, and dropped, how, is best known to itself, behind a drawer that is rarely opened. "Fwtve tlie4ettU. however, Janet Lisle has only discovered the thus bid- den-away missive half an hour before I appeared upon the scene mark the coincidence and was in a state of no little consternation. "Picture also my own dismay. "The mystery, however, is now solved. "I will not again tender the amount for your acceptance, as there certainly seems to be something unfortunate attending its career besides which, I, on my part, am going to ask a fivor from yourself. "Will you, I ask. become my wife?- and also kindly acknowledge the re ceipt of this letter, or I shall be com pelled to take it for granted that my second communication has shared the fate of my first. UxcleFeed.' 'Miss Josephine," like a wist woman, answered the letter just re ceived by return of post. W 9 W The years have flown since then, and matters kO on much as usual in that small township of Lammerton. But there are changes, nevertheless. Janet Lisle knows her place no more in the cozy little post-omce. she has already gone home long since to rest, and sweet Elsie Falconbridge is now the mistress of everything. Her hair, bowever, though still beautiful, is iu these days white white as the driven snow; and the abiding expression upon her still handsome face is that of one who has passed through a mighty and alsa terrible sea of trouble, and borne the trial only as a true heroine could. She knows, she says, that uod has or dered all. and that she shall see her sailor lover again one day In Heaven. But there Is still one person In the world whom she loves dearly, and that is the happy, true heartsd wife of "Uncle Fred." "I owe all every bit in fact, of my happiness to you, sweetest Elsie," as Josephine says. "It all date3 from the day don't you remember? when you gave me muffins and crumpets." "And also dispatched my rezistered letter sa carefully," remarks Uncle Fred, quaintly. A Daylight Burglary. Ttiirtrl.inr?" slm frasned. as she en tered the detective's room at police headquarters tne otner tiay. "When?" "Two hours ago! And right before my eyes, too!" "Please get your breath, ma'am, and give us the particulars." "WelL sir," she said, after a few gasps to get her voice. "I was stand ing looking out of the window. A roughly dressed fellow came across the street and opened the gate. 1 knew he was a burglar the moment I saw him, and I kept my eyes open. He looked up and down the street and around the house, and then then, sir, he !' "Wasn't the front door locked?" "Oh, yes." "Then how did he get in?" "He didn't get in, sir, but he grab bed my pug dog off the doorsteps and was gone before I could get down stairs!" - Memorial Treca" at Washington. In 'he botanical garden at "Washing ton are a number of '-memorial trees" arborlal tributes to prominent men. Two of the trees are cypress, planted ca opposite sides of the south walk by John w. Forney and Edwin Forrest, whe were inseparable friends. These trecs: in growing up, leaned toward each oth er, until now their branches almost in terlace. -1 vine-glass of cologne and one oi lemon juice strained clear. Scrape two cakes of brown Windsor soap to a paw der and mix well ia noll. Whet hard it Is fit for use, and will be founc excellent for irUteaUu; tbe uaadi Oil, NO! i Young Girl's Conversational Stock and How She I'ncd It. I was a young girl once not so very long ago a very shy young girl. I smile now, as I think of the agonlea of timidity and embarrassment which I used to go through every day every hour almost with such very inade quate cause! "When I first "came out" when I began to go to balls, recep tions, afternoon teas, garden parties positively every one who came M speak to me was a fresh source ot terror, another alarming incarnation of society before whom 1 felt mor utterly speechless and awkward than words can describe. My very heart used to quail when 1 saw good-natured menus or m7 mother's come up to me. out of sheer kindness, I am sure, to make small talk to me. When aorc? courtly young man would advance to put my cup down or some still more lKlite youth, invite me to dance I wai pleased, of course; but, oh! the suffer ings 1 uuderwentl I was so shy on these occasions that I could absolutely utter no word, and tho more nervously I tried to think of Something to say the more utterly did speech, thought, in telligence and everything else appear to have departed from me. At last, una ble to bear it any longer, 1 confided my sorrows to my mother one evening as we were going out to a ball, and asked her to help mo. "My dear Vio let," she said, smiling, "girls of seven teen are not expected to be very elo quent; if you can listen agreeably when people talk to you aud make some trilling rejoinder every now and again, that will do quite well for the present." But that is exactly my difficulty. I san't think of any rej jinder. Iain Be shy, all my ideas go away the moment people speak to me.' "But surely you can think of sayiiu 'Oh, yes' or 'Oa. no,' as the case may be? 1 hat is not a great effort of imag ination." "But I should never know which to ay. I should invariably say 'yes srhen it ought to have been 'no.' If I inly had one answer that would always Jo; then I slnuldu't have to thiuk about it at alb'' "Well, I am not sura that it would be a good plan always to answer 'yes' to everything that is said to you. You might find it inconvenient sometimes!'; "Then I will say, 'Ob, no' that can never commit me to anything." "Very- well," said my mother, laughing. "You bad better try it to night, and see how it succeeds." So, thus rrovided with a fund of 1 conversation, I arrived at the ball a tittle happier in my mind than I gener I ally felt on these occasions, but still j with some misgiviugs, as usuau e 1 were iceived at the drawing-room by ! our hr-jlei.1, Mrs. l'enaajL.-ur!-t cf tv-" kindest-hearted women in the worr who was at once anxious to find me a hojt of partners. "Xow, my dear, you've come to enjoy yourself, I hope; vou don't mean to sit by your mother x the evening as some siraight-laced voung ladies I know do?" "Oh, to." "You must let me introduce a great many partners to you." ' Oil, no!" I said deprecatiugly. 'Nonsense! Of course I sha'l. iere is my nephew just arnvmr. ixthur, you know Miss Gra'jam. Vi olet, I need not introduce Captain ttjsset to you." "Oh, no!" "May i have the pleasure or u -altz? or is your card quite full?" ' Oh, no!" "That is delightful. Let us have a turn nov, before the room 13 to crowded." And oT we went. "I don't think I ever had a better wabz in my life," be said, as we left off. "1 won't ask you if you have enj ye 1 It, too; that would be conceited tf me." "Oh, no!" "We have not met for such ages. 1 was wondennz if I should ever see vou again. ot since that day at Maidenhead, have we?" "Oh, no!" "How delicious it wa3 on the river in tne evening, ana what a spienuii little canoe that was I rowed you In! Nothing s jolly as a canoe, is there?" Oh, no!" I dare say, though, you've beea on the river hundreds of times since, indhave forgotten all about that day?" "Oh, no!" "What a pity there is the end of the waltz. You must give m9 an: other presently. Let me see this is No. 4; give me Xo. 'J and Xo. 13. May I put my name down for them.' lou don't think that will be too many?" "Oh, nol" "It isn't enough. I think!" "Oh, n" (checks hersell). 'Let us go on to the balcony, or are you afraid of bein too cold?" "Oh, no!" I don't know how lonj wi) remained on the balcony. I am afraid a long time. Presently Luch Fenwlck came out with Mr. Le Mar- chant. By the way, 1 believe it was s-ttled when they were children by their mothers, that Lucy was to many her cousin, Arthur Uosset; when they grew up. People say that Mrs. Fen- wick is very anxious now to bring it about. 1 don't care about Lucy very much. She talks and giggles so much no one knows what she is going to say ! next. "What, Violetl is this where vou are?" she cried. "Mrs. Graham has been wondering what has become ! jf jou. Is this where you have been ill the evening?" "Oh, no!" "she says it is more than half an lour since she bas seen you!" "Oh, no!" I said indignantly as I ires 3. "This is our dance. I believe Xo. J.' Captain Gosset said, as we stepped back into the room. 4 Oh, no!" I said Incredulously. rather horrified at finding that actually tour dances had passed while we were ,m the balcony. "Indeed it is. I assure you," he said. 'Don't let us waste any more of this delicious music! . . . not so nice a it was before too many people now. Let us go on the balcony again." "Oh, no!" "This is very cruel of you. Mind you don't fcrget that you have prom ised nieXo. 13." Oh, no.' By the time Xo. 13 came round I was quite tired out with dancing, and besides the room was so hot and crowded one could hardly move. So Captain uosset suggested that instead of dancing we should go into the con servatory, which was delightfully cool and quite empty. "Jnlly place, a coa- servatoryl" he said "fountains plashs Ing, Chinese lanterns burning flower smelling . . . and all that I No place like it when you want to talk, is there?" "Oh, no!" After this remark, bowever. Captain Gosset relapsed into silence, instead of at once breaking lut-) the irresist ible eloquence he had led me to sus pect and we bath sat for some min utes contemplating tbe fountains, the flowers and the Chinese lanterns, which at last appeared to have tbe desired effect for he suddenly said: "Miss Graham! Violet! do you mind me calling you Violet!" "Oh, no!i' 'I am going to India next month; it may be years before I see you again" "Oh, no," I said reassuringly. "I cannot leave England without speaking to you, without telling you my iove, ror you know, you must have seen what I feel for you ; have you not guessed it long ago?" "Oh, col" "Nay, I am sure yoa have. Violet, could you, wbuld you endure the idea of going out to India?" "Oh, no!" I said decidedly. "What! You would not? But surely you must care a little for me you couid not have been to me as you have been if you did not feel some thing more Ur me than friendship." "Oh, no!" "Think over what I have said, then; do not reject the idea at once give me a little Lope! I am not dis pleasing te you, am 1?" "Oh, no!" "Do you dislike a soldier's life?" "Oh, no!" "My darling, how happy you would make me" At this moment Mrs. Fen wick appeared in the doorwav. "What, Violet, my dear child! are you not afraid of a chill, sitting in this cold place?" "Oh, no!" "Have you had any supper?" "Oh, no!" "Arthur, bow neglectful! Do take Miss Graham in to supper!" And so we went into the supper-room, where there was an immense crowd, and where Lucy Fenwick kindly insisted on giving me up her seat between two female friends of her mother's and after supper we went home. Captaia Gossett went to India tbe next month. Y'ou will ask whether I ever went there too. "Oh. no! Time, and absence, new friends and fresh scenes, turned the current of his thoughts and brought healing to his grief. His heart did not break- neither d:d mine. He is now, I be lieve, happily married so am I; so is Lucy Fenwick, and we are none of us as looiish or as shy as we were ten years ago oh, no! Hotels in Mexico. There is a thaiui about the hotels, an air of respectability that belongs to age, and has no affiliation whatever with thise gorgeous establishments ia Amer ican nuts where the "stunning" clerk is autocrat supreme. The venerable stone walls that are adorned with dingy sculpture, have settled into a cliaractei that solicits commence and repose rt mind, and the general homelike iinob trusivpncs3 of the inn soothes the rest less soul. The time-worn and rather shabby old party wno presides over the otlice is amiably interested in you, but lw never becomes aggressive, and his attention is a passing affair. His habit of mind is illustrated by the reply given to the agent of an American excursion party, who applied for quarters at the hotel in what was the palace of the evanescent Emperor Ittirbide. "How much are your rooms a day?" asked the brisk Anirriraii. "Four dollars,'' returned the clerk. "B:it I shall bring you SO peo ple," said the advance agent, with con lidcnce. "Four dollars and a half in that case," said the sereuo old party of the second part; "that uiakes more trouble!" The affectionate interest with which the philosophic mind must regard the eighteenth century ikmsc of a landlord, who argues like that, was not shared by the wholesale applicant for rooms. The incident only intensified his relent less Americanism. Diit we have kept our old hotel clerk waiting too long not that he minds it, for he has not turned a hair, and is counting the flies that come and go in au unbusiness-like, but truly Mexican style. He sees the traveller register, and calmly dispatches him by the hand of uiozo, up the flight of stone stei to where the guardian of the keys and letter-boxes reduces his trust by one, ami then we toil up two more flights of stairs to a fine old room on the topmost of the circumscribing galleries. It is sunny aud cheerful, and ojn'iis to a bal cony ovr the interior court tliat is bridged by the blue sky. The view is pleasant, offering beneath a summer house tropical vegetation aud a foun tain basin that is covered with greeu slime, and suggests malaria. Thereafter, as one passes in and out of the hotel, the custodian of the key will smile and be unintelligibly courte ous in Spanish; but to the antique clerk below, the guest became an established fact when he chalked the name on a blackboard for public instruction. Avoid Opiate. Tho 111191(1011' Gazelle, we be lieve, speaks candidly when it says that the increasing use of opiates and other drngs intended to either allay or excite nervous activity is au evil in this coun try equal to if not worse than the ex cessive use of intoxicating liquors. Comparatively little is said of it in pub lic journals, and there is no such cru sade against it as there is against in temperance. The insidiousness of the drug habit makes it the more danger ous. The great majority of those who begin the use of opium, morphine and chloral do it under prescription of phy sicians, and often without being allow ed to know what they are taking until the liabit Is thoroughly fastened upon them. Such trifling with life and health by physicians should be made a criminal offense, and its victim or his friends should prosecute for malpractice to the full extent of the law. It is a safe rule J to take no medicines from any except j those known to be trustworthy; and no physician is trustworthy who refuses to inform patients or possible danger from the drugs be may presenile. So many j have beeu wrecked in this way tliat the . old secrecy about the composition of habit, Game Shooting In the West The shooting is never so good foi water fowl on the Little Missouri or elsewhere throughout the cattle coun try as it is in the more ferile farm land prairies to the east want. Still, oc casionally we can make fair bags. The little teal Is the commonest and least shy of the water fowl. As they sit out ou the sandbar they often let a boat drift close up to them, and it is quite easy also to creep within gun shot from the Uinl:. I have killed eleven of them with a single barrel. The mallard duck, slioveler duck, and broad bill are also common, and afford excellent sport. These, however, are shyer, and r-rtly let a boat drift down uon them, unless one is able to take advantage ot some cover or come quickly round the point. ueese are more wary still. IJtiite a number of these breed with us; some times m tho river, sometimes in the reedy slews or iools far up in tho creeks, out iu the badlands or on the prairie, When they are moulting it is not dilli cult to get them if one cares to, aud oil such occasions, although there cannot he said to be anv siiort to be obtained from them, yet I have shot the young birds for the table, for there cau be no better eating tlian a fat, three-parts grown young goose. hen their feath ers are growu, however, the geese show themselves most amply lit for self pro tection, and it needs then very careful stalking, indeed, before one can conic up to them. Iu addition to the water fowl proper to !te obtained while drift ing or paddling down the river there are also at times, flocks of waders at whirh one can get a shot. Avocets, stilts, yelper, iuarlin, and yellow legs are occasionally found, although not plentv. Thov are not apt to be shv, and if a shot is taken just as they rise or as they wheel, the expenditure of a single cartridge ljaded with small shot will often suthce to bring down a dozen birds, which may prove a pleasant cluinge to the ranchman's somewhat monotonous diet. How to Read Faces. Necretiveness is shown b." coinpresse A'ui mm ius, ana small mouiu it nit lips are thin. The large eye and mouth are evidence of volume of language. AU orators have large mouths. Among men of power and capacitj secrelivenessand craft are never marked they do not need it. Caution is seen in the long nose. Hope is strong when tho septum oi middle portion of the n:se projects be low the sides. Clearness of the skin and eves is another sign. When the septum is drooping at t'i( tip, as in Canova's face, or that of Mrs. S:ddons or La 1'iace, the faculty ol analysis is large. Ideality is known by width of the tij of thti nowe, giving it a square-cm ai'leaiaiicr, aa in jtyron, irviug. ver ntt, Mrs. Stowe and a host of oilien and artists. Xoses high and projecting at the ti show understanding of human naturt ami love for its study. This is the nost for a physician. All eminent doctors, naturalists and philosophers show thb feature. It is the probing inquiring nose. Fullness of the sides of the nose de notes large constructive powers, as ii; Morse and Edison. The higher and broader the bridge of the nose, the greater is the development of veneration. Self-will is shown by the height of th( nose at the root. All undeveloped race: 'lid faces are flat here. An I'nbclievcr in Taffy. Not nianv years ago a gentleman wa; preparing to leave for Europe, and his wife, while packing his trunk, said: "Here is my picture, shall I put it ir with the other things?" "Yes certainly, for I should feel losi without it. You know I always take it with me wherever I go." "1 es," replied the wife, "I know yoc do, but I don't believe you ever look at it." "Indeed I do, every night of my life,' rejoined the loving spouse. I he little velvet case was put into tlu trunk as usual. When the husband re turned and the trunk wa3 being un packed by the happy couple, the wife found the case, and taking it out said " ell. tell me now. did you look a. my picture while yoa were away?" "Look at it.' Indeed I did, and it was the greatest comfort to me." "I don't lelieve it," said the wife. "Why. Marv, there was not a single night while I was awav that I didn't look at It." Whereuiiou the wife opened theempU ease aud showed him that she had taken the picture out and packed only the case. 1 he likeness had remained ai home in her upper drawer. Fortunately, the wife, who, by the way, was a re markably handsome woman, was not at: over-sensitive person, and used to tell the circumstance as a good joke to he; iiends. A Great Journalist. A tall richlv dressed man, wearing a ffatch charm as large as a flat iron, sat in the office of an Estelline hotel. lie had the appearance of a man whe owned the whole earth and was look inz around for a purchaser. With a patronizing wave of his hand he said : "Yes, gentlemen, the profession of journalism is grand. It is the press of to-day that is the lever which moves the world. The newspaper is not only your true educator morally and Intel lectually, but the dictator before which governments bow. I myself am a journalist, and am proud of it" He paused and sank back in bis chair. Two small boys In tbe back part of the room took off their hats and a man kicked tbe Cog and made him crawl back under the table. There was breathless silence. A moment later the journalist arose and walked out. One man took a chew of tobacco and auother tiptoed up to the counter, jerked his bead toward the door, and said to the landlord: Well, I suppose that is the editor of the London Tunes." Xot hardly," replied the landlord, "He is soliciting subscriptions for the St. Paul Daily Greatheyond. I just took a six week subscription as pay for his dinner." MW,hto whIch fell in Washinetoi. M Sl recora- OCEANS OF SWEETS. Where Tun of Candies are Made fr Iainly Palatca. With Tear and trembling, and a heart surcharged with anxiety lest somebody should see him a reporter made his way into a candy factory recently, lie took a sum legged dude along with him to swear to an alibi in ease of need. A d(Xr opened and shut, and the vis itors found themselves in a room which at first sight might have been taken for a machine shop. Ponderous wheels re volved noiselessly, and upon every s'de great engines stretched and drew back their long steel arms, engaged upon some unknown but titanic tak. Tlit The odor of chocolato was well nlsh overpowering. The reporter stepped forward to an enormous howl of polished copper and gazed into its depths. A strange sight greeted his eyes. AVithin the interior of this great copper vessel revolved two iarge mill stones, while a steel rake like implement, constantly in motion, directed a river of rich brown chocolate so that it flowed steadily under the wheels. It was extiaorliuary how this mighty torrent twisted in and our a grc-at writhing Via constrictor strug gling to cscaiie. "That is tin grimier," remarked the superintendent. "That stuff in there is simply the crushed cocoa beau and sugar. It looks semi-liquid, of course, but that is liecause of the essential oil of the bean." Near the grinder stood a machine something like a great coffee mill. Tbe cocoa beaus iu their entirety were turn ed into a hopier at the top aud issued in the 'orm of a liquid into a large vat beneath. Chocolate nuking is rather a compli cated process. The ljeans are first placed in a separator, which dries and assorts them. Next they are roasted. Machine No. 15 crarks them, cleans them, throws out the shells aud the perm, and pre serves the kernel. After this the kernels arc ground with sugar; the half made chocolate is heated in an oven, then passed through three finishing machines, and finally romes into the hands ol pretty young girls, who wrap it in silver toil and U,x it. Ir. a small room well lighted and ven tilated and scrupulously clean as, in deed, was the entire factory five men were at work. They looked like a band of Brazilian planters who had been lifted up bodily and set down in the middle ol a Canadian snow storm. They were clothed from head to foot in siotless coiton cotton coats, cotton aprons. cotton trousers, cotton blouses and cot ton cais. A white powder driftin t!iro'.!5ti the apartment had settled on t'.it ir mustaches and faces, to say noth ing ot fcitir clotlung. 1 h:s powder wa eoni starch. Over a huge copper caul- uroii, iieateu reneatn iy a coil of sinu ous ste;uii pis leaned one of these queer wh.te figures. I a his hand lit held a gigantic sixjou, and every now ansl Ihra lie stirred tlis .-otiteiits ul . tu, great ves 1 vigorously. Tne rcorter jeied over the brinl aud saw a imissot snow white substance abjut the consistency of buttermilk. "Try some?"' queried thesucrinteiul- ent, as lie tnru-is a i.ul.c into the vat. It was marsh ma! low, but such marsh. mallow! It took two ladlefuls to quiet the dude, and even then he looked long uigly at the oper as the party turned away. Tun ugh a narrow passageway jnist a curious machine which husked a!iu)ii Is it it 1 blanched them at the rate ot 10,'nio a minute, au I tlr.ough a swinging door in'o faiiy-.'a'id. At loin I ng tables silt forty girls, and every one of t ie forty was young and pretK and every one of tlietn wore a natty little apron and a bewitching little while mull cap. lt fairly too'v the dudes' breath away. Eacli girl was armed with a piuted spoon with a long handle, and j in front of each stood a tiny gxs stove surmounted T.ie kettles bv a tinv eopiH-r kett'e shone briL'hTlv and s,- did the faces of the girls as they glanced u: from their work. Ea-h little can was about half f ud of colored paste, due girl had green par-te, c "h ied with pistachio nuts; the next, paste of a vio let hue; aud besides, there we: crushed strawberry paste, seal blown pxste, sky blue pa-te, yellow paste, and px-te ol svery other imaginable shade. The walls of this grotto ot the sirens were literally composed of candy. Tier aftci tier of shelves weie there, heaied as high as one could reacli with tin slabs containing rows of parti-colored Ikmi- bons. Auother room, more pre" ty girls, more bonbons. Again another room contain ing three enormous vats, copper, as usual. Into each vat protruded au air pipe like the cie seen in the iiiarshmal lov room. These cauldrons, however, were supported ou an incline of forty live degrees, and so arranged that they revo.ved at great s;eed. Within each, hopping about liteialiy like peas on a gnddie, were 1-Ni ikhumIs of sugared almonds. Think of it! Next the cream room. Here stood huge vessels filled with paste of all favors rasberry, strawberry, chocolate, vanilla, pistachio, goodness knows what else. These pastes serve for the various sorts of line confectionary. There were also buckets of "crystal, " a conqiound of sugar used for glazing. In this room men were shoveling 'creaiii." i.e., su gar, water and flavoring, with w.mtleu trowels a. recklessly as if it wa;:'t goo I to eat and as if young men were - alive to pay $1 a pound for it. Another large room, and this time fifty, girls positively prettier, if that were possible, than the first two ga'axies. Each girl was armed with a queer little two-pronged fork, and before each wa a kettle of chocolate and a tin plate full of creams of various colors anil shapes. The girls took the creams up oa their little forks, soused them in Jie choco late stew, twisted them about in it, fished them out again, and placed them on long tin slabs to dry. There v?r-; many more interesting sights in '.he candy factory. Iu the packing depart ment more girls, prettyjof course, wr.ip led the bonbons in paper and the choco lates in foil, ami stowed them away in neat boxes. Then there was a stcre keepcr's room, which smelled like a rroeer's shop with ail the red herring; juid soap and other ill-sinelling things l'clagated to the front sidewalk, in ciqweious cellars beneath the building were stored away in bins 12, 'AO bottles of fruit extracts, and these only repre sented the supply for one year. Then, too, there were the engine room and the "arpenter's shop, and the choclate storing rooms, aud laree marble slabs for cooling taffy, and 101 useful and interesting appliances. A man in Campbell county, ria., had 30 boys old enough to fight in the late war and 23 of them were killed. He bad been married 9 times. NEWS IX BRIEF- According to General Tiosecrans the war of the rebellioa cost $;,1S9,920, 903. Aristotle Is said to be the first knowD collector of a library. In 322 Ii. C. A single sale of 2CO tens of shelled peanuts was made in Petersburg, Va., a few days ago. The pay of doctors in China is from Qve to ten cents a visit, and they are kept exceedingly busy. The Philadelphia library is the old est in the United State. It was founded i century and a htilf ago. An Amador county, Ca!., rna i ha9 applied for a . tent on a proems for making butter Ly boiling tl.e c eim. Tr.e first i.ok printed In England was by Caxton in 1174. Iu title is The game and playc of the chesse." At a "Jo:m"pai ty in Pennsylvania every son of man named John was given a piate or cake ana a aim of ice cream, cot free. Brevity as the means of expressive itatement is illustrated in the following terse epitaph: "Del in tfcia shoes. Innuary, lsjy." There is a house In Norfolk. Conn.. on which there ha- been a 500 mortgage for SI years, and which interest has been paid annually. It has never hapoeued in the historv of this country fhat more than four ex Presidents were alive, and these not for long at the same time. A wood-workinc machine at Win- ehendon, Mass., has made a shaving forty-two inches wine, several feet long and of uniform thickness. Among t!.e oranzo trees of Ver sailles is one more than four eenturie old, which was planted by Eleanor of Castiilp, queen of Charles III. Thieves in Rio de Janeiro have ; icked the pockets or several police cap tains who were on duty, not to siak of robbing sundry police stations. Telephone conversations, a SL Louis circuit court decides, are admis ble as evidence in court, even when the speaker's voice is not recognized. Bees havu'a strong apathy to dark colored object-", and a man with a black plug hat rarely gets stung, the be3 de voting their attention to the hat. Joseph Oiiermaa, of Galveston, Texas, 20 years of age. committed sui cide recently, by taking rat poison. It is said that u was in love with a young lady vhoai bis father married a short tune before. The "Sura" Joce-3 .revival in Balti more was carried on at an expense of ii. l'J7..-3. 'The collections exceeded the expaaditures ?lS7.ol. Sam. Jones' share ot the money was 2,500, out of which he paid his assis ant. Tins . largest IaudU;lders ia the United Kingdom are tl.e Jiukccf Suth erland, tne Duke of Hamilton, Eul of L'unraven and the Marquis or Tweed dale. The latter owns a tract exceed ing 2.3X) square miles in extent. Two Germans, four Scandinavians, four Volt sand two Irishmen to every one American live in the Fourteenth ward of Chicago, where the population is stated at 90,000. with on v 3.874. or about 4 per cent, Americans. A lady in Loudon. Ontario, bas a Marechal Niel rose tree on one side of which the roses are crimson and on tbe other lily white. Soni- of those on the centre stock are divided in co?or, being half crimson and white. The sharpest torments are said to be those caused by trouble which never comes. tu'rtT The empress of China has selected six pretty girls cf 'ii'h rank to tl-xllx lUem t0 empresses and waiting women- 1 hose who are to be devoted io u:e uiguer career are ciassmea as "two dabs" ia rea ink characters, and the others as "one dab." Gall llau'-iltou vivi.i!y describes how Honolulu women walk out in the ram. Her escort usually carries her umbrella, her dress and her shos, while she wears simply a shawl and a hat trimmed with red and white ros. A theatre in Ncv York Las a "ladies cloak room" where women can leave tkeir hats before coin? into tbe theatre. The first night the plan was tried nearly every lady ia the lower pait uf the house ap::a.re4 without a bat. A gold medal has "ueen awarded by the French Minister of the Interior to a workman of the Thea'.re Franca:?, for his act of devotedness in allowing blood to be taken fioru him no lss than seven times for liie purpose i transfusion. A "mystic brotherhood," composed of 20 Burlington, N. J., lads, agt-d be tween 9 and l.J years, who had been taught by a sensational New Y'ork pub lication to regard burglary us a romantic and hilarious pastime, has t;en discov ered and brokeu up. A stableman, v.ho sa w a horse stray to and fall upon a railroad trestle bridge ou the outskirts of .New oik, a few day3 ago, saved an approaching express from disaster by promptly pi:. ling eff his red-flannel shirt and sigca'Tug Is" engineer with it. A Piute medicine man at Hound Valley,Nevada,down in the Inyo section having forfeited bis life the other day by losing his third patient, was, under the good old common law of the tribe, taken out and killed by lieating out bis brains with clubs and stones. An Alameda, Cal. man, who would not trust to the knife alone to end his existence, first turned the gas in his room on full head, then cut his throat and finished up by putting two bullet wounds in his bead. At last accounts it seemed likely his attempt at suicide would be unsuccessful. William Henry, a somewhat noted character of Troy, iX. Y., and the father of 24 children bv two wives, committed suicide in Greenbush lately by cutting his throat with a razor. He had threat ened for months to kill himself, and a long time ago be wrote out minute di rections for hi3 inteimect. He was about 73 years old. To live is to act energetically. Life is a battle to be fought valiantly. In spired by high ain. honorable resolve, a man must stan t to his post, and die there if need be. Like the old Danish hero, his determination should be "to dare noblv, to will strongly, and r.ever to falter in the path of duty." The power of will, be lt great or small, which God has given us, is a divine gift, and we ought neither to let it perish for want of using on the other hand, nor profane it by employing it of rignoble purposes on tbe other. it i? n - . r 5.- : i.r.i b lr';i
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