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VOL. XLI.
MIFF LINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY, PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. APRIL 20, 1887.
NO. 17.
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Yoa Never Can Toll.
Yoa t! ink it i easy your tef to nOKA
l 1 . aTl U rnlnawl
Tliat a man can atop short of crushing
disgrace,
i liia linnnp nMIllnM.
A I)U buli .
But sin so mighty and conscience so
And uuJrr so temptin' a spell.
That tboiih yon may long other pleasures
to k.
Your uvakness you never can toll I
Xlie ocean of vil you never can sound.
Its iJrptLs you can never discern.
But under your fort there is treacherous
ground,
If awav from the pood land you turn.
Yen we" not the danger, you fear not the
iff.
You liiixrr tho soul, " It Is well I
And tl.ini tliat you know just how far you
iuu o,
lut you never, no never, can tell !
Yen nevtr can tell at what moment you'll
slip
Into .-uares that are cruelty laid
i;y tfco! bo are willing another should
trip
Where I Ley were as foully betrayed.
A moment's Indulgence may lead jou to
critu' s
That m.rit a prisoner's cell ;
Tiiru tj-ut'ch the hot lever of paction be-
IHUI'S,
For its io er y ou never can Ull I
You never can tell what moment you'll
hear
The signal of death at your gate,
VLo;e umch will arrest your thoughtless
career,
And brinj your repentance too late.
Stand firm thcu to-day, the allurements
of sin,
With earnest persistence repel.
And strive for a prize that is worthy to
win,
AlJ whose z.'mj no mortal can tell.
A CABLE CAR ROMANCE.
WLtii .T;imes Austin banished young
Jack Marr from his house, declaring
liim to lv an idle jackanape who had
never put his hands to honest work, but
sjieiit his time dawdling about the city,
making li've to pretty girls and waiting
for his father.- money, Hetty's tearful
reuioitr.ui. e passed by unheeded.
James Austin was a wise uinn and cal-:u'..tU-l
ttpjii a t-ei tain amount of femi
nine oW.uuey a:.d martyrdom as an
inevitable consequence of his verdict, so
that lie uas neither suiitriscd mr dis
tuibrd wlien his daughter failed to
apiear at inil time or sat at the table
and listlessly toyed with her food. He
observed tliat site went about the house
looking Uinguid and pale, that she re
jected her former amusements and
declined to see any but her intimate
friends, But lie (Uttered himself that
he understood the precise effect of pass
ing sorrow on a youthful temperament.
Melancholy might hold sway for a time,
but a re etion would inevitably come.
The reaction was slow In coming.
The father with his hand on her spirit
ual pulse, watched Miss Hetty as the
inquisitors of 1 1 watched the prisoners
they stretched on tho rack, ready to
relax the torture at the first symptom of
exhaustion.
Wlien the end of the fifth week fouud
her with the same listless manner and
sad face, he prepared to give up the
battle. But the sixth week brought a
marvelous change. From persistently
refusing to go ou the streets or take
the fresh air. the girl developed the
most remarkable passion for riding on
the cable road that passed their house,
and returned from these excursions
with a blithe face and cheeks whose
accustomed pallor tas replaced by the
faint rose tinge of returning health.
Her father viewed these favorable to
kens with secret complacency. His
theory was correct. Hetty w s too sen
sible a girl to languish her young life
away, mourning over a sentimental
fancy. The reaction had come.
Standing on the doorsteps one day
and regarding her with a fond smile of
paternal pride as she ran lightly down
and signaled a passing car, lie noticed
that the number of the dummy was 11.
It occured to him that he had observed
the same numlier on the car that
brought her l ack the previous day. The
next afternoon he loitered about until
she started out for her regular ride, and
noticed the same coincidence. The
next day and the next he contiuued to
exercise his vigilance. It was always
Number 11.
This Number 11 became a hideous
bugbear to his mind. In vain he tried
to reason that its constant recurrence
was purely accidental. A leaden weight
of euspicion accumulated upon his
heart The cable roads, to be sure, w ere
the common vehicle for out cf-door re
creation adopted by haif the populace.
But why had his daughter never discov
ered their attraction Lefore? What did
it mean, this odd predilection for rides
on the dummy, wheu her saddle horse
stood in the stable, and the dust gath
ered thick on her little pLaston? And
why did sha return from these excur
sions with such red checks and shining
eyes. Could it be possible that the
lovers had some secret arrangements by
which they met on a certain car, and,
waiting till the outskirts of the city was
reached, roamed together over the hills
in defiance of his edict?
It so chance l that Mr. Austin was a
stockholder in this very cable road that
was proving very disas rous to his frame
of mind. A few nights later lie strolled
tip to the engine house to see Fiuchley,
the very efiicient superintendent of the
road, a gray-headed man with a wooden
leg and an incorrigible propensity for
practical jokes. The to were old
liiends, and when their business con
fab was concluded, Austin gazing into
his companions shrewd and kindly
countenance was prompted to share
with him the anxieties and apprehen
sions that ag.tated his mind, i'inchey
listened with an impassive faee. Austin
ended with a helpless summary of the
situation.
''I sure ymt, Pinthey, I've hardly
dared to look the child in the face since
the thought come into my head. And
as to forbidding . er to ride in the cars
Lord, maul I wouldn't have the wor
riment of seeing her again as she has
been thee last few weeks, to keep her
from marrying the worst dude in the
country."
l'iacidey war, business thiuking, with
an odd smile lurking around the corners
of his mouth. lie was a man of few
words but gifted in resources, Sup
piisc cu board tho car in some sort of
""uise," he suggested.
"Worse than ever. If she saw some
one following her about she might sus
ct I iwl put a paid detective on her
tiack." He groaned at the humiliating
thought.
"Don't goas a passenger. Present
joursc-'.f in s n oflicial capacity. I really
thir.k," loo' iug at Austin's civet figure
wid beardless face, "tliat you would
make up very well as a conductor, pro
viding you'll be sure to mir.d sharp the
stoppages and passengers getting on and
off,"
Austin gave a gesture of pleased
acquiescence.
"Very good," continued Pinchley
"Suppose we give the conductor of
- umber 11 a furlough to-morrow."
It was a new and decidedly disagreea-
uie experience to .Sir. Austin to turn
out or bed at 4 o clock in the morninir.
ensconce his form in a huge ulster sup
plied by Pinchley, and complete his
disguise with a false beard and a slouch
hat drawn low over his eyes. He break-
lasiea at me restaurant opposite the engine-house,
and, as he hurried through
a lougn beei-steaK and swallowed a
cup of muddy coffee, registered a vow
to use his influence v itii the stockhold
ers of the road to bring about a consid
eration of the resolution they had iassed
condemning the employes to patronizs
me leutoinc proprietors. Coached by
tue superintended in regard to the
duties of his position, he stepped
jauntily aboard Number 11. as it ran
out of the engine-house. The gripman
or the aummy, a slim, well-knit fellow.
aw in a coarse iustian jacket and a
pair of unmentionables besmeared with
oil and dirt, a muttlcr around his chin
and a cap with a broad visor slautod
over his eyes, w;is happily too much
absorbed in his own duties to observe
the change.
It was surprising how many people
depended upon the early cars as a
means of conveyance to their places of
business, l lie man ot capital conceived
a new respect for the ind ustry and energy
of his fellow-men. Moreover, he dis
covered the duties of his position to be
more complex than he had supposed.
The offices of a street car conductor had
always seemed to liim light and simple,
and in his capacity as a director of the
road he has been uncompromising in
passing upon any dereliction on the part
ol this class of employes. Instead of
discharging his duties with calm and
mechanical exactitude, he found him
self rushing from one end of the car to
another, in a state of the highest nerv
ous excitement, narrowly escaping the
most painful accidents and committing
minor blunders untold. If the passen
gers would only observe some method in
their actions, he told himself that the
whole business would be simplified.
What possessed pajple to stand idly
conversing on the sidewalk until the
car was fairly alongside giving no hint
of their desire to take passage tition it.
berating the conductor for his negli
gence and expecting that the grip would
be instantly loosed and the swifliy
moving dummy brought to a qutck
stop.
And the other class of lunatics, who
frantically signalled for the car to stop
on a steep down grade, expecting it to
release its hold ou the cable and cling to
the track with the brakes. Several
times lie waited an unconscionable time
for the people to get on the car, fuming
over the delay aud wondering what had
become of the errant passengers, only to
discover tliat they had taken seats on
the dummy, out of his line of vision.
Twice he narrowly escaped continuing
man-slai ghter; and every time they
passed Dupont street, swarming with
its blue-frocked herds, it occured to him
that he was iu a fair way of solving the
vexed question of how to discourage
Chinese immigration.
In the midst of his agitation he cou d
not help casting an occasional glance of
admiration at the gripman, standing
coolly at his post, his attention concen
trated upon the performance of his
dutv, the athletic figure bent slightly
forward, his keen ejes never ceasiug
their earnest scrutiny of the road.
Number 11 pursued an erratic course
that day, running in outrageous defiance
of the time-table, at one moment tread
ing closely on the heels of the car
ahead, at another making a desperate
forward spurt as it neara me warning
bell of the duxury in the rear. It
seemed to Austiu that on one occasion s
they passed the office he caught a brief
glimitte of Pinchley 's face tieeping o::t
at him with r-guish eyes that detected
and enjoyed his misery. But he did not
trouble himself long over this fancy, for
the hour was drawing near wheu his
suspicion would be verified or disproved,
and he was conscious of a growing
sense of apprehension lest his daugh
ter's bright eyes should penetrate his
disguise and complete his discomfiture.
He even had the craven spins to wish
tliat something would detain her at
home iu order that he might escai the
trying ordeal.
1 1 is uravers were not answered. As
they passed the house on the 2 o'clock
trip a trim little figure, clad in a dark,
wine colored uress witit a ctuiau-uc aim
muff of seal-skin, ran down the steps
and waved her hand to the conductor.
Mr. Austin was so overcome by a guilty
sense of his anomalous posltton that he
neglected to sound the usual signal for
stopping the car, and was profoundly
gniteful to the gripman, who brought
the dummy to a siami-auu muiuuu
waiting for the bell to ring. Miss Hetty
demurely ensconced herself on one of
the side seats ot the dummy, and tho
conductor mechanlcilly rang the double
signal for starting. The gripman
siood stiffly at his post without respond
ing. Austiu repeated the signal, mm mere
va? no corresponding motion on tho
pturt of tho engineer. Lookmg up and
down and across the street in the expec
tation of seeing some passengers wnose
approach had been observed by the grip
man's sharp eyes, Austin was onraged
to see that no apparent cause existed
for the singular delay. He sounded au
indignant summons, six double ring3 in
succession. Low chuckles resounded
throughout the car. A boy's slirill
voice tried out derisively:
"Gollyl" Won't he have a pretty bill
to settle to-night?"
In his nervousness the inexperienced
conductor had been ringing the bell
punch instead of pulling the strap. He
ml nr. to the latter, cave it a sharp
jerk and stalked with dignity, to the
platform, wuere ne &u on hj .
in defiauce of the rules of the road and
sava"ely gnawed his false mustache.
An "unhappy remembrance suggested
itself. Miss Hetty's fare must be col
lected. He denounced his negligence
in having failed to provide her with a
visa o he walked through the car aud
stepped out on the dummy, tapping her
geutly on me snouiucr,
"Par miss?"
ti, iri looked un with a startled
expression, then dived in tue depths of
a Iiusaian leather bag and found a coin
which she passed to him in silence. He
thrust it into his pocket and was step
ping back into the car wuu a
ring of the punclu
"Pardon mel My change, if you
Tlaa "
The gripman gave him a quick, mena
cing glance. Austin gazeua mouiem.
in stupefaction, not comprehending the
demand. .
"I think I gave you a Sj piece."
Th eiri'a voice was low and gentle,
and she phrased her speech so as to
spare him possible mortification. He
reached into his pocket and brought out
a handful of change. There was the $5
piece sure enough. Who but an idiot
could mistake its yellow gleam for the
dull aspect of a nickel? He slowly
counted out $1.95, and handed the sum
to her with a muttered apology, then
beat a hasty retreat to the interior of
the car, stopping to collect the fares of
a couple of passengers who had just
stepped aboard. One of these was
Jones, a vulgar fellow of recently accu
mulated wealth, who had put up a pre
tentious Eastlake mansion on Leaven
worth street
''Knocking down fates! Second time
I've caught him to-day," said Jones to
his friend, nodding toward him, James
Austiu who could have bought out the
tipstait twice over had he cared. An
angry denial wai on his lip. Then a
deep crimson f.us't overspread his fiici.
To be sure he had been dropping fares
in his pocket without registering them
on his trip slip. Confound that Ik 11
punch! Why was the blamed thing ever
invented?
Austiu forgot that he had been the
foremost one to urge its adoption on (he
cable road.
He was losing sight of his daughter.
They had reached tho end of the road
and were on the homeward journey.
Jack Starr had not put in his appear
ance, nor did Miss Ik'tty appear to be
ou the loo'iout for anyone, sitting there
quietly in her seat, drinking in the fresh
air with a look of perfect content on
her innocent face.
The trip down-town was made with
out any great misadventure, except
that the vigilant gripman rescued an
old man from being manglcJ under the
wheel, as the car was started in re
sponse to the conductor's premature
signal. Miss Hetty sat calmly iu her
place aud did not offer to alight till thuv
were on their fourth outward trip, aud
the short January day was drawing to a
close.
She descended from her seat with one
little kick ward lcok, full of signifi
cance, at the gripman. The conductor's
brain whirled as he realized that he had
at List discovered a cine. Twice before,
when the car was nearly vacant, he had
observed the two in brief colloquy.
Could it be that the lovers, cut off from
any other means of camuitinwation,
exchanged messages through tho medi
um of this dummy engineer?
He was determined to sift the matter
to the bottom, and hastily canvassed in
his mind the most adroit method of pro
cedure, deciding) tliat a tone of jocular
comradeship, wotdd be best adapted to
extract the desired confidence. They
had re-ached the cud of the route, the
remaining passengers had all left the car,
ind the two men, by their united enorts.
were revolving the dummy to place it in
readiness for returning.
"N ice little girl, eh, that one in the
wine-colored dress and sealskin cap?"'
He bent upon the gripmau a smile that
was designed to invite his confidence.
The latter growled a short reply be
tween his teeth. The car was in position
for the homeward start, no one was by
to hear, and Austin seemed determined
to follow up his advantage.
1 nese San r rancisco girls are
mighty sly. Supinwe that little creature
is like the rest, fond of tue men, carry
ing on all manner ot liiriauons, inetiing
them in ouU)f-thc-way places."
Mr. Austin never knew exactly how-
he reached the pavement. He realized
that he was not only at the mercy ol a
thoroughly angr-man, but in tho hands
of an expert boxer. He was kicked,
cuffed, beaten, mauled from one side of
the room to the other, his long ulster
torn half off his back. In the midst of
this paintul and confusing experience
one fact was clear to him, and that wai
that the attack was perfectly justifiable,
aud that he would have visited the
same punishment uikmi any scoundrel
who dared to speak of his daughter in
the terms that had just past his lips.
As the conductor s false beard was
twisted awry, disclosing one side of his
face, the young man suddenly ceased
hostilities. The two glared at eacn
other in breathless n-iazenient.
"Mr. Austin! Good heavens!"
Tliat gentleman gazed incredulously
upon his antagonist, making a mental
inventory ot tlie coarse garments ot uie
imnting young athlete, the grimy hands
he had been wont to see encased in the
finest kids, the spirited faee, flushed
with victorious combat.
"Jack Starr, by Jove!"
"I beg your mrdon, sir. I assure
you I never had the faintest suspicion
it was you."
The young man stared at ins victim
in t'r humblest contrition and lesiair.
There was not a siot on Mr. Austin's
body that did not ache. His left wrist
was badly sprained and he was con
scious that he should carry a black eye
for a month. Moreover, his dignity hail
been sorely compromised; but he could
not muster a semblance of resentment
against his adversary.
Tho man who was ready to resent a
stranger's aspersions of his daughter's
character with such spirit and such
scientific skill (alack! that bruise on uis
left shoulder) was the man for him.
But it was a queer way to iinu out, me
fellow's mettle.
"It's all right, Jack," he meekly con
fessed. "I deserved it."
Tho two combatants inwardly mann
ed heaven that the gathering dusk pre
vented spectators from realizing ine
true nature of the struggle, and aided
them to onceal their respective identi
ties. The gripman picked up the con
ductor's punch from where it had fallen
iu the dust, ana aeierenuauy prwnw.-vi
it to him as they returned to their
deserted posts.
"Don't tell Pinchley!" was the con
ductor's imploring appeal, passing
through the door ascendinj a steep
SI"Wliat? Pincldey knew, and deliber
erately pitted usagainsteachotherj" The
gripman bent oouDie over iue icver m a
paroxysm of mirth. "Hulloa! King for
a stop. There's a lady waiting oa the
earner."
"How did you come to take up this
sort of thing Jack?"
"To prove the fallacy of your asser
tions. And It isn't a bad thing, after
all. One gets musty pegging away at
the law all the time."
'Eh? Studying for the bar, .lack?
Upon my soul! Say, Jack, you know
our dinner hour is 0:30. If you could
coutrive to come aronnd hang it, boy!
You know what I mean."
And Jack assented.
Tli. ilmmmor of Clolt'i Bnd in
Hartford, Connecticut, has resigned to
act a drummer lor s urj guuue uuuac.
wire in now belnff brought
out in England la which the steel is
made to cover anu snrrounu iue myr.i.
The wire If said to be drawn from com
pound metal, consisting of a hollow
Ingot ol steel filled with copper.
A PODr OP POESI3.
1 he Instructive Compilation of Grtind
Thought by s California Lady.
If. a. H. A. Demlnz. of Saa Fran
cisco, is said to have occupied a year in
Hunting up and fitting together the fol
lowing thirty-eieht lines from thirtv
eight English poets. The names of the
autnors are given below:
1 Why all this toil for triumphs of
an hour?
2 Life's a short summer, man a
uower.
3 By turns we catch the vital breath
and die.
4 The cradle and Hie tomb, alas! so
nigh.
j To be is better far than not to be.
6 'Though all man's life may seem
a tragedy.
7 But light cares speak when
mighty cares are dumb.
8 The bottom is but shallow whence
they come.
9 Your fate is but the common fate
of all:
!0 TJumingled joys here to no man
befall.
11 Nature to each allots his proper
sphere.
12 Fortune makes folly her peculiar
care;
1-1 Custoui does often reason over
rule.
II And throw a cruel sunshine on a
fooL
13 Live well, how long or short, per
mit to heaven.
10 They who forgive most shall be
most forgiven.
17 Siu may be clasped so close we
cau not see its face
IS Vile intercourse where virtue has
not place;
19 Then keep each passion down,
however dear;
23 Thou pendulum betwixt a smile
au-1 tear;
21 Iltr setHuai suates, let faithless
pleasure lay
22 Witii craft aud skill to rulu and
betray;
23 -Soar not too high to fall, but
stoop to rise.
2j We masters grow of all that we
despise.
2d Riches have wings, and grandeur
is a dream.
27 Think not ambition wise because
'tis brave,
23 Tho path of glory leads but to the
grave.
20 What is ambition? 'lis aglonous
cheat,
.1 J Only destructive to the brave and
great.
31 What's all the gaudy glitter of a
crown?
32 The way to bliss lies not on beds
of down.
33 How long we live, not years, but
actions, tell;
31 That, man livej twice who lives
the first life well.
33 Make, then, while yet ye may.
your God, your friend.
30 What Christians worship, yet not
comprehend.
37 The trust that's given guard, and
tj yourself be just;
33 For, live we how we can, yet die
we roust
1, Young; 2, Dr. Johnson; 3. Pope; 4,
Prior; 5, ewtIt; (J. Spenser; 7, Daniel;
8. Sir Walter Hileigb; 9, Longfellow;
10, Southwell; 11, Cougreve; l'i,
Churchill; 13, Rochester; 14, Arm
strong; 15, Milton; 16. lUily; 17,
Trench; IS, Sotuerville; 10, Thompson;
2 , Byron; 21. Smoleit; 22, Crabbe; 23,
M.iSainer; 21, Crowley; 25, Battle; 20,
Coer; 27, Mr Walter Davenarr ; 28,
Gray: 2J. Willis; 3), Addison; 31, Dry-
deu; 32, Francis (Juarles; 33, Watkins;
31, Herrick; 35, William Mason; 30,
Hill; 37, Dana; 33. Shakespeare.
I,lttlo Placlde.
Mrs. DeCastro said Flaelde was
' sure to make a rise In the world."
Placlde was tall for a boy of twelve,
and all arms and legs. His eyes looked
large in his thin, sallow face, and his
hair stood out all around like a door
mat. '
The wh)!e school made fun of the
poor boy, but he took It all with a piti
ful kind of s:ui'e. Nobody knew bow
cruelly it hurt him, nor bow he longed
to be friendly with bis schoolmates.
On entering the school-room be in
variably saluted the teacher with an
elaborate bow. Placlde's father had
beeu a little broken-down French danc
ing master, and the bow was about all
he bequeathed his son excepting a fine
sense of honor and a sensitive social
nature.
There wai nothing French about
Mis. DeCastro. She was American
torn, but of the most commonplace
type. Sbe read every word In her
weekly story paper, and religiously
believed iu the possibility, at least, of
all the wonderful occurrences therein
detailed.
The shop windows were gay with
reminders of the great February holi
day. Mabel Lawrence and some of
her schoolmates weie examining an as
sortment ot them one morning hi the
book store. Some of her companions
wished to send a hideous comic valen
tine to Placlde. But sha, feeling how
it would hurt him, refused to sanction
such an act, and, buying the valentine,
destroyed it, much to the disgust of the
boys,
Mabel had been looking wise ever
g!nce valentines began to be mentions J;
She was planning a surprise. On the
table in her room was a pile of them,
very small but very pretty, In fancy
envelopes, addressed to all her boy and
girl friends. It bad ocouplad all her
leisure time for a week to write, iu a
very slow and painstaking manner, on
the blank pages: "Miss Mabel Law
rence presents her compliments, and
will be pleased to have yoa spend the
evening of February fourteenth at
her home." Upon consultation with
her mother, she added another pretty
valent ine to the pile. It was addressed
to "Master Macule DeCastro."
' They were all sent out on the tliir
- tcenlh, Bur. it was nearly - week after
I the party when tho Pos. ..iter hailed
r Placide as be was passing by, and
handed him his invitation. It seemed
a pity on the face of It, but no valen
tine ever imparted a greater degree ot
pure felicity than this belated oue. It
was a beautiful thing to happen to the
sensitive, slighted, ridiculed boy to be
S3 tcmeinbered. He went singing and
whistling about hU work, the weight
hfted off his heart, the sorrowful look
gone from his face, his eyes bright
with pleasure and hope.
Mis. DeCastro accounted herself
strong in the usages of po'lte society.
Sow, Piacide," sh said, "you
oiust.acknowledge this compliment; by
actbv aooordla', to ej tUjuetty, ' '
"Yes, ma'am," said Placise, more
man willing.
"Seein you couldn't attend, nor send
your regrets, you must make a party
calL Let's see, Placlde, your pa was a
small man. 1 shouldn't wonder if you
most growed into las swallow-tail
coat by this time Tins was your pa's
dress-coat," she said, as the laid It
out on the ted.
"Yes, ma'am." said riacIJe.
"Now slip in your arms and let's
see how it will do.' (The tail came
within six inches of the floor.) '"T'aint
so areadrm ion? if it is a little loose."
she said. "Coats is worn long now
gentleman Ts overcoats come clear down
to their heels."
The white vest did pietty well by
pinnins up a broad plait iu the back;
Lis mother's kid gloves did not wrinkle
very much, and the shine on his shoes
couldn't have been improve!.
Alter being thoroughly Instructed
on various points, he set out to make
ins "party call.' thiuking his costume
was about the thing. Fortunately
darkness protected him.
Mniies strove Tor the mastery in
Dolly's face as she ushered him Into
sitting-room, announcing, "This
young gentleman wauts to see Miss
Mtbel."
They were all ladies aud gentlemen
at Dr. lwrence'j however. Mabel
reddened, as he entered, but she arose
as grave as a judge, and offered him a
chair.
"This is Piacide DeCastro, pipa,"
Blie said to the doctor, who eyed him
through his classes in some amazement.
Piacide executed his cow with great
elegance aud precision, saluting in
turn the doctor, Mrs. Lawrence and
Mabel ending up with a comprehensive
salaam for the rest of the family.
'Tlease accept my respectful tha.-.ks,
Miss Lawrence, for the the klud
invitation to your party." was hM
opening remark.
"I am sorry you didn't come; we
hail a very race time," answered
Maliel, politely.
This opened the way for his sec jui
speech.
"I should, doubtless, have eri yed
the occasion extremely, but my attend:
ance was prevented by circumstances
over which I had no control " (This
sentence he had memorized from a
Complete Letter writer.")
"Wouldn't vour mother let you
come?" asked Mabel.
Not being exactly preiared for this,
he answered naturally enough:
"Oh, yes ma am! J. he re-.ison is, lha-.
I did not get tke valentine till to-day."
"That was too bad!" said Mabel.
"Otherwi, I should have been
present or sent my regrets," recited
Piacide, seeing his opportunity.
nen the doctor asked him. "Are
you attending school this winter?" lie
replied, "Yes, sir, 1 a:u putsuing my
studies under the direction of Miss Uose
Mayfield," and he was prepared with
several other elegant replies to possible
queries; but alter this the conversation
ran in channels unfavorable to their
introduction.
The doctor was regular captivated;
the quaintness of the whole proceeding
took his tancy. Politeness in "young
America" was a phenomenon woitii
studying. Osce clear of the points of
"ettiquelty" he found the boy quite
simple and childlike, while the thought
fulness and intelligence ct his replies
pleased his questiouer very much.
Not to outstay the proper limits of a
call, Piacide presently arose and made
his adieuz.
"That must have ben poor De-
Cistro's professional coat," sid the
dector. 'There Is certainly somsthin?
m that cost u tee which g.ves au air of
gentility to the wearer."
'Why didu't you think he looked
ridiculous, papa?" asked Mabel.
'Not exactly, my dear; it looked a?
though he might be masquerading.
There are some uuusal eleu.ents of char
acter in that boy," he went oa. "f
like his nerve. I doubt if another boy
in the placecould be induced to preform
that little act of courtesy."
One day, while his interest was still
fresh, Hose Maytirld pta'sed Piacide, iu
his hearing, as her most ambitious
pupil. "It is a pity," she said, "that
he must leave suhoo! when S'Tinji
opens; they are so poor it is necessary
for hira to wotk."
The doctor determined to be of
service to hioi He really needed an
oilice boy au errand bjy a generally
useful boy. Piacide, he fe'.t confident,
wa exactly the kind o boy he wanted,
and so the lad was presently lifted to
the topmost pinnacle of human bliss by
the offer of the situation, with thd priv
ilege of pursuing his studies under di
rection of the tutor employed to pre
pare Hal and Archie for college. And
that was the ilse l i the world.
These same qualities of faithfulness
and zeal, which secured liim the first
advance. In time enabled him to 1 ecome
the trusted associate or Doctor Law
rence. Lucky InvoKtiiMMits.
The live dream of a Lowell lady has
been that the number 272,751 was to
be her lucky number. Some years ago
she Invested a small amount of money
in letters pateut bearing the favorite
number 272,751. SUe clairn3 the pur
chass was made to assist the investor,
who lost his health in the latA war,
rather than for her own speculation,
notwithstanding her belief iu the num
ber. After years of patient waiting
she has been assured by some of the
test judges In the State that site has
chosen a lucky number, as It appears
that the goods which this patent covers
are of considerable value. A Pennsyl
vania manufacturer tells a story of tho
inventor of a multiple of rolls or trucks
used under the bottom of railroad cars
between tha truck frame and the body
of the car. The inventor became
pressrd for funds and desired a loan of
SluO, assigning his patent as security.
Out of sympathy the the manufacturer
gave him the money, never expecting,
as he says, to ever get a dime ot it back,
and threw the patent papers aside in
his safe, where they lay undisturbed
for ten years. One day a lawyer of his
acquaintance called at his oQce and
inquired if he ever bought a patent on
friction rolls for a railroad car. After
reflecting a moment he told him that
about ten years before he had loaned
an inventor some money on a car pa
tent, but he didn't ever expect to bear
from it again. The lawyer told him
that his patent was being used on al
most every car now lieiug built, and a
large revenue could be collected.
Terms were soon negotiated tor collect
ing evidence of infringement; so that
the loaning of $100 to help out the dis
tressed Inventor brought him more
money than all his ether business.
A thirteen-year-old boy of Benton,
Cftl,, weighs 250 pounds.
A li&kota BeltA In her Marriage Jtobe
of Plain Pink Calico.
A tourist in Dakota recently atten
ded an Indian wedding, and describes
it in a letter. He says there was a large
tent, with the front opened, and a row
of stakes covered with canvas, making
a fence upon each side leading to it.
Outside was quite asmall tent trimmed
with all kinds of pretty feathers, and
over the door a wildcat's skin trimmed
with beads and porcupine quills. In
the large tent, back in the centre,
against a very gay curtain, sat a young
girl, a half breed, not more than 15
years old, dressed in a skirt and jacket
with bright buttons and boar's teeth,
her hair long and black and falling in
front, while a wreath of feathers on her
head completed her wedding outfit.
All around were ornaments, and yards
of pink, red and yellow calico as drap
ery, and on a little green trunk near
the bridge tat the eld chief wrapped in
a buffalo robe, looking like a great
bear.
Along on one si Je of the tent sat
the women and girls, and upon the
other side the men, young and old.
They were all paii.ted frightrully aud
wore dreadful ornaments, bright blan
kets and feathers, and most of the men
bad on but little clothing. Near the
middle of this group were piled the
provisions of the feast meat, bread,
and boiled corn.
The ceremonies began with the old
chief drumming upon a drum aud
making a shout and DOlse like au ani
mal, lie then aroso and walked around
the girl several times, got on his knees,
and again walked arouud her. knocked
her from side to side, then smoothed
her hair, gave her something that he
called medicine, then took a dish and
placed it before her, knelt down and
took a sip of what was in it, as she did
also. He then stood up, went through
with some mumblings over her head,
and then began to pass the feast, first
to the women and then to the men.
The girl took oil her gay outride
robe, and it was given to her mother.
Underneath she hail a short blue dress,
which was taken off, and wheu the
eating was contiuued the poor little
girl slipped out of the tent in a little
plain piuk calico dress, aud. with bare
leet aud legs, looking frightened and
cold, went to her own tent all alone.
They were ready for the dance.
A Flal of Silence.
Two women boarcel a suburbau
train a few miles out of Cleveland,
They talked all the way Into the city,
lhat was to be expected and the other
passengers resigned themselves to their
fate.
Men who had never done anything
worse than put down fruit aud pre
serves learned .n that short hour how
to put them up. They knew in a few
moments all that had occurred in o
of the beautdul suburban towns during
tno past tweuty-four hours.
They heard how Jim got drunk and
what a good fellow he is when sober.
They learned, that uotwithsland tig
his shiftless ways, his wife had the ef-
frcutery to wear a brown satin dress
aud went around to the ceighbt-rs dis
playing it under the pretence o! want
ing sympathy.
"1 ten you wnat. Miss ureen," said
oue woaiaa to the other. "Jim s wife
jest made me biitn' hot covnin' ioun-1
with them ere new duds, roanliir and
sayin' she wishes siie was dead, cue
ra was cult In' up his tan turns. I .siw
through her little game, though, and if
don t Call on her in black slik to
morrow somebody'Il be surprised.'"
Mrs. Green LOdded approval of her
cotnpan oil's acutcness and method of
rev nge.
Then they talked about everytning
down to the iervant girl who never
would ''get married' cause she liked to
be w th 'cm so much." Finally Mr.
Green said, "Sal's dead, died Iat
Thiusday out'ti Kansas. Ot look at
lhat trirl's dress, did y'ever see such a
lit " "Sav, I dou't like them dark
stairs at the station, ought to have a
gaslight there. Tell ycu what though,
any man say anything to me, or try to
steal my pocketlKWi I'd just knock
him galley west "
Then a meek little man, who had
tried very hard to read his newspaper
turned to Mrs. Green from his seat in
front of her and said, "Madam, would
you strike oue or these unfortunate
men? Kemeciber you are armed. As.
long as you have breath In your body
you can defend yourself. Just talk to,
.'ia. Give 'em a few lessons in can-'
sing truit; leu 'em au about sal ana
the rest of your friends. If they don't
be on your bauds send for an ambu
lance and let 'em linger awhile at the
hospital. That's all."
It was enough. After that there was
a brilliant flash of silence.
IliM Darling Birdie
"It ain't ev'ry body I'd trust mj
ttle gal to." said old Farmer Skinner
to the love-lorn young granger who bad
become enamored with Miss Same
Spinner and wished to carry her from
the loving care and shelter of the home
nest.
The "little gal," who was five feet
and eleven Inches tall in her bare feet
is she was at that moment), hid her
happy, blushing lace on the dear, fond
eld father's shoulder, and wept happy
tears as he said to the deeply-moved
lover:
'Yea must take good keer of my
wee blrdliug. Jack. Ktcollect tha; she's
been kind o' tender like. Two acres
a day is all 1 ever asked her to plow,
and an acre of corn a day is all she's
used to hoeing.
'Nie km do light work, sich as
makla' rail fences, and diggln' post-
holes, and burning brush, and all that,
but ain t used to reg'iar farm work.
and you must't asx too much of Ler.
It's bard for her old dad to give his
little sunshine up. He'll have to split
his own cord. wood and dig his own
taters now. But go, Birdie, and be
happy.
An Ornamental Tabic.
The woman who has a small round
or square-topped table with good-looking
legs can convert it into a thing of
beauty by covering the top with velvet,
plush or satin, and then, for a Lmbre
quin, tack ribbons of various colors, but
of the same width. The ribbons may
vary in length, if one chooses to make
them, allowing say every third ribbon
to be a little longer than the ones each
side of it. The ends of the ribbon may
be notched or slanted, according to the
taste of the owner.
NEW WEATHER SIGXAL3.
Adopted for general nse by the United
State Signal Sonrlce on and
after March 1. 1887.
With a view of securing a uniform
system of signals throughout the coun
try, it is recommended that flags now
in use be replaced by those shown here
in. The flags are four in number and
DISPLAY EXAMPLES.
fair wthr.
Wtrax r Mr Wmther. fat
IwwmI by b&n or ttauw.
their u?e L urged for the benefit of the
genera! public and those industries de
pendent, to a great extent, upon weather
conditions. The "Indications" are
prepared at Washington by the chief
Signal officer, daily, for the twenty-four
hours commencing at 7 a. m.
As the weather indications are tele
graphed daily to a largo number of
stations of the Signal Service, to rail
roads, &.c, in various sections of tho
country, there are many small towns
where they may be obtained by tele
phone, free of exjiense. Those desiring
to display weather signals and not able
to obtain the indications as above,
should communicato direct with the
Chief Signal Officer, and if it fa not
practlcab e to telegraph the indications,
at the expense of the United States, to
such places, they will always lie fur
nished at Government rates, at twenty
cents per message, sent collect
IXTEKPnETATION
OF SIGNALS.
Not. Sal Sv.
Bln 1 .ii- t:ic-k Trixt Wi: Flair.
P
C'sr or
TfTnrTa- CclJ Warsi
tur&
Number 1, white flag, clear or fair
weather, no rain. Xumlier 2, blue flag,
rain or snow. Number 3, black trian
gular flag, refers to temperature, and
above numbers 1 or 2, indicates warmer
weather ; below numbers 1 or 2, colder
weather, and when not displayed,
stationary weather. Number 4, white
flag witti black center (cold-wave flag)
sudden fall in temperature ; this signal
is usually ordered a, least tncnty-four
hours in advance of the cold wave. It
is not displayed unless a temperature of
forty-five degrees, cr less, is expected,
nor is flag number 3 ever displayed
with it.
Tha system is not complicated, the
solid colors will secure legibility, and
the flairs may 1 made of bunting, at a
cost of from to to 12, or of Cotton
cloth, at 52. The displays here out
lined may be greatiy extended and be
come ono of the most valuable aids to
fanners, shippers, and the public gen
erally, by a little exertion and a small
expense for flags on the part of tho.-c
who would be benefited by the signals.
Weather signals have Uen adopted and
are in use by some of ihe principal rail
roads throughout tl.e country, the sym
bols, made of t:n or sheet iron, being
displayed from the baggage car. These
roads transmit over the;r wires each
morning, ia po:n:s from which trains
start, the names cf the symbol to be
displayed, ihr U-ace master at thoe
pomts attending tc ihe .ignala Many
large firms aud curpors-'-oiis are display
ing the-e signals nd t. the same time
advertising their lmstaess by printing
the signals and their meanings on the
back of their business cards.
The Gulf Stream's Warmth.
The fact Is well understood, of course,
that Great Britain and other parts of
northwestern Europe owe much, in the
matter of climate and temperature, to
the warming inil.ience of the Gulf
Stream. The extent of the effect which
is thus produced, according to the cal
culations made by Dr. Croll, almost ex
ceed belief, or eveu comprehension, in
a raatheniatical sense. He has found,
by careful scientific estimate, that the
amount of In at conveyed northward in
the Atlantic by this stream is equiva
lent to 77,470,050,0O0,0O0,0O0,OiiO foot
(ounds of energy per day, which is
equal to all the UedX received by l,o00,
Ooo square miles at tiie equator, and
more heat than is conveyed by all the
aircurrents and so positive is its cli
matic effect, and so far reaching, that,
according to Dr. CioII, the heat of tiie
Arctic seas and North Atlantic would
be diminished to that immense extent
by the stoppage or diversion c f the groat
ocean river.
Friday as a Day ofl.u. k.
Friday is regarded as a day of evil
omen, but it has been an eventful one
in American history.
1 nday, Coluttibus sailed on his voy
age of discover-.
I nday, ten weeks after, he discover
ed America.
Friday, Henry VII., of England,
gave John Cabot his commission, which
led to Ihe discovery of North America.
iriday, fct. Augustine, the oldest
town iu the United States, was
founded.
Friday, the "Mayflower," with the
Pilgrims, arrived at Plymouth; and on
Friday they signed that august com
pact, the forerunner of the present Con
stitution. Friday, George Washington was
born.
Friday, Bunker Hill was seized and
fortified.
Friday, the surrender of Saratoga
was made.
Friday, Cornwallis surrender at York-
town; and on Friday the motion was
made in Congress that the united col
onies were, axd of right ought to be.
free aud independent.
A Vat 1'ourrL
I have found au old recipe, warranted
to be good and which calls for grev.t
care In the gathering of the leaves. It
is said to remain fragrant in open bowls
for two years if occasionally stirred, but
in the closed pot poiim, which I am
sure you will use, it will remain fra
grant much longer. One is advised tc
pluck the rose leaves early iu the morn
ing with them have an eoual quantity
of lavender blossoms and put them in a
liirga earthenware bowL Add half a
iiound of crushed orris root, and then U
every two pounds add two ounces .!
biuired clove, ot cinnamon, of allspice
and common salt. It the whole stami
for about a fortnight, tiiorougLiv wix-j
iugit every day with your Laud's ar.d'
then it will bo readv tor use.
A man's folly ought to be his greatest
sec rat.
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NEWS IN BRIEF.
Many quail have been killed by tke
cold weather in Illinois.
Game is Increasing in Yellowstone
Park from all accounts.
St. Louis follows Chicago in adopt
ing lower theatrical admission rates.
It is figured that strikes and lock
outs cost the land 125,000,000 In 1SS0.
Immigrants- arrived m the United
States last year at the rate of l.OOU a
day.
The Queen of Greece takes her air
ings in a carriage for which she has paid
So.COO.
A Ore in a Poughkeepsie, N. Y.,
ice house a night or two ago, melted
2o,000 tons of ice.
Washington lady has presented
Mrs. Cleveland with a little mannoset.a
small species of monkey, eight inches
lonjf.
Japanese orange trees are being
Introduced into California. They will
give a new and excellent variety of
fruit.
The cost of an ordinary glass of
pure whisky. Including the present
tax, is said to be one and three-tenths
cents.
Three young Italian women are
about to start a literary review in
Rome. Its object will be largely to
direct attention to women's work.
An almost naked insane man was
found by a hunter in the woods of
North Carolina, He had been crazed
by the earthquakes in August hut.
The numerous admirers of a Mon
tana great man recently gave him a
recherche dinner. It consisted of three
courses boiled cabbage, prairie dog
and whiskey.
A large manufacture of paper
bottles is to be entered into, patents
having been secured in all probable
fields of competition. It is aa Ameri
can invention,
An English mastiff stopped a run
away m v iscon3in a lew Cays ago.
He attempted to seize the bridle but
failing, caught the reins and held on
until the horse stopped.
During 1SS6 ten vessels bound to
or from Philadelphia and owned there,
with crews numbering 127 and nearly
$1,000,000 worth of property, were lost
at sea and never heard from.
Last year eight peaks of the Alp3,
hitherto in accessible, were ascended by
adventurous parties, but eleven persons
lost their lives in climbing, ten being
killed and one froze to death.
Three residents ot Kinderhook,
X. Y., say they met the ghost of a de
ceased neighbor en a lonely road te ir
that village one night recently and had
a long and entertaining chat with it.
In the lower Brule agency in
Dakota the Indians have a church
and four chapels. Oue hundred of
their number are members of the'
church, in which they take great pride.
While Captain Cameron, of Port
land, Oregon, was walking on a dock
recently smoking, a ball from some
unknown rifleman struck his pipe,
carrying it all away except a little bit
between his teeth.
j A mass of petrified teredos ship
, worms) is reported to hare been tound
Imbedded in sandstone, thirty feet
jfrom the facing, by workmen who were
quarrying Uiiing for the Columbia end
Puget Sound Railroad.
A wind storm not long ago blew
over a large strawstack on the farm of
John Strawn, near Orleans. Illinois,
and buried under it a steer. After
thirteen days, other cattle having eaten
the fallen straw, the steer walked out.
Professor Collett, a well-known
Norwegian Zoologist, announces jz!i
the beaver Is now extinct in Northern
Norway, but estimates that aivt irjo
are still in existence In the South.
ch:efly in tho Province of Nedeuaes.
Lady Brassey, the narrator of the
voyage of the Sunbeam, has an apart
ment whose prevailing decoration is
the monkey, which is depicted on
walls, carpets and ceiling, and whose ,
figure is utilized in every sort of de
sign.
Bidel, the Paris lion tamer, who
was rather roughly handled by his pet
lion a month or two ago, has been
compelled to retire from service alto
gether, owing to an attack of facial
paralysis. His part is now taken by
one of his pupils.
A waiter iu a San Luis Obispo
(Cal.) hotel the other day waited on a
table where there were a number of
gentlemen speaking five different
tJngues English, French, Italian,
Spanish and German and he spoke to
each in his native language, talking to
any of them fluently.
Chinese weavers in ancient times
manufactured a cotton stuff called sax
asa, woven sometimes in minute,
sometimes in bold designs, the colors
or which, partly from their original
excellence and partly from the medow
ing effects of age, are simply incompar
ab'e. For a little strip of this celebra
ted material large enough to pass round,
her neck and form a hanyeri, a Japan
ese belle has teen known to pay any- '
tiling from $700 to f 100O.
A stage almanac for the year
1731, now brought to light apropos of
the recent jubilee of the Uoyal Theatie
of Berlih, shows that a hundred years
ago the Berlin "Italian Opera" boasted
ot exactly two female singers, a male
singer reinforcing them lu operas
which called for a third female role.
The portion of the almanac devoted to
the drama also shows some comie feat
ures. Thus Mme. Mecour is entered
as representative of "Mothers, First
Soubrettes and Affected Characters."
Herr Reinwald as playing "Comic
Characters, Servants, Innkeepers aud
Singing Pedants."
Berlin is suffering from a lack of
small lodgings, says the Lauctcerkt.
Zeitunq, contending that the 'tact 4. -there
being only 7000 vacant lodgings
in a city of a round 1,400,000 inhabi
tants is tantamount to a lack ot
lodgings. According to that paper, the
demand can only be satisfied by the
construction ot from COO to 700 large
houses, which, at an average of 70
occupants, can accommodate 4'J.Ouo
persons, while the population of Berlin
has increased last year by far more than
50,000. On the 1st of October, 137S,
when Berlin counted only 1,000,000
inhabitants, there were about 22,000
vacant lodgings, and on the 1st ot
October last, with a population of
1,400,000, there were only 700o vacan
cies. This sets people a thinking, ull
the more asa city ordinance forbids
the construction ot houses whe-i
temperature is below two cegnes
Reaumur (30 deg. F.): and iu vie of
the fact tliat a new building law fa o.
the municipal tapis, which, if .-n-thiug,
la not luely to fucUhat?
matters.
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