SES. jiiiifa Jeiiiiel gfc ill gegitlfcii. BOHWEIER. m QoanTUTIOl-Tn imoi-AH TP CTTOXJEHEIT Or THE LIT! Editor and Proprietor. VOL. XLI. MIFFLINTOWN. -JUNIATA COUNTY. I'KNNA.. WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 10, 1SS7. NO. 33. 1 . . 1 :.;;i ,:v.t,,i"' V. UK I , it 1 1 ' f . UK !'T W...,lr i. H 'Hill . i in , 7VU"1 -vntv V:v -a,,. u r. a mP--., , ' "--i.S.c HIM f,.v- "y. nr-vl ' s T. r rT "'-' l-ri '' 'Killr. hi !. - . .r ir.i i i ' i: e n tll.n : i ';"t.. h.r. r I.I. t.,.:j, r BLOOD. : ' " ttiv;cirs UKi:. AM till. -' ... I: lilt' i,t la . if b.u.tli by , 1 i:i. r luettti-.! Ii ht a.. 0. ;t up 1 : '-. w ;!-h to 1 in it y oi. : i mi i t.ut t.-rn-! I., -irt i!:.-.. u'. -t nwiiv to r t t . iif ! m.u.y n.v in. r'. I ? I . i.u . 1 I ii.- tur.f. I v I w as iJ .' i-vtn tt ti,. ! rr. : 1 . 1 u..r;.-. i f : - 1 l:: n si .vffi. L . :U. J u..l Wi ii . :r.': ,.' tLstaic ''.. r.-i, J fr. :,, '. : J.'iir dm ti. t tc Lui .. - f. r ..0 or. in i : . 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T "i .Vri.l tr-i. t ui : a man or lover l. !n lx I: 1 I 1 Muh i;r.ti 'iiil.i show. it !:. tl" w';" 'H l"rl, utranso Vt, r l !-. Tt.t l..''i No? t ii. . ' v,,u '" ,u- ''" ory reason Wl.y tre.'h jouuc ulioot An- ' 1, i:..t, auil .nw Uicay may TLc year' b t lruit. rr .irt? !i-f athirst. la ncorchlna -ri Fit ill iiik of rain ? it-niiiiN lllls .rowl.-4i-huils -oafir liu tUM ati.l f'.aiu ? ri, aro Naturi" royal se- Wi- rati not 'ii M ul uih o hauil in L arul to- "k,tl.u Aul .ih, uiui U It's .'..!: tra.l tliat Lrart'a tiear lit art rn ust tleny t iii v wtiv 1 ran uot love you 1 anwi'r: "Why l" "1IIAI UTILE KUSTia" i ;iin Mirry you can't stay Iongor, I5nl," M.i'.o.i'.iu Ui'.ctiio saiJ, regret- iu;:y. -rin V niii liu.ti- as sorry, ' In frieml Ilj irl, ITi'M Iifllltl.l ii IU1CK kll lM Sill. ike. vv.l of t' "Tin tili!iirf i really cool, ai you kiM.w ir.im i-tei J.iy's spuit." ' K xi trl ;-tit i.e vert.'auglit liner trout; uj..1 we coiiMu't luive found a better L.'.iii.i.k-l':.uY. lVsiJes. Malcolm, for a lltrt.fi tuari like you, tlie facilities " K.t. li e mti ri ui'.eJ liiui with a hasty r.-iun', I y u!i:cli lie sought to indicate t:..il mnUu lady wii in the parlor, iU!V W.'J.'.tl e.llsliot. UM.iie raiied his evelTows in an rt, rrisivi' uianiier, ami s'.aui;ei.l over I:. a :.. ultirr .it tlie fa r und delicate lii.:: wli.cli tlie icn window framed. "A!.!" l.e exclaimed. In German. "Si? sr!ir slum, n:cht wahr?" T-ry l-ietty, the little rustic," U;'.i ! :e ret Led, m the same tongue, wl.icli 11. ey coi.tlnued to siealc thence fortli. Hut l.er name U Jinnle." "t weli. A rose ty any " "f, I know. Iut," witu a look of JNiiu-t, "that iuri'le calico la too ut terly -" "Ti t.x" Wynne interrujited with a laiih'li. "What a rrif you can tie w!ieujoiie a mind to, Kitchie. Dut I s.iw lier yesteri lay. when I thought her aliut the ;i:eii.iest gijl I ever met. It was alter we li.nl come back from (Utiln, when I took a stroll, as you Inow, m tflilch aecumpanv uie. "m were too lazy to Well, as I was com- ' ILi back. I saw. at the foot or the pitr- iJ-:i, snoirxly up a tree. It was this niece. Mie !ia4 umunted a ladder, and was lreJ:iii some tluffs of birds In a nest; 1 suppose nne where the parents La.1 leru killed. Fortunately I was i Dut seen, and so could watch without j 1'tlri.ce l.er Interest in the little orphan, j Tlie sweet way iu which she talked to , tfcem, at if they could understand her, i was roally charmtni;. Uesides, I caught : g:;n;;ie of just the I eatest aukle in the world. My dear fellow, this is jour j oppiirtun'.ty." 1 "How So?" i 'To le all alone, in an out of-the- 1 way i lace, with such an uncommonly j I 'retty girl, with your well-knowu pro-' eUviaes fur flirtinu, you oti,;htJto score ; heavily." "Uow aLsurd you are. I fond of 1 Cirtin;?. llesides,' with an air of S'- leaiiuty, it wouldn't be fair to dirt with Ler." Wynne laughed outright. 'IX you nuau mi principle? Or are you afraid or the old lady?" "-Neither. It's the girl herself. She iu tUl take it all in sober earnest " Wynne I roke in with another lau'h. "Don't a fool, he would take to il i r t : ii ,,s a duck to water. They all Jo." "l).d I understand you to say," terposed ll.tchie, "that she's the m ,i,l I iaily s niece?'' ") 1 infer, he calls Mrs. Good rich 'Aunt Nina.' " "I'm! And Mrs. Goodrich calls Ltr 'Jitiii.f-' Jitmie Gray." "''all her Jeaimette Miss Jean nette. Now, by .love," brightening "P, "Unit wouldn't be a bail way lo W!u. Take the affair In hand. Kitchie -do." Kitchie smiled. He was a very liaiMsnuie lellow, and rich, too. Wu- inen were apt to throw themselves at h'.a head. "tay, and do your own Cirtiu;?." he suhV'isted. "Why can't you stay?" "l ouldu't possibly. I'm up for a .'.ie to-morrow, and by Jove! I for got to tell Mr. Goodrich I should waut a team hi the uiorninir." Kitebie Kut up lazily, and together Uiey sallied lorth to the barn. Han unite dusk when they re tunied. Tlie girl at the window had kot.e, hut there was a light In the sec- nd-stoty lrout rotim, and out into the "e-iwi,ii; twilight Uoated the sott Mtratus ot oue of Gottachalk'a most liu l lleil pieces. "A piano:'' Kitchie exclaimed, iu surprise. "Weil, Jiuuie la the family iTou.jfy, i suiip.)3.; unj nothing which turse hard-woikinit iopio cau earn is too gixni f..r her." W hen t',. tntlemeu came down to "eak.ast, ti,e uexi morning Farmer o-ilrich's i.'.ece w.is just bringing In a P ale of muffins from the kitchen, aud i-er cheeks were softly Hushed. The toil of wavy brown hair at the back of 'er Lmiil met Kitchie's entire approval; 't alas! she. itm wore an ill-uttiug, ' .-rashioued gown ot spotted purple calico. r "Ah," Kitchie exclaimed, "here c mes the siren. Miss Gray, you have -st a nu upon us." "irr" she said, with such a naive upuuiuaot her eyes, such a sweetly, unomsciuus airUllit flUriy gMptiL . '" Pyed last night. asn t it?" Kite,, w j, m confu!i:on; ... , es" the ready response. Mlay every evening. " "Mr. Wyrine aud I were delighted. '. "an lne Pfch aud listened for u.i ' yu.ul yoncome up?" Jinnle w-i. ... .. - an im) Ireeduru. "just Juu feel like It," most unconventional come up whenever ... , s " interposed the farmer's wife. ..1st you make vourself Mt f. inth Jlnule' er pianny up" n the front room, and If you'd like to go up there and tit awhile, evenln's, Jist dew." "Thanks," Kitchie murmured, with out dariug to look at Kob, who seemed to be on the verge of a convulsion. "My dear fellow." Wynne said, that morning, on the way down to the sta tion, "as the Kiris say, it's just too funny for anything. Only keep me posted how your flirtation gets on. Think or Malcolm Kitchie and this little rustic." And lie laughed a low, musical laugh of derbion. Kitchie did not go up to the front room for several evenings. When at last he did, his knock interrupted one of Chopin's nocturnes. Miss Jinnle was seated at the piano. She were a brown calico dress with red Cowers in it a dress even more hideous '.uau the purple spotted one. "Ah, come in," she Isold, looking around, but not rising. Yoa are always welcome, here, as Auntie says; but when you come, you mustn't expect me to talk; for I can never talk when I play. As she said this, she whirled around on the piano stool, and let her hands drop sortly on the key, in a kind of caress. It was Mendelssohn first, and then Mozart, and Lt?zt,and Beethoven. As Kitchie glanced from the sweet, rapt face to the supple white fingers, gifted with such an exquisite touch, be began to think that he had stumbled over a social phenomenon. "But, with all this," he wrote to liob Wynne, "she is wholly devoid of taste in (ersonal adornment. Her dresses are appalling; her shoes are an anachronism. You ask me about the fishing. There's plenty of trout still, but I haven't been out much yet, ex cept with Miss Gray. Now don't make more of this fact than you've a right to, which Isn't much. She has a fis sion for spring flowers, and grasses, and that sort of thing, and I help her to collect them. Farmer Goodrich has a rickety old buggy which he lets us have now and then. Th uncle and aunt will do anything for Minnie.' " "You seem to have quite forgotieu the original purposes of your stay there," Wynne wrote In reply. "Three weeks have passed since I left you. and you are still driving Miss Gray about the country, instead of catching trout, aud sending me a lot. as you promised. I'm afraid your old weakness has over come you, and that you are tlirtlng airam. Don't break the poor girl's heart." "You speak too late," was the reply. "Angling is now quite out of thn ques tion. I have assumed the 3acrcd duties of companion to an !ntresting invalid, To lie explicit, iijb, the buggy had the kindness to go to pieces, on the road, and it was my privilege to rescue Miss Gray from tlie wieck. She hurt her foot quite a small foot, too. Dob, In spit of the shoe, aud well, it was very Interesting. T..e doctor tays she may be confined to the lounge for a fortnight, l'.cture me, at present, as her devoted attendant. I read and talk to her by the hour. She does flirt, liob. How the little rustic Itamed. 1 don't know; I suppose It comes by na ture, as you said. Indeed. 1 think she understands it better than any girl I ever saw. for I can't, for the life of me, presume upon a single privilege. I have said to her some of the softest things 1 ever uttered; but, upon my soul, I'd no more think of takiuz her I hand than I'd think of flying. The days and weeks sllpied by, and Malcolm was still installed at Farmer Goodrich's. In the end. Wynne began to le seriously concerned for him, aud wrote to inquire "what he was doing with himself." It was one bright and unseasonably warm afternoon, that Malcolm came in In a gleeful mood.f "I've raked up a buggy. Miss Gray. he said, "a bu;gy that won't break down, and-if vou like, we can take a drive aloug the river." "A lat drive," Jmnie said, smiling, us she toyed with a letter which sue held in her hand. 1 hope not the veir last." said Mal colm. llihtlV. "The very last. I'm afraid." she an ! awned with a peculiar sweetness. "I ! have a summons to Baltimore." ' Malcolm looked very much disap pointed. "Vou have fiiends iu Baltimore?" I he said suirkie&tively. ! ' Oil, jes! I went to school there, vou know.' ! "I am verv sorry you are going," he said, awkwardly more awkwardly than ho ever said anything in his life. "We have had such a pleasant time, at It ast. I have enjoyed it. "Aud I. too." she answered softly. "But the fishinj U pretty well over uow." "It wasn't the fishing that kept me here," so long, he ventured quite boldly; and Jinnie blushed like arose. I can understand that," she has tened to sav: "I never knew a more delightful nlace to Idle in." "The buggy is here. Miss Gray," he said, walking to the window, and then back again. "Allow me to take you down." When he bad her beside him. alone on the river road, he turned to her and Haiti : 'You are one of the most baiUing nersons I ever met. Miss Gray." She laughed; and there was a sudden llosh in her clear, hazel eye. You have flirted with me uncon- Hi inniililv ' he continued. "As to that," she answered coolly. "I think. Mr. Kitchie. that I did no more than vou desired." Anv other woman would have blushed aud denied it. Her manner of receiv ing the accusatiou cave a new turn to hs thoughts. "Vet vou stand wnouy uncom mitted " he said- discontentedly, -That is as it should be. Otherwise I ahnu'.d not Lave taken up such a dan cerous amusement. We have flirted, of course. What else could we do, under the circumstances?" Xothinir half so interesting; but excuse me, if 1 presume too much where did you learn to manage a situ tinn nn mlmitlv?" "You forget that 1 was educated in Rait I morn' But school-girls have no opportunity of acquiring such unease." "Some women are born with It, Mr. llitehn. -I believe they are. But what wonia . . ..r"-r , i ..,i fi. you nave oom, uj . - lowed up your favors and asked you to marrv ni?" a . . ... Ka .nnnAonl ' ' x no case is uia w w sha said, with the best of countenance. "You have more sense; but if you hadn't had, ot course I should have re fused vou unconditionally .' "But suppose," he urged, bending forward eazerlv to catch her reply. suppose I had gotten beyond mj depth that" "Excuse me, Mr. IUtcaie," she raid. glancing up. and then down again, half in pique, half in amusement. "I have been abroad, and I have picked up a little learning, ton." he finished this speech iu German. So pure and fluent Uiat Malcolm stared. Then, like a wave, the recollection rushed over h!m of all be and Wynne had said thai evening un the front porch. She must have heard and un derstood it alL I have behaved like a donkevl" ha blurted out; and the color fairly flamed in his face. A demure little smile twinkled about the corners of her mouth. Can you ever pardon so much con ceit, and presumption?" he said, in penitential tones. -1 will think about it." You have had your revenge," be went on, quite desperately, and then he tried to take her hand, but she waved it out of his raach. "V.'iife. Jerr Kitchie. sit wicAt to frtunillicJi.' Maicolm caught up the reins and turned the horse so abruptly that the buggy almost upset. Certainly.' he said, driving back at a rapid rate. "I have no right to ex pect any mercy at your hands," How absurd you are! Don t let us quarrel. It is not worth while. I am going away to-morrow." lo-morrowl" he exclaimed with a start, and then he grew quite pale; but said no more. They drove back In silence. The next morning, when be came down stairs, her trunk was in the hall. locked and strapped, all ready lor the morning tralu. It was at Immense Saratoga, on the end of whieh he read the followiitc address: I Miss Gixetka Guay I Baltimore, Md. . As lie stood there staring at it, Jin nie came down stairs, and then Mai- come did feel queer. he wore a traveling dress, which na l no kinship whatever with the pur ple calico. It was a stylish suit of olive green camel's hair, beautifully embroidered in silk of a lighter shade, and fi ting her graceful form to perfec tion. A picturesque hat. heavily laden with plumes, drooped ever her face; her feet were shod in dainty French boots, and she was Just in the act of drawing on a pair of long, chamois gloves. Somehow, all at once, Kitchie com- piehended that she was more at borne In this elegant costume than in the odious calico dresses she bad been wearing. Good morning," she said, with a slight flush on her cheeks; and then, after a moment's hesitation, site added: I have something to say to you, Mr. Kitchie." Malcolm followed her into the sitting- room, and closed the door. T have come to confess," she said. trying to smile away her embarrass ment. "Mr. Kitchie, I 1 have de ceived yot- It waJt be!kso of uf what you said to Mr. Wynne that even- it: '. This is not my home at all. 1 live in Baltimore. He leaned against the mantle with a sense of complete demoralization. Mrs. Goodrich is not my aunt," she went on, rapidly, "she was my nurs-, w hen I was a child, aud I have always called her Aunt Nina. I am quite fond of her, and I often come heie when I am tired of society and city life. I only arrived here the day before you did, and, as my trunk was delayed I had to borrow some of Aunt ma dresses. Then, after I heard all jo i said, I made up my mind to "' I have been a foot," Malcolm cried. and there was something in his face that forbade her to triumph over hiui. But nothing could be more complete than your revenge. I ou have taught me to ljve you. 1 can never be happy w ithout you. and to think that I should have thrown away every chance I hi! Iu the world I" His face was as pale as death, lS voice quivered in passionate despair. She had not dreamed that he really loved her. Mr. Ritchie!" she cried, m astonish ment. "I" Good-byel" he said, abruptly, hoid- ln? out to her a baud that shook like a leaf, "lou are not at all to blame. It was my own folly. Forgive me. Miss Gray. I was a conceited cox- omb, and it serves me right." Unable to control himself, iiaicoim turned quickly, and started Tor the door. But he paused ere he had reached it, as though his strength, both of mina and body, had failed him utterly. Covering his face with bis lianas, lie cried in a hoarse and broken voice: "Forzlve mel" Then her serenity vanished ail in an Instant. A beautiful blusn overspread her face, as she held out her hand with a most angelic smile (so Malcolm thought). "Don't go!" she whispered, softly. I will forgive you." Kitchie could uot believe bis owu ears. It seemed to mm mat ne uearu only the echo of his own wish. You do not rou cannot mean he stammered. s. I do."she answered, demurely. "Don't make me say it over again. It's so embarrassing." Then Malcolm caught her in nis arms. This is almost too much," ne cried. passionately. "Ob. my love, my lovel" Malcolm married aiiss uray just, year after that, aud Bob Wynne was "best man." Walters. The average waiter is as migratory as the bird. He is the most transitory thlue in life except, perhaps, a dream. There was a time wnen tue priautr stood as the representative of all 'that's fleeting here below," but the waiter has now ascended to mat aisuncuoiu The ooenmz of the innumerable sum mer resorts in the past aecaue uas LrouBhtTit about. The waiter is now . .. . a one of the best posted fellows you meet. He knows all cities ana ail ouoiaies ot tlie continent and. what is more, knows rdl the habits of people at table wnere human nature so truly crops our. it is roily to depend on them to stay any length of time. Sometimes in the snrintf the whole corps will be changed in one or two weeks after the lake sea- mn or ns. xnen away mey go avasi. j orth. I wouldn't be surprised If many of the men l naa last inonin are t.ovr around Minnetonka. They will stay North and Kast until cold weather comes attain, when they will float back South. The personnel is changing so rapidly that theie are always places open lor the to. It is annouced that the total number of known Australian fishes now amounts to 1201 pecles. THE STL'KGKOX. Ucw a Great FIhIi t Cauztit Off tlin New Jersey Coast. A corresitondent furnishes the fol- .owlug: There is at least 8100,000 in vested in the sturgeon fishing interest In the is'ew Jersey end of the line, with headquarters at Bay Side, Cumberland county. The sturgeon grows rapldlv, aud a Dsn of six years old weighs 300 pounas. a big sturgeon yields from four to six Yankee buckets of roe like unto shad roe, with larger eggs, which are first rubbed through a coarse sieve. then salted and rubbed throuzh a finer seive till the fibre is disengaged from the egg. and the remainder, after raining, is emptied into ketrs and be comes what Shakespeare calls caviare to the general." It is then shipped via New York to Europe, where the sup ply Is not equal to the demand. The modus operandi with a sturgeon is to cut off his tail and let him bleed, the large artery running through the taiL The roe is then taken cat of the live Ash. A broadaxe is then used to de capitate the fish, then the skin Is taken off, the backbone or cartilage is then taken out with a sharp knife and leaves two sturgeon sides boneless. The fish is thoroughly wiped out with a coarse whalebone broom, then the flesh is put nlo an ice-box and is shinned to ew York, where It readily sella as good Albany beef." If the market is glutted the sturgeon meat Is kept till rail in the ice house at a temperature of 4 degrees below zro, and is then round good eating. The head, tall aud backbone furnish the fitnous sturgeon Ml. The sturgeon has no weapons of de fense against the shark and flies from this lawyer of the sea. 1 found two lureou in the haul made by moon lit with the entire nose bitten off by a shark, a net entirely dry weighs 600 iounds, the cotton laid twine alone we ghing 3J0 pounds, costing 20 cents pound. The meshes of the net are from thirteen to fifteen inches wide. and a sixteen-foot board twelve iuches wide can be shot through the net, so no shad or small fish are ever caught in a sturgeon net. A sixty-pound rock is sometimes found in the sturgeon gill net. The net is 1.323 feet long, seven feet under water, with no lead or other sinker, the weight of the twine balding the net down. The float, or cork, re mains on top of the water fast to the lauyard, which Is fast to the float. At each drift say two hours before low water, from one to ten sturgeon is the usual catch, and the cork indicates when a big fish gets his gills entangled in the meshes or the net. The fish yields easily to fate and shows no game. The water at Tampa is transparent. and a spear is use I to kill the fish, but the fisherman w desperately vexed with what he calls "foul fish." the sawfish and devilfish. The latter, welzhiuir 1000 pounds, frequently tear a net to r-M. an tflI slit:t or , wlili a rive 3 the fishermen to shore. Frequently a -pouud green turtle Is bagged with no market for turtle. The sturgeon feeds down on the bot tom on the Crustacea, and can bj seen rooting like a hog on the bottom. The savants or scientists have never dis covered where the sturgeon spawns. and It may be in the Black sea or in Delaware bay. where the huge she sturgeon has been 6een to shed her pawn on the surface of the bay or river in the months of April and May. At Bay Side, as soon as the fish finds imself entangled in the fourtecn-inch meshes of the net, he llouuders to the surface, and the stalwart plscator, wltii an iron hook, strikes the fish on the lead and hauls the lighting sturgeon into the boat. The fish strikes hard with his tail when landed in the Voat, lleiron IIuntiii. 'But what freak sends you out into a dreary suburban neighborhood you of all persons in the world?" Launcelet Grover stood staring at Mr. Albert Ford ham as it half in clined to suspect him of some lurking taint of insanity. Fordham smiled. He was a blonde. with yellowish hazel eyes, silky brown hair and a set ot teeth that rendered smiling a most becoming operation. Country air, my dear boy," said he. with a shrug of his shoulders; 'country air and seclusion and the neighbor hood!" "How do you mean the neighbor hood V questioned Grover, more and more mystified. "I tell you," answered Fordham, "I have rooms in a desirable villa, where a respectable widow lady keeps a few very select boarders; fried liver for breakfast, boiled beet for dinner and stale lobster for supper " "Not a very tempting bill of fare '.hat." 'Declaedly not, but 1 have a neigh bor." A neighbor!" echoed Grover. I know Jones, the real estate agent," said Fordham, nodding his head oracu larly; "Jones is always ready to do me a friendly turn when he can and he told me, in a strictly confidential way, that Miss Deforest, the heiress, had en gaged Kose Cottage for the summer season. Kose Cottage where, by-the- way, there are no roses Is dlrect'y op posite where I board. My room win dow looks into the terraced lawn, and commands a view of the latticed case ment, where, behind a bower of exot.es and canary birds, the heiress dwells. -? But what good is all that going to do you?" demanded Mr. Grover. You cau't make love to her on your fingers, like a deaf and dumb swain?" Fordham displayed the glittering teeth again. "My dear fellow," said be, "there are more ways than one of lighting the name or the tender passion on love's altar I Miss Deforest has been tor mented to death with mediocre love, making, ever suioe she entered society. I shall manage affairs after an entirely original fashion. Only wait and see!" And Mr. Launcelot Grover "waited" accordingly. Albert Fordham bad laid out his programme of heiress-winning with great skill, and he prosecuted it con scientiously. Day 'after day a care fully culled bouquet, expressive ot the language of flowers, was carried across the dusty road, duly directed "To the nymph who dwells among the rose buds." Day after day the messenger brought back the answer: "The missus' compliments, aud she's much obliged." 'I am getting along." thought our hero, rubbing his plump white bands together. "If she resented the deli cate attention in any degree whatsoever ; she'd send back the flowers." The secand week be ventured a little 116 sending a box of French bon ns and a new and fascinating novel. wim a note to the effect that be hoped they would serve to lighten the mon otony of ber lonely hours. '. "Well, Jackey," he said to his Mer cury, the Widow Fluffkins's rainred little son, "what did she say?" "She says, Wery kind o' the gentle man and she began to eat the candy. and read the book I" ' "So far, segood," sail Mr. Ford ham, complacently. "To-morrow I'll venture on a new coup." Which cogsisted In a poem, breath lug suppressed tenderness, and hinting at a consumptive love ou bis part fed by the flutter of her blue ribbons at the opposite casement. It was addressed: "To the beautiful Incognita." and signed, "Your Devoted Slave!" 'What did she say this time, Jackey?-' be asked, when Jackey Fluffkins came sauntering back, with both hands In his ragged pockets. "She began to read it to another lady, and says, IIow perfectly "weetl " 'All lia' tl.niifrl.t Alli V.i-aK.m 'Iam getting ahead. Now. let's see if I can get trusted at Moon & Kockitt's for a solitaire diamond, the glittering bait wherewith I will draw my treasure trove to shore." But here stern and Implacable Fate Interposed. There was already a little bill unsettled against Mr. Fordham s name in the books of Messrs. Moon & Kockitt, and the gentlemanly proprie tors shok their heads dubiously against any further display of confidence. "But I tell you." pleaded Albert, "I am going to marry au heire s and this Is to be our engagement ring.' "Happy to heir it, 1 am sure," said Mr. Moon, politely; "but it is entirely against our rules to allow a bill to run any higher, without at least a small payment on account." And Mr. Fordham was compelled to go to a less fashionable establishment, and to content himself with a large and handsome pearl, set iu a slender hoop of gold. "This will bring matters to a crls'.s," said he to himself, as he enclosed it In a note a note which embodied a fan cifully worded declaration of love. I know nothing of you," he wrote, "save that you are fair. I care to know nothing except that I love you. Dearest, if you will be mii.e, I shall see a blue ribbon tied from the casement blind one hour from now." Breathlessly, and with throbbing heait, he watched the casement, until a Utile white hand bung something blue upon the slats and disappeared like a fluttering snow-flake. "I've won her," said he to himself. Catching his hat he gave one last look into the glass, ti Fee that the by acinthine curl dropped properly over his forehead, and his mustache was suitably waxed. And then lie hastened, on the wings of true love, across the dusty read, into the lilacs aud labur nums that sheltered the got hie entrance lorcli of Kose cottage. A pretty .little son ant maid, with a muslin cap and aruAl d, white apron, admitted him. "Missus is in the drawing-room, please, sir," said she. all smiles and conscious blushes. "Confound these women! do they tell everything to their servant girls? said Mr. Fordham to himself, as he entered the apartment pointed out to him. lie had seen Miss Deforest once at the opera, sitting iu an opposite box, and be knew her to be young and beau tiful but the lady vrho stood simper ing iu the middle of the parlor was neither one nor the other. He staited back, involuntarily exclaimiug: 'Where Is Miss Deforest?" "She does not come here until Au gust!" politely responded his hostess. ''I am Miss l'atty l'uzslcy, at your service." The glitter of the psail ring on her Gnger flashed at him like a mocking eye as she advanced. He retreated. "There is some mistake!" he gasped. "I I supposed it was Miss Deforest who lived here." "You said you didn't know nor carel" squeaked Miss l'atty l'ugsley, pulling the pink note-sheet out of her pocket. "You wrote it all down in black and white that you loved me, so you did I And I'll have the law on you, so I will!" Mr. Fordham got safe out of the house by dint of speed and skill, but Miss Fugsley sued him for ''breach of promise" the next week and the suit is sti.l pending. The jewe'er has not yet received his fifty dollars for the pearl ring, neither Is Mrs. Flufi kins' board bill settled. And Miss Deforest still roams the wilderness of Saratoga and I,ake George, uncaptured by any arts of Mr. Mr. Albert Fordham. Artificial I'rcclous Stones. The trade in artificial precious stones has become quite important, aud the manufacture ot them has reached a considerable degree of perfection. The products of some of the shops would almost deceive an expert, but the test of hardness is still infallible. The beautiful "French paste," from which imitation diamonds are made, is a kind ot glass with a ruixlure of oxide of lead. The more of the latter the brighter the stone, but also the softer. aud this is a serious defect. The Im itation stones are now so ierfectly made, and are so satisfactory to those who are not very particular, that their influence logins to be felt in the mar ket for real stones. By careful selec tion of tlie ingredients and skill and attention in manipulation, the luster. color, fire, and water of the choicest stones are, to the eyes of laymen, fully reproduced. There are a few deuca cies. of color that cannot be perfectly given, fur they depend on some nudis- coverable peculiarities ot molecular ar rangement and not on chemical com position; but tho persons who are to bay the stones know nothing of that. Yet S'dot. a French chemist, has nearly reproduced these peculiaitles, including the dichorism of the sap phire, with a composition of which the base is phosphate of lime. Two other French chemists, Fremy and Feil. have produced rubies aud sapphires having tlie same composition, with the genuine stones, and yearly eual hard ness. Engraving! may bs transferred on white paper as follow: l'lace the en graving a few seconds over the. yajxjr of iodine. Dip a slip et white roper in a weak solution of utarcn, a.qd when dry in, a weak solution of oil of vitriol. When, again dry, lay a alip upon the engraving and place both for a few minutes under a press. The engraving will be produced in all its delicacy and finish. Lithographs and printed matter cannot be so transferred with equal aucceaa. MISTAKES l.V LANGUAGE. Words and Phraoea to Avoid in Con versa! Ion. The professor ot English literature at Wellesley college has prepared the following list ot words and phrases to be avoided in conversation and writ tof: Guess, for suppose or think. Fix, for arrange or prepare. Ride and drive, interchangeably. Real, as an adverb. Instead of really. as real good. Some, for somewhat. I have studied some. Some ten days, for about ten days. Storms, for rains. Try an experiment, for make au ex periment. Singular subject with contracted plural verb, as she don't skate welL Plural pronoun with slnirular antece dent; every man or woina-i should do their duty. Expect, for suspect. First-rate as an adverb. Had rather, for would rather. Itight away, for Immediately. Party, for person. Promise, for assure. Posted, for Informed. w . Post graduate, for graduate. Depot, for station. Nice, indiscriminately. V stopping, lor stayiug. Try and do, for trying to do. Cunning, for small. Cute, for acute. Funny, for odd. Above, for foregoing. Looks good enough, for well enough. Somebody else's, for somebody's elsa Like, for us. Not as good, for not so good. Feel badly, for feel bad. Between seven, for among seven. Seldom or ever, for seldom if ever. or seldom or never. More than you think for. for more than you think. I hese kind, for this kind. Nicely in reulv to inquiring for health. Healthy, for wholesome. Just as soon, for just as lief. Kind of. to indicate a moderate de gree. Matter of. instead of the matter with. Oil Used Instead of Wator. Od lias a fluent part in the Oriental toilet. Mothers are foud of oiling their babies completely from the Utile head to the little toe and then washing them off, when the skin comes out very clear and soft. This item I have from a British widow and mother who has been here from childhood, writes Anna Ballard from British India. She also tells me that a bath cau be given with out danger ot adding to a bad cold by first freely oiling the sore chest, and that it may even remove the soreness. They generally use cocoanut oil as be ing the oil of the country. OH for the forehead or a hot bead, is a better cooler than water. The water dries immediately and leaves the skin burn ing. But in a case of either a sun- heated or thought-heated head, if a soft oil is poured on with the lavish ness of cologne or plain water, the scalp actually drinks it up is the ex perience of this country. The Northern nose often turns up ward at the use of cocoanut oil that is not fresh. The nose of the common people Is less affected In that way. In truth, there are scents worse than stale cocoanut oil. From the universal oint ment-using habits of the Oriental toilet comes the frequent reference to anoint ing in the Bible, as of Aaron, the high priest; as also Mary Magdalene's alabaster box, Possiblv the supple hand-joints of all the Oriental people have received their faculty of bending backward from their universal use of oils. Oil plays a conspicuous part iu the Hindoo worship. Also the Chris tian Catholic Church assembly annu ally blesses its "holy oils. " Shod With Gold. In the year 1S53 a storekeeper named Donald Cameron, carrying on business at Woolshed, was elected Urst member of parliament for the Ovens district, and he had the honor unique In the history of the colony of being driven in triumph from the Woolshed into Beechworth in a gig, with tandem team, the leading horse of which was shod with gold. An old resident of the district has favored me with the fol lowing partioulars of the occurrence: "Just before the election an eccentric individual known as "Tinker Brown,' who had made a lot of money on the digging, suddenly purchased a circus, with tents, horses, wagons, etc., com plete and coming Into Beechworth wi h his company, he offered to drive the newly elected member and supply gol den horseshoes for the occasion. The Woolshed bosses,' who were greatly elated at the result of the election. warmly took up Brown's idea, and they resolved, in addition, to present their member with a diamond scarf pin. The horseshoes were made by a working jnweller named Tofield, and weighed nine ounces each. The team was driven from Woolshed to Beechworth, and back as rar as La Serena hill. On removing the shoes of the leader (a piebald circus horse) they were fouud to have lost a total of one and three- quarter ounces. Before 'Tinker Brown' died he willed them to a mar ried daughter keeping a public house at nagga Waggs. They were in exist ance until about four years ago. when the owner had them welted aud turned into sovereigns." On tlie Ttlo ill Sum no, Itrazil. The soft tones of the dawn of a fine morning fell alike upon field and flood and tinged all creation with its rosy hues. The rich-colored banks glowed with the warm light that made the dripping leaves ot forest, the ferns and flowers of the shore all Hash and sparkle like jewels. On the river, here and there, patches of rising vapor puflly oh cured its sheets cf uleauiicg "old. until a. gentle iueeae carried away the mist in the faintest ot clouds. The fish splashed in the smoking waters; gay blue-bronze kingfishers darted from their perches on the bleached skeleton trunks ot stranded s:ta&s; white herons smmmeq tuo waters win wide, out-stretcbed wings: clouds of nolqy, chattering parroquets 11 jw by. numerous 6mall birds twittered and chirruped, and in the woods the roars of guariba or howling monkeys echoed and re-echoed from cliff to cliff of the banks. It was a picture that even iu the absence of personal comfort oue could gaze upon with delight, and all nature seemed to welcome the ro3y dawn and pure, fresh air after the bois terous, darksome sight. FOItCED ADVICE. The Kind of a Clerk Nobody Cares to Encounter. The assurance of the average young woman clerk is simply refreshing. Nothing daunts her. And the manner In which she airs her opinions and pref erence indicates a degree of gall that would make the fortune of a book agent or lightning-rod man. Madam Pompadour, lofty, awo in spiring, and frigid as an icicle, sails haughtily up to the lace counter and demands that some jetted essurlal lace ba shown her. The frizzled and banged young woman behluJ the counter coolly sticks her pencil back of her ear and says: "Escurial lace? yes'm. We have the newest patterns, but its not worn as much as it was last year. What did you wish it for, please?" "For trimming a black silk," says madam coldly. "Oh, why don't you get black passe menterie then? It is worn almost en tirely. Now, if I were you I'd get me " "Show mo the lace, if you please, miss." says madam in a tone calculated to make one's blood run cold. But Miss Cash, quite undaunted, says: Oh, certainly, ma'am, but. really. lace is worn so little this spring, and passamenterie is so fashionable, and" condescendingly "I think it would look well on you. Now it don't look so well on me at least, not' a great deal of it. for I'm so " Will you have the kindness to let me see the lace I asked for?" "On, certainly, I was just looking for a new pattern in passementerie 1 feel sure you'd like better than the lace oh, here It Is. Now. If I were you I'd make my dress with " "Are you going to let me see Ui it lace?" asks madam, frigidly. "And you don't like the passemen terie? We are selling a great deal of it. Oh, how would you like a narrow band of the passementerie as a heading to jour lace? I should think you'd like it, I would. It would look well on you. Being so large you know you could wear more trimming than I could. Here is a lovely pattern iii escurial lace. Now with this narrow passementerie It " "I do not want passementerie. Miss." "No? It is very stylish. A friend of mine has just had a black silk made with ten yards of wide passementerie on It. Kially. I hav'n't seen any lace worn on silks made this spring. Now, If I were in your place. I'd at le..st have eight or nine of these jet orna ments on a panel at the side or liov were you thinking of having your dress made?" This la more than a Pompadour can endure, and the madam stalks out while her would-be friend and adviser shifts her chewing gum to the other side of her mouth aud says to a par'.ner in gall: ' Don't believe she wanted anything. The idea of putting escurial lace on a black silk when passementerie is all the rage! She must ba crazy." A Study of Foreheads. The forehead has a language of Us own, said a well-known surgeon lo a reporter. By studying It the character of a person can be determined almost to a certainty. Take a man who has a very retreating forehead, which is lov and shallow, you will find him deficient in intellect. If only slightly retreat ing, or what appears to be retreating from thelulnessof the form over the eyes, you will find him very susceptible, very imaginative, as well as humorous aud w itty. Ride ou an elevated train some day and compare the foreheads of those you know with such of their characters as you may be acquainted with, and you will find that those noted as being slow and dull will have very projecting foreheads. On the other hand, among men noted for their solid understanding, powers of concentration and studious habits, you will find it perpendicular forehead, rather high and well rounded at the temples. Note a man whose forehead Is crossed perpen dicularly between the eyebrows with wrinkles of the same length, you may be sure that he is an ill-tempered in m. Wrinkles, however, ot unequal length Indicate deep thought. Sensitiveness and geniality are shown by a low, arched forehead, full at the temples, and when combined with a great ful ness over the eyes denotes an iuipiov able and Idealistic nature. Person:; possessing poetic, ardent aud sensitive natures not infrequently have a hluj vein forming a letter "y' in an open, smooth and low forehead. High, nar row, unwrinkled foreheads, over which the skin is tightly drawn, show a weak ness of will power and lack of imagma tion aud susceptibility, while foreheads not entirely projecting, but having knotty protuberances, give vigor ot mind, and harsh, oppressive activity and perseverance. 1 have used this philosophy of the forehead for many years iu my practice, and attribute much of my success to its understand ing. A patient's forehead is always visible to the physician, and by study ing it for a moment he can generally get a good idea of the kind of person be has to deal with, and can act and recommend a treatment to conform to the patient's "individuality." The Largest Golil Mine. The famous Mulatos mine, regarded by many as the largest gold mine in the world, I s situated at Sonora, Mex., and was worked hundreds of years ago by the natives, but was lost track of. In 1S04 it was rediscovered and sold to French parties, who, after working it for nearly fifty years, resold it to a rich Mexican, and it has been in his hands ever since. There are 100 ohambers in the mine, some lo'J feet high, yet not a stick of timber is used to support the roof, tlie support consisting of pillars left in digging out tho ore. lhe ore is of low grade, 1 Treasury Department. Tfia rogues' gallery of the treasury department Includes photographs of I over 3,000 counterfeit m.kers and I "shovers." The subjects vary in age all the way from fourteen to seventy. and rprtrfwAnt. vfrv rmMnniitif v .vn the Chinese. There are several of the, J ... ,. ... . . , latter nalmnallty. and it is notsurons ing, as those mild-eyes pagans aie,, .... ....... ,:;., ,,, considered the most expert imitators in the world ... , . ... , . Every library should try to be com- p.et on something, if It were only on the history of pin-heads. NEWS IN BRIEF. Berlin University contains 14J American students. Grocers' clerks In Pittsburg ars organizing for shorter hours. Harvard's law department is tJ publish a law monthly. Paris is said to consume nearly fifty tons of snails in a season. A Urge ice factory is to be put la operation at Koanoko, Virginia. Tho mayor of Dubuque, Iowa, runs a lunch counter und saloon. An Atlantic City hotel cook re ceived J-j'J tho other day for giving a guest his receipt for making inuflins. During the year 138H thirty-si telegraph cilices were opened in China. An outbreak of rabies and hydro, phobia is reported from Cairo, Egypt A lighter in Nine Pierre, D. T., lecently k.l'eJ u rabbit four feet long, An Iona (Mich.) justice of thd peace La3 begun suit for a wedding fee. Tlie electric cable is to supercede horses on the New I'ruiiswick (X. J.,) street railway. A portrait of death "as large aJ life," was lately advertised in an Irishl provincial paper. Malaria is the name of a newly estuhlhfhe I post-oillce in Mecklenburg county, Virginia. It has been discovered In Paris thiit the contents of many of the letter boxes are systematically burned. A mitrailleuse is being tried in the Austrian army winch is eaid to be abla to lire 10UU bullets iu 'JO seconds. Leyden University iu Holland, is the richest iu the world. Its real es tate alone is sai l to be worth J 1,0 X), 'J0U. Mora colored peop'.e are said to have attended tlie funeral of the late Bishop l.ee than were ever before seen at a funeral in Delaware. Rabbi Gerstuunn, of St. Louis, wno was n lieutenant In the 1 lurid war, has been pranUd a ieusion, with arrear-j amounting to t-SOOO. Boardiiii-huiist; keepers la Wash ington are worried over the loss of the board of visi'.Ins lndiaus, which the In dian Department refuses to pay. After many fruitless efforts in that direction a local society in Cincinnati has succeeded in having four actors lined 52j each for acting ou Sunday. New Y'oik (city) manufactured nearly 4,K)0,00 l le-is cigars during the firs:, quarter of t!.s year than during the corresponding period of last year. Engines of 12,000 horse power have just been hhippej Iruin Glasgow, Scot land, lo St. Petersburg. They will be put m the new Russian ironclad Smope. -Maiiv valuable pifts, Including one of irlUJJU.) au l another of an organ, have beta presented by anonymous donors for the new English church at Copenhagen. The rails of the sixteen street car companies in New York would reach to Jacksonville, Florida, from the former city, it is stated, if laid in con tinuous line. The Chinese Testament, revised by the Rev. Griffith Joint, hits just l.een published, and the demand for parts of this version averages nearly 1,000 copies per day. The whole i.ouutiv around about Oxford. New Jersey, "has been filled with smoke from the that has been consuming :i woods i:i that vicinity for some days ast. Orange, New Jersey, successfully experimented with an electrical street railway (half mile), and the whole line, it is stated, will now be equipped with electric motors. Au iron c.niii-shapi J receptacle has been accidentally found by cistern diggers at Kansas City, Mo., and the finders believe they have struck a pre historic burial casket. Bean (hooters iu the hands of boys have caused i uch a boom in the win dow glass busine-s in Pittsburg as to call for an order from the police author ities prohibiting their sale, A red-hot poker, which she thrust down her throat, was the extra ordinary instrument of self-destruction selected by a dissipated woman of Charlottctown. N. S., recently. Tin "finds" of the remains of lake dwellers in Like C-insutuci. Switzer land, are iepoited to have been very good this year, owing to the unusual lowness of the watei 'i of the lake. A Bucks county farmer, who sent ten dollars to a Philadelphia addiess, in answer to an advertisement of the finest feed cutter in America, received in return a two-uo'.Lir set of false teeth. A clock, whos-.' dial i.s said to be 50 feel in diameter, aud which is claimed lo be the biggest hi the world, is in course or construction in New York, and is to be placed at Manhattan Eeactt. A petition has been prepared at San Frauci.sc asking the Navy Depart ment not to condemn the old llasrship Hailtonl, but, to pre-.eive it as the. Enl si kept Nelson's flngship Victoria from st ntimer.ts of patrioluui. Ow ing to i nc increase in freight rates from the llx ;'., under t'ui Inter state Comuieivu law, tha boarding house and restaurant keepers of River side, Oil., "arc coui:l11ju'' to raiso their rates of board. A drumiutr, attempting to elopa with his lest girl from Augusta, Ga.. was arrested as a horse thief by tlie man from whom lie had hired the buggy, but managed lo tscaij the law In time to get married. A tariff rate for tho telephone be tween Paris :uil Brussels lias been agreed ut-ou by the French and Bel gian Governments. The monthly sub scription for a daily conversation of 10 minutes i3 fixed at 100-f. A divorce suit In Minneapolis bas developed the fact that the defendant, who was bartender in a local saloon, is the scion of a noble Eughih family, and that bis Eon 13 heir to an estate said to be worth a couple of million i doll; ars. A vein o; coal was discovered re cently at San Luis Obispo, Cal., while tunning a tunnel to supply the County Hospital with wa'or. inline of the coal was taken to ;- blacksmith shop and tried, provi:-.- uf excellent quality. A (lock ui wild fcesa flying over aterbary, ! ounce! icut. recently saw , iiiji. ui in. r.iivi nuitii i.rj n nil 1 u m y - ,l:iv, v,.l,. .ltt1(.l!lr i.i ,tiii ,,t i ,. i-;-. ii.. n .it...-!.... , jecU,a to 1? -lljey ctrC!ed about it two or three times, and, then, four of tueir numucr, sevmingiy oeiegatea lor the purpos0 , ducked ihe kite and tore it into shreds. ti.Pn ntn ii.-ir wax. V t ) : . !-' ii'.' J i 1