I i ! i B. F. SOHWEIER, the ouzar itu uw-m tow--ah Tiz nroxaEiCTT or tss latb. Editor and iProprietor. VOL. XLI. MIFFLINTOWX, JUNIATA COUNTY. PENN A.. WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 26, 18S7. ti NO. 44. j Jrr! 'jh 111111 jl. Lover" Reasoning. it I lov hiT? fell raa why. T!! u v'e tin w,v..lhin.l path, the placid sky, I'll wtver then. You : f-e I" '' vmiet the perfume ia, Wii'-re hi tl-' tn trln teara arise, fan yuu do tills? T.-1! 1it I I-t" ':"r wnan you l(. ; i;, n 1.4 which in snowdrops lie, i' i n. l- uiy from th drope of dew, Th-n I'll tell why. Why u 1 I vn h r ? First make clear st--,iN Through miuster ainles the .Mli-l'-i ... a nil inv-s'ie sens the atmos- r.-. 1 then will tell. T:..it ' I turn to thee from clans ami i-l. , ,!a in spring. i'.... as summer s l etJtlesf song, soft as perfume, , i t a It j! ilevv, or snowdrop's . -,.i..--- r-sr. w1itre tumults cease; .-.-r -.i'e iseloseil, wilhiu is peace. 1 !r. 11 Till: MAD ENGINEER. "Tha N a very good story, boys. and rem'titH nie ol something mat nap twr.f 1 sexeial y ears ago. when 1 was t.iit. J i" me ot tn oest men tnai ever m:..-.i utl.r.'ttv, said a veteran eu . r 11 a crowd of railroad employes. ; I u,.m-ht it wouldn't tax the pa t cut nt yu too much, I would teli ton a'-'i-t it atlio'inh," he said, after a m. u..-1-t's pause, "I have never dared spe.i , f f accident, or incident, it leiiivl iu l?-o. I believe." .,- 's h.ive it, Uncle Tommy," sp.e crowd us one man, who ae.l knew Unci Tommy's ability ai storv W.-.'M when the sulject involved rii't'i'-v. "l'.i l '.'n with," said he, after the criuv 1 h.i t I ecome quiet and assumed a 1 -t i: :.u' a'titu le. "it Is necessary to teil y i about my enirlneer. In order t;.at ou nay the better appreciate my stmy, .in 1 l less bitter In your denun cia.ioa t I. is conduct on the qight in iiwtn'ii. f'-r ;!ie stry I am goin to I, ., y hi i:.ijn'i ! ar nlsht. - -1 i ii. ui. e wis Wendall Hart Wen . vi iy pii t:y name, you will say, it .! vt uppropriate, for I will g-i ii i reo, t I :is suMiiii that he was the Inn !' "in-st u:.in that old Ton ever li.il now Wt:en I siiy handsome, !;y. t. .'i ;s ju-c what I mean exactly, tur i.e ,n r-.i;!y and truly handsome, an ! : .i: in i le h in still more so in my e.-s, l.e ili lu't know it. That is, you w.mMu't t 'i -i.k he knew it from his act: 'i:s. li- w.is just simily gooil, h.i:.'!-.-u e Kill Weudall or the '03.' I I. . "I i e-ii ;i: me for him about eighteen iu ni!;s. ,i- 1 l..i I I'ome to love blm as a hiiMlier. This sime Earl AVendall thai I urn le'in vou a!)out was in love, lie i.ivoil fii y one girl, and the Lord oniy 1:a ws l ow many girls all along the l.i e ve:e h. ad over heels in love w::li i, .in. Ii:ui' my run with him UeVec A tfre .l.--wvi UHt SOTO .hy sial- den il.:n'l send him tiowers. or some little t 'keti uf friendship, as we weie piusUin ;hroujh. ouietimtsthey would ciiiiie themseives, then asaiu they would snul a mreuaer. It was that .,v ail nl 1 have aeen Karl's box n.u r i'. iwets. lie would accept them luev.-i y iii-Uuei'Mici'U with a bow and a f lint Min.e, returnitn his thanks to the setn'.er, throw them into his box. a:ul lli.il u.us the last of them until they wn'.eiiil, then he would raise the box IM.iui cast theiu out. seemingly utnv:..sc:cnis and httle caring of the l'iu ihat such action would cause in the lo ans of the lair donors had they known the tale of their flowers. j 'Eu! iipiuecinted all this, I am con Qi'etit, tin', us I have said, he was in love, not with i!u girls at every sta tion, Iu,: wi:i one ir'rt. and he was determined to keep his heart for her ami i.er oi.ly. How this action was ai'Lnfciateii i)v the favored one you will know aj.-r awhile. "AU.ht ii:ty miles from Trovidence was ti e .-upper house for our train. It was called Uie 'bush Supper House. Bu-li was aj.liy old German and was uuneisaiiy liked by the railroaders and traveleis (jeiieia.iy Besides beiti piopiietoi- t, ti,,. Uusii House he was the i.nher of as pretty a girl as ever took a step, Uer name was Bessie, aiM she was Karl end all's idol. 1 au't l em to des.-nlie her, but she was just li.e unl, 1 tiiou-ht, for Karl Weii '! K.il thorn; t the same way aud a 1 m.nie hi r luiiiise lonj ago to share his Untune W;t.i him. All the railroad int-u kneA of Karl and liessie's engage ment, and speculation was rife as to I en the wed l.iur was to 'come off.' c t.-ioi.aily K .il would come from llie liusii House bringing his Sow hs. 'lhese had a separate place from t:.e re-t. and 1 have known hunto haul one ut i.er buunueis a month, aud then I'ari with is wilIi a sili. '"I h.e il iv Karl said to me: 'I n le Tuin, how d'j you like Miss iuii r M 'lity wiil, i: rl," I replied; m ss liu!i is what 1 call a first class Millie Woiii.m w . is silent for a moment. Then he su '1 in .ad to hear you say so. Uncle Toiu i v. We'.l, Hess and 1 are going iu e! ii.urr.ii i,exL Sunday week. t-an a.ways cade J her 'llsas' for bin -it. -Is i. at so?"' answered I, feiirnina sur; i.-i hut 1 t! 've to , "I exacted as much, Karl, 'Ui.L il would be too inquisp s. you." "I h sWHlvl. ' it a sen.. n!d have told you." he an- hiit I tlioulit it best to keep . at least until now. I want :"u to he at the wedding. It will take I ' 'e at her lathei's house." i.i.s coiiversition took, place on " i ui.es.lay, 1 believe. Wheu we stop- ieu i"r supj er usaiu it was on Friday. i! i' oi us two davs to make the round " i'. u we were ou the mixed freight. i know they generally take their i .iii.'. ! en we walked into the hotel ;'.' i.. ssie introduced a stranger to -aw ut. 1 myself as a ilr. i.u banks. i 'ii.. to; thinkauythlBgabout it much. I tiot.ivii a dark scowl came over s handsome face. it lookeii its though Bessie was i.uiirr aiteiilive to the stranirer and as le-. so to Karl, but I thought t&at as or.T natural, as he was a stranger an i tail aa oid acquaintance. It was one t Hush's hobbws to make every i ranker Uel at home while at his use. i'loKibly this was more to sain -"-loiu ti.an anything else, 1 don now. However, Karl ate his supper in iiein-e and was otT again to his engine tfore 1 was half through. I left the scanner "d lie-s in the otttce together, ctiatt!u verv nWonntlv "Do you know iir. Eubanks, Tom?' asked Earl when I got to the engine pcttln a jrreat deal of stress on the "lir." part of the question. "I do not," I replied, Why?" "Nothing." he replied. "We made the balance rf tha run ir silence. I don't think Karl annk word. I could tell, though, he was writhing in the agonies of jealousy. "I don't think arl and Ren annV. the next trip, nor the next, nor the nexs. ine stranger was still at the Bush Ilouse. I knew from the turn affairs bad taken, or were taking, that Earl and Bessie's wedding was off.' Although he never told me so much, 1 know that it c juldn't be otherwise. The next trio we made was Karle's wedd ing night. He had on bis overalls and was unusually solemn and morose, not speaking or eveu looking at me during the run of fifty miles. I was ou -ne point once or twice of asking him if this was not his wedding night, but I did not. knowing too well that it was either indefinitely postponed or off for ever. When we 6tepped into the office that night old Bush met us at the door. -Fife minute too late, poysl" he ex claimed, grasping botu our hands at the same lime. 4 W hy Is supper over?" I asked. "No, no; plenty uv sup ier," he re plied, still holding our hands. "Kxtrie supply uv supply Der veddhx; dei veddln vat's slust happen! "The wedduu?" asked Earl and 1 in a breath. "Who's married?" "Why, mine Demand Mr. Kubanks, uv course. Uey takes der bridal trip terectly."' "Earl fell back in dismay. Poor fellow 1 I haI felt all day as though 1 knew this would happen. "Bess married!" he gasped, lookinu as white as a sheet, as he clutched my hand. l"es," answered the seemingly jub! laut German, "und dey leaf on your train ter-night." "Ah!" answered rl, as he strode back to the engine. "Tender her my co a grai u lat ions. " "That was all he said. "What had be resolved upon? "I went into supper, feeling abaiit as badly as Earl, I Imagined, for 1 was really sorry for him. There were the bride and groom looking as happy as a couple could look. "Where is Mr. Wendall, Uncle Tommy?" asked Bess, as I walked iu. "Whatbhiuid I say?" "lie's not coming to supper to-night," I replied; "he's not leeling well." "I'm sorry," was her comforting re ply. "I congratulated them, as under the circumstances I was compiled to do, but I could better have wrung the vil lain's neck; for 1 had come to the con cluion that he was a villain. "I came out to the train with the bride and groom. They got ou the coach attached to the freight, put on as accommodation for passengers. I went don to the engine, and found Earl sittiug upon the box with bis face burled in bis hands. He was the very p-cture of despair. A dark scowl over ixiod an eaBsieuiiie. As I cllintieC upon the engine a low groan escapeo 'is tightly closed lips. 1'oor Karl Wnat could I door say to cheer him up in this hour of his utter despair? While I was thus thinking, knowing not what to say, fearimr I might wound instead ot comforting him, he suddenly turned upon me with a look 1 shall never forget. His eyes.'usually btight and sparkling, were now Hash ing fire. He had nursed bis wrath as loug as he could, and now it had burst forth in all Its fury. His teeth chat tered, aud his face was livid with rage. 'Where are they?" be gasped, grasp ing the throttle of his engine. "They have boarded the train," l answered, in as quiet a tone as possible. "Then they go with usr" "Yes." "Where to what place?' "Providence, I believe." "Very well," he said, in a quiet tone. "By this time a dark, heavy, omi nous cloud baa gutuereu in iue east. 1 never saw a cloud gather as quickiy. and when we left that station it was amidst the thunder's roar ana the lightning's flash. The lightning fairly danced on the track betore us. 1 he rain came down in torrents, and alto gether it was a very desolate night. "Karl v euuail puneu uis engine iue oiieu. ana sue snot uui uk a iamiu . t aster anil iaster we went, until tne cars juiaped and rattled as though they were going to leave the track every minute. I tiarillr Knew wuen we reached the first station. We whizzed hv like a streak, not checking in tne least. The rain was by this time blind- Mv hair fairly stood on eua. Karl, seeing how frighteued I was, gave loud lauiMi. wnicil cu.i.eu me u mo verv marrow of my Dones. i unuer- slood now. He intended to run the tram off the track, ir possinie, ana jet every soul on board perish. Before I was aware or wuai ue uaa ut?u uuiub he had disappeared throusu the cab window and was making his way to the frout of the engine. In another in stant the headlight was out! lie had turned it off. and we were piungmg into utter darkness at the rate of thirty miles an hour' "Coming back into tne engine iui his pistol in bis hand be took nis seat on the box and gave himself up to the most hilarious lauguler. x maue a spring to his side, witn tne imeuuou of shutting her off, but he slapped his cocked pistol in my face and cried: "Back Tom. oryouareaueauumui "But, Earl, I said, "you will run the train off and cause fearful uestruciiou to life and property !" "That Is what I want to dol he screamed, with another laugh. "By this time the conuuciur, mu e,T urtmethlnir was wrong, came over the cars to the front, followed by two or three passengers, among mtm K., n Ir m ..u.-hf i th matter?" asked the conductor, as be sprang on to the engine. .n.i tkl" shouted Earl, with bis t.tj n resented. "I'm running this engine, and the first man who attempt ... inrorfwr is a dead manl" "Eubank made a rush at Earl, who, at sight of his rival, fairly foamed with rage. . "Villain!" he screamed, "you dare :.,e. 'nn. of all men?" bi'niUi recoiled, horror stricken. la the meantime, we were plunging along in utter darkness, knowing not 'what minuu ve would all be dashed to eternity. . re-Kit., the enndnctor and Erl were talking in an excited tone, Eubanks slipped op behind Earl with a Diuei oi tm, vihlnil Earll I Cried. In an Instant he had turned and eaw Eu banks, ready to brain him. .viiiaini Xot satisfied with winning m bride- tou would till me!" And as he said these words Lis pistol rang J out, am in tne dm and confusion, and I Eubanks' bridal tour had ended. j "Xow," he said, turning to the con- j due tor, "you may stop the traiu. I've had my re venire." I "Grabbing hold of the lever the con ductor shut off the steam, and the truin. which a moment a?o was plunging along at such a terrulc rate of speed, was at a standstill. I went back to the passenger car, and conducted Bes sie to the horrible scene which awaited her coming. When she beheld the dead form of her young husband her loud, piercing screams could have been heard a mile. Turning her eyes up to Earl, who was standing there with a contemptibld smile on his face, she demanded: "Are you the author of this?" "Earl did not speak. Her cold, reproachful glance cowed him. "When Earl said he bad bis revenge he told the truth. There upou the floor of the engine was the dead form of Bessie's husband, and she was beuding over him, giving vent to the most piti ful moans. "Tnat was more than revenge. "lie had widowed a beautiful gU. and becoming himself a felon, a crimi nal of the deepest dye. Picking up his hat and putting his yet stick ing revolver in bis pocket. Earl bid the silent spectators to bis awful crime: adieu, aud disappeared in the darkness." "What did t iey do with Wendall?" asked one of the listeners "Nothing. He came to trial not lonu arter, but was aquitted, tie jury Cud nj from the evidence that he acted iu self defense." "And Miss Bes3ie his sweatheart?" "Oh, she's my wife. A year after the events transpired we were married. n the same room that she and Eubauks were married in. Young, you say, to marry me? Oh, no. She was 20, while I was only 35.' Oar llotol Hariruiiijt Aaistocracv Every season the noble army of would-be aristocrots Is swelled. We now have a distinct, untitled, sham aristocracy which is infinitely enter taming. Go to any of the summer hotels throughout the land, aud you will find a large percentage of well bred, W6ll dressed, handsome Jews, wno interfere with no one, and never mi n ale outside their own race; a larger percentage of wealthy g.-nti.ei, who wear gorgeous dresses, have uorgeou? turn outs, gorgeous manners, and a -orgeous disregard for grammar; a few quiet, well bred, reserved farai des, who lead retired lives and boihei no one; and a small colony of soi-dis tant great ones, toward whom the eyes of every one are constantly turning. These people, on their arrival, send forth the fiat that "they dont care to mix outside their own circle," and rude remarks of theirs, to the effect that "there is no one iu the house with whom they care to associate," are constantly in circulation aiuonit tia guont n. ud 1mv mm. aor, euitM angry, some jeaious, and a few philos ophers amused. It Is the secret desire of half the people in the hotel to be ad mitted into this exclusive paradise; they would do anything to be abie to sit in the heart oi that little clique, as it forms an aristocratic hollow square on the shady side of the piazza. But rarely are their pains rewarded. The hollow square shows a chilling disre gard of their existence, which is more crushing than deliberate iusuit. At the same time, however, the young fe male hollow equarer shows no disregard for the existence ot suc'i young male pariahs as may be dangling aural. She absorbs them with well-bred tran quility, and hangs their scalps round her belt, smiling dreamily. But these hotel haunting aristocrats are not genuine They are only good counterfeits. Were they real they would have bad cottages long ago. Bui, tney are smart, and they think that it's much better to rule iu hell than serve in heaven a thousand times better to rule in a hotel than be iauored iu a cot tage. They are. moreover, clever man agers, and have given the subject study. They dress well and talk welU Their manners are good save in the case of the lofty hauteur to whieh they treat their so cailed social ln'eriors, aud their social inferiors are more impressed by this than they would be by the re fined suavity of nature's graudes dnes. Taking them ah in all, they are remarkably good shams, and as such deserve much praise. The pos sessor of brains is a rarity not to be sneered at. even though he use his brains to make himself a fool. Clothes Made of Kisll Saju. The Gilyaks make another use of the salmon which I do not remember tc have heard of in other countries, inas much as they employ tl.e skin for gar ments. Hence the Chinese call them Yupitatze," or fish skin strangers. The fish skin is prepared from two kinds of salmon. 1 hey strip it oa with dexterity, and by beating with a mallet remove the scales, ana so renuer it supple. Clothes thus made. 1 need hardly say. are wa'erproof, but they have an oojectlonau'.e unseal to nose; polite. I was fortunate enough to pur chase on the Amur a fish skin coat. which I believe in England is unique. for there is nothing like it in the Brit ish museum. It is handsomely em broidered on the back, the intermix- ture of colors being skillfully wrought in needlework. Fish skin, however, is used only roi summer clothing. In winter the Oil- vaK delights to clothe nimseit in tne skins of his dogs, or of fox or wolf, as beinff next warmest. 1 he tnoes rur- tuer west, as indeed do all the Siberian people, employ the skins of the rein deer and elk for winter clothing. Old tajcllt Weddings. An English wedding in the time ot good (jueen Bess was a joyous public festival. Among uie uisuer rauas tne bridegroom presented the company with scarfs, cloves, ami garters or me favorite colors of the wedding pair and the ceremony wound up with banqueting, masques, pageants, and pithalamiums. A gay procession formed a part of the humbler mar rinffea. The bride was led to church between two boys, wearing bride laces and rosemary tied about their silken sleeves, and before her was carried fcilver cup filled with wine. In which was a large brancn or guaea rosemary, hung about with silken ribbons of all colors. Next came the musicians, and then the bridesmaids, some bearing great bride cakes, others garlands of gilded wheat. Thus they marched to church amidst the shouts an bene dictions of the spectators A WONDERFUL BABY. When Three Days Old it Shoaled -I-ull Off (he Owilr." There is a bigger attraction in Little Rock just now than Showman Bar num ever possessed. This wonderful phenomenon is at present residing on 12th street, and is in the shape of a colored baby, not yet seven weeks old. It talks, not like a grown person, it is true, but at the same time as well as any child of three years of aire. The parents of the child are a Mr. and Mrs. rscott, who reside on 12th street, between Centre and Spring Streets, and are hard-working, respect able people. Mrs. Scott is the mother of twelve children, who are not diff erent from others of the same age, and have so far shown no remarkable pe culiarities. When three days old this child startled his mother and several children who were present by request ing those present to "pull off the quilt." This caused a sensation for the time being, and on the next day the baby called out: "Say, where is mamma?" When visitors were told of this unheard-of proceeding on the part of a child not a week old, a watch was kept by several young ladies and gentlemen, who wanted to hear the child talk. The result Is that they were finally convinced that the reports circulated were true. From the time the baby first opened its mouth until the pres eut there has not been a day that it did not talk more or less. It says such words as "pa," "ma," "come here," and "let me alone," The sent ences are not full and well rouuded aud the words are broken, but all the time intelligible. The parents are very mcch annoyed by the hundreds of visitors who throng Vie house. Lock at Laar. "It cannot oe true, l'ou are ing," said Cyril Beresford, his Jok face growing very pale. ! wish it were a Joke," she an swered sadly. "I thought you had heard of my marriage. 1 am Clarl Hunter." And she held up her hand on which glistened a wedding ring. "And what of your wife?" she asked calmly. "My wife?" he stammered. "Yes, the told me you had married Annie Dormer." "Great God!" he murmured "there Is some terrible mistake here. - Why, Clarl I mean Mrs. Hunter I have not seen her for two years. This is an infamous piot. Did you not get any of the letters 1 wrote to you from abroad?" "Not one," she said, bewildered. "Cyril, I was duped into the marriage, because I believed you had forgotten me, God forgive them for wrecking both our Uvea." And she covered her face with her hands. . . - Then suddenly rising up she said: "But my husband was to .return for me here. He must not see you. Good by, dearest," giving him her hand. "Good-by, Clan; good-by forever! I can't trust myself to say anything more, but good-by is enough now. 1 shad go abroad again at once; where I hardly know, but possibly back to Canada. At any rate we shall hardly meet again. I, for one, pray not!" He would have gone, but her small clinging hands held him convulsively. "Goiug away forever? Oh, Cyril, my darling, I cannot part with you. My love my only love I shall die without you! Take me oh, take me with you!" shecried, wildly. He unclashed her hands very gently. but with a stren-hth she was power less to resiBt. "Don't tempt me!" he said, in a deep voice, stern in its repressed aitony. "Don't tempt me to ruin your life as well as my own. it is only the strength of my 1 ve which helps me to swear that I will not drag your young life down into shame and misery. Don't look at me with those haunting eyes of yours. Claril I can't bear UI Do you think me more than mortal t" he burst forth, in sudden irrepressible passion; then calm, again, replaced the slight form upon the grass; adding, in tones which rang through Clara's poor. bleeding heart for many a long, weary day," "Go home go to your duty and strive aud pray to forget." 11a strode away, not daring, not trusting to give one backward glance, one pause. And bis poor leilow-sui ferer did not faint, or scream, or weep Hearts can suffer and endure death-wounds very quietly and with very little outward show. My dear fellow, you havr. been swallowed up in those back wo 3d s for so long you've absolutely forgotten how to be civilized. lou have re fused no end of invitations this week, and I teli you candidly I shall consider it a personal affront if you don't turn up this evening." And Albert Harlind selected and lighted a cigar with the air of one born to overcome opposition. "And 1 tell you candidlv, old man. laughed Cyril Beresford, leaning back In the chair he was carelesaly balancing upon half its proper number of leis. ''that I came over to England for business, not pleasure, I don't intend to stay more than three weeks at the longest, and I certainly don't mean to waste any of that time upon the dragon, Society. Society! 1 detest it! "See the demoralizing effects of prosperity!" cried his friend, mock ingly. "My dear Beresford, it is high time sou were thinking of mar rying and settling down rationally, and it you will only trust your future to my bauds this evening 1 will In troduce you to" "A pretty, charming, insipid young girll" interrupted the other, scorn fully. "I detest pretty girls and so will gratefully take your will for your aeeoi" "It was no pretty girl I was thinking of then, but a lovely young woman a widow and I dare bet you pretty neaviiy, ueresrora, mat the first mo ment you see her she will just fascinate you, brain and souL Come early and get over your first attack ot lunacy be fore most ot the people arrive." "I hate widows!" was Cyril's la con lo reply, puffing lazily at the cigar Detween nis lips. "I'll give you just a short sketch of ner history," llarland continued quietly, ignoring his companion's rude ooservauon. "ane was a most devoted wlfe a good augury that for the f u ture, yon know. Her husband died about a year ago, and she is left ex- Uemely well off, although that la small attraction to yon now; nevertheless. It is no positive -disadvantage, I presume. Of course she .Is terribly run after, and no wonder. I declare, if I were not engaged myself" "Treason!" interrupted Cyril, quietly rising and taking up his hat. "I can listen to none of that, and my time ia op; so good-by for the present!" "You'll turn up to-night?" "If possible," And the two friends parted. "She has not arrived yet," were Harlind's first words of greeting, as his friend entered the crowded rooms. "But meanwhile I can improve the time by introducing you to lesser stars. Stay., though; there she is. Beresford. turn and behold your fate!" And Cvril turned and beheld the graceful figure just entering the room a figure tall aud slight, dressed in trailing rich silk, whose sombre hue only served to enhance the brilliancy of her complexion. A face bewitcWnirly fafr, tew1tch ingly sweet, sUll soft and girlish, but nevertheless possessing more than one line upon the broad, white forehead and about the snail, sensitive mouth, for whose presence time was hardly answerable. The bright masses of brown hair were coded behind the shapely little head, and strings of matrnificent pearls gleamed among them. Ah! had Cyril ever seen that ruddy brown hair before? Had he ever seen those large violet eyes, with that strangely pathetic, patient sorrow In their wonderful deptlis? They were raised to his now. In their full, sort, starry oeauty. as Ilarl'nd began, "Mrs. Huuter. will you allow me to introduce my friend" "Mr. Beresford," he would have added, but all suddenly, without warn ing word, or cry, or sob, Mrs. Hunter bad slid to the ground in a dead fa nt, and the crowded room was in utmost confusion, wonderment anl distress. Windows were opened, smelling salts, fans, every or any possible or impossible restorative produced, and while the bustle and alarm were at its height, no one noticed Cyril Beres ford 's quiet departure. Clari Hunter did not look much the worse for her temporary indisposition the next morning. Perhaps her unexpected attack had, however, unstrung her nerves, for she started at every passing footstep in the street and trembled violently at each ring or knock, and when at last the hall door bell p-ale 1 and the foot man announced the unwontedly early visitor her trembling limns would not allow her to rise, and she could only sink back in her chair, clasping her tiny hands upon her throbbing heart In vain effort to still its tumultuous beatings. The door closed, and the larze room was crossed in two hasty strides. Cyril Beresford's strong aims were round her, bis lips pressed to hers, bis true, earnest eyes gazing dowu into the two deep wells of love to frankly, happily raised to meet and answer his gaze. . "My darling, I do not deserve such JLtrt, oalaa at lastl" Census and Common Sense. It lr perhaps, as natural for some pecpie to forget common claims and duties as it is for others to become absorbed in them. One man dwells iu thought and shriuks from action. another is alwavs acting without thinking, but, as Huskiu well tells us. it is only by tabor that that thought can be mace healthy, and only by thought that labor can be made happy. and the two cannot be separated with Impunity." One is wedded to theo- les and despises practice; another. with executive power, scorns all theory as vaporous and unpractical. One man, engrossed with scientific research, neglects to control his money matters, aud involves himself and others in trouble; another, vigilant and econom ical, cares not a straw for the most wonderiul message that science ever brought. Some are too much ab sorbed iu lofty Ideas or adventurous schemes to take proper care ot their physical welfare; others, too much en gaged with the claims of the body to take taught for anything beyond. It ia U very common mistake to sup pose that genius must always dwell in extremes, nnd that to mediocrity alone belongs the power of balance and har mony. W hile it cannot be denied that it is sometime the case, it is not bv any means either a necessary condition of things or one to be desired. The man of genius most to be honored and admired is he who, while devoting him. self to some one high aim or endeavor. never forgets other claims aud other relations. He is not satisfied to be a grand statesman and a neglectful father, an eminent philosopher and a careless spendthrift, a fine astronomer aud a disloyal friend, an earnest re former and a cruel enemy. Whatever else he may be he desires to be a mau in the best sense of the word, aud to that dlgn.ty be can only attain by cul tivating the qualities which combine to form true manhood. wra ofTho.o ape Cod Folta. The fringed eentiau grows in its greatest profusion upon Caoc Cod. Tiie people there treat it as a noxious weed and chop it down with their hoes As a flower it Is unknown to the common people almost everywhere. They have no name of their own for it apparently, for that of "fringed gentian" seems al most impossible lor them even to speak. There is a story, more or less familiar, of a group of Boston ladles going out to Lake Waidenin search of this fijwer one fall. They found no ventians and presently began to make inquiries for them. No one had beard ot a iy such thing. By and-by an Irishman showed signs of intelligence when they asked. "Here, at last, is a man who knows na ture," they said to themselves. "Sure," said he, "yez ll foind it about two molles from here. Jist folly the railroad track till yez stroike the other road and there yez are." - "What, on the railroad track?" "Av coorse," said the Irishman, "an where else? Isn't it t nnch J unction that ye're lookin' for?" The Boston ladies took the next train for home in despair. "Will Outgrow It. "I'm not going to play with Willie Waffles any more," was Flossie's dictum. "Willie Is a Tery nice little boy," said her mamma. "I dont like him. In fact, I don't like boys at all, mamma. I guess it is because I'm not oid enough." j " I Like clings to unlike more than to like, WILLFTIiti WILLIE, or Marrying lor Money. Mrs. Kate Shelby bad four daughters, and it was her dearest wish to have them all marry men of wealth and dis tinction. So far she had on'y reason to regret her plan. She bad married off ber eldest daughter Ethelinda to old John Maurice, a horrible old rascal who had ill-treated her while be lived and tried to cut her off in his will. Mrs. Shelby had worried her daughter into this marriage because afraid she would elope with her wild cousin, Duke Moran. Wllhelmina or Willie, as the young est daughter was called. Mrs. Shelby rtecided must marry nothing less than baronet, and so matters stood at Shelby Manor at the beginning of this story. A flower glen, a snade ot arcning trees, a wiii'ul-lacea young girl, a daiif and reckless man. "I wou.d like you to tell ma au the storr, Duke," said Willie, He laughed bitterly. "There Is not much to telL I had no mother or sister; 1 was young and wild, but I bad cot sold myself to the JeviL, and I loved Ethie; and she was an angel and might have made any thing of me. But her mother and your mother was set against mo be cause 1 was poor. I might have been cut-throat and had 1 monev she would have given her to me. I know Kate Shelby I But she shut her up. and never rested till she was safely mamed to that old hound, Llauiice. Does she know the work she made of my life, I wonder? She shall knowl" 'Duke, Uukel you ingnten me wuen your eyes glitter so! Try and forget, since it cannot be bellied. I want some cardinal blossoms. Will you led the pony for me as you did yesterday t for I must not stay much longer. I have been from borne two hours now, and if mamma suspected" "Yes; but she does not suspect. Ana you will come here every day that I ask vou. little one?" "Yes; as loug as I may. Poor Dukel do you k'-ow that I dream of you at night? All the time your poor face haunts me. I forget over my embroid ery, and Miss runt mates me lane ic out, and 1 stumble in my practising. But they must not guess, inusi. they t "No; keep our secret for a time. By and by they shall kuow," But Willie shook ber ebon curls. "1 do not kuow how mamma evet can know, Duke." You are young, Wiille, out you will be eighteen in a month; and since a girl does not have such-an offer twice in a lifetime, you will marry him. so let me bear no more against it." But. mamma, the baroa has not offered himself to me!" Very certainly not. The Germans never address a young lady until ber guardian's consent is gained. 1 have accepted him for you that is suffic ient. Why- wbaL da you menu, sou wiliul girl, opposing your mother thu-? 1 have spoiled you Indulged you far too much, Willie, tio to your room; remain there until you can ask my pardon and be more obedient." Ah. Hashing young eyesi noui xue little dark hauds over them until you are safe in jour room, Willie. A pebble against the panel 'l is but a step from the balcony to the weather -beaten lattice. Before the small foot touches the ground a strong arm enfolds the lithe waist. Willie is away to the rendezvous! Mrs. Shelby's step sounds softly in the hall. She listens at the closed door. All Is silent. "I will not disturb her to-night, little baroness,' she murmurs, with a proud smile. "Let her sleep, and keep bright toose eyes that have won such a onze." It was the night before the wedding. The llond baron a mau of filty, yellow-uearded, jovial, not objection able, only as uncongenial to the young -;irl he had fallen in love with sat with Mrs. Shelby lu the drawing-room. He held a jewel case in his hand. II is gool-natured face was clouded. "Why do I never see my preddy Willie alone?" he asked, sighing. "Sue is a little shy so young, you know, dear baron. But 1 will send her ' down, and you shad clasp the pearls ! around her neck yourself. " Radiant for tne baron's wedding- gift, a pearl necklace, was niagnihceut Mrs. Shelby fitted up the staircase. The baron sighed vocally again, left alone lu the loug, rich room, full of uamask and old pottraits. "Ah, my preddy Williel he mur mured, getting up aud walking the door. It was evening. A huudred wax cnJles burned in the chandelier above his head. The rain tapped tne high, uarrow windows hidden away ia folds of gleaming djmisk. It was some time bsfore Mrs. Shelby came in. Her face was pale, her breath hui red. ' Sue is not In her room. I cannot find her." Before she had ceased speaking a window was flung up; a gust of rainy air swept through the room, extin guishing half the candles. A man s.eppedover the sill, bearing a droop n form in his arms. At Mrs. Sheiby's feet He laid his burden, and the small, white face fell back, and showel Willie dead! 1 did not love her, but to-night she would have eloped with uie!" said Duke Moran, In a low, terrible voice. "A hasty step the rotten bar of a lat tice caused her dealh. The end is the same she is stone dead! Tne 1 ght of your life has left it. Your days are darkened, as you have darkened mine. And now, farewell forever, Kate Shelby!" He turned on biti heel, and vaulting lightly through the open window, was away through the rain and darkness. But the wretched mother saw noth ing, knew no hing, save that small, white face, framed in its ebon curls. Ay, ber pride was broken! W hen she arose from her bed of ter rible sickness she sought no more worldly distinction for her daughters. Her little girls grew up puie; eact made her choice unfettered. And they were happy and shed much sun shine on her latter days. Through her afll cticn she at last learned patience and wisdom, aud also humility. A witness In a case tried lately it Augusta, Georgia, teatiQed that lit drinks "in an ordinary day's, bender' from 18 to 23 quarts of beer, STUTTER KltS' SCHOOL. How the Habit of Summering ii often c- aired. "Young man. how did you acquire the habit of stuttering?" "I u-u-used to m-m-mock a man. When he d-d-died I took his place. The questlou was by a professor of a vocal institute, and the answer by a young man whe had just announced hts intention ot taking a series ot lessons. A reportet was present, and sitting around the room were several intelligent looking young men, the most of whom could Bpeak as fluently as any one. All de clared that they had until recently been most inveterate stutterers or stammerers. The doctor's question sug gested an interesting train of thought The reporter put the same question to each of the patients in turn. "When I was about 0 years of age," satd num ber one, 1 commenced to stutter a lit tle. Tuen we moved to a strange place and I went to school. I was very dim dent, and the teacher attempted tc force me to read and recite. The scholars laughed at me, I became more diffident, and soon the habit was fixet on me." "I am his brother," said numbei two. "I learned it of him." "When 1 was young," said number three, "I used to play all the time with another boy who was a horrible stut terer, and 1 learned It of him, When ever I was out with the boys and didn't think of it I would sometimes find myself talking all right, but a? soon as 1 thought about It 1 woulu commence again. My little brothei bfterward learned it of me " Number four said he learned the habit from another boy, but woulu have conquered it had not his teachei forced him to read aud recite, at which times he became so nervous as to lose all control of himself. All had ac quired the habit at the age of 6 or 7. OF A XEBVOU8 MATURE. "That accords with the most of mj experience," said the doctor, "these impediments o. speech are for tht most part of a nervous nature. Lack of will power, the telegraphic systerr of the body out of order, imperfect connection between the brain and nius cies of sieech. All this trouble some times arises from sudden fright. One patient of mine, a young lady, wa slightly seized with stammering at the time of the great fire. Afteward she Biw a cow catch a little girl ou its horns. She was paralyzed wit'i fright, unable to scream or move. The ani mal tossed the child into the air. She rushed to the spot and the child was fatally injured. Arter that the lady was a bad case of confirmed stammer -lug. "Od6 or the worst cases I ever had was that of a youiuv man. When he was a boy of 0 or 7 years of age his father threatened, if he committed a certain offense, to throw him into the well. The boy committed the offense, and bis father held him for a moment over the well bead downward. From to it time on the boy could not UUk plainly. Many children acquire this malady in infancy, just as they are be giuning to talk. Their parents or nur Bes tickle them, sometimes on the bot toms of the feet, thinking the loud laughter thus excited amusing. The papa' which the little ones cry out at such times is the first inception of the habit of stuttering. The doctor is a jolly fellow, of fine physique and great personal magnet ism, with the voice and laugh of a lion; if a lion can be Imagined as laughing. In training hij class hr commences, in the most natural way in the world, to talk of all sorts of interesting subjects, aud soon an infection of good feeling seizes all present. He roars out his words with such force and fluency from the dephs of his immense lungs that talking seems the easiest thing in the world. Occasionally, a remark is a ldressed to some member of the clas lu a conversational sort ot way, and before they know it everybody seems to be able to talk. Occasionally he goes the rounds of the class with var. ous vocal exercises for the developinen t of certain muscles. SOME OF THE EXEBCISES. Here are a few of the exercises. Some ministers and actors would do well to practice them; "Amos Ames, the amiable aeronaut, aided in au aerial enterprise at the aie of 8 V "Obtain all opportunities of obliter ating obnoxious ostentatious." "Henry Uingham has hung his harp on the hook where be hitherto hung his hopes." What a nut for a Cockney to crack. "I like white vinegar with veal very well." "She sells sea shells. Shall he sell sea Bhel.sV' ''Quixote Quixite quizzed a queerish quidoox. Where is the queerish quid box Quixote Q lixite quizzed?" When the pupils can recite these eon fences and a hundred or so similar ones fluently they are graduated. A clear cut, elegant aud fluent utter ance Is one of the greatest graces with which a person can be gifted. It tells almost the whole story of one's birth, early training and associations. The different kinds of faulty elocution are known as stuttering, stammering, hes itancy, lisping, exhausted breath, nasal sound and improper articulation. Many people fail under so complete a list as thu. who in some instances could im prove their utterance by a little private practice and attention to the matter, j A stutterer has the most difficulty In uttering lingual sounds such as words j beginning with L., while the stammerer . stumbles over the labial sounds, of which words beginning with B are an example. Both habits are accompan . led wall facial distortion, and some times with a writhing or twitching of the whole bjdy. That these are nerv ous affections is shown by the devices fesorted to to get over some difficult I letter or sound, as snapping the finger ' or stamping the foot. "I shut m-m-. my fis tight," said a stammarer, "and : the electricity runs up my arm aud lets the sound c-c-come out." At the letter C he drove the finger nails clear into the palm of his bands. Nothiujr Enclish. About Iliru. "I'm no Anglomanlac," said a mem ber from one of the back 'Mestricts " "I b'lieve in American ldels an' American institutions. It makes me sick to think that in England a man's got to have a title before he 'mounts to anythln," I "Here are your cards, John," said the patriot's wife, "They came from the printers th's afternoon." "Yes, an by thunder, they left off the Honorable!" You can send 'eta back." NEWS IN BRIEF. Neither wine, ale, porter or brandy has ever been manufactured In Japan. If thirty-two million people joined nands they would reach around the world. A big church organ made of paper is said to be the latest discovery in the musical line. A deaf man was struck by a loco motive near Seward audi had his hear ing restored. Type writing," stenography and cooking are to be three new studies added to the tuition roll in the Louis ville High School. The manufacture of rubies has reached such perfection that the arti ficial product is often as valuable as the natural stone. The most remarkable echo known is that on the north side of a church of Shipley, Sussex, England. It re peats twenty -one syllables. Rutland, Georgia, has a resident who presented sixty-two of his friends and relatives with a coffin. His idea in doing so is not given. A suit 'n Pater-son, New Jersey, developed the charge) that one grave had been sold to three difleient pur chasers and usel by each for burial purposes. A Boston man not only didn't have to pay anything for having a tooth pulled, but he just recovered iloU from the dentist he pulled the wrong tooth. A piece or rock was thrown 2000 feet by a blast In a Michigan quarry, and, in coming down, crashed through a house, landing :it the feet of au old lady who sat knitting. It always bothers a Frenchman who is learning English to read one day that a murder has been committed aud the next day that the murderer has been committed. Sixty thousand tons of coal, it is estimated, are stolen every year from cars in transit. At one station on the Krie Itoad the thefts amount to about thirty tons every nilit. A lady in Lexington, Georgia, has a ball of yarn that was spun and woven during the) Revolutionary War, over 10U years aso, aud yet the thread is seemingly sound and whole. During the barbarism of the middle ages plain and coar.se food was the order of the day in Europe, and when costly daiuties began to h in vogue they appeared first in the monasteries. The total producti mi of coffee in the world is about 0-JuMHKJ tons to lioO.OOO tons, of which Brazil alone produces between 31'J,0;IJ and .'ISO.OUd tons and Java 0 ),0lJ to 'JJ.iO-J tons. rat Pierce's wife saved her 4-veai - old boy, who had been bitten bv a moccasin, by sucking tli wound, giving the child whisky and putting a tooacco poultice on the wound. She livei near Macon, (ifeorgia. The carat weight lu use for weighing gold and piecious stones has its origin in the st-ed ot the coral tlower of the Abjsiuuian". It was called the carat seed and was used as is the weight of the present. A cherry tree or the wlilti oxheart variety on tho premises of Joiiu Ca pura, ol Oroville, California, bore this season 2,SuO pounds ot fruit. It is eighteen years old, is sixty feet high, and is six feet iu circumference. Shaiks are accuse! or causing the great scarcity of soft, cratu in the waters of the Chesapeake bay last summer. They are unusually nu merous and bold, and may ba seen any day swimming on the Hats exploiiug the water Kiasi "Jitli their blunt noses. While on the peninsula recently C. II. Koot, of New Smyrna, Florida, saw a snake so wound in a spider web that it was powerless, while several large spiders were busy bleeding it to death. The snake was a'ti ut four feet long. The modern trousers date their introduction to general usd with the French revolution. The army of the Emperor Napoleon were ths first to adopt the present style of leg cover ing, after whom the wngle world pat terned, England being the last to adopt it. A Boston man, who had the habit of interjecting the phrase "I believe you," in his conversations, became an embezzler aud fled, not long ago, and a hint of his peculiarity rras te.eaiapLed West, Within twenty-four hours a Minnesota detective had the fugitive in custody. Some of the counterfeit silver dol lars with which the Noithwest has lieen flooded by the gun 5 ot counter feiters recently discovered rn-ar Pull man, Illinois, are finding their way east, Tne centre ot the com is filled with a white metal, while tne stu !! is ol silver. Tne character or the coin, it is said, can only bu detected by experts. A Tennessee fafiBsi, uir ,and was under mortgaya and about to be taken away fr.,iu him, fell on his knees in the field in prayer. When he got up he seized the plow with a new grip, gave the old rnule a vigorous lick, and before he had gone twenty feet he turned up a jug with over SoUU in gold and s.iver in it, Washington Irving, in his early youth, had a longing to go to sea and be a pirate. He determined to make the attempt, but wisely decided to pre pare himself for It by preliminary ex periences. He began by eating salt , pork. That made him sick. He then slept for a night or so ou hard boards. That made him sore. It was enough. He had no more desire to go away. Other boys who want to capture men-of-war. or who desire to go West and scalp Indians, would do well to Imi tate young Irving's example. It is not generally known that la Ethiopia a peopie numbering about 2iXJ,iJ0O have the Old Testament in I Ethiopia version and still adhere rlg ; idly to the Mosaic ceremonies and laws. Tney are the children of Hebrew Im migrants who, in the time of the great dispersion, settled in Abyssinia and married wives of that nation. It Is likely that to the Assyrians belongs the honor of first having made a seeding machine more than 500 years betore the Christian era. An opener and a mould-board, made from a round stick of wood and to which were attached handles and a tongue, constituted this machine, with the ad dition of a bowl-shaped hopper fast ened to the rear of the plow-point and supported on a hollow standard. The seed passed fro aa the hopper through the standard to the furrow and was covered by the earth falling back on. V - t If!-- r : . ! i i: 1 11
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