iii ft Seiilsirl im$1 p F. 8GHWEIKR. TO O0I8TXTUTI0I TMS VXI99 AID TEE KITOXOZJCSVT OF TEE LAWS. Kditor and Propnetor. V01.. XLI. MIFFLINTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 2, 18S7. NO. 45. ....nuiiarl.in Milye-ct. A . . . ... ..... t I t III 1J jiiTy king I' 4" u " ..rriw kneeling round iU,; , M "'verting tb.n, Ay;,r L ui-ui.-nt niuxt be found. ,,. aa old and tru.tr kt M I my km' Indulgence kmgbt: e crave. To bring "' . M bo u in the n.ya. signt the rU"' """. . -..-..-I hi... .:, 01 - "H klU o - w." the angry monarch said, lure .li-ny our non-rnttf!! power? 1, 1:1 li.Te. a.iveur iei. oo. ,w ur h" bis bead W irLiu 11 P is.tig of toe hour." ..i.t. retired with soletnn stride. L- . . r, ,,, Tj t: ,. ,i 1. -n ould .it beside Hr ril if lie, 1 t!.i. rr;lior tried ;, m. lulled the whltu. In an. I tM k her place; upon hr breast, lrea--on t'a... on the ui'iti tn-h'a fitcw I ta li I.. I'm."--'' ' 1 Lu. i-l hnve .uJ ju.f.'a-l away his jeweled crwt H,. tru-! e-t 10 "' , i:.,.t tbe H .Ten tf ake.1 tin- ' inarch. QuM At;.J k!okl i.::o la. ui L- 1 with In. tiuy toea, 1. e l bis tierce mustache. A., utl-t ''" klui'. behest T:.!r ri ! hi l.ateue.l to declare; h.il-' "'". w,rl' freedom blest, n.n..l the U'.u who ru!l tbe rel lot ti!ei.i :! the ukMt there. CuL MAIM'KYS SUBSTITUTE. Colonel .M.mlen was generally looked up,. a in T useud as a pleasant man. a good townsman, contented with a world tli.it. ae l"r olie misfortune, I oi ago forgotten, had used hlui well. IV tliea M.tJ sutni'ieut ability them viveri to nirasurt the ability that tiaJ made him a power iu the towu that would liv? undeliiui a iniwer through out the land h.iJ it uol teen for that which he h.id "forifotten." Uuly the death 1 low to his ambition. When the Ctrmi'l Army of the Potomac Lad dis' Hud. d, Colouel Marden, with a Confi"'' i "i!' hull'-t lu his Bute, bad n --u:iit-d h pi a th e of the law. Still in the tent-, he was sent to General v'ourt, a id before lon to Couttreas. lie .pi keii of as one or the rising meu of .Nr llampbhire. It thru that the bullet began to assert lt-'eif. and the eud of It all was that Alfred Harden had to give up all act'.Te wiirk, accept the position of HiiiMter "f Tiobate, and resign himsell to speu lii.c the rest of his days in bis uatlve t"wii. ouly occupying himself with the Utfht duties of his office. Downright iilleiiesa would have beeu Uitnierahie lo li:ui. A .piiet, uneiiteipriainn towu was Towusend, but it was bis native place, au l the hii, Kiay stone house ba t jiuud uu the ?i'.iare since the days when it ai in the aiiiLt of ereen fields, and luilf th t iti was "Squire Alarden's" (arm. "A suu.iit uiau, and a good one," evei0dy -.nd of the present Scjuire. tyeivlody but, one or two. "A good waii, ai.d a smart one," said that one or two. He had a'.ways lieeu interested 1 the AcaiVuiv and bad done much for It. Uut the utTer be had last fall over 9hadowrd evn vthlurf else. It was made to the ifr.iduitlinif class, and conduct m fKho.il a. id out and recitations throughout the year to tie considered. What boyl.Hh heart did not throb as the c,,i,K el . ,jko to them that memorable -M-Mlav. Tliiiik . f it. The lucky fellow was to It- sri.t to Dartmouth, and then aouM irreive a Uw education In Colo nel M.irter.'j own oolce. .Not otlj wrtu tmi. y, Lut, fiir Ue years after ia.iiiit:i ii, in receipt of a handsome vry iu c.eik. He meant. Colonel Mardru coiii Uide.1, to give the winner uf the .r .v precisely the same advant ages he himself had had. Nobody heard ti e svh as be sat down, though. indeed.it would have been difficult to have hr.trd aaythlug as the boys took in this tunintceut offer and clappM, heered, ai.d p.niuded iu the nnmia Ukable f i.li.nu buys have of manifest ing the r .ipprov.il. No wniider every one of the twenty made up hn unUd that he would win the "Judavah:' llfl it Krew to be ca..ed, or that for the uext few weeks theie wm such prrlrcuon of recitations and oiidu. that Mr. Alden thought the uii.leu.iiui tud set in. Everyone, ho muiier how hopeless he case, from audy Uif, always at the foot, up throLjrh the whole a!e of ability and l"ereeraiice to the two who, after ttio.-e hr.t few weeks, began slowly to distance the othe. Arthur ii.ind was a minister's son, aud the stnurij.e it would be to Bis rather to him to co' lege was a lar,je f.u-tur In his determination to wu. He was a pleasant, gentle-man-ueied ht i,alurally pamstakiug and method l .1,. Ul,t quick, but with an indomlt.ib e power of "sticking at it" that h.id .tlwiivs iusured him victory. -""i Allen was the eldest of half a uoeu who hud grown up somehow In the b'u fjinii-lioue Just outside of the M'.l.ig-. H's f.ither w;is a brd-work. lu Uruier with no thought beyond his daily ai.ir, and considering be hatl ii'iujli bv his children that thev h'Ue eti. WTe cad aud fed In plain, homely tasluou. mucli "eddicatlon" was had for soul and IkhIv, and he had the prejudices r his class against lawyers. aui had had luud work to get per- uiismiiii to go to the Academy at all, hut for more inuney vveu to give him an tlmcto l expended on his educa t "U. that his father had refused to .raider, aud bis nay was indeed nay. uut when .iiu hail come hom List N-ptemtr, btiumiing over with the reat new., Mr. Allrn had relaxed, for J" !" liar 1 grasping uature the idea of "u iJeltiLg an education at an uther's excuse was irresistably at wactlve, aud be had promised the atwr. tieuibln.g boy he would give him the ia.n year at the Academy and his time should be win. with the pro--o that if he railed be should settle uuwu to farm work without any more side proanseii. fie h.id all fliu i.miu.rt (I.. K.. . . ' ..... WUfirVl I. UkllCI O luougti, not onlv In the stmiuthv that 3 o K'eat a help in our endeavors, but one and all strove to lighten his chores " a. 1, might imVe more time to study, in Mirm., conclave, Jerry proposed to e on hiu.self the milking aud wood--hopiii,.v ,li t.. teed the nus, WUlle tne girU an i i CJ" "1"m Ulm for K1 raud n' to put tneir money together, hardly wned by briry picking aud dandelion BWieriug.to buv a studeut Ump like 1 Tl M ir,t''"'- that Sam could uuy by a 80oU iit-ut U1 lhey would h"t .peak a single word all through evening, so the kitchen, the only tu warme,l, could be suiet; which . Perhaps, the greatest sacxUicw iney couia nave made, for th. wt,i. family were born talkers. The only reason these amiable plans fell throu ! was, because next day, Sam being in formed promptly vetoed them. The tirls, however, persisted In part, and eveu took the pains to call upon Colo nel Marden to Cud out just the name of the lamp, and where it was to lie bought. And somehow, the colouel was so kindly Interested, the whole plan came out, with Sam's stern refu sal. Sam was quick, but be Lad depended so much on his ready wits that his memory was poor. lie was careless and hasty of temper, though speedily over any outbreak. What he lost on examinations he made up on recita tions, aud his averages were as high as Arthur's. If he ha 1 heavy odds against him it was equally to Arthur's credit that the wood b x at home was always well filled, ana that the paths about the modest little parsonage on the other side of the common from the big grav house, were shovelled more cleanly and more promptly than auy where else. June came, and opiuion was divided among the Academy boys as to which would win. Arthur Iland or Sam Al len. The usual examinations were over and nothing was talked or but the decision. As to the two mostly nearly concerned they hardly ate or slept iu the momentous time. The thirtieth had come. The com pany too. The big hall could hardly hold another oue. Everybody wai im patient for the moment after the vale dictory. That came at last. too. Colouel Marden had risen, was advancing to the Trout of the platform. lie was beginning, llusht "It la difficult to award the prize. Many have done well, but there are two so far ahead and so evenly matched that I cannot at present decide. 1 want to give them a further trial, with, moreover, a special view to seeing which his the greater aptitude for the calling that will be his. During vaca tion I propose taking both into my office. The decisiou will be made so that the successful one can enter col lege at the beginning of the term. The two are Arthur Hand aud Sam Allen." So the expectation aud suspense were over for the time, aud In the hubbub that followed more than one boyish heart hid its disappointment. On the following morning the two boys appeared at the Probate Office. Colonel Marden explained briefly the outlines of the business and set them to work. It was arranged that oue week oue was to copy all papers re lating to the registry were duly entered in the big volumes ranged round oue side of the fire-proof vault while the other attended to the more active duties. But if Colonel Marden had been puz zled before, he was doably so now, as the weeks went on aud the two young fellows seemed so well matched. Arthur never forgot where he put a paper. Sam's heart went to his boots more than once when queried as to the whereabouts of this or the other peli tlon or license. Pleasant and kind as Colonel Marden invariably was to bis young clerks, both soon found that there was much about him suggestive of his military life. He demanded an exactitude to the minutest detail, an unquestioning obedience to orders, aud was impatient at the least dereliction or delay. Sam was quick at grasping the rou tine. Arthur, when bis week came for active business, would often, sit biting his pen, afraid to ask about what had already been thoroughly explained. Sam's prompt Yes, sir," at any brief command often called a brief nod of satisfaction, and his disordered desk a frown and a glance at the neat array on Arthur's. Arthur looked nervous when his turn came to answer the mail. Sam when It was for him to copy and put away documents. A place for everything" he certainly had, but he changed the place too often for the rule to be a golden one. The natural outcome of it all was that there was a quarrel. It was a trifle that was the outward cause. Sam hung his bat on Arthur's nail. The latter put his own over it, thereby caus ing the new straw, bought by Mandy's strawberry-picking money, to fall ou a pile of inky rags. Discovery came at noon. "I say," began Sam indignantly, "I call that mean business; you did It a purpose." it wouldn't nave happened If you had n't been so clumsy with the ink bottle," Arthur made answer, calmly. I'd rather be clumsy with my bands than my head," retorted Sam, thus unpleasantly reminded of Colonel Mar den's silence that morning on finding a pool of ink on his desk. '-I don't have to tell anybody to wait till the olonel comes In or ask bim questions eternally about ausweriug letters.' "And I've never sent off a letter of .i.1 ministration with my own signature Instead of the judge's. Maybe you think though you're a judge yourself already," sueered Arthur. "I'm judge of a deceut fellow, and if i.iu don't leave my bat alone in fu ture I'll knock yours off your stupid head," threatened Sam, putting on his blackened headgear and walking off with wrath in his heart and a more Aettled determination than ever to win. if only to spite Arthur. I It lacked but one week of the two mouths and neither boy, reviewing the , time, could tell If he had the advant- age. It seemeu to doiu nay, iw au, for everybody la town was hanging on the result that a straw would turn the scale either way. Each kept a waicn ti,M other. ralnful In its Intensity. It seemed to be in the very air. Colo nel Marden, meantime, kept his own couuseL Then something happened. The straw felL A will disappeared, not to be fouud this time, after a brief though annoying delay, but hopelessly and finally lost. It was one of unusual Importance, and, in response to the many calls to look at It, Colonel Marden could only produce, with apologies, the copy In Sam's hand fatal evidence in the 'Wills" volume There was search and low. Colonel Marden looked an noyed, Arthur elated, and Sam down cast. It was no use repeating be was nn. ha had renlaced the paper, as in deed he had kept watch and guard over his besetting Tault the last week. For once Colonel Marden expressed himself "Indicative of carelessness that might lose you a case or cause yoa to overiooa a fatal flaw on your adversary's side, sm rut md rravelv: and the boy felt that just at the last he had made a fatal misstep. So wonder, too, that Arthur was nirMnuniilnirlT nlatd. M the 'Ul till nfuaiil to "turn nn." The last "ea was supping ny. and every night I ne arew a sigh of relief at the thoneht ; tun cicau nTora or mat out. i be door had opened at the sesame of care- j fulness and perseverance. Colonel Marden h-s was Wednesday ; had sent him to look up an estate in a certain unusued index, wuose dates were those of the last century. Tue vol n me opened of Itself, and between the leaves lay a thick folded naner. Arthur's heart " gave a boun 1 that almost stifled him, a with a kind of premonition be caught it up. io, it was me lost will. "In the name of i d. amen. I John B. Thornton, of I) dtou. Couutv of " lie had reached thus far by a kind ot fascination. "Isn't it there, Arthur?" called Colonel Marden's voice. There was the sound of a chair pushed back. "Perhaps " The thoughts rushed through the boy's brain as be stood there, trans fixed, will in hand, and struggled with the temptation. How had it found its way to this volume never before taken down cer tainly not by Sam. Could the Colonel himself no. impossible. One of the lawyers? Yes, probably. They were always more or less iu and out. He must have bad It. then, in consulting the old index, carelessly left it there, and Sim was guiltless, and he would be even with him again more than even. for he was "smarter," Arthur reluct antly acknowledged, and they were there that Colonel Marden might see which was the smart oue. The quick, firm step was near the door. His advantage would be gone In an o her momeut. Ouly three days more. He could not give it up. Oh. he could not! And it was not his business to bring it forward, either. Very likely Sam had left It there, after all. He was forever leaving things in unheard of places. Of course he would not do anything so mean as to hide It outright, put it in his pocket or destroy It. He would jast leave it there and give Sam the same opportunity of finding ic The struggle was succeeded by a glow of self-righteousness that he had not put it forever out of his rival's way, when, too. that rival was so hateful and mean a fellow. Twenty pages lay upon Sam's hopes and ambitions, as Colonel Marden turned uo, he never turned, wheeled into the room. "Yes, sir, I'll have it in a moment," Arthur made auswer, so coolly as to surprise himself. Yes, he would have been a fool to have done differently. Surer yet was he that he had chosen well when Saturday came. It was court day, too. when the court meeting at Faulsboro the Register would be away all day in attendance. He was in the office a short time in the morn ing, and it was just as he was going that be said: "By the way, Arthur, I heard at the last moment that the Loring case may be called. Get the papers ready, and if necessary I will send for them. Don't fail. I promised Judge Baxter to attend to it. You understand?" "Yes, sir," responded Arthur, easily; but his heart sank. Still, be had the morning before him, and the papers mlbt not be sent for. after all. He knew enough about Colonel Marden by this time to feel that after that "Yes, sir," it would be an unforgivable thing to fail him. There was nothing particularly difficult about the case, ouly a puzzling techni cality that bad occurred again and again, but which be had been uuable as yet to master But he would look it up. Surely there was time. Aud perhaps he might have succeeded , though his brain iairly reeled with his efforts; but everything seemed against him. There were more callers than usual, several of them old farmers who persisted In telling him their story from beginning to end, and there were papers called for aud ceaseless momen tary Interruptions of "The Colonel la?" till noon came, aud he bad not yet mastered that knotty point, while every momeut the "Prlate Duectory" seemed to grow foggier. He remained la the office through the dinner hour. Perhaps, after all, the papers would not be sent for. This, as the afternoon wore on, became the hope to which he cluug most fondly. Three o'clock and be began to breathe easier; four, and he relaxed his efforts. The office closed at five. Hair past, and tipping back on his high office stool, be gave a glance of uncon cealed triumph at Sam, duly met and interpreted. Q tarter of five. A week from now be would be in Uauover, a freshman, with a little pin, his society pin. on bis waistcoat and coming home vacations to see the fellows of his class plodding en In stores or rusting out their uvea on farms, like Sam Allen, who once had actually thought he could get to college over his shoulders. Wed, he would meet him kindly The door opened. A boy in uniform entered, he had a ye low envelope in his baud. Here! Give it here!" called Arthur, and tore It open. Sjud papers at once, without faill" The express weut at 9.15. and he had been trying In vain all day. There lay the papers, to be sure, but they inig it be useless, aud Colouel Marden receiving them at this juueture be was a quick-tempered man, too, be neath h s self-coutrol it would be fatal. For a moment Arthur buned his (ace in his nana, ue aiuu wu uio cuauces. He took the papers, loiaea mem once. twice. to fit the big envelope, sain looked up. -Give 'em here." be said, gruffly. Not understanding the m tive, but grasping at the action as at the pro verbial straw, Arthur gave them, me chanically. Sam spread them out. looked them over, asked shortly for other papers, made a correction here, an addition there, flung one into the waste basket and replaced It with a different blank. Then, without a word, he tossed them all back. When Arthur returned, out of breath, from the express offise, Sam bd ids hat on, that same inky hat, whose stains were plainly visible. "I say that was immeuse of you," begau Arthur. "I'm no end sorry we n t both have the place "Yoa needn't be, and I dont want .mir thanks." responded Sam, sternly. -The Colonel's a brick, he'd hired us hrrh and be promised the judge. If vou were such a fool as not to be able to make eut the Papers, It was my place loo, that's ail;" anu on no wcut fth a dreadful slam of the door. The hardest part of It all was at iiome, telling them who had believed a .n "our Sam." He spoke with as much indifference as he could muster. Next week he would begin to pick the ootatoes. He made a brave show of interest in farm work to his father. That was all that be was fitted for, Munderer that be was. Only how he hated il Involuntarily be picture of a student's room at Uan ver came to him again. But he had promised, and it was all at an end. It was no use. The bread was chok iug him. Why did not somebody speak why, for pity's sake, were they all looking at him, was their bread choking them, too? He pushed bis chair back aud went to his own room. What, such a baby as to cry never! Arthur must not see bltn with red eyes. The first thleg they fell upon was the burnished stu leut lamp. He flung hiiutelf on the bed and the cry came. The boys were to be at Colonel Mar Jeu's house at eight that evening. Arthur was already in the library, with the look of triumph on his face that lie tried decently to cover as Sam entered; he had not come at his usual pace. He took the chair to which the Colo nel pointed and sat looking Into the tire. He must not cry here. He looked almost -ulleu. Mercifully, Colonel Marden began at once. "I have made my decision," he said. "It may relieve you, Sam, to know that I found the lost will to night, in an old Index which you had never touched." Was there-tbe least possible emphasis on the "you?" Was it chance that for a moment his glance rested on Arthur? "So you are exonerated. Perhaps the man I fit out as my substitute to fight the good fight will only be like myself, in the rank and tile; perhaps he will be a leader of men. "Be that as It may, I want one who can put self away for the welfare of another, who can be true to cause rather than party, magnanimous to au enemy, and with whom outward con siderations can weigh nothing against his own instinctive sense of right. I gave you a complete examination in that, too, and oue of you failed. My choice is Sam Allen." The face by the fire was transformed. What, to go to college, not to disap point them, not to dig potatoes aud pick apples and hoe corn after all! What would they say at home, Jerry and the rest. He was unconscious that he bad risen, half iu the involuntary act of racing to tell them, but fettered by something else. He was looking at the mau before him. Yes. they spoke truly who placed his goodness even be fore his brains, and they he and Ar thur bad stupidly forgotten that. If he could only live to be like him; to be truly his substitute. He cared as little as be realized that the forbidden tears had come, so thick that everything was in a mi-.t, that he was stretching bot.i his hands out, blindly, gropingly. For what, he had no idea. Perharw instintive seeking for help In the re.V lution of that moment. i As in a mist, too, came Colonel Mar den's concluding words: "I am sorry for your disappointment, Arthur. It was a hard test, my boy, aud not one in a thousand would have done differently. But what 1 want in my substitute, highly as 1 prize intel lect, is not one-half so much what men know as smartuea.' as what they In instluctively feel as honor." Courtnhip ia France. This is the way they court in France: One lady says to another: "My daugh ter is eighteen. She has bo much." Every girl has a dowry, if it be but 500 francs (flOO) "You have known her from a child. "You see so many young men, cannot you think of one to suit her?" Of course the lady can; for men are as eager in France to marry as the girls are to get husbands. It Is an increase of fortune, and a patent of respectability in all stations. In all pro fessions. The young man is spoken to, and, of course, the young lady named to him. A party is given, and they meet. Then the girl, supposed to be in entire ignorance up to this point, is asked how she should like so and so for her husband. Then the mamma of the bridegroom comes one evening when the house has been set in order, and everybody dressed in his best. And after the first salutation she rises, and in a solemn voice asks the hand of Mile. Estelle for XL Acbille. Then the, mamma on the opposite side of the' house accepts the offer. Estelle weep and throws herself into her future mother's arms, while the son-in-law embraces the mother of his intended. The papa's shake hands, the betrothed lovers, released from the maternal arms, mutually bow to each other, and the servauts bring In tea. The bride groom comes every evening with a groom comes every evening with a grand bouquet, which he offers to mademoiselle, flirts auhour or two with the mother, bows to the daughter and goes off. The bride-elect has only to embroider quietly by her mother's side, to smile, to blush and simper. Then the nego tiating lady come in great state, pre ceded by an enormous trunk: (mamma aud the bride receive her, never, of course, heeding the trunk), and pre sents the bride with a corballe namely, the wedding dress, a veil aud wreath, two or three Cashmere shawls, ditto velvet dresses, a set of furs, a set of diamonds, a watch, a fan, a prayer book aud a purse of gold. These come from t ie bridegroom. Iu return the lady gets a bracelet from the bride, wltlt many thanks for the presents and the husband. At last comes the signing of the contract. The bride takes one step into the world. She receives her visitors and "peaks, nay, converses with all except the intended that would be Improper. She gives tokens of her affection to her unmarried rela tives, bought from the purse in the corbeille. The wonders of this corbetllt are displayed in one room, while the trousseau of the bride, given by the mother, is exhibited in another. Em broidery, linen, cambric, laces, etc., are here lavished on the personal cloth ing of the bride, made up in dozens and dozens of each article, with piles upon piles of table cloths, sheets, towels, etc., all marked with embroidered marks and tied with pink and blue rib bons. Then comes tte civil ceremony, and two days after, the last scene of all, at which we have assisted, in the Church of St. Sulpice. People who suffer from nervous de bility accompanied with dyspepsia, ought for a time to live largely on mule - NKCiltO hi PHIIM I1IO.VS. Southern Darkles AV ho Kee an Omen lu Nearly Kverjr Animate Object- The belief has prevailed among the S utherii negroes for many years that ILe band of a dead friend will bring continued prosperity to its possessor, and no doubt if the many colored grave yards in that section were made to give up their dead the skeletons of not a few would be found to be minus the right hand. The Southern blacks also believe that the big toe of a deceased friend, carried on the person, will keep away disease, and that the toes of an enemy can be used as charms to con jure their living enemies. Thus it is they originated the lines: Wid li4 boney toe, I'll brtuir U m woe, 'Kor tiyiihL in de m irnio.' Voudoo doctors and there are plenty of tliein in the Southern States carry on au extensive traffic in humau boned and other portions of the body. They u-e the skull to perform a mystic cere mony for the sick, or to bring luck to a poverty-stricken family; the ears are employed in another ceremony, the out come of which is to find out what your enemies are saying alout you, aud the other bones all have a mission to per form while the voudoo is humbugging bis victim. The voudoo doctor is us ually a naturally smart darky, with a good flow of conversation, and as much Inventive genius as a Bowery confi dence man. In Washington ot late thJ T udoos have become rather scarce, as the police arrest them as vagrants whenever they put in au appearance. The country negroes in South Caro lina, Georgia and portions of Florida have a very pretty and somewhat poeti cal superstition. During the stillness of the night, when the gentle swaying pine trees are singing their weird re quiems, whole families will sit about their cabin doors aud listen to this music of the forest. In its changing melody they hear the voices of the dead friends predicting good or evil for the future or revealing secrets of the tomb. No reward could Induce the negro urfinau on the North Carolina coast to walk along the beach at night, es pecially during a slorin, when the lightning is flashing and the huge white-capped breakers come sputtering In on the sandy beach. They imagine they can see in the phosphorscent light the forms of sailors who were lost at sea, riding lu astride of the huge bil lows. Ou account of this superstition it has been found impossible to induce negro coastnien to enter the life-saving service, no matter how well adapted they may be for the work. The tedious night parol along tue desolate seashore is what they object to. The average seashore negro would almost rather die than to encounter the vague form of a departed sailor man In the surf or on the beach. There are many minor superstitious among the colored people. If a cow stops in front of a house and bellows it is a sure sign that some ' one on the premises will die. If the cow bellows twice the party marked for dissolution will die in two days, two weeks or two months. Should the animal bellow five times, which is a rare occurrence, a death will occur in less than one week. When a cock enters the house aud crows therein, it means that the family will have visitors. To crow just outside the door indicates that the residents of the bouse will be suddenly called away on a mission. Sometimes an overfed hen will make a sound which resembles the faint crowing of a young rooster. This is regarded as an evil omen, and the luckless hen is always decapitated when the owner is at ail superstitious. Scintists say the sound is caused by iudigestion. The darkies have a verse they repeat In this connection. It is this: A wbUtllng woman And a i rowing ben Wlil never couie To auy good end. The owl usually hoots three times. When this uncanny bird forgets itself and increases the number of hoots to four or five, the plantation negroes re gard it as an omen of sickness, starva tion or death. To kill a cat means that the person who did the killing will have seven years of bad luck. To catch a water snake on your fishing line is a nure sign that your enemies are trying ;to entrap and kill you. Thus the .negro says: (Caleb a make. Let niui go, 1 For ileaTD i. a com in' Sqo and suu. To see a flock of crows hovering Jabout yeur house is a very bad sign, aud to drop your Bible while going to church Indicates that the devil is after you. To see three white horses at the same time is an omen or. aeam, ana to find a toad frog in your path is a cerj tain sign that a marriage will shortly take place in your family. The aver" age Southern darky sees an omen for good or evil In nearly every animate and inanimate object, and they believe in thpse omens almost as religiously as they do in the Bible. ' (jueer Love Iett?r. Charlie had a queer smile on bis face as he left me in the morning. I told bim that 1 had intended to make a call with Mrs. Wickllffe, but had noth ing to wear. He laughed and told me that I must get along for awhile with what I had; that he was making too little money to buy anything. "1 won't be home at the usual time," he said at the door, "for I am exiecting some friends." I wondered at his manner, and after he had gone Mit down and had a good cry by my self. After I had sobbed myself into a better frame of mind, I went out and got down Charlie's common coat to mend It. I emptied out the pockets firs t and then got out ray needle. What a mixture there was In those pockets. Three or four handkerchiefs, broken cigars, pencils, buttons and part of a letter, -ft letter! I looked at that letter suspiciously. Then I did a mean thing, I opened it and read it. It was penned in feminine chirogra phy and ran as follows: Dear Charlie: The dresses are all ready and the navy blue is exqui site. 1 shall come on Thursday, the 10th. Be sure aud meet me at the station, and for goodness sake! keep the whole thioz a secret. There the sheet was torn off. I read th"se lines over and over, lost In won der. What woman has a right to ad dress my husband as Dear Charlie?" I was so startled by the letter that I know Mrs. Wickliffe must have no ticed it when she came in. "Are you not going to see the bride with me'r" she asked. "I can't," I stammered out. I for got when I promisel to go that I had nothing to wear!" "Why, my dear child, where is that handsome silk I saw your husband buy?" "You must be mistaken," I faltered. "Ob, indeed, but there is no mistake about it, my dear. I saw him pay for it, and have it cut off; it was at Dray tou's some three weeks ago; the hand somest navy blue, $3 a yard. The words of the torn letter flashed across my bewildered mind: The dresses are all ready, and the navy blue is exquisite." A sudden suspicion, a suspicion sharp as death itself, possessed my soul; o suspicion that some otner woman had come between me and my husband. The room and its occupants seemed to reel before my eyes, but I controlled myself with a desperate effort. "My husband must have bought the articles for another party," I said. "Ah, there is baby's voice. Fray ex cuse me for one moment, Mrs. Wick liffe." She went away with a pitying look in her eyes, leaving me as miserable as a woman can be. About 3:30 1 gave baby a sound dose ot soothing syrup, and tucked him away in a crib; then I locked up the house, aud, arrayed In my rusty al paca, I sallied forth. I munt know the truth. I went to my husband's office first. He had just left. With the terrible suspicion in my soul growing into a torturing cer tainty, I bent my steps, through wind aud rain, toward the railway station. There was but one iu our little coun try town, and the afternoon train was due at 4. I truged on, and reached the depot just as the train came steaming in. The very first man I saw was Charlie, lis hat pushud back, his handsome face iu a glow of eager expectation. What I felt at that moment uo words cau describe; only a woman's foolish, fond, jealous heart may know. I shrunk out of sight, and concealed myself behind some bales of cotton. Iu came the train, and iu two min utes a little lady, all befrllled aud closely veiled, appeared on the plat form. "Oh, Charlie!" "Ah, my dear, here you are!" And he took her in his arms and kissed her, and carried ber off to a waiting carriage. A porter followed with her trunk, and then they whirled away together. Standing there, like a guilty crea ture, in the wind aud rain, with my woman's pride and my woman's love both outraged and Insulted, 1 looked down towards the sullen waters of the river below the town. There was a cure for all my pain. But I remem bered baby. I must live and endure for baby's sake. I turned my back upon the sullen water and my face homeward, and groped on through the mud aud rain, blind and almost unconscious in my misery. The cottage was all alight when came in sight of it, every window in a blaze. What if it had taken fire! The thought winged my weary feet. 1 rushed on breathlessly. Charlie confronted me as I burst open the kitchen door, with baby 1:1 his arms. "Well, bless my soul! Jennie, where under the sun have you been? 1 found the house all locked up and the poor child screaming itself to death, aud I had to break open the window to get in. What has hap pened. Jennie? Good heavens! you are ill." I caught a glimse of a face beyond nun, a woman's sweet face, and as I recognized her my overstrung nerves gave way. Charlie caught me as I fell, and when I awoke to life again his arms still held roe; his dear, faithful arms. Kitty my sister Kitty who had been off iu Kuroie lor years, stood near by, with baby iu ber arnw. With my head ou Charlie's shoulder, in pain and humiliation, I made my confession. His handsome eyes looked at me, full of grave tenderness, when he understood all. "Jennie's a little goose," said Kitty as she kissed me aud cried over me, and then I heard the explanation of the mystery. Kitty was coming home, but she wanted to keep ber coming a secret in order to give me a great aud glad sur prise. She was obliged to remain for some weeks In the city with the family for whom she had been governess for a number of years. Knowing this, and wishing to make my surprise doubly pleasant, Charlie purchased material for a couple of handsome dresses and expressed It to Kitty that sbe might have them stylishly made up. 1 said that a day badly begun rarely ends well, but I must take It back. Xo day that ever dawned ended more joyously than that. Suapicioiin of Hi Hota. It does look as if al ter a man got married he lost all capability of looking after himself. We knew a man who had been married several years and he hardly knows bow to button his collar now, and would wear his coat inside out if his wife didn't keep an eye on him. Once this young man noticed his boots were pretty well worn. He said to his wife; 'Haven't I got any other boots I can wear? These are awfuL" "Yes," she said; "there is a pair of side button boots in the closet there. " He fetched them out. "How does it come that I've had these boots all this time and been wear ing these woru-out ones?" Then he put them on. "Yes, I knew there must be something the matter with the blamed boots. They don't fit me at all I can't walk in them." And be made faces as lie stamped up and down the room. "They are not my boots, yet they are a man s boots. Madam, who is so familiar in this house as to have a pair of boots " Well, dear, they'll perhaps be more comfortable if you'll put the right boot on the right foot." Gold In Ancient Cemeteriem. The gold which Is now being dug out of the ancient cemeteries (huacas) at Ililandia, Central America, and other places near Tereira, has led more than l,0uu workmen to that spot, and a town has sprung up there within the last four years which now contains more than 00,000 inhabitants. Public attention is being turned to those re gions, as the ancient burial places and deposits of the wealthy Cacique Cara cal have not yet been discovered, and it is believed that but treasures were immensely more valuable than my which has yet been uneartLed. IX lilt! HOLY CITV. Vhat an American Bi-hnp Saw in Jerusalem and Vicinity. Bishop Watterson, after a protracted rip lo the continent and to the H.i l.and, gives hisexperieuce iu Jerusalem, lesays: After spending nearly a mouti it Rome I lauded at Alexandria, am eft Egypt filled with feelings of iu eux agemess to lie among the historic cenes of the Holy Laud. Lauding ai tafia I journeyed to Jerusalem, where I venerated at sacred places both ii. ind around the Holy City. I said mas u the Chapel of the Holy Sepu'.cher lid was obliged to sleep in the church dl night to be able to do so, as Tuik sb soldiers close it at certain hours in he evening, aud will not allow any oue to enter until a certain hour in the morning. I then weut ou to Naz areth through Samaria, taking country routes everywhere, for otherwise oue nisses many very interesting localities. The only evidence of modern civiliza tion I could see in the Holy I -and was a telegraph running between Jaffa and Jerusalem and Nazareth. Otherwise the country is just as it was two thous and years ago. as far as progress is con cerned. Children and grown people wear the same cut clothes, and every where one could see maidens dressed just as we are familiarized with pic Lures of the Virgin Mary. On one occasion I telegraphed to Nazareth for norses, where they aie less used, and, therefore, fresher than at Jerusalem. After four days the horses came iu charge of a dragomau who had form ally been a B-douin, but-avho has for some years beeu a convert. He was a very good fellow, but too anxious to part with his horses to satisfy my no tions. I was continually obliged to keep in the lead in order to press ou. "One day I said to him: '1 see now why you became a Christian; you are too slow to be a good Bedouin.' He laughed and tsaid nothing, but on the last day of our journey from Mount Carmel to Nazareth, when 1 was push ing on to get under shelter before nightfall, he said: 'f You told me the other day that I became a Christian because 1 was too slow to make a good Bedouin. All that I have to say Is that 1 could make as good a Bedouin as you do a bishop.' "1 appreciated the retort none the less because it took him so long to consider It." "What were your most striking ob servations in the Holy Land?" "Ah, that would take a book to tell," sighed the bishop. "It is initos slble to convert the people from Mo hammedanism under the present form of government. The Turks are as watchful to-day "as they were three hundred years ago. All the converts have either to be taken under immedi ate protection or sent off to France or Italy. There can be no progress in any form for the Holy Land until the Turkish Government is got rid of. It would have never existed were it not for the apathy of -Christian - nations. Russia is very desirous of possessing Palestine, and she is making more headway there than any nation. The sisterhood which has obtained a foot in; In the Holy Land is growing iu influence. Mohammedans and Jews alike, attend their schools, but the nuns, are not allowed to teach religion. During my whole four weeks in the Holy Land I could see nothing to indi cate that this cradle of Christianity en joyed ever so slight a share of its In heritance." When in Jerusalem Bishop Watter son and another prelate assisted tne Patriarch of Jerusalem in the cere mony of tendering to the young Prince of Naples, the Crown Prince of Italy, a religious reception into the Holy City, which the young man, according to aucieut custom, entered on foot. 11 was a great sight, au immense proces sion of monks and the religious ac companying the Patriarch and the Bishops. Planting Bananas in Florida. The bauana flourishes best iu a very moist, rich soil, but will not endure standing water about ths roots. The best possible location for a banana patch is on the bank slooplug down to a lake or "bayhead." The "springy" nature of the soil iu such a location agrees perfectly with the roots of the banana, provided they are not planted far enough down to reach standing water. The preparation of the land for bananas does not necessarily involve thorough grubbing of new land, as ou rich hummock or bayhead tracts, the simple cutting of the trees and under growth, aud "budding" the palmet toes. Is all that is really necessary. Ou rich new land or this sou the plants may be set immediately after the land is cleared, with no other preparation. Tiie palmetto tops, and most of the brush and logs may be left upon the ground cutting up brush, In the first place somewhat. All this rubbish will decay just about as fast as the roots of the plants need it, and much of It can be knocked to pieces in a few months with an ordinary hoe. The plants may be set then In true Honduras fashion, of which a friend gives the following modus operandi. In the words of a na tive: "In de fus place, said be. "we chop down de treesand burns all of dey tat we can; den we cuts de banana sprouts Into pieces wid an ax and makes little boles vid a mattock about so far apart, (the distance illustrated by stretching out his long arms), den we chucks dem In, and au:ag de yfits. Money in Cuba. Money lu Santiago de Cuba is a scarce article, and to change a $5 gold piece would take a day's travel , and invariable the change (if American) would have a hole punched in each piece. This Is done, I am informed, to keep the money in the country. 1 do not remember of seeing on the island of Cuba a piece of American money in circulation without a hole in it. American paper money is of no value for general trade ia Santiago, and Cuban paper money will not pass at all. Money being so scarce the greater part of the trade Is carried ou by barter among the general public, and the money Is held by the few exporters aud garler dealers. A French Wit's Itevenge. That was a neat compliment that a French wit paid to an enemy who bad come and scribbled "Coquin" (black guard) upon his door one nlgbt with a piece of chalk. Next morning the w.t went to the fellow's house, and said, in the politest way possible: "Monsieur, you left your name at my door last night, aud I have come to return the V ilt," The first iron ore to be discovered in this country was found in Virginia in 1715. Books In their present form were 'nveuted bv Attalus, king of l'erga liun, lu S7. A child in Mlchigau has picked A-ith tier own hand and pasted on card ard and exhibited at a church fair i,U. specimens of four leaf clover. The highest steeples in the world ire those on the Cologne Cathedral and are oil teet high. This cathedral is the largest piece of Gothic architec ture iu the world. Cotton was planted as an experi ment In the Carolinas as early as ltiJl; but cotton growing as au industry, " was not engaged in to any extent uutil after the Revolutionary war. A Gilboa (X. Y.) man has made a queer looking machine, which be guards with Jealous care. He believes l.e has discovered perpetual motion. People come miles to see the "ma chine." A pair of rubber bauds have been attached by a Newark, New Jersey, doctor to the wrists of young Walter Alexander, whose hii'ids were cut off by coming in contact with the ma chinery of the Belleville Rubber Works. Peter Mclntyre, of Sau Fran cisco, who was burned a couple of mouths ago, has bad luo pieces of skin taken trom other persons grafted upon his shoulders and amis, aud the last graft has not yet been put ou. Miss Fav's spiritualistic seance at Blackburn, England, came to a sudden eud when some oue in the audience struck a light, and Miss Gay was found to have climbed to the roof, while the "spirit" that was floatiug In the darkness over the heads of the audi ence was an inflated linen bag. Fire aud smoke issuing from the show window of a dealer in spectacles in Torquay attracted the attention of a passer by, who entered and aroused the propnetor. The sun's rays had become focused through the glass of a pair of sjiectacles which were shown iu the window, ami thus ignited a shade. Exactly w hen shoes were first worn is a matter of uncertainty, but it is known that in 1402 the English wore long pointed foo'j coverings. The Jews of an ancient date fashioned shoes of various materials, such as linen, wool-tibre and skins. The pres ent style of siioe Is traced back to the year 1003 A traveler from the islands of South liurmab bays that it Is no un common sight to see monkeys among the rocks at low tide, gathering and o;)ii:ng oysters, 'i'oey open them by sinking a .-.u.up blow with a stone at the base of the upper valves, which dislocates It, and then with their fln-g'-rsthey extricate the oyster, of which tiiey are very In carrying out tne extension of the Via Genova the Inundations have been uncovered of a bouse belonging to a distinguished Roman lady, .Kinilia Paulina Asiatica, sister-in-law of cipio, who vanquished Hannibal, at Zaiua. In excavating for the founda tions of the new liuuca Nazlonale, fragments of a lare marble calendar were dug up, ou winch were noted the games to 1 celebrated in April in honor of Ceres and Cj bele m the Pala tine Near the Porta Piuciana an In scription has lieen found indicating that a temple to Silv.mus had leen built ou that spot. The six-yeat-ohl m of a Ken lucky man is aciiniriug notoriety as a weather prophet. The child is small for his age, and cau not yet talk plaiuly, but baa deve'.(ied barometrical powers to a wonderlul degree. Since he was four years old his parents, who are res ectable and reliable people, declare that he has foretold every rain, hall storm or snow rtorm, aud even the light showers and sprinkles so plentiful hi the spring of the year. One day re cently, while the suu was blazing down with intense beat, the child came into the house from the yard, where he had been intently gazing at the heavens, aud predicted a heavy rain-storm, to be followed by a profuse fall ot hail. In the afternoon his prophecy was verified by a heavy storm. A Pennsylvania man is the owner of a calf that is attracting much at tention. Its hind legs are six inches shorter thau the fore legs, are double jointed and are larger in proportion. Each is supplied with two distinct, perfectly-formed feet. The hoofs of one foot aud half the hoof of the other foot on each hind leg is used while walking. The other half of the hoof ou each inside of the foot projects horizontally exactly like the spurs of a game cock. The body of the calf Is large and well formed. The short iiind legs give the calf the appearance of a giraffe when running iu the pas ture. A "bearded jiebble." as he calls it. is in possession of a orwick (Conn.) man. It came from Crab Ledge, near Nantucket, Is about as large as a ben's egg, and on its smooth surface is a mass of filaments that resemble nothing so much as hair. The stone has been out of the water for nearly two years, and yet the hairs, which are over au inch long, look vigorous and lifelike. It is said that a Massachusetts collec tor has oue of these stones that has been out of the water forty years lu which time the hairs have doubled in length. A shepherd boy was killed by a tear recently in the mountains of Savoy. The villagers decided on get ting up a hunt after the bear, and t' ey started lu search, but without finding it. On their return home they, how ever, ierceived that the boy's mother, who had Insisted ou joining the party with a gun, had been left behind. It was now night, but some of the people went back and .scoured the woods in every direction. When day dawned, they found the woman lying in a secluded s;ot, her diess in r igs, ber arms crushed, aud ber face cov ered with blood. At her side was a huge bear, dead, us head smashed by a discharge from a gun which bhe bad taken with ber. The villagers, after binding up ber wounds as bt-st they could, bore her to her home, and she is progressing so satisfactorily that hoi is entertained that she may re cover. But the woman has not yet bteu able to give au account of her struggle with the bear winch bad killed her child. It freeuis clear that after the search hail been abandoned the mother continued it. without giv ing even a timt as to her intention. The calm or disquiet of our humor depends not so much ou affairs of mo ment as on the disposition of the trifles that dally occur. - l , s I V X i- i t 1- . : k: ;' " V f- , V. '' X . t r h' - 1': ;. ! fa. .1. " i v- tm i 'V r - l i ;i I'll f : f.. - i.'l n., r"' .; I,''. V', i .. ;
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