B. F. SOHWEIER,
THZ OOISTXTUTX0I TZZ TJII01 AE TEE EI70X0EKER 07 THE LA.TB.
Editor Mid Iroprietor.
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()L. XLI.
NO. 47
MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. NOYKM15EU 10, 1SS7.
Winter.
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:' u :r -r art unkind?
.hi. ami 1 think you
. -1 r.mnil tlm Hue,
- r.i:.t .hem, anil r.ght at
all sights for bright young
r-' In the winter yktes,
i i,"t Low clear the air ii?
:.";:!. e w in-hingesr fairies,
m.iktj pit-turra ou the pane,
r i.ur ti Him rain.
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:sti:uy OF PAIN.
!:.h ,' express was leaping
I i ill and around curves
;i -u' destruction. The en
it rv- ami heart of tire,
i r the dl.zy heights of lofty
!. suain sentient thing,
a fil e of danger,
s; . i' l was tame to Emily
.t that throbbing impatience
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triad v
as if I
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i ap -:
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' . ''.'.i'ii; i.t. wishes to see you
It r.-r- I s." t.e teicrram had said.
:., weld the tram never reach the
i tV lie ;n lj inu dying under a
M.a.h.w, ;::ri .-rit; was the cause. If be
c.i: '! i.v,' 1 :.t a month, a week, even a
singie ii.iv l iii r, iiiitil her confession
s!...uld !' i!i a: mind the world, searlrg.
as with atciigueof flame, the slander
that 1 a I p'.ucuel him troui his high
place ii'ii.c.g Lis fellows!
At last si... stood on the 1'Iatform of
the station. In the mailt of trie city'a
gloom and roar. She had a shriuking
tear of recognition, though she had
tw-en a stiaii-r to her native ulace live
yt-ars.
M.e took a carrbije to W street,
in the suburbs.
Within a few yards of the house she
paM the man and dismissed him. then
walked up to the jrate that ouened upon
the rather ppacUiua Kruunds. The
hospitable ohl-la-shioned bouse stood
under the shi.Ieof trees. Tne hall was
brl.;!it liti ed, and Hie windows of
the chamtwr wberu he was lying
B'.eamed diuiiy.
the bell and wait!. Was
it In som- o; her l.f,i h-!hat used to
wa'k in there to seek counsel and 8yrn-
Vai:.k ll.'ia ... i . . , -wr.c.v
gentle-faced M.ili-r, now dead, bad met
her UH wanu t olicitude, act when be
was a !ln the crest of the wave
of p 'iMilarity in the fud perfection of
bis i-J-leiidl-l I'.i'.Vi-rs.
"A ijti.i ;, tir.dd.c-aej woman opened
the door.
She ;n lis housekeeper. "Mrs.
FowlerV" -he s .i l eiicjuiririjiiy, "Yes,"
in answer to the auxams l'njuiry in the
eyes of t!io in.!. a; ; y lady, "be is jet
llviiiif, and s-he 1. d Me way iuto the
dim p..i.r, thci wii'. ujf-tuirs to au
Bounce the visitor.
II. i.v t. iu liar t
surroundings
seu;i"I. i;ts tumble had not uprooted
h.ru from ti e sj.ot that was bis by in
heritance, lie had livid here a re
clu-e since the di-at'.i of his slater, with
his books and literary work, lie stood
no lotiner i.l the sacred ileW. He bad
steadily ierus-d the large inducements
offered ban, refusing to trade on bis
blackened l putattou.
The Ion hei'i er returned and con
ducted her ui i-lairs. Ti e nurse went
out as she entered, and the two were
left alone together tr the last act of
the traji'-dv.
The room was isrize and 'orty, with
dark w;nu..v . n-ieiy t.eeing from
thj ce.hi.ir ; the th.r. Thedaik walls
were hung with pointings, nmosg them
a King l.eai wrw.linj in the midnight
tempet wuli aula! maduesa and
despair.
Grecry Pam-rort lay there with the
tall bedstead towering above bis head,
a inass.ve Tita-i of majestic soul. Tl
strung, irrand faoe bore the impress o
his crief. et his
i niighty heart badi
d expanded with its
not broien. It ha.
Kreat tlitoes of sorrow nntu it was
leady to be born into a new kingdom.
She stiod beside the bed. lie
reached out a band, as it to welcome
her.
"I cannot t.;.e your hand!" she cried.
"Your li e has leeu ruined through
me. How can you forgive?"
She w.ii kui-eliug beside the bed with
Ci.iped hands and a face of anguish.
in hiroii contrast to the high, almost
sublime expression of the face ou the
pillow.
"H.iw can I forgive? Because I
have absolved you in my thoughts," he
said. 14 1 knew that it was the over
mastering will of jour husband that
male oa the instrument of wrong to
me. I knew that you were not mor
ally resp.!.s;b!e for the He wrung from
you on your sick led. I understood
your p cellar organ. zatiou far better
than jou knew. I knew you could be
compelled, mesrcei i.ed by a stronger
will, in ceita.n nervous stales that ren
dered you highly susceptible."
She looked at hiui w.th a kind of dim
bonder that he bad so truly interpreted
the situation.
lint jou did not know," she hastened
to say, "you did not know what a cow
ard 1 beeaine when I wits ouce more
mistress if u.jst-lf and became aware
what a ti-sue. of falsehoods had been
Wuveu to ensnare you. I declared 1
would speak aud do mv share towards
righting the wronT. lie threatened to
Cui.Qne tne iu an inr-aue asylum. 1
knew be wou.d tultid li s threat. It
seemed to me at last that 1 was insane.
He held me under the boudage of bis
will. Hut I will make the confession
now, though be kill me."
Gregory Bancroft bad thought him
self above emotion, and that the bmh.
holy calm that had come to him after
the conflict could not agaiu be broken
by sight of the woman he ouce loved.
Hut he had miscalculated his streugth.
The mau Ik-et.t organisation that bad
touch, d eaitli at so n. u.y points the
powerful, passionate nature was stirred
aga-n to Us depths.
S le was one of those sl'.gl.t, seeming
ly fragile women who, wUh no appar
ent potent physical chaiui. are yet pos
sessed of some strange magnetic power
oyer the IWes of the strong self-Bum-'
clent among men, a power as lnexplic-
B8. iiitunconBClou to themselves.
fcbe lifted her head from the bed and
met his eyes. Something in them un
sealed her lips.
"I lored you," she aaid. "I will
confess It now In the awful presence of
death, and let God be ray Judge. I
was an unloved wife. I learned to
love the air you breathed. You seemed
hish and grand and passionless, I was
safe. . . 1 worshipped you. ...
Ob. God. that I should have been the
cause of your ruin!"
" Yea," be said, with a strong effort
to be calm. -I anew you were mime.
I knew that every pulse and fiber was
under my control. I knew that by the
laws or our being you belonged to me.
and that had I asked you to flee with
me to the uttermost isles of the sea
you would have consented, without
counting the cost. You thought I was
grand and passionless, that as God's
higa priest I was beyond temptation.
You never knew what it, at least, cost
me to meet you and give jou counsel,
nor how the sensual and earthly fought
for supremacy over the spiritual in my
soul. But 1 wrestled aud prayed, and
the strength came to put passion un
der my feet. I conquered. A light
from the face of the iutiuite shone upon
me. I moved in calm, clear air. I
stood before my people and looked into
their upturned faces with a new sympa
thy for their weaknesses.
"I looked upon your face and thanked
God that you were sate from me, that
I had not transgressed against you nor
the man who was once my friend. In
the midst of the calm the conspiracy
agaiust me was revealed suddenly. 1
found myself the victim of a network
of circumstances, my fair fame dishon
ored, myself dragged into the publicity
of a court of law aud made the subject
of rude jokes and Insulting caricature;
aud the testimony of the woman whose
honor I had guarded as with my life
was the central link in the chain of
damaging evidence against me."
She knelt there listening, with that
terrible despair upon her face. "You
you will live," she said broKenly. "I
wi.i go to a lawyer, l will make a
sworn statement. Your name shall yet
be cleared."
"It Is too late." he said. "It would
not undo the wrong. 1 must have
needed the d sciphue; I shall soon know
why it was permitted.'
A reaction was coming, she gave
him a draught from a goblet on the
table and his eyes closed wearily. Ills
iips moved. She bent her head to listen
to the words he uttered.
i:otl'a rurn-e flame artnn.l ma qtilrersg
lii. brea.h upon, me are iW:ti t.o.:
lie was repeating with slow deep
emphasis on the words. Then he slept.
She sat and watched him. Ills mind
seemed to wander back to the days
when he was tiie idol of his people.
Fragments of hymns and sublime
prophecies came to his Hps. Again he
was the minister of God, standing at
the altar, distributing the mystical
emblems of Christ's death. Again bis
i;id were liftM in benediction and
u sTF'i ia tne -words: "May the
peace of God, which passeta under
standing, keep you. '
Then a change came. He was bring
over the dark hours of his aeony. The
veins stood out upon his forehead. Ilia
head moved from side to side in mortal
anguish. Ills mighty frame shook In
the inner temiest. Again he was
writhing under the blow dealt him by
the man w horn he had once trusted, but,
who bad been dominated by the demon
of jealous hatred, who had sworn to
overthrow bis powerful rival. Again
be 3tood in the pitiless noonday light
of a court of law, with the whole world
as spectators. Again he knelt under
the stars and cried. "My Godt why
b.ist thou forsaken me?"
But his face did not mirror a more
terrible agony than did that of the
woman who bent over him, and with
trembling hand wiped the drops from
Ids forehead. lie awoke and looked
up into her face.
"You suffer with me." he said, gent
ly. I may come to you and help you
to be strong after 1 am free. 'Are
they not ad ministering spiritsf' "
II is utterance seemed less clear. "I
I have had my last hour of earthly ago
ny," be said.
And now a strange awe crept over
the woman as she sat and watched the
nob'.e face, for by the mystical changes
that overshadowed it she knew that a
I'resence had entered the room to claim
his own bad entered, not as the King
of Terrors, but as an all-powerful de
liverer, bringing to this long-tried spirit
the crown of immortality. Ills face
shone with the reflection of the coming
dawu, his ears caught new, faint har
monies, he turned bis eyes upon tmily
w.tb a last sweet smile, and without
one struggle his soul was free.
The news of the death of the great
preacher, whose sun bad set in eclipse.
had scarcely flashed over the wires be
fore another strange piece or intelli
gence followed.
.Sydney Fowler, who a month ago
had commenced a lecturing tour
through the provinces, had been found
in las room at a popular Hotel witn
pistol shot through his head. On the
table were a number of closely written
pages of confession, lie had plotted
the downfall of Gregory Bancroft be
cause be was jealous of his successes
and honors, because he had outstripped
luiu in the race which tney bad Degun
together.
The news of his death bad over
whelmed him with remorse. lie now
confessed the whole fiendish plot, the
confession of love he had forced from
bis wite and her signature to the state
ment be hsd written, while he knew
and believed in the unspotted integrity
of Grezory Bancroft. Emily was fore
stalled. No need now of her confes
sion, which at best would have only nn
settled, not convinced the warld.
Did the grand, soreiy-tneti soul not
know, did be not bear from tne morn
ing land of spirits the ovtirwhelming
voice of sympathy and sorrcw and in
dignation that thrilled and throbbed
around the world? Did he not rejoice
that bis name was to be accounted
blameless of the sin laid to his charge.
that history woull record him a mar
tyr, that offerings of flowers, lavish and
eitstlv. were neaped upon ma resting
place in the city of the dead, daily re
newed, daily watered with tears from
bleeding hearts, reaching out with
dumb longing to kneel at his feet and
implora bis pardon for the injustice
meted t him in thought and word.
Did lAiometimea come to the sad'
faced villa who knelt with folded
hands nigstly beside bis grave, she to
whom it wis appointed to live on and
bear the burden of her sin. to watch
and wait aid suffer and hone for the
end?
solve for ns tbe riddle
pain?
A TURK'S PLEASl'RES.
The
Favorite Amusement oC an Ori
ental People.
The traits of a DeoDie mav often be
judged as correctly from their pleasures
and recreations, as from their history
and rerlous conduct. In the freedom
of the idle, pleasure-seeking hours, a
people will betray whether they are
imaginative or matter-of-fact, whether
they are gentle or rough, whether they
are sober or buoyant of spirit.
It Is usual to find that a people who
dwell in rugged, inhospitable lands, in
regions of storm and gloomy skies pre
fer amusements which are hardy and
active; while those who dwell In softer.
sunnier climes, enjoy themselves in
milder recreations.
The old French chronicler, Frois
aart, observed, when in England, that
the English took their pleasures very
sadly." The English, and especially
the Scotch, dwelling as they do in a
capricious climate, are noted for the
ruggedness and hardihood of their
sports. The buoyancy and gayety of
the French character, on the other
hand, are strikingly reflected lu the
lightness and sparkle which appear in
all their favorite pastimes.
The recreations of Oriental people
are more interesting, because less fa
miliar to us than those of the 'Western
people, and afford quite as reliable a
key to national character.
A recent sojourner in Turkey has
given a very entertaining account of
the ways in which the subjects of the
Sultan beguile their many idle hours.
The Turks are an Indolent people.
The languor of their beautiful climate
renders them prone to take the world
easily, to have frequent holidays, and
to enjoy pleasures which soothe rather
than excite.
The principal public recreations of
the Turks are three. One is, to witness
the burlesque acting of a company of
men who do not use any stage for their
performances, but issue forth from be
hind a single screen. These players go
about from place to place, erect their
screen in the open air and give tbe.r
performances before the motley crowd
of the turbaned idlers who gather
around them.
Another favorite amusement is what
the writer referred to calls the
"Turkish Tunch and Judy." This
show, however, is given by means of
shadows cast upon a white sheet. The
effect of this is very weird and strik
ing.
The third public recreation is the
gathering in the streets, or on the oien
spaces, to listen to the thrilling tales
of the "meddahs," or professional
story-tellers. The meddahs take the
place, in Turkey, of lecturers In
America. They relate the most excit
ing stories, with many emphatic ges
ture. contortions of the face, and mod
ulations of the voice. They sit in the
mi' He of au attentive circle, and often
rou.se their hearers to a high pitch of
breathless interest aud excitement by
their dramatic powers of narration.
The Turk iao women are allowed to
witness tba buclesqu acting; but they
are forbidden to be preaeut at the
unch and Judy shows, and at the
story-telling of the meddahs. Tbe
women, moreover, are not permitted
to attend the theatres and opera
houses.
Like all Orientals, the Turks are
very fond of music and or. dancing.
But their airs, musical Instruments and
dances are entirely different from those
of Westeru Europe. They partake
very much of tbe nature of the race as
seen in other ways. The Turkish
musio to Western ears, sounds soft.
melodious and monotonous. The
Turks, on the other band, regard Euro-
peau music as too loud, boisterous and
confused in sound. A choir; or an or
chestra, in Turkey, all sing and play
tbe air only.
Tbe Turks like ceremony, and all
their recreations are pursued in a se
date, quiet, ceremonious way. I be
musicians, dancers, story-tellers are
ushered before and away from their
audiences with flourishes and obeis
ances, and are rewarded with much
solemnity of demeanor.
There are vary few recreations In
Turkey, In which men and women are
allowed to take part in common.
V hen both sexes witness the same per
formance, the women always sit in
group behind a szreen or thick lattice.
so that they can witness what is going
forward without seeing, or being seen
by the men. But in this case, the
best point from which to view the
performance is accorded to tbe women.
LIFE OF A Sl'RGEOX.
A Terrible Operation A Wtirried and
Kxtiausted loolor A Crisis.
I have always maintained that it is
Impossible for any man to be a great
surgeon if be Is destitute, even in
considerable degree, of the finer feelings
of our nature. I have often lain awake
for hours the night before an import
ant operation, and suffered great men
tal dlstiess for days after it was over,
until I was certain that my patient
was out of danger. I do not think
that it is possible for a criminal to feel
much worse tne night before his ex
ecution than a surgeon, when he knows
that upon his skill and attention must
depend the fate of a valuable citizen
husband, father, motner or cniid. bur-
eery under such circumstances is
terrible taskmaster, feeding like a vul
ture upon a man's vitals. It is sur
prising that any surgeon in large prac
tice should ever attain to a respectable
old age, so great are the wear and tear
of mind and body.
Tbe world has seen many a sad pict
ure. I will draw one of the surgeon.
It is midday; the sun is bright and
beautiful; all nature is redolent of joy
men and women crowd the street, ar
rayed in their best, and all apparently
is peace and happiness within. In
large house almost overhanglngr this
street so full of life and gayety lies
upon a couch an emaciated figure, once
one of tbe sweetest and loveliest oi her
sex, a confiding and affectionate wife
and tbe mother of numerous children.
the subject of a frightful disease of one
of her limbs, or, it may he. of her jaw.
if not a still more important part of her
body. Im an adjoining room Is the sur
geon, with bis assistants, spreading out
bis instruments and getting things in
readiness for tne imiiending operation.
He assigns to each his appropriate
plaee. One administers chloroform;
another takes charge of the limb; one
screws down the tourniquet upon the
principal artery, and another holds
himself In readiness to follow the knife
with bis sponge. Tbe flaps are soon
formed, tbe bone severed, the vessels
tied and the huge wonnd approxima
ted. The woman is pale and ghastly,
the pulse hardly perceptible, the skin
wet with clammy perspiration, tba
voice husky, the sight indisdinct. Some
one whisDers in tbe ear of the busy sur
geon: "The patient, I fear, is dying." i
Restoratives are administered, ice
nulse crraduallv rises, and after a few i
hours of bard work and temble anxiety
reactions occurs. The poor woman
was only faint from the joint influence
of the anaesthetic, shock and loss of
blood. An assistant, a kind of sentinel.
is place i as a guard over her, with in
structions to watch her with the closest
care and to send word tbe moment the
slightest change for the worse is per
ceived. The surgeon goes about bis business.
visits other patients on the way, and at
length, long after tbe usual hour, he
sits down, worned and exbaisted, to
his cold and comfortless meal, with, a
mouth almost as dry and a voice as
husky as bis patient's. He eats me
chanically, exchanges hardly a word
with any member of his family, andj
sullenly retires to bis study to pre-
scribe for bis patients never, duri' g I
all this time, forgetting the poor mu't
lated object he left a few hours ago.
tie is auouL to lie uowu to get a mo-;
ment's reposs after the severe toil ov
tbe day, when suddenly he hears a loud
ring of the bed, and tbe servant, breath
less with excitement, begs his immedi
ate presence at the sick ehamber wuW
tbe excitement, "They think Mrs. J
is dying." He hurne3 to tbe scene 1
with rur.ld fiaeA uti.l utiTion feelmft -I
The stump is of a crimson color, and
the patient lies iu a piofound swoon.
An artery bas suddenly given away;
tiie exhaustion is extreme; cordials and
stimulants are at once brought into
requisition; tl e dressings are removed,
and the recusant, vessel is promptly se
cured. : '
The vital current ebbs and flows, re
action is still more tardy than before
and it is not until a late hour of tho
night that the surseon, literally worn
out in mind and body, retires to his
home in search of reose. Does lie
sleep? He tries, but be cannot close
bis eyes. His mind is with his patient;
he hears every footstep upon tbe pave
ment under bis window, aud is in mo
mentary expectation of tbe ringing of
the night bell. He is disturbed by the
wildest species, be sees the most ter
rific objects, and as he rises early In tbe
morning to hasten to bis patient's
chamber, lie feels that he has been
cheated of the rest of which he stood
so much in need. Is this picture over
drawn? I have sat for it a thousand
times, and there is not an educated.
conscientious surgeon that will not cer
tify to its accuracy.
SaKaciuus Horses.
It would be difficult to find a better
Illustration of the sagacity of the
horse Uian is contained in tbe follow
ine anecdote: A Mr. Lane of G.'iuci.-
tersbire, England, ou returning hoi fo
one day, turned his horse into a lieU
A few days before this tbe horse La 1
tieen Hi i oil and onn foot hail llee.P
pinched in the shoeing. - m
Tbe following morning Mr. JU
missed th Lorse. He caused a Sfrii
to be TriaJf"'an 1 fitwu whit w.ui iu.;-"-
wards learned It U supposed that na
animal, finding his foot uncomfortable,
made his way out of the field by lift
ing the gate oil its hinges with bis
teeth.
He went to the blacksmith's shop
where he hud been shod, a distance of
a miie and a hair, and advancing to
the forge, held up his ailing foot. Tbe
blacKsmlth examined the hoof, and dis
covering the injury, tjok off the shoe
aud replaced it more carefully. The
horse then set off at a merry pace for
his well-known pasture.
Shortly afterwards those in search of
the animal, passing the shop, men
tioned tbe supposed loss, when the
blacksmith laughingly replied: "Ob,
the horse bas been here and cot re-
snod, and bas gone home again;" and
this they found to bs actually the
case.
Similar Intelligence was shown by
another horse, whicn, of its own accord,
applied for relief to a farrier from whom
be had previously received medicine.
He had an internal disease which had
been very severe, but frein which, for
some considerable lime, be had been
comparatively free.
One morning, when released from
tbe cart at breakfast time and his
driver's back was turned, be took tbe
oppoituuity to walk oil to the farrier's
work-shop, which was at some little
distance. AVheu the farrier appeared,
tbe horse lay down, aud seemed anxious
to show by every means in bis power,
that be was In distress.
The farrier understood him. con
cluded that he was troubled with bis
old complaint, and administered the
usual dose, and in a short time the an
imal trotted off contentedly to his mas
ter, who had been looking in all direc
tions In quest of him.
What a Fetich lis.
It Is much harder to explain the na
ture of the fetich, for tbe negrj him
self is not clear on that subject. I
therefore fall back on my authorities,
Hubbe Schleiden and Max Muller.
The former says that fetichism is not a
proper designation for a religion, for
Judaism and Christianity have their
fetiches as well as native religions; the
word should be used as analogous with
a word symbol or emblem, as Max
Muller has shown. If we should say
that tbe cross is tbe fetich or Christ
ianity, some persons would think we
were guilty of blasphemy, but they
would be only those who have no real
conception of what a fetich Is. The
phrase is really as far from blasphemy
as science Is from idle chattering. The
confusion of the emblem with the
thought represented, or the material
with the spiritual, of tbe visible with
tbe invisible, is not religion, but su
perstition, whether it be the worship of
fetiches or of relics, idolary, cr tha
adoration of saints. Max Muller says:
"We may fancy ourselves secure
asatust tbe fetich worship of the poor
negro, but there are few if any among
us who have not tbelr fetich or idol,
either in their church or their heart.
The negro's religion is no belief in the
power of tbe fetich, but belief In the
power of spirit through which the fet
ich is of effect."
One important thought in particular
Is not peculiar to fetich faith, but is
mixed with the religions of most peo
ple, but the negro suffers more than
any other man from the fear of ghosts.
"In the foaming water, in tbe dazzling
lightning, in the murmuring wind he
sees tbe working of self-existing spir
itual beings. And why should we de
prive an anxious human heart of tbe
comforting faith that a piece ot hide or
a dried snakehead, carefully wrapped
up and worn about the body can pro
tect uimr"
THK lrivFS POISON.
t rrodncea .Midneu
in Masaniella
and Lead to His Ruin.
The Duke of Arcos was nursing in
bis brain a scheme of vengeance which,
for ingenious and inhuman villainy,
would have been heard with rapt ure
by a crew of Dante's fiends. This
scheme was now mature. One n:ght,
after the proceedings In the church, he
arranged a splendid supper at the cas
tle, at which Masaniello and his wife
were the chief guests. There, either
in a glass of wine, or, as others say, in
a riie fig, Masaniello swallowed a
strange poison, which bad been com
pounded by the Duke's physician, Don
Vlajella. This drug was not intended
to take life; its effect was more terrific;
it was of tbe nature of "the insane
root, which takes the reason prisoner."
The victim, when be sat down to tbe
banquet table, was a man of great and
striking powers of mind, pre-eminently
cool, wary, resolute and sagacious.
When he rose up from it be was a mad
man:
Tbe effect of this atrocious scheme
was soou apparent. Tbe supper ended;
the guests departed and nothing un
usual was observed. But early the
next morning tbe people in the streets
were startled at the spectacle of Masa-
niello, in a ragged Blurt aud with a
stocking on one leg, running at full
speed toward tbe castle. At the en
trance be demanded audience of the
viceroy. Tbe guards, who knew him,
durst not bar his passage and he made
his way Into the duke's presence, cry
ing aloud that be was starving. Tbe
false and smiling l'ouce de Leon looked
upon his handiwork with glistening
eyes. Food was brought, but wretched
man would now touch nothing. A new
whim had seized him. Tbey would go,
the duke and be together, to Tosilippo,
aud spend tbe day In pleasure. The
Duke eluded tbe proposal ou the score of
pressing business; and Masaniello
sailed alone in tbe duke's gondola.
Forty boats of gazers, lost in wonder,
watched bis progress from the shore.
During the voyage be amused himself
by flinging handfuls of gold coins into
the water, and shouted with laughter.
as the sailors dived to fetch them. At
I'osilippo, he ordered a rich feast to be
set out; and it is said berore the boat's
bead turned at evening toward Naples,
be had drunk twelve bottles ot Lacry
ma Christ!, the rich and giddy wine
which ripens only on the ranges of
Vesuvius. Keeling with tbe effects of
wine and poison, be was taken to bis
bed. The next morning be was raving.
He called for a horse, and with a bare
sword in hand, rode furiously about
tbe streets, slashing at all who ven
tured to oppose hi in. At length, he
found bis way to tbe seashore. At
sight of tba sea he threw himself from
tbe saddle, and shrieking out that be
was in flames, rushed, dressed as be
was, into the waves. But all tbe waters
of the ocean could not quench tbe lire
that burnt him up. As soon as be
emerged, be broke -into fresh freaks of
violence, -JTe swore that he would fire
tl city; lie .burled himself, sword in
band, upon U-V bygtariuaia.
friends were forced to seize and over
power him, to bind him with a chain.
aud to lead him to his house, where he
was placed under a guard.
Tbe plot bad been most cunningly
contrived. It was fatally successful.
As Guod a- Oold.
When my sou Gregory married Miss
Morrison, I gave him a piece f my
mind, and told him I didn t care !f
never saw him again. "Why? Oh,
well. I dldu't like her; she wasn't the
sort of a girl I'd have chosen. 1 bad
never seen ber, but I knew she wasn't.
A lliity young thing just from boarding
school, couldn't make a shirt, or bake
a loat of bread, but there was Miss
t .eh, a plain girl, to be sure, but so
gooj, a splendid housekeeper, aud all
unit. 1 always liked Almira Fish, and
G regory to go marry Fanny Morrison.
Wed. as I said; I told him what 1
thought of him and ber, and the boy
showed bis temper, and for six months
I never saw him.
I bore it as long as I could, but a
mother must be a fool about ber only
boy, so one day, as be wouldn't come
to me, I went, as the rascal knew 1
would. I went to tbe office aud walked
up to the desk, and was going to scold
bim, but something came over me that
made ins choke to keep tbe tears back,
and before I knew it we had kissed aud
made friends.
"And now you '11 go and see Fanny,"
said be; "and I'll find you there wnen
1 come home at night; "and after a
little coaxing 1 said 1 would go and
ume than that, I went.
The bouse was a cunning little place
a mile or two from borne, and I must
say, it was very neat outside.
I rang the bell; it shone as it ought
to, and before it stopped tinkling some
one opened the door. It was a pretty
young woman in a blue chintz wrapper,
and then I asked ber if Mrs. Gregory
Brav was at home, she answered:
"Yes, that is my name. I've been
expecting you an age, but better late
than never."
"How did you know I was coming?"
I asked, puzzled to know how she knew
me, for we bad never met before.
"OU, I didn't know," she said.
"Indeed, I had made up my mind you
wouldn't; but it is a long way out here
1 know. Come right up stairs. Miss
Jones was here yesterday to cut and
baste, but we will find it as much as
we cau do to do the trimming between
us."
"CooL" I thought. Then I said, "I
suppose you are having a dress made?"
"A suit." said she, "skirt, overskirt.
basque aud dolman. 1 do hope you
make nice buttonholes."
"1 should hope I do," said I. 1
would be ashamed of myself if 1
couldn't."
"So many can't," said she, but I
told Miss Jones to send me an expe
rienced band, and she said there was
no better than Mrs. Switzer."
Now I began to uivderstand. My
daughter-in-law took me for a seam
stress she expected, and if ever a
woman had a chance, I bad one now.
Not a word did I say, only I wondered
if seamstresses generally came to work
in gros-gram silk and a cashmere
shawl; aud I sat down in the rocking
chair and went to work with a will. I
can sew with any one, and as for but
tonholes but this Is not my story.
She was a pretty girl, that daughter-in-law
ot mine, and very chatty and
sociable. I talked of this, and I talked
of that, but not a word did she say of
ber mother-in-law. I spoke of people
I bad known who bad quarreled with
their relations, but she did not tell me
that ber husband's mother bad quar
reled with ber.
At last I spoke right rut about
tnotber-in-laws, and 1 said:
As a rule mother-in-law and daugh
ter-in-laws do not agree.,;
Said she: "That's a very wrong state
of things."
ell" said I. 'i suppose it is, but
bow do you account for it?"
I suppose young people are selfish
when tbey are first in love," said she,
and forget old people's feelings,"
It was an answer 1 did not expect.
It is plain that you are friendly with
your mother-in-law," said I.
I am sure I should be if I bad ever
seen her."
"Oh, then I have been misinformed,"
said I. "I was told that Mr. Gregory
Bray was the son of Mrs. Bray who
lived on street.1'
That is perfectly true, but still we
have never met."
How singular!" said I. "I suppose
it is old Mrs. Bray's fault. I've beard
she was a very queer old lady."
"1 ou haven't beard the truth, then,"
said my daughter-in-law. "My bus-
band's mother is a very fine woman in
every respect. But when my husband
told ber suddenly that he was going to
marry a girl she never saw, she was
naturally startled, and she said some
things about me. knowing I was fresh
from boarding school and no house
keeper, that offended Gregory, and so
there bas been an estrangement, I
think my dear husband is a little to
blame, and I have urged him a dozen
times to go and see her. He is very
fond of and thinks no one like ber in
many things; but his temper is up, and
it will take time to cool it. Mean
while, I feel quite sure if she knew me
she would like me better. 1'erhaps
that is a piece of vanity, but I should
try to make her, you know, and 1
won't fall into absurd superstitions
that a womau must hate ber rnothem -ln-law.
I can't remember my own
mother, and Gregory's would certainly
seem to come next to her. Now you
have the story, Mrs. Switzer."
I am sure it does you credit, aud
tbe old lady ought to be ashamed of
herself."
I wanted to get up and kiss my
daughter-in-law then and there, but
that would have sioiled my fun, so
after I sewed bard and didn't say much,
aud together we finished tbe pretty silk
dress, and bad just finished it when a
key in the door caught both our ears.
"That is my husband," said my
daughter-in-law, and 1 knew it was
Gregory. Up stairs he cane, two
steps at a time, opened the door and
looked at us with a bright smile on bis
face.
"This Is as it should be," said lie.
"Fanny, I shall kiss mother first, this
time."
And be put his arm around us both,
but Fanny gave a little scream.
"Ohl Gregory what are you about?
This is Mrs. Switzer. who is making
my drees. At least I have thought so
all day." For you see I bad burst out
laughing, and kissed Gregory back, aud
then kissed her.
"My dear," said I, "I've played a
little trick on you, or rather, let you
play one on yourself, but you've turned
out as good as gold. I could not get
you to say a word against tbe old lady.
tixeaorvLs itwr. my elear. aud
yours too. if you'll call toe so."
"Indeed I will," said the dear girl;
"but I have kept you Eewing bard all
day. You see, I expected a Mrs
Switzer, and I "
"We've lteen all the more sociable
for that, my dear," 1 said, "and I'm
glad it happened; I've been very foolish
all the while, and Gregory has cho.-en
a better wife for himself than 1 could
have done."
And so I think to-day, for I believe
there never was a better woman than
Gregory's wife, Fanny.
How- Xot to llriug In Healthy twirls.
One of the principal reasons who so
many healthy girls become invalid
women is owing to the mistaken ideas
and restraiusts of mothers. When the
girl is young she romps and plays and
tumbles about the floor without re-
strainst, aud Is healthy. In mo..t in
stances much too soon long dresses are
put on, and tbe girl is put under a
double restraint, and is expected to at
once liecome a lady. Hampered by ber
clothing, which prevents the free ac
tion of the muscles of the body, or if
she indulges in any childish p:as, or is
seen by ber mother in any but au up
right position, she is told that such con
duct is not ladylike and only suitable
for boys She soon begins to think she
must not bend Ler body, and must
Keep constantly In au upright position,
excepting when asleep. Tbe result of
this teaching is the supports of the in
ternal organs are weakened. Tbe mus
cles of her back not being used become
weak aud relaxed, and bhe stoops for
ward; immediately stays are provided
to take the place of muscles. The
shoulders begin to droop forward;
shoulder braces are at once put on to
supply the place of muscles provided by
nature to cold them in their proper
position. Thus releaved of all action
they soon Iwcome relaxed and useless.
Thus nature Is supplanted by art until
the poor girl becomes more a composi
tion of steel, whaieboue and rubber
than of muscle, flesh and blood. By
this time ber mental education is I'm
ished, aud the proud mother is enabled
to Introduce to the world au accom
pllshed lady, aud at the same time a
weak, dependent, invalid wjuiau.
As Clever as Three-card Moule.
"Lady, you've dropped some of your
money," said a wed-dressed young'
man to Mrs. S. A. Van Riper, or New
ark, In the State Bank at that place re
cently. Mrs. Van Riper stooped down
to pick up a dollar bill, and whn she
arose her satchel, containing S121J, was
gone. The man who called ber atten
tion to tbe bill ou the floor was still at
her side.
"That man is running away with
your satchel," be said.
Mrs. Van Riper did not see any man
running away, but in ber excitement
she run out of the bank to look for the
thief. Meanwhile the man who bad
called her attention to tbe bill, which,
without doubt, be had himself thrown
on the Coor, went out of a side door,
and was seen no more. Mrs. Van
ltiper, when she got tired of looking
for the thief In tbe street, hurried to
ward the police station, and was met
near there by a man who informed ber
that be bad reported the case to the
police. She turned back then, and the
police beard nothing about tbe matter
until they learned of it accidentally
two hours later. All the confederates
got away safe.
Mrs. Van Riper is a waistcoat manu
facturer, acd was drawing a check to
pay her help when the theft was com
mitted. She saw two men watching
her, but had no suspicion of their intentions.
IX A CHlNFSi: YAAMHX.
A Htiat ltitle Through Ix)ng
Uevtotis Waterway.
mil
Through a consular friend, who in
tbe course of some official work bad j
made the acquaintance and gained tbe
deep friendship of a civil magistrate, I
bad at least the good fortnne to visit a
mandarin's family in a veritable yaa
ineti in one of the oldest cities of in
terior China. Our mandarin host sent
a boat full of bis servants down to the
treaty port to give us his greetings and
to escort us through the long and de
vious waterwuy of river, creek aud
oanal that led to the hoary walls of
Chang Sha. There were three for
eigners In tbe party aud it took two
bjats to carry us in proiier state, with a
third and smaller boat for our own
servants and a fourth boat filled with
the mandarin's contingent.
The Chinese bouse boat is a most
perfect thing of its kind, with its
carved, gilded and most beautifully
varnished woodwork and Its many in
genious contrivances. In a country
where there are no roads and uo land
vehicles save tbe sedan chair or tbe
more recent wheelbarrow, with its
creaking axle and uncertain balance,
all travel is by the network of creeks
aud canals that connect the great
waterways ot the empire. The meanest
Chinaman can pole bis skiff free and
unmolested from Canton to I'ekiug and
from the seashore to the Great Wall
over a system of water routes that
were old when western nations were iu
their first youth. The house boat's
evolution from the small sampan, in
winch a whole Chinese family lives, to
the lieautifully fitted homes iu which
the l'oieigners take their pleasuring
and men go off on long bunting trips,
was a gradual thing. One carries all
the servants and tbe whole household
equipment ou a boat trip, and, with
regular beds and baths, the procession
of courses aud elaborate dinners, the
life is little changed and has no priva
tions. Starting off with the tide we went
up the river at a speed that gave the
lowdah, or skipier, nothing to do but
order the course steered with the larje
oars at the stern, but in the narrower
reaches of the creeks and cauals the
crew sculled with the big oars aud put
up the sails to catch any favoring
breath of a breeze. We gathered m
one boat to have 4 o'clock tea and foi
the great ceremony of dinner, aud at
night dropjied off to sleep iu our com
fortable state rooms to the regulai
thump of the oars and the swish of
water, varied by strange rapping on
the bottom of the boat as a bed of
heavy toped water plants slipped
under the keel.
When we came out on the little
decks of our boats In tbe dewy hours,
the string of brown boats with their
gilded portals and red curtains made a
pretty picture under tbe edge of a
grassy bank, with tall trees reaching
their branches half across the narrow
waterway. A few farm houses weie
near the banks, and the place was a
water cross roads, where two canals
made right angles. Its name of. baa;
chow, three bridges, was apt enough,
as the three high, narrow stone bridges
were all near together. Ihese country
bridges are tbe most picturesque
things in China, a line of narrow
hewn stones being laid on stone posts
that hold the footway firmly against
all time. The massive posts and the
long stones are often carved with
Chinese characters, but the wonder of
them is chiefly how they were ever laid
there and the stone piles driven in the
mud without steam or mechanical m
pliances of any consequence.
When we scrambled up the banks and
wandered througn the wet grass to
ward the first farm bouse, the ruial
family came half way to meet us, and
watched us stolidly while we gathered
wild flowers by the handful. By the
aid of our interpreter we went through
a conversation with the evident head
fanner, two assistants and four female
relations, with six childien staring like
little statutes.
We must have been curioslttes to
these rural wives in their trousers and
loose coats,as their first sight of foreign
women, aud we stood like milliner's
dummies and let them walk around
and touch our dresses and fiuall lose
themselves in amazement at the puzzle
of the second 6kiu, or gloves, ou our
bands.
The trraves of their ancestors rose in
lmiiirnt-kn in the midst, of the field of
dwarf cotton around the ill kept farm
house, as the Chinaman buries bis an
cestor in whatever spot an omen may
indicate to bim, and all bis thrift does
not conquer this superstition that dots
all the cultivated fields with burial
mounds. The tops of the plants of the
water chestnut rose from au acre of
muck aud water, and the farmer,
after digging to his elbows in the mud
and bringing up only green tubers, in
formed us that "they would not Ite
nie until old Father Frost came
along." One of his assistants sat con
tentedly down on the wet grass and
began chewing the end of a three foot
stalk of sugar cane for his breakfast,
and we went out ou one of the three
bridges sal watched a duck farmer
poling along in a fiat bottomed ekiff and
driving bis Hock to pasture. Three
hundred and more ducks quacked at
sight of the strange 11 gurus ou the
bridge, aud beat the water with their
wings In their hurry to get a.t.
while the duck farmer booked in a few
stray birds with his crook and evi
dently thought bis view of the curiosi
ties a dear one, when his ducks left the
water and scrambled wildly up the
banks and into the fields.
We floated slowly In our boats up
the creek for the next few hours,
watching cane Gelds, millet and cotton
fields, farm bouses and the innumer
able bridges, liefo'P which the masts
and sails were ii'
the cabin root, a
venerable ur .
Sha.
I and laid flat on
t we saw the
"it of Ciiang
Equal parts of ca.oroforin and alcho
hol will remove paint spots from cotton
goods.
A $75,000 mile race-track is a'out
to be built in the northern suburbs ot
Indianapolis.
Tbe Schnmaker peach is recognized
by many leading horticulturists as a
really valuable and improved accession.
A little powdered retdn sprinkled on
to a cut will present inflammation; put
a soft cloth around the finger aud wet
It with water fiequently.
"No Darling," said a Burlington
mother to a sick child, "the doctor says
I mustn't read to you." "Then mam
ma," begged the little one, "won't you
please read to yourself out loud?"
NEWS IX lilUKF.
-eVPr T)ick a blister with a pin. A
needle is the lv suitable thing.
A bill to su
stitute a rncnei ior a
bronie coinage has
lieen introduced
into the French Legis.
'ttive Chamber.
An Illinois tramp toi
a
farmer's
wife she ouht to feed him be
ause she
might be entertainiug an augc "
wares," As this argument bad
effect l.o went out aud set fire to the
barn.
A Maine widower gave a man ten
do'.lais to pay lor lights and fuel
while the widower was courting tbe
man's daughter. Mie refused to marry
bim, and he is trying to recover the
ten dollars.
An English lockmaker claims to
have perfected a door, to be used iu
public buihlmi;:!, that will lessen the
chance-s of accident in time of panic or
real daugi-r. It can le oieued from
the outside only l y a key, but a slight
pressure from within causes it to
switig oin outward.
Toronto, Canada, bas been aroused
by the quantity of water which her
reshb ills wast;-, aud has taken steps to
pnuide a remedy. I:iSeclors have
lieen appointed, who go about "spot
ting; ' and when, after a warning, no
improvement is made, water meters
aie attached to the inivs.
A turtle was recently batched out
in the parlor id a Jersey City woman
from au egg which she brought home
last suuiiuer as a souvenir of a trip.
At the time the egg was placed lu a
card receiver wheie it n iiiamed all
during the process ot hatching, which
latter is attr.buteJ to the heat of the
room.
A singular a 1 veil is - n.-nt apjiearel
lect-nlly calling fur Inn. O i l live fleas,
to be delivered in .i.ml hits, at a -er-tai
i a idless. The a iverltsi r proved
to be a Ilea trainer, who levelled the
tai l that only ii- ilea in a thousand
cau lie taught aiiYtii ti' and then it
tahi s thiee months to tram them. The
average l.fetiiui: nf the insert :s one
year, hence the fn-.it demand.
A jar containing two hands pre
served in aleohoi caused con Si leiab'e
excitement, in a S!. Louis saloon re
cently. The barkeeit-r says that about
lour weeks a'ro a young man, well
uressi"!. entered the saloon ami aked
IH-rmission to leave a panr package
until next day. When no one came
lor it the Lailtei.ci undid the paper
and found the pic! led hands. A patrol
wiijiin iemoved the jar to the morgue,
'J hose interested In the develop
ment of Silver Crown aie enthusiastic
over the character of oie that I. as been
taken out of the Loue mines during
the past week. The 1 ..st twenty tons
are of such a cLaiiii ti r us to can e all to
gain renewed la.tli in the immense.
richne.su of the camp, and all are satis
fied that the ore now lieing t il en out
is equal to any found in the wmld.
A ghastly object of inleiesl in
Florence, Italy, Is a table composed id
human muscles aud viscera. It v,.s
;uaae by an iianan who de.oiel sev
eral years of his life to its munufact m e,
employing material obtained from a
hundred tinman bodies secured from
EXaHMtaia.- '1 lie toxlies were indurated
.with mineral salts, au j as they exist
iu the table aie in a prtil.le-l stale,
having tbe appeaiaiiie of van. - iti-d
marble.
j A farmer aud li s son have had a
most unpleasant series of adventures
at Whilt, Texas. First the fatie-r fed
i nt J an abandoned well and then tn.
son came tumbling after. The cell
was sixty feet deep and there w.ts an
ugly inoccosin snake at the bottom.
To make matters wjr.se, it began to
rain, the water lose in the well and ti e
earth caved in around them. They
pnsied twenty hours in this plight, and
v.ere finally rescued by passers-by who
.eard their cries.
In treating a negro in I.i-'psic for
au ulcerated affection it was fount
necessary to leplaee imitions it the
skin with pieces taken iroi-i one it two
white pel sons. These latter pieces
gradually giew darker in color and
finally as black as the pitienl's own
skin. This singular fact led to an ex
periment lieing niiide of tiansposiiig
portions of black skin ou a whit" pa
tient, and it was found tnat a!!er a few
weeks l hose liegan to glow p ile. In
less than fourteen weeks tl.ey had, in
fact, grown so white as not to Indis
tinguishable from the 1 a'.lenl';, naluial
skiu.
iiiere is.-a imui i f Indian 1
scent
! named IMckett Nels
n, 1' vini;
Ill h. isex
county, Virginia, who is a veritable
giant, being over 7 feet m height, and
weighing Z4'J pounds. His oiitslieti hed
arms measure seven feet lour inches
from the finger tips; from his wrist to
the end of his middle linger is twelve
inches. His foot is tourteu an 1 a half
inches long aud be wears a .No. H
shoe, lila lasts being nece -.s trily h m I
ma.Ie. He ca. i easily 1. ft .V1') pounds,
i about i;." years old, is ipin t an 1 even
diili lent iu maimer and w iks in a
i eaw-mlll at Essex.
An American" gf idrein.in v.iio lias
if-cen'.ly traveled through Japan, says
that the Jap.iiie-e will m a few years
lie the greatest laili o id biil'.deis of the
wurid. As jet tl.eie aie only
miles of railroad iu Japan, but many
roads are projected. The Japanese are
good railroad pations; i(ir even when
tbey have no business to tians.ict they
will nde back and forth on the rail
road until they have spent tln-ir Ian
cent. And the beggars in the largn
Iiiwih nearly always spend the money
which they get on a r.iurua 1 trip.
In a letter from ' ibul Mr. J. S.
I'jiies, an Englishman, who has lieen
looking after the instruction of the
Amir's workshops, writes: "Alxlur
Rahman is a man whose word must
not be disputed. I saw a curious piece
of architecture litre the other day, a
ghastly triumphal arch ma le l y arti
sans of the place with the beads of - 0
prisoners taken in the leln-llion. Ion
can't imagine the hoirorof the sight.
Recently I was riding through the ba
zaar, and came across the head,
mounted on a pole, of Ta'.ninr
shah."
A married lady who has been
troubled formany months w ith a jx-cu-liar
sensation iu the legion of the
stomach, was given au emetic by I r. 1 'ar-
ker recently, aud to l.er astonishment
threw up a fish about four and a half
Inches in length. The fish had evi
dently been dead but a few hours.
The lady felt instant relief after rid
ding herself cf the troublesome tenant.
It is supposed she swallowed the tish
when it was very small while drinking
water, and it grew to its present size
in ber stomach. The doctor bad the
llsh preserved in alcohol. It has not
yet been decided whether it belongs
to the trout, chub, or sucker family."
Hanover's gross winnings now fiwt
ap S-53,520.50.
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