r 1 IJ.HIWIII. .ll.IIIH.Bl.nl . H'WI ' """ O i i i i ... , , , , i , , . uth . !Uc! n.t iu, '-tori as; wr. fieuma. B. F. BCHWEIER, TKX 00IUT1TU T10I THE tTHOl AID TO EtTOXOEMEIT 07 TSZ LATB. Editor and Proprietor. VOL. XLTI. MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 25. 18SS. NO. 5. I' Keep up t : t n t hli .1 A ure , 1 ... r.i .1-. L...H' in iC ,. .... ,1 i -. .1 ol - a u r f.-.-i. 1 . IB -ri TSIA. t, rsl .f p ration v s. Y. . n- l i. if T fl.l, I tiajsiUtilt, -r!m t . a I.irn, . . -r to ta - l t..t.nj.t- ,,iv MKOf. I In. h K I 11. M. ! .. ; .n " . , '..tnlH7. . . Ii.;:re4. I :. unti14 , ... '. irriuWJ 4 I m tt n.s.i i.tl-k OWES , . FREICHT . . " . ; O - N i . i I t l 1 O-. 1 : ITS ! v t" ""P th n'r. nUt- i:l -r-uly. 1 , -v.. ... H'nM , T rtii .tig , fr. nu: ,.. 1 1' ..t 1 Irtli-. . --.i. New IN SACK'S iLUY. . n- f. r erl- . - rirtvon V. .: .-n Min . . -. r e.et Lrmin, i) ,,n.l YOLNtt .. . r l uii.l I ' ' ! .. ,.r..I"tr . , t,t. ul.r. rvn .. '.. I'llol'O. v::,?iCTUREs. in' rrmtiiut"" Eta i..itt.r. i ou&Luy i -CRTUNATi .: I! L di i I! ... . 1 L Tlifn Yunll lirmrmbrr Me." She lirHnl a ! al man njx-ak last nieht. 8h aw tieail man's .mile; Anil h liuil tLonglit ber brart was safo Wli r all was liollow who. Ami talne hj.. p:wwNt falae words alonz- lUit ti!I :i ti.l white sat nhn, W'lin sum one tn that ten lrr son, Tlieii You'll ICtrtuember Ie. Oil! sklll' i'Iy the ulncer feign,! A grluf U nerer knew. Anil Iruiu ber fJM the suft tears raiuetl, Ami i:nl 1it mill bart rew, P:in.l u dim tn their iintiuuinj( aneers The crunil sVe rnulti not see; Th"!e wtirils Hlnne rang iu her ears "Xheu You'll Ileuieiuher Me." Aealn she s-es l.im. Truer eyes Than his the ne'er Hhnli know; So sail, yet siniitn temlerwlse. As when ihe let him git. Far lai.'k into those, nioi'tilit eyes, 'Ihat knew her heart's awaking. The Kiihtle nmslt: InaUs, then leaves Jler tc:irt with memories breaking. Ami "As yon win," she bears biro say, "Aly IJueeti. m let it brt. New loes may r aim you; but, some day You will riiiieuilHr tno. I hulil you, thii.isli jrnu let rue o; Mine you may never he, Korrt uie in vour joy; in woe, ou will r'iin.uiLer me." "Our on all ether lips ami hearts!" She rrietl; "so f:ile are they! Naught trom uiy soul the iuetuory parts lit one 1 tiini away. O. my lost love! at heaven's goal. Though tl.ou art l;xk anil free, Keai-h me the pity ot why soul; 1 il- rvuietuber thee. " PLAIN" MAKV JANE. The C'arterets were cotisp cuoua for their prttty u;iuie3, wliicU they always wrote m full, even nefore a revolution in ta.te IumI put liessle, Xellle aud M .ill vie out of fashion everywhere, ex cept as x?t names to be usexl at borne. Tliere were t'lenieutinn, Gladys, Mar guerite anil Lill.tn anion-? the girls, and Theodore, Uegtuald, Maximilian and Francis Felix among the boys, and then came No. 9, quite uncalled for. with Francis Felix out of kilts, and Clementina beginning to go luto so ciety. Mrs. Carteret had always had the namm; of her brood, but Mr. Car teret, holding the blanketed bundle in his arms and surveyiuit the wrinkled, rosy face, declared that It was bis turn at last. "I shall call this daughter plain Mary J.me, alter lur Grandmother Jenkins," he declared, "and, my dear. If ever we have another son, tils name shall be John, you make up your mind to that." They never did have another son, however, and Mrs. Carteret was spared the humiliation of heanns a boy of bers saluted a Jack on the street or .recorded iw Johnny oh the base bail score uf his comrades. Mary Jane was a round, rosy-po!y child, sturdy and strong, and as i lifer ent from her brothers and sisters as If she were no relation to any of them. Her mother, lyluir languid en the sofa with a novel iu her hand, was distressed at the air of rude health which distin guished her youngest, and wondered why so great an allliction should have come to her, when Mary Jane declared that she preferred making puddings to practicing her scales, and would rather mend the stockings thau paint cups and saucers for the decorative art store. It had come to pass, by the time Mary Jane was sixteen, that the family circumstances were not what they had been when Gladys and Mar guerite were growltig up. How it had happened Mr. Carteret could not ex plain, but year by year his law business had lessened and his Income dwindled. With expensive tastes, which none of the family felt like denying, with little outside the office to depend upon, ex cept some unproductive land in JTew Jersey, which bad never paid enough to defray the taxes. Mr. Carteret's household was often in straits, which would have astonished the neighbors had they dreamed of their possibility. The boys were nice fellows, well bred and agreeable, but without a particle of push; the girls were elegant and accomplished, judged by a finishing school standard: yet Clementina's piano, Lilian's embroidery, Gladys water-colors and Marguerite's French and German were each and all sources ot expense, and not one, bad either youn? lady chosen to use her ski!!, would have brought in enough to pay for decent gowus and gloves. Lilian only patiently tried the decorative art, once In a while selling a cushioD or a card-case, on which occasion hot-bouse Bowers in profusion always adorned the mother's table and the family had ice cream for dessert. . . . ' Meanwhile Mrs. Carteret grew more and more tretful, languid and depressed, and Mr. Carterets face took on a hunted anxious look, which if it troubled no body else distressed the heart of bis daughter Mary Jane. "Fapa's little girl," no baJ called herself as soon as she could speak plainly, and papa's little girl," she ream ned when her brown hair was brushed smoothly back from a com pact, sensible forehead and her gray eyes looked straight out on the world with the courage of a young woman who meant to make her way, asking no odds on account of youth or sex. "Who is that happy-faced girl who so often walks down the street with oid Carteret?" said a merchant one (lay, standing In his door and watching the progress of the two toward Mr. Carteret's office. "That," said the person addressed, "is his daughter plain Mary Jane they call her, I believe. She has taken the place or office boy for the old gen tleman just at present, and it's no doubt a great relief, for even that expense is a bunlen when a man's funds are as low as Carteret's chroni cally are." "Whewl" said the merchant, with a locg whistle. "I didn't know that Carteret had a daughter who knew enough to play the part of office boy." Had curiosity led the critic to follow the pair he would have seen Mary Jane her stifl dress covered with a brown lluen wrap, her hair enveloped in a cap, long loose gloves protecting her bauds and arms sweeping, dust i&Z. setting things to rights, singing a irry tune the while; then later, copy tog legal documents and looking up references for her father, serving him, indeed, wuh a quickness. Intelligence ud interest unknown to the tribe of "I huue hope no . ono among our friends vr . that, ubiia SuloWS will . Miiia vuv aj r . ary JAne to !j?0 familiarly to the office," sighed Gladys deprecatingly. M b dipped herlbrush daintily Into the ietnonyeaow With which she was toirt wit: Jered leaf. itit goJj foiml" M Eealnald, posing before the glass to try the effect of bangs for bis patrician countenance. "Fapa has always spoiled Mary Jane," echoed Mrs. Carteret, regarding her son with complacent satisfaction. -Tbere is a manishness about Mary Jane which Is singularly unlike the gentility of the women of our family," remarked Marguerite, Clementina, who had been married for several years, and who had less toleration than formerly for the Carte ret deficiency in the exchequer, threw cold water on the general disfavor by saying, m a matter of fact way. "OhI well, girls, and Mamma, you know very well that nobody will ever choose Mary Jane for her beauty, and if she can help papa, for goodness sake let her do it. Jerome says that papa must have managed dreadfully to let affairs drift as they have, and I asree with him." The housekeeping bad fallen a good deal into the hands of Mary Jane. She had a perfect genius for contriving ragouts aud frtca?ees of left-overs and fragments; she would buy a "soup piece" for a few cents acd make a delicious lot-au-feu, and as for watch ing the weekly bills and cutting off a cent here aud a six pence there her talent wasjmarvelous, l'lebeian if you choose, but nevertheless a convenient and comfortable talent for the child of an impecunious parent. But the day canio when not all Mary Jane's maic could evolve dinners out of nothing. Invention she had, but creation was beyond her powers, and not all her willing service, diligent and faithful as it was, could bring business enough to poor Mr, Carteret to more than pay hisofliee rent. Mrs. Carteret, lr lady, crieil till her eyes were red, but what good did that do? Lilian went to live with Clementina. Mar guerite thought she would try writing for the press under the impression that here was an easy road to fame and fortune so respectable, too, and need ing so little outlay for couldn't she throw off pjetns and stones at a sitting if she could only find an editor to pay for them? Two of the boys went off on a ranch in the train of an Lnglish nobleman and the others were at work, though tbev were able to do little more than support themselves. Mary Jane determined to improve the situation, but the question was how? What could she do which would bring in money ? Day after day, night after night she thought, but could fix upon nothing definite. Meanwhile she mended and darned, turned curtains and furniture covering, kept the house bright and shlniug, and found herself repaid by seeing her father lose the discouraged expression which had over laid his natural cheerfulness. "You have Inherited the Jenkins' faculty," he said one day. We Carte rets and your mother's people, the Truemaus, are lacking in resource, but my mother's mother was Mary Jane Jenkins, and she was a woman among a thousand." i Jenkins' faculty, or Carteret ele gance, Mary Jane pondered, which was to come to the front and prove helpful. She was mounted on a step-ladder, rehanginz a portiere, which she hal spent hours in repairing and freshening; when a visitor was announced. It was a certain Mrs. Deapard, an old and fashionable friend, and Maria, now maid-of-all-work, hurried from ber tubs to open the door, and ushered ber, without ceremony, into the room where the young mistress was busy with her amateur upholstery. "For pitv's sakel" ejaculated Mar guerite, in the chamber above. -'Mary Jane is in the middle of the work and she'll neve; apologize. I will not go downl" "Mary Jane mortifies me every day of my life," foamed Mrs. Carteret, brushing her thin hair aud taking her best lace handkerchief from the bureau drawer. "1 wish," she continued, sorrow fully, -'that dear Mrs. Despard had called when the drawing-room was somewhat in shadow. Mary Jane has no doubt admitted floods of light and every threadbare line in the carpet and all the make-shifts will show, and oul It is hard to let the world know bow poor we arel" Thus tragically the mother and daughter above stairs regarded each other, while below Mary Jaue having tripped from the step-ladder, shaken out the portiere and established the caller in a great easy chair with a has sock at her feet her back to the light, a screen between her and the bit of lire in the grate was finding herself all at once face to face with her opportunity. "Is it possible, my dear, that you can do such things yourself?" exclaimed Mrs. Despard. "Do pardon me. but neither for love nor money do I know where to And any one who can take stitches when they are needed, arrange my pretty things uaintlly, drains a lambrequin and generally see to what my daughter would have done if she had lived. You know I lost Mignou when she was only two. You and she were born In the same month with the April violets, Mary Jane." How it came about Mary Jane could not have told, but before Mrs. Carteret entered the parlor a compact was made and the Desuard portiere ana lurnuure --tr all to nass in review before the girl's bright eyes the next day after noon. "Yon will let me pay you, my dear child?" said the lady, in a sort voice, as she went away. Rut nlain Mary Jane was not sensi- tin nn this iKinit- She said, in ber usual voice: 'Certainly. Mrs. Despard, if I am tn um tan I will charge you a .i. hHm tint vnu must not count upon me until you find out whether or not I ran real 1 be of USe.:' Mrs. Carteret exclaimed as the door closed: -rh.r T should have lived to see fKi H.v Marr Jane I Mary Janel what wilt nMinle think of you?" Oh. mr dear little mother, what matters it what they may think if only they will And my work good of Its kind twin nrice for it." AiJU YJ w m It was not many weeks before Mary t.,- , j,i ait she waniea 10 u dozen families were in need ot precisely ...-h hoinfui asssisiance as render, and she bad ber regular days and went from one to another, gradu- WAniniT to be regarded as a k...,hi.i oracle. For. were the stains on the linen, Mary Jane could -them-, was a bit of lace frayed her deft bands ccrulJ restore it to its imiiiM freshness: aid a laay neea hat for reception or opera and . tliere was no time to send! for a French mil liner, here was MJanewith magic tn hlr Bnffer-tiDS. an-I five ber a few -no. of riblu.-aier ortwoaiui bit of tinsel, and there you were. She could mend a three-cornered rent so that yon would not see the scar of ber repairing, and, as for tablecloths and napkins, she bad the patience and the skill of a medical man in restoring them when they had begun to go. The Jenkins faculty stood ber in stead, in these days, and though Mamma Carte ret fumed, she was so environed with new comforts that she grew resigned in spite of aristocratic prejudice, while Papa Carteret, with ever-increasing pride, openly boasted of this business like daughter. "Papa's little girl," meanwhile, was so happy and busy, and successful, that she began to look beautiful, and "plain Mary Jane" seemed like a misnomer in earnest. One day she was looking over the morning paper, whea her eyes fell upon a paragraph which set her wits to work in earnest. She drew ber father aside, and, smoothing his dear old bead with her band, a band which had a good deal of magnetism in its tender touch, sheTsuddenly said: "Papa, dear, wouldn't you like to tate me on an excursion." "Where, my darling," was the sur prised reply. Provident Mary Jaue was seldom anxious that money should be spent on jaunting for pleasure. Was she tlrei, he wondered, and would an outing do her good? But there was no hint of fatigue in the wide-open, child ish gaze, in the lips with their forceful set,contradicting the laughing eyes, as if to protest that Mary Jane was a woman for all her girlish fun aud free dom. "I do think, papa," said Mary Jane. taking his breath away by ber audac ity, ''that you and I ought to do some thing about that cranberry swamp of ours in New Jersey. It's a sin and a shame that it isn't paying us some thing, instead of being a cost which we dread whenever Its time to pay the taxes. And so, dear. I propose that we go and see what is to be done." All this was several years ago. This winter the Carteret shin, under the pilotage of plain Mary Jaue, finds Itself in peaceful waters. The cranberry swamp is paying well. The upholstery business has its headquarters in a neat little office, where Miss Carteret takes orders fend from which she sends oul men and women to do the best wot k in town, never disappointing an em ployer by failure to fulfill an engage ment nor ever breaking ber word. "I tell you what, girls," says Clem entina's husbaud, addressing his wife and ber sister, "you all used to be ashamed of plain little Mary Jane, but what a brick the child has turned out I" "It's the Jenkins faculty!" says Papa Carteret, smiling. "It's Emerson's doctrine." says poor Marguerite, whose literary work has not been appreciated. " -Get your brick ready for the wall. I begin to see that I, for one, have been all these years working away at the wrong brick." Told of Little Tots. Detroit Journal: "Why don't you speak to him, Johnny? He wishes to make friends with you.' "He ain't a boy. He's a girl," said Johnny, as he moved further from the little midget who was siding up to him and who in dress was the very counter part of himself. "Girls look just the same as a boy, but she ain't. Boys don't push up to a fellow like that." Louisville fost: Said a little six-year- old boy to his sister yesterday: "I have been in the house two days in proces sion." "That Is net the proper word; you ought to say 'succession,'" said the sister. ".No, l ought not," replied the boy. "How do you explain it?" asked the sU-ter. ''Why," said the boy. ' 'dorstt a procession of men in the street follow one another, and doesn't the days follow each other?" The boy will make a linguist. Boston Herald: Two little urchins coming from school were overueara discussing the Illness of the grand father of one of them and its nature evidently was a source of great bewil derment. "Well, the doctor says it is salt on the brain," said the bigger child. "X ol" in a tone of wonderment from the other. "Why, how'd it get there?" "Oh, 1 dont exactly know." Then, in a tone of mysterious wisdom: "He's fond of salt on his things and I guess it's worked up." JSashvule American: A. little girl wuo has just entered school yesterday jubi lantly announced to her father that she turned down all the girls above her In the arithmetic class and went ahead. ''That was smart in you," said be. encouragingly. "How whs it?" "Well, you see. Miss Maggie asked the girl at the bead bow much was 8 and 5. and she didn't Know ana saia 12; then the next girl said V, and the next one said 11. and the next one said 14. Such silly answers! Then Miss Maggie asked me. and I said 13; then Miss Maggie told me to go head 'Course it was li" "Tbat was nice," said the father. "I didn't think you could add so welL How did you know it was 13?" "Why. I guessed it; nobodT ald 13" Bo:on Transcript: A new school frock is often the cause of unnumbered woes in a public school class, aud when Miss Claribel de Suoggins, aged 0. flounced into ber seat the other morn- incr in all the irlor? of the very newest thing In dark garnet wool and velvet ber teacher signea paneuny uu a-nndeted when the trouble would begin, but nothing happened until re cess, although the circulation of pa-iei wais was unusually lively. When the children re-entered the school room Miss de Snoggins was weeping and ber especial enemy was smiling very grimly .ml innulrv was necessary. All that was to be obtained from the sobbing mourner was, "She said she s-aidl" and at last the teacher turned to the apparent cauau mvwv.w . M thA offender, glibly. "She'aa goose I only told ber that her old gown looked dreadful scarlel-ievery ana it uui The Monks and the laavdiea. The Indian railway officials are likely to be placed in an embarrassing position, for not only do English ladles omand to travel alone, but the Budd- h,.r monks have requested to be allowed to do so likewise. The government of Ceylon replied to their reverences oat i . .nw nnnrber of monks tfHVel WSJ sJC u w J - together they will be accorded facility for not oetng ..... .we . niiwst certainly UUIr tuwii wi. . , give a stogie monk camags tj self. . '. tha white oeDper raerce to bleached with chiopin its Inferior quauty. nr. cafanot ruin p him- J Lot com- Y, hence A GIRL KINO. Tbe Accession of Christiana or Sweden, There were tears and trouble in Stockholm: there was sorrow in every bouse and hamlet In Sweden; there was consternation throughout Trotestant Europe. Gustavus Adolphus was deadl The "Lion of the North" had fallen on the bloody and victorious field of Lut zen, and only a very small girl of six stood as the representative of Sweden's royalty. The States of Sweden that is, the representatives of the different sections and peoples of the kingdom gathered in baste within tbe Hiddarhatis, or Hall of Assembly. In Stockholm. There was much anxious controversy over the situation. The nation was In a desperate strait. and some were for one thing and some were for another. There was even talk of making the government a re public, like the State of Venice; while the supporters of the Ktng of Poland, cousin to the dead King Gustavus, openly advocated bis claim to the throne. . But the Grand Chancellor, Axel Ox- enstiern, one of Sweden's greatest statesman, acted promptly. "Let there be no talk between us." he said, "of Venetian republics or of 1 olisb kings. V e have but one King the daughter of tbe immortal Gusta vus!" Then np spoke one of the leading representatives of tbe peasant class. .Lars Larson, the Deputy from tbe western fiords. 'Who is this daughter of Gustavus?" he demanded rudely. "How do we know this is no trick of yours. Axel Oxenstiera? How do we know that King Gustavus has a daughter? We hav6 never seen her." "You shall see her at once," replied the Chancellor; and leaving the hail he returned speedily leading by the hand a diminutive, but by no means bashful- looking, little girL W 1th a sudden movement he lifted her to the high seat of the silver throne that could only be occupied by the Kings of Sweden, "swedes, behold your Klngl" Lar Larson, the Deputy, pressed close to the throne on which the small figure perched silent, yet with a defiant look upon ber little face. "She bath the face of tbe Grand Gus tavus," be said. Look, brothers, tbe nose, tbe eyes, the very brows are his." "Aye," said Oxenstiera. "and she Is a soldier's daughter. I myself did see ber, when scarce three years old. clasp her tiny ban", s and laugh aloud when the guns of Calmar fortress thundered a salute. She must learn to bear it,' said Gustavus our King; 'she is a soldier's daughter.' " "Hail. Christina!" shouted the as sembly, won by the proud bearing of tbe little girl and by her likeness to her valiant father. "We will have you and only you for our Queenl" 'Better yet. brothers,", cried Lars Larsson, now ber most loyal supporter; "she sits upon the throne of the Kiugs; let her be proclaimed King of Sweden." And so It was done. And with their wavering loyalty kindled into a sudden flame, the States of Sweden "gave one mighty shout" and cried as one man, Hail. Christina. King of Sweden!" Vutrue to Iloth. Inez Claire turned her haughty. dark face from the gypsy and crossed the sward to where her lover and ber cousin stood. "What did she tell you that your lip curls so, Inez?" asked Roy Alton, with a smile. "One would almost fancy tbe old witch had tried to make you fear some evil." "She didl" answered the girl scorn fully, her dark eyes cashing. "False hood and treachery are evils, are tney not? She said they were about me falsehood on the lips I kissed, treachery In the hearts I trusted. Bab! how foolish it is to give one's hand to such a creature and allow ber to say such things!" "One never does so in faithl" laughed pretty, golden-haired Beatrice La van. the cousin, who. being or phaned aud penniless, owed all things to tbe wealthy and generous Inez. Untroubled by the crone's predic tions, with faith as strong as the love in ber proud, true heart, Inez never dreamed of suspecting that her lover's whirpers could be "but stricken air. or tbat tbe beart she leaned on and fully trusted planned the treachery at hsr very side. Roy lingered at the stately home of Inez until the moon was bign. ana sue accompanied bim down the steps and part way to the gate tbat divided tneir fathers' lands. There in the clear light of tbe full May moon tbey said good-night, and she stood watchiug him as be went until the shadows hid bim from her. Then a sudden thought came she bad not told bim of a certain plan for tbe morrow, formed by herself and Beat rice. She would flit after him, slide up to him ere he reached the gate slip her hand in bis. and laugh at bis glad sur prise. With light feet she burnea alter. reached tbe shadows which had en folded him. passed through them, and paused like a startled doe on their edge, a fierce, incredulous scorn grow ing in ber eyes, ber proud lace Diane n ing, swiftly, snarpiy, as Diancn ine faces of those smitten suddenly to tbe heart. He stood before ber, only a few feet away her lover, ber promised husband with a slight white-clad figure in bis arms, a dainty, golden bead, uncovered to the moonbeams, nestling close to his heart, while her cousin's red lips laughed merrily up to him and her cousin's white band held back bis face from hers. ''If Inez should see yon now I think she would set you free," laughed Beat rice. And Inez, with a sudden, hardly- drawn breath crossing ber whitened lips, advanced till she stood beside them. "You are right, my cousin," she said, unwaveringly. "I have beard and I set him free free of all things save the reproach I must ever feel for an acted lie. Here, itoyi" She drew off and extended toward him the ring with which he bad plighted her. and letting it fall at his feet turned and left bim standing ashamed and smarting under his ex posed treachery. Five years later Inez Claire entered a city hospital, bent oa an errand of mercy. . A here, oa one or the cots, The nurse took her hand gently, and laid a finger on ber own lips. 'He is sleeplBg," she said, softly: they sleep so after a long fever. Ah. his eyes unclose! Back, my dear lady! Do not let bim see you, lest It should excite him, and he Is so weak." But his lids bad lifted, his eyes were fastened on the face of Inez, and with an effort he put out a thin, weak hand. ".inezr' be whispered; "Inez, will you stay beside me for a little while? It will be but a little while, for I am dying; but stay, Inez, because be cause, dear. I have seen no woman like you in all the years since that May night, and my my heart has ached for you beyond my telling. I was weak, false, but but" "Hush!" faltered Inez, bending over him until her lips almost touched bis cheek. "Speak no more, Roy. I will stay and you shall not die. for I have pardoned the past and tba old love has not perished. And so they met, ana the old love which bad slept for a brief time in the man's beart, lulled by the charm of a new, fair face, awakened to sleep no more, and the woman, never having forgotten, forgave as readily as most loving women do, even the lover who returns repentant from his straying. A month later there was a quiet wedding at which Beatrice was not present. When she beard the fair beauty smiled a trifle scornfully. 'Uow can she trust him?" she asked, "He was false to her once, and as false to me," she added, with a touch of angry bitterness. But Inez feared no rival now. Financial ltlackmailers in London. It is a tavorite plan of the promoters of American enterprise to seek capital in Europe, notably in London aud Amsterdam. It is not an easy task by any means to Induce foreign capitalists to invest in new projects on this side of the water, especially since there have been so many enterprises taken up by them in which their money has beeu spent without return, aud they are apt to look upon everything that has an American stamp as a wholesale swindle until they have looked closely luto U. But they are not without tricks them selves in London. The presideut of a leading railroad corporation who has raised large amounts of money there at different times for various enter prises said the other day: "You can be sure of nothing in London in raising mouey uutil you have the cash in bank. 1 bad f l.OUO.COJ already counted out for me and the papers drawn and ready to sUn, and yet had the money put back in the vaults and the papers back luto my pocket. London is full of financial blackmailers, and it was one of the.se that rung in his little game on mo. It cost me at least 1 100.000 to get my negotiatiou through, but I had the satisfaction of knowing tbat the blackmailer got no money from it. "Tbey watch the American news papers for accounts of new enlerprisei that are likely to seek capital abroad, aud then they watch ou that side of the water for the man who is to negoti ate the securities and cleverly manage to Ingratiate themselves by proffered assistance and otherwise, so as to be in a position to know every stage of his progress. They will wait until the last moment before his negotiation is con ducted and then strike him. They generally have a newspaper at their back and frequently succeed In scaring their victim into paying a good rouud sum to prevent an attack on his scheme. which be knows will be disturbing and disastrous to his enterprise, even though unfounded upon any reasonable or just claim.- After one or two expe riences in London, 1 have always made my trips there with the utmost secrecy. allowing no newspaper mention to be made at home of my departure. On my arrival there I have gone to unfre quented hotels out of the way of friends and acquaintances, until all my negotiations were concluded. That is the safest way." A Chance Acquaintance. "Monsieur is an American, I think?" It is on the Calais boat. That steady light off there is France. In a few hours we will be in fans, ine chan nel is as smooth as tbe Monongahela above the dam. I have no symptoms of the kind I have dreaded, aud I am in the best of humors. A tall t rencb man is leaning on the railing at my bile, and he has just asked me the question. I reply that his surmise 13 correct, and he says with a laugh, "Ah, then, of course, Monsieur is a mil lionaire as well." "You are quite right," says I to him. "You are a fearful liar," says I to myself. "Monsieur is destined for our beau tiful Paris, of course?" "Exactly. This is my visit, aud I do not speak French." "Monsieur looss just as delighted as I expected he would. 1 was evidently a bit of mutton be intended for home consumption. "Monsieur is perhaps from .New York?" ".XotatalL Made a pile In hogs in Chicago, and now I've struck a silver mine in Jersey." Monsieur is fortunate. He has, per haps, some friends with him?" "Xot a souL All alone." "Ah, Is it so? Perhaps my poor self could introduce Mousieur to some of the wonders of Paris." He began to draw closer, and in a lower tone said: "I can show bim the many curious things, and Monsieur will not betray me?" "Of course not." "Perhaps Monsieur would like to buy some diamonds, some rubies, some pearls quietly from a friend of mine, very cheap, aud there would be no duty to pay going home." "So that's your little lay, Is it? Ire mark to myself. "I will just let you go on and see what else you have to selL" "Jolly smooth trip, my boy," says an unmistakably English voice behind me, and I turned to find my traveling com panion at my back, eyeing the diamond dealer with suspicion. Tbe Frenchman eyes tbe new comer, then looks at me, and to save myself from annihilation 1 could not prevent a faint smile. Tbe foreign element utters something which sounds soft and melodious, but which, no doubt, means something bard and malodorous, and off he goes. "What's that fellow up to?" Inquires my friend. "He is a rum one, he is. He'd cut your throat for a flve-frano piece." And so my little bit of contemplated amusement was knocked in the bead, arid my fortune made from bogs and thfe Jersey silver mine were left node- mm nils velorjed In the bands of a mental as- slgee Traveling in Japan. When we went over to Asakasa, the temple grounds were deserted, and tbe hundreds of tame pizeons, counter parts of the Venetian birds at St. Marks, flew through the open temple and walked np and down tbe broad flagging with no one to feed them, and none of tbe score of old women at their accustomed stalls to sell grain. Before the altar of the Goddess Kwannon Sama candles were burning, bells tink ling and priests chanting prayers, but only a rare and occasional copper was beard dropping through the slats of the huge money box that on some festival seasons brings in a daily revenue cf $1000. Idle youngsters lounged or chased one auolLer through the temple, and women with babies on their backs toddled up and down with the halting, Infantile gait of Japanese women keep ing In out of tbe glare or the sun that was scorching the very flagstones out side. A group of pilgrims in big bats and with sections of straw matting fastened to their shoulders as protection from sun or rain, and bed and abiding place at night, gaped with wide open, rustic mouths at the sights of Asakasa. These pilgrims are a feature of Japa nese summer life, and every year as soon as tbe rice has been transplanted and the paddy fields -show a mantle of waving green, the farmers take up their stall's and go wandering off in parties from one shrine and region of temples to another, until It is time to return and look to tbe harvest in the early fall. Their wives meanwhile weed tbe fields and look after affairs at home. In one of the show gardens near the temple, where one pays a few pennies to see all the curiosties and miracles of horticulture, dwarf trees that look a thousand years old, fan-tailed and many tailed gold-fish, whose globular bodies are almost bidden by tbe elaborate pea cock spread lehiud them, Tosa chick ens, with their tail feathers 2 yards long, roosting in high, narrow cages that let their feathers droop gracefully. cages of queer parrots and birds, and a caged leopard and tiger greatly enter tain one. The tiger panted in the heat, and grew so restless as the light began to dwindle that we left his quiet corner aud went out to the temple grounds, where men and children were watching tbe sun through colored glass. We wanted to see ignorant and super stitious people prostrating themselves before tbe altars, clanging the gongs and raining their coppers into the money box, fleeing here and there or huddling into terrified groups; bat there was nothing ot tbat kind going oa. A few old men were muttering their prayers in secluded corners, but all the rest were as blase and sophisti cated as if eclipses were every-day affairs. Tea bouse girls even knew anough to put out a tub of water and watch on Its reflecting surface the whole celestial proceeding. The day grew suddenly darker, the ky a deep blue overhead, with flocks whirling through the air, and bright itars began to twinkle. The light was t weird and greenish-yellow, aud, with i cool breeze suddenly springing up, inn felt as if a terrible thunderstorm, vilh inky clouds, were coming on. Europeans looked pale green and corpse Ike, and the yellow skin ef the Japa nese assumed an unnatural bluish tailor. The queer light made one feel iizzy or cross-eyed, and want to rub his yes and get a clear look all the time, tnd as the sun diminished to a cres ;ent the sharp, clear-cut shadows were an pleasantly distinct, a foreshortened, nky shadow walking beside one like a jlack ghost. The leaves ou the trees ,hrew strange, wavering lines of ilia low, like the reflected light from 'tppling water, and when the sun at ast became a mere curving thread of ight in the sky, the venders In tbe long aazaar began to light lamps. The :urved line of light in the sky sud leniy reversed itself, aud slowly the tun grew to a crescent, a half circle and full again, while daylight asserted itself uore rapidly thau tbe half twilight jama on. The unusually high tide arophesied for the day came on at Me schedule time, but the earthquake to freely promised, and suggested to so aiany by tbe still, breathless heat of ,he two days, failed to come, and the forewarned, who put away porcelain tnd fragile things as a forearming, found their exertions had been un necessary. J low the New Star Makes Love. Mrs. James i;rown Potter promised a ber husband just before ber debut is a professional actress that she would lever allow her mimic lovers of the itage to kiss her. That is what ber icqua;ntance3 iu society say and the itory is circumstantially proven before ler audiouces. Iu the first play In A hicli bhe was a heroine the courtship lid not result in marriage, nor even in t sentimental su. render, and so the tbsence of kissing did not attract much tltentlon. But it was different in tbe ensuing piece. There she was the n tensely beloved wife of the hero, and it the outset they were represented as neeting after mouths of separation. 1'hey rushed at each other, as husband tnd wife might naturally be expected o; they embraced affectionately ; they leld passionate discourses for a quarter i an bonr and then they reluctantly aartcd again, but neither in the greet ng nor the good-bye was a kiss ex :hauged. Mrs. Potter permitted a lug and a few caresses, but the lips of ler supposed husband never touched ler face. It was curious to observe low quickly the audience, even to .be least sophisticated, took note of ths ack of the reasonable action. Tons and Tons of Ivory. One of tbe most interesting sights in .he warehouses Is tbe ivory room. Here are lying by the hundreds tusks t elephants, tusks of wild boars, horns f the rhinoceros aud teeth of the lippopotamus. There are elephant ,uaks ten feet long and weighing 130 jounds. There are hippopotamus teeth jearly two feet long. The elephant .usk, of course, furnishes by far tbe lnest quality of ivory, and tberei .also t great difference in the elephant the Repliant of India and Ceylon ranking ie African specimen. It is only a juestlon of time when tbe Ivory trade ffill have to look around for a new wurce of material. The officer In ;harge of this room, a man about 60 rears of age, said he bad been there from a boy. He said there was a per jeptible falling off in the supply every fear, and what looked to the inex perienced eye like such an astounding xiiiection warqnite smau as compared XU 1 i with what migt nave been teen t went sr even ten yeatt ago. i J i Au . i . y v- -v in v.-.a . LODGE OP CHIXFSE MASON'S. Native Organization Not Allied Directly to the Well Known 1 A. M. Old Masons were until late of the opinion that no sucn a thing as a Chi nese Mason existed. One gentleman said be had seen Arabs and Turks who were good Masons, but. to the best of his knowledge, no Chiniman was in Order. Nevertheless, there are not only Chinese Masons, but right here In New York there is a Chinese Masonic Lodge in full blast with a membership of over UOO. It is a native organiza tion, not allied directly to the Free and Accepted Masons.but said tobe founded on principles very nearly akin. The lodge room is at No. IS Molt street, second floor, front, aud has re cently been remodeled and refitted in very good shape, all newly painted and cleaned. The Lodge furniture is of Chinese desizn, and imported from China expressly for the society at a great expense. A tall flagstaff, with a rope for running up colors, is on top of tbe building. Above the door as one enters the lodge room Is a red sign In native characters signifying "Chinese Masonic Society," and dowu the sides are two long slips or red paper bearing mottoes. One of these is, "Do good to one another," and the other relates to the business of the Order. The interior is like most Chinese quarters, only lighter, and not full of odi turns and uusust.ected corners. Immediately on entering, one is led into a sort of ante room and thence into the mam or lodge room. At the lower end of this room is the altar, aud a very valuable oue it is, costing in China $1,500. Above it is an alcove in which a colored drawing is suspended. It is not the least curious thing in the place, the dsigu being three figures, one seated, aud two others bending over his shoulder. The seated figure represents the venerable father of Chi nese Masonry. The face is heavy, placid, and adorned with a long black beard. The other two are respectively the spirits of light and darkness, who are supposed to be giving bim counsel. In front of the altar a lamp is hung. It is never extinguished, aud burns in commemoration of the dead of the Order. Another emblem is two sticks of sandal wood puuk thrust into a box of sand. They keep smouldering away and fill the air with a famt but sweet perfume. On the wall is a long board an I on this are pasted a great number or sheets of paper covered with Chinese hieroglyphics. These are the lists of members voted on in the New York lodge. Near the roster bang two books. One of these is sent out from the Su preme Lodge at Sau Fraucisco, aud gives a detailed account of a nurubet of cases of those in distress and sick ness and the whereabouts of each one who needs help. The other is a sub scription book in which the various amounts subscribed are entered. At intervals these two books and the. amount raise I are transmitted to l 'i--Supreme lodge, from which the deic.vi ent members are relieved. Meeting are not held upon regular nights, but at intervals decided ui-on by the dignitaries of the order, as the necessties of business my demand. Tbe members are notified of meetings, held gere rally cn Sunday nights, by the apiiearance of a triangular flag at the top of the pole on top of the house. The Hag is white aud bears the picture of a huge red dragon with its tail to ward the point. There are grips, signs and passwordsexactlyasinan American odge. "The traveling card" of this society is quite a curiosity in itself. It is a square of red silk inscribed with Chinese characters, and is a document highly prizad by all its possessors. Samuel Johnson's Way. He was a teetotaler for the greater part of his life, yet originated the say ing of "Brandy Tor heroes," and wrote to Dr. Taylor to ersevere in drinking, attributing his own gout to abstinence; he was an author by profession, aud yet when a gentleman called at bis chambers to write a letter he found Johnson without pen, ink or paper. He considered a man a block-bead who wiote except for money, and no "copy" could be obtained from him so long as he had two guineas in bis pocket. He read very hard in bis early years, yet never persisted iu any plan of reading for two days together, and be said, at the age or 51, that he knew as much at 18. He had a way of getting at the contents of a book without reading it that is, he knew how to skip, and per haps to this secret he owed iu part his immense learning. He could not be iersuaded to correct what be bad once written, and his pace, when he did write, was such that he composed and posted an "Idler" in half an hour. He wrote "The False Alarm" between 8 oue night and 12 the next, and "The Patriot" one Satur day. Only undersouie strong necessity would he write at all. To defray his mother's funeral expenses be wrote "Kasselas," for which be received 100, and 25 extra when it passed to a second edition. He required the goad of Churchill's satire to make him produce his Shakspeare; be was lndlf fereut to fame, and said that want of money was the only motive to writing that he knew of. Cocoa for I be Voico. "What was that you drank last night after your first song?" asked a reporter the other day of a well known concert singer who bad taken part in a musical entertainment the evening before. "How did you know 1 drank any thing?" "I saw you take a drink of something from my seat in the box." "It was a cup of cocoa," "What effect does it have on the voice?" "It lests it and soothes the vocal cords. I always have a small spirit lamp stove in my dressing room and before I go on the stage I have my maid prepare a small pot of thin cocoa. The moment I finish my selection I drink a cuo of It warm not hot, mind you and as a consequence my voice is seldom tired and never is hoarse." "How does tea aud coffee act?" "Tea is better than coffee, bnt neither compares with cocoa. Tea must be warm, and it must not be drawn too long before it is drank. 11 it stands for a certain time it becomes acid and does more barm than good. Tea sbonld be drank withoat sugar. Coffee makes one too nervous to be of much benefit." was a wasted form, at the sight of which ber face paled. "Is be dead? oh, tell me that be la not dead my love, my love!" NEWS IN BRIEF. Six and a half tons of diamonds have been taken from the African mines within a few years, and yet some people cling to "Rhinestones." A richly cut, solid glass bedstead bas been recently made at a Birming ham, England, factory for a Calcutta millionaire. The king of Burmau also has one. A physician has discovered that the older a man grows tbe smaller his brain becomes. This explains why the young men know everything and the old men know nothing. Nevada Is about as proud over the ract that a tis vein of hue anthracite :oal has been struck, as it is of its silver mines. There's about as much money in the ccal, too, as in the silver. The Al.tskan Indian is pre-emi-ueutly the dude of bis race.' He is al ways clad in handsome furs or blankets, and carries a walking-stick which is Dften a beautiful specimen of elaborate carving. Mosquitoes in China have a very poisonous sting. In a Tientsin hospital there were at one time last summer a man with an abscess in his face and another i li blood-poisoning from the bite of the insects. The congregation in a ISloomQelil (N. .1.) chuiclt a uixht or two ago was stat lied bv a strange animal observed walking about among the chairs. The visitor was run down and kiilej, when it was found to be an opossum. An electric motor car is to be run experimentally on the Tenth avenue line, New York, througliaut the win ter. Should it prove able to coie with the heavy weather, it is considered likely horse3 will le dispensed with in the spring. A weep;n? lose tree in a garden at Koosteren, Iloliau 1, is so large that thirty pertormt-rs lately gave a concert under its blanches. It is 05 feet iu circumference, and i' has been esti mated that it had lii.O'lJ roses at the time or the performance. Mrs. Nancy ilonaker, of Floyd county, Kentucky, is the owner of a mule, which lias been a resident of that State over sixty years, and she knows not bow much longer. The animal served through the war and was iu some hot battles. He i3 still capable of good sei vice. To determine whether her two canaries possessed thu s-nse of color, a Chicago lady placed before thean two bathing cuis, one of ordinary white ware, the other of colored glass. After a moment's hesitation the birds plunged info the colored cup, and have since refused to bathe iu any other. A H)stag stamp "exchange," which was lately held iu a restaurant on the Leipz'ger Strasse, Berlin, is re ported to have lieeu a couir''" ces.i. It was fiexjue-nted r-'tatnp collectors, and the P9 large. It is already prp'ck brokerage system for t'-'iree ioieigii collectors. 1 feet Tl.a new M .ima i' track children les than 12 g piece work in the mills, an at and all lietwi-en the !:m o nave at least sixteen, discov each yrar has mrxtia Issue ance at the pc'm J-ninclng the also inci eased Hie aivictory at remarkably, as the in .was won find when they take tf.tin was tives. ok a ...... . .. v line a number ot lnjans. were taking a ride on tl.e plntfoiui of a mail car near l'ocatello, Utah, recently, the trainmen noticed that one of the red skins was t-huimed i.y all tiie others. The grimaces of tiiirust lestowed upon the ostracized member of the party led to an investigation, which revealed that the lonely one was a tramp dis guised as an Indian in order to get free transportation. In Algeria thete is a small stream which the chemistry of nature has cop verted into true ink. It Is formed by the union of two rivulets, on, of which is veiy strongly -impregnated with iron, while the other, meandering through a peat marsh, imbibes gallic acid, another lngredier; in the forma tion of ink. Letters cd other manu script matters ate satisfactorily written witli this siugtilar natural compound of iron and gallic acid. An Orange Heights (Fla.) woman turned ber horse out in the pasture the other afien o mi, and was looking at it as It fed, when it dlsapieared right before ber eyes. When she reached the place where the a-.iitnal had stood sh lotitid thai the earth bad sunk eight feet below the surface. The hore was got out none the worse for the adventure, but why the earth gave way has not yet been explained. A newly patented pavement Is said to have beeu suggested by the surface or an elephant's tooth, which consists of intermingled layers of bard and soft material, so that the processor wearing always produces a series of ridges upon the surface. The new gystem of pav ing Is tbe Idea of Mr. Rauyard. the English astronomer, and comprises the use or blocks bavin? all ernat3lir4 arid soft layers, such as Portland cement and a mixture of sand and cement, which are set upon edge m that tbe edges of these laminae form a wearing surface. The blocks are made four Inches high, and may be worn to less than an inch without becoming smooth, like granite blocks. Some very singular eloct rical phe nomena weie observed recently, on two very dry days, at a printing office in Mainz, when the whole establisnment seemed to be converted into a huge electric battery. Eiectric sparks sev eral ccntimet?rs long could be drawn with the fingers from all parts of the printing machinery, just as may be done from a charged electric machine. The action of the sparks became so pronounced tbat the layers-on and takers-off refused to work, as burning sparks were emitted every time the machines were touched with the hands. Tbe phenomena lasted for two days. At the distribution in November, 1S87, of the annual "prizes of virtue," awarded by the French Academy, the Montyon prize of 2000 francs was given to Jean Adolphe Delannoy, a Calais pilot, who has twenty-one times risked his life in saving shipwrecked crews. In one case, in 1807, twelve English sailors bad launched the lifeboat and attempted to rescue a crew in danger and were unsuccessful, all of them pei lshlng; but Delannoy and six comrades reached tbe vessel just in time to see it sink, and to save two ot the crew De lannoy is allready well supplied with medals, and wears the Cross of the Le gion of Honor. Tbe Academy now proclaims him "the most berclc and devoted I Frenchmea.'y . yfcra- 7k ' v - t r. 1 i i : i.'i I'li-ix. lutJt Carr4 l i - :
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