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B. F. BOHWEIER,
TEX OOXST1TUT10I-TXB XTITCX-AD TKX EfTOlOElfEIT OP TEE LATH.
Editor ajad. Iixprietor.
VOL. XLTI.
MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY, PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 1, 18SS.
NO. 0.
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A sool wife front ber bed one morn
An I thought willi nrrTuiu dread
Of tl! ,'u I"'"1 of elutbea lo b wubol
A i'. I the t!i tn ol months to be fed.
Tliere- tbe meals to c-t lor the men In
tl .. lii-M,
Aii'l th-- c: t or-n t. 6x away to acliooL,
Aui a I tin- tui.1t to bo akiuitued ami
t: rr:.-.t.
And a.! to U- done this day."
It tad rained In the niut, and ail the wood
x. net an It rotild be,
Tr wire iMiil-l iiih ami plea to bake
Ar,i a tout of cikt for tea.
An. I il - Ij wa b.-.t, and her aching head
ILn Mfd wearily an he aald:
U 11..4..I. na but knew what good wlvea
kr- n
Tho -l f"l in baste to wed."
"Aouf. wl-.jir 'lo you think I told Ted
1. . ''."
I'.i . : I il.e farmer from this well
Au i a t!.ili crept up to In bronzed brow,
A!.'' 1 - rjt hall ba-tiiully fell.
"It i- ti.i," anil rtttuhin near, he (railed;
lt u a- tl.ia: That ou are the bent
Arnl 11.- Ueare-t wile iu tuuru.
Tl.e farmer went back to the field,
Ai.il it'H wife. In a smiling absent way,
it. hen ol tender little aon
S -'.l not -un.: In in. my a dav.
At. 1 'be p.iiu in ber bra.! was gone, and
r i-lo'he
V . re .i- white a tli- foam of the sea,
A:kI l.er butter a- weet and golden aa it
i .ul be.
T'.i' iv;1.'' rami down
i:.e MiilU-d to herself as tihe
m:-I:
'T: weo. to labor for thoe we lore
I- : nut !ranj:e that mai.U will weL"
v meakfast dish.
"And it was the nioa. beautiful stone
ttiut I v. r saw iu a tinker ring. None
i( ii i' -r- paltry thlugs you can't wear
1:11 c.i: n 1 .- light on account of the yel
low there :s in thetu. So white, so clear,
so brilliant, pellucid as a water-drop
ami j.iirklmir as a st.ir! It was all but
h i enioinh. too, to h ive a name of its
own, like those 1 hat the royal diamonds
have- 'Stir of the Four Points or the
lo'Liass.' 'I 'gut of the World to
Come,' Ctty of the Middle of the
Earth. 'Mm her of the Moon. Why
under the sun," cried Mrs. Torrance,
tlie pretty creature in a bewitching
K-iw u. pouring eotlee for her husband,
the I'.'t:-' butler having been dismissed
by Mr. Torrance iu fear of the wrath
to come, prrh.ips '-Hhouliin't our dia
iiiotuls have names as well as those of
kine- aii'l qtieen ami "
-Vour's ouiflitto have one,"salJ her
hu-liatnl, ipletly. lt would lie auit
ai ie to f i.' i.otv; it's lu the vocative,
you know.'
VVi-il, I mint say I don't believe
any ruau was ever so undisturbed by
the '.--! of sucli a Uiing as that. Arclii
laid, that bt.iLie was worth a thousand
dollars."
T.i-ai'.y, I oiiff!it to be aware of the
fact, tirur, if anyone Is. You have
ofleied to sell it and procure the sum
for my liecissities every time I have
been iuid up since we married. And
if I have .Mildred arrested for this
theft, ai yo i sui:jest. it will ooat an
olbri ihui:Mtl uvtote we are done
with it; f"r he would certainly be
proved innocent, and then a libel suit
would be the next thing m order."
"Hut, Archy, MiMrei can't be proved
innocent. 11 v cau she be. when I
know -.lie took it? Aud there was no
one else to take It." Aud Mrs. Tor
rance pulsed w:t'i suspended cup, her
great woiiiler.hu eyes searching space
for a reply. "It ever auytlunx lay in a
stra i t hue, it :s the evidence agaiust
that Kirl," she continued. "The other
day wi.eu the ruii; fell on the floor she
wat in the r -orn, and she asked Die
what a stone l.ke that was worth, aud
then cave such a sih that 1 said: 1
siippo-e oii think it's wiong for me to
went fl.t'ii) on niv fnwer?' And she
sa.il: '1 vtam't thiukmir of the rinij; I
was onlv tiiink'.tii that jl.000 can do a
treat deal of iiood.' The minx! 'Well,
1 sa.d, i: d. es a (treat deal of good in
looking pielty on my hand.' 'Indeed
it does KA.k beautiful there," said she
she's v. ry particular about her ad
verbs; 1 w:sh she was about her cate
c li.siu "eut a good deed done by a band
is its unst lautiful Jewel, to my
tliuikiiiu' Just hear that! To her
tnistre-sl Are you through? Why,
I've imiy just t-euti."
"Mie is o,u:te a missionary,' said
Mr. Torrame, picking up his news
paper. "Aud the worst of It la, she U
r::t."
".Now, Archibald, don't, for mercy's
wke, fc to readiu." said bis wife. "I
do think the inoitiiiic news might wait
for once. It's nothing but dynamiters
blown,,; up the British Empire and
Arab-) ui.ikuii; mummies of the British
aruiy all abstractions; but my ring is
souie'lin.jf positive, tangible here at
hand."
"I wish it were." said Mr. Torrance.
"And then 1 could be allowed " But
as tie glanced at the lovely creature
oplHwite, with her reproachful brown
er, in wh ch st. xid two tears as big as
the diamond she had lost, her color
going and coining with her breath, as
you ui'lit say, aud the rose-colored
rilbciis of. her luorniiii cap all a Clutter
with htr earnestness, he folded Ids
pl-er and said: "Well, my dear?"
"Well, n.y dear!" mimicked Mrs.
Torrance, in der.sion. "I should say
Ifs aijLo.nj but well when a man
heat Hot a servant insulting actually
iiisiiltini;his wife, and s;iys she's iu
the ri;:ht."
"Now. .1 met, I will submit It to
jour own judgment If that's a fair
interpretation."
"You needn't do anything of the
"urt. It isn't fair to suppose I have
any judgment, ir what 1 say concern
u Mildred perfectly ridiculous co
ncuieti. Who ever heard Mildred for
servant's inimeT"
"Why n,,t Mildred?"
"Why not Gwendoline, then, or
Fredeitonde, or Thusneldar How
'JUid it steal to l e telling Gladys lo
orusk the dun cti" my shoes? And
aiidre.1 is just as bad. It I had my
wy. a.l the cooks should be Noras and
the seemd girls should be Ellens,
" if they came from Kngland, then
""J should Klizts and Mary Anns,
J' U wouldn't sound as if you were
JaK;n1r a liberty w.tn your superiors
j1"11 yur owu name is just plain Jane.
ouirht p, have been Kosamond my-
-'i yOU kllOW. " s:l!.l Mr. T.
thiV ur,h"uh,'rilie. or Kloise, or some
.., ' ', Lut I am sure I have trouble
nouga with these people without
l a tfouidedl with their names. And
mt fib "'' "VOlllA b DIUU
''T . Mrs. Torrance
iun.i ' . . ioirance
meni t.,...:."'.""r"'-u u
amaze.
leve her nnm . tiiUn.i
thl; .l b;iev? i ist plain Marl
.and she t(Hjlt the MlWreil- lf
" Uiy Ulauioinl l .n,,i.i.JH
kud Li , ?. '7,uu,"d 's eyes twinkle.
he pushed his plate away, with a laugh
i. .mm iri'i rsa no lonper.
"IT she took your diamond. Well,
my darling, I am glad you have arrived
at the diamond once more. 1 began to
think It had been lost again. But
don't tell me about the inconsequence
ot a woman's mind. Its workings are
labyrinthine, but the thought always
comes out at the place it went in.
Now, let us be business-like, if we can,
Janet. What makes you think this
pretty Mildred of outs tonk the dia
mond?" "Pretty Mildred! Well, perhaps be
cause she is pretty," said Mrs. Tor
rance, looking like a satirical sparrow.
"Not at all impossible," said her
husband, gravely.
"You don't mean to imply that I
would denounce a person as a thief
because you said sue was pretty?"
cried Mrs. Torrance, half rising to her
feet. "I've as good a mind to leave
the table as ever I had to eat. I
would, if the buckwheat cake J had
come up."
"My dear child!"
"You treat me exactly as If I were
a child," cried the outraged wife.
"What do I care whether my maid is
pretty or not? liein pretty, apparent
ly, doesut keep her bauds fro oi picking
and stealing. I know she stole my
diamoud just as well as if I had seen
her do it."
"But what would she do with it?"
"What a question! As if that ssrt
of person didn't know where to dispose
of things easily and take care of the
proceeds. 1 wouder if Patricia is
never going to send those cakes up"
"How iu the world did our cook
come to be called Patricia?"
"I called her so myself when she
came. Her own name was Hannah, a
combination of sounds I utterly detest
and wasu't going to have ringing in
my ears all the lime. And she is so
tail and erect she justiUes Patricia.
Don't you thluk so?"
All right," said Mr. Torrance,
thinking it best to make no relet eace
to the Noras of a few minutes since.
'But we were speaking of Mildred."
I did think very well of Mildred, I
will confess, before this," said Mrs.
Torrance, with Judicial calmness.
"Sue is educating her sister, who has
a voice such a voice for a church
sineer, when she will have a salary
that will be wealth to them, and give
some lesions, besides. And sue was
wrapped up lu her. Aud I took an
interest in them myself, and gave her a
silk dress to make over andot a new
cloak that I ready didu't need so as to
give her my old oue (aud I saw she had
tha good taste lo take off some of the
trimming), and lots of my old music.
Aud out of ber own wages Mildred has
to hire a room aud a piano and pay for
her lessons, somebody gives ber her
board till she cau pay the debt, aud it
takes every cent Mildred earns; and,
you see. It is quite natural that she
should look about to lind where she
can turn a peuny
"Au fcouest penny," said Mr. Tor
ranrat. 'A girl who La duiuit that for
another is not -me -inat wo -fldTbe likely
lu turn any otner sort ot peuny."
"How you ill love to interrupt me,
Mr. Torrance! It really seems as if
yon couldn't bear the sound of my
voice! I was going ou to say, before
you took the words out of my muth,
that recently this sister of hers has been
advised to take lessons of another mas
ter, who asks all creation, but is really
worth it. And he says lie can make
her voice a fortune to her. And they
have been dreadfully cast down because
they couldn't do it. And now you see
where the diamond comes In. If she
cau get for that stone anything near its
value her sister Mabel can take her
lessons. And her voice is delicious
just perfectly delicious!" exclaimed
Mr?. Torrance, for;ettiug the diamond
again; "Mildred had ber come here and
sing to me. Aud I can't describe It to
you. I never heard a lark nor a night
ingale, but a bo bo I nk isn't a whistle
to it. A flute, a trumpet well, it was
sweet and satisfying aud penetrating as
the odor of some dower, and yet as soft
as the velvet side of the petals of the
flower. An jeis would sing so, maybe,
if there are any. Aud 1 was just car
ried away. I forgot all about her sister
being my maid. 1 cried aud I laughed,
and 1 felt as if I had fouud her. And
now I will solemniy lell you, Archy,
dear " and she bent across the pretty
china service, transfixed him with Ler
radiant eyes "I looked at my ring,
aud I turned it aud turned it, and 1
said to nivself I had had the good of it
ever since Grandfather Do l'eysler
gave it to m, aud everybody kuew I
had it, and my position was preity well
established, diamond riugs or uot, and
when vou were able to allord a real
crown-uo butler you would probably
get me plenty; and lf I sold it now. and
give this poor dear girl the money to
secure ber career, wnat a bless.ng it
would be to her, and what a joy l
should be givii g to the world iu her,
too; for, of course, she wouldn't be
confined to a church choir in that case,
aud if she were, iu what a heavenly
fashion could those tones of heis swim
out over a prayerful audience, and just
take the prayer ou their silvery
strength, and lead it up, up; and any
body w ho is the means producing more
of them, and so brings aowu the price
of prima donna lu the niaiket. is a pub
lic benefactor, lo oe uir, "j ,
1 was just on the point or saying uiau
would speak to you. and it you ap-
.,r..ve-l us I knew VOU WOUld. I WOUld
have 1.000 or thereabouts for them
tJay. when Mrs. Veasey happened in,
aud so, as 1 didu't waut Mrs. easey
to know anything about it, and lie
. . tha wind all out of my sails, 1
Just told Mabel to come again to-day
... .l.tnr. ftll-tll.e III
aud 1 wouiu nave soiudluiuh
sav to her. &.ndso 1 suam-cneu iu.-
Torrauce. taking breath with renewed
vigor, "i shall have to tell her that
her sister has been arrested for a thier,
and she may go sing to her in prison.
Tkat'J what I'll tell Uer, the wicked,
ungrateful girl!"
1Vo i...i.-jii i lr Torrance.
-I don't know how anybody can be
so unfeeling cried bis wife; really
seema as if you were "rMtoi In t-e
troubles of two beggarly glr s base
enough to rob your wife than in your
wife s troubles. Both! "
... e.it.irv is a very harsh term.
Janet, darling, where carelessness nny
CSu: My carelessness
not th..r d.shones.y. When I went to
the washstaud I turned tle , ring on my
linger again, aud there was the stone
K0.u. V . times have I told
you that the careless habit of washing
your hand with your rings o w- -
eViToHnna of the IfOld till
the stones are loosened in the setting.
and drop out without your being
act! How do you know I wasu't going
to take my rings off? You are so ready
to una me at lauitl But I thought at
first the stone must have washed
out"
"So it seems you did wash your hands
with the ring on?" said the turning
worm.
"Yes, I did. There! And I sent
for the plumber immediately, for I
knew if it had washed out that it must
have caught in tbe first trap; aud he
took up the trap, but it wasn't there.
And be said lf he made a real job of It
and went down to the main something,
he might find it there; but I thought
that would cost more than the diamond
itself"
"Wise woman," groaned Mr. Tor
rance. "And so, yon see, I didn't accuse
Mildred iu the tirst place. I searched
and took every precaution. I didn't
think of such a thing till I saw her
standing there tuinlug more colors
than the lady in the lobster "
"Xou don't say that you really Lave
accuaed her?"
"Well, what if I have? I most lose
my diamond that my dear grandfather
gave me when I was married, and that
1 treasure I so, and endure It all in
silence for fear some little hussy's feel
ings will be hurt. My feelings are of
no consequence at all. It isn't to bs
reckoned to my account that I was
ready to give ber tbe diamond and I
love diamonds. I don't think there's
anything so beautiful iu the whole
world. There's no other one thing that
holds so much in so little; I don't mean
money or money value. It is the con
crete essence of sunshine really, ma
terially. Once that identical stone of
mine, ages before man was made, was
nothing but a flood of sunshine, mar
ried to the wet air as It reached one
spot of the earth, and a wonderful
tree sprung from that marriage, and
flourished and flowered and fell, a great
strong marvel of growth that belongs
to those past eous when the earth
itself was but half crystallized oat of
its gases, and that grows now nowhere.
For ihey can't hud any substance now
that can quite produce it. Aud that
made my diamoud by slow concentra
tion. Or else, even if it is not that, it
is the very compression of that aucient
atmosphere, almost all carbon, which
hung over the earth in that Drat mys
tery of chaos. And, at any rate, it Is
of the purest physical perfection known
to-day, and of the simplest chemical
composition. So?"
"My love, how much you know!
You take my breath away. It seems
to me wickeder to have stolen your
diamond than to steal the Koh-i-noorl''
"It is. Tbe Bible says so. Nathan
talked to King David about the ewe
lamb. And that was all the diamond
thai. It would seem so to you. really,
if your head clerk had stolen it, or any
body had stolen it but this pretiy Mil
dred." "But, Janet, you are always so posi
tive." 'How can you say so! What am I
ever positive about? You wouldn't
aae an slim ma aim in nliiiii ill iiT luj
senses. And lf ever 1 saw guilt ou any
"There Is nothing more fallible than
the evidence of your senses."
'-I beg your pardon. I can see as
far, and hear as quickly, and taste as
keenly as any on 9 alive. And for you
to begiu to run down ;my eyes
now perhaps' they're not so bright as
they have been but I never thought
to hear you twitting me of growing old
iu this way, all of a sudden" (trying
hard to swallow her sobs) "because
you're interested iu iu my servant
maid "
'For heaven's sake, Janet, think
what you're saying!"
"I do think what I am saying," she
cned then, in a fury; "aud I say,
whatever the evidence ot my senses
may be. I have every evidence that you
care nothing whatever for my reelings,
and can see me robbed without lifting
your voice, aud and oh, a husband
ought to love his wife, and protect her,
and take her part." And here Mrs.
Janet rose hurriedly and pushed over
her chair aud was rushinz from the
room.
But Mr. Torrance was not to be
outdone by any such sleight of toot,
and bad caught her in his arms before
she reached the door. "And do you
mink " he exclaimed, "that I don't
love you, you abomiuable little mass of
contradictions? Do you suppose I
won't protect you with my life itselP
Do you fancy for a moment that I
won't take your part when you decide
what your part Is?"
"Let me go! let me go, sirl" she ex
claimed; "or else at any rate, let me
find my handkerchiefl" And she
struggled for her handkerchief, that
the kisses her husband gave her might
not be too salt, and pulling it from ber
pocket, something in a great arc and
stream of lustre whirled out with tbe
violently wrenched handkerchief, sailed
through the air like nothing so much
as a flying rainoow, ana ieu mi ner
feet.
It was the lost diamond. .
Mrs. Torrance stopped in the midst
of her tears, blushing, disheveled, dla-
moud-dropped herself, as pretty a sight
as a rosebud in a shower, and held back
her skirts with both hands while she
looked at the shiutng eye there berore
her on the carpet. "The horrid thing!"
she said, "the horrid, unwinking, ac
cusing thing! It is calling me all sorts
of names. I shall never want, to see
it acrain. Only think, if I had de
nounced that poor gin! I'm so glad I
never breathed or it to her. i remem
ber I had on this very gown when Mrs.
Veasey was in. How stupid of juel
Now. I'll take this down to a diamoud
broker to-dav. and Mildred's Mabel
shall have her Sl.UOO worth of lessons.
I dare say she'll sing at our parties oy-and-hy.
She'll be our particular prima
donna., and by that time I shall have
improved Mildred into a companion.
Oh I think you would despise such a
ridiculous, wicked little wife as 1 am!"
she cried, turning to ber husband;
"you ought to have married a sa'nt.
What a good man yon are, Archy!"
-My dear," said Mr. Archy, "life
with any other woman who didn't ar
rai e these little circuses for my morn
iugentertainment would be too stale,
flat, and unprofitable to endure. I
should run away from the saint and
take to the flying trapeze aud you.'
MakinjC Dime From 3-Ceat Pieces.
A detective at Columbus, O'lio, re
cently came into possession ol several
3-cent pieces whioh had been passed as
in.nt Dieces. The modus operandi of
makine seven ceuta on each piece is to
Dlace a dime ou . - v.
piece and by squeezing them in a vise,
flatten tbe 3-cent piece and leave a dim
outline of tbe dime on either side. Tbe
coin, after the defacement, very much
resembles a 10-cent piece which has
seen considerable service.
DEPRAVED
TITE.
APPE-
lieasls That Kcat Odd Thtags
Stomach or the Elephanr, Qaw -
and OHtricb.
v;-.
"It is truly astoulshlng what curious
things are found iu the stomachs of
elephants," said Superintendent Oonk
lin, of the Central Park menagerie, as
he read the story from Bridgeport
about tbe finding of an ivory idol and
other curiosities in the stomach, of
elephants that were killed in the J9 at
Barnum's winter quarters. "I doubt
very much about tbe idol being found,
but as to the knives, pieces ot lead
pipe and tha coins, that is quite Com
mon, f-
"I had an elephant here, and when
he died there was a) least f 10 woroh of
coins found in his stomach. - Some of
tbe coins were English pennies, tfiree
penny pieces; some were German "Cuius
and others were the coins of various
European countries, and Chinese
coins were also found.
"Another elephant we had here was
crazy for hats. The boys had great
fun throwing each other's hats into
the inclosure. Tbe elephant would
just put out his trunk aud in a twink
ling the hat was gone. One day a
gentleman's silk hat Mew off. The
elephant picked it up and disposed of
it as quickly as be did of the straw
bats ot the children.
"It seems that tbe elephant's stom
ach will take anything. Anything but
metal seems to pas3 away without caus
ing the animal any pain, but It apfiears
that the gastric juices only tend to
oxydize coins and the like, 'and they
remain iu the beast's stomach until
death.
"Cows are the only other animals
that have a faucy for disposing of lor
el in substance that may pass down the
luroat.
"I should judge the elephant's tast
ing powers are limited, because he
gobbles up everything that is offered
him.
"The ostrich is just about as careless
of what he swallows as the elephant.
He takes lu anything be can catch, and
more curious things Iiave been found in
the stomach of the biped than that of
the quadruped."
Charles Iteiche. the dealer In ani
mals, not only corroborated Mr. Conk
lin's experiences, but related some of
his own experieuces in that lice.
"Oice we had au elephant," he said,
"mat took iart iu the first Flatt
deutsche Volksfest ever held. Out at
tbe park we bad the animal on exhibi
tion. A lady held out her pocketbeole,
and the elephant took it la his trunk,
and before the woman could realize
what a foolish thing she had done the
purse was safely stowed under the ribs
of the toig brute. I had to give ber
twenty-live cents to go home with.
"if a man held out a loaded pistol
that elephant would have swallowed t
lt. Another time one at the keners
sTonrr.s op
left his lunch for a secondhand laid his !mnt to the captain of tbe boat, se
open jack knirarTrXTli -iurs1 our traporavatlon, and.lliinrl4y
emtTCjacTt kmte and everyitio eUa HlV
once disappeared down the elcphaut'a
throat, and be never seemed: to suf
fer from it. Elephauts must have ar
mor plated stomaehs, for they take in
everything from a lady's hairpin to a
wooden image."
"Then you believe the sacred ele
phant swallowed the idol as reported?"
"I certainly do. The sacred elephant
would just as soon pick up a stray god
as be would a banana or orange."
A Wicked Kl.-pliaiit.
"During the time I was with Fore
paugh's circus," says James Twitchell,
Buffalo Bill's late manager of the
London "Wild West Show," "I took
part in some exibitions that were uot
down ou the bills. One in particular 1
shall not be likely to forget. The show
disbanded at Chicago; Bamboo, the
trick elephant, was leased to the Kl
ralfy brothers, who were about to
opeu their season in Boston. Bamboo
had established a name Tor himself as
a savage, treacherous brute, who bad
killed and maimed at least a dozen
men. He had a keeper woo was in
tbe habit of becoming and remaining
drunk. I hadn't much idea of the
dangerous character of tbe journey
until we were perhaps a hundred miles
out of Chicago. The bottom of the
car was thickly littered with hay, in
which Bamboo, the keeper aud myself
were to sleep together. Tbe keeper's
bottle was one of my earliest discov
eries and discouragements. Tbe nov
elty of the situation kept me awake
pretty much all the first night out.
and it was with some dismay that I
discovered that the keeper was hope
lessly drunk, snoring in the bay.
That I would uot have minded had
Bamboo only kept quiet. But he
didn't and wouldn't, and that first
night, before I bad become in the least
accustomed to the situation.it was sim
ply a night of horrors. In tbe still
hours of that night, with the train rush
ing along at the rate of thirty miles an
hour, 1 would at short intervals hear a
muffled snort from the monster at the
other end of the car, aud theu feel a
gigantic foot shoving against me, or
the end ot his trunk i-assing inquisi
tively over my face. Then 1 would
jump up and yell to the keeper, with
energetic kicks to emphasize my re
marks.
"'Here, you wake up! That in
fernal elephant is going te trample us
to death!'
'The drunken keeper would get to
his feet, swear, give Bamboo an un
merciful prodding with bis fork, tbe
great brute would lie down and cry,
and we would have peace.
"This scene, with variations, is
what happened all the way from Chi
cago to New York. I wasu't trampled
to death by the elephant; why I was
not 1 do not know.
"About daylight we were in tbe vi
cinity of Erie, Penna. Here Bamboo
took cognizance of his surroundings in
a disagreeable way. Elephant cars,
be It understood, are specially built and
fitted for the transportation of these
brutes, and the car in which we firet
embarked was not ot this kind.. It
was not high enough nor strong
enough. When the vicious brute had
thoroughly satisfied himself of these
facts, he rose up out of the hay, arched
his ugly back, and burst the whole top
of the car out.
'We stopped at Erie. There was
loud swearing and clamor by the rail
road men for compensation for tbe
damage. I told them tfe bend their
bill to the Kiralfys, and, in the mean
time, lf they didut waut the elephant
on their hands to take care of, they had
better help me to get him to Boston as
fast as possible. They took a look at
Bamboo, observed his vicious eye. and
said they guessed that was so.
, "We arrived at Buffalo. A necessity
ot the trip was a change of cars at this
point. The elephant hail been well
fed and well watered, and might have
had the decency to benave himself.
The keeper got him out of the wrecked
car iu good sbupe and started him for
his new quarters in the waiting train.
A great pile ot blackberry crates was
near but not at all iu the way. May I
be blamed if that devilish brute didn't
make for them and destroy twenty-four
full crates before the keeper could re
strain him.
"Well, everyboody knows the law
about elephants and other wild beasts,
I had to settle for the blackberries on
the spot, aud a large hole it made in
my J0.
"The most dangerous. and laborious
Incident of our trip would not have
happened but for the fact that when
the keeper was sober be would smoke
a pipe. His smoking set the hay afire
near Syracuse, and before it was dis
covered tbe car was filled with smoke,
the elephant was -snorting and trum
peting, and we couldn't stamp out the
fiie.
"We had two buckets. I rushed with
them through tbe baggage car over
the tender, got the fireman in the cab
to fill them, and ran back with them
to onr car. This feat, half a dozen
times repeated, with the train going at
express speed, was no small task. The
keeper took the pails at the door of our
car aud doused the burning hay with
the water. Simple business, you
would say, to put out such a fire that
way. So it would have been but for
that elephant. He came near getting
us and himself burned up together; for
about every second be would swing his
trunk around, overset tse pails and
spill the water anywhere but on tbe
tire. I have heard something of the in
telligence of the elephant; this fellow
was In a panic until we got that tire
out.
"One Sunday morning we unloaded
at the Grand Central Station in New
York, and getting into Broadway,
marched triumphantly down. Of my
$60 I had left $1.50. Bamboo had
eaten up and destroyed more than $-30
worth. The keeper was gloriously
drunk, but we bad passed the larger
part of the journey, we had but one
Btage more, and 1 had high hopes of
getting into Boston Tuesday morning,
at the furthest.
"With much trouble we got the
brute quartered in a barn on Crosby
street. We slept with him, and ate
cold junk for twenty-four hours.
Wheu we marched aboard the sound
steamer with Bamboo the next day
my $1.50 was gone, and tbe keeper and
I had left our coats as security for the
elephant's board. Yet I presume the
crowd on the steamer thought it the
correct thing for gentlemen iu care of
an elephant to appear in their shirt
sleeves. So our dignity was maintained.
The name of Klralfy, aided, I be
"3 iciegiaui uwu iueuiauaBc-
l'4
Bamboo was reserving his master
stroke for the fiulsh. Iu the streets
of Boston we met a car. Tbe elephant
deliberately killed the horse with one
blow of his trunk; the car was over
turned ; the passengers fainted.screamed
and ran; a short parley was held with
the police, which resulted iu a final
triumphant procession to the Kiralfy
barn. First, a very long distance
ahead, walked a squad of police; next
came Bamboo, his keeper and business
manager; next, at a respectful distance
in the rear, a dozen reimrters; last, sev
eral thousand of the miscellaneous
population of Boston anxious to do us
honor."
Old Son! lirn Homes.
A great many of the plantations in
different parts of the South, which
were once well known for their size,
the magnificence of the residences upon
them, the hospitality of their owners or
on account of tbe prominence of the
families which possessed them, are now
falling into ruins. The reason of this
is, perhaps, that the land has been
worked so long without being fertilized
that it has become poor, or it may be
that those Into whose possession it has
passed lack tbe energy and skill which
are required to make it pay under the
present system ot labor. One of these
famous old places, in Liberty County,
was lately sold to a colored man for
$2,500, only a part ot tbe purchase
being required at once. It is known as
Laurel View, and is within two miles
of the historic town of Sunbury. It
was the home of tbe gifted John Elli
o't, and a very beautiful home it was.
John Elliott represented Georgia in the
United States Senate from 1S20 to
1826.
The plantation contains 2.S0O acres.
It was purchased during the war of
secession by Lion Stephens, a brother
of Alexander II. Stephens, and was
sold to the present owner by his heirs.
The district in which tbe plantation
is situated was noted, from the first set
tlement of tbe State until tbe emanci
pation of the slaves, for the Intelligence
and wealth of its citizens. It Is now,
however, almost wholly abandoned lo
the colored people. Its great planta
tions have been divided Into small
farms, and the superb mausions, once
tbe homes of men noted for wealth and
culture, and of womeu famous for
beauty and refinement, are failing into
decay, and are being replaced by cabins
and huts, whose chimneys of sticks and
mud tell more plainly than words of
tbe marvelous change for the worse
which has taken place In the once rich
and prosperous district.
The Anti-Slang Society.
A larce number of Chicago girls met
one evening last week for tbe purpose
ot forming a 'Ladies' Anti-sling
Society." The meeting was called to
order, and MUs Sadie De lork elected
president. Before taking ber seat ahe
said in a clear, calm, welt-modulated
voice: 'Really, girls, I'm too badly
rattled by the honor conferred upon
me to give you much ot my guff. It's
tbe first time I ever tumbled to any
thing of this sort, and I hardly know
Just how to catch on. However, I'll
try to be sufficiently up to snuff not to
let any flies light on me whlledoing the
president of this society act. I'm with
you in this move, and don't any of you
forget it. All over our laud slang
words and phrases are multiplying like
flies in sorghum time, aud it is out
duty to help knock this crying evil as
silly as possible. Let our motto be
"Shoot the Slanglst."
The first boat built especially to
sail for the America's cup was the
Livonia, owned by Mr. Asbury.
Baatea by Columbia and Sappho, in
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THE BKAl'TV DOCTOR.
.fe GIvek Valuable Prescriptions for
Pretty Women.
An Arab poet tells us that a beauti
ful woman should have four things:
Black Hair, eyebrows, " eyelashes
and pupil.
White Skin, teeth and globe ot the
eye.
Ued Tonzue, lips, gums, cheeks.
Bound Head, neck, arms, ankles,
waist.
Long Back, fingers, arms, limbs.
Large Forehead, eyes, lips.
Narrow Eyebrows, nose, lips.
Plosby Cheeks, limbs.
Small Ears, bust, hands, feet.
We will cot discuss the taste of this
Arab poet, but I may remark that all
the white, red, round aud fleshy at
tributes required to form his plea of
beauty are purely and simply the re
flection of physical health. Health
alone can give youth, freshness and
radiancy to U.e complexion, aud bril
liancy to the eyes and an attractive ex
pression to the whole face. Ill-health,
on the contrary, dries and discolors the
skin, produces wrinkles, makes the
face yellow and spoils the color of the
teeth, hair and nails. Tbe celebrated
Dr. von Feucutersleben says that
"health is nothing but beauty m the
functions ot life."
A French author (Ualzic) once called
ugliness "a grief which lasted a life
time." But he did not often know the
all-powerful force of hygiene in the
cultivation aud preservation of physical
beauty. What is, perhaps, the greatest
attribute of beauty is a beautiful skin.
The skin should be white, smooth, soft
and fresh-colored. A beautiful skm
aloue Is often suflicieut to make a wo
man beautiful. And here again hygiene
steps in, for without health a beautiful
skin is impossible. Le Camus, the au
thor of that curious old book, "Ab
deker," says: "The most regular
beauty could never charm me lf fresh
ness, purity and brilliancy of com
plexion did not enliven it by adding
the radiancy of youth aud health." In
fact the complexion is to beauty what
springtime is to nature what the
bloom is to the each what the varied
tints are to the wirgs of the butterfly.
But as the smallest cloud cau darken a
spring morning, as the contact with
another object cau remove the bloom
of the peach, and a touch can spoil the
beauty of a butterfly's wing, so the
slightest derangement, either of mind
or body, darkens and troubles the com
plexion, and without constant care this
freshuess and this purity which makes
the power of beauty becomes like a
faded flower. The preservation and
cultivation of a beautiful skin is, there
lore, oue of our tirst duties.
Let me warn all ladies from wishing
to apiear different to what nature has
made them; that is, let no lady who
has beautiful dark hair attempt to aye
it yellow, just because It is yellow hair,
and dark-haired ladies are quite as
much admired as fair ladies. Nay,
shall I tell you a secret, ladles? Slalis
Wes tell us that more tlark-ha'red wo-
nii marry than ialr-haiodrwomefir
Beauty is not molded In one torm, it u
varied as the leaves on a tree, and nc
two types are exactly alike.
A Skipper With a Charmed Lire.
There is a eatior on Lake Michigan
who seems to bear a charmed Jile.
When the fury of the gale is at us
highest and the waves are swaying in a
way that threatens to engulf every
craft uku them, he is in his element.
He sails alone iu a little sloop not
thirty feet long, trading potatoes and
apples between Sturgeon Bay aud Man
itowoc. He was out iu the terrible
storm that foundered the propeller
Vernon, and came into port iu the
midst of it. He had been out iu a hun
dred storms before, aud he lived
through them in his little shell when
staunch schooners went to pieces, but
he declared that lie bad never been out
in such a gale. People who witnessed
his coming into the straight-cut at
Manitowoc say that the sloop was
tossed about like a chip. It would dis
appear entirely aud then bob up again,
until dropjied from view between the
next two waves. The old man he ie
seventy years of age was mighty glad
to get into port.
"I wouldn't have given halt a dollar
for my chances of living twenty-four
hours,"he said to the throng of curious
eople who crowded around him when
be reached the dock, just above "the
iron bridge." "When that storm broke
I grabbed the rudder, held on as hard
as I could, aud trusted iu Providence.
1 expected to be washed overboard
every minute, I can tell you."
Nobody knows who the Old man is.
Apparently, he has neither kith nor
kin. He lives solitary and alone. He
bothers his head about nobody, and no
body about him. When an inquisitive
person asks his name he replies that it
is the same as that of his boat, and
when a person looks for it he finds the
boat goes without a name. Though
three score years and ten, the old man
looks a "laiil in health, as he is in
stature. His tuddy face and red nose
contrast oddly with his gray beard and
hair.
How luslimtmcn Sleep.
The question has often been asked,
"When do tugboutmen sleep?" In
point of fact, so far as disrobing and
lying down lu bed, nothing of that
kind ever occurs to their experience;
but still they manage to obtain a full
and, in fact, liberal allowance of slum
ber, because they have trained them
selves to lie down at any time and in
any shape, where the temperature is
hih enough, without any formality of
divesting themselves of clotbiug, and
at once dropping off to sleep for an
hour or as much more as is possible. In
this way, it may be confidently asserted,
twelve out of each twenty-four hours
of a tugboatman's life may be devoted
to slumber if he so chooses, and is, in
deed, generally spent in this manner.
A Curious Combination, in Ya.-ne.
"What's In a name?" has been a
question suilicieutly unanswered for
centuries to still remain a subject for
discussion, aud what is in two names
should have a double interest. If you
don't think so, take two names as well
knowu as any in American history and
look at them. They are Lincoln and
Hamlin. Nothing peculiar about them
as they stand, but set them up differ
ently and see what they are: For in
stance: HAM LIN
LIN COLN
Head up and down and theu across.
There's something In that, isn't there?
.now, again:
abi;a-hamli n-coln
i Cau you find two other names of two
other men whose oQicial lives and
uhoie moies con) bine as these do?
HEAVY GAS BILL.
A Case of LonC Meter In the Archie
piscopal Palace in Su Louis.
"Tha heaviest gas bill ever paid by
one private customer, for gas furnished
at his residence, "was one paid a
short time ago by Archbishop Ken
rick. How big do you suppose it
was?"
I conldnt imagine."
"Something over 8780."
"For gas used at his house?"
"Yes, sir."
"How did it happen? Was it illumi
nating fcr the President aud Mrs.
Cleveland."
"No, It was a case of lost meter.
You see, each year the records are gone
over and brought into a new book,
and it sometimes happens, through tbe
carelessness of a clerk or for some
other reason, that the transfer to the
new book is not properly made. Tbe
list of meters in each district is made
up and given to the Inspectors, and of
course, if a house number does not ap
peer in tbe Inspectors book he does not
go Into the house so investigate. The
only thing that there is to go on is the
list. He can't go behind tbe returns.
Well, as I am telling you, the meter In
the Archbishop's house was not prop
erly entered, and we knew nothing at
all about it uutil one day one of the
members of his family came down and
lodged complaint about the working of
the gts in the house. We looked the
matter up, aud it did not appear that
his Grace had any gas or was using
any meter. There was nothing on the
books to show it. We turned back to
last year, and there was nothing there:
to tbe year before, and there was
nothing there; and so the chase was
kept up all the way back to 1378, when
it was evident what sort of a mistake
bad been made. Gas had been burning
for ten years In the bouse and we had
knowu nothing about it. The meter
had ground itself completely out, so
that it could give us no consolation
whatever. The matter was brought to
the Archbishop's attention, and he at
once wrote to the office and told us to
make out a bill for whatever might be
the proper amount. It was rather a
difficult bill ta make out, and the only
way wo could get at it was to take the
average of the monthly bills rendered
at the bouse for the last two years of
which we bad record and compute the
amount due Ui that way. it amoun
ted, as I said, to something over $780.
His Grace sent in a check the next
day, thus having the honor and pleas
ure of paying the largest individual gas
bill on record. Of course, part of the
gas was charged for on the old basis of
$2.50, and part on the new."
An Infidel's View of Dratli.
Mrs. Ida Whiting Knowles, wife ot
the Hon. Howard Knowles. late
United States collector at Peoria, 111.,
died In New York ou December 15.
She was an estimable woman, and
leaves- wide circle of friends to mourn
her early death.
Before her remains were sent to ti e
West Colonel Uobert G. Ingersoll de
livered the following tribute to her
memory.
"My Friends: Again we stand In
the shadow of the great mystery a
shadow as deep and dark as wheu the
tears of the first mother fell upon the
pallid face of her lifeless babe a
mystery that has never yet been solved.
We have met in the presence of the
sacred dead to speak a word of praise,
of hope, of consolation. Another lile
of love is now a blessed memory a
lingering strain of music. The loving
daughter, ti e pure and consecrated
wife, the sincere friend, who with ten
der faithfulness discharged the duties
of life, has reached her journey's
end.
"A braver, a more serene, a more
chivalric spirit clasping the loved and
by them clasped never passed from
life to enrich the realm of death. No
field of war ever witnessed greater for
titude, more perfect, smiling courage
than this poor, weak and helpless
woman displayed upon the bed of pam
and death. Her life was gentle and
her death sublime. She loved the good
and all the good loved her. But there
is this consolation: She can sever suf
fer more; she can never feel again the
chill of death; never part again from
those she loved. Her heart can break
no more. She has shed her last fear,
and upon her stainless brow has been
set the wonderful seal of everlasting
peace.
"When the angel of death the
masked and voiceless enters the door
of home. there come with her all the
daughters ot eompassiou and of these
love and hope remain forever.
"You are about to take the dear dust
home to the home of her girlhoid,
and to the place that was once my
home. You will lay her where my
father sleeps.
"All I can say is:
Lay her In the earth.
Aud from ber fair aaJ unto:n'el fieiiti
Let violet spring.
I never knew, I never met a braver
spirit than the one that once inhabited
the silent form of dreamless clay. '
How a Detroit Kilcbru Iiatty A-i ni.
islied a Book Atom.
"Madame," he began as the door
opened, "I am selling a new book on
etiquette and deportment."
"Oh, you arel" she responded. "Go
down there on the grass and clean the
.mud off your feet."
"Yes'm. As I was saying, ma'am,
I am sel "
"Takeoff your hat! Never address
a lady at her door without removing
your hat."
'Yes'm. Now, then, as I was say
ing "
' "Take your bands out of your
pockets! No gentleman ever carries
bis hands there."
"Yes'm. Now, ma'am, this work
on eti "
"Throw out your cud. If a gentle
man uses tobacco, he is careful not to
disgust others by the habit."
"Yes'm. Now, ma'am, in calling
your attention to this valuable "
"WaitI Put that dirty handkerchief
out of sight and use less grease on your
hair. Now you look half decent. You
have a book on etiquette and deiort-ment-
Very well, 1 dont want it. I
am only tbe hired girL You can come
in, however, and talk with the lady of
the house. She called me a liar this
mornlu', aud I think she needs some
thing of the kind."
While a well was being dug on the
farm of Andrew Sisson, near Swan
Creek, I1L, the workmen dug up a pet
rified orange. It was found over forty
feet below the surface.
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Silk dresses were first worn in 1435.
Tbe first copper coin was coined in
New Haven in 1067.
The eggs of the silk worm were
first brought Into Europe in 537.
Boston, Mass., was the first city in
the country to establish free baths.
The Cist paper mill established in
New England, was at Milton. Mass.,
in 1730.
A peculiar feature in an oak tree
at Vernon, Alabama, is that the upper
half is perfectly yellow, and has been
so since it sprouted.
The first iron boat is said to have
been built iu 1777, on the river Foss,
iu Yoiksliiie. It was fifteen feet long
and made of sheet iron.
A vicious wo'.f, which for several
yeais had piowled around Branford,
Fla., to the teiror of the villagers,
was recently killed by a lucky sports
man, who received 10 from the town
as a reward.
Oa Jenny Lind '.s coffin was placed
by Mr. Gold:chiiidt a wreath of myrtle
n-ade from a tree planted years ago by
the great singer liP! ?elf, in the shape of
a tiny twig plucked from her wedding
wreath.
Nobody ever heard of a French or
German puyihst. The Germans and
French can become good fencers, but
when it comes down to fist lighting
they have no lieatt, or, as we say in
sporting circles, no bottom.
Ben l-'ninklin was the tirst to sug
pest that ships carry oil to pour ou
the louli water, lie also advised ship
builders to seiwrate the ship's hold into
water tilit compartments. These two
simple devices have saved many a
Klnp.
The inscriptions on the coinage of
Belgium have hitherto been in French,
the ofliicial language, but on the coins
most receutly struck the Flemish lan
guage is used. This U held to be an
other straw showing the decadence of
French supremacy in Europe.
L'ntil th? Fifteenth century no
Christians were allowed to receive In
terest ou money, and Jews were the
only usurers, and tnerefore olten ban
ished and persecuted. In England,
under Edward VI., interest was ior
bldden entirely from religious motives.
The aggregate number or troops
furnished the Federal side for all pe
riods of service was 2,853,132. de
duced to a uniform three years' stand
aid, the whole number enlisted
amounted to 2,320,272. The number
ou the Conlederate side was, it is said,
about 000,000 men..
The French claim to be the Ro
mans, and almost everything they
undertake to do they refer to a Kom&n
precedent. Glory is one of these things.
The English dwell upon the Idea of
power. The Frenchmau has no partic
ular care for power, unless It brings
him action, admiration and artistic
tribute.
One of the largest lumps of coal
river mined In the Mouongahela
Valley, was taken out of J. S. N eel's
Cincinnati mines recently. The block
is seven feet eight inches long, three
feet five inches liirh and three feet
seven inches wide. Atemjiorary track
was laitl to the river and the big piece
of coal was placed on a boot aud
shipped to Cincinnati.
In a bundle of old i:ieis discov
ered in Porllaud, Me., is au extra Issue
by the Eastern Arus, announcing the
news of General Jackson's victory at
New Orleans. The victory was won
on January 8, 1SI5. This bulletin was
issued ou February M, It took a
Mionth for the news to reach Portland.
Another of the new diseases which
follow in the wake of civilization has
been reported from Berlin, where two
telegraph ojierators have been affected.
The CnKer nails have fallen out. one
after another, though the jiersous have
been otherwise in good health. The
ziirlous affection is ascribed to th
3oustaut jar and pressure on the fln
ifers produced by workli g the Morse
sey.
Young men clal iu the garments
formerly worn by students have been
numerous in the streets of Osaka, Ja
pan, lately. They lecture iu out of the
way comers, aud even in crowded
streets when no constable is at hand,
upon political subjects, and frequently
urge the doctrine that "official salaries
are the life-blood of the -ople."
A two-headed calf was born in
Duluth recenntly. The heads are tier-
ftctlly distinct and of ordinary size,
and are connected at the ears. It has
two ears, lour eyes, and two mouths,
ai.d takes nourishment in both
mouths. The ralf is perfectly natural
in every resect and healthy, but not
strong enousu in the neck to 8upxirt
'.wo heads.
Several silver coins bearing the
date of ls ld, have been fouud on the
shore at Ipsw'nich Neck, Mass. Soon
after an army of tieasure hunters,
equipped with spade", hoes and rakes,
invaded the spot. The ground was
thoioug'ily ovei hauled, but only a few
hinges v.jie found. It is told that a
Spanish ship wsnt ashore there in 1)145,
with a quantity of coiu on board,
which tradition 1,2; v.as never recov
ered. The Krtipp ku;i estublshment em
braces, in addition to the hue concern
at Essen, works at Ncuweld and Sage,
in Germany, and enormous iron mines
at Balboa, Spain. The lirni possesses,
moreover, four large aud splendid
steamships, twenty-nine locomotive
engines, eighty miles of railway, ninety
miles of telejrrapb, bl-J railway cars,
430 steam boilers, 450 straui engines,
supplying a total of l'J.OiJiJ horse pjwer,
and which consumes daily 3,lfij tons
of coal and coke.
An American prentleman who has
recently traveled through Japan, says
that tbe Japanese will iu a few years
be the greatest railroad builders of
the world. As yet there nre only 370
miles of railroad in Japan, but many
roads are projected. The Japane.- are
good railroad patrons; for even when
they have no business to transact they
will ride back and forth ou the rail
road until they have spent their last
cent. And the bepgars in the Iarite
towns nearly always epend the money
which they get ou a railroad trip.
Two small boys of Kowley, Mass.,
have been making money by catching
eels there frosty evenings. Armed
with a lantern and a pole tiny sought
tbe shallow brooks that cuip. y into
the creek there. Oue boy wiin tha
X)Ie prodded t'.e si-iea of the brook
thoroughly as he moved up-stream.
The other boy, w.th the lantern, stand
ing some yards above, crouched low
over the water and grabbed the eels
which, driven out by the pole, swam
op toward the light.
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