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I :i:n w-.:y "t tte." itaid tha ttM. Al. l'i-."- I" look oirr th. wall; I .-I Hi" canlrn cloaa, ,.f I i-U .11. .1 th. and alL i- i iii-k.il win a rriiHM am I la. .A t:;- l-MilTitut ilmiirt went bj, f,, ;,r. .ii 1-r im-li a t.i!- Ami lu "'" to dia. -I vn .-'I of Hi- tr.i-," !:iU tlia birj, -lit ti.- iiit in.. I Hi" wind and tb rain; Of " - " " " rii. I hay. urard, A' .1 wtrl-i.-.l uain and aain." U i-i.i In. m t::T iiu.l tlia atara, lu .i ii- i-uvjw thin. An. I I l".i ---.t h: l.reait on tlia ban. An. I 1 w tl a broken niu. "I w. i l ' t.. ill" w:ir." tho hoy 1 am n . -irv nt ciovr in b.ouui; lu T! r ill ot U.e l'iltt i. joy, Ai.1 1 -'-I' l " lre and ilura," lu tl.- t.-. !i. .1 tiiw cauiiott leil; T . :!. w.iil t.i'tliw woiin.leil, the moan in tl... dtitic, and over tnn dead. He tuoillii.'d the tr. of a throue. F .r t!ir sou! i-t a thins that grows, 'll.o H-'iii i-t a ilcathieMa tlaiue, u t e kin. and the bird, and the roe, !; rmr tlieoiiM an. I tho name. It t. .-ii 1" rn t a beam nl tiie un, t r.uii ti.e hf.irt of the bkisaotu it Kiaseil. In rl.e I'irit. itii't tin. boy where it woli r. il. i'ii u and j. lory at la.it. THK SNAKi: LHAllMEi;. I Jou't v.reten.l t j iiccount tot It, you know, or oiler any excuse, such 3 iiilicieiit UiH.hiei-3, or taiiit in thd blood, but I sin,p!y i4j- as i -ouIi tLut 1 Lave a lock oC ray hair in a bald I'ia.-e on tuy lieu.l uikI a mole on my tit-ck that. 1 am irresiatably drawn towunl troiical Miakes and have a leaning iu the direction of fakirs and smurVia. My fricml Haicourt Is as Ui.icii ilr.iwn the ott er way, but 1 ir 1 had no notion of the probable effect on him the day I drew him into a little crusi street or court, where a number o" very fat, well-preserved boas were lolling in the olnscurity of a tiara Kia.si c.ue on a pile of semi-white blaiikelJ. Karcourt, souiethlnij ot a dreamer (jrm'r.illy, followed tue in my search, lii.'s ntu-r wonder, aa amiable an a coliie, with only au understanding In a tar it suit of way tliat I was not to introduce bun to women who would r.iticy It an lucumbant beuevoleace to nii'.l liUn out and make him talk. I hardly think lie knew where we were until I forcibly plucked him out of the unrestricted glare of July day t the eauilily papered pa-sage way to the milneliin. H.ircourt, I have lovely siclmeus to show you mottled boas and cobras, ami .1:1 iiwfnUy swell kind of a snake channel' di-ne up lu the true Oiienlal ttiuisii-s red coif, brac-leta of seiiuins, bate ankles, and ail that. The it. jail la a snake you should know. L'pou ui I.fe, 1 think lu begiad to know Uie. " With the best Intentions in the world, I pave Ilurcourt a little push, au.l lie stumbled against the ciitfe with a dull thump 011 thegl.iss, which routed "lUjah, and, reariUii ins head Tery sensillv, he uae.1 Hraijjht into our . "it. .v-f V n 1 a . - Could ever ivci me, lny trieud slirauk back and emed suddenly bereft of his W. I steadied him up, aud really thought on the moment that the minis terial ll.ueouit had imbibed an extra )t!ass of some spirited American drink, lie asked me to take him lu the air. He was pitiably weak and as ghostly as it he hail seen his raudmother's ghost in a camera obscura. The strong, rollicking breeze Irmilit hlni round, aud almost quite Lim-. lf I.e led the way to one ot the wayside purks so refieshiu?ly frequent lu the lari;e cities of this country. lie l.il.l his hut 011 the park seat and nervously wiped his forehead, while I tried to entice a pineou lrom the pravel without plum cake, seeming not to Uotice his strange agitation. He reverted to the affair uppermost lu my mind himself in his painful straightforward way: "lion't laugh, Mrahau, when I tell yon that I am tne slave to an all per vading dominant horror. I cannot look ut snakes, although once I reaily believed that .Nature intended to In spire admiration in iuakiup; a brown au.l green bo.c And women ot the tropics were once my adoration, with their brown velvety skins, black eyes and (rraceful movements." lie shud dered. 'Now I can never see the one with out being reminded of the other. In fact, I think there has been a sort of ympathy between women aud snakes siuce the conquest of live by the ser pvui. Holh are fascinating. The ser pent fastens you with its Raze like a woman; the woman stinss you to death like the snake. I-et me tell you my tory. Terhaps then you may find au excuse for me, and tolerance of some thinit that is not superstitious, heaven knowsl" 1 cuui.l not think of anything to say, 40 I said Lothino;. llurcuurt, as 1 explained, was pain fully direct. 1 do not like verbiage, but I shun a man generally who dives lieatllonff into a thins? aud drazs you with him. Vet, I I ked Ilarcourt, as we sometimes do a chap who we fancy has suffered his full measure, "There are pages in my life, Strahan, which you do not know; but you do know that I was an officer lu one of her Majesty's Foot Guards in India, and that I sold my commission on account of fever to Ue Land, of the Iiawk hurst Illues, and left before my time. I was a wild fellow in those days. A few hours before my departure, while retuml:;g from a tiger-huut in which I and my followers were shamefully out witted, I ran across the tent of a snake charmer a villainously dirty old Hin doo, who with horrible yells and im precations made the twilight hideous by cudgeling his dauzhter. as he swore aba was, while she asseverated with lifted arm to Allali,' that she was Jinply his slave. I interfered. Of wurae. ye had a free tight, leaving "j old fakir hora iV combat, and I bore of the child Zobeide one of the love liest creatures even then that I had "er seen, and as wild as a hawk. "It wa. lucky that I had been fully Prepared to leave the company. As it u'e boy 0f my mess begged me to bave nothing to do with l'arsee, llln- r Arulj womeu. to leave this dark Jea houri behiud. Jieeinj me obdu . Cat uin Bellamv said: 'Do as ou wl!1 iiarcoart, but you 7 legret the dav you dij so foolish a . D' Kmdly remember that I warned you.' "And how orteu I have! Jlut then It was with a r'ow of w tflUtlon I admitted to myself the U!I,0!ier;,um of anythinir o en wnteu aillj SJ i;uitlful M Zobeide. rrLWM as Vicious to my senses a a Pomegranate bl.wsom, and was rrati teraeif. I'oor, starved, unloved little) thing! Sba twined about me like a vine. Again that convulsive shudder. You recuanize the old routln the manner of disposing of such cases? My maiden aunt considered It scandal ous, but consented to chaperone my protege. Into ber hands I gave Zo beide for a vear stipulating that she be taught all Christian graces. And 0 I left her to tapestries, French verbs, and the piano. "I confess I thought very little about her. The only lire betweem me and my estates was severed by the death, while hunting, of my cousin, the young Earl of Favisham, and I was brought to realize my position by my solicitor. 1 could give my wire a position which would seem desirable in English eyes; I entertained some extravagant notions about the new life at the hail and the new Lady Faviaham whom I would introduce to my people. The most dazzling beauty on the walls of the old picture gallery would. I felt, pale beside the charms of the last Lady Harcourt. Countess of Favisham. "Vet how shall I describe my first meeting with her? I heard her light foot In the corridor, and the rustle of her silken gown. The morning sun shine flooded the room, the odor of roses from their tall green vases for a moment turned me faint. Was it a fancy that the old musty Incense of the jungle where the boa lies colled entered the room with her, emitted by her white garments. "She glided toward me, scarcely making a sound, and my senses seemed bound by a spell. "There was no forbidding airs of hauteur. She coiled ber arms about me. and slid her dusky cheek along until it lay against mice; yet it was cool. "I was very nearly overcome when my aunt entered the room, bringing a current ot fresh air with her. 'Is she not lovely, yo'ir little Indian savage?" pointing to Zobeide, who seemed to drift not walk over the floor to the piano, from which she evoked such quaint minor chords that I begged her to come and talk to me Instead of play ing. "From that bour my soul passed out of my body to the keeping vt this girl. She spoke to me caressingly, soothingly, as a child. When wearied of my crav ings for her kisses and caresses, she would shut herself up for hours in ber apartments, or would gallop away over the downs on her black horse Sehm, an Arabian I had given her. "We were married in Loudon one day, and began life In an irresponsible. un-English way, as my aunt had said. But we were always together. If we gave no balls, that was a mere matter ot taste. I had once had a passion for such diversions, but It had died in me, as had most passions except for my child-wife. Zobeide seemed to revel In the county ball at first, and to gloat od the homaze and admiration she received, but very aoon she tired of that sort of thing, and even of her rides with Selim, the gieat splendid rooms, the library and the picture gal lery, the lakes, the swans, and the l --.t. . J . I I . earning ghostly in the mooniignr. "She bad weaiied ot the homage of men and the envious amazement of women, awe-struck by ber beauty long ago. She locked herself up more ofteu iu ber own wing, and always laughing ly refused to admit me. I cannot see why I did not marvel at this, but this was no more strange than that I gave up hunting, which had been a passion ate fancy of miue before. Aiy aunt had laid her band on my brow, saying: "llow changed you are, llenryl NonseuseI' I replied. 'It is you who are altered. Where is Zobeide?' " 'Always that question!' she mur mured In a toue of distress. "Once she pulled me into her own chamber, saying In a way calculated to startle me but it did not "My dear boy I want to speak to you. I must speak now with you. Why do you allow Lady Favisham to amuse herself daily with a brood of detestable snakes V 'Does she?' I asked listlessly. "My good sou!, why should I interfere if the child really does amuse herself. Don't worry about Zobeide, dear; I dont!' "No, poor boy. I wish you did I' "Strange! I passed the conversation off as if it bad related to the flannels of the rheumatic tenants. Vet ordinarily 1 should have been paralyzed with hor ror at the Idea of my wife juggling with snakes. It sets my teeth on edge now only to think of it, and it would have made my hair stand on end had 1 been In roy right mind. I was iivane all that horrible sum mer when a snake cbarner ruled at Faviiham Hall, the seat ot a loyal and hot-blooded race of which I was the last and least worthy. "Vet any one that knew Lady Har court at that time would not have wondered at ber autocracy. I am sure. Even the servants were tluctnred with the poisonous atmosphere, and only my aunt, who constantly went abroad, was able to shake off the leaden pall which had settled down upon us at the hall. "Suddenly, In obedience to the wishes of my physician, 1 made ready to run over to my shooting box in Scotland. I was stubbornly firm about taking my wife with rue, although she demurred and even wept when I pre sented the tour to her. I carried my polut, and we were away just tea days. 'Lady Harcourt stipulated that her wing of the hall was to remain undis turbed during ber absence. But she expected fully to be back within a week. My aunt had gone to Rugby. i wii try and describe our coming home as intelligently as possible. "I had noticed with wonderful ela tion that my head was clear and my whole mind more coherent during our absence, as if some terrible influence had Iteen wantlnz to sway and blacken my life. On the contrary, my wife, although so young and lovely, with all the world to fall at her feet, seemed strangely ill at ease during our trip, and grew so nervous uearing home that she actually leaped from the carriage as It drew up before the hall. She had coiled herself up in It without a word, although I talked Incessantly of the rains and the hops. "Perkins, the butler, gravely met us. saying. 'Dinner awaits, my lord, tike a theatrical call-boy. But my wife sprang out an rushed off to her own ai-artinents with ber wraps on ber arm, hamming a little Btraln of a Hindoo song which she knew made me particularly unhappy. I threw myself in a deep chair and broke the eeals of two or three letters, ruuning over, their content In the great banquet room, where the tall wax lights flared in their sconces, trying to be patient tdl Lady Harcourt came. T&e flowers wilted in their blue aad gold vases; the clock ticked ominously; still Lady Harcourt did not appear. 1 thin a a sort ot paralysis most have seised me; yet I remember that I felt ttlsded that the end had come. I knew by some strange foresight that the curtain had fallen on the tragic little comedy I had played at the old ball, with the woman who society had declared would one day shock or startle every one. I knew that I should never lift mv bead again to find ber black eyes glowing from behind the tea urn. I bad not been unhappy with Zobeide, but I question ir I was in a state to know the quality ot happiness she gave me. I had grown to think the thoughts she gave me, that was alL "1 simply told Celeste, my lady's maid, that I would go to ber apart ments; but Celeste, with the desire probably to save me a detested sight, ran up the polished stairs, her little slip pers making a loud noise In the silent house. "With a shriek Celeste staggered halfway down the stairs, her face like chalk, ber eyes wildly staring. -'Oh, monsieur! don't go in, if you value your lifel I pushed her aside and entered Lady Harcourt 's boudoir, hung with the pale green silk curtains she bad chosen because It would remind ber of the jungle where we first met. The old overpowering, indefinable odor met me at the threshold, but I stepped across ber tiger-skin rug and felt every vein in my body congealing with hor ror. 'My wife's little gray silk bonnet and scarf lay on the floor near the sofa where she reclined, her hair, unbeund, streaming In disorder over the mossy green carpet. She was quite dead, but bad, perhaps, breathed her last only a moment before I found ber. 'On the bosom which had pillowed my head so often lay the bead of a monster boa. His loathsome body wrapped tightly about the luckless girl had squeezed ber to death. In a fer vor of gladness over her return or mad ness from hunger he bad killed the woman who fondled him when not with me. "I managed to retain my senses somehow, aud left the room, so per meated with poison. Down stairs once more, I breathed freer than for many days. I leaned out of the window and looked at the old stars which bad twinkled through every hour of my miserable misspent life. I realized all at once bow base and inactive I had become, a dreamer, but was I to blame? 'The old butler kindly led me to my room, begglngme to driuk of the glass be forced to my lips, saying that all should be done well. "I drank, and. throwing myself on the bed, I lost my mind in a dreary and dreadful maze which melted Into a long sleep. I knew in that sleep that the python had been strangled and the rumor given forth that Lady Harcourt had fallen dead from heart disease. "The end of it all came, of course, and I went through It properly. I heard afterwards; but I think my body bad acted without soul for once. I want to t3wrtoarlau Qlace napptly lree from snakes, where l re covered my old mental poise, and got back to a point where 1 could reflect upon all that fearful time which seemed a sort of heaven to me while it lasted my strange irresponsible life with Zolieide, a charmer of serpents, a ruler of menl "Now you know, Strahan, why I do not care to look on such sight. It un nerves me to look on a boa more than to meet a wild beast face to face. Dou't laugh. Laugh! I was never further from it at any moment of my life! Harcourt 's experience only strength ened me in my theory about the sympa thy between snakes and some people. It Is always a woman who charms snakes, you know; never a man. I wonder why? PIiyiclanf as Oit u m Slaves. Many physicians become slaves to the opium habit. A recent Austrian medical author speaks of the Incredi ble number of physicians who have fallen victims to it and of the many who have only lust escaped. A Prus sian writer had sixteen cases of mor phia addiction under his care, of which medical men formed more than one third. The majority of my own pa tients are medical men. The physician is apt to resort to the drug because his calling involves special inroads into his mental and physical well being. Nearly always, in them as in others, there Is some form of neurotic dis order. Any form of persistently pain ful disturbance Involves this risk. A medical gentleman (a former patient of mine) says: "I proclaim it as my sincere belief that any physician afflicted with neurotic disease of marked severity, aud who has in his possession a by lodermic syringe and Magendie's so polution, is bound to become, sooner or sater, if he tampers at all with the potent and fascinating, allevlative, an opium habitue." Twins in Mind a well as Body. Mr Gal ton has Bhown that many twins do actually behave under similar circumstances in almost identical man ners, that their characters often come as close to one another as it is possible for the characters of two hu man beings to come, and that even where the conditions of later life have been extremely different, the original likeness of type often persists to the very end, in spite of superficial varia tions in style or babit ot living. Some ot bis stories, carefully verified, are very funny. I will supplement them with two of my own. In one case a couple of twins (men) had a quarrel over a perfectly unimportant matter. They came to very high words, and parted from one another in bad blood. On returning to their rooms they lived apart each of them suffered from a fit of remorse, and sat down to write a letter of contrition to the other, to be delivered by the morning post. Atter writing it one brother read his letter over, and recalling the cause of the quarrel, added at once a loag postscript, justifying himself and reopening the whole question at issue. The other brother posted his note at once, but thinking the matter over quietly, afterwards regretted bis ac tion again, and supplemented it by a second paliuodla. almost unsaying what be hadjraid in the first one. I saw all three letters myself the next morn ing, and was simply amazed at their absolute sameness of feeling and ex pression. A mixture of seeds of hardy tedding plants will cost but a small sum, but will add greatly to the beauty and at tractiveness of the front yard. SPORTS OF THE BLIND The Boy play Ball, Leap Pros and Tag. Of the employments and education of the blind so much has been written that there can scarcely be said to be any lack of Information on the sub jects. Their amusements, or the less practical sides of their existence, have not been so fully told, but they form a no less interesting chapter In the his tory of these unfortunates. Their pastimes are not so restricted as would naturally be supposed, although, of course, anything to which sight is an absolute essential is beyond their en joyment. Some attention was recently attracted by an article from the pen of the superintendent of the state school for the blind of Kentucky, in which that gentleman described a game of base ball played between nines whose mem bers were totally blind. The descrip tion when submitted to the blind of Missouri's Institute was pronounced by them as something possible, but by no means enjoyable. In the game cited trees were used for bases and a regular base ball was the object batted. The batter was told wbeu to strike by the pitcher's counting one, two, three. The catcher's difficulty in the premises and that of the fielders also, who were guided only by Bound, can easily be imagined. The time spent in looking for the ball, too, would do much toward keeping down the score, unless a game, like a Chinese drama extended over several days. The boys at the Missouri Institute play ball, but it is on a very much sim plified principal. Instead of a ball, an old tomato or fruit can is used and the batter tosses it himself, as seeing lads do in the game of "knock out." The Delders stand outside of the limit that the record in such cases has made and then listens to music of the batted and rebounding can. The batter has three wacks at it, and the fielder who re trieves the can on the third knock out takes bis turn at the bat. The game moves with considerable rapidity. The fielders seldom collide and so acute does their sense of hearing become and their faculty of judging the fall of the can, that they rarely intrude on each other's territories. Another sport of the blind boys, and one that has in it more of the wonder ful than their ball playing, is their game of "foot and a half." This, as everybody knows, is an elaborated and rebound edition of the simple leap-frog pastime. It differs from the latter in the fact that the "back" moves away from the "scratch," or jumping line, and toes a line further off each time the leader of the jumping cohort goes over him. The jumpers then leap from the scratch and clear the stooping boy in one leap until the feat is too diffi cult, when they make it 'one and over," or a jump from the scratch and a second one to clear the "back." The boy who fails to make the leap of the leader, who sets the pace at "one ana over." when it is within the reach of 1 an oLuac player to still make It an - tn , .2.3W W1Q liiiK. wjvswuir 1 r -".1 th ex-etooper becomes the leader. In playing this the jumping boys will work carefully out to the "back," and so get their distance, and then with a little run will leap light upon him with their hands and make the over with that wonderful precision which may truly be accounted skill in the youth blessed with sight, but which in them approaches the miraculous. They also play a fair game of tag by running over the big yard allotted to their play. This yard is divided by two brick walls and crossed by several rows of tree-boxes at regular distances. These objects serve as landmarks for the running youngsters and guide them in their play. There is about them as much boisterousness and rush in their out door games as there is with any party of lads that ever gathered round a country school-house, and their daring seems equalled only by their immunity from barm. AT THE ELEVENTH HOfli. The Story of a Birthday Present. Lois bad a sad history. She had bee a left alone in the world without a penny and with a younger sister to sup port. Her father had been a light hearted sea captain, and while he lived she had never known the meaning of sorrow until that fhteful day when be had sailed away and ship and crew were never heard of again. Then she met Jack and bad become engaged to him. He was to make one more voyage and then they were to be married; but the poor fellow had never returned, and she was left to mourn his memory. Hard, indeed, was the struggle to bring up her little sis ter. Trot never knew how Lota work ed at night until ber brain reeled sew ing at starvation wages. Trot was not ungrateful, but she was like most little girls, and took things as they came without asking how they were acquired. One day she found a sixpence, and at once thought of buy ing Lois a present. It was such a little sum that she had great trouble in find ing anything to ber fancy. At last, in a shop window, she saw some little pincushions two scallop shells set over a bit of colored satin, with a loop of ribbon to fasten to one's belt or a naiL They might do, she thought. Alas, they were nine pence apiece. But the half-grown girl behind the counter was good natured. 'Look here," she whispered to Trot. "I know how hard It Is to get things when you're young and aren't earning yet. She charges ninepence for these, but she buys 'em of an old sailor, who makes them himself for fourpence. You go down this street along the wharf to a little yellow bouse. There's toy boats In the window, and parrot's, and he's an old man with a wooden leg, and just ask him. He'll sell you one, I think. "It's very nice of you to tell me," said Trot. And, with a grateful look, she sped away; and though Lois would have ex pected to see her killed outright, did get safely through the crowds of drays and carriages at the water-side to the yellow house where the little old man with the wooden leg kept his queer shop and as the sign over the door de clared "Apartments" also. Some sailors smoked on the steps. One whittled at the end of the work room. As Trot stood modestly waiting a tall man, with a long beard, who looked thin and ill and very sad bun ied past Ler, and went upstairs. It was then that the old man asked ber what she wanted. One ot them cuahlngs?" he repeat ed. 'Well, my dear, yes. By the dozen is my rule; but I breaks rules for pretty, little lassies like you. W ill you have a blue, a pink, or a yaller silk? Make up your mind, and I'll pitch down what you choose. My darter puts on the silk; I gums the shells on and polishes 'em, and so they're finished. She's at work upstairs now. So which?" "Blue, please" said Trot. And away stumped the old man. When he came down he showed ber the cushion, took the silver, and went to hunt up a bit of paper to wrap it in; and the whittling sailor spoke to bim. "That poor chap looked blue," he said. 'He is blue," said the old sailor. All that's come and gone is nothing to this," be said. "He hoped az'in hope-until now. But. you see, he's looked for his gal a month now and can't find ber; and be says either she's dead or married, and he's talking of putting a pistol to his bead. I never see a chap so mortal down in the mouth afore.' . "Folks has lived through it and mar ried other gals," said the sailor, whitt ling hard and turning very red. "Ves," said the old man; "but don't you see he's had three years on a desert island and seen two men along of him die one arter the other, and was at star vation's door when Captain Brlggs picked him up, that weak he couldn't stand. And now this worry, Sar tainty can be borne better than onsar tainty, be it ever so woeful. Here, little lasslel" But Trot, with eyes and mouth wide open, did not even see the little pack age he held out to her. A memory of a nose and of hair like that of the tall man she bad seen burst upon her. Jack bad no beard, but, oh! but, oh! she was strong in childish hope, and that child ish expectation of fine endings to real life stories which we lose In after life. Lois would have sighed and gone away but Trot clutched the old man's jacket with ber thin little hands. "Oh, please, sir," she said "ob, I believe It's Jack. I always knew he wasn't drowned. Oh, please tell him, if he's Jack, I'm Trot and Lots is, my sister. Oh, tell I think it's Jack and that it is Lois he is looking for. We're Captain Lee's daughters tell him tell him!" "Good Lord!" shouted the whittling sailor, dropping bis knife. "It's like a play. The fellow is looking for Cappen Lee's darter." Up he went, five steps at a time. Down be came with the man with the beard. "Where is she? Where Is she?" lie gasped. "This this isn't Trot- "Tbls isn't Jack. Oh. dear, dearl" cried Trot. "Only your nose that looks like. Oh! Is it Jack Darrow?" Where is Lois?" was all he answer ed. . And the whittling sailor wiped his eyes with a big red handkerchief, and the old man yelled ''Hurray 1" Then be crammed the protty cushion i;V9the child's pocket and she went aufv with her baud In the thin, brown t ph of Jack Darrow. and told bim all aWiy awat4.net along-. io op and prepare her. Trot," said JacK. "This is sudden. It might hurt her." SO Trot climbed tue stairs, think ing what she might say, and she came where Lois sat at work and said, "Lois, I wanted to give you a birthday present, and the fairies put a sixpence into my shoe, and I went to buy a pin cushion; but I've got a bigger present than that. "Gueus what It is? It's it's Jack!.' "The child Is delirious!" shrieked Lois. "Oh, Trot, Trot my little Trot!" Oh. Lois!" said Trot," I'm only preparing you. Jack has come back. He's downstairs." But Jack was upstairs by that time, and, for my part, I think that joy, how ever sudden, seldom kills. Oh. what a wonderful birthday present you brought me!" cooed Lois, cuCdling her sister next morning. "Oh. my pet, we shall all be so happy togeth er!" And so tbey were. Scene in New York City. "Does this line of people begin at the Battery?" was asked at the ticket office window of the Grand Central station the other day. "Out in midocean, I should judge," was the laconic reply of the jumping jack inside the window, who flew from side to side playing a wild game of tickets and coins on the broad sill, as the line passed between him and the brass rail outside, "Move on into the corner to count your change," the stalwart policeman on the outside whispers to any one who dallies a fraction of a second in front of the cage. Men sweep the whole of their change together with their left hands. Women invariably stop to count the pieces in a dazed, fumbling sort of way born of suspicion, nervousness, tight gloves and many packages. Now and again a neat little tailor made Boston girl sweeps off the change like any young dude, bettering bim by having a neat little purse in ber left hand, which snaps viciously as she tilts her nose and an oxidized silver umbrella handle toward the big chan delier and passes by. "From ten to fifteen thousand peo ple pass by between this window and that brass rod daily," gasped the jump ing jack, wiping the perspiration from his brow as the gong sounded and the last man tore through the gate, his cane punching into the stomach of the big fat policeman, and his coat tail catching on the complacent brass knob. "The work is divided between three men." "Don't you find coins very Incon venient for hasty handling?" "An Infernal nuisance. I wish all money was in cardboard, like tickets. We have so many pennies, too, because we charge a fixed rate per mile. Penalty of Carelessness. Roman Guerrero, a manufacturer of gunpowder at the little city of Gene muns, near Segovia, Spain, was sitting iu a saloon when be was accosted by two huntsmen called Pablo Casado and Juliam Gomez, who wanted to buy powder. He produced about a hundred-weight and showed it to them. Night having set in, a light was re quired to examine the stuff. Suddenly a terrific explosion occurred, which shattered the saloon into fragments, sent the three men and three others having beer, seated near them, into eternity, and woonded thirteen others. A MoorlMh Legend. A Spanish Moor, being on the eve of setting out on a pilgrimage to Mecca, intrusted all his money to a man who had hitherto borne a reputation of um blemisbed probity. His fortune con sisted of two thousand besante. On bis return be was not a little surprised when the reputed honest man denied all knowledge ot himself or his money. The pilgrim entered a com plaint against him, entreated the judge to help him to this property, and took bis oath on the truth ot his statement but all in vain! The old man's good name outweighed all he could say; the plaintiff was non suited, and went away in despair. Presently he met an old woman, who was toddling along with the help of a staff. Touched by the stranger's grief, she stopped him, hailed blm in Allah's name, bid bim take heart, and having listened to his unvarnished tale, said : "Be of good cheer, young man; maybe, with Allah's aid, I shall get back your gold. Do you buy a chest and fill it with sand or mould ; only let it be bound with iron, and well locked. Then choose three or four discreet men, and come to ma. We shall succeed, never fear. The Spanish Moor followed her ad vice punctually. He came with four friends, bringing a chest which the strongest porters could scarcely drag along. "Now follow me," said the old woman. On reaching the door of the supposed honest man, she went In with the Span", lard's four friends, bidding the latter wait below, and not make his apeear- ance until the chest had been carried up stairs. She now stood in the presence ot the hypocrite, when she introduced her four companions, saying. Behold I Here are some honest Span iards, about to make a pilgrimage to Egypt. Their treasures are boundless. They possess, amozg other things, ten chests full of gold and silver, that they Know not where to stow away just at present. They would entrust them to safe hands for a time; so I, well know ing your honesty and unsullied reputa tion, have brought them hither. Pray fulfill their wishes." Meanwhile she had the heavy chest brought in. which tiie pretended honest man gloated over with greedy looks. But just then the despoiled pilgrim rushed in, Impetuously claiming back his two thousand besants. The raitb less depository was frightened, and lest the young man should reproach him with his treachery in presence of the strangers, who would then take their chest with its untold treasures, which he had already determined to appro priate to himself, he cried out to the Moor: Be welcome! I was almost fearing you would never come back, and was puzzled what I should do with the two thousand besants. Allah be praised! Here is what belongs to you." The Spanish Moor went away with his treasure as triumphant as though be were carrying off so much booty. The old woman begged the master of the house to put Uiia first, chest in a aafe place, while she went aud ordered the rest to be sent She then sheered off with ber four companions, and of course never returned. Commerce in tiie Arc-( Ic Ocean. For the second time since the wealthy Russian merchant Stbiriakou began his persevering efforts to force his steamer through arctic ice to the mouth of the Yenisei River, the feat has now been accomplished. The steamship Phoenix, laden with merchandise from Leith, has unloaded ber merchandise on the banks of the Yenisei, whence it has been carried by steamer aud lighter many hundreds of miles up the great river. The Phoenix hopes to return to Europe with Siberian produce. When Nordenskiold came home, after making the northeast passage, be said there would be no difficulty iu establishing trade by steamer between Europe and the mouth of the Yenisei. If this was true, the fact was very important, for the Yenisei is one of the world's great rivers. It Is navi gable by large vessels during the brief summer season for six hundred miles from the sea, and by light draught boati to the very heart of Siberia. For years Mr. Sibiriakoff has been trying to demonstrate that Nordensklold's judg ment was correct, but every year, ex cept one, his vessels have been baffled by the Ice in the Kara Sea. In 1SS0 bis steamer, the Oscar Dick son, reached Siberia, but on the return trip she was crushed in the ice and sank. His steamer on the Yenisei has taken several loads of Asiatic produce to the mouth of the river, but though Sibiriakoff sent from Europe three vessels in one year, not a pound of his Siberian freight has ever reached Eu rope by sea. His ventures in the Arc tic Ocean have cost bim f 500,000, and the successful voyage of the Phoenix will have to be repeated several times if be ever regains the money he has lost. It is net likely, however, that this uncertain route to Siberia will ever be worth much to commerce. The Phoenix was favored with a line season for Arctic travel. In fact, it is believed the route to Franz Josef Land was nearly free from ice all summer, offer ing a splendid opportunity to explorers had any of them happened to be on hand. A Homely Wife. A good story Is told, says the Washington Capital, of one of the fair dames of the diplomatic corps who re cently called at the residence of a Government official whose wife Is noted for her domesticity. The husband him self chanced to be at home, and pending the descent of madame from the nur sery went into the drawing-room to greet the lovely foreigner. The follow ing conversation ensued: An, monsieur, you have one very nomeiy wirei" The host, whose better half was really not distinguished for her beauty of face, which, however, was more than compensated for by a supetb fig are, a graceful carriage and a charming amiability, stammered in reply: "Ah, madame! why, really do you know I" "Yes." Innocently explained his visi tor In ber pretty broken English; "yes, shevery homely. In fact, she stay at home all the time." Soapstone paint is said to be an ex cellent rust preventive for iron sur faces. Spring costumes are extremely simple, both In make and drapery. Skirts are almost plain. Coualn Claude; or My I'ncle'a Wilt. 1 had always been led to expect that I would inherit my uncle's money. My parents were poor and I am inclined to think that tbey looked forward with unnecessary eagerness to the time when 1 sbeuld be able to bring them out of their poverty. I little knew the condition ot the will which ran as follows: Unless I married roy Cousin Claude before 1 was eigthteen, all the fortune was to be distributed among certain hospitals and we were none of us to get a cent. I first heard this from my cousin's own lips. He was surprised that I bad not heard it before, but be spoke very kindly on the subject and did not try to urge me very bard to accept him. He was almost old enough to be my father, but was fine-looking and a man of intelligence. When he had told everytking he said: "Dispassionately, I should say that your happiest course lay in ac cepting me, because you insure large worldly prosperity to yourself and to those you are bound in duty to con sider, because you place yourself In your own proper sphere and station because I know myself to be an honor, able man. well fitted for the responsl. biilties your decision would devolve upon me. On the other hand I see a ralnt of selfishness in my words. Your young beauty tempts me; the fortune you secure to me tempts me, and I question myself whether I have a moral right to seek to bind your youth to my declining years, though without you they must be past in comparative poverty, no small sacrifice to one who has known only luxury! Only since have seen you have I learnt to feel all the embarrassments growing out of our uncle's strange will." He paused; and I, who had been re volving in silence all that he had said, answered calmly. "I am to accept you. then, before my eighteenth birthday or all this wealth goes to swell the coffers of various hospitals and colleges; my parents are still poor, condemned to this dreary life; you are impoverished. and I am forever shut out from all hone of a higher earthly existence. Is it so?" He bowed his head. "I see papa coming," I said. "I will go to him; and to-morrow morning I will inform you of my decision." He kissed the hand I extended to htm; then drawing it within bis arm be led me to my father. I shut myself in my room that day and spoke to no one. I knew now how my parents had always regarded n less as a child than as the instrument of their release from poverty. They must be freed I saw that clearly but perhaps 1 need not be married at once. I decided the ques tion quickly enough that I would ac cept my cousin. Had I possessed but a little more experience 1 should have known that my reluctance to a ratifi cation ot my vows arose from a doubt whether I would love the husband felt com lulled to accept. The next day the old house was filled with smiling faces no gloom sat on any but my own, and I Kept my sad ness for the solitude of my own room. A week later, the day following my birthday, Claude went away. In another month my parents and myself left the old house for ever. We took up our abode in the splendid London mansion where my uncle bad lived his lonely, useless life. Here we were soon surrounded by the elite of society. 1 had young compan ions of my own sex in plenty; but I found them shallow and frivolous. I had lived In thought, they in the ex ternals of a giddy existence. I liked the young men no better. Claude grew daily in my esteem and affection. 1 became reconciled to a lot that would secure me so kind and constant a friend. I learned to lean upon and trust him. He was counsellor, guide, friend, as well as lover. We were married, and I was happy a brief, bright happiness. The mouth we had allotted to travel was not passed when 1 brought home his mang led remainscrushed out of all hu man semblance by that dreadful rail road collision which shockea the coun try that year, and I entered the home he had prepared for bis bride clad in the garments of widowhood. I remained in my solitude for some years years that I devoted to the im provement of my mind. I was twenty two when I again re-entered society. I, was still young and not unattractive, and was rich. I need not have re mained a widow long, but I was in no haste to marry; above all, I meant, if ever I resigned my liberty, it should be into the hands of one whom Claude might have approved. And at last I found such a one. or be found me. More truly. I suppose, a mutual and Inexplicable attraction drew our spheres into contact. We knew not of each other's existence, as we know things here, until we met, but our souls were no strangers even in that hour. They ming'.ed then into one a bond of sweetest unison was formed, of which marriage was but the external symbol, and in perfectest ac cord all the years of our life have since been passed. Claude would have loved this man. and I often think that he looks upon us rrom that other life to which be has gone, and smiles upon a union that Is so completely fraught with happiness. La Puenta. The town Puenta is on the line of the great transcontinental Southern Pa cific railroad line, twenty miles east of Los Angeles, and has a population now of very nearly 500. The town has an abundant supply of pure water. The soil of the country around about It is very rich, and the climate simply per fection. Puenta is the commercial cen tre for 400 square miles of the richest land in the world, and five miles to the southeast of it are the celebrated Puente oil wells, operated by Messrs. Lacy & Rowland. Seven wells are being pumped, giving their owners a very comfortable daily Income. The oil is piped to the town of Puenta and shipped thence by rail to Los Angeles. The town is a little over a year old, but It has bad a marvelous growth and will probably grow even more rapidly in the future. Ten passenger trains per day pass this point, and conse quently It is brought very close to the metropolis. Thhre is a new school bouse just built, and although Puenta has no newspaper there is a very prom ising field for one. New black silk jerseys, elaborately braided, fasten with one button, and then round off over a vest of white pilot cloth closed with handsome pearl buttons. NEWS IX BRIEF. Julia Folville of Belgium is soon to be brought out as a rival to Josef Hofmann. Foreign scientists have dlsjovered minute diamonds in meteorites found in Siberia. More than 200,000 bird skins are now shown at the Natural Tllstory Museum in London. In Morocco women who talk scandal are punished by having cayenne pepper rubbed into their lips. Henry Clay was In the Senate of the United states at twenty-nine, con trary to the Constitution. John Hampton, after graduating at Oxford, was a student at law iu tho Inner Temple at nineteen. Maurice of Saxony died at thlrty- wo, conceded to have been one of the profoundest statesmen and out of the ablest generals which, Christendom has seen. On December 7, 1SST, the King of Spain, aged eighteen mouths, was taken to the Senate House and placed on his father's throue, with all the paraphernalia, and amid great enthus iasm. Dr. Schllemann has discovered the location of the temple of Aphrodite Urania in Cythera. Haiu-stcrms and an inundation of the river compelled him, however, to return to Athens via Sparta. There are 200 private railroad cais In the United States, representing a value of nearly Sj.OOO.Oho. They ar-i worth anywhere from il.000 to foM,i00 each, the most luxurious, probably, being that owned by George M. Full- man. The cornflower that was fie fa vorite of Kaiser William the blue bachelor's button'' of this latitude is said to be the bailee of the Liberal party In Belgium, while the red poppy is that of the Conservatives or Clerical party. From the earliest years of Ont-eii Elizabeth to the latest of Oneen Vic toria, England has bad scarce au able statesman who did not leave the uni versity by the time he was twenty, and many of them left at au eailier age. The late Lord iieaconsfleld left the cloister and entered the great world early, as did John Bright, and com menced his political career by writing a book at seveuteen. In which he pre dicted that be would be i'rlme Min ister. A Kansas prairie chicken is cred ited with causing the stoppage of a train on the Missouri Pacinc Utilroad by flying against the bell iop and striking it with such force as to ring signal gong In the locomotive. The wooden cross marking the place where King of Bavaria Ludwig IL met his death, is to be replaced by a small chaiel built 011 piles. King Otho's condition lias undergone no change; on the last visit paid to him 1 y his mother be failed to recognize her. A traveler on a Georgia 1 ail road wanted to get off at a station where the train did not stop. It was af'er dark. and so when the conductor won! 1 not agree to stop for blm, the passenger went to the front platform ot the rear car, drew the coupling pin, set the brakes, aud when the. car stopped jumped off. At Omaha, recently, the two-year-old son of a Bohemian farmer ied 70 feet to the bottom of a dry well. As the latter was too narrow tor a man to descend, the work of widening it with shovels was begun. After nutty houis' imprisonment the youngster was res cued, apparently little tho worse for his experience. M. Gervais, a French authority. says there are uaen capable of bearing arms in Germany, o.i.HKJ.OOii; in France.4,500,000; iu Austi i;i-II umraiy, 1,800,000; in Ita'y. 2.0iJ,0o0; in Eng land, B.000,000; in Russia, 0,000.000, and lu all other Euro-win .Hales, 4,000,000. That gives a total or -'4,-100,000. Of that number 10,000,000 are trained soldiers. The latest entertainments In Chi cago, according to an exchange, are "bird talk matinees." These consists of a lecture "replete with pretty stories and unheard-of facts, coupled with bits of verses and snatches of bi ography. On a stand near the lec turer are birds In variety wrens, jays. ravens, bobolinks, robins and larks illustrative of the lecture." The la dles attend In "pretty carriage and street dresses." In a carefully complied tab'.e of labor statistics iu the United States, France, Kngland aud Germany, It ap pears that labor of all kinds, skilled and unskilled. Is paid over one hund red per cent, more in the United states than in auy ot the other countries named. In some cases notably in the wagss of women the difference is over three hundred per cent, in favor of the United Stales. There Is living in Chennubbce. Sumter county, Ga., a country gul named Irene Wilkinson, who is quite a curiosity. She is 24 years old, weighs il pounds, measures 2 feet 2 inches around the head, 2 feet 4 inches around the waist. 3 feet 4 Inches hii?!i and has arms and legs only 1.1 Inches long. She is quite Intelligent, does good needlework, aud also the cooking for her aged father and mother. Berlin, it seems, has gradual'y be come the headquarters of the carved wood industry, supplanting Switzer land. Six hundred artists in wood- carving, the same number of turners aud 700 carpenters are engaged lu manufacturing such articles as cigar cases, newspaper aud picture frames, napkin rings, etc. The value of the annual export of these arti-;es is givi-u as 6,000.000 marks, and this is exclu sive of the costly carved wood furni ture, the manufacture and export of which are assuming large proportions. It is interesting to learn that Mrs. Cleveland always calls her husband "Mr. President." Mr. Cleveland ad dresses his wife as "Frank." Martha Washington, in her younger days, called ber husband "George," but in the last twenty-five ysars of her life always addressed blm as "General." While in the White Hous Mrs. Hayes called her husband "Mr. Hayes." Mrs. Lincoln aud Mrs. Garfield always addressed their husbands respectively as "Abram" and "Jim." Now the question is, what should a President's wife, according to etiquette, call her husband? Precedent seems to give no answer, Wood pulp Is rapidly being substitu ted for plaster of 1'aris iu the manufac ture of all kinds of building ornaments In France, where a new method baa been devised. u l
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